I want a watercolor of my dog!
Adam Curry, John C.
Devorah.
It's Sunday, May 4th, 2025.
This is your award-winning Gimbal Nation Media
Assassination episode 1761.
This is no agenda.
Digging in the news desert and broadcasting live
from the heart of the Texas hill country
here in FEMA region number 6.
In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley where we're celebrating
the Cinco de Mayo show special.
I'm John C.
Devorah.
It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
In the morning.
You know, it's Cinco de Cuatro.
Yeah, I know.
It's the 4th.
May the 4th be with you.
May the 4th be with you, yes, indeed.
And we just missed it in the Netherlands
on May 4th at 8pm.
I think we've talked about this before.
At 8pm, everybody stops.
The bells toll for, I think it's one
or two minutes.
And we have a moment of silence for
the victims of World War II.
Because tomorrow is Liberation Day in Europe.
Yeah.
We don't even celebrate any of that here.
I'm so confused about, you know, we've got...
We've given up.
We've got May 5th.
We've given up taking credit for anything.
Yes, we've got May 9th.
President Trump...
April 29th was...
Was it 1606?
That they landed and founded Jamestown.
We've got all kinds of proclamations.
I need to get that going again.
I used to track all the proclamations.
Obama was really, really good at it.
And then we got...
I don't think Trump did many of that
in the first term.
But Biden did nothing.
Except for Trans Awareness Day.
Trans Awareness Day.
On Easter.
So I've got to keep tracking that.
President Trump is doing a lot of these
things.
Oh wait, was it May 6th?
Right, thank you.
May 6th, Pim Fortuyn was murdered in the
Netherlands.
And that was now...
Crap, what is that?
That'll be 25 years ago, I think.
He was the guy that he won posthumously.
They assassinated him two weeks before the election.
Yeah.
Like a knife in his heart.
No, no, no, that was Theo van Gogh.
No, they shot him in the head.
At the radio station.
Oh, he was shot in the head at
the radio station.
That's what I just said.
There's no security at the radio station, apparently.
Well, there was, but...
It was outside in the parking lot.
He had just walked outside and then faltered
from the Graaf.
We had a famous Denver...
This was years ago.
30 plus years ago.
There was a famous Denver shock jock.
That was shot in the parking lot.
Yeah, who was that?
I forget that story.
Yeah, you remember that guy.
But this was a politician.
And that was 23 years ago.
Right.
And the guy who killed him is out
free.
The Dutch, man.
It's crazy.
Why not?
He served his time.
Pim's never coming back, but let him walk
around.
It's all good.
You can't even say his name in the
media.
You have to say Fokert van der G.
You can't say his last name.
Because he has protection.
He has rights.
Yeah, you laugh, but it's pathetic.
It is pathetic.
It's really pathetic.
It's great.
Hey, good news.
The Press Freedom Index is out.
The Press Freedom Index, everybody.
Which is a big deal in press land.
Yeah, especially if you're a left winger.
Yes, well, let's have a listen here.
As to who's the best.
Who's number one at press freedom.
The European press is suffocating.
While the continent remains the leading region in
the World Press Freedom Index published on Friday
by Reporters Without Borders, the situation is deteriorating.
Economic difficulties are threatening editorial offices, especially independent
ones.
The media are facing both the end of
American aid and the strengthening of Russian propaganda.
Norway.
So it's American aid that makes press freedom
a big deal.
Without American aid, they can't do anything because
they're too stupid.
They need American aid.
Wait until you hear the list.
Norway, Estonia and the Netherlands dominate this ranking.
This is the best.
Number three in press freedom on the list
is the Netherlands.
Are you kidding me?
One of the most suppressed countries news-wise
in the world.
Oh no.
Number three.
Already this list is suspect.
You think?
Conversely, Greece, Serbia and Kosovo are the continent's
lowest ranked countries.
Within the European Union, Athens comes last.
In Greece, press freedom is really suffocated by
impunity of crimes committed against journalists.
Here I'm talking about the assassination of journalist
Georgios Karavas in 2021.
There has been one trial so far and
the accused have been acquitted.
Hungary.
Something happened in 2021?
Yeah.
So that puts them at the bottom of
the list in 2025?
It's kind of like the Oscars the way
they do this.
It's bullcrap but everyone's talking about it.
The press freedom index is out.
Just because of how many journalists were murdered?
Well, that gives you negative points, yes.
They actually explain.
Have been acquitted?
Hungary, singled out for its attacks on the
rule of law, ranks higher than Greece.
But it owes this to the fact that
no journalist has been killed, explains Reporters Without
Borders.
Well, get on the stick, Hungary.
Shoot some of those people.
You're not doing a good job.
The organization points out that the Hungarian Prime
Minister uses other means to control information.
Some 80% of editorial offices are controlled
by people close to Viktor Orban.
While Europe remains the safest zone for the
media, Reporters Without Borders stresses that the Union
must remain vigilant.
It's so interesting.
I'll finish.
The precise reason is the adoption last year
of the European Media Freedom Act by the
European Union which is historical legislation.
So where do you think we are on
the list?
We're down two spots, by the way, from
last year.
I think we're around 20.
57.
We're around 57.
Yeah, and you know why?
Because President Trump has such good relationships with
the press.
This is insane.
At the bottom, you can already guess.
Let's see.
Where's Russia?
Russia, 171.
Djibouti.
Egypt is higher than Russia.
So yeah, the top five.
Press freedom, best places to be a journalist.
Norway, Estonia, Netherlands, Sweden.
Sweden.
Where all they do is lie about the
immigrant situation.
Finland, Denmark, Ireland, Portugal.
Well, we know Portugal.
They lie about their outage.
Switzerland.
Germany.
Germany, number 11.
Yeah, the more you suppress your people, the
more press freedom you have.
Germany's 11?
Yeah.
That's ridiculous.
Right ahead of Liechtenstein.
I think the only people who live there
are journalists.
How many people live in Liechtenstein?
I'm sorry, Liechtenstein.
I'm just kidding.
When we get some Liechtensteiners to donate to
the show, maybe we can be a little
more genteel.
So, of course, this comes at an opportune
moment where we have all kinds of issues
in America where we are suppressing the free
press.
We're shutting down Voice of America.
And oh no!
NPR!
PBS!
Let's bring in Clayton Wymos.
He's the US Secretary.
Stop the clip again.
I'm going to be interrupted.
You are interruptive today.
Remember, as we listen to the NPR and
PBS complaining, the total loss of income to
these operations if the government stops giving them
money, which they will, and they have, I
guess Trump did something, is 1%.
1%.
Remember that.
It's $500 million, according to Ms. Meier.
Meier.
But let's just continue.
This is a report from France.
For more on that, let's bring in Clayton
Wymos.
He's the US Executive Director of Reporters Without
Borders.
It's such a pleasure to have you with
us on the program today.
As we just saw in that report, for
the first time in history, the Bain Index
for press freedom is at its lowest ever
score.
Just starting with the United States, help us
get a grasp of just how much press
freedom has slipped under Donald Trump.
Thank you for having me.
He's been there for 100 days already, press
freedom slipping.
All we see is press about him.
Negative.
All of it, except for Fox.
We're all positive.
Both sides of the same coin.
Bull crap.
Yes, but 85% of them are negative.
That number's been floating around.
Yeah, well, then how come it's slipping?
Remember that the index is a snapshot in
time of the previous year.
All the data we collected is from 2024.
And so the decline in the United States
is really one that's been going on for
the better part of a decade.
Under Biden, I guess.
When we first started doing the index in
2002, the United States ranked 17th in the
world.
It's now down to 57th out of 180
countries.
And that is reflected in the fact that
all five indicators that we measure have been
taking hits year after year, especially the economic
indicator due to massive layoffs in the media
industry and the closure of newsrooms all across
the country treating a news desert problem.
But in recent years, it's really become a
political and cultural problem with the massive decline
in trust between the public and the media
and outright attacks by politicians, in particular President
Donald Trump.
I should add, though, that everything that's happened
in President Trump's second administration for the past
100 or so days has not been counted
in the index data.
So the decline is continuing before our very
eyes.
Things are only getting worse.
It's only getting worse during Trump, even though
it's 85%.
There's no data, but it's getting worse somehow.
Here's what's so interesting.
They don't take the plethora of alternative media
into account whatsoever.
There's been nothing but more, more press freedom.
Go look at the Midas Touch folks, if
you believe them.
The Midas.
Yeah, there's a lot of them.
But maybe that's the point, is that there's
too much press freedom.
And the people who consider their job to
be journalists who have data, they think, it's
slipping because all this fake news, podcasters.
Newsrooms, you know, the Midas Touch, there's no
newsroom.
They got a newsroom.
It's a little closet where the guy sits,
but it's a newsroom.
So thanks to the Jones Brothers syndicate, we
have some of the morning, the Sunday morning
shows are always the big, that's the big
press freedom round people like to do in
Washington, D.C. Yeah, they used to service
me with some clips once in a while,
but those days are over because you've somehow
queered the deal.
I don't know what you did.
Queered the deal?
I did nothing.
Maybe I'm just, maybe I just send them
a note and say, thanks, I really appreciate
you.
Maybe that's why, you know, I'm pretty good
about that.
So, CBS, CBS, Face the Nation, Margaret Brennan
had Paula Kerger on.
You're saying, who is Paula Kerger?
Who is Paula Kerger?
She is the CEO of PBS, your favorite
station, your Capehart and Brooks station.
And at the same time, I don't know
who Mara was.
No, she's NPR, so she had them both
on.
So she's a different spook.
Do you notice a pattern here?
The CEOs of the two largest partially government
-funded news organizations with actual newsrooms are women.
And they got some complaining they're doing.
The president tweeted or socialed or truthed Republicans
must defund and totally disassociate themselves from NPR
and PBS, the radical left monsters that so
badly hurt our country.
I have to tell you.
What's this woman's name again?
This is Margaret.
This is Margaret Brennan, but it will be
- That was Margaret.
I didn't understand.
Paula Kerger, K-E-R-G-E-R.
You look her up, and I'll continue.
I thought of Cookie Monster.
I thought of Sesame Street, and I thought
of that children's programming.
That is in many ways what people think
of when they think of PBS.
Absolutely.
You're going to do that the whole show?
You step on my clips too.
Absolutely.
And out of this executive order, we believe
it impacts our funding out of the Department
of Education, which is a 30-year program
that has supported not only the creation of
many of the children's programming that you see
on public television, but also the research that
we do to ensure that that programming is
not just safe and enjoyable, but the children,
after watching, come away with understanding of basic
letters and numbers.
Half the kids in this country are not
enrolled in formal pre-K.
That's why programming on public television...
They're not enrolled in formal pre-K.
We have to save the children.
Former pre-K.
Formal.
Their job is now to educate our children.
She's saying it right here.
You don't have your child in pre-K.
It used to just be K.
What happened to just K?
K-12.
Now it's P-K-12.
You're a bad parent if you haven't enrolled
your child in pre-K.
That's why programming for children on public television
was created.
That was the idea with Sesame Street and
Mr. Rogers and everything that's followed since is
to make sure that children that do not
have access to a full array of resources...
Here's my question.
What have you done for me lately?
So that's your big claim to fame?
Mr. Rogers.
He's been dead for a decade.
And Sesame Street?
What have you done lately?
Have the opportunity to learn and to develop
skills that they'll need the first time they
enter preschool.
That may be at age 2 or 3
or 4 and sometimes 5.
Not until they start kindergarten.
That's what's at risk.
I thought it was press freedom.
I'm mistaken.
It's not press freedom.
It's the children.
President Trump hates kids.
Let's go to Catherine Marr.
By the way, there's nothing spooky about her.
Where did she come from?
What's her background?
Baltimore.
She was a pre-med student.
There's nothing that looks like she's got anything
like that.
Unlike her, here's Catherine Marr, CEO of NPR.
I want to ask you about the news.
When we went and we read the executive
order, the language in there says government funding
of news media in this environment is outdated
and unnecessary, corrosive to the appearance of independence.
And Americans have the right to expect if
their tax dollars fund public broadcasting that it's
fair, accurate, unbiased, and nonpartisan.
How do you respond to the implication that
your news coverage is not?
Well, just listen to the No Agenda show.
They tell you every soul we do.
Twice a week.
It's not fair and nonpartisan.
Unbiased.
I can't get over her.
She is, that is, you know, the jingle.
Where's my jingle?
Yeah, this one.
Elitist voices of America.
This is NPR.
Or PBS.
Totally an elitist voice, this.
It's not fair and nonpartisan.
Unbiased.
First of all, I think it's important to
note that I'm the CEO and we have
an independent editor-in-chief who oversees the
newsroom and so I don't make editorial decisions
and that, I think, is just always an
important point to make.
But I think our newsroom would really take
issue with that.
I have to stop the clip.
So what?
It's an important distinction to make.
She says, oh, you know, I'm the CEO.
I don't make the editorial decisions.
I think that's an important point.
Why is it important?
Who cares?
It's important to the elitist voices, I guess.
I don't know.
We have been on air for more than
50 years.
We have been covering news as it occurs
across the nation, in local communities, overseas.
We have an extraordinary Washington desk.
Our people report straight down the line.
And I think that not only do they
do that, they do so with a mission
that very few other broadcast organizations have, which
is a requirement to serve the entire public.
That is the point of public broadcasting, is
we bring people together in those conversations.
And so we had a whole host of
conservative voices on air of late.
We've been- What?
When?
When was this?
I've missed the conservative voices.
That must be like Brooks.
A whole host though, a whole host.
It's like Jennifer Rubin, who always billed herself
as a conservative blogger.
The woman's so left-leaning, it's ridiculous.
Making requests of the Trump administration to have
their officials on air, we would like to
see more people accept those invitations.
It's hard for us to be able to
say we can speak for everyone when folks
won't join us.
Oh, I see.
It's their fault because they don't want to
take the risk of being on your airwaves.
Okay, so you're not participating, and therefore we
have to do what we have to do.
That's my takeaway.
So let's talk about the White House and
the talking points and what they're saying, because
it's oh so mean.
So that was the executive order.
Then we went and we looked at the
White House talking points and what they're putting
on social media.
They're a lot more about you than you.
Hold on.
That is a propagandistic usage when she says
the White House statement about the situation is
not talking points.
Talking points are specific.
It's usually a list of points or something
that's transmitted around.
You're going to talk about this, you're going
to talk about that.
It's not published on WhiteHouse.gov. It's not
a press release.
A press release is not talking points.
She's saying that for a very specific purpose,
to get it ingrained into the listener's mind
that it's propaganda from the White House.
It's bullcrap talking points.
That is a good point.
I'm going to talk to the kids about
that this month.
That's a good one.
Thank you.
This is important that the kids understand.
I forgot you're giving a lecture.
You might as well use the other one,
which will come up in one of my
clips where somebody uses the word claimed instead
of said.
That was already on my list.
Let's get back to the news deserts.
We looked at the White House talking points
and what they're putting on social media.
They're a lot more about you than you.
And on NPR, they were saying things like
a July 2022 editor's note that said the
Declaration of Independence had offensive language against Native
Americans.
We checked and the word savages is used.
The White House faults your editors for avoiding
the term biological sex when discussing transgender issues.
They apparently want you to use the term
pro-life and faulted your use of the
term anti-abortion rights to refer to activists.
They got some good talking points there.
So when you see specific editorial criticisms like
that, what do you interpret the intention of
this being?
They hate us.
What's the intention?
Leading the witness.
Mind reading people, mind reading.
Well, I interpret the intention of this being
trying to create a narrative around our editorial
independence.
And as I said in our- To
control it.
To control it.
And I think that that is an affront
to the First Amendment.
We have an independent newsroom and we will
always have an independent newsroom.
Hold on a second.
Just because they are exercising their part of
the First Amendment, that is somehow an encroachment
on NPR's use of the First Amendment.
They want to control our newsroom?
This is not true.
There's a difference between criticism and control.
Thank you.
Yes, thank you.
It's good that we're doing this because people
just watch this and they just sucked it
all up.
Well, that's the idea.
It's just bull crap.
It's bull crap.
That is an affront to the First Amendment.
We have an independent newsroom and we will
always have an independent newsroom.
From my perspective, part of the separation that
the First Amendment offers is to keep government
out.
In fact, the statute that- Well, then
why do you take government money if you
want to keep government out?
Wow, great point.
What's up with that?
Was written when the Public Broadcasting Act was
signed into law, was very explicit about interference
from any member of the government, whether it
is elected officials, whether members of independent agencies
because- Hold on a second.
Stop again.
Right after she says this, Brennan does the
same thing, right?
She comes out and says, well, after all
what you said, then why do you want
government money at all?
That's what happens, right?
Statute that was written when the Public Broadcasting
Act was signed into law was very explicit
about interference from any member of the government,
whether it is elected officials, whether members of
independent agencies because it is so sacrosanct that
division between the state and independent media.
That was the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967,
set it up as a private corporation to
give protection from influence and control.
I would assume that's also from the White
House.
So I've been listening to NPR.
I didn't clip too much, but they keep
talking about that's why it was set up
with two years in advance so that this
money was done in 2023, and it's our
money and you can't just take that money
away.
This was to protect us from the government
involvement with us, but we're still taking government
money, you understand, but we can't have involvement
from the government with government money.
President Lyndon Johnson, who signed the bill into
law, creating the Public Broadcasting Act and creating
the system that we all operate within, he
noted in his remarks upon signing that speech,
was that it does require a greater wisdom.
And that's why we have a two-year
advance appropriation is to insulate both of our
work from political interference.
I think that that is critical that Americans
understand that public broadcasting is meant to be
independent so that we can serve the public
interest regardless of whatever administration is in office
or whatever Congress's whims are.
And the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was set
up as a private corporation with that same
intent.
So I think there was a lot of
focus even at that moment when the act
was signed.
One percent.
This is very interesting.
They keep harping on this.
It's an independent company.
Well, yeah, then go get independent money, you
know?
It's like, and if it's only one percent,
what's the big deal?
We'll find out, of course.
That protections would need to be put in
place.
Because if we do our job, it is
possible that we will produce content that some
people may wish we have done it a
different way.
And this way it gives us the independence.
The other thing that keeps us independent is
that most of our funding comes from viewers
like you.
Viewers like you?
It comes from viewers like you.
But still, we're here going to waffle on
for an hour about the money from the
government, but it comes from viewers like you.
We ask people to make contribution to public
broadcasting for something they get for free, because
we are available free to every home in
this country.
And so, both the combination of the fact
that it was built as a public-private
partnership, there would be some public money that
went into public broadcasting that would enable stations
and small communities to exist, alongside the fact
that most of our support comes from people
in communities.
That really does create something that is very
independent, and very responsive to the communities that
we serve.
And by the way, a lot of them
are red communities, so you know, so Republicans
shouldn't be doing that.
I think we can wrap it up with
this one, the declining trust in the news.
And if I may, just to give a
sense of those numbers, for every single dollar
that the federal government puts in, stations raise
on average about $7 from private sources.
And so, you also have to recognize that
this order interferes with- That was an
interesting flub from public-private, I mean, I
wonder if that was truth coming out there.
I'm not sure.
$7 from public-private.
This is also one of those dipsy-do
things they like to, well, for every dollar
spent, we get, you know, it's like the
park service.
You know, for every dollar the government puts
in the park service, we make $8.
Well, why don't you just make $7?
I mean, this is like throwing numbers around,
every dollar results in $10.
Yes, it's magic.
We are a magic money machine.
$7- Right.
From public-private, sorry, from private sources.
And so, you also have to recognize that
this order interferes with the First Amendment rights
of our listeners and viewers.
You've made a choice- Yeah.
To contribute.
How does it, stop, this is just not
true.
That's just a basic lie.
So, the government not giving PBS money interferes
with my First Amendment rights?
That's what she said.
Right?
That's what she said.
Well, she has a point, because if they
can't fund Brooks and Capehart and Scott Simon,
it will hurt the show.
So- You know Scott Simon only works
on the weekends, and he makes over $400
,000 a year?
Now, that's just painful to hear.
That's very painful.
The First Amendment rights- In fact, somebody
did a breakdown, one of the, it came
out of Doge, I think.
The money that they pay their anchors on
PBS is, I mean, it's not Fox, I
mean, where you can get millions.
But for the amount of work they do,
and it's mostly radio, we were talking about
the radio side.
Yeah.
They get- For radio, that's well-paid.
I mean, there's very- $400,000, especially
for a weekend gig.
Yeah, you're like- Five days a week
all day.
No, I mean, most people in radio are
making $35,000 a year.
Seriously, except for, you know, you got a
couple, Sean Hannity, I'm sure, Glenn Beck, I
mean, yeah, they're making millions.
No, yeah, those guys make millions, but they
have syndicated deals.
Yes, yes.
All right, let's continue.
The First Amendment rights of our listeners and
viewers who've made a choice to contribute, and
this is the news that they want to
see and hear, or the programming that they're
committed to?
It did just stand out to us, as
journalists ourselves, because the research shows that there's
declining trust in media, in news.
And the President was talking about that himself
there, that he wants a free and fair
press.
We're going to continue to cover this, and
thank you for your time today.
Thank you for having us.
Hold on.
Now, that's over.
Thank you for having me.
Why doesn't, Brennan's got the woman there.
She just brought up a point.
Out of the blue, Brennan says, well, you
know, there's declining trust in the media.
Goodbye.
Why doesn't she say...
I mean, it makes no sense.
Why doesn't she say there's declining trust in
the media?
Why do you think that is?
It's a simple question that's not, you know,
maybe she can't answer, maybe she can't, but
why wouldn't you ask that?
You've got the CEO standing right there, and
you'd say, there's declining trust in the media.
Goodbye?
Well, she's taking that as a given fact.
That's what she's doing there.
Like, everybody knows that.
We just had the report about the press
freedom is on decline.
It's slipping.
Ever since President Trump came in office, it's
slipping.
It's going away.
People don't trust, because he keeps saying fake
news.
I would like to know what her answer
to that question, that simple question, would have
been, but, Brennan, no.
She didn't have it.
No.
Because of what you just said, she just
made it as an assumption, as a statement
of fact, and didn't want to even discuss
it any further.
This is a terrible show.
These people get paid a lot of money
to do this stuff.
It's a terrible show, and Brennan is no
good.
Here's the last clip I got.
President Donald Trump signed a controversial executive order
on Thursday.
It aims to cut money for NPR and
PBS.
The American people are sick of funding institutions
who promote values that they find repugnant.
The public broadcasters are accused of left-leaning
bias.
I wanted to play both sides of the
argument.
The White House...
There's DeSantis going, he's repugnant.
He's...
Yeah, it's true.
The White House and Republicans say one glaring
example was NPR's refusal to cover the Hunter
Biden laptop scandal shortly before the 2020 election.
At the time, NPR released a statement that
said, we don't want to waste our time
on stories that are not really stories.
But it did turn out to be a
real story.
Our current editorial leadership believes that that was
a mistake, as do I.
Yeah, the whole country knows that was a
mistake.
Definitely impacted the election.
Critics also point out how drag queens have
been featured on PBS children's programming.
The executive order- That's what they're doing.
See, they didn't bring that up on the
CBS meet the press.
But here they talk about it because after
Mr. Rogers and Big Bird, we got drag
time story hour.
We impacted the election.
Critics also point out how drag queens have
been featured on PBS children's programming.
The executive order directs the corporation for public
broadcasting to slash the more than half a
billion dollars and federal funding for NPR and
PBS.
Local stations could be hit the hardest, with
some at risk of shutting down altogether.
In a statement, NPR said, we will challenge
this executive order.
If they get $7 for every dollar that
they get from the government, why would they
be shutting down?
You know why?
Because they have to buy the incredibly expensive
programming from American public media, commercial organizations.
If you want fresh air, if you want
any of these programs, you have to buy
them at truly market value, syndicated programming market
value.
There's no deal here.
And you can't FTP it.
You have to get it off their satellite
system, which is another couple million bucks a
year, where you could have, for $1.50,
you got Starlink.
Come on, people.
Some at risk of shutting down altogether.
In a statement, NPR said, we will challenge
this executive order using all means available.
And PBS said, the president's blatantly unlawful executive
order issued in the middle of the night
threatens our ability to- In the middle
of the night.
In the middle of the night.
He issued it in the middle of the
night so that we wouldn't notice it.
Is that what you're trying to imply?
And PBS said, the president's blatantly unlawful executive
order issued in the middle of the night
threatens our ability to serve the American public.
We use our broadcast as the emergency backup
for emergency alerts for the country.
Oh, yeah, this is another big one.
Yeah, this is- Oh, yeah, I heard
this one yesterday.
I heard this one, too.
If the power goes down, it's our broadcast
that will save everybody.
Yeah, but then there are little portable radios
who'd be picking up PBS.
Like in Northern West Carolina.
No, it was Elon Musk's Starlink that saved
people.
Not you guys.
I'm sorry.
And Ham guy.
Hams.
Hams and Starlink.
It sounds like a breakfast.
Threatens our ability to serve the American public.
We use our broadcast as the emergency backup
for emergency alerts for the country.
And you need 100% coverage to make
that happen.
We have news deserts.
20% of Americans live in a place
- 100%.
You need- Not 99.999. 100%.
And here comes the news desert again.
In the middle of the night.
Threatens our ability to serve the American public.
We use our broadcast as the emergency backup
for emergency alerts for the country.
And you need 100% coverage to make
that happen.
We have news deserts.
20% of Americans live in a place
where they have no local news coverage other
than public radio.
The corporation for public broadcasting also released a
statement saying the organization is not a federal
executive agency subject to the president's authority.
It's safe to say this executive order will
be challenged in court.
All right.
Well, this will be fun because now they
get to talk about themselves, which is all
you should have heard on the media.
Brooke.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I couldn't even clip it.
It was all about us.
We're being suppressed.
This is a little thing called podcasting, people.
You know what?
You spent $100 million and had to shut
it down because of your Neumann mics and
your newsrooms.
Joe Rogan does more for information than you
do.
I'll put together all your stations.
Everybody knows it.
You know, that's interesting, that point you make,
though, about the using Starlink as instead of
these expensive satellites.
When I was doing a radio show for
the Real Computing Show on PBS, it was
the other network, public radio, and it was,
it cost a fortune.
You had to go up to the bird,
and then you had the transponder number, and
everyone had to download it from whatever, and
it was like...
You know, back in the day, MTV didn't
have that kind of money when I started
there.
They didn't even have a lighting director, makeup,
or wardrobe, and so to get the shows
on the air, we recorded on Umatic High
Band, which is basically a glorified Betamax, and
then they'd put it in a...
With a bigger cassette.
They'd put it in a communicar, which was
a low-rent, basically a cab service you
could call, and then they would drive it
up to, out to Long Island, and then
you'd have tape jockeys sitting there just, you
know, hitting the VJ segment, then hitting the
video, the music video.
We didn't have satellites.
Couldn't afford it.
And now, yes, it's actually, it's like $1
.10. It's not even $150.
I think it started off $99 was the
introductory price, and now I think I pay
$110 or $120.
And honestly, it's an expense for the show
because it's a backup.
It's a backup to the backup to the
backup.
But it's impressive, and, you know, so to
say that you need this, no, no.
The guys up at, they do Gramerica up
in Canada.
They use it.
They use it on the air, I know.
And I didn't notice it until they pointed
it out.
I mean, because I've been on that show,
and there's no latency.
It's quite nice.
Yeah, you should go back on.
I should.
They haven't invited me back.
They're probably...
The ratings went to the toilet when they
got me on.
I don't think so.
People love it when you're on.
They do.
They always tell me that.
Dvorak, he's a ratings bonanza.
Get that guy on.
All right.
Well, I can go all kinds of directions
now, but I will leave the floor to
you, sir.
Well, what do I have?
I don't know.
There's a lot of stuff I don't have.
Because we don't listen to each other's clips,
so I don't know.
What did you not get?
And I'll tell you if I got it.
What did I not get?
I did...
Okay, yeah, that's a good point.
That's a new element of the show.
I don't have a clip of the Ben
-Gurion Airport getting bombed by the Houthis.
Israel is on high alert after a missile
impacted near Ben-Gurion Airport outside of Tel
Aviv.
The attack was claimed by Yemen's Houthi rebels,
who have regularly launched attacks on Israel since
the start of the war in Gaza.
The attack resulted in a crater near the
airport, but didn't damage any structures.
At least two people were lightly injured.
Israel's defense minister has threatened to strike back,
quote, sevenfold at the Yemeni militants.
So this is a new version of Go
Fish.
So you say, I didn't get this.
I really like this idea.
And then I play it, and if I
don't have it, then I tell you to
go fish, and then you pick one of
yours.
Let's try it for the second one.
Well, you caught me flat-footed.
Come on, man.
I had the one, because that's the only
one I was watching this morning.
I said, oh, that'd be nice to have
a clip of that.
So that's all you can think of?
Yeah, unfortunately.
There must be something else that happened this
morning.
I mean, I figured most of the morning
stuff you pick up.
Well, President Trump was on with the manhands
lady.
A welker?
Yes.
So he did ABC.
We know how that turned out.
I respectfully agree to disagree about the Photoshop.
Here's the interview in a nutshell.
You suck, ABC.
You suck.
Well, do you want to hear the-
Yes, I would like to hear welker.
Okay, this is pretty much all about tariffs,
which covers two topics in one.
But, sir, you acknowledge when you announced your
tariffs, for example, the stock market dropped.
It's been volatile.
It has since gone up.
Do you take responsibility for that?
Yeah.
Do you take responsibility when it drops?
Ultimately, I take responsibility for everything, but I've
only just been here for a little more
than three months.
But the stock market, look at what's happened
in the last short period of time.
Didn't it have nine or ten days in
a row or 11 days where it's gone
up?
So, so far, we're cordial.
It's not going to last.
And the tariffs have just started kicking in.
And we're doing really well.
Psychologically, I mean, the fake news was giving
me such press on the tariffs.
The tariffs are going to make us rich.
We're going to be a very rich country.
So let's talk about the tariffs.
And I want to ask you about something
you said this week.
Got a lot of attention.
You were at your cabinet meeting.
You said, quote, I'm going to quote what
you said.
Maybe the children will have two dolls instead
of 30 dolls.
And maybe the two dolls will cost a
couple of bucks more than they would normally.
I love this because this is my theory,
too.
It's like, stop buying junk from China.
Wake up, people.
Are you saying that your tariffs will cause
some.
Again, Trump hates children.
This is the new meme.
This is interesting the way she's twisted this,
too.
Yeah.
It's like maybe the kids will have two
instead of 30.
And they're talking specifically about toys from China,
which is junk from China, which is what
they're discussing.
And there's going to be less of it.
Perhaps.
I doubt it, by the way.
Yeah.
But so she and she twists it.
Have you been ever.
I mean, we know some people with young
kids here.
I am astounded by the junk that these
kids have.
They have an entire room that is just
their junk room.
Have you ever seen this?
Well, I have the problem with Theo is
that they won't let him have a lot
of toys over there.
So the junk is over here in your
office.
No, in my in the downstairs front room,
which which has there's bins.
So he has to put the put the
toys back in the bins.
Oh, good.
But it would look like I have a
dozen kids if somebody comes and visits.
What did you how many kids do you
have here living here?
Yeah.
Well, exactly.
It's a lot.
And why.
How come they won't.
So what did the kids.
What does the kid like to play with
the most?
One of the main things is a wooden
little car, a wooden car with wooden wheels.
I know it's made in Slovenia.
It's astounding.
But meanwhile, there's all this plastic junk and
furry junk, probably toxic.
It's everywhere.
All right.
Are you saying that your tariffs will cause
some prices to go up?
No, I think the tariffs are going to
be great for us because it's going to
make us rich.
But you said some dolls are going to
cost more.
Isn't that an acknowledgement that some prices will
go up?
I don't think a beautiful baby girl needs
it's 11 years old needs to have 30
dolls.
I think they can have three dolls or
four dolls.
Because what we were doing with China was
just unbelievable.
We had a deficit of hundreds of billions
of dollars with China.
Well, he's already gone from two to four
dolls.
So he's slipping.
He's slipping.
He's like, OK, you can have four.
Every child can have four dolls now.
Thank you, Mr. President.
We're very happy.
By the way, are you running a baby
daycare there?
Is that what you're doing on the side?
You got the dog kennel and now you're
running kids.
You got a dog kennel.
We got everything.
All right.
So I have some tariff clips since you
brought it up.
Oh, you don't want me to continue.
You want to interrupt?
Oh, that was the end of her.
We have more of Kristen.
Oh, yes.
It's all about tariffs.
And it's just about to get fun because
this is OK.
No play.
Play it out.
And then I'll play that.
I have a Buffett clip.
But Buffett came in and said something nasty.
Yes.
And then there's some there's one more.
Well, it's about to become a dishonest interview.
You as you understand.
When you say they could have three dolls
instead of 30 dolls.
Are you saying.
Well, now it's three.
He said two.
Is it four?
Is it two?
Is it three?
What is it, Kristen Welker?
I'm confused now.
When you say they could have three dolls
instead of 30 dollars.
Are you saying that Americans could see empty
store shelves?
No, I'm no, I'm not saying that.
No more dolls for the kids.
Really?
The whole memo went out somewhere.
All right.
Let's go for the kids.
Trump hates children.
That's what it must have been something like
that.
All right.
Here's our new angle, everybody.
This will kill him.
Yeah, this angle is going to do it.
Yeah, this will get him to quit.
When you say they could have three dolls
instead of $30.
Are you saying that Americans could see empty
store shelves?
No, I'm no, I'm not saying that.
I'm just saying they don't need to have
$30.
I can have three.
They don't need to have 250 pencils.
They can have five.
This is NBC.
What a conversation.
This is network news.
It's not over.
But you're basically saying there could be some
supply shortages because of the tariffs.
I'm basically saying we don't have to waste
money on a trade deficit with China for
things we don't need, for junk that we
don't need.
Well, prices are already going up on some
popular items.
Tires, strollers.
This is such a dishonest interview.
There it is.
It's a dishonest interview, and we're only one
minute in.
Prices are down on groceries.
Prices are down for oil.
Prices are down for all energy.
Prices are down at tremendous numbers for gasoline.
And let me tell you, when you have
the big thing, what he did, he spent
like a stupid person, which he was, but
he spent like a very stupid person, and
that was bad for inflation.
But what really killed us with inflation was
the price of energy.
It went up to $3.90, even $4
.00, and in California, $5.00 and $6
.00, right?
Okay, I have it down to $1.98
in many states right now.
Not in Texas.
Where is $1.98?
I don't know.
In Mississippi, maybe?
I have no idea.
It's like $2.50 here now.
It's still $5.00 here.
Yeah, well, it's your taxes.
You go that much lower on energy, which
is ahead of my prediction, because I really
thought I could get it down into the
$2.50s. We have it down at $1
.98 in numerous places.
Kristen, Kristen, first of all, put your hands
under the desk, because you look like a
man.
Let's keep on the children thing.
Let's keep harping on that, because we all
know the number one out, President Trump hates
children.
Let me give you some examples.
I mean, these are actual examples.
So you're saying the prices that are going
down, some prices are going up, tires, strollers,
some closing in the wake of your tariffs.
Excuse me, that's peanuts compared to energy.
Energy is 60% of the cost.
But, sir, you campaigned on a promise to
bring prices down on day one.
Well, I don't know, when you say strollers
are going up.
Strollers, keep on the strollers.
This is great, Kirsten.
What kind of a thing?
I'm saying that gasoline is going down.
Gasoline is thousands of times more important than
a stroller someplace.
But what do you say to Americans who
say they voted for you because they want
and they need relief right now?
They need strollers.
They're getting it.
Right now?
What about those different items?
Who cares?
Stay on the strollers.
Despite the fact that we have a stubborn
Fed.
But you said dolls, even dolls could cost
a couple bucks.
Bring the dolls back.
Maybe they might, but you don't need to
have, as I said, $35.
You can have two and three and four
and save a lot of money.
We don't need to feed the beast.
Don't feed the beast.
It's unbelievable.
Clip of the day.
Go on.
Oh, wow.
OK, thank you very much.
I'll stop here because they kind of stay
on tariffs.
But let's put your tariff clips in here.
I think that's probably a wise idea.
Jeez.
It's great.
It's fantastic.
It's so pathetic.
So they got to bring in Buffett because
he's retiring and he's got to have his
last shot in there.
He's a Democrat.
Bill, this is once I guess he's not
friends with Bill anymore.
No, because of Epstein.
We all know that.
Yeah.
Buffett knows what's up.
He knows what.
So he does.
He wants no part of it.
And and, you know, I don't think he
likes divorce.
I think that's a problem for him.
I think you might be right.
He's from, you know, he's from Wichita.
Yeah.
Here's Buffett anti-terrorist short.
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said the United States
should not use trade as a weapon.
Buffett, who's the fifth richest person in the
world, made the comments during today's annual meeting
of Berkshire Hathaway, where he's CEO.
He also announced that he'll be retiring at
the end of the year when he'll be
95.
Yeah.
Don't use him.
Why?
Because he has he's invested in Chinese companies.
That's why.
Yeah, of course.
Trump Ted.
There's the other clip is Trump tariffs empty.
Meanwhile, President Trump brushed aside recession fears in
an interview for tomorrow's Meet the Press on
NBC.
Mr. Trump said the pains of this transition
period will lead to a flourishing economy.
It's the same question.
There are many people on Wall Street say
this is going to be the greatest windfall
ever happened.
And that's my question.
Remember this?
Long term.
Is it OK in the short term to
have a recession?
Look, look, look.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Everything's OK.
What we are.
I said this is a transition period.
I think we're going to do fantastically.
This week, new government.
Fantastically.
Is that a proper use of the word
fantastic?
I don't think fantastically is a real word.
But we are.
I said this is a transition period.
I think we're going to do fantastically.
This week, new government numbers show that the
US economy shrank in the first three months
of the year.
That's the first drop in three years.
Imports in the first quarter surged as companies
tried to beat tariff deadlines.
The tariffs on cars and car parts kicked
in today with significant changes intended to blunt
the impact on US carmakers.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, let's go back to Kristen Welker, because
now it's about Abrior Galaga Garcia.
I'm curious to know what it means.
You declared a national emergency on the southern
border.
What does it mean?
Because we had a national emergency on the
border.
A national emergency on the southern border.
The order is still in place.
By the way, it means exactly what you
said.
It means we have the most secure border
we've ever had.
And I guess the question becomes, when will
you know that the emergency is over?
Are you planning to lift it at some
point?
Is it necessary?
Because obviously, the military is involved.
Will you lift that emergency?
Well, the biggest emergency is the courts aren't
allowing us to take really bad people out.
We're going to talk about that, but talk
to me first about this.
Well, that's to me the emergency.
Talk to me first about this emergency.
The border now is not the emergency.
The border is all part of the same
thing, though.
The big emergency right now is that we
have thousands of people that we want to
take out, and we have some judges that
want everybody to go to court.
Some of them you appointed, sir, including three
on the Supreme- I like that.
I've been hearing that more and more, so
that when they really want to hammer a
point home- Sir.
Some of them you appointed, sir.
Sir.
Yeah, shimmy your shoulders.
And we have some judges that want everybody
to go to court.
Some of them you appointed, sir, including three
- Hold on a second.
What's the implication here is that the judges
are political.
They don't know that they're doing this, but
they're actually- Yes, you're so correct.
They're actually impugning the court system by making
the comment, well, some of them you appointed.
In other words, so if you appointed them,
they should go one way.
If you didn't appoint them, they're going to
go the other.
As if the judges are all part of
a political system instead of being a judiciary
that's independent.
Well, I think- They're actually saying it
out loud.
Yes, she's admitting that these judges are political,
and that, yes, I think you're right.
That's a good catch.
The big emergency right now is that we
have thousands of people that we want to
take out, and we have some judges that
want everybody to go to court.
Some of them you appointed, sir, including three
on the Supreme Court.
You know, they change.
I mean, it's unbelievable.
It's unbelievable how that happens, but they do
change.
Just to button this up, though, are you
planning to lift that emergency order anytime soon,
now that the border's secure?
No, we have an emergency.
We have a massive emergency.
Overall, it's an overall emergency on immigration, and
if the courts don't allow us to take
people out, if we had to have a
court case, every single, think of it, every
single person, we have millions of people.
We're going to have millions of court cases?
Figure two weeks of court case, it would
be 300 years.
So, meanwhile, the EPP, the Euro Parliament, they
have the, what do they call them, the
debates.
They have this thing in the European Parliament
where they do debates, and it's basically a
reason to take a trip.
So, they all went to Valencia, Valencia, Spain,
got there right after the blackout, coincidentally, and
Queen Ursula spoke.
She spoke for about half an hour.
I only got two short clips from her,
but, yeah, I mean, this is great.
What's happening in America is great.
It's great for us.
Now, the world of trade is turning towards
us, and Frederich, you mentioned it.
Since last year, we've concluded a new wave
of trade deals from Mercosur to Mexico to
Switzerland.
We're working with India and Indonesia, with the
Emirates and Thailand, the Philippines and Malaysia, and
the Pacific.
If I clip this, I would put what's
-his-name yelling in.
Boston, we're going to be in Minnesota, and
then we're going to go to Iowa.
Yeah, well, that's why there's two of us.
They all want to deal with us because
we are fair, we are reliable, and we
play by the rules.
Our own rules, but it's rules.
So, my friends, let's stay the course, cool
-headed and united, because that's who we are,
and that's the European way of trade.
Let's stick to that.
This woman.
She's great.
But the key to our prosperity...
Oh, here's the key.
...is to put our own house in order
and to make business easy right here in
Europe.
Okay.
Business is anything but easy in Europe.
So, she referenced Friedrich.
Friedrich.
Well, stop a second.
That is a fabulous point that has to
be made.
Doing business in Europe is a pain in
the ass for everybody.
Tons of paperwork, blue envelopes.
That's why they can't get their act together
with entrepreneurial stuff.
They don't have anything like Silicon Valley.
It's very hard to invest.
There's all these roadblocks, this and that.
Even when they let you do something, they'll
put up roadblocks.
I'm reminded of this.
One time I went, so I go to
France, this is a long time ago, and
I had an import license.
I worked with an importer so I could
bring some wine back because I didn't take
a big wine tour.
I was wondering what it was for.
Yes, of course, of course.
Yeah, I imported about, I don't know, 30,
40 cases.
Oh, beautiful.
For about half the first cases that I
got because there was these two different kinds
of paperwork that were involved with getting the
wine imported and exported.
Yeah.
And it was one kind and there was
another kind, one for doing something somewhere and
one for getting it out of the country.
And so I collected a bunch of wine
from the Jura region and I went to
see the guy who ran Hobai and he
was looking at my paperwork.
He says, you got the wrong paperwork.
Your papers are not in order, Mr. Borak.
Well, he wasn't doing the exporting.
He just looked at it.
He says, this guy screwed you over by
giving you the wrong paperwork.
Now you're going to have to go through
a rigamarole to get this stuff out of
here.
I said, what?
He gave me the right paperwork for his
wines.
I got a bunch of wine out.
But when I dropped the wine off, I
dropped it off and, you know, there's all
these, oh, you can't do it.
The French guys, the exporters that were there.
And he said, oh, this is no good.
You can't do this.
I said, okay, here.
Here's the wine.
Here's the paperwork.
If you could take care of it, you
take care of it or keep the wine.
I'm out of here.
I got to fly back.
The wine all got shipped?
It all got shipped.
Oh, really?
Yeah, it all got shipped.
It's all bullcrap.
They were waiting for a bribe.
That's what they were waiting for.
I don't know.
Maybe.
I don't know what it was.
For sure.
Your papers are not in order, Mr. Dweck.
So she referenced Friedrich.
Friedrich Merz, also known as Mr. Peepers.
And Mr. Peepers made it.
I'm going to get to the blackout in
a minute.
But Mr. Peepers made a big deal about
climate change.
Oh, climate change.
We have to be very careful because, you
know, we have this issue where, you know,
we want to increase our industrial base, but
we kind of have no energy.
So he has a plan for it and
it's very sneaky.
So he slips this in.
We have to find a better balance between
fighting climate change, which is necessary more than
ever.
More than ever.
And protecting the environment on the one hand
and avoiding deindustrialization on the other hand in
our countries.
Bravo.
And so they're all like, yeah, that's right.
We need more energy.
We can't do anything.
Bravo.
However, my dear friends, whenever someone says to
you, my dear friends, you're about to get
screwed.
This is a very real and serious issue.
We will not tackle the enormous challenges ahead
with a shrinking economy.
A shrinking economy?
Sorry to make fun of your accent there,
but it's what it is.
The enormous challenges ahead with a shrinking economy.
We should be ambitious in cutting regulation and
relying on market-based instruments such as ETS
implemented by the European Union.
Yes, ETS, ETS, ETS.
Allow me to be very open on that.
Please.
Let us fight over regulation on all levels.
So he throws in ETS, which is the
emissions trading system of the European Union.
So, oh, it'll be less regulation because you
just got to buy some carbon credits.
That's all.
He's literally announcing a tax on all of
the European Union member states.
And he's doing it under, we got to
tackle regulation.
We got to make it easier.
Yeah, we'll make it easier.
Didn't say I was going to make it
less expensive.
So then they bring out Paula Pinot.
Paula Pinot.
She is the spokeshole for the European Commission,
the worst spokeshole ever when it comes to
English.
And then so she chose to do it
in English.
And I think if you're going to be
a spokesperson, you shouldn't be at the whole
time.
And so she referenced the blackout that happened
just today, coincidentally just the day before this
Valencia meeting.
And of course, she brought it right away
to disinformation.
We can really see how far manipulation of
information can go and what a negative impact
it can be.
On the basis of that fake article, there
were reactions, thinking that there had been a
deliberate attack behind, which is obviously very, very
bad and can have very serious consequences.
So this, again, is an example on how
information manipulation undermines the trust in credible sources
and organizations.
She's talking about the article that came out
that said it was a cyber attack.
And it can actually even divide our society
in light of such a serious incident.
And in the commission, we have several tools
at our disposal to fight against manipulation of
information.
It includes a task force on strategic communication
and countering information manipulation, but also active collaboration
with fact-checkers, with online platforms.
Fact-checkers.
We have many fact-checkers.
By the way, just a small interstitial.
Several people emailed me after I gave the
report from our dude named Ben, named Ben,
protector of megawatts, whose actual job it is
to understand, protect grid networks, understand how they're
working, what is working, what isn't working.
And he told me straight up, straight from
the people he coordinates with, he talks with,
he's in the business.
He said, this is what happened.
They lost 15 gigawatts from France.
And so they had no base load.
Then everything started to fluctuate.
And then the system just starts to shut
down.
That is what happened.
But no, no.
Here is an example.
Adam, you are misinformed about what caused the
outage.
You must look at Kim Iverson's interview with
Ben Davidson on YouTube, called Magnetic Pole Shift,
Europe's Just the Beginning.
If you know his credentials, he's the real
deal, and he has it right.
Respectfully, your fan.
So this whole nonsense that they launched into
the atmosphere right away of, well, no, it's
a very rare event, atmospheric conditions.
And then we've got the space weather guy
saying, no, it's the magnetic pole shift.
That's what caused it.
Come on.
It's like a psyop on top of a
psyop.
No, it's much simpler than that.
Although the European Commission doesn't know exactly what
happened.
We go back to Paula Pinhole, and she
brings in at the very end here.
She tosses over to the lady who's in
charge of that.
Thank you, Christian, for giving me also the
opportunity to precisely make this point and how
important it is and how we really need
to work together in light of information manipulation
in order to counter it.
And if I still may add on renewables
and use this opportunity, I want to say
that the Spanish and Portuguese operators, they are
well experienced in handling high volumes of renewable
generation in their electricity systems.
So we also have clear rules on the
EU level in this regard, and we ensure
that the balancing of the electricity system and
its capacity is capable to absorb renewable generation.
So we still don't know what was the
cause of the blackout, but this is on
the renewables that there is enough experience to
handle it.
A follow-up such, we will not yet
elaborate on that before we really have a
solid assessment by the experts.
So we don't know exactly what happened, but
just so you know, we can handle renewables.
We've got expertise.
We don't know what happened, but we can
handle renewables.
We can do it.
We don't know what happened.
We'll follow up when we know what happened.
Did you even hear my note that I
read, or were you offline at that point?
Can you hear me?
I can hear you now.
Yeah, I saw what happened.
Well, I had to go back.
I had to do that because I was
yakking at you for the last five minutes
about one thing or another, and you didn't
hear any of it.
I'm sorry.
Oh, man.
What were you yakking?
Well, I've gone, it's old news now.
Well, give me a shot.
Give me, try me out.
I don't remember.
It was just like some comment I had
about something that, one of these clips you
were playing.
This has been going on for like six,
seven minutes.
Oh, I'm so sorry.
Well, I've got the thing.
I'll put the monitor right in front of
me now so I can see if it
happens again.
It's very annoying.
I'm telling you, it's a clean feed deal,
man.
That's what I think.
I mean, it makes no sense for it
to be anything else.
It just switches interfaces.
Like, oh, no, no.
I expect it to happen once a show.
Yeah.
Whenever I'm talking about PsyOps, there it goes.
Oh, let's, well, since we're doing that, let's
talk about chemtrails.
This, ever since Bobby the Op came out
and talked about this on the Dr. Phil
show, everybody has to get back into it.
We're all talking about the chemtrails.
We even talked about it on the last
show.
I do.
Yeah, I think we talked it out on
the last show.
We don't need to talk about it anymore,
do we?
Well, we have to play the mainstream media
clips about it because it's funny.
By the way, there is ample evidence, I'll
send you the links, that there's aluminum, barium,
all kinds of stuff in jet fuel, in
today's modern jet fuel.
I know that you were an inspector back
in the day, but it appears that there
are particles now that should probably not be
in jet fuel.
But this is France 24, here to debunk
the chemtrails conspiracy.
This time the truth or fate is over
by the big bull.
Good evening to you, Vedika.
Today, then, talking about a conspiracy theory that's
now reached all levels of the White House,
chemtrails.
Vedika, tell me what they are because I
don't know.
And tell us what's going on.
I don't know.
I've never heard of it.
I'm a news anchor.
I've never heard, what is this chemtrails nonsense?
I've never heard of this.
Well, Mark, the US Health Secretary Robert F.
Kennedy Jr. has pledged that the US will
fight chemtrails.
Now, this is an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory that's
been around for decades.
But it's been consistently debunked by scientists as
completely- Debunked.
Not proven incorrect, but debunked.
So, the chemtrails conspiracy theory is the belief
that these long-lasting condensation trails that we've
seen in the skies left by aircraft, that
they are, in fact, toxic chemical trails that
are seeding the skies for weather modification, biological
warfare in order to poison us, or even
to control people's minds in some of the
extreme believers' cases.
Now- Yeah, yeah, correct.
Believers question the existence of these chemtrails and
the inconsistencies of them.
They ask why they're not always there, why
is it only some planes that produce them,
or why do they come and then disappear,
essentially.
Now, in reality, let's talk the science behind
them.
Well, the scientific basis behind these, these are
not chemtrails at all.
They are, in fact, contrails.
In other words, condensation trails.
They are essentially just temporary plane-created clouds,
and they're made up of water vapor, and
they take place when the hot jet fuel
exhaust, which is mainly water vapor with some
soot particles, when that mixes with the colder
air at high altitudes, this creates ice crystals
that then form these trail-like clouds.
And these dissipate based on the weather conditions
of the region that they're taking place in,
of the day.
There's many different regions.
Now- It's amazing.
So these ice crystals, they float all the
way down to the Texas ground.
Our weather conditions are perfect for ice.
This isn't to say that weather modification is
entirely false as a concept.
We know that cloud seeding exists to induce
rain in dry areas, but this is on
a very, very small scale worldwide.
But overall, Mark, according to a 2017 study,
around 10% of Americans fully believe in
this chemtrails conspiracy theory.
Yes, and it's about 70% of the
town of Fredericksburg.
And so- That low?
Well, I don't know the 30% of
Democrats.
They expect the chemtrails before the grid goes
down.
And so here she is with a very
nifty way of turning it all around to
say, well, you know, it's actually not a
bad idea.
And that is scary, isn't it?
It's so scary!
What's scary?
The chemtrails or the fact that people think
they're chemtrails?
And that is scary, isn't it?
So how has this gone from conspiracy theory
to actual U.S. legislation?
Well, just recently, RFK Jr. appeared in an
interview on the U.S. television show Dr.
Phil.
And he said he'd do everything in his
power to stop the emissions.
And he appeared to blame chemtrails, the existence
of them, on another government agency.
When he was asked about chemicals being sprayed
in the sky and what he'd do about
it, he took the question seriously.
Let's take a very quick listen to what
he said.
That is not happening in my agency.
We don't do that.
It's done, we think, by DARPA.
And a lot of it now is coming
out of the jet fuel.
Those materials are put in jet fuel.
I'm going to do everything in my power
to stop it.
We're bringing on somebody who's going to think
only about it.
Now, when he says we think it's done
by DARPA, what he's referring to is the
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is a
part of the U.S. Department of Defense.
Now, this isn't the first time he's publicly
endorsed this.
He has previously replied to chemtrails fanatics on
X saying we are going to stop this
crime.
But more recently, just a month ago, he
replied to this person, this believer in the
theory, who was pushing for bills in the
U.S. to ban atmospheric geoengineering.
And what that is, it is a new
field of science where science is trying to
find ways to fight the consequences of fossil
fuel pollution that we as humans are creating.
Now, Kennedy essentially said that 24 states are
moving to ban geoengineering and that the health
and human services is going to do its
part.
Well, what we know about that is that
Tennessee has already banned the release of airborne
chemicals in geoengineering, the chemtrails bill.
Florida is also moving along that bill forward.
And this February, Alabama is also launched that
discussion.
They're having those talks at the moment.
So we can see the escalation of this
conspiracy theory throughout all levels of the U
.S. government.
And as you said, there's zero scientific basis
for this, Mark.
So we will have to see how this
develops.
But should U.S. states move to ban
geoengineering?
It is in its infancy.
But this could have problematic consequences for looking
for ways to fight the climate change and
the effects of pollution that we as humans
are causing here on Earth.
So us dirty humans, we're trying to ban
chemtrails because we don't like it.
But that could actually kill us all.
That's literally what she just did with her
yak, yak, yak.
Was she going to kill us all as
long-winded observations?
The lady doth protest this too much, methinks.
Well, I have serious doubts about things being
put into jet fuel because those engines are
very expensive and they're sensitive to all kinds
of things.
And then whatever the chemical is that goes
through the burning process would be oxidized and
screwed up massively.
I don't know why if you're going to
start dumping stuff into the sky, you just
wouldn't use winglets.
You have a little, like, a little thing
at the end of the wing and you
just spew it out like when they did
cloud seeding back in the 50s, 60s, and
70s in California.
They weren't doing it through the engine fuel.
They were just dumping it in the air.
Yeah, but it's DARPA.
They've got to come up with new things.
This is what they do.
Oh, I've got a new way to do
it.
You can be skeptical.
That's fine.
There's more.
Look, there are more in California than there
are in Texas, so I'm fine with that.
Although the 70 percent of chemtrail fanatics, as
she said, in Fredericksburg are all very upset
that our Governor Abbott has not followed suit
with Alabama.
And Florida and banned this practice, this Alabama.
She had Obama on her mind, I think.
Alabama.
By the way, I do have a, I
have this, not to change the topic.
Yeah, you can change the topic.
I don't mind changing it.
I've done my chemtrails bit.
Since you brought Abbott in, where's my Abbott
clip?
You have an Abbott clip, Texas voucher.
Yeah, this is, this is not reported anywhere.
Governor of Texas has signed a law enabling
over 5 million U.S. students to be
provided with state funds to pay for education
in private schools.
The scheme, costing a billion dollars in its
first two years, is being regarded as a
watershed moment in a conservative campaign to remake
public education in America.
David Bamford reports.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has called his education
voucher scheme the culmination of a movement sweeping
through the U.S. Eligible parents in Texas
will be offered $10,000 per year to
opt out of the state education system.
The scheme, also being rolled out in other
Republican states, has been strongly supported by President
Trump, who accuses public schools of indoctrinating children
with liberal ideology.
But Democrats, and some rural Republicans, argue it
diverts resources away from already underfunded public schools.
Yeah, this session that the Texas Congress is
going through right now, there's a lot of
really amazing bills.
SB 13 is one of them.
And that will ban, completely ban, outlaw books,
certain books, in schools, libraries, class, anywhere.
And we know what books they are.
Yeah.
And I think it's going to pass.
Everyone's, you know, it already passed the House.
This voucher thing is getting no press.
This is from the BBC World Service.
That's where I got the story.
And it's a big deal.
It's a huge deal, because this is what
the Republicans have been trying to do since
the 60s.
Yeah.
Yeah, go figure.
Oh, my God, they're starting to accomplish it.
Let's don't report on it and even give
anyone any ideas.
And we say, well, OK, finally we can
homeschool.
But you're killing us with the chemtrails, Abbott.
Chemtrails.
Where's the jingle?
Chemtrails.
I knew it.
Of course.
Here's the funny story of the week.
I just, I have some thematic stories, but
I want to play a couple of these
standalones.
This is the funniest story of the week.
Trump.
Somebody asked Trump.
Oh, is this about the picture?
Yeah.
Somebody asked Trump about being the pope on
the White House lawn.
And he says, yeah, I think.
Who do you think is going to be
the pope?
Would you like to be the pope?
Yeah, I think I'll be the pope.
He just casually said it as a joke.
So somebody either Photoshop.
They like to say it's AI, but it
looks more like Photoshop to me.
Photoshop Trump in a pope outfit.
And then they posted it.
And then Trump, the White House reposted it.
Oh, now it's a big scandal on NPR
and PBS.
And critics are speaking out about an artificial
intelligence generated image that President Trump posted last
night to his social media platform.
It shows him seated, dressed as the pope.
Later, it was reposted on the official White
House account on X.
In a post of their own, the Catholic
bishops of New York State said, there is
nothing clever or funny about this image, Mr.
President.
We just buried our beloved Pope Francis, and
the Cardinals are about to enter a solemn
conclave to elect a new successor of St.
Peter.
Do not mock us.
Oh, that's a tough one.
So I got a lot of e-mails
about this, because I am the resident religiosity
scholar all of a sudden.
And from Finland, our producer, Sir Wunderhelm, who
was overboard and he came back and he
sends me this.
He says, what is this?
This is not okay.
Is this supposed to be funny?
And I said, you know, we are strange
in America.
But yeah, this is American humor.
And you don't have to.
It is funny.
You don't have to get it.
It's American humor.
But then I also got ones like this.
Like, let's see.
What is it here?
This has to do with the Knights Templar
and the Jesuits and Catholic infestation.
The black Pope runs.
Yes, it's just a joke.
I mean, that timing may be a little,
a little.
I don't even care about the timing.
But people get so bent out of shape
about it.
You know, Mark, Void Zero didn't say, oh,
I'm outraged about this.
If Void Zero said something, we'd say, okay,
well, maybe.
Yeah.
He didn't say anything.
And he's a Catholic's Catholic.
He's the traditionalist.
He's like the old, he's like the guys
at the FBI we investigate.
Who says they aren't?
Maybe they are, but they never find his
house.
But the point is, is that it's like,
no.
Give me a break.
This is classic.
Trump does one thing.
There's another thing.
He had to actually come out and say
he's not running in 2028 in one of
the morning shows this morning.
People are so upset about him saying he's
going to run for 2028.
Yeah, he never said it, by the way.
He has never said he's going to run.
He just has a hat.
He's got a hat.
He has a hat and the hat is
funny.
And it's Bannon who's been pushing it more
than anything.
I should still go back and get those
clips of Bannon on.
We need one of those hats is what
we need.
I mean, those are collectibles.
Now that you mention it.
Yeah, it's a collectible, baby.
And I have, I usually, I'm usually on
the lookout for such things.
Yes.
Well, I'm sure some of our producers out
there, you know, the thing is that one
of our producers can send us each one
of those hats if they can find them.
But, you know, I forgot to, I was
very remiss because I hounded the Ohio State
folks for all these sweatshirts, which I ended
up with a bunch of them.
But I never hounded the Florida people because
they won the basketball championship, which I had
predicted, by the way, way in advance that
they would.
Yeah.
You should have done it on the show.
I did on Horowitz's and I should have
gotten as I like a zippered hoodie that
says Florida.
I don't have any Florida gear at all.
And I think having a floor, especially in
California, having a Florida hoodie or sweatshirt sweatshirt
is nice.
Good.
I want to I want to stay with
the pope for a second because first I
got this.
No, I just had to get that in.
I'm sorry.
They're going to send it to you.
Don't worry, you'll get it.
I'm hoping.
So first it was gateway pundits.
I'm like, OK, headline Francis Macron reportedly meddling
in the choosing of the next pope is
terrified that conservative Robert Sarra may sit on
St. Peter's throne.
Really?
Yeah.
And I'm like, OK, but then an article
came through from Euronews.
Is Francis Emmanuel Macron trying to influence who
gets picked as the next pope?
And apparently he is.
The Italian press is like, hey, what are
you doing?
He had a meeting at the French embassy
in Rome.
You know, he's talking to bishops.
Are they in the conclave yet?
I think they're doing the meetings.
I think it's starting.
Yeah, it's cardinals, not bishops.
What did I say?
Bishops?
Yeah.
Cardinals.
Preparations for next week's papal conclave are underway
as cardinals gather for prayer and reflection at
the Vatican.
Nearly all 133 voting cardinals have arrived in
Rome ahead of Wednesday's vote.
Ten of the cardinals are American.
108 were appointed by Pope Francis himself.
And inside the chapel, they'll vote up to
four times a day until a two-thirds
majority is reached.
The ceremonial chimney was installed yesterday where voting
ballots will be burned.
What the church needs most at this time
is to continue the mission that it received
from Christ in response to the challenges and
the needs, the difficulties and the opportunities of
our time, namely from now on.
And some things to watch for when those
voting ballots are burned.
If you see black smoke, that signals no
decision was made.
And if the smoke is white, that will
announce the selection of a new pope.
So, yeah, the story on Euronews is similar,
saying he's afraid that we're going to get
a pope who, you know, doesn't like, I
don't know, trans stuff.
He doesn't like men marrying men.
Yeah, he's got a problem with that.
That looks like women.
Yeah, he's got a problem with it.
Not even a prerequisite, actually.
Well, you're right.
In Macron's case, it's not a prerequisite because
his wife doesn't look like a woman.
He's married to a dude.
He looks more like a guy.
And in Italy, they've got psyops all over
the place, including a game for the kids.
An online game by the name Fantapapa has
been created to predict who will be the
next pope.
The app has 11 cardinals.
60,000 users of this game who will
predict the next pope.
Who will be the next pope.
The app has 11 cardinals who are poised
to become the next leader.
And by the way, my guy, not one
of the 11 in the game.
Users have the ability to predict who will
partake in the next point of role.
The site, which was created in February when
Francis was hospitalized, has more than 60,000
registered users.
I believe this game is a really fun
game to play with friends and have a
laugh.
Initially, my dad sent it to me ironically.
But now that it's going to be the
conclave, I decided to have a go and
try it.
And I noticed it has so many features
and different things you can choose.
So I decided to...
What kind of a game is this?
It's closer to the pin.
No, no, no.
It's like football teams.
And I decided to put Tagli as my
captain, as my main candidate to become pope
because he looks like a nice guy and
a fun person.
He's a fun guy.
The users have the ability to select a
team just like soccer.
They think have the best chance to become
the next pope.
The app has attracted thousands of youths.
They choose the top contenders or captains.
So far, players' top choices have been France's
Secretary of State, Italian Cardinal Pietro Perolin, closely
followed by Matteo Maria Zuppi, Archbishop of Bologna.
Yeah, my guy's not in there.
He's not in the game.
Your guy is the best idea, by the
way.
But I had to go back and just
reflect on this.
Trump dresses the pope and the left being
outraged by it, and especially PBS getting all
bent out of shape.
The gay community dresses as nuns constantly.
Men dress as nuns, and they go around
ridiculing the Catholic Church constantly, and nobody says
crap about it.
That is a very good point.
I think you're spot-on.
That's right.
It's a story hour with a drag queen
story hour in nuns' outfits.
You're right.
You are spot-on, as usual.
I'm glad...
Well...
As usual.
I'm glad you went back.
I wasn't as spot-on as I could
have been with my timing.
Another short clip.
Just for educational purposes, I don't know what's
going on with this one.
Eric Adams is allowing the call to prayer
in Manhattan.
A historic step here in New York City
in support of the Muslim community.
Mayor Adams announced new guidelines clearing the way
for the Muslim call to prayer to bring
out freely.
For too long, there has been confusion about
which communities allow to amplify their calls to
prayer.
Amplify?
To what?
Amplify.
Oh, amplify.
Confusion about which communities allow to amplify their
calls to prayer.
Today, we are cutting red tape and saying
clearly, if you are a mosque or a
house of worship of any kind, you do
not have to apply for a permit to
amplify your call to Friday prayer.
Yeah, I've seen videos of these guys walking
down the street with a big boom box
and a wireless mic.
I have some thoughts on this.
Yeah, go.
One, if you've been in the Middle East
at all, I've been a couple of times,
the call for prayer thing is not on
Fridays.
It's six times a day all the time.
Yes.
And it's actually quite pleasant if you're a
tourist.
If you don't live next to it.
But if you're not living there, because there's
something romantic about it.
It's just, and it's a very, it's a
nice, especially when you have some of these
Muslim preachers, whether they're Kamulas, who can sing,
and they can sing in Arabic, and it's
very, it's just a great sound, but very
few people can do it well.
But it's all the time, and they have
amplifiers, and it's very loud.
And this contradicts something that I was given
a lecture, I think it was in Dubai
at the time, by a British guy who
said the Muslims, especially the Middle East Muslims,
we're not talking about the ones in Indonesia,
which I never heard this going on there,
but they have this big thing about, oh,
you can't do this, you can't do anything
that's pre-Muhammad.
If it's not in the Quran, you can't,
so words for computer have to be manufactured.
They can't be, they have to be made
out of words.
Everything has to be old-fashioned.
But yet, they can use amplifiers, and they've
got these huge speakers, and the giant 10
,000 watt amps, that's okay?
How does that work?
Some Muslim can explain that one to me.
When I was in Iraq, or as some
would say, Iraq, and I hope I have
this, I'd have to dig deep into the
archives.
That was 2003.
I acquired an alarm clock, and I think
it came out of, I think it was
made in Pakistan.
Plastic alarm clock.
And six times a day, this clock would
do the call to prayer.
Gosh, I hope I have that somewhere still.
Well, that's a great item.
Yeah.
It was one of those things you pick
up on your travels.
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Science is turning into a clique.
So, let's amplify that in New York.
Yeah, for the Church of No Agenda.
I'm all for it.
Well, the people in Amsterdam and Rotterdam are
not happy because this is also allowed, this
amplification of call to prayer.
And it's not the culture of the Netherlands.
Or wasn't.
I think it probably is becoming that.
And people are annoyed by it.
Just like they're annoyed by incessant church bells,
I might point out.
Yeah, there was a lot of complaining about
church bells in some areas.
Most of the time I've run it when
there's churches around.
It's only been on a Sunday.
And they'll ring the bells.
And University of California has the Campanile and
they used to play songs at noon, various
tunes.
I think they stopped even doing that.
I don't know if they do it anymore.
But they had enough bells up there they
could play various recognizable songs.
Like what?
What recognizable songs?
Well, jingle bells would be during the wintertime.
They could play that easy.
Did they?
Yeah.
Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
Yeah, yeah.
I see you have a series.
I'm going to lead you into it with
two very short clips.
We start off with breaking news.
A major scare.
Everybody be afraid.
Be afraid.
It's very dangerous.
Breaking news.
Tonight from Chicago, health officials are warning travelers
about possible measles exposure at Chicago's O'Hare
Airport.
They say an infected adult was in Terminal
1 from 10 a.m. until 8 p
.m. on Tuesday.
And then again on Wednesday of last week,
that person who lives in Cook County testing
positive for measles.
Two days later.
This is crazy.
Important medical information.
He was in the airport on Sunday and
then again Wednesday.
Let's get track him down and shoot him.
Shoot him, yes, shoot him.
Now to alarming health news.
Alarming.
The CDC reports that 216 children have died
from the flu in the US this season.
The highest number in 15 years.
Experts link the increase to falling vaccination rates
among kids.
Down from 64% five years ago to
49% this season.
And with flu season still ongoing, that number
could climb.
60,000 people a year die from flu.
Yeah, that's what they say.
60,000.
That number is questionable.
But since you brought that up, I do
have a series of clips from PBS about
the flu vaccine and how important it is.
And I want you to guess who the
guests are going to have.
They're going to talk to on PBS, you
know, this fabulous product that the government helps
pay for.
Oh, okay.
What stooge, I hate to use the word,
what stooge bullshit artist, the guy's the worst,
worst of the worst, do you think they're
going to bring on to talk about vaccinations?
Well, I have a couple of candidates.
Without a doubt, I would put HOTEP at
the top of the list.
Boom.
There were 12 seasonal flu related deaths of
children this week.
According to the CDC, that brings the total
number of pediatric flu deaths this season to
216.
That's the most in 15 years.
And the flu season isn't even over yet.
I'm detecting a pattern here that the the
big pharma complex has injected into our news,
into our independent newsrooms.
Experts say one reason for this new record
could be the plummeting flu vaccination rate for
American children.
It went from 64% five years ago
to 11% this year.
Wait a minute, was that the same amount
they said on the other clip?
That doesn't sound right.
I remember having a- Yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah.
Specific amount.
I want to hear it.
I want to hear the numbers.
Now to alarming health news.
The CDC reports that 216 children- 216.
Have died from the flu in the US
this season.
The highest number in 15 years.
Experts link the increase to falling vaccination rates
among kids, down from 64% five years
ago to 49% this season.
Yeah.
for pediatric flu deaths this season.
What do you make of that?
Well, I think it probably is related to
the decline in immunization since most pediatric influenza
deaths occur among the unvaccinated, like most of
the other viral infections that we've been seeing.
But remember the context of this, this is
on top of fourfold rise in measles outbreaks
over the last year, even before what was
going on with this current major epidemic, a
sixfold rise in pertussis cases.
Okay, got it.
So he goes, yeah, so everything is because
of vaccination.
Of course, this guy who they mentioned, well,
play the second, just play it, play on.
The big picture is we're going in the
wrong direction in terms of children not getting
the vaccines that they should be getting.
Is this a holdover from the vaccination hesitancy
that emerged during the COVID pandemic?
It very well might be.
There's been some Gallup surveys and others that
have shown that spillover effect that the same
parts of the country where adults were refusing
to get COVID vaccines are now spilling over
to childhood immunizations.
So for instance, in West Texas, which had
some of the lowest COVID vaccination rates in
the country, guess what?
That's where we have our ginormous, ginormous, ginormous
measles epidemic right now in West Texas in
the panhandle and it's going up into the
conservative rural areas of the Great Plains where
COVID vaccinations were also low.
So I think the big picture is there
is that spillover effect from anti-vaccine activism
that accelerated during COVID now into childhood immunizations.
Oh yes, ginormous, it's bigger than gigantic or
enormous.
It's ginormous.
That's a very scientific term, I understand.
Ginormous is what the left uses and that
was popularized.
The term was mostly popularized by Rachel Maddow.
Oh, you're right.
She loved saying ginormous.
You're right.
Only word.
Yeah, I know you've developed vaccines yourself.
What do you make of what Secretary Kennedy
said that he wants to see new vaccines
tested with placebos?
What do you think of that?
This has been his playbook the last few
weeks.
Every few days he comes out with a
new statement that misrepresents vaccine safety or effectiveness.
For instance, he made it almost sound as
if we don't routinely test vaccines against placebo
control.
In fact, just about all of the childhood
immunizations historically have been tested against placebo controls,
typically in randomized studies.
So I don't really understand the basis of
the new announcement, other than the fact that
when we do a randomized placebo controlled trial
for something like a COVID vaccine, we do
it at the first time around.
But as we're updating, because you're making minor
adjustments in the composition of the vaccine to
reflect new variants, we don't typically repeat the
entire placebo randomized controlled trial because they're incredibly
expensive and sometimes they're not doable given the
size of what they are and the time
it would take.
So I hope he's not suggesting that we
have to do an entirely new randomized placebo
controlled trial every time we update a vaccine.
Wow.
Wow, what a scathing admission that is.
No, you know, but we're tweaking it.
We're just tweaking it.
What does that even mean?
You know, we're just doing a little dance.
We're tweaking a little bit.
You know, it's like just tightening the bolts
on the cylinder head.
Some DNA.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Just add some frags.
Just adding some bits and bobs, baby.
We don't have to test that.
That's safe and effective.
They have to get liability back into the
picture.
There's no, there's no, you could be shooting
people with dog poop.
It's no liability.
You can't sue them.
What good is it?
What, how is this protecting the consumer?
Is that the last clip or the thing
is one more?
I'm delighted to say, more hotep all of
the time.
Is the effect of this to undermine confidence
in vaccines, do you think?
Oh yeah, leading the witness.
By the way, this is not scripted at
all.
Or leading the witness.
Is the effect of this to undermine confidence
in vaccines, do you think?
Well, this is the bigger picture.
Remember, you know what RFK Jr. has been
saying every few days.
First, he said the MMR vaccine was leaky,
whatever that means.
And when he talks about suggesting people get
the MMR vaccine, he always pairs it, or
often pairs it, with a cocktail of useless
interventions for preventing measles.
Or he says that the measles hospitalizations are
due to quarantine and isolation, which is not
true.
These kids are really, really sick.
Now is the time the Department of Health
and Human Services needs to be doubling down.
Hold on a second.
He says something kind of odd here.
Yeah, you noticed it too, didn't you?
Yeah, so he, it's called like, it was
like moving the Overton window, whatever it is.
So Kennedy says this is because people are
quarantined and they're not getting measles anymore.
And then he says, no, these kids are
sick.
Like, I don't know.
It says non sequitur.
Yes.
Quarantine and isolation, which is not true.
These kids are really, really sick.
Now is the time the Department of Health
and Human Services needs to be doubling down
on telling the American people to vaccinate their
kids and highlighting the, and emphasizing the safety
and effectiveness of vaccines, not tearing it down.
So I do think it's starting to have
a very damaging effect.
Dr. Peter Hotez, thanks as always.
As always.
You're on all the time.
We're bringing you back every chance we can
because we're paid money to do it.
Yeah.
On top of the government funding.
It's pretty pathetic.
Yeah, come on, Bobby.
Where's the Rico case?
Where's the stopping of advertising?
Talk is cheap, Bobby.
Come on, come on now.
I mean, I'll give him some time.
I'll give him another hundred days.
I think the next hundred days of the
Trump administration, they're going to ramp it up.
They're going to ramp everything up so much.
Well, they're going to have to because people
are demanding it.
I don't know what they're going to do
about the Epstein thing, because I believe now
that that doesn't exist.
It's been destroyed.
The Diddy stuff, I don't know, he's going
to trial, I think this week or coming
this coming week.
Tonight, Sean Combs makes it official.
Hold on.
It was perfect timing.
Oh, it was.
Do it again.
I'll edit it out.
Diddy is going to trial any minute.
Tonight, Sean Combs makes it official.
He's rejecting the government's offer to plead guilty
and spare himself the possibility of a prolonged
term in prison.
When asked if he turned down the offer,
Combs answered, yes, I do, Your Honor, as
he stood in a baggy beige jail uniform.
Terms were not disclosed, but prosecutors did say
a plea could result in a shorter sentence
for Combs than if he's convicted.
The decision guarantees Combs will face trial beginning
just four days from now that will test
whether one of music's most prolific figures used
his power, wealth, and fame to sexually exploit
both women and men for decades.
Combs has pleaded not guilty to racketeering conspiracy,
sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution
charges that accused him of coercing alleged victims
into prolonged drug-fueled sexual activity that he
called freak-offs and threatening them into silence.
At trial, Combs will ditch the jail garb
and wear ordinary clothes.
As his lawyers argue, the evidence shows consenting
adults being intimate in their own way.
In their own way.
Everybody's consenting in their own way.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm not con- Passed out.
You're consenting.
Yeah, I thought his way was being passed
out, so that's what I did.
So no Epstein, but we got Diddy.
Get the black man, and- That's also
the thing he wants to go to trial
because he, somebody, at least somebody in his
king camp knows that.
You go to trial, that means discovery, and
discovery means some names are gonna come out
that don't wanna have their names come out,
and maybe they can do a deal or
do something or kill him.
Meanwhile, in related news, over in the United
Kingdoms.
Overseas tonight, actor and comedian Russell Brand making
his first court appearance since being charged with
rape and sexual assault in London.
Brand pushing his way through a mob of
photographers outside the courthouse.
Four women accusing him in separate alleged attacks
between 1999 and 2005.
The judge releasing him on conditional bail.
Brand denies the allegations.
They are railroading this guy.
It sounds like a Snowden thing to me.
There's a little bit of that, but there's
also, he's not doing himself any favors the
way, with his commentary.
Well, he lives in Florida now, but he
doesn't even live in the UK.
Yeah, I know how they got him out
there.
He has to, he has to, or he'll
be extradited.
Was he extradited, or was he?
No, no, no, no, he just- He's
still in Florida?
No, he has to attend the, yeah, he
takes British Airways.
He has to attend the trials, but he
can go back to Florida.
Seems kind of odd.
It is odd.
Yeah.
I have, what's the time?
Yeah, we can do this.
I have three clips from the guy I
like most when it comes to EU, UK,
Ukraine, and NATO, Andrew Rassoulis.
He's the former military dude from Candanavia, about
the minerals deal that we signed with Ukraine,
which we've heard very little about.
Have you heard much about that in the
US media, besides that something happened?
Yeah.
Well, do you know- We had a
bunch of clips in the last show about
it.
Yeah, but it just says we have a
deal, but do you know the terms of
the deal?
Do you know anything about it?
No, we didn't get any of that from
our clips.
Do you know?
Well, I thought the terms of the deal,
that was we just had to spend a
lot of money, give them more money.
We're gonna speak with Andrew Rassoulis yet again.
He is a defense and Eastern European affairs
expert with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute.
Andrew, thank you for joining us again.
Appreciate your time.
You're very welcome, Shane.
Okay, so this deal, we know this has
been touted as key to Ukraine's fortunes here
as Zelensky saying he's hopeful this guarantees continued
support from the Americans.
So this was absolutely essential, right?
Well, it's an important building block, but it's
a building block, but it's not a keystone.
That's the way I describe it to a
peace settlement.
And we have to remember that the agreement
that was signed now is a reasonably watered
down agreement.
Now, the key element of the first agreement
that Ukraine proposed was that basically the United
States in return for having access to these
minerals and revenues and so on would provide
solid military guarantees to Ukraine in the event
of a peace settlement with Russia.
The Americans countered that with saying no way
for a security thing.
And by the way, we want all this
money back from Ukraine to repay loans or
costs that we invented in your defense.
So the Ukrainians said, no way.
Now, the third option, which they did sign
is a watered down version.
There is no guaranteed American security for Ukraine,
but there is a paragraph that suggests it
might be possible.
It's an option for the United States to
exercise.
So it's half and half.
It's an option.
And for the Ukrainians, there is no obligation
to repay debt, so-called, for American assistance.
Rather, the profits here, both American and Ukrainian,
will be primarily directed at the reconstruction of
Ukraine.
So that's the kind of, it's a bit
of a win-win, but it's not that
huge thing that was supposed to be the
security guarantee in the event of a peace
settlement.
That's not there.
Okay, so the way I see this is,
if we make any money off of those
minerals, if you got them, then maybe we'll
provide you some security if it's any good.
And any profits will go and build stuff
in your country which we're gonna profit off
of.
Sounds like a good deal for us.
But it is- Except for the fact
we can't get to the minerals, there's no
real mining going on, and it's possible there's
no minerals at all and they're full of
crap, those guys.
The Ukrainians are criminals.
So it's part- No offense to the
Ukrainian listeners that we have, but they have
a lot of shysters there, let's put it
that way.
Is this, does this mean there's a possibility
of a peace deal?
Now, it comes at a time when we
know and we heard from U.S. Vice
President J.D. Vance just yesterday, hey, look,
peace isn't coming anytime soon.
And so it looks like the prospect of
reaching a broader deal with Russia and Ukraine,
the hopes just continue to diminish, don't they?
Well, they continue.
I'm not gonna say diminish, because every day
it's a little different.
I would say to you objectively that talks
are continuing.
And a lot of what's going on now
we don't hear about because it's behind the
scenes, as it should be.
And so there's a lot of, I think,
looking for the deals that are in corridors.
The Americans are talking to basically everybody and
trying to broker something, but they're also expressing
frustration and saying they're not gonna run around
the globe at high level, like Rubio's not
gonna run around the globe.
But officials, I mean, they're talking.
I mean, we don't know the mechanisms and
it's behind closed doors.
Will this succeed?
We do not know.
Is there an incentive for both sides to
come to an agreement?
Yes, depending on the terms.
Both sides at some point get exhausted by
this, but it's always, it's the question of
the deal.
You get exhausted, but for what benefit, what
care it is out there for you to
actually make a compromise?
And that's where things are right now.
You know, May 9th looms out there.
That's Victory in Europe day.
The Russians would love to have a peace
settlement then.
Would the Ukrainians agree with what the Russians
want, would the Russians agree?
I don't know, Shea, but that's the next
target date.
We'll see what happens.
But there is some change.
This is the final clip.
What is Russia's thinking about all this?
What have we heard from Russia?
Like I say, Zelensky talking about this deal
being reached.
I mean, Russia's not involved in the deal,
but it affects it.
What have we heard from Russia lately about
this whole situation?
Well, on the deal, the Russians have not
commented in any political way.
They've simply acknowledged that it exists.
Yeah, okay.
It's kind of a so what.
Yeah, yeah.
But the Russians keep reiterating.
We're hearing two things from the Russians.
One, we hear the maximalist things.
We want everything we said we want.
But two, there's been an important nuance.
Putin has said that he's prepared to meet
with Zelensky, even though he sees that Zelensky
is not a legitimate elected ruler because the
five-year mandate has expired.
This is an important concession.
And the same from the Ukrainians.
Zelensky has said he's prepared to meet with
the Russians and with Putin, because even though
there's a Ukrainian law that says you can't
negotiate with the Russians, we said that's an
exception, okay?
And Rubio is saying, at some point, the
Russians and the Ukrainians are gonna have to
sit down and make a final deal.
And that's the point, you see?
So the fact that we've heard noises from
Zelensky and Putin suggesting that the door is
open to sit down at a table one
day means that they acknowledge this fact.
And I think the Americans are hedging them
to this.
When will that happen?
I don't know, but eventually, I believe it
will.
Okay.
I like that.
By the way, where's that come from?
That is from Edmonton Radio.
That's why it sounds so crappy.
That was quite good.
Thank you.
I like Rassoulos.
I like this guy.
Yeah.
He's definitely in the know.
He's one of those ex-military guys.
Yeah, no, you can tell.
Yeah, he knows.
The way people do a presentation, whether they
know what they're talking about or not.
Yeah, so then we don't get that kind
of information here, in my opinion.
At least I'm not finding it.
In your opinion?
It's a fact.
I'm not finding it.
Before we take a break, should we do
it?
You only have one, I see.
That's a little disappointing, but.
Well, actually, I have a pre-break clip,
but I think it might be better for
the second break, which is the Victor David
Hansen clip on the Democrat Dilemma.
Oh, okay.
But I think that's a good clip to
lead into the second break, and you'll see
why when you play the clip.
Okay.
But for the clip, you're promoting is-
♪ Now, TikTok, you don't stop now, because
- ♪ Yeah, everybody, it's everybody's favorite moment.
John's trick of the day.
This was the worst.
I could not find any good TikTok clips.
There were a lot of good ones that
were visually interesting, from distressed weirdos, but they
didn't have the audio I wanted, and so
this is the best I could do.
This is the only TikTok clip I have
for today's show.
Disappointing, only one.
Yeah.
And it's short.
Yeah.
All right, well, we'll take what we can
get.
How can anyone with a functioning brain cell
still say that Donald Trump was the correct
choice for president after these first 100 days?
I just watched Kamala Harris's speech tonight, and
it is very, very evident that it just
should have been her.
She should be the president of the United
States right now, and not Donald Trump.
Did you see that speech by Harris?
She was drunk.
The speech was the worst.
She just babbled on about meaningless crap, including
the elephant stuff.
She was, I happen to have, what do
I have?
I have 30 seconds of it, if you
want.
Yeah, play some of it.
In fact, please allow me, friends, to digress
for a moment.
Okay.
It's kind of dark in here, but I'm
asking a show of hands.
Who saw that video from a couple of
weeks ago, the one of the elephants at
the San Diego Zoo during the earthquake?
Google it if you've not seen it.
So that scene has been on my mind.
Everybody's asking me, what you been thinking about
these days?
Well.
Yeah, she should be president.
Jeez.
So these TikTok people, you know, I keep
telling you that they're just engagement farming, and
they just want to get clicks and likes,
and people are pushing back on me about
that.
They're like, no, no, you have to understand,
these people are real.
These people are at my job.
These people are at my school.
These people are in my community.
I'll take the side of the pushbackers.
I agree with them.
And well, I'm actually sad about that.
I mean, these people are like clouds without
water.
There are very few moments in our relationship
and the relationship with you and the audience
that you're an optimist.
Very, very seldom does this happen.
Yeah, well.
You used to wear rose-colored glasses when
I first met you.
I remember that.
That's correct.
Correct.
But generally speaking, you have kind of a
dim attitude or a negative attitude.
But in this case, you have an extremely
positive attitude thinking that everyone's a phony.
And life's good.
These people are legitimately nuts.
They're insane individuals that are pathetic.
And there's no other way of putting it.
But that makes me feel sad.
I know.
I know you don't like the idea.
They are clouds without water.
They're autumn trees.
They're autumn trees without fruit.
In fact, John, they are wandering stars for
whom the black darkness has been reserved forever.
They are the fruit.
With that, I want to thank you for
your courage in the morning.
To you, the man who put the sea
in the chemtrail fanatic.
Say hello to my friend on the other
end.
The one, the only, Mr. John C.
DeMora.
Wow.
In the morning to you, Mr. Adam Crane.
DeMora ships sea boots on the ground, feeding
the air subs in the water to the
dames and the knights out there.
In the morning to the trolls in the
troll room.
On your couches.
Stop moving.
Here we go.
Okay.
It's getting better.
2,403 peak trollage.
It's not bad.
I'll take that.
They are hanging out at trollroom.io, which
is where you can go to join the
trolls, who are very handy.
I mean, I have the troll room open
and out of the corner of my eye,
my peripheral vision.
I see what you're saying.
I get one-liners.
I get jokes.
I get ideas.
Okay.
Criticisms.
Trolling.
Trolls.
Lots of trolls.
But I like it.
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Thank you very much, Dreb Scott.
And it was a contentious pick.
It wasn't easy, the last show.
There were a lot of different things.
Nothing really stood out where we say, yeah,
that's the one.
But Darren O'Neill, it was still a
laugh.
It's very inside this piece of art because
you are famous, of course, as an author
of many bestseller books.
And that was the piece that was missing.
It did not have the star emblem.
A little sticker.
A little sticker that says instant bestseller.
This was the Blackmail for Fun and Profit
book, What's That in Your Mouth by John
C.
Dvorak.
I still laugh when I see it.
And expertly done through the AI by Darren
O'Neill.
I think there were some other pieces because
at a certain point you said, ah, you
chose, I don't like it, I don't like
any of it.
But I liked the maple syrup on fire.
Yeah, but that was a Molotov cocktail.
Which Darren also did.
Well, what we really discussed were the cobalt
t-shirts.
So for a long time, we talked about
the cobalt knucklehead.
I personally liked the cobalt as for schmucks.
Yeah, but you violated your main rule.
It's too small, it was too small.
You liked the mastermind's unclipable wench, but I
thought that was too very, you also liked
the boobs.
Of course, there was a boobage there from
Scaramanga.
The booba bun with the girl riding the
bike on the pedal bike on the Autobahn.
You even said, oh, how about the Ferrari
in a country road?
I mean, none of that was right.
We were, you were just grasping at straws.
And then- You make it sound like
I was a maniac.
A little bit.
And then we even discussed making cobalt for
schmucks the title.
And then we went, you know, that's not
a good idea.
No.
I got a lot of feedback on the
cobalt as expected.
Let me see, where is my cobalt?
Yes.
So two things.
One from John Daly says, yeah, it seems
obvious John's never seen cobalt.
The features of cobalt are straightforward.
Yes.
However, when you start talking about 5 million
lines of production cobalt, it's a nightmare.
The features of the language are limited which
also makes it more difficult to do common
and important things, which creates a bloat.
So real world cobalt applications are not as
cool as Java.
For instance, who thinks Java is cool?
Which has features to create a kind of
language of structure that allows quick interpretation, learning
and modification.
Bad variable naming, poor algorithms, kludges, hacks, bad
managerial input, all create bad unmaintainable code in
any language.
Cobalt is not simple in any real world
application.
So he showed you then.
Yeah, he saw me, he's really accurate too.
Since I, when I had a company called
California software, I actually sold cobalt and they
will postgraduate school cobalt.
Well, you can sell a couple of copies.
You didn't code in it.
Plus beside, I did, I've never, he says,
I didn't, the way he put it, he
was like, I was oblivious to the whole
thing.
I used to sell the product.
That's the way I see it.
As far as I'm concerned, that gives me
some credibility.
Okay.
And then he says Java and he uses
Java as an example, not JavaScript, which is
not even really a language.
That's where his argument fell apart.
I agree.
But then interestingly, very good article in dev
.to, which is a nerd website about the
dates about May 20, 1875.
I think, did I send you that?
No, I sent it to you.
Oh, you sent it to me.
Somebody sent it to you.
You sent it to me and I sent
it to, okay.
Yeah.
That turns out that's a big hoax.
Yeah, it's a hoax.
And that excellent article.
I think I posted it on Twitter.
If anyone follows my Twitter account to real
Dvorak, you'll find a link to it.
Yeah.
So I put it in the show notes.
So that really truly was a hack perpetuated
by NPR and that bogus lady on the
last show.
Yep.
Cause she acted like she knew exactly what
she was talking about.
And this is a hoax.
There's a very detailed article about this hoax.
So it's just not true.
It's not true that.
That was a fantastic article.
It's a great article.
Yes.
Anyway, thank you very much, Darren O'Neill.
Well deserved.
I mean, deserve, let's put it that way.
It's AI.
So, okay.
Darren definitely has that down.
He and Scaramanga should start a company together.
AI art.
I'm just saying, it'd be a great idea.
So that's.
We have a lot of good AI.
We do.
Yeah.
We do.
Well, actually those two are amongst the top.
They're quite good.
They're good at that.
So that's the time and talent portion of
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And we kick it off right here in
Georgetown, Texas with Tom Anya.
And he sends us $500 and he says,
what does he say here?
He says, gentlemen, a de-douching and a
little camel karma would be much appreciated.
You've been de-douched.
I think he means yak.
And he says, if there are any fans
of watercolor out there, check out www.lanaya
.art. L-A-N-A-Y-A.art.
Thanks and regards, says Tom.
Here's your yak karma.
You've got karma.
I went and checked out the art.
And how is it?
This is his wife, I think, or his
sister, probably his wife.
I think it is his wife, yeah.
Excellent art.
Good, a lot of originals for about 350
bucks, which is about what you want to
pay for a watercolor.
That's about, you know, 30 bucks for prints,
which if they're done well, might as well
be a watercolor.
Oh, I've seen these.
She's actually offered to send us a print,
which I think we said yes to because
it's cool.
And yes, and she does good work.
That's beautiful.
And classic watercolor looking stuff.
Everyone should have at least two of her
pieces.
Everyone, and she does commissions.
She does commissions.
So we can have, we'd like to-
Yeah, her commissions are mostly portraits and pictures
of dogs.
Babies and dogs.
I want a watercolor of my dog!
That's right.
That's about right.
That's right.
Thank you very much, Tom.
All right, next on the list is Daniel
Sean Gerald Morse in Spirit Lake, Iowa.
And he actually sent a note, and this
is pre-commodore off.
Yeah, actually, if Tom wants a commodore ship,
let us know.
We'll put you on the list as a
laggard.
But this guy came in earlier, but it
came in late, whatever.
He sent a bunch of, he sent a
care package with a bunch of beef jerky.
Oh, oh!
Any beef jerky for me?
Yeah, the rats ate yours.
Okay, thanks.
Didn't mean, you want some?
I think so.
I love beef jerky.
He sent two packs, so maybe.
Maybe.
He'd be glad to send you some straight
up.
Anyway, he's in Spirit Lake, Iowa, and he
sent a handwritten note, which says, please de
-douche me.
Yeah, we can do that.
De-douche me, de-douche me, de-douche
me, de-douche me.
You've been de-douched.
And then he has an on-air note,
just please de-douche me, and he's got
his commodore name as Daniel Sean Gerald Morse.
And then he has a bunch of off
-air stuff, which I won't read, because it's
off-air.
It's off-air, people.
But it involves beef jerky.
It's off-air.
Thanks.
It's off-air.
Thanks, Daniel.
Commodore, semi-anonymous vegan.
There we go.
Mill Park, Victoria, Australia.
Hello, Australia.
This is a $1,000 donation, but it
comes in as 319.
I'm just kidding.
ITM, Adam, and John, I would like to
make this Commodore donation a switcheroo for my
new human resource to be known as Commodore
Spooky.
All right, let me do that.
So this was 500 Australian dollarydoos, I guess.
Yeah, I guess so.
So he's not on the list, but why
don't you put him on there?
No, I think he is on the list.
I think there's only one on the list.
Well, let me check if that's him.
Let me just see.
Should be Morse on the list.
Morse is on the list, yeah.
Well, I'm sure that this was, I'm going
to put Commodore Spooky in there, because I'm
sure that this was $500 Australian.
And we do want to honor.
Yes, it's like 60 cents.
Wait until that stable coin comes out.
You guys are going to have to pay
up normal.
A de-douching, please.
You've been de-douched.
And a jingle from Elmer Fudd, who may
or may not still be the prime minister
of us here in Ozcom the 3rd of
May.
What does that mean?
Well, the election, I have the bonus clip
for the donation.
I have a bonus clip too, but if
you put an Elmer Fudd in there, we
can certainly play yours.
Oz News, Albanese has been reelected.
Days after Canada's general election resulted in a
left-leaning leader making an unexpected comeback because
of fears about President Trump's policies, the same
appears to have happened in Australia.
Incumbent Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was returned to
power with his Labour Party expanding its majority,
despite opinion polls at the start of the
year showing it trailing the centre-right Liberal
National Party coalition.
The opposition leader Peter Dutton, who'd been compared
to Donald Trump, lost the parliamentary seat he'd
held for more than two decades.
A jubilant Mr Albanese addressed his cheering supporters.
Be very, very quiet.
I'm hunting rabbits.
Okay, I get to play my Albanese clip
then.
Australia's centre-left Labour Party has secured a
second term in office in a landslide election
victory.
The country's incumbent Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is
now set to be in office for his
three-year term.
In his victory speech, he thanked voters for
choosing, quote, optimism and determination.
Today, the Australian people have voted for Australian
values.
For fairness, aspiration and opportunity for all.
Leader of the opposition coalition.
We both are so sick.
We have sick minds, people.
But at least we think alike.
Eli the coffee guy's up on the list.
No, yes he is.
You're right.
I'm sorry.
Go for it.
You're already there.
Yeah, that's crazy.
So this is a very short list.
Very short, very short.
Yeah, very short and crappy list today.
But okay, Eli's here.
And he came in from Bensonville, Illinois, 20504.
Thank you for the last show's breakdown of
the Eurodollar donation.
Eurodollar donation.
Yes.
It tied in well with Tucker Carlson's interview
with Catherine Fitz.
So I watched that entire, I listened to
that entire interview and I've heard a lot
of Catherine Fitz and it always ends with
this.
I don't know who Mr. Globalization is.
It's always the same.
She has been doing, and not that she's
full of crap, but she's been doing this
same thing for a decade.
I can't watch her.
The interview is worth a listen, but there
is a lot to unpack.
As she put it, they are building a
prison around us using the control mechanisms like
digitized currency.
To what end is to be determined?
But she has some interesting theories.
In my opinion, she's got nothing.
At Gigawatt, we still taste good old-fashioned
Fiat USD, or we still take dollars.
So visit gigawattcoffeeroasters.com and use code ITM20
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Stay caffeinated, says Eli the coffee guy.
All right, thank you, Eli.
Brett Carothers, Carothers, Carothers?
Carothers.
Carothers, oh, that makes sense, Carothers.
Nanaimo, British Columbia.
Canada, hello, Canada.
Hello, Canada.
$200.37, this is a switcheroo donation from
my smoking hot wife, Brittany.
So let me make sure we put Brittany
in there, from Brett to Brittany.
That's not a problem, okay.
Brett to Brittany, consider it done.
She celebrates her 37th birthday on Sunday, show
day, and may the fourth be with you.
She is the glowing light in our life.
Meadow, Hollandaise, and I are grateful for your
shining down.
Please de-douche.
You've been de-douched.
So they have a daughter named Meadow and
a daughter named Hollandaise.
That's an interesting choice of name.
Hollandaise.
Holla, yeah, Hollandaise, yeah.
As a Vancouver Island- Let's be a
saucy girl.
Yeah, there it is.
As a Vancouver Island arborist, life is grand
in the trees.
I love my wood chipper and I love
what I do.
Hey, you need to get this guy, you
need to get him over to your place.
Hey, it's already taken care of.
Oh, you got the arborist coming?
No, he came last Saturday.
The tree is back to, the tree is
a completely different looking tree.
I don't know why you needed an arborist.
You just needed a saw.
No, no, but you would just, no, they
had, this tree is huge.
The trunk of this oak tree is about
a yard.
Yeah, but you didn't chop down the tree.
The tree was just a branch.
No, no, you just shot, that would be
a disaster.
You had, the tree has been reformed.
Oh.
He's an arborist, he's not a hatchet man.
John, please consider this partial payment for your
window clearance pruning and just know I would
never have rescheduled on you.
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And he winds it up by requesting a
biscuit for his birthday, Smokin' Hot Wife.
They always give me a biscuit on my
birthday.
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This is my first donation since my dad
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You've been de-douched.
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Our formula is this.
We hit people in the mouth.
You.
What up?
Shut up, slave.
So, as we were talking earlier, it's obvious
that the machine, the machine, which is mainly
media and all the money that comes in
from pharmaceutical and big food and everybody, they're
gonna start really hitting hard at Trump.
I think we're gonna see 100 days of
craziness.
And they- Yeah, they have to.
Yes.
We're starting to see the beginning of it
with Hotez.
Yeah.
Well, there's also, and I always thought this
was a mistake on the president's part, but
now they're going after World Liberty Financial.
World Liberty Financial.
Both ABC and CBS did big pieces on
them because this is clear corruption.
When Donald Trump was campaigning for reelection, he
was also campaigning for cryptocurrency.
Big news.
The World Liberty Financial token sale is now
live.
Crypto is the future.
World Liberty Financial is a digital currency platform
that says it's inspired by President Trump, but
it's more than inspired.
A company affiliated with the Trump family owns
a 60% stake.
We believe that his crypto assets are as
much as $2.9 billion.
Virginia Cantor has overseen ethics rules as a
senior government lawyer in both Democratic and Republican
administrations.
President Trump has sold stakes.
He sold gold sneakers, Bibles.
How is this any different?
At least those had some intrinsic value.
This is like a perfect vehicle to funnel
money to him and his family to enrich
them.
So World Liberty Financial, and I haven't done
a deep dive on them, but what it
appears, and there's two different things.
There's the meme coin and then there's World
Liberty Financial.
I don't even know if the two are
connected.
The meme coin is just dumb.
That was the mistake.
He never should have done it, been Melania
meme coin.
I don't know if he was even involved
in it, but that was annoying.
But this World Liberty Financial, it will be
a lending, as I understand it, you will
be able to borrow money at very competitive
rates and you'll have different types of collateral,
which could be Bitcoin, stable coin, who knows,
Dogecoin, who knows what it is.
I'll dive into that deeper, but this is
the attack vector on the president.
And honestly, I think it's rightly so.
This was a huge, dumb move.
World Liberty says it's raised more than $550
million.
And this week it announced it received a
new $2 billion investment from an Abu Dhabi
company.
How much the Trump family stands to benefit
is unknown.
Another investor is Justin Sun, the eccentric Chinese
billionaire, perhaps best known for buying.
It's yours, congratulations, thank you very much indeed.
And then eating a $6.2 million banana
duct taped to a wall.
Back in 2023, President Biden's SEC charged Sun
with securities fraud.
After Trump's reelection, Sun announced a $75 million
investment in World Liberty Financial.
And just five weeks later, federal prosecutors asked
the judge to pause the Sun investigation, citing
public interest.
A CBS News analysis shows that the government
has dropped a dozen cases against crypto firms
since January.
Sun is one of more than 85,000
investors in World Liberty so far.
Most are unnamed and unknown.
Unnamed, unknown, they're funneling money to the president
for all kinds of favors.
Although what they don't really mention here is
that these were really dumb, bogus lawsuits.
And the rules change, so that's why the
lawsuits were dropped.
Here's the final clip from CBS.
We've got the president of the United States'
firstborn, Donald Trump Jr. At a crypto industry
conference in Washington in March, the founders of
World Liberty Financial promoted the company, along with
the president's son.
I'm just super excited about what this can
mean.
This guy is an attack vector.
For the future of banking, for the future
of the financial systems.
Hold on, stop.
CBS News.
Back it up and start him again, and
start to think, who does he sound like?
He sounds like Zuckerberg.
Ooh.
For the future of banking, for the future.
Wait, let me back him up a little
more.
For the future of the financial.
I'm just super excited about what this can
mean.
Completely.
He's hanging out in Silicon Valley too much.
He's in the milieu.
There's something going on with the milieu, because
that is a very distinctive sound.
Completely agree.
I'm just super excited about what this can
mean for the future of banking, for the
future of the financial systems.
CBS News.
We tried to approach the World Liberty team,
but they have declined our multiple requests for
an interview.
World Liberty did not respond to questions about
the potential profits for the Trump family.
In a statement, they said the Abu Dhabi
company's investment sets a historic precedent.
The SEC, Justin Sun, and the Trump organization
did not respond to our questions.
And the White House said, report on something
people actually care about.
So ABC had pretty much the same report,
and I'll only play the clip that was
relevant.
By the way, Elizabeth Warren is heading up
a lot of this.
Elizabeth Warren, I think she probably represents old
school banks, maybe City of London.
I don't know.
She's not just outraged because she's outraged.
She has big financial backers.
Liz is in all kinds of stuff.
And we saw that with the over-the
-counter hearing aids.
If anyone is quote-unquote corrupt, I'd pin
that on her.
But here's the kicker from ABC.
The White House telling ABC News in a
statement, in part, President Trump's assets are in
a trust managed by his children, and there
are no conflicts of interest.
President Trump campaigned on being a champion for
the crypto community, and he has taken significant
steps to do that.
World Liberty Financial has also announced plans to
launch a stablecoin, a cryptocurrency pegged to the
US dollar.
The company has reportedly sold $2 billion worth,
with a Trump family entity receiving a 75
% cut of every sale.
And at the same time, Trump's White House
pushed for new policies that directly impact stablecoins.
I've also called on Congress to pass landmark
legislation creating simple, common sense rules for stablecoins.
If Congress does what Trump wants, it could
help further legitimize cryptocurrency, and he says expand
the dominance of the US dollar.
Just this week at a conference in Dubai
attended by Eric Trump, World Liberty Financial announced
a $2 billion investment from the United Arab
Emirates to use the company's stablecoin.
Binance and the foreign investment firm are going
to use Donald Trump's stablecoin to finance their
transaction, essentially giving Trump a cut of that
$2 billion deal.
Boy, looks like corruption, smells like corruption.
Stablecoin, baby, it's the future.
It's coming, it's coming.
There's the exit strategy that President Trump set
up for himself.
Stablecoin exit.
Well, if it was all in a blind
trust, he didn't set up anything.
Well, no.
It's Donald Jr. doing all the hard lifting.
You mean Donald Zuckerberg Jr.?
Donald Zuckerberg.
And for Elizabeth Warren, you know, to jump
in, oh, looks and smells like corruption, okay.
Where'd all of her wealth come from out
of the blue?
Yeah.
Magic?
Magic.
Well, I question the Trump makes 75%.
Oh, no, that's not true.
How does that even work?
It wouldn't make any sense whatsoever.
It's idiotic.
But this- Maybe, what's probably, there's probably,
I would guess that there would be a
percentage of some transaction fee of 0.75,
as somebody saw, 0.75 is 75%.
Yeah.
No, I'm with you, that's bull crap.
But- So that's just poor reporting.
But it's a beautiful system.
You buy treasuries, you get your 4%, and
then you make stable coin, and you get
a transaction fee on top of it.
What are we doing this podcast for?
We should be buying treasuries, making stable coins.
Weren't you involved in some Dutch coin of
some sort some years back?
Oh, yeah, that was a shit coin.
That, you know what?
I got lucky.
God protected me.
That was just one of those, you know,
ICO scams.
Was it a scam?
Well, I mean, it was an initial coin
offering, which people like Snoop Dogg and Kim
Kardashian, they've had to pay millions of dollars
in fines.
Yeah, it could have happened to you.
Yes, yes, I- Why didn't it?
Because those guys couldn't get their crap together,
and they didn't figure it out in time.
You couldn't get the scam off the ground?
You saved your bacon?
Yes, big time.
I'm thankful.
Thank you, Jesus, you saved me, yes.
It would have been a nightmare, because I
was the Kim Kardashian of this coin.
Oh, there's an ISO for you.
I was the Kim Kardashian, without the big
butt.
Or the money.
Or the money, yeah.
Let's go to TDS.
Big thing, Trent de la Ragua.
I think they're onto something here.
Okay.
It's not a big deal, but it's a
big enough deal that I think they can
make some inroads and go after Trump with
this.
This is a PBS report on TDA, the
guys they've locked up.
In March, in order to speedily deport 238
Venezuelan men under an 18th century law, President
Trump declared- Under an 18th century law,
unlike our 18th century constitution, which you always
tout your First Amendment.
With 38 Venezuelan men under an 18th century
law, President Trump declared many of them to
be alien enemies.
He claimed there were members of a transnational
criminal organization called Trent de la Ragua, which
he said was conducting irregular warfare and undertaking
hostile actions against the United States.
But a New York Times investigation couldn't find
any evidence linking many of the men to
that gang.
Ali Rogin spoke with Julie Turkowitz, the Times
-Andes bureau chief based in Bogota, Colombia, and
the lead reporter on that investigation.
Thank you so much for joining us.
In your investigation for how many of these
238 men did you find connections to Trent
de la Ragua and how did you go
about making those determinations?
We spent a couple of weeks doing record
searches in the US, in Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador,
Chile, Colombia.
And what we found is that of the
238 individuals sent on March 15th to a
prison in El Salvador, 32 of them appeared
to have some kind of serious criminal record.
An even smaller number, just a handful, appeared
to have some possible connection to this gang,
Trent de la Ragua.
And this is reporting to the best of
our abilities, barring any real information from the
Trump administration.
Interesting.
First of all, if you're in the country
legally, you're a criminal.
I was hearing on NPR the other day
that they're using Palantir to find these people,
which by itself is concerning because yeah, they
probably screw it up because it's AI, let's
use Palantir.
Well, you have to assume there's a screw
up somehow and that's what they're trying to
track down and I think they got one.
But it's like this dubious nature of this
reporting, which is, well, these are undocumented coming
in, they're undocumented, does Venezuela have a laundry
list and they could go right up to
them, hey Maduro, can you give us the
list of the Trent de la Ragua guys
so we can check their names against the
names we have?
This is bull crap.
But okay, but let's assume that they spent
a whole two weeks.
I mean, take it two weeks to get
down and to find the right person to
talk to.
But okay, let's go on.
You also reported on how the administration has
been making these determinations, what criteria they're using.
Tell us about that.
Some of the documents that have come out
in court filings in recent weeks indicate that
the Trump administration is using a rubric to
essentially grade individuals who law enforcement believes might
be Trent de la Ragua.
When the person gets to eight whole points,
they become a quote, validated member of Trent
de la Ragua and thus are- It's
a meritocracy, baby.
It's a merit-based system.
Eight points, you're out.
Eligible to be deported under the Trump administration's
qualifications as an alien enemy.
And so four points, according to this rubric,
are given for someone who has suspicious tattoos
of the Trump administration that law enforcement officials
believe are connected to Trent de la Ragua.
Another four points are given out for style
of dress that law enforcement officials believe are
Trent de la Ragua and experts we spoke
to said, hey, like these specifications don't match
with what we know about this group.
The example being tattoos specifically, obviously are worth
sort of half of the points that makes
someone a quote, validated member of Trent de
la Ragua.
But experts in Venezuela tell my colleague in
Venezuela that no, in fact, this group doesn't
use tattoos as a marker of membership.
This term rubric is interesting because you said
it's a checklist, but that's not the definition
of rubric.
No, but she's using it, the way I
understand it, she's using it as meaning checklist.
But read us the definition and then I
have a comment about that last clip.
Well, the definition has nothing to do with
checklist, but there's a company called Rubric and
they do data analysis, cloud data management.
So I was just wondering if maybe they're
using the system rubric because- No, why
should you look up the word rubric?
Rubric definition, here we go.
Do you want Merriam-Webster or the Collins?
Merriam-Webster.
It wants an authoritative rule, a title of
a statute, that would be it, or an
explanatory or introductory commentary.
She's really means checklist.
She just likes saying Chile and Venezuela, that's
what she likes.
And rubric.
Now, she mentions that the whole kind of
commentary at this point drifts off into these
tattoos.
And at not one point in this entire,
I think it was a four-part clip,
do they mention that MS-13 at all?
MS-13 was part of this whole thing.
It was TDS plus MS-13 that were
getting shipped off.
TDA.
And MS-13 is solely regarded as this.
You always have tattoos.
It's part of the scheme.
Right.
But they won't even mention MS-13 in
this entire report.
And they'll just go on and on about
the tattoos not being part of the Trente
de Agua, what I can never pronounce it
correctly.
Trente de Agua.
They cannot bring themselves to bring in the
other aspect of this deportation, which is the
MS-13 half of it.
Are you telling me that this PBS report
is slanted and perhaps untrue?
I think it's slanted for sure, and probably
untrue in some sense.
One of the deported men whose family you
spoke to is Arturo Suarez Trejo.
Can you tell me about him and his
family?
He had been living in Chile and was
making a living working actually installing refrigerators, but
his real passion was music.
He meets his wife, another Venezuelan in Chile,
and she becomes pregnant.
And he eventually decides, you know what?
I really want to make some more money
for my family.
So I'm going to go have the kid
in America so I can get my papers.
And he heads North.
He gets into the United States.
He enters the- Actually, he left, she
stayed.
Oh, oh, he heads North, oh.
And she becomes pregnant and he eventually decides,
you know what?
I really want to make some more money
for my family.
And he heads North.
Sounds like she's saying she.
She's saying he?
It sounds like she.
Are you sure?
As far as I can tell, well, play
it again.
I thought it was he heads North because
he's the one that was in the country,
not her.
Meets his wife, another Venezuelan in Chile, and
she becomes pregnant.
And he eventually decides, you know what?
I really want to make some more money
for my family.
And he heads North.
He gets into the United States.
He enters with this sort of Biden-era
application that allows people to sort of appear
at the border and ask for permission to
enter.
He enters the country, is working in North
Carolina.
And one day he's in North Carolina filming
a music video when I shows up.
He calls his wife in Chile and he
says, you know, honey, I'm coming home.
And that is when he suddenly disappeared and
his wife stopped hearing from him until she
types into Google, Venezuelans deported.
And she sees him in a video, shaved,
cuffed, and bent over in this Salvadoran prison.
Arturo Suarez is one of the individuals who
does not appear to have a criminal record
or a connection to Prender Agua.
Other than that, he came in illegally.
They make it sound like, oh, come on.
Well, no, he came in illegally, but he
used that stupid system that Biden had set
up.
The app?
The app.
So he came in legally through the channels
that they allowed him to come in legally.
And then he got railroaded and got shipped
off supposedly.
Although I don't know how she recognized him
bent over with his head shaved, but somehow
she recognized him, which I think that's part
of bogus reporting.
And now it turns out he's in the
jail, but there's no proof of this that
I can tell.
No evidence.
This story may be manufactured from scratch.
You know, the media has been flooded with
stories like this.
You know, poor guy separates from, my favorite
is a four-year-old girl with cancer.
Deported her.
You know, more Trump hates children.
Deporting children story is bogus as hell because
those kids were brought by the, mom was
deported and she wanted to bring the kid.
And what's the kids, and they're suggesting leaving
the kid in the United States because it's
an American citizen?
Okay, well, the kid's always going to be
an American citizen.
She can come back or whenever she feels
like it, when she's older, maybe, and can
live on her own.
No, but you see, it's wrong because President
Trump should have immediately opened up Walter Reed
or Mayo and put the kid in the
cancer ward.
You know, that's what he should be doing
because, you know, Trump hates children.
He just wants children with cancer to die.
That's the story.
You're right in your assertion five, 10 minutes
ago about they're going to, this is going
to be amped up.
I don't know about these stories being even
remotely accurate.
They're definitely slanted.
And whether this guy even exists, this guy
whose wife was pregnant in Chile, why didn't
she come with him and have the baby
here?
Which would be the smart money, seems to
me.
Especially since he went through the trouble and
they didn't want a bunch of single males
coming in.
They liked the idea of a family.
But you bring her, it makes more sense.
The whole thing is very suspect.
His passion was music, John.
It's so unfair.
And then they throw the artsy angle and
there's a refrigerator installer whose passion is music.
It's like a Dire Straits video.
Reference lost on you, I'm sorry.
Yeah, it's money for nothing.
Yes, oh, he's got it.
He's got it, yes.
All right.
You and your colleagues also reported on how
Salvador and President Nayib Bukele has wanted more
proof that these deported men are actually members
of Tren de Agua.
Where does that stand and might that impact
this arrangement where he's going to house him
in this prison for one year?
He says that is negotiable moving forward.
As far as what's going to happen next
for these men, it's really unclear.
Nayib Bukele, the President of El Salvador, has
said that this is at least a one
-year term for these individuals.
And he has called that sentence renewable.
And we have also seen the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary, Christine Noem, come
out and say that she believes that these
individuals should be in prison in El Salvador
for the rest of their lives.
That is being contested in court, but that
case is still pending.
That decision by Judge Boasberg in Washington, D
.C. is still pending.
Julie Turkle with The New York Times.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Yeah, they're going to attack him on everything.
It's going to be nonstop, nonstop, nonstop.
Anything they can do.
You know, we had a dinner Friday night
and I was sitting next to a woman.
And I know her husband, he wasn't there.
I said, where's your husband?
Said, he's in the Dominican Republic buying tobacco.
I said, what?
And she goes through this whole thing about,
you know, he's a cigar guy and he
has this- Dominican Republic makes decent cigar
tobacco.
Yeah, and you know, it's one third fermented
and he's got this Cuban roller and she's
from Havana.
Does she roll it on her thighs?
She's from Havana.
And she said, you know, we were talking
because she was in Florida.
I said, oh, Elion Gonzalez.
She says, oh, I remember that.
So you should listen to our show because
that's how we roll.
We don't roll on our thighs.
We roll with Elion Gonzalez references.
Anyway.
She said, what was that all about?
I said, well, it was the first version
of Tren de Aragua.
That's when, who was president then?
Clinton, wasn't it Clinton?
Was it?
Was that?
That must have been Clinton.
Yeah.
It was definitely a scandal.
And let's go to one of the most
press-free countries in the world, the Republic
of Deutschland and what they're doing in with
politics.
It's quite an interesting little affair that's happening
now.
Germany's domestic intelligence agency designated the whole AFD
party as a confirmed right-wing extremist organization
on Friday.
The agency says the AFD threatens democracy due
to its xenophobic views on ethnicity.
It concluded that the party discriminates against non
-ethnic Germans, denying them equal status, especially those
from Muslim backgrounds.
As Germany's Minister of the Interior, Nancy Faeser,
explained.
The party reacted to today's decision, saying it
is a serious blow to German democracy, pointing
to the polls showing the AFD as a
strongest force.
The AFD stated that it will continue to
defend itself legally against defamation.
The decision follows a three-year review of
AFD actions, statements, and extremist links.
The AFD came second in February's general elections
ahead of the incoming junior coalition partner, the
SP.
Parts of the AFD, like its youth link,
were already classified this way.
Parliament could theoretically ask for the party to
be dissolved, but this is considered highly unlikely.
House, council, to be honest.
So, we don't like that you're popular, so
we're just going to have our security services
call you a domestic terrorist.
And we want to dissolve you, but everyone's
going to stay away.
And you, by the way, you're youth, clearly
Jugend.
AfD, Jugend, well, you're already classified, you as
little terrorists.
And our Secretary of State, Rubio, had some
strong words for this.
U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, called
Germany a tyranny in disguise.
After its intelligence service labelled the far-right
alternative for Germany party as right-wing extremist.
Rubio's comments made on the social media platform
X drew strong backlash from Germany's foreign office.
They replied by saying the decision was a
result of a thorough and independent investigation and
that Germany has learned from its history that
right-wing extremism needs to be stopped.
The label now applied to the AfD will
allow authorities to monitor the organization more closely.
Meanwhile, critics, including AfD leaders and their U
.S. supporters, say the move is politically motivated.
Do you think it's unbelievable what's happening in
Germany?
Yeah, there's nothing like a right-wing organization
run by a lesbian.
And L2, a libertarian lesbian.
A libertarian lesbian seems unlikely.
You know, no sooner have we spoken about
the Harvard endowment.
Yeah.
Then President Trump says, you know, I think
we're gonna remove the tax-exempt status from
the endowment.
Yeah, I discussed this in the newsletter a
little bit.
Yeah, I missed the newsletter, unfortunately.
What did you say?
I think a lot of this is a
trap.
Okay.
And it was designed, it's a trap to
get Harvard, because Harvard's deciding to sue back
and they're making a big fuss and it's
bringing it to light.
What it's doing is bringing to light.
Yeah, what's really going on.
The fact that the government is giving private
institutions billions and billions of dollars when they
have billions of dollars in their coffers already.
And then it turns out they're treated like
churches.
Yep.
So they have tax-free everything.
They have these huge amounts of land.
They don't have to pay tax.
They don't have to pay property tax.
They don't have to pay income tax.
They have to pay nothing.
And this is being brought to light.
And the more that these colleges push back
on it, the more it brings into the
public eye, which is something I didn't really
know how bad it was.
It brings into the public eye like, wait
a minute.
Yeah.
This is not, this isn't right.
And when you- So these guys are
screwing themselves.
And when you donate to the endowment, it's
a tax deduction.
It's like you get it on the way
in and on the way out.
It's no good.
No.
These guys are charging students hundreds of thousands
of dollars to go get an education.
Meanwhile, they're tax-free and they're getting free
government money and they're living the life of
Riley.
No.
The life of Riley?
I've never heard this term.
The life of, I'm sorry to use that
term.
That dated me.
Please do explain the life of Riley.
This is a good one.
The life of Riley was a phrase that
was used, my dad used to use it
too.
And it really was based on a TV
sitcom.
And I think it was a radio show
before there was a sitcom.
So it probably goes back to the 30s
or 40s.
And it was a show called The Life
of Riley.
And you can look up The Life of
Riley and you'll find some references to it.
This should probably be a television watching tip.
The Life of Riley.
I've never heard of this.
And you've never, never used this?
No, it's an old, it's one of those
phrases that your parents used.
Oh, like fiddle sticks?
Because it's like you're living the life of
Riley.
I mean, you're not, you're doing nothing.
So was Riley living it up?
No, it was just a lazy.
It was like a lazy guy who, he
was not, he was a...
Here we go.
William Bendix in...
Yes, William Bendix.
The Life of Riley.
It's, John, it's from the 50s.
Nice, nice.
And complete episodes on YouTube.
Well, I'm gonna have to watch that now.
Life of Riley.
I'm excited.
Say The Life of Riley, yeah.
I'm excited.
Some of the people who are in that
tax scam probably are as old as The
Life of Riley.
So I think this is a setup.
I think Trump, and they fell right into
the trap.
Instead of just shutting up.
Beautiful.
Putting the clamps down on the Jewish thing.
Saying, we're gonna not let that happen anymore.
But no, they had to be big shots.
You had to be a big shot, didn't
you?
All right, Victor David Hanson, we got the
five minute warning.
Okay.
Here's Victor David Hanson talking about...
Victor Davis Hanson, actually.
Davis, yeah, I always say David, I don't
know why.
But I do.
But Victor, VDH, VDH, VDH, everybody.
He has a commentary about the Democrats, and
I don't know why, but it leads right
into our donations.
If you look at the Democratic Party and
the left in general, they have boxed themselves
in.
On the one hand, they have no institutional
power.
No ability to pass legislation, losing the House
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No presidency, White House, no executive orders.
Ultimately, all of the cherry-picked district and
circuit judges will be overturned by a largely
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In lieu of actual power, then you look
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Maybe the alternative is a 1994 Newt Gingrich
contract with America, an alternate agenda.
Yes, we can do better on the border
than you can.
Yes, we have a better foreign policy with
Iran.
There's nothing.
There's no shadow government.
There's not a young Bill Clinton ascendant.
There's no young Barack.
There's nobody.
There's no leaders.
There's no agenda.
Ooh!
I'm gonna show my Simone by donating to
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Imagine all the people who could do that.
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John, take it away.
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And he came with 100, and John Robinet
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Commodore 128 came in with 8502.
Commodore 128 ship, I hope, didn't it?
Commodore 128.
No, no, no, no, it's the Commodore, you
had the Commodore VIC-20, the Commodore 64,
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And I think it did have the 8502
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No, no, there's no such thing as an
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Are you sure?
Yeah, pretty sure.
No, I'm not pretty sure, I'm sure.
8502 chip, let's take a look.
Wasn't that the ZX80?
Yeah, the MOS Technology 8502.
8-bit microprocessor?
Yes.
There was an 8502, and I was unaware
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I was writing about these things back in
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You were writing about Windows telecommunications, so you're
forgiven.
I mean, it can happen.
You were doing other important stuff, instant bestsellers.
Well, I think 8502's a great donation number
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I think so too.
It's better than 6502.
It sure is.
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He came in with a better donation of
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Not sure why he put that in there.
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Didn't the TRS-80 also run on that
80 chip?
No, no, the TRS-80 was an 8080.
8080, right.
That's what I learned on the Sinclair ZX
-80.
That's where I, that was my first computer.
Actually, the TRS-80 may have been a
Z80.
I think it was a Z80, actually, yeah.
The Trash 80.
I still have my TRS-100.
I had a TRS-80 with the dual
drives.
It was actually a very functional machine.
It was well, and I thought Radio Shack
was going to stay in the business, and
then they just- No, the batteries.
Came out with a 16-bit machine, and
then they just dropped them all.
No, then they went with the cell phones.
Once the, I have my old Radio Shack.
Didn't they do the CoCo, the color computer?
Yes, I think that was, that had a
crap keyboard.
I think that killed them.
Yeah, yeah.
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I see you have three one two three,
so you spent some more credits on your
AI extravaganza journey To try and make some
some good ISOs for the end of show
I have one which is a Cinco de
Mayo ISO, which I think has possibility here
we go There you go It's kind of
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from is producer submitted I have one.
It's not even it's not a there's not
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Let's see.
Oh, that's a tough one.
No, that's a real ISO.
I appreciate that Yeah, it's not very positive
but okay Okay start with the quality high
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Yes, you win.
Once again, I can't believe it every single
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Okay, so I've always liked bitters bitter after
dinner drink you have at the end of
the meal.
Yeah Ah You have is it helps that
you digest it's got all kinds of herbs
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Genetian which is typically of the the main
thing of the most don't they have what's
the other thing in the bitters?
Anise anise anise some do some don't that's
mostly the ones with anise tend to be
more of like Pastiche I like the anise.
I like the anise ones.
Well, there's lots of those around but that's
not what we're talking about they don't have
very little anise in these Amaro's which is
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ones that are made in Italy.
Most of these were designed in the mid
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what happened was I started drinking these things
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say an inquisitive palate It Definitely looking for
something that in his memorizes taste.
He's really good.
He's just Father-in-law.
Well, he's got yeah, I do blind tasting
with these kids just to make sure they're
not trying to Buffalo me.
So So we got into these bitters and
we got into these Amaro's in particular and
we started going through a lot of them
over A two-year period we probably went
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of them already and we went through the
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ones and we got started focusing on the
best ones and we finally determined the absolute
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the you digest if it might be called
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Did you Steve?
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most of these things by the way We
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particular one is a stunner is it is
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Mmm, not that I know of it may
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