1760 - "Mercenary Spyware"

you have three.

Holy crap.

Adam Curry, John C.

Dvorak.

It's Thursday, May 1st, 2025.

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

This is no agenda.

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

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

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

Dvorak

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

has anyone ever said this in real life

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

And it found me well?

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

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

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

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

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

LinkedIn has become a spam network.

Nobody likes LinkedIn anymore.

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

I've got to close everything down.

I can't accept any more connections.

It's a mess.

They really hoard that.

Once Microsoft bought it, they hoard that thing out.

They made it bad.

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

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

That's all that AI is good for.

Spam,

deep fakes, humor.

Humor.

Humor.

Yes.

And some Python coding.

Okay, I'll give you that.

You some PHP scripts.

All right.

Dynamite.

Dynamite.

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

It came in this morning over the transfer.

Breaking, breaking, breaking.

Breaking.

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

Out.

As well as his dead deputy Alex Wong.

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

I'm Harris Faulkner.

You are in the Faulkner focus.

I'm in the Faulkner focus.

Oh, no.

State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce is also with me.

I love this.

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

This is exciting.

Tammy.

She's been on a lot.

You just haven't seen her.

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

Breaking.

Breaking.

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

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.

I wonder which Tammy will get.

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.

I mean, Jennifer has given us the news.

Top line.

Now,

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?

Probably the most succinct explanation that explains everything

right off the bat, the top line.

And this is why we have no career.

We have no career in broadcasting.

The opening.

The opening.

The headline.

The lead.

The lead.

The headline.

From the State Department perspective, Tammy.

Well,

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

Here's what I can tell you.

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

Oh, a little laughter in there.

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

When it comes to national security for the country.

Well,

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

What is it with a laughter, Jamie Bruce?

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

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.

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

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

Blah, blah, blah.

This is so disappointing from Tammy Bruce.

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

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

He has hands-on walls.

What was he doing?

I don't know.

He was touching it.

At every department, every day,

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

She gives us nothing.

What kind of top line is that, Tammy Bruce?

The disappointment of the century.

We loved you.

We loved you on Fox.

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

We loved you.

No.

No.

Okay.

So let's do some propaganda.

That mission was done well.

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

Oh, the Houthi bombing.

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

That mission was done well.

It was completed well.

And I think it's worth stating that.

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

But the actual mission that President Trump wanted worked out very well.

Your last quick thought, we'll move forward.

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

Nothing.

Nothing.

Yeah, I think that's it.

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

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

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

So you've got major successes, economically and otherwise, as inflation goes down.

It is a historic first 100 days.

It has been aggressive.

It's been exciting.

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.

Complete and utterly

crap.

Propaganda was.

That was terrible.

That was a bad performance.

It was

disappointing.

Disappointing, Tammy Bruce.

I have a feeling that was the Laura Logan spot.

I think she was supposed to get that spot.

I don't know why she didn't.

Laura Logan would have done a better job than that.

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

Because it's 100 days.

Now, just before we move on, I received.

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

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

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

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

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,

which I think is Continental United States.

And what's OCONUS?

Oh, Continental United States.

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

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

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

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

WhatsApp is only used by rear detachment Air Force units.

Get in the back, you WhatsApp people.

By the way, Michael Strickars is a douchebag.

A douchebag.

Just throw that in.

He says he turned me on to you in 2019.

He doesn't donate.

So he's a douchebag.

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

So this is all on its face, bull crap.

But clearly someone had to go.

And I guess today we now know it is Walt.

Your thoughts.

Well, Waltz and Wong.

Well, Wong was the problem.

That's what everyone said.

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.

Yes, and Wong was the problem.

I think they set him up.

I think this could have been a setup to get rid of him.

Yes, he's annoying.

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

with trade talks with the Chinese.

To get Sum Ting Wong back?

Because Sum Ting Wong.

Sometting Wong?

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

So let's get rid of those two guys, and we'll start to talk.

And I think they may have been sacrificed.

Set up, set up to begin with.

Yeah, set up and set up.

And then sacrifice it.

The excuse will be

long.

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

Even though it is a required app,

which makes me question the signal even more now.

Yeah, CIA.

It's got a back door, obviously.

It has to have a back door.

It must have a back door.

Sure.

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

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

Congratulations, sir.

This is where you say congratulations.

Congratulations?

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

the scale.

President Trump, the first 100 days

continues.

It continues.

The first 100 days.

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.

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

No, I think 100 Days has been around.

It has.

Well, they're milking it.

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

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.

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

Over.

Over.

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

Military personnel to assist border patrol.

30,000 beds.

in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal, illegal aliens.

The U.S.

will take over the Gaza Strip.

We'll own it.

Air Force One is currently flying over the recently renamed Gulf of America.

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

The Department of Government Efficiency moves to revamp and shrink the

little drum

roll in the background.

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

A dictator without elections.

Zelensky better move fast.

Should I run again, you tell me.

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

Into Ukraine warning.

You're not in a good position.

You don't have the cards right now.

Tariffs, you know, they're all set.

They go into effect tomorrow.

Hopefully, we can get a ceasefire from Russia.

There were nearly 200 who were sent to El Salvador.

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

Details of the U.S.

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

I don't know anything about it.

We have to have Greenland.

This is liberation day.

The United States will implement reciprocal tariffs.

We've been meeting with China.

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

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

America is back.

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

Because all they would have for the montage is

dignity.

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

He became president in 1980.

He was re-elected in 84.

Yeah.

Right.

Do you remember the Morning in America campaign?

Vaguely.

It's morning again in America.

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

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.

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

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

It's morning again in America.

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

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

It's morning in America.

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

It's a new day.

The sun is rising.

The birds are singing.

And things are returning to normal.

It's norming in America.

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

All over America, pronouns are being dropped from bios.

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

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

People are saying master bedroom.

And look at that.

White people are reappearing in commercials.

Oh, and guys,

we can save guys

again.

America, the fever has has broken.

Now we can be sensible, nicer, and normal.

Join us.

And let's never go back to those weird, angry, divisive times again.

It's norming in America.

That's right, baby.

Have a great norming.

You hear?

Same PR team.

Clearly.

It's norming in America.

It's very funny.

I like that.

I thought that was good.

That brings me immediately to a nutball clip.

Okay, are you on the mic, man?

Are you talking?

Are you spitting in that stuff?

Yeah, I hope so.

I'm going to jack you up some more.

Jack me up.

The opening show things right themselves.

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

What kind of clip?

This is the ranting lunatic chick.

Wait a minute.

You're going straight to TikTok?

Can we do this this early in the show?

Can we handle it?

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

You know what?

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

What I'm going to say right now.

Clash out?

Crash out.

Clash out.

I like that.

Crash out.

Crash.

Crash.

She said crash out?

I thought it said clash out.

I think she said crash out.

Crash out, crash out.

You know what?

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

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

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

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

I literally will.

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.

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

We have to do something.

I'm not paying my debt.

You can join me on this or you cannot.

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

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

and

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.

This is what we need to do.

This is what we need to do.

And if they don't meet our our demands,

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

But for right now, stop paying your bills.

Stop paying your debt.

We're going to start there.

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

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

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?

What does it matter, bro?

Literally, what?

I want Doge at office.

We're done with him.

We're done with him.

And free health care for all people.

I'm so dead serious.

Guys, we're done with this.

I love that she called herself delusional.

That is some.

That's a bipolar episode.

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

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

You have to see her.

She's pretty serious.

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

It's all an actress.

Well, she's a pretty good actress then.

Well,

she got on the No Agenda Show.

I'll give her that.

Yeah, she did.

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

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

Yeah, it's norming in America.

People are calling

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

Yeah.

And they're calling for a general strike,

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

Oh, they're getting ahead of the game.

They're front-running the strike.

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,

a dual celebration.

Today is May Day.

And what is May Day?

May Day is workers.

It's the Workers' Day.

This is the day of

the working man.

What?

It's Communist holiday.

Yeah, Communist holiday.

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

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

and he just could not stop talking.

It's called counter-programming, man.

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

It's National Day of Prayer.

It's counter-programming.

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

Workers Unite.

Pray.

Pray.

Anyway, it is 100 Days.

It's also a show day.

It is a show day.

Of course.

It's a triple threat.

It is Workers' Day.

It is National Day of Prayer and a show day.

What more can you do?

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

days.

The 100-day excoriation of the media.

Yes.

And most of this was about

Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

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.

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

That he not be sent back to El Salvador.

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

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?

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

should not have said that, should not have said that.

And just to understand,

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

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?

This is not an innocent, wonderful gentleman from Max.

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

It's about the rule of law.

The order from the Supreme Court

into our country illegally.

You could get him back.

There's a phone on this desk.

I could.

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

Call up the president of El Salvador and say that.

That could.

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

But the court has ordered you to facilitate that.

I'm not the one making this decision.

We have lawyers

who want to do this.

But the buck stops.

I follow the law.

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.

The Supreme Court says what the law is.

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

But this, I chose you.

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

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

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?

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

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.

I campaigned on that issue.

I've done an amazing job.

I have closed borders.

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

It would never happen.

Well, it happened, and it happened very quickly.

Wait a minute.

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

And here comes the bone of the contention.

The tattoo.

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

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

There's a dispute.

Wait a minute.

Wait a minute.

He had MS-13 on his knuckles.

He had some tattoos that are interpreted that way.

But let's move on.

Wait a minute.

I will Terry.

Terry.

Terry.

He did not have the letter MS-13.

It says MS-13.

That was Photoshop.

Photoshop?

That was Photoshop.

Terry, he had it then.

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

You know, you're doing the interview.

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

I picked you, Terry.

But you're not being very nice.

He had an MS-13 tattoo.

We'll agree to disagree.

I want to move on to something else.

Terry.

Agree to disagree.

Do you want me to show you the picture?

By the way, that is the lowest of the low outs.

I agree to disagree.

I know.

I hear it on podcasts all the time.

You and I, we just fight.

We never agree to disagree.

It's like, you're right.

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.

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

Well,

that's who cares.

Terry, but you're not being very nice.

He had MS-13 tattoos.

We'll agree to disagree.

I want to move on to something else.

Terry,

do you want me to show you the picture?

I saw the picture.

We'll agree to Photoshop.

Here we go.

Here we go.

Don't Photoshop it.

Go look at his hand.

He had MS-13.

He did have tattoos that can be interpreted that way.

I'm not an expert on them.

I want to turn to Ukraine.

No, no, no, no.

I want to get to Ukraine.

No, no.

No, no.

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

It's photoshopped.

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

In El Salvador, they aren't there.

But let's just go.

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

Take a look at it.

They're there now, right?

No,

they're in your picture.

Terry.

Ukraine, sir.

He's got MS-13 on his knuckles.

All right.

Okay.

We'll take a look.

It's such a disservice.

We'll take a look at this.

Why aren't you just saying?

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

It's contested.

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

He should just take the L.

It was photoshopped.

Now, there's two pictures.

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.

No, no.

It is MS-13 on his knuckles.

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

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

That's the Photoshop.

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

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

They showed that picture.

That's the Photoshop.

I wonder if that's Photoshopped.

Yeah, it is.

It's obviously if you look at it carefully,

the letters are too clear because the symbols mean MS-13.

That was the idea.

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

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

I think that's Photoshop too.

They could both be Photoshop.

But yes, the symbols stand for MS-13.

Yeah, that's all there is to it.

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

Well, that was beat up.

Apparently, there's another report that came out this morning where he also did something.

He also beat his wife into,

there's some other beating that took place.

It's more part of this whole thing.

More beatings.

Yes, you are listening to the No Agenda Show.

Still ahead.

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

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

So that was big from the M5M this week.

100 Days.

What's happened?

100 Days.

100 Days.

100 Days.

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.

Oh, this is with Hog?

The Hog Kid?

Oh, no, the Hog Kid's not that interesting.

I thought the thing I thought that was interesting was the sit-in.

Yeah,

that started on Sunday.

We saw the sit-in start live on Sunday.

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

Which, holy mackerel, I didn't clip this correctly.

I can tell by looking at it.

Do you have the name of it?

Yeah, Congress sit-in.

Okay.

Oh.

It's okay.

We'll roll with it.

We'll figure out what's going on.

Let's see what we have.

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

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

This is one of those moments where we have to step up more as leaders in Congress.

We are in a moral moment.

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.

In this moment.

Congressional correspondent, Nicole Killian, joins us now from Capitol Hill with more on this.

Good morning to you, Nicole.

Senator Booker there kind of ended that speech and everyone standed up.

There was kind of like a roarous applause around him.

I didn't hear any roarous applause on the clip.

Did they forget that?

There was some applause, but stand, the guys,

he said they standed up.

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.

I've been standing up all the time.

Why do this?

Why conduct a sit-in protest on the weekend?

And from what you can tell, did it resonate?

Well, I think a couple of things.

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.

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.

Okay, you stop the clip.

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.

They have to be interrupted.

They leave very few openings openings because

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

She

stood and.

There was no way of cutting the

unclippable uncle.

An unclippable wench.

Yes, she's no good.

She's no good.

An unclippable wench who can't stop talking.

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.

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.

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

Megan.

What is it?

Do I have it here?

Megan Hayes.

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

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

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,

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.

From Minnesota, if you can't tell.

So

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.

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.

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.

The DNC is an institution with a job to do.

People vote in primaries, not the DNC.

Are you sympathetic to his arguments at all?

No.

Then don't be part of the DNC.

Well, what about the idea that there should be

absolutely there should be primaries.

People should be primarily.

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.

Oh, interesting.

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

But when you see her,

her mouth goes all weird when she talks.

That was disappointing.

No, that's interesting.

Kelly Evans on CNBC has

a funny mouth thing.

The worst case example of this

is a preacher called Robert Tilton out of Texas.

Not familiar.

And

he's be a televangelist.

He's on TV all the time.

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.

It was very odd.

His words.

And then they brought on this just short Ro Kahana.

Ro Kahana.

Which is just fun to say.

Ro Kahana.

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.

You are one who has actually publicly supported the effort from David Hogg.

You wrote on the platform X

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

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

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

Ooh, you rebel.

Well, look, I think primaries are healthy.

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.

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

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.

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

This was such a mistake to bring this Jamoke in.

I have no idea how that happened.

He must have come with money.

Who?

Hogg.

No.

This was just purely craziness from the Democrat Party?

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

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.

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

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.

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.

And it turns out that that vice chair that he is is a voluntary job.

He doesn't get paid anything, he says.

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

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

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.

The old man was.

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

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

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

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

or how they could prevent it from happening again.

Our Iberian co-bureau chief Ashlyn Leng is looking at this story.

Ashlyn, what do we actually know?

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

We are also seeing an intense discussion about the merits of different power sources.

Spain is and Portugal are big renewables producers.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

So we continue with this Reuters report.

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

Well, that is the big question: whether it can happen again.

We've heard energy analysts saying that this could indeed happen again.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

So I contacted our dude named.

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

He knows, and particularly cybersecurity, zero cyber attack.

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.

Yeah, there's some clips that are available.

I mean, there's a lot of visual

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

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

I love this term.

I understand it immediately.

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

Yeah, so it can go down to wires.

And because

these renewables do not provide stable

power

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

We have about

40 million people here.

They lost 15,000.

So

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.

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

That dropped out.

Everything went to crap.

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

It is insane.

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

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

It's so bogus.

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

The cause may be something called induced atmospheric vibration.

Yeah.

What a cry.

A rare phenomenon where weather changes affect power lines.

This is a lie.

And this is just the beginning of this nonsense.

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

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

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

So,

this, it doesn't work.

It's not a good idea.

Nuclear is not inverter-based.

It's AC.

It's renewable.

That's what they should be going to.

But no.

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

And they're going to keep lying.

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

Brings me to my two climate clips.

Boom, Shakalaka.

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

crazy comment about the weather causing the whole thing.

The climate hysteria debate.

Is there hysteria in the international

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.

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.

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.

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner responded.

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.

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

Debate, yes.

Okay.

Yeah, this is

interesting how these things are starting to fall apart.

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

Is it a Lada?

No, no one knows what a Lada.

What is

an Edsel?

Operating an Edsel on a country road.

No Autobahn.

No, a pedal bike on a

pedal bike on the Autobahn.

No pedal bike on the Autobahn.

Pedal bike on the Autobahn.

There you go.

That's what it is.

A pedal bike.

I like it.

A pedal bike on the autobahn.

Nice.

Okay, it's part two.

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.

What?

What is she saying?

What is this?

Is this another misclip?

I think you meant to start it here.

Hold on a second.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Pyle disputed this and said it will be expensive.

Over the next five years,

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

renewable energy subsidy schemes.

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

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.

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

when he was still the

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.

The world's coming to Glasgow.

Let's reshape finance for a sustainable world.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

You demanded it.

You demanded it.

You want the net zero.

Nobody demanded it.

No, you demanded it.

You wanted the net zero world.

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

Canada, you're next.

How are your renewables doing?

It's going to be great.

It's going to be great.

Might as well get into this.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

He wanted Kearney to be able to do it.

He implied that he did.

Here's some proof.

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.

Well, I think we're going to have a great relationship.

He called me up yesterday.

He said, let's make a deal.

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

almost immediately.

He's a very nice gentleman, and

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

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.

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

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

I actually think the conservative hated me much more than

the so-called liberal.

He's a pretty liberal guy.

No, I spoke to him yesterday.

Couldn't have been nicer.

And I congratulated him.

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

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

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

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

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

We're talking to China.

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

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.

And according to NPR,

Trump really did get him elected.

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

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.

Kearney defeated Conservative Party leader Pierre Polyev.

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

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.

It all becomes clear.

clear.

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

that explains Trump's behavior in general.

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.

You can't be too sure.

You gotta be very clear.

The female girl, yes.

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.

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

Did you listen to this?

I'm sorry.

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

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.

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

She does smaller deals but successful deals.

She's the QVC lady.

That's what she is, QVC girl.

I watched him walk into a situation,

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

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.

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

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.

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.

And I watched him.

I thought he was so off.

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?

I'll tell you what his masterful mind does.

He is a genius

at picking out the vulnerability of someone's personality.

He can smell it, sense it, and trust it.

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.

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.

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

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

The young blonde is the QVC.

Yeah, yeah, I saw this clip.

And I thought, that makes total sense.

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

And

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

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.

Saskatchewan has had a rare earth processing facility since 2020.

So they do a lot of this.

More, I mean, I have a ton of

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

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.

Two months on, relations are slightly warmer.

And just before we recorded this podcast, they finally reached an agreement.

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

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.

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

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

So I thought CBS actually had a that was BBC.

CBS had a better report

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

Give us your minerals.

We'll protect you.

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

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.

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.

Tony, yes, good morning.

They're in breakthrough here.

While this deal does not explicitly say that the U.S.

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

U.S.

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.

Details about this deal, though, are slim, but it centers on U.S.

access to Ukraine's vast resources under its soil.

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.

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.

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.

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.

But importantly, Russia has not commented yet.

So let's talk about the Ukrainian rare earths.

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

Okay.

Ukraine.

Yep, gotcha.

A Ukrainian official is in Washington today.

The U.S.

and Ukraine just signed a deal on rare earth minerals.

Here's more.

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

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

President Trump wants to use Ukraine's minerals as a financial guarantee for the aid the U.S.

has been sending to Ukraine.

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.

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

It's been brutal.

But Ukraine's prime minister says the agreement won't include the money the U.S.

has sent so far, only future aid.

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

They'll be buying it, I believe, because

these rare earths in Ukraine, according to Reuters,

they don't really have an operational mine.

They don't really have rare earths.

Exactly.

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

That's your big, big thing.

Of course, it's all a chaos and

geological data is hardly available.

It seems like a bit of a mirage that.

But

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

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

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

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

So there is processing and even crazier.

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

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

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.

MP Materials has humble beginnings.

We acquired this site in 2017.

It had eight employees.

It was in care maintenance.

Nobody believed that we could compete against China.

But we focused on execution and we slowly, methodically, over time, rebuilt this.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

So that's in California.

What's the name of this operation?

I've even heard of this.

Mountain Pass Materials.

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

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

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

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.

We might be actually after their oil.

More more than likely.

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

Um,

so things are moving.

And if they get the peace deal, they we can get the rare earths if we want them from Russia.

Russia already offers it.

Yeah, no, we can get it easy.

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

You do it, Canada.

Yeah, you want to be net zero here?

Take this nasty stuff.

Do it.

Do it, do it, do it.

Yeah.

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

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.

Is that of any real use, the magnet?

I mean, it's obviously a

motor.

Yeah, for all kinds of stuff.

It's an extremely powerful magnet.

Oh,

we need some magnets.

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

Your finger gets crushed.

You're done.

Your finger gets crushed.

This is a story that's been brewing.

It's been very hard to get

done.

You're done.

Your finger's done.

Mom!

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?

Let me see.

Is it from, yes, Africa news.

Here goes the show.

Yeah, here goes the show.

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

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

This is just a short clip about what it is.

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

aerosol injection or chemtrails.

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

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

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.

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

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

for vulnerable people around the world.

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

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

Listen to this guy.

Listen to what he says.

Celsius.

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,

cause excessive flooding in other places.

Sounds exactly what's been happening to me.

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

So

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

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

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

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

Phil show.

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

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.

Is there a question?

You got a question?

Yes.

How do we stop it?

That is not happening in my agency.

We don't do that.

It's done,

we think, by DARPA.

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

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

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

We're bringing on somebody who's going to think only about that.

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

Oh, Bobby, he's a kook.

He's a kook.

He believes in chemtrails.

They put

jet fuel.

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

Yeah, that's a bad theory.

Why?

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.

That was not in the last 25 years.

Well,

no, no.

Well, chemtrails have been talked about way longer than

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

astrontium barium and no i there's something to this

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.

Kerosene.

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

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

Blue skies,

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

No,

I think this is for real.

Okay, well, you can think what you want.

We can agree to disagree.

Chemtrails.

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

You think that's bad?

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

It's okay.

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

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

I was hoping you were going to do student loan.

Oh, the student loans, yes.

Everybody wants student loans.

TikTok clips.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Who was that at the end?

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

It sounds like Reagan, exactly.

I was like,

similar voice patterns.

Probably a milieu thing.

So here's part.

Now, the part two is

this was

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Is the question.

They have to repay them.

That's what they have to do.

Are they going to have programs to refinance?

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.

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,

free money.

Let's just jack our tuition up.

And, oh, they get even more free money with the higher tuition.

Well, let's jack it up even more.

The amount of

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

It is unbelievable what a scam this has become.

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

Their endowments are huge.

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

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

It was probably more, but let's just...

say that's the number.

And that's tax-free.

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

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

What's happening with that?

I think BlackRock's got most of that.

That's the scam, if you ask me.

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

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

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.

Where's their fair share?

For a start, yeah.

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

All of them do.

All of them.

It's that to me is a money scam.

Those endowments is a tax avoidance system

for mega-elites.

It has to be.

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

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

gender studies diploma,

poly psy,

you know,

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

If they owe $100,000, that's low.

It's cheap, yeah.

So, well, that's good.

That's not getting enough attention.

That endowment scam is a problem.

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

Which one?

The one where she's going on about

there's a bunch of them.

Which one are you talking about?

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

Oh, it was a slip-up.

She's saying she's a man.

She's saying she's a man.

Oh, I love that clip.

Here it is.

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

No.

But I thought that clip was

terrific.

It's obviously chopped off.

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

This is the best.

This is a very funny clip.

Big Mike is a man.

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

Absolutely.

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

So the video is the best.

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

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

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.

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

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

Just so proud of how

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

Absolutely.

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

You know,

would you care to share that journey?

Well, I learned like,

and

their transition

really taught me what real unconditional love was.

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

When they went through the transition,

I actually went through the transition.

I went from denial to complete acceptance.

And it took me a week to get there.

Oh, only a week.

It's easy.

It's easy, parents.

Only a week.

Unbelievable.

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

You The text groups in Fredericksburg are exploding.

Big Mike, it's true.

JFK Jr.

is coming back next.

Fauci's mom was Mother Teresa.

She's a man.

She's a diamond.

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

You know,

you knew immediately it was like

it was clipped for that purpose.

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

play it out.

So I didn't have to even do it.

Of course I did.

Of course I did.

Good for you.

It's what I do.

Defending the woman.

Hey, we had a big,

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

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

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

That's not the real title,

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Several lawmakers lined up to speak against the bill.

Some said the bill is too vague and could face First Amendment legal challenges.

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

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

This is anti-American.

This is anti-Constitution.

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

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.

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

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.

So, this is,

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

I feel you should be able to do that.

It brings humor into the process.

I'm delighted with it.

And

you should put a disclaimer on it.

Total agreement.

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

You don't even know.

Screw the disclaimer.

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

May cause analykage, you may die.

And that's all you need to do.

you know.

Just at the end,

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.

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

Who cares?

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,

you have to be able to count as a politician,

unless you're being libeled, which is different.

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.

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

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

What's that in your mouth?

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's

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

That's all they're worried about.

AI, ma'am.

So I did some more vibe coding.

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

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

I've tried ChatGPT, Claude,

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

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

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.

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.

Grok actually

did pretty well,

but there's no absolutely no evidence of intelligence.

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

It can do all that.

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

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

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

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

And so it has no intelligence,

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

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

It's still all parlor tricks.

Have it write your Dvorak

substack.

You won't.

You'll throw it out.

I could probably have it do something and then I could edit it to an extreme.

I'd probably spend more time editing it.

Exactly.

That's it.

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

That's the point.

That's exactly the point.

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

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

It's no good.

Emojis.

Emojis.

Emojis.

Emojis.

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

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

Oh, man.

So

Ava Fleidingbruck.

Do you remember her?

Oh, your buddy.

She's not my buddy.

I've never met her.

Oh,

she seems like she'd be your buddy.

Well, she happens to be Dutch,

and she has the,

I'm Adam, she's Ava.

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

Well, there you go.

You two are meant for each other.

We're twin flames, I tell you.

Tina's rolling her eyes when she hears that.

So she posted a very interesting video about her iPhone.

And I need to share this because

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Secret services, you name it.

But what I do know for sure is that this is

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.

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.

So

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

She didn't know it.

They didn't say, hey, we've got your phone.

We saw what you did.

Send me a Bitcoin.

None of that.

I think she is being used to infect other people.

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

Well, there is a page.

Apple does.

I'm looking at it now.

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.

And there's a long lecture here.

How do you get it?

It's not a phony deal.

How do you get it?

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

I'm trying to find out because they're very wordy.

This has obviously been written by AI.

No, Apple intelligence, probably.

Not AI, Apple intelligence.

Which is worse.

Yes, it is.

According to public reporting and research by civil society organizations, technology firms, and journalists, individually targeted attacks

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.

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

it's in the drawer as we speak.

Mercenary spyware attacks are ongoing and global.

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.

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

It goes on and on.

Here's what I think.

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

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

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

It doesn't do nothing.

However,

coincidentally, yesterday, Tina comes in.

Oh, my God.

You won't believe what happened to David.

So what happened?

Said someone

took over his phone.

He no longer receives his own text messages.

That's part of how he noticed it.

They stole his identity.

They created a driver's license.

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.

They unfroze the credit.

How do you unfreeze the credit?

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

And they had a driver's license.

They had associated

number.

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

Yes, he froze it.

He had it frozen.

Like most smart people, you have your credit frozen.

So you had his credit frozen.

They unfroze his credit.

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

So they cloned or whatever they did.

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

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

Let me on the text messaging system.

Okay, here you go.

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

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

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

Oh, at least somebody's got taste.

Mercedes was okay with him.

The Porsche people

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

And that's how they found out about it.

But the Mercedes deal was done.

So your phone is a threat vector of epic proportion.

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

And just to complete the whole

spy grid,

sounding like Catherine Austin Fitz right now,

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

However,

the

camera,

the camera on

this phone is shit.

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

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

We have a crescent waning moon, I think.

It has to catch it.

It has to catch it.

Yeah, so it caught it.

Because

they're over your anyway.

They're just

all the time.

You don't get to see them necessarily.

It caught it, and it was just beautiful.

I'm like, oh my God.

Yeah, I've seen

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

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

And now, well, there's more coming.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Yeah, whatever.

So there's 600 kilometers,

but starlinks are lower, I think.

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

Well, let's find out.

Okay.

Consult the book of knowledge.

The book of knowledge is slow today.

Well,

I have to type something in.

I know, I know.

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

I know.

I'm using the regular keyboard.

I know, I know.

There's no threat vector against you.

You're clean, man.

You got no mercenary satellite.

Satellites are 342.

Okay.

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

Is that still good?

Doesn't seem like it's good.

But did you hear that?

8,000 satellites?

Yeah, I heard that.

That's a lot, man.

And, you know, everyone's also jacked.

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

Okay.

Talk about a threat vector.

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

Yeah, pretty much.

You'll be done.

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

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

I think we bring back ham radio for the kids.

It was much better.

You know, short bursts.

Yep.

And you can do what you can.

You can push a button.

You can send text messages to each other.

It looks cool.

You walk around school.

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

making a racket.

I don't know about CQ.

I don't know about CQ.

All right.

Do you have any more sequences?

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.

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

Well, yeah, let's,

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

Data, whatever, service, the U.S.

Department of Data Service.

Oh, that's the original name for Doge?

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

Yes, the United States Digital Service.

That is the original

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

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.

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.

Karen Moronsky-Chapman never saw her job as political.

She just wanted to make the government work a little better.

I joined USDS to help people,

to help American people to deliver better services.

She's a data scientist.

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

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

This is her first media interview.

A lot of what I was doing was trying to

bridge the different data silos across government and

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

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

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.

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.

And last spring, it broke in a spectacular way.

The Department of Education just found a calculation error on hundreds of thousands of student aid applications.

Forms failed to upload, pages led nowhere, students born in the year 2000 walked out completely.

It was chaos.

The FAFSA fiasco was pretty on par with like healthcare.gov.

Like, like it was pretty close to being a healthcare.gov situation.

Healthcare.gov.

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.

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.

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.

Hold on, she's still there.

This is the thing that's weird about this story.

Oh, wow.

Okay.

Let it go.

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.

So when the FAFSA fell apart in 2024, it was Karen and her team who stepped in.

They stabilized the site, unlocked access, and got students the aid they needed.

They've done this kind of work for the CDC, Social Security, education.

It's high stakes, high pressure, but Karen loved it.

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.

And for a while, it felt, well, safe, totally immune from the churn of politics.

Yeah, like technology is not political.

Like technology should be nonpartisan.

It doesn't matter who's president.

I'm here to serve the people.

But I was wrong.

Doge has proved that technology and its use can be highly partisan.

The Department of Government Efficiency is charged with rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse.

But when it made its way to the U.S.

Digital Services Department, it appeared to be taking an agency built to protect the government's digital systems and started doing just the opposite.

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.

Wasn't Kara Swisher's ex-wife in charge of it for a while, Megan?

Didn't she go there?

Not that I know of.

Yeah, I think she did.

I think she did.

And

was it Matt Cutz from Google?

He was there for a while, the guy who did Google search.

They had, you know, what they were doing is they were

the ones that were mining everything, getting all the data for Obama.

That's what those guys were doing.

I remember this.

We talked about it ad nauseum.

Ad nausea.

Ad nauseum, I tell you.

So

she doesn't like Doge.

Doge is Doge is weaponizing my department.

Is that the story?

I think she lost one of her friends or something, but to Doge, you know, that got fired.

I mean,

I can't really tell.

But she has a complaint coming up that is valuable.

I remember when I heard that they had right access to treasury, I was like, oh, my gosh, like you can break things.

They're not small things, trillions of dollars worth of things like social security and tax refunds.

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.

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.

They clearly don't understand COBOL when they were like, oh, there's 150-year-olds at Social Security.

Elon Musk talked about that during an interview with Fox.

The date games.

Pressure examination of Social Security.

And we've got people in there that are 150 years old.

Now, do you know anyone?

Is it 150?

I don't.

Okay.

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.

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.

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.

Well, we had that from our dude's name, Ben, the day after this story broke about the 150-year-olds.

Now, NPR is showing up with the story.

Six minutes' worth of story.

Yeah, this is pretty funny.

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.

You mean, why is there no birth date for these people?

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,

can learn COBOL.

It's one of the easiest languages to learn.

Why doesn't they just say to some junior guy says, I'm going to learn COBOL?

It's not a big deal.

That's why it's called a common business-oriented language.

It was designed to be used by schmucks.

COBOL Schmobol, just use Grok, baby.

I'm sure Grok does a great job at COBOL.

You're right.

It's common.

What was it again?

What was the acronym?

Common

business-oriented language.

Yeah.

It's a relatively simple, unsophisticated language.

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.

I like COBOL is for schmucks.

That is a t-shirt or a bumper sticker right there.

I mean, it's not for, you don't have to be a genius

to code COBOL.

That's the point.

Yeah.

But I'm still stuck on how come there are so many records in the system where they don't have a birth date.

What kind of system are you running over there?

Well, there's that.

All right.

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.

No.

I hope you give me some grace.

This is this is this preliminary stuff you're doing right now is already setting up the wall.

I think I can explain the stablecoin gambit.

Oh, I don't know if you can.

I mean, I don't, this is going to bore people stiff.

Well, I mean, would you rather play TikTok clips instead?

I mean, I did my.

I would, actually, yes, but

if you want to make the attempt, I don't know why you want to do this.

Because it's a critical.

You want to do it after the donation segment?

No, why would we do it after the donation segment?

Okay, I'll do it.

All right, I'll do it after the donation segment.

No, I'm just saying that because it's going to give us a low count.

No, I'll do it after.

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.

Oh, I'll save it.

Yeah, I can save it.

Okay, yeah, good.

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.

No, I think it's probably about 17 minutes.

Oh, my God.

Well,

it affects world affairs.

I'm just saying.

It will affect world affairs.

And we have to learn things about what is a Euro dollar.

Do you know what a Euro dollar is?

No.

We hear it all the time.

I have to look it up.

It's just easier to look it up, seems to me.

I'll look it up.

Yeah, okay.

Well, you do that.

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.

Oh, chills.

This morning, anticipation is building for new music from one of the greatest voices of all time.

Yes, eight.

I'm Grammy winner Barbara Streiser.

And she is dropping a brand new one.

Drop him.

And we dropping.

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.

It's a sequel to our children.

Why don't they use the term like you always use in the past?

Release?

Yes.

Release.

She's going to release a new album instead of she's going to drop an album.

Well, is that supposed to be hip or something?

That's what the kids are talking about, man.

You drop an album.

And by the way, they're so hip, they call the Hoosiers the Hosiers, which is kind of cool.

The Hosiers?

It's a sequel to her 2014 Platinum Certified album, and it's been more than a decade in the works.

She collaborated on the album with some of the best in the business, including Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Eric.

First off, two dead guys right at the top.

The best in the business.

Business, including Bob Darryl.

Barely.

Including Bob Dylan.

No, we all know.

We all know John Paul.

Bob Dylan's alive.

Dylan's barely alive, and we all know John buried Paul.

Stop.

Including Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney,

Ariana Grande, Mariah Carey, Hosier, and others.

Hosier.

The album comes out on June 27th.

All right, Babs.

I'm looking forward to that.

I'm looking forward to that.

Woo!

A new duets album just dropped.

No, she's not.

It's dropped.

It's dropped.

Big it up.

It's dropped.

Who saw this coming, everybody?

On the medical watch for you this afternoon, a newly found impact of vaccines on women.

Medical reporter Dina Baer is here to explain, Dina.

Lordis and Ben, vaccines for the flu and COVID can alter the menstrual cycle.

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.

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.

The cycle is

normal.

And there shouldn't be a reason for vaccine hesitancy based on the menstrual cycle impact.

We hammered this during COVID.

Yep, yep, yep.

And we got excoriated for it.

These bull crappy.

We never got it.

I did specifically.

We had a lot of people angry, and they all came back and said, I'm sorry, you were right.

It interrupted.

It disrupted.

It increased flow.

It became irregular,

like awesome, like crazy flow.

Yeah, the nurses were reporting.

But don't worry.

There's nothing to worry about.

Nothing to worry about at all.

Don't worry about it.

These people are ghouls.

And who saw this coming?

Researchers at the University of Virginia say a new study has proven safe and effective at desensitizing children.

Whoa, safe and effective.

You know, that's going to be a doozy.

This time, I actually believe it.

Safe and effective at desensitizing children to peanut allergies.

Yeah, UVA Health Children's researchers tested children by giving them increased doses of peanut protein.

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.

Researchers are calling for larger clinical trials to advance what could be a game-changing new treatment for peanut allergies in young children.

Oh, go figure.

For years, we've been, oh, you can't have any peanuts near my child.

My child was no good.

Whereas, if you just exposed the kid to peanuts, it turns out they're okay.

Hello, they were never exposed young enough.

That's always been the issue.

Yes, it's like so obvious.

People, where's Bobby the Op in all of this?

Yeah, that's what I like to know.

And where's the Epstein files?

Yeah.

I got some super cuts that'll round it out.

Okay, super cuts are always good.

I'm glad you have them.

Yo, you have three.

Holy crap.

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.

The strength that we have.

Sorry.

Is the moment flop?

The strength that we have is in this moment.

Listen to your constituents.

Center them in this moment.

But I can tell you that there are a lot of people that are watching his leadership in this moment.

This is the moment.

You know, I think about what's happening in this moment.

What's important is that we meet this moment.

So are these current Democrats the ones to meet the moment?

What do you want to see us doing right now in this moment?

And which Democrats are actually going to stand up against Elon Musk and Donald Trump in this moment.

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.

Well,

by the way, I think we played this one already.

In fact, I'm pretty sure.

Yeah,

this next one might be.

Did you talk about this one or the next one?

No, the in this moment.

We played the in this moment.

Yeah, the in this moment, but it was a flop.

Just the idea is that they're just repeating.

This is a flop.

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.

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

annoying overlays.

But this is another example of something that

was,

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.

Hi, I'm Fox San Antonio's Jessica Headley.

And I'm Ryan Wolfe.

Our greatest responsibility is to serve our Treasure Valley communities, the El Paso Las Cruces communities, Eastern Iowa communities, mid-Michigan communities.

We are extremely proud of the quality, balanced journalism that CBS4 News produces.

But we are concerned about the government trying to get irresponsible one-sided news stories plaguing our country.

Plaguing our country.

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.

The sharing of biased and false news.

False news has become all too common on social media.

More alarming, people are media outlets

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

exactly what people think.

And this is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

Yeah, I'm going to use these.

I'm speaking to the high school class.

Yeah, we should definitely use that one.

About propaganda.

Yeah, I'm going to show this.

And it's like, it's an embarrassment.

But they continue, and this is the latest one that I think this is pretty new.

This one I have not seen.

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?

Or they're trying to equate it with the Soviet Union.

I'm not sure.

But they're trying to get this word in there, and it's all the same jerks.

We begin tonight with the escalation in the president's crackdown on illegal immigration.

Today is dramatic escalation in the Trump administration's conflicts with judges.

With the Trump administration signaling a major escalation in its deportation efforts.

Today, an escalation in the Trump administration's battle with the judiciary.

Tensions between local and federal authorities over President Trump's immigration crackdown escalated today.

We begin this hour with a major escalation of the Trump administration's crackdown on immigration.

We begin with what appears to be a major escalation in the Trump administration's deportation efforts.

And what is a major escalation in the battle here in D.C.

over immigration and deportation?

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.

More aggressive moves, more escalation with the music.

Trump's escalation of his migrant verge.

This kind of escalatory action.

This is a dramatic escalation.

Escalation.

Escalation.

Escalation.

Escalation.

Escalation.

We've seen an immigration, an escalation, an escalation.

Wow, that's a good one.

I'm going to give you a borderline for that.

That was dynamite.

That was good.

Esculation.

I need the whole Sharpton thing.

This is an escalation of Trump.

The escalation.

I love him.

Call it a migrant purge.

Nice.

Migrant purge.

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.

John C.

DeVora.

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.

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.

Well, I don't know, man.

I think your super cut chased everybody away.

18.

You know, I think you.

I think the threat of you.

Oh, hold on.

Oh, no.

Oh, right away.

We lose the.

Right away.

Hold on a second.

That's crazy.

Right away.

The minute you started talking, it switched interfaces again.

Oh.

Can you hear me now?

I can hear you now.

I hear you.

Can you hear me now?

I hear you now.

You sound great.

I don't know what that is.

I don't know what that is.

Something's triggering it.

What?

The question is, what's triggering it?

Something.

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.

We've been doing it live for a long time.

We are in our 18th year, and the troll room is fun.

It's ephemeral because you can go in there and go,

troll, whatever, and it just scrolls right off.

And it doesn't matter.

Then you're just shouting into the void.

It doesn't really make any difference.

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.

I really do recommend it.

By the way, I think we talked about Pocket Casts last time.

And

so there's now a definitive answer from Apple that the donate button in the app is okay.

So everybody is now doing this.

They're adding

the donate button into their apps.

Apple said it's okay, so it's okay.

Yes.

Is that the way this works?

Yes.

If it's not okay, then the, oh, you have to use Apple Pay and we take 30%.

Don't you understand?

That was.

Oh, I see what you're talking about.

This has always been the problem.

And the app developers have always been afraid, like, oh man, my app will get rejected if I put this in there.

No, no, you can put it in there.

And it's great because then people are listening.

Oh,

I should support these guys.

Let me just look at my app that I'm already using.

Click, boom.

You can support us as part of our value-for-value method.

By the way, troublemakers abound.

We got an AI-generated note

from Mel Cooley, executive producer.

Did you see this?

Yeah.

An AI review of our show.

Urgent content review and advertiser feedback.

I think I did see this.

I didn't look at it, though.

Gentlemen, this memo requires your immediate attention.

Following the broadcast of episode 1759, we have received deeply concerning feedback from our key advertisers.

The response has been negative and, frankly, threatens our financial stability.

Specifically, advertisers have cited the following issues as problematic and potentially brand damaging.

The give on Asian media assassination tagline.

Did we use that?

I don't remember that.

I don't know what you're talking about.

I don't know either.

This was flagged immediately as insensitive and potentially offensive.

The lengthy and seemingly unfocused segments.

Did I get this email or not?

No, I don't think so.

I don't remember it.

So AI analyzed

our show, 1759, as an advertiser, and they hate it.

Several advertisers noted the extended period.

That proves our complete point.

Yes.

I'll read a few more.

Several advertisers noted the extended periods dedicated to topics like the Pope's funeral and the minouche of online hoaxes.

They feel the show lacked a clear through line, at times meandering, losing audience engagement, and by extension, the value of their placements.

The tapping me along discussion, while intended as analysis, the extended speculation on Trump's ambiguous phrasing.

Oh, by the way, that's interesting they brought that up.

Yep.

Because we know what it means.

Well, there's two versions.

Well, the version I believe to be the correct version is the golfing one.

Yes, I agree.

I think that's the right one.

Because he's a golfer.

Yes.

Tapping along as a golf term,

tapping, you know, putt, putt, putt, tapping the ball along slowly.

There is a second one, however,

from producer Andy.

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.

Yeah, I don't think that's it.

I like it, though.

I like the visual.

But I'm glad that the AI picked it up.

Because they picked it up as boring.

Yes, boring.

Now, wait, let's back off for a second.

Now, why was this sent in the first place?

Was it

what is the end game here of this sending this note to us?

Someone with...

We don't have advertisers, so it's got nothing to do with any real advertisers.

Is it some sort of a phony baloney

scam.

No, this is someone who thought they could find good use of AI.

Oh, and this is what they found.

This is it.

The extended listener donation segment.

Here we go.

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.

Advertisers are concerned that this extended segment reduces the time available for content and their messaging.

And then finally, tone and language.

Certain advertisers express discomfort with the overall tone, particularly the use of dismissive language like bull crap and jamokes and the some

well at least nailed it.

And the sometimes cynical and negative framing of news events.

They prefer a more measured and analytical approach.

And it goes on and on and on and on.

Wow, you got to send me that.

Yeah, I will.

There's even the AI then made a rap song out of it, which I will not bore you with.

No, you don't need that.

It's horrible.

It's just

crap.

So anyway,

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.

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.

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.

You're sending audience to him.

Okay, all right, I'm sure.

Because episode 1759 titled Eat the Babies.

I don't care about sending audience to Tim Poole one way or the other.

I know, but this is, I'm just giving you the feedback.

I'm giving you true.

I mean, if he gets an audience to get some recognition on this show,

maybe he'll log roll and give us a plug.

Log roll.

It's called pod rolling.

Pod rolling.

You pod roll.

You don't log roll.

That's so 2005.

It's pod rolling.

The artwork came to us from a well-known artist, Capitalist Agenda, and it was indeed the Beanie Boys, Beanie with the googly eyes.

Googly eyes is what made it work.

In his seat at the new media chair.

Oh, by the way, I had a.

Where do I have that?

There was a new guy in the new media chair.

Let me see.

Where did I have that?

And the new guy.

You know, that's an embarrassment being in that chair, it seems to me.

Well, the guy in it this time was Winston Marshall,

formerly

guitarist and banjo player of Mumford and Sons.

He's British.

And he now occupies this seat.

And I think this was also a setup bullcrap question.

Sorry, advertisers.

As

he was referring to the sordid state of affairs in his home country of the United Kingdoms.

In Britain, we have had over a quarter of a million people

issued non-crime hate incidents.

As we speak, there are people in prison for quite literally reposting memes.

We have extensive prison sentences

for

tweets, social media posts, and

general free speech issues.

Would the Trump administration consider political asylum for British citizens in such a situation?

Well, to your latter question, it's a very good one.

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.

Yes, please.

Asylum for the Brits, I tell you.

That was a setup question.

That was a thing.

So we know that that chair is specifically there for bullcrap.

It's the setup bullcrap chair.

Yes.

And, of course, everyone goes along with it.

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.

You look it over and you decide, yeah, I can do that.

Do I have to memorize it?

Yeah, you have to memorize it.

Okay, I can manage that.

Imagine that they said, okay, Curry, you're up.

You're in the new media chair.

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?

That's what I would do.

That way,

no, you're right.

I wouldn't.

You wouldn't do that.

You know it.

You're slobbering over there.

Hey, Carolyn.

Hey, Carolyn.

Anyway, thank you very much, Capitalist Agenda.

You're a unanimous winner.

Let's take a quick look at noagendaartgenerator.com.

Was there anything that had a lot of tapping stuff?

Yeah, no, that was so head and shoulders

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.

You like it, but it's so funny, you have to say.

You said specifically, it's the googly eyes that make it work.

It is the googly eyes.

It's definitely the googly eyes.

It's fantastic.

It was fantastic.

Yeah, no, capitalist agenda has skills.

He's got mad skills.

Mad skills.

And he's got the little tag with this new media on the earphone.

It's idiotic.

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.

It just had to make fun of him.

I mean, remember the Russian money?

Oh, yeah.

Who can you forget?

Anyway, we want to thank everybody.

We always thank everybody who supports us with $50 or above.

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.

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And anonymous black sheep, who I know the anonymous black sheep, sent me a note, actually.

And this is it.

Thank you for the awesome content.

I've emailed Adam off and on.

Adam, I'm a recent Christian and do a daily journal.

The company is called Daily, the company is called Daily Kairos, K-A-I-R-O-S.

Excellent product I recommend.

I'm a military contractor that embeds with Army and Marine Corps units.

This is the signal guy.

Signal is the app the DOD uses, end-to-end encryption.

I'd like to call out Michael Stirstarch, Steerscharch, which is who we called it earlier, as a douchebag.

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I didn't even realize.

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Hmm.

Another two sites in AFRICOM.

Another site added in the Pacific.

Unlike allegedly Pete Hegseth, there's no operational security being divulged.

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Dario.

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Wonderful.

Hey, John, I've got some stablecoin stuff I want to share with you.

Oh, I'm all ears.

So there is a bill in

Congress right now.

It is the stablecoin bill.

We'll talk about that in a minute.

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.

What is President Trump trying to do?

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.

government, specifically the Treasury, and I presume by osmosis, the Federal Reserve, is Tether.

And all you need to know about that is a stable coin is pegged to a dollar.

One stable coin is one dollar, and it is backed by U.S.

Treasury.

So this company, Tether,

they only have 40 people working there.

All they're doing is they're buying massive amounts of treasuries, short-term treasuries, so T-bills, American debt,

and they're making hundreds of millions of dollars based upon the interest rate.

And for every single dollar they buy in treasury, they make a stablecoin.

So it's really a way to make more U.S.

dollars of the digital kind.

And I've learned a lot about this.

And we're going to start with Planet Money.

So it's kind of a mainstream show from NPR.

And it has a little bit of talk about stablecoin and the Mar-a-Lago Accords.

Then there's what we've dubbed the weak dollar school.

Essentially, because people around the world use the dollar so much, that pushes up the dollar's value and actually hurts American exporters.

So the weak dollar school wants to see the American dollar devalued.

This school of thought is led by the chair of the Council of Economic Advisors, a guy named Stephen Myron.

More than half the world's trade is done in dollars, even when neither country trading is the U.S.

Simon boils the weak dollar school down to this.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Or alternatively, America could impose tariffs.

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.

You can see how it's something that appeals to President Trump.

It kind of intellectualizes his instinctual view that America has been wronged.

Okay.

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.

And therefore, our products, when we want to export them, are too expensive.

We're not like the cheap Chinese crap.

That's why I believe the temporary measure is these tariffs.

Now, what I've learned is, and I've heard this term so many times, euro dollar, I never understood what it meant.

The difference between the American dollar we have here in America and the Euro dollar is exactly that.

A Euro dollar is every dollar that is in banks or in financial systems outside the U.S.

And it's a lot of money.

And this money

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.

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.

Don't be confused by the Euro part.

If it's outside of America, it's a Euro dollar.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

We get, you know, that's an extra marginal dollar that's going into, you know, NVIDIA stock, and it helps everyone's 401ks.

There's such a thing in the DOD, the intelligence community, it's like a term of art, like adversarial capital, right?

And tracking adversarial capital is like a very important mission inside the United States government.

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

trade and investment.

They see it as a security issue, right?

Especially if you see some of these flows come with invisible strings attached, right?

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.

We've seen, you know, stories in Canada and Australia, even in the U.S.,

New Zealand, even Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, a lot of these countries that, you know,

are very much at the tipping point of where to shape strategic opinion among

key decision makers.

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.

Treasury.

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.

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.

If you want the dollar, that way, you get the stable coin, which basically is a little piece of a U.S.

Treasury, which equals a dollar.

And so here's Caitlin Long to explain the stable coin bill.

The stablecoin bill is going to create for the first time an endorsed differential between an offshore dollar and an onshore dollar.

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.

during the Cold War its dollars in a U.S.

bank because it was afraid they'd be confiscated.

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.

And to your point, it hasn't been in control of the Fed.

Well, the Fed has now rested control over interest rates.

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

is a company that

for all the

allegations around it related to money laundering, et cetera, et cetera.

Now, what's fascinating to me is

that Congress is about to ensconce this by saying, okay,

you can be an offshore issuer

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.

You have to, before you onboard a customer to a bank, you have to do all the know-your-customer and enhanced

customer information program

upfront.

FinTechs don't have to do that, and Lord knows an offshore company does not.

And that offshore company will be Cantor Fitzgerald, Lutnick's company.

They're the ones that are

hold all of the treasuries for

this tether stablecoin.

This thing is outrageously popular all across the world.

I didn't even realize how big this stable coin is.

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.

They're already doing it.

It's just on your phone.

It's back and forth.

And here's a quick clip about how big stablecoin, particularly Tether, really is.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It's a stunning number of users.

They're the biggest financial company in the world right now and just keep getting bigger.

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?

That is increasing the resilience of the U.S.

Treasury market.

And that is exactly the point.

And making the dollar strong as a currency and usable outside the U.S.

with the Euro dollar.

And we can then control our own interest rate because

LIBOR, the London Interbank offered rate, which was the standard.

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%.

LIBOR, we remember there was a big scandal with LIBOR in 2008.

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.

And so this is Bloomberg seven years ago.

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.

They were already talking about the SOFAR.

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.

Nobody is oopsie.

Isn't that what you say?

Oopsie.

So the Fed comes out with this new alternative to LIBOR.

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.

And then they discover, oh, we included some transactions we weren't supposed to be including.

I call it so far.

I thought that sounded better.

I've heard so fra, I've heard so far, I've heard so far.

So far, so bad.

So it's so it's it's kind of a case of better than devil.

You know, look, LIBOR, as we know, was not perfect.

In fact, it was far from perfect.

But this is, as you say, the alternative, and it's already gone wrong.

Two weeks in, and it's already gone wrong.

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.

So, all of the data for that two-week period is botched.

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.

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.

That's going to end in 2021 because the SCA and the UK have said that at that point it will disappear.

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?

This thing needs to be absolutely rock solid if it's going to convince people to migrate across.

It needs the derivative projects, which supposedly those projects are coming.

So this thing has migrated.

As of March 31st, 2025, the last LIBOR contracts, the last derivatives were finally all settled, taken care of.

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.

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.

President Trump talked about...

My fellow Americans, this is liberation day.

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.

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.

It's all backed by us.

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?

The biggest one is putting that into the regulated banking industry.

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?

Hell, stablecoins are faster, cheaper, more auditable, more programmable, safer.

from an IT security perspective, I would argue, for a whole host of reasons.

This is a game changer to push that into the green field of the traditional banking system.

So to wrap it up, I think the stablecoin gambit is to keep the U.S.

dollar as the strongest, most secure, backed by U.S.

Treasury's dollar everywhere in the world.

But we, through SOFR, will control our own interest rates.

It's a big, big,

long game gamble.

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.

And that's all I know for now.

How does this benefit bankers?

I believe that bankers, part of the SBA Rule 12, that bankers can now issue their own version of stablecoin.

And so

they can do whatever they want.

They like buying treasury.

So I'll buy a treasury.

I can issue a stable coin.

And I can issue it domestically.

I can issue it internationally.

I think that's where they come into play.

How would this differ from the olden days when the banks used to actually print their own money?

Well, the difference is at that point they had to have gold

to back their own money.

And now you have to have treasuries, which is probably just as wonky.

That's why I'm not sure it's a great idea.

I'm not saying it's a great idea.

I think it's what they're trying to do.

It just, you know, it's complicated.

I didn't even know what a Euro dollar was until yesterday.

We got a call from the government.

Shut up, Curry.

There you go.

That's my stablecoin presentation.

Okay.

It wasn't as bad as I thought.

No, well, thank you.

That coming from you is a huge endorsement.

I don't know about that.

There's the government.

Do you need to talk to him?

I'm going to go pick that up, but why don't you play the clip about the impeachment, the partial impeachment announcement.

Okay,

partial impeachment,

partial, impeach, impartial.

This is Congressman Shri Thanidar.

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.

The court said the wrongfully deported Kilmer Garcia must be allowed to return and receive due process.

Trump ignored it.

He ignored the Constitution.

He ignored the very checks and balances that keep our democracy intact.

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.

Article 1.

Obstruction of justice and abuse of executive power.

From denying due process to unlawful deportations, Trump defied court orders.

Is this a call you got earlier today?

On Is this a robo call?

The call I got was the

arborist canceling.

Oh, no.

And that's, I've been waiting months for this.

Well, you and me both.

Why would the arborist?

And so John has a lot of branches.

John has a branch which has been squeaking against his window for months.

Sometimes I can hear it if it's windy on the show,

but I almost always hear it after the show when I turn all the noise gates off.

I'm like, oh, man, that thing must be driving you nuts.

Well, it's only when you have a southerly breeze.

So anyway, so that's the guy.

He's a screwball-looking character.

I don't even know what he's thinking.

He's got a wig on, and he's like,

he really, seriously, he said, check this out.

And he went on and on.

He's got about eight points.

And it's, of course, going to go nowhere, but it's making a big scene.

And he sounds like

a moron.

Yeah, I would say.

But that's big news.

Big news.

Big news.

Big news.

Yeah.

Articles of impeachment.

Finally, someone did it.

Yeah, I was waiting for Al Green, but he didn't do it.

Yeah.

No.

Okay, TikTok.

Yay.

They're both short.

They're both under a minute.

Okay.

The dating app girl.

Dating app girl.

So I'm scrolling the dating apps earlier, and for the first 20 swipes, it's conservative, moderate, conservative, moderate, apolitical, nothing.

Conservative, conservative, conservative, conservative, conservative, conservative, moderate.

And to me, conservative, moderate, and apolitical, and nothing is all the same thing.

You all are MAGA.

So immediately, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

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.

It's because nobody wants to date them.

They don't make good partners.

That's why there's so many single ones out there.

All the liberals are taken.

Not all of them.

Obviously, there's some out there.

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.

Why do they always have to cuss all the time?

This cussing is unbelievable.

It's getting annoying.

It's very annoying, and there's nothing you can do about it.

They won't stop it.

No, they won't.

Here's another woman.

This one here is complaining about her time blindness.

No,

time blindness.

Which is my favorite topic.

Please, I'm time blind.

That's why I'm late.

We went through this several times in the past couple of years.

Yep.

So I just got yelled at for asking a very reasonable question.

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?

You know, and then the person I was with interrupted and acted like I was asking something else.

And then when we were done, they actually started yelling at me and saying that accommodations for time blindness doesn't exist.

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.

And then they're like, your stupid generation wants to destroy the workplace.

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.

And then I asked that person, how can you feel good about yourself upholding this kind of system?

And then to think, I'm entitled.

No, if people think it's okay to treat others like this, that's entitlement.

No, brother.

I like the way she reversed it.

There were reversed roles there.

You're entitled because you're on time.

Stop it.

This is not healthy.

I'm worried about you.

You should not be watching too much of this.

No, this is good stuff, guys.

Everybody loves it.

It's all engagement farming.

I don't believe any of these people is being honest.

Not a single one.

You think they're real?

I think they're all phony.

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,

since you played that thing about the stablecoin, let's play this clip.

This is Timu versus France.

Oh, Timu!

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.

Last year, 1.5 billion parcels, mostly from China, entered France, averaging just around $10 each.

Authorities are concerned with this trend, which poses a threat not only to local producers, but also to consumers.

On Tuesday, four French ministers unveiled a plan to tackle the flood of low-cost parcels from China.

To protect consumers, the government will triple inspections this year, checking product safety, labeling, and environmental claims.

It also looks to the EU to end end customs duty exemption for parcels under $170

to protect local businesses.

Yenri Voilon is president of the French Women's Prétaporte Federation.

Wait a minute.

Is France putting something equal to tariffs in place against China?

Is that what I'm hearing?

It's kind of what you're hearing, but the number I thought was interesting that in France, they're getting 1.5 billion

packages of cheap Chinese crap.

Chinese crap.

Nice.

He

He also says French fashion brands are unable to compete.

Every week, brands send me copies of counterfeit products made in China.

First, our designs are being stolen.

Second, the employees of Shane or Temu are being exploited.

They're paid a pittance and forced to work from 75 to over 100 hours a week, with barely one day off a month.

This is clearly unacceptable.

They also commit tax fraud by declaring under-reported sales figures.

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.

actions against such platforms.

It's totally ridiculous compared to what the United States is doing with $100 on each of these packages.

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.

And yet we're putting in place a small measure with barely 10% tax potential.

It's really amazing the junk, the cheap junk we have from China.

This microphone I'm using right now, cheap junk from China.

This Yeti Cup,

American Yeti Texas Company, made in China.

This bell, China.

This whistle,

China.

My Light Phone 3, China.

That's all from China.

And I look at the stuff and I go, do I really need all this stuff?

You know, do I really need it?

My guns are from, my guns are not from China.

My guns are not from China.

Yet.

We probably need to just have this story out for a moment because it's not really a big topic.

You know, there was a pretty bad

attack on on tourists there.

You know, Pakistan and India heating up, and here's the latest from Pakistan.

We start with the dispute between India and Pakistan following a deadly attack in Indian-administered Kashmir, which left 26 people dead last week.

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.

Pakistan's information minister says his country has credible intelligence that India India is planning to attack.

Pakistan open-heartedly offered a credible, transparent and independent investigation by a neutral commission of experts to ascertain the truth.

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.

World leaders have expressed deep concern and urged restraint by the uneasy neighbors who have fought several wars and who both have nuclear weapons.

Man, Led Zeppelin did songs about Kashmir.

Can these guys not just settle it finally?

What is so special?

Seems unlikely.

What is so special about the Kashmir region?

What is it?

What are they carrying?

Everybody thinks it's a fabulous place, and both sides think it's

fabulous.

They own it.

Well, what's so fabulous about it?

Does it get I don't don't know, I've never been there.

Does it have a beach?

No,

it should just be fabulous.

I don't know why they can't get it.

Well, we have Pakistanis and Indians in our

nation.

The explanation will be biased, and both we won't get, we won't find out anything.

Well, I'll take bias over nothing over this report.

Oh, but it's not going to die,

they're going to strike us.

Why?

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

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.

Kelly?

Yes.

Yeah.

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.

Go right on.

Go, Bill.

What a lot of people say.

And so he

was interviewed by

CBS Morning, and then

they had to clip some of her in there because she was being annoying at the interview.

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.

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.

She's Megan.

So this guy, Bill Belichick, has been in the news lately because his girlfriend, I think, is 50 years, a 47 to 50 years

difference between Belichick and is she mad about that is that the premise she's mad about the age difference

she doesn't express this but you know she is okay

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

and it looks weird

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.

That's my guess.

What?

Gambling?

I'm going to say it.

But anyway,

he gives this interview, and now it's starting to look much more like a Jill Biden situation.

That's all I could think of, you guys.

Like, she's like Dr.

On the sidelines, calling all the shots and like trying to decide what he can answer and what he can't in this interview.

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.

They try to do like nice stories, would even air.

The reason reportedly that they chose to air this one interruption of hers is because it was far worse than this.

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,

to be transparent, that they had this monster on screen left who was completely trying to control him.

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

jordan was a constant presence during our interview you have jordan right over there Everybody in the world seems to be following this relationship.

They've got an opinion about your private life.

It's got nothing to do with them, but they're invested in it.

How do you deal with that?

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.

How did you guys meet?

Not talking about this.

No,

it's a topic neither one of them is comfortable commenting on.

What?

And

it went on.

The portion I talked to you about, like, it went on and on to where it was very cringy.

You were like, oh, God.

Oh, Megan, how deep you have sunk.

Megan.

Why is she doing this?

She's the woman who was like the big political journalist, lawyer, and all she can do is show business stuff.

I'm sure it's great.

Well, we know the answer.

It's great for downloads.

It's great for views.

It's numbers.

This is why value for value is a much better way to do it.

You don't need numbers to survive.

You don't need to deal with these people who send us AI

analysis of the show being anti-advertiser.

I'm going to show my support by donating to no agenda.

Imagine all the people who could do this.

Oh, yeah, that'd be fabulous.

Yeah,

on no agenda

in the morning.

And to prove that, we are going to thank our donors $50 and above.

Yeah, we did pretty well today, so that was nice.

That was nice.

Very nice.

Hopefully, by

the big show coming up on Sunday, the Sanko de Mayo special.

Woo, everybody.

Yeah, that's right.

It is.

Marjorie Santelli starts us off.

She's in Kirtland, Ohio, 12345.

Ashen, Texas, in Flower Mound,

12121.

And that's an El DeBarge donation.

Thank you.

One person got my joke.

Thank you.

It's appreciated.

I guess.

Appreciate it.

Well, she's on the ball.

Connie Wolz Lucink

and

Heinenoord,

North Heinen,

Netherlands, 121.20.

And she got a long note there.

She's a big fan of yours.

Yes, I can see.

She's just a note for you.

You can't see it.

She says eggs are expensive over there.

Oh, this is a two.

Oh, she says, our eggs are 36 Euro cents per egg.

Therefore, I give you two dozen eggs donation.

That's a 12.12.

121.2.

121.2.

I like it.

The eggs donation.

Thank you.

Eggs donation.

Why not?

Yep.

Two dozen eggs.

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.

Yes, we have discussed.

It was a tip, tipofthay.net.

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.

A buff.

and it used to be called Buffy.

It's a beautiful red chicken and

huge.

And it's produces the chicken.

I've never said home chickens usually don't do this, produces jumbo eggs.

Jumbo.

How big are they?

They're huge.

It's a big, giant egg.

She says that the chicken makes a squawk every time she lays one.

It's all best.

Yeah, no doubts.

Poor

chicken.

Onward, sir by by his grace and get Buffalo Orpington's.

Sir, by his grace in Jacksonville, Florida, 111.22.

And he's also mentioned southeastern turf grass supply.

For all your grass agronomic needs.

Sir,

by the way, I know Sir Buy His Grace, and he's so worried about the tariffs.

He keeps sending me articles like, he's going to screw it up.

He's going to screw it up.

He's going to screw up.

I have to close my business.

It's going to screw up.

What's going to happen?

way?

Is he getting his turf from China?

No, I think his

pesticides, herbicides, all that stuff.

Yeah, he definitely gets stuff from China.

Sir KC9YJM 73 is 10535.

He wants a jobs karma at the end, if you don't mind.

Paul Summers in Bath, Pennsylvania, 100.

Jennifer Rain in

Snoqualamy, Washington, 100.

Sir F.

A.

N.

Beck in Schiffwood Forest, somewhere in the United States, 100.

Dame

Dame

Mela Melabation.

Melabation.

Metabation.

No, Mela.

Mela.

Melabation.

Malabation, okay.

In Colorado Springs, 100.

Kevin McLaughlin's up at DeConca, North Carolina.

He's the Archduke of Luna, Lover of American Boobs, 8008 the boob donation.

Rick LaBanca in Hope, Rhode Island, 7373s.

That's a

ham radio donation.

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

donation.

It was also 73s.

Better because

Brandon Locklear in Sugar Hill, Georgia, 7373s with his call sign K4QOL.

73s.

Ham donation, 73s.

Sir Chris Abraham in Arlington, Virginia, 7373.

And Sir Stickwater, 7340.

Slickwater.

You need a different font, Sir Slickwater.

Yeah,

I should.

There's got to be a default font.

Oh, please.

You've threatened to do this for years.

I don't do any.

Let's face it.

I'm a big talker, no action.

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Commodore 64 in Tucker, Georgia, which is 64, but he has the extra fee, 65.10.

Craig Kohler in Evansville, Indiana.

He's got 65.02.

My favorite donation for people that know what a chip is.

Jacob Alley in Wichita, Kansas, 63.31.

Jamie,

Jacob says he's been on a subscription plan, but never got a formal deducing.

So we'll do that now.

You've been deduced.

There you go.

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.

That's right.

Brian P.

Bellin in

Asbury, New Jersey, $5,856.

Sad puppy donation, that's what that is.

Okay.

And what do we have here?

Whoops, I just over-scrolled.

Marnix Cart in Den Haag, Netherlands, 55.55.

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Flenor?

Flenor in Palmyra, Michigan, 55.55.

Anonymous, 55.

Surprise night, surprise, night of astonishment in Yukon, Oklahoma, 54.44.

Tom Ross in Sylmar, California, 5328.

And he's got something.

He likes the newsletter, likes the tip of the day, likes the jokes, but he says less bickering.

It's only 65% funny.

Wow, that's a passing grade on the bickering.

And he sent you a copy of Dvorak's Guide to PC Telecommunications, and he wants you to sign it and return it.

Yes, I already communicated with him.

I will do that.

It's an instant bestseller.

Instant.

Anonymous, Oklahoma City, 5272.

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Eric Schmidt in Frankfurt, Deutschland, 51.50.

Dame Courtney, Chicago, Chicago.

She's in Chicago, 51.25.

ITM May Day May Day.

It's the donation she can afford.

Yeah, you put that in the newsletter.

That was the 551, and she put 25.

That was the May Day donation.

Don't you remember?

You set this up.

Yeah, 51.2.5.

That's the May Day donation.

In fact, we have a bunch of May Day donations.

I'm going to read them one after the other, just name and location, starting with Michael Chauvin, who has no location.

Michael

Ragus in Tustin.

Dame Lacey, and she's in Lake Mills, Wisconsin.

Fair Volt Tea.

Fair Volt Tea in London, England.

Yeah.

Send us some

tea company.

I don't know.

Yeah, it's a tea company.

Send us some tea.

I go for some tea.

Yeah.

Scott Riley in Meridian, Idaho.

John Aiken in Babson Park, Florida.

And last on the list is Dame Rita in Sparks.

She's a regular.

Great newsletter and shows, she writes.

Yeah.

Joseph Wentzel in Dawson, Georgia, $51.

He lives in small.

He says, I love what you cats talk about.

Keep chumming it up.

He works at a big box store.

Yeah.

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.

Bobby Bow, Bobby Bow in Bluegrass, Iowa.

Comfort King.

Comfort King in Valley Springs,

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.

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.

Yes, she says she loves us.

May the Lord bless us.

Thank you.

All right.

Thank you very much, all of our donors, $50 and above.

We will not read anything under for reasons of anonymity.

So we see you $49.99.

We appreciate it.

And of course, all of those sustaining donors, if you go to noagendadonations.com, you can make a donation of any amount.

We love the numerology, as you can tell.

Lots of different numbers.

And thank you for the explanation.

But the sustaining donations really do help any amount, any frequency.

And we actually have a Baron coming up who did just that.

Thank you, as always.

And once again, NoAgendadonations.com.

It's a birthday birthday.

Very short list, along with Willie Nelson, of course, to celebrate yesterday, and Wert Fuller, April 29th.

Jessica says, happy birthday to John Dale.

He turns 50 on May 2nd.

And finally on the list, happy birthday to Rick Labanca.

Happy birthday for everybody here, the best podcast in the universe.

It's your birthday.

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.

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.

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.

Woo!

Good list.

Very good list.

Here's that layaway Baron who will be knighted today, Sir Tom.

He is from the well, let me read his note.

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.

I don't remember the, I think John hoarded all the brat worse than meats.

Yes, everyone can do it.

And this is from Nemachek.

I don't know.

I don't remember.

But he goes on to say, yes, everyone can do it.

You too.

You can do it too.

The Peerage Committee has approved carving out the Area Code of 920 with Sir Ten T, Duke of Federal Reserve District 7's Protectorate.

As such, I request a title change to Baron Tom, Warden of the Frozen Tundra.

Go, Pat, go.

Keep up the great work, gents.

11 more years.

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

so all right then

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.

For you, my friend, we have Hookers and Blow, Ren Boys and Chardonnay, Prostitutes and some nice wine.

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.

And congratulations.

Tom, head over to noagendarings.com.

Let us know where you want us to send your ring.

There's a ring sizing guide on the website, so make sure you have the right size.

It comes with two sticks of dynamite.

Oh, no, two sticks of wax.

With that, you can seal your important correspondence, and as always, with a certificate of authenticity.

And thank you for becoming not just a knight, but a layaway knight and baron of the No Agenda Roundtable.

No Agenda Meetups

Dynamics.

Well, the meetups are

still huge, as you can imagine.

They take place all over Gitmo Nation, around the globe, really.

People love doing them.

They are producer-organized.

You can go to noagendametups.com, find some near you.

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.

So keep it short, please.

There's only one today, so I don't mind playing it.

This is the meetup report from Chicago.

What's up, y'all?

This is Eli the Coffee Guy hanging out here.

Reggie's having a blast with everybody.

Peace out to Baron NBS

getting out of shy town.

I don't blame you, brother.

But it's still a great city.

Look!

Yo, it's Andrew here from the UK.

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.

Not a serial killer, Kate, here.

Oh, this is sir.

Darth Penguin of Loctucky enjoying the in-the-morning career,

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.

All right, God bless.

In the morning.

And this is certainly not

woke.

We are here at Reggie's in Chicago.

The only venue that has been good to us.

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.

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.

Hanging out here with Eli, Alex, and some random, very fine people.

In the morning,

hey, this is Blake.

John, we're in trouble.

There's a lot of cheap guitars in Chicago.

Hey, all economic indicators aside, this is Sir Brian with a Y.

We are fixing an imposter.

We are fixing an imposter.

Oh my god, Adam, I am so sorry.

We're living up in Chicago again.

If you live nearby, come to the next meetup.

We have a bunch of them in the morning.

What's up, Noah Gender Nation?

This is KJ6QDT.

Just happy to be here for my first meetup, hanging out with NBS.

Wish them best of luck.

And yeah, we'll see you all on Noah Authority.

All right, this is Alex, ITM.

this is dame courtney sit here saying farewell to nbs we will truly miss you in chicago

in the morning anyway

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

Meetups happening today.

The Northern Wake Public Slave Gathering, 6 o'clock at Potluck Hoppy Endings in Raleigh, North Carolina.

The South Austin Slaves Meetup tonight at 7 in Little Woodrows in South Park Meadows in Austin.

Hope you RSVP'd because you had to.

Tomorrow, the Tri-Cities Washington six-week cycle meetup, 7 o'clock at Ty's Bar and Grill in West Richland, Washington.

On Saturday, the first No Agenda splash-up.

That's the spring edition.

That'll be 1 o'clock Dutch North Sea time.

And that'll be in Schefeninger, the Netherlands.

Schrefeningen.

You have to RSVP to find out where it is.

Arno's organized that.

The Sonoma Wino Country meetup on Saturday as well.

Version 7.0 at Old Cas Beer in Roanoke Park, California.

And on Sunday, our next showdown, Hot Meat and Freedom Flames Brussels Backyard Barbecue.

Woo!

That's at 4 o'clock in Brussels in Ezell, I-X-E-L-L-E-S.

Make sure you go to that one.

And I want meetup reports from everybody one minute or less.

If you want to find all the meetups available, they are all around the world.

You can find them at noagendametups.com.

If you can't find one near you, start one yourself.

It's easy and always a party.

Sometimes you want to go hang out with

It's like a party.

It's just like a party.

Now is the time we select our end of show ISO, a rare occasion today where we both have one.

It's a one-on-one matchup.

I don't think I'm going to win.

Well, then play yours.

Wait, you have 11 seconds

how can yours be 11 seconds I don't think it is it says 11 seconds is

probably something wrong with the clip another

having issues

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.

What more can I say?

Another fabulous show.

What more can I say?

So that's you trying five different versions of AI.

It's the first.

And of course, I shouldn't have recorded the whole thing, but the second one is the one I wanted.

Another fabulous show.

What more can I say?

Yeah.

Boom.

Yeah.

Well, you've given away your ISO secrets here.

I know.

It was a huge blunder.

Yes, it was.

Here's mine.

Yo, yo, yo.

What up?

No, you already did that one.

No, it's a brand new one.

It still stinks.

There we go, everybody.

It is time for the tip of the day.

At least John can't mess that one up.

Here we go.

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and sometimes Adam.

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All right, we're back at wine and food.

One more tip.

This is a website that I use a lot, and

it's a cheap trick.

You're buying wine.

Yes.

We're buying wine.

We want to know if the wine's any good.

What are you going to do?

What are we going to do?

If you go to wine and change.

Can I just say something?

I am getting complaints.

Sir Gene recently was at a dinner, texted a picture of the wine list to you.

He says, John no longer responds.

I missed it.

I always respond.

The phone was in the drawer.

It should be sent to my email if I'm there, but I could be watching.

I might be downstairs getting clips, or I could be doing a lot of things.

I'm sorry, Gene.

Okay.

But generally speaking, I take care of this.

Okay.

Wine-searcher.com.

Ooh.

This is a huge, monstrous database of wines and all the reviews and all the stores that sell the wine.

Wow.

So you get a look at the one, you put you put a wine at the top, you know, say Chateau Montrose, 1990.

Yeah.

And then it gives you where it's available, all the different prices from cheapest to most expensive.

And then you click on reviews.

It shows you all the known reviews.

And it gives you summaries of the reviews.

And it gives you star ratings.

And it even goes to Seller Tracker, which is a site that a lot of people think is great.

I have Seller Tracker the app.

Yes, Seller Tracker the app, which is a way of, which is amateurs

rating the wines.

That's correct.

It's amateurs rating the wine, taking pictures of the label.

The label goes, oh, it should cost you this much.

Yeah,

but it's got the Seller Tracker number in there, too.

It's dynamite.

This is a godsend for anyone who buys wine.

And do you recommend this 1990 bottle you just mentioned?

Is that like $8,000?

What is that?

1990 Mantros?

Yes, what does that cost me?

Oh, it's it's not cheap.

But it's the one that's the top of your mind.

It makes me wonder.

Well, it just came up to Tip.

Yeah, because, you know, John.

I had it once in my life.

I'm thinking about Andres in a box, and John's like, oh, the Mantros 1990.

Yeah, that's what I'll have.

There you go, everybody.

You can find John's Tip of the Days at tipoftheday.net or noagendafun.com.

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Just the tip with JCD

and sometimes at home.

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There you go, everybody.

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End of show mixes, a nice trip house little ditty from Nautilus K.

I think he may be new.

I don't think he's ever done a mix before.

And David Kecta checks in, our drummer.

Our drummer who's always doing mixes.

He's got a hot new girlfriend, I hear, so he's been a little sparse on the mixes.

And I guess I can conclude by telling you that I am still here in the picturesque little town of Fredericksburg in the Texas Hill Country.

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

And from Northern Silicon Valley, where I remain without an arborist, I'm John C.

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