1760 - "Mercenary Spyware"

Speaker 1 you have three.

Speaker 2 Holy crap.

Speaker 3 Adam Curry, John C.

Speaker 4 Dvorak.

Speaker 5 It's Thursday, May 1st, 2025.

Speaker 6 This is your award-winning Gibbon Nation Media Assassination episode 1760.

Speaker 7 This is no agenda.

Speaker 6 Celebrating 6,397 days and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA, region number six.

Speaker 10 In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.

Speaker 4 And from Northern Silicon Valley, where I'm sick and tired of hearing, I hope this message finds you well I'm John C. Dvorak

Speaker 4 yeah I'm convinced that that's just chat GPT if you get one of those and someone said write a nice letter to my friend yes and that's I hope this message finds you well and then there's the alternate which is I hope this email finds you well what does this even mean

Speaker 4 has anyone ever said this in real life

Speaker 4 I hope this message finds you well what is it looking for me Did it found me? And it found me well?

Speaker 4 No, seriously, what does it mean? What does this stupid phrase mean? And why is it at the beginning? And you're right. It's obviously from

Speaker 4 Chat GPT because it's followed by a lengthy sales pitch that goes on and on and on and never gets to the point.

Speaker 22 What were they trying to sell you with this time with that OCD?

Speaker 4 Usually some service or maybe we can get more podcast listeners.

Speaker 4 LinkedIn is filled with, I hope this message finds you well.

Speaker 13 LinkedIn has become a spam network.

Speaker 25 Nobody likes LinkedIn anymore.

Speaker 27 They're all, you know, like, I've got to curate my feed.

Speaker 28 I've got to close everything down.

Speaker 29 I can't accept any more connections.

Speaker 31 It's a mess.

Speaker 32 They really hoard that.

Speaker 34 Once Microsoft bought it, they hoard that thing out.

Speaker 35 They made it bad.

Speaker 14 They really made, I think they probably let Chat GPT loose on us.

Speaker 15 Everybody could grab all the emails and profiles and just spam away.

Speaker 39 That's all that AI is good for.

Speaker 40 Spam,

Speaker 6 deep fakes, humor.

Speaker 4 Humor.

Speaker 42 Humor. Yes.

Speaker 43 And some Python coding.

Speaker 45 Okay, I'll give you that.

Speaker 48 You some PHP scripts. All right.

Speaker 49 Dynamite. Dynamite.

Speaker 50 Before we even get started, John, we have breaking news.

Speaker 49 It came in this morning over the transfer.

Speaker 51 Breaking, breaking, breaking.

Speaker 29 Breaking.

Speaker 52 Again, with breaking news, sources are confirming to Fox News that National Security Advisor Mike Walsh is out.

Speaker 53 Out.

Speaker 52 As well as his dead deputy Alex Wong.

Speaker 52 Additional names are likely to come, we are told, and we expect to hear from the president on this soon.

Speaker 54 I'm Harris Faulkner. You are in the Faulkner focus.

Speaker 51 I'm in the Faulkner focus.

Speaker 55 Oh, no.

Speaker 52 State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce is also with me.

Speaker 56 I love this.

Speaker 57 We have not had Tammy Bruce show up in any real capacity.

Speaker 59 This is exciting.

Speaker 4 Tammy. She's been on a lot.
You just haven't seen her.

Speaker 60 Well, no, but she hasn't been on the show because now it's breaking news.

Speaker 61 Breaking. Breaking.

Speaker 23 And Tammy Bruce is going to tell us exactly what happened or

Speaker 45 is she going to waffle a bit and be a propagandist, which is exactly the opposite of what she was when she wasn't working for government.

Speaker 42 I wonder which Tammy will get.

Speaker 52 First, though, let's get the news of what's coming together right now. Tammy Bruce with the State Department is with us right now.
So, first of all, just kind of top line this for us.

Speaker 52 I mean, Jennifer has given us the news.

Speaker 48 Top line. Now,

Speaker 28 if someone says to you, John, we're going to John at the State Department, top top line this, what would we be expecting to hear from you?

Speaker 4 Probably the most succinct explanation that explains everything

Speaker 4 right off the bat, the top line.

Speaker 45 And this is why we have no career. We have no career in broadcasting.

Speaker 18 The opening.

Speaker 5 The opening.

Speaker 5 The headline.

Speaker 45 The lead. The lead.

Speaker 5 The headline.

Speaker 52 From the State Department perspective, Tammy.

Speaker 10 Well,

Speaker 69 here's what I can tell you when it comes to right off the bat.

Speaker 62 Here's what I can tell you.

Speaker 70 national security for the country, the nature of the president.

Speaker 45 Oh, a little laughter in there.

Speaker 37 I hadn't noticed that when I was clipping it.

Speaker 67 When it comes to national security for the country. Well,

Speaker 69 here's what I can tell you when it comes to national security for the country, the nature of the country.

Speaker 5 What is it with a laughter, Jamie Bruce?

Speaker 70 Nature of the president, who's involved in making determinations about this nation's trajectory, of course, economically when it comes to security.

Speaker 70 And what we've seen and what we know from President Trump is he's been very clear that his commitment is to diplomacy around the world.

Speaker 70 He is clearly an active and engaged president that I think is a very important thing.

Speaker 70 This is a man who comes from business where his vision is.

Speaker 51 Blah, blah, blah.

Speaker 23 This is so disappointing from Tammy Bruce.

Speaker 70 And his understanding of what needs to occur is the guiding hand of everything that happens in this government.

Speaker 70 And of course, he is hands-on, literally, when it comes to making things happen, when it comes to the implementation.

Speaker 72 He has hands-on walls.

Speaker 45 What was he doing?

Speaker 59 I don't know. He was touching it.

Speaker 70 At every department, every day,

Speaker 70 whether at our State Department or the Department of Defense, or, of course, when it comes to who he chooses to advise him.

Speaker 73 She gives us nothing.

Speaker 51 What kind of top line is that, Tammy Bruce?

Speaker 75 The disappointment of the century.

Speaker 39 We loved you.

Speaker 76 We loved you on Fox.

Speaker 28 You were there to tell us, to tell it to us straight.

Speaker 48 We loved you.

Speaker 39 No.

Speaker 45 No. Okay.

Speaker 28 So let's do some propaganda.

Speaker 52 That mission was done well.

Speaker 79 So now they're talking about the mission of which the stop secret details were leaked on the signal and signal.

Speaker 4 Oh, the Houthi bombing.

Speaker 82 So we're going to move from, let's not talk about what happened to that was a great mission, mission accomplished.

Speaker 52 That mission was done well. It was completed well.
And I think it's worth stating that.

Speaker 77 That all of this, this is a leadership move now that's happening.

Speaker 52 But the actual mission that President Trump wanted worked out very well. Your last quick thought, we'll move forward.

Speaker 47 But last quick thought, you've given us nothing.

Speaker 5 Nothing. Nothing.

Speaker 70 Yeah, I think that's it.

Speaker 70 When we're looking at the choices that are made when it comes to whether it's the Houthis, the nature of diplomacy with Iran, which of course always continues, bringing people to the table regarding Ukraine and Russia, the situation in Gaza, the critical minerals deal, which is actually a much broader deal with Ukraine

Speaker 70 with money and resources that will be reinvested into Ukraine and its rebuilding

Speaker 68 building after this horrible carnage that has unfolded over three years.

Speaker 70 So you've got major successes, economically and otherwise, as inflation goes down. It is a historic first 100 days.
It has been aggressive.

Speaker 45 It's been exciting.

Speaker 70 And America wants to change by electing President Trump, and we're seeing the benefits of his vision on every single framework. And it's been a success.
It'll continue to be a success.

Speaker 85 Complete and utterly

Speaker 5 crap. Propaganda was.

Speaker 4 That was terrible.

Speaker 4 That was a bad performance.

Speaker 8 It was

Speaker 68 disappointing.

Speaker 87 Disappointing, Tammy Bruce.

Speaker 59 I have a feeling that was the Laura Logan spot.

Speaker 89 I think she was supposed to get that spot.

Speaker 13 I don't know why she didn't.

Speaker 4 Laura Logan would have done a better job than that.

Speaker 2 Well, that's the problem because this is clearly, oh, let's just do some propaganda.

Speaker 91 Because it's 100 days.

Speaker 42 Now, just before we move on, I received.

Speaker 4 Before Before we start, I have some thoughts about this Waltz thing.

Speaker 21 Well, can I just give you a boots on the ground real quick?

Speaker 92 Because we have the best producers, and I've got many producer boots on the ground.

Speaker 94 Regarding Signalgate, then yes, I want to hear your thoughts about Waltz.

Speaker 98 As a military contractor, writes our Boots on the Ground producer, with the Army and as a Navy reservist, we are required to use Signal in CONUS and OCONUS,

Speaker 11 which I think is Continental United States.

Speaker 45 And what's OCONUS?

Speaker 49 Oh, Continental United States.

Speaker 101 So the narrative that it said commercial app, which you guys debunked, is false.

Speaker 102 DOD uses it as the app of choice for OPSEC operational security.

Speaker 59 I am bed with the 160th, FORSCOM, which is an unknown acronym to me.

Speaker 95 All chats between us contractors and our Army counterparts are on signal.

Speaker 92 WhatsApp is only used by rear detachment Air Force units.

Speaker 9 Get in the back, you WhatsApp people.

Speaker 36 By the way, Michael Strickars is a douchebag.

Speaker 105 A douchebag.

Speaker 29 Just throw that in.

Speaker 103 He says he turned me on to you in 2019.

Speaker 50 He doesn't donate. So he's a douchebag.

Speaker 102 So whenever they say commercial app, it is a requirement within the Department of Defense.

Speaker 38 So this is all on its face, bull crap.

Speaker 103 But clearly someone had to go.

Speaker 14 And I guess today we now know it is Walt.

Speaker 17 Your thoughts.

Speaker 18 Well, Waltz and Wong.

Speaker 106 Well, Wong was the problem.

Speaker 45 That's what everyone said.

Speaker 4 Well, we think he was the problem. I'm wondering whether, because Waltz was set up with his signal system by the CIA directly, according to him.

Speaker 45 Yes, and Wong was the problem.

Speaker 4 I think they set him up. I think this could have been a setup to get rid of him.

Speaker 91 Yes, he's annoying.

Speaker 4 He was not a guy that anyone liked. They didn't.
In fact, people that were Trumpers didn't like him either. But what's convenient here is that he could also have been a bargaining chip

Speaker 4 with trade talks with the Chinese.

Speaker 11 To get Sum Ting Wong back?

Speaker 16 Because Sum Ting Wong.

Speaker 3 Sometting Wong?

Speaker 4 So Wong was a Chinese national who was anti-China, and Waltz was one of the biggest China hawks.

Speaker 4 So let's get rid of those two guys, and we'll start to talk. And I think they may have been sacrificed.

Speaker 4 Set up, set up to begin with.

Speaker 18 Yeah, set up and set up.

Speaker 4 And then sacrifice it.

Speaker 45 The excuse will be

Speaker 45 long.

Speaker 4 The excuse will be, well, you know, this signal thing has somebody had to take a fall for it.

Speaker 109 Even though it is a required app,

Speaker 102 which makes me question the signal even more now.

Speaker 4 Yeah, CIA. It's got a back door, obviously.

Speaker 80 It has to have a back door.

Speaker 91 It must have a back door.

Speaker 95 Sure.

Speaker 42 Well, all this comes amidst the most important thing, and I did the calculation this morning.

Speaker 48 We today, John, as of today, May 1st, 2025, are celebrating 6,397 days of broadcasting to Gitmo Nation.

Speaker 80 Congratulations, sir.

Speaker 110 This is where you say congratulations.

Speaker 2 Congratulations?

Speaker 9 Yes, congratulations, because it's a lot more than

Speaker 111 the scale.

Speaker 17 President Trump, the first 100 days

Speaker 74 continues.

Speaker 5 It continues.

Speaker 3 The first 100 days.

Speaker 4 What is this 100 days thing all about? I mean, I don't remember this, the first Trump go-round. I don't remember during Biden.

Speaker 4 The only last time I remember the first 100 days was, I think, when Steve Jobs rolled out the Macintosh.

Speaker 99 No, I think 100 Days has been around.

Speaker 112 It has.

Speaker 4 Well, they're milking it.

Speaker 62 Well, of course they're milking it, including the BBC.

Speaker 113 Donald Trump has been marking 100 Days since he was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States. And in case you missed any of it, here's a reminder of the story so far.

Speaker 7 From this moment on, America's decline is over.

Speaker 45 Over.

Speaker 45 Over.

Speaker 114 I'm about to sign some very important executive orders.

Speaker 115 Military personnel to assist border patrol.

Speaker 7 30,000 beds. in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal, illegal aliens.
The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip.

Speaker 5 We'll own it. Air Force One is currently flying over the recently renamed Gulf of America.

Speaker 7 If all of the hostages aren't returned, let hell break out.

Speaker 118 The Department of Government Efficiency moves to revamp and shrink the

Speaker 45 little drum

Speaker 45 roll in the background.

Speaker 106 People voted for major government reform, and that's what people are going to get.

Speaker 111 A dictator without elections. Zelensky better move fast.
Should I run again, you tell me.

Speaker 116 You should be thanking the president for trying to bring it into this conflict.

Speaker 120 Into Ukraine warning.

Speaker 3 You're not in a good position.

Speaker 111 You don't have the cards right now.

Speaker 117 Tariffs, you know, they're all set. They go into effect tomorrow.

Speaker 7 Hopefully, we can get a ceasefire from Russia.

Speaker 123 There were nearly 200 who were sent to El Salvador.

Speaker 114 Department of Education, we're going to eliminate it.

Speaker 124 Details of the U.S.

Speaker 107 attack plans were first shared two days earlier with Jeffrey Goldberg.

Speaker 117 I don't know anything about it.

Speaker 125 We have to have Greenland.

Speaker 111 This is liberation day.

Speaker 114 The United States will implement reciprocal tariffs.

Speaker 7 We've been meeting with China.

Speaker 111 We're We're putting a lot of pressure on Russia.

Speaker 117 You have to have Ukraine want to make a deal, too.

Speaker 125 America is back.

Speaker 38 You know why they didn't do this for Biden?

Speaker 13 Because all they would have for the montage is

Speaker 13 dignity.

Speaker 49 Do you remember back in 1984 when Ronald Reagan became president?

Speaker 4 He became president in 1980.

Speaker 129 He was re-elected in 84.

Speaker 5 Yeah. Right.

Speaker 49 Do you remember the Morning in America campaign?

Speaker 4 Vaguely.

Speaker 130 It's morning again in America.

Speaker 130 Today, more men and women will go to work than ever before in our country's history.

Speaker 132 With interest rates at about half the record highs of 1980, nearly 2,000 families today will buy new homes. More than at any time in the past four years.

Speaker 130 This afternoon, 6,500 young men and women will be married.

Speaker 132 And with inflation at less than half of what it was just four years ago, they can look forward with confidence to the future.

Speaker 132 It's morning again in America.

Speaker 132 And under the leadership of President Reagan, our country is prouder and stronger and better.

Speaker 130 Why would we ever want to return to where we were less than four short years ago?

Speaker 5 It's morning in America.

Speaker 13 It's one of the most famous ads of its time, and we have a modern day version.

Speaker 80 It's a new day.

Speaker 137 The sun is rising.

Speaker 3 The birds are singing.

Speaker 137 And things are returning to normal.

Speaker 137 It's norming in America.

Speaker 137 Today, we're actually arresting shoplifters, and fewer businesses are being burned down.

Speaker 72 All over America, pronouns are being dropped from bios.

Speaker 137 Men are not having babies, and fewer drag queens are flashing their genitals at children.

Speaker 3 Videos like this one aren't being shadow banned as much.

Speaker 137 People are saying master bedroom.

Speaker 137 And look at that. White people are reappearing in commercials.
Oh, and guys,

Speaker 5 we can save guys

Speaker 5 again.

Speaker 5 America, the fever has has broken.

Speaker 5 Now we can be sensible, nicer, and normal. Join us.
And let's never go back to those weird, angry, divisive times again.

Speaker 5 It's norming in America. That's right, baby.

Speaker 137 Have a great norming. You hear?

Speaker 27 Same PR team.

Speaker 5 Clearly.

Speaker 126 It's norming in America.

Speaker 45 It's very funny.

Speaker 45 I like that.

Speaker 110 I thought that was good.

Speaker 4 That brings me immediately to a nutball clip.

Speaker 91 Okay, are you on the mic, man?

Speaker 17 Are you talking? Are you spitting in that stuff?

Speaker 72 Yeah, I hope so.

Speaker 94 I'm going to jack you up some more.

Speaker 4 Jack me up.

Speaker 87 The opening show things right themselves.

Speaker 17 Okay, that brings you to a clip immediately, you said.

Speaker 37 What kind of clip?

Speaker 4 This is the ranting lunatic chick.

Speaker 21 Wait a minute.

Speaker 9 You're going straight to TikTok?

Speaker 29 Can we do this this early in the show?

Speaker 56 Can we handle it?

Speaker 4 Maybe not, but this is definitely will set the tone.

Speaker 139 You know what?

Speaker 140 Okay, I know I'm insane and I know I'm the internet's favorite crash out.

Speaker 141 What I'm going to say right now.

Speaker 45 Clash out?

Speaker 63 Crash out. Clash out.
I like that.

Speaker 4 Crash out. Crash.

Speaker 33 Crash.

Speaker 58 She said crash out? I thought it said clash out.

Speaker 102 I think she said crash out. Crash out, crash out.

Speaker 142 You know what?

Speaker 140 Okay, I know I'm insane and I know I'm the internet's favorite crash out.

Speaker 141 What I'm going to say right now is I'm not paying my debt anymore.

Speaker 140 What we're doing from this point forward is a debt strike strike 2025.

Speaker 141 If I have to do it alone and be insane, I will.

Speaker 145 I literally will.

Speaker 141 The fact that we would continue paying our debt, we can't stop paying our rent because that's too crazy. It'll put a lot of people in harm.
I'm sick of protesting. It does nothing.

Speaker 143 I don't want to go to war because look how skinny my arms are.

Speaker 141 We have to do something. I'm not paying my debt.

Speaker 143 You can join me on this or you cannot.

Speaker 141 I'm going to take a picture of and I'm going to keep records of the debt that I have right now because when the interest rates go up on that, I'm not paying those either, even when they start to meet our demands and the demands are as such

Speaker 144 abolish ICE okay I want those men home from El Salvador I don't care

Speaker 5 and

Speaker 141 um we need to protect Medicaid the Department of Education needs to be restored I want critical race theory in the classroom period we need to literally be delusional I'm gonna be delusional right now I will stand here right now, be illusional, make fun of me all you want.

Speaker 141 This is what we need to do. This is what we need to do.
And if they don't meet our our demands,

Speaker 141 then what we're going to do is then we're going to stop paying our rent.

Speaker 140 But for right now, stop paying your bills. Stop paying your debt.
We're going to start there.

Speaker 141 And it's like, what the fuck do I have to?

Speaker 143 Oh, my credit score for the house that I'll never buy?

Speaker 141 I already am not allowed to rent because I don't make enough money. I have to have a co-signer anyway, so what does my credit score even fucking matter?

Speaker 141 What does it matter, bro?

Speaker 147 Literally, what?

Speaker 144 I want Doge at office.

Speaker 146 We're done with him. We're done with him.

Speaker 143 And free health care for all people. I'm so dead serious.

Speaker 144 Guys, we're done with this.

Speaker 58 I love that she called herself delusional.

Speaker 1 That is some.

Speaker 18 That's a bipolar episode.

Speaker 49 No, no, that's engagement farming on TikTok.

Speaker 45 I don't think, I think she's.

Speaker 4 You have to see her. She's pretty serious.

Speaker 17 No, this is, it's all an act.

Speaker 45 It's all an actress.

Speaker 4 Well, she's a pretty good actress then. Well,

Speaker 35 she got on the No Agenda Show.

Speaker 1 I'll give her that.

Speaker 4 Yeah, she did.

Speaker 4 But this is part of, there's also another movement going on besides not paying your bills.

Speaker 4 None of this is going to work, of course, because it's a very small minority.

Speaker 112 Yeah, it's norming in America.

Speaker 4 People are calling

Speaker 4 for what's illegal, which is a general strike. Yeah.

Speaker 4 And they're calling for a general strike,

Speaker 4 and I think it was for May Day of next year, maybe.

Speaker 13 Oh, they're getting ahead of the game. They're front-running the strike.

Speaker 4 But I'm noticing it's starting to show up more and more about let's do a general strike. That's going to do it.
Well, today is, of course,

Speaker 151 a dual celebration.

Speaker 4 Today is May Day.

Speaker 50 And what is May Day?

Speaker 4 May Day is workers. It's the Workers' Day.
This is the day of

Speaker 4 the working man.

Speaker 4 What? It's Communist holiday.

Speaker 13 Yeah, Communist holiday.

Speaker 14 Would you be surprised to hear that this falls on the exact same day as the National Day of Prayer?

Speaker 4 Well, I know it is the National Day of Prayer because Trump was on the air

Speaker 4 and he just could not stop talking.

Speaker 49 It's called counter-programming, man.

Speaker 79 It's like, we're not going to pay any attention to the commies.

Speaker 23 It's National Day of Prayer.

Speaker 17 It's counter-programming.

Speaker 45 It's a good World's Workers' Day.

Speaker 4 Workers Unite.

Speaker 76 Pray.

Speaker 39 Pray.

Speaker 35 Anyway, it is 100 Days.

Speaker 4 It's also a show day.

Speaker 80 It is a show day.

Speaker 58 Of course.

Speaker 58 It's a triple threat.

Speaker 33 It is Workers' Day.

Speaker 34 It is National Day of Prayer and a show day.

Speaker 45 What more can you do?

Speaker 17 But we are celebrating 100 days, and President Trump chose ABC to do his 100-day

Speaker 17 days.

Speaker 4 The 100-day excoriation of the media.

Speaker 35 Yes.

Speaker 75 And most of this was about

Speaker 31 Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

Speaker 156 Let me ask you about one man in one court order. Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
He's the Salvadoran man who crossed into this country illegally, but who is under a protective order.

Speaker 14 I think to get into the White House correspondence dinner, you had to pronounce Kilmar Abrego Garcia properly, otherwise you weren't allowed in.

Speaker 4 That he not be sent back to El Salvador.

Speaker 156 Your government sent him back to El Salvador and acknowledged in court that was a mistake.

Speaker 156 And now the Supreme Court has upheld an order that you must return him to facilitate his return to the United States. What are you doing to comply?

Speaker 7 Well, the lawyer that said it was a mistake was here a long time, was not appointed by us,

Speaker 7 should not have said that, should not have said that. And just to understand,

Speaker 7 the person that you're talking about, you know, you're making this person sound.

Speaker 7 This is a MS-13 gang member, a tough cookie, been in lots of skirmishes, beat the hell out of his wife, and the wife was petrified to even talk about him, okay?

Speaker 7 This is not an innocent, wonderful gentleman from Max.

Speaker 111 I'm not saying he's a good guy.

Speaker 157 It's about the rule of law.

Speaker 5 The order from the Supreme Court

Speaker 7 into our country illegally.

Speaker 111 You could get him back.

Speaker 156 There's a phone on this desk.

Speaker 122 I could.

Speaker 119 You could pick it up and with all the power the presidency.

Speaker 122 Call up the president of El Salvador and say that.

Speaker 58 That could.

Speaker 7 And if he were the gentleman that you say he is, I would do that.

Speaker 111 But the court has ordered you to facilitate that.

Speaker 7 I'm not the one making this decision.

Speaker 16 We have lawyers

Speaker 7 who want to do this.

Speaker 59 But the buck stops.

Speaker 119 I follow the law.

Speaker 7 You want me to follow the law? If I were the president that just wanted to do anything, I'd probably keep him right where you're going to go.

Speaker 16 The Supreme Court says what the law is.

Speaker 13 Yeah, this was so good because the president really thought that he was going to get a pass somehow.

Speaker 4 But this, I chose you.

Speaker 28 I chose you, ABCI, he chose you, Terry Moran.

Speaker 7 Listen, I was elected to take care of a problem that was, it was

Speaker 7 an unforced error that was made by a very incompetent man, a man that turned out to be incompetent, that you always said was wonderful, great genius, right?

Speaker 7 And now you find out all of the media now they're saying what a mistake they made.

Speaker 7 A man who was grossly incompetent allowed us to have open borders where millions of people float in. I I campaigned on that issue.
I wouldn't say it was my number one issue, but it was pretty close.

Speaker 7 I campaigned on that issue. I've done an amazing job.
I have closed borders.

Speaker 16 He said you couldn't do it, and you wouldn't be able to do it.

Speaker 117 It would never happen. Well, it happened, and it happened very quickly.

Speaker 159 Wait a minute.

Speaker 7 When we have criminals, murderers, criminals in this country, we have to get them out, and we're doing it.

Speaker 27 And here comes the bone of the contention.

Speaker 3 The tattoo.

Speaker 117 You'll pick out one man, but even the man that you picked out,

Speaker 7 he said he wasn't a member member of a gang, and then they looked, and on his knuckles he had MS-13.

Speaker 122 There's a dispute.

Speaker 119 Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

Speaker 7 He had MS-13 on his knuckles.

Speaker 117 He had some tattoos that are interpreted that way. But let's move on.

Speaker 16 Wait a minute. I will Terry.

Speaker 23 Terry.

Speaker 5 Terry.

Speaker 119 He did not have the letter MS-13.

Speaker 7 It says MS-13.

Speaker 160 That was Photoshop.

Speaker 119 Photoshop?

Speaker 114 That was Photoshop.

Speaker 72 Terry, he had it then.

Speaker 111 Hey, they're giving you the big break of a lifetime.

Speaker 7 You know, you're doing the interview.

Speaker 117 I picked you because, frankly, I never heard of you, but that's okay.

Speaker 5 I picked you, Terry.

Speaker 7 But you're not being very nice.

Speaker 17 He had an MS-13 tattoo. We'll agree to disagree.

Speaker 119 I want to move on to something else. Terry.

Speaker 4 Agree to disagree.

Speaker 114 Do you want me to show you the picture?

Speaker 4 By the way, that is the lowest of the low outs. I agree to disagree.

Speaker 13 I know. I hear it on podcasts all the time.

Speaker 58 You and I, we just fight.

Speaker 82 We never agree to disagree.

Speaker 45 It's like, you're right.

Speaker 4 I don't think we've ever, not that you may, I never thought about this, but in 17 years, I don't think we've ever used that phrase on each other.

Speaker 35 We've never gone to bed angry at each other either.

Speaker 18 Well,

Speaker 45 that's who cares.

Speaker 7 Terry, but you're not being very nice. He had MS-13 tattoos.

Speaker 161 We'll agree to disagree.

Speaker 119 I want to move on to something else. Terry,

Speaker 114 do you want me to show you the picture?

Speaker 111 I saw the picture.

Speaker 122 We'll agree to Photoshop.

Speaker 114 Here we go. Here we go.
Don't Photoshop it.

Speaker 7 Go look at his hand.

Speaker 122 He had MS-13.

Speaker 117 He did have tattoos that can be interpreted that way.

Speaker 156 I'm not an expert on them. I want to turn to Ukraine.

Speaker 119 No, no, no, no.

Speaker 5 I want to get to Ukraine.

Speaker 119 No, no. No, no.

Speaker 84 He had MS, as clear as you can be, not interpreted.

Speaker 162 It's photoshopped.

Speaker 104 It's a lot of why people no longer believe the news because he's fake news.

Speaker 156 In El Salvador, they aren't there. But let's just go.

Speaker 119 They aren't there when he's in El Salvador.

Speaker 23 Take a look at it.

Speaker 26 They're there now, right? No,

Speaker 122 they're in your picture. Terry.
Ukraine, sir.

Speaker 7 He's got MS-13 on his knuckles.

Speaker 119 All right. Okay.
We'll take a look.

Speaker 16 It's such a disservice.

Speaker 157 We'll take a look at this.

Speaker 45 Why aren't you just saying?

Speaker 7 Yes, he does, and go on to something else?

Speaker 157 It's contested.

Speaker 13 So this is a contentious issue because many people have emailed me this saying, Trump, he's not doing his homework.

Speaker 27 He should just take the L.

Speaker 90 It was photoshopped.

Speaker 151 Now, there's two pictures.

Speaker 4 There's one of them's got some, you call it Photoshop, explaining what the symbols mean, MS-13. That's what the Photoshop part is.

Speaker 150 No, no.

Speaker 95 It is MS-13 on his knuckles.

Speaker 63 But the second photo taken in Ukraine, you don't see that.

Speaker 17 In fact, what you do see is his knuckles are all smudged.

Speaker 23 That's the Photoshop.

Speaker 4 No, the MS-13M, there's no M on his knuckles.

Speaker 164 No, no, they showed a picture of MS-13 on his knuckles.

Speaker 100 They showed that picture.

Speaker 4 That's the Photoshop.

Speaker 1 I wonder if that's Photoshopped.

Speaker 4 Yeah, it is. It's obviously if you look at it carefully,

Speaker 4 the letters are too clear because the symbols mean MS-13. That was the idea.

Speaker 21 But I'm just saying the pictures they showed in this piece showed what you call a Photoshop.

Speaker 100 But I would say the other picture, where his knuckles are completely smudged, that's a Photoshop.

Speaker 4 I think that's Photoshop too.

Speaker 101 They could both be Photoshop.

Speaker 165 But yes, the symbols stand for MS-13.

Speaker 4 Yeah, that's all there is to it.

Speaker 28 And he beat up his wife since when are we since when are we talking about that?

Speaker 72 Well, that was beat up.

Speaker 4 Apparently, there's another report that came out this morning where he also did something. He also beat his wife into,

Speaker 4 there's some other beating that took place. It's more part of this whole thing.
More beatings.

Speaker 20 Yes, you are listening to the No Agenda Show.

Speaker 45 Still ahead.

Speaker 122 I'm asking the justification for going after people you don't like.

Speaker 45 We'll be back with more of Trump's 100 Days or not.

Speaker 168 So that was big from the M5M this week.

Speaker 45 100 Days.

Speaker 91 What's happened? 100 Days.

Speaker 134 100 Days.

Speaker 3 100 Days.

Speaker 4 Well, I don't have any 100-day stuff. I have what the Democrats did, which I thought was the best part of the week.

Speaker 33 Oh, this is with Hog?

Speaker 77 The Hog Kid?

Speaker 4 Oh, no, the Hog Kid's not that interesting. I thought the thing I thought that was interesting was the sit-in.

Speaker 5 Yeah,

Speaker 166 that started on Sunday.

Speaker 45 We saw the sit-in start live on Sunday.

Speaker 4 Yeah, we saw it start, but here's the report.

Speaker 4 Which, holy mackerel, I didn't clip this correctly. I can tell by looking at it.

Speaker 99 Do you have the name of it?

Speaker 4 Yeah, Congress sit-in.

Speaker 5 Okay.

Speaker 5 Oh.

Speaker 2 It's okay.

Speaker 45 We'll roll with it.

Speaker 4 We'll figure out what's going on.

Speaker 134 Let's see what we have.

Speaker 170 Congress returns from its spring break today, but two lawmakers returned to the Capitol a day earlier in protest of the Republican budget plan.

Speaker 170 You're looking at House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senator Cory Booker, who held a sit-in that lasted more than 12 hours.

Speaker 148 This is one of those moments where we have to step up more as leaders in Congress. We are in a moral moment.

Speaker 174 And what what we need now is not just four congresspeople and for senators, but to get there, we need more people that are willing to stand in this moral storm.

Speaker 147 In this moment.

Speaker 170 Congressional correspondent, Nicole Killian, joins us now from Capitol Hill with more on this. Good morning to you, Nicole.

Speaker 170 Senator Booker there kind of ended that speech and everyone standed up. There was kind of like a roarous applause around him.

Speaker 45 I didn't hear any roarous applause on the clip. Did they forget that?

Speaker 4 There was some applause, but stand, the guys,

Speaker 4 he said they standed up.

Speaker 4 Well, he's British. This guy's British.
You bring your British guy in so they can do proper English. Yes, they stand it up.

Speaker 45 I've been standing up all the time.

Speaker 170 Why do this? Why conduct a sit-in protest on the weekend? And from what you can tell, did it resonate?

Speaker 176 Well, I think a couple of things.

Speaker 176 You know, interestingly, I did ask Senator Booker after he had that record-breaking speech on the Senate floor earlier this month if this was a sign of things to come from Democrats, because of course some have been under fire for not doing enough to combat the Trump agenda.

Speaker 176 And he did acknowledge the need on the part of Democrats to do more. And so obviously this all happened on the House side of the steps, which involved minority leader husbands.

Speaker 72 Okay, you stop the clip.

Speaker 4 It goes on. This woman is one of those women.
I don't know if you ever worked with any of them. They're in broadcasting.
They can talk forever. Oh, it's.

Speaker 4 They have to be interrupted. They leave very few openings openings because

Speaker 4 when I tried to clip her, I tried to cut something because she ran like she would use and.

Speaker 4 She

Speaker 4 stood and.

Speaker 4 There was no way of cutting the

Speaker 5 unclippable uncle. An unclippable wench.

Speaker 35 Yes, she's no good.

Speaker 45 She's no good.

Speaker 16 An unclippable wench who can't stop talking.

Speaker 177 I want to play a little bit of this hog thing, though, because I just thought it was interesting to show what disarray the Democrat Party is in.

Speaker 53 DNC Vice chair David Hogg was on the lead last week talking about his plan to raise $20 million to unseat Democrats in safe seats in primaries.

Speaker 58 By the way, the woman you're going to hear talking, her name is

Speaker 182 Megan.

Speaker 181 What is it?

Speaker 45 Do I have it here?

Speaker 81 Megan Hayes.

Speaker 79 She was an advisor to Biden, and she has a most interesting speech impediment.

Speaker 53 Now the DNC chairman, Ken Martin, weighed in, and here's what he had to say.

Speaker 183 No DNC officer should ever attempt to influence the outcome of a primary election, whether on behalf of an incumbent or a challenger. While, you know, certainly,

Speaker 183 you know, I understand what he's trying to do. As I've said to him, if you want to challenge incumbents, you're more than free to do that, but just not as an officer of the DNC.

Speaker 53 From Minnesota, if you can't tell.

Speaker 179 So

Speaker 53 Hogg's argument is, is because he's not here to defend himself, there's a lot of dead weight in this party, and we're talking about safe democratic seats.

Speaker 53 So whoever wins is going to end up winning anyway and you know we need to rise to meet the moment that's what he would say.

Speaker 184 Great. You don't do that as a member of the DNC.
You're an elected person on the DNC. Leave the party and go do that.
The DNC is not an idea that is a democratic party.

Speaker 184 The DNC is an institution with a job to do. People vote in primaries, not the DNC.

Speaker 37 Are you sympathetic to his arguments at all? No.

Speaker 184 Then don't be part of the DNC.

Speaker 82 Well, what about the idea that there should be

Speaker 184 absolutely there should be primaries. People should be primarily.

Speaker 184 That is how our democracy works. But if you want to help the primary challengers, then leave the DNC.
That is not your role as a DNC.

Speaker 58 Oh, interesting.

Speaker 31 Now that I listen to her, you can't hear it.

Speaker 165 But when you see her,

Speaker 106 her mouth goes all weird when she talks.

Speaker 88 That was disappointing.

Speaker 185 No, that's interesting.

Speaker 4 Kelly Evans on CNBC has

Speaker 4 a funny mouth thing.

Speaker 4 The worst case example of this

Speaker 4 is a preacher called Robert Tilton out of Texas.

Speaker 112 Not familiar.

Speaker 4 And

Speaker 4 he's be a televangelist. He's on TV all the time.

Speaker 4 I haven't seen him for years, but he did a thing with his mouth that you'd watch him. And it was like it would be kind of mesmerizing because his mouth wasn't going in the same direction as his.

Speaker 186 It was very odd.

Speaker 3 His words.

Speaker 13 And then they brought on this just short Ro Kahana.

Speaker 1 Ro Kahana.

Speaker 164 Which is just fun to say.

Speaker 112 Ro Kahana.

Speaker 187 Joining us now to discuss Democratic Congressman Roe Khana of California. Congressman, always great to have you on the show.
Thank you very much for being here.

Speaker 187 You are one who has actually publicly supported the effort from David Hogg. You wrote on the platform X

Speaker 187 that you think that Hogg is doing incredible work supporting frontline Democrats while giving new candidates a chance to run in safe seats.

Speaker 187 And you say Democrats should embrace a new generation of leadership and competition.

Speaker 189 Why is this such a lonely place for you to be?

Speaker 45 Ooh, you rebel.

Speaker 127 Well, look, I think primaries are healthy.

Speaker 190 Competition is healthy. I won my seat in a Democratic primary.
Many of our members of Congress have won in primaries, and we need a new generation of leadership.

Speaker 190 Now, I'm trying to reach a compromise with the DNC and David Hogg.

Speaker 190 And what I've said to David is he can have his organization that is having primary challenges, but he himself should not endorse in his personal capacity while he's vice chair.

Speaker 190 And that seems to me something that can bring everyone together.

Speaker 95 This was such a mistake to bring this Jamoke in.

Speaker 129 I have no idea how that happened.

Speaker 152 He must have come with money.

Speaker 45 Who? Hogg.

Speaker 192 No.

Speaker 57 This was just purely craziness from the Democrat Party?

Speaker 4 I don't know that it was a bad thing.

Speaker 4 He comes in. Carville's the one who's really jumping all over him.
There was a good back and forth of him and Carville.

Speaker 4 And Hogg, Carville accused him of saying, you know, the position you're in, you're not supposed to be supporting anybody.

Speaker 4 And he's not. I haven't heard anything.
He just wants, he just is theoretical. He says we should bring in new people and have them run in the primaries.

Speaker 4 He hasn't named names, so I don't know what Rokan is talking about or Carville for that matter. And then Carville called him out for getting paid.

Speaker 4 And it turns out that that vice chair that he is is a voluntary job. He doesn't get paid anything, he says.

Speaker 62 No, I'm thinking, this is why I think I have no, you know, without evidence that there's money behind him this whole this kid's well not his father

Speaker 88 no we know that so the other big story and this was big because i mean what what well maybe soros money it's possible yeah that's such an old trope at this point yeah i agree and soros wouldn't be trying to put new people in the soros gambit is over it's got to be new people it's got to be new money soros is dead

Speaker 4 you know what's alex is gallivanting around with alex is no good he's not this he's not He's not the powerhouse.

Speaker 4 The old man was.

Speaker 60 So the other big story, because I know people in the region, was the big blackout.

Speaker 194 And I have two boots on the ground which will help dispel all of the rumors, innuendo, and bull crap.

Speaker 37 The power is back on in Spain and Portugal after one of Europe's biggest ever blackouts.

Speaker 1 But there are still no answers as to what actually caused it

Speaker 91 or how they could prevent it from happening again. Our Iberian co-bureau chief Ashlyn Leng is looking at this story.

Speaker 98 Ashlyn, what do we actually know?

Speaker 196 It's extremely unclear still what caused the blackout and there is something of a political blame game initiating.

Speaker 196 We are also seeing an intense discussion about the merits of different power sources. Spain is and Portugal are big renewables producers.

Speaker 196 French ministers were saying yesterday, well, you know, if they used more nuclear power, perhaps that wouldn't have happened.

Speaker 196 The Spanish Prime Minister has firmly rejected that, saying actually, even nuclear power couldn't help us get this restarted. We were relying on a lot of hydro.

Speaker 196 The Spanish power grid operator has said that this is absolutely not a cyber attack from their point of view. They say there was a massive drop-off in power supply.

Speaker 196 What caused that is becoming a key area of investigation. It is unclear.
The Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, is not ruling out a cyber attack.

Speaker 164 It's clear that it's very unclear, and everyone's dancing around, and we have some answers. But first, boots on the ground from Marbella, Spain, where our producer is located.

Speaker 88 Marbellia is the hoity-toity place of Spain to be, if you're near the harbor.

Speaker 65 We've been told the blackout here is weather or net-zero-based after public radio telling us it was a cyber attack while it was going on.

Speaker 38 Interestingly, the communications blackout here in Marbellia was much longer than the power outage.

Speaker 15 We did not have Wi-Fi or cell service for 18 hours while the power was only out for seven hours.

Speaker 94 And, of course, EU rules around no gas stoves or barbecues on balconies meant we had to borrow a neighbor's barbecue to heat water and milk for the kids.

Speaker 110 Because, of course, you have to have electric stoves.

Speaker 110 This is one of our producers who can't wait to get out of the EU.

Speaker 98 So we continue with this Reuters report.

Speaker 195 And in the absence of concrete answers, what are the authorities doing to make sure there isn't a repeat of this?

Speaker 196 Well, that is the big question: whether it can happen again. We've heard energy analysts saying that this could indeed happen again.

Speaker 196 This was, you know, one of the possibly the only big power cut in the era of green electricity, certainly the largest that anyone can remember.

Speaker 196 There has been an ongoing debate about the viability of European grids, whether they are having sufficient amounts of investment in them, particularly now that we are seeing these new sources of power come online.

Speaker 196 Some analysts suggesting that you're trying to operate a Ferrari on a country road and that sometimes that will result in its own challenges to the system.

Speaker 196 Whether that was the case here, whether there was a third party's involvement, it still very much remains to be seen.

Speaker 168 So now they're peddling the line, well, you're trying to operate a Ferrari on a country road, meaning, oh, the grid is just not ready for our sophisticated renewables.

Speaker 95 So I contacted our dude named.

Speaker 152 Our dude named Ben named Ben, who is the protector of megawatts, if you recall, this is his job.

Speaker 92 He knows, and particularly cybersecurity, zero cyber attack.

Speaker 100 He said, the problem is Spain, the reason why you're not hearing the truth is that Spain has been bragging about running on 100% renewables.

Speaker 4 Yeah, there's some clips that are available. I mean, there's a lot of visual

Speaker 4 news clips that like to point this out and they form memes.

Speaker 50 So the truth of it is, at the time of the outage, 77% of generation was inverter-based.

Speaker 56 I love this term.

Speaker 14 I understand it immediately.

Speaker 152 Inverter-based means solar or winds because they generate direct current and the inverter changes it into alternating current.

Speaker 4 Yeah, so it can go down to wires.

Speaker 107 And because

Speaker 98 these renewables do not provide stable

Speaker 106 power

Speaker 104 they fluctuate due to i don't know wind changes and clouds clouds clouds martha i can't watch the tv they they have a baseload their baseload is 15 gigawatts of generation from france

Speaker 11 so according to the dude named ben named ben protector of megawatts a substation in france suddenly stopped transmitting electricity now they they're not exactly sure why, but they believe that it was because of a fire at the substation.

Speaker 100 So, the Iberian Peninsula, Spain, and subsequently Portugal, suddenly lost

Speaker 129 15 megawatts, so 15 gigawatts, 15,000 megawatts of generation from the French that they were reliant on because they were way oversubscribed on these renewables.

Speaker 101 15,000 megawatts is is a lot of generation to lose all at once.

Speaker 14 For instance, in Texas, we don't get into an emergency situation until we go down to 3,000 megawatts of spinning reserve.

Speaker 15 Even on our best day for generation, it would be very difficult for our grid to survive that.

Speaker 197 Bottom line, emergency levels would be catastrophic in Texas at 3,000.

Speaker 101 We have about

Speaker 99 40 million people here.

Speaker 200 They lost 15,000.

Speaker 45 So

Speaker 119 the whole reason you're not hearing the truth is because of the bragging that they were, oh, we're 100% renewable, and they're not.

Speaker 99 They were really reliant on this probably nuclear-generated power from France.

Speaker 78 That dropped out.

Speaker 37 Everything went to crap.

Speaker 135 And this is the risk of this insane policy of relying on 100% renewables, getting to net zero.

Speaker 17 It is insane.

Speaker 45 And no one's going to want to admit this.

Speaker 199 So, I mean, we've heard things such as, oh, it was atmospheric fluctuation, a rare atmospheric event.

Speaker 4 It's so bogus.

Speaker 86 USA Today even had this preliminary reports out of Europe about the massive blackout.

Speaker 58 The cause may be something called induced atmospheric vibration.

Speaker 29 Yeah.

Speaker 72 What a cry.

Speaker 35 A rare phenomenon where weather changes affect power lines.

Speaker 42 This is a lie.

Speaker 107 And this is just the beginning of this nonsense.

Speaker 79 The more they rely on renewables and in this case, external interconnect from another country, which is a huge security risk for your country.

Speaker 56 It's like, oh, we're relying upon France.

Speaker 33 If France drops the base load for us, boom, we're done.

Speaker 5 So,

Speaker 45 this, it doesn't work. It's not a good idea.

Speaker 129 Nuclear is not inverter-based. It's AC.
It's renewable.

Speaker 25 That's what they should be going to.

Speaker 12 But no.

Speaker 165 Instead, it's all of this solar and wind.

Speaker 21 And they're going to keep lying.

Speaker 198 And I'm sure they'll have a task task force, and nothing will ever come of it.

Speaker 4 Brings me to my two climate clips.

Speaker 45 Boom, Shakalaka.

Speaker 4 I don't know if I have anything on that particular situation, which I thought. I know I heard a lot of stuff, and I'm very familiar with the phony baloney

Speaker 4 crazy comment about the weather causing the whole thing.

Speaker 4 The climate hysteria debate.

Speaker 149 Is there hysteria in the international

Speaker 203 In a new policy paper, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said hysteria should be taken out of the international climate debate, saying that voters feel they are being made to make financial sacrifices and changes to their lifestyle in what Blair referred to as doomed policy, despite the fact that in developed nations these changes will lead to a minimal impact to global carbon emissions.

Speaker 203 Blair said that by 2030 almost two-thirds of global emissions will come from China, India and Southeast Asia, and said that means any strategy based on phasing out fossil fuels in the short term is doomed to fail.

Speaker 203 But while he appeared to hit out against net zero carbon emission policies, Blair went on to clarify that Prime Minister Keir Starmer's approach to net zero is the right one, supporting the government's plan for net zero by 2050.

Speaker 203 Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner responded.

Speaker 145 Tony's clarified his comments and he welcomes our direction of travel and that's on renewables, investing in renewables and nuclear as part of the mix. But we can't rely on fossil fuels forever.

Speaker 203 The British government rejected Blair's claim of hysteria in the climate debate.

Speaker 66 Debate, yes.

Speaker 5 Okay.

Speaker 4 Yeah, this is

Speaker 4 interesting how these things are starting to fall apart.

Speaker 94 What is the inverse of operating a Ferrari on a country road?

Speaker 164 Is it a Lada?

Speaker 204 No, no one knows what a Lada.

Speaker 80 What is

Speaker 199 an Edsel?

Speaker 45 Operating an Edsel on a country road. No Autobahn.

Speaker 4 No, a pedal bike on a

Speaker 5 pedal bike on the Autobahn.

Speaker 17 No pedal bike on the Autobahn.

Speaker 4 Pedal bike on the Autobahn. There you go.

Speaker 2 That's what it is.

Speaker 202 A pedal bike.

Speaker 1 I like it.

Speaker 99 A pedal bike on the autobahn.

Speaker 5 Nice.

Speaker 4 Okay, it's part two.

Speaker 205 Now, Republicans passed all of these changes out of committee yesterday, and the goal is to make them part of that broader reconciliation bill, that big budget bill that we've heard so much about, with the goal to pass all of this by the summer.

Speaker 143 What?

Speaker 176 What is she saying?

Speaker 106 What is this?

Speaker 4 Is this another misclip?

Speaker 158 I think you meant to start it here.

Speaker 88 Hold on a second.

Speaker 203 I see what's going But Ben Pyle, co-founder of Climate Debate UK, says there is a lot of hysteria driving climate policy.

Speaker 171 And this sort of tendency of a lot of people within the global green movement to sort of talk about deadlines, you know, 10 years left to save the planet, and so on and so forth.

Speaker 203 Many people have made the 10 years claim over the decades, including former US Vice President Al Gore in 2006.

Speaker 203 Blair said that most political leaders know that the debate has become irrational, but are terrified of saying so for fear of being called climate deniers.

Speaker 203 A British government spokesperson said that they remain focused on their mission for the UK to be a clean energy superpower while treading lightly on people's lives.

Speaker 203 Pyle disputed this and said it will be expensive.

Speaker 171 Over the next five years,

Speaker 171 the clean power by 2030 agenda is going to lock Britain into extremely expensive

Speaker 171 renewable energy subsidy schemes.

Speaker 203 Over-reliance on renewable energy has drawn criticism in recent days, following the huge blackouts throughout Spain and Portugal.

Speaker 203 Energy expert Catherine Porter said the initial fault in Spain's power grid was made worse by an over-reliance on solar power, which led to cascading blackouts that lasted for over eight hours in the Iberian Peninsula.

Speaker 101 So, this is actually folds right into a classic clip I have

Speaker 98 when he was still the

Speaker 74 chief of the Bank of England, the central bank of the United Kingdom, the new Prime Minister of Canada listened to what he was saying then and what he probably still thinks today.

Speaker 159 The world's coming to Glasgow.

Speaker 208 Let's reshape finance for a sustainable world.

Speaker 159 You demanded action, and now it's time for the financial sector to deliver.

Speaker 208 To reach net zero, every country, every company, every bank, every investor, every pension fund around the world world will need to make some big changes.

Speaker 159 In the run-up to COP26 in Glasgow, we have an enormous opportunity to bring climate change into the heart of every financial decision.

Speaker 159 And our plan will manage the risk from climate change while helping to seize the opportunities from a newer, greener economy.

Speaker 159 The UK has been at the forefront of innovation for centuries, brimming with ingenuity and a can-do spirit. It also houses the world's largest financial system.

Speaker 80 And by bringing them together, we can deliver the net zero world that you've demanded and that our future generations deserve.

Speaker 35 You demanded it. You demanded it.

Speaker 108 You want the net zero.

Speaker 4 Nobody demanded it.

Speaker 27 No, you demanded it.

Speaker 35 You wanted the net zero world.

Speaker 129 That's what's going to happen to Canada.

Speaker 35 Canada, you're next.

Speaker 48 How are your renewables doing?

Speaker 166 It's going to be great.

Speaker 31 It's going to be great.

Speaker 152 Might as well get into this.

Speaker 209 After a long night and not much sleep, Prime Minister Mark Carney arrived at his office this morning, getting down to work after laying out his vision to supporters last night in Ottawa.

Speaker 129 As we come here after this consequential, most consequential election, let's put an end.

Speaker 129 Let's put an end to the division and anger of the past.

Speaker 209 Carney says he'll work with all parties, and as the final votes are counted, it's clear he'll have to. The Liberals have come up just shy of a majority.

Speaker 209 They'll need to rely on the handful of new Democrats who survived their party's implosion, the Bloc Québécois, or even the Conservatives to enact their agenda.

Speaker 209 The latest count shows Kearney's liberals and Pierre Polyev's conservatives taking roughly 85% of all votes cast, with a less than 3% margin between them.

Speaker 209 The conservatives say they're willing to work with the liberals on the biggest issue facing the country, its relationship with the U.S., with Kearney today making another move on that file.

Speaker 209 The Prime Minister's office says Kearney spoke with U.S.

Speaker 209 President Donald Trump, that Trump congratulated Kearney Kearney on his win, and that the two leaders agreed on the importance of Canada and the U.S.

Speaker 209 working together as independent sovereign nations and agreed to meet in person in the near future.

Speaker 106 And I think it was you who said, you know, Trump wanted this to happen.

Speaker 41 He wanted Kearney to be able to do it.

Speaker 4 He implied that he did.

Speaker 17 Here's some proof.

Speaker 210 I was highlighting his phone call yesterday with freshly elected Prime Minister Mark Carney and hinting that on trade issues, Trump seems to see positive progress coming.

Speaker 114 Well, I think we're going to have a great relationship. He called me up yesterday.

Speaker 7 He said, let's make a deal.

Speaker 210 Deal-making now set to at least begin, suggested Trump,

Speaker 210 almost immediately.

Speaker 7 He's a very nice gentleman, and

Speaker 7 he's going to come to the White House very shortly, within the next week or less.

Speaker 210 Trump even weighed in on the election itself when a reporter pointed out Kearney won in no small way by targeting Trump and his trade policies.

Speaker 210 Here's Trump on that and on opposition leader Pierre Polyev.

Speaker 7 They both hated Trump and it was the one that hated Trump I think the least that won.

Speaker 7 I actually think the conservative hated me much more than

Speaker 7 the so-called liberal. He's a pretty liberal guy.

Speaker 107 No, I spoke to him yesterday.

Speaker 114 Couldn't have been nicer.

Speaker 117 And I congratulated him.

Speaker 210 Separately, Trump noted not long ago that he's...

Speaker 14 If President Trump is saying, you're a great guy, you're a nice guy, this is the time you start watching your back.

Speaker 210 Something's coming coming for you and i congratulated him separately trump noted not long ago that he's already made some 200 trade deals since he imposed his tariffs earlier this year though none has been officially announced or made public today

Speaker 210 while slamming another country he's hit hard with tariffs china the leading uh candidate for the the chief ripper offer

Speaker 210 trump also suggested again maybe something's in the works there as well i hope we're gonna to make a deal with China.

Speaker 117 We're talking to China.

Speaker 210 Where any of it goes from here is, as ever, known only to Trump.

Speaker 210 Though for Canada, a better sense of things may well come soon, with, as Trump now expects, that sit-down in the Oval Office with he and Mark Carney very shortly.

Speaker 14 And according to NPR,

Speaker 162 Trump really did get him elected.

Speaker 124 Mark Carney has been elected as Prime Minister of Canada, according to the projections from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Speaker 111 This was seen as a referendum on which candidate could best handle the United United States under President Trump, who placed tariffs on Canada and sparked a wave of Canadian nationalism.

Speaker 111 Kearney defeated Conservative Party leader Pierre Polyev.

Speaker 124 Polyev's momentum began to slip when former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resigned earlier this year, which gave the Liberals a lift.

Speaker 124 But the real boost came when President Trump began targeting Canada's economy and its sovereignty. Many Canadians were outraged by Trump's threat to make Canada the 51st state.

Speaker 37 It all becomes clear. clear.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I thought that I think Polyev was too much like Trump, and he would have probably butted hedge with him. He didn't like him.
I have a very strange clip

Speaker 4 that explains Trump's behavior in general.

Speaker 4 And this is the woman Cochrane, I think is her name. She is on the Shark Tank.
She's the female girl there. And female girl.
And she's the one as opposed to the male girls that are all on Shark Tank.

Speaker 63 You can't be too sure.

Speaker 104 You gotta be very clear.

Speaker 130 The female girl, yes.

Speaker 4 The female girl. She she had an observation that I think is something we should always keep in the back of our minds about Trump.

Speaker 4 And after I heard this, I also thought that, oh, this is what would happen with Bill Maher, too.

Speaker 45 Did you listen to this?

Speaker 38 I'm sorry.

Speaker 212 Donald Trump getting the heck of a compliment from one of the key stars of Shark Tank, Barbara Corcoran.

Speaker 214 So I did a lot of work with Donald, and I can tell you she is the best saleswoman I've ever met in my life.

Speaker 109 Yeah, she's the blonde who does a lot of fast-moving consumer.

Speaker 54 She does smaller deals but successful deals.

Speaker 90 She's the QVC lady.

Speaker 80 That's what she is, QVC girl.

Speaker 214 I watched him walk into a situation,

Speaker 214 for example, selling the Plaza Hotel to the Chinese out of

Speaker 214 Hong Kong, it was in Taiwan, a group of Asians, wealthiest families in Hong Kong, and they were there because they were interested in the Plaza Hotel. And I was the broker on my broker's way.

Speaker 214 We were all at the table and we were like really hungry to make this deal.

Speaker 214 And I watched him totally not pitch the Plaza Hotel, bury it, and talk about the land masses on the Hudson River and the buildings that would be there. They were not the least bit interested.

Speaker 214 They just wanted to buy the Plaza Hotel. Like a customer, I want to buy it.
And Donald was near bankruptcy, really needed the money to bail out.

Speaker 214 And I watched him.

Speaker 146 I thought he was so off.

Speaker 214 He wasn't. They bought the land and built all those towers on the West River as we know it today, you know, all those Trump towers along the river.
That was the deal. How did he do that?

Speaker 214 I'll tell you what his masterful mind does.

Speaker 149 He is a genius

Speaker 214 at picking out the vulnerability of someone's personality. He can smell it, sense it, and trust it.

Speaker 214 So for example, if you were to walk into a business meeting with Donald and you're saying whatever you're saying, I've seen it time and time again, he could see what your weakness is and not physically reach over and put his finger on it.

Speaker 214 But he just could see what your weakness is and play into it. Not the nicest thing in the world, but it's a certain gift I've never seen anyone else.

Speaker 213 And it comes in handy in light of what we're doing right now with China.

Speaker 129 Yeah, no, she's the older lady, not the young one.

Speaker 130 The young blonde is the QVC.

Speaker 44 Yeah, yeah, I saw this clip.

Speaker 54 And I thought, that makes total sense.

Speaker 82 And that's what he's been doing with everything.

Speaker 153 And

Speaker 73 I think this may have in some degree, you know,

Speaker 78 since we were talking about rare earths and about the processing, so I've been receiving nothing but tons of information about rare earth processing.

Speaker 127 Saskatchewan has had a rare earth processing facility since 2020.

Speaker 112 So they do a lot of this.

Speaker 130 More, I mean, I have a ton of

Speaker 99 different places where this is happening, but this kind of folds into the new deal.

Speaker 113 The last time Ukraine was about to sign a minerals deal with the U.S., it was derailed derailed by a row in the Oval Office.

Speaker 113 Two months on, relations are slightly warmer. And just before we recorded this podcast, they finally reached an agreement.

Speaker 113 The deal creates an investment fund for the reconstruction of Ukraine in exchange for access to the country's minerals, oil, and gas.

Speaker 113 It will still need to be approved by parliament in Ukraine, but the Ukrainian MP, Maria Metsenseva, welcomed what she said were the improved terms of the agreement.

Speaker 220 It's quite a good investment opportunity and a fair deal in the end where no sort of deaths on military aid are mentioned.

Speaker 220 Everything is done in a manner due to Ukrainian constitution and doesn't breach any oversight of our EU aspirations.

Speaker 101 So I thought CBS actually had a that was BBC.

Speaker 127 CBS had a better report

Speaker 25 because this is exactly the kind of deal that President Trump was talking about.

Speaker 13 Give us your minerals. We'll protect you.

Speaker 74 We'll protect our own assets, and maybe we'll put together a little fund for you, a little hedge fund.

Speaker 180 We're going to turn now to news that has big implications for the war in Ukraine. The U.S.
and Ukraine have signed a long-awaited deal giving the U.S. access to important rare earth minerals.

Speaker 180 Ukraine hopes in return to get greater protection from Russian aggression. Raimi In Ossencia has more on all of this.
Raimi joins us now. Remy, good morning.

Speaker 222 Tony, yes, good morning. They're in breakthrough here.
While this deal does not explicitly say that the U.S.

Speaker 222 will keep on helping Ukraine defend against Russia's invasion, like under the Biden administration, that is the hope.

Speaker 4 U.S.

Speaker 222 Treasury Secretary Scott Besson, who signed this pact with Ukraine's deputy prime minister in Washington, said that it signals to Russia that the Trump administration is committed to a peace process for what he says is a free Ukraine and over the long term.

Speaker 222 Details about this deal, though, are slim, but it centers on U.S. access to Ukraine's vast resources under its soil.

Speaker 222 That includes oil and gas, but along with critical raw materials, that's like graphite, titanium, and uranium for aerospace and technology. Funds from this deal would go towards paying the U.S.

Speaker 222 for future military aid. and to establish a joint fund for the reconstruction of Ukraine.
And, you know, there has been a lot of drama around this deal.

Speaker 222 We all know the two sides were closed back in February when Zelensky went to Washington to sign an earlier version, but then we saw that spectacular meltdown broadcast around the world.

Speaker 222 Then last week, Trump and Zelensky met at St. Peter's Basilica.
Look at that. A decidedly more peaceful, therefore, the funeral of the Pope.
And now we have this breakthrough.

Speaker 222 But importantly, Russia has not commented yet.

Speaker 45 So let's talk about the Ukrainian rare earths.

Speaker 4 Well, let's play the NTD clip of this so we can get that out of the way.

Speaker 26 Okay.

Speaker 200 Ukraine. Yep, gotcha.

Speaker 149 A Ukrainian official is in Washington today. The U.S.
and Ukraine just signed a deal on rare earth minerals.

Speaker 224 Here's more.

Speaker 225 Ukraine's first deputy prime minister, Yulias Firidenko, is traveling to the United States on Wednesday to sign a minerals deal.

Speaker 225 The two sides were reportedly set to close the deal on Wednesday afternoon until Ukraine requested some last-minute changes.

Speaker 225 President Trump wants to use Ukraine's minerals as a financial guarantee for the aid the U.S. has been sending to Ukraine.

Speaker 172 I didn't want to make a complicated deal. I didn't want to make a deal that couldn't be made because Ukraine doesn't have very much money.

Speaker 172 They're going through a very bad period of time.

Speaker 148 It's been brutal.

Speaker 225 But Ukraine's prime minister says the agreement won't include the money the U.S. has sent so far, only future aid.

Speaker 78 So I think this is still about weapon sales to the EU.

Speaker 186 They'll be buying it, I believe, because

Speaker 37 these rare earths in Ukraine, according to Reuters,

Speaker 91 they don't really have an operational mine.

Speaker 45 They don't really have rare earths.

Speaker 63 Exactly.

Speaker 202 They have no mining roads, no rail, no energy grids, no processing capacity.

Speaker 29 That's your big, big thing.

Speaker 185 Of course, it's all a chaos and

Speaker 86 geological data is hardly available.

Speaker 129 It seems like a bit of a mirage that.

Speaker 34 But

Speaker 64 the rare earths business that Rubio was doing in Rwanda, boots on the ground.

Speaker 204 Adam, I worked in the mining industry for eight years, lived in Africa for 15, mostly in DRC and Kenya.

Speaker 199 The answer to the question is Africa has to make peace between the DRC and its neighbors.

Speaker 78 Rwanda is already doing unofficial processing of rare earth minerals from the DRC.

Speaker 194 So there is processing and even crazier.

Speaker 21 They're going to be processing right up in California at Mountain Pass.

Speaker 227 America led this industry for decades with this site right here at Mountain Pass.

Speaker 227 But due to cost of capital subsidies overseas in China, as well as different environmental standards, we lost our leadership and this site fell into essentially disrepair and bankruptcy.

Speaker 227 MP Materials has humble beginnings. We acquired this site in 2017.

Speaker 200 It had eight employees.

Speaker 222 It was in care maintenance.

Speaker 227 Nobody believed that we could compete against China. But we focused on execution and we slowly, methodically, over time, rebuilt this.

Speaker 227 We have nearly 300 Americans proudly working on this this site.

Speaker 227 When we acquired this site, we clearly realized that multi-billion dollar supply chains don't move overnight. We had to have a long-term plan to restore this site successfully and sustainably.

Speaker 227 Our first stage, which is largely complete, was to relaunch the operations here. We now produce a rare earth concentrate product that represents 15% of the global supply.
We are profitable doing so.

Speaker 227 Our next stage, which is underway, is to make separated rare earth products and optimize it to be a leader in global industry from a cost and sustainability perspective.

Speaker 227 Once stage two is done, we expect to generate a significant amount of free cash flow that will enable us to not just making separated rare earth products, but also magnets so we can fulfill our mission of restoring the full rare supply chain to the United States of America.

Speaker 204 So that's in California.

Speaker 4 What's the name of this operation?

Speaker 45 I've even heard of this.

Speaker 75 Mountain Pass Materials.

Speaker 91 And there's three more from usa rare earth who have processing plants now in stillwater oklahoma shiarablanca texas and wheat ridge colorado we are getting into the rare earth business

Speaker 204 and it seems that most of them are focused on magnets which would i don't know if that's going to be the future of rare earths but uh that's what they most of them seem to be doing

Speaker 60 So between Canada, these four states in America, I think we're getting getting back into the business.

Speaker 45 We're we're and maybe, maybe, maybe we can chunk something out of uh Ukraine if, you know, if it's really even there.

Speaker 4 We might be actually after their oil.

Speaker 99 More more than likely.

Speaker 110 I'd, I'd, I would take that over the rare earths any day.

Speaker 5 Um,

Speaker 91 so things are moving.

Speaker 4 And if they get the peace deal, they we can get the rare earths if we want them from Russia. Russia already offers it.

Speaker 112 Yeah, no, we can get it easy.

Speaker 17 But we're going to be doing processing and we have, and we're going to make Canada.

Speaker 27 You do it, Canada.

Speaker 38 Yeah, you want to be net zero here?

Speaker 94 Take this nasty stuff.

Speaker 12 Do it.

Speaker 3 Do it, do it, do it.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 49 While we're kind of on this and climate, etc.

Speaker 4 Oh, it's the neodium. rare earth that is the that's the that's the big attraction that that's for those ridiculous magnets.
Yeah.

Speaker 81 Is that of any real use, the magnet?

Speaker 45 I mean, it's obviously a

Speaker 150 motor.

Speaker 16 Yeah, for all kinds of stuff.

Speaker 4 It's an extremely powerful magnet.

Speaker 45 Oh,

Speaker 72 we need some magnets.

Speaker 4 That's kind of thing where you put two of them together, you can't get them apart.

Speaker 80 Your finger gets crushed.

Speaker 158 You're done.

Speaker 4 Your finger gets crushed.

Speaker 1 This is a story that's been brewing.

Speaker 99 It's been very hard to get

Speaker 72 done.

Speaker 45 You're done.

Speaker 136 Your finger's done.

Speaker 119 Mom!

Speaker 129 It's been very hard to get a clip, and this is not the one I wanted, particularly because it comes from, oh, gee, what, Africa news?

Speaker 126 Let me see.

Speaker 87 Is it from, yes, Africa news.

Speaker 26 Here goes the show.

Speaker 12 Yeah, here goes the show.

Speaker 38 But it's about chemtrails, or as we call it, aerosel injection.

Speaker 92 And there's a lot of people in the UK are very concerned about this because they're talking about it.

Speaker 32 This is just a short clip about what it is.

Speaker 101 We all know what it is, but it's even interesting that one of the scientists in this clip describes exactly what has been happening to our climate, and I think it is due to

Speaker 88 aerosol injection or chemtrails.

Speaker 231 The approach would work by planes releasing tiny particles into the atmosphere's dry, stable upper layer called the stratosphere.

Speaker 232 This would help reduce the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth's surface and helping to cool the planet.

Speaker 234 So, our study examined a climate intervention technique called stratospheric aerosol injection, which is an idea to cool down the planet by adding a layer of small reflective particles, aerosols, into the high atmosphere.

Speaker 234 Those particles would reflect a small amount, perhaps 1%, of the incoming sunlight.

Speaker 234 And there is good evidence that this could be used to cool down the planet and perhaps to reduce some climate impacts

Speaker 131 for vulnerable people around the world.

Speaker 232 Researchers say that this could be done using aircraft already in service today rather than developing new ones.

Speaker 231 Despite the lower altitude, it would still be possible to cool the planet by around 0.6 degrees Celsius.

Speaker 91 Listen to this guy.

Speaker 178 Listen to what he says.

Speaker 232 Celsius.

Speaker 236 When you deploy stratospheric aerosol injection, you can change atmospheric circulation patterns. And so this can do things like disrupt precipitation patterns, cause droughts in some places,

Speaker 236 cause excessive flooding in other places.

Speaker 27 Sounds exactly what's been happening to me.

Speaker 231 But other experts have urged caution, saying geoengineering projects like this one don't offer long-term solutions.

Speaker 28 So

Speaker 81 as kind of, you know, the Alex Jones and me would say, this is exactly what they do.

Speaker 21 Do it for decades and then say, oh, we have this great idea.

Speaker 99 And we've already been doing it because it's in the jet fuel.

Speaker 109 And Bobby the Op, RFK Jr., took a question about this yesterday on the Dr.

Speaker 142 Phil show.

Speaker 238 My name is Emily, and my biggest concern is the stratospheric aerosol injections that are continuously peppered on us every day.

Speaker 238 Bromium, aluminum, strontium, it's sprayed in our skies all day long. And I know you've talked to Dane Wiggington about this.
He seems to be one of the experts in the field.

Speaker 239 Is there a question? You got a question?

Speaker 238 Yes. How do we stop it?

Speaker 239 That is not happening in my agency.

Speaker 239 We don't do that.

Speaker 239 It's done,

Speaker 239 we think, by DARPA.

Speaker 239 And a lot of it now is coming out of the jet fuel. So, you know, those materials are put in jet fuel.

Speaker 239 I'm going to do everything in my power to stop it. We're bringing on somebody who's going to think only about that.

Speaker 239 Find out who's doing it and holding them accountable.

Speaker 47 Oh, Bobby, he's a kook.

Speaker 67 He's a kook.

Speaker 166 He believes in chemtrails.

Speaker 4 They put

Speaker 4 jet fuel.

Speaker 74 Yes, this has been the theory for a long time.

Speaker 59 Yeah, that's a bad theory.

Speaker 41 Why?

Speaker 4 Well, for one thing, it would be corrosive, but I've tested jet fuel when I was a chemist at Union Oil. But that was not in the last of these things in jet fuel.

Speaker 78 That was not in the last 25 years.

Speaker 72 Well,

Speaker 18 no, no.

Speaker 4 Well, chemtrails have been talked about way longer than

Speaker 78 when I was a kid, they were talking about them well i the the materials she talked about and i've seen this happen in los angeles where it floated down onto my house

Speaker 154 astrontium barium and no i there's something to this

Speaker 166 there is something and and it's always been suspected that it's in the jet fuel because you see it coming and and it's not like the guys in the with with the jet they put all kinds of crap in jet fuel you can pee in jet fuel and it'll still work it's diesel basically kerosene Kerosene.

Speaker 44 Kerosene.

Speaker 17 You know, so no, I think this is happening.

Speaker 9 And ever since President Trump got elected, it's been pretty beautiful here in Texas.

Speaker 59 Blue skies,

Speaker 237 where we would have every other day, if not days in a row, of chemtrails spreading out all across the sky, making it gray.

Speaker 45 No,

Speaker 45 I think this is for real.

Speaker 4 Okay, well, you can think what you want.

Speaker 27 We can agree to disagree.

Speaker 5 Chemtrails.

Speaker 128 Oh, wait until you hear what I have to say coming up.

Speaker 136 You think that's bad?

Speaker 130 You're not going to agree with anything I say.

Speaker 112 It's okay.

Speaker 87 You got any series, anything you want to want to launch into here?

Speaker 4 Well, let's get rid of the TikTok clips.

Speaker 62 I was hoping you were going to do student loan.

Speaker 4 Oh, the student loans, yes.

Speaker 42 Everybody wants student loans.

Speaker 58 TikTok clips.

Speaker 4 Okay, let's go student loan revamp part one.

Speaker 149 Capitol Hill House Republicans are working to revamp the federal student loan system as part of their big budget bill and efforts to cut government spending. NTD's Melina Weisskop, House the Details.

Speaker 205 Republicans are working towards ending President Biden's attempts to forgive student loan debt.

Speaker 205 After the courts rejected Biden's plan to forgive student loan debt, he enacted a workaround through the SAVE program that allowed so many borrowers to pay back zero dollars on their student loans and not accrue interest.

Speaker 205 Now, Republican lawmakers are trying to overhaul that entire Biden-era student loan payback program.

Speaker 205 In addition, Republican lawmakers aim to cap the amount that students can borrow in the first place. The limit is going to be the median price of a college, university, or program of study.

Speaker 205 The Republican chairman of the Education Committee says the goal with these new limits is to encourage colleges to lower their costs.

Speaker 226 Our current broken system encourages students to accept more and more debt without ever addressing college costs. It's no secret that spending in Washington has been a disaster.

Speaker 226 Waste, fraud, and abuse has left the American taxpayer on the hook for government bloat.

Speaker 44 Who was that at the end?

Speaker 4 You know, I don't know, but it sounds like Reagan.

Speaker 108 It sounds like Reagan, exactly.

Speaker 59 I was like,

Speaker 4 similar voice patterns.

Speaker 4 Probably a milieu thing.

Speaker 4 So here's part. Now, the part two is

Speaker 4 this was

Speaker 4 a long story of how this happened, but I got these clips kind of screwed up. But the second part is a student loan redux two.

Speaker 205 And Republicans are working to make several changes to the Pell Grant.

Speaker 205 So the goal is to try to limit the Pell Grant only to those who need it most and change the requirements from 12 credit hours per semester to 30 credit hours per year.

Speaker 205 Now, a Democrat said it's unfair for untraditional students with other obligations outside of school, such as who have obligations to family or for jobs.

Speaker 205 Here's the ranking Democrat member on the committee speaking about it yesterday.

Speaker 243 Because they may need more financial support to cover the basic needs like housing, child care, and transportation.

Speaker 243 At a time when families are struggling to make ends meet, I'm confused as why we're making it harder for working parents who are trying to further their education.

Speaker 205 Now the Republican chairman for his part noted that the Pell Grant is on track to run a shortfall of $70 to $100 billion within the decade, so he's trying to avoid that.

Speaker 205 Republicans are also trying to change the Pell Grant to include vocational programs, for example, schools for cosmetology or welding training, any career path that does not require a traditional college degree.

Speaker 205 If students choose to take those paths, they will qualify for a so-called workforce Pell Grant for the first time.

Speaker 152 Okay, so that's interesting, and that's a good stimulus for welders.

Speaker 154 What happens with the student loans people now have to repay?

Speaker 186 Is the question.

Speaker 4 They have to repay them. That's what they have to do.

Speaker 100 Are they going to have programs to refinance?

Speaker 4 Well, they'll be like the reduction programs. If you work for the police department, things like that, they're going to have the same exceptions that have always been in there.

Speaker 4 But they're going to have to pay. You take the loan out.
The real problem, and I think it was mentioned in the first clip, is that these colleges saw the whole thing as a scam that, oh,

Speaker 4 free money. Let's just jack our tuition up.

Speaker 4 And, oh, they get even more free money with the higher tuition. Well, let's jack it up even more.
The amount of

Speaker 4 tuition fees in not just the private universities, but the public universities are just as high as like Harvard.

Speaker 4 It is unbelievable what a scam this has become.

Speaker 42 I've been looking at some of these endowments, like Harvard.

Speaker 241 Their endowments are huge.

Speaker 4 They have over, I think they have $100 billion or something like that.

Speaker 94 So which is, you know, arguably what we spent on Ukraine in three years.

Speaker 88 It was probably more, but let's just... say that's the number.

Speaker 42 And that's tax-free.

Speaker 92 The only tax they have is 4% they pay to the colleges.

Speaker 64 And the rest is just, you know, who's managing that money?

Speaker 34 What's happening with that?

Speaker 4 I think BlackRock's got most of that.

Speaker 244 That's the scam, if you ask me.

Speaker 79 The scam is those endowments, and that's why Trump administration is being hard-noses about it.

Speaker 45 They want control over that, or they want to know what's going on with it.

Speaker 4 They see it as a possible source of taxation that so the public can pay yet less. So, in other words, the taxpayer can pay less, and those guys can pay their fair share.

Speaker 1 Where's their fair share?

Speaker 58 For a start, yeah.

Speaker 56 I mean, especially Harvard, but all of them have huge endowments.

Speaker 18 All of them do. All of them.

Speaker 43 It's that to me is a money scam.

Speaker 193 Those endowments is a tax avoidance system

Speaker 24 for mega-elites.

Speaker 50 It has to be.

Speaker 78 Certainly, if BlackRock's in there, then it can't be anything good.

Speaker 2 No, I mean, and then and then, you know, the students who get cajoled into a

Speaker 81 gender studies diploma,

Speaker 33 poly psy,

Speaker 108 you know,

Speaker 23 then they come up, they owe $100,000 and they got nothing, nowhere to go.

Speaker 4 If they owe $100,000, that's low. It's cheap, yeah.

Speaker 100 So, well, that's good.

Speaker 241 That's not getting enough attention.

Speaker 128 That endowment scam is a problem.

Speaker 87 I got, did you receive the Michelle Obama clip 20 times?

Speaker 4 Which one? The one where she's going on about

Speaker 4 there's a bunch of them. Which one are you talking about?

Speaker 198 Well, the one that's going around is oddly clipped, which of course makes me always go for the original.

Speaker 246 Oh, it was a slip-up. She's saying she's a man.

Speaker 45 She's saying she's a man.

Speaker 18 Oh, I love that clip.

Speaker 59 Here it is.

Speaker 4 You know, I almost, you notice it's not on my list.

Speaker 2 No.

Speaker 4 But I thought that clip was

Speaker 72 terrific.

Speaker 4 It's obviously chopped off.

Speaker 21 But people are sending this to me like, this is clip of the day.

Speaker 8 This is the best.

Speaker 4 This is a very funny clip.

Speaker 28 Big Mike is a man.

Speaker 217 You know, just so proud of how you are being a role model for dealing with a child that's transgender. Absolutely.

Speaker 217 And that's, you know, that warms my heart, particularly as a black man.

Speaker 90 So the video is the best.

Speaker 62 So the video cuts to her brother while she's talking so the implication is as a black man you had to deal with me

Speaker 91 a black man uh who's transgender and i was like oh this is a slip-up she admitted it big mike's a man

Speaker 95 yeah well you expected that i'm not fighting that obvious truth But here is the full clip in context where she's actually talking to one of the Weyans brothers about his transgender child.

Speaker 83 Well, speaking of parenting, I wanted to talk, Marlon, a bit about,

Speaker 217 you know, see, they missed the little Marlon bit.

Speaker 83 Just so proud of how

Speaker 217 you are being a role model for dealing with a child that's transgender. Absolutely.

Speaker 217 And that's, you know, that warms my heart, particularly as a black man.

Speaker 83 You know,

Speaker 83 would you care to share that journey?

Speaker 45 Well, I learned like,

Speaker 4 and

Speaker 16 their transition

Speaker 235 really taught me what real unconditional love was.

Speaker 127 By the way, notice how Marlon is so psyop that he's calling his transgender child they.

Speaker 45 When they went through the transition,

Speaker 235 I actually went through the transition.

Speaker 235 I went from denial to complete acceptance.

Speaker 45 And it took me a week to get there. Oh, only a week.

Speaker 68 It's easy. It's easy, parents.

Speaker 71 Only a week.

Speaker 76 Unbelievable.

Speaker 45 So anyway, I just, I had to get that out of the way because that was all over.

Speaker 17 You The text groups in Fredericksburg are exploding.

Speaker 47 Big Mike, it's true. JFK Jr.
is coming back next.

Speaker 4 Fauci's mom was Mother Teresa.

Speaker 91 She's a man.

Speaker 16 She's a diamond.

Speaker 4 When I saw it, I knew I was going to.

Speaker 4 You know,

Speaker 4 you knew immediately it was like

Speaker 4 it was clipped for that purpose.

Speaker 4 And I figured you'd go grab the real deal and

Speaker 4 play it out. So I didn't have to even do it.
Of course I did. Of course I did.
Good for you.

Speaker 22 It's what I do.

Speaker 4 Defending the woman.

Speaker 168 Hey, we had a big,

Speaker 92 a very big bill pass in the House, the Texas House, this week, I think two days ago.

Speaker 110 It's not law yet because it has to go to the Senate.

Speaker 15 This is the undisclosed AI-generated images and political messages bill.

Speaker 45 That's not the real title,

Speaker 241 but it's interesting and the debate is interesting around it as well.

Speaker 121 Former House House Speaker Dave Phelan is the one that filed House Bill 366. He was the subject of political attacks and memes in his most recent re-election campaign.

Speaker 121 Mailed Flyers depicted him hugging Democrat Nancy Pelosi, something that he never did. But he says that's not why he decided to file this bill.

Speaker 121 Under House Bill 366, it requires any political advertising that uses altered images, including genitive AI or deep fake videos, to contain a disclosure stating that the content did not occur.

Speaker 121 Failure to do so would be a Class A misdemeanor. Current state law prohibits the use of AI generated pictures within 30 days of an election.

Speaker 121 Date Phelan says this is about making sure election law keeps up with the evolving AI industry because a deceptive ad could swing an election.

Speaker 84 It's a very common punishment when you're dealing with something as important as an election.

Speaker 223 Especially an election, I could say, is a stolen election when in the last 72 hours of a campaign, a video could be released that entirely changes the nature of the electorate going into election day.

Speaker 121 Several lawmakers lined up to speak against the bill. Some said the bill is too vague and could face First Amendment legal challenges.

Speaker 121 Some conservatives also said the criminal penalties are too steep and people should not be thrown in jail for political speech.

Speaker 29 This is insanity that we would propose such a harsh penalty for simply expressing our displeasure of an elected official.

Speaker 223 This is anti-American. This is anti-Constitution.

Speaker 121 Phelan says he understands that, but the penalties need to be major to make sure that multi-million dollar campaigns play by the rules.

Speaker 121 The bill now heads over to the Senate for consideration, and it could frankly face an uphill battle because Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick is the one that controls the Senate.

Speaker 121 Patrick and Phelan have had a rocky relationship, to say the least.

Speaker 121 That goes back to the impeachment of Attorney General Kent Paxton and several Senate bills that have died over in the House over the last couple of legislative sessions.

Speaker 62 So, this is,

Speaker 101 again, one of the only interesting uses of artificial, quote, intelligence.

Speaker 152 I feel you should be able to do that.

Speaker 153 It brings humor into the process.

Speaker 26 I'm delighted with it.

Speaker 108 And

Speaker 72 you should put a disclaimer on it.

Speaker 4 Total agreement.

Speaker 94 Yeah, put a disclaimer on it, just like the drug company.

Speaker 4 You don't even know. Screw the disclaimer.

Speaker 152 I'm okay with a bill that says the disclaimer could just do it like the ad companies.

Speaker 88 May cause analykage, you may die.

Speaker 58 And that's all you need to do.

Speaker 17 you know. Just at the end,

Speaker 4 but the thing is, even with the disclaimer, it doesn't matter because some of these things will crop up as memes and they'll be coming in anonymously from out of state.

Speaker 4 It's great, I love it, and it's going to show the guy kissing Pelosi on the lips or whatever.

Speaker 59 Who cares?

Speaker 4 It's great, but you think it's funny, and you know, and if you can't counter it, if you can't counter it, you're this is a modern era. Yes, if you're being besmirched, smeared, besmirched,

Speaker 4 you have to be able to count as a politician,

Speaker 4 unless you're being libeled, which is different.

Speaker 4 If you're being just smeared, just casually smeared, you have to have enough chops to get out of the smear using your own wiles and your own understanding.

Speaker 42 But by using your own AI, use your own AI.

Speaker 4 Yeah, you can do the same thing than the other guy.

Speaker 4 What's that in your mouth?

Speaker 5 Yeah.

Speaker 5 Yeah.

Speaker 41 It's

Speaker 168 this is the only thing they're worried about, by the way.

Speaker 112 That's all they're worried about.

Speaker 130 AI, ma'am.

Speaker 129 So I did some more vibe coding.

Speaker 99 I will say, when it comes to getting me actual results with coding,

Speaker 26 Grok, funny enough, someone suggests, I've tried them all.

Speaker 177 I've tried ChatGPT, Claude,

Speaker 110 Cursor's not, it's way too complicated.

Speaker 24 It integrates you with your IDE, and I don't have any of that.

Speaker 103 I just want a simple script, which I could have done in two hours with my buddy Dave, and we would have been done with it.

Speaker 129 But now it's taking me collectively three weeks of at least several hours on several of those days to come up with a simple script in PA in Python. I'm sorry.

Speaker 168 Grok actually

Speaker 127 did pretty well,

Speaker 94 but there's no absolutely no evidence of intelligence.

Speaker 41 It's just looking at the words, the language, the structure, the syntax.

Speaker 39 It can do all that.

Speaker 62 And it's just using old stuff that it learned somewhere else.

Speaker 85 And I know this because when it comes to one particular language, liquid soap, long story,

Speaker 86 it's doing everything wrong, and they all do it wrong because they all have sucked up the same wrong information.

Speaker 37 And that whole project is a mess with GitHubs and GitLabs and different documentation.

Speaker 241 And so it has no intelligence,

Speaker 126 but it's doing enough stuff that, yeah, okay.

Speaker 129 This is a $50 billion industry, not a trillion-dollar industry.

Speaker 80 It's still all parlor tricks.

Speaker 109 Have it write your Dvorak

Speaker 185 substack.

Speaker 230 You won't.

Speaker 45 You'll throw it out.

Speaker 4 I could probably have it do something and then I could edit it to an extreme. I'd probably spend more time editing it.

Speaker 45 Exactly.

Speaker 150 That's it.

Speaker 4 Than it would take me to actually write from scratch, which is not an unusual situation.

Speaker 237 That's the point.

Speaker 42 That's exactly the point.

Speaker 4 But if you can't, yeah, but I can write from scratch, and I can write pretty quickly. Yes.
But if you can't write from scratch, you'll write some mediocre over

Speaker 17 word salad that's overinflated, and it'll have nice little icons next to it.

Speaker 108 It's no good.

Speaker 4 Emojis.

Speaker 18 Emojis. Emojis.

Speaker 4 Emojis. And it'll start off with, I'm so happy to find you well.

Speaker 28 Yes, that's exactly what you're going to get.

Speaker 221 Oh, man.

Speaker 57 So

Speaker 47 Ava Fleidingbruck.

Speaker 4 Do you remember her? Oh, your buddy.

Speaker 108 She's not my buddy.

Speaker 45 I've never met her.

Speaker 4 Oh,

Speaker 4 she seems like she'd be your buddy.

Speaker 75 Well, she happens to be Dutch,

Speaker 94 and she has the,

Speaker 34 I'm Adam, she's Ava.

Speaker 76 So you would think, coincidentally, also born on September 3rd, which is my birthday.

Speaker 4 Well, there you go. You two are meant for each other.

Speaker 58 We're twin flames, I tell you.

Speaker 112 Tina's rolling her eyes when she hears that.

Speaker 112 So she posted a very interesting video about her iPhone.

Speaker 24 And I need to share this because

Speaker 38 if this is true, and I'll take her at her word, it has some interesting implications.

Speaker 92 And of course, she's using it for engagement farming, but here we go.

Speaker 248 Hi, everyone. So yesterday I got two messages from Apple stating that they detected a mercenary spyware attack against my iPhone.
First, I thought it was fake.

Speaker 248 I got two of these messages, and I thought it's probably just not real. But upon further research, it turns out that these messages actually are real, and so that this is actually happening.

Speaker 248 And in the message, they say that this targeted mercenary spyware attack is probably happening because of who I am and what I do.

Speaker 248 And then they continue to say that mercenary spyware attacks, such as Pegasus, for example, are exceptionally rare and that they're extremely sophisticated. They use really strong words.

Speaker 248 They're saying that the extreme costs, sophistication, and worldwide nature of mercenary spyware attacks makes some of the most advanced digital threats in existence today.

Speaker 248 And they're sending this to me because they've detected that it's going on against my iPhone. So this is real.
Obviously, I don't know for sure if any of that spyware has been installed on my phone.

Speaker 248 I definitely don't know who did it. So this could be anyone.
This could be, name a government that doesn't like me. This could be any organization that doesn't like me.

Speaker 248 Secret services, you name it. But what I do know for sure is that this is

Speaker 248 an attempt to intimidate me, an attempt to silence me, obviously. And I can tell them, because they're probably already watching on this phone right now, that it's not going to work.

Speaker 248 So you can try and intimidate me all you want, but I'm not going to stop. That's all I want you guys, and I want the people spying on me through this phone to know.

Speaker 248 So

Speaker 129 I don't for a second think that they're using this to intimidate her.

Speaker 80 She didn't know it.

Speaker 28 They didn't say, hey, we've got your phone. We saw what you did.

Speaker 42 Send me a Bitcoin.

Speaker 49 None of that.

Speaker 165 I think she is being used to infect other people.

Speaker 93 If this is true, and I'll take her at her word that she got these notices from Apple, which is very concerning.

Speaker 4 Well, there is a page. Apple does.
I'm looking at it now.

Speaker 4 Apple does have a page up about it. It's called From Apple.
And it says about the Apple threat modifications, which is what she's talking about, and protecting against mercenary spyware.

Speaker 4 And there's a long lecture here.

Speaker 4 How do you get it? It's not a phony deal.

Speaker 101 How do you get it?

Speaker 129 Do you get it by tapping on a link and a text message?

Speaker 4 I'm trying to find out because they're very wordy. This has obviously been written by AI.

Speaker 37 No, Apple intelligence, probably.

Speaker 22 Not AI, Apple intelligence.

Speaker 4 Which is worse. Yes, it is.
According to public reporting and research by civil society organizations, technology firms, and journalists, individually targeted attacks

Speaker 4 of such exceptional cost and complexity have historically been associated with state actors, including private companies developing mercenary spyware on their behalf, such as Pegasus from the NSO group.

Speaker 4 Though deployed against a very small number of individuals, often journalists, activists, politicians, and diplomats, it could be actioned against me, for example, and

Speaker 4 it's in the drawer as we speak. Mercenary spyware attacks are ongoing and global.

Speaker 4 And since 2021, we have sent Apple threat notifications multiple times a year as we have detected these. Oh, that's interesting that he could detect them.

Speaker 4 And to date, we have notified users in over 150 countries in total.

Speaker 4 It goes on and on.

Speaker 59 Here's what I think.

Speaker 63 So I, however, I think she was used as an.

Speaker 108 Well, first of all, your phone is an attack vector on your life.

Speaker 24 That's just a known fact, which is why I love my light phone 3.

Speaker 90 It doesn't do nothing.

Speaker 45 However,

Speaker 48 coincidentally, yesterday, Tina comes in.

Speaker 42 Oh, my God. You won't believe what happened to David.

Speaker 185 So what happened?

Speaker 30 Said someone

Speaker 45 took over his phone.

Speaker 162 He no longer receives his own text messages.

Speaker 129 That's part of how he noticed it.

Speaker 37 They stole his identity.

Speaker 186 They created a driver's license.

Speaker 165 With a driver's license, we're able to unfreeze all of his credit. He had his credit frozen at the three big credit agencies.

Speaker 86 They unfroze the credit.

Speaker 4 How do you unfreeze the credit?

Speaker 237 Well, you have to, you can go online and say, this is me.

Speaker 198 And they had a driver's license. They had associated

Speaker 16 number.

Speaker 4 So did he, is he the one who froze the credit?

Speaker 17 Yes, he froze it.

Speaker 45 He had it frozen.

Speaker 2 Like most smart people, you have your credit frozen.

Speaker 54 So you had his credit frozen.

Speaker 38 They unfroze his credit.

Speaker 201 They took completely, they took over the functions, at least the text messages.

Speaker 130 So they cloned or whatever they did.

Speaker 37 I mean, and the whole text messaging system is, you know, system, was it system seven or whatever it's called?

Speaker 81 That you just go to some podunk country and say, here's 50 grand.

Speaker 96 Let me on the text messaging system.

Speaker 150 Okay, here you go.

Speaker 64 You know, by the way, those Trump messages you're getting, don't tap on the link, okay?

Speaker 109 It's probably going to get Pegasus spyware or other mercenary spyware.

Speaker 198 And then they, so then they unfroze his credit and immediately went to buy a Mercedes and a Porsche.

Speaker 4 Oh, at least somebody's got taste.

Speaker 62 Mercedes was okay with him.

Speaker 45 The Porsche people

Speaker 99 called him at home and said, hey, are you sure you want this Porsche?

Speaker 96 And that's how they found out about it.

Speaker 98 But the Mercedes deal was done.

Speaker 38 So your phone is a threat vector of epic proportion.

Speaker 204 Not my phone, not yours, no, and should not be used.

Speaker 102 And just to complete the whole

Speaker 109 spy grid,

Speaker 138 sounding like Catherine Austin Fitz right now,

Speaker 82 after Starlink, which I saw them fly over again last night, and I wanted to take a picture.

Speaker 45 However,

Speaker 98 the

Speaker 45 camera,

Speaker 221 the camera on

Speaker 128 this phone is shit.

Speaker 129 So I could not get a picture, but I saw the whole train of lights going right overhead.

Speaker 38 I think it has to be on a clear night when there's just a little bit of moon.

Speaker 94 We have a crescent waning moon, I think.

Speaker 111 It has to catch it.

Speaker 80 It has to catch it. Yeah, so it caught it.

Speaker 150 Because

Speaker 4 they're over your anyway.

Speaker 45 They're just

Speaker 45 all the time.

Speaker 4 You don't get to see them necessarily.

Speaker 61 It caught it, and it was just beautiful.

Speaker 45 I'm like, oh my God. Yeah, I've seen

Speaker 4 different videos of it, but I've never seen any of it.

Speaker 128 This is my second time seeing them while walking the dog.

Speaker 17 And now, well, there's more coming.

Speaker 133 Amazon has launched its first batch of internet broadcasting satellites, kicking off its long-delayed deployment of an internet-from-space network.

Speaker 133 27 satellites are now in orbit at an altitude of nearly 630 kilometers above the Earth's surface.

Speaker 133 Monday's launch from the Atlas V rocket, which took off from Florida, follows that of two experimental satellites launched two years ago as part of Project Kuiper, a $10 billion effort unveiled in 2019.

Speaker 133 Competing with driver Elon Musk Starlink, Jeff Bezos' team claims that the satellites they're launching are now much more advanced than the first two.

Speaker 133 The company aims to put more than 3,200 of these satellites into orbit. Musk SpaceX has already launched more than 8,000 Starlinks since 2019.

Speaker 133 Meanwhile, a growing number of astronomers are warning that the large number of satellites is hampering their work and could pose an accident risk.

Speaker 41 Yeah, whatever.

Speaker 86 So there's 600 kilometers,

Speaker 109 but starlinks are lower, I think.

Speaker 38 I think they're closer to 350, 400 kilometers.

Speaker 4 Well, let's find out.

Speaker 45 Okay.

Speaker 59 Consult the book of knowledge.

Speaker 27 The book of knowledge is slow today.

Speaker 5 Well,

Speaker 4 I have to type something in.

Speaker 251 I know, I know.

Speaker 2 And on that phone with those little keyboard is very hard.

Speaker 221 I know.

Speaker 4 I'm using the regular keyboard.

Speaker 150 I know, I know.

Speaker 198 There's no threat vector against you.

Speaker 126 You're clean, man.

Speaker 108 You got no mercenary satellite.

Speaker 4 Satellites are 342.

Speaker 45 Okay.

Speaker 89 So Amazon's going to be at twice that height, which will induce latency more.

Speaker 45 Is that still good?

Speaker 241 Doesn't seem like it's good.

Speaker 27 But did you hear that?

Speaker 51 8,000 satellites?

Speaker 4 Yeah, I heard that.

Speaker 26 That's a lot, man.

Speaker 94 And, you know, everyone's also jacked.

Speaker 99 Oh, yeah, soon my T-mobile phone will be able to use Starlink.

Speaker 45 Okay.

Speaker 1 Talk about a threat vector.

Speaker 99 All they have to do then is just target, zoom in, enhance, rotate, fire.

Speaker 4 Yeah, pretty much.

Speaker 158 You'll be done.

Speaker 4 No, no, they're going to, first, they'll be targeting the cartels in Mexico.

Speaker 5 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 112 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 198 I think we bring back ham radio for the kids.

Speaker 245 It was much better.

Speaker 90 You know, short bursts.

Speaker 130 Yep.

Speaker 130 And you can do what you can.

Speaker 4 You can push a button.

Speaker 95 You can send text messages to each other.

Speaker 33 It looks cool.

Speaker 86 You walk around school.

Speaker 4 Kids would be like, Yeah, with the thing on your belt

Speaker 4 making a racket.

Speaker 180 I don't know about CQ.

Speaker 32 I don't know about CQ.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 64 Do you have any more sequences?

Speaker 87 Because I have something I want to try and roll out, and it's going to be difficult, and you're going to hate me for it.

Speaker 99 So I want you to get whatever you have that you want to get out of the way, let's do it.

Speaker 4 Well, yeah, let's,

Speaker 4 I want to play some data stuff from the USDS, the Department of

Speaker 4 Data, whatever, service, the U.S. Department of Data Service.

Speaker 17 Oh, that's the original name for Doge?

Speaker 4 No, this is a group of, well, no, but it's.

Speaker 152 Yes, the United States Digital Service.

Speaker 94 That is the original

Speaker 4 kind of, but they're bitching and moaning because they're getting fired.

Speaker 4 But they make some good points. This is on NPR, which is, you know, they're big supporters of haters of Doge and supporters of everything that's in government.

Speaker 4 But this woman makes a good point, and it's the stuff we talk about, and I don't know what they're going to do about it.

Speaker 253 Karen Moronsky-Chapman never saw her job as political. She just wanted to make the government work a little better.

Speaker 240 I joined USDS to help people,

Speaker 240 to help American people to deliver better services.

Speaker 255 She's a data scientist.

Speaker 253 And for the last couple of years, Karen has been quietly working deep inside the federal government

Speaker 253 at a little-known agency called the United States Digital Service, or USDS.

Speaker 255 This is her first media interview.

Speaker 240 A lot of what I was doing was trying to

Speaker 240 bridge the different data silos across government and

Speaker 240 really just help agencies be more efficient and effective by using data to inform decisions.

Speaker 256 You can think of the USDS as a kind of help desk, though that would be underselling it.

Speaker 253 It's more like Help Desk Meets SEAL Team 6, a kind of special ops team for broken websites. When federal systems start to fall apart, it's the USDS that gets the call.

Speaker 253 Like in the spring of 2024, when the Department of Education rolled out its new FAFSA application. That's the form college students use to apply for federal financial aid.

Speaker 253 And last spring, it broke in a spectacular way.

Speaker 257 The Department of Education just found a calculation error on hundreds of thousands of student aid applications.

Speaker 253 Forms failed to upload, pages led nowhere, students born in the year 2000 walked out completely.

Speaker 254 It was chaos.

Speaker 240 The FAFSA fiasco was pretty on par with like healthcare.gov. Like, like it was pretty close to being a healthcare.gov situation.

Speaker 240 Healthcare.gov.

Speaker 253 That was the catastrophic rollout of the Affordable Care Act, what we call Obamacare these days. The website to sign sign up crashed just two hours after launch.

Speaker 93 Just to confirm, United States Digital Services was renamed by President Trump to Doge, and they're using the same terms, connecting the data silos, acting as a help desk.

Speaker 198 So, this is one of the unsuccessful data scientists who were there and really weren't able to achieve anything except a very expensive Obamacare website.

Speaker 4 Hold on, she's still there. This is the thing that's weird about this story.
Oh, wow.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 4 Let it go.

Speaker 253 It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say it became a national embarrassment. So disastrous it prompted the government to create the USDS to be a rescue team for things like this.

Speaker 253 So when the FAFSA fell apart in 2024, it was Karen and her team who stepped in.

Speaker 255 They stabilized the site, unlocked access, and got students the aid they needed.

Speaker 253 They've done this kind of work for the CDC, Social Security, education. It's high stakes, high pressure, but Karen loved it.

Speaker 240 It's really easy to get addicted to this work because it's so meaningful. There's very few roles that you can be positively impacting the lives of millions, if not hundreds of millions of people.

Speaker 253 And for a while, it felt, well, safe, totally immune from the churn of politics.

Speaker 240 Yeah, like technology is not political. Like technology should be nonpartisan.

Speaker 253 It doesn't matter who's president.

Speaker 240 I'm here to serve the people. But I was wrong.

Speaker 240 Doge has proved that technology and its use can be highly partisan.

Speaker 255 The Department of Government Efficiency is charged with rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse. But when it made its way to the U.S.

Speaker 253 Digital Services Department, it appeared to be taking an agency built to protect the government's digital systems and started doing just the opposite.

Speaker 240 A good analogy is it's like Jenga. And at some point, Doge is pulling out pieces and something's going to topple and we may not be able to to put it back.

Speaker 101 Wasn't Kara Swisher's ex-wife in charge of it for a while, Megan?

Speaker 86 Didn't she go there?

Speaker 192 Not that I know of.

Speaker 45 Yeah, I think she did.

Speaker 181 I think she did.

Speaker 24 And

Speaker 37 was it Matt Cutz from Google?

Speaker 101 He was there for a while, the guy who did Google search.

Speaker 168 They had, you know, what they were doing is they were

Speaker 130 the ones that were mining everything, getting all the data for Obama.

Speaker 142 That's what those guys were doing.

Speaker 17 I remember this.

Speaker 34 We talked about it ad nauseum.

Speaker 4 Ad nausea.

Speaker 129 Ad nauseum, I tell you.

Speaker 50 So

Speaker 50 she doesn't like Doge.

Speaker 9 Doge is Doge is weaponizing my department.

Speaker 169 Is that the story?

Speaker 4 I think she lost one of her friends or something, but to Doge, you know, that got fired.

Speaker 192 I mean,

Speaker 4 I can't really tell.

Speaker 4 But she has a complaint coming up that is valuable.

Speaker 240 I remember when I heard that they had right access to treasury, I was like, oh, my gosh, like you can break things.

Speaker 253 They're not small things, trillions of dollars worth of things like social security and tax refunds.

Speaker 240 The majority of folks I see having been hired into Doge are very junior. These systems are not going to be anything like anything that they have seen before.

Speaker 253 Take the social security system. It was built in the 60s and 70s, and it runs on COBOL, a programming language that is two or even three times older than some of the Doge staffers.

Speaker 240 They clearly don't understand COBOL when they were like, oh, there's 150-year-olds at Social Security.

Speaker 253 Elon Musk talked about that during an interview with Fox.

Speaker 106 The date games.

Speaker 257 Pressure examination of Social Security. And we've got people in there that are 150 years old.

Speaker 240 Now, do you know anyone? Is it 150? I don't. Okay.

Speaker 240 And Musk said it was proof of fraud. Except Karen says, it actually wasn't.
And it's like, no, that's the default date for COBOL. Like, if the field is missing, just the default date.

Speaker 253 That's why there's all these 150-year-olds. These 150-year-olds weren't getting checks.
They just didn't have a birth date in the system.

Speaker 253 And Karen said she would have told the Doge people as much if they'd only asked. But they never did.
They just assumed they knew better.

Speaker 204 Well, we had that from our dude's name, Ben, the day after this story broke about the 150-year-olds.

Speaker 64 Now, NPR is showing up with the story.

Speaker 102 Six minutes' worth of story.

Speaker 4 Yeah, this is pretty funny.

Speaker 4 But she does, the point about COBOL is a good point, but except for one thing that I don't know why it hasn't been discussed. It's not even mentioned.

Speaker 38 You mean, why is there no birth date for these people?

Speaker 4 No, about COBOL. COBOL is not hard to learn.
Any one of these guys who are coding in machine language or assembler or anything, actually,

Speaker 45 can learn COBOL.

Speaker 18 It's one of the easiest languages to learn.

Speaker 4 Why doesn't they just say to some junior guy says, I'm going to learn COBOL?

Speaker 18 It's not a big deal.

Speaker 4 That's why it's called a common business-oriented language. It was designed to be used by schmucks.

Speaker 29 COBOL Schmobol, just use Grok, baby.

Speaker 102 I'm sure Grok does a great job at COBOL.

Speaker 102 You're right. It's common.

Speaker 45 What was it again? What was the acronym?

Speaker 4 Common

Speaker 4 business-oriented language. Yeah.

Speaker 21 It's a relatively simple, unsophisticated language.

Speaker 4 It's kind of sophistication to it, but it's very, it's very. I learned it once.
I don't know if I could code it now, but it's not a hard, it's not, it's Fortran's harder.

Speaker 9 I like COBOL is for schmucks.

Speaker 129 That is a t-shirt or a bumper sticker right there.

Speaker 4 I mean, it's not for, you don't have to be a genius

Speaker 4 to code COBOL. That's the point.
Yeah.

Speaker 94 But I'm still stuck on how come there are so many records in the system where they don't have a birth date.

Speaker 126 What kind of system are you running over there?

Speaker 4 Well, there's that.

Speaker 5 All right.

Speaker 48 So, since you broach the money topic with the treasury there, I'm going to attempt, and I may fail, and I hope you give me some grace.

Speaker 4 No.

Speaker 94 I hope you give me some grace.

Speaker 4 This is this is this preliminary stuff you're doing right now is already setting up the wall.

Speaker 204 I think I can explain the stablecoin gambit.

Speaker 4 Oh, I don't know if you can. I mean, I don't, this is going to bore people stiff.

Speaker 94 Well, I mean, would you rather play TikTok clips instead?

Speaker 99 I mean, I did my.

Speaker 4 I would, actually, yes, but

Speaker 4 if you want to make the attempt, I don't know why you want to do this.

Speaker 107 Because it's a critical.

Speaker 4 You want to do it after the donation segment?

Speaker 79 No, why would we do it after the donation segment?

Speaker 45 Okay, I'll do it.

Speaker 17 All right, I'll do it after the donation segment.

Speaker 4 No, I'm just saying that because it's going to give us a low count.

Speaker 45 No, I'll do it after.

Speaker 38 All right, this is attention, but then if I do it after the donation segment, you can't grouse and go, this is the little crap, until the very end.

Speaker 4 Oh, I'll save it. Yeah, I can save it.

Speaker 150 Okay, yeah, good.

Speaker 4 But how many clips are we talking about here? You make it sound like it's going to be a half-hour presentation on stablecoin.

Speaker 40 No, I think it's probably about 17 minutes.

Speaker 4 Oh, my God.

Speaker 59 Well,

Speaker 86 it affects world affairs.

Speaker 33 I'm just saying. It will affect world affairs.

Speaker 168 And we have to learn things about what is a Euro dollar.

Speaker 160 Do you know what a Euro dollar is?

Speaker 4 No.

Speaker 45 We hear it all the time.

Speaker 4 I have to look it up.

Speaker 4 It's just easier to look it up, seems to me. I'll look it up.

Speaker 17 Yeah, okay. Well, you do that.

Speaker 49 You look it up, and then I'll play some M5M news to entertain everybody, to keep them listening until we get to the donation segment.

Speaker 3 Oh, chills.

Speaker 188 This morning, anticipation is building for new music from one of the greatest voices of all time. Yes, eight.

Speaker 259 I'm Grammy winner Barbara Streiser.

Speaker 259 And she is dropping a brand new one.

Speaker 5 Drop him. And we dropping.

Speaker 188 I just heard a sneak peek of the first single called First Time Ever I Saw Your Face. The new record is called The Secret of Life Partners Volume 2.

Speaker 23 It's a sequel to our children.

Speaker 4 Why don't they use the term like you always use in the past? Release?

Speaker 45 Yes.

Speaker 4 Release. She's going to release a new album instead of she's going to drop an album.

Speaker 16 Well, is that supposed to be hip or something?

Speaker 86 That's what the kids are talking about, man.

Speaker 30 You drop an album.

Speaker 167 And by the way, they're so hip, they call the Hoosiers the Hosiers, which is kind of cool.

Speaker 54 The Hosiers?

Speaker 188 It's a sequel to her 2014 Platinum Certified album, and it's been more than a decade in the works.

Speaker 259 She collaborated on the album with some of the best in the business, including Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Eric.

Speaker 36 First off, two dead guys right at the top.

Speaker 28 The best in the business.

Speaker 259 Business, including Bob Darryl.

Speaker 67 Barely.

Speaker 45 Including Bob Dylan.

Speaker 109 No, we all know.

Speaker 129 We all know John Paul.

Speaker 99 Bob Dylan's alive.

Speaker 81 Dylan's barely alive, and we all know John buried Paul.

Speaker 223 Stop.

Speaker 259 Including Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney,

Speaker 189 Ariana Grande, Mariah Carey, Hosier, and others.

Speaker 259 Hosier.

Speaker 196 The album comes out on June 27th.

Speaker 259 All right, Babs.

Speaker 189 I'm looking forward to that.

Speaker 9 I'm looking forward to that.

Speaker 58 Woo!

Speaker 45 A new duets album just dropped.

Speaker 4 No, she's not.

Speaker 35 It's dropped.

Speaker 180 It's dropped.

Speaker 27 Big it up.

Speaker 134 It's dropped.

Speaker 38 Who saw this coming, everybody?

Speaker 117 On the medical watch for you this afternoon, a newly found impact of vaccines on women.

Speaker 189 Medical reporter Dina Baer is here to explain, Dina. Lordis and Ben, vaccines for the flu and COVID can alter the menstrual cycle.

Speaker 189 It's not a permanent impact, but for women who have a regular cycle, getting a flu shot or a COVID vaccine changed the length of the cycle.

Speaker 189 Multiple studies confirm menstrual disturbances following vaccines. Now, the Journal of the American Medical Association confirms concerns expressed by women.
Experts say there's no need to worry.

Speaker 189 The cycle is

Speaker 84 normal.

Speaker 189 And there shouldn't be a reason for vaccine hesitancy based on the menstrual cycle impact.

Speaker 153 We hammered this during COVID.

Speaker 5 Yep, yep, yep.

Speaker 20 And we got excoriated for it.

Speaker 46 These bull crappy.

Speaker 4 We never got it.

Speaker 168 I did specifically.

Speaker 38 We had a lot of people angry, and they all came back and said, I'm sorry, you were right.

Speaker 38 It interrupted.

Speaker 247 It disrupted.

Speaker 82 It increased flow.

Speaker 99 It became irregular,

Speaker 45 like awesome, like crazy flow.

Speaker 4 Yeah, the nurses were reporting.

Speaker 45 But don't worry. There's nothing to worry about.

Speaker 5 Nothing to worry about at all.

Speaker 45 Don't worry about it.

Speaker 86 These people are ghouls.

Speaker 71 And who saw this coming?

Speaker 120 Researchers at the University of Virginia say a new study has proven safe and effective at desensitizing children.

Speaker 23 Whoa, safe and effective.

Speaker 152 You know, that's going to be a doozy.

Speaker 17 This time, I actually believe it.

Speaker 120 Safe and effective at desensitizing children to peanut allergies.

Speaker 258 Yeah, UVA Health Children's researchers tested children by giving them increased doses of peanut protein.

Speaker 258 Now, by the end of the study, all 27 children were able to eat 500 milligrams of peanut protein daily. Eight children are now freely eating peanuts.

Speaker 258 Researchers are calling for larger clinical trials to advance what could be a game-changing new treatment for peanut allergies in young children.

Speaker 45 Oh, go figure.

Speaker 109 For years, we've been, oh, you can't have any peanuts near my child.

Speaker 27 My child was no good.

Speaker 107 Whereas, if you just exposed the kid to peanuts, it turns out they're okay.

Speaker 16 Hello, they were never exposed young enough.

Speaker 4 That's always been the issue.

Speaker 46 Yes, it's like so obvious.

Speaker 34 People, where's Bobby the Op in all of this?

Speaker 4 Yeah, that's what I like to know. And where's the Epstein files? Yeah.

Speaker 4 I got some super cuts that'll round it out.

Speaker 127 Okay, super cuts are always good.

Speaker 99 I'm glad you have them.

Speaker 45 Yo, you have three.

Speaker 1 Holy crap.

Speaker 4 Yeah, because they're leading up to the current super cut that's floating around after chaos and threat to democracy. We have a couple of here.
We have the moment. This one was a flop.

Speaker 144 The strength that we have. Sorry.

Speaker 4 Is the moment flop?

Speaker 212 The strength that we have is in this moment.

Speaker 149 Listen to your constituents.

Speaker 148 Center them in this moment.

Speaker 212 But I can tell you that there are a lot of people that are watching his leadership in this moment. This is the moment.

Speaker 224 You know, I think about what's happening in this moment.

Speaker 174 What's important is that we meet this moment.

Speaker 143 So are these current Democrats the ones to meet the moment?

Speaker 172 What do you want to see us doing right now in this moment?

Speaker 173 And which Democrats are actually going to stand up against Elon Musk and Donald Trump in this moment.

Speaker 212 The fight that you all are exhibiting is not just what the base wants, but it's what this moment requires. The strength that we have is in this moment.

Speaker 5 Well,

Speaker 13 by the way, I think we played this one already.

Speaker 93 In fact, I'm pretty sure.

Speaker 4 Yeah,

Speaker 4 this next one might be. Did you talk about this one or the next one?

Speaker 99 No, the in this moment. We played the in this moment.

Speaker 4 Yeah, the in this moment, but it was a flop. Just the idea is that they're just repeating.

Speaker 2 This is a flop.

Speaker 4 Yeah, that's a flop. It never worked out.
Yep, as a flop. And then we had the stretch of democracy.
We had the chaos, which I don't have. I mean, those are also super cuts they don't have.

Speaker 4 But then we have the social media dangerous series, which we, I think, may have played, but this is another version of it because it's got the

Speaker 4 annoying overlays.

Speaker 4 But this is another example of something that

Speaker 4 was,

Speaker 4 they pushed this stuff out trying to, I don't know if they were looking for it to catch hold or everyone's saying, these are ineffective.

Speaker 176 Hi, I'm Fox San Antonio's Jessica Headley.

Speaker 146 And I'm Ryan Wolfe.

Speaker 149 Our greatest responsibility is to serve our Treasure Valley communities, the El Paso Las Cruces communities, Eastern Iowa communities, mid-Michigan communities.

Speaker 212 We are extremely proud of the quality, balanced journalism that CBS4 News produces.

Speaker 147 But we are concerned about the government trying to get irresponsible one-sided news stories plaguing our country.

Speaker 242 Plaguing our country.

Speaker 175 The sharing of biased and false news has become all too common on social media. More alarming, some media outlets publish the same fake stories without checking facts first.

Speaker 215 The sharing of biased and false news.

Speaker 147 False news has become all too common on social media.

Speaker 147 More alarming, people are media outlets

Speaker 147 published fake stories that are true without checking facts first. Unfortunately, some member members use their platforms to push their own personal bias and an agenda control

Speaker 147 exactly what people think. And this is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

Speaker 214 This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

Speaker 212 This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

Speaker 260 This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

Speaker 149 This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

Speaker 224 This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

Speaker 149 This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

Speaker 212 This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

Speaker 242 This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

Speaker 149 This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

Speaker 260 This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

Speaker 203 This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

Speaker 242 This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

Speaker 226 This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

Speaker 207 This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

Speaker 85 Yeah, I'm going to use these.

Speaker 45 I'm speaking to the high school class.

Speaker 4 Yeah, we should definitely use that one.

Speaker 45 About propaganda.

Speaker 34 Yeah, I'm going to show this.

Speaker 4 And it's like, it's an embarrassment. But they continue, and this is the latest one that I think this is pretty new.

Speaker 45 This one I have not seen.

Speaker 4 This is the escalation. This is the latest.
They're trying to get this into the mainstream thinking that, you know, Trump's escalation. I don't know why.
Is that a bad term?

Speaker 4 Or they're trying to equate it with the Soviet Union. I'm not sure.

Speaker 4 But they're trying to get this word in there, and it's all the same jerks.

Speaker 226 We begin tonight with the escalation in the president's crackdown on illegal immigration.

Speaker 212 Today is dramatic escalation in the Trump administration's conflicts with judges.

Speaker 224 With the Trump administration signaling a major escalation in its deportation efforts.

Speaker 205 Today, an escalation in the Trump administration's battle with the judiciary.

Speaker 207 Tensions between local and federal authorities over President Trump's immigration crackdown escalated today.

Speaker 214 We begin this hour with a major escalation of the Trump administration's crackdown on immigration.

Speaker 212 We begin with what appears to be a major escalation in the Trump administration's deportation efforts.

Speaker 242 And what is a major escalation in the battle here in D.C. over immigration and deportation?

Speaker 173 This feels like an insane and reckless escalation from the Trump administration, arresting a judge. I will tell you, you are not alone.
It's a dramatic escalation of the moment.

Speaker 262 More aggressive moves, more escalation with the music.

Speaker 226 Trump's escalation of his migrant verge. This kind of escalatory action.

Speaker 173 This is a dramatic escalation. Escalation.
Escalation. Escalation.
Escalation. Escalation.

Speaker 216 We've seen an immigration, an escalation, an escalation.

Speaker 129 Wow, that's a good one. I'm going to give you a borderline for that.

Speaker 158 That was dynamite.

Speaker 4 That was good.

Speaker 37 Esculation.

Speaker 76 I need the whole Sharpton thing.

Speaker 17 This is an escalation of Trump.

Speaker 37 The escalation.

Speaker 5 I love him.

Speaker 4 Call it a migrant purge.

Speaker 22 Nice.

Speaker 4 Migrant purge.

Speaker 27 And with that escalation, I'd like to say in the morning to you, the man who put the C in the unclippable wench, say hello to my friend on the other end, the one, the only, Mr.

Speaker 5 John C. DeVora.

Speaker 4 In the morning, you, Miss Van Carring, the morning ship sea Buddhists on the ground, feeding the air subs in the water, the names of nights out there.

Speaker 5 In the morning to the trolls in the troll room, let me count yellow. Hold on a second.
Let me turn path to the trolls.

Speaker 126 Well, I don't know, man.

Speaker 21 I think your super cut chased everybody away.

Speaker 18 18.

Speaker 3 You know, I think you.

Speaker 4 I think the threat of you.

Speaker 45 Oh, hold on. Oh, no.

Speaker 108 Oh, right away.

Speaker 98 We lose the.

Speaker 26 Right away. Hold on a second.

Speaker 38 That's crazy. Right away.

Speaker 65 The minute you started talking, it switched interfaces again.

Speaker 45 Oh.

Speaker 4 Can you hear me now?

Speaker 109 I can hear you now. I hear you.
Can you hear me now?

Speaker 42 I hear you now.

Speaker 45 You sound great.

Speaker 80 I don't know what that is.

Speaker 4 I don't know what that is. Something's triggering it.

Speaker 90 What?

Speaker 9 The question is, what's triggering it?

Speaker 4 Something.

Speaker 44 Anyway, 1880 is the count on the trolls in the troll room, trollroom.io, and that is where you can go to listen to this show live.

Speaker 82 We've been doing it live for a long time.

Speaker 94 We are in our 18th year, and the troll room is fun.

Speaker 108 It's ephemeral because you can go in there and go,

Speaker 45 troll, whatever, and it just scrolls right off. And it doesn't matter.

Speaker 37 Then you're just shouting into the void.

Speaker 96 It doesn't really make any difference.

Speaker 86 So get it out of your system in the troll room and listen to us live at trollroom.io or get a modern podcast app.

Speaker 99 I really do recommend it.

Speaker 28 By the way, I think we talked about Pocket Casts last time.

Speaker 26 And

Speaker 99 so there's now a definitive answer from Apple that the donate button in the app is okay.

Speaker 97 So everybody is now doing this.

Speaker 129 They're adding

Speaker 86 the donate button into their apps.

Speaker 4 Apple said it's okay, so it's okay. Yes.
Is that the way this works?

Speaker 38 Yes.

Speaker 27 If it's not okay, then the, oh, you have to use Apple Pay and we take 30%.

Speaker 38 Don't you understand? That was.

Speaker 4 Oh, I see what you're talking about.

Speaker 91 This has always been the problem.

Speaker 110 And the app developers have always been afraid, like, oh man, my app will get rejected if I put this in there.

Speaker 76 No, no, you can put it in there.

Speaker 61 And it's great because then people are listening.

Speaker 109 Oh,

Speaker 45 I should support these guys.

Speaker 27 Let me just look at my app that I'm already using.

Speaker 58 Click, boom.

Speaker 54 You can support us as part of our value-for-value method.

Speaker 97 By the way, troublemakers abound.

Speaker 241 We got an AI-generated note

Speaker 15 from Mel Cooley, executive producer.

Speaker 134 Did you see this?

Speaker 5 Yeah.

Speaker 1 An AI review of our show.

Speaker 38 Urgent content review and advertiser feedback.

Speaker 4 I think I did see this. I didn't look at it, though.

Speaker 64 Gentlemen, this memo requires your immediate attention.

Speaker 9 Following the broadcast of episode 1759, we have received deeply concerning feedback from our key advertisers.

Speaker 45 The response has been negative and, frankly, threatens our financial stability.

Speaker 9 Specifically, advertisers have cited the following issues as problematic and potentially brand damaging.

Speaker 153 The give on Asian media assassination tagline.

Speaker 45 Did we use that?

Speaker 4 I don't remember that. I don't know what you're talking about.
I don't know either.

Speaker 9 This was flagged immediately as insensitive and potentially offensive.

Speaker 38 The lengthy and seemingly unfocused segments.

Speaker 72 Did I get this email or not?

Speaker 45 No, I don't think so. I don't remember it.

Speaker 103 So AI analyzed

Speaker 61 our show, 1759, as an advertiser, and they hate it.

Speaker 84 Several advertisers noted the extended period.

Speaker 4 That proves our complete point.

Speaker 72 Yes.

Speaker 45 I'll read a few more.

Speaker 64 Several advertisers noted the extended periods dedicated to topics like the Pope's funeral and the minouche of online hoaxes.

Speaker 9 They feel the show lacked a clear through line, at times meandering, losing audience engagement, and by extension, the value of their placements.

Speaker 94 The tapping me along discussion, while intended as analysis, the extended speculation on Trump's ambiguous phrasing.

Speaker 4 Oh, by the way, that's interesting they brought that up. Yep.
Because we know what it means.

Speaker 151 Well, there's two versions.

Speaker 4 Well, the version I believe to be the correct version is the golfing one. Yes, I agree.

Speaker 38 I think that's the right one.

Speaker 45 Because he's a golfer.

Speaker 44 Yes.

Speaker 237 Tapping along as a golf term,

Speaker 130 tapping, you know, putt, putt, putt, tapping the ball along slowly.

Speaker 99 There is a second one, however,

Speaker 96 from producer Andy.

Speaker 21 He says, in a pig slaughterhouse, there's a guy who uses a rattle attached to a broomstick to keep the pigs moving into their final destination by tapping it on the the floor behind them.

Speaker 80 Yeah, I don't think that's it.

Speaker 34 I like it, though.

Speaker 150 I like the visual.

Speaker 4 But I'm glad that the AI picked it up.

Speaker 4 Because they picked it up as boring.

Speaker 85 Yes, boring.

Speaker 18 Now, wait, let's back off for a second.

Speaker 4 Now, why was this sent in the first place?

Speaker 45 Was it

Speaker 4 what is the end game here of this sending this note to us?

Speaker 49 Someone with...

Speaker 4 We don't have advertisers, so it's got nothing to do with any real advertisers. Is it some sort of a phony baloney

Speaker 71 scam.

Speaker 78 No, this is someone who thought they could find good use of AI.

Speaker 4 Oh, and this is what they found. This is it.

Speaker 37 The extended listener donation segment.

Speaker 136 Here we go.

Speaker 78 While listener support is vital, the length of the donation readouts, including personal anecdotes and tangents, was cited as excessive and disruptive to the show's flow.

Speaker 38 Advertisers are concerned that this extended segment reduces the time available for content and their messaging.

Speaker 202 And then finally, tone and language.

Speaker 252 Certain advertisers express discomfort with the overall tone, particularly the use of dismissive language like bull crap and jamokes and the some

Speaker 5 well at least nailed it.

Speaker 35 And the sometimes cynical and negative framing of news events.

Speaker 61 They prefer a more measured and analytical approach.

Speaker 230 And it goes on and on and on and on.

Speaker 4 Wow, you got to send me that. Yeah, I will.

Speaker 24 There's even the AI then made a rap song out of it, which I will not bore you with.

Speaker 4 No, you don't need that. It's horrible.
It's just

Speaker 4 crap.

Speaker 35 So anyway,

Speaker 129 Time, Talent, Treasure is how we operate this ship, which means we need your financial support, but we appreciate any kind of time and talent that you put into it, which includes the work that our artists do.

Speaker 9 They always provide us with a piece of artwork that we can use as the album art and to get attention for engagement farming on the socials, to be quite honest about it.

Speaker 204 And it always seems to work. People love this one, although I did get the errant, hey man, if you hate Tim Pool so much, just don't talk about him.

Speaker 27 You're sending audience to him.

Speaker 17 Okay, all right, I'm sure.

Speaker 9 Because episode 1759 titled Eat the Babies.

Speaker 4 I don't care about sending audience to Tim Poole one way or the other.

Speaker 193 I know, but this is, I'm just giving you the feedback.

Speaker 45 I'm giving you true.

Speaker 4 I mean, if he gets an audience to get some recognition on this show,

Speaker 4 maybe he'll log roll and give us a plug.

Speaker 5 Log roll.

Speaker 180 It's called pod rolling.

Speaker 112 Pod rolling.

Speaker 106 You pod roll.

Speaker 199 You don't log roll.

Speaker 93 That's so 2005.

Speaker 245 It's pod rolling.

Speaker 45 The artwork came to us from a well-known artist, Capitalist Agenda, and it was indeed the Beanie Boys, Beanie with the googly eyes.

Speaker 4 Googly eyes is what made it work.

Speaker 37 In his seat at the new media chair.

Speaker 59 Oh, by the way, I had a.

Speaker 45 Where do I have that?

Speaker 93 There was a new guy in the new media chair.

Speaker 130 Let me see. Where did I have that?

Speaker 126 And the new guy.

Speaker 4 You know, that's an embarrassment being in that chair, it seems to me.

Speaker 85 Well, the guy in it this time was Winston Marshall,

Speaker 26 formerly

Speaker 204 guitarist and banjo player of Mumford and Sons.

Speaker 101 He's British.

Speaker 24 And he now occupies this seat.

Speaker 63 And I think this was also a setup bullcrap question.

Speaker 12 Sorry, advertisers.

Speaker 167 As

Speaker 167 he was referring to the sordid state of affairs in his home country of the United Kingdoms.

Speaker 263 In Britain, we have had over a quarter of a million people

Speaker 263 issued non-crime hate incidents. As we speak, there are people in prison for quite literally reposting memes.

Speaker 263 We have extensive prison sentences

Speaker 131 for

Speaker 263 tweets, social media posts, and

Speaker 263 general free speech issues. Would the Trump administration consider political asylum for British citizens in such a situation?

Speaker 123 Well, to your latter question, it's a very good one.

Speaker 123 I have not heard that proposed to the President, nor have I spoken to him about that idea, but I certainly can and talk to our national security team and see if it's something the administration would entertain.

Speaker 64 Yes, please.

Speaker 29 Asylum for the Brits, I tell you.

Speaker 9 That was a setup question.

Speaker 23 That was a thing.

Speaker 4 So we know that that chair is specifically there for bullcrap.

Speaker 90 It's the setup bullcrap chair. Yes.

Speaker 93 And, of course, everyone goes along with it.

Speaker 4 I wonder if they hand them a script. Would you like, do you want to be in the chair this week? Sure.
Well, can you do this? And you give you a script.

Speaker 4 You look it over and you decide, yeah, I can do that.

Speaker 4 Do I have to memorize it? Yeah, you have to memorize it.

Speaker 16 Okay, I can manage that.

Speaker 37 Imagine that they said, okay, Curry, you're up.

Speaker 94 You're in the new media chair.

Speaker 86 I'd sit there, and then I'd just, I'd just, I'd have the script, but then I'd hold up a picture and say, hey, Carolyn, what's this in your mouth?

Speaker 101 That's what I would do.

Speaker 45 That way,

Speaker 199 no, you're right. I wouldn't.

Speaker 4 You wouldn't do that. You know it.

Speaker 4 You're slobbering over there.

Speaker 45 Hey, Carolyn.

Speaker 150 Hey, Carolyn.

Speaker 237 Anyway, thank you very much, Capitalist Agenda.

Speaker 198 You're a unanimous winner.

Speaker 93 Let's take a quick look at noagendaartgenerator.com.

Speaker 82 Was there anything that had a lot of tapping stuff?

Speaker 4 Yeah, no, that was so head and shoulders

Speaker 4 above everything else. I didn't want to actually use it because I thought, we don't need to send audience to him.
Just send audience. It's not that so much.
It's kind of an insulting thing.

Speaker 4 You like it, but it's so funny, you have to say.

Speaker 26 You said specifically, it's the googly eyes that make it work.

Speaker 45 It is the googly eyes.

Speaker 136 It's definitely the googly eyes.

Speaker 45 It's fantastic. It was fantastic.

Speaker 4 Yeah, no, capitalist agenda has skills.

Speaker 130 He's got mad skills.

Speaker 47 Mad skills.

Speaker 4 And he's got the little tag with this new media on the earphone.

Speaker 16 It's idiotic.

Speaker 99 It was per well, ever since Tim Poole, you know, the $5 million came out and he thought that it was because he was that good.

Speaker 130 It just had to make fun of him.

Speaker 94 I mean, remember the Russian money?

Speaker 4 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 16 Who can you forget?

Speaker 13 Anyway, we want to thank everybody.

Speaker 110 We always thank everybody who supports us with $50 or above.

Speaker 204 At this moment in the show, which is now known as the Pre-StableCoin segment, we will be thanking our executive and associate executive producers.

Speaker 82 Very simple system.

Speaker 60 You support us with $200 or more for a show.

Speaker 218 You get an official Hollywood credit that can be used anywhere these credits are recognized, including IMDB.

Speaker 93 You have to do it for yourself, but you will be able to open it up with that credit.

Speaker 38 You get an associate executive producer credit, and we read your note, $300 or above.

Speaker 129 An executive producer credit, coveted, good for a lifetime, anywhere that these credits are honored and recognized.

Speaker 30 And we will read your note as well with your executive producer credit.

Speaker 155 And we kick it off with our anonymous black sheep from Maryville, Tennessee, $610.

Speaker 99 And anonymous black sheep, who I know the anonymous black sheep, sent me a note, actually.

Speaker 2 And this is it.

Speaker 30 Thank you for the awesome content.

Speaker 14 I've emailed Adam off and on.

Speaker 99 Adam, I'm a recent Christian and do a daily journal.

Speaker 95 The company is called Daily, the company is called Daily Kairos, K-A-I-R-O-S.

Speaker 65 Excellent product I recommend.

Speaker 229 I'm a military contractor that embeds with Army and Marine Corps units.

Speaker 32 This is the signal guy.

Speaker 152 Signal is the app the DOD uses, end-to-end encryption.

Speaker 16 I'd like to call out Michael Stirstarch, Steerscharch, which is who we called it earlier, as a douchebag.

Speaker 16 I didn't realize you've been double douchebagged.

Speaker 130 I didn't even realize.

Speaker 45 I didn't realize.

Speaker 17 You've been double douchebagged.

Speaker 168 That's bad.

Speaker 4 That's bad.

Speaker 41 I think I didn't realize that he donated.

Speaker 21 Inside baseball, we've had two units move out of Iraq, and the third will be in June when the contract is up.

Speaker 78 We have other new sites

Speaker 37 in another Middle Eastern country.

Speaker 128 Hmm.

Speaker 45 Another two sites in AFRICOM.

Speaker 64 Another site added in the Pacific.

Speaker 17 Unlike allegedly Pete Hegseth, there's no operational security being divulged.

Speaker 38 FYI, I was on a green suit deployment with JSOC when our boys smoked the Wagner guys in Syria.

Speaker 29 This is the level of producer we are.

Speaker 46 I just love that.

Speaker 246 Yeah, we smoke the Wagner guys in Syria.

Speaker 62 This is what I'm talking about.

Speaker 194 This is why we are the best podcast in the universe.

Speaker 37 And he says,

Speaker 85 jingles, you might die.

Speaker 168 Love you both.

Speaker 46 Jesus loves us all.

Speaker 162 You might die.

Speaker 129 Yeah, if you come across the anonymous black sheep, you might die.

Speaker 4 All right.

Speaker 4 That's true.

Speaker 30 Oh, I'm sorry.

Speaker 17 And I have the classic that's true.

Speaker 59 That's true.

Speaker 101 I actually loaded it up.

Speaker 45 There you go.

Speaker 4 Scott Horton's up. He's in Malibu, California.

Speaker 45 No.

Speaker 17 Who is this Scott Horton? Never heard of that guy.

Speaker 37 Never heard of Scott Horton.

Speaker 4 550.50.

Speaker 4 Hello, John Z, Adam, and the whole Gitmo Nation. This is the other Scott Horton.

Speaker 158 Ah, there it is.

Speaker 4 I made it out to Leo Bravo's meetup this weekend. What a great turnout and what fun people.
I'm donating $550.50 to finish up my nighting. I needed 33 cents to complete the 1,000.
Wow.

Speaker 4 And wanted to add Commodore 2.

Speaker 4 I haven't thought of a good name yet, so that will be coming soon with my accounting. I want to call out,

Speaker 4 I think he's on the list anyway for the Commodoreship.

Speaker 230 He is on the list for Commodoreship. Yep.

Speaker 4 And there's a couple of stragglers, by the way, that are already

Speaker 4 there's issues with their Commodoreship, but they'll get it next show.

Speaker 4 I wanted to call out the pineapple princess and Dano as douchebags.

Speaker 142 Dario.

Speaker 45 Oh. Not even close to Dano.

Speaker 4 Well, you can be looking from where I'm sitting about a mile away from the monitor. It looks like Dano.

Speaker 56 Pineapple Princess.

Speaker 5 Douchebag.

Speaker 108 And Dario, formerly known as Dano.

Speaker 105 Douchebag and

Speaker 4 let Tyrone know that he still has the stench of douchebaggery wafting from him.

Speaker 4 Thank you, John and Adam, for keeping so many of us sane and helping us to see through the media/slash propaganda BS. I'd like Jobs, Goat, Karma, Her Head Is Gone, and LG Boom Shakalaka.

Speaker 70 And her head is gone.

Speaker 47 Boom Shakalaka. Boom Shakalaka.

Speaker 264 Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.

Speaker 146 Let's vote for jobs.

Speaker 265 You've got.

Speaker 196 Karma.

Speaker 6 Austin Carr is next.

Speaker 97 He's in Miami Springs, Florida.

Speaker 9 533.33.

Speaker 50 Love those 33s.

Speaker 247 It's a switcheroo.

Speaker 129 ITM Gen, since I've already spent many, many thousands so my daughter could become a Vanderbilt University Commodore graduate.

Speaker 166 I thought, what the heck?

Speaker 15 Well, another 533.33 would be a bargain so she could also become a No Agenda Commodore.

Speaker 246 Please dub Abby Paulson as Commodore of the Human Resource Producers.

Speaker 27 So now do I put,

Speaker 178 I'll just do Abby Paulson.

Speaker 112 I'll put the whole thing in there.

Speaker 181 Make it official.

Speaker 130 Okay, we don't want to get those switcheroos wrong.

Speaker 82 Baby number three on the way, soon to be 33-year-old mom. There you go.

Speaker 127 Austin Carr. P.S.

Speaker 241 Abby is also the wife of the Coast Guard pilot who last year gave an in-the-morning shout out during his M5M interview after a Gulf of America hurricane rescue.

Speaker 91 Yes, I remember.

Speaker 17 I believe such a free publicity donation for the No Agenda Show is worthy of an honorary No Agenda Commodoreship.

Speaker 54 It's your duty.

Speaker 64 It's your duty.

Speaker 91 This is not a

Speaker 12 duty. It's your duty.

Speaker 130 All right. Thank you very much.

Speaker 101 The switcheroo has been made.

Speaker 80 Austin to Abby.

Speaker 4 Sir Marcus in Egan, Minnesota, 51538.

Speaker 4 Guys, this is Sir Marcus of

Speaker 4 Gherkaland.

Speaker 4 Gherkaland.

Speaker 45 Picoland, maybe? I don't know.

Speaker 4 Gherk Haland. I don't know.

Speaker 4 My sweet stepdaughter, Blair, nicknamed me Commodore years ago due to driving boats on our Minnesota lakes. This is the land of 10,000 lakes.
So I thought I'd better make it official.

Speaker 4 So, how about Mark Commodore of Crow Wing County? Thanks.

Speaker 45 Sounds good to me.

Speaker 64 Sir Milkman comes in next from Evington, Virginia, $500.

Speaker 138 And he just says, Sir Milkman of Evington, Barron.

Speaker 106 All right.

Speaker 4 Zadok Brown III

Speaker 4 in Pucalani, Hawaii.

Speaker 45 Pukalani.

Speaker 4 Pukalani, Hawaii, 500. ITM gents had to get in under the wire for Commodore.

Speaker 18 Mahalo for all you do.

Speaker 86 Mahalo for you.

Speaker 136 Wow, we have three

Speaker 204 with no note here, so that will be three double-up karmas.

Speaker 250 The first for SDG in Oakland, California, $500 and a double-up karma for you.

Speaker 265 You've got.

Speaker 26 I might as well do the other two.

Speaker 4 Yep, might as well.

Speaker 229 Brock Reinhold, Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canadia, $500.

Speaker 250 Double-up karma for you.

Speaker 265 You've got.

Speaker 250 And John Tucker from Omaha, Nebraska, $500 and a double-up karma for you.

Speaker 265 You've got.

Speaker 196 Karma.

Speaker 4 Laurence de

Speaker 247 Coister,

Speaker 4 Laurence de Coaster, the coaster in Belgium

Speaker 45 by

Speaker 235 350.93.

Speaker 4 ITM John and Adam, keep it with a great work. No jingles, no karma.
Greetings from Belgium.

Speaker 4 And he's got some

Speaker 66 met Frine Le Cruise with

Speaker 45 loves and kisses.

Speaker 38 I hope this note finds you well.

Speaker 4 I hope this note finds you well.

Speaker 17 Sir Dibs on Living, North Providence, Rhode Island.

Speaker 45 That's where my mom is from, 333.33.

Speaker 64 And Sir Dibbs says, ITM John and Adam, no jingles, no karma.

Speaker 27 Sir Dibbs on living.

Speaker 85 Thank you very much.

Speaker 4 Yeah, and you got the next one, too, for obvious reasons.

Speaker 38 In the morning, John and Adams says, Andrew Dector.

Speaker 204 And greetings to all Gitmo Nation from Northern Wildcat Territory, FEMA Region Number 4, aka Northern Kentucky.

Speaker 11 I come to you with a heavy heart.

Speaker 50 My 50-year-old wife, Angel, was diagnosed with stage 4 kidney cancer in September of 2022.

Speaker 197 She lost the kidney, underwent immunotherapy, and several other courses of treatment, but the cancer still spread.

Speaker 229 Cancer sucks, and cancer that doesn't respond to treatment sucks even more.

Speaker 129 After learning the cancer spread to her brain, she finally had enough and elected for home hospice in March.

Speaker 79 She's finally resting comfortably and seems to be pain-free.

Speaker 93 She is in her final days, and her passing is imminent.

Speaker 79 She was a fifth-grade teacher and was one of the best in Boone County, Kentucky. She had zero transitions in her class over the years.

Speaker 81 Angel will be sorely missed, but my three kids and I will carry on her legacy.

Speaker 82 Angel was not a listener of No Agenda, but she tolerated my zeal for it and didn't complain about my No Agenda coffee mugs, stickers, and hats.

Speaker 78 I wish to honor her tolerance by making her an executive producer for the May Day show 1760.

Speaker 186 Please accept this treasure of 333.33 for show 1760 in her name.

Speaker 130 I request massive amounts of no agenda health karma for my beautiful wife in her final days.

Speaker 181 She needs it. F cancer, please.

Speaker 88 Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. Of course.

Speaker 245 And she's in our prayers, mine for sure.

Speaker 265 You've got karma.

Speaker 4 Virt Fuller in Batavia, New York, $300. And he sent in a check with a note, which I will read

Speaker 4 to DNC, $300.

Speaker 4 And it's handwritten in a

Speaker 4 kind of a sloppy style. Even when you take the plug out,

Speaker 4 you two are electrifying.

Speaker 4 How did I ever make it before COVID when I didn't know about your podcast? You are like a

Speaker 4 you're like a lest and found, like a lost and found, I guess. Yeah, you're like lost and found.

Speaker 4 Referring to a place where you go picks lost and found stuff up.

Speaker 17 I guess.

Speaker 4 I would like to give this check donation to making my son Andy a closer to being a knight. Okay, I don't know if he's on the list or not.
Karma for my birthday on the 29th. Is that on the list?

Speaker 4 I don't know.

Speaker 3 I think it is.

Speaker 4 I'll check. Let me see.
On the list, along with Willie Nelson.

Speaker 23 No.

Speaker 4 And then he says, too long a note when it's not really long at all. It's just hard to read.
And by the way, that should be two TW2Os.

Speaker 98 Sir,

Speaker 4 short for nothing.

Speaker 45 Okay.

Speaker 134 Sure.

Speaker 45 That's it.

Speaker 4 Yeah, that's it.

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Speaker 204 Hey, John, I've got some stablecoin stuff I want to share with you.

Speaker 4 Oh, I'm all ears.

Speaker 54 So there is a bill in

Speaker 126 Congress right now.

Speaker 204 It is the stablecoin bill.

Speaker 165 We'll talk about that in a minute.

Speaker 26 But throughout the past couple of weeks, I've been talking about things like the Mar-a-Lago Accords, understanding the strong dollar versus the weak dollar.

Speaker 245 What is President Trump trying to do?

Speaker 230 And the only thing I really had known or knew up until recently about stablecoin is the main stablecoin that is in consideration for use by the U.S.

Speaker 202 government, specifically the Treasury, and I presume by osmosis, the Federal Reserve, is Tether.

Speaker 25 And all you need to know about that is a stable coin is pegged to a dollar.

Speaker 80 One stable coin is one dollar, and it is backed by U.S.

Speaker 204 Treasury. So this company, Tether,

Speaker 94 they only have 40 people working there.

Speaker 221 All they're doing is they're buying massive amounts of treasuries, short-term treasuries, so T-bills, American debt,

Speaker 24 and they're making hundreds of millions of dollars based upon the interest rate.

Speaker 198 And for every single dollar they buy in treasury, they make a stablecoin. So it's really a way to make more U.S.

Speaker 204 dollars of the digital kind.

Speaker 109 And I've learned a lot about this.

Speaker 45 And we're going to start with Planet Money.

Speaker 97 So it's kind of a mainstream show from NPR.

Speaker 87 And it has a little bit of talk about stablecoin and the Mar-a-Lago Accords.

Speaker 92 Then there's what we've dubbed the weak dollar school.

Speaker 200 Essentially, because people around the world use the dollar so much, that pushes up the dollar's value and actually hurts American exporters.

Speaker 200 So the weak dollar school wants to see the American dollar devalued.

Speaker 92 This school of thought is led by the chair of the Council of Economic Advisors, a guy named Stephen Myron.

Speaker 179 More than half the world's trade is done in dollars, even when neither country trading is the U.S.

Speaker 200 Simon boils the weak dollar school down to this.

Speaker 228 The cost for America in doing this is that you have a dollar that has been distorted. In his view, basically, this means overvalued, and that has held back American exporters.

Speaker 266 A strong dollar means that American consumers can afford to buy more stuff from overseas. And so American factories find it harder to compete with these cheap imports.

Speaker 228 And so there's different ways that other countries can begin to address this problem. They could basically agree to buy more American products.
They could invest more in America.

Speaker 228 You know, one solution that he expressed, which I think is a little bit tongue-in-cheek, is that they could just send checks directly to the U.S. Treasury to basically pay them a fee for services.

Speaker 228 Or alternatively, America could impose tariffs.

Speaker 200 The big idea in Stephen Myron's paper is that leaders of countries from around the world would descend on South Florida, make a grand deal with President Trump to help weaken the dollar, and this would be called the Mar-a-Lago Accord.

Speaker 228 You can see how it's something that appeals to President Trump. It kind of intellectualizes his instinctual view that America has been wronged.

Speaker 45 Okay.

Speaker 17 So the problem we have in America is because everybody wants our dollars, everybody uses our dollars, the dollar is very strong against other currencies.

Speaker 25 And therefore, our products, when we want to export them, are too expensive.

Speaker 93 We're not like the cheap Chinese crap.

Speaker 204 That's why I believe the temporary measure is these tariffs.

Speaker 97 Now, what I've learned is, and I've heard this term so many times, euro dollar, I never understood what it meant.

Speaker 79 The difference between the American dollar we have here in America and the Euro dollar is exactly that.

Speaker 162 A Euro dollar is every dollar that is in banks or in financial systems outside the U.S.

Speaker 228 And it's a lot of money.

Speaker 99 And this money

Speaker 221 really hurts us, particularly in the hands of China, because they control how strong our dollar is by how much they use it, where they send it, how much they buy, et cetera.

Speaker 241 Here is analyst Matt Pines explaining a little bit about the dangers of other countries holding large quantities of dollars, in this case, Euro dollars.

Speaker 167 Don't be confused by the Euro part.

Speaker 109 If it's outside of America, it's a Euro dollar.

Speaker 267 There's flows of goods coming into the United States and flows of dollars going overseas. And a lot of those dollars are pouring into China.

Speaker 267 And then China, right, as an entity, as a balance sheet, is then deciding how to deploy those dollars. And it's, you know, in some ways, it's deploying them into domestic investment.

Speaker 267 Some ways it's deploying them into overseas investment, like Belt Road Initiative. But in other ways, it's also redeploying them back into the U.S.

Speaker 267 and other sort of advanced financial markets into financial assets, right? Into our NASDAQ, into our real estate, into our farmland. And so the U.S.

Speaker 267 has sort of watched over the past few years how much sort of those dollars are kind of round-tripping, right, back into the U.S. And for certain elements of the U.S., that's great, right?

Speaker 267 We get, you know, that's an extra marginal dollar that's going into, you know, NVIDIA stock, and it helps everyone's 401ks.

Speaker 267 There's such a thing in the DOD, the intelligence community, it's like a term of art, like adversarial capital, right?

Speaker 267 And tracking adversarial capital is like a very important mission inside the United States government.

Speaker 267 So they don't just see dollars going back and forth, international trade and financial investment as just a sort of fundamentally neutral, you know, cycle of

Speaker 267 trade and investment.

Speaker 86 They see it as a security issue, right?

Speaker 267 Especially if you see some of these flows come with invisible strings attached, right?

Speaker 267 Or often those capital flows implicitly or explicitly corrupt the political systems that they get deployed in, right? And they sort of shape over time the political systems in the West.

Speaker 267 We've seen, you know, stories in Canada and Australia, even in the U.S.,

Speaker 267 New Zealand, even Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, a lot of these countries that, you know,

Speaker 267 are very much at the tipping point of where to shape strategic opinion among

Speaker 267 key decision makers.

Speaker 2 So, what I understand of this stablecoin bill, which is now in Congress, is the idea is to make all the Euro dollars, everything that's not in America, make those stable coin, which will be backed by U.S.

Speaker 151 Treasury.

Speaker 94 So they are backed by something that is supposedly really secure and really good. And that those dollars, because they're digital, can be completely tracked.

Speaker 165 We know if someone's trying to buy off politicians, and you will not be allowed to use the U.S. dollars in America dollars outside of the United States.

Speaker 204 If you want the dollar, that way, you get the stable coin, which basically is a little piece of a U.S.

Speaker 151 Treasury, which equals a dollar.

Speaker 24 And so here's Caitlin Long to explain the stable coin bill.

Speaker 268 The stablecoin bill is going to create for the first time an endorsed differential between an offshore dollar and an onshore dollar.

Speaker 268 The Fed, particularly because of the control of the European banks on the Euro dollar market, what is a Euro dollar? Let's go back. It goes back to the 1950s when Russia didn't want to hold.

Speaker 268 during the Cold War its dollars in a U.S. bank because it was afraid they'd be confiscated.

Speaker 268 So it got the European banks to agree to take US dollar deposits. So there was this huge offshore market, which is actually as big, if not bigger, than the onshore US dollar market.
It is big.

Speaker 268 And to your point, it hasn't been in control of the Fed. Well, the Fed has now rested control over interest rates.

Speaker 268 The most important interest rate was until recently LIBOR. It's now SOFR.
And it used to be unsecured, priced in London. It's now secured, priced in New York.
Okay, now here comes Tether. Tether

Speaker 268 is a company that

Speaker 268 for all the

Speaker 268 allegations around it related to money laundering, et cetera, et cetera. Now, what's fascinating to me is

Speaker 268 that Congress is about to ensconce this by saying, okay,

Speaker 268 you can be an offshore issuer

Speaker 268 and you don't have to do all the same know your customer and anti-money laundering. rules that particularly that a bank has to do.
Bank has to do something called CIP up front.

Speaker 268 You have to, before you onboard a customer to a bank, you have to do all the know-your-customer and enhanced

Speaker 268 customer information program

Speaker 268 upfront. FinTechs don't have to do that, and Lord knows an offshore company does not.

Speaker 37 And that offshore company will be Cantor Fitzgerald, Lutnick's company.

Speaker 30 They're the ones that are

Speaker 2 hold all of the treasuries for

Speaker 204 this tether stablecoin.

Speaker 186 This thing is outrageously popular all across the world.

Speaker 101 I didn't even realize how big this stable coin is.

Speaker 204 It's being used by shop merchants, by regular people everywhere, because their own currency is so unstable, they prefer to use the Tether stablecoin, and they can easily pay with it.

Speaker 162 They're already doing it.

Speaker 93 It's just on your phone.

Speaker 101 It's back and forth.

Speaker 249 And here's a quick clip about how big stablecoin, particularly Tether, really is.

Speaker 268 Tether is pushing the US dollar out into emerging markets down to the communities that nobody has banked before because nobody could figure out how to bank them.

Speaker 268 And those communities bank them profitably. And those communities, Tether did, hats off to them for doing that.
Those communities have access to the US dollar for the first time.

Speaker 268 And in most of those emerging markets, they would much rather have a US dollar than their own local currency. And Tether has built this distribution channel and there is nobody competing with them.

Speaker 268 And they are pushing the US dollar out into the distribution channel, and they're recycling those tiny amounts of money from working class in emerging markets. And I think they have 400 million users.

Speaker 268 It's a stunning number of users. They're the biggest financial company in the world right now and just keep getting bigger.

Speaker 268 And they are recycling all of those flows back into the U.S. Treasury market.
What is that doing? Because those are not going to be panic sellers. What is that doing?

Speaker 268 That is increasing the resilience of the U.S. Treasury market.

Speaker 99 And that is exactly the point.

Speaker 79 And making the dollar strong as a currency and usable outside the U.S.

Speaker 101 with the Euro dollar.

Speaker 136 And we can then control our own interest rate because

Speaker 37 LIBOR, the London Interbank offered rate, which was the standard.

Speaker 44 If you've ever looked at your car statement or your mortgage, it'll say, you know, on an adjustable rate, it'll say, we offer you this money at LIBOR plus 1% or plus 2%.

Speaker 37 LIBOR, we remember there was a big scandal with LIBOR in 2008.

Speaker 18 LIBOR was already set to be replaced and killed off by something called SOFR, the secured overnight financing rate from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Speaker 109 And so this is Bloomberg seven years ago.

Speaker 198 This is how long this is in the making, talking about this new way to set interest rates, not by British banks and JPMorgan, they were part of that, who were just doing willy-nilly whatever they wanted, which kept us not in control of interest rates in America.

Speaker 21 They were already talking about the SOFAR.

Speaker 116 Ed, let's start first with the SOFRA situation, which I have to confess, I'm not an expert on this, but it's sort of oopsy.

Speaker 23 Nobody is oopsie. Isn't that what you say? Oopsie.

Speaker 122 So the Fed comes out with this new alternative to LIBOR.

Speaker 116 And this is going to be, they're trying to compete with some other alternatives over in Europe to say this is the way you should peg your interest rates.

Speaker 116 And then they discover, oh, we included some transactions we weren't supposed to be including.

Speaker 19 I call it so far.

Speaker 45 I thought that sounded better.

Speaker 1 I've heard so fra, I've heard so far, I've heard so far.

Speaker 45 So far, so bad.

Speaker 68 So it's so it's it's kind of a case of better than devil.

Speaker 191 You know, look, LIBOR, as we know, was not perfect.

Speaker 19 In fact, it was far from perfect.

Speaker 191 But this is, as you say, the alternative, and it's already gone wrong. Two weeks in, and it's already gone wrong.

Speaker 191 So, what's happened here is essentially the Fed have come out and they've said some forward-settling overnight treasury repo transactions were included where they shouldn't have been included.

Speaker 191 So, all of the data for that two-week period is botched.

Speaker 191 Now they said they're not going to republish it but they are going to publish alongside it sort of data, theoretical data of what it would look like if you stripped out those transactions.

Speaker 191 So it is a bit of a mess and I think the real challenge is this. A lot of people obviously still use LIBOR as the benchmark.

Speaker 191 That's going to end in 2021 because the SCA and the UK have said that at that point it will disappear.

Speaker 191 How do you get people to migrate across to something if it shows even at this sort of very early stage that it's unreliable?

Speaker 19 This thing needs to be absolutely rock solid if it's going to convince people to migrate across.

Speaker 188 It needs the derivative projects, which supposedly those projects are coming.

Speaker 63 So this thing has migrated.

Speaker 11 As of March 31st, 2025, the last LIBOR contracts, the last derivatives were finally all settled, taken care of.

Speaker 92 And now SOFR is the new interest rate setting standard for interest rates, which is completely in control now of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Speaker 126 And this timing I find interesting because on April 2nd, he said he wanted to do on the first, but it came on the 2nd.

Speaker 78 President Trump talked about...

Speaker 114 My fellow Americans, this is liberation day.

Speaker 249 And maybe it was under the guise of the tariffs, but I think it was really about this interest rate that is now being set by us.

Speaker 101 We're in control of it, and we're leaving the stable coin as the ghetto dollar over there for the Euro dollar, and they can do whatever they want.

Speaker 109 It's all backed by us.

Speaker 268 And this stable coin has a lot of properties that make it very interesting not just overseas but internally as well and by the way tether created the the the killer use case which is for the us dollar and a lot of people look at it and say why do you need a blockchain for that that's an inefficient database yes of course it's an inefficient database but what were they able to do create incredible network effects by having 400 million users globally that's bigger than the united states um incredible network effects that's what we're tapping into what are the greenfields?

Speaker 268 The biggest one is putting that into the regulated banking industry.

Speaker 268 Everybody right now is forced into FedWire, ACH, and a little bit of FedNow, but that was such a controlled, closed system that it hasn't really taken off. Fedwire and ACH?

Speaker 268 Hell, stablecoins are faster, cheaper, more auditable, more programmable, safer. from an IT security perspective, I would argue, for a whole host of reasons.

Speaker 268 This is a game changer to push that into the green field of the traditional banking system.

Speaker 38 So to wrap it up, I think the stablecoin gambit is to keep the U.S.

Speaker 78 dollar as the strongest, most secure, backed by U.S.

Speaker 45 Treasury's dollar everywhere in the world.

Speaker 26 But we, through SOFR, will control our own interest rates.

Speaker 37 It's a big, big,

Speaker 221 long game gamble.

Speaker 37 And if Trump can pull it off, I don't know if it's going to be good or not, but it's definitely going to change the way finance works throughout the world.

Speaker 94 And that's all I know for now.

Speaker 4 How does this benefit bankers?

Speaker 109 I believe that bankers, part of the SBA Rule 12, that bankers can now issue their own version of stablecoin.

Speaker 94 And so

Speaker 37 they can do whatever they want.

Speaker 154 They like buying treasury.

Speaker 92 So I'll buy a treasury.

Speaker 230 I can issue a stable coin.

Speaker 93 And I can issue it domestically.

Speaker 241 I can issue it internationally.

Speaker 81 I think that's where they come into play.

Speaker 4 How would this differ from the olden days when the banks used to actually print their own money?

Speaker 17 Well, the difference is at that point they had to have gold

Speaker 24 to back their own money.

Speaker 177 And now you have to have treasuries, which is probably just as wonky.

Speaker 151 That's why I'm not sure it's a great idea.

Speaker 154 I'm not saying it's a great idea.

Speaker 129 I think it's what they're trying to do.

Speaker 87 It just, you know, it's complicated.

Speaker 2 I didn't even know what a Euro dollar was until yesterday.

Speaker 4 We got a call from the government.

Speaker 45 Shut up, Curry.

Speaker 17 There you go.

Speaker 78 That's my stablecoin presentation.

Speaker 23 Okay.

Speaker 4 It wasn't as bad as I thought.

Speaker 17 No, well, thank you.

Speaker 245 That coming from you is a huge endorsement.

Speaker 235 I don't know about that.

Speaker 61 There's the government.

Speaker 62 Do you need to talk to him?

Speaker 4 I'm going to go pick that up, but why don't you play the clip about the impeachment, the partial impeachment announcement.

Speaker 150 Okay,

Speaker 221 partial impeachment,

Speaker 98 partial, impeach, impartial.

Speaker 206 This is Congressman Shri Thanidar.

Speaker 206 Donald Trump has already done real damage to our democracy, but defying a unanimous 9-0 Supreme Court ruling, that has to be the final straw. It's time we impeach Donald J.
Trump.

Speaker 206 The court said the wrongfully deported Kilmer Garcia must be allowed to return and receive due process. Trump ignored it.
He ignored the Constitution.

Speaker 206 He ignored the very checks and balances that keep our democracy intact.

Speaker 206 This isn't an isolated incident. It's part of a dangerous, deliberate pattern.
That's why today I introduced a resolution to impeach Donald J. Trump outlining seven articles of impeachment.

Speaker 174 Article 1.

Speaker 206 Obstruction of justice and abuse of executive power. From denying due process to unlawful deportations, Trump defied court orders.

Speaker 45 Is this a call you got earlier today?

Speaker 59 On Is this a robo call?

Speaker 4 The call I got was the

Speaker 4 arborist canceling.

Speaker 45 Oh, no.

Speaker 30 And that's, I've been waiting months for this.

Speaker 4 Well, you and me both.

Speaker 38 Why would the arborist?

Speaker 95 And so John has a lot of branches.

Speaker 79 John has a branch which has been squeaking against his window for months.

Speaker 50 Sometimes I can hear it if it's windy on the show,

Speaker 197 but I almost always hear it after the show when I turn all the noise gates off.

Speaker 38 I'm like, oh, man, that thing must be driving you nuts.

Speaker 4 Well, it's only when you have a southerly breeze.

Speaker 4 So anyway, so that's the guy. He's a screwball-looking character.
I don't even know what he's thinking.

Speaker 4 He's got a wig on, and he's like,

Speaker 4 he really, seriously, he said, check this out. And he went on and on.
He's got about eight points.

Speaker 4 And it's, of course, going to go nowhere, but it's making a big scene. And he sounds like

Speaker 4 a moron.

Speaker 112 Yeah, I would say.

Speaker 4 But that's big news. Big news.

Speaker 34 Big news. Big news.

Speaker 178 Yeah.

Speaker 18 Articles of impeachment.

Speaker 241 Finally, someone did it.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I was waiting for Al Green, but he didn't do it. Yeah.
No.

Speaker 4 Okay, TikTok.

Speaker 59 Yay.

Speaker 4 They're both short.

Speaker 192 They're both under a minute. Okay.

Speaker 4 The dating app girl.

Speaker 85 Dating app girl.

Speaker 262 So I'm scrolling the dating apps earlier, and for the first 20 swipes, it's conservative, moderate, conservative, moderate, apolitical, nothing.

Speaker 256 Conservative, conservative, conservative, conservative, conservative, conservative, moderate.

Speaker 262 And to me, conservative, moderate, and apolitical, and nothing is all the same thing.

Speaker 261 You all are MAGA.

Speaker 147 So immediately, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 262 Took me 20 swipes to finally find a liberal. I'm like, gee, what the fuck is going on? Why is everybody MAGA? It's not that everybody's MAGA.
It's that, you know, the male loneliness epidemic.

Speaker 216 It's because nobody wants to date them.

Speaker 212 They don't make good partners.

Speaker 212 That's why there's so many single ones out there.

Speaker 148 All the liberals are taken.

Speaker 262 Not all of them.

Speaker 242 Obviously, there's some out there.

Speaker 262 But, like, I rather have no dates than ever date a maga ever fucking again. So I will scroll until my fingers fall off until I can find the perfect liberal.

Speaker 93 Why do they always have to cuss all the time?

Speaker 4 This cussing is unbelievable.

Speaker 41 It's getting annoying.

Speaker 4 It's very annoying, and there's nothing you can do about it.

Speaker 45 They won't stop it. No, they won't.

Speaker 4 Here's another woman. This one here is complaining about her time blindness.

Speaker 45 No,

Speaker 44 time blindness.

Speaker 4 Which is my favorite topic.

Speaker 30 Please, I'm time blind.

Speaker 246 That's why I'm late.

Speaker 151 We went through this several times in the past couple of years. Yep.

Speaker 148 So I just got yelled at for asking a very reasonable question.

Speaker 269 So I'm applying to go somewhere and I just wanted to know, are there accommodations for people who struggle with time blindness and being on time?

Speaker 269 You know, and then the person I was with interrupted and acted like I was asking something else.

Speaker 269 And then when we were done, they actually started yelling at me and saying that accommodations for time blindness doesn't exist.

Speaker 269 And if you struggle with being on time, you'll never be able to get a job. You know, provided you're trying your absolute best to be there.

Speaker 269 And then they're like, your stupid generation wants to destroy the workplace.

Speaker 144 And yeah, I think that a culture where workers are just cut off because they struggle with being on time when there's other solutions that we can look to, I think that just anybody who thinks it's okay to just treat people like that, yeah, that culture needs needs to be dismantled.

Speaker 144 And then I asked that person, how can you feel good about yourself upholding this kind of system?

Speaker 269 And then to think, I'm entitled.

Speaker 144 No, if people think it's okay to treat others like this, that's entitlement.

Speaker 18 No, brother.

Speaker 45 I like the way she reversed it.

Speaker 18 There were reversed roles there.

Speaker 169 You're entitled because you're on time.

Speaker 45 Stop it.

Speaker 17 This is not healthy.

Speaker 112 I'm worried about you.

Speaker 93 You should not be watching too much of this.

Speaker 4 No, this is good stuff, guys.

Speaker 4 Everybody loves it.

Speaker 42 It's all engagement farming.

Speaker 98 I don't believe any of these people is being honest.

Speaker 26 Not a single one.

Speaker 129 You think they're real? I think they're all phony.

Speaker 4 I think most of them are real. There's a couple of phonies, but they're pretty obvious when you see them.
Let's play this. This is a,

Speaker 111 since you played that thing about the stablecoin, let's play this clip.

Speaker 4 This is Timu versus France.

Speaker 39 Oh, Timu!

Speaker 261 The trade war between the US and China has also affected Europe. Several European countries report a surge in dumped Chinese products on their market.

Speaker 261 Last year, 1.5 billion parcels, mostly from China, entered France, averaging just around $10 each.

Speaker 261 Authorities are concerned with this trend, which poses a threat not only to local producers, but also to consumers.

Speaker 261 On Tuesday, four French ministers unveiled a plan to tackle the flood of low-cost parcels from China.

Speaker 261 To protect consumers, the government will triple inspections this year, checking product safety, labeling, and environmental claims.

Speaker 261 It also looks to the EU to end end customs duty exemption for parcels under $170

Speaker 146 to protect local businesses.

Speaker 261 Yenri Voilon is president of the French Women's Prétaporte Federation.

Speaker 260 Wait a minute.

Speaker 64 Is France putting something equal to tariffs in place against China?

Speaker 45 Is that what I'm hearing?

Speaker 4 It's kind of what you're hearing, but the number I thought was interesting that in France, they're getting 1.5 billion

Speaker 38 packages of cheap Chinese crap.

Speaker 72 Chinese crap.

Speaker 203 Nice. He

Speaker 261 He also says French fashion brands are unable to compete.

Speaker 260 Every week, brands send me copies of counterfeit products made in China.

Speaker 260 First, our designs are being stolen. Second, the employees of Shane or Temu are being exploited.

Speaker 260 They're paid a pittance and forced to work from 75 to over 100 hours a week, with barely one day off a month.

Speaker 146 This is clearly unacceptable. They also commit tax fraud by declaring under-reported sales figures.

Speaker 261 According to the government, over 90% of these products are unsafe for consumers. However, Rivo Allon says the new measures fall far short and should be aligned with the stronger U.S.

Speaker 261 actions against such platforms.

Speaker 260 It's totally ridiculous compared to what the United States is doing with $100 on each of these packages.

Speaker 260 So we're in a situation where we know that over 90% of products are dangerous for the French, dangerous for consumers, for our jobs, and for the planet.

Speaker 260 And yet we're putting in place a small measure with barely 10% tax potential.

Speaker 85 It's really amazing the junk, the cheap junk we have from China.

Speaker 38 This microphone I'm using right now, cheap junk from China.

Speaker 90 This Yeti Cup,

Speaker 109 American Yeti Texas Company, made in China.

Speaker 90 This bell, China.

Speaker 39 This whistle,

Speaker 95 China.

Speaker 39 My Light Phone 3, China.

Speaker 45 That's all from China.

Speaker 17 And I look at the stuff and I go, do I really need all this stuff?

Speaker 41 You know, do I really need it?

Speaker 168 My guns are from, my guns are not from China.

Speaker 138 My guns are not from China.

Speaker 45 Yet.

Speaker 97 We probably need to just have this story out for a moment because it's not really a big topic.

Speaker 101 You know, there was a pretty bad

Speaker 37 attack on on tourists there.

Speaker 151 You know, Pakistan and India heating up, and here's the latest from Pakistan.

Speaker 270 We start with the dispute between India and Pakistan following a deadly attack in Indian-administered Kashmir, which left 26 people dead last week.

Speaker 270 The Indian Prime Minister, Mahendra Modi, has been holding high-level talks with his cabinet in response to the attack, which it blames on Pakistan, a claim repeatedly denied by Islamabad.

Speaker 270 Pakistan's information minister says his country has credible intelligence that India India is planning to attack.

Speaker 271 Pakistan open-heartedly offered a credible, transparent and independent investigation by a neutral commission of experts to ascertain the truth.

Speaker 271 Unfortunately, rather than pursuing the path of reason, India has apparently decided to tread the dangerous path of irrationality and confrontation, which will have catastrophic consequences for the complete region and beyond.

Speaker 270 World leaders have expressed deep concern and urged restraint by the uneasy neighbors who have fought several wars and who both have nuclear weapons.

Speaker 17 Man, Led Zeppelin did songs about Kashmir.

Speaker 64 Can these guys not just settle it finally?

Speaker 46 What is so special?

Speaker 4 Seems unlikely.

Speaker 59 What is so special about the Kashmir region?

Speaker 166 What is it? What are they carrying?

Speaker 4 Everybody thinks it's a fabulous place, and both sides think it's

Speaker 72 fabulous.

Speaker 192 They own it.

Speaker 45 Well, what's so fabulous about it?

Speaker 59 Does it get I don't don't know, I've never been there.

Speaker 45 Does it have a beach? No,

Speaker 17 it should just be fabulous.

Speaker 4 I don't know why they can't get it.

Speaker 78 Well, we have Pakistanis and Indians in our

Speaker 245 nation.

Speaker 4 The explanation will be biased, and both we won't get, we won't find out anything.

Speaker 45 Well, I'll take bias over nothing over this report.

Speaker 51 Oh, but it's not going to die,

Speaker 64 they're going to strike us.

Speaker 45 Why?

Speaker 4 we don't know why you're right yeah we don't know why they've been bitching this has been going on forever for decades i have a real news clip if you want to play real news the jingle goodness gracious i don't even know i know we haven't done this for a year a year where is oh wait it's under uh i have the real news clip somewhere uh

Speaker 4 and now back to real news okay time for real news what do you have so so the sports ball people are talking everyone's talking and ridiculing this guy, including Megan.

Speaker 17 Kelly?

Speaker 150 Yes. Yeah.

Speaker 4 And this is Bill Belichick, who's like, I don't know, he's 60, 70, he's like 72, I think, and he's got a 24-year-old girlfriend.

Speaker 5 Go right on.

Speaker 23 Go, Bill.

Speaker 4 What a lot of people say. And so he

Speaker 4 was interviewed by

Speaker 4 CBS Morning, and then

Speaker 4 they had to clip some of her in there because she was being annoying at the interview.

Speaker 4 She was buttoning in a lot, and then he came back with a comment about it, and then she the CBS came back with a comment, and it went back and forth. But here's the Megan Kelly, this Belichick.

Speaker 4 This is the Megan Kelly report on it, and she's she's, of course, you know, she thinks it's horrible. She's Megan.

Speaker 59 She's Megan.

Speaker 215 So this guy, Bill Belichick, has been in the news lately because his girlfriend, I think, is 50 years, a 47 to 50 years

Speaker 35 difference between Belichick and is she mad about that is that the premise she's mad about the age difference

Speaker 4 she doesn't express this but you know she is okay

Speaker 215 young gal pal so she shows up at these black tie events with him wearing nothing she's basically wearing like a bikini and he's wearing a normal man's clothing

Speaker 139 and it looks weird

Speaker 215 like okay whatever i guess i'm not who am i to judge but i i'm judging i won't lie it's weird um and i'm pretty sure she is with him because he's very famous and probably has a lot of money and gets her access to cool things.

Speaker 215 That's my guess.

Speaker 215 What?

Speaker 146 Gambling? I'm going to say it.

Speaker 215 But anyway,

Speaker 215 he gives this interview, and now it's starting to look much more like a Jill Biden situation.

Speaker 149 That's all I could think of, you guys.

Speaker 146 Like, she's like Dr.

Speaker 215 On the sidelines, calling all the shots and like trying to decide what he can answer and what he can't in this interview.

Speaker 215 And what we learned today, I'll show you the clip, but what we learned today was that it was far worse than CBS This Morning, which is like a nice program.

Speaker 215 They try to do like nice stories, would even air.

Speaker 215 The reason reportedly that they chose to air this one interruption of hers is because it was far worse than this.

Speaker 215 She was trying to dominate behind the scenes, and they felt it was okay to include one of her interruptions just to give the audience,

Speaker 215 to be transparent, that they had this monster on screen left who was completely trying to control him.

Speaker 207 And it was to the point where they didn't feel like it would have journalistic integrity if they didn't show at least some of it watch this the other change for belichik is 24 year old jordan hudson his creative muse as he writes in his book make sure that that

Speaker 207 jordan was a constant presence during our interview you have jordan right over there Everybody in the world seems to be following this relationship.

Speaker 260 They've got an opinion about your private life.

Speaker 171 It's got nothing to do with them, but they're invested in it.

Speaker 203 How do you deal with that?

Speaker 260 Never been too worried about what everybody else thinks. Just try to do what I feel like is best for me and what's right.

Speaker 214 How did you guys meet?

Speaker 262 Not talking about this.

Speaker 147 No,

Speaker 207 it's a topic neither one of them is comfortable commenting on. What?

Speaker 213 And

Speaker 139 it went on.

Speaker 215 The portion I talked to you about, like, it went on and on to where it was very cringy.

Speaker 139 You were like, oh, God.

Speaker 93 Oh, Megan, how deep you have sunk.

Speaker 41 Megan.

Speaker 84 Why is she doing this?

Speaker 108 She's the woman who was like the big political journalist, lawyer, and all she can do is show business stuff.

Speaker 45 I'm sure it's great.

Speaker 99 Well, we know the answer.

Speaker 14 It's great for downloads.

Speaker 17 It's great for views.

Speaker 26 It's numbers.

Speaker 89 This is why value for value is a much better way to do it.

Speaker 194 You don't need numbers to survive.

Speaker 4 You don't need to deal with these people who send us AI

Speaker 4 analysis of the show being anti-advertiser.

Speaker 166 I'm going to show my support by donating to no agenda.

Speaker 71 Imagine all the people who could do this.

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Speaker 38 And to prove that, we are going to thank our donors $50 and above.

Speaker 4 Yeah, we did pretty well today, so that was nice.

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Speaker 4 Hopefully, by

Speaker 4 the big show coming up on Sunday, the Sanko de Mayo special.

Speaker 45 Woo, everybody. Yeah, that's right.
It is.

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Speaker 4 Ashen, Texas, in Flower Mound,

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Speaker 4 And that's an El DeBarge donation.

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Speaker 103 One person got my joke.

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She's a big fan of yours.

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Speaker 129 Therefore, I give you two dozen eggs donation.

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Speaker 33 I like it.

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Why not? Yep. Two dozen eggs.

Speaker 4 So Jay has eggs. Uh-huh.
And so she brought me some because I use a raw egg in this, in my morning no agenda drink.

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Speaker 86 It was a tip, tipofthay.net.

Speaker 4 And she's got a chicken there, and it's almost a tip of the day. It's a Buff Orpington, which is a killer beautiful chicken.
We used to have them up north.

Speaker 18 A buff.

Speaker 4 and it used to be called Buffy. It's a beautiful red chicken and

Speaker 4 huge. And it's produces the chicken.
I've never said home chickens usually don't do this, produces jumbo eggs.

Speaker 72 Jumbo.

Speaker 106 How big are they?

Speaker 4 They're huge. It's a big, giant egg.
She says that the chicken makes a squawk every time she lays one.

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Speaker 82 by the way, I know Sir Buy His Grace, and he's so worried about the tariffs.

Speaker 198 He keeps sending me articles like, he's going to screw it up.

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Speaker 9 I have to close my business.

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Speaker 45 What's going to happen?

Speaker 4 way? Is he getting his turf from China?

Speaker 37 No, I think his

Speaker 50 pesticides, herbicides, all that stuff.

Speaker 185 Yeah, he definitely gets stuff from China.

Speaker 4 Sir KC9YJM 73 is 10535.

Speaker 4 He wants a jobs karma at the end, if you don't mind.

Speaker 4 Paul Summers in Bath, Pennsylvania, 100.

Speaker 4 Jennifer Rain in

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N. Beck in Schiffwood Forest, somewhere in the United States, 100.
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Kevin McLaughlin's up at DeConca, North Carolina. He's the Archduke of Luna, Lover of American Boobs, 8008 the boob donation.

Speaker 4 Rick LaBanca in Hope, Rhode Island, 7373s. That's a

Speaker 4 ham radio donation.

Speaker 4 And heaven forbid, we got another one. Noble Anderson in Montgomery, Alabama, 7373 with a happy birthday to me.
This is a while ago. I guess it's my 73rd birthday

Speaker 4 donation. It was also 73s.
Better because

Speaker 4 Brandon Locklear in Sugar Hill, Georgia, 7373s with his call sign K4QOL.

Speaker 34 73s.

Speaker 37 Ham donation, 73s.

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Speaker 112 You need a different font, Sir Slickwater.

Speaker 4 Yeah,

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Speaker 102 You've threatened to do this for years.

Speaker 4 I don't do any. Let's face it.
I'm a big talker, no action.

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My favorite donation for people that know what a chip is.

Speaker 4 Jacob Alley in Wichita, Kansas, 63.31. Jamie,

Speaker 63 Jacob says he's been on a subscription plan, but never got a formal deducing.

Speaker 75 So we'll do that now.

Speaker 107 You've been deduced. There you go.

Speaker 4 Jamie Buell in Vista, California, 6006 small boobs. And Baronet Tess Salty in Manchester, New Hampshire, $58.56, which is $55.55 plus the fee.
By the way, when you send a check-in, the fee is $0.15.

Speaker 4 That's right. Brian P.

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Speaker 4 Asbury, New Jersey, $5,856. Sad puppy donation, that's what that is.

Speaker 5 Okay.

Speaker 4 And what do we have here?

Speaker 110 Whoops, I just over-scrolled.

Speaker 4 Marnix Cart in Den Haag, Netherlands, 55.55.

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Anonymous, 55.

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Speaker 4 Tom Ross in Sylmar, California, 5328.

Speaker 4 And he's got something.

Speaker 4 He likes the newsletter, likes the tip of the day, likes the jokes, but he says less bickering. It's only 65% funny.

Speaker 58 Wow, that's a passing grade on the bickering.

Speaker 38 And he sent you a copy of Dvorak's Guide to PC Telecommunications, and he wants you to sign it and return it.

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Speaker 4 Dame Courtney, Chicago, Chicago. She's in Chicago, 51.25.

Speaker 4 ITM May Day May Day.

Speaker 4 It's the donation she can afford.

Speaker 5 Yeah, you put that in the newsletter.

Speaker 197 That was the 551, and she put 25.

Speaker 94 That was the May Day donation. Don't you remember?

Speaker 4 You set this up. Yeah, 51.2.5.
That's the May Day donation. In fact, we have a bunch of May Day donations.

Speaker 4 I'm going to read them one after the other, just name and location, starting with Michael Chauvin, who has no location. Michael

Speaker 4 Ragus in Tustin.

Speaker 4 Dame Lacey, and she's in Lake Mills, Wisconsin.

Speaker 4 Fair Volt Tea.

Speaker 4 Fair Volt Tea in London, England.

Speaker 45 Yeah.

Speaker 63 Send us some

Speaker 4 tea company. I don't know.

Speaker 244 Yeah, it's a tea company. Send us some tea.

Speaker 4 I go for some tea. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Scott Riley in Meridian, Idaho.

Speaker 4 John Aiken in Babson Park, Florida. And last on the list is Dame Rita in Sparks.
She's a regular.

Speaker 4 Great newsletter and shows, she writes. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Joseph Wentzel in Dawson, Georgia, $51.

Speaker 4 He lives in small.

Speaker 21 He says, I love what you cats talk about.

Speaker 35 Keep chumming it up.

Speaker 4 He works at a big box store. Yeah.

Speaker 4 And now we got the $50 donors. I'll just go run through them, name and location, starting with William Hammer in Hagerstown, Maryland.
Leaf Thompson in Meridian, Idaho.

Speaker 4 Bobby Bow, Bobby Bow in Bluegrass, Iowa. Comfort King.
Comfort King in Valley Springs,

Speaker 4 South Dakota. Joshua Johnson in Omaha, Nebraska.
Scott McCarty in Lodi. Jordan Tierney in Oral, South Dakota.
Got the South Dakotans in today. Tony Lang in Castle Pines, Colorado, C.

Speaker 4 Jones in Safety Harbor, Florida. And last on our list is Leslie Walker.
She's in Roseburg, Oregon, and she loves us. Okay, that'll be it for today's show, 1760.

Speaker 186 Yes, she says she loves us.

Speaker 25 May the Lord bless us.

Speaker 45 Thank you. All right.

Speaker 14 Thank you very much, all of our donors, $50 and above.

Speaker 129 We will not read anything under for reasons of anonymity.

Speaker 14 So we see you $49.99.

Speaker 21 We appreciate it.

Speaker 50 And of course, all of those sustaining donors, if you go to noagendadonations.com, you can make a donation of any amount.

Speaker 42 We love the numerology, as you can tell.

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Speaker 158 And thank you for the explanation.

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Speaker 152 And we actually have a Baron coming up who did just that.

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Speaker 20 And once again, NoAgendadonations.com. It's a birthday birthday.

Speaker 160 Very short list, along with Willie Nelson, of course, to celebrate yesterday, and Wert Fuller, April 29th.

Speaker 89 Jessica says, happy birthday to John Dale.

Speaker 20 He turns 50 on May 2nd.

Speaker 97 And finally on the list, happy birthday to Rick Labanca.

Speaker 8 Happy birthday for everybody here, the best podcast in the universe. It's your birthday.

Speaker 76 And now we have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten people who took advantage of the final, final moment of the Commodore shit.

Speaker 78 This means that when you go to noagendarings.com and you give us the actual name you would like on your certificate of being a Commodore, we will take care of that for you.

Speaker 45 We have Commodore Anonymous Black Sheep, Commodore Scott Horton, Commodore of the Human Resource Producers, Commodore Mark of Crow Wing County, Commodore Sir Milkman of Ebington, Commodore Zach Zeddock Brown III, Commodore SDG, Commodore Brock Reinhold, and Commodore John Tucker, Commodores arriving.

Speaker 45 Woo! Good list.

Speaker 80 Very good list.

Speaker 109 Here's that layaway Baron who will be knighted today, Sir Tom.

Speaker 98 He is from the well, let me read his note.

Speaker 50 I was originally hit in the mouth by Fabian of the Linux Outlaws, and after 11 years, I finally achieved the title of Baron through monthly donations of 3333 and a care package of bratwurst and other meats back in 2021.

Speaker 42 I don't remember the, I think John hoarded all the brat worse than meats.

Speaker 47 Yes, everyone can do it.

Speaker 4 And this is from Nemachek.

Speaker 4 I don't know.

Speaker 4 I don't remember.

Speaker 89 But he goes on to say, yes, everyone can do it.

Speaker 17 You too.

Speaker 58 You can do it too.

Speaker 76 The Peerage Committee has approved carving out the Area Code of 920 with Sir Ten T, Duke of Federal Reserve District 7's Protectorate.

Speaker 17 As such, I request a title change to Baron Tom, Warden of the Frozen Tundra.

Speaker 18 Go, Pat, go.

Speaker 54 Keep up the great work, gents.

Speaker 35 11 more years.

Speaker 164 Tom G from the Bratwurst capital and we're going to knight him right now so get your blade out we definitely need to have a nice blade for him because he's a good one

Speaker 5 so all right then

Speaker 8 Tom G step on up very proud to pronounce the KD not only as a knight of the Noah Gender Roundtable, but as Sir Tom, Baron Tom, Warden of the Frozen Tundra.

Speaker 8 For you, my friend, we have Hookers and Blow, Ren Boys and Chardonnay, Prostitutes and some nice wine.

Speaker 9 We have Harlis and Haldahl, pepperoni rolls and pale ales, redheads and rise, beers and blunts, cowgirls and coffin varnish, Rubenesque, women and rose, geishes and sake, vodka, vanilla, bongheads and bourbon, sparkling cider, and escorts, ginger ale and gerbils, breast milk and pablum, and of course, as always at the round table, mutton and mead.

Speaker 6 And congratulations.

Speaker 152 Tom, head over to noagendarings.com.

Speaker 50 Let us know where you want us to send your ring.

Speaker 58 There's a ring sizing guide on the website, so make sure you have the right size.

Speaker 9 It comes with two sticks of dynamite.

Speaker 33 Oh, no, two sticks of wax.

Speaker 177 With that, you can seal your important correspondence, and as always, with a certificate of authenticity.

Speaker 35 And thank you for becoming not just a knight, but a layaway knight and baron of the No Agenda Roundtable.

Speaker 105 No Agenda Meetups

Speaker 105 Dynamics.

Speaker 45 Well, the meetups are

Speaker 241 still huge, as you can imagine.

Speaker 152 They take place all over Gitmo Nation, around the globe, really.

Speaker 15 People love doing them.

Speaker 13 They are producer-organized.

Speaker 95 You can go to noagendametups.com, find some near you.

Speaker 65 There's a calendar, there's a list, and we love it when you send in meetup reports, but it's getting a little bit out of control.

Speaker 102 So keep it short, please.

Speaker 14 There's only one today, so I don't mind playing it.

Speaker 60 This is the meetup report from Chicago.

Speaker 53 What's up, y'all?

Speaker 125 This is Eli the Coffee Guy hanging out here. Reggie's having a blast with everybody.

Speaker 16 Peace out to Baron NBS

Speaker 125 getting out of shy town. I don't blame you, brother.

Speaker 5 But it's still a great city. Look!

Speaker 22 Yo, it's Andrew here from the UK.

Speaker 272 MI6 has come out here to represent. And yeah, no, it's a real fucking pleasure to be out here.
And yeah, MBS is looking kind of shocked to get past the mic after that.

Speaker 6 Not a serial killer, Kate, here.

Speaker 45 Oh, this is sir.

Speaker 131 Darth Penguin of Loctucky enjoying the in-the-morning career,

Speaker 273 staring lovingly into Eli the Coffee Guy's eyes because he's a handsome devil. But all glory to Nick MBS for escaping Chicago and going to more beautiful pastures.
Their vassal total terror.

Speaker 273 All right, God bless.

Speaker 5 In the morning.

Speaker 163 And this is certainly not

Speaker 131 woke.

Speaker 163 We are here at Reggie's in Chicago. The only venue that has been good to us.

Speaker 115 They have been good to us since the pandemic when we had our first meet up here. And passing it on in in the morning.

Speaker 233 In the morning, John and Adam, this is Baron NBS at the Escape from Chicago meetup. I'm wrapping my time up here in Chicago, and it's been a wonderful time here in Chicago.

Speaker 233 Hanging out here with Eli, Alex, and some random, very fine people.

Speaker 119 In the morning,

Speaker 16 hey, this is Blake.

Speaker 163 John, we're in trouble. There's a lot of cheap guitars in Chicago.

Speaker 273 Hey, all economic indicators aside, this is Sir Brian with a Y.

Speaker 65 We are fixing an imposter.

Speaker 273 We are fixing an imposter. Oh my god, Adam, I am so sorry.

Speaker 272 We're living up in Chicago again.

Speaker 273 If you live nearby, come to the next meetup. We have a bunch of them in the morning.

Speaker 161 What's up, Noah Gender Nation?

Speaker 53 This is KJ6QDT.

Speaker 161 Just happy to be here for my first meetup, hanging out with NBS.

Speaker 1 Wish them best of luck.

Speaker 160 And yeah, we'll see you all on Noah Authority.

Speaker 189 All right, this is Alex, ITM.

Speaker 118 this is dame courtney sit here saying farewell to nbs we will truly miss you in chicago

Speaker 5 in the morning anyway

Speaker 45 uh alcohol i'm telling you that keep it tight people and where's the server i missed that i'm gonna have to scold you a little bit

Speaker 17 Meetups happening today.

Speaker 92 The Northern Wake Public Slave Gathering, 6 o'clock at Potluck Hoppy Endings in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Speaker 74 The South Austin Slaves Meetup tonight at 7 in Little Woodrows in South Park Meadows in Austin.

Speaker 36 Hope you RSVP'd because you had to.

Speaker 92 Tomorrow, the Tri-Cities Washington six-week cycle meetup, 7 o'clock at Ty's Bar and Grill in West Richland, Washington.

Speaker 14 On Saturday, the first No Agenda splash-up.

Speaker 33 That's the spring edition.

Speaker 21 That'll be 1 o'clock Dutch North Sea time.

Speaker 49 And that'll be in Schefeninger, the Netherlands.

Speaker 90 Schrefeningen.

Speaker 32 You have to RSVP to find out where it is.

Speaker 15 Arno's organized that.

Speaker 14 The Sonoma Wino Country meetup on Saturday as well.

Speaker 129 Version 7.0 at Old Cas Beer in Roanoke Park, California.

Speaker 38 And on Sunday, our next showdown, Hot Meat and Freedom Flames Brussels Backyard Barbecue.

Speaker 39 Woo!

Speaker 90 That's at 4 o'clock in Brussels in Ezell, I-X-E-L-L-E-S.

Speaker 41 Make sure you go to that one.

Speaker 54 And I want meetup reports from everybody one minute or less.

Speaker 168 If you want to find all the meetups available, they are all around the world.

Speaker 11 You can find them at noagendametups.com.

Speaker 9 If you can't find one near you, start one yourself.

Speaker 8 It's easy and always a party.

Speaker 5 Sometimes you want to go hang out with

Speaker 110 It's like a party. It's just like a party.

Speaker 127 Now is the time we select our end of show ISO, a rare occasion today where we both have one.

Speaker 35 It's a one-on-one matchup.

Speaker 99 I don't think I'm going to win.

Speaker 4 Well, then play yours.

Speaker 193 Wait, you have 11 seconds

Speaker 58 how can yours be 11 seconds I don't think it is it says 11 seconds is

Speaker 235 probably something wrong with the clip another

Speaker 4 having issues

Speaker 147 yeah appears to be let me I'm gonna play yours now but and then I'll see where we can find you might have two of them back the beggars another fabulous show what more can I say what what is this another fabulous show what more can I say another fabulous show what more can i say another fabulous show what more can i say another fabulous show another fabulous fabulous show.

Speaker 213 What more can I say?

Speaker 213 Another fabulous show. What more can I say?

Speaker 129 So that's you trying five different versions of AI.

Speaker 45 It's the first.

Speaker 4 And of course, I shouldn't have recorded the whole thing, but the second one is the one I wanted.

Speaker 213 Another fabulous show. What more can I say?

Speaker 45 Yeah.

Speaker 131 Boom.

Speaker 155 Yeah.

Speaker 58 Well, you've given away your ISO secrets here.

Speaker 16 I know.

Speaker 4 It was a huge blunder.

Speaker 47 Yes, it was.

Speaker 76 Here's mine.

Speaker 113 Yo, yo, yo.

Speaker 102 What up?

Speaker 4 No, you already did that one.

Speaker 45 No, it's a brand new one.

Speaker 18 It still stinks.

Speaker 8 There we go, everybody. It is time for the tip of the day.

Speaker 6 At least John can't mess that one up. Here we go.

Speaker 5 Cream fast for you and me. Just the chip of JCD

Speaker 5 and sometimes Adam.

Speaker 178 Created by Dana Bernetti.

Speaker 4 All right, we're back at wine and food. One more tip.
This is a website that I use a lot, and

Speaker 4 it's a cheap trick.

Speaker 185 You're buying wine.

Speaker 72 Yes.

Speaker 4 We're buying wine. We want to know if the wine's any good.

Speaker 45 What are you going to do? What are we going to do?

Speaker 4 If you go to wine and change.

Speaker 64 Can I just say something?

Speaker 56 I am getting complaints.

Speaker 17 Sir Gene recently was at a dinner, texted a picture of the wine list to you.

Speaker 14 He says, John no longer responds.

Speaker 4 I missed it.

Speaker 45 I always respond.

Speaker 17 The phone was in the drawer.

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I'm sorry, Gene. Okay.

Speaker 4 But generally speaking, I take care of this. Okay.

Speaker 4 Wine-searcher.com.

Speaker 112 Ooh.

Speaker 4 This is a huge, monstrous database of wines and all the reviews and all the stores that sell the wine.

Speaker 5 Wow.

Speaker 4 So you get a look at the one, you put you put a wine at the top, you know, say Chateau Montrose, 1990. Yeah.

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Speaker 4 And it gives you summaries of the reviews. And it gives you star ratings.
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Speaker 32 I have Seller Tracker the app.

Speaker 4 Yes, Seller Tracker the app, which is a way of, which is amateurs

Speaker 4 rating the wines.

Speaker 45 That's correct.

Speaker 27 It's amateurs rating the wine, taking pictures of the label.

Speaker 127 The label goes, oh, it should cost you this much.

Speaker 32 Yeah,

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Speaker 4 It's dynamite. This is a godsend for anyone who buys wine.

Speaker 35 And do you recommend this 1990 bottle you just mentioned?

Speaker 65 Is that like $8,000? What is that?

Speaker 4 1990 Mantros?

Speaker 58 Yes, what does that cost me?

Speaker 4 Oh, it's it's not cheap.

Speaker 35 But it's the one that's the top of your mind.

Speaker 29 It makes me wonder.

Speaker 104 Well, it just came up to Tip.

Speaker 59 Yeah, because, you know, John.

Speaker 41 I had it once in my life.

Speaker 35 I'm thinking about Andres in a box, and John's like, oh, the Mantros 1990.

Speaker 150 Yeah, that's what I'll have.

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