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00:00 She's all jacked up about the action, ho. and the bangaranga! And broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas hill country here in FEMA region number six, In The Morning everybody. I'm Adam Curry. And from refinery row where everybody's happy that Bill Cassidy is finally out, I'm John C. Dvorak. It's crackpot and buzzkill... In The Mornin'! Hey man, the gloves are coming off. Gloves are coming off. Mm-hmm

00:40 I don't care how, you know if they cut your chest open the gloves are off. I cannot believe that for 18 years one thing has been my segment one thing oh no! You need to come in with a series of four clips about Eurovision yeah after you poached and poached and poached i got sick of it what did i poach? everything Well, we do this every single year. We're always very... And we nailed it again? I think we forgot to nail it! We completely forgot to predict. But okay, yes because we probably would have corrected the predicted incorrectly but I will relent and

01:40 I will allow you, graciously to roll out whatever you think is important about this year's Eurovision Song Contest. Well it's funny you should ask now... First of all, this is the 70th anniversary. Big deal! I mean 75 would have been better but yeah, yeah, 75 is better 100 even better but 70 you know... Since since you're doing the segment first of all did we have any transsexuals this year in the contest? No they were all transexuals

02:17 So let's say that this is a PBS report, or I'm sorry NPR report. So what that was kind of entertaining because they actually in an offhanded way predicted the winner even though it was the long shot in the way it was presented but lets listen to and the guys vary their very enthusiastic lets go with Eurovision 70 years as clip number one. Let the grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest 70 years old still as glamorous as ever the final song contest is in full swing in Vienna you heard three of the early entries Denmark Germany and Israel it's said to be that non-sporting event with the biggest global audience so if you're not listening to news hour you are probably watching it or maybe... Is this NPR? Yeah. With a British guy?!

03:08 Yeah. You're doing both at the same time let's speak now to someone who is gonna do that William Lee Adams BBC journalist founder of WeeWee blogs which is the world's most followed independent Eurovision channel on YouTube What kind of blog? WeeWee Blogs! Okay he's in Vienna hi William hey good evening James good to have you on the program what nearly two hours since it all started one of the highlights so far oh wait a minute This is the BBC World Service, of course. Yes, thank you. I knew it couldn't be NPR? I just thought it was so lame they had to be NPR but now that I think about it You're right. Yeah Okay onward whenever you bring in the guy who writes the wee-wee blog yeah The weewee blog is a think even beneath NPR very bouncy and very buoyant A lot of that is down to Australia Delta Goodrum she is going for gold and wearing gold yes yes I'm stopping oh my god We're never gonna get through this

04:08 Australia? They're in Europe?! Oh, we go through this every year. You might as well add Israel and say... Israel! They're not in this are they because they're not in Europe Yes but it is the Eurovision Yeah, Euro standing for Europe. No that just means Eurovision like you can see Europe you have a vision of Europe it doesn't mean they have to be in Europe. Oh then how do the United States doing this competition? We don't look we have the voice! We invented all these things... Okay well if they dropped the United States will drop ourselves How about South America how did Brazil do? Every year we go through this What?!

04:48 Every year. They could, everyone can participate if they want! They just have to join the European Broadcasting Union which costs money... Oh there it is. This thing is like the Olympics You know, it's like then your country wins and then it's all hosted in your country. And there is a lot of money involved sponsors all kinds of stuff everywhere 7000 Swarovski crystals she sort of looks like liquid champagne walking down the stage Now I will say this is the commentary that I expect from Eurovision

05:24 7,000 Swarovski crystals she looks like champagne coming down the steps is wonderful. Now her song is called Eclipse this is about alignment so... And we can take some notes here because this is how the podcast award should run that you were going to organize that we were going to be the uh the uh the still in play and the moon or ash dance Connection that two people have that's really special and can lead to sort of romantic entanglement. Now, she herself is a cancer survivor. She has raised more than $120 million for cancer research and so this song is about timing you know? And she told me when I sing, I'm singing for all the struggles I've had all the struggles I've endured and survived and it's just beautiful! She rises into the air on an elevator borrowed from Beyonce, the American pop star which emerges from her piano

06:12 Well you've painted the picture on the radio which is what we guess that was pure theater of the mind Thank You Weewee blog would like you to have done which is wonderful but tell us about the other favorites I mean she's one of them Finland Greece although, I think you had a kind Bulgaria have come in at the last minute for you, have they? Oh absolutely. The contest really is a two-horse race between Australia and Finland. Ha ha! Oh how wrong he was... Well he did mention Bulgaria We should've sent Spencer Pratt to Eurovision He would've swept it

06:58 Alright, now we go to the UGG clip. I put UGG because this is a real groaner this clip. But Bulgaria is lurking on the outside. Now, the Bulgarian singer Dara she used to suffer from a compulsion where she couldn't leave her house unless her makeup was perfect and I don't say this in a joking way it was clinical if her eyebrows weren't painted on perfectly she would experience so much anxiety she would just stay home. There's a traditional ceremony in Bulgaria, Kerkari I believe and they expel evil spirits. So on stage she has people with bad makeup sitting in chairs there's plastic on their face and they perform a dance to drive out the anxiety to drive out the evil but she does this within a box that looks like an office you're not aware of the audience even though there are tens of thousands of people out there it's creating a music video universe on a stage it is remarkable

07:50 close up off the circle about your favorites. You've got Finland, my goodness! If Australia is about emotional connection with the singer and the audience, Finland is about emotional disconnection because you have a man and woman on stage. The woman is 56-year old violinist Linda Lampinius and she's deliberately icy. She doesn't look at anyone. She's avoiding Pete. She says that she is like a flamethrower, leikkähytän in Finnish because, you know she'd warm up and people would be drawn to her but then she would just get cold as ice and walk away. And so their dynamic his fire her ice it creates smoke Why are you torturing us with this? I've never done this Can I get some of President Trump's bleach to drink please Well, I think it's about time we got to the nitty-gritty of this piece of shit Okay

08:37 And this is it, the ridiculous over-analysis of stupid acts. Oh the woman has anxiety attacks because her makeup isn't correct and she's the one who won! Yeah yes Because of bad makeup. I mean this whole thing is ludicrous and every year we talk about it We do normally predict with some accuracy, I might say even though we would have missed it this year because who knew? I know we were too busy looking at the news Well, we were excised from the prediction by the cosmic forces because it was impossible for us to predict. That's my thinking and that's in line with the kind of stupidity that we're listening to now so let's go on with clip three well he talked about anxiety earlier there was a bit of anxiety quite a lot of anxiety I guess around Israel's participation five countries boycotting it how did their entry perform how did it all go down

09:36 Indeed, Israel's participation remains a major flashpoint for fans, for performers and for delegations from rival broadcasters. In the past two editions of Eurovision we heard a lot of booing... I think- What does that even mean? Here is what i think if im not mistaken You're not correct. If I'm not corrupted, if i'm not correct then I'll be correct because that's rule one and I am always correct! I believe that these broadcasters are all public broadcasters. I think that is part of the hook and that's why you've got Israel has public broadcasting Australia has public broadcasting Canada... Are they in this thing? It wouldn't surprise me They have all got public broadcasting And I think you have to be a public broadcaster so this kind

10:26 This is their Super Bowl where they all get to, you know, get drunk and hang out and party because it's kind of their party. I think that's what's behind all this. But so how does that make them competitive? You did. politically, whereas in the past years people imbued meaning into the songs. For instance in 2024 the original title of Israel's entry was October Rain many people interpreted that to be a story about the October 7th attacks and the following year their singer she actually survived the October 7th attacks she herself hid under dead bodies now that's not a political statement but people imbued it with meaning

11:28 suggesting, oh Israel chose an act because they wanted to court sympathy on the international stage. But again we need to remember art is born of the times of the zeitgeist you know what is personal? What is political these subjects are often very gray. Hold on I have to subscribe to the RSS feed of the WeWe blog now this is so awesome Unbelievable. Yes, it's unbelievable you could have done one clip of this guy I'm sorry that I'm laboring it because this I hope this is the last time no No, no I mean here's I was gonna do one clip and then play that plate snippets of the two songs The one into that's all I was gonna do That's what we did with this. Yeah. Well you got you got us serped indeed. You got poached

12:13 I don't know if it's a good thing for the show. I think it's hurting the show indeed and probably is the voting because that's for lot of people that has always been one of their highlights not just singing but voting, and its changed this year to give her a better balance between the musical juries in general public Yeah, you're right. There were two big changes one change is that the professional juries in each country they've been increased so last year there were five jurors this year there are seven jurors and they have to include more people under 30 or 25 basically making them younger and more diverse at the other big change is that rather than voting 20 times per person which was allowed in previous years you can only vote 10 times

12:55 Now, this is off the back of the revelation following last year's Eurovision that an Israeli government agency was involved in buying ads on YouTube and other social media platforms calling on voters to vote for Israel 20 times. Now the reason multiple voters can vote multiple times... I pulled this stunt by the way at a chili cook-off for The People's Choice Awards Wait you bought votes? Well, we had a couple of... of chorus girls at the booth and talking everyone into turning all their votes into our jar. So they would sweet talk these guys, how many votes you got? Yeah we got 10 votes, just give us all ten votes it'd be so nice and so we ended up getting a lot of extra votes using that trick but its idiotic if you think about it usually have one vote to get the vote for the one who thinks best, you don't get ten votes to give them all to one guy

13:58 I can't even discuss this with you. The Broadcasting Union wants to spread the love, it wants people to be engaged with all cultures... I just can't. All musical cultures whether- I'm letting it play out out of respect for you at 18 years of respect. That music comes from friends or from foes but it seems to have backfired on the last edition where you had advertisements saying no don't spread the love give it all to us so this year that's been reduced to 10 we'll have to wait and see if that has any sort of impact on the results. We're almost at the end, I think 21st group at the moment five ladies from Cyprus performing any surprises? Any artists that you stood out for you that are among your favorites?

14:35 Romania is incredible, they'll be performing next to last in 24. The song is called Choke Me which was very provocative and a lot of people were offended there was petitioned to have it removed but the singer has explained through her staging she's saying choke me to a phantom Oh, choke me. How come choke me didn't win? Let's just listen very quickly to the Israeli entry Michelle we'll just listen to a little bit here We'll jump around I'm doing this so that Spotify will take this episode off of their podcast features Here we go

15:16 Okay, that's rejected and here is the winner bangaranga Let's see if we can if I would have voted for this Welcome to the right No, I can see it. Drop! Yeah. Alright let's see what we got here... Bangaranga? Here we go. Oh, I see. Little bit of Bollywood in there. Yeah, I get it kids like that. It's great. Alright 15 minutes of the show very good very good yeah very very good okay well that's the end to that is let me let me just going to some Trump hate

16:01 Ooh, yeah. We haven't done some proper Trump hate recently That's true we have I since I stopped getting the tick-tock clips well this is a semi mainstream media Trump hate and it started with Let me see with the chattering class as we call it the chattering class listen to how Megyn Kelly introduces her guest. All right we're gonna bring in our very first guests, very first guest ever here on the MK show that's the podfather of our show Glenn Greenwald I speak of

16:38 He's a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and host of System Update on Substack. Help me understand this, I mean it's one thing never to ask me back on the show... Well you were an ungrateful guest! What do you mean ungrateful guest? So she has Glenn Greenwald on the show and now's the pod father somehow he well He's her pod father. I used to know I can be the Podfather, but I'm not her pod father Okay And and so Megyn Kelly captured by her audience Glenn Greenwald these he never got uncaptured I think is he's always been kind of the same self-hating Jew They they just have to lay into it. I thought this was a

17:28 Career ending, career ending. I didn't know this took place but i'm glad you got this clip. Oh no she had Tucker on she got Glenn Greenwald Don Ruff uh on it's fantastic! There was an admission on the Iran war which jumped out at me and it might to you too here it is in slot seven by the way so that show here it isn't slot seven then you get a three second pause please appreciate your No Agenda Show when you hear these things Now this is not pro. Man it might to you too, here it is in SOT 7. We're doing it to help Israel and to help Saudi Arabia and to help Qatar and UAE and Kuwait and other countries. Bahrain? It also helps China I told them today we are helping you And we are helping you in another way because I don't think they want...I don't think China wants Iran to have a nuclear weapon either

18:25 I said, just don't go crazy. You don't need them having a nuclear weapon either. What did he say? Well, he's not going to respond too much. He was pretty cool guy. He's not gonna say oh gee that's a good point. I think you might... What is he gonna do? Oh what a wonderful point! Do you think he agreed? Yeah i think.. That was the impression. No, he would like to see it end but he has been good about it So there it is. I mean, lest there was any doubt It's the first thing in the answer We did it to help Israel We're doing it to help Israel You named other countries

19:02 He has said the world can't have Iran having a nuclear weapon. But just to say that is so controversial, that we're doing it to help Israel? We know! We know that. We've said that many times and then you get called an anti-Semite but that's not anti-Semitic It is a fact You heard it from the President of the United States himself he thinks it's also helping some of the Gulf Arab states Fine That...that's not controversial you can say that But prior to the president saying it himself explicitly, you weren't allowed to say that other piece of it or you were called an anti-Semite. Why she's so what is she? So uptight about this because coming into a summit, you couldn't see it because you're a podcast. You can say whatever you want to say. Why do you care?

19:42 I don't know, it's weird. Here comes Greenwald This was a movement that was calling itself America First and then you have Trump saying oh yeah this war is kind of helping us we don't want to have nuclear weapons but you know yeah we're helping Israel get rid of their big enemy. I think he editorialized that a little bit These people are insane about this stuff. And so the way they take, the president's statement is oh it was about Israel? Oh yeah just helping Israel get rid of their big enemy. Of course Trump mentioned a whole bunch of other countries but Glinkering Wald has an answer for that too. And also when we talk about these Persian Gulf states what we mean are Persian Gulf dictatorships, Arab dictatorships that

20:29 have extreme levels of human rights abuses that we claim to be so offended when they appear in Iran. You think protesters fare any better in Dubai or in Riyadh or in Doha? There's no one protesting in Dubai, I think they're all pretty happy with things in Dubai. Riyadh are they protested should there be protesting by missing something I don't know, maybe they should.

21:16 And the Gulf states need the Strait of Hormuz to sell oil. But Trump is in bed with these Persian Gulf dictators, he loves them too they're extremely rich they have a kind of shared aesthetic which is very ostentatious gold laden kind of you know... Trump is now a Middle Eastern dictator you see this is where it's come from. You do have the taste for gold I had to say Totally. I mean if you go look at that BBC video of me in 2004, I had the same thing but yet I never felt like a Middle East dictator was my style. This gold-laden kind of wealth expression he loves them his family's in bed with the Persian Gulf states In bed! And he is very close to them and listens to them and obviously to Israel and I don't think these are good things for our country why are we

22:06 prosecuting a war that's harming Americans for the benefits of Israel or these Persian Gulf dictators. And on the question of China, yeah. I mean opening up the Strait of Hormuz is far more in China's interest than ours. The problem is that the only reason the Strait of Hormuz has closed because United States joined Israel and attacking Iran it was perfectly open the Straight of Hormuz was prior to this war for forever. Perfectly forever! It's only closed now because it was a response to the attack on Iran and I think the rest of the world is like you caused this problem. It's your responsibility to fix it it's a reasonable view for most countries to have. So I played these clips, first of all because I thought it was kind of funny but second of all they are now so much like the mainstream media you know they just don't really look at anything further than the surface. I think they're watching MSNOW and CNN and Fox probably too get their talking points almost

23:02 I mean this whole trip to China, as you...I mean it was ridiculous. It made no sense! Everything's wrong, it's stupid Trump came back with nothing Let's go to MSNOW When Donald Trump was running for our favorite Jemp Saki You may remember this he had a question He loved to ask A particular thought experiment about a tete-a-tete between Vice President Harris and President Xi And they went like this Kamala Harris is so incompetent. Can you imagine her dealing with President Xi of China? Can you imagine her dealing with President Xi? Can you imagine with President Xi? Can you imagine her negotiating with President Xi of China? Can you imagine her standing with President Xi of China? By the way, nice supercut! I don't think so

23:48 Can you imagine? He's said that so many times. I mean, Trump spent that campaign railing about China's influence in the world and he repeatedly insisted that he alone was the only candidate tough enough to go toe-to-toe with President Xi of China. He was the only person who could show Xi who is boss. Well, Donald Trump just finished his first state visit to China in a second term and how did it go? Did big bad Donald Trump stand up to the Chinese leader? I mean, this is exactly the same as Meghan and Glenn. There's no analysis They're just doing hot takes like punchlines Yeah that's a good point there's just a hot take yeah and so let's see That's the exact right word for it

24:32 Ambassador McFaul, let me start with you. Ambassador McFaul here we go this guy's good. This outline some of the biggest issues that were at stake during this visit we talked about this late last night when it was...the trip was still a bit ongoing but as you looked it's now over what did Trump and really the United States get out of this trip? Well what do you think John? What do you think they got out of this trip? Did they get anything out of this trip anything at all? Anything Mrs.? Anything? I think they've got something out of it I think the Boeing Impossible sales of Boeing jets was a big deal, especially if it's gonna be 200 of them or more. Yeah

25:10 Well that was about it, seems to me. And they got to meet and then Trump got the show off all these our own business guys that he knows this guy Xi and they can introduce him to him hey you can meet the guy here or here you'll meet him shake his hand we're all good to go well I think this that's a big deal there's actually more but yeah there was that there were some soybeans always some soy beans oh there's always gotta do some soybeans but let's hear what Ambassador McFaul thinks you just summarized it brilliantly. That was a fantastic lay down, and I'm so glad- Lay down? Lay down. You reminded everybody about what he said he was going to do with China. Remember when he first ran for president, it was all about China. China's eating our lunch, China is taking our jobs, they're doing all these horrible things to us. And he used in that phrase that clip you just showed communist China right? Right. We never heard him use the word communist once on this trip.

26:07 And I just think this flip is remarkable, and I hope his voters noticed it. I hope Republicans noticed that because for decades- Notice what? The Republican Party was always saying Democrats are weak on China we're gonna be tough and now he has completely flipped a one you could not do a bigger flip So again, he do well. He was just nice he didn't say you're Always bitching and moaning that is not nice And he has no decorum and it goes over there and he becomes nice now They're complaining about that all they do is complain It gets better I think an acronym You could use to summarize not just this meeting but everything leading up to it is make China great again

26:55 When you look at the impact of the Trump presidency, The real winner has been China. And the loser has been America's allies and America itself And what's really extraordinary about it, Ali is President Trump was elected beginning in 2016. In large part because he was really 1 of the first US leaders who recognized. the way that China's entry to the WTO was contributing to the hollowing out of the US middle class. Wow, the very same people who told him that he was racist and he was going to kill people by withdrawing from all these organizations! All they do is counter-programming all the time One his promises to American Rust Belt workers was he was gonna fix it but instead what we see he's doing is bullying reporters

27:56 beating up on America's closest friends and allies, and frankly seeming cowed by China. Again! Well let's go to the liberal intellectual elite, an acronym we'll go to the liberal intellectual elites who everybody listens to because their pod is by far one of the most important and smart, smart... Tech pods it also. I mean, it's a reminder of the stark contrast in the first Trump term I'm sorry This isn't the pod but as one of the hosts of the past that's what we're talking about the pivot pod and how the Carish whisher you see she gets to be on CNN now that she has a show on CNN You see this how it works Now means so many people were critical

28:48 of that inauguration seating chart. But this is kind of evidence, probably a big driving factor for that so they could go on trips like this. Well as I said it's a coin operated presidency and they figured out very quickly that you put money in and you get... Coin operated presidency. She's going to explain it. That's cute. She's gonna explain it. It's a coin operated presidency. Boy, that's gonna catch on! Yeah everyone all the kids are talking about it. And see and they figured out very quickly that you put money in and you get stuff out like Andreessen Horowitz spending the most money towards uh midterms. They understand it's a very small amount of money to spend 115

29:25 you know, million dollars because they get so much more. They get billions and billions out of it and so they've sort of figured out it's a cheap way to get what you want And that's what they're doing and they will continue to do that because shareholders as I've said over and over again are their biggest goal and That's fine I suppose. Shareholders are the goal? It is pretty explicit No she's just waffling She's... You know without Galloway she's no good She really isn't. Then she's just, she is the worst. It's just...she is ugh! Icky. Well she's gone and like a single now. You know? She's like one of the people that were in The Rolling Stones decided to become a single act. Yeah. And so she's... When Charlie Watson did his jazz album? So she quit the group to become a single because there was such a demand for it. And this dog of this, I want to live forever

30:15 thing which is overproducing, costs a lot of money. It's gonna cost CNN... She's gonna disappear from the scene after that thing, after they analyze that sucker so we'll see what happens." Alright so now here they are together on The Pod. He brought 17 CEOs with him and three diplomats. Flying billionaires on a plane to China to get shit Seems oh by the way. She has a really foul mouth in this one Problematic hi everyone, this is pivot from New York magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network I'm Kara Swisher And I'm Scott Calloway president Joe could you can we start the show like that? I'm Adam Curry You go and I'm John C Dvorak thing we should start yeah, okay Everybody's doing their bangaranga and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA region number six

31:08 everybody I'm Adam Curry and I'm John C Dvorak excellent excellent I'm Kara Swisher and I'm Scott Galloway president Trump and Chinese President Xi have met for a little over two hours right now and attended a state banquet to start off their two-day summit in China. In Xi's opening toast at the banquet, Xi said achieving the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and making America great again can go hand in hand. He's snickering at Trump behind his back though. The White House said both sides agreed that the straight of her moves must remain open. She warned Trump that mishandling Taiwan would cause clashes and put the entire relationship in great jeopardy

31:55 What just happened? Oh, it ended. Well... One more from these jimogs, it's short. President Trump however does not appear to be overly concerned let's listen to how he answered reporters question as he left the White House for his China trip. When you're negotiating with Iran Mr president To what extent are American financial situations motivating Not even a little bit The only thing that matters when I'm talking about Iran They can't have nuclear weapons American financial situation. I don't think about anybody, but I think about one thing we cannot let Iran have nuclear weapons that's all. That is the only thing that matters. Oh wow! That was some quote that was like an ad like they just cut an ad for them it

32:40 That was astonishing, I have to say. It's what he thinks and this nuclear weapon thing we're less safe now than we were during the Obama days when we had most of the enriched uranium in a deal and the Strait of Hormuz was open so any thoughts about what he is doing here? Why or is just an old addled man who says whatever on his mind So, this was indeed the ad and all of the M5M jumped on this. Oh he doesn't care! In fact there's always one guy in the troll room who basically should be on the pivot pod. Yeah, screw Americans right? You don't care but you don't care... They all did this they all jumped up he doesn't care about your money! He only cares about nuclear war President Trump is back at the White House and back to reality in the United States of gas prices which are now averaging $4.53 a gallon nationally

33:37 If you thought that after a couple of days away during his trip to China and when asked exactly what he meant when he answered that question, that he was going to rephrase or clarify what he said about Americans financial situations. When it comes to the impact from the Iran war You would be wrong. Hold on a second That sounds like MS Now The CNN Well, that's CNN? That's Kaitlin Collins. Okay it seems to me yes the Democrats who have been fighting against fossil fuels forever and would love a $10-a-gallon gas price to keep people from using gasoline should be happy about this how come they're bitching about it could you can you answer me that question because this is all about the midterms that's all that it is everything in the world is about the midterm

34:29 The context and the question itself was pretty clear, but also in the subsequent interview that the president did while he was in Beijing with Brett Baier. And in fact during that interview, the president continued doubling down on this sentiment When you tell somebody, you're going to have to pay a little more. Not that much more, a little more for gasoline for a very short period of time because we want to stop the threat of being blown to pieces by a lunatic, by a crazy person and they are crazy using nuclear weapons? Everybody says that's fine and that question was a fake question and they didn't put my full answer I totally care

35:11 Of course, to people struggling to put food on the table or who are grimacing when they go to fill up their tank. Vote Democrat! There was nothing fake about the question and as far as the president's answer we've played the entire thing for you since he said it as he was departing the White House earlier this week but just for good measure you can listen to the entire thing Okay good measure here we go Mr President To what extent are American financial institutions motivating Not even a little bit. The only thing that matters when I'm talking about Iran, they can't have a nuclear weapon. I don't think about Americans' financial situation and I don't think about anybody...I think about one thing we cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon that's all That is the only thing that matters So it's subtle It's very subtle chopping off the front end of it but I think it matters so anyway Let's find out exactly what

36:06 Don't know financial people think of the trip and if they felt it was any good. This is CNBC I like CNBC because they kind of have to tell the truth It's difficult for them sometimes especially for the Sorkin kid But they have to troll that tell the truth because you know people invest on it And otherwise, people won't watch their stupid network anymore So here we go She has already issued a warning to President Trump saying that the Taiwan question Is the most important issue in the China-us relation and if not handled properly these two countries could have clashes and even conflicts. What do you make of this warning? That's a very good question and that is probably the biggest concern for people like myself living in Taiwan. In the summit, there are three subjects Trump wanted to talk about. Number one is Iran and war because they want to reduce inflation with more supply of oil. Number two is trade. That's why Trump got all the CEOs NVIDIA Apple etc to China about trade. Number three is Taiwan but from Xi's perspective, the order importance is reversed. For Xi's perspective

37:11 Now Taiwan is number one subject, number one importance. So if you listened and I'm just going to think it's true...I don't know could be total bullcrap but if you listen to some of the interviews It seems like some other deals were made that are relevant to our relationship with China Let me ask you this The issue and you've been asked about it And we have spoken about it That is China support of Iran How big a discussion was that today? We discussed it I mean when you say support, they're not Fighting a war with us or anything. No he said he's not gonna give military equipment That's the big statement He said that today this is a big statement said that strongly But at the same time he said You know they buy a lot of their oil there and they'd like to keep doing then he'd like to see our most straight opened I Said well we didn't stop if they did it Then we stopped them in a sort of interesting

38:06 He joked, he said you know sort of if they stopped it then you stop them. But they'd like to see it opened but they actually closed it. He didn't like the fact that their charging tolls I don't know if they are or not and who would pay him? Where did they put the money? The country's decimated, you know, they're charging tolls where is the money going? Do do you think President Xi and China Have the ability to influence the Iranians considering they are one of their biggest customers I love how he's not gonna give a truthful answer. He's like no, I'm not gonna tell you that

38:43 Look, he's not coming in with guns. He's not coming in with rifles and not coming in shooting. You know somebody said he's been very good They get a lot of their oil 40% of their oil from that location So what has happened and one thing I think that we were gonna make it deal on is they've agreed They want to buy oil from the United States. They're gonna go to Texas We're going to start sending Chinese ships to Texas and to Louisiana into Alaska All right, let's go to CNBC with our Secretary of Energy Chris Wright. You said short term should we should the world get prepared for maybe a longer supply disruption than some initially suspected because

39:30 Give us your view on where we stand in the Strait of Hormuz right now, if you would Mr. Secretary and also what are your estimations about how long things might take to return to normal? And I hate that term but i think you know what I mean Yeah a lot of that's up to Iran one way or the other end of the Iranian nuclear program and we will see free flow of traffic through the Straits of Hormuz. That could happen relatively rapidly with an agreement with Iran, every nation in the world is standing against what Iran is doing including China who's a major buyer of Iranian oil and other oil from that Arabian Gulf. Do you think they'll swap that out for US well it's kind of what I asked at the top of the interview? Yes certainly shortly in short run they're gonna do that

40:12 They'll continue to buy in, I think growing amounts of US oil. You know you see that Chinese ships are getting to the Straits of Hormuz because i think we control it I don't think Iran controls it. I think we're just sitting there like, oh this is great until you want to buy our insurance and use our new shipping infrastructure You can do whatever you want come to Louisiana come to Texas best price everything's gonna be good and In the background We've got UAE in their pipeline And eventually this thing will open up and I think you're gonna see the price of oil go just just be okay

40:49 Yeah, sorry. Just dive bomb! It seems so cleared even looking at the futures. But don't we want to sell them oil at a little higher price and make a little extra money? Well yeah and we also want to do the insurance... We want it take this away from the British guys. We wanna run that. Saudi Arabia go full flow to the Red Sea with their port of Yambu Do you think that the Strait of Hormuz and the Arabian Gulf are going permanently less important, they're still massively important but less important than they have been? Oh absolutely. I mean Iran this is a card you can play once you can play once we'll see more pipeline capacity through Saudi through UAE there's an Iraqi pipeline that goes to Cheyhan in Turkey we could see a pipeline going to Jordan Hey maybe that's why Turkey tried to get involved remember Turkey was trying to get involved in the conversation

41:44 Yeah, they were actually not sure. Yeah I think we got a pipeline through UAE you know there's an Iraqi pipeline that goes to Cheyhan in Turkey We could see a pipeline going to Jordan There'll be other routes for energy to get out of the Persian Gulf I like prefer to call it the Arabian Gulf Oh, yeah, oh, we're renaming it think we will see about the Gulf of America to the world.

42:28 Yeah, I think they have some kind of plan that they're executing on and President Lubio is aware of it. Is there anything you can shed light on? Well, I think the details will be announced later today. I don't want to get ahead of the actual announcement by the trade representative but there's going to be some agricultural purchases which are important for our growers and China needs those things. We hope in the future to expand it to energy purchase The United States has a net supplier of energy now to one of the world's largest energy suppliers at this point Obviously when it comes to the airplanes and the engines, those are American factories and American workers that are making that. And so anytime you can gain access to a market as large as this one, that's a very positive thing." Yeah I still believe in the ARC model America Russia China yeah look you can buy some from Russia

43:13 We're not going to make a problem out of it. We're not going to sanction the ghost ships, just do it legally." Yeah you can have to pay more but just get on board with everybody else and then that strait will eventually open up. It could take another four or five months for all I know. I don't think its gonna take forever. You know there may be something to the...you know our basic thesis on this show was always theres a back channel in Iran. Yes And we were working with them in some way shape or form Did, has that disappeared or are we still... is it possible that we're still working with him and all this is part of a giant scheme? Completely possible.

43:51 And they were getting rid of the Ayatollah guys, was part of it because you know the real powers in Iran didn't want them around. They were annoying! It was super annoying those guys. Well they're very annoying and this way... Remember the turban knockers? The guy that kids go on bicycles and knock their turbans off Yeah I forgot about that Well, we already know that there's more hijabs on the streets of Amsterdam and then the streets of Tehran Yes right you got that information from a boots-on-the-ground report. Yeah so things are by the way I got a Boots on the ground from one of our Producers he says everybody let me just find it here Everybody is yeah bugging or he says boogie boogying out of Kuwait due to imminent action

44:39 Sunday was what we've been told and why we bugged out all contractors plus non-essential personnel evacuated This has to do with all GCC countries Quote Trump is done effing around. She is handled oil being sold from the US CIA Mossad insurgency. Hmm, we have served as the sheriff of the world... Not a coloner here? Yeah well he's a military guy We've served at the Sheriff of the World, were cleaning up European colonies so there is a lot in here but supposedly something might be happening today and everybody is getting out So I don't know maybe this will come to a quicker end than we thought

45:22 Well, it has to in my opinion because we still have the problem with the 4th of July. Yes yes We don't need anything this sort of Damocles hanging over our heads on The fourth of July nerve celebration 250 years as a country you know speaking of Greek references Then Chris the knight of the iguana he said that he had a slight correction to the Thais suit is so thyssotides suited ease Yes, we can't pronounce. He says the thyssotides trap Warns the upcoming power not the dominant one Athens was the rising power Sparta was gunning for him and

46:07 If you take the Thysitides trap as it was originally written. Thucydides? It's impossible to say! I know... Let's just call it T-Trap, if you take the T-Trap which is kind of cool with China. China is in danger of the trap not the USA so even this phony baloney thing that M5M was bantering about they didn't even get it right Although I'm sure in a future dictionary the Thucydides trap will be reversed just like decimated. Yeah, it'll just be reversed Meanwhile Cuba on deck you recall the president said that's on our way home from Iran We'll we'll park off the shore of Cuba and we'll say hey, we're taking you over and they'll say okay. We're good. We're ready

47:08 Yeah, I got a couple clips on this. Oh okay let's play your clips Well let's start with the blackouts one and two Cuba Blackout yep First up today Cuba This week the island ran out of oil causing massive black outs across the country and a night of protests Havana Protests? What is- who is this Is this NPR? That's what her name, that black chick that works on the weekends. At NPR? Yeah at NPR and she just I don't know she just doesn't want to pronounce words correctly. Also got a visit from the CIA director He was there for negotiations starting with a tough choice for Cuba's leaders change or the US will act. NPR international correspondent Eder Peralta is following it all and joins us now good morning Eder Hey good morning Alyssa

48:00 So let's start with more details from what looks like a week with a lot going on in Cuba. Yeah, I mean we're reaching summer there so it's really hot and it so happens that the lights went off for more than 24 hours this week. On Wednesday very unhappy people took to the streets of Havana they banged on pots and pans demanding that the government turn the lights back on! And the government didn't offer much hope. The country's energy minister, Vicente de la O'Levy came on TV and said that the 100,000 tons of Russian crude that arrived in April has been used up and that the grid is now operating essentially without reserves. And remember that Cuba has received precious little oil because the US is running a defacto oil blockade. Cuba has been investing in solar power but

48:45 The grid is so old, so frail, so lacking in maintenance that it can't handle the voltage fluctuations that happen with solar energy. So that means that the long blackouts that are making life miserable on the island are here to stay." No because we're coming to the rescue! Is that what you have in clip 2? No, Clip two's a little different I think clip three maybe which is a good different clip but yeah... And while all this is happening the director of the CIA lands Cuba says that the US asked for a high level meeting and a delegation headed by CIA Director John Ratcliffe. By the way, when the CIA director comes to visit your country typically not a good thing. Why is he there? Last time a CIA director visited a country we got Ukraine Yeah I'm wondering this myself they say well they want a high-level meeting why don't they send Rubio? Rubio's obvious choice is Cuban

49:44 Or any number of people. Rubio, of course would be the top guy but they send a CIA director because they want to highlight... Well this means that something's up Yeah I don't like it either It is very suspicious Landed in Havana I mean you know I don't dislike it because somethings up and maybe it should be but okay The Cubans say they made it clear that they don't pose a security threat to the US. They say they don't host any foreign military or intelligence bases on the island, the U.S readout of the visit came out from a CIA official speaking to NPR on condition of anonymity and that official said Radcliffe came with a message for Cuba and thats that the U.S wants to quote seriously engage in economic and security issues

50:29 but only if Cuba makes fundamental changes. I've spoken to Cuban officials and they have been fairly consistent in saying that they are open to economic reforms on the island, they're even open to US investment, they say, but that they will not – especially not under pressure from the United States give up their president or change their one-party system or for that matter, their socialist ideology. I think the question is whether those things are the changes that the U.S. considers fundamental? So what? I mean, does this point to a stalemate neither side is going to budge. You could read it that way and that's consequential because President Trump has threatened military action but i had a conversation with Lillian Guerra Cuban historian Has he threatened military action? I'm wondering like I don't remember that I mean nothing of the likes you know like we're gonna remove a civilization

51:22 I don't recall that. Neither side is going to budge? I think you could read it that way, and that's consequential because President Trump has threatened military action but i had a conversation with Lilian Guerra Cuban historian at the University of Florida and she sees both sides softening the Vatican for example has been instrumental in bridging gaps between the US and Cuba and its notable that Secretary of State Marco Rubio met recently with Pope Leo the U.S. has also offered Cuba 100 million dollars in aid and Cuba has said they would take it. And importantly, Cuba also released a high profile prisoner on Thursday. Guerra's read is that the situation is so dire in Cuba that both sides are afraid of an explosion

52:03 Do you mind if I just insert one clip here? Go ahead. Because... But, I want to mention something which is the fact that it didn't make a lot of sense that Rubio was going to meet with the Pope. He thought well maybe he's a Catholic and but now it makes a little sense that as part of this scheme Yes! And by the way that kind of reconfirms the fact that a communist system really should get rid of religions if it wants to succeed. I mean, the thesis in Russia was let's get rid of the Russian Orthodox Church that's you know put it into the background because we don't need outside influence, which the Pope is telling people how to think or how to behave. Because it hurts the communist system I just found that kind of ironic that they screwed up that part of it Well so I just put a couple things together in my tiny brain So you got Rubio talking to the Pope The Pope is head of the Catholic Church

53:07 What is the original acronym for CIA? Are you talking your tiny brain or the brain in your head. No, that's a tiny brain in my head it's very tiny The other tiny brain is somewhere else It has a mind of its own Rubio talks to the Pope The Pope is the Head of the Catholic Church What is the original acronym that we always laugh about for the CIA, of which the director was just there? Catholics in Action. Now listen to this... Just go to Jen because you know Jen Patrick and I were talking yesterday about the possibility of course with this offer over 100 million dollars that we're hearing now appear that Ireland appears willing to accept

53:46 Do we have a sense from this meeting, the CIA what you are hearing as well on what kind of reforms they're likely to see? They want to see and how quickly. Well, Isa in addition to those security reforms that Patrick laid out that came up in that meeting with the CIA director yesterday they are also pushing what they describe as economic reforms on the island essentially opening it up to private investment. This was something that was a key focus of a different visit by US officials last month to the island where they met with senior Cuban officials and they were saying they needed to make these economic reforms in addition to those security reforms

54:25 in the near term or else they would continue to face a catastrophic situation. Now it is clear here that these economic restrictions are going to remain in place unless these alleged reforms are taken by the Cuban government However, the State Department says that they are willing to offer this $100 million in humanitarian aid only if it is given through the Catholic Church or independent organizations on the ground. They say that this is the key source of aid. string that is attached to this offer, that it has to be distributed through these independent organizations. Now a senior State Department official said that they have been in touch, they have reached out to the Cuban government through what they described as a senior channel between the State Department and senior leadership in Havana about this aid. Cuban officials have indicated that they would be willing to accept if there weren't conditions on it."

55:22 Now take what you just said. So the State Department says Rubio goes to the Pope, he says hey Pope! Hey Leo you're from Chicago? You know how to deal with me we can talk business so we're gonna give a hundred million for Cuba We want you guys to be in charge of doling it out because there's nothing more embarrassing towards a communist system than the church coming in and telling them what to do That's actually kind of genius I love that. My donations clip, which is the third clip i've got on Cuba has a similar kind of they bring the UN into it and how they do we don't want to deal with them It's kind of interesting as similar your clip but play it anyway The United Nations is trying to raise more money for food for aid to Cuba where a major energy crisis threatens health care and food production on the island

56:14 But NPR's Michelle Kellerman reports, the United States says it won't contribute to the UN's efforts. The UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says it has raised only 30 percent of the 94 million dollars it needs for Cuba. Fuel shortages have created what one top official called a multifaceted emergency The State Department tells NPR that the U.S will not give any money to the UN in Cuba, stating quote the UN in Cuba has long colluded with the regime. This statement goes on to explain that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has offered a hundred million dollars and goods to be delivered by the Catholic Church or other quote independent and respected organizations. This is like a huge FU

56:59 Like, okay. You need some diesel... Clearly you need some diesel We got a Jesus boat with some diesel on it coming your way But you know, we gotta have the Catholic guys run everything now. I mean it's such a slap It is funny and also You know that they're gonna That they're gonna do the right thing because you know what? The whole point is stop the communist if you know if Rubio goes and say well, you can't be commies anymore Like no, we don't want to do that Yeah, that'll be a huge problem but not just bringing the Catholic Church like oh, yeah

57:37 We owe you one. I think it's funny, it is a very strange situation and out of the blue...I mean this whole Cuban thing was not part of the campaign that Trump ran and it wasn't even discussed as like a whole new idea somehow I think to be honest about It has to be Rubio behind the whole thing. He's the Cuban in the administration and the Catholic, and a friend of the Pope trying to iron things out between him and Trump in this phony baloney feud that they really don't have. But the media loves that because oh if Trump hates Catholics well what's Rubio doing there? That doesn't make any sense

58:24 I think isn't JD Vance a born-again Catholic? Didn't he join the Catholic Church late in life or something. Is he a Catholic, or is he a born again Christian? No, look it up...I think he's a Catholic. We don't we don't look things up on this show. You can ask your buddy! We consult the Book of Knowledge here we go. Is J.D. Vance a Catholic or just a regular Christian? Let's find out all right book of knowledge It's searching through all the pages. According to the Book of Knowledge, J.D. Vance is a Catholic of a very specific type having converted to the Catholic Church in 2019 He grew up loosely evangelical Christian identified as an atheist as a young man then reconnected with Christianity during law school before his formal conversion

59:18 Thus it has been written. Hmm, well I guess he is a Catholic then? Yes who is exactly right yeah anyway so that'll be fun they'll be fun to see but the big thing is investment in the island American investment how do you think yes about time I mean think about the Canadians have been investing there for a long time and it's getting on our nerves You know, they're putting money in. They got property... This is a great place for it should be a vacation paradise! It's a new island right near Florida Yeah, 90 miles away Jamaica's getting old you know

59:57 Once you have Virgin Islands, Epstein Island. Everyone's been to all the islands! Cuba has always been big and it's got cigars. Not only that but the cigars are quite remarkable Don't they have a drink too? They have some kind of drink that they're good at? A Cuban Okay, thanks. Very helpful. I don't know. Mojito? I have no idea! Yes the mojito... All right

1:00:36 Okay. Where do you want to go now? Well, I got a couple of shorties here that are interesting but let's say...I've been wanting to get this out the way CBS did a special on trolls On trolls?! Yeah, the psychology of a troll Wait a minute! Did they interview anybody from our troll room? No, they didn't interview any real trolls But it's the whole thing if you...the subtext is that Trump is a terrible person because he's a troll. Oh, I see! So they're trying to deconstruct Trump by doing a story about trolls? That's my guess but here is the two part clips that are very short but entertaining Listen up everybody Arthur Brooks can eat a plate of hot trash Huh?! That was the first comment the CBS News contributor got on one his online columns

1:01:29 and his earliest experience of internet trolls. One of the things that we have seen since time immemorial is people with a pitchfork setting fire to people they don't like. Perhaps the main difference now is that they'd have to come back to their families and communities And now they can hide behind the anonymity of an anonymous Twitter handle. It's the perfect ecosystem for people who that we call trolls today and if you spend any time on social media or anytime in the comments section after a news article, you're gonna find it gets really toxic really quickly so as a behavioral scientist And also as a writer in public, I wanted to know who are these people? And I started to do a little bit of research into it and it turns out they're not like just you and me. It turns out that they're different. They're from the 7% of the population that have sociopathic characteristics. They are disproportionately drawn from what we call dark triads

1:02:22 people with narcissism, Machiavellianism meaning I'm willing to hurt you and even psychopathy. They have psychopathic traits feel it mean they feel no empathy or remorse and they enjoy hurting you too... And this is why we can't say that these are ordinary people Well, maybe these trolls are actually awesome people now that the way he described it. These are our people! These are narcissists... Yeah these are our people! Psychopaths... This is an offhanded attack on Trump It's still our people 7% are in the trolls right now We do have a disproportionate number of people that would qualify

1:03:02 And they should be proud of themselves. Yeah, well they should be. 7% is actually fewer people than I expected to be. But you're disproportionately drawing from that population They're the ones who are actually trying to start internet conflict They're the ones who are actually insulting other people They're the ones who are actually trying to get you all fired up because they enjoy seeing the emotional turmoil Yes! That is exactly them love you people. This is what you do, yeah the jig is up we're on to you now we figured political activists, they tend to be psychopathic as well. This is one of the things we need to keep in mind on either side of the aisle if you're a real activist and you want to fire people up and get people angry there's a reason you like people to be angry so there are some parallels there Wow! So that kind of reminds me of that Twitter post you made which was some video about a guy explaining how

1:04:10 Psychos get to the top of political. Yeah, the psychopaths taking over the world yeah That was a good that was a very interesting analysis But Spencer Pratt falls into this category Yeah You know you know what's interesting is now other people are making videos for him No most people have met he hasn't made very he's made very few videos The only ones he's made it or involve him and he says this isn't by He basically doing an interview. No, they're all made by third parties there's about six or seven groups that do a lot of them and there's a bunch of independents doing a bunch of them They're all done by outside people not just one or two all of them

1:04:54 That's why the style is so different from one to the other. So, you know Tina is very enamored by this and she has kind of given up on news She has given up on our show! She doesn't even listen to our show anymore Well... She's like watching dogs on TikTok On Instagram And people cooking with cheese Yeah we do that's our competition But People cooking with too much cheese and cats that play the piano. Yeah, that's basic garden Yes, and we're losing we're losing here in what we're losing now And again you know I'd say no but the Spencer Pratt stuff She sees that she says you know this could spark a revolution and many more people could do this What do you think?

1:05:42 Well, I think that's what everybody...I mean what she says there is a commonplace as far as i'm concerned. Which is that Pratt is doing the future of politics right? Is what he's doing The issue it seems to me is that there's going to be some legal action taken because of likenesses Oh but if you're famous you can't do that! I'm thinking there's gonna be some changes made in the law Because there has to be at some point because there's a lot of... The kind of defamation that is part of his videos or the ones that are being done on his behalf, let's say. Because that's what the situation is even though many identify what group is doing them in the end. There's usually an identification not always but a lot of times. Okay this this is interesting you bring this up because I think we're seeing

1:06:39 the law change in many different ways, and you identified one early on about where parents are going to be penalized for things their idiot kids do. Yeah. Which is... I mean if you- Speaking up on us! But it's really quite insane. If you look at the American laws most of them were written based upon biblical laws and this is the exact opposite you know, Scripture says no parent shall be responsible for what his child does or the other way around. And so this is such a diversion from US law and the origin of it from a long time ago and I was

1:07:26 I was very surprised to hear Jeanine Pirro, Judge Jeanine who is now the Attorney General for District of Columbia when she said this. And as we grapple with this problem there is one area that hasn't been discussed parental involvement has been a noted gap in any discussion and I am here to say as the United States attorney in the District of Columbia that ends today Starting today, my office will aggressively prosecute parents under DC's curfew law. And the specific statute that we will use is a violation of DC Code 22-811 and it involves contributing to the delinquency of a minor."

1:08:17 This statute makes it unlawful for an adult to enable, facilitate or permit a minor to engage in delinquent acts. The penalty is up to six months imprisonment so if the evidence shows that parent knew or should have known, or permitted... Should have known. ...or failed to prevent participation we're gonna charge them and if you drop your kid off and you fail to supervise them or let them skip school to join the chaos YOU are going to face fines court-ordered classes and possible jail time I'm against this why?

1:09:01 You don't think there should be any parent responsibility whatsoever for delinquent kids who've gone nuts? And they're unsupervised because their parents are lacking certain skills. Yes, yes! Why?! However I think the kids need to be penalized otherwise they'll never learn. Well they get penalized too No they don't Well if their parents are taken away then sure do cause they're gonna be locked up in a foster care home. I think you put these kids into...you tase them first So, but there's things changing in our laws and I'm just...I'm not...there are a lot of things that I don't agree with. And just I'm not entirely on board with that one. At least she is not clear about the kids it's like you know everything is now the parents fault. Meh! So Rob Carty our constitutional lawyer suits some boots he was so jacked up this week He liked this is huge

1:09:58 And for his business, it is huge. But I think it also was going in a direction that we would like to see this as the liability of change and liability from a court ruling by the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously to allow a man who lost part of his leg in a trucking crash to sue a major logistics company that hired that truck The man's attorneys argued that the truck driver had been cited for careless driving in another crash months earlier and that the broker, C.H. Robinson should share liability Last month CBS News chief investigative correspondent Jim Axelrod spoke to families who lost loved ones in similar crashes who could also be impacted by this ruling

1:10:47 This is what Ohio State troopers confronted responding to a crash outside of Cincinnati the day before Christmas 2022. Can you hear me? A tractor trailer heading north on I-75 crossed the median and slammed into two vehicles They were texting me throughout their drive saying how close they were, where they were and then I heard nothing. Amy Ross had planned to host Christmas for her family that year in those two cars her mother Kimberly a sister Lauren another sister Karen and brother-in-law Jeremy Bainy

1:11:28 And that's when we got in touch with the police and the police said they're all gone. There was nowhere to go, there were no hospitals to visit them at The driver of the truck, a Cuban national with a green card had left Miami two days earlier in a truck that police said had a stolen federal registration number. A toxicology report showed elevated levels of cocaine and methamphetamines in his system. After the crash, the driver fled back to Cuba How does a guy like this end up?

1:12:03 hauling goods for Walmart. I don't think that this driver or many others like him end up on the road, but for the broker turning a blind eye So now the brokers are going to be liable for these crap drivers That they hire Here's this is this guy is that he does it YouTube the mother trucker It's just short with little color to it put it plain and simple Lot of owner-operators saying this is a big win because the Supreme Court Just had a unanimous ruling saying that brokers are pretty much accountable for negligency when hiring any Motor carrier right? That is unsafe, you know and they are including illegal alien truck drivers in this so Is this a big win because when you look at this and you're trying to book loads on

1:12:58 The shippers, they want to pay top dollars at times. Not all of them bad times and then they have the broker that's supposed to make sure that happens and what do they do? They pick really crappy carriers to haul their loads and they don't care. They just want that extra money going into their pocket and get some random carrier to do the job and then that person gets into a accident and when they do there is no accountability on the broker but now that changes Yeah, not always a change for subpar truckers, haulers, loaders whatever you want to call them. But how about autonomous trucks? And with this type of liability changed by the Supreme Court could we see perhaps vaccine manufacturers coming up soon? Well something's got to give on vaccines or

1:13:53 pharma providers in general. Which is one of the reasons I'm glad to see Bill Cassidy came in third in a three-man race and got kicked out of his Senate seat in Louisiana this is the creep who you know wasn't gonna vote for Bobby Kennedy he's a big promoter of the vaccine for hepatitis B on, for babies. He is a one of the top 10 recipients of pharma money he's also the guy when he was hassling Kennedy demanded that Kennedy see him twice a month to confront

1:14:33 to confirm that he wasn't going to change the schedule for 86 vaccines for infants. I mean, the guy was just a bad actor and Trump wanted him out and he got out because he's also voted for Trump's impeachment on the second go-round of the impeachment when Trump wasn't even president anymore? That is great! The guy is a total creep. Why was this guy even in office? Oh this brings me Hantavirus So this is the what is this guy Admiral? What does that guys name Admiral Admiral he's the admiral

1:15:16 It's just him saying everything is okay. Zero Americans are sick with Hantavirus. Brian Christine is his name. And total health authorities are watching 41 Americans for the virus, including 16 who were never on that ship but were potentially exposed to one of the cruise ship passengers who got on a plane. That's the report here is the Admiral himself. Let me be crystal clear, the risk of Hantavirus to the general public remains very very low The NDs variant of this virus does not spread easily and it requires prolonged close contact with someone who is already symptomatic

1:16:06 Even so, we have taken this situation very seriously from the very start. We've taken it seriously across HHS and particularly through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention And I'm proud to see many of my U.S. Public Health Service officers have been actively engaged in the response The CDC rapidly activated its Emergency Operations Center It deployed medical teams to assess passengers and coordinated closely with international partners They have notified state health departments, they have initiated monitoring of potentially exposed individuals and they have issued clinical guidance through the Health Alert Network.

1:16:45 And they have also brought together national partners through coordination calls. They've developed tools and resources to support public health decisions making... Oh God! Well, the point being for that clip is the guy sounds like he's a typical boring guy and you know, he's going through the motions but he has it kind of covered and he's not hair on fire like we're all gonna die I thought this was going to blow over in two days and this has been like two weeks already, isn't it? Oh yeah. It's not gonna blow over but then so... This is the new guy Admiral Christine So now we go to CNN and listen to this. But before joining the administration, Christine was an Alabama urologist with little experience in federal public health. He specialized in penile implants and once hosted a YouTube show called The Erection Connection on... You coughed over it I want to make sure you heard about his- I'm sorry you're right yeah I wanna make sure you heard about is his YouTube show Penile Implants And once hosted a YouTube show called The Erection Connection Which..I need an end of show mix

1:18:05 Someday we'll find it erection connections. Anyway, so they're burning do it They're burning this guy the erection connection on his procedures K file also found a history of far-right commentary and conspiracy to including comparing the Biden administration to Nazi Germany questioning the 2020 election and Suggesting that code vaccine did little to stop the pandemic So okay That's funny. I think the erection connection is a great find, but here CNN burning the Admiral over at HHS The previous admiral over at HHS of which they never said anything bad was literally a dude in a dress Yeah Rachel Rachel Levine Literally a guy in a dress Oh Never never a bad word about her him it come on

1:19:01 You nailed it. Yeah, yeah well meanwhile doesn't make any difference because Ebola is back! Wooo finally! When it rains it pours people. I got two clips one from CBS and a BBC clip you can play either one How about CBS first? In Congo's Ituri province, health officials are battling a new Ebola outbreak. The Africa CDC says there are 246 suspected cases and at least 65 people dead – the highest death toll from the disease in years. The World Health Organization is concerned

1:19:55 We know very well that the country has experienced, but the region where it is happening is highly volatile with the humanitarian situation going on and the population moving around from South Sudan to Uganda and other parts. Government officials confirmed the outbreak has now spread to Uganda. Medical professionals seem very concerned about the possibility or the ability to contain this. Why is that compared to other times? It's already a big outbreak at the point that we're hearing about it, there have already been a number of deaths And this is a strain of Ebola for which we have no treatment, no vaccines. The virus spreads through direct contact with blood and other bodily fluids Dr Craig Spencer contracted Ebola while working in Guinea in 2014 Healthcare workers are the group that I'm really concerned about because they have very close contact with people when they're most contagious particularly around the time of folks death

1:20:54 the Let the World Health Organization do it. Why does USAID have to do everything? They can't because they don't exist anymore. Well good! Go to BBC. The Democratic Republic of Congo's health minister has said the strain of Ebola which is broken out in recent days has a very high death rate

1:21:30 Samuel Roger Camba said there was no vaccine or specific treatment available. The outbreak has caused 80 deaths out of nearly 330 suspected cases. Shinga Nyoka reports The numbers of the dead and sick have been rising rapidly since this outbreak was declared, mainly in two gold mining border towns where it's feared that high population movement could spread the disease further. The African Union's public health agency has called for an increase in cross-border monitoring after Uganda confirmed its first fatality. The 59 year old man had recently traveled from the DRC

1:22:10 Officials have called for international assistance to contain what is now the DRC's 17th outbreak. I think i have one clip from CBS that has something additional in here. This is the Democratic Republic of Congo's 17th outbreak of a deadly viral disease and it's unfolding against the backdrop of a deepening security crisis where clashes between rival militia groups have killed dozens of civilians in recent weeks. Abdirahman Mahmoud is with the World Health Organization Well we know very well that the country has experience but the region where this happened

1:22:47 volatile with the humanitarian situation going on and the population moving around. So our response is to stand with the regional government, with the regional government and their country neighbor in terms of solidarity to show again that they can control this outbreak. And Ebola was first discovered back in 1976 in what is now the DRC and it's thought to have spread from bats. Now this morning health experts are warning Bats! Those Africans are eating bats. Yeah, it's a problem yeah we've how many times have we been through an Ebola outbreak on the show in 18 years? I think is four at least and then we had two Zikas

1:23:34 four Ebola's, two Zika's one COVID and now we had three SARS. We had SARS, GARS or whatever that other one was. And we have the swine flu. MERS, MERS and SARS. MERS and SARS plus COVID-19. And now Hanta virus which is kind of cool got a new one well he had this is second we had it say I think we've had three incidents of Hanta we hadn't the current one we had to wonder with what's his name's wife And then we had one earlier, maybe 10 years ago there was a Hanta discussion. I don't remember from 10...I don't think we've ever had a discussion on the show about Hanta. I looked it up at bingit.io and couldn't find any. I did promise that would look into the resignation of McCary over the flavored vapes? Do you remember this? You muted yourself! I know how that happens. That has literally never happened to me

1:24:34 But I think my will tell you how it happens. I think Tina would love for me to mute myself sometimes but not on the show, but beside the point the What happens is they get these pop-ups? Pop ups times yeah pop ups what what world are you living in what happened to a blocker oh Blockers don't work anymore. I mean, for example, I got my AVG antivirus free... There's your problem right there! Your AVG anti-virus free expires in six days this is the pop up. Renew it man So I click on it but instead of clicking on it I click on the mute button because its overlaying and just misses, I dunno It's an accident Okay well it's okay so I promised that would look into

1:25:23 resignation from the FDA director, administrator I think it is. over flavored vapes. So let's get the full story and I think I've figured out what this was really about. Children's National in DC is sharing its concerns after the FDA's decision to authorize fruit-flavored vapes, and that move played a role in the agency leader's resignation yesterday Sunrise's Max Marcilla joins us live morning Max What does this authorization really mean? And why is it driving this pushback

1:25:59 Well, Hillary this authorization means that one company called Glass can now market two of its flavored e-cigarette products. They're blueberry and mango flavor... Listen to this listen to this device. ...they are called Gold and Sapphire And while advocates of this move are hopeful that it could help adults transition away from traditional cigarettes There are many concerns being raised, especially for young people. So look big picture teen vaping is at its lowest point in several years and these new devices will have a digital age verification system but we spoke with Dr Susan Wally the chief of hospital medicine at Children's National

1:26:38 And she's concerned that teenagers could still find a workaround to the new preventative technology. Look, she says these fruit-flavored devices are extremely addictive and oftentimes our young persons' first experience with tobacco We certainly are concerned as public health advocates, pediatricians and teachers that our young people will get the idea. Oh well maybe this means that it's okay if the FDA has authorized it and it couldn't be further from the truth So one I've followed this because I'm a vapor And I totally disagree with all these Chinese crap vapes who knows what is in them That'll probably kill you

1:27:20 And then they came up with it'll cost you a million dollars per flavor that you want to have the FDA approve. This glass company, which is some outfit in Los Angeles, they came up with oh well you have to link it with Bluetooth to your phone and then with a government ID like come on this is all nuts There is something going on here, two sides. One is the president who promised this to young MAGA I can't remember it but I think he did like oh we're gonna let you vape kids vote for me

1:27:57 And he also was having a meeting at one of his golf courses with the big boys from tobacco who are now switching from combustible products to nicotine, just pure nicotine products. And they've spent a lot of money on his election campaign and they wanted this. They want the vapes to be legal And Durbin talked about this in the Capitol. Tobacco companies have donated generously to Donald Trump's election, his inauguration, his great Gatsby ballroom with the expectation of favorable treatment President Trump's administration has delivered for tobacco

1:28:38 Last week the Food and Drug Administration... And I just have to say, it has nothing to do with tobacco. Nicotine is nicotine! It's not tobacco and you know there are all kinds of studies that say it can be good, having too much of anything is probably never good but its not necessarily going to kill you Chinese vapes will probably kill you. Bad vapes can create formaldehyde, you can get pieces of... Yeah and the problem with cigarettes themselves is the tar. But Durbin makes it sound like it's all about tobacco which its not but it is true that the tobacco industry has been moving to nicotine and they certainly did support this president. It was something it had never done before

1:29:20 After pressure from President Trump, the FDA authorized the first ever flavored e-cigarettes. Why is that important? That's what lures the children into this deadly habit. Notice E-Cigarettes! We're not calling it vapes we're calling it E-Cigarettes Deadly Habit Scientists doctors and parents even the FDA's own studies all acknowledge sweet and fruity flavored cigarettes are responsible for addicting our children Health experts I've spoken to believe the true number of high school kids vaping is at least 40%. Yeah. Forty percent of our kids vape. The same forty percent who eat nicely colored Froot Loops, none if it's good for our kids. A percentage... This numbers bull crap, of course. Teachers, principals and students acknowledge

1:30:11 These are not kids vaping to quit cigarette smoking. These are kids who first became addicted to nicotine because of flavored vaping Why would an administration supposedly committed to making America healthy again unleash this new wave of addiction on our children? Formaldehyde, chromium heavy metals like nickel and lead all are present in e-cigarettes A recent study found that vaping is likely to cause cancer We should not trust big tobacco when they promise they won't market to kids. We know better." Alright, so obviously this was kind of funny and Kimmel made some jokes about it... And then you have the reported beef between the president and his head of the FDA According The Wall Street Journal Trump spent this weekend angrily bullying FDA Commissioner Marty McCary seen here moments after he graduated from the school of stock footage doctors

1:31:07 He berated him for delaying approval of flavored electronic cigarettes. You may remember Trump promised young MAGA that he would save vaping, which is as noble a cause as there is and so like a kid giving up his lunch money the FDA finally authorized cotton candy flavored e-cigarettes this is what's important to him vape pens! He has definitely been in Florida too long. I got no argument. I like vaping, i think it's great, I think it should be easier for people to make safe vapes that's not the point this guy was pushed out for very different reasons and its surfaced on an interview on CNBC you know to put a kind of bluntly even getting some not great press

1:31:49 And I'm curious, just today, paranoia turmoil and backlash inside the FDA under Marty McCarry. President Trump's Marty McCarry problem these are very recent stories Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal a lot of it does stem from frustration with patient populations and physicians which what they say is inexplicable decisions by the FDA to not approve drugs Replimyun, for example being a key one. How do you respond to this overall criticism that I mean continues to this very moment? Yeah, I think that article in the Wall Street Journal is the ninth article they've posted in that opinion section begging for Repli-Mun's approval. I don't work for Repli-Mun and I work for the American people and I stand by the scientists at the FDA three independent teams arrived to the same conclusions on my watch we have not done corrupt sweetheart deals what we have done has followed the science so

1:32:46 Every accept or reject decision at the FDA on my watch has been the accept or reject recommendation of the primary review teams. At the agency and you know I've spent my whole career taking care of cancer patients to suggest that we want cancer patients to die is a little offensive so It's about RepliMoon. RepliMoon has all the big boys behind it I mean you've got BlackRock, you've got everyone is invested in this one company to make RepliMoon and it was supposed to be... RepliMoon isn't it? Repli... well RepliMoon yes RepliMoon Are you familiar with it because it doesn't-it's not on the market I hope you're not using it

1:33:28 I'm sure that he'd love to pass it along. Well no, he was saying... There's a whole group called the Replamune Group Yes But he was saying, no this thing is no good and these guys got not one, not two, not three but nine articles in the Wall Street Journal opinion editors pushing for this drug. Well final question because you referenced use the word corrupt when you describe sort of corporations I'm just curious as to what you're talking about A small set of companies have a trial that doesn't go their way. They call you, they call CNBC, they call Wall Street Journal, they're running ads on your network nonstop and they say hey this is wrong the drug actually works when the trial shows it didn't work and they dial up tremendous pressure in the media to drum up people spin them up on results that don't match the data we see And what you see as result are nine articles

1:34:23 by a couple editors in the opinion desk at The Wall Street Journal pushing for one drug. What do you call that? I know, well they would call it being compassionate to the 8000 people with melanoma who front line treatment failed- I'm a cancer surgeon! If there's anything that'll help cancer patients 100% we're gonna get it to them So final clip about what was wrong Wait wait He's a cancer surgeon? I thought he was a dick surgeon. No, this is a different guy! This is the FDA guy... Oh okay, I get him mixed up sorry You're still 15 minutes behind! I am yeah Alright well if you do that-I mean I just want to go through it because to the extent that I've been exposed to one story It has been this when I've talked to the CEO as well and any number of other people I mean they would say there ran a breakthrough designation on the basis of putting what 1 third of patients into multiyear remissions The original review team recommended approval

1:35:13 And you've got a lot of oncologists out there who focus on melanoma patients, who seem to be begging for it. So again what is it... Can you explain? What is it that you saw that is different from what they see? I'm not going to talk about an individual product but if you read our complete response letter You will see the details of the FDA's logic and you will see some of those things shown not to be correct Can you give me something here to hang on, to just understand what some of the details would be? So we publish it. We publish all of it. Right. For example if you want to see whether or not a drug adds benefit to cancer patients You run a control group where patients don't get the drug The FDA clearly recommended that control group

1:36:00 The company clearly did not do that control group and so by law we can only approve drugs with quote substantial evidence. You went back and forth with them about that, didn't they say it would be unfair to those patients given the efficacy of the drug itself? I feel okay, that's a good one. Classic! The FDA has had numerous meetings with almost every company that brings products before it. The recommendations of the FDA were clear misrepresented in the media saying that they changed the goalposts, they don't change the goalpost. So when we're talking about how hard it is for RFK Jr to do stuff this is exactly what this guy got pressed out

1:36:37 They threatened him, who knows? Yeah that's why they came up with the vape thing. Yes exactly! No it's what you do, you're pounding and pounding and say well hell with it let's go after him some other way. Yep there is is. Let's dream some scheme up here and we'll go with this he was at what side is he on here? Well thats what Trump wanted to do okay lets go after him. Call Kimmel get them to make some jokes Yeah, you just keep doing it until the guy gives up. This happened with a woman who just quit the I think she was CDC or FDA and I had a clip of...I didn't have a clip but I was gonna discuss her and she was drummed out at the same way because this is major that if you didn't have the pharmacy companies so big

1:37:26 And powerful. I mean it's shocking to me that Cassidy didn't get in because he is supported by them, but... Yeah right and you even hear this guy saying hey they're running ads on your network yeah that's why our CNBC guys like whoa what's wrong with you? I mean you know if was a perfectly good drug everyone the CEO says oh well so-so The Wall Street Journal nine opinion pieces there was money behind this big money And it was probably just for some stock win. I don't think they have care about 8,000 melanoma patients. Well there was a stock play... There was a stock at play. Oh there had to be! So that's what that's- No it wasn't called RepliMune Okay and that's what all this- It's down to five bucks a share now Ahhhh there you go everyone lost their shirt so out you go vapes we'll do something We'll make you look stupid

1:38:21 I don't think Trump even knew about this part. No, he can't keep up with this stuff and Kennedy can barely do it. So Stephen Colbert had his last show? Don't know if you saw it? No, I'll go back and look at it eventually. He had David Letterman on and they threw stuff off the roof of the CBS building Yeah yeah, I did see that they clipped that put it online. Yeah yeah we saw that And we discussed this offline after the show one or two shows ago. I'll just play this little brief bit

1:38:58 About his replacement meanwhile fellow late-nighter Jimmy Kimmel joked at Disney's annual upfronts about CBS replacing Colbert with Byron Allen's comics unleashed quote It's bad enough to lose your job imagine getting replaced by the owner of the weather channel so So Byron Allen will be replacing him our initial thought was go ahead and Pretty embarrassing. It's an insult Yeah, it's an insult I mean Byron Allen is something of a genius entrepreneur billionaire And he's been doing the same kind of schlock programming forever Although he does when it comes to the food stuff He has a number of of foodie Productions that he does that are extremely well produced but most of his stuff is just you know because Byron Allen who's a black guy and

1:39:51 It is a wannabe comic who's not funny. Yeah, but he's got a knack for producing kind of low budget mid-quality material and he's been doing it forever. Way before we started this show, he was doing stuff and he has this comics on lease show which is terrible I mean it's very... It's just not well done but it's cheap! It's super cheap so that's what here's how he made his money leverage Here's the kicker CBS didn't replace Stephen Colbert with Byron Allen

1:40:30 He is paying for the time slot. That would make sense he bought the time slot that makes total sense and it's probably going to be more profitable than any of the other late night shows because this what he does, and he's gonna make good money off of that Yeah, it's like an infomercial. Yes! Exactly. You buy those slots spots. Exactly and then everyone else is gonna go you know you'll see NBC... The network actually instead of losing 40 million dollars a year will be making money doing nothing. Yes for something that almost no one watches anyway yes in from our infomercial level couple million people

1:41:09 of which none are in the demo. No, you want to sell medical devices... I didn't know that but now that you mention it genius right? That's why Byron Allen is a billionaire he's something of a genius in terms of TV It's schlock but still what are you gonna do? What TV is good! I mean it's all schlock Ever since Dana Brunetti stopped producing shows and you know it's just gone downhill Yeah. I'm doing this to get out of a lawsuit, by the way. Oh he's... You know good old Dana? Yeah that guy! I heard that he hates Hollywood. I love telling my church people yeah you know Dana Brunetti big Hollywood guy he listens to this show and is kind of a friend what do you do 50 Shades Of Grey

1:42:01 What? That's pornography! No, that was Fifty Shades of Greyer. That was the bad one. Yeah... House of Cards There is a trilogy. There were three?! Money makers- yeah Three money makers, yeah Of course. Of course that why he has a fire truck and farm. Fire truck and farm And we're podcasters I'm just saying We have cash flow All right, you got anything else you want to do? Yeah let's see before we have any. I want to do the Sharia law clip is always good. Sharia Law in the USA big thread i find this to be kind of

1:42:43 Yeah, hopeless but let's play these clips. And lawmakers warn that groups in support of Sharia law have a long-term goal of widespread influence here in the US. Warnings of Sharia's authoritarian nature and social class divisions based on sex and religion they point to already existing Sharia based tribunal courts happening in Texas and the United Kingdom. NDD correspondent Jason Blair brings us that story People do not have protection from imposing a foreign legal system or code that overrides or replaces US civil or criminal law nor the Constitution. House Republicans warn that stronger action needs to be taken to curb the rise of Sharia Law tribunals and acting courts in the U.S. Political Islam silences dissent

1:43:28 prohibits religious freedom, allows barbaric punishments and treats women children and non-muslims as second class citizens. At a congressional hearing Wednesday one witness said many Islamic groups have openly stated their long term intent of gradually making the US an Islamic society they've written it down in the project in a 12 point plan. You can read it for yourself, they've come to make this country like they've made countries all across the world Islamic." Amy Meckleberg founder of Rare Foundation USA says there are Sharia based tribunal services operating in America. All across different places throughout the United States from birth to death

1:44:05 They now have full operational societies. So within these societies, they have their courts Subcommittee Chairman Chip Royce says that the UK has 85 Sharia law courts operating in the country Muslims are increasingly turning to Sharia courts to settle disputes rather than the UK's legal system He said UK yeah, so It's called arbitration That's what that is. It was arbitration Well, whatever it is. In the UK it seems to be somewhat popular with certain groups of people... Amongst the Muslims? Yeah well that's what they do. It's just like the nature that this is going to take over the US and we're gonna do this... Oh please! This is nonsense but I'm saying this is like... Mid-term fear mongering is what this is. Vote for Chip Roy!

1:44:58 Yeah, Chip Roy. He's your buddy. He's a Texas boy I'll stop the Muslim compounds in Texas and whenever I say this people are always like look at this man! This happening is real yeah maybe but we're a little... Just look at the percentage of Muslims in United States and what their influence is most Muslims in United States are not for this stuff No, and we don't have open borders where crazy Muslims are coming in And we don't have a society where we allow them, at least we should not... ...where we allow them to fire up their loudspeakers five times a day and have them stop and bow in the middle of the street. Now you may see some videos about that but that kind of stuff usually doesn't fly in America

1:45:49 This is different Europe's like oh no, this is multicultural. We have to be nice to everybody and it took 25 years If not all the praying in the middle of the street doesn't fly in Saudi Arabia either But you know people are online though is happening And if it's happening in your town then you should put a stop to it that we can do I But that didn't happen in Europe. I saw this in the Netherlands, and look they did a great job when Pim Fortuyn was running for election and his party won after they killed him to assassinated him two weeks before the election he was saying do not allow the Islamification of The Netherlands And then everybody shut up

1:46:37 Went oh, I should probably shouldn't say anything about Islam and still took 25 years to get to where it is today We have a lot of runway To stop anything nefarious But you are being played. You're being played And I think it's you know there's these real geo fencing operations heard about this yeah, I have Apparently Israel has been paying companies in America to pop up ads and manipulate algos geofenced around churches, particularly in California but also in Texas and the Dallas area Austin. And part of their geofencing is Israel great and part of it is Islam no good be careful be afraid so you're being played on all sides

1:47:29 But I agree with you, the influence is not that great. Oh man! The amount of people... This is our next Waterloo. Part 2 Rep. Jamie Raskin argues that no special laws against Sharia law are necessary because of the existence of current US law. Murder is against the law in America, whether the parents are Muslim Christian Jewish Hindu or anything else Another witness who's a high school student in Texas says his Republican Student Club faced Hostile scrutiny and censorship by school officials in stark contrast to pro-sharia groups. While the Republican Student Club faced denial, censorship, poster removal and hostile oversight, an outside organization was giving easy access to distribute sharia related materials directly students. Administrators not only allowed it they actively promoted Islamic events throughout the hearing Democrats argued that existing US law is enough to deter any threats

1:48:26 While Republicans called for urgent action citing Sharia based tribunals and early warning signs in Europe and Texas. Reporting on Capitol Hill, Jason Blair, NTD News Next today is World Falun Dafa Day So if you ask anyone what is Sharia law? Wait for the answer What is Sharia law? Everyone thinks that somehow, well it's going to supersede American law. No and I have to agree with Raskin on that case It's not gonna supersede American law You can't be killing people But that's also now what Sharia law is like you stole my chicken...you know..I get to take some beads

1:49:08 You're not going to chop your hand off. It's not quite that extreme. Or you get stoned! Yeah, I haven't seen that take place yet Have we seen a good stoning in America yet? A good Sharia law stoning? No, but there have been a lot of people who've been stoned but not in that way If Sharia law suddenly and then you can go stone a girl because she kissed the boy That is against the law in America! You can't go stoning people But it's a meme now. Oh, Sharia law! Sharia law! Please tell me what is sharia law? Trolls... because the trolls are all into this What is sharia law they can't tell you It's fear-mongering to get your vote for Chip Roy and Ken Paxton and a bunch of other guys So we have

1:50:01 We got a couple of things here. I do have it three by three we can do that and get out of here Oh, well, well three by three is always fun now. It's time for three by three Yes experiment by JCB comparing stories from ABC CBS NBC That's right, he got the big three. And it is a story that will probably sound exactly the same on all three networks but there is always a twist you never know what these CIA broadcast systems will do Tonight, an Iraqi national is in US custody accused of orchestrating terror attacks like these taking aim at American and Jewish targets around the world in retaliation for the war on Iran. Federal prosecutors charging Mohammed Al-Sadi with a slew of terror related crimes alleging he coordinated 20 terror attacks in Europe and Canada in the last three months

1:50:53 and eyed additional attacks in the US, identifying targets in California Arizona and New York City. He has been trying to inspire jihad around the world through the internet Prosecutors linked al-Sadiq to this stabbing in London that left two Jewish men including an American citizen seriously injured Drop the knife! To this attempted arson at Bank of New York Mellon in Amsterdam And this firebombing of a synagogue in North Macedonia Al-Sadi was apprehended this week in Turkey. In court today, he claimed he's a political prisoner being persecuted for his ties to Iranian General Qasem Soleimani the military commander killed by US air strike in 2020 He is essentially being subjected to a political prosecution that he's a prisoner of war and should be treated as such

1:51:42 But when federal prosecutors portrayed al-Sadi as a terrorist mastermind who they said successfully coordinated attacks overseas and paid undercover agents to carry out more attacks in this country. Undercover agents? This guy's powerful. Very sketchy story. Powerful, very powerful NBC. Tonight, the FBI and NYPD saying they foiled potential terror attacks against Jewish sites in New York LA in Scottsdale Arizona plots they say are all tied to the Iranian regime this man Mohammed al-Sadi now held in a New York jail cell is an alleged high ranking member of the mysterious terror group called HAYI

1:52:26 What? Authorities say they've already carried out 18 terror attacks in Europe, primarily targeting the Jewish community. Including this suspect tackled by British police after a stabbing rampage outside of London mosque and killed in a US drone strike during President Trump's first term. Ah, there it is! This is Trump's fault. Al-Sadi has specifically threatened to kill President Trump on social media He is certainly a leader

1:53:10 in this terrorist organization and he was directing and inspiring terrorist attacks. These photos exclusively obtained by NBC News show his arrival in New York last night after he was taken into custody by Turkish authorities, according to prosecutors they say since April he's been communicating with an undercover officer offering to pay tens of thousands of dollars to attack Jewish sites in the US Oh Tom, these are alarming developments. The suspect was in court today? He appeared briefly in court his attorney says he thinks he's a prisoner of war meanwhile authorities believe the case underscores the wide variety of threats for events like the World Cup starting next month. Oh yes! Now let me ask you some questions about that. That was cute getting the World Cup in there yeah yeah let me ask some questions

1:53:57 So was he communicating with an undercover officer on our side, like one of our FBI guys? Is that how they nailed this guy? Wasn't it clearly explained in the report? No I didn't think it was clearly explained. They keep talking about he paid agents around the world to do stuff He was linked to Soleimani Trump's trophy so...I'm just waiting for this for this to be Trump's fault And that synagogue in Amsterdam, they locked off a whole part of the city. You can't even drive in certain directions because of that but I didn't hear anything about this to like some nut jobs but I didn't hear any connections to this guy. I don't know this whole thing is fishy

1:54:43 appearing in a federal court in Manhattan today Muhammad al-sadi...CBS yeah CBS. Appearing in a federal court in Manhattan today, Muhammad al-sadi smiled as the judge read off the list of terrorism charges. Arrested in Turkey in last 24 hours and extradited to New York Al-Sadi is accused of trying to hire someone who happened to be an undercover officer. Now it's clear carry out attacks in Los Angeles Scottsdale Arizona and New York City. agreeing to pay him $10,000. In the next day, Al-Sadi is alleged to have sent 3,000 in crypto as a down payment for the New York attack texting I want to see good news tonight not tomorrow bro prosecutors say Al-Sadi is a commander of Qatari Hezbollah Bro? Wait a minute where's this guy is he new jersey

1:55:45 Bro, he is alleged to have sent 3000 in crypto as a down payment for the New York attack texting. I want to see good news tonight not tomorrow bro prosecutors say Al Sadi is a commander of Katai Hezbollah an Iran backed terrorist group with ties to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. He's pictured here with the late Iranian General Qasem Soleimani killed by a US drone strike in 2020 on orders from President Trump his defense attorney said al-Sadi is being punished for his ties to Soleimani This case is a political case and it's a political prosecution, and we're going to be litigating it as such. Prosecutors also say after the war began al-Sadi helped launch... Wait a minute wait he called that a political case? Well thats what he calls it. Well isn't that just terrorism

1:56:34 It's an interesting point. For his ties to Soleimani, this case is a political case and it's a political prosecution and we're going to be litigating it as such. Prosecutors also say after the war began al-Sadi helped launch 18 terror attacks across Europe including on a synagogue in a Jewish school in Belgium and the stabbing of two Jewish men in London last month CBS contributor Sam Vinograd said retaliatory acts of terrorism could become more common Even when drones, missiles and more stop flying over Iranian airspace it is more than likely that these military campaigns have inspired a generation of individuals to continue to try to wreak havoc.

1:57:19 And El Sadi is facing multiple terrorism charges including providing material support for acts of terrorism if convicted major He could face up to life in prison Yeah whenever we have like he hired an undercover cop Doesn't even mention it was FBI or not an agent and then he sent him some crypto and used bro I'm like this guy was some probably some schmuck. Oh And they found a picture of him with Suleimani. It sounds sketchy to me Well, maybe you could be right but I think it's just a maniac Yeah and he's got a boatload He's got a bunch of cash Crypto! Traveling all over the place like he goes in Macedonia then is in Turkey then is in Holland and then is in New York No no he hired people to do that stuff Yeah but he's been floating around too

1:58:11 He didn't do it from Turkey. He's not hiring anybody to blow up a synagogue in Arizona from Turkey, there is no connection, it's just not possible! Well the good news... He has got to come over here and do some of that stuff The good news is he's off the streets! The FBI has done it again and we're safe Sleep well citizen Go back to playing your harpsichord citizen Everything is well And by the way my last clip No Harvey Weinstein, we're not safe because he's gonna be out of jail. To the index now a judge declared a mistrial in Harvey Weinstein's rape retrial the decision after a jury in Manhattan could not reach a unanimous verdict following three days of deliberations This was the third time Weinstein was tried on accusations He raped an aspiring actress in a hotel room in 2013 Weinsteins lawyers argued this sexual encounter was consensual and

1:59:04 hearing next month could determine if there will be a fourth trial. That is odd isn't it? Yeah well then I have two clips just to wind it all up because that we're going to reopen Epstein trials more trials coming and the Democrats... Oh great, that's terrific how many people have gone to jail so far? Well one person they want blood and one they have a target on one guy Here's MS now setting us up. On the committee heard dramatic testimony from survivors at a field hearing this week in Palm Beach County where many of Epstein's crimes took place When I was 14 years old, I was abused by Jeffrey Epstein He abused me until I was 17 years old What happened to me was terrible but what happened after that by our own government changed my life just as much

1:59:57 I came here today to ask for one simple thing, to make sure this never happens again. I kept my identity protected as Jane Doe. I woke up one day with my name mentioned over 500 times! While rich and powerful remained protected by reduction, my name was exposed to the world. Okay so... Both of them say that they were abused by the US government. You wanted to say something? No, I was gonna say they got outed by the U.S. Government Yeah but it was...I think the first one said it was worse yeah So there's the Democrats in this case want blood and they're going and I think they'll get it

2:00:46 I think they'll get it and it's about one guy and one guy only. But let's turn now, sir to the Epstein investigation because all House Oversight Democrats are calling for Commerce Secretary Howard Ludnick to resign over his Epstein testimony should the American people know about his interview? And how it fits into the overall probe Look, no one should be serving the American people certainly not as a cabinet secretary when you are essentially a known liar and unwilling to tell the truth. When you lie to the public and when you're not honest in a deposition in front of Congress we all have seen Howard Lutnick

2:01:21 multiple times say that after 2005 he had no interaction with Jeffrey Epstein, and he didn't know him very well. And now we just know that wasn't true! We know that he went to the island, that he went into business with Jeffrey Epstein, then they communicated his wife communicated with them. So then for him go into this interview with Congress and not admit to that? And evade?! Look... He needs to resign or be fired! has lied to the American people and that is not something a cabinet secretary should be doing. And beyond that, this points back to this massive cover up Howard Lutnick has been involved at the White House continuing to cover up for the DOJ telling lies and he's got to go. Yeah I think you will. I think that's the scalp they want now

2:02:05 One's why? Just to do it. Let me just a nut Nick by the music commerce guy who cares Yeah, he's important to Trump because of the the USDC He's the big stable coin guy Okay. Yeah is a big stable coin guys so this I know he's the guy that that Musk wanted to be Secretary of the Treasury. He's a big Lutnick fan. Oh, I'm glad we got General Patton on the down low. That guy is much better. Yeah, much better! More fun. Speaking of treasury... This podcast runs value for value

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2:05:02 So get one of those modern podcast apps and then consider supporting the show. It's value for value You can do that in three ways time talent treasure We love all of it Of course treasure is extremely important for us to keep our home fires burning but people do fun things They do a lot of cool stuff for the show send boots and boots on the ground jingles clips end-of-show mixes organized meetups, and sometimes just You know, just troll us. That's also a form of time and talent I guess And then we have the artists who prompt away and make artwork for our album art, which is critical to the success of the show because it looks really great on social media. People love it and we always can tell... It's kind of a feedback mechanism for us as well when we really hit on something then we see a whole bunch of art pieces that show up about that one thing and then We know that you know we succeeded in our mission! We made you laugh

2:06:00 We made you cry, we made you think about something and this was very prevalent with the numbnuts which is the artwork done by Francisco Scaramanga. Numnuts is what I called some members of our intelligence agency, the central one And it was a great piece. We loved the candied macadamias and then did you see what he did on X? Yeah, I got a picture... You is looking like some sort of a thug Smoking! Smoking stuff and yeah that was good It was fantastic Can we get animated art for our album? That should be something the modern podcast apps do How cool would that be to have a little video playing

2:06:45 That would be cool that you had to make that part of the podcasting 2.0 spec I'm on it boss, I'm on it Let's take a look at what else was submitted at no agenda art generator comm A lot of value in that operation from Sir Paul couture let us take a look here We had some butts but sets comics for blogger Oh we had a lot of pomp and pomp and ceremony there's another one got a lot of pomp and ceremony art pieces A lot of poop on the marble. Man, that really hit! Huh? Poop on the marble...

2:07:21 And then the mouse trap with the cheese and the chocolate. Did you see the note that came in, that someone said the mask finally slipped and you're actually a sadist? A very evil human? Oh yeah! I was talking about it...I got one of those notes too. There's two of them. That i'm a terrible person for crushing a mouse Now the fact is that was just a joke If you want to know what really happens when I get a mouse in a glue trap Because I'm like fearful of getting mouse fleas that hit me. I actually take a plastic bag and slowly kick

2:07:56 The mouse in the trap into the bag and then seal the plastic bag and throw in the garbage as fast As I can so he's live alive in the garbage, and they just die slowly in the garbage dead already You see they're dead already. They died on that doing that little thing So this morning? I was up at 5 is a you know there's other guys who made these comments I think it was a couple of their their idiots okay. It's just that simple this morning. I'm sitting in the kitchen At 5am, and it's kind of half dark. And I see something out of the corner my eye and i'm telling you a mouse walked right across the floor like wow! I can't wait to use John's glue trap system It's great Well, you know these some of these mice have a lot of nerve Oh he was bold Yeah He was very bold now i'm gonna get him

2:08:44 Now you'll get them. You have to be careful because they start to multiply pretty quickly Yeah, but I know how to get him and then just like the ants I always leave them in the trap for half a day So everyone could smell him so they know this is death over here people don't come near this one Well that's an interesting theory well as your theory is what you want to do after you torch the ants Yeah, you do that. You want to leave that smell? That torch smell a lot of people like on the blueberry tip man The blueberry in the hallway that got a lot of art none if it was really fantastic I have to say Yeah, which is we thought there's not as submissions though yeah Which is good we like that and so people are keeping busy keeping the AI companies Unprofitable

2:09:34 So thank you very much, Scaramanga Francisco Scaram- You know what? Did I tell you his wife is some supermodel or some like model. No! I never heard this Yeah a comics blogger told me he's seen a picture of her and says she looks like some model It kind of makes sense Good for him Yeah The guy is lucky He could be a podcaster He probably doing...he's probably independently wealthy Know what I mean One of those guys We can dream up whatever we want. That's right! With a name like Scaramanga, it could be anything... So now we would like to thank

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2:10:48 $300 or more the same deal would read your note and you'll get a credit of executive producer We still have a few order of the red heart an order of the Heart Red Knights available And which is just that beautiful package that you get. That was kind of a promo to Welcome you back to the world of living, and I think we'll have one if not two of them today because we start with Samuel Montgomery from Arvada Colorado Who comes in with $1,000 plus fees so that's 1,030.26 thank you for saving us the fees And he says, I TM John and Adam first time donor. I'm a registered cardiovascular invasive specialist have been that for 20 years. If I don't give him a deduce... You've been de-douche'd! I assist with performing cardiac cath procedures which i assume john had prior to his open heart surgery it is an honor to become a red knight did you have a cath uh cardiac cardiac

2:11:50 cardiac catheter? They run this thing up your leg. Oh, in your leg?! Well they start it in the leg at the top of the part of the leg and then they run this thing up you'd up to veins or something with a... And they just run it up there to check out and then they send some horrible dye into your system that then toxic poisons your kidneys! I could go on and on about this And then they, and then you had to go on dialysis for like a month and a half to get this poison out of the system. Does dialysis does that hurt? Does it suck what's it like actually not being on it is nice but when your on it its like you can nap through it oh so I just dozed off

2:12:39 But it's no, it doesn't hurt at all. It's actually just annoyingly wasted time because it takes forever Jay Jay Please get a picture of John napping during dialysis Too late Oh you don't have to do anymore? No I haven't done for a month now Good I'm happy to hear that. How about those that aggravate? How about the fluids is that is that over now because we really know I still had some fluids drained the other day Yeah, I'm actually kind of clear right now so I have a more sonorous voice you do again make deeper sounds it's if and I don't know when that's gonna, and that's getting annoying because they have this one guy who is actually pretty good at it doing these thoracentesis where they stick. So this guy is really good at it doesn't hurt and he's actually quite pleasant so the time before last, the guy disguised his name Hans,

2:13:36 excellent at this. His name is Hans? Hans, yes. He's actually more of an Asian but anyway so he says I have a resident here who wants to observe so he can do this too and would you mind having that happen And you being nice guy went yeah sure no problem. I was sure yeah no problem and with that was a mistake Because instead of the normal, you know the way he normally soothes with the way does the whole shivs you with a needle to drain you. It goes like this okay here's what I'm doing now. I'm going between the third and fourth rib and notice that as it goes into the cavity between the ribs and he's describing this the whole process

2:14:26 And it's disconcerting, to say the least. So people out there don't have an intern or a resident watch anything! It was disgusting! I'm so sorry but was it less fluid than normal? Are we on the uptake here are we doing better with this Yeah, I think barely yes. Because you know...I don't want to have to have an operation for that No it's just the whole thing is just annoying yeah but are you going to go home soon? Are you gonna back home I can probably get there now. But it's kind of comfortable being weighted on here, so... Oh! My back hurts! Can somebody get me an aspirin? I'm with you. I hear ya'. It's comfortable. Nice! Alright. Onward with Steve Slocum who also came in with a thousand dollars

2:15:30 Hello Adam and John, my name is Steve Slocum from Columbia Station Ohio. Long time listener first-time donor. Let's de-douche him! I mean he didn't ask for it but... You've been de-douched. Yeah good. I started listening after Adam's first Rogan appearance. Oh Rogan Donation? This information is a bit late but I felt that was relevant to the show. country's largest VA health care facilities before and during and after COVID, the messaging this country received during that period of time was dramatically different than what was happening in these facilities. Veterans with active COVID diagnosis were forced to isolate in patient rooms together for extended periods of time when social distancing was arguably at its worst!

2:16:27 It was sickening to witness the lies firsthand. Thanks to the two of you and all the producers during that time for providing grounded relevant information, to keep some sanity in the world! Oh thank you belatedly with my $1,000 Bitcoin donation I guess it would be Katie Elizabeth. Yeah, it did come in as Bitcoin. I would like to claim an instant knighthood of the order of the heart To assist with John's recovery! I'd like to claim Sir Steve As my official title Request Reverend Manning bitcoin jingle As well as health karma for all Thanks gentlemen They're saying that all hell is gonna break loose And you're gonna need a bitcoin You've got Karma Lovely

2:17:17 There you go, you know a lot of people forget what we did during Kovac they forget what we told you about Ukraine They forget all these things. Well yell at us for things and then in five years Come back a couple years late. Yeah, it's alright now. It's alright. It's alright We can handle it 2026 What do you say? We make this show an even twenty years I 20 years there you go getting there sir e61 black sheep ah now this is time towns and treasure all in one He's the guy that I was talking about earlier. Yeah, he gave us early 61 is that some rank no? I think that's a Nokia phone

2:18:00 But maybe it is, I don't know. He's in Johnson City Tennessee but he's not because he's boogieing out of Kuwait! He says I sent Adam an update which is $343 and 75 cents which might have been 333 33 with fees we evacuated you get real time here fellas so there you go treasure talent and time all-in one thank you very much sir E61 Black Sheep Michael Trumbull in Morris, Minnesota. 333 dot 33 here's a much overdue donation of the best podcast in the universe your efforts and insights are indispensable and since COVID have been under supported under supported I tell you in the treasure area thoughts and prayers for you both Mitch Trumbull Thank You Mitch

2:18:52 Dennis Cato coming in from Tampa, Florida. We recognize the name 333 33 ITM John and Adam just to give you some background I actually have a history of correspondence with John going back to 1999 Though I'm sure he doesn't recall let's find oh, I recall every note Let's see if John remembers this. I was a Mac guy and an Apple employee that would routinely take offense to his articles where he would suggest Apple shut the doors, sell the stock and give it back to their shareholders or that Jobs Return would do absolutely nothing to bring the brand back to prominence etc

2:19:30 After a few beers, I send some aggressively curt emails to John suggesting that he find a new position in life. That probably went something like F you! But I was amazed when he actually would respond to my rantings and would be ever so gracious and sweet. Okay, do you remember this? Oh yeah! I'm a sweet guy No no... I am sure he wasn't the only Apple employee There's a bunch of people that rant because they- okay So I was hired This really became mostly during the Mac era When i was hire as anti editor of mac user Yes By the publisher Felix Dennis

2:20:09 who I knew. And he says, would you like to be the... We'd like to put you on the inside back cover but your job is just say bad things so we can balance the magazine? And you went heck yeah! I'm in! Oh yeah, I can do that no problemo and so they began it and I was on The Masthead as the anti-editor and uh..I wrote these columns at the back which were always critical But I was also critical in PC Magazine and elsewhere, especially when I wrote the column which I think Steve Jobs put up in a frame.

2:20:50 Steve Jobs good riddance when he quit. It was a classic, but yeah I get a bunch of guys like this that were irked by my rantings. That's funny He says speaking of sweet like John we invite everyone in Gitmo Nation to try our Manuka gold honey with lemongrass ginger and turmeric visit us at manukagold.com that's Manuka with the K For our wonderful line of wellness products, be well at manukagold.com So this is an Apple guy who sold his stock and bought some bees

2:21:28 And I love that story and I love your product Dennis. Dennis Cato, Tampa Florida Thank you Eli the coffee guy in Bensonville Illinois 205 17 cheers to Bulgaria winner of the 70th Eurovision contest as the boys in the millennial media offensive say The Black Sea is in play wouldn't surprise me to hear more from Bulgaria and Romania as European nationalism shifts further east That C matters more than most realize for the energy needs of the West. Fortunately, none of the current world turmoil has touched to the coffee supply yet. Get some fresh roasted coffee and visit gigawattcoffeeroasters.com and use the code ITM20 for 20% off your order stay caffeinated Eli The Coffee Guy

2:22:16 Then coming in with $200, another associate executive producership for a dot farmer from Uden in the Netherlands. And he wants to hear a boogity-boogity mac and cheese shut up slaves and a yak karma or traveling yak karma. Bless me podfathers for I have sinned! Both for your time and talent after eight years of listening here by some treasure. I would like a de-do You've been D douche John, I love your view on the world the stories you tell about the different jobs you had in situations You were in by the way my smoking hot wife really likes your voice

2:22:56 Adam, thank you for inventing podcasting providing the bi-weekly crisp and perfect sound quality and making the show so much fun to listen to. I'm the fun one! My kids know your intro by heart reproducing it every time a new episode starts You guys are the best The Noah Jenner Show truly is the best podcast in the universe Now to business Message for... ummm The first Ukrainian clogs on the ground meetup Hear ye, hear ye! To all farmers, shills spooks and members of the Gitmo Nations you are warmly invited to join us for burgers and beers as we celebrate the birthday of our favorite former mink farmer now a dude named Ben. We all raise a glass to knee-high corn to 1563 days of Russian peace and freedom and to the honest and non corrupt Ukrainians... The honest and non corrupt Ukrainians all while supporting the Ukrainian economy

2:23:49 Join us. This is the first join us on Saturday June 6th at six o'clock at the fat moose in be like sir Kava in Ukraine man, I need a meter per port that would be great shows up That's awesome We look forward to seeing you there please RSVP kind regards a dot farmer end of message and he sent me a very long and beautiful boots-on-the-ground about farming in Ukraine that was extremely informative and he also said everything yes drones fly most of them are shot down the Russian drones one of them exploded in one of his fields a 10 by 10 foot hole three feet deep

2:24:36 He says, and yes some people die and the cemeteries in Ukraine are unbelievably full. They're just throwing bodies on top of one another it's flags everywhere but he also says the front has pretty much been stagnant for weeks there is not a lot going on Which makes sense, because we haven't heard much. We haven't heard much going on. Anyway... That is a very good report! Let me give you your jingles. You slaves can get used to mac and cheese Macaroni and cheese cheddar melted together Mac and cheese, mac and cheese, mac and cheese God of slaves! Puss in trousers for meals from tonight

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2:28:33 If you want to go to Nashville, what do you think a round trip to Nashville costs? Well it would probably normally be $69. 700 dollars! What?! Yes and that's not even before you get like early boarding because they have changed it now You don't have that cool boarding that I like now They have boarding groups And you still have to pay extra for your luggage It's insane! You can fly Delta or United for 399 I don't know. I don't see why people still...I think people are using up all of their... Here's what I think happened, I think- I know what happened the CEO changed Yeah the bean counters came in they said let's have everybody use up all of their points and miles at these exorbitant prices and then we'll lower it down again. I think he was just trying to get rid of all those point people

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2:33:26 Bright from the start in the morning, brave and smart The Order of the Heart Very proud to bring two new orders of the heart into our family and in fact they will be knighted momentarily But we like to do this right up at the top Samuel Montgomery and Steve Slocum both of you gentlemen will become red knights order of the heart Momentarily, and we thank you so much for your instant night donations Pure a purpose Right from the start in the morning Brave and smart, The Order of the Heart

2:34:09 Now let's bring these guys up on the podium. There is my blade, we need to make them official if you can take it out of the scabbard there. Very nice! That's a handsome one I like that one. Samuel Montgomery and Steve Slocum gentlemen pop up here in the podium as it is time for you to become official as I am very proud to pronounce Kate Vee as Sir Samuel Montgomery and Sir Steve both Knights of The No Agenda Round With that, we give you a host of goodies including Hookers and Blow, Rent Boys and Chardonnay, Polish Potato Vodka Fish Pie and Falacio Hay. That's what we have! Harlots & Howledoll Redheads and Rides Rubenes Women in Rose Gases and Sake Vodka and Vanilla Bong Hits and Bourbon Sparkling Cider and Escorts Ginger Ale and Gerbils Breast Milk and Pablum And of course we've got the Mutton and the Mead right here for you! Woohoo!

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2:35:53 Everywhere, Rana. We are truly worldwide It's an amazing community that you are a part of and you should solidify that relationship because this connection will give you protection the people who meet at the Meetups will be your first responders in any emergency And sometimes people send them meetup reports, and I'd love to play one from the Resist We Much Meetup in Los Banos This is Sir Robertson of Two Sticks at the resist we much meet up honoring Armed Forces Day Sir Montag here enjoying a delicious pizza and excellent conversation. All right, we have a written meetup from Leiden where the folks met in the Netherlands on the 8th of May. Adam and John 10 producers met in Leiden Thank you for your courage Zobim Eldudarachi Black Knight Eldudarachi Joep Andy Rubi Arno Roland Sebastian Anita and Pedro shout out to Joep and Andy for coming to their first Noah Jenner Meet-Up says Baron Robb next meet up will be in Rotterdam on June 26 in Café Haagse Bluff

2:36:59 pending me this approval on no agenda meetups calm I'm sure she will approve it we also have a meetup taking place today this is the big one in Indianapolis Indiana the may the road rise to meet you meet up that is underway as we speak at st. Joe's brew St. Joseph's brewery and public house in Indianapolis de Maria answer mark of the Greenwood hosting that of course next show day on Thursday Charlotte's thirsty third Thursday monthly meet-up seven o'clock Ed's Tavern is always in Charlotte North Carolina for the rest of this month in May. On the 22nd, hello Frenchies! Mollezune Guerre's in France go look at it on noagentomeetups.com we have a dame over there and she will show you a good time I mean she has wine she has cheese here is everything that's on the 22nd to 23rd Wilmington Delaware Los Angeles California Hickson Tennessee Franklin Tennessee

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2:38:35 John's tip of the day is coming up shortly, and we also have some really good end-of-show mixes I'm excited to play those for you But first for some reason for a long time We've been doing the ISO selection at this part of the show And we don't even remember why but it's always fun and I will start since that's how it usually runs John never wants To go first. You never want to go first she noticed that of course I notice it okay well I'll go then I love your perspective. You're absolutely right A little long. Here's another one. We are good to go, buddy! Maybe this one? That was good! Okay and I think this one is the best It was quite impressive! I like that one! It was okay Uh-huh what you got Let's start with uh...

2:39:24 A douchebag. God, I'm a douchebag! Is that from Family Guy? Yeah That was the vaping episode. God, I am a douche bag! I thought we should just keep that as your regular... High contender. Alright Let's go with G Willikers. G Willikers? G Willikers! What a great show! No, rejected I reject that one out of hand you can do- Why?! You can do better...you can do better Top show Wow top that show you chumps Yes that's what i'm talking about we have a winner and we have John's tip for the day Creative vibes for you and me Just a tip with JCD And sometimes Adam

2:40:23 Okay, so we get some time to start planting gardens. Is it now? Yep! We're in April-May yeah So everybody should go out and get a stirruppo. Ha ha ha! We had those in Amsterdam In the red light district Aren't they great?! Yeah fantastic What is a stirruppo? No I'm not talking about that It's also called a... There's another name for these things They are called What's the name? I don't know. I'm gonna get it, I'm gonna get it. You know what a stirrup hoe is! Look it up, a stirrup hoe is like a hoe only instead of being a flat surface thing its got a loop and allows you to put your foot in it and jam it in

2:41:11 No, it's good for... It is the greatest weeding tool you can imagine. Oh! You can be just basically pulls the weeds out. It's also called some other kind of hoe which is funnier I don't want to get the name so hang on Well where at the edge of our seats here Yeah these are available Pastime and all the big hardware stores. Let me find it here. Stirrup Ho, Tally Ho, Hula Ho... Stirrup Ho Hold on I'm holding on! I'm just sitting here waiting watching the meters go silent. I'm sorry but you're underprepared. I closed one of the windows that has it's called an Action Ho

2:42:10 in Action Ho. Which is really the more of the Amsterdam's... It's a show title, is what that is. Action Ho. And Home Depot has them, they Husky makes a good one at 54-1 would handle Action Ho with grip. These are just terrific products for gardeners I used to have one years ago I forgot all about until Jay and Brennan brought one They have a garden? To their house here And they're gardening. Yeah, and they got a big garden in the backyard. Oh! And so they're using this thing as... She's all jacked up about the action hoe

2:42:47 And I said, yeah well there's a lot of punchlines there with that word action hoe but it's really technically a stirrup hoe. Everyone should get one they're about 25 bucks max Go get your action hoe everybody! That's the tip of the day you will only find at noagendafund.com uh... tipoftheday.net Created by Dana Burnetti. Aren't you glad you waited? Yeah, I am! Aren't you glad?! I'm telling ya... I'm telling ya... Look it up This show is good to the last drop How many people listen at the tip of the day? Uh..I'll do an analysis one day Ask me... I betcha about half that have them Oh no Maybe half No,no 20% 20%, you think we'd fall off that much For tip-of-the-day yeah I think so Most podcasts fall off pretty substantially

2:43:43 after a while. But there's always that group that just hangs in there all the way and they're the ones... Those are good guys! Yeah, of course! And they learn about all the fun stuff that everybody else misses Your loss End Of Show mixes from Just Baker and MVP Love those guys They're prompting away They're doing good things now I mean it gets better every single time Let's see After The Show we have the Millennial Media Offensive coming up with Hans von Spankovsky. Oh yeah, that makes total sense. Sounds like those guys and we will return on Thursday We hope you join us And I am coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country right here in Fredericksburg Texas In the morning everybody! I'm Adam Curry and from Refinery Row I'm John C. Dvorak Please remember us at noagendadonations.com Until Thursday Adios Mofos Ahooy Hooey and Saaatch

2:44:43 Yeah! Beijing lights, the great hawk glows red Trump grins wide she nods his head Fantastic deals better than ever he said While the dragon whispers Taiwan's the thread Pageantry thick as the Beijing smog CEOs bow when their cameras are fogged No big break through just theater fog But the straight stays open it's the real log They chose what rice wine we choke on a spin Legacy Media

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2:46:23 No masters, just truth for us So keep the show breathing Keep that matrix small Or the next summit script writes us all The fog walls dig through the silicone trees In the valley where the air feels thin John's locking the doors, falling down to his knees While the typhus is scratching him to get in The screens are all glowing a ghost-like blue In a house that feels like a cage The silence is heavy, the shadows are new In this lonely fevered age Oh!

2:47:18 Between the fear and the foam Atoms out chasing a fevered desire While John is dying alone at home Across the sea where the dykes hold fast Adam walks through the Dutch lowlands Looking for a shadow from a hollow past With a hand to reach in for his hands No comfort in the travel, no peace in the flight Just two hearts beating out of time One staring at the ceiling In the dead of night The other in a cold and rhythmic climb The fever's coming for us all So far apart, so afraid We're all gonna die

2:48:26 Not by day may 15 Strikes carve Gaza's sky Women, childs, civilian cars Targeted The anchors lie Skylines need me cleansing slow West Bank marches crushed again Seven under protest flame But the camera spins the end The show ends down Baguette Monation never sleeps Dustin deals and illicit water cycle weeps From the keys lost in 40 to the deal they signed today Keep this signal clear or the machine will have it

2:49:08 Trump, Trump and she toast in Beijing Trade jets for soy and peace House tire and vote tight Simcom denies the deceased Powell's chair go- Oh ghosts are connected in the fog Same hand same twisted twist Da dum dam dam da dam dam dam dam Producer this signals a lie

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