I got burned with the quantum dots, man,
I got burned.
Adam Curry, John C.
DeVora.
It's Sunday, May 11th, 2025.
This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media
Assassination Episode 1763.
This is no agenda.
Celebrating moms all around Gitmo Nation and broadcasting
live from the heart of the Texas hill
country here in FEMA region number six.
In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley, where we do
say Happy Mother's Day, I'm John C.
DeVora.
And it's crackpot and buzzkill.
In the morning.
Yeah, we do say Happy Mother's Day.
You do, do you say?
You do say Happy Mother's Day.
We do.
We do, we do, we do.
How did, you know, when we were going
through COVID, people loved their moms.
Everybody was crazy about moms because moms became
mama bears and the moms that were showing
up to the show, moms everywhere.
How do you think it is?
What is the state of motherly love today?
Not so good.
Why is this?
This is beyond me.
It's just the way it is.
It was this way before COVID and it's
this way after COVID.
It makes no sense.
We need moms now more than ever.
And more than, I mean, I want my
mom.
Do you ever miss, I miss my mom.
Do you ever miss your mom?
I know it's been a while since she
passed, but do you miss your mom?
I see her in dreams.
Really?
Oh yeah.
Comes up, shows up every once in a
while, makes a fuss.
Does she make a fuss about the Chinese?
Tells me to clean up.
Does she make a fuss about the Chinese
taking over everything?
When she says, where's the toilet paper?
Get this, Chinese are buying it all up.
Well, that's nice.
My mom doesn't show up in my dreams.
I read an interesting etymology of the word
mother today, which kind of, yeah.
Why would anyone even look that up?
Okay.
No, I didn't look it up.
I came across it.
In Hebrew, mother consists of two words, eleth
and mem.
And eleth is an ox head and mem
is a water.
And so this is, in ancient Hebrew, this
would be strong water.
And here it comes.
The ancient Hebrews used to boil animal skins,
ox skins, to get this gooey substance.
They used this glue.
Hence, eleth mem, mother, is glue.
The glue that keeps the family together.
How about that?
Sounds like a cock and bull story, if
ever there was.
You know, somehow, oops, oh boy, what happened
there?
Somehow, I knew you would not be buying
it.
But you didn't say it.
You didn't say, I'm not buying it.
You say, cock and bull story.
No, I tried to avoid that phrase.
Well, then let me get you on a
different track.
As we know, I'm very disappointed about picking
the wrong pope.
I mean, I'm not laying awake at night,
but I feel like, oh man.
And the more I look at this Leo
XIV provost, the more I'm thinking, if he
was even on the radar, I might have
seen that he could be the guy.
Okay, so you're reverse engineering your mistake.
Yeah, I think so.
To prove that you probably could have picked
it if it was even, if the guy
had somehow cropped up, if it passed your
threshold of knowledge, you would have seen him
and said, you know, that's it.
That's the guy, that's the guy.
But it doesn't matter, because this morning.
I want to hear the rest of the
rationale.
Well, no, no, the rationale, no, that's not
as important as what I need to say
next.
You're not gonna believe it.
This came over the transom this morning.
You're related to the guy.
From PubMed, the effects of anti-diabetic drugs
on erectile dysfunction.
In conclusion, GLP-1s demonstrate an advantage over
metaform in improving erectile dysfunction in patients.
Baby, I nailed it.
Wegovy and Ozempic are now good.
There's two studies.
I knew, by the way, when you said
it to begin with, that it was an
obvious end point for the sales pitch bull
crap that they're pulling.
But the fact that they would.
I nailed it.
That it's come so soon is kind of
surprising.
Two studies, two studies.
Two studies, not just one.
Two studies.
They're going all out.
Where do these studies come from?
Okay, the first one is PubMed, which I
think is pretty.
Yeah, but PubMed doesn't do studies.
They publish them.
Yes, okay.
So they, all right.
They published it.
Do they publish bogus studies?
Yes.
Yes, the Kennedy's mentioned that.
But that's not the point.
The point is they want this stuff into
everybody's system as soon as possible.
The second study.
I guess the COVID vax didn't kill enough
people.
It's actually, so it's both.
It's NIH, the National Library of Medicine, PMC.
It's both PubMed, two of them in PubMed.
So this is a bonanza, baby.
And it's too bad we don't have the
morning shows.
Maybe tomorrow they'll be all over this.
I'm sure.
Oh, there'll be a tomorrow's show, yeah.
I'm sure they got the script by now.
We have clips for Thursday.
The script is in.
Oh, everybody.
It's amazing.
It's like, it's time to retire.
When it becomes that easy to see where
the things are going, it's like, might as
well just quit.
So that what you did there was to
show that you used, you obfuscated your bad
pick for poll.
Correct.
By bringing in a kind of the long
shot, which seemed like a long shot, but
not to me necessarily.
Long shot pick for a marketing scheme, which
you predicted accurately.
And then you just kind of glossed it
over as though there's some somehow makes you
better.
I don't know what you're trying to do
there.
It makes me feel better.
That's all that counts, as long as I
feel better.
I still like to know, you didn't say,
because you don't have it in front of
you, where these research papers actually stemmed, where
from did they come?
Okay, I do have it in front of
me.
Okay.
This is a lot of Italians here in
the first one.
Guiseppe Lisco.
Let me see.
Let me see what the...
Hey, Giuseppe, hey.
Hey, Giuseppe, what about my ED?
Giuseppe.
Okay, let's see.
Doesn't...
And by the way, with these drugs in
play for at least a decade, you'd think
they would have figured this out earlier.
So this was a systematic review and meta
-analysis, is where this...
A systematic review.
This is not research, then.
This is a review and a meta-analysis.
That's not the same as a research paper.
Right, so, but they cite all the other
papers, including exploring the potential impact of GLP
-1 receptor agonists.
No, that's not the one I'm looking for.
Yeah, this looks like a smoke and mirrors
to me.
Good work, though.
I don't think it's...
Here.
Look, look over here.
Here it is.
GLP-1 therapy boosts erectile function in diabetic
obese men.
Now, a lot of people...
Not a pretty sight.
No, a lot of...
A lot of people sent in other ideas
that if your wife uses Wagovi, you automatically
lose your erectile dysfunction.
Yeah, I got that joke, too.
So that joking came a couple of times.
Yeah.
Let me see what this is.
This is, this one is...
Okay.
Let me see, let me see who did
this.
This is actual research.
That's very long.
Oh, man.
You'll have to forgive me if I didn't
read through all the formulaic reasoning that they
believe.
My goodness, this thing is eight football yards
long.
If football fields...
Well, we'll work on it and we'll get...
That's okay.
The morning shows when you have Dr. Jen
and Dr. Bill and Dr. Fred and all
these other phony balonies come on the networks.
They will tell us.
They will tell us new research.
That's what they're going to tell us.
It doesn't matter if it's true or not.
It just matters that they have something to
point to to once again, you know, throw
in a little ad for the big boys,
for the big boys.
Yeah, while they can.
Well, what do you mean while they can?
Oh, well, they're going to pull the plug
on this eventually, I hope.
Oh, please.
RFK Jr., what have you done for me
lately?
Well, it looks like Bill Cassidy, according to
our buddy, Glenn Greenwald.
You're buying that?
You watch that and you buy that?
Yes.
Oh boy, do you have a clip?
No, I just got it this morning.
I didn't do any bonus clips this morning.
So I'm going to, I'm looking at it.
I still haven't fully bought it, but I
have kind of, because it makes sense.
But this guy, this Cassidy guy's a bad
actor in a lot of different ways.
He's been a Trump hater, he's one of
the few Republicans that voted for his impeachment
in the Senate.
Well, we had Bill Cassidy clips when Kennedy
was going through confirmation somewhere.
I'm pretty sure we have one.
And he was saying, you know, well, you're
going to have to talk to me.
You have to have conversations with me.
You got to meet with me every month.
Yeah, and then we had Shanahan's clip.
You had it recently.
It was a post.
It wasn't a clip.
It was just a post.
It was a post that she said that
she thinks he's not working for the president,
but he's working for some alien force.
She?
Oh, you mean Kennedy?
Yeah.
Yeah, all because the president appointed Casey Means
as Surgeon General.
That's the whole reason why everyone's all, as
you would say, has their tit in the
ring over this.
That's what I'd say.
And a couple of people got their tit
in the ring over your newsletter.
A rare, rare apology.
A rare apology.
Well done, though.
It was, I mean, rare because you don't
usually, you have to make apologies.
Oh, I felt bad about it.
Yeah, I could.
Wow.
Who are you?
You're like saying, I was wrong, mea culpa.
The past month has been nothing but Honest
John.
Honest John, it's always been Honest John.
It's my old nickname.
They used to call me that in high
school.
Sure.
I'm sure.
So what happened?
What happened for the dumbos who don't subscribe
to the newsletter and could be a part
of this wonderful double newsletter day?
Well, I had to, I was going over
the records of all the people that were
Surgeon Generals and they were all in the
Navy, it looked like, because they're all admirals,
but they got that assignment later.
And then it became even, there's a secondary
controversy over whether the fact that they're given
the admiralship when they become a Surgeon General
because they work for public health services, but
whether that's officially, whether that's a Navy position
or not.
And, you know, the argument is no, and
the Navy guys are all bent out of
shape about even considering, I think because of
Rachel Levine, they have enough trouble in the
Navy without that guy.
Right.
And so- What happened to that dude
anyway?
I don't know.
Probably on a board of some Kleiner Perkins
company.
So, when it began, when the Surgeon General
began in 1871, it wasn't, my understanding, it
was a Navy position and then it kind
of devolved into one thing or another, but
they kept this idea of keeping the title
of Admiral.
It's kind of hard to follow, to be
honest about it.
And there's a few people that never took
the title of Admiral.
It started off as Commodore, by the way,
just for all you Commodores out there.
Oh, wow, that's interesting.
Yeah, it was Commodore, Commodore, you can go
look up the list of Surgeon Generals in
Wikipedia, it's all Commodores.
And then all of a sudden became Admirals
because the Commodore thing was dropped by the
Navy.
So, gee, a coincidence, the Navy drops Commodore.
And so do these guys, they wear a
Navy uniform.
And my challenge to the Navy guys out
there, they say that it's not part of
the Navy or they have nothing to do
with the Navy, let's say, I'll give them
that.
If you're a Navy Lieutenant and you run
into one of these Admirals, do you salute
them?
Oh, interesting question.
I would say yes.
I would say yes too.
But they're not part of the Navy, you
don't have to salute them, do you?
But they're an Admiral, what would you do?
What would you do?
I would salute and say, how you doing,
buddy?
Good morning, good morning to you.
So the whole thing is sketchy, but this
is beside the point, the whole thing, it
was a botch on my part.
And so I had to send an apology
note out.
It's okay.
So no sooner had we- And I
got a lot of notes, and here's what
the big, you know what the big complaint
was?
Amongst the complaints, everybody complained about that.
You know what the actual real complaint was
when it came down to it?
John, what was the actual real complaint when
it came down to it?
Thanks for asking, Adam.
I said surgeon generals instead of surgeons generals.
Surgeons generals, oh no, oh, what a faux
pas.
It was a botch of the highest order.
Epic proportional botch.
And everybody brought that up, whether they thought
about the admiralship or not.
Brings this up.
See, what if we got a bunch of
grammarians out there worried about this sort of
thing?
Crack me up.
Well, we also called out other people on
the news for saying that.
So it's kind of a taste of our
own medicine.
That's the irony, of course.
We have done that.
So no sooner had we ended the show
or I start getting threads, X threads to
look at Laura Loomer calling out Callie Means
as a shill, a big pharma shill.
And Callie Means saying, you are the shill.
You're getting paid.
No, you're a shill.
All about disappointment.
And it's, I mean.
Which brings us to the Megyn Kelly clip,
which I have, which discusses this to some
degree.
You might bring it up to speed.
Yeah, no, I'd like to do that.
Started thinking about the things that would ultimately
wind up in the book.
Good energy would be at the center of
the Maha movement.
Her brother Callie was going through his own
evolution and realizations, having worked for Coca-Cola
and came out hard as almost like a
whistleblower against what companies like that are doing
to us with the sugar and the food
supply and the SNAP program and so on.
And they've become very important and essential Americans,
especially when it comes to Maha.
Great.
So why is she getting mercilessly attacked right
now by some within the Maha movement and
by Laura Loomer, who I don't know if
she considers herself Maha.
And I really don't dismiss Laura Loomer because
people call her a conspiracy theorist.
She's been right about a lot.
She's really taking aim at Casey.
And I have to say on this one,
I really disagree.
I'm just gonna tell you some of the
allegations, okay?
She said that Casey means, her dad wrote
a pro-trans children's book back in 2020.
Well, he did write a book that was
about like a weird, an odd duckling or
goose.
And how it wound up, it basically wound
up being gay.
Wait a minute, you're telling me Callie Means
is a trans guy, is a dude, is
a woman in pants?
No.
And in the opening to the book, he
does say that this is, it's about Felix,
a unique bird.
And he says, it's a story for children
and adults alike.
And says, it's for, I'm trying to find
the exact quote, but it's about, oh, coming
of age is challenging for most children, but
it can be especially tough for those grappling
with their gender and sexual identities, gender.
So he mentions it.
And I've looked at the book, at least
what I can find, if I have like
four pages.
And it's really about a gay goose.
Oh my goodness.
All of these people, Megyn Kelly, Laura Loomer,
all these- By the way, I am
never gonna clip her again.
That clip that you played there is actually
about a half an hour.
Oh, I know.
She repeats herself.
She's like a radio person.
These old radio people and TV people, they
talk and then they wrap it around and
they talk it.
I had to cut out so much where
she just reiterated and came back and did
this and that and put a sides in
there.
It's like, when I have to clip Jesse
Waters, it's the same thing.
He's got his sides, a little one-liners
and things that aren't relevant.
A little mockery, a little mockery.
It's a mess.
It's all of these people.
And I mean, so first of all, the
whole controversy really stems from the fact that
Casey, not even, Kelly, not even Casey.
Of course, she's so controversial because is she
really a doctor?
Did she quit her residency, blah, blah, blah,
blah.
They came out of nowhere.
They had this book.
It's a best-selling book and they will
not, and this is really what it's about.
The core of this is the trauma that
I would say MAHA have, as in MAGA,
MAHA, about President, MAGA, MAHA, about President Trump
not saying, hey, that vaccine sucked.
This is what it's about because neither of
those two, the brother-sister combo, will actually
say, yeah, that thing was not a good
idea.
They keep hedging around it like, well, you
know.
Actually, Kelly addresses this exact point in the
next clip.
No, excellent.
As a gay goose, okay, whatever.
By the way, it's her father.
It's not her.
Like I don't, okay, so like if she
had written this, maybe it would lead to
a follow-up question at the hearings, like
what do you think about children grappling with
their gender identities?
That's really the question, isn't it?
What does Casey Means think?
She is where I am on this.
She is not pro the transing of children
at all.
Her brother, Callie, right now is out there
calling it demonic.
They're very close.
That's number one.
Then she points out, Loomer does, that she
never completed her residency.
That is true.
I just gave you the context.
She points out she does not even have
an active medical license in Oregon.
That's true because she decided to stop practicing
medicine a couple of years into her private
practice and to do, she has this company
now that offers like all-day glucose monitoring
and explains to people how to read their
blood levels when they get their lab test
back and so on.
It sort of helps more millions as opposed
to like individuals.
And I can speak this as a lawyer.
I passed the bar in New York, in
Illinois, and in Massachusetts.
Okay, so I was admitted in all those
states.
I practiced at length in New York State,
in Chicago, in Washington, D.C., for that
matter.
And I wound up going dormant on all
of my law licenses many years into joining
journalism full-time because A, it costs money,
and B, it's a lot of continuing legal
education.
Okay, but she didn't talk about the vaccine
there.
Only about- Oh, you know, I got
left on the cutting room floor because I
got sick of it.
Okay, I'll tell you what she said.
She said that if Callie, or is it
Casey?
I can never remember.
They're both girls' names.
I know, Casey, Casey, we're talking about.
Callie is the one who's been on all
these podcasts, people have been firing at him
for hours and hours, and he will not
denounce the COVID vaccine specifically.
Okay, she says the following.
Because I was supposed to be in that
clip, I cut it out because I couldn't
take it anymore.
Cutting, cutting, cutting, cutting.
So she said that if she, Casey, says
she was anti-vax, she would never get
approved in a million years, and so they
can't say it.
So in other words, she's implying that they
believe it, but they can't say it because
then she would never get approved.
Okay, the bottom line is, well, actually, before
I get to my bottom line- Is
there a bottom line to this?
Yeah, I think there is.
This is RFK Jr. on the Casey Means
appointment.
This was him on the Friendly Fox &
Friends.
Yeah, I'm very, very happy and grateful to
President Trump for nominating Casey as the Surgeon
General.
The industries that are threatened by her nomination
are mobilizing and they're actually paying a lot
of bloggers, we've learned now, to attack her.
They're attacking her on the- Where's our
money?
Mainly on the critique that she- Where's
our dough?
Where's our check?
Where's our money?
Just at least offer it.
Interesting medicine.
Yeah, at least.
Come on, I feel really left out.
We got a million people listening.
We've been left out of every bribe possible.
Every good deal.
Gold, gold, no gold, we got no gold.
She was at the top of her Stanford
class.
She was president of her Stanford class.
As a resident, she won every award that
you could get for the kind of surgery
that she was doing.
But she realized very early on that she
was not healing patients.
They were coming back again and again because
the surgeries were treating the symptoms and not
the underlying causes.
And she decided to devote her life to
figuring out what those underlying causes were and
to ending those exposures.
She wrote a best-selling book that really
galvanized the Maha movement.
Maha?
Rachel, I'm very glad to you, I'm very,
very grateful to you for the leadership that
you've shown in telling this story to the
American public.
But Casey is an incredible storyteller.
She is a pregnant mom right now, so
she has a touchstone with every mother in
this country.
Okay, so what RFK Jr. is doing here
is he is debunking and clapping back at
Laura Loomer because Laura Loomer posted that there's
no evidence she's pregnant.
Why are we hiring pregnant women?
They have to go on pregnancy leave.
And these people are being paid.
And as I said, Callie was like, no,
you're being paid.
So RFK Jr.'s basically saying, you are being
paid.
This is the funny part of it, by
the way.
There was some clips of that.
Well, there's no clip.
The back and forth.
There's no clips.
It's just, it's on X.
No, it's just the two of them bickering
on Twitter.
All of these people, and then we can
move on.
All of these people, Megan, let me just
get my thought out.
All of these people, Megan Kelly, Laura Loomer,
all the influencers who keep coming back to
this thing, which really doesn't matter that much.
I mean, the Surgeon General, did we stop
smoking because the Surgeon General, because Coop said
it's gonna kill you?
No, the Surgeon General is the Surgeon General.
And in your original newsletter, you pointed out
no one even knows who the last Surgeon
General was.
These influencers, and I'll put Laura Loomer and
Megan Kelly in there, they're like dogs returning
to their own vomit.
They just keep coming back.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, thank you.
I like it.
Thank you.
Oh, you worked on that one.
I worked on that one.
Oh, brother.
But that's what it is.
Who cares?
It's another thing.
The Fredericksburg rumor network is in high gear.
Oh, oh, they're building a, but why?
No, your point is well taken.
Why?
Who cares?
It's the Surgeon General.
No, it's not like, you know, the Secretary
of State.
Because of the, that particular part is because
of the trauma of COVID.
And they're all secretly very mad that Trump
has never said, he said, yeah, I don't
think that vaccine was so good.
He says the opposite.
Although he's dialed that back even.
It's a trauma.
It is a trauma amongst people who voted
for Trump.
It's trauma.
That if he would, it would all end
if he just said that.
And I think his ego's in the way
on that one.
Or maybe he knows something we don't.
Anyway, the next thing, and we talked about
this months ago.
Oh, oh, they're building an entire Sharia law
city in Texas.
Oh, yeah.
Well, before we go into that, I do
want to get the, I do have one
more case he means.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I didn't, I thought we were done.
Oh, okay.
I got you.
You were making moves and I wasn't paying
attention.
I'm sorry.
You weren't.
You were taking the cue.
I was trying to get my one-liner
out.
That's why.
I was focused on that.
Yes, you develop these things about once a
month.
Oh, once a month that you catch it.
Yeah, okay.
Well, that's probably true.
It's probably twice a month and I only
catch one.
Yeah.
And then you add Lib at least, you
add Lib twice as many as you actually
developed.
So I give you credit for that.
Thank you.
Casey Means was on the Bill Maher show.
Oh, this past Friday?
No, no, it was like a month ago
or longer.
Oh, okay, all right.
After her book came out and she was
the special guest.
Oh.
This is when they used to have, when
Maher had the two guests on his right
and then he'd have one special guest on
his left.
Yes.
Which he's kind of backed off of.
Yeah, well, the special guest is the guest
in the beginning who then comes out later
for the panel discussion.
Sometimes.
During overtime.
Sometimes, sometimes not.
It's all.
It's strange.
It's a variation.
He changes his model a little bit.
It's a strange format.
I don't particularly like it.
So she is on, but these clips have
nothing to do with her except for the
fact that they triggered something that I had
to make some commentary on before we talk
about Sharia law in Texas, which I think
is also a Fredericksburg freak out.
No, it's bigger than that, but we can
get to that.
Well, it could be, it could be, but
let's go, let me get this out of
the way.
But you, hey, you brought it back up.
It does involve a rant, which you enjoy.
Okay.
So here's Bill Maher and the topic changes
out of the blue as he has Chris
Cuomo and some other guy and Casey Means
on, and then it slowly twists.
Where is these clips?
What are they called?
Means.
Means on Maher.
Means on Maher ones, yeah.
There's a lot of stuff in our food
that probably shouldn't be there.
And every time they look, the more they
look, the more they find that can kill
you.
Gambling.
Everybody's head is going like this.
Yeah, I think the food's a problem.
My question to you is, if everybody's head
is nodding like this, what is keeping anything
from ever happening that moves us in the
direction that you're going?
The food is delicious.
That's the problem.
I would say, I would say.
That's what it is.
I'll tell you.
Who comes back from Italy saying, I can't
wait to get some ragu?
That's right.
I mean, Italy, the food is all, it's
more delicious.
But we don't live in Italy.
We live near McDonald's.
Not yet.
But I can't.
That was Casey jumping in there?
Yeah, she's trying to get a word in
edgewise, but Mara's out of control.
And then he says the following things, which
got, I didn't record any of her.
I didn't care.
It's mostly, this is the issue.
This is not rocket science.
Why don't we get our food safe?
I'm not talking about like, you know.
The food is delicious.
It is.
In America.
If I had six months to live, You
mean the lousy food.
I'd eat McDonald's every night.
Are you serious?
And if I ate McDonald's every night, I'd
have six months to live.
Yes.
So look, I was on his team.
McDonald's isn't delicious?
Who are we fucking kidding?
I'm sorry, it's delicious.
See, it's so, I mean, we should talk,
but.
I never have it, but it's delicious.
And how do you know?
I've had it.
Oh, okay.
Have they changed the formula?
I don't think so.
And here comes the rant.
That's what got my attention.
The formula change, yes.
So I have stories, because I used to
work as an air pollution inspector, and I
got to inspect all these places.
A number of them were McDonald's jobbers.
They changed the formula all the time.
And if he doesn't think they changed the
formula, somebody should tell him about the difference
between the tallow fries that they used to
make, which are famous, and oh, delicious McDonald's
fries to the crap they make now, which
are soggy.
Seed oil.
Seed oil fries.
There's a formula change, isn't there?
I'd say.
But the original McDonald's formula for the sauce
on the Big Mac was largely developed by
Morehouse Mustards, which used to be headquartered in
Emeryville.
And I used to inspect that plant a
lot, and I got to know this guy,
George Ladder.
Wait a minute, that's their secret sauce.
Isn't it secret, the sauce?
It's a secret, yeah.
Yeah, okay.
Isn't it Thousand Islands dressing?
Doesn't everybody already know that?
No, no, no.
The kicker was, Ladder told me that the
original blend was with fresh horseradish, and that's
what made the original Big Mac so tasty,
because of the horseradish that was in there.
And he says, as soon as they went
into full production, within a year, they changed
the horseradish to a powdered horseradish, which was
bland.
Formula change, by the way, for poor Bill
Maher, who thinks these burgers still taste like
they used to.
I've also tasted the McDonald's burgers in Paris,
because they have a McDonald's, or they used
to have one on the Champs-Elysees, and
it doesn't taste anything like these burgers.
They're totally different, the bread's different, everything's different
about them.
Also, the bread used to be made, another
inspection I made was the Kirkpatrick's, or Kilpatrick's
Bread Factory in Oakland, which the company went
out of business during the era of balloon
bread, where you had, if I remember, Kilpatrick's,
Wonder Bread, Langendorff, Sunbeam, Blue Seal, there's all
these different bread companies that all made this
same kind of fluffy white bread.
And they made the McDonald's burger buns.
And the guy noticed about it, he says,
yeah, he said that they had to have
a special, they had a template, so the
bun would be, as the bun was just,
after it was, before it was being tempered,
they smashed the bun with this like temp,
like these little blades, they weren't blades, they
were just pushers, and they put a crosshatch
pattern on the bread, and the guy's manager
says to me, he says, that's to make
it look as though the bread was folded.
It's just fake.
Whatever happened to Wonder Bread, by the way?
I love my Wonder Bread.
Wonder Bread's still around, but the other balloon
breads are all gone.
If you want to, there's a fun movie
to watch.
Michael Keaton in The Founder, it came out
in 2016.
Yes, about Roy Croc.
Yes, and what triggered, because we watched this
maybe two weeks ago, what triggered me is
that they went to the powdered horseradish.
That was one of the ways he got
the company going is by using powdered milk
for the milkshakes in the early days.
And I'm sure, and they changed that, of
course, later as well.
So yeah, Bill Maher doesn't know what he's
talking about.
Yes, Maher's going on about they don't change
the formula.
So just to top it off, as you
know, I have been tasting McDonald's Big Macs
on the show.
At least once a month.
Once a month.
And I stopped a year ago.
Because you were getting sick?
No, I couldn't eat, I couldn't finish one.
They were so, the latest version is so
unedible, and for Maher to say it's delicious,
he obviously doesn't eat there.
It's not even close to delicious.
It's not edible.
No, if I have a stomachache, I'll go
to McDonald's so I can poop it out.
That stuff never, that stuff, I mean, he's
just the middleman at McDonald's.
He just like eat it and he's right
before, I'm not even home, like, I gotta
go.
Okay, enough about nasty food.
I just had to get that off my
chest.
Well, hopefully the new Surgeon General will unveil
all things unhealthy.
And I will take RFK Jr. at his
word that there's all kinds of money floating
around.
Look, Big Pharma is big.
They know the media is changing.
They know that their phony baloney CBS morning
show segments that that's not really, you know,
it's really not gonna last much longer.
Five years, 10 years, I don't know.
Maybe five months.
People are moving towards- Actually, if you
ban advertising- There you go.
You have to ban the native ads.
There's no native ads for smoking.
They won't even let you smoke in a
movie half the time until it's bent out
of shape.
Yeah.
Well- So if they're gonna ban advertising
on television for prescription drugs, they have to
ban the native ads.
Well, my point is they know change is
coming one way or the other, and they're
fighting it, and they're fighting it in the
correct ways.
What I would do, we'd have the meeting.
Hey, let's cut some checks.
Is Rogan doable?
No.
Okay, what's next?
Loomer.
Okay, we'll start with her.
Megyn Kelly.
You know?
Oh, you know, I could run it by
her.
Bob.
I could run it by her, Bob.
I could run it by her, Bob, if
she's gonna say anything, if you run it
by her.
No, I know her.
She's not gonna say anything.
She's not gonna do it.
She'll assure me she's not gonna say anything.
So I can run it by her.
If she doesn't do it, she doesn't do
it.
If she does it, she does it.
I don't know.
We'll find out.
So there- You know this exactly what
goes on.
Of course, of course.
And part of the meeting is always, how
about those No Agenda guys?
Nah, they're no good.
Those guys.
They'll fuck it up anyway.
Exactly, they'll deconstruct themselves.
And before you know it, everybody's on to
us.
We can't do that, Bob.
Can't do that.
No, I was just saying the, it was
kind of related to the influencers that the
Fred Freakoff, and I'm calling it that now,
the Fredericksburg Freakoff, everyone's all bent out of
shape because influencers are out there again.
Like, they're building an entire Sharia law city
right outside of Plano.
We know that they've not built anything.
There's a mosque.
Well, they got some nice drawings.
Yeah, you can drive I-10, you'll see
a hundred mosques.
If you drive it long enough, there's mosques
everywhere.
But it's not like this city has been
built and it's being projected now as it's
here, it's Sharia law, they want to take
over.
And so it got so- That's probably
true.
Well, that may be true, but you know,
so, Abbott had to come out and say,
hey, they're not going to, they can't even
start construction.
They have no permits.
They don't have the authorization.
Yeah, so they're playing it illegally because obviously
in America, you know, if you want to
have a big campus for your Scientology, you
can do it.
If you want to have a big campus
for your Islam, you can do it.
Now, you can't all of a sudden have
different rule of law.
And that's really what he's focusing on here.
But it's just amazing how there's so much
going on in the world and somehow these
things just get spun up, just spun up.
And like, calm down.
I'm tired of being the guy who say,
calm, people are starting to not like me.
You're no fun, Curry.
I thought you were a conspiracy guy and
you're just debunking everything.
Yeah, what happened to you anyway?
You're like debunk bot.
What happened is I got burned.
I got burned one too many times.
That's what happened.
I got burned with the quantum dots, man.
I got burned.
The quantum dots, yeah.
Actually, that did change you.
Oh yeah, it burned me.
Because- Quantum dots.
Well, how do you think Pachenik feels?
He went on Alex Jones' show and brought
this out.
He act about it and Alex was laughing
in his face.
Yeah, but Pachenik never contacts me anymore.
No, not even a, hey, how you doing?
Aw, it's too bad.
No, but he knows- I mean, he
should have been able to snap out of
it.
I think he was really burned bad, but
he's just kind of like- I don't
even know if- He should be able
to snap back from that.
I don't even know if he does anything
anymore.
I think he just kind of retired, like
slunk back into the shadows.
Yeah, he needs to snap out of it.
Anyway, yes, I still love Steve.
He's got good stories.
He's a funny guy.
Oh, he's a great guy.
He's got good stories.
So lots of action in Europe because, you
know, now that President Trump is trying to
get things to calm down between Russia and
Ukraine, the Mod Squad had to get together.
That's Mertz.
And yes, thank you, everybody.
We know that Friedrich Mertz indeed has the
same initials as Fred Mertz of I Love
Lucy.
That was a big email I got.
You never got that one.
I can't believe you missed it.
Fred Mertz.
I can't believe you missed it.
Yeah, how'd you miss that?
How'd you miss that one?
Mertz, Macron, Stormer, and Tusk.
Bro.
Tusk of Poland.
That guy?
Yeah, Tusk in Poland, yeah.
They all went to Kiev, to a little
meeting.
Four European allies of Ukraine on Saturday vowed
to impose more sanctions on Russia and increase
military aid to Kiev if Russian President Vladimir
Putin does not accept an unconditional 30-day
ceasefire.
The leaders, under the umbrella of the Coalition
of the Willing, said that their proposal for
a ceasefire starting on Monday was supported by
U.S. President Donald Trump.
So we are clear, all five leaders here,
all the leaders of the meeting we just
had with the Coalition of the Willing.
I'm sorry, I should have said the leaders
of the Coalition of the Willing.
Anybody else in Europe, just listen up, because
these are your new leaders.
An unconditional ceasefire, rejecting Putin's conditions, and clear
that if he turns his back on peace,
we will respond.
The move appeared to have ramped up pressure
on Russia, as President Putin, hours later, called
for direct talks with Ukraine without preconditions.
Now, I'm pretty sure you have some stuff
on that, too, but I just want to
get through what happened in this 24-hour
period.
Then Fred Merz, he came out and kind
of wishy-washy talked about, well, you know,
you can put it, we'll get you into
EU, and then after that, maybe NATO, I
think, if, you know, something like that.
I share the assessment of the Secretary General
when it comes to membership for Ukraine.
I would like to add that Ukraine has
an accession perspective for the European Union.
I think, in terms of timeframes, this will
be before accession to NATO, if it happens
one day, and it needs to be clear
that Ukraine decides, in a sovereign way, on
the path it wants to take.
It has decided to file for membership of
the European Union.
You know the criteria for such an accession,
and if Ukraine fulfills these criteria, it is
a welcome member within the European Union.
Ukraine is and has to remain a sovereign
actor, deciding on its own political and military
alliances.
In other words, no.
That's just a big, fat no.
No, you're not gonna get in.
You're not gonna get in NATO.
You can file, you can file, but you
have to be sovereign.
No, that's a big no.
He's standing next to, while he's doing this
speech, of course, if you've got the coalition
of the willing, our boy Mark Rutte is
right there.
Well, the whole of NATO agreed on the
irreversible path for Ukraine into NATO, but we
never agreed that as part of a peace
deal.
Ho, ho, ho, ho, Volodymyr, Zelensky, we've never
agreed you can get into NATO's.
There would be guaranteed NATO membership for Ukraine.
No, no.
That was never agreed.
That was never said, dude, never, never.
But in the long term, NATO alliance has
said, yes, there will be this perspective of
NATO membership.
Perspective, yes, maybe, if you're a good boy.
For the longer term, not for the peace
negotiations ongoing at the moment.
No.
As I said before, I'm happy that the
American president and glad that he- My
boss.
Broke the deadlock, that progress is being made,
and I completely agree with the German chancellor
on the 30-day ceasefire, and that the
bull is now clearly in Russia's court.
Oh, no, oh, no.
It is the half court, not the full
court.
What are you talking about, Mark?
That will piss off John C.
On the side, Russia's.
Who on the side?
You put it.
That's exactly true.
And at the moment, there is a close
cooperation between NATO and Ukraine.
We have the command in Wiesbaden, which is
organizing the military aid into Ukraine.
We organize together and jointly the training for
the Ukrainian armed forces.
We are catching all the lessons, which we
are gathering in Ukraine, together with the Ukrainians
in our center in Poland.
So there's a lot happening at the moment.
So no to NATO, you're not going to
get in, but we gave you some NATO
goodies, man, so shut up a little bit.
And of course, of course, Rutte could not
leave the meeting without a little sales pitch.
I know there are many rumors floating around.
It's true that we are having internal discussions
now within NATO, what will be the best
way to make sure that we can fulfill
all our tasks as NATO are going forward
in the future.
Money.
Including of course, given the fact that we
acknowledge the long-term threats Russia is posing.
So it will be an absolute increase in
defense spending.
So I'm not going to confirm the figures.
So don't worry about the truce or ceasefire,
they're long-term threats, you need to spend
your money.
Obviously, when you increase defense spending, you have
to think about all the enabling tasks.
Oh yes, oh yes, it's not just bullets.
It's a lot of stuff, man.
Connected to defense.
And yes, I've always said this, if we
stick at the 2%, we cannot defend ourselves.
So we have to really increase defense spending,
but that is not enough.
We also have to build a defense industrial
base.
They go hand in hand, because for a
strong deterrence in defense, we can defend ourselves
now, but to be able in five years
time, to also be able to defend ourselves
and to keep the deterrence in defense at
the level we need, we need only to
spend much more, but also to build that
defense industrial base across the Atlantic, across the
whole Euro-Atlantic area, including United States and
Canada and all the European countries and NATO.
It's crucial, we need to do both.
I said it before, the Russians are producing
in three months in ammunition, but the whole
of NATO, which is 25 times bigger, 25
times bigger than Russia in terms of the
overall economy, we produce in one year in
ammunition, but they produce in three months.
So that's not sustainable.
So just both spending and more production.
The message is clear.
That guy getting like working on commission?
No, he's not smart enough for that.
It's all for him.
I don't know, he seems pretty smart to
me, the more I hear it.
Well, according to our president, he's a great
guy.
He was a great prime minister of the
Netherlands.
He's just awesome.
He's just, Mark, Mark, you were the best.
You just did a great job, man.
Just great.
That's a typical show business thing, typical of
Trump too.
I'm a big fan of your work, man.
Big fan of your work.
I've worked with a lot of different people.
You're absolutely the best.
It's unbelievable.
I really feel privileged to be here in
your presence.
The line is big fan of your work,
man.
Big fan.
Big fan of your work.
Big fan.
Big, big fan of your work.
Whenever you hear that, that's a Hollywood bullcrap
slide.
Yeah, pull up your trousers.
Stepping in it.
So, of course.
Putin!
Is what everyone's looking at right now.
You have a Putin clip here?
You got something?
I got a couple of Putin clips.
I got two clips.
One's a shorty from BBC World News, or
World Service, sorry.
Let's start with that.
In the past few minutes, President Putin has
appeared live on television saying Russia seeks serious
talks with Ukraine to remove the root causes
of the conflict.
He said he was offering immediate direct talks
with Ukraine to take place in the Turkish
city of Istanbul next Thursday, the 15th of
May.
He said he had never rejected dialogue with
Kiev.
Details are still coming in.
By the way, while the BBC's waiting for
details, whenever you're ready, I have a bullet
point translation of Putin's speech in his press
conference.
I only have one more clip, but you
can go right after that.
I just thought that that particular BBC clip,
which was kind of to the point, just
countered everything.
But okay, let's go to NPR, and this
is the Russia-Ukraine little bitty.
European leaders in Ukraine today pressed Russian President
Putin to accept a 30-day unconditional ceasefire
or face more sanctions.
And here's Joanna Kikis' reports.
The leaders say President Trump also supports this
proposal.
The leaders of France, Germany, the United Kingdom,
and Poland traveled to Kiev in their first
joint appearance.
They joined Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for a
meeting of Western nations supporting Ukraine.
Other leaders participated online via video link.
Zelensky and the four European leaders in Kiev
also called President Trump.
Zelensky told reporters Trump supports the ceasefire proposal.
It's quite possible to monitor this ceasefire in
coordination with the United States, Zelensky said.
The ceasefire could start as early as Monday
if Russia agrees to it.
However, the Kremlin says it will oppose a
ceasefire unless Western countries stop providing military aid
to Ukraine.
So very poor from NPR and BBC.
I mean, we have the best producers who
speak Russian and translate stuff for us.
So here's a bullet point bullet point of
Russian President Putin's press conference in order of
appearance.
The Kiev regime has repeatedly violated the 30
-day moratorium on attacks on energy facilities.
The Easter truce was violated more than 5
,000 times.
Moscow has repeatedly put forward ceasefire initiatives.
Kiev has sabotaged them.
Russia has considered a further ceasefire based on
Kiev's behavior during previous ceasefires.
Since May 6th, the Kiev authorities have launched
large-scale attacks on Russia, 524 drones.
During the days of the declared ceasefire, Ukraine
has repeatedly attempted to attack the state border
of the Russian Federation.
All attacks have been repelled.
The attacks were carried out solely for political
reasons.
The enemy suffered heavy losses.
The Kiev authorities not only rejected the ceasefire
proposals, but also tried to intimidate the foreign
leaders gathered in Moscow.
That was on the 8th.
Who were they trying to intimidate?
The leaders who came to us were not
leaders by position, but by character, and they
were threatened by those who elevate former SS
men to the rank of heroes.
Russia is grateful to all foreign leaders for
their efforts to end the Ukrainian conflict.
The Kiev regime has repeatedly violated the 30
-day moratorium on attacks.
Hold on, I got that part.
The Ukrainian armed forces should not rearm and
dig in during the ceasefire.
The decision is up to the leadership of
Ukraine and their curators who want to continue
the war with the hands of the Ukrainian
nationalists.
President Putin proposes Ukraine resume direct negotiations without
any preconditions.
We propose to begin Thursday, May 15th in
Istanbul, the very place where they are interrupted
in 2022.
Our offer is on the table.
Now it is up to the Ukrainian authorities
and their handlers.
This brings me to, this is interesting.
But the interesting part is the 524 drones,
which brings me to a clip that I
had produced about a month ago.
Maybe you can try looking it up.
Which we never played on the show, which
was about drones, drones being produced in Ukraine
by a factory there.
And they've got, they're making drones and they're
not using Iranian drones or anybody else's drones.
They're actually making drones by the tons.
And this is like their new business that
they do.
And it's never been talked about since.
I have the, this is from last month.
Yeah, two clips.
Could be.
Now, during recent talks in Saudi Arabia, both
Kiev and Moscow confirmed their commitments to stop
attacking each other's infrastructure, energy infrastructure.
But Ukrainian president Zelensky has already accused Russia
of violating that agreement.
And Ukraine, it's also- It says Ukraine
drone maker.
Oh, well, maybe it is.
I think it is.
I just don't remember.
It's so long, I can't remember how the
clip's structured.
Question, is it willing to ground its long
range drones used to strike oil facilities?
Now, the BBC's Abdul Jalil Abdurasulov has visited
a secret Ukrainian facility where they make them.
At a secret location, Ukrainian engineers work on
the development of new long range drones.
They drill, glue, and assemble parts of a
model called a RayBird.
This drone can cover a distance of more
than 1,000 kilometers and stay in the
air for up to 28 hours.
Wow.
So it can easily reach cities like Moscow.
RayBird is effectively a spy aircraft.
Roman Knizhenko, the head of SkyTone, the company
that develops these drones.
The idea was to create the system that
can control and monitor big areas or extended
areas like borders of the country and so
on.
And it's one of the most advanced system
in the world right now in terms of
reconnaissance.
It's not too many aircrafts able to work
so deep on the enemy territory.
RayBird identifies targets and directs fire.
Among the targets are Russia's oil refineries and
fuel depots.
Okay.
Yeah, that brings us to the point that
was just made when Putin, according to the
list of talking points, said that they're still
attacking the energy infrastructure.
These drones are the ones that are responsible
and that also connects to the 524 drones
that were launched against Russia, whether they're ballistic
or not.
I just found that's where that information triggered
my thoughts on this old clip that we
never addressed.
Right.
Well, so he refers to the 2022 talks
in Istanbul.
Isn't that where Boris Johnson thwarted everything or
was that before Boris Johnson- I thought
Johnson went straight to Kiev to do that.
I'm not sure, but I don't really remember.
I honestly don't remember them doing the talks
in Istanbul at all.
I have one more clip here.
This is a former Ukrainian negotiator, Volker.
A meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin
is clearly on the radar, the Kremlin spokesperson
said, but as Moscow seems to be sending
the signals about its willingness to meet the
US president.
What is the response from Washington?
Former US special representative for Ukraine negotiations told
Euronews Donald Trump would want to meet Putin
as well, but under certain conditions.
I do think he would like to meet
Putin, but after there's a ceasefire.
He wants to end the war and then
he would like to rebuild a relationship with
Russia.
He thinks that you could reintegrate Russia into
a global economy.
You could do business deals with Russia, but
Putin has to stop the war first.
And as Putin is not doing that, the
prospects for a Trump-Putin meeting are looking
farther and farther away.
It doesn't seem to me that the EU
and their aspiring entrant Ukraine really want peace.
It just doesn't feel like it.
Well, I think we've determined that already on
this show.
Yeah.
That the EU is a bunch of warmongers
and they don't want peace.
They want- And they're gonna do anything
to stop it.
They want to spend more money on military
stuffs.
Sad.
You know, they get their tit in the
ringer for doing stuff like this.
You know, we were talking about the, about
a big fan of your work, just staying
in Europe, but really this is more about
tariffs with Queen Ursula.
This is our president complimenting the queen.
Are you planning to meet Ursula von der
Leyen, the president of the European Council anytime
soon?
Oh, she's so fantastic, Rick.
She's so fantastic.
I hope we're gonna meet.
Yeah, the answer is yes.
I saw her, actually, I saw her a
few days ago.
And I think that we'll definitely meet, yeah.
The European Union is a big thing.
They want to make a deal very badly.
You know, everybody wants to make a deal.
Look, everybody wants to make a deal with
the United States and we're doing that and
we're making, we're gonna make fair deals.
I'm just honored that this was the first
one.
I just love her, man.
I'm a big fan of her work.
Ursula, Queen Ursula, she's the best.
Well, as you remember from the Cochran clip,
where he looks, Trump is a natural at
finding weak spots.
It's obvious by her hairdo and the way
she handles herself that she would love to
be flattered.
Well, it's funny you say that because they
asked Queen Ursula about this.
If after Trump, President Trump yesterday said that
yourself, you're a fantastic leader.
Do you think that now you are closer
to visiting the White House and what could,
when, that could that be?
So, thank you very much.
I like compliments in general.
So, negotiations, as always, nothing is negotiated till
everything is negotiated.
So, it's against the simple rules of negotiations
if you give in between details which are
not totally agreed now with the whole package.
Therefore, unfortunately, I will, of course, not go
into any kind of details.
But this is all, all the negotiations in
the very end have to be concluded.
We were always transparent from the very beginning.
We always said we prefer negotiated solution, but
we also develop countermeasures.
And this is now the process where we
have to develop these countermeasures to put this
instrument on the table.
We have other instruments on the table.
We will not take anything off the table
till we have a satisfactory result.
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
But I, for me, it's important that if
I go to the White House, I want
to have a package.
I've got instruments on the table and I
want a package.
You're gonna get a package.
She probably wants a package bad.
You're gonna get the package.
I'm pretty sure you get the package.
So you're right.
She must be easy to, she must be
an easy sell because she's the one, even
though, I mean, she's good at covering it
up, but that deal that she made for
the vaccines.
Oh, that's gonna come out?
No, the, what's the- I don't know
if that's ever gonna come out.
Well, the crazy, not crazy, but the German
woman in the EU parliament with the black
hair, the short black hair, what's her name?
You know who I'm talking about.
She's like, rah, this is no good.
She's finally got her commission together.
What's her name again?
I don't know.
Yeah, she's a bulldog.
Hold on a second.
EU Commission Vaccines, COVID.
Come on, what is her name?
You know her name.
I can't, come on, troll room.
Anyway, she finally has her commission or committee,
commission, whatever it is.
And she's out on the social saying, it's
all gonna come out.
We're gonna get to SMS gate.
Yeah.
Because yeah.
I'm predicting nothing's gonna come of it.
Well, you're so skeptical.
The Epstein docs are gonna drop any day.
I'm waiting for that one.
And the millions of tapes.
Have you noticed Bill Gates starting to show
up all over the place talking about his
$200 million?
Interesting you say that.
First of all, just the background.
First of all, he shows up on NPR's
news hour, sorry, PBS news hour with a,
and he's interviewed by the woman there.
And he's going on and on.
He's sitting there with some douche that is
the head of the new guy.
Never seen him before.
The head of the Gates Foundation.
And they're going on about he's gonna drop,
I'm gonna drop 200 billion.
I'm gonna drop it.
And then he shows up on Colbert all
of a sudden.
And then all this came, coincidentally all came
up after Pam Bondi shows up with her,
oh, I got, we got 10,000 videotapes
of all these guys screwing girls.
What are we gonna do with it?
We're going through them one by one.
It'll take a while.
So he's gonna close the foundation.
Yeah.
He's gonna give away all his money.
And that's, yeah.
He's gonna twilight it or something, moonlight it,
or I forget the term he uses.
I don't think, I'm looking at the, oh,
well, let's see what his social media post
was.
I'm looking at Bloomberg talking about it.
Bill Gates plans to give away virtually all
his $113 billion.
Here's the impacts.
It doesn't say it.
But I don't understand.
This guy's given away all his money a
hundred times.
With Buffett and then Buffett again.
And then he's really, he's made this a
profit center somehow.
Big time.
Yeah, I agree with you.
I thought that was really interesting.
The minute it kind of heats up in
Epstein land, he's like, I'm gonna give away
all my, there's no money.
There's no money.
Look at me, look at me, I'm great.
Nobody's gonna hate a guy who can give
away this kind of money to help the
poor.
Well, how about that?
And I'm closing it down so I can
take some and get on my yacht and
sail away.
That's what you wanna do.
Get on your yacht.
You got people investigating non-extradition countries as
we speak.
Yeah, what's a good one to go to
for him?
Argentina.
Speaking of the South, this kind of slipped
by us, but did you even follow this
story from Rubio and the Venezuelan hostages?
No.
No, yeah, he listened to this.
Right now we're following breaking news.
Breaking.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is announcing the
rescue of five opposition members from Venezuela.
Rubio posted on X saying that following an
operation, all the members are on US soil
tonight.
The opposition group had been taking shelter at
the Argentine embassy in Caracas for more than
a year to avoid arrest by the Maduro
regime.
It's still not clear how the opposition members
exited the embassy.
This is language, this is setting up for
something.
When you say he rescued them, the operation,
what was this?
Was this like with helicopters and black ops?
What happened here?
I've gotten nothing since this report.
Some sort of black op where you have
the guys in disguise.
What is it though?
Or is it just setting up Venezuela?
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.
That Venezuela is being set up for something,
possibly.
Possibly.
Well, they do have to find these mechanisms
to sneak people out of the embassies around
the world in all countries.
You got somebody in there trying to get
out of there.
That's another thing.
I just love the Fred Freakoff networks.
So the latest, you know, USAID never went
away.
By the way, that Freakout network in the
nearby communities there is a goldmine.
It's the best.
And I tell them flat out, I'm talking
about this on the show.
They're like, yeah, you should because it's important.
You should.
That's exactly what you would say to that
type of person.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but get the word
out.
These are my friends.
I love them.
But I laugh at them, right?
I'm like, oh, come on, man.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
So the latest is USAID never went away.
It just all got folded into the State
Department and Rubio's not to be trusted.
To which I actually had to say, well.
No, that's reasonable thought.
I mean.
It's not out of control.
They actually did close down USAID and the
people like Samantha Powers are no longer in
control of it.
But yes, of course, USAID was a CIA
slush fund and the State Department is the
CIA home.
Well, the State Department has their own agency.
They're not the CIA's home necessarily.
They work together.
But all the embassies is where the spook's
going.
I mean, let's just be honest about it.
They work very closely together.
And Rubio, yeah, okay, yeah.
Who knows?
We'll find out about Rubio.
So that was one.
What was the other one?
Oh, Suzy Wiles.
Yeah.
Snake.
She's a snake.
Snake?
She's a snake.
She's not to be trusted.
She's the chief of staff, Suzy Wiles?
She's, there used to be a football announcer
named Summer Hall, Summer Hill, Summer Hall.
What the hell is his last name?
Very famous.
He used to work with John Madden on
the NFL broadcasts.
That's her dad.
Oh yeah, I think we knew that somehow.
Yeah.
So yeah.
So she had broadcasting chops.
I guess my overall observation is, is that
there's a lot of, you know, now everyone's
looking, who can we trust?
Who can we trust?
Who can we not trust?
There's snakes everywhere.
There's stuff going on.
There's lots of things.
Now, of course, you know, so then they'll
ask me like, what do you think about
the chemtrails?
Like, well, that's real, obviously.
So, you know, I'm on their side too.
But the Fred Freak Out or Freak Off
network is amazing.
I love it.
I love them.
I love it.
And they always come to me if they
need to be calmed down.
Except chemtrails, like, no, that stuff's real, man.
Don't calm them down about that.
I'll jack them up.
They're spraying us like bugs, baby.
It's worse than you think.
Now this, I made a call.
I made a big call out and I
called out our producers.
I'm like, where are you people?
Where are you people?
And it happened again.
I hope you, I know what you're going
to go into.
And I would hope that we have some
information.
I think this whole thing is a fraud.
Delays mounted again at one of the nation's
most important international hubs today.
If only they could blame it all on
the weather.
Our scopes just went black again.
If you care about this, contact the airline
and try to get some pressure from them
to fix this up.
Sorry to hear about that.
FedEx 19, I am switching.
Good luck, guys.
For the third time in two weeks, radars
failed at a facility in Philadelphia where controllers
managed the airspace in and around Newark Airport.
They were unable to see where planes were
in relation to one another.
And it lasted for 90 seconds.
The so-called Philadelphia Tracon has been the
center of controversy since the FAA forced controllers
who handle Newark to move from a similar
center on Long Island.
It's their new digs loaded with technology that
was state of the art in the 1970s
that have failed repeatedly, leaving controllers traumatized and
taking leave, thus reducing the number of flights
allowed to fly to Newark, a necessary safety
restriction that's led to hours-long delays.
Governor, it's been almost two weeks since the
Newark Airport incident.
Today, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy ignored questions
about the situation at his state's most important
airport.
Yesterday, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy used
Newark as Exhibit A in his multibillion-dollar
push to overhaul the entire nation's system.
You will see Newark's, not just in Newark,
you'll see Newark's in other parts of the
country because it's an aging system.
And so we have to actually upgrade it.
But that coast-to-coast project will take
years to complete.
The White House stressing temporary fixes are already
underway to strengthen the resiliency of the Philadelphia
facility that's caused all this chaos.
The FAA are working to address this technical
issue tonight to prevent further outages, as well
as install new fiber from Newark Airport to
Philadelphia.
And the goal is to have the totality
of this work done by the end of
the summer.
Okay, so that report actually buried the lead
of our girl in the White House, Levitt.
I need to play her entire one-minute
segment on this crisis.
Yes, I'm glad you asked about the FAA.
There was a glitch in the system this
morning.
I got 99 glitches.
Glitch.
Interesting.
And put a goatee on there, will ya?
So I do not accept from as much
as we like you, Ms. Levitt, saying it's
a glitch is a cop-out, it's bullcrap.
And of course, not a single one of
the journalists in the briefing room, including whoever
was in the new media seat, said, what
exactly is a glitch?
Okay.
Yes, I'm glad you asked about the FAA.
There was a glitch in the system this
morning, especially at Newark Airport.
As you all know, I spoke to the
Department of Transportation.
That glitch was caused by the same telecoms
and software issues that were raised last week.
Everyone, everything went back online after the brief
outage, and there was no operational impact.
DOT and the FAA are working to address
this technical issue tonight to prevent further outages,
as well as install new fiber from Newark
Airport to Philadelphia.
And the goal is to have the totality
of this work done by the end of
the summer.
There's a four-part infrastructure plan that was
released by the Secretary of Transportation yesterday to
improve communication, surveillance, automation, and their facilities.
They want to replace the antiquated telecom systems
with new fiber, wireless, and satellite technologies, replace
more than 600 radars, which have gone way
past their life cycle, and address runway safety.
They want to build six new air traffic
control centers for the first time since the
1960s, and replace towers as well.
They want to implement, excuse me, new modern
hardware and software for all traffic facilities to
create a common platform system throughout the towers.
Okay, well, John, you already guessed it, of
course.
They just happen to have this six-year
plan for all these new radar systems, and
everything, I just released this today.
It's coincidental.
This is a total setup, total bullcrap.
And I cite from our boots on the
ground from not one, but two air traffic
controllers.
They happen to live together, the anonymous controller
and his anonymous controller wife, because we have
the best producers in the universe.
And they said, hey, okay, we heard you.
We thought it was such a non-event,
we didn't even bother to talk to you.
But yes, of course, it sounds like a
couple of things, possibly.
A scheduled outage, a work of sabotage to
grab headlines for money.
The controllers taking leave is nothing.
Sick leave is abused by controllers regularly.
Rarely are there any questions asked.
So right there, we already know that part
of this recording is bullcrap.
On the scheduled outage side, if there was
a headline for every time an aircraft went
nordo, and what is nordo?
No operations radio something or other.
And frequencies went out momentarily, it would be
as often as the weather segment on your
local news station.
An example of this, when the Nashville RV
bomber happened a few years back, that explosion
affected our main frequency standbys and backups in
four sectors, I believe affecting Memphis Center frequencies
as well, which is very busy.
Mass chaos ensued after, however, regardless of what
the Trump administration is trying to sell on
the clips provided, the United States is the
best ATC system in the world, and we
are the best controllers in the world.
Foam finger number one.
No one knows what this magic- Can
I stop for a second?
Yes.
This is the reason nobody wrote in right
away.
They thought it was, like this is-
This is, he's expressing what it was.
What, why?
Oh, should we send something in?
No, this is common, this happens all the
time.
Well, why are we writing a note to
Adam about this?
Because he wants- So you had to
bitch and moan and bitch and moan and
bitch and moan, you finally got somebody to
say, okay, here's the reason.
Yes.
Yeah, so that makes sense.
Referring to Secretary Duffy, and I have the
clip here.
What is this magical system Duffy is talking
about?
No one knows.
Reality is, even if it's passed tomorrow, it
won't be implemented for 10 years, and by
then it's out of date.
That's how government works.
Again, you wanna help ATC system?
It's no keyboards or fancy screens.
It's weather, ground, radar updates, and comms.
That's how you improve the system.
Side note, we're huge Trump supporters, still don't
understand what all this means or what it
even looks like.
And they listen to you, John.
The antiquated radio systems, that's part of the
problem.
If the Trump administration is detailing plans for
what it calls the biggest overhaul of air
traffic control in the country's history.
NBC's Tom Costello is in Washington.
Tom, it's a pretty tall task ahead.
Whoa, Tom!
Yeah, it really is, and Secretary Sean Duffy
says it will take three to four years
and cost many billions of dollars, but the
country must upgrade from its 50-year-old
ATC systems that really suffer serious glitches every
single week.
The plan calls for a brand new radio
system, fiber optic data feeds, and new radars.
Radios and radars recently went down in Newark,
leaving controllers in the dark.
The DOT also wants to build new towers,
new tracons, new runway safety systems.
The nation's airlines, controller, and pilot unions all
support the plan, saying air travel needs an
urgent upgrade and a safety fix.
Keyword unions all support the system.
Yeah, okay.
Yeah, it'll happen.
They'll get them something.
But the other shoe that will drop, I'm
just waiting for it is, this is because
Pete Buttigieg did nothing.
That's the main thing to try to push
that a lot.
That's coming.
Did you get the clip of Trump talking
about him and his husband on the bike?
No, no, I didn't.
I didn't.
Oh, damn it.
I should try to go back and find
that clip.
Because Pete was too obsessed with EV charging
stations.
That's the kicker.
Well, of which they built one.
Oh.
Well, Colorado was joining 16 other states suing
the Trump administration to free up funds to
build electric car chargers.
Now, the money was approved by Congress, but
then President Trump froze it with an executive
order.
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser argues that's illegal
for the administration to block the distribution of
already approved funds.
The state already had plans to spend tens
of millions of dollars, and he says without
the money, it's gonna be difficult to build
out electric vehicle infrastructure.
And I can just remind everybody why the
billions of dollars was not spent on EV
charging stations is because it was all earmarked
for minority-owned businesses.
It was a DEI bill in disguise, and
they couldn't find any businesses that qualified to
do the work.
That's why the money was never spent.
So.
Well, that's a good point.
Yeah, yeah.
It makes sense.
But still, it's more fun to blame Pete
Buttigieg.
Now's the time not to do these things,
by the way, especially if, you know, I'm
still skeptical of the Toyota solid-state battery.
But there's a battery, supposedly, solid-state.
They call it solid-state.
It's just a different engineered style of battery
that supposedly goes, supposedly.
And it's not a super cap.
No one's gonna make those.
Super capacitive.
Unless you wanna see somebody blow up.
Can you imagine?
You're looking out at the freeway, and there's
just a car just blows up.
For those of you who have never blown
up a capacitor, it's a lot of fun.
A super capacitor could create quite the explosion,
I'm sure.
A regular little capacitor, I've had it happen
to me once in a computer.
Oh yeah, like one of those little blue
ones or the yellow ones?
It was a little, I don't know which
one it was, and I don't know what
the capacity was because what was left of
it, you couldn't tell.
Yeah, it's like paper wound, and it stinks.
It's like a cherry bomb going off inside
the computer.
And it's frightening.
Yeah, because they pop.
They really pop.
Caps pop, baby, they pop.
So this new battery in Toyota, supposedly leading
the pack, even though BYD and these other
guys wanna try to keep up, BYD is
probably to do it.
But it's supposed to have 10-minute charging.
Oh yeah, as long as you're connected to
a power station.
Yeah, well, there's always that.
The other, yes, the whole thing has got
issues.
You need a megawatt to charge it, but
otherwise it's fine.
You got one of those, just plug it
into your outlet.
It'll work.
It's gonna melt the wires.
Hey, what's your propaganda clips?
I've been looking at those all morning.
I'm like, it says cool propaganda.
That's a series of clips of NPR.
This, if you're ready for it.
I'm ready.
I don't know how much time we have
before the break.
No, but we got plenty of time.
We got oodles, oodles, oodles.
This is my NPR trying to, NPR and
PBS is trying to do anything they can
to kind of make it clear that Trump's
no good and that they're trying to take
our money and they're trying to ruin broadcasting
as we know it.
But before we play that, I do want
to play, for example.
You do, you do want to play.
You do want to play.
I do.
Now this clip is a mess because it's
titled Untitled, so that's always a giveaway.
And this was, I'm just, this is a
very short, these are all short clips, by
the way, so this'll go pretty quick.
This is an example of NPR at its
finest.
This is a woman comes on and she's
going to discuss horror films and their effect
on children and they're gonna bring these experts
on and talk about horror films and what
can they do to children and then I
had to cut it for obvious reasons.
What's a healthy little scare for kids and
what is potentially scarring?
Well, we wanted to talk to two people
who have had broadly different experiences when it
comes to thinking about horror movies for kids.
All Things Considered producer and film buff, Megan
Lim.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
hey.
And NPR music and pop culture critic and
father of two young adults now, Stephen Thompson.
Hey, hey.
Hey, hey, it's great to be here.
Great to have you both.
Okay, so I don't have kids.
So, okay, she doesn't got kids, so who
cares?
So then we go to listen to NPR
and this is another example of this kind
of thing.
This is another seven second clip.
This is NPR house ad.
This is a house ad for the kind
of programming that we're gonna get that we
need government money for.
Imagine if you will, a show from NPR
that's not like NPR.
A show that focuses not on the important,
but the stupid.
Wait, let me hear that again.
Imagine if you will, a show from NPR
that's not like NPR.
A show that focuses not on the important,
but the stupid.
Yeah.
Well, you cut it off, so I'm a
little suspicious.
You know, it's stupid.
It wasn't anything, no, believe me, I didn't
cut it off like a Michelle Obama type
clip.
Okay.
So we'll go to NPR leveraging FedCut.
Now here's where they start to bitch.
Oh, you've got a huge NPR thing today.
This is good, I like it.
Well, if you just trying to show people
that they send money to the Noah Jenner
show is well spent.
Yes.
As opposed to this.
You may have heard that President Trump has
issued an executive order seeking to block all
federal funding to NPR.
This is the latest in a series of
threats to media organizations across the country.
Whatever changes this action brings, NPR's commitment to
reporting the news without fear or favor will
never change.
Your support means that we'll be here for
you tomorrow and the next day and the
day after that.
It's time to join the movement to defend
public media.
Yeah, get the plus, get the bundle, get
the bundle.
Become a concierge member.
So after complaining about them, so first, so
they go after Trump by, you know, how
else can we go after him?
Radio Free Europe.
So this starts with, before we get to
the propaganda clips, this is a RFE, this
is a promo, this is a teaser for
their RFE, fighting RFE clips.
I think a lot of mainstream press might
see us almost like primary source material.
RFA's reporters have a history of uncovering genocide,
war crimes, and disinformation campaigns.
They don't just follow the news cycle, they
often lead it.
And now, they're fighting to survive.
Oh, that's, but hold on.
Your No Agenda Show has actual people who
work in the places where the bullcrap is
taking place, like air traffic controllers.
Support your No Agenda Show today.
Yes.
So now, this is another promotion.
This is RFE promotion, Radio Free Europe promotion
number two.
Most of our media are owned by a
handful of tech billionaires, but there's one claim
- No, no, that's not true.
It's owned by Disney, Soros, or at least
he has ownership in it.
There's a lot of billionaires that own media,
but not, I mean, the New York Times
is owned by a Mexican billionaire and some
other billionaire from Saudi Arabia.
The LA Times is an Asian billionaire.
Asian billionaire, a doctor.
They're not tech billionaires.
What tech billionaire owns major media, a major
media company?
Well, it's the only- Elon Musk owns
Twitter.
That's it.
Well, the Washington Post, yeah, Washington Post.
Those are, no, that's not every single one.
Are you calling this fake?
Go back to that clip.
Start it over.
Most of our media are owned by a
handful of tech billionaires, but there's one place
that still operates like the internet was never
invented.
On the new season of The Divided Dial
from On The Media, we're exploring shortwave radio,
where prayer and propaganda coexist with news and
conspiracy theories, and where an existential battle for
the public airwaves is playing out right now.
Listen to On The Media wherever you get
your podcasts.
Wow, okay, first of all, this has been
queued up in my podcast player for like
four days, and I didn't know what it
was about because I saw The Divided Dial.
They're really doing an in-depth dive on
what's on shortwave radio?
As if.
Anyone listens to it.
This is the joke of it.
As if everybody in Europe has got a
shortwave radio and they're holed up in some
attic and they're tuning in to the illegal
broadcast coming in.
Vrooom, vrooom, vrooom, vrooom, vrooom.
The Dutch, Wereldumroep, the Dutch World Service, they
shut down all of their broadcast transmitters and
towers in Bonaire because no one was listening
to it.
Everyone's on the internet.
Nobody listens to shortwave radio.
It's 2025, nobody is tuning in, looking for
the broadcast to give us the truth.
This is bullshit.
I'm sure there's a couple of pastors there
doing this thing.
They're probably out there.
So here we go.
So now we have- I am, this
is shortwave coming to you from Texas.
Vrooom, vrooom, vrooom, vrooom, vrooom, vrooom.
The Muslims are coming to take over.
So they moan and groan about Radio Free
Europe and Voice of America being shut down.
They're gonna have to go broke.
But then they go on to this propaganda
series, which is the clips that you saw.
About Radio Free Asia.
Now, I never heard of Radio Free Asia,
but they make it sound as though this
is the big deal.
Is it on shortwave?
Yeah, it's a shortwave.
All these Asians are all over Asia and
Vietnam.
Radio Free Asia.
And they're in China, in the outskirts of
the rural China.
And they've got the antenna that's out there.
They hope they don't get caught.
And they're tuning the dial on the shortwave
so they can get the truth.
This is nonsense.
Wait a minute.
So what they're saying here, just so I
get it straight, they are trying to protect
their own bacon by saying, they're not just
killing our funding, they're killing this critical information
source for the rest of the world in
these incredibly dictator-led suppressed countries like, I
don't know, South Korea, Japan, who now can't
get the truth on shortwave.
Exactly, you nailed it.
That's exactly what they're trying to do here.
But it's like a vision of the 1940s
or 30s where the guy, again, is in
the attic trying to tune in the radio,
the truth that's coming across.
So let's listen to this propaganda which came
across NPR, Radio Free Asia, part one.
From Recorded Future News, this is Click Here.
You may not remember, but COVID began as
a mystery illness.
Stop the clip, stop the clip.
Am I doing it wrong?
No, no, you're doing it right.
I just had to, I forgot I had
to set this one up.
They start off, this is what's a great,
this is a great clip.
They start off, this is gonna be a
COVID, I'm listening, so this is gonna be
interesting.
It's gonna be a retrospective on how they
screwed up the COVID coverage.
And all of a sudden they switch gears
in just like you did earlier in the
show when you switched over from the fact
you didn't pick the right pope to your
prediction about the erectile dysfunction.
Beautifully, they do the same thing.
And it's not about COVID, it's about Radio
Free Asia.
I don't know how they got that.
From Recorded Future News, this is Click Here.
You may not remember, but COVID began as
a mystery illness.
Growing concern about a new and rare pneumonia
-like virus that has caused at least two
deaths and has spread from China to other
countries in Asia.
We suddenly noticed that there was a surge
of pings, people trying to reach us from
inside Wuhan.
And this was because they were getting no
- Oh man, hold on, pings?
You mean someone was sending them email or
a WhatsApp message?
What kind of pings?
A ping, it was a ping.
Was it like ping, like a radar, like
a sonar or something?
People trying to reach us from inside Wuhan.
And this was because they were getting no
information from their own government about what was
happening around them.
And they knew that something was happening.
The Chinese government was trying to cover something
up.
Turns out it was COVID deaths.
Wow.
They reported a few thousand at the time.
And our reporters called the crematories in the
Wuhan area and got the numbers of urns
that they were putting out, talked to people
on the ground, and basically found that the
number was 100 times that.
And they put that out.
And it was not until a couple of
weeks later that US intelligence reports actually confirmed
that.
And it was reported by CNN.
Hold on, John.
I'm getting some pings.
I'm getting a surge of pings.
They're trying to contact you from Wuhan.
So you think that this is a, oh,
this is going to be interesting.
It's going to be a expose or something
or other.
Here we go.
Here's what it really is about.
And it was reported by CNN.
Base says that Radio Free Asia has had
that kind of impact, not just on policy
and world events, but in fighting against China's
dis- and misinformation.
How do you make that switch?
Let me hear that again.
That was pretty quick.
That was, I mean, it took me at
least a minute and a half.
They did it in like 30, 15 seconds.
And it was reported by CNN.
Base says that Radio Free Asia has had
that kind of impact, not just on policy
and world events, but in fighting against China's
dis- and misinformation campaigns.
Which, by the way, everybody was all in
on.
It was xenophobia to even suggest it came
from China, but okay.
So when the news came that the Trump
administration was trying to pull the plug, they
was surprised.
It was on a Saturday.
What was that laughter about?
Trying to pull the plug.
They was surprised.
It was on a Saturday.
So I was just at home and got
this email from Carrie Lake saying that our
grants had been terminated because we no longer
effectuate the priorities of the administration.
And so what was the first thing that
went through your head?
The first thing that went through my head
was how is it that we don't effectuate
the priorities of the administration anymore?
And, you know, when everything I've heard, especially
in the national security space and the administration
is that we are very impactful and important.
This grant, $60 million, is our annual budget
that we're given.
And it's peanuts compared with the billions of
dollars that China puts in every year into
its global media influence campaign.
After the news about ending RFA's funding was
announced, the state-owned media in China sent
off a flurry of posts.
Flurry.
With, you know, social media posts celebrating this
decision.
You know, basically they are happy because one
of the strongest voices that challenges their narrative
is gone.
Wow.
This is really interesting.
I'm sure they won't talk about it, but
just to bring in the Obama era overturning
of the Smith-Mundt Act, it was specifically
for these types of operations, for voice-free,
radio-free Europe, radio-free Asia, voice of
America.
It was specifically modernized, i.e. didn't count
anymore, because the US government is not allowed
to propagandize its own people.
And they realized that with all the stuff
they were doing on the internet, that they
would probably be propagandizing the American people, and
they needed to do it, because they really
need to do it.
And it was actually a bonanza for them.
And so we all know that this is
bullcrap.
And now they're all high and mighty, like,
well, you know, this is important stuff.
This is like Tokyo Rose, America style.
Who are they kidding?
It's totally Tokyo Rose.
Who are they kidding?
Yeah, yeah, and they think the Chinese are
dumb, I guess.
And by the way, what influence does the
Chinese propaganda arm have?
I mean, it's not NTD.
What do they have here?
Well, they have CGTV, which used to be
CCTV, and they have a new show, and
it's kind of like the BBC, only it
doesn't have a lot of stuff on it.
BBC is actually- They don't even have
any podcasters on their payroll.
Like Russia, Russia had some podcasters.
Oh, they might, but they're doing a better
job.
Again, again, again, no offers.
Where's our money?
Where's our offer?
All right.
If Radio Free- Sorry.
I'm sorry, it's just, it's laughable, this whole
thing.
If Radio Free Asia stops broadcasting, lots of
important news will go uncovered.
Not just a mystery virus in Wuhan or
detentions in Xinjiang, but more immediate events, like
what's going on in the streets of Burma
right now.
These are all things that the authoritarian rulers
of these countries would like to hide, because
the Chinese Communist Party is most afraid of
is its own people.
And for their people to lose the knowledge
of what their government is doing, what's happening
around them, it's hugely beneficial to the Chinese
Communist Party and to all of these authoritarian
rulers around Asia.
Do they provide any proof of how incredibly
beneficial it is to these people who have
better internet technologies than we do?
They provide no proof, and there's a contradiction
in what she said, which is that the
Chinese government's afraid of its own people.
Well, if that, yeah, maybe.
I mean, every government should be afraid of
their own people but what have these guys
done to stir up the masses?
I don't see any evidence of it.
No, they- Well- The Uyghurs are
still imprisoned if they're there.
We don't know any details.
The Wuhan virus is a scam.
Yeah, and since when- You know, it's
always a wet market.
Where'd that information come from?
And what did Radio Free Asia have to
do with it?
The pangolins.
Now we go to clip four, which has
got a, what I call a WTF moment.
And the situation for Radio Free Asia has
gone from dire to devastating.
On May 2nd, RFA told its staff that
it was eliminating 280 positions in the United
States.
That's about 90% of its domestic workforce.
And it's also cutting 20 more jobs overseas.
Okay, let's look at the, what is-
Let's do the numbers here.
KCBS, which does news 24-7 in the
San Francisco Bay Area, just news, news, news.
It's only- They got 18 people.
No, they got a hundred, about a hundred.
Yeah.
But they don't have, for example, this is
Radio Free Asia and they're bragging about all
their coverage.
Is there, do they have reporters over there?
Because they said they laid out 280, which
is 90% of their workforce, that were
all in the United States.
What are they doing?
They're receiving surges- Making phone calls?
Receiving ping surges of pings.
They're looking- I mean, the Daily Newspaper
has maybe a major, major giant paper that
produces tons of material like the Los Angeles
Times.
80 people, 80 people.
No, they got about a thousand.
Go.
A thousand at the Los Angeles Times?
Yes.
Actually, I think the Los Angeles Times is
probably closer to 1,500 to 2,000.
But that includes printing press people, sales people,
editors on top of editors.
The number of reporters is probably a couple
hundred max.
People who organize meetings.
Meetings guys.
AV people for the meetings.
Copy editors, typesetting systems.
Catering, catering, yes.
People to polish the microphones.
It's more than a new, you know, compared
to a radio station like KCBS is, I
think, more apt.
And that's maybe 150, maybe 200.
And that includes sales guys.
And these guys don't need sales people.
That's a lot of people.
Well, question.
Do they have any video products?
Or is it just all audio?
No, it's just all shortwave.
Well, wait.
Shortwave.
Well, they do websites too.
I'm sure they do that.
Yes, they do websites.
You're right.
They all have to have gone to websites.
So there's websites here and there.
And I guess it takes a webmaster.
Remember that term?
Yes.
Who's your webmaster?
Oh, we don't use that term here.
We have a webmistress.
Remember that?
I only remember that vaguely because there was
some people were uppity about using the term
master.
Yeah, I'm looking to see if they have
any video products.
They have any video?
Let me see, video.
Yeah, video.
Let's take a look at their video products.
Dalai Lama in New York.
Yeah, that's going to free the people in
China.
Yeah, they got some- Talking about the
Dalai Lama.
They're doing, they got some guy in a
webcam here.
Okay, so not a lot of video products.
So yeah, so it's mainly audio and web
stuff.
Man, think about what we could do with
that kind of budget.
And what was their budget?
60 million?
In some other clipboards they don't have on
this series, they said, we're going to go
bankrupt.
All right, so let's play the, this is
the last clip, which has a kicker.
Beifong called it an unconscionable situation.
And it's unclear what will happen next.
But a May 6th announcement might provide a
clue.
Senior presidential advisor, Carrie Lake, the person who
told RFA in an email back in March
that their grants had been canceled, said Voice
of America, another federally funded broadcaster, would be
taking in a new newsfeed.
She said, One American News Network, a reliably
pro-Trump television channel, would be providing newsfeeds
for Voice of America's foreign audiences at no
taxpayer cost.
Wow.
It's unclear whether outlets like Radio Free Europe
and RFA will be swept in that move
too.
Wow.
Unreported.
Tells you a lot a bit about that
outfit, doesn't it?
You heard it here first.
Wow.
Yeah, One American News, the schlockmeister, the girl
with too much makeup, and the other guy
who's always angry, and then Chanel Rihanna and
some of these other people that do interviews.
And by the way, they have a OAN
feed here in the Bay Area that comes
over the air.
It's always a week old.
Wow.
Everything that comes over is a week old.
It's like, it's very strange.
I don't know why they do a week
old news, but so OAN, which is, you
know, it's sometimes fun to watch, but it's
fourth rate.
Well, let's see what OAN has today.
They've got top news.
They got multiple Dem lawmaker arrests on the
table after storming ICE facility.
Let's see, report.
Online users praise photo of Carolyn Levitt feeding
baby while working.
Uh-huh.
Okay.
Yeah, look at her.
Super mom, she's super mom.
Gold rush 2.0, record prices, jewelry meltdowns,
and a Bitcoin boom.
U.S. Postal Service 3.3, this is
good news.
It's good stuff.
Well, it's news.
Well, if it's free, and you're going to
give it to Voice of America, you don't
have to pay all these characters, all kinds
of extra money.
Well, yeah.
They have my favorite story, front and center.
Apple's plan to offer AI search options on
Safari, a blow to Google dominance.
Who could have seen that coming?
Alphabet shares dropped 7% after Apple says,
after Q, Eddie Q is now the spokeshole
for this stuff.
You remember Eddie Q?
Well, yeah.
Eddie Q used to be in charge of
podcasting.
He was the iTunes guy.
He's now the senior vice president of internet
software and services.
And he said, yeah, I'm pretty sure we're
going to have artificial intelligence services instead of
a Google search.
They pay, or Google pays them $7 billion
a quarter, I think.
Some astronomical amount.
How come Apple shares didn't sink?
Yeah, it's saving Google money.
Yeah, but Google shares go down.
Well, it's because those advertisements have ads.
I mean, I'm sorry, those searches, results have
ads which Google monetized.
And so Google probably makes them three times
the $7 billion that they get.
I wonder, you've really got to wonder about
Apple.
I've always thought that these guys, for some
reason, they really want to be in the
advertising game.
They've always kind of dipped their toe in,
taken it out.
I think they really want it.
They really, someone must irk them that Google
has all that advertising money.
Where- Oh, that could be.
You know, they definitely, you know, once you
start putting all this AI on your phone,
I don't think it's a good idea.
Because, you know, it's not about displaying-
Those guys are making money off of our
backs.
Yes, because it's not about, they are, literally.
Because all of the apps, the apps are
the things that are tracking, they're tracking your,
how you hold the phone, where you're walking,
or driving, or all of this stuff.
So they're like, well, we can sell that
data.
And, but don't worry, we'll keep it on
our exclusive little secure chip on your phone.
It'll never leave your phone.
I got to wonder, got to wonder.
I mean, to give up $20 billion a
year, give or take, to integrate someone else's
AI products into your phone and not take
the money from Google, there's got to be
something else to it.
Even Eddie, Eddie Q's not stupid.
Let me see.
Give him a call.
Hey, Eddie.
I bet you- Adam.
I bet you wouldn't take my call.
I bet you would.
Yeah, I don't think I have his number.
But I'm sure it's E.Q. That's Apple
.com.
Well, that brings me to a couple technology
items of note.
First of all, we laughed and I certainly
had, I was unaware of the new definition
of raw dogging.
We've talked about this, came up.
Was it in one of your clips that
this came up, the raw dogging?
Yeah, raw dogging.
And I still think that this has been,
this is a plant to get that, the
bonehead that who's done it before on NBC,
that guy who's, they were CBS, that character
that was on there, he was busted before
for saying stuff that was, he's just naive.
He doesn't know it when he says, he's
the one who introduced it.
Yeah, okay.
Now all of a sudden this has been
the definition.
I saw that.
Well, the thing is, of all the people
who should know about this new definition of
the term raw dogging, it should be you
because it is a TikTok trend.
This is where it comes from.
It's called raw dogging.
I'm reading this from Travel Week.
A new trend that's blowing up on social
media, particularly among males requiring people to sit
through a long haul flight with zero distractions
or forms of entertainment.
This means no phones, movies, music, books, or
even sleep, food, or water.
If people can just sit there for hours
without any stimuli, they get instant bragging rights,
i.e. raw dogging.
What bragging rights are there?
Who are you bragging to?
Well, I was on the plane and I
was like putty in that Seinfeld movie or
Seinfeld show where he sat there next to
Elaine and he didn't move and didn't say
anything.
It doesn't make any sense.
So here's a TikTok clip that I see.
It's like, what do we see?
Just raw dogged a seven hour flight.
No headphones, no movie, no water, nothing incredible.
The power of my mind knows no bounds.
Yeah, it's like a fast.
It's like a fast of water and technology.
Well, in general, a good idea.
Not to not drink water for hours on
end.
Well, no, but to not use technology, I
think that's a good trend.
I'm all for it.
I like this trend.
It's good.
It's a good trend.
Stinks.
Like you care.
Like when's the last time you were on
an actual aircraft?
I mean- I'm not flying around.
It's too dangerous.
The air traffic control is down.
It needs to be modernized.
Yours had propellers.
When I was a kid, you had to
go out and start the engine with a
shotgun.
That's the line I was looking for.
Shotgun shell, start that DC-3 engine.
Anyway, in the technology sphere, never let a
good United Nations development report go to waste.
The new UND report is out 2025 and
Queen Ursula is all over it.
It's a real pleasure to speak to you
today and to welcome this vital report on
artificial intelligence.
The UNDP helps millions of people every year,
but a lot has changed in the 60
years since the UNDP was created.
Now, where do you think she's going with
this?
What do you think is in this new
United Nations development plan report for 2025?
Climate change.
No, well, partially.
It's part of the kicker, but no, no,
no, no.
The world is facing many new challenges and
artificial intelligence is one of the biggest.
This is it, baby.
AI coming to Europe.
EU is going to be the AI continent.
This new report- What?
Can I interrupt a clip completely?
I know you hate this idea, but I
want to interrupt that clip with an AI
clip.
Okay.
You go right back to the clip, it'll
be fine.
Sure.
Because you didn't really get that clip going.
No, because you kept jumping in front of
it.
Yes, you can.
Of course you can.
This is Linda McMahon.
Oh, she's the secretary of the now defunct
education.
Yes, education.
This is unbelievable.
She's talking about AI in schools, but she
doesn't really, well, maybe she's talking about, I
don't know, what is she doing?
Letter or report that I heard this morning.
I wish I could remember the source, but
that there's a school system that's going to
start making sure that first graders or even
pre-Ks have A1 teaching every year, starting
that far down in the grades.
And that's just a wonderful thing.
Kids are sponges.
They just absorb everything.
And so it wasn't all that long ago
that it's, we're going to have internet in
our schools.
Whoop.
Now, okay, let's see A1 and how can
that be helpful?
How can it be helpful in one-on
-one instruction?
How can it be helpful?
Wait a minute.
Is she talking about AI?
She's saying A1, is that what I'm hearing?
Yep.
A1 steak sauce in schools?
They just absorb everything.
And so it wasn't all that long ago
that it's, we're going to have internet in
our schools.
Whoop.
Now, okay, let's see A1 and how can
that be helpful?
How can it be helpful in one-on
-one instruction?
How can it be helpful in absorbing more
information for those fast learners?
It can be more one-on-one directed.
And those are the kinds of things and
innovations that I want to see continue to
develop.
All right.
You deserve this one.
♪ Clip of the day ♪ Thank you
very much.
A1 in school.
So she's reading off a piece of paper.
She has apparently never listened to anything in
the media.
At all.
At all, ever.
This is the series of tubes clip of
our day.
Remember the internet?
It's a series of tubes.
Yeah, the tubes.
Oh man, do we still have, who was
that guy?
Oh, it was the senator that got killed
up in Alaska.
Wasn't it?
Because of the series of tubes?
No, because he was in a plane wreck.
I think they tried to kill him for
some reason.
He's the one who built the bridge to
nowhere.
Ted Stevens, you're right.
Ted Stevens.
Yes, Ted Stevens.
Yeah, can you believe that?
A1, that's what we're calling it from now
on.
Hold on, let's listen to it.
Is allowing all of these entities that support
this to provide streaming stuff going on the
internet.
Now the internet, you know, let's go back.
Internet started with a concept of local to
local connections across the country.
And you could go for Air Alaska, but
you only had to go through local connections
to get there.
Industry wisely provided for a streaming for, in
effect, a new kind of long distance.
And that's what we've got.
We've got a service that's immune to distance.
And it's there for the consumer.
But when we take and- Where is
it?
Sign up and you've got a movie delivered
to your house, or muscle, you change your
order.
It's delivered to you, and this delivery charge
is free, right?
Why?
Because it got tangled up with all of
these things that are going on the internet
commercially.
And here we have this one situation where
enormous entities want to use the internet for
their purpose, to save money for doing what
they're doing now.
They use FedEx, they use the deliveries.
The internet is not something that you just
dump something on.
It's not a big truck.
It's a series of tubes.
And if you don't understand, those tubes can
be filled.
They're filled.
When you put your message in, it gets
in line.
It's gonna be delayed by anyone that puts
it in that tube.
Enormous amounts of material.
Wow.
He was not wrong though.
He was talking about streaming TV and, but
it was the series of tubes that we
all focus on.
Not a truck.
No, it's a series of tubes.
Yes, from now on, AI is A1.
And new people to the show will think
we are crazy.
What are these guys?
These guys don't know what they're talking about.
They think AI is A1.
Well, okay, so before I get to my
Ursula AI clip, A1 clip, I have to
play this.
This is the latest TikTok craze.
Yes, I'm not playing a TikTok clip.
I'm playing- No, no, I noticed you're
stealing my material.
No, no, this is a clip about TikTok
and what kids, those crazy wacky kids are
doing in school.
This TikTok shows a new and concerning trend
among students.
It's more than just a trend.
It causes a lot of disruption.
Last Thursday, a student at Newington High School
did just that.
It became clear that the damage was done
intentionally, that it wasn't a malfunctioning Chromebook, but
rather a student had intentionally done things to
it that caused it to smoke and eventually
melt.
The school was evacuated as smoke filled the
classroom.
The batteries that are essentially catching on fire,
once they burn, they're producing this toxic smoke.
And the same thing happened in both Derby
and Cromwell High Schools on Monday.
The hallway's filling with smoke.
We went in and ended up finding a
laptop in a classroom that was pretty much
out but on fire at one point.
The back cover where the battery cover was
melted away and the battery was smoking.
Investigations are underway across the districts.
And while no one was injured, firefighters say
these incidents could have been much worse.
The small ones like cell phones and laptops,
they can cause an explosion.
They could have potentially burned somebody.
A shrapnel could have hit other people if
it exploded.
Newington Superintendent Dr. Maureen Brummett says she plans
to hold those responsible accountable.
So the kids now on TikTok, they're learning
how to jam some metal into the charging
USB port of their school-issued Chromebooks.
And of course, they start to smoke, burn,
and often can come- They short them
out.
Yes.
This is the new TikTok trend.
It's part of the raw-dogging trend.
It's got to do with raw-dogging.
But you got to get rid of your
technology, babe.
I'm going to blow it up.
This is a Luddite thing.
I'm digging it.
The new Luddites.
I'm digging it.
Neo-Luddites.
Yes, I'm digging it.
Well, none of this will happen in the
European Union because Queen Ursula is all in
on A1.
It's a real pleasure to speak to you
today.
It's a pleasure!
And to welcome this vital report on artificial
intelligence.
The UNDP helps millions of people every year,
but a lot has changed in the 60
years since the UNDP was created.
The world is facing many new challenges and
artificial intelligence is one of the biggest.
As this new report says, the world is
pulsing with a powerful new technology.
Pulsing with a powerful new technology.
AI has moved from fantasy to fact.
From fantasy to fact.
She likes the alliteration.
Two thirds of people around the world expect
to use AI within a year.
Areas like health, education and work are being
transformed.
And the revolution has only just begun.
So how should we deal with this crucial
issue?
How can we make sure that countries and
people benefit from the AI revolution?
Oh, I think it's going to cost the
taxpayers money.
Now let's look at what Europe is doing
at home and in partnerships around the world.
Here in Europe, we want to be leading
as an AI continent to improve lives, promote
our values and help humanity.
We're investing.
We're building 13 AI factories and five giga
factories.
Whoa, five giga AI factories.
I don't know exactly what they're going to
do, but it's not just a factory.
It's a giga factory.
To unlock 200 billion euros in overall investment.
200 billion euros of your tax money, Europeans.
But with artificial intelligence, there are risks as
well as rewards.
So we have brought in a new set
of rules for a European approach to safeguard
our citizens and maximize benefits.
Because AI needs to be safe to have
the confidence of Europeans.
We will control your AI and we are
going to deploy it everywhere and it's going
to be good for you.
Just listen.
But our focus must also be broader than
Europe because there is a danger that AI
will grow the digital divide.
Oh, they care so much about the poor
countries.
Between wealthy nations and the global South.
And that's why Europe is also working with
partners so that everyone can take part in
this AI revolution.
Yeah, slaves and data centers.
Let me give you five examples.
Firstly, our global gateway strategy is investing in
infrastructure and capacity in partner countries.
For example, a satellite AI factory in Morocco.
What is an AI factory?
I have to ask you, do you have
any, an inkling of idea what an AI
factory is?
I think it would be a server farm
is what I think it is, but her
concept is so 18th century that she thinks
everything's a factory.
Get to work, you poor slave.
It's a hamburger factory.
A satellite AI factory in Morocco that is
thus helping tech startups across Africa.
Second.
So wait a minute, my money's going to
go to Africa?
Okay.
To support these efforts, the European Union is
joining the executive steering board of the AI
Hub for Sustainable Development.
The AI Hub for Sustainable Development.
Wow.
This is a vital initiative led by Italy,
the G7 and the UNDP with a strong
focus on Africa.
Thirdly, we have formed a powerful digital alliance
with Latin America and Caribbean partners.
Fourthly, we're working with Asian partners on global
cybersecurity.
And finally, we're developing super accurate AI weather
forecasts to warn about dangerous tropical storms, for
example.
Wait a minute, super accurate AI weather forecasts.
I cannot wait for that.
What a crock.
And of course, to help rescue efforts around
the world.
Yeah, go find that Malaysian Airlines flight.
So you see, AI can be a gift
to humanity.
It's a gift, it's a gift to you.
Hey slaves, hey, you in the factory, it's
a gift.
This important report shows that the future is
in our hands.
The choices we make now will determine our
tomorrow.
With the right choices, we can open new
pathways, helping everyone to thrive in a world
with artificial intelligence.
Boondoggle, boondoggle.
Money, there's money in Europe, everybody.
There's money if you're a scientist and you
want to run away from the evil America.
There's money if you want to work in
an AI gigafactory.
I just shudder to think what that really
is.
These people are nuts.
They're talking.
This woman is delusional.
She doesn't know what she's talking about and
she just rambles.
She must really think she's something special.
Well, President Trump likes me.
He thinks I'm awesome.
Yeah, Trump is already on his way.
He's just working her already.
She's falling for it.
Hey, with that, I want to thank you
for your courage in the morning to you,
the man who put the C in your
name.
In the Chromebooks that explode.
Say hello to my friend on the other
end, the one, the only, Mr. John C.
DeMora.
Yeah, well, in the morning to you, Mr.
Adam Curry.
In the morning, it's just the C.
Yeah, folks on the ground, feet in the
air, subs in the water, and all the
dames and knights out there.
In the morning to the trolls in the
troll room.
Hold on, trolls, here, I'm moving.
Morning, John, but I don't care, I don't
care.
Two trolls.
Everyone's hanging out with mom.
2041 trolls, peak trollage for us today.
It's Mother's Day.
Wow.
Wow, what wow?
That's wow low.
It's wow, it's wow low, man.
It's wow, but people love their moms, but
they don't want.
Well, the ones that love their moms don't
donate to the show.
No, there's that, there's that.
But they love their mom.
We do have a few mom call-outs,
call-outs.
Oh, luckily, luckily, this is good.
All the moms, you are the glue of
the family, fact.
So the trolls are in the troll room
at trollroom.io, which is our 24-7
live stream and chat room.
You can call it a chat room, but
I think everyone calls it a troll room
because people troll.
They're just there to troll all the time.
Only 130 real trolls.
These are trolls that are listening.
We have quite a large listening audience.
Not everyone is trolling, but you can hit
that trollroom.io or use the Modern Podcast
app.
I can't say it often enough.
One of these days, you're gonna be like,
I'm disappointed in my podcast app.
If only I had listened to Adam.
What was that thing called again?
By the way, it is not podcastapp.com.
That'll take you to a piece of junk.
It is podcastapps, plural, .com, where you can
see all of the Modern Podcast apps.
Is it one P or two?
It's two Ps.
And it says podcastapps.
Yes, podcastapps, .com.
Yes, or you can go to podcastindex.org
and click on the apps tab.
It's all the same place.
And so these give you all kinds of
benefits besides not spying on you, not giving
you ads.
I'm sure some apps out there do that
or try to give you ads.
And you can always upgrade to the concierge
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They give you chapters with chapter images.
They give you alerts when we go live.
They have live streams.
You can't get that from Spotify or from
Apple Podcast apps.
So grab one of those.
It's compatible with all of your podcasts.
You can even import your current subscriptions.
The trolls are there contributing to the show.
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Clearly, we have taken a route that we
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I need some new coffee.
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And we do have a plethora of artists
and A1 prompt jockeys who like to, I'm
going to try to keep it in there.
She should be called out for that, by
the way.
Well, she was with that clip, but she
should be called out.
Somebody should bring it up at the press
conference.
Yeah.
What do you know, lady?
What do you know?
Go back to wrestling.
One of the ways people contribute is through
providing us art.
We love to select a piece of art
right after the show.
These are people who are listening on the
fly, just listening live, and on the fly
are making art.
Yes, it's a tool if you use AI,
but you still have to have a concept.
And it has to be a no agenda
concept.
It has to have the humor of Gitmo
Nation.
Otherwise, AI is just not going to take
you anywhere.
And so we have a combination of traditional
artists using Photoshop and clip art, and yes,
some AI stuff.
Well, we want to thank the artist who
brought us the artwork for episode 1762, titled
Stick Fight.
By the way, I think there was an
errant, or it was a mistake about the
stick fight that we discussed.
It is in fact not India and Pakistan
who fight with sticks at the border.
It is India and Chinese, who of course
pretty much own that region of Pakistan, if
I understand it correctly.
Well, I know they fight on the border
too.
I don't know if it's to or or.
I couldn't find any evidence of Indians.
Okay, well maybe it's just the Indians and
the Chinese fighting with sticks.
But in London, there's a lot of videos
in London with Pakistanis and Indians yelling at
each other.
And they don't really get into fisticuffs, but
they just yell at each other.
And it's, if you, if you, get out
of here, man, you Paki, you Indian.
London, they're fighting each other there.
The whole thing, it's spreading.
It's contagion.
Well, they were invited there to fight, obviously.
Why else would they be there?
That's right.
So we want to thank Sir Shug, aka
Foe Diddley, for the artwork for 1762.
A nice US born Pope with a foam
finger number one.
A lot of people like this art.
I got good feedback on it.
Yeah, nobody sent us any, hey, that's sacrilegious
or any complaints from our Catholic listeners.
No, I got no, no, the Catholics, they
like it.
They're all the Catholics I know.
They're like, jury's still out, man, jury's still
out.
But I think there's also a lot of
propaganda against this Pope, just right off the
bat.
And like, oh, he's LGBT friendly, he's woke,
he's this, he's that.
And there's a lot of anti-prop, you
know, it's propaganda on both sides.
We don't know.
We don't know what this Pope is going
to do.
We don't know yet, but we'll see.
I hear a lot of, well, he's a
registered Republican.
It's got to be good.
How can he, he's not a, he's living
in Chile.
He doesn't even.
In the elections that he voted in when
he was in the United States, he voted
Republican.
God, I mean, this is all just, it's
out there, you know.
I'm just telling you what people are talking
about.
I question this.
As I said, it's propaganda.
What I love the most, I heard this
one the other day, that a lot of
the M5M talked about this particular Pope, Leo
XIV, as the dark horse candidate.
Did you hear this anywhere?
No.
Okay, so he was the dark, well, of
course I did, because I'm looking everywhere, like,
how did I miss this guy?
He was the dark horse candidate.
And then of course that picks up as,
aha, white horse, President Trump.
Red horse, China.
Black horse, Pope.
We're just waiting for the pale horse.
And then, and then the Armageddon kicks off.
No, no, this is classic.
That has to be a Fredericksburg thing.
You got it, baby.
Of course it is.
I'm telling you, this is the best move
I've ever made in my life.
I'm never leaving.
I am never leaving Fredericksburg.
It's a goldmine of crazy people.
The best part is that we talk about
this and we laugh about it and we
have a good time.
And I tell him, I'm gonna talk about
it on the show.
I'm like, yeah, you should do that.
That's good.
Like you said, there's gotta get this information
out there.
Get that information out.
Yeah, talk about it.
You can ridicule us if you want, we
don't care.
As long as it gets out.
No, hey, listen, we're good hosts.
We have people over, we cook, we have
a good time.
And they're all our friends, we love them.
We love our friends.
So looking at the artwork that we had
that you saw.
You loved your friends in Austin, too, until
you rousted a couple of them.
But they were really not good, let's be
honest.
I mean, they got all spun up.
They got really spun up, but over the
wrong things.
You know, like Trump is Hitler.
Yeah, we don't have that here.
Biden is Hitler.
Obama was the Antichrist, that kind of stuff.
Doesn't fit with the show.
Anyway, we're looking at the art at noagendaartgenerator
.com.
Another fine piece of value for value from
Sir Paul, who put that together for us.
Been up and running for over a decade
in multiple versions.
Because it was VE Day, we did stay
on Darren O'Neill's VE Day piece of
art.
We discussed it for a while.
We didn't stay on it long, because you
nixed it faster than a, no, I don't
have a lot.
No, you don't have a lot.
I said, I like the idea of supporting
VE Day, but I didn't think this was
a great art.
It was an old dude looking up in
the clouds.
Yeah, I wasn't pushing back too hard.
I liked the piece, because it was for
the day, but then again, the piece was
a little bit funky.
The piece that you said right off the
bat was, I love this one, noagenda, please
send free stuff, Adam Curry and John C.
Dvorak.
That was the one you liked.
I mentioned it was funny.
I didn't know who was gonna pick it.
We had a couple of, what was that?
The one I liked a lot, just for
its composition, and I just liked that that
was the prettiest piece was, again, Darren, who
gets a hair up his ass every so
often and just produces a lot of good
stuff.
A lot of it, yeah.
New and improved noagenda from Alcatraz Prison.
I think that piece was gorgeous.
That was a very nice piece.
Why didn't we choose it?
You didn't like it.
I think I said- I think the
Pope with the foam finger was just too
good.
It was too good.
Oh, no, I know what you said.
We're not gonna pick another Darren O'Neill
and that's what I said.
Yeah, that's what I said, exactly.
Those guys, they gotta stop.
This is classic.
This is what you do, by the way,
when you're judging for the Pulitzer and everything.
No, you can't have another award, no, no.
That guy's already got too much.
No, we're not gonna do it, exactly.
And that's what happens in the back room
and it happens constantly.
People can't take these awards too seriously.
And that goes for the Oscars, too.
And that goes for the noagenda art picking
process.
It's exactly the same.
It's just the way, it's human nature.
It's just what it is.
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Okay.
I don't want to get Lauren Wood off.
No, I have a couple of clips from
more complaining from NPR.
Oh, you really you're really on the NPR
tip today Oh, yeah, today's NPR NPR is
NPR day.
This is them.
Did I guess AmeriCorps?
They're gonna cut the funds for AmeriCorps.
What is AmeriCorps?
Well, I didn't even think about AmeriCorps, you
know, they still have the Peace Corps I
guess like the AmeriCorps, but it's kind of
like the Peace Corps, but it's not There's
a lot of money and you know, I've
you know, I've concluded that some time back
that I Don't know how this is gonna
turn out for Trump But all these programs
all these things except for the USA ID
and the stuff that's going overseas But most
of the stuff that's not going overseas.
In fact, a lot of it that's going
overseas is not going overseas either It's just
jobs programs.
Yeah, we may have been in a depression
since 1970 and Everybody's working on the dole
in some way shape or form and people
who actually do something that pay taxes They're
picking they're picking up the slack for everybody
else.
I'm not sure but it's AmeriCorps, I'm looking
at it right now They focus on six
key areas disaster services economic opportunity education environmental
stewardship Healthy futures and veteran and military families.
Yeah, if this doesn't sound like a crock
of crap Just from what you read nothing
does China.
Yeah.
Yeah crock of crap Okay Well, let's go
with clip one and it's pushed to shrink
government.
The Trump administration has gutted AmeriCorps That is
the federal agency created three decades ago as
a way for young Americans and seniors to
serve their country Now most of the agency
staff has been fired and more than 30
,000 people Have been ordered to stop their
service work immediately Wow Are they where are
they are they overseas?
30,000 people and by the way three
decades ago.
That means this was founded this thing began
in 1995 within recent memory of most of
our listeners Wow, it's not like something that's
been around forever.
It's just bullcrap and 30,000 people that's
a lot 30,000 But again, I'm thinking
this is job a jobs program for them
is not to benefit anybody else Onward and
here's Jennifer Ludden reports until last month 25
year old CEO Foshay was an AmeriCorps team
leader He and ten others got a small
stipend for building affordable homes in Virginia Removing
hurricane debris in Florida and repairing National Park
trails in West, Virginia That's where they were
when Foshay got shocking news pull your team
off the work site Pack up your camp
hit the road tonight if possible.
The Trump administration had ended nearly 400 million
dollars in grants yanking funding from more than
a thousand organizations Saying it no longer fits
the agency's priorities People were upset Foshay says
he calls AmeriCorps a patriotic program That's good
for the country and good for the young
adults 18 19 year olds would never left
home who weren't really sure what they wanted
to do with their lives Or what was
the right call for them?
Just travel the country with people.
They never met before It's a personal growth
and agency and confidence.
I saw on these members was massive all
of a sudden to have that opportunity ripped
away from them It's just unconscionable really Kyra
eskate heads America's service commissions a nonprofit that
supports National Service programming She admits there have
been issues AmeriCorps failed eight consecutive audits a
White House spokeswoman cited the same thing and
pointed to 45 million dollars in improper payments
last year Eskate says the agency found that
in its own review and AmeriCorps is upgrading
a clunky IT system to better track money
Yeah, okay, so they can't be the eight
failed audits for an agency give me a
break we can't take the money And then
they all we go computers don't work.
You know if you put if the computers
are 1995 which is when this thing began
Would work to do tracking the money.
I mean, it's not like We had Excel
back then we had Lotus one two three
we had You could do it on an
Apple two from the from the late 70s.
I mean I had Apple bullcrap.
I had Lotus jazz Do you remember that
product yeah, I know Lotus jazz Lotus jazz
never really worked Would never oh they had
all the software keys and stuff never really
worked Lotus jazz yeah, well, that's a scam
Let me it's not a scam.
It's just something that's grown into a money
sink a money hole.
It's a jobs program.
Yes, you're correct It's a jobs program Yeah,
it's just giving money away.
You might as well have like the Works
project administration, let's set that back up again,
and we knew she's paint murals It would
probably be more beneficial to the American prettier
I have manga news since we're in the
second half here manga manga manga news make
Africa manga manga make Africa news great again.
This is interesting because it's white people in
manga The first group of white Afrikaans speaking
South Africans is reportedly due to arrive in
the United States early next week They claim
to be persecuted in their home country and
have been granted refugee status by President Donald
Trump The u.s. Leader in February signed
an executive order halting all aid to South
Africa accusing the government of doing Terrible things
to Afrikaners.
He described them as the victims of unjust
racial discrimination Saying the land was being taken
away from them Trump's views appear to stem
from a recent law that allows land expropriation
without compensation in extremely rare cases South African
officials say the policy is part of efforts
to address land ownership Disparities that are one
of the starkest legacies of apartheid and that
to date no land has been seized Many
prominent Afrikaners and other South Africans have shouted
down Trump statements saying they patently false This
will be interesting who shows up and what
their story is.
There's been so much missing disinformation about this
but the Afrikaners What's the misinformation?
Well, all were the only news we're getting
is it's not true.
It's not true.
It's not true It's just not and there's
no white people being killed here.
That's not true And these people they're showing
up with signs.
They're like, thank you.
We love you President Trump.
Thank you for saving us.
Yeah Yeah, they're killing white people there.
That's what they're doing.
Yeah Well, they they there's a lot of
people there in South Africa who disagree with
that statement Well, they're not white No, oh
I'm sorry.
I missed these I have a to Pope
Leo the 14th clips.
I have one Pope Leo the 14th But
why don't you go first with your Pope
Leo clip?
Okay, you could see it on there Yes
He makes a comment Pope Leo has made
an unannounced visit to the Roman Basilica of
Santa Maria Maggiore Where his predecessor is buried
Walking slowly to shouts of long live the
Pope Leo laid a white flower on Francis's
tomb and knelt in prayer for a few
moments Earlier, he confirmed to Cardinals that he
chosen his pontifical name in homage to Leo
the 13th a 19th century Pope Who defended
workers rights during the Industrial Revolution?
He said there was a place for the
modern church to meet similar challenges To In
our own day the church offers to everyone
the treasury of her social teaching in response
to another Industrial Revolution And to developments in
the field of artificial intelligence that pose new
challenges for the defense of human dignity justice
and labor Hey, that's the second time I
hear a Windows alert sound in one of
your clips Mm-hmm.
Where's that coming from?
I had something running in the background.
I was making a racket Okay Well, I
got the the Pope Leo the 14th Chicago
Welcome with Leo's ascent to the papacy the
city of Chicago is celebrating one of its
own Chicago famously a sports crazed town.
So the new Pope is getting a full
city treatment online One of the most
popular videos circulating is the Pope coming out
to the Chicago Bulls entrance music Meantime a
host of Chicago themed t-shirts about Pope
Leo have flooded Etsy shops in the last
24 hours But about the big question asked
by every Chicago native Cubs or white socks
the Pope's brother John Prevost to confirm to
local media Leo the 14th Cheers for the
Southsiders.
He is a white Man, there you go.
Oh as long as he's a White Sox
fan.
Oh, that's good.
However Actually, that's not good.
No, of course, it's not gonna be a
Cubs fan.
Of course is not good But there's more
that Pope Leo said Chicago born Cardinal Robert
Prevost Saying he chose his papal name in
part to honor Pope Leo the 13th a
proponent of fighting for social issues and workers
rights He also says he plans to follow
Pope Francis's lead on his church reforms and
commitment to social justice In the meeting Pope
Leo asking other senior church leaders to uphold
their commitment to the Second Vatican Council responsible
for sweeping church reforms in the 1960s he
also identifies artificial intelligence as a top challenge
for working people human dignity and justice Sister
Natalie Becker a pioneering French nun and the
Pope's neighbor reacting Saturday I think you can't
just look at him as an American.
It's true He was born in Chicago, and
I remember once we talk about Chicago because
he studied in the same place I spent
one semester despite the Pope's strong ties to
Chicago Becker says his rich background makes him
a universal Pope He's also making the papacy
his own appearing in his first outing since
the election traveling to a sanctuary in Rome
Significant to his namesake Yes, his roots are
from Chicago but then he has been so
many time as a missionary in Peru and
he has the Peruvian citizenship and as Superior
General 12 years here in Rome a mass
will get underway here shortly just about 515
at Holy Name Cathedral now as you all
know because of the Pope's strong Chicago ties
Upbringing in Dalton, Illinois.
It's caused a lot of excitement for people
here in Chicagoland over the last few days
Especially Sox fans after they learned from the
Pope's brother that he was indeed a Sox
fan growing up and has been a lifelong
Sox fan Yeah, she can't go she can't
go doesn't know what she's talking about.
Oh, no.
She don't call them the Sox No, they're
the White Sox because there's the Red Sox.
You don't say Sox fan, but you say
Bo Sox You could say Bo Sox I
would make more sense of saying Sox So,
I don't know that anybody I lived in
Chicago when I was a kid I don't
know anybody that would call the White Sox
the Sox necessarily especially in a report like
this Let me see where she is.
I just I think it's just a mistake.
I could be wrong Somebody could correct me
some Chicago.
Well, she's Chicago in this work in there
now That was they can send me a
note and I'll pay attention to it.
She can go That was a WGN report.
So it was a Chicago local report Huh,
yeah, no, I could be wrong.
Okay, I probably made another mistake some space
junk came down.
Oh, yeah The space junk I had a
clip from the last show.
Well, I have a clip from this show
Hey Soviet era spacecraft has plunged to earth
more than half a century after its failed
launch to Venus Russia's Space Agency believes the
cosmos for eight to lander made an uncontrolled
reentry over the Indian Ocean But European and
US agencies say they're still unsure of its
exact location the shuttle weighing half a ton
malfunctioned during its failed launch to Venus in
1972 it never made it out of Earth's
orbit instead circling the planet in an irregular
pattern for decades Yeah, I was watching the
the live stream and they don't even know
where it crashed down It's a piece of
junk up there floating around it's got no
radio it's got no it's not signaling anything
It looks like a big curling thing.
Nobody knows what to do with it.
It was a lander or something It's just
floating around for since 1972 yeah Yeah, we're
still just doing that kind of stuff go
to the moon again already Put some people
down.
I'm ready for it.
I'm ready to become a believer I'm ready.
Well, I'm ready to play some clips from
by the Pakistan India situation Yeah, can I
kick you off with a little overview an
overnight overview?
It's very short.
It'll bring us up to speed Oh, it's
actually not that she it's it's not short
But it'll bring us up to speed mere
hours after a ceasefire was announced between India
and Pakistan.
It's fragility was revealed Explosions lit up the
sky above Indian administered Kashmir Authorities claimed was
a violation by Pakistan of their bilateral agreement
The armed forces are giving an adequate and
appropriate response to these violations and we take
very very serious notice of these violations we
call upon Pakistan to take appropriate steps to
address these violations and Deal with the situation
with seriousness and Responsibility Pakistan said it remained
committed to the truce We have acted as
a responsible state for the world and regional
peace stability and for the lives of millions
of people in the region who gave a
positive response to the ceasefire suggestion the Violations
tempered the enthusiasm of those on both sides
of the border who earlier had taken to
the streets to celebrate the news In Mumbai
students had even painted artwork of Prime Minister
Narendra Modi alongside the US president After Donald
Trump first announced Saturday that a complete and
immediate ceasefire would come into effect following a
night of US-led negotiations Pakistan's foreign minister
had confirmed the deal saying three dozen countries
were involved in the mediations including Saudi Arabia
and Turkey He celebrated on social media adding
that Pakistan has always strived for peace and
security in the region without compromising on its
sovereignty and Territorial integrity minutes later India confirmed
that both militaries had agreed to hold fighting
Bismillah if sustained the ceasefire would bring an
end to the biggest military conflict between the
two nuclear-armed states in decades There you
go, that's the update we have on the
overnight seems like things are doing pretty poorly
there I Guess what?
Yeah, I got a bunch of clips, but
I'm only the only to it work after
that or the the India-pakistan bogus ceasefire
clip Is where India and Pakistan appeared locked
into widening conflict President Trump announced that the
two countries had agreed to a ceasefire And
with that it appeared that the worst conflict
in more than 50 years between these nuclear
powers had come to a halt Has it
though late Saturday?
Both sides have been accusing each other of
violations of the agreement And PR Zia Hadid
has been covering this conflict with all of
its whiplash she covers South Asia and joins
us from Mumbai Hi Scott.
So there's a ceasefire for now between Pakistan
and India Well just hours after it was
announced by President Trump.
It seems a ceasefire is being violated in
Kashmir That's the Himalayan territory that's divided between
India and Pakistan and claimed by both Residents
tell NPR there that they've been hearing the
sounds of blasts over two major cities Jammu
and Srinagar NPR producer Bilal could chase in
Srinagar And he told us at first that
people thought these were fireworks to celebrate the
ceasefire But pretty quickly people began rushing home
to shelter in place He sent us videos
of the city entirely blacked out plumes of
smoke was streaming down and people could hear
sounds like these And Then the chief minister
of Indian helped Kashmir who's in Srinagar posted
on X what the hell just happened to
the ceasefire well, so nothing's changed and Onward
they're gonna have sorry back up and talk
about what the American role was in brokering
this agreement Yeah for days analysts were saying
that the Americans were not being serious Secretary
of State Marco Rubio is just making phone
calls He hasn't come but experts tell me
as a situation escalated America did intervene directly
as well as through Arab allies to convince
both parties But again, let's get back to
where we started this conversation.
It seems like this ceasefire is looking incredibly
rocky right now Yeah, yeah, and it's not
clear whether this is a violation or a
great unraveling We'll catch us up to speed
on how these two countries got to this
dangerous moment right now Yeah, these renewed tensions
They really fled in late April when gunmen
opened fire on tourists and Indian held Kashmir
and killed 26 people India said the group
that claimed responsibility was a proxy for Pakistan's
army something Pakistan denies overnight Wednesday India began
military strikes and the two countries have been
exchanging fire every night since on Saturday this
morning Some Pakistani airbases including one near the
capital Islamabad and that prompted Pakistan to announce
an intensified military Operation the fighting was ongoing
until about 3 p.m. India time And
then the ceasefire was announced a little bit
later And Scott just to give you a
sense of this more than 70 people have
been killed on both sides.
Most of them in Kashmir.
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much.
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it.
Well Maybe you should just upgrade to Windows
11 already.
It's clearly telling you to do that is
Windows 11.
That's the problem What is it telling you
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What is the problem?
There was something disconnecting constantly?
Well, just so you know when you're recording
clips it picks it up, well, I know
I would normally not I would go back
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Let it record.
I come back later and then do the
Listen to the show Otherwise, I'd have to
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No, no one deserves that punishment By the
way, have you heard anything about?
The president going to Saudi Arabia this week
he's going to Saudi Arabia and Qatar and
I guess he's kind of given a cold
shoulder to Netanyahu.
He's done some kind of deal with the
Houthis I haven't been able to pick up
anything on this I've I've kind of heard
the same thing, but I'd without any detail
I haven't seen any any real reports just
nothing nothing of any substance Expect reporting.
Oh, yeah, I guess you're right.
No instead we get riveting news like this
She threatened legal action against Google back in
February over its labeling of the Gulf of
Mexico as the Gulf of America on Google
Maps for US users President Claudia Shane Baum
has now announced that Mexico is following through
on that warning.
Google is already being sued There has already
been a first resolution And it is being
awaited Donald Trump's executive order in January to
rename the Gulf applies only to the US
section of the continental shelf What we are
saying is that Google should put the Gulf
of America where it is the Gulf of
America Which is the part that corresponds to
the territory of the United States and then
put the Gulf of Mexico to the territorial
part?
That corresponds to Mexico and Cuba Google has
previously argued that it made the change in
line with a practice of following name changes
when altered by official government sources Shane Baum's
announcement comes after the Republican-led House of
Representatives Voted earlier this week to formalize the
name change for federal agencies The measure is
unlikely to be given the green light by
the Senate Trump has contended that his order
was justified as the why is that?
Why is that?
Why does she say this?
Why is it unlikely to be given the
green light by the Senate is the Senate
against this?
They hate America The measure is unlikely to
be given the green light by the Senate
Trump has contended that his order was justified
as the u.s. Quote do most of
the work there and it's ours Argue the
move is in line with his expansionist aims
which include threatening to seize control of Greenland
The water has been referred to as the
Gulf of Mexico for more than four centuries
and is internationally recognized as such I love
that.
She's she's so mad at Trump.
She's gonna sue Google Gonna sue Google over
it.
I wonder what I wonder would be that'll
be an interesting lawsuit And and what court
is that?
Is that the International Criminal Court the International
Court of Mapping?
Enters a fourth round of nuclear negotiations with
the Trump administration saying it's right to enrich
uranium is non-negotiable Oh, it rules out
a zero enrichment demand made by some u
.s Officials now Steve is putting his talents
to work u.s. President Donald Trump special
envoy Steve wick off said just that on
Friday Speaking to Breitbart News, he said that
an enrichment program can never exist in the
state of Iran ever again That's our red
line No enrichment the Tehran Times headlines that
wick costs comment dims the prospects for a
nuclear agreement The article sites are sourcing Iran
has been lured in to talk So Washington
could subsequently provide a justification for escalating pressure
and potential aggression.
This is really crunch time Tell you for
a US president withdrew Washington from a 2015
deal between Tehran and world powers its nuclear
activity Threaten to bomb Iran if no new
deal is reached Iran insists its nuclear ambitions
are purely for civilian purposes And we want
it to be a great country Cinema and
take place ahead of Trump's visit to the
region next week APs reporting that his trip
to Saudi Arabia raises the prospect of nuclear
cooperation with the kingdom That's what I don't
understand.
That's the only details I had His trip
to Saudi Arabia signals a nuclear What do
they call it Nuclear APs reporting that his
trip to Saudi Arabia Raises the prospect of
nuclear cooperation with the kingdom wait with with
Saudi Arabia And nuclear I guess they're gonna
give Saudi Arabia's a bomb in case of
Ron gets it.
Oh not nuclear power, but nuclear nuke Oh,
well the president.
I don't know.
I mean, I'm just guessing well he did
say And I'm sure it wasn't the so
-called UK trade deal which as far as
I'm concerned this is there even a trade
deal Have we seen anything?
It's a top secret, but he said I
was a big thing coming.
This is the biggest news ever This is
the biggest it's not the UK thing was
the biggest news.
I don't think that's what it was was
that big news We're all falling over each
other.
Oh wow that what a big deal There's
got to be something bigger than that I
Think there's something big big big.
Well, then it would be tomorrow Yes Because
it said he was gonna be Friday now
the UK deal was on Thursday, but the
big deal supposed to be Friday or Monday
Okay, and everyone assumed that the big deal
was The UK deal on Thursday that he
jumped the gun on Friday and Monday because
he had other things to do Mmm, I'm
skeptical.
That's what I'm just you know, just I'm
surmising from the reportage.
I'm skeptical Well, we'll have to see Anything
else you want to play before we go
into the most important part of the show
Which is your tip of the day and
and other interesting tidbits Well, we got the
the Yeah, just play this is get out
of the way the Bangladesh mess Boy, I
didn't even follow that the interim Bangladesh has
temporarily banned the country's oldest political party the
Awami League of the exiled former Prime Minister
Sheikh Hasina The party is in court over
its alleged role in the deaths of almost
a thousand people in an anti-government uprising
last year Sanjay Dasgupta reports the interim government's
advisor on law and justice Asif Nazrul told
reporters that all activities of the Awami League
including its online presence were being declared illegal
The suspension will hold till its trial is
completed The country's oldest political party has been
charged over its alleged role in countering mass
rallies last year Against its leader and the
former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina the nationwide protests
led to her ouster But not before a
large number of demonstrators were killed in a
crackdown She ordered the Awami League has rejected
the government's move calling it illegitimate Well, I
don't know man.
I got distracted by that windows bong.
I can't I don't know what the clip
was about You're messing me up.
You're messing up with that stuff.
I couldn't understand a word the guy said
All right I'll take us out with the
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for the Pentagon has ordered all military leaders
and commands to pull and review library books
addressing diversity Anti-racism or gender issues the
deadline is May 21st according to a memo
issued today It's the most detailed directive so
far on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's campaign to
rid the military of Diversity and equity programs
and materials they have a library at the
Defense Department.
That's the thing that I didn't know I'm
sure it's dynamite the The Idea that there's
anti-racism books.
No, they're talking about Critical race theory books,
but they have to change that the way
they describe it.
So they make it sound like ah, he's
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