Episode 1548 · Friday, 21 April 2023

Dangle Op

A theatrical FBI arrest in Massachusetts masks a deeper intelligence power struggle while the White House faces mounting pressure over migrant child labor and IRS whistleblower allegations.

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The No Agenda Show · No. 1548

About this episode

The FBI arrest of 21-year-old Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira in Massachusetts utilized high-profile SWAT tactics and felony contact maneuvers designed specifically for news cameras. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin confirmed Teixeira held extraordinary systems administrator access before the 102nd Intelligence Wing faced full mission suspension. This high-profile leak of Pentagon records on Discord is now being characterized by analysts as a dangle-op intended to settle bureaucratic scores between the CIA and the Department of Defense.

Leaked documents suggest China successfully tested a new hypersonic glide vehicle capable of bypassing US missile defenses as far as Guam, prompting Glenn Beck to lobby for increased military spending. Meanwhile, Health and Human Services whistleblowers like Jalin Zwaalog and reporter Hannah Dreyer have exposed a migrant child labor scandal where the Biden administration allegedly ignored minors working in slaughterhouses for brands like Cheerios and Ford. In the legal sphere, an IRS supervisor represented by attorney Mark Lytle has sought whistleblower protection to testify regarding preferential treatment in the Hunter Biden tax investigation, potentially contradicting sworn testimony from Attorney General Merrick Garland.

SpaceX representatives labeled the Starship rocket explosion a victory for clearing the launch pad, while the music industry faces a new crisis as Universal Music Group moves to block AI-generated vocal clones of Drake and Rihanna. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. officially launched his 2024 presidential campaign in Boston, drawing sharp rebukes from NPR over his stance on 5G and vaccines. The program concludes with a knighting ceremony for Sir Schwoo of the Six Strings, also known as Mike Schoitzer of the band Mercy Me.


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CHAPTER 02 / 48 Discussion

Midwest Train Museum, Canadian Refugee Bus Anecdote

A discussion regarding potential future meetups focuses on a large train museum in the Midwest. The hosts recount seeing the "Canadian refugees" at the Nashville event, a family with five children living in a bus who are reportedly avoiding legal issues in Canada.

train museum· midwest· canadian refugees· nashville· travel

03:15 And this was at the same roller rink where we're supposed to have it last year? Yeah, did you go roller skating? Are you crazy? No, of course not. No, absolutely not. I don't go skiing anymore. I don't do snow. I'm 58. This is exactly what I don't need. Oh, geez. 58's a new 38. Oh, okay. At least I get out of the house. Get out of the house. I went out of the house. Well, really to the backyard. Shoo away some dogs in the yard There are so many people who? Really really want to see you. Yeah, I mean like Damien you pack them in you pack them in literally Pat Sir Patrick Scoble is now coordinating who of course organized a fantastic event Dame Jennifer was there And you know really making everything so smooth and

04:08 for the whole production was great. Dame Meowdeson, Dame Christina Pearl, her husband came. A lot of people came down from Indiana to Nashville. Those Indiana people are really something. They're incredible. But you got fans, man. They really want to put together the train meetup or the train museum meetup or something. There's a big museum in the Midwest someplace. I'd go to that. Okay. Well, which one is that? I mean, I'd have to look it up. Yeah, I they keep talking about some monster big museum It's got some some gear that nobody else has and it's supposed to be pretty interesting. Okay? Well, maybe yes, sir. Patrick. Oh, look, you know it make it make it happen Yeah, you can count on me. You know who else was there the Canadian refugees in their bus. Do you remember the Canadian refugees? Yeah, that's funny So, I mean they got five kids in that bus and kids. Oh

05:08 Well, yeah, I mean you recall that they're practically running from the law. You know, one of them, you know, one of the new kids, I think a lot of them are adopted, if most, if not all, I'm not sure. Well, at least they're well-fed. Wow, you are really, really, I mean, you have such heart for everyone this morning, don't you? Yeah. Can I tell you a funny travel story? Yes, that's what we're here for. So because there is no direct flight from either Austin or San Antonio to Nashville, which would mean Southwest Airlines to, well, pick your poison with a possible layover, which as I don't know if you heard the news yesterday, you probably didn't. No. So we went out on Monday

CHAPTER 03 / 48 Discussion

Southwest Airlines Glitch, Private Flight Emergency Landing

A computer glitch at Southwest Airlines delayed over 2,200 flights, prompting a host to fly a private aircraft to Nashville instead. During departure from Gillespie Airport, the host and his wife witnessed a Cessna crash-land and nose over on the runway directly in front of them. Despite the trauma of the crash and subsequent heavy turbulence, the flight was completed successfully.

southwest airlines· gillespie airport· emergency landing· cessna· flight training

06:01 And we, of course, we would want to come back, preferably Tuesday and not necessarily Wednesday. Well, here's what happened on Tuesday. A computer glitch at Southwest Airlines caused more than 2,200 flights to be delayed today. Southwest was forced to ground its entire fleet this morning, frustrating flyers. The software malfunction lasted less than an hour. Yeah, less than an hour, but you know exactly how that goes. So that would have screwed everything up. Who knows if I would have even been back on time. And to circumvent that exact problem, I saved up months worth of my instrument flying lessons so we could fly there. I could fly us with the instructor.

06:41 Oh, that's a good idea. Take an instruction lesson and might as well go there. Yes, but check it out. So Tina has never flown with me. I don't think she's ever been in a four passenger aircraft. Now these are modern aircraft, but it's small. It's like a car that flies. So, we, in the morning we drive to Gillespie Airport which is seven minutes away and we get all set to go and we were in the end, you know, there's a run, there's one runway at this airport and you can land either way depending on the wind. And it's an uncontrolled airport, so you kind of decide what you want to do and the pilots talk to each other. So we are waiting by the runway where we would be next to enter the runway in an 07 direction, but we're waiting for a small Cessna to land who decided 14 was the direction that this person was going to take.

07:37 So it's landing towards us and we're just watching, we're waiting, you know, okay, we're almost on the runway, we're waiting and it lands, it bounces up and it crash lands right in front of us. That's fabulous! And Tina says, I didn't need to see that. That is the greatest story, especially for somebody who's not been up in a little plane. And so the female pilot, she was okay, but she bounced up like 30 feet in the air, John. Oh, geez. And it stalled and she landed really hard. Clunk. The gear collapses. The plane starts to nose over. It's like... Did it flip? It didn't flip. It didn't flip. Okay. And Tina's like,

08:25 It's okay, we'll still go. I'm like, are you kidding me? You are probably possibly the bravest passenger ever. I had never even seen anything like that. That was crazy. So, that takes an hour, of course. That's hilarious. I knew you would get a kick out of it. Yeah, I can just imagine. It was not a happy start. So then we fly, we got the tailwind, so like three and a half hours. And then we're at Nashville, at an airport, a smaller airport near Nashville, and we're 8,000 feet descending down and then all I hear is like Southwest Air Traffic Control controls us. Southwest Airlines going, yeah, you know, that's not moderate. That's not moderate turbulence. We'd appreciate a heads up. You know, my passengers are pretty surprised by that. And I'm like, oh crap.

09:21 That's a good one. And it is horrible. I mean we are, is it? Oh we're bouncing all over. People were complaining in the hotel. People saying yeah it was really rough coming in. So imagine that on a... Yeah, on a small plane. It's gotta be hilarious. Oh, poor Tina, man. At a certain point she had my jacket over her head. She just didn't want to see the wind in the wings. Oh, please. Poor girl. Yeah. I am. She is so badass. And she said, no, it was in God's hands. I'm good. And then, you know, she happily went back. She even flew back with us and she'd do it again. It was just a little too long. Why not? It was safe. It was a little too long for comfort because, you know, we don't have any, no toilet facilities on board.

10:04 Yeah, you always got to consider that. Anyway, I'm sure we'll be talking more about that on Curry and the Keeper. There's a lot more to it. But that was the highlights of the travel. And just, man, it was so great. So many people who have been around so long, even Jeff Smith showed up. Yeah. The one and only Jeff Smith. It was a great meetup. Did you get a jingle out of him? No. You are just possibly the worst human being. You're a dare, you might as well get a jingle out of him. You'll be happy to know we do have some donations which we'll be discussing in our donation. Oh, there it is. Now he's happy. Okay, so everybody, here's the news for this morning in case you missed it. It blowed up!

CHAPTER 04 / 48 Discussion

SpaceX Starship 420 Launch, Rocket Explosion Analysis

Elon Musk's Starship rocket launched on April 20, 2023, but exploded after failing to separate from its booster stage. While critics viewed the "rapid unscheduled disassembly" as a failure, SpaceX spokespeople characterized the test as a victory because the vehicle cleared the launch pad. The hosts debate whether "failing fast" is a legitimate engineering strategy or a marketing pivot.

elon musk· spacex· starship· rocket launch· boca chica

10:49 Elon Musk's 420 launch. Did you see any of this? Have you seen a good movie of this thing blowing up? No, but what happened is it just started tumbling when the main thruster or booster was supposed to separate and just starts turning and turning and then the whole thing lights up on fire. It was great because Gene, he's crazy about this. I mean, he wants to live with Elon. And so he's texting me, oh yeah, a few minutes to go. And I'm getting the show ready. And then he's texting me, blip stop! And then I don't hear anything from him. And then I get the clip start coming in. Here's an example. Everybody's clapping. Was that separation? So there was there's two big pieces of this rocket. There's the Starship itself and there's the booster underneath. The booster had those 33 engines at about two minutes, 50 seconds. They were supposed to separate where that booster is done. It goes back to Earth.

11:47 And then the Starship's engines light and go, but that separation between those two really big pieces did not happen. And so then it is tumbling as both pieces together, tumbling around. And clearly with the engines led to explosions on the vehicle. You know, some, I mean, I'm sure everyone is really is disappointed in some ways, but this is very much a test. And this Starship project takes very audacious steps for good reason because it's the ship that will take us to the moon. The biggest goal for them was to make sure they cleared the launch pad so the launch pad could be used again quickly because they have, they have,

12:27 But now this was a development test. Listen to how the message is changing here. Even with the explosions we just saw, you're saying this is a victory for them because they cleared the launch pad and this is going incrementally in steps. Absolutely. You know, everything from the feeling to being ready to go sensor systems, you know, all those kinds of things. All those things went well. Engines leaving the launch pad. But what's really important about leaving the launch pad, it sounds silly, but if you damage that launch pad, you can't try again very quickly. And that's this is their their modus operandi is to fail.

13:03 If you blow up the rocket, you're not going to try quickly either. Wait, listen to this modus operandi. You can't try again very quickly. And that's this is their their modus operandi is to fail. Well, not to fail, but to basically fail often, take big steps so that you can actually take those steps and see. No, I don't. I don't agree with that. That's not that's no one's modus operandi. Who is this spokeswoman? She's a SpaceX spokeswoman. This is on ABC. Oh yeah, obviously. She's terrible. Fire her. Maybe this is... maybe it isn't her. Maybe this is anchor Katie... No, I think this is Katie Coleman. What way is she apologizing for the company? Because she's the ABC Space Girl. This is their modus operandi, is to fail... Well, not to fail, but to... Get off the stage!

13:55 fail often, take big steps so that you can actually take those steps and see if you can leap ahead as opposed to step, you know, tiny step by tiny step. And so they took a lot of big steps with this launch. They have vehicles ready to go, starships and boosters ready to put on that pad again. I can't say how soon, but that's what's different about the way SpaceX thinks is, you know, let's take some big steps. SpaceX thinks different. They think failure. No, they don't. Yeah, we want to blow things up because you learn a lot more. Look, I mean, 60 years ago, we went to the moon, remember? How come Elon can't do it? What, because he wants to take big steps but not big enough, one that we can replicate that is almost 60 years ago? I mean, this is kind of playing into my theory, if you don't mind me saying. What's your theory? That we never went to the moon. Oh.

CHAPTER 05 / 48 Discussion

Pentagon UAP Report, Middle East Drone Video

The Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) is currently tracking over 650 potential cases of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP). During a Senate hearing, officials clarified that most sightings are mundane objects like balloons or commuter aircraft heat signatures. A specific video of a metallic orb flying near a US drone in the Middle East remains unresolved due to a lack of telemetry data.

uap· ufo· pentagon· aaro· spy balloons

14:57 Like you don't know my theory. Well, you have a ton of theories. I thought you were going to talk about using water as gasoline. Meanwhile, they keep gaslighting us with this. This morning, the Pentagon has revealed it's now tracking more than 650 potential cases of unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs, commonly known as UFOs. That number up significantly from 350 reports referenced earlier this year. But officials stress they found no evidence of alien activity. Arrow has found no credible evidence thus far of extraterrestrial activity, off-world technology or objects that defy the known laws of physics. The majority of unidentified objects reported to Arrow demonstrate mundane characteristics of balloons, unmanned aerial systems, clutter, natural phenomena or other readily explainable sources.

15:47 During a Senate hearing yesterday, officials played this video of an object behaving in a way they initially could not explain. But after analyzing the video frame by frame, they determined this. This is the heat signature off of the engines of a commuter aircraft that happened to be flying in the vicinity. Also played at the hearing, this video of an unresolved case showing a small orb spotted near a US drone flying in the Middle East last year. Officials say cases like this are hard to resolve because there's only video, no other data. UAPs have faced new scrutiny in the months after the Chinese spy balloon was shot down off South Carolina. And now according to a recently leaked US intelligence report, China has manufactured a high altitude spy drone capable of flying at three times the speed of sound.

16:31 Officials fear it could be used to target US military sites. A government official who testified yesterday urged UFO enthusiasts not to just post images on social media, but to submit them to scientists for research. Submit them to science for research! I love that little ball that shot underneath that one movie. See that thing? No. He's talking about the orb. Oh, the tic-tac thing? It wasn't Tic Tac. They had somebody shooting a, I think from a satellite or something. They were following some drone and then this little ball, cute little round chrome ball goes shooting across the screen. I don't know what that is. Yeah, Project Blue Beam. Ah, there we go. So I've learned a new term which I think we should incorporate. It can be exclusive to the No Agenda Show. It came from one of our producers.

CHAPTER 06 / 48 Discussion

Dangle-Ops, Bureaucratic Score Settling Theory

A producer introduces the term "dangle-op" to describe the recent intelligence leaks, suggesting they are a form of bureaucratic score-settling rather than a security breach. The theory posits that the leaks are designed to distract from the failing Ukraine narrative, promote the Restrict Act, and protect the CIA while making the DOD look incompetent.

dangle-op· cia· fort meade· limited hangout· restrict act

17:26 Who says you and John as usual have done a better job than anyone else at outlining a classic dangle up What a dangle up Wow Yeah, that's what I said you put in all the right clips to show this was a long-term dangle. I Was a dangle well a dangle angle. Well, let's read on and then used at the time when it becomes appropriate In the old days, we used to use dangle-ops only against our adversaries. I guess this is like a... Adversaries. Adversaries, thank you. I guess it's more like what Whitney Webb would call a limited hangout, but maybe the real term is dangle-op. And I'm starting to think that sounds a lot more logical. Now where did this come from? From one of our producers. This guy sounds like he's working in somewhere. Yes, I will read on.

18:23 The tactics here appear to have more to do with bureaucratic score settling than policy, with some political influence as well. It's not just cover your ass on Ukraine. It's not just pushing some form of the Restrict Act. Or, could it be, in my experience with the boys in Fort Meade and at Langley, from my times in Southwest Asia and Southern Africa and Central America in the 80s and early 90s, was to never underestimate their ability to confuse mission with bureaucratic advancement. This dangle op is beautiful. It helps to fight, even if not successful, the blowback on the Restrict Act,

19:02 It provides a counter to the Ukraine narrative which is falling apart, at least politically. DOD gets nailed, the White House get nailed, but who doesn't get nailed? Well, obviously, the CIA. No, they're good to go. Dangle up. Lawyers are show titles. It's right off the bat. I really like this. Taking that in mind and of course when I'm sorry just comes to mind dangles like dangling, you know carrot It's like dangling some shiny object you dangle it. Yes, correct That's and you get attracted to that. Whatever's being dangled you get all oh, what's that? And then you keep walking towards it a shiny object. Oh

19:44 It's a shiny object and we're walking towards it because it's shiny. So what I've noticed is, and again you know you were gonna send me all the papers that you've seen but I still haven't seen... No I didn't, I never said that. You said you've seen so much and it's all out there. I've seen them, it doesn't mean I've got them to send you. Okay I have not seen all the things that are being discussed. So as a dangle op I completely agree with our operative in this case, that this is an operation that you can shove anything into. We kind of, as we said, he complimented us, you guys figured it out. In fact, did you know that the No Agenda Show is the best podcast in the universe? It's in the leaked documents. It was also in the Mueller Report, if you recall. Yeah, well, we know that. I didn't know it was in the leaked documents, but now that you mention it,

CHAPTER 07 / 48 Discussion

Jack Teixeira Arrest, FBI Show of Force

The arrest of 21-year-old Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira involved a high-profile SWAT response at his mother's home in Massachusetts. Law enforcement experts suggest the "felony contact" tactics, including making the suspect walk backward, were a deliberate show of force intended to intimidate future leakers. The hosts argue the theatrical nature of the arrest was pre-planned for news cameras.

jack teixeira· fbi· national guard· swat· leak investigation

20:36 And who discovered all this? Who found this kid? This, oh we got some great, we have so many cool producers. I have a bunch of notes too. And there's a lot of it, I wanted to throw one out there right away. Which is that somebody claims that I disparaged the National Guard. I don't think you did. Well what I said was I thought that that because he was in the National Guard or whatever he was in the, you know, the Reserves, he was not as good as a full-time Air Force guy. And I said it in such a way that it was disparaging to one of our National Guard listeners. No, I think that's just people being sensitive because they get that crap all the time. Oh, you're National Guard, you're not real.

21:31 Even though they deployed more... Meanwhile, they're the ones that get shipped off. Yeah, they're the ones that go to Ukraine, exactly. Hey, wait a minute. I'm not real? What am I doing here? One of our former law enforcement officers from California wrote in and said, the federal raid on the leaker with the SWAT team having the suspect turn around and walk backwards is obvious. The FBI was told to make a big show of force in an effort to dissuade any future leakers. This was just a show of force preplanned and intentional. The news being aware was part of it. the news helicopter. The tactics of how the suspect was handled is commonly known as high-risk or felony contact, where the cops don't go and engage the suspect, instead they make them walk backwards towards them.

22:13 The point being to gauge the suspect's level of cooperation and allow the officers the greatest advantage to a potentially dangerous person. Was this necessary? No, especially since this was a non-violent crime, digital crime. But again, this was a sledgehammer response used specifically to send a message that they are serious and don't try this or this could be you. Now I disagree with that. To me this is all theater. And I think we pretty much deconstructed on 1547 that this is being used for anything that they need to throw out there. And it's, when I hear this piece, this is from, this was Josh Rogan from the Wall Street Journal. Wall Street Journal who discovered this, if you recall. Josh Rogan? Yeah, R-O-G-I-N.

CHAPTER 08 / 48 Discussion

Chinese Hypersonic Missiles, Glenn Beck Military Spending

Leaked documents reportedly reveal that China has tested a new hypersonic glide vehicle capable of maneuvering around US missile defenses. This technology potentially renders US aircraft carriers obsolete as far as Guam. Glenn Beck is criticized for using this intelligence to lobby for increased military spending on defensive systems.

china· hypersonic missiles· glenn beck· aircraft carriers· guam

23:01 I have a feeling that the Wall Street Journal is in on this because when you hear, I've never heard a reporter from the Wall Street Journal doing the rounds, but now he is. And here's another little tidbit that he picked up from the leaked documents, which I have not seen other than that we are the best podcast in the universe. And I think this is being used in this case by military industrial complex or the money people. Money people to get more money because China. And there's the stuff that we should have known about. This is what I reported on, Glenn, that China has tested a new hypersonic missile that can defeat our aircraft carriers and our missile defense. In other words, we spent 30 years building aircraft carriers and missile defense, and the Chinese built a missile for a one hundred thousandth of the price that makes those things obsolete. That seems kind of important for people to know. Why were we hiding that? That was in the documents. I brought that out. I think that there's a lot of stuff in the documents that American people should know because it reveals that

23:56 The world is changing fast and our government really is on top of it. Now listen to him. Here's the pitch. It does make a difference because usually I would say, hey we don't need to release everything that they have knowing what they have. But I think there is, you hit it on the head, there is a need for the American people to understand the world is about to dramatically change And the United States is sitting around with its hands in its pockets. Right. So maybe we should... I think Glenn Beck has also been read in action. Now that I hear him set this up. Okay. Build more aircraft carriers and maybe we should build the stuff that fights hypersonic missiles. Yes. Because that's what our enemies are shooting at us. Okay? Correct. And how far do these missiles fly? And they're hypersonic, which...

24:43 I've just heard last week or the week before that we now have one, but I don't know if I believe that. This is a hypersonic which makes it almost impossible to take down, right? Right, it's hypersonic which means it flies faster than sound, but it's also a hypersonic glide which means you can maneuver it. So when we shoot up the missile defense all we have to do is maneuver around it. And we can also maneuver, they can also maneuver it to hit our aircraft carriers basically as far as Guam. Half the Pacific is now, you know, no entry for our aircraft carriers if they decide to use these things. That's a huge problem for Taiwan, but not just for Taiwan. The entire South China Sea. They're basically taking over Asia while we're sleeping, okay? And now I'm not saying that we should buy hypersonic missiles to fight hypersonic missiles. I'm saying that we should buy the things or build the things that defend against hypersonic missiles. And so it's complicated and you have to think ahead of your opponent. But right now they're thinking ahead of us. It doesn't matter. He's just saying we need to do, we need to spend the money, spend the money, spend the money.

25:42 And by the way his little commentary there a hypersonic is flying faster than the speed of sound is not hypersonic I mean you think he'd have the Kind of lingo that's hypersonic specifically means five times the speed of sound right supersonic is faster than the speed of sound is one time right yeah, it would be So CBS, obviously, they're all in on it because they are the CIA broadcasting systems. And Pixie Girl is reporting. Catherine Herridge has an update on the case. Handcuffed as he entered the Boston court, 21-year-old Jack Texera, now charged under the Espionage Act, stared into space.

CHAPTER 09 / 48 Discussion

Jack Teixeira Espionage Charges, Intelligence Wing Suspension

Jack Teixeira faces charges under the Espionage Act for leaking classified Pentagon records on Discord. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin confirmed that Teixeira had "extraordinary access" due to his role as a systems administrator. Consequently, the mission of the 102nd Intelligence Wing of the Air National Guard has been suspended pending a full damage assessment.

jack teixeira· espionage act· merrick garland· systems administrator· pentagon

24:43 I've just heard last week or the week before that we now have one, but I don't know if I believe that. This is a hypersonic which makes it almost impossible to take down, right? Right, it's hypersonic which means it flies faster than sound, but it's also a hypersonic glide which means you can maneuver it. So when we shoot up the missile defense all we have to do is maneuver around it. And we can also maneuver, they can also maneuver it to hit our aircraft carriers basically as far as Guam. Half the Pacific is now, you know, no entry for our aircraft carriers if they decide to use these things. That's a huge problem for Taiwan, but not just for Taiwan. The entire South China Sea. They're basically taking over Asia while we're sleeping, okay? And now I'm not saying that we should buy hypersonic missiles to fight hypersonic missiles. I'm saying that we should buy the things or build the things that defend against hypersonic missiles. And so it's complicated and you have to think ahead of your opponent. But right now they're thinking ahead of us. It doesn't matter. He's just saying we need to do, we need to spend the money, spend the money, spend the money.

25:42 And by the way his little commentary there a hypersonic is flying faster than the speed of sound is not hypersonic I mean you think he'd have the Kind of lingo that's hypersonic specifically means five times the speed of sound right supersonic is faster than the speed of sound is one time right yeah, it would be So CBS, obviously, they're all in on it because they are the CIA broadcasting systems. And Pixie Girl is reporting. Catherine Herridge has an update on the case. Handcuffed as he entered the Boston court, 21-year-old Jack Texera, now charged under the Espionage Act, stared into space.

26:21 Since the Air National Guardsman was arrested by heavily armed federal agents outside his mother's Massachusetts home, bipartisan outrage has built on Capitol Hill over the leaked Pentagon records posted online. I think it's stunning. Today, a private briefing by the nation's top intelligence official seemed to raise more questions. I certainly wasn't satisfied with any plans they have in place to prevent this from happening in the future. I think a lot of us wondered, you know, You know how a 21 year old airman gets access to all of this information. He had a top secret clearance. Oh! Traveling overseas, Defense Secretary Austin revealed that Tixera did have extraordinary access and computer privileges because of his military job. This young man was a systems administrator. A dude named Ben! Woo!

27:08 He was a computer specialist that worked in an intelligence unit. Now that Air National Guard Intelligence Wing's mission is suspended. As government investigators... How does that work? All of a sudden they just shut down the guys who were adminning stuff? It's been stopped? It's over? It's done? Air National Guard Intelligence Wing's mission is suspended as government investigators probe the potential damage to sources and methods like human spies and wiretaps. The breadth of the information that's been leaked is problematic. Former senior counterintelligence official Bill Evanina told CBS News the classified records will undergo a painstaking review. They're going line by line through these documents as part of the damage assessment. Line by line. And we let the agency who provided that information, or multiple agencies, look at it with their experts to be able to say what was in there and where do we get it from? I'm just not seeing all these documents. I'm hearing reports about it.

28:06 I mean, if it was out on the internet, where is it? I just, I'm not seeing all of this stuff. I didn't see any intel about Chinese hypersonic missiles. I have not seen that. And poor ABC, they have nothing. Somebody saw them but not you, huh? That's what I mean. Yeah. People would always send this stuff to me, always. And I've asked for it since the last show, nothing. I'm just not seeing all this information. I'll try to get you some stuff. Okay, okay. You heard it here first. This time I make the, I'm not making a promise. I'm making a pledge. Okay, just find the Chinese missile stuff. The hypersonic missile. Then I'll be happy. I don't think, I don't think it's out there. Here's ABC. They have nothing. They're not read in. So what are we gonna do? This morning there's word that a pro-Russian blogger may have played a key role

28:55 role in the spreading of classified documents. Allegedly leaked by a young Air National Guardsman in Massachusetts. According to the Wall Street Journal, on April 5th, a social media account with a name translating to the Dawn Bass Girl posted four of the allegedly leaked classified documents to its 65,000 followers. The Wall Street Journal says that social media account is overseen by a former US Navy officer in Washington state. Wait a minute, the Dawn Bass girl is not real? It's overseen by someone in Washington state? Did I understand that properly? I don't even know anything about the Dawn Bass girl. Yeah, she's been around posting stuff.

CHAPTER 10 / 48 Discussion

Donbass Girl Persona, Wall Street Journal Investigation

The Wall Street Journal identified a former US Navy officer in Washington state as the administrator of the "Donbass Girl" social media accounts, which helped spread the leaked Pentagon documents. The hosts speculate on a potential quid pro quo between News Corp and the government following the Dominion Voting Systems settlement.

donbass girl· wall street journal· navy officer· russian propaganda· news corp

28:06 I mean, if it was out on the internet, where is it? I just, I'm not seeing all of this stuff. I didn't see any intel about Chinese hypersonic missiles. I have not seen that. And poor ABC, they have nothing. Somebody saw them but not you, huh? That's what I mean. Yeah. People would always send this stuff to me, always. And I've asked for it since the last show, nothing. I'm just not seeing all this information. I'll try to get you some stuff. Okay, okay. You heard it here first. This time I make the, I'm not making a promise. I'm making a pledge. Okay, just find the Chinese missile stuff. The hypersonic missile. Then I'll be happy. I don't think, I don't think it's out there. Here's ABC. They have nothing. They're not read in. So what are we gonna do? This morning there's word that a pro-Russian blogger may have played a key role

28:55 role in the spreading of classified documents. Allegedly leaked by a young Air National Guardsman in Massachusetts. According to the Wall Street Journal, on April 5th, a social media account with a name translating to the Dawn Bass Girl posted four of the allegedly leaked classified documents to its 65,000 followers. The Wall Street Journal says that social media account is overseen by a former US Navy officer in Washington state. Wait a minute, the Dawn Bass girl is not real? It's overseen by someone in Washington state? Did I understand that properly? I don't even know anything about the Dawn Bass girl. Yeah, she's been around posting stuff.

29:45 That's the one who kept showing up and then she was dead and then she was a teacher, I think is not the one? Like I said, I don't know anything about the Dawn Bass girl. Posted four of the allegedly leaked classified documents to its 65,000 followers. The Wall Street Journal says that social media account is overseen by a former US Navy officer in Washington State whose actions reportedly prompted several large Russian social media accounts to pick up on the documents. ABC News has not confirmed the journal's reporting. Is this the girl who has grabbed as many documents as she can and posted them or shipped them to Russia? I have no idea. There's something like that going on. Do you think there's any chance that the Wall Street Journal getting all this stuff and there might be some quid pro quo between News Corp and the fact that they settled a Dominion suit? Oh yeah. And now they get to have to do this as penance or there's some hanky-panky going on about that?

30:45 Interesting. Is there any coincidence that the Dominion suit, I use the word advisedly, any coincidence that the suit was settled but meanwhile the Wall Street Journal stooging for the Pentagon for all these stories? There are no coincidences in intelligence or in government probably. Yeah. I'm not quite sure how the quid pro quo works. They're still out 787 Million dollars? Or are they? Oh. Hmm. Hmm. MSNBC is really pathetic if you thought ABC was bad. Jen Psaki, inside with Jen Psaki. She's the worst. She has not... I'm ordering on banning her. No, probably a good idea. The ratings have halved since the spectacular launch of the show. Of course everyone sampled it and went... She's not a likable person. You know TV people

CHAPTER 11 / 48 Discussion

Jen Psaki, Donald Trump Map Investigation

MSNBC host Jen Psaki compared the Jack Teixeira leak to the investigation into Donald Trump's handling of classified materials at Mar-a-lago. Reports suggest Special Counsel Jack Smith is investigating whether Trump showed a sensitive intelligence map to political donors and aides. The hosts criticize Psaki's broadcasting style and likability.

jen psaki· msnbc· donald trump· mar-a-lago· classified documents

31:45 Especially the women, the women. They have to be likable. Yes, she's not, but it also, not just the likability, it's just dumb. Look for the country of death. Hold on, why does this happen? Why do I only have one channel from you, Psaki? Hold on a second. I don't want to do this. Sorry, I had no idea. Let's see. What happened? Oh no, it's only one channel. Classified information could be shared by a 21 year old kid who simply wanted to show off. But you know what else is a bad look? When a 76-year-old former president is suspected of doing something pretty similar. Oh no! What? She's saying that it's a bad look when a 20-something, we've heard this consistently. Yeah, I think we've heard it to death.

32:36 Does this and you know shows off the documents he's he's stolen, but you know it's even worse 76 year old former president is suspected of doing something pretty similar This week the New York Times revealed that the special counsel in the Mar-a-Lago documents case is investigating quote whether former President Trump showed off to aides and visitors a a map that he took with him when he left office. A map that contains sensitive intelligence information. We don't know what that map is of, but it's sensitive intelligence information. No, brother. We follow similar reporting from the Washington Post that investigators are scrutinizing whether Trump shared classified documents with political donors, with political

33:14 donors, maybe to show off to them too. And it comes after the post also revealed that the FBI found highly classified nuclear secrets pertaining to a foreign nation. Who knows what exactly or how much information he might have shared or with whom? We don't know that yet. There's clearly a lot we don't know. But even at this early juncture, all of this begs the question of whether Donald Trump will be held to the same standard as a 21-year-old Air National Guardsman. It's not even a good outrage story. I mean, it's not good at all. It's no good. They gave her the bottom of the barrel writers. Yes. Yes, I think you're right. I mean, that's all they had, was that? That's all they could do?

34:00 Pa she's probably not a good person to work with you know the kind of fiery redhead and so she probably already Badgered the writers. I mean I can just see that back that back room. Yeah, we're not gonna do it You mentioned that earlier you think she's just not nice to the to the people she works with huh she seems that way She's got that duplicitous smile You know that little, that little, I'm gonna fix you eventually smile. She doesn't seem like a nice person. She snaps. Yeah. And she's not a good host. I'll bet she's made some enemies along the way too. You know what I mean? Could be. I think so. Yeah, I think she's probably made some good enemies.

CHAPTER 12 / 48 Discussion

AI Hype, Scott Pelley 60 Minutes Report

The hosts deconstruct a 60 Minutes report on artificial intelligence, mocking Scott Pelley's dramatic framing of machines teaching themselves "superhuman skills." They argue that Silicon Valley is using AI hype as a "Kraken moment" to raise capital during a recession, despite the lack of a sustainable business model for expensive Large Language Models (LLMs).

artificial intelligence· scott pelley· 60 minutes· google· llm

34:50 Okay, I see kind of the topics you have so I'm gonna do one that you don't have and then this is I think this it's big in the news is artificial intelligence. Oh my oh my oh my I've got a one clip a couple clips on that but you do okay, but they're teasers because I do good I started you know, let's do teasers. I got stuff. Okay. Well, let's listen to Scott Pelly and that stupid 60 minutes report that everyone was all over I just want to play a couple of his own his opening remarks to show you what an dumb report in an idiot this guy is and

35:31 And I will do a complete deconstruction of that on the Sunday show. We may look on our time as the moment civilization was transformed, as it was by fire, agriculture and electricity. In 2023, we learned that a machine taught itself how to speak to humans like a peer, which is to say with creativity, truth, error and lies. Oh, okay. Wow. Why don't you just throw up on the stage? Creativity no less. Woo! Yeah, and lies! Idiot number two clip. Is only one of the recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence. Machines that can teach themselves superhuman skills. Okay, what's a super... What in your mind... This could have been an Ask Adam.

36:24 What in your mind is superhuman? What is superhuman? Flying faster than a jet plane? Or speeding bullet? Speeding bullet? X-ray vision? Stopping a moving train? X-ray vision? Stopping a moving train? X-ray vision? Yes, I would say X-ray vision is good. Now, I mean if you could do large sums in your head maybe, but computers do that. The only thing that's new here is these these LLMs, baby. You got, you know, I'm sure there's an LLM that's good for our organization. You got to talk like that now. Large language models. See, that's what all the marketing kids are talking about. The big LLM. It's bull. I would not, I would have done this whole thing that I'm going to do on Sunday today if I hadn't gotten so many clips on one other topic, which I think is more important and more newsworthy. But this report included the, was a,

37:21 Based on a ton of lies, these Silicon Valley guys have buffaloed people like Scott Pelley who haven't got a clue. And they had to hand Google. And Tucker Carlson, also no clue. Yeah, Tucker Carlson would be clueless and I will take the... There is the another thing I could have done. I'm gonna do a lot of stuff. I keep promising I don't do it, but I'm gonna do this I'm going to take the Elon Musk interview with Tucker and Cut it up. So it makes sense. Well, I do have one clip from it today, but I Won't bother me at all. So just just to hit the top line. I

38:06 I mean what has happened here is Silicon Valley has unleashed their Kraken, unleashed the Kraken moment to raise capital in a declining advertising market and a possible larger than ever thought recession. And all of a sudden, oops, there was chat GPT, it got away from Elon, he had his eye off the ball I think, and then this Sam Altman, is that his name? Sam Altman is the FTX guy. No. Is it Sam Altman? No, no, no, no. That's uh, now you're confusing me. Sam Friedman. That's Bankman Fried, yes. Bankman Fried, yeah. Fried, whatever. So, the C. No, Fried is free. I just like, Fried sounds better.

38:52 Because he's gonna... So Altman, I think it's Altman, you know, he basically launches this marketing ploy which is just dynamite. Oh, it's genius. And you know, oh no, and everyone's running around, all the consultants are going, oh it's horrible, it's horrible, but they're desperate for a business model. I have not heard a business model yet. No one's gonna pay for this. Yeah, of course. I have to mention this. So in the 60 Minutes piece, one of the guys they bring in there is an AI guy, nut, AI nut. And he says he had to do this and that to get into Google. He says, because what I really want to do is get into, and then they wrote, they do a voiceover, say he wanted to get into the Google, then they showed one of the data centers.

CHAPTER 13 / 48 Discussion

Sony World Photography Awards, AI Image Controversy

German artist Boris Eldachsen won a category in the Sony World Photography Awards with an AI-generated image but refused the prize to spark a discussion on the future of photography. The hosts point out obvious AI artifacts in the image, such as deformed fingers, and suggest the entire controversy was a publicity stunt by Sony.

sony world photography awards· boris eldachsen· ai art· german artist· publicity stunt

39:43 It was this monstrous data center that must cost a fortune to operate where BARF exists. I'm going to stick with your theory on this. This is too expensive. They have no business model. People will have to pay for it if they want to use it. And they're going to have to pay a lot. And there's seemingly no way... I mean, it's not like they're gathering your most intimate thoughts. You know, you're saying, hey, write me some code, write me a thesis, write me this, make me an... Oh, do a photo. This is a beautiful story. Now, a fierce debate has been sparked in the world of photography after an artist entered a photo competition with an image generated by artificial intelligence.

40:29 And won. The image shows two women, which do not exist, and was entered into the creative category of the Sony World Photography Awards by German artist Boris Eldachsen. Eldachsen has refused the prize and said he submitted the image to find out if competitions would be prepared for AI images to enter. Now so they have this guy on in a moment. Have you seen this picture? No. Oh go look for the Sony photo award. You'll see these two women. People were sending it to me you know like KG saying... No one said it to me. KG saying do you think what do you think of this photo? I'm

41:11 I'm like, well that's obviously AI. Look at the fingers. The left hand is like, her thumb is upside down. Hello, look at the woman behind her face. It's obviously AI generated. At that point I didn't know that Sony had given it the award for best photo. So, and that says something about these Sony judges. for this competition, but this is a non-story. You look at this thing, you see it right away. Is this with the woman and the woman behind her? Yes, yes! Look at the hand on her... Oh my God! The hand on the left, I'm sorry, her right hand and the woman behind is deformed. And how about the left hand? And then the other hand is coming off from some place in another town. And the thumb of her left hand is on the bottom.

42:03 I see this right away. Oh my god, you're right. Looks like they were not and the artist behind that picture joins me now, Boris Eldachsen, welcome to the day. Now it's being reported that you revealed that the picture you submitted was AI generated but you were pretty upfront about it ever since you found out you were selected, weren't you? Yes, of course. It was not about winning anything, it was making a test, trying to find out if the competition is prepared And my mission was to create awareness for that, that we need to keep this in mind in the photo community, that it is going to happen. It's going to happen on a much, much larger scale in the future. How did the organizers of the event react when you told them the picture was in fact not a photograph?

42:51 Well, I offered them they could like give it to someone else but if they don't it would be good to have an open conversation for the public, yeah, because it is something that is pressuring the photo community. The response was short. We were saying you can keep it and that was it. There was no response to my offer of having a discussion or conversation. Right, so they're so embarrassed as they should be because anyone can see that. I'm disagreeing. This is a scam. They're not embarrassed. This was all done for publicity. I never heard of this competition before. Now I've heard of it. This is bogus. That picture just for... I don't care what the thumbs here or there or anyplace else. That picture sucks. It's not an award-winning photo. Well, I'm in agreement on that too.

43:40 No, it's not an award-winning film. This is the best they could do. In fact, it's pretty piss poor, the best they could do. I think Sony was in on this. This whole thing was a dipsey-do. It's bullcrap. It's a publicity stunt. Oh, we're so embarrassed. We were fooled. Bullcrap. A dipsey-do? A dipsey-do? Okay, so here comes part of what I think is the real problem. And what Silicon Valley is so worried about, oh, we're all going to die. No, what's happening is you're eroding your existing business model of stealing people's content and charging users to view it, listen to it, etc. And user generated content. Well, yes, they're happy taking the user generated content. But when it comes to stuff that's licensed,

CHAPTER 15 / 48 Discussion

Voice Precedent, Elon Musk Microsoft Lawsuit

A historical legal precedent involving Bing Crosby is cited to show that "vibe" and voice likeness can be protected in advertising. Meanwhile, Elon Musk has threatened to sue Microsoft, alleging the company illegally scraped Twitter data to train its AI models.

bing crosby· elon musk· microsoft· twitter· copyright law

47:37 It's all auto-tuned and almost AI to begin with most of it. It's pathetic. And notice that it's not creating a new Beatles band, you know, it's not creating the new Nirvana. No, it's taking old stuff, existing stuff, existing and putting a different artist's voice over it. It's not anything new and innovative. There's no human creativity in here. But oh, tell the kids about it as like they talk about on the social and mwah! Are the artists right? in all of this now. This is where it gets really tricky because when AI generates something, whether that's a piece of art or a song, it's technically a new piece of content. So if I ask for a song in the style of Ariana Grande, it will make music that sounds exactly like hers, but it's not her music. And as it stands today, you can't copyright a vibe or an essence.

48:28 So we might see some revisions to copyright laws or some rules as to what can and can't get included in training these systems. In fact, yesterday, Universal Music put out a big statement that none of their artists' work can be used to train AI systems. Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow! Oh no! This is... It's just as bad as that photo. You know, compile something classical for me, something brand new. Not in the style of... That's all it can do is in the style of Shakespeare, in the style of this, in the style of Drake, in the style... Oh, in the style... Do a poem in the style of John C. Dvorak. How many times have someone sent that to you?

49:14 So, there was a lawsuit, I think it was in the late 20s or 30s, and I think it still stands around as precedent. Bing Crosby, it's very well known in the music collector 78 people. He was a dick. Crosby was universally not liked. Bing Crosby sued a guy who sounded exactly like him. And he was picking up a lot of voiceover work for commercials and other things. And Crosby won the suit. Really? And that kind of thing is still valid. I think there's a lot of these things like you can't use things for advertising, you know, you can't. It's just a lot of you can't put somebody's I can't put your picture on some advertisement for a car. No, you can't.

50:04 So this is no different. I don't see the difference. This is just, you know, yeah, okay, you can find something that sounds just like Ariana Grande to create some bogus song too if you want. It's just a, it's a tempest in a teapot. Precisely. But from a rights perspective, there's gonna be right. There's already several lawsuits. Now Elon Musk is suing Microsoft that saying, well, they illegally scraped Twitter to train their AI. I mean, can you imagine the chat GPT 1, 2, 3, and 4 and auto GPT and all this GPT stuff has all been trained on Twitter conversations? Well, that's some solid data for you.

CHAPTER 16 / 48 Discussion

Elon Musk Tucker Carlson Interview, Larry Page Dispute

In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk claimed his fallout with Google co-founder Larry Page was due to disagreements over AI safety and Page's desire for a "digital god." Musk recounted being called a "specist" for prioritizing human consciousness over machine intelligence. The hosts suggest the rift was actually personal rather than philosophical.

elon musk· tucker carlson· larry page· openai· speciesism

50:52 Now this is a Hail Mary from Silicon Valley and Elon Musk shows his true Barnum Bailey self, PT Barnum self Because that's, I'm so convinced this guy doesn't know what he's talking about. He's just a marketing guy. When he talked to Tucker about this, about Larry Page and, oh Larry, I don't talk anymore because we had a dispute over AI and I said it was dangerous, we had to keep it open and blah. No man, you were boning his wife. We all know what happened. That's why he got in a fight. Remember that little story?

51:34 Ah yes! Oh yes! No, now it was AI. I mean, the reason OpenAI exists at all is that Larry Page and I used to be close friends and I would stay at his house in Palo Alto and I would talk to him late into the night about AI safety. And... AI safety? At least my perception was that Larry was not taking AI safety seriously enough. And what did he say about it? He really seemed to be? Get off my wife is what he said my wife get out of my house He really seemed to be

52:13 What it wants is sort of digital super intelligence, basically digital God, if you will. Whoa, digital God, yeah, there it is. As soon as possible. He wanted that? Yes. He's made many public statements over the years that the whole goal of Google is what's called AGI, artificial general intelligence. I don't understand something. Help me under, and we'll continue this in a minute. If the whole goal of Google was the digital god, the general artificial intelligence, why did Google scramble and have to throw barf out there after Microsoft basically did something that was cute? I mean, wouldn't they be the leaders?

52:56 Would they have it all ready and instead they throw up something that misses the mark? Oh, you mean the way they threw together Google Plus? Yes! Because they're always late to the game. Yes, precisely. I'll tell you why. Okay. Because Musk is full of crap about this. Yeah. He's made many public statements over the years that the whole goal of Google is what's called AGI, artificial general intelligence or artificial superintelligence. You know, and I agree with him that there's great potential for good, but there's also potential for bad. And so if you've got some radical new technology, you want to try to take a set of actions that maximize probably it will do good and minimize probably it will do bad things.

53:40 Yes. It can't just be health leather, it's just go, you know, barreling forward and hope for the best. And then at one point I said, well what about, you know, we're going to make sure humanity's okay here. Okay, what is this? What is this laughing? What is this autistic? He was thinking about Larry Page's wife. And then at one point I said, well what about, you know, we're going to make sure humanity's okay here. I think you're right. I think you're case closed. And then he called me a specious. Did he use that term? Yes. Now, why is this so hilarious?

54:26 A specious meaning that he only likes species or something? No, no, specious is the term for developing an argument as bull crap. Well, he said he was a specious. Oh, he says he was a specious? Yes, as in specious. Oh, so they thought that was hilarious? That's not funny at all. What it will speciousness that's like being an ageist Specious specious, okay, it's in here. Oh, yes. Oh, that's the assumption of human superiority Leading to the exploitation of animals people who don't like animals Humans who hate animals. That's it say humans who hate animals. Yeah specious specious alternative here's the

55:21 Yeah, I keep speciesism, speciesism, the assumption of human superiority leading to the exploitation of animals, species definition by the free dictionary. Let's do that. Well then how does that even fit into the conversation in context? Intolerance or discrimination on the basis of species especially is manifested to cruelty to or exploitation of animals by humans. This is why I didn't think it was funny. Well it doesn't make sense. It's not only not funny. And there were witnesses. I wasn't the only one there when he called me a specious his wife, and so I was like okay. That's it Yes, I'm a specious. Okay. You got me. Oh, yeah, okay. What are you? busted

CHAPTER 17 / 48 Discussion

IBM Watson Failure, Google Glass Tangent

The hosts reflect on past tech failures like IBM's Watson and Google Glass, comparing current AI hype to these "flops." They criticize tech evangelist Robert Scoble for his over-enthusiastic support of AI, noting that human ears can still distinguish between organic and synthetic music.

ibm watson· deep blue· google glass· robert scoble· augmented reality

56:09 So he's got like Camilla's cackle problem. That was his last straw at the time Google had acquired deep mind and so Google and deep mind together had about three-quarters of all the AI talent in the world they obviously had a tremendous amount of money. Yeah, so a question what happened to deep mind what happened to deep blue? Remember IBM? Oh, Deep Blue beat the world chess champion. Oh, that's the end. Yeah, once it did it, it didn't need to do anything anyway. It retired. Well, didn't they create an entire business line that went nowhere and they had to basically shelve it because it wasn't working? Watson. Watson. Watson. That's what it was. Watson.

56:49 The road to Silicon Valley is littered. Because it didn't work. No! This, Watson, probably stems from the old 80s flop, AI flop, and this is just a new version of it. Only this one's gotten a little more traction because it's caught everyone flat-footed. I don't know, this is the strangest thing I've ever seen. Well, this reminds me a lot of another canard. I even went to Boston and stood in line to get one of the first ones because this was it. It could recognize your handwriting. It could understand what you meant. The Newton. The Newton. Not Newtown. That's probably what it should have been called. The Newton. I said the Newton. No, I said Newtown. The Newton. Well, hey, let's go along, go back to Google. Google goggles. Google glasses. Another great product. This idiotic Google glasses that everyone was wearing.

57:43 Right after Scoble was wearing him in the shower. This is why I keep telling you when Scoble is all in on something that means it's bullcrap and he is he's going crazy with AI. It's the new God. It'll help you kick your alcohol habit, your addiction. I mean he's saying all of it. He's saying these things. No! Anybody who in the music business will hear it. I mean you hear it. Human beings can hear when things are just not human. They're just not human. I don't think any of these songs are impressive. And that goes for a lot of this music in general. I'm sure a musician may be able to use some so-called AI to create something, just like you can create some code.

58:34 and some writing. Yeah, you can do augmentation. But no one wants to deal with the augmentation aspect. They think it's going to be a standalone monster. I think augmented intelligence is probably a better term. Just like virtual reality didn't work, so then it was, oh, it's augmented reality. So you have some stuff pasted over it. That's exactly what this feels like. Nothing at all like we're being, you know, we're all gonna, like Scott Pelley, oh! We're all gonna die from the evil human machine. And Elon Musk is in on this scam. He probably needs to raise some money for it too. Elon Musk is in on it for a different, not because he believes any of it. No, I think he's in on it because he needs to raise money from time to time. There's money, money, money, money, this guy's good. Yes, I agree. There's money, money, money.

CHAPTER 18 / 48 Discussion

Apple Savings Account, Elon Musk X.com Competition

Apple launched a high-yield savings account offering 4.15% interest for Apple Card users, which the hosts view as a direct move to preempt Elon Musk's plans for an "everything app" (X.com) with financial services. They question the antitrust implications of tying financial products exclusively to the iPhone.

apple· elon musk· apple card· savings account· antitrust

59:34 I love the story about Apple basically beating Elon to the punch. Remember Elon, he's building x.com and everyone's going to put their money into x.com. They're going to get interest or they can, if they want, go negative interest, which is also known as a loan. And they will be able to pay each other all through this fabulous TruthGPT app, formerly known as Twitter, now as X. And Apple comes along and says, oh, you know what? We're going to give you 4.15% interest. Just put your money into Apple Pay. How about that? I think they beat him to the punch. We talked about this on DHM Plugged. There was a... I couldn't find any evidence that they won't let you do this on anything other than an iPhone. That's my concern. No, you have to... Yes, an iPhone and you have to have the Apple credit card. You have to have both, I think. Yeah. Now, of course.

1:00:29 Duh, I think it's illegal. It we in what way? Vertical integration. There's all kinds of it's antitrust. You can't do that I don't think I don't think it's the I think somebody who's a smart lawyer can take this and say no You have to open this up. You can't have it just Exclusive to your phone. No, I mean, I don't care. I don't want it I think I think Elon may be a little irked because this was supposed to be his big thing and No, he's got plenty of time to make money. Okay. I don't know. He might get devoured by the evil AI. That could happen too. We can only hope. All right. Let me guess. You wanted to talk about the Robert Kennedy Jr. announcement for running for president. Was that your big story? No, my big story is that I've come to the conclusion I've got evidence. I do have that though. I do have that. Yes.

1:01:24 But I have evidence that they're out to get Joe. Yeah, yeah, I think you're right. In a concerted way. And the concerted way involved, and I've got three sets of clips, or two sets of clips. And what makes it obvious to me that something's up is one of the set of clips is from Democracy Now, all anti-Joe. Hold on. Warning, Amy Goodman clip inbound. Yes. And one of the sets is from CBS. Stuff I never thought I'd ever hear on CBS. And today I might add, as we may have low numbers listening to the show,

CHAPTER 19 / 48 Discussion

Biden Administration, Migrant Child Labor Scandal

Democracy Now! and the New York Times have released reports detailing how the Biden administration ignored warnings about migrant children working in dangerous industrial jobs. Senator Josh Hawley is seen grilling DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the "indentured servitude" of minors in facilities producing goods for brands like Cheerios and Ford.

joe biden· amy goodman· josh hawley· migrant children· child labor

1:00:29 Duh, I think it's illegal. It we in what way? Vertical integration. There's all kinds of it's antitrust. You can't do that I don't think I don't think it's the I think somebody who's a smart lawyer can take this and say no You have to open this up. You can't have it just Exclusive to your phone. No, I mean, I don't care. I don't want it I think I think Elon may be a little irked because this was supposed to be his big thing and No, he's got plenty of time to make money. Okay. I don't know. He might get devoured by the evil AI. That could happen too. We can only hope. All right. Let me guess. You wanted to talk about the Robert Kennedy Jr. announcement for running for president. Was that your big story? No, my big story is that I've come to the conclusion I've got evidence. I do have that though. I do have that. Yes.

1:01:24 But I have evidence that they're out to get Joe. Yeah, yeah, I think you're right. In a concerted way. And the concerted way involved, and I've got three sets of clips, or two sets of clips. And what makes it obvious to me that something's up is one of the set of clips is from Democracy Now, all anti-Joe. Hold on. Warning, Amy Goodman clip inbound. Yes. And one of the sets is from CBS. Stuff I never thought I'd ever hear on CBS. And today I might add, as we may have low numbers listening to the show,

1:02:06 Because on today's Jennifer Hudson show, which started at 11 when our show started. Oh, no. Kamala Harris. Oh, she's out there promoting herself? She's out there, they're doing the last testing. If she can just get to a certain point, they're gonna pull the plug on Joe and put her in, and that's my thesis. Literally pull the plug. Literally pull the plug on Joe. Maybe. But I wanna start, I'm trying to think where I should start with the CBS stuff, but I think I'm gonna start with the, with the Democracy, since you played the clip for Democracy Now,

1:02:42 This is an HHS scandal that is really targeting Biden and this is extremely unbelievable as far as I am concerned and so it so far as Democrats going after Joe. The New York Times is reporting the Biden administration's repeatedly ignored or missed warnings about a surge of migrant children as young as 12 working in factories across the United States. The Times reports quote at least five Health and Human Services staff members filed complaints and said they were pushed out after raising concerns about child safety.

1:03:20 One of the HHS staffers told The New York Times, quote, "'I feel like short of protesting in the streets, I did everything I could to warn them. They just didn't want to hear it,' she said." In February, The Times published a blockbuster report about child labor based on accounts by over 100 unaccompanied migrant children, mostly from Central America, who describe grueling and often dangerous working conditions, including having to use heavy machinery, being subjected to long hours and late-night shifts at facilities that manufacture products from major brands and retailers, like Hearthside Food Solutions, the makers of Cheerios, Fruit of the Loom, Whole Foods, Target, Walmart, J.Crew, Frito-Lay and Ben & Jerry's. Others were forced to work as cleaning staff at hotels that slaughter houses, construction sites, car factories owned by General Motors and Ford, in serious violation of child labor laws. On Tuesday, Homeland Security

1:04:17 Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was grilled about the Biden administration's response to forced child labor. This is Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri. You're not going to take any responsibility for the indentured servitude and exploitation of children that is happening on your watch. A moment ago, you were crowing about the fact that you treated children so well, and yet we find tens of thousands of children who are forced to work as slaves because of your policies and you turn around and blame a prior administration. Mr. Secretary, this is par for the course for you. You do it every time you appear before this committee. You do it every time you appear before Congress. I, for one, am sick and tired of it and thousands of children are in physical danger

CHAPTER 20 / 48 Discussion

Hannah Dreyer Investigation, HHS Whistleblowers

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Hannah Dreyer discusses her investigation into the exploitation of unaccompanied migrant children in US slaughterhouses and factories. She reveals that Health and Human Services (HHS) staff members who raised alarms about child safety were demoted or pushed out of the administration.

hannah dreyer· pulitzer prize· hhs· migrant children· labor laws

1:05:03 Danger because of what you were doing you should have resigned long ago, and if you cannot change course you should be removed from office Yeah, all right now. Here's here's the gravity of the situation to imagine Amy Goodman playing a Holly clip to his Conclusion yes without without scoffing at Holly You know and because Holly is a takedown Artist I mean that that's part of what he does he makes sound bites He wakes up in the morning says how can I make a sound bite on C-SPAN and then to get it on Democracy Now I agree with you that is There there's that's that's bad. That's bad bad news for Joe this well yes, but let's go to clip 2 and now would they bring in the Pulitzer Prize winning

1:05:52 writer for the New York Times and she just lays it puts layer after layer of bad news. We're joined now by Hannah Dreyer Pulitzer Prize winning reporter at the New York Times. Her new investigation is headlined as migrant children were put to work US ignored warnings. Dreyer's earlier piece was headlined alone and exploited migrant children work brutal jobs across the US. Hannah Dreyer, welcome back to Democracy Now! We had you on for your first blockbuster exposé, showing children as young as 12 working across the United States. Now you're reporting that the Biden administration knew about this. Not only knew about this and didn't do anything—they actually did do something. They pushed out those within the administration who were raising alarms. Can you talk about what you found?

1:06:49 It's great to be with you, Amy. And yeah, just as you say, people were punished for Bringing this to the attention of their supervisors, people say that they were fired, they were demoted. I spent a year talking to children who came to this country and are working in the most exploitative conditions, in factories, in slaughterhouses. I found these children in every single state in this country. And so, after that story came out, I began asking, how could it have been that the Biden administration didn't know about this? And what I found was that actually they were given evidence, they were given warnings. There was sign after sign that this was happening for two years. And the administration really didn't spring into action until just last month. And you know, whenever they use children, they really mean business.

CHAPTER 21 / 48 Discussion

Susan Rice, White House Immigration Policy Failure

Reports indicate that White House Domestic Policy Advisor Susan Rice was repeatedly briefed on the surge of migrant children entering the workforce but failed to act. Whistleblowers like Jalin Zwaalog, who ran the unaccompanied minor program, claim their pleas for intervention were ignored by top-level officials.

susan rice· white house· immigration· hhs· child labor

1:07:44 Whenever it's something that's done to children, I did the same thing to Trump. You're ripping children out of mothers arms, children in cages. Yeah. No, this is serious and I'm telling you this is a concerted effort and when you see it on Democracy Now! And then CBS, when you hear the CBS clips, it's not about this. It's another thing. They're going after this guy. But listen to this clip. This part three is really interesting. And I was particularly struck by the information about Susan Rice, the White House head of domestic policy and her reaction to the reports that there were problems in terms of how these children were being treated. Could you talk about that?

1:08:32 Because Susan Rice has been a person who's been in every Democratic administration over the last 30 years. Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and now Joe Biden. Right. Susan Rice is a hugely important figure, and she is Biden's top point person on immigration. So, it's not, you know, some junior staffer at the White House who maybe got a warning one time and it didn't get, you know, channeled in the appropriate way. What I found was that Susan Rice's team was told about this again and again. And the kind of evidence we're talking about are clusters of children found to be working in different parts of the country, repeatedly.

1:09:12 in these very industrial jobs. So, these are children making car parts. These are children using caustic chemicals and acids to scrub a chicken plant. And those messages got to Susan Rice's level. Memos airing concerns about these issues got to Susan Rice's level. Her team was told, going back to, you know, the summer of 2021, that people were very worried about this. And what the White House has basically said is, well, maybe we saw these signs, but we didn't put it all together.

1:09:49 What their response has been is sort of a lack of curiosity or a lack of conscientious thinking to realize that if we're seeing kids in all these different places who are doing these jobs, maybe there's a larger trend here. Maybe there's thousands of these kids out there. What companies are using these children? How is this happening in America? Well, they named names earlier. Frito-Lay, General Motors, Ford. Yeah, that's what I'd like to know. Exactly. If you remember before we started doing this show, I'm sure you recall this, there was a big stink, I think it was during the Bush administration or before that, a big stink about these migrants getting jobs and there were laws against hiring any of them. And if you got busted hiring somebody, it was a migrant, not even talking about children.

1:10:36 You would find it heavily, but now it's not only illegal migrants, it's illegal migrant underage children working at these companies, making the country sound like a hellhole while we'll criticize China. Hey, guess what? Maybe it is a hellhole. If we got children working at Ford screwing on hubcaps or whatever it is or chemicals to clean horrible... Oh, they're giving them the worst kind of jobs. A hubcap job would be a plus. I mean, I need some evidence of this. Well, the New York Times covers it with a lot of evidence and yet one more thing, as based on my thesis that they're out to get Biden and they're gonna get him before the end of this year, probably. Yeah, they must. This is the New York Times. This is a Democratic spokesperson for all practical purposes. They cover for the Democrats.

1:11:32 And we're getting this kind of reporting. This is the last of these clips. Well, they did put it together sufficiently to force out five health and human service staff members. Could you talk about those some of those staff members and the alarms that they raised? These are the people who are running the unaccompanied minor program for health and human services. One of the women who I spoke with, Jaylin Zwaalog, she helped build this program She started working for the government in 2010, right when we first started to see these waves of children coming over. And she was in charge of this program for years and years. She was the highest official running the program when Biden took over.

1:12:12 And what she says is she raised alarms. We've seen her emails, where she's saying something catastrophic is going to happen and pleading with somebody to pay attention. When her emails went unanswered, she went to Congress, and she talked to Congress staffers and said, again, I'm really worried about what's happening here. These children are in danger. And she was pushed out. She was one of five people who I spoke to who filed complaints, who showed me their emails where they're saying, you know, something really wrong is happening here. And they say that instead of being listened to, they were demoted. Wow. This, you're right. This is, and they're going after Joe from all, does it, I mean, how hard is it just to kill the guy? This seems like a lot of work.

CHAPTER 22 / 48 Discussion

Fox News, Biden Crime Family Tropes

The hosts critique Fox News and Sean Hannity for adopting the same "walls are closing in" tropes previously used by liberal media against Donald Trump. The segment focuses on allegations that the Biden family is compromised by foreign business interests in Ukraine and China.

sean hannity· fox news· hunter biden· burisma· media tropes

1:13:02 Well, this might be a lot of work, but it seems like to somebody who likes to take, you know, wings off of flies, it might be more fun. Well, they're taking a lot of wings off of a lot of flies with this. The whole Hunter Biden crime family is going down at this rate. Well, let's take, yeah, the Hunter Biden, let's move to CBS. Can I play a quick clip before you do this? Because it's just a positioning clip. Sure. I also had the CBS clip, you do them all, that's great. But this was on Hannity, just to give you an idea of how phony The so-called news is, from all sides, they have no shame. They're talking about the Biden crime family. Now listen to this guy and wait for the slogan. Do you believe the president of the United States is compromised by these countries that we know hate our guts?

1:13:56 I'll answer the second question. I don't see how Joe Biden could not be compromised. I mean, these family members aren't energy experts. They weren't on boards, at least with Burisma, Hunter actually sat on a board. There are no other boards that we can find that these family members sat on, certainly not the grandchildren and the nieces and the nephews and the in-laws and things like that. So, what were they doing? Why were they getting this much money? It all points back to Joe Biden and we're gonna continue until we get the truth to the American people. But I can say this, Sean, the walls are closing in on the Biden family.

CHAPTER 23 / 48 Discussion

IRS Whistleblower, Hunter Biden Tax Investigation

An IRS supervisor has sought whistleblower protection to testify before Congress regarding "preferential treatment" in the federal investigation into Hunter Biden's tax returns. The whistleblower's attorney, Mark Lytle, claims the investigation was hampered by political considerations and that his client has extensive documentation of DOJ interference.

hunter biden· irs· whistleblower· department of justice· tax crimes

1:14:37 How many times have we heard that about Trump? It's a tipping point. The walls are closing in. Is Fox News seriously going to use all these tropes now against Joe Biden? All of it's unwatchable. Oh, most of Fox is unwatchable. All right, so we go to CBS and they got another whole different scandal. It centers around Hunter Biden a little bit, but it's more to it than that. And when you start, the way they do it, they're not quite as blunt force trauma as democracy now. But it's not bad. This is Hunter 1. Tonight there is breaking news in the federal criminal investigation into Hunter Biden's tax returns. An attorney for an IRS supervisor sent a letter to lawmakers today asking for whistleblower protection, saying his client hasn't

1:15:25 information that suggests the investigation is being improperly influenced by quote preferential treatment and politics. Here's CBS News Chief Investigative Correspondent Jim Axelrod. My client wants to come forward to Congress. He's ready to be questioned about what he knows and what he experienced under the proper legal protections. Attorney Mark Lytle's client is a supervisory special agent at the IRS who's prepared to tell Congress the investigation he's been working on has been hampered by what he thinks is special treatment. Typical steps that a law enforcement investigator would take were compromised because of political considerations. Lytle wouldn't talk in specifics, declining to identify either his client or the target of the investigation his client helped conduct. Can you identify him? I can't at this stage, Jim. But CBS News has learned the investigation the whistleblower worked on

1:16:22 is about Hunter Biden. What we're doing is being completely cooperative. That was Biden two years ago, after the DOJ opened an investigation into his finances. The FBI collected what it believed was sufficient evidence to charge Biden with tax crimes and last year sent its findings to the US Attorney in Delaware. Since then, silence. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So typically whistleblowers don't get lawyers. That's the one thing I'd mention. And you know, this lawyer keeps saying, well, you know, there's certain protections in place. But I mean, you're a whistleblower, then there's a process you go through. It doesn't seem like they're going through the process. They are in fact dangling this out there.

1:17:15 Yeah, could be. I mean, as far as I'm concerned, none of this is anything other than the kind of a concerted effort from different fronts to get Joe Biden out of office because he thinks he's going to run again and he's got to go. And so all these little nuances like you just described, I don't think are as important to the whole overall view of things as Do you think this might normally be the case? Well, this is more than just he's gotta go. This is taking down the entire family. They're gonna take down Jill. I mean, it's gonna be messy. Susan Rice? Susan Rice? I mean, this is a real clean-up. In part two, we got one more character mentioned that's gonna end up getting his tit in a ringer.

CHAPTER 24 / 48 Discussion

Merrick Garland Testimony, Democratic Party Internal Shift

The hosts analyze CBS News coverage of the IRS whistleblower, noting that the mainstream media's willingness to report on Hunter Biden suggests a coordinated effort by the Democratic Party to move on from Joe Biden. They suggest the whistleblower's information may contradict sworn testimony given by Attorney General Merrick Garland.

merrick garland· cbs news· joe biden· democratic party· hunter biden

1:18:02 Why can't your client talk to us directly at this point? There are laws that provide protection to whistleblowers and he has to navigate that. Today, Lytle sent this letter to Congress claiming his client could provide information that would contradict sworn testimony by a senior political appointee. I have promised to ensure that he's able to carry out his investigation. CBS News has learned that was Attorney General Merrick Garland, who gave testimony about the Trump-appointed US Attorney in Delaware conducting the Hunter Biden investigation. Can we be sure that this is the Democrat Party this may be some other Group that yes, we can okay. We can absolutely be sure we're talking about CBS Yes, and we're talking about democracy now. This is all fronts for the Democrat Party. This is the Democrat Party doing this Well CBS, there's no doubt in my mind about me could be the CIA, but they're the Democrat Party nowadays I agree I agree

1:19:02 So there's no doubt about this is not any the Republicans aren't this they can't do this I mean, yeah, you got a hand it there you played the Hannity clip. That's his death's the best we can do that's the level they got The walls are closing in They can't even they got old memes. They can't even come with something new But what's cool about it is that they literally that Amy took Josh Hawley So, you know, they're using the Republicans in this case. Yeah, you can use Josh Hawley's loud mouth, he's got good things to say, he's the kind of guy you can use to get the sound bite. You can probably get some from a few other guys. I mean, if you were going after the Pfizer, you'd get as much Rand Paul material as you could. This has, you know what this has? The Susan Rice thing has me bothered and I'm gonna go out on a limb. This is Obama. Obama is saying get rid of her too.

1:19:55 And the reason? He was in love with Susan Rice. Obama? Bullcrap. No, she wrote that memo. Remember she had the memo to herself? Her CYA memo? That was written on purpose. Obama probably advised her to do it. And he's getting rid of her because of Michelle running. I feel it. Michelle Obama's gonna win. Well now that you've gotten off the deep end, we'll play clip three. We'll see. Lytle says neither he nor his client are motivated by politics. Would you find any evidence or allegation of a political agenda? No. To him, the truth is one truth and he wants to come forward with it. Lytle told us the whistleblower has been with the IRS for more than a decade and has extensive documentation to support his allegations. The things he's been through are very well documented in emails and other communications with the Department of Justice.

1:20:53 We asked Mark Lytle if there's a chance his client can only see his slice of the investigation and not the big picture. He said that's possible, but that his client had expressed his concerns to superiors a number of times before seeking whistleblower status. Neither the IRS, Department of Justice, or a lawyer for Hunter Biden would comment. I'm putting it in the book. I'm putting it in the book. This is clean up making room because who else then yeah They may put Kamala in briefly. No Kamala's in she's the one. Yeah until 2024, but it's just temporary

CHAPTER 25 / 48 Discussion

Kamala Harris, Michelle Obama Election Speculation

A theory is presented that the Democratic establishment is grooming Kamala Harris to take over for Joe Biden, while others speculate that Michelle Obama will eventually be the 2024 nominee. The hosts discuss Harris's appearance on the Jennifer Hudson Show as part of a likability campaign.

kamala harris· michelle obama· gavin newsom· 2024 election· jennifer hudson

1:21:28 But no, she's going to be when she's going to be the president and then she's going to run for re-election. It accomplishes a lot of things for one to accomplish just getting rid of the notion that that Michelle would run at all. But I think it's more to stop Gavin Newsom in his tracks that'll end his chances of being president. And I think it's going to end. I honestly believe the Democrats, the more you watch this If you don't listen to the other side, which we do both, so we, you know, we see Kamala as a buffoon. But the Democrats don't see it that way. They see her as a smart, intelligent black woman. Nah, well, okay. And you're gonna... Talk to people on the street. And then, and then... Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You were talking to people on the street? So Jennifer Hudson

1:22:23 It's going to make her look good and it's gonna be like one of the tests or they're grooming her. Yes, they are I agree, but it's only getting everybody ready for Michelle. You can laugh all you want put it in the book I'm putting it in the book. I'm putting it in the book. Not even putting it in the book. It's so ludicrous Okay, you will eat them words. Oh, I won't yes, you will you'll be Crunching on those words especially well while we're at it since we're talking about this sort of thing let's go well let me play another candidate let me play this and then you can play that I have the announcement that I want to play a piece of okay well they were gonna go to the RFJ yes yeah or RFK jr. RFJ K RFK who I met once I met him in context of climate change funny enough

1:23:09 When we were all with Kleiner Perkins, had their green fund and we're all at the golf course. Oh, he was there. Yeah, what's that golf course, the famous one? Pebble Beach? Pebble Beach. Pebble Beach? Well, there's a lot of famous golf courses. Is that the one in California? It could have been the Olympic Club. It's Pebble Beach in California. Oh yeah, and Pebble Beach is Pebble Beach. That's the one. There's three courses. That's the one. And we had an away with all the founders of the companies and they embarrassed me by forcing me to play, which of course was horrible. But then Robert Kennedy Jr. was there with his wife, and his reason for there was, you know, he was still Special Olympics, what he was doing as his mom, but it had something to do with the Gore, and Gore's movie was played then for the first time before it was in theaters. And I spoke to him, he's a really nice guy, but, you know, really meek and quiet actually. I didn't know much about him at the time.

CHAPTER 26 / 48 Discussion

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 2024 Presidential Campaign Announcement

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. officially announced his candidacy for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination in Boston. In his speech, he compared his underdog status to his father’s 1968 run, noting that he is running against a war and a president of his own party. The hosts discuss the historical context of the 1968 election and Kennedy's current platform.

rfk jr· presidential campaign· boston· eugene mccarthy· democratic party

1:24:06 So he announced that he is running for president and he did a fun thing in this announcement. He talked about misinformation, disinformation, how it's all bullcrap. Where'd you get this clip? Because most mainstream wouldn't play it. No, I got it from the announcement video. I found the video and I clipped a piece from it. I thought it was interesting what he said because he literally compared himself to his dad when his dad ran for office. My father, 55 years ago last month, I sat as a 14-year-old boy.

1:24:42 behind my father as he announced in the Senate caucus room in Washington, D.C., his campaign for presidency of the United States. And my father at that time was in the same, in many ways, in the same position that I'm in today. He was running against a president of his own party. He was running against a war. He was running against, he was running at a time of unprecedented polarization in our country. And he had no chance of winning. My father, when he declared, had not a single molecule in him that he believed that he could win the Democratic nomination.

1:25:24 Why is that? He had run his brother's campaign in 1960, eight years before. But now, all the unions were against him with two exceptions, United Auto Workers and Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers. The liberal press was 100% against him, from the New York Times to the Village Voice. The labor union, the big city mayors were against him, including Mayor Daley who had played a critical role in President Kennedy's nomination. All the people in the New Frontier who were his closest friends.

1:26:01 were now working for the Johnson White House. So they were against him. The only people that he had with him, even the universities were against him, because they were with McCarthy. The group of Hollywood, like Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman, who had been very close to him, worked very hard for my uncle in 60, were now working for McCarthy. And my father in the universities, my father used to say that McCarthy had all the A students and he had the B and C students. And so the only people he had were people, poor white people in rural areas like Appalachia, Port Wax, and in the Delta, and in our cities, in Watson, Harlem, and East LA, and Indians on the Indian reservations. And that was kind of it. But that hopelessness in his campaign freed him to tell the truth to the American people.

1:27:06 Yeah, which is about the only thing he'll achieve is to be able to tell the truth to the American people. But no one will hear it. No, no, unless you watch Tucker. And I hate the comparisons he's making because we know it didn't end well. The Kennedys, I mean, they have a bad record. Well, first of all, that's my era when I was a Democrat. Good. Tell us about it. So I'm very familiar with what happened. Okay, tell us. The anti-war Democrats were on board big time with Eugene McCarthy. He was the guy everyone wanted to win. Kennedy came in and everybody, the reason he was, it wasn't because of whatever thing RFJ, RFJK Jr., RFK Jr. thinks. Oh.

1:27:57 It was because, oh, Kennedy's just, he's just trying, because he's a bigger name than McCarthy, he's trying to steal his thunder. Stolen valor. So he was disliked for that reason because McCarthy was the guy everybody wanted. He was a super peacenik. And so, uh... The fact was is that the Democrat Party wasn't gonna put him in either and I think everyone kind of knew that Kennedy would have gotten a nomination because nobody wanted George McGovern who finally got the nomination. He was a bonehead. So his interpretation and my recollection as a staunch Democrat at the time was different.

1:28:46 And yeah, it didn't end well. I have to say I like everything Kennedy says. I mean, I watched his announcement. I like it all pretty much. I don't think I've heard anything I disagree with. I like it too. I would vote for him. I think he's a real threat. I think he's a real threat to Michelle Obama. You can leave that on the cutting room floor, please. No, no, no, no. Why? You're just throwing it in every time you bring up any topic. We're still on the same topic. We're on the same topic. It's more than valid for me to say this. Just because you don't agree doesn't mean you can dismiss it. No, if I don't agree, I can dismiss. I can dismiss anything I want. Okay. Well, okay. Then I can say it. It's a foregone conclusion. You've already pointed out that he can't get any ink. He's got on Tucker, which is like, that's no good. Well, what if he got some Democrats and a whole bunch of Republicans?

CHAPTER 27 / 48 Discussion

NPR Smear, RFK Jr. Anti-Vaccine Labeling

NPR is criticized for its "smear" coverage of RFK Jr., which focused on his history as an anti-vaccine activist and his views on 5G technology. The hosts defend Kennedy's record as an environmental lawyer who fought mercury in waterways and vaccines, arguing that the media is ignoring his core message of ending the "merger of state and corporate power."

npr· rfk jr· vaccines· 5g· conspiracy theories

1:29:45 He's getting nobody. Let's be honest about it. Okay, I guess he's getting nobody. Let's go to NPR and this is just the beginning. NPR is like the flack, what is it called? The shock troops. Yeah, storm troops. The shock troops are coming in. And this go RFK Jr. NPR smear. A familiar name has entered the 2024 presidential race to challenge President Biden for the Democratic nomination, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He made his formal announcement earlier today in Boston. My mission over the next 18 months of this campaign and over my throughout my presidency

1:30:28 will be to end the corrupt merger of state and corporate power that is threatening now. Now, Kennedy isn't just a member of one of America's most famous political dynasties. He's also an anti-vaccine activist who's been criticized by his own family. NPR's Shannon Bond joins us now to explain more. Hey, Shannon. Hey, Elsa. So, OK, a lot of people, of course, know the Kennedy name, but can you remind us who exactly is Robert F. Kennedy Jr.? Sure, he's the nephew of President John F. Kennedy and son of Bobby Kennedy. And Robert Kennedy Jr. is a lawyer who was originally probably best known as an environmental activist. But as you said, he's not only become a central figure in the anti-vaccination movement, but he's also promoted other conspiracy theories like the baseless idea that 5G telecom networks are being used to control people's behavior. Wow.

1:31:22 Do we have proof of this? I never heard that, but he's a conspiracy nut. Wow. Anti-vaccine nut. Yeah, that's right. No, in fact, the truth is that he was an environmental lawyer and he sued organizations that were putting mercury into our national waterways, chemical mainly from factories, etc. and it was getting into the fish supply and so he was suing people over that and as he tells it himself he kept seeing these women show up at all of his events and they were saying hey our children are being hurt by mercury in the vaccines namely in thimerosal and other such adjuvants and that was actually that's that's not an adjuvant I'm sorry the merisol is a preservative okay but mercury in the vaccines and he went after the merisol is mercury

1:32:18 Well, there you go. It is mercury. So, and they were using that and he went after those corporations. That's a far cry. In fact, he is explicitly not anti-vaccine. He was anti-COVID vaccine, yes. And he showed us, he read the documents, he showed it to us. He said, this is why it's bullcrap and this is why they want it on the children's schedule. I don't know why you're so much against NPR. I'm sorry. So let's continue this smear. It's on National Treasure. What am I thinking? With part two. Wow. OK. How did Kennedy wind up as a leader in the anti-vax movement, though? Well, he said he is not opposed to vaccines. He frames his criticisms as being about safety. You know, in his speech today, he didn't address vaccines directly, but he did raise concerns about chronic illnesses, autism, quote, poisoning our children.

1:33:17 these are all references to these debunked and false and misleading claims that he has promoted for years that undermine trust in vaccines. Most recently, during the COVID pandemic, he opposed vaccine mandates and other public health measures. He promoted unproven treatments such as ivermectin, you know, and that did result in some of his social media accounts being taken down for spreading false health claims. He says that's censorship. But the pandemic also did a lot to raise his profile. And so we're in this sort of strange place now where Kennedy is this figure, this with this iconic Democratic name, but he's also now being embraced by many on the political right who have adopted anti-vax views. Right. But he is running as a Democrat. Let me ask you this, President Biden's approval rating with Democrats, I mean, it's pretty strong right now. Polls find that Democrats are also willing to get vaccinated than are Republicans.

1:34:08 What is the rationale for Kennedy here? Because this sounds kind of like a long shot, right? Oh, they're so elitist. What's the rationale? Why would he even bother? I mean, it's a long shot. I mean, why even waste your time? Huh, Becky? So they also have the structure that whole little part of that report where they go and everything he says been debunked It's false as a bet. You know, they go the one thing after this. They just can't they just can't say, you know, it's questionable No, it's not proven. These are new models. These are news models with the perfect face for radio That's why they're on it. They got the voice they do

1:34:52 Yes. All right. Let's go to the hello. How are you? Hi, John. How are you? Part three of the smear. Yeah. And, you know, for a long time, also, vaccine opponents weren't particularly aligned with one political party. Here's how Annette Meeks, who's a lifelong Republican who runs the Freedom Foundation of Minnesota, a conservative think tank. Here's how she put it in the early days. It really is kind of where the crunchy granola left meets the far right. But that started to change even before COVID. You saw vaccine opponents begin to rally under the banner of what they called liberty or freedom. That seems to have really resonated with conservatives. And then when COVID came along, resistance to vaccines became linked with resistance to other things like closing schools, wearing masks. Everything was filtered through this partisan divide.

1:35:38 And in fact, Kennedy does have some surprising sources of support. Donald Trump's former adviser, election denier Steve Bannon, has publicly suggested Kennedy should enter the Republican primary. And the conspiracy theorist and Trump ally Roger Stone has his own suggestion that Trump should pick Kennedy as his running mate. Oh man. There you go. That's the ticket. It's a Trump-Kennedy ticket. Oh man, oh man. Well there you go, at least we're wasting everybody's time with this drivel. It's a smear. It's a smear and it's also, we got a way to go before it's time for the 2024 election and we're all being just, just...

CHAPTER 28 / 48 Discussion

Modern Podcast Apps, Value for Value Model

The hosts encourage listeners to switch to modern "Podcasting 2.0" apps to avoid censorship on platforms like Spotify and Apple. They explain the "Value for Value" model, which relies on listener donations of time, talent, and treasure rather than traditional advertising.

podcasting 2.0· value for value· spotify· apple podcasts· mastodon

1:36:22 Noodle, noodle. Teed up. Teed up. Teed up and spun up over this stuff. Oh, it's not important people. It's not important. Go to your local school board election meeting. Go to your local council meeting. That's where it's important. This is dumb. It's a distraction. It's not important. But it will be fun to watch Joe get taken down. But that's our job. So you can just continue. Focus on your local community. Please. And I have a series of trans Maoist clips which I'm excited to share with you but we'll do that right after I say in the morning to you and thank you for your courage the man who put the sea in clusters of children ladies and gentlemen say hello to my friend on the other end Mr. John C. DeVore! Well in the morning to you Mr. Adam Curry also in the morning all ships at sea

1:37:17 Feet in the air, steps in the water, games of nights out there. And some boots on the ground, then of course in the morning to the trolls in the troll room. Hello trolls! How you doing? Put your hands up! Put your hands up! Let's see what you're looking like right now. Oh, I got no juice. How come I don't see anything? Oh, maybe I was kicked off somehow. Somebody do the count for me. You were kicked off? Well, no, when I... There we go. 1862. There we go. 1862. For today. How's that for a Thursday? Is that low? No, it's about, for recently, it's about right. It's not low for Thursdays. It would be, we'd normally 1750 would be the median. Oh, okay. Well, I'm happy then trolls. Thank you very much for being here. But a lot of disagreement from the trolls. That's bull crap. Hypersonic is above the speed of sound. Five could be hypersonic, supersonic. They're very testy. I think a lot of these trolls are nerds. I say that with love.

1:38:19 who were very upset about the SpaceX launch. I think that they're upset. Like, oh man, I was watching. No, they're not. Nobody cares. In fact, I think most people are excited when a missile blows up. I think that's why they watch. Like, hey man, let's get that. But I wish they would have blowed up right on the thing there. On the pad, but that would not be their MO. Their MO is to blow up above the pad so we can get more on the pad. Yes, indeed. The trolls are in the troll room. You can join them at trollroom.io or you can get a modern podcast app. This is very important because if you're seeing your favorite podcast disappearing, which is happening at an alarming rate, particularly off of Spotify, but also off of others like Apple, for the craziest reasons, you know, like Kennedy Jr.

1:39:04 Oh, nothing. I'm just trying to get this web browser to work. I'm mumbling at it. Oh, your Bravo? My Bravo. Bravo browser. If she keeps playing me movies, what the hell's wrong with this browser? Go to podcastapps.com and get one of these modern podcast apps with all the cool new features, 20 of them. And you can import your subscriptions from your old podcast app, not a problem. Run them side by side for a bit, see which one you like, let me know. Of course we like Podcast Attic, Podcast Guru, Podverse, and CurioCaster because they bring you the live stream right there with the chat room, the troll room. It's beautiful stuff, it's brand new, it's podcast.

1:39:47 We also have noagendasocial.com where people like to tag Adam and John in very long threads about stuff we don't care about and then say you vote. No, no, no, we're not going to do that. You can follow us. Don't tag us in all your long boring conversations, please. Adam at noagendersocial.com, John C. DuBois at noagendersocial.com. That is a place where people like to hang out and discuss stuff and there's a lot of it going on. We have 10,000 slots. I think they're full now. You can't join but you can, as I said, follow because it's our mastodons part of the Fediverse. We'd like to thank the artist for episode... What are you laughing?

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Episode 1547 Art, Capitalist Agenda Selection

The hosts discuss the selection of cover art for the previous episode, ultimately choosing a piece by Capitalist Agenda featuring a Rubik's Cube with media logos. They provide insight into their process as art directors and the challenges of finding appropriate art for specific show topics.

podcast art· capitalist agenda· rubik's cube· art direction· roger roundy

1:40:25 I'm sorry I went to the art because we're gonna discuss the art. Oh, okay night and there was one that cracked me up. Sorry episode 1547 Which we titled a Sally a nice I guess the old word for a Karen in a way And well actually specifically is the old it was the old word for a woman who was a sorority sister. Oh, there you go. That's right. Oh Now, we could not find any art on the existing new submissions page that we thought was appropriate or liked enough to choose. So we went into the archives and, interestingly enough, came up with something we had not used before. I'm not sure exactly why this missed out when it was submitted back in the day. No, it did, because there was a better piece. It was from Capitalist Agenda and this was the Rubik's Cube with mainstream media logos and just looking at it again, what a great piece.

1:41:22 Yeah. People really like this and I feel good that we were able to use this after, what was it, this was months ago I think he submitted this, maybe longer than that. I think it was the 1300s. Okay, that's quite, that's several months ago. So we thank you very much, Capitalist Agenda, and oh yes, I can see, you mean the top one, top left from Nico? No, no, it was a nice... you'll see it. Okay, so that is good, but there's a better one. You'll notice. Already the artists are having a good time letting us know that they are all in on submissions for today's show.

1:42:08 And as I said, you know, we had a Mike Riley piece, Lick the World, which you didn't like because you don't like a tongue licking anything, I guess, is what you didn't like. What was the problem with that one? Well, for one thing, it reminds me of the Rolling Stones logo. It does a little bit. So it's derivative. And so I don't like that. And then I just thought it was kind of a... It wasn't... I don't know. It just didn't have any real life to it. I mean, I saw a lot of people... I mean another one I thought was nice but I didn't have any. The Turing test with Scaramanga with the robot. Yeah, but it looked like that cartoon series.

1:42:44 And it just, it didn't have any life to it, it didn't have any zip. There was another one that didn't have any zip. It had some boob jokes in there, but that wasn't enough to get it. The boob jokes were fabulous, I have to give him credit for that. The boob jokes were great. We had the corner of the internet, also by capitalist agenda, which just did not, I mean, it just didn't make it, you know? It just wasn't quite there. What else do we have? That was about it, I think. That wasn't anything. A lot of testosterone jokes, which weren't really funny. And there wasn't that many submissions. I think the show didn't have the kind of material that calls for art. Yes, in fact, that's exactly what you said at the time. You said, I don't think it has a... I just don't think it has it.

1:43:30 We just didn't have the topics that made it work for everybody. And still we have artists pulling stuff out of their butts, doing their best. And I think probably because we were looking at a capitalist agenda on the tongue, that's probably how you came... No, that was Mike Riley. On the corner of the internet with the mole. That's probably how we got to it. Anyway... But how did you get to it then? I saw a Capitalist Agenda thing. I know for a fact that Capitalist Agenda, along with Correct the Record and a number of other people, have like 10 or 12 pages of backed up art, because they submitted so much over the last few years, that there'd have to be a piece in there, because I've actually gone to the well at Capitalist Agenda's page, the specific page,

1:44:16 for some artwork for the newsletter and so I figured there's got to be something here and so I clicked and clicked and clicked and found it was pretty deep in there. It was like page four or five, something like that. A beautiful piece, Capitalist Agenda. Thank you so much. We appreciate the work you do. And then of course the work that all the artists do. It just wasn't there this time. And that's, you know, this type of criticism and being very discerning as art directors. This is what gets people like Roger Roundy high-paying jobs. You know, we teach them. Yeah, and it also gets them to quit doing anything for us. He's saying, that's not true. It's not true. It's typical. It's typical. It's part of those guys is really the way it goes. It's all part of our value for value system. This is what we run on. You know, I hear these reports

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Mike Schoitzer, Mercy Me Band Donation

Mike Schoitzer, guitarist for the band Mercy Me, is knighted following a $1,033 donation. Schoitzer and his bandmate Nathan Cochran are long-time listeners who recently met the hosts backstage in San Antonio. Schoitzer requested the title "Sir Schwoo of the Six Strings."

mercy me· mike schoitzer· nathan cochran· knighthood· christian music

1:45:02 of, oh yeah, this podcast is number one in the charts. It has two million downloads a month. I think, wow, we have a lot more than that. But we'd have to be doing meetings and playing ads. We wouldn't be able to talk about all the things we like to talk about because it might be a conflict or we'd have to be careful. Oh, could we talk about vaccines? Could we even talk about Joe Biden? without getting pulled and people go after us and attack us and try to get rid of our ads. So for over, you know, working on 16 years, we have not done that. We've always relied on you, the listening public, which we call producers for very specific reasons. You help us with your time, your talent and your treasure. And we like to highlight our executive and associate executive producers as quickly in the show as possible, just like Hollywood. And before we get to the first one on the spreadsheet,

1:45:58 I have an instant night donation which was handed to me in check form and this is from Mike Schoitzer. And Mike is the guitar player for the band Mercy Me, which Tina and I went to see after the show on Sunday. If you remember, we went down to San Antonio. We went to see them. It's funny every time you say that. I always think of San Antonio as above you, but it's not. It's down below. It's down below. So they said, hey, the band is big, they're big No Agenda fans. And I'm like, okay, we'll see how big a fan they are. First of all, it turns out, you remember Barry on the last show donated $500, Barry Grawl?

1:46:37 Yeah? Well, he's also in the band and he wanted to donate before anyone else, but he didn't have a note. So he gave him a double up card. Oh, here's the noteless. Yeah, the noteless Barry. Exactly. So he put that in and then we roll up backstage very, very swanky and there's the buses and then Mike, he's a guitar player, comes out And he's got a Curry Dvorak consulting group t-shirt on, which doesn't exist. I mean, the group exists, but the t-shirt doesn't exist. He's had their merch guys make this up. And he played the whole concert with it. That's gotta be pretty baffling.

1:47:19 baffling to the audience I think. That's what I meant, baffling to the audience. Yeah so he did give us one each so yours will be forthcoming and he gave us a check for $1,033 and a note. Thanks so much for the greatest podcast in the universe. You guys are like the media methadone. No way could I have ever detoxed from my addiction to the news without your help. I was hit in the mouth a little over a year ago by one of my closest friends and bandmates, Nathan. That's Nathan Cochran of Franklin. Nathan is the bass player, Franklin, Tennessee. Haven't missed an episode since, and I'm always waiting with anticipation to see what John will be putting the C in next.

1:47:58 Enclosed in donation Nathan donation. No, it's a Nathan mouth hit donation. It's a mic donation Encloses my long overdue first donation of 1033 which I believe officially D douches and nights me well, we will officially deduce You've been D douche I would like to request the title sir shu of the six strings Sorry for the savage slits fest. Yes. Thank you and would love Weller and ribeye at the roundtable I'd like to add a big thanks to Adam for allowing us all a front-row seat to his family's faith journey Greatly encourages my own faith seeing God's work in the lives of others. No jingles. No karma Just jitty to be in the na family and it was a great show. It was a very impressive show I feel like 3,000 people in the like the Boeing something does he own the list? Oh

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Daryl DeVille, Two-Dollar Bill Donation

Daryl DeVille completed his knighthood at the Nashville meetup by donating $600 in stacks of two-dollar bills. This prompts a host anecdote about receiving a stack of "cocaine bills" from a bank in the past, leading to a refusal to handle large quantities of two-dollar bills.

daryl deville· two-dollar bills· nashville· knighthood· federal reserve

1:48:48 I put him on the list, yes of course. Okay good. I put him on the list and then I have one, uh wait no that comes after, I'll do this one and then I have one more from the meetup. Thank you again guys, you were very very kind and gracious. It was a lot of fun seeing the Mercy Me concert. David Alcott is in Eatontown, New Jersey and comes in with $1,000. Greetings from Central Jersey. I want to thank my friend Dave LaConte for hitting me in the mouth many years ago. Please provide me with a deduce. You've been deduced. And he says, please cut it off before that awful 80s Nintendo synth riff. So I did that. Thanks for your courage, he says. Then I have a donation that was handed to us in person at the Nashville meetup by Daryl DeVille.

1:49:37 And we actually have a picture of this. To complete his knighthood with $600, because he had donated a total of $400 previously, he brought in $600 in $2 bills. Duh! Stacks and stacks of $2 bills. Now the question is, I mean, I feel like, you know, he emptied the bank out. I guess they got all of their $2 bills. It's like, it seems like a shame for me to go and give that back to a bank and then send a money order. That's really cool. I mean, they're, you know, the three stacks of 100 in twos. You want me to send you a stack?

1:50:21 It's pretty cool to see. I used to go to the bank and get stacks of $2 bills, because farmers market people and people like that, give them out there and they all get a kick out of it. I stopped doing that, I matured. And actually what really stopped me is one time I ordered a stack of another one of those $200 worth of $2 bills and the entire stack was all cocaine bills. How do you know? Because they had that funny folding thing where people fold up the drugs. Yeah, I would know. Every bill was folded. And so I took it, I took the thing back to the bank. I said, what are you giving me this for? Is it the Federal Reserve selling coke? What's the deal? And I turned to him and I said, that's the last time I ever got a batch of twos. That was the end of it. So no, I don't want a batch of twos. Okay.

1:51:16 Okay, well we appreciate it and he will become Sir Ganoy Weaver of Dixie Alley. Sir Ganoy Weaver of Dixie Alley. And we appreciate his support very much. Onward with the next donation. Yeah night to MFD X of anju Toronto Ontario comes in and really have much of a note He's just got way too many jingles, which we're not gonna do. Well, actually I can do it It's just it's just hit it Fauci wheeze Fauci wheeze while I'm high half-second pause. No, no, no, please people I don't I don't care what you yeah, you can do it, but we don't want it We're not does not we're not this is not like no

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Executive Producer Donations, 420 Birthdays

A series of executive producer donations are read, many centered around the "420" theme and birthdays. Notable donors include Darius Unity, who founded the brand warranties.com, and Sir Stoner Boner from Kent, Washington.

executive producers· 420· birthdays· knighthood· donations

1:50:21 It's pretty cool to see. I used to go to the bank and get stacks of $2 bills, because farmers market people and people like that, give them out there and they all get a kick out of it. I stopped doing that, I matured. And actually what really stopped me is one time I ordered a stack of another one of those $200 worth of $2 bills and the entire stack was all cocaine bills. How do you know? Because they had that funny folding thing where people fold up the drugs. Yeah, I would know. Every bill was folded. And so I took it, I took the thing back to the bank. I said, what are you giving me this for? Is it the Federal Reserve selling coke? What's the deal? And I turned to him and I said, that's the last time I ever got a batch of twos. That was the end of it. So no, I don't want a batch of twos. Okay.

1:51:16 Okay, well we appreciate it and he will become Sir Ganoy Weaver of Dixie Alley. Sir Ganoy Weaver of Dixie Alley. And we appreciate his support very much. Onward with the next donation. Yeah night to MFD X of anju Toronto Ontario comes in and really have much of a note He's just got way too many jingles, which we're not gonna do. Well, actually I can do it It's just it's just hit it Fauci wheeze Fauci wheeze while I'm high half-second pause. No, no, no, please people I don't I don't care what you yeah, you can do it, but we don't want it We're not does not we're not this is not like no

1:51:58 It's no good. If you just say hit it, I think I can play these for him. Well, OK, well, let me start with the thanks for the excellent product, gentlemen. The only issue is starting this show two hours later. Wow. But always gets a four twenty sixty nine donation. Yeah. Hey, man, I just noticed that starting. How long is the two hour thing been going? I think you're right. The only thing I've noticed is the show star- let me read it correctly. The only issue with starting the show two hours later is by the time Adam says in the morning, John, it's damn near afternoon. Wow, I am really high. Beautiful! Yum! There you go. Wasn't that hard?

1:52:53 It was a good sequence. I'm not gonna say it wasn't, but it's just shouldn't be discouraged. That's okay, because now I get to decode this next one, because you know the Stoners came out for 420. This is of course 420. What? Darius Unity from Upper Marlborough, Maryland, 420, 42. So 420 with the most interesting and important number in the universe, 42 as a sense behind it. Peace, blessings, and mad love, Gitbo Nation. Thank you for your courage. In the morning, hooey hooey 420 born day night here turning 34 years old. Blessed belated birthday to Mr. Dvorak also. Oh it's a... Excuse me. My throat is sore.

1:53:34 I'd like to be known as Sir Darius Unity, Night of the Sandhill People, Roundtable Requests, Wild Caught Alaskan Salmon JCD style with mocktails. Also in the morning for 3% off at warranties.com. In the show notes please, that's w-a-r-n-t-e-e-s.com, warranties.com. 42 cents because my brand warranties.com has 42 as a logo and 3% off with ITM. Please place link with my name in the show notes. Yes, you got it. Oh, Camilla's biscuits please. So I wonder if he's on the birthday list. I'm gonna have to check and see if it's on the birthday list. Camilla's

1:54:23 Biscuit please and all the karma. Birthday no agenda meetup currently underway in DC. Apologies for the late notice. Stay safe! Peaceful tidings, Darius Unity, founder of War N T's. They always give me a biscuit on my birthday. Alright brother, no problem. Let me check and see if he's on the list. You've got karma. Your next president. Make sure he's on the list. Yeah, he's on the list. Ashley Zafman in Ontario, sorry, London, Ontario, Canada. Happy 6th anniversary on 420 to my husband. Wait a minute. Ashley, yeah. To my husband and No Agenda Knight Sir Bram of Upper Candinavia, love always your smoking hot wife. There you go. Cheers to many more years of No Agenda together with beers, buds, and Boston Terriers. Sir Stoner Boner is from Kent, Washington, 420.

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Mike the Polymath, Indianapolis Meetup Raffle

Mike the Polymath donates $419.93 in honor of his 30th birthday and the anniversary of the Waco siege. Additionally, Amy Thurmond is recognized as the winner of a donation raffle from the Indianapolis No Agenda meetup organized by Sir Mark and Dame Maria.

indianapolis· waco· paul revere· raffle· de-douching

1:55:22 Adam and John Sir Stoner Boner here with my annual executive producer donation to the best podcast in the universe I can't express how much I appreciate being able to listen to you twice a week Thank you for the amygdala maintenance and please share my karma to all of Noah gender nation. Thanks, sir. Stoner boner. You've got karma On with Mike the polymath polymath if he is a polymath Indianapolis, Indiana That means he does numbers real good. This is Mike, the polymath. I ask for official de-douching. You've been de-douched. Although I've donated many a meetup, I have yet to be fully cleansed. I hereby bequeath. I can see that, yeah. I can visualize Mike, the polymath, who uses the word bequeath. I hereby bequeath

1:56:16 419.93 in honor of my day of birth and the final day of the Waco siege at March. at Mount Carmel. While I prefer the history of April 19th, 1775 with Paul Revere's ride and the shot heard around the world, I would be remiss in neglecting to acknowledge the dark day that occurred 30 years ago as I emerged into this world a newborn babe. I'm turning 30 on Wednesday. I could think of no better way to celebrate than to humbly donate to the greatest podcast in the universe. I asked for Jobs Karma for my business. Easy peasy garden solutions. Easy peasy garden solutions in Indianapolis, Indiana and for podc... or around thereabouts. And for podcasting karma for the Easy Peasy Podcast. I build and maintain a number of veggie gardens in the Indianapolis area.

1:57:11 And I discuss a variety of topics on my show, sometimes with new and interesting guests. No jingles, but a little Sharpton's respect wouldn't hurt. Thanks a million for all you do. Mike, the Poly Poly Man. Then we got those crazy indie people. The Indie NA meetup got a report later. $3.35 switcheroo raffle donation from the March Indianapolis No Agenda Meetup for Amy Thurmond. That means Amy gets the executive producer's shirt there. Okay, I've done the switcheroo. Adam and John, my husband, Sir Craig of the Dark Moon, and I first, by the way, I met these folks. They came to Nashville. They came to the Nashville meetup.

1:58:03 And I attended a... I'm sorry? They're everywhere. The Indiana people, it's pretty insane. They're everywhere. Yeah, they are. My husband, Sir Craig of the Dark Moon and I attended our first ever No Agenda meetup last Sunday. Oh wait, this is different. The Crossroads of America Indianapolis NA Tribal Meetup and the spirit distillation of the Mash House at West Fork Whiskey in Westfield, Indiana. I am honored to be the winner of the donation raffle. Appreciate all who contributed as this puts me on the path to becoming a dame. Oh, that makes sense, yeah. The meetup was fantastic. The Indiana crowd is welcoming and fun. Truly a great experience. Many thanks to Sir Mark and Dame Maria for organizing. Yeah, that's who came to Nashville. Sir Mark and Dame Maria for organizing. And more people came. It was insane how many people came. No jingles, no karma, but a de-douching. You've been de-douched. You got it.

1:58:59 I wonder where with Andrew O'Donohoe in Smeaton, Saskatchewan. Good afternoon. This email coincides with my first donation to the show of 333. Just want to thank you and John for all that you do. I started listening after hearing Adam On the Joe Rogan experience. Just before the pandemic hit. No Agenda immediately became my number one listen as a podcast. It truly is the best podcast in the universe. I should have donated sooner, I know.

1:59:35 I'm a super douche. Hoping this donation helps make amends. Please give me a de-douching. You've been de-douched. Sincerely, Andrew O'Donoghue. Of course there were some old-time... It's a trick work. It's a trick. Good work! Good work on spreading that Wuhan thing, John. Well done. We go to our first associate executive producer, Tom Recker from Emaus, Pennsylvania, 29317. I'm sending you guys a value for value royalty payment.

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Megyn Kelly, Podcast Engineering Awards

The hosts discuss their upcoming appearances on the Megyn Kelly Show and the "podcast industrial complex" award shows like the Ambis. They argue that the No Agenda Show deserves recognition for its superior audio engineering despite being ignored by mainstream industry bodies.

megyn kelly· joe rogan· audio engineering· podcast awards· ambis

2:00:20 My friend and I started a podcast and website last year and we're doing things the NOA-Gender way. No jingles, no karma, just a lot of appreciation for what you guys have created and continue to do. To the NOA-Gender family members who enjoy movie reviews or are wondering if a film is worth a watch, you can throw out those rotten tomatoes and check out thedailyratings.com or the Daily Ratings Podcast. Let's go lick the world! Nice, I'll put that in next to your name as well. You know, Rotten Tomatoes has been corrupted. I've never looked. I don't look at ratings or any of that stuff ever anyway. I don't trust it all. Like Yelp, I've never been a Yelper. I don't trust any of it. It's all gamed. Gamed, I tell you. Brooke Mortensen in Sierra Vista, Arizona. Megan Kelly's new listener here. Ooh, Megan Donation. Megan Donation.

2:01:15 I love and appreciate all of you so much. I found many gems like no agenda through her humble, generous, sassy self. And then I started listening to Rogan because of you. Oh! That's a switcheroo. Yeah. So you're welcome, Joe. Yep. High five. $222.22. That's a row of ducks from her. And Monday I will be back on the Megyn Kelly Show. What's the topic? I don't know what the topic is. I've been asked to, I don't know, I've been asked to come on the show. That's all I know. Maybe it's a setup. No, it's hard to... I think it's hard doing a show.

2:02:03 Five days a week. You gotta get a guest. And it's like, and my number's up. Don't you think that's kind of how it goes? I mean, that's... I don't know if I've lectured enough about why that's a bad idea. You mean doing an interview show? Yeah, yeah, I mean you can do interviews every so often but a daily interview show requires a full-time Booker and you know there's so much competition So you have Joe Rogan which I still consider to be the Mac Daddy. You know that's that's the all-time Johnny Carson Tonight Show level. Yeah, no, it's the number one. It is the show it is the show

2:02:40 And then we have, well, what else do we have out there? Glen Beck. I think Glen Beck is huge. I think that's also a big show. Yeah, but to compare the... Not comparable. Not to be compared. No, it's not comparable. But then you have everyone going, oh, go on the Pool Boy! Pool Boy! Pool Boy! I'm never going on the Pool Boy show. That would be the equivalent of going on Letterman when you've been discovered by Carson. You know, I think that would be rude. Don't you think? Well, I think it would be lousy. Yeah, yes. For more reasons than one. Yeah. Oh, it's West Virginia. Who wants to travel to West Virginia? Oh, well, that's your home. That's your stomping ground. Yeah, for three months. My alma mater. You're right. 20816 comes to us from Victoria, Australia. Altona North from Dinny. Dinny says, hey, Adam and John, the number represents my daughter's due date. 208... Oh, so two... Huh?

2:03:43 20816? Hmm. Maybe. Not sure. Oh, I wonder if this was, uh... Is that the Australian number or is that the US number? You're asking the wrong guy. I'm just asking in there. First time donor, I first heard your show from Carl at Who Are These Podcasts back in 2020. Thank you for your honesty, integrity and producing a great show. It irked me to hear Adam butcher the pronunciation of Xi Jinping recently, so I'm offering a pronunciation note. The X sound or the Z sound in China is unvoiced and sounds similar to the English sh if spoken through a grimace or wide smile. Let me try. Shi, shing, shing. Okay. And then it has a whole bunch of complaints. I was wrong. I was wrong about Australian beef. Everything's great. There's no Chinese beef. I was wrong about their money. Everything's great. Nothing's wrong with the money in Australia. I'm wrong. I'm wrong. I'm wrong. I'm wrong. That's kind of how I sum it up.

2:04:46 I think that's pretty accurate. And lastly, I recently listened to Adam discussing his conversion on the JRE. Congratulations. I was blown away by the difference in audio quality. I don't know what you were doing over here, but keep up the good work. Yes, some people do say that our audio quality ruins people listening to other podcasts. Well, you know what I say? No. I say it's a crime that you have not won an audio engineering award of some sort because you're the one responsible for the audio sound, not me, and you should get an award from the AES or someone or a podcasting operation for the sound. It just baffles me. Where is the Podcast Academy? I deserve it.

2:05:35 You get nothing. This is the back, this is the problem. You know it, you understand the talent is on one side of the mic and behind it, you know, it never gets enough recognition. No, I'm sure the podcast industrial complex who actually create these types of awards, which are bullcrap and I've always laughed at, they don't like me because I laugh at their little award shows. The Ambis, please. I mean, it just sounds like some pharmaceutical thing. Here's an Ambi! I don't want that. Thank you, Dean. I don't know about the Ambis. Oh, that's the award of the industry. There's all kinds of... Everyone has an award. The industry. It's the podcast industrial complex. You're the industry. Thank you. Yeah, the actual one. We should... You know what? I thought about this before. I'm going to bring it up. Here we go. Here we go.

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Associate Executive Producers, Knighting Ceremony

The hosts conduct a formal knighting ceremony for several high-tier donors, including Sir Mike of the New Jersey Lowlands, Sir Genoa Weaver of Dixie Alley, and Sir Kevin of the 80th Parallel. They thank the "sustaining producers" who contribute smaller amounts regularly to keep the show independent.

knighthood· associate executive producers· donations· irish car bombs· black knight

2:06:31 We should have the no agenda podcasting awards. I'm all in let's do it. That didn't take much to convince No, I'm all in because it will be hilarious But it would be well, I don't think it would be hilarious. I think we'd probably come up It would take us a while and these would be awards I guess you're supposed to do them once a year But once we do them once then we have to do them every year. I They would actually be good podcasts. Oh, yeah. And not repurposed junk from NPR or wannabe junk from NPR that wants to be on NPR but it can't make it. None of that stuff. Genuine podcasts. It's a lot of work. Okay, we're not doing it. Exactly. Onward. I think we already left off at Cheryl. Cheryl Dorffel.

2:07:24 Uh, door fell. In Big Pine Key, Florida. Wow. D-douche me, please. You've been D-douched. I was hit in the mouth by my favorite son, Sir TJ the Wrathful. Going to meet up outside of Nashville Monday night with him. Love the show. There's no other like it in the universe. So that's a fact. 200 bucks. This is the wife of Sir TJ the Wrathful, who also brought his human resources to the meetup. And they're the ones that did the, we don't talk about Brandon, Brandon. And his kids were adorable.

2:08:05 Yeah, I said abuse them some more. We need more of that stuff. He said okay, no problem. I'm doing it JC Swisher in Naples, Idaho $200 switcheroo for Joe Wall for his birthday April 22nd Happy birthday to the love of my life and the one who hit me in the mouth. So well, thank you very much Joe. We're gonna do that Yeah, I mean Joe. I'm Jake you JC and thank you Joe for hitting JC in the mouth. Good work Alright, okay this is gonna be tough because I don't get to this be Stein Dirk in Nijmegen, Holland. Pretty good, pretty close. ITM my colleague and I this is the last 200 bucks. ITM my colleague and I are going to meet up this weekend because I don't want to go as a freeloader here's my donation my colleague will give me a de-douching. You've been de-douched.

2:08:59 My colleague on the other hand doesn't mind going as a freeloader. Please call out Eric as a douchebag. And that's the message. Alright, then we have... Oh, that's it? That's the last one? Let me... We're gonna take a second break later on. Don't you think we should do a second break? Well, I mean it's less numbers total than last show which we did when one passes not that many left Okay. Well, then let me just Thank a couple people for some other donations that we got at the meetup $100 from sir scovi of the Piedmont a hundred and that's a switcheroo for his smoking hot girlfriend Ciara

2:09:39 We have Mark and Lisa Churich, $100. Professor Tom Gallucci, he came up with an outstanding promotional item, the No Agenda Sealing Wax, C-E-I-L-I-N-G. And so he actually created a product, you know, we have sealing wax for your important correspondence as a knight or a dame for your ring. He actually created a product called No Agenda Sealing Wax and you could put it on your ceiling. And it's noagendasealingwax.com. Steven West, a boob donation 8008. Thank you for the communite, love and light. He's in Luzerburg.

2:10:23 something Tennessee. Samantha West, thanks for hitting me in the mouth. Have some boobs, 8008. And we each got a silver dollar from a photo by franklin.com. A Lady Liberty for each of you, thank you very much. It's beautiful and I will send that to you. And then we got two beautiful challenge coins and $100 from Sir Rory of the Duck River. And he wrote a very nice long note and I will forward that to you as well, John. And we thank everybody for coming to the meetup. Just being at the meetup was great. Some people were being hit in the mouth on the spot and donating $33, getting on some of those wonderful sustaining donations. And it was really nice to see everybody. Thank you for coming out. John's going to take us through the rest of these donations and then we'll give you some notes. He has a few left. Let's start with Cerveza. Cerveza, get it, get it, get it. I got it. He's in Florissant, Colorado. $105. Heather Allen in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania.

2:11:24 $105. Is he going to do she or anything? I don't know. I don't see it. No Douglas Murray in Missoula, Montana 94 20 Douglas Murray and I'm sorry Douglas Murray was in Missoula, Montana Sir Kevin McLaughlin's up there with 8008, you know him he's in Locust, North Carolina everyone's favorite Edward Owens in Alameda, California 8008. Kyle High in Kaiser, Oregon. Switcheroo for his wife, Erin High, H-A-G-H. I think that's pronounced high, H-A-I-G-H. Sounds right. And then he says, because it's 8008, he says, I love your boobs, babe.

2:12:10 Patrick Coble in Fairview, Tennessee. He donates as well. He's unstoppable. He pays for everything. He makes everything happen. Thank you, Sir Patrick. We really appreciate it. 7140. And it's a happy birthday to his daughter Karen and his beautiful wife Sarah. Who I met. I met both his kids and his wife. It was great. Oh, that's nice. Yes. Raymond Bressler in Arlington Washington 6996 Joseph Stegman in Thousand Oaks, California 66 Kevin O'Brien Chicago, Illinois 6006 and he's getting knighted as Sir Kevin of the 80th parallel Standard fare will do so he's on the list. He is sir mango meat in Detroit, Michigan 56 This is interesting because I know for a fact that Kevin McLaughlin is

2:13:03 came in with a second donation for 6006. Okay. And it's not on here, so it might have gotten bumped or didn't, I don't know what happened. But anyway, thanks to him again. Sir Mango Meat, Sir David Galloway in Flower Mound, Texas, 5510. Love the Maoist revolution segment. Dean Roker, 50, people love the Maoists. Yeah, we got more coming up. 5510. Sir Mark in Greenwood, Indiana with a birthday at $53 and this is Switcheroo for his amazing keeper Dame Maria of the, Greek kingdoms. I think it's her birthday. Bob Butler in Cumming, Georgia 5069. Chris Wichita, Chris just playing Chris in Wichita, Kansas 5050.

2:13:50 And he's got a birthday for his wife. And now we go to the $50 donors who run right through these. These are starting with Nathan Cochran, his names and locations. Franklin, Tennessee, 50. Tatiana Prince in Hollywood, Florida. Peter Odo in Ridge, New York. Steven Schumach in Zinnia, Ohio. John, John. Joan Pulse, P-U-L-S, in Hernando Beach, Florida. Gadget Freak, 10. In Western Springs, Illinois, Alexander Verdejo in Gig Harbor, Washington. Scott Lavender, our friend in Montgomery, Texas. Sir Andrew Gusek in Greensboro, North Carolina. Joe Oswald in Lithia, Florida. Peter Andrew Perez in San Marcos, Texas with a switcheroo. Credit sister Aida, Aida, A-I-D-A. She's gonna have a birthday, 60.

2:14:44 Matt Illingworth in Montclair, New Jersey, 50. Robert Case in Mill Springs, North Carolina, 50. Christy Jones in Demarest, Georgia. Stephen Crummey in El Cajon. Sir Spud the Mighty in Marietta, Georgia. Jerry Wingenroth in Saugus. California and last on the list is Leanne Shipley in Covington Washington. It's actually a fairly short list. Yes, well we do want to thank them all. We're gonna make up for that with lots of nightings and birthdays and we have a black night to deal with today.

2:15:21 Sir Mike of the New Jersey Lowlands and we missed him on the last show. He says, after many months I finally reached the title of Knight. I'd like to thank you and Adam for keeping me sane in this world of media nonsense. The show is definitely the best podcast in the universe. That's right. It's in the leaked documents from Discord. I'd like to request the title of Knight of the New Jersey Lowlands and have Irish car bombs at the roundtable. That doesn't sound very nice. Okay, Irish car bombs. Maybe it's a drink. I hope so. I don't know if I like that. Love and Light he says. Sir Mike of the New Jersey lowlands and thank you all very much for supporting the show.

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Birthday Announcements, No Agenda Rings

A list of birthdays and anniversaries for the No Agenda community is read, followed by a promotion for the custom knight and dame rings available at noagenderings.com.

birthdays· no agenda rings· knighthood· community· anniversary

2:16:02 Episode 1548. The executive and associate executive producers know by now that those are titles you can have forever. They do not expire. You can use them anywhere. Credits of Show Business Ilk are accepted, like IMDB. You can put it on your LinkedIn. Just throw it on your resume. And unlike the phonies in Hollywood, we will gladly vouch for you. Thank you again for supporting us here at No Agenda, episode 1548. Our formula is this. We go out, we hit people in the mouth. You were born us. Shut up, rage. Shut up. And of course thank everybody who came in under 50 for reasons of anonymity or you are in one of those fantastic programs that are sustaining donations. Thank you.

2:16:55 Here's your list for today. We got Emily wishing her smoking hot husband Bruce Blessinger a happy birthday. He turned 37 yesterday. Andrew Perez wishes his sister Ida a happy birthday. She turned 60 yesterday. The Polymath turned 30 yesterday, DariusUnity 34 today. We had a nice note from him earlier. Theresa Marcin wishes her son Josh Klein a happy birthday for tomorrow. Sir Mark wants to wish Dame Maria of the Greek Kingdom a happy birthday for tomorrow as well. Christina wishes her Sir Loin Medium Rare

2:17:31 A happy birthday, he turns 75 on the 22nd. J.C. Swisher wishes Joe Wall a happy birthday on the 22nd as well. Chris wishes big birthday greetings for his wife Margie's on April, Margie's on April 22nd. Patrick Coble, the Duke of the South, wishes his daughter Catherine and beautiful wife Sarah both a happy birthday. And Jacob Alley wishes his human resource Naomi Alley a happy birthday. Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe. All right, so we have one two three four nights. You've got a black knight on deck So it's we need quite a blade a blade. Oh, we got this one. I'll do oh No, that's the special one. Okay. All right, Mike Wendell

2:18:14 Come on up, you'll be a black knight. Mike Scheutzer, happy to see you here my friend. Daryl DeVille, Kevin O'Brien and Darius Unity, all of you have reached the status of knighthood of the Noahjender Round Table and I'm very proud to pronounce the K-V-S. Sir Mike of the New Jersey Lowlands, Sir Schwoo of the Six Strings, Sir Genoa Weaver of Dixie Alley, Sir Kevin of the 80th Parallels, And Sir Darius Unity, Knight of the Sandhill People. For you we've got Hookers and Blow, Rent Boys and Chardonnay, Wild Caught Alaskan Salmon, JCD style with mocktails. We got Irish Car Bombs. I know I'm forgetting something here.

2:18:54 I forgot the Weller and Rib-Eye, but it's still on the grill. There we go. Along with that, of course, we've got mutton and meat for those of you who have not had it yet. While you feast on that, you can slip on over to noagenderrings.com and anyone can visit that. You can see those handsome knight and dame rings. All you have to do is send us your details, your address, and your ring finger size, and we'll get those off to you. And thank you again for becoming knights and a black knight here of the No Agenda Roundtable. Well, no surprise that there are a lot of 420 meetups today. But before we get to that, we've got a couple of meetup reports. The first from Indianapolis. Hi, this is Maria. And this is Mark. We have over 30 people today. What an amazing meeting.

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Meetup Reports, International No Agenda Events

Audio reports from meetups in Indianapolis and Los Angeles are played, showcasing the diverse community of "knights and dames." Upcoming events are announced for Winchester, Virginia; Charlotte, North Carolina; and a major "Drinking in the Dunes" event in Cats Hole, Netherlands.

meetups· indianapolis· houston· netherlands· budapest

2:19:45 We love it. Thank you Noah Tenda, John and Adam. You're the best. In the morning this is Emily, Nada Fed unless it's Monday through Friday from 7-3. In the morning John and Adam, Nada from Indianapolis. Finally dragged my mom here. Thank you for your courage. In the morning John and Adam, PBR Street Gang enjoying another wonderful meetup here in Indy. Hi this is Cindy from Carmel. Thank you for your courage. I wish everybody knew how much three inches was. Bruce from Indy just drinking some whiskey. In the morning morning, Dame Swanee. Sir Benny saying hi to everybody out there. This is Dame Trinity from Fort Wayne. I was in Crown Point, now in Indy, and I'll see you tomorrow in Asheville. Thank you for your courage. This is Shannon visiting from Fort Wayne in the morning. Have a great day. Hey, this is Connor from Westfield. Hate to break it to you, but every time Fort Wayne has a meetup, Vladimir Putin unvaccinates a transgender Ukrainian toddler. Chloe,

2:20:33 I'm with Connor Young. Really? This is Tim from Carmel. I've been hearing about this for a long time. This is my first meeting and I loved it. Thank you very much. Hi, I'm Steph from Carmel. This is Nick from Indy. Today I met a baby who listens to Alex Jones. He's a good boy, Nick! That's a big group, man. And then I got a note from Mike Stulak who did the first Northwest Indiana meetup in Geary, Indiana where no one showed at the Hard Rock and he's thrilled to report the second initial Northwest Indiana meetup was a rousing success. Over a dozen attendees, knights and dames with their rings, mere slaves like himself, plus some very well-behaved human resources and we're very happy that that worked out so well. Over to Leo Bravo in Los Angeles. Hey everybody, it's Leo Bravo.

2:21:17 Meetup number 40 of the flight of the no agenda. I'm passing the phone around our folks have nice words to say Hey Adam and John, it's Steve in the morning in the morning. Brett Akit and Trish the dish here. Boom shakalaka In the morning, it's Dame Kendra. Adam, John, we love you. How old are you? In the morning, this is Angie, representing the ranch. In the morning, hooey hooey, this is Sir O.G. Godcaster. And the lovely lady Leanne. Blessings to you. Ah, Steve Webb and Leanne. Nice that they were there. They had a great meetup in Northwest Houston, Sir Berencer Economic Hickman reported in. It was the first one and it was a big success. They did not foster a competitive atmosphere, but they laughed a lot. Everybody hugged and shared secrets.

2:22:01 Very good. Then we have a big meetup coming in the Netherlands. Yes, these things happen all over the world. It's a new place. It's a new promo. Part of it in a different language. Ha ha ha! Aanstande Zaterdag, 22 april is het zover. Cats Hole, Noord-Brabant, Nederland. De No Agenda Meetup, drinkje in de duinen. Neem je vrouw mee, neem je vriendin mee, maar niet allebei tegelijk mee. Coincidence? I think not! Cats Hole at 2 o'clock and of course in the morning. They've now changed not just the meetup but the actual town is considering changing its name from Catshovel to Cats Hole. And the mayor wants to have a chat with you John for changing it. I'm available on Fridays. Let's see, here's what's happening today.

2:22:57 The DC meetup, Darius Unity, as he already said, is probably over the happy 420 born day to me. However, the Sandy Brigade Third Thursday meetup in Post-Idaho Falls at Selkirk Abbey kicks off at 5 today. Six o'clock, the Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia Tri-State meetup at Union Jack Pub and Restaurant, Winchester, Virginia. We have Charlotte's Thursday, Third Thursday, seven o'clock at Ed's Tavern, Charlotte, North Carolina. On tomorrow we have the spook in the alley that's in Roanoke, Virginia. Man, the spooks are out. It's either Indianans or it's spook. That's who's meeting these days in big numbers. That'll be Fork in the Alley, Roanoke, Virginia. Saturday the first ever Nantucket Super Bowl.

2:23:44 Super Mercedes Saturday, no Algo. Brotherhood of Thieves, Nantucket. Nantucket, I'm very interested to see how many listeners we have in Nantucket. Also on Saturday, the Central Ohio meetup at 2 o'clock at Dempsey's Pub in Columbus, Ohio. And Drinking in the Down End, as you just heard, that is the Dutch meetup, 2 o'clock on Saturday in Cats Hole. The Hungarian Hui Hui at Budapest Bonanza, three o'clock Central European Central Time in Budapest at Tot Cosma. Sir Otter the Infungible organizing that. And then our next show day Sunday the Three Mile Island evac zone April atomizer, 3.30 Eastern.

2:24:26 Evergreen Brewing in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. And finally, KC's Smokin' Hot Spring Barbecue, 330 Central. And that's a private home and that's in Kansas City. I must mention the Millennial Media Offensive is having their final Denver meetup on April 27th. And they want me to mention that because they will be moving down south, I think, to the Mississippi. scene, the Mississippi meetup scene, so they want me to mention that on the 27th there will be an official last Millennial Media offensive meetup. Those are the guys who wouldn't let you and Horowitz on the stream. They were hogging the stream. They were hogging the stream. I don't know exactly what happened. Horowitz was sending me messages. I can't kick these guys off! Okay, I'm Mr. Stream Guy. I'll fix it.

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Trans-Maoism, Pronouns as Psychological Manipulation

The hosts discuss the "Trans-Maoist" movement, comparing the use of pronouns to the Stroop test—a psychological tool used to create cognitive dissonance. They argue that the current surge in gender dysphoria among adolescent girls is a "social contagion" driven by social media and that European countries are beginning to ban medical transitioning for minors.

trans-maoism· pronouns· stroop test· social contagion· gender affirming care

2:25:15 That's your No Agenda Meetups. This is something you need in your life. You need to have this community because connection is protection. No Agenda is your community. You will love it. It's completely producer organized. And if you can't find one near you, go ahead and start one yourself. Noagendameetups.com. ♪ Sometimes you wanna go hang out with all the nights and days. ♪ You wanna be where you won't be, triggered or held to blame. where everybody feels the same. It's like a party. Alright, I still got that, uh, this, um, trans Maoist report. But first, we need to look at our ISOs. I have two today. I'll play number one for you. Call the newspapers! Democracy is dead! And this one. Wow! That's brilliant!

2:26:14 I thought that one would well that competes with my wow Wow Oh Wow is nothing compared to my wow Wow Wow That was a good one that's a good Wow bunch of lunatics yes, yes, yes, yes, I've been reading so much Maybe that's what Megyn Kelly will want to talk to me about she's she's all in on the hating what's going on with the trans on the wood the trans movement and She's all in on the trans women? I'm hating it. Oh, she hates on it. Oh yeah, I watched one of her things recently. Yeah, she goes, she's much more adamant about it than we are, that's for sure. Yes, well of course. And she, I would say her main

2:27:02 issue is that this is, you know, this is anti-women. Anti-woman. Right. And that's, and I completely understand why she takes that stance. The only problem is... I think you have to go counter. What do you mean by... I have an idea of what I'm going to do, but what is your thought? How am I going to counter? I think you should go counter. Say, oh, this is the best thing that's ever happened to this country. In fact, I'm thinking of changing my sex myself. Oh, that's a great idea, John, but no. No. No, the part she doesn't, she doesn't know about any of the Maoist stuff. She hasn't figured that part out. Oh, you're gonna drop that bomb on her? I think so. Well, I think I'm gonna start with the Budweiser thing. Explain to her my history with Budweiser. Okay, I like that. I think she'll like that. So we've learned a lot about what's going on and I mean there are people stopping me in the street saying, wow, 1445.

2:27:52 You know that episode was so mind-blowing about how you took it from what's happening with this gender affirming care which by itself is a sigh up if you watch the documentary Affirmation Generation. Did you ever get a chance to see that? I've watched it twice. Really? I have not watched it twice. I've watched it but not twice. And I'm just, this whole pronouns thing bothers me so much that we fell for that. You know what's a, it ties your brain up. Have you heard of the Stroop test? S-T-R-O-O-P?

2:28:28 The Stroop test. For some reason I have, I can't tell you what it is, but I have heard of it. Yeah, it's a psychological test where there's a whole bunch of colors written out. So it'll say blue, yellow, purple, red, pink, except each color is not the corresponding name. So the blue will be in white, pink will be in yellow, yellow will be in green. And if you just try to read it, you can't read it very fast because your brain is trying to process two opposing realities. You're reading the word blue, but you're seeing white. No, it's not that hard to read. I just turn off my color vision. Okay, thanks. So this is very similar to what a pronoun is, particularly when it's they or when it's obviously an incorrect pronoun.

2:29:14 And that is used to then, you know, psychologically manipulate the people who are slow, everyone who is slowed down by this. I mean, that it is in fact a very, very slick manipulation. Can I ask you a question since you're going to be grunting on this? What difference does it make what pronoun you use because you never use it with the person? Precisely. It is a way to disrupt the parent and child relationship. You're stupid dad. It's a them and and you don't know you're like, oh, okay, you know You're under informed as most parents are we're busy busy parents

2:29:57 But of course this is all the distraction. The distraction is the men in sports, the distraction is the men in the dressing room. It's not that I'm downplaying it, but the true trans Maoist movement is 80% of girls who want to transition to boys or to men. And the way this is happening is it is truly atrocious. It is happening all over the United States and pretty much only now in the United States. We'll just reiterate the UK, Finland, Denmark, the Netherlands, they're all shutting down these practices of medical transitioning. Here in America we just hype it up even more and call it gender affirming care. The president, the whole administration uses this.

2:30:45 But when you hear, or for instance watching that documentary, and I've gotten a lot of our producers emailing me saying, wow, this is happening to my daughter, what do I do? And I said, oh yeah. You got some of these too? No, but you do. I mean, we've talked about this already. You have been getting some notes. I haven't gotten at least none that I remember. I think this bit will work, and this may actually get us more listeners from the Megyn Kelly audience. Well I hope so because it's important for people to their amygdalas need adjusting because they're all Especially Megan is, you know, they're psyched out about, you know, these men acting like women. And of course, yes, absolutely, there's a percentage of people who have body dysphoria or dysmorphia. You pick which one you want. Of course. It's less than 0.1%. Yeah, but it's not 9%, which is what it looks like now for girls who want to transition to boys. No, that's something amiss. So there is this, I think this is an English show, it's called Trigonometry.

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Jamie Reid, St. Louis Children's Hospital Whistleblower

Whistleblower Jamie Reid, a former caseworker at the Washington University Transgender Center in St. Louis, describes the lack of medical protocols and the rapid expansion of the clinic from 50 to 2,000 patients. She attributes the rise in cases to social media influence and "mass hysteria" similar to historical events like the June bug scare.

jamie reid· st. louis· whistleblower· transgender center· social contagion

2:31:47 And they had on the trans clinic whistleblower. She worked at the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital, Missouri. And she actually wrote a blog post back in February about some of her experiences and they had her on the show. I just pulled three relatively short clips, but it says it all as to what's happening and parents need to take note of this. Here's her background just to start off. Oh, and by the way, she is very butch looking. I think she's married to a trans man. She's an adult. You know, this is not children we're talking about. My issue is the children that are being coerced into this by the therapists and these types of clinics. And just hearing these three clips, if you're interested, you'll want to hear her whole interview. I'm Jamie Reid.

2:32:39 I have a Master's of Science in Clinical Research Management and I was previously the caseworker in the Pediatric Transgender Center at a clinic in St. Louis, Missouri. So in the middle of the middle of America. I started, well I spent about four years and four months in that position. I worked at the university previous to working with trans kids. I was working with young adults who were HIV positive. I have a lot of experience in case management. I worked with kids who are in foster care and I've also worked in a lot of medical and health settings too.

2:33:22 So I came into the clinic really excited about the opportunity that I thought was going to be to help trans youth and their parents. So she thought, okay, this is all good. I'm gonna do some good for the world. And pretty soon she saw that this was not exactly all on the up and up. Right away, I was struck by the lack of organization for the center. So there was no real written protocols. It seemed like it was kind of a fly by the seat of the pants kind of operation. They had already been open for a solid year before I got there, and yet it seemed like they were kind of operating

2:34:06 outside of a lot of the normal structures that you'd see in medicine. Most of the departments and divisions in medicine have a lot of layers. There's a lot of top-heavy, there's a lot of, you know, administrative roles and it seemed like the center was kind of off on its own. had this little pocket and I was also struck at the very beginning because the administration of this hospital let this clinic open and I was told that they originally thought that they were going to have about 50 patients total. And when I left, we were close to 2,000. Okay. Yeah. Exactly. What are the chances? All these girls who need, who are trans in St. Louis? No.

2:34:56 What is happening, and we've talked about this years ago, maybe not even in this context, but social media, particularly with young girls, there is an absolute, there's something known as social contagion. And we talked about this in respect to tics. You remember girls would have tics? And they say, oh I have Tourette's now. And they'd all have tics and it was all coming from social media. And some of them, it was just, it was very much, we even looked at some of the history. There's been, you call it mass hysteria. There have been moments in history where social contagion was so strong that entire towns could not stop laughing for a week. You remember that one?

2:35:42 Yeah, and then there was the June bug thing. There's a slew of these. What was the June bug thing? Oh people imagine there were some bug is on the This juice like a it's like the bed bug remember the bed bug infestation everywhere. Yes. Yes And then all of a sudden it's not even in the news anymore. Even though bed bugs are still here But June bugs was similar to bed bug scare. You should look it up. It's on the Wikipedia people should look it up. Oh And there's no such thing as a June bug, but they were infestating, infesting, sorry, infesting everything and people were finding them and they were getting itchy and it was a period of nuttiness.

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Social Contagion, Gender Transition Tourism

The discussion continues on how social media platforms like TikTok facilitate social contagions, including tic disorders and multiple personality claims. The hosts criticize states like Colorado for promoting "gender transition tourism" while other nations are pulling back on such treatments.

social contagion· tiktok· colorado· medical transition· detransition

2:36:22 So our clinician here will tell us exactly how this social contagion works in combination of course with therapists who will happily after one appointment say, oh yeah you're clearly trans let's get you started on some meds pretty soon and we'll get you scheduled for your top surgery. This is happening to girls 80% of all children who are transitioning who deserve to have gender-affirming medical care, please be careful of these words which are just, they're just, there's phony words. It's sterilization, it's truly mutilation. Listen to this. I definitely have come to believe that in the United States there is an element of social contagion in play.

2:37:13 going on with young people who are seeking out care in gender centers and I'm not the only one to believe that. I had lots of parents report very similar things and there were even a number of patients in the center who would report and directly said I only got this online. I think it's well known in medicine that adolescent girls are just more open and more susceptible to many different kinds of social contagions. That has to do with a lot of ways that girls are socialized, but also the way that girls interact in kind of group settings and pick up things and show empathy with those in their group setting.

2:38:06 oftentimes by taking on attributes in those group settings. So I didn't just see that these kids were picking up gender as a social contagion. We have a lot of issues right now in my country with adolescents who are experiencing Tick disorders they think they have Tourette's they don't there's been a recent wave of young people believing that they have What they refer to as DID so multiple personalities You are seeing these things directly coming from social media. There you go. That's, there's your culprit right there. I get a lot of DID TikTok videos. Oh yeah. We've played on the show. The hot girl is my favorite. The what? The hot girl? Yes. Yes. And all social media. And I'll bet you, especially TikTok. I'll bet you TikTok, this is where TikTok truly is going to be very bad because we know their algorithm

2:39:04 pulls in everything you know the stuff that you are completely in love with and interested and they don't put any any Counterweight into that. Yeah And this is where it's coming from now if they just said that let's get rid of tick-tock for that reason I think people might be more into it. Yeah, so this is this is a very bad situation that we're in and And I don't know how we get out of it, John. I mean, other than just keep saying that this is being pulled back in all of Europe, all the countries who are leading with it are stopping the argument. I think that's a good argument. There's no one who started it.

2:39:42 Kind of. Yeah. And they're the ones pulling back. But meanwhile Colorado, you know, signed as the first state that's, oh if you're transgender and you want treatment we can do transgender treatment tourism. Come on over to Colorado. We're all for you for your gender affirming care. And parents, they don't know what to do. Man, they're helpless. Poor parents are dumb. I don't know if they're dumb. Yes. That's not fair. I mean, when you have all these doctors telling you that this is a thing and this is what your kid has, I mean, you've been taught to trust the doctor. Yeah, well, that was a mistake, wasn't it? Yes, but you can't call them dumb. That's not fair. Yeah, you can. I can. Maybe you can't. No, I can for sure. Here, play this DeSantis gender ban. This is NPR's take on things.

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Florida Gender Instruction Ban, FDA Commissioner Bow Tie

Florida's Board of Education has expanded the ban on classroom instruction regarding sexual orientation and gender identity to all grades. Meanwhile, FDA Commissioner Robert Califf is criticized for wearing a "Republic of California" bow tie during an interview, which the hosts interpret as a sign of submissiveness to the establishment.

florida· ron desantis· fda· robert califf· bow tie

2:40:31 Florida's Board of Education has signed off on a ban on classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in all grades. The board passed a proposal today which says it will take effect after a procedural notice period that usually lasts about a month. Republican Governor Ron DeSantis put the measure forward last month as part of a conservative agenda as he gears up for an expected presidential run. Will it ban lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity from grades 4 through 12? Such lessons are already banned in kindergarten through third grade. Man, I can't believe we... The fact that you have to ban them in kindergarten through third grade is beyond me. I can't believe we have this conversation even. And these people who are doing this are evil.

2:41:14 And a lot of them are former... I just call them dumb, but you're pushing it. No, the doctors. The doctors doing this are not dumb. They're evil. Well, the medical system is not performing properly. And I blame, you have to blame it on the top guys, the guys who run the AMA, for example. The licensing professionals, the same guys who threatened to license to the doctors in Canada who said, well, I don't know, maybe we shouldn't take this shot. Maybe try ivermectin. So there was an interview on CNBC with the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. The guy's name is Robert Califf and he's actually been the, this is the second time he's administrated, I'll get to that in a moment, and he was interviewed. Now this, you just got to understand, this guy is probably about 65, he's wearing a bow tie, a Republic of California bow tie,

2:42:12 Oh, bad signal. Yeah, I mean what does that even say about someone who does that? As the FDA commissioner, when you wear a Republic of California bow tie, what is up with that? What are you trying to say? I'm asking you a question. Do you know what these men who do this are trying to communicate? Well, in publishing people... somebody described it to me once. as tying yourself in it with a bow tie if you're male in this, you know, after 19, let's see, bow ties are kind of popular in the 70s on and off. After 1990, you wear a bow tie, you're tying yourself as a gift, as a Christmas gift, this is your little bow. I'm perfect, I'm a good boy, I'm perfect. Yes, it's a good boy look. Well, he's not. There's something sick about it. Yes.

2:43:05 Even Tucker who used to wear a bowtie all the time. Yeah, I haven't stopped doing it. It's not it's not in it's not a style anymore No, it's a statement. Does that mean I'm also just following orders maybe? I'm a good boy. I'm a good boy. I'm a good boy. Well, he is a good boy. Good boy. He does the job. But, but, he is angry. Well, I mean angry. He doesn't really get angry, but he misses the good old days. Well, I know that misinformation has been a big priority here at FDA. What are you guys doing about it? And do you have optimism that you can make a dent in it?

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Robert Califf, FDA Misinformation Strategy

FDA Commissioner Robert Califf expressed nostalgia for the "good old days" before the internet when the government had a hierarchy of information. Califf, who previously worked for Google's parent company Alphabet, argued that the government needs new "societal rules" to adjudicate information on the internet to combat health misinformation.

fda· robert califf· misinformation· alphabet· google

2:43:43 We've talked about this before, and as I like to say, when you're FDA Commissioner, people return your calls. I've called all the experts, we've talked, we know more and more about misinformation. It relates back to this life expectancy. Why aren't we using knowledge of diet? It's not that people don't know about it. Why aren't we using medical products as effectively and efficiently as our peer countries. A lot of it has to do with choices that people make because of the things that influence their thinking. The COVID vaccines and the antivirals give us an easy way to talk about it, but this is not limited to those areas. In heart disease, so many people don't take their medicines, even though they're now generic and very low cost, often deluded to taking things that are sold over the internet that aren't affected.

2:44:35 So how do we deal with this? First of all, you've got to tell the truth in a louder volume. In the good old days, when I was a practicing cardiologist for the most part, you know, people developed products, they got through the FDA, the label determined what was talked about, the internet didn't exist, you advertised in medical meetings and journals. There was sort of a hierarchy of information that went through the prescriber or the implanter, in the case of devices, to the patient. Of course, the problem with that system is it left a lot of people out. We now know about that. Now everyone's included because everyone's connected to the internet. But we can put out a statement about what we've determined based on the highest level of evidence. Within 10 minutes, someone who's thought 10 minutes about it can reach a billion people.

2:45:28 So he misses the good old days when you can just throw it on the news and put it in the New York Times, everyone would believe you and be all good. And now, oh no, it sucks because we have people talking against us. And why would he know all about this? Because he was hired during Obama's second term in office in 2017. He left for a year and where did he go? How did your experience working in the tech industry, working at Alphabet, impact how you think about the role of the tech industry in helping try to stop some of this misinformation or disinformation? Well, you know, one thing about it is I found that in the tech industry, just as I found in the device and pharma industries and in government, we're mostly all good people. We're all trying to do the right thing, but we work in

2:46:22 environments under a set of rules that sometimes aren't optimal. And I don't think anybody in the tech industry had any idea it was going to get to the place it has. Now we've got large language models. People think you call it CHAT-GPT, which really stands for a whole set of technologies. And so it's moving faster than the human system is able to adapt to it. And so, again, you think about the impact of a single person reaching a billion people on the internet all over the world. We just weren't prepared for that. We don't have societal rules that are adjudicating it quite right. And I think it's impacting our health in very detrimental ways. So he just casually worked for about a year and a half at Google and then came back. Mr. Bowtie.

2:47:16 It's a rather peculiar interview. He didn't say Jack. No, but it's clear that and I think I think part of what these guys see this AI is the new thing to trust because we don't where the trust in doctors is waning and anybody on the internet but you know what people do trust now? Oh chat GPT. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. AI. Oh AI said so. I think they're counting on that. I really think that they might be counting on that. Well, they're idiots. Okay, well there you go.

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Netflix DVD Service Ending, Supreme Court Abortion Pill

Netflix announced it will end its DVD-by-mail service after 25 years. In legal news, the Supreme Court has temporarily extended access to the abortion pill Mifepristone while it considers a challenge to the FDA's 20-year-old approval of the drug.

netflix· dvd· supreme court· mifepristone· fda

2:47:56 What can I tell you? Hey, let's play this news, breaking news. Okay. This is interesting. Netflix DVD story. Have you heard this? Uh, maybe not. First Blockbuster, now Netflix. Well, not all of it. After 25 years, the company is ending its DVD by delivery service. Yes, it does still exist. And yes, people still do use it. My kids love to make fun of me because I like so many black and white films. And so just the access to classic films and obscure films, foreign films, that sort of thing was great. That's John Wallace in Nashville, Tennessee. He has the regular Netflix streaming service, but he and his family have used the DVD delivery system for about 18 years. I didn't know they were still delivering DVDs by mail. Did you know this? I thought they gave that up. They're already talking about password sharing issues.

2:48:56 I just found that to be the most peculiar story. Yeah? Doesn't surprise me. Why not? Not everybody is on the web these days. Yeah, but I still thought Kent couldn't be making any money doing that. So I have another offbeat clip. Here's an abortion factoid. Did you know this? Well, I don't know what the factoid is. So how can I know what it is? I'm asking you. It's like an ask Adam. I'm gonna have you play the clip of abortion factoid And then I'm saying, did you know this? At issue, a lower court ruling that rolled back the Food and Drug Administration's 23-year-old approval of Mifepristone. About half of all abortions in the United States are medication abortions. I did know that. I mean, I've been following it. You knew that half of the abortions are medication abortions? Yes. Yes, I mean... Well, I didn't know that. I've been following this thing. I thought it was a coat hanger or something. No, you know, you are... You're really not... This is... You should calm down.

2:49:59 It's just the fact they didn't know. Did you know? Here's a good one. Well, can you stop for a second? Yeah. So what is interesting about this is that now what everyone is waiting to see is if this will go to the Supreme Court, if the Supreme Court will take up this case, which I honestly, I don't see why the Supreme Court has any business doing this at all. I mean, but they already took it up and they kicked it back. Well, they didn't kick it back, they did put it on postponement. It's going to be Friday or the next week. Yeah, it's a Friday, so they haven't kicked anything back. No, they picked it up. Yeah, well no, they postponed it until Friday and then, that's tomorrow, and then they will hear if they pick it up or not.

2:50:42 But if they pick it up, I mean, or let's say they don't pick it up, I mean, can you have any drug available to kill anybody? I mean, I think there's a lot here. I don't think they want to pick it up. I don't think they'll touch it either. I don't think they should touch it. No, no. I have an NPR report if people need to know that. It's called Supreme Court and the Abortion Pill NPR. The Supreme Court has temporarily extended access to a commonly used abortion pill until Friday. Justices are still considering whether to allow restrictions on Mifepristone to take effect while a legal challenge to the medication's FDA approval continues. In an order signed by Justice Samuel Alito, the court indicated it will act by Friday night. The decision comes following a ruling by a judge in Texas seeking to invalidate FDA approval of the drug despite its 20-plus year record of safe use.

2:51:40 Since the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to an abortion last summer, political and legal battles are focused on medications used for abortions. Whatever happened to wear a condom? I mean that's what it used to be. I mean it was like abortion was if the condom broke. Somehow we've just forgotten them. That's what I grew up with. And then for a long time it was like age does not have sex at all. Well in Maoist and communist societies abortion was the is the number one birth control methodology. There you go There you go. And that's exactly it that if it's time for you to have a child We'll create that in the lab and all the others we can just you know, just have fun having sex Don't don't worry about anything. You're right That is entirely the Maoist system and we're running towards it at breakneck speed. Yeah, I

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Christine Lagarde, Digital Euro Launch

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde called for the completion of a European Capital Markets Union and the launch of a Digital Euro. She expressed concern that cryptocurrencies are "seducing young people" and argued that a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) is necessary for a digital society.

christine lagarde· ecb· digital euro· cbdc· crypto

2:52:34 I'm gonna play you a short Fifi Lagarde clip. Christine Lagarde, since the last time we played it, two weeks later, everybody had discovered this thing that she said, remember that? I don't yet. Yes, you do. It was the two Russians who punked her and then she said, oh yeah, October, Digital Euro's coming, October. We played all this, we deconstructed the whole interview, and then two weeks later people are sending me, oh, this is a great clip. This is an old clip. Yeah, so this is a new clip of her speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations. Actually, this is after her speech. Oh man, where she first calls for a... actually I should play this. Europe be prepared. This is what your president of your central bank wants. The single most important factor influencing international currency usage remains the strength of fundamentals.

2:53:31 And by that, we know that it is the rule of law, strong respected institution, as well as open capital markets. By the same token, for Europe, long-delayed projects such as deepening and integrating our capital markets can no longer be viewed solely through the lens of domestic financial policy. To put it bluntly, we need to complete the European Capital Markets Union. This will be pivotal in determining whether the euro remains among the leading global currencies or others Those exotic one that I mentioned earlier on take its place. Yeah, so there you go The capital union that what they said would never happen. You can have one bank and you can have a European taxes

2:54:19 This is exactly what they said they would never do, along with there will never be an EU army. And of course now there is. And then the second part is where she uses crypto to usher in that which she predicted would happen in October anyway. I'm not impressed by cryptos. As I said, I see them as liabilities more than assets. I respect that people want to produce speculative instruments. If they're prepared to lose it all, that's fine. I'm very concerned that it's seducing young people who don't really understand what they're getting into. And one of the reasons I have pushed our project of the digital euro has to do with the fact that our societies are becoming more and more digital.

2:55:07 And we cannot just operate with central bank money that is comprised of banknotes, coins for the central bank money. The rest is commercial bank money. And I'm convinced that we must be able to produce a digital central bank currency. And I'm using all the words. currency, central bank, digital. That's what we should be able to produce as well as having a payment infrastructure that is conducive to fast, cheaper, more efficient payments cross-border. I don't think she could be more clear. Central bank digital currency for Europe coming in October.

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Eric Adams, New York City Meat Emissions

New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced a plan to reduce the city's carbon footprint by targeting meat and dairy consumption. Adams claimed that a "plant-powered diet" is essential for mental and physical health. This is followed by a clip of Representative LaMalfa questioning a panel on the actual percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere (0.04%).

eric adams· new york city· carbon emissions· meat· dairy

2:55:51 She also had I think in the same speech she said something about if you use a thousand do a Transaction in cash over a thousand dollars you'll be it's like it's gonna be Illegal. Well, that was in her been the previous video we had when she said that oh, yeah No, it was no they were taking it down to 300 not a thousand down to 300 to 200 300. Oh, yeah, Europe has no idea what these idiots are up to And this was a... No, they're not. They should. Well, yes, the ones who listen to our show, that's for sure. Let's see. Mayor Eric Adams. This guy's been a disappointment, huh? No, not at all. Not in the least. We've got one guy, one of our producers that can do his voice. You mean for the show? No, for the show he's a gem.

2:56:51 I'm thinking for an actual mayor. For the citizens of New York. Oh, the guy's horrible and now he wants the robo-dogs to take over the place? Not only that. Have you seen that other robot that looks like a giant dildo that's gonna be wandering around? Holy mackerel, that doesn't have facial recognition they say. Well then what's the point? He's going after your beef New York. One in every five metric tons of carbon dioxide our city emits comes from food. But all food is not created equal. The vast majority of food that is contributing to our emission crisis

2:57:33 lies in meat and dairy products. There you go. You already know that a plant power diet is better for your physical and mental health. Oh, shit. Well, you gotta wait. You gotta listen to what he says. Better for your physical and mental health, and I am living proof of that. Yeah! Oh my god, he can barely get out of his senses without sounding like an idiot. That's what I like to say. I'm saying that word too often. I am proof that he's melting down. And then this, just sticking on climate for a second. I got climate. Good, I'll play this one and then we'll hear your climate. This is, I think this is Representative LaMalfa and questions the House Transport Committee

2:58:28 with actually a simple, I mean, the House Transport Committee is all about climate change with those guys, electric vehicles, everything, oh we have to be able to, transportation! And he has a very simple climate question. Panelists, let me just go right down the vine real fast. What percent of our atmosphere is CO2? Take your best guess, you don't have to be accurate. All the online group repeat that question what percent of our atmosphere is co2 carbon dioxide wild guess it's okay I'll buy five percent fine. I'll just follow you I'll see there five and Suggests that we know that transportation causes 49% of co2 so that's why we're all working on energy transition all right, so what number you think it is I

2:59:19 Eh, five. Five? Not you. Didn't hear you mr.. Dreier seven seven did you have one mr.. Boyd, so we got a five seven? Price is right eight I'm gonna take the high end all right Well, I appreciate that and I don't mean to put you on ice I asked a lot of people that because all we hear is climate change climate change co2 co2 I heard a couple on the panel saying you're looking to change your vehicles to electric even though we don't have the electric grid and And me as a farmer, I wouldn't be real happy about running out and replacing $300,000, $500,000, million dollar pieces of equipment because someone wants it to be electric. The answer is .04%.

3:00:01 Not 1%, not 0.5%, it's 0.04% and it's gone up from 0.03 over the last couple decades. This is what we're being all contorted into doing is this tiny change in CO2. If we get below 0.02, plant life starts dying off. I love that part. Is that true? Yeah. Yeah, plants need at least 0.2. What's funny is that those idiots that are up there testifying don't have a clue where they can't answer that simple question. I mean, if you think about what's his name, this Project 350, 350 parts per million, is the 3.03. Yes.

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NPR Climate Report, Galveston Seawall History

An NPR report links melting Antarctic glaciers to the future of Galveston, Texas. The report references the Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900, which remains the deadliest natural disaster in US history. The hosts point out that the city's 17-foot seawall has protected the island for over a century despite "climate change" rhetoric.

npr· galveston· climate change· seawall· 1900 storm

3:00:49 They have an I got a biggest kick out of listening to something on NPR where they had this this plant guy He's doing a greenhouse thing says yeah, I got these plants to grow three times bigger I just pump in bunches of CO2 of course into the course into the greenhouse and these things grow like crazy We need we need we need a lot more CO2 ever we would grow bigger plants will grow bigger We would be healthier. This is we are slowly being killed by this nonsense. Yeah, I Nonsense! Well, they're gonna get killed in Texas. Here we go. Okay, I love the Texas clips. This is climate, Texas versus the glacier Rebecca Herscher from NPR's climate desk traveled to Galveston, Texas to explain that connection Wow Wow, she's from the climate desk. She left her climate desk to travel to Galveston, Texas We're far from Antarctica on an island in the Gulf of Mexico. This is Galveston, Texas

3:01:49 Gateway to one of the busiest ports in the country, home to a cruise terminal, a university, 50,000 residents and miles of sandy beaches. Like a lot of people here, Jerry Davila comes down to the water to relax. I love just staring at the water. It's a great stress reliever just to look at it. But families who have lived in Galveston for a long time also know that the water can be dangerous. It's the number one threat to the city's existence. So I'm June Collins Pulliam and we are here in Galveston at our family home that's been here for about 120 years. 120 years because the house that used to be on this exact spot was destroyed, swept away by the ocean during a storm in the year 1900. Wait a minute. Yes? In 1900 and there was no climate change issues? No.

3:02:50 It wiped out this woman's house and I guess, you know, there was the great flood of Galveston flood in 1900. It was a horrible, the worst catastrophe in the history of the United States. That was, seems some time ago. Yes, I would say it was 220 plus years ago. So wouldn't it, if things were bad, it should have been getting worse and worse and worse. The whole Galveston Island should be gone. Should be just toast, gone. That's right. It's not. Not for the want of hoping, let's go with part two. Is the sound of the ice cracking apart one of the most elemental sounds of climate change? What?

3:03:29 We've never heard that. I had to skip ahead. This is a long report. So she had plays. She didn't play anything, but it's the sound of ice when the ice in a giant glacier cracks. It makes a noise. But she called that the iconic sound. Oh yeah, it's the iconic sound. I don't know what it sounds like. You don't know what it sounds like. I don't know how it's iconic, but it is. She's cracking apart. one of the most elemental sounds of climate change. This melting glacier in West Antarctica is threatening people who live thousands of miles away in sunny Texas. We actually have first-hand accounts of what happened from oral histories. This is Pulliam's great aunt, Annie Smizer McCullough, who was in her early 20s when the storm hit. Oh, it was hot.

3:04:20 awful thing you want me to tell you, but it's... No tongue can tell it. This recording originally aired in an NPR radio documentary. The sound of wind and water was added by producers. The wind was so strong and those waves were coming so... Well, I don't guess you want to hear all of that. Yes we do! We want to hear it! I can't believe that she disclosed they added the sound effects. Why would you bust yourself like that? I don't know. What an opportunity. And then the crazy thing is the old lady says, I don't think you want to hear it. And then they're all yelling, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, let's hear it, let's hear it. All right. Third clip? Yeah, go for it. The water was coming so fast. The wagon was getting so it was floating. McCullough barely survived. The family's home and most of the city were destroyed. At least 6,000 people died. It's still the most deadly weather disaster in recorded U.S. history.

3:05:20 But the city survived, thanks in large part to a massive concrete wall that was built after the storm. A wall so tall that engineers said it would protect the city from the ocean forever. The wall is still here today. I drove out to look at it with Kelly Burks Copes from the Army Corps of Engineers. So this is 17 feet high. 17 feet high and 10 miles long. It runs basically the length of the city. It's covered in murals. There's a four-lane road along the top. We're on the seawall. So the seawall is where the bulk of the condos are. This is where people come and stay in hotels. They walk across Seawall Boulevard, which is the road we're driving on. They drop down off of the 17-foot seawall on stairs, not jumping.

3:06:05 On a calm day, it's difficult to imagine that water could ever come over the top of this wall. It really does look like it will protect the city forever. And maybe it would have, if not for climate change. The psychological warfare. I have total disagreement. Yeah, well I'm going to play you, this will be the final clip. I would warn everyone, there's a lot of F-bombs in this one. It is Young Turks, the Young Turks show with Chunk, who turns out to be just, I mean, like you didn't know he was an elitist douchebag. But it is... Wait.

3:06:43 Are they throwing f-bombs around a The Young Turks show? Oh, yeah, Anna Kasparian now She's though. She's the worst but listen to what's happening with her. She's starting to connect the dots She's starting to figure out that she's been hoodwinked And she's so mad that she just keeps dropping the F-bombs. Oh yeah, she's the type that if she figures out she's been hoodwinked, she'd go nuts. It's like the, you know, people who quit smoking. Well, listen to this. The way that it happens is, I know that in California at least, with the phasing out of gas, they'll probably do the same thing with gas stoves is they just ban the sale of any new gas powered cars or any new gas stoves. And so the technology that you have in your home, the gas stove that you have in your home, if it breaks,

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Young Turks, Anna Kasparian Gas Stove Meltdown

Anna Kasparian of The Young Turks had an on-air meltdown regarding the financial burden of government-mandated transitions to electric appliances and vehicles. While Cenk Uygur argued that "the planet is burning," Kasparian criticized the lack of actual financial help for the middle class to comply with new California regulations.

young turks· cenk uygur· anna kasparian· gas stoves· electric vehicles

3:06:05 On a calm day, it's difficult to imagine that water could ever come over the top of this wall. It really does look like it will protect the city forever. And maybe it would have, if not for climate change. The psychological warfare. I have total disagreement. Yeah, well I'm going to play you, this will be the final clip. I would warn everyone, there's a lot of F-bombs in this one. It is Young Turks, the Young Turks show with Chunk, who turns out to be just, I mean, like you didn't know he was an elitist douchebag. But it is... Wait.

3:06:43 Are they throwing f-bombs around a The Young Turks show? Oh, yeah, Anna Kasparian now She's though. She's the worst but listen to what's happening with her. She's starting to connect the dots She's starting to figure out that she's been hoodwinked And she's so mad that she just keeps dropping the F-bombs. Oh yeah, she's the type that if she figures out she's been hoodwinked, she'd go nuts. It's like the, you know, people who quit smoking. Well, listen to this. The way that it happens is, I know that in California at least, with the phasing out of gas, they'll probably do the same thing with gas stoves is they just ban the sale of any new gas powered cars or any new gas stoves. And so the technology that you have in your home, the gas stove that you have in your home, if it breaks,

3:07:34 Not only are you not able to buy a new one, but it gets increasingly more difficult to just repair it. You get what I'm saying? And so like- I get it, but that's the normal bumps in the road. Listen to this elitist cock. I get it, but there's just a normal bump in the road. I can just replace it. I'm Chunk from the Young Turks. Not only are you not able to buy a new one, but it gets increasingly more difficult to just repair it. You get what I'm saying? So like- I get it, but that's the normal bumps in the road as you transition to things. I know, but Cenk, don't minimize the financial burdens associated with these things, okay? No, I'm not minimizing them. Because I am literally freaking the fuck out. Here we go, it's all chunk, whoa! About the charging station thing.

3:08:20 Like it's going to cost, we're going to take out a massive fucking loan to pay for it. We're not getting any help from the fucking government on that. Did you guys ask is there any tax credits? But seriously. Okay, so now Chunk goes again with the, well, you know, you little people like you, Anna, of course, you're just a hired gun. You can get it. Didn't you inquire about your tax credits? Can you get a tax credit? It's amazing, Anna Kasparian, turning into a human being before your very eyes. about tax credits.

3:09:24 Oh, she's figured out that you actually have to pay for something before the tax credits kick in. She's melting down. I want to do something in response to climate change. That is not my issue here. My issue is how we're forced to make all these changes that are a financial burden, a giant inconvenience with little to no help. And the solution from the government in terms of like, no, no, you get financial benefits for doing this. tax credits. No, I don't want the tax credits. Give me the money. There it is, I want money. Give you give me the money. Okay, don't tell me this bullshit about how I have to buy this like some new fucking thing Because the government's forcing me to do it and then like after I file my taxes There's a certain portion of that purchase that might be tax deductible like fuck off I love that she is doing this publicly. It's so good. This is this this is very therapeutic for her go Anna. We're on your side

3:10:26 sick of it. It's just a chunk. I hear you, but I hear you, but that purchase that might be tax deductible, like fuck off. I can't, I'm so sick of it. It's just like, like endless pressure, pressure, pressure, pressure. I can't take it. Yeah, I hear you. And we asked too much of the middle class. We asked too much of the average person. The middle class is the most fucked group of people in this country. No, I hear you on all that. I hear and all that but that's not me. Don't worry, Anna, that's not me. At some point, we gotta go to electric cars. We don't have a choice. Like the plants burning so we gotta go to lecture. Oh John, the planets burning! So when California says... I mean how can he sit there with a straight face while she's melting down and say well you know I mean you know okay middle class is too bad but the planets burning. Is the planet burning? Is that the effect of climate? Let me look out the window. If you see anything, I don't see anything burning in Texas.

3:11:22 No, nothing burning here. No, there's nothing burning this country. No, I hear you on all that. But at some point, we got to go to electric cars. We don't have a choice. We don't have a choice. Like the plants burning, so we got to go to electric cars. So when California says, hey, let's go to electric cars by whatever the number is 2025, etc. Yeah, yeah, it's gonna be tough, but yeah, and we're not but but you know not for me cuz I'm chunk at the same time now price are coming down. Oh, they're getting cheaper. No, they're not right okay, but right Right? Let's not minimize the cost of actually charging those cars, right? Right, okay. By the way, she's gonna screw up here. She's gonna say electric, but she means gasoline. Because here's the other thing. So Gavin Newsom pushes for and succeeds in passing legislation in California that would ban the sale of electric cars. She means gas cars. At a certain year, I think it is 2025 if I'm not mistaken.

3:12:19 Maybe not, maybe it's 2035. I don't remember the exact year, but eventually, pretty soon, you're no longer going to be able to buy a gas powered car in California. Literally that same month, Kevin Newsom's like, there's a heat wave and our energy grid really can't handle it. And so I'm just going to ask you guys if you have electric vehicles, please don't charge them right now. It's just- No, you can't do that. I mean, she's figuring it out. No, she's not. Yes, she is. It's just a personal thing with her. She likes gas stoves. I have hope for Anna Kasparian. Yeah, well you do, I don't. Well, I think... I did like this. It's a good clip though. It's good. It's funny. Go Anna. Go Anna. You can do it, Anna. You can do it. No, she can't. It's the milieu, man. It's the milieu.

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Outro, End of Show Mixes

The hosts sign off, mentioning an upcoming surgery for one of the hosts and a special compilation episode. The show concludes with "End of Show Mixes" by Dee's Laughs and Mr. Information, featuring commentary on the Dalai Lama and modern media narratives.

adam curry· john c. dvorak· end of show mix· 420· dalai lama

3:13:13 Sunday will be another deconstruction and I have, oh I gotta talk about this after the show. We have two great shows, one for the Thursday which I'll be the day after my surgery so I won't be able to do the show and then in case I can't do the Sunday we have another one but hopefully I'll be able to do that. Yes, I'm aware of the situation a compilation of shows 1 through 100. It's dynamite Yeah, yeah, we have to do some yeah, it's gonna be good Coming up great people that do stuff we do coming up next we have what do we have here? Oh?

3:13:53 Bowl after Bowl, the special 420 show, of course. And we have end of show mixes from Dee's Laughs and Mr. Information coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region Number 6. In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where I remain, I'm John C. Dvorak. We return on Sunday live for you. Please join us then. Until then, remember us at dvorak.org slash N-A. A-hooey-hooey and such. Adios. First thing in the morning, I'm thanking God We owe our life to him, this Darwinism is at odds It's time to go along to get along this past Memory hold the narrative and shine light upon the cast New word I learned from millennials, call it trauma dump You snowflake don't judge unless your name is Donald Trump The D-Rape Syndrome is now inside your home Weather from the parents, teachers screams You're in a zone, zoned out, they got us moving from the beard

3:14:49 COVID was not that serious, we know who planned it. Lame stream media, news readers acting so manic. Trudeau sounding, Sobratian accusatory couldn't stand it. The pleasures of the flesh I used to succumb. Using people like drugs ain't feeling leaving me numb. Better to engage in the in a healthy way, habits formed for good or bad, stick to your word and maybe do what you say. Back to my writing, back on my hobby horse, these leaders for three years they governed us with no remorse, Don Lemon says a woman is past her prime, in her 40s and was beat up by the liberal slime, I guess I'll end up with some life.

3:15:24 I guess I'll end it with something that ain't right. Dalai Lama asking the kid, hey, something's my tongue. The kiss was a bit much, do they think we're really that dumb? It was in that moment and they told this story about how sticking one's tongue out is known as a traditional greeting in Tibet. And it stems from a ninth century myth about an unpopular king. And after they told this whole story, they concluded it by then saying, tongue-sucking does not appear to be part of this tradition. Thank you NPR for telling us a meaningless story then. This is something that's not real. It's something that stirs up hatred, stirs up division, and serves someone or some entity that

3:16:11 benefits from our show notes strictly digital you cannot tear this on a single point of attention state of infinite awareness die a renegade or live long enough to flip flop attacks on mr. information or attacks on hip-hop so peace to the troll feel free to quote I don't criticize the little guys cuz rap is atrocious Crackin buzz fleas, quit rockin with those rumble geeks, these fucka MCs Get caught in the breeze like Bumble Bumble Cs I'm just a douchebag labeled Danny Vax Smoke a loose fag, perusing a news rag, wearing a fanny pack Ayo Andrew Cuomo Are you the man to ask this? Was it a plan to tack-tack? Where's my granny at? And where's Chrissy? Probably out in out hamptons Schmoozing with more spooks than Luigi's Mansion The light from the heavens shines brightest on the seventh day When life gives you Dom lemons, make fucking lemonade JCD's doing when they speak congruent

3:17:06 to that news model type of speech, MTR always quick to preach woke haters go toe to toe, tryna say I'm not a slave, that's a joke, pass the smoke I do believe that I stay flowing with the game and the fury, Adam Curry back when the flames drafted flurry, connection is protection from elections and corruption, no selections misdirections, insurrections are productions The best podcast in the universe!