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00:00 Hey, what happened to my money? Yes, they're bombing Ukraine. And more importantly it's that time of year again John!

00:45 Oh, okay. It's Ford Truck Month! Ford... oh I thought it was Toyota-thon? No it's Ford Truck Month. Every single podcast they listen to except for ours of course they all interrupt three times during the show and if it's not uh the wellness company it's Ford Truck Month I don't believe, I just don't believe that the people who listen to Pivot buy trucks. They're not Ford truck drivers those people who listen to Pivot. No it's just doesn't... Subaru maybe! Yeah that is when did that become like THE lesbian car? That was a we didn't play a clip with a guy who explained it oh I'm trying to think if we did what was it a marketing thing? It was a marketing guy said you know

01:40 I think he just had this sense that there's some woman's thing that was going on. He said, you know, I think if we push the car into this direction it would be a big hit. I'm looking like... I have to revisit these this marketing trick but yeah all of a sudden became the lesbian car Is it still successful though? Is the Subaru still a big seller, is that still a thing. Oh yeah they do very well it's a good car The thing that makes the car... It's like got them safety features of a Volvo so they're very...it's a good car to drive. Good family car That for me is the quintessential lesbian car. The Volvo come on obviously! It's up there Yeah I had a Volvo once one of my first cars was a Volvo

02:29 I told you the Volvo, I took a tour of the factory. In Sweden? Yeah Oh do tell! I did not know about this yeah it was great because they also gave us a tour on the track they let us race around on the track Wow! Brrrrm brrrrm oh you'd be surprised This is when i first drove those new diesels The ones that turned out to be like kind of sketchy in terms of where they were polluted Was that the Volkswagen? I thought no, that was the Volkswagen wasn't it. The Volkswagen. Yeah but when a guy drove...I know the Volkswagen had their reputation but this is the same product because these things went with this diesel because i've driven diesels a diesel that goes like a bat out of hell something's up! I remember so my first car no my yes my first car was the Volvo 142 which was the size of a tank with a lawnmower engine

03:26 And I was always jealous because a buddy of mine had the 144 with the overdrive feature. It had a little button on the top and it was overdrive, whatever that meant. But then later as a payoff... Whatever that meant? Yeah, I don't know what that means. Later is- As a payoff- Has to do with sports ball. No no! Later as a- It's a guy thing. Later as a payoff for kind of like one of those old, you know the black musicians and rock-and-roll in the 50s They weren't allowed to pay me to drink milk on TV. So they gave me a car instead it's a long story It has to do with commercial interest on public broadcast and they gave me a Volvo 480 ES Have you ever seen that car?

04:18 I know, i can look it up. Yeah you should take a look at had flip-up lights It's not that cute little sportsy looking thing? Well yeah well I don't know if was cute looking the front end was kind of cute looking...it was sportsy but the thing was there was something because it was one of the first ones in Europe and I remember because I was a smoker then of course. It was Volvo what 480? 480 ES EF? ES Eco Sierra Oh yes. And there was something they had treated the steering wheel and the interior with some kind of new plastic, and if you...and so if you were driving and if you for any reason put your fingers near your mouth which you would do as a smoker it was like this acidic burn that just go into your mouth that you couldn't get rid of it! It was a poisonous vehicle I tell ya. Maybe

05:12 I see it, yeah. It's cute. Anyway enough about cars because it's Ford Truck Month and also... it's time for a whiplash! over President Trump's on-again, off again tariff strategy. Whiplash! President Trump's on-again, off again tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports is off again. It feels like whiplash by the White House has many people wondering what's next? Many experts say this constant whiplash by the White House has many people wondering what will happen next The fast action from the new Trump administration has also led to some neck breaking whiplash

06:09 A lot of whiplash to go around. Happy Friday! Well, a lot of whiplash... There you go. Lotta whiplash. Sounds like it. People are complaining that I'm overmodulating why is this? Yeah, you're breaking up. Am I breaking up on YouTube? Uh yeah. It's during the clip the thing would just go off the rails and it would be distorted Really?! I'm not sure why that is Okay, well I thought was just local here but I guess not no. Well the experts in this troll room You know they know exactly what's going on right one two one two now it seems okay That's just that's all your gear man. It's nothing to do with me

06:49 So yes, whiplash on the tariffs. This is the big thing no one understands it what's going on the markets are upset... The markets are crashing! Markets are crashing John! Markets are crashing have you heard? The market is crashing its crash I heard this and I hear there's whiplash Yeah, whiplash because we are in the fog of trade war. The fog of trade war Good evening, I'm John Dickerson I'm Maurice Dubois So they fired Nora from CBS. Yes, news deconstruction is what we should be talking about? Yes yes so they got rid of her and they put on a course They never fire anybody they put you on special assignment And yeah and you get to do long form programming Yeah, and then you're done So they put in John Dickerson who's good enough You know in his on his slow talk and morning shows

07:40 and this other guy, and it's like a Huntley Brinkley report. They're trying to bring back Huntley and Brinkley from the 60s and 70s which was on NBC not CBS of course but they're trying to put this team up... It stinks! And the two guys don't have any rapport. They just almost as though they're competing with each other, figuring one of them is going to get the other guy out of there and he's gonna take over. I'm on the brink honey once i get that guy out of here it'll be all me! It'll be all me!! So this is the worst and they've... The multi-culti guy will probably win if they're gonna do that because Dickerson seems nervous, he doesn't seem comfortable

08:23 He's not doing a very good job, but this... the way they've staged it stinks. And they're not only that but they're a mile apart It's just terrible! It's terrible!! All the worse than Nora all the more reason to go back to the clip. The fog of trade war good evening I'm John Dickerson. I'm Maurice Dubois, the financial markets were rattled today by the commander-in-chief and General Confusion conflicting signals from the president about his trade wars general confusion is that a new guy? I never heard of him. I don't know Oh yes Maurice Dubois

09:01 Otherwise known as general confusion. There you go. Conflicting signals from the president about his trade war sent stock prices tumbling, The Dow lost a full percent, the Nasdaq more than two and a half. What happened to your... what are you doing? I'm moving stuff around! Could you do it not during the clips? You know, just... Then two and a half. President Trump granted more exemptions today to his 25% tax on imports from Canada and Mexico for one month goods covered by the USMCA trade agreement will not be subject to the tariffs he gave that same exemption yesterday to Detroit's big three automakers This is not the first time the president has threatened or imposed tariffs and pulled back

09:50 and the uncertainty goes well beyond Wall Street. Ed O'Keefe is at a curling center in Toronto. Well, I always think of curling. The on-again off again tariffs are mostly off again. Are they going to keep saying on again and off again? Yes yes they do keep saying that actually. Here in Canada's largest province which is warning of economic pain for at least some Americans

10:30 We have to put an end to this. This is mass chaos right now around North America and actually around the world. Doug Ford is premier of Ontario, the hub of Canada's economy and home to 40% of Canadians He dismissed President Trump's pause on tariffs. He said that before And he switched his mind A few days later or week later So once I touch the stove and get burned once, I don't touch that stove again. He needs to drop all tariffs." And if he doesn't drop them for good Ford says Ontario which transmits electricity to the United States will put a 25% tariff on power sent to Minnesota Michigan and New York starting Monday

11:11 Ford got into a heated phone conversation this week with the US Commerce Secretary and has banned the sale of American-made spirits in Ontario liquor stores. So if I hear you, you're turning off the lights and running the bourbon dry in response to what the United States is doing? The last thing that I want to do is turn off the lights or put out a tariff But let's straighten this out. And to the American homeowner in Minnesota or New York or somewhere else that gets its power from electricity, they're going to see the electric bill in a month and realize whoa! It was a lot more expensive than it was? That is correct. What do you tell them? There's one person to be blamed and that's President Trump Even if tariffs are temporarily off, the anger has hardly subsided at the private Royal Canadian Curling Club Hold on a second before we get back to The Curling Club

11:57 What is Ford talking about? He's going to jack up the prices. That's not a tariff, that's an increase in price! Yeah I know... Can I just before you finish this clip, I have to mention something I've been meaning to talk about for a month. Oh please Ever since Trump got elected on Fox A couple of the shows on Fox have had this running and I should have recorded it i'm sure a running ad promoting Ontario. I've never seen this before on television. Interesting, interesting It's an advertisement, Ontario your trading partner the greatest place in the world we in Canada blah blah blah and it goes on one is the 60-second commercial they play all the time on Foxes and when I first saw it I said oh somethings gonna happen here there was something wrong why is Ontario of all places advertising on network television right?

12:55 Right. And by the way, for those of you wondering no no this is Doug Ford not to be confused with Tom Ford Or with Ford Truck Month, or with Rob Ford. This guy... For months Rob Ford the embattled mayor of Toronto has been dogged by allegations that he'd been caught on tape smoking crack and today the Mayor of Canada's biggest city came clean Am I at it? No Have i tried it? Probably in one my drunken stupors Just hours later he fell on his sword again Admitting was the most difficult

13:39 embarrassing thing I have ever had to do. Yeah, alright so that's his brother? Just so you know... yeah they're all... alright okay sure the I'm sure they all party! Alright this guy here This joker just seems the same guy to me. Let's go back, but let's straighten this out into the American homeowner in Minnesota or New York or somewhere else that gets its power from electricity. Yes they're going to see the electric bill in a month and realize whoa yes. And there is one person to be blamed and that's President Trump

14:15 Even if the tariffs are temporarily off, the anger has hardly subsided at the private Royal Canadian Curling Club where members stopped drinking American bourbon and California wines on the premises weeks ago. This is one small thing that we can do so... And Danielle Brown says Canadian anger isn't about the American people just the American president I respect that and it's really just sad and a shame that leadership is actually maybe for positioning who knows why, kind of trumping up these allegations that we're maybe not as good partners as we actually are. I have respect! I have respect for the Canadians there...there's a big movement. Oh, only buying Canadian eh?

14:57 Which is good. I think that's... Most of their wine is made in the bathroom. Okanagan Valley makes a good product, that's for sure but if you go to Canada all the liquor stores are government controlled so they can do this stuff like even though they already bought the stuff but they're gonna just put it back into warehouse Yeah exactly But they have these shops throughout Canada where you can go in there and buy home winemaking gear and must, and grape juice and different kinds of things. You make it at home." And I think a lot of Canadians... Somebody from Canada can call me out on this if I'm wrong but it seemed pretty popular to me that they had these uh this rig that you could buy to make your own damn wine in the toilet basically It's interesting because you know

15:51 Canadians to send us some boots on the ground and some thoughts about everything, and it varies. I got some good reports too maybe to get to them later Well most of what i received is we actually wouldn't mind being the 51st state Yeah, you didn't get many of those but yeah No, I got a couple of those also You know, a lot of like well and this is kind of permeated it might be in this report. A lot of Canadians would say well we all know that we only exist because you haven't invaded us yet.

16:27 Which I think is fun. Well, I didn't get that one! Yeah, I got that one... These guys are the ones who burnt down the US Capitol these Canadians they're pretty tough fighters. The War of 1812 was a war of the United States versus Canada we don't like talking about it because the Canadians won yes The Canadians will discuss it. Let's get some more insight from CBS Now Ed, we usually think of Canadians in kindness but in this case they seem pretty angry right about now why are they digging so hard? They're always grouching hold on a second! The Canadians oh they're so kind there so that's not necessarily you know... It seems like that on the surface but when you go and spend any time at all in Canada they're gruff

15:51 Canadians to send us some boots on the ground and some thoughts about everything, and it varies. I got some good reports too maybe to get to them later Well most of what i received is we actually wouldn't mind being the 51st state Yeah, you didn't get many of those but yeah No, I got a couple of those also You know, a lot of like well and this is kind of permeated it might be in this report. A lot of Canadians would say well we all know that we only exist because you haven't invaded us yet.

16:27 Which I think is fun. Well, I didn't get that one! Yeah, I got that one... These guys are the ones who burnt down the US Capitol these Canadians they're pretty tough fighters. The War of 1812 was a war of the United States versus Canada we don't like talking about it because the Canadians won yes The Canadians will discuss it. Let's get some more insight from CBS Now Ed, we usually think of Canadians in kindness but in this case they seem pretty angry right about now why are they digging so hard? They're always grouching hold on a second! The Canadians oh they're so kind there so that's not necessarily you know... It seems like that on the surface but when you go and spend any time at all in Canada they're gruff

17:11 They also, they're quick to... I've had this happen more than once. It takes a while to get used to being in Canada because when you have this polite back and forth where you say oh here's thank you very much thanks You always say thanks and your welcome If you don't get the thanks out fast enough The Canadians will say, you're welcome in a very gruff tone as though you haven't said thank-you fast enough. You are generalizing! You realize that right? I am generalizing from lots of experience Got a report from Corey... Corey and his wife attended the Tony Hinchcliffe show in Niagara Falls Ontario last night That's the guy who said... who talked about the trash in the ocean being Puerto Rico

17:56 Yeah, right. The insult comic. So he opened the show with the American national anthem and the Star Spangled Banner... Nobody booed! Everybody cheered! How about that? That's odd. Well, there was no alcohol. I mean you go to a hockey game and get everybody else sauced up it's like uuuuuhhhhhh Maybe they weren't even booing maybe just trying to bend over. Uuuuuuuhhhhh They were trying to bend over! Well Maury, this is AdamMcCurry.com Oh pfff The Canadians love me. They love us, they love the show We're the only Americans who pay any attention to Canadian news Yes we know that you just read Rob Ford and tell it's Ford Nobody else does The important stuff

18:45 Well, Maurice in their view and the reality is there have been free trade agreements between the US and Canada in place since the late 1980s. Many may remember NAFTA more recently the US Mexico Canada Free Trade Agreement that was negotiated in part by President Trump. They're sick of being pushed around and they're not quite sure what it is the president wants done by early April to call off this trade war entirely. Trade war, trade war! So here's the final one about the actual products that are being affected. And if these tariffs stick what other kinds of products or what other ways will Americans be affected? Well, let's walk our way across Canada to give you an example. In British Columbia the lumber from there helps build American homes in Alberta The oil and gas gets pumped into American cars Fertilizer from Saskatchewan gets scattered across the heartland And we went to a steel manufacturer here in Ontario who makes window wells and garden beds that get bought up all across the American suburbs Then of course there is the produce Blueberries, tomatoes...and yes maple syrup The cost for them would go up as well What kind have got lost in all this?

19:48 and I got some boots on the ground from our producers about this as well, is initially and I think still these tariffs are indeed about fentanyl. And if you look at the reporting there are a lot of fentanyl... I wouldn't call them factories but labs all over Canada and it's produced there and then it gets put into you know, trucks that carry stuff for our cars or fenders and bumpers and whatever else. And it comes right into America! I think the president's right on this at least from the reporting i see an ABC went a little bit deeper into this with Kevin Hassett who is

20:42 He's one of the president's economic advisor. Yes, he is the director of the National Economic Council. So we saw the President this week impose tariffs delay a bunch of the tariffs and on Friday he said there are more and bigger tariffs to come suggesting possibly as high as 250% on Canadian dairy and lumber. Can you just explain? In short, what is driving the president's decision making on this? Let's go through what happened this week because I didn't really think that the way you guys characterize the tariffs made sense to me. So I just want to go back to what happened. What happened was that we launched a drug war not a trade war and it was part of a negotiation to get Canada and Mexico to stop shipping fentanyl across our borders

21:24 And as we've watched them make progress on the drug war, then we've relaxed some of the tariffs that we put on them because they're making progress. So that drug war is something that's been going on since really the beginning of the Trump administration. We have also announced that were gonna put out a study April 1st that says what is the harm to America of all the asymmetrical trade practices of foreign governments and what are we gonna do about it? That's the April 2nd number you keep hearing the President say So, this isn't even a tariff on trade. This is just the tariff on drugs which is what was initially announced but somehow it turned into just... It's a tariff or fog of tariff war and they continued on this

22:09 But let me ask, cuz I am confused now by what you're saying about this being a drug war not a trade war. So let's just take Canada. You said Canada is shipping fentanyl into the United States? I mean, I don't think that's happening. 1% of fentanyl is being smuggled across the border, 1%. I mean, Canada is not a major source Not all of fentanyl in the United States are there well yes They are a major source and I can tell you that in the situation room. I've seen photographs of Fentanyl labs in Canada that the law enforcement folks were leaving alone Canada's got a big drug problem even in their own cities go walk around You know Toronto, and then see what it's like And yeah, you'll see this is a bit wrong with it and frankly you know we have intelligence that Mexican cartels operate In Canada as well and so if you want to get the cartels out of the u.s.. She gotta get him out of Canada and Mexico

22:58 Okay, but if you're saying that this is an effort to make them crack down and it's worked. It's working yes it's working then why are these tariffs going the very same tariffs going back into effect on April 2nd? Well, we'll see what happens. So what's going on with the trade war is that we're going to have reciprocal tariffs in April What's going on with the drug war is we're trying to make progress... So there IS a trade war? In April there's going to be a reciprocal tariff and then if they lower their tariffs will lower ours April 2nd The real tariffs And by the way those are reciprocal tariffs 250% on dairy Yeah, we get screwed under dairy We can't send our dairy up there They don't want our dairy

23:42 Why is that? I mean, this protectionary, I guess. That's the only reason. Yeah it's total protectionary because they wouldn't have an industry at all. Well this of course has fueled the... and i'm pretty sure this is all being fueled for the upcoming election in Canada, at least of the new prime minister we heard from Chrystia Freeland Who was using nobody takes seriously not going to our you know hurt? I thought it was a rumor, but her dad actually was A guy who collaborated with the Nazis Just saying and the real front-runner though is a guy we know very well on the show Mark Carney. Oh

24:33 The frontrunner polyvirus. Hold on no, no for the Liberal Party for the liberal party's done He returned home to his supporters to make his bid for the party leadership Mark Carney made it clear he wants to become Canada's 24th Prime Minister I'm back home in Edmonton to declare my candidacy For leader of the Liberal Party and prime minister He says he has the experience Canada needs. Mark Carney is a former governor of the Bank of Canada and a former governor of the Bank of England, he has served as an advisor to Justin Trudeau

25:19 Boris Johnson. Carney was born in Canada's remote Northwest Territories in 1965, he went to Harvard and worked at Goldman Sachs before being named Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada in 2003 He became governor in 2008 at the age of 42. In 2020, after almost seven years at the Bank of England he served as a UN envoy on finance and climate change. In the Liberal Party leadership battle, he argued Canada must fight US President Donald Trump and his tariffs by diversifying trading relations. He argues he's the only person prepared to handle Trump We have to recognize that the Donald Trump of today is different than the Donald Trump of several years ago. Then his objective was to take more of our market, now he wants to take our country. Yeah! You're not Greenland okay? we don't want your country I mean we'd love to have you as 51st state but it's...you know That's up to you guys. We would fold him in and we would have a great time

26:21 Don't you think it would be great to have Canada part of the United States? Yeah, that's never going to happen and I don't want it to happen. Aww! What's wrong with you? It'd be great No, you don't need the complaining Canadians in the United States John at Dvorak dot org everybody. Please. Canadians know what I'm talking about So that's North America By the way, it was Freeland's grandfather not her dad. Grandfather who is a Nazi collaborator He wrote some newspaper stuff I think that again It's just like Thursday The action is in Europe People are...I mean the European leadership let's put it that way

27:11 are so gung-ho on war. They really are! You know what you just said, because that little anomaly is still there? Oh really?! It was funny because when you said gung-ho on war it kind of became people in the chat room can confirm this. You know, the sound that you always ridicule me for when I come in with that Mickey Mouse sound or whatever the hell is it? Well well... Well you know what? It's so sparse and sporadic but if its on the clips then I'd rather reboot the machine! Yeah they're saying it's back this it's got to be the machine it's Windows 10 John

27:50 10? Yes! It's Windows 10. I need to... You should be using 11 by now, seems to me. I need to upgrade my experience Everything has been rebooted and hopefully everything's okay now. Sorry for people out there bored stiff, Mimi always bitches when this happens she's listening live But this is why people listen live they love this! This is the best part Oh they love it What time is it Bill? It's time to go home We used to have the biggest problems on Skype The biggest problems And now Did you know that Microsoft is shutting down Skype in May? Can you believe it. The show has... Let's talk about on the show We're on the show, I'm recording this show Oh okay well yeah Microsoft shutting down Skype and why is that because they never got to source code to begin with They never knew how it worked Those guys said nah we were selling a product but we weren't sure how it works How did you know they never got the source code

28:49 They never, that when they originally sold it. Now I could be wrong and they could have gotten it later. I could be wrong but when they sold it was a big deal those two guys as Norwegians or Swedes whoever the hell they were. Yeah yeah there weren't actually developed at all in Amsterdam. I met them there and I was like this is this is never gonna fly! I'm not investing in you. Classic classic something of a mistake I guess. But they had They were going to give Microsoft the product, but they weren't going to tell them how it worked. And it was kind of a big deal and Microsoft was like typical well... It reminds me when Lohenbrau was bought by Miller I think they bought it and the Lohenbrau team said hey which was a famous beer at that time

29:41 They said, hey you guys you want us to send some brewmasters over show you how we make this stuff and Miller's comment was it's according to folklore. Miller's comment was no! We know how to make beer You're telling me that Microsoft paid 8.5 billion dollars and they didn't get the source code? I'm telling you that they didn't get the knowledge that they needed to know how the product worked. Whether they got the source code or not, it's like you can get source code but if its not... You know a source code doesn't mean anything if its spaghetti code. Yeah! They don't even know how Windows works half of time. Nor do we apparently. Just kick and shake and turn it off. Yes, because I remember the first time I was in Sweden

30:33 And when this product first appeared on the scene before Microsoft owned it, and I heard it because we were doing some presentations and people kept getting these Skype messages. You'd listen to people... It was stunning! The quality of the sound. It sounded like, I always call it CD sound. It sounded like a CD. So crisp. Yeah. And Microsoft got us still sounding good and very slowly started deteriorate Now they can't even keep the thing running. And then giving up on it, or you kidding? Oh just get teams! Yeah and then of course... What's that reminds me what is it what was the name of that that sip

31:16 Well, the SIP still exists. Yeah but it's a crap protocol that makes everything sound crappy and so everything that is any good was always proprietary because you have some genius who figured out how to do it. Clean feed is the same way. How does this work? Well I don't know but those guys got an Academy Award for clean feed. Yeah for good reason. That's good stuff Anyway, so then... We're boring. This is too much insight based on the audience. Yeah exactly alright I wanted to go to Europe where there as i said before are many reboots

31:55 They are out of control. They are completely abusing the European public and I know because i'm getting screaming emails from people like Trump can just do whatever he wants, you don't care He's just breaking laws left and right he wants to start world war three. I'm like what are you talking about? He ignores the courts. And by the way, that's the elite messaging system. The M5M is doing its job well! People are completely under their spell and believe everything they hear, everything they read. But ultimately you are the ones being played by your own leaders They want to complete the European project and notice how they always are intertwining Europe in the EU This is the president of the EU Parliament Roberta Mezzola I think i'll be a little bit more blunt than usual today And our message

32:55 on this day of a special European Council on Defence is that it is about damn time. This is something that we have been asking for a long time, that the European Union, that Europe is capable of standing up on its own two feet That's why we've been saying we need to scale-up We need to be prepared, we need to produce and we need to protect. That is essentially what our citizens are asking from us that is essentially what it will take for Europe to say that we are ready to put finally our money where our mouth is on Ukraine The situation today is exactly the same as it was three years ago

33:36 Ukraine is fighting for Europe and Europe needs to be hand in hand, lockstep. Notice this notice it's for Europe but only EU has to pay and the UK of course. For Europe and Europe needs to be hand-in-hand lock step with whoever is fighting for our security, for our values. Ukraine's security is Europe's security and today more than ever also with the President of the country we will stand with him and we'll say we are with you but to do that we need to do more! We need to make sure that even here we put our money where mouth is, that we help financially, that we help militarily and were able to say yes what you are fighting is what we will be fighting together

34:23 I mean, that's the president of the European Union Parliament. She is a warmonger! And you're going to pay for it EU Here is the Lithuanian President There is no need to explain in detailed way how important this meeting is We are on fourth year of war with Ukraine and Ukraine is buying precious time for us every day paying with blood So it would be highly irresponsible to waste this time and to have long hours discussions without a clear outcome. I think we have two very important proposals on the table, first of all I appreciate the efforts of President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen for this 800 billion euro plan

35:18 I think this is a step forward comparing with this. When i hear this guy, he's like oh thank Ursula Queen Ursula for the 800 billion euro plan... Money money money money, there's money coming in baby. This is step forwards comparing with the situation we are now and it would be really high assistance for my country because we have very ambitious target in my country to spend for defense of from 5 to 6 percent of our GDP. It means a lot, but for that we need more flexible treatment of defense spending while calculating the fiscal deficit according to economic growth and stability plan

36:05 Then 20 billion euros financial package for Ukraine. You are smiling I think this is very serious because Lithuania committed to contribute and to pay our part to this fund Because we are committed also to support Ukraine by 0.25% of our GDP each year They calculated if other countries will commit to pay the same amount Ukraine would receive 43 billion euros and this is a lot. And this is really what they need right now It's amazing what is taking place in Germany Mertz is trying to get

36:54 They're part of the rearmament scheme, ram through before the new parliament is compiled or chosen. I mean they've got to shuffle stuff around to get their majority and so... Yeah but they don't want the AFD in there because it's going to be a roadblock. So you gotta get going before the guys get their seats Exactly! And so they're going… They want to go to a trillion But they're going to start, they can go start easy. It's all borrowed money we should mention that oh yeah no they have to undo their handbrake legislation so they can start borrowing that money and the French

37:32 Well, they have a totally different plan. They're taking it from their own citizens! Boosting France's defense budget... A pressing priority But where to find the billions of euros needed? One idea is to use French citizens' savings by offering a new personal investment vehicle based on defense funds So one option is war bonds That's basically what this is but then as it gets crazier as it goes along The war bonds thing goes back in history to the World War I and a lot of people think this whole thing's a scam for war bonds, to sucker everyone into getting by basically taking their money and turning it into war bonds. For the purposes of this so there is some truth...I believe that to be possible we have to...the United States has to get away from it This is like a...you know they say well you know NATO has kept the peace and blah blah blah even though its never...I've always said it's never been NATO thats kept the peace

38:28 nuclear deterrence that's kept the peace because people know what would happen if you got into a conflict, conflagration. And NATO has just been there we have to get out of NATO because these people this is pent up the fact that we've had peace for so long as being is pent-up in Europe they want to get back into fighting each other We continue. Not everyone is keen. This is not good for us. Yeah, but let's listen to how the French are getting screwed and then we'll talk about that. Investment vehicle based on defense funds...not everyone is keen I'd rather it be used for social good or for the environment not the military. I don't want my money to be financing war Another option? The Livre A, a tax-free

39:14 tax-free government regulated account popular with French savers. Its deposits are currently used mostly to finance social housing, some of that though could be reoriented into defense whatever the product it will need to attract investors. To mobilize French savings certainly you can call on patriotism defending the country but savers will be looking at the returns If those are low, they'll prefer the Livret A or a tax-deferred investment account. Other options include directing funds from those tax deferred investment accounts towards defense, incentivizing institutional private investment or reducing interest rates for defense contractors

39:53 the French state itself could borrow to fund more military spending, but not without consequence. We have to be careful we'd have no problem borrowing that money but interest rates are higher now than they were before the financial crisis so this debt will cost us more One option that President Emmanuel Macron insists is not on the table, raising taxes. Borrowing money is a taxation taking your savings is more than a taxation and the French are gonna wake up to this and then... No they're not! Well yeah the French

40:31 I don't know. They do a lot of protests about one thing or another, but they can't this is relentless But then there's a new player that pops on the scene unfortunately This is your own news and euro news has I tried to speed it up as much as possible They've resorted to AI voices now for their reports the This is the worst, but it's the report that counts. France versus Germany The battle for Erdogan's favor and the 150 billion euro European defense between France and Germany over the European Commission's proposal for a 150 billion euro investment in European defense Whether these funds should be exclusively reserved for EU-based defense industries

41:17 Or if they should also benefit non-EU partners, including Turkey. According to the Financial Times Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has already expressed interest in participating in Europe's joint defense effort given Turkey strong military industry a divided Europe last week European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed a 150 billion euro defence fund aimed at boosting Europe's military production. While all EU member states support the idea, disagreements remain over who should receive the funding

41:54 During the EU summit last Thursday, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz argued that the initiative should be open to non-EU partners stating it is very important for us that the projects we support are also open to countries that are not part of the European Union but maintain close cooperation with us such as the United Kingdom Norway Switzerland and Turkey. However French President Emmanuel Macron strongly disagreed insisting So, they're fighting over the money already.

42:36 Like who, and this is just the first tranche. The 150 billion that Queen Ursula promised and Turkey's saying hey we're in NATO like we've got NATO gear you don't have anything! You gotta go build stuff so they don't actually want to help Ukraine they just want the money. So oh we can have a war economy and Macron is making very dangerous noises The UK and many of the member states in the EU, they have our nukes. I know the Netherlands has several but France... They have their own! Yeah, so does the UK Yes So if you want to launch something from the EU You've got to get a... You've gotta sign the EULA I mean from that EU You gotta sign the EULA And make a payment and then we'll give you the code We will activate your nukes

43:28 But Macron is like, he's got his own and he's making dangerous noises. In a televised address Wednesday evening French President Emmanuel Macron delivered a stark message to his nation. Macron warned that Russian aggression knows no borders and could extend beyond Ukraine. He also said he would consider extending French nuclear deterrence to other European countries And that's a statement Russia condemned as, quote, very confrontational. Macron also acknowledged that the French people's worries are legitimate and said Europe must prepare for a potential future without U.S. support. Russia has become a threat to France and Europe. I want to believe that the US will stand by us but we have to be ready if this is not

44:16 Whether or not peace in Ukraine is achieved quickly, Europe must be able to defend itself better and deter any further aggression. And the Kremlin is reacting strongly to Macron's speech by saying the French leader's comments are an indication that Paris wants to prolong the war in Ukraine. The Russian spokesman had particularly stern words for Macron's statement that he is considering sharing France's nuclear capabilities within Europe Of course this a threat against Russia If Macron considers us a threat, gathers a meeting of the chiefs of general staffs of European countries and Britain says that nuclear weapons need to be used and prepares to use nuclear weapons against Russia. This is certainly a threat." I mean... It's unbelievable you've got Mr Peepers coming in Germany You've got Macron married to dude

45:14 And you've got Starmer, who knows what his deal is. They're all gone insane and I... You know and- They are suicidal maniacs! Oh that's a good way of putting it. Now if we get out of NATO? What happens?! Well hell is going to break loose. I sure hope not Well, the thing is you know they keep talking about Russia this Russia that. What has Russia done so far? They've taken pot shots at Ukraine with a bunch of drones flying every which way and glide bombs it's about as close as they can get and the glide bombs hit whatever they hit

45:56 And they've taken the Donbass, which is an area that they've controlled anyway because they're all Russian speakers. And Crimea which they controlled anyway because they took it over in 2014 They haven't done anything else! They kind of make an inroad here and an inroad there...and they lost the Kurks Area their own part of their own country because the Ukrainians so how is this a big threat to France for all practical purposes? France is a bigger threat there. They're making they're shaking their sword right there and Right, well you see what happens it with one of those 50 ton bombs the Russians have nukes that are nothing compared to the French. The French nukes are jokes by comparison to what the Russians have 150-ton bomb would take flattened Paris in a second and they can read you know, they can take all their nuclear missiles and recalibrate where they're gonna be targeted and good luck France Give me a break these guys were idiots

46:57 I don't understand why the Europeans, you know... They're kind of silent except for the ones yelling at me because it's all Trumps fault. You know we had in Fredericksburg yesterday 50 protesters with Ukraine flags on Main Street! What? In Fredericksburg?! In Fredericksburg! We don't even have that in Berkeley. I think that was the entire Democrat representation in Fredericksburg but yeah I was surprised Well, there's a couple of organizations that Mimi turned me on to that are floating around. 501... somebody in the chat room knows this I think it's called 505104 or something there is some number and its an organization its a national organization about two or three of them

47:45 org.com, one of the two and they are organizing these little events all over the country constantly I think it stands for 50 states 50 events so it'd be five oh five oh 2001, maybe that's what it is. And 50 events, 50 stays something like that. Is that an Act Blue or a Soros? It doesn't... I don't see any Act Blue connections but its obviously Act Blue because they have the same website look and there are certain web designers all these sites are all the same That's probably who organized that Fredericksburg thing

48:29 this group. So Tina said she drove by and gave a thumbs down, and the people went well God bless you have a blessed day. I would give it thumbs up and go in with a microphone to start chatting. So now there's also implications depending on how this goes, there are implications for Five Eyes And of course, we know Australia's dangling down there with a cyclone going on which not many people are talking about but it seems to be pretty bad from the people I know down there. Yeah they don't have them that often. Power is going out and all kinds of stuff is happening. It's a big hurricane you know but Europe wants to... The European Union wants to tie up with Australia You have the UK

49:22 And this is Fiona Hill, she was on Face the Nation. She is I think CFR Brookings Institution I think she also worked in the UK government. Here she is on Face The Nation, the US pauses of lethal intelligence sharing including targeting data for us provided weapons like high Mars we also know it extends to satellite imagery which is no longer being shared with Ukraine what's the practical impact of that and the military freeze? Well, I think we can see the impact It certainly on one hand emboldened Russia to really step up their attacks And its also not just blindsided but partially blinded Ukraine

50:08 I mean, we heard from the previous segment that there's still some sharing with allies like the United Kingdom of course which is part of the Five Eyes sharing with the United States. But frankly, none of the other allies including UK have the same access to satellite imagery as United States does. So even if there is some sharing not much restrictions and this certainly has an impact on frankly I think it's going to be an impetus to other allies to start stepping up their own capabilities and questioning themselves about the virtues of sharing with the United States. I mean, this is a two-way street we have to remember that other countries also share pretty vital information with the United States even if the scale is not quite the same.

50:50 So as it turns out, everybody's leeching off of our data as per usual. Yeah we're the ones with all the satellites We're the ones with all the good data We have a targeting information We got the data people Alright how will Five Eyes respond? This woman is a spook Oh of course she is Canada The UK Australia among those who do so You think they will essentially punish the US by not sharing intelligence I'm not sure whether its punishment but It'll be a lot of questioning about what actually happens with this because if you are bundling together intelligence And then effectively the United States is putting restrictions on that. Was that pre-discussed with our Five Eyes allies, for example? Or with other allies particularly in the midst of basically a conflict? Before I continue this clip what do you think the odds are that Trump is so hacked off at Five Eyes and for all the stuff they did to him in his first go around... ...that he's just gonna tell them to screw off too!

51:49 I think that's what he has been doing. He has been doing that consistently. ...conflict, that is as we've heard over and over again the largest land war in Europe since World War II. This is really unprecedented in terms of the actions of the United States because it's not just affecting Ukraine... Hold on! Looking at her background this is what we're hearing, we are not hearing her but MI6 complaining Yeah, I agree And it's having knock on effects for all of our other allies who are directly affected. All of our European allies that are directly affected by this conflict. Then, of course the horrible things that President Trump said about Putin in other words he said yeah, Putin is doing what I would do. So President Trump said on Friday when he was asked if this uptick in Putin's bombing was directly related to the US halt here's what he said

52:44 I actually think he's doing what anybody else would do. I think he wants to get it stopped and settled, and I think he is hitting them harder than he has been hitting them. And I think probably anybody in that position would be doing that right now. Yet earlier in the day, the president had posted on social media he was considering possibly putting sanctions on Russia That's a contradiction. Contradiction? What do you make of what he said? I make it exactly what he said, obviously put himself in the shoes of Vladimir Putin and say that if I were to be aggressive that is exactly what I would be doing if I wanted to make Ukraine capitulate so yeah he called as it is but I don't believe for second about the sanctions. I believe more than just there and there the Oval Office sitting behind the Resolute Desk

53:35 I mean, I think that's what you can take away from this. He accurately- Believe the president and when he says it? That is why I think you should yeah. I mean as the President of United States we made it crystal clear I think and he sees obviously the Ukrainians and he said that in the Oval Office during the meeting with President Zelenskyy but he sees them on their back foot losing and he basically telling them they have to capitulate very clear So what no, he didn't know that she's interpreting it. Of course She's a yeah, she's a mind reader now Yes And and as you correctly pointed out she's a spook and so she has some information from Spook Central the Council on Foreign Relations You don't have the cards was the line He kept using them So I know you were at that council in foreign relations this week as was I I had interview as well. Sorry What?

54:22 Who is this? Margaret Brennan. That's Margaret Brennan. So as was I, I was there at the briefing of the spooks on foreign relations this week as was I had an interview with Trump's envoy to Ukraine Keith Kellogg and when we were discussing The president's decision to cut off Ukraine He said Ukrainians brought it on themselves And the decision was like quote hitting a mule with two by four across the nose you've got their attention comparing our ally to a farm animal here that needed to be beaten. No, the audacity in diplomacy you really should only be speaking in your native language and I think that there was a lot of this was lost in translation first of all President Zelensky didn't fully understand that this agreement was just purely with President Trump

55:12 didn't quite follow all of this because, like the rest of our allies. He actually thinks that commitments made by the United States are supposed to hold over successive administrations and what we learned there and what he learned there was that is not the case you're essentially going to have to make a new commitment with President Trump it's a personal commitment and that was what he was being told me didn't fully understand I think in future When the Ukrainians are meeting with the Americans, they ought to have translators with them because as good as President Zelensky's English is there's two things that he's missing. He doesn't quite understand the way that President Trump operates although I think it probably got the message now but it doesn't always understand the nuances and I would also think that our side on the United States could do with some interpretation as well So the way I read that from the Council on Foreign Relations is oh no No It's not Zelenski fault

56:03 He didn't screw it up. He's a good guy, he just didn't understand what meant when President Trump said you don't have any cards I want to mention something here just so we clarify because is never mentioned by Margaret that she is not only doing an interview while she was at the Council on Foreign Relations and she's talking to a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She herself, I'm looking at the roster, she herself is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Yeah, she should have said that. Margaret Brennan, The Journalist, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and she does not disclose that. Oh wow! Gambling? Very surprised

56:44 You're not surprised. Ian Bremmer's also on the thing, it was too much to speak of. Oh another good one! Well I'm very sad for this turn of events and i don't know if President Trump has more cards up his sleeve to bring all this back into some kind of normalcy And I don't know if he can. The Europeans, they have a secondary agenda that they are just not being honest about. They want a war economy. They have a problem with their economy in general as does everybody and so they're well we'll just we need more factories need to borrow money and then it's a racket every single time but if you don't have the reserve currency like the US has which is also coming to its end now

57:33 You can't, what? Not necessarily. It's not great let's put it that way it's not great but they they can't just be printing money all over the place not everybody wants euros I'm sure they think that they'd want that to be the reserve currency but this... And you just look at the M5M here in the US, Doge, Elon... They are the ones that are stupid. They're not giving anybody any useful information and we all have roots back in Europe but no it's just all Trump. It's Trump he did it all. Certainly it was the United States who started this whole mess

58:26 We lied. We lied with Baker. Yeah, in 2014 is when we started it. No, before that... no, we lied with Baker! That's when we started it. Oh, the what? Actually you-we don't know that was a lie Baker may have been sincere. Maybe Baker was reflecting because that was after right after the fall of the Soviet Union fell apart and we made the promises to the Russians that we weren't going to move NATO around anymore because it wasn't a bit threat that it once was, and I don't think it was a long-term scheme. I think it's just later that devolved. Right? I could be wrong

59:04 But now you see the power of propaganda and the power of mainstream which still lingers because no one has ever received this information. They don't know anything about it, and Putin for years has been saying stop expanding NATO! Stop expanding NATO! And then until he was fed up...and then a little twerp over there in Ukraine said well maybe we'll get some nukes over here? That's when he went for it after we had already committed a coup in that country. So it's the whole thing is shameful and President Trump is actually trying to fix some stuff but oh no he's getting zero help, orange man bad yeah here's uh... In fact before you play that I want to play a little sub clip okay this is an example you know what did you know the trump just got in trumps approval rating as far as I can tell is quite high for a president never as low for a president this early in his administration ever

1:00:02 And people, most people at least if you look at the social media even the black folk liked the fact that Musk is kicking ass. The black folk? The black folk! But yet on the latest version of Margaret Hoover's show Firing Line which is a takeoff which is a modern version of the William F Buckley Show when he was very erudite it was kind of mocked for being so, and Margaret Brennan has the temerity to use that word to think she could be another William F. Buckley She's a clownish blonde who used to be on The O'Reilly Factor as a stooge She opens the latest show with this little ditty with a guy that's... I'm sorry with a guy who is the columnist for The New York Times here we go Ross Douthat welcome to firing line thanks so much for having me Margaret it's great to be her

1:01:00 President Trump delivered his first address to Congress this week and declared that he had accomplished more in 43 days than most administrations accomplish in four or eight years. The fact is, the economy is showing some flashing signs. His approval rating is lower than any modern president at this point in his term and his alliance with Elon Musk is deeply unpopular. How do you assess the opportunities and the real risks of the moment we're in? I mean, I think what you've just said is basically correct. Yeah that's she's no William F Buckley

1:01:45 So that's what we have to deal with. PBS, thank you very much! People stop sending your money to them. Here is the report about the ongoing negotiations taking place in Where is it going to take place? Saudi Arabia. With Russian airstrikes continuing to rain down on Ukraine, as Moscow claims more advances the pressure for Kiev to end the three-year war is at boiling point President Zelensky has confirmed Ukrainian negotiators will travel to Saudi Arabia next week for talks with US officials and he's optimistic for dialogue We are preparing a meeting in Saudi Arabia I'm confident that the meeting will be productive we in Ukraine are committed to this

1:02:26 We will do our best to ensure that Ukrainian interests are taken into account in the right way. Solansky will also be present in the Gulf Kingdom for his pre-planned visit with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, though he will not be participating in negotiations The war is at a critical juncture for Kiev after Donald Trump suspended crucial US military aid for Ukraine, after his very public clash with Zelensky in the Oval Office last week. Trump has also defended Russia's relentless bombardment on Ukraine since the aid pause calling it what anybody would do. The Saudi talks though show a step forward for Kiev in repairing ties with Washington. That's not defending!

1:03:06 He wasn't defending it, he was just saying that's what anyone would do. That's not the same as defending this is a false report It's France vincautre you know the people with the nukes after his very public clash with Zelensky in the Oval Office last week. Trump has also defended Russia's relentless bombardment on Ukraine since the aid pause, calling it what anybody would do The Saudi talks though show a step forward for Kiev in repairing ties with Washington With the US envoy saying Thursday that idea is to create framework for longer agreements

1:03:46 And President Zelensky has demonstrated that he's intent on that good faith path back. He's apologized, he said he is grateful... He said that he wants to work towards peace Oh! He's apologized? He's grateful? Okay Well I don't think that was really the issue ever But you're talking About the speech, the joint session whatever you call it. Not the State of Union union. Yeah just a speech. I noticed something that happened while the president was speaking and it was corroborated and I'd kind of forgotten about it Did you notice that while he was speaking a little white dot appeared on his left sleeve? No

1:04:38 Well, I noticed it because he has a blue jacket on. All of the sudden there's this white dot and I'm like oh... It was almost like one of those very small pieces of styrofoam, like a round styrofoam ball. Yeah? Turns out one of the Democrats shot a spitball at him! Is that right?! Yes! I don't have confirmation on who did it yet but somebody shot his spitball That's wow. This is like the fifth grade or something guys. It's amazing it's amazing Yeah, you can go back that way we got it wouldn't actually completely surprise me No no so for those of you not in America a spitball is done with a straw and

1:05:26 And you take a little piece of paper and you put it in your mouth, make it all nice and wet. Then you jam it into the straw and then you shoot it out. It's like a blowgun? Yeah exactly! It is cheap as a kid version of a blow gun yeah. If you've ever used to blow gun I don't know if he ever had one. Many times many times about those things are astonishingly accurate and powerful You know, back in the day in the Netherlands when we first arrived there in 72 all the kids were walking around with the same device and I was like oh what is this? So you get a piece of PVC pipe and they'd saw it off. Just that regular plastic kind of beige-ish PVC pipe that you put wiring through

1:06:11 And then they'd walk around with this, um... With the strips of newspaper in their belt and they'd whip a piece out wrap it around their finger make it into a dart rip off the tail end so if is perfectly into the tube and And they would just be shooting blow darts at each other all the time I got really good at rolling those darts actually that was the precursor to my joints. But that was... yeah. And then- Well, I used a commercial blow dart, a big one it was about four feet long and it had a real dart that... and it was pretty amazing Wait, I have a jingle for us Where is it? Someone sent a couple of these in Yeah here it is We are the boomers Born to be wild and free Check out my new Harley

1:07:02 Yeah, baby! Oh yeah, some guy like you put it up. Generation Jones is the generational social cohort between the Baby Boomers and Generation X so being born in 1964 I'm officially Generation Jones unfortunately... Is it just that year or a couple of years? Do you have some leeway here to be a Jones? Yeah, the leeway is uh... No wonder your Jonesing all the time! It's really 64

1:07:54 But if you look at the people who are my fellow Generation Jonesers, Bill Gates Neil deGrasse Tyson Barack Obama I'd rather be a boomer than with those guys. That's no good. Yeah Creeps yeah So there was a report in The New York Times about a rift that occurred between Elon Musk and Marco Rubio Yes, this New York Times report and it's also Margaret Maggie Haberman. I think has something Don't trust her She's the co-author some brand new reporting in The New York Times today on a confrontation of sorts Inside the White House between Elon Musk and several members of Donald Trump's new cabinet with Donald Trump Wallace Of course is Nicole Wallace. Yeah, of course he's beautiful to the role of spectator

1:08:49 The Times cites five people with knowledge of the confrontation, reports this about an argument between Elon Musk and Marco Rubio. Quote, you fired nobody, Musk told Rubio then scornfully added that perhaps the only person he had fired was a staff member from his Department of Government efficiency. Rubio had been privately furious with Musk for weeks ever since Doge team effectively shuttered an entire agency that was supposedly under Rubio's control, the United States Agency for International Development. Musk was not being truthful, Rubio said. What about the more than 1500 State Department officials who took early retirement in buyouts? Didn't they count as layoffs he asked sarcastically whether Musk wanted him to rehire all those people just so he can make a show of firing them again. Then he laid out his detailed plans for reorganizing the state department

1:09:40 Musk was unimpressed. He told Rubio he was quote good on TV with the clear subtext being he wasn't good for much else where was Donald Trump in all this? The Times reports that he sat back as if he was watching a tennis match ultimately, he quote intervened to defend wait for it Rubio So he's doing a great job. Rubio has a lot to deal with, the president said he is very busy and always traveling and on TV And he has an agency to run so everyone just needs to work together end quote. Then for the first time since his inauguration Trump put some restraints on Elon Musk from this reporting quote From now one he said The secretaries will be in charge The musk team will only advise So I of course don't know

1:10:27 if there was a real, you know, huffy shouting match or something that went on. But I do know firsthand information that the Doge people were kicked out even the unregistered Doge people were kicked out because there were some other personnel that were put in that kind of... Kicked out at what? The meeting or the State Department? The State Department and this is bad Because I was a bad because the State Department is more trouble than USAID Oh, no that state department is the worst and they have their own secret. They have their own intelligence Nobody wants to talk about exactly so Rubio. I think we have to keep a sharp eye on him

1:11:16 And maybe President Trump is all in, it's like okay you keep your secret intelligence group. I mean every single embassy is a CIA station Haven't heard much about the CIA lately either No they're laying low for some reason Well maybe its related but there's...I mean not clearing out the State Department Okay whatever 1500 people took voluntary leave They took the buyout fine I'm skeptical about the State Department. Well, you should be. Yeah but we could do a whole Lib Joe episode on that alone! Oh can you believe it? The bromance is over! The bromance is over Elon's not allowed to do anything he's being curtailed by Trump. Orange man no good Some people actually like that

1:12:14 Yeah, well no we did that on the last show. The skit you mean? Yeah the skit we did what I got back was wow y'all he sounded so much happier it was much more light-hearted. What do you mean he sounded happier two guys grousing about the president! I'm just telling you that's how they heard it there was music to their ears Anyway, here's the NBC follow-up on this. All of this comes against the backdrop of these tensions between Elon Musk who is charged with slashing the federal government and cabinet secretaries I asked Secretary Lutnick about that he wouldn't kind of go see... This is all Manhans talking now isn't it? Who? Manhans the welker

1:13:01 Isn't this Welker? I'm not sure. Let me listen... The one they have to yellow up and then spread it out No, no! This is Courtney Cube Courtney Cube, I never heard of her. Yeah well yeah I looked her up for you somewhere she's a correspondent Secretary Lutnick about that he wouldn't kind of go so far as to say look bottom line the president said we're all in charge of our own agencies but what are you hearing? No no you're right this is Manhants now Cube comes in. What came out of that meeting? Yeah that's right I mean this is the first time that we've heard some frustrations frankly have been the

1:13:51 I But at the end of the day, Elon Musk still has a lot of authority. What we did see out of this cabinet meeting was President Trump said look, the secretaries have the authority to make their own firings here but if you don't do enough those will step in remember most these secretaries will do enough I will say the president also walked out of it saying Elon Musk is doing an amazing job i think his role as his buddy is probably still pretty safe

1:14:39 I'm first buddy! Slow down for God's sake. So, uh... not Doge? I got some Doge clips that you can play. Yeah let's do some... give me some Doge. You got any Doge? How much Doge you gonna get here? Yeah, I've got three or four Doge clips but lets play this one. Doge NPR. This is the NPR report. Millions of federal workers are still weighing how to respond to a second email sent over the weekend asking them to justify their jobs Wait, they're still doing this? Another round. Oh another round. NPR's Bobby Allen reports the messages are part of Elon Musk's push to root out dead or non-existent workers. He now asked the federal workforce twice to list five bullet points about their accomplishments he said ignoring it could lead to termination

1:15:21 To former Twitter employees, it sounds familiar. When Musk took over the social media company he launched a payroll audit to see how many fake people were on Twitter's payroll. Ian Brown worked at Twitter for nearly a decade. The wild sort of paranoia of just like woke zombies not doing stuff is just complete fantasy. Musk has called the messages a pulse check suggesting without evidence Without evidence! that taxpayers are paying salaries and benefits of phantom employees That always happens in government. It always happens without evidence! Of course... Without evidence. Well, let's go to the Doge analysis from NPR and of course the at sign means two Yeah I gotcha. I don't know why keep doing that but here we go. Here's those Analysis Yes exactly what the clip says the headlines say new limits on Elon Musk right there this guy is so awesome The headlines say no limits on Elon Musk

1:16:25 And that President Trump is reining in doge. Doge! The president put it in the Oval Office this week, referring to his cabinet secretaries So we're going to be watching them and Elon and the group are gonna be watching them If they can cut its better uh...and if they don't cut then Elon will do the cutting. NPR Senior Washington Editor and Correspondent Ron Elving joins us. Ron thanks for being with us. Thanks good to be with you Scott Well what are we seeing? Are they putting a leash on that doge? It's been seen that way Oh, when he says it's even better. Are they putting a leash on that doge? What are we seeing? Are they putting a leash on that doge? It's been sold that way like its Trump siding with his cabinet over Musk but

1:17:07 But if you listen to that clip we just heard, it still seems that Musk gets to come along batting clean up and deciding whether the cabinet secretaries and other Senate confirmed officials have done enough. So who decides what's enough? Is it Musk or is it Trump himself? And do we know whether that's really a difference? The New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan have reported that there have been clashes between Musk and members of the cabinet, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. Both of whom were reported to have been scolded by Musk for not cutting enough... ...and for having too many DEI hires still working for their departments." Oh yeah it's outrageous I tell you! Put a leash on that doge! Yes

1:17:56 I'm no Elon Musk fan, but i kind of take his side in this. You know there's a funny thing before we play the second clip they're trying to slander him as much as they can and The Atlantic is the one that's kinda go-to for this sort of thing The Atlantic which had an article recently on how if you have your own backyard chickens your losing your ass on the free eggs Oh really? I was unbelievable. We'll talk about it some other time, but in that same issue they had a report on Musk being a ketamine freak. Yeah? So he's like on ketamine and so he's got that same you know Kevin Rose is big fan of ketamine all these guys are ketamine guys and they all end up with the funny look on their face and I realized that yeah I guess he is because... You know who else is on ketamine? Who?

1:18:52 Professor Scott Galloway. Oh that doesn't surprise me! Yeah he's also doing the ketamine thing and the article talks about how Musk started using ketamine because he is a depressive, and it brings you out of depression and I think Rose talked about this too... And then you get locked into this kind of funny state of mind which they claim makes makes you feel, and I relate this back to a...I think the 1981-82 era when Time Magazine made cocaine the man of the year. And in the article about cocaine they said that cocaine makes you feel like it gives you overconfidence and it sounds as if ketamine does the same thing

1:19:43 You can you're a world beater and as I was reading this then, I find out that Kevin Rose has restarted Digg. He's rebooted it and i'm thinking well that's kind of an interesting ego thing to do for him but with Musk being all jacked up on ketamine because he's...I guess he's gone in and out of overusing it beyond what he's supposed to It's disconcerting. Well, let's just tell everybody what ketamine is. Ketamine is a horse tranquilizer. It's a horse tranquilizer that the zombies like to use in San Francisco. That was when it first showed up on the news around here where the fentanyl users would use fentanyl and ketamine and you can still see them drive around downtown of San Francisco and see these guys are kind

1:20:33 They're kind of hunched over. They can't stand completely up straight and they walk with a stagger, weird stagger and they're just wandering around San Francisco all over the place in disheveled... their clothes are dirty and their pants are falling off and this is the combination of fentanyl and ketamine which is called the zombie drug. I'm not happy about this! No, fentanyl and ketamine is called The Breakfast Of Champions Yes, and you can see the many champions roaming around the streets of San Francisco pooping in the street. The champion in a champion way! But there's a moment in ketamine usage where you fall into the so-called K hole

1:21:19 And the K-hole is when you're just completely immobilized and you can see what's going on but you can't speak, you can't move. You're just in the k-hole Yeah this is not the k-hole itself as that term is not discussed but they do discuss a dissociative characteristics where you dissociate In other words you leave your body Yes so maybe Elon's in a constant state of k-hole Or on the edge. There's a, man there was just about five lines went by me that I could have used... And not one came out! What good are you? No not one came out of every... Well thats because of the daylight savings time. That's the reason part two. Part Two Is the Department of Government deficiency a potential political liability for congressional Republicans because after all federal jobs are getting cut in their states

1:22:08 Yes, that's right. It is not a clear liability yet at least not for Republicans in Congress because as we saw on Tuesday night at the State of the Union Musk is still a hero to Trump fans both in Congress and beyond Musk still polls well among Trump supporters, but the musk stock may have seen its peak Scott We will see how the cuts to veterans affairs staffing for example go down with the families of vets in the care of The VA and we'll also see how much musk gets to do with Social Security That's the most popular federal program in history by all measures But Musk has compared Social Security to an illegal private investment swindle. He did that on Joe Rogan's podcast last month. Everybody's got a podcast! And I bet you have that as an ISO

1:22:55 You better. Do you have that in an ISO? Tell me! Everybody's got a power crash! So first of all, he called it a Ponzi scheme which is... He called it a Ponzi scheme because they've been stealing from the fund Yeah and so just take the money from the new people and give it to the old people It is a literal Ponzi scheme not... This was designed No, it was not the way it was designed It was a separate fund, designed as a separate fund and insurance fund. Separate from the tax

1:23:32 the basic tax pot of taxes. But what they're doing here and they're continuously scaring Americans with this, oh he's coming for your social security! He's coming for your medical... Well the fact is that government got your social security a long time ago there is no social security unless we keep making babies and new people to fund the Social Security so you get your checks So that's just not true And what is he coming for your... they're always doing this. You don't want him with your sensitive information, but everyone gives it to TikTok to Instagram and Facebook. Give me a break! But it's working, It's working and I feel so bad because we're seeing the same kind of splits happening in families and friendships that happened during COVID

1:24:21 It's exactly the same. It's not that funny! Yeah, it's funny to me... You have no friends and do you have family? I know i lost all my friends. You lost all your friends during COVID-19. You finally got the Libjoes back be careful! Be careful! They had the Libjos back barely. Don't bet with them they just get mad. Oh talking about the bad, Chase, I hate to do this in my own son What did you do? I wish people would stop betting with me. Just don't lose these bets You've actually been kind to me and saying no, i'm not going to take that bet but yet you bet your own flesh and blood what was the bet for it was because it was at the dinner table and everyone witnessed this and I didn't look like it was gonna be a weenie and back down from this idiotic bet but this is another one of these political bets And this was...I don't know what got into him

1:25:14 Because he's a smart kid, he's like you know. Yeah! He's brilliant. He says and we and he insisted to bet me 500 bucks I think i got you for 500 once Yeah, at least once. And I told you not to bet anymore! You wanted to bet five grand or something ridiculous? That was on the Microsoft... no on the Facebook stock price which you very graciously said, No i'm not going to take that bet. I don't want to take money from a baby and you were right it was great and I appreciate that but well never mind doesn't matter here's the bet

1:25:51 J.D. Vance is going to run in 20... I can't believe this stuff! Can i get it on the action here? Is there still time for me to get into it? You probably could, but I'm not gonna allow it. Uh, JD Vance is going to run for president in 2028 and the vice president is going to be Trump Oh man, that's like a Fredericksburg rumor. Only it used to be the vice president will be JFK Jr., they've kind of let... He was not even alive! They've kind of let that go but no he is alive! And I argued with him about the idiocy of this concept

1:26:27 And he says, no because then he talked about the law about being you know getting in for eight years or whatever and he went on and on totally convinced of it. I have no idea where he got this from. He insisted on the bet and he insisted on the bet being inflation proof Inflation proof? Yeah, so in other words today's 500 bucks whatever it's worth in four years will be what the total amount of the bet will be. So he's gonna owe me more by 540 bucks or something Wow I just beyond me. You gotta stick that kid back in the womb he needs some rebaking. He needs rebaking, that's no good huh? And why do these bets come my way like this it's just because they think they can take money from an old man and i learned a long time ago that's big mistake so big mistakes when it comes to these bets don't try to take money from well oh wait now that's a very good idea hold on second hold on thank you I'm not going to say it on the air yet

1:27:29 Because I want to make sure i can get it. This is a very good idea, I like this idea So we have one more doge clip which is just kind of a throwaway This is the Doge suit and how it's working backwards. The attorneys general of Washington, D.C., in 19 states are suing more than 20 federal agencies over the firings of probationary employees. NPR's Andrea Hsu reports. The Democratic Attorneys General argue that federal agencies falsely told probationary employees they were being fired because of their performance In fact, the states argue the agencies were trying to shrink their headcount but they failed to follow proper procedures for doing so. Federal law requires agencies to notify states when laying off 50 or more people so that states can jump into action and try to prevent instability throughout the economic region. States are required to reach out to those losing their jobs and provide support with the goal of reducing their reliance on public assistance

1:28:30 The states have asked the federal court to reinstate the workers. So I tried to get TrumpVP dot com. Already taken, let me try Trump VP 2028 dot com Oh yeah boom got it That'll be worth something. Probably! If my son has this in his brain, that means it came from... It's out there! It's out there! Yeah Trump VP 2028.com Why is it out there? People are nuts Well but this is where we're at I mean have you looked at X lately? Just look at what's going on There's a lot of nutty things out there right now

1:29:16 A lot. Mainly from Ian Carroll, he seems to be the main progenitor You've seen Ian Carroll Yes and here's an example of what's on exit you're talking about This is Jasmine Crockett Oh gosh... okay And I have the documentation that she's nuts. Yes, but she's like a leading candidate for president. Isn't she from Texas? Yeah! She's a Texas girl. All of sudden she is talking like she is from the Bronx Yeah, you know and not only that but if people looked into her background she was a privileged black girl. She went to private schools Finishing school for all practical purposes and then she but she tries to be ghetto Okay, city law enforcement local law enforcement They are always going after crime and they don't say oh you committed a murder Oh, but your immigrant will let me let you go right so they're always

1:30:11 always focused on crime. They continue to say things like the illegals and that they broke the law coming in, but what they're not telling the American people is that it is a civil violation. It is not a criminal violation to enter It's not a crime, which is why they're so frustrated because they really want our local law enforcement to go out and round up people when they could be looking out for the murderers and the sexual abusers as well as the robbers. They want them to go around people on civil accusations and so that's why I wanted to point out don't give me this fake outrage about criminals roaming our streets when you guys stand ten toes down for the biggest criminal that we have ever seen going to the White House. Well AOC has a problem as far as i'm concerned That's not AOC No, that's...I know it's not AOC Oh you mean because of the president theory?

1:31:10 Well, just that she's gonna beat her out. Just in general there is a new sheriff in town AOC is getting tired you know? She had a lot going for her I could get clips from her she's hanging into it I want to just talk about what Jasmine said here This is bull crap okay Really Simply being...okay now she's right about simply being present in the US without papers Is a civil offense this is true And she's assuming that, in other words you're a student. You come in and you stay your visa. Lots of students have done that. There are lots of them. However I'm going to take this right from the document here however entering or re-entering the U.S without proper authorization can be criminal specifically 8 US Code 1325

1:31:59 makes improper entry a misdemeanor, which is a crime punishable by up to six months in prison and or a fine. But US Code 1326 of Section 8 or 8 U.S. code makes it illegal to enter...it makes it a felony if you've been thrown out and then you come back in. Yes, of course With penalties that can include up to two years in prison and more under certain circumstances so she's full of crap about being civil this is misdemeanor and felony both criminal she's nuts! And people listen to oh okay just look it up She's having her moment let her have a moment

1:32:47 They're giving her a moment because they look because she cuz I've got no one else media. They've got you know, what? They've got no one else Did you see cusses and she acts ghetto? Did you see that the purple witch creep from Connecticut's oh, I love her She's great for the show, but I don't know if you could...I have- I pulled the clip. It is no good for the show because you can't see her You have to see here she looks like an old witch. An old crone Crone? How do you spell that C-R-O-N-E. What is an old crone? An old crone, a wise and old woman that's supposedly smart but it's a crone! She's a crone. Her name is Rosa DeLauro

1:33:35 De Crone. She's from New York. Rosa De Crone, she's Connecticut! Oh I'm sorry right she's good but... From New York, Connecticut what difference does it make? So it's as if someone went to the Trump Gen Z group and said hey Tell this lady that she needs to do her video like this and she throws in skibbity, and sus, and cringe, and the bag. Yo! This is the Ranking Rizzler on appropriations The Rankling Rizzler Serving Connecticut's 3rd District It's time to enter your dark academia Congress era Alright besties House Appropriation is a money moves in congress We are not chasing the bag we ARE THE BAG

1:34:18 Democrats are making life smoother through government funding. It's giving, it's giving! So Sigma main character energy but Republicans project 2025 is mad sus. Eliminating the Department of Education? Everybody's trying something. Everybody's trying to get some kind of viral moment to become the leader or the frontrunner. I mean it's wide open, there is nobody leading the Democrat pack. Does she expect to become the leader? Well look at her hair! Did she expect for people think that was a good look?! No! Now she...she's nuts. Well she's deluded. Yeah makes it so good speaking of

1:35:21 Unfortunately, people should try to track that. They showed it a lot all over the place but you have to see it to appreciate it. Not a great clip. Well the troll room who hadn't heard of it they liked it so speaking of... Delusional. Rachel Maddow, sorry I actually have two clips today from Rachel Maddow because you know she is back. Because she was banned from the show. But she's here only for a hundred days so we can ban her. She's unbanned temporarily unbanned because... Hey! She gets a pardon. A temporary pardon. A temporary protection order from the show

1:36:06 She had Elizabeth Warren on, and Elizabeth Warren lays out that you know now the Donald Trump President Trump and Elon Musk are out there breaking all these laws Which I have yet to understand what laws they've broken. Do you have any examples? They've broken the law of common sense Okay so this is a strategy here because If you don't obey the law as an underling, as a minion in the swamp, you're going to go to jail. What do you make of this big I think constitutionally existential question? Existential question! About whether or not court rulings are gonna be treated as optional by these guys their brazenness at... So this is my point

1:36:56 No one has ignored a court order as far as you know the president keeps saying oh well We'll have to go back or go up the Supreme Court. Yeah, they're always gonna Go back and read you know yeah They're gonna appeal everything that happens all right But what was not ignoring but Rachel Maddow is setting everybody up To think that they are ignoring The law and that's where Elizabeth Warren comes in Breaking the law, whether it's with the CFPB or USAID or any of these other things they're doing seems to be borne of a kind of confidence that can only... Was there any law broken with shutting down USAID or CFPB? I don't think so. Do you know of any law that was broken?

1:37:37 I think there's some procedural issues that they could complain about. You know, people were fired without cause it seems in some situations. It's not a law though. They got eight month payout! Well, that seems like a good deal. I'll take an eight-month payout from this show! Be born of the kind of confidence that can only come from their expectation that the courts don't mean much at the end of the day and that illegality is not necessarily a reason to avoid doing something they really want to do. You're right... Student debt relief? Is she talking about student debt relief?!

1:38:12 The court just said no you can't do this but Biden did it anyways, is that what she's talking about? That's Whataboutism. Whataboutism! Stop your Whataboutism! ...that they really want to do... You're right we've got our toes right on the edge Or how about having the Federal Housing Authority pick up the tab for like something crazy like a trillion dollars worth of mortgages that are delinquent have you heard about that I think i did. Yeah some guy with a video going around about it like that's pretty bad Right on the edge of a constitutional crisis here. Constitutional crisis! But here is the thing, It may be the case that Donald Trump is so full of confidence That he thinks he can wave his wand and whatever he wants to happen will happen

1:39:01 And in many cases, he will be right. For example the Republicans in the Senate just go ahead and confirm people for jobs that they know they are not qualified for so they will kowtow to him but I don't think thats going to happen with the courts and here's the next part They may not be able to force Donald Trump to do something But Donald Trump isn't actually the guy who puts in the orders and cuts peoples paychecks There is somebody else in this system who does that And they're a click down from Donald Trump and a click down from that and a click down from that. When the federal court issues an order, then gets people in front of them and says you either follow that order or find yourself in contempt

1:39:46 Now we're gonna see whether or not those are people who are going to say, oh but Donald Trump told me and a judge is gonna say I don't care what Donald Trump told you. I'm telling you what the law is You follow the law All hypothetical And if what she says is true then who cares? Yeah Then whats the big deal Rachel? Whats the big deal? Well then were good to go! Yeah sounds like it to me I dont see what the problem is A lot of protests, by the way the Fredericksburg 50 they were also protesting against Elon and Tesla. Oh yeah you got to protest against Tesla! Although weren't their revenues up? Did I read something that they actually had a pretty good quarterly? Well they have a lot of international sales is a big deal. Yeah but China... The big problem is the scientists, funding is getting cut everywhere

1:40:46 They're not getting to do all their projects, which of course comes from the transgender mice story. That was quite interesting... When I was a kid in the olden days there were places like Bell Labs that these corporations would have their own damn research and rely on government handouts to do fake research. How did that change? Don't these corporations and these high paid CEOs, shouldn't they take some of that money and put it into R&D? No. That's all the universities. The universities get all that money. The universities provide the lab and then the grants go to the scientists. And they were out protesting hundreds were standing up for science

1:41:29 Because if standing up for science because if the funding goes away well all hell's gonna break loose. Scientists and researchers from institutions across the front range making time to leave their workplaces on Friday and rallying for science funding at the state capitol. Science is factual, and it saves lives! It's very cathartic to be out here screaming into top of our lungs. These researchers... It feels cathartic to be out here screaming at the top of our lungs. Oh, that's called... Wasn't there like a I think a roll thing or something? There used to be a therapy that was... Yeah, roll thing! Roll thing, yeah sure. Was it roll thing where you'd yell at the top your lungs and you felt good Well no, I think roll thing is also they do well You scream at the top your lungs while they're putting their knuckles in your back I think there was a two-parter on that

1:42:21 I think that was a massage parlor, I've heard of it. And it saves lives! It's very cathartic to be out here screaming at the top of our lungs. These researchers from CU Anschutz say every day feels like they're in limbo last month the federal judge temporarily blocked a Trump administration policy that would significantly lower the agency's funding for major research institutions more specifically limiting NIH research funding for overhead expenses that make their work possible. Those court-ordered restrictions fall by the wayside, we will be doomed within a matter of weeks. The cuts would eliminate a total of nearly $90 million in NIH funding at CSU, CU Anschutz and CU Boulder. These scientists say the impacts to research in Colorado would be huge

1:43:16 So you're not getting the future training for future scientists and researchers, but you're also not going to be making the discoveries that allow us to improve health and allow us to identify those new targets in new biomarkers. And new drugs! New drugs? We won't have new drugs That save lives! I thought the pharmaceutical companies were supposed to invest in research and development for new drugs. They do, they do. The big pharma what has it got to do with you? No they do after after you create the drug, the new drugs then Pharma pays you handsomely with uh... You know you get nice little residual and then they pay you to promote it within your white lab coat. I'm generalizing of course

1:43:56 Yeah, and even... oh man. This is on par with the Connecticut Witch. Former NIH director Francis Collins probably as much responsible for the COVID prolonging... Should probably be in jail yeah? Yeah should, probably That guy's just no good. And I remember during COVID he was out there with his guitar and then he and his wife were singing Puff the Magic Dragon songs, you remember that? Oh yeah! Wait do we still have that let me see... Let me see if we still have that. Yeah, he likes to play the guitar that guy But he only plays folk songs yeah because he's only five chords He needs to know and he just plays them and sings off-key That's what a full folk song is today well here. He is at the stand up for science rally Noble dream you got that so it's just all good people but the second line part of this family in the last line We're joined together by this noble dream do that with me

1:45:00 This is a song for all the good people. Come on! Don't eat the brown acid! We're part of this family, this is the song... For all the good people, we're joined together by this noble dream. Well this is a song for all of those dreamers who are looking for answers to come I gotta stop that. It's too much, it's too much! Well that will show Trump

1:45:53 Yeah, that'll stop Mr. Tracks. That will show him! Bastard... There is one thing that I found quite interesting after the not State of the Union speech that the president did he uh man David Wicker's texting me um so he discussed the research for transgender mice now technically What the $8 million for transgender mice technically, it was to test the response to mice being transitioned with either testosterone or estrogen and different puberty blockers etc. But you could kind of say that's testing transgender mice

1:46:44 But that then got, a big lie came out. Oh no! They read that wrong Doge read it wrong It's trans... what was it? Transgenetic Whatever So CNN was out there saying this for about a week Oh he lied they misread it they don't know the difference between transgender and transgenetic but they had to go back and correct that They fact-checked it And CNN published that, oh well then you know I don't think they said it on the air. So we were wrong about that but the president wasn't right either because it wasn't really transgender mice like that's a thing

1:47:27 But they were testing puberty blockers and other transgender transitioning drugs on the mice. So you can hear this now take place, Axelrod was on the panel with Van Jones and Scott Jennings and Scott Jennings even says as Van Jones because he wasn't read in on it because he's still hanging out with his hundred million dollars from Bezos doing whatever He has no time to follow everything didn't get the briefing He's like, and then Jennings actually says what were we told to say Van because Scott Jennings knows. The initial blush of Musk with his chainsaw may have had some resonance the fact that he is cutting down stuff indiscriminately less so Well it's not all indiscriminate I mean

1:48:17 We don't really need the transgender mice, do we? I mean- That's not even real! It is real. No no listen Is it real or not? Hold on a second Did we have to say it was real or not? No hold on It's real I mean mice was a sheep It's a real thing Listen they weren't talking about transgender mice Don't defend the mice No no! Listen You don't want to talk about it? We're not talking about it. But there were no- It wasn't transgender, it was a different term that was misinterpreted as transgender They were actually trying to do basic medical experiment on mice and figure out Don't spoil the good troll here! That's not true! Kevin Stenning is just having a good troll, don't spoil him Here's the point they have found some things Yes There you go so Van Jones... You didn't know the term Stop counting your money Van

1:49:04 Can you believe the Bezos? You know, you got a hundred million bucks out of the blue. You've got to spend all your time money managing after that! It's so annoying... You don't have time to read the newspaper even. This is so annoying I have no more time do anything else I'm counting the money it's a problem Who gave – this was, I think this was, was it Clip Custodian or his brother gave me this clip? The last time a president tried to undo the Department of Education was Ronald Reagan. and Meet the Press brought up an old clip from his Doge guy. President Trump is considering an executive order which would abolish the Department of Education, though as a federal department it cannot be eliminated without congressional approval But Mr Trump is not the first president to push for its removal Ronald Reagan also tried to scrap the education department but he later backed down citing lack of support in Congress

1:50:04 Reagan's Education Secretary William Bennett joined Meet the Press to explain. As I've said to conservatives in the past six months, if we're elected, we oughta govern and we oughta govern aggressively The president, you know nine months ago said he changed his mind about the department He said he didn't think we needed to get rid of it anymore. He said it wasn't bothering anybody anymore I would say now It's bothering the right people You have said though that sometimes Republicans seem to think that you just don't need to spend money on education What did you mean by that? Well We are as a nation going to spend more money Americans like to spend more money on education And when we put forward our budget proposals, and admittedly on some occasions we asked for reductions. Congress just rejected them out of hand. The American people want to spend more but what we know is it's not the spending more it's what you spend it on and if we spend it on the right things in those inner cities and those poor schools will get results If we spent it on the wrong things with the special interests wants us to do We're not going to get anywhere Well should be interesting to see what happens

1:51:04 Does Al Green get... I can't tell you what's gonna happen, nothing is going to happen. Well that's what you said about Doge and things have happened more has happened than... I was skeptical yeah not gonna deny it no but i'm glad that things are happening but still there's a lot of pushback And I think they got to go back to finding these stupid programs and then exposing them which is what Rand Paul's been doing this for decades. Yeah, yeah he votes no. He comes up every year and he gets no credit. I tried to get a hold of his office to get some comment on this...He's not gonna talk to a podcaster! No you can't even get through hit to his chief of staff it's

1:51:44 It's one of those operations that did Mike Lee's got one of these two, these guys. They're basically cut themselves off from the public they don't want their disdainful of any discussion or back and forth with the public as opposed to other people I've run into These offices, they'd be glad to help you but these guys won't help. So instead of getting any kind of credit Rand Paul is getting nothing. He's a dipshit the way I see it even though he has been doing the same thing for all these years Did you call like a Kentucky accent and say your constituent? If you want to hear the story? Yeah, of course. Okay so everything if you call his office it always goes... Everything goes to voicemail if your a member of the media You need to record these by the way this is show material that you're just throwing away but not recording it I agree So if your media..so I have the media line so I call the media line and says okay leave your message and tell us when you will leave a number or call back telling what the calls about say yeah I'm John C Dvorak and I've got click

1:52:50 It's a wait, wait. Hello? Hello? Is this thing on? It's that old coot again hang up! No it is just the machine itself they won't take the call it's just like you can tell they don't...the thing doesn't give you enough time to even put a phone number in Wow so that was it you gave up after that I give up quick. You called the meeting? What am I supposed to do, bang my head against the wall to give somebody some free publicity? Forget it! They get their own damn publicity Okay, do you have a phone patch? Because you definitely need to phone patch. You need to patch that thing in man just so can get us zoom and just connect it So you can just record whenever we're always missing the cool scam calls the all I guess some great ones Yeah, but not recorded. You have nothing recorded this is this is a problem There's some ways on my slouch

1:53:43 Okay, I'm going to violate my rule for the second time just because it was so awesome and it's a bit of a throwback to the show back to 2015 as President Trump signed the executive order to create their strategic Bitcoin reserve. Here is the misinformation from Rachel Maddow. I should say, i'm by no means a crypto expert. I'm not going to give you a lecture on blockchain or coins or any of that. A.)I don't know and B.) I don't care but I think it's worth looking at this thing a little bit. So if you're gonna start off by telling everyone you don't know what you're talking about how does that compelling

1:54:27 TV, radio or whatever. How's it compelling? Hey, Adam. I don't know anything about this topic but i'm gonna pontificate if both of us are making 25 million dollars a year? I'd be like I don't care pontificate away. I'm good to go whatever you want to say got me Yeah Don't care But I do think it's worth looking at the script or thing a little bit only because it is a deeply deeply old-fashioned Simple scam at this point which points right for the white house news from the white house tonight really gives us no choice You have to look at it Hopefully the broad strokes of crypto trading are not complicated. It's like when there was the Beanie Baby craze in the late 90s, people started buying these stuffed animals right? So she is now about 10 years after us when we first saw Bitcoin We all said beanie babies

1:55:16 Beanie Babies. Ten years ago at least, yeah that's what I'm saying. Kind of inherently not worth much but people were speculating on them right? It was a beanie baby trading bubble other than maybe some emotional value if you had one as a child beanie babies didn't have much inherent value and when i mentioned that the news tonight leaves us not too much choice but to talk about this stuff right now this is what I mean The White House just posted this video tonight of Donald Trump signing an executive order establishing a digital Fort Knox as someone says to the president off-camera. Trump apparently signing this executive order creating what they're describing as a federal government cryptocurrency reserve now imagine the Beanie Babies again for a second imagine Trump had just announced that the US government was going to... You know she just cannot get, she talks too much

1:56:14 Hey, for $25 million I'll talk up a storm. And imagine Trump had just announced that the US government was going to buy up tons of beanie babies! No... We're going to establish a federal government reserve of billions of beanie babies What do you think would happen to the value of beanie babies? Right? Oh, it turns out there's a huge guaranteed buyer for these things. They're buying billions of them! Okay so the point here being that she is really full of crap because there is no billions of Bitcoin being bought by the federal government quite the opposite actually and this scam if it was a scam worked out really great as bitcoin has dropped down to 83 thousand. Let's back up

1:57:03 No, it's back down. It's up and down up and down but it was close to a hundred and eight thousand. It dropped down after you know...it took too long because of course everyone is in on the scam. It took too long for the strategic Bitcoin reserve and now Trump came out with a meme coin oh no! and now it's down below 85,000. And there are good reasons for that because a lot of people were stupid and believed exactly what Rachel Maddow said that there would be a strategic Bitcoin reserve and the government will use your tax dollars to buy more bitcoin but nothing could be further from the truth I think its actually great executive order and here is his announcement

1:57:44 during the crypto conference. Yesterday I signed an executive order officially creating our strategic Bitcoin reserve and this will be a virtual Fort Knox for digital gold to be housed within the United States Treasury. The federal government is already among the largest holders of bitcoin as you know, really one of the largest holders in the world with 200,000 bitcoin obtained via civil law and various other forms of law including enforcement actions. These existing holdings will form the foundation of the new reserve. The Treasury and Commerce Departments will also explore new pathways to accumulate additional bitcoin holdings for

1:58:35 for the reserve provided it's done at no cost to the taxpayers. We don't want any costs of the taxpayers." Now this, of course was not the actual big news from this roundtable which I will play in a moment but just briefly on the executive order i like the fact that starts off with the background saying bitcoin is the original cryptocurrency The Bitcoin protocol permanently caps the total supply of bitcoin at 21 million coins and has never been hacked as a result of its scarcity and security, Bitcoin is often referred to as digital gold. And then it says because there's a fixed supply of bitcoin there's a strategic advantage being among the first nations to create a strategic bitcoin reserve. Then the executive order is very clear that no bitcoin will be purchased if any bitcoin is acquired has to be budget neutral now that doesn't mean

1:59:29 that you can't say, hey I'm going to fine you company Apple whatever Google they find people all the time pay it to us in Bitcoin or any other way but that really was so anybody who was gambling on that to be a big catalyst was very short-sighted and just got caught up in hype. The real news came from Scott Besant are openly gay Treasury Secretary. How come they don't mention that? It's mentioned now and again... Not really! Well, they don't push it because it's a Dem- because it is because as a Republican and then go gay can have the gays thinking that they could be Republicans we want to keep on the Democrats side so don't talk about if you're in the media you're talking about him being gay you're doing the wrong thing you're not helping

2:00:20 You're not helping at all, exactly. But here was the big news as far as I'm concerned. Much of Treasury's responsibility in this order relates to the tax code and determinations around risk weightings and I am here to assure you that we are going to work with the controller of the currency, the IRS, and we are going to rescind and amend all applicable previous guidance. Okay, so that was kind of hard to hear in the second part here well he was saying we're going to change the tax code which a lot of people think means that there may not be capital gains on selling your Bitcoin. I'm skeptical of that, but here hopefully you can hear this next part and we are going to put a lot of thought into the stable coin regime and as President Trump has directed We are going to keep the US the dominant reserve currency in the world And we will use stable coins to do that

2:01:14 Got a trillion dollar coin. Exactly as I predicted. Yeah, you've been...I have to say you kind of even though you don't have it...I hate to use this word sussed since you brought it up earlier out completely. I think you're right. Yeah they're going to eat the going to know I do haven't saw and by the way talking about openly gay Tammy Bruce is now in the administration yes she's the spokeshole for State Department She's the new... State or defense? No, I think state. She is the new Psaki Or she defends Maybe she has defense But she is openly gay! Yeah it's crazy LGBTQ rights being violated again Not to be held back

2:01:59 Fifi Lagarde came out, president of the European Central Bank and in as much announced the digital euro coming this October. On your second point I tend to share your views nature doesn't like vacuum and we started working on the digital euro way back Actually, when I started my term five and a half years ago. And I'm not claiming you know parental... She's totally claiming parental rights to it. The digital euro because my colleague Benoit Corret had already committed a speech on this matter before I arrived but I certainly carried on with that project

2:02:43 and subsequently Fabio Panetta on the board, and then Piero Cipollone who has... Yeah okay we get it you did it. You're the best! ...replaced Fabio have taken the lead together with a very good team which is focused on accelerating the pace and hopefully campaigning enough with all the stakeholders meaning European Parliament, meaning European Council, meaning European Commission so that we can eventually not put to bed but put to reality this digital euro. The deadline for us is going to be October of 25 and we are getting ready for that deadline but we will not be able to move unless the other parties the stakeholders as I call them Commission, Council and Parliament

2:03:37 actually complete the legislative process without which we will not be able to move. And I think it is critically important and it seems to the agnostic or the skeptics, it seems to be more relevant and more of an imperative now than ever before both on the wholesale and on the retail level both So I'm thinking, since this is a central bank digital currency that's how the EU is going to finance their weapons industry. Just make a whole bunch of these digital things! Hmm? The whole... This is a house of cards Yes Of course it is And the whole thing will be well by the way you have so much digital everything was gonna be your savings is gonna be digital

2:04:29 So I'm going to have $100,000 in the bank. Let's say I am a rich person living in France and then next thing you know I've got 50,000. What happens with the rest of it? Well you're helping Ukraine It's for the good of the country. Do you want war or do you want 50,000? Was it as Cyprus that they had all this literal thing and they just took everyone's money... Okay all the savings accounts and everybody that lives here your half your money is gone That was the Russians did that didn't they I think the Russians closed it down I don't know who did it, but I do remember it happening. It was just like well what are you gonna do about it? Yeah! Well that was... Hey what happened to my money?! Uh he's gone we took it. And it's gone and it's gone. It's like that star at the South Park and it's gone. It's like uh you don't get it back this is the way it is with this by law

2:05:21 It's gonna be interesting. I mean, Rachel Maddow could have talked about the stable coins as Beanie Babies! I would've been in on that. That would've been better than what she did. Well she said herself that she doesn't know what she was talking about so there you have it. And with that...I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you The Man Who Put The C In Crone Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one, the only Mr John Cena! 2452 I think that is a little below our recent average. Yeah, for our weekend because we expected a blurt? A blurt yes And we got nothing Well...I mean no we didn't Oh the average chart is not loading Cotton Gin oh man hating when that happens yeah We expected a blurt Didn't really and you know what here we go The average Sunday last show was $27.59 beat last 10 shows

2:06:34 2551 so we're below the average or below the average for the last 10 shows But well, of course you'd be going offline for a long time. It could have hurt some of that Yeah, I'm sure and I'm sorry. I'm sorry man. Is that Australian? We'll put an asterisk That's the Australian gear. I've got yeah, it's like made in Australia who knows. Yeah, you buy Elmer Fudd You get what you pay for Anyway, those trolls are here to... listen to the show live and I think a lot of the trolls actually enjoy when it goes wrong. You know, I know Mimi hates it but everybody else seems to like it. Oh this is funny! It's not working for you... Well you say that you're in denial of the lower numbers What do you mean? Well they've got good numbers Not everybody must like it because the numbers have fallen off from an average of 25 to 24 No no that has to do with your newsletter That has nothing to do with me going offline

2:07:34 The trolls listen at trollroom.io, they also can listen on a modern podcast app Today I'm going to say that a good one to try is Castamatic if you're using an iPhone Castamatic is a very nice iPhone app You can find many of those modern apps at podcastapps.com The good thing about these podcasts apps is they let you listen to the live show in addition to... and this is gonna eventually Apple's gonna do this Radio stations around the country are starting to understand that you can do this because there is no central app really. There's no central place to get your radio stations and now, like Noah Jenner Stream, that's a radio station basically so you can listen to the stream and you get an alert when we go live

2:08:22 Planet Rage with Darren and Larry goes live. They send an alert too, you can listen to that in your podcast app And also when you release the podcast episode You get notified within 90 seconds boom! You're good to go no more waiting for an hour-and-a-half from me or for Spotify What is that for? Are you bored of my talk?! Yeah, no. It was to add some moment of excitement. Wow you should do that more often I feel it's very exciting very exciting thank you so much for spicing it up appreciate this program as you notice was not interrupted in the first three minutes and again after 13 minutes to tell you that its Ford Truck Month instead we run at value for value which means

2:09:09 You're laughing, but there's a lot of Ford Truck Month ads going out. That's funny Not really I wonder if they gave you know Leo is the one that was the original at the Ford Mustang right? The old not a I think no he sold it once they give No, but they he was wasn't he advertising the Mustang? No He was advertising for preferred tested their their marketing with his with the twitch show and Yeah, he ended up buying the Mustang by the way. They didn't give it to him I don't know how he did that wrong yeah, I know I Want to be a good journalist I want you I don't want to get hey, I'll take anything for free Real pro anyway so

2:10:01 So they tested it with him and I think that they found that, you know there's moments when its usable. I don't know whether he got any Ford truck promos but... I heard a Ford... Go ahead? I'm just saying this sounds like a lot of people did Oh right! He was pitching the Ford Cync Remember that horrible entertainment system The Cync oh yeah we're the future of in-car entertainment okay way to go forward Way to go. No, I actually heard the Ford Truck Month ad during the Midas Touch. Like those people aren't buying trucks? Very strange. Midas Touch people? Yeah! If they bought a used Volkswagen it'd be a miracle

2:10:48 So we run a value for value, which means whatever you get out of the show you just hand it back. Whatever that is time talent treasure you can do stuff lots of stuff can be done for the show getting more people into the troll room for instance get more people listening tell more people how great we are no I love how every single new engagement farming is you've got a podcast and of course we knew from day one, we don't want guests on this show. It's the worst possible podcast strategy you can come up with because booking guests and getting them to sound right and get them to show up on time is a nightmare! You do not want to do that

2:11:32 So now all these podcasts who have been built upon the Joe Rogan model, boy we have open conversations for hours with people. It's really entertaining so they go on X and they post who should I invite on for my next guest? And they all do it. They all wind up doing it. They're hard-upped for guests Yes, and then so you see a whole row at Adam Curry at the Real Dvorak At Adam Curry and that the real Dvorak these guys they're the best podcast universe He invented podcasting You should have him on not a single time ever have I gotten a show booking out of that but I appreciate the effort It never works. They've no desire to talk to me. I don't know why

2:12:19 But you're a jerk, baby. I'm not a jerk! No you're not actually. You're a good guest. Here's the problem...no here i'll tell you what it is Oh okay well good how can I change this? Well it's because you know too much Well I can't change that unless I get on the special K. You know too much And you're also a knee-jerk Republican. But even though you're not, I know you're not a Republican but... Republican? You seem like a Republican to them Well but this—I'm talking like Patrick Bet David Oh they're not gonna put you on Why not?! Because I know too much Yeah I think it's because you know too much

2:13:05 And you'll call him out. That show, those guys value tainment I mean right there is a ridicule bait for you. You're so right that would start it off with...I hope to bring more value tame into your program today than ever before yeah you know. Now you could go on Glenn Beck again and i think you fit there because you know But see Beck tried to hire me and I said no and I think that put me in bad graces with him You know what I mean? He wanted me. Well then he's very pretentious, and he seems so that if you bring a guest on and like the guest, you're like this guy well he should be working for me! He brought me back! He had me on twice Oh okay did he try to hire you the first or second time? The second time

2:13:53 Then he wouldn't bring you back after well. He was like, you know it really brought in Okay, he brought you in as a pilot. Yep. See is the pilot episode? Well this that is pretty good us bring him back on this time We'll throw the throw the pitch at him see if he wants to work for us and disappear off the face of the earth No offense no not to be fair You want me to be his his every Friday guest on the show on the radio show Every Friday yeah How's that? Hmm. That's an interesting idea No, it's not! I don't want to work for anybody. I don't want... no But you can just take a quick drive to Austin on Fridays uh.. You're not working the show

2:14:37 Here. Why don't you take a quick drive to Austin? No, I'd have to fly in and it's beyond me This is not an exit strategy... no! It's like- I don't want- Some icing on the cake. No! See some promotion for this show Ah there it is There's the true John You don't care about me You just wanna work me like a slave Like a monkey boy Dance monkey boy dance You can do it. Drive to Austin. That's true, you nailed me. Yeah no I'm not going to work anyway but because i like Beck and that was...I think is fun to be on his podcast and have been on this radio show. I like him a lot but just the phone's not ringing anymore from Dallas so I don't know what's going on

2:15:17 Don't know. Oh, he's in Dallas. I thought it was in Austin No, oh you're right. He's got that dial. That's too far Yeah, no, but no it could just be a phoner Just me a phone. Oh, that stinks Anyway We also enjoy when people just send us money because that really does help keep the show going It has worked so far for 17 years with its ups and downs And did you throw out a sad puppy? Sad puppy's in play. Oh, sad puppy is in play... Well anyway we always want to thank the people who support us financially and it was a nice list today. Sad puppy is in play

2:15:59 Yeah. We thank everybody... It takes the content out of the newsletter, so I had two problems one I have the Easter day wrong that I heard from a couple of people what are you talking about? What is Easter month one guy says and course Jay calls me immediately after their newsletter goes like so I looked it up I said and this is the mistake first time I made in all year when is Easter 2024 I asked Google Oh instead of 2025 And so and what triggered that, what triggered the Easter thing is that last Wednesday was Ash Wednesday for all the Catholics virtue signalers. They had to put a big patch of ashes on their forehead and show up on TV That's not virtue signaling! That's part of their vibe man it's a part of their... It's okay you can call it what you want

2:16:50 But I'm looking at Jeanine Pereira, whatever her last name is. Pirro. Judge Jeanine Pirro and she's got a smudge on her face the size of New York City it's a big mess And she's on talking away like there is nothing different about it. The whole thing is ridiculous! There was a clip, I didn't get it of Byron Donald? Donald? Byron Donalds? Yeah, Byron Donalds and he's grilling the mayors about their... It was quite funny, I heard this clip yeah And then you had the mayor from Boston? The woman that was Chinese woman? Yeah and she had the big Ash Wednesday cross on her forehead

2:17:34 Yeah. So I always thought Ash Wednesday, being a former Catholic was always near Easter it used to be... No it's 40 days that's the beginning of Lent 40 days until Easter Well okay Mr Big Shot how come you didn't notice in the newsletter that you proofread yeah and I was way off on Easter? Because I don't look at content there's no content in the newsletter I'm just looking at spelling mistakes And I saw it was a short newsletter. Okay, I messed up! I missed it sorry...I should have caught that you're right So I had Easter wrong so I'm sorry I apologize for that It is now a collectible

2:18:20 Yeah, that newsletter is collectible. Bonehead move on my part but it was a short content-less newsletter because except for the one you know the hypocrite of the week I always have that yeah and because there was it was a plea for more donations cuz it was getting ridiculous and the numbers that came in that morning were terrible Yeah, and you are able to gauge that quite accurately after all these years. You know if the numbers are down then it's not going to get much better and you have made a science out of that. You should write a book about it honestly! Should. It's coming out right after the Vinegar Book. And give it to the value attainment guys

2:19:04 So we always thank everybody who supports us with $50 or more. We're very transparent in this, we mention the people unless they want to be anonymous and how much they donated and uh... well we don't have any of their like Patreon levels you know if you don't have to subscribe to get the show we just give you the show! We just love giving you the show but your people used to put the show on CDs when CDs were still a thing maybe vinyl Wouldn't be great to have the show on vinyl. That would be great to put a show on vinyl So that would be a triple box set each show each show would be a box out of three vinyl Yeah, cuz you can only get about half hour on the side yeah, that'd be cool Now there's many as I said there's many ways that actually I forgot the artists. I can't believe I forgot the artists. I'm sorry artists

2:19:55 In fact, one artist we want to thank the artist who brought us the artwork as part of the time and talent portion of Value for Value. Episode 1744 we titled that Yula for Ukraine and Tanstafel which I forget what the acronym means again there are... There's no such thing as free lunch Yes there you go Brought us the No Agenda Fried Dodo Bucket Which we thought was very..there were number of good dodo First of all, for people who missed the show you missed a doozy because we found out that Dodo bird is quite delicious. Notoriously so. Notoriously delicious

2:20:34 So, and you know as we always say bad art only comes because we didn't give anybody... You know. We didn't have a great item in the show and your dodo three clips And I really thought it started with the woolly mice thing It's like oh where is this going? And there was a massive shaggy dog you paid it off with the dodo The delicious dodo That's why they went extinct largely Because people were eating them Yeah, really? Yeah Wow and they were easy to catch because they were dumb And so that's where the dodo word dodo comes from cuz they're dumb I mean it was called Dodo birds and then the Moniker you're a dodo came from the bird Because they would just stand around and say okay. What are you gonna? Do with me why are you picking me up? Okay? Oh, oh you killing me now? Oh now You're eating me what if what's going on here

2:21:28 And they were just good eating and easy to get, and they were just dynamite. So there was no chance. But they could be bread! I think a big giant dodo farm... the Dutch didn't have any foresight whatsoever. No they just ate them all stupid Dutch. I wish we could talk about the rest of the art but the Art Generator seems not responding at the moment. Do you get any response from it? I'm not getting any response. NoahArtGenerator.com is where you should be able to upload your art if... Oh no, oh! I got a cloud flare error. That's no good

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2:34:27 And again, thanks to these executive and associate executive producers. Our formula is this... We go out we hit people in the mouth. Hide pockets! Shut up Steve! I want to add a couple of thank yous for the people. I got three Ohio State hoodies Oh nice it works one of them from Dreb Scott who sent a terrific design one of his buddies did it out of Detroit

2:35:05 Really, and then I got another one. There's also a red when they came in I don't have the guys name I want him to write me so I can give them a thanks on the air But also I got another hoodie plus a bunch of souvenirs including a small icon a doll called Brutus which I guess is the but guys Horrible looking animal from From one of the law from the Park Street Law Group, Jay Madison in particular. Yeah he or Jeff, Jeff Madison and he sent in a hoodie plus some other stuff and I want to thank him everybody who's

2:35:46 Followed up finally from Ohio State one of the greatest universities in the world Okay, all right Don't use being a dot IO to hear previous remarks. Well previous remarks are null and void We so very sad very sad Sad news that Mimi's theory was wrong Wrong I tell you about Gene Hackman Yes, yes it was. It was more grotesque. Yes depending on which version you've heard Tonight New Mexico authorities with tragic revelations to a week-long mystery saying Gene Hackman died of heart disease and complications from Alzheimer's likely a week after his wife Betsy died of the rare deadly disease hantavirus The cause of death for Mr. Gene Hackman aged 95 years

2:36:41 is hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease with Alzheimer's disease as a significant contributory factor. The cause of death for Ms. Betsy Hackman, aged 65 years, is Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome Hantavirus is transmitted to humans by mice. There's been less than 900 cases since the CDC started tracking it in 1993. Hantavirus can be transmitted to people through rodent urine droppings or saliva The couple, married for 30 years were found dead inside their Santa Fe home by a neighborhood caretaker February 26th

2:37:19 Hackman found in the mudroom appearing to have suddenly fallen. Betsy in the bathroom with pills scattered on the counter, her body further decomposed than her husband's. Based on the circumstances it is reasonable to conclude that Ms. Hackman passed away first With February 11th being the last time that she was known to be alive. Officials say pacemaker data indicates Hackman likely died February 18th Does this mean Gene Hackman was likely home with his deceased wife for a week before he passed away himself? Yes, I would assume that is the case This is a very...very bad day for these people It's gruesome this whole idea Pantavirus

2:38:05 A hantavirus, they had a number there. What was the number of cases they said total? 900 or 600? Yeah it's not very big I actually have... It's bigger than the measles! Hello?! We're gonna get to that. I have a hantavirus clip from 99 that explains the hantavirus When CDC investigators compared the antibodies from the outbreak victims to those in their vast file of known diseases They made a surprising discovery. The only sample that was in any way similar, was one that was 40 years old It was a sample taken from a soldier stationed in Korea in 1950 During the Korean War more than 3,000 troops developed high fevers and kidney failure about 400 died

2:38:57 Doctors called it Hanta virus because it was traced back to Korea's Hantan River. That region was home to large numbers of striped field mice. Feces and urine from infected mice carried the virus, when it dried out, it became airborne and then inhaled by the soldiers. From there, the virus attacked the kidneys. Wow! That is from forensic files Does that sound right to you? You being our resident. Yeah, it's a terrible product! So they didn't explain the dog... Did the dog just starve to death? Well they did say that there were pills scattered on the floor so no No on the counter not on the floor on the counter I'm skeptical and did the dog The dog needs to be explained maybe he did starved to death but could have eaten one of them That what dogs would do? Maybe he ate some of her and got hantavirus

2:40:00 Well, the story continues to unfold. I got a note from one of our producers... I was listening to the show Couldn't Help But Chuckle doing your Oscar Awards talk with John today and of course we were talking about Gene Hackman getting very very little airtime for his illustrious and lengthy career And our producer says, I work with a tribute package team for award shows! Huh? No, it's ludicrous the people that we have listening. It is well known in our little circle how much of a hard time the Oscars seems to have with their In Memoriam package this is industry inside stuff you'll never hear about Brunetti listen up

2:40:47 I don't work on that show specifically, so i don't have any really good inside gossip to share with you. But it's very common for a final product to be harmed by internal board member politics! I've witnessed it many times in the past and can only imagine how egregious it is at the Oscars Yeah...I can imagine. Yeah of course I wonder what kind of... Was Hagman a Republican or what was the deal? I don't know. I don't know. Supported Trump, that could be. Possibly although iIdon't think he did. I don't think it wasn't we didn't hear much of him anyway since you brought up measles

2:41:26 Ah, the big pharma is on a trip with this measles thing man. This unbelievable what they're coming up with now. This is CBS. And today's health watch the measle outbreak is showing no signs of slowing down Get this last year there were total of 285 cases at least 164 cases of the virus have been detected so far this year Two unvaccinated people who were diagnosed have died A child in Texas and an adult in New Mexico We know measles is a severe and potentially deadly virus, right? But a lesser known fact is how the virus can damage the immune system raising the risk of other infections even after the person has recovered. It's called immune amnesia Have you ever heard of this bullcrap? No Immune Amnesias are first of all potentially deadly virus Yeah

2:42:16 The flu... The antivirus is worse. Yeah, the flu is- And the numbers are higher! The flu kills tens of thousands of people a year but okay it's about vaccines obviously let's bring in Celine Gounder doctor how exactly does measles wipe out immunity to other viruses people have already been exposed to that confuses me well we know because we've never heard of this before ever Well, we know of other viruses that infect the immune system. HIV is probably the best known one. Measles infects immune cells and when it does so it damages immune cells and it wipes out partially your memory—your immune system's memory to certain infections. So that leaves you more susceptible to getting some of those infections. Now we have an animation here to help you understand how this works. Okay. They literally have a drawing of two jars with colored balls in it?

2:43:10 Let's say you have two babies. As they grow... They're not babies, they're jars with balls in it, Celine! Their immune systems mature and they both gain immunity to different infections which is represented here by the different colored marbles Okay One baby gets vaccinated against measles at age one and then later age four That baby gains immunity to measles through vaccination which is what you are seeing here with the red marbles Okay Alright Which, there we go. The other baby doesn't get vaccinated and is not immune to measles at age five both kids will start school and the unvaccinated child gets measles so if that kid is lucky it's a mild case they don't need to be hospitalized they develop immunity to measles from- I need to stop right here how do you get a mild case of the measles? What does she mean by that

2:44:01 The only thing I can think of is that your immune system is strong and therefore the effects of the measles are not as strong on you or that, you know. Does it...I don't understand a mild case? It has to be something like that because I remember when my son JC had chickenpox He had a mild, I would have to say it's a mild case because there were like two pox. Two pox? He was a two-pox Shakur! It was like ludicrous. Okay so strong immune system those Dvorak's That kid is lucky it's a mild case and they don't need to be hospitalized They develop immunity to measles from the infection Wait how many kids were ever hospitalized for measles that's just a

2:44:47 A really bad case, a normal case you wouldn't get hospitalized. You don't have to be a mild case. Oh you can be sick! This story's bullcrap. But this they're doing this for a reason... They develop immunity to measles from the infection But immunity to other infections is weakened and that leaves them at higher risk for other infections. That's because the measles is damaging your immune system and erasing that memory to other viruses. Bull! That was digestible, thank you for putting it like that. Dennis Schott would do the same thing to you because that gives you a mild case doesn't it? Ah this is the question can you fix that with boosters?! So if somebody has been infected with the measles Is there anything they can do to regain the immunity they've lost

2:45:30 No, it's just time. Time for your immune system to build back up and recover. Build back better! The best thing is not to get measles in the first place and the best way to do that is to get vaccinated because we were always told that once you get it last your lifetime Once you get vaccinated yes you're covered for your lifetime one dose gets you to about 95 percent two doses to 97% coverage Well then you're not covered for your lifetime It was 93 in other reports but now its 97 Pretty much if you've gotten your measles vaccination, you are set. You are immune for your lifetime Should people try to get boosters just because of this outbreak? Well there's a very specific age group where you may want to consider getting a booster Oh John did you get a measles vaccine

2:46:11 No, I had the measles. Yeah, I had the measles too but pay attention! So if you were born after 1957 but vaccinated before 1963 You may not have immunity from measles infection or vaccination Really? Because that's an age group also where the vaccines we had available were not as effective Oh wow! So if you're in that very specific age group again Born after 1957 Vaccinated before 1963 You may want to get a measles booster Just get a booster. Whatever it is, get a booster. It can't hurt. What can it hurt? Just get a booster now this

2:46:47 Immunity amnesia, which I really question the validity of this but this is a you know CBS It's big pharma pays their bills. So and we know we've got all this anti-vax stuff out there so We might as well try it with this one How long does that immunity last? I mean the in the amnesia I'd never heard of the phrase immune amnesia how long has its done How long did the effects of that last? Well, from studies it can last months to a couple years. So you know it really does set a child back and back before kids were being vaccinated for measles its estimated that half of the deaths were actually from other infections they got later because of that weakened immune system

2:47:30 This is fear-mongering on parents. Wait, wait I gotta play the last one because it's all about RFK Jr., obviously. as Secretary RFK Jr. supported some unconventional treatments for measles including vitamin A and cod liver are these effective tools? I mean what does science tell us? Oh please! Are you kidding me?! What the science, science for cod liver oil!? Look at your face So there were three humans It's like you're struggling to hold your face on screen Your lip curled up a little bit

2:48:12 So you have cod liver oil which has vitamin A. What is cod liver? Cod liver oil, so oil from the cods liver. From a fish's liver? Yeah. It's been around for centuries. But it is a good source of vitamin A in very malnourished kids, in developing countries studies showed that it helps reduce certain complications from measles and particular blindness but you don't see that in the US less than 1% of kids have that kind of thing so unfortunately this is not very good advice. It's not very good advice because it comes from JFK Jr., it's not good advice

2:48:50 Before you do your COVID clips, I have two clips from McCullough about the measles specifically. Good yes because he'll give us some rundown on this even though he sells pills. Yeah he does sell pills. I was going to say cod liver oil because we don't get enough omega-3's and it's loaded with that too. It's a product that has been around for centuries? Yes! Because cod liver oil in fact all of the the Nordic countries, they gobbled this stuff down. When I was in Iceland and I remember going to the grocery store, I always go to grocery stores when I travel and there was like an aisle of cod liver oil and cod oil and fish oils it was just like there must have been a thousand examples of it. It was unbelievable because you need this stuff for

2:49:38 You have lack of sun. There's all kinds of reasons to have this stuff. It's good stuff, it's good stuff! All right here's McCullough he is on the Dell Big Tree show. Our media and public health officials I think you have to be far more responsible in this type of reporting and just two levels set our CDC says anybody born before 1957 it's assumed that they've had measles. There is just a broad assumption that that's the case, I was born in 1962, I had a single measles vaccine at age two and I had another one at age 20 when I entered medical school and that's because I didn't have immunity, I didn't have antibodies against measles and now a paper from Bianchi and colleagues from Italy has actually done that exact study of medical students entering medical school

2:50:29 And the answer is about 20% of those who took the measles shot do not have effective immunity according to Bianchi and colleagues. Now, the answer is if they've had measles during childhood... about 6% may not have adequate immunity. So clearly natural immunity beats vaccine immunity and now our CDC is reporting as of February 27th, 2025 we have 164 cases in the United States of measles in Alaska, California, Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York City, Rhode Island and Texas. So it's not just the Mennonite community in West Texas and you know what? In last year, 2024 we had 285 cases so measles is something that does occur sporadically uh it is spread by

2:51:21 You know, respiratory aerosol spread and it's a morbilliform rash. We have other illnesses that have very similar rashes for which there is no vaccine including hand foot mouth disease caused by our Coxsackie virus. Oh man! Coxsackie...that's a frightening one. Christina had that as kid I actually had Burke's clip so we'll skip her. Here is the last of the McCullough and this is a very interesting little tidbit. Prior to the MMR vaccine, prior to vaccinating for measles Infants that are the only really truly susceptible group of children that are in danger of measles. You do not want your day one old, one month old two-month old five months old infant to catch the measles at that age it is dangerous no doubt about it but here's what shocking The numbers when we look back in the 1950s and 60s had very few infants that died

2:52:21 The reason being that their mothers passed on measles immunity to the baby at birth. How did that happen? Every mother that caught the measles as a child kept that immunity through life and once they started having their own children, that natural immunity passed onto the infant... To the baby They were protected for at least six months, oftentimes a year. And if the mother breastfed that child that immunity could last up to a year and a half long but certainly at six months to a year now that that immunity given by mom wears off now the child is at a place where they're healthy enough to handle a measles infection

2:53:01 It was amazing. Nature or God, if you will had done an amazing job at protecting our babies but then we started vaccinating every person in this country starting in 1963-64 depending on how you look at the data and we've been vaccinating ever since here's the problem no mother that has been vaccinated with the MMR vaccine for measles passes anything onto their infants Our infants now have zero protection whatsoever. Well, thank you Big Pharma! That's great! Wow there is your ironic story of the day Yes that is just great Yeah it's meddlers You meddle...you pay the price

2:53:47 All right, we'll wrap it up with your COVID stuff. Okay so Montana's got a law they're gonna pass to stop all mRNA vaxxes period. Oh really? They just say go genetic anything. Yeah, Montana there is about I think four or five other states trying to do this and so there's a doctor that comes out and gives a pretty good rundown just so we remind everybody I'm sorry about anybody who's got the, if you've got the vaccine and you're probably okay. But it has issues and i wanted to play these clips of the woman's testimony she there are three short well second clip is a little longer than should be this is that the woman coming out giving a nice little rundown on why they should pass this law and take his vaccine off the market its ridiculous my name is Christine Drifdal Smith

2:54:45 I am a family physician in Miles City. I have no conflict of interest, and volunteer board member of the Montana Medical Freedom Alliance. Gene-based vaccines or mRNA vaccines are the most destructive and lethal medical products that have ever been used in human history I am asking you to support this bill banning gene-based vaccines so that we can halt continued harm, disability and death of our citizens. Gene based vaccines include the COVID 19 shots and there is one other RSV shot that was approved for this past year for older adults There are ongoing trials for influenza and bird flu And there are dozens more in development

2:55:40 The COVID shots were rolled out just over four years ago under Emergency Use Authorization or EUA. This has been renewed multiple times. The last renewal was in December of 2024 and extended the EUA until 2029, which also extends the liability protections under EUA. The FDA may allow use of unapproved medical products including experimental products Further, the regulatory procedures do not apply to the EUA products which explains why the FDA has not withdrawn these dangerous vaccines.

2:56:19 I'm glad you're ending the show on a happy note. This is great We're not ending this show well, this is gonna end the show that I mean where there's over three hours already It won't fit on the vinyl if we don't have a lot of the three hours just trying to get no No, no, I this is the actual recording 257 yeah Sorry, no it's not your fault. I love this! I just feel that we're leaving people with a downer. You think they are going to make us approve these vaccines? They never have! Bull crap! No they haven't. By the end of 2024 there was over 38 thousand deaths reported to the VAERS system with an underreporting factor of 31 to as much as 100

2:57:05 There are over 3,400 peer-reviewed studies in the medical literature describing injury from these vaccines including cardiac arrest myocarditis blood clots immune suppression autoimmune disorders cancers neurological disorders prion induced disease pregnancy harms and miscarriage. Every highly vaccinated country has had a significant increase in all cause mortality, decrease in life expectancy and a decrease infertility. These vaccines do not prevent disease or transmission. In fact the more shots one receives the more likely they are to get COVID over a year ago it was discovered that the COVID shots are contaminated with DNA

2:57:55 This has now been confirmed by multiple labs around the world. The amount exceeds the regulatory limits as much as 400 times. The presence of this genetic material increases the risk of cancer in the recipient and this foreign genetic material has now been found within dividing human cells in a petri dish and in colon cancer biopsies These mRNA vaccines, like other gene therapy medical products can be shed to others via blood body fluids excrement and airborne exosomes. Studies have now confirmed that these products are shedding to others and that those exposed via shedding can experience adverse reactions As you can see there are no benefits And only the potential for harm

2:58:44 And yet, 23% of Americans continue to receive boosters. The American College of OBGYN continues to recommend COVID shots to pregnant patients and the CDC has added the COVID shots to the pediatric vaccine schedule starting at six months of age. So tell me, at the end of this testimony they all go thank you very much for coming we're just going to keep on using them? I mean what uh... This is well it's very depressing! I'm sorry but here we go this will wrap it up There have been ever-increasing calls for an immediate ban by professional groups all across the globe

2:59:20 Five states attorneys general have filed a suit against Pfizer for misrepresenting the effectiveness of the COVID shots. And just last week, citizens filed a petition with the FDA to remove these... What was that? Time's up? No one minute! Wow, someone didn't want to hear her. With the FDA to remove these products because the DNA contamination was not revealed to regulators The drug companies, the regulators and federal government have failed to act We all know that hands of justice move slowly Time is of the essence I've spent over half my medical career in emergency medicine

3:00:01 And during a trauma code, the most important thing is to stop the bleeding. So I'm asking all of you to use common sense and Montana let's get this done attitude We must ban gene-based vaccines in Montana. Will this ever be admitted by RFK Jr.? considering President Trump is so proud of Operation Warp Speed. This is the question, the big question. He even touted it during his not-state of the union by saying that he had... It's a problem! This is a real big problem. It would be dynamite if you just said, You know I was wrong? How about that? I was wrong. Well, he has never done that. That this is one, this is his flaw. Yeah. He can never admit to being wrong

3:00:55 I have a couple of just Ask Adam clips which are little lighter. You might find it more amusing to end the show with these. Okay, hold on a second... It doesn't say that! These are gut-filled Oh but don't I need an Ask Adam jingle? You would yeah Ask Adam. I can do it. You know what's happened is this bit, is like...I have a million clips called, called Ask Adam and here it is. Ask Adam, ask Adam will he know or will he won't? I don't know but here we go! Answer the question, Go! Alright, ready to answer the question

3:01:40 Okay, so I'm gonna play the first clip and actually the question for you comes after the second clip So it's not going to be that hard. Okay? This is gut felt playing a Rogan clip of Bill Murray talking about Bob Woodward now we've had talked about Bob Woodwards in inability to tell the truth nice spook Including yes well here We I wanted so there here's the clip that's this set up And this is the Gutfeld woodward setup The video of the day comes from Joe Rogan's podcast where comic legend Bill Murray discussed Bob Woodward's 1984 book Wired about the late John Belushi. As far as Murray was concerned, the book was so inaccurate he had to wonder if Woodward's reporting on Watergate was also full of crap. Watch! I read like five pages of Wired and I went oh my god

3:02:32 They framed Nixon. All of a sudden I went, oh my god if this is what he writes about my friend that i've known you know for half my adult life... Which is completely inaccurate talking to like the people of the outer outer circle getting this story What the hell did that could they have done to Nixon? Okay, I have nothing to answer with the Russ Baker book discussed all this. Yes great detail So gut-filled now goes around the table and he's talking everybody and then out of the blue He pulls out a little piece at choice tidbit And the ask Adam part is see if you can easily spot what is a kind of the missing piece of this.

3:03:35 So the red flag for me here too on Woodward, and this has happened in various others of his books as well where people have called him out and been like well that's not true. The piece that's missing? Yeah I'm surprised you didn't hear it right off No i didn't Gutfeld says that Woodward was a naval officer and then leaves it at that Without ever mentioning that that's not the important part of him being a naval officer. He was in Naval Intelligence Oh, I see what you're saying yeah? Yeah, it's good Why does he leave that out that seems to be there'd be the key It wasn't that always a naval officer they went to work for The Washington Post Was he had journalists in the Navy What was he doing there? He was a naval intelligence officer that went to work for the dude You could have been at Boson. He could have been a swabbie

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3:19:43 So there I make, if you have five make pancakes. I just take any flour and put some baking powder in it mix it up with some salt little shake of salt and put an egg and some buttermilk can mix it up and there's pancake is a pancake yes But it's got wheat obviously, and I don't like pancake mixes but I have to say there is this one pancake mix gluten-free from a company called P.A.N., PAN, P.A.N., and they have a gluten free pancake mix that's a mix of flours and starches

3:20:20 And it tells you instructions how to make it, but I just used to throw an egg and buttermilk in. I don't care what they tell you to do just as though it was a flour mix. You make a pancake from this stuff...I don't think anyone in the world could tell that this had no wheat! And it's the stuff I buy for Mimi because she can have a satisfying pancake that you'd swear was real, the real deal when it's not. It's just a blend of crazy flours and starches and this P-A-N gluten free pancake mix. P-A-N gluten? You know, Tina won't eat any pancakes and she makes great pancakes so I'm gonna see if we can get some of that maybe she'll eat it

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3:24:27 Putin Russia Ukraine Putin said when Ukraine says when it comes to Ukraine, Putin invaded Ukraine. What Putin wants is for Ukrainians to defend their democracy. Ukraine brutal invasion of Ukraine President Vladimir Putin The Russian offensive against Ukraine continues Russian atrocities President Zelensky of Ukraine Ukraine I really hope that you and the president get together and can solve your problem That would be a tremendous achievement Are you trying to do that? Did you underestimate Vladimir Putin's intentions to press on with his brutal assault on Ukraine and Russia. Russian missiles continue to rain down on the port city of Odessa. More scenes of carnage in Ukraine is a centrally located strategic country in Europe.

3:25:09 repeatedly asked his Ukrainian counterpart, Vladimir Zelensky to investigate the former vice president. President Biden Russia's president Vladimir Putin Do we need to be prepared for the continued destruction of Ukrainian cities? Putin is a great disruptor! Putin's military is falling apart There's a price to pay for peace and democracy Please again my request don't trust Putin F. Jot flew and you don't know where there's fake news Why don't ya get your Gitmo fix Putin on the Ritz Dressed up like a million dollar trooper Trying not to look like Anderson Cooper Super pooper Come let's mix Where John Podesta walks with kids Oh I mean pizzas in his mitts Putin on the Ritz

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