Hi, I'm your lackey from Russia.
Adam Currie, John C.
Devorah.
It's Sunday, May 18, 2025.
This is your award-winning Gibbon Nation Media
Assassination Episode 1765.
This is no agenda.
Counting 8,647 days since 9-11.
Broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas
Hill Country here in FEMA Region No.
6.
In the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Currie.
And from Northern Silicon Valley where we're wondering
why anyone would name their kid Keir.
I'm John C.
Devorah.
It's Craig Vaughn and Buzzkill.
In the morning.
Wow, nice modulation.
As in Keir Starmer.
That is a good question.
It's not a great question, but it's a
good question.
Why would you name your kid Keir?
My kid's name is Keir.
Well, I looked it up.
Keir means little dark one.
No.
Yeah.
Wow.
Well, you know who would name their kid
Keir.
I think it also means thistle or brush
or something like that.
No, I'm sticking with definition number one because
the only...
Yeah, that is definition number one.
Little dark one.
The only person...
It's Gaelic, by the way.
The only person who would name their kid
Keir, little dark one, would be...
Satan?
Hello, Dana Carvey.
Can't help myself.
So I'm looking at the quad box.
Looking at the quad box.
And I didn't have...
What?
Which brings me to the story I'd like
to introduce.
Because of the quad box.
Okay, can I talk about what's on the
quad box?
Then you can introduce the story of the
quad box?
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I know what's on
the quad box, but go ahead.
What's on the quad box?
Well, the same five stories that's on all
the quads.
No, there's only four.
There's not five in the quad.
That would be a quint box.
It's a quad box.
The story is the guy who blew up
the fertility clinic in Palm Springs.
By the way, I've not heard from the
anonymous gay accountant who I did text this
morning because he lives there.
Well, I'm glad you used the story exactly
the story I wanted to talk about because
I have some input.
Can I play the presumptive news reports about
it first?
Well, wait.
Because you have the latest one.
No, I don't.
I don't have the latest.
I have yesterday's, but it's okay.
We'll do yours.
Oh, I have yesterday's too.
No, you really want to talk, so please.
I do want to talk.
You do.
You talk.
This is the boring one.
Yours will be better than this.
Maybe.
SoCal IVF bombing.
In California, the FBI says an explosion this
morning near a reproductive clinic in Palm Springs
was deliberate.
This was an intentional act of terrorism.
As our investigation will unfold, we will determine
if it's international terrorism or domestic terrorism.
That's Akeel Davis, the assistant director of the
FBI's Los Angeles field office.
He says one person died and they're working
to identify them.
Several others were injured.
Davis also says the FBI has a person
of interest, but that they aren't actively searching
for a suspect.
He says it's one of the largest bombings
in Southern California.
The explosion damaged several buildings and left blocks
littered with debris.
Palm Springs Police Chief Andy Mills says they're
dealing with a massive crime scene.
A doctor at the clinic, Maher Abdallah, says
the building is damaged, but the IVF lab
eggs and embryos are okay.
The FBI and ATF are joining local police
in investigating this bombing.
There's no word on a motive.
Well, I have the clip with a motive.
I thought that was the whole beauty of
this whole setup that I was doing that
you interrupted.
No, that's why I started with the lousy
clip.
I said it was not going to be
as good as yours if you hadn't noticed.
No, I noticed your clip was lousy.
Totally.
Okay, can I play mine or do you
have something you'd like to introduce?
No, my stuff is all to be read.
The unthinkable happened in the Desert Resort.
No, wait, just stop a second.
No, that was the nat pop.
So this clip is already a fake clip
because nobody had a recording of the bomb.
Totally, they made a nat pop right up
front.
It's awesome.
These people are so bad.
The unthinkable happened in the Desert Resort known
as Palm Springs.
A massive bomb blast set off in or
near a car.
It's not really called Palm Springs, it's just
known as?
Where did this clip come from?
I think this is...
Sounds like NBC.
Yeah, I think it's local.
Oh, local.
I think it's KTLA actually.
So it's a Los Angeles clip.
Massive bomb blast set off in or near
a car, killed one person and injured several
others in what the FBI calls an act
of terrorism.
They say the target was a fertility clinic
and in vitro fertilization lab, which involves fertilizing
eggs with sperm outside the body.
Federal agents are now trying to determine who
did this and why.
If you look at terrorist movements, terrorist groups,
violent extremist groups in the past, even violent
extremist individuals in the past, often they will
have a list of targets.
Cal Kemper is a retired Marine Corps intelligence
officer who has worked with and trained law
enforcement personnel in the Palm Springs area.
There's a variety of things that don't necessarily
make the news, but there's a variety of
threats and other things that they work on
out there.
Oh yeah, I'm in the know.
They'll be looking at a broad array.
Burning questions.
Was the person killed in the blast also
the one who triggered it?
Was this domestic or international terrorism?
Was the perpetrator attempting to record or live
stream the carnage?
We know this.
The clinic's mission is to help build families,
and those families include members of the LGBTQ
community, a group that has historically faced a
level of backlash.
There are violent extremists out there who have
very strong views about IVF, which is something
that they do at that clinic, and also
about surrogacy, which is something they do at
that clinic.
And that particular reproductive clinic is in the
Palm Springs area.
Palm Springs is kind of known as a
center for LGBTQ residents.
I think a little less than half the
population, by some estimates, is LGBTQ.
So all the news reports, oh no, this
has got to be, must be a crazy
Republican, it's got to be some nut job
terrorist because he hates IVF.
Christian nationalist, turns out some 26-year-old
soy looking boy who says he's anti-life.
He wants less people on the planet.
Sounds like the opposite to me.
So they immediately jumped to conclusions on this
one.
It's even worse than that if you go
to the New York Times, and some of
the other papers that blame the Southern Baptists.
This is great.
I have a Jonathan Karl ABC.
Let's see what Jonathan Karl says.
We begin with what authorities are calling an
intentional act of terrorism.
ABC's chief.
I just love that they knew that right
off the bat.
That was an intentional act of terrorism.
They didn't have anything yet on this person
as far as I know, but they came
out right away, terrorism.
Investigative correspondent Aaron Koturski has the very latest
on an explosion Saturday outside a fertility clinic
in Palm Springs, California.
Good morning, Aaron.
What do we know?
What are you learning?
John, good morning to you.
This blast was so powerful that at first
people in Palm Springs thought this might have
been an earthquake, but then they quickly saw
the flames and smoke and damage from what
appears to have been a car bomb.
It exploded right outside a fertility clinic.
American reproductive centers, which said nobody from its
staff was hurt, and the eggs, embryos, and
other reproductive materials in its lab are secure
and undamaged.
One person is dead, law enforcement sources told
ABC News.
It's believed to be the suspect.
Investigators were seen searching a location connected to
the attack.
IVF has become entangled in the political debate
over reproductive rights, and the FBI said the
clinic was targeted in an intentional act of
terrorism.
Investigators also found, John, recording equipment, a camera
and tripod, suggesting that perhaps the attack was
meant to be either recorded or live-streamed
to make some kind of a political statement.
And Aaron, what is the Justice Department saying
about this?
Yeah, what does Pam say?
We heard from Attorney General Pam Bondi.
She told us in a statement we are
working to learn more, but she said, let
me be clear, the Trump administration understands that
women and mothers are the heartbeat of America.
Violence against a fertility clinic is unforgivable.
President Trump has pledged to expand access to
IVF, but he has faced backlash from some
in the Christian conservative movement who are opposed
to the loss of embryos during the process.
I'm telling you, up until this morning.
White Christian nationalist extremist terrorists.
Oh, I'm sorry.
It's a soy boy who's nuts.
Let me read from the- Yeah, New
York Times.
No, let me read from this, one of
our producers who put together a report.
Oh, excellent.
The suspect behind the bombing in Palm Springs
today has been identified as Guy Edward Bartkus.
Was that mentioned in any of these news
reports?
No, this just came out this morning, so
I don't think you had- you got
this this morning, right?
This report.
No, I got this yesterday.
Really?
They're only just now reporting it.
Interesting.
He's from 29 Palms.
He's a self-described pro-mortalist.
Sorry, that's a new term, pro-mortalist.
Who was angry because he felt- this,
by the way, is all on Instagram.
Of course.
And it could be inaccurate, but at least
it's interesting, and it gives us some possibilities,
because there's some interesting- there's funny stuff
in here, if you want to call it
funny.
Yeah.
He was angry because he didn't give consent
to anyone to bring him into the world.
Oh, man.
In a 30-minute audio recording he posted
online- I don't have that.
No.
He made the following statements, quote, I figured
I would just make a recording explaining why
I've decided to bomb the IVF building or
clinic.
He said at the beginning of the recording,
quote, basically it just comes down to I'm
angry that I exist.
Wow.
And that, you know, nobody got my consent
to bring me here.
Now, by the way, this is- this
is- the word's not going to be
used, but this is a kind of-
you know, we say, oh, this is terrible.
This is nihilism.
I have the guy.
Which was very popular in the early 1800s.
I have the video whenever you're ready.
I can play a little bit of that,
of the guy.
Okay, well, let me just finish.
Yeah, sure.
I'll just finish the recording.
Yeah, sure.
One, yeah, that's good.
I'm very much against IVF.
It's extremely wrong.
There are people who are having kids after
they've sat there and thought about it.
How much more stupid can it get?
I don't know.
That makes no sense.
This is also- and then our producer,
who's- he knows why I'm going to
not name him.
Because then you'll hound him.
He's one of our regulars.
This also came from local news describing a
portion from his FAQ on his website.
In the facts section of his website, he
further explains that his best friend, Sophie, shared
similar views and recently died after convincing her
boyfriend to shoot her in the head as
she slept.
Wow.
Oh, man.
We had agreed that if one of us
died, the other would probably soon follow, Bartkus
wrote.
Now, I looked that up.
In fact, I'll read this part.
His description seemed to match the death of
27-year-old Sophie Tinney.
I looked her up in Fox Island, Washington
on April 22nd.
Police arrested her boyfriend, 29-year-old Lars
Eugene Nelson, and believe Tinney convinced Nielsen-
No, Nelson.
Convinced Nelson to shoot her in the head
as she slept.
Nelson was charged with second-degree murder.
You can look this case up.
That's exactly what happened.
This dumb shit.
And Lars, by the way, looks like a
big, dumb Viking who's like a young guy
with a lot of hair and his dish
doesn't look that bright, whose girlfriend obviously said,
Honey, can you shoot me in the head
while I'm sleeping?
Sounds reasonable.
And he did.
So, she's sleeping there, his girlfriend, this is
his girlfriend, and he just pulls the trigger
and they believed all these stories and I
guess somebody knew who this girl was who
was obviously a lunatic and so that takes
care of her and this guy's gonna go
to jail and then we got this other
guy who may or may not have blowed
himself up.
This is ridiculous.
Yeah.
I wonder if any SSRIs or any kind
of antidepressants were involved in this case.
You think?
Yeah.
They're all Gen X.
She was 28 or 27.
She's 27.
These are all right at the cusp of,
at the very beginning of I'm sorry, Z,
Gen Z.
Z, yes.
Gen Z.
Z ends at 28 or 29 right now.
It's pathetic.
And I think they're all drugged up.
Because this is idiotic.
Actually, I thought I had the video but
it's already no longer available.
We waited 30 seconds and it's gone now.
Well, you're blaming me?
No, no.
I'm blaming the platforms.
Oh, we can't have that out there.
I don't know why they don't want to
let this information out.
I'm with you.
That makes no sense.
But it makes sense if you think of
it as the following.
You're in the meeting.
You say, look, is this going to encourage
more kids to be this way?
Why don't we just suppress it and leave
it out of the news?
Yeah.
Well, this is on one hand, of course.
We don't need another nihilist movement by a
bunch of stone-drugged up Gen Z lunatics.
Well, that's exactly the issue.
I mean, okay, so luckily no one else
was hurt.
But it speaks of a much larger problem.
We have a nihilistic movement.
If people are doing this and they're posting
stuff like that and, hey man, kill me
in my sleep, this is a problem?
You know, even the bombing is one thing,
but this girl talking her boyfriend into shooting
her in the head while she's sleeping is
insane.
Well, I think it's drug-induced, but then
legal, I'm just guessing, legal clinical prescribed drugs.
I can't think of anything else.
That's what spawns this.
That's the real tragedy here.
It's like, okay, this is what happens.
It's bad.
Big pharma.
Luckily, are we done with this topic?
I'm done with it.
Yeah, I'm done with it too.
Although this won't be the end.
Well, actually it will be the end of
it because it wasn't a Christian, a white
Christian nationalist nut job terrorist.
Oh well.
Yeah, they'd have to do some real creativity
here.
It's like, oh, there could be an entire
epidemic of nihilistic children who are on SSRIs.
No, that's not worth reporting.
If it wasn't.
Southern Baptist Church, yeah.
Is that not worth, what?
Let's back up.
The pharma companies own the media.
It's never going to get reported.
Of course not.
You won't hear that anyplace else.
No.
And thank you, Matthew.
Unfortunately, once a year, we have to do
it.
There's just no getting around it.
It's a staple of the No Agenda show.
We don't have to discuss it very much,
but we do have a winner of the
2025 Eurovision Song Contest.
Emotional scenes, as Austrius JJ was declared the
winner of Eurovision 2025.
With his operatic pop song, Wasted Love, JJ
topped the votes from music experts and viewers
from across the continent and beyond.
Speaking after the announcement, the 24-year-old
from Vienna said he was still processing the
news.
This is absolutely insane.
My dreams came true.
This is out of this world, so thank
you so, so much, guys.
Thank you, guys.
You can tell he's an influencer.
I'm sorry, I missed.
Who won?
Austria.
JJ from Austria.
Thank you.
It marks Austria's third win in the contest
after Conchita's victory in 2014 and Udo Joergi's
win in 1966.
In second place was Israel's Yuval Rafael, a
survivor of the October the 7th Hamas attacks,
with her performance of New Day Will Rise.
Pro-Palestinian groups had called for the European
Broadcasting Union to bar Israel from the competition
over the war in Gaza.
A view not shared by some Israelis watching
the contest.
Two demonstrators tried to get on the stage
during Rafael's performance, but were prevented from doing
so by security officials.
Third on the leaderboard was Estonia's Tommy Cash,
with Sweden and Italy clinching fourth and fifth
place, respectively.
So none of the suspected frontrunners actually made
it into the top three, and I'm not
sure what the political angle of Austria is,
because it usually is politically motivated.
Is there anything that could...
Anything that we can expect from Austria?
It's a mystery.
I've got to find this note one of
your compatriots from Holland sent me, complaining about
this segment.
And you, in particular.
Okay, do you want me to take a
little break while you search for this note?
No, I don't want you to take any
break.
People are complaining about this segment.
I'm hoping to find it, but I've got
all these impediments.
Don't make me play the hook of the
song.
Oh, too late!
I barely stayed up I know it's terrible.
Wait, this is why he won.
That's it.
Oh, because he can sing in falsetto?
Yes, this is exactly right.
People are so used to trash muck AI
and or what is it?
Auto-tune, that when they hear someone who
can actually sing Oh, oh, oh!
The guy's gonna win!
He can actually sing!
He's got a falsetto!
Whoa!
Here's the note.
Oh, here we go.
From Lowe's.
Adam claimed Adam claimed without evidence.
This is a nasty note, but I think
it was funny.
Did you reply to this person and say,
why don't you email Adam?
I always do that.
Yeah, well, okay.
The person did not email me.
Adam, they don't want to email you because
you're gonna get mad.
My reputation precedes me, I see.
Yes, it does.
Adam claimed by the way, you know what
I think of that word.
Yeah.
All streets will be empty on the evening
of the Eurovision Song Festival cause everybody will
be watching.
Obviously, he moved out of the country decades
ago.
From all the people I know, only my
72-year-old mother watches that lame show.
It's only watched by a bunch of women
of a certain age, some gays, and Adam.
Some gays and Adam.
There's a show title.
Some Gays and Adam.
Yes, okay.
It's not only unwatchable, the music makes your
eardrums shrivel up and if that isn't enough,
the satanic symbols are being noticed by more
people every year.
I will give you credit for that.
You've been noticing the satanic symbols for at
least over a decade.
That's why I watch.
Although I couldn't watch yesterday.
I recorded it.
By the way, this year should be the
final nail on the coffin because they're sending
a Congolese refugee with a French song.
There is nothing left of what was once
the intention of the festival.
Even my mom complains about it.
Everybody who I know who watched, which is
pretty much everybody and I know this because
the Europeans use WhatsApp.
You're not supposed to say WhatsApp.
You say, WhatsApp.
I'm in WhatsApp text groups and they're giving
me blow-by-blow like, oh, this sucks.
This is horrible.
They really dislike this year's show but they
watched and these are not 70-year-old
ladies.
They're gay.
That's right.
My gay WhatsApp groups.
That's exactly it.
You're gay.
We always suspected you had a gay WhatsApp
group to get some information.
One, just one.
Hey, the thing I'm worried about is the
anonymous gay accountant.
He didn't text me back.
I'm worried that...
He's probably doing taxes.
It's still part of the team.
Well, maybe he's getting like Sir Anonymous from
Alien.
Over time, we alienate everybody.
We try.
Now we're anti-Muslim.
That's so unfair.
I thought so.
I don't think he meant us, by the
way.
I think he just meant the trolls.
The trolls hate the Jews.
The trolls hate everybody.
That's kind of the beauty of the trolls.
They hate everybody.
It's not a big deal.
That's true.
I agree.
Do you want to go into something rather
interesting and high-heavy?
I thought the pro-mortalist or whatever the
hell he was was pretty interesting.
Pro-mortalist.
It's sad.
I'm really sad.
There you go again.
I got another note about you being this
way.
Well, no.
I defended you because producers are complaining a
lot recently.
Have you noticed this?
Yes, I have.
We're doing it wrong.
This is the main thing I'm learning.
Whatever we're doing, it's wrong.
I always like to look them up on
the database.
We have a database.
Did the toxic empathy guy donate?
No, of course not.
Of course not.
That's okay.
Contributing to the show with complaints is a
kind of value.
It's an odd form of value, but it's
value.
It's valuable in some way.
No, actually, I have a small series of
clips by Andrew Rassoulis about the Istanbul non
-meeting.
You like Rassoulis.
Do I?
Yeah, that's the former Canadian defense guy.
He is good.
He's a good analyst.
This reminds me, I have some analyst clips
too.
Mine are lousy though.
Let's do mine since yours are lousy.
What happened is nothing happened.
Putin didn't go, which of course meant Zelensky
didn't go.
Putin did send some lackey to Istanbul.
They were supposed to have a face-to
-face.
I'm your lackey from Russia.
I do want to ask you about what
constitutes a good deal for Russians and for
Ukrainians, but first I want to talk to
you about what happened, what transpired this past
week, which was the meeting in Istanbul that
just didn't happen when it came to both
major leaders.
Putin, who first proposed the talks, did not
attend them and neither did Zelensky.
What does it signal when even the leaders
at the center of the conflict refused to
meet?
Putin's emissary that he sent in his stead
was a minister of culture and heritage, not
typically a high-ranking official that you would
send to such a meeting.
What does this tell us?
It means the Russians are negotiating from a
position of strength.
They're showing strength by actually playing around with
who they send, lowering expectations, raising, lowering.
That's playing your opponent and that's what they're
doing.
They played Zelensky in a way.
Zelensky came to Istanbul.
Putin didn't.
He sent an ex-minister of culture there
who actually harangued the Ukrainians and saying we
fought the Swedes for 21 years.
How would you like that?
That's what the Russians are doing.
They're playing hardball, as they always do in
negotiations.
We're going to see where this goes.
The Russians are not desperate for a peace.
They will agree to a peace again, I
repeat, as long as they get most of
what they want, if not absolutely everything.
That, of course, means that we're sort of
a neutral type Ukraine.
They're going to keep the 20% of
the territory of East Ukraine.
That's pretty much a given.
Everybody understands that.
The delicate balance is what happens to that
80% and therein lies the puzzle that's
being hammered out probably tomorrow.
Yes, tomorrow is the big phone call.
But let's move to the new news, which
is not coming up.
He said that he will talk to Vladimir
Putin at 10 a.m. on Monday followed
by a conversation with Vladimir Zelensky.
Has anyone been successful in talking Vladimir Putin
specifically into anything?
I mean, what do you make of that,
of this proposal?
First of all, I think it's really good
news.
Two, I think Trump understands how to deal
with Putin in the sense that he understands
that Putin, you just can't put pressure on
him.
You can't put him in a corner.
It's well known that Putin does not react
well when he's cornered.
However, Putin does understand pressure and incentive.
So the art of real negotiations, which Trump
also understands.
And so I think we've come to the
point now in the negotiations that basically Putin
is looking for the deal now.
He's prepared to make a deal.
He just wants a good deal.
And basically that's not what the Ukrainians want.
So Trump is trying to figure where that
line is and those conversations tomorrow back to
back.
So Putin at 10, Zelensky after that, other
NATO people after that.
So he's going to try and work something
out.
Putin at 10, Zelensky at 11, Margarita at
noon.
This is going to be a series of
calls.
So...
By the way, I have just a tease.
This is just the opposite of the analysis
clips I have from NPR where they just...
Yes, of course.
That's why this guy, this Canadian guy is
good.
He's pretty accurate.
Yes, and so when the question comes up,
what does Russia actually want?
He has answers.
So let's talk a little bit about the
specifics here.
I mean, we are talking about, we know
that a long time stipulation from Vladimir Putin
was that Ukraine not be allowed to join
NATO because he will feel like he's surrounded
by enemies.
He will be.
Secondly, are we talking about the disputed territories?
When it comes to the most recent conflict,
Donbass, Donetsk, but are we talking about Crimea
as well?
Well, Crimea is a given.
I mean, from a Russian side, they're not
even talking about that one.
I mean, they incorporated that in 2014-15
and that, from a historical point of view,
the Russians firmly regard that as being Russia.
So the Ukrainians, of course, will not recognize
that and there will be a saw off
on that.
You're a de facto, but the more delicate
one is on the four other oblasts and
the Russians don't control all of them.
They control bits and pieces, well, substantial parts,
but not all and the Russians want all
of them.
They want it right up to the administrative
line, which means Ukrainians are going to have
to pull back and that's what the Russians
told the Ukrainians in Istanbul on Friday.
They want them to pull back right to
the administrative lines, giving up some cities along
the way.
That, of course, Ukrainians said is a non
-starter and that's where we are.
It's so interesting to watch the trolls, the
notorious anti-Israel Jew haters.
That's just what I call them.
They may not hate Jews but they're anti
-Zionists.
Well, because, you know, there's a genocide in
Gaza.
When it comes to this, like, eh, just
let Putin roll over and wipe out all
of Ukraine in six months, it'll be over.
Who cares?
So they're pro-Russian, the trove people.
I don't know.
I think they're and I think they're nihilists
is what I think.
I think they're nihilists.
What was the term?
Anti...
What was that guy?
Pro-mortalist.
Pro-mortalist, yes.
Trump has said, by the way, nothing's going
to happen on the talks until Putin and
I get together, which seems to imply an
actual meeting, face-to-face meeting, rather than
a phone chat that's going to happen on
Monday.
So what's that?
What do you think is the likelihood of
that meeting happening anytime soon?
That'll depend on Monday.
I mean, in Istanbul, the Ukrainians asked the
Russians, they want Zelensky to meet Putin, but
also in the background is that Trump would
meet with Putin as yeah, Trump would meet
with Putin as well.
So that's all very much part of an
endgame scenario.
It's very realistic.
If this war comes to an end, that's
what will have to happen.
So now we'll have to see.
The phone calls on Monday are kind of
a prep to see, is there room to
maneuver here?
This is the big boys now talking.
Big boys!
So they're going to see, is there room
to maneuver?
Do they have a deal?
And if not, then I'm afraid we're in
for a long war.
But we're not there yet necessarily.
There's still hope here.
I love this guy's take.
I mean, he's I think he's so right
on with this.
This is the big boys.
Trump and Putin, they're going to talk it
out.
And of course, President Trump has some carrots
and he has some sticks.
You mentioned earlier that you suspect Trump will
use...
Where did you get this clip?
CBC.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
You mentioned earlier that you suspect Trump will
use pressure and...
Believe me, American news media does not call
Andrew Asulis for any analysis of the situation.
No, sir.
No, I can prove that in the next
few clips.
Yeah, I'm looking forward to it.
Which I think is like a carrot and
a stick in a more regular person's vernacular.
What are you laughing, girl?
What are we talking about?
I mean, certainly sanctions presumably, economic pressures, anything
else?
Yes.
So what I think...
It's already been stated that the conversation tomorrow,
Monday, between Trump and Putin will involve not
just the Ukraine issues, but issues of trade.
And issues of trade implies sanctions relief of
some sort.
So that's the way it's been defined.
So the Russians are certainly looking for sanctions
relief, and increasing some kind of bilateral trade
with the United States.
Ever since the Americans started to talk to
the Russians under Trump, underlying all these discussions
has been the issue of economic trade between
the United States and Russia, which implies sanctions
relief, which from a Russian point of view,
would be a big incentive.
Yeah.
I like this guy.
I like the idea of trading with Russia.
They've got different kinds of products that would
be fun to have.
Minerals, man!
What other products would be fun to have?
Babushkas?
Nesting dolls.
Nesting dolls, yes.
That'd be cool.
Now, they have a lot of agricultural products.
They have butters and things that are unique.
Butters.
They got butters.
Butters.
Hmm.
They have crazy drinks.
What do you mean?
Oh, well, they have kvass, which is my
favorite.
Kvass.
Well, there's a bunch of them.
I mean, there's a Russian store in the
city, and I go there every so often.
Have you ever had kvass?
Yeah, I have.
It's like a malt product.
Yeah, it's a malt product.
It's undrinkable, to be honest about it.
No, I really like it.
Iceland has a similar product, which is yuck.
No, I like the kvass.
Yeah, I can see how you like it.
It's somewhat semi-refreshing.
Yes.
Like Russia itself.
Semi-refreshing.
Yeah, Russia.
I've been to Moscow.
Semi-refreshing.
It was alright.
So you don't have NPR.
You have PBS clips on Ukraine.
Not NPR.
I'm sorry.
These are PBS.
Yeah.
Okay.
But wait.
What difference does it make?
Well, as we all know...
Oops, that's not it.
Where'd it go?
Where's my elitist voice?
Elitist Voices of America.
This is NPR.
Or PBS.
For perspective on the state of play of
the negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, we turn
now to Andrew Weiss.
He's a former State Department official who served
in the George H.W. Bush and Clinton
administrations.
He's now the Vice President for Studies at
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Andrew, always great to see you.
Great to see you.
So those peace talks today wrapping just shy
of two hours.
A historic prisoner swap, but no ceasefire, no
major breakthroughs.
What do you see here?
Is this progress?
This process is about an audience of one.
Both sides are trying to appeal to President
Trump and avoid being blamed for the process
not going anywhere.
So the Ukrainians have gone great far, taken
a lot of steps to agree to an
unconditional 30-day ceasefire, to agree to meet
with the Russians, and to sort of play
nicely with this administration.
The Russians, who have given no ground, and
in fact, as you heard from Nick Schifrin
just a moment ago, are actually expanding their
demands, also want to look like they're nice
people and that they're serious about peace.
They're not, and as we heard just a
moment ago, they think time's on their side.
Yeah, you're right.
It's worthless.
An audience of one.
This guy, Andrew Weiss, try finding anything about
him.
He works for both Bush and Clinton, that
tells you something right there.
Works for a Republican and Democrat.
He has no profile.
He's been done a lot of heavy-hitting
stuff.
He's got no profile at all on Wikipedia.
Is it Weiss or Weissman?
Weiss.
Andrew S.
Weiss.
Yes, I see him here.
And then you can try to find, he
does have a profile on LinkedIn, which tells
you nothing.
And so this guy's a spook of some
sort.
Vice president for studies and James family chair
of the Carnegie Endowment.
Graphic novel out now.
Accidental czar.
The life and lies of Vladimir Putin.
Yeah, so he's not a, obviously why would
you put him on?
He's obviously not a Putin fan when he
wrote the life and lies of Vladimir Putin
as his book.
But let's put him on because he's going
to give us some objective reality.
But that's what PBS wants.
PBS has turned into a huge anti-Trump
operation.
This is new?
It's worse.
Ever since Gwen Ifill passed away.
No, but even more recently ever since they
started pulling funding, they've just turned it.
Screw this guy.
They're taking our 1% funding away.
It may turn out somehow that that was
a lot more than 1%.
It seems to me.
It could be.
It's sure whining a lot.
Maybe USAID or something.
You don't whine this much about 1%.
Now, no agenda show.
We're only 1% donates.
You know.
We whine.
We do.
We whine a lot.
People did meet up yesterday like, you're really
scaring me.
You're really scaring me.
Yeah.
I know the reaction.
You're really scaring me.
Why?
Well, we'll talk about this later.
We'll talk about it later.
Let's go to clip 2.
By the way, it just gets worse.
In another post, President Trump said he hopes
a ceasefire in Ukraine will be the result
on Monday when he has separate phone calls.
Is this part 2 of the series of
anals?
Oh, I'm sorry.
Okay.
It was a little mislabeled.
The first one was Ukraine anal PBS.
Then there's Ukraine anal 2A.
But what is Ukraine Russia calls Trump PBS?
I'm a little confused.
I'm sorry.
I guess I should call it.
Ukraine anal Russia bad.
Oh, of course.
I could have known.
So we know Vladimir Putin was not at
these meetings.
You heard President Zelensky say that that is
a sign that Putin is not serious about
wanting a ceasefire.
You agree with that assessment?
Yes.
Exactly the opposite of Rassoulis.
He's like, no, that's how big boys play.
I send a little dude in the background.
I'm doing some negotiation.
Art of the deal, baby.
Artsky of the deal, Donald.
Just yes.
Yes.
Putin bad.
He lies.
Lies of Putin.
I wrote a book about it.
By the way, this guy's degree is from
Columbia.
He's in Russia studies.
He went to Russia.
One of his jobs was to interview and
do a dossier, I guess, on every single
Russian oligarch.
Very strange character.
But he's just obviously a stooge.
And why does PBS have him on?
So let's go with 2A.
The Russians at this point have very maximalist
goals.
Those goals amount essentially to the wiping Ukraine
off the map.
That's what they want.
They want Ukraine to disappear and to become
forcibly reintegrated into Russia's orbit.
At any point, does he say full-scale
invasion and Kiev a number of times?
Would that be in this?
I don't know if he does or not,
but this is bull crap.
The Ukrainians are not in any position where
they're desperate for a deal.
And I think this White House in part
is hampered in its peacemaking efforts because they
have a misunderstanding of where things are on
the ground.
They believe Ukraine's in a dire situation, desperate
for a deal.
And they think that the Russians, if the
United States were to cut off military assistance
again to Ukraine, could roll over Ukraine in
short order.
Both those, unfortunately, are not the case.
Ukraine is in a bad situation, but the
defense is inherently favored in this war.
They've been able to expand their own defense
production capabilities.
So a lot of what they need, drones,
artillery, things like that, they can now produce
at home.
They're seriously in need of continued US military
and intelligence support.
They also have- important requirements, including for
air defense, that they can't replace on their
own.
You heard this audience of one, as you
referred to him, President Trump, yesterday as he's
traveling in the Middle East, say that nothing
is going to happen until he and Putin
speak directly.
Do you agree with that?
And what do you think would come of
that kind of meeting?
The Ukrainians and the Europeans are really worried
that any bilateral agreement between the United States
and Russia could be rammed down Ukraine's throat
and rammed down Europe's throat.
So there's a desire to make sure that
the United States president doesn't set off in
a spontaneous way, as we've seen him do
in other foreign policy matters, where he sort
of runs around, makes spontaneous decisions, does things
on the fly.
This is a very dangerous, delicate moment for
the Ukrainians.
They don't want to see a peace deal
that's agreed behind their backs.
At the same time, Donald Trump, I think,
has been bending over backwards to avoid putting
blame on Vladimir Putin.
So asking for a meeting is now just
the next sort of way of kicking the
can and avoiding the moment of decision that
Trump had promised us, where he said, if
I can't get this settled within my first
100 days, I'm going to walk away.
That's the moment we're waiting for Trump to
reveal what walking away means.
Season of reveal.
Only because I'm new to this that I
bring it up, but the audience of one,
I don't know if there's a subtle subtext
to this, but in the white Christian nationalist
extremist terrorist world, the audience of one is
used frequently, and it doesn't mean Donald Trump.
Just something of note for me.
I don't know if they're using that as
subtext.
I don't know what the subtext of any
of this guy's commentary is.
Well, she says it, too.
She said, audience of one.
The audience of one.
This guy's a bad guy.
Yeah.
But he got a lot of airtime.
Bridget Brink published just today.
Well, yeah, he got a lot of airtime
on PBS, which is a bad operation.
It's worse than ever.
Bridget Brink published just today in this op
-ed in the Detroit Free Press.
She basically said she resigned last month because
of Trump's foreign policy after serving three years
in Ukraine.
She wrote this.
I cannot stand by while a country is
invaded, a democracy bombarded, and children killed with
impunity.
I believe the only way to secure U
.S. interest is to stand up for democracies
and to stand against autocrats.
Peace at any price is not peace at
all.
It is appeasement.
Is President Trump here pursuing a policy of
appeasement?
I think he is, and I think the
risk is that the policy that we had
in place when Donald Trump became president focused
on unity with the Europeans, common cause with
the Ukrainians, and showing the Russians that they
can't get what they want and that we
would build leverage over time to get them
to see that this was a hopeless goal,
that they were never going to get Ukraine
back.
Well, that's exactly the old globalist thinking.
That's exactly what's been going on and has
not been working for decades.
Show the Russians they can't get what they
want instead of, well, why don't we figure
out a way to live together, which I'm
all for.
Everybody actually is.
There's a lot of except for these guys,
these stooges.
Now, do what you mind, is that the
end of the clip?
Yes, that was the end.
So, Pence was on Meet the Depressed this
morning.
Pence?
Pence.
Okay.
He lives.
So old Black Hands was chatting with him
and she says...
Man Hands, I think is what you meant
to say.
Man Hands.
And she says, she's talking to him and
he comes up with, you know, he felt
bad that he doesn't like it when a
president puts down, and of course this is
kind of a callback to Obama giving his
speeches overseas, where the president puts down the
USA.
And what he's specifically referring to was Trump's
criticism of our previous policies of previous presidents
of nation building, which was in his big
speech in Riyadh.
And he says, this is no good because
we don't do it.
We can't do it.
We do it.
We suck at nation building and every time
we go in there, we just ruin places
and this has got to stop and we
got to let people do their own thing.
Well, it's also because we don't actually go
in for nation building.
That's a farce.
We don't.
It's for rubbalizing.
It's rubbalizing.
We don't go in for the, here's some
democracy.
Uh-huh.
And I found that to be, that is
going to be, this was a signal to
me, and I think this guy's speech was
too.
This is a signal of what's next.
Trump is anti-American because he's...
Oh, yes.
I think you're spot on.
You nailed it.
And I can back you up.
I'm sure you heard about Bruce Springsteen in
Manchester.
Yeah, duh.
So, you might have seen him.
I heard the whole thing, which is long.
Yeah, but the...
He was being booed, by the way, by
the crowd who wanted to use it.
They didn't want to hear this.
Well, that's debatable.
Well, it's debatable, but if you're going to
a rock concert, you don't want to hear
some guy lecturing you about the policies of
their country.
Well, no, you don't.
Particularly because if you go to Manchester, and
you get in an Uber, a friend of
mine was just there, the first thing the
Uber or the cab driver will say is,
hey, so how's it going with Trump?
Wish we had a guy like Trump here.
That's what the people on the street are
saying.
But the thing is, Bruce Springsteen certainly during
my days of hey embodied America.
He embodied the American spirit.
It was like he was the working man,
he was the down at the docks, he
was the guy.
And now he's just an elitist cuck.
And what's that in your mouth?
It's unbelievable.
I mean, I have to play, because he
did three different things, and he started off,
and let me just play a little bit
of this.
So this is the beginning of, he did
the three different stop the sets.
Good evening!
Philadelphia!
It's great to be in Manchester and back
in the UK.
Welcome to the Land of Hope and Dreams
Tour.
Can you believe this?
The Land of Hope and Dreams Tour.
Okay, Bruce.
The mighty E Street Band is here tonight
to call upon the righteous power of art,
of music, of rock and roll in dangerous
times.
Dangerous times, authoritarianism.
But to listen, and we can stop it
whenever we want, we can comment on it.
The amount of lies and, well, I don't
think he's lying.
I think he truly believes that this is
taking place because he's in his California bubble.
Bruce, Bruce, come back.
Come back down.
Come on, man.
He's been in California for a while now.
Come back to Tom's River.
Come back to the Stone Pony.
Bruce, come back to the Jersey Shore.
You've been contaminated.
Easy, Roy.
There's some very weird, strange, and dangerous shit
going on out there right now.
Dangerous?
Yeah, in the country you're actually in, Bruce
Springsteen.
That's where some very dangerous stuff is going
on.
You're right.
In America, they are persecuting people for using
their right to free speech and voicing their
dissent.
No, I don't think so.
This is happening now.
Troublemakers who are spooks.
That's the problem.
In America, the richest men are taking satisfaction
in abandoning the world's poorest children to sickness
and death.
Now, where does this come from?
Where are the world's richest men taking satisfaction
in the poorest children dying?
Sitting around, smoking cigars, saying, how many kids
did we kill?
This is happening now.
Right now.
In my country, they're taking sadistic pleasure in
the pain that they inflict.
Sadistic pleasure?
Are you confused with the Grammys, Bruce?
This is sadistic pleasure?
In my country, they're taking sadistic pleasure in
the pain that they inflict on loyal American
workers.
When it comes to Bill Gates and Soros,
maybe, but I don't think that's who you
meant.
They're rolling back historic civil rights legislation.
What is he talking about?
What's historic civil rights?
Rolling back historic civil rights.
Maybe he'll explain.
That led to a more just and plural
society.
They're abandoning our great allies.
Our great allies.
Because they've gone nuts, that's why.
And siding with dictators.
Putin!
Against those struggling for their freedom.
Dude, I totally need someone to just be
playing keyboards while I'm doing a rap here.
That is pretty awesome.
They're defunding American universities.
Who have hundreds of billions of dollars in
endowments they don't pay taxes on.
That won't bow down to their ideological demands.
Well, man.
They're removing residents off American streets.
Residents.
Oh, by the way, he's reading this.
This whole thing is on teleprompter.
Yeah, this is the joke of it.
He can't even memorize it.
The whole thing is on teleprompter.
He keeps looking down.
Residents.
You know what?
If you're a resident in any other country
and you're not a legal resident, you get
removed.
And without due process of law are deporting
them to foreign detention centers and prisons.
This is all happening now.
Yay.
Meanwhile, we're at a 400 pound a ticket
show.
A majority of our elected representatives have failed
to protect the American people from the abuses
of an unfit president and a rogue government.
Rogue government?
Listen to them.
They're like, yeah, that's like us.
You like us.
President and a rogue government.
Oh, wait.
You're not talking about Kier?
Oh.
I know they're convinced about Kier Starmer being
in the topic here.
They have no concern or idea of what
it means to be...
Maybe this whole thing was ironic.
I felt it was.
And in a way, he's actually bitching about
the UK.
Well, I think a lot of them there
took it that way.
Like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
We got a rogue government here.
The problem is his background indicates otherwise.
He was going to leave the country if
Trump won.
Twice.
Well, he did leave it.
He's in England, as we speak.
When he left New Jersey, as far as
I'm concerned, when you go to California, you
left the country.
They have no concern or idea of what
it means to be deeply American.
The America that I've sung to you about
for 50 years is real.
It's real.
And regardless of its faults, it's a great
country with a great people.
Alright.
Justice is like, no.
That's sadistic.
They take great pleasure in seeing children go
hungry and die.
I don't think so, boss.
That's so...
What I heard there, and I watched all
three of his little ditties, that really hurt
me.
Why did it hurt you?
Are you friends of his?
I grew up with Bruce Springsteen.
I was proud of Bruce Springsteen.
I promoted Bruce Springsteen music in the Netherlands
when no one wanted to hear about it.
Like, eh, that's Jersey stuff.
I don't care about it.
I love Bruce Springsteen.
That whole Born in the USA, you see
him with his blue jeans on, he's got
his little bandana hanging out of his butt
pocket.
No.
That's just not him anymore.
It's sad.
He has turned his back on America.
He just doesn't realize it.
Ever since Patti Skelfer, man, I hate to
say it, but...
Who?
Ever since he married the tambourine girl.
He was married and he got divorced and
he ran away with the girl who plays
the tambourine.
That's his wife now, Patti.
And that started it, you think?
Oh, that's when it started.
I mean, that's like the Yoko of Bruce
Springsteen.
It definitely happened to Rob Reiner when he
married his current wife.
Yeah.
He went completely off the rails.
So we live in such an...
So it's the women's fault.
That's what you're saying.
Isn't it always?
It's always, yeah.
Like you never said anything behind my back
about my second wife.
I'm sure you did.
Oh, man, she's ruining the show.
She's ruining the show.
Actually, you probably thought it enhanced the show.
So we live in an...
Speaking of irony, in an upside-down world,
yesterday was International Day Against Homophobia.
And I caught a...
I thought, wait, hold on a second.
Before you even go there, I want you
to play this clip, because I don't...
That's not my understanding.
Here's the real what's going on.
World Pride Festival Day Month.
Well, yes, it may be World Pride Month,
but yesterday was the actual International Day Against
Homophobia.
By the way, I haven't seen the proclamation
on the White House, but I'll just presume
that President Trump did that.
And World Pride festivities kicked off today in
Washington, D.C., this year's host community.
The biannual celebration...
Host community?
What does that mean?
It's a host community.
And by the way, when you listen to
this report, is it really about gay people
or trans people?
Oh, of course.
And World Pride festivities kicked off today in
Washington, D.C., this year's host community.
The biannual celebration is being held against the
backdrop of the Trump administration.
Biannual, does that mean once every two years
or twice a year?
It could mean either one.
The biannual celebration is being held against the
backdrop of the Trump administration's moves against the
LGBTQ community.
Bastards.
They're making moves.
Nice moves.
On the National Mall, the American Civil Liberties
Union and other groups unveiled a massive collection
of quilts.
The panels were handmade by transgender people and
their families.
There it is.
Previous World Pride events have been a boon
for the host nation's tourism.
But this year, several countries, including Germany, Ireland
and Denmark, have issued official travel warnings for
their citizens who are transgender or non-binary.
Yeah, this actually will result in homophobia.
That's what's going to happen.
It's because the gays, the gays I know,
the gays, they don't like this.
They're just tired of the trans stuff.
They're really, especially gay guys.
They're now like third world citizens of the
community.
Their status has dropped to the floor.
To the basement.
Get out of here, gay guy.
We're talking to trans over here.
She, it, she, it, she, she, they, they're
more important.
It's going to be L-T-Q-B
-G.
They're going to move them to the back
of the alphabet.
You watch, you watch, gay guys, but also
women, they don't like this.
They're tired of this nonsense.
And they feel it's actually hurting the movement
that they fought for, for so long.
Anyway.
So the European Union decides to celebrate International
Day Against Homophobia.
And, so they, they start raising a flag.
And it's a very intricate flag.
It's got rainbow colors and triangles and circles.
And the first thing I thought is, there's
no L-G-B-T-Q nation.
I mean, can we just, do they put
up flags for anything next to nation flags?
Is there not some flag rule against this?
That's peculiar.
And they do this flag with the circle
and all the other gimmicks on there.
I mean, the original gay community flag was
kind of artsy.
And this thing's just, it's monstrous.
It's anything but artsy.
So, and I'm listening to this, and I'm
just like, this is an upside down world.
So she's talking about conversion therapy, which was
a thing probably during the first Trump administration.
Who's talking about conversion therapy?
Well, this woman who's on Deutsche Welle, who
you're about to hear, who was brought on
to talk about the, you know, homophobia.
It's the International Day Against Homophobia.
And she's talking about conversion therapy.
Now, if you don't know where conversion therapy
comes from, I don't know if it's such
a big thing anymore, but it was blown
up into a big story.
Oh, these church people, they're converting the gays,
trying to make them straight.
So, is that any different than a teacher
who's a non-binary converting a normal child
at the age of eight into being trans?
Is that different than that kind of conversion?
That's kind of a conversion, isn't it?
That's exactly my point.
The difference being, I don't know if you
can find a conversion therapy clinic in the
phone book, but you can sure Google as
a Planned Parenthood everywhere who's going to give
your kid hormone blockers and anything else you
want.
No, hormone therapy.
Whatever.
So, you can look at conversion therapy either
way.
So, when I was listening to this, for
a moment there, I thought, what is she
talking about?
And then I was like, holy cow.
Today, many people around the world are marking
International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia.
A day dedicated to raising awareness of rights.
Biphobia?
Why wouldn't biphobia show up?
The bi's were like, hey, hey, hey, everybody's
getting a good deal against us.
I want some phobia.
I want some biphobia.
Today, many people around the world are marking
International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia.
This is new.
You're right.
Good catch.
I didn't hear that when I was clipping
it.
Biphobia.
I have never seen a biphobia person.
In fact, most guys are like, hey, woman,
you're biphobic?
You're biphobia?
Oh, okay.
Dedicated to raising awareness of rights and of
rights violations.
In 2025, the picture is mixed.
Some countries are embracing marriage equality, while others
are criminalizing LGBTQ identities.
This picture from what's happening in Brussels, a
celebration after one million signatures.
What are you doing?
Do you have Tourette's?
This guy's driving me nuts with his Oz.
Just listen to the message.
A ban on conversion therapy.
Joining me on the set is Flora Bolter,
co-director of the LGBTI Plus Observatory at
the Jean Jaurès.
Now, hold on a second, because now I'm
confused.
Do they have a telescope at the observatory?
Now, she's not an LGBTQ observer.
She's an LGBTI observer, which confused me.
Signatures for a ban on conversion therapy.
Joining me on the set is Flora Bolter,
co-director of the LGBTI Plus Observatory at
the Jean Jaurès Foundation.
Hello to you, Flora.
First of all, your reaction to those images.
Just bear with it.
We're seeing.
I'm sorry, yes.
In 2025, in Brussels, and also a brief
explanation of what conversion therapy is and why
the UN wants a global ban.
Okay, so they want a global ban.
The EU, and I guess you said UN,
but I think it's about the EU.
No, I thought you said UN.
Yeah, but he just misspoke.
The guy can't talk.
That's why he's on the news.
It's EU.
And they want a global ban on conversion
therapy.
Whatever, yes.
So what is the reason?
They want a ban.
Why?
Who cares?
Well, yes.
Well, conversion therapies, so-called therapies, are practices
that are meant to change someone's sexual orientation
or gender identity.
Isn't that exactly what we're talking about?
Yeah, that's what they do in the grammar
schools nowadays.
Yes, this is what you say to yourself.
Which, of course, does not work, and there
is no reason why it would be a
better thing, but socially some people feel pressure
from society, from their parents.
From the teachers.
Thank you.
This is exactly what I was thinking.
You're talking about the stuff you're doing.
Pressure from society, from their parents, and frequently
people are forced into these therapies, and they're
very harmful.
And we've recognized that they are harmful.
There has been a decision by the European
Parliament a few years back, and in France
there has been a law since 2022, banning
these practices, and the idea is that every
country should have a ban in place on
those practices because they are harmful.
There is no positive outcome of these practices.
They are not therapy, and they do not
convert anything or, you know, they don't work.
Why worry about it?
Exactly.
But they don't convert anything, it doesn't do
any good, so why ban it?
Who cares?
Well, here's the reason.
As she decloaks in the second clip.
Yeah, and this comes at a time when
a lot of activists or experts have been
noting gradual improvement for accepting and protecting trans
rights worldwide, but now there seems to have
been a shift.
Some are saying it's a normative shift.
Why is there a shift?
Whoa, John C.
Dvorak, why is there a shift?
What possibly could be the cause of said
shift?
Shift?
Yes, there's a shift.
They're falling back.
There's more conversion therapy.
People are against trans.
There is?
Yes, they're against trans.
I haven't noticed it.
Have you?
You don't get out of the house.
You're in California.
Well, in California we got none of that
stuff.
Exactly.
Well, there is a shift because there is
a concerted offensive by certain actors.
Certainly actors.
Actors?
Wait, hold on.
I thought Hollywood was all in on this.
How can she say that?
I think, that I believe is when you
use terms like that, that means you're maybe,
I don't know if that's elitist or if
that's possibly you know, she's in a milieu
where they use those terms.
Concerted offensive by certain actors.
Certainly actors in Russia.
That was very clearly one of Putin's main
international arguments about the decline of the West,
the so-called decline of the West, was
basically that LGBTI rights were recognized in the
US and in Europe and this has been
part of an offensive against these rights and
now we're seeing the same offensive from the
US, from Project 2025 and from President Trump.
So, the American Heritage Foundation and other ultra
-conservative groups have been pushing these so-called
values and these arguments forward using science and
internationally they have gained momentum and that is
feeding into the global illiberal backlash that we
are seeing in many countries and that is
indeed we're all thinking about Romania and other
countries where this is an issue today.
This is part and parcel of the current
far-right populistic movement in many countries in
Europe and this is a major problem.
It's political!
It works so well in America where we
abuse LGBTQI plus people for political gain.
Let's use it everywhere!
Romania?
Have you heard anything about the frontrunner in
Romania being homophobic?
Romania where a right-winger won and then
they kicked him out because it wasn't the
right political persuasion?
Yes!
The hill the Democrat Party in America will
die on is now spreading.
They're like, oh, this is a great idea!
Let's get those people together!
She is clearly some kind of like, just
like the USAID you know, like, hey, let's
get some people to protest, make it to
tell them that these guys are homophobic and
then we get a lot of people to
turn out, a lot of allies.
It's worthless!
And it's disingenuous and it actually abuses people.
They're totally abusing people.
Oh, you know, Donald Trump hates you.
Okay.
Ah!
Okay.
That's exactly what it is.
But wait, there's more.
Because if you didn't think Donald Trump was
a racist, well, you will now.
MSNBC this morning, they laid it all out
because, you know, he doesn't care about black
people.
He only cares about white people!
Hey, there's lots of black people in Africa.
Who does Donald Trump save?
Only the white people.
Is President Trump's cruel deportation campaign aimed at
I'm actually glad you got this because I
never did get clips that I Yes, this
is a classic.
Yes, cruel deportation.
Is President Trump's cruel deportation campaign aimed at
removing millions of immigrants from the United States
These poor immigrants.
Millions of them.
Not illegal here, just immigrants.
The President is making an exception for one
group, white South Africans.
Unlike the Trump administration's treatment of other immigrants
This is too ludicrous.
It's fantastic.
Especially those from Latin America and our Afghan
allies that he's kicking out of sometime soon.
The President gave a warm welcome to dozens
of white South Africans this week.
He's also expediting refugee statuses for the group,
which he says includes victims of racial discrimination.
The move comes after his decision to freeze
refugee admissions from other nations and cut off
resettlement funding.
With black people.
So we have back with us former United
States ambassador to South Africa, Patrick Gaspar is
back with us to discuss.
You were former ambassador there.
Can you talk about what he is describing
as persecution?
I will.
I'll say a couple of things first.
When I come on shows like this, I'm
trained to retain my anger.
Who is he trained by?
What?
He says I'm kind of trained to retain
my anger when I come on shows like
this.
Trained by who?
That's my question.
He was an ambassador so he was trained
by somebody.
I will.
I'll say a couple of things first.
When I come on shows like this-
Is this a white guy, black guy?
Black guy.
Trained to kind of retain my anger.
It's hard to do that on this issue.
I'm absolutely furious.
There are a number of things that are
going on here.
One, Trump is playing to a domestic-
I'm retaining.
I'm kind of retaining.
I'm going to keep my anger back, but
I'm furious.
Yes.
There are a number of things that are
going on here.
One, Trump is playing to a domestic US
fringe political audience, which I'll talk about in
a second.
The Afrikaners in America.
There's a geopolitical impact because there's an attempt
to punish South Africa for the posture that
is taken internationally on the war in Gaza
and its claims against Israel.
And Trump is very clear about the-
Oh, a Jew-hater.
Need to punish South Africa in that regard.
But there's a third thing that's happening.
Donald Trump is the master of distraction.
And he knows that while we're having this
conversation, we're not talking about the prices that
are going up for average Americans in Walmart,
and he loves that.
I thought that was the best- He
loves the prices going up in Walmart to
screw the black American.
So then Capehart comes in.
Oh, God.
I could not resist because this just went
to a whole nother level.
If you are of a certain age, you
remember the anti-apartheid demonstrations that were happening
all over the country, particularly on college campuses.
And to see, here we are, several decades
hence, Afrikaners are being given refugee status and
coming to- being brought here to the
United States.
We knew exactly the signal that President Trump
was sending when he did that.
Oh, they knew what the signal was.
It was a signal, John.
It was a signal.
It wasn't any concern for anything.
It was a signal.
Absolutely, Jonathan.
You and I are old enough to participate
in- Absolutely.
Absolutely, Jonathan.
Those demonstrations, right?
The first time I ever went to South
Africa was 1991.
And I got to observe Nelson Mandela's vision
for a rainbow nation.
I lived three and a half years in
South Africa as ambassador, and I've seen white
and black South Africans and colored South Africans
working every single day towards the affirmation of
that vision.
I talk to my white South African friends
all the time, and they think it's bizarre
that this is occurring now.
They can't recognize their country that's being described
by Donald Trump.
I will say that white supremacy has never
lived in isolation.
Did you see how quick that went?
That went from the Rainbow Coalition in South
Africa to white supremacy!
It's being described by Donald Trump.
It's very good.
He had to contain his anger so he
could get to this bit.
You know, white supremacy has never lived in
isolation.
It has always and ever thus will be
a global phenomena.
And there is a conversation that's taking place
from the United States to South Africa to
Australia, in Europe.
Which show is this from?
MSNBC this morning!
This morning!
Oh my God.
It's almost over.
Bear with me.
Contain your anger.
From the United States to South Africa to
Australia, in Europe with fringe neo-Nazi adjacent
groups like Africa.
Fringe neo-Nazi adjacent groups.
How far removed are you?
Are you a Nazi or not?
You're a fringe neo-Nazi adjacent.
Hmm.
Okay.
Alright.
This is a new term.
South Africa to Australia in Europe with fringe
neo-Nazi adjacent groups like Afroforum that are
promoting this notion of a white genocide.
It is really instructive to see the President
of the United States who is denying the
plight, the struggle of Palestinians in this moment
who are under siege.
It's interesting to hear him use the word
genocide when he's talking about a people who
represent 7% of a population, have like
70% of the land, have 65%
of the senior management jobs in South Africa,
and whose unemployment ratio is like 1 20th
of the unemployment ratio of blacks in South
Africa.
This is deliberate.
It is signaling to his fringe MAGA cohort
here in the U.S. and sending a
wide signal to those who are neo-Nazi
adjacent in other parts of the world.
Hey, Whitey, you're good here in America.
This is...
You know, this irks me because I missed
a clip.
I'm going to tell...
This is going to be the new segment
of the show.
John tells you the clips he didn't clip.
You didn't even see this this morning.
This was...
No, but this previous clip I saw on
MSNBC where they're going around bitching and moaning
about these Afrikaner farmers that they're coming over
here, giving up all their land and coming
over here because it's racism.
of course, there are clips of guys saying
we should kill all whites.
Yes!
We got tons of those.
They go around the horn on one of
these shows on MSNBC and the black girl,
one of the black girls goes, I don't
know why they're doing that.
There's also a genocide going on in the
Congo.
They're not taking any of the black Congolese.
And after she said that, one of the
other black guys on MSNBC goes, no, no,
no, no, you can't say that.
The white thing is not a genocide.
They get all freaked out because she used
the word genocide.
But here's my question, and I will address
them in their native tongue.
Waar zijn mijn Afrikaners?
Wij hebben wat rapporten van jullie nodig.
That was my Afrikaans.
Saying, where is my boots on the ground,
Afrikaners?
I don't think any Afrikaners listen to our
show.
I'm going to call Laura Logan today.
She's a white South African.
I'll ask her.
She'll know.
She's right down the street.
Yeah, I think you should.
I'm going to.
So what's the dealio?
How's your agenda doing?
Do you have no agenda?
What are you going to say to her?
No.
We've already been down that road with Laura.
Hey, Laura, please don't make me sue you.
You're my neighbor.
I don't want to sue them a neighbor.
That's not a good idea.
Since you brought up Capehart, I do have
a couple of Brooks and Capehart things, which
is not a bad book.
Now I regret it.
By the way, this is going to happen
every single time.
This is why people are running away from
the show.
It's from Capehart.
It's my fault.
I opened the door.
Okay, so here's they're talking about they're on
the Brooks and Capehart part of this last
Friday and they're going on and on and
on about Trump's crazy nutty trip to the
Middle East and all the crazy stupid stuff
he's doing.
And they're in agreement with everything.
And then they bring up the fact that
somebody wants to do a reality TV show
about immigration.
I saw this on Instagram because people will
send me an Instagram clip and it's some
dude saying literally this.
Someone at Homeland Security wants to do a
reality show so immigrants can compete for a
green card.
And I'm like, are you sending this to
me as proof that someone said that?
Because where does this come from?
Do we know that anyone actually said that?
By whom?
The producer of this show came up with
this idea during the Obama administration.
Yeah, it's our idea.
Exactly.
It's an old idea.
It's our idea.
It's our idea, basically.
But it's beside the point for these clips
because they're going back and forth.
They throw it to Brooks and we've got
to make sure to play this.
This is the BNC on reality TV.
Then I do the Ask Adam afterwards.
And so you play this and this is
the most indicting aspect of any...
All the clips I've ever done for Brooks
and K-Part this tells me everything I
need to know about why we don't want
to listen to Brooks or K-Part.
They're disconnected from the real world.
They don't care about anything but themselves.
They're obviously in the cocktail set floating around
Washington D.C. Foggy bottom.
This is actually unbelievable.
And then finally on the game show or
whatever, the reality show I have to confess
I've never seen a reality show in my
life.
You've never seen a single reality show in
your life, David Brooks?
I have not seen The Housewives of Bethesda,
Maryland.
I have not seen Love is Blind.
I did not see Duck Dynasty.
There's another one.
It's just not...
I'm bad with emotional drama.
Okay, so we have someone who has never
seen...
Reality shows have been on the air for
what?
20, 30 years now?
Have you ever seen Survivor?
Way before that.
MTV's Real World, I would say.
Yeah, there you go.
It goes way back.
The first real big one was The Osbournes.
That was 2002.
2002.
So we've gone over 20 years of these
things and he doesn't watch them because of
the emotional baggage.
Because, for example, he's not going to be
able to take the emotional effect of Duck
Dynasty.
It's going to bring him to his knees.
He's going to be crying like a baby.
I don't know.
Whatever the case is, I don't want to
listen to anything.
I don't think you should be all jacked
up about pop culture, but can you just...
You don't know what you're talking about if
you don't even watch one reality show in
25 years.
And there's thousands of them by now.
You don't actually believe this douche, do you?
Yes, I do.
Oh, please.
Oh, he's...
Let's go to K-Part, and now I'm
going to ask the ask and right off
the bat, has K-Part ever watched a
reality show?
Do I answer before the clip or after
the clip?
Yeah, you answer before the clip.
Answer the question.
Go!
Not only has he watched a reality show,
I predict in this obviously short clip of
10 seconds that he will tell us his
favorite reality show.
Ask Adam gets one point.
I mean, I've watched reality television shows.
Okay, well, one, RuPaul's Drag Race, which is
a fabulous, fabulous, fabulous reality show.
And I could have guessed that one.
Crap!
I could have gone for an extra point.
I could have gotten it.
Obviously.
Now, back to your point about you think
Brooks is a liar.
Why would you lie about something like this
when it puts you in an awkward position
of being a...
Yeah, he's a douche, but why would you
say that I've never watched a reality show
and now I'm going to comment on pop
culture, I'm going to comment on world affairs,
I'm going to comment on this and that.
Why would you put yourself in that position
by lying about never watching a reality show?
It makes no sense.
Because...
I don't believe he's ever watched a reality
show, but I do believe...
Oh, you said it.
I do believe...
You do believe...
that K-Part watches with relish RuPaul's Drag
Race.
I think he's lying because he moves in
super elitist circles.
I've been in these circles where they would
never, ever admit to watching it.
So I've been in circles like this.
Parties.
And this is when I was back in
the MTV days.
You get mixed up in these things.
People say, Oh, hi!
I don't watch MTV!
Who are you?
I'm sorry.
You're like...
You do something.
I don't watch cable.
Seriously.
Those were the days.
I don't watch cable.
You're watching Channel J.
I know what you're doing.
You're watching...
Who was that guy?
Disgusting George.
What was his name?
The guy who would walk around with a
camera and a satellite dish on his head
and would pick up pretty girls on the
streets of Manhattan.
What was his name?
There's a bunch of shows.
I don't remember that guy's name.
Something George.
My favorite one was the Extra E is
for Extra P or whatever it was.
I don't know about that one.
The public whatever it was in New York
City, what's it called?
The Access Channel, whatever it is, was rude
in New York.
You had the Robin Bird show.
Robin Bird.
There's another one.
Come on, baby.
Bang my box.
Ugly George.
Yeah, it is.
The Ugly George Hour of Truth.
That's who it was.
Ugly George.
What's his name?
The guy who ran Factor Magazine and he
had a show and all he did was
cuss out everybody.
It was the Screw guy.
Screw Magazine guy.
Screw Magazine.
It wasn't Goldstein?
It was something like Goldstein.
All he did was just say F you
and he'd name a company.
Al Goldstein.
That was one of the better shows.
That was the TikTok of the day, baby.
That was good stuff.
That was dynamite stuff.
Dynamite.
Anyway, yes.
I believe that he's lying.
these people are all superstitious.
I disagree, but okay.
Sure.
Okay.
All right.
I'm spent now.
I don't know what to say.
Where do we go?
What you got?
Well, we got some global warming in Texas.
We went from let's see, it was Sunday
was 55 degrees.
By Monday, it was 105.
Then we had a couple days in the
80s and now it's down to a nice
cool 75.
Is that global warming?
You've been in Texas long enough to answer
this question.
15 years I'd say is the time I've
been here.
Does that make it does that, can you
say that that's screwball?
It's obviously global warming or is this Texas?
In 2012 when I first visited 2012?
No, it was 2010.
I came to Austin for the first time.
We had a meet up.
It was 112 degrees.
That sounds about right.
And it was July.
And okay, yeah.
And people went, don't you love it?
Isn't it a beautiful day?
The heat is on in Texas where a
spring heat wave has broken May temperature records
in some parts of the state.
And that is not the only place where
heat is an issue.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
the planet's 10 warmest years since 1850 have
all occurred in the past decade.
Oh, of course it did.
Wait a minute.
The 10 warmest years were in the last
10 years.
This was 15 years ago.
Every single year for the last decade has
been the warmest.
No, it's just not true.
I've been here.
It's not true.
But I do like that they're saying global
warming.
We did have a heat dome for a
day or two.
That's where the 105 came from.
It was just no wind.
And actually when the heat dome moves on
and the wind kicks up, that's when everyone
gets nervous.
Oh man, it's dry and the wind and
if there's one dude smoking a bone somewhere
and he...
Yeah, the bone.
The whole place goes up.
We'll burn up.
Adelita Cantu lives in San Antonio, Texas where
it is currently sweltering around 100 degrees.
Oh, sweltering.
100 degrees.
It was just nothing.
I've been to Texas enough to know that.
I wear my hoodie in 100 degrees when
I walk the dog.
And it's humid too.
So even though we may be...
No.
I'm sorry.
It might be humid in Dallas or Houston,
but not here.
Not in the hill country.
So even though we may be like hit
100, it's going to feel like 105.
1000 degrees.
Texans are definitely not...
Wait, wait.
Hold on.
Stop it there.
100.
It's going to feel like 100.
That's not what humidity does if it's real
humidity.
No, it makes it feel humid.
You're in Florida.
It's 90.
Well, actually let's forget it.
Go to the Midwest.
Go up to Chicago.
Chicago.
It's 90 with high humidity.
It feels like it's 200 degrees.
It's terrible.
I've been in New York once where it
was so humid.
You want to puke.
You walk outside.
That I had to change my clothes twice
in one day.
It's going to feel like 105, 106.
Texans are definitely not strangers to heat.
But Cantu is a public health nurse at
the University of Texas Health, San Antonio.
And she knows that heat like this is
particularly dangerous when it comes early in the
heat season.
Where are these clips from?
What journalistic organization has put this together?
I believe these are NPR.
Without any favor.
2024 being the hottest year on record so
far.
And experts say heat this early in the
year can be especially risky.
NPR's Climate Desk reporter Alejandro Barunda explains why.
Hold on a second.
I want to be at the No Agenda
Climate Desk.
I'm here.
In fact, I'm sitting behind the No Agenda
Climate Desk.
And it's not just Texas.
This is increasingly a problem across the United
States.
Tess Wiskel is an emergency physician at Harvard
University outside of Boston.
She has seen the emergency room fill up
during early season heat waves, even when the
temperatures don't seem super high.
You tend to see outdoor workers getting sicker
faster.
And we tend to see athletes and other
people like that.
Wiskel says that happens because people's bodies haven't
yet gone through a process called acclimatization.
That can take a couple weeks of heat
exposure as bodies make some key changes.
It will sweat earlier to help cool you
off when you're acclimatized.
Your whole blood volume is going to change
when you're acclimatized.
And all of these things help protect you
from heat.
So early in the year, a lot of
people's bodies haven't done that yet.
That means a higher risk of heat exhaustion,
heat stroke, even heart problems.
What are we, reptiles?
What's this acclimatized body?
We live in air conditioning, lady.
Here's the funny thing about it.
What difference does it make when the temperature
goes from whatever it is to hot?
I'm not acclimatized yet.
If it happens in the spring, is it
more dangerous than if it happens like in
the late spring or in the beginning of
summer or in the middle of summer?
What difference does it make?
It's actually been such a beautiful spring.
It's been very cool.
We had a lot of rain.
Everyone's real happy.
But when I call Laura Logan about the
South Afrikaners, I'm going to say, Laura, are
you acclimatized yet?
And I'm sure she'll have an answer for
me.
This is, you know, the more I hear
these clips, because clearly no one is believing
this anymore.
I mean, you look at Instagram.
Used to be that if you did a
climate change joke, it would be taken down.
I mean, there's comedians doing jokes about climate
change.
It's become a punchline almost.
No one believes in climate change other than,
eh, climate change is all the time.
Whatever.
No one believes in it.
So you have to think that some of
that sweet, sweet climate change money is going
to outfits like NPR.
Just like pharma, there's got to be money
flowing into it.
You can't tell me they're actually interested at
the climate desk.
Well, the climate desk is interesting, because without
climate change, there's no climate desk.
But these news models that they're seeing, they're
like, oh, yes, this is riveting.
I need to learn about climatization of the
Texans.
You don't even care.
You hate Texans.
It makes no sense.
Other than money, money, money.
Well, anyway, thank you for coming to the
climate desk.
As part of the climate desk, I always
investigate what we can do to stop evil,
nasty fossil fuel burning to mobilize ourselves, because
when we're climatized, we can't be mobilized, so
we need battery cars.
And what is the big drawback of battery
cars?
Eh, I've had it, because I once borrowed
a Tesla to drive to college station.
It's called range anxiety.
If you run out of juice in an
EV, roadside assistance is available in the form
of mobile charging.
Our main thing is to get you on
the go.
We get you on the go, you can
make it home.
AAA is adding to its roadside assistance program
with a mobile charging fleet that's free for
members.
We call AAA.
We send out one of our vehicles that
has the equipment to charge your vehicle.
The service takes between 15 to 30 minutes,
depending on how much juice you need.
So I'm gonna give our vehicle some power.
The roadside service has level 2 chargers with
adapters for any electric vehicle.
Tesla, and then non-Tesla.
It's that easy.
And I run it straight to your vehicle.
I'm gonna just plug this in.
That shows that it's giving it a charge.
We get you enough to go about 20
miles, maybe to get home, or enough to
the closest charging station.
We'll check to make sure that they have
a good enough charge.
We'll follow them to the closest gas station,
just in case.
EV manufacturers like Toyota, Ford, and Tesla also
offer mobile charging roadside assistance.
The programs vary a bit, depending on the
automaker, so you just need to make sure
to ask about it.
AAA still gets more calls for gas refills,
but is seeing a definite uptick in mobile
charging.
It says it will add the mobile charges
to their trucks as needed to keep up
guys with driving into the future.
Back to you.
Here we go.
Range anxiety.
As though we need it anymore.
Now, missing from this report, I mean, yeah,
if you run out of gas, and I've
run out of gas in my life, you
know, and some guy comes along, he's got
a little, and you're grateful, thank you, I'll
have you on the road in no time.
You see a can of gas, you get
a gallon.
Yeah, I'll have you on the road in
no time, Mr. Curry, thank you for being
a AAA member.
Now, how does it work with this?
I'll have you on the road in about
three hours, Mr. Curry, just sit back and
relax.
Do they have some supercharger in this truck
all of a sudden?
They have a huge capacitor that just blows
it in?
Well, they get to max whatever it is.
It's in a truck!
Yeah, it's not going to do much.
They said it'd get you 20 miles, it'd
give you a 15-minute crappy charge and
you're on your way.
Ugh.
Which reminds me, I have to give a
It's on your way to go wait three
hours somewhere else, okay.
I have a car report.
A car report?
Oh, nice.
Yeah, so I had to take my old
20-year-old Lexus into the dealer to
have some work done.
It has a bunch of expensive stuff to
do.
Now, when you show up, are they snickering
at you?
No, nobody snickers at this car because it's
so pretty.
They say, wow, there's that guy with that
classic.
He's got that old car.
Well, okay, what does he want?
That's the same guy I see at the
bank with that stack of $2 checks.
That guy's amazing.
So the Lexus, one of the little benefits
is you get a loaner.
And so I got a loaner and I
got the I guess it's the UX 300H
or no, it's actually probably, yeah, it's one
of the 300 so 300H, it's a 300
or three liter hybrid.
It's the hybrid.
A brand new car.
Yeah.
I have to say Are you saying hybrid
or hybrid?
I always say hybrid.
It's not hybrid, it's hybrid.
I like hybrid better.
So I've got this car.
It's a battery car with a motor, which
I think is fine.
Yeah.
I don't know how people can drive these
new cars.
I will say this.
It's faster.
It's smoother.
The ride is better.
I'm coming back.
I'm looking at the speedometer.
I'm doing 90 in a 60 zone.
There's that guy with that old Lexus and
the stack of $2 checks.
He's doing 90 in a 60.
Pull him over.
So but it's the beeping and the booping
and the radar and the lights going on
here and there.
It's got too many gizmos and the crazy
knobs and buttons and the screen with all
the stuff going on.
It's a nightmare.
And I would say that anyone who drives
a modern super new car, I think they're
going to develop a lot of bad habits.
For one thing, you never look to see
if there's a car coming, if you're going
to change lanes.
You can't.
There's too many blind spots on these things.
There's a lot of blind spots.
They've got the little radar thing so they
get a little light in the corner of
your mirror.
It says, there's a car here.
Don't, don't, don't, no, no.
And so on both sides, which is fine.
It's great.
It works.
And then, of course, the car, I was
backing out of the driveway with this car
and somebody drove, was driving up the street
and, of course, the car brakes.
It just slams on the brakes and stops
me as if I was going to run
into the car.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Well, that can be handy if you're looking
at your phone.
Yeah, I suppose it would be handy.
If you're looking at your phone.
Which is in the drawer, there would be
some feet.
But I really think it's going to, people
are going to develop bad driving habits with
these cars.
They're beeping at you constantly.
I completely agree.
There's, and by the way, I see a
lot of people looking at their phone in
the car because these cars will keep them
in the lane.
Yeah, that's another thing.
And they'll brake, and they'll brake automatically.
I'm not worried about it.
It'll just brake and I'll be fine.
It'll all be groovy.
It'll be good.
It's all good to go, man.
It's, uh, yeah.
There's a lot of beeping and booping in
the cars.
I agree.
Beeping and booping.
It just never ends.
I even gunned it once.
The car goes faster than imaginable.
It's got a good electric motor.
It's because that hybrid kicks in.
The hybrid?
So it shoots off and then it gives
me a beep, a little beep of discontent.
Oh, beep.
You go, you, no, no, no, no, no.
Beep.
You shouldn't do that.
Don't gun it.
Speaking of hybrid, this was an interesting little
news bit I picked up from CBS.
The Food and Drug Administration says it is
planning to review its approval of a so
-called yoga mat chemical that's been banned in
Europe but can be a bread ingredient in
the U.S. The agency previously approved it
to...
I always grind up my yoga mats into
bread.
Bread ingredient in the U.S. The agency
previously approved it to whiten cereal flour and
improve baking bread dough, but advocacy groups have
raised concerns about its potential health risks.
For more on this and other health news,
let's bring in CBS News Digital Reporter Alex
Tan.
Alex, what are the concerns with this so
-called yoga mat ingredient?
Yeah, so this ingredient, which is called ADA
for short, I'm not going to try to
pronounce the longer name because I did not
do too well in chemistry when I was
in college.
Well, let's give it a shot.
Azodicarbonamide.
You're the chemist of the group.
I'd have to look at the writing.
Just do ADA chemical and it pops up
on Wikipedia.
ADA chemical.
Yeah.
It's a bunch of balls.
It's blue balls and there are some red
balls and a couple of silver balls.
It's a lot of balls.
A chemical compound.
It is a yellow to orange-red odorless
crystalline powder, sometimes called the yoga mat chemical
because that's what you want in your bread.
What is wrong with people?
ADA was a bread ingredient that is used
in the United States essentially, as you said,
to improve bread flour, sometimes used to improve
cereal as well.
There is some concern in other countries that
when this ingredient is used in flour, it
can break down into another chemical that for
short is called SEM.
I'm not going to try to pronounce the
long name for that either, which might cause
cancer.
That's actually why Europe many, many years ago
said that they would not allow the use
of this chemical in bread in their country
in the United States.
They have said that their studies, this is
according to the FDA a few years ago,
found that the amount of this chemical that
was showing up in the food supply as
a result of the baking process was too
small, they thought, to actually cause a cancer
risk.
What is going on?
The semicarbazide and ethyl carbamate are the two
things.
One is urethane.
This is an interesting chemical I'm looking at.
The chemical itself is prepared with the treatment
of urea with hydrazine.
Urea, isn't that...
What is urea?
It's an ammonia compound.
It's like fertilizer.
Why didn't this ever get discovered they can
use it?
What is the point of using it?
Let's put this in the bread!
It's allowed to be added to flowers.
What reason?
I think it's called bleaching.
Subway and Wendy's decided they're not going to
use it anymore.
It's a dough conditioner.
Conditioner?
Yeah, it's bleaching.
It's a bleaching agent.
I've heard about this being a huge deal.
This is used to bleach dough.
Dough is already bleached.
I think the United States is one of
the few countries, I believe, that does this
bleaching.
I've never understood why.
Here is a synthetic chemical compound used primarily
in the food industry as a dough conditioner
and a flour treatment agent.
Why do we need to condition the dough?
Isn't dough just dough?
Oh, it's added to bread and other baked
goods to improve texture, increase volume.
Ah, there it is.
It's a volumizer.
So it looks like you got more bread.
ADA functions as a leavening agent by releasing
gas when heated which helps the dough rise.
Oh my goodness.
Sorry for making balloon bread, which is out
of favor.
Well, none of this should be in favor.
This is all horrible.
This is not good.
Hmm.
Well, while we're on it, um, this is
nothing but bad news these days when it
comes.
Bad news.
Meantime, an alarming health trend as new research
shows a rise in early onset cancers.
Another alarming cancer report.
Oh, I gotta follow up to this then.
Younger adults, and now researchers, of course, want
to know why.
According to the National Cancer Institute, more than
2 million Americans between 15 and 49 years
of age were diagnosed with cancer between the
years of 2010 and 2019.
Data shows the largest increases in breast, colorectal,
uterine, pancreatic, and kidney cancers.
Dr. Arif Kamal from the American Cancer Society
joins me now with more.
Doctor, thanks for taking the time.
This is really important to talk about.
Right off the bat, I'd like to have
you give us a little bit more about
the findings and, of course, that all-important
question.
Do we have any idea why we're seeing
an increase in these types of cancers, especially
in younger people?
Dr. Dvorak, do you have any idea?
Is there anything that changed in the past
five years that just might have caused this?
You gotta look at the dates they gave
us here.
It's 2010 to 2019, pre-vax.
Oh, is that what he just said?
Yep.
Yeah, this is, frankly, alarming.
We've never seen such a dramatic change in
the number of people being diagnosed with cancer
ever before.
Particularly when people think about cancer, they think
about folks in their 60s and 70s.
He's talking like it's now.
I think they fudged these dates.
In 2019, 2 million Americans between 15 and
49 years of age were diagnosed with cancer
between the years of 2010 and 2019.
Data shows the largest increases in breast, colorectal,
uterine, pancreatic, and kidney cancers.
Dr. Arif Kamal from the American Cancer Society
joins us.
It's very strange.
They may have just thrown that in, you're
right, just to kind of throw us off,
like, oh, that was 10 years ago.
So your report now is about something that
happened 10 years ago?
This doctor seems to be talking about now.
Yeah, this is, frankly, alarming.
We've never seen such a dramatic change in
the number of people being diagnosed with cancer.
And I say that because if it was
alarming, it would have been alarming 10 years
ago.
And we were doing this show 10 years
ago.
No, not 10 years ago.
2019 is only 6 years ago, but it's
beside the point.
It's 6 years ago, so 6 years is
a long time.
Yeah, there would have been alarming reports then,
and there weren't.
Yeah, this is, frankly, alarming.
We've never seen such a dramatic change in
the number of people being diagnosed with cancer
ever before, particularly when people think about cancer,
they think about folks in their 60s and
70s.
This is really people under the age of
50.
And if you look at these types of
cancers, it's a mix of cancers that can
be screened, like colorectal cancer and breast, but
others like pancreas cancer and uterine cancer that
don't.
I think it's really important for people under
the age of 50 to think about the
three B's is what I call them.
So it's bumps, bleeding, and burns.
And so for bumps, you think about breast
cancer and pancreas cancer, things that you might
feel on your body that feel a little
off, you should bring that up to your
doctor.
In terms of bleeding, kidney cancers and colorectal
cancers can lead to early bleeding that people
might think is hemorrhoidal bleeding, but that should
be brought up to their doctors.
And lastly, burns.
We know that skin cancer continues to go
up, particularly melanoma, so paying attention to where
you're getting burns, cutting down on that, and
pointing out abnormal lesions to your doctors is
really important.
And then the second part of this, and
I'm curious about your clip, this is it's
the women.
According to this study, doctor, 63% of
the early onset cancers were among women.
Do we know why women are more affected?
Yeah, a lot of theories right now.
It's an overall trend, not only for younger
people, but we're seeing overall women are being
more diagnosed with cancer than men before.
That's also a pretty remarkable shift.
It used to be quite a bit more
men were diagnosed in the last 20 years.
We're not completely sure why.
There are some hypotheses related to unhealthy weight
or diet or environmental factors.
It's important more research is needed, but it
is also important to remember that some of
these things are screenable, like the breast cancers.
We're seeing that some of the rates of
return back to mammograms after COVID have returned
in some communities back to baseline levels, but
not everywhere.
So it's really important women out there start
their mammograms at age 40 and go every
year or every other year as well.
But you said after COVID, that's not between
2010 and 2019.
Nope.
By the way, Dr. Curry recommends thermography, not
mammography.
Most women agree.
Thermal.
You can do thermal.
You're not a doctor.
No, I'm not.
I said Dr. Curry.
Do you know Dr. Curry?
I didn't say me.
I said Dr. Curry.
Oh, okay.
Well, we have the same situation only not
with cancers, but with strokes.
This morning, the number of young people experiencing
strokes is on the rise.
You hear about it, but you just never
think this is going to happen to me.
Last April, at just 23 years old, Ann
Folk was folding laundry at home when she
felt half of her body go numb.
Half of my body was totally immobilized on
the left side and on my right side,
it felt like as if I was having
a seizure that was uncontrollable.
And then I also had a very severe
migraine in my head as well.
After a friend called 911, she was rushed
to Endeavor Health Northwest Community Hospital.
I think you're playing the second clip first.
I'm sorry, I didn't realize there were two.
Yeah, well, you're playing the one that's miswritten
that says, stroke.
Yes, because, let me just tell you.
But there's an actual clip that says stroke.
Okay, just so you know, when I look
at the, when you are talking about a
clip, I start at the top.
Yeah, I know what you do.
But let me just explain it so people
don't think I'm a dummy because I keep,
I've played two wrong clips here.
No, this is true.
Let me pre-explain your explanation.
Adam does, to make the show work, we
have to, we cue each other and Adam
is looking for, when I start talking about
a clip, he finds the clip before I'm
finished with my sentence and usually has it
cued up ready to go.
Yes.
But he does it in alphabetical order so,
and he knows I make spelling mistakes because
of the nature of the way I type.
Just a few!
And so, I usually correct him, but sometimes
I don't.
And so he goes down the list and
he sees droke.
Yes.
And so he figures, okay, this is the
clip that's going to be, I'm going to
play this clip.
It's the droke clip.
He didn't notice the two on there because
he just took it for granted because he
didn't see anything else.
He didn't see a one, but there is
a stroke one clip down below.
I'm sorry.
So that is, we're codependent when it comes
to making mistakes.
Different strokes for different drokes, John.
But this is the way, that's the only
reason the show works as well as it
does because we're in anticipation, usually, which is
why it's annoying when the clean feed goes
dead and I try to interrupt and I
can't.
I just call back to the early part
of the show.
So let's go to the original clip, which
starts us off because there's a gotcha in
there.
Wait a minute.
It's Pride Month.
I don't want to share my strokes with
the pride or vice versa.
That's unfair.
Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Tara Narula is here
to explain all this.
Good morning, Dr. Narula.
Good morning, George.
That's right.
Doctors are seeing more strokes in patients under
45 and the reasons may surprise you and
the reasons may surprise you.
You're about to hear from two young women.
Did you double that up?
I doubled that up because the reasons won't
surprise you and she really never gives any
reasons in this entire report.
It's bull crap.
Patients under 45 and the reasons may surprise
you and the reasons may surprise you.
You're about to hear from two young women,
both in their early 20s, who never thought
it could happen to them.
Here's their story.
So the reasons may surprise you and we
don't hear the actual reasons.
Let me go.
I'm guessing our next clip is droke ABCBS.
Yes, the droke one that brings in some
guy who kind of thinks maybe this maybe
there's no reasons.
They're not surprising anybody.
This morning the number of young people experiencing
strokes is on the rise.
You hear about it but you just never
think this is going to happen to me.
Last April, at just 23 years old, Ann
Folk was folding laundry at home when she
felt half of her body go numb.
Half of my body was totally immobilized on
the left side and on my right side
it felt like as if I was having
a seizure that was uncontrollable and then I
also had a very severe migraine in my
head as well.
After a friend called 911 she was rushed
to Endeavor Health Northwest Community Hospital in Chicago
where doctors confirmed she was suffering from a
stroke from a blood clot on the right
side of her brain.
For Aubrey Hasley she was just 22 when
she too had a stroke last June.
I had really loud ringing in my ears
for a couple of seconds and I guess
it kind of freaked me out because my
balance was so off and I was just
falling over anytime I tried to stand up.
Aubrey receiving care at the same hospital doctors
performing a thrombectomy to remove a clot.
While most strokes still affect older adults, the
latest CDC data shows a sharp increase in
stroke related hospitalizations for people under 45.
One recent report indicating a nearly 15%
rise over the past decade.
The same risk factors that you see in
elderly you also see it now in younger
like high blood pressure, high cholesterol more stress
on the patient long working hours.
So we think this could probably contribute to
the rise in stroke in younger people.
Because of Ann and Aubrey's quick action, they
are both now in recovery and doing well.
Just be aware that it could happen to
anyone of any age to definitely look out
for those signs.
The bottom line here strokes can happen at
any age.
If you or someone around you is experiencing
sudden numbness or having trouble speaking or difficulty
walking, call 911 immediately.
The faster you act the better the outcome.
That was really eye opening.
Really eye opening.
Hold on.
What was the reason that will surprise you?
There was no reason that surprised me other
than blood clots.
They throw this stuff in at the beginning
of this report and the reasons will surprise
you.
It's just a hook and it's bull crap.
These are the crappy mainstream media techniques that
are old fashioned and should be abandoned.
Why don't they just say it was because
they asked these two women if they had
the vaccine and they had boosted.
I mean I would like to know that
personally.
I'm still stuck on it being Pride Stroke
Month.
It's Pride Stroke Month.
I think I have an ABC Stroke Report
as well.
Let me see if it's the same.
Stroke is the leading cause of it.
Okay.
Your No Agenda Show has something that may
be part of it.
This is COVID stuff.
I'm sorry.
None of us are over the trauma of
it.
We all know people who have gotten the
vax.
We know people who didn't take the vax.
We know people who still take the vax.
We know people who regret taking it.
There's all kinds of people.
It's the rainbow.
It is the rainbow of vaccination.
Do you remember former Pfizer Vice President Dr.
Mike Yeadon?
We played him.
Yes, I do.
He was like, no, this is probably not
a good product.
It's not great.
So he is back on the scene and
forewarned.
It's not nice to hear.
There has not been a pandemic.
Dennis Rancourt's data shows that the all-cause
mortality data did not increase at all in
the run-up to the declaration fraudulently by
WHO of a pandemic.
There is no public health emergency except that
created by our government.
Inappropriate, fraudulent PCR tests were used to give
people the impression that they had a particular
disease where they didn't.
There were all the normal diseases.
Hold on.
Stop the clip.
Is this just a summary of the No
Agenda Show for the last five years?
Yes.
This is a summary.
It's only a minute.
And then he gives us the bad news.
There were all the normal diseases.
And then what happened was in three different
ways people were treated badly through changed medical
procedures that were imposed above the level of
nation.
Briefly, mass ventilation of people inappropriately in hospitals
that led to lots of deaths.
In care homes, many people were given sedatives
and respiratory depressants, which led to their deaths.
My PhD was specifically in that area of
opiates and respiratory depression.
And in the community, people were denied life
-saving antibiotics and died of bacterial pneumonia.
There's your pandemic.
There was no other pandemic.
And based on this lie, we were told
that vaccines were coming our way and would
be our saviour.
Two things.
As I say, first, there's no pandemic, so
you certainly don't need an experimental or rushed
medical intervention.
But secondly, even if you did, as someone
who's worked in the industry for over 30
years, I am telling you, it's absolutely impossible
to invent, test, clinically evaluate, and manufacture, and
then launch on global scale a complex biomedical
product.
It's absolutely impossible.
It's not as close.
It's years wrong.
Okay, so that was indeed the summary right
down to...
Remember, we went to Vegas for the Super
Spreader event, and there's that hospital there and
all of the ventilator trainers, the people who
train people and instruct them how to use
ventilators, and they were telling me, like, man,
I don't want to lose my job, but
we're killing people with this stuff.
We're doing it wrong.
We're doing everything exactly the opposite of what
we think we should be doing.
So yes, that was a summary of what
we discussed during COVID when people cared about
us.
Now we're just wrong about everything.
Now we're just wrong.
You're wrong.
Now we're wrong because of Ukraine and the
Jews.
Wrong side of history, man.
Yeah, exactly.
But here comes the downer.
The fastest record price of this was six
years, and friends of mine who've worked all
their lives in manufacturing with complex biological products
tell me the methods of development alone for
the developments of a reproducible manufacturing process itself
takes a number of years.
So whatever it is you think was done,
I am telling you it was not the
development of a proper medical product.
What I think happened was the advancement of
materials that are intentionally toxic, and then it
was sketchily advanced and jammed into people's arms,
often coerced, sometimes even mandated, with the unsurprising
effect that millions of people have died.
So I think having heard what I've just
said, that there was no pandemic, and the
line was maintained in order to inject people
en masse, I think five and a half
billion people with an intentionally dangerous substance, 17
million of whom have died so far.
There you go.
It's just the guy who used to be
a vice president at Pfizer.
Pay no attention to him.
17 million he says?
That's what he says, yeah.
I'm going to give you a borderline clip
for that.
You know, I will take a borderline clip
from you.
By the way, we have next Sunday will
be a Best of Clips of the Day
show of the Noah Taylor Show.
That should be fun.
I will say this about the borderline, I
would have given you maybe Clip of the
Day if it sounded better.
It was one of those Zoom calls.
Here's if President Trump would just say, in
hindsight, I did everything that I was supposed
to do.
I got warp speed going.
We rushed this out.
It wasn't a good shot.
He talks about the fat shot, this shot.
If he would just say that, he would
endear so many people.
He would piss off a lot of people,
but it would bring clarity to the world.
I'd prefer him to say those five words,
it was a lousy shot.
Then I care more about the Epstein or
the JFK or honestly, even if there's an
ice wall at the edge of the flat
Earth.
Firmament first, maybe.
I believe within his personality to do this.
I think you're right.
I don't think that the system is set
up that they would use that against him
in some way or shape or form.
They're already trying to make him anti-American
as we discussed earlier.
It's just probably not a good idea.
In fact, it's only outliers, and I would
put ourselves in that category, who even bring
up clips like the one you just played.
And you know why that is?
That's because we don't take advertising.
That's the whole reason.
That's exactly why.
And with that, I'd like to thank you
for your currency in the morning to you,
the man who put the sea in climatize.
Say hello to my friend on the other
end, the one, the only Mr. John C.
Devorah.
Hey, in the morning, I'm currently with some
Rafi in the air, subs in the water,
the dames and knights out there and all
the dames and knights out there.
Yes.
In the morning to the trolls in the
troll room.
Catch you for a second.
2,294 listening live.
We'll do it live.
Hello, trolls.
Bad trolls are active today.
They're good.
Actually, those trolls in the troll room, troll
.io, they're listening on the modern podcast apps.
We had a meetup yesterday and and a
girl who sings at our church was there,
Holly.
And I say, Holly?
She says, yeah.
I said, what are you doing here?
Well, I listened to the show.
She said, you listened to the show?
She says, yeah, no, I heard about it
and then I went looking on Amazon.
What?
You're not on Amazon?
You're listening on, yeah, I have an Amazon
podcast app.
I said, okay.
You need to go to podcast apps.com
and get a real podcast app.
My goodness.
Yeah, I couldn't find everything.
No, of course not.
They'll take stuff off.
They'll even take episodes off, like Spotify.
They delete episodes all the time.
It's a known fact.
It's a known secret unspoken fact in the
podcast industrial complex.
They don't need all this aggravation with all
these extra everything on there.
I mean, they're not an archivist.
I don't blame them.
I'd take it off too if I was
Spotify.
Yeah?
Yeah, you'd be Swedish.
So, yeah, get a modern podcast app.
It's a lot of fun.
They're much better, you know, to alert you
when we're going live.
You can't listen to a live stream on
an Amazon podcast app.
It's just not going to happen, or on
Apple or Spotify.
What does she think of the show?
She's now a listener.
She loves the show.
In particular, the first thing she said is,
is John coming?
But she hasn't listened long enough.
No, I'm like, you're pretty new to the
show.
By the way, let me just give you
a quick meetup report.
This was fantastic.
This was at Bar 1776.
That's Jenny, the J6er.
That's her bar.
You know, she also has the full moon,
I think it's full moon bed and breakfast.
Currently, five rooms have been inhabited for over
a year by paroled January 6 people whose
lives were destroyed.
They were in jail for several years and
of course came out and like, there's nothing
left.
And so she's taking care of them.
And Matt and Gail Long, they organized this.
They've been doing it.
They're going for twice a year.
Last one was in October.
Many of the No Agenda luminaries were there.
And when I say that I mean Dirty
Jersey Whore, Sir Brian with a Lie, Rob
Ducifer, the Infowars producer with his lovely wife,
Trish.
And they left their 18 human resources at
home.
Rob, the constitutional lawyer who, he's my height.
He's beefier than I am.
He has a big white cowboy hat on.
And people are like, oh, you're Rob, the
constitutional lawyer?
Awesome.
I love him.
Trinidad was there.
He's kind of like a Bruno Mars type
dude.
He's of some Hispanic descent.
His shirt's open.
He's got gold chains.
He's got a cool hat.
He had a Polaroid, one of those modern
Polaroids.
You ever seen those, the tiny ones that
you can pick up at some Gen Z
store?
Yeah.
Taking Polaroids.
And he said, oh, I bought a fire
truck.
Yeah, he bought a really nice fire truck,
like an OG, not an old school one,
but you know, the kind you see driving
around Manhattan.
Yeah, he says, I think it's going to
be worth more than Bitcoin.
And then, Jamie and Alyssa, who were from
Dallas, they came down, young couple.
They had not one, not two, but three
trap babies.
Honest to God, trap babies.
The youngest was three weeks old.
Man, what a great family.
You just look at them like, wow.
That's America to me, Jamie and Alyssa.
You guys are the best.
As an experiment, which worked out really well,
Matt invited one of his buddies who has
a barbecue outfit.
He's got a real smoker with wood.
He throws wood in there.
He was burning.
What was he burning?
What's the nut tree?
The pecan.
Pecan, yeah, that's big in that area.
Yeah, pecan wood.
And he did.
Sometimes they use the shells.
So he said, Matt, the guy is not,
he's no agenda listener now, but he'd never
listened before.
And Matt said, you're going to do a
barbecue and it's going to be value for
value.
The guy's like, what is that?
You just put the food out and the
people will give you money.
He's like, okay.
Honor bar for barbecue.
He did okay.
I checked after.
He said he did okay.
He loved it.
He loved the value for value model.
He thought it was really great.
And I'll tell you, Rob gave me a
lowdown on this Supreme Court habeas corpus thing,
which we'll talk about.
Anyway, it was a great meetup.
Thank you all for being there.
Not a lot of people were donating in
person.
I think some of them will show up
on the spreadsheet.
These are all donors.
Not a single one is not a donor.
Who was the guy who said, hey man,
I'm on a fixed income, but here's $5.
That was very nice.
Actually, we got you know, the BioPros had
given two bags of BioSeptic Pro.
What you called the goo for your septic
tank.
Oh, you finally got some.
Yes.
And with a check for 222.22, which
is five number twos.
Got it.
And two bags of BioSeptic Pro for you
to try.
He says BioSeptic Pro is not a goo,
John, but a powder that is activated when
it comes in contact with water.
It was created by a scientist who engineered
the microbes and a retired chemical engineer from
Pittsburgh, Plate Glass, who created the delivery medium.
It's like probiotics for your septic tank.
And that BioPros.com Sir Ducifer gave us
each $20 cash.
So I have an envelope for you.
Send to the globalists in your life, he
says.
And we both got $154 for the show.
And from Gaucho Woodworking, Robert Stack from Gaucho
Woodworking, he made us each a beautiful cutting
board.
I thought that they were in LA.
Somehow I got to Sir Ducifer.
We've gotten some cutting boards in the past.
This one is, I mean, yours has too
many eggs on it, ingrained in the wood.
That would be Mimi's then.
It's for you.
And Tina has promised she's going to send
it off.
So I'm going to send this to John.
She probably will.
She will.
Yes, she will.
She's like that.
So that's just many ways that we share
and value for value.
Another way that can be done is through
the work that many people do, like organizing
a meetup.
Matt Long organizes meetups.
Got to love him for that.
Or you could make some artwork for us.
We love our art.
And the No Agenda artists are always hard
at work during the live show.
Some are hard at work.
Some just type a lot.
Like Darren O'Neill.
Or like Darren O'Neill.
I was right.
Who did the artwork for episode 1764 titled
Rage Quit.
Then this was it looked like it was
a cutout of a newspaper.
No Agenda presents the JCD TikTok show by
Curry and Dvorak, the latest hip videos deconstructed.
And we just got to admit, besides the
fact that there's no white in these AI
images, which you correctly pointed out, when you
really got it down like Darren, it's good.
It's getting hard to beat.
Again, it's part of the muddy complex.
And I've noticed this, even by the one
I use, they use the Please Donate Dog
from Comic Strip Blogger who uses AI.
And if you look at his, which is
right next to Darren's on the sheet, the
No Agenda, Curry and Dvorak is kind of
white, but it's not.
It's kind of muddy white.
Yeah, you're right.
Yeah.
We want an explanation Comic Strip Blogger.
Well, I want an explanation from the AI.
Have the AI explain.
They've got to do something about the dynamic
range of these art pieces.
Yeah, I don't think they can.
No, they have to be.
It's a copy of a copy of a
copy.
It can't be done.
It's done.
There were a number of entrants.
Let's see.
What other things did we discuss?
You liked the Rage Quit one, which I
thought was funny by Darren.
Also by Darren with the Muppet-looking guy.
It was supposed to be me, I guess.
There was a lot of reparations for gingers.
It was funny.
But not really dynamite.
Then a lot of airplanes with bows on
it.
Trump plane.
It still takes a good idea.
I don't care how much AI you have
or if you do it by hand, you
still need to have a good idea.
That's what Darren did.
Was there anything else that we had discussed?
We liked?
I don't think so.
Do you remember?
It was Slim Pickens, I thought.
There's a lot of pieces that I think
could have been used, but in terms of
what we really were attracted to, it was
very narrow.
That's true.
ArtGenerator.com is where you can participate in
this so-called contest, where we do it
every single show.
We're very grateful to our artists in the
No Agenda Nations.
You can get Monation.
We also thank everybody who supports the show
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Whatever you can afford, if you get value
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That's what has kept us going for more
than 17 years now.
We'll thank everybody, $50 and above.
We do like to highlight a Hollywood vibe
that we've developed over the years, which is
the executive and associate executive producers, kind of
like Hollywood where if you actually pay a
lot of money, and we're not talking millions
of dollars, we're talking $200 or above, then
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There's some long notes today.
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You can see there's over 1,000 people
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So we'll kick it off with Ben Nidas.
Ben's been around.
San Francisco, California, 639.33. And he says,
John, sorry John, sorry John, the IRS hit
me hard this year, so could only give
you four silver ounces for the recent meetups.
Did you get four silver ounces?
Four coins that were an ounce each.
Where's mine?
I put it aside.
You'll get it eventually.
By the way, today, no, tomorrow, you know
what tomorrow is?
It's our anniversary.
You know what the anniversary is?
Uh, no.
Five years since we last saw each other
in person.
You've been married for five years?
Tomorrow, yeah.
I don't know where you put it.
It's kind of messed up because I had
a whole day and we're going to stay
overnight in Austin, I'm going to have dinner
at our restaurant when we were dating.
Didn't you have a fancy dinner last week?
No, this is just Tina and myself, but
she came down with, I don't know what
it is.
She has the goop It's just in her
head.
No body ache, but she's coughing and congested
and we're traveling next weekend, so I'm like,
I don't think we should go.
Which is a bummer.
But yes, it is our Oh, that sucks.
It really does.
We were looking forward to it.
You clear the decks, no meetings, no nothing,
then this happens.
So that's why I then remembered that's the
last time we saw each other face to
face.
It's probably a good thing.
Yes, definitely.
And he says, John, on your birthday the
Troy ounce was worth $33.
The image of you rocking back and forth
in the chair was too disturbing to imagine.
I'm not quite sure what he's referring to
here.
It was the rage quit bit.
Oh, remember?
Yes, I remember.
And he wants some chemtrails and fluoride in
your cup.
Chemtrails.
It's hard waking up.
Is fluoride in my cup?
There you go.
You got some fluoride in your cup, brother.
Andrew Gibbon in Darlington, UK, 420.
It's not 420, but maybe he came in
at whatever, but he doesn't have a note.
This came in over Stripe, no note, which
gives him a double up karma.
And he's from the GBs.
You've got double up karma.
Which brings us to Jason Roman from Eatontown,
New Jersey, 338.22. He says, this is
a switcheroo donation on behalf of our wonderful
son Nicholas Roman, who graduated from Rutgers.
Hold on a second.
Let me make sure we get that switcheroo
in there.
Graduated from Rutgers University last week.
I'll soon be a dude named Ben.
As if graduating wasn't enough to accomplish this
year, the 321.25 plus fees donation also
celebrates the birth of Nick's daughter and our
first grandchild, Francesca Rose Roman, who came into
the world on 321.25. See, numbers are
important.
So what gift do you get for a
young man who has it all?
He's got a degree.
He's got a kid.
Presumably a wife.
Of course, a producer credit for the best
podcast in the universe.
We are so proud of the man he
has become.
Listening to the No Agenda podcast has been
such a positive influence on him and has
kept our family grounded and always seeking the
truth.
Remember, families that N-A together stay together.
I love hearing that.
I'd like to request some goat karma for
him, his girlfriend Christine, and the rest of
the family.
For jingles, can we have Trump Massive Dumps.
I got that.
That's for Nick.
And two favorites of mine, Rule Follower and
John's Creepy Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah.
Do you remember what we titled the Yeah
Yeah Yeah Yeah?
Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah.
Yeah.
I was trying to find it earlier and
is it John?
No, I can't.
Do you know how many times we have
a...
Oh, I have it here.
Okay.
Oops, I just found it.
Here we go.
They did dumps.
They call them dumps.
Big massive dumps.
I'm a Rule Follower, so if the rule
is that we have to do it, then
I'll do it.
Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
No, no, no, no.
And he ends by saying hope you guys
can make it to the East Coast for
a meet up a few times before you
wrap it up.
Thank you for your courage.
Four more years.
Love is lit.
J.
Roman, a.k.a. Mappy.
Thank you, Mappy.
Then we go to Bowman McMahon in San
Antonio, Texas where it's 105.
Yeah.
We're not even climatized.
Here's a simple message.
Thank you for your courage, he writes.
Nice.
Ara Dadarian, Tribuco Canyon.
Ara back on the stick.
$250 associate executive producership.
Not his first.
And says thank you for an outstanding product.
And thank you.
We appreciate you, Ara.
Well, that gives you the next one to
read because it blows out my spreadsheet on
my small monitor.
Consider a larger monitor.
ITM Gents says Daniel Peruzzo from Courtenay, British
Columbia.
Candonavia 238 60.
Now is that?
Oh, that he's going to be moved up
because this is indeed a 333.33 Candonavian
donation not only to support the best podcast
in the universe but also to help spread
the word about a groundbreaking intervention.
Wow, 333.33 is now 238?
And 60 cents.
Oh my god.
He wants to help spread the word about
a groundbreaking invention with the potential to revolutionize
energy production.
Well, I'm listening.
Zero point energy.
This innovation could bring an end to endless
financial drain of the climate agenda that will
burden many future generations perhaps hold an end
to the never-ending wars and bring real
relief to those who need it most.
Dream on.
My name is Dan Peruzzo.
I'm a small-time video producer in Courtenay,
B.C. I recently did an interview with
Dr. Andrea Rossi in Rome who has created
a device called ECATS, the energy catalyzer that
produces electricity in self-sustaining mode.
You mean like a perpetual motion?
Which means it can create energy without the
need for fuel.
This is based on the concept of L
-E-N-R.
Right up your alley.
I love this.
Low Energy Nuclear Reaction.
A.K.A. Cold Fusion.
This is awesome.
Which was first introduced to the world in
the late 80s by scientists Pons and Fleischmann
but swiftly headed into the dustbin of controlled
conspiracy theories.
John's rolling his eyes.
You can find the video titled ECATS the
new fire on my website solutionsunincorporated.com Not
my best work but I really wanted to
get the word out that this tech is
real and close to market.
However, I do have concerns.
By the way, anti-gravity any minute.
Energy is a multi-trillion dollar industry.
I will assume those who control the sector
would not care for this technology to see
the light of day like many other inventions
that have mysteriously disappeared right before they hit
the market.
Think Nikola Tesla, Stanley Meyer, Tom Ogle, Yul
Brown, Royal Reif, and the list goes on.
My fear is the same will happen to
Dr. Rossi's ECAT.
Although he has secured investors and moved from
development to manufacturing I could easily see being
tied up in bureaucratic red tape or being
bought up by a jeez by a shell
corporation and filed away into the oops how
did that get lost drawer.
Oh my god, how much more do you
have here bro?
Okay.
Anyway, ECAT new fire on his website solutions
unincorporated.
I'll take a look for sure.
No jingles good karma for all and please
call out our freshly installed Prime Minister Mark
Carney as a douchebag.
Alright brother, thank you very much.
I'm a fan, I'm a fan.
Oh, I'm sorry.
That was quite a long note.
Onward with William Messing in Vashon, Washington 233.
This is an associate executive producer.
Donation from my lifelong friend Sir Chris of
Carmel.
Please play a Reverend L jingle.
Oh, I got one.
R-E-S-P-I-C-T R
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way I'm trying to read through the rest
of that note that he sent that didn't
fit on your spreadsheet or mine.
He says, hey man, let me get Dana
Brunetti to do a movie about him.
Yeah.
That would be quite cool.
Brunetti!
Brunetti, you're up man.
Okay, where are we?
We are at Sean Holman.
No, I'm sorry, Baron Victor.
I'm going to tell you about Baron Victor.
Baron Victor from Corvallis, Oregon 231.
Hello from Baron Victor of the Willamette Valley.
I was just noting that I was first
knighted on 3 20 2012.
I am now a Baron and also a
Commodore.
I wear my ring every day.
ITM.
Thank you brother.
And ITM to you.
Sean Holman in Noblesville, Indiana 21911.
And he says, Book of Acts Acts Acts
Chapter 5, verses 40 through 42.
Trust in his promise.
So you should go read that.
I have read it actually.
It has something to do with our donations.
Yes.
I completely trust in his promise.
That's right.
But he's saying it for you.
He's saying it for me?
Yeah.
He's trying to bring you back to the
kingdom, you lapsed Catholic.
People will try.
It's what we do.
It's the Great Commission.
Coming in with $205.18 There he is.
Our supplier.
The man who gives us the buzz.
Eli the coffee guy Bensonville, Illinois.
The new sad puppy in the newsletter got
to me.
AI is taking over and it's even replaced
the OG sad puppy.
What is the world coming to?
He's got a point.
Can I get some jobs karma for the
start of another another great farmer's market season?
Yes.
To all producers in the Chicagoland area.
He goes to the big farmer's market there.
That's what you do.
If you're serious.
Farmer's markets are great.
We have one here every Thursday.
Let me stop for a second.
Are you going to say something about the
farmer's markets around here?
There's a couple of good ones.
Most of them are a blatant rip off.
The one in Emory does in Kensington that
takes place in the morning of the show.
They just a couple of bakeries.
There's like guys bakeries and other people there
and their prices are the bakeries are the
same as at the bakery but the vendors
of the strawberries and all the rest of
it.
They jack up the price.
The farmer's market is supposed to be a
way to get rid of the middleman and
get a deal.
You're supposed to get a deal.
If you go to Georgia, you go to
Atlanta, Georgia.
I've been to the farmer's market there.
It's like a good deal.
You're not getting ripped off.
You're getting the farmer's prices.
These around here, especially in the San Francisco
Bay Area, I'd say the one at the
Ferry Building and elsewhere and the one in
Kensington for example are just a jip.
They're a rip off.
They add two or three bucks to the
price because it's from the farmer.
Bull crap.
Well, we have a farmer's market here which
is not bull crap.
Unfortunately, it's on Thursday so I can never
attend it.
And when I was in Austin, I still
miss Farmer Chris with the eggs.
I miss Farmer Chris's eggs.
To continue with Eli the Coffee Guy, he
says to all producers in the Chicago area,
I hope to see you at our tent
sometime this summer and visit our website on
the social nets to see where we'll be.
For everybody else a little further afield, don't
miss out on all the fun.
Visit gigawattcoffeeroasters.com and use code ITM20 for
20% off your order.
Thank you for your courage and stay caffeinated,
says Eli the Coffee Guy.
This brings us to Stephen Anders who's in
Munchen, Munich, Deutschland.
Hello Munchen, Deutschland.
Here's the Hoff.
200 bucks, he doesn't have a note so
we'll give him a double up karma.
Yes, we will.
Send the note.
It's probably Stefan.
Stefan Anders in Munchen.
And last on the list, she's always on
the list that we love her for it,
associate executive producer credit again, Linda Lou Patkin
from Lakewood, Colorado.
$200 and she wants Jobs Karma and she
reminds us all, for a faster job search
with a resume that gets results, go to
Image Makers Inc.
for all of your executive resume and job
search needs.
That's imagemakersincwithak.com and work with Linda Lou,
Duchess of Jobs, and she is also the
writer of resumes.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs.
You've got karma.
I was talking to Sir Ducifer because he
knows the probiotic what is it, not probiotic
what are they called?
thebiopros.com I said does anyone buy this
stuff?
He said oh yeah gangbusters What?
From their donation they've donated a couple times.
Oh, you're talking about the septic tank crap?
The non-goo stuff.
Yes, the septic tank crap, John, exactly.
And he said oh yeah people love it.
Suppose if it works, they would.
Well, I'm not putting it in my septic
until I talk to Paul the septic guy.
Paul is You should always consult with a
septic tank expert before adding stuff to your
septic system.
He will either say wow, that's interesting or
get out of here with that nonsense.
What if he says give me a bag?
I'll give him a bag.
I've got two bags.
I'll give him a bag.
Straight up.
Paul is no nonsense.
He's like a Ted Nugent guy.
Hey, hey man.
Yeah, I went to see the Nuge the
other day.
Paul is an awesome dude.
You know that Ted Nugent is still not
in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
No, of course not because he's a Ted
Nugent.
Of course he's not.
And you know what?
I think he refuses.
He refuses now because they won't let him
in.
Of course.
Once they let Abba in it's like okay,
why?
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Our formula is this.
We go out.
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Shut up slave.
Shut up.
Yes.
I have a series of US you know
our government versus Harvard.
Yes.
Harvard.
Let me just recap.
So this is really about President Trump saying
hey you guys you jacked up the prices
on admissions.
You got hundreds of billions of dollars in
endowments.
You don't pay any tax on it.
You're a bunch of elitist globalists.
I'm going to screw you for ideological reasons.
How is he screwing him?
He's just not giving them government money.
It's a private institution.
Why do they deserve government money?
I'm saying this because I'm asking you.
Well they don't but I'm saying this because
that's what was on the clip earlier.
It's a callback baby.
So let's play this and see what's the
complaint now.
The Trump administration's feud.
Stop the clip already.
Another NPR hate non-Trump clip.
The Trump administration's feud with major American universities
escalated this week.
The federal anti-Semitism task force notified Harvard
that $450 million of the school's research grants
are being cut.
And that's on top of the $2.2
billion that had previously frozen.
Laura Barone Lopez spoke with one of the
affected researchers.
Jane Brugge, the director of Harvard's Ludwig Cancer
Center.
Dr. Brugge, you've been working for years on
breast cancer research.
Tell me what type of research exactly are
you doing and the type of progress that
you've made?
In my lab, the ultimate goal of our
research efforts is to find better ways to
detect and to destroy cancer in its tracks.
And the Breast Cancer Research Project that is
funded by a National Cancer Institute grant that
is currently frozen specifically aims to identify and
profile the earliest precursors or harbingers of breast
cancer before these precursors become cancer.
Oh, they're doing important work.
National Cancer Institute fund, is that, so in
other words, that doesn't really exist?
That's just government money?
Is that what you're saying?
I'm not sure it sounds like it.
So $400 million is not going to Harvard
because there are a bunch of Jew haters?
And so she's whining because the national, yeah,
that's the reason.
Yeah, that's the reason.
Is that the only reason?
Well, nobody, like, it's also, you know, this
could be a money grab.
Yeah, it could be, just possibly.
So the goal then is to develop methods
to detect these early precursors and then design
treatments that prevent them from becoming cancer.
So that means, say, if someone had one
of those, what's known as a BRCA gene,
that you could help stop that in its
tracks?
Yes, this would allow us to monitor the
development or the expansion of these early precursors.
And even before we had treatments for them,
we could be able to tell when they're
starting to expand, and that would be the
cue for those women to have the prophylactic
breast cancer mastectomies.
How important, ultimately, are federal grants in the
work that you do?
I would say federal grants are the most
important contributors to our research effort.
There just isn't enough money from foundations or
partnerships with companies to cover the amount of
research that there's opportunities to pursue.
There's an interesting tell in that.
The tell, or the interesting point here, there's
not enough non-profits, basically what she said,
or companies that are even interested in stopping
cancer.
Of course they're not.
It's a boondoggle.
Whatever they develop, though, it's those companies that
make the profits.
Yeah, but if they cure cancer...
Oh, they're not curing cancer.
By the way, on the quad box right
now, former President Biden diagnosed with, quote, aggressive
prostate cancer.
It's in his bones.
It's in his bones?
Yeah.
That's not where prostate cancer usually goes, but
okay.
It says Biden diagnosed with, quote, aggressive, unquote,
prostate cancer, has spread...
I think he did get the vaccine.
Has spread to his bones.
Before you go on, this complaining, this is
440 million bucks, I think, that the government's
pulling, saying, nah, screw it.
Yeah.
I know you probably don't know this off
the top of your head, but, for example,
let's look at the top 10 pharma companies
and their net profit.
What was the profit made by, let's say,
the top one, Johnson & Johnson, in 2024?
What was the profit?
How many dollars did they end up in
their coffers at the end of the year?
Profits, though.
It's after they've paid for everything.
Yeah, everything's all taken care of.
Everything's just pure.
Are they a public company, Johnson & Johnson?
Yes, of course.
I would say...
$23 billion.
That's high.
But it's $18 billion.
And every other of the top 10 is
$15 billion or more.
It's $15 billion, $16 billion, $17 billion.
These are billions and billions.
Hold on a sec.
So what you're saying is they should...
If you've got $18 billion, $17.5 billion's
okay.
Shouldn't they be giving that to Harvard?
$10 billion is okay, and they can give
$8 billion to Harvard.
But they don't give any billion to Harvard.
They do.
It's not talked about in this report.
Neither is it talked about in this report
by Lopez.
How much money these pharma companies are just
making.
They're making bank.
You can go to the top 20, and
it's all in the multi-billions, you know,
from $10 billion to $18.
Excuse me.
You're thinking that Lopez is going to ask
a question that might look bad of the
pharmaceutical industry?
Please.
Do I think that?
What do you think?
No, I don't think so.
But the point is that this whining anti
-Trump, oh, it's his fault, is bullcrap.
With termination of, say, for instance, the grant
to our lab, we would have to...
We wouldn't have the money to fund salaries
for the postdoctoral fellows or trainees.
They're doing the work.
We lose the money necessary to buy supplies
for these studies and to pay for the
technology.
I'll buy pencils.
Hold on a second.
How about taking just the annual interest on
your $100 billion endowment?
Gosh, it's about 60, 50 to 60 billion.
Okay.
I'll be honest about it.
Okay.
Do you think there's $400 million in there?
At least a billion, yeah.
These are trainees and research scientists that are
doing the work.
We lose the money necessary to buy supplies
for these studies and to pay for the
technologies, and this would severely impede progress towards
our goal, especially when we're so close.
We've actually identified these cells that we think
are the earliest precursor to cancer, and so
we wouldn't be able to develop the methods
so that this work would have impact in
the community.
I never imagined that there would be a
cross-board cut in research that could have
such important implications for the general well-being
of the United States.
If research like yours is ultimately cut off,
what effect would it have on everyday Americans
and the work that you and others do
at Harvard?
There would be a really significant delay advancing
all of the research findings that we've made
to date, and so this would slow down
the development of therapies depending on how long
and how broadly these cuts are applied, but
there are a lot of other consequences, like
the reduction in research funding would reduce the
pipeline of disease-impacting discoveries from U.S.
academic institutions to pharmaceutical companies that then translate
the discoveries into treatments and cures for diseases.
So industry relies on these discoveries.
We would also lose our competitive edge and
leadership in the world.
Laboratories in other countries would have a significant
competitive edge if the discoveries are made outside
the United States.
What a crock.
You know, now that I think about it,
I'm just looking at Biden, I'm thinking about
Trump, and I'm thinking about you.
You really know a lot of stuff.
You should run for president.
You've got at least 15 years to become
president.
Yeah, I do.
I've got time ahead with something like that.
Yeah, you would be great.
This is a nonsense complaint.
$440 million and they say pharmaceutical companies aren't
going to get the benefit of our research.
The pharmaceutical companies should be giving you the
$440 million.
It's not a big deal when they're making
$18 billion a year at minimum, and that's
one of 20 or 30 of these companies.
The other thing, it's just ludicrous, and then
you have your own endowment.
This whining and to get backed up by
PBS and this Lopez woman, it's just pathetic.
How dumb do they think the public is
to fall for this?
Well, the public isn't watching that.
Well, they are.
They're not watching, they're not listening.
There's a lot of people that watch and
listen to this crap.
Yeah, or are they listening to our show?
I don't know.
We've got the cognoscenti.
The cognoscenti?
Yeah.
I'm writing it down.
I want a t-shirt.
I'm a cognoscenti.
You are.
You're actually a cognoscenti.
You know, this whole, we don't have any
clips about it, but the whole Comey 8647
shells on the beach deal.
It's funny we don't have any clips.
Yeah, because we're both like...
That's all Fox talked about.
Eye roll.
But I like the coincidence that when he
posted that picture, it had been 8,647
days since September 11th, 2001.
I don't know who came up with it,
but what is James Comey really trying to
tell us?
Oh, that's an interesting boinky dink.
Yeah, there's no coincidences in the kingdom.
Yes, everything seems to be anti-Trump.
Kill the president, 8647.
He's no good.
He's horrible.
He's racist.
He's a white nationalist.
He criticizes the country from afar.
African News did a positive little, well, only
a minute, but they had a positive wrap
-up of his deals.
The deals he did for us, people.
United States President Donald Trump wrapped up his
Middle East tour on Friday that saw him
visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar and with a last
stop in the United Arab Emirates.
In this first visit to the UAE by
a US president since 2008, the two countries
pledged to strengthen ties and announced deals totaling
over $200 billion.
This includes a partnership with the UAE to
build a massive AI data center in its
capital Abu Dhabi and for the Gulf state
to buy advanced AI semiconductors from US companies.
Its 80 head airways is said it'll buy
28 US-made Boeing aircraft in a deal
worth $14.5 billion while Abu Dhabi, the
UAE's capital, pledged to hike the value of
its energy investments in the US to $440
billion in the next decade.
The four-day trip was very much focused
on business and resulted in a string of
lucrative deals for both Washington and the three
countries.
Trump boarded Air Force One in Abu Dhabi
on Friday giving his signature fist bump before
heading back home having shifted Washington's focus from
Israel to the wealthy Gulf states.
Yeah.
Give those Nvidia chips to the Arabs.
What are they going to do with them?
I guess because they have cheap power, is
that the idea?
I think so.
They'll be training the models in the desert.
Training the models in the desert.
So I have a couple of clips here
about tariffs which I do want to get
out of the way.
ABC will kick it off with Senator Rand
Paul who is, this is his shining moment
everybody.
This is all unconstitutional.
It's no good.
We can't have this.
He's not a team player right now which
is his good right.
Has he ever been a team player?
No.
But we could have used him I think
now.
I just want the taxes on tips to
go away, man.
Make one of these millennials be quiet.
Let me turn to tariffs.
The president also announced a temporary reduction to
those big China tariffs.
So there's still 30% tariffs on goods
coming in from China as he negotiates, tries
to negotiate a new deal.
Walmart has warned that this will result in
higher prices.
What's your assessment?
Well, tariffs are taxes.
No.
I really despise this line.
Tariffs are taxes.
No.
They're not.
John, are tariffs taxes?
No, they're tariffs.
They're tariffs.
That's why they have a different name.
Yes, well, tariffs are taxes.
Well, tariffs are taxes and when you put
a tax on a business, it's always passed
through as a cost.
So there will be higher prices.
And I think this is what's important to
know.
People talk about, oh, this is America versus
China.
The U.S. doesn't trade with China.
You trade with Walmart or you trade with
Target or you trade with Amazon.
Americans go in and buy a product.
Now, it might come from China, but think
about it this way.
Think of the entire trade with China was
all TVs.
A million people go to Walmart.
They all buy a TV.
They like the quality.
They like the price.
And it happened to come from China.
But then you draw a circle around China
and the U.S. and you say, oh
my goodness, it's a trade deficit.
We buy all of our TVs from over
there.
But each individual transaction, each individual who bought
a TV was happy.
But how can you draw a circle around
a million happy people and say they all
got ripped off?
So there's an economic fallacy here.
And the fallacy is that trade deficits actually
mean anything.
They're an artificial accounting.
The only trade that means anything is the
individual who buys something.
That's the only real trade.
And that, by very definition, if it's voluntary,
is mutually beneficial or the trade doesn't occur.
This is the worst economic analysis I've ever
heard.
This is typical of the economics of an
ophthalmologist.
I want to play something that President Trump
said just recently, specifically talking about our trade
deficit with Canada.
Take a listen.
Why are we subsidizing Canada $200 billion a
year or whatever the number might be?
It's a very substantial number.
And it's hard for the American taxpayer to
say, gee whiz, we love doing that.
The actual trade deficit with Canada is actually
a little less than, or quite a bit
less than $100 billion.
But even so, is a trade deficit subsidizing
Canada?
He should say yes, because if tariffs are
taxes, then you have to call the opposite
subsidies.
That would be fair if he said that.
No, they're really not related at all.
What happens if we trade with another country
because they have less expensive goods is we
become richer.
There's all kinds of things that happens to
that extra money, but you are richer because
you've gotten a product at a lower cost.
This is the other fallacy they put forward.
They say, oh, the middle class is being
hollowed out.
If you look at the middle class over
70 years, the middle class is about the
same as it was 70 years ago.
The one segment of our economy that has
grown is those making over $100,000 a
year, and that has tripled.
So most of the middle class, if the
middle class shrunk at all, actually went to
an upper class.
If you say upper class begins at $100
,000.
So most of this is just fallacy.
We have gotten rich, rich, rich off of
trade, all Americans, and it is lifting all
boats, and we are richer than we have
ever been in any time in our history.
But it's not easy to convince people of
that, because those short-term problems where you
have inflation during the last four years, where
the middle class actually did lose purchasing power
and did get poorer.
But if you look at it in the
long term, it's not trade causing this.
The thing that makes us poorer, if anything,
would be inflation and the general rise of
prices from inflation.
Well, he's right there, yes.
And I think the inflation he's talking about
is money creation.
But come on, Rand Paul.
Come on.
Why is he doing this?
And he's wrong.
His premise is also somewhat wrong because a
lot of it, he says, the public doesn't
trade with China.
Yes, we do.
Of course we do.
Anyone with a Timu or Xian accounts, and
there's millions and millions of people in the
public who are trading directly with China.
Yeah.
And a lot of the stuff you even
buy from Amazon is coming directly from China.
The public is trading directly with China.
Yes.
And the stuff you get is crap.
A lot of it is pure junk.
It's not making anybody richer.
It's making people poorer.
You get junk in your house.
And then you've got to buy another copy.
Yeah.
It fell apart.
I've got to buy another one.
Now we need to move to Scott Besant.
And he joined your pal Kristen Welker.
She's your pal, right?
Manhands, yeah.
Oh no, Kristen Welker.
Yes.
I always mix her up with, yeah, I
don't know I can mix her up with
anybody.
Meet the press about the Federal Reserve.
How far, Mr. Secretary, is the president, is
the administration willing to go to prevent CEOs
from increasing prices?
Well, I think what we are hearing here
is that people are saying tax increases are
inflationary.
That when I was testifying before Congress last
week, one of the congressmen said that.
And I said, well, congressman, if taxes are
inflationary, let's cut taxes.
So let's get this tax bill done, bring
down taxes, which, according to this line of
thinking, should be disinflationary.
But the Federal Reserve has said that tariffs
are inflationary.
Just to be very clear, you said you
called Walmart.
Is that what CEOs can expect?
That you, that the president, that other members
of the administration will apply pressure to try
to prevent them from passing on these prices
to CEOs?
I didn't apply any pressure.
Doug and I have a very good relationship,
so I just wanted to hear it from
him rather than second, third hand from the
press.
And again, as I said, this is all
from their earnings call.
And on an earnings call, you have to
give the worst case scenario.
Kristen, to go back to what you said,
the Federal Reserve is not saying that tariffs
will cause inflation.
They're saying they're not sure and that they're
in wait-and-see mode.
That's interesting.
I've not heard the investor call, so it
isn't necessarily true that Walmart said, we've got
to raise prices!
They said, we may have to raise prices
depending on the market situation.
See how that gets twisted around?
Well, the news media picked it up and
ran it as though it was a slogan.
When in fact, Walmart is never going to
promote that.
They used to always have, oh, we're lowering
prices back to whatever.
They're not going to go out and promote,
hey, we've raised our prices, come visit us.
Come shop!
And Kristen, why didn't Kristen say, as a
gay man, do you hate working for that
homophobe, Donald Trump?
I'm waiting for that question!
Let's start right there with Moody's downgrading the
nation's credit rating, and they do cite the
debt.
I want to read you a little bit
of what Moody says.
Data!
It says, quote, if the 2017 Tax Cuts
and Jobs Act is extended, which is our
base case, it will add around $4 trillion
to the deficit over the next decade.
Several Republicans, Mr. Secretary, are citing similar concerns.
Does the President's tax bill need to do
more?
Wait a minute, so that's $400 billion a
year?
No.
Wait.
Yes.
Over 10 years, $4 trillion.
A trillion is $1,000 billion.
Yeah, it would be $400 a year, yeah.
But that's what we send to Ukraine!
What is that?
I don't like it when they do that.
Yes, this is another trick I've heard a
lot of times.
We haven't discussed it.
We haven't brought it up.
But it's common.
Yeah, it's going to cost the country $2
trillion over 10 years.
$2 trillion over 5 years.
$2 trillion over 100 years.
I mean, what's it going to cost?
And by the way, over 10 years, $400
billion will be like $100 billion today with
inflation.
Secretary are citing similar concerns.
Does the President's tax bill need to do
more to address the nation's debt and deficit?
Well, Kristen, first of all, I think that
Moody's is a lagging indicator.
I think that's what everyone thinks of credit
agencies.
Larry Summers and I don't agree on everything,
but he said that when they downgraded the
U.S. in 2011.
So it's a lagging indicator.
And just like Sean Duffy said with our
air traffic control system, we didn't get here
in the past 100 days.
It's the Biden administration and the spending that
we have seen over the past four years.
We inherited 6.7% deficit to GDP,
the highest when we weren't in a recession,
not in a war, and we are determined
to bring the spending down and grow the
economy.
Yeah, but Mr. Secretary, you talk in all
kinds of numbers and complicated things.
What about Walmart rising prices?
Let me ask you about Walmart, this big
news from Walmart.
It says it will start- Let's get
back to what people care about, Mr. Secretary.
Raising prices on its consumers, Mr. Secretary, as
early as this month due to the tariffs.
Now, President Trump out with a very stern
warning on social media saying Walmart will eat
the tariffs, adding the company made far more
than expected last year.
Is the president asking American companies to be
less profitable?
I was on the phone with Doug McMillan,
the CEO of Walmart, yesterday, and Walmart is
in fact going to the, as you described
it, eat some of the tariffs that just
as they did in- Wow, what did
he just eat?
He just swallowed his tongue or something.
Just as they did in 18, 19, and
20.
The other thing, though, that we are seeing,
that Doug passed along to me, that with
their consumer, the single most important thing is
the gasoline price, and gasoline prices have gone
up and collapsed under President Trump.
So, we are seeing that.
The other thing that will happen, that is
a direct tax cut for consumers.
Then the transportation costs are also a big
input.
So, let's see what happens.
What you were describing was Walmart's earnings call.
The other thing that companies have to do,
they have to give the worst case scenario
so that they're not sued.
So, I think overall we are seeing a
decline in services, inflation, and we saw inflation
come down for the first time in four
years.
Who advises this guy on his communication skills?
He should say, you've made a storm in
a teacup which may not even exist because
gas prices are going down.
They have to say that on an earnings
call because they have to be transparent and
they have to warn in case they screw
something else up, they can blame it on
Trump.
They did not say they're raising prices, Miss
Newsperson.
That's irritating.
Yeah, he's not the best at this.
I mean, Rubio's the guy, but they won't
bring anybody like Rubio on again.
They're not going to bring on these guys
who call out the post.
You're full of crap.
He's no good.
We can't have that.
We can't have Rubio.
I'm going to show my salute by donating
to No Agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
Yeah, on No Agenda.
In the morning.
Nah, still to come we have John's tip
of the day.
We promise it will not be a repeat.
Neither you nor I caught that.
You had already done the graphics viewer.
Did you get that email?
I had talked about it.
I said at the beginning of the if
you play back the clip, at the very
beginning I said, I've talked about this product
on the show before, but I hadn't given
it as a clip because I did a
search of noagendafund.com.
I did a complete search trying to find
it as a tip, and I couldn't find
it as a tip.
Was it a tip?
No, I had mentioned it a couple of
times ten years ago.
What was your first tip?
What's the thing called again?
Irfanview.
I'm pretty sure you did give it as
a tip.
It's not on the list that I could
find and I did a deep search.
A deep search?
And the guy himself, the guy who bitched
and moaned and by the way, I'm going
to stop doing these tips if everyone complains
about them.
So the guy says, oh you said it
before, it's the third time you've mentioned it.
Ragequit.
He's ragequitting everybody.
What a ragequit.
Yeah, he's ragequitting.
Well, before you ragequit, would you mind, please,
thanking everybody who supported us with $50 or
more?
I can do that.
And I'll start with Richard J.
Lindquist who came in with $105.35 and
he writes, great newsletter.
I look forward to hearing more about the
resistance.
The resistance.
Kind of a funny bit that was in
that last newsletter.
About the resistance.
Travis Sparks, I don't know why everyone doesn't
subscribe to the newsletter.
Like every newsletter goes out, about five people
quit.
They ragequit!
They do, they ragequit the newsletter.
I don't know, I don't want to read
this.
I don't like the humor.
Travis Sparks in Castle Rock, Washington, $105.35.
Sir Pierre in Farmington, Connecticut, $100.
Thanks for a dynamite product!
That's us.
James Morin in Jackson, California.
That's a nice area.
$100.
He wants some karma.
Where is Jackson, California?
It's up in the foothills.
It's a gold mining area.
Anonymous in Western Springs, Illinois, $100.
Ben McDonald in Spring, Texas, another $100.
Sir Loudpipes in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Don't forget to put karma at the end.
Sir Loudpipes in Charlotte, North Carolina.
And somebody else that don't ragequit.
We're not quitting anything.
Charlotte, North Carolina, $94.
Sir Loudpipes.
He's the baron of Mecklenburg County.
Robert Osegueda.
I don't know.
Osegueda, I think, in Eastern Connecticut, $84.38.
This is boobs with fees.
Poker boobs.
Oh, nice.
Get it?
Yeah, I got it.
James Poulos in Reno, Nevada, $81.96. $81
.96 is the millennial donation.
That's right.
I gotta document these things.
Kevin McLaughlin, there he is, $8008.
He's the Archduke of Lunar Lover America and
boobs.
And comes in with a boob donation.
Gert Eulers.
Eulers.
What do you think?
I don't know.
He's in Belgium.
I'm still looking for your tip of the
day on the Irfan view.
You're not going to find it.
$79.03. He says we rock.
And he's in Belgium.
And he would know.
The Belgians always know.
Zachary Selig in Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan, $69
.69. Now he is a V4V bakery.
Yeah, these things work, man.
Wagner Rock Toy Box in DeWitt, Iowa, $69
.69. Chad Hewitt in Folsom, California, $66.40.
Isn't Folsom where there's a prison?
It used to have the number.
That's the prison that actually took care of
that prison.
Johnny Cash sang about it, right?
The Folsom Prison Blues?
Yeah, that's where Charlie Manson was for a
while.
When I visited it, Charlie Manson was there.
Didn't get to meet him.
No.
But it was kind of a creepy place,
let me tell you.
Gabriel Adams.
I went there when I was the editor
of InfoWorld for a story about tech.
Tech in the prisons?
Yeah, tech in the...
Well, no, they're teaching prisoners how to code.
Was that an Obama program?
Learn to code in the prison?
This was before Obama.
It was during the Reagan administration.
I was told, once you get in, which
is a pain in the ass to get
in because of the x-ray and everything.
Jesus, it's terrible.
I probably had years worth of radiation.
You get in there, and the first thing
they tell you is never ask any prisoner
why they're here.
No.
Oh, no.
Just don't do that.
That's rule number one.
No, don't do that.
Gabriel Adams in Newport, Tennessee.
6494.
I did Chad Hewitt in Folsom, yeah.
Obviously.
Sir Kevin O'Brien in Chicago.
6006 Small Boobs and Les Tarkowski in Kingman,
Arizona, also.
6006 along with Michael Rogan in Evansville, Indiana.
Sabode Peths.
5809.
He volunteers with the Animal Rescue of New
Orleans.
And the AI kitten was tugging at my
heartstrings to donate.
There you go.
Children, old people, and animals, John.
Next time, let's try a sad granny.
Sir Not Jake in Thompson, Connecticut.
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5555.
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5518.
Sir, birthday call it for Dame Amanda.
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Dee, and he calls that a newsletter donation.
Dee Woo in Cape Town, South Africa.
Yo.
Hey, hey, hey.
Cape Town, South Africa.
Tell us what's up, man.
Yeah, what's up?
What's up?
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He's adopting Bitcoin Cape Town 2026 in South
Africa.
Huh.
Whatever that means.
Sir Mix in Fort St. John, BC, British
Columbia.
5272.
Chris Osterhus in Cincinnati, Ohio.
5271.
Now we're at the 50s and we're in
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There's really not a lot today, but we
start with Chris Cowan in Austin, Texas.
Hello, Chris.
Scott Lavender.
Did you see him at the meetup?
Nope.
Uh, no, wait.
I think I did.
Why don't...
Chris, I don't know if this is the
same Chris.
I don't think so.
Well, whatever.
Scott Lavender in Montgomery, Texas.
50.
Gregory Kirdik in Padova, Italy.
Oh.
Padova.
Uh, 50.
Nice, Gregory.
Padua or whatever you want to call it.
I think Padova.
Meredith Whittle in Huntsville, Arkansas.
50.
Karen Fatula in St. Clairsville, Ohio.
She has a comment.
You're the best.
MT Duffy in Blenheim, New Zealand.
50.
And last on our 50, or last two,
we've got Lisa in Vernal, Utah.
And last on our list is the good
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We've got two, two family birthdays.
Jay wishes her husband, Brennan Lawton a very
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He turns 31 years old today.
Is there a big celebration in the hood
today, John?
They had a birthday party up there at
their house, and I went to it.
And there's a lot of the family members
who are listening to No Agenda.
Lovely.
And Eric Mackey, also celebrating the 18th.
What are the chances of that?
Finally, Sir Jocelyn Bradley-Dilsaber say happy birthday
to Dame Amanda, and we do too.
For everybody here at the Best Podcast in
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Now, of course, we don't have any Knights
or Dames or Commodores or anything.
Commodores are over.
It's all done.
So we can go straight to the No
Agenda Meetups.
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Big party going on.
We got a couple of parties that took
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In the morning, everybody.
This is B-Dubs hanging out with some
fine folks at Planktown.
Thankfully, there's no sneezing and wheezing.
I'm gonna pass the phone around, and the
people that are here are gonna say something.
In the morning, this is Sir Trevor the
Machinist.
In the morning, this is Samuel.
Love you, mean it.
Deflation!
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Funny.
I like that.
Very good.
Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Come on in.
Adam and John, this is Shannon reporting in
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They had a raccoon dog on the menu.
It was very tasty.
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Had a great lunch and even better company.
And this is Mike just hanging out with
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Have a great day.
See you at the next one.
Our server couldn't.
He was camera shy because he said he
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Bye.
Well, good try anyway.
Thank you very much.
We love those meetup reports.
We'll have one from Fredericksburg on the next
show.
Today, there is one meetup.
The TooManyEggs.com meetup number 12.
It's underway as we speak in New Hampshire
at Elm City Brewing Company.
Coming up in the month of May, what's
left of a Quad Cities area.
That's Davenport, Iowa, the 24th.
Culemborg, Gelderland, the Netherlands, 29th.
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, on the 29th.
Alfreda, Georgia, on the 29th as well.
On the 31st, Pensauken Township, New Jersey.
Anchorage, Alaska.
Overland Park, Kansas, and Long Beach, California.
I might as well just add that on
June 1st, there's a meetup in Tokyo, Japan.
We are bad.
We are nationwide.
We are everywhere.
We are No Agenda.
Go to NoAgendaMeetups.com to get the entire
overview, the full list, and if you want
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Put one together yourself.
Get it on the calendar.
People will come.
Connection is protection.
You get that at your meetups.
These people are your first responders in emergency
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Always a party.
Sometimes you wanna go hang out with all
the nights and days.
You wanna be where you want to be.
Triggered on hell's flame.
You wanna be where everybody feels the same.
It's like a party.
It's always like a party.
And remember, John's tip of the day is
coming up.
End of show mixes as well.
And now is the moment in the show
where we determine what we're going to play
as the end of show ISO.
It's like you're a producer listening to the
producers of a show produce.
It's amazing.
And these are your two holdovers from last
show, I believe.
Yes, they are.
We're gonna play them first.
Where do you wanna play them last?
I'll play them last.
Okay.
I'll start with my first one.
Ooh, daddy got a microphone.
Okay.
There's some crazy people out there.
Hmm?
No?
Okay.
Got this one.
So good.
And I actually think...
I have a candidate with this one.
I am so impressed with how good that
was.
Nah, that's not too bad.
That's not too bad.
Okay.
In a pinch it would do.
In a pinch.
Well, here's...
Which one do you want first?
The best monkey.
That was better than a bear fighting a
monkey.
Okay.
And then the best.
Wow.
Best three hours you'll ever spend.
I like this one.
That was better than a bear fighting a
monkey.
I have to say there's something about that
one that does it for me.
Alright.
I'm in.
Now, you know I love you.
So you found Irfanview?
Yes, I did.
We're going back 1673, the 30th of June,
2024.
Well, I'll tell you, Irfanview probably has a
plug-in for it.
I'm sure they can...
It's the only system I found that opens
a piece of the show.
Hold on.
We can look it up.
We can consult the book of knowledge.
No, why bother?
Irfanview is the tip of the day, everybody.
This has been your tip of the day.
Thanks for listening.
Y'all come back now, you hear?
Tip of the day.
It was a tip of the day.
The jingle we have was a different jingle.
It was a tip of the day.
Your deep search...
My deep search failed, then.
Get rid of that deep search, man.
What show was it again?
I just clicked it away.
1674, I think.
Yeah.
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Great advice from you and me.
Just a tip with JCB.
And sometimes...
We got to get back to the hot
sauce category.
Okay.
Yes.
And this...
Now, McElhaney, I think, is the company that
family...
The old man, I think, recently died, and
it was taken over probably a few years
back by the kids, and they've been bringing
out other products than Tabasco.
Tabasco sauce, which is one of the great
sauces ever.
It's a great sauce.
When it comes to sauce...
It's a great sauce.
You don't need a lot of it.
But they've been bringing all these experimental ones
out, and I've been keeping track of most
of them, and I do use the green
sauce that they have once in a while
as a very tasty sauce.
Not quite as good as Melinda's fire-roasted,
but it's good.
So, I run into one.
I've never seen this one before.
I only found it in an obscure Mexican...
Of all places, a Mexican Mercado, a Mexican
store.
Mercado?
A Mercado.
Mercado.
A big one.
Oh, a big Mercado.
But this has got to be...
This is some serious...
In fact, they call it Seriously Extra Hot.
You haven't done this one before as well?
How come I feel that I've heard of
this one too?
You've heard of other hot sauces.
Other hot sauces.
Guaranteed.
Look it up.
Binga.io. So, this is a tip of
the day that's better than the previous tip
of the day.
No, all the tips are good.
Okay.
It's just a different tip.
The reason is because it comes in the
regular Tabasco sauce bottle, so it's got a
black label, so you'd think it might be
Tabasco sauce.
But no.
Seriously, it's made with scorpion peppers.
Sweet.
One of the hottest peppers in the world.
I don't know where they make it or
if they manufacture it in the same plant
they make Tabasco.
It's hard to say.
I don't know if it's aged.
But this is some Seriously Hot, and it's
called Seriously Hot.
It's the kind of thing that you want
to buy.
It's obscure, by the way.
It's hard to find.
At least I couldn't...
I just ran into it once, ever in
the wild.
And for your hot pepper-loving friends, and
you've got one or two, or if you're
not yourself, I would recommend checking out a
bottle of this.
It's not expensive.
It comes in a small little Tabasco sauce
bottle.
It looks like Tabasco sauce, but it's not.
That's my tip of the day.
Where is it manufactured?
Louisiana.
And they do it with actual scorpion pepper?
Yeah, and it looks to be 100%
scorpion pepper.
And that scorpion pepper is from grinding up
scorpions?
Yeah.
They make scorpion...
No.
It's a pepper called scorpion pepper.
I'm sorry.
I don't know.
I'm like, I've got a lot of scorpions
here.
Maybe I can make some pepper out of
them.
They're not good for much else.
It looks like a scotch bonnet of some
sort, only it's got a little tail on
it.
I have never seen a pepper, a scorpion
pepper, actually seen one for sale anywhere.
But I'm assuming they grow them somewhere.
Interesting.
These are the kind of new things that
they've been developing, these super hot peppers.
I'm not sure it's good for the market,
but for people who like this stuff...
Yes, I'm willing to try it.
I'm a little bit of a pepper guy,
a little bit of a hot sauce guy.
Not too much, but I'm looking forward to
it.
And you, ladies and gentlemen, have just enjoyed
another special edition of John C.
Dvorak's Tip of the Day.
Great advice for you and me.
Just a tip with JCB.
And sometimes at all.
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And that's why you stick around, because you
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And stop complaining, because otherwise John's going to
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And then what will we do?
You don't want to ruin it.
Even Brunetti has been complaining about the tip
of the day, twice at least.
He's a complainer.
He's a Hollywood guy.
He is a complainer.
You're right.
He's a Hollywood guy.
They all doubt me.
End of show mix is coming up from
Hugh Allison, who's back.
Dee's Laughs brings us some Toronto jams and
Tom Starkweather with a bit of Comey 8647.
A classic.
I'm sure it'll show up in a Best
Of one of these days.
And up next on the No Agenda stream,
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Airline Pilot Guy.
And this is the Arrested Landing episode.
That's a great show, actually.
It's fun to listen to.
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In the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley, where we're still
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I'm John C.
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Until Thursday, adios mofos, ahooey hooey, and such.
And you've never seen anything like it.
You have Persian rugs?
Yeah, I have a couple.
Do you fly around on them?
Well, there's one reason I need I found
a moth attack on one of my Persian
rugs.
Oh.
Pheromone moth attracted sticky pads.
F-H-E-E-R-M-O-N
-E.
Okay.
Why would we want to have pheromone moth
sticky pads?
Here's the deal.
The key to success with these items is
they have to be fresh.
Fresh!
Persian rugs are a really good price nowadays,
by the way.
Best price.
But do you have them on the floor
or in your...
Yeah, they're on the floor.
I get them all over the place.
Everybody in the family has a bunch of
these.
Either Turkish or Persian rugs.
Interesting.
That's something I do not know about the
Dvorak clan.
So, uh, and they're not expensive anymore.
Do you fly around on them?
Uh, that's being planned or at least discussed.
You know, we're not gonna allow people to
buy this stuff.
Okay.
This is so funny.
I wish everyone in Toronto and Mayor Chao
nothing but the best.
CBP wishes me nothing but the best.
Toronto!
That's incredible.
Wow!
Merriam-Webster Dictionary defining the term 81 to
eject, dismiss, or remove someone Everybody knows what
the term 86 means.
86 means to get rid of something.
86 informally means to get rid of.
You know exactly what that meant.
A child knows what that meant.
If you're the FBI director and you don't
know what that meant, that meant assassination.
Several officials from the Trump Administration say this
is a call for violence against the president.
It's used in bars and restaurants to strike
items from menus, but others use it as
slang for murder.
It is being used right now in left
-wing circles, in activist circles.
Look, his life literally was in danger last
year, so it is a problem.
The real question is whether this post is
really significant of any.
And do you think he did the seashells
himself on the beach?
This is not even beach season right now.
Comey deleted the post and made another, saying,
I didn't realize some folks associate those numbers
with violence.
It never occurred to me, but I oppose
violence of any kind, so I took the
post down.
That was better than a bear fighting a
monkey.