1751 - "Talking Toilet"

Hey, I Can't Do Jack.

Adam Curry, John C.

Dvorak.

It's Sunday, March 30th, 2025.

This is your warden in Get My Nation Media Assassination, episode 1751.

This is no agenda.

Feeling puffy and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA, region number seven or six.

Good morning, everybody.

I'm Adam Curry.

And from Northern Silicon Valley, where we're watching Canada.

I'm John C.

Dvorak.

It's Craig Blotten Buzzkill in the morning.

So, this morning, one of our church ladies comes up to me and says, Adam, Adam, I have a question for you.

What's that?

Why do you always say FEMA region number six?

And I realized, there's a lot of people, and for some reason, that was in my head, and I said FEMA Region number seven just a minute ago.

I don't know what I was thinking.

And I realized that goes back to the Obama days.

Yeah.

Yeah,

I had to explain it.

People don't know what we're talking about.

I think a lot of people don't know what we're talking about.

That's what I told you.

Just in the general.

Most of the stuff, you probably don't realize what we're talking about.

Exactly.

No, it just takes stuff for granted.

We do take stuff for granted.

Hey, I had a dinner the other night.

I had a dinner, which was rather interesting, this dinner.

Well, I guess so, or you wouldn't have brought it up.

Well, you're always asking me after the show, you got any dinners?

Got any dinners?

You got any dinners coming up?

Yes, anything interesting.

Just me out of the house.

We need some dinner stories.

This was a good dinner.

The international arms dealer was there.

Oh, yes.

He didn't really have anything new, although the entire fleet of African C-130s is now being outfitted with glass cockpits.

But also there was the new CIO of the Department of Energy, who used to be on some kind of secret Doge team.

At the dinner at your house?

No, it wasn't at our house.

It was at one one of our friends' house.

It was like a 20-people dinner.

We do these dinners.

No, it's a big dinner.

It's a hill country get-together.

Oh, a gathering.

Yeah, and this is, now we'd never been to these people's home before.

A nice house, big house, you know what I mean?

Like big house, like Texas.

One of those Texas

Hill Country mansion houses.

And so the CIO,

he shuttles between his home here and Washington, D.C.

comes back for the weekends.

Now, he's given up.

I think he's taken a 300% salary cut or something, but he's a patriot.

And that's why he's doing it.

And so he's now

the CIO of the Department of Energy.

And he says, this place is crazy.

I said, what do they do with Department of Energy?

I said, well, that's a good question.

Well, you know, the Department of Energy owns Area 51.

You could have grilled him on that.

I didn't know that.

You should have prepped me.

I told you.

I mentioned it on the show before.

Because I had completely visited

Nellis and gotten in Vegas and I've gotten a tour of the place and got some training.

And

if I got to sit in on some training, it wasn't for me.

If we fly in the saucer, yeah, hold on to this stick.

And the guy mentioned, he says,

he just says one of these curiosities, you know, we've got nothing to do with Area 51.

It's owned by the Department of Energy.

I always thought that was interesting.

Well, good, because now I have something to ask him next time we have a hill country dinner.

And I said, you know, what do you guys do?

He said, well, that's a good question.

What do you do?

That's a good question.

Excellent question.

He was telling me about, you know, because he has a badge.

He's got a badge.

And so he shows up with his badge.

And they get.

Jimmy shows up with his badge.

He's wearing a badge on his jacket.

Well, that's what I said.

I said, I mean, well, a badge to get into the building.

He has a badge.

He's got a badge.

To get into the house for the.

No, no, in the Department of Energy, you fool.

Of course not.

Oh, so wearing a, one of the, he's wearing one of those badges around his neck or something?

Does he know that he's not in Washington or what?

No, no, I'm saying when he goes there, he was telling, he was relating a story to me.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I misunderstood.

Clearly.

So he, um,

so he has his badge and he goes to the front entrance and he gets two guys to escort him.

And he says, what is this about?

I said, oh, oh, no, sir.

You with that badge, you're the equivalent of a two-star admiral here,

which sounds impressive.

And so he goes on to tell you.

Do you have the badge on it?

Did you have a chance?

No, no, no, no.

It's like a little picture snapshot.

He says what they mainly do is they run 12 labs.

Labs.

Like, what do you mean, labs?

Well, all the labs.

What do these labs do?

Mainly military stuff.

And it's very unclear what these 12 labs do

they do stuff that has to do with energy stuff stuff stuff

yes he says mainly military and he says there was some oh no I forgot the name of it there was some organization some council inside the Department of Energy which I guess is gone now

and and they could in essence they were made up of military contracting companies and they could determine what stuff the labs would work on

this is a sweet deal these guys had going on over there.

So he said, well, we uh we we got in one week $380 million in savings.

Just chop some stuff up.

There wasn't, he says, we'll see what happens in week two.

It was unbelievable.

But the uh the cool thing about that was just just one of the minor brushes with greatness that I had.

So this this home where we were at, I had not met these people.

Well, yeah, I knew them from church, but I had, by the way, these are all church people.

These are the people.

Oh, they're all churches.

Oh, they're all churchies.

Oh, yeah.

No, this is my, this is my people.

It's my spiritual family, John.

And

so they moved from Houston, and it's a nice house.

You, you walk up to the house, and the house goes, You are now being recorded.

Hi, welcome.

What?

He does?

Yeah, you walk up to the house.

Actually, it's the other way around.

You're being recorded.

Welcome.

No.

Hi, you're being recorded.

So, anyway,

they had cameras all over the place.

Oh, yeah.

I say, so, hey, man, what do you do?

He says, oh, I sell data centers.

Oh,

oh,

so who do you sell them to?

The hyperscalers.

Oh, I got some questions for you.

And

he gets a free email account, that guy.

The hyperscalers are

the AI companies.

That's really who the hyperscalers are.

So his company builds data centers to sell them to all the AI companies.

And he was very open with me what's going on and why it comes at the end.

So I say, hey, is it true?

Because I heard about it.

And then CNBC, they were saying it wasn't true.

Is Microsoft canceling contracts?

He says, oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Plenty of companies are canceling contracts.

Okay.

I said, well, what is the problem?

He said, well, there's, you know, there's a little bit of a downturn in the expectation of what they'll actually need for

AI data centers.

And he says, the biggest thing is now that the training of the models turns out might be a lot cheaper based upon the deep seek.

See, all this got down.

The Chinese.

That's what my son tells me.

The Chinese thing has changed the way people are looking at this.

Well, it gets worse or better in my case.

So, you know, having your data center out somewhere, like at the oil baron's former ranch that he sold for $15 million, it was worth three just because he had a transformer there and there's no one around.

And I told him he'll be able to buy that ranch back for

pennies on the dollar.

It's going to come true.

He says the big problem is the training, it's fine.

You don't need to be anywhere and you can just be out in the middle of nowhere for training models.

But now that that seems to be slowing down or the expectations are much more limited, he says now people need inference.

Are you familiar with this term, inference?

Yeah, inference.

There's a thing called an inference engine.

Yeah, so that means when you need to query the system in real time, he says

it's no good.

It can't have latency.

It can't be too far away.

You need huge data pipes.

And he says you can't do that with a Starlink satellite.

It was fine for training the data, but now when you got to ship that data to end users, he says they're all in the wrong place.

And I'm like, okay.

So.

How much delay?

What amount of delay is acceptable?

I use these things.

If I have to wait five extra seconds, I don't care.

Hey, are you going to argue with the guy who's living in the big house from this stuff?

Or are you going to argue with the- The guy with the big house always waiting for me.

Don't argue with me.

You're being recorded.

He says, the good news is a lot of Bitcoin miners are stepping up and they're taking over those data centers because we have liquid cooling.

And so I'm like, Man,

do you care?

He says, oh, no, not really.

Why not?

Well, we got bought out by KKR and BlackRock

a while ago.

So everybody already got their money.

It doesn't matter.

They can blow that up at any time.

They don't care.

We don't care.

Everybody got paid.

Look at nobody cares.

Have you seen my house?

Nobody cares.

Have you seen my house?

He said, Nobody cares.

Nobody cares.

So I'm thinking, I'm thinking there's trouble on the horizon.

I said, well, how about quantum?

That he almost choked in his wine.

Quantum.

Quantum.

Oh, no.

Oh, no.

Well, anybody who's anybody knows it's what's what.

Yeah.

Well, and so, you know, you can take that to DH Unplugged, maybe.

Give your fans over there some

inside intel.

Well,

it's not a stock pick.

What's used for the...

Well,

the hyperscalers are a big stock pick.

No, they're bought by BlackRock and the other.

No, but he's not the hyperscaler.

He sells to the hyperscalers.

Yeah, but is he a public company?

No.

No, but the point, no, you have to understand, the point is

that when the picks and shovels aren't selling, that's the bottom of the mine.

Everything up on top is falling apart.

Take it all the way up to the top, up to Microsoft with their co-pilot.

Co-pilot.

How about Oracle?

Oh, no, but Dave Jones has used it because, you know, he works.

I've never used it.

Now that you mention it, it keeps cropping up.

I find it to be a nuisance.

Well, if you say, yeah, I'll try it, then the first thing it tells me is, oh, all right.

Well, you've got to have your OneDrive set up.

I'm like, okay, click close.

Yeah, this is classic Microsoft.

I'm not going to log in.

I am not going to log in.

No, Dave Jones works in

an accountancy firm, CPAs.

And he says, it never works.

Nothing works for anybody there.

They've said, okay, co-pilot, draw me a pie chart.

Okay, I'm done.

And there's no pie chart.

There's nothing.

It's just nothing.

It just tells you it did it.

It drew it in its mind.

It's a good bitch.

It drew it in its mind.

This is my homework.

It drew it in its own imagination.

It's dumb.

Well, then, let me get this out of the way since we got on this track just about AI, because I think this warrants a little bit of conversation.

I think this is a very interesting move.

Elon Musk just made an announcement on X that XAI has acquired X in an all-stock transaction.

It values XAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion.

Keep in mind, Musk bought X, when it was then Twitter, for $44 billion back in 2022.

For more, we turn to Bloomberg's Max Chaffkin, who covers all things Elon Musk for us.

So, Max, he suggests that the combined company blends XAI's advanced AI capability and expertise with X's massive reach.

Are you surprised by this one?

Well, in some ways, I'm surprised because we have this late Friday news in which one Elon Musk company is buying another Elon Musk company.

Not totally clear how they came up with the valuation.

In another sense, it's not surprising because these two entities, XAI and X, have been kind of operating like one company.

So X, which is the, you know, the name for Twitter that Elon Musk gave it, has this chatbot inside of it, Grok.

That Grok was created by XAI.

XAI is training off of data from X.

I know it's a lot of X's there, essentially all your social media data.

And it's also seemed like one of Musk's plans to make this Twitter acquisition pay off.

You know, he paid $44 billion and then promptly lost a lot of the advertising was to kind of pivot to AI.

So you did sort of think, how is he going to do this while having XAI as a separate company?

And I think now we have the answer.

Well, it was poor reporting by Bloomberg.

First of all, it was really $45 billion, but they carry over $12 billion in debt.

This is a great way to keep everybody hanging in there.

Hey, man,

your $44 billion valuation just almost doubled.

Congratulations.

Now you're a proud owner of XAI stock.

Nobody has any stock.

It's privately held.

No, of course they have stock.

It's internal stock.

He has like

40 shareholders.

40.

I thought there was only 10.

No, no.

It's a huge list.

Huge list.

That list is public.

This is the kind of creative accounting that you run into when you.

This is again an example of Musk.

He must have some

superstars.

Yeah.

He doesn't have to do that.

A guy that knows how to cook the book.

He doesn't have time to do this.

Someone else has to do this.

No, he doesn't have time to do anything.

But he found the guy.

The guy.

Hello, I'm the guy.

The guy

who can do this and that.

He's a juggler.

You know, he's going to, look at this.

Watch me act.

Watch this.

Look at this.

Whoa.

It just turned into two balls.

Woo!

It's amazing.

It's amazing.

And so he found a magician and he did his magic.

And there you have it.

But the best part of that report is that

X AI Grok is trained on X.

Oh, man.

How can that be any good down the road?

It's just going to be slop.

X is great.

I mean, it's also learning about those TikTok nut jobs that you always always bring clips from.

So it's learning all that stuff.

It's learning.

It could probably create a TikTok maniac.

This learning term, and I have one more clip here.

This learning term is a very tricky term.

It's not copying stuff.

No, no.

It's learning.

OpenAI is urging the Trump administration to loosen regulations on its industry surrounding one of the most controversial aspects, copyrighted material.

The tech giant submitted its proposal to the federal government Thursday, pushing the need for speed in AI innovation and to remove guardrails against tech companies, pointing to what it considers dangers posed for AI coming out of Beijing.

The proposal is part of OpenAI's efforts to influence the Trump administration's AI action plan, a tech strategy report initiated by an executive order from President Donald Trump and being drafted by the Office of Science and Technology Policy, which must be submitted by July.

OpenAI's push for influence comes after the Trump administration announced the company as part of its Stargate initiative, which gives billions of dollars to big tech for AI infrastructure investment.

OpenAI, however, is currently in a legal and PR battle with Elon Musk, who owns rival AI startup XAI and is one of the president's top advisors.

In its proposal, OpenAI expressed frustration with regulations that restrict large language models from learning from copyrighted content and expanded fair use material to train with

claiming it needs the freedom to innovate in the national interest and a voluntary partnership between the federal government and the private sector instead of overly burdensome state laws.

This is truly the only danger of these types of people running around in our government.

Is our president, he has no idea.

He trusts, he trusts, oh, yeah, it's great.

AI is going to run the world.

It's phenomenal.

It's just what could go wrong?

And it's crap.

Microsoft is not a dumb company.

When they say, yeah, I think we're going to chill out a little bit on this stuff.

Yeah, it's the same thing they do with the internet, I might add.

Oh, of course.

Well, at least, well, yeah, you're right.

But then maybe Trump will say, I invented AI, like Al Gore.

It's just.

And now OpenAI wants to broaden fair use.

Oh, okay.

Well, that's great.

Can I just play songs on the podcast?

Can I play songs on the podcast now just to broaden up the fair use

clause, which is already kind of open to interpretation?

It's like,

this is going nowhere.

It really is.

I know you keep saying that, but it keeps chugging away.

Well, okay, let's just presume it's really going somewhere.

It's really great.

Allow me to play a clip from our new CDC director, Susan

Menarez.

A lot of people are not happy with her.

No,

this reminds me of the situation with the, which I don't have any clips of.

I hear chimes again, John.

I'm hearing chimes.

You know, I just, I'm kicking it because I got my feet up on the desk.

Is it me?

Is it you?

Jesus is coming.

I hear chimes.

I can hear you.

Yeah,

probably for you.

So I got my feet up on the desk.

I'm leaning back in the chase.

And

I got the chime thing.

It's at the foot of my feet.

It's right there.

So I can kick it like this.

Yeah.

And it makes it ding.

But I'm using a highly directional microphone.

You don't understand.

Because we have a noise gate.

If it was there in the background the whole time, people wouldn't notice it that much.

But now, whenever you talk, you just hear these chimes in the background.

But

that doesn't change

attitude about this.

I'm using a highly directional mic.

The chimes are at the back end a mile away.

Well, you know.

And the fact that this mic is picking it up, it has to be a reflection.

You should be using the Curry One microphone.

Oh, I'm sorry.

You can't buy it.

So, no, never mind.

It's coming.

Yeah, it's coming.

Yeah.

So we're going to go back to the CDC director, Susan Monares.

This is when she was over at DARPA giving a little presentation.

What we can expect, I presume, from her as director of the Center for Disease Control.

We think about advancing AI for healthcare in a number of different facets.

So, some are direct to the patients.

What tools and what capabilities can we develop to help them really understand where they are in their healthcare journey?

Oh, my healthcare journey.

My healthcare journey.

Empower them to make great decisions.

We also think about AI from the provider side.

So, how can we help providers How can we better understand their patients?

What happened to doctors?

It's just providers.

It's just some stuff.

That's because a lot of the doctors have been pushed aside from

these nurses and

these other.

There's a second one.

Yeah,

injectors.

Nurse practitioner.

There's another thing that says assistance or something or other they use.

It's just dudes named Ben who press a button on the AI button.

Well, they don't know anything.

Well, they know how to press the button on the AI button.

Can we help providers optimize their time within the health system as they're seeing patients, as they're trying to make complex decisions to create the conditions for improved patient health outcomes?

Improve patient health outcomes.

How about I don't die?

Is that an outcome I can choose that option, please?

We also think about AI from the defensive side.

So we understand that there is a great vulnerability.

The defensive side.

It's the defensive side.

What?

What?

What?

What does that even mean?

Well, let's see if she explains it.

We also think about AI from the defensive side.

So we understand that there is a great vulnerability within the health ecosystem.

More and more is coming online in the Internet of Things that are going to have an incredibly positive effect.

All she does is buzzwords, the Internet of Things.

That's so totally different.

We tired this woman,

RFK Jr.

Well, he's got his head up his ass if he gave her a job.

But we also know it creates vulnerabilities.

And so we're using that same AI technology to help defend against those vulnerabilities, to anticipate the negative implications that are happening within the health systems.

Negative implications, like you died.

And to try to stay ahead of it.

Art the Age takes on the entirety of the health ecosystem.

It's not just a buzzword machine.

Yeah, internet of buzzwords.

Nothing.

No, it's the internet of buzzwords.

She's perfect.

Try to stay ahead of it.

Art the Age takes on the entirety of the health ecosystem.

It's not just

the entirety of it.

Biomedical research.

It's not just resilient systems.

It's not just investing in the tech of the future.

It is all of those.

And what we do is we actually go out.

It's all of those.

It gets better and better.

It is all of those.

And what we do is we actually go out and we seek these incredible innovators.

We call them our program managers.

Program managers.

Now there's a new

incredible innovators.

Yes, the program managers.

Not just an innovator, but they're

incredible,

incredible innovators.

They're great.

We actually go out and we seek these incredible innovators.

We call them our program managers.

We call them our program managers.

And they come to us and they say, you know, here are the big problems that we're seeing in the health ecosystem space.

The health ecosystem space.

The health ecosystem space.

Health?

The HESS.

Hold on a second.

What's the acronym for that?

Health ecosystem.

HESS.

That's not a good name.

We will fund anything across the health ecosystem so long as it helps further our mission, which is to improve health outcomes for everyone.

Oh, everybody, your health outcomes are going to improve.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

What a crock of crap that is.

I knew you'd love it.

It's great.

It's great.

This is the hold on us.

You played this as some sort of slam against AI.

She's got nothing to do with any of it.

Well, about the hype of it, it is murmuring about nothing.

The problem is, these types of people believe this stuff.

I mean, look, Queen Ursula is already talking about investing in quantum.

Oh, we need to have quantum systems.

You make me laugh.

She's taking European money and

blowing it away.

Burning.

Yeah, that would be one way of doing it.

I guarantee you this Susan Jamoke should be talking about quantum soon.

I can put it in the red book.

Quantum.

I don't have to put it in the book.

You're right.

Right now, you're right.

And where's Larry Ellison?

He's Mr.

Healthcare.

He should be talking about, oh, you know, we have to be prepared for COVID-19.

He's almost died.

I mean, the guy's, you know, accident prone, so he's like very health-oriented.

Oh, yeah, he crashed his plane and stuff, doesn't he?

Well, no, that he's gotten into a surfing wreck, I think.

He's out in the oceans all the time.

And he's just a couple of, he has had issues.

Well, speaking of wrecks, and then I'll get off the Elon stuff.

This report made me think of something that I remember as a kid.

Now, the lithium-ion batteries, like the ones in EVs, are completely changing how fire departments are responding to these emergencies.

I talked to an expert who is traveling all over the country training fire departments.

I think that this is probably one of the, in the fire service career, you know, decades, hundreds of years, this is probably the most challenging time for the fire service in history.

And it has barely even, we've barely touched it at this point.

So while these batteries have more power and they're lasting longer, the big concern is the design of the car and then if that battery is damaged in a thing like a crash.

These fires then end up burning faster and hotter as much as 2,000 degrees.

So firefighters are telling me that their top priority is pulling people out of the car.

Then it can take on average 5,000 gallons of water to put out one of these car fires versus 500 gallons for non-EV cars.

I asked Aurora Fire where you get that kind of water.

Fire trucks typically carry 500 gallons and if you're not near a hydrant, let's say you're in the middle of the highway or somewhere rural, that could mean rotating out engines or bringing in portable water.

And if there's one thing firefighters hope you take away from this is that a lot of EV car doors are electric and that can go out during a fire and then you are stuck inside.

There's actually a manual way to open up those car doors.

You just have to know where it is.

That information would be in your emergency guides.

Yeah, ask Mitch McConnell's sister.

I don't.

Well, that's the one thing about these cars I don't quite understand is why

do they have to make it so everything's electrified?

I mean, a mechanical door opener is.

It seems more logic, it's so practical because if the electricity goes out, you can't get out of the car.

Oh, yeah, there's some mechanism, but nobody knows how to use it.

I think it's pure cost.

I mean, what is the beauty of the electric vehicle is that it has

far less moving parts.

You just slap some of the things that are going to be a lot more.

Yeah, moving parts do cost more, but how much more does it cost?

Well, so that's the the question.

Five bucks, five bucks,

this is the question.

What is the cost of safety?

So now we all know, without a doubt, you crash your electric vehicle, you have a chance that not only will your vehicle ignite at 2,000 degrees, it can't be put out easily, and they'll have to have the jaws of life because you can't figure out how to open up your door.

And it reminded me of this.

In the 1970s, Ford's Pinto had a major defect.

The gas tank was prone to explode in rear-end collisions.

What made this controversial wasn't just the flaw itself, but Ford's internal cost-benefit analysis that revealed that it would be cheaper to pay off lawsuits than to fix the design, resulting in an estimated number of 180 deaths.

Do you think they've done the cost-benefit analysis of the battery igniting in electric vehicles?

I think all these car companies, all they do is cost-benefit analysis.

I think.

I don't know where you got that old clip.

I had to go look for one.

Well, I'll bet you did.

I had to search.

I had to search.

But yeah, they do cost-benefit analysis on everything.

That's probably why they don't have the mechanical door opener.

Right.

Although it is kind of cool, the thing comes out and everyone thinks everything's cool, but it's still dumb.

Yeah, well, it's not cool.

It's literally not cool if you're frying alive inside.

But that was such a big deal.

You just have one of those ping,

you know, that you have these things.

Yeah, the hammer, the hammer pin.

A little bitty hammer with a, with a piece of, it's got a little tip on it that's a that's with

a razor blade to cut your uh

your seat belt diamond tip yes

it's true it does that too because that because that's not going to unlatch either but but you're you're moving beyond the point

how can this was a huge deal in the 70s this was a big deal my grandmother had a pinto and he's like uh

you know

it wasn't that they were blowing up left and right but it did happen but it was the the as the clip just explained it was the fact that they said, well, it's cheaper just to solve the lawsuits than to fix the problem.

Yeah, I'm sure it is with these with these cars.

Now, the 50,000 gallon thing, what bothers me.

5,000, not 50, 5,000.

Or 5,000 as opposed to 500.

Yeah.

And it was a factor there of 10.

Yeah.

10.

So

is that if somebody, and I don't understand why this can't be done chemically, because it's a chemical reaction.

Flour.

I hear flour is a good way to put out fires.

I don't think it's good on this.

There's got to be some chemistry that you can employ that would put this fire out.

There has to be.

I don't think so.

These things are just, these are nuclear generators.

This is a lithium fire.

This is like sodium does the same thing.

Well, let's ask Grok.

I don't think Grok would know because I don't think it's in the literature.

What chemical compounds can extinguish

a lithium lithium ion

battery fire.

Answer the question.

Go!

Well, nothing.

Oh, wait.

Best compounds to extinguish lithium-ion battery fires, lith-X,

which is a graphite-based powder.

Lith X?

Never heard of it.

Never heard of it.

I think Grok is making something up.

Hey, it's another X product, Lith X.

It's got X in in it.

Must be something.

Class D dry powder extinguishers, which often contain sodium chloride or copper-based powders,

fire suppressant gels,

or tetrapotassium pyrophosphate.

Well, now you're talking that now sounds like something that would do something.

TKPP is what they call it.

Tetrapotassium

pyrophosphate.

Hmm.

What not to use?

Water.

CO2 or halon.

Halon, definitely not halon.

Anyway.

Well, the problem with water is that it, you know, like, for example, sodium, and they've talked about sodium batteries too, which are just explosive,

is that sodium, when it, it comes, when metallic sodium comes in contact with water, it begins to

form hydrogen.

It breaks the water down into hydrogen and oxygen, and then they catch on fire.

Yeah, it explodes.

Nice.

And that's a lot of kids used to do in certain colleges and high schools when we had labs.

Certain colleges.

Well,

some jerk would grab a chunk of sodium if he could get a hold of it and throw it down the toilet and flush it.

Oh, yeah.

Like a cherry bomb plus.

So somewhere down the line,

the thing would explode and blow up the sewer.

Not a good idea.

No.

Anyway.

Another reason to keep kids away from chemistry.

Yeah, keep them away from chemistry and don't drive these battery cars.

They just don't seem like safe products.

I don't care what they tell me.

It's not a safe product.

Coming in over the transom this morning from your gal with the manhands.

No, is Welker the Manhands lady?

Yeah, Welker.

Welker.

Welcome to the Manhands.

She had President Trump called her personally this morning, called her,

and told her to tell America the following.

Just hours ago, President Trump called me to tell me he is, quote, pissed off with Russia's President Putin and threatened to impose secondary tariffs on Russia's oil.

Quote: If Russia and I are unable to make a deal on stopping the bloodshed in Ukraine, and if I think it was Russia's fault, which it might not be, but if I think it was Russia's fault, I am going to put secondary tariffs on all oil coming out of Russia.

Mr.

Trump said 25% tariffs on Russian oil could happen any moment and told me he plans to speak with President Putin this week.

The president told me, quote, I was very angry, pissed off when Putin started getting into the election.

She likes saying that.

She likes saying it.

This is the only because it's a quote.

She would never say it normally on TV because she's not like, you know, a cussing Democrat necessarily.

She's a Democrat, but not a cussing Democrat.

But now this gives her the excuse.

I get to like shithole countries.

It's perfect.

I get to say pissed off.

The president told me, quote, I was very angry, pissed off when Putin started getting into Zelensky's credibility and started talking about new leadership in Ukraine.

Wait, but wait, there's more.

On Iran, the president said he's also considering secondary tariffs if Iran doesn't agree to a nuclear deal.

Quote, if they don't make a deal, there will be bombing.

And it will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before.

Bomb them, bomb them, and bomb them again.

Woo, baby.

President mad, mad.

He's mad.

You know why?

He looks hungry, man.

He's lost a lot of weight.

Have you noticed this?

No, I have not.

Oh, he must have dropped 25 pounds at least.

At least.

I wonder why.

Bobby?

Bobby is probably

not a bad guy.

Bobby is like, hey, hey, Donald, Mr.

President, you're a fat slob.

You really, this is not good.

The president sets the tone.

So everybody's cussing.

That's good.

Good work, Mr.

President.

You got everyone cussing.

You got that right.

You got everyone cussing.

You got Welker is saying pissed off.

That's good.

That's good.

You got everyone shaking in their boots.

You're going to bomb the Iranians like they've never been bombed before.

But you got to get America healthy again.

Aha.

You got to get America healthy again.

You've got to lose some weight.

You know, you might be right.

Because Trump, I think, is amenable to the idea that he sets the moral tone.

And it's more than a moral tone.

I mean, it's a moral tone, basically, but it's also the, you know, like

JFK is the one who initiated the five-mile hike.

Everyone should go on a five-mile hike.

And everyone was going on five-mile hikes for some reason.

Yes, yes.

And

the president looks happier for it.

His face looks good.

It looks, you know, he probably has much less inflammation.

He looks good.

Yes, he's

his triglutarites or whatever.

I'm sure they're all down.

His numbers are down.

And America loves this president.

This is CNN.

He's basically more popular than he was at any point in term number one, and more popular than he was when he won election back in November of 2024.

What are we talking about?

His net favorable rating right now comes in at minus four points.

Compare that to where he was when he won in November of 2024 when he was at minus seven points, or March of 2017 when he was at minus 10 points.

So when you compare Trump against himself, he's actually closer to the apex than he is to the bottom of the trough.

And of course, that's so important because Donald Trump, historically speaking, has had his number underestimated.

This is great.

I love it.

He's closer to that.

He comes on CNN all the time.

He's jumping around and he's going nuts.

He's good.

He's closer to the apex than the bottom of the trough.

Nice.

So here's an ABC report on the H since we're talking about Bobby.

The HHS cuts, job cuts.

So I'll play this report and then after that, out of the horse's mouth himself on the Kid Cuomo show.

So listen to this report.

Tonight, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F.

Kennedy Jr., announcing a massive overhaul of the agency that oversees America's health, supervises Medicare and Medicaid, and monitors food and drug safety.

It includes cutting 20,000 people from the department, a quarter of its workforce.

This will be a painful period for HHS as we downsize from 82,000 full-time employees to around 62,000.

I want to promise you now that we're going to do more with less.

But experts, including Dr.

Richard Besser, former actor.

Did you notice there was a little edit there?

Director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and says you can't cut that many jobs without people in America, quote, suffering.

I worry that in this drive to cut positions and save money, critical programs that impact on people's lives are going to be cut as well.

Kennedy also plans to consolidate.

Hold on a second.

The critical programs aren't the problem.

No, no, but this is what it's affecting people's lives.

They're talking about 20,000 people laid off.

This is a jobs program that's kind of overlooked in all this.

No, you're correct.

It's a form of welfare.

What the media has been doing, the M5EV has been continuously getting people on who are, if not outright saying it, insinuating, your Medicare is going to get cut, your Medicaid is going to get cut, your Social Security, you might as well kiss your check goodbye.

Trump's in town, it's Musk, scratch a Tesla.

Critical programs that impact on people's lives are going to be cut as well.

Kennedy also plans to consolidate agencies within HHS.

We're going to eliminate an entire alphabet soup of departments and agencies while preserving their core functions by merging them into into a new organization called the Administration for a Healthy America, or AHA.

The FDA will lose 3,500

employees, and the CDC will lose 2,400.

That agency also narrowing its scope to focus on preparing for and responding to epidemics and outbreaks.

For decades, the agency has handled so much more, monitoring nationwide health trends, including chronic diseases, firearm injuries, and overdose deaths.

So, this is all just negative spin, all negative spin, and they've even cut out the part where he says the following on the Kid Cuomo show.

We're not going to cut services.

We're not going to cut Medicaid.

We're not going to cut Medicare.

We're going to continue.

We're going to provide services, but more efficiently.

We have thanks to Elon.

And by the way, what Elon did with our agency is going to help our agency.

So I'm very grateful to him for he came in for the first time with a real org chart for the agency.

The agency org chart when I arrived was incomprehensible.

There was no chain of command.

There were people operating in all these different silos and fiefdoms.

And they were so territorial and so self-serving that they were selling patient information to each other.

So I tried to get the CMS patient information, which belongs to the American people and belongs to HHS.

And the sub-agencies said we have to buy it from them.

And it doesn't make any sense.

There are sub-agencies that refuse to give us patient data.

This is depersonalized data.

And we need to make American healthy again.

What Elon is doing is he's using AI to improve health, to improve efficiency, to improve delivery.

Uh-oh, delivery.

And he had a bunch of geniuses come over to the department, create an org chart that worked and consolidate.

We have many divisions that are doing the exact same thing.

We need to consolidate them and give them a sense of mission to invite invite them to participate in making our country healthier again.

And I think that's why we're getting, you know, a very, very strong, enthusiastic reaction from people within the agency.

Yeah.

Well, so they didn't really tell you all that.

You had to go to Newsmax to get that information.

That wasn't Newsmax.

Where was that was NewsNation?

Oh, I'm sorry.

It's right next to it on channel 735.

It's not, yeah, it's a completely different operation.

News Nation is done by the Chicago Tribune.

Right.

Newsmax is done by some right-wingers.

But I think they still have the same amount of viewership.

I'm just guessing.

Yeah, none.

Yeah.

So, what I thought was a very interesting piece, and it showed that it was good because you really, I've been monitoring since Friday, not a single

M5M, like an MSNBC, CNN, or any of these outfits have used any clips to say, these guys

suck.

They're no good.

And that was the executive Doge team on Brett Baer.

Did you have a chance to watch that?

That was dynamite.

I have a couple of short clips if you want to hear some.

I'd love to.

I mean, I have to say that it's this is another example of Musk's real talent.

Yeah.

Which is picking guys like this.

Yes.

He just had a bunch of heavy hitters.

He had like the co-founder of Airbnb, a billionaire, you know, one guy, CFO for five public companies or something.

All these, yeah, heavy hitters.

And they're all sitting there and like, oh, yeah, well, this is what we do.

And did you notice the milieu

insofar as at least two of them on the group talk just like must

that fast patter and kind of

this weird milieu style that is that's

peculiar to that group.

Well, I hear they all go out back and smoke cigars from time to time.

I can't divulge where I heard that from, but I believe that to be true.

I wouldn't be surprised.

Yeah.

Of course, that's what you do.

Hey, boys of Bonos.

Let's crack a Cohiba.

Woo!

We routinely encounter wastes of a billion dollars or more, casually.

You know, for example, like the sim the simple survey that was

literally a 10-question survey that you could do with SurveyMonkey costs about $10,000, was

The government was being charged almost $1 billion for that.

For just a survey.

A billion dollars for a simple online survey.

Do you like the national park?

And then there appeared to be no feedback loop for what would be done with that survey.

So the survey would just go into nothing.

It was like insane.

Now, later in there,

one of his lieutenants said, well, it was $860 million.

Which I thought was, that's not quite a billion dollars.

That was a little reckless.

Well, if you listen to him carefully, I listened to that again.

Musk says almost a billion.

Yeah, I know.

says a billion.

Yeah, I know, almost a billion.

Well, it's almost a billion.

Almost a billion.

Well, that's a little over half

calculations.

I mean, the guy's worth 300 billion, so it's like almost a billion, not quite.

Oh, I dropped a billion.

Oh, whatever.

Who cares?

So here is the big

social security fraud, which rings very true.

The two improvements that we're trying to make to Social Security are helping people that legitimately get benefits, protect them from fraud that they experience every day on a routine basis, and also make the experience better.

And I'll give you one example:

This is one of those milieu guys.

This was the guy sitting next to her.

At Social Security, one of the first things we learned is that they get phone calls every day of people trying to change direct deposit information.

So when you want to change your bank account, you can call Social Security.

We learned 40% of the phone calls that they get are from fraudsters.

40%.

That's right.

Almost half.

Yes, and they steal people's social security is what happens.

They call in, they say they claim to be a retiree,

then

they convince the social security person on the phone to change

where the money is flowing.

It actually goes to some fraudster.

This is happening all day, every day.

And then somebody doesn't receive their social security is because of all the fraud loopholes in the social security system.

Now, I want to believe this, but I know that Tina just recently changed her social security bank information, and she could not make a phone call.

So maybe, I mean, she hadn't tried it previously, of course, and she had to do it online, and they said it would take two months,

which seems like a long time.

But I can, if you indeed can call in, then I'm sure that's probably true.

So let's go back to HA.

Yeah, we're getting the fraudsters on the phone.

This is a situation that, you know, why don't we get to the heart of this?

You can complain about this.

Oh, yeah,

these fraudsters are calling this way and that way.

This whole, all these phone scams, whether they're fraudsters stealing somebody's social security or they're trying to get me to buy some dumb thing that doesn't exist or get my bank account number, I just don't get it why we can't put a stop to this once and for all.

Oh, I can tell you.

I know, I know, this and that.

There's this

system the way it's set up.

No, you You don't know.

You can jump all over me and say, I know, but you don't know.

You know nothing.

I know something.

Well, you know a little.

What I was going to say is what will come out of Musk's mouth will be, there's no other way we all have to have a digital ID.

Oh, well, there's that.

Well, that doesn't surprise me you'd say that.

Or at least an X account.

If everybody gets an X account, we'll make sure that you'll never be defrauded again.

I don't see any other way to do it.

You can clone phone numbers, so that's easy.

Online, that's your brain.

That's the problem right there.

That's the

cloning phone numbers is easy.

You just said it.

Yeah.

But that should not be the case.

You shouldn't have to have a digital ID.

It should be impossible to clone phone numbers.

That's the kicker.

You're going to get a digital ID.

It's not going to help.

No, but.

I'll have a digital ID, and then some fraudster will call me up with a phony digital ID or whatever.

It doesn't make any difference.

They're going to clone a phone number they don't have.

The next thing you know, they're going to be trying to scam me.

How about this?

You just have to show up in person at your office and you get cash.

Nobody will do that.

Overday.

I'm telling you, they've got to do something.

It's the phone system at

writ large.

Let's use that term.

There you go.

Writ large.

The phone system itself is flawed.

Yeah, but so but the internet's any better?

A web browser?

I'm worried about the phone right now.

Okay.

Well, you don't even use a phone.

Well, that's beside the point.

Okay.

Let's go to HHS.

Another example at NIH is today they have 27 different centers.

They got created over time by Congress, and they're typically by disease state or body system.

There's 700 different IT systems today at NIH.

700 different IT systems.

IT software systems.

They can't speak to each other.

So they don't talk to one another.

They have 27 different CIOs.

And so when you you think about making great medical discoveries, you have to connect the data.

Time out, timeout.

You said that.

So 27 different chief information officers.

Correct, correct.

And most of them are non-technical.

So there's a lot there.

There's a lot of opportunity.

It will make science better, not worse.

All right.

They had similar complaints about the IRS.

Brad mentioned 27 CIOs.

If you had kept going with Brad, he probably would talk about the communications office.

And you've got 40 distinct communications offices in HHS.

I love that.

Communications offices, that's marketing departments.

That's wasted.

40?

Yeah, and that's not unusual, by the way.

Multiple offices like that.

That's not making anyone healthy.

This is not about the employees there.

There's many, many hardworking, well-meaning people who took these jobs.

These jobs were out there, they applied for them, they took them, they're doing what's there.

It's just that they're duplicating the effort of 40 offices.

So you've got that, you've got overstaffing.

A good example of overstaffing would be the IRS has got 1,400 people who are dedicated to provisioning laptops and cell phones.

So if you join the IRS, you get a laptop and a cell phone, you're provisioned.

So if each of those IRS officers or employees provisioned two employees per day, you could provision the entire IRS in a little more than a month.

Yeah.

That's always great.

That's great.

And then this is one that I would look at in my own company when we had 700 employees.

This is an easy one.

And just the one that just is in my head right now, which is a fairly mundane one, but I think is very illustrative, is credit cards.

There are in the federal government

around 4.6 million credit cards for around 2.3 to 2.4 million employees.

This doesn't make sense.

And so one of the things all of the teams have worked on is we've worked for the agencies and said,

do you need all of these credit cards?

Are they being used?

Can you tell us physically where they are?

I hope they're getting frequent flyers.

Actually, on a different note, the rewards program the federal government has is actually not very good because that's a whole other negotiation.

All right, yeah, exactly.

But so far the teams have worked together and they've reduced it from 4.6 million to 4.3 million.

So

we're taking it easy.

But clearly there should not be, you know, more there should not be more credit cards than there are people.

Yeah, oh, man.

You know, in Think New Ideas, that was the company I mentioned with 700 people.

We had one guy with one credit card doing all the travel.

And

we started noticing that his wife had nice jewelry.

And

they had all kinds of cool gadgets at home, brand new vacuum cleaners.

And turns out he was taking all of the rewards points and cashing them in for himself.

It was a classic.

Oh, yeah.

I think a lot of it, I think that happens everywhere.

I bet it's happening in government.

They're guffawing about the rewards program.

I'll bet you there's lots of people like, oops.

Oh, boy, I was taking those points.

Getting free flights everywhere.

I think that's what you would do.

If you had the opportunity, you have this card, you're centralized something or other.

So you're doing a lot of charging.

And reward points are building up, not for the company, but for you,

for you, yes yeah what would you do what would anyone do and here's my final pitch for digital ID the minute you pop out of the womb people the ways that the government is defrauded is that the computer systems don't talk to each other so if the computer systems systems don't talk to each other then it's you you can you can exploit that gap and forces exploit that exploit that gap take advantage um if for example there were over three hundred million dollars of small business administration loans that has been given out to people under the age of 11.

Blockchain to add to is 300 million under the age of 11 and over 300 million to over the age of 120.

Definitely

loans, correct?

Yes.

The oldest American is 114.

So it's safe to say if their age is 115 or above,

they're fake.

Well, they should be in the Guinness Brooklyn World Records.

And we should not be giving out loans to babies.

So

the youngest recipient of a small business administration loan loan is a nine-month-year-old, which is a very percocious baby we're talking about here.

So, obviously, it was just fraudulent.

And they do terrible things.

They actually will see that a kid's been born.

They will steal that kid's social security number and then take out a loan and leave that kid with a bad credit rating.

There's literally a baby.

The terrible things are being done, is what we're saying.

I'm telling you, it's either that or a tattooed barcode.

They got to come up with some ideas here.

It's not going to fly.

Barcodes.

Yeah.

And then

this will be the final one.

Because, of course, what Elon is doing is he's destroying the government.

He's destroying everything.

He's going to take away your social security, President Elon.

Let's go protest at that Tesla star.

People are organizing protests across the country against Elon Musk's role in the federal government.

Several protests took place today in the suburbs and in Chicago.

WGN's Angelica Sanchez reports on today's demonstration near the Mag Mile.

I'm really upset about what's going on with the government and Elon Musk's hand in it.

Protesters urge Tesla vehicle and stock owners to sell.

I'm very concerned that someone who was not elected to the federal government has this much power.

I think it's important that we all show up and say something.

Saturday marks a global day of action in the Tesla takedown movement with demonstrations planned outside Tesla dealerships across the country against Elon Musk and his role in the Department of Government Efficiency.

Seven of those demonstrations are at Chicagoland locations.

He does not speak for Congress.

And yet, it seems like institutions and the administration more broadly are acquiescing to these demands.

Fans of Musk are vowing to counter-protest the movement, and some showed up to defend the billionaire in some cities.

Musk is pushing to improve the image of Doge.

In a Thursday interview with Fox News, he stated he is being careful and compassionate with his overhaul of the federal government, even as criticism has been mounting over his previous posts on X and emails demanding information from federal workers.

So at 12 noon,

many of these protests just stopped.

Just stopped.

The people left.

Why, you ask?

Why?

Because they were hired.

They were only there for four hours.

No overtime.

And I have a copy here of the chant sheet.

I shall give you a few of the chants that the indivisible organization handed out to everybody.

Elon Musk, go to Mars.

We don't want your swastikars.

Elon Musk is unelected.

Democracy must be protected.

The people united will never be defeated.

That doesn't even rhyme.

What is that?

That's a bad one.

That's no good.

Hey, hey, ho, ho, President Musk has got to go.

Or

we will not cooperate with your techno-fascist state.

And two more.

Public workers work for us.

Can't say that for Elon Musk.

And my favorite.

Democrats grow a spine.

Now's the time to draw the line.

So you know what I find fascinating is

not almost walking distance from my house here is one of the regional Tesla repair centers.

And

on the streets, there's probably 50 Teslas all around just surrounding that.

There's no protests around here.

And nobody in Berkeley, which is loaded with Teslas, is getting their cars swastika or anything.

Nobody in California, at least Northern California, nobody's,

this isn't happening.

Well, have you ever heard the term, don't piss in your own nest?

They're all going out of state.

Apparently.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So it's just political, it's pathetic political theater is all that it is.

And then you got Chuck Schumer yelling like,

we're going to drag President Trump's ratings down.

Oh, wow.

Schumer.

Wow.

Wow.

But meanwhile.

Well, that guy got lucky with the Miran Marr earthquake, which sucked up all the news.

Yeah, you got to wonder if that was the earthquake machine.

You know, I hate to say it.

Yes.

That's the first thing I thought.

Me too, because that was a doozy, man, because I've been to Bangkok and I've been to, well, right underneath it.

You haven't Myanmar, which they used to

Burma.

Burma they had the second town yeah but that's 600 miles away that's I know that's a mess and did you see the rooftop uh pool yeah where all the water's coming off the salt lake like and they want by the time it hits the street they had a there's one video floating around where because people were talking about over dinner about well you know water coming down it's just like rain but no no way

it hits the street like a monso

it's not like a monsoon it hits it's like a tidal wave it just whacks the street and just wipes everybody out.

Have you seen the video from atop that pool?

Yeah, where it's sloshing around.

Yeah.

And

the floating stuff is going over the side.

I thought, because I saw that video on X, I'm like, oh, man, is someone going to get sloshed right over?

I mean, sad, but that would have been awesome.

That would have been

about awesome.

But I mean, and those apartment buildings that were under construction coming straight down, almost like the Twin Towers is interesting.

It kind of reminded me that it literally collapsed unto itself.

But that, that is a now, is that a known fault line from Burma down to Bangkok?

I'd never heard of it.

It hasn't been explained yet, but I do have a couple of clips to catch up to it.

All right.

This is BBC, of course, and you might as well use your.

Now, time for the BBC World Service.

Yeah, this is an earthquake story.

Okay, from the BBC.

Oh, by the way, this is the only good news.

This is funny because

they were just tons of material on this earthquake.

But this was the kind of the good news story I thought was cute.

Oh, nice.

And now,

good news from BBC World Service.

The death toll from the earthquake in Myanmar is already up to 1,600 people.

This is your good news?

It gets better.

It gets better.

And that number is expected to rise quite sharply, probably, as more information comes out.

It is hard to get a clear picture of what's happening in the worst-hit areas, and there are a number of reasons for that.

There is a civil war.

Communications are, for the large part, down.

Occasionally, as you'll hear, we do get some voice notes out.

The ability of journalists to do their job is also an issue.

Reporters Without Borders says reporters there face the risk of torture, arrest, or murder.

So, obviously, are very cautious in what they say.

Mandalay is the hardest-hit city in Myanmar, and in neighbouring Thailand, 11 people are known to have died, and at least 50 construction workers are still missing.

That's because they were actually working on a building, so it wasn't secure.

So far, great news.

I'm very happy with this.

Hey, just play the clip.

Collapsed.

But there was some good news, and this is a remarkable bit of tape.

What a way to start a life.

A Thai woman went into labor just as the earthquake hit, and both she and the baby survived.

She described what happened.

Luckily, I was on the fifth floor.

The medical medical staff were holding both my arms as we made our way down the stairs.

The doctor kept saying, It's all right.

The hospital staff did very well in evacuating us, they did their best.

I was telling my baby, don't come yet, but the pain kept growing and growing.

Then I was put on a hospital bed and was surrounded by a lot of medical staff where I just gave birth right there and then.

It was all a shock to me, too.

Once my baby was born, the ground stopped shaking.

I felt great.

I saw my child, and the earthquake stopped.

Wow, that is great.

Thank you, BBC World Service.

That's phenomenal.

That's what we call human interest is what we call that.

That was a good story.

I thought it was the baby that caused the earthquake.

That's the way you have to go.

I got it.

Once the baby was there, the earthquake stopped.

Perfect.

Yeah, boom, done.

So here's part two of the lucky baby.

Happy mum.

Well, the first emergency response teams have arrived in Myanmar now, and the UN is trying to coordinate much of that effort.

Tom Andrews is the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights Situation in Myanmar.

He's actually currently in Bangkok, having just got back from the Thai-Myanmar border.

There, he met people from the National Unity Government in Exile.

That's the group that was set up after the coup in 2021, trying to replace the military regime.

So on the basis of what he heard down on the border, he gave me the latest information on what's happening.

The UN has operations on the ground.

Pledges are coming in.

The United Nations has a relief fund operation right now that's in place.

The ASEAN network of ASEAN countries are making an appeal and putting its emergency operations into play.

There are various operations that are in place and that are trying to gear up as quickly as possible.

The question is, will that aid be able to get where it needs to go?

Will the military junta put up blockades of it going to areas that it just doesn't want it to go, those opposition areas, resistance areas?

We know that every crisis that we've seen, every natural disaster that we've seen in recent years, they have blocked aid.

They've created very significant problems in getting aid and assistance to where it needs to go.

I am hoping that that will not be the case, but my assumption is that it will be.

Oh, man.

Get back to Lucky Baby, Happy Mum.

That's the end of it.

I don't have any.

I think I have an earthquake story.

Lucky Baby, Happy Mum.

Love you long time.

Let me see.

Yes, I do have

a

France 24 clip, which explains a little bit more about the aid.

This was the moment a skyscraper under construction came tumbling down in Bangkok.

Dozens are thought to be trapped under the rubble.

The 7.7 magnitude quake toppled a crane from the top of the building, which collapsed in seconds.

In these pictures, water from a rooftop swimming pool can be seen cascading over the side of a high-rise.

The tremor sent office workers pouring into the streets in search of safety.

The earthquake's epicenter was near Myanmar's second city, Mandalay.

Not long after it was followed by a 6.4 magnitude aftershock.

In Myanmar, where where the extent of the damage is starting to emerge, a state of emergency has been declared, and the country's military rulers have made a rare appeal for aid.

Lines of injured people were filmed waiting for hospital horse.

I think ABC had the aid quip on it.

A day after that destructive 7.7 magnitude earthquake rocked Southeast Asia, rescuers working around the clock to search for survivors, still buried under the rubble.

Bangkok, this 34-storey building that was still under construction, collapsing, sending people running for their lives.

There was a lot of screaming and panicking, which obviously made it a lot worse.

Jack Brown's dash cam video capturing the moment.

And it was just horrifying to see that destruction.

Drone footage shows the scope of the damage.

Garrett Breer from Washington State was in a nearby mall with his wife when they witnessed the moment it crumbled.

Immediately we were just

covered with dust and debris, and we couldn't see.

And there were thousands of people just in panic running away from the building.

The epicenter of the quake was in Mandalay, Myanmar, more than 600 miles from Bangkok.

Buildings collapsed, roads torn apart.

A media host in the war-torn country describing it as one of the strongest earthquakes in his lifetime.

Bigging, like getting stronger in Intem.

So I got a realization: oh, the aqua is really happening right now in Myanmar.

Footage aired by Myanmar's state-run broadcaster shows the destruction of the historic Mandalay Palace in the country's second-largest city.

Situation in Mandalay is really bad right now.

The clock tower near Mandalay-like Manasteri collapsed and it was damaged.

Rescue teams from China arriving to assist with search and rescue operations.

India and Russia have also sent resources.

President Trump has vowed to send aid.

There you go.

So, what's the BBC guy talking about?

There's aid.

There's aid coming.

It's not getting in.

I think the BBC's got this correct.

You know, the funny thing about that 600 miles

says it's only 450 miles to LA from here.

Most of the quakes in California typically...

Hey, you don't feel them, though, do you?

No, never.

Never.

That's what I was going to get to.

But it wasn't a 7.4, whatever that is by the way.

We've had big quakes, not necessarily that big recently, but there's been quakes.

I think the

big one in San Francisco was 8.6 or something along those lines.

But of course, these numbers don't mean anything anymore, as you know.

No, no, we don't know if they changed the richter screen.

The scale to the momentum scale.

Now it's bullcrap.

But the point is, is that generally speaking, in California, where there's a lot of quakes and most of the world, you have maybe a 90-mile

distance where you can still feel the quake.

It doesn't have the effect that it does

where it took place, the epicenter, as they like to call it.

But you can still feel it, and sometimes it can cause damage

90 to 100 miles away.

600 miles away is unfathomable.

That's crazy.

It doesn't make any, I mean, this like from, it means the entire state of California if an LA quake took place in half of Mexico.

That's why it's affected.

That's why I was asking if there's a known fault line there.

I don't know of one.

Well, that whole area looks like, you know, it's been.

affected by a lot of quakes.

That's why it's all scattered, like it's a mess if you look at it on the map.

I don't know

somewhere there's a pot pong, ping pong ball joke in there, but I can't quite come up with it.

What?

Well, you've been to Pot Pong.

Pot Pong?

Pot Pong?

No, I've not been to Pot Pong.

You've been to Bangkok?

No, I've not been to Thailand.

I've been to Vietnam.

Oh.

Oh, Pot Pong.

Pot Pong in Thailand is where there's a club, and there's tricks.

There's tricks that women do with ping-pong balls and lit cigarettes.

Target practice part of it?

Smoke ring.

Yeah, target practice.

Smoke rings and smoke rings.

Yes, yes.

I did a documentary there once.

This is like the donkey act in TO1.

We've actually talked about this on the show before many, many times.

Yes, I remember you.

You were aghast.

Yes,

I was aghast.

Is it not pot pong?

Pot Pong.

I think it was Pop pong.

It's a circus act.

So to turkey.

Pew, pew.

I'm going to get my turkey updated.

I'm going to get back to BBC and do some international stuff.

Yeah, okay.

Come, George, because this is going on.

This turkey thing is non-trivial.

And here's what I want you to listen for.

The people are, they threw this guy in jail.

This is a political, this is what they try to do to Trump.

And the people are protesting the end of democracy because they put the guy in jail.

When Trump, they try to put Trump in jail, I didn't see anybody protesting the threat to democracy.

They only call Trump the threat to democracy.

It's like reverse.

Well, it's because the people weren't pissed off enough here.

We have it too good.

Turkey, I mean, the lira is not worth the paper it's printed on almost.

I mean, there's real economic

repercussions.

Erwan's biggest mistake was his economic policies.

Whoopsie.

Hundreds Hundreds of thousands of Turkish pro-democracy protesters gathered in Istanbul today in support of the city's jailed mayor, Ekram Imamolu.

The rally was called by Turkey's main opposition party, the CHP, and that's the party that's nominated Mr.

Imamolu as its presidential candidate.

Well, the BBC's senior international correspondent, Ola Gehrin, was at the protest today.

So, what was it like?

It was quite a festive atmosphere.

There were a lot of people of all different ages.

We saw family groups, some people with young children, children still in prams.

We saw some older people who were moving with some difficulty.

One or two people had even brought the family dog.

There were lots of people who were carrying posters of the jailed mayor.

And this was a daylight rally,

a bright, sunny day.

So quite a different atmosphere to the rallies earlier this week, the nighttime rallies that we reported on on Monday and Tuesday.

But the demands were very much the same.

People told us they were coming to demand the release of the mayor.

They said they would keep protesting until that happens.

Well, that could be a very long time.

In reality, he could be in jail for several years.

Many said that they had come to defend freedom of speech, human rights.

One young man who was there with his brother told us that he had come to defend democracy before it was too late.

He said, if we stand by and don't act, then we will lose everything.

And there was a consistent message again from the opposition leader saying that, accusing the government of trying to intimidate the young people, he spoke of the large numbers of young people who had been arrested at the demonstrations.

He said this was an attempt to try and silence them, to create fear, but he said it wouldn't work.

Now,

two questions.

Maybe they're in your next two clips.

One,

does the BBC pronounce pronounce Turkey as Turkey-A?

No, they don't.

You've pointed this out before.

And the other one, do we actually know if the accusations against this guy are true?

Which they seemingly seems true.

Nobody goes into it.

Why not?

They're just accusations, and it's like, well, okay, what did he do?

It seems unlikely to be true.

Yeah, all right.

Well, protests have been going on for 10 days now, ever since Mr.

Umamola's arrest, and they've been met with a repressive government response that's been sharply condemned by rights groups.

Our senior international correspondent, Ola Gerin, is in Istanbul for us.

It was certainly a massive demonstration, and you got that sense when you arrived because it took us a very long time to enter the plaza where the rally was being held because there were simply so many people trying to get through the entrances.

And worth pointing out, I saw something today I have not seen before at a demonstration.

It was a long line of what appeared to us to be closed-circuit TV cameras, and these were trained on every entrance.

So it seemed to us as if the faces of all of those who were coming through to attend the protest were actually being recorded by the authorities, presumably for use in the future to identify people who've been at the demonstrations.

The demands were very consistent, the same kind of message we heard earlier during the week on Monday and Tuesday at the large nighttime demonstrations.

people were calling for the freeing of the mayor, saying they would keep protesting as long as it would take to get him out of jail.

Now, that could mean a very long fight.

The reality is, he could be in prison for several years.

People were demanding freedom of expression.

People were demanding protection for human rights.

One young man said to us, Look, I've come to try to defend democracy here before it's just too late.

This is filler.

So they have this, the idea of having all these cameras makes sense.

You have to take uh the key to success here is you have to paste on a couple of fake eyeballs on your forehead.

That's the key to success.

Also for job interviews, I'm told.

It's very key to success.

You can do stuff to your face that would be

that would confuse the AI system.

But the BBC is giving us nothing.

They're just doing color commentary.

There's no depth to this reporting.

Well, that's a good point.

Here's the last of it.

You mentioned there were CCTV cameras there.

And as we know, the Turkish authority have already been cracking down on protesters and journalists in recent days.

Can you give us an update on that?

Oh, they're talking about themselves.

Oh, okay.

Yes, it's very dangerous for us.

We can't go into Bangkok.

It's very into Myanmar.

It's very dangerous.

We can't do it.

It's dangerous.

We're in Turkey.

Turkey.

We can't do it.

It's so dangerous.

Oh, I was so bad.

It's in Turkey.

Yay.

Let's do that.

Well, there's certainly a great deal of fear, and we heard that from demonstrators today.

Several people said they were afraid of being arrested.

Some told us they had friends who had been picked up in these dawn raids that have been going on over the last 10 days.

The official figure from the Interior Ministry now is that 1,900 people have been detained just in the past 10 days.

We know that among those, there are seven journalists, and we've had the first indictment handed down by public prosecutors here against some of those who were arrested.

And all of these people arrested at the protests.

And the prosecutor is asking for jail terms of between six months and three years.

Now press freedom groups and media organizations here are pointing out that among the journalists arrested were people who are simply doing their job.

There were photographers who were taking photographs that have been seen around the world and become famous around the world.

And human rights organizations are saying that the legitimate right to freedom of expression to gather peacefully to protest against the government's policies, there is a major attempt here now, they say, to stifle those rights and those freedoms.

And it didn't begin 10 days ago with the arrest of Ekrem Imamolu.

It has certainly been a pattern that we've observed here over many years now.

More nothing.

I suspect that we were behind it.

Oh, okay, that would make sense because

I've had my quad view on 24-7,

and there's not even a story.

We're not even running a story about this.

They're still talking SignalGate.

I know.

I know.

You're right.

There has not been one single story on American media about this.

And this has been going on for 10 days and is major.

Yeah, and it's a NATO member, I might point out.

It's not just some fly-by-night operation.

It's also a responsibility.

also

responsible for the mess in Syria.

Yeah,

they're out to get this guy.

And where's the Gulen movement?

We know their leader died, but they didn't just dissolve.

I mean, did anything happen with them?

No reporting on that.

No reporting.

Well, meanwhile, that's the M5M.

Now the T5M,

which is so M5M is mainstream media, T5M is the truth stream media.

Very annoyed.

When did that come up?

I just made it up.

Very annoyed this weekend because at least 15 people are saying, there's something here.

This is going on.

You got to check this out.

So.

What?

I'm going to tell you.

Even Tina's like, oh, there's something going on here with House inhabit.

What?

House inhabit.

House, you don't know who House inhabit is.

House inhabit, not in a inhabit, but inhabit, like you inhabit a house, house inhabit.

House inhabit.

Okay.

House inhabit.

This was a mommy blogger who

became very successful as a so we have a so did so this is about a mommy blogger it's it gets worse because it gets much worse how can it get worse and Tina would often she reads you know stuff like conservative treehouse and house inhabit uh I don't know any of this well that's I never heard of conservative treehouse that's why there's two of us oh you don't know sundance from it from conservative Treehouse.

No, I don't know Sundance either.

Well, I do.

I'm listening to the BBC World Service.

And now we switch over to Mommy Blogger, House and Habit on the BBC World Service.

But this is Tina's beat because I can't.

By the way, I should compliment you.

That does sound great.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I don't know if you've heard it.

Custom programmed.

You've heard it.

But it sounds just like an old shortwave radio announcer.

Well, I used to, when I was growing up, my parents, they would have one of those alarm clock radios.

And

so my dad would have this thing at volume 10 because my parents could never get up.

Because I had to be at the bus stop at 10 past seven to take the bus to then get on my hidden bike to go to school.

Oh, yes, it was rough.

And that thing would go on.

And it's seven o'clock,

and it's just blasting the news.

So it's a trauma from my youth.

Anyway, so

now I have to go watch 20 minutes of Ian Carroll.

Now, you know who that is.

No.

Yeah, you do.

He's the guy on X with the long hair with the hoodie, and he's always talking like, I don't know.

He's always got the green screen behind him.

I like these guys.

Suspicious

look suspicious.

And then, so he goes on for 20 minutes talking about Candace Owens.

Oh, Candace Owens, Candace Owens.

Okay.

So then I have to go watch Candace Owens for an hour.

And I'm like, what is going on here?

Basically, they keep talking about a blackmail scandal, a blackmail scandal, and that House Inhabit, the mommy blogger, has teamed up with that horrible woman from, was it New Yorker magazine who supposedly had a sexting scandal with RFK.

And now,

well, the Maha movement is under threat, and RFK can't do anything because he's being blackmailed, blackmailed, blackmailed.

And who is he being blackmailed by?

Come on, John, you know the answer.

Answer the question, go.

Soros.

Israel.

No, of course it's Israel.

Oh, it's Israel.

Oh, yeah, it's Israel.

Yes, it's Israel.

Yeah, that makes nothing but sense on the surface.

And, you know,

he's always been a Zionist, and he's always been

the Kennedys.

Yeah.

The Kennedys, big Zionists, and he's always been in for Rabbi Shmooly.

And I'm just saying, you know,

and that's what people are concerned with here in America.

Rabbi Shmooly?

Long story, brother.

Long story.

Yes, because you know that that's why they don't release the Epstein files is because then we find out that the entire U.S.

government is being blackmailed by the Mossad.

Hello, where you been?

You need to read the mommy blogger.

You can understand these things.

But I'm listening to the BBC.

But I think there has been a concerted effort.

And, you know,

to me, it's all spiritual.

There's dark forces.

There's good.

Yeah, okay.

Yeah, okay.

I'm just telling you.

Skip ahead.

Huh?

Look.

Skip ahead.

We know there's dark forces.

Don't do that to me.

Well, you told me I could.

What do you do?

Now you tell me I can't?

No, but you skip ahead as just rude.

Skip ahead.

You told me I could.

I didn't tell you you could go.

You can't.

Off camera, you did.

Off camera.

Where's the camera?

Off camera.

You said I could do that.

No.

Now you're calling me out.

No.

You can call me out.

You did that on purpose to give me grief.

No, you can call me.

Okay, Kara, but go ahead.

You can call me out, but you can't just say skip ahead.

That's not nice.

I think skip ahead is pretty cool.

And I think you'll agree with me on this.

I believe there is a concerted effort to go after

influencers, podcasters, mommy bloggers, etc.,

to make them very fearful to be called out as a Zionist, a

Jew lover, whatever, whatever.

People do that all the time.

I don't see you, you're not shaking in your boots.

But that's because

we don't rely on clicks.

We don't rely on views.

We rely on people who care about what we're talking about.

We're talking about it.

This is a modern version of cancel culture.

It's almost reverse.

It's audience capture is what it is.

And so they're deathly afraid to be run into.

See, no one cares about us.

No one knows about us.

It's true.

Only the people who listen.

No one else knows.

Only

our dedicated million plus audience, but nobody cares about them either, except that they're all big shots.

It's It's amazing.

Well, there you go.

But

we'll never matter in mainstream culture.

We just don't matter.

Joe Rogan doesn't have me on and say, man, that no agenda show is the best thing ever.

No, he doesn't.

I don't think he's listening to the show once.

You invented podcasting.

You used to have long hair.

But that's my point.

These Jamokes, they're all dependent.

The T5M, they're all dependent upon clicks and views and algos and outrage.

They are literally talking about each other.

And that rises.

I know we've both noticed this.

Yes.

Oh,

so-and-so is going to, Tim Poole's going to talk to Candace Owens, who's going to talk to Steve Bannon, and she's going to be on the Bannon show.

And then Bannon's going to be on.

He's going to talk to.

It's always,

then there's the value tainment guys.

You've got to get in there.

Yes, the value.

And it's the same little group.

Yes.

And throw in a little bit of Tucker Carlson.

And then, you know, and Ian, he was even on Rogan, you know, so Rogan's getting sucked into this.

And I think Rogan's gotten a lot of pushback on, because, you know, if you don't call out the genocide of Israel on Palestine, then you are clearly a Zionist.

It doesn't matter what war or what death you call out.

If it's not that one, then you're no good.

So all this to say,

You should be happy with the best podcasting universe and enjoy it for the last three years and nine months.

Because what are you going to do after that?

Candace Owen.

What happened to her?

She's bigger than ever, I think.

Yeah, because she's only talking about gossip and show business.

He's Blake Lidesley.

Blake Lidley.

It all deteriorates.

Blake Life.

That's all she talks about.

She's a psycho.

Well, yeah, that would be our analysis.

Hey, let's talk about Blake Lidley.

She's a psycho.

All right, we're done.

So it's like, it's like, it's like everything deteriorates to celebrity chit-chat.

Always.

Even Alex Jones is tired of it.

It's just like, if you can make Alex Jones tired of something like this, then you've gone very far.

So it's just like, oh, man, stop already.

Stop.

So I have some thoughts on Canada and Kearney.

Oh, yes.

Oh, okay, good.

I mean, I'm I'm interested in Canada and Kearney.

The appointed

prime minister.

And

I feel bad about

not getting a clip when I heard it the first time because I didn't think much of it.

I said, I don't know, what is he talking about?

It's one of Trump's sitting behind his desk.

He's yaking away about turning Canada into the 51st state.

And somebody calls him and says, well, you know, there'll just be a bunch of Democrats.

They're going to all vote red.

I don't know why you want that.

He says, well, I don't know.

I think that both parties up there are good.

And sometimes

he makes a comment.

He literally says, I think the Liberal Party might be the better of the two parties.

Oh, okay.

Trump says the Liberal Party might be better of it too.

Meanwhile, he keeps goading Canada

and

threatening them with this and that and the other.

And it's turned the Liberal Party into a popular party all of a sudden.

It did.

I mean, yes, yes, it did.

It did.

And now I'm beginning to think this was intentional.

Hmm.

And let's listen to these.

I got three clips.

This is the, let's start with this one.

This is Trump

Carney Tariffs, NHK.

U.S.

President Donald Trump says he'll slap additional tariffs of 25%

on imported cars from April 3rd.

One country significantly affected is Canada.

Its new Prime Minister, Mark Carney, stressed at a news conference Thursday he will hit back.

We will fight the U.S.

tariffs with retaliatory trade actions of our own that will have maximum impact in the United States and minimum impacts here in Canada.

Carney said Trump's team requested a phone call and he plans to pick up soon.

Meanwhile, Trump took to social media in the middle of the night to lay down a warning to Canada and the EU.

He told them not to work together against the U.S.

or even heftier duties are on the way.

Trump hopes to boost car production in America through import taxes.

But if the U.S.

and other countries start a tit-for-tet tariff war, the global economy looks bound to suffer.

Interesting, but it's April 3rd.

I mean, April 2nd is Liberation Day.

What are we doing on April 3rd?

This is interesting.

I don't know why this is either.

I don't get that.

But this whole idea that this might be a setup, a plan, a scheme.

And

the reason I'm starting to think this way is because, first of all, we're not moaning and groaning about Carney never getting one single vote for anything.

You're not talking about all mushroom elected.

He's never done anything.

Carney was brought in from the bank.

Yes,

he is a literal banker.

He's a literal banker.

He's the head of the Bank of England.

And then he was the head of the Bank of Canada.

And the Liberal Party just kicked Trudeau out, who quit, kind of quit, but he knew what was writing on the wall.

Well, we knew there was a blackmail scandal going on.

Well, there's something going on.

And so they bring Carney in.

And so Carney's now running the whole place.

And nobody's making mention of the fact that this guy.

Why?

Why did they put this banker in charge?

And why all of a sudden is the Liberal Party becoming popular again?

Because we Paulie there, or however you want to say that.

He's off the radar.

You don't even hear from him anymore.

He's still off the radar.

Now

there's a bunch of studies.

Oh, no, the Liberals are going to win because they're going to have a snap election now at the end of April, April 28th, I believe.

Right.

And so the snap election, you do these things.

You can do this in a parliamentary system when you think that you can kick ass.

Right.

Sometimes it doesn't work out, but most of the time it does.

You do a snap, snapper.

Snap election.

And then you can take over the place.

And so they, so Trump is promoting this 51st state thing and throwing, he's getting Canadians pissed off.

And Carney, and Carney is,

we're going to fight for our country.

We're not going to take it.

He's Mr.

Strongman.

It's like strong man against strong man.

I believe,

and I believe this, and I only get this from memes.

You know, you have to get information where you get it.

And you don't know house inhabit?

I can't believe it.

You know, Pepe.

Pepe the frog?

Yeah, you know, Pepe the Frog.

Yeah, of course I do.

There are memes after memes after memes saying, don't pass this around, but Carney spent a lot of time on Epstein Island.

Yeah, there it is.

We're back.

We have our own little version of it.

Nice.

So I think

Carney's got the goods on him.

Oh, Epstein files going to drop after the snap election.

Well, not necessarily.

or before.

Or never or never because you want to hold

him, yeah.

It's the Bunsen burner.

So, this is this is the leverage we have over Carney.

This is why Trump was going on about how the liberal, all the liberals are okay up there.

They're great.

That's a great gambit.

Hey, Mark, Mark, Mark, Mark, Mark Carney.

What's that in your mouth?

What's that in your mouth?

It's total.

And then you start, so you get these next two clips, and it kind of like:

is this all part of some grand scheme?

Let's play,

this will be set up.

Adam Chapnick, a professor of defense studies at Canadian Forces College, says Connie is taking a hard line against Trump on the back of rising patriotism among his compatriots.

President Trump's threats to make Canada the 51st state have unleashed a wave of nationalism and patriotism in Canada that we haven't seen in years, if not decades, in Canada.

We're normally polite and relatively quiet.

In this case, however, it is a threat to our very being and it's brought note a pride that I think has always been there, but we aren't inclined to show it in the same way as some other countries do.

And in this case, whether you lean politically to the right or to the left, everyone seems to agree that we are proud to be Canadian.

We don't want to be citizens of any other country.

As a result of Cany's continued harsh comments about Trump, the ruling party's support rate has recovered rapidly.

In a poll of polls by CBC News this week, the Liberals were more popular than the opposition Conservatives led by Pierre Polyev.

Chapnik suggests the election offers a chance for whoever is Canada's next leader to turn the page with the Trump administration.

I am liking this theory of yours, John.

I'm liking it too.

Here we go with this last clip.

This was the kind of, there's some other kicker information in here, which may or may not have something to do with the scheme.

Canada spends less than one and a half of its GDP on defense, something Trump has strongly criticized.

It seems highly likely Canada will sharply hike its military budget.

I think Canadians are united in understanding that we have to commit more to defense and we have to spend more on national defense.

Both political parties are promising increases to the defense budget.

Whether they are big big enough to satisfy the United States is not yet clear, but I can virtually promise you that Canada will be spending significantly more on defense over the next five, 10, and 15 years.

Even so, if relations with the U.S.

remain poor, Canada will seek to strengthen relations with European allies and other countries.

From a Canadian point of view, Canada's national interests are best served when we work with allies.

So in some ways, the challenges with the United States might actually bring us closer to our European and Asian allies because we will need more friends, more than we ever had in the past.

I think that much of Europe is responding the same way, that Europe has to get more serious about its security because it might not be able to rely on the United States in the near future.

So, this isn't ideal, not the ideal situation, but if something good can come out of it by closer cooperation amongst like-minded allies in the West, that would be a great thing.

So if I understand what you're saying,

the real win here

is our manufacturing base in the United States is going to grow significantly because Europe has nowhere to buy all this war stuff for at least the next couple of years.

Canada has nowhere to buy it.

Meanwhile, everybody's ramping up their money.

and we're going to take it.

Yeah, exactly.

We should, we're like North Korea, South Korea here.

We should we should drop American flags and kid rock CDs over

Ottawa.

We need to help them out.

Well, there was another, there was another little extra bit

on Truth Social.

The president posted, I just played a round of golf with Alexander Stubb, president of Finland.

And it turns out he's a very good player.

We won the men's member guest golf tournament at the Trump International Golf Club in Palm Beach County.

And I look forward to strengthening the partnership between the United States and Finland, and that includes the purchase and development of a large number of badly needed icebreakers.

They're beautiful ships, I hear.

Now, that, of course, is on Russia's border.

Maybe this whole, I'm pissed off at Putin, maybe that whole thing is to prolong things a little bit.

Let's keep the money train going here.

That pissed off at Putin thing could be a scheme

between him and

Putin, yes.

Well, the whole thing that Putin is saying.

This whole thing, we're watching theater.

Yes.

Everything, the Canada 51st State,

letting this Carney guy who's not even, you know, this crazy guy who's never gotten a vote in his life

run Canada.

And then we're all kind of like pushing Canada to get pissed off.

They get so damn mad that they buy stuff from us.

The whole thing is ridiculous.

Well,

let me bring in

Putin and Russia and Ukraine into this.

This is from

where is this?

This is,

I think, first post.

And moving to the war in Europe, Russian President Vladimir Putin.

I like that.

The war in Europe.

Now it's just not Ukraine.

It's the war in Europe, people.

It's just the war in Europe.

And moving to the war in Europe, Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed placing Ukraine under temporary UN control to pave the way for new elections and key peace agreements.

Claiming that President Volodymyr Zelensky's leadership lacks legitimacy, Putin insisted bringing in a third party to be a viable government that quote-unquote enjoys the people's trust.

In principle, of course, it would be possible under the auspices of the UN, with the United States, even with European countries, and of course with our partners and friends, to discuss the possibility of introducing temporary administration in Ukraine.

For what?

In order to hold democratic elections, in order to bring to power a viable government that enjoys the people's trust, and then begin negotiations with it on a peace treaty.

However, the Russian leader's proposal has been met with skepticism.

The White House National Security Council emphasized that Ukraine's governance is determined by its constitution and its people.

There has been no immediate comment from Ukraine, however.

President Zelensky has repeatedly rejected any notion questioning his legitimacy, And he insists that elections are impossible under martial law, which he imposed in response to Russia's invasion back in 2022.

You know,

the idea that this is what we're watching all theater is highly possible and probably very likely.

If you add one more bid in, remember, We have to flood the world with American stablecoin with dollars,

dollar dominance through stablecoin.

You can't get around it.

That is now being said by the president, by the Secretary of the Treasury.

Flood the world with stablecoin.

This is from the Defense and Aerospace podcast.

All the European Union members were just advised to stock 72 hours worth of food and shortwave radio and all this type of thing because of potential catastrophic events to come, including war.

They're getting quite serious here.

I think they are beyond now the insult that's coming their way left and right.

They are absolutely moving ahead in terms of trying to figure out the European defense without the United States, helping Ukraine without the United States.

And so they are putting some meat to those bones with the idea that not only is it important for European security that Ukraine is protected, but that this is something that they hope will buy themselves a seat at the table.

But I think what will buy them a seat at the table is the fact that there are not going to be sanctions lifted on Russia like SWIFT, which is one of the demands that Russia has levied on everyone if they're going to agree to this Black Sea and energy infrastructure ceasefire.

But to do that, to lift SWIFT and to assist in terms of the agricultural trade and banking resources that the Russians are asking for,

the Europeans have got to be part of that.

SWIFT is done out of Brussels.

It's not done out of Washington.

There is a lot happening here.

And there isn't this, is the U.S.

with us or not anymore.

The assumption is that the U.S.

has walked away.

Every day, something happens to make them feel that and to know that.

And so they're beginning to act along those lines.

There is an energy here, and a direction here, and a drive here, and an anger here that I haven't seen ever.

And so, and it's, it's moving.

I don't see it turning around anytime soon.

So, you freak the people out.

Like, you better get your shortwave radios and your tuna fish can and a flashlight because, you know, Putin can strike at any minute.

And so, you've got to give us your money.

We need need to take your money because it is, in effect, taking the people's money in advance by borrowing and carving out 150 billion right off the spot and giving that to the contractors, the military contractors, which for the foreseeable future is us.

And then

what you want to, they control Swift.

I didn't realize that Brussels controls Swift.

Well, that's great.

Here's the meet the new Swift.

It's called Stablecoin.

It's a beautiful stablecoin.

And you can trade that.

It's its own networks.

It can trade on any network, on any blockchain, any layer two,

level two

system.

This could be a very big game.

Big theater.

Something's up.

Well, yeah.

I think we're a little deeper than something's up.

And these pieces are coming together.

I'm not sure how, now I'm not sure how Finland fits in.

But then out of the blue, out of the blue,

Afghanistan pops up.

Yes, it does.

Did you catch this?

Yeah.

This is the

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abdul Kahar Balki.

Abdul Kahar Balki, thank you so much.

This is on CBS.

This is a legitimate CIA broadcast systems.

Abdul Kahar Balki, thank you so much for speaking to us.

The Taliban has been clear that it wants wants a new chapter with the U.S.

What is a new chapter?

The new chapter means that we end the, close the old chapter of 20 years of warfare, of being adversaries, and looking forward to the future.

The common goal of a stable and prosperous Afghanistan for the benefit of the people of Afghanistan.

And we believe that having an Afghanistan that is integrated, that is prosperous, that is stable, is also in the interest of the United States of America.

So now the Taliban pops up and and says, Hey, baby,

want to talk?

Deal, no deal?

You got an idea?

I got an idea.

What do you got on your side of the table?

What do I got on my side of the table?

But as you know, President Trump is unlike other presidents and wants to make a deal.

The one he's outlined is pretty clear.

Give us back our military hardware worth billions of dollars and we will unfreeze these assets which rightfully belong to Afghanistan.

Will the Taliban take that deal?

With regards to the assets of the Central Bank of Afghanistan, just as the title says,

they're the assets of the Central Bank of Afghanistan.

They're not the assets of my government or any other administrations that have

governed Afghanistan previously.

These are the assets of the people of Afghanistan and the state of Afghanistan.

They have been withheld wrongfully, illegitimately, and unlawfully, and they need to be released without any conditions.

Okay, so this doesn't sound like it's about the money at all.

I mean, first of all, what do we really...

There's nothing.

They've already gotten rid of.

They sold everything.

They crashed all the helicopters.

The planes are no good.

All that.

And then they give away the pickup trucks that are scattered all over the country.

Yeah, all over the world.

And then the asset, the frozen assets, it's a whopping, get ready for it, $17.5 billion.

That's an Elon Musk's couch.

Now, that's not a problem.

So there's something going on here.

And again, is Afghanistan?

What country do they border on?

Pakistan.

Nice.

India, I think, maybe China.

Yeah, I'm thinking one of those.

It's clear that Taliban wants a reset with the U.S.

despite this 20-year history of pretty brutal warfare.

President Trump made a deal with the Taliban, which ultimately saw the end of America's longest war and indeed the withdrawal of U.S.

forces.

Daliban has been in power ever since.

And now, Mr.

Trump is back in office.

Now, he said that what he wants to see.

Whoa, that was kind of

interesting.

I missed it.

Well, they made it sound like trump did the withdrawal

thank you oh really yeah listen again alban has been in power ever since and now mr trump is back in office right now let me play the we got to hear the full bit from here

president trump made a deal with the taliban which ultimately saw the end of america's longest war and indeed the withdrawal of u.s forces taliban has been in power ever since and now mr trump is back in office now he said that what he wants to see at least initially is the return of billions of dollars worth of U.S.

military equipment and hardware back to the U.S.

In exchange, he will consider unfreezing foreign currency reserves that President Biden froze after the withdrawal.

Is that a deal that Taliban is willing to take?

Currently, the best way to engage is through normal diplomatic means.

Engage, talk, find common spaces that secure the interests of both countries and that addresses the common concerns.

Now, so Afghanistan borders on all the stands.

Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, China,

most importantly, Iran.

Yes.

That would be the most important one.

And so

this is a part of the show.

I think we need to have an just called the show.

This is a show.

This is not all of a sudden the Taliban goes, hey, yay, Trump, you know, you know, you kill our guys, but yeah, you know, let's do a deal.

Deal, no deal.

There's a lot going on here that your M5M is not exploring.

Signal Gate, mommy bloggers.

Hex Seth.

Hex, hex Seth.

Oh, actually,

what did I have?

I had,

what did I have?

I had a Signal Gate clip here.

Yes.

Brennan.

Brennan lets it slip who he's really at.

Yeah, yeah.

Brennan's back with Katie Turr, who has two moms.

One mom is a dude in a dress.

If you were the CIA director and you were included on a signal message chain, I know it didn't exist when you were CIA director, but something of that like.

Did she say Chan?

Let me say chain, I think.

A signal message chain.

I know it didn't exist when you were CIA director, but something of that like.

Would you have spoken up and said, hey, listen, we shouldn't be having this conversation here?

I know John Radcliffe has said that he didn't release any classified information on that chain.

He's trying to absolve himself from any wrongdoing.

But did he have a duty to speak up?

Well, I think certainly there should have been questions raised when Mike Walsh informed the group that there was going to be this signal discussion at the principal's level.

He was the one who put together this communication chat forum.

He was the one who sets the agenda.

So it's the National Security Advisor who chairs the principals committee meeting, which this was a virtual committee meeting.

And so there should have been questions raised from the very beginning.

Well, wait a minute.

This is a pending military operation.

Why are we going to be doing this on signal?

So it should have been redirected early on

into classified systems and networks.

So yeah, this is something that in my experience, we never would have done.

Again, sometimes someone will pick up a phone because you have to convey some type of message to somebody, and the only way you have to do it is with some type of unclassified system.

But you do it cryptically.

You do it in a manner that's going to reveal the operational details.

And despite what Secretary Hexet says, there were operational details included in that chat.

So it sounds like Brennan's going after Waltz.

They're all going after Waltz.

So now the latest is this guy, Wong.

The Wong guy?

Yeah.

Carl LaFong, capital L.

But that's all Laura Loomer posts about all day long.

I've already solved it.

Yeah.

Laura Loomer.

She she picks up some pretty funny stuff.

She's got this, and the connection, of course, is Guilt by Association, which is this Wong character who is Waltz's undersecretary, I guess, who's married to a woman, another

Chinese American, who went after the J Sixers, thus.

Oh,

all right.

That's the key.

Oh, there you go.

Oh, is that J Sixer?

Oh, man.

What a quagmire.

Oh, boy.

Well, then, allow me to bring in Jesse Waters.

That's right.

I'm doing it.

I can't.

Oh, you're.

Oh, okay.

Hold on a second.

Let me make a note.

Make a note.

Make a note.

I figure this is the three for one.

It means I get to do three for the one.

In what universe do you get three for one of anything?

You promised me.

Off camera.

Off camera.

We should stream cameras.

Yeah, man.

We should do YouTube live when we do this show.

We should stream it on X.

So, this is the latest in

the JFK files, which went away.

By the way, I'm not going to interrupt.

Now, that you mentioned streaming a live video on X, you mentioned earlier in the show how we're not in this group of people that are changing, you know, the value tamement guy we did interviewing, Tucker, who was interviewing

Megan, Megan,

Megan, Megan,

Megan,

Circle Jerk.

They're all video.

That's why.

Well, praise God.

You imagine we have to do video.

I'll give you that one.

We have to do video.

Hey, what was it?

Someone had a good nickname for us.

It was Tick and Twitch or something.

Gone is

crackpot and buzzkill.

No, people, we're not going to do that.

All right.

So

this is the latest twist in the JFK files, which just went away within days.

Within days, I tell you.

All this big talk, the Epstein files, the JFK files, and now we learn this.

I would like to actually tell the American people, it was made aware to me this evening that NBC actually has a video that's never been seen before.

We're actually going to be sending a letter requesting that from NBC because it allegedly shows Oswald near the vehicle when the assassination took place, which means that he couldn't have been the shooter.

So, So again, we're tracking down all this information, but look, there's even a CIA document that came out that Mr.

Morley pointed out that actually said that the CIA never bought the lone gunman theory.

And so I think the American people had an inclination as to what we were saying, but we never had the hard evidence until now.

And so it's important to note that in a free and fair society, how could you operate or have an agency operating in the shadows?

And so kudos to President Trump, also Director Radcliffe, and Tulsi Gabbard for pushing for this transparency.

It is going to be generational changing that they've done this, and we hope to bring forward legislation to ensure that this never happens again for future generations to come.

This is very unclear to me.

Did this information come out of the JFK files drop?

This whole thing is a confused mess.

That's bull, whatever she said, oh, it's going to be generational, it will never happen again.

How do you prevent something from ever happening again when it's just illegal to begin with?

I mean, what are they talking about?

Well, apparently,

all of a sudden, there's a picture of Oswald's video incidentally next to the car.

Hey, I'm Ewan.

I'm Oswald.

It's film.

And Oliver Stone had it too.

You're saying NBC has been keeping this tape of Oswald under wraps?

Correct.

In fact,

Director Stone actually told us that he was showed this tape, that it was a secondary copy, and that he said that this could blow open the entire GFK

investigation.

What I will also tell you, though, Jesse, is he said the NBC has been very, very much so guarding this tape.

And so I believe that that tape belongs to the American people.

We are going to be sending a letter asking for that tape.

And I would encourage everyone

to ask NBC.

She's

Florida Representative Luna.

Oh, this Luna?

Is it Luna?

Is she a bathing suit model?

Oh, hold on a second.

I didn't.

Is she a bathing suit model?

She's the one that looks good in the bikini, and they made a big fuss about it.

Luna.

She's kind of a Luna tick.

Anna Polina Luna?

Yeah, she's the bathing suit girl.

Is there,

let's see, I don't see any bathing suit pictures.

Well, just type in Anna Polina Luna bathing suit.

How about bikini?

Bikini.

Bikini.

That's the same thing.

All right.

All right.

All right.

All right.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh, all right.

Back to the videotape.

We are going to be sending a letter asking for that tape, and I would encourage everyone to ask NBC to release that tape to the public.

It's important, not just for our investigations, but so the American people know the truth as to what happened with John F.

Kennedy.

News flash.

We're never going to know the truth.

News flash, people.

News flash.

Brother.

Luna's also causing some trouble with

Johnson, the House Speaker.

She's trying to do something, and I can't remember exactly what it is.

Somebody in the troll room might know this, but she's making a big fuss about something.

She wants it brought to the house floor or something, and she can't do it without

Johnson.

But there's some bypass mechanism she's working on causing a stir.

This is so this, everything is a show.

Everything is a show right now.

My favorite was the Save the Spook operation over there at Columbia University.

So we know, so SIPA,

what does that school stand for?

School for International Political

Public

School of International Spies.

Public

Administration or something like that.

Spy School.

Spy School.

Spy School.

Yes.

University graduates today tore up their diplomas to protest the school's cooperation with the Trump administration.

Graduates of the School of International and Public Affairs chanted Free Palestine as they destroyed their sheepskins.

It was Alumni Day on campus.

The protests are in support of Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia grad student and protester now held by ICE agents.

And they also object to the concessions made to curb protests on campus.

Some protesters also calling for the dismissal of several Columbia University teachers and administrators.

So these are alums who came by, tore up their sheepskins, which just looked like cardboard to me.

Yeah, it looked like cardboard, which is paper.

But they're all former spook school students.

They didn't get a job in an agency, and so now they're pissed off.

I don't know.

The whole thing could be a scam.

The world has gone crazy, man.

The world has gone crazy.

That's a good one.

I didn't know that story.

Well, with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage.

Say in the morning to you, the man who put the C in his chimes.

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

John C.

DeMora!

Yeah, in the morning to you, the San Akranium on our ship, sea boots of the ground, feet in the air, subsiding the water, and all the names of nights out there.

Say in in the morning to the trolls in the troll room.

Hotel behind

the

mark

89, 90, 2291.

Okay, now you're low.

Yeah, we're a little low.

The last

the last 10 show average 10% low.

The last, yeah, the last 10 show average was 25.69.

But why is that?

Is there something going on?

Because donations were short.

Yeah, donations are lousy.

We're losing support.

I don't think people are.

We're not talking enough.

We're doing the same thing we always do.

It's a big mistake we make.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Which is we don't talk about what everyone else is talking about as if it was something important.

Yeah.

And in this case,

this

spiral gate or whatever it's called.

Yes.

And we also don't have video.

This is this is.

And we don't have, well, the video, I don't think, is a crucial.

I did have a...

It is to get us on Valutainment.

They keep trying to get us on Valutaine.

Well, they're trying to get you on.

No one's ever contacted me.

Well, I did have a thought about this as we're, you know, we have said four more years, and we're in that right now.

The final days, the final days, the final days.

I did have an exit strategy, which you're going to roll your eyes when I tell you this.

Okay, let me pre-roll.

There you go.

Do a pre-roll because I finally like, oh.

And it was uh, there was some other bull crap award show, the 50 over 50 or something for podcast blah, blah,

whatever it was.

And then I'm like, there is, here is an award show, an award that only we can give this show,

and it's completely valid and will be revalidated every year because I'm on the Rogan show with, you know, with Grace.

I'm on once a year.

Yeah, I've been on that show six times.

I thought it was five, but it's six.

Yeah.

The Pod Father.

Diminishing Return.

Are you ready?

Are you ready?

Yeah.

The Pod Father Awards.

Oh, I like it.

I knew you would.

No, you said I'd roll my eyes.

You didn't.

What a minute.

What do you change your mind out of it?

Oh, I knew you would.

No, the fact that I...

I'm prefacing, oh, you're going to roll your eyes.

Oh, no, I knew you'd like it.

No, the fact that I'm in on an award show.

That part I've always been against.

But then I thought, why don't I exploit this?

And there's people always on X yelling, you idiot, you nerd, he's not the pod father, Adam Curry's the pod father.

And I have proof.

And, and,

and I think it's, it's possible.

I want to stop you right now.

I have been saying that we should be doing awards for a decade.

There's the eye roll, but I never considered the kind.

So, podcasting.

Oh, no, you never considered since it was, you never, once it's named after you, you're in.

Yes, I'm in now.

This is, I'm i'm in this is it no you look this is no time for ego john there's no time for ego

it can be no no no no it's not makes nothing but sense tech grouch awards just doesn't cut it all right then we can do those later it does not the same thing tech grouch awards will be great not to mention it but here's the trick it has to be a gala it has to be a gala

Or

as I like to say, a gala.

Yeah, in America, they always say gala.

It has to be a gala.

I think the Brits say gala too, for some reason somebody says gala somebody says gala well we're gonna say gala and i think because he never shows up he never accepts an award i think if we have the the right award i can get joe rogan to come and and we can do it in his club

how about that

oh

you're liking it right well i like it except for the fact that i may have to travel

you don't you just have to write stuff and just post memes.

You don't have to come if you don't want to.

If it's too much trouble

to come to the gala.

If it's too much trouble to come to our Podfather Awards, and we need to come up with categories, but they have to be funny, fantastic categories.

They have to be good categories.

Well, yeah, like best value tainment.

Not joke categories.

How about best value tainment?

See?

Okay, well, you give me some ideas.

How about longest podcasts with no information?

We'd win that one.

With no information.

Candace Owens, ladies and gentlemen, the Pod Father Award.

And what do we call them?

Do we call them the Potties?

No.

The Potties.

That would be the nickname that

we'd rail against.

People keep calling these the Potties, but it sounds like

the Potty Training.

Yeah.

So it would be, you can get an Oscar.

Actually, the Potties is not POD.

It's not a bad name.

You get an Oscar.

It's part of the, now it used to be a trifecta.

It's just the Oscar.

You get the Grammy Award.

The Ergot.

Oh, so we need the Pergot.

You need for Purves.

Now you need to add the Podfather Award.

You are not complete unless you all.

And everyone has a podcast.

They can all win.

All those actors are all.

Okay, we have best comedy podcasts.

That's one category for sure.

Yeah, and then you get some, you get some hot, you get Dana Carvey or somebody to come out.

And we get those Libtards from the what is it?

Jason, what's his face?

What's the Libtard show?

The one that held all the presents.

J.

Cal?

J.

Cal.

On Jay Cal, he gets an award for sure.

Oh, yeah, absolutely.

Best all-in podcast.

Yeah, we can have best, best female podcaster.

Think about that.

No, we don't want to do a sexist stuff.

Yes, we do.

What are you talking about?

Then, best trans podcast.

Nah, no, best gay podcast.

There's a hit.

There's a hit.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Okay.

Well,

I just want you to think about it.

You know, since I've got it, I'm in, but

the categorization, I think you're already taking it too lightly.

All right.

Well, where's your ideas, Brainstorm?

I.

What?

Yeah, I've had nothing but ideas about this for a decade.

Well, then spout them off.

What are we doing?

First of all,

you have to pay to enter.

Oh,

no.

Well, that's what all the podcast awards you have to pay to enter.

No.

Okay.

You don't pay to enter the real awards.

You don't pay to enter the Academy Awards.

You don't pay.

You have to be a member of the Academy.

Oh, you don't pay.

We have an Academy you have to be a member of.

Well, maybe that's not a bad idea, the Academy of Podcasting.

But they actually exist, and it's a horrible leftist organization.

We want no part of it.

Really?

Yeah, the Podcast Academy.

Oh, okay.

Well, forget that.

No.

But how do we make money?

Oh, you want to make me?

I thought it was a promotional idea.

The money-making is part of a promotion for the show.

Oh,

okay.

Wow.

Value for value.

Oh, boy.

Okay.

Oh, there.

Oh, man.

You just wanted to cash in on some

exit strategy.

All of a sudden, fees?

Exit strategy.

Can we get it sponsored?

Collecting fees?

Can we get this thing sponsored by Squarespace?

Now you're talking about it.

Squarespace.

Can we get it sponsored by Squarespace?

We could do that.

And Roe.

And

Roe.

Underwriting, sponsorships, advertising, whatever you want to call it.

Yes.

Boner pills.

We can do something.

There's something in there for us.

Yeah, that would be fine with me.

Okay.

In fact, that's what I think is necessary to make the event work at all.

Yeah, because we have to have a budget.

Yeah, so you get a budget from the underwriter.

We give it away for free.

I mean, people get it for free.

They're just going to have to, you know.

Yeah, no,

I can see that's not a problem.

Fastest talker.

Boom.

There's Ben Shapiro.

He's,

yeah.

Ben Shapiro, there's maybe one.

That girl that used to work for Ben Shapiro's operation, she's who sounds and looks like Ben Shapiro, that girl.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

She could win that.

Everyone's saying, I'm selling out.

Shoe on head needs an award.

Shoe on head?

Yeah.

Man.

All right.

Well,

I have come up with the concept.

It's up to you to take it over the finish.

Yeah, we'll make it happen.

Oh, yeah, sure.

Jay's working on the website as we speak.

Yeah, well, she could be.

She's getting pretty good at that.

Thank you to these trolls who are with us and contributing nicely.

By the way, every troll gets free entry on the website.

We should have the troll room just scrolling by during the Pod Father Awards.

Huh?

We could do that.

Yeah, just big screens without just saying horrible things.

Yeah.

Ben Shapiro comes up.

Zionist.

Yeah, yeah.

Pig.

Zionist chill.

We could get them all.

I think it would be a hoot and annihilate.

You do it in Austin.

Everyone wants to come to Austin.

There's always a flight to Austin.

You do it in Joe's club.

I think I could get Joe to do it.

I think he would be okay with it.

Well, if Joe would do it, let the club do it, then he wouldn't be a problem for him to accept an award.

No, of course.

Because he's there anyway.

Yes.

Best comedy podcast.

Boom.

There he is.

He's done.

Well, it's not a comedy podcast.

Best interview show.

It's listed under comedy.

He can be listening under anything he wants.

I'm not categorizing him as well.

Anyway, so I don't watch that show and crack up.

I'll expect a business plan by 3 p.m.

You're not getting anything by 3 p.m.

Thank you very much, trolls, for being with us.

They're at trollroom.io, noagenda.stream, and of course, in the modern podcast apps, these are the ones you want to get.

The Pod Father Awards will only be streamed live on the modern podcast apps, of course, and NBC this fall.

You can get one of those at podcastapps.com.

And as you just heard, we're about to sell out from our extremely successful model that we've been running for over 17 years, value for value.

Although I do like the idea of just using the whole show as promotion, the whole Podfather Awards is promotion for no agenda.

I think that's pretty good.

But then we would have to kind of switch the video.

What?

Yeah, we do video.

The awards can be videoed.

Yes, yes, yeah.

Well, it has to be a video.

Yeah, but we're not doing the podcast video.

No way.

No, no way.

It's not going to happen.

You imagine.

That would be in that same circle jerk.

Although, let's think of all the podcasts we could be invited on.

We finally get on value tapement.

You can get on anytime that they want to do that.

No, that's not true.

No, they don't want me.

They don't like me.

I can tell.

Why don't they like you, you think?

I don't know, but everyone's always saying, get Curry on, get Curry on.

And they'll post on X, Who should we get on the podcast?

Who do you want to see?

Curry, Curry, Curry, Curry, Curry, Dvorak, Dvorak, Curry, Curry, Curry, Curry.

Never.

Never.

It's totally valid.

I'm also baffled that Tucker Carlson hasn't invited me.

I see you on Tucker.

Yes, I do.

I'm an interesting guy.

I think Beck, go back to Beck.

Beck has got a better audience.

Yeah, but Beck wanted me to work for him, and I kind of turned him down.

Yes, you keep saying that, but so what?

He's still like, he still thinks you're his brother.

He'll be glad to put you on the show.

He'll pitch you again.

I got to have an angle, man.

He's all in.

He just did this whole thing on AI.

And Beck's like, you know, this is happening.

This is the new God.

Oh, he's all in on AI?

Oh, he talks to AI.

He talks to AI.

I was talking.

Yes, he talks to AI.

Hi, AI.

Yeah, he really, he really believes that it's the new Gollum.

You know, if you know the story of Gollum.

Yeah, Gollum mud.

Yeah, okay.

Yeah.

The Gollum, the Gollum character.

Anyway, value for value.

That's how we continue to roll for as long as we can.

It was definitely shorter today than expected, but you're right.

It's probably because there's no video and we're not talking about all the important stuff.

We're not harping on that one thing.

Like RFK Jr.'s blackmail scandal.

Yeah, because it's all bullcrap.

We don't talk bullcrap.

That's the thing.

Yeah,

it's a problem.

They're not used to getting good material from us because we don't talk about nonsense.

I met a cool guy yesterday in Fredericksburg.

No, yeah, Saturday.

Yeah.

He's going to do some work with me, some development work.

And I said, well, how long?

He's 47.

How long have you been listening?

He says, oh, I've been listening almost from the beginning, but then I fell overboard for a long, long time.

I didn't come back until 2018.

Why'd you fall overboard?

He says, well, you know, I worked in aerospace at Space Force for 20 years.

And when you started talking crap about the moon landing, I got upset and I stopped listening.

Like, wow.

I had no idea.

People got mad about that and would rage quit.

That's interesting.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, Leo Laporte felt the same way.

Yeah, he still does.

Time, talent, or treasure.

That's all we ask in return.

Whatever value you receive from this program, and I think we do deliver the goods.

We do give you value.

It's definitely not what you're getting anywhere else.

And maybe you'll look smart at a cocktail party, around the water cooler, or on the company, you know, at the Monday morning Zoom meeting.

There's things, this intellectual, smart things you can say.

And people will go, wow, I guess you don't read home and habits, do you?

And one of the ways that we always enjoy is our artwork from our artists.

And these artists, you know, I've noticed the artists are

actually tricking us into believing that they're doing AI, but they're not.

Just before we thank our artists for episode 1750, Sir Shug, who did Flexibleize on 1749,

he said,

thanks for the props in choosing one of my art pieces.

Again, just to confirm, old school jazzer size artwork was indeed my inspiration.

The listener involved in that original art was correct in her assessment.

I hope it gave her a smile.

But just so you know, no AI at all in that one.

If I thought anything was AI, it was going to be that one.

And so now I'm questioning Nico Syme because he did a dynamite piece, which it may not be AI.

This could just be a well-done piece.

It was the Liberty Juice.

I think that's the idea.

So we had a dinner table conversation because JC is in AI.

And talking about your complaint from the last show.

sorry?

Which complaint?

There's a lot of complaints I have.

Well, the main complaint that you tried to get AI to do some coding for you because big coding, coding.

And he said that this is a known problem with AI.

Oh.

That unless you know what you're doing to begin with, in other words, you can code in the language and you're adept at it, AI can't do Jack.

All it can do is help you a little bit.

And I think it's the same thing with these artists.

The guys who really have an artistic temperament that use AI, and I would put Darren O'Neill in that category,

they know how to prompt.

They have a sense of it, and they have a sense of everything.

And that's artistic because Darren O'Neill,

for some unknown reason to us,

he's a very artsy guy.

And so, and other artists, Scaramanga is a good example, and there's others that know how to, Scaramanga can do, he can do animation and AI to the point where it's attracted Brunetti.

Yes, I know.

And so we have, it's the same thing.

I can do some AI stuff with the art, but I can't do anything compared to, I mean, compared to what Darren can do because he's

more of an artist than I am.

And it's the same thing with coding.

So that was his comment.

Okay.

Well, so then the promise of AI is bullcrap is what you're saying.

So unless you can actually write a book, AI won't be able to write a book for you.

Exactly.

And if you can't do art, AI can't do art for you.

Now, the exception of this may be Comic Strip Blogger.

But Comic Strip Blogger maybe is an artist in some way, and

he just got pretty adept at using the prompts.

Because he has AI butt art?

He's just the butt guy.

Well, I mean,

and he gets AI to do it.

I mean, that's his special.

He's a a butt expert.

Okay.

No,

it holds true.

Anyway, so that was kind of the point.

So it's augmentation rather than

augmentation, not origination.

Boom.

So is that really worth $100 billion per company then?

Of course not.

No, okay.

Thank you though.

That might be a lot.

But it's too late now.

No, you wait.

And the data centers scams falling apart.

So

we thank.

Who are we thanking again?

We were thankful.

Nico Syme.

Nico Syme, yes, for his artwork.

Now,

we both liked Tantanial's splesh, but we kind of really wanted that for a title.

And

I didn't think the art was that compelling.

You like Darren O'Neal's Freedom Sap.

Well, yes.

The ultimate choice came between Liberty Juice from Nico Syme or Freedom Sap.

from Darren O'Neill.

And I even liked the fact that he had a better can

description, the taste of freedom, 33 ounces, versus Nico Syme just had 12 ounces on there.

But you have a problem with sap.

You just don't like sap.

I thought sap is an associative word, and anyone who listens to the no agenda shouldn't be seen as a sap.

And I was going to use it for a lot of people.

That's taking that far.

Oh, okay.

Sorry.

All right.

And so I was thinking of using it.

Well, I could use it for the newsletter because it's very attractive.

But then again, then I saw this little screaming meme-y thing by Dr.

Kelly.

Yeah.

And I said that, I just saw that image.

I don't know if that was AI or not, but it's just the screaming

liberal.

I mean, I just,

I had to use that.

So I ended up using that.

By the way, just on

that idea of it being a tool.

So

many people believe.

That they know how to write a song and they go into AI and then they say, AI, write a song.

They might give some lyrics or a snippet of lyrics.

And then they send it to me and say, This is the best song ever.

It's always a country song.

I'd say 90% of it.

Why is that, by the way?

That's, I've heard, I've noticed this too.

Because the least people in the world understand what a good country song is.

The most people will think, oh, that's great.

That's my feeling behind it.

And the most people will know what a good hip-hop song is,

and it's all atrocious it's no good and people just because it it's in tune and it rhymes and it comes up with a with a chorus be like this song is the best this is actually killing spotify well the inverse spotify is making tons of money there's you know hundreds of artists amazingly in sweden who are just flooding the so the whole business on spotify is playlists you have to get on a popular playlist that's that's how you get a hit and And you can buy your position.

It starts at $5,000.

And these playlist makers, they know what they're doing.

They know how to make playlists.

And Spotify promotes the playlists.

It's all incestuous, believe me.

So now Spotify is promoting all these different playlists.

Oh, sleep at night, soft jazz, piano jazz, classical.

And it's all AI-generated muck.

And because it's AI-generated muck, they take all the money from it.

They don't have to give it to

the music publishers.

Anyone, yeah.

And

I think it's going to be a very dark road they've taken by doing this.

People are starting to notice.

Yeah.

It's a dark road to the bank.

Well,

yeah, we'll see.

Anyway, was there anything else we needed to mention?

I kind of like the

boomer pills.

It wasn't good enough for art by also Nico Sign.

Nico Sign.

I was a Comic Strike blogger's Liberty Juice can.

I thought that was pretty good.

Yeah, it didn't tickle my fancy.

No, I didn't recommend it.

You liked Signal Trap.

Well, I said it was interesting, but the signal, it had to be blue.

It had to look more like a signal.

It was too obscure.

Too obscure.

Sir Shug did that one.

Anyway, thank you, Nico Syme.

Good work.

Thank you.

We appreciate it, and we appreciate what everybody does to support the show because that is actual money in the bank for us, money we don't have to spend on doing these types of things.

But we do need to pay bills, strangely enough.

So for that, we thank all of our financial supporters who delivered value back to the show, $50 and above.

And we'd like to give a special thanks to our executive and associate executive producers.

These are the ones who come in $200 or above.

Now, if you do that, you get an associate executive producer credit, just like Hollywood.

In fact, go to imdb.com, you can see many Hollywood bigwigs like Dana Brunetti, known from 50 Shades of Gray and 50 Shades of Grayer, and

Gran Turismo and

House of Cards.

I mean, it's no lightweight.

Non-ending.

Non-ending.

That's right.

And we'll read your note.

$300 or above.

You get an executive producer credit and we'll read your note.

And we kick it off with Commodore Mech.

That is because he becomes a Commodore today, I believe.

No, maybe not.

was was he already a commodore let me just check for a second i think he got i think it's today i could be wrong let me i i can double check yes he may want to be knighted no he wants to be knighted but he becomes a commodore today so already gave hundred i mean whatever it is commodore and a knight he's from cherry hill new jersey home of eddie murphy and comes in with $500 and says, Karma, please, I finally looked over my previous donations.

And with this donation, I have surpassed $1,000.

That is the magic level.

That means not only will we become a Commodore of the No Agenda Show, but also a knight of the No Agenda Roundtable.

And we will knight you, Sermeck, later on.

And he asks for a karma.

Here it comes.

You've got karma.

And then we go to Poland, of all places, and Sir Mark comes in from Poland, 500 bucks.

Wow.

He's in Warsaw, as a matter of fact, and he wants to be a commander.

He's doing a commodore is what you're going to get.

Just sending karma to everybody.

So he put a karma on it.

All right.

You've got karma.

Eric Kessler is in Kansas City, Missouri.

$350.93.

Must be with some fees added there.

Thank you, John and Adam, for your courage.

It's provided me with a better education than all my years of higher education.

Cheers.

How about that?

We don't have video,

but we do deliver some value.

Proof right there.

That's because we're an actual podcast.

Yes, we are podcasts.

Indy, No Agenda Meetup comes in from Greenwood, Indiana.

They send a note in and a check and $333

with the raffle

switcheroo.

And this one goes to Sir Ripper.

Sir Ripper.

Ripoff.

Ripoff.

Ripoff.

Oh, that's what it is.

Sorry.

Sir, Rip Off the Maple.

No note.

So double up the Karma.

All right.

We shall do that right away.

Double up Karma.

You've got.

Karma.

And we're here at the Associate Executive Producers, where where we always find some favorites.

Eli, the coffee guy from Bensonville, Illinois, 203.30.

And he says, I recommended No Agenda to a Buddy and explained how the show is about media deconstruction.

His response was, well, that must keep those guys busy 16 plus hours a day with all the BS out there.

Correct.

So thank you, John and Adam, for your courage and the hard work.

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Use code ITM20 for 20% off your first order and stay caffeinated.

Stay caffeinated, says Eli the coffee guy.

Nick G in Mesa, Arizona, $200.

Heard donations were really bad last show.

Yeah.

Yep.

This show, too.

Consider this my reparation donation for listening.

For listening for a couple of years, but never donating.

Thanks.

He needs a dedouching.

All right.

You've been dedouched.

Thanks for your hard work providing an excellent product.

I've heard bits and pieces, but would love to hear the origin story of how you two started the show many years ago.

Well, there is an episode out there that does this.

It's episode 200.

I don't know what.

Well,

100, 100.5, 200, 200.

We thought it was 100.

No, we had 100.

100, 100.5.

We've done these many times.

No, I know, but I thought it was 200.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5.

It's real simple.

That's where you explain it.

Well, anyway,

I'm not going to explain it.

People should listen to that episode.

I think it's either 100 or 200.

Oh, wait, no, 100 is when I quit.

That's right.

Oh, that's right.

You quit at 100.

It's 200 that we did this.

200.5.

200.5 is what everyone says.

200.5.

Yeah, okay.

So I was right at the beginning.

You're always right.

I am.

Yep.

C podcast awards.

Podfather awards.

Podfather.

Now you're

already dropped them.

Podfather awards.

It's the official podfather awards.

No, the podies.

We're not going to call it the poddies.

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage John C.

Dvorak.

Yeah, and you come out in your tuxedo.

Everyone's hooting and hollering.

With chicks, with chicks, John Babes.

One on each arm.

One on each arm.

A babe on each arm.

Perfect.

Yeah.

That's the way you do it.

Yep.

All right.

You're up with.

No, you didn't finish.

You didn't finish.

I didn't know.

Thanks for all your hard work providing an excellent product.

I've heard of bits and pieces, but love to hear the origin story of how you started the show.

We just talked about that many years ago.

Cheers.

Okay.

Cheers.

You're right.

Cheers.

Justine in Plainville, Connecticut.

We're at the end here, almost $200.

Dear Adam and John, I've been listening to the show since pre-COVID.

When I got married, I got my husband hooked, and now he's a bigger fan than I am.

Can you please wish my husband, Carl, a happy 34th birthday with a birthday biscuit jingle?

They always give me a biscuit on my birthday, as well as a karma for our third human resource that we've been trying for.

Oh, wait a minute.

That's a baby-making karma.

We've got to do the proper karma.

Can't hand out the wrong karma.

Best from Justine from Plainville, Connecticut.

Yes, absolutely.

And remember.

Karma.

Any kid will have to be named after us.

Linda Lou Patkin wraps it up from Lakewood, Colorado with $200 and asks for jobs karma and says, for a competitive edge with a resume that gets results, go to imagemakersinc.com.

For all your executive resume and job search needs, that's ImageMakers Inc.

with a K.

And work with Linda Liu, Duchess of Jobs and writer of resumes.

Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.

Let's vote for jobs.

You thought

come in.

And that's it.

Short list for executive and associate executive producers, but they did produce two Commodores and the Knight, so we'll be bestowing them with those awards later on in our second half.

Thank you so much.

Of course, you can donate any amount.

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Our formula is this:

we go out, we hit people in the mouth.

I have a request from one of the producers.

Okay.

Here, let me get up.

Oh, my head.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the kind of comedy you can expect at the Pod Father Awards at the Mothership in Austin.

So, you know, there's another.

I don't know who this guy's aware of what's going on, but Macron seems to be going nuts.

Yeah,

I've noticed that.

Well, you know, he's married to a dude, so that's part of the problem.

I think he is.

And Candace Owens is not letting up on it.

No, this is her main thing.

She also thinks Schumer's married to a dude.

Oh, wait, but has she said yet that Mother Teresa was Fauci's mom and that she's a dude?

Because that is the best one I've heard.

No, I have not heard that one.

Oh, yeah, it's exclusive right here on the show.

Let's play a couple of clips.

I got the France-China climate crap from NHK.

Okay, let's do that.

China says it has agreed to bolster cooperation with France in maintaining multilateralism in global trade and combating climate change.

The two sides met on Thursday in Beijing against the backdrop of Washington's America-First policy.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his French counterpart Jean-Noël Barrot issued a joint statement marking the 10th anniversary of the Paris Agreement on climate change.

The responsibility of our two countries is also to jointly propose solutions to global challenges as we did 10 years ago to contribute to the conclusion of the Paris Climate Agreement.

The two sides of China and Europe should insist on being mutually beneficial and win-win partners and open up new prospects for bilateral cooperation by properly resolving the specific problems that exist through consultation.

In an apparent reference to Trump's decision to pull the U.S.

out of the Paris Accord, the statement says: The regression of certain countries from scientific consensus and their withdrawal from multilateral institutions will only strengthen our determination and actions.

Oh, well, there's more money you can spend, Frank.

Don't I recall that when China joined the Paris Accords, that they said, Yeah, we're going to do all this and that and the other.

In 2035.

Yeah, something or 2030 or 2035.

And they said, that's when it's going to happen.

And so what is the,

can you get away with that forever?

This bull crap that you're just, oh, yeah, we're all in, but in 2030.

Well, yeah, because no one cares because they're all in it for the money.

Even Al Gore, he's back again.

He's running around.

Is it too late, Vice President Gore?

Well, no, it's never too late.

No, I'd be out of a job if it was too late.

It's not too late, but you know, a lot of damage has been done.

And so here's Macron going on and on about Ukraine now and trying to set up shop.

French President Emmanuel Macron says a Franco-British delegation will soon visit Ukraine to plan for the deployment of what he called a reassurance force.

The troops' role would be to guarantee an reassurance force.

I gotta write that down.

What does that even mean?

I have no.

It doesn't

reassurance force

plan for the deployment of what he called a reassurance force.

The troops' role would be to guarantee an eventual ceasefire with Russia.

Macron hosted a summit of leaders of about 30 nations and organizations in Paris on Thursday to discuss support for Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zerensky also attended.

Macron told reporters after a meeting the participants unanimously agreed the time was not right to lift sanctions on Moscow.

White House officials said Tuesday Washington had agreed in separate talks with Moscow and Kyiv that safe navigation would be ensured in the Black Sea and the use of force would end in those waters.

But Russia has insisted some sanctions must be lifted before the agreement can take effect.

Speaking of the Paris summit, Zelensky said Russian President Vladimir Putin is not ready for direct negotiations.

The Ukrainian leader added that he is ready for negotiations in any format.

Force

armes?

No, it would be

force reassurance.

Armes reassurance.

This doesn't sound right.

Reassurance of what?

Force.

We're going to reassure that we have force.

I don't know.

Reassurance.

Sounds like something Warren Buffett sells.

That's reinsurance.

Oh, reinsurance.

Reinsurance.

I came across a crazy ad

that I'd like to share with you.

And

it just,

and I guess

it comes on the heels of, you know,

there's a producer who I donated too late for today's show.

Sent me a really long note.

Did you see that note come in by any chance?

I'm sorry, what?

A producer sent a really long note

that came in too late for today's show.

I didn't see it.

And it was about

pharma advertising.

Yeah.

And let me see if I can find it real quick.

The crux was

please stop talking about

RFK

removing pharma advertising.

Why should we stop talking about it?

Because that's going to kill my business.

Oh, well, what's it got to do?

We're not working for him.

Does he send us enough money to

stop talking about this stuff?

Get on that Linda Lupakin train.

Well, you know, he says this is one of the biggest businesses.

It's so much money for people who are advertising creatives that

it's going to kill their industry.

But that's just the advertising industry.

There's other things that need advertising.

Well, no one wants to lose their job.

Let's understand that.

But well, no, but why would you lose your job if you lose it?

It's called losing an account.

Well, but it's the biggest accounts.

The point of the the producer's point was the biggest account.

There you go.

Now you're talking.

It's the biggest accounts.

Yeah.

Said, you guys don't talk negative about Coca-Cola and Pepsi, which are n other big accounts.

Said, we don't.

That's correct.

We should.

You know that did you know there was a whole uh influencer campaign for

sugary drinks that a whole bunch of

right-wing influencers were on the money train for?

No, tell me about it.

Yeah, yeah.

Another thing we missed out on because

we're legit.

Because we're legit.

There are people apologizing, like, oh, I'm sorry.

It was because they're talking about taking sugary drinks off of snap.

And so then some genius in sugary drink land, which could either be Coca-Cola or PepsiCo, I don't know if there's much more, came up with an idea.

I know what we'll do.

We'll get a whole bunch of those MAGA people to talk positive and say, oh, don't take that off Snap.

It's good.

It's good for children.

And they got paid.

And they got paid.

And good money, apparently.

Anyway, I think there's my point would be, I think there's plenty of room for imagination and creativity in advertising.

Have a listen.

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I'm telling you.

When the runway model came down the runway, did anyone try to jiggle her handle?

There it is.

I was waiting for something.

That's very creative.

How do we do an ad for a smart toilet?

And now I want one of these.

A smart toilet?

Yeah, why not?

It has a.

Everybody's got one but me.

I don't have a smart toilet.

Horowitz has got one.

He's got a smart toilet.

He's got a couple of them.

What do these smart toilets do?

Well, when you walk in the bathroom, the toilet opens up and greets you.

Wait, wait,

does it do like this?

You are being recorded.

Does it do one of those?

Not yet.

Kohler smart toilet.

Really?

How come everyone...

Oh.

Well, I see what they're talking about.

This is some.

It looks like a box that you're pooping.

This is a smart box.

Exactly.

It's a box you're pooping.

It's amazing, this thing.

It's a square box with a seat and you poop in it, but it reminds me of Haute Couture.

You still have to jiggle the handle no matter what you do.

Yes, I would like to get a report from you, from Andrew Horowitz, exactly what has this toilet been discussed on DHS.

I don't think, yeah, it's been discussed on the show, but I don't think it's the box.

It's just,

you know, it's a toilet.

Well, if you're going to get a toilet, you might as well get a designer toilet.

And that apparently is a square box.

It looks like, yeah, it's just a square box with a hole in the top.

Even the lid is square.

It's called an outhouse.

To poop in.

And you go in the backyard.

Okay.

I have a series of clips on in cells.

Oh,

which became a topic of conversation on one of the networks.

I remember it well.

And this is called Black Pill.

And I got this a bunch of clips.

And if you want to hear them and talk about this, because I think this is bogus, they make it sound as though it's a club.

We're going to a book now.

It's just been published.

It's called Black Pill.

Wait, is this the BBC World Service?

I won't do the jingle.

I won't do the jingle.

And it looks at the incel, by which I mean involuntary celibates movement, and draws on interviews with

Western.

The movement should check out the new smart toilet from Kohler.

It's been written by Maeve Park, and the idea is to help explain incels and the culture that creates them and what they believe.

I spoke to Maeve Park earlier and asked, first of all, just to do a definition of terms, as it were, what does the title blackpilled mean, and how does she define the term incel?

The term black pilled is the name of the ideology we're seeing subscribe to incels.

It's a nihilistic worldview with misogyny as well.

And the term incel literally means involuntary celibate.

However, the term is used within this group of people, mostly congregating online, who subscribe to the beliefs of the black pill so they can believe in the nihilistic version of life or the misogynistic, wrapped into one kind of ideological worldview.

Very bleak, very much about men being suppressed, and very much about if you're not attractive enough, your hope in life is you don't really have a lot of hope in life.

So, kind of a fatalistic, catastrophic, nihilistic worldview with misogyny very much attached into it as well.

Okay, hold on a second.

So you have

five clips from the BBC about black pill, yet they can't fill three clips with any information about turkey?

Turkey A.

Turkey A?

They can't even pronounce it right.

No, I'm very familiar with black pill.

This has been a term that's been around.

I'm unfamiliar with all this.

Well, you should ask the kids at the table.

They're all married.

I mean, I don't think any black pillars are around.

A lot.

You have to have a black pillar in the family, it seems to me.

Well, this is a real thing.

I'd never really heard about how it was filled with misogyny, though.

That's an interesting take.

So I'm excited to hear the rest of the world.

Yeah, well, I think I've heard that part.

Because these guys, you know, they can't get a date.

They can't look a girl in the eye.

But black pill is not necessarily incel.

Black pill is you see no future for the world and you're just

well according to this woman black pill is incels.

so age isn't part of the definition no age is not part of the definition in the online world for incels they actually um tend to be in their mid twenties and they tend to kind of start around 19 and the oldest incels i've come across online would be in their mid 30s so there is a kind of a broad age group there as well and the basic idea is they've never found a girlfriend and

they blame the world

this is the second time this guy's done that and i don't know that as part of the British accent.

I've never noticed this before, but he did it the first clip.

He's done it again.

What did he do?

He says idea.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, that's a very, you know, that's a New England thing, too.

My mom would say, idea.

What's the idea?

So it is a derivative.

It is a British thing, idea.

There's no R in idea.

But dear.

But

BBC also can't seem to say Turkey A.

So

that's fair as well.

And the basic idea is they've never found found a girlfriend and they blame the world for that.

Yeah, the basic idea is that, yeah, that is true.

Yeah, so they believe that because they haven't had any romantic partners or even gone on dates or had any success in that kind of arena, that they feel that there's something either very much wrong with them or wrong with society.

And they're kind of taking that out in a very much a resentment-build ideology and a very kind of fatalistic manner as well.

And that can get violent.

It can get violent.

We have seen violence coming from this kind of ideology and this worldview, and we've seen some mass shootings and mass homicide coming from it.

One of the earliest mass shootings was in the 2014 Isla Vista shooting in California.

It was carried out by a young man called Elliot Roger.

He was 21 at the time.

And he shot and killed six people, including himself.

And then from that, we've also seen other types of violence coming out of the worldview as well.

We've seen sexual harassment, stalking, abuse, abuse online, and there has been a wide variety of harms coming out.

And then some of the violence that we're seeing is also suicide as well.

Well, this is no laughing matter, and there's a lot of data to back up this problem that young men have a very hard time

finding a mate, just someone to date, mainly because...

Yes.

Well, you would say what you think is mainly because, because I have a mainly because.

Well,

the problem is from two sides.

On the female side,

many young girls are only interested in

a very

successful, they want influencers, they want money,

they want, you got to have money, you got to show cash, you got to have money.

And I'm generalizing, but I think it's true in general.

On the young men side, there's no place for them to go meet girls, so it's only online.

And the only online experience they have is an overabundance of porn.

So when they finally

meet or have a date, all they can think about is porn.

And I was talking to the barista here at Java Ranch, nice girl.

She says, Adam, I can't, you know, these are all young kids.

I can't find a man to date.

And I said, well, what do you mean?

When you meet them, oh, this is horrible.

All they want is one thing, and it's all like aggressive.

And it's just, it's, it's horrible.

So I think that's, that's what's going on here.

I don't think so.

Okay.

I mean, I think that's, that is the result of the real problem.

Okay.

When I was a kid.

Here we go.

Yeah, here we go.

Yes.

When I was a kid in the second grade, the third grade, the fourth grade, even the first grade, I think, we were forced to learn different dances.

We had to dance with girls.

Yes.

We were dancing at the cha-cha.

They would teach us the cha-cha-cha, the rumba, every stupid dance imaginable, and you had to dance.

And square dancing was also a big thing.

You had to learn how to do that.

And so by the time you were in the sixth grade, you knew how to at least, you know, step around and you were, oh, you were handling girls because you had to dance with girls.

You weren't dancing with guys.

And so, and there was always the class that was about half and half.

So you'd get a, you know, and you'd switch partners and you always, you'd be very familiarized.

And then by the time you got to high school, they had the sock hop, which I bitch about and moan and groan about constantly.

It's another old thing that's long gone.

And the reason for the sock hop was in the gym and you had had to wear socks because they didn't want to scratch up the gym floor, is the reason for it being socks.

But they did all these dances, and people would stand around and then they pick back.

There was

forced socialization at the school level when you were a little kid that has disappeared.

That is causing all the rest of it.

That was John C.

DeVorx

Boomer update.

Yeah.

Well, there was also something called Cotillion.

That was more a southern thing, I think.

Cotillion.

Yep.

Same idea.

I think you are absolutely right.

Now, you have to add to that that the schools have become exactly the opposite.

Oh, oh, no, you know, you have to ask permission and you can't look at anyone and it's a toxic masculinity.

And the whole society, you're right.

Society is screwed.

You're right.

You're right.

And so these boys,

they fall into a black hole of gaming.

And if they're unlucky,

they get

hypnotized into

trans stuff,

which was covered on the show.

And they go all goth and then they turn into women.

It's the whole thing.

We're doomed, people.

We're doomed.

Homeschool and get your dance on.

Yeah, the homeschooling doesn't do the forced socialization quite like real school used to do, but they don't do it anymore, so you might as well homeschool.

Let's go to clip three.

Now, one of the striking things seeing your book was that the people you interviewed were UK, this is where they were, UK, Canada, USA, Australia, France, Germany.

Is this a Western phenomenon?

It's not a Western phenomenon, but I was going, I was researching the Anglosphere incel communities, which was an interesting finding to see that there were people who came from non-English-speaking countries taking part in the English-speaking incel communities.

However, we have discovered discovered that there are non-English Insul communities.

There are French communities, there are Indian communities, there are South Korean.

It spans the world.

And now we're seeing even some African communities coming up.

So it's not just a Western problem or a Western issue, but we are seeing maybe the Western Insul communities being, they're probably the older communities.

They have a lot more of the worldview established and they really resonate around the media messages of the West, mostly coming from an American kind of media culture.

You know, it's not just

from your generation, but when I was growing up at the

Dorps house, I grew up in a small village south of Amsterdam.

We had a like a little community.

What do you call that?

Where the community comes together as a hall.

What do you call it?

Community community.

When I was back to

back that up, we had a boys-girls' club kind of thing on it.

It was called the Community Center.

It was in Newark, and the Community Center would have these dances every Friday and Saturday

when you were in grammar school.

Well, what happened?

And they had other situations.

There were dancing with

forced dancing because it was a socialization thing.

And I would say it's forced.

Yes.

Forced dancing.

We never had in cells.

We didn't have the idea of somebody living with their parents until they're in their 30s because they can't get a date.

I mean, this is all new, and it has a lot to do with the lack of socialization as a young adult, as a young, no, I need not young adult, a kid.

Well, I was going to add to that that we had

once a year there was dance lessons and everybody would sign up for dance lessons.

And you'd all go there and that was a version, it wasn't school organized, but it was village organized.

Like, hey, let's

change up for dance lessons.

And everybody did it.

You didn't want to be the schmuck that didn't go.

And no one could dance.

So that's why I went to dance lessons.

And it was the same thing.

And of course, I didn't go to dance lessons, and I became an incel.

But then I got on the radio and things changed.

You've been married three times.

You're not an incel.

Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.

You had to go there.

Okay.

One word.

So, do you think this is one of those things that's happening because of the internet?

You know, these people like this have always existed, but they've been isolated and now they're not.

They're part of a group.

I would say yes, that is definitely true and that is why we're seeing kind of a community build around people who couldn't find community.

I often say that the incels online are the most exclusive club in a very strange way.

They're very clear about who is incel, who is not incel and who would fit in their criteria.

However, there are all a bunch of people who did not find community outside of these groups.

So in a strange way, they are the outsiders now building a group for themselves online.

However, as you said, yes, there have always been people who have been left out, ostracized.

And incels, not all of them would be misogynistic, not all of them would be violent.

Many of them are nihilistic, very much self-hating, and would not take their vengeance or resentment out on others.

But yes, the internet has allowed for this kind of ideologies to spread around and people who may not have found these ideologies before to find them.

And that's what we're seeing with the internet.

You've used the term nihilistic quite a lot.

So can you just talk us through that?

When you interview one of these young men, how does that manifest itself, that nihilism?

Very much a feeling that nothing will ever work out for me, that there is no hope for me, that I may as well drop out of society.

Meaning, if you're young, dropping out of university, dropping out of school, not attempting to find a job, not leaving your house, not going outside or having any conversations with anyone, becoming very reclusive, and feeling like that is your kind of fate at a very young age, which is very difficult, but also very damaging for their life, for their sense of well-being.

And I've met many people in their mid-30s who have gone through that in their early 20s and are now kind of seeing the impact of that, where they have no social circle, they have no financial, they have no ability to get a job, a salary.

And so their situation has become very bleak.

They can always become artists for the No Agenda Show.

Again, we have no explanation for any of this.

It's just a phenomenon,

which is

your complaint about the BBC from the earlier clips.

Yeah, but

you didn't have to stretch it out for eight minutes.

I'm sorry, but we're going to wrap it now.

It's a self-fulfilling prophecy in many ways.

There's no complaining.

Let's hold hands and share a secret.

So it's a self-fulfilling prophecy in many ways, anyways, and very damaging for young people getting involved in that for that reason as well.

Always male or sometimes female incels?

Interestingly enough, there are some women in cells.

There's a group called Femmecells.

However, there are not as many of them.

And incel, the term incel is only male.

So only men can call themselves incels according to the communities and according to the people online who define themselves as incel.

Because the out-group for incels are women.

So the resentment is there around women.

And so that's why it's important for them to keep that in only men as well.

You've described that this is a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy and people in their mid-30s can get into a very bad situation because they've had this thinking in their 20s.

Are there people who are in cells who get out of it?

You know, and they find relationships and they move on.

Well, yeah, well, that's always the hope.

And I speak about it in the book, how a couple of the interviewees I met, so I was interviewing them for over a year.

And during that time, a couple of them found ways out of the ideology or out of their situation.

One of the best success stories was a man in his later 20s returning to university after initially dropping out in his early 30s in the UK.

And that has kind of given him a new lease in life, a new goal, a new feeling of self-esteem.

And he's having a good time, enjoying it, and finding people through it as well.

So that was a success story in itself.

Other times, some incels can just leave because they find potentially a partner or friendships.

But we have to be very careful about about when we talk about whether a relationship is your way out.

A lot of incels will believe,

if I find a girlfriend, I'll leave the ideology.

But the evidence is showing that sometimes when that happens, the ideology doesn't go away.

You don't become less misogynistic or less nihilistic just because you have a date or had a short-term relationship or a girlfriend.

That doesn't solve the problem.

Well, I think this is self-correcting.

We're seeing it already.

I mean, this is really a millennial problem.

Sorry,

Jen.

Yeah, no millennial problem, younger millennial problem.

The older millennials were just close enough to Gen X that they kind of, you know, they got a clue.

And I'm seeing Gen Z.

Gen Z is kind of rebelling against technology, rebelling a bit against the phone stuff.

They're playing chess.

They're going out.

They're doing other things.

They are getting together in groups.

I think it's self-correcting.

It just gives the BBC another opportunity to fill 10 minutes of airtime with direct,

direct.

It might be self-correcting, but the problem still exists that the schools are not doing their jobs of socializing the kids properly.

And until they start doing that, which they're not going to do the way they're going about things.

No, but the schools are complicit in transing children and putting odd books in the library and then highlighting it by putting behind lobbying cases.

The schools are the problem.

Always.

The schools are the problem.

There it is.

And that's why we need to dissolve the Department of Education, give it back to the states, and Texas will be number one, baby foam finger.

You know, Texas is one of the states,

along with a lot of the states that is like they always bitch about California doing this.

California's a Johnny come lately when it comes to not telling the parents that your kids trans is going trans.

Yeah.

Texas is one of those states.

Really?

Yep.

Yeah.

Well,

how does that work?

I don't know.

I don't know.

I was not aware of this.

How do you get Jasmine Crockett?

Good point.

All right.

I need to add a new word to our vocabulary as the Oxford Dictionary has added it.

So that means besides saying Turkey properly, we now have a new one.

Let's talk.

Because the English language is changing.

The folks behind the Oxford English Dictionary added dozens of new words to its pages this week.

The new entries include many of Spanish origin, like cubano, referring to anything Cuban from individuals to the famous sandwiches.

Also in there, slang phrases such as real talk, meaning honest and direct conversations, and British slang like the word faffy, as in overcomplicated and time-consuming.

Faffy, faffy, F-A-Fy.

F-A-F-F-Y?

Faffy?

Faffy, yes, Faffy.

I've never heard that.

I used Cubano coincidentally in the show today.

When you're talking about somebody, a person of Cuban origin, you call them a Cubano.

No, I was referring to the Cigar, cigar.

But Fafi, F-A-F-F-Y.

I've never heard this verse.

It's new to me.

It was new to me.

It was new to me.

Sounds like they're just throwing it in for no good reason.

Well, it's amazing you can say anything in public in the United Kingdom.

Man, did you hear about the WhatsApp thing?

This was interesting.

Some parents got arrested for posting something in a private group on WhatsApp.

Six police officers came to my house and arrested me.

Why?

Because I'd been talking about my daughter's school on a WhatsApp group.

It was the morning of Wednesday, the 29th of January, about a quarter to 12.

I was on a Zoom call for a work project.

When on my Zoom screen, in the little window where I saw my own face, I realised that two police officers were standing behind me.

Another two police officers were arresting my partner, Rosalind, in front of Francesca, our three-year-old daughter.

They bundled us into the police cars and took us off to custody at Stevenage Stevenage Police Station, where we remained for the next 12 hours.

He arrested me on suspicion of harassment and malicious communications.

And it was to do with a dispute with our daughter's primary school, which began with posts on a WhatsApp group.

Are you interested to hear what horrible things they did on the WhatsApp group?

You know, this has been going on now for

some time in England.

And it's discouraging.

And you have to wonder, you know, about the mentality of the police who are enforcing these laws.

They seem to be doing it with some relish.

Oh, yeah.

Which I find disturbing.

They enjoy it.

Well, the beats going after people with guns and zombie knives.

I mean, hey, might as well take the squad down and arrest these two parents.

On the 23rd of November, 2023, the head teacher of my daughter's primary school announced he would retire.

But what seemed strange to me was the Board of Governors decided immediately to appoint the deputy head as acting head 10 months later without even advertising the job.

So I made some inquiries.

I contacted the chair of governors in private and in good faith and asked her to explain what her rationale was and what was going to happen.

Her response, in my opinion, was rather evasive.

So I asked again and I wrote to all the governors asking them to explain what was happening and why they decided to do that.

I posted that letter in a WhatsApp group.

It's a private parent WhatsApp group.

On that WhatsApp group, like most parents, we chunted about a few things.

One thing we talked about on that group was a letter from the school commanding all parents not to talk about the school on Facebook or social media or WhatsApp groups.

We thought that was a bit off.

My partner Rosalyn made a handful of vaguely spicy comments.

She referred to one school leader as a control freak.

She said the chair of governors didn't know much about anything.

Out of the blue, on the 12th of July last year, the chair of governors wrote to Rosalind and me.

She accused us of posting disparaging and inflammatory comments on WhatsApp and Facebook.

Yeah, thought crimes.

You can't do anything anymore in the UK.

And you can't even say you have a wife, you have to call it your partner.

I never understood that.

They never say my wife.

Say, my partner.

Maybe they're not married.

No, they're married.

They're married.

They're married and they're calling her the partner.

It's a very standard thing in the UK and Australia as well.

It's a bit of a woke thing.

I don't want to see my wife.

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

Imagine all the people who could do that.

Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.

Yeah,

on no agenda.

Well, what are the odds?

My partner here is going to read off the supporters, financial supporters, who sent us back value and our value-for-value model, $50 and above.

Remember, we do have John's tip of the day coming up: some kick-ass mixes from the Clip Custodian and David Kekta, and some real ISOs to end the show with, along with nice meetup reports and more to come.

So, John, take it away, my partner.

Sure.

Partner.

Sure.

Partner.

Sean.

Sean Holman, maybe a relation to

Noblesville, Indiana, 148.48.

And this is, I thought, was interesting.

It's calling out D-Nice

as a juice bag.

Douchebag.

A juice bag.

We get a douchebag for that.

A juice bag.

I don't know what that is.

Sir Beatboop, 111.11.

111.11.

He's the Knight of the Frozen Tundra.

Jennifer,

what do you think?

Fiveey?

Fiveey?

Fiveey?

Fiveey?

Fiveey.

Five or a fivee?

Fiveey.

Fiveey.

In Calgary, Alberta.

I have to read this note.

She's in Calgary, $100.33.

We love you guys up here in Candinavia.

So there you go.

Huh?

Yeah.

Can we get some IVF

baby-making karma for our daughter and her husband?

Let's do it right away.

Let's not

delay.

You've got

karma.

Remember, you got to name the kid after us.

Yep, it's got to be one.

That's the rule.

That's the rule.

Brian Warden in Coming, Georgia, 100.

I'll leave the note to itself.

Then I have a blank line

for 100.

Somebody was there.

I wonder if it's...

This happens all the time more recently.

There's no name.

How does that work?

Sir Kelly and Dame Andrea in Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, Canada.

Another Albertan.

They love us, man.

They want to be part of us.

No jingles, no karma, $100.

Jason Marr in Vancouver, Washington, the smart money area.

$100.

You don't have to pay taxes for anything.

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There he is.

Kevin McLaughlin.

He's the Archduke of Luna, lover of American boobs, 8008.

Brandon Locklear in Sugar Hill, Georgia, 7373.

737.

73.

He's Kilo 5 Alpha.

Charlie, Charlie.

Could have put his call in.

Where's your call?

Where's your call sign, man?

Dame Dana Carroll in Laughlin, Nevada, 7227.

Jorge Alvarez in Ponte Verde Pedra, Pontevedra Beach, 7171.

Sir Andrew Walker in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 6678.

I got a birthday call out for March 30th.

It's not too late.

No, it's not too late.

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There it is.

The chip donation, 6502.

That's the third one, I think, and that great promotion.

Fantastic promotion.

Jamie Buell in Vista, California, 6006.

Sir Dr.

Sharkey in Jackson, Tennessee, 5678.

Anything there?

No.

No.

Sir Lucas in Federal Way, Washington, 5510.

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in North Branch, Minnesota, 5452.

Sir Prize.

Surprise in Yukon, Oklahoma, 5444.

The Window Washer in Annandale, Virginia, 5393.

With the comment, nothing funny here.

Sir Silverin in Silver Spring, Maryland, 51.50.

And now we're already to the 50s.

By the way, this Silverman is a late Saturday donation.

Okay, that's

birthday meeting.

No, it's not.

Okay, here's the 50s.

Name and location, starting with Simon Shong, who I have no location for.

Bobby Bow in Bluegrass, Louisiana.

Leaf Thompson in Meridian, Idaho.

And we got

son-in-law in Amsterdam.

Oh, son.

Okay, in Amsterdam, 50.

And last on another short list today, Joshua Johnson in Omaha, 50.

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That's the end of it.

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Yes.

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Apparently, Apparently, we had a couple of problems with the NoAgendaMeetups.com website.

I know Sir Daniel is working on that, but we do believe we have a complete lineup for you.

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This is the 61st meetup from the flight of the No Agendas.

Leo Bravo, always taking care of that in somewhere in California.

Hey, everybody, it's Leo Bravo at meetup number 61.

I'm passing the phone around.

My friends have things to say.

This is Toast ITM.

Sir Toast.

This is Jim.

New to Fullerton, but I'm here.

Doc, enjoyed your meeting.

Dames by your friends.

Trains good.

Planes next time.

Hey, John and Adam, Sir Leah Kim Faux Pop, just checking to see if code Bongino still works.

Yep.

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In the morning, answer the question.

Go.

Stephen of the Orange Curtain.

John, you'd be interested to know there are very many young foamers here at the Fullerton train station.

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No comment.

Nano, nano.

Sounds like you missed a good FOMO meetup, John.

You can't, you can't get to those FOMO meetups.

Woo-hoo!

Big one, as always, from our indie group.

They are big, they are large, they are in charge, and they always include their server in their meetups reports.

This is Dave Maria and Sir Mark here.

Having a great time with our no Antuenta family here in Indianapolis.

Drinking some beer in a converted Catholic church.

Thank you, Saint Joseph.

Hey, it's Gary here.

Look out, people.

The brains of the DNC are out on tour.

Yes, that's right.

AOC and Bernie Sanders are out there to rally the troops.

Look out!

Nauter from Indianapolis, just happened to see that Diesel Ocasco is 333.

Joshua Crom from Indianapolis.

Hopefully I can get in for the Cromodor.

In the morning, this is Alicia Maycomber from Carmel.

Hi, I'm Sirip of the Maple, and my immigration attorney has advised me not to make any comment.

So every day I get to work, and I'm like, I'm surrounded by fed, fed, fed.

Then I realize I am a fed.

Hey, this is Emily in the morning.

Risky here, just drinking some beer in the church.

Anetski here just drinking some bourbon in the church with the feds.

Hello, this is Vladimir Zelinski.

And I can do tariffs too.

I'm going to put tariffs on prostitution, drugs, crocodile, marijuana, AK-47s, all those things.

So take that, Trump.

Hi, this is Katie from St.

Joseph's Brewery in Indianapolis, Indiana.

It's been a pleasure to host the No Agenda folks, and I look forward to seeing them again.

Hey, this is Carol.

I am in training at St.

Joseph's Brewery, and I also have been a pleasure hanging out with this crew.

Live from Indy in this moment.

We'll fix it in post.

Not one, but two servers in the report.

I love those guys.

Thank you, Indiana.

Indie meetup.

Those guys are good.

They're glad we got Zelensky finally came up.

He finally showed up.

I can't believe he's putting the tariffs on hookers.

Oh, that guy.

There is a meetup underway, the TMI Evac Zone Crossword Puzzle Meetup.

It started at 3.30 at Evergrain Brewing in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania.

I'm sure they're still going strong.

Tomorrow, April Fool's Day, meetup, not for fools, at 5.30.

That'll be at Barley's in downtown Knoxville, Tennessee.

Also on April Fool's Day, Springfield, Missouri, ain't no fool meetup.

See, there's a theme here.

6 o'clock at Bears All-American Sports Bar and Grill in Springfield, Missouri.

Then on Thursday, ooh, nothing on Liberation Day.

Oh, what a missed opportunity.

On Thursday, our next show day, the No Agenda, New York City meetup.

Yes, there are still normal people in New York City.

5 o'clock at the Perfect Pint West in New York City.

New York, New York.

And finally, also on the third, Thursday, Northern Wake Public Slave Gathering.

That'll be at 6 o'clock at Hoppy Endings in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Many more meetups to come, including Osaka, Japan on April 5th.

Make sure you check that one out.

I know there was a big meetup in the lowlands.

I got pictures and everyone's having a good time, so I expect a meetup report from them, which is usually quite inebriated.

We love the meetup reports.

We love the meetups.

They are producer-organized.

You get out of it what you put into it.

Go to noagendametups.com.

Guaranteed, though, you will always have a party.

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

Noagendametups.com.

Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.

You to be where you won't be triggered on hell lame.

You to be where everybody feels the same.

It's like a party.

And yes, thank you, trolls.

I made a mistake.

Of course, tomorrow is not the first,

but Tuesday is the first.

And that was incorrect in my crib sheet.

There's a 31st day of March.

So yes, that was my mistake.

Kind of.

I should have known better.

Where was my partner?

Where's my partner correcting me?

What?

I said Monday the first.

it's yeah yeah that was a mistake yeah

all right iso time i've got three they're real they're not ai generated let's see how we do i think there's some real evil out there

okay no i can delete that one how about this there's a good side and there's a dark side just like star wars

too long kind of how about this one i think you'll like this one You guys are freaks.

How about that?

That's pretty good.

There's nothing very complimentary about this show.

Oh, you would.

How about just fun and humor?

No, no good.

Okay.

So what are your AI-generated ISOs?

My AI-generated, I got two.

Any better?

The show can't be any better than that.

Huh?

Yeah.

How can I beat that?

Where's the yo-yo-yo, what's up?

I'm still working on it.

Mimi's actually working on it too, and she can't.

This is not as easy as it looks.

Can some of our hip-hop trolls just send me a yo-yo-yo, what's up?

So I can just get this.

What up?

Yeah, so we can get this off our place, please.

Great show is the other one.

Great show, boys.

Yeah,

I think this is obviously complimentary.

The show can't be any better than that.

I mean, that's

have to go with that.

It's kind of self-serving and kind of pathetic because it's AI, but

not pathetic.

The results are you.

Yes.

Well, I'm just saying it's not pathetic.

You're saying it's pathetic because it's AI generated.

It is the results of a $100 billion per company.

Think about the money we saved.

There you go.

And now, ladies and gentlemen, not AI.

It is John's tip of the day.

Okay,

I don't want created by Dana Bernetti.

I'm going to do an off-handed tip of the day.

That's not the tip of the day, just a suggestion for people like this drop at Costco.

The grass-fed

butter in the green packaging.

Yes, Tina loves that stuff.

It is excellent.

Yes.

I think it's as good as the imported butters.

She loves that stuff.

In fact,

all the carnivores love that stuff.

They just eat it out of the pack.

It's a great product.

Carnivores, man.

The carnivore diet is like they eat butter like a stick.

It's like you put your stick.

Yeah, there's a piece of butter.

I got a butter popsicle.

That's pretty much it.

That's your entire tip.

That's it.

That's the entire day.

No, that's not.

That's just a

side tip.

Oh, side tip.

Side tip of the day.

Okay, sorry.

Perfect glass.

I'm telling you, this company, Hopes,

this is a cleaning product again, a cleaning product company, but I'm telling you, Hopes, perfect line of cleaners, and there's a bunch of them.

Perfect Glass is the one I'm going to mention here, but there's also Perfect Sink, which is a stunner.

Perfect Sink

will Hope's is the brand.

A very advanced product.

They're using the, I don't know what tech they're using, but they can polish stainless steel sinks with this Hope's Perfect Sink.

You wouldn't believe what you end up with.

Stainless steel, the funny thing about stainless steel is stainless steel stains.

And stainless steel stains easily.

Yes, and this is for stainless steel sinks?

Not the perfect glass is for windows.

No, okay, yeah.

Perfect sink is for stainless steel sinks, but they also have a stainless steel, perfect stainless steel for other appliances that are made out of stainless steel.

Wow.

But the hopes, the entire hopes line of cleaning products is

world-class.

And for example, the perfect glass is not like Windex, which, you know, Windex, it's like they've been coasting for years on their ammonia-based screen.

It's no good.

Windex, you know, Windex here in Texas,

all the Mexicans use Windex for everything.

Yeah, you got to scrape it.

It's got a lot of ammonia in it.

It does clean.

You got to cut.

But for glasses, for glass, it doesn't clean well.

It doesn't really do the trick.

Hope's good.

I'm going to get some.

Tina is always complaining about the glass.

Always.

Well, then she'll love perfect glass.

Perfect glass from Hope's.

Hope's perfect glass.

I am.

Do they have it for toilet

Well, they already did the toilet bowl one with Lysol.

Oh, that's right.

I thought maybe it was a competing product.

I'm not doing any more toilet bowl stuff.

Actually, I talked to Mimi about these suggestions.

She had another toilet bowl suggestion.

No matter what,

Mimi, get your head out of the toilet bowl.

We got to stop this.

These are serious tips of the day.

Check it out at tipoftheday.net, noagendafun.com.

Great masks for you and me.

Just a tip with JCD.

And sometimes at home.

Created by Tana Bernetti.

Wow.

But these are good tips.

I mean, we actually wind up buying some of this stuff because we trust you.

You're a trustworthy guy.

I am.

I'm very trustworthy.

I wanted to do a series of books called Honest John.

Right after the Podfather Awards, the microphone company, the vinegar book, and many other great things.

You know what?

Why don't we just do another show on Thursday?

Why don't we try that?

There's an idea.

Let's do that.

At least we can get that done.

We can get that produced.

Thank you to everybody who helps produce this show monetarily and otherwise.

It is all highly valued and highly appreciated.

Coming up next on the No Agenda Stream or in your modern podcast app, Random Thoughts.

That's another good show.

All of these shows are good.

And the No Agenda Stream has just got great shows.

Also, excellent and outstanding end of show mixes from David Kecta and the clip custodian Neil Jones checks in with a double head.

Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country right here in FEMA region number six.

For as long as people understand what that means.

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

And from Northern Silicon Valley, where I remain, I'm John C.

Dvorak.

We'll talk to you on Thursday.

That will be April 3rd.

Please join us then and remember us at NoAgendadonations.com.

Until then, adios, mofos, a huoy hooey, and such a loot.

It's interesting because a lot of your thinking, as expressed by your public statements, is deeply infused with economic and cultural Marxism.

Do you believe that America is addicted to white supremacy?

Um, um, um,

much of my thinking has evolved over the last half decade.

I've

I've evolved as a human being because

over the last half decade.

I know this, isn't that a great way to mean five years?

I've called as I don't recall that I've

no doubt that there's

correct that I don't recall.

This is great.

This is your virtue signaling coming back and slapping you in the face like a whit salmon.

The wheels on the omnibus go round and round, round and round, round and round.

The wheels on the omnibus go round and round with all the EU clown.

I would argue that the new Jesus Christ of our era are Steve Jobs and Elon Musk.

That's not true.

He's incompetent.

Elon Musk, aka real-life Iron Man, he's a Nazi, he's a thief.

An immigrant to this country country cemented his status.

He's a Nazi, Nazi.

Elon Musk is doing things that may revolutionize transportation and climate change.

That's not true.

When somebody as staggeringly rich and staggeringly intelligent as Elon Musk talks, people

he's incompetent, he's a thief, he's a Nazi, Nazi, Nazi.

As a leader in science science and technology whose name may indeed belong alongside those of Edison and Jobs, Elon Musk is incompetent in his position.

Put another way, Elon Musk today showed the world how it's done.

You play the video of a town hall as though it's evidence of some broad anger that's out there, and it's not.

We are mobilizing in New York.

We have people going to the Republican districts.

You just said you're organizing town halls in red districts.

Going after these Republicans who are voting for this.

You don't actually have to wait for them.

You can hold that town hall.

They organize, they get loud, they get viral mobile.

You schedule it, you invite them.

If they come, that's great.

But if they don't come, have an empty chair.

Hundreds of losers gathered today at the downtown library for an empty chair town hall.

Sorry, our party is not being organized.

This is a long, relentless fight that we fight every day.

And I am confident that we will bring Trump's popularity, numbers, and strength down.

What we're seeing when we do this is that these are sold out.

People want to come.

People want to be involved in the process right now.

Our party is not that organized.

You can

organize town halls.

The best podcast in the universe.

Adios, Mofo, Dvorak.org slash na the show can't be any better than that.