Cytoshitosis

0:00 I like me some bubbles, the bubbles. Your bubbles. I like bubbles. Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. It's Thursday, 07/16/2026.

0:08 It's your award winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination episode eighteen eighty six. This is No Agenda.

0:15 From rain stick backscatter and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country right here in FEMA Region number six. In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where I'm wondering what is Microsoft Hello,

0:31 and why would I want it to enhance my experience?

0:34 I'm John C. Dvorak. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill in the morning.

0:39 Wait a minute. Isn't Microsoft's

0:42 Hello a really old product?

0:45 Cropped up this morning on a boot. On a boot? I booted a machine and says, hello. You would you like to install Microsoft Hello

0:53 to enhance your experience? What is it? What is Microsoft? I don't know. I never saw it or heard of it. It sounds like, you know, it's when you said that, I the first thing I thought was remember the old Mac five twelve

1:05 and you boot that up and it would have that cursive hello.

1:09 Yeah. The little hello guy. The little hello. Yeah. I'm sure it's some kind of AI thing that

1:15 no. That can't be because your your system I thought it was Copilot.

1:19 No. Copilot,

1:20 Schmopilot, but your system doesn't upgrade.

1:23 Copilot, Schmopilot.

1:25 Copilot,

1:26 Schmopilot. Schmopilot,

1:28 I tell you. Isn't it but isn't that an

1:32 is isn't your system un upgradable?

1:35 Exact

1:36 yeah. Know. It's the Windows 10.

1:39 That's interesting.

1:41 So maybe

1:44 it must be they must have upgraded your

1:48 what's that browser called? Edge.

1:50 Oh, that's possible. Your Edge browser. Yeah. Yeah. Microsoft

1:55 into remember they integrated the browser into everything and it just They're always screwing with you. It became it became such a nightmare.

2:02 Everybody was creating viruses.

2:06 And there was a point when I think of Windows,

2:08 you just couldn't turn it on. It's like, don't turn it on today.

2:12 It's not a good idea.

2:14 Oh, yeah. Because it was Tuesday.

2:15 No. Patch Tuesday. They were gonna load up some junk that was gonna ruin your machine. No. It wasn't patch Tuesday. It it was when they had

2:23 Internet Explorer

2:25 and, you know, like, well, we're integrating the Internet into everything. So you open up your files, you know, a file

2:31 window

2:32 and they'll they would be connected to the Internet

2:34 just just in case just in case. Just in case. Just in case you need to browse the web. Oh my goodness. Oh, we've come a long way. We've come a long way.

2:45 And

2:45 thank you very much for the

2:48 for the rain stick.

2:50 You're killing You're the one who insisted. Well, it was a request by a producer

2:56 And I was in Amsterdam and I did not have my rain stick with me.

3:00 And and you were pointing it at Colorado,

3:02 but as always,

3:04 it's the backscatter,

3:05 it's the it's the butt of the pointed straight up in the air.

3:09 Then it well, the radials must have been somehow

3:12 bouncing off the ionosphere.

3:14 It has rained here for five days almost nonstop.

3:18 You haven't been there for five days. How would you know? Yeah. What do you mean? We came back on Monday. Okay. Four days.

3:24 But it but it was raining on Sunday. I've got how would I know? I I know people here.

3:30 I thought you didn't get out much. And

3:34 if you recall last year in July, it was July 4 July 4 weekend,

3:39 we had a very similar scenario

3:42 where we had a just a storm front just hovering over

3:45 all of the hill country

3:47 and it wound up killing a couple 100 people. You know, kids in in Yeah. Was camps. Bad

3:53 So it

3:54 it's it may not be

3:57 as bad be well, a couple of reasons. One,

4:00 the alert system

4:02 is just going off nonstop now. Three times in the middle of the night. And for some reason on the iPhone, you can't well, you can. You can turn it off and say don't give me alerts,

4:11 but that's kind of like the whole point is

4:14 if there's something,

4:16 you know, some dire situation,

4:18 you kinda wanna be

4:20 alerted to it. But I think they're overdoing it now, which is is bad because they didn't do it as much last It's like crying wolf. A little bit.

4:29 Well, I got two earthquake alerts over the last couple weeks. Yeah. For there was no earthquake.

4:35 In either case, there was no earthquake. Yeah. And there was none around. There wasn't an earthquake anywhere in the vicinity. And I got one of them was duck and cover,

4:44 and the other one was find something to hold on to. No. Yeah.

4:49 Stand in a doorway.

4:52 Anyway, it's it is bad here. They're talking about a 35 foot wall of water coming down the Guadalupe River. This is not good.

5:01 Kerrville,

5:01 which is about twenty five minutes down the road.

5:05 Stores and restaurants are flooding.

5:08 It's Alright. It's not First of all, let's let's get one thing so everyone out there knows this. What is your elevation?

5:17 Well, my elevation here is almost 1,400 feet.

5:21 1,400 feet. You're almost on a mountain.

5:24 There's Pretty much. So people don't have to worry about you.

5:27 People like John C. Dvorak and Mimi Dvorak who called me yesterday.

5:32 Mimi insisted.

5:33 So I'm in the car I knew you were at Elevation.

5:36 I'm in the car

5:38 driving back from a a meeting

5:40 and,

5:41 you know, this one thing I don't want to see the day before a show day is JCD real cell phone pop up on my dashboard.

5:50 This so the phone I can only think a couple things. I'm like, he's in the hospital He's in the hospital. And this is it. Oh, no. He's in car wreck. No. I thought hospital. But he shot him. No.

6:04 Now I'm gonna have to deal with that.

6:06 And, like, what are we gonna do now?

6:09 And then

6:10 it's you and Mimi on the speakerphone.

6:13 Hey.

6:14 Are you you wet yet?

6:17 And Mimi, she is a

6:20 max velocity

6:22 storm chaser groupie of epic proportion.

6:26 Yeah. It's really bad news that you don't go to the East. You're drown us. There's storm chasers in Fredericksburg.

6:33 Yeah. Okay. She really loves that stuff.

6:36 She is a weather junkie.

6:39 Yeah. Yeah. So I had to make the call.

6:42 And you were telling her like, he's at he's at Elevation. There's no problem.

6:47 She wouldn't believe it.

6:52 So I'm just I'm just putting that out there so other people don't ever, you know, start to think that, oh my. Well, it used it usually takes a couple days and then you get people from Holland. Are you okay?

7:04 You know, because they that you can see how the news kind of trickles through. You need to have some dead people and, you know, some horrible pictures and a single baby shoe floating by. Then people like, oh, wait a minute. Isn't that where Adam lives? And it and I love it. It's appreciated. I like that people care and they wanna check-in on me.

7:23 But, yeah, we're we're pretty safe here. Although there was a tornado just just

7:28 like thirty minutes down the road, that doesn't happen very often.

7:32 Certainly not in the hill country.

7:38 Onward.

7:40 Yes. Onward with the top news item. I don't care what you say.

7:44 Breaking at this hour. Right now, officials can't pinpoint the exact source or sources of this outbreak.

7:51 It's a food or waterborne disease caused by a parasite, Cyclospora,

7:56 and pinpointing precisely where it's coming from is a challenge.

8:00 Michigan is bearing the brunt with more than two thousand six hundred reported cases

8:04 including forty four that have landed people in the hospital.

8:09 Joining us to explain what all this means and how to stay healthy is Doctor. Omer Ahwon and he's at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

8:18 Doctor. Ahwon, thank you so much for being here. To start off with,

8:23 if I were to ingest

8:25 this parasite,

8:26 how do I know that I've got it? What are the symptoms people should look out for? Well, the typical symptoms William are things like nausea,

8:34 fatigue,

8:35 bloating, and of course explosive

8:37 watery diarrhea and that's the symptom that's been getting a lot of attention because this is really different because most stomach bugs, usually, the watery diarrhea lasts about two or three days. With the cases of cyclosporiasis,

8:50 the diarrhea can last weeks, if not months. That's what makes this so problematic.

8:55 Yeah. This is this is what's kinda crazy. This month's business,

8:59 and apparently,

9:03 can get it a week before the symptoms appear. Tonight, 34 states grappling with cyclospora,

9:08 the parasite that can be found on fresh produce making Americans sick.

9:13 Michigan zeroing in on lettuce. Its top doc says there is a clear preliminary

9:18 signal pointing to the leafy green.

9:21 Why do you suspect lettuce? We've interviewed about a thousand out of the three thousand cases we have so far. Lettuce seems to be an ongoing exposure for those who've been impacted. Federal officials say Michigan is one of four Midwestern states where the cases could be linked.

9:37 Taco Bell today confirming it removed limited ingredients at select restaurants while authorities continue their broader review,

9:44 noting public health officials have not confirmed a link to Taco Bell.

9:49 The Washington Post reports federal and state health officials are investigating

9:53 the chain, citing two individuals familiar with the probe.

9:57 CDC did not comment, Michigan's doctor Bagdasharian.

10:01 So there was no location that came up in a hundred percent of cases, but there certainly were restaurants and fast food chains that did come up. Including Taco Bell?

10:11 You know, I'm not gonna comment on those specifics right now. Nationwide, the CDC says it's confirmed sixteen hundred forty five cases of cyclosporiasis

10:20 and is aware of fifty one hundred more. Christina Seraphina

10:24 says she ate fresh fruits and vegetables hiking last month and got sick for weeks. Just really strong

10:31 gas and bloating pains.

10:33 And on top of that, you're not eating, so you're hungry and you're having hunger pains also. I I gotta tell you, I got boots on the ground from people that I had to redact.

10:42 I mean, this is unlike

10:46 members of our producing audience being Patriot Front members,

10:51 of which one is by the way, for later.

10:55 A lot of people have this this

10:57 bug.

11:00 Friend of Sir Bivenauer, producer for sixteen or seventeen years. Yes, I had it three nights ago, contracted it contracted it.

11:07 One of the beachside resorts at Myrtle Beach

11:11 only lasted one night, the next day was pretty much gone. See, I don't think that he had it. Two of my I don't think no. Then now if you're gonna have it for a month, this sounds more like, you know, one of the, that quick bug, whatever it's called. Well, here's a please redact my name if read on air. It's one of our knights.

11:29 Because if if word got back to my wife that I was sharing this, I'd probably be a knight experiencing homelessness.

11:37 My wife listen to this. My wife seems to have come down with the explosive diarrhea or as I read in an article, ferocious diarrhea. That's even better.

11:48 When first looking it up, she's actually got it pretty bad and for about a week she could barely function away from a toilet. After about a week and a half, she decided to go to the urgent care to see if there's anything they could do. They sent her home with a test sample kit, plastic bowl, other cups Oh, why? To retrieve

12:05 said sample and ask They should give you they should put you in a bed and give you fluids

12:11 You'd think. Intravenously and then maybe send you home. Asked her to bring the sample back to the lab. She did a day later, was told that she was she had tested positive to this test, PCR, I'm sure. But there's also nothing that can be given to you to get rid of it. You just have to fight it out. She was told So what's the point of the test? Exactly. She was told some people can get over it in days. She's now on about three weeks.

12:36 Fortunately, it's become less explosive.

12:41 I mean I would think so. So last night. Bowels are gonna get tired at some point. I woke up at like 01:30

12:48 and

12:49 I felt really bad.

12:52 And I did not have just not to be too graphic. I did not have explosive diarrhea,

12:57 but it wasn't good and I'm thinking,

13:00 oh, man. What am I gonna do? This this is horrible. I feel miserable.

13:06 And I actually

13:08 Stop tape. What do you mean stop tape? Stop tape. Why? No. No. I'm just during the show, you can do it. If you stop tape, we'll understand. If you stop tape no. And I I'll be right back after

13:21 after a word from

13:24 Well, and here's the point. So I'm like, oh, man. What can I take? You know, I just feel miserable. And I took two tablespoons of the Manuka Gold Honey,

13:33 slept like a baby, woke up perfectly fine. I don't know if it's related,

13:37 but that's all I could think of. Like, what can I do? Which which which is the plain honey?

13:43 Yeah. Well, it's the honey with all the stuff in it. The bee well honey, the Bee well honey? Yeah. Bee well.

13:50 It has a because apparently

13:52 cumin or

13:54 cucumin, is that cucumin? Is that the molecule of cumin? Curcumin.

13:58 Oh, curcumin.

14:00 It is that It's different. Is that is it different from cumin?

14:03 Yeah. What is curcumin?

14:05 It's more like pepper.

14:06 Oh. Because I think that's in the be well honey. Got a lot of they got a lot of stuff mixed in there. That is supposed to neutralize this bug. But let's just think about this. Well, now we're now we're being quacks on the show. Well, I'm not this is not medical advice. This is not we're not advising you on anything medical. But I'm thinking about this. Do you know that that more people die from diarrhea globally than anything else? Yeah. And mostly in India. Yes. It just poop their brains out and then they go to India and they have a

14:39 something, I don't know if they don't have the right curry or whatever,

14:43 and the next thing you know, they're dead.

14:45 It's

14:46 really bad.

14:48 I mean, by a by a long shot, the amount of people globally who die from diarrhea is much more than certainly more than India.

14:57 Well,

14:57 could this I'm just throwing it out there. Because of the nature of this thing, could this possibly be a gain of function bioweapon?

15:08 Oh.

15:09 Come on. Well, that hasn't come up in the conversation yet. No. But it it's so they don't really know how you get it. Is it I know. They they keep talking. They blame lettuce for everything. Well, lettuce and There's a there's a there's a lettuce hating component

15:23 of society. Well, there's also like the salad eaters of California.

15:27 But there's also some warfare going on amongst the fast food guys because Taco Bell is the one that has that is in the in the crosshairs. Tonight, Taco Bell saying they have voluntarily removed some ingredients at select locations

15:39 as the foodborne parasite, cyclosporiasis,

15:43 rapidly spreads across The US.

15:45 The company stating public health officials have not confirmed a link to Taco Bell or any specific ingredient, supplier, restaurant, or retailer,

15:54 adding they will closely monitor the situation.

15:56 State health officials say there have been more than six hundred new cases of cyclosporiasis

16:01 in Michigan alone since yesterday. Health officials now pointing to lettuce as a possible source of the outbreak in that state. We're continuing our trace back investigation on multiple produce items, including the lettuce. The CDC confirming cases in 34 states. Today, warning that cases in Michigan, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio

16:22 seem to have a similar source.

16:24 The parasites spread through contaminated food or water can cause severe digestive issues, including diarrhea. Symptoms usually begin about one week after becoming infected.

16:34 It was really bad. There were there were moments where I was literally just camped out in the bathroom. Yeah. And, like, I don't care. I'm just gonna lay on this floor. David, the CDC is telling doctors to stay alert. Health officials say thoroughly washing your fruits and vegetables even if they're labeled prewashed

16:50 is an important step in preventing illness.

16:52 David. Good advice. Sounds awful. Stephanie Ramos tonight. Thanks, Steph. Good advice. Sounds awful. Thanks a lot, Steph.

16:59 Let's get my I have a NTD clip about the same thing. I should probably play it. Okay.

17:04 Let me see. It's under cytoschitosis.

17:07 The FDA is working to identify the source of a large multistate outbreak of a foodborne illness.

17:13 It's now investigating multiple produce items.

17:16 Health officials say more than sixteen hundred confirmed cases of cyclosporiasis

17:21 have been reported across 34 states since May. There have been no deaths reported from the outbreak. No deaths. More than a hundred and forty people have been hospitalized.

17:30 The CDC says more than five thousand additional suspected cases are still under investigation.

17:36 Symptoms usually start two days to two weeks after infection.

17:40 Primary symptom is diarrhea.

17:42 Other symptoms can include loss of appetite, cramping, and fatigue.

17:47 The CDC is urging doctors to specifically test patients with prolonged gastrointestinal

17:52 illness.

17:53 Officials say the outbreak may involve multiple clusters with evidence pointing to a common source in Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia.

18:02 Investigators have not identified a specific contaminated food, although lettuce and salad greens are the main suspects. How about this?

18:11 What if it's contaminated GLP one?

18:15 Everybody's on that stuff.

18:17 Gastro?

18:21 But they had this interesting idea.

18:24 Here's a question that I have. Since they have this test that somebody would, yo, I went in, I had to take the test. Test.

18:31 Why don't they just grab a bunch of food and start testing it? Well, this is why I'm bringing it up

18:38 because they're not it doesn't seem like anyone is coming up with any

18:41 normal solutions in their kind of food. Thousand cases you'd think you'd be able to when you do tracing, you say, where'd you go? Where'd you eat? Where'd you go? Where would you eat here? Where

18:51 where'd you eat here? There? But but then there's this very odd, oh, it doesn't kick in until after a week. Since when is that a thing?

18:59 I'm telling you something else is going on here.

19:01 I like my gain of function angle, but I'm I think I think I'm

19:06 I'm looking more at

19:08 at it's got a GLP one. I mean, just one batch being contaminated

19:15 or, you know, something. Could be anything. Where where it seems to me that they should have

19:21 Normally, they would have isolated

19:24 the the cause the cause by now. Yeah. Whenever whenever it's

19:29 What is the what is the other foodborne

19:31 illness?

19:34 They always they always trace it back to some tomato at some supermarket. Or Listeria. Listeria. Yeah. They the Listeria, they got no problem. Boom. There it is. But this one, we don't know. Lettuce maybe?

19:46 So Yeah. Maybe lettuce could be Taco Bell.

19:50 Not

19:51 even close. You know, it's it's and you know, I'm looking at lettuce in the supermarket like, you know, I think I'll just have my salad with cucumber. I I don't want any lettuce right now. We don't we don't frequent Taco Bell.

20:03 But I just something is wrong with Bell's gone overpriced.

20:07 Don't tell you. Yeah. Something is wrong with this story. While we're checking in on disease, might as well get a little Ebola update. Mister Sun, what's your when you hear the CDC warning about how quickly this is spreading? The pace of the spread, Diane, is really concerning here. The trajectory shows exceptional rapid growth. Right now, this Ebola outbreak is already half the size of the outbreak that we saw in 2018.

20:28 That was the second largest outbreak recorded in history, and that took two years to to combat.

20:34 Right now, we're only two months into this current outbreak. And as James was stating, this is the Bundy Buzzkill strain. This strain does not have a targeted vaccine or a target targeted therapy, but the main concern here is in contact tracing. The World Health Organization is estimating that these estimates are likely an underestimate

20:50 as tens of thousands of people still need to be traced back.

20:54 Do people in The US or other countries need to be worried about this? Our concern here and our risk, excuse me, our risk here in The United States is relatively low. Well,

21:03 low.

21:05 I got a I did get a text message from

21:08 Homeland Security

21:09 because, you know What? Well, because we're

21:12 global entry members

21:15 and,

21:16 know, if you you've traveled to Uganda,

21:19 you better like Immediately. Come and see

21:22 Oh, so on the way back, traveling back from, you know, in the new security state

21:29 that is the European Yeah. A

21:32 little bit a little it's a minor travel story.

21:35 So when you leave Schiphol Airport,

21:39 first you check-in, you show your passport,

21:41 then you go to the exit, the customs and border patrol exit for The Netherlands because we don't have that in America,

21:49 but in in the EU when you leave, they check you. And it's all automated. Your your picture's already in their system, So you all wait in little lines and then you get up to the booth and the little doors open and then you get in the booth and then the doors close and then you have to put your passport into the on the little shelf and it eats your passport

22:10 and then it says wholesale and then camera

22:14 goes up and down, gets gets you right in the eye, the lights go on and then it then a clock

22:20 like a spinning wheel of death appears like, please wait, please

22:24 wait. And so Tina went through, no problem. I go in there And

22:30 the guy comes over, he says, do it again. Okay. Put it in.

22:34 And red

22:36 light's flashing

22:37 and they're over there looking at some terminal. They come in, they say, well,

22:42 you have to go over to that line, you know, the line with a thousand people. You gotta go through that line before a manual exit

22:50 check because we have two traveler profiles

22:53 of you.

22:54 So what does that mean? Well, we just got new software.

22:59 I was like, uh-huh.

23:00 So we just got new software and and there's two two traveler profile. I don't even know what that means,

23:06 but there's two traveler profiles

23:09 and we don't know the system doesn't know which one to choose, so you gotta go talk to those guys. So I go in that line, takes about fifteen extra minutes,

23:17 and I and I say, here's my passport, and I said,

23:20 they sent me over from the machine because I have

23:23 two traveler profiles. And this guy says, no, I only see one. You're good to go. It's like, what is that?

23:30 It's like, yeah, we got a new software and, you know, so this is this is troubling.

23:37 It's already breaking down.

23:40 Unbelievable.

23:42 But something interesting did happen.

23:44 This is one of these so called silent airports.

23:49 So the whole thing is automated when you What does that mean? Well, I'm gonna tell you.

23:53 So they don't have

23:55 they have signs and lights and they don't have,

23:59 you know, like

24:02 speakers everywhere,

24:04 you know, going, please follow the red footsteps.

24:07 Move to the left. Go over there. Wait. Stop. Slave, shut up. It's not your turn. Wait. Go. Go. Carousel sex.

24:15 So they don't have that.

24:18 Instead, they have signage.

24:21 And so you Signage that yells at you. Well, and here's the interesting part. So you go through the security line and then there's a stop point and they have these carousels

24:32 and then and the carousels go round and round and then one is free and it's like a little slot and you

24:39 cozy up to the to the open slot in the carousel and a bin pops out underneath, you pull that out, put it on top, put your bag on and then you go towards the the body scanner.

24:49 And so this sign is saying, wait, wait, it's it's just it's silence, wait.

24:55 And then it said and then it'll go arrow and it'll tell you what number to go to. You know, we're like sheep.

25:01 And and I'm and I'm in this line, I keep hearing something. What what am I hearing? And I thought my glasses were hitting my hearing aids.

25:09 And then as I get closer to this sign, I hear it says, wait. Wait.

25:13 Number six,

25:15 go now, wait, stop. It was coming through my hearing aids.

25:19 So they have this LE Bluetooth, low energy Bluetooth that is breaking into my hearing aids

25:25 to tell me where to go.

25:28 And apparently, it works on AirPods and all kinds of other Bluetooth

25:32 devices.

25:34 It's for blind people.

25:35 Yeah. Well, blind people with with hearing aids, I guess.

25:39 It was it it was pretty interesting. I didn't know you could just break into someone's LE Bluetooth low energy

25:46 and and then just talk to them.

25:49 Yeah. It's overriding. Yeah. You can do that with RF.

25:53 Well, that that that so you can do that to to air to AirPods as well?

25:57 I think so. Cool. It's just like

26:00 a a a

26:01 broad bay it's broad spectrum signal. It's a real just blows everything blows everything away. Okay. Well, this is cool. So it's just the same as a jammer would do. Right. But it's a really interesting experience because, you you know, someone's talking in your head and you're like, what is going on? What the what? So I it'll be cool to just walk, you know, drive down the street, have a little antenna sticking out of the car and just go, you know, just go, hey, you. Hey, yeah. I'm talking to you. Turn around. And then if they have the ear the earbuds in. I want one of these You see the big linear amp Yeah. In the trunk

26:34 Yeah. And you could just blow through everything. I want one of these. This that's a cool little device to have. Hey, hottie. What you doing?

26:45 Watch out for the cool. There is a period during the CB radio

26:50 fad

26:51 Yeah. Which I'd call it what it is. Back in the day. And these guys would have these and it was notorious.

26:56 These guys would have these linear amps. Yeah. The heaters. We called them heaters.

27:01 And they would blow and so I was driving past one once with just listening to FM radio

27:06 and it went right into my radio. Oh, yeah. Of course. Of course.

27:11 Right away.

27:12 Yeah. So you could easily do what you're describing.

27:15 Well, if anyone knows It'd be annoying and you'd probably get it's illegal, but, you know, it'd be fun. I'm sure I can

27:22 I'm sure I can get something off of TMU.

27:26 TMU? Yeah. You probably could. No doubt this I just bought a couple of the okay. So they got this new technology.

27:33 I don't know what it's called. It's got some stupid name. I should bring these. I gotta bring these in and we'll talk about them. I bought two they're two they're a type of a new type of walkie talkie. They're long range.

27:44 Uh-huh. And Baofeng makes them. Uh-huh. Oh, the 10 water? The illegal 10 water? Is that the one? Maybe.

27:51 Yeah. Could be. I don't know.

27:53 But you get two of them and you can get four of them, you get six of them on Tebu.

27:58 And it's like they're like $12

28:02 for two of them.

28:04 God, it looks like it it looks like wow.

28:08 How is that? How is that? That'll broadcast to any Bluetooth. Just as long as you're saying. I'm sure it's really, really well tuned.

28:15 Oh, man. Well, it's Baofeng, so it's not like junk. Those guys are the best.

28:21 I mean Yeah. So that you whatever it is. But it's so cheap. It's like, oh, we can oh, yeah. We'll be we'll be competing with these guys sometime soon. No. Uh-huh. No. I I carry a Baofeng in my luggage all the time just wherever I go. And the battery, I haven't recharged it in five years.

28:38 Same thing. I ended up Baofeng that I drag around and it just never the batteries never die. How does that work? What kind of what kind of magic do these guys have? You just turn it on. Oh, full bars. There's the battery. We're good to go. It's crazy. I have no idea. Crazy.

28:56 Hey. So

28:58 if yesterday I was driving around like, why are all the flags at half staff? I I couldn't

29:04 I couldn't figure it out.

29:06 Like, why are the flags at half staff?

29:08 It's because of Lindsey Graham.

29:10 Yeah. I didn't know that. I didn't know that there was a general order for half staff or half mast for I don't know there was an order. I think people were just doing it. Well, we we have some new information about

29:21 Lady G's

29:23 untimely death and and there's a little update here. Tonight, new video showing more than a dozen FBI agents fanning out across the Washington home of the late senator Lindsey Graham. The FBI shutting down the street as investigators spent several hours on scene taking photos and searching the property.

29:42 Two law enforcement sources familiar with the scene tell NBC News their work is out of an abundance of caution.

29:48 So far, no evidence has emerged to suggest foul play. A preliminary medical examiner's report revealed Graham suffered from a tear in the main artery of his heart, but they are still waiting on a toxicology test before declaring a cause of death. Wow.

30:04 That

30:05 isn't very typical, don't think. Like, send the feds in, the FBI to go check it out. Oh, there was a bunch of no. There was a what

30:13 the part you missed was there was a bunch of insistence

30:17 on the part of very

30:19 legislators and others that they autopsy him. Oh. Because, oh, you know, he was just coming back from Ukraine. Something suspicious coulda happened. Oh, he was just he was just talking about the Chinese. Something suspicious coulda happened. Oh, he hates the Russians, something suspicious could happen. So they got all bent out. Everyone got You know, it's it's amazing.

30:38 Adult

30:40 adult persons of

30:43 above average intelligence

30:45 will text my wife,

30:47 hey, what

30:49 does Adam know about Lindsey Graham? It's really too really too coincidental that he just came back from Ukraine.

30:55 And of course, you know, there's a story that he was visiting a drone plant in Ukraine and the Russians took it out. And and all I can say is, why would you cover that up? Why why would that have to be kept secret?

31:09 I mean and especially the news. It's a great it's a better story than aortic rupture.

31:16 You know, hey, Lindsey Graham was blown up in a drone

31:20 how would do have we lost

31:22 the ability to think a little more simplistically

31:25 and just k?

31:28 Do you know what I mean? You know what I mean? Yeah. Razor is dead.

31:32 Yeah.

31:33 Occam's razor is indeed dead. And I and I there's also I mean, that's a good one.

31:40 The world isn't quite as complicated as people think it is.

31:44 At at some point, the world just became like, oh, it's it's everything's just crazy, you know, there's elites everywhere, we're just killing everybody. Well, there's there's a There's a Scheming. There's a degree of truth to some of it. But if you just think logically,

32:00 why? Why why would anyone do it's like the Charlie Kirk thing. It's the same thing.

32:06 Well, so and so killed him. The deep state killed him. The Israel killed him. You know, JD Vans killed him. Everyone everyone killed everybody. I'm like, well, why didn't they just kill him?

32:17 Why did they have to go through this elaborate ruse

32:21 and then get a a patsy

32:24 and his family to cooperate?

32:26 It's like at what point is A this is patsy. Yeah. At what point is this does this just not make any sense?

32:33 Right away, it doesn't make any sense. You know, it's just like, come on.

32:40 It's oh, it's actually funny. Where's my I had a couple of clips about this.

32:48 You know, J. D. Vance was on Rogan.

32:53 Yeah. I saw a clip of it. Yeah. What clip did you see? I don't know. It wasn't that interesting.

32:59 I

33:00 agree. It

33:02 wasn't it wasn't super interesting.

33:05 Here it is. Let me see.

33:09 Where is Vance?

33:11 And those two guy I don't know. Do you I didn't see that enough of it. I only saw clips. I didn't see that they actually watched the show.

33:18 I wonder if those they don't seem like they have personalities that would jive.

33:24 Who? Joe and

33:27 JD Vans? Yeah.

33:31 Yeah. This is very interesting.

33:34 Can I find this?

33:36 Well,

33:38 he at a certain point, I'm I'm now kind of mad about this. I I had these two J. D. Vance clips all all specular. Yeah.

33:46 This this sucks.

33:49 But he was talking about propaganda

33:52 and, you know, he's kinda jumping on the Israel is doing stuff bandwagon.

33:56 It was kind of interesting.

33:58 Let's

33:59 see.

34:01 What is this? Libya basically turned into a failed state. Had a refugee crisis, you had people pouring into Europe, pouring into other parts of Asia, other parts of Africa. Now that's about Libya. Here he is. This is the one. I don't even mind an effort to try to influence,

34:15 you know, foreign governments try to influence The United States all the time. You know, Israel does it, other countries do it, it's just sort of the nature of the beast.

34:24 What bothers me is actually when

34:26 Americans

34:28 allow meaning American leadership

34:31 allows that influence

34:32 to affect their judgment and to affect

34:35 what they are advocating for. That's what really bothers me. People are always gonna try to influence The United States Of America, whether they're allies of ours or whether But, they're enemies of

34:46 again, when I open up the pages of Time magazine

34:49 and I see that there's a literal foreign influence campaign being funded to tank the very deal that I was pursuing,

34:56 and oh, by the way, many of the people who were receiving that money were actually attacking me in completely dishonest ways, you know, my response to that is, well, go to hell. I'm gonna do what I have to do for the American people. I represent Americans first.

35:10 Yeah. He was referring to some kind of Israeli campaign in that, which I thought was interesting.

35:15 And

35:17 this whole

35:19 preliminary hearing with with, you know, for

35:22 what's the kid's name?

35:24 Ryan?

35:26 The who who I've said he killed Charlie Kirk.

35:31 Oh, yeah. That guy. Yeah.

35:34 It's like,

35:36 it it it

35:38 how can that not stop everybody from the exploding microphone nonsense?

35:43 You know, that's not the defense is not using this. The defense Because it was a shaped charge, man. Yes. Shape

35:50 the defense is not saying, we'd like to show you exhibit a with the Egyptian military

35:55 aircraft

35:56 that we're circling around and,

35:59 you know, there's

36:00 none of that.

36:02 And and I think the tide is turning.

36:06 Well, you're an optimist today. Yeah. Some international travel always kinda screws you up.

36:13 I did some I've observed. Oh, I I I think the tide is turning. But, you know, but then Yeah. Okay. Okay. But then again, I I get the What's going on? For you.

36:24 Well, it's so weird because for at least fifteen

36:28 years, you know, I was all in on all this stuff and and

36:31 and it's just all bullshit. All of it. Oh, we know it. All of it. Yeah. Well, you got that part right. I know. But, you know, you were the one always setting me straight and now I'm like, you know,

36:40 ladies and gentlemen, most of this stuff is just BS.

36:45 It it it it it doesn't make it quite as The show is built on a lie.

36:50 It does it doesn't make it very exciting,

36:54 you know, and and that's to our detriment.

36:57 But if you just wanna get spun down a little bit and, you know, and talk some sense,

37:02 you know, we're I think we're the place for you now.

37:05 We've always been the place.

37:09 Well, let's do let's play a couple of offbeat clips then. Why you're always like

37:14 offbeat,

37:14 screwball. Well, this is not that offbeat. This is the hearing It's the hearing for Todd Blanche.

37:20 Oh, yes. Well, there were couple Trying to get his worm his way into the job that he should get. Were a there were a couple of good hearings on the hill. Well, here's yeah. There was quite a few actually. The fact, right now, congress is in session. They had a fraud hearing. The Democrats refused to show up to it. Oh, well, of course. Thought that was Why why

37:39 why would you do that? Nick, surely as I forget it, we're not coming. So

37:44 play this. This is my

37:46 favorite clip. This would be my favorite clip for the day, actually. Okay. This is Todd Blanche,

37:51 having to deal with this with

37:56 White House, the idiot from Rhode Island on C SPAN.

38:00 Let me ask about the FBI.

38:02 How long do you intend to put up with that Cash Patel character?

38:06 Are you good with his airplane jaunts? Are you confident he's not drinking on the job? Are you sure none of his travel is a pretext for vacation activities like snorkeling, Olympics, and visiting girlfriends?

38:16 Are you sure he knows what he's doing? Do you vouch for him? Are you willing to look at whether he lied to this committee? That's an extraordinarily obnoxious question, senator. And I have full faith in director Patel and the work that he's doing every day. Great. You got to own You

38:33 got to own that.

38:35 What is this, chasing his girlfriend around with the with the government plane? I didn't hear this one.

38:40 I didn't hear it either. He's just making it up. I like the guzzling I like the guzzling beer.

38:45 The guzzling beer.

38:48 This guy is just the biggest dick in congress. Mhmm. And here he continues. This is this is as it goes on. Yeah. He he just reads,

38:59 he reads them the riot act he reads Blanche the riot act and and then just raps with he doesn't even ask him a question. He just goes off.

39:07 One last thing, if I may.

39:10 You have refused to exclude January 6 rioters from your anti weaponization

39:14 fund.

39:15 You have refused to put in writing that the slush fund is dead. Indeed, you signaled to allies that payouts are still on track.

39:23 You have vacated seditious conspiracy convictions against members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers. No. You hired January 6 writer, Jared Wise, who had urged the mob to kill police officers.

39:35 You scrubbed press releases about January 6 prosecutions

39:39 and called the releases partisan

39:41 propaganda.

39:42 You denied that Trump encouraged any violence on January

39:45 6.

39:46 You've cleaned house of every attorney who worked on a case related to Trump, and you've bragged that bringing justice for violent rioters

39:54 meant that every one of them was either pardoned or had their sentence

39:58 commuted.

39:59 I hope that our colleagues who are concerned about what happened in January 6 take that into account.

40:05 Thank you. Would you like to respond? I I would. Almost everything the senator just said, and and he's protected. He's allowed to lie, but almost everything he just said was absolutely false. Okay? Starting with the fact that I have never

40:20 I have never

40:21 said that any sort of violence against law enforcement is appropriate. I have never said that publicly.

40:26 I have never said that in his speech, and I certainly do not believe it. I did not hire

40:31 the person referenced.

40:33 And that's that is, again, something that just happens not to be true. When I talk about,

40:38 what happened with the January the convicted

40:41 January 6 defendants,

40:42 I talk about what president Trump did. He adds the absolute right

40:47 to pardon anybody for any reason he sees fit, and every one of them got pardoned or commuted. I am not celebrating that. It is a fact. And the fact that my department had to take action

40:58 in response to those pardons by dismissing some cases is exactly what I have to do under the law, and it's what I did. So that the narrative that that the senator just suggested and put on me as something I believe is is is absolutely not true. It's outrage.

41:13 No outrage, I tell you. But he Blanche did screw up and this and the the news media pounced on this. We

41:21 gotcha now, Blanche. I met him at The moment tonight with maybe the most staying power at today's confirmation hearing for Todd Blanche coming during friendly questioning about his relationship with the president.

41:34 I'm his lawyer.

41:35 Was his lawyer. Whoops.

41:37 And now I'm the deputy attorney general. Oh, no. Oh, no. He said the quiet part out loud. President.

41:43 I'm his lawyer.

41:45 Was his lawyer, and now I'm the deputy attorney general. An apparent slip of the tongue since Blanche is no longer the president's personal lawyer, likely adding to Democrats' concerns that Blanche, if confirmed as attorney general, would do president Trump's bidding to go after political rivals. Who you are is someone willing to sacrifice everything you once believed in

42:04 for that title.

42:06 Blanche spent some fifteen years at the DOJ before moving to private practice,

42:10 representing then candidate Trump in his 2024

42:13 hush money trial in New York. Now as acting AG touting progress

42:18 We have the lowest murder rate since 1900.

42:22 But facing pointed questions about why he signed off on a controversial settlement after president Trump sued the IRS.

42:29 The DOJ

42:30 initially agreeing to an extraordinary $1,800,000,000

42:34 so called anti weaponization

42:35 fund. The settlement fund's just not moving forward. Since in the face of intense opposition,

42:41 including from Republicans

42:43 like senator John Cornyn who remains undecided. I'm

42:46 not gonna make a decision until I have to. So just a reminder from your No Agenda show,

42:52 we've done this before.

42:54 This is nothing new with presidents putting their personal attorney or legal confidant as the at top of the DOJ.

43:02 George John Kennedy put his brother. That's right. He had Robert.

43:06 George Washington had Edmund Randolph,

43:09 his private attorney.

43:11 Harding had Harry Dougherty, his personal attorney and campaign manager.

43:16 Nixon had John Mitchell,

43:18 his own law firm partner.

43:21 Reagan had William French Smith and Edward Meese,

43:24 both personal attorney and legal adviser, and George W. Bush had Alberto Gonzales.

43:29 This is nothing new.

43:31 No. It's not only new, but John Yu, that guy at Berkeley professor of law who's also the guy who penned

43:39 the the

43:40 torture note Mhmm.

43:42 Who's quite good as an analyst, he shows up on Fox quite a bit. He says it's common and it should be expected.

43:49 Yeah. But and

43:51 but you know,

43:53 meet news media

43:54 does not do what I just did. It's so easy. It's so easy.

43:59 Anyway, there was another hearing. There were some good hearings.

44:04 Fed Federal Reserve chairman,

44:06 Warsh Warsh,

44:07 was

44:08 interrogated by Al Green.

44:10 Now Al Green Oh, Green, the idiot. This is so good. So Al Green

44:16 Al Green is a moron. Who is gonna be out next year, you know, after November because he lost, his primary.

44:22 Yeah. He is. He is well, but he starts off, you know, tries to pull the old card. Chair recognizes the gentleman from Houston, Texas, mister Green, who is a ranking member of our subcommittee on oversight and investigations. Mister Green. Over here, mister chairman. Thank you. Thank you, mister

44:40 chairman. I thank the ranking member as well.

44:42 And I

44:44 welcome

44:45 you to the committee,

44:46 mister chairman, but I would also say to you that I will pray for you. Okay.

44:52 Insincere.

44:53 And I'll pray for you because

44:55 many of the questions that have been predicated today

44:59 hinge upon

45:00 a belief

45:02 that you will

45:03 sanction the president's

45:05 desires.

45:07 It is thought

45:08 in among the general public

45:10 that you're in the position you're in

45:13 because

45:14 the president could not

45:16 have the influence that he wanted to have with the prior chair,

45:20 and he believes he can have it with you.

45:22 So I hope that you will stand firm

45:25 and honor your commitments that you're making,

45:29 though some of them are not firm commitments as I understood your language. Yeah. So this whole hearing was all about will you stand up to him? Will you do what is right for the banks?

45:41 Will you do what is right for everybody except the American people and stand up to the president when he criticizes you? And man, I'm I'm so happy that Al Green is will no longer be representing any part of Texas. This guy truly is an idiot.

45:56 And and I think they gave these questions to him

45:59 to make him look even stupider. You indicated that you're interested in war.

46:04 I appreciate this. But I believe you should also be interested in speculative

46:09 bubbles. Speculative bubbles. So they gave him the bubbles questions.

46:14 My assumption is that you are. Are you interested in bubbles? Speculative bubbles, mister? I love speculative bubble. I like me some bubbles. Bubbles. Like bubbles.

46:23 Mister chairman?

46:26 We

46:27 we've got a wide lens.

46:28 We spend a lot of time thinking about what's happening. I'm gonna take that as a yes.

46:33 Now,

46:34 given that This old, like, yes or no question. I'll take that as a yes. This is so boring and tedious you people. You're interested in speculative bubbles, let's just talk about a bubble that occurred. Now, what kind of bubble occurred? What kind of bubble could you think of that they gave to Al Green,

46:49 not the sharpest crayon in the box? What kind of bubble? Just Well, the only bubble out there right now is the AI bubble. No. So it'd have to be that. No. No.

46:58 No.

47:00 President Trump's meme coin,

47:03 dollar sign Trump. Meme coin. Dollar sign Trump.

47:08 His meme coin.

47:09 Profited an average of $1,740,000

47:13 per day

47:15 over his first year. Can't believe I missed that boat. $1,740,000

47:20 per day.

47:22 This amounted to approximately $636,000,000

47:25 in total royalties and licensing

47:28 fees

47:29 generated

47:30 at its launch.

47:33 While this was happening,

47:35 during that same period of time,

47:37 nearly 1,000,000 investors lost

47:40 a combined $3,800,000,000.

47:44 This is because that meme coin

47:46 lost value,

47:49 dropped precipitously

47:50 in value. Precipitously.

47:52 It was a bubble. By the way, it is nothing.

47:55 Anybody who's listening to me, if you've invested in a meme coin, you've invested in nothing.

48:01 Zero. Zero. Okay. So

48:05 on a second. Does he know that

48:07 that

48:08 this chairman of the of the Federal Reserve is is monetary

48:12 policy has got nothing to do with meme coins?

48:15 But he's gonna come back to he's using that.

48:19 This this is why it's so funny. He's using that term speculative

48:23 bubble

48:24 to show that whenever the president wants something, it only behooves the president personally

48:29 and screws everybody else out of money. And then here he here comes the crux.

48:35 This is really one of the funniest things I've heard in a long time. I I

48:39 think that

48:40 we should concern ourselves with these speculative bubbles.

48:44 And

48:45 whether you like it or not, you have to concern yourself with it because

48:49 when you lower interest rates,

48:52 you lower the rates such that there's more capital available for people to use for speculative reasons. Okay. Let's just hold here for a second.

49:01 So this numb nut is going to tell us that we should have higher interest rates because otherwise

49:08 we'll get speculative bubbles. There's no other benefit that you can think of of lower interest rates other than it's gonna benefit people

49:16 to create speculative bubbles even though as you pointed out, the AI bubble has done just fine with interest rates at 5%.

49:24 So you have to be concerned about it whether you want to or not because you don't wanna see a speculative bubble.

49:30 Can I have your assurance that you will be concerned about these speculative speculative bubbles, mister chairman?

49:37 So congressman,

49:38 we want a resilient,

49:41 strong, safe

49:42 financial system. Yeah. And we are looking at financial markets, and we're looking at the real economy to make sure we deliver on what we can.

49:49 Some of these other subjects are really more in your purview and responsibility than They're in my purview. Excuse me for interrupting, but I have to. They're in my purview, but only because

49:59 I choose to have them in my purview, and I I make an issue of them. I have to vote on them. But they're in your purview too because you decide whether the rates go up or down. If you lower them, then people can engage in these speculative bubbles

50:13 Oh, man. Such as the Trump meme coin

50:17 and they can lose a lot of money. Oh,

50:20 brother.

50:21 Can you imagine having to sit through that?

50:24 I mean, that that represents people. Well, this is it reminds me of the other the that other character that's

50:31 in congress who thinks the islands can flip over. Oh, yeah.

50:36 The Maldives.

50:37 The Maldives will tip over from climate change.

50:40 Yeah.

50:41 No. From population.

50:43 Oh, population. Too many people on one side of the island. And then there was this

50:48 I think this was Elizabeth Warren. Hank Johnson is that guy. So he they're really it's all just about will you be independent?

50:56 Do you work for Donald Trump? Yes or Who is this?

51:01 Sounds like Hirono. No. It's not Hirono. Don't If think I'm permitted to say we're an independent

51:05 central bank, we're honored to be independent.

51:08 Our independence came from you. Okay.

51:11 That's enough. Thank you.

51:13 What steps That's enough. Don't answer the questions with truth. Yeah.

51:17 It was the Federal Reserve bill of 1913.

51:20 Tips would you take if the president

51:23 or others in the administration target you or your fellow governors

51:28 because he doesn't be like

51:30 how many of them are voting on interest rate policy?

51:34 Yeah. She's Spanish. She's from Costa Rica? I mean, where is she from? I don't know her.

51:39 I don't I I it's not in my notes for some reason. Have not,

51:43 heard that voice before. No. It's not my it's not my intuition to engage in hypotheticals,

51:48 but I'll tell you this.

51:50 The supreme court said That's an easy way out. The supreme court said that the Federal Reserve and the conduct of monetary policy is independent.

51:58 To the extent there were questions about it, the the courts answered those questions.

52:02 So what would you do?

52:05 I would continue to do my job. If the president publicly

52:08 pressures

52:09 you to pursue

52:11 a different course than the one you believe is in the economic

52:16 that you believe the economic data supports,

52:18 will you follow the president's wishes or follow the data?

52:24 My commitment to you is to follow the law and follow the data. Follow our very best judgment. If you decide this is the way to go, this is where the data shakes, and he publicly

52:33 criticizes you and tells you how disappointed he's in you and all of that. Will you it? Still.

52:40 If he shames you in public, will you still do your job? What the data tells you to do. I I I will congressman. You ready for that?

52:50 I'm

52:51 ready to follow the law and I'm ready for the Fed to deliver

52:55 on the expansive

52:57 remit that you gave us. It's just like,

53:00 this is so embarrassing.

53:03 It's it's just embarrassing that these people are in congress even.

53:07 Well, luckily, the left side of the party is gonna wipe them all out shortly. That'll be good. Yeah. You mean the DSA

53:14 Yeah. Yeah. Warren was in fine form too.

53:18 She kept yammering about some secret meeting.

53:21 Did you know about the secret meeting?

53:23 Do you know about a secret meeting?

53:26 What's she talking about? Can you just answer the question about the vice chair and her secret meeting? Sure. I'm I'm happy to to the extent I can I had some secret meeting about something

53:37 where something got leaked or I don't know? How would you know about it if it was a He's asked what he's saying. Share it with you. I

53:45 the vice chair has been an excellent colleague in my first seven weeks. I'm aware of the letter you sent to the inspector general

53:52 out of an enormous

53:53 respect for him,

53:55 his investigation,

53:56 what he chooses to do with it, I'm gonna leave to him to do without trying to micromanage

54:00 that. So you I'd be interested in the judgments that he that he comes to. So you will support his investigation.

54:07 Have you made your own investigation? Did you ask her if she spoke at a secret meeting during the blackout period?

54:13 I agree with the suggestion.

54:16 This is Elizabeth Warren is a tool. She's just annoying.

54:19 Then we had the

54:21 nominee for

54:25 the

54:26 director of national intelligence, Jay Clayton,

54:29 who I believe is highly qualified.

54:32 He's he's been in the spook business for I think twenty plus years

54:36 and he has been nominated to, you know, to step in once

54:41 the bull in the china shop is done,

54:44 Bill Pulte.

54:45 Yeah. And

54:47 and, you know, so the and again, it's just these questions like here's,

54:52 what's so embarrassing that this is what our government is doing on a day to day basis.

54:57 I believe he had the most electoral votes.

55:00 So he won the election? He he he followed our process, had the most electoral votes, was declared the winner.

55:06 Who won the twenty twenty election?

55:09 You know, we're not I'm not I'm not gonna do this with you.

55:12 Who won the twenty election? Question. We we can keep doing this. We've tried umpteen different ways to give to the ability to just acknowledge that Joe Biden was the president.

55:22 It was fairly I I I I I've acknowledged senator that Joe Biden was the president.

55:27 As you see, he would not answer, at least not directly. And the Georgia Democrat John Ossoff, you saw a bit of there, would know. No. They want him to say

55:35 and this is a director of national intelligence. I don't see what it has to do with who won the election, but they want him I don't see these either. They want him specifically to say Biden

55:45 won the election. And he says, well, you know, he he got the most electoral votes. Put it at that.

55:52 You refused

55:53 to answer a basic question about who won a presidential election?

55:58 No. I But you asked to lead America's intelligence community?

56:02 What what this is what does that have to do with anything? Isn't it humiliating

56:07 to be unable to answer this question? It's humiliating to sit there and have to listen to these questions. To have to indulge

56:16 the president's delusions.

56:19 We know,

56:20 you know,

56:21 everybody in this room knows

56:24 the truthful answer to that question. Why can you not give it? I think I gave you the answer. So then,

56:31 they bring on senator Mark Kelly

56:34 and No. This will

56:36 it up. Senator Mark Kelly joins me now. Senator, it's good to see you. Yeah. Good to see you. You heard probably some of the Republicans in the last session. You know, a lot of them think, a lot of people watching might think this is Democrats wanna get the Republican, you know, get the Trump people to say this. But you went on to make a more important point, think, which is if he won't say a simple fact that Joe Biden won the election, will he stand up to the president when the president, you know, needs to hear tough intelligence or when there's a debate or dispute with the president about key facts in a maybe a sensitive national security situation.

57:05 Did Jay Clayton give you confidence today that he will be that man if he's to confirm to this job?

57:12 Absolutely not. And it was, John, it was rather disappointing.

57:16 Disappointing? Mean, the entire,

57:17 hearing, I didn't hear anything

57:19 that gives me any kind of reassurance that this guy is gonna do the job the way the American people deserve. This is critical position,

57:27 and the American people's safety is on the line here. He's gonna direct 18 intelligence agencies.

57:34 And what we're trying to get at here is if he can't in that room I mean, the president's down the street at Pennsylvania Avenue.

57:42 I mean, he's not looking right at him. What is he gonna do when he's sitting in the Oval Office or the Situation Room?

57:47 And the president disagrees with him. But he has studied the intelligence,

57:51 and this is a critical national security issue, and the safety of the American people are at risk. Is he gonna tell the president that he's wrong?

57:59 And I don't see any evidence that he would do that.

58:03 So I I was incredibly disappointed today. Yeah. Just so disappointing.

58:08 And then

58:09 the big controversy

58:11 is the

58:12 the search for the for the leaker

58:15 about Air Force one.

58:18 And I think you and I might disagree on on some of these issues

58:23 with journalists.

58:24 This is

58:26 this is a setup of it. Exclusive CNN reporting tonight on the investigation into leaks about security

58:32 shortcomings of the new Air Force one. Last week, you'll remember, the president flew the old plane instead of the new one when he left the NATO summit. The White House claims it was so that US service members could tour the new one. The New York Times said it was because the Qatari gifted plane lacked key defense systems and the president was incensed by that reporting.

58:50 We've learned some government officials have been asked to turn over their phones at the White House as part of a leak probe. CNN's Evan Perez joins us now with more. Evan, what more have you learned about this White House probe? Yeah. This is an extraordinary scene at the White House last Friday where Kash Patel,

59:05 the FBI director, and Susie Wiles, the chief staff, essentially helped orchestrate

59:10 what was hours long numbers

59:13 of people from the White House, people who may have known about the president's trip were brought in. Their devices were taken from them in some cases, and they were being questioned by FBI agents because of this leak hunt. The FBI,

59:26 of course, is trying to figure out who in the government could have possibly leaked this information to the media.

59:32 And the president, as you pointed out, John,

59:35 is very, very obsessed very much obsessed with this, and that, again, took place

59:39 at the at the White House. We have a statement from the White House about this unusual scene. They said leaks that jeopardize the safety of the president, his staff, and traveling press pool

59:49 are dangerous and a threat to national security. The White House takes these leaks seriously and would do everything legally

59:55 to ensure the individual or individuals are caught and it does not happen again. That's of course from the White House this evening.

1:00:03 So, you know, I've been thinking about this and the not disclosing your sources.

1:00:09 I I don't think that is actually

1:00:12 protected

1:00:13 under the first amendment.

1:00:15 The first amendment gives the press

1:00:17 the freedom to print whatever they want.

1:00:20 It doesn't give them the freedom to not, you know, not not do their civic duty

1:00:26 for national security, etcetera. I think it was actually there were some supreme court cases

1:00:32 that overruled this.

1:00:35 And and, you know, it's

1:00:38 I don't know if it it's I don't think it's protected under the first amendment. You disagree?

1:00:44 No. It probably isn't. Yeah. Okay. I never thought it was. It's just the gentleman's

1:00:49 agreement. Look, I'm you're gonna tell me something, I'm gonna protect you.

1:00:52 Right.

1:00:54 Can't make me talk. There was the Bansberg v What's protected is you can't testify against yourself. Right. Bansberg versus Hayes in nineteen seventy two, five to four supreme court decision

1:01:08 where

1:01:09 the this was the court consolidated three different cases of reporters who had investigated drug synthesis and the Black Panther Party. When called before grand juries, the reporters refused to name their anonymous sources arguing that doing so would dry up their news gathering pipelines

1:01:25 and destroy, here it comes, press freedom,

1:01:28 which is not the text, it's freedom of the press.

1:01:32 And the court ruled the public's interest in prosecuting and deterring crime

1:01:36 via the grand jury system outweighs the incidental burden

1:01:39 placed on the press. But the but the press just they just keep on going about free press, man. It's free free press. Joining us now to discuss this is Will Creeley. He's the legal director for fire.org,

1:01:52 the foundation for individual rights and expression. Will, thank you for joining NewsHour.

1:01:57 It's an honor. Thank you for having me. What does the law say about what protections journalists have in this case? Well, the law has been clear for a long time that somebody else's illegal conduct does not remove speech about a matter of public concern, like the president's new jet,

1:02:14 from First Amendment protection.

1:02:16 There's no federal shield law,

1:02:18 but the heart of the First Amendment does indeed protect this kind of activity.

1:02:23 What we're seeing here should be a last resort. Subpoenaing

1:02:26 reporters

1:02:27 is a shot across the bow designed to get people to stop asking questions about subjects the administration would rather not talk about, and it's chilling. In this case, the subpoenas were issued to these five New York Times reporters, and some were served at their homes.

1:02:42 Is that unusual, and why do you think it was done in that way in your opinion?

1:02:47 It is unusual, and it's theatrical.

1:02:49 It's designed to send a very clear message. Stop asking questions,

1:02:54 sit down, and shut up. I'm awfully tired of federal law enforcement agents showing up on people's doorsteps about protected speech, and unfortunately, this is just the latest in a pattern. This administration has evinced a real hostility to press that should concern Americans no matter their politics. It's designed to get people to sit down and be quiet. Yeah. I wonder if we still have that clip. What was the guy's name?

1:03:18 Rosen's the guy who got busted. Rosen. That's right. And they they throw him in jail. Right? Yeah. Let me see. He went

1:03:25 Obama was the worst for this and they never bring it up. No. No. It's all Trump invented it. Was it Give me a break. Was it Jay Rosen? No. No. It's not Jay Rosen. He's the professor.

1:03:37 Who who

1:03:39 It's Jay Rosen. Who was it? Who was which

1:03:42 Rosen

1:03:44 let me see. Jail? Maybe I can find it that way. No.

1:03:48 Obama.

1:03:49 I can't seem to that was a it was quite a long time ago. I don't know if we even have those clips from back in the day.

1:03:56 I don't know if the if the archive goes back far enough. But it's not gonna be easy to find. Yeah.

1:04:02 But, yeah, Obama's doing it. But so is, you know, everybody

1:04:05 bitches and moans about the press.

1:04:07 The press bitches and moans about the press. That's who bitches and moans.

1:04:12 And I got one more clip here. You mentioned this, but this is not the first time that the Trump administration has tried to subpoena or question journalists

1:04:19 about stories that are critical of the administration or the president.

1:04:24 Is this a pattern that you're seeing? How would you describe this kind of behavior?

1:04:28 Again, the president is in court, and his administration's in court against the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal. Just last week, my colleagues were in Iowa State Court defending a pollster, Ann Seltzer, against

1:04:41 charges filed by the president

1:04:43 alleging that her poll constituted consumer fraud.

1:04:47 It's beyond the pale. It is a direct attack on the first amendment's protection of our free press. In the two hundred fiftieth anniversary of our country, we should demand better.

1:04:55 How does this administration where was the polls

1:04:58 to previous

1:05:00 administrations?

1:05:01 I mean, other presidents and other administrations

1:05:03 have asked reporters to reveal their sources, but how does this moment compare to those?

1:05:08 That's right. Other presidents have done it, but this is not something we should get used to. Just because other presidents have done it and they have of both parties

1:05:16 isn't

1:05:17 a grounds for justification.

1:05:19 We shouldn't normalize this behavior. We should ask for the freest press we can demand.

1:05:24 That's what we deserve under the First Amendment. That's what we are guaranteed

1:05:28 beyond deserved.

1:05:30 Again, I think that you have to look at this in the larger context of the president's

1:05:34 attacks on the press. Really almost from day one,

1:05:37 attacking the press has been a trademark of his, and the result is a chill on speech. It's a chill on speech. There's been no chill? It's worse than ever.

1:05:49 Where's the chill? Hello? I don't know. I don't know. I don't see any chill.

1:05:54 No. I see people moaning and groaning more than ever.

1:05:59 Yeah. Anti Trump. Trump's fault. So the president had kind of a very interesting

1:06:06 interesting change of heart over the

1:06:10 Straits Of Hormuz where

1:06:12 first he started to say, hey, man, we're gonna we're gonna charge everybody we're gonna charge everybody some money,

1:06:18 which we're gonna charge away 20%,

1:06:20 which

1:06:21 came out of nowhere

1:06:23 all of a sudden. Trump changing his tune after oil prices soared and American Gulf allies called to complain.

1:06:30 Kings and,

1:06:32 Amirs and all of the people that we all know and

1:06:36 we all love, and they said we'd love to do it a different way. We'd love to invest in The United States with

1:06:41 billions and billions of dollars. And no detail And we play that clip in the last show. What's that? It wasn't that last show clip. No. No. This is a new clip.

1:06:51 No. No. No. I think that happened on the on the last

1:06:55 no. It just happened after the show

1:06:57 on Sunday.

1:06:59 When it the 20%, that was after the show.

1:07:04 Maybe your No. It must have been somebody brought up on the Horowitz. That that's what I think. But tonight, one thing is clear. The Strait Of Hormuz is closed.

1:07:11 Iran firing on multiple cargo ships and on American allies in the region. So then the the new gambit came in, is, no, you don't have to pay a toll, but just invest in us. Just wondering if you could explain your changing

1:07:24 thinking on the Strait Of Hormuz, applying a 20% fee?

1:07:28 How did you get to the decision you just The opposite was never fair to me that we would be guarding the Strait when we basically don't take any we don't need the oil at all.

1:07:37 And,

1:07:38 it wasn't important for us, but it was important for allies. I was called by different people, different countries, kings and,

1:07:45 emirs and all of the people that we all know and we all love. And they've been frankly, they've been very strong partners.

1:07:53 And they said we'd love to do it a different way. We'd love to invest in The United States States with

1:07:58 billions and billions of dollars, and we would like to invest tremendously in The United States Tremendously. As opposed to charging a fee.

1:08:06 And I like that actually because I don't think anybody should be able to charge a fee for the,

1:08:11 for the straight or for any other,

1:08:13 straight

1:08:14 relationship

1:08:15 in terms of other sections of the world. I don't think anybody should be really in that position, but we were doing it as a reimbursement.

1:08:23 The Gulf States are going to invest a tremendous amount of money into The United States and that was very satisfactory to me. I think it's actually much better. So I was listening to a couple of analysts on CNBC and,

1:08:37 you know, I was like, what what is he doing? This is completely stupid.

1:08:41 Why would you even say, oh, you want 20%? This is is he just pulling stuff out his butt as usual or is there something behind it?

1:08:49 And then to change it around to, well, you guys, you should be paying 20%

1:08:53 but instead, as long as you invest billions and billions and billions and trillions of dollars in America, we'll protect you. You don't have to do that. But now I'm listening to these analysts and it seems like the Strait Of Hormuz

1:09:05 may even just be made

1:09:07 redundant at some point. Hormuz now effectively under new management.

1:09:12 What's your reaction to this latest US blockade? And do you think it's going to be enough to, number one, keep barrels flowing, and number two, squeeze the Iranian regime at the same time to try and bring them to the negotiation table or at least bring them to some kind of,

1:09:30 stability that would allow The US to continue negotiations and find an off ramp to this conflict.

1:09:37 Dan, you you hinted at something very important here that,

1:09:40 you know, perhaps it's a it's a political tactic to during negotiation. By the way, none of the two parties completely abandoned the negotiating table, and that perhaps explained

1:09:49 why the market is not in a panic mode. I mean, you would expect in a period of so called ceasefire to continue to see this kind of tit for tat actions.

1:09:59 And as long as the two parties are still talking, and that's something we should remember, I think that gives us some hope that these are more targeted limited attacks and not really a fully fledged war as we saw, let's say, two months ago, for instance.

1:10:13 So there could be a tactic to force both parties to stick to the negotiations to reach a deal at a certain point. But of course, the markets does not like this kind of uncertainty,

1:10:24 and that's why we are seeing these kind of developments overnight in oil prices.

1:10:28 But I remain hopeful because

1:10:30 I think even under the worst case scenario,

1:10:32 some oil continued to flow through the Strait Of Hormuz.

1:10:36 Yes. Some of it continued to flow through the Strait Of Hormuz,

1:10:39 but all of these countries,

1:10:42 they're all scrambling and they're all building alternative

1:10:46 transit routes, is pipelines and all kinds of other things. But it remains to be seen what is the next chapter for Hormuz. More importantly, while this is happening,

1:10:55 something else equally important is happening. That is the countries in The Middle East are continuing to looking to look for alternatives to divert away from Hormuz. So who knows, maybe by the time the homeless crisis is resolved, we don't need to rely as much on homeless to get oil and gas and other products out of that strait. Here's one other analyst about it. For global trade, it's

1:11:17 it it does affect the flow of trade and all that, but you do see trade adapt,

1:11:22 move to other routes.

1:11:24 For example, DP World ports

1:11:27 has other ports around the world, and those operations have increased. So you'll see expansions in other alternatives.

1:11:34 For The UAE itself,

1:11:36 all focuses on Fujairah right now.

1:11:39 The what doesn't make the headline is enough is that the cost of shipping insurance will stay up for a while. So businesses will go where where there's less friction,

1:11:50 where there's less cost. So we expect we expect to see more activities within

1:11:57 from Fujairah's side. So they're just moving into other other ports. They're moving it out.

1:12:02 I think this whole this whole idea is just to make the whole strait kind of irrelevant.

1:12:08 I don't know if it can be done.

1:12:11 Well, if you look at the shipping, there there are thousands of ships that are around there. Be it won't be overnight. No. It won't be overnight, but they've got the pipeline which is funny enough. Think that was wasn't that a Clinton thing back in the day? The pipeline taking it up to Turkey and then from Turkey getting it into Europe and

1:12:27 in, you know, taking over to the Black Sea and just all these different routes. I think the pipelines is is we're gonna have to be doing the pipeline episode again soon.

1:12:35 Well, it's we're due. Yeah.

1:12:38 My I I think I think it's there's something something is up with this

1:12:42 with this

1:12:44 the whole thing. Well, mean, could there are there are theses out there that that said this was the whole thing was shut down the Strait Of Hormuz. Well, that wouldn't surprise me.

1:12:55 Wouldn't surprise me.

1:12:56 Oh, I guess the only thing I've got is to they're bringing to complicate

1:13:01 matters, here's a clip. The Iranian conflict is

1:13:04 now targeting the Houthis.

1:13:06 Next, the treasury department has announced sanctions against an underground network that has been helping the Iranian regime obtain weapons.

1:13:14 This comes as Iran is threatening to use the Houthi terrorist group to expand their attacks on commercial shipping. Entity's Jason Perry has the details. The United States continues to increase its efforts to help secure the Strait Of Hormuz.

1:13:27 And on Wednesday, the treasury department announced another round of sanctions connected to the Iranian regime. The treasury's office of foreign Assets Control has sanctioned targets involved in an international network

1:13:40 helping to get weapons for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary

1:13:43 Guard Corps. Details of the sanctions include two individuals in Russia and one in Italy accused of assisting Iran to get weapons. The sanctions also target a company based in Nigeria called Vanguard Tactical Supply Limited,

1:13:59 which served as an intermediary

1:14:01 in helping Iran get weapons. The fresh round of sanctions comes after Iran's attacks on vessels in the Hormuz Strait. However, Iran has warned that if US strikes continue, Iran could expand attacks on commercial shipping to the coast of Yemen through its proxy, the Houthi terrorist group. The Houthis are located near another strategic waterway for global trade, the Bab Al Mandeb in the Red Sea. Petrus Katinas,

1:14:28 research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute explains.

1:14:33 To interfere with it, Tehran would have to rely mainly on Houthis who control much of Yemen's coastline,

1:14:40 and the Houthis have already demonstrated that they can use anti ship missiles, drones, and other weapons to make commercial navigation

1:14:47 dangerous.

1:14:48 He said the Houthis don't need to attack every ship. They just have to complete a limited number of successful attacks,

1:14:56 and that would cause insurance cost for commercial vessels to skyrocket,

1:15:00 causing ships to avoid the Red Sea altogether

1:15:04 and take a much longer route around the Southern tip of South Africa.

1:15:09 You know, all this energy that we're creating here in The United States, we're getting another

1:15:15 another data center in,

1:15:17 I think near Austin,

1:15:20 and they will be I think they'll be generating 750

1:15:24 kilowatts

1:15:25 of

1:15:26 gas fired energy.

1:15:29 And we were talking about the data centers

1:15:32 maybe being utilities

1:15:34 and

1:15:37 decentralizing

1:15:38 the the energy,

1:15:40 the electricity

1:15:41 sources in America.

1:15:43 And I got an email from an old friend of the show who apparently still listens,

1:15:48 Atomic Rod Adams.

1:15:50 Oh, we haven't heard from him forever. For years.

1:15:54 Yeah. And and I wanna share this because, you know, this is what he does. He was a

1:15:59 was he a commander of atomic

1:16:02 submarine?

1:16:03 Yeah. He's a he well, he's now I think he became a new nuclear

1:16:07 consultant. A nuclear consultant. Then things were bad for a while. Business was down. Particularly during the Biden administration.

1:16:15 You and John mentioned advanced nuclear demonstrations during Sunday's show. As you stated, four new reactors started operating on or before July 4. You don't hear much about this anywhere.

1:16:25 I was lucky enough to be present for the final two of them. Deployable energy on June 30 and alloatomics

1:16:32 very early 12:20AM

1:16:33 on July 4. It was cool to be boots on the ground as an observer for these historic events. I also witnessed Valar atomics

1:16:41 producing the first electricity from an advanced reactor.

1:16:44 Those success stories are likely to be joined by two to four more new reactors by the end of the summer. The reactor pilot program which helped to speed reviews, approvals and facility

1:16:54 construction

1:16:55 includes 11 projects and is designed to continue to provide acceleration even after reaching the interim goal of having three start by July 4. There's a tremendous amount of energy and excitement in the nuclear industry stimulated by a collection of four executive orders all signed on 05/23/2025.

1:17:12 John mentioned that California isn't likely to see any new nuclear plant construction.

1:17:17 He's probably right.

1:17:20 But he might be interested in learning that many of the advanced nuclear companies are headquartered in California.

1:17:26 So he says California's

1:17:27 got a couple of them in Torrance, in El Segundo,

1:17:31 the Oakland,

1:17:32 Santa Clara,

1:17:34 Berkeley. Hey, Berkeley, California deep fishing in Berkeley right around the corner. In Texas, there's a whole bunch of them. So this is good. That this is this is what we need.

1:17:44 Yeah. I agree. I think it's cool. It's good that we're doing that. We couldn't get any of that stuff done forever.

1:17:53 No. Because of one or two mishaps.

1:17:55 Now I would say the most interesting

1:17:59 legislation to pass,

1:18:02 which still doesn't mean that we're gonna get get anywhere with it, is the,

1:18:07 what the what is it? The Protect the Sunshine Act?

1:18:11 You hear about this?

1:18:13 No. Yeah. This is it. It's a debate that has consumed a lot of time, literally. But yesterday, Congress took its biggest step yet toward ending the twice yearly changing of the clocks. The house passed the sunshine protection Say what?

1:18:28 Yeah.

1:18:29 Yeah. This was overplayed

1:18:30 on Fox and every place in between.

1:18:33 This is this is

1:18:35 every year or every couple of years, we get this story. It's like a rerun of old news. Well, they're trying. They're trying something new. They're not they're getting if This this is this is not Fox as an aside. This is PBS.

1:18:47 An act which would make daylight saving time permanent nationwide.

1:18:51 The bipartisan bill now heads to the US Senate where a similar effort stalled several years ago. For more on the push to stop changing the clocks, we are joined now by Scott Yates, founder of the Lock the Clock Alliance. Scott, it's always good to see you. So you've been pushing for this for years. We've seen momentum before. It's not become law. Why might this time be different?

1:19:13 Well, we've never seen it pass the house before. I mean I mean, it's never gotten the floor for even to be able to have a vote. So this is just a huge step forward.

1:19:21 And I think it shows the kind of momentum that we have, and I think it shows the excitement over an issue that's actually bipartisan.

1:19:29 I I I was pleased to see a wide margin both among Republicans and Democrats voting for it. So I think with that kind of momentum, we can go over to the senate and say, look. This is what the people want. And,

1:19:40 clearly, that's reflected in state legislatures across the country and in the house vote yesterday. We've never been this close, John. This has been the first time. This is we're we're getting somewhere with this. But I think this is we gotta check the

1:19:53 prop bet market on this baby. This

1:19:56 is a solid no. Well,

1:19:59 what they what this guy what this Yates guy is saying is they need to push it to the states. This is gonna make it even more fun. So the states can decide what time zone they wanna be in. This is this makes my head spin. In your view, what do we gain by stopping the twice yearly changing of the clocks? One of the things I was really encouraged to hear yesterday were all different politicians kinda getting up and talking about the health detriments of the clock changing. You know, it wasn't that long ago that we just thought of changing the clocks for daylight saving time as kind of annoyance, but we didn't think of it as deadly.

1:20:31 Now the research is really clear that it really is deadly and very disruptive. It's bad for schools, it's bad for businesses, it's bad for everybody.

1:20:40 The only thing that we don't agree on completely

1:20:42 is on which time zone we should be locking into.

1:20:45 But I think we've got a solution to be able to address that without having to have the clock changed twice a year, which is what I think most people actually are the most interested in. It's just they don't really care that much which one we lock into. They just don't like the switching. Well, what's the solution? Well, the solution is actually an amendment that I proposed back when it was in the Senate last year to have a two year implementation period,

1:21:08 and what that allows is for each state to be able to have enough time and the school boards to weigh in and everybody in the state to be able to say, look, this is a time that makes the most sense for us. You know, it it anybody that says they've got a perfect solution that works for every state in the country has some other agenda they're trying to push, saying that you've got the exact right solution that works for Massachusetts and also works for Indiana.

1:21:32 Well, that's just not possible. So I think if we have a two year implementation, which is an amendment that was accepted and is now part of the senate version,

1:21:41 that would give people of, for instance, Indiana and Michigan, a couple of states that I think would be really well served to be on permanent standard time to be able to make that decision.

1:21:50 So it's kind of crazier than I thought it would be.

1:21:53 So each time zone, each state would be able to determine

1:21:57 what,

1:21:58 you know, what time 07:00 is.

1:22:00 So,

1:22:01 you know, today we have two hours difference between California and Texas. It might be one hour.

1:22:08 Can you imagine if every state just, you know, what's the time there? Well, we're in the area. I mean, Arizona still does its own thing and Indiana until recently used to have their own time. Yeah. But every So it's not that unusual. But every state might be might get a little funky. No. The whole thing's a joke. Well These things never come to fruition. It's just gonna keep going. Once it was established, they can't get rid of it. Because I I was kinda convinced,

1:22:33 kinda like you, that well, this is interesting.

1:22:35 And then I listened I of all the shows, it was actually gut felt. They had the little group of comedy

1:22:42 comedians on there, and it was it was split right in the middle. No. It should be daylight savings time all the time. No. It shouldn't because then in the morning and during this certain time of year, it'll be too dark for the kitties. Oh, yes. And they had to pick up they won't be able to see the bus when it comes, and they're gonna get mugged and killed.

1:22:59 So so think of the children. We can't do daylight savings times all year round. But wait. There's But then if we do standard

1:23:05 time all year round, then it's too dark at night. Nobody's gonna go out and shop. It's gonna be bad for commerce. This is not working.

1:23:13 So there's a solution for this which came in the same week as this news. Yeah. Take the earth out of orbit. No. No. No. It's the new company, Reflect Orbital.

1:23:23 This is so if if you don't like the fact that your kids have to walk to school in the dark,

1:23:30 well then you just rent some time from from Reflect Orbital and they can spread some sunlight on a five kilometer

1:23:37 patch of earth. CC has plans by a Hawthorne based startup to test a satellite

1:23:43 that would use a 60 foot mirror

1:23:45 to then reflect sunlight back to planet Earth after dark. Reflectorbital

1:23:50 says that it would power solar farms, provide light for rescue workers, and illuminate city streets.

1:23:56 The idea here is to have access to the sun on demand and when it's needed. Reflect Orbital plans to have more than 50,000 satellites in action by 2035.

1:24:05 However, some astronomers, wildlife experts, others opposed this idea completely. They claim that the light from the mirrors could distract airplane pilots, could wreak havoc on astronomical observations,

1:24:17 and interfere with sleep wake cycles.

1:24:20 I think this is very cool. I'm surprised it's not an Elon Musk operation.

1:24:24 Yeah. It's not happening either. Yeah. It is. Let's screwball give story.

1:24:28 Me a crap of just screwball They're

1:24:31 demoing it. They already have one up there.

1:24:34 And you so you say, okay, let there be light and they

1:24:37 just reflect You know, there's things called street lamps.

1:24:40 No. But Hello? Let's say Why do you need a satellite? I lost Light up the street. I lost my keys somewhere in the yard. Let's just let's order some light for five minutes.

1:24:51 Yeah. That would be that that would be so inexpensive,

1:24:54 you could be sure.

1:24:55 Oh, just just reflecting some light. Yeah.

1:24:59 The 50,000

1:25:00 of them. How much space junk do we actually have?

1:25:04 I don't know. There's enough of the Starlink satellites. Too much going on. Too much Starlinks going and put little mirrors

1:25:12 on them.

1:25:13 Yeah. Well, I I see them regularly

1:25:16 flying by.

1:25:18 Regularly.

1:25:19 So Biden's

1:25:20 come out with a book. Oh. He's coming out with a book in November. Uh-huh. And he produced a

1:25:26 little video of him talking about this book coming out. Wait a minute. Don't tell me this is another

1:25:32 listen to No Agenda show segment.

1:25:35 No. No. This is actually this is Biden. Uh-huh.

1:25:38 And I I have two clips because I have a a short version,

1:25:43 which is the segment that I wanna I want you to listen to a a second time to try to tell me what he's saying. Okay. So let's play the long promotion for the book. Okay.

1:25:53 Since that's the presidency, I've had a lot of people ask me, Joe, what have you been doing? Joe.

1:25:59 Joe.

1:26:03 I've been spending a lot of time with my family. I've been dealing with a cancer diagnosis, and I've been getting treatment, and it's been going really well.

1:26:11 I wanna thank all those of you for their prayers and support and well wishes. They've spent the world to me and to Jill.

1:26:19 I've written a book about my time as president.

1:26:21 It's called Promise Me America.

1:26:24 It's coming out November,

1:26:26 and it's available for preorder now.

1:26:28 It's about the challenge we face as a nation

1:26:31 about the decisions I made

1:26:34 and why I made them.

1:26:39 Leading the country through COVID,

1:26:42 rebuilding our economy, and restoring our democracy after the attack on January 6.

1:26:48 Ending our nation's longest war in Afghanistan.

1:26:51 What? Strengthening NATO

1:26:53 and supporting Ukraine.

1:26:56 It's about why I chose to run for reelection

1:26:58 and why I chose to step aside. Is this a coloring book that he is releasing, or is it actual

1:27:06 words? Be nice.

1:27:08 So

1:27:09 I get this segment there that that's where he mumbles a bit. Tell me what he says.

1:27:14 Any nation's longest war in Afghanistan.

1:27:17 Strengthening NATO.

1:27:18 Okay. Something about the war in Afghanistan. Let me listen again. Any of their nation's longest war in Afghanistan.

1:27:25 It's '28, though.

1:27:30 Any

1:27:31 oh, my god. Any

1:27:33 the longest war in Afghanistan. Hold on. Ending the nation's longest war in Afghanistan. What nation's longest war. Ending the nation's longest war in Afghanistan. Okay. Hold on. Ending the nation's war in Afghanistan. Okay. Ending the nation's war longest war in Afghanistan. I can I'm a Joe Biden whisperer. I can hear him now. Okay. Well, now let's listen to the second part. Strengthening you,

1:27:56 though.

1:27:57 Strengthening NATO.

1:27:59 Oh.

1:28:01 Strengthening you, though. Wow.

1:28:04 Wow. Is so is he gonna do an audiobook? Because that would be that would be genius.

1:28:09 Audiobook. I'd buy it. Yeah.

1:28:13 Wow.

1:28:15 Yeah. So he I'm gonna be competing with him with my book. I'm I'm gonna be talking to Mimi about it. Yeah. My memoirs.

1:28:22 Yeah. Your book would be great. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Here's

1:28:26 what I understand about books. There's no money in it.

1:28:30 No. It's not the idea. Well, I'm not running for president.

1:28:34 What's the idea?

1:28:35 Well, you if you ever run for president, you've got the book. Right. But what what do you do a book for if there's no money in it? You have to get it's a service. It's a it's like, why do we do this podcast before we don't get any money? It's a service.

1:28:48 I know, but I already do a public service. Now I gotta do another service. Well, you know, you do haven't done the the the The thing is Yeah. Exactly.

1:28:57 It it you're it's never ends.

1:28:59 But here's here's what I realized.

1:29:02 Because throughout the years, I've written blog posts and stuff and

1:29:06 and there's I've told I think I've told almost every single story on the show at some point, which is good because I have transcripts of everything.

1:29:14 I'm worried that my recollection of things may not be the way it actually happened. Someone comes out of the woodwork and says, hey, you're full of crap. What do you do in that case?

1:29:28 Oh, you you that's gonna happen. Yeah. Well, of course it is.

1:29:33 But then what what do you do? Like You say, hey, that's the way I remember it. Okay. I just can't slander anybody.

1:29:40 Well, that's easy enough. Well, but I gotta tell my Richard Marks story. Unless they're dead. I gotta tell my Richard Marks story, you know. If they're is he dead? No. But he's litigious. He's very litigious. He's he's crazy. Oh, And Richard Marks You don't even mention him in the book. But it's a great story.

1:29:56 No. It's now Well, why don't you call him up No. And tell him if you can tell the story.

1:30:01 I don't need his permission to tell the story, do I? Well, if you don't wanna get sued, maybe.

1:30:07 Well, see, now I don't wanna do a book.

1:30:10 Boy, you're easy. You're What

1:30:14 a pushover. The worst thing about Richard Marx, who I had a I don't even know who we you're talking about something nobody knows who you're talking about. Are you kidding me? Richard Marks in the eighties and nineties

1:30:25 had number one hits back to back, you you know, just because you don't know It was the Marks brothers? Who are you Okay. Talking

1:30:35 I will play you a Richard Marks song.

1:30:38 Let's see. He sings? He's a singer? Yes. He's a singer.

1:30:41 Yes. On what group? Richard Marks. He's just Richard Marks.

1:30:47 Oh, Jesus. I never heard of him. No. If I'm not surprised you've never heard of him, but he's quite famous.

1:30:54 Let me see. What's

1:30:57 oh, yeah. Oh, he has all new songs. Where's his biggest hits?

1:31:02 Wait. Wait. Was it Right Here Waiting For You? Right Here

1:31:06 Waiting

1:31:07 For You, Dick Marks.

1:31:11 Here we go.

1:31:13 This kind of stuff. Oh,

1:31:16 this is the kind of stuff I don't like. No. That's probably why I never heard of it. No. Of course not. This is It's boring.

1:31:23 Look at oh, that's Brian Adams. Hold on a second. Like some candles people. Wait. That's Brian Adams. That's not even Oh, you know, you've got the right guy. Here we go. This is him. This is him. There's your '19 Sounds the same. Nineteen eighties d x seven synthesizer

1:31:38 sound.

1:31:39 He

1:31:40 comes out of the smoke.

1:31:42 Oh, yeah. This is good. Oh, yeah. He's got his blue jeans on, sits down at the piano.

1:31:49 You

1:31:51 don't you don't remember this song? No.

1:31:54 It sounds like a dime a dozen.

1:31:59 It's a long intro. Hold on. Let's Okay. You can stop it. No. I wanna hear him sing now. Anyway.

1:32:08 So I made a joke about his hair once on MTV, which was okay.

1:32:12 You know, I had hair. Did he have long hair, short hair or Yeah. He big hair. He had big hair and so I said He big hair like you had. Yeah. And I said, there's Richard Marx with his hair at number four on the top 20 countdown. He tried to get me fired.

1:32:25 He literally tried to get me fired.

1:32:27 And then What? Because I made fun of him.

1:32:30 He went to How did you make fun of him? You said he had hair. That's I'm telling you. He went to Abby Konowitz. He went to Rick Crim, you know The irony would be if he's bald now. No, he's not. Well, no. The the hard part is,

1:32:43 you know who he's married to?

1:32:45 You won't know her either. Daisy Fuentes.

1:32:49 Now you don't know Daisy Fuentes?

1:32:50 Sister?

1:32:52 You're hopeless.

1:32:53 This book is not for you. Okay? This book is not for you. Don't worry about it. Don't read it. Mimi and I will make a book and we'll make a book, we'll make a book. And I wanna do that whole download the PDF and if you wanna buy it, then value for value, just send me some money.

1:33:10 Yeah. You'll get something out of it. Yeah. We'll get nothing. You'll get nothing out of it. No. You get something. Just want me to do it so I can go on a promo tour and promote I think it could benefit for not having anything about Richard Marks though.

1:33:21 No. Because that was a legendary fight. This is legendary.

1:33:25 Wow.

1:33:26 And then we are on a live This is just you're you're you're unselling the book as we speak.

1:33:33 We're on a live radio show and he says, I hope you get cancer. That was Richard Marks.

1:33:39 Oh, that was kinda cute. Yeah. So there's good stories there. It's good stories.

1:33:44 Alright. Let's play this clip, Fun Fraud Testimony, NTD.

1:33:48 Fun fraud testimony. And following a string of major criminal fraud cases in federal programs,

1:33:53 senate lawmakers hear from investigative journalists and watchdogs

1:33:57 on how to stop billions in taxpayer fraud before it happens. NDD correspondent,

1:34:02 Jason Blair, has the takeaways. When a fraudster commits fraud, he or she steals from all of us. The senate homeland security committee is looking to tackle widespread fraud

1:34:12 being exposed across the country. Chairman Rand Paul compares the federal government to private businesses that verify payments upfront. Washington pays first

1:34:22 and ask questions later

1:34:23 if it asks them at all. No private business would survive this way. A bank confirms an account

1:34:29 exists before wiring the money. A credit card company flags suspicious changes in seconds. Paul highlighted major criminal cases in Minnesota. Prosecutors have now charged 15 people in Minnesota

1:34:41 with schemes involving more than $90,000,000.

1:34:45 One autism services scheme alone,

1:34:47 $46,600,000.

1:34:49 The justice department calls it the largest Medicaid autism fraud case in its history. Independent journalist Nick Shirley, whose investigations helped expose those Minnesota cases Nicky. Tells the committee the problem is nationwide. Now the highest government funded day care in Minnesota has pleaded guilty to day care fraud, and the largest autism bust in America history has been exposed. If we as Americans do not stand up to protect our country, we will lose our country. Journalist James O'Keefe describes undercover work that contributed to a federal prosecution. We recorded a woman named Brown handing over cash payment in exchange for a homeless person to register to vote in a federal election. Now that is a federal crime. Ranking member Gary Peters describes bipartisan legislation he helped pass to stop conflicts of interest with pharmaceutical companies. After learning that a company was being paid with tax dollars to advise the government on oversight of the pharmaceutical industry

1:35:44 while simultaneously

1:35:45 being paid by pharma companies to help market their drugs.

1:35:50 You know, the fraud in America I got a stat here.

1:35:56 Let me see where this was. You just have to budget.

1:35:59 It here it is.

1:36:01 Nine days

1:36:04 of improper federal

1:36:06 payments

1:36:07 equals the entire annual budget we send to Israel.

1:36:12 Nine days.

1:36:14 Two weeks of only Medicare and Medicaid fraud. I mean, it is it is out of control.

1:36:21 Yeah. Can you imagine what it'd be like with Medicare for all?

1:36:24 Oh, please.

1:36:26 And also We'd be broke. The whole country would be down. Did I tell you that when I I went to visit Lex, remember my first boss on his estate? Yeah. Lex. Lex Luther. Yeah. Yeah. On his estate. He's got an estate. The guy has

1:36:38 made so much money from art.

1:36:41 I mean, do you walk through we went to the Modern Museum of Art in Amsterdam,

1:36:46 the Stedelug museum. Better stuff at home. Yeah. Oh, let me tell you. Do not go to the Stedelug museum. It is a gyp.

1:36:53 This is it's a total like, what is this? It's a gyp. It's stupid.

1:36:57 It's a gyp. It's a gyp?

1:37:00 It's like, oh, there's some sand on the floor with two shoes

1:37:05 and the title is Vimte Schippers is gone.

1:37:10 So

1:37:11 go to Lex's house, oh, there's

1:37:14 five war Can get me an invite so I can go to his house someday and and look at his art? Yeah. I think so. Well, you should have been there for the expo when he had his he had his Well, it's too late now. I'm just saying now. Oh. You know, you go to the bathroom. Well, there's two Keith Herrings. All he he has pop art. And then he has these photos. He's got

1:37:33 a photo of the Beatles at the at the Cavern Club. Cavender Tavern, or was it Cavern Club in Berlin.

1:37:40 You've never seen this photo before. It's before the one that everyone has always seen. I mean, he's got the most amazing stuff. Anyway, what

1:37:48 was my point?

1:37:50 I don't know. It was about fraud. Yeah. It was it was something important.

1:37:54 Oh, about the Yeah. About the health care system, health Medicare for all. So The Netherlands, oh, they've got free health care. It's great.

1:38:02 So when he needed something and he's 81 now, he cannot go to a doctor and pay the doctor privately.

1:38:09 He has to wait in line for weeks or months like everybody Why? I thought you could do that. No. Not no. Not in The Netherlands. Nope.

1:38:17 Nope.

1:38:19 Nope. But under the table.

1:38:21 No. They won't do it. He says, I've tried everything.

1:38:25 Yep. He says, you you have to go you know, so yeah, if you get a specialist,

1:38:29 then you might for something very specialized,

1:38:32 you might be able to get in within a week. But in general, back of the line. Everybody's treated the same.

1:38:38 It's equity.

1:38:40 It sucks.

1:38:41 It sucks. Equity. You're getting all feisty now.

1:38:44 It's equity.

1:38:46 So just when you thought AI couldn't get any worse,

1:38:49 introducing

1:38:51 Anthropics Claude for Teachers.

1:38:53 You're also a mom.

1:38:55 Is this This is Amadai. This is the CEO's sister who's also

1:39:00 the in management at the company. You're also a mom. Is this something you would hope to see in your children's school someday? I personally feel really, really excited for what it means my son Really, is going really, really excited. Kindergarten this year. And I'm really hopeful that his school Really? Will adopt, you know, Claude for teachers,

1:39:20 to help tailor curriculum for him and for his classmates.

1:39:23 There are going to be parents who hear this and feel nervous

1:39:27 because parents have watched their kids with smartphones

1:39:31 and screen time and social media,

1:39:34 and they've they've seen the unwanted unintended

1:39:37 consequences

1:39:38 that they weren't really prepared for. This is in the hands of teachers now.

1:39:43 But what do you say to the parents who are nervous that this new technology

1:39:47 is going to repeat those same mistakes? I completely

1:39:51 understand and relate to this worry. And I think a key difference here

1:39:56 is that Here. Cloud.ai

1:39:58 remains

1:39:59 for 18 year old users and above only.

1:40:03 So individual students below the age of 18, won't have access to the tool directly.

1:40:09 And I think this isn't because we necessarily feel, you know, worried that this is, you know, a terrible thing to give to kids.

1:40:17 But I think the reality is we just don't know enough about AI's impact on the developing brain So let's just use it on kids.

1:40:25 For Anthropic to feel comfortable giving access to students directly. We know that AI can hallucinate. It can make mistakes.

1:40:34 If this chatbot

1:40:35 were to make a mistake,

1:40:37 if it were to give the wrong information or bad advice or reinforce bias,

1:40:44 Who would be accountable for that? These models are not foolproof. They do make mistakes.

1:40:49 And part of how we have worked with teachers in developing this technology and really listening to their questions and concerns

1:40:58 is helping to, you know, spot when an AI might be,

1:41:02 you know, entering unknown territory. What are the signs to look for?

1:41:06 Could possibly go wrong?

1:41:09 Do not let your children into a school where they have clawed for teachers.

1:41:15 This is not a good idea.

1:41:19 I'd say the goo here, I got a Google. I got an AI story this week. Alright.

1:41:24 Google.

1:41:25 Big Google. And what does the future hold for the news industry as more people read AI powered news summaries?

1:41:31 NDD's David Lamb asks an expert.

1:41:35 Some news publishers are concerned about being asked to join Google's new pilot program for AI powered article overviews.

1:41:43 According to a report in the information, content would be shared in Google News and Gemini AI,

1:41:48 giving Google broad rights on how to use the content.

1:41:52 Matthew Gilbert, a senior lecturer of marketing, shares his thoughts on the current landscape of news summaries. I think there's definitely been a shift in how people look for information and also how they look to consume information.

1:42:04 You do get links to the actual articles, but before any of that, you're getting summary.

1:42:09 And,

1:42:10 what's interesting is I think a lot of people, if they already see what they already need, they're not gonna even click through beyond that. Currently, the Google News Showcase platform pays publishers to create and curate online news content through a licensing program.

1:42:25 But publishers fear that if they opt out of the new pilot, they may risk losing the fee they currently receive when Google shares their articles.

1:42:33 Gilbert also notes that there's a risk to articles that feature deep investigative

1:42:38 content.

1:42:39 There's a real big risk that what you're producing gets lost in the shuffle or doesn't even get seen at all because

1:42:46 if all that it's looking for is the sort of top level shorthand takeaway,

1:42:51 that deeper investigation,

1:42:52 that that

1:42:53 more important information is not gonna get read.

1:42:56 Google says that for years, it has produced 24,000,000,000

1:43:00 monthly visits to news websites.

1:43:02 Chances are, their content will still probably, in some way or another, still be getting fed into the AI system whether or not they even are aware of it or not.

1:43:11 Yeah. This news is broken. They need to stop this. This value for value by in in individual

1:43:18 journalists is I think the only way to go.

1:43:21 Maybe.

1:43:23 That's your opinion?

1:43:25 Yeah. My opinion is maybe. Maybe. Well,

1:43:29 you're an independent There's a restaurant, by the way, in the Bay Area that's doing Value4Value.

1:43:33 Do they call it Value4Value?

1:43:35 No. They don't. But it's it's definitely Value4Value.

1:43:38 Have you been?

1:43:40 No. Well, and what do they do? Just pay whatever you think the meal was worth? Yeah. Or do you can you also choose to wash up to to

1:43:48 What you mean?

1:43:50 Call you mean do the dishes? Yeah. Time talent to wash up. Yeah. Wash up or, you know, like, I don't know, set tables.

1:43:58 No. I don't know about that. Mean,

1:44:00 I don't think so. I think you should go investigate. Get in that old Lexus of yours, drive over there and go take a look.

1:44:07 Yeah. Maybe I will. Maybe I'll get out of the house and check it out. And you should record it. And you should say, this sucks. I'm not giving you any money. Just do that. And then Google can take and summarize it and I get nothing out of the all the effort.

1:44:19 No. If your substack is value for value. Can't people send you money if they want to to the oasis? Yeah. They can send me money. Do they send you money? Does it work? Yeah. I get some money. Okay. Well then, it works. The system works.

1:44:30 You're living the new international lifestyle. Enjoy. It suck.

1:44:35 It stinks.

1:44:37 So we know about the, Apple OpenAI

1:44:40 lawsuit.

1:44:43 Do you have any thoughts on that?

1:44:46 Yeah. It's a it's a gem. That's just my thought.

1:44:51 Maybe. My thought is maybe. You can't have maybe. Everything I say, you can't just come back and say maybe. Maybe is this theme for the my Maybe what? To the maybe. Maybe what?

1:45:01 Maybe what? Maybe they'll win.

1:45:04 Well,

1:45:06 maybe or not. What are you what are you thinking about in this lawsuit? Well, I'm just gonna lead it into a clip because OpenAI,

1:45:12 supposedly,

1:45:13 they revealed what they're doing

1:45:16 and it sounds

1:45:18 dumb.

1:45:19 OpenAI's

1:45:20 first hardware device will reportedly

1:45:23 be a speaker built as an AI companion. Kate Rooney Oh, has more. Feel like I ask you about this every day, Kate. What we know about the hardware. Hello, Google. Listen

1:45:32 to it. Plans of Open AI. Now for some details.

1:45:35 Sarah, they've been so secretive about it, but we are now getting some new details and reporting around OpenAI's hardware plans as this company now fights a hardware lawsuit

1:45:44 from Apple. Bloomberg now reporting OpenAI plans to launch what they describe as a screen free AI companion designed for your house. It does sound really similar to Amazon's

1:45:54 Alexa. It'll be a portable battery powered device would help control smart home devices, answer questions, play music. OpenAI, as I mentioned, has been extremely secretive about these plans. Rumors have ranged from a wearable pin to some sort of earpiece. No comment from the company, but sources I've talked to say the designs could change. It's still very much in the works, and this report does also say the device may launch by the end of this year. OpenAI's entire hardware push, though, is now very much under fire after Apple on Friday sued the company and its top team members over allegedly stealing intellectual property devices.

1:46:30 Overall, it's been a major strategic push for this company. It did pay 6 and a half billion dollars to buy iPhone designer Johnny Ive's startup late last year. So a screen

1:46:42 We free talked about this on the last show too. No. We did not.

1:46:45 Yes, we did because we talked specifically,

1:46:48 you and I both agreed that Silicon Valley does this all the time and we specifically talked about Johnny Ives. Yeah. But we didn't talk about the device. This is new. You didn't know about the device. No, the device. This is Alexa.

1:47:00 Well, I don't know.

1:47:02 Is it?

1:47:03 Yeah. Set timer.

1:47:07 Yeah. I think it's I think it's just a chatbot block. Play my play. That would be worse. Set timer. Okay. Would you wanna talk about the weather?

1:47:19 What's it gonna talk to you about? Well, people talk to hey, people talk to their chatbots all day long. So might as well have it in the house.

1:47:28 Oh, god. Can you imagine?

1:47:30 No. And it's not for me,

1:47:32 but yeah. I can imagine. I mean, yeah. I can what else? They don't have any other business.

1:47:38 What is this Supercut you have? I might as well drag you through it, drag you through these last few minutes. I just got a kick out of these Supercuts.

1:47:45 This is the, when

1:47:47 when Elon Musk somebody put these together recently.

1:47:51 When Elon Musk bought,

1:47:54 Twitter,

1:47:56 they were all over it, and we're talking about everybody.

1:48:00 They they hated this whole idea.

1:48:03 And, I went I got two supercuts to talk about first of all, was the end of Twitter. Elon Musk has managed to bring Twitter to the brink of collapse in just three weeks. This were what is the end or was the end of Twitter. With this one come back from destroying Twitter, burning it to the ground? Elon Musk burning the business to the ground. The absolute

1:48:25 destruction

1:48:26 of the platform formerly known as Twitter, thanks to his decisions.

1:48:30 Twitter is really in an ever quickening death spiral. They're going to have a hard time just keeping the lights on over at Twitter given this mass exodus. Advertisers,

1:48:41 but also users

1:48:42 heading for the exits. It's a shithole. Right? Elon, fuck that shit up. There's better engagement on threads. He is not a media platform owner. He's never done this. He doesn't know what he's doing. It has to be just a question of time before

1:48:54 whether it's Mastodon or some other site that actually operates in a not responsible

1:49:00 way,

1:49:00 takes over all of the Twitter users. We will go there. Elon Musk can you know, this could be all fun and games for me. At the end of the way, he's gonna drive this business into the ground. There will be nothing left. All advertisers are gone. You can't you can't have a major brand in this country and be putting your ads on platforms like this that are unsafe for children that are spreading misinformation about COVID that's actually killing people. He's a dangerous man. I've said it many times on the show. Well, when it comes to a podcast about media deconstruction,

1:49:28 I think that that qualifies

1:49:30 as Clip of the day.

1:49:32 Wow. That's an obscure catch.

1:49:35 It does. Well, so then we have after it didn't collapse in three weeks like everyone predicted. What did we say?

1:49:43 Well, you said the fetiverse was gonna take over everything.

1:49:48 The fetiverse is the way to go, man. Decentralized,

1:49:51 baby. It's cool. The Fediverse. Ask Comic Strip Blogger. He's been kicked off every single instance on the Fediverse ever.

1:49:59 And then the ones he's allowed on,

1:50:01 he says, this is no good. I can't syndicate

1:50:05 with

1:50:06 No Agenda,

1:50:08 No Authority Social.

1:50:10 The

1:50:10 most censored

1:50:13 Federverse

1:50:14 node on the network is No Authority.

1:50:17 The most the most censored.

1:50:19 And and all they do there is they do these

1:50:22 The Fed adverse was co opted by the left.

1:50:26 That's the problem. The Fed your your whole idea originally, which I'm mocking now Yeah. But in fact Yeah. Could have been true. It could have been true except it was co opted by the left,

1:50:36 which they do,

1:50:38 and it's ruined it.

1:50:40 Well, it it depends on how you view it. That's the way I view it. Okay. That's the way you like, we have podcastindex.social

1:50:48 and it's it's beautiful. It's not political at all. It's just about podcasting two point o. It is a fan it's a fantastic system,

1:50:57 works really well and people can still follow or or or, you know, jump in if they want to. And that has not been ruined by by any any political stuff at all. It's really good and there's no moderating.

1:51:10 I don't sit around, you know, blocking people and telling them to stop.

1:51:14 The the only one only one instance that I block and that's no authority .social.

1:51:20 Oh, good. And then, you know, because I don't I don't have the time to be blocking

1:51:24 poast

1:51:26 and, know, was

1:51:28 it shit posters dot social?

1:51:30 Once once in a while, I get all these What a group. Once in a while, I get all these direct messages

1:51:35 because there's they had these contests.

1:51:38 The faggot of the month.

1:51:40 And then Oh, god. Yeah. And I and I was up against some dude from Sweden that lost.

1:51:45 You lost? You weren't faggot of the month? I'm not faggot of the month. Oh, that's a shame. I know.

1:51:51 Well, there's one more shorter clip, which is the supercut

1:51:56 of after the three weeks was over and they didn't flop, they started calling Twitter a cesspool.

1:52:03 Elon Musk has turned x, formerly known as Twitter, into a cesspool. Twitter x is just such a cesspool now. But it's also a cesspool. Everything that goes on, it's a circus cesspool. Twitter right now is a cesspool. Twitter is a cesspool or x, I guess it's called now. Cesspool of just bad information, lies, hate speech. Twitter is becoming a deeper, darker cesspool of disinformation and chaos. Has now really become a cesspool of misinformation. The

1:52:27 Twittersphere as it is has really gone berserk. Lately, it's gotta become almost a cesspool of misinformation.

1:52:34 Arguably, it's never been this successful.

1:52:37 I I know. I think it's it's yeah. And I think particularly with the with the x AI integration

1:52:43 and now the thing I did predict The grok helps a lot being on there. The thing I predicted

1:52:49 is the money stuff. That's coming. I predicted that years ago and that's I agree. You have and it hasn't happened, but I'm not I'm not saying that that's a bad prediction. I think the Fediverse prediction was a bit much, but that other one about the money, yep. Yeah. That's happened. Definitely. Apparently, it's already in beta. And from what I understand,

1:53:08 if you put your money into the x wallet, and I have no idea how it's gonna work,

1:53:15 you'll get 6%.

1:53:17 I don't know how we Oh. It's gonna be a Yeah. Fintech company. Yeah.

1:53:24 Fintech. Fintech.

1:53:29 Oh, you crack me up, Dvorak. Fintech.

1:53:31 Yes. That's another buzzword from the past. Fintech.

1:53:37 Had something on it? What did it have something on banking about money and fintech? What was it?

1:53:44 Where was that? Oh yeah. The Clarity Act.

1:53:50 Yeah.

1:53:51 That's what everybody's waiting for, the Clarity Act so we can What's the Clarity Act? The Clarity Act is supposed to give clarity on how stable coins work and I I think the

1:54:02 main the main To explain it. The main thing is, if I the way I understand it, then there's probably a lot more in the Clarity Act.

1:54:10 The main thing is the guys who are doing stable coin,

1:54:14 they want to be able to give people interest on, you know, their deposits.

1:54:19 And the banking sector is going, no.

1:54:23 You can't do that. That's our business.

1:54:25 And if you wanna do that, you should become a bank.

1:54:28 Subsequently,

1:54:29 I think Circle USDC

1:54:31 has become a bank.

1:54:33 So so that's what I have two clips from Loomis. Senator Loomis is the one Yeah. Please. Driving this. The Democrats want Republicans to go on the record to reject ethics standards that would apply to president Trump and to congress.

1:54:45 It's not clear if there is 50 GOP senators willing to take that vote. Can you give us some color on that?

1:54:53 Yeah. We've continued to,

1:54:55 work on ethics language

1:54:57 that the congress has to live under and the president has to live under.

1:55:03 So some of the issues are things like, can a state attorney general sue an elected official? My For some reason, they're talking about something other than

1:55:13 the Clarity Act here.

1:55:16 They're talking about ethics?

1:55:19 I don't know what that clip is. You guys, your clip. Yeah. No. Don't think that clip is is not is not valid. But I do have a Jesse Waters clip

1:55:27 about our money as Jesse

1:55:29 paid a visit to the treasury and hung out with

1:55:33 our general patent on the down low. Tonight, we're taking you somewhere the cameras usually don't go. The treasury department's

1:55:40 secret vault

1:55:42 and we found something that's never been seen before. Beautiful room.

1:55:47 And here is the Treasurer's Vault from 1863.

1:55:53 And, you know, Jesse, I can't let you pass the gate. No. Too much money in there, Joe. Too much. Alright. You don't trust me. Well, it's

1:56:01 not you. It's it's it's not you. I've heard that before. Yeah. Exactly. And so what used to be in this vault, or what's in this vault now? Well, I can't tell you what's in there now, but Americans used to come and cash their checks here. Yeah. That's that's exactly what I was thinking. I can't show you what's in there now because there's no money. There's no actual cash in there. Or they came here? Here. Yep. Or banks could present Stop the clip.

1:56:24 Hey, when what was this? What about the whatever happened to the visit to Fort Knox that we're supposed to see by these by the Fox people? Or someone's gonna go visit Fort Knox and show the gold? That was Elon. He was gonna livestream it.

1:56:37 Yeah. What happened to that? Well, they don't wanna embarrass anybody because there's no gold. Vault now. Well, I can't tell you what's in there now, but Americans used to come and cash their checks here.

1:56:47 That's where they came here? Here. Yep. Or banks could present and, you know, get greenbacks.

1:56:53 Solomon Chase, who was the treasurer or treasury secretary

1:56:57 during the civil war created the greenback. We used to have

1:57:01 states used to have their own money. Banks used to issue their own money, and he consolidated into the greenback so people could swap for greenbacks here. Were there silver coins? Were there gold coins? Were there certificates?

1:57:13 All of the above. Okay. And we still have all those, but now most people use

1:57:18 currency.

1:57:19 I hear

1:57:20 there might be a new brand of currency

1:57:24 around the corner. Well, it's same currency, just different series.

1:57:29 And it's gonna look different. Well, it's gonna it's gonna have one one big change on it. They have for the February,

1:57:36 the president's signature is gonna be on it for the first time. So I I think it's fitting. Donald Trump is president during her two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, so it'll be the president's signature and my signature on it. So

1:57:50 much for my $250

1:57:51 bill idea.

1:57:54 I mean, get have you seen these? So that's not collectible. Is that collectible?

1:57:59 No. I don't think so either.

1:58:01 Although there's gonna be this gold $1 coin

1:58:04 with Trump on it. Well, there's the coin that I have with Steve Jobs on it. Yeah. That's pretty collectible.

1:58:10 I mean, I'd say.

1:58:12 Boots on the ground, a note, we finally have one.

1:58:16 A producer and knight of the No Agenda round table. Gentlemen, I've been a long time listener of the show. I've been a knight since 2020.

1:58:23 I was listening to episode eighteen eighty four, Code Brown,

1:58:26 when I heard the challenge for any producers who are members of Patriot Front to step forward.

1:58:31 Okay. Here he is. I'm a member, photographer and social media influencer.

1:58:36 Patriot Journal on Instagram

1:58:39 for Patriot Front. This is like the marketing guy.

1:58:42 Okay. I'm sure if you look hard enough into my donations, you can figure out who I am. Well, we have no time to do that. We're not doing that. We're not doing that. Just tell us or we don't care. I don't mind. I don't even wanna know. With all that said, I ask that you keep any and all personal information private. You ask why we wear the mask. I do so for my wife and children. Our opposition Antifa,

1:59:04 Marxist, etcetera, would love nothing more than to run our employers and to run to our employers and claim we are Nazis. Historically, they are often successful.

1:59:14 And then he says something interesting because he's an influencer after all. Would you guys be interested in interviewing the leader of Patriot Front, Thomas Rousseau?

1:59:22 I can't make any promises but I believe he'll be up for it. My Instagram account is also a wealth of information from answers to commonly asked questions to speeches, etcetera. I'm happy to answer questions as well, but I do not speak on behalf of the organization,

1:59:35 only Thomas does.

1:59:37 I would say no.

1:59:39 We we don't really do interviews,

1:59:42 So I don't think so. Well, something might be done. Hey, you might do it

1:59:47 for a best of show. We'll call it the Nazi episode.

1:59:51 We could do a couple of Nazis.

2:00:00 Oh, man. Actually, what would be fun

2:00:03 Yeah. Would be do the patriot front guy and do if somebody the head of the democrat socialists.

2:00:09 Oh, yeah. Together at the like a debate. In the same room? No. I don't think they would get along. Host a debate. You should host a debate. You should debate him. Whatever happened to those? We used that was a that was a thing for a little bit there. Podcasters debating each other.

2:00:24 I missed those days. Those those days were good. Nobody cares about podcasters.

2:00:31 Well, with that, I wanna thank you for your courage. Say the morning to you, the man who put the c

2:00:35 in the cytoshitosis.

2:00:38 Say hello to my friend on the other end. The one, the only, mister John

2:00:42 C.

2:00:44 Dvorak.

2:00:47 Hey. Good morning to you, mister Anthony. Dvorak, the sea

2:00:50 boots to the ground. Feet in the air.

2:00:53 Chops in the water in all the games and nights out there. Hey. In the morning to you trolls in the troll room, stop moving around. Let me count you There we go. Quono. No. I'm gonna get some.

2:01:03 Peak

2:01:04 of 1,339.

2:01:07 It's kinda typical for a Thursday. Good to have everybody here. Up a 100 from last show. They are listening

2:01:12 Last Thursday. Listening live to our stream because this is a live to tape program.

2:01:18 No editing, no going back on multi tracks and fixing little stumbles and burrs and errors. No. No. We are just professionals. Fix it in post. We are professionals

2:01:29 and

2:01:29 we we give you the real deal and we do it twice week on Thursdays.

2:01:35 Okay.

2:01:36 And

2:01:38 that means that when you

2:01:40 want to, you can just listen live to us. You can also

2:01:43 and I think that's a big part of our success formula actually.

2:01:48 People like live. They, you know, there's something about it that I guess like emergency

2:01:54 urgent

2:01:55 emergency pod,

2:01:57 you know, it's like even if they can't listen live, they know that it has a a live feel to it. Don't you think most podcasts feel dead?

2:02:05 Just dead.

2:02:07 Oh, the NPR

2:02:08 ones for sure. Well, every yeah. Those the people who host those are dead.

2:02:12 But these days and oh, man. I am so grateful. And a lot of the podcasts do feel dead. Yeah. Just dead because it's like, yeah, you know, they don't have the excitement. They're not walking on the high wire like we are. Yeah. Right.

2:02:25 Tight rope. Tight rope walking. I'm on the tight rope. And I'm so happy we never went to video and did YouTube and I see this. So Tina,

2:02:34 she used to listen to Megyn Kelly

2:02:36 religiously.

2:02:37 Religiously.

2:02:39 Now

2:02:40 with video,

2:02:42 everybody just including Megyn Kelly herself, they just cut segments.

2:02:47 You know, so it's like five minutes here, seven minutes there,

2:02:51 and so she's scrolling along on Instagram

2:02:54 or whatever. And they, oh, yeah. No. I watched the Megyn Kelly show. Do you really watch the show? No. No. No. I just get a clip. I think this is what you you identify what I thought about this too.

2:03:05 You identified a problem because I don't watch

2:03:08 I I would watch a Joe Rogan show once in a while. Yeah. I don't think I've watched one for about a year because I just see these little segments and I figured that's the best of the show.

2:03:17 Hey. It's like best of. Something something amazing just happened.

2:03:22 Tina just texted me and said, I'm listening.

2:03:26 She much she she might have the explosive diarrhea. Are you not feeling well, babe?

2:03:31 She she never listens to the show.

2:03:35 She that's amazing.

2:03:36 She says,

2:03:38 I'm listening now. I

2:03:41 always say I always say, why don't you listen to the show anymore? She says, because I get you live here. I get all your conspiracies. I'm sick of it. I think

2:03:49 that's what she's really saying. I'm sick of it already. Yeah. So anyway, no, but but she's my canary in the coal mine. So when something bubbles to the because she's watching, you know, people working out

2:04:01 on she's she's an Instagram girl, the reels.

2:04:04 She, you know, then she would think she gets in the dog algo. The dog algos are kinda cute though, I have to say. You know, I see the dogs doing stuff.

2:04:12 And cooking,

2:04:14 man, it's still all with cheese.

2:04:17 But then once in a while, she gets in the podcast algo and it's literally just these the same with Rogan. I don't know if how many I just don't think a lot of people watch an entire

2:04:26 two or three hour Rogan anymore.

2:04:28 Don't they just get the the best of clips and just watch that? There's millions of these accounts that post little clips.

2:04:37 You know, I got on an interesting

2:04:39 Algo stream.

2:04:41 The

2:04:42 Instagram?

2:04:43 On Instagram?

2:04:44 Yeah. On Instagram. Yeah.

2:04:46 Chick fil A. Uh-huh.

2:04:48 Every other thing was a Chick fil A post. People in cow costumes,

2:04:53 people yeah. It just one thing after another was must have been a 100,

2:04:57 and they're all native ads of some sort. I don't know how they're doing it, but Chick fil A was just producing tons of these Instagram posts from all over the place.

2:05:09 Damn this thing I've ever seen. And and how long were you in this, algo hole?

2:05:14 As I as far as I know, I'm still in it.

2:05:19 If if you wanna be alerted when we go live, you need one of these modern podcast apps.

2:05:24 These have been around they're mature now, these apps. They're, you know, five, six years these new apps have been around

2:05:31 and they are still much better than the legacy apps for if only for this reason

2:05:36 that when you subscribe to the podcast,

2:05:39 when we go live and there's several other

2:05:42 a lot of live podcasts certainly in the No Agenda Nation realm, Gitmo Nation.

2:05:47 You get a note, you get boom. Your your app goes, hey, the boys are going live.

2:05:51 And little a little art, you know, like, tap, boom, you're listening.

2:05:56 And I think maybe even more important because of the Pod Ping technology we deployed across hundreds of thousands of podcasts that use this now.

2:06:05 But of course Apple and Spotify don't use this. Until we publish the show within ninety seconds your app notifies you. There's no no longer refreshing and waiting with my podcast. No. Boom. It just happens right away.

2:06:19 As you heard earlier,

2:06:21 we are enjoying the benefits of the new international lifestyle known as Value4Value,

2:06:26 which is the only way to go. We we don't have to worry about anything.

2:06:31 We say, well, I guess slander would be one, but we don't have to worry about pissing off advertisers

2:06:37 or, you know, misreading

2:06:39 something or doing given the wrong promo code.

2:06:42 None of that stuff. All we have to do is just do the show, which we do kind of as a public service, but we we like continuation.

2:06:51 We like, you know, doing the show. And the only way that we can do that is if you support us.

2:06:57 And you do that by returning whatever value you got from the show. So there's no set number,

2:07:02 no set amount of times.

2:07:04 We will tell you honestly when donations are down.

2:07:08 If we don't say anything, then donations are good. They're a little bit down today, but it's not horrible.

2:07:15 It's kinda been the same forever, hasn't it? Yeah. It's been dull.

2:07:20 Dull?

2:07:21 Well, really?

2:07:23 Well, I mean, you know, it's been it's been it's been low,

2:07:27 generally.

2:07:29 Yeah.

2:07:29 It's been high. But it's consistently, but it's not like,

2:07:33 you know, bouncing all over the place. It's just about this and, you know, here and there, plus or minus a few donations.

2:07:40 It's amazing how it it kind of evens out

2:07:46 with, you know, it's like just just when the numbers are really bad, then someone will come in with a with a big donation. It's it's really interesting how it works. I mean, we could write a book about that, but why would we? There's no money in it.

2:07:59 Haven't we considered that? Didn't someone at some point want us to write a Value4Value book?

2:08:04 Do I remember? I thought I got a Maybe more of an essay. It's

2:08:08 like half a

2:08:09 It's like half a Substack.

2:08:13 Anyway, you can support us in multiple ways. Time, talent and treasure, that is that is the system.

2:08:20 And

2:08:21 a lot of people do things for us.

2:08:24 Set up websites,

2:08:25 run different things for us. It's it's really quite amazing how much people are willing to help.

2:08:31 Boots on the ground helps enormously

2:08:33 and show art. Artwork is always good because we see that as promotion.

2:08:39 Whenever we post a show, it also shows up in your podcast app. We've we've been one of the few shows who has done this before AI,

2:08:46 we were definitely

2:08:48 like one of three shows that did it consistently, had new artwork for every single show because it was so hard to make.

2:08:54 And we've trained people to doing things in a certain way and you know what works and we know what works.

2:09:01 And

2:09:02 it's a it's it's a it's an attention grabber.

2:09:04 So when we saw the artwork by Jeffrey Ria for episode eighteen eighty five, we titled that one adult day care. We went, yeah, that's the one.

2:09:13 It was a

2:09:15 I guess that's a Code Brown ED explosion.

2:09:20 Yeah. Something that. There's a bathroom and and just but it's nice. It was No Agenda, Curry and Dvorak.

2:09:26 I think Jeffrey Ria is a hybrid artist.

2:09:29 I don't think the I don't think this is all He's never told us. I'm just thinking. Or has he? I'm just thinking that he's a hybrid artist. We have a lot of those hybrid artists.

2:09:39 Yeah. In other words, you do the AI and then you take and drop in Photoshop and fix it. Do some stuff. Yeah. Do some stuff.

2:09:46 And

2:09:47 let's see. I mean, like color balance. Hello?

2:09:50 We had How how much

2:09:52 work does that take? I love when you say, I can fix this by color balancing. I'm like, I'm gonna wait for that. No. We'll just choose something from Darren. Let's

2:10:01 see.

2:10:02 We actually had some funny art, just funny for us.

2:10:06 No more Darren O'Neil, that was miss show

2:10:09 miss miss Choho.

2:10:13 Bust some other Comic strip blogger put a lot of stuff up there including Darren O'Neil even did a no more Darren,

2:10:20 stop Darren slop.

2:10:23 All stuff we'd never use, but we got a laugh out of it, appreciate that.

2:10:28 Yeah. His the the yeah. There's a big numb number of no more Darren. Yeah. We kind of like the

2:10:35 the

2:10:36 instructor jumping out of the airplane but it's kinda gruesome.

2:10:40 No. Yeah. Yeah. I liked the blue acorn

2:10:44 Sam I m with the cat in the hat with the with the green brain and you thought that was too gruesome.

2:10:51 I can't remember. Yeah. Looking for it. Oh, that one. Yeah. I didn't like that at all. I liked it. I don't like his neck.

2:10:56 Yeah. I don't like that. I the brain. No. That's not happening. What's wrong with the brain? It looked nice.

2:11:03 Sick. Alright. Jeffrey Ria, thank you very much for your contribution to the best podcast in the universe. It is highly appreciated. Now we go to the treasure portion. These are people who support us, $50 and above. We'd like to thank everybody not under 50 for reasons of anonymity.

2:11:19 And there are a lot of people who give us very small amounts, know, $2, $3,

2:11:24 $3.33,

2:11:27 $11.11,

2:11:28 $12.12.

2:11:29 So the list would just be a little bit too long. But we always like to highlight people who are in the fortunate circumstance to be able to give us an executive or associate executive producer donation. So it's $200 or more. Not only are we guaranteed to read your notes, which people take advantage of in interesting ways,

2:11:47 But we will also give you the title show showbiz Hollywood title of executive associate executive producer,

2:11:54 300 or more and you get the executive producer credit. And these can be used in any Hollywood situation. So it's the real deal including imdb.com

2:12:03 or put it on your LinkedIn or in your social media profile, on your letterhead. And if anyone ever questions that, we'll be happy to vouch for you.

2:12:10 So our first executive producer

2:12:12 and Cummings in straight away with a thousand dollars plus the fees,

2:12:17 which is $30.26

2:12:18 is sir Dan the man.

2:12:20 Sir Dan the man's been around for a while. He's from Cape Coral, Florida. And he has a a longer note here. Let me see what And and their first request for a kidney.

2:12:31 He has a request for a kidney?

2:12:33 This is the first this is a No Agenda First that note he's about to read. He needs a kidney?

2:12:39 Well No. His wife does. Oh, well, let's see what's going on. Dear Adam and John, I'm writing as a long time No Agenda listener and supporter to let you know, I'll be making this show donation of a thousand dollars. I appreciate the work you do and the community you've built around the show. Normally, would remain semi anonymous, but these are not normal times for my family. I want to humbly ask you to share this message with the No Agenda community about my wife Linda and her kidney transplant journey.

2:13:04 A few weeks ago with no warning, we found out that she is in end stage end stage renal failure.

2:13:11 Doctor Dvorak, what does that mean?

2:13:13 That means your kidneys stop working.

2:13:16 And you and and you you have two kidneys, so she's both kidneys have failed, guess? Yeah. You only need one.

2:13:23 We have started a GoFundMe to help with the medical and related expenses that come with transplant care, recovery, travel and ongoing support.

2:13:32 Most importantly, Linda is also in need of a kidney donor

2:13:35 and anyone who'd be willing to get tested can start the process

2:13:39 process at

2:13:41 www.mtilivingdonor.org.

2:13:47 Mtilivingdonor.org.

2:13:50 If any fellow producers or listeners feel moved to help, whether by donating,

2:13:54 sharing the fundraiser or considering living donor testing,

2:13:58 it would mean a great deal to our family. So I'll put this link in the show notes in the credits.

2:14:04 Thank you for considering the request and thank you for the laughs, the insight and the community you continue to create. I'm grateful to be able to support the show and I would be deeply grateful for any help spreading the word for Linda.

2:14:16 And he wants a mac and cheese and a jobs karma and all the health karma we can spare. So I'm gonna I'm gonna up the ante here. If any No Agenda producer

2:14:25 donates their kidney to Linda, I will take you out to dinner personally. I will come to wherever you are in the country and I will take you out to dinner.

2:14:34 But it's only if you if it's your kidney.

2:14:37 Now if it's your kid's kidney, you get two dinners.

2:14:41 Guaranteed.

2:14:42 Well, we certainly hope for the best sir Dan the man for you and for Linda.

2:14:47 You slaves can get you used to mac and cheese. And cheese. Mac and cheese. Macaroni and cheap cheddar melted together. Mac and cheese. Mac and cheese. Mac and cheese. Jobs.

2:14:59 Jobs.

2:15:00 Jobs. And jobs. Let's vote for jobs. You've

2:15:04 got karma.

2:15:06 That is definitely a first.

2:15:08 Definitely a first on this show. Definitely. Yeah. Mister Lips is up. He's at 03:46 forty six.

2:15:14 And he has a note that's just the opposite.

2:15:17 It's short. Thanks for all you guys do. Love you both. Mister Lips. I love you mean it, mister Lips. Hey. There's Manuka Gold in Hudson, Florida, 333Dot33

2:15:27 and they the Manuka Gold, the entire family says, keep fighting the good fight. From Manuka Gold and thank you for the nice feedback on Sunday. We just placed an order with gigawatt coffee.

2:15:37 I love this cross promotion. We're excited to try it. We're truly passionate about natural health and there is real science for the health benefits of coffee.

2:15:46 Not only is it amazing for brain health, but it also lowers the risk of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

2:15:52 And on a personal note, as someone who took care of my mother full time for six years while she battled Parkinson's,

2:15:58 I'm a faithful drinker of dark roast black coffee and that seems to be gigawatt coffee specialty. I can't wait to report back. And don't forget, for those of you who want to, you can stop by and visit us at manukagold.com.

2:16:11 Use code freedom for the whole month of July for an extra 20% off. This one is from Kelly and the entire Manuka Gold family.

2:16:20 Thank you Manuka Gold. It's interesting. Gigawatt also sent

2:16:24 Jay's birthday gift of coffee. Oh, this is so nice. A small family Here's an interest we have another interesting note here. Mhmm. This is Rosalind k Price in Birmingham, West Midlands UK

2:16:37 333.

2:16:39 Thank you. I'm a choreographer in The UK who got canceled in 2021,

2:16:45 and since then, have set up a support organization,

2:16:48 and we should link to it, wwwfreedominthearts.com.

2:16:54 Mhmm. Freedominthearts.com,

2:16:57 all one word. Your show gives me and my family strength and hope.

2:17:03 So I looked into this.

2:17:05 Yeah.

2:17:05 This is a very famous person. In fact, I sent you a

2:17:09 a show

2:17:11 notes,

2:17:13 memo, which has a link

2:17:15 to her interview on GB One

2:17:18 out of The UK Yeah.

2:17:20 On YouTube. I haven't seen it yet. I haven't seen it. It's fascinating.

2:17:25 She was a famous choreographer in The UK that did all these very elaborate

2:17:32 productions under the

2:17:34 Rosie k dance

2:17:36 troupe. Really? And

2:17:39 she just

2:17:40 mentioned at a house dinner party to some new group of dancers,

2:17:46 she just casually said, well, I don't know if trans,

2:17:49 you know, does impinge on it it seems to it's a trans thing. Yeah. Yeah. Impinges a bit on women's rights,

2:17:57 and she got canceled because there's a whole structure set up to to get her fired from her Really? Her own company.

2:18:05 And the whole thing is she's very it's very interesting. So this she did describe some of it or some of the mechanisms to fight against it at on this website. Yeah. They got tool kits and all kinds of stuff here. But the story on the on in the video

2:18:20 GB News. Is more interesting than Where this? Her website. Myself, Rosie k, and this is Denise Farming in the red over here to launch the new Boycott Crisis

2:18:30 and the Art Beyond Boycott Toolkit.

2:18:32 Oh,

2:18:34 you know what? So

2:18:35 for her,

2:18:37 I think she should join

2:18:38 the the new international lifestyle of Value4Value.

2:18:43 This is the kind of person who could do that. Maybe? Yeah. Oh, we're happy that we give you and your family strength and hope. That's so nice. Thank you. Roslyn k Price.

2:18:54 That's nice to know.

2:18:56 Oh, we're doing good, John. Yeah. We're doing good. That's us. We're doing good for people. I like that. Peter Muir is in Houston, Texas, $327.

2:19:05 Thank you, Peter. I've been listening to you guys for about sixteen years at least and one of those weirdos and and was one of those weirdos that went back to the beginning when it was bare bones.

2:19:16 I'm guess I'm paying it backwards now, ITM times 34.

2:19:21 ITM times 34. X x 34.

2:19:25 I'm not sure what x 34 is. I don't know what that means. Yeah. Thank you.

2:19:29 Sir Dave, d a h a p.

2:19:34 Dahap? It's all caps. Dahap? In Gladstone, Missouri. It must mean something. Yeah.

2:19:41 25794.

2:19:45 This is, the first is associate executive producer. Happy birthday to the BC Country

2:19:51 ITU

2:19:52 heading to Tanzania.

2:19:55 Tanzania.

2:19:56 Tanzania.

2:19:57 Tanzania.

2:19:58 Tanzania.

2:19:59 I knew that didn't sound right. Tanzania.

2:20:02 Tanzania.

2:20:04 What? Where's Tanzania?

2:20:06 I don't know, man.

2:20:10 Tanzania.

2:20:11 Heading to Tanzania for a few weeks to help an NGO

2:20:15 that works with victims of human human trafficking.

2:20:18 Wow. Traveling karma, please.

2:20:20 We'll keep an eye out for more Africa news. It's a crowd pleaser,

2:20:25 sir Dave Dahap. Alright.

2:20:29 You've got karma.

2:20:32 Over to Indianapolis,

2:20:34 Indiana, $2.57 and 94¢.

2:20:36 I'm pretty sure that's $2.50 of freedom donation plus some fees. Sir Digi. And he says, this is from Sir Digi. And we thank you very much, Sir Digi.

2:20:45 And then we go to Jeremy Brogan in Amherst, Ohio.

2:20:50 25015.

2:20:52 Now I realized that he put the fees in too because he sent in a check. That's 15¢.

2:20:58 15¢.

2:21:00 Nice. Compared to $7.90

2:21:02 Right. Right? Hello, people.

2:21:05 Mhmm.

2:21:06 ITM,

2:21:07 gents, a

2:21:08 slightly late and matching quarter millennium

2:21:11 donation plus fees.

2:21:14 Yeah. Plus fees. Can I ask you a question about fees?

2:21:17 15. Let me ask let me ask you a question. Yeah. So someone sends us $250

2:21:22 plus fees,

2:21:24 so that's $2.57 94.

2:21:26 Don't we get docked over the $2.57

2:21:29 94 for fees?

2:21:33 I'm not sure how they they cal do the calculation. Okay. Alright. But that's the that money is what we get. Alright. Well, carry on.

2:21:42 Thank you, John,

2:21:44 for making me cry while shaving

2:21:47 when reading my

2:21:48 son Connor's note for my birthday. Aw. Father's Day slash Father's Day.

2:21:54 Suff now he wants oh, okay. This is for you. Sorry.

2:21:58 He wants suffering succotash

2:22:00 with a we're all gonna die.

2:22:03 And then he says five to eight more years.

2:22:07 Jeremy Brogan, Amherst, Ohio. Yeah. Well, why don't you dream on with your five to seven more years? Suffering, Succotash. I'm Scott.

2:22:21 Simon. We're all gonna die.

2:22:23 Alright.

2:22:24 Nailed it.

2:22:26 Hey, there's Sir Cal from Lavender Blossoms in Northville, Michigan with 22772.

2:22:32 For a while. It's I love to hear from our boy Cal. Thanks for all you do. Keep it up. John, tip of the day, drink mother wart tea

2:22:41 for calming and healing the heart.

2:22:44 Love you, sir Cal of lavender blossoms.

2:22:47 Yeah.

2:22:48 I'm pretty sure lavenderblossoms.org

2:22:50 is still up and and still operating, aren't they? We haven't looked at them in a while. Oh, yeah. For sure. Let's see. Lavender

2:22:57 blossoms.

2:22:58 That because he grows that lavender himself.

2:23:03 Lava is it lavender?

2:23:05 Lavender?

2:23:07 I don't know. May not it doesn't look like it's up. Might might not be doing it right. Thank you very much, Kyle. We appreciate you.

2:23:14 Now we have you you have to pronounce his

2:23:18 surname.

2:23:20 I would pronounce it Miles Vrendenberg,

2:23:22 Miles.

2:23:23 Mhmm.

2:23:24 But you apparently

2:23:26 it's a Dutch pronunciation. It would be different. Yeah. Fredenburg.

2:23:30 What about his first name? Miles.

2:23:33 Miles.

2:23:34 Miles Fredenburg.

2:23:36 And, that translates to, Freedom Mountain.

2:23:41 Freedom Mountain. Miles Freedom Mountain in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

2:23:46 Or it could be Berg. Just Freedom Berg is probably more accurate.

2:23:50 20115.

2:23:52 As an American, I'm curious to hear the correct duts pronounced oh, he doesn't even know. Yeah.

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2:28:13 And that concludes our executive and associate executive producers for episode

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2:28:19 We appreciate what all of you have done for us today.

2:28:23 We'll thank everybody right after we tell you once again that these credits are real and Hollywood style. Our formula is this.

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2:30:31 It really means a lot and it keeps the show going. So thank you. And if you'd like to support us, go to noagendadonations.com.

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2:30:54 And we have

2:30:56 only two birthdays today. We have end of show mixer, sir David Kekta,

2:31:01 who wishes Helena Kekta a very happy birthday. She turned 16.

2:31:06 Yes. They happy birthday, Helena.

2:31:08 And sir Dave wishes country

2:31:10 ITU a happy birthday. We say the same happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe.

2:31:28 Now this is a, layaway Baron upgrade from sir Gary, and he sent a note because it's, under the, the normal amounts that we read notes. Says, I know there are many of us retired folks who send a smaller donation every month and once in a while put in a bump for the sake of those sad puppies that John posts. I hadn't checked my donation spreadsheet for some time and I calculate that my pittances have added up to $2,641.36.

2:31:54 Just think, all that money would have gone to what we in Minnesota call the pink sheet, the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

2:32:01 Much better value for value. With the No Agenda show, I wish change my moniker to Baronet Sir Gary who plays taps.

2:32:08 I've been state director for buglesacrossamerica.org

2:32:12 for many years. I've led my state's 173

2:32:15 volunteers providing live taps free of charge for any veterans honors services.

2:32:21 Wow. That's very cool. If you'd mentioned my organization, remind families of vets when they are arranging honors to ask if they have a live bugler.

2:32:29 BAA's website is an easy portal to make sure those 24 notes have a heartbeat behind them. It's always free of charge and always deserved, hoping your your search for an exit strategy continues to be a failure in the morning and yes with that, Sir Gary, you become

2:32:44 Baronet

2:32:45 Sir Gary who plays Taps.

2:32:47 And we thank you for your continued support of the show. They're very nice. Hey, it's time for the meet ups. No one should up meet ups.

2:32:58 Yeah.

2:33:01 We got a couple of meet up reports. When it rains, it pours, so to speak. Here is the Keller, Texas meetup report.

2:33:08 Hello, No Agenda Nation. This is Yeoman Zach here at What's On Tap in Keller, Texas.

2:33:14 I'm having a beer by But as a friend of mine says, that's okay.

2:33:19 The journey to a well attended meetup is a beer by yourself

2:33:23 in the morning.

2:33:24 In

2:33:25 the morning. I'm sorry no one showed. We sent some pictures though. Was kinda cool.

2:33:29 Here's the Scottsdale, Arizona meetup report. This is Lynn, the hostess with the Moses at the Scottsdale No Agenda Media Deconstruction

2:33:37 Meetup,

2:33:38 and it has been amazing.

2:33:41 Hi.

2:33:42 This is Dame Stephanie at the Scottsdale meetup enjoying some tacos and some great company.

2:33:47 Quick shout out to the blonde squad plus Trish. Hey.

2:33:50 Hey. This is sir Don Baron of Chandler enjoying some tacos and some cold beers. Love is lit.

2:33:58 Hey. This is Bruce and here at the Scottsdale meetup. First time list our new listener and

2:34:04 here enjoying company of like minded individuals.

2:34:08 Hi.

2:34:09 This is Gina from Phoenix at the Scottsdale meetup. I wanna give a shout out to my brother Dale in Cannon Beach for hitting me in the mouth about three years ago. ITM, John and Adam.

2:34:20 Hey. I'm Mike. I'm a douchebag,

2:34:22 and No Agenda people are cool.

2:34:25 I'm No. I came with Gina. I don't listen to the show, but maybe I will.

2:34:30 In the morning, John and Adam.

2:34:32 This is Rick from Mesa. We're here at Loco Patron.

2:34:36 Our host Lindsay is awesome,

2:34:39 and I love the show.

2:34:41 Hey, John and Adam.

2:34:43 This is your conscience speaking.

2:34:46 I know what you did.

2:34:48 Just kidding. I don't know what you did, and I don't care.

2:34:51 This is Kenny.

2:34:52 Bye now. Hey. This is Scott Sanders in North Scottsdale. We dodged the monsoons in the dirt, wind,

2:34:59 so we're all clean,

2:35:01 and we enjoy our our meetup.

2:35:05 Kathy, I'm not as weird as my husband. I don't listen to the podcast. I apologize,

2:35:09 but I'm sure it's amazing.

2:35:11 I love the No Agenda crew. They are awesome. They've been amazing guests.

2:35:16 The

2:35:17 No Agenda meetup people are some of the most interesting and fun people ever in my life. Great shout out to Lindsay who set up the whole thing, the whole mastermind behind the project. Everyone here seems to lead great lives and seem like amazing people and I hope they can see them again soon. Well,

2:35:32 there you go. Long, but a lot of people at the Scottsdale, Arizona Meetup and you hear it there. The people are fun.

2:35:38 There's amazing people. You will meet so many cool people at a No Agenda meetup. People you just might not have never

2:35:45 ever encountered

2:35:46 anywhere else, but because of the show, because of the nature of No Agenda Nation and Gitmo Nation. You'll get together. You're gonna enjoy it. And sometimes people even get married.

2:35:58 Hi, John. Hi, Adam. Well,

2:36:01 in the beautiful evening, it's Sir Scott the Jew. It's another meet ups wedding. And

2:36:07 how they met was through No Agenda. They said they had met at No Agenda meeting, and that's how they got together. The sun came out for us in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho. Stella's on the hill, host a great wedding.

2:36:21 Beautiful couple, Holly and Jeff, in the morning. Here at the impromptu meetup at the wedding overlooking beautiful Coeur D'Alene Lake, and I wanna say congratulations to the happy new No Agenda couple. And as a reminder to Jeff and Holly, the couple that know agendas together stays together in the morning. In the morning.

2:36:41 This is a dude named Jeff, and I just have to say I met my smoking hot wife at a No Agenda meetup. So

2:36:48 get out there, find the connection that is your protection.

2:36:52 Come on, you dorks. Get out of the basement. Good things happen. Here in beautiful sunny Coeur D'Alene,

2:36:58 celebrating Jeff and Holly's wedding in the morning. This is Holly the bride. Thank you. No Agenda meetups. That's how I met my keeper. It doesn't get more no agenda than that.

2:37:11 Oh, isn't that wonderful?

2:37:13 We've had several,

2:37:15 weddings,

2:37:17 happen here,

2:37:18 on the show. We've had proposals on the show and it's nice to hear that we made another love connection

2:37:24 at a No Agenda meetup. There you go. Now, is that an endorsement or what? I don't need to say anything else other than we have a meetup taking place today in at Charlotte,

2:37:34 North Carolina, Edge Tavern. It's Charlotte's thirsty third Thursday monthly. It'll be on 07:00 tonight. On Saturday, the meetup down at the sea at Warehouse Number 9, Number 9, Number 9,

2:37:44 that is in San Pedro, California. And guess what? Warehouse Number 9333

2:37:50 Pacific time.

2:37:51 Coming up this month, what's left of it, on the July 25, three Spicewood, Texas Anaheim, California and Fort Wayne, Indiana. On the twenty sixth, Squim, Washington. Will Mimi be attending? Do we know?

2:38:04 No. Don't know. Okay. Just say maybe. Just say maybe. That's all you know. Maybe. Oh, yeah. Maybe. Maybe.

2:38:11 Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, their next meetup July 30, who will be the next bride? And also on the thirtieth, Alpharetta, Georgia. These are the No Agenda meet ups. What a great place to go hang out with people. It's completely free of charge to make them, set them up, to go to attend them.

2:38:26 It's very easy to do. Go to noagendameetups.com

2:38:29 and, you will, find out very quickly how to put it all together. There's instructions, you can list it there. And if you can't find one near you, why don't you just start one yourself? It's super easy and they are always guaranteed a party.

2:39:01 You know, I'm thinking, I was just looking at all my systems here. When you started to Robocop,

2:39:07 YouTube TV

2:39:09 went down,

2:39:10 my

2:39:11 anthropic

2:39:12 Claude codes all disconnected.

2:39:14 I think there might have been a a minor earthquake somewhere

2:39:18 in in California. Something happened in California. I think the whole internet

2:39:23 burped over there.

2:39:25 Possible.

2:39:26 Yeah. Troll room, check it out. So let me know if something happened because it it was the weirdest thing. Go to USGS earthquake site. They are they have all of them up today. Yeah. See if there's if something's going on or if it was just some internet glitch.

2:39:38 You You know how that works.

2:39:40 We have John Cip of the Day coming up in just a few along with our end of show mixes.

2:39:45 But we always like to end the show with the humans versus the machine. It's the end of show ISOs, isolated clips.

2:39:51 I bring people, John brings machines. And I will start mine because I don't think I will win. Here's my first. Oh, that was hilarious.

2:40:01 Actually, that's not too bad. I kinda like that one.

2:40:03 How about this one? Thank you very much.

2:40:08 And always from the well. Incredible job. Thank you so much.

2:40:13 No. I think they're kind of flat.

2:40:16 Yeah. I don't know who they're thinking. Yeah. Us. Us.

2:40:21 I have two celebrities here of politicians.

2:40:23 Amazing.

2:40:24 Yeah.

2:40:25 I got Kamala Harris. John and Adam are John and Adam, and they

2:40:31 are both good podcasters as long as they podcast.

2:40:35 It's very long.

2:40:37 She's long winded. What can I say? Yeah. Long winded. Yeah. Let's try Obama. Don't

2:40:44 know if you can find a better podcast

2:40:46 than No Agenda. Yeah. Okay. A a definite winner. Very good. Hey. It's time for John's tip of the day. Clean fast for you and me. Just the tip with JCD.

2:40:59 And sometimes Adam Let it not be another cleaning product.

2:41:03 No. I only do those once a month. Oh, okay. Alright. Good.

2:41:08 No.

2:41:09 This is a cool product. This is a summer product for the people in the Northern Hemisphere.

2:41:14 These things are fantastic,

2:41:16 and this is a pretty good one and this comes in various lengths

2:41:20 Mhmm. Depending on your patio. Uh-huh.

2:41:23 This is a and I'll spell it,

2:41:26 Mel, m e l l b r e e,

2:41:30 Melbray

2:41:31 mister

2:41:32 for outside patio.

2:41:35 And they're pre they're $19

2:41:37 for a 30 footer.

2:41:38 They're preassembled

2:41:39 misting cooling systems with eight brass nozzles. I love these things. These are great.

2:41:46 Texas has them all over the place. Yeah. Of course, Texas would Texas, of all places, would love these things because

2:41:53 they're good for the back they're good for the patio,

2:41:56 backyard garden greenhouse, chicken coop doghouse.

2:42:01 And they what it does, and I've run you you you set it up and it and it puts out this extremely

2:42:07 fine mist of water and itself and it it

2:42:11 evaporative cooling in the vicinity of the mist.

2:42:15 Yeah. So it's nice. It feels great. Now, do you just hook it up to the to the outside tap? Is that what you do? Yep. You hook it up to the outside tap and just string it all over you where wherever you wanna put it and then turn it on.

2:42:28 Turn it on dead man. And what does this product cost?

2:42:32 $19.

2:42:33 Wow. What does it cost That's for the the 30 footer. Okay. And and and the It goes up in price if you want like 60 foot. And the brand once again?

2:42:42 Melbre,

2:42:43 m e l l b r e e. I'm telling you, if you wanna stay cool during the summer months, John's tip of the day is the place for you.

2:42:55 Tip with JCD

2:42:58 and sometimes

2:42:59 Adam.

2:43:01 Created by Dan Berneti. Of course, can find all of John's tips at tipoftheday.net

2:43:05 and noagendafun.com.

2:43:07 And we come to the end of our broadcast day.

2:43:09 As you know, we do it twice a week on Thursdays. End of show mixes coming up. We've got, Donald Crabtree,

2:43:16 Just Baker.

2:43:19 See, we got,

2:43:20 Johnny sir Johnny b,

2:43:23 and I put Oystein Barrages,

2:43:25 in abeyance.

2:43:28 I'm sure we'll get to it. It's always, it's it's his own, compositions.

2:43:34 And coming up next on the No Agenda stream or if you're still listening in your modern podcast app, we have the Millennial Media Offensive, very popular podcast.

2:43:44 They'll be coming up next.

2:43:46 And we will return with you on Sunday.

2:43:49 Of course, that all depends on

2:43:52 whether there's an earthquake in San Francisco or not. If if

2:43:56 you guys keep your Internet connection up. I haven't heard anything, so I guess it was just a temporary blip or glitch.

2:44:04 So coming to you from the say what?

2:44:08 What'd you say? I I didn't say anything. Oh, I thought you said something. Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country where we are still suffering from the rain strick back scatter.

2:44:16 In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where people are hearing voices, I'm John C. Dvorak. We'll be back on Sunday. Remember us at noagendadonations.com.

2:44:26 Until then, adios, mofos, a hooey hooey and such.

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2:45:14 In super HD force, I'll let rise and I'll Goodbye. The house stole the spotlight reaching sky high. Value4Value

2:45:21 is how this operates. Don't need for no edge, end at a prop, a gate.

2:45:36 They say the old turtle's still kicking,

2:45:41 tucked away where the cameras don't reach.

2:45:45 Came back with a face that looks like it filed for an extension on the years.

2:45:50 Some whisper, it's a stand in wearing someone else's skin.

2:45:56 We won't solve the riddle here,

2:45:59 but the details keep stacking in.

2:46:02 The turtle craw that I would ever behold they had them in looking brand new like

2:46:47 skin. The show won't close the file. That's never how this goes, but the glow up is glowing. And the story keeps pulling at the loose ends of the show.

2:46:58 Miracle Mitch. Or Mask Mitch.

2:47:02 Or Model Mitch. Worth a second glance.

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