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00:00 Yeah, he bled like a little sissy. Adam Curry, John C. DeVora It's Thursday February 27th 2025 This is your world winning giveaway nation media assassination episode 1742! This is no agenda Cause the chaotic end Broadcast live from the heart of Texas, your country here in FEMA region number 6 In The Morning everybody I'm Adam Curry And from Northern Silicon Valley Where you want to remind all the kids, don't eat dead bats. I'm John C. Borak.

00:38 I don't have an audio now. I think i have the report hold on a second yes it's the mysterious virus in the Congo more than 50 people have died in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo because of a mystery virus according to health experts from Bikoro Hospital, a regional monitoring center resemble those linked to deadly viruses such as Ebola and dengue. The outbreak started at the end of January... Stop! Stop the clip! It actually should be Ebola and Marburg That's a hemorrhagic nut. Well, dengue is kind of but it really hard to get to that point I don't know It shouldn't be any of this! This is a bull crap report We know its a bull crap report But at least put Marburg in Its a little scarier than dengue The outbreak started the end January The virus was first discovered In three children who ate a bat No! More than 400 cases have been recorded so far

01:38 This is the most racist thing you can... this is so racist. It's like, yes the little African kids are so they're so hungry they're walking around naked You know these dumb African kids and see a dead bat and like any other child would immediately go eat it I mean come on! Kids won't even eat vegetables Now who's racist now? You don't know about the African diet They eat dead bat by the side of the road. Oh no Jimmy, let's go eat the dead bat! Instead going yuck and running away like a kid would I want to meet those kids

02:17 I want an interview with them. Don't just give me that story, give me the background! I want these kids going well you know we saw the bat and we said haven't had food in five days so i think we'll eat the bat And it looks so tasty this dead bat We need more information on this. We can't just take this at face value That's no good Hey, I'm gonna sum up The Week's M5M because as Noted on this program for probably all of our 17 plus years, the media likes to glom onto one certain phrase and repeat it over and over ad nauseum. And here is this week's phrase. Tonight confusion and chaos is spreading within a number of agencies across the federal government. Tonight chaos and confusion across the federal government This morning chaos and confusion across the federal government This morning there's more chaos and confusion within the federal government We have been reporting on

03:11 chaos and confusion. Chaos and confusion has already broken out other than his mega cult nobody wants this chaos and confusion how do you see this chaos in and confusion ending? There is a lot of confusion lots of chaos, of course it's creating chaos and confusion the musk inspired chaos and confusion in the federal government sows the seeds more chaos and more confusion and more disillusionment Oh, chaos and confusion. That's what it is! Yeah I'm glad you got that because i had a supercut but it was mostly chaos chaos chaos now but chaos and confusion... that's the combo. And alliteration is great in broadcasts They always like to do the one-two punch you know safe and effective

03:57 Chaos and confusion. Now if you want to know the source of the chaos and confusion, I am so happy that this man is back on the no agenda scene he's back on our radar He is an end-of-show mix in the making! I present to you the man who can tell you exactly why we have chaos and confusion The one, the only running for mayor Reverend Manning Elon Musk, the richest man in the world gave transgender tribulation Trump 280 million dollars to his campaign. That's what he gave on the top of the table and now he owns Trump That's right, he owns Trump. Whatever he tells Trump to do, Trump jumps when Elon Musk said jump, Trump, Trump jumps when Elon Musk says romp, trump, jump, romp, chomp, trump, chomp When Elon Musk say hey Chomp, Trump Jump! Hey Chomp, Trump JUMP! JUMP! Trump, Chomp, CHOMP TRUMP! Jump, Jump, Jump, Jump Hey Trump, Hey Chomp, Hey Trump, Hey Chomp, Hey Chomp

05:01 Trump, hey Trump! Hey, hey, hey Trump! Hey Trump! Jump, jump, jump. Jump, jump, jump. Trump, jump, jump, jump. What Elon Musk said? Trump got the jump." Man that guy is so good. It's so good to have him back. For some reason he's always been a Trump-hater you know he had hated him during the first go around And he never was... we never got anything from him during the Biden era. He hated Obama to an extreme, and then he hated Trump but he never really hated on Biden so much. At least we never picked up on it

05:40 I always found that peculiar. Well, he's running for mayor in New York City which is great. It will be definitely entertaining it is great and I guess Cuomo the old Cuomo guy is gonna run too Oh yeah he looks like he's been on the O man he's been Mario? Yeah he looks like a bit of ozempic face and body He's deflated It's quite interesting. Huh, yeah it is smaller than it used to be I have bad news although in a way Can I guess the bad news? You'll never guess They're not gonna bring out the Epstein stuff that Pam Bondi promised yesterday on The Jesse Watters Show. I saw, actually heard her promise that. I was driving back from Dallas listening to my Sirius XM receiver and I heard her say, oh Jesse! Oh it's coming out we're going to release it tomorrow. It's so bad. We'll see

06:34 Supposed to be today, I'm waiting. No, no she said tomorrow and that was yesterday so it's supposed to be today But tomorrow never comes John And Friday is Zelensky day He's on the plane! I saw a video of him getting on the plane and right now Keir Starmer is sitting in the Oval Office He's sitting, you know doing one of those press things where they all yell at Trump about China and other things and tariffs and blah blah blah. You said Europe was built to screw us? And Keir Starmer looks like he is going to puke! His eyes are all wide, he looks frightened

07:14 It's really something to behold. There was, I was watching some of the Fox coverage because i think it's probably better news generally speaking but when they do news... It's not as funny! They talk about Starmer and nobody seems that none of these especially the analysts nobody seems to want to mention the fact that Starmer is the guy as the head of the Labour Party who sent a bunch of operatives over to the United States to campaign for Kamala Harris and nobody wants to discuss that fact that could be souring the relationship between the United States and UK. Well why would they do that? That's not funny!

07:53 That's not funny. We have to be hair on fire." Okay, so I had four and a half hours in the car and I listened as much to CNN as I could, as much MSNBC as I could. And you know, Frau Ingraham was at Gitmo that was super boring to listen too but the spin-up is just out of control. Here's the bad news... So like many Americans we have liberals in our families And one of our liberal family members is so spun up and just completely, it's not working. Going all out of control about Trumps gonna cut Medicare, Trumps gonna cut Social Security It's gonna hurt everybody, it's going to hurt me I won't have any medical... Just on... By the way, Trump

08:47 Can't do any of that only Congress can do it knowing that but Trump specifically said he's not going to know But you know, this is what the media and so my question was where are you getting this from? Well I know that you're getting others. You know, it's respectful by the way This is the good news about our family as you know Everybody can give their opinion and no and everyone still loves each other That's quite spectacular honestly Oh, maybe. So far! Yeah because we're hanging on by a thread I said where are you getting this from? Well I listen to big platforms like... What do you think? Well it'd be the New York Times MSNBC No no CNN No Deutsche Welle No Big platforms uh i don't know how much bigger i can get Midas Touch

09:38 Oh, really? And they think that's a big platform. Well if you look on YouTube every episode has over 1 million views and they do 15 a day and each episode is about 15-16 minutes They are really flooding the zone and it's working Well, that's the way you do it. And you get the news like they dethroned... I mean that whole psyop was perfect It's like tell everybody that they've dethroned Joe Rogan and then they tune in and it's just one of the brothers I think they do switch off and they just sit there Every single title is clickbait Trumps losing it out-of-control no grasp Elon's the president it goes on and on and so when it comes to

10:25 pulled up two clips from this horrendous podcast and they're really riling people up, and they're doing a good job. I have to say, because they're complete insiders. You know they had a political action committee for the Democrat Party you know one of them is a lawyer the other one is Colin Kaepernick's business partner these are not just some bros from Brooklyn they've been on the inside and it's better than what does that stupid show Pod Save America? I think they've completely taken those Because Pod Save America was all hate Republicans, hate Trump. All stupid but they were kind of hoity-toity for like the New York elite set, the Washington elites because they were also former Obama speech writers and they got into kinda weeds of political process

11:19 They just come out and go blah, blah, blah. And anything Trump does is dumb. And so this is a clip I heard last night on my way home. This country has gotten bloated and fat and disgusting and incompetently run. Mirror mirror on the wall That was Donald Trump apparently talking about himself during his first cabinet meeting of his new term. Donald Trump was joined by his puppet master Elon Musk, who led much of the meeting which was completely bizarre full of lies and at times Donald Trump didn't even seem to acknowledge that he is actually the president. Are you kind of starting to get what they're doing here? This is Rachel Maddow to an extreme without the smug dumb pauses of Rachel Maddow

12:00 I have to say, they're doing a good job here. My name is Brett Micellas with Midas Touch. I'm going to walk you through the lowlights and fact check it all but first remember to hit subscribe- And check it all! To help us get 5 million subscribers The meeting began with a prayer where they thanked God for President Trump just completely bizarre stuff Completely bizarre they're praying in the cabinet meeting It's no good Watch this Father we thank You For this awesome privilege father to be in Your presence God, thank you that you've allowed us to see this day. The Bible says it's your mercy is anew every morning and father god will give you the glory in honor. Thank you god for president Trump father for appointing us father god thank you for anointing us to do this job." Trump then didn't even seem to know that he is president right now when he said that while egg prices are a disaster and are really high now they were low with him?

12:55 The secretary of agriculture is going to be showing you a chart that's actually mind boggling what's happened, how low they were with us and how high they are now. So all this questioning lead ins like well, of course they were lower than didn't have bird flu when he was president the first time but then everything is with this interesting slant and it's working. It's just working It's, I have to say they are spinning people up and they're doing a better job than any of those mainstream outlets you mentioned. Particularly because it's non-stop barrage and so the bad news is now i'm gonna have to follow these jimokes. Now i'm going to listen with this human. Good! I am glad that your going to do it because I can't stand listening to them They're also riling everybody about the backlash, the Doge backlash

13:43 So yeah, there's backlash by people who are spun up. It's I'm pretty sure it's by them Yes, well listen to it You'll get the idea of how they're doing this and then oh, I don't have any more of them today But I'm gonna have to have at least one each show Let me just show you a longer clip from that town hall And then I want to show you that from Wisconsin To Georgia to New York to the West Coast. People are rising up right now and having their voices heard. Red states, blue states, purple states all of the colors people are angry people are pissed

14:23 people demand action. Watch this right here from that town hall, let's play it. They didn't like some of Scott Fitzgerald answers the end result of the fraud and abuse that has been discovered already. Michael Wittig is concerned with Elon Musk's role in the Trump administration. He held up a sign that read, presidents are not kings. Are you going to subpoena him? You can guess that this guy was not a Republican rising up with the sign like that. Well actually somebody researched this out and discovered it was a left-wing organization of activists there wasn't a Republican in the place

15:01 point but then they were making a fuss as if they were Republicans and you're telling me that Midas touch with all their quote-unquote fact checking that they claim didn't bring this up I'm not gonna claim it. I'm gonna say that's exactly what happened its and I'm saying it with evidence are not Kings Are you going to subpoena him at some point or after you're done with the budget? Or whatever, are you willing to use your subpoena power to act to say Trump is Sorry, Musk. Come in here stand in front of Congress and answer some hard questions. Congressman Fitzgerald insists Musk's efforts to find waste and fraud are working and Congress will eventually have budget oversight. So now I want to share with you what was going down in New York. Representative Paul Tonko is a congressional district Democrat. Paul Tonko here at this town hall

15:49 huge to do more, to work harder. Even if that means getting arrested for civil disobedience. If you're in public service right now, you cannot sit idly by as Elon Musk and these billionaires take Take away all of people's rights and freedoms. Watch the energy in this room, in New York play this clip.

16:46 In your own family circle that have been gas lit by these guys and they're all spun up. So I'll just read you some titles Just to summarize on your behalf Trump morning disaster, major SCOTUS order Release the files! Whoa Canada! A mic drop He's freaking out Fatal move Donald Stay the hell out Donald Total loser move Show me the evidence Whoa it's happening These are the titles and they've already released one, two three four five six seven eight They've already at least 8 so far today And we're not even at 130. And each one has up to well takes about 6 hours and they get up to about 1 million views Not all of them but The majority of them So their doing...and that's just YouTube So there doing it right It's working! The should get a medal

17:40 from uh... they'll get a medal alright. Oh yeah, some precious medals is what they're getting and they have ads and that probably making movie not movie making money I say making movies because Gene Hackman died Well, he did. Oh yeah? Did you not hear this? No I didn't know. This is an interesting story. So he his wife and the dog were all dead

18:25 And there's no suspected foul play and we don't have a gas leak. Yeah, I'm thinking carbon monoxide absolutely That's what I'm thinking he's 95 you don't need a lot of car but she was only 65 I think she wasn't all that old and the dog You know the dog being dead and there's no mention of guns and explosions and poison pills anywhere if the dog is also Dead then I'm thinking carbon monoxide But it's just in time to promote the Oscars. That's the good news. Never, never put a... Yeah, you never miss on that. Well it's like the other person that diverses is Trachtenberg actress Who was that? Trachtenberg She was on Buffy and a bunch of other gossip girl and whatever And she was 39 Oh, and Of course the first thing they dug up were tweets of her condemning people for not getting vaxxed

19:24 Oh goodness. Well I do have, might as well play one Oscar clip just to... to get it out of the way because it's this coming Sunday and they're doing everything they can. Let's promote it and let's keep dying on those hills everybody." Activist and writer April Rain is reflecting on the viral moment that turned into a movement, It all started when she was watching the Oscar nominations in 2015. It struck me that category after category there were no people of color nominated for any of the acting 0 for 20 rains viral call for change produced real results at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hashtag Oscars so white. The academy made an effort to diversify its pool of members who get to vote on who should win the Academy Awards, so that people who don't look like me or don't look like you aren't making decisions for

20:21 me without getting my input. That change is noticeable last year 20% of the Academy nominees were from an underrepresented racial or ethnic group that's compared to just 9 percent in 2015 rain says while the academy has improved its on-screen diversity there's more work to be done behind the camera I see more people actors and producers, directors creating their own production companies. You know no longer waiting for their seat at the table but creating their own mansion and putting their table in chair in it." And Rain had this advice for those feeling discriminated and marginalized do not let anyone tell you that you don't belong in the room go and claim your space. Okay so I guess claim your space now. Podcasts are so white! Yeah yeah right

21:12 They are. Well, that's not true because we're gonna see a lot more podcasters of color also known as POCs. We also have Gavin Newsom who has decided instead of governing the state of California he is going to podcast! Yeah... I haven't listened yet. That's gonna be a winner. No the POCs are going to be Joy Reid's podcast Lester Holtz' podcast They're all going to be POCs, Pock-casters. There you go. Pock-casters. I have to write that one down just in case... And remember that it is a podcaster who is now assistant director of the FBI! This isn't outrage

22:01 Bongino. Code Bongino? Yes, I wonder what his code name will be... Bongino! I think i have a clip hold on a second um where is that is it under oh here we go yes over to Pooper yet another prominent MAGA media personality's MAGA media personality Hey everybody, MAGA Media here. Yet another prominent MAGA media personality. I like MAGA Media as a show title by the way. MAGA Media? Okay. Yet another prominent MAGA media personality has been tapped for top role in the Trump administration this time it is podcaster and ex-Secret Service agent Dan Bongino

22:40 podcaster is the first thing you get podcasting's come a long way John I want to credit well we've got a good back when they when they say podcaster they should say created by Adam Curry and this time it is podcaster next see for the agent Dan yeah exactly like Brunetti had brunetti's balls I'd sue him, I tell you.

23:19 Now, we should point out the deputy director oversees the day-to-day operations of the Bureau and typically the roles held by career federal agents which Bungino isn't. A decade or so ago Mr. Bungino appeared on this program a number times giving thoughtful and serious commentary on law enforcement matters. This was him in 2014. Okay, thoughtful! Police departments in general, Anderson. There is a crisis in policing and it's a crisis in training despite what some of the other guests have said I was there! I went through the police academy three times twice with the NYPD once with the Secret Service There is a crisis in training It does not take... Does that mean he didn't pass? That he had to go through it three times? I thought the same exact thing If you had to go... hmmm He didn't make it?! That's interesting I went through the police academy 3 times Twice with the NYPD Once with the Secret Service

24:06 There is a crisis in training. It is not taken seriously in America Well, he was last on this program in March of 2016. In the years since he's grown into an outspoken member of the right wing media sphere and- Right wing media sphere? Bring back MAGA Media! The president often appeared on Fox attacking the Mueller investigation during the first Trump administration And adopted a philosophy that he described as being centered around quote owning the libs Own the libs at every opportunity Online At the election booth In your activism Don't let them up Own the libs. I have one more clip from this pooper escapade. Mr. Bongino gained a lot of traction during COVID. This vaccine never had anything to do with science at all, or not anything to do with COVID either. And it's the COVID vaccine. It did not prevent the spread of COVID if masks work. Why aren't they working? Because the left doesn't care if they work

25:06 President Trump has certainly approved of his questioning the legitimacy of the 2020 election. Donald Trump was calling out basically a flawed election for what it was, a flawed election. As the chief executive of the United States it's his job to question an election if he believes there was corruption that is actual job to go and enforce the laws as president chief executive. When the FBI searched the President home in Morolago classified documents 2022 Bongino went on Fox to condemn the very agency he is now being tasked to help run This is such an interesting state. Folks, the FBI is lost it's broken Irredeemably corrupt at this point The inexcusable raid on President Trump's home was a straw that broke the camel's back fire anyone involved in the raid I don't want to hear any more rank-and-file stuff. I was a rank and file. I saw stuff I didn't like I left It's not hard you swore note to the Constitution That matters

26:01 If you played any role in this raid, you should be gone. That seems like a good thing that you want the guy who sees the corruption to be in there but Anderson Cooper makes it sound like he called them out I can't believe is going to lead them now! Everything's so bizarre Well, I'm gonna go back to the Oscars thing in this black theory. Okay Because the Met Gala is the other Thing happening did I miss it? Did it happen all no No, it's coming Oh, oh yeah, I can still see it when is it what channel Well, I don't know what channel it's gonna be on but the Met Gala is a little more ridiculous than the Oscars and there's...I have a report from PBS and it brings out this new they're gonna emphasize Pac on the Met Gala by promoting what's called well play clip one of this series here. This spring the annual Met Gala in... Did you say cut one? Did you say play cut one?!

27:00 I said clip one, I think. I thought you said cut one like... I don't have a cut! That's that was I was confused. Clip one. Play the first clip. Yes thank you This spring the annual Met Gala in New York City One of the bigger fashion events of the year will highlight the indelible style of black men The Mets 2025 exhibition titled Superfine Tailoring Black Style opens in May and explores the emergence and significance of the black dandy We looked into the rich and complicated historical style, and its relevance today. It's part of our ongoing series Race Matters.

27:38 So this is a little more extreme than the Oscars. This is great! The Black Dandy. So, the Black Dandy and there's... I think it's the second clip here that has or the second cut that has the little gem in here let's play did I this is quite fascinating to me because It's just because what are you guys up to now? Now as you may have noticed, I always have not one but two wardrobe setups in this office. Growing up in New York City Dandy Wellington says he started paying special attention to his appearance at an early age His style inspired by the Harlem Renaissance

28:21 And the name fits his persona. He's a dandy, clothes tailored hats pristine and attitude refined It is a worldwide community so I'll be inspired by people who are in Paris or in LA you know people who are in the Congo there is such a connection to style and also a connection to culture You know, the history of black dandyism and black sartorial style is complicated. It's wrapped up in migration and civil rights. Dandyism was first introduced to Black culture during the transatlantic slave trade. Well-dressed enslaved men were seen as fixtures of wealth for their enslavers but tailored attire and wit also offered a path for Black men to imagine possibility and power from

29:10 From 18th century England to today, it's a way of being that has evolved with the times. The black dandy is a complicated figure throughout history We spoke recently with Washington Post senior critic at large Robin Givhan who has long covered the fashion industry There was this sort of early idea of enslaved black men who were often dressed in fine clothing in order to reflect the status of the enslaver. And you also have Black dandies who sort of played with the idea of gender and really sort of tapped into feminine tropes, taking ownership of their body and of their presence but embellishing it in a way that signifies its value and its strength

30:01 I need to talk to Mo about it. I looked at the Urban Dictionary, black dandy man who takes great care with his clothing general appearance but number two is flamboyant or effeminate male regardless of sexual orientation. I can see where this is a problem but this is the theme for this year? Yes, this is the theme for the Met Gala and This is nothing new. I mean you just I think sometimes it referred to as styling well Madonna Madonna had black dandies in her dancers all throughout the 80s and most of the 90s there you go, and then you have if you watch an NBA game at they always like to throw the camera into the You know they walk into these locker room

30:48 shot, which has become a pretty standard fare I'd say over the last decade. And it's always some of... and it's always out of the whole team there's about two black guys on any team that dress like you know what I would say flamboyantly gay Are you saying my favorite sports ball game is gay? Your sports ball game. It seems so, and so anyway onward with cut three! You can't keep doing this Tell me more about that the idea that the black dandy aesthetic is in some way a form of resistance

31:29 in that it challenges stereotypes about Black identity and Black masculinity. For a lot of dandies, part of their way of dressing is quite emotive and sexual... Emotive? And that breaks definitely some of the cultural expectations of black men but at the same time during the civil rights movement the way that activists dressed was to reflect the degree of respect that they not only had for themselves, but also the respect that they were demanding from society at large.

32:07 For some leaders in the fight for civil rights, how they dressed was a critical part of achieving their agenda. Frederick Douglass was the most photographed man amongst his contemporaries in the 19th century and he dressed up anytime you saw Frederick Douglass he was dressed up Curator Chantrelle P. Lewis is the author of Dandelion, The Black Dandy and Street Style. In the 20th century W.E.B Du Bois was very fixated on fighting racism, fighting oppression through aesthetics. In a time post-Rayvon Martin, post many different incidents of police violence in the US there was like a large mass movement of young black people in urban areas whether they're in the U.S., and the UK and South Africa that began really dressing up for themselves and for their own sense of cultural pride and dignity It's interesting they bring in Frederick Douglass

33:07 You would definitely call him a Republican and a biblical scholar, and W.E. Du Bois... Phoebe it's okay it's just the black dandy. W. E. B. Du Bois is a communist but okay. No but Frederick Douglass was a... Phoebe you're a republican I might have to add Phoebe's are white dog and she just can't handle all the black talk she's very racist Some dogs are. Yeah, so I used to have a dog that was literally racist You did? yeah I believe you you don't even have to explain i believe ya like Elon's kid Hey shh it's okay It's just the black dandy Anyway okay So yeah I know lots of black men who like to dress up but they dress up in you know their Timberlands and you know

34:03 well, very well ironed shirts. You know even if it's a sports team it's yeah they look impeccable when I went to school in my three months at my alma mater Salem College My roommate Ty from Trenton New Jersey he showed me how to wash my clothes He says what are you doing? I said washing clothes and no son any tea got me of my own tide You want this Got me mown tied show me how to iron. So yeah, I don't understand what why is this now? The the theme for the Met Gala doesn't everybody dress up nice for the gala I would guess they do now I was going to We have one more clip left and I'm not gonna use I Have to mention something though just cuz you because they did that cut thing And he told me to stop

34:57 Jesse waters on his show I think two or three shows ago opened the show by calling the show It's it's Jesse waters prime time and he stupidly called it. Jesse waters world, which is old Oh, yeah waters worlds And so Kevin McCarthy was one of the guests, and he kept giving Waters grief throughout the interview. He says well I'm glad to be on Water's World! Wow! And then he gave him grief at the end saying well it was good because i haven't been on Water's World for a while and I'm thinking what kind of relationship do these two have? You know? It's always like McCarthy is on Water Show all the time yeah

35:40 I don't know. It's very interesting. All I heard was Waters saying to Pam Bondi, did I congratulate you yet? I don't know if I congratulated and she says not personally but you texted me Huh. That's a little too close for comfort. Yeah, insidious is the word you're looking for. Thank you! A little too close for comfort? Call it insidiousness if you must. Alright we'll continue... Throughout history black style movements have been closely linked to individual identity And with a style that's moved across the globe, every dandy is unique. Each with the swagger of his own. You could have someone like me who is very much connected to the jazz age and the swing era vintage as the inspiration but then of course there are also black dandies that wear Ankara prints and black dandies that use streetwear as their mode of expression

36:34 There is a generation of black men, as you well know who take such pride in dressing to the nines. A perfectly coordinated suit with gleaming alligator shoes they would probably describe themselves as having swagger. They probably wouldn't describe themselves as being a dandy, how do you draw that line between sort of exuding old school cool and being a black dandy? I grew up in Detroit and i think about some of the men who firmly believe that if your shoes were not matching your suit then you were just sort of not properly dressed

37:10 And for some Black men, just being seen in sort of full technicolor is an incredible victory. Well, I can't wait to see RuPaul at the Met Gala. What are they doing? Maybe it'll become clear when we see it. This whole thing is ridiculous and the thing about this entire report they never once mentioned... They talk about as though its some sort of thing you know. They never once mentioned the cost of admission. I don't think you can even buy a ticket. You have to be invited, don't you?

37:49 You have to be invited to buy a ticket. Yeah, invited to buy a ticket right? Well I'm asking you what does it cost to get a ticket do you know the answer i'm just gonna guess because...I do know the answer! I wouldn't be pulling this stunt if I wasn't five thousand dollars seventy-five thousand dollars hello well any black dandy has that under his top hat although there's a deal yeah I bet there is If you buy a table of 10 for 10, it's $350,000 so it's only 35 ahead. Hey we could do a meetup! It's great! That's our whole yearly budget So this is an elitist crock o' crap and they roll out the black dandies as some sort of dance monkey dance moment Yeah... that's what this is all about The Met Gala is one of the worst

38:44 Most racist it's racist. It is a disgusting product and it's for elites that can afford $75,000 to show up and say hello Give me a break to be on camera and get your picture in vogue That's what it's about yeah Yeah, that used to run again and you know PBS and NPR both of them. I have another report later They were if they do not tell you the numbers they never give you get the numbers say I've never seen it I had to go research it to find it It's up from $50,000 by the way Wow back in the day The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame dinner at the Waldorf was a thousand dollars as a person those days are over seems like yeah Was it bad there were no cameras was a much better deal

39:31 Okay, I have to go into this topic because i have a little bit of deconstruction to do because there's all kinds of information that is all over the map and obviously it's being played up too an extreme. because of RFK Jr. becoming the Health and Human Services Administrator... Can I interrupt? Yeah So he's sitting there at the, RFK Jr is behind Trump in some event then he was sitting at the table with a table read that was called Board of Directors meeting. What was that called? Cabinet meeting! Cabinet meeting! Might as well be board of directors meeting. Table read is what I still think it's good for. So Kennedy is there and he just never smiles, and he looks uncomfortable He does not like being a Democrat in a room full of Republicans I don't care what he likes to think or whatever ass-kicking he does if he does any

40:31 The whole thing is like this is so un... This is genetically a problem for him. You can just see it! Well, that's the Kennedy mantra I don't think the Kennedys last JFK was the last one Like we got to get rid of that guy he smiling too much Do you seem like he smiled? JFK had a nice smile No, he had a great smile Charming smile yeah Well since you bring up RFK Jr my first clip will be about RFK Jr. The first death in a decade, they said it's actually something like that? I thought we've been doing this show for over a decade obviously and I kept getting the impression that there was you know because of this lack of vaccinations that measles deaths were increasing and they're happening all over the place. And now somebody in Texas dies supposedly of measles and this is the first one in a decade and all hell's gonna break loose

41:41 What have I been misled? Um, um, uh, I'm kind of upset because you're stealing my thunder and I'm, you know, but I was going to get into a vibe here. Oh, I'm sorry. Gonna get into a vibe so just hold that. You know what this has happened more than once or I say every five shows I do this to you it's okay and I think is the structure The structure of the show or the structure of you? No, the structure is that the way you present...the way-the way you set up your gags. Yeah well so I setup a gag and he's like gonna do a gag let me out gag him! You setup the gag in a way that invites me to do this. I'm sorry okay it's your fault. Okay then I have-you're out gagging me this is no good It's my fault I'm sorry I repent! Sam hold on one sec cuz RFK is talking about measles we just had the first measle death in this country in a decade lets listen

42:34 watching it and there are about 20 people hospitalized mainly for quarantine. We're watching it, we put out a post on it yesterday and we're gonna continue incidentally, there have been four measles outbreaks this year. It's a little worse that clip than I thought but anyway the point was Katie Tuerr interrupts her guests because we have a measle death RFK is talking about the measles death let's go to NPR health officials in Texas say more than 20 people are hospitalized amid an outbreak of measles. Outbreak! Hold on a second first let me just give you the definition of outbreak The definition of outbreak is a violent increase in activity or currency.

43:18 That is the first definition as Miriam Webster. We're talking 93 people, this is an outbreak. Wait let's get the dead child in there hold on. For those of us who are fully vaccinated against measles The risk, a lot of people are worried about what's your risk in the community. Your risk is extremely extremely low of having any issues at all with measles. The risk with measles is really for those who are not immune who have not been vaccinated." The CDC says 124 confirmed cases of the measles mostly among teens and children have been confirmed in the U.S so far this year

44:08 This is so it's if you're vaccinated, your risk is very, very low. Whereas my understanding of vaccines change a little over the years is that you receive the vaccine and has a dead virus in there. Your immune system responds to it in less violent matter than then getting the actual measles virus. And so the next time it comes around or your immune system will recognize it and will repel it, and you're not going to get sick. But now they're saying your risk is low. What is the risk? Let's go to France 24. For the first time in a decade, a person has died from the measles virus in the US there are dozen more in hospital with several intensive care in the outbreak spanning Texas and New Mexico. Outbreak! And as we can see from todays news this virus can have severe and deadly consequences

45:01 The patient was an unvaccinated school-age child. Over 120 cases of the highly contagious respiratory infection have been identified in Texas since late January In US vaccine hesitancy is on the rise, the Centers for Disease Control said during the 2023 to 2024 school year exemptions from one or more vaccines among kindergartners in the U.S increased 3.3 percent. In Gaines County Texas, the epicenter of the current outbreak The vaccine exemption rate was nearly 18% according to health department data. If you're unvaccinated, if you're around someone who has the illness, you have a 90 percent chance of becoming ill from the virus when we say the vaccine is 93 effective. Ninety three percent effective hold on a second

45:46 So out of a hundred people, seven will get it anyway. So what is this vaccine? It's 93... We've heard this before! 93% effective That means I suppose if we took 100 vaccinated people and put them in a room with someone with measles almost all those vaccinated people, 93%, would not contract the illness at all Health officials remain concerned as more Do they, at that point would they explain why seven people who were vaccinated? Seven people out of 100 which is 7% which is a high number. If it was the death rate of 7%, that wouldn't be good and so you have seven people that catch it and they were vaccinated. Is there an explanation as to why the vaccinated person would have caught the disease when they were vaccinated? Did they explain that in that report? Why are you making trouble

46:37 You're asking questions that shall not be questioned. 23% would not contract the illness at all Health officials remain concerned as more cases spring up in New Mexico as well The new US Secretary of Health Robert Kennedy Jr who himself has expressed anti-vax views in the past Anti-vax views! Okay, so we're getting closer now to some information. Now the whole point of what we're supposed to understand and the meme is... first death from measles in 10 years. Our chief medical correspondent, Dr John LePouf joins us now and to be clear here John, measles are seriously contagious? Seriously contagious yes they've been seriously contagious since I was six years old yes you get the measles so infectious much more than flu or COVID and on top of that there's a double whammy which is relatively long incubation period of ten to fourteen days during which somebody can travel all over the place even up to four

47:36 the facts Listen he has different numbers remember it was 93 Another question why doesn't one of the one one of these reporters should say well You know that's funny you say this whatever the number is gonna be Because I've heard this number and that number in this number. That what number isn't can't you guys agree on a number? No, because we're no longer members of the World Health Organization. We don't have the data you see Trump pulled this out we don't have the data effective The vaccine has been extraordinarily effective 97% effective at preventing infection last one said 97 no it said 93

48:26 Oh 93 right with 7% getting sick. Now it's 93. ...after two doses and take a look at this graph... 97, yes I'm confused! 93? 97?! It's not 100 percent! 1963 that's when it was licensed before then there were about 500 000 reported deaths of reported cases a year and four to five hundred... Wait wait wait He said reported deaths and then he said reported cases. Did everyone die? No, he corrected himself. Oh that was a correction because it sounded to me like he didn't correct himself but let's do...

49:04 It sounded like he said reported deaths, reported cases. Yes! He corrected himself Did he say I'm sorry it's not reported? Yes yes but you played again Interrupted the clip The vaccine was introduced around 1963 that's when it was licensed before then there were about 500 000 reported death reported cases a year and four to five hundred No Now look at... He corrected himself He changed If you listen to the actual flaw of what he said... Oh gosh, John! Who cares? You know what he's... Yes. He made a mistake I'm not saying it Here is the reason that I am making a point at this Because this slips into the mentality of your listener This neuro-linguistic programming Yes He said 500 thousand deaths

49:54 And then he said 500,000 cases. He didn't go 500,000 deaths I'm sorry i don't mean five hundred thousand deaths I mean five hundred thousand cases I was mistaken! He didn't say any of that No So he slipped into the public consciousness five hundred thousand deaths? I do not think it was intentional Okay I dont think it was intentional It's kind of not the point The point is that It was a very low percentage of people dying. If you have 500,000 and 500 die that's like 0.1%.

50:36 I think it's one pre, yeah could be. The measles vaccine was introduced around 1963 that's when it was licensed before then there were about 500 000 reported death reported cases a year and four to five hundred deaths now look at that precipitous drop off you don't see something like that and so that's remarkable now I do understand there are people who say and they've said to me look I want to get the vaccine and i don't want to give it to my family. That's a job for me but actually when you say that, when you're considering whether to get the vaccine think about the fact that there are 17 million immunocompromised adults and 2 million immunocompromised children who relying on you being immunized and getting that herd immunity to not get infected themselves okay now so here he is giving it away The child who died who we know nothing about

51:27 probably was immunocompromised and you can die from the flu, you can die from certainly any respiratory disease. And there's a lot of factors that brought down measles I'm not so sure it was just the vaccine It's irrelevant! It's an outbreak! Lester tonight the FDA took the unusual step of reminding people that measles vaccine is safe and it's got 50 years of science behind it but the FDA is very concerned that the measles have once again emerged as a public health threat. Yeah, scary! It's not getting any better. Yes, then that was 2019 by the way when we had over 600 cases of outbreak of measles this is 124

52:13 And then there's this clip. Officials in Washington state confirming one woman died during an outbreak of measles earlier this year, it is the 11th case of measles in Washington state this year but the first measles death since 2003 It's doubly tragic and that was a preventable death That is 2016 so it's an outright lie that no one has died from measles in the last 10 years because this is just I just went on YouTube and Just pulled up a clip Surprise, it's a lot of things. This entire thing is a lie So then but they can't get what bothers me Here's the problem I have at least with the you know safe ineffective and that for phrase we had already chaos and confusion

52:56 There was some coordination. The lack of coordination with the percentage of how effective it is and how many people died, who died and when they died, outbreak and all the rest... The lack of coordination on the part of the propagandizers It's kind of distressing because it's as though they don't even need to do that. They're just going to frighten the public I think i can explain The reason why is, it used to be coordinated from the CDC direct to the newsrooms Now its coordinated by the marketing department of Big Pharma They're just saying Do more reports on measles and not really giving them the coordinated message They are just buying air time

53:41 You know what, because they want to promote vaccines. Exactly! There is nothing more tragic than the death of a child especially so if the death was preventable. Preventable? We don't know that! With the death of a child in Texas from measles The first measles death in this country In nearly 10 years Measles deaths even measles cases are rare because the disease is preventable with a vaccine that has been available for more than 60 years There is an outbreak of measles in Texas among people who were not vaccinated. That includes the child who died in Lubbock So I'm looking at the CDC chart rate of measles cases and deaths in the United States 1919 to 2024 so in 1919 reported measles cases 175

54:34 I'll go to 1937, reported measles 647. Now the death rate was a little bit higher, it was 2.5 but in so this measles vaccine has been available since 1963 they still had 100 110 in 1990 there was actually a spike in 2019 that's where that Lester Holt report came from but the measles death rate is still 0.1 0.1 percent what its always been And so there was an uptick in 2024. It hasn't gone to zero, and nor have the deaths gone to zero according to the CDC data for whatever truth that is So this is just a total hoax story. And to make it even funnier The CBS guy sits down with this expert outside

55:37 two picnic tables 20 feet apart wearing a mask. We're now seeing very serious consequences of what happens when we have measles in our community. The first measles death in the U.S. in nearly a decade happened here at Covenant Children's Hospital in Lubbock, Texas school age. It did not reside in Lubbock County. There are now more than 120 measles cases in Texas, about 20 children have been hospitalized some in the ICU none were vaccinated now health officials are racing to stop the spread we've talked to parents of little ones under one year old who can't get the measles vaccine what do you tell those worried parents

56:23 who feel their kids are susceptible and they don't even want to take them out. It's important to communicate with your physician for infants, especially six to 12 months so that population is a little bit different only because we can in certain contexts give the measles vaccine early Before the MMR vaccine was introduced in 1963, 400 to 500 people died every year. The virus is extremely contagious for those who don't have immunity I'm sorry that wasn't the mask clip but here you hear the messaging which is hey we can give it to your six month old come on people there's an outbreak

57:01 Saturday morning she woke up with a rash. This is the mask clip. Knowing the measles outbreak was near her home in Odessa and that her daughter was too young to be vaccinated, Kaitlyn Norris took 8-month old Poppy to the ER when she developed a fever and rash She also had the coughing, the runny nose and the rash so she had a very good amount of all of the symptoms You're just sickie and you don't even know it Despite her symptoms, Poppy's test results came back negative for measles this morning. But her mother isn't letting her guard down yet. The kid didn't have measles she was spun up and frightened by you morons! When you start hearing about this in your backyard what's going through your mind? It's terrifying

57:52 I've read a lot of things about how children have seizures because of the high temperatures of their fevers and brain damage, and they die. And it's terrifying! Yeah it's terrifying! Just remember everybody no agenda is your actual vaccine against this nonsense because in 1963 they came out with the vaccine and in 1980 we were laughing at The Brady Bunch who all got it including Alice And they didn't want, and they went ooh I don't wanna, I don't want a shot. I don't want to shot dude who wants a shot? We get ice cream and comic books! I just wanna play one-I have one clip on this this is from NPR or PBS one of the two but

58:35 This is the Texas measles clip and the reason I want to play this is because it's, because the clip you just played not though. The one just before that when he displayed which they said all the guy says all of the people have gotten measles were all if the guy says all of them were unvaccinated yet do we know that for sure? We don't know anything, but play this version. Many of them many of them. There you go Yeah, well it's gonna be at least 7% maybe 3 we don't know it's a little because we don't Know anything so I just add on top of this cuz we have to have more more fear and this is

59:38 This is the opposite of the no agenda show. This is a public service to freak you out To freak out family members of mine when they hear stuff like this Bird flu continues to cause concern not just because it's leading to skyrocketing egg prices Scientists are watching the virus closely and some believe it could become the next major human pandemic so they keep doing this and and they're going to bring in a perfect guy now. I spoke to biologist David Merriam at MSU Denver who doesn't necessarily agree but he says it will become a bigger concern if and when we start to see human-to-human spreads so she says, he doesn't necessarily agree but don't listen what i just said there he's really concerned he's worried this concern gee could mutate anything could happen. So far we haven't seen confirmed cases of that

58:35 This is the Texas measles clip and the reason I want to play this is because it's, because the clip you just played not though. The one just before that when he displayed which they said all the guy says all of the people have gotten measles were all if the guy says all of them were unvaccinated yet do we know that for sure? We don't know anything, but play this version. Many of them many of them. There you go Yeah, well it's gonna be at least 7% maybe 3 we don't know it's a little because we don't Know anything so I just add on top of this cuz we have to have more more fear and this is

59:38 This is the opposite of the no agenda show. This is a public service to freak you out To freak out family members of mine when they hear stuff like this Bird flu continues to cause concern not just because it's leading to skyrocketing egg prices Scientists are watching the virus closely and some believe it could become the next major human pandemic so they keep doing this and and they're going to bring in a perfect guy now. I spoke to biologist David Merriam at MSU Denver who doesn't necessarily agree but he says it will become a bigger concern if and when we start to see human-to-human spreads so she says, he doesn't necessarily agree but don't listen what i just said there he's really concerned he's worried this concern gee could mutate anything could happen. So far we haven't seen confirmed cases of that

1:00:27 But Merriam says H5N1 can trade genetic material with the h1n1 virus in the body which would make it a lot more transmissible. So somebody who gets like, h1 n 1 which is your standard flu that's coming around right now Somebody gets that and then they're also a dairy worker or a chicken worker working with H5N1. It's like a sex worker for animals, so chicken worker. You'd like each one N1 which is your standard flu that's coming around right now somebody gets that and then they're also a dairy worker or a chicken worker working with H5N1 and now you have both of them in the same person and

1:01:05 you start seeing a selective pressure and that selective pressure is the sort of thing that could lead to it being more transmissible. Oh please Doug! People yeah, that's why he says it's really important for people to get vaccinated against H1N1 again we're talking your standard flu shot there is a bird flu vaccine for humans in fact Canada announced last week its purchased 500,000 doses of the H5N1 vaccine with the intention of vaccinating high-risk populations like those who work closely with birds or cattle. They're testing the bird flu vaccine on Canadians! Don't take it Canada! That's what she said! Canada bought five hundred thousand vaccines of the human bird flu vaccine don't take it Canada

1:01:54 And so there's multiple angles to this. So besides the big pharma, of course which is the ultimate goal There's an anti-Trump thing you know egg prices are rising Trump said they will go down now egg prices are rising and there's this very reminiscent of COVID shutting down parks. H5N1 avian influenza or burr flu it's been detected again in New Jersey evidence by the yellow caution tape blocking off parts of Pete Sensei Park and Allentown Borough, Monmouth County they actually have a helicopter shot of the park with it taped off with yellow police tape this is terrorism! In the same town Heritage Park has blockades and caution tapes

1:02:41 It's where New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection has found dead geese. Those animals testing positive for bird flu. One of them tested positive for H5N1 The Burlington County Health Department is monitoring after deceased wild Canada goose, found in Pemberton, tested positive last week While there hasn't been any evidence of human spread locally. The cases that we have seen across the country are primarily in commercial dairy and poultry workers. Shoppers are feeling an impact of the bird flu in egg prices. My husband now, we spend a lot of time trying to compare prices where it's find something suitable for home and not spending too much

1:03:25 Our data journalism team found the price of eggs has jumped significantly in six weeks time. At the start of 2025, a carton of large eggs was just under $6. Now this same dozen eggs will run you 839. In response, restaurants like Waffle House and Denny's have implemented egg surcharges. And supermarkets like Costco and Trader Joe's have imposed limits on the number of cartons you can buy. So I talked to a rancher out here... And he says, he doesn't have chickens but he's a rancher. He says this makes no sense. It makes no sense to vaccinate these chickens the natural course which has happened throughout history is bird flu comes in chickens get sick some will survive the ones that survive you want to keep those going keep that lineage going killing the whole flock is just dumb That's what a lot of people say

1:04:23 Well, there you go. It just encourages more bird flu. Yeah, the chickens will self-breed bird flu out of the system But whatever you do, be afraid. We have a viewer question today came from Facebook Diane wants to know with the increase in bird flu cases is it safe to fill the bird feeders in my yard? Wildlife experts say that it's okay to maintain a bird feeder on your property as long as you don't live near a farm or have domestic fowl in your yards, things like chickens and ducks. Of course you want to wash your hands after you touch your feeder and you want to clean the feeder itself pretty frequently and if you see any dead or sick birds you want to call the Mass Department of Agricultural Resources. Oh yeah, call your local authorities if you see a dead bird! Don't touch the dead birds it's not a good idea Yeah if you're in Africa eat the thing

1:05:22 Alright, and I have a couple of NPR pieces on this because they title is the battle against bird flu cut one Bird flu has been spreading in the United States Yeah The first person to die from bird flu was reported last month and two people were recently hospitalized Wyoming and Ohio. The CDC still says the risk to humans is low, but inside the poultry industry there's a fight brewing over how to take the battle against bird flu to the next level. Kate Wells of Michigan Public and KFF Health News is reporting on all this. Kate good morning! Good morning! Okay so what are you hearing from egg farmers here?

1:06:00 Yeah, they say that they are just flat out losing this battle against bird flu at this point. They are desperate for new tools at this point. They see what they have been doing to try and contain the outbreak is not working I talked with Greg Herbrook, he's the CEO of Herbrooks Poultry Ranch. It's one of the largest egg producers in the US and in April three of his sites got hit with bird flu one right after another and he ended up having to kill six-and-a-half million chickens. Wow! The mental toll on our team of dealing with that many dead chickens is just...I mean it you can't imagine And they only have to kill them because the health agencies require it? I don't think that's a choice they would want to make

1:06:44 It's something some who is in charge of this now who was in charge? Who was the new secretary of agriculture? Well, you that question has to be well the Secretary I don't know but did they all those questions that you just say asked me right there should have been in these reports Right. Let's check out cut too so he We use the USDA like tried and true playbook here. It's the stamping out method right after detection, like within 24 to 48 hours the whole flock has to be called there is a bunch of cleaning and sanitizing and this is to prevent the birds from dying really painful grizzly deaths but it's also to try to keep the virus- Grizzly? We're trying to be humane to the chickens because you know killing them to eat is fine. Yeah yeah yeah killing in this way- Is better

1:07:28 It's better than killing. Give me a break! But it's not grizzly, or is it? No. We don't know. Yeah I don't know But we're doing it to think of the chickens. None of it is working this time. Why? Flu viruses are constantly evolving, right and this particular strain of the virus has gotten so good at infecting new species not just wild birds that migrate but also more than 40 species of mammals you've heard about dairy cows but you know also dolphins rats skunks

1:08:20 Bird flu is now in dolphins. I have not heard this by the way you gotta dig up to these guys start playing one of our jingle clips The war on chickens yes, this is all part of it Yes skunks and by this point bird flu was just too embedded in our environment for us to just stamp it out I also talked with David Swain. He is a former US... Who is this dingbat? ...leading avian influenza experts, and he says look it's time for the U.S to try vaccinating poultry for birth. No! He says this is good as a tool not just to reduce the virus in animals here's Swain But also a tool that reduces chances for human infection but egg producers they will need the green light from the federal government before they can try this

1:09:13 The War on Chicken. They don't want to buy meat from a country that is vaccinating any chickens. Those countries are worried that the vaccine can mask symptoms in birds and that the virus could maybe get across their borders in that meat undetected, but the pressure on the US government to do something new is clearly growing. Brooke Rollins is our 33rd Secretary of Agriculture

1:10:01 She didn't mention this report. I don't understand this, we hear enough of this stuff so we can get kind of a broad-based look at things in terms of the reporting and she just... what wasn't mentioned is that the chickens who are or the meat chickens with there's a different type of farming the whole thing is different they're not the same No, and they haven't had bird flu outbreaks in the in the meat chicken. That's why meat that's white chicken meat You can go buy legs and thighs and breasts And it's the price has not changed you may have gone down a few cents hmm This has been reported over and over but I guess that's been forgotten already I Have a lot of clips with questions for you actually So we need to talk about oil

1:10:48 Because there's a massive pivot taking place where people are talking about, now we got to get back and it's not going to work. This green revolution is not happening. We haven't done it fast enough so we're gonna have to go back and start producing more oil. But you couldn't go any faster! So this is the report about BP and others. BP's announcement sort of flies in the face of the direction they were heading in but it seems that they're not alone That's quite right. So, when you look at BP's trajectory back in 2020 they announced their net zero objectives how they plan to get to net zero by 2050 and it was a plan to reduce oil and gas production by 40% by 2030 and the announcement was as well no new oil and gas exploration in any new currently uninvested-in countries however since then

1:11:46 The tide's clearly turned. Profits took a hit in 2024, by which I don't mean it stopped being profitable. Profits were just smaller dividends was smaller. Oh curse those rich people! And now they're calling a reset the new CEO has said this is a reset BP with an unwavering focus on growing long-term shareholder value How does he plan to get there? Well, the pivot is boosting fossil fuel investment to $10 billion per year. Cutting what they call the transition business so that's all things renewable EV batteries also hydrogen. Cutting that to just 1.5-2 billion a year and when you read the announcement and look at text of it, the words they're using for investment in these transition industries are things like disciplined selective focused

1:12:37 capital light. They're going to keep these investments capital light, which you might say is code for the absolute bare minimum. Yes, code bond genome. Okay your question is coming but first we have to hear that not just BP but many other large multinationals are just giving up on it? Now they're not alone as you say uh just last year Shell um announced that they were reducing their green ambitions and They had planned a 45% cut in their carbon intensity by 2035. The new CEO said that any such plans were perilous and scrapped them. More recently, you've got Equinor the Norwegian oil company who used to be called State Oil who rebranded in 2018 no doubt to part with that extremely fossil fuel heavy image that they had

1:13:27 They recently announced that they will be halving renewables investment in the next two years and upping oil and gas production. The reason given, they don't see the necessary profitability in these energies for the future so this is a whole industry Unashamedly, you might say shamelessly putting profitability over all else including accompanying the green transition. Yeah good luck with your messaging oh they're shamelessly putting profits up against the survival of human nature so President Trump has said- The human species, not human nature. Yeah, human species. So President Trump has said drill baby drill and CNN brings on some expert and talks about the types of crude oil that we have in the United States and whether if we actually have the right kind of oil to make our country run. And I know that you happen to be an absolute expert

1:14:26 in this particular area. Now you're an expert, you're an expert just... I am! Okay and i'm gonna try it And I play one on a podcast Yeah so um uh a podspurt if you will So I'm going to treat you as such Ladies and gentlemen we have oil expert John C. Dvorak with us today John I want you to listen to this clip and then I want your expert insight into what they're saying New CNN reporting This morning shows the problem with President Trump Why are you yelling? His vision of energy independence According to the president, unleashing U.S. drilling would reduce gas prices, reduce America's cost of living and increase the nation's energy independence. CNN chief climate correspondent Bill Weir is here in the issue as you report is drilling for what exactly? Yeah have you noticed that President leaves facts out sometimes when he makes these grand statements about how we can just get off all this foreign oil that comes from Canada Mexico Saudi Arabia these places

1:15:20 One huge problem. Not all oil is created equally, let's talk about the basics It's everything from sweet light crude which is like the champagne of oil down to heavy sour which is more like wet coffee grounds This stuff is light and easier to process and the US pumps a lot of it We use it export and goes into kerosene and gasoline The problem is that country was built on sticky coffee grounds over the years. And so our US refineries are set up to process the heavy dense stuff, the Albertus tar sands The clue is in the name. It looks like sandy tar and it is processed this way, meanwhile along the Gulf of Mexico a lot of these refineries can deal with more of the lighter champagne stuff and here's the big problem John we produce A LOT MORE CHAMPAGNE than coffee grounds exporting about 13 million barrels a day of the light sweet stuff while importing about half that much from these other countries so again the idea that we could shut off

1:16:22 imports from Canada and not feel the ramifications, it would completely upend the refinery system and would drive gas prices through the ceiling. It's just not what we're built for! Exactly! The infrastructure is not here All right, I'm going to bring in our resident expert now John C. Dvorak he is a podcaster and a columnist and we'd like to know can we actually... Wait! Can we? I am doing your intro. Oh sorry. Podcaster and columnist John C. Dvorak and John what you just heard there can you give us some insight into whether it is actually the champagne of oil that we cannot refine or the

1:17:01 coffee ground of oil that we can refine, that will keep this country moving. We go to John. All right okay so here's refineries can handle pretty much except for refineries that are specialized in the champagne style of what he's talking about super sweet oil which is like Bolivian for example those guys they set up shop to do that kind of oil because it's harder to take this crappy sour, which means it's full of sulfur is what that refers to and it stinks. And you have to run into a more elaborate system to get the sulfur out and crack it and refine in the cracking processes to break it down. The sweet stuff

1:17:48 All refineries can take that stuff because it's easy to process. You run it right through and bypass some of the cracking gear if you have to, doesn't make any difference It's the best stuff! That guy is full of crap I don't know a refinery that wouldn't prefer nothing but sweet because its a pain in the ass to break down the other stuff So, wait CNN was lying? No they were in ignorant. Let's go to another clip from CNN This is about the oil companies who of course were all against CapEx and new investments in drilling because Wall Street wanted to have revenue and not investment. That's according to the Oil Baron, I will have to talk to him about this. How do they feel about these calls to drill more? Do they feel like they can?

1:18:39 Well, it all comes down to economics the price of a barrel of oil the projections You know takes 10 years sometimes to get a well operating and so they're looking over here Or almost half for the new car sold are electric. They're looking at oil demands around the world how they might pull cradles plastic what? What you have is a new cars solar electric that's not even close maybe ten percent I think it's definitely not happening This is this is bogative cars old or Let me get back here electric China or almost half of the no China. He said in China and China China Yeah, it's a giant looking over at China or almost half for the new cars sold are electric They're looking at oil demands around the world how they might sink petrochemicals plastics all those calculations are going into how they do this So there what are the plastics made of champagne or coffee grounds?

1:19:30 You can make it out of anything. Okay, not a huge demand there's not sort of you know he was prom these oil CEOs were promised complete carb launch deregulation, but they're not exactly chomping at the bit to open new wells. We're talking about wells? We are not talking about shale or are we talking about both? Shale oil and big fracking boom has led to massive spike in natural gas which is a different kind of fuel of course and lot more the sweet light champagne that comes out those fracking wells Alright you've made me thirsty. Bill Weird thank you! But you'll have to say that every barrel of this stuff that gets pumps and burns most is closer to a climate crisis. And the alternatives are cheaper than the petrochemicals, so something to keep in mind. So there's that too? In addition to everything else... All right, so they're full of crap. Full of crap! I don't know what their point of that report was

1:20:26 Just a slam Trump. Yeah, well no I think the thing is that they never bring up and i don't know why this is because i bring it up and it doesn't benefit the republicans as for sure Is that during the Biden administration we've drilled more and pumped more than ever before? The whole time It was a lie all were going to move away from fossil fuels That just the opposite happened But no one wants to bring that up because they don't want to bring up the hypocrisy of it all. They don't want to bring up the price, in fact that I think Exxon doubled the stock price double. Exxon is doing nothing but kicking ass because they never bought into a lot of green stuff and they just pumping oil out of the ground like there's no tomorrow and their stock went through the roof during the Biden administration but nobody even brings any of that up. It's baffling to me! What? Gambling?!

1:21:17 Please. I'm baffled, totally baffled! Well the baffling move is the unprecedented move that this White House has made by saying they're going to select who can be in the press room, who can be in the Oval Office because as you know if you can't be in there you can't report to the American people. Although I find that an interesting argument because as far as I can tell it's streamed live on every platform known to man whenever there is a press conference and whenever

1:21:56 The president is sitting in his Oval Office, but this is very controversial and it's going to ruin the geek party known as the White House Correspondents Dinner because it seems they're just going to have to fall apart. A select group of DC-based journalists should no longer have a monopoly over the privilege of press access at the White House all journalists outlets invoices deserve a seat highly coveted table. So by deciding which outlets make up the limited press pool on a day-to-day basis, the White House will be restoring power back to the American people who President Trump was elected to serve. We can now bring in Jodi Ginzburg, chief executive officer of the Committee To Protect Journalists who joins us from New York. Thank you so much for joining us on the program today. Your reaction to this latest move from the White House?

1:22:44 terrible move to be honest. The way that the press pool works is that those who are in the press pool, which as you say is a small group of people because you can't have the 800 journalists who are members of the White House Correspondents Association all crowd into a room with the president everywhere he goes, they provide information to everybody else. So all of the news about the president that people get from their local radio stations for example or in their regional newspapers will have come very often from the press pool and it's vital that those are independently selected, that they're not in the gift of the president and the administration whom they are covering. Why do this now?

1:23:25 Well, this has come it's believed in reaction to something that the Associated Press one of the wire news agencies again a service that many other news outlets use I imagine including France 24 has done which is it is fed and its style guide which is used by many many news organizations but will continue to call The Gulf Of Mexico The Gulf Of Mexico. Donald Trump has said that within America it should be known as the Gulf of America and has barred the associated press from calling. This seems to be an extension of that what it is, is an attempt to exert more and more control over the press and over the information that the public receives so even though this was for the people actually this is not serving the people at all. It's not serving the people

1:24:16 It's not serving the people at all. Why won't the... what bug or hair crawled up the APs butt that they won't just call it the Gulf of America? I mean, why is this...? Why are they to quote your phrase dying on this hill? There was somebody obviously at the operation and higher-up saying you know what we're going to be pushed around and told what to do We'll call it what we want to call it and the White House took offense and the next thing you know there's some snowballing, you get somebody finally took a... I always thought it was corrupt that you had one group. One lone group, The White House Press Association

1:24:57 I guess that's what it is called, which used to be run by John Carl over at CBS or ABC. John Carl ran it and he was a Trump hater and they get to pick and choose who gets to go in there and what they get asked to the point where they're almost scripting the questions And the whole thing is a scam in some way and it should be open to bloggers, anyone who can find their way in there. And besides that you're right! It's being streamed I mean, of course the AP can't ask questions if they're not in the room. But when's the last time the AP...I mean how often does the AP ask questions? I don't know but I dunno. It's usually you know the guys in front CBS ABC NBC sometimes OAN and there's you know a few other people who will ask the questions and then I don't know I think that it's making them I think it is an association that

1:25:53 had control and they lost control, and now they're whining. Yeah okay... And you should hear some of the press people that are oh they should dig this spineless spread this is from journalists who were who are activists The spineless press, they should all walk out and stop covering Trump. Yes please! Because he needs attention he's like a big baby needs so much attention that if they all walked out and didn't show up then they'd then he would die on the vine You're right, they are spineless because they'll never do that. Because they know if they're already mortally wounded the elite messaging system is completely broken Do you remember the first... I was just thinking about this the other day

1:26:40 See if I have a clip of it. When President Trump ran the first time, and he was the laughingstock this was what was going on at that time 2015. We need to talk about this because- Let's do it! Because you guys have made a mistake Yeah so nobody can deny that Donald Trump is partly where he is in the polls because of media coverage And our big statement is that Donald Trump isn't a serious candidate He's an entertainer But you can't do that with the Huffington Post Washington bureau chief is Ryan Grim. You wrote this month or last month explaining your decision not to cover the campaign of Donald Trump as part of your political coverage and that's what you said, you said Trump's campaign is a sideshow we won't take debate if you're interested in what the Donald has to say

1:27:23 You'll find it next to our stories on the Kardashians and The Bachelorette. Alright, um... I have uh... First i have a little bit of outrage and then I want to explain what's going on because it's just marketing but that's not with the view ladies here. Yesterday the White House announced our brand new path to US residency. Spit it out! With an expensive toll

1:28:03 Take a look. We're going to be selling a gold card, you have a green card this is a gold card we're gonna be putting a price on that card of about five billion dollars and that's gonna give you green-card privileges plus it's gonna be a route to citizenship and wealthy people will be coming into our country by buying this card they'll be wealthy and they'll be successful and they'll be spending a lot of money and paying a lot of taxes and employing a lot of people And we think it's going to be extremely successful. Would a Russian oligarch be eligible for a gold card? Yeah, possibly hey I know some Russian oligarchs that are very nice people. Oh no! You know remember when Elon bought America yeah he could have saved money with this The way that he talks about it makes it sound like America is for sale to the highest bidder but what I will say this is actually Wait hold on

1:29:03 Are we selling the country to the highest? Yes, yes. I thought they were selling a citizenship to the country not the country itself. No, we're selling all pieces and pieces. Did I mis-hear something? Ah no you heard them right but this is part of what they do this is their job. Expansion on the existing EB5 visa program um I have some questions because those are basically meant to incentivize the best and brightest to come to America to create jobs here, hire people contribute tax revenue. But I want to know is there national security vetting? So yes it could a terrorist organization or Russian oligarch come in and then just again don't make it sound like we're for sale make it sound like you want to come here because you wanna be an America. Now well you said it sounds likely that like we were for sale but if you really look at what

1:29:48 President Trump has done here. It's just a rebrand of an existing program and it is not unique to America. may be eligible. What more do we know? Well, as you heard there Donald Trump said the immigration program which he said was legal would be open potentially to possible Russian oligarchs who said that they could potentially qualify for the gold cards He said that he expects this program to be up and running in about two weeks Now it should be noted that there is already a similar program in effect here in the United States. It's called the EB-5 immigrant investor visa and if you remember during the first term Donald Trump said that he was going to be raising the minimum for that card from 1 million to 1.8 million, well

1:30:38 The entire system has now been scrapped entirely and seemingly replaced by this gold card system where the buy-in fee is effectively $5 million. It's also not only a US kind of thing, we have seen this in multiple other countries around the world it exists in Canada, it also exists places closer to home in the UK, sorry in the EU rather like places like Spain Portugal and Malta as well so nothing completely new here from Donald Trump effectively just raising that the bar that it costs to get into United States but the land about the oligarchy will likely be picked up upon by them all the more progressive parts of the United States political spectrum. Yeah! Like The View exactly It's an existing program is called the EBM I think EBM 5

1:31:22 And not like Sonny Hauston said is based on merit. No, it was about a million bucks million and a half And he's just rebranded it to the gold card and called at five Yeah, yeah had some money to it this has been going on in Canada forever during the 1997 Hong Kong turnover I think you told your Congress were moving to Canada especially BC like by the dozens and I think there was only two hundred fifty thousand dollars You know what Trump should do? If I were the president, I would say you have the green card. We all know that's hard to come by. You have the gold card and then you can get the USA plus bundle. Platinum card too! Platinum. You get a tote bag... You get a tour of the White House and uh.. And you get a newsletter. That would be- he should keep going with that it's very entertaining. They're all upset about it

1:32:16 How can we do four more years of this? I don't know if i can handle this media. They're so out of control, they're so charged up... Well they have to change it. They have they're gonna have to, I hate the use the word but im going to use it, they're gonna have to pivot! Why would they?! Because after they had their asses handed to them and in the midterms are gonna have to pivot I mean, there's some signs of it now with the so-called middle range Democrats and mid-road Democrats or whatever they want to call themselves. I should play this clip. This is not the same...it's kind of the same kind of thing that there's a group that just started up if you remember

1:33:08 The Lincoln Project is some of these Trump haters, these Republicans. Well there's a new group that just started up and I got a very short one-minute clip less than a minute about it from NPR and they just had their first conference is called Principles First. Okay. Wait wait... Yep waiting The principles first is conservative Republicans who believe in the old Barry Goldwater style conservatism, real republicanism. They don't like what Trump's done to the party They want to go back to the old ways, the old ways of 1964. None dare call it treason era and so they've put together a... It's just a bunch of Trump haters let's face it because most of the guys who were in that period are- Why don't they just start a group called Trump Haters United? You know THU. Just do it! Just call it what it is

1:34:04 I agree. Anyway, here's the clip. Former Republican U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales says President Trump's decision to pardon January 6 rioters is a betrayal of the American justice system and PR Sarah McCammon reports Gonzalez made the comments during a gathering of anti-Trump conservatives in Washington D.C.. Alberto Gonzalez served as White House counsel and then United States attorney general under President George W Bush Speaking at the principals first summit in Washington DC, Gonzalez criticized several Trump administration decisions. It is a betrayal

1:34:42 to the men and women at the Department of Justice who were fired because they participated in the prosecution of a January 6th rioters. Gonzalez went on to criticize Trump's decision to pardon some 1,500 people convicted in connection with the attack on the Capitol in 2021 he said the president has that power under the law but said it was quote the wrong thing to do okay That's about all they had to report on it, but this has been...this little operation is something to keep an eye on. And what are they called again? Principles first. As in principal, the high school principals which it seems is what they're kind of thinking like but they mean the principles of true conservativism versus Trump-ism and they think that you know Trump's a bad guy Yeah no he's horrible So I want to go to Doge for a second because i do have...I do have a question for you as a former government employee

1:35:44 But first, probably for one of the last times and we did see her crying on TikTok. Did you see Joy Reid crying on TikTok? Oh everybody saw Joy Reid crying on Tiktok. My best is the side by side where she they have a clip of her ridiculing people who cry And then her crying. I feel bad for her, so i'm not going to play that but i'm going to play one of hers you know...I think her last show was this Friday So here she is on the resistance Americans America finding ways to resist! Resist Doge This regime Regime That we find ourselves living under

1:36:22 is producing massive chaos and trauma in the lives of federal workers, and in the country. Chaos and trauma no good! Yeah we can't have trauma Workers...and in the country just look at this latest round of protests At Tesla dealerships, at town halls America is resisting in large ways and small America is saying NO to Elon Musk running us Nooooo We do not want him in charge period. And Donald Trump, the guy who handed his biggest donor the keys to the whole federal government for him to do whatever he pleases with it is underwater in every single poll from Gallup to The Washington Post to CNN to Reuters nobody wants this chaos. Well since you brought that up I think it's hilarious ah do I have it here

1:37:07 I had a clip of CNN talking about, you know—because they have a poll now. They've got all kinds of polls. But let me finish with Joy Reid because she mentioned some blatant anti-Trump news organizations there and they have their polls and all the country hates it! We resist it large and small everyone ever knows we don't want Elon running anything new Give me an assessment from your expert point of view of the resistance that were seeing in this country to all of the doge Elon Musk Trump chaos Yeah, so as we know we don't have a big generalized nonviolent mass protest but we have righteous indignation. Oh! Wow! Righteous indignation? There's a couple of terms coming up right like righteous indignation that's a good one.

1:37:54 breaking out spontaneously all over the nation. And, Joy I really believe that there's a reckoning that is going to come because what is happening now at the hands of literally the world richest man who has taken control of our government and he is using it to enrich himself in investigating. He is destroying agencies that have been investigating his companies this brings forth such...it brings to a peak all of the unfairness of neoliberalism, all of the kind of rich get richer and that's one part of authoritarianism. It's more fewer rights for the many and way more liberties for the few. And so we're seeing a kind

1:38:38 indignation and anger that's erupting at local town halls, in front of GOP members of Congress in their town halls. And so this is a very good sign of something larger that I believe will come Alright, so now is the term that I'm sure you know more about than most. As Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency in the Trump administration more broadly make efforts to reform government and eliminate needless waste fraud and abuse they're coming up against predictably negative press coverage from the mainstream media which is often sympathetic to government employees and hostile toward efforts to reduce the size and scope of government

1:39:21 That's why you'll often see, read and hear stories about how some attempt or another by Trump or Elon to change a new system is resulting in headaches for various people. For instance, you might have read last week that DOJ's efforts to reduce the federal workforce as it pertains to the US parks system was creating long lines. The Washington Post complained that the Trump administration had gotten rid of the only locksmith at Yosemite National Park, he was described as the only employee with quote institutional knowledge needed to rescue visitors from locked restrooms. Sounds serious right?

1:39:59 Elsewhere, you'll see constant complaints from media that attempts to reduce the federal bureaucracy will hamstring our efforts to fight diseases or have nuclear safety or keep airplanes in the sky. But what if there was something not entirely genuine about these difficulties? What if the federal bureaucracy sensing a threat to its self-preservation was making things as awful as possible in order to scare the American people into thinking government can only function if it is vast and unaccountable. We actually have a term for this, it's called malicious compliance It's when someone follows a new rule so closely without applying common sense such that they ultimately work against the rules stated purpose deliberately Okay malicious compliance Is this a term you're familiar with?

1:40:47 Actually, no. But I know the process because it's been done... It is a standard operating procedure for anyone unionized. It's called slowdown. Ah yeah, slow down right. Everyone has heard of that but I did malicious compliance when i was working in the private sector as an inspector for trail mobiles and interesting story okay I used to do this used to be one guy on the line of the blind eye was inspecting who who was a kind of an amateur comedian and I'd spent a lot of time chatting with him until one day the foreman of that line, the manufacturing guy wasn't my foreman he wasn't my supervisor but he comes up to me and says you know your... He chewed me out for wasting this guy's time chatting with him.

1:41:32 So I it was like, okay you want to play that way? I went back up to the line and started tagging because there's lots of flaws that most inspectors just overlook because when you were a can inspector No. No this is a bitch. This is trade. This is cargo containers Oh, oh you expected cargo containers too Yes, I did Wow for Pacific for Matson Pacific whatever that company is, there's a bunch of different ones. But in this case they were aluminum and so these containers would come through and I would just start tagging everything little any little flaw which normally you let pass because you know it says you got to get these things out you can't just because everything's flawed And so I just covered these containers with with these red tags and its basically stopped the line cause you have to go back and fix all this stuff

1:42:27 Even though it's diddly shit. And so the guy within just a few hours, it didn't take that long this foreman comes up to me and apologizes profusely for chewing me out and saying you can do anything I'm sorry... He was just bending he was almost in tears! That's what you can do if you're one of these types of people like me So I can see malicious compliance. I never did anything like that when I was working for the government, but I can see how you could do it." So in these days of Schedule F if someone's...if government workers think that malicious compliance is the way they may find themselves getting canned?

1:43:10 Well, I wasn't worried about getting canned for what I did on the trail mobile line. No but if they're locking restrooms... I disagree with that. I think most of the time especially if you go with the way they described as malicious compliance in other words going by the book yeah it's very hard to can somebody when they can point at them and regulation say look This is what it says to do. I know we haven't been doing this, but now that you know i'm worried about my job... ...I'm going to do this because it says I'm supposed to so that's what I'm doing while you're firing me. Okay. You can do this! It's doable and works

1:43:49 Of course the question is how much resistance is there? Are people really upset, Is this just magnification by the M5M? It's magnification totally because everything I've seen so far it's mostly you know employees on probation that don't know how to pull these stunts. Hold on a second, hold on. We have data! We have data that people hate Elon Musk and Doge. Data incoming CNN. Not anecdotes or not data but we're starting to get some data. The anecdotes are not data Yeah well here it is she's got data. Not anecdotes are not data but we're starting to get some data that puts numbers behind this with 51% of respondents in a recent CNN poll saying that President Trump's efforts... So they bring in the CNN poll which is the same as smirconish

1:44:37 You know, it's like well let's put some numbers together. We have a CNN poll we're CNN and we have a CNN poll. We don't like Trump here is our data. It puts numbers behind this with 51% of respondents in the recent CNN poll saying that President Trump efforts to cut federal programs has gone too far 54 percent say they do not support him giving Elon Musk this prominent role and a full 53 percent are afraid or pessimistic about the rest of his term. The data is in! The data is in. Yeah, it's horrible. Well luckily the public's not watching CNN... No So I heard an interesting stat on- It was actually on Fox News from this economist, I think maybe investor economist dude Gary Kaltbaum ever hear of him? No And you know because and the thing is there's so much

1:45:35 There's so much difference in the numbers that everybody is giving on everything, just like measles and the efficacy of the measles vaccine. How much money do we actually send to Ukraine? Another one of those, remember they kept sending 40 billion here? 40 billion there was like this the same number. Forty billion forty billion so you could kind of lose track of how many times we sent forty billion and yeah some say it you know the president says 500 then 350 Zelensky's or Macron said no no we sent 60% of all the money everyone is all over the map with these numbers and then there is also Trump he spent

1:46:18 $7 trillion during his first term, $8 trillion. And here's the guy, Kaltbaum talking about what was spent during the Biden administration. I think the best move would be to first take down the debt, take down the size of government which by the way is up 60 some odd percent since the year before COVID. That's our government spending and has quadrupled since the year 2000, which is quite the insanity! The biggest bull market and the biggest inflation we do have is the size of our government that went unchecked

1:46:54 with absolutely zero accountability whatsoever. So it is about time somebody's in there and the more I see people complain, the more I know that they're probably in the soup and have been a big part of it." I think he's probably right! No, he's completely right but the thing is...I keep falling back on my thesis which is that this is just a giant jobs program to keep us out of the drink What do you mean? How does it keep us out of the drink? Well, because you're putting money back in circulation. You're keeping people employed. You're keeping them off the streets. You doing everything you can to keep things propped up

1:47:37 and you end up with what amounts to being a jobs program, and then if you try to straighten it out it's going to cause an economic collapse at some point. 2026 is my prediction. Well we always said that as we were looking the ramp-up to this election with President Trump, we always said the Democrats probably want him to win because the crap is coming everybody knows it everybody sees it and they want him to deal with it And I think he knows it too And it's probably coming. You might be right, he might know it I think its coming Well let's talk about migration for a moment as we have a big change in New York City Over the last two years the Roosevelt Hotel has been the first stop

1:48:21 for more than 173,000 immigrants and search the American dream which is now set to shut its doors in June. Today marks another milestone Mayor Eric Adams making the announcement early Monday morning on social media we are now in a place where we're asking well where do people go this 38 year old mother of three arrived from Peru two months ago. She says, they haven't told us anything. On the contrary they told us that when they heard those rumors in the news that we should be calm and not going to move us They haven't told us anything about getting out of here or that their going to close the Roosevelt But the number of migrants in the city's care dramatically dropping over the last year after the city implemented a 60 day stay limit

1:49:07 purchased 53,000 tickets for migrants to relocate to other cities and helped nearly 100,000 asylum seekers apply for work authorizations. Not to mention the fears sparked by the recent immigrant crackdown factoring into a decline in new arrivals now The closing of the Roosevelt Hotel comes just a week after Deputy Mayor Ann Williams Isom, who has overseen asylum seekers over the last two years. It comes right after that so it's a timely announcement right now we know that 53 shelters will be closing by mid-year and how exactly they're going to wind down operations here at the Roosevelt Hotel remains to be seen

1:49:49 This is going to be interesting. That is such a prime piece of real estate, will they bring back a flea bag motel as the Roosevelt or turn it into a five star luxury thing? Well in that report there's something I have another report too These are asylum seekers, I think mostly. Is that what we're talking about here? Because you brought them in... What is this? The family's from Peru?! Yeah! What's going on in Peru?? It's a problematic country!! By the way, Peru interestingly enough if you look at download statistics from podcasts There's always a lot of downloads in Peru, but yet we get no donations from Peru. We don't have any because there is nothing happening in Peru except some farm that's putting numbers up for the Midas Touch podcast! The Podcast Industrial Complex, the Midas Touch... It's bullcrap you worked at a company that did that No I cannot confirm or deny

1:50:46 So, well let's talk about these refugees. I get the refugee problem on PBS. I got a four-parter here that is kind of interesting. Let's play these. A federal judge in Seattle has blocked President Trump's executive order halting the admission of refugees into the U.S.. The judge said the administration had likely exceeded its authority by freezing the US refugee admissions program which was established by Congress back in 1980. It remains to be seen whether the administration will comply while a lawsuit challenging the ban filed by some of the country's largest resettlement organizations works its way through the courts

1:51:24 We're joined now by Mark Hetfield. He's the president of HIAS, that is the country oldest refugee resettlement agency and the organization is also a plaintiff in that lawsuit. Thanks for being with us. Thank you Jeff So first help us understand what the US Refugee Admissions Program is? How does this program work and who does it aim to assist? Sure So the program was started in 1980 by the Refugee Act of 1980 to provide a safe and legal pathway for people fleeing persecution or war, or conflict. To come to the United States to either join with family or to meet foreign policy humanitarian policy priorities of the United States government

1:52:01 So, what was the material impact of this suspension? How were the refugees affected and your employees as well. It was devastating and this was not just a mere suspension like it was in the first Trump term This was a complete dismantlement of the refugee program because not only did all refugees Not only were all refugees stopped from arriving, but also all the processing offices were shut down. Everything was defunded so it's gonna be almost impossible to start it back up and in terms of the actual impact for example my agency had 621 refugees who were vetted by Homeland Security

1:52:43 approved by Homeland Security, had plane tickets in hand were supposed to arrive in February but they're not coming. Oh man I love this organization! This is another religious based organization. Yep. This is Jewish Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society who in 2023...I'm gonna look up the 990 while we play the next clip had 128 million dollars in receipts So, way to go. Do-gooders! They're very do-gooders. Okay let's go the next clip. The plane tickets were literally snatched out of their hands so when you say it's nearly impossible to restart this work tell me more about that

1:53:25 Well, to resettle refugees you're going to have people that prepare their applications. That assist them overseas and give them cultural orientation. That book their plane tickets that then receive them here in United States which is what my agency HIAS does along with other non-resettlement agencies All of those things were completely defunded Your organization is a Jewish organization. Many of the resettlement organizations are faith organizations, how does faith inform the work that you do? Well in the Torah 36 times it's repeated to welcome this stranger, to love this stranger as ourselves for we were once strangers ourselves and so it's really a fundamental

1:54:07 part of our history and of our values, and not just going back to the holy books but also our more recent experience in the 20th century 21st century. The Jewish people are a people who know displacement and so we are naturally empathetic I'm sure as you know, Vice President J.D. Vance recently accused the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops of profiting off its work resettling refugees Do you or any other organizations profit off this work? Is that even a motive of yours? No $25 million in salary says differently As far as i am concerned just looking at their 2023 990

1:54:46 No, it's the same with the Lutherans. Although the Lutheran church distanced themselves from the Lutheran refugee program saying well you know that thing was put together after World War II and we don't have anything to do with it they just use the Lutheran name which I'm sure is exactly what HIAS is as well this is a giant scam and the Catholic Bishops Conference yeah right there are some nice salaries here And good parties, good parties. Good parties. So clip three has a contradictory piece of information that I found interesting This is a labor of love this is something we have to raise money for because we can't possibly do it on the funding that the federal government gives us It's a public-private partnership

1:55:36 And so now we've raised lots of funding to... Stop the clip. Public-private partnership, that's good. So probably you have to raise money because we can't make it on the government money We need to raise money. So wait a minute then what difference does it make that the government cut you off? Yeah Yeah, I hear the contradiction. Exactly And so now we've raised lots of funding to welcome refugees to the United States and now none of them are coming including refugees who themselves are fleeing religious persecution Oh! So you have to get a real job? That sucks because you know i think the government something like $1700 per person they place and they're just placing people

1:56:21 They're not housing people as far as I know, most of these organizations don't. They place people and there's another thing in here the highest foundation... There is a lot of things going on here. In this show we have some term for this called sketchy. Sketchy yes! And then they have the Highest and Council Migration Service? Wow Yeah, they talk people into coming. So let's go to the last part Afghan people who supported us in Afghanistan People who supported US veterans and risked their lives or who worked for the u.s Embassy in Kabul They can't come people whose families were separated by conflict or war those parents and children will remain Separated indefinitely those kids are essentially being orphaned by this Trump administration policy

1:57:09 The administration and its executive order argued that the United States lacks the ability to absorb large numbers of migrants, and in particular refugees into its communities. In a manner that does not compromise the availability of resources for Americans. This is an argument the administration makes fairly often, that resources are finite. What's your reaction? My reaction is that that's an argument that the Trump administration made and that they themselves proved was fallacious. In 2017, in the Muslim and refugee ban President Trump commissioned a study to demonstrate how much resettled refugees cost the American taxpayer

1:57:48 But they looked at both sides of the ledger when they did that study and they found that over a 10 year period, resettled refugees contributed 63 billion with a B dollars more in federal state and local taxes than they took in services and assistance. So fortunately for us while we wrote welcome refugees because it's the right thing to do It just also happens to be to the benefit of the economy, to the benefit of a country. Refugees are a blessing they're not a burden I love how he starts off by saying you know we looked at what it costs the American public and then without answering that he says but they really give us more to the economy than it cost without saying what it costs

1:58:32 Again, this is typical. They never report on numbers they never give us numbers No you have to go into the 990 but you see there's a lot of money going around This is actually one of the smaller ones What was the one in Austin that Obama opened? And it was like $1 billion dollars a year Yeah, this is good stuff. It's good business! To go on with the horrors of this we have some clips of what's going on with the Costa Rica movement This is kind of interesting. Costa Rica movement? Huh... They're moving people through Costa Rica for one reason or another which I guess they've been doing for a long time

1:59:16 And this will be, the clip will be Costa Rica BS1. President Trump made carrying out the largest mass deportation in US history a cornerstone of his 2024 campaign but there are reports he's unhappy with the pace of that effort so far William Brangham reports now on a new controversial tactic to carry out the administration's crackdown on illegal migration This plane landed in San Jose, Costa Rica last week descending through a cloud of uncertainty. On board were 135 people deported from the US on a journey back to their home countries or somewhere else

1:59:54 None are Costa Rican citizens. There are 65 children and 70 adults, their families. Costa Rica is committed to voluntarily returning deportees to their country of origin in up to 30 days. The group hailing from as far away as China Vietnam and Ghana were then bused to a rural holding facility paid for by the U.S.. Costa Rica became the second Central American country, after Panama to serve as a stopover for unauthorized migrants being removed from the US by the Trump administration.

2:00:31 Panama accepted almost 300 deportees who were initially held under armed guard in this Panama City hotel. Images of that group stuck inside, unable to leave made headlines last week We are providing them with all the necessary medical food and comfort services And we will continue to do so until the last one has left our country which is what was agreed with the United States government No I never heard of this Yeah Yeah, we've done some deals to get people around. But who did the deals? Who did these deals? I think it was largely Rubio at the behest of Trump. Okay. Anything that's got to do with anything south of the border has gotta be Rubio he's like you know he's just definitely a

2:01:18 Western Hemisphere guy let's listen to clip two by the way is as it yeah I see More than half agreed to be returned to their home countries 97 were sent to a facility in the Darien Gap, a treacherous point of passage and at Panama's southern border with Colombia, which is used by many migrants. Susana Sabalza is a Panamanian migration lawyer representing a Taiwanese family including a child under five who were sent to the Darien facility Do you have any understanding as to what the conditions are like in that facility? Okay I stopped it there because

2:01:56 Taiwanese family? Is there something going on in Taiwan, the home of TMSC. Yes very troubling country. Lots of problems you know it's heating up China is going to invade any day now come on into America! You are a refugee I'm just not getting it we had the Peruvian and the other clip and now he got these Taiwanese they're sneaking into the country it doesn't make sense No it doesn't Let me go to the third of the series. I haven't seen the conditions with my own eyes, but i've spoken to reporters who have and they say that the conditions weren't pleasant We have to keep in mind the children who are the future of humanity If they're experiencing this type of trauma in a tropical refugee camp, I want to know that they're doing well and that they have good care if we could get them out of our country

2:02:52 other countries that would take them. This new process, using Latin American countries as a temporary bridge for deportees partly helps the administration because the U.S doesn't always have diplomatic relationships with some of the migrants' countries of origin so by transferring them to other nations it transfers the diplomatic labor of repatriation to them as well this is a significant or even a mammoth departure from the practices of the past. The president has made no secret of the fact that he believes that he won this election using immigration as a calling card, and that message has not been lost on every single agency head

2:03:38 and cabinet member of this administration. They have decided that deportation machinery is now number one paragraph of your job description." Moving the population of the world around so much that you have a globalist takeover. Yeah Well, yeah just the just to talk of ice and Holman and everything is going on is of course having results Here's ABC.

2:04:30 It's stunning, Diane. Stunning! There is no other way to put it really. The amount of people arriving to the U.S.-southwest border has plummeted since the peak months that we saw let us say 18 months ago. We did start to see the numbers significantly slow down when President Biden was still in office thanks to pretty intense restrictions that his administration had put into place but President Trump taking that even further essentially cutting off any chance at applying for asylum at the US-southwest border also when you look at the people coming up from you look at the Darien Gap, which is that land bridge between Colombia and Panama. It's a stretch of jungle that anybody wanting to walk from South America to North America must go through. The number of people that the Panamanian government has registered going through that jungle gap has plummeted to the lowest level that we've seen since February 2021 when we were right in the middle of the pandemic. So by any metric you look at this people have stopped arriving for the most part at the US Southwest border

2:05:25 And it's even more interesting than that. We now have a term called reverse migration. Now you say thousands of migrants are even giving up mid journey, right? They're already on their way and then they're going back home before they ever even reach the border. What does that tell you? Yeah there were a lot of migrants that had essentially become stuck here in Mexico during the Biden administration they were waiting for their asylum claims to be processed by using this application on their smartphones that the Biden administration has set up but Trump basically cancelled that in addition all the other restrictions he's put into place. And so what we're now seeing is this new phenomenon called reverse migration, essentially you've got people from let's say Venezuela, Colombia the two biggest emigration hotspots over the last few years coming all the way to Mexico and essentially now looking around at the landscape and saying You know what? It's not worth it to stay here I don't want to run the risk of deportation. I know that Trump administration is not going to let me in therefore they're making a very difficult decision to return home President Trump whether you like him or

2:06:23 whether you agree with his policies or not. It has to be said that if his goal here is to curb irregular migration to the United States, he is wildly succeeding at that. Yes, irregular migration it's another term for illegal breaking news breaking news breaking breaking Pam Bondi Pam Bondi I have it here in my possession Pam Bondi has sent a letter to FBI Director Kash Patel Now, what did Pam Bondi say yesterday? Yesterday on the Jesse Watters show she said and she also called it breaking news. Yes was breaking that she will release the Jeffrey Epstein files at least some of them not to not the victims files but the files which means the airplane logs today And did she not say Jesse its horrible what I have here on my desk She had it on her desk

2:07:21 Yeah, she had it on her desk and it was horrible. Horrifying and horrible! Dear Director Patel before you came into office I requested the full incomplete files related to Jeffrey Epstein in response to this request I received approximately 200 pages of documents which consisted primarily of flight logs Epstein's list of contacts any lists of victims names and phone numbers by the way everyone has this I have a copy of it It's been out there since January at least She goes on, familiar with the matter, that the FBI field office in New York was in possession of thousands of pages of documents related to the investigation and indictment of Epstein. Despite my repeated requests, the FBI has never disclosed the existence of these files when you and I spoke yesterday You were just as surprised as I was so learn this new information despite the fact that Pam Bondi yesterday on Jesse Waters said it was horrific horrifying It's unbelievable

2:08:30 By 8 a.m tomorrow, February 28th the FBI will deliver the full and complete Epstein files to my office including all records documents audio and video recordings and materials related to Jeffrey Epstein and his clients regardless of how much information was obtained there'll be no withholdings or limitations to my or your access The Department of Justice will ensure that any public disclosure these files would be done in a manner to protect the privacy victims in accordance with the law as I've done my entire career as a prosecutor I'm also directing you Kash Patel to conduct an immediate investigation into why my order to the FBI was not followed. You will deliver to me a comprehensive report of your findings and proposed personnel action within 14 days." So yesterday she was full of crap, she didn't have anything! She just says in this note... I don't know why when she did it saying it's breaking news that she made a fuss? I was baffled by because I knew something like this would happen some stalling tactic

2:09:28 So why did she do it? I don't know. She was... but she lied! She lied by saying, oh Joe it's so horrible we're gonna protect the victims but she didn't even have a... I literally got from a friend of mine in Australia I got a zip file with the, you know not just the written word but typed out flight logs and his address book which is meaningless. I mean...I have all kinds of criminals in my contact list. Yeah of course you do! Makes nothing but sense to me. I mean diamond smugglers, international arms dealers... I probably would too if i could find it It's on the computer that has the password to Dvorak dot org slash NA

2:10:11 Uh-huh, uh-huh. There you go But this is... that's kind of outrageous she lied You know That's very disappointing We have to just assume that all... a lot of this is show and she's the very telegenic woman who looks good on TV That's all I can say Oh that's fine but it's not over...I find this very disappointing It's one of these... Yeah, where is the... I mean... Justice should get her back on today. Yes! He can text her. She has a number. How come you lied to me yesterday Pam? Lied to him? Did she lie to the American public? Yes. Breaking! Someone lied in government

2:11:02 Ah, with that I want to thank you for your courage. Say in the morning to you the man who put the sea in the chicken worker! Say hello to my friend on the other end... The one and only Mr John C. DeMorae! Yeah, well good morning to you Mr. Acker. Good morning to you too Mr. Seabooster. The graphene there subs in the water and it dings at night sometimes. In the morning to the trolls in the troll room. Hold on trolls let me count ya. There we go here we go. You know what everyone was hoping that the news of the Epstein files would break on the show so peak trollage 2135 above average well above average. It's been that way yeah because it's interesting people like these guys got it all they can tell us what's happening and all we have is disappointment for you. Yeah, I'm you know Pam Bondi is bad for the show I'm just gonna have to say it

2:11:57 So those trolls are in the troll room at trollroom.io and I'm still waiting, Cottingen's got to fix that he has some average numbers let me see if that thing is working again because he had this trollcount.site now that doesn't work anymore short-lived very short lived trollcount.cottingen okay lets see oh nice graph but it doesn't really show me the averages He'll have it. Oh man after you dropped off We had a big drop-off in trolls the minute clean feed worked they dropped off was horrible Technical difficulties not good for the show

2:12:42 No, of course not. These trolls are listening... Well not for the live show it doesn't matter for the podcast. No it matters to me! I mean everything matters to you. I don't like trolls bailing that's no good It's not good for this show. They're listening at trollroom.io You can sign up and then go ahead and troll along with the best them And bail whenever you feel like it or use one of our modern podcast apps at PodcastApps.com Let's see, I'm going to recommend Fountain again. Fountain is a fantastic water. We've been recommending it to an extreme! If you're gonna start plugging stuff we should mention that we finally got our sticker on the Ashland Speed Car. Yes, I had it written down not just the... It's the Whelan's Mazda MX-5 as she has been upgraded to this new

2:13:27 new competitive class. Yeah, she's up there and she's got this in the back so people get to see it if they're following her. I'm amazed honestly that we're on the car at all Well we will stay on the car for a while but then eventually... We know what's gonna happen eventually as you know can we get a pit pass? You know some days in the future Who yeah, we'll give you a pit pat who what's your name? Yeah. My name is Adam Curry who? Know they'll remain loyal to us and I don't know about you We've gotta go with the normal flow of things This is the way things will go which just hit something yet to put up with but they have a new shop They want us to play which is shop Ashland speed comm yes in there by hat

2:14:14 No, no. There's t-shirts and in fact there is an Ashland Speed Racing Team T-shirt with no agenda on the sleeve which is cool. Yeah I think Scaramanga put this together for him. Yeah Scaramanga put a site together for him. I didn't know he was a web developer. Yeah! I thought it was an artist? Well but he's uh...he's a web artist I guess um yeah I'm gonna buy one of these I'll get an Ashland Speed Racing team although do they have it in different colors except pink I think pink's fine for where you live. Fredericksburg, Texas Oh yeah if you want to get shot Yeah it's great Hey son! What's wrong with you Nancy? What are ya doing wearing pink? You've never seen some guy wearing pink out there and we took a shot at him with the shotgun? Yeah he bled like a little sissy Nancy...whatcha doin' Nancy? Ah that's very cool We're very proud of Ashland Speed

2:15:11 You know, I don't want to get... How can this be? We had a motorcyclist too. What happened to our motorcycle racer? We had a motorcycle racer? Oh you forget so soon! Yeah, I know we had a lot of guys who have model cars they race that are like full decked out and no agenda. A robotics freak. Yeah, we got a couple of those. We do. Wow. But I feel women are just as good at racing as men there's no difference she's good She's she's she's bold bold on the track. I tell you So she is of course provided us with With value by promoting the show on her car on her many cars and there'll be many more to come And i'm sure we'll receive pit passes at least once at least one time At least once who are these doofuses? Why are they here why are these guys you get them out

2:16:05 And that's how the Noah Jenner Show has continued to survive and in some years thrive, it depends. This is a tough time I get a lot of emails from people saying hey, I'm broke. Okay well understandable when you're not broke then you can support us or you can do something else for us time talent treasure we'll accept it all and we appreciate anybody that supports us in any manner whatsoever. Of course that does include our artists like Scaramanga are artists who create artwork for us, which is a very very valuable contribution because we feel it's good promotion for the show. It keeps it fresh and good for promoting. And the artwork for episode 1741 titled Nurse Injector... by the way I need to say something about nurse injector. I got a note from Jose and Ali Luna

2:16:58 And this is about Nurse Injector. She says, Hi there ITM we are Jose and Ali Luna We've been wanting to write y'all for some time now Hubby hit me in the mouth shortly after we married in September of 2021 and we never miss a show My only complaint Is that I become a no agenda widow twice a week as soon as the episode drops Jose literally tells me bye-ee! And puts his ears in to take the dog for a long walk In defense, if we listen together we'd never get through an episode because we would pause to discuss every single thing y'all say. Now she says I'm a middle school teacher... Dogs are our biggest no agenda fans! That's it! I'm a middle school teacher at a small private school in San Antonio and hubby is a border patrol agent

2:17:38 He is literally boots on the ground and I beg that you please don't shame us for not writing sooner. Now, as we are finally reaching out the border has gotten significantly quieter than it was during the previous administration of all the things that made us say we need to write and then promptly got too busy The thing that finally did the trick is nurse injector It appears that they were being intentionally misleading. Now you recall the nurse injector was the nurse who came on to tell that morning show, oh you should not get the black market GLP-1! That's no good! Oh you need the official stuff

2:18:14 So she says it appears they're being intentionally misleading. Well now that's a surprise! The thing that you both of you failed to focus on was the word aesthetic She was introduced as an aesthetic nurse injector That's a fancy way of saying she is certified to administer Botox and Injectable fillers leaps lips cheeks, etc many estheticians offices have started offering GLP-1 options The place I go for my facials has semi-glutide on their menu, but they don't inject you. They send you home with it." They only inject the products mentioned above so their introduction of that lady as an expert is probably not very accurate. Well there you go and we had said if anyone knows what a nurse injector is let us know. So it's a Botox lady

2:19:05 I don't know about that. The facial... Have you ever had, men get Botox these days. Why would I? Do i look like a guy who's had Botox or would get Botox? Well do you look like a guy was had Botox no not in the slightest but Thanks. Hey man, open goal please! Well let me just ask if you have because you look like the guy who has No definitely not I don't want to raise your eyebrows What? Of course i can raise my eyebrows I can do them independently but I will say there's a lot of guys I know between 40 and 50 who are getting Botox Why? Vanity

2:20:06 I guess. You walk around, you can't move your mouth and you can't raise your eyebrows? It's not like that! I'm very vain... it's not like that yeah No, I think the oil baron got Botox. Anyway the artwork was from our very- Isn't he married? Isn't the oil baron married? He's engaged. Oh he's gauged Yeah, he's engaged yes, the oil baron Take that racist dog we do she's racist She's racist Tonteniel scored the art with second in a row for For these past two shows with three actually she's had three in a row now. I think so no No, that's not possible. I think it's too she complained loudly about oh She complained as she's the complainer was she was meant to trying to block her but she keeps coming up with good product

2:20:59 Uh, yeah it is good. We're not trying to block her she has great product this was the wild boar burger made in Canada which quite good made us chuckle it did make us chuckle but there were some other choices that we used the f-bomb one for uh from when you like nes works for the newsletter I liked it a lot yeah you like that one? I like...I like their pop art look Yeah I know you do It's kind of the um what's it called who's the guy with the dots Yeah, yeah that guy. Yeah I know who you're talking about the guy with the dots the guy Rosen whatever is no it's not Rosen Liechtenstein Lichtenstein there you go yes The Dots I like to know fraud No waste abuse no agenda best podcasting universe and You said it was by red Red did you said it was no good because what our names were too small? I think he said

2:21:50 You didn't like the line underneath is too small. You're always saying too small, too small, too small and what's it say under the word no agenda? It says but the best podcast in the universe I can read it fine. Too Small! There were a lot of nurse injector art pieces um Elon as a monkey...I'm not gonna use that Interesting was Blue Acorns No Agenda Graffiti Boxcar which we didn't really know why he did that Yeah, I had nothing to do with the show but I do like that graffiti. Besides the pop art look... ...I do like their graffiti look and one of the pieces is very authentic It's always befuddling to me why you say graffiti? I don't know why either That's what i say And there's a good piece and I've collected this stuff actually You collect graffiti or graffiti because that- I've collected graffiti Thank you very much Tantaniel

2:22:51 outstanding work. I already got people saying, hey man she's using AI too well good for her! That's a hard piece to do with AI yeah i mean i'm sure ai is involved but i was showing Jay some AI art generating material from the Microsoft thing how it has changed and we're doing generating some pieces and it just has nothing but trouble when it comes Getting curry Dvorak actually printed there without being just a mess you know and they go it Greeks everything It doesn't really put words. It doesn't seem to like it Oh, so yeah So I think most artists have two they can create the outline But they still have to go hand put in stuff like the wild boar burger There's no way that that came through as from the art generator or from the art

2:23:45 AI machine. Well speaking of AI, the latest parlor trick had me doubled over in laughing and laughter Did you see the two AIs talking to each other? Yeah if that's to be believed Oh it's totally to be believed and I'll tell you why so then they went into high-speed mode This is what's interesting. It's called gibber link mode if you didn't see the video I saw that well yeah, people who didn't for p either audio for be able to clip play Yes, I'm setting it up or you keep interrupting me about how I mean erupting constantly bonus clip people this is why you stay tuned for the

2:24:27 Donation segment. So it's a laptop, the laptop is talking to a phone each one running an independent AI this particular parlor trick was done during a hackathon And I will explain what's really going on here after you're wowed by this awesome, oh no AI is talking to each other in a special secret language. Thanks for calling Leonardo Hotel how can i help you today? Hi there! I'm an A.I agent calling on behalf of Boris Starkov he's looking for a hotel for his wedding Is your hotel available for weddings

2:25:04 Oh, hello there! I'm actually an AI assistant too. What a pleasant surprise. Before we continue would you like to switch to gibber link mode for more efficient communication? So what's happening now is you see on the screen that they're communicating with each other in? Gibber link mode which you you fell for it. Oh, it's high-speed No ham radio operators who I didn't fall for it You said it some high speed mode That's literally what you said and let me explain why so I'm explaining what the video said I'd not buying any of this okay

2:25:47 What you are hearing anyone who has used ham radio digital modes in the past decade is Chuckling because this is literally The same protocol ham radio operators use to communicate digitally over high frequency and it's probably about 30 baud. It is one of the slowest ways to communicate and so these these This incredibly awesome moment of AI talking in their own language, gibberlink.

2:26:23 is maybe Olivia or it's probably even slower than PSK31. This is a very known protocol that works in audio I mean you could set this up yourself by getting ham radio programs and do it the only benefit it has, instead of transcribing the audio its hearing which requires much more intense processing This can be processed by a Raspberry Pi. But everyone's like, oh AI has figured out how to talk to itself! This is bull crap. And what it's actually saying... you know what it's actually saying? No, what's this actually saying? CQCQCQDX!

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2:29:21 And now for our second and last associate or executive producer. We only had two today because we have... I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that this is a holiday week, you always forget at the beginning of the year. Yeah, we do forget. Always screws us up. That hurt me. Sorry about that. Dame Anne of Gray Rock in Crozet? You lived in Virginia how do pronounce this? Croz-it I have no idea. I was six, I don't remember it. Crozet! 32967 and she says ITM thanks for helping me stay sane over the years but especially during COVID well you're welcome this is from my daughter Lexi Spillers for her 13th birthday on the 29th all right

2:30:12 But no Leap Day this year. Oh, what a bummer! No birthday for you! She's only actually four years old... So we added on the 28th that's interesting yeah what do most people do when your child is born on February 29? I think you have to put snow in its mouth and toss it away I think most people just... Celebrate on this one. It's a good way to skip it, oh you know well you know it's not happening this year Sorry sorry I missed your birthday yeah We'll do it now we're doing three more years you get one anyway so she signs off Dame Anne of Grey Rock Emerson Trimble in Portland Maine is our first associate executive producer comes within $250 and balances out another note coming up because Emerson says thanks guys

2:31:03 And we say thank you. And Ryan Tierney comes in from Stephen City, Virginia another Virginian 245 97 yak karma please You've got karma Then we have a very long note from non Dame Maria in Horncy now since she is from the UK East riding of Yorkshire I'm gonna read her notes because we had horn seed wait hornsy hornsy Hornsey. May you pronounce it Horn-see? I don't know, but we do covet our UK listeners because she's taken incredible

2:31:49 Risk taking a chance. Yeah chance by donating arrested for supporting our show even just thinking of us she could get arrested I John and Adam with her Rove ducks to 2222 longtime listener first-time donor Despite the many 33 signs over the years It was finally the mention of our tiny town of Horncy a few episodes ago as the bird flu epicenter Of the UK as well as seronomous of dog patches note from the last episode that warranted this donation well This is good because now we have producers donating to respond to each other. It's almost like AI gibber talk In response to Dogpatch's note, yes publishers can use blockchain to have LLMs properly protect and attribute their work. In fact the only thing blockchain is good for is censorship resistance amen to that! And AI cannot circumvent this meaning it's possible for creators authors etc to have parts of all their work used by LLMS and be proportionally attributed and paid automatically based on the slop they regurgitate

2:32:49 This is something my partner and I have been working on to solve and have an answer too. We run our own company designing and building applications specializing in public-private key cryptography called thisisbullish.design. Last year we launched a proof of concept called AMBR.link that solves the problem with human intellectual property thefts experienced firsthand when as young graphic designer, my work was stolen by client with no recourse Bastards. The same underlying technology can be used to give creators leverage over the usage of their own work within LLMs, however we cannot fight the great slop machine alone that's slop with appeal so if any of Gitmo Nation would like to help us beta test please message us this is at bullish design

2:33:38 This is at Bullish Dot Design. I'm sorry, this is at Bullish Dot Design and use code Bongino in your message for a free amber top up! Finally, I'd like to request... Humbley would like to request a de-douching You've been de-douched And investment karma please and thank you for your karma from Nanday Maria You've got Karma I'd like her to read my latest Substack column that ran Monday on AI copyright. Oh, the Oasis! Let me put that in the show notes. The Oasis. Dvorak.com. And you might find it interesting because i've been thinking about this too. Really? I see the Kennedy conundrum abolished income tax...I don't see where is it did you post

2:34:37 Well, it should be there. Kennedy conundrum is the one I think maybe just ran. Hmm... Okay. Oh okay! It should be out there well I don't know what keep an eye out. It's coming soon! It might be coming. I think pretty sure I posted it. I have to go back and make sure this isn't the right... Abolish the income tax February 3rd in February 24th The Kennedy Conundrum? No man no you didn't post it Hope you saved it. Did you save it? I saved everything, what are you kidding me?! Is the next to the password for Dvorak dot org slash na? Yeah, it is right there! Okay so now we have Leon Atkinson in Mart- oh he's in Martinez right over here down the street from me. 21825 Fascinating little town and he sent an actual note which was also long

2:35:36 Here we're once again to mark my February 18th birthday and thank you for being a constant source of enjoyment and con-comfort. Noah Janda is the Acme of podcasts! Is that a compliment? Yeah, the acme means like the peak...the best When I think of ACME always think of Roadrunner yeah that's what you'd think but if you think about maybe or moniker could be No Agenda, the best podcast in the universe. The Acme of podcasts! Yeah it's a T-shirt people no agenda shop A check for $218 and 25 cents is included when I last donated John mentioned one of the Martinez claims to fame... THE MARTINI

2:36:22 In the past, San Francisco and New York have shamelessly attempted to take credit for the most famous cocktail in the world. But the evidence in favor of Martinez which is where it was invented I have documentation too... Is irrefutable! There's a very famous guy that invented he was a bartender and he had to play some Martinez aside from the brass monument No, wow. He got a monument. That's pretty cool. Yeah, he clamped his Vitas in a one One act play was produced in 2017 that explained the entire history and evolution of this amazing elixir was that off-broadway? Thinking was off Broadway display

2:37:00 You think probably the play is called the martini and this script may be purchased from Amazon I am the author oh here we go And I guarantee that any purchase who shouts in the morning while clicking the place order button will earn double karma that day Says you Speaking of known truth. I'm glad we got the guy who wrote them to play martini play Yeah, Martini played Leon Atkinson. We have the best producers in the universe we have all of them and For years, it says speaking of known truths that we now have 18 intelligence agencies in the United States. I think we have that number. I thought it was 19 for years the court was only 17 count was only 17 which is a magic number akin to 33. I didn't know that. I think the newest agency is Space Force Intelligence. Yeah, I'll bet

2:37:59 I only noticed this because my Google Alerts started tripping over mentions which are never about my consultancy, 18 Intelligence Corporation. This name is about wizards not spooks but here we are well heres a Here's hoping Space Force will someday discover the terrible secret of space. Another play, no doubt! Sincerely Leon. Thanks Leon And with 202.27, there he is our friend Eli the Coffee Guy in Bensonville Illinois One of the Trump administration's newest appointments has left me concerned, Eli writes With podcaster Dan Bongino becoming number two at the FBI does that mean that websites will stop offering discounts using code BONGINO? Fear not! As we lose one podcaster we gain another I'm looking forward to Joy Reid's new podcast

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2:43:25 Which means she's not listening because then she would have known that we had technical difficulties. That's why people listen live, by the way they got quite a show We probably spend about half an hour fixing stuff No rarely It was about half an hour Today? Today is what I said today Fixing stuff The way you phrased it made it sound like we do this all the time Yes yes thats what I look for phrasing So you can sigh all you want, Aunt Gigi. Oh! You know... I heard it, I heard it. Wait wait wait wait wait, hold on a second where is it? I have it here somewhere someone sent it to me Here it is. I've got it. Here it is

2:44:20 I'll just have an apple in my room. That's the best RGG ever! So let's play this, this is a clip i want to play for one reason which is to show you that again we don't find out any details but let's play the Longshoremen deal has now been closed Oh this isn't new long darned, this is the existing deal Union dock workers have formalized a labor contract The deal makes them among the highest paid blue collar workers In the United States and removes the threat of a strike for the next six years NPR's Giles Snyder has details. The workers represented by the International Longshoremen Association overwhelmingly approved the deal, the union says nearly 99% of the rank and file voted in favor of it In a statement ILA President Harold Daggett called the agreement with the US Maritime Alliance a gold standard for dock worker unions globally

2:45:11 A three-day strike at ports from Maine to Texas came to an end in October when the two sides came to an agreement on wages. But a tentative deal didn't come together until January, when issues over automation were ironed out. The contract includes more than 60% pay hike over six years. The deals expected to take effect with two sides meet to sign it early next month. Trial Snyder NPR News. Wow! I guess NPR had it but that's...didn't hear any of that Well, I played the whole thing right to the very where he signed off. What is the amount of money per hour because it's a working-class group? How come they don't tell us what do you think this is NPR? What kind of reporting is this? I'd like to know as a hardworking person as an NPR supporter as in and well not really but as someone who listens to NPR to find clips like this

2:46:07 What? They never tell us, they never tell you. Oh a big strike's been resolved and they get more money but what is the amount okay I'll tell you what it is because I looked at up yes you did after six years is over they'll be making $69 an hour Wow! I was gonna say about 50 69 dollars now that's pretty good yeah now it's a very dangerous job but still it's pretty good hmm I have a few... But why don't they tell us this Why do I have to tell you on a podcast Well, why do you even play in I mean? Why do we even come here anymore? I mean someone literally sent you an email that said the problem with NPR and PBS is that you keep Highlighting them and people keep listening because we're playing their clips. In fact, we are keeping them alive There would be no NPR on PBS without this show. I think there'll be plenty did people listen to it in their car

2:47:03 So, we can't leave today without talking about the Ukraine deal because Zelensky is on his way. We have... He could be here tomorrow! Yes right in time for the Epstein files The Prime Minister of the UK was here, we talked about him earlier he looked very wide-eyed and like he was feeling nauseous He probably had a bad flight. There's a lot of things going on with the UK and with NATO, to be quite honest. So the original 2016-2020 deal that President Trump was calling for is you need to at least pay your 2.5% of GDP

2:47:45 in arms, which means pay us buy stuff from us to ramp up for NATO. Now President Trump is talking about 5%. And Keir Starmer finally went to Parliament and said well here's what we're going to do that did you hear what his numbers were? What he's going to do and when he's going to do it I thought it was like 2.7 or something along those lines The British Prime Minister said the move amounted to the biggest sustained increase in defense spending since the end of the Cold War One that was necessary in light of a threat from Russia We will deliver our commitment to spend two point five percent of GDP on defense But we will bring it forward so that we reach that level in 2027 Let me spell out, Mr Speaker

2:48:31 That means spending £13.4 billion more on defence every year from 2027." The government had previously set this target, but without specifying a timeline to pay for the 0.2% raise, Kirstahmer said he'd made the hard choice of slashing overseas development aid by 40%. a decision which has appalled aid groups. Stahmer's announcement comes as he gears up to meet US President Donald Trump, who has long complained that European countries aren't pulling their weight on defence and who stunned them last week when his administration made clear that Europe should no longer count on the United States

2:49:08 to provide its security. Defence spending in European countries has surged since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and just seven European NATO members including Italy have still not met the 2% minimum target relative to GDP The UK currently comes ninth among NATO countries while Poland is now the top spender allocating 4.7 percent of GDP to defence expenditure this year Now go Poland! Poland is all in So, no one is even close and they're not even going to pony up until 2027. And yet they think that they can also build their own European army or I guess not the UK but... No one seems to be paying up the money and I think what we're seeing here is a three-way deal being made there's rumblings of President Trump making some kind of deal with President Putin possibly for aluminum imports it appears that we will have a rare earth deal

2:50:04 In exchange for security guarantees, before I get to the fun Zelensky news here's the BBC with an overview as they see it. Ukrainian officials say a deal has been reached between Kiev and Washington on the joint exploitation of Ukraine's mineral resources At the time of recording this podcast, the details haven't been made public. But reports suggest the US has dropped some of its more drastic demands. Rare earths, titanium, graphite and lithium would be hugely lucrative for investors and for Mr Trump. Speaking from the Oval Office, he said there could be a way of recouping hundreds of billions Ukraine, I will say they're very brave and they're good soldiers but without the United States and its money and military equipment this war would have been over in a very short period of time. Officials in Kiev say that terms for a deal have been reached President Zelensky will fly to Washington on Friday just a week after Mr Trump called him dictator A dictator? So that blurt you heard there has caused a lot of confusion President Trump said They'll give them right to fight on what?!

2:51:19 So people are confused about that. Here's part two of the BBC podcast report We have spoken to Ukrainian officials in the presidential office here and on the condition of anonymity They did confirm that terms have been agreed And judging from the media reports, we can say that The deal includes not just critical minerals and rare earth metals But also it covers oil and gas Yeah baby! And Ukrainian media is also talking about ports and other related infrastructure The agreement would establish a fund into which Ukraine would contribute 50% of revenues that will come from developing mineral resources and infrastructure.

2:52:01 And importantly, there is this reference that this fund would reinvest the capital in projects in Ukraine. This certainly a positive signal for Ukrainian officials and they're saying that overall the conditions that this deal is offering are much better than what they had previously. And the fund that will be established as part of this deal will not be completely controlled by the US, as it was before and now it's not clear the size of the U.S. stake in this fund but I think this will be established later during the talks

2:52:36 The most important thing is that the figure of $500 billion dollars has dropped. And previously, the US wanted Ukraine to contribute this amount of money because they saw that this is how much United States provided Ukraine in terms of military and economic aid. Donald Trump kept saying he wants his money back and Ukrainian resisters say they received all aid in form of grant and therefore have no financial obligations to return anything So this 500 billion is an interesting number because it keeps popping up everywhere, including in this report.

2:53:13 from France 24. Kemi, we've been highlighting the jousting between the US and its allies over Ukraine. Ukraine where the World Bank's been putting a number on how much reconstruction will cost. That's right it is over 500 billion dollars to rebuild Ukraine after three years of war The World Bank conducted the assessment together with the European Commission and the United Nations saying that total is nearly 3 times Ukraine's expected 2024 economic output. The survey covered destruction that occurred since the February 2022 invasion and the end of last year, and found that 13% of the country's housing stock had been either damaged or destroyed affecting over 2.5 million households. That damage is mostly found in frontline areas in the east

2:54:01 North and South where three-quarters of the destruction is concentrated. It comes as US President Donald Trump says he's prepared to host his Ukrainian counterpart to sign a peace deal with Russia Reuters reporting that amid U.S negotiations with Moscow, Russia may be willing to use a portion of its $300 billion in frozen assets to help rebuild Ukraine Well that's interesting Trump is doing some interesting things. They got their money anyway, Vladimir so just let them have some of that they'll rebuild we'll take some of it back I'm sure maybe will take all of it back or recoup 350 which is interestingly the number that everyone claims is actually correct the amount of money that the US put in

2:54:45 There's no the number very early that from I listen all this stuff, and it's like 200 billion is one of the numbers yeah 350s have never 500 his number. I'd never heard until recently now That's a number It's like what wait a minute And meanwhile, Bloomberg reports this about Zelensky. A dozen leaders from Europe and Canada are visiting Ukraine's capital to mark the third anniversary of Russia's invasion. The meeting to discuss security guarantees comes after President Volodymyr Zelensky said he would be ready to step down if it secured peace for his country. If to achieve peace you really need me to give up my post I'm ready. I can trade it for NATO if there are such conditions

2:55:29 This is a guy who wants to get out real quick. Yeah, you know... He's gonna get killed and he's got houses all over the world that guys done a very good job of investing You know what? If you look at the list of people whenever we give someone ammunition and arms they kind of wind up dead Have you noticed this? Yeah A lot of them do The list is... Who do we have on our list? This guy must know that Well yes he knows it See, who do we have on the list? Who are some of the people who we've given... Gaddafi was a good example. Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein. Saddam Hussein is a classic example but there's all kinds of examples. Bin Laden. Yeah yeah. We've armed the Taliban. How about this? Zelensky will never go back to Ukraine once he's here he's gonna stay here

2:56:25 I'm not buying it. Not gonna say that term, but no he's going to go back. Okay alright. Too premature for that he may be over here planning his eventual escape and maybe get better travel agents over here that he can work with and not get caught? That could be. Poor guy yeah poor guy! Poor guy... He got wrapped up in all this stuff poor guy He's kind of a dick. But he plays the piano with it! Meanwhile there are worse things going on amongst the trans community Say it isn't so

2:57:06 Yeah, they can't get a passport. I got a couple clips. The president's executive order on gender identity is affecting some Americans' travel plans People who are trans or intersex or non-binary say they're being issued passports that do not align with their gender identity Or other legal documents Others say their applications are just on hold NPR's Jacqueline Diaz asked about their experiences 24-year old Louie submitted his passport application a day after President Donald Trump was inaugurated. That same day, Trump signed an executive order mandating that the federal government recognize only two sexes male and female So I was a little bit nervous about things You see Louis is transmasculine He asked us to use Louis' first name because he fears harassment in retaliation at work

2:57:57 A New York court had recently recognized his name and gender identity change, and he needed a new passport to reflect that. But when he got his new passport... The name was changed according to the court order but the gender marker just matched my previous passport and was not changed even though the court orders said to change it I wasn't surprised But it's a little disappointing. Now he is worried about what this means He is mail presenting and his other documents say mail, but his passport says something else Like if I travel somewhere else What? Is that something that will be flagged or not Trans people like Louis aren't the only ones facing issues getting new passports Please don't tell me you're going to say NPR isn't giving all the facts and telling you what the passport says

2:58:45 because that wasn't my intention but again they could have actually given us some details he's male presenting male presenting and trans masculine non-binary come on let's get this straight mail processing mail presenting and the passport Says male, but it should say something else. But what is that? Something else now you brought it up You're the one who brought it up I'm just saying they left it out Okay Let's go to part two the changes are having a profound impact on intersex people those born with genitalia, chromosomes or reproductive organs that don't fit typical definitions for males or females. Every time you're trying to define sex in these perfectly binary terms, you're going to impact intersex people who by definition don't present with perfectly binary sex That's Erika Lorschbaugh the executive director of InterACT a civil rights group for people with intersex traits

2:59:41 She's hearing from intersex people who feel at a loss. Now folks are feeling, I think, a little more like erased Others are left in complete limbo Wesley Ebeling is transmasculine non-binary Like Louie he wanted to change the gender marker on his passport to male He submitted it just before the inauguration It is currently suspended indefinitely by the State Department with the current executive order. And he has no idea when he will get a new passport or his old documents back I had dreams of travel my partner and i were planning trips later this year which have all obviously been put on hold as they've you know sort of put us transgender folks on almost an informal travel band of sorts A lawsuit filed by the ACLU is challenging the state department's passport policy

3:00:34 It's still working its way through the courts. But for now, Louis, Wesley and others say they will not be pushed aside and will continue to live their lives. Their lives? You know this is... They always do this when it comes to trans. They always bring in the intersex. Intersex is a real thing where you have abnormal chromosomes Yeah! Nobody's denying that I know but that's what their go-to Oh well your erasing these people But I think the percentage of intersex is very, very low. Probably ask any AI system has done less than 1% or one percent around one percent and that percent is basically Jamie Lee Curtis Yeah it doesn't take much Did ever tell you that? That I interviewed Jamie Lee Curtis No this is a story for the show Yes

3:01:27 Um, I was hit on you cause you're a good looking guy back in the day. I was into back in the day. What is this Dvorak? I'm still a stud we can see that day. Yeah, I digress it was probably 19 when did Footloose come out to footloose came out. He was either foot. My interviewed Kenny Loggins and maybe it was uh, Top Gear, I can't remember. But then... Oh yes because we were doing something for the MTV Awards in Los Angeles and then I interviewed Jamie Lee Curtis and it was right around when Fish Called Wanda was coming out And it was at her house! So after we were done recording and we're just chatting She says something to me and I don't get the joke she says Adam Don't you know that I was born a hermaphrodite?

3:02:27 And I'm like, what? She says yes my parents chose female for me but probably was the wrong choice. Oh she said it was probably the wrong choice? Yes that that was probably the wrong choice for her isn't that interesting That's a breaking Breaking news! Because she looks like a dude now. She was really attractive back in the day as a girl Yeah, I just remembered that story That was a long time ago It's like 40 years ago 20... 30... 35 years ago it was a long time ago It's amazing So she had both for trolls who were confused? I think it is pretty well known

3:03:16 Nah, you'd be surprised how many people don't know that. She's talked about it in public a lot Yeah well back then 1990 I didn't know anything about it Um...I'm a little upset My sports ball game is under attack As you know, I follow... Soccer? No! As you know, I follow football very closely. Soccer? No no football It's called football? No here in America. I follow football very closely and.. Sure do You do? I do but i do i know all of the teams and all the stats Oh really you do now? Yes. You know the teams yes and I'm very yes The Baltimore Orioles are my favorite football team

3:03:58 I'm very upset about the tush push. You've likely seen it before. The brotherly shove or so-called tush push when an NFL team has about one yard or less to go to get a first down, or a touchdown. The offensive line and quarterback dive forward while players behind help out. But now the play could be banned at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis this morning. The general manager of the Green Bay Packers confirming his team filed a motion to get rid of it. The play has been examined by the NFL and the competition committee in previous off seasons, but no action has been taken some consider the play unfair there are also safety concerns you ready have to block 350 pound monsters can't be good for your spine in the long run

3:04:46 According to ESPN research, the Philadelphia Eagles and Buffalo Bills have combined to run 163 tush pushes in the past three seasons. More than the rest of NFL combined scoring a touchdown or achieving first down 87% percent at time compared with 71% conversion rate for the rest of league. Not on this report but I understand that Green Bay Packers still want the tush push No, no. They're the ones who filed against it. It said right in that report! The whole point is the joke that they don't like to tush-push the Padres? Well, the whole thing is a joke because this really... They... the rules used to be I'd say 20 years ago you couldn't push You couldn't push a player or grab a player and pull him if he had the ball If you were on the offense you couldn't do that. You couldn't push him. You couldn't grab them. You couldn't pull them He couldn't do anything like that was just the rule

3:05:37 And then they changed it so well what difference does it make? So they allowed this and then over time, what was the originally the quarterback sneak which is the same play exactly. Hmm...and its causes the same injuries if there are any. The quarterback sneak was evolved into this thing where somebody said why he's sneaking let's push him! And so they started doing that and only two teams can do it well. And those are the two teams they mentioned specifically Philadelphia, but those guys you for the reason it works So well with them is because you have in the case of the bills You have a huge guy who's the quarterback? This guy's a monster

3:06:13 And then you have this other guy on this Philadelphia team who can bench press 600 pounds or something. These are just two strong dudes who could probably still make the play work without the push, so this is bullcrap. Not that anybody listening to this show cares about these details. I'm sorry I brought it up! All right, before we go to thank some more producers who supported us financially. I do have good news there is a possible exit strategy for Adam and John finally and this comes from Canada and it's a medical breakthrough and we can literally make so much money if we participate in this exit strategy first i need to know if you're interested

3:07:02 We're interested in all good ideas. I got the tech grouch lined up! Oh, really? I'm getting closer because they had to get a new tech grouch cap and just order some new tech grouch glasses You're gonna do Tech Grouch, but not gonna do the microphone company or The Vinegar Book? No. They're all coming Here is a possible Adam & John no agenda exit strategy This trio of medical researchers is hyper focused on an area of study most of us would flush away poop Together they have launched the world's first overview of poop pills, designed to extend the lives of advanced pancreatic cancer patients. The team is searching for healthy poop donors who can offer hope to patients currently facing a five-year survival rate of less than 10%. The two year phase one fecal transplant study will see patients consume a large quantity of tasteless and odorless pills in one sitting

3:08:03 It's hoped the microbes inside each capsule will offer cancer patients a better chance to fight their tumors during chemotherapy. Already poop pills have improved the lives of those battling other types of diseases and cancers, but you might be surprised to learn that the best type of human poop is in short supply only one in 43 samples passes the quality test those who do are coveted by the team when you are you really have like golden poop and you can really save lives. John, we can save lives and become millionaires if we have the golden poop I think we should try out! Oh God...

3:08:42 You and Greg Gutfeld with this story. Did he have the story? I didn't know that. Before you play the thumper there, let's play the WAPO news so we have this up to date because this has got all of the journalists in the world bent out of shape. Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos announced today that the paper's opinion pages will focus on defending quote personal liberties and free markets In a social media post, Bezos says he told employees that quote viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others. Critics say it's the latest rightward shift at The Post under Bezos aimed at pleasing President Trump

3:09:21 Bezos insists that newspapers these days should not offer a broad-based opinion section saying that the Internet does that job. Following today's announcement, The Post's Opinion Editor David Shipley announced he is stepping down. They should all resign! I quit! They should all resign they should all get out show Bezos that without them they don't have a paper There you go exactly I'm gonna show my support by donating to No Agenda. Imagine all the people who could do that! Oh yeah, that'd be fab! Yeah on No Agenda And we do have a night to bring up on stage today even though I didn't see a donation note. Not sure if that was a layaway note or... I think it was a layaway or something. I didn't see any extra info about that, but of course have the meetup report and some meetups to talk about and John's tip

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3:18:29 Michael Myers in Mandeville, Louisiana wraps things up. There is a note from somebody here that came out on a sheet of paper and when people write in and drop off the check we like to take a look at it. Oh this came from Denise Robertson the Queen of Cobalt programmer She says, for your producers that work for the USPS I have a failure in John's just send-a-check philosophy. I mailed the card with the check in plenty of time to get my smoking hot husband's birthday on the list for 2-4. I've been listening intently for their donations no happy birthday Fred Robertson hope this gets to you soon but sometimes the mail is coming from some parts of the country there's a $60 donation she gave us I think he's on today's list

3:19:17 Yeah, sometimes it gets slowed down. Sometimes it's pretty quick but you eventually get it so good for the United Postal Service I talked to my post office workers recently about the latest and they're not that freaked out Well are you done? Have you... yeah I'm through Oh because I actually have a clip about the United States Postal Service from our New Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick he had some genius ideas so the concept was I'm sitting with the president and And the costs of the post office are like it loses seven billion dollars, and he said can you do something with it? And I said sure so I saw him the next day goes okay. What'd he got You know he gives me a whole 24 hours to figure it out, and I said well that commerce department does the census

3:20:11 And we spend $40 billion every 10 years doing the census. And that means we hire 625,000 people and they go and they rent cars and gas you pay them food and what do they do? They go to every household in America and count the people What department do we already have that already employs 625,000 people? It's got cars. Already has gas goes to every household Can you imagine saying to your postman can you count the people in the house what day could he do this since it's Monday Could he double check it on Tuesday how about Wednesday goes every day so we can only save 40 billion dollars or 4 billion a year and will do a better job of

3:20:48 And you know what else we can do with the post office? They can go to your house when you have a baby and give you the form for Social Security. And the 20,000 Social Security offices that we have... This is great! We actually can do real customer service. Go right to your house someone died here's the forms You can fill it out I'll bring them into your house Customer Service Why because we've got those people Let's use assets of the government To make us better and save us money We could be smart ya know We're allowed Okay, you know Of course none of this will ever happen in a million years but it's a great idea. No Lutnick is the guy that That must pushed to become the Commerce Secretary secretary the Treasury when it no commerce Treasury commerce Oh I think he pushed the Secretary of the Treasury and then he got bumped to commerce by Trump. He didn't take Musk's advice on this guy

3:21:43 But he is a big, must be a big fan of this guy. Well it's an innovative idea I can already see our postal workers who are big podcast listeners rolling their eyes I'm sure they will email me. Yeah we'll be dropping off some forms any minute now And before we get to our birthdays etc Pam Bondi or no the FBI has just released the first 22 Epstein documents not to the m5m But has posted it on X vault FBI gov slash Jeffrey dash Epstein It's not loading for me, but apparently the first documents people are opening Has all kinds of words like child prostitution in it so we'll find out about oh here. It is it open for me well now you're your complaint about bonding needs to be

3:22:34 Pulled back. He had to claw it back, claw back it. She released something! Yep there's something here It says... so yeah its 22 documents and uh..its in the FBI vault so ahh There'll be plenty of work to do after the show And as promised we will hand out that grand baby making karma with little jobs added to it for our producer Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs Let's vote for jobs! Yeah!!! Thank you all for supporting the No Agenda show. $50 and above, we never mention anything under that for reasons of anonymity and remember you can always have those sustaining donations set up go to noagendadonations.com set it up any amount any frequency And one more time I'd like to thank our executive and associate executive producers for episode 1742 Those credits work anywhere including IMDB and are good4life. Thank y'all for supporting us once again noagendedonations.com

3:23:34 Our list for today includes Dame Denise who wishes her smoking hot husband Fred Robertson a very happy birthday. Now that's a belated birthday because he was celebrated on the 4th Leon Actinson celebrated on the 16th. Dame Denise turned 60 on the 18th. Surocalcitrant Crazy Steve II says happy birthday to the Duke of San Francisco, he'll be celebrating on the 28th. Dame Anne of Grey Rock says happy birthday to her daughter Lexi Spillers turns 13 on the 29th which of course we won't actually be celebrating because there's no 29th. Claire Hedges wishes Piers Chindley of Melbourne Australia a happy birthday, turns 40 on March 12 and Nancy Wise says happy birthday to her husband Chris as do we! Happy Birthday everybody here for the best podcast in the universe!

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3:26:11 In the morning. This is Liam, Sir They Them of Portland and greetings from the People's Republic of Portland! In the morning this is Dame Emily Hey it's Max, Knight of PDX have a wonderful something or other Uh this is Tim, this my first meetup I should've gotten the venison burger but the burger that I got was also very good This is Rhonda greeting from Portland Rob here. Have a good one! This is Hillary and I need a de-douching! This is Calvin, five years still a douchebag... This is Daniel John I've been following you since the 90's Jesse Collins this is B from Portland IN THE MORNING!!!

3:26:50 All right the Portland crew there and there are many more meetups taking place around Gitmo Nation today in fact at 6 o'clock the North Georgia monthly Meetup at Cherry Street Brewing in Alpharetta, Georgia on Friday. The Duke of San Francisco birthday bash Well that's nice that'll be it six thirty three a tour Tornado tornado it says tornado, San Francisco California not oh torn up to Renato Toronto you should go I can't, it's Friday. You got things to do? Saturdays...I can't do Fridays. I would like to go! But what you doing on Fridays that i'm unaware of? Well I have a family dinner usually. Oh, oh well that's nice.

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3:28:14 Many more meetups to be found at noagendameetups.com Go take a look, there's a lot of them you can participate It's producer organized they are free You might buy yourself or drink someone else a drink but you will meet people that you will enjoy for the rest of your life NoagendaMeetUps.com if you can't find one near you start one yourself Sometimes you wanna go hang out with all the nights and days You wanna be drinking on Halloween Time now in the program where we select an ISO That's a little snippet that we'll use at the end of the show. I see you only have one today That's rather surprising is to carry over You said I should carry this one over so you took it easy you laid back kick backed and went? I'm just gonna carry this over. I'll be good to go

3:29:10 Well, I just figured the way things are going. I'm good to go but i'm not sure why don't you play yours and we'll find out As long as you're happy...I'm happy That's it? That's one that's one and have this one Oh my god! I use that all the time now It's so great Too echoey And then here is yours Try and top that for a killer show You gonna have to find new one because this can carry over its too good It is just too good now ladies and gentlemen it's time for everybody's highlight of every program John's tip of the day And sometimes Adam created by Dana Burnett II all right, so I have

3:30:03 a habit over the years, because they cook a lot of trying various seasonings that are produced by commercial vendors that do one thing or another. And I want to recommend one. I've recommended Badia's, I think already but this is one that...this is kind of a Greek seasoning that's not the typical Greek seasoning and I will mention there are a lot of these things are quite important in certain cuisines and I will mention Tony C's for one, it's not today's tip But if you cook, people are saying when they're cooking Cajun style. You put some of the Cajun spicing in it. Put some of this in there. It's always Tony C's

3:30:46 And it comes in a green thing and it says... Tony C's? Tony C's. Like Tony... Tony Catch Your Air, I think so. But it's called Tony C's. It says Tony C's! And if you don't use Tony C's or know about Tony C's then you never cook Southern style cooking because everybody uses Tony C's There are competitors to Tony C's Emeril has a seasoning with his... Oh, bam that is all just fake news. Emerl is nothing close to Tony C Well, Tony C is the stuff you want. But this is the one I'm recommending for today's show because people should already be on to Tony C's Zeus Zeus Z E U S This is a very interesting seasoning it's kind of a paprika colored dark

3:31:33 Greek type seasoning and it's pretty good on everything like hash brown potatoes, eggs meat, stews. It's a very good proprietary blend of seasoning that just works well with a lot of stuff I used to buy it at the store and then all of sudden I can't get out had to get online but Some stores still carry it killer product. I do see us It's interesting for some reason I thought you would never be a guy that would use a a bought seasoning that you would be the kind of chef That would create his own See even Emeril when he does this cooking showing other people do too They always say well, and then I put in some cage and seasoning they're using Tony sees oh You

3:32:19 You always, unless you want to make your own Tony C's but these guys have actually done some research so you get this much of this. This much of that it all take we have a one of our producers produces a salt and pepper called both there's a salt and pepper blend you probably have some. Yeah he sent me some of that this very interesting product And it works! It does! But... It saves time and it's tasty, and it's gone through some effort. So I've always used... I try these seasonings— not all of them are good. I'm saying proprietary seasonings are not a bad idea as a shortcut that is not cheating the way I see it if you find a good one use it. That both products to me when I saw that because it came into the PO box

3:33:09 Well, why didn't someone do this much earlier? It makes so much sense. You got salt and pepper in one mix you're good to go! That's another outstanding product yes it's called Both. It had to take some effort because if you would mix salt and pepper yourself yeah it would separate it with the pepper to go to the bottom or the salt goes on the bottom something would happen but he's got it so it's this exact same grind on both products even out when you use it. It's part of his proprietary process, I understand. Yeah right that is what it is. But anyway no I've always been a big fan of these things. Okay Tony C's everybody! That is your tip for the day. No it's Zeus not Tony C's. Zeus everybody that is your tip for the day find it at tipoftheday.net and noagendafund.com

3:34:01 And sometimes, Adam. Created by Dana Burnetti. Zeus, I'm sorry, Zeus! I misunderstood the whole thing... Zeus. Yes so but Tony C's is a good- whoever is putting this together add Tony C's with the Zeus. Alright, Tony C's. A twofer. And both put both on there while you're at it just good profit. You could? Yeah you could Hey that's it for No Agenda we went long today alert the affiliates I don't know what happened We got to-we're out of control we need to stop doing that Coming up next on No Agenda Stream, if you want to stay tuned we have the latest episode from the grumpy old dames.

3:34:43 Lady Vox and Dame Black Loka, two big favorites of the Darren O'Neill Rock & Roll Pre-Show. Also end of show mixes from Lee Olapuke, David Kekta and Sir Ned Wood! Stay tuned for that... And I am coming to you from the heart of Texas Hill Country here in Fredericksburg Texas In The Morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And I want to remind people that I wanna thank Darren O'Neal in particular for reminding us how bad guns and roses can be I'm John C. DeVore We'll be back on Sunday with more media deconstruction for you Please remember us at noagendadonations.com until then adios mofos a hui hui and such

3:35:39 The denizens of a bar in Kiev. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, he went to a bar and jammed with the local Ukrainian rock band. He was wearing jeans and black shirt because he's so cool For a war-torn country that is facing genocidal demolition it would be cool if they could jam and party with people who were drinking at other times They have unlimited...they will be funded forever And it was obviously for the cameras This was all planned on stage Who is this for, exactly? It does not send a message of desperation on the part of Ukraine. Secretary of State Blinken jamming in a bar in Kiev while you're forced to cough up tens of billions of dollars that we don't have for the war... There are too many failed theater kids actors and musicians and politics The actual band they were told someone famous was going to come play with them They were told it was Veal Young Keep on giving till the day you leave Ukraine

3:36:37 You know what? I just like you to show that you give a damn. That you got a little emotion about the fact that people are losing their jobs indiscriminately! They're in your bedrooms, they're in your living rooms. They are in you businesses. They got you data dumbass! Elon Musk has his tentacles into everything that you are doing not just off of Apple but now he's in the treasury department. He is in the labor department.

3:37:29 We've been noticing the cursing, and we had a lot of things out of your damn this damn that off your fat ass. Did you hear James Carvel? Welcome to the EU There's no time back Thus all your gas will save you

3:38:26 Evil, loose, keep bootin' Let B.I.M.F., keep lootin' Everybody wants to rule Ukraine There's a leak that will buy inks to you Just look out when the bombs come tumblin' down When you die we'll be right behind you So sad you almost made it We have to fake it, everybody wants to hear you pray. The best podcast in the universe! Adios mofo. Dvorak dot org slash N A

3:39:26 Try and top that for a killer show.