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0:00 Oh my god. What a shocker.

0:02 Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. It's Sunday, 06/07/2026.

0:06 This is your award winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination

0:09 episode eighteen seventy five. This is No Agenda.

0:13 We've got Voterama.

0:16 We're broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA region region number 6. Good morning, everybody. I'm Adam Curry.

0:25 And from Northern Silicon Valley where we've discovered the antichrist.

0:29 It's the iPhone.

0:30 I'm John C. Dvorak.

0:32 It's Crackpot and Buzzkill. In the morning.

0:36 Well, a couple, observations

0:38 right off the top here. One,

0:41 you're coming to us from Northern Silicon Valley,

0:44 which means you're back home.

0:46 Yeah. I'm at the house. Excellent.

0:49 There's still work banging away back there working on that place. Wait. Wait. Who what what do you mean banging? That you what happened? Why do you why do they have to They're they're they're

0:59 bedroom. There's a bunch of work being done on the house.

1:03 Yeah? I'm making sure they don't wreck the place. That's why I'm here.

1:07 Is they is they Mimi or, is does she have a crew? Does she have a crew of Mexicans? It's Illegal immigrants?

1:16 It varies.

1:17 So

1:18 what do they do? Well, first of all,

1:20 welcome back. Good to have you back home.

1:23 That's good news.

1:25 Second of all,

1:26 are we close to being able to see your studio?

1:31 Well,

1:33 you're talking about the challenge

1:34 Yes. For people who go to the new Instagram,

1:37 No Agenda account, which is

1:40 No Agenda podcast.

1:42 Yeah. The official No Agenda account on Instagram.

1:45 Mhmm.

1:46 And once it gets to 5,000, we take a picture of the studio.

1:50 How

1:51 close are we? I I'm sorry. I don't I don't keep up with the Insta.

1:56 I think we're around three. 3,000?

1:59 Yeah. Wow. That that went pretty fast. Shouldn't we get should we be like trending

2:03 somewhere if we get that many followers in one go? Do we I get a

2:07 know. We're not. Oh, those guys those guys are no.

2:11 No. Not those guys. Just just don't don't no. No. No. No. You don't you know, these are fake anyway, so why put them on it? It's all fake.

2:20 And what's this with the antichrist iPhone? I mean, is this a new I'm determined that the iPhone is the antichrist.

2:26 Why not?

2:28 Well, it's possible. I mean, is it only Oh, I see. I'm I'm floating around. I almost see I'm telling you. I like, the yesterday, I was went went to the store and there's, like, people getting out of their car. They're looking at the phone as they get out,

2:43 stumble out,

2:44 walking

2:45 into the store, always eyes on the phone. I don't know how people can navigate. I mean, you if you remember the early days of these phones, we were banging into poles and walking, you know, over curbs and falling into manholes. Yeah. Sure. They stopped doing that. There's this new radar or some sense that phone has kept them from banging into stuff. You know what? So they Go ahead.

3:07 Walking around with the phone, and the same person comes out still looking at the phone.

3:13 What is on the phone?

3:16 I don't think it's the antichrist.

3:18 I think it's a national security issue.

3:21 We are a vulnerable think the antichrist is a national security interest issue?

3:27 Oh, okay. Fair point.

3:29 Fair point. It's just these I mean, we are very vulnerable as a country when we have robots, you know, NPCs just roaming around looking at their phones.

3:41 That's that is a national security issue. And you spotted a cup number years ago. Oh, you're the ones Ten ten years ago, at least. Well, take even longer. Spotted the fact that people are walking around with their phone in their hand. Yeah. You know, women mostly, but now men too, men and women, walking

3:56 around with the phone in their hand

4:01 all the time.

4:04 Yeah. Yeah. You know, we we forget we forget that this is happening. We kinda got used to it.

4:11 You know, it's it's so normal now.

4:14 I mean, I'll I'll on Mondays I go play chess with this guy

4:18 and so it means I park on Main Street and I get out. Is this in the park? No. I park on Main Street. No. I know you've you've parked the car. Yeah. But I'm saying, is it in the park outside? No. Is a black guy an old black guy? No.

4:33 It's inside a Java ranch,

4:35 you know, your favorite Java ranch. It's with Willie. That's why I play with Willie.

4:40 And he was not a black guy.

4:42 And

4:44 but just walk so I have to I have to cross two streets,

4:47 two traffic lights,

4:49 and all you see is people walking with their phones, looking at their phones.

4:53 It's everywhere. It's rampant. And we've kinda gotten used to it. It's a national security issue. And, yes, if it is the anti but is it only the iPhone or is Android also the antichrist?

5:04 Well, yeah, obviously, it's the smartphone in general. Yeah.

5:08 Because there I see people looking at

5:11 the the they're they all

5:12 operate the same people are looking at, and they're carrying it's the same, you know no. It it's all the phones. All the smartphones.

5:20 And what are we gonna do with it? Everything but a flip phone. And

5:23 I'm not even so sure about that. Yeah. Well, you know, I had to give up on the flip phone because they made it impossible to communicate. If you don't have RCS,

5:32 then you can't communicate

5:33 with the antichrist people on the,

5:36 on the iPhone.

5:39 Yeah. But there's it's not people communicating with each other so much as they're just

5:44 Well, no. I chilling time. No. I understand what you're saying. But if you have a flip phone, it used to be doable when everything was still kind of over,

5:54 SMS or,

5:56 you know

5:58 it's like you had MMS. Remember this protocol? Yeah. MMS. So someone will send out a video to me and it comes in like,

6:08 you know, like a little postage stamp because you can't see that because everyone's doing it over IP. All the iPhones and the iPhones got connected to the to the Android with RCS

6:19 and, you know, it was really Apple that screwed all this up.

6:23 They had their own little protocol

6:26 and then, you know, you couldn't participate. You can't be in a text group anymore.

6:30 If and if it actually worked, then people yell at you, who's the green bubble? Who's the green bubble?

6:35 Who's ruining my who's ruining my text group?

6:39 Yeah. That's me now.

6:41 Anyway

6:41 so

6:42 how's that voting going in California?

6:45 Oh, do have a clip.

6:47 Oh, please.

6:48 What's your clip? Yeah. We got Stella, one of our podcast friends, Stella, the Stella show. Yes.

6:54 Talks about the Cal voting situation.

6:56 US attorney Bill Assassi says his office

6:59 has multiple election fraud investigations now underway in coordination with the FBI

7:04 as California officials are still counting the ballots from this week's primary. It could go on for weeks and weeks and weeks. What is your reaction to this? Because I know you're following it very closely. I mean, this is your lane. This is what you do. It is about time that all eyes are on California's

7:20 election process,

7:22 and we're looking at thirty seven days to get counted

7:25 for our mail in ballots. And it's just about time, and I'm really appreciative

7:29 of Bill Assassi. You know, he was a former assembly member, and he has always done everything he could to possibly bring some course correction to our state. It's it's incredible. You know, I ran for state assembly, and so I looked at our voter rolls. People were were registered to vote in empty parking lots and old houses and buildings. It's about time that we start cleaning this mess up because we deserve to be represented. And, you know, California is such a beautiful state, but we've got we've got a problem. So there's a fighting chance right now where Voting infrastructure that the Democrats and Gavin has created here allows for this. We have every single Californian, and even Californians who have left the state are getting mail in ballots. You can register same day and get a provisional ballot. It is incredible that there's no voter ID. We're seeing helicopters

8:16 bringing in ballots. Why is this even happening? Gavin and actually had the nerve to go on Really? To his public platform That's great. Pass s b 73 saying that the, signatures on mail in ballots no longer have to be verified.

8:30 So, you know, what exactly does that do? That enables cheaters to happen.

8:35 So they're really bringing in ballots with helicopters?

8:38 Yeah. There was a bunch That's of choppers coming in great. Dropping off

8:42 dropping off ballots by the truckload. Talk about an airdrop. Well, since you played Stella, let me play State of Daniel. This, this one of our podcast friends. Last night, there was a drop of about Who's not gay. 24,000

8:55 ballots, and Spencer Pratt did not get a single one. Let's take a look at the results over here. So last night, you can see before the drop, it was three hundred eight eight hundred seventy eight thousand. After the drop, three hundred thirty three seven hundred twelve thousand. And as you can see, Spencer Pratt did not gain a single vote. He still had before and after the drop, 86,323.

9:14 Meanwhile,

9:15 all of the other,

9:17 contenders here, all of the other candidates did gain vote totals. What are the odds of that? That, quite frankly, is impossible. By the way, when that 24,000

9:25 vote drop came in, there were also drops that included,

9:29 the the votes for governor.

9:32 What are the odds here that even Steve Hilton would be gaining votes overnight, but none for Spencer Pratt? Are are people not voting down the ticket? Are they just voting for governor and they're not voting for LA's mayoral race? I I get that there are many people voting for governor who would not be able to vote in this mayoral race. Like, obviously, if you live in the northernmost part of California,

9:53 you would not be eligible to vote for LA's mayor, but you're telling me that not a single person who cast the ballot in those 24,000 votes in LA Not a single one. Voted for mayor, but they voted for governor? All of this just does not make sense. That's almost like

10:09 the election where you saw the counts go down live on TV. I mean, that was great. That was fantastic. Somehow negative votes for Trump during that Biden admit election. Let's move from our, podcast crew to Ms. Now. President Trump is sticking with the playbook, election denial. The president hopped on truth social as he does on most nights to claim without a I like the election denial.

10:33 Then said Democrats were, quote, trying to steal the primaries for California governor and LA mayor. He offered surprise surprise, no facts to support No facts. No evidence. Claim pointing only to a Claim. Predictably slow counting process

10:47 in a state Wait a minute. Is this no. Let me ask you a question. You're in California. You are the you're the man on the scene, boots on the ground. I'm the boots on the ground. California.

10:56 Is is this predictable, this slow counting process? Is this something that always happens with California?

11:02 It's been getting progressively

11:04 worse,

11:05 ever since new Newsome got in office. It never used to be this way. In fact, there was a couple of memes floating around showing them, you know,

11:14 finishing the the the vote count within two or three days of the election,

11:20 and that's been stretching and stretching, largely due to the fact that

11:25 Newsom decided to

11:27 Newsom and the you know, you can't just blame Newsom. It's also the state legislature. They're the ones who create the bull crop.

11:34 And they

11:37 decided to send everybody, whether you ask for you don't have to ask for absentee ballots. Years ago,

11:42 if you wanted to vote by mail,

11:44 you had to request

11:46 Yeah. Yeah. You had to request it. You get a package. Yeah. Yeah. A package.

11:50 You got a package. If signed this package and sent the package back Yeah. Then they send you an absentee ballot. Right. No. Everybody

11:58 gets an absentee ballot. We continue. Poor his claim, pointing only to a predictably slow counting process

12:05 in a state with a huge volume of mail in voters,

12:09 which has always been the case and he has always known. After all, he's now been in politics

12:15 for more than twelve years. Joining us, former Democratic congressman for New York and senior adviser for VoteVets Max Rose, James Sample, still with us as well. Hello. Alright. So Alright. I mean Is this Katie Turk? Turk? Yes. Turk. It's gotta be it sounds like she's so snide.

12:31 Yeah. Well, that's what you do. Very slowly, Max. Very slowly. Very slowly. Very slowly.

12:37 Much how much It's always been the case. Oh, what? I got a boots on the ground here that says that's not true. They do count very slowly, Max. Very slowly.

12:45 But this has always been the case. How much how much traction does he get

12:49 on an accusation like that? This is what Donald Trump always does. Yeah. It's it's Right. It's kinda tiresome, it

12:57 it's it's horrifying because

13:00 Horrifying.

13:01 Think, really, the Democratic Party has turned Woah. Woah. Woah. I'm so tired of these people saying Democratic Party.

13:09 We really have to keep calling this out because it's it just it makes it sound like, oh, they're they're Democratic, but they're not Democrat Party. Come on, dude. Amidst the I think, really, the Democratic party has turned itself in the right direction in terms of its willingness

13:25 to go on the offense.

13:27 Its willingness to really use the power disposal.

13:30 It's been a change, right direction.

13:33 On this front though, still think it's a blind spot. That somehow there's this thing about Donald Trump where we're like, you know, yeah, 2020

13:40 did the steal January 6, the whole thing. That won't happen again.

13:44 There's zero doubt in my mind

13:48 that will be using this language and attempting to use the powers at his disposal for this So he said he said they're under investigation.

13:56 The California vote process is under investigation.

14:00 Under investigation. Should we take him at his word that it's under investigation and that something might be happening at DOJ?

14:06 We should take him at his word that he wants there to be an investigation, and we should take him at his word that what he wants from DOJ, he typically gets. Yes. Of course. He gets that. Now Wait. Wait. Wait.

14:17 We should take him at his word that he wants there to be an investigation.

14:22 When did he say he wanted

14:24 what what would that that's not his words. No.

14:28 But Well, how can we take him at his words when they misquote him? This whole station is set up to defend the Democrat party.

14:36 I mean, we know this. That's not The station is pathetic.

14:39 Well,

14:40 so this morning on Face

14:44 the Press, Spank the Press, Meet the Press, Meet the Press.

14:48 Spank the press. That would be a great show.

14:52 Wouldn't that though? Can you imagine? Who would host well, Manhans Welker is hosting meet the press. Well, she'd be perfect.

15:00 She's got the hands for it.

15:03 Have her spanking the press.

15:05 So she was in Wisconsin interviewing the president and things did not go well for her. Just to be very clear, there's no evidence of what you're saying. No evidence. No evidence. No evidence. There's a lot of evidence. Todd Blanche. Now Listen listen to me. Listen to me. Let's talk about

15:20 evidence. There's nothing but evidence.

15:22 Election was rigged.

15:24 It was a dirty election. Mister president? Again right now in happening. California.

15:28 It's in the twenty twenty election.

15:31 Right. Right now, it's look at look at what's happening in California. To that. It's The Republicans are doing well in California.

15:38 It's no. They're not. They're they're dropping fast because it's a rigged election. Let me tell you. It's four days,

15:44 and they aren't even close to coming up with That's how they cast votes they're out. Cheating on the election. There's what? Do you have evidence It's to support to do is look. All I have to do is look. And I listen and I listen to people, and let's see what happens. But, sir, that's not evidence. Do you think it's appropriate? That's how they count the votes. Do you think it's appropriate that they have an election, and five days later, they're nowhere close to picking a

16:08 officials acknowledge they are slow. They're urging No. They're crooked. They they're urging the votes to be counted quickly. That's how they vote

16:15 like you're crooked. Your press is crooked. Oh, here we go. You're crooked. Oh, here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Urging No. They're crooked. They they're urging the votes be counted quick. That's how they vote in in cruel front appointments. Like you're crooked. Your press is crooked, and meet the press is crooked. To be fair, I'm not crooked. But let's Really? See. Well, you play right into their hands. Just to be fair, mister president, I'm not crooked. To be fair, I'm not crooked. To be just to be fair now let's be fair now. I'm not crooked, mister president. That is that is a great Isn't that great? To be fair, I'm not crooked. But let's Really? Well, you play right into their hands then. Let's continue. You're either crooked or you're stupid. You play right into their hands with this rep. You know

16:53 that these elections are rigged. Your network knows that they're rigged. You know that I won an election in a landslide,

17:02 and I got 94%

17:04 bad press. But, mister president You know why I got that? Presented. Because you have no credibility.

17:08 But you've never presented evidence since '60.

17:11 What? Hold on. Let her finish this one. Mistake he made. What did he say? He says he says,

17:17 I got a 94%

17:19 of

17:20 I don't know. Whatever. He's promoting himself. He says and then no. You know, he got 94% bad press after being a winning in a landslide as he calls it. Not 93.

17:30 Yeah. And he says he says, why?

17:33 Because you they have no credibility. No. No. He was he was on the crooked

17:38 theme Yeah. Exactly. Pounding home crooked Yes. And then he switches it to credibility. Yes. That was a blunder. Well, he'll he's about to rectify it. Elections are rigged.

17:48 Your network knows that they're rigged. You know that I won an election in a landslide,

17:54 and I got 94%

17:56 bad press. But, mister president, you've never presented Because you have no credibility.

18:01 But you've never presented evidence that it was rigged. Let's keep talking about I wanna talk about Todd's You have more evidence. There's more evidence than ever presented.

18:09 Let's talk about elections in this country. We're like a third world country. Sir Your elections are crooked, and you're crooked. At least the press is crooked, so is ABC

18:19 and CBS

18:20 and CNN. But mister president Your one-sided crooked network. So let's call it quits because I've had enough. Thank you, darling. Have a good day. Mister president. And he walks off the set.

18:31 And then this is the best part.

18:33 So

18:34 the you know, there's Welker What? Standing

18:38 Now I didn't get to see this because it was, you know, past my bedtime. I was I just Yeah. It's okay. I was still getting up. Yeah.

18:45 I understood he the whole thing was fifty minutes.

18:49 Oh, yeah. It was yeah. Oh, yeah. It wasn't like he just walked in and walked off. No. I didn't say that.

18:54 No. I know I know you didn't say it, but it sounds like there there sounds like it the way it it comes across Well, it's the that he walked off foot.

19:03 Minutes. How much time is he supposed to be there? Yeah. I mean, I'm I'm playing a clip, but the point is

19:08 he says, okay, we're done.

19:10 He pulls off the mic, gets up, thanks, darling, you're crooked.

19:14 And then Welker is her eyes are bugging out of her head. She's, like, looking at the producer, looking at the crew, like, what what just happened Now, is this the one that aired?

19:23 This is what aired. Yeah. Because I know they put a transcript and they I guess they posted

19:29 a secondary

19:30 complete interview

19:32 Well somewhere. So at the end,

19:35 they come back to her in the studio

19:37 and here's what she says. President, let's please travel all the way to Wisconsin. Is actually the travel. This is how it went on air. Travel all the way to Wisconsin. On and off in the rain and I've given you enough time. You Do you hear what he says? I've given you an hour. He says this.

19:53 All I know. I travel all the way to Wisconsin.

19:57 On and off in the rain, and I've given you enough time. You ought to straighten out your press because you know what? Mister president A country can never be great with a dishonest Listen. We traveled all the way to Wisconsin

20:08 for this interview. Yep. There goes the microphone.

20:11 Now they switch back to the studio, and here's her tag.

20:15 I spoke with president Trump on Saturday, and we both acknowledged the complications during the interview posed by the rain. He agreed to sit down with me for another meet the press interview.

20:27 It's because of the rain,

20:29 I see. Okay. Well, there was some talk about the rain. Yeah.

20:34 Yeah. They were in a barn with a tin roof. Yeah. With with a tractor in the background and With a tractor back there, and it was raining, and it they had to cut it a number of times in in an they had to stop the interview a number of times supposedly according to the reports I The whole thing was crazy.

20:53 The whole thing was crazy. Now there was some there's some

20:57 there's a,

20:58 Supreme Court case

21:01 that may stop some of these ballots. I have a this is back to Mnemez Mnemez now. Tell me about Scodus and mail in ballots. Well, so there's a pending I mean, California, we're tracking the mail in vote. We're tracking how long it takes them to count. California

21:14 is one of the states that allows for a grace period for ballots that are postmarked by election day, but arrive

21:20 for a It's not just about that goes right into a a post box. You have to get it posted and and, like, and signed off on, certified essentially Right. By somebody at the post office. Right. Just just as when you mail your taxes, you can mail them out on April 15 at 11:00 at night if you can get to a post office and make sure you get that postmark. The the IRS isn't going to reject your money, but there are there is a movement afoot to reject votes that would meet that same standard. And the supreme court has a case pending before it right now called Watson versus Republican National Committee that has not yet been decided. And at oral argument, there were essentially three groups of three. There are three votes that were a little bit hard to read based on oral argument. There are clearly three votes to end this practice

22:03 by this to have the supreme court in this practice. There may be five votes to end the practice. Retroactive? Would not be retro. There's no way you could make it retroactive. Certainly not for California. Could it work for November if anything? Conceivably.

22:14 That would be a massive change. There's a principle called the Purcell principle, which says we shouldn't interfere. But realistically Alabama. Right. Realistically,

22:24 this supreme court applies that principle when it's convenient for this supreme court to apply that principle for its partisan entity. No. Okay. Well, we'll see where that goes.

22:33 Nowhere. There was a see, this is a was an interesting,

22:37 commentary on KTLA

22:39 about why

22:40 why they are, taking so much time. Tonight, election fraud investigations

22:45 underway in LA as some, including Republican candidate for governor Steve Hilton, expressed their frustration

22:52 that final results of Tuesday's primary election could be weeks away. This is an absolute

22:59 shambles, a humiliation

23:01 for California.

23:02 It is making our state a laughing stock here in America. President Trump without releasing any evidence accusing Democrats of quote No evidence.

23:11 Americans are ashamed of what is happening.

23:14 US attorney Bill

23:16 announcing his office is coordinating with the FBI in multiple investigation,

23:21 but political experts say there is nothing to indicate widespread election fraud, and the delay is expected because of California's mail in ballot process.

23:31 It's nothing fraudulent.

23:33 It's nothing untoward.

23:35 The reason it's taking a long time is that the people counting the ballots take their time matching

23:41 signatures. Oh, that's it.

23:44 Matching signatures.

23:46 Please.

23:47 But s

23:48 b 25, they mentioned in the Stella podcast,

23:52 says you don't have to do that anymore. So according to,

23:56 the bill, SB20

23:58 70 I'm sorry. SB75 that Newsom signed says you don't have to match the signatures.

24:03 So what's what how does this come into play? Well, they're lying.

24:07 You know, somebody's lying. Yeah. Well,

24:11 for sure, we will not see, what Xavier

24:15 Becerra?

24:15 He's the guy now leading?

24:18 Yeah. Wasn't he health and didn't didn't we laugh him out of town when he was at Health and Human Services? Now he's Yeah. He's the front runner? He's the front runner in California? I think he wasn't he he the one that was impeached too, I think? It might it might have been. Oh, let's let's ask the robot. Yeah. Look it up. That's a good one. Book of Knowledge. Was Javier

24:37 Viscera

24:38 impeached,

24:39 when he was in HHS?

24:41 Let's see. I think you're right.

24:44 Well, one of them was. I I think it was him. It could have been it could have been

24:50 well, it's taking a long time to figure it out. According to the Book of Knowledge,

24:55 Becerra served as the twenty fifth United States secretary of health health and human services under president Joe Biden from 2021

25:03 to 02/1955,

25:06 but no impeachment proceedings occurred during his tenure. It was the Different guy. Homeland Security guy that was impeached. Oh,

25:13 yeah. You're right. Different brown guy.

25:16 Yeah. Buzzkill was a do nothing do nothing guy. Do nothing guy. He he oversaw the vax and yeah. What isn't he a pharma guy?

25:25 Yeah. He's a big pharma. He's a big business guy. Yeah. The advantage that he has

25:29 or the the only good news for him is that he's like pro refinery.

25:34 And

25:35 Well, he's pro oil.

25:37 He's pro oil. He's

25:39 big oil. Chevron has paid financed his campaign. What? The Jews haven't done it?

25:44 Well, no. The Jews I think the Jews wanted Steyr.

25:48 So

25:49 Steyr's

25:50 out.

25:51 Oh, of course. The

25:53 How could they fail? Nobody likes Steyer. Steyer's a creep. Yeah. But how could he fail? I mean, he had all the money. I'm sure he had APAC.

26:02 And how can it fail? I don't understand.

26:04 People always tell me. Yeah. If you got all the money, then you win. You should also mention the fact that I I was watching one of these old clips and Hillary

26:12 had twice as much money as Trump in 2016.

26:15 How come she didn't win?

26:17 I'm just saying.

26:18 Twice as much. Anomaly.

26:20 So,

26:22 we were pretty much correct about Pulte.

26:26 The now is Pulte the Yeah. Guy I well, yeah, was probably more you than me in this one. Is is he the guy from the big construction company? Is that is that this Pulte? Isn't there a Pulte Construction?

26:37 I don't know if it's the same guy or not, but he's definitely got nothing to do with intelligence. I think it's one of these things. I think Trump does this a lot.

26:46 Gonna put you up for this. You're gonna be able to say, you're gonna put in your bio that you were nominated.

26:52 Your wife's gonna like it. Everybody's gonna think you're great, but you're not gonna get it. Well, the theory goes a little deeper. Let's listen first to, CBS. Now we're taking you to Washington where acting attorney general Todd Blanche has just confirmed that a controversial

27:07 $1,800,000,000

27:08 payout fund for Trump allies has now been totally canceled. Canceled. In the meantime, there's new controversy over the president's decision

27:16 to name a close ally as acting director of national intelligence.

27:20 Zhang is at the White House with the latest on this. Weisha, good morning to you. What's the issue? Good morning, Gail. Good morning, everybody. President Trump passed over other high ranking intelligence officials

27:31 and appointed Bill Paltz, the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, to also be the acting director of national intelligence.

27:39 When we asked the White House about why Pulte was picked for the role, they only said he would do a great job. President Trump named Bill Pulte to oversee 18 intelligence agencies and organizations,

27:52 touting his, quote, deep experience managing the most sensitive matters in America.

27:58 But even some Republicans were quick to point out those sensitive matters don't include national security.

28:04 No evidence of any qualifications for that job. No evidence. The director of national intelligence position was created after nine eleven to coordinate communication

28:14 for the intelligence community.

28:16 Pulte currently runs an agency that regulates

28:19 home loans. I don't know of any national security experience he has. Doctor Mehmet Oz, who led Tuesday's White House press briefing Good afternoon, everybody. Said he didn't know anything about Pulte's situation,

28:31 but added I do trust the president's judgment. He is a very sharp,

28:37 quick and quick study.

28:38 I love the, CBS does this a lot. They're doing very, very short,

28:43 quotes from everybody.

28:45 Just popping it. It's I mean, I have to say,

28:47 it's fast,

28:49 but it's all you know, it's either a nat pop or it's gonna be a quote of, you know, there's no evidence she has any experience. And and he is the home builder. It is the Pulte home builder according to the Okay. That makes sense because he'd be FHA guy. Sure. Yeah. Of course. Here's second clip. Pulte also earned the president's praise Praise. For pushing prosecutions of the president's perceived political opponents.

29:09 Like California

29:10 Perceived political

29:11 opponents. This is great. Senator Adam Schiff, New York attorney general That's that's not perceived. That's a political opponent. Tisha James and Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook for alleged mortgage fraud. We refer people who are Democrats, Republicans. It doesn't matter. Congress does Boom. You see how they're doing that? Blah blah blah blah blah. Boom. Have a role in confirming acting cabinet level officials like Pote or acting attorney general Todd Blanche. The reasons for the fund is something that president Trump talked about for a long time. Blanche faced fierce Yeah. Backlash even after the justice department dropped plans to set up a proposed one point Which is really

29:48 inherently dishonest.

29:50 Was yeah. But but the way they're doing it, I have to I like it because it keeps the pace and flow going like crazy. Yeah. It's also it's augmenting.

29:59 It's not confirming. In other words, they don't say something and then the guy says the same thing. No. Exactly. Blanche faced fierce backlash even after the justice department dropped plans to set up a proposed $1,800,000,000

30:13 fund

30:13 to pay people who feel they were victims of government weaponization.

30:17 But we are not moving forward with the fund, period. Proof. A federal judge ruled to temporarily block the fund until next month, but Blanche says even after that date, the administration will not try to Okay. So now we go to, the president himself. It's an acting position. It's not a permanent. He's not gonna be permanent because, you know, I don't think he'd wanna be permanent.

30:37 But he's a very smart guy, and he may find out some things about the rigged elections, etcetera, etcetera. I think he'd like to do it. I'd like to I think he wants to do it very much, get a lot of energy.

30:49 But Okay. He'll be very good. A lot of energy. Again, it's not a permanent position. We're looking at, we're interviewing people right now, but it's somebody just to take it over for a little while. Does he have any in your view, mister president, the necessary national security experience to take on that position? Well, I do. And I think he does actually because he's smart.

31:07 He's smart. National security experience. Yeah. He's smart. So what we deconstructed

31:13 is that this what he's doing here is getting a guy

31:16 bull in a china shop. Look

31:19 at this. Look at this. Look at this. Look at this. And there's a guy behind him, which is the same guy who was behind Tulsi,

31:26 and that's the guy. He said, okay. Here's Bill Pulte. He's gonna be the acting director

31:31 of national intelligence,

31:34 which has them completely

31:36 in a conniption fit. Why?

31:39 Because Polti is like a bull in a china shop.

31:42 And my friend,

31:44 the NSA veteran,

31:46 Kirk Wiebe

31:47 once told me, I asked him the question,

31:50 how would you go about reforming the deep state? What would you do? And he said,

31:55 you need someone with a chainsaw, a weed whacker,

31:58 who's willing to go in there and just

32:01 tear everything down. And then you need somebody from the intelligence community who actually knows how to direct the weed whacker to where he's got to go. So Tolce Gabbler did that in the first term, Pulte is

32:15 basically capable of doing that. He's got Tulsi Gabbler's chief assistant,

32:20 Aaron Lucas,

32:22 who is the deputy DNI under Tulsi,

32:25 to show him exactly where to go.

32:28 And people like Mark Warner,

32:30 the senator who was probably most responsible

32:33 for

32:34 Russiagate,

32:35 is completely flipping out. He says, this guy's gonna have access to every classified secret in The United States.

32:43 What does that mean? In his interview with Miranda Devine yesterday, Trump hinted at it. He kept coming back over and over again to the rigging of the twenty twenty elections.

32:55 And my bet

32:57 is the way he's seeing Pulte is this is the guy who can prevent the fraud

33:02 coming up in the midterms.

33:05 Alright.

33:06 So

33:07 chainsaw weed whacker. There you go.

33:11 Who is that?

33:12 Who said that?

33:14 Yeah. Who is that that last clip from? Barbara Boyd.

33:17 Is that a Prometheus person? Yes. Old lady. Yep.

33:21 Yep. They have a bunch of them. They only have two of them. They got two. Well, it seems like a bunch to me. Susan and Barbara.

33:29 But, I mean, that's the guy. We the the he's been a spook for twenty years. Of course, he knows where everything is. And you get you get Pulte.

33:37 Yeah. I'm sure the guys are gonna have fun. It well, it's just like demoing This the

33:41 is basically the in the private sector, this is the same act

33:45 that we're seeing with Nick Shirley.

33:47 Oh, do tell.

33:49 There was Nick Shirley's always got some guy. Oh, yeah. Yeah. He has he has Dave.

33:53 Bob.

33:54 Bob or Dave or Fred. There's some guy telling him what to do. Yes. Yes. Exactly right. It's fantastic.

34:01 It's so good bit because you have a front man. Yep. And then when all hell breaks loose and you gotta ax him Mhmm. You just you okay. You're out. Yeah.

34:10 And but meanwhile, the real damage is being done by the second guy there. He's still there. Mhmm. And you bring another front man in, he does the same exact thing. Doesn't make any difference who it is.

34:20 And so the whole thing it reminds me there there used to be

34:25 the guy who ran Computer World and and ITM Oh, here we here we go. Here we go. I'm already loving it. I'm already loving it. Yep. This is one I've not heard. I don't think I've heard this one. You you may I it's possible. I've had told I have told this before because it's a very good story.

34:40 It's not my story. It's a story that everyone knows.

34:43 Pat McGovern used to, run Computer World, Info World,

34:47 all these magazines, and IDG, the publishing companies, they're big in Asia. They're everywhere. And Pat used his gambit. He'd do the same. He'd pull a similar kind of stunt

34:58 to have somebody

34:59 who was a

35:03 like, just a prick

35:05 writing

35:07 nasty By the way, that that's a classic word we need to bring back. Prick is not used often enough because,

35:13 you know, it's a word you can use. It's people aren't offended, but it really explains like a just a nasty Yeah. Beyond a dick. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It's be it's dick it's dick and beyond.

35:24 So this guy so the idea so so he'd create these

35:28 these

35:29 people

35:30 that didn't exist

35:31 and he'd have somebody

35:34 ghostwrite for him. So he had all these different writers

35:37 that would go on and on and on about something or then they slam some

35:42 company and say, these guys are no good. Of course, this maybe there'd be a company that didn't advertise a lot. There's a lot of reasons to do it. Obviously.

35:50 And

35:52 it would get the company all bent out of shape.

35:54 And so McGovern would always go up to the company and say, well, you know,

35:58 you know, if you guys maybe advertise a little bit, went, well, we can advertise it, but that guy right. That guy's gotta go in, and McGovern would always say great. No problem. I'm firing him tomorrow.

36:09 Some guy who didn't exist. A guy who didn't exist.

36:13 That's

36:14 perfect. He's out.

36:16 He's out. That's We're we're with you, buddy. That's great.

36:22 If you think that stuff must still happen at publications, I'm sure. Sure it does. Yeah. So every day everything is like that. You know, when we when we mess up, we're gonna fire our producer.

36:32 Yeah. That guy's gotta go. So this next clip, because we're kinda moving into

36:38 Todd Blanche, everyone is also really upset about because he's the president's

36:42 personal personal lawyers into how many times have we heard this?

36:46 Oh,

36:47 the attorney general's acting like the president's personal lawyer. Now, actually is his personal lawyer

36:52 and they're losing their minds over it. But I caught this on Ms. Now. I I'm obsessed with Ms. Now.

36:58 It's so bad. I'm I'm I must be single handedly raising their ratings through the roof.

37:04 Listen Doubling them. Doubling them. Blanche has been auditioning for this since Bondi was ousted in April.

37:10 Auditioning. Oh, yeah.

37:12 And pushing to go even farther than she would on cases that even if they ultimately lose or overturned

37:18 reflect Trump's demands

37:20 for a partisan

37:22 political revenge oriented

37:24 DOJ.

37:25 The move does follow on what Trump wanted in telegraph. Many are concerned that this obvious

37:32 legal

37:33 conflict will only get worse if he goes from temporary

37:37 to permanent. Remember, it is a scandal and a legal Ari flight of guy that Yeah. That's the rapper. With the set for 06:00 shadow. The guy who does rap lyrics at the end of his show. I remember in the great words

37:50 of of

37:51 q West. Conflict will only get worse if he goes from temporary

37:56 to permanent. Remember. Remember. It is a scandal and a legal breach in and of itself for any president to take someone who was their personal defense attorney, someone who was loyal to them on a personal basis, and say they should also run the DOJ, run the law firm, if you will, Because for the

38:11 throughout the modern history of the DOJ, it was a huge dividing line that it is supposed to be independent.

38:16 That, of course, any president is entitled to? Well, this is a very good question. He says modern history, but let's just go through the history because I did a deep dive.

38:26 Oh, good for you. Let's start with

38:28 number one, George Washington.

38:30 His

38:32 Department of Justice, this is he actually established,

38:36 this is before the, Department of Justice was established. This is 1789.

38:40 Edmund Randolph,

38:42 was his private personal attorney

38:45 managing his extensive personal legal affairs and estates in Virginia,

38:49 and he appointed him as the nation's very first US attorney general.

38:53 Well, there's the precedent has been set. The precedent has been has

38:57 been set. Let's go to Warren g Harding, 1921.

39:03 Harry Dougherty,

39:05 Ohio lawyer who served Harding's personal attorney, close political confidant.

39:09 Upon taking office, Harding appointed Dougherty as attorney general.

39:13 Well, there you have it. That's pretty modern. Now, how about, how about this one? This is my favorite because it's not just the old guys. It's not just the Republicans.

39:22 John f Kennedy

39:24 literally

39:25 appointed his brother,

39:27 Robert f Kennedy There you go. As his brother his brother became attorney general. Yeah. There's no conflict there. That's not crazy.

39:35 Richard Nixon

39:37 appointed John Mitchell,

39:39 and Richard he was, Nixon's law partner at the at their firm.

39:43 Ronald Reagan,

39:45 William French Smith, and Edwin Meese,

39:49 both in the inner circle.

39:52 And, of course, George w Bush with Alberto Gonzales.

39:56 So this is bullcrap.

39:57 There's tons of bullcrap. This is basically a lie

40:01 put on the poor dumb

40:04 viewers of MS Now.

40:07 Low IQ viewers is how we how we call that. Yes. Exactly.

40:12 So this whole thing,

40:14 but,

40:15 you know, it's a it's a new day, it's a new dawn.

40:19 So I guess that's a guess that

40:21 What? Don't know. Okay. I don't know what I'm saying. But, you know you know what I mean.

40:26 Since we're talking about the Department of Justice, I have an interesting little tidbit for you. Yeah. Okay. This is an ask Adam. Oh. Oh. Hold on a second. You surprised me with the ask Adam, but Ask Adam.

40:38 Ask Adam, dear. Alright. Here we go. Ask Adam. What are we doing? So, this is, I want you to listen to this clip, and this is about Heg Seth

40:49 talking about you know, Heg Seth came out with this speech that got all the EU people bent out of shape saying, you guys are You sucked. On d days. It's a d day speech. Yeah. June 6. Yes. We had d day yesterday for it wasn't celebrating The United States at all anymore. Nobody cares.

41:05 22,000

41:06 dead on the beach, but now this Whatever.

41:09 Whatever. Skip it. Yeah. Whatever. Yeah. Whatever. Whatever. Yeah. Okay. So this is ask Adam Hegseth on EU.

41:16 Ask

41:17 hello.

41:19 The US defense secretary, Pete Hechtsov, has criticized European nations for allowing what he described as an invasion of migrants on their shores during a d day anniversary speech in France.

41:30 Speaking in Normandy, he said different European beaches being invaded by dangerous ideologies.

41:36 Sadly,

41:37 today,

41:39 different European

41:40 beaches are stormed by different dangerous

41:43 ideologies.

41:45 Beaches in Spain, in Italy, in Greece,

41:47 Bulgaria,

41:48 boats

41:50 and men arrive.

41:52 When will European capitals do something about that invasion? Migration has become a major political issue across Europe with parties supporting hardline immigration policies

42:03 surging in the polls.

42:16 Alright. What is the question?

42:17 Well, this is a BBC report, and I'm asking you what subtle insult

42:24 to the Trump administration

42:26 was made in that clip?

42:31 You know what? That doesn't come to mind immediately. No. For because you didn't catch it right away. So I'm gonna play a short clip Yes.

42:39 Which is another BBC clip with another presenter

42:43 doing the same insult. The US defense secretary Pete Hegseth has called on European countries to resist what he called an invasion

42:52 of foreign migrants.

42:54 An invasion of for wait. She said countries, which was that that caught caught my ear right away.

43:03 She's the secretary

43:04 of war.

43:05 Oh. The US defense secretary, Pete Hegsner, has called on European countries to resist what he called an invasion

43:13 of foreign migrants. Yeah. Very good. Very good. I I did not pick up on that, which is No. Because it's meant for you not to. They'd Yeah. They're just not giving, you know, an op talk. We don't care what you call it. Yeah. We're gonna call it what we're gonna call it. We're British. You're right.

43:30 It's not the Gulf Of America. I tell you, it's the Gulf Of Mexico.

43:35 So we have

43:36 panic, panic, everybody panic, panic,

43:40 Panic here in Texas.

43:42 New world screwworm.

43:44 The new world screwworm. The

43:46 screwworm worm is back. So Texas Slim

43:50 stayed here overnight.

43:51 He's on his way to

43:55 Baylor White

43:56 Baylor Scott White Hospital.

43:58 He has, like, acute pancreatitis.

44:02 Oh. Not from drinking because he hasn't I don't think he has had a drink in a decade. Do you get it from drinking? It's just something else. And It's like a virus. And so I really want everybody, you know, think of Slim,

44:12 pray for Slim. It's not great.

44:16 And Slim is even slimmer than he was.

44:20 But, you know, this is mister beef intelligence and he's like,

44:23 oh, man, this screwworm. He told me the whole history of the screwworm. He said back in the day,

44:29 you had screwworm. Yeah. We had screwworm

44:31 and you

44:32 dug a trough and you walked all the cows through it and they with poison and they came out the other end and the screwworm was gone. That's what we did with screwworm. He said it was that simple.

44:41 He said, but now

44:43 he says, now there's two things. One, the vaccine's gotta be coming. We gotta have a vaccine for the screwworm.

44:50 And the other one is really

44:52 What's vaccine against a worm? Yeah. Of course. It's ridiculous.

44:56 He says

44:57 it's just to reduce the herd even further. They're gonna wanna cull them. You know, it's all regulatory capture is what he said. I listened to because, you know, Slim is the one who said six years ago, our herd's gonna go down, you have no idea how bad it's gonna get. Now he said to me last night, he said, there's gonna be a famine in within ninety days. It may not be America, it could be Asia.

45:19 This this is a very big problem. And there's a couple of things I caught in this,

45:24 Fox

45:25 Live Now report.

45:27 Does he think this famine is being don't

45:30 change

45:32 so quickly? What what's how what's gonna,

45:35 what's what is the, indicator for a famine and what is the trigger?

45:40 Well, the trigger is stuff like this, where the herd gets reduced to where I mean, all

45:45 have you been to a restaurant lately and and ordered a a rib eye?

45:49 I mean, you're talking $80.90 bucks. Thousand dollars. Yeah. There's literally

45:54 in Austin at what is that place called? Three Forks, Five Forks, I don't know, Fork and Spoon.

46:00 It's a fancy restaurant.

46:02 Do you get one of those

46:04 flinstone rib eyes? What is it called? What's the big one called?

46:08 You know, the huge one? Yeah. Bone in. Yeah. No. No. But big, like you you eat it with three people.

46:14 Oh, a a a double a double cut. No. No. No. No. No. No.

46:19 A high a high tower. No. What is that thing called? Low pockets. No.

46:24 What is that? Come on. There's a name for it. It's a tomahawk.

46:27 The jumbo A tomahawk. The tomahawk. Yeah. Go they sell them at Costco. Those things are great. How much do you think they charge for it at the fancy restaurant in Austin?

46:36 And you can three people can eat. You could do four if you really wanted to,

46:41 but you and I could probably devour one ourselves. Oh, well, maybe not. You need three people. What is the price do you think in the fancy Austin restaurant for a jumbo tomahawk rib eye?

46:51 A jumbo tomahawk rib eye at a fancy Austin,

46:55 which is overpriced.

46:56 This is New York prices Yep. For some unknown reason,

47:00 I would say $95.

47:02 $875?

47:04 No. Yes.

47:07 Yes. Dude, I I was in

47:10 what? Yes. I was in Nashville

47:12 and one little stupid rib eye a $110.

47:16 We we didn't eat it, by the way. We didn't go to the restaurant.

47:19 A $110

47:20 for just a little little rib eye.

47:23 No. No. It's out of control. Let's back this up. $895

47:28 for a 75. $8.75.

47:30 $8.75.

47:31 The Tomahawk,

47:32 which you can buy at Costco, by the way, for about

47:35 $50

47:35 maybe? 40? No. I don't think it's that much. It's probably less. Like

47:40 30.

47:42 No. That's that's a good that's best price.

47:45 So but this is what's happening.

47:48 And I'm sure that it you know, it's a whole there's a whole bunch of things that come into this. Well, well, hold on a second.

47:56 There there this doesn't cost them you know, what are they marking the thing up at and why? Well, the thing that Slim told me And does any old maybe they don't have it and it's just bull crap. No.

48:07 I'm going back to what he said five, six years ago. He says, mark my words.

48:12 He says, beef, Texas beef will be sold as caviar. You remember that? You're saying it's gonna be Vaguely. Like caviar.

48:19 And that's what's happening. And as a little aside, we don't get most of this beef. Most of this beef is going to the rich Chinese

48:27 and the Japanese and it's all going overseas.

48:30 We're not even eating Texas beef, which brings me to this report. First, about the scary screwworm.

48:36 So first of all, let's just break down what exactly this new world screwworm is and the threat that it poses to livestock.

48:43 Yeah. So, like you said earlier, it is a fly, and it's a parasitic blowfly,

48:47 and it lays eggs on wounds of animals or any type of opening or orifice that it has access to, and then those larva will hatch off and start eating on the flesh of that animal. And when it eats this flesh, I I mean, like, does it just eat away at the whole animal?

49:04 Well, I mean, since it's fly larvae, is a little tough for them to eat and consume an entire animal, but they will feed on it and make wounds very

49:12 grotesque in a sense. And and what really ends up happening is the animal doesn't survive these infestations.

49:19 So normally, the animal will pass before

49:21 full consumption

49:23 by the larvae, but the impact is severe why they're there and why they're feeding. Okay. So now this is

49:30 I think it's Laredo

49:31 where this happened. They've got a twelve twelve mile radius

49:35 of the zone.

49:37 And and this the worm doesn't fly. Okay? It doesn't like jump fly around. I'm gonna go I'm gonna go hit hill country. I'm gonna go over here. No. It doesn't you have to have contact, pretty much contact with the other animal to get that. But now listen to this piece. Unfortunately,

49:54 it began moving out of South America through Central America and up into Mexico

49:58 a couple years ago. Right? We've been watching it since 2002

50:02 '22 or 2023.

50:04 But most of that movement is due to moving of animals that were infested with these larvae.

50:11 And when you move those animals without treating them ahead of time, it can lead to further infestations in other areas. So what's wrong with this picture?

50:20 It comes from animals that were moved up from Mexico and South America. This is beef country.

50:26 That's not a Texas cow.

50:29 They're move they're moving. We're eating the crap. That's what's going on. You go to the supermarket, HEB,

50:36 you're eating South American crap that has been touched by lord knows how many hands, what they've injected into these animals to get them here. And our beef,

50:45 the big Flintstone stuff, that's going overseas.

50:48 This is not even our beef.

50:50 Why are why are we driving cattle up through Texas?

50:53 We got cattle.

50:55 Now, it doesn't matter because we need to reduce the herd. They're probably, oh, you gotta cull them or shoot them up, which will make them inedible and make them die eventually as well.

51:05 So how do what do you do? So that way, they would let's back up. So in this in the olden days, they would just run them through a bath and that would be the end of it? Yep. A poison bath, which you do which you can do with dogs too. Mhmm.

51:19 You know, it's kind of bass that are got malathion in them or whatever it is. Yeah.

51:25 What what's wrong with that process? No. The there's no more knowledge. It's all, you know, it's

51:32 all

51:34 rules and regulations that have been written over decades.

51:39 And, you know No. It's regulations. It's these regulations. These regulators come in. No. You can't do that.

51:44 It's toxic.

51:46 Yeah. It gets into the groundwater.

51:48 Exactly.

51:50 And maybe Brooke Rollins, I think that's her name, our ag secretary, maybe she'll figure this out. But

51:57 the media, and this is Fox,

51:59 they still wanna scare you, they wanna scare the bejesus out of you. Now how do we scare Americans?

52:05 What's the best way?

52:08 You're gonna die. No.

52:12 Even worse than you dying.

52:15 Your children are gonna die. No. Worse than the kids.

52:19 I don't know. Your dog. Let's talk about pets. There are a lot of dog owners out there, a lot of cat owners out there. Do they need to be worried? Can this impact their pets?

52:28 Definitely.

52:29 Especially if you're in an area Definitely. If you know, I don't know if we have anybody listening from outside The United States, but if you're in an area, you definitely need to be concerned if the screwworms have returned in that area. And in that area of Texas right now, we do wanna watch our pets. We wanna look at them just as much as we would our livestock because, yes, they will infest

52:47 animals.

52:48 Dogs seem to be high on the list right now out of Mexico, not as high as cattle,

52:52 but still over 5,000 have been, identified as having infestations, and that's a large number. Is this,

52:58 does it pose a threat to humans?

53:01 Yes. Even humans have to be concerned. Is rare in humans, and even rarer in birds. We get asked a lot about that too.

53:08 Right now, it's like a one percent or so or less of the population

53:12 of of the cases they've recorded that impact humans, but we still we want humans to be aware it is a possibility.

53:19 I wouldn't put high on your list, but we still want them to realize that it is

53:24 it can happen. Right? And we've had cases of it over the last several decades of travelers going to places where they still can get into where they still find new world screwworms and then coming back to The United States with infestations. Infestations. Yeah. You should still be worried no matter what you say. Be worried. Be worried. You wanna hear the CBS version of this and we'll close it out?

53:45 Yeah. And I'd be very interested to see if they use the the Nat Pop style of

53:50 of analysis.

53:51 We've been holding off the fly

53:54 for years

53:55 from Panama. Scientists developed a way in the sixties

53:59 to breed sterile screwworm flies.

54:02 Then when they would drop them out of airplanes by the millions,

54:06 the flies out in the wild were unable to reproduce. Using that strategy, they pushed this fly south

54:13 out of The United States,

54:15 out of Mexico,

54:16 all the way down through Central America using that exact same strategy. During the pandemic,

54:21 there were some breakdowns in the process and in surveillance. Oh. There was additional movement of people and animals to the North. People? The fly. What? The people with screwworm? Come on. Screwworms

54:32 started to spread again. And I rubbed against the cow, and the cow got my screwworm. Once that became evident, The US started devoting more resources to try and stop it.

54:42 They started to prepare

54:45 Mexico to breed more sterile flies.

54:48 They prepared an old base in the South US to be able to receive sterile flies and drop them again. And right now, the work is ongoing to try to breed sterile flies again

54:58 in The US. That in itself is significant. Researchers have told me that the flies considered to be so dangerous, they can't even get their hands on live samples. They've had to go south to Panama

55:08 to study them.

55:09 Big thing No.

55:11 This is it. This is bogus.

55:13 So do you know who got money to do this? You you this is gonna kill you.

55:18 What company in America amongst many others

55:21 got money

55:22 to do the sterile fly, the sterile mosquito,

55:26 the sterile ticks?

55:29 Bill Gates.

55:30 Now, we already know he he does. No. Google.

55:34 Google. Google? Google. Yes. Oh, yeah. No. You know what? I did know this because I saw this run past the the wire. Yep.

55:41 Google.

55:43 Yeah. Google. That how does how does that even work? Take Tesla.

55:47 Go yeah. Right? And why don't you go make your AI better,

55:51 Google? If

55:53 these flies impact the ability of ranchers to

55:57 have calves, they have to limit the seasons because they can't have calves in the warm season when the fly is active.

56:04 This is bad. Has to impact how much they're able to rebuild their herds. There you go. It impacts the ability of wildlife

56:11 to survive. And, yes, in some cases,

56:13 they could impact pets and people. There's been surveillance

56:17 ongoing for months and months and months.

56:19 State and federal agencies have been training on where to watch for the fly, how to trap it, how to recognize it. Trap it. They have been developing therapeutics

56:28 and appointments and

56:30 treatments Therapeutic. In the hope that once it was here,

56:33 they could get on it right away.

56:36 But now it is here. Melathaya.

56:37 Well across the border. It's about a 100 miles Southwest

56:41 of San Antonio,

56:42 and the battle is now not just something that

56:46 scientists

56:47 are expecting to happen. It is here. It's here. San Antonio. Like, I could have screwworm at any moment. You could. You probably do. I I was wondering about that itch. I got the screwworm.

57:00 This is

57:01 yeah. This is bad.

57:02 And

57:04 okay. We'll see. We'll see what Brooke Brooke does.

57:08 Nothing.

57:09 I'm afraid you're right. I think the whole thing's an op. Well, it is an op. It's an op to collapse

57:14 the the herd even further.

57:16 Yeah. Well, they don't want people eating meat. We had a couple of clips. Then we played that clip where that guy that we gotta poison the public with the alpha gal and

57:25 so people stop eating beef. Well, that's an old Save the planet? Yeah. That is an old clip of that guy saying. I know it's an old clip, but that's what's

57:34 new. Yeah. Yep.

57:36 So

57:37 we're just gonna continue eating our Texas beef. Straight from the rancher, that's where you wanna get it.

57:44 So I got a couple of I have oddball clips today. Okay.

57:49 I would but I would like to get some non oddball clips. It turns out that the the

57:54 Ukraine

57:56 attacked Saint Petersburg

57:59 as we played last Thursday,

58:01 but they did it again on Saturday,

58:03 and everybody's making it sound like this was the first attack when it's obviously not as we report

58:09 or played clips from NTD

58:11 last show.

58:12 And Russia has suffered what it's called an unprecedented

58:15 attack on the city of Saint Petersburg and the surrounding areas. Ukraine fired hundreds of drones at Russian targets early on Saturday, and many of those drones targeted Saint Petersburg itself

58:27 coinciding

58:28 with the final day of a flagship economic forum being held in the city. Moscow and Kyiv have intensified drone strikes on each other in recent months amid US led diplomatic efforts to end the war. But does this latest attack risk escalating the conflict?

58:45 Our correspondent in Kyiv, Vitaly Shechenko,

58:48 told them. Kyiv.

58:49 The Ukrainians are saying that they hit

58:53 a weapons

58:54 storage facility, a navy base,

58:57 and an oil depot

58:59 outside Saint Petersburg.

59:01 Yeah. The Ukrainian president, Rodin Brzezlensky,

59:05 called the attack a just response

59:08 to

59:09 Russia's aggression.

59:10 The Russian authorities say that this was an unprecedented

59:15 strike.

59:16 The

59:16 governor of

59:18 Leningrad region

59:20 said that hundreds of people were evacuated

59:24 from outside a

59:25 military facility

59:27 which

59:28 caught fire.

59:29 So a pretty

59:31 big incident in Saint Petersburg.

59:33 And were there any deaths or any injuries?

59:36 The local authorities

59:37 are sort of vague on that subject. They're talking of a number of people injured.

59:43 They say that damage to

59:46 buildings in the area is insignificant,

59:50 but

59:50 I've seen videos of smoke billowing

59:54 outside in Petersburg,

59:56 and there's one video of

59:58 a a man who appears to be a local resident.

1:00:01 And he says that weapon stores

1:00:04 have caught fire, and you can hear a lot of explosions happening in the background. Were there was there any video with this report? Or would they just say that there's smoke and weapons decodes? BBC World Service, so I didn't get to see any videos. Oh, okay. I don't hear any Nat Pops. I don't hear any explosions. BBC World Service, they don't do that. Should they should if they wanna stay relevant, they need to do NAT pops. Get on board, BBC. Well, you know, they they're still from the old shortwave days, and they know if they did a NAT pop, it'd sound like interference on the on the wireless. BBC World Service.

1:00:35 Yeah. We have no net props. We have a report directly from a guy on the street who said, I I heard some explosives.

1:00:43 That's exactly what it sounds like.

1:00:46 Yeah. Yeah. I I'm I'm a shortwave listener. Alright. I have you can't find anything anymore. On shortwave?

1:00:54 It's pretty hard to come by. And

1:00:57 we you know, they've it's kinda pathetic compared to what what was when you were a kid. Yeah. So let's go and play part two of We had we had

1:01:05 long wave.

1:01:06 You had you had medium wave, which is AM, then you had long wave.

1:01:12 And long wave was what

1:01:14 was

1:01:16 it

1:01:17 what was the thing in Lux Radio Luxembourg.

1:01:20 Yeah. A lot of these stations were long, but it was always called short wave. No. No. You had I mean, receiver was called a shortwave receiver. Yeah. But And it yeah. It had long with it had long w. L w. Yeah. Yeah. Band on there said l w, but you Yes. Yes. That was great.

1:01:35 And you had a switch.

1:01:39 And then oh, now I'm on long wave. Hey. And and you know what you hear?

1:01:43 It's Wolfman Jack and Radio Luxembourg.

1:01:46 Clearly, there's a long wave.

1:01:50 Yeah. You would get a lot of that wave wave,

1:01:53 sound. That's what we grew up with kids. Whooshing. That's what we grew up with. Next, I'll do the modem sound of a dial up. Alright. Here we go. So how did Ukraine manage to get their drones so far into Russian again?

1:02:06 Well, I've spoken to the commander of

1:02:10 one of the Ukrainian

1:02:12 drone units

1:02:13 involved in the strike,

1:02:16 and he basically told me that Russian air defenses were useless.

1:02:21 We take part in many operations in north region of Russia, and

1:02:26 Yeah. It's very interesting that in these days,

1:02:29 it was both operations in St. Petersburg,

1:02:32 and operations in occupied Crimea.

1:02:35 And in both directions, north and south, we fly in Russia like it's our own territory.

1:02:41 Almost no resistance, not hard to reach a target. Hard. Is there a fear, Vitali, that given

1:02:47 the potential humiliation that Russia has suffered in front of its guests? We know that president Putin is holding his economic forum in Saint Petersburg at the moment. Is there a fear about the retaliation now?

1:03:00 Well, for the past months and even years,

1:03:02 the two presidents,

1:03:04 Vladimir Putin of Russia and Vladimir Zelenskyy of Ukraine

1:03:09 they've been accusing

1:03:10 each other of carrying out all sorts of

1:03:14 atrocities and saying well look we have to respond,

1:03:18 but my view is that this is basically

1:03:22 political rhetoric

1:03:23 and the truth is

1:03:25 that all these attacks,

1:03:28 they would be happening anyway

1:03:30 because

1:03:31 for different reasons

1:03:33 Ukraine and Russia are still willing and able to fight.

1:03:39 You know,

1:03:41 they went on forever, by the way. You should thank me for stopping it there. My

1:03:45 view is No. That's the point. That's the way I had to stop it. So this has resulted in a powwow. The French, German, and British leaders will meet their Ukrainian counterpart in London on Sunday.

1:03:58 French president Emmanuel Macron, German chancellor Friedrich Mertz, and UK prime minister, Kirst Hammer, will discuss with Zelensky the way forwards at a time when Russia, in a state of military, economic, and strategic failure,

1:04:11 is persisting unsuccessfully

1:04:14 with a deadly war, the Elysee Palace said.

1:04:17 On Friday, Macron welcomed the letter from Vladimir Zelensky to Vladimir Putin aimed at achieving peace. So he sent a letter.

1:04:25 He sent a letter?

1:04:27 Tirsch letter. Do they really still send letters?

1:04:30 Yeah. Tirsch.

1:04:31 But I mean, seriously, do they like, with a with a big, wax seal on it? I mean, do they really send letters? Well, Trump keeps saying he's waiting for a letter.

1:04:41 From who?

1:04:42 From the Iranians.

1:04:44 Oh, yeah. I know I I got a it's funny you bring that up. I've got a I got a

1:04:51 a clip from Toussi, your guy, Toussi.

1:04:55 Toussi?

1:04:56 Remember Toussi? Toussi?

1:04:57 Toussi, t o u s I. The

1:05:00 the YouTuber guy, the Toussi guy who

1:05:03 we suspect might be a spook, but we're not quite sure.

1:05:06 Oh, yeah. Right. And he does all the Iranian news. And so he shows

1:05:10 all these videos, because you know, the Internet is back open, so the IRGC decided, okay, everybody's got Internet now, we'll turn it back on.

1:05:18 And there's tons of videos of protests, students protesting.

1:05:23 Interesting to watch

1:05:25 because what you don't see is

1:05:28 hijabs. There's no almost no headscarves.

1:05:31 All the girls just got their hair flapping in the wind or tied up in a Yeah. They're they're Persian women. Don't you know, they they actually are attractive.

1:05:39 Very.

1:05:40 Oh, they sometimes they get thick ankles.

1:05:43 Well, you know, it's I'm just saying. It's the food.

1:05:48 That's only when we're auditioning Persian women. Okay? That's the that's the context in which we say this as producers.

1:05:56 So he had a little report, which I figured I'd share. Doing protests against,

1:06:00 the Islamic occupation is quite dangerous

1:06:02 as, you've also seen back

1:06:05 in December and January.

1:06:07 Having said that, the regime is getting weaker every day because, thanks to president Trump and the US military because the president Trump, has not abandoned the mission as you've seen over the last,

1:06:20 couple of months and few weeks. The US military continues their,

1:06:24 operation against the regime in the Strait Of Hormuz. The blockade continues. There have been some clashes, but, of course, the blockade is doing its job,

1:06:31 draining

1:06:32 the resources, draining the finances of the regime, creating uncertainty and infighting inside the regime. And that's why the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, are trying their best to drag the Americans and everybody else and the Arabs into an all out war because it's in the interest of the regime in Iran to have an all out war because at least it will create unity inside the regime and they could just drag this along.

1:06:54 But the The US decided not to take debate and continue to paralyze the regime and they they don't know what to do right now. If the US military had abandoned the mission, if the US military and the US government had abandoned the Iranian people, for example, obviously, the regime right now will be strengthened massively.

1:07:10 But right now, they can't because the US military is not stopping what they are doing, and,

1:07:16 president Trump is also not giving up. And he also he had many opportunities to

1:07:22 sign a deal, give a deal to the Islamic Republic, and just get out of it. He said, no. I'm not getting out of this. And he's rejected every single

1:07:31 deal sent from Tehran.

1:07:33 That July 4 is just around the corner.

1:07:36 You'll guess Now he's gonna have to get it together. Premium was down 20¢ here in Texas.

1:07:44 I thought that was quite a drop, actually. It should be down to nothing. Texas is an oil producing state.

1:07:50 Okay.

1:07:51 Got it. You know, the the oil baron, he's reopening wells they previously capped.

1:07:58 He says there's so much demand right now.

1:08:01 They have 1,500 wells that they capped and they're opening them up again.

1:08:05 He says that right now,

1:08:07 what it used to cost let me see his number. It used to cost $28,000

1:08:13 a day to operate a well, now it's 38,000.

1:08:16 He says, because it's it's hard to get anybody.

1:08:20 So What do you mean get anybody? To work.

1:08:22 People to work. You can't you can't get anybody to work? They they riffed all these people,

1:08:29 you know, reduction in force. And now these people who were rift, they're like, I don't know, man. Pay me some more. I'll come back.

1:08:35 That's how the oil business works. Well, that's the way it should work. Yeah. Yeah. That's it. You you keep your employees or you screw up with them and they're gonna screw with you. Come on. So then NPR

1:08:46 had

1:08:47 had this woman on who wrote a book.

1:08:51 Let's see.

1:08:55 What is her name? Yagane Torbati.

1:08:58 She wrote the book Stolen Revolution,

1:09:01 and she kinda says the same thing that things are kinda groovy in Iran right now. I'm Mary Louise Kelly. That country I was just describing,

1:09:09 it's Iran, or at least Iran at the time of the nineteen seventy nine revolution.

1:09:14 The path from 1979

1:09:16 with the toppling of a monarch through the decades of oppression and economic turmoil that followed

1:09:23 to this current moment is mapped out in the book stolen revolution,

1:09:27 betrayal,

1:09:28 and hope in Modern Iran.

1:09:30 Coauthor and journalist, Yeghina Torbati,

1:09:33 is here to talk to us about it in this special episode of the podcast. Podcast. Spent so much time here these last few months talking about the current war in Iran.

1:09:43 It felt worthwhile to dig deep on Yeghina's reporting on some of forces and people who brought Iran to this moment. Yeghina Torbady, welcome. Thank you so much for having me. Alright. Now listen to her report. You, in that same

1:09:56 story though,

1:09:58 write about a rock concert in Tehran Mhmm. That has just sold out.

1:10:03 Rock concert. You know Bruce Springsteen is playing Tehran? Hip hipsters, young hipsters in Tehran who are still hanging out at cafes and and having fun. Hipsters, check the calendar.

1:10:14 Dating to read,

1:10:16 joy continues, hope does continue even amidst a wider,

1:10:21 sense of hopelessness.

1:10:23 Life goes on. You know? I think even in people in war zones

1:10:27 figure out ways to have those moments of joy because you sort of have to to keep going. And I do think, you know, my job as a book author and my job as a newspaper reporter can sometimes be a little bit intentioned because reviewing

1:10:42 all this history,

1:10:43 I sort of got a sense of, like, nothing is permanent. Like, things change and movements can arise out of nowhere and people learn to kinda deal with things and maybe come up with solutions,

1:10:54 and they manage to find ways to

1:10:57 keep contesting power and to keep asserting themselves over time. And so, you know, for a news story, you kind of have to, like, have an angle and a conclusion,

1:11:06 but it's a snapshot in time. And in a year or in five years, we may look back and, you know, see all of this as a prelude to something or kind of be able to identify the threads that then led to something bigger. And we sort of have to be patient and also keep keep watching, I think. So the the hipsters are doing rock concerts in Tehran. How much of a war is this?

1:11:28 This woman something's phony about her. She does a laugh tell before she uses the word book author.

1:11:34 Yeah.

1:11:36 Book. Yeah. Fair point. Then she uses a a laugh tell in front of the word of the should've written it down, but another

1:11:43 keyword.

1:11:44 Yeah.

1:11:47 Halfway through. Fair. That's fair.

1:11:50 So I guess she's she's a spook. This is a bull crap book. There's no rock concerts going on. I mean, maybe there are. I think there I think the rock concerts There might be, but it's just I don't think I think this is gonna be

1:12:01 it's just not presented correctly. Okay. They make this sound like, oh, don't worry about it. That's how I that's how I took it. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it.

1:12:10 No. Don't worry about it. It's all good.

1:12:13 So we are on the I'd worry about it. We're on the eve of something pretty big,

1:12:18 these big IPOs,

1:12:21 the the tech IPOs.

1:12:25 There's You mean after the crash on Friday?

1:12:28 The AI crash on Friday? Yeah. The You think these eight you think these IPOs are gonna come off?

1:12:33 Yeah. I think they will. I I think they're gonna they gotta go. But here here's the thing. Let me see if I can find this.

1:12:40 The thing that is rather concerning

1:12:44 is this. For the general public,

1:12:46 if you think about your average investor, a lot of them are passive investors.

1:12:51 You look at your four zero one k, your retirement accounts, you're probably plugged into some sort of an index fund. So you don't have to go and be a stock picker. You can just sit back and collect money that's growing within these major indexes.

1:13:04 So the rules have changed a little bit for these, listing

1:13:08 places like the Nasdaq, for the New York Stock Exchange. Listing places. When

1:13:12 these companies debuted,

1:13:14 there was a waiting period around three months before they were included in these index funds.

1:13:19 Now, as little as two weeks later, these massive companies with unproven financial models can now be added to the index funds. And typically, you see a company debut,

1:13:30 the first day of trading is very volatile. The first few weeks of trading are very volatile because people are trying to price what

1:13:37 the value is of this particular company. So now that these companies like your OpenAI's, your SpaceX's,

1:13:44 that they can be included Your OpenAI's,

1:13:46 your SpaceX's,

1:13:47 is there more than one SpaceX?

1:13:49 Your your SpaceX's?

1:13:50 This is this is this is bad reporting. Particular company. No. I can give you some other examples of why it's bad reporting when you're done.

1:13:58 Okay. The way she presents it is bullcrap.

1:14:02 What do you mean?

1:14:04 It's not like, oh, now you can now the indexes can pick them up after two weeks. They have to pick them up after two weeks if they're in the index.

1:14:13 Yes. They if if it's allowed, this is a scam. Yes. This is we talked about this on d h No Agenda. Okay.

1:14:20 Good. What did what did you conclude? To conclude this was a a another

1:14:24 beautiful ploy

1:14:26 by Elon

1:14:28 to change the the moment where you where the index fund has to bring this you know, instead of letting the the stocks settle out, you know, it comes out, goes up and down and up and down. Who knows what it's gonna do? You don't know. You really don't know.

1:14:41 No. And instead of instead of waiting for it to go through the normal process and then putting it in the index fund Yeah. And is a big part of the index fund, which means you gotta bring a lot of you got to buy a bunch of stock Yep. Because the index funds have to own the stock, so they have to buy a bunch of stock. Instead of having to let it go through its rigmarole,

1:15:00 it artificially

1:15:01 pot crops it up because it has to buy it right away. Yep. This is a scam and it should be pointed out as not a scam illegally.

1:15:10 No. It's just another

1:15:11 Elon Musk beautiful

1:15:13 the guy's a genius.

1:15:15 Well,

1:15:17 they're all gonna get in. I mean, if they all have this level,

1:15:21 all of them will have to be will be not have to be. All of them will be pulled into the indexes. They have to be. It's by the by the rules of the of the fund.

1:15:29 So okay. So you're gonna have a bunch of in other words, this could be the beginning of the end, this could bring down the whole thing, you don't know. Well, there's But the there this is there's more and more crazy stuff going on asking for a major correction. So there's something else I learned from a friend of mine who works at an accounting,

1:15:49 company. Not the anonymous gay guy, but he'll probably weigh in. He still listens. I know he does.

1:15:55 Did you I hope so. Oh, no. He he texts me all the time. He texts me. He never texts me. Well, the anonymous gay accountant, of course, texted me about testosterone.

1:16:04 Hello? I mean,

1:16:07 he was the first one to text me.

1:16:09 What did he say?

1:16:12 It's great and you gotta get on these peptides. I'm ripped. That's what he said. Peptide.

1:16:18 I'm ripped. He should've put them I bet he is. Of course, he would. Son my son found one.

1:16:25 The wolverine. The everyone's talking about the wolverine package, baby. Is that the one that that brings your muscles up and they can get as big as pot they can turn into you can turn into a literally a monster Wolverine. By working out once a month. Yes. Wolver it's the wolverine. It's like two peptides. And please don't email me. I have everything I need to know. And you know what I'm gonna do? Absolutely nothing.

1:16:47 And I would avoid

1:16:49 it like the plague.

1:16:51 We'll get I got some feedback on from a PhD as well. Anyway,

1:16:55 so a a lot of these, what they call the hyperscalers,

1:16:59 which includes Google,

1:17:01 they have switched from stock options to RSUs.

1:17:05 Are you familiar with this?

1:17:07 It's like revenue service units.

1:17:09 No. I'm not familiar with them. So as an accounting thing, they switched everybody to RSUs.

1:17:16 So it's it's all about accounting. But now Yeah. Everything's about accounting. Every single time an RSU employee cashes out,

1:17:23 the company has to sell stock to cover it, which pushes the stock price down, so then of course, they have to do stock buybacks to keep the price up.

1:17:33 It's like a treadmill.

1:17:35 And Google is raising $80,000,000,000.

1:17:39 For their AI.

1:17:41 Well,

1:17:42 if you look at the

1:17:44 in fact, Reuters wrote about it, 40,000,000

1:17:47 of that is going towards

1:17:50 compensation

1:17:51 of employees

1:17:52 who are cashing in their RSUs.

1:17:55 40,000,000,000

1:17:56 of it.

1:17:58 So

1:18:00 the theory is

1:18:02 that these big tech and a companies so,

1:18:05 I mean, they so need AI to succeed

1:18:08 because their wealth at this point is really on paper.

1:18:12 They gotta spend all this capex on AI

1:18:16 and

1:18:17 these employees,

1:18:18 you know, they they cash out, boom. Legally,

1:18:22 every time an RSU

1:18:24 employee cashes out, they have to withhold 22%

1:18:27 upfront.

1:18:29 That's a lot of money. So there's some something going on that is not well in Silicon Valley of with Google of all companies.

1:18:38 Like, they were printing money.

1:18:41 And somehow,

1:18:43 now this whole AI thing is screwing everybody's numbers up. So, yeah, you better believe it has to be successful.

1:18:51 Note from a dude named Ben who works at Microsoft.

1:18:54 We've been told to use AI for everything that has resulted in a lot of token maxing. This is the this is the big the big term in Silicon Valley.

1:19:04 Token maxing. Yeah. You you here's your tokens, you gotta use them all. I work in c plus plus and I've had to review code that was complete slop.

1:19:12 Amongst my coworkers, we keep talking about how much this is actually costing us and no one knows. We're told, hey, now is the golden age, so use as much as you can before it ends. I think everyone knows there's going to be a limit on it eventually, but we don't know how much. The other thing to note is that AI use is just tracked and factored into promotions and bonuses.

1:19:32 This is what leads to token maxing. So you have to show that you're really productive by using a lot of tokens.

1:19:41 This is good one. I

1:19:44 don't think AI coding is going anywhere. The models have gotten a lot better. However, it can be a really frustrating to work with them. Sometimes they can implement features really well. It's fantastic. It's like a slot machine. Yes. It's what I've noticed too. I hope they get better but for I hope they get better for things I really need to understand.

1:20:01 For now, I'm writing all my code myself.

1:20:04 So now enter the big problem

1:20:07 that is that we've been talking about which is the data center to the desktop.

1:20:11 And CNBC

1:20:12 had

1:20:14 what's this guy's name? Patel, of course, Indian dude.

1:20:19 He is the

1:20:21 president of Cisco.

1:20:24 Cisco and of course Cisco wants to sell routers

1:20:28 and and switches

1:20:30 and stuff for traffic. So the guys are kinda full of crap. But what he's saying here,

1:20:35 I think is very relevant. So hey, just imagine that

1:20:41 employees in the company use about $200 worth of tokens every week. Fifty weeks a year, that's $10,000

1:20:47 in tokens. You have 40,000 employees, that's $400,000,000.

1:20:51 You have 90,000 employees, that's $900,000,000.

1:20:53 Wasn't really planned price? For Can you say that again slowly? $200

1:20:58 per week. Okay. That doesn't seem like that That doesn't seem like it's crazy. Right? I'm trying to think of my my open claw bill. You probably use more than that, Deidra. You'd be a very expensive employee. It gets shut off, and I'm like, I gotta re up it. Okay. So $200

1:21:12 a week A week. And then you multiply that at how many? Fifty weeks. Yeah. Let's say you take two weeks off Right. A year. You maybe take four weeks, it's forty eight weeks. Roughly, it's $10,000 a year. And Right. Per employee. Per employee. And so that costs We have 90,000 employees. So now we have the problem for these AI frontier model companies like OpenAI,

1:21:33 Anthropic, and to a degree,

1:21:35 SpaceX AI, l m n o p, model routing. What about model routing? I feel like this week everyone's talking about that, and it makes a lot of sense. Like, you can just see the numbers. It costs you $25

1:21:48 for an output on Claude Opus,

1:21:51 under a dollar for for the same output on DeepSeq. Are you guys utilizing that? Absolutely. We actually have three models ourselves. We have a deep network model.

1:21:59 We have a foundation security model that we've open sourced,

1:22:03 and we've got a time series model.

1:22:06 We just also got another model for observability, and we demoed that on stage that, you know, if it takes 12¢,

1:22:14 for token costs that you would have for a certain task,

1:22:17 you could take out 95%

1:22:19 of the cost if you actually go with the local model. Local? That's a small model.

1:22:23 But what you have to do is you have to have an intelligent routing layer that says for these prompts and these tasks, I'm gonna go over here and for these other tasks Yeah. I'm probably gonna be able to go to something cheaper. So

1:22:33 I'll get back to that in one second, only two more clips because this term

1:22:38 came up two weeks ago. I'd never heard it before and it's back. Jevan's paradox.

1:22:44 What does that mean for premium priced

1:22:47 AI? I mean, there's always gonna be a place for them. Right? But are is it going to be growing as quickly as we've seen over the last few years? I think there's

1:22:54 Jevan's paradox that's gonna be, like, constantly on supercharge right now. The lower the price goes like, the biggest risk we have as an industry

1:23:03 is if this gets too expensive where the the cost of tokens is

1:23:07 disproportionately

1:23:08 higher than the value it generates, then people pull back.

1:23:12 So, actually, the cost per token going down is better for the model providers because when the cost goes down, people use it more, but your your value is actually commensurate to what you're paying per token. Let me push back on that point. Yeah. We actually don't know if the value is commensurate, and that's what No. I'm saying it's not right now. Right. Yeah. So if it's not and if the price goes down Yeah. That's actually better because then people actually use it more. Is that a problem, though? I mean, do you think that that will hit demand?

1:23:37 Some of these questions over return on investment and value. I mean, Scott was just here basically saying that if you don't get enough value from our product, we're gonna pay $10,000,000

1:23:45 for your usage. So it feels like everyone is scrambling to show that they're providing value, but this is a question too that, like, is not new. Right? That hit the AI trade, the public AI trade before. It's kind of been off to the races recently, but there's some of that skepticism creeping back in. I think there's a So the this is this this is one of those bullcrap Silicon Valley things. We've seen this come and go a 100 times.

1:24:07 Jevan's Paradox,

1:24:09 which

1:24:10 and this I don't know if you remember it two weeks ago or something like that. Someone said, oh, it's Jevan's Paradox. So this is and that was on the all in pod. So this is a a bullcrap term they're using in Silicon Valley.

1:24:22 Jevan's paradox

1:24:24 is an economic principle discovered by British economist William Stanley Jevan's in, wait for it, 1865.

1:24:33 Can you just see some VC coming up with this? Oh, absolutely.

1:24:38 Well, you know, according to Jevons paradox,

1:24:40 it states that technological

1:24:42 improvements that increase the efficiency

1:24:44 of resource use

1:24:46 can paradoxically lead to an increase in the total consumption of that resource

1:24:52 rather than the expected decrease.

1:24:55 The paradox occurs

1:24:57 because the efficiency improvements make a resource cheaper to use, the cost savings often lead to increased demand

1:25:04 that more than offsets the efficiency gains. For example,

1:25:08 more fuel Where's the paradox? Well, I'm waiting for it. More fuel efficient cars might lead to more driving or energy efficient appliances might encourage people to use them more frequently.

1:25:19 This is Silicon Valley speak for

1:25:22 we're screwed.

1:25:24 The model doesn't work. Jevons paradox, man. Don't worry. When Jevons kicks in, it's all gonna be great. I can just feel it.

1:25:32 It's one of those things.

1:25:35 Can't you see John Doerr running around? I I you

1:25:38 this got me to just change this little presentation here.

1:25:43 Change the tip of the day.

1:25:45 It's what?

1:25:46 You'll hear it when you get to the tip of the day at the end of the show. You have to Alright. People have to listen, but this will be very relevant Oh, good. To what you're saying. Oh, good. And then the final clip, this is truly what I think is already happening and where all this is heading, and why your four zero one k will suffer when these IPOs and these companies get added to the index. Companies are eventually and this is what you were talking about earlier on, desk side computing. Is that right? He says companies are eventually going to shift to running local models. Prices are getting too high for Fortune 500 companies to swallow. We are already seeing starting to see the leaders shift to this idea. Yeah. It makes a lot of sense, doesn't Explain though. What what break this down for me. Okay. I have I have agents. I wanna use these agents.

1:26:29 I'm gonna actually have a Mac Mini right next to me. That's my desk side computer. My laptop computer is where I'm working. My desk side computer is where the the Mac Mini is where my agents are working. That

1:26:40 means I now am doing a lot of processing locally. I might have models that actually sit on that Mac Mini that that agent is using. Because they're getting smaller and smaller. They're getting smaller and smaller. So

1:26:50 my if I can get a substantial percentage of the workload on those,

1:26:56 boy, that's a great thing.

1:26:58 What that does though is it's gonna require a lot more network bandwidth because those agents are gonna generate,

1:27:03 you know Listen to this bullcrap. Oh, we go. Oh, yeah. A lot a lot more bandwidth because the agent's gonna gonna wanna talk to routers. Yeah. Traffic that'll have to go back and forth between the data center. Oh, back and forth between the data center. Oh, no. These agents aren't just talking amongst themselves. They're gonna talk to talk amongst themselves on the Mac Mini, but they'll also talk to

1:27:25 to someone in the cloud. Oh, you need two gigabits now. And so I think you're gonna have a a at this point, an agent workflow

1:27:33 is a routing challenge.

1:27:35 It is a it is a trust decision,

1:27:38 and it's a telemetry event. Telemetry event. Event being I need to make sure that I'm showing the traceability of where that agent is going, what it's doing.

1:27:46 And all those things together make this a coordination of intelligence. It's not just a

1:27:52 it's not just that you're gonna have one large model and one large data center and it's gonna answer all your So

1:27:57 here here we go, John. We're pitching now.

1:28:00 So

1:28:00 taking in mind what you all know, of course, Jevan's paradox,

1:28:04 when we have these telemetry events, we're gonna be rich. Just watch. It's gonna be great. Invest now. Here's my here's my PowerPoint.

1:28:11 This is Well, what can you determine the telemetry

1:28:15 threshold

1:28:16 for the ROI?

1:28:18 Yes. Can I do that with the locally managed network operating protocol with the advanced network analysis language?

1:28:26 Ah, when you said that, yeah.

1:28:28 I heard you could do that. My favorite my favorite

1:28:33 my favorite one, advanced network analysis language.

1:28:36 Now there is good news. There's good news because finally, we have something that AI is useful for. I fully support this. I think it's great. Call Dana Brunetti because we're gonna kill Hollywood once and for all. It's interesting that this is a YouTuber

1:28:51 that is

1:28:52 making the leap because you were pretty early

1:28:55 investing

1:28:56 in the creator space with full screen.

1:29:00 Any I mean, what did you learn out of that? And did you think that in the year 2026,

1:29:05 we would see this run

1:29:07 of digital

1:29:08 native

1:29:09 filmmaking talent making the leap not just to getting Hollywood style movies made,

1:29:15 but getting big audiences.

1:29:17 You know, Obsession just opened big and is keeps growing, and now we've got this other

1:29:23 YouTube first movie

1:29:25 that is gonna be big. It's called it's called Backroom. Have you heard of these movies?

1:29:30 Well, there's one no. The only one I've heard of is the one that's actually playing in a theater Yes. That's Backrooms. At Tribeca Film Festival. I think it's Backrooms is the one that's playing. No. No. It's that's it's something violets.

1:29:42 Well,

1:29:43 there's I'll I'll get the title. There's a couple of them. Absolutely.

1:29:46 The the only one playing in the theaters

1:29:50 is the is the violets film.

1:29:52 Well, let's listen to this. This is

1:29:56 who is this guy?

1:29:58 I'll figure it out in a minute. They believed that. You did? Yes. We look,

1:30:03 you know, we have been huge believers in the creator economy and Creator economy. Going back, I think we invested in full screen

1:30:10 fourteen years ago.

1:30:12 Look, it's also, to be fair, it's no accident, we are the only

1:30:16 media company based in Silicon Beach. Our offices are in Playa Vista, are Silicon. Off the street. What is Silicon? Where is Silicon Beach? Down south is at Calabasas

1:30:26 or someplace down Southern California. Calabasas.

1:30:29 Yeah. It's bull crap. This is great. YouTube is right over there. Mhmm. I'm I'm in Silicon Hills. Mhmm. Facebook is right over there.

1:30:37 You know,

1:30:39 as a company, I'm deeply interested in technology. We've always been deeply interested. Yeah. Blah blah blah blah. What's happened is The the movie is Dreams of Violets. Dreams of Violets. From an Iranian

1:30:51 filmmaker, and it's about Iran,

1:30:53 riots or killings or something like that. And it was very controversial. It's the first one accepted in the film festival,

1:31:00 and there's there's a bunch of news stories on all the networks about it. Well, now Hollywood is just like Silicon Valley except instead of the

1:31:09 the what is it? The German what have you I forgot the name already.

1:31:14 The Jarvan principle.

1:31:15 What was that guy? The

1:31:17 Jabbo principle. The Jumbo

1:31:20 Jumbo. There you go. Poor Jumbo guy. Jumbo principle.

1:31:24 Poor Jumbo guy. No. It's

1:31:26 yeah, man. We want YouTubers. Get us YouTubers. We need more YouTubers. You can't just live on sequels. You can't just live on existing IP.

1:31:34 It's a terrible thing to do to the audience. I hope that there is a lesson

1:31:38 to those big studios in both obsession and and backrooms,

1:31:42 because

1:31:44 they should be taking risks like that. You know, and if you go back to the big franchises which they are making infinite sequels of,

1:31:52 are generally fifteen to thirty, 40 years old at this point. Half the audience wasn't born when they started.

1:31:58 Yeah. And, you know What do you think the model is going to be? Do you think that it's possible that these YouTube

1:32:05 first

1:32:06 movies that that they could reinvigorate

1:32:10 people going to theaters to see it?

1:32:14 Like Vinyl, you know? Like like everyone's all, oh, Vinyl. Vinyl. Oh, no. You gotta see this thing in the theater.

1:32:21 You think that's possible? Could they could they do I think it's possible, but not for a while.

1:32:26 Well, there's a couple of these these movies happening. I I mean, surely,

1:32:30 we can't just have people putting them out on YouTube and not making, you know, making YouTube pennies. That's not gonna last. Well, the the the movie, Dreams of Violets,

1:32:39 they had protests out in front and everyone's moaning about it. Really?

1:32:45 Yeah. Because, oh, it's gonna ruin Hollywood and we're all gonna die.

1:32:50 Brunetti should be all over this. No. Brunetti probably is all over it. I haven't talked to him about it.

1:32:56 But I'm sure he's all he's not over all over He should be producing this stuff. He should be producing. He should be, hey, kid.

1:33:04 Hey, kid. I'm gonna make you famous.

1:33:07 You wanna get rich? You want you wanna get leave your wife rich? Yeah. Stick with me. I'm Dana Bernet, babe. I'm Dana You wanna get a you wanna get a a job in you wanna be a star? You wanna be a star. A star. Yeah. I'm Daniel Brunetti. That's

1:33:21 not at all how he sounds, by the way.

1:33:24 He sounds What? That's not how he sounds. I thought about it. No.

1:33:28 Yeah. He sounds just like that. It's not at all how Brunetti sounds. Yeah. Talks like this. And he's not and and he doesn't look at all like he sounds either.

1:33:36 You know, he he looks like Dogs like this. And he looks like a frat boy with a beard. He's got a big cigar usually smoking it.

1:33:44 Like, hey. Hey,

1:33:46 kid. Hey, kid. So I I have an AI story that needs to be Alright.

1:33:51 Played. Okay. This is a this is a

1:33:54 an ode to Linda Lupatkin.

1:33:56 Oh, alright. Linda. It's about AI job searches and what it's on a little tidbit here is quite interesting.

1:34:03 Stanford just released the biggest study ever done on AI hiring tools, and it's uncovering this massive web that's answering the question all of us are asking, why does my resume keep getting rejected for jobs that I am completely qualified for? No. And I'm gonna be honest. The study has changed the way I think about every application I've ever sent. 90% of companies are using AI to screen applicants before a human ever sees them. And the interesting thing is that most of these companies are using the same few vendors to do that work. Meaning, it's the exact same tool, just used in different companies.

1:34:36 And it's probably everywhere that you have been applying.

1:34:38 Here's how it actually works. You apply to a job, and then the company sends your resume to a third party AI tool. And that AI platform gives you a score, and then it sends that score back to the employer. But that score doesn't disappear or get regenerated with every application you send.

1:34:54 Sometimes it holds on to that score for three hundred and thirty days.

1:34:58 When you apply to another company that uses that same platform, you're not getting a fresh start. You're just getting that same score Wow. Again. And the research is real. They tracked over 4,000,000 applications

1:35:08 across a 156

1:35:10 employers. And

1:35:12 when they found that the people who had applied to multiple companies

1:35:15 who were using the same AI tool to screen, the rejection rate was a little too high to be coincidental.

1:35:21 So they're calling it systemic rejection.

1:35:23 City is called algorithmic

1:35:25 monocultures

1:35:26 in hiring, if you wanna check it out. But just know that if you've been sending applications out and hearing nothing back,

1:35:33 it's probably not your resume. And this is just another reminder that we're not living in some glitch.

1:35:39 It's effectively one score for three hundred and thirty days for every company that you're applying to. And this is why laws like the ones Colorado

1:35:47 is passing right now are going to be imperative to the future of job applications and hiring.

1:35:53 I'm gonna continue to report on this. So follow, like, comment if you wanna know more about this since we're actively working against you in your job search. And feel free to share this with anyone else who's being actively gaslit by AI on a daily basis. That's image makers ink with a k.

1:36:09 Now, would say a couple first of all, I did not edit that.

1:36:14 I'm better than that.

1:36:17 This is typical

1:36:19 high-tech,

1:36:22 way of saving money. Yeah. They instead of having you know, you get an application in and you scan it for the a for some score and you send the score back to the first company.

1:36:32 Another thing comes in from the same person from a different company.

1:36:36 Why bother scanning it? Same score. You already have the guy's the score, but just

1:36:42 send the same score on, so that's what we're doing. Yeah. Why This is classic. Why burn tokens on it? I'm gonna tell why. Burn tokens when you could just hey. He's in the database. Send out that same score. Go. Gets him a completely different resume, but so what? Keep him there for a year. It's good.

1:36:58 Alright. That's if it's year, and by the way, I doubt it. I'm sure it's permanent. Yeah. It's like a credit score. Yes.

1:37:05 You're done. You're toast. You're not ever gonna Toast. Work again. Yeah. I gotta do these two peptide emails since we made such a big deal about it and we had so many lovely people writing in. About what? Peptides.

1:37:18 Oh, peptides. Peptides. Yes. And Yeah. So

1:37:22 about 95%

1:37:25 were telling me it's great, it's phenomenal,

1:37:28 I inject myself twice a week.

1:37:30 I'm on Oh, the god. I'm on the Wolverine,

1:37:32 this is the best thing ever, it's fixed my back, I don't doubt it at all. There's Yeah. And I'm sure it helps a lot of people. Yeah. But there's two emails I wanted to highlight.

1:37:42 One from our senior medical student, he's written in before.

1:37:46 He's in Australia.

1:37:47 He says, basically you buy this stuff online, but these peptides can be between 50 to 300%

1:37:53 purity of the stated dose.

1:37:55 This makes no difference for the fancy water peptides that people get a placebo from injecting them. I'm sure there's a lot of that going on. But for harmful drugs like this new RETA

1:38:04 as everyone calls it, Reta, this can kill people.

1:38:08 I've seen otherwise healthy young patients coming in with symptoms of pancreatitis,

1:38:12 of unknown cause. Hey, Slim,

1:38:15 until you ask about the peptide use. I had a young lady taking four times the recommended dose of ret retro retrotrudide,

1:38:23 I can't rettrudide

1:38:25 daily. Yeah. That's the stuff we talked about. Yeah. This is not even mentioning the fact that her that her vials could have been 200% purity, so it could have been eight times the dose.

1:38:35 Based on talking to patients, I would say around ten to twenty percent of young Australians, 14 to 30 are taking peptides with up to half considering it. This is a lot.

1:38:44 Yeah.

1:38:45 Fact is I think this is a bigger thing than than than we suspect. Yes.

1:38:50 Fact is most of these peptides are I know people who get their peptides from their hair person. Just saying. Fact is most of these peptides are showing promise in studies on rats and muscle cells in petri dishes With minimal human safety trials other than Reddit and TikTok forums,

1:39:07 these companies can get away with making millions selling these as it's not illegal here in Australia to sell research for research purposes only peptides with no recourse.

1:39:18 Here's a here's

1:39:20 some people take,

1:39:24 MSH

1:39:25 to be more tan and it works well for this. But when you stimulate the

1:39:30 melanokites

1:39:31 on your skin, you stimulate the moles that are normally hanging out there. Most people have moles that could turn into melanoma. Okay. So there's all kinds of horrible things that can happen. Then then we have

1:39:43 boots on the ground from Patrick

1:39:45 Oh, wait. Before you before

1:39:48 you're done with that letter, should mention I sent that letter to JC. Yes. That very one? I'm

1:39:54 sorry? The one from Australia?

1:39:56 Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And he says it's he says he thinks it's wrong Wrong. That the what he says about the melanoma

1:40:04 generator because it it turns out that it might actually be just the opposite. Might be. It it

1:40:10 It might be. Sure. Might be just the opposite. It might be. And he and he and he cited some some

1:40:16 rationale that it it it would anyway, the the he says he's he it's dubious.

1:40:23 So not The the the

1:40:25 argument. Okay. Yeah. It might be. I don't know. It might be. We don't know. And in fact, this the thing that bothers me about all this, of course, is people that are all, you know, concerned about

1:40:37 eating whole foods and being careful about what they eat and ingest. It would just take these things off the, you know, from a drug dealer. It's just it's it's it's crazy.

1:40:47 So now we have, Patrick who is pursuing his doctorate in chemistry, right up your alley. He was listening to Thursday's show. He said, I heard you were interested in peptides.

1:40:55 Well, since I'm pursuing this,

1:40:58 I thought I could weigh in and tell you what I know. From a scientific perspective, the discovery and creation of GLP one drugs is interesting

1:41:05 and they have gotten pretty good from what they began as. When it comes to peptides as a drug, the hardest part is making sure they are not digested

1:41:12 in the body.

1:41:13 For the large majority you cannot just eat peptides because your body will digest them like any protein you would get and from eating food and not into the bloodstream. This is why they are injected into the bloodstream and even then your body will break them down although at a much slower rate. When it comes to peptides which many people are using to biohack,

1:41:32 yeah, that's it, outside of g o p ones, most of them come from Chinese companies which have little to no studies especially not in human trials. The rationale of using them to improve bodily function mainly comes from computational modeling like climate change.

1:41:47 The biggest issue for these is the actual production of the peptides themselves. That's kinda goes along with what our previous boots on the ground said.

1:41:54 Companies utilize e coli to produce the peptide. What?

1:42:00 Woah. Woah. Using a process known as recombinant protein expression. I do this on a regular basis in the lab and it's actually a very efficient way of producing peptides and proteins. Insulin is produced using this method. The biggest issue with using this to create drugs for human use is the contamination

1:42:16 of polysaccharides,

1:42:18 sugar, which can create severe allergic reactions if injected into the bloodstream. Pharmaceutical companies are great at removing this and have testing to ensure that batches are not contaminated.

1:42:29 The equipment to do this is very expensive and I would bet that the Chinese companies that are producing peptides are not doing this.

1:42:35 Yeah. Best price. I have friends that have had adverse reaction to these peptides and gotten sick from them. This is the biggest issue I see with peptides outside of the general ignorance

1:42:44 on how they will interact with the body as the biochemical pathways within the body are very complex and small changes can create big effects.

1:42:53 So, yeah. I mean,

1:42:55 biohacking is what people are doing and

1:42:58 you don't need to email me and tell me I'm these guys are full of crap and I don't know what I'm talking about because guess what? I don't. But I'm We also don't. We we are we're the rank amateurs when it comes to all we're doing is presenting what we know. Yeah. Or what we're told. What our producers

1:43:13 Not even that. Yeah. What our producers tell us. Yeah. What are just people yeah. And we're gonna con continue to Yes. Do that for a Because I mean

1:43:23 It's a big deal. This is going on. Yeah. So

1:43:26 when people get all bent out of shape that now Eli Lilly is taking what they've basically been getting for $50

1:43:34 from their hairdresser,

1:43:36 they're now, you know, now they have to pay a thousand bucks a month, they're all bent out of shape, you can blah blah blah. But

1:43:43 production matters, quality matters.

1:43:47 I When it comes to vaccines where there's no liability Please.

1:43:51 Well, since you inject this, can't they just call it a vaccine?

1:43:55 And how Well, as well. And how would the pill how would this pill work better than injecting its Mainlining that crap, baby. Come on. Mainline it right into me.

1:44:04 I'm calling you Actually, doesn't make sense to what we what the one guy what the chemist said Mhmm. Doesn't make sense about the pill

1:44:10 because they're just getting, you know, digested like any other protein. I mean, I'm here's what I'm worried about. You get this stuff, particularly if it gets approved by the FDA, and before you know it, you're voting Democrat. I'm telling you, you gotta be careful about I think you might be on to something. You gotta be careful careful with these things.

1:44:27 But yes, the Wolverine

1:44:29 the Wolverine combo is what everyone seems to like a lot. If you're working out a lot and you get ripped.

1:44:35 You gotta get ripped.

1:44:37 Ripped. Yeah. I'm not a exerciser.

1:44:40 I'm a walker.

1:44:41 So I'm not gonna get ripped, anytime soon. I'm a podcaster. I got no time to exercise. Podcasters shouldn't be ripped. No.

1:44:49 There's nothing there's something sick about a ripped podcaster. Well, don't tell that to Joe Rogan.

1:44:55 Well, yeah. But Rogan was always

1:44:57 yeah. But Rogan's also a UFC fighter. And by the way, which brings me to the I I finally got one more. It took forever to get a Sharpton clip. Oh, a Sharpton clip? Oh. Where he screws up. Of why they're they're they're having these fights on the on the White House lawn, the UFO and all whatever

1:45:15 they call it.

1:45:17 The UFO.

1:45:19 Excellent.

1:45:20 Yeah. Finally, a new Sharpton jingle to use. Very good. Very good. Very happy. Thank you. Thank you. That took Excellent job. Excellent job. Very happy with that.

1:45:31 Oh, man. Ebola update? Wait. I I need to do my my Ebola

1:45:37 jingle.

1:45:38 I need to I need to oops.

1:45:41 Ebola.

1:45:43 Yes. Here we go.

1:45:46 Ebola.

1:45:47 Ebola.

1:45:48 It has been with us two times

1:45:51 in

1:45:52 our lives.

1:45:55 Now is the third.

1:45:57 It's time

1:45:59 to speak about Ebola.

1:46:01 Ebola.

1:46:02 Ebola.

1:46:04 Has been stepped up at Ebola treatment centers in Eastern Congo with extra UN peacekeepers

1:46:10 and local police deployed.

1:46:12 Medical staff have faced growing hostility

1:46:15 with reports of attacks on facilities.

1:46:18 Richard Kogoi reports.

1:46:20 The move follows threats against health workers in a region where distrust and misinformation

1:46:24 about Ebola remain widespread. Security has been reinforced in Rampara and Mogumbalo in Ituri province after incidents targeting treatment centers and medical staff. Troops also got smaller clinics receiving patients and supervise imperial teams. Alongside the security push, the government and aid partners are running outreach campaigns

1:46:43 to counter false information and build public trust in communities where cultural beliefs have shaped views on illness and death. The WHO says nearly five hundred cases are confirmed,

1:46:53 including eighty two deaths in the outbreak across Central Africa. I have a follow on clip, from CBS,

1:47:00 regarding a little misunderstanding.

1:47:03 After this outrage in Kenya in which two people were killed protesting a Trump administration plan to set up an Ebola facility only for Americans at a military air base, secretary of state Marco Rubio now says that there has been a misunderstanding,

1:47:18 and that's about whether Americans would only be observed

1:47:22 for symptoms if they've been potentially

1:47:24 exposed in the region, or if positive,

1:47:27 whether they would be quarantined and then treated for the longer term. We're not actually actually in Kenya to set up treatment for Americans. I think the one that's been very controversial is a misunderstanding.

1:47:37 There is a facility that the Kenyans are allowing us to open. If there are any Americans that are exposed Yes. Potentially exposed,

1:47:45 they will be transferred to this facility for observation.

1:47:47 Andy said that they would now be removed from Kenya now to either Europe or The United States to be treated. Normally, he did not say the facility was entirely off the table. Flight radar has been tracking US military flights flying towards an airbase about 125

1:48:05 miles north of Nairobi. That airbase is called Lykipia.

1:48:08 This was before a Kenya high court judge blocked the facility, at least temporarily, but also after that judge blocked the facility, after those protests broke out on June 1, Kenya's prime minister William Ruto said that it would be good for the country's own Ebola preparedness

1:48:25 and said that The US and Kenya have had a friendship for the past thirty to forty years, but many Kenyans feel that this is the Trump administration

1:48:33 outsourcing

1:48:34 American health risks to their own home country. And a high level medical contact of mine in Nairobi told me that the expectation is that this US facility

1:48:43 will go ahead regardless of what any high court says. I mean, don't you don't you think it's time for a repeat of the Ebola flight coming in and everyone's all got their hazmat suits on

1:48:57 and the dude hops out like,

1:48:59 I got Ebola. Hello. Hello. Hello. And jumps on a bicycle and takes off. Yeah. Bye bye. We didn't play this clip, the other day, but it's it's relevant, I guess, now. Two research scientists had been arrested and charged with smuggling MPOCs into The United States.

1:49:15 Vincent Munster and Claude Quay work at the National Institutes of Health Biosafety Lab in Montana.

1:49:22 According to prosecutors, the pair traveled back to The US from The Republic Of Congo where there was an outbreak of impacts.

1:49:29 When they went through customs, CBP officers questioned them about a large plastic case they had. They allegedly lied to the officers about what was inside.

1:49:39 After investigating and testing,

1:49:41 the FBI found vials of deactivated MPOXX virus, chickenpox virus, and human DNA.

1:49:48 The men face up to five years in prison.

1:49:51 You know, the scandal isn't so much

1:49:54 that they did this.

1:49:56 Five years, do you imagine Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak show up at the airport? What you got there? Nothing.

1:50:02 Well, let's take a look. Oh, you got like mPOXX, you got human DNA. We would be locked this would be we would be locked away forever.

1:50:09 But oh, they're NIH. Oh, it's okay. Well, I'm just one of them is a Dutch guy.

1:50:15 Yes. I find this scandalous.

1:50:17 Maybe Yeah. I think you're right. Maybe five year who who knows what I mean, okay. It's inactive or deactivated whatever she said. That's what they said. Yeah. Exactly.

1:50:26 Like, no, I don't like this.

1:50:28 Lock those guys up. Can't be doing that.

1:50:32 Okay.

1:50:36 Let's see. Oh, this was kind of funny.

1:50:39 This is about our prop our favorite PropBet

1:50:43 app.

1:50:45 We have two.

1:50:47 Calci being one. Federal investigators are examining the prediction market trades of former New York Republican congressman George Santos.

1:50:55 NPR's Bobby Allen reports it's the latest case raising questions about insider trading on the betting sites. Four months after George Santos had a seven year wire fraud prison sentence commuted by president Trump,

1:51:07 he took to social media. I'm going to be there for the state of the union in the gallery, guys. Just chill trolls. Chill trolls. What he didn't say publicly is that he was betting tens of thousands of dollars on the prediction market site Cauchy that he would not attend.

1:51:21 Before it was revealed he did not go, he cashed out. That's according to three sources with direct knowledge of Santos's trades. The Justice Department and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission are investigating.

1:51:31 When reached by NPR, Santos said the investigations were news to him. He said, I'm not saying yes, I'm not saying no when asked if he has an account on Cauchy.

1:51:40 Oh, man. How low IQ are you if you do that? Well, yeah, this is I can make money quick.

1:51:49 This is illegal?

1:51:51 Well, isn't it insider trading by definition? Not the SEC.

1:51:56 There's no SEC involved in this. Not yet.

1:51:59 And is it with insider training? You're the guy they're be people are betting on. Well, bet on himself. Don't think that the basketball guys do this constantly? Yeah. Oh, I I sprained my ankle. I can't play. Right. They get in trouble for it.

1:52:11 Do they? But from the league.

1:52:14 Yeah. True.

1:52:16 Oh, Wall Street Journal, Trump urges Pulte to fire intel employees. Here we go. Here's the here's the You're right. Here we go. Here's the bull of the China shop. The chains weed whacker. Yeah.

1:52:29 Oh, this is gonna be so much fun.

1:52:32 It's gonna be great. It'll be good for the show.

1:52:35 I'm just gonna It should be. Yeah. Gonna find all kinds of stuff.

1:52:39 So they I'm sorry. I'm just gonna say the World Cup, we got a clip on Iran. They they gave them visas.

1:52:46 But,

1:52:48 I have a bunch of I have a couple of screwy clips here.

1:52:53 Did you I'm gonna ask you. This could be an ask Adam. Mhmm.

1:52:58 What is the gayest city in The United States?

1:53:02 The

1:53:03 gayest city in The United States. It's gay pride month. I got a gay pride clip.

1:53:10 Well, mean, instinctively,

1:53:12 you wanna say

1:53:14 San Francisco, but somehow I don't think it's the gayest.

1:53:18 I don't think there is one. I think New York would be it personally. Which which is Or Atlanta. Atlanta is very gay. Which clip is it? Which clip? This is the mayor mayor Bowser, the the mayor of Washington DC.

1:53:29 Oh.

1:53:30 Well She claims that Washington DC,

1:53:33 the capital of The United States Of America,

1:53:36 Well, play the clip. Fifty one years of pride in the future fifty

1:53:41 first state.

1:53:43 And

1:53:44 both movements

1:53:46 are rooted in the same belief.

1:53:48 Every person divert deserves to be seen,

1:53:52 heard, and fully represented.

1:53:55 We're celebrating

1:53:56 Pride Month in the gayest city in the world.

1:53:59 Well,

1:54:02 let's be fair.

1:54:04 We do have some a gays

1:54:07 in DC,

1:54:09 you know, so you bring in a Bess and there's gonna be a whole bunch of other people who follow around.

1:54:15 Oh, I can see. Do you think Bess will be out there in pride

1:54:18 with his chaps with his chaps?

1:54:20 No.

1:54:23 He was he did not do a good job, man, the other day.

1:54:27 Let me see. Where is it?

1:54:29 He was he was being

1:54:32 grilled.

1:54:34 Let me see. Here we go.

1:54:36 You you you think with all the experience he's had. It's no good.

1:54:40 He'd be better. Oh, he he's no good. Listen to this. Why are you allowing president Trump and his family

1:54:46 to have complete immunity from being audited? I

1:54:50 I again, since you're a lawyer, you will understand that The US Treasury and the IRS are represented by the justice department and the acting attorney general. Yes. But I just mentioned a supreme court case that doesn't bar you from testifying.

1:55:04 It's pretty clear to me, though, however, that you're not interested in answering questions.

1:55:09 You're interested in arguing.

1:55:11 Let me ask you this question. If president Biden amended a prior tax return and claimed that he was owed $1,000,000,000,

1:55:19 do you think that that would be audited, or should it be audited? I'm not gonna

1:55:24 be, talk about any

1:55:26 any

1:55:27 the Because you're not really here to answer questions. I I I I am don't understand why you wouldn't audit that, and I don't understand

1:55:35 why you wouldn't do the same for president Trump.

1:55:38 So

1:55:38 the ruling

1:55:40 Do you have The ruling by the justice

1:55:42 have specific knowledge of an audit of president Trump? Excuse me.

1:55:46 It's my time. You're not here to ask me questions. I'm here to ask you questions. And hopefully, you're here to try to answer some of them. Oh, man. He's

1:55:55 it got even worse

1:55:56 where he's like, he's he's he literally clutches well, he didn't he was if he had pearls, he'd be clutching him.

1:56:03 Like, this is an outrage. He needs can't

1:56:06 Rubio take him aside?

1:56:08 Rubio is the guy that's good at this. Yeah. But and Rubio is good at this, but but Bess has to answer and he's just no good at it.

1:56:17 I don't know. I don't understand. I mean,

1:56:19 he just he's chokes, choke, choke. He listened to this. I'm curious to know who counts as Trump's family

1:56:25 for the purposes of this immunity. Is it his children,

1:56:30 his in laws, his grandchildren,

1:56:33 his second or third cousin, his great great grandchildren?

1:56:37 Do you know the answer to that question, mister secretary? Again, I imagine you have the justice department phone number. I would suggest you call them. I'm not the one that runs the the department of the treasury or that oversees

1:56:49 what is happening with this immunity

1:56:52 that is has been granted. One either. We follow the we follow the instructions of our lawyers, and we we obey the law of representatives. Proud of your performance today, mister secretary, because I think I hope you get some social media safe to say. I hope she gets some social media clips. A,

1:57:09 this is probably the most corrupt treasury department Good. In our nation's history. While I am going to have take

1:57:19 exception with that. No. I'm going to write a stern letter to the Times. That is Trump. And I'm going to write an op ed about you. You will be in deep deep kimshae lately. I'm going to have take exception with exception with that. Trump.

1:57:34 Are

1:57:35 are suffering in Trump's spiraling economy.

1:57:38 Inflation is now raising faster than average hourly wages. Gas prices are at an all time high with the war in Iran. I know what's going on with him. You know what it is?

1:57:49 Low tea. That's what's happening here.

1:57:52 Maybe

1:57:54 peptides

1:57:54 are needed.

1:57:58 Anything.

1:57:59 Anything.

1:58:01 Oh my goodness. That's because they I'm I'm a I'm a Besant fan, but this is bad. It's

1:58:07 just bad. No good.

1:58:10 Yeah. I hope you get some good social media clips out of this. Yeah.

1:58:14 Very lame.

1:58:16 And he's got that nervous

1:58:18 sound to his voice that's no good.

1:58:20 Hey, I wanna play this clip. I've been holding it. But I just wanna play this because I just think this is a technology

1:58:26 that needs to be discussed more. Okay. The x 59.

1:58:31 X? I don't know if you've seen pictures of this thing. This is a new jet. Mhmm. No. I haven't. I'm I'd I'll have to look. It's a it's a jet that can go

1:58:40 Mach one point

1:58:42 something.

1:58:43 It goes past the speed of sound with no sonic boom.

1:58:46 How how does it even work?

1:58:49 Well, that's what I like to know. But it's if you look at the design of the thing, it's loopy looking. Oh, it looks like a like a Concorde.

1:58:57 But Viscount with the blurb is it's it's just cool. It's cool looking. Let's put it that way. But Yeah. At the same time, you but it doesn't, I guess, stir up enough I don't know. I have no idea. The the explanation is not in this report or any place else. NASA's x 59 research aircraft is designed to fly at supersonic

1:59:16 speeds without producing a loud sonic boom.

1:59:19 This month, the x 59 will fly supersonic

1:59:22 in test flights at around 43,000

1:59:25 feet in altitude.

1:59:27 That will be followed by a mission conditions.

1:59:30 That's a flight at Mach 1.4

1:59:32 speed and an altitude of roughly 55,000

1:59:35 feet. NASA's goals here are to have the aircraft fly over US communities

1:59:41 to gather data from the public about its quiet supersonic operation. No. I have to ask the book of knowledge. Why does the x 59 aircraft not produce a sonic boom? I mean, we can sit here and we can just be yapping at each other, but let's ask the book of knowledge who knows all things in the universe.

1:59:59 And so here we go. According to the book of knowledge, the x 59 reduces sonic booms by shaping acoustic pressure waves,

2:00:08 preventing shock waves from merging into a single boom and creating instead a gentle sonic thumb. Oh. Its 38 foot extended nose,

2:00:17 carefully shaped fuselage,

2:00:19 and top mounted engine use the aircraft body as a shield to direct and dissipate shock waves.

2:00:27 It

2:00:27 has been written. A okay. Well, that's A sonic thump. That's right. A sonic thump. Now that means I would love to have them fly this thing over the Bay Area. Let us know. Yeah.

2:00:38 And I wanna see so we can hear the sonic thump. Because when I was a kid Mhmm.

2:00:43 When I was a kid living in Centerville,

2:00:46 there used to be this was pre

2:00:49 some point or other,

2:00:51 you'd hear sonic booms because it was no big deal. It's like, yeah. So what? And,

2:00:56 you know, they finally put some laws against it after they I guess it broke a few windows here and there around the country. But

2:01:05 it would be a loud I know exactly what a sonic boom sounds like because I was when I well, kind of, I can It remember rattles the windows.

2:01:13 It's a loud boom.

2:01:15 It's boom.

2:01:16 Yeah. And it's like, okay. Well, that's there was a jet.

2:01:20 So I wanna hear the sonic thump. Now here's the thing. I have been in the Concorde twice,

2:01:26 which does create

2:01:28 booms.

2:01:29 Yeah. That's why I wasn't allowed to fly over much of the country.

2:01:33 Inside the aircraft,

2:01:35 nothing.

2:01:36 Very distant. What would there be? I'm just well, you'd think that if it was boom outside, you'd hear it on the inside,

2:01:42 but you don't hear it. It's it's a big letdown. It's like it was like a it's like a good bass note, you know, you can't really hear it near the speakers. Yeah. But these things are loud. Boom.

2:01:54 But I'm in the plane. I mean, I'm in the plane. I I thought I would hear it. I remember the pilot.

2:02:01 I was in a plane that got hit by lightning. You could hear that. Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard British Airways Concorde.

2:02:08 We'll be doing Mach two. Unfortunately, there will be no spectacular booms. That's a very comfortable travel. Enjoy yourself. However, the plane will elongate by 11 inches in flight. Enjoy.

2:02:19 That thing, that thing would get longer

2:02:23 while it was flying. Yeah. The SR 71

2:02:26 used to

2:02:28 change its size and shape, during high speed flight Yeah. Which is why it leaked gas.

2:02:35 Jet fuel leak all over the runway because the thing see only sealed up at at

2:02:41 at speed.

2:02:43 So Logan five says, no Adam. This is what it's a troll.

2:02:48 You fly faster than the sonic wave that the plane creates. Oh, that makes sense.

2:02:53 Yeah. Yeah. That does make sense. Yes. It does. You know what else makes sense?

2:02:56 The fact that I wanna thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, the man who put the sea in the chainsaw of weed weed whacker.

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2:07:15 How is the kennel by the way? Is the kennel full? Is it draining? What's what's the I didn't ask. Well, you gotta ask. We I know. It's how indexes work. Yes. We have to know. Can we put some AI into our index? The kennel index. We gotta put a camera at the kennel. Yes. Yes. There you go. Like the old coffee

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2:10:00 I'd I love the

2:10:01 the spammer we have on

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2:10:07 who is telling us I I never understand this.

2:10:10 Donations will go up if you tell everybody that Tucker should be president. He's the true representative of MAGA.

2:10:17 And the far left and the far right have to get on board with everything anti Israel. I mean, do people really think that that works?

2:10:25 Can you imagine thinking that Tucker

2:10:29 I mean,

2:10:32 Tucker Carlson doesn't wanna be president.

2:10:35 I mean, may be talked into running, but it's a it's a farce.

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2:10:49 Trump has been running for president since the nineteen eighties.

2:10:53 He's talked about it. He has. Yakity yak. Yeah. New book. New book. I'm running for president.

2:10:59 At least sixteen years before he actually ran. Yeah. Yeah. And so then,

2:11:05 and it was predicted by the Simpsons. I mean, it wasn't like some surprise.

2:11:09 And and, and he's always been somewhat political. The other guys that are high profile is people like Ronald Reagan Yeah. Who is high profile, but and he was the governor of California.

2:11:19 Okay. Let's just don't let's discount that. He was the head of the of of the of the Screen Actors Guild, I believe. And he was a left winger turned right winger, which a lot of these guys do that.

2:11:30 And, Spencer Pratt has got a bone to pick. He's

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2:12:06 Every time the Israel issue comes up. Israel is the most important issue of times. John Adams seem to like the idea of Rubio for president instead of Tucker, which is insane.

2:12:17 The next president must be

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2:12:24 That's great.

2:12:27 And this guy's writing constantly.

2:12:30 Oh, yeah. He's a troll. Well, can't you block him?

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2:17:10 with Richard

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2:18:30 is something I like to call the triple Intel threat.

2:18:34 That's oh, treat. I'm sorry. Triple

2:18:36 Intel treat, he even says. That's treat, not threat. Triple Intel treat. As I've donated this amount before, a brief explanation may suffice. It's related to executive order 12 triple three, ah, e o one two three three three. Some of the No Agenda spooks may know what that is, but the number twelve three three three also has special meaning to the numerologists amongst us. Here you have the power of three in many forms, 123.33

2:18:59 times three is 36999.

2:19:03 Wow. Perhaps you noticed that 36999

2:19:05 is three followed by six, which is three plus three, and the Jews did it. I'm sorry. That's

2:19:12 usually what comes out of those things. Followed by nine, which is three plus three plus three or three times three ending with 99, which is 33 times three. Wow.

2:19:21 The guy is really into his numbers, Young.

2:19:26 Did you mute yourself?

2:19:32 Looks like we won't make the twenty years.

2:19:35 You're back. Yeah. What happened? That took a long time.

2:19:40 Yeah. Yeah. Well, you know why?

2:19:42 No. I'm curious. I moved the chair,

2:19:45 unplugged the router, which was tangled up in the chair, the wire on the floor,

2:19:51 pulled the thing down and then jerked it around so much I couldn't get it back on. So I had

2:19:57 so I'm I'm thinking I could get it going, but no. And so

2:20:01 Wow.

2:20:02 Some got bent. So I ended up having to switch networks to to a WiFi third backup that I have downstairs, which is an AT and T connection.

2:20:12 That is a boomer move if I've ever heard one. Awesome.

2:20:16 Awesome. I'm gonna leave some of that in the show. That was pretty good. It was ludicrous.

2:20:23 Anyway,

2:20:25 thank you very much, sir Anonymous, the Viscount of the ADFC in Arapahoe County for your many, many number threes.

2:20:33 Yeah.

2:20:36 Now we go to sir Carl of Cary,

2:20:39 which he calls himself such because he's in Cary, North Carolina,

2:20:44 at 34375.

2:20:45 He says my wife saw this sad puppy, which was the last newsletter,

2:20:50 and I explained what it was about. She actually told me I should send in a donation,

2:20:55 and it's been too long since the last one. Good woman you married to. You did. Also, I wanna make sure you guys don't run out of

2:21:06 out of what?

2:21:08 A ball? Ball? A ball oh, ball cream. Yes. Ball That's a joke for you. That's a reference to the. Yeah. Thank you for your courage. I'm sorry I said that. Sir Kerry, Carlo Kerry.

2:21:22 Yes. Ball Cree.

2:21:24 Ball Cree. There's Dennis Cato, Tampa, Florida,

2:21:27 33333.

2:21:29 And Dennis says, we have been on such a journey over the six weeks since we decided to start supporting the podcast and Adam gave us a shout out for the pain relief gel. Seems like the pain like pain is the one thing everyone has in common nowadays.

2:21:42 Oh, this is Manuka Gold people. We began Manuka Gold with the idea that everyone should have the freedom to handle and manage their own pain when however they want without having to be at the mercy of a never ending gatekeepers of medical system that often rejects natural solutions even if they work. If you've heard about Manuka Gold and our products in a previous show but haven't pulled the trigger,

2:22:03 we

2:22:04 want to give you that extra nudge ahead of Father's Day to put pain relief into your hands rather than rather that be for migraines, muscle pain, back pain, or really any other type of topical pain. No. It doesn't yet work on pains in the ass, but we're working on it.

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2:22:29 Get a free travel size. Yes. Thank you for sending it to me. I realize you do have them. Relief gel. See? We're listening.

2:22:37 We are doing product development now, John. I'm so proud of us. Thank you as always, John and Adam. Thank you,

2:22:43 Dennis, for your product and your support.

2:22:47 Onward with sir Iraq Rock.

2:22:50 Sir Iraq Rock

2:22:52 in Brigantine,

2:22:54 New Jersey,

2:22:55 and he sent a note in

2:22:58 that would jump too.

2:23:00 This actually comes from a Kaneel Bay

2:23:03 letterhead.

2:23:04 John enclosed,

2:23:06 assortment of

2:23:08 eclectic

2:23:09 stuff. Yes.

2:23:10 He sent in a

2:23:12 An assortment of eclectic stuff. Yeah. Yeah. That is Like what? So he's got like a like a

2:23:20 some old some

2:23:21 old stamps, some

2:23:25 looks like a

2:23:27 some sort of shit

2:23:28 from 1928

2:23:30 Germany

2:23:31 Mhmm.

2:23:32 Ration

2:23:35 slip or something. Mhmm. A book Mhmm. Called the vineyards of, Hitler's vineyards,

2:23:41 and it's all good stuff.

2:23:43 Please apply

2:23:44 a check for producer credit, 333.

2:23:48 No jingles, no karma. By the way, if you are a collector,

2:23:51 check out the live auction website,

2:23:54 whatnot.com.

2:23:57 Maybe a good show tip of the day or a way for Adam for you to offload unwanted stuff, smiley face. Sir, Eric, a Eric a k a. Alright.

2:24:09 Wonderful.

2:24:11 Now we have our first associate executive producer with $250,

2:24:15 sir Woody the Phantom from Madison, New Jersey. A lot of New Jerseyites. Hello, New Jersey.

2:24:21 And sends a nice note,

2:24:23 which I have here. ITM John Adam, thank you for your hard work. I'm glad John is back and better than ever. Jury's out. Me me actually,

2:24:32 you are better than ever. I've never like you are today and the last show,

2:24:37 fantastic.

2:24:38 And now you got your noisemakers back, I can I can I can just sense the joy? Are you sleeping at the house as well or just doing the show there?

2:24:45 Well, my bedroom's a mess, so I can't I'm sleeping up at the other house. But the,

2:24:51 so I'm going to this cardiac

2:24:54 rehab.

2:24:56 It's special for, you know, people that had

2:24:58 issues.

2:25:00 Mhmm.

2:25:01 Issues. My legs are like rubber.

2:25:05 Rubber?

2:25:06 Yeah. I got on one of these machines for an hour. Oh, no.

2:25:10 Do they have do they have that mask on your face too? You gotta

2:25:14 No. Luckily, nobody's masked up. No. I mean, one of those that measures your lung pressure. No. No. But no. You have an EKG

2:25:22 Yeah. Hookup.

2:25:23 Mhmm. And then they keep checking your blood pressure so you don't drop dead on one of the machines. Yeah. That would suck.

2:25:28 I mean

2:25:30 I guess it's happened. If you're gonna do it on the show. Don't do it on the treadmill at the hospital. That's no good. You know, so there's a bunch of yes. I know. I realized I I'm I have enough

2:25:39 I have enough background in in the biz to know to do this. Know what to do.

2:25:46 You know how show business works. Exactly.

2:25:50 This

2:25:51 is dark people.

2:25:53 Onward with Sarah Woody the Phantoms. Mimi did a great job covering in John's absence.

2:25:58 I enjoyed the tips of the day. They are very useful.

2:26:01 What is the name of the song that plays on the outro? It's quite lovely.

2:26:06 Yes. That is

2:26:07 oh, goodness.

2:26:09 Keep forgetting. It's this I think it's this

2:26:12 Starland vocal trio.

2:26:14 Let me see.

2:26:17 Yeah. You got that. That was the olden days that

2:26:20 those were all public domain songs that you had somehow created a website

2:26:25 so you could use the Right? That I don't remember.

2:26:28 I do.

2:26:30 Let

2:26:31 me see if I can find it.

2:26:34 I should I should I'll find it for next show. It's something like Pod the Free or something called Oh oh, you mean the

2:26:41 the

2:26:44 oh, goodness.

2:26:45 You don't even keep up with all the stuff you're doing. Yeah. Well, you know, it's hey, low tea. What can I tell you? Hey, there was a show there was an operation called Pod Show. Yes. I do. You ran it. Do you know that? Yes. I do.

2:26:59 It was Podsafe Music Network. Thank you.

2:27:03 The Podsafe Music Network. Do you remember it thank you to somebody in the chat room who came up with it? No. I said myself. Wasn't even looking at the chat room. Oh, you thank yourself. Okay. I'm I'm still I'm still looking for the the music and I can't find it. I mean, I have the music obviously,

2:27:17 but the

2:27:20 it just says, n a closer tune easy, but that's not the I'll find it for you. I'll find it. Okay? Promise I'll find it.

2:27:28 And so I'll find it. I'd like some house search karma doggy style, please. Well, yes. We got that.

2:27:34 You've got

2:27:40 karma.

2:27:45 Where was that?

2:27:48 Which one did you read?

2:27:50 Oh, the the note, the third note. Oh, so I'm on La Jolla Salt Corp. Yeah. Correct. Yeah. He's in La Jolla, California.

2:27:58 Yes.

2:27:59 La Jolla to you outsiders. $210.60.

2:28:04 Normally, we'd we we would interrupt

2:28:07 this regularly scheduled

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2:28:12 to recommend

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2:28:21 But not today. No.

2:28:23 Mhmm.

2:28:24 People, as of this writing, we are less halfway to seeing John's Dvorak studio. Mhmm. If you have a Instagram account, please follow No Agenda podcast on Instagram right now.

2:28:36 It costs nothing.

2:28:37 Mhmm.

2:28:38 See the mic that takes the bumps? Yep. Yeah. I'm quite aware.

2:28:43 The chair that makes the squeaks? Yep. You're back home. You're home. Yep.

2:28:52 Hello? The Bakelite phone that brings the rings and the jar of lozenges.

2:28:56 Well, that lozenge. We're on the brink of history.

2:29:01 It's the season of reveal, people, and all it takes is a follow. Go podcasting.

2:29:05 Go podcasting.

2:29:09 Well, you found it? Yeah. I found it. Yeah. I actually, I asked the robot

2:29:14 and the robot is now looking for what the name of the track is. Go robot, go. Go robot, go. Eli the coffee guy, $2.00 6 and 7¢. He's always giving us $200

2:29:25 along with the the date 06/07.

2:29:27 That's a 06/07,

2:29:29 I said it. Gentlemen,

2:29:30 your compliments

2:29:31 put an ear to ear grin on my face.

2:29:34 When you said I not only make great coffee, but I rate write great copy too.

2:29:39 Coming up with something fun and original isn't easy, but you do it every single show twice a week for 18 years and you make it look effortless.

2:29:47 The least I can do is bring my a game when I return some value.

2:29:51 The other value I return is great coffee

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2:30:02 says,

2:30:03 Levi the coffee guy. Levi. Eli the coffee guy. Levi. Levi. He's Levi. Yes.

2:30:11 Onward with,

2:30:14 we have Linda Lupatkin at Castle Rock, Colorado

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2:30:25 and most don't

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2:30:31 You okay,

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2:30:35 Yes.

2:30:37 Oh, wow.

2:30:39 Alright.

2:30:43 No. Take it.

2:30:44 What? Take what? I thought you were gonna do it. Read read Linda's thing off so I don't cough to death. Oh, okay. I was doing something else. Yes. Linda's thing.

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2:31:31 Okay. I'll wrap it up with sir William of Batonbridge Island in

2:31:35 Batonbridge,

2:31:36 Washington.

2:31:38 ITM.

2:31:41 Oh, man. Sir William Oh, man. I don't know. I I just got You're a mess. All of a sudden dried out. No. It's okay. No. We're with you. We understand. We under you were on the treadmill. You know, was bad. Sure. It's real bad.

2:31:53 Sir William of Bainbridge Island here. I've been traveling

2:31:57 a lot for work

2:31:59 the last couple of weeks, but as always, the No Agenda show keeps me up to date. Thanks for all you do.

2:32:06 No jingles, no karma. And now we continue. Oh, first I should say, I wanna thank these people properly. Thank you very much to all of our executive and associate executive producers.

2:32:16 These titles are real titles, anywhere Hollywood recognizes these types of titles, which can also be on your LinkedIn, your social media profile, but especially imdb.com.

2:32:26 Go do it. You're legit.

2:32:28 Our formula is this. We

2:32:30 go out,

2:32:32 we hit people in the mouth.

2:32:40 Order. Shut up, slaves.

2:32:43 Shut up, slaves. I am very cognizant

2:32:47 of the sounds you hear on today's podcast. I'm clearing my throat. John's hawking up a lung. I mean, people

2:32:55 call us boomers, ancient boomers and you know, all we're doing is helping them.

2:32:59 We need to be careful. We can't be careful with this.

2:33:03 Now, we would like to thank the rest of our supporters in the Yeah. Time, Talent, Treasure for $50 and above. Dame Danny, Weed, California.

2:33:12 $12,468.45.

2:33:15 And I will say she laughed so hard during the HRT conversation.

2:33:18 Thank you. Okay.

2:33:20 Sir h of s f,

2:33:22 no longer the gayest city in America, $100.

2:33:26 Oh, he said What HRT conversation?

2:33:28 Well, it was about the about the testosterone.

2:33:31 What's HRT?

2:33:33 Human

2:33:34 hormone replacement. Yes.

2:33:37 Sir, of s f, $100. We're trying to move to cal move

2:33:41 California from California to Japan in August.

2:33:45 Previous attempt failed because of health issues, I could use John's

2:33:49 hot pocket karma

2:33:50 to make sure it's a successful

2:33:52 move. Well, I I will give you a hot A backup and a back Oops.

2:33:56 Hot pockets. That's what I'll give you. Alright. So you gotta That'll do it. You gotta hot that'll help for sure. Hey,

2:34:05 the boob donation, $80.08.

2:34:07 Eight zero zero eight calculator kids, you know what that's about. Kevin McLaughlin, he is the Archduke of Luna, lover of America and boobs. He's in Concord, North Carolina, supports us every single episode

2:34:16 and always says, God bless America and melons.

2:34:20 Marius

2:34:21 Marius who

2:34:24 is in Lirasstreim,

2:34:25 I think in Norway.

2:34:29 And

2:34:30 they also have boob donation.

2:34:32 And he says, my last donation in my thirties, no jingles, no karma, just want to be on the birthday list for starting the forties on Monday. Keep on keeping Alright,

2:34:41 Marius.

2:34:41 Ashley Larson, Ham Lake in Minnesota, 6777.

2:34:45 Switch through for my brother Chad. Chad Larson in commemoration of his forty ninth trip around the sun.

2:34:51 Scott Nuzzo, Dubois,

2:34:53 Wyoming.

2:34:54 I presume it's Dubois. It could be Dubois.

2:34:58 Yeah, please. It's Wyoming.

2:35:00 $66.89.

2:35:02 Doubles. I would request a happy birthday shout out to my brother Craig who turned 37 on the sixth. Thank you both for all you do. Birthday birthday. He's

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2:35:19 in honor of my human resources, AJ,

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2:35:30 by adding a 6520

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2:35:58 That was a good one. Another

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2:36:43 been de douched. I'm sorry. Is that Missouri? MS. Is that miss No. No. Jackson, Mississippi. Very famous town. I got it right. Yay. And Yeah. You got it right. And then you stopped And I then I screwed myself up. Andrew Grasso

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2:37:23 with 50, just no name. I had two apostrophes.

2:37:27 Well, somebody with no name. Carrie Jackson, Watertown, Tennessee and Walker Phillips rounds us out from San Rafael, California with $50. Thank you so much everybody for supporting the best podcast in the universe. You can take that to your grave. You helped us out and you can do that anytime you want. It is value for value after all. All you have to do is go to noagendadonations.com.

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2:37:54 Thank you all for your undying support.

2:38:02 So there we go. We say happy birthday to Adam, born on June 5. Happy birthday. Welcome to the universe, human resource. Scott Nuzzo, happy birthday to his brother who turned 37 yesterday.

2:38:13 Turning

2:38:14 40,

2:38:15 tomorrow, your last day in the thirties. And Ashley Larson wishes her brother Chad Larson a very happy birthday. He turns 49 years old. And we say happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe. It's your birthday half. We do not have title changes, but we are blessed with

2:38:34 Behold the order of the heart,

2:38:38 pure of purpose,

2:38:48 Yes. These are the Order of the Hearts knights,

2:38:52 Red Knights.

2:38:53 In fact,

2:38:55 one of them shall be knighted momentarily.

2:38:57 Our two Order of the Hearts today go to sir doctor Viscount,

2:39:02 Lord of Cotlin,

2:39:03 and Richard Gerhardt,

2:39:05 very soon to be sir

2:39:07 heart.

2:39:14 Pure of purpose.

2:39:15 Right from the stars in the morning.

2:39:18 Brave and

2:39:24 And limited supply, those are running out. Please stand clear of the closing doors.

2:39:31 We have a layaway

2:39:32 knights coming up,

2:39:35 so I'm gonna read his note. It is

2:39:37 Bobby Bow from Bluegrass, Iowa.

2:39:40 And

2:39:41 Bobby says, I'd like to dedicate my layaway knighthood posthumously to my dad, Hank.

2:39:45 My dad became a No Agenda listener after I punched him in the mouth in the summer of twenty twenty four. Sadly, my dad passed away unexpectedly

2:39:52 in March

2:39:54 2025.

2:39:54 Is there any there's never a good time, never an expected time.

2:39:58 My dad was a conspiracy therapist and follower of Christ. It would mean the world to me to bestow this honor on him and have him recognized as sir Hot Rod Hank of the Raccoon River Valley. Absolutely. Please make sure there's plenty of Tang and Shanghai spring rolls at the round table. Tang.

2:40:16 I haven't heard Tang in a long time. Wow. If possible,

2:40:19 I know he'd love to hear the jingles. I got ants and the backup to the backup to the backup. A backup and a backup to that backup and a backup to the backup to the backup. Yeah. No problem. And we'll follow it with some karma.

2:40:34 I got ants.

2:40:40 I got ants.

2:40:46 You got karma.

2:40:50 Alright. So now grab the blade, mister Dvorak. We have

2:40:56 some knights to take care of here.

2:40:58 Very nice.

2:41:00 So

2:41:01 sir, Richard Gerhardt, step on up and

2:41:05 in spirit.

2:41:07 Hank,

2:41:08 we are here to honor you. Thank you both very much for your support of the No Agenda show directly or indirectly. I am very proud to pronounce the KB as

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2:41:31 Don't forget the beer and the blunts, the Rubeness women in rose, the geishas and sake, the ginger ale and gerbils, breast milk and pablum, and of course, the mutton and the mead.

2:41:42 It's all right here. Noagendarings.com

2:41:44 is where you can pick them up. I'm sure your son will pick them up, sir Hot Rod Hank,

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2:41:55 Anybody can go to this website,

2:41:57 take a look at it. You will see the handsome No Agenda knight rings also for Dame's. The Signet rings, that means you can use the wax which we include in your package to seal your important correspondence very much like

2:42:09 Zelensky sent to Putin. You know, I'm gonna send you a a letter, a sternly worded letter and I'm gonna seal it with my wax.

2:42:17 And it also is accompanied of with a

2:42:20 certificate of authenticity.

2:42:22 I did wanna thank

2:42:24 see, it went to the p o box, our p o box here.

2:42:28 And I got a a note from sir Darius Unity.

2:42:31 He is the he always sends he sends me a new copy of his book. I keep giving away because I have a couple of them. It's the Wartime Snapshots.

2:42:39 He's the guy who, Iraq vet and, he he published a book of pictures of him in Iraq. Oh, yes. This is a I I wanted to thank him for giving yeah. He sent me one Mhmm. And one for Mimi. Wanted to thank him for that.

2:42:52 And, they're great. He's a good guy. Yes. His, his brand is War N Tees. War N Tees.

2:43:00 And

2:43:02 oh, the book is updated. I didn't realize that.

2:43:05 And he helps homeless

2:43:07 and hopeless vets. And he also sent me a

2:43:11 Florida Goldback,

2:43:13 which is one two thousandth of a troy ounce.

2:43:17 Did you get one of those? Yep. That's cool. So what is that one two thousandth of a troy ounce? Like a buck?

2:43:23 No. It's like $2.

2:43:25 Yeah. How much is no.

2:43:28 $12,000

2:43:29 is probably $2. Yeah. $2. It was nice. Thank you very much.

2:43:34 Thank you to

2:43:36 Matt Benjamin who sent me his book, Back to the Beginning.

2:43:40 He said, well, you can always use this QR he's doing Value4Value

2:43:44 with this book, Back to the Beginning. He says, you can always just scan this QR code, Adam, get the PDF and have your robot tell you what the book's about. But

2:43:53 I'm actually enjoying it. It's Well, that's an interesting idea. Yeah. Wisdom from Genesis for Modern Life. I like that very much. Thank you so much. Was there anything else? No. Okay. Good. That means it's time for the meet ups. No one should have meet ups.

2:44:10 It's kinda funny.

2:44:12 So it looks like there's no well, of course, it is it is vacation

2:44:17 time, so there's no meet ups until this coming Saturday. That is June 13. That's when the Treasure Valley Boise Meetup Is that Juneteenth?

2:44:26 No. That's the fourteenth.

2:44:28 Juneteenth.

2:44:29 I know it's the eighteenth. No. Juneteenth is the eighteenth. The nineteenth. I don't know what it is.

2:44:34 Treasure Valley Boise meet up on the thirteenth,

2:44:36 03:00 at Green Acres Food Truck Park in Boise, Idaho. That should be fun. Also on the thirteenth, the Franklin Place to be. Franklin slices and sips meet up. That'll be at Salvo's Pizza in Franklin, Tennessee.

2:44:50 Looking forward to meet up reports. People will definitely get one, from the meet up on the fourteenth in Indianapolis, Indiana. The eighteenth, Charlotte, North Carolina.

2:44:58 The twenty sixth, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The twenty seventh, Fort Wayne, Indiana. The twenty seventh oh, Albany, California. Oh, you're gonna go to the Albany, California, twenty seventh? I don't I I know nothing about it. It's it's saying This is totally new to me. It even says new. New. New. New. When

2:45:14 is this date? The twenty seventh.

2:45:16 New. June 27? Yes. So it's probably a second. I I shall be there. I don't see any reason why not.

2:45:23 And the twenty eighth, Longview, Texas and many more ahead

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2:45:40 I had hoped to get the

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2:45:51 The guy who organizes gotta be Besides

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2:46:43 Yeah. Remember we have John's

2:46:45 revised tip of the day coming up. I'm very excited with this revisionism. I I've never really had any influence on him at all and certainly not on the tip of the day, so this should be fun.

2:46:55 But before we get to that and our end of show mixes, we have to select the end of show ISO which will be played at the very end of the show.

2:47:02 I've got three and seems like you've got some celebrity ISO so I will go first. Are you ready? Yeah. Here comes Bendover. Man, maybe these conspiracy people are right about everything.

2:47:15 Little

2:47:16 on the long side, but I kinda liked it.

2:47:19 Yeah. He's number two. That about sums it up. No. I've got cut off again. No. It's no good. It's no good. It's no good. Here's one. We've done it for a long time.

2:47:30 I kinda like my first Man, maybe these conspiracy people are right about everything. Alright. Yeah. I kinda like that one too. It's good. Let's see what you have. Well, I got some celebrities. I got,

2:47:40 you know, I've been going to these different sites. There are just a million of them now. Yeah. Every I think a lot of them are basing on the same Model. Models. I it's hard to say. Some of these models are no good. This

2:47:50 is for example, Morgan Freeman.

2:47:52 The No Agenda podcast is great, so donate.

2:47:56 Doesn't sound like him at all. I know a guy who can do Morgan Freeman.

2:48:01 Well, have him do some jingles. I will. I will. Yes. I agree. It's not that one that I'm dumping that one out of the player. That's no good.

2:48:11 Here's Trump. Folks, make podcasting great again with the No Agenda podcast

2:48:16 and donate today.

2:48:19 Also close,

2:48:21 but

2:48:22 not it's not really him, you know. I didn't really let me hear it again. Folks, make podcasting great again with the No Agenda podcast

2:48:30 and donate today. It's like Trump and and Jason Kalakannis

2:48:34 had a kid and then made an ISO.

2:48:38 No. I I have to reject it. I'm sorry. It's just not good enough. I when they're good I'm not gonna argue the point because the thing that bothers me about their about their model for Trump is he can't end a sentence.

2:48:51 Right. Donate today.

2:48:53 Yeah. No. It's no good. And also And I I Believe me. I worked it. I spent a good ten minutes Well, I'm sure you changing the copy

2:49:00 and I still couldn't get the ending to come out correctly.

2:49:03 It was also almost as long as the podcast itself. So that was, you know It wasn't that bad.

2:49:10 Does Yours is long okay. What's it? The timing on yours, the one that you're gonna pick and this one, I think yours is longer. No. Minus three seconds. Yours is five seconds.

2:49:20 I will play them at the same time

2:49:23 to prove my point. Three, two, one. Man, maybe this conspiracy can work right with No Agenda podcast

2:49:29 and donate today. Okay.

2:49:32 Wow.

2:49:33 You've come up with new trickery to humiliate

2:49:36 me. Time for tip of the day.

2:49:47 Okay. I think people have to,

2:49:50 the AI thing needs to be tempered.

2:49:53 So when the whole thing collapses, you're not Yeah. Gonna be taken, oh my god. What a shocker.

2:50:00 So you want there's a Substack out there that is the the guy. He is the guy,

2:50:06 who is the

2:50:07 expert on an AI expert who is also a naysayer.

2:50:11 His name is Gary Ed Zitron? Ed Zitron.

2:50:14 No. Gary Marcus.

2:50:17 Gary back east. Gary Mark everybody knows him.

2:50:21 Gary Marcus dot Substack dot com.

2:50:24 And just read his material and you will have a very

2:50:28 What is his grounded sense of where this is going, why it's no good,

2:50:33 why it's gonna fail, how it's gonna fail, and all the rest of it. He's he is the best at this. Do you think that if AI was really good, it could avoid the bubble popping itself?

2:50:47 That's

2:50:48 a good one.

2:50:51 Gary Marcus, what is his latest,

2:50:54 insights that you have read? Can you paraphrase? Last one that I remember was he he commented

2:50:59 on the market crash, a Friday,

2:51:02 which was really AI,

2:51:04 AI crash.

2:51:05 And he discusses why and how,

2:51:08 and it's actually very he writes a little long,

2:51:12 but not in a boring long way, just long. Okay.

2:51:17 Is he a boomer?

2:51:19 I don't know. I never I don't even know how old he is. He's really good though. Well, I will investigate and I will report back on this tip of the day, which of course you can find at noagendafun.com

2:51:29 or tipoftheday.net.

2:51:40 Created by Dana Berneti. Now let me take a look real quick. Let me see if the robot find found out what this is called.

2:51:47 Oh,

2:51:47 no.

2:51:50 No.

2:51:52 No. I'll have to find some other way. The robot failed. AI is no good.

2:51:59 Although,

2:52:00 when you listen to this mix of end of show mixes,

2:52:04 which includes

2:52:05 Ian Cummings,

2:52:07 is new.

2:52:08 He's got the toe tapper in the middle. We have Just Baker and MVP

2:52:13 all sandwiched

2:52:15 together for our end of show mix. Yes. It's not bad. It's a little bit in your face here and there, but it's not bad.

2:52:21 At least the lyrics are about the show and telling you to donate.

2:52:26 So please consider doing that at noagendadonations.com,

2:52:30 and we will return on Thursday to deconstruct the media,

2:52:35 try and help make sense of the world together and with you. And I am coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country in Fredericksburg,

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2:52:43 In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where we're all saying the same thing, ditch your smartphones.

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2:58:03 Man, maybe these conspiracy people are right about everything.