I call bogus.
Adam Curry, John C.
Dvorak.
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Dvorak.
Oh, man.
It's days like this when the job is
just tough.
Because there's just nothing else in the world
is happening.
There's nothing happening.
It's all signal gate.
I know you feel the same, because you're
like, oh, well, there goes the material.
Well, I found some stuff outside of signal
gate.
Oh, me too.
Because the car tariffs, that's the other big
news.
Oh, no, but that's not news.
We don't want to talk about that.
And then this morning, the MS-13 guy,
some guy, some 25-year-old guy was
arrested.
Well, I'm glad you mentioned it.
Here we go.
Here's Pam Bondage.
Good morning.
Thank you for being here.
You're welcome.
Did you see Kash Patel in this?
He had his- They're all there.
But did you see what he had on
his, his like FBI flight jacket?
Yeah, I thought that was camo.
No, it wasn't camo.
No, that's his like outdoor arresting people jacket.
He got the hat on.
He's got his sneakers on.
Yeah, Kash, Kash.
We have been out since about 4.30
this morning.
Hold on, let's stop for a second.
Yeah, really.
Why is she even there?
Well, they all report to her.
Well, she was at, she's there.
Kash, they're all there.
It's like- Well, they were all out
at 4 a.m. this morning, and then
they had donuts.
And I'm like, come on, let's go announce
this thing.
All right.
Yeah, everyone dressed right.
It just seemed to be showboating, if you
ask me.
You think?
Whatever.
This was a, please pay no attention to
Signal Gate.
We got an MS-13 guy.
Oh yeah, totally.
The great men and women of law enforcement
have been working on this operation for days
and days and probably weeks.
You don't know?
Probably weeks?
Do they report to you?
I thought that was- You'd think she'd
have an exact date when they started.
Yeah, we started this on this date, and
we got, I guess not.
This morning, early this morning, one of the
top leaders- Top, I love this.
The top leaders, the tippy top, all the
way at the top of the pyramid, top
leader.
Leaders of MS-13 was apprehended.
He was the leader for the East Coast,
one of the top three in the entire
country.
Right here in Virginia, living half an hour
outside of Washington, D.C. He is an
illegal alien from El Salvador, and he will
not be living in our country much longer.
He's in custody this morning.
One of the top leaders, right here, near
our nation's capital.
Right there!
Top, he was right there, one of the
top guys.
Hey, listen, the biggest criminals live in Washington,
okay, they don't live in Virginia.
But good job, good job, everybody.
Just let me do the, I have a
couple Signal Gate things, just to- Do
you have the super clip?
I have a super clip, yeah.
I don't know which one you're talking about.
That's the one with all the Democrats going,
this is the worst thing that's ever happened
to the country since 9-11.
No, I don't have that one.
Oh.
Well, I didn't, because I was looking for
super, super cuts, not super clip.
Super cuts and haircut.
No, I actually got a, I thought it
would be fun to do a different version
of super cut, which, yeah, we're doing something
different.
It's upside down day here on the No
Agenda Show, people.
The Lib Joes are in the house!
They've made a big deal out of this,
because we've had two perfect months.
The main thing was nothing happened, the attack
was totally successful.
In my administration, I'm going to enforce all
laws concerning the protection of classified information.
I always say, you have to learn from
every experience.
Hillary's private email scandal, which put our classified
information in the reach of our enemies, disqualifies
her from the presidency.
This journalist, Mr. President, wants the world talking
about more hoaxes and this kind of nonsense,
rather than the freedom that you're enabling.
The president's national security advisor sent top secret
emails on an unsecured server that we know
our enemies were trying to access.
He was sending back and forth freewheeling, and
yet we see nothing there.
My communications, to be clear, in a signal
message group, were entirely permissible and lawful, and
did not include classified information.
This was a huge mistake, correct?
No.
Mishandling classified information is still a violation of
the Espionage Act.
It started with Hillary Clinton, it has continued
without accountability.
Nobody was texting war plans, and that's all
I have to say about that.
If it was anyone other than Hillary Clinton,
they would be in jail right now.
When you take something out of a skiff,
if you're a senator, you know exactly what
you're doing.
So I found that super cut, I thought
that was rather entertaining.
Yeah.
But more fun was a trend we have
noticed recently amongst Democrats, affectionately called the delusional
Dems, and it's the cussing.
And so here they have an opportunity.
The cussing, yeah.
They have an opportunity to have the upper
hand on everything.
I mean, it's just from, because if, I
mean, politics, truth doesn't matter, it's just whatever
is on X and whatever is being replayed
by the media, but they cannot help themselves.
Here's Adam Schiff.
So tonight I want to talk about Signalgate
and what a colossal fuck up this is
in terms of our national security.
Why?
He doesn't need to, he does a six
minute video, but that's how he starts it
off.
That's not good.
And then- Even Van Jones, I don't
know if you have the clip of that.
Yeah, I have that, I have that.
First let's- He notices it too.
First let's, you're jumping the gun.
I always do that.
You're jumping the gun in the sequence.
You want to go, yeah, yeah, yeah, that
means quiet.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Mayor Pete, lovable, adorable little Mayor Pete throws
a couple bombs.
Oh, no.
With his breastfeeding thing on him.
Yeah, I get it.
It does not.
Hey, it's Pete.
I'd try not to jump in with a
take on- By the way, we should
start our show.
Hey, it's Pete.
I mean, what does he think he is,
Madonna?
Hey, it's Pete.
I'd try not to jump in with a
take on everything or comment on everything we
see in the news of the day, but
what we learned about today is truly incredible.
The U.S. Secretary of Defense, the National
Security Advisor, the Vice President of the United
States and other very senior, very powerful Trump
White House officials, it turns out, discussed highly
classified war plans, not only on an unclassified
channel, but accidentally and randomly, it seems, including
a journalist.
And to see this administration claiming that it
cares about competence and merit and then be
responsible for an epic fuck-up like this
demonstrates that these are not serious people.
Not done yet.
This kind of intelligence failure calls the question
on whether there is any place for merit
or competence in this administration at all.
Because if there are not highly serious consequences
for this level of screw-up, then it
will make clear that all of the bluster
about merit that you hear about from this
White House is just bullshit.
We deserve so much better than this.
It is getting clearer by the day-
That the people in charge of the American
government cannot keep the American people safe.
All right, here's the Van Jones remark.
I think that this party is scrambling, trying
to seem tough.
And I'm seeing this party traffic in a
lot of curse words.
That's supposed to be the new cool thing
to do.
I don't think that that's going to be
as useful.
I even heard Pete Buttigieg with a whole
bunch of curse words.
I don't know who gave that memo.
I don't think that's very useful.
Ah, so it was a memo.
Clearly there was a memo that went out.
Van is questioning who gave out the memo.
Is that another Chuck Schumer thing, do you
think?
Yeah, let's all talk tough.
I think this is organic.
I think it stems from the powers of
the president.
I've said this before, that the president sets
the moral tone of the country, and it's
always been the case.
It's sort of the first thing they teach
in college poli-sci classes.
And so they've given, the president gave the
go-ahead, because he says bullshit all the
time.
Yeah, but not the F word.
I haven't heard him F-bomb.
No, I don't know.
I think he has, but I don't think
it's, it doesn't, the way they, the main
people that do this, of course, are the
main screaming meemees that are on the-
Meemees?
Screaming meemees?
Screaming meemees.
What kind of backhanded slap is that?
It's your own spouse?
Well, it's what they're called, the screaming meemees.
I've never heard of, it's a great band
name, but I've never heard of the screaming
meemees.
Screaming meemees are the people that are on
the TikTok, and they're screaming and yelling and
cussing.
And they're the ones who really set the
stage for this, it seems to me.
And now that the fact that the politicians
are starting to cuss, this is really, and
they're the ones who bitched and moaned about
coarseness, oh, coarse, oh, Trump is bad, because
it's so coarse.
If you're going to do that, if you're
going to set up yourself by complaining about
coarseness, and then you start cussing, this is
not, again, this is not a good look.
I do have a couple of insightful clips
about this, because we're not going to do
what everybody else is doing.
You know, I heard, I was listening to
DH Unplugged every Tuesday, they do it live
at eight o'clock.
We do.
It's also a podcast.
Yes, it is John C.
Dvorak and Andrew Horowitz.
And Horowitz is saying, why does the news
always do five stories?
They do five stories all day long, five
stories.
And then you backed him up by saying,
that's what Fox does, every single Fox show,
five stories, five stories.
And the reason for that is you play
the hits, man.
When you're in a linear time format, people
aren't watching all day.
You want them to tune in and get
the top five stories.
That's what that's about.
Play the hits.
You can't go wrong by playing Madonna.
Yeah.
That's probably the only, that's what I remember
when I was at Tech TV, and we
had an old pro that was running, one
of the guys that was one of the
main producers of the whole operation, he said,
and you get a story that's hot, you
just milk it.
Yeah.
It's all you do all day is just
go on this story.
That's all you play.
Yack, yack, yack about the one thing.
I mean, we shy away from that on
this show because it's, I think people are
sick of it.
Yeah, who needs that?
In this, I mean, people always want to
hear our opinions.
Oh yeah, but we have opinions.
Okay, I'm just going to- Well, we
have different, we also have perspective.
We have a different look at these things.
We are awesome.
That's what we're trying to do.
We're great.
We're trying to, here's a backgrounder.
It was the screenshot the world was waiting
for after members of the now infamous Hootie
PC small group lined up on Tuesday to
insist no classified information was shared on the
signal chat.
The Atlantic magazine dropped the so-called war
plan Pete Hegseth sent to senior intelligence officials
and a journalist from the Atlantic that readers
might judge for themselves.
12.15 estimated time F-18s launch first
strike package.
Package.
13.45 trigger-based F-18 first strike
window starts.
Target terrorist is at his known location.
So should be on time.
Also strike drones launch MQ-9s.
After the initial strike, the target is identified
on signal as the Hootie's quote, top missile
guy.
Members of the signal thread are now saying
the Atlantic magazine's editor, Jeffrey Goldberg oversold the
extent of the breach.
Among them, the Pentagon chief himself.
Nobody's texting war plans.
There's no units, no locations, no routes, no
flight paths, no sources, no methods, no classified
information.
This after Goldberg's original article said the plan
included precise information about targets.
But in the hands of foreign intelligence, the
messages sent two hours before zero hour would
have been an ample tip off to Hootie
command of an impending attack.
You're right about the president setting the tone
because not a single person can just say,
yeah, that was dumb.
They don't seem capable of that.
They're like, yeah, well, we were in a
hurry.
We're doing this, you know, it's an approved
thing.
We just threw together a group and that
was bad.
This is the era of no apologies.
Yeah, yeah.
Sorry about that, Vax.
No one is going to apologize for everything.
And President Trump, he's so smart.
The Vax is still on the market.
Of course, of course.
I mean, get your eighth booster.
Get your eighth booster.
I did, there was an interesting, cause you
know, this journalist is interesting for a number
of reasons.
And then we can talk about what we
think happens briefly.
Matt Taibbi was on Newsmax, Newsmax top, he's
a top, top guy on Newsmax as a
guest.
And here's what he had to say about
the Atlantic journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg.
What exactly is Jeffrey Goldberg in your mind?
What do you think of this guy?
Look, a lot of journalists, when Jeffrey Goldberg's
name comes up, we all kind of look
at each other with a bemused glance.
This is somebody who has a reputation for
getting things massively wrong and somehow being promoted
anyway.
He was infamous for getting the WMD story
wrong multiple times.
In fact, he won multiple awards for getting
that story wrong.
And somehow still ended up the editor of
Atlantic Magazine.
So he's a figure of some mystery in
the business.
Yeah, that was the great terror article in
the New Yorker in 2002.
Yeah, he's the one who promoted the suckers
and losers story.
Yep.
John Kelly commentary.
He also did two or three other of
these, he's a spook.
There's gotta be something like that.
I mean, I don't have, I am not
looking at his Wiki page so I can
do a spot to spook analysis, but there's
something fishy about, first of all, why is
he the guy that ended up on this
thing?
The second thing was is that the Walls,
the National Security Advisor says when he went
to CIA, I guess the first thing they
gave him was a secure phone.
It had a signal on it.
And then he talked to some CIA guys,
but he talked about this in the testimony.
And they had a communication, somebody there says,
oh, no, don't worry about it, everyone's got
this, just use it, it's fine.
And then all of a sudden, just Jeffrey
Goldberg guy gets on the call, how did
that happen?
And of course, nobody can figure out how
that happened.
And maybe they will, maybe they won't.
This whole thing is a setup.
Goldberg dropped out of college and worked for
a time at the Washington Post, because that's
where all college dropouts go.
Did you drop out of college?
You're hired, son, come on in.
What, he got hired by Woodward?
He then moved to Israel and served in
the Israeli Defense Forces during the first Intifada.
He was a prison guard.
There he, let me see.
You're on his Wiki page?
Yeah, I am, I am.
He said, oh, I can't be trusted, dual
Israeli citizen.
It's one of those guys, can't trust him.
Well, the- Is there any other spot
that spooked the indicators?
I don't really see anything.
Well, that's actually good.
I mean, it may actually be a real
- A real one.
A real one.
A real one, yes, yes.
As opposed to one that's just kind of
sloppy.
Well- Because the fact that he's the
guy of all the people that ended up
on this call, why him?
Well, you know, sometimes, just Occam's razor, sometimes
things just happen.
Yeah, but this sort of thing is anything
but Occam's razor.
It's like the opposite.
Well- It's so out there.
No, not really.
I mean, if you're adding, because the whole
Signal texts thread was about adding people to
the mix.
Yeah, but you have to have, first you
have to have the number in your book.
Oh, yeah, well, I mean, you have lots
of people's numbers in your book you wouldn't
add to a text chat with me.
I'm sorry, you have an actual book.
What am I thinking?
You don't have it in your phone.
Actually, I do have the Google, I do
have a large address book on Google, and
they will move it to my phone every
time I get a new Android.
You've gotten a new one?
Well, it's not new, but every time you
get a different phone, I have different phones
over time that end up in the same
drawer, but when you boot it, they demand
that you log in somehow.
You got to log your old account in,
and once you do that, then they throw
a bunch of crap on your phone, but
they're throwing stuff on, I have phone numbers
for people that I don't even know, and
so it's possible, but again, somehow that number
got on that phone, Walz's phone, somehow.
No, I'm pretty sure they know each other.
They know each other.
Walz claims that he doesn't know him.
Ah, I don't buy that.
I'm not buying that.
I like what Sir Grantilius of the Great
Plains said.
Walz was working for the Department of Defense
as an advisor to Cheney in the Bush
days.
Goldberg was publishing work actively supporting the invasion
of Iraq.
That's your WMD.
The Cheney gang despises Trump.
Could Goldberg have been invited on purpose?
That's what he says.
That's reasonable.
That is, that's reasonable.
You know, but- There's a lot of
reasonable things that you can surmise.
But who is this, but who is this,
I think this is, if it's targeted, it's
targeted against Hegseth.
Who has the capability, first of all, Signal
- Well, they really hate Hegseth.
Yes, and Hegseth has responded very poorly.
He's not good at this.
No, you'd think he'd be better because he's
media savvy.
He's so defensive and blah, blah.
Nope, nope, this is not, this is bull
crap.
That guy's no good.
No, Hegseth plays too much of a tough
character.
Yeah.
He's a tough guy.
They push him into this position where he's
gotta be kind of assertive.
Yeah.
And he doesn't have experience in a large
bureaucracy, so he's a little sensitive about that.
Yeah.
And so he's in a position where he
can get shook.
And so far, you know, I think Trump
likes him.
I think he probably could do the job
but they're gonna try to shake him out
of there.
I think he has to go.
Out of all this, they're not gonna stop.
And if this was a targeted thing, then
it was to get to make Hegseth look
bad.
Because it was Hegseth who's sitting there going
like, we got the reaper drones, we're gonna
kill this guy.
And the thing that's kind of sick about
it all is the jubilee.
And like, yay, American flag emoji, punching fist
emoji, fire emoji.
We killed him.
Yeah, that was a mistake.
Of course, but that's how these people are.
That's probably how most people are.
But it's always- Yeah, we're number one
foam finger.
Yeah, it's always a little jar.
I mean, to me, that was the jarring
thing.
I mean, not that this was.
And clearly, the timing of this and how
much time there was before the reaper drones
and whatever else they were planning, clearly, that
would have been enough to alert people.
Here's my question, though.
This is the thing.
This is the part I don't understand.
And this is where it smells of a
setup.
If this is you or I, and we
get added to some awesome text group, and
on this text group, it's podcasters.
It's Megyn Kelly.
It's Dan Bongino.
Oh, no, he's no longer a podcaster.
It's Tucker Carlson.
And they have like this top, top, top
podcasters group.
I would not be removing myself.
Who does- This was brought up on
Gutfeld by one of the contestants.
Who does that?
I forgot who was, but one of them
said, why would you out yourself if you're
going to end up on these groups?
Because you could, as a journalist in particular,
because you're like the fly on, now you're
a fly on the wall.
Yes.
Why wouldn't you want to continue to be
the fly on the wall as long as
you can, and you just build up and
build up more?
Do you remember back?
Well, you still have one.
Back in the landline days, if you called
someone on a landline, you know, the thing
that's on the wall, and the other person
didn't, no, how did it work?
It was like, there was a thing where
you could keep listening.
I mean, if the other person doesn't hang
up, and there was something where this happens
regularly.
There was some situations where, well, first of
all, when I was in France for the
first time in 73.
Getting your hair cut by Pierre.
Yes.
That's when you had to always go to
the postal office to make calls.
It was very strange to do an overseas
call.
You had to go to the post office,
and it was a postal telephone post office.
Yes, PTT.
But the phones, if people did have a
phone in their house, when you hung up,
it didn't hang up anything.
So you could stay on the line, and
when the other person hung up, you hear
the click, but the phone was still live
for a good five minutes.
This is what I'm talking about.
I remember this.
There was something like that that went on
in this country too, but it wasn't quite
the same mechanism.
It was something else.
No, I think I remember it from the
Netherlands.
I remember it too, because I remember people
hanging up, and then now you can still
hear it.
Yeah, yeah, and what you did was, you
didn't hang up and say, oh, I hope
I don't hear anything I shouldn't be hearing.
No!
You're listening.
Well, that's like being on the party line.
Yeah, yes.
Which when I was a real little kid,
and I was on the party line all
the time, and I've talked about this on
the show before, and I got caught a
couple of times by the girl, she'd be
talking to her boyfriend, I'm listening in, and
these two cooing over each other, and she
caught me somehow.
I don't know if she heard something.
Here's a modern day example.
Let's move it out of Boomerland.
Butt dial.
When someone butt dials you, and you hear
them.
Same thing.
You don't hang up and go, oh, butt
dial, no!
Let me hear what they say.
You listen, unless you can, you listen for
at least a little while, but if it's,
you know, obviously you're not gonna hear anything,
because you can tell by the nature of
the butt dial, because you can't hear, you
just hear rustling, and then you hang up.
But otherwise, yeah, you listen a little bit,
if you can hear anything.
But if you don't hear anything, you don't
listen.
So it doesn't make sense that this guy
outed himself like this.
Would remove himself.
And he's got, and his story was a
nothing burger.
Is that how you use that term?
You use nothing burger.
You heard it.
And it basically, there wasn't really anything, he
just was there to humiliate Hanks, Seth.
So, and Walls, to a lesser extent.
Well, Walls is under attack.
So people are now combing through Walts, and
they find out that his official ex account,
he's following a gay porn star, known as
Big Dick Bottom.
A black guy.
Really?
Yeah.
I didn't catch that.
And then he unfollowed him quick.
Yeah, I would imagine.
Sorry, not porn star, an adult con artist.
Content creator.
I'm sorry.
I'm using the wrong term.
I will say this, so that could be,
that could be planted.
Oh yeah, easy.
Hey, let me see your phone for a
sec.
You know, who do I know that does
that?
Who did things?
Yes, John C.
Dvorak.
Give me your phone for a second.
And then you boop, boop, boop, boop, boop,
switch it to Korean.
And it would be impossible to find your
way back to turn off the Korean language.
Yeah, you'd have to do a lot of
research to figure out how to do it.
That was one of your most.
I know, that's a great gag.
Come on, people.
It's a horrible gag.
It's just, it's horrible.
So, yeah, my feeling is this is the
first major chink in the Hegseth armor.
And that was the intent.
Also, it was from the account from Goldberg,
it was Waltz who added him to.
Three says.
Now that can, I don't, Signal doesn't send
out invitations as far as I know.
I was surprised, just as an aside, that
Signal is an approved encrypted messaging app for
the U.S. government.
Do you know that the chairman of the
Signal board is a foundation that runs.
The woman.
The woman, she is the head of NPR.
No, she's gone, but didn't the woman from
Blue Cry also come from Signal?
No, the woman from NPR still runs it,
because here, here's the clip.
They talk about it at, I think I
have one of the signals.
I have a couple of her clips, but.
No, I have the disclaimer.
Oh, okay.
Wow.
Yeah, wow is right.
You sure you have it?
I know, I know I have it, I
just, I just don't know what it's called.
Breach Story Weird NPR?
Should we try that one?
What is it?
Breach Story Weird NPR.
Oh yeah, that could be it.
The fallout continues from the revelation senior Trump
administration officials somehow added a journalist to a
Signal group chat in which they discussed secret
plans for military strikes in Yemen.
At a White House hearing today, Democrats disputed
the administration's claims.
The information wasn't classified and called for people
to be held accountable.
Here's NPR's Ryan Lucas.
Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee pushed Director
of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director
John Ratcliffe for answers, particularly after the full
group chat chain was made public by the
Atlantic.
It showed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth texting details
on timing, weapons and attack sequencing of the
US airstrikes in Yemen.
Here's Colorado Democrat Jason Crowe.
Nobody is willing to come to us and
say this was wrong.
This was a breach of security and we
won't do it again.
Crowe, who is a former US Army Ranger,
said the refusal to accept responsibility is outrageous
and a leadership failure.
And he called on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
to resign.
Ryan Lucas, NPR News, Washington.
NPR CEO Catherine Barr chairs the board of
the Signal Foundation, the nonprofit that supports the
app.
That's not the lady who was in Congress,
though.
Yeah.
No, her name is, I don't think that's
her name.
No, there were two ladies in Congress.
Hold on a second.
It's NPR News, Washington.
NPR CEO Catherine Barr chairs the board of
the Signal Foundation, the nonprofit that supports the
app.
The other lady, Catherine...
Catherine, that's her, March, or March and March.
There are two ladies from NPR called Catherine
Marr.
Did he say Marr?
Let me listen again.
Did he say Marr?
Washington.
NPR CEO Catherine Barr chairs the board of
the Signal Foundation.
Oh, Marr.
Okay, oh, interesting.
Well, what is she doing that for?
Well, that makes it all very suspicious.
I thought it was very suspicious first time
I heard that.
And that's one of the few times that
they actually ran the disclaimer.
You're gonna grill me in Congress?
Watch this.
Can I play a couple of those clips?
I thought those were kind of interesting.
I would like you to play them.
I didn't get any of those clips.
I love those clips.
The thing is, they don't have...
It was funny to listen to, I will
say this.
You listen, I was almost gonna take this,
but then I was thinking, well, I've won
too many Jesse Waters analysis.
It's not good for the show.
Oh, do you have more today?
This is bad.
I have none.
Oh, good.
But Jesse Waters has some of the best
of the clips.
And then when you played him up close,
up against the long version, longer exposition on
PBS NewsHour, there was no comparison.
The Water stuff was far superior.
Well, I focused really on one thing and
that's the money because that's what it was
about.
It's about do we continue to fund the
National Public Radio?
Where does the money go?
That's- And the kicker is, oh, well,
the government doesn't really have, only gives maybe
1% of the total.
No, no.
Doesn't mean a lot and oh, who cares?
We need this money.
Okay, I guess I don't need to play
the clips.
You did it again.
You went straight to the kicker.
But that's just what you set me up
for it.
You've got to do a better job of
blocking me.
I'm going to play Catherine Amar, be quiet.
I understand the subcommittee has questions about funding
for NPR and public radio.
The vast majority of federal dollars, more than
a hundred million of the 121 million annual
appropriation for public radio goes directly to 386
local non-commercial stations across the nation.
This highly efficient investment enables your local stations
to raise an average of $7 for every
federal dollar.
As a grantee of the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting, NPR received federal funding of 11.2
million last year.
These funds allow us to maintain the National
Public Radio satellite system, helping safeguard our national
security, civil defense and disaster response.
And enabling public radio to reach every corner
of America.
Additionally, these funds help protect journalists covering our
troops overseas and reverse the decline of local
journalism.
So people don't really understand how NPR works.
They're all independent stations.
They have to do their own fundraising.
The problem is they basically can't create much
of their own local content.
I mean, even KUT in Austin, remember when
we had snow apocalypse, they were playing in
fresh air with Terry Gross.
They have to buy the programming.
And that's where a lot of the money
goes because it's commercial companies making the majority
of this content.
It's not like, you know, like government employees.
All of this comes through the PRX, the
public radio exchanges, you know, the public, what
is it?
The public media, forget the name of the
group.
So really the only thing that makes it
a network is explained here.
I'd like to spend the rest of my
time talking about funding.
This is Jack, Representative Jack from Georgia.
I know that some of my colleagues talked
about it a little bit today, but could
you walk us through the amount of money
that NPR receives from CPB annually?
Yes, sure, sir.
We receive $11.2 million this past year,
the majority of which goes to the public
radio satellite system, which we operate on behalf
of the entire public radio network.
We also received a smaller amount of funds.
Let's just stop there.
The PRSS, the public radio satellite system is
an anachronism.
This thing should immediately be shot out of
the sky.
I think there's still one show that broadcasts
live, the morning edition, maybe all things considered,
is a live stream from the satellite, which,
of course, we could do much cheaper with
a Starlink dish.
That would work in a case of an
emergency, but you could still do it.
I mean, we've had T1 lines for a
long time.
And what all these, it's a very expensive,
very antiquated system where they, in essence, download
WAV files of programming.
That's the incredible importance of that $11 million.
And of course, Catherine Marr's salary and whatever
else they do with that.
But that thing is absolutely not necessary, but
I don't think any of these people in
Congress actually understand what NPR is or how
it works.
We also received a smaller amount of funding
in the course of the past year that
went to help us hire those additional editors
and analysts in order to be able to
beef up that editorial review.
We received funding to support the coverage of
the recent election in order to make sure
that we had our journalists all across the
country and were able to speak to Americans
of all different political backgrounds.
And what percentage of your budget share comes
from the federal government?
Depending on how you count it, sir, it's
less than 5%.
And to help me understand, too, the CPB,
as I understand it, Congress has appropriated $500
million to the CPB.
It flows out, and I think smaller radio
stations go and apply for grants for it.
$500 million for CPB, which includes PBS?
What else does that include?
It includes a lot of those little stations
who have to give the money back.
I mean, the whole thing is something of
a Ponzi scheme.
Do you receive payment from smaller radio stations
through licensing agreements and things of that nature?
We do, and the fees for that are
designed designed around the amount of- What
do you mean designed?
The fees are designed.
And of course, Jack is only out to
get her, to stick it to her like
everybody else.
No follow-up questions on that.
Are designed around the amount of funding that
they get from private member donations.
So it's not, the fees are not designed
around federal funding, they're just- How is
a fee designed?
I mean, a fee is a fee.
So is it based upon how many people
listen?
Is it based on how much money you
raise?
This makes no sense.
They get money to keep the stations on
the air.
That's expensive.
And then the fees are designed somehow?
Designed?
What she's trying to say is that the
larger markets have to pay more money.
Yeah.
That's pretty common.
The amount of funding that they- It's
like newspaper syndicates.
If you're a small town paper with 100
,000 CERC, you're not paying the same amount
for the Dilbert cartoon as somebody with 250
,000 CERC.
Designed around the amount of funding that they
get from private member donations.
So it's not, the fees are not designed
around federal funding.
They're designed around what sort of direct private
support and donations they receive from members and
listeners.
Well, they're basing it on, she's saying that
they base it on how much they get.
So how much did you raise?
$2 million.
Oh, your fee is- I don't think
that's right.
I don't know what she's talking about.
She's just rambling.
I mean, I think she's maybe just be
snowing the guy.
Well, here's the real question.
And this came from Jack as well.
Could NPR survive without the 5% that
we give NPR annually?
My belief is that the funding is essential
to the public radio system.
And that is the 246 member stations, but
the 1300 stations across the nation, so that
we're able, as a network, to serve all
Americans with 100% coverage.
This is bull crap.
This is a snow job, what she's saying
right here.
There is no substance to what she's saying.
She's not answering the question.
Federal funding for our network goes away.
It means that people in rural parts of
America, places where they can't afford to make
private donations to support their local journalism, those
will be harmed.
But, sir, if I may, the bigger harm
as well, or the additional harm, is that
Americans in places that are affluent or do
have many media choices will not be able
to hear from their fellow Americans that are
often under her.
She says something very interesting.
At first, I misheard her.
But she's saying, what I think she's saying
here is rich people who've got a lot
of choice won't be able to hear the
poor suckers out in the sticks.
Tell me I'm wrong.
Americans in places that You better start it
over there.
Bigger harm as well, or the additional harm,
is that Americans in places that are affluent
or do have many media choices will not
be able to hear from their fellow Americans
that are often under-heard.
Isn't that what she's saying?
You won't hear from the poor people without
us.
That's exactly what she's saying.
I don't know how, what else could that
mean?
So NPR So the rich people are gonna
suffer.
Yes.
They're gonna suffer horribly.
That's exactly what she's saying.
If they don't give the little people some
money so the little people can speak up
because the little people don't have a voice
without the government money.
That's exactly.
So you bastards in the government, you better
give the little people some money because you're
just, you're shutting them down.
Have you ever heard of X or Facebook?
Little people have a voice these days, lady.
Americans in places that are affluent or do
have many media choices will not be able
to hear from their fellow Americans that are
often under-heard.
And you're an NPR guy.
Please make sure that next time you hear
some poor people who aren't heard, make sure
that if they're ever on NPR, you clip
it.
Because usually I only hear douchebags.
And it's all douchebags.
It's all douchebags.
Bottom line, if the 5% went away,
would NPR still exist?
Well, it would be incredibly damaging to the
federal, to the, excuse me, to the national
public radio system.
Well, this is why I say.
Wait, so in other words, 5%-
Goes to the poor suckers.
The 5% is going to be incredibly
damaging because despite what we do, we can't
make up 5% of that funding.
We can't find some other way of doing
it.
We can't open up a gates of hell
of advertise.
We can't do anything.
That 5% is all there is to
it.
That was the question.
Something is wrong with that answer.
So instead, we just hounded her.
It is fun to listen to this.
This was the representative, Brandon Gill, who did
exactly what they're doing to national security advisor,
Waltz.
Let's comb through your tweets and embarrass you.
It's interesting because a lot of your thinking
as expressed by your public- Hold on,
can you stop for a second?
It's John Kennedy, the guy from Louisiana, I
think is the guy who perfected this technique
in Congress.
Oh, and he has his own YouTube channels.
And you don't even know how old it
is.
I mean, it's evergreen, the stuff he does.
Yeah, he has nothing but- Showbiz appeal.
Did you write this tweet?
Let me just get it straight.
Is that something you actually wrote?
And she said, well, I think so.
Well, you would know.
I'm reading right from it.
You might, and it goes on and on.
This guy did a pretty good job.
It's interesting because a lot of your thinking
as expressed by your public statements is deeply
infused with economic and cultural Marxism.
Do you believe that America is addicted to
white supremacy?
I believe that I tweeted that.
And as I've said earlier, I believe much
of my thinking has evolved over the last
half decade.
I've evolved as a human being because-
Wait, she said over the last half decade.
I know, isn't that a great- You
mean five years.
It was only four, actually, to be honest,
if you look at the number, but it
was four years ago.
She wrote that.
Half a decade.
But she's good.
Oh, you know, everything's evolved over the last
half, that last half a decade.
That's amazing.
You mean during the Biden administration?
Earlier, I believe much of my thinking has
evolved over the last half decade.
It has evolved.
Why did you tweet that?
I don't recall the exact context, sir, so
I wouldn't be able to say.
Okay.
Do you believe that America believes in black
plunder and white democracy?
I don't believe that, sir.
You tweeted that in reference to a book
you were reading at the time, apparently, The
Case for Reparations.
I don't think I've ever read that book,
sir.
This is my best, this is the best
one.
You were reading a book, or you tweeted
about this book.
I don't think I've read that book, sir.
I don't think I read that book in
the last half decade.
Tweeted about it.
You said you took a day off to
fully read The Case for Reparations.
Put that on Twitter in January of 2020.
So she's a liar.
Of course she didn't read the book.
She didn't read White Fragility either.
It's just virtue signaling.
I have a couple clips coming up later
in the show that also use this trick.
When you say, I'm thinking about this half
decade thing, the first thing, if you're calculating
that in your mind, you think 10, that's
50 years.
Because when you think of it, when you
say half, and half is always at 0
.5, so it's 0.5 decade, 10, you
multiply, in your brain, you multiply it, and
so it says, in the last half decade,
it really, I think, subconsciously, it sounds like
50 years.
I think it's a very tricky NLP, I
think it's an NLP trick, and it gives
you the sense that it's a long time.
Well, she also slipped in their federal public
radio, which I thought was interesting.
Yeah, she's good.
Yeah, yeah, spook.
She may be a spook, but what's her
name again?
Catherine Maher, Maher, Maher.
You're correct.
Said you took a day off to fully
read the case for reparations.
You put that on Twitter in January of
2020.
I apologize, I don't recall that I did.
Okay.
I have no doubt that your tweet there
is correct, but I don't recall that.
Okay.
Do you believe that white people inherently feel
superior to other races?
This is great.
This is your virtue signaling coming back and
slapping you in the face like a wet
salmon.
People inherently feel superior to other races?
I do not.
You don't?
You tweeted something to that effect.
You said, I grew up feeling superior, ha,
how white of me.
Why did you tweet that?
I think I was probably reflecting on what
it was to be, to grow up in
an environment where I had lots of advantages.
So that's a racist statement right there because
you were white.
That means that you had lots of advantages.
Have you seen, what about those poor schlubs
who need 5% to listen to NPR,
to create content for NPR so the rich
people can hear it?
Okay.
Let me stop you for a second.
After high school, Maher graduated from the Arabic
Language Institute.
Oh yeah, we went there.
Intensive program at the American University of Cairo.
In 2003, she recalled a formative experience and
she developed her interest in the Middle East.
What's she doing here?
Maher also studied at the Institut Francais.
And she was in Damascus.
She was in Syria.
She spent time in Lebanon and Tunisia.
I'm reminded of a meeting I had with
the economic hitman for lunch.
One time he says, my entire family says,
don't take Arab, because they're all CIA spooks.
He said, don't take Arabic because you'll be
stuck in the Middle East.
No, you want Mandarin.
From 2007 to 2010, she was at UNICEF.
Then she was at the National Democratic Institute
as an ICT program officer.
Worked at the World Bank.
She worked at Twitter.
DC-based Access Now Operation Advocacy.
This woman is Wikipedia Foundation.
She was the communications officer there.
Mary, just one thing after.
This is an unbelievable bio.
U.S. State Department Foreign Affairs Policy Board.
Worked with Clinton.
Secreted with Hillary.
She's just unbelievable.
Well, this leads me to believe that Signal
is not a safe app.
Leads me to believe the exact same thing.
Or it's just a backdoor operation.
I was probably reflecting on what it was.
You know, you could have probably, you know,
talking about that, it's possible that they just
slipped Jeffrey in and nobody really put him
on the call at all.
Very suspicious.
And this woman is extremely suspicious.
To grow up in an environment where I
had lots of advantages.
It sounds like you're saying that white people
feel superior.
I don't believe that anybody feels that way,
sir.
I was just reflecting on my own experiences.
Do you think that white people should pay
reparations?
I have never said that, sir.
Yes, you did.
Said it in January of 2020.
You tweeted.
Yes, you did.
Yes, the North.
Yes, all of us.
Yes, America.
Yes, our original collective sin and unpaid debt.
Yes, reparations.
Yes, on this day.
I don't believe that was a reference to
fiscal reparations, sir.
What kind of reparations was it a reference
to?
I think it was just a reference to
the idea that we all owe much to
the people who came before us.
That's a bizarre way to frame what you
tweeted.
And he went on and on and on
and on.
But that was entertaining.
Yeah, of course.
But in- But she was slick, I
watched her.
She was calm, cool, and collected.
Yeah, I mean, in regards to Signal, that's
a little troubling.
I wonder why she, well, maybe on the
other hand, maybe that's exactly why it is
sanctioned for use within the government.
Which I learned, I didn't know that.
I didn't think that they could use their
private phones for anything that had a government
business.
How about the, don't we have the National
Archive Act and all kinds of stuff that
you have to, no matter what has been
discussed, has to be archived somewhere?
Yeah, supposedly.
Yeah, so someone needs to fess up or
someone needs to go.
And I think that Hegseth is one more
gaffe away.
From Ben.
Yes, you're right, one more gaffe, he's done.
Yeah, so I like him, but the way
he responded, did not like him.
Thought that was a very, very poor, very
poor.
He wasn't, he's not using his resources.
Use your words, Pete.
No, I'm talking about, you know, there are
people, the Pentagon has something like 27 to
60,000 public relations specialists.
Yeah.
I mean, that many people, so they can
just hound the media.
And they have people there that could, how
should I respond to this?
Meetings could take place with 10 of the
top people.
Yeah.
And they would give him, you know, the
marching orders.
I don't think, I think they're cutting him
off.
I wonder if this could have been a
Pegasus type deal where someone basically just controls
your phone and can remotely add someone to
a signal chat.
Hey, hey, hey, watch this.
That seems more likely.
It wouldn't surprise me.
By the way, you know, Tina's out of
town.
She's in Indiana visiting her mom.
And so that gives me an opportunity to
watch stuff that, you know how you, oh,
you don't know per se, but we're sitting
at home and I'm surfing through the Netflix
and I'm like, yeah, let's watch this.
And like, oh no, that has Robert De
Niro in it.
I hate him.
Which by the way, I'm like, yeah, you're
right.
So I watched Zero Day, which is starring
De Niro and he plays the president, ex
-president of the United States.
Very good movie.
And it deals a lot with what can
happen with phones and apps and even more
delightful how, you know what the circumvention is.
You know, everyone gets around all of these,
all of these things when they're doing something
nefarious.
How did the bad guys communicate?
How?
Ham radio, baby.
Ham radio.
That's when the story- Well, you know,
De Niro was also in Wag the Dog.
Which was a fantastic movie.
Which is another fantastic movie.
He was great until he had to pull
his own documentary out of the Tribeca Film
Festival about how his kid got autism and
he thought it was from vaccines.
And then they were like, you'll never make
another movie in this town again, De Niro.
Oh, okay.
Do you remember that?
No, I- That was during the show.
That information has been lost on me.
No, that was during the show.
Yeah, he pulled, from his own film festival,
he pulled the doc- Oh, no, there's
not enough evidence about this.
I've decided to pull this documentary.
That's when he went sour.
Come on, man, taxi driver.
Was he a taxi driver?
Yeah.
So.
Well, what else we got in this regard?
Well, I don't think much else.
I mean, we'll just see what happens, but
we need to keep an eye on Hegseth
because I think he's on deck.
Yeah, that's what it looks like.
They're not letting up on this.
Doesn't matter, you got a top MS-13
guy?
Who cares?
Signal Gate.
You're gonna put 25% tariff on all
cars coming into America?
Who cares?
Signal Gate.
Who cares?
Nobody cares.
Everybody wants it.
Get some veterans.
Well, I've fought in the war and people
I know died because of intelligence mess-ups.
So cynical, all this stuff.
I hate mainstream media.
So let's go to the car tariffs.
Okay.
I have the BBC, I have a series,
these are all spelled C-A-E, and
tariff is misspelled.
I usually correct these with this one.
You got K-Rarefs.
I thought K-Rarefs was a lady that
I was very interested in.
When I saw your clips come in, people
would have to know, John sends me clips,
I don't listen to him.
I just look at the titles to know,
okay, maybe I don't need a whole series
of clips here because if there's something about
K-Rarefs in the news, I don't need
a clip on her.
It was a typo.
And apparently she's an anal.
It was blurry.
So we start with the now, my vision
was blurry.
Do you drive?
This is the one, this is not the
analysis clips.
Yeah, this is the kickoff.
Now, just the BBC straight up.
Wait, is this World Service?
Yeah, BBC World Service.
And now another series of clips from the
BBC World Service.
President Trump has announced a 25% tariff
on all cars imported into the United States
from the 2nd of April.
He claimed the measure would spur growth in
the U.S. car industry and create jobs
and investment.
Our North America business correspondent, Erin Delmore reports.
President Trump said the new tariffs would bring
car and truck production back to the U
.S. and generate billions of dollars in revenue.
Mr. Trump made clear that the new tariffs
are permanent and not a negotiating tactic designed
to extract concessions from America's trade partners.
But determining which vehicles are made in America
can be complicated, particularly when it comes to
America's closest neighbors, Mexico and Canada.
The new taxes will immediately hit millions of
foreign-made cars sold in the U.S.
each year.
The move is poised to send a shock
through the industry with potential for higher prices,
lower supply and lower production.
Shares of the U.S.'s big three automakers
fell in after-hours trading.
Okay, well, shaking things up.
I don't know why the prices would fall
because you think these guys, the U.S.
automakers would benefit, but I guess the only
car that's actually made here is Tesla.
The rest of them are made from parts
from everywhere.
Isn't there a carve-out for parts?
No, not yet.
Yeah, I think you're wrong.
Well, they've been talking about it.
I listened to this morning, I was watching
Outnumbered, and they had Charles Payne on as
the dude, because there's a bunch of women
and one guy.
And that's why it's called Outnumbered.
Yes, yes.
And he went on about it, and they
talked about the car parts carve-out, and
it was like, it was still unsettled.
Ah, well, I'm just going to interrupt, and
then we'll get back to your BBC anal
clips.
This is a French- Analysis is what
it is.
I know what it says.
This production line in Japan is churning out
Toyota cars, many of them destined for the
U.S. In a week's time, they'll be
subject to a punishing 25% tariff, prompting
the government to plead for an exclusion.
We have, again, strongly urged the U.S.
government to exclude Japan from the scope of
these measures.
But only if the cars made in America
- Other top suppliers hit hard by the
tax are Canada, Mexico, Germany, and South Korea.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney called it a
direct attack on the country's workers.
We will defend our workers.
We will defend- Our companies will defend
our country.
Currently, half the cars sold in the U
.S. are American-made, and industry experts say
the move could increase prices per car by
thousands of dollars and impact jobs.
President Donald Trump says it will revitalize American
industry.
And we're going to charge countries for doing
business in our country and taking our jobs,
taking our wealth.
After a 25% duty on steel and
aluminum, this is Trump's latest move to renege
on a trade deal he struck in his
first term with Mexico and Canada.
The new tariff applies to cars and light
trucks.
Auto parts that comply with the 2019 deal
will remain tariff-free for now.
There you go.
Yeah, I don't think that's correct.
Oh, it's France 24.
How could you doubt the French?
Yeah, I don't think they know what they're
talking about.
All right, OK.
So let's go with the analysis clips.
These should be fairly short.
Here to make sense of that announcement is
our North of America correspondent Aaron Delmore.
Clearest way through it is to think of
it as a 25% tariff on all
cars not made in the United States and
no tariffs on cars made in the United
States.
He also made a mention that Americans would
be able to deduct interest payments on their
car loans from their taxes if their cars
are made in America.
You know, to me, one of the big
things that stood out is he said he's
not budging.
He said that these tariffs are permanent and
that he's not putting this forward as a
negotiating tactic to try to get concessions from
America's trade partners in future tariff negotiations.
He said, this is permanent.
We are going to bring domestic production, domestic
manufacturing of cars and trucks back to the
United States.
What about car parts coming into the US?
Is there any clarification yet as whether they
may face import duties?
Because that would be significant, wouldn't it?
Absolutely.
Here's why it would be significant.
Car parts can come in from foreign suppliers,
but they also are made in Mexico and
Canada as well, and then cross borders into
the United States into US production facilities for
cars that look to be US-made.
They look and purport to be American-made
cars, but perhaps within the cars, there are
not American-made parts.
Those are foreign-made parts.
And so now the question, yes, is will
they be tariffed?
The best indication and reporting we have now
is that the answer to that question is
yes.
It is, yes, that appears to be the
case.
Well, there goes my Corinthian leather.
Ha ha ha ha.
That took two pieces to get.
Another boomer joke.
Wow.
I'm easing into my role.
You're getting worse, by the way.
I'm easing into it.
I'm starting to like it.
Corinthian leather.
Yeah.
The old timers that listen to this show
must get a kick out of us.
Someone, hopefully somewhere does.
Well, the kids don't.
They're going, what the fuck are these guys
talking about?
So here we go with clip two.
This announcement, I mean, we are used to
lots of tariff announcement.
This seems a pretty serious one because Donald
Trump has clearly said he's not going to
withdraw these tariffs.
Absolutely.
And it's a really interesting line in the
sand.
I'm listening to Mark Carney there.
You know, having spent a lot of time
in Canada, you know, the Canadian auto sector
is hugely reliant.
This is, you know, hundreds of thousands of
jobs, billions of dollars.
So very significant.
But I think around the world, now it's
not going to affect Australia.
We don't make any cars anymore.
Haven't for quite some time.
So it won't have an impact directly in
that way.
But, you know, these things have a tendency
of having a big ripple effect, right?
And across other sectors.
And, you know, the steel, aluminium tariffs that
will be coming onto Australia.
Already there's shaking the chain on drugs and
medicines.
That's something Australia provides a lot of medicines
to the US and brings a lot in.
We have a free medicines policy or programme
for lots of Australians rely on the government
to buy for no cost or low cost
medicines.
Ireland's also worried about it.
So, but I mean, I don't know, can
he really have a permanent tariff?
I don't know.
I don't know whether that's possible.
I would imagine, unless he intends to be
the permanent president, I wouldn't think there'd be
permanent tariffs, but I don't know.
And I don't think we should be predicting
too much at this point.
Stephanie, it is a complicated issue and tariffs
here because the global car industry operates in
so many different parts of the world.
So you're sitting there in your office and
you're like, oh yeah, I gotta do this.
I gotta get that laugh extra extra kooky.
We don't, we do work for you people.
What was it?
Shaking the chain, I like that.
Shaking the chain.
This whole thing is because, this is a
non-significant, or a quite significant idea that
he thinks he's gonna do.
The global, you start to realize when you
start hearing these analysis, especially the moaning and
groaning that takes place from everyone.
Oh, the Australians, now they're worried about this
and that.
And all the Canadians think it's all about
them.
You realize that the globalist entanglements have been
set up so well.
It's massive.
That it's like, wow, these guys, Trump is
not gonna pull this off.
I don't think he's gonna pull it off.
Oh, I think he will.
Oh, I definitely think he will.
And I'll tell you why after your clips.
Okay.
All right.
Onward.
Around 50% of cars sold in the
US are imported.
It is the world's biggest importer of cars.
About 22% of those imports in 2024
came from Mexico.
Juan Carlos Baker Pineda, of course, familiar voice
on this program, is Mexico's former vice minister
for foreign trade, currently a researcher at the
Pan American University in Mexico City.
Quintus, hello, Juan Carlos.
Hiya.
Yeah, you know, there's a lot going on
in the world and there's a lot of
confusion about many things.
You're in Mexico.
I am.
Yeah.
Yes.
What do you make of this decision?
It could have a huge impact on the
car industry there.
I love this.
You're in Mexico.
Yes, yes.
I'm a country town.
I'm in Mexico.
Yes, absolutely.
And the consequences of this are not entirely
clear right now.
But as you say, the impact on this
is very significant because cars represent the largest
export of Mexico to the United States.
It also represents a significant sizable contribution of
the GDP, anywhere between 8% and 9
% of Mexico's GDP somehow is connected to
the automotive industry.
So there's a lot of confusion.
The fact that these tariffs are announced and
the fact that President Trump seems to have
no regard whatsoever for the USMCA and its
rules clearly is very disturbing.
Right now, today, the Minister of the Economy,
Secretary Marcelo Ebrard and his team are in
Washington and it has been reported that they
will be having meetings tonight and tomorrow with
the people of President Trump's cabinet, the Secretary
of Commerce.
And clearly something has to be worked out
because if the tariffs are imposed, as the
President suggests, well, the impact on Mexico is
gonna be significant and it's gonna change the
moods, I would say, Rahul, between Mexico and
the United States right now.
And the relationship as it is is going
through some tense moments and this clearly is
not gonna help at all.
Go on and on.
And so let's go to the last clip,
which is, I think, another...
So we have the Mexicans complaining, the Australians
complaining.
I don't know why they're complaining.
The Canadians complaining, the Europeans, everyone's complaining.
Because they believe he's serious and I think
he is.
Let us hear a couple of more voices
now.
Firstly, here's Glenn Stevens.
He's Executive Director of Detroit-based industry, auto
industry group, Mitch Auto.
He told me these tariffs are bad news
for the industry and customers.
We don't see any positives in the short
term.
We had anticipated this.
The President had signaled this, but about half
of the vehicles sold in the United States
every year are imported, 7.68 million last
year.
So this is a significant shock to the
system.
We also have steel and aluminum tariffs.
We have China tariffs, now reciprocal, and now
these tariffs.
The cost of the vehicle, the input costs
will go up.
We expect anywhere from 3,000 to 10
,000, depending on the transaction price of the
vehicle, it will increase.
And in the US, a vehicle already costs
$49,000 to purchase new on average.
So it's already at an all-time high.
We're concerned about this.
We have a lot of questions right now,
tonight, that we're trying to sort through.
What's a tough one on your list that
you're gonna try and answer?
Which is the one you're struggling with at
the most at the moment?
Are you trying to make sense of this?
Yeah, the number one issue is, are vehicles
from Canada and Mexico, because of the existing
USMCA agreement, are they included in this?
It appears that they are, but we don't
have confirmation of that.
And that is a big situation, particularly for
the companies based in Michigan, Ford, GM, and
Stellantis.
So just to give you an idea, and
actually one of our producers just posted that
in the troll room.
In the Netherlands, you have something called BPM,
which is a special tax for cars.
And if you do the math, let me
see, a Ford Mustang, which costs, what is
it, $35,000, $40,000?
Yeah.
In the Netherlands, 120,000, after the VAT,
the BPM, the climate tax, all that stuff
is put on.
But BPM is just a made up number.
It's like, oh, well, we gotta tax you
for that.
So Trump is not wrong.
No, I think he's correct.
And when you look at- What I'm
saying is that I'm not complaining about his
correctness or his righteousness about this.
I'm complaining, not complaining, but I'm suggesting that
the entanglements are so broad-based that it's
going to be almost impossible to actually make
any of this work.
Well, but this is the hill he's going
to die on.
This has been his thing for 30, 40
years he's been talking about this.
So now he has the opportunity, and he
means it, and he's trying to brand it,
but he's not doing a very good job.
Well, I may give a lot of countries
breaks, but it's reciprocal, but we might be
even nicer than that.
You know, we've been very nice to a
lot of countries for a long time, but
I call it Liberation Day.
April 2nd is Liberation Day.
But today, as you know, we did something
with respect to Venezuela.
You heard about that.
And that will be quite important.
We'll be announcing some additional tariffs over the
next few days, having to do with automobiles,
cars, and having also to do a little
bit with lumber down the road, lumber and
chips.
We're going to get all those chip companies
coming back.
They're already coming back without even doing it.
So it's been very good, but we'll be
announcing some others.
But for the most part, April 2nd will
be a big day.
That'll be reciprocal day.
And we'll be bringing some of the money
back that's been taken from us.
Let's be nice by using the word taken.
I don't want to use a stronger word
because these guys are professional politicians and they
don't like to hear those words.
I refuse to use the word stolen from
us.
So it's Liberation Day.
It's Reciprocal Day.
It's, I don't know what day it is.
It's April 2nd.
He needs to work on it.
That's what you mean by he's not branding.
No, no.
I mean, if you're going to do Liberation
Day, you need a media package.
You need some memes out there on the
internet of people with big F250s and Mustangs,
you know, cruising around.
Yeah, it could be coordinated better.
Not to mention he's better.
There's really no, he's sticking with his, you
know, running a million miles an hour, but
not really coordinating anything in such a way
that you have a big splash that goes
from one thing to another.
Yeah, so instead he has a very small
announcement.
Today we're delighted to report that Hyundai is
announcing a major $5.8 billion investment in
American manufacturing.
In particular, Hyundai will be building a brand
new steel plant in Louisiana, which will produce
more than 2.7 million metric tons of
steel a year, creating more than 1,400
jobs for American steel workers.
And then there'll be major expansion after that.
This will be Hyundai's first ever steel mill
in the United States, one of the largest
companies in the world, by the way, supplying
steel for its auto parts and auto plants
in Alabama and Georgia, which will soon produce
more than 1 million American-made cars every
single year.
The cars are coming into this country at
levels never seen before.
Get ready.
This investment is a clear demonstration that tariffs
very strongly work, and I hope other things
also, but the tariffs are bringing them in
at levels that have not been witnessed.
So a million American cars.
Well, I mean, everyone's going to buy an
American car if you're going to buy a
car, or American-made car, I should say.
That part will work, especially if you get,
if you're allowed to deduct the interest on
your car loan.
Whoa, now you're talking.
But that's a Congress thing.
That's not an executive order, is it?
That's a tax thing.
Yeah, which is Congress.
I would say, the problem is we don't,
with half the cars being imported, until these
reports came out, I didn't realize that half
of our, in other words, our own automotive
industry can't even keep up with the Toyota.
No.
And the BMW and all the people that
ship cars into this country.
So half of them are imported.
They'd have to double production of American cars,
which they're not going to be able to
do.
You can't just double production overnight.
And I think what one thing that's going
to happen is the used car market is
going to heat up again.
Exactly.
I'm like, I'm not driving my car.
I'm keeping my miles, but I'll need a
car.
That's the problem.
Yeah, you need a car.
Do you have wind chimes in your studio
now all of a sudden?
Oh, this is these things in the back.
It's funny.
You know, I don't understand how that mic
can pick this up.
It's my ears.
Well, I don't think anyone else can anyway.
Ask the chat room.
I'm going to- We don't have a
chat room.
Yeah, trolls.
Trolls, do you hear the chimes?
Now I'm ringing them loud.
Yeah, well, you hear that for sure.
Well, not necessarily.
That's on the backside of the mic.
Everybody hears it.
They all hear that?
Yeah, they all hear it.
Yes.
That's disappointing.
It must be reflective.
That could be it.
Of course, one of the hottest car manufacturers
right now is certainly not American.
BYD sales last year surpassed the $100 billion
mark, beating rival Tesla on revenue for the
first time since 2018.
It reported a revenue of $107 billion for
2024, up 29%.
Tesla's 2024 revenue, meanwhile, stood at 97.7
billion.
This year already looks like it could be
an even better one for the Chinese EV
maker.
It unveiled a new ecosystem that allows EVs
to charge for 400 kilometers in just five
minutes and introduced advanced driver assistance technology in
even its most basic models.
You wanted to say something?
I'd like to know, BYD I'm impressed with,
but of course they don't sell even one
car in this country, so the market possibilities
for them is pretty high.
I think you have the same question I
have about the charging.
How does this work?
Well, I'd looked it up.
It will charge within five minutes with a,
now they make it sound nice to say,
a thousand kilowatt charger.
That's a megawatt.
You're gonna put a megawatt charger in my
house now?
No, it's not for, no, the idea, no,
that's not the idea.
That's what I read.
No, the idea is that you have gas
station like facilities that you drive to and
you stick it just like in a normal
gas station.
The big advantage, we don't have, I don't
keep gas here at the house.
I go to the gas station and within
five minutes I fill up a tank of
gas.
The idea is that you should be able
to do the same thing with an electric
car as opposed to nowadays where you stop
at one of these charging stations.
You have to wait a half an hour
for the car to get even a 300
mile, even a half charge.
It takes an hour to two hours sometimes
to get a full charge.
No, I understand.
So they wanna make it so you don't
have to charge at home.
I understand, but are you gonna get a
megawatt at gas stations?
How is that going to happen?
One megawatt.
That's a pretty big jolt.
I mean, yeah, yes, you're absolutely right.
But that means you need a whole bunch
of infrastructure to do what you just explained.
The infrastructure's not there.
You're right.
They can't even, in fact, Biden for the
whole four years, if you recall, right at
the get-go in 2020 says, we're gonna
build 300,000 charging stations or some outrageous
number.
It was at least 50,000.
I'm not sure what the number is now
because I've forgotten, but he was gonna build,
and he built one.
So BYD has a deal with Shell in
Shenzhen and the airport has 258 public fast
charging ports.
I don't know if these are the.
No, they're not.
No, this five-minute thing is brand new.
There's no way that they're gonna have that
many online right away.
It's gonna take forever.
So if it takes a megawatt, you're gonna
have to have some serious juice going in
there.
So they say that, so this is near
the airport, solar panels installed on the roof
could generate about 300 kilowatt hours of renewable
electricity electronically used to charge the vehicles.
I'm skeptical of that too.
So, I mean, a kilowatt hour.
Especially in China or around that airport.
I've been to China enough to know that.
With all the smog.
There's no sun.
Exactly.
So I'm skeptical about this announcement.
And to get that amount of power, you
have to have these coal-burning power stations
making this smog worse.
Yeah.
Yeah, so I'm very skeptical about all that.
Yeah, I am too.
I mean, I think they may have the
technology, but I don't think they have the
- Well, sure.
I mean, I could make- By the
way, I'm skeptical about the technology too.
If I could get a megawatt of power,
I'd be mining Bitcoin.
Come on, man.
I'm not gonna charge my car.
I'll stay home and print money.
This is a lot of power.
One of the news girls, you'll recognize who
it is.
I don't know if it's CBS or the
NBC girl.
Talked to Warren Buffett about the tariffs, and
he had some interesting answers.
How do you think tariffs will affect the
economy?
I mean, tariffs are actually, we've had a
lot of experience with them.
They're an act of war to some degree.
How do you think tariffs will impact inflation?
Over time, there are attacks on goods.
I mean, you know.
It's an attack.
What?
Is that Nora?
I think it is Nora, yeah.
Yeah.
Well, it's a highly edited piece, but she's
talking about inflation, and he's talking about inflation,
but he's talking about money printing inflation, as
far as I'm concerned.
On goods, I mean, you know, it just
very doesn't pay up.
I mean, you always have to just, and
then what?
You always have to ask that question in
economics.
Always say, and then what?
So is there an answer for that when
people say, you know, inflation persists, consumer prices
keep going up?
When's the end in sight?
No, prices will be higher 10 years from
now and 20 years from now and 30
years from now.
And what do you think about what's happening
in Washington right now?
That's because of money printing.
Of course, it'll be more expensive 10 years
from now, 20 years from now.
Yeah, always has been.
Yeah, we also, we used to buy our
Toyota trucks for $59.99. About efforts to
- I think it's Washington.
Yeah.
It's, you know, technology changes things, all kinds
of things, but Washington is Washington.
And the problem with politics is that you
tend to have to make tiny compromises as
you go along.
There you go.
So they got him to say prices will
go up, but I don't think he was
in the same conversation.
And we'll see.
We'll see what happens.
I mean, it all comes down to what
do we want to buy?
You know, he's not taxing avocados.
No tariffs on that.
Not a car.
Well, when's the last time you bought a
car?
26 years ago?
I bought a car, when did I buy
this last car?
Used, of course.
Of course.
Bought it about seven years ago, maybe.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
It's not like, oh, no one will buy
cars anymore.
We'll see.
The, in general, though, the economy of certain
states is pretty bad.
Really bad in California.
Now, this was a shocking report, John, shocking.
Several businesses along the famed Sunset Strip have
closed in recent months.
Others are on the verge, and there is
a community effort underway to save one of
them.
KTLA's Annie Rose Ramos, live in West Hollywood,
with more on that.
Annie Rose, good morning.
Hey, guys, good morning to you both.
Yeah, we keep on hearing about this happening
over and over again.
We counted a total of five businesses and
restaurants that have announced their closing just in
the past two months.
Okay, so she's on the Sunset Strip.
It's a big story.
An important restaurant is closing.
Which one is it?
You've been up and down the Strip.
You've been to Le Dome.
It's not Le Dome, by the way.
You've been to some of the cool places
on Sunset Strip.
Which one is closing?
Probably someplace I never heard of.
No, you've heard of this one.
On the Sunset Strip.
I've been to this one many times.
I don't know.
Here on the Sunset Strip, including the restaurant
you see behind me, beloved Le Petit Four.
It has been around.
Le Petit Four, Le Petit Four.
That's where all the Russians in tracksuits hang
out.
I've never been there.
You've never been to Le Petit Four?
Oh.
No.
For over 40 years, and now some community
members coming together to make a last-ditch
effort in order to try and save it.
Take a look here.
They are posting this GoFundMe page.
Yeah, with $6,000.
Good luck keeping your restaurant going.
Especially on that property.
Yeah.
But maybe the Strip has just died.
It probably has.
Probably has.
The last time I was down there, it
didn't have the same vibrancy that it used
to have.
That's for sure.
Oh man, when I lived there, it didn't
have that vibrancy.
It was already horrible.
Compared to like late 80s, early 90s, when
we go out to LA to film stuff.
No.
It's no good.
Yeah, there's a depressing aspect to LA at
the moment.
Like San Francisco, it's depressing because of all
the homeless.
And it's got nothing to do with the
California economy.
It has to do with the policies regarding
the homeless encampments and the allowance and crime,
a lot of crime.
Well, but who lives in California?
Just poor people and a bunch of rich
people.
I'm just guessing.
Well, there's middle class in California.
There's a lot of middle class.
In the valley, in the porn industry.
Yeah, it's not generalized.
Okay.
All right, you've got- Why would we
do that?
You've got several series here, so I'm going
to let you choose one.
Let's see what we got.
Because unlike you, when you have a series,
I just step back and let you go.
Yeah, there's some of this.
Let's do the order on...
Oh, this is a quickie.
This is an order on elections that didn't
get any play at all.
Oh, I thought it was pretty big.
Trump on the elections?
I didn't hear much about it.
President Trump signed an executive order yesterday that
aims to make sweeping changes to elections and
voter registration, including a proof of citizenship requirement.
Legal experts are calling it an overreach of
presidential authority and warned that the provisions could
block tens of millions of eligible Americans from
voting.
Joining us now with more is NPR's Jude
Joffe Block.
Hi, Jude.
Hello.
Okay, so what exactly is in this-
Once again, no time or expense spared for
this program.
Executive order.
Right, right, right.
Well, there's a lot in here.
And so it lays out a number of
new requirements and says if states don't comply,
they will not get federal funding.
So one big change is this new proof
of citizenship requirement to register to vote in
federal elections.
So you'd need to show a copy of
a citizenship document, like a passport, to a
local or state official in order to register
to vote or whenever you update your registration,
like if you move.
Another change, the executive order aims to stop
states from counting mailed ballots that are postmarked
by election day but arrive after.
This is something that a lot of states
allow.
Wait, legally, can the president make all of
these changes simply by executive order?
Well, that's really the key question.
So Trump is trying to assert that he,
as president, has authority over elections, and that's
not been the case.
We have a decentralized system where states make
a lot of their own election rules.
This order seeks to expand the president's power
and test how far it can go.
Yeah, I don't think he's gonna get that
through.
I like it, but I don't think that's
gonna happen.
I agree.
Not gonna happen.
I did learn that in Title 18 of
the U.S. Code, that if you vote
in a general election as a non-resident
and non-citizen, I should say, and you're
caught, you will not be prosecuted as long
as you believed you were a citizen, which
is very interesting.
I don't- Well, that's interesting.
I don't think that's in this report, it
should be.
No, I don't know when that snuck in,
but that is like, oh, okay.
So you can do it if you get
caught, oh, well, no problem.
I thought I was a citizen, huh?
What?
We've already heard from voting rights advocates that
lawsuits are going to challenge this, and normally,
an overhaul like this would be something for
Congress to take on, and in fact, Republicans
have been backing a bill called the SAVE
Act that includes a lot of the same
provisions as this order.
Oh, man, that thing's been around for years,
the SAVE Act.
That's not new.
It goes nowhere.
Oh, no.
That bill likely faces an uphill battle in
the Senate, so instead, some critics are saying
Trump is forcing through that legislation by executive
fiat.
Well, what has President Trump said about why
he's pushing these changes?
Well, he says it's necessary for election integrity.
Here he is yesterday when he signed the
order.
We gotta straighten out our election.
This country is so sick because of the
election, the fake elections and the bad elections.
You know, of course, Trump touts the results
of the last election, which he won, but
it's long been part of his brand to
make false claims, false claims about voter fraud,
most notably when he denied the results of
the 2020 election, and in the lead-up
to this past election, he and his allies
made baseless, baseless claims about the threat of
noncitizens voting in large numbers, which we know
from audits and studies that such cases are
really rare, yet that's what they're targeting here.
Yeah, okay, well, I'm curious.
How are voting experts reacting to this order?
You know, I just had an idea.
Exit strategy does require work, but we could
get people to help us.
We could just do NPR Remixed, and it's
just doing exactly what you do.
All those strange things they put in there,
all of the little NLP tricks, all the
hyperforas, all that stuff could just be NPR
Remixed, and it would be a popular stream.
You know, put it to some music.
It wouldn't get a couple of our end
-of-show mixers to put a beat under
it.
Yeah, it would be.
I'm sure NPR would take offense, and we'd
get a cease and desist for, well, copyright.
For what?
For you, for you, for you.
Well, you know, I think there's an argument
that could be made that you could say
it was for entertainment humor purposes.
Yes, parody, parody under, what's it called?
I don't know, fair use?
Fair use, yes, parody under fair use.
Totally appropriate.
Yeah, well, until then, I'm doing these.
Well, I spoke with UCLA law professor Rick
Hasen, and he brought up how very rare
these cases of non-citizen voting are, but
that a proof-of-citizenship requirement would have
a big impact and could disenfranchise millions of
voters.
So you'd be using a very strict rule
to prevent a very small amount of fraud.
The intention seems likely to be to suppress
the vote rather than to try to make
our elections filled with greater integrity.
Of course.
And, you know, people are already asked on
voter registration forms to attest under penalty of
perjury if they're citizens and eligible to vote,
and they can face prison or deportation if
they try to vote illegally.
Okay, say more.
No, that's not true.
Unless, if they believe they were citizens, then
there's no problem.
Prison or deportation.
Yes, in fact, that should have been in
the report.
In the report, should have been right in
there.
But it wasn't.
Incorrect.
And, you know, people are already asked on
voter registration forms to attest under penalty of
perjury if they're citizens and eligible to vote,
and they can face prison or deportation if
they try to vote illegally.
Okay, say more about how Rick Hasen told
you if this order stands, millions of voters
could be disenfranchised.
Like, how would that happen exactly?
Right, well, past studies have found that almost
one in 10 Americans doesn't have a proof
of citizenship document or doesn't have easy access
to one.
And this order is also a bit vague
about even which documents would be accepted as
proof of citizenship.
It doesn't explicitly name birth certificates.
It does name passports, but only about half
of Americans have those.
They cost money and take a while to
get.
So this rule would likely upend voter registration
drives as well and other ways that Americans
are used to signing up to vote.
This would really be a sea change.
Did I just hear an iPhone go?
Was that on the clip or was that
you?
It wasn't me.
I don't have an iPhone.
It would upend voter registration drives as well
and other ways that Americans are used to
signing up to vote.
This would really be a sea change.
I was gonna say, like, wait a minute,
John has an iPhone.
No.
So annoying that NPR, they just never have
anyone on from the other side.
They are just, oh, this is no good.
Oh, this is bad.
Oh, he's not gonna make it through the
court.
PBS is worse.
Never, never.
They have one side.
They was brought up during the congressional hearings
and I'm surprised you didn't have that clip
where they asked this Maher woman, you realize
that they challenged the reporters.
You had 87 reporters.
They're all registered Democrats.
There's not one Republican that works in the
newsroom.
87%, wasn't it?
That was 80?
No, it was a total number.
Yeah.
87 to nothing.
Thanks for saying you're surprised.
You should email me with that.
I'm surprised you didn't get that clip.
I'm surprised you didn't get that clip because
that was, I thought was a key element.
Oh, it was a surprise.
Big surprise, no Republicans at NPR, huh?
I know.
And she was like, whoa, that's interesting.
And she acted like she didn't know.
That was the funny part about it.
What, what?
Gambling?
I can't believe that.
She's a spook.
Okay, I want to, I have a couple
of clips here.
That means the series don't go to the
end.
You used the word splash earlier.
I can't remember.
I did?
Yeah, you said make a splash or something.
Well, I think it had to do with
Trump's approach.
Yeah, maybe.
Yeah, well, because this is a word that
we heard about a week ago and it's
back and you could say splash or you
could say splash.
For the Hague Summit, what I hope coming
out of the Hague Summit is that it
will really be a splash.
A splash, a big splash.
This is the splash.
This is Mark Rutte.
He is the head of the NATO and
he is, this is the big Hague Summit
which he wants to be a splash.
Projecting the collective NATO power and therefore also
American power on the world stage.
Yes, he's working for us still.
Of course, defending the Euro-Atlantic but I
would even say the world stage because it's
not extending Article 5 to the Indo-Pacific
but working together as NATO also to make
sure that we keep the Indo-Pacific safe
and that means spending more.
It means producing more.
Wait, stop.
What does NATO stand for?
North American Treaty.
North Atlantic.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
What's that got to do with the Indo
-Pacific?
North Atlantic is a very specific area.
It does not make a difference.
It's the Atlantic Ocean, the northern part.
You can make a splash in any ocean.
So it does not matter where the splash
is as long as it's a splash and
it shows American power.
And that means spending more.
It means producing more.
Spending more on war stuff.
It means a fair distribution between the US
and other NATO allies.
Yes, it's fair.
We need, you're not fair.
You're not fair, Europe.
And as I said, it will be about
the lethality.
Lethality of NATO.
Lethality!
Yo, where we kill you with this stuff,
man.
NATO kill you, lethality.
And as I said, it will be about
the lethality.
Lethality of NATO showing that, yes, we will
never be an offensive organization.
We are a defensive organization.
Bullshit.
We are defensive.
We're not making any troubles.
Tell that to the Libyans.
We're not making trouble.
But don't dare to attack us.
You see why they attacked Libya?
Why do you ask these questions every time
he's saying that we're defensive?
Just shut up.
Lethality.
Lethality of NATO showing that, yes, we will
never be an offensive organization.
We are a defensive organization, but don't dare
to attack us.
Don't you dare to attack us.
Because you will not see the light of
day again.
And I hope that will be.
This guy is the biggest warmonger in the
universe.
Don't you dare attack us.
The real outcome of the Hague summit, a
splash.
A splash.
Showing that reinvigorated alliance standing together.
One for all, all for one.
We are the three musketeers.
One for all, all for one.
But, but, but, but, but, but, but, but,
don't.
This is not, we're not doing this because
USA wants it.
This is not about USA.
Except you don't want to cross USA.
First of all, by understanding that we do
not do this because the Americans want us
to do it, but because we need to
do it because of Russia.
We don't do it because the Americans.
The Americans.
Remember, I will change my story at the
end of this clip, but it's not because
Americans want it.
And the threat.
By the way, by spending more, you will
also have a fairer burden sharing with the
US because the US rightly is irritated about
the fact that in Europe, we have collected
the peace dividend.
And I myself as prime minister was part
of that.
And that was wrong.
Luckily, the Netherlands is now spending over 2%.
Luckily.
But collectively, we have collected the peace dividend.
This was not, and rightly the US is
irritated.
So by spending more because of the Russian
threat, the effect of that is also that
you have a fairish burden sharing with the
United States.
But it's not, it's not because America wants
this.
Just so you know, it's not about that.
And there are a few countries not yet
at 2%.
I would love to say that since I
came in on the 1st of October, things
started to change.
That was not true.
But there happened something on the 20th of
January in the US.
And since then, look what's happened.
It's amazing.
It's not about America, what America wants for
Trump, who became president on January 20th, but
it's amazing.
The Belgians have been saying, we want to
get to 2% by the summer.
Spain now is saying they want to get
to 2% this summer.
We know that Portugal, Italy, they all have
these debates now.
And I tell them that, well, now I
am calling you to ask you to deliver
the 2% by the summer so that
collectively we can move considerably north of the
2% because we have to spend much,
much more than 2%.
But this is not about America.
This is not because America wants it.
But now I'm calling you, but you might
get a very patient man from Washington on
the line if you don't listen to me.
And I would love to listen to those
phone calls, but let's hope they're not necessary.
At this moment, I must say that all
these non-2%ers are having genuine debates
to move to the 2% before summer.
So all the non-2%ers, it's not
about America, but if you don't step up,
you might get a call from Washington and
you don't want to get that call.
That's exactly what he said.
And so now we have to make sure
that we all understand that this is long
-term.
This is not just a Ukraine issue.
We are never, ever, I don't care what
kind of peace deal is made, it's never
gonna end.
It's the result of 12 hours of behind
closed doors talk.
Oh, I'm sorry, wrong one.
Here it is, this is the one.
Well, there will be no normalization of relations
with Russia when the war is over.
That will not happen.
That will take decades because there is a
total lack of confidence.
The threat is still there.
As I said in my speech, even if
the war comes to a conclusion, the Russian
threat is still there.
They are building a war economy.
They are spending so much money on defense.
It's a war economy.
They are producing in three months an ammunition
what the whole of the alliance is producing
in a year.
We are ramping up our ammunition production.
Luckily, we have to.
This is bulk.
Ramping it up.
So there's no way that we can normalize
relations with Russia after the war is over.
I hope in many decades from now and
post-Putin that there might be some, but
I mean, I'm not optimistic.
Post-Putin, this is the most outrageous thing
you can say.
Well, even if we have a total truce
there in Ukraine, nothing's gonna normalize with Russia.
Ever.
Until, no, post-Putin, post-Putin, post-Putin.
And guess what Zelensky said?
Ukrainian President Zelensky has claimed that his Russian
counterpart Putin will die soon.
The remarks came amid widespread speculation about the
Russian president's health.
Russia has strongly rejected all speculations and maintained
the Russian leader is fully fit.
The Ukrainian leader made the bold claim while
speaking to French journalists in a televised interview
after meeting French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris.
Zelensky said Putin hopes to remain in power
until his death and his ambitions are not
limited to Ukraine.
He added that the Russian leader's death would
bring an end to the war between the
two nations.
There have been continued speculations over Putin's deteriorating
health.
Videos have surfaced of the Russian leader with
puffy face and making jerky movements.
He got puffy face and making jerky.
He's gonna die.
He's got puffy face.
Videos have surfaced of the Russian leader with
puffy face and making jerky movements with his
limbs.
Some videos also showed Putin coughing continuously.
Just last week, reports suggested that Putin suffered
a mini stroke with video showing his legs
shaking uncontrollably.
This was during a conference and interview and
other times.
So.
And if a dipshit report was that.
Well, it's.
And he has restless leg syndrome, I guess.
So he said it in Ukrainian and all
the clips.
France 24, France Vincatra, does not have any
report of this even though he said it
in France.
So I found that to be somewhat odd.
But all the reports had, the mix was
no good.
It was Zelensky speaking in Ukrainian and the
English translation is equally loud, is very hard
to understand.
But he says, that's what he says.
Oh, Putin's gonna die soon anyway.
And then it will all end.
Which is, in my mind, a veiled threat.
Oh, he's gonna die, don't worry.
And if he dies, no matter how he
dies, then it's all gonna be over.
How does that work?
Well, because it's the same thing.
That's why they wanted regime change.
That's why the CIA said, hey, if you're
living in Russia and you want to become
a spook, let us know.
Here's our email address.
Yeah, they've always, it's only a Putin.
You never hear the Russian citizens are no
good.
Never hear that.
It's only Putin, Putin, Putin, Putin, Putin, Putin,
Putin, Putin, Putin, Putin, Putin, Putin, Putin, Putin.
It's the only baddie they have is Putin.
And now, oh, the unthinkable has happened.
We seem to be making headway with a
peace deal.
Oh, no.
It's the result of 12 hours of behind
closed doors talks in a series of meetings
over three days in Riyadh.
Two statements from the White House outlining separate
agreements with Ukraine and Russia to ensure safe
navigation in the Black Sea and to implement
a ban on attacks by the two countries
on each other's energy facilities.
Both sides agreed that third parties could oversee
the truce.
Separately, the United States also agreed that it
would help restore Russia's access to the world
market for agricultural and fertilizer exports, an incentive
to Moscow blasted by Volodymyr Zelensky.
We believe that this is a weakening of
the position and a weakening of sanctions in
our opinion.
We do not yet know the details of
this item and we were not present at
this meeting, but this was not on our
agenda.
Nonetheless, Kyiv said it would uphold its end
of the agreement while calling for more talks
to settle the details.
The Kremlin, meanwhile, declared that the agreement could
only come into force after the lifting of
restrictions on its agricultural exports.
Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow
didn't trust the Ukrainian president to uphold a
ceasefire.
We need clear guarantees.
These guarantees can only be the result of
an order by Washington to Zelensky.
The limited truce on energy and sea came
about after Vladimir Putin responded to the originally
proposed full 30-day ceasefire with a long
list of conditions.
The White House said Tuesday it would continue
facilitating talks on both sides in a bid
towards achieving a sustainable peace.
Not quite the end the war in 24
hours that we were promised.
I'm sorry, that was...
Sarcastic.
Sarcastic, it was being sarcastic.
So they're starting very, very slowly.
We need to make peace profitable again.
I don't know how to do it.
Let's bring these clips in.
This is Trump versus the EU on NPR.
As we've reported before on this show, US
administrations, at least as far back as George
W.
Bush's, have been pushing European nations to increase
their defense spending.
But throughout, the US has remained committed to
the principle of NATO's Article 5, which says
that an attack against one ally is considered
as an attack against all allies.
That commitment appears to have ended with President
Trump.
I think it's common sense, right?
If they don't pay, I'm not going to
defend them.
No, I'm not going to defend them.
It's common sense.
You don't pay, we don't defend you.
NATO schmato is no good.
Yeah, they go on with this one.
Now, for the record, Article 5 of NATO
has only ever been invoked once.
And it was by the United States.
Bronislav Slonchev teaches military and war studies at
the University of California, San Diego.
When Article 5 was invoked after 9-11,
the Europeans responded.
Canadians, they went and they died.
The British went and they died.
Everybody responded.
Wait a minute, didn't the French say that
they didn't like it?
Didn't we have Freedom Fries for that whole
reason?
It was something of, what was the Freedom
Fries derived from?
It had something to do with it.
Yeah, I thought the French were like, no,
no, no, we're not going to do that.
I'll look it up.
That includes the French, by the way, who
supported the US by sending troops to Afghanistan,
89 of whom died and more than 700
of whom were wounded.
The Iraq War.
Yeah, yeah.
Public scorn for these sacrifices is just one
barb on the arrowhead.
Public scorn.
That has pierced the heart of the European
-American relationship and shredded trust between them.
And it's galvanized European governments to make themselves
independent of the US when it comes to
their defense.
But Fenella McGurdy says Europe was already ramping
up its defense spending long before Trump came
into office.
Fenella is a senior fellow for defense economics
at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in
London.
In 2024, we saw record defense spending growth
already, 11.7% in real terms.
And that was itself an increase, so an
acceleration from the level of growth we saw
in 2023, which reached 5.2%. And that
was an acceleration from the growth the year
before.
The EU plan announced last week will likely
break new records.
It advocates a massive ramp-up of defense
industrial production capacity and it unlocks a combined
$866 billion in military spending over four years.
That's a bite what the US spends in
a single year on defense.
So Branislav says it's not even close to
a conversion to a war economy, but it
could still be good medicine for Europe.
You know, there's a funny phenomenon I've noticed.
It goes basically like this.
Well, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, but we're gonna
do that anyway.
Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.
We're gonna do that anyway, so it's not
important.
This is the same phenomenon you see with
the NPR thing, and there's other examples I've
had on the show.
They say, well, it's only 1%, it doesn't,
you know.
Oh, they're taking all our money away, but
it's only 1%.
Yeah, yeah, it's only 1%, but still.
Or the park services, like, oh, the government
is making a great investment, the $10 billion
on national parks generates $70 billion.
What do you need the 10 for?
I found this, on and on, this idea,
you complain about something, but then back it
off and say, well, it's not important.
Just doesn't make any sense.
Now, further on, this, by the way, this
goes on forever.
The third clip is deep into the conversation
near the end.
I just thought I'd put, drop that in.
Everything is changing right now.
This current war, things have evolved dramatically.
Initially, for instance, everybody was talking artillery and
tanks.
That was a big thing.
Then the tanks turned out not to be
super effective.
And now everything is drones and the missiles,
right?
And everything then is- Why is he
laughing about that?
Is it because they're so cheap?
It's like, it's drones.
Now everything is drones and the missiles, right?
And why is that funny?
That is an interesting, I didn't notice this,
but you're right.
Why is it?
It's a laugh tale, but why?
Drones.
Drones, I don't know.
Oh, missiles.
Everything is drones and the missiles, right?
And everything then is related to how you
can keep electronic warfare from the interference.
Do you have eyes in the sky?
So the satellites, so these are the kind
of capabilities we should not be building to
fight.
In other words, the whole thing is a
farce.
I think that's why he's laughing.
War has become a farce.
It's like, it's just, it's like a, it's
like a video game.
Oh, we just push this.
We just push that.
We got eye in the sky.
We've got drones.
We got missiles.
It's not, it's not really like fighting in
the trenches anymore.
The last three wars we should be building
to fight the next one.
Europe can do all sorts of things to
move quickly or at least more quickly than
it usually does.
It can convert old factories to make arms
and reconfigure existing ones to become dual use
civilian and military production hubs.
It can develop supply relationships with other arms
providers like South Korea or Israel.
But whatever it does, it'll take time, Fenella
says.
And because of that, the US will likely
remain part of the European defense equation for
the foreseeable future.
It takes decades for a lot of these
programs.
So I think that there's some level of
dependence will always be there, certainly in things
like heavy lift transport and things like that,
because those capabilities do take time to develop.
And I think Europe could get there, but
not in perhaps in the timeframe it needs.
So there's always going to be that, that
some level of reliance on the US and
hopefully some partnerships going forward, which ultimately is
good for US defense industry as well.
Yeah, Eric Schmidt is a smart guy, man.
I remember we played clip of him all
about drones, drones is the new warfare, this
is where it's going.
And there it is.
There it is.
It's all cheap technology to blow people up.
By the way, food has been, renaming food
in time of war is not new.
So Freedom Fries was indeed, changed the name
of French fries in 2003, France's opposition to
invading Iraq, which in hindsight, of course they
were correct.
Yeah.
So we punished them.
Yeah, we're going to show you Frenchies.
World War I, sauerkraut was renamed in America
to Liberty Cabbage.
And Frankfurters and hot dogs were changed to
Liberty Dog.
We need to, we need a, we need
an anti-Russian kind of thing, but the
thing is Russia.
We don't need Russian foods.
No, because it's...
We're not in Russia.
Well, vodka.
Borscht.
We could change vodka.
Vodka, you could change that to what would
that be?
Freedom juice, freedom juice.
Freedom juice.
I'm writing it down.
Yeah.
Freedom juice.
What else?
Liberty Sap.
I mean, there's all kinds of things.
Liberty Sap.
Hey man, hit me with some...
Liberty Sap, neat.
Okay, nice.
Oh man, the people are crazy.
The world has gone nuts.
It's gone nuts, I tell you.
The world has gone nuts.
Well, I do have a couple of...
I get that...
These are clips I want to get out
of the way.
This is the D-E-I-D-O
-A clips.
There's only two of them.
Okay.
All right.
President Trump has called for an end to...
Oh, you got to warn me.
It's your buddy.
You got to warn me about that kind
of stuff.
You can't just launch into shush.
Suffer and succotash.
I'm Scott.
Simon.
President Trump has called for an end to
what he calls illegal diversity, equity, and inclusion
efforts.
So he has revoked a 1965 executive order
that has guided generations of federal contractors on
how to comply with non-discrimination laws.
As NPR's Andrea Hsu reports, that's leaving federal
contractors who employ one in five workers in
the U.S. scrambling.
The end of Lyndon B.
Johnson's executive order 11246 has kept Matt Camardella
busy.
His whole practice at the law firm Jackson
Lewis is helping companies that do business with
the government comply with that order and with
other federal laws.
Since Trump's return, he's been fielding questions nonstop.
This is pretty much all I've been doing
for the last six weeks.
The 1965 executive order required most federal contractors
to take steps to identify and address barriers
to employment for anyone, but especially women and
people of color.
Camardella says his clients took those responsibilities seriously.
Every year, they'd analyze their hiring and pay
practices to try to figure out, for example,
if women were getting paid less than men.
They'd plan out how to recruit a diverse
workforce so that their hires reflected the pool
of available workers around them.
There was real risk in not doing this
properly or at all for that matter.
But now things have gotten complicated.
Not only has Trump revoked Johnson's executive order
and halted its enforcement, the president has also
issued his own executive order requiring contractors to
certify that they're not engaging in illegal DEI.
Yeah, well, you know.
I didn't realize this went back to Lyndon
Johnson.
No, I didn't know that either.
But it doesn't surprise me, strangely enough.
But it really, I mean, the thing that
people forget about DEI is it was a
part of ESG.
And the reason why companies all got on
board with it is because they had a
score.
And it was, I think it was the
BlackRock guys, didn't they come up with some
board and this board determined?
Larry Fink.
Yes, the Finkelmeister.
And they had a score system.
And depending on your environmental, social and governance
score, you became less or more investable by
pension funds mainly.
That's why everyone got, it was a real,
real evil thing they did.
Yeah, but they pulled the plug on it
finally.
Oh, yes, they did.
A court has blocked- Mainly because the
investments were bad.
Yeah.
The high scoring ESG guys weren't good companies.
Lose your pants.
A court has blocked that part of Trump's
order for now.
Still, Camerodella says the problem is.
Nobody really understands what illegal DEI means.
He says nothing about federal anti-discrimination law
has changed.
In fact, he believes there's nothing wrong with
a company carrying on with what it had
been doing, looking at its pay practices or
its hiring or its outreach to ensure it's
complying with the law.
However, there may be a perception that somehow
that smacks of illegal DEI.
I'm very concerned.
Jenny Yang headed a labor department office that
enforced the 1965 executive order under President Biden.
That office investigated employers and all kinds of
industries, tech, manufacturing, construction.
In 2020, Princeton University agreed to pay more
than a million dollars in back wages and
salary adjustments to about a hundred female professors
after the government found pay disparities.
The university denied it had discriminated against women,
but agreed to look more closely at its
pay practices.
Jenny Yang says the Office of Federal Contractor
Compliance Programs, or OFCCP, can claim many successes.
So in the last decade, OFCCP recovered, for
example, over a hundred million dollars for women
who were victims of discrimination.
Now under Trump, that office is expected to
be largely dismantled since its primary task is
gone.
The labor department has not confirmed when that's
going to happen.
Trump says ending illegal discrimination will allow people
to compete based on merit.
Speaking of DEI, the Canadian Transportation Board released
the data from the black box of the,
was it the Delta flight?
The- The one that flipped over?
The one that flipped over.
And so they have not yet released the
cockpit voice recorder, which will be important to
hear.
So just on the pilots, so indeed the
first officer, the female, the co-pilot, was
a female officer.
She had just about the, I mean, she
graduated from the right academy and it's all
within the rules.
Then you don't need 1500 hours, but 1000
hours.
So she racked up another almost 500.
She'd flown 56 hours that week and she
was piloting, which is very normal, particularly when
you note that the captain, the pilot, the
one actually in control of the entire flight,
not only a very high amount of hours,
but a trainer on simulators and real world.
So that is exactly the scenario you want.
You want pilots to be flying and learn
how to fly and learn all kinds of
scenarios when you have an instructor there next
to her in this case.
There was nothing wrong with the aircraft, but
there were wind gusts and this was a
very hard landing.
The landing gear is rated to a drop
onto the tarmac with a sink rate, I
think, 760 feet per minute.
They headed at over 1000.
So what happened was, as I said, is
the, and so the full weight came down
on the right rear landing gear.
It snapped off and that's why the wing
hit the ground and then they were very
fortunate how that all ended up.
So it's not necessarily a DEI issue.
There's female pilots out there who yell at
me when I say this.
This could have happened to any pilot, but
really the male pilot in command was in
charge.
He should have had his hands on the
yoke.
He should have been following through the whole
time.
So we'll see exactly what was said, but
I think this could have happened to anybody,
but it wasn't good.
It was clearly human error.
And that's your update from the air.
BBC World Service aviation update.
Speaking of illegal DEI, there's another term that
popped up in regards to the GLP-1,
or as we say, I went to my,
I got my hair cut in Austin the
other day, what is it, Gluta, what's the
name of the compound?
Gluta...
Glutamine, glutamine, glutamine.
No, it's not glutamine.
Glutatide, gluty, gluty, gluty-tooty.
Gluty-tooty, no, she pronounced it in a
French way and it sounded kind of good.
Oh, semi-glutidase, semi-decre, semi-glutidase.
Because now every single hair salon hands out
little flyers, little cards for the injection nurse,
which we learned just a few weeks ago.
And you get your Botox, you get your
lip fillers and you get your GLP-1,
your semi-glutidase.
Kind of a place are you going to?
Every place has that now, by the way.
No, they don't.
Yes, yes, all- You're going to some
sort of a screwball place, some sort of
a place with the upper crust of Dallas
or whatever, or Austin.
Okay, so first of all, it's a women's
hair salon mainly.
Well, that would make sense.
Although the former New York banker also goes
there.
I've been going to her for 15 years.
So when we left Austin, I was not
going to give up on my hair relationship.
But it's good because she is definitely libtard
adjacent, but she has no problem with my
views.
And we always have a really nice conversation
and she always, because she has no one
to talk to about how crazy people, no
one in her life, not her partner, nobody.
She can't just say- She's a lesbian?
No, no, she's not a lesbian.
She's a deadhead though.
She goes to Vegas to sit in the
sphere three nights in a row and she
loved John Mayer.
But she has no one in her life
where she can- How old is this
woman?
She is 47, I think, 47.
47?
Yes.
And what does that have to do with
anything?
I just want to know who would go
to Vegas and sit in the sphere for
three days unless they were a young stoner.
Thousands and thousands of people.
Young stoners.
Yes.
And so she, and Vegas is not legal
to be stoned everywhere.
Walk around, the whole place smells like weed.
You can drink though in the street.
Yes.
You can smoke weed on the street too.
But now the hotels, the casinos, everything smells
of weed.
Anyway, it's horrible.
It's nasty.
To get to the point of the story.
So she can't just say, oh, I enjoyed
watching Trump on Rogan.
She can't say that to anybody in her
world, in Austin.
Despite the fact that Rogan is in Austin,
is a local.
Yeah.
No, that is not done.
And she said that she had a client
the other day and these are just, yeah,
maybe upper crust.
I'm not sure, but Austin, white Austin women.
And the topic of Tesla came up and
Elon.
She's like, eh, well, you know.
And her customer said, you know, he's a
Nazi, right?
And my girl was like, no, he is
a, so these people, these are educated people,
actually believe he is a Nazi.
Because- Like a literal Nazi.
A literal, not just like a name you
call someone.
No, he's a Nazi.
He is an actual Nazi.
Exactly.
Anyway, back to the, it was a fun
trip.
It's worth the drive, trust me.
Back to this illegal term when it comes
to the semi-glutides.
Listen to this.
A new report reveals illegal ingredients in knockoff
weight loss drugs that are flooding into the
United States.
Shabbir Imber Shaftar is the executive director of
the Partnership for Safe Medicines and the coauthor
of this new report.
He's joining me now live.
Hello to you.
So, illegal ingredients.
Now, when you hear that, what is the
first thing you think?
Apparently nothing.
You walked away.
You walked away during my report.
Are you peeing?
You just like, oh.
I always forget that I have speakers.
Do you have something else to do?
Yeah, the phone was ringing off the hook.
Well, we've been doing this show for over
17 years.
Take it off the hook already.
And I listened to the clip and the
clip was going on and on.
And I said, well, this clip is gonna
go on long enough that I can walk
over to the phone and take it off
the hook and you can hear it beeping
back there.
Yes.
And then you come on with a question
out of the blue.
Oh, no.
I thought we were doing a show, but
oh, no.
No.
Okay, did you understand the question?
Would you like me to restart the clip
and do the question again and we can
end it out?
Well, I heard the clip.
I could hear the clip.
The question was vague.
I'll play the clip again It was about,
no, it was about what ingredients that are
illegal.
Yeah.
You said what ingredients were illegal?
No, I said, when someone says an ingredient
is illegal, what is the, this is a
news report.
What do you think that means?
And that, what you just said is different
than what I just said that you contradicted
and said I didn't know what you were
talking about.
Answer the question, go.
What do I think that?
Mark Levin.
And so, go.
The, what do I think it means?
It means that something's toxic.
Yes, that's my point.
Thank you for answering the question correctly.
You go on to our second round.
Of this new report, he's joining me now
live.
Hello to you.
Hello, and thank you for covering this critical
safety information.
Clearly a PR guy.
He's not a doctor, he's a PR dude.
The information.
Of course, you know, let's start with what
you found and what your report reveals when
it comes to these illegal weight loss drugs
that are coming into the country.
Now all of a sudden, the whole thing
is illegal.
So in our report, we studied shipments of
semaglutide and trizepatide, the active ingredients in these
very popular weight loss medications that were coming
into the country and found that there were
shipments that were declared as being made in
factories that the FDA did not even know
of, were not registered with the FDA and
certainly never inspected.
And some of them were marked as for
compounding, which is a great concern of ours
because there's been some issues with compounding these
medicines and safety.
So it's not that they were toxic ingredients.
They came from labs that the FDA had
never heard of.
So this is a PR move because it's
just semaglutide, which is a non-patentable peptide.
But oh, they came from labs the FDA
had never, it's illegal, it's illegal.
Okay, so are these illegal ingredients getting into
the- Oh boy, she really punches that
one up.
Yeah, she punched it up, didn't she?
I like that.
Which is a great concern of ours because
there's been some issues with compounding these medicines
and safety.
Okay, so are these illegal ingredients getting into
the legal- It was in her script.
I think it was italicized in her script.
Like, and really punch this one up because
this guy's paying to be on.
Okay, so are these illegal ingredients getting into
the legal supply of these drugs?
Does that make sense?
It does make sense.
We don't actually know enough because FDA does
not publish where the shipments went.
We only know that there were nearly 200
shipments that came in that were made in
places that could never have been safe, even
if they'd been known to the FDA.
One was the JW Marriott.
There was another one at a health fitness
club and another one at a high school
in Canada.
And none of those could possibly even believably
be legal and legitimate or safe facilities.
And then he adds safe, legal or legitimate
or safe.
So the message is get your brand name
drugs, everybody.
Get them now because all of your Congress
people have been paid off by them, according
to RFK Jr. Today, over a hundred members
of Congress support a bill to fund Ozempic
with Medicare at $1,500 a month.
Most of these members have taken money from
the manufacturer of that product, a European company
called Novo Nordisk.
As everyone knows, once a drug is approved
for Medicare, it goes to Medicaid.
And there is a push to recommend Ozempic
for Americans as young as six over a
condition of obesity that is completely preventable and
barely even existed a hundred years ago.
Since 74% of Americans are obese, the
cost of all of them, if they take
their Ozempic prescription, will be $3 trillion a
year.
This is a drug that has made Novo
Nordisk the biggest company in Europe.
It's a Danish company, but the Danish government
does not recommend it.
It recommends a change in diet to treat
obesity and exercise.
Virtually Novo Nordisk's entire value is based upon
its projections of what Ozempic is going to
sell to Americans.
For half the price of Ozempic, we could
purchase regeneratively raised organic agriculture, organic food for
every American, three meals a day, and gym
membership for every obese American.
Why are members of Congress doing the bidding
of this Danish company instead of standing up
for American farmers and children?
Because Novo Nordisk is one of the largest
funders of medical research, the media and politicians
and the medical schools all go along with
them.
I like the calculation.
I think we should give away organic food,
three meals a day to everybody and a
gym membership.
I'm all for that.
Put it on Medicare.
Here's my Medicare card.
Give me my beef.
Talk is cheap, Bobby.
Get on the stick already.
This, you know, I think there was a
- Yeah, I actually did.
I'm with you on this.
Talk is cheap.
Get on the stick.
The main thing is let's get these advertisers
off the TV, for starters, which he's been
threatening to do now.
He came up in the conversation just recently,
but there's still no action.
Media, of course, won't be too happy about
it.
Why not?
That's where half their income comes from.
Oh, the media.
I thought you said Mimi.
I'm like, why would Mimi be upset with
that?
I have screaming Mimis in my brain ever
since you said it.
Screaming Mimi is a phrase.
Yes, I'd never heard it.
I've learned something.
There's been a rumor going around and people
like, I think, Zero Hedge even published it.
No, Unusual Whales, there you go.
There's a rumor that he's gonna do it.
He's gonna do it.
He's gonna- Gonna do it?
He's gonna do it.
He's gonna ban Big Pharma advertising.
But I think that started with a parody
account on X, which a lot of people
- Well, he promised he's gonna do it.
Was it a true promise?
It's one of the three.
But let me just, okay, I wanna say
one.
What was it?
Advertising.
Let's listen to it again.
I'm not intimidated by the agencies.
I know how they work and I know
how to change them.
And most of those changes you do not
need Congress for.
The president, President Trump, could have done it,
had the power to do it himself.
And President Biden has the power to do
it himself.
And I'll give you an example.
With a stroke of the pen, you can
change back the rule that allows pharmaceutical advertisers
to do direct-to-consumer ads on television.
That's one of the big problems.
That's one of the reasons we have this
entrenched agency capture, not only of Congress, because
they control the airwaves, they control the evening
news.
75% of the revenues for those evening
news shows are Anderson Cooper is coming from
Pfizer and other pharmaceutical companies.
And those companies are dictating content on those
shows and they dictate the official narratives.
And I have another clip here where he
talked about it on Rogan.
You know, ambitions have completely subsumed the regulatory
function of those agencies.
And that has to end.
You know, one of the things that we
need to do too is to get rid
of pharmaceutical advertising on television.
There's only two countries in the world that
allow it.
One is New Zealand.
The other is our country.
Everybody who is knowledgeable is against it.
And it not only has compromised public health.
We now, we take, largely because of that
advertising, we take three or four times the
amount of drugs as Europeans take.
And drugs are the number three killer in
our country.
Pharmaceutical drugs, the number three killer after cancer
and heart attacks.
They're not making us healthier.
We spend more on healthcare, 4.3 trillion
in the country and the world in terms
of our health outcomes.
They're insufferable.
All of these drugs, the pharmaceutical industry is
not making us safe.
And you know, we changed the rule in
1997.
Prior to 1997, like cigarettes and liquor, you
couldn't advertise on TV.
We changed those rules and FDA allowed the
pharmaceutical companies to advertise.
And they not only now have a platform
from which they can tell everybody, you're sick,
you need this, you need that.
But also they are able to dictate content
on television.
So they can dictate content on the local
news.
And on YouTube.
Yeah, of course.
Okay, well, get to it, Bobby.
Yeah, we're waiting.
Yeah, because then we can finally get some
big pharma ads on the podcast.
Oh, John, I just got my Ozempic.
I'm feeling great.
I'm down 8,000 pounds.
I heard a drug advertised on the radio
the other day, like Restora or something.
They have some of the more recent ones.
I would guess they're recording some of these
because they're pushing a lot of drugs onto
the TV that I've never heard of.
They're all new and they got the worst
side effects.
Yeah, well, sorry.
And the worst names, the names are really
bad and the side effects are just off,
they're wild.
Let me think what this was called.
It restores your muscle mass when you're on
GLP-1 drugs.
Wow, it's called steroids.
No, no, no, no, it's, what was it
called?
I think it was called, it was something
like Restora.
Do you like being thin, but your legs
are breaking?
We've got Restora.
Oh man, it's so bad.
And that was kind of my point when
I saw the card.
You know, it's like, get your Botox, get
your lip fillers.
So they gave you a, okay, this is
like a shaggy dog story.
I should have taken it with me.
We're back at, you didn't take the card
with you?
No.
It's got a cute one.
Oh, wait a minute, you go on and
on about how great it is to go
to the Austin.
It's always worth the price of admission.
You give me grief for just even suggesting
anything and then you leave the card?
I know, I feel very bad about that.
You should.
Inject, here, maybe I can find it.
Injection nurse, Austin.
This, but this, so they put it.
So there's an injection nurse at your hairdresser.
Well, she comes in and here, 63 nurse
injector jobs available in Austin, Texas.
This is, wow, $29 to $56 an hour
injection nurse jobs in Austin.
No hiring!
Wow.
It's called an aesthetic nurse.
So they come in in Botox gel or
give you some GLP-1 in the gut?
Yep, well, that's the upsell.
What else can they give you?
Shoot you up with steroids?
Or can they do anything else that's worthwhile?
Well, I think that's the upsell is the,
the nurse, the Austin nurse is an, this
is the Austin nurse, concierge injection specialist.
It's concierge.
Concierge, I love that.
Here we go.
The Austin nurse is an experienced injection specialist
committed to providing excellence in concierge injection administration
and training.
We provide help with fertility medications, anticoagulants, semiglutides
like Ozempic, blood glucose and insulin injectors and
more!
Yeah, so she'll come to your house.
She's got a blog.
Nice.
Yeah, but this is, this is, this is
the thing.
This is what people are doing.
Is they do, you've heard of Botox parties,
certainly.
No.
Yeah.
Women actually talk in MLs.
How many MLs did you get as in
milliliters?
Yeah, it'd be milliliter.
Yeah.
How many MLs?
Oh, I got 10 MLs.
What do you charge per ML?
Oh, it's only $79 per ML.
It's, it's sad.
All women are fake.
Not a single one is un-Botoxed.
I'm just guessing.
I think there's plenty of un-Botoxed gals
out there.
Yeah, do you, what do you think about
Pam Bondage?
Oh, she's definitely got Botox in the forehead.
Do you ever see her raise her eyebrows?
Nope.
Ever?
Nope.
Even when she said, top guy!
The eyebrows did not move.
You're the top guy.
Top guy.
Yeah, with that, I want to thank you
for your courage.
Say in the morning to you, the man
who put the C in shaking the chain.
Say hello to my friend on the other
end.
The one, the only, the legendary Mr. John
C.
DeMora!
Hi!
Are there any more ship sequencing, graphing the
air subs in the water than the dames
and knights out there?
In the morning to the trolls in the
troll room, we had you for a second.
We may not make another four years, John.
Only $18.90 today.
That's average to me.
That, it's, you are, your numbers are off
because ever since you started giving me crap
about it, I started tracking it.
Our last- $18 is the classic and
$24 on Sunday.
No, the last 100 show average is $19
.04. Yeah, well, that's not the number I've
ever heard.
Yeah, but I'm looking at the numbers, baby.
I got the numbers.
Yeah, you got numbers, but they're not the
numbers you've been reading for the last 10
years.
Yes.
When you do the numbers, you can go
back and listen to the past shows.
It's $1,600, $1,700, $1,800, $1
,800, $1,800.
The number of times you've said $1,900
for a Thursday show is so low.
It's like maybe once every few months, but
somehow it's the average.
I call bogus.
You can call whatever you want.
Bogus.
Speaking of old shows, I have a throwback.
You want to do a special bonus clip?
Sure.
And this is, well, and then I have
to play this, it's two clips.
I have to play the setup clip first.
And the setup clip is something that we
all probably heard about.
A year from now, 23andMe will be, a
year from now, 23andMe will be growing and
thriving.
Five years from now, 23andMe will transform healthcare.
That was Anne Wojcicki, CEO of the genetic
testing company 23andMe.
She told us that back in November, and
now there's word that Anne has resigned and
23andMe has filed for bankruptcy protection.
Nancy Chin is here with what this means
for customers.
Nancy, when I woke up to this news
this morning, I was so sad and disappointed
to hear it because I know how hard
Anne worked and I know how much she
loves this company.
And there's a lot of customers who have
also loved it for a long time.
So big surprising news for many, but the
DNC won't tell you.
No one loved the company for a long
time.
I love 23andMe.
I love this company.
I use their services all the time, every
couple of weeks.
I love this company.
It makes no sense.
And there's a lot of customers who have
also loved it for a long time.
So big surprising news for many, but the
DNA testing company 23andMe has been facing serious
financial challenges for months now.
Last fall, it announced major corporate restructuring and
that's when concerns of what could happen to
users' data started surfacing.
On Friday, the Attorney General of California, where
23andMe's headquarter urged customers to request their information
be purged.
He says they should consider invoking their rights
and directing the company to delete their data
and destroy samples of their genetic material.
He said, if 23andMe were involved in a
bankruptcy, merger, or sale, personal data may also
be sold or transferred.
No, say it ain't so, really.
Episode 599 of the best podcast in the
universe, September 29th, 2013, is when we gave
our first of many warnings about this.
Here's what I want you to be cognizant
of.
When you sign up for 23andMe and you
get on your little social network and sharing
your little genetic defects, be wary as to
who else has that information.
And at some point in the future, Bill
Gates might be going, well, we really don't
want to.
Is that you?
Yes, that's me.
What a muddy mic.
This is dangerous.
Well, to be fair, it was 12 years
ago.
I didn't have the great mic that we
soon will be selling to everybody.
You walked right into that one, pal.
I did.
Why don't you just throw it?
Here, let me get a couple more softballs
here to toss you.
How about a book?
Or just the website, since we're doing a
donation segment.
Dvorak.org slash an A is not where
you want to go.
You want to go to- You can
go there.
It's got stuff you can check on.
It's got outdated links.
It's got the PayPal links don't work anymore.
Come on.
Okay, I'm fixing that site tomorrow.
If you don't fix it- I doubt
you, Thomas.
There you go.
I will stick my finger in the holes.
If it's not fixed, I'm not doing a
show.
That's it.
I'm done.
I'm boycotting the show.
If you don't fix the website.
Thank you, trolls who are hanging out in
the troll room.
Everyone's writing it down in their own red
books.
Yeah, there you go.
The trolls are listening at trollroom.io or
perhaps they are even on one of those
modern podcast apps, which are quite swanky indeed.
You can- Swanky.
They're very swanky.
People are like, wow, what app is that?
Oh, that's my modern podcast app, of course.
Oh, that's beautiful.
What does it do?
Well, it alerts me when my favorite shows
go live, including the Noah Jenner stream.
And you can listen to it live in
the app.
What?
You can do that in that app, in
a podcast app?
Oh yeah.
And when my favorite podcasts, when they publish
a show within 90 seconds, I know exactly
that it's there.
Boom, I get an alert.
What?
I'm on Apple and sometimes it takes hours.
That's why you want to go to podcastapps
.com, everybody.
It's enhancements brought to you by the friendly
folks at podcastindex.org.
Value for value is how we continue to
somehow muddle through our last four years, or
our four more years, I should say.
People send me links like, you said that
when Trump won the first time.
That's correct.
But now we mean it for real, four
more years.
And so we don't have ads, although people
have found some interesting loopholes in our system.
Yes, they have loopholes indeed.
Some really good loopholes.
People are like, hey man, I'm making a
killing on my business through that Noah Jenner
show.
It's fantastic.
Here's what you do.
You become an executive producer or sadly, chief
associate executive producers.
Chief associate, yeah, yeah.
The loophole is phenomenal.
I love it.
And now the way you can support the
show is multi-pronged.
You can support us with your time, your
talent, or your treasure.
And time and talent, people send clip ideas,
it always helps when they send time codes.
That's really highly appreciated.
People do organized meetups, they do jingles and
show mixes.
There's tons of stuff that people do.
Run servers for us everywhere.
Servers are running everywhere, like noagendaartgenerator.com, which
is where you can upload.
And it's had its ups and downs throughout
the years, but generally, I don't have to
maintain it.
I'd say it's a good deal for us.
We don't have to hire someone to maintain
it.
And then we have the artists themselves who
create this artwork for us.
And then we use that to draw attention
to the show.
It makes us look fresh every single time.
And we looked funky fresh with the artwork
for episode 1749.
We titled that show Gynocracy, or as I
like to say, Gynocracy.
And it was Sir Shug, AKA Faux Diddly,
who came in with the winning piece that
we picked.
The Flexiblize, live from Ursula Studios, which was,
it was a poppy piece.
You know, it was definitely related to the
show.
And it popped all kinds of, you know,
boys and girls dancing.
You know, there were Flexiblize.
Did you get the note from the woman
who used to be a jazzercise person and
sent the original art?
No.
Oh yeah, one of our producers had something
to do with the original art, which was
jazzercise.
Really?
It had the same dancers, only they were
kind of different, slightly different.
No way.
And the same basic logo.
This is where it came from.
Oh, so it's a ripoff.
It's a ripoff.
She thought it was a compliment.
Well, of course it's a compliment.
That's so cool.
But it was a ripoff, but I'm wondering
whether Sir Shug developed it by hand.
Because to do a ripoff, you have to
have the original, and then you develop a
kind of a copy of it, or AI
actually copied it.
Could be, could be, could be.
I got an AI story for you for
later.
Yeah, I saw you have AI clips.
I have a couple AI clips.
Good.
You do your clips, I'll bring the story.
I don't know about that.
Yeah, I do.
I'm in control.
Who's driving?
You're like the DEI hire on this show.
I'm the shotgun.
You're the DEI hire.
I'm the DEI guy.
Shut up.
No laughing.
So we appreciate that.
Of course, we use many of the pieces
of art for our chapter artwork, which Dreb
Scott diligently does for every single show.
We appreciate that very much.
We looked at a couple other things.
Creepy was Helmet Hair by Blue Acorn, which
was Ursula.
That was an AI job, but that was
pretty interesting how it turned out.
Yes, everybody liked to harangue me about, oh,
The Hague is the new Dutch capital.
It's not Amsterdam.
That's actually contentious.
We talked about it after the show.
It's not a pure capital.
What was that?
It was like a- No, it turns
out that there's two capitals of Holland.
Yes.
And it turns out, and then we also
did a little research after the show, and
it turns out that there's about 10 countries
that have dual capitals.
Because the technical description of a capital is
where the government has its seat.
Oh, that was the term.
It was a strange term.
Yeah, we looked at it.
I think we used AI to do the
research.
Really?
Well, then I don't trust you.
I think you used Chad GPT.
You remember what you're talking about.
You're always doing that.
That's exactly what I want to talk about
when you play your AI clips.
There was a term.
I can't remember what the term was.
Yeah, so yeah, Holland has two capitals.
The origin of this capital confusion goes back
to the Middle Ages.
Back then, The Hague was the seat of
the government for the country of Holland and
the courts of Holland.
Amsterdam was just your ordinary up-and-coming
center of trade.
Anyway, fine.
All right, fine, everybody.
Do funny artwork.
I'm good.
I'll say I was wrong.
You were wrong.
Technically, the capital is where the government seats.
What else did we have?
There was deepfake nudes.
No, there was E-meter girls.
Got a nice note.
We got a couple of notes from Scientologists.
Hello, Scientologists.
Yeah, we have a number of Scientologists that
were chuckling about our E-mail.
Even the producer who gave us the E
-meters, he still listens.
I love that.
Yeah, I think that's funny.
Yeah, the thing is, he turns out, we
didn't mention this necessarily, but I forgot about
it.
He says his dad was a big shot
in Scientology and he had a bunch of
these E-meters and he couldn't sell them,
get rid of them after his dad died,
because if you try to sell them on
eBay, the Scientology community goes after you and
makes your life miserable.
Oh, no.
They knock on your door and say, hey.
Don't give away our technology.
And so the guy says, hell with it.
I'll just send them to these two bozos.
And so he sends us a couple of
these E-meters.
And we still have them.
We still have them.
We didn't reach.
I'm using them all the time.
So I got another note from another Scientologist
who made the point, he said, you should
charge the E-meter to make the battery
last longer, because we probably haven't charged the
thing ever.
No, I have not.
Oh, I should do that.
Also, I got another note from, and I
shouldn't say he's a Scientologist, but people who
are members of the Church of Scientology and
said- So that would be a Scientologist?
Yeah, well, that's not how he introduced himself.
And he said, you have a lot of,
okay, I'll use your term.
You have a lot of Scientologists listening to
the show because there's a big crossover with
you guys between your stance on vaccines, et
cetera, other pharmaceutical products.
Then there was something else.
Your desire to have tax-free income, I
think, was the other thing.
I'm not sure.
It was something like that.
It makes sense.
So hello, hello, Scientologists.
You're welcome.
Everybody's welcome here.
Yeah.
Yeah, we've never had a problem with anybody.
At least we got some free E-meters.
Hey, it beats a punch in the head.
Free E-meter.
Like I said to the guy, I got
the E-meter, but we didn't get the
pretty girl with it.
So what are you gonna do?
That's what it was.
So thank you very much, Sir Shug, aka
Foe Diddley.
We appreciate your support of the show, as
always.
And that brings us to our executive and
associate executive producers.
We'd like to thank them separately, just like
Hollywood does.
You know, I watched another movie.
I watched the Flight Risk, which is Mark
Wahlberg.
And- Is this another movie you watch
without Tina because she doesn't watch these kinds
of movies?
No, she, the last Wahlberg movie I watched
was pretty dumb.
So I think if I had suggested another
one, she might not have gone for it.
But it was really good.
And a lot of it was, it took
place in a Cessna airplane.
And at the end, boom, credits, executive producer
and director, Mel Gibson.
Like, wow.
He's running for governor.
Of what state?
California.
Really?
Yep.
Wow, that would be- I think he
might be able to even get the job.
Wow, wow.
Because if Kamala Harris runs, there's gonna be
a backlash against her because nobody likes her.
No.
And people always like, you know, let's give
him a shot.
What's it gonna, how bad could it be?
It's Mel.
He's pretty successful with movies.
Yeah, he knows what he's doing.
So we thank everybody, $50 and above.
So you can keep track at home if
you feel called to do that.
But we really just like to thank people
and share with you the support that they
have given because it does keep the show
going for four more years.
$200 or above, you get a credit, like
Hollywood, an associate executive producer credit.
And that is good for your lifetime.
You can use it anywhere, put it anywhere.
If anyone questions that, we will vouch for
you.
Can use it on your resume as example.
$300 and above, we will give an executive
producer credit.
And in both cases, we'll read your note.
If it's within reason and not too long,
oh, we've got a long one here today,
I see.
And that gives you the same credit, which
you can then use on imdb.com.
So we'll start off with our first and
top guy, top executive producer of episode 1750,
the Archduke of Central Florida.
I don't remember his actual pre-Duke name,
but he lives in Winter Park, Florida.
And he came in with, actually he gets
a double credit for this because he also
gets a show number donation, 1750.
Yeah, that was a good one.
Which he says heretofore known as the Blofeld
donation from Archduke of Central Florida.
Keep up the Queen Ursula clips, very informative.
Five more years, he says.
Oh, he's skimping, five more years.
Five more years.
Well, if we get more people that donated
1750 every show, we'd probably do five more
years.
Explain the Blofeld donation, because I don't-
I forgot, I don't know, I don't remember.
What is Blofeld?
Blofeld was one of the evil characters in
the early James Bond movies.
Oh, okay.
Stavros Blofeld, he always used to have a
big white cat and he would wear this
gray outfit and he had a scar on
his face and he was bald and he
was nasty.
Thank you very much, Archduke of Central Florida.
And yes, we will now call this the
Blofeld donation, 1750.
Clifford Reemersma.
I would say it's Reemersma.
Reemersma, Reemersma in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, $350.93. Just
bought a pair of work boots for $330.
Wow.
I figure it's time to invest in another
luxury that helps me through the workday.
That's the show, the No Agenda Show.
That's 333.33 plus fees.
Wow.
Two thirds to the knighthood, two thirds of
the way to the knighthood.
Could I get a relationship karma, please?
Yeah, absolutely.
He totally understands the system.
You've got karma.
That's exactly how you should see the show.
He got something out of it and he
put it right back in.
That's the value model right there in a
nutshell.
Yeah, he looked at the shoes.
He said, these are 300 bucks and they're
gonna protect, but he probably has steel toes.
And he said, well, you know what?
This is protecting my brain.
I have one rule which Tina and I
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If you're using anything on a daily basis,
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So if it's a mattress, if it's a
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And if you're listening to a podcast twice
a week for a total of six over
six hours, you might as well make sure
it's continuous.
You want it to be the best podcast
in the universe.
So you need to support us.
That's my logic.
I think that's a good one.
333.33 from Meister Chit Chat in Russellville,
Arkansas.
And he has a very complicated note.
Good evening or morning salutations, amazing gentlemen.
Okay, more brevity is appreciated.
Thank you for your service.
I'd like that, it's courage.
I'd like to clarify my previous donation was
a 333.33 switcheroo with fees included.
So is this one, Miss Eclectic Chit Chat
of Harmony Homestead.
This donation is also a switcheroo for the
same Miss Chit Chat.
Okay, so let me put- Mrs. Chit
Chat.
Mrs. Chit Chat, so let me put in
Mrs. Chit Chat.
There we go.
I must make it clear that we engage
corporately without prejudice for our firstborn to be
named after you without prejudice, our son will
be named Gabriel Nolan of God, a hero
or champion, thanks to you.
And for more years, he will be instrumental
in bringing more souls to the creator during
this time of turmoil.
Is your name Gabriel?
I guess.
Adam Gabriel Curry.
Thank you both and all of Knowage in
the nation.
We can begin the next phase of our
parentage after four years of IVF effort.
Oh, wow, all right.
Expensive and tedious, yes.
No success until we underwent a de-douching.
A de-douching did it.
And Lupron endometriosis treatment.
I think it was the de-douching.
My wife is now over one third of
motherhood and two third damehood.
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Sorry for the obtuse note.
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Woo, no jingles, no karma.
Everything above was long enough, he says.
Yes, SirMeisterChitchat of Harmony Homestead.
Thank you.
Thank you, SirMeisterChitchat.
Great note, very entertaining.
Well, let's contrast that with Chapp Williams in
Edmond, Oklahoma, who came with 333.33. That
was a check with no note, and so
he gets a double up karma.
Oh, and here we go, double up for
the karmas.
You've got karma.
And 333 from SirTanley, SirTanley, Port Orange, Florida.
ITM, Jen, so much to say, so little
time, so I'll keep it short.
Keep up the good work, boys.
You've kept me listening twice a week since
2016, and this donation is a switcheroo for
my wife, Stormy.
All right, switcheroo has been engaged.
Happy 17th anniversary, babe.
You are my ride or die.
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You can use them.
Eli the coffee guy's up.
He's in Bensonville, Illinois, 230.
$3.20. And he says, well, news agency
railed against the administration for deporting an innocent
pro-Palestine activist for exercising his free speech.
You guys called out Mahmoud Khalil for being
a spook.
That's the type of deconstruction that makes no
agenda truly the best podcast in the universe.
Thank you for the insight.
Jingle, spot the spook.
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♪ A spot the spook, spot the spook
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Man, I really get him today, don't I?
Day Mary Moon, Prairieville, Louisiana.
Everyone, this is the best day ever.
$200 associate executive producership for her.
And it's a switcheroo for my hubby, Sir
Juklaw.
Oh, okay, all right, Sir Juklaw.
All right, so we'll put Sir Juklaw in
there, perfect.
Welp, good job on the no agenda artwork
you picked on Sunday.
Oh, we were just talking about it.
It prompted my donation.
See, this is why Time Talent Treasure works.
It works in so many different ways, sometimes
unexpected.
I'm not sure if you realized it or
not, possibly it will be discussed on Thursday,
but the graphic is clearly a knockoff of,
oh, this is the note, of the original
Jazzercize artwork, Jazzercize.
I'm sending you the original so you can
compare the similarities.
I'm not mad about the similarities, quite the
contrary.
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I need to get the Fredericksburg franchise license.
We have 8,000 locations and we're in
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I've been making people dance, sweat, and smile
for over 55 years.
By the way, guys, you too can take
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We don't discriminate.
We're not the ginocracy.
Thanks, John and Adam and the artists who
donated their time and talent for making my
morning a little sunnier when I saw the
artwork pop up.
That's from Dame Mary Moon.
How about that?
There it is.
So that's why I never saw the note,
because I didn't get it.
That's what happened there.
It's amazing, the people that listen to this
show.
We have.
And produce it.
Yeah, we do, we do have amazing.
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And there it is again.
Another long note with a switcheroo.
This is crazy.
A switcheroo.
This is from Caitlin Meyer of Los Angeles,
California.
And switcheroo for Lady Linda of Los Angeles.
Mira que burra, happy birthday.
And that is today.
So on the list.
Your cara de chucho face of a brother
and his wife are putting in the big
one for you, so don't ever say we
did nothing for you.
We're taking a note from Linda Lou, Duchess
of Jobs and writer of resumes and Eli
the Coffee Guy and giving you a big
shout out in front of the best podcast
listeners in the universe.
That's interesting.
Now we have people who use a service
or a product advertising it.
This is great.
That's a double switcheroo.
And Caitlin Meyer asks, have you got money
on your mind?
Why?
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Wow.
Now I might have to withdraw the money
from Horowitz and give it to Linda because
she cares and she's good.
We request jobs, Karma, for the birthday girl.
Here's to another great trip around the sun.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs.
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Wow.
That was pretty amazing.
Very interesting executive and associate executive producers.
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All right, two little quick fun, fun clips,
two little quick fun clips, quickies, little quickies,
little quickies.
Sure.
A little AOC gaffe.
And this isn't just about Republicans.
We need a Democratic party that fights harder
for us to.
Your future president, ladies and gentlemen.
Yeah, this is what she's thinking.
That's what's on her mind.
And then this one from Jasmine Crockett.
Everyone's losing their mind over this.
I think this is way overblown.
A Congresswoman from North Texas is causing controversy
over recent comments she made about Governor Abbott.
Fox's Steven Dial explains.
Well, as Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is being called
out by other elected officials for her comments
last Saturday at a human rights campaign event.
Y'all know we got Governor Hot Wheels
down there.
Come on now.
That means that he is a hot mess.
Referring to Governor Greg Abbott as Hot Wheels,
Abbott was partially paralyzed when a tree fell
on him decades ago.
I think this is stupid.
It's actually a cool name.
I think Governor Hot Wheels is pretty funny.
Everybody, ooh, outrage.
Oh, I can't believe she said that she
made fun of the man in the wheelchair.
How hypocritical is that?
Like when Trump makes fun of people's ears
and eyes and height and whatever.
Oh, it's great.
This is actually, I have to say, as
a nickname, I think it's pretty cool.
I'm gonna call him Governor Hot Wheels from
now on.
Okay.
What did you think?
Did you think anything of this at all?
I know you're lost.
No, everybody talked about this.
I thought it was, I think you're right.
It was overblown.
I do think it was kind of at
the, she gave it at a human rights
convention, which I think that was the wrong
audience.
Well, there's that.
I mean, it was like, you know, ableist
kind of thing.
Wow, you are the DEI hire.
You use the term ableist?
Yeah, just because that's the nature of when
she says it.
I think the venue was wrong.
And so she wasn't thinking, but she's a
dummy.
So who cares what she says?
It still was funny.
It is funny.
And I think Hot Wheels is a good
nickname for the guy.
Yeah.
And from now on.
Although I never see him moving very fast
in that thing.
Well, that's kind of the funny part.
It's like, this is what you do.
You give people nicknames based upon their physical
appearance.
We do this all the time on the
show.
Yes, we do it all the time.
Okay, so.
But we're not in front of a human
rights convention.
We do it.
Well, we are in front of Scientologists.
I mean.
Yeah, it's true.
We get the Scientologists.
We haven't really given anyone grief.
No.
Do they really donate the Scientologists?
Or they don't, do they do the silent
donations?
You know, it's a good question.
We'll have to take a look.
I'll have to go back to this.
Let's do a little couple.
Well, I got a couple of clips which
kind of have a little gotcha in here
that I think is worth talking about.
This is about religious quitting.
This is on NPD, especially on people that
are brought up in a religion and they
quit.
Hell no.
People around the world are switching religions or
leaving religion altogether.
A new study from Pew Research finds that
large portions of adults no longer practice the
faith in which they were raised.
Pew surveyed nearly 80,000 people in 36
countries.
NPR religion correspondent Jason Derose reports.
Switching is especially common in East Asia, Europe,
and the Americas.
Kirsten LaSage is the study's lead author.
Out of the 36 countries that we surveyed
in, the three countries with the highest rates
of religious switching are South Korea, Spain, and
Canada.
In South Korea, Pew found that 50%
of respondents had changed religions.
In Spain, 40% said they'd left their
childhood faith.
In Canada, the number is 38%.
By comparison, in the US, 28% switched.
LaSage says two religions were most affected.
The religious groups that have had the largest
losses from religious switching are Christianity and Buddhism.
LaSage says the change is particularly acute in
parts of Europe.
For example, Italy has the highest ratio of
people leaving to people joining Christianity.
For every one person who becomes Christian, about
28 Italians are leaving the religion.
The biggest gains were among those who have
no religious affiliation, which is a group that
includes atheists, agnostics, and those who describe themselves
as nothing in particular.
So it's not the case that people are
necessarily switching from one religion to the next.
For example, there's not a lot of switching
from Christianity into Islam.
Rather, LaSage says, most switching is people leaving
religion altogether.
Yeah, well, this is an interesting choice of
words, but maybe I should hold my white
Christian nationalist perspective until the second clip.
Yeah, I would say, because I have the
sense that they're trying to slam the Christians
here in some funny way.
And I think the second clip has an
exemplification of that.
And it's a tricky one, and we'll listen
to it, and then I'll ask you a
question.
Ooh, a question.
Well, let me go and walk away from
the microphone, so at least we're fair.
Meanwhile, specific religions in some countries appear to
be stickier than others.
Pew found very small percentages of the overall
adult population have left or joined Islam in
most of the countries surveyed, and nearly all
people who- Wait, joined or left Islam?
Hold on a second.
Very few people leave Islam.
Oh.
Pew found very small percentages of the overall
adult population have left or joined Islam in
most of the countries surveyed, and nearly all
people who were raised Hindu in India and
Bangladesh still identify as Hindu today.
Judaism's retention rate is also high.
In Israel, 100% of people Pew surveyed
who were raised Jewish still identify religiously as
Jewish.
In the U.S., 76% of those
raised Jewish still identify that way today, with
most American Jews who've left the faith now
identifying as unaffiliated.
Pew also found that 19% of U
.S. adults raised as Christian now identify as
religiously unaffiliated.
Jason Derose, NPR News.
All right.
Interesting report from Pew.
So I'm gonna ask you the question.
Okay.
Why do you think more Christians have become
unaffiliated in the United States than Jews?
Oh, I can answer the first question, but
the second one, well, you are a Jew,
there's not just a religion.
They consider themselves to be part of a
population group and also not white.
Well, wrong.
According to Pew, what did Pew say?
Pew said that more Jews than Christians have
left the faith in the United States.
But you heard it differently, didn't you?
I sure did.
The fact that you could answer that, try
to answer a question that was a misleading
question based on what you thought you heard.
Wow, do I need to listen to that
again to hear it correctly?
I'll explain what they did, then you can
listen again.
That was really good.
What they did was they did the old
switch where they gave you the wrong side
of the equation and you had to do
the math in your head to understand what
the leaving rate was.
Wow.
And then they gave you the right side
of the equation.
This is NPR, by the way.
And then they gave you the right side
of the equation for the Christian part of
it.
In fact, if you listen carefully, 24%
of the Jews left and 19% of
the Christians left the faith.
Let me hear the, it's in the second
clip or in the first clip?
It's in the second clip, right at the
end.
Let me move it forward a little bit.
That was, wow, I got duped.
You surveyed who were raised Jewish, still identify.
I guess they go back a little bit.
That's good.
Okay.
As Hindu today.
Judaism's retention rate is also high.
In Israel, 100% of people Pew surveyed
who were raised Jewish still identify religiously as
Jewish.
In the U.S., 76% of those
raised Jewish still identify that way today, with
most American Jews who've left the faith now
identifying as unaffiliated.
Pew also found that 19% of U
.S. adults raised as Christian now identify as
religiously unaffiliated.
Wow.
Jason Derose, NPR News.
Good catch.
Wow.
This is why I teased this early in
the show, saying how you can do this.
With a half a decade?
With a half a decade.
Yeah, yeah.
This is the kind of stuff that NPR
pulls.
There's no reason for them to do it
that way.
To say 76% and then stayed and
then 19% left for the Christian side,
it gives you the sense that the Christians
are bailing out.
And in fact, the opposite is actually true.
And that's why you thought you answered a
question that really was a faulty question, based
on the bull crap.
Wow.
Well, thank you.
That was very good.
That is media deconstruction at its finest.
I tip my hat to you, sir.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
I will say the thing that I was
focused on is the term religion.
Religion, I am not religious.
I do not belong to a religion.
And also when they say, well, all these
Christians in Rome, well, their religion is Catholicism.
It is in fact, and I do track
this, and I talk to different pastors about
this, we are seeing record numbers of people
leaving the Baptist church and the Catholic church,
and they're going non-denominational or just are
believers and have faith.
So I think the whole study is somewhat
skewed because if you actually look at the
Zoomers, they're buying Bibles like no one else's
business.
It's up over 20% in the past
year.
Yeah, I think that's veering off what the
topic was.
I think they were specifically talking about religion.
I know, but people who are atheists or
non-believers, when they hear religion, they think,
oh, church people.
But I go to a church, but it's
not a religion.
Organized religion, if anything, is a problem, in
my opinion, and it's not been good for
the Pope.
Italian doctor who led the hospital team that
cared for Pope Francis is giving new insight
into the seriousness of the Pope's recent health
battle.
Professor Sergio Alfieri told an Italian newspaper that
doctors considered ending his treatment.
The critical moment came on February 28th when
the Pope had a breathing crisis.
The choice was whether to stop treatment and
let him pass or try more aggressive drugs
and therapies that come with a very high
risk of damaging other organs.
Man, we didn't hear that report that he
almost died.
It was all like, oh, he's gonna be
okay.
He just inhaled some puke.
It's okay, it's all right.
He's hanging in there.
He almost died.
They almost pulled him off the system.
The Pope was aware that there was a
chance that he might not survive the night.
According to the doctor who was then instructed
to try everything and not give up, back
here at home, Dr. David Manoff at Temple
University Hospital Genes Campus says this type of
scenario is not uncommon.
Once you are really, really sick and in
an ICU, sometimes some of the things that
we really have to do are to prioritize
what the most life-threatening organ failure is
going to be at that time, even if
some of the things that we do can
potentially come at the potential for injury to
other organ systems.
So Dr. Manoff says the Pope has a
long road to recovery.
Pope Francis was discharged on Sunday after 38
days in the hospital.
Man, that was pretty serious.
Gives me more time to think about the
next Pope.
Yeah, that's a good, it's a break for
you.
I'm narrowing it down as three candidates, three
candidates, I'm getting close.
I'm not even gonna ask you to tease
it.
No, I have to.
International news, just a little bit.
International news, everybody.
Wait a minute, I'm guessing maybe it is
the BBC World Service.
Yes.
This is good stuff.
Now this is the South, all hell's breaking
loose and we're not being told about.
It's amazing, actually.
Let's start with South Sudan.
The UN mission in South Sudan has warned
that the arrest of first vice president Riek
Machar has brought the country to the brink
of another civil war.
The renewed political violence began last month.
Paddy McGuire reports.
The arrest of President Salva Kiir's long-term
rival at his residence in Juba is a
dramatic escalation.
In a statement, the head of UNMISS said
rising tensions between factions loyal to Mr. Machar,
a former rebel leader, and the forces of
Mr. Kiir were jeopardizing the 2018 peace agreement.
Nearly 400,000 people died in five years
of devastating civil war before the power-sharing
deal was signed.
As that deal unravels and the violence escalates,
some 50,000 South Sudanese citizens have already
been displaced.
Oh, will they be passionate at the universities
about this?
No, of course not.
They don't care.
Nobody cares about this stuff.
So here we go to the other one,
it's Pakistan.
Oh, I also have a Africa clip, actually.
Pakistan, okay.
Senior police in Balochistan say at least six
people were killed on Wednesday in a spate
of coordinated attacks in Pakistan's restless southwestern province.
According to the French news agency, police accused
gunmen of targeting bus passengers on the basis
of their ethnicity.
A member of the security forces was among
those killed.
Local press reported explosions and trucks being set
on fire in various parts of the province.
Separatist insurgents have stepped up their activity against
Pakistani security forces in recent weeks.
Yeah, no one cares about that, except us.
And the Sudanese, even funnier about people not
caring, 400,000 people killed?
No, who cares?
Who cares?
Interesting, do we have the same clip here?
Because I have one Africa clip, because, you
know, manga make Africa news great again.
This USAID, Uganda, BBC?
Well, let's try it.
As a federal judge in the U.S.
blocks the Trump administration from taking further steps
to shut down the U.S. Agency for
International Development, we'll be asking what that means
in practice for people on the ground running
health programs in Uganda.
Ah, well, I happen to have an answer.
Well, there you go.
Yes, and this answer in the Africa news
segment from the No Agenda World Service, we
should do our own thing.
Now from the No Agenda World Service, we
go to Africa.
And what do we learn in Africa?
This is from the former African Union Ambassador
to the United States.
Her name is Arekana Chihombori Kwao.
We need to understand the real reason why
USAID is in Africa.
And not just USAID, but other NGOs.
You look at DFID, which is the British
equivalent, and many other smaller ones.
Their sole purpose was to act as if
they're coming to rescue Africa.
They are coming in claiming that they are
introducing grassroots initiatives that are going to help
the people.
And so they use that as a way
to go into the most remote parts of
Africa.
When you look at it on paper, it
all looks really good.
But they're actually wolf in sheep's clothing.
They are using that open access, sounding humanitarian,
to constantly destabilize governments.
I can tell you right now, the majority
of African leaders, and not just African leaders,
but leaders in the developing world, are celebrating
the exit of USAID.
If you think about it, their sole purpose,
for example, filling in the gaps in healthcare
and education, where is the change?
Show me one country that USAID was in
and education improved.
Show me what country where USAID was in
and healthcare improved.
The social services they're bringing, it's peanuts.
The American taxpayer needs to know.
The billions of dollars that are being given
to USAID, a fraction is making it to
the people.
Oh, there you go.
Straight from the horse's mouth.
Not like we didn't know that.
No, we knew it.
We had a note from one of our
producers.
I wish I could find it, because I
was going to discuss it.
Yeah, I remember the note.
We actually got a couple of good notes.
We got some good notes.
The guy says he was in Africa, and
the USAID guys came in with a bunch
of stuff.
Mosquito nets, mosquito nets.
Mosquito nets, and they took a bunch of
pictures of them.
Here's the pictures of us with the guys,
and then they left, and left them high
and dry, saying they was only there for
a photo op.
Yeah.
Do your AI clips, because then we can
wrap today's show with that.
This is the, these clips, I don't know
if this is going to work with what
you have to talk about.
Well, maybe, I don't know.
This is about AI in libraries and the
benefit that it could provide, and I think
this is accurate stuff, and this is mostly,
the first clip is Brewster Cayley, who's the
head of thearchive.org.
Is it Cayley?
Cale?
Brewster Cale.
Cale, I think it's pronounced.
I know the guy, but he won't.
He won't take your call anymore?
No, he won't take it.
Because you're a podcaster, you're a podcaster.
Yeah, I went from important writer to podcaster,
and that was the end of that.
If you were an important writer, award-winning.
Yeah, I was important, award-winning.
Instant best seller.
Instant best, yeah, of course you did.
I know you did.
Yeah, instant best seller.
Yes, instant.
Here we go.
You're right.
We're digitizing all of these pest reports from
Africa for over the last century, and people
are probably not gonna be the primary readers
of this, but our machines can.
So not only just search engines for going
and helping people find it and then using
digital interlibrary loan, which is fantastic and it's
going on now, but we now have these
technologies, the AI technologies that allows these to
be put in new and different ways to
go and correlate information across texts that have
spanned over centuries and to be able to
try to make that more digestible, more learnable,
more browsable, more interactable than ever before.
The opportunity of our digital libraries coming and
being useful to people because of these new
technologies is just fantastic.
Oh, was that Brewster?
I think so.
Oh, so fantastic.
It goes on and on with part two.
There's a three-parter.
There's not much I can say.
And are you talking about your own AI
engine or using somebody else's?
Well, lots of people are downloading- Hold
on.
What it sounds like to me, is he
pitching selling archive.org to AI companies?
Is that what I'm hearing here?
I didn't hear that in the clip, but
it's quite possible.
And are you talking about your own AI
engine or using somebody else's?
Well, lots of people are downloading lots of
things from the internet archive and putting them
in the big commercial systems, but pretty much
just the open materials because of all the
copyright and lawsuits problems that we have in
the United States.
In Europe, they've specifically encouraged cultural heritage institutions
and research organizations to work together to use
these for new and different things.
So that's why I'm in Amsterdam right now
working with these research organizations to make use
of these materials because there's regulatory clarity in
Europe towards having a blossoming of our library
collections and bringing them to life.
He's got an agenda here for sure.
Well, his agenda is he's getting sued left
and right by these- Yeah, yeah.
Well, and I can't say it's, I mean,
whenever, here's a little trick.
I have a, this is a tip of
the day.
I have a browser plugin.
It's called ArchivePage.
And I have it on my Bravo browser.
And so whenever I hit a Wall Street,
whenever I hit a Wall Street Journal article
or anything like that, I hit my ArchivePage
browser plugin and it will immediately find that
page, which has then been archived by someone
who apparently paid for it or archived it
before it was behind whatever paywall.
And boom, you got the whole page right
there.
You can read it, no problem.
That is a good tip.
Somebody else sent a similar tip that I'm
not gonna use today, but maybe we should
gang him up and do the two tips
in an upcoming show.
Let's wrap it with the third of these
clips.
I want to look at another aspect of
this, which is that we shouldn't forget that
libraries preserve and make available many things other
than books or magazines.
For example, at the US Library of Congress,
less than a quarter of the objects held
are books.
So what about webpages, for instance, Bruce?
They do tend to appear and disappear with
alarming speed, don't they?
The average life of a webpage is about
100 days before it's changed or deleted.
It completely changes how we go and build
our collections.
We have to do it preemptively, just in
case it might be useful.
We collect over one billion URLs every day.
The number of webpages in the Wayback Machine
is now 900 billion.
The scale of it is a little hard
to understand, but it's just trying to record
what's going on out there just so that
we can basically have our own history.
Just requires a different view of how we
see our old-fashioned trade of archivists and
librarians.
Huh.
Well, I certainly think he has an awesome
index.
He has a very crappy way to search.
I mean, unless you have a- Oh,
it's just out of, the search is no
good.
It's no good, but this is- In
fact, if you could really search that thing,
there's a lot of value in that.
In fact, they also have, the thing about
that collection is he has a collection of
78s.
Yes, we've talked about this.
It is unbelievable.
And not only that, but he has a
bunch of these nut balls out there who
have fixed a lot of these, I mean,
using modern- Technologies.
Software.
Fixed a lot of the 78s so there's
no pops or crackles or, and the fidelity's
better.
Yeah.
You have to, it's a lot of work
to do any of those, let alone a
lot of them.
And there's two or three guys that have
been doing it just kind of consistently.
I guess maybe they do a few every
day.
Well, you know, when the- But the
collection of 78s is unbelievable.
Do you remember when the MTV News webpage
just went off the air?
Yeah.
I downloaded the entire archive of the MTV
News website from archive.org.
There's a couple of really good scripts out
there.
I mean, because it's basically an open source
resource, it would be fantastic for Anthropic or
someone to really put a good search engine
on top of that.
In fact, this is the trend as Google
is about to do this very thing.
Google has introduced a new feature.
And this of course is a story about
AI read by AI.
Called AI mode, which is an advanced chat
bot designed to answer search queries.
This update is seen as Google's direct response
to competitors like ChatGPT, which have been gaining
popularity.
When users ask a question in AI mode,
Google's Gemini 2.0 AI model generates a
detailed answer.
This AI system allows users to ask follow
-up questions or request additional links for more
information.
Google explains that AI mode is designed to
simplify complex topics by organizing data and presenting
it in a clear and easy to understand
format.
The company is making major improvements to its
search engine by integrating the latest version of
its artificial intelligence.
This change is part of Google's effort to
provide faster and more expert level answers to
users.
Competition in the AI search industry has been
increasing with smaller companies creating innovative ways to
deliver search results.
To stay ahead, Google has decided to enhance
its search engine with more powerful AI capabilities.
The Gemini 2.0 AI model will now
be used to answer complicated questions, especially those
related to subjects like computer programming and mathematics.
And there it is.
So first of all, yes, I just said
it's an AI voice.
Everyone's like, this voice is AI.
Okay, are you listening to the show?
So I decided to use multiple AIs, including
ChatGPT.
I did not get, not try Copilot because
I had a project.
I had a- About Grok.
No, I had a computer coding project and
this is what it's supposed to be good
at.
And so I run a little streaming radio
station called hellofred.fm, and I run it
on a radio program called Station Playlist.
And then so it streams and you can
schedule, do clocks, you know, when you want
a jingle or a different format of music,
all that stuff.
And I was really interested in putting this
on a Unix server and using something called
Liquid Soap, which is a very, very extensive
program.
It has this whole, it's a complete programming
language.
It's all open source.
Thousands of people have worked on this.
There's extensive documentation.
All the syntax is very well documented, very
well known.
And so I'm able to set up the
server and get a basic system where it
just, you know, plays one song after another.
But then I want to script and have
transitions work a certain way.
I want it to pull, you know, I
want to be able to put in a
format, way which songs, you know, how many
song separation, that kind of stuff.
And I just can't figure it out.
So I go to the AIs and it's
very friendly.
Oh, sure, Adam, I can, and it calls
me by my name.
Adam, I can help you with this, no
problem.
I spent almost all of Monday and Tuesday
trying to just get this thing to do
a different type of crossfade.
And it took, I think I must have
over 300 prompts and replies and I keep
putting the error and it kept getting an
error and then another error.
And then all of a sudden, well, you
have the wrong version of FFmpeg.
So I'm recompiling FFmpeg from source.
And then it's like, well, you need to
recompile the kernel.
None of these things could actually help me
write a successful script.
It sucks.
This is the whole point.
It's supposed to make people be able to
code.
Mathematics, code, they said it right there.
It doesn't.
It does a horrible job.
Walk right into it.
And I even said, here's the document.
Oh, yes, I'm very aware of this documentation.
And then it would be like, oh no,
it seems like we have a problem.
You're using a different version of what time
to step down from FFmpeg 5.5.1
to 4.4.7. It sucks.
It is a time waste.
I could have learned the language in the
amount of time I put into it.
What a horrible experience.
This is going nowhere.
And welcome to the No Agenda Grievance section
of the show.
I'm gonna show my support by donating to
No Agenda.
Imagine all the people who could deal with
us.
Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
Yeah, on No Agenda, in the morning.
I missed a semicolon somewhere.
Yeah, that's right.
And by the way, we're talking about grievance.
I have a grievance with today's donation segment.
We had a total of 30 donors.
This is crazy.
This is really crazy.
It's the shortest list we've ever had, I'd
say for at least two years.
Yeah.
And I'll read the ones starting with entry
number 10, actually, and take it to entry
number 30, and that would be the total
for the day.
Wow.
Mark Lane, Houston, Texas, starts us off at
199, and John W.
Schumann in Madison, Wisconsin, 184.29. Sir Ever
of the Watt in Linwood, Michigan, $130.03.
Kevin McLaughlin, there he is right away at
8008.
He's the Archduke of Luna, lover of America
and lover of boobs.
Boobs?
Tim Kwan, 75.
He actually came in with a Weiss, somehow
he managed to get Weiss approved.
Weiss is a weird app, but it basically
does an ACH transfer somehow.
Well, if you do that, set it up
at your bank.
If you do it the other way around,
where you have to put the onus on
the show, it can't get, we can't get
it.
No, of course not.
We can't get anything with our bank.
I'd like to know, I'd like Tim to
tell me what his process was.
We can't get anything done with our bank.
No.
I love our bank.
The bank is just like, hey, you got
cash, we'll take your cash.
We'll take your cash.
We'll take a check, we'll take your cash.
What else you got?
You can write a check, you want gold
bars.
All right, shut up already.
That's exactly right.
Jose Perretti's in Wichita, Kansas, 69.33. He
needs a de-douching.
You've been de-douched.
And he's got a birthday coming up and
he's on the list.
Bruno Freitas Das San something.
Das, I don't have it on here.
Hold on.
Bruno Freitas Das Santos.
Das Santos in San Francisco, 5,272, which
is a $50 donation.
Kevin Adam in Clover, South Carolina, 5,272.
Tom Flynn in Beaverton, Oregon, 5,272.
And he says, great show.
Eric Hochul, our buddy in Mulrose, Mulrose, Deutschland,
52.
Now we have the 50, we're already at
the 50s and here we go.
Starting with Brett Denton in Boise, Melissa Alvarez
in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.
Christopher Haynes in Spring, Texas.
George Ushet in La Vernia, Texas.
Jacqueline Connelly in Green Bay, Go Packers, Wisconsin.
Richard Gardner, I think he's in New York.
Aaron Weisgerber in Bend, Oregon.
Christopher Haynes in Spring, Texas.
A lot of people in Spring, Texas.
Michael Myers in Mandeville, Louisiana.
Alan Bean, Baron Alan Bean in Beaverton, Oregon.
And last on our list, a Baroness Knight
in Edmonds, Washington.
And that's the short list for today's show.
Want to thank them for helping us out
on show.
Of all shows, 1750, a landmark show.
Yeah, and well, we did have, thank God,
we had one show number donation.
Man, step it up, people.
And please check your recurring donations because they're
falling off dramatically as they expire when your
credit card or something else expires.
Yes, we lost a lot of those.
I think that makes a big difference.
And we do have to give, I don't
know why he did this, but he came
in at $49.99, but he wants, this
is Dennis down below.
He's just had hemorrhoid surgery.
Ouch.
He says it's been six weeks of five
hours of diffusingly pain after I poop.
I mean, the pain is unbearable.
I'm on this and that.
Oh my goodness.
He says that he's not cutting it.
I know I'm not a big donor, under
50 every year, but if you guys can
give me some health karma, that would be
great.
Yes, I'm going to give him some health
karma right now because, man, especially after you
poop, that's no good.
Here you go, buddy.
You've got karma.
He's in Puerto Rico.
All right.
Thank you very much to these donors, $50
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♪ It's your birthday, birthday ♪ ♪ On
No Agenda ♪ Kaitlin Myers says happy birthday
to Lady Linda.
She celebrates today.
Michelle Niva says happy birthday to Nora Niva,
and she turns 21 on, what is it,
on Saturday.
Jose Paredes on the 29th.
That's also on Saturday.
And some health karma for Denise Denise.
Oh, that's not a birthday, but I will
add that in just a moment.
But first let me say happy birthday to
these people on behalf of everyone here at
the best podcast in the universe.
♪ It's your birthday, yeah ♪ Let me
do that health karma for her right away.
You've got karma.
There we go, because we do have a
title change here.
I'm gonna read the note first.
This is Richard of Tasmania.
He says, Adam and John, thanks for accepting
Australian dollar dues as real money.
You do a better job than our useless
government by respecting our dodgy currency that way.
I'm a recurring producer in your show and
I've earned enough to experience to be a
level two knight.
Benefits include a healthy amygdala, increased resistance to
propaganda and improved ability to detect gas lighting.
Thank you very much.
So he becomes a, well, it says layaway
title change.
So I'm not sure what he becomes.
Oh, baronet, there we go.
He becomes a baronet.
So let me just, let me, might as
well give you the jingle.
I could have done the whole thing in
the music.
Anyway, thanks very much, Richard of Tasmania.
Congratulations, you are now baronet, Sir Richard of
Tasmania.
And we do have a Commodore coming in
today.
This would be the Archduke of Central Florida
who stepped it up once again.
So we say, congratulations, you are now a
Commodore and you are arriving, sir.
Ooh, very nice.
Commodore, go to noagenderings.com and there's a
tab there, a menu item.
You can give us the address and the
actual title, but I think it will be
Commodore Archduke of Central Florida.
Let us know for sure.
We'll get it out to you as soon
as possible.
They're very, very handsome.
Hey, we got the North Georgia Monthly Meetup
at six o'clock today at Cherry Street
Brewing in Alpharetta, Georgia.
We have the Columbia River Basin Monthly Tri
-Cities Meetup seven o'clock tomorrow at Ty's
Bar and Grill in West Richland, Washington.
On Saturday, at one every single day, the
Magic 33 Toverland Meetup.
Oh, this is in Zevenum, the Netherlands.
It's, is that during the, oh, that's at
10 o'clock in the morning.
Bring your, bring your alcohol, I guess.
Toverland, Toverlam II in Zevenum, the Netherlands.
Okay, 10 o'clock in the morning.
Also on Saturday, this time in California, all
aboard the flight of the NOA Agenda Meetup,
number 61, Leo Bravo's organizing at Santa Fe
Express Cafe in Fullerton, California.
The Hipsters, Trolls, and Producers of NOA Agenda
Brooklyn Meetup in Brooklyn, New York at Wing
Bar.
That's, definitely check that out on Saturday, 3
.33 Eastern time.
Also on Saturday, the Central Ohio Really Late
St. Paddy's Day Meetup, that's very late, 5
.30 at Dempsey's in Columbus, Ohio.
And finally, on our next show day, Sunday,
the TMI EVAC Zone Crossword Puzzle Meetup.
You'll be doing crossword puzzles, apparently.
3.30 p.m. at Evergrain Brewing in
Camp Hill, Pennsylvania.
And I got a promo here.
Dad, what's a six-letter word for party
-like experience?
Hmm, try meetup.
Speaking of meetups, there's a TMI EVAC Zone
Crossword Puzzle Meetup, Sunday, March 28th at Evergrain
Brewing Company at 3.33 p.m. Hope
to see everyone there to solve this NOA
Agenda crossword puzzle.
What's a nine-letter word for a father
who exploits his human resources?
Douchebag!
Okay, thanks for the promo.
Go to noagendameetups.com.
That's where you can find the entire overview
of all meetups, calendar view, list view.
You can search by zip code.
It's all over the world.
They are producer-organized.
This is where you get connection that gives
you protection because everybody you meet at a
NOA Agenda meetup is going to be your
first responder in a crisis.
noagendameetups.com.
If you can't find one of you, start
one yourself.
It's always a party!
Sometimes you want to go hang out with
all the nights and days.
You want to be where you want to
be.
Triggered or held to blame.
You want to be where everybody feels the
same.
It's like a party.
Yo, yo.
So are you back to regular ISOs now?
You're no longer doing the AI stuff?
Are you?
This time it's a split.
Let's see what you got.
Okay, hold on a second.
I got to correct some of the volumes
on these because some of the volumes are
way off.
Yeah, here's what I got.
Yeah, that's a great one.
I got this one.
Vom for all, all for Vom.
That was kind of cute.
And then this one.
Bye Adam, bye John.
Not really an ISO, but.
No.
Okay, what do you got?
Here's a real one.
A real one?
This is the A, too much.
It was not good enough.
It's not too much.
And then here is the, this is a
meta.
Meta?
Yeah, this is a meta clip and you'll
hear why.
I may be fake, but that show was
real and great.
What happened?
I may be fake, but that show was
real and great.
I'm so torn about this.
Oh, oh, oh no, he's torn.
It is time for John C.
Dvorak's tip of the day, everybody.
Great advice for you and me.
Just the tip with JCD and sometimes Adam.
I'll use it, though.
Created by Dana Burnetti.
I'll use it, I'll use it.
Okay, this is, I got this from two
different people.
Oh.
And, which is always like a sign.
First time I looked at it, I said,
no, no, no.
Then I started really looking at it.
And I said, holy mackerel, this is actually
pretty phenomenal.
Okay.
But you have to dig, you have to
go down because all the top, this is
called, this is a, I don't even know
where they got this top level domain, but
the site is tv.garden. tv.garden. I
want you to go to this.
Now, it has TV shows from every country
in the world and it has almost everything
that you can imagine.
You can click on the map, you can
scroll down.
There's a lot of different ways of doing
it.
The map, you can spin it around the
globe.
And most of the stuff at the top,
like for example, you go to the United
States, the first 10 things at the top
are all religious programming.
I think there's a bunch of religious stuff,
but no, you dig down, you'd go down
to thousands of stations, including Buena Park Television,
for example, but I want you to do
this.
Go to, either go to the map.
I'm at the map.
Okay, hit Canada.
Okay, I'm gonna hit Canada so hard they
won't know what hit them.
Yep.
Okay, now go to the, on the side,
you see there's two things in Canada.
One is Afghan Nobel movies.
There's a bunch of movies, there's Afghanistan because
it's alphabetical, so every country's got that.
Click on the second one, Afghan Nobel TV.
Okay.
Hacked by Cyber Dragons team, it says.
Yeah.
What is that?
The page has been hacked.
The whole page has been hacked.
And overrun by some group.
Interesting.
Yeah.
Barney the Dinosaur.
Wow, this is pretty cool.
It's unbelievable.
Wow.
How do they even, how do they even
get away with this?
Therein lies the rub.
I do not believe this site is legal.
I don't think so either.
They have everything from every country, every imaginable
TV feed is on this site.
So you can watch, they have Milwaukee's local
station.
They have everything in Canada.
I didn't even know half this stuff exists.
They have every BBC channel, plus stuff in
England I've never heard of.
It's just a great site.
This is a fabulous tip.
Do they have a Korean, the Korean news
lady?
North Korea?
That's a good question.
I don't know if they do.
Yeah, yeah, North Korea.
We got North Korea, here we go.
North Korean Central TV.
I got bars and tone on Pyongyang.
That is an amazing tip.
I'm now, you thought I was deep into
my code.
I'm going to be playing with this for
the rest of the day.
That is amazing.
They just got North Korea, Korean Central Television.
What a great tip.
Another fantastic tip, John.
You have outdone yourself.
I mean, every single time it just keeps
on getting better.
You're like a fine wine, my friend.
Yeah.
The fine wine of tips.
It is John C.
Vorex, tip of the day, tipsoftheday.net, noagendafund
.com.
Great advice for you and me.
Just a tip with JCD.
And sometimes Adam.
Created by Dana Brunetti.
Well now, you've outdone yourself on that one.
And of course the question is, did you
click on all the A's and the B's
before you finally got to Canada to find
that hack channel?
Is that what you were doing with your
time?
That was just a random walk.
I hit the hack channel by accident.
Wow.
Amazing.
That concludes our broadcast day for today.
But we will be very delighted to come
back and do it all again for you
on Sunday.
Clearly with more stuff.
More stuff.
There's lots of stuff.
And your favorite place for world news.
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And the show mix is coming up from
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We've got, oh, Bo's Music.
He's got a cool little ditty he ever
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Coming to you from the heart of the
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In the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
Down from Northern Silicon Valley where I remain.
And it looks like it might rain.
I'm John C.
Dvorak.
Remember us at NOAGENDADONATIONS.COM and make it
great for Sunday.
We'll see you then.
Until then, adios, mofos.
Hui, hui, and such.
The strength that we have is in this
moment.
And what are you doing in this moment?
Elon Musk is a Nazi.
Oh, the in this moment.
There's some kind of mental illness thing going
on here.
This doesn't make any sense.
What is this all about?
In this moment.
Bullets are being fired.
Charging stations are put ablaze.
Teslas are being put ablaze.
What is the op here?
What are they trying to accomplish?
I don't feel good in this moment.
How do you feel in this moment?
Are you guys that lost?
Does it really come down to the basic?
What it all comes down to.
Really what this comes down to.
It baffles me.
You said everything's fine.
Fine, fine, fine.
Is that what it comes down to?
What is the best way to avoid war?
Europe must get ready for war.
These people are trying to kill us.
She's making this up as she goes along.
It's grassroots too, grassroots.
Grassroots non-violent.
There is no conspiracy.
There is no well-funded cabal.
Volkswagen is retooling one of their closed factories.
I mean like really friendly fire.
All out warmonger.
It's what this moment requires.
You got that part right.
Does it really come down to the basic?
What it all comes down to.
Really what this comes down to.
It baffles me.
You said everything's fine.
Fine, fine, fine.
Is that what it comes down to?
Let's go, let's go, let's go.
Meanwhile, Dr. Ewell will do bad things.
Stay in your homes, I repeat.
Stay in your homes.
Your personal safety, the safety of the entire
city depends upon your full cooperation with the
military authorities.
What's up, yo, yo, yo, what's up, yo,
yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo,
yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo Yo,
yo, yo, what's up, yo, yo, yo, what's
up, yo, yo, yo, what's up, yo, yo,
yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo,
yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo Yo, yo,
yo, what up?
Which is incredibly white of you, but okay,
I digress.
Yeah, of course it is, I'm white, hello!
The best podcast in the universe!
Yo, Mopo.
Dvorak.org slash N-A I may be
fake, but that show was real, and great.