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0:00 You know, this guy is a crank.

0:02 Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. It's Thursday, 06/18/2026.

0:07 This is your award winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination episode eighteen seventy eight. This is No Agenda.

0:13 We're all raving

0:15 about ranch and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA region number six in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam Curry.

0:24 Yeah. And from Refinery Row,

0:26 where, we're all concerned about the big report of the rapists in The UK. I'm John C. Dvorak.

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

0:36 The rapists from The UK.

0:38 I don't even wanna know.

0:41 Are they here? See the report? No. Well, it depends. I mean, there's a lot of reports in the world. What report?

0:48 Oh, it's a big 250 page report on the grooming gangs and the 250,000

0:54 girls raped.

0:55 Did we need a report?

0:58 Apparently, the Brits did. Did we really need a report? Oh, by the way, quad

1:03 screen,

1:04 Obama,

1:05 wall to wall Obama opening up the Presidential

1:09 Center. It's not a library apparently, it's a center.

1:13 Oh, well. It's good to see him back. Talking about the

1:17 tower.

1:18 Yeah. The tower.

1:20 So Yeah. I just wanna start with something really nice.

1:24 Oh.

1:25 Oh.

1:27 I spent a couple hours, which is I which as we discussed before we started the show is two.

1:33 Couple hours

1:35 just enjoying

1:37 all of the videos on x

1:40 and subsequently on YouTube, that's all I really have. I don't have

1:44 Instagram or anything else

1:46 of

1:48 tourists,

1:48 mainly Europeans, but some Australians and

1:53 Japanese

1:54 who

1:55 have discovered that America is awesome.

1:59 Have you seen any of these? I've seen all of them. You don't think they're staged?

2:04 No.

2:05 No.

2:06 You don't think they were put together by the FIFA people to to get more come people to come over to these soccer matches? Oh, yeah. Okay. Sure.

2:14 No. I'm just asking if I you don't think

2:16 said no, and then you ask the question again. So the answer is no. Well, no. I reasked it in a different manner. Hey, these stadiums of 70,000 people are full. It's not like people aren't going to the games.

2:27 But I, you know, the I no. I how how is this about FIFA? It's people

2:33 enjoying

2:34 our hospitality,

2:35 how friendly people are, that people say hello, they're loving the they cannot believe that the school buses in America are actually yellow school buses.

2:44 It's like the way I see it,

2:47 all of Europe, of course, we've had the same programming,

2:51 have been brainwashed into thinking all we are is just one big bunch of racist,

2:56 crazy people who are fat Shooting at each other. Fat and lazy, shooting at each other with a dictator running the whole show.

3:04 And now, of course, you know, people are like, wow, we

3:09 really love your fast food or your food in general,

3:12 chicken fried steak,

3:14 waffles,

3:16 pancakes.

3:18 I mean, they have pancakes, but, you know, pancakes with chicken,

3:21 waffles with chicken.

3:25 You know, people only know us from the move if you've never been to America and you only see it

3:30 America through the lens of the movies and television shows

3:33 and Grand Theft Auto,

3:36 you know, I think people are amazed that on one hand they feel like they're living in the movie because, yeah, the houses really look like that. Big obsession with our fire hydrants.

3:47 This is this is fascinating.

3:49 People just loving the fire hydrants.

3:55 Okay.

3:56 Well, I'm glad you're getting a kick out of it.

3:58 Well I like the guys roaming around at midnight saying, hey, I'm not getting mugged.

4:03 Well, that's the South African guy. Yeah. And and it wasn't even at midnight, it was it was during the day, like, women are walking through the park. No. There was a guy at midnight roaming around. Same guy.

4:14 Oh, okay. At a truck stop. And of course, you know, this is just different if you go to New York City or you're in Downtown Los Angeles. How about Oakland? Take them down to International

4:24 Boulevard.

4:25 Well, I I think this is I think this has changed attitudes. I think it's changed American attitudes.

4:31 People like, yeah, you know, we kinda take it for granted that we have Costco and and Walmart

4:38 and Buc ee's,

4:40 but also we have small diners and we have dive bars and ice houses and cowboy ranches. I think the people who came to Texas who went, you know, really outside of

4:51 even people who went to Fort Worth, which is touristy,

4:55 but went a little bit further. No. People are exploring and they're really loving our country.

5:01 And I like it. And they're saying, hey, you guys are patriotic. You got flags everywhere. We're not even allowed to put up flags in our country.

5:09 You've got prayer on the bottom of your cups.

5:12 No. I I I'm not so cynical as you. I I think it's great. I I think it's I've been to Sweden. Every other house has got a flag twenty four seven all day of the year.

5:23 They're flag nuts. I was talking about The UK specifically. Oh, well, The UK. Well, they can't put a flag because it's illegal. It's hate speech. Exactly.

5:32 Exactly.

5:33 You got people going to gun ranges, holding a gun for the first time in their life.

5:38 And like, well, that wasn't that's, you know, they're real they're shaking like, oh, I'm gonna shoot this gun. I'm gonna shoot this gun. And then after they shot the gun, oh, wanna shoot that some more.

5:48 So I don't I you know, they love our cars.

5:52 They love the the the Dodge Charger. They love our trucks.

5:57 And they and the amount of people who are so surprised that the yellow school buses are actually yellow school buses. They they just they're joyous.

6:06 It's it's it's just I find it interesting, fascinating

6:10 and also endearing and I'm proud to be an American and I'm happy that people are here. There was no setup for this. FIFA did no marketing. You know why? No one did any marketing because it was Trump's deal. So the the media didn't talk about it, you know, it's Trump FIFA.

6:25 I'm not talking about it, you know, any reports about it. There's no FIFA fever.

6:29 Turns out,

6:30 people love it. People love coming here.

6:35 They always have. It's been a tourist attraction forever.

6:39 Yeah. But I I just don't find it to be

6:42 it's something fishy about it. I'm sorry. I'm glad you enjoy it. I'm glad you like it. I'm glad you've you're happy.

6:50 Nobody puts flags up around here.

6:52 Well, no. You're in California.

6:54 What do expect? Yeah. Yeah. Well, I don't hear anybody

6:57 That's why you're so grouchy about it. You live in the worst possibly the worst state now, the worst area

7:04 in the country where everyone's just grouchy and and sour and upset

7:10 and not happy. You know, you're an ex you're an

7:14 exception,

7:15 but it's gotta it's gotta wear down on you.

7:18 Not really.

7:20 Yeah. Okay. I find it relaxing.

7:24 Well, you're a different I don't think you're the stereotypical American.

7:30 Nor do you live in a stereotypical American place.

7:33 You just don't.

7:35 Anyway,

7:37 so Well, on the topic of the well, since we're making these comparisons, do wanna play this crazy clip that that which are are You've gone from you've gone from screwball to crazy. Okay.

7:47 Do do Duke or Duke, Foley sent over. I said, I should play that clip.

7:54 This is, The UK,

7:56 and this is the the bonus clip.

7:58 UK and GDP

7:59 rank.

8:00 We are poorer than every single US state. When voters were asked to guess where The UK would rank in terms of GDP per capita, if it were a US state, gave on average the response of seven. The actual answer is fifty first.

8:15 Many people in Britain today do not fully grasp how far we have been fading. People, of course, have a general sense that our economy has not been growing strongly enough for some time, but too many tend to think we are still much richer than most of our peers. And the fact is, we are not. We are poorer than every single US state. Yeah. That's why people are coming here. They're like, you guys are rich.

8:39 Everything's big. Well, we've always have been. But the, the interesting thing is that the,

8:44 the the I looked it up. Come on. So I looked it up. I think it's probably true. And in fact, the the

8:51 per capita GDP of a of The UK is $52,000.

8:56 Mhmm.

8:57 The worst state in The United States for for per

9:01 capita GDP is Mississippi

9:03 at 55,000.

9:06 Wow. And there's a number of states with a 100, a 110,

9:09 one eighteen,

9:11 one zero eight. I think it's California's one zero eight. Well, that's you have 2% that make up for the rest. So yeah. Yeah. It was it's still the the it's still the fact is

9:22 The UK's

9:24 per capita GDP is terrible. Yeah. That's Compared to us. Yes.

9:30 And they have no money. They're broke. That's why the the defense secretary went, I quit. We can't defend this country. I'm not gonna take that on me.

9:37 So I'm out of here.

9:39 Yeah. He took somebody with him too. I forgot who.

9:41 Okay.

9:42 So while we're on The UK,

9:46 man,

9:47 on the on the media, NPR,

9:50 these people

9:52 are

9:53 I mean, they are sick sick and crazy.

9:56 So we've had these we haven't. There's been the the riots in Ireland. And of course, it's coming in in Northern England and everything. It's all it's all gonna happen. There's there's there's mutiny. There's civil riots.

10:09 And on the media

10:11 on the media

10:13 decides to not discuss at all why people are rioting,

10:17 but blame it all

10:19 on Elon Musk. This is On the Media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

10:23 And I'm Michael Lowinger. This

10:25 week, Elon Musk took his company SpaceX public in an IPO billed as the largest in history. SpaceX

10:32 is on track to become the most valuable company ever to go public and make its founder Elon Musk the first trillionaire.

10:39 You'd think he'd have his hands full with that, but apparently Musk has also had time to write many, many, many racist posts.

10:48 Many many

10:51 on X.

10:52 Some of which helped spark violent riots in The UK over the last couple of weeks.

10:58 The events this week began on Monday when a Sudanese man was arrested and charged with attempted murder for stabbing a white man in Northern Ireland.

11:08 Attack comes Stabbing. With an escalating tension Hold on. Between here.

11:13 This guy tried to chop the guy's head off and then gouged out his eyes.

11:18 Oh, yeah. No. You're wrong, man. This is not the problem. And charged with attempted murder for stabbing a white man in Northern Ireland.

11:27 The attack comes amid escalating tension over immigration across Europe. A video of the gruesome incident immediately appeared on social media and then Elon Musk writing on X this week, only by protesting repeatedly

11:41 and loudly will there be any change. Okay. So the implication here from our friends at NPR

11:48 is that, oh, the video was on social media, but it wasn't until Elon Musk

11:52 started tweeting about it that everything kicked off.

11:56 So Tommy Tommy Robinson, you know who Tommy Robinson is. Of course. What would you call him if you had, you know, like, he is a Tommy Robinson is a fill in the blank.

12:08 He's a a natural born troublemaker

12:12 who is a a patriot a UK patriot.

12:15 Spurred in part by posts from a notorious conspiracy theorist.

12:19 Tommy Robinson is the most prominent far right activist in The UK. So so on the media calls him a conspiracy theorist because everything he's saying is made up, you see. There's no immigration problem. There's no rape going on. Nothing like that. The guy's just filled with conspiracy theories. David Gilbert is a reporter at Wired covering disinformation Wired. And online extremism.

12:41 When did Wired cover disinformation

12:44 and online extremism?

12:45 Big disinformation.

12:47 I I mean, I'm I'm afraid I'm I'm actually ashamed that I was on the cover of Wired magazine with my face on an iPod now. Back when it was something cool. It was like being on the cover, you know, if you're in fashion on the cover of Vanity Fair. Really? How about your face on the cover of Wired? How come it's it's not on the wall?

13:06 It is. It's in the garage.

13:08 That's where I hang all my stuff now. He said that there was really had a wall.

13:12 Yeah. In the garage.

13:14 Do we when did it go to the garage? I thought it was in the house. No. When we No. When we moved to this house five years ago,

13:21 I said, I'm tired of all this crap in the house and and I don't need these high school trophies. So I got rid of the trophies

13:28 and then moved No. I've always kept the trophies. And we've talked about this. I that I it's I well, you never talked about I always knew about the wall but I I never knew that you moved it to the garage or a closet. Yeah. And it's it's much more like, you know, where guys hang out in the garage, they got forward signs on the wall, Valvoline,

13:48 you know, RC Cola. Yeah. That's so I have a wall there. I'll I'll take a picture of it. I'll post it. Extremism.

13:55 He says things really heated up after Elon Musk reposted one of Robinson's videos. He has

14:02 a huge amount of followers online.

14:04 What he's really expert at is

14:06 inciting

14:07 anger,

14:08 stoking tensions,

14:10 it seem as if The UK is under attack from minorities.

14:15 Well, minorities. Notice how they move the goalposts on everything. It's under attack. No. It's under attack from immigrants who have got on a boat that came in and your country said, oh, immigrants.

14:27 Well, let them stay here, give them some money, give them a give them a hotel room.

14:31 So here is the twenty four hour road map

14:34 from

14:35 Musk to Mayhem. Give me the road map of how we went from a bystander video to violence in the streets. A bystander video.

14:45 Can

14:46 you believe this?

14:48 They're calling that that quasi beheading, eye gouging,

14:53 throat stabbing a bystander

14:55 video.

14:56 What is wrong with these people?

14:59 That's just I I'm I'm I'm flummoxed. Give me the road map of how we went from a bystander video to violence in the streets of Belfast in just twenty four hours.

15:10 As you said, it was 10:30 at night in Belfast.

15:13 Someone videoed it. We don't know who. They posted it online. Exactly one hour later, Tommy Robinson posted the video. That video got 6,000,000 views.

15:22 A few hours later, Elon Musk responded to Tommy Robinson and then spent the next twenty four hours posting consistently

15:28 about this case. Many major US accounts on X started amplifying the video when people woke up in The UK on Tuesday morning after the incident.

15:38 By 7AM, people were posting about having protests in Belfast and other cities in Northern Ireland. Far right groups on Facebook started organizing.

15:47 Then Elon Musk posted about the protest and said that this is enough. We have to take a stance. People have to push back against this.

15:55 And by 7PM that evening, there were masked men on the street who were kicking in doors of migrants, setting fire to vehicles,

16:04 terrorizing migrant communities across Belfast.

16:06 I I find this to be just amazing.

16:10 They have moved from an actual problem that they won't report on to blaming it on Elon Musk and and and his posts.

16:20 I don't know. It's just like this is

16:23 this is this is very pathetic

16:26 and they continue. Elon Musk wrote murderous migrants beheading innocent people in their hometown

16:32 is what's making people angry, not social media.

16:36 He reposted messages claiming that British prime minister, Keir Starmer,

16:41 quote, hates white people.

16:43 This is just like white supremacist great replacement theory. Right?

16:47 It has been repackaged recently under a term called remigration,

16:51 which is something that has been bubbling up in Europe for a few years and has been embraced by the Trump administration recently.

16:57 Right. It's this idea that white people are under attack and so therefore we need to kick everyone else out that doesn't look like us. So

17:07 they they pull it to racism continuously.

17:11 So yes, it's a they say replacement theory,

17:15 which is a cover for the actual document that exists,

17:19 which is replacement migration United Nations document.

17:23 I read the documents, man. We've talked about it. You can find it on bingit.io.

17:28 It was a real plan and they're executing that plan. It's been going on for a quarter century.

17:33 What are these people imagining would happen? Imagining.

17:37 They have a thirty year plan that would happen in three phases. The first phase would see the worst of the worst, what we're seeing in The US at the moment, they're trying to deport people who are a threat to society of criminal records and are there illegally.

17:50 The second phase would see people who are

17:53 in the country legally but are not citizens and who have not assimilated and are not white, and they should be sent back to their countries as well. But what the third phase shows is what these people really want.

18:06 They would look at citizens who do not assimilate to the Western cultures, traditions and religions.

18:13 For example, if they are still practising religions other than Christianity, if they are cooking foods that are not traditional foods in Germany or France or The UK or America. Wait. Like Indian food? Like Bullshit.

18:24 We're gonna get rid of that. You've been to Britain. They eat Indian food like it's going out of style. In fact, takeout in in in The UK refers to Indian for not Chinese like it does here. Yeah. Exactly. Now this is crazy. Then they would be kicked out. And who gets to decide what assimilation

18:42 looks like?

18:46 When I asked Martin Sellner, was called the godfather of remigration at the conference in Portugal Wait. Get a time code.

18:53 You like that one? I have to hear that again.

18:59 Okay. You have a time code. You got a time code. Consider it done. Who exactly decides this? He couldn't really give me an answer. Let me go back to what actually started it. And by the as you're doing Who this gets

19:11 Well, as you're doing this, I'm scrolling through the Elon Musk

19:15 timeline. Very good. This bullcrap

19:18 is mostly Elon Elon. Yeah. He mentions it now and again, but he's yakking about SpaceX and Grok 90%

19:26 of the time.

19:27 He's promoting stuff.

19:29 Yeah. Exactly. He's got other things to do.

19:32 To decide what assimilation

19:34 looks like. When

19:36 I asked Martin Sellner, who was called the godfather of remigration at the conference in Portugal, who exactly decides this, he couldn't really give me an answer.

19:44 Ultimately, it comes up to whoever's in power will decide. Say what?

19:48 Elon Musk. Yeah. Elon knows the side. He's in charge of it all, apparently.

19:53 Yes. Well, she'll bring me to a clip now that you mention it. Okay.

19:59 From Pivot.

20:00 Oh,

20:01 no.

20:04 From Pivot. So I unfortunately, you can't. If you if you visualize,

20:08 you could see a little better. But I didn't realize on the Pivot show, this is a

20:15 your buddies

20:16 yakking about Elon

20:18 and and

20:20 and Kara is just in the as as

20:24 what's his name? Yaks on. She mumbles,

20:27 oh, yeah. Oh, he's terrible. Oh, she just keeps mumbling little bitty ditties

20:32 under her breath the whole time.

20:35 Yeah. She's she's she's

20:38 Something's wrong with her. Let's listen. Let's be clear.

20:41 Elon Musk,

20:42 in my view, can probably decide who the next president is. Yeah. That's correct. Yeah. He spent $250,000,000.

20:50 When will these people

20:52 get over that the this idea that money

20:55 wins elections?

20:58 They were the same people who were who were like, Elon spent 100,000,000

21:02 in Wisconsin and failed. He failed.

21:07 And now they're like, you can determine who the next president is. Let's be clear.

21:12 Elon Musk,

21:13 in my view, can probably decide who the next president is. Yeah. That's correct. He spent $250,000,000

21:21 and had influence on the election. Maybe he didn't decide it. This guy spends more money than APAC.

21:28 A lot more money than APAC.

21:31 Why don't we run him out of the country?

21:34 He had the influence on it. He thinks he's That's for sure. If he decides to put two and a half percent of his net worth or 25,000,000,000

21:41 or a 100 times

21:44 what he spent.

21:45 Well, he may just lose all that money.

21:49 I think you would be happy, CNN will be happy, all the cable news would be happy if he's gonna spend that kind of money. People will take it with open arms. Bring your money, Elon.

22:01 People are nuts.

22:03 Hey, you know,

22:05 remigration.

22:07 Send Kara Swisher back to wherever she came from

22:11 and and professor Scott too.

22:14 This poor man.

22:16 He actually Well, he's he's so self absorbed. It's it actually is kind of amusing to watch his body

22:23 language.

22:25 What oh, what do you mean? Well, he's just you can see you can see see that he's full of himself.

22:31 I mean, he's very overcompetent. He's

22:34 actually rich.

22:35 He has millions of dollars. He's loaded. Yeah. He's loaded. The guy's loaded.

22:40 Yeah. Exactly.

22:42 Anyway, I wanna go back to The UK to Kear Starmer because now we have this problem. We have this, you know, it's Elon Musk.

22:48 It's, it's x. It's social media. So

22:52 I'm surprised that they haven't put the slammed the door on social media. Probably shuttered all the social media companies except Blue Sky, of course. You wouldn't wanna shut them down. Well, that's they've now become a European initiative.

23:07 But you're close because let's look at the sequence of things that happened.

23:12 Everyone gets a digital ID

23:15 and that's now a thing. You know, it hasn't completely rolled out now but everyone has to get a digital ID.

23:21 It was initially, oh, you can't work without a digital a digital ID. They rolled that back a little bit. But the digital ID is in essence being out rolled out in The UK.

23:30 So

23:31 we would use the digital ID

23:33 to make sure that you are 16 years or older

23:37 in order to use social media.

23:40 But that also means that we know who you are.

23:43 We got your account,

23:45 we've tied it to your digital ID,

23:48 and all rolls out under the guise of protecting the children.

23:53 Because today is a big moment for our country. This is a big step.

23:58 Real change for our children and our future.

24:02 Because today,

24:03 I can announce

24:04 that the government will ban access to social media for all children under the age of 16.

24:12 Whoo. Yeah.

24:14 Yay.

24:15 Yay. Whoo hoo.

24:17 Yeah. And

24:19 this is not something I do lightly,

24:22 and I will not present it as cost free

24:25 as if social media has brought no benefits to young people

24:29 because clearly

24:31 that is wrong.

24:32 But government is always about choices,

24:35 and it's clear to me that a full ban is the right choice. Now I come to it as a parent myself.

24:43 I know exactly the fears that we all feel when we're thinking about this issue. All I've ever wanted for my own children, hand on heart,

24:52 is for them to be happy

24:54 and for them to be safe.

24:56 And I think that's what any parent wants. But I ask the question now, do we truly believe

25:02 that social media creates a happy environment for our children? Do we truly believe

25:08 that it's a place Yeah. Where they can feel safe? Safe. I don't think I even need to answer those questions, do I? Oh, okay. Don't answer the question then.

25:17 So I think that's that this is under the guise of, think of the children.

25:22 I think they've also banned banned VPNs.

25:27 No. I don't know about that. I I only know about this.

25:32 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Alright. So They didn't want people getting on these things. We need we need to talk about the deal, man. We need to talk about the deal. The MOU, the deal, the big deal, the big the big thing that's happening. Switching gears already? You didn't finish The UK stuff? Well,

25:46 no. We I have UK what what did Morris say to say? It sucks

25:51 and everyone who's from there who's here loves it here.

25:55 That is Well, a lot of people That's the story. That's story. That's story right there. It's grittier.

26:02 Let's see. Well, I yeah. Actually, how about this? I can I can ease us into it with a transition clip? Whatever the pressure

26:10 on me and others,

26:11 whatever the noise,

26:13 I'm going to act in the British national interest in all the decisions that I make. And that's why I've been absolutely clear that this is not our war, or we're not gonna get dragged into it.

26:23 UK prime minister, Kirstar,

26:25 now singing a different tune, telling president Trump in a phone call yesterday, he's, quote, ready to support

26:32 a US Iran peace deal. Meanwhile, the prime minister receiving letters of resignation from both his defense secretary

26:39 and armed forces

26:40 minister over concerns the nation isn't properly

26:44 defending itself.

26:45 Former Trump State Department senior adviser Christian Witten joins us now. Great to see you, Christian.

26:51 So,

26:52 explain to us what what

26:55 is the, this about face from Keir Starmer all about? Well, Starmer's in crisis. He has been for some time. He won a resounding mandate two years ago. It's a five year mandate, but he's about to be ousted by his own party. He's an incredibly unpopular politician. Labor party is now in third place before

27:12 Reform UK, which is sort of a Magalite party,

27:15 that came out of Brexit in The UK and the traditional Tories.

27:20 One of his buddies in cabinet just bailed out. He's gonna lose a by election this week in which the person likely to be elected wants to challenge him for the premiership. So, amid this flailing, Starmer's looking for some sort of victory. I'm not sure what's president Trump actually wants because Starmer is weak. He was not just failing to support The United States, this, you know, fundamentally important ally to Britain, but actually actively campaigned against Trump's,

27:46 decision.

27:47 Yeah. Okay. Perfect segue. I'm giving you a 10 on that. Thank you. I should I should have played it and not said anything.

27:56 Yes. Thank you. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Spiking the ball doesn't help. Yeah. Alright. Let's go because man, the media is just they're just they just love this deal.

28:05 They love the deal because it sucks.

28:08 This is crazy. Why do we even do this? Trump is no good. Obama's deal just warmed over again. No. That's my favorite bit is that's my favorite bit. I'd say Is that it's it's it looks like Obama's deal. It's the same they could've done

28:24 nothing, it had been better. Let me see. I have I have Morning Joe doing just that.

28:30 Let me see. Where is

28:33 here it is.

28:36 Morning Joe. Yes. This temporary deal we've reached, and we don't really know

28:42 exactly what's in it. My concern is But we'll comment anyway. Well, of course.

28:47 We don't know what's in it, but I'm telling you something. It's no good. Deal on nukes, which Donald Trump said this is why he was fighting the war.

28:56 It is identical

28:57 as in

28:58 plagiarized,

28:59 as in Plagiarized. Lifted some more crap. Carbon

29:03 Plagiarized. Carbon copied

29:06 mimeograph sheet. Off of Obama's deal, they used the same word. Say,

29:13 lifted it off of the Obama deal and put it on this deal on nukes. So the whole idea that

29:19 Obama was weak on nukes and he's going to be tougher, if you even lean No. On One second.

29:25 Hasn't been released, has it?

29:27 Well, the the memo memorandum

29:30 of understanding,

29:31 there's versions have been floating around, the Iranians Yeah. But just all bullcrap. They don't know what it really says. But he's

29:39 how could it be? Okay. I'm sorry. Just play it. A 14 memo went out and then everyone's saying this is it and and it's it's a MOU. It doesn't even matter.

29:50 It doesn't even matter.

29:51 It's, you know, it's contracts.

29:55 They're as good as the blood they're written in. This is why Trump he's just doing what he does with the

30:01 it's like, I'm gonna buy this building or I'll I'll I'll put my name on this building. We'll do the construction.

30:07 Alright. I'll send the I'll sign the MOU. Let the lawyers take care of it. I'll see you in in two months.

30:13 You're gonna sit there and read through the legalese?

30:16 Anyway.

30:17 This memorandum of agreement

30:19 Understandable. Not a Okay. Well, here's Obama's. Iran affirms Okay. That under no circumstances will Iran ever seek,

30:28 develop,

30:29 or acquire any nuclear weapons. That's 07/14/2015.

30:32 Republicans melted down. Donald Trump said it was the worst plan ever that Iran was going to get a nuclear weapon because of this deal. And this is what Donald Trump says.

30:43 Iran cannot develop

30:45 or purchase

30:46 a nuclear

30:48 weapon,

30:49 and,

30:50 actually,

30:52 it it's it's actually closer than that. I will I will get it. See, he doesn't even have it. And he he right there is two different literally two different words.

31:02 Procure versus purchase.

31:04 They're full of crap. They're totally full of crap. And since it's Obama,

31:09 we gotta get Obama. It is doubtful that any agreement that arises

31:16 is going to be significantly

31:19 different

31:20 or a significant improvement from

31:23 the deal that we had in the first place,

31:26 and

31:27 had worked for

31:30 for a long stretch of time

31:33 before

31:34 we The

31:36 United States pulled out of it. Okay. Alright. Thanks Obama.

31:40 He's doing his pre promotion for the presidential center. Back to MSNBC.

31:44 I think it's here there are sort of two clear losers politically and one is president Trump himself. There aren't good answers to those A

31:52 source two sources close to the White House confirmed to me that all of president Trump's advisers, the closest people to him, had turned against this war. Had all pushed him to just end it and he caused it because

32:04 it's been so disastrous politically. Disaster. And then I had a dip out in the region, talk about another person I think is who's a loser in this politically, and that's BB Netanyahu.

32:13 This person from the region said, I think most people have turned against the war for domestic political reasons.

32:18 They're referring to countries, I'll say, you know, in The Gulf,

32:21 and the majority are frustrated with Bibi Netanyahu.

32:25 So it's an extraordinary outcome. We were just talking about it before we started how just imagining that this war would end this way based on what the president promised on February 27. I think there's no question Iran is coming out stronger. Iran is much stronger.

32:39 Iran's the winner, ladies and gentlemen. So

32:42 they knew this was They knew this was coming, so they send Vance out. Vance went everywhere,

32:47 including The View, which I have the clips. I don't think we should play him. Was so stupid. These women are so

32:53 disappointing

32:54 as human beings.

32:56 It's really just Vance, by the way, besides being on The View was on every Every without Without fan. Every Fox show.

33:03 Not just Fox. He was on CBS CBS.

33:07 He was on He was everywhere. He was on Gutfeld.

33:10 He was on The Five. He was on hand I mean, everything.

33:14 This guy

33:15 well, of course, has a book to plug, so that's the that's Well, that helps. But that The gimmick.

33:21 Maybe that's why they had you know, that's an interesting point.

33:25 Because these were probably prebooked for the book.

33:29 That's yeah. Wow. The timing is interesting. So they had them out ready to do all he had all these these appearances booked and it because it's his calendar too. I wonder, by the way, when he booked it because this is overbooking.

33:42 If if I've ever seen overbooking in my life, this has gotta be it. Mhmm. I wonder if anybody knew that he was so ridiculous. He booked that he was on every show.

33:52 Because generally speaking, if you're a journal let me give you an quick example.

33:57 You journalists would often get,

34:01 notes from these PR companies, And my favorite one was always when I was at PC Magazine and they somebody wanted me to write a column about something.

34:08 They'd they'd send a note saying, oh, you should write a column about this guy because he's great. In fact, he was he he he he was written about in Vogue

34:18 and in the Harper's and he was in the New York Times and he was in the Washington Post and he was in the blah blah blah. And they list off all these things that he's done. And I'm thinking, why am I gonna write about him? I look like Johnny come lately. I'm not writing about him.

34:32 Johnny come lately.

34:35 Yeah.

34:36 I get these there's so many of these coming out now in my in my email box because, you know, have a podcast or in my adammccurry.com,

34:45 people find that everywhere.

34:47 I'm getting and you can mark it as spam all you want.

34:51 It keeps coming in. I'll have I'll have to read a few more of those in the future because it's exactly like that. And sometimes

34:58 but first of all, what idiot are you? What idiot PR person are you? Just I'm I hate you because you know I don't do guests. If you listen to the show, you don't.

35:07 So now I hate you.

35:08 Oh, hate is a strong word.

35:11 I think you're foolish.

35:14 So

35:15 here's Vance on CBS about the comparison.

35:18 And one final point on this, you know, you hear a lot of comparisons. How is this different? How is this the same from the JCPOA?

35:24 I think that fundamentally

35:26 misunderstands

35:27 where we are. We have comprehensively

35:29 destroyed their nuclear program,

35:31 and this agreement is about ensuring that they don't rebuild it. The JCPOA was fundamentally about bribing them to stop the construction

35:39 or to cease a nuclear program that was already in progress. It's a very different background,

35:45 a very different sort of leverage, and I think really a different outcome for the American people. So the president was very clear at this g seven meeting, which used to be the g eight until everyone decided Russia had to get out.

35:58 Just

36:00 people don't even remember that anymore. Like, out. We don't like you anymore. We do. You we do. The president was very clear about the difference between JCPOA

36:09 and this MOU and sixty day deal. That it's very different.

36:13 Obama

36:14 did not have,

36:16 was not in the position to say this. Bomb Iran if they don't comply, but there's nothing enforceable

36:21 in the deal itself. Is that correct? Doesn't have to be. I let him know. I said, look. If you don't adhere to the agreement,

36:29 I don't wanna do that,

36:30 but we're gonna bomb the hell out of you.

36:33 And I don't think that they're gonna veer from the agreement. What else am I gonna do? Am I gonna say I'm gonna take you to court?

36:39 Let me take you to court. Let me just let me sue you. No. We're gonna bomb the hell out of them if they violate the agreement. I don't want them to.

36:46 I want them to honor the agreement.

36:49 Again, the straits close-up. Bad things can happen. You know, in war,

36:53 terrible things happen. Like you mentioned the question before about the school gets hit, other things get hit. Bad things happen in war.

37:02 War is a nasty place. I see it. I see it. I see it better than maybe anybody has ever seen it. Okay. So that's the that is the deal.

37:11 You stop doing this or I bomb you. Mister president, you've been saying all week that this deal permanently prevents Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. The drafts the drafts of the deal that have been floating around barely mention Iran's nuclear program. So can you explain how exactly

37:28 the deal achieves that goal? So when I say permanently,

37:32 it should be permanently.

37:33 But if it's not permanently, we will bomb them.

37:36 They will be bombed just like I bombed them on Wednesday night and Tuesday night

37:41 and was going to bomb them on Thursday night at a level that was three times greater, and they knew that.

37:46 I will

37:48 bomb them. Now that's with me as president. If you have a weak pathetic president, maybe that doesn't happen, but I can only do the job that I have to do. I have a long time to go. I have almost three years, close to three years.

38:01 Time is going fast. Bomb them.

38:04 Bomb them. And bomb them again.

38:06 Okay. So then there was your part of the drafts and there and New York Times like, oh, I saw people posting, we're gonna give them $300,000,000,000.

38:16 This is horrible. We're the losers.

38:18 Bonjour.

38:20 This is Peter Doocy saying bonjour

38:23 because he's in in France.

38:27 It's kind of kind of Yeah. He's kinda sad. Bonjour. Bonjour. You've

38:32 been clear, president Trump. The United States is not going to directly

38:36 pay

38:37 Iran,

38:38 but The US is going to let the Iranians start making billions

38:43 of dollars selling oil,

38:45 accessing this reconstruction

38:47 fund. Only if they're doing things right. Only if Peter,

38:51 only if we're not doing anything. We're not putting up money.

38:55 Only if they're doing things right. If they're doing things right, if people want to invest, they can invest. But they had this

39:02 $300,000,000

39:03 fund. It's only $300,000,000

39:06 fund. It's only if they're doing things right. Remember this also,

39:10 when you talk about billions of dollars,

39:13 they've had much more than a trillion dollars worth of damage done. They got a long way. There'll be fifteen to twenty years to rebuild what they have right now. So I don't see why it's so hard for people to understand that the deal is kind of obvious.

39:28 You do what we say or we bomb you. You don't need more than one paragraph that says that.

39:34 People may not like it,

39:36 but see No. You know, and and the 300 I hate it. And the 300,000,000,000 is coming from the The Gulf States.

39:43 They're the one And it's mostly in terms of investment. Yeah. Of course it is. And it's all gonna flow into No. They're just giving them money. No. It's all gonna flow into

39:53 the the Abraham Accords. They'll all be a part of this. And then, this is the start that I find rather interesting.

40:01 And funny enough, only Morning Joe

40:05 talked about it. Now here's Vance on CBS about Israel. Let me ask you this before you go. Is Israel on board with this? It doesn't appear so at this time. What are you hearing? What are you thinking?

40:15 Well, Gail, of course, Israel's been a good partner, but we we do expect everybody in the region. They've been participating in this peace agreement. They've been participating

40:24 in in in our talks with Iran. They understand where our perspective is. And what the president has said is that we expect everybody to honor this agreement. There are always, Gail, these these bumpy moments with these ceasefires. Sometimes someone will fire and sometimes somebody responds.

40:40 We think right now that there are probably people within Iran because the the Internet blackout. They're not even aware that this deal has happened. Mhmm. So we certainly expect the Israelis are gonna be a participant in this peace process,

40:52 but we think it's gonna be good for them. It's gonna be good for us. It's gonna be good for the Gulf Coast coalition.

40:56 And, Gail, if the Iranians comply with their end of the bargain, it's gonna be good for Iran. It's gonna totally change their relationship with the region in a way that will generate a lot of prosperity for their people, but again, only if they meet their end of the bargain.

41:11 So

41:12 Israel is not happy with this

41:15 and

41:16 Trump doesn't care.

41:18 Only only Morning Joe for some reason is the only place he could find talking about this. Let's talk about

41:25 what it it it it is to be an Israeli this morning, looking at The United States.

41:32 I've heard from a lot of strong supporters of Israel over the last day. That's Joe saying some of my best friends are Jewish. They feel betrayed.

41:42 You had on October 7 more Jews killed

41:46 than any day since the Holocaust.

41:50 Netanyahu

41:51 started a three year war.

41:54 Much of it, I've just absolutely

41:56 found

41:57 to be

41:59 way over the line,

42:01 and the

42:02 abuse heaped upon people in Gaza and leveling

42:07 half of Lebanon. But the Israeli people went along with it, supported

42:12 because of October 7. But they launched a three year war against

42:16 Iranian proxies

42:18 and Iran itself. Netanyahu went in and

42:21 pushed Donald Trump into starting this war. Okay. So there's that meme again. Bullcrap. Yeah. It's bullcrap. So Trump talked about this a lot,

42:31 particularly when he was sitting down

42:33 with the Al Qaeda guy who now runs Syria.

42:36 And I suggested to Israel By the way,

42:40 Fox was all over this. You'd be making it sound like nobody else talked about it, but everybody on Fox was talking, especially the part you're gonna play, which is turning it over to Syria. Yeah. There was a little bit more than that and I don't watch Fox religiously.

42:54 I do find stuff from them, but I I take them with this. This is from C SPAN. I was just watching on C SPAN because I don't trust

43:03 any cable news media. And I suggested to Israel to let Syria take care of Hasbro. But you're telling me Fox was talking about how Israel was disappointed or were they playing these clips?

43:16 Both. Okay. Because

43:18 to be honest, sweetie, I think they do a better job of doing it.

43:21 Right there. That was placed over and over. And I didn't like Syria. I didn't like where

43:28 two hours before we're signing the agreement

43:31 that

43:32 there was an attack

43:34 in Lebanon in Beirut. It was right in it wasn't like in the southern side and, you know, it was in Beirut. I did not like that. I let them know that.

43:43 Wasn't he was not holding back on this. Yeah. No. This was the clip that they played over and over. Well, this is and over. There's a couple more. I was very responsible for

43:52 the gentleman at Syria that's now the president of Syria. He's done a tremendous job. He's put that country together in a year and a half.

43:59 Sort of like our country, a year and a half. Pretty similar size. They said, don't please don't put him there. He's a very violent man.

44:06 Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda. He said, well, I know one thing. A boy scout's not gonna work. Did Fox have that clip?

44:13 They didn't have the Boy Scout clip. I love that.

44:16 But they had the rest of it. Done a very good job. He'd love to go in it. You know, Hezbollah is an enemy of his and

44:23 he'd go in and he but he wouldn't knock down buildings every time he hears there's somebody. He'd just go and And Trump was very upset about this. With precision.

44:31 No. He's he's he's He's upset about that apartment getting leveled

44:35 because of one guy. Yes.

44:38 But this is not a man who was controlled by b b netanyahu.

44:42 That's my point.

44:44 Well, that's everybody's point.

44:46 Yeah. Except the people that hate our show. Yeah. We'll get that done. That's that's a small one, and we'll work with Israel and get it done. But

44:55 I'd like to do it.

44:57 I mean, you have people living there.

45:00 Buildings are being dropped

45:02 on top of them

45:04 or right alongside of them.

45:06 How would you like to live there? It's it's so unfair, especially Beirut. You know, you go into Beirut and

45:12 I I looked at the scene two days ago yesterday where they hit. That was that was a big hit.

45:18 That was unnecessary

45:20 in my book. And now he's gonna take it to Bebe personally. I've had a great relationship with Bebe, but now Bebe has to,

45:28 be more responsible with respect to Lebanon.

45:31 Lebanon used to be a great country. It was a country where you had professors, doctors,

45:36 lawyers.

45:38 The great intellect was

45:40 in Lebanon. Now it's just it's terrible. I would say of all countries, they've been treated the worst,

45:47 and they can't defend themselves. And they have Hezbollah, which is

45:50 a problem for them.

45:52 So,

45:54 no. I'm not happy with the way

45:56 Israel has handled themselves with Lebanon and

46:00 with Hezbollah.

46:02 They should have been able to do this job faster.

46:04 It just just goes on forever.

46:06 And when that happens, it

46:08 throws

46:09 a negative light on the big deal, and that's the deal with Iran.

46:13 So

46:14 so,

46:15 when you ask me about BB,

46:17 an unbelievable

46:19 relationship.

46:22 Unbelievable

46:22 relationship.

46:24 Unbelievable? Yeah.

46:25 I think that's what it means. It's unbelievable that I even have this guy, call me on the phone. Well, my favorite clip from Trump, he says, if it wasn't for me, he'd be in jail.

46:35 Well, that that wasn't that wasn't the clip, that was an the Axios reporting

46:40 and he he confirmed that on the New York Post interview we played a couple weeks ago.

46:46 Let's listen to what Al Jazeera has to say.

46:50 Alright.

46:50 I mean, they don't talk about what you just played so much with the Syria Israeli thing, but they talk about the what might be going on with what Iran really demands.

47:00 Well, Iran's top diplomat says that any agreement with The United States must include the release of blocked Iranian funds,

47:07 sanctions relief, and Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon as we've been discussing.

47:12 Listen to Abbas Arakshi, and then right after that, US president Donald Trump.

47:18 The first phase is to end the war, the Strait Of Hormuz, the naval blockade,

47:23 and the other topics related to freeing the frozen assets of Iran,

47:26 the reconstruction.

47:28 Every other topic that is related will be dealt with through talks and negotiations

47:33 for the coming sixty days until we reach a final agreement.

47:38 The final agreement, we'll talk about the nuclear matters and lifting the sanctions.

47:44 From our perspective, the two sides of this agreement are America and Israel on one side and Iran and Isbella on the other.

47:52 The end of the war in Lebanon is an inseparable part of the complete end of the war,

47:56 and the end of the war includes the end of the occupation as well.

48:00 Yeah. Alright.

48:03 Sounds about right. That's what it sounds like. It sounds right. Then we have the CBC,

48:08 chiming in with a couple of analysis pieces.

48:11 Good things are happening. Only a few people have seen the fine print of Donald Trump's deal with Iran, the one he claims will reopen the Strait Of Hormuz and end the war. But the US president says within days, everyone will. Iran will never have a nuclear weapon.

48:28 And it says it loud and clear.

48:30 They're not gonna Meeting with leaders in the Persian Gulf on the sidelines of the g seven in France,

48:36 Trump was peppered with questions about Israel and its intensely negative reaction to his deal.

48:42 In extraordinary

48:44 remarks,

48:44 Trump positioned himself

48:46 as Israel's savior. Without The United States, there would be no Israel.

48:52 Without me, there would be no Israel because no other president was willing to do what I did. Equally remarkable was his assessment

48:58 of Israel's military tactics fighting Hezbollah in Lebanon,

49:02 where more than 3,800

49:04 people have been killed. In criticizing the impact on civilians, Trump echoed arguments more commonly used

49:12 by Israel's harshest international critics. Israel's fighting Hezbollah too long

49:17 and too many people are being killed.

49:19 And you don't have to knock down an apartment house every time you're looking for somebody

49:24 because there are a lot of people in those apartment houses, and they're not all Hezbollah that I can tell you.

49:28 Yep. Okay.

49:31 So the CBC is addressing it some to some extent.

49:35 It's part two. The potential lifting of sanctions to ease Iran's crippled economy

49:40 and the future of its nuclear program,

49:42 which both The US and Israel said necessitated

49:45 the war, have been kicked down the road to be dealt with during two months of negotiations,

49:51 said Iran's foreign minister, Syed Abbas Araqi.

49:58 Israel's full withdrawal from Lebanon must come first, he said.

50:06 Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not address Trump's criticisms of him or his war tactics, but Monday night, he vowed to maintain Israel's occupation of Southern Lebanon,

50:17 casting doubt on how long the negotiations with Iran will last.

50:21 If Trump's deal holds, shipping lanes will reopen and more attacks and bombings averted.

50:27 But with Iran's leadership emboldened,

50:30 the alliance between The United States and Israel is being tested perhaps as never before. Oh, okay. Yeah. Valid. By the way I keep saying by the way. Unbelievable.

50:42 Right now, CNN and Miz Now are

50:45 doing full on live coverage of

50:49 this presidential

50:50 center

50:51 and there's John

50:53 John Legend and there's they're they're on stage, they're they're performing,

50:58 Bruce Springsteen.

51:00 You've got the Obamas dancing.

51:02 Oh, Stevie Wonder's there.

51:05 The George Bush is there.

51:08 George Bush is there? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Dancing like a white guy.

51:13 Oh, man.

51:15 It it looks like a very small exclusive

51:18 concert,

51:19 which it would make sense.

51:21 Yeah. It's just okay. Alright. It's Live Aid, everybody. It's just like Live Aid. We need to go alright. We need to go live. We need we need to go live. This is so awesome. Obama's on. Let's go.

51:32 Crazy.

51:34 Wow.

51:36 Now the president dooms didn't do himself a lot of favors with everything he said in

51:42 France.

51:44 Here's Anderson Cooper picked up on it. The nuclear dust, we're gonna want that, and I think we're gonna get that. We're gonna get the dust back. The dust. The nuclear

51:53 dust. We're getting the nuclear dust. That was a term I made up because it's sort of, you know, it's

51:59 a simpler term for people to understand. It's nuclear dust, sort of dusty.

52:03 But I said,

52:04 we get the nuclear dust. He can call it whatever he wants, but they're not getting it. When asked about it today, the president said that's no longer a problem because the material was buried by American air strikes, which led to this very long soliloquy

52:19 about granite and marble.

52:21 They were building or they were enriching material as they say. I call it nuclear dust. They were enriching material under granite mountains.

52:30 Granite being for those not

52:32 in the construction business, granite being a very strong the strongest stone.

52:37 It's, not as pretty as marble, but it's much more

52:41 it's much stronger. It's a lot stronger. Like the new granite I put on

52:46 the stairs of the White House going to the Oval Office to black granite,

52:50 it's rated

52:51 1,000,000 years plus.

52:53 No marbles rated that. Marbles rated a 100 years if it's if it's outside.

52:58 So these are granite.

53:00 Yeah.

53:01 It's about granite.

53:06 I mean, I was expecting to go back about the pool.

53:11 Size swimming pools.

53:13 Now with algae.

53:14 Yeah. I think it's funny that yeah. Granite is a different we we use it both we have used both of these products and Yeah. Marble's porous.

53:23 Yeah. Oh, it's it stains. You gotta be real careful. It stains. It stains. But granite does nothing.

53:30 Yeah.

53:32 Let's see. There there was one analyst, I did get this from Fox, who explained the difference between

53:38 the this Iran deal, which is do what I say or I throw a bomb on your head versus the

53:44 JCPOA.

53:46 Former president Obama was on TV earlier today saying, you know, whatever deal the president is able to sign, that it wouldn't be much different than his deal, the JCPOA.

53:56 Can you tell us how this deal is different and how it is better? So broadly speaking, the JCPOA

54:02 deal negotiated under president Obama

54:05 allowed Iran

54:06 a path toward a nuclear program.

54:08 Because when we talk about enriched uranium, and this is really important when we look at the difference in these deals here, and I don't wanna give you too much of a lesson on enrichment, but it's actually quite important when we're talking about the Obama deal versus the deal that was just signed right now.

54:22 During the Obama administration, it allowed Iran to continue enriching uranium. And the way that uranium is enriched, the uranium ore is actually extracted from the ground and then through a chemical process, it turns into yellow cake. And then another chemical process, it turns into hexafluoride gas, and they spin that gas very rapidly

54:39 in advanced centrifuges.

54:40 Ultimately the heavier particles go to the outside and the lighter ones stay in the middle.

54:46 This is repeated over and over again until you get to a higher purity of enriched uranium.

54:52 To take enriched uranium from, let's say, five to 10% to 20%,

54:57 ultimately to 60% and eventually 90%,

55:00 which is weapons grade material, can be a matter of weeks, if not days.

55:04 And so allowing the Iranians to keep advanced centrifuges

55:07 and then enrich uranium

55:09 eventually closer to weapons grade material set them on a path toward a weapon because that is a process that is needed to create a nuclear weapon even if they weren't doing it at that moment.

55:20 This agreement does not allow the Iranians,

55:23 according to the senior administration official,

55:25 to keep any of their enriched material.

55:28 And that means they're not going to be able to repeat that process in advance centrifuges.

55:32 And then once US forces leave the region,

55:35 increase the purity of the enriched uranium again toward a nuclear weapon. Alright. So that kind of explains it. It's a little bit different.

55:42 And the only thing we care about is the price of gas.

55:45 The FIFA tourists That's right. The FIFA tourists, they they already love it. Like, I can't believe how cheap your gas is. What are you complaining about? I'm from Sweden.

55:55 I'm from Germany.

55:56 This is so cheap. It's amazing.

55:59 And the president was asked about this by his shill in the

56:03 the press pool. Thank you, president Trump. I'm sorry. This is a different shill.

56:07 Oil prices are now plummeting. How do you see this agreement further affecting energy prices in The US and The US economy in the long term? And secondly, mister president, how do you think vice president J. D. Vance did on The View yesterday? Well, first of all, thank you for the word plummeting because that's what's happening. Oil prices are plummeting,

56:27 and

56:28 that means oil prices are gonna come down. You know, you make donuts, you have a heating, you have a stove, and Donuts. You have to buy the

56:35 the heat.

56:36 You need the gas or the electricity or whatever you're using, and when oil prices come down oil is the biggest thing. Oil is you get oil prices coming down and they're gonna come down and we're hitting into threes now for gasoline and that'll come down a lot lower.

56:51 As I know, plummeting, I'm not sure exactly,

56:54 what plummeting

56:56 I mean, you plummet to your death, so that's

56:59 that's like all the way down to the bottom. What is the definition of plummeting?

57:03 Falling fast. Let's ask the robot. Book of knowledge, give me the definition of plummeting.

57:11 Oh my goodness.

57:13 Let me try that again. Book of knowledge,

57:15 give me the definition of plummeting.

57:19 Oh, the book of knowledge is broken.

57:24 Okay. Did you look it up? Probably No. It's that means falling fast. Does this mean falling fast? Really?

57:32 What do you think it means? Plummet?

57:34 Let me see. Definition

57:36 of

57:37 Fall from an altitude.

57:39 Let's see. I just wanna I'm just asking.

57:42 Let's see. Yeah.

57:44 Robot should be at The robot is broke. Robot's broken.

57:48 Fall very Pay it. To fall very quickly and suddenly. Okay. Fall very quickly and suddenly.

57:54 I

57:56 don't know if it's It is dropping. It is it has gone down below from a 100 to 75. So Well, that's 25%.

58:03 That's quite a fall. What we know so far is that the oil prices which were expected

58:09 have now come down to $75

58:12 a barrel,

58:13 which was nearly trading about a $100,110,

58:16 $120

58:17 per barrel during the West Asia war crisis. But now the crude oil prices have slid down, and the Brent has also come down to a 78.3%.

58:28 Global prices have continued

58:30 to come down, and this is also going to affect

58:35 not just India, but also our neighboring countries of China, Japan, South Korea, Europe,

58:41 which were heavily affected by the instability

58:43 of the West Asian war. Now what's interesting is that CNBC

58:48 is starting to publish articles about an oil glut

58:52 that is on the horizon,

58:54 that there would be too much oil. Have you picked up on this?

58:58 No. But that'd be great. Yeah. Well, they call it the gully buff

59:02 effect.

59:03 Mister vice president, Brian Sullivan, thank you again for coming on the program. I wanna follow-up with that because I think it's incredibly important what you just said

59:11 that if Mohammed Galibaf, who is seen as a more hardliner,

59:15 is at the table,

59:17 that would be construed as an even better symbol, a better sign of where this negotiation

59:23 may go. Would you agree with that that that getting somebody like a Mohammed Golibov, the speaker of the house who is seen as more of a hardliner internally,

59:32 would be viewed as the best possible outcome here rather than one of the more moderates

59:38 that might be seen as a little more pro White House, and yet you still might have this division and factions

59:44 inside of Iran?

59:47 Well, I think the best outcome is a good deal for the American people, which we have. Fundamentally,

59:52 we're dealing with everybody in the Iranian system. You know, there's the IRGC,

59:56 the sort of regime hardliners, the military side. There's the political leadership, and within the political leadership, you have people who are more hardline and less hardline.

1:00:05 We expect to have a full spectrum of representatives at the negotiation

1:00:09 on Friday.

1:00:11 Again, we've been talking to these people, some sometimes indirectly,

1:00:14 but sometimes directly,

1:00:15 and that's what's fundamentally changed under the president's leadership. We are now speaking directly to the Iranian system.

1:00:22 We have some good relationships there. So this is gonna be a successful negotiation because, you know, we're not passing messages through various back channels anymore. We're actually talking to them. And when you talk to them, you figure out what's real, what's fake, what are they serious about, what are they not serious about. And and the thing I I I I'd add to that is we fundamentally have all the cards here. We don't have to give the Iranians anything

1:00:45 if they don't make the commitments that we want long term on the nuclear program. Alright. Yeah. You're right. Blah blah blah blah. And it seems Can I ask you a quick question? Yeah.

1:00:53 I thought the negotiations were done last week over the weekend, and they were gonna sign the agreement on Sunday. And the Iranian said, no. We're not gonna sign it on Sunday. We're gonna sign the MOA or MOE or whatever the hell it is. MOU. Memorandum of understanding. MOU,

1:01:09 on Friday, and they're gonna go sign it on Friday. Now what now all of a sudden I'm hearing that this is negotiations with all kinds of factions?

1:01:17 Well, what? Wait. What? No.

1:01:20 The memo That's what he said? Yes. Here's how I understand it, because since you asked me the question.

1:01:25 I am asking you the question. And as an aside, the definition of glut is flooding the market with more

1:01:31 supply than there is demand.

1:01:35 The memorandum

1:01:36 of of understanding,

1:01:38 if you what I've read, the 14 points,

1:01:42 is no more than

1:01:44 shut up,

1:01:45 don't create nuclear bombs

1:01:47 or I will bomb you.

1:01:49 And we'll figure out all the details in the next sixty days. And that's what Vance is going to sign on Friday.

1:01:56 Some elaborate signing. Vance makes it sound as though they're gonna be doing negotiations

1:02:01 on Friday.

1:02:02 Oh, that's when the the technical the technical technical negotiations

1:02:06 will start. Who's gonna who's gonna go in and check it? You know, what are the checks and balances?

1:02:13 To me, it it doesn't matter.

1:02:16 That what the president is saying and whether Americans like it or not, he's saying, stop that nonsense or I will bomb he's literally saying, I will put a bomb on your head.

1:02:26 It it that's that's the deal. You don't need anything else.

1:02:31 I mean, his point is valid. You know? What if so we have a 150 page document. What's the point? And if they violate the document point

1:02:39 is valid. What's his point?

1:02:42 Get rid of all your nuclear dust.

1:02:45 Don't mess with the Strait Of Is that a point or is that an assertion?

1:02:49 No. That's a point. That that's a that is a point in the memorandum memorandum of understanding.

1:02:55 Stop

1:02:56 and stop messing with shipping in the Strait Of Hormuz.

1:03:00 That's it. Or I will put a bomb on your head. That's it. That's the whole deal.

1:03:05 Now,

1:03:06 will that hold up in international court? No. That's what Trump said.

1:03:10 What am I gonna do? I sue these guys if they break the deal?

1:03:13 No. As long as he's president, that's the deal. And the next president, we'll see. He even said that. Did you see when he walked into the g seven and said I'm the boss? Did you see Yes. I did. It wasn't That was hilarious. It wasn't good enough for audio, unfortunately.

1:03:27 Yeah.

1:03:28 It was a lot of fun things that happened at the G 7. And my favorite was Starmer, like, we did this. We're gonna do this. We're we're all in. We aren't aren't we good? Well, let me first, say how much we welcome the deal,

1:03:42 that president Trump has been able to, get in this situation and congratulate him and the mediators

1:03:47 on the work that they have done because this is a really important breakthrough.

1:03:52 At the g seven here, we've been discussing the details of that deal. Oh, we're we're discussing the details. Yeah. You're not in the negotiation,

1:04:00 Starmer. How we get the Strait Of Hormuz open as quickly as possible. As you will know, president Macron and I put together a group of countries

1:04:08 prepared to play their part

1:04:10 in terms of reassurance to get vessels to move the strait. That is hugely

1:04:15 Yeah. We're gonna be able to play our part of reassurance right over here. Important

1:04:20 in terms of reopening the strait. Very, very important for us in The United Kingdom because, of course, the Strait being closed in the way that it has has had an impact on our economy, had an impact on every household across the country. So we'll play our full part in relation to that. Yes. We're here. We're side by side. Our special relationship is restored. We're good to go.

1:04:42 And and if anything,

1:04:44 I still fully believe that this was just as much about killing the old systems

1:04:51 with Lloyd's of London, you know, now there's all these other insurance companies.

1:04:55 We're the ones that are controlling what's happening there.

1:04:59 And the the

1:05:01 city of London and the British crown, all those people, they're cut off. They're out of the deal.

1:05:06 Go go go mess around with NATO and Ukraine and see if you can make that work.

1:05:12 I I think it's a very I think it's a very good deal for America.

1:05:17 And it's it's interesting because the

1:05:20 the oil Baron, he's like, you know, a lot of analysts are saying it's gonna shoot up over a hundred, hundred and fifty. Like, what are you talking about?

1:05:29 I don't think Well, that this we've heard this before. I don't think the deal will really be finalized until well after the midterms. That doesn't seem likely.

1:05:37 After the midterms?

1:05:40 No. I think there's a lot of guys in the oil business like, man, we we we gotta keep this going. This is great for us.

1:05:47 But I gotta just Obama clip just came out. Play my Obama clip. Obama clip. Hold on a second.

1:05:55 What do mean? The Obama.

1:05:58 The Obama. Let let let me just I I just I I I just I just I just just I I just just I just

1:06:05 just wanna be clear about this. Imagine

1:06:12 that that that that imagine if I had pulled Fox News' credentials from the White House press corps. Are you so bored with me that you're gonna put a poorly edited Obama clip in all of a sudden? Poorly

1:06:22 edited.

1:06:23 Oh, that's the worst thing Click to

1:06:26 click click. It wasn't even rhythmic.

1:06:29 Click click. Oh,

1:06:32 have that.

1:06:36 I'm sorry. But Obama No. And then No. No. No. No. No. No.

1:06:41 No. No. No.

1:06:43 Hey. No. See? That's an that's a good Obama.

1:06:47 So

1:06:49 just as an aside,

1:06:51 there was a story that ran that

1:06:54 unreported every place, it seems to me, during all this brouhaha and the g seven and every place else,

1:07:01 is did you you and you I bet you haven't heard about this. The the Rubio Rao

1:07:07 with India? No. I haven't. The US secretary of state Marco Rubio has told his Indian counterpart that any violation of the blockade of Iran will not be tolerated.

1:07:18 He also warned against what he called the illicit transport of Iranian oil in the Strait Of Hormuz.

1:07:24 Ambarasan Ettirajan

1:07:25 reports.

1:07:26 Marco Rubio made the comments after the Indian foreign minister Subramaniam

1:07:30 Jaishankar called him to protest over the killing of three Indian seafarers by an American strike on a merchant vessel.

1:07:37 It was one of three ships with mostly Indian crew that were attacked this week as The US enforces its naval blockade on Iran.

1:07:45 Delhi lodged a strong diplomatic protest. Despite the two countries sharing close ties, the latest comments by mister Rubio are clearly seen as a snub as one former Indian diplomat pointed out there was no regret over the killing of unarmed civilian sailors of a friendly country. Oh, what?

1:08:07 I had not heard that. BBC.

1:08:09 Interesting.

1:08:10 Yeah. I hadn't heard that.

1:08:12 This is from the same country where they're doing this to their school children. Now woke schools teaching pupils that Stonehenge was built by black people, Alex. Yes. So children are being taught that Stonehenge this is a story you mail online today.

1:08:25 Stonehenge was built by black people,

1:08:28 and the Roman emperor Nero married a trans woman.

1:08:31 These are the stories are being and they're also being told

1:08:35 in slow

1:08:36 in in pro transgender

1:08:39 lessons

1:08:40 that slaves had their body parts

1:08:44 altered, and it was a form of gender transition.

1:08:47 I mean, you couldn't make it up. Yeah. Of course. That's exactly what they're doing.

1:08:53 That's a good you're topping me now with this. It was Jack off

1:08:57 shooting fish in a barrel.

1:09:01 So do

1:09:02 you wanna talk about

1:09:04 Ukraine and Russia for a minute or is it too much war? I'm gonna go with something else. I think we can move on to other stuff. Okay. I'll just There's not nothing going on there that I can tell. It's worth talking about as new. Well, they hit Ukraine drones hit

1:09:19 hit targets in Russia again. And what I'm hearing,

1:09:22 I'll

1:09:23 take it with a grain of salt,

1:09:25 is that

1:09:27 Russia may be ready to

1:09:31 show what they can really do,

1:09:33 like hit them with something bigger.

1:09:36 Yeah. Well, we'll see. Like a mini nuke.

1:09:39 Mini nuke. It seems highly unlikely because all the radiation will go into Russia.

1:09:45 Depends on where. If they hit them near Poland, they're going to Poland. It depends on how the wind is blowing. Well, that would make they're they're not you're not doing that.

1:09:54 Here's something.

1:09:56 Although we already knew it and we already discussed it, Byron Allen was on CBS, the station where he I see David Letterman now at the Obama Presidential Center. Oh my goodness.

1:10:06 It's like Oh, was oh, man. It's a party you do not wanna be at. It's like, I don't wanna be there. One thing with John Legend is the giveaway.

1:10:15 And Bruce Springsteen both on the same stage because their music is so alike.

1:10:20 Here's

1:10:21 Byron Allen explaining his deal. So how did this deal turn out? Like, did it work? Because you talked to Kevin Fraser about it. Yeah. This was something that you had to come out of pocket for. It's something you're very passionate about. Yeah. So the, you know, the networks are are are challenged because sports rights are very expensive. Of course. And, you know, ad dollars are shifting from linear to digital. So there's some financial pressure. And I've invested about a billion dollars

1:10:46 buying ABC,

1:10:47 NBC, CBS, and Fox affiliates

1:10:50 and other assets like The Weather Channel. So I bought The Weather Channel about eight years ago. Yeah. And when I said to the, networks, I said, look, you're spending about a $150,000,000

1:11:00 on Colbert and the show after Colbert.

1:11:03 So you've decided to cancel both of them. My recommendation is that you don't spend money on that time period now that you have decided to cancel them because at the end of the day, you're throwing me an audience at 01:30 in the morning to my CBS affiliates that I own around the country, and I'm running half hour infomercial spray on hair, you know, abs in twenty four hours. I said, save your money. I will put my show Comics Unleash on. Now I started Comics Unleash. Well, first of all, they said this is great yeah. They said this is a great idea. You're gonna save us a 150 to a 170,000,000.

1:11:36 Yeah. Use your business mind Yeah. To kind of transform the comedy world. But you mentioned that you've written jokes for David Letterman, and you know the public criticism from Letterman, from Kimmel, from others about CBS canceling Colbert. How does that sit with you as the person who's taking on this time slot? I think it was a very unfortunate event. I love Stephen Colbert. I'm a big fan. Once they made the decision, I said, okay, this isn't show business. This is business show. You know, they said, you know, they're losing lots of money. Said, here's a solution not to lose lots of money. And I think we can hold on to his audience and hopefully build on it because it is business show, not show business. And I'm sure that CBS right after that said, so people were wrong that it wasn't Trump who got him fired? It was really about money?

1:12:19 Yeah.

1:12:20 They didn't. Yeah. They didn't.

1:12:23 One more that you you will be The guy's the guy's guy's a genius. This Byron Allen. Yeah. He's I don't know. I'm I'm skeptical about buying all the local affiliates though.

1:12:33 What is the long term value of that?

1:12:37 He sees everything as a vehicle for infomercials

1:12:40 and his shows.

1:12:42 Yeah. But well, okay. I just don't know what the viewership is anymore.

1:12:47 It has to be I mean, just over time, it is declining. There's there's no there's enough evidence of that. So I just wonder

1:12:54 if he can make it No. I'm sure he's made a calculation.

1:12:58 Not dumb. He's

1:12:59 not He's not dumb.

1:13:01 So here is an ad that popped up that Steve the clip collector included in his batch to me this morning. Did you know that the average American sees up to nine pharmaceutical ads every day? That adds up to sixteen hours of pharmaceutical ads every year. Are you sick and tired of pharmaceutical companies pushing medications you probably don't even need just to drive up profits?

1:13:24 You're not alone. Nearly three out of four American voters want big pharma to stop advertising directly to consumers, but big pharma ignores what people want. In 2025 alone,

1:13:36 drug makers spent $9,000,000,000

1:13:39 on direct to consumer advertising.

1:13:41 Enough is enough. Big pharma needs to give that time back to Americans.

1:13:46 Voters are ready for lawmakers to take a stand and get Big Pharma off our airwaves and out of our living rooms. Tell congress it's time to ban direct to consumer advertising by pharmaceutical companies.

1:13:59 Learn more at pharmareformalliance.com.

1:14:03 Paid for by Pharmaceutical Reform Alliance Inc.

1:14:07 How about that?

1:14:09 Farmers? About time. I don't know why they they have to do put together a group when all that should happen is the president and the HHS secretary should just put just put the kibosh on it. We're the only country besides New Zealand in the entire world that allows this. Well, they're calling And it's created a situation where the big pharma's pushing people around.

1:14:30 They got too much political power, If you look at pharma

1:14:34 pharmareformalliance.com,

1:14:36 there's a quite a big group

1:14:39 of partners.

1:14:41 I'd say on this page probably about 50 of them.

1:14:46 Like who? To name a few. Okay. Let's go. I'll start at the top.

1:14:51 Association of Builders and Contractors in Greater Michigan.

1:14:56 Ash Woodworking.

1:14:57 Yeah. That's like

1:14:59 a Bad Idea Supply should be on here.

1:15:02 Let's see. Might be.

1:15:05 On this California So far too lightweights. Cali well, there's a lot of them. California African American Chamber of Commerce, California Black Chamber of Commerce, California Hispanic,

1:15:19 Calisian

1:15:20 Chamber of Commerce, lot of Chambers of Commerce.

1:15:23 Citizens Unite.

1:15:25 Let's

1:15:26 see.

1:15:27 I'm looking for some big names here.

1:15:30 Doster Law Offices, meaningless.

1:15:32 Event Ticket Authority.

1:15:37 It's it's it seem you're right. Seems like a lot of small small

1:15:40 company, a lot of real estate people for some reason.

1:15:44 And they say they are What do they say here?

1:15:47 Bipartisan

1:15:48 alliance whose members are united by common goals holding big pharma accountable for ripping off the American people and making prescription drugs more affordable and accessible in The United States once and for all. I smell Trump

1:16:02 somewhere.

1:16:02 I and it's they have a Not done well enough to be Trump. They have a they're at 1300 Pennsylvania

1:16:09 Avenue.

1:16:10 So it's not like Avenue Down the street. It's not like Avenue K.

1:16:17 Republican women of East Alabama.

1:16:19 I don't know. I like that they're doing the ads and if and you know, yes,

1:16:23 I'm sure that

1:16:25 the reason I say I smell Trump is because he knows that it's a problem if if he just signs an executive order or, you know, it has to go through congress. They need a dare I say it, a grassroots movement.

1:16:37 That's what they need.

1:16:39 And I think someone's trying something. Did banning cigarettes ad require that?

1:16:43 Congress.

1:16:44 Yes. It did require Congress. Absolutely. Do we know that for a fact? We can't ask the robot anymore. I think the robot may be fixed. Kick it. Kick it.

1:16:53 Hold on. Let me see if the robot is

1:16:58 let me see if the robot's working again.

1:17:01 What was your question?

1:17:03 Did it require an act of congress to ban cigarette advertising?

1:17:07 Book of knowledge. Did Did it require an act of congress to ban cigarette advertising?

1:17:13 That's still broken.

1:17:15 What does it do? It flips a page and dies? Yeah.

1:17:19 It's getting an error.

1:17:21 Let's talk about voter fraud. I have the other I have the other robot working on fixing that robot

1:17:26 as we speak. It'll get fixed during the show. Have to do one robot fix it. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. Now you're talking. Exactly.

1:17:34 Let's go with I guess some voter fraud clips. Okay. You wanna set it up?

1:17:38 Yeah. Voter fraud in in California is ridiculous and is being ignored.

1:17:43 And people, you know, as we talk about it all the time on the show,

1:17:47 We had some good clips about how it works.

1:17:50 And

1:17:51 they've, you know, they've been uncovering stuff left and right, there's gotta be something done about it because, you know, half of the dead people in California are voting. Now because you have a register, I need to register you so I can get paid too.

1:18:04 Okay? You guys, I need to get paid. Come on. This

1:18:07 is the video taken on Skid Row that the Department of Justice says has sparked an investigation

1:18:12 into voter registration fraud in Los Angeles.

1:18:15 The video created by right wing political activist James O'Keefe was posted back in March.

1:18:21 And on Monday, assistant attorney general, Hermit Dillon, alongside first assistant US attorney, Bill Saley, and officials with the FBI announced an arrest and charges in the case. They say 64 year old Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong,

1:18:36 a longtime signature gatherer for petitions, has been charged with paying people, including some experiencing homelessness,

1:18:42 to register to vote. Prosecutors

1:18:45 say her motivation, petition gatherers are paid for valid signatures,

1:18:49 which require the person signing to be a registered voter. She would then gather starting in twenty twenty five stacks of voter registration forms from the Los Angeles County registrar of voters and then go to Skid Row in Downtown Los Angeles to have homeless people first sign the voter registration forms and then sign the signature petitions.

1:19:10 In exchange, they say she would offer cash, which is illegal under federal law, and have them use her old address on the form. These were often small sums of cash, just a few dollars, as well as cigarettes and phone cards. She had them put her address as the address to receive the ballots. What she was gonna do with those ballots when received was to be determined, but this is an example of election fraud.

1:19:35 Yeah. It's the homeless people they're paying.

1:19:37 It's also an example of, marketing.

1:19:41 Explain.

1:19:43 Well, smart marketing. She gets paid so much for signatures on petitions.

1:19:48 She has these people create her those signatures so she can get she probably makes $5

1:19:54 per signature on a petition and and costs her $2 to get somebody to create a a new voter registration.

1:20:01 She makes $3 on that arbitrage.

1:20:03 Right. Well, that was that was because California law allows,

1:20:06 ballot harvesting,

1:20:08 which I Yeah. I don't think is legal everywhere.

1:20:11 It's a fabulous

1:20:13 marketing opportunity for this woman.

1:20:16 She she should be given at least some kudos from the one of the, you know, maybe an award or something from advertising

1:20:23 age perhaps. Oh, the golden, what is this? What does they have in, the golden lion? What is it?

1:20:29 Yeah. Something like that. Did you on con. A golden lion for this wonderful, wonderful campaign.

1:20:35 Announcement comes as California prepares for the June second primary election, with Monday marking the deadline to register to vote for a mail in ballot,

1:20:44 while in person voter registration extends to May 23. Federal officials also tied the case to a broader legal battle over access to California's voter rolls, which they suspect have undocumented residents registered to vote, something California officials have denied.

1:21:00 In terms of what the the broader electorate thinks about this,

1:21:05 it's not the case that folks are worried about

1:21:10 people who are ineligible participating.

1:21:12 Matt Lesenier is a political science professor at Cal State University Long Beach. He says cases of election fraud are rare in The US amid safeguards like signature verification. Say that. Yeah. Says research continues to show that voter fraud has little to no impact on election outcomes. Yeah. They always say line, we see this less than two dozen in the thousands of elections that we have across the country.

1:21:37 So it is a microscopic

1:21:40 rate of incidents

1:21:42 in voter fraud. He also warned of the difference between voter registration fraud and a fraudulent ballot that actually gets counted for a race. Federal prosecutors have not alleged that fraudulent ballots were cast in Brown Armstrong's case, but when asked about the scope of this investigation,

1:21:59 they say it's just the tip of the iceberg. This is part of a larger investigation.

1:22:03 We'll get into all that, I think, soon in the future. And until more arrests and charges are announced,

1:22:10 experts say elections in America remain secure.

1:22:13 Yes. Secure and safe and effective.

1:22:16 They always do that. I mean, it's it's it's a ridiculous report. I mean, I'm I've got two more clips, but play this one instead or or skip to this voter fraud taxes

1:22:26 in LA. This is a

1:22:29 Twitter guy, somebody, you know, a Twitter guy.

1:22:33 An influencer. And some just said local bitching and moaning about the obvious.

1:22:37 So the people of LA literally just voted to increase their own taxes. And I don't mean they did that by voting for Karen Bass. No. I mean, there was an actual ballot question saying, hey. Do you guys wanna pay more in taxes? And the people of LA apparently said yes. Now you may be asking yourself,

1:22:53 who the fuck would vote to raise their own taxes? Well, here's how that vote actually went down. So the people that came and voted in person, yeah, almost unanimously

1:23:02 voted against that ballot measure. They were like, oh, wait. You wanna raise our taxes?

1:23:06 Fuck that. But

1:23:08 then you had the mail in ballots. And in the early mail in ballots,

1:23:12 they also voted against it. But the ballots that came in

1:23:16 after election day, you know, the the ones that were, like, 65% in Ethiopian, yeah, they

1:23:22 overwhelmingly

1:23:23 voted in favor of raising their own taxes. Taxes. By the way, they raised it from nine point they raised their sales tax from 9.75

1:23:32 to 10.25.

1:23:33 They voted in favor of a more than 10%

1:23:37 sales tax. But yeah. I mean, look. Here's the thing. You can argue that it's strange

1:23:41 that so many late ballots,

1:23:43 you know, 65

1:23:45 were in favor of Nithya Raman. I think it's even crazier

1:23:48 than more than 80% of those ballots

1:23:52 were in favor of raising their own taxes.

1:23:55 Yeah. Which brings us right back to the very beginning of this of this episode.

1:24:00 You live in a crazy place.

1:24:03 I'm not in LA. It's California.

1:24:07 California

1:24:08 is it's nuts.

1:24:11 Well, think it's corrupt.

1:24:14 Okay.

1:24:15 Placed with fraud.

1:24:17 Well,

1:24:19 I I have a question for you. I have a report for you and I need to ask you a question about it before you fall into the Pacific Ocean. A new study finds San Andreas has built up more pressure today than in the last one thousand years,

1:24:32 priming the SoCal region for just what geologists have warned about for decades,

1:24:36 the big one. You gotta rem imminent to a geologist is, like, in the next century. Iconic seismologist for the USGS, doctor Lucy Jones, says this study tells us a lot, but it doesn't tell us everything. It doesn't tell us when the next earthquake's gonna be. To understand the future, geologists looked to the past, compiling data from the last one thousand years and creating this snapshot.

1:24:58 The red along the fault represents historically high pressure built by over a century of calm with no significant quake to ease the Earth's energy. Unfortunately, there in Southern California, you guys, you know, are are are plagued with a lot of different fault lines, including the sort of the different parts of the San Andreas itself and other faults like the San Jacinto. And it's at that intersection of faults sitting here at the critical corridor of the Cajon Pass that acts as a gateway through the state, meaning a potentially massive quake stretching from one end of California to the next. So there have been some earthquakes in the past that look like they went the whole length from south all the way north through the Cone Pass, and the stress level is extra high on sort of both sides of that right now,

1:25:39 increasing the chances that the next one could actually rip right through that area and be a larger earthquake overall. A double fault rupture much worse than a single fault event, which we know is still deadly, like the nineteen eighty nine six point nine Loma Prieta quake in San Francisco,

1:25:54 killing sixty three people. Well,

1:25:57 your local boots on the ground knowledge of this thousand year stress on the fault?

1:26:02 Well, we've been talking about there's something gonna happen in Southern California for the last decade.

1:26:07 Yeah.

1:26:09 Yeah. Earthquake wise.

1:26:11 And so they're still talking about it. The way I see it is something's gonna happen. Well It's gonna be in the next fifty

1:26:18 years.

1:26:19 Okay.

1:26:21 Yeah. That's a bet would be easy to take. Book of knowledge has been the robot has been fixed by the robot. Let's ask the question again.

1:26:28 Book of knowledge. Did it require an act of congress to ban tobacco advertising

1:26:33 on television in America?

1:26:35 Yes.

1:26:36 He's back. He's working. Okay. Book of knowledge.

1:26:40 Let's see if we can actually find anything.

1:26:44 According to the Book of Knowledge, yes.

1:26:47 Most certainly did.

1:26:49 Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act was a 1970 federal law approved

1:26:54 by the United States Congress and signed into law by president Richard Nixon, which banned cigarette advertisements on American radio and television.

1:27:04 You go. Yeah. That means it's never gonna happen.

1:27:08 Maybe.

1:27:09 Maybe. The cigarette people were never the kind of lobbyists that the pharma people are. Well, they should have They're just a couple, like, cigarette companies. They weren't really selling stuff for thousands of dollars a pill.

1:27:21 They weren't lobbying like this, they weren't contributing to the campaigns of the president to the extreme that the farmer people are this is never gonna happen. Not you just that you just bummed me out.

1:27:31 Well, maybe, Elon Musk with all with his trillion dollars can lobby everybody. He can get the president elected, so maybe he can do that.

1:27:39 Yeah. Maybe. Lobby Elon.

1:27:42 But well, on the topic of California, they might as well play a little bit of this You don't want those other two fraud clips? You're good with those? Oh, yeah. Let's play those. Let's play fraud clip because these are from ABC. A Los Angeles County woman has agreed to plead guilty to paying people on Skid Row to register to vote. Federal officials announcing the charge against Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong this week, which carries maximum penalty of five years in prison. The National News says Jeff Harris joining us. And according to her plea agreement, we do know Brown Armstrong allegedly worked as a petition circulator for nearly two decades. There is striking social media video.

1:28:19 What else is coming to light? So in that plea agreement, Brown Armstrong admitting to working as a paid petition circulator,

1:28:25 allegedly targeting the homeless while gathering signatures throughout the Los Angeles area. The bombshell admission coming after federal officials got their hands on an undercover video.

1:28:36 The justice department announcing this week, Brown Armstrong has been federally charged and has agreed to plead guilty to one felony count of paying another person to register to vote, including the homeless along LA Skid Row. We're committed to protecting the integrity of all American elections at the Department of Justice civil rights division,

1:28:54 but there needs to be a commitment by people and leaders here in California. According to her plea agreement, Brown Armstrong for nearly two decades worked as a petition circulator being paid by coordinators to gather signatures to qualify initiatives, recalls, and referendums for California state ballots.

1:29:09 She paid the homeless around 2 or $3 to fill out voter registration forms instructing them to use her own former LA resident.

1:29:18 Yep.

1:29:19 Yeah. It's just basically the same clip reiterated

1:29:22 more professionally.

1:29:25 I wanna play this clip. This is Newsome whining. This is only part of a six minute rant. Oh, can I do the setup for this?

1:29:32 Is this the the the justice department probe?

1:29:36 Oh, there's a setup? Yeah. I have a setup. I got a setup. Oh, okay. I got a setup. California governor Gavin Newsome is accusing president Donald Trump of ordering the justice department to launch a politically motivated investigation

1:29:49 into him and his wife. Newsom says federal agents have been questioning his family, his friends, and former employees.

1:29:56 The Democratic governor has frequently mocked president Trump on new social media. Newsom claims the DOJ is searching for a crime that does not exist.

1:30:05 He says he is being targeted for one reason. Okay.

1:30:08 Do you want your your your whining Yeah. I was listening to so Newsome goes on the TV and he starts whining.

1:30:14 In recent days, federal agents have knocked on the doors of family, friends, and former employees.

1:30:20 Not because they found a crime, because they're simply trying to find one. They're demanding records. They're abusing the grand jury process,

1:30:29 digging through years and years of random documents.

1:30:32 Donald Trump isn't just coming after me because of my mean tweets.

1:30:36 He's coming after me because I'm considering running for president.

1:30:40 Because he hates that I've consistently

1:30:42 called him out over and over again for his lies and deceit.

1:30:48 Donald Trump is simply

1:30:50 the most corrupt president in American history.

1:30:56 Yeah.

1:30:57 But you said He's not going after him anyway. It's after his wife. Yeah.

1:31:01 Well He's making $3,500,000

1:31:03 a year,

1:31:05 and they and it's not that it's illegal to take most of the money from a NGO or any of these lower organizations you start. It's that they think there may be some tax fraud involved. Oh, I thought it was behest payments is what it's called,

1:31:19 which is Well, that's probably that too. They're looking for something. So She's she's suspicious. She seems

1:31:25 she seems, I don't know if you've seen her much recently, but we see her here.

1:31:30 She is seems oddly nervous about for not just since this began. Yeah. No kidding. But for a long time, she seemed oddly nervous. She

1:31:42 reminds me of Walt's wife,

1:31:47 the turning the page woman who is just like bug eyed and acting really strange.

1:31:52 Well, so the way I understand the behest payments is and you're right. It's the way I understand it is

1:31:59 a

1:32:01 company

1:32:03 can donate money to the governor

1:32:06 and the and it and the and it would be for any

1:32:09 nonprofit the governor designates.

1:32:12 And the governor happens to designate

1:32:14 some or all of that money to his wife's nonprofit, which I think is some LGBTQ

1:32:20 plus nonsense.

1:32:22 Yeah. There's some. And and and then, you know, you see that these companies notably AT and T and Comcast get huge 70,000,125

1:32:31 Three yard deals. Million dollar contracts with the state of California.

1:32:35 Yeah. And the fact that he's out there saying this tells me there's something there. I I think Yeah. I agree. Think there's something He went on and on and on and

1:32:44 protesting

1:32:46 too much.

1:32:47 Yes. Don't You know, if he just lay low and, you know

1:32:51 but no.

1:32:52 He's done another style.

1:32:54 So

1:32:56 I wanna see if this is I wanna see if this is the clip that I was looking for about the screwworm.

1:33:01 All of a sudden, people are starting to figure out that the cartels,

1:33:05 the Mexican cartels

1:33:07 are smuggling 800,000

1:33:09 cattle a year from Central America into Mexico with fake ear tags, falsified records,

1:33:15 and this is what's brought the screwworm back to Texas.

1:33:18 And I'm telling you, when they really get into it, they're gonna find more than cows.

1:33:23 They're gonna find drugs

1:33:25 and people. Yeah. And you want a uniform response in some way and then No. This is not what I thought it was. This sucks.

1:33:34 No. This is not the clip I thought it was. Yeah. But I've heard that too. Well, we talked about it in the last show and I heard it maybe from Texas Slim. I wouldn't be able to say for sure.

1:33:45 And I think we're gonna see

1:33:48 art imitating life in Dutton Ranch

1:33:51 from

1:33:53 Taylor Sheridan.

1:33:54 I think they're gonna that's where the storyline is gonna go. This is gonna come out. It's gonna be pretty big. And then, you know, what Trump is gonna do, he's gonna go bomb some cartel guy,

1:34:05 which is what we're doing done it before. Yeah. That's what I'm saying is what is what we're doing now. We're bombing we're bombing cartel people.

1:34:12 I know, as an American, I'm kinda digging it. Yeah. Let's go blow some people up, suckers.

1:34:19 And an update on the SPLC,

1:34:22 Southern Poverty Law Center. Oh, these these guys. This

1:34:27 is great. New details are drawing attention to a former top official at the Southern Poverty Law Center. The organization best known for tracking hate groups and extremism. It's always worse than we thought. According to the justice department's expanding case against the SPLC,

1:34:44 a senior official identified in court documents as employee two

1:34:48 was in a romantic relationship with a confidential informant embedded inside

1:34:54 the white supremacist group National Alliance. They didn't just pay him to foment the hate they told their donors they were fighting. They actually dated them. The superseding indictment alleges the informant known as field source number nine received more than $1,000,000

1:35:09 in payments from the SPLC over several years.

1:35:12 Prosecutors also claim employee two and the informant shared a home and two joint bank accounts.

1:35:19 The indictment alleges approximately $140,000

1:35:23 in donor money ultimately flowed into those accounts and was used to pay the couple's personal living expenses.

1:35:31 While the indictment does not identify employee two by name, news reports have identified the person as Heidi Barrack,

1:35:38 the former director of the SPLC's

1:35:40 intelligence project and a prominent researcher

1:35:43 of white supremacist movements. This is so good. This is so good. Have you seen this woman?

1:35:51 No.

1:35:51 Oh, how can I put this tactically?

1:35:54 She could Tactically, you mean you mean

1:35:58 you don't mean tactically,

1:35:59 you mean What do I mean? What's the word? Tactfully.

1:36:03 Tactfully. Thank you. Yes. How can I put this tactfully?

1:36:07 The cartels could have smuggled her from Mexico.

1:36:12 Well, she looks Spanish?

1:36:13 No.

1:36:15 She looks Okay. What's her name? I

1:36:18 forget. I had it at the end there.

1:36:20 Let's see. Let's see. Hold on. Let me get her name. By name, news reports have identified the person as Heidi Barrack. Heidi Barrack.

1:36:30 Heidi Barrack. Look at Heidi Barrack.

1:36:33 It's like, yeah, it seems exactly like the kind of woman who would be shacking up with a Hitler sympathizer.

1:36:40 Neo Nazi.

1:36:43 Bovine esque. Thank you. Thank you. The troll room was helping me out. Yes. That's good.

1:36:49 Bovine esque. Would you would you hire her as a supermodel?

1:36:53 Yes. She has a fake ear tag. You can

1:36:56 Okay, trolls.

1:36:57 Did you find her?

1:36:59 No. There's no pictures of her in here. Oh, okay.

1:37:02 Thin blondes that doesn't sound bovine esque. No.

1:37:07 No. No.

1:37:11 While you're looking for that briefly,

1:37:15 Jeff Bezos doubles down on his vision for AI and I am all in on AI with Bezos. I know there's a lot of concern

1:37:25 that many people have including many smart people that AI is going to make humans redundant and so on. I I totally disagree with this point of view and I think in fact, AI is gonna create a labor shortage

1:37:37 because it's gonna make it possible for people to identify more problems. We have an endless set of things to invent. Mhmm. And we are only limited today,

1:37:46 we are limited not by our imaginations

1:37:49 Mhmm. But by what we can actually do. I promise you every single person in this audience

1:37:54 has had an idea

1:37:56 for a new business or a new product or a new device that they wish they could manufacture,

1:38:02 and that idea stayed in your head

1:38:05 and went nowhere.

1:38:07 And the reason it stayed in your head and went nowhere is because it's too hard to do and it wasn't worth it.

1:38:13 And if we can accelerate the dream build loop,

1:38:16 all of the ideas will then become possible when we end up being limited not by our capabilities

1:38:21 Father. But by our imaginations.

1:38:24 I love that too. The dream build loop.

1:38:26 It's it's more like a gap.

1:38:29 The dream build loop.

1:38:32 Another Silicon Valley term

1:38:36 that I never heard of. Oh. Dream build loop. Well, it's new. He's launching something new. Yeah. I think it's good. I might as well.

1:38:44 The dream build loop is expensive.

1:38:47 Now for the first time, NVIDIA

1:38:49 going to raise $20,000,000,000

1:38:51 in debt. Why is this?

1:38:54 I don't know. They're making nothing but money, hand over fist. Do you think it's like a an insurance policy somehow?

1:39:02 Like, hey, you know, something's gonna happen. We may need some extra cash. Yeah. They might wanna have some cash. Yeah. That's possible. Or maybe take some off the table or to buy back shares.

1:39:12 I mean, they gotta just Well, if it's used to buy back shares, that's that'd be scandalous.

1:39:17 Oh, okay. Like the like the circular financing that's going on in this whole industry isn't scandalous by itself. And then you have this this sorry, Bernie Sanders.

1:39:26 Man, he he really is proposing

1:39:29 he's falling for this hook, line, and sinker

1:39:32 for the we need a Well, these guys well, let's stop for a second. Don't forget that everybody

1:39:38 is falling for the quantum hook, line, and sinker. The quantum nonsense.

1:39:43 Where's the quantum computer?

1:39:45 Oh, that The one that'll do things so fast that passwords will be obsolete. No. But

1:39:51 the

1:39:54 scam here, which it goes back to when they had that big meeting and

1:40:00 Musk was there and Ellison was there and Altman was there and and they had this closed door meeting with all the senators.

1:40:09 Oh, this is so dangerous what AI can do in the future. It's going to take away everybody's job and we have, you know, we need special regulation, we have to be involved in everything.

1:40:20 This is this is the they

1:40:24 Altman was saying with Chad before even the the chatbot came out, oh, we can't release a Chad GPT two. We can't release that because it it it'll it'll kill the the economy.

1:40:35 You know, or and anthropics of mythos, oh, we can't release that. It's too dangerous. Yeah. Well, that was we've already discussed that it's part of a marketing strategy. Yeah. So but the marketing strategy now is,

1:40:48 and I think they're all in on it. I think these guys want it. Please, would you become shareholders of our companies so that when this thing blows, you'll bail us out? We all go down together. Either we all go down together or you bail us out.

1:41:02 I mean,

1:41:03 what is our GDP based on

1:41:07 currently?

1:41:09 Isn't it just

1:41:12 I mean, the GDP doesn't mean Boeing.

1:41:15 Yeah. Boeing. Lockheed.

1:41:17 Yeah. No. There's definitely.

1:41:19 But are but it

1:41:21 are those the big GDP contributors?

1:41:24 Boeing and Lockheed are for sure. Yeah. So

1:41:27 that's interesting. So you don't think the a the mag seven the mag seven,

1:41:32 you don't think they're they can they contribute to the GDP,

1:41:36 alpha Well, they contribute to the they definitely contribute to the the stock market indexes

1:41:41 Mhmm. Because they own half I mean, they're they're

1:41:44 overweighted.

1:41:45 Well, is interesting because I keep hearing everywhere, and I don't know. I keep hearing,

1:41:50 oh, well, you know, the the the whole GDP is all built upon the AI companies and the magnificent seven. Is

1:41:57 that true? No. They're not. The GDP is getting nothing from these guys.

1:42:01 Oh, that's this is good to know because I can Well, they're lost they're losing money. How's that a positive benefit to for GDP?

1:42:10 Well, what is what okay. What is GDP? This is good to know. People don't know this. The gross domestic product. What is being made, manufactured, what's it worth, and what's the value on an annualized basis?

1:42:23 In fact, ask the robot, what is GDP?

1:42:25 What's the definition of GDP?

1:42:27 Okay.

1:46:25 Anthropic has talked about the potential for,

1:46:28 you know, huge unemployment among entry level white collar jobs in the next, you know, five or or ten years.

1:46:35 You're introducing

1:46:36 a plan

1:46:38 for the government to use a one time 50% tax on the stock of the largest AI companies to create a sovereign wealth fund, which A tax on what? A tax on debt. To estimate could be worth Tax on yeah. And gun. Tax on loss. So they get to write it off, I guess. 7,000,000,000,000.

1:46:55 How would this work and why is it necessary, you think? Well, Anderson. Alright. AI

1:47:00 is the most transformative

1:47:02 technology in the history of humanity.

1:47:04 It's gonna impact every man, woman, and child.

1:47:08 Right now, it is being Oligarchs. And pushed by the wealthiest people in the world, mister Musk, mister Bezos The oligarchs. Of Zuckerberg, Ellison, and others.

1:47:16 Their goal is simply more wealth and more power.

1:47:20 My own view is that

1:47:23 given the fact that the foundation of AI

1:47:27 is based on human knowledge,

1:47:29 they've accumulated all of human knowledge.

1:47:32 Oh,

1:47:33 yeah. After '19

1:47:36 know, this guy is a crank.

1:47:38 Must play. And don't even have anything in the LLMs that before the year 2000.

1:47:46 Yeah. They do.

1:47:48 No. They don't.

1:47:50 There's a cutoff point. They don't want they start putting that stuff in, they get a bunch of racist,

1:47:55 they get misogyny,

1:47:56 they get stuff that ruins the LLM.

1:47:59 Well, the whole thing is that the LLMs as a knowledge basis is is dead anyway.

1:48:05 He doesn't even he's he's behind the curve. LLMs

1:48:08 are good at He's a crank, Kevin. In America must play a vital role in the future of AI. What does that mean? It means that the public should have 50%

1:48:18 of the seats

1:48:20 on the major AI companies

1:48:23 in order to prevent bad things from happening. You talked about mass unemployment. It is quite possible that over the next decade, tens of millions of jobs will be lost. Yeah. That's it. That's Elon's.

1:48:34 No one will have to work. It's gonna be a great world.

1:48:37 All Bernie Sanders sees is,

1:48:40 yeah, socialism,

1:48:42 universal basic income. And that money would be funneled back to citizens in in The United States? Right. Right now, we're talking about for a start of 5% every year. The fund, which we estimate right now would be about

1:48:56 $7,000,000,000,000.

1:48:57 5% of that would be Where does he get this money from? Where I don't know. Where is You're asking the wrong guy. He he just appeared. He somehow thinks that there's $7,000,000,000,000

1:49:08 they're gonna put in. He could use direct dividends every man, woman, and child in this country starting the beginning to be about a thousand dollars per person per year. If AI is as valuable and grows as quickly as people think it might, that number will go up. In addition, you'll have a large amounts of money available

1:49:26 that makes sure that in America, every man, woman, and child does health care as a human right, that we improve the education opportunities,

1:49:33 we build the housing that we need. Bottom line here is we cannot allow AI just to be used to benefit the very richest people in the world. It has gotta be used to benefit all of us. What do you mean? $20 a month, I got a chatbot. It benefits everybody.

1:49:50 It's beautiful. Benefiting the listeners of the No Agenda show. Yeah. Book of knowledge. You've met with Sam Altman, CEO of

1:49:56 OpenAI.

1:49:57 How how'd that go?

1:49:59 How'd that go?

1:50:01 Well, I didn't understand what he was talking about. Well, I think Sam is a very good salesman. Yes.

1:50:07 But bottom line is it's very hard to talk

1:50:10 with,

1:50:12 anybody

1:50:13 from the industry

1:50:14 when they they, in a sense, have a gun at your head.

1:50:17 So we can chat and chat,

1:50:19 but what He has a gun at He's got a gun to his head? Yeah. He should he's been checked for arms.

1:50:25 Anybody from the industry Should've been patted down. In a sense have a gun at your head.

1:50:30 So we can chat and chat,

1:50:32 but what Sam and the other,

1:50:35 CEOs,

1:50:36 of the industry are saying, look, if you wanna regulate us, if you wanna protect the American people, we have endless amounts of money

1:50:43 in super PACs to defeat you. We are very close to the president of The United States. We were at his inaugural.

1:50:50 He is a fellow oligarch,

1:50:52 and you ain't gonna do anything. And I think what we're looking at right now is a grassroots with which is taking place. Opposition to data centers, deep concern about the growth of AI.

1:51:02 We're seeing real movement in a direction that says that AI has gotta work to benefit all of us, and not just the few, that AI cannot be used to wipe out millions of jobs where people have no place.

1:51:14 There won't be jobs available to them. Yeah. So I think Yeah. And nobody has voted nobody has voted for this, which is one of these things I keep coming

1:51:21 just extraordinary.

1:51:23 Wow. Just appreciate it, to be continued. Thank you.

1:51:26 It's so so uninterested. He should have been around during the invention of the steam engine if he wants to see something replacing workers.

1:51:33 It's Jevan's

1:51:35 dilemma,

1:51:36 man.

1:51:37 We all know it.

1:51:40 Vance is up there now,

1:51:42 defending the difference between Obama's deal and Trump's deal. Is Vance at the meet at the at the tower?

1:51:49 No.

1:51:51 Obama's still at the party. He's speaking now. He's at the party. He's wagging his finger.

1:51:56 Vance is using both hands

1:51:58 like he's doing a like he's stroking something really big.

1:52:02 And he's at the White House in the in the Press Room.

1:52:05 Vance uses his hands too much. He does. He's a little bit like Newsome.

1:52:10 But Vance keeps his hands in the zone.

1:52:13 He doesn't move Yeah. He doesn't go all over the map with him. You're right. He doesn't go all over the map with his hands. Yeah.

1:52:20 Alright. Well, beautiful.

1:52:22 Now, we've solved most of the world's problems here. I feel much better about everything.

1:52:26 Well, they're good. I gotta clip that maybe it'll depress you. Okay.

1:52:30 Well, probably, maybe it won't. This is kissing in Colorado.

1:52:33 Kissing in Colorado.

1:52:35 Okay.

1:52:36 Well, I can't believe I'm about to say this, but a high school teacher in Colorado was just terminated

1:52:41 Oh, yeah. Because she had skits in her classroom.

1:52:44 And in those skits, she required students to kiss each other, many of them being the same sex and felt really uncomfortable.

1:52:51 And if they didn't do it, she would fail them. According to the investigation, students were assigned roles in French language skits titled the boring kiss. Several students alleged that they were expected to kiss classmates as part of the performance. One student refused and received a zero on their grade and another walked out. Now the teacher says she never forced anyone to kiss one another. She did say you could blow a kiss or do a gesture. But no one's really buying that answer. See, the issue isn't just whether students were physically forced to kiss one another. The issue is that this teacher put these students in a position where they had to decide in front of their classmates and under the authority of their teacher, who controlled their grades, whether they were comfortable participating in what a judge described as a personal and sexualized activity. Why is kissing required in any high school assignment? And that was not the only concern. There were allegations that the teacher shared deeply personal details about her life with students, including discussions about abuse, infertility, and suicidal thoughts. There were no criminal charges that were filed, but the district did conclude that the environment did cross work professional boundaries. A foreign language class should be teaching French, Not putting teenagers in situations where they feel pressured to kiss one another because of a great

1:54:01 No. No. Go Colorado.

1:54:03 Yeah. They're they're advanced in Colorado there. Forced kissing.

1:54:08 I have a I have a gripe, man. We Tina and I have been looking because we've watched all the series we wanna watch and, you know, we're scanning around on Yeah. You're on this one thing, Dutton Ranch seems to be your thing now. Yeah. But it's, you know, it's we it's once a week, so we have to wait And Oh, no. Yeah. I know. It's back to the old days. There's no more binging.

1:54:29 And so, you know, there's a whole bunch of new series

1:54:32 on Netflix and Amazon

1:54:35 and every single

1:54:38 series,

1:54:39 particularly the comedy, every single one has gotta have gay guys making out.

1:54:45 It it's Gay guys making out? Yeah. Kissing.

1:54:49 I haven't seen this. Long kissing sequences of gay guys.

1:54:53 I haven't seen it on Fox.

1:54:55 No. I I said Amazon and Prime. Amazon and Netflix,

1:54:59 not Fox. Oh. Oh. Oh.

1:55:02 Fox wouldn't do that.

1:55:04 And I know it's pride month, but yeah.

1:55:07 It's silly. It's not is it Is it is it it's disgusting you. Why don't you just say it? Yeah. It is. I I

1:55:14 don't wanna see it.

1:55:16 And it's just like Yeah. A lot of people don't. But it's it's and the writing is funny. It's a funny shows. The writing's funny? But there's always gratuitous gay guy kissing.

1:55:27 It's just I don't understand. Is is is that such a necessity?

1:55:33 Gratuitous gay guy kissing? Yes. Is that a necessity?

1:55:38 Yeah. In Wow. That's the question of the year. In entertain let's ask the robot. In entertainment. Yeah. What there we go. Now we're gonna get a real answer. Book of Knowledge. Is gratuitous gay guy kissing a necessity for modern television

1:55:53 series?

1:55:54 Let's see let's see what the Book of Knowledge comes up with now.

1:56:04 According to the book of knowledge, in today's television landscape,

1:56:08 series increasingly respond to social demands for queer representation,

1:56:13 it has become a focal point for the audio visual industry.

1:56:17 Though, whether it serves the story or merely the mandate of advocacy groups like Gilead,

1:56:22 the gains have often been clustered on a handful of shows,

1:56:27 missed opportunities to tell fuller stories,

1:56:30 suggesting it is less organic necessity and more institutional pressure. Well, there you go.

1:56:36 Thus, it

1:56:37 has been written. Yeah. Institutional pressure. You wanna get some Glad. You should you call it gilad, but it's glad. Think he's talking about. Glad. Yeah. It's institutional pressure. There you go. It's for Hollywood.

1:56:49 Well, it Hollywood, I don't think Interesting. That's actually an interesting answer.

1:56:53 So there's institutional

1:56:55 pressure

1:56:56 Mhmm. To have gay guys kissing in front of everybody Mhmm. During a series because they want to normalize it. Yes. It's called programming.

1:57:07 Yes. In fact, it's called TV programming to be exact. Now they don't have gratuitous

1:57:13 male female kissing.

1:57:14 Not that much.

1:57:16 Well, know, one of the things they've noticed that during the slowdown

1:57:19 in birth rates

1:57:21 is that a lot of it they think

1:57:24 sociologically

1:57:24 may have to do with the fact that when there was a lot of babies being born, there was a lot of TV shows that had a lot of kids on there. Yeah. As part of the the the show, they had, you know, the leave it to beaver show, the Ossie and Harriet,

1:57:37 the the the Brady

1:57:39 Bunch, and all these shows that have Kids. A children,

1:57:42 element. And it was gratuitous,

1:57:45 children element in all these shows. And people said, well, children are kinda cool. Look at them. They're funny. They're hanging around. Let's have a kid. Hey.

1:57:52 I got an idea. But now it's like, oh, there are two gay guys kissing. Let's find a guy and go kiss him.

1:57:58 So I think it's yeah. The TV people are start trying to ruin the country. I'll tell you I'll tell you. You're lucky you're not across from me in the same room. I might have to go for you.

1:58:06 Yeah. Well, you just keep it to yourself.

1:58:09 Hey, with that, I wanna thank you for your courtesy in the morning to you, the man who put the c in the drug cows. Say hello to my friend on the other end. I wish I could kiss him. John C.

1:58:25 Yeah. In the morning to you, mister Adam Curry. In morning, I'll ship you Seaboost and Rafi in the air subs to the Water Damage nights out there. In the morning to the trolls Go down the room in the morning.

1:58:36 It's obviously a vacation.

1:58:38 Twelve ninety one.

1:58:40 Wow.

1:58:41 Yeah. People on vacation. Well, obviously that and the and the and the fact you couldn't get the bat signal to work. That does not help. And it's still busted, so I'm gonna have to bring in the the big guns

1:58:52 somehow to publish this. It's annoying.

1:58:56 Well, it's terrible. It happens. You know, it's amazing any of this stuff works really. I'm truly amazed that we can talk to each other with almost no delay. It streams out.

1:59:05 You know, the

1:59:07 pod ping technology,

1:59:09 which will work. This is just a a problem on my end. You know? I'm still trying to figure what happened to my brave browser this morning.

1:59:16 Yeah. That's interesting. I don't know what happened to your brave it didn't work.

1:59:20 Well, I I booted it up, got to the show, and it says, oh, your microphone has been turned off by the browser.

1:59:27 Please reset it. What are you talking about? It it says, check the icon at the top of the browser, the microphone icon. There's no microphone icon on the browser.

1:59:37 So they had so they upgraded something for your security.

1:59:41 They upgraded something and now the Brave browser doesn't work with CleanFeed.

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2:00:43 We are Value4Value,

2:00:45 which is a very simple concept.

2:00:48 Although difficult for people to implement, we've been doing it for eighteen years, it'll be nineteen years in October and the system is thus,

2:00:55 we give you the show complete,

2:00:58 no secret things, no clubs, no behind the scenes, no bonus episodes or bonus

2:01:04 content.

2:01:05 No. We we just give you the full show in all its glory for you to do with and to consume it however you want to. There's people who are I found this out the other day

2:01:16 on X. Some guy says, your show hasn't arrived on YouTube Music.

2:01:20 I'm like, YouTube Music?

2:01:23 We've never we've never given our RSS feed to YouTube music. No. I do it myself.

2:01:30 You do it yourself. Okay? So you're helping

2:01:33 us build an audience on YouTube music and when you go away or you get tired of it, then then the show goes away for those people. Well done.

2:01:42 Well done. Thank you.

2:01:44 We had three downloads on Spotify.

2:01:47 They've de platformed us completely

2:01:49 due to the end of show mixes because they hear music because they, oh, it's music.

2:01:54 The music must be bad. Must must be bad.

2:01:57 Yeah. So that's not a very good platform. No. Get those modern podcast apps. So Value4Value

2:02:02 is a concept we came up with which we thought would be better than advertising.

2:02:07 And many people say, oh, so good you don't do you don't do ads

2:02:11 because you know, it keeps you clean of corporate interests and you can't get the know, your money can't get taken away by the advertisers and that's that's that's true.

2:02:20 But the real reason is Adam and John just didn't wanna have meetings with advertisers because those are the worst meetings that we don't even have meetings with ourselves.

2:02:28 We're not into meetings. No.

2:02:30 We just when we see each other, we grouse.

2:02:33 And

2:02:34 we don't even see each we haven't seen each other in,

2:02:37 five No. If we saw each other, we'd this show would not be around. I can guarantee it. Yep. There's not a partnership

2:02:43 like this in the world that's involved with entertainment in any way, shape or form that lasts more than a few years because they just get on each other's nerves.

2:02:50 You mentioned this to someone on X regarding Cisco and Ebert.

2:02:55 Yeah. Because they played a clip of these two guys. I met both of those guys

2:02:58 and they both of them kind of had a little, you know, a little nothing good to say about the other guy.

2:03:05 They

2:03:06 really didn't like each other. They really were were irks. I think they did for a while and then they got on each other's nerves. Yeah.

2:03:14 Yeah. They had slightly different personalities.

2:03:17 I mean, the Cisco was is kind of a was

2:03:20 well, at least when I met him, don't know the guy, but he was hot. He's nice guy. They're both the guys are terrific, by the way. But Cisco was kind of haughty

2:03:30 and and kind of a you look down his nose, you know, kind of guy. And Ebert was kind of a goofball

2:03:36 and just fun guy Are they both still with a lot of opinions. Are they both still alive? I thought one of them No. I think they're both dead. Yeah. Because someone Troll room says Ebert's birthday is that if the guy's dead, then do we celebrate his birthday? I think he's dead. I think I mean, he ended with the with jaw cancer and they took half his face away. It's terrible. No.

2:03:54 Oh, that's sucks.

2:03:55 That's horrible.

2:03:57 So,

2:04:01 but yeah, we don't want meetings with each other. We certainly

2:04:04 don't want And if we had to have meetings with each other with advertisers, oh, that's like a Tinder box. Tinder box. Because you know, you'd be like, yeah, we'll do that. Yeah. Whatever. We'll take the money. It's gonna be that way. You would. Oh. No.

2:04:18 No. Oh. Mister

2:04:19 Cave. Here's the here's

2:04:21 a Cisco and Ebert sound clip. Let's see.

2:04:25 Why is it why do I not hear it? Oh, I know why. Hold on. Let's do this for a second. You did.

2:04:32 It's thriller week on Cisco and the movies and we've got three new ones. And the movies, not at the movies. And

2:04:39 that's why we're doing it this time.

2:04:41 Oh.

2:04:43 It's thriller week on Cisco and Ebert in the movies, and we've got three new ones. Dennis Quaid in the Big Easy,

2:04:50 Michael Caine in the fourth Protocol,

2:04:52 and Kevin Costner and Gene Hackman in No Way Out.

2:04:55 That's this week on Cisco

2:04:57 and Ebert

2:04:59 and the movies.

2:05:01 And the asshole. Great. That was great. And that's Roger. And the asshole.

2:05:05 That

2:05:07 would definitely be me. That would be me. So

2:05:11 I'm glad I'm glad we're and and this is good. We have a good thing going, John. Don't mess it up.

2:05:18 Yeah. People always say, why don't you guys do can you besides that, who they oh, I will mention this. One of the things that people don't this is kinda inside baseball, but but queuing each other without visual cues. When you're in the studio together, you can look at somebody, you can, you know, raise your eyebrow. I mean, there's ways of getting people to do certain things when you're working with them in the same room,

2:05:42 to to cue them to to bring something up or to do something. We have to do it at a at a very

2:05:49 advanced level.

2:05:52 It has to be anticipatory.

2:05:54 It's it's much more difficult

2:05:56 to get the cues correct. And we miss them probably

2:05:59 a few time more than we miss them usually at least once a show, but generally speaking, it's it's it's phenomenal how good we are.

2:06:07 No. Don't break your arm patting yourself on the back. But, yeah.

2:06:13 Many radio professionals

2:06:15 have said to me, man, how long does it take you to edit that show?

2:06:19 Like, what? That's a good one. I know I've heard this this comment too. To what? What? No. No. No. Live to tape or or nothing. We're not doing this show if it has to be edited. No.

2:06:30 There you go. Another thing we would never do. Live to tape. It is what you get. It what you get what you see is what you get.

2:06:36 And what you see is one way that people help us with value for value, time, talent, or treasure and that is creating or prompting artwork for our album art and we wanna thank Blue Acorn for bringing us the artwork for episode eighteen seventy seven. We titled that Flim Flam, a fine word we need to bring back into the vocabulary,

2:06:55 into the corpus.

2:06:56 And this was Roosevelt

2:07:00 flipping a guy over his shoulder at the UFC

2:07:03 at the at the at the big fight at the White House.

2:07:06 It was relevant because we learned that many presidents have been into wrestling,

2:07:11 grappling and wrestling

2:07:13 And Roosevelt

2:07:14 apparently once flipped a senator over his shoulder.

2:07:17 Do we do we even know if that is historically correct? Do we even check that? We do not know. Do we it could be could be it could be folklore.

2:07:25 Yeah. Well, it was it was fun anyway. So we appreciate that. Let's take a look at the No Agenda Art Generator, noagendaartgenerator.com.

2:07:31 We'll see. Were there any other things that we considered?

2:07:36 I think you were complaining there wasn't anything any good. I know that you use the

2:07:41 comic strip blogger

2:07:42 Ideal for Hydration Break Polish Potato Vodka for the Jay picked that. She picked that one. Well, Jay is a good judge of of art. Oh, I like I like the

2:07:55 it wasn't as good as the Roosevelt thing, but I like the

2:07:58 the No Agenda Curry and Dvorak in the grass in front of the reflecting pool

2:08:03 because we had a clip about someone peeing

2:08:08 86, 47. It was kind of okay. A lot of we saw those Ulster says no or those old?

2:08:15 And then Those are old. Okay. Those are old. What else was this? Couple other

2:08:20 yeah. You're right. I was oh, I I kind of like Trump saying I love it, you know, on the on the White House balcony

2:08:27 with a megaphone,

2:08:28 with a banner I love inflation.

2:08:31 Yeah. That was it. There wasn't much. Do better people. Do better. You can do better. We it you know, this is this what's happening here is we have a break in the dream

2:08:43 build loop.

2:08:45 You gotta dream

2:08:47 and then you gotta build. And if you don't have dreams, then you can't build. So the dream build loop has to be implemented here for the art. You can do it, people. There's also a dream donate loop.

2:08:58 Yeah. There is. Also failing.

2:09:00 There is.

2:09:02 And I think it's because of the whatever girls clips. That's my personal opinion. I I I think Fifty seconds.

2:09:08 Oh, it's not about how long, it's just the fact that we even consider it. People think we're we're horrible people. Oh, I agree. I'm I'm with you on that. I agree with you. But there are people who take time out of their day

2:09:20 to email me. One guy. No.

2:09:23 That's the one guy who said please send this to John because I can't remember how to spell his name.

2:09:27 That's one Okay. I'm gonna read the I'm gonna read the the note. Oh, you have it there. Good.

2:09:34 This is from, one of our producers,

2:09:37 and it's Dear Adam,

2:09:40 writing in with an opinion instead of a fact because I think you would appreciate a measure

2:09:46 a measure of the pulse of your listener base.

2:09:51 You talk about getting emails all the time where people rage quit your show because your opinion on Israel is wrong or whatever. I'm not going to do that.

2:10:02 I'm not going to quit the show based on your opinion because your show is one of the only shows with actual sincere,

2:10:10 honest, and interesting opinions that don't

2:10:14 just

2:10:15 fall in lockstep with politics.

2:10:19 Whether you guys agree or disagree

2:10:21 with me on some subject, I know it's sincere and I know it's at least a useful perspective,

2:10:26 so I'm not going to get upset about it. Follow this

2:10:29 to follow this is to say that I'm not upset enough to stop listening, but

2:10:36 there's always the big but. Yeah. How I am legitimately

2:10:40 annoyed.

2:10:41 I just wanted to write in to let you know or rather to let you let you to let John know

2:10:50 that in the five years that I've been listening to your podcast, the only segments

2:10:55 I have ever skipped are the whatever girls.

2:11:00 As a guy who's pushing 40 and hasn't been on a date in ten years Here it comes. Listening to a bunch

2:11:08 is it. This is it. Is his real problem is right here. Start that start that segment over again because I will. It's not about us playing the the girls, it's this.

2:11:19 No. He's he's irked

2:11:20 because of himself. This is a self inflicted wound.

2:11:24 As a guy who's pushing 40

2:11:27 and hasn't been on a date in ten years,

2:11:31 listening to a bunch of stupid girls

2:11:34 who already have made more money than I'll make in my life

2:11:39 does not cause enjoyment for me.

2:11:44 I'm just going to keep skipping that section. I'm not going to quit your show or anything, but since this is a useful data point, I thought I would write in and let you know that I might actually be

2:11:58 be that it might actually be affecting listener retention.

2:12:03 I don't like that segment, and I skip it every time it comes up. And that is the only segment I have ever skipped on your show, signed

2:12:12 the 40 year old guy who hasn't been on a date in ten years. Thank you for reading that again because

2:12:18 this that part of the it broke my heart,

2:12:21 that part of the email.

2:12:23 I heard that. I'm like, oh,

2:12:25 yeah. I I I I I completely

2:12:29 empathetic empathetically

2:12:31 felt his pain

2:12:33 and I bet a lot of men are like that. You know, dating is over. There's no dating. Yeah. You know it is. There's only and It's hit the skids.

2:12:41 It it has.

2:12:43 And it broke my heart to hear that. I'm like, oh, so his real problem is not with the segment.

2:12:49 And I know you looked these things up. So did has he ever donated?

2:12:53 He's I I well, normally, I do look him up. I did not look him up individually, but I I pretty

2:12:59 I I wasn't it wasn't the kind of letter where I look him up, so I said, oh, he doesn't donate or doesn't care. So I didn't look him up, but I'm pretty sure he's donated.

2:13:09 I personally think it would have been better if he sent in a donation with this note.

2:13:14 Yeah. We then we would have read it to Yeah. Even if it was But I read it anyway, but we could have read it would have been read guaranteed read. Oh, yeah. If it was $50, I I it wouldn't matter how much you don't Well, have 50. I don't know. So you get three $300

2:13:27 would help.

2:13:30 That but that now I understand the real problem. The the problem is

2:13:35 that he hasn't been able to get a date for ten years.

2:13:40 And now he's listening to these women who, I I guess, he would like to date them

2:13:45 or not. I mean, I'm trying to make the connection between how Well, I don't think he wants to date him. He's just irked that they're rich.

2:13:52 That although, believe me, half of them aren't. I mean, it's No. They're not. This is a random group of girls, and a lot of them don't you know, just dipshits, and some of them are

2:14:01 only fans of dummies, and some of them make a lot of money, and some make millions. I mean, it's a huge range of of of women that go on that show and a lot of people. Here's my advice. Here's my advice.

2:14:13 You gotta get one of them Darren O'Neil deals.

2:14:16 Darren O'Neil has a deal, man. His wife works and he does like shows. He's just podcasting.

2:14:23 He does rock and roll pre show. He does a show with

2:14:26 with Larry. He does a show with Jean.

2:14:29 He might cook. I mean, might cook. I don't know if he cooks. If he could people who cook always brag about it. But the Darren O'Neil deal, that's I'd like that. I'd like a Darren O'Neil deal. That'd be fantastic. Can you imagine? You'd love it too.

2:14:43 Can you imagine Mimi was bringing in all the dough?

2:14:46 Well, that dog kennel though, you should franchise that. The dog kennel. The dog kennel. Yeah. We should. We we have a reason to How is this? Promise to it's it's a it's a it's a personnel situation. The only reason the dog kennel works so well is because we just like an Elon Musk, you lock we locked out and got a guy just that's a lunatic about dogs and, you know, he can run that kennel. I mean, that's the hardest thing in the world is still personnel.

2:15:11 Yeah. And, what is the kennel index? Is it full?

2:15:15 It's always full. The thing's always full. So it's just Oh, you'll know. I mean, full in the way where it's overloaded where it's

2:15:22 probably full. Yeah. I'm guessing. Check it. We need to we need to understand. We should just blow it up and then we wouldn't have a we'd get more money into this show. Darren is telling me in thirty one years, my wife has made about 10 meals. There you go.

2:15:37 But maybe they eat out a lot like you. I we we eat home all the time.

2:15:42 You're always We eat out all the time. You're always saying to me, you got any dinners? Any dinners coming up? Any dinners coming up? Yeah. Yeah. I'm always saying that. So here's a story. I got a story for you. Because you go out to dinner with these with with these local

2:15:55 famous people, and they usually have some some inside scoop

2:15:59 for us.

2:16:01 So here's a story.

2:16:03 You want a story? You want a fun story of Fred a Fredericksburg story? No. I'm always looking for a Fredericksburg story. So Lighten livens my day. So the Fredericksburg ladies,

2:16:13 there's two of them.

2:16:15 And and they're they're both in their eighties. And

2:16:18 they are like whippersnappers.

2:16:21 And these women are fantastic.

2:16:24 And I love them. They're funny.

2:16:26 They're kind of,

2:16:28 you know, borderline And whippersnappers

2:16:31 specifically refers to a young person, but But they're they're okay. What if you have an 85 year old who is just hilarious and sharp, a bit like you, Hilarious and sharp, only only a woman. Only a woman. What do you what how do you describe that woman? They got Spry.

2:16:45 No. It's more than that. They're they're still wearing blue Lively. They're wearing blue jeans they that they wore when they were 18.

2:16:52 They're tight. They're and they're funny. And both their husbands are billionaires.

2:16:58 There's this group of women, like six of them. And they're always doing birthday parties for each other. Oh my goodness. The birthday parties.

2:17:06 Because it's always who's invited? Who it's like middle school. Anyway,

2:17:10 so

2:17:11 and I'm leaving the names out because it just protect the It sounds like Palm Beach, but continue.

2:17:17 No. It's not at all like Palm Beach.

2:17:20 You wouldn't you would never know that they're that they're rich. You would never know.

2:17:26 But how you find out is when one of the two billionaire ladies said, hey, let's all go to the house in Vail.

2:17:34 So

2:17:36 that's a clue. Right? It's a clue. We'll meet Yeah. Kinda. We'll meet you at the airport

2:17:42 Tuesday

2:17:43 at 10:30.

2:17:44 So I and this little airport here, the the one where I take off from.

2:17:49 As I drive up there, there is a

2:17:53 Cessna Citation

2:17:55 Excelsior XLS.

2:17:58 They're like a $20,000,000 airplane, net jets.

2:18:01 This, you know, everyone's driving up to the plane,

2:18:04 you know, it's like top notch. You'd they had to pre order their lunch for on the plane.

2:18:10 I've never been in a plane, maybe once. And

2:18:14 and so and I was like, this is pretty awesome. Of course, dudes weren't invited.

2:18:19 And so they jet off to Vail.

2:18:21 The very next day,

2:18:24 what happens with net jets?

2:18:27 The very same plane crashes and burns

2:18:31 in in Laredo.

2:18:33 First accident net jets has ever had in their history.

2:18:37 And now they're all like, should we drive home? I'm like, no. Yeah. No. No. No.

2:18:43 The the chances of that happening are impossibly

2:18:47 small.

2:18:49 Yeah. So there's the rich lady story. What what this is rich white lady problems. Shall I take the NetJets home or shall we have the Bentley drive us home?

2:18:58 There's your story.

2:19:00 Yeah. That would've that would've been good if you had some clips to go with it. If I

2:19:05 had a clip of

2:19:07 the Blanco Lario channel

2:19:10 or captain Steve explains what happened.

2:19:14 I will say, I think that the pilots on that net jet, they did a great job with that emergency landing. I don't know what happened to aircraft. We probably won't know for a while. But they rode that thing all the way down onto the highway. They only six passengers or six people, one perished sadly.

2:19:30 But to have five people survive,

2:19:33 a crash of that magnitude? Amazing. Those guys did a great job.

2:19:37 I mean, sucks, but the and I'd like to know what happened. This is not the kind of plan that should have that happen.

2:19:43 Anyway,

2:19:44 no billionaires here and not for a long time, but we do have many people who love our show

2:19:50 and and probably are dating

2:19:52 or maybe they're not, I don't know. And they love supporting us and they do that with the treasure of the time, talent and treasure. And now we have an entire family,

2:20:00 the Milligan family.

2:20:02 And they come in with a thousand dollars, they even added the fees, so it's a thousand dollars, a thousand $30.26.

2:20:10 And as you know, above $300,

2:20:12 not only are we guaranteed to read your note, but we will also

2:20:15 give you the producer, executive producer credit, which is good anywhere. Hollywood recognizes these credits. Yeah. Imdb.com.

2:20:22 $200 or more, associate executive producer.

2:20:26 And and and and so they're also going to be well, they have a whole note here. This is for a Red Knight Order of the Heart. Bob Can I interrupt

2:20:33 you? Yeah.

2:20:35 There's only 10 slots left.

2:20:38 Oh, okay. It's ending. Alright.

2:20:41 Very good. Wow. Because we're out of pins. We are. Gonna be out of pins after 10 more Red Knights. It's all over.

2:20:47 So the Milligan family, they're from Elko, Nevada.

2:20:50 Bob celebrates this June his post

2:20:54 CABG

2:20:56 CABG,

2:20:57 CABG

2:20:59 Heart Surgery.

2:21:02 It says ninth ninth birthday of his post Cabbage heart surgery.

2:21:07 Seventieth post utero trip around the sun this Juneteenth.

2:21:11 His forty sixth Father's Day and forty seventh wedding anniversary.

2:21:17 Wow. He feels honored that the federal government has created a holiday in his honor.

2:21:22 And we are

2:21:23 we are formally requesting the peerage committee to grant his knight name of Sir Coach Bob the Builder,

2:21:30 Lord of Wild Horse, and Slayer of Fish.

2:21:33 I think that one's available.

2:21:35 If Lord is deemed unacceptable, we humbly request master. I'm okay with Lord. Are you okay with Lord?

2:21:42 Lord of wild horse?

2:21:44 Yeah. Sure. Yeah. His his family humbly request in his honor home brewed lager and smoked trout for the round table. That's what that smell is.

2:21:53 And the reverend Al mix up with the goat scream as they always crack him up. In addition to his red knighting, he also requests a healthy de douching. Oh, let me get the de douching machine. You've

2:22:05 been de douche. As he has been a man overboard for not donating in a long time. This is from his wife Kelly of forty seven years, his kids Jake, Becky, and Matt, their spouses and nine grandchildren.

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2:23:57 In the show afloat. Love it. So that's that is our last executive producer. We drop to the associate execs, Eric Halein,

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2:24:17 Mhmm. It takes us to Connor Brogan

2:24:20 in Amherst, Ohio 250. Is the $2.50 donation? $2.50. America. America donation. It's America donation. We're finally getting some of those in.

2:24:30 I have been listening to the show for well over a year. This is my first donation to your wonderful cause.

2:24:37 De-douching, please? De-douching. De-douching.

2:24:39 You've been de-douched.

2:24:41 I wanted to thank you both for the time and effort you both put forth in these shows.

2:24:45 As perfect as it is, no other podcast in the Podverse

2:24:49 will match your banter analysis and humor that you guys bring. It was a blessing to discover your podcast.

2:24:57 I'd like to know how you did. How did you discover the podcast? It's always good to know for marketing purposes. Yes. And I look forward to hearing many more episodes to come.

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2:25:22 and a perfect role model for how to be a good man. Thank you for all the lessons you've provided me in my twenty three years being here on earth, and I look forward to many more memories to come. Karma for all, Connor. Oh, what a wonderful note.

2:25:39 You've got karma.

2:25:42 And coming in hot with $206.18

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2:25:52 And he says, World Cup's on and suddenly we are supposed to be into soccer, high kicking, low scoring, and ties.

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2:33:13 Alright.

2:33:15 Two nights to handle today. There's my blade if you can bring yours out. Just there we go. Out of the sheath. There it is. Bob Milligan and Wow Alves

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2:34:35 meetups.

2:34:40 And I was still waiting for my Ukraine meet up report. So sad we haven't received that yet. I just want some audio from Ukraine before, you know, Putin

2:34:49 nukes it. It'd be nice.

2:34:52 In the meantime, there are meetups taking place all over the world. In fact, today, there's one taking up taking place in Ed's Tavern, Charlotte, North Carolina. It is the Charlotte's Thirsty Third Thursday meetup, 07:00 tonight. On Saturday, Leo Bravo does it again. The Flight of the No Agenda is number 76 at 03:33PM

2:35:09 in the Chowder Barge in Wilmington, California.

2:35:12 And throughout the rest of the month, we've got Rotterdam, The Netherlands on the twenty sixth, Fort Wayne, Indiana on the twenty seventh, Albany, California. John will be there

2:35:20 at, what's the pizza place? What's it called?

2:35:24 The Mallard Club. It's a bar. I thought it was the pizza place.

2:35:28 No. We're doing it at the Mallard Club as far as I know. Well, what was the pizza place?

2:35:32 Violetta's.

2:35:33 Oh, it's the Mallard Club. The it's the Mallard Club sounds like sounds like it's a lot of wood. There's a lot of wood in the Mallard Club. Yeah. In fact, it's it's it's fashioned after a hunt

2:35:44 excuse me, a hunting lodge. It's like a little hunting lodge inside. Yeah. Nice.

2:35:50 Unfortunately,

2:35:51 depending on the bartender,

2:35:53 if it's dimly lit, you don't really appreciate the

2:35:57 the coolness of it being a hunting lodge. If they get a bartender who lights it up, it's pretty cool. My opinion is any whenever you're over 50,

2:36:06 dimmed lighting is best.

2:36:08 So I'm I'm kind of all for that. Well, that's what they do. They keep it dim. But

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2:37:20 Now we have John's tip of the day coming up and some Toad Toppers with No Agenda end of show mixes from our end of show mixers prompting their way into history. For some reason I have like a crazy amount of ISOs.

2:37:32 So I'm just like Well, let's go with them. Okay. And then and then

2:37:36 Okay. That's one.

2:37:38 I'm just one weed and a hamburger. No. That's no good. How about this one? Wap. Take that evil doers.

2:37:45 Pretty

2:37:46 impressive. Remarkable,

2:37:48 actually. Okay. Come on. Come on. That was good. That was good. That is incredible.

2:37:53 Oh, let me say that again. That is incredible.

2:37:56 No. That's not that good. Here's another one. The world is crazy.

2:37:59 I think the contender here is is this one. Pretty impressive. Well, remarkable actually.

2:38:05 I think that that's a contender. Contender.

2:38:08 Okay. Alright. What do you have? What do you have? It's the best of your bunches. Put it that way. What do you have? I don't know why you have just sound effects. Whoop whoop. That was

2:38:18 well, don't know why you only have That's Alex. You love Alex. Why do you have bad AI versions of presidents?

2:38:24 What? These are real clips. Okay.

2:38:27 Which Here's Biden. Can someone tell me a better podcast than No Agenda?

2:38:32 He says no energy.

2:38:36 Biden?

2:38:38 What?

2:38:39 Very

2:38:40 seems authentic to me.

2:38:44 Okay. Oh, Biden's oh, Biden's got no energy. He's got no energy.

2:38:49 It is the comment of the day.

2:38:52 It's Troy Obama. Yeah. I was gonna podcast until I heard the No Agenda show. It's great.

2:38:58 I hate it's I hate them. You're posting these videos everywhere like, oh, look. We have an endorsement from Obama. Oh, look. We have an endorsement from Biden. You you know that that's like a real boomer move. It's jealous. It's a boomer move.

2:39:12 It's just jealous. It's total boomer. Like and it it was like Hey.

2:39:17 Get get get a clue.

2:39:19 What clue?

2:39:21 I'm a boomer. There you go. Well, we'll choose one of them. One of those two bad presidents. After you do take the day. Pick one. I was just gonna choose I'm gonna play both of at the same time. Can someone tell me a better podcast than No Agenda. Great. That's that that's that's what I'm gonna do. It's perfect. Alright. Now you got it. You nailed it. Time for tip of the day with John.

2:39:48 On the topic of boomers, I got a probiotic fiber gummy.

2:39:54 Probiotic

2:39:55 fiber fiber gummy. And what is this What is the point of this one?

2:40:00 It's got fiber. It's got probiotics. If if you're a boomer or anybody else and, you know, you need your fiber, you need your gummies.

2:40:08 It's just a good product. We've been chomping

2:40:11 these things down.

2:40:15 Do and now what what do you need fiber for? What is the what is the fiber for?

2:40:20 Well, you need fiber for your gut health. Oh. You don't want a leaky gut, you need your gut health, man. Don't you watch these ad? Oh, that's right. You pay not to watch ads. That's right. I I pay Gut health. Yes. That's why. Gut health. Got it. Yeah. Okay. I can't read the name. This is like,

2:40:39 Tutartin, I think is the brand. Uh-huh.

2:40:42 It's almost impossible to read it. Boy, it doesn't have protein.

2:40:47 Yeah.

2:40:49 Does it? Does it have But

2:40:53 anyway, they have mine out on Amazon, probiotic fiber gummies. Yeah.

2:40:58 Okay. And and and what is the name?

2:41:01 I think it's too tartan. I'm gonna have to look it up. But what is the point? I mean, you're giving us a tip of the day. You're just telling, hey, if you Well, know, but there's a ton of these things that you don't have to buy this one You

2:41:10 need to tell us, okay, gut health. How do I know if I if I need that for my gut health? And this is tip the day. You do need everybody needs to have fiber. They need probiotics. It's just a fact. What do I have to give a lecture the medical lecture just to promote

2:41:26 some

2:41:26 some cheap gummies?

2:41:28 Well, I

2:41:30 this is a tip of the day and so typically,

2:41:33 it's a you'll tell me why it's going to improve my life and so what is what is It'll improve your poops. Oh,

2:41:41 there it is.

2:41:42 Well, I will give that a try.

2:41:44 Will will my poops be firmer?

2:41:48 They'll be more regular,

2:41:50 firmer and you'll feel better about things.

2:41:55 Most boomer tip of the day ever.

2:41:58 Happened to prunes? What happened to prune juice, man? This is actually this is a okay. Back in the day. The detail.

2:42:06 Prunes

2:42:07 are good too, by the way. Okay. You have to give us the name so we don't get the wrong poop powder. Yes. Yes. Okay. Well, mean, yeah, like I said, okay.

2:42:15 Yes. Let

2:42:17 me look it up. You're

2:42:22 just making my life miserable. Hey, I didn't come with the poop tip of the day. Okay?

2:42:28 It wasn't it wasn't it wasn't my idea.

2:42:33 Wait. You you just randomly saying, oh,

2:42:36 get some gummies off of Amazon. Well, you might as well you might as well get those those bear what are those bear gummies that that has 30,000

2:42:45 comments. What's that? The

2:42:48 Harry Bow gold.

2:42:50 That's the gummy I would recommend. Go look at the comments on Harry Bow gold.

2:42:55 Okay. I will. Do you have it? Do you have you have your your your favorite?

2:43:00 Yeah. The one that we we're using here is

2:43:03 What? We nine in one. It's These are nine in one, by the way. This is a family thing? The whole family is This is a j j and Brennan's thing and I started eating this. Yeah. Pretty tasty. Nine in one probiotic

2:43:16 from

2:43:18 that's pretty good.

2:43:20 From tutoring tutoring.

2:43:22 Oh, man.

2:43:24 The whole now do you have a just pull a number to get into the bathroom? Do you have like one of this? There's a little bunch of buttons you push.

2:43:33 Alright.

2:43:34 There it is everybody. You can get all details. Totaria, I guess. Maybe that's it. Totaria. Hold

2:43:45 on a second. I got more stuff. Oh, you got more 5,000,000,000

2:43:49 CFU bacillus coagulans.

2:43:51 Oh. Psyllium husk. Alright. Inulin. Oh my god. It's got everything in. They're pineapple.

2:43:58 It's delicious. It's the Swiss army knife of gummies, I tell you.

2:44:02 It's got Anyways, Totariea.

2:44:04 Totaria. That's it. T O T A R I A. Totaria.

2:44:08 Okay.

2:44:09 Alright.

2:44:10 As in toe tap. You never you never know what you get with the tip of the day. Could be a chardonnay, it could be a gummy.

2:44:17 It could be a box cutter. Or a box cutter. I mean, this is the box cutter was a great tip, by the way. The box Did you get one? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I've been You just chop many boxes up? I chop some boxes right away.

2:44:33 Those of you listening at noagendastream.com

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2:44:55 End of show mixes from sir Johnny b, MVP and Jess Baker.

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