The Meloni

00:00 I'm digging the cow out of the canal. Adam Curry, John C. DeVore. It's Thursday, June 20th, 2024. This year award winning Kimo Nation Media assassination episode 1670. This is no agenda. We had a holiday? What holiday? Is it a holiday today? No. When's the holiday? Yesterday was a holiday. A federal holiday. What?

00:43 Oh, Juneteenth, of course. How could I miss it? In fact, I would like to start the show with some gaslighting clips. Some, okay. Now, by the way, did you know, because I mean, I think you had part of it or all of it in the newsletter. I don't really remember because I couldn't, when you sent it to me, there's no way I could get to looking at it. Originally, Juneteenth was celebrated on January 1st. Did you know that? No. Yeah, that's when the... Why would it be called June 10th? That makes it even worse. What's the date? January 1st. That makes sense. Obviously I'm gaffing it a little bit, but black Americans used to celebrate January 1st because 1863 is when slavery ended. That's when the Emancipation Proclamation was signed by President Abraham Lincoln.

01:43 And then of course this Texas thing in Galveston, you know, two years later. It makes no sense because black Americans used to celebrate on January 1st. Well, I think that's what would lead right into the Juneteenth clip that you'll like. Okay. The Juneteenth BS clip? Is that it by any chance? Yeah. When I hear woke people explain Juneteenth, it makes me wish that Rosa Parks personally forced y'all to sit in the front of a school bus and go to history class. Now walk with me. walk with me. Somehow the left has convinced you that Juneteenth was the abolition of slavery and when a black revolution arose. But what it really proved is that some people remain enslaved mentally and that's all it takes to keep you on the plantation. If you know the actual history, Democrats kept black people enslaved for 2.5 years after slavery was abolished until white, mostly right wing men came on June 19th 1865 and said y'all have been free since 1863. Get off the plantation and go get a job.

02:40 I wish we could celebrate what Juneteenth actually is, but instead we continue to let the left repackage segregation and sell it back to us. There is no such thing as a Black Independence Day, but if that's what you want to call Juneteenth, then I don't want to see y'all twerking on a boat on July 4th. Well, there you go. That's such a better way to explain it. I hadn't even thought of it that way. Democrats kept it quiet. I like that. Which brings me to more that was gaslighting, which I discuss in the newsletter. I had a gaslighting promotion, which nobody bought into. So we had a very lousy showing for the.

03:17 for the donations, but it brings me to Jean-Pierre Van Damme. Oh, baby, I love this clip. I love this whole topic. Well, here we go. This starts, the first one is Jean-Pierre deep fakes. This is her at a press, at the press conference. Oh, I thought you were going to start with the, uh, okay. I thought you were going to start with the supercut. Here we go. There seems to be a certain brashness of videos that have been edited to make the president appear especially frail or mentally confused. I'm wondering if the White House is especially worried about the fact that this appears to be a pattern that we're seeing more and more of. Yeah, we, and I think you all have called this the cheap fakes video and that's exactly what they are. They are cheap fakes video. I love this part John because this is the memo they sent out earlier, obviously.

04:04 They are done in bad faith. And some of your news organization have been very clear, have stressed that these right wing critics of the president have a credibility problem because of the fact checkers have repeatedly caught them pushing misinformation, disinformation. And so we see this and this is something coming from your part of the world calling them cheap fakes and misinformation. And I'll quote the Washington Post where they wrote about this and they said, how Republican used misleading videos to attack Biden in a 24-hour period.

04:42 And to their credit, we have a conservative Washington examiner did call them out as well, calling out the New York Post. Ironically, several recent fakes actually attacked the president for thanking troops, for thanking troops. That is what they're attacking the president for. Both in Normandy this happened and again in Italy. And I think that it tells you everything that we need to know about how desperate, how desperate Republicans are here. And instead of talking about the president's performance in office, and what I mean by that is his legislative wins, what he's been able to do for the American people across the country, we're seeing these deep fakes, these manipulated videos. And it is, again, done in bad faith.

05:33 I love it. I love that you got the longer version of it because the, what was trending online was like 47 seconds or so. It wasn't really... No, no. She goes on and on and on. I have the other, we can play that later. I have the, there were three other questions that were asked that no one has really played. We can play this off the finishes with a couple more here. Please first of all after she did this she went on Nicole Wallace Yeah, which is the clip J? Oh? JP but no J. Oh, which is kind of what she was doing? Nicole Wallace and she and she doubles down with the same and I like the way she she pushes the idea that the whole deep fake

06:15 terminology was not her idea. Oh no. It was the media. I think there is so much misinformation, disinformation as we've been talking about. You talked about the video of the president wandering and it's not true right? The president wasn't wandering. No he didn't wander. He was talking to a parachuter that was right in front of him and what you saw is the Republican Party really manipulating what was being said and what was being seen by the American people. It's also very insulting to the folks who are the viewers who are watching it. And so we believe we have to call that out. We've been calling it cheap fakes. That is something that came from directly from the media outlets and calling it that, the fact checkers and calling it that.

06:57 Yeah, I love that. The media, we didn't come up with it, it was the media. The fact checkers came up with it. Fact checkers whose job is to check facts came up with the whole term. And so that last clip, which is the supercut, and then you can play that other one, is just The word went out and so this is all clips from MSNBC and CNN of various stooges including people that I thought were off the air like Stelter. What, stilt? Going on and on making it up as they go along as if Joe Biden wasn't staggering around. Cheap fakes, videos of real events that are intentionally manipulated. Kareem Jean-Pierre and others are calling these cheap fakes. But what it is, is truly deceitful behavior. What the White House is calling cheap fakes?

07:48 We're hearing about so-called cheap fakes. It's playing out on right-wing media. These videos, I mean, they're blatant lies. These are cheap fakes, was the White House and Biden people called them? Cheap fakes are a little bit simpler. They're cheap. They're just distorted, out-of-context videos chopped up in certain ways, constructed in certain ways. That's what we're seeing. We've seen all of the cheap fakes of Joe Biden suggesting that he's out of it. So yeah, I did hear Stelter. What's he even doing there? How is he did he call in as a guest? He was in it. He was on the table as a guest. Yeah, I'm gonna say bless against Well on the table well I got I got a hand that to whoever came up with this because they knew that they couldn't use deepfake because Obviously, it's not AI but they want to allude to that Allude to the deepfake and then they throw in the cheap fake. I think it was it was a good term Of course, they passed out the memo to there as you pointed out their stooges and

08:48 And they also, they kind of took our win away from us if we go back to January 28th of this year. No Agenda episode 1629. What were we talking about then? I think when it comes to AI, we had an event take place. Something is on the horizon. I have said that this AI stuff The way it's going to be used is something's gonna come out and we need to flood the market with thinking like, oh, that's just AI. Yeah, no, that's not real, that's just AI. And this is part of the Swift op. Now, a disturbing trend on social media struck one of the world's biggest stars this week when explicit AI generated images of Taylor Swift began to circulate on X.

09:37 Elon Musk is great at making money from the government, so I wouldn't put it past him. Somehow he's involved in this op. This is nothing new. This is nothing new at all. No, but what I think is happening, and I have a piece of Jean-Claude Van Damme Pierre with the question that was asked about this, oh, because the White House is concerned. Why is the White House concerned? Something's coming out. Listen to the setup question, listen to her answer it. There were fake sexually explicit images of Taylor Swift all over social media this week, like generated by AI. How concerned is the White House about the misuse of this kind of technology? And does the White House want to see Congress move forward on legislation that would make sharing, posting images like that a federal crime? So I'm glad you asked that question because it is a lot. No.

10:25 First of all all these questions are approved before the press conference So for Jean-Pierre Van Damme to say I'm glad you asked that question. This was a setup question. We are alarmed by the reports of the Circulation of images that you just laid out false images to be more exact and it is alarming so while social media Their own independent decisions about content management. We believe they have an important role to play in enforcing their own rules to prevent the spread of misinformation. So we don't get the full two points. And then we get one point, one point for the setup. It just wasn't a deepfake. It was close enough. Close enough. And there we go. Now that deepfakes are firmly embedded in everybody's mind, they use a different term, the cheap fake.

11:20 Although we all saw what really happened. Before I get to that... Yeah, and they show... and there's extended version of those clips all unedited. There's no edits at all. Biden roaming around and staggering. Don't believe your lying eyes is what they're saying. You're not seeing that. No. No, no, no. You're seeing something wrong. That's just your bias. CBS also jumped in. I mean, I do have a couple of short ones here from CBS. It wasn't just the cable companies. You've probably heard of deepfakes, but just last week as President Biden was at the G7 summit in Italy, cheap fake clips went viral on social media and were picked up by some news outlets. Don't you think that this new term, they just roll it out like everybody knows what it is?

12:06 It's just like, no one's... It's unbelievable. That CBS clip eluded me. But that's more ridiculous than the MSNBC CNN clips because they say it as a matter of fact. Take a look at this clip for example. It shows Biden and other world leaders watching a skydiving demonstration before the president is seen walking away and looking in another direction. Walking away. Claimed that he was sort of just aimlessly wandering away the clip amassed millions of views within just a few hours when actually he if you widen out you can see that he was talking to one of the members of the military that was participating in that demonstration. How prevalent are cheap fakes?

12:53 And how big of a problem will he be in this election? Treblend. Let's take a look with executive editor of CBS News Confirmed, Rona Tarrant, who joins us now from Studio 57 to explain. Hi, Rona, it's great to see you. So, hi. So they're bringing the executive editor, John. This is not just some slouch. This is not some pundit. Oh, they're freaked out. This is guy. Now that you did this makes it obvious that they're freaked out about this and they're doing and they're bringing in the big guns. They're doing everything they can do. Gaslight, which is the theme here. Yes. Gaslight the public and use this term cheap. There's no fakery involved. He turned around, started wandering off.

13:37 What's the fake part? Well, first of all, let's go to this term. I mean, this cheap fakes, you and I, we're dummies. It's been around, man. Tell us how long cheap fakes have been around. I'm assuming they've been around since the beginning of the media because, you know, anybody... Yeah, pretty much every night on the news, lady. Can take an image and manipulate it to a as long as political videos have existed. So there's a few ways, for example, that people might be familiar with. One is there might be a long video and you might take a very short clip and you take out key context. True. Another is maybe you slow something down and it makes it sound like someone is slurring their words. That was when Pelosi was actually drunk but, you know, it was slowed down, okay. Or another is you might splice several pieces together and it makes it sound like someone said something that they didn't.

14:48 This is literally describing every Joe Biden video that's out there. It's literally describing what CBS News has been doing for years. What's different in this election and the last two elections in the presidential elections is number one, everyone has access to mobile phones where they can edit and number two, most people have social media accounts where they can publish this stuff. So, it's interesting. What was the... okay, let's stop it. Does she explain what exactly the edit was when Joe Biden turned around and started walking in the wrong direction toward this other paratrooper that was over there? We all saw what it was. The guy was packing his bags. They started talking to him. The guy was trying to get out of there.

15:33 And meanwhile the action was in the front where the cameras were. And Maloney had to go over there and grab him and say, hey over here. Everyone came around and then came behind him looking in the other direction so he would turn around if you remember correctly. So they were all looking in the right direction. They just they went over there. They all came around to keep him from doing it again. Where was the edit? It was deceptively edited. Social media accounts where they can publish this stuff. So it's worth saying these are not anything new. You know, when Trump was president, these targeted him as well. But what we are seeing in the last few weeks is really the steady stream of videos that are targeting President Biden and in particular taking aim at his age. Ah, that's it. They're taking aim at his age. Because you can't do that with Trump for some reason. That's weird.

16:24 Okay, so what is the impact? I mean this has got to be very impactful. This can sway voters. Is there any way to measure the impact that these videos could have on the 2024 election? Yeah, just look at the download numbers. You know, like podcasting. It's so accurate. In comparison to other forms of misinformation? You know, that's a really great question. You want to respond? Oh man! How is that even remotely a great question? And by the way, it's just like, this is so misleading. It's shameful. That's what makes it so groovy though. There's something I really like about it. For us. For us, it's just, thank you. Thank you CBS. You know, that's a really great question. I think, you know, in terms of what our team has been tracking, we have seen these so-called cheap fake videos. They are targeting Biden and they are targeting Trump. However, we have seen particularly in the last few months, the videos targeting Biden are getting a lot more traction online.

17:20 and in particular the ones that target Biden's age. So for example, like you had said, claiming that he is wandering off and really was having a conversation with somebody. He's not having a conversation? Yes. You have something to say? It just annoys me because we've all seen this video and we've seen the extended version of it because it's posted and you can see the whole thing and he just turns around starts wandering off and yakking about something. The guy's trying to pack his parachute. He's not paying any attention to Biden. There's no conversation involved. These videos are effective because they are, they're called cheap figs for a reason. They are quick, they're easy to publish and oftentimes they have big impact on people who are just scrolling through their phones, they watch it for five seconds and they move on. No, like Democrat voters? Also what's interesting about this is we've heard a lot

18:12 about the fear of deepfakes in this election. And we've seen that deepfakes haven't really shown up in the way that maybe people were worried about them showing up. But these videos that are edited in a really basic way with technology that's been around for a long time are effective to the extent that the White House is addressing them. Thank you. Yes, you're right. You're right. And there was one in the last show too that you said was British and she was Irish. I'm sorry. I apologize. I just said I've noticed that the Irish are moving in. Well, besides they're very, they all hate Trump and they all love Biden. Oh, interesting. Hmm. Okay. Last one. Last observation. Yeah, no, it's a good one.

19:01 Last one is, because they know their viewers so well, they know their viewers. Here's a question that is important and pertinent. How can voters best discern between videos that are real and videos that are not? So social media platforms, sometimes they will attach fact checks to these videos. So sometimes on ex-MIT community notes or on Facebook you might see fact checks. However, the reality is for the vast majority of them, they're not going to have anything attached. So unfortunately, it really is on the viewer. Number one piece of advice I would have is always check your sources. So if you see something on an account, is this a partisan account? Is it pushing for a particular candidate? And does it have a history of posting misinformation? And the second thing which I think is really important is always seek another source. So don't just take it from one account. Make sure that you get a second source or even a third source. And most importantly, make sure that's a credible source.

19:53 And CBS confirmed is one of the most credible. Rona Tarrant, thank you so much for breaking it down with us. I appreciate it. CBS confirmed, John. Just in case you didn't know, CBS confirmed is one of the most credible ever. Ever, ever, ever. It's very credible. Wow. That took a lot of guts. Oh, they're shameless. So, but there were three other questions in this press conference that got no play. Everyone's just showing the Biden video where he's, you know, wandering off and looking at some other dude packing his chute. But there were three other instances that were obvious that also did get some virality. And these were asked of Jareen.

20:41 That's her new name. Her name is Jareen. Two instances in recent days where leaders, former President Obama and George Maloney, have physically put hands on the president to guide him and show him... Did you see this one where he was on stage with Obama and Jimmy Kimmel? Believe me, we all saw it. When you were gone, that one was a hot, hot one because Because he was staggering off the stage. Obama grabbed him by the wrist. You know, it's like well, somebody pointed this out on one of the one of the hater shows that people in dementia get startled.

21:21 When they'll freeze up and then somebody will touch him, grab their hand or their wrist or something, and they jump, kind of jump because it's like they're snapped out of it. And that's exactly what happens. Obama grabs his wrist and Biden snaps out of it, looks over at him, and then he was walking slowly off the stage, carefully off the stage because he looks like he's going to keel over. I think it's probably time to reinstate the term elder abuse. And we haven't talked about it for a while. This is another theme, by the way, that I've noticed on the right-wing shows. Every one of these shows has been bringing up elder abuse. Oh, really? See, I haven't seen or heard anything. I just, hmm, it's a natural occurrence then. Interesting. Well, it's because we've brought it up. You've brought it up. Years ago. Me, I have not brought it up. The President of the United States is not subject to elder abuse. He's the president.

22:10 And so criticism is what I would call it. So does that go for podcasters? Like when we're old and demented, then it's not really elder abuse if we're getting dragged on social media? We get blasted anyway, okay? Let me continue here with yes, we're sharing stage directions Let me spoke to the most recent right and as we saw on Saturday the president Obama put for President Obama's office put out a statement, so I would refer you to that statement, about what was being accused in those by others. And he said this did not happen in the sense of what people were saying they were seeing, right? Or what was being falsely reported that they were seeing. Let's not forget, President Obama, President Biden have a relationship. They are friends. They're like family to each other. And I think that's what you saw.

23:09 That's funny. They're like family to each other. No, I think Obama's been pretty clear he hates Biden. I think that's universally understood. Everyone knows that. You saw the president put his hand behind, on the back of President Biden. and they walked off the stage after taking questions or at an event taking questions from Jimmy Kimmel. That is what you saw. No, no, I'm pretty sure I saw President Obama grab President Biden's wrist who was just standing there not taking questions from Jimmy Kimmel. He was staring into the lights.

23:53 But I would refer you to President Obama's office statement. They talked about this, they discussed this, and they came out with it pretty quickly. Maloney, I don't have anything. I don't know specifically what happened with Maloney. Oh, I mean look. Oh, of course I know Maloney. Oh, that one. Oh yeah. There's so many of them to keep track of. That was, as I said, it was a cheap, uh, you know, a cheap fake. That was... It was a cheap shake. Definitely a cheap fake. It was. This was widely fact-checked. That video was widely fact-checked, including by conservative media, on what happened, what occurred. The president walked over to give a thumbs up to divers who had just landed right in front of him. And if you run that tape a little bit longer, you would see what was happening, what the president was actually doing. And it is a cheap fake. So this is a video about nothing and he's totally normal?

24:54 What I'm saying is... I don't know who asked that, but I like it. So you're telling me he's totally normal? She can't really answer the question. He's nothing and he's totally normal? What I'm saying is, this is a president... See, she can't say, no, he's totally normal. Listen to this bit. Let's step back for a second. Instead of, and I said this moments ago, instead of Republicans focusing on the president's performance in office and what he's been able to accomplish, his actual record, they do these cheap fakes. They're cheap fakes. And you're asking me about the Maloney. Listen how she's banging the desk too. I mean, she bangs that desk like nobody's business. Yes, she does. She bangs the desk when she's trying to get a point across. Yes, she does. About the, did she say the Maloney?

25:40 Like it's some sort of like a U-turn, the Brody or the Maloney? I'm doing the Maloney, baby! ...in office and what he's been able to accomplish, his actual record, they do these cheap fakes. They're cheap fakes. And you're asking me about the Maloney, you're asking me what happened, that video... It's a new dance craze, John, on TikTok. It's the Maloney. Do the Maloney. Video. Man, this is, thank you, Jareen, I love you. Jareen is like shooting fish in a barrel. That video was, okay, let's talk about Juneteenth. Yeah. Now the Juneteenth one is the best because this is where everyone's dancing and grooving and Biden's just standing there like,

26:25 Lunch or whatever he was thinking I don't know what he was thinking it was it was sad. It's almost over. Let's roll this out the president Stood there listening to the music and he didn't dance excuse me I did not know not dancing was a mental was um it was a health issue whoops Jareen could you come to my office for a moment? Um, yeah, we're trying to focus on the president's age with these cheap fakes, not his mental health. So could you ixnay on the entelmay melt? A? ...to the music and he didn't dance. Excuse me, I did not know not dancing was a mental, was a, it was a health issue. That is a weird thing to actually... And then she, but she then goes on to say health issue. It was supposed to be an age issue.

27:20 She's dying on the podium here. She's dying. I heard all this too. I didn't clip it, but now that you mention that, I didn't catch that right away. That's quite revealing. Excuse me. I did not know not dancing was a mental, it was a health issue. That is a weird thing to actually flag when if you look at the people who are around him, if you look at the expanded video of the people who are around him. They were not they were there were some folks who were not dancing either and that has been fact-checked I mean just because you're standing up listening to music and not dancing that is not a health issue. No it's supposed to be an age Did you what did you watch the real extended clip where that where they're all seated first? And then they're clapping and he was clapping like a well. I don't know what to say but like a white man all

28:14 on the one of the three. Everybody's clapping pretty much with the beat and he's just kind of randomly clapping. Did you see this? Yes, I have seen it. It hurt me. It's very painful. It's pretty pathetic. When someone claps on the one and the three instead of the two and the four, it's a real problem. It's, yeah, no, that's beyond white. Yeah. But the funny thing is that this is literally emperor has no clothes. That's what this is. And for those of you who don't know the story, because they don't teach it in school anymore, look it up. The emperor has no clothes. He's naked. No he's not. He's got beautiful, beautiful, beautiful clothes on. He's not mental. I mean, health old. No, it's nothing. Nothing wrong. Well, gaslighting. Yeah, whatever. Which the the emperor has no clothes. Gaslighting. That's right. It is classic gaslighting. Classic.

29:13 It's just like, wow, okay. I mean, how do you go to bed at night and say, and do you go like, yeah, I told them, they believe it. Seriously? Is that how that goes down, do you think? When Shireen goes home? I think they're irked. You have to, if you're Shireen or whatever her name is, that we're now calling her. Well, I don't think she's got the brainpower to be honest about it. But I would say just the whole group around Biden, they have to be just irked with themselves and with the situation because they know, they think Biden could do a better job of hanging in there. I don't know. It's hard to say. I think they're concerned, but I don't know if they lose sleep over it. With this level of gaslighting, they must have a plan B. I mean, you wrote about it in the newsletter.

30:09 I guess the plan B is we do a switcheroo. I've heard, did you write that? That Hillary could come in? Hillary could come in? Hillary comes in, replaces Kamala. It's in the newsletter for people who took their, got rid of their subscription. It's very elaborate. Yes. Hillary takes over from Kamala. Kamala has some sort of a health issue. Something happens. Yeah. And Hillary's brought in at the last minute because people say, well, it does a number of things. One thing, it brings the women, the Hillary fans back into the scene. Revenge, revenge! Oh, wait, hold on. Duck! She's swooping around again.

30:47 So it brings her back into the fold, brings the women back into the fold, puts Hillary... And Hillary's like two years younger than... I think she's one year younger than Trump. And so if Biden... If something happens, he has to quit or he's 20... She, by the way, one thing about Hillary for sure, she'd 25th Amendment him. Oh yeah, in a heartbeat. She'd have no hesitation. In a heartbeat. Sorry Joe, you gotta go. Yeah, exactly. So he wouldn't serve out his term and Hillary would take over because the Democrats don't want Kamala Harris to be the first female president under their watch. Now what can we do with Kamala? What do we do about Kamala? I mean you say some kind of health issue. I think that's a little too easy.

31:33 This is, I did not answer the question fully in the newsletter because I don't know either. No. Now there is some rumor she wants to run for California governor and I think Gavin Newsom's term will be up. Of course her chance of winning, this is the one opportunity for the Republicans to get somebody in. Nobody in California likes her, even though they elected her attorney general. But it was kind of like just everyone's a Democrat gets in and maybe the machine could go. But she's campaigning. So, you know, there has to be a reason that she stops campaigning. You know, she's well, we go, we have the we put it's alert. It's an alert for us. It's an alert to keep an eye on her. Let me was on Sherry, that miserable show that used to be Wendy Williams got taken out. She got ousted and for some health reason. And this woman, Sherry, took over her show and they fired all the every day. The whole staff, everybody's changed. And Sherry's

32:35 Unfortunately, unfortunately, I think the only way to really make it happen for her to save face for her then to, you know, to phase out is I think the I think her husband has to go so she can go into bereavement. The guy's expendable, let's be honest. Yeah, I agree. I mean, if we're just thinking like these people do, you know, it's like if we're thinking like these people, these people, these people think this way. Well, they don't have to kill the guy. They can also just make him. No, no, no. She needs to help him. You know, she needs to be with her man, Doug. I mean, face it, name like Doug. I mean, no offense to Doug's, but it's kind of like, oh, Doug, poor Doug. Don't you just see the cartoon character Doug when you think Doug?

33:27 I think of that voice that you used to have, Doug, that used to be on the stream. Doug the news reader. That's what I think of. So in an odd way, I think I can connect these next two clips. First of all, so all I'm sure I know you've seen it, but the news here is Extinction Rebellion. First, they paint Stonehenge orange. Yeah, they did. Like, wow. And then suppose a lot of respect for the environment. Well, You know that they removed all those stones back in the 70s? You know that they moved all that stuff out of the way? And they completely reset them? What year was that? I think it was the 70s. Well, I visited Stonehenge first time in 1973. I was there probably in 79. That's when there were cows in the field, there was nobody around, you could go sit on the stones. And it was like, oh, that's cute.

34:29 Then they turn it, then the next time I went, which was like 20 years later, it was like, holy mackerel, it's all fenced off. There's a big parking lot. People are standing around looking at it. Oh, see, if you look at, I've never actually looked this up, but I have seen the pictures. Apparently it was moved. Oh, in 1958. Oh no, that says that's not moved. I'm a fact check false here, though the stones were moved, taken from Wales. from Wales. So they were in a whole different spot. I don't know about that. I've seen pictures where they have cranes. I thought that they were just fortifying them. Not a huge deal. I mean, it seems kind of weird, but anyway, then they supposedly spray paint Taylor Swift's jet.

35:18 Which I can't confirm that's her jet. I think they spray painted two or three. Well, they showed a video on the BBC, had a video of this woman. First of all, she had a fire extinguisher, high pressure fire extinguisher filled with orange paint and she painted this, she did two jets. She ran from one to the other. It took her about, I'd say, five to 10 seconds to paint the entire side of the jet with this fire extinguisher. I mean, it just sprayed it out like there was no tomorrow. And then that was it. It was a very short clip. Some, I guess one of their cohorts made the movie, the video, but it was pretty amazing. It was pretty, pretty, pretty, it was impressive. Yeah.

36:06 Let me tell you if that happens to your plane, you're grounded. You're not taking off. Paint is very important on aircraft. Can't just, you can't just spray paint and say, oh, I'm good to go. They have to, that has to be worked. But it didn't, I don't know if it's her jet. I don't know. I think she does. We know she owns one because she leases it out. But I didn't see anything that looked like an intercontinental jet. I'm not sure if, you know, some sap, you know, some sap with the G5, okay. Some sap gets his airplane spray painted because Taylor Swift is over in Europe. Kind of sucks.

36:46 But an old favorite came back in the news here because she's now on tour. So it's part promotion, but I've never heard them go so in-depth into this particular phenomenon, which is the transient, mind you, transient global amnesia of Taylor Swift. Do you remember we talked about this months and months, maybe a year ago? I forgot. Now imagine paying hundreds of euros to see your favorite artist in concert only to get home and realize you can't actually remember their performance. It might sound crazy or at least quite unusual but since the start of Taylor Swift's tour that is precisely what some fans say has been happening to them.

37:31 It's a phenomenon called transient global amnesia. And to tell us a bit about it, our science editor Julia Sieg is with me in the studio. Julia, first of all, what are we talking about here? Hi, Nadia. So indeed it did happen to French fans but also fans in the United States and tickets there are thousands of euros. on always vividly remember whatever happened before the show or after the show. Now the phenomenon was so widespread that a psychiatrist from New Jersey decided to investigate these fan testimonies and she even published a research paper and she believes it is the syndrome called transient global amnesia which is characterized

38:22 by a temporary loss of memory. So it's actually due to an overload of excitement and stress. So it overwhelms the brain which makes it unable to encode memories, if you will. So our memory is extremely sensitive to stress, let it be positive emotions but also negative emotions. If you're overwhelmed by negative emotions you're more inclined to develop post-traumatic stress disorder, but if you're overwhelmed by positive emotions then you have you're more inclined to develop somewhat of an amnesia. So our old friend the amygdala is involved in this. Hold on a second. Isn't this the same phenomenon that critics would say it was a It was a forgettable performance.

39:19 what the phenomenon is all about. Now it's related more specifically to an overreaction of the amygdala in the brain. So when your body faces stress, what it does is your liver releases glucose into the bloodstream and into the muscles. The muscles then send a signal to the brain and the amygdala is then gonna release a neurotransmitter called neuroadrenaline. If it, if- Adrenochrome, baby. There's just a little bit of it. It helps encode the memories, but if there's too much, it's counterproductive and you suffer a memory loss. This is such an interesting story, Julia. And look, is this only happening to Taylor Swift fans? This is the important thing because I mean I've been to a lot of concerts. I have been to some sports ball events.

40:02 I've been around, you know. Tell me if you've ever had any of this happen during any of these other places where it apparently just can happen. To Taylor Swift fans? No, it can actually happen for other events. Sports events, if you're a sports fan, you can actually, you're so overwhelmed by someone's victory, for instance, it can happen during a wedding, a graduation ceremony. What? No, no. All I remember from weddings is, is this thing over? No, not none of this. I've I've been to a lot of things to us in Jimi Hendrix six times. Oh, I've been to six times. I've been to games where there's a clinch, a clinching game, the Warriors, for example. So I've been to the World Series with the A's and the Giants. I've seen a lot of these high end events. I've gotten I went to a Super Bowl. I remember all of these things.

40:57 I have known you for 17 years almost. Well, I've known you for longer, but we've been doing this show for 17 years. I can't recall, it might be transient global amnesia, but I cannot recall you ever telling me that you went to see Jimi Hendrix six times. Yeah, I have said it a couple times. Wow. I saw Jimi Hendrix six times. I can even name them. In fact, I can remember it so well, I can tell you every venue. The last time I saw him was at the Berkeley Community Theater where he unrolled his national anthem with speakers all across the stage and he had his various, you know, he invented the wah-wah pedal supposedly. And he had this, he stomped on some pedal and his sound would go rap, rap, rap back and forth.

41:43 across a very large stage and he was just a terrific performer. Are you experienced? I saw, one of the times I saw Jimi Hendrix, he was so drunk that I actually left, I was dating somebody and it was so bad that I left. I actually walked out of a Jimi Hendrix concert. Did you leave your date behind? No, she came with me. Wow. I'm always happy to hear something I didn't know about you. All right, let's continue. Whenever there's too much anticipation, excitement, pressure, or emotion, you can go through that amnesia. Now, more specifically, we're seeing it with concerts. Why? Because they've changed so much in the last few years. As you can see here, you have strobe lights. Every two seconds, there's a surprise, an explosion, lights, even costume changes.

42:35 perhaps almost too much for our brains. It's very similar to what we see with young kids when they're watching video games or cartoons and it's going too fast. Well, that's when the attention actually goes down and you can't encode the memory anymore. This is the true Swift Up. They are mind controlling your children. There's messages flashing everywhere, their amygdala freaks out, they can't remember anything and meanwhile, vote Democrat. Or something like that. Exactly. Something's going on. Something like that is happening. Vote Democrat. And we need boots on the ground. Where are my Swifties at? I need to know what is flashing everywhere. What is the messaging? Vaccines are good. We need to know what is being done there. Besides the, I'm a witch. Because there is that whole witchcraft thing. You notice the kids don't come off of the, out of the stadium going, wow, the witchcraft stuff was great. No, deeply embedded. It's concerning. Very concerning.

43:41 I just read that Donald Sutherland passed away. Oh, he did? Yeah. Yeah. That's too bad. Yeah, today. He's an enjoyable actor. Yes. Happy Eid, everybody. Do I pronounce it Eid? Eid? I think it's pronounced Eid. It's big deal over here in Muslim Holland. Eid. I mean, every night there's... But we used to get a donation from Sir Anonymous on Eid. Well, maybe he's just late. It's all right. But Happy Eid, synonymous of dog patch and lower Slobovia and all of our other Muslim friends. So the big thing here is the inhumane butchering of the lambs and the goats. And they have these, they have the man on the street, they go up to these

44:27 Butcheries and there's a whole bunch of dudes hanging around with beards and then one guy comes out he's got all blood splatters over his face. No, it's great. Hey, the Jews do that too on their own special day. We do it on our day. We just do it differently. Meanwhile, there's not one swarma place is open to get a swarma. It was everybody celebrating Eid and which was kind of... I think you can put it off. Put what off? Getting a swarm. No the whole this this this thing goes on forever. They're not stopping with the silver bridge I was gonna get us a swarm out with taxi Eric. You remember taxi Eric, right? Oh, yeah. He almost got me killed. Yeah, that's what I keep telling All John remembers about you is you almost killed him so

45:15 He drove me to Christina's house and we're driving through the city and you know, if you really want to know what's going on with the temperature of the nation, you got to talk to the guys on the street, the cab drivers. They know what's happening. And he'll be like, look at that, another Range Rover Ukrainian. Look at that Bentley Ukrainian. And it's true. It's true. Yeah, I bet. There's high end vehicles all with Ukrainian license plates and people are mad now. Like, didn't you? Yeah, well, all those cars are bought with American taxpayer money. Yeah, I don't know about that, but it could be. But what they're mad about is that, you know, they're getting free housing, they're getting a stipend every single day, do whatever they want to do, and they've got their Range Rover and they're parking on the sidewalk. Don't even get a ticket. It's...

46:10 It's it's the people are there's no let me put this way no Ukrainian flags flying around everywhere You know in Europe is so concerned with Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine everyone's like Ukraine everyone's like get rid of this stuff. We don't like it Yeah, yeah, no bet. It's just a general feeling everywhere Everybody is sick and tired get fed up, but what do they do about it nothing? Well, that's part of why they voted for hit builders of course Because, you know, they're like, well, I'll vote for that guy. He'll fix it. He'll fix it. Nobody fixes anything. That's the point. The big story here is Mark Rutte. He's the... What about him? Well, he is the former Dutch prime minister, the guy who got... Your buddy? No, I don't know him. I thought you met him. No, I know the climate pope, Timmermans, and the other guy, Balkanende. He's the guy before Mark Rutte. The guy with the little, you know, student glasses.

47:12 No, so Ritza is the Nimrod, the, what do you call him? The Nudnik. He's the Nudnik. Nudnik, who's been the prime minister for eight years, you know, used to be in HR at, what was he like, Unilever, I think. He was literally an HR lady at Unilever. And then all of a sudden he was Prime Minister, okay, sure. No one really liked him at all. Just wishy-washy, he's just a nothing burger. Oh, I had said that but he is you said it I know it's just a wishy-washy dude. So now that Victor or milk toast is the milk toast. There you go So he wrote a letter to Victor Orban because he's just way he's been waiting in the wings to replace Jens Stoltenberg the the NATO guy or as they say the Navajo guy and if one country is

48:10 one of the European Union member states says, no, no, I don't want him to be that. Or one of the NATO members, I'm sorry, if they say, no, we don't want that guy, then it's off the table until everybody agrees. And Rutte wrote a personal letter to Viktor Orban and said, okay, it was your agreement, because you remember he buckled on the Ukraine money. He said, as per your agreement, I guarantee you here in writing, the letter's published everywhere, it's guaranteed in writing, that Hungary will not have to put in any people or money for Ukraine. And so I said, okay, well, you're good to go then. As long as my people aren't going to have to go fight your stupid war and you can't take our money. So now all that's left is Romania, I think. Is Romania in NATO? I'd have to look. I think so. Yeah. I think they probably are. Probably are.

49:10 So, and that kind of just shows you, I think everyone here knows like that guy's gonna be in charge of NATO. Well, that must be a scam because that guy's a nudnik. I got to teach the Dutch that word. He's a nudnik. It's a good term. So let's go to Richard Engel to get the true lies, because of course, spook. Let's find out about the latest in the Ukraine aid. How's that working out for everybody? You know, we sent some more money over, 65 billion, then we took 50 billion from the Russians and or we lent it with the Russian

49:49 The Russian money as our security deposit and let's see how that's working out Jackson. Thank you tonight Russian President Putin is set to visit North Korea amid Kim Jong-un's growing support for Russia's war in Ukraine Meanwhile Ukrainian commanders hope American aid will push back Russia's momentum our Richard Engel is there We have to warn you some images in this report are disturbing Oh Abrams tanks today defend Ukraine's eastern front line near the Russian border. Resupplies of American weapons are flowing again and Ukrainian troops tell us they're arriving just in the nick of time.

50:27 Resupplies of American weapons, including these tanks, are now finally, after long delays, making their way to the front lines. And it's making a difference. Ukrainian troops have already been able to slow down a major Russian offensive. Ukraine is flush at the moment. 60 billion dollars in aid from Congress, 50 billion more from interest on frozen Russian funds. And at a conference on peace in Switzerland over the weekend, the United States was among 80 nations pledging support for Ukraine's territorial integrity. But a tank commander here tells us he's worried about pressure on Ukraine to make a deal with Russia. Everyone in the West

51:09 should understand that once we cede more territories to Russia, it will not stop. I love peace, the peace conference. That's the one thing no one ever talks about over here. It's never about peace. No, it's just like more weapons, more weapons. We've got to stop Russia. We can't have peace negotiations. We can't talk about peace. It's it's not profitable. And Ukrainians have a more immediate problem, a Russian technological innovation, so-called glide bombs. This shopping center was hit by just two glide bombs. Yeah, yeah, you identified those first. And the impact was devastating. Russia has vast quantities of old-fashioned style bombs and by attaching wings and a basic guidance system to them, Russia has not only managed to extend their range but turn them into precision weapons.

51:57 that Ukraine has been struggling to deal with. Surveillance video captured the moment of the attack. Officials say 19 Ukrainians were killed, including two children. President Zelensky says Russia is now firing 3,000 glide bombs a month. Commanders tell us they don't have an effective way to stop them. Seeking more weapons for his war here in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin tomorrow travels to North Korea, which U.S. officials say has been providing Russia with large quantities of artillery shells. That's the thing that I'm

52:33 I'm skeptical about this North Korea supplying their shells. Does that make any, does that sound right to you? No, it doesn't sound right to me, but they could be as part of, I don't know what, I have the clip on North Korea, Putin, North Korea clip, Putin in North Korea, NTD, 134 clip is Maybe I shed some light as Russian President Vladimir Putin is wrapping up his trip to North Korea meeting with Kim Jong-un They're pledging to strengthen their ties They've signed a new security agreement promising to help each other if either is attacked

53:11 The leaders of Russia and North Korea have signed a new security agreement promising to come to each other's aid if they are ever attacked. Now the details of this agreement are still unclear. They're calling it a comprehensive strategic partnership agreement. They said they're aiming to strengthen their military and economic cooperation. This comes amid Western sanctions on the two countries. The deal is drawing international attention. The US and its allies are concerned over weapons and ammunition that North Korea provides to Russia in exchange for economic assistance. Russia's economy and military are mostly reliant on the Chinese Communist Party. And this was reiterated on Tuesday by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg

53:48 and Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Putin's visits to North Korea demonstrates and confirms the very close alignment between Russia and authoritarian states like North Korea, but also China and Iran. If China in particular, which professes to have a strong interest in ending the war, if it really means it, it will stop fueling the war machine and will continue to do everything we can to cut off the support that countries like Iran and North Korea are providing. This marks Putin's first visit to North Korea in 24 years. After North Korea, Putin's visiting Vietnam's capital meeting with its leaders. As Russia is facing growing international isolation, it's seeking the assistance of other authoritarian countries. Okay.

54:34 So, a couple things. First of all, I can't wait until Margarita gets in because he'll be much more fun to make fun of with his Dutch accent. Then he's talking like this, you know? I'm looking forward to that. Second, so he's going to Vietnam, also, you know, competitor to China, North Korea, interesting choice. How about this? Perhaps Putin is thinking, you know, I've got to draw this out because it looks like Trump might get in. I can deal with Trump. We can manage this situation. We can figure out who, for all I know, they're already talking. I don't know. Wouldn't it be awesome, and I use that word specifically, to have the summit between Trump and Putin in North Korea?

55:25 Or Vietnam for that matter. Or Vietnam, but North, because Trump went to, you know, he stepped over the line. Yes, he's actually stepped foot in North Korea unlike anyone else. And then that would put North Korea in a whole different light. We could get them out of, you know, like, hey, these guys actually helped something. You know, I don't know. I have a feeling there's a reason for this. It's not just for some supply chain. Where's the supply chain of weaponry? Do we have trains going? Putin doesn't need to go there if they're buying shells from North Korea. They're buying shells from... So what? It's not for economic assistance. You give them hard cash and say, give us some shells and there we go. We don't need to visit. It's just, hey, Kim, send me a Venmo invoice. Yeah, you're right. I think you're onto something. There's some other reason. Why else would he be going there? He's not going there to confirm a shell deal. Let me check the shells, man.

56:21 Exactly. He may be planning something in advance, and Trump may be involved. Now at the same time, the danger is that the nut jobs who are running the show over there in Ukraine and NATO, they're probably going to try and, oh, we got to, before Trump comes in, we got to do what we can do. So I'm a little concerned about that too, because they could do something. Yes, because the gravy trains over once Trump gets in. Yeah. Because, you know, A cat who's driven into the corner can make strange jumps. This is a Dutchism. Say it again? Een kat in het nauwgedreven maakt rare sprongen. So if you corner a cat, it can make weird jumps. Yeah, cats do weird jumps. Cats can do weird jumps, yes.

57:21 But the war machine, I mean, they've got plenty to work on because just in case we can't keep that Ukraine thing going, yeah, I think we should add Lebanon to the problem. This footage released by the Israeli army claims to show it striking a base operated by Hezbollah in Lebanon. The militant group says at least three of its fighters were killed in the attack, as footage from the ground showed smoke billowing into the air about 30 kilometers from the border. On the Israeli side of the border, air defenses shot down rockets launched by Hezbollah Wednesday, in apparent retaliation for that strike. This as Israel's army issued a statement saying it was ready for a full-blown conflict with the militant group.

58:02 As part of the situational assessment, operational plans for an offensive in Lebanon were approved and validated, and decisions were taken on the continuation of increasing the readiness of troops in the field. That announcement followed the release of drone footage that Israel said was taken by Hezbollah, showing possible targets in several Israeli cities. and comments from Israel's foreign minister who vowed in an all-out war Hezbollah will be destroyed and Lebanon severely beaten. The militant group responded by promising the same for Israel. Israel knows that no place will be safe from our missiles and our drones and our strikes are not indiscriminate. Israel knows that we have a list of targets.

58:43 We have the ability to reach these targets and we will shake the foundations of Israel. Since the October 7th attacks by Hamas in Israel, Hezbollah has launched ongoing attacks in northern Israel, killing at least 16 soldiers and 11 civilians. Israeli strikes in Lebanon during the same period have killed more than 400 people, most of whom were Hezbollah fighters, but dozens of civilians have also been killed. I mean, if you're Hezbollah, what are you thinking? I have a couple of clips on this too. I think there's some things, you know, there was a...today's news, for example, talks a lot about how the army, the IDF is going, well, you know, we're not gonna be able to kill all these Hamas guys. I think Netanyahu's nuts and they're getting into a little beef. But meanwhile, this Hezbollah thing has been cranked up and I have two clips on that.

59:36 We will see Hezbollah action one. This is NTD. Lawmakers from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee are in the Middle East on Wednesday. Israeli President Isaac Herzog told them it's crucial that the US and Israel maintain strong ties. Watch. That we are fighting here the battle of the free world against the empire of evil. That's what we're doing. The visit comes as a high-level meeting between Israel and the US has reportedly been cancelled. That's according to Axios and CNN, citing two US officials. This comes after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this on Tuesday. The administration has been withholding weapons and ammunitions to Israel.

1:00:21 The report said an envoy for President Biden later told Netanyahu that the accusations are inaccurate and out of line. On Wednesday, the Israeli government gave this update. Ammunition and weapons that the Prime Minister referred to are in the process of being delivered to Israel. This comes as tensions at the Israel-Lebanon border keep rising. Hezbollah says Israeli strikes killed four of its fighters on Wednesday. Israel, meanwhile, says the Iran-backed group fired 15 rockets from southern Lebanon towards a city in northern Israel. Most of that city has now been abandoned.

1:00:56 Living right now in Jerashmona is very sad. The city is empty most of the time. The head of Hezbollah said no place in Israel will be safe from attacks if a bigger conflict breaks out. He also threatened other countries in the Mediterranean. In response, Israel is already strengthening its military readiness in the north, saying they're getting ready for any possibility. We have an obligation to change the situation in the north. and return the citizens safely to their homes. And what's the second part of this Hezbollah clip? And lastly, the United Nations Human Rights Office says Israel may have violated the laws of war by failing to distinguish between civilians and fighters in Gaza. Unlawful targeting when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack against a civilian population may also implicate the commission of crimes against humanity.

1:02:11 The UN office came to that conclusion by assessing six Israeli attacks that caused a high number of casualties. Israel called the analysis flawed. I don't understand. I keep hearing Thomas Massey in the back of my mind going, these guys, they want to take it all to Iran. Is this just the next step? And what is Hezbollah thinking? Oh, this is a good idea. Let's shoot some rockets into Haifa. Yeah, that makes sense. Israel's going to go into Lebanon. It's obvious. That's the next step. And then what? Then what? Then we have the Democratic National Convention. Right on time.

1:02:54 Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, it's obvious to me too. I agree that they're going to shift focus because this Gaza thing is done. It's the best they can do. And Netanyahu's under a lot of pressure, but if we create a really kind of a nastier situation with Hezbollah, they're bigger, they're stronger, they got more stuff. Yeah, that's exactly what's going to go. And isn't Lebanon on the West Clark 7? It's one of the countries that was supposed to have taken over years and years ago. We never did. It's kind of rubble-ized and financially rubble-ized for sure. I mean, the place is a mess. And then all of a sudden the Houthis start acting up again. And I don't know about you, but I see video. Is that... Are they trying to make it look like some kind of submarine?

1:03:44 targeted one a sub ship and then you know it blows up the back part or there's an almost honestly it looks like a fake and then you see another shot and it blows up the middle section but you but you don't see him in neither shot do you see so in the in the in the mid in the mid ship shot the back is still fine But then when they hit the back of the ship, the midship is fine. So it's like, make up your mind. What did we blow up here? Well, I know that they, I have one clip, which is the weirdest clip I have on this list, which is they claim to have sunk the Eisenhower. The Eisenhower?

1:04:28 Yeah, the USS, the giant aircraft carrier. Okay, we have any here's a report on it. USS Ike. This is great. He's claimed to have hit or even sunk the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Red Sea. Now Captain Christopher chowder Hill is using his social media profile to show his crew remains ready for combat. I think most of the false claims that have occurred about us, you know, for instance, saying that we've been sunk, I think it's been about two or three times in the past six months we've allegedly been sunk, which we have not been. is almost comical at this point, right? Hill also wants to show the morale of the nearly 5,000 personnel aboard the Eisenhower remains high. He says the nuclear-powered ship will continue with its traditions despite Houthi attacks and misinformation. So we're going to celebrate Taco Tuesdays because it's my absolute favorite day of the week. That will never end. You know, I will show videos of our... What happened? Hey! Okay.

1:05:28 It used to be we're gonna have a cookout, we're gonna have hot dogs and hamburgers, and now we're at Taco Tuesdays or Thursdays? This is weird. Powered ship will continue with its traditions despite Houthi attacks and misinformation. So we're gonna celebrate Taco Tuesdays because it's my absolute favorite day of the week. That will never end. You know, I will show videos of our ship's facility dog because he makes a difference here. People like having him around. He improves moods. So that, if you call that an integration warfare campaign, you can't. Captain David Rowe commands the destroyers escorting the Eisenhower. He says his crew works diligently to address the needs of the mission. Now using the appropriate effect weapon, weapon system on the appropriate threat to preserve magazine depth, to have more missiles, to not, is a certainly germane tactical question that my captains are constantly reviewing.

1:06:25 Okay, so we have no real... He goes on, I stopped it. Has no real answer if he's been sunk or not. Three times. I mean, he could still have Taco Tuesdays. Yeah, he says it's gonna happen forever. On the shore. This is costing us a fortune. Yeah. That whole group, that group, that carrier group, if you see pictures of it, it's the Eisenhower, there must be 50 ships surrounding it. This is not a cheap venture. And it's the taxpayer, we're picking this up. And what good does it do? I do have a couple more Hootie analysis clips which really condemn the whole thing.

1:07:08 Because it's costing us a million dollars to shoot down a $1,000 piece of crap every so often. A cargo ship is believed to have sunk in the Red Sea after being attacked by Houthi terrorists. Earlier we spoke with Justin Logan, Director of Defense and Foreign Policy Studies at Cato Institute about the U.S. approach to the Houthi attacks. Now to begin, reports note of escalation in the Red Sea by the Houthis. This is after a bulk ship carrier sank along with reports of a remeanor on board being killed. Now this does come after weekend attacks on two ships as well as an American destroyer. How do you read these latest moves, especially when it comes to war in the region and fears of this escalation?

1:07:56 Well, I think the administration's Middle East policy has really gone from bad to worse. I mean, they infamously said that before the 10-7 attacks, the Middle East hadn't been as quiet as it was then in decades. Then the 10-7 attacks happened. We built this magical mystery pier, which is now disintegrated off the coast of Israel. And then there's this months long war with the Houthis, which was just did he call it the magical mystery pier? Is that what he called it? Yeah. Which is that's pretty funny. And in decades, Then the 10-7 attacks happened. We built this magical mystery pier, which is now disintegrated off the coast of Israel. And then there's this months-long war with the Houthis, which was just revealed both that we've spent over a billion dollars fighting them and that

1:08:44 They are making progress. As you mentioned, they have sunk a second vessel, potentially killed one Filipino mariner. So this thing has really gone from bad to worse. And, you know, anybody who's had their hands on this Middle East policy should really hide their head in a bag because it's been just an absolute disgrace from pillar to post. You really need to look at that at that video of the so-called sinking of that ship is bullcrap. I mean, where's the rescue? There's no video of anything except there's a little crosshairs and then you see an explosion. Is that the Filipino ship he's talking about? I think so. It's very unclear because why do any reporting? Let's just say it happened. The whole thing is a disaster in terms of like

1:09:28 And in this next, he mentions this along the way, which is that we're protecting, we're not doing it, this is not protecting anything that's got to do anything to do with us. Well, there's one thing, that if the Iranians, Houthis, whoever, whoever, flavor of the day, if they sink a ship in the Straits of Hormuz, then it is blocked. You know, there's that little narrow bit there? Yes, right. This was the storyline of the one season episode of Rubicon. I don't think it was in the Strait of Hormuz, that Rubicon. I thought it was. It was right in the middle of the Strait of Hormuz. I tried to look it up. Well, but regardless. That's okay. It's a choke point. The idea is there. It's a choke point. And that would severely hamper international shipping of energy.

1:10:20 And you know, you could just do that and blame it on Iran. Here we go. People are crazy. Just play part two of this. Expanding on the Houthis part, reports note that the Navy faces its most intense maritime fighting since World War II, with near daily attacks targeting commercial vessels as well as warships. How have the Houthis tied down the US Navy in the Red Sea? Well, it's really a strategic malpractice on the part of the United States. The Houthis are doing what they've been doing for years and indeed decades, which is what military people refer to as shoot and scoot, right? You have very light munitions, you're very mobile, and the minute you launch, you get out of there.

1:11:03 And so their limited ability to retaliate. Moreover, the technologies that the United States are using are many orders of magnitude more expensive than what the Houthis are using. If you look at the cost that we spend to shoot down one Houthi missile, which is not particularly accurate, you're talking about in the neighborhood of a million dollars to destroy 2,000 or 5,000 at most dollars worth of technology. a bad deal for the United States. And that's how you tally up a billion dollars of expenditures over just about six months with very little to show for it in terms of military or political developments. I like the shoot and scoot. That's good. Shoot and scoot. That would explain the problem with catching these guys. That's what we should have on the instructions for our no agenda slingshots. Scoot and shoot.

1:11:51 Perfect. Anyway, the last clip, which is this one, brings up something that irks me. Expanding on that, the Cato Institute, where you're based, has a peace out titled, The U.S. Military Role in the Red Sea Now Turning Offensive is a Bad Deal, noting that the U.S.-led coalition Operation Prosperity Guardian has cost the U.S. too much. Given that, what should be the U.S. strategy in the Red Sea going forward? Well, I think we got roped into this by telling ourselves a story about freedom of navigation, which sounds like a really good principle to defend, right? We want commercial ships to be able to go anywhere they want with impunity. However, that's not the way the international economy works.

1:12:34 So if you look at what's transpired the ship traffic going through the Red Sea has gone way down and there's a significant Rerouting of maritime traffic from the Middle East around the Cape of Good Hope almost all of this Carriage is going to Europe all of almost all of the trade is going to Europe not to the United States so it's not the case that we sort of run a Maritime convoy with every trade shipment that goes around the world and that does increase the cost at the margins for European consumers of these goods that have to pay more mariners and have to burn more fuel to reroute away from the Red Sea. But I think before you get into a shooting war with the Houthis, you want to have a story that you can tell yourself about what cost it would be worth paying and what that likely cost would be to make a dent in the Houthis' ability to launch these attacks, which while terrifying, are not that common.

1:13:30 consequential. I mean, they've been at this for the better part of six months and they just sank their second vessel. And even so, there's still some commerce going through the Red Sea. So I think we're, you know, have been in for a penny but should not be in for a pound on this thing. Yeah, they got to tee that up. I think it's perfect because the minute you block the... you get the choke point there, you have the Houthis with Iranian missiles sinking something. We can send over more liquid petroleum gas ships. Exactly. Everybody here sees it. We can make out on the deal if we get the hell out of there. Yep, scoot and shoot. Everyone here knows it. They said, hey, you know, it's kind of weird when...

1:14:12 When that Nord Stream 2, when that got blown up, you know, by Putin who did it himself, it's kind of weird that you guys showed up right away with all that liquid petroleum gas. That was really interesting. That's why I say, hey man. So it makes no sense that we're there at all in the Red Sea. Who are we protecting? We're protecting shipping to Europe? Let them protect it themselves. No, I think we're going to sink something and then blame it. This has false flag written all over it. All over it. Wouldn't that be perfect? Then we can saber rattle. That's an interesting theory. I like doing a false flag and then getting out. It's about time. We tried. It's about time for a false flag. We need a good false flag, people. Yeah, we're way overdue.

1:15:04 Before we take a break, two clips. I've been tracking this and I think there's a new angle that has come in, which I like. I mean, I don't like it, but I like what they're exposing in our season of reveal. And this is about the constant droning on and pushing of age restrictions for social media. And I think... Oh, congratulations. You brought it up first, I didn't think much about it, but this was, or I brought it up, but you said you had this thing about Australia being a test bed and within a week, that's all they're talking about over here, a week later, is putting restrictions on social media so the kids don't get hurt.

1:15:51 There's something extra going on and I think we can deconstruct this. Well, here's the first one from NBC. The stark warning from the nation's top doctor accelerates a national push to limit kids' access to social media. In the New York Times, the Surgeon General writes, the mental health crisis among young people is an emergency and social media has emerged as an important contributor. On Today, Dr. Murthy said adolescents average five hours per day on social media. When adolescents spend more than three hours a day on social media, we're seeing an association with a doubling of risk of anxiety and depression symptoms. Surgeon General Murthy wants congressional approval to add a warning label on social media, much like the warning on cigarettes.

1:16:36 Research suggests text, post and online bullying can undermine kids' self-confidence, especially body image, with some taking their own lives. Many of them say that they can't get off it because the platforms are often designed to maximize how much time our kids are spending on them. You have blood on your hands. In January, top social media CEOs faced bipartisan fury. CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologized to victims' families, insisting MetaFacebook is working to reduce social media's harmful effects. No one has to go through the types of things that your family's gonna have to suffer. The Surgeon General recommends phone-free zones at school and at home during meals, bedtime, and social gatherings. And kids should have no access to social media until they're out of middle school. Okay, so here's what I've been tracking. We're seeing states enact rules and laws themselves. Not all passed yet, but HOKL came in from New York.

1:17:38 I'm pretty sure California has done this, probably other states. And I've been tracking my hate listen pivot with your buddy Karraswisher, your protégé, and Prof G. And they keep, they've been saying this for months. I've just been waiting and waiting and waiting, and they keep bringing up the same analogy social media age gating as they like to call it we need to age gate that it should be easy we just technology exists age gate them it's just like the tobacco industry now to the Surgeon General calling for a tobacco style warning label on social media yeah saying it poses a mental health crisis among young people Elizabeth Schulze has those details for us good morning Elizabeth good morning Rebecca and the US

1:18:26 The Surgeon General now wants to put those warning style labels on social media like what you'd see for cigarettes or tobacco. In an op-ed in the New York Times, Dr. Vivek Murthy writes, a Surgeon General's warning label, which requires congressional action, would regularly remind parents and adolescents that social media has not been proof safe. He says that similar labels that were put on tobacco products helped dramatically reduce their usage. Now, Murthy is pointing to data that shows teens who spend more than three hours a day on social media face double the risk of anxiety or depression. The average user that age was on social media for almost five hours a day. Last

1:19:03 Last year, Murthy sounded the alarm about how social media is contributing to a mental health crisis among younger Americans. He has urged Congress to pass legislation that would stop platforms from collecting data about kids and putting restrictions on push notifications or auto-scrolling. And while there is bipartisan support for some of those measures, none of them have passed in Congress. Something so many parents are thinking about here. Five hours a day on social media. Trust me, I saw that number and I said I need to get home and take some phones away. Right? Exactly. Wow. All right. So that clip was on Need More Gain. This is the second time you've done a clip that's too low. I can barely hear it. It was out of balance. There's something with clean feed. Everyone else heard it. Something with clean feed is a problem.

1:19:53 So, uh, I have to- Wait, no, no, I have something to say here. I was leading up to this whole thing. All you can think about is the audio quality, please. When... What? Okay, go on. When we make the comparison between social media and tobacco and warning labels. Now, we know a lot about the warning labels. First of all, when you put the warning label on it, it makes people want to smoke more. So it only makes kids want to be on social media more. But what is the main thing of tobacco regulation that we learned from the Master States Agreement?

1:20:29 Taxation, taxation goes to the states for, to pay for all the people who don't have health care, who will need the mental health care. I think we're getting a social media tax per state that's coming in, just like cigarettes. Put it in the book. Yeah, I want it in the Red Book. There's something, something about this, this comparison to tobacco that is not just about age gating, it has to do with taxing. I think that's an interesting, well no one's heard that yet. I have two clips on cell phones in schools which is similar. And what gets me about these two clips, cell phones in school in Los Angeles mainly, is that as I listen to these clips, I can't believe that they've been allowing, I guess I haven't been paying attention or I did know this but I wasn't really tuned into it, that you have a class full of kids

1:21:29 And half of them are on their phones in the classroom, scrolling or dicking around or whatever they do. How is this like, inducive to learning anything? I don't get why it's been allowed to begin with. I'm sorry, at what point did you think that we were still teaching children in school? I mean, neither of us have kids in school anymore. It's a mess. It's a free-for-all. Only some smaller schools, private schools, you know, homeschools, they're doing... the rest is a mess. The teachers are woke, they're not doing... oh, everyone's on meds and everyone's on their phone.

1:22:14 Yeah. In the U.S. It's a disaster. It is. 72% of high school teachers said a cell phone distraction is a major problem in the classroom. That's according to a report last week by the Pew Research Center. Educators in Los Angeles are taking action on this issue. early next year, students largest school district wi to use cell phones during Christina Corona has more the Los Angeles Unified Sch voted Tuesday to ban cell school day. Board member

1:22:51 member Nick Malvoin who pushed the bill stated that students... They're surreptitiously scrolling in school, in class time, they have their head in their hands walking down the hallways, they're not talking to each other or playing at lunch or recess because they have their airpods in. The ban, which includes lunch and breaks, aims to improve students' interpersonal communication skills and reduce social media distress and cyber bullying. It's crystallizing these deleterious effects, the harmful effects on students' academic achievement, on their mental health, on their physical health. He noted that in other school districts with this policy, kids are happier, engage more with each other and show improved academic performance. One teacher said that years ago, students having a cell phone in class wasn't as much of an issue as it is today. This year, even with a very strict no cell phone policy in my classroom, it was an uphill battle.

1:23:45 Managing student use of smartphones is now, like as a classroom teacher, is now more like running a non-stop marathon. However, many board members oppose the bill, arguing that cell phones are essential for safety. All right, just because I can feel the steam already rising, I want to say there are many good teachers. I know they've been castrated, they have no power, they're living in this woke complex and it's being shoved down their throat. There's plenty of good ones and it's very difficult. I think if you choose that profession, I hold you in high regard. It's a tough, tough gig these days.

1:24:25 And luckily there are, you know, I'm seeing initiatives, eighth grade is kind of the thing that, because the parents have to agree. No cell phone, not just school, no cell phone until eighth grade. That's what a lot of parents are talking about these days. I think no cell phone until you're 80. Now, the smartphone came out in 2007. It's taken 17 years, are you telling me, to get to the point where, gee, maybe we shouldn't have these things in class? Yeah, I think that what's happening is the adults themselves are now realizing, wow, I'm really messed up.

1:25:07 My brain's all jumbled. What must this be doing to the kids? I think it took a long time to realize. Remember, all we could report on for the first 10 years of smartphones was, oh, look at the new iPhone. Oh, this, oh, look at this one. New phone, new phone. Well, that wasn't me. No, that's not. Part two, it shows that some people are still resisting. Our cell phones also provide some comfort. I can reach my son or we can reach our children and he can reach me during an emergency or when he needs me. What emergency? Another member stated that some kids will use their devices regardless. The cell phone is going to exist anyway. And before you do that, ban cell phones. What's going to be next? They're going to have it on their watch. They're going to have a watch that tells them the same stuff.

1:25:55 The same stuff you can do on the cell phone you can do from your computer. However, for some students, using cell phones is a necessity. It's just that some of our newcomer students utilize... Newcomers! The newcomers! Good one! It's just that some of our newcomer students utilize phones for translation purposes. Obviously a person is ideal, but sometimes in less common languages there's a utilization of phones in class for that purpose. Schools will be able to determine how to implement the phone ban, whether by requiring phones to be stored in lockers or pouches during the day. The resolution instructs staff to develop and present policies and a plan to the public before the board approves them within 120 days. The policy will go into effect as early as January 2025. And whenever I get an email from a teacher, I say, well what should I do? I said, leave the school and find the homeschool movement. You're in high demand. You'll love the hours. You'll love the environment.

1:26:58 You gotta opt out of this. It's unfixable. It's unfixable. I think it is unfixable, especially if you're going to have apologists like the last clip had. Oh, well, you know, they need it anyway. Oh, it's a case of an emergency. I want my kid to be able to get a hold of me. What emergency? What? How often does this happen? No, but that that's because we've we've raised this whole, you know, my generation now behind me, they've been raised as ninnies.

1:27:34 You know, they're worried about everything. Worried about their kids, you know? This is an emergency. What if there's a school shooting? I won't know. I won't know what to do. No. Ninnies. Hey, with that, I want to thank you for your courage. In the morning to you, the man who put the C in the cheap fake. Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one and only Mr. John C. DeMora! Well, good morning to you, Mr. Adam Crane. Good morning all ships and sea boats on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and the dames and knights out there. Hello there, trolls. We got you for a second. Hold, don't move, don't move. We're up today. This is nice. Let's see, on the last Thursday, we had 1584. Today we have 1609 extra trolls in the troll room. Good to see you there, trolls. Remember, you can join the trolls live on our Thursday and Sunday shows. Did you crack something open there?

1:28:30 No, no, I'm sitting here, I got no, I just thought you were texting stuff off the list. I wanted to know what you were drinking. You can join the trolls at trollroom.io or the fancy new noagenda.stream. Very nice, very nice website that Sir Tim Coded Monkey put in. I got to make sure I say Coded Monkey. Or you can use a modern podcast app. There's plenty of them. Podverse is a great one to use. Castamatic, Podcast Guru, Fountain, you can find them at podcastapps.com. Why are they so cool? Well, first of all, they're built by independent people, so you can have something changed or added if you want to. You can talk to the developer also. When we go live, you don't get this on Apple or Spotify. They don't even have live in their podcast apps.

1:29:12 When we go live, boom, you get a notification, you tap on it, you're listening live, you get chapters, you get transcripts. And the minute we publish it, about a minute and a half, 90 seconds later, you get notified if you're listening later. It's fantastic. I don't see why you would still use... I get people, it hasn't uploaded to Apple for five hours after the show, I'm sleeping out. Get a real app. Stop it. Stop it. Rev. If you're listening to this show, you should be against the man. Certainly against Spotify. That's what I can't find your podcast on Spotify. There's a reason for that. Because they want to put ads in because you have to sign a contract. That's not how podcasting supposed to work. Take it from me. I was there. Yeah, you're the guy. I was there. I was there. I don't get it. It's very weird.

1:30:03 Didn't Spotify call you and ask you for some advice at some point? Oh yeah, when they were rolling out, when they're getting ready for their podcast strategy, they had, it was the big consultancy. Not Anderson, but where Mayor Pete's from. Indianapolis? No, no, the consultancy, the consultant for the consultancy. Oh, McKinsey. McKinsey, yeah. They did a big white paper. And my advice was don't do it. What has McKinsey got to do with the price of bread when it comes to podcasting, when they have somebody who actually invented the whole thing, like you, for example? Just ask and you probably would have given it away. Well, they called me, McKinsey called me and said, well, you know, they had all these questions. I said, this is a dumb idea. Stay out of podcasting. You'll only screw it up.

1:30:51 And you should have said, instead of that, you should have said, well, my fee is. No, I wanted I wanted to warn them. And they promised me a copy of the report, which they never gave me. So McKinsey are liars. They're liars. It's horrible. They're liars. Unbelievable that happened. Liars. Yeah. Gee, I wonder why that happened. No, I said, don't do this. This is stupid. And they spent a billion dollars and didn't work. There you go. That's how it goes. Yeah, obviously they try to do an advertising play, as we say in the business. We've got an advertising play. Well, how did that work out? It didn't. It didn't. They got all the big names like Michelle Obama and the Kardashians and Meghan Markle and Harry and it failed.

1:31:43 Because no one cares. They're not podcasters. It's just celebrities doing an mp3 trying to get some ad money and then they couldn't even fulfill it. They had to open it up and put on all the podcast apps. And you know people always say, you know, it's so smart that you guys didn't go with advertising because you can't get the platform. I just want to be honest about it. The real honest reason Because we weren't thinking about deplatforming in 2007. We weren't thinking about that. No, because it wasn't a thing. I think brand safety was already kind of bubbling under, you know, there was some talk about it, that term specifically. Yeah, but it wasn't like it was once they deplatformed Alex Jones and they made a big fuss and they started throwing people off the air. You're out! Yeah, it wasn't like that.

1:32:32 The reason why we didn't want to have an advertising model in the beginning was because we didn't want to have any meetings with advertisers. Do you know how tedious that is? That was the main thing you said, or you had actually more lewd ways of putting it. I did. We don't want to talk to those guys. It's tedious. It's horrible. You have to have meetings. And then, listen, we didn't really quite like your read on that last show. You know, you didn't really punch it home. And John stopped making noises when Adam's doing the read. You know, who needs that nonsense? It's exactly what you'd get. And then they'll also be like, and then we get in fights. We're like, well, we really like John's read better. So we're going to have him read everything. And then, you know, I'd be like, well, you know, we get in fights about it. It would be bad between us. It would be bad blood. More money though. Well, maybe that. Well,

1:33:27 Although, something kind of amazing happened today. Yes, well we do have people that are super supporters that come in every so often, but it wasn't for them. No, I mean we literally have... the amount of donations is very sparse today. Yeah, we only have 35 actually. But, and this is kind of the random number theory, and this is what we discovered with Value for Value. Somehow the roller coaster evens out along the way. Duchess Kim of the Fluffernuttys decided... Nutter Fluff is... It says Fluffernuttys.

1:34:03 Yeah, but I think that's just a typo. I was talking to Jay about it earlier. Fluffer. Nutter fluffy. I think you're right. It didn't sound right when I read it. No, it's in the note. The note is... Oh, it didn't sound right when I read it. She's came keeper of the nutty fluffers. There you go. Fluffers, nutties. Hey, what's wrong? What is Jay thinking of when she's doing the spreadsheet? She cracked up and she said, well, just you know, you guys can fix it in post. And no one told me to fix it in post. Another thing we decided we'd never do. She decided to come in with two donations. The first one is really incredible, is none other than the coveted, soon to be rewarded with, I hope, a challenge coin or a tote bag. We're still working on it.

1:34:55 tote bag is the magic number donation also known as the rubilizer donation. So 33 33 dot 33 she just comes in lays that right down and then comes in with another 1000 Which would be my read. Which is a switcheroo, you have it there in front of you. Yeah, I do. ITM John and Adam, she needs some jingles, retirement karma. That's an interesting thing to develop. Little girl, yay and screw your freedom. This donation's a switcheroo for my dad, John. It's his birthday, June 26, 65. He's gonna be 65. And a Father's Day gift from all his Oregon family.

1:35:53 I would like to knight him Pop Pop of the Pocket Protectors and Keeper of his 15 Grandbabies. At least somebody's doing their part. At the round table, can I get him some Patron Platinum and Tomahawk Steaks? Which is an interesting thing. He taught me how to be tougher when things got hard and how to push through any obstacle in my way. Because of him, I am where I am today, which is... In a good spot, apparently. In a good spot we like. Yes. And I would change nothing from our past. Shit was hard, but we still kicked some ass. Thank you, Dad, for everything. Wow. Oh, yeah. You two are great as well.

1:36:40 Keep up the good work. Duchess Kim, keeper of the nutty fluffers in Hubbard, Oregon. That's $1,000. Wow, and that's a switcheroo for him, as you said, and we don't necessarily have an exit strategy karma, but I'll make one up for you. Screw your freedom. Yay! Exit strategy! More, more, yeah! Exit strategy! Four more years! You've got karma. Well, she actually went to retirement karma, not exit strategy. Yeah, but that's retirement. When we say exit strategy, that's retire— Look, did you have anything better? I never— I never thought of it as retirement. I thought of it as doing something different. Well, do you think he's just gonna sit on his butt? He's got stuff to do. With a daughter like that, I doubt it. Yeah, he'll probably be doing something.

1:37:33 Onward to... Yeah, there's no such thing as retirement for people like that. No, not like that. Jereen Faust is in Heidelberg, Missouri. 333.33. This is also a switcheroo to Blaine Brining. for his birthday June 22nd. Happy 60th birthday to my smoking hot husband Brian Brenning in Evansville, Indiana. Please deduce him. You've been deduced. As I recently hit him in the mouth. I love you baby! From Jareen. Oh, how nice. Sir D. Oh, I'm sorry, you're Jareen. Sebastian D. Oh.

1:38:14 Sebastian de Stigler. Stigter. Stigter. Stigter. Sebastian de Stigter. Stigter. Sebastian de Stigter. Uchtgeist. Uchtgeist. Uchtgeist. And he's already our associate executive producer. We're done with the executives just that quickly. 292.01. And he says, in hindsight, it took way too long to get to knighthood, but I made it. Keep doing what you're doing. May you never execute on your exit strategy ideas. What if we did? Please knight me as knight of the Dutch spirit grounds equals completely wrong in literal translation of the... of the... the... Geestgronden. Already blessed with karma, so not needed. If any jingles at all, please select them yourselves. Dutch spirit... Best Sebastian. Oh, de Geestgronden. That's what it is. De Geest... De Geestgronden.

1:39:16 I'm gonna give him a karma. He wants that. I know. By the way, I wanted to, uh... I want to thank Geri. Geri is the one who spent 15 hours knitting the monkey. Which is the show title. Remember I got that knitted monkey from the meetup? Yeah. Yeah. So her son gave it to me and I said, oh, I got a monkey. And he's like, dude, my mom has spent 15 hours on that. Can't you like thank her? Like, okay. I think you're right. Good point. Good point. Here's Sir D from Martensdijk, the Netherlands. Hey guys, forgot to donate at the meetup. Was nice meeting you, Adam. That's 210 and 60. And John, I love my old Lexus and I love what I do.

1:40:06 Sir D of the Holon Serading. All right, these Dutchmen, I love these guys. Like, hey, you know, I gotta make sure I pony up for the meetup. Thank you. Thank you, brother. Linda Lou Patkins on the list and she's last on the list. This is how grim it is. In Lake, thank you Juneteenth. Linda Lou Patkin, Lakewood, Colorado. 200 bucks as usual. She says jobs karma. She hasn't missed a beat for an unrivaled resume that gets results. I try to blast through it without flubbing. I can't even get past results. The phone rang, oh John, imagemakersincwithak.com wants to have a meeting to discuss your reads. For an unrivaled resume that gets results, go to imagemakersinc.com for all your executive resume and job search needs. That's imagemakersincwithak.

1:41:03 And partner with Linda Liu, Duchess of Jobs and writer of resumes. I guess she does good work. She does. Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs! Well, thank you very much. Especially thanks to Duchess Kim for saving us here. Beautiful. Thank you to our executive and associate executive producers for episode one six seven zero You get to put that on your resume in your LinkedIn profile on your social media profile or open up an IMDB account There's plenty of no agenda producers and associate executive producers including some actual heavy hitters in Hollywood. This is no joke

1:41:42 So do that and remember that it is a lifetime credit. You can keep it forever and they are recognized everywhere that credits are accepted. If anyone questions that, just let us know. We will vouch for you. Again, thank you for supporting episode 1670 of the No Agenda Show. Our formula is this. We go out, we hit people in the mouth. Order. Screw your freedom. Shut up, state. Can we start with the bonus clip? Now, did you get my email? Yeah, did you get my email about the bonus clip? No, I didn't. What did it say? It said, do you realize this is from 2019? No, it's from 2020.

1:42:36 I think, okay. Well, he was writing, somebody researched and said it was from 2020. So it's four years old. I mean, everyone's, this clip is going viral. I'm like, who cares? It's old. I mean, we know everyone. I know what is that is old, but it got, it fell through the cracks because of COVID. Oh yeah. Oh, okay. So we're going to dig this old cow out of the canal. I'm digging the cow out of the canal. Because it's clogging up things and Because the guy who's this is from New Amsterdam or Amsterdam news New Amsterdam. Yeah, it was about the Bellevue Hospital. It was a from a from a novel they turn into a TV show it lasted five years somehow and It ended in 2023. I mean, it's at least two years old and

1:43:33 And the guy who was the creator of this show is a huge Democrat. If you look him up in Open Secrets, he's donated him. He's a big Biden supporter. Oh. And so I thought, because of all that, that it would be worth listening to, because I had never heard it before. Make yourself comfortable. There's a couch over there. Hey, is he okay? Yeah, yeah, he's okay. I had CFS answer some questions from a Harvard test known as unrest. It is designed to measure someone's level of social resistance. Social resistance? When people like us oppose the values and policies of the dominant culture. That's right. And what does that have to do with... Your son, he feels threatened on a daily basis. Like everything he's earned can just be taken away. He's disenfranchised. But because his life is seemingly free from all this, because he can't name it, he's internalizing it. Name what?

1:44:31 Racism. I think your son's tumor was caused by racism. Yes. The beauty. Tumors caused by racism. The tumors caused by... I would credit one of our producers for sending me that. And I looked into it. Of course, you find out when it was an old... It's an old clip. There's no doubt about it. But I never heard it. And the fact that they'd have the guts to put something like that on TV is just astonishing. Well, remember it was during COVID. You made the point. A lot of stuff was going on in 2020. And they shot it before that, of course. They probably shot it when Trump, you know, Trump was president and we have Black Lives Matter. And so there was budget. Yeah, exactly. All that stuff was going on. But it doesn't matter because we have still a lot of racism happening.

1:45:22 particularly at American Airlines. Interesting little gaffes in this clip too. Well, Fort Worth based American Airlines is responding after three black passengers accused the airline of racial discrimination. CEO Robert Isom wrote a letter to airline employees Tuesday that called the incident unacceptable. Now, three black passengers sued American in federal court last month, accusing flight attendants of removing them due to racial discrimination. The airline says another passenger complained of an offensive odor which led to their removal. But the lawsuit says flight attendants made no mention of an offensive odor on an earlier flight on the same day. American CEO wrote in that letter to employees that the airline would take immediate action in the aftermath of this incident, forming an advisory group that would focus on improving the travel experience specifically for black customers.

1:46:15 Now the NAACP responded with a statement saying quote, the NAACP is pleased to see that American Airlines has taken initial steps towards a path to forge a path rather towards a more inclusive experience for all. While it is unfortunately common for black consumers to experience racism and discrimination at the hands of corporations, It is not common to see such swift and decisive action. She's divisive. Her head's filled with diversity and divisiveness and she can't even get it out right. Yeah, I heard that. It's terrible. So, I mean, that's a weird story. Like, did the black people stink? Is that what you're saying? Was that the accusation? How about this for an idea?

1:46:57 You team up with some guys or anybody you want, you're the white person, and you team up with some, and you make this complaint to get them kicked off so they can sue and you get a piece of the action. In other words, the whole thing's a scam. Is that possible that anyone would do that, you think? No self-respecting black American would, no. I don't think so. Scammer. Let me stick with the trans-Maoism for a second. I got some feedback. Remember the U-turn sign that was taken down, which was a clear symbol of LGBTQIAP hatred? Yeah. Remember the story, right? And I was saying, you know, there's something weird about this. What are they promoting? What is going on? Why is the drag queen there? Well, guess what?

1:47:50 The drag queen is none other than maybe, M-A-E-B-E, who was elected in California, District 30, elected to Congress. Under that screwball name that he she uses yeah with the wig and everything Maybe a guy I think is what the name was Maybe for Congress, but okay Yes, here's here's maybes Here's maybes platform universal health care tuition free college housing for all whoo environmental justice LBG LGBTQIA rights

1:48:30 racial justice, abolish ICE, livable wage, no more war. I'm all in with maybe. And reproductive rights. And the website is maybeagirlforcongress.org. Well, maybe a girl, that's what it was. Yeah, maybeagirlforcongress.org. So that's what this was about. And you remember that then there was this weird signage everywhere about baby gay, and we were questioning what that is. Yeah, baby gay. Well, trust our anonymous gay accountant to check in. And the anonymous gay accountant who has my number texts me, dude. Dude. Dude. That's how he talks. Dude! Baby gay is not a gay couple's baby dressed up in pink. There's no baby gay book they're selling.

1:49:16 A baby gay is just some guy that has recently come out of the closet. He could be 30 or 25 or 50 or 18 or whatever. Oh, it's slang. Yes, just someone new at being out in gay culture. Some people think the term is funny and some don't like it. Ah, there's animosity in the gay community. Yeah, bound to be. Yeah. And then this report, which is... Well, these were keeping up somehow. Yeah, well, thank you. This is why we have producers. This is why you don't have listeners. We have producers. Whenever we say something off or dumb or whatever, or even if there's something we haven't said and you think you want to tell us... Wow, bless you.

1:50:00 You want to blow your nose now? I think you do. No, no, I'm fine. Okay. Whenever there's something that everyone's an expert at something, everybody is an expert at something. And your job is to let us know. So the anonymous gay accountant, he's an expert in accounting and gay. So perfect. Appreciate it. And then there's this story which has an interesting kicker at the end. A case in the making since 2017, now in the hands of the Colorado Supreme Court. For background, Autumn Scardina, a transgender woman, ordered a pink cake with blue frosting commemorating her transition. Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cake Shop refused after learning its significance.

1:50:43 I will not recreate a custom cake expressing any message that violates my religious beliefs, regardless of who asked for it. Under the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act, it's illegal for places of public accommodation, like retail stores, to discriminate against protected classes of people. people, which includes t But Phillips lawyers of t group Alliance defending Supreme Court ruling prot in 303 creative, the art The court reaffirmed that Colorado can't force artists to express messages they don't believe. The Constitution prevents the government from forcing cake artists, website designers, photographers and other artists to express messages they don't believe in their custom art. While some LGBTQ rights supporters watching the case are concerned about how the justices will rule in light of 303 Creative, Scardina's attorney claims that case is too narrow to apply.

1:51:43 sticking with this argument. Businesses are not permitted to discriminate against members of the public just because they object to their gender identity. This isn't Jack Phillips' first time in court. Back in 2018, the US Supreme Court sided with Phillips in a narrow ruling after he refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple. The US Supreme Court announced it would take up that case in 2017. And on the same day it made the announcement, Scardina called requesting the pink and blue cake. So this is all posturing, it's all phony, it's all fake. This person's not really offended, they're just trying to make a point. Meanwhile, everyone's hair on, it's the same guy from the gay cake.

1:52:29 The gay cake. Yeah, the gay cake. It's a show title. He didn't want to do the trans cake, but it was filed on the same day of the gay cake ruling. This is just... Well, it's free publicity. I don't know what they're up to. Well, and this... Colorado is more screwed up than California is, basically. Well, but this brings me to another case that I think is worth discussing. Because I'm going to take the other side on this, and I think I know what's going on here. This is Louisiana who have now put into law that the Ten Commandments must hang in every single public school classroom. Critics say it threatens to blur the separation between church and state.

1:53:08 enshrined in the first amendment in the US Constitution. Republican Governor Jeff Landry signing into law new legislation requiring the Ten Commandments be displayed in classrooms across the state of Louisiana. This bill mandates the display of the Ten Commandments in every classroom, in public, elementary, secondary and post-education schools in the state of Louisiana. Because if you want to respect the rule of law, you've got to start from the original lawgiver. Which was Moses? The move makes Louisiana the first state in the country to require that the religious text be displayed in public schools. The law orders that posters no smaller than 28 by 35 centimeters be put up. On them, commandments must be laid out in large and easily readable font.

1:53:55 While the religious text will be the central focus, it will also be paired with the statements detailing that the Ten Commandments have been a prominent part of American public education for almost three centuries. Soon after the bill was signed into law, civil rights groups vowed to sue. made joint statements the American Civil Liberties Union and several other organizations say the legislation is unconstitutional. The First Amendment promises that we all get to decide for ourselves what religious beliefs, if any, to hold and practice without pressure from the government. Politicians have no business imposing their preferred religious doctrine on students and families in public schools. It's not the first time such a case has come up.

1:54:34 In 1980, the Supreme Court ruled that a similar Kentucky law was unconstitutional, but with six conservatives now in the top court, supporters of this new law believe the justices would rule in their favor in any potential lawsuit. Yeah, I don't think it's about the Supreme Court. I think that, first of all, as much as I think it's a great idea, I'm going to give it to ACLU on this one. Obviously, this is where the so-called separation of church and state in the First Amendment does apply. the government cannot mandate anything religious, I think you can make an argument that this is a mandate of a religious text. However, I think they're doing it to get the pride flags out. I think this is a setup. That's an interesting theory.

1:55:24 It might be a way to get the pride flags out because there's too many of them becoming a problem or make them a certain size You know 35 centimeters your flag can only be this big something like that. I think that's interesting because why else California? They're talking about all these issues Calif since you're playing these localized clips play this clip here Which is I think more concerning than anything. I don't you'd be honest about I don't think the Ten Commandments are A big deal to take out of the schools is a good idea, but Cal schools and the pronoun law. School districts in California would be banned from forcing teachers to notify parents if their child asks to go by a new pronoun. Today the state Senate approved this proposal that now heads to the Assembly. Supporters say it protects LGBTQ students from bullying and harassment. Opponents say the bill strips parental rights, undermines the trust between schools and parents.

1:56:20 Hmm. Well, this is the so so in other words the kid is a girl at the school and wants to be a boy and then the and wants to be called Zee-zure or whatever. Him. Dude. Yo. The teachers are forbidden from mentioning any of this to the parents. That's great. Take your kids out of school. It's crazy, it's funny. You can't have a cell phone, but you get... But then the rationale is to prevent bullying? Doesn't the bullying take place in school? Not at somebody's house? Unless you're bullied by your parents? Is that what they're saying? They're saying the parents are bullies now? Is that what they're trying to imply? It's nonsense. It's nonsense. Now, let me just go back to religion.

1:57:11 I think we can safely say, and we may even be able to prove it scientifically, that climatism is a religion. Would you agree? We've discussed this before in the past and listed the Bible of that religion and on and on, and the various saints of that religion. Hansen, for example. This is not a new topic. No, I'm not going to discuss that as the topic, but I think they shouldn't be able to teach it in school. This climatism is out of control. We are talking... Okay, you started the show off talking about gaslighting. You want to hear some gas lighting?

1:57:52 Here's Kathy Hochul, governor of New York. This is not a natural hot weather stretch for us here in the state of New York, especially upstate. But we are going to be seeing temperatures at levels we have not seen in our lifetimes. And I want to update New Yorkers on what we're doing about this significant public health event. Right now, everywhere north of New York City is under a heat advisory, and it's only going to get worse. Starting today in the Genesee Valley and the Finger Lakes, and starting tomorrow, Extreme heat will hit everywhere in the great state of New York. Now what does this mean? It's a dangerous mix of high temperatures and extreme humidity causing feels like temperature of over 100 degrees. Now that's hot. Now you and I have bought, by the way, the social media just blasted this. Of course. There's all kinds.

1:58:44 You and I have both been in New York. Yeah, I lived there for 12 years and in New Jersey. And you lived in the area forever. Yeah. And it's like this every summer. I was there one year to some meetings. I had to be there right in the middle of summer. I think it was in August. And it was so hot and humid that literally had to change my clothes three times a day. Because you just get soaked. Yeah, and it's just a mess and this isn't in our lifetimes. I mean I remember walking on the streets of New York City and the tar was sticking to your shoes. Now, okay, it's terrible. It can get miserable there. And very, very humid and it just hangs there. Now, of course, this is because of the so-called heat dome, which they are now lying about. We discovered this on a previous episode. They're saying, oh, this is the carbon dioxide. It hangs in the air.

1:59:39 And that creates a wet blanket over everything and that's why it's hot. Instead of the humidity and even some dust, there's all kinds of stuff that causes it. But this is not the carbon dioxide. But oh no! More than a dozen cities hit new record highs today including Boston. Hartford, Connecticut and Gary, Indiana as 18 states broil under the heat dome. Tina's uh... Broil! Tina's entire family still lives in Indiana. She grew up literally on the other side of the train tracks from Gary, Indiana. Guess who hasn't been calling like, oh it's so hot Tina's sister you won't believe it!

2:00:22 Her family, because like, okay, it's a little warm. But oh, geary Indiana, oh, please. And what are we talking? 90 degrees. Oh no, it's 90. The map is red. In some places it felt as hot as 110 degrees. Felt as hot as. So it wasn't actually that hot, it just felt that way. CBS's Lili Luciano reports from a brutally hot Philadelphia. In the city of brotherly love, the heat came early. super hot. Oh yeah. Emt. says he's bracing for a making those knocks earli Yeah, last summer it was when we started getting o

2:01:04 The city has already declared its first heat health emergency of the year through Saturday. In Vermont, we're out here for the next couple days just trying to beat the heat, get out of the heat dome. There are parts of the state today that are almost 10 degrees hotter than Miami. Meteorologist Shel Winkley with Climate Central says Miami is almost hotter than Miami is 87 degrees. Is Horowitz calling you saying I can't do the show? It's too hot, I'm melting here. This is gaslighting. Meteorologist Shel Winkley with Climate Central says the shifting weather patterns have a culprit. Talk to us about the impact of human activity on these heat patterns. As we pollute our atmosphere with things like carbon, extra carbon from burning oil and natural gas and coal. By the way,

2:01:59 I think it means carbon dioxide. I'm just going to keep harping on that. I refuse to allow people to just call it carbon. It's not carbon. It's carbon dioxide. That's what you've told us the problem was. You can't just show... You know what? It's going to be carb. That'll be it. And before we know it, carbs is just going to be carbon dioxide. Carbs. Talk to us about the impact of human activity on these heat patterns. As we pollute our atmosphere with things like carbon, extra carbon from burning oil and natural gas and coal, what we're essentially doing is trapping in a lot of this heat. Adds that wool blanket over the top of us so that heat is basically trapped. There's nowhere for it to go.

2:02:42 And what's happening too is that the nighttime temperatures are also rising, so there's not enough time for the cities, for the land, for people to recover before the sun comes out, so it only keeps getting hotter. Nora? Important explanation. Willie Luciano, thank you so much. Oh, important explanation. Thank you. It's a lie. That is not what... I need to go back and get some old heat dome clips, just so they can hear what they were talking about when it was actually a heat dome, which we've had. Heat domes happen. Not these, oh it's carbon, it's just hanging in the air, the carbon, like a blanket. It has more to do with the barometric pressures. Yes, it's all about the pressure. Now, so this was a nice little, one of those performative Q&As in Senate, which is always fun to listen to and it's meant for podcasters so we can pull clips. This is,

2:03:37 The House Science... Oh, I'm sorry, the House of Representatives. The House Science Committee, they had a hearing on California's train emissions. Train? Yes. Because trains emit emissions. You know, trains. Electricity emissions. It's carbon, man! And so this is Representative McCormack from... I don't know where he's from. Well, it doesn't matter. So he's grilling this poor sap. Who's there trying to say, you know, talk about the emissions and oh boy, oh we can't have trains. They're not even that great. But we can't have trains because you know, carbon heat dome. Mr. McCormick, you're recognized for five minutes. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Abzug just brought up an interesting point about the ocean rising. How much has it risen in the last 50 years?

2:04:29 I'll have to get back with you on that congressman not not significant amount obviously 50 years since 1970 what's the carbon emissions the carbon content to the atmosphere is it greater or less than what it was 1970 Could you repeat that question the carbon content carbon dioxide levels in the United in the entire earth atmosphere was it greater or less than it was in 1970 I would say greater Do you care to state that, bet money on that? I'll let you answer the question, either that I'm right or wrong. Okay. And what percentage of the atmosphere is made up of carbon dioxide? It's a little over 400 parts per billion. So 0.04%, right? Of that, how much comes from human beings? About 11%. How much comes from the United States?

2:05:23 14% of that, how much comes from trains in the United States? 0.5%. So we're talking about eliminating 0.000003% of the year's atmosphere carbon dioxide. That's what we're talking about. Is that a negligible effect when it's compared to nitrogen 71%? Yes. Thank you. So I love science. Yeah, that's how we need to look at this stuff. But oh no, it's going to kill us all. Well, they had that one congressional hearing where they asked a bunch of people what was the percent, well how much percent carbon dioxide is in the atmosphere? Oh, people think it's 30%. They weren't even close. It's 0.04%. It's hardly any. And what I learned here is that- And that guy, by the way, said parts per billion. It's parts per million. Yeah, per million.

2:06:20 Well, when you get down to it, then it's parts per billion. When he, when it's the percentage of the trains, it's parts per billion because you're another thousand million, I think. A thousand million, yeah. 0.0004%. That's 4% per billion, or parts per billion, I think. Gaslighting. I love science. Thank you, thank you to our producer David who came across a peer-reviewed published paper in the January 2024 volume of Global Ecology and Conservation. It's a very hefty document. It's in the show notes, of course. I'll spare you the boring academic details because, you know, these are people who know how to read this stuff. That's who our producers are.

2:07:08 The nutshell of this is that in the latest series of papers that claim to have detected a global greening trend over the past couple of decades with an extra leafage equivalent to the total area of 1.4 times that of the contiguous United States now covering Earth. Furthermore, the trend shows sign of acceleration. Correlating the greening with multiple time series, the authors found that this trend was most correlated with increased CO2 levels, followed by changes to air temperature. How about that? It was a guy on one of the, it was on NPR some years ago that went on and on about his, he had greenhouses and he had been pumping extra CO2 into them to get these things, get the plants in the greenhouse to go nuts. Plants need carbon dioxide. Not just plants, but you know, sergine, he has snakes.

2:08:03 He has two snakes, I think one is 17 feet and the other one is a small one, about 7 feet. And they're in his house. And he usually has the carbon dioxide levels in his house up to about 12 or 1400 parts per million. He says the snakes love it. There's a whole community, you know, more CO2 community, there's got newsletters and secret meetups. More CO2. We don't have enough. No, we don't. Well, if it drops below like, I think, right now, it's like, I think 260. It'll kill everything on Earth. We die, exactly. Makes you wonder why they want it to go down.

2:08:47 And of course, more gaslighting in California with the climatism. Two months early, fire season has ignited in California. Dry conditions and high winds are fueling the flames, making it difficult for firefighters to contain the blaze. We have two and a half years of unburned fuel in a lot of places because we haven't had a big major fire over the last couple of seasons. We've had them bumping off but not to this size. The post fire has been burning since Saturday, so far scorching 56,000 square kilometers, forcing evacuations with only 25% of the blaze contained. So you can see our number one nemesis is this wind. That wind is really whipping up there even worse than it is right here. So that's really what is the biggest challenge right now.

2:08:03 He has two snakes, I think one is 17 feet and the other one is a small one, about 7 feet. And they're in his house. And he usually has the carbon dioxide levels in his house up to about 12 or 1400 parts per million. He says the snakes love it. There's a whole community, you know, more CO2 community, there's got newsletters and secret meetups. More CO2. We don't have enough. No, we don't. Well, if it drops below like, I think, right now, it's like, I think 260. It'll kill everything on Earth. We die, exactly. Makes you wonder why they want it to go down.

2:08:47 And of course, more gaslighting in California with the climatism. Two months early, fire season has ignited in California. Dry conditions and high winds are fueling the flames, making it difficult for firefighters to contain the blaze. We have two and a half years of unburned fuel in a lot of places because we haven't had a big major fire over the last couple of seasons. We've had them bumping off but not to this size. The post fire has been burning since Saturday, so far scorching 56,000 square kilometers, forcing evacuations with only 25% of the blaze contained. So you can see our number one nemesis is this wind. That wind is really whipping up there even worse than it is right here. So that's really what is the biggest challenge right now.

2:09:29 As you can see behind me, the fire destroyed this car along with other structures in the town of Gorman, about 100 kilometers north of Los Angeles. Luckily, no one has died. California has seen a surge in fires in recent years, making it difficult to insure some homes. Scientists say human-caused climate change is worsening these extreme weather events. And now a dangerous heat wave is gripping much of the western U.S. Well, broadly across the west, this heat wave will probably mark the start of increased fire activity. And it is still early in the season, so vegetation has not approaching its peak seasonal dryness that would typically occur sometime between August and October, depending on where you are.

2:10:10 So the fire risk will be increasing. The fire extends beyond California. In New Mexico, two wildfires rage, triggering evacuations and confirming an early start to a devastating fire season. That's France 24 in case you're wondering about that read. Yeah, I was wondering as a matter of fact. They got a new dude in there. Yeah, I think he also doubles at the W. What is it? WWF. NTD. Not NTD. Oh, you pencil necks. So of course, you know, they haven't had a good fire in two years. So yeah, no wonder no forest management, but okay. There's no forest. Yeah, we used to manage this stuff.

2:10:55 And I don't know what they took the money away from it, I guess because of global warming. I don't know. It's just the whole thing seems like a setup. Well, we're getting ready for COP 29. That's why these stories have to increase. This is the big cop. where we're finally going to figure out how we're going to finance it all, how we're going to pay for it all. Wait, where's this one taking? What private airplane hangar nearby is this taking? Where did all these climate guys have to fly on their private jets to this time for the cop? It's a fan favorite. It is basically the Casablanca of the Middle East, Baku.

2:11:35 Okay, remember buck who buck who is like? Remember buck who I noticed they've finally taken it out of Europe because they want time the idea was in Holland I think or someplace where it just happened to be a fluke. It was snowing It was during the show era buck who is I mean that's I mean that's you might as well do it in Dubai oh Yeah, it's hot. No, but it's also nice. It's nice. You know, you got all kinds of amenities that are cool if you're doing a big meetup. Yeah, gold. But of course, we don't, I mean, it's not just the fires, it's not just the heat dome. No, no, no. It's also the tropical glaciers. Forget about Ukraine. And if there was then a two degrees rise in temperatures, what could that mean? Well, and thank you very much for having me. You know, this is in a way the

2:12:25 third kind of crisis that's happening right now. It can be very difficult to focus on this with Gaza, with Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. But the reality is... So the minute she says that it's just the third crisis, because of course we had the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, that means she's here to deliver talking points. By the way, she sounds exactly like that woman from, that used to be the running NPR that talked about advertising. She's got that same voice, that cadence. It can be very difficult to focus on this with Gaza, with Russia's full-scale invasion. Now you're driving me crazy. Let's listen to it. NPR advertising. Okay.

2:13:17 You know, I always have a problem for, oh, this is the one I think. No, that's it. I do this to mess up the show. You're very good at it. Underwriting? Oh man. Advertising, whatever you want to call it. Yeah, but that's what you think. That's what you think it would be. Whatever you want to. Oh, yeah. Thank you. Okay. Let's listen. Let's go to this lady first. Two different stories. Underwriting is down. It's down for everybody. With Gaza, with Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, but the reality is this... I mean, this is... Kind of.

2:14:14 Kind of crisis is going on right now and the EQ is difference the same cadence It's the same lady. This is going on right now It will indeed be irreversible parts of it are right now already There's a very good chance for example that that the West Antarctic ice sheet has already tipped but we can slow jump the West Antarctic ice sheet has tipped It's fallen over. It's tipped. Well if Trump gets in they won't have to pay taxes. The Antarctic ice sheet has already tipped but we can slow it down so that we're probably looking at maybe three meters of sea level rise that we can no longer... What? Three meters? We're maybe looking at three meters of sea level rise?

2:15:03 Uh, when is this going to happen, lady? Stop, but we may be able to stretch it out to 800 or a thousand years. Oh, oh, is that what the model says in 800 to a thousand years is going to be three. Okay. Glaciers, especially tropical glaciers, are disappearing incredibly quickly right now. And Venezuela lost its last glacier, La Corona Glacier, sometime in the past year. And so these have inevitable consequences for humans. Just this morning, the group ISIMOD, which is an international organization focused on the Himalayas,

2:15:42 advise the countries in that region to prepare for drought this year because snow is at a record low amount in river basins such as the Indus. And so this is ongoing. It's sort of the slow crisis, but the inevitable crisis. Inevitable. And it's something we have to focus on and that we can still prevent the worst of if we can stick to 1.5 degrees. But unfortunately, we're not on that track in any way, shape or form right now. I think a thousand years we could, you know what? Let's take a gamble. Let's take a gamble. Isn't slow crisis as a term an oxymoron? It's a slow crisis. That's a very good point. Yeah, a crisis is something that happens kind of immediately. It's a crisis, it's a crisis, run, run, get hair on fire.

2:16:33 Yeah, but no, slow crisis. What is that? It's a bullcrap term. This is like the bullcrap term about term about cheap fake. Same thing. This is what we're getting. A lot of these gaslighting terms. The minute she was done with the interview, all her buddies called said, oh man, you're buying at Baku. You're buying drinks. Good one. Slow crisis. Slow crisis. Good one. Luckily though, the European Union is fixing it. It's the culmination of a long battle within the European Union. Long battle. That's really a relief. Environment ministers from the bloc's 27 countries, meeting in Luxembourg, have backed the nature restoration plan. Finland, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and Sweden voted against it, while Belgium abstained.

2:17:22 And after opposing the text in March, Germany this time voted in favour of the legislation, meaning it can now pass into law following months of setbacks. The plan requires member states to introduce measures restoring nature on a fifth of their land and sea by 2030. It's a clear signal that the protection of the environment and nature is important for our future, for the existence of us all, for agriculture and for forestry. It's therefore also a sign of better protection for our population. The vote had just enough support to pass, with Austria's environment minister defying her conservative coalition partners by pledging to back the policy because, she said, the health and happiness of future generations is at stake. My decision to support this law has been intensely debated. I know I will face opposition in Austria on this, but I'm convinced that this is the time to adopt this law. Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer promptly responded.

2:18:24 that his government would file a complaint at the European Court against the quote unlawful vote. This is exactly what the farmers in the Netherlands and France, what they all protested against. Is this, oh no, no we have to get rid of cows and get rid of farms. It just has to be nature. Just has to be nature. I was walking with Christina in Rotterdam, they got plenty of nature in the city. It's great and there's no farm, no cows you need to get rid of. It's perfect. And it's getting very green because of all the CO2. I wonder if they're panicking. Oh, it's a slow panic for them. Final clip. I saved this one for last. It's for you. It looks like even though they've had some problems, they will be raising money to fix your potholes.

2:19:14 The pothole problem is going to be fixed in California. With more than 30 million registered passenger vehicles in California, the state says it shells out more than $8 billion a year to maintain the roads those cars drive on. Much of that cost is paid from money collected here at the pump. from gas taxes. But because so many Californians now own electric vehicles, the gas tax money is starting to dry up. Potentially 10 years from now, we'll see a $4.4 billion loss in revenue because of these issues, which is why Caltrans wants to instead charge drivers per mile and is now enrolling people in a

2:19:55 six month pilot program t And what's unique about t time will be collecting a participants. So why woul in a program that charges for every mile you drive Caltrans says it will waive gas tax fees and give participants up to $400. Drivers would track their miles by taking a photo of their odometer or using a transponder placed in their car. But some have big concerns about being tracked. Any data that's shared is totally at the control of the participant. They choose how much data.

2:20:32 The data is processed by our account manager and it does not come to Caltrans. All that Caltrans would see is the number of miles. It's not going to ever see any of your location information. If you'd like to participate in the pilot program, you can sign up on Caltrans website. Now participants will be charged two different rates. Some will be charged a flat rate per mile and others will be charged based on the fuel efficiency of their vehicle. That's the tricky bit in there. So you'll be charged based upon the fuel. How is that old Lexus doing on fuel efficiency? I get about, I don't know, I think I get about 19 miles per gallon on the thing. That's pretty good, but it's no EV. Pretty good? That's pretty good, but it's no EV. No, no, I mean you'd be getting, if you were a hybrid.

2:21:22 It's amazing what 50, 60 miles per gallon. It's amazing what they're doing there in California really is. Oh yeah, this is and by the way, if they had if they had all this pothole money before the EV showed up, why aren't their potholes fixed? This is bull crap. I like these are lies. This is gaslighting. This is the theme of today's show. Gaslighting. I got my pothole money. J.C.D. ain't happy. Pothole money. There's a hip hop song in there somewhere. Pothole money. Yeah, it's not bad. Let's go, I got some interesting, how about doing a pothole money, Eleanor Bruce. I got Gates is building nukes and so he's out of the news a little bit. I want to get these, I want to get these clips out of the way because it's about Hunter Biden's verdict. It's from the Heritage Foundation had an expert come on one of the shows, I think it's NTD.

2:22:21 and discuss what's actually going on, which is that, you know, because I watched Jon Stewart and it's like, oh, you know, everybody's even Steven because, oh yeah, Trump got, you know, maybe political, but look what they did to Hunter Biden. Because you have found guilty and he's not going to be pardoned which is unlikely. So here we I want to play these two clips. There's only two of them. HF Hunter Biden. We're joined now by Mike Howell, the executive director of the Oversight Project at the Heritage Foundation. Mike, on Tuesday, the jury in the Hunter Biden's federal criminal case found Hunter guilty on all three of the charges that he faced. What was your initial reaction when you learned this guilty verdict? Yeah, not surprised whatsoever. Was born at night, wasn't born last night, and the fix has been in for some time here. I mean, I really worry that

2:23:10 The propaganda media is going to play this as a both sides thing. They're going to basically say at the high level. Oh my gosh, Hunter was held accountable and that's what's happening to Trump. And then when they're categorically different things of degree and kind and implications what's happening with with Hunter. is, essentially, they picked the lowest level thing that didn't connect to Joe. The thing they could paint in the light of addiction, the most sympathetic light, as a means to absolve him for guilt and everything else. What the American people really care about, what I care about, is not that Hunter was a crackhead, not that he was a crackhead that got his dead brother's wife addicted to crack cocaine. She's the one who found the gun and got rid of it. All that's immaterial.

2:23:46 What's material is the corruption in the federal government that Joe Biden and his family were running an international pay to play influencing peddling scheme in some of the most corrupt regions of the world to include Ukraine and the CCP, you know, our enemies in the CCP and other corrupt regions. Have you ever met a crackhead? I know. I mean, I met a guy that eventually became a crackhead, but I don't know that I've ever met an active crackhead. Did you? Yes, just this week. You know, Christina has, she went to school and she's now a social worker in a, I think they have 30 people in this house and they are adults. I think it's all male, middle-aged.

2:24:34 you know, like 40 to 70, so middle age and above. And they either have light mental issues or drug addictions, but most have both. And this one guy, he was a crack addict and he was quite entertaining. You know, he's also a No Agenda fan. What? Oh yeah. We have crackheads listening to our show. We have the unbelievably wide audience. We do. Which is another reason we couldn't take advertising. It's really true. I don't want to say his name. He's great. He was quite interesting. Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, absolutely. He's very, you know, Hunter may have been a very fun guy to hang out with when he was on crack.

2:25:18 That's what some people think except for his missing teeth. Well, yeah. Oh, yeah. No, there's definitely that. The dental hygiene is not great with the cracks. It's an acrid smoke that just basically eats away at everything. It's terrible. It does. It's not good. It's not an outstanding product, people. I'm not endorsing it. Part two. What happened in this arc Starting from a year ago when we were in federal court, they were trying the same federal court, by the way, that he just got convicted in David Weiss, the prosecutor, same prosecutor here, tried to give Hunter a plea deal, say, you know, accept liability for the gun and tax stuff.

2:25:59 and will pardon you for all this other stuff that connects back to Joe and the corruption that the American people are upset with. We sniffed that out, got it blown up, and so here they are back at the drawing board today, convicting him of the gun charge, but still no movement on the things that American people care about. And what this sets up for, not only is the misinformation that the law is being applied evenly in this country, But for a pardon of Hunter, they picked the sympathetic thing that you can't, or you can wrap an addiction and all those things, and you cannot connect to Joe. And it sets up Joe for a pardon of Hunter, a pardon that will not only be for this charge, but for all the things connecting not only back to Joe and his family, but the thing I'm even more concerned about than the Bidens,

2:26:42 is the intelligence community and law enforcement who sat there and watched this corruption happening in plain sight, not only did nothing but hit it, and then used every tool at the disposal of the awesome force of the US government and even some other governments to go after President Trump, which they're still doing today. And so this is not a both sides thing. This is corruption. Okay. That's actually a good analysis. So they can, you can pardon from everything, all crimes. Close the book on the Bidens. Yeah, that's what you do. That's how you do it. These guys are not stupid. No, they're doing a good job. Okay, here's another thing I think we need to delve into. This is, this, I think we're at level gaslighting on this Boeing thing as well. Now remember, there's only two real manufacturers of any merit when it comes to commercial aircraft, Airbus and Boeing. Both are huge defense contractors.

2:27:39 So, there's got to be, I'm now thinking that Congress is sending a big message to Boeing saying you need to donate more money because this is really, I mean, the coincidence of yet another whistleblower showing up just before the latest hearing with the CEO. Listen to this interview with Blumenthal, who I don't like anyway. You know, the guy's terrible. Listen to how she pronounces his name. We've got breaking news for you this morning. A current Boeing employee is accusing the airplane manufacturer of cutting corners. This latest whistleblower came forward hours before Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun will be grilled on Capitol Hill today.

2:28:24 And there of course are growing questions over the safety of Boeing's aircraft, which is why he is speaking to those on the Hill. Democratic Senator Richard Brumenthal chairs the subcommittee holding... I like that she says Brumenthal. I don't know why I like it. She corrects herself later. So, Brumenthal is doing the interview here. He's about to grill the CEO and a new whistleblower shows up. What are the chances? To those on the Hill. Democratic Senator Richard Brumenthal. Wait, wait, before you say that, I don't have a clip. But I did watch this and it was Holly, who's a great showboater, who really dug into the amount of money. The CEO is making 36 million. No, no, no, no, it was 33. It was 32.8, 33 million, which of course is the magic number.

2:29:17 The way he was digging into the guy's money, it was like, you know, you're making an awful lot of money. Where is our cut? And I'm looking at Open Secrets and Boeing has only spent in 2024 $2.94 million. That's not even 10% of the guy's salary. Exactly. Where's your tithe, dude? We need at least $6 million from you. Where's your tithing? Listen to the numbers. We've got for the Democrat, it says Democratic, Congressional Campaign Committee.

2:30:05 $210,000. For the Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee, $210,000. For the National Republican Congressional Committee, $210,000. The National Republican Senatorial Committee, $210,000. Nothing to Biden, nothing to Trump. You have to divvy it up half and half. Oh, wait. $1,000 to the DNC Services Corporation. Tim Kaine, Democrat, got $10,000. And Nikki got nothing, Mark Warner got nothing. So this is all a lot of nothings here, including Biden and Trump, at least not so far. I think this is a shakedown. It's like, you're right. You make $33 million. You've given $2.9 million. What's wrong with you? And that's the corporation. Where's your individual? You have to look him up individually, see if he gave any money. What's his name? I don't know. Calhoun?

2:31:02 Calhoun, I don't know his first name, you have to look it up. Yeah, I'll find it. But whatever the case, I think, yeah, Shakedown, this is an extortion game and they're trying to humiliate the guy. Yeah. doing a pretty good job. I'm all in on this thesis. Completely. To those on the Hill, Democratic Senator Richard Brumenthal chairs the subcommittee holding today's Boeing hearing. He joins me now. Thank you so much, sir, for coming this morning. We are all very curious about this last-minute whistleblower who's come forward. You, I think, actually spoke to him. What did you learn from from him from this new whistleblower. This whistleblower, Sam Mohawk, is one of a dozen who have come to us in recent months and his allegations are extraordinarily serious. He is saying that Boeing used non-conforming parts. Those are parts that are defective or damaged or undocumented and mistracked.

2:31:58 in airplanes, installing them, and then lying to the FAA about how it was storing those non-conforming parts. This kind of violation of trust is part of a pattern, a broken safety culture at Boeing. The company promised it would turn around that safety culture after the two crashes that occurred in 2018 and 2019. There was a deferred prosecution as you recall on the condition that Boeing, in effect, improved its performance on safety and reliability.

2:32:39 You know ultimately we should want Boeing to succeed. It's Trust me dude. We really want you to do well Dave Calhoun, but you got a pony up any that is key to our economy and to aircraft manufacturers. One of my economy. Yeah, exactly. Major aircraft manufacturers in the world. I want to help it regain trust by facing the facts and the facts are very bluntly and deeply alarmingly that Boeing has failed to comply with the conditions that it promised it would.

2:33:14 And absent from, actually I have a little bit of the Boeing's, I have a report here, absent as far as I could tell unless you saw, but I don't see Pete Buttigieg anywhere. Is he in there? Is he being grilled about the, I mean, ultimately it falls under his, it's in his portafalia, is it not? Isn't it would be his apartment head of the Department of Transportation He's a he's in charge of the FAA grilling. Well. He doesn't he can't pony up any money So what the point instead Jane Pauly does puff pieces of him and Chaston and their kids at home cooking pancakes

2:33:52 Which is not a good look when your planes are falling out of the sky. Met by chance of shame as he entered the hearing room, Boeing CEO David Calhoun quickly apologized to the families of those who died in two MAX 8 crashes overseas. And promised Boeing is changing. Our culture is far from perfect. But we are taking action and we are making progress. But Calhoun came under immediate bipartisan fire. This hearing is a moment of reckoning. There it is. For the Max 8 crashes, the Max 9 door plug blowout in January, quality control breakdowns, defective parts, and whistleblower reports of falsified documents, intimidation, and retaliation.

2:34:40 It appears that Boeing has fostered a culture that censors people who try to speak up and help. You're the problem. And I just hope to God that you don't destroy this company before it can be saved. Today, a new whistleblower claims Boeing's 737 MAX assembly line lost hundreds of parts that did not meet Boeing's specs, which he claims were hidden from FAA inspectors and may have ended up in planes, and that it could lead to a catastrophic event. I have not directly spoken to any of the whistleblowers. Do you think that'd be a good idea to do that? Yeah, I think it would. Tom, the Justice Department could still charge Boeing and the CEO. Yeah, prosecutors have until July 7th to decide, but Boeing is critical to the national economy, the space program, national defense, so the government has a lot to weigh in deciding whether to file charges. National defense, you know, that could also be an angle. Someone's trying to lean on them. Maybe someone else wants to get in on their defense action.

2:35:38 Build some different military planes. Anything's possible, but this is a shakedown of some sort. This is not just... I don't think of some sort, just a shakedown period. It's not any particularly different kind of shakedown than these guys do. All you have to do is look at their net worth of all these people that are in Congress. When they got in, what they were worth, and then what they got became worth like six years later on a pretty kind of a modest salary somehow, they became worth a fortune, almost all of them. How about Josh Hawley? I'm sure Hawley's right up there with him. He's one of the best of the group in terms of like of Showboating up in Congress. I mean I find it very entertaining He's really good at it, but I'm sure Josh Hawley's got some buck story and they all do it said they said it was nonpartisan That's a giveaway. Yeah in today's world. Yeah, cuz they're definitely not doing it for our safety. Let's be honest

2:36:41 Oh yeah, oh yeah. We want to make sure people fly safe. We want Boeing to succeed. That's what they're saying. We want Boeing. They do. They want them to succeed, but they want their cut. How much you make him, dude? $33 million? And you gave us $2.9 million? Only half of that went to us? It's cynical, but I think there's something to it. I like it. I don't have any argument against the thesis. It's got to be what it is. Of course, I have a couple of clips I wanted to get out of the way again. More Hunter? This is Robert Reich. You've got to explain who Robert Reich is. This guy. Robert Reich is the former Labor Secretary under Clinton. He's a professor at Cal.

2:37:34 And he's a left-wing stooge, and he does a podcast. Oh, with his mistress. with some woman, I don't know if it's a mis- We don't know that. We don't know that. Well, you're right. I never asked her pronouns either. And he wears this, he's like, he's a professor and he's professorial and he wears this raggedy ass t-shirt, he's like a beat up old, the one that's in the commercial with this old beat up and the guy's embarrassed to be at a restaurant wearing it. That's what he wears on his podcast and I find it to be like off putting this and why does he even have to be on video with the podcast just do an audio video and he dances a little bit with you know he does a little thing at the beginning where they where they play their little intro music what's the name of this podcast again

2:38:21 I have to get the name, but whatever the case is, Robert, you just look up Robert Reich podcast. Thank you. Thank you for the search tip. Coffee Clutch. That will be the tip. That could be a tip. I could use that tip. Coffee Clutch. It's the name of the show is Coffee Clutch. Clutch clutch clutch coffee clutch. Yeah, I think it's spelled with a K. Yes ko a TCH coffee clutch I'm all for clamps. I'm Robert Reich So he has his his normal talking points and he's part of the group of every Democrat there is going after our Supreme Court, especially Clarence Thomas Yes, and so they they just put this stuff out there to just part of the whole situation to get

2:39:08 You know, Ali Odo, Ali, not Alito, Alito and Thomas are under fire. Ali Odo used to be the mayor of San Francisco and Alito and Thomas are targets because of this upcoming they haven't rule on to finish their ruling on the Chevron deference. That's supposed to come next month. We'll see. It's cranking up. It's cranking up. So let's play. Right. Well, what about the Supreme Court and the bump stock? That's it. Opinion. So basically what happened was the court threw out in a decision led by Clarence Thomas, a ban that would have stopped this addition to a gun and made it faster. It's my translation. Wow. Great translation. It's it's it's the right translation. I think. No, it's not. Interesting thing to me here is this is not a Second Amendment

2:40:01 right-to-gun case. This is another example of the Supreme Court trying to erode the legitimacy of administrative agencies who are tasked with the job of interpreting statutes. If administrative agencies in the federal government and the executive branch can't interpret statutes, then who's going to interpret the statutes? Nobody. Okay, well I worked for an administrative agency when I was younger for almost a decade, not quite. This was the Chevron deference which says you can, you know, these agencies have all this leeway, was in 1984. I worked there before that, even got through. How were they operating? How were they operating before 1984? According to him, it can't be done.

2:40:51 I would like to remind everybody that it was Trump, during the Trump administration, that the bump stocks were banned after the Vegas shooting, which was blatantly not a bump stock, which fires rounds much faster than the belt-fed machine gun that was obviously used. I mean, we remember we were dissecting the sound. We went over this to an extreme. Everything. So, um... That whole was the fishiest thing. They never really solved it. The guy who was a gun dealer was supposedly doing it and he was dead somehow. The whole thing, that whole thing was...

2:41:28 I think at the time it came out that Al-Qaeda, not Al-Qaeda but ISIS or somebody along those lines. MBS was roaming around Vegas and some other Saudi prints and those we we do not know the full story. No this story has never been revealed. OK, wrap it up with this guy. So notice that they went right after Clarence Thomas and they're going to do it again, of course. And Thomas, in two opinions on this bump stock and also on the National Labor Relations Board and Starbucks, basically said the administrative agencies had gone beyond their their official realm of power. The Supreme Court doesn't like administrative agencies who would like instead

2:42:13 But either the president or Congress to take more responsibility. Honestly, Heather, this is this. This goes so much beyond an activist Supreme Court. I mean, this is a Supreme Court that is out of control. That bump stock opinion was really in the face of what happened in Las Vegas. Everybody remembers what happened in Las Vegas. How many years ago? Just a few years ago. A few years ago, 60, I think, people killed. 60 people killed. 400 injured. I mean, it was big. Because the- It was big.

2:42:49 The shooter used a gunstock. It's the only thing that we have done as a country. John, the shooter used a gunstock now, not a bump stock, but a gunstock. Oh, that's great. It was big. Because the shooter used a gunstock. It's the only thing that we have done as a country to try to control guns. And we can't even do this with the Supreme Court and Clarence Thomas. I know it. In a weird way, they're kind of tying these two things together. I think this is the clip, because the two things together being the Supreme Court, Chevron deference, and oh my, Trump's going to get rid of the entire administrative state. Oh, what's going to happen? Dr. Gupta, I often talk about the Trump hangover, the fact that even when he is not in power, there are still reminders everywhere of the effect that he had on public opinion, and these

2:43:43 attitudes about vaccines are just one example. Oh, absolutely. You know what we saw pre pandemic to now there's been maybe this is not the clip, but let's listen anyway. 50% increase in the number of parents who thinks pre pandemic to now that routine childhood vaccinations like measles, mumps and rubella should be voluntary. just over the course of the last few years. So the spillover effect is real. Spillover. And we're seeing this death of expertise. Dr. Fauci talked about it a few days ago, the unwillingness to buy into expertise. What does that mean? We've created an unsafe environment for people as they navigate their own healthcare journey, that they're going to rely on supplements, things that are not FDA approved because they don't believe in the FDA, whatever it may be. So now we have a bunch of individuals who are willing to take their own healthcare decisions

2:44:26 leveraging the internet or leveraging their favorite podcast host. And that's not where expertise is found. There's no expertise here. Let's be very clear. Neither John C. DeVore or Adam Curry claim to have any expertise in anything. You might have lived through the pandemic, but we don't know anything or we know nothing. Yeah, it wasn't that it didn't quite connect the way I wanted it to. No, but it was still entertaining. And it's interesting because what it did point out is that there's a number of these podcasts, gal guy podcasts, where the woman throws these softballs to the guy and he goes on and pontificates and then she's agreeing. If you listen to the other one with Reich, oh yeah, blah, blah, blah. Oh, sexy. Oh yeah, gun stocks. Oh yeah. Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. That's actually how I envisioned this show, that you would just do that with me, but it turned out so different.

2:45:21 Yeah, well, it's hard for me to go, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. In fact, I agree with you two or three times today. I know it's already hard. Yeah. So what am I going to do? Fauci's out with a book and he's doing the rounds. Yeah, it's great. I did nothing. Which puts him, kind of puts him in play for bird flu, although there wasn't a lot of bird flu happening the past few days. So we're kind of in limbo there. And I have several different pieces, but I think the one that is most... because he was on... basically did big CBS interviews with Gale. Actually, I'll play one clip from Gale because that was kind of interesting.

2:46:05 It's almost like he's giving Trump a pass while taking credit for it. I read your book over the weekend and I love how you started it. First of all, that's a lie. We know he didn't read that. You're too busy pounding Ozempic with Oprah. I read your book over the weekend and I love how you started it with Albert Bourla of Pfizer calling you to say, Tony, I think we have a vaccine and I think it works. You said you literally sort of bought it. That can't be. Yes. Borla Callaway ring ring, hey, it's these boys. Fauci, Fauci, Fauci. Fauci, yeah, I think we got a vaccine, I think it works. It was already patented before the whole thing took place. This was a scam, this interview. It's ridiculous. You said you literally sort of broke down and had a very emotional moment because you didn't think this would be possible that quickly. No, I did not. I mean, this is historic in what was accomplished.

2:47:02 11 months, if this were 10-15 years ago, this would have taken years and years. But the combination of the exquisite science that was put in both for the mRNA as well as for the actual immunogen or the business end of the vaccine, was just amazing. Because you were talking about you're on the front lines of AIDS and at the time Bill Clinton said hopefully we'll have a vaccine in 10 years and as you point out we still don't have an AIDS vaccine but yet we have this for COVID. Yeah it was an amazing scientific accomplishment and also the amount of effort that was put in with Operation Warp Speed to get millions and millions of doses made before we even knew it worked.

2:47:44 That was very, very helpful in getting it done so quickly. How about that? Isn't that interesting? Why would he be out there saying these things? They can blame everything on Trump. They can make the Republicans hate Trump. And now he's basically saying, yeah, I did that. I took the call. I made it happen. There's something going on in the background. It also could be part of the Trump, getting Trump in. There was kind of a funny two-parter, very short. about Trump versus Biden. You spoke about your relationship and write about your complicated relationship with former President Donald Trump. He could possibly be our president again. Given that you know him personally,

2:48:28 From a public health perspective, do you believe he is fit to lead us? Good, interesting question. Is he fit to lead us? If he is elected president. You know, I don't want to get into what's fit or not. I want to stay on the health perspective. From a health standpoint, he missed opportunities to use the bully pulpit of the presidency to tell people to do things that would keep them safe. Well, how about Biden? But what about Biden? Do you believe he is fit to lead us for the next? Oh, absolutely. You know, absolutely. Because the first thing he did when I became his chief medical advisor, we had a conversation literally the first day saying we want to go with the evidence and the truth. And if we make a mistake, we correct it. But we've got to be honest with what's going on. Yeah, that was his first words to me.

2:49:18 Oh, brother. Alright, I'm gonna give you three more. They're short. Well, the first one's over a minute, but the other ones are very short. I know I'm breaking all the rules. I'm sorry. But sometimes, you know, you just gotta prove there's a rule by making an exception to it. Rachel Maddow with Fauci. It did seem the way that you described it, that President Trump didn't understand some of the basics about the flu and that it's a different virus than COVID. He said to you that he didn't see why he would have to get a flu shot if he didn't have the flu. He didn't understand that it was preventative and not treatment. That's true. He also said at NIH, why can't we just use the flu vaccine to prevent COVID? Right. Do you think he does not know what a vaccine is? I think now he, you know, after all of the things we've told him,

2:50:03 The thing that I think underlies this, Rachel, is that he wanted it so much to be like the flu because historically the flu peaks and it goes away in March. And it wasn't there at all during COVID. April is gone and then you could go on with the election cycle. It has a season. But it wasn't doing that. It wasn't going away. Notice how he slips in the election season there for just That was very interesting. I hadn't heard that before. I'm going to roll that back. Blue peaks, and it goes away in March. April is gone, and then you could go on with the election cycle. It has a season. Then you can go on with the election cycle. How about that? But it wasn't doing that. It wasn't going away. No! He kept on saying it's going to disappear like magic, and that's when I had to start saying, no, I'm sorry, but that's not going to happen. And I had to do that publicly. And then when that didn't work,

2:50:57 He started invoking magical cures like hydroxychloroquine. And then when it became clear that wasn't working, he brought in Scott Atlas who told him everything he wanted to hear. And it was just wanting so much for it to go away and figuring out if it wasn't going to go away naturally, I'm going to act like it's going to go away. Well, that's not the way I remember it. But let's drill down on... I don't remember that either. This is bull crap. Let's drill down on hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, shall we? Was it dangerous for him to promote hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin and those other cures, well, supposed cures that don't actually treat COVID? Stop, stop. When did Trump ever promote ivermectin? I think he did.

2:51:45 I don't think he did. He brought hydroxychloroquine into the conversation. That's the main thing he brought in. He said, I've heard good things, he said, and it was brought in by somebody else. He said it and then he was beaten to death with it by every left winger. And he never mentioned ivermectin. I don't think you can find it. Possibly later. No, I'm not finding a single ivermectin clip even. How about that? How about hydroxy? Yeah, hydroxychloroquine. Ivermectin came into the picture way later. Yeah, a lot about hydroxychloroquine but nothing about... we don't have any clips of Trump that I can find talking about Ivermectin. That's interesting.

2:52:26 So let's just make it up. Let's just say he said it because that's what Matt, Matt, I'll just say, you know, bring it in because you still have to slam Ivermectin because it's just a cheap cure for a lot of stuff. Supposed cure, supposed cure, supposed cure. Yeah. I mean, obviously it is. I mean, I don't want to get into how many numbers of people would have made the difference, but clearly. Oh, it would have made a difference to somebody. He missed an opportunity because there were people out there who knew nothing about this, who were saying hydroxychloroquine works and we know that not only does it not, but it actually hurts people. He could have used the bully pulpit of the presidency to say, hey, listen to the scientists, but he didn't do that. I also don't recall that hydroxychloroquine hurts people, but okay. No, there was a ton of studies about it and it was pretty harmless.

2:53:22 And I've remit even more, I mean there's millions of cases, doses of this stuff out there. And then the final clip, Rachel does me a solid, takes us right back to 2020. In terms of the vaccine development that did happen in this country that you described as being almost miraculous in terms of the pace going from, in 11 months from the identification of the pathogen to a safe and effective and deployable virus. Obviously that's something that the United States of America contributed to the world's response and has a lot to be proud of and you have a lot to be proud of. That's right, Rachel. A safe and effective deployable virus. Right on. Nailed it. Thank you. I miss clips like that. It's unbelievable. It's unbelievable. All right, so Fauci takes all the credit for getting a safe and deployable virus out there within 11 months.

2:54:23 I don't know, this, this, you're right, there's some background going on here that is, that is weird. Why would he even want to have a book out? You're retired, take your millions, go away. Yeah, it's not like, like he's a pauper. Pauper? Pauper, you know, a pauper, a poor person. Oh, a pauper. P-A-U-P-E-R. Yes, a pauper, a pauper. A pauper. It's pauper. A pauper. A pauper. It's my Dutch. A pauper. A pauper. Alright, anything else you got to rep? You played a clip where she made a bunch. I do have a jill bite in making this. You have to listen very carefully what she says, but it's a gaffe.

2:55:05 Biden-esque gaffe again runs in the family I guess and here we go. This election is most certainly not about age. Joe and that other guy are essentially the same age. Let's not be fooled. Joe isn't one of the most effective presidents of our lives in spite of his age but because of it. He isn't one of the most effective. Because of his age. That's dynamite. Thank you, Jill. You're right. Earlier we thanked our executive and associate executive producers for episode 1670. We're very grateful for The Strong, although just from a few that came in. Of course we are

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2:58:50 Nice. Sir Rick in Arlington, Washington, $69.96. Ulrich Horkins in Wiener Neustadt, Austria, $666. And he wants his job screen. We got birthday wishes. I don't know if the birthday girl's on there, because it's not yellow. But check out Spanish girlfriend Eva, who turns 47 on the 21st. Abelson Dos Santos, Luanda, Oh, where's Luanda AO? AO? Luanda AO? AO. It's an African country, I think. 6425. Hmm. I don't know AO. AO? AO. Sir Richard... This is a good, interesting list of characters here today. Yes, definitely. Sir Richard Hufford in Tempe, Arizona. 6425. Did you check the birthday? I'm still working on it. 6425. We love our No Agenda Nation.

2:59:51 over 3K, he makes him a baron, he's on the list for an upgrade. Rachel Midwife Rising in Phoenix, 6425. Sir Digi in Indianapolis, Indiana, 6425. Sir Becoming Heroic in Sherrville, Indiana, 6190, which is a... That 6190 and 6425 are the Juneteenth donations. Robert Rose in Cedar City, Utah, $61.90. And he's gonna send checks in from now on, he says. Sir Kevin O'Brien in Chicago, Illinois, $6.06. Stephen Banstra, Baron of BNAs, $59.93. Matthew Martell, $58.56. And he's actually martellhardware.com. Use code Bongino, $33.

3:00:49 I wonder when Bongino's gonna find out. He's like, man, I'm really killing it with the codes these with this week. I mean, I'm just I'm getting loads of Bennies here because you know, whenever you use code Bongino, you get a discount, but Bongino gets money. Well, assuming that I think he's not getting money because I'm sure he's Martel Hardware's not paying him. He doesn't have Code Bongino. Code Bongino seems to work everywhere. Yeah, that's what somebody wrote in us and gave us the hint. That's like a tip of the day. Use Code Bongino. You'll be making money. That is not the tip of the day. Dylan Lang in Chilliwack, BC, 5693.

3:01:35 James Moore in San Pablo, California. Sir, I have the street for me, 55-55. Dean Roker, 55-10. Heather Reitmeyer in Green Bay, Wisconsin. A birthday call out to her sister, Haley, 50-50. And she's 50, curiously. Lady Vox in Ketchikan, Alaska, 50-13. This is a switcheroo for my son, Axe, A-X-E, in honor of his 13th birthday. Like it or not, you guys are examples to our boys who are becoming men. Huh? We're examples. So speak like the weight of the next generation rests on your shoulders. That's right. Okay, well, that's exactly the way we feel. Peter Odo in Ridge, New York, 50. Oh, these are all $50 donors. We're there already.

3:02:31 Luke Olson in Alexandria, Virginia. Scott Lavender in Montgomery, Texas. Corey Bennett in Denver, Colorado. Gadget Freak 10 in Western Springs, Illinois. Andrew Gusik in Greensboro, North Carolina. Matt Illingworth in Montclair, New Jersey. And last on our very short list, Sir Babaluchi in Vinemont, Alabama. That concludes our short list of donors and producers for show. 1670 and again go up a little bit. Yes, and again. Thank you. Remember it's value for value We have no advertisers you heard why throughout this program throughout this episode time talent treasure We accept it all whatever value you get out of the show put it back into it to keep us going keep us on the air There's many ways you can do it go to no agenda donations calm to find out more or Dvorak org slash na and here's a karma for those who requested it you've got

3:03:28 karma no agenda donations dot com yeah we got to billy jones the fourth or turn five on june 15th a bladed one but happy birthday He got a nice jeep truck to drive around in, a little battery-powered thing that goes 35 miles an hour. Now that's parents! Marjorie Reeves, it looks like she became a brand new citizen of Gitmo Nation today, as her dad sent in a note saying, she's coming, she's coming, put her on the list! So welcome to Gitmo Nation, Marjorie Reeves. Lady Vox wishes her son Axe a happy birthday.

3:04:07 He turns 13 today. Ulrich Herkens, happy birthday to his smoking hot Spanish girlfriend Eva who turns 47 on the 21st. Jareen Faust wishes her smoking hot husband Blaine Brenning, Brining, a happy birthday. He'll be celebrating on the 22nd. Duchess Kim wishes her dad John a happy one, turns 65 on the 26th. And Heather Reitmeyer wishes her sister Haley a happy one. She is turning 50 years old. Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe. Changing Yeah, non-douchebag Sir Richard Huffer. He has completed his next round in the peerage ladder. He is climbing up to Baron. We got a lot of Barons now. It's good to see that. Thank you Sir Richard Huffer. We do. We're baroned up. We're baroned up. We got more Barons than the United Kingdom and the entire English Empire, British Empire.

3:05:07 Yes, sir II two nights get out your blade. Let's bring these boys up here here you go nice That's actually my favorite one with the pearl handle Sebastian the sticker and John hop on Hop on up here boys, you're about to become knights of the Noah Jenner Round Table thanks to your support either directly or from others of $1,000 or more and I'm very proud to pronounce the KD as Knight of the Dutch Spirit Grounds and sure pop pop of the pocket protectors and keeper of 15 grand babies. For you gentlemen we have Hookers and Blow, Rent Boys and Chardonnay, Patron

3:05:43 platinum and tomahawk steaks along with that cowgirls and coffin varnish bong hits and bourbon sparkling cider and escorts geishas and sake ginger ale and gerbils breast milk and pablo more of course what everybody loves here at the round table the mutton and the mead head on over to noagenderrings.com there you can take a look at those beautiful night and dame rings they are signet rings you can seal your important correspondence with them with sealing wax which you also happen to provide along with a certificate of authenticity signed by John and myself welcome gentlemen to the roundtable thank you for your support of the no agenda show Of course I was here for one of the big meetups in Amsterdam, the No Agenda Amsterdam crew, which was fantastic. A lot of people came from outside of Amsterdam. Of course, everybody's emailing me now. It's nice to have some correspondence if I can get through it all. Thank you all for coming. We have no other reports. We do have a meetup taking place today, the Tucson Summer Salsa Soiree.

3:06:44 which is underway now I think at Canyons Crown in Tucson, Arizona. The North Georgia Monthly Meetup, six o'clock, Cherry Street Brewing, Alpharetta, Georgia. The Denver Summer Salsa Strawberry Moon Meetup will be at 6.30 today in the City Park Denver Museum of Nature and Science in Denver, Colorado. Charlotte's Thirsty Third Thursday, seven o'clock at Ed's Tavern, right after the show. Head over there in Charlotte, North Carolina. Tomorrow, the Central Ohio Post Father's Day Meetup in June, kicking off at 5.30. Oh, this is a secret location. You got to contact Sir Leary for the information. Go to noagentandmeetups.com for that. Saturday, the Fort Wayne Barbecue and Brew Club 33 meet up at 1 o'clock in Shiggs in Pitt.

3:07:25 Got it. It's the Shiggs and Pitt Barbecue and Brew in Fort Wayne, Indiana. That should be a good one. On Saturday, the I did that Seattle meetup, 2 p.m., and you need to go to Edmunds, Washington. I believe the website, noagenda, meetups.com has more details. The tiny amygdala of Anchorage. Unite! Two o'clock Alaska time. Sir Lane's house in Anchorage, Alaska. Oh, I'd love to go to that. I'll bet that's fun. Alaska is great to go. Another Gitmo Nation's lowland. This is the Happywood near the KUT meetup on Sunday, our next show day, one o'clock Central European time in Tilburg, Brabant, Noord-Brabant, the Netherlands. Sir Hendrik organizing that.

3:08:10 We have the South Florida Margarita Meetup at 2.30 in Lenora's Alton Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. This is all Sunday, by the way. The IndyNA Proud Tribal Meetup, Blind Owl Brewery. Who doesn't know it? Mark and Maria of the Greenwood organized that. It's always big, it's always great. We get a beautiful report. That'll be on Sunday. and the Kansas City Meetup, some like it Hot Edition, 333 at Variety, KC Playground at Wyandotte, Wyandotte, Wyandotte, Wyandotte, Connie Park, Bonner Springs, Kansas. And finally, The International Candanavian Finland Summit makes nothing but sense. Six o'clock in Helsinki at Stones in Helsinki, Finland. Hey, send some meetup reports, people. We love hearing them. I'll even edit out some of the ums and the ahs and the dumb stuff. I'm happy to do it. We love hearing from you because these meetups, they really mean a lot. They mean a lot to your fellow No Agenda Gitmo Nation citizens.

3:09:07 You learn a lot, you converse a lot, anybody can go. Even if you're shy, the No Agenda Meetup is for you. You're outlandish, you're outspoken, the No Agenda Meetup is for you. It's always a good time. Connection is protection. You will not regret it. Noagendameetups.com. Go there to find out if there's one near you. If you can't find one, start one yourself. Sometimes you wanna go hang out with all the nights and days. Let me see, I got some ISOs. Let's see, I have... I actually have more than I thought. I have... four ISOs. I'm gonna go first. Yes. Ready? Yeah. I find this all fairly confusing. It's a good one. It's okay, it's okay.

3:10:13 It's all a bunch of hogwash. That's a good one too. It's not bad. Yeah, not bad. Hillary Clinton. Okay, since we talked about it. You didn't like that one? No. Oh, okay. Then I have my final, which I think is a winner. Now that's hot. There you go. I actually like the second one the most, not that last one. I have a kind of a one that's a perfect end of show. Okay, let me see. You only have one. Up. Yeah, okay. I'll play it. Bye bye. You're always doing those. It's like, it's always bye bye. Bye. Bye. Bye bye. Yeah, well, that's the end of the show, but I will say that second one that you have. Yeah. You want to hear it? Play it again. It's all a bunch of hogwash.

3:11:06 I think it's a good one. Thank you. It's from C-SPAN, by the way. C-SPAN Original. That's the kind of people they have listening over there. That's it. Our ISO is set. Now can I mention something before you do the tip of the day? What, a competitive tip? Well, I have a tip, but I have to say that I was excoriated for bringing a boomer tip to my friends. What was the boomer tip? Your tip of the week. Which was what? The AliExpress. Oh yeah, a lot of people. Mimi gave me grief and so did Brunetti. Everybody gave me, I said,

3:11:53 I said to Tina, hey, Ali Express says, oh, this is great. She talked to my stepdaughter in New York. She's like, oh yeah, four years ago, boomer. Like, thanks, John. Thanks a lot. Hey, it was new to me. What am I supposed to say? I mean, everybody laughed at me. Christina, remember after the show, I was like, oh, it's in Dutch. Mimi said, why don't you plug Teemu that's what everyone said team who is even newer than Aliexpress so your tip of the week is is You're on probation. Oh, please You're on probation What's your now? We know he's trying to sink the tip of the day. No. I love the tip is the one I get This is a tip. I'm gonna give this tip is a product tip. Oh

3:12:45 Again, it's a product that's been there. It's been out a while and you used it recently. I got you to use it because you're having trouble with your machine. It's called the Glarry Utilities. It's free. It's out there. It's available. People should download it and use it. You can also get an upgraded version, but you don't need to. It does all kinds of cool stuff. It's called G-L-A-R-Y Utilities. Google it. Duck, duck, go it. Bing it. Bing it. You'll find it. Bing it. I would use it. It's a great product. So I was thinking about... You yourself said that it sped up your machine. It did. It did. Now the Glary product is an outstanding product. Although when it said, you know,

3:13:34 Because you said, oh, you should defrag your drive. And the glary was giving me like, oh, do you really want it? This is an SSD drive. Do you really want to? This could decrease the lifespan of your drive. Yeah. Well, in the olden days, it would. But today's SSDs aren't built with the same memory technology. Well, their warning was kind of freaking me out. I'm just saying. Well, the problem with SSDs, we might as well bring it up. There we go. Is that they, especially the early ones, the early old ones had a limited lifespan because you could only read, write, read, write to the same cells X number of times. It was very low. In fact, the numbers were so low in the early days. How low? That nobody would use an SSD. But since then, they're just as reliable long-term as a magnetic drive. So I,

3:14:25 They're just worried that you maybe have an old piece of crap SSD and you know, just give you a little warning there because it does have to do a lot of work. It's doing a lot of reading and writing and moving stuff around. So yeah. So after I did that, being a Windows user on the studio machine for software reasons, the only software that I really like is Windows only. Please don't tell me to run it under Wine, under Linux. Please stop. It doesn't work. I actually went into the settings. I found a tip. I went into settings. This is an amazing one for Windows, because stuff was kind of slowing down. It's not a very powerful machine. It's a Bumblebee. What is that thing?

3:15:06 What's the Bumblebee? What is it called? The B-Link. B-Link. Yeah, the Bumblebee link. It does have, it has eight gigs of memory, but it's not very powerful, particularly if you have multiple programs. No, they're useful as utility machines. Yeah, and it really doesn't have to do much, but it's kind of pushing it. And so I went into settings, advanced settings, and there's actually a little button you can toggle off all of that fancy stuff. like shading and predetermined, you're making images in your Explorer window and animations when you minimize something. Man, you turn that off, the machine screams. It screams, I tell you. It would scream if you put Linux on it too. Yeah, that's right. And run anything under Wine. There's your tip. Run everything under Wine and Linux. All right.

3:16:00 Thanks jingle makers you're getting better. You're definitely getting better Love it. All right. That is our broadcast day for today coming up next we've got What do we have on the stream? complex candor limited to Liberty to duties and freedom others Dame Lady Vox Alright, Dame Lady Vox always has cool stuff. Yeah, she wishes her son Axe a birthday. That's right. Axe. End of show mixes. End of daughter hatchet. End of show mixes. We have the one and only Clipper Stoddy and Neil Jones had time to do it amidst all of the other things he's working on. And Professor Jay Jones

3:16:54 Not related, he's in China. Both of them coming in with end of show mixes. And this concludes our broadcast. They'll be back in Texas tomorrow and hopefully the show from the Hill Country coming to you now from 11 feet below sea level. Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where I'm 350 feet above sea level, I'm John C. DuBois. We return on Sunday right here on No Agenda. Remember us at noagendadonations.com. Until then, adios mofos, a hooey hooey and such. We're going to begin this hour with the latest on a dangerous bird flu and concerns that the virus has the potential to become, here you go, the P word, pandemic.

3:17:38 Yikes But if you do get one of those Frankenstein flus where you have a combination of a bird flu and a human flu... Here we go again. I don't want to feel here we go again. Can't get it. Yikes. Here we go again.

3:18:24 Exit strategy! Four more years! Exit strategy! Four more years! Makes me want to throw my hands in the air. Let me throw your hands in the air. And Google, I just don't care. If you get a note, tell you to vote. Let the algo say, oh yeah. It's much worse than you think. Google sends out a reminder at a rate two and a half times greater to Democrats. We have no idea how bad it was here during the COVID lockdowns. Cheery and happy and bright. The situation is even worse than you thought it was. Let's kill more Ukrainians. We would condemn humanity to a future without hope. They would make Mengele blush. 500 million people are hitting Google.

3:19:20 Daily. All looking for AOC porn videos. Yes. Oh girl, baby girl. How bad is it? Don't even play. Probably somewhere between 25 and 50 percent mortalities. It adds up. Get worried. Get worried. The U.S. military is prohibited from targeting Americans with propaganda. That's true. But here's the scary part. Franken-flu? Hold on a second. Mail-in ballots, mask up, flatten the curve. Bird flu pandemic. We need no agenda shop with some t-shirts and hoodies and stuff. I'm not putting a mask on, I'm not gonna do that, no way. Is the bird flu in the air?

3:19:59 Unvaxxed just don't care. Mask up? But if you believe, roll up your sleeve while the Fauci screams, oh yeah! Just say it's bullcrap. Bird flu question mark, yo mama. That's not a great question. COVID disinformation. And then at some point they're going to send out partisan mail-in-your-ballot reminders. And at some point they're going to send out partisan go-vote reminders. And middle management is fat. Google has made that information disappear. You couldn't go anywhere without a QR code. Best podcast in the universe! Mopo. Dvorak.org slash N-A. It's all a bunch of hogwash.