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No kinks.
No kinks, no kinks.
This was, this was...
It's so interesting.
I was just trying to read through, like,
people who were writing about it.
Of course, we have clips.
We do.
Yeah.
The big thing that the M5M was trying
to emphasize was this line.
These events, supported by 500 groups, with combined
revenues of $3 billion.
This is, you know, what is the point
of that?
They're trying to message something, like, this is
scary, powerful.
You know?
Did $2 billion go to Bruce Springsteen?
I, I, I don't, I have no clue.
It's good to have you here, John.
Well, thank you.
How are you feeling?
Terrible.
I feel terrible.
It's a miracle I could do this show.
Well, I'm, I'm actually quite surprised.
Are you sleeping at all, or is that
not...
Well, the sleeping is a problem, because you
kind of just doze off when you feel
like it.
But I will say this.
Like during the donation segment?
Yeah, that could happen.
It could happen.
Yeah, you will say this.
I will say this.
David Letterman had a quintuple.
Yes.
And he was on the stage five weeks
later.
Yeah.
Well, he is...
That ain't happening here.
He's a superstar.
In the past five weeks already.
No, no, he, that was five weeks after
the operation.
You've only had, the operation was 10 days
ago.
No, it was on the 6th.
Oh, wow.
Well, hurry up, will you?
Get your spark, man.
Here's a little overview of, this is from
Euronews.
Here's how the Europeans viewed our No King's
Day.
Millions of people took to the streets across
the United States to participate in the more
than 3,100 protests taking place against US
President Donald Trump.
The rallies denounced what they described as an
authoritarian style of governance by the incumbent administration,
their immigration stance, climate change denial, isolationist foreign
policy, and now, the war in Iran.
In New York, thousands gathered to protest against
sweeping immigration raids carried out by ICE and
called for their abolition.
The rallies even featured a surprise cameo from
New York native and Hollywood giant Robert De
Niro.
De Niro?
Protests also took place in the capital, Washington,
D.C., where hundreds gathered near the White
House demanding Trump's ouster.
It's the third time in less than a
year these protests, part of a US grassroots
movement called No Kings, take place.
The demonstrations spread across the pond where thousands
of Americans abroad and locals took part in
rallies across Europe.
They were protesting in London, No Kings, oops.
In Paris, protesters called for an end to
Trump's, quote, reckless, irresponsible, and endless wars.
And in the Italian capital, thousands marched calling
for a respective international law and demanding a
world free from wars.
Yeah.
I think the branding is off.
No Kings.
Just hate Trump.
That's all that it is.
Hate Trump.
Did you see the segment of the New
York protest that was literally communists with the
red flag?
No.
Yeah.
It must have been a couple thousand people.
Oh.
They had the flags, they had, you know,
and they had a bunch of jingles that
they would say about communism taking over.
And, you know, it's all kind of a
mixed bag of Zeds and maybe some millennials.
Well, I think the Zeds that are in
New York, and I have one, you know,
they all were promised a bunch of stuff
and they probably aren't paying attention that it's
kind of not happening.
It's like, well, we got to raise your
taxes, you know, raise taxes on property.
So you're probably, you know, probably not going
to freeze the rents.
So they haven't, they just haven't felt the
pain yet.
But, you know, the kids are happy.
They like their red flags.
Let them wave them for a little bit.
I'm not so bothered by it.
New York has always been New York.
They'll figure it out.
Were you shocked?
No, not at all.
I'm just surprised they came out so, so
blatantly.
Oh, no.
No, this is, but this has always been
the case.
We used to arrest people over it in
Hollywood.
And then we gave up that gambit.
I wasn't so cool to be calling people
communists and arresting them.
And so now they're rampant.
It doesn't, it doesn't work.
I did, I watched a fair bit of
it, the Minneapolis stuff, which was, oh man,
they had one crappy band after another.
It's like everybody who has a guitar and
has written a song was allowed to go
up on stage.
Like, oh, it was insufferable.
And then, of course, the great New Jersey
icon, Bruce Springsteen, takes the stage to confirm
all the lies.
Hello, Minnesota.
Woo!
All right.
Hey.
It's turning into a beautiful day.
Well, this past winter, federal troops brought death
and terror to the streets of Minneapolis.
I just, this past winter, federal troops brought
death to the streets of Minnesota.
Well, they picked the wrong city.
Yeah.
Should have gone to Tom's River.
The power and the solidarity of the people
of Minneapolis and of Minnesota was an inspiration
to the entire country.
Your strength and your commitment told us that
this is still America.
Just not this little piece here, Bruce.
And this reactionary nightmare.
Oh.
And these invasions of American cities.
Invasions of America.
Bruce Springsteen, who has several hundred million dollars.
What happened to the guy?
I'd like to know myself.
Do you think it's toxoplasmosis?
It very well could be.
Something is going on here.
You will not stand.
You gave us hope.
You gave us courage.
And for those who gave their lives, Rene
Good, mother of three, brutally murdered.
Murdered.
Alex Pretty, VA nurse, executed by ICE.
Executed.
Shot in the back and left to die
in the street without even the decency of
our lawless government investigating their deaths.
What?
Their bravery, their sacrifice, and their names will
not be forgotten.
You just can't.
It's like the Howard Stern sickness.
Yeah.
And it's bizarre.
They could be cats.
It's got to be cats.
It's just, it makes no sense.
He's off the rails.
Well, he's not even on rails.
It's just like, Bruce, come on, man.
I think he's done.
Well, he's been done for a while.
It's just so disappointing.
I mean, I'm from Jersey.
This is not the guy we used to
know.
Well, New Jersey's turned blue, so that kind
of makes sense.
But the craziest was Jane Fonda.
And she's, I mean, what is No King's
supposed to be about?
I mean, was it even about ICE initially?
I can't remember.
But the first No King's was about nothing
except Trump.
Right, Trump.
And then it became, this was kind of
the Minneapolis.
So it's about federal troops invading our cities.
Invading, yeah.
Invading our cities.
And then Jane Fonda.
I'd really like to just like her because,
you know, here's an elderly woman.
She's 87, 88.
All the work that she's done on herself
looks just mind-bogglingly good.
But she makes it so hard for me
to like her.
And now she's waffling over this.
I want to say that the First Amendment
suffers greatly in times of war.
As the government works to crush internal dissent.
What?
Our parents, our forefathers fought and died for
these rights, for these freedoms.
We must not sit by quietly and watch
them taken away.
If we wait to act, if we hesitate
out of fear or the feeling that it
doesn't affect us, it may be too late.
So this is America?
What's she talking about?
Well, exactly.
This is the land of the podcast where
everybody can say whatever they want about anything
or nothing.
And so I had to figure out what
is she talking about?
It made no sense.
So I find, luckily, although it was kind
of hard to watch, she goes on Mrs.
Now with Jen Psaki.
And Jen Psaki is fawning over her.
And she explains because she has a group.
She has a First Amendment group because your
First Amendment rights are under attack and being
removed here in America.
And I should note for the audience, you
were in Washington, D.C. today speaking outside
the Kennedy Center for an event.
That's what I'm referring to in defense of
free expression.
So tell us about the event and the
message you were really trying to get across
to people watching.
Yeah, because we don't understand.
Well, the attacks on the arts, on literature,
on film, on museums, the National Endowment of
the Arts.
What attack on museums?
What attack on films?
This can only be.
Tell that to Netflix.
Exactly.
This can only be that Trump put his
name on the Kennedy Center.
I can't imagine it's about anything else.
But she does slip in.
I'm sure that's what it is.
She said gold.
Everybody's so much.
She slips in the National Endowment for the
Arts.
OK, all of these are under attack right
now.
They're being defunded.
They're being censored.
Nobody's censoring anything.
Well, she she kind of twists herself in
a knot in this short appearance.
Removed history, a special, especially racial history.
The history of slavery is all being erased.
What?
It's being erased.
Have I missed something?
Yeah.
OK.
And we wanted it.
We were we've been we've been deluged with
the history of race deluged.
I think we got it.
It's all being erased.
And we wanted it because it's kind of
like here and there.
Here and there.
We worried that people and the press don't
see clearly enough the breadth and depth of
these attacks.
And we have to understand what's happening.
This is not normal.
This does not happen in a democracy.
And we have to call it what it
is.
And we have to end it with a
committee for the First Amendment.
It's the First Amendment for.
She's the committee for the First Amendment.
Now, hold on, Jen Psaki.
I didn't see this, but Jen Psaki, I'm
guessing.
Goes right to the juggler and askers for
specifics.
Yeah, no, yeah, no, no, no, no.
It's just listen, she's on the committee for
the First Amendment.
Oh, and we have to end it with
a committee for the First Amendment.
It's the First Amendment for a reason.
It's the most important.
It's the cornerstone of all democracies.
It's freedom of speech.
Freedom of the First Amendment.
It's the cornerstone of all democracy.
All democracy.
First Amendment for a reason.
It's the most important.
It's the cornerstone of all democracies.
It's freedom of speech.
Okay.
Freedom of press.
Freedom of religion.
Freedom of assembly.
And freedom to protest, including the right to.
Is that in there?
Let me go take a look and see
if it says freedom to protest, I'm not
sure it's actually in there that way.
Freedom of assembly and freedom to protest.
For someone who's on the committee, she could
at least just cite it verbatim.
Including the right to criticize our president if
we choose.
This is under attack.
Yes, yes, that's under attack.
So yeah.
And gee, nobody's ever criticized Trump.
It's the oddest thing.
Maybe I'm wrong about her, but I never
thought that she felt the need to be
relevant.
A lot of Hollywood people do that.
I never really pegged her that way.
But I guess I can't come up with
any other reason for her to be like
this.
She, you know, once you invest some money
and make some independent films and, you know,
do some theater productions, I don't think anyone's
going to stop you.
But it's somehow, maybe there's a defunding of
certain things.
Maybe that's what she's upset about.
But that's not the First Amendment.
First Amendment doesn't say, oh, you shall get
free money for your theater productions.
So I was a little confused.
What do you have on No King's?
Do you have anything?
Nothing.
I got no clips.
I wasn't going to really talk about it.
Well, what's this No King's rap NPR then?
Well, this is the NPR rap of No
King's Day.
See, you're being censored.
Your clips are being obfuscated.
No King's protests against President Trump and his
policies, including the war on Iran, immigration, voting
rights, and the rising cost of living, are
taking place around the country today.
Organizers say more than 3,000 rallies are
being held and millions of people are expected
to attend.
Sarah Ferguson from Minnesota Public Radio has more
from a massive rally in St. Paul.
There's been a lot of cheering as people,
especially non-Minnesotans, have lifted up the people
of Minnesota for the way that they reacted
to Operation Metro Surge and really encouraged others
around the country who are watching to take
steps to follow up on the things that
Minnesotans have done, respecting one another, trying to
support their neighbors, and just a lot of
cheers here as some of the speakers say
that the country does not want a king
and they want to make sure that the
people are empowered.
Is this all about the ID, about the
SAVE Act?
Do you think that's part of it?
I don't know.
I didn't see much talk about it.
But, I mean, it just, it makes no
sense.
It seems like protests just to protest.
People with nothing better to do.
I have no idea.
It's silly.
I'm going to say it.
It's silly.
Yes.
Wow.
And you pointed it out right at the
beginning, which is the silliest part.
You know, all these international versions of this,
including one in England.
No king's day.
Where they have a king.
You know, I've been trying to figure out
the backlash against Cesar Chavez.
I think you were back on that.
Yeah, well, it's related, I think.
I think it's related.
You think?
Yeah, I think it is.
In February, RFK Jr. was on Rogan, and
he explained what happened.
You know, throughout American history, there's always talk,
well, the Republican Party and the Democrat Party,
they flipped.
They flipped over.
They flipped.
Yeah, bullshit.
Well, but this is a kind of a
flip that sounds correct.
Why don't you ask me about immigration?
Because I know that that's something that's disturbed
you.
Well, what are your thoughts on immigration?
On what's going on?
Well, you know, here's a background on my
kind of assumptions.
During the last 10 years of his life,
I worked very closely with Cesar Chavez, and
I worked with him.
He had two issues.
He had the pesticides, which were a huge
issue with him, and that's what I worked
with him on, on the dangers that, you
know, his workers were experiencing from pesticides.
And the other issue he had was immigration.
He wanted to shut down the border because
he saw the way that it was impairing
this huge influx of illegal immigration across the
border was impairing his ability to get, to
bargain, to leverage good wages and conditions for
his workers.
And when I grew up, the Democratic Party
was against immigration, and it was the Republican
Party who wanted it because the big corporations
wanted cheap labor.
The Chamber of Commerce was firmly embedded in
the Republican Party, and they were all about
open borders.
Today, the Chamber of Commerce is with the
Democratic Party.
And so it's one of these switches that
is kind of inexplicable to me.
But I think, again, it happened because President
Trump said, I'm going to fix it with
a wall, and that became, you know, and
that suddenly became open borders, suddenly became a
calling card for the Democratic Party.
So there was this flip, which really only
had to do with- Well, yeah, a
lot of things.
Well, I mean- Yeah.
Yeah.
The two sides, and this is recent, this
one, because you can get clips from Schumer.
I don't have any on today's show, but,
you know, talking and moaning and groaning about
immigration.
You can get clips from Hillary moaning and
groaning about immigration.
You can get all these clips, even up
to Obama.
And now they say just the opposite.
Yeah.
But you could call it a flip.
But what specifically do you think- Is
the reason for this?
Is the reason.
Three documentaries, American Pachuco, the legend of Luis
Valdez, American Agitators, which I think may be
out already, and A Song for Caesar.
American Pachuco?
Yeah.
I have no idea what that means.
I do.
What does it mean?
Well, it's kind of like a punk, a
bad guy.
You'd call it, when I was a kid,
I was raised in largely Hispanic areas, and
these guys would call me, hey, Pachuco.
Hey, Pachuco.
And Vato.
Vato is the other one.
Would they call you Pachuco?
No, I was a white guy.
Nobody even talked to me much.
You were just hanging around, me and Julio
down by the schoolyard?
No, I had a lot of friends.
When I was in high school- Hey,
Pachuco.
Before they opened up our white high school,
I went to a pretty much Latino high
school.
Wait a minute.
You were a minority?
Did you get beat up?
Did they take your lunch money?
Not at all.
In fact, it was just the opposite.
Oh, you were Gringo.
Would they call you, hey, Gringo?
No, they just said, hey, man, that guy's
really white.
That's what they'd say.
Everybody hung out with their own little crowd,
but just as an aside, to this day,
and I've talked about this with everybody I
know, I'm still impressed with the natural marketing
capabilities of some of these kids.
At the time, we called them Chicanos.
When we were running for, I think it
was, sophomore class president, we already knew who
was going to win and who might not
win, but this one kid came up with
these giant posters.
He'd make these long banners, and he won
with the phrase, Hernandez is gooder.
It was so catchy.
You look at it, you go, Hernandez is
gooder, and you say, wow, I don't know
what kind of genius came up with that
one, but it was a gem, and he
just kicked ass in the voting.
So I'm looking at this.
This is from Hawaii Public Radio.
They have a report here.
This America Pachuco premiered at Sundance in January.
It's slated for release, a PBS release in
fall.
Interesting.
And here's the line.
Recent screenings have become safe spaces for audiences
to process the new allegations as the film
contains significant footage of Chavez.
Oh, that's funny.
There's an oops.
Maybe the whole idea was to ruin that
film.
Could be.
But that RFK Jr. is talking about on
Rogan in February, the timing is interesting, and
maybe there's something afoot, and they're like, oh,
crap.
They're going to use Hugo Chavez.
They're going to use him.
We got to do something quick.
We got to cancel this guy.
Maybe it's exactly what you talk.
Maybe it's the gooder guys.
Maybe they're going after the Chicanos.
Like, we can't have the Chicanos voting for
Trump.
Oh, that's got to be some angle there.
Yeah, I'm thinking it has something to do
with it.
Yeah, could be.
Well, we keep looking.
We keep looking.
All right.
What do you where do you want to
go?
What you got?
Well, I got a couple of interesting little
side.
If you want to hear something off the
wall, you haven't even touched upon.
OK, we have.
I didn't hear about it.
I have to say Canada's got, you know,
B.C.'s going broke.
Oh, are they now?
Well, B.C.'s credit rating has been downgraded
again.
The official opposition says it signals to investors
that the province is going broke.
Huh?
Yeah, B.C.'s going broken.
And in fact, the whole country might be
going broke.
Let's play this clip.
Canada bank fees.
New survey now.
CTV puts out a new survey.
Nearly half of Canadians living paycheck to paycheck.
You know, you have another slow clap for
all these policies here.
Half of Canadians in this rich, rich nation.
And then you're going to have Francois-Philippe
Champagne is bragging that they're cutting the NSF
fees from 50 bucks to 10 bucks because
one in three Canadians now writing bad checks
without realizing what he's saying.
He thinks you're that stupid.
One in three Canadians writing bad checks.
Half of Canadians living paycheck to paycheck in
a nation as rich as this.
You squandered riches.
You've impoverished a nation.
And you're bragging on there like he must
have done that, took them all day too
because we saw the hard cuts in there
too.
They couldn't even stitch together like a moment.
It was just full of like hard cuts
as Francois-Philippe Champagne was telling you that
you're going to get a grocery credit and
you're going to get the $40 off NSF
fees in a nation where the Canadian banking
oligopoly books record profits year after year and
they won't let the competition in.
They should try a No King's Day.
You got problems up there that we're not
carefully looking at.
Well, our producers, and we have a lot
of them in Canada, pretty much all of
them want to come live here.
I remember during COVID like, hey man, can
I stay in your attic?
Got any space?
And then also, which I think is coming
to a boil up in Canada, but not
so much here.
I want to play these clips.
This is Land Act 1, China Deals UN.
A new measure was announced this week to
try and help stimulate the housing market.
And it marks the third one that came
out just this month.
We ultimately may hear of even more of
these to come as the pre-sale market
continues to struggle immensely.
Plus, we saw another major project go insolvent.
I also have updates on where markets are
pricing in potential Bank of Canada rate hikes.
Plus, there is an incredible theory that has
emerged this week as to why the government
is making these land agreements with indigenous groups.
Okay.
All right.
Something's going on.
Yeah, there's a bunch of weird stuff going
on with these indigenous groups.
I like the way they call them.
The Indians.
Yeah.
Play Land Act China Deals.
Oh, that's the one.
No, wait, wait, wait.
That's the one I just played.
No, you played.
Oh, no, I see.
I got it.
I see it.
Yeah.
The UN?
Correct.
They look the same.
The one that looks the same that doesn't
have one.
Yeah.
Land.
Okay.
Here we go.
The strategy focuses on joint ventures and equity
positions.
In these models, the First Nations retain its
right.
First Nations.
That's what they are.
First Nations.
You got it.
First Nations.
In these models, the First Nations retain its
rights and title while the Chinese partner provides
the capital and expertise to develop the resource
under a profit sharing or lease agreement.
So, while China already remains a bit of
a dominant force within the global mineral supply
chain, recent and somewhat new Canadian federal policies
on March 26, a report came out that
kind of supports this theory.
The provincial government's implementation of the United Nations
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act
or DRIPA combined with a series of landmark
court decisions confirming Aboriginal title over specific territories
has rapidly altered the legal landscape governing resource
extraction in Western Canada.
More land is now subject to Indigenous control.
More projects require Indigenous consent.
These are, in principle, corrections to historical wrongs.
But also mean that the pathways to Canada's
most strategically valuable resources, lithium, cobalt, rare earth
elements, timber, and LNG, now runs, in many
cases, directly through First Nations governments.
Okay.
So, they are selling...
By the way, with Chinese financing.
Well, yeah.
What the yellow man once...
What the white man once took, now they're
giving to the yellow man.
And it's the minerals.
And it's the...
Oh, man.
So, are they liquoring them up first before
they put these deals in front of them?
This is going on in Washington state also.
They're giving property back to the local Indian
tribes who already sold the land to the
state or the local governments.
And then they're pulling the plug on taxes.
They don't have to pay taxes.
They get the...
There's no regulations that don't count.
It's very fishy.
The Chinese seem to be behind it.
And this UN resolution, which requires people to...
They're the ones behind the land acknowledgements.
And I have a whole bunch of them
here.
In fact, the land acknowledgements seems to be
a way of softening us up.
Play this clip from this woman who tried
to pass a bill.
And she's a conservative in BC.
And this is the BC mess land acknowledgement
story from the CBC.
One BC leader, Dallas Brody, says that land
acknowledgements, which are often what you hear when
a public official starts an event.
They'll say, we're standing on the traditional territories
of the Songhees and Esquimalt First Nation.
She says that that is teaching our children
that they live on stolen land, that they
should be ashamed of their history.
And for that reason, that those land acknowledgements
should be banned among public employees.
Here's a bit of what Dallas Brody had
to say.
Land acknowledgements are the anthem of a suicidal
nation.
They tell our children that we stand on
stolen land.
So now this private member's bill was voted
down on first reading.
That is quite rare because even MLAs, when
they disagree with a private member's bill, they'll
still vote it through first reading to have
a debate on it.
Not so with bills put forward so far
by One BC.
I will note that the entire BC Conservative
Caucus voted against the bill except for two,
Harman Bangu and Heather Moss.
So this was an unwhipped vote, but showing
a little bit of, you know, fissures within
the BC Conservatives on how to approach this
bill.
And Katie, what do First Nations leaders say
about this proposed bill?
Well, I spoke with Robert Phillips.
He sits on the First Nations Political Summit,
or a political executive of the First Nations
Summit.
And he says that land acknowledgements are just
acknowledging our history and are an important part
of reconciliation.
We also spoke to BC Conservative House Leader
Alia Warbas, who is from the Stolo First
Nation.
And, you know, she's quite disappointed with the
spirit of this bill.
And here's a bit of what she had
to say.
I've lived with racism all of my life.
Hong Kong, no more to stand with China.
It shouldn't be playing anymore, is it?
No, it's not playing.
So it sounds to me, just listening to
it, it sounds like they gave this land
to the First Nations, you know, tax free
land.
It's all gooder.
And now they're like, well, you know, we're
going to acknowledge this, but we're going to
have China buy it for the minerals and
probably people are on the inside making a
killing off of it.
Yep.
Do you have any clips that confirm this?
Not that part, but I'm going to get
some because this is this is a big
deal.
And it's going to kill BC and probably
Washington state because they're all suckered into it.
And it all stems from this 2016 UN
resolution.
And I think there was one previous in
2007 that encourages people to do these land
acknowledgements, which is only applicable to the United
States and Canada.
Nobody else does it.
The South Americans don't do it.
And they stepped all over Amazonians.
And, you know, it's ludicrous.
And which brings me to three clips I
have of classic land acknowledgements that I thought
were funny enough to play.
Okay.
So let's start with Paul's boat, Washington, which
is a little town that is a little
Norwegian copy of a little Norwegian town in
Washington state.
That is a tourist attraction.
Norwegian all the way.
And here's they have a city council meeting.
They do this.
Paul's boat is located on the ancestral lands
of the indigenous people for whom this place
was known as Tuk Tuk lot or the
land of the vine maples.
And here's a quote by Chief Seattle.
Every part of the soil is sacred.
And the estimation of my people, every hillside,
every, every valley, every plain and grove has
been hollowed by some sad or happy event
in days long vanish.
You've acknowledged the land.
Very good.
Unbelievable.
And, and we don't know it.
Most of us don't that the Los Angeles
city council pulls this stunt.
The city of Los Angeles recognizes that we
occupy land originally and still inhabited and cared
for by the quiche Tongva Tatavian and Chumash
peoples.
We honor and pay respect to their elders
and descendants past, present, and emerging as they
continue their stewardship of these lands and waters.
We acknowledge that settler colonization resulted in land
seizure, disease, subjugation, slavery, relocation, broken promises, genocide,
multigenerational trauma, disruption of cultural practices, trade, and
tribal relations.
This acknowledgement demonstrates our responsibility and commitment to
truth, healing, and reconciliation and to elevating the
stories, culture, and community of the original inhabitants
of the city of Los Angeles.
We are grateful to have the opportunity to
live and work on these ancestral lands.
Wow.
This is, this is like Obama time.
We've gone back to this acknowledgement.
Yeah.
And here's the DNC, the latest guy that
runs the DNC.
When they introduced, when they opened up a
meeting at the DNC, these Democrats, by the
way, this is what it sounds like.
Good morning, DNC members, friends, and relatives.
Let's talk about the land for a second.
The DNC acknowledges and honors the Dakota Oyate,
the Dakota people, who are the original stewards
of the lands and waters of Minneapolis.
Dakota cared for the lands, lakes, and the
Wahpetonka, the Great River, the Mississippi River, for
thousands of years before colonization.
This land was not claimed or traded.
It's a part of a history of broken
treaties and promises.
And in many ways, we still live in
a system built to suppress indigenous peoples' cultural
and spiritual history.
As Democrats, I ask of every one of
you to not allow land acknowledgments like these
to simply be the checking of a box.
Be curious, ask questions, ensure our native neighbors
are heard, and work in partnership with your
indigenous communities.
Honor the legacy of this land and its
people by engaging today with each other with
honesty, humility, respect, and compassion.
Yeah.
So much talk, talk, talk.
Here in Fredericksburg, we are actually bringing Comanche
Nation back.
I hadn't told you about this.
No.
Yeah.
Well, the story goes that Fredericksburg had a
treaty with Comanche Nation, the Comanche Treaty of
1847, which we never broke.
I'm not quite sure what the treaty was,
but I've had no flaming arrows.
So I guess it's still in case, in
effect.
So, but we're bringing them back to the
Hill Country for the, actually it was the
Meusebach Comanche Treaty of 1847.
The Meusebach, Meuse is one of the original
founders of Fredericksburg.
And wouldn't you know, we're opening up this
huge retail hotel space.
It's actually not far from our house.
It's on the west side of town, which
is going to do a lot to the
west side of town.
So it's all commercial.
And we're bringing them back in for commercial
stuff.
We're going to do the Frontier Fest at
Fort Scott, Comanche Nation.
You're bringing the Comanches back to add to
the tourist attraction list?
Yes, yes, exactly.
But we're going to pay them.
Whomp them.
They're going to get paid.
It's going to be good.
Pay and whomp them?
Yeah, I think so.
I think so.
Yeah, we're friendly to the Indian, to our
Comanche Nation.
Yeah, let's see how that goes.
So we'll have the, we had the Hill
Country Indian Artifacts Show.
That was just last week.
The Comanche Nation meeting took place earlier this
week.
And then Frontier Fest.
Where, I don't know, I think we'll build
totem poles and stuff.
Yeah.
Well, it's better than this stuff.
Totem poles, not Comanche.
What are totem poles?
All those poles are in the Pacific.
Haida.
H-A-I-D-A type Indians up
in the Pacific Northwest in Canada.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Oh, I thought all Indians had totem poles.
No, there's just this group.
I don't think there's any other outside the
state of Washington and B.C. All right,
shifting gears from the First Nations.
The President had another fabulous Cabinet meeting.
I don't know if you had a chance
to see any of it.
Yeah, I watched it.
Some of it was, I thought, entertaining.
I thought our future President Rubio, because, man,
he's pushing.
He's pushing for it.
He did his little mic drop Iran speech.
The most important job any President has is
to keep the American people safe.
And every President says it, but we have
a President that means it and does something
about it.
As the President outlined very clearly to the
world on the night this operation began, Iran
has been at war with the United States
for 47 years.
For 47 years, Iran has been killing Americans
and attacking Americans across this planet.
And now the President's had an opportunity to
do something about it.
And they all warned about how Iran was
dangerous, but they refused to act.
And this President's not someone that's going to
refuse to act.
He's not going to leave a danger like
this in place.
He's going to address it, and that is
what he is doing.
From the very first night of this operation,
the President made it very clear.
People like this, and now what I'm talking
about is not the people of Iran.
The people that run this country are radical
Shia clerics.
These are religious fanatics.
Look what they are doing now at their
weakest point.
This is the weakest Iran has ever been,
and look at what they're doing.
They're attacking embassies.
They're embassies.
They're attacking hotels.
Imagine what these people would do if they
had a nuclear weapon.
That is an unacceptable risk for the world.
By the way, the President's not just doing
a favor to the United States and to
our people.
Favor?
This is for the world.
He defined very clearly on the first night
of this operation what the goal was.
We were going to destroy Iran's navy, and
that is happening.
We were going to, if it hasn't already
happened, I'll let Pete speak to the specifics
of it.
We were going to destroy their missile-launching
capabilities.
We're well on our way to achieving that
goal.
We were going to destroy the factory so
they couldn't make more missiles and more drones,
and that is moving forward.
Every single objective the President clearly laid out
on the first night of this operation is
being effectuated.
Again, Pete will speak to the specifics of
it.
This has been an incredibly successful operation.
Every day.
It may not get covered because, you know,
unlike them, we're not bombing embassies and hotels.
We're hitting military targets.
What I like about Rubio and these cabinet
meetings is he speaks to the press.
Everyone else is like, oh, Mr. President.
Oh, under your leadership.
Oh, Mr. President.
And Rubio just goes for it.
He's like, no, no.
Let me just tell you press people what
I think.
So our gay General Patton, Scott Besant, I
thought he was the most interesting of the
meeting.
Did you see any of what he said?
No, I can't think of anything.
Well, here's his here's his intro where he
I think he's saying that my job is
important because economic security and financial security is
national security.
Your economic leadership has made our military mission
possible.
Mr. President, national security, as you always say,
is economic security.
Your leadership has shown the American people that
there is no prosperity without security.
Our mighty military on one side, but the
U.S. economic strength is fighting off this
evil regime.
The Iranians believe they are fighting a two
front war.
It is the military war that our great
warriors are prosecuting.
But on the other side, they are trying
to take control of the global economy through
a choke point that we believe does not
exist and that we will overcome.
The historic operation at Epic Fury seized a
generational opportunity to demolish a regime that has
coordinated over four decades of global terror and
claimed thousands of American lives.
Many people, especially the Democrats, underestimate the will
of the American people for short term volatility
for 50 years of safety that we are
going to have on the other side of
this.
And I believe energy prices will be lower.
Inflation will be lower.
Before we had the appearance of security, which
is not real security.
Now the American people and the world will
have absolute security.
I've been talking to the oil baron a
lot lately, you know, for obvious reasons, because
he's right in the middle of this.
So he bought $77 puts and $115 calls
on his oil.
I thought, you know, I'm not quite sure
what that means.
It's arbitrage.
Yeah.
Oh, it's complete arbitrage.
But that's his risk spread is, hey, we
can't lose if it goes below $77 and
we're not going to win above $115.
But he too, he says, I am surprised.
And I thought a Texas oil man would
know because I'm surprised how impacted the world
is by the Iranian regime, by the straight.
I had no idea.
I'm getting here.
I'm getting notes from one of our producers.
Now, somebody in the cabinet or in the
Department of War or somebody in the CIA
or somebody, they had to know that this
was going to happen.
Oh, they must have known.
And I think it's.
I mean, what if they didn't?
Well, the next clip tells me I think
they did.
But it makes a lot more sense now
that Obama sent hundreds of millions of dollars
on pallets over to Iran because everyone was
afraid of this.
Like, oh, I don't want this on my
watch.
I don't want this nonsense happening.
Maybe.
But Besant, what he says in this.
This thing was planned for a long time.
This could be him saying it after the
fact, but I'm going to take it at
face value.
They were planning this for over a year.
Through your maximum pressure campaign, Treasury has worked
to uncover all financial lifelines to the regime
and cut them off.
You gave that order last March.
This was not the this was not something
that happened overnight.
This is something that has been contemplated for
almost a year.
Their find that the Iranian financial system collapsed
in December.
We have systematically weakened Iran's ability to fund
operations and procure weapons.
And that required months of preparations.
Threats to American national security have no place
in the global economic system.
The oil market is well supplied.
We have taken actions to ensure oil supplies
stranded at sea are made available to the
global market.
Your bold actions, like the Development Finance Corporation's
Maritime Reinsurance Program, in conjunction with Central Command,
will soon provide shippers through the Gulf region
with a level of security we had never
seen before.
Mr. President, we are starting to see more
and more movement in and out of the
Gulf today.
And this is more than yesterday.
And this is the beginning.
I am confident that shipping traffic will continue
to increase on a daily basis, even before
we secure the Straits.
So it sounds like they they were on
this cutting off their financial lines, making sure
that they were depleted some of their capabilities
and then struck once Netanyahu told them to,
of course.
So, you know, it sounds like they had
a plan here.
Well, I'm sure they did.
I'm not sure that they expected it to
go this way.
I guess Rubio has some comment.
That's going to last another four weeks.
Yeah, I think I have that here.
Hold on.
John Kennedy also said that why don't we
just get out?
We won by approach.
Where's the where's my Rubio?
I had another.
Here we go.
This was on the tarmac.
This is not going to be a full
on conflict.
The objectives I've outlined to you again, I
repeat them because I see these reports of
like other users not clear on what objectives
are.
We've been as clear as you can possibly
be from the very first night of what
the objectives of this mission are.
We're going to destroy their factories to make
missiles and rockets and drones.
We're going to destroy their Navy.
We're going to destroy their Air Force.
And we are going to significantly destroy their
missile launchers so they can never hide behind
these things to get a nuclear weapon.
We can achieve.
We are achieving all those objectives.
We are ahead of schedule on most of
them and we can achieve them without any
ground troops, without any.
Now, in terms of why there's deployments, number
one, the president has to be prepared for
multiple contingencies, which I'm not going to discuss
in the media.
And again, I refer you to the Department
of War who will probably tell you the
exact same thing.
But we can achieve all of our objectives
with our ground troops.
But we are always going to be prepared
to give the president maximum optionality and maximum
opportunity to adjust to contingencies should they emerge.
Optionality needs some options.
So just back to the cabinet meeting for
a moment.
So after Besson does his whole thing and
then he says how great everything here is
at home, which I think most people who
are listening would dispute, without a doubt, Europe,
UK, Asia, I mean, they're talking about going
back to work from home.
It's like we got no gas.
It's going to be the worst since the
70s.
Yeah, we're paying more, but I don't think
we have those types of problems.
So, no, I'm sure that we can ride
that out a lot longer.
So he goes through this whole thing.
And then here's what the president says.
I just want to ask you a question.
Is this guy central?
I'm looking at him.
I'm in Treasury.
He might not be so good for war.
I don't know.
No, I'm looking pretty good.
I'm looking at this guy.
He's central casting.
Even the glasses are perfect.
I think I'm going to get glasses.
That's beautiful.
Great job.
That's really good.
No, he's done a great job.
And you all have proud of you all.
Proud of you all.
Well, at least it sounds like he has
a plan.
It's not written down anywhere on paper that
we can read.
But I'm sure it's written down somewhere.
Why do you think we need to get
out so quickly?
I mean, besides the fact that war sucks.
Well, if we've done it, here's my problem.
The stuff that Trump says that we've done.
Which is take out their Navy, the Army,
their guys, this guy, that guy.
There's no Air Force.
There's no command and control.
There's nothing.
Has left a vacuum of these IRG renegades.
I think they're all acting independently.
And they're all over the place.
And each one of them might be wanting
to vie for power at some point.
And you've got to let this thing settle
out.
Otherwise, you're never going to get the streets
open again.
Because one nut ball or another or any
number of them.
Some place with some of those Shaheed drones,
for example.
Can keep the thing shut down forever.
The problem with the Shaheed drone, which has
always fascinated me.
And I don't understand how this happened.
Those things cost $75,000 to make.
They have wooden props.
And they go slow.
And they get the big bomb in them.
And they blow stuff up.
And they're not that great.
They're basically modern V1s.
Yeah, kind of.
With a less advanced propulsion system.
Yeah.
And so, the 75, it costs us.
They shoot them down unless you can get
a jet up in the air.
Which is not cheap.
Yeah, it costs us a million bucks to
shoot one down.
Well, $330,000 for a missile.
So, it costs $300,000 to $75,000.
I mean, you go broke.
They have enough of these things.
So, get out.
Let things settle down.
Let the streets get reopened.
So, people don't freak out.
And see what happens.
But that doesn't seem to be the idea.
The idea seems to be.
No, no.
It's definitely not the idea.
No, the idea seems.
Take Karg Island and be in control of
everything.
And they still want to get rid of
some of these IRGC guys.
But here's General Frank McKenzie.
Retired.
On with Margaret from this morning.
One of the things that Iran had been
waiting to do was activate its militias.
The militias it supports in Yemen.
The Houthis.
Over the weekend, they jumped into the fight.
Yeah.
We were missing those guys.
They hadn't shown up.
And all of a sudden, right on cue.
And fired on Israel.
Do you think that this is a game
changer, given that they could not just disrupt
the Strait of Hormuz, but another passageway through
the Red Sea?
Margaret, I don't think it will be a
game changer.
Their ability to attack Israel is quite limited.
Yes, they will have the ability to further
stop slow traffic through the Bab El Mandeb
going up into the Suez Canal.
We have the ability to go down there
and prevent that.
It will require additional resources.
But we have those resources, and we can
certainly do it if that becomes necessary.
Well, the president has made clear that he
needs to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
His language has been contradictory on some of
these points as to who's going to do
it and when.
What's the military reality of making it passable?
We're on our way to doing that now,
Margaret.
This is part of a plan that's been
in existence for many years.
What we're doing right now is we're reducing
Iranian ability to target ships in the Strait
through their short-range missiles, their drones, and
other activities.
We do that by maintaining air superiority over
southern Iran on a 24-7 basis, looking
for where these missiles are and striking them
relentlessly.
Once we reduce those to a very low
level, then you'll be able to go in.
If necessary, sweep for mines.
I'm not certain they've put mines in the
water yet.
I predict eventually they will.
It's their nature.
But we have the ability to do this.
We're on plan.
I'll be honest with you, Margaret.
I've simulated this many years in many positions
at Central Command.
We're a little further along than we would
have expected to be at this point in
all the simulations that I've seen.
All right.
So they were ready for this.
It's been a plan for years.
Everybody says we're further along.
Well, let's go to the next question.
So the president had posted he's postponed the
deadline to open the Strait of Hormuz as
a result of the Iranian government asking for
it.
He says he's shifted that to April 6th
at 8 p.m. We also hear from
the secretary of state that he's talking to
the allies about a post-conflict necessity of
having other countries help to essentially police the
strait.
And he said that you will need tankers
to have military escorts.
So this doesn't sound like this is a
short-term project.
This sounds like even if combat ends, we're
going to be talking about a military presence
in the region for some time.
Am I wrong?
Margaret, you could be right.
Let's see what happens.
I think a negotiated—there are two ways the
Strait of Hormuz can be opened.
It can be opened if the Iranians negotiate
with us to open it.
And, of course, that's the desired solution.
The other solution would be if they don't
and they decide to fight, we can open
the strait under that condition, too.
The second condition is obviously a lot more
intensive in terms of ships and equipment they
would have to bring into the region.
And, yes, help from our allies would certainly
be very useful in that case.
We have the ability to open the Strait
of Hormuz under any condition that the Iranians
choose to exist under.
Yeah, so we're maybe keeping it artificially closed.
Final clip is boots on the ground.
Does it appear to you that one of
the contingencies that the White House is planning
for, given that they're continuing to move troops
into the region, and you have these Marines
who are moving into the area as well,
are they preparing for a ground troop presence?
And what does that look like?
Margaret, for many years we've considered options along
the southern coast of Iran, seizing islands, seizing
small bases, typically raids.
And a raid is an operation with a
planned withdrawal.
You're not going to stay.
But some of those islands you could seize
and hold.
That would have a couple effects.
First of all, it would be profoundly humiliating
for Iran and would give us great weight
in negotiations.
The second, the example of Karg Island, which
everyone talks about, if you seize Karg Island,
you really can shut down the Iranian oil
economy completely.
And the beauty of seizing it is you're
not destroying it.
You're retaining it for further use by the
global economy and possibly for return to Iran
under certain conditions.
So all of these things, these are not
back-of-the-envelope calculations.
These are things we've been working on for
many years, and I think we're right to
threaten the entire littoral to hold all these
options out there.
And I think the President's message is spot
on when he talks about all these alternatives.
So seize and hold is the— That brings
me to this screwy clip I picked up
off of a recording done at like 4
in the morning on one of the networks.
Was that one of your, oh my God,
I can't sleep mornings?
No, it was just running.
This is a Navy intel guy, and we
know Navy intelligence is the progenitor of all
these people.
Yeah, they typically do podcasts.
And he's like, yeah, this guy would be
one of them.
They're on X and do podcasts.
And he is X, of course, X Navy
intel.
And the funny thing is he's got all
this up-to-date information for some unknown
reason, I don't know.
And I thought this was because this kind
of ties in with what the other guy
just said.
So let's bring in former Naval intelligence officer
Captain Todd Sawhill.
Captain, thank you for joining us.
Help square for us the fact that we
just heard Secretary of State Marco Rubio saying
that this is about two to four weeks
left, but yet reports of 10,000 more
troops being sent to the region after we
already know the 82nd Airborne on their way.
And then, of course, that Marine 31st MEU
is on its way.
So I think the movement of the ground
forces and the enablers and, as you mentioned,
particularly the Boxer and the Tripoli Amphibious Ready
Groups and the Marine Expedition Units, plus the
elements of the 82nd really center around making
sure the president has maximum options.
Optionality.
Ground operations in any part of Iran are
necessary.
And before I just list off all the
key islands, I don't necessarily want to focus
on that because I don't want to telegraph
what we may or may not do because,
really, that's the decision-making level for the
president and the secretary of defense.
But beyond holding territory at risk, those forces
could also be used for internal security in
and around the bases in the region, as
well as potentially raids for the nuclear materials
should the president determine that's the only way
to retrieve it because we're currently at such
loggerheads on the conditions for cessation between the
U.S. and Iran.
So, ultimately, it's all about options as we
continue to really set the conditions with rolling
back the missile, drone, and air-to-ground
forces that have been significantly degraded over the
last three weeks.
Right.
So that fits in with Rubio's optionality.
Everything's an optionality.
So we have options.
Here's the boots-on-the-ground update from
our producer in the region, which I thought
was interesting.
Wild morning, still alive, been up since 2
a.m., followed by the most aggressive five
hours in Bahrain, 20 ballistic missiles and 37
drones.
The trend seems that they are aggressively swarming
the skies to overcome the good interception rates.
The problem here is that the country is
just too small for that kind of action.
The overall size of the whole island is
the size of San Diego or Austin, and
the economy is too small for such a
beating.
Each interception is a Patriot missile, which he
says costs a couple million.
We are still trying our best to build
a tourism economy, and that is really hurting
our strained economy.
So our good friend Netanyahu decided to aggressively
bomb three steel plants across Iran.
For some reason, unlike all other targets, Israeli
press explicitly stated steel plants were hit, although
they don't usually reveal this type of target
in most cases.
In return, our good neighbors, Iran, decided to
attack five steel and aluminum plants in the
GCC, stating to punish the enemy for attacking
civilian infrastructure.
The guy was crazy enough to bomb near
Bushehr Nuclear Facility, an active nuclear power plant
which triggered an alarmed response from the whole
region on potential nuclear meltdown, and Putin himself,
as the plant is operated by Russia's state
atomic energy corporation, Rosatom.
The U.S. seems to be building a
massive set of ground troops as a deterrent
to push the negotiation under extreme pressure, and
the Israelis are trying every possible way to
expand and complicate the conflict.
A ground invasion is nearly impossible, taking away
islands within the effective shooting range of Iran
may result in high casualties among the best
marine units the U.S. has to offer.
Let's hope Trump can retain him further because
he causes a bigger mess, he's talking about
Netanyahu, and maybe manage to get J.D.
to the front to build his peacemaker legacy
and secure the GOP vote for the next
10 years.
So that's how they're thinking in the region,
which sounds about right.
Sounds about right.
So we had CPAC, which this is the
first time President Trump has not attended CPAC
due to the war and other things.
He's busy.
But they had some interesting speakers.
Reverend Franklin Graham came out, pretty unimpressive speech.
I didn't pull any clips from it, mainly
because he started off with, you know, Iran,
we had a weak president, Jimmy Carter, and
they had our people in the embassy for
400 days.
And the minute President Reagan came in, they
let them all out because they were afraid
of him.
I'm like, no, I don't think so, Rev.
I don't think so, Reverend.
That was a different deal at the time.
But also invited was the crown prince, Reza
Pahlavi, which, I don't know, well, it seemed
like CPAC was almost the conservative Persian action
Congress, or whatever they call it, convention, because
the Persians came out like crazy for this
guy.
The only thing that the remnants of this
regime can be relied on to do is
to buy time, to cheat, and to steal.
They will never be honest or true partners
for peace.
President Trump was right when he said, we
don't want to come back every two years.
But if a faction of the regime is
left in power, that is exactly what will
happen.
It will buy time.
It will pretend to negotiate.
And then it will return to its old
jihadist ways of threatening America, its security, and
its interests.
They might promise a short period of artificial
calm, but it would inevitably be followed by
the same terrorism, the same nuclear blackmail, and
the same cries of death to America.
Because the truth is simple.
The Islamic Republic cannot reform itself.
You cannot reform a snake.
Venom is in its DNA.
This extends to the corrupt and brutal thugs
of the IRGC.
Because the IRGC is not Iran's national army.
Indeed, it does not even have the word
Iran in its name.
It is the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps.
It serves its own poisonous ideology of terror
and not Iran's national interests.
So it can certainly never be a partner
to serve America's interests.
So I cut all of those applauses.
I had to cut out 15 seconds.
Oh, I'm sure they went on forever.
And then they started chanting.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
I have four minutes left.
I'm halfway through my speech.
I'll tell you.
Huh?
You know, when I was a student at
Berkeley, it's the same Iranian students who promoted
the getting rid of the Shah, the Shah
must go.
Yeah.
It was the American Persians that pretty much
created this monstrosity that they're stuck with.
And now this, you know, these kids, these
kids, they just don't get it right.
I don't know if they're going to get
it right ever.
You're saying it wrong.
These kids.
I can't quite do it.
These kids.
So I'll just finish up with him.
30 seconds of President Trump rocks.
The only path to lasting peace and stability
runs through a clean break with this regime.
For the first time in 47 years, President
Trump's strategy has given us a real chance
to achieve that outcome.
For decades, every American president since Jimmy Carter
chose to try to manage this looming threat
rather than resolve it.
Each of them has failed.
They have only made the problem worse.
The result has been more dead Iranians and
more dead Americans.
So the mullahs operated on the assumption that
America didn't have the stomach to confront them
decisively.
That assumption began to collapse when President Trump
ordered the strike on Qassem Soleimani.
Yeah.
So plan or no plan.
Well, you know, Carter didn't have the stomach
to stop it.
Stop it.
Reagan didn't have the stomach.
Once after the barracks were blowed up, he
took off.
Nobody wanted to do anything about this.
Yes.
And then we had Bush.
He was too busy protecting his oil fields
in Iraq or daddy's oil fields in Kuwait.
And Obama went, let me just hang out
with the Muslim Brotherhood and I'll pay you
guys.
Yeah, I'll pay you guys off.
And yeah, calm down here.
And so Trump, this is his legacy move.
That seems clear.
And well, I hope he pulls it off.
It's war is not not my favorite thing.
Well, we'll see.
Anyway, he goes, I think I have a
clip about some of this.
Where's my analysis clips?
You're back to full strength.
You're you're titling them anal.
So you must be on the mend.
What?
Oh, that means analysis.
I know.
No.
Yes, I'm aware.
I've been around.
Well, there's one about the we might as
well bring the Lebanese stuff in and then
we can look for the other one.
Lebanese.
Lebanese vicinity stuff.
This is a overview of what the Israelis
are doing where we're trying to take over
Iran.
Connected to this is fighting that's happening in
Lebanon.
That's where Israel has launched an invasion of
the south of the country.
And Iran backed Hezbollah has been firing back.
Can you just update us on what's happening
there?
Absolutely.
There have been more than a million Lebanese
displaced, and that's like 20 percent of the
population as Israel depopulates entire towns and Beirut's
huge southern suburbs.
And the impact of that invasion and the
fighting between Israel and Hezbollah is becoming increasingly
dangerous to document.
Israel today killed three journalists in an airstrike
on their vehicle.
One of them was a correspondent for Hezbollah's
television channel who has been reporting from the
south for almost 30 years.
Israel claimed without evidence, claimed without evidence, claimed
without evidence.
He was a Hezbollah operative, in fact, a
member of one of their elite forces.
But the actions that Israel described, identifying where
Israeli forces were and contacts with Hezbollah, are
actually normal journalistic practices.
Israel didn't comment on the other two journalists
killed with him.
We've talked so far about the latest developments
in this now month-long war, but are
there other repercussions worth pointing to right now
for other countries?
Absolutely.
This war is so different because it's really
difficult to find any country untouched by this
in the region.
You know, one of the effects is that
some of the busiest airports in the region
have shut down, leaving people stranded.
Israel has restricted outgoing flights, and this week
the U.S. Embassy in Israel announced it
was arranging buses from Israel to the Amman
airport in Jordan to fly people out of
here.
Kuwait announced that its airport radar had been
damaged.
Its airport has been closed for almost a
month.
I love how she portrays the beautiful suburbs
of southern Lebanon.
Lebanon has been a mess since I was
a kid.
At one time it was the Paris of
the Middle East.
Yeah, in the 60s, late 60s.
Probably late 60s.
Iran was cool then too.
Here's the clips.
This is the Iran Houthis update in PR.
Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have entered
the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran, firing a
missile at Israel, which Israel says was intercepted.
It's the first time Israel faced fire from
that country since the war began, and it
opens a new front in the two-month
-old conflict.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon says around 3,500 sailors
and Marines have arrived in the Middle East.
Imperial Chandelier Duster has more.
U.S. Central Command said Saturday in a
social media post that about 3,500 sailors
and Marines arrived in the Middle East aboard
the USS Tripoli.
The 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, based in Okinawa,
Japan, arrived in the Middle East on Friday,
the post said.
The unit also has transport and strike fighter
aircraft, as well as amphibious assault and tactical
assets.
U.S. Central Command did not say what
mission the unit will be carrying out.
At least 2,000 additional soldiers have been
ordered to deploy to the Middle East, where
the U.S. already has 40,000 to
50,000 troops.
People always leave out the fact that you
already have 50,000 troops there.
Oh, yeah.
Scattered around.
Yeah.
So here's the analysis.
We're joined by NPR's Jane Araf, who's following
events from Amman, Jordan.
Jane, thanks for taking the time.
Thank you.
Can you start with telling us what happened
in Saudi Arabia?
Well, this was an attack on the Prince
Sultan Air Base.
And that's a Saudi base, but it's also
a regional U.S. military hub that focuses
on aerial refueling and missile defense systems.
At least six missiles and more than two
dozen drones were fired by Iran, according to
U.S. officials who requested anonymity.
And military experts are calling it a serious
breach of U.S. air defenses.
Several of those wounded service people were reported
to be seriously wounded.
The attacks also damaged refueling tankers.
Iran released Chinese satellite images that appear to
show burning aircraft, and it said it had
destroyed two of the airborne tankers.
They refueled fighter jets in the air and
damaged others.
That's after Israel struck three Iranian steel plants
and a nuclear facility.
The International Nuclear Watchdog said there was no
risk of radiation leak from that strike.
Yeah.
There's a lot of action.
There's definitely a lot of action.
The GCC, the Gulf, is it the Gulf
Commonwealth?
What do they call that, GCC?
I'm not sure.
GCC, well, they call them the GCC states.
So, they have also filed with United Nations,
just like the U.S. did, under Article
51, saying, hey, we are reaffirming our full
and inherent right to self-defense, and we're
going to start striking back.
So, it looks like we've got them on
our side.
Although, I still get a lot of military
commentary saying, no, everyone hates us.
They want us out of our bases.
I don't know.
You're right, a lot of action.
We don't actually know anything.
Breaking news, nobody knows nothing.
Right.
So, President Trump had a Saudi investor summit,
which is all money coming into America, and
he had some interesting commentary.
They are negotiating.
They're begging to make a deal.
It turned out I was right.
They were negotiating, which they admitted two days
later.
And in order to make up for their
misstatement, they said, we're going to send you
eight ships of oil.
And the following day, I saw on, this
is two days ago, I saw on one
of the networks.
Very strange.
There were eight ships of oil coming out
of Iran.
And then they actually said, we're going to
add an extra two.
And they added an extra two.
So, we had ten ships.
And then people realized we were actually negotiating.
We're negotiating now.
And it would be great if we could
do something.
But they have to open it up.
They have to open up the Strait of
Trump.
I mean, Hormuz.
Excuse me.
I'm so sorry.
Such a terrible mistake.
The fake news will say, he accidentally said.
There's no accidents with me.
Not too many.
If there were, we'd have a major story.
Well, we had that with the Gulf of
Mexico.
Remember the Gulf of Mexico?
And then he goes into this whole Gulf
of America thing.
The Strait of Trump.
Okay.
By the way, there's no evidence that there
was any eight to ten ships that went
through.
None.
I've seen, if anything, two.
Yeah.
One guy has a video show on YouTube.
Yeah, yeah.
I've seen that guy.
He's like, yeah.
He beat tracks every single ship.
I don't see it, he says.
He said, what is he talking about?
There's zero ships.
But he also said, well, there's a lot
of GPS spoofing.
And that ship is over there.
But I think it's over here.
So nobody really knows anything.
Well, there's, again, no evidence.
No evidence.
I think Trump's full of it.
Well, that wouldn't be the first time.
But you don't know.
No, you don't.
It's a problem.
Besson says that there's oil at sea.
That we do know.
Yeah, tons.
And he's allowing that to be offloaded.
So that's probably helping somebody somewhere.
And NATO is still very much in the
crosshairs.
This is NATO.
And I've always said NATO's a paper tiger.
And I always said we help NATO, but
they'll never help us.
And if the big one ever happened, and
I don't think it will, but if the
big one ever happened, I guarantee you they
wouldn't be there.
And we learned from that.
And remember what I said.
Because they made a big mistake.
They were not there.
The chancellor of Germany.
These are old friends of mine.
Friederich, the chancellor of Germany.
He said, this is not our war.
We have nothing to do.
Well, Ukraine's not our war.
But we help them.
He keeps slamming NATO.
I'm not sure what the plan is.
But he keeps talking about it.
Like, oh, they weren't here to help us.
And this was quite telling.
And this is regarding our own economy here.
And the fabulous AI hype that we're in.
This is kind of telling the way he
answered this question.
We'll take some questions.
Thank you.
Thank you very much, Mr. President.
Thank you so much.
And thank you for accepting to take five
questions.
We don't want to take too much of
your time.
So let's talk about business.
In one sentence, where should the world invest
in America right now?
Well, look, the one that they're going crazy
about is AI.
Now, sometimes you'll say, let's go the opposite.
Because I've seen it.
You know, everyone goes, but AI is going
crazy.
AI.
So my family, we made Don.
The whole family.
Eric is doing a good job.
All of us, Ivanka.
We liked real estate.
When you can make money in real estate,
it's a great business.
But I see some of these guys come
into my office.
They're wearing a T-shirt and they're 24
years old.
Dad, he's got a net worth of $24
billion.
I said, you've got to be kidding.
Off a little contraption.
So, but the money seems to be.
I just got to stop.
Off a little contraption.
Yeah, it's contraptions.
His contraptions are doing it.
Dad, he's got a net worth of $24
billion.
I said, you've got to be kidding.
Off a little contraption.
So, but the money seems to be right
now, AI.
And also, if you're in school, like you're
going to the Wharton School or the Stern
School or any of these great schools, I
mean, the numbers that they're paying to go
into that business is incredible, where you see
people getting a $10 million bonus to sign.
Like baseball players or football players, we're giving
you a $10 million.
I mean, I hate to say it cuz
it sounds ridiculous, but there have been some
$100 million bonuses paid to sign.
So I think probably if you're gonna say
one thing, AI, and just hope that it
works, right?
You better hope.
He's like, but I hope it works.
It seems like we have this interesting race
now between open AI and Anthropic, who's going
to come out first, who's gonna go public
first.
Yeah, this is funny.
And Anthropic is, for all I can see,
they're killing it.
Because those guys focus on one thing and
one thing only, code.
Make sure the thing can code.
And all the developers I know have now
moved over to Claude.
Everybody's using Claude to code.
It's not a chat, but like, you know,
it's not like...
Open AI, they focused on kind of general
chat, entertainment, answering questions.
They don't seem to have the coding part
down as much, but they certainly have the
user base.
And then we got a boots on the
ground, because I'm always wondering how they're paying
for all of this.
This is from...
What is this?
Natalie, I think.
I was at the playground the other day
and started talking to one of the dads
there.
Hitting up the dads at the playground.
He mentioned he worked in the finance department
of Google for the Gemini group.
I mentioned I was curious about the profitability
of AI, because I heard a lot of
companies are bleeding money.
A big grin popped up on his face.
He told me that Gemini was profitable because
they've integrated the entire supply chain.
Google doesn't have to rent out data centers.
They already have them.
Or buy chips from Nvidia.
They developed their own, I think.
Yeah.
We wanted to discuss more, but his little
girl started to get upset, so he had
to move to a different part of the
playground.
Gemini, they have an interesting...
For search, they've got a great advantage.
They've got all the YouTube stuff, and they've
got Google.
And now they say, well, who are the
winners going to be?
And Rick Beto, our boy, Rick Beto over
there, the music guy.
He's come to the same conclusion I have
about using local models at home.
And this is what I think is going
to happen with these AI companies.
The data centers, they're going to be sitting
there unused.
Many of them will not be built when
people start using AI locally, meaning on their
computer.
And the same thing to happen to the
music business and recording is going to happen
to these AI companies.
Because people are going to realize, oh, I
can do this at my house.
I don't need to be paying these companies.
If a 64-year-old guy like me
can figure this out last night and show
you today, how hard can this stuff be?
People are using these things, Suno and UDO
and everything for music creation.
People are taking their business contracts and everything.
They're feeding it into ChatGPT.
People are taking their...
Any of their business things or financial information,
they're feeding it into these things and they're
training off your data that you own yourself,
your own personal information, your own intellectual properties.
And why is that?
Because you and me are the product.
So who are the winners and losers of
this?
Well, the companies that make hardware like Apple,
Google, NVIDIA, any company that makes computers, computer
chips, things like that, those are the ones
that are going to be the winners.
Unfortunately, the ones that are going to be
the losers, in my opinion, are the companies
that make these AI programs.
For most people's needs, individuals and businesses, even
good-sized businesses, you can do these things
on your own computers offline.
What are you doing with your mic?
I got my foot tangled up in the
cord.
Careful.
You know, Apple may have a really interesting
advantage here.
They have that, the M4...
What is it called?
It's not...
Yeah, I don't know what it's called.
But let me...
While you're mentioning that, I should mention something
JC talked about.
He says that new Apple laptop, $595, finally
has a touchscreen.
And he says it's a killer.
Yeah, that really got underplayed or downplayed.
It didn't get played at all.
I didn't even know anything about it.
But I know that it's colorful.
Well, I know that the Mac minis are
sold out for months.
Everybody's got a Mac mini.
Yeah.
But it's the...
What is the...
They have a special...
So they use their RAM, their regular RAM,
and you can load it up with RAM.
You can load it up with 256 gigabytes
or more.
I think...
I don't know about the Mac mini.
And it can automatically allocate some of that
RAM instead of a GPU like an NVIDIA
card.
So they may accidentally have done something really,
really smart.
We'll see.
Yeah.
Obviously, we'll see.
We don't know...
Nobody knows anything, John.
We'll see.
And then, this is the best.
I'd love to hear your opinion on this.
Ignition and liftoff.
I have the clip.
What is the clip?
You don't know what my clip is yet.
Yeah, there's Artemis.
No!
Wrong!
The sky-high valuation.
Elon Musk's SpaceX is suiting up to launch
its IPO, a public share sale that would
value the rocket company at an eye-watering
$1.5 trillion.
First reported by the tech site, The Information,
the sale is expected to float some 5
% of the company's equity, aiming to raise
around $75 billion, which would make it the
largest IPO in history.
Unlike many tech firms seeking investor funding on
public markets, SpaceX already has significant cash flow,
largely thanks to the lucrative government contracts it
receives and its major profit generator, Starlink.
The satellite internet provider is estimated to have
generated $8 billion in 2025, accounting for 50
to 80% of SpaceX's total revenue.
So why go public?
The SpaceX acquisition of XAI in February saddled
it with a cash-hungry subsidiary that is
reportedly burning through $1 billion per month, as
it uses to catch up with rivals like
OpenAI and Anthropic, both of which are also
planning to go public.
IPO proceeds would also fund further development of
the Starship rocket and more aspirational projects like
AI data centers in space and Moonbase Alpha,
a self-reliant lunar city.
The move comes with potential downsides for the
notoriously regulation-averse Musk, like requirements for public
performance reports and having to answer to Wall
Street analysts.
I don't think investors are buying his bullcrap
anymore.
We'll see.
Obviously, it sells out.
You think?
Really?
Yeah, it's only a small part of the
company.
They're not unloading everything.
No, but still, the valuation is high.
It's ridiculous.
And XAI is junk.
It's junk.
Because it was trained on junk.
It's just junk.
Yeah, and all he ever touts on X
is, oh, look at this.
Oh, look at this animation of this pixie
girl flying around a clock.
Looks great.
Okay, who's going to pay for that?
No, my money...
All these IPOs are going to be the
death knell of the market.
Well, everyone has to get out.
They won't make it.
The early investors will get out.
No, maybe.
No, no, no.
I'm reminded of that game company back in
the 80s that waited one day too long
to do the IPO and the market crashed.
Oh, what was that?
Sega?
No, no, Sega was...
No, Sega is different.
No, it was specifically a cartridge company that
made cartridges for the Atari 2600.
I thought you might be bringing this up,
which was my astronaut clip, which is very
disappointing, if true.
I know.
We're all disappointed, John.
The NASA astronaut who suffered that medical scare
offering new insight tonight, Mike Fink, says he
suddenly could not speak for 20 minutes on
the International Space Station.
His crew, of course, noticing him in distress,
it prompted that first medical evacuation for NASA.
Fink now saying doctors believe it was not
choking or a heart attack, but he's still
undergoing tests to determine what it really was.
Yeah, yeah, that was not...
If true, that was not your prediction, I
should say, your prediction of a pregnancy in
space.
And notice something like that, where you can't
talk for 20 minutes, never happens to a
female astronaut, just saying.
Yeah, there it is.
Took me a minute to get it out,
but there it is.
I've got an offbeat clip if you want
to hear it.
Sure.
Alex Jones has a new sidekick.
He does?
The guy's name is Bashing or something, but
no, he didn't know Bashing is the name
of the clip.
He's introduced in here.
This guy...
Alex has always had this second, you know,
these secondary guys that come in and could
fill in and do a show themselves.
Yeah, and they eventually run off and do
their own shows.
Yeah, like that British kid and there's a
whole bunch.
You could have become one of them.
Yeah, but I already had a partner who
I love and cherish.
Yeah, well, although I'm noticing my voice is
starting to sound like him today.
You know what I'm saying?
Try this.
I've read the documents.
I know their plan.
I know their plans.
Maybe.
So here he is bashing, he hates the
Zeds for some reason.
Here he is with his buddy, his new
buddy, bashing the Zeds.
And I just an eye roller.
For Burma's good to see.
I've been loving you hosting the show.
What a crazy time to be alive here.
It certainly is, Alex.
And just to kind of piggyback on what
you were talking about via this generation and
being just addicted to the scroll box.
And it's not just this idea of track
trace database.
It's not just this idea of totally and
completely taking away their attention.
The studies are now out.
You know, this was going to be part
of me talking about AGI, what's going on
right now with these data centers.
But we're talking about a generation right now.
Generation Z, quote unquote.
That is not interested in the real world.
They don't want a date.
They don't want jobs.
They don't want a car because it's their
own little comfortable world.
Well, they're 40% less cognizant in both
speech and writing, period, full stop.
I mean, it's not just that they-
Put that back up.
Major studies, 40% less cognizant in speech
and thought, literally retarded.
So bottom line, studies prove it, plus you
see it.
iPhones and smartphones and games have literally made
the younger generations retarded.
Well, look at it this way, Alex.
You know, my generation, your generation, we're only
about five years apart.
I would argue maybe the people 10, 15
years younger than us are really what created
this idea of a podcast.
I mean, you're a pioneer outside of the
mainstream media, aka long form content.
Yet when we started seeing these video platforms
ever emerging, you just mentioned Meta, well, they
own Instagram.
This is a bunch of bullcrap.
I thought so too.
So come on.
I stopped it at that point where he
brings up the obviosity that Meta- You
say something like, you know what?
Hey, Adam, you there?
Yeah, I'm here, what?
You know what, Adam?
What?
Meta owns Instagram.
No, get out of town.
Next, you're going to tell me they own
WhatsApp.
No, no, no, you can't be telling me
that.
Yeah, this is bad for Alex.
I don't know why he's chosen this particular
- I've seen this sidekick.
I don't know the guy's name.
The guy's interesting.
He's also a UFC guy.
He's like a Rogan.
Oh, okay.
And I think that's the reason.
That's the hook.
Now, this is because Alex is on the
wrong side of this.
40% of the Zeds are exactly the
audience he can pull in because they don't
want the phones.
They're going way more conservative.
They want to date.
I know, they want vinyl discs.
They want vinyl discs.
They want cassette tapes.
And this whole contingent that wants cassette tape.
Yeah, and look at Brunetti's kid.
They want Bibles.
I'm telling you.
He's wrong about this.
The people who are addicted are Gen X.
Yeah, I agree.
They're the ones that are completely sucked into
this stuff.
Man, the women here in Fredericksburg- Older
millennials too.
Older millennials.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, and they're watching Candace Owens.
They're on the edge of their seat every
day at four o'clock.
Oh, Candace is coming.
That Erica Kirk, I'm telling you, she's no
good.
She's no good.
And the short form videos, they're doom scrolling
their butts off.
The only saving grace for them is that
GLP-1 will help stop their addiction.
This is coming.
Maybe.
This is my new prediction.
After erectile dysfunction, GLP-1 Ozempic will help
you stop your doom scrolling addiction.
It already does for cocaine and alcohol, you
know.
Supposedly.
It wouldn't surprise me.
So that's coming.
Since you mentioned Candace.
Uh-oh.
I have a supercut that was done by
Milk Bar TV.
Every comment she's made about getting to the
bottom of the Charlie Kirk assassination.
Yeah.
Over the last two and a half years.
How long is this thing?
Is it 15 minutes long?
It could have been, but I think it
did.
What is the length?
Oh, 114.
Okay.
Yeah, 114.
It's not bad.
Here we go.
Going and we are definitively getting closer to
what took place on that day.
And we are getting closer.
I think we're close.
We are definitively getting closer.
We're getting close.
Very close.
We're inching ever closer.
We are now, I believe, extremely close to
solving this thing.
As I get inch closer and closer to
discovering the truth.
I've got a feeling about that.
Where we're close.
We're getting closer to something and that something
is pretty big.
I just sense that we're getting close.
I sense that we are getting very close.
And we are getting closer.
Getting very close to something.
We're getting closer because we are getting close.
We are definitely getting closer.
Very close.
We are very close.
We are close.
We are dangerously close to something.
We are dead close to something.
And I think every day we are inching
closer.
Who killed Charlie Kirk?
You know we're getting close.
We're inching ever closer.
We are inching closer.
A little closer to solving the Charlie Kirk
murder.
And I'm getting very close.
And we are getting very close.
But I'm getting closer.
I'm getting real close.
My prayers are with you, Candace.
You are close.
We are close.
And we're getting closer to the truth.
We get closer.
We are getting close.
She's very close now.
Jason Burmess is the name of the guy.
Yeah.
The sidekick.
He also, I think he was one of
the producers of the Loose Change.
That, remember that?
The doc is quote unquote documentary about 9
-11.
No.
Yeah.
Loose Change, 9-11, and American coup.
That's what it was.
It came out around 2009, 2010.
Yeah.
There's something about, and I feel there's a
backlash growing against Candace.
Just the whole group, because it's so annoying.
It's so much infighting.
And you've got Megyn Kelly fighting with Mark
Levin online.
You have a micro penis.
It's like, what are we doing?
I should forbid them from calling their shows
podcasts.
I think I have the right to do
that.
You do.
They should stop doing that.
Now we have two podcasters in our administration,
which was, I just have to play this
for the presentation of it.
This is the announcement of a federal healthcare
advisory committee.
And this is your HHS secretary, RFK Jr.
And Dr. Oz.
They're like doing a podcast now.
It's the presentation was just, it was all
inspiring, really.
Hi, I'm Robert F.
Kennedy Jr. You're HHS secretary.
And I'm Dr. Mehmet Oz, CMS administrator.
Hey, Code Bongino.
The health policy seems like everybody's a pessimist.
The system's too broken.
The interest groups are too powerful.
The incentives, they're malaligned.
The whole thing's too complicated.
Did Dr. Oz ever offer some products on
TV?
Was he only a doctor doctor, or did
he ever have some gambit to sell?
He was, he had a syndicated TV show.
And there was some product that he sold
that was one of these scammish, you know,
wellness things that does this, that and the
other.
A wellness thing.
And does nothing.
And he got called before Congress and was
berated.
Well, it's, this is what the problem here
is, it sounds like these guys are selling
me something that I don't want.
This administration rejects that mindset.
We take on the broken systems.
We challenge the entrenched interests.
And we fix misaligned incentives to deliver real
results.
Real results.
While bringing together the top talent to take
on the toughest challenges head on.
And that's why today we are announcing the
members of our new Healthcare Advisory Committee, which
will develop recommendations for how Secretary Kennedy and
I can improve Medicare, Medicaid, the Children's Health
Insurance Program, and the health insurance marketplaces.
Yeah, it was, that's right.
I think it was the Dr. Oz green
coffee beans.
This just sounds like an infomercial.
Their insights will help us cut costs, slash
red tape, improve quality of care, keep programs
solvent and refocus.
Crazy Eddie's prices are insane.
Healthcare and the people it is meant to
serve.
The patients.
I'm so proud of the team that we've
assembled.
We reviewed more than 400 candidates from all
across the country.
And we selected just 18.
These individuals bring extensive experience from state and
federal government, from health system management, from nonprofits
and health technology innovation.
Even RFK Jr. is doing better with his
voice.
These guys, they're pitching.
They're pitching hard.
I know there's something about it that just
doesn't feel right.
You know, back to my hospital experience.
Ah, here we go.
Is I don't think these hospitals, and I
would say specifically the, the, the cafeteria where
the people that's the dinners they serve you.
This is all stuff from the 1940s.
You know, the Jell-O and everything's pre
-packaged horrible puddings, a bunch of everything's aspartame,
it's loaded with artificial sweeteners.
It's like nobody ever heard of Kennedy.
And I see no influence or impact whatsoever.
Oh, from Kennedy.
Interesting point.
Yeah.
Well, but the, the Jell-O that's contracts.
And those contracts have been around since, since
Bill.
And it's not even Jell-O.
It's some other off brand of gelatin dessert
that is unedible.
It's a gelatin product.
I mean, you have no idea how bad
the food is.
I lost like 10 pounds.
It was like, and then they had these
dietitians that the one that was at the
hospital, I've got another one that's better, but
the one from the hospital, she's, she might
as well been from 1963.
It's old, old ideas, the old pyramids.
And really, you know, lots of carbs.
Oh, you got more carbs.
So, I mean, did you, what was the
typical dinner?
They'd have something like a, like a chick.
Well, just an example of something that was
borderline.
It wasn't even borderline edible, actually.
It would be a piece of chicken, a
chicken thigh, uh, with some, you know, phony
baloney name, some gravy, the chicken thigh was
so overcooked that you could literally, you could,
you could pick it up and you could,
you could pound a nail with it.
It was unbelievable.
All right.
So did they have a potato product, a
starch product?
They did have like mashed potatoes, uh, no
salt.
And so it was like tasteless and, and
the texture wasn't quite right.
And then string beans, string beans.
Yeah.
Always some string beans.
Yep.
And then a gelatin product of unknown origin
and manufacture date.
Yeah.
Wow.
In a, in a prepackaged thing that was
obviously came off in assembly line.
Yeah.
So is Jano taking care of you or
is she feeding you?
I mean, how, what's this?
I can cook now.
What's the situation?
Are you in bed most of the day?
No, God, no.
Well, that's the last thing.
That's why I had to get out of
the hospital because they keep you in bed
all day.
Now I got to be up.
And so, uh, back to these meals, it
was like, you couldn't eat any of it.
They examined the percentage of what you ate
and it would go in your file.
Uh, you only ate, you know, we can't
eat any more than that.
And what did you say?
It sucks.
Yeah.
And I complained bitterly the whole time and
everybody agreed with me and it was one
nurse and PA every million of these different
titles coming up and down.
Well, yeah, we, we just too bad.
We can't have food that's edible.
And one nurse comes in and I'm bitching
as usual about the food and, and do,
do other one nurses nodding.
And the other one says, I think the
food here is great.
And I said, what?
How could you say that?
She says, I used to work at the
VA.
Oh, you have no idea what bad food
is.
You're clueless.
It's kind of sad.
Have you gotten any, have you received the
bills yet?
This is what everyone's waiting for.
Oh, it's going to be like the fortune,
but nothing yet.
Right.
We don't, we don't have any, they're late.
What are they, why are they waiting?
I have no idea.
We'll, we'll find out soon enough.
So, okay.
If you don't mind me just asking, cause
people want to know, we're all generally concerned
for your health and people have to understand.
It is amazing that you're even doing a
podcast.
Yeah.
This, this quickly after you're, I mean, you're
no letterman.
Uh, no letterman went on stage.
Yes.
Well, now are you, are you going to
make the meetup on the 11th?
No, probably not.
I'm going to try to make it.
Oh man.
You know what, you know what you need?
You need like Stephen Hawking.
Remember when I met, well, I didn't really
meet him, but I had dinner in the
same restaurant as Stephen Hawking in Los Angeles.
And he had this babes, like super hot.
He apparently attracted a lot of babes.
Super hot nurse babes.
We can get you some hot nurse babes
just for the meetup.
You know, just when you're.
I think the bill's too high already.
No, but the media, I'd be, I have
a couple of hot nurses.
Yeah.
But a little elaborate.
I did pull that stunt before something similar
to that in a competition, but a cooking
competition in Vegas.
I'm pretty sure that we can get a
couple of our female producers to dress up
as, you know, hot nurses just for the
photo op.
That'd be a good photo.
Yeah.
You're not into it.
Okay.
I'm just trying to cheer you up over
the hill for these sorts of, of, uh,
publicity stunts.
Have you gotten any calls from any of
your peers?
Like, I don't know the Lib Joe's.
Has anyone called?
The Lib Joe's are clueless.
They have no idea.
Uh, I mean, people I talk to a
lot, they'll, we all talk to each other
and, um.
Has Leo Laporte called?
No, he hasn't even said anything about it.
Oh, wow.
He has to know.
Oh, you were on pod news.
I was?
Yeah, you were on pod news.
John C.
Dvorak, 18 year co-host of the No
Agenda podcast has had a double bypass.
We wish him well.
Yeah.
You were on pod news, man.
You made the pod news.
Well, it's about time I got some publicity.
Okay.
So, but you're a genius.
I'll bring these stories in and out.
All right.
Well, we just want to know, it's like,
do you go, do you walk outside?
Are you only walking in the house?
Well, when I'm outside, because here's the problem.
And this is a two month problem.
It's a huge problem.
Uh, you have limited use of your arms,
uh, because if you start doing anything.
Oh, it hurts.
No, it's not, it hurts.
It, it, it's the, because as you're cut
down the middle of your chest, you have
your, uh, that bone there that's kind of
stapled back together.
With a hammer and nail, some, some gaffer
tape.
And it takes like two months before it's
sealed enough that you can take a chance
on doing anything.
And they, they, like, for example, if you,
they say, they tell you this, which makes
it tough to walk around.
So I, so they, the hospital gave me
this role, this kind of rolly Walker, which
I use when I go outside, because if
you fall down in this two month period,
oh, you're screwed.
It cracks this thing.
And then the, and the word is if
you fall down, you don't have anybody try
to get you up.
You call nine one, one.
Wow.
Who needs that aggravation?
Yeah.
So you're very careful about things when you're
wandering around.
And so when you're outside this rolling Walker
thing, which has got four wheels and handlebars
and you can walk like a bat out
of hell, uh, you use it because you
can't take a chance of stumbling or falling
because who the hell needs to start the
process over?
No, no, no.
I didn't.
And what did they have to rebreak you?
They have to cut you open again.
I don't know what they do.
I have no idea.
I don't want to know.
I want to find out.
And does your Walker have handbrakes?
Yeah.
Cool.
And a little seat.
It's cute.
It's the cutest thing, but it's like, you
can go, you can, you feel very confident
with it, but yeah.
Okay.
No, this is a, not a thing I
would recommend anyone who want to go through.
But the thing is, Mimi has a friend,
Richard, who had a quadruple and he called
me up the other day, uh, ex police
guy from LA who's a whistleblower.
It made a couple million bucks turning in
some mobsters.
So I don't know.
He had to run up to Washington.
He's in the witness protection program up in
Washington state.
Now he's just hiding out.
And so, uh, he had a quadruple and
he told me, told me the whole thing,
everything that I'm doing now is exactly what
happens.
And you come out the other end when
you're done with the process, which is a
good four months, uh, for the whole thing
to blow over and you, it's okay.
It's okay.
If you feel better than you did before.
And there's a lot of benefits, uh, except,
you know, you go and you get these
scars, you can show off, uh, yeah, meetups.
Yeah, exactly.
Hey, look, no, no, wait a minute.
We already discussed this.
The first rule of group is you don't
show your scar.
That's what the guy said.
I told you, I mentioned that story with
the guy comes in.
Yeah, no, we, yeah, we all think you
should go to group.
I didn't do the kicker.
Oh, what's the kicker?
He lifts up his shirt and shows me
the scar.
I'm thinking you should go to one of
these just for the experience.
Go to group.
Yeah, I just might.
Yeah.
How could it hurt?
Well, you might, there might be a couple
of guys with great stories.
That's what I'm thinking.
Like, Hey, here's what the babes like.
There's got to be some kind of contingency
of, of women who just love.
Oh, can you imagine?
Cause you know, it's like groupies, you know,
collectors.
Yeah, I'm sure there is, to be honest
about it.
Far out with your scar out, baby.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
All right.
A couple more clips here before we take
a break.
I do have the, the Artemis clip, but
this is not the one you had.
This is about the ever delayed moon launch.
For the first time in more than 50
years, NASA is about to launch four astronauts
near the moon.
Artemis two, the more than $55 billion investment
is a 10 day mission.
Its goal is to fly astronauts around the
moon and back exploring the feasibility of building
a lasting site on the moon for lunar
exploration and future missions to Mars.
But this step in science comes with a
cost and missed deadlines.
As those interested in this mission are looking
at it with a microscope.
Will it be another delayed expensive NASA failure
or will this mission be one to impress?
I mean, NASA does have a history.
You can look at a lot of our
OIG reports where we are way over budget
and substantially behind schedule.
NASA's administrator, Jared Isaacson admitted to what we
all know on Tuesday, but added.
At some point you have to, you know,
course correct and get things back on track.
Back on track after a report from the
government accountability office discovered last July that the
mission was already close to $7 billion over
budget.
We have to do some things differently.
I think you're seeing it in some of
the public support.
You're seeing it in, you know, the new
authorization bill.
And this is what it takes.
If we're going to get the job done
to go to the moon, do so before
our rivals.
Isaacson speaking on the mounting pressure of the
international space race, a big part of NASA's
reputation and what's at stake for this upcoming
mission.
Right now, he says the agency's priority is
developing technology to explore the moon.
But this sentiment is also a major focus
point for those watching from the outside.
People expressed skepticism on NASA's focus on the
moon, as it seems to be distracting from
building a replacement international space station, something that's
been deemed completely necessary by experts.
NASA announced this week that it will invest
$20 billion to build a base on the
moon, shelving plans to deploy a space station
in lunar orbit.
We're trying, we're trying to get back into
a rhythm.
We're being very transparent.
The idea is to make the transition the
right way.
And we have to put everything out on
the table.
People will be watching closely to see how
things play out on the moon, with Artemis
2 expected to launch on April 1st.
I just love that date.
If someone, if we were in charge of
stuff, which we'll never be, and someone came
in and said, oh, hey, hey, bosses, Curry,
Dvorak, we're going to launch this thing on
April 1st.
I think both you and I would be
like, no, you're not.
Right.
You're going to choose a different date.
Yeah, this is, this is, it's, it would
be too stupid if you can't make it.
Yeah.
It's an embarrassment.
Yeah.
Well, we'll have to see.
Well, this might be a good one for
the predictive betting market.
Yeah.
How much longer is that thing going to
last?
Will they let this go on forever?
Well, since this is kind of para-mutual,
they don't lose money.
It's like the bets come in from one
side and then they change the odds, come
in from the other side, they change the
odds.
And then they take the money from the
one side and give it to the other
side and take a piece of the action
in the middle and go on forever.
Right.
That's why they're just calling it an exchange.
Yeah, it's an exchange.
The greater, I mean, it should be illegal,
period.
Para-mutual.
Why should it be illegal?
It's encouraging people to gamble.
Well, yeah.
This is not healthy for the society.
Says the man who can barely talk.
Yeah, well, it's beside the point.
It's not healthy for society.
No, it's not healthy for society.
Play this Cash Patel clip.
Oh, yeah, this was a good story.
Classic.
Where is Cash?
Here we go.
Tonight, cyber warfare unleashed with an Iranian-lead
group hacking FBI Director Cash Patel's personal email
and posting private messages involving Patel's family and
photographs of him at a time before he
became director.
As this war continues and as the regime
is under tremendous pressure, it wouldn't surprise me
to hear that the Iranians are potentially trying
to take things to an even higher level
than what they've done already.
The hack and posting apparently in direct retaliation
for the Justice Department taking down several websites
associated with the group known as Handala earlier
this month.
Tonight, Handala bluntly describing why they targeted Patel,
quote, while the FBI proudly seized our domains,
we decided to respond to this ridiculous show
in a way that will be remembered forever.
The group claims to have emails, conversations, documents
and even classified files.
David, the FBI says the hacked material is
historical in nature and involves no government information.
And the FBI says the US is offering
a $10 million reward for information about the
Handala hackers.
Yeah, this is a marketing of these Handala
hackers.
This sounds like, I don't know.
I mean, what is the point?
It's an old Gmail, isn't it?
I don't know.
Yeah, well, I have a clip and it
includes our boy Brennan.
15 past with the breaking news.
Breaking news, 15 past with the breaking news.
Now reporting Iran linked hackers are claiming they
have breached the personal email inbox of FBI
Director Kash Patel.
Breached.
Those hackers have published photographs of Patel along
with his purported resume.
And what appears to be personal.
I love the pictures, goofy pictures, goofy, stupid
selfies.
Correspondence dating between 2010 and 2019.
But MSNL has not confirmed that any of
those documents are legitimate.
And DOJ tells our Carol Lennig they do
not know the details of this apparent hack.
Joining us now, former CIA director and MSNL
senior national security and intelligence analyst John Brennan.
How concerning is this report?
And we want to point out the hack
does not cover his time as FBI director,
but it does allegedly cover.
Allegedly.
The time he worked in national security and
counterterrorism at DOJ.
And depending on how far into 2019, possibly
his time on the National Security Council.
Well, Alex, the Iranians have very, very sophisticated
cyber capabilities, both from the standpoint of collection
as well as disruption.
And I'm sure that the war ongoing right
now with Iran has led to an increase
in their efforts and determination to target a
number of individuals with their cyber hacks and
capabilities.
So, again, I'm unsurprised that the Iranians are
engaged in such activities.
We've had to face it for the past
10 or 15 years in terms of what
the Iranians have been able to do.
And given that, you know, the FBI director
is a high profile target.
And it's, again, not surprising that the Iranians
would do something like this.
But again, I have to underscore just how
sophisticated the Iranians have become and their ability
to do things like this.
He's not wrong about that.
No, but Brennan's a dud.
I mean, is anyone watching Ms. Now?
Have you seen any ratings?
Does that thing work?
It can't be good.
I don't think so either.
They're going after...
They're trying to buy the Vox podcast network.
Ooh, that'll do it.
Well, what I think is kind of fun
about that is we had Prof. G., Scott
Galloway, touting with Karen...
Karen.
What's her new name?
With Karen Swisher.
No, no, we're going to sell this show.
We're going to, you know, they were in
negotiations, I think, with Vox.
How do you sell a show like that?
Well, they didn't.
That was the whole point.
It was like, this is hundreds...
This is kind of back a little bit
after the Spotify days.
And Rogan, like, oh, we're going to be
100 millionaires from this show.
He was showing charts where he could make
a billion dollars on advertising.
And he hired 35 people for the Prof.
G.
experience for all of his podcasts.
And now they're getting wrapped up in a
sale to...
Gosh, who was it?
Who was it that was going to buy
this?
Are they part of a network?
Yeah, they're part of the Vox Media Network.
Oh, I did not know that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Let me see.
It was...
Oh, so you're going to get nothing.
No, of course not.
And how can you even sell it?
We know what a podcast network is worth.
It's nothing.
So, okay.
So, Vox Media.
Oh, this is it.
Yeah.
So, Vox Media.
Initially, they had said, okay, we're putting it
up for sale.
And then they said, no, no, no, we're
not selling anything.
But then Versant comes along.
Do you know what...
Do you remember Versant?
Yep.
That's the spin-off company that includes MSNOW
and CNBC.
And they want...
Versant is saying, we want to have at
least 40% non-traditional content within the
next two years that they're going to buy.
That's a dud.
You can't make money off of a podcast
network.
Spotify put a billion dollars into it and
failed.
You know who they didn't call?
Just for advice.
Yeah.
The Curry Divorce Consulting Group.
Yeah.
You never get called for anything.
I never get called for anything.
We're outliers with experience and good judgment, but...
And we're handsome.
We're quite handsome.
And nobody cares.
Nobody cares.
Well, those who are last will be first.
The least will get the most.
That is what I've always understood.
And with that, I want to thank you
for your courage.
Say in the morning to you, the man
who put the sea and cut down the
middle.
Say hello to my friend on the other
end.
He's still alive.
Mr. John C.
DeMorais.
Well, in the morning, Mr. Adam Curry.
Also, in the morning, all ships and sea
boots on the ground, feet in the air.
Subs in the water and all the dames
and knights out there.
In the morning to the trolls in the
troll room.
Oh, there we go.
That's better.
18.06 today at the peak of our
trollage, which is much better for a Sunday.
I think people thought you were dead.
And like, well, we're going to give up.
Who wants to hear Curry?
Give a crap about Curry.
Oh, he's back.
Okay.
Well, we might as well tune in again.
Well, you're getting you're getting a product, which
we find to be a quite outstanding product
from people who are not swayed by popular
opinion, are not captured by an audience who
tells them that you better, you better be
criticizing people more.
We've identified this is we have to wait.
There's another guy besides the one you're talking
about.
So, you know, you're not critical enough.
He should just be grousing about everything.
I mean, you don't think I grouse enough.
Okay.
No, but you have to be more of
an activist.
That's what he said.
And the other one is activism.
Yeah, activist.
Let's push some some, you know, people don't
realize we we don't have an agenda in
regards to pushing these things, but we're not
pushing.
We don't push anything.
But here's what here's the problem.
It's for some reason always focuses on me,
which I don't know, maybe it's the right
thing.
I can't spell my name.
Well, no, but when we analyze something that
President Trump does, then we're licking his ass
because we say, well, I think he's right.
Oh, you what?
You're not critical.
You're all in.
How many shekels did you get for that?
You know, so when we're not because we
just don't agree with the the narrative and
there's pushback coming on all these podcasters, people
are getting tired of it.
They're tired of it.
They want they want they want just the
just an actual opinion from somebody and not.
All right.
Yeah, I bought it.
Let me go on your podcast.
Even I guess even Joe Rogan's kind of
falling forward now a little bit.
Yeah, I mean, he's but he doesn't go
on everybody's podcast.
No, no, no, no.
These these merry go round podcasts.
You go on mine.
I go on yours.
You're on his.
And then he goes on mine.
And I go on yours.
And you around, around, around they go.
Yeah, where they stop.
Yeah, nobody knows.
We're not part of any of these clicks.
No, we're not.
That's how I should have clipped that.
Reverend Franklin Graham said podcasts are a problem.
I got to get that clip.
He was complaining about the was he referring
to?
Oh, the podcast that are saying that that
Israel is bad and the Jews are to
blame for everything.
Oh, yeah, they do.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
And, you know, now Tucker is he's got
a documentary and I've got Bibi Netanyahu and
his wife and they're horrible and they're corrupt,
which is probably true.
But who cares?
Like, OK, maybe 15 minutes of discussion.
Yeah, who cares?
It's true.
Who cares?
Anyway, the trolls are listening at no agenda
stream dot com.
That's I will say, and I've actually talked
with, you know, Dave Jones, my buddy, who
is this nicest, calmest guy?
They call him the pod sage.
And we do the like a board meeting
every Friday.
We talk about podcasting 2.0 and, you
know, we have developers on the audience is
like 500 people.
It's it's it's not meant for any other
consumption outside of what we're doing.
And out of that group comes, you know,
new features like transcripts and chapters and all
this stuff that you're seeing now.
The big boys are implementing, which is the
whole that was the whole point.
Podcasting had stagnated for a decade.
We get we started we started up and
things are working.
OK, so great.
And even he is getting snark.
People just and it's.
It's older millennials.
Maybe some Gen X, there's something going on
and and people feel like they can just
lash out and and say whatever they want
to a podcaster.
You haven't noticed this because no one knows
where to find you.
You're in hiding.
But.
There's something going, there's something in the air
where people just they just want to say,
you suck.
You know, people want to say you suck.
That's pretty much it.
You suck.
Yeah.
So the troll room, there's a lot of
that.
But actually, today has not been too bad.
Now they are trolls.
So it's to be expected here.
Obviously, no agenda stream dot com.
And of course, we have the modern podcast
apps.
We're just talking about it.
One of the great features they have is
live live podcasts.
When you go live and you're recording live,
the podcast app that you use to listen
to your your podcast whenever whenever you feel
like it will give you an alert.
So if you want to, you can join
in live and listen to it.
And these things also have pod ping technology.
So within 90 seconds of updating the podcast
and releasing it, you'll get notified.
We are a value for value podcast.
And that means that there's no subscriptions.
There's no advertising.
There's no paywall.
No, we we give you everything up front
and center.
What you see is what you get.
And if you get value out of it,
then we would like to hear back from
you.
And you can do that with your time,
your talent or your treasure.
And one of the ways people help us
is by its production, because everyone who listens
to the show is by definition a producer.
So let me take a look here.
We had episode 1854.
Rackout was the title of that.
You really had.
Oh, we use the the art, which was
kind of cool by Nessworks.
And he had a gas pump premium podcast
only man.
It doesn't happen often that you get a
lot of email about one topic that you
don't expect.
Premium versus regular was the one.
Did you get emails about this?
I also have a mea culpa.
Oh, well, let me explain.
First, we were talking about the difference between
premium and regular.
So high octane, lower octane.
And I asked, I said, well, is this
a scam?
Am I just paying for this stuff when
I don't have to?
And a lot of people said, oh, yeah,
you're crazy.
Unless you have a high end, high compression
automobile, there's no need for it.
I'm generalizing, but that's kind of what I
got back.
And of course, the tip of the day
was always fill up your rental car with
the lowest octane possible when you return it.
That to me was the tip of the
day.
Like, ah, obviously, that's what we got to
do there.
Well, a couple of things.
I'll defend the petroleum industry and say these
things are all based on knock engines in
your engine.
If you want to use lower grade fuel
and let your engine knock once in a
while, OK, good for you.
It's going to hurt and damage the engine
over time.
But I use premium fuel because I drive
a Lexus.
Old one, 20 year old, but still.
The second thing is, this is my fault.
I talked about the low sulfur diesel and
I kind of conflated it with the stupid
blend that we have in California for gasoline,
which is special to California.
And I said it's going to take over
the whole country, blah, blah, blah.
No, it's a federal low sulfur diesel.
As one of the producers pointed out, it's
the diesels, the diesel everywhere.
And it's really expensive.
So that can be changed at a federal
level.
How come President Trump doesn't change this?
What's he going to do?
Just tell him to stop, let the sulfur
free.
No, I think they've gotten used to this
blend.
It's better.
The high sulfur diesels make a mess.
It's probably a better product.
Well, we got the farm diesel here.
All the good old boys.
They put that farm diesel in their pickup
trucks and they roll coal along the road.
You can always tell like, oh, you got
farm diesel.
So thanks to Nestworks for bringing us that
artwork.
There were a couple other things that we
looked at.
I think we can kind of move past
the hospital art.
I think John is no longer in the
hospital.
You kind of liked Dan OBGYN 4's slot
machine.
Yeah, I did.
I think it's an evergreen.
I might use it.
Possible evergreen.
Scaramanga's homemade missile on the surfboard was kind
of cute.
A lot of ship stuff.
So I think Nestworks kind of nailed it.
Premium podcast only.
It was good.
We liked it.
You actually liked it a lot because you
felt that it was not, you know, a
big AI effort.
Well, Nestworks is not necessarily an AI effort
type of guy.
So yeah, I did like that.
I thought that was good.
So we thank you for your courage, Nestworks.
And we thank everybody who participates at noagendaartgenerator
.com.
So it is time, talent, and treasure.
Again, the idea is you get value out
of this show.
You like the analysis.
You thought it was worthwhile.
You'd like it to continue.
You've got one man on his deathbed.
He's dialing in from his deathbed.
You might, that might be valuable to you
to have your show.
All you have to do is send that
value back to us.
We can't determine what that is.
That's up to you.
We don't know what value, what is valuable
to you.
So you go to noagendadonations.com and you
send us some value.
Now we're going to thank everybody $50 and
above in one segment.
And we start with our executive and associate
executive producers.
These are people who get an extra benefit
because they are able to support us with
$200 or more.
And that means not only do you read
your note guaranteed, but we also give you
an associate executive producer credit, which is good
anywhere Hollywood credits are recognized.
And it's a real one because you did
exactly what executive and associate executive producers do,
which is help finance the product.
$300 or above.
And it's the same deal.
Only then you become an executive producer.
And both of these can be used at
imdb.com.
Are we going to do this Knight of
the Heart order?
What is the deal there?
Yeah, I got Paul Couture working on the
art for a pin, a special pin.
Yeah.
That you put on your lapel.
Yeah, it's going to be.
Yeah, it's going to be the red knight
and we're going to roll it out on
my birthday.
It's the order of the red knight.
It's no, you're, you are a red knight.
It's the order of the red of the
order of the heart or the red heart.
Okay.
And, and wait a minute, your birthday is
when, isn't that coming up soon?
Like next week?
Yeah.
Like the 5th.
The 5th of April.
He said, I don't know what happened there.
Well, coming in as, sorry about that.
Coming in as our top executive producer for
today, saving the entire show.
Yes.
It was a very poor showing today, except
for a couple of checks that came in.
Well, Dame Catherine, she is the crypto granny
of Bangkok, came in with a, in, in
Bitcoin, a whopping $5,000.
And she says, John, thank you for not
dying.
We need you.
I think you got to pull this gambit
more often.
What can you do next?
Like I don't think I believe it's not
worth the trouble.
Kidney stones do something.
Uh, Adam, you're a rock.
You kept your head about you and, uh,
hold on one.
Let me expand this.
Uh, and soldiered on Bravo Mimi.
Thank you for filling in during John's medical
adventure.
Hope this helps with the medical bills.
It will.
I'm grateful to be a hodler since the
early days.
I must give thanks to Max Kaiser to
the moon.
And she ends up by saying, being rich
is having enough to share with others.
She is Dame Catherine, the crypto granny of
Bangkok.
And we thank you so much, Dame Catherine.
That was whatever happened to Max Kaiser.
They're all living in El Salvador now.
Oh, really?
You know who else is moving to El
Salvador?
Texas Slim.
He is now, he is a fish by
presidential appointment in charge of all beef agriculture
of El Salvador.
Wow.
You know, I had an El Salvadorian, uh,
that I met with the, in the hospital.
He was just one of the, one of
the guys who, uh, they called, uh, transport.
They drag you around and you need to
keep you in your bed and they roll
you all over the place.
And, uh, I had a long chat with
him.
He says, he says, El Salvador has become
the greatest place ever.
When he was a kid that you couldn't
go outside.
They'd shoot you.
Yeah.
You got rousted or kills.
I know.
Well, this, that's the, uh, that's Bukele.
And he says that the guy, this president,
the guy's running it.
He doesn't need any money.
He's loaded.
And you know, it's, it's not, there's no
way of going corrupt.
That's Bukele.
He says it's a terrific place.
Yeah.
And you know what they did?
They made Bitcoin the money of the country.
Currency.
Yeah.
It's the currency.
And a lot of people have moved there.
Max and Stacy are there.
I'm pretty much full time now.
I think it's only what two and a
half hour flight from Texas.
I'm going to go visit when Slim is
there.
Oh yeah.
So he's in charge.
He's going to, uh, I think he has
a, a press conference with the president Bukele
on the 14th of April.
And, uh, yeah, he, so he's going to
do everything from the regenerative farming to the
processing.
And he has beef.com.
Somehow we got beef.com.
Little old Texas Slim, man.
He's doing good.
I'm so, so happy for him.
He says, Adam, I'm going to be the
Jimmy Dean of beef and I don't doubt
him.
So that's what's going on in El Salvador.
Well, thanks to Dame Catherine.
Uh, Matthew lambs up.
He's in Johnson city, Tennessee, 500 bucks.
This, I just, I believe it's just a
check that showed up in an envelope with
no, no, no, nothing.
It made no sense, but I'm sure if
he wants to communicate, he will, but he'll
get a double up karma.
In the meantime, you've got karma.
All right.
Then we have a valuable account.
Indeed.
This is a great name, uh, from Plains,
Pennsylvania, $500 with a handwritten note.
Looks like, uh, uh, some paper from a
high school notebook.
Dear John Adam plus Mimi.
My cousin also named John also had a
heart attack this week.
Sadly, he passed away leaving behind his wife,
children, and one grandchild.
He was a great guy and will be
missed.
Please count your blessings.
John get way, get, get well, stay healthy
and four more years.
Sincerely a valuable account accountant.
Indeed.
Not account accountant.
Indeed.
Uh, and he breaks it down.
Three 33, 33 value for value, a boob
donation for Mimi.
She's a lovely woman and a eight Oh
boob for John, a reason to live and
$6 and 51 cents for JC covering DH
unplugged.
He's great.
Plus prayers for Adam and pastor Jimmy, a
wonderful show.
They do.
There are three types of accountants, the kind
that you can count on and the kind
that can't that can't.
Okay.
Uh, uh, yeah, I get it.
The kind, the kind that can count and
the kind that can't.
There you go.
Well, this is a valuable accountant indeed.
And we thank you very much for your
support of the show.
No, the joke was there's three types.
I know, but there's no third.
Then you get it.
Yeah.
Okay.
Ron Camacho, Comcho, Ron Comcho, Comcho sugar Island,
Texas three, three, three, three, three foremost.
I want to thank John or thank you,
John, for not dying.
You're welcome.
I started listening in March 2, 2026.
Recent listener, huh?
First time donor.
I need a D douching.
You've been D douched.
My Spicewood, Texas daughter.
Turn me on to you guys.
Thank you for your enlightenment.
It's appreciated.
I apologize.
You're not donating sooner.
I leave with this in the spirit of
Texas and in the words of Sam Houston,
Texas will again lift his head and stand
among the nations.
It ought to do so for no country
upon the globe can compare with it in
a natural advantages.
God bless you.
The no agenda show and God bless Texas.
Amen.
That's right.
One of those guys.
Yeah.
Well, there's a lot of them here and
I'm one of them calling Westerhouse in Chiribusco,
Indiana.
I think it's Chiribusco.
Someone gave me crap.
Me and my sister-in-law gave me
crap the other day because I said Portage,
Indiana.
She called me up, says it's Portage.
We're Midwesterners.
Stop with the French stuff.
So I don't know if you pronounce this
Chiribusco or Chiribusco, but it's in Indiana.
RoveDocs222.22. No note that I could find
from Colleen.
So we'll give her a double up karma.
You've got karma.
Christopher Graves in Somerset, California.
Now we know Christopher.
Christopher.
2329.
This is a note.
So thank you to Eli, the coffee guy.
When Eli reached out and asked if Little
John's could make chocolate with coffee.
By the way, we got some of these
things.
You got some already?
I haven't received any.
Well, I think so because Jay is talking
about you eat one and you go to
the moon.
I got to get to the P.O.
box.
Make chocolate with coffee.
I jumped at the chance to co-brand
with another like-minded business owner.
Getting the chance to collab with two of
my favorite things, chocolate and coffee, and then
promote it to the best podcast in the
universe is an honor.
Yes.
Thank you, Eli, for making me a better
businessman and a better candy maker.
Connection is protection.
Try our limited edition chocolate bars at littlejohnscoffee
.com or gigawattcoffeeroasters.com.
203-29.
Yeah, it's littlejohnscandies.com.
What did I say?
You said Little John's Coffee.
That's what a collab will do to you.
No, that's from the drugs.
What drugs are you on?
Nothing.
What?
Nothing for pain?
No, I don't have any pain.
I have aches and I have like sore
back and neck and things like that.
And I asked about this, by the way,
not to go on about these ailments, but
because everyone would come in, well, we're going
to do this and that, and then somebody
else comes in, we're going to do this
and that.
And then they always say, do you have
any pain?
Oh, and do you?
And I said, no.
The little chart with the, where on this
chart is your pain level at?
And I said, no, you got pain from
zero to 10.
I don't have any pain.
He's got no pain.
And so this went on and on and
on.
And so somebody comes in once and I
said, okay, I don't have any pain.
But why, what, you know, I can't seem
to make it clear.
And so what is the pain that people
have?
Because after, you know, you have your while
you wonder what the hell's this horrible pain,
because they keep asking.
And I guess one of the doctors described,
it feels like you're being stabbed.
Wow.
I'm glad I don't have that.
Well, at least there's one thing I avoided.
You're doing so well to over two hours
and your energy went up.
It's amazing.
Yeah, well.
Hey, we've got Gert Lunkar in Breda in
the Netherlands.
$200 and 88 cents.
That's a give John a reason to live
donation.
And he has a note with his associate
executive producer, John and Adam.
ITM, I've been listening since COVID and I've
never missed a show since.
Thank you for bringing sanity in the world
of news and media.
This donation of $200 and 88 cents is
a shout out to my brother, Hans, who
has moved from the Netherlands to Phoenix, Arizona.
Did that a while ago.
He's a mechanical engineer, independent product developer, who's
a total beast at 3D and CAD design.
And he's looking to get more clients in
the US.
He is fully authorized to work in the
US.
He's got a green card and he's ready
to take on your 3D design needs for
mechanical engineering.
You can look him up on smartinnoventions.com.
That's smartinnoventions.com.
Or contact him info at cad-downloads.com.
Kindly play the jingle for him.
Jobs, jobs, jobs.
We vote for jobs.
Keep up the great work and thank you
for your attention to this matter, says Gert
Lunkar from Breda in the Netherlands.
Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs.
Karma.
And there's Linda Lupatkin in Castle Rock, Colorado.
200 bucks.
Jobs, Karma, your resume has about 10 seconds
to make an impression.
And most don't.
For a resume, I think I have that.
Nice, nice one.
Linda helps professionals and ex-executives turn their
experience into a clear story of leadership results
and impact.
That's Image Makers, Inc.
with Kay.
And Linda Lou, Duchess of Jobs and writer
of winning resumes.
Best, Linda.
Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs.
By the way, when you're back at home
base, I don't know, it's going to take
a couple months.
Whenever you get to go back, you must
be ready to go back home already.
I know you.
You're like, I want to be home.
What's it like living with your kid?
Well, you know, Brennan is a chatty guy.
So it's fun to talk with him.
And it's good to work with Jay.
And it's just interesting.
I gotta tell you, Jay.
I think it's annoying to them.
I can't.
No, first of all, she loves you so
much.
I try to slow her down.
Like, easy does it.
He'll disappoint you somewhere along the way.
Just don't.
Let's hope so.
But she is a, she's a rock star.
She really is.
She didn't skip a beat.
You know, maybe, maybe she didn't care.
Oh, the old guys and then I gotta
live in my house.
But she is so good.
She just keeps on.
She could, had she ever done a podcast?
She, she doesn't enunciate.
Oh, I just remember her when she was
14 or 15.
That's the last time I saw her.
She's all grown up and married and, and
doing stuff.
She's cool.
Everybody loves Jay.
Yes.
So we could do the rest of these
because this is the shortest list we've ever
had.
Yeah, I'm going to, I'm going to go
right through it.
I'll do them all.
Never wait.
Let me stop you.
This is the shortest list of donations we've
ever had.
A total count with the, with the crypto
granny and all the rest thrown in of
19 people.
Now, is it that bad?
Part of this is the newsletter is, is
has to be redeveloped because it's just not
getting to anybody.
It's, you mean they're not actually receiving it
or it's not, it doesn't have impact.
They're not receiving it.
Oh, what changed besides you almost dying?
No, this changed about, uh, six to nine
months ago.
And I noticed it then.
And I have, I was slow to act.
Yeah.
Now I'm slower.
So it's going to be a nightmare to
get this thing back on track.
Void zero is ready to help.
I mean, I know I want to talk
to him.
Okay.
Well talk to him.
Talk to your friend.
He has ideas.
He, if anyone knows email, it's void zero.
No, he's, he's, he's a borderline genius.
He is.
Except when he's like, it's Wednesday afternoon.
I'm doing show prep.
He's like, I'm just upgrading the mail server.
Yeah, that would be him.
I need some email to be able to
do my prep.
No, he, he is not borderline.
He is a certified genius.
So we'll thank these few people.
Larry Alar in Cochran, uh, Minnesota, 88, 88.
I came for Adam, but stay because of
John.
Be well, my friend.
Sir Nubbin Indianapolis, Indiana, 88, 88.
And he says there's evidence of promotion to
Baron.
Dear Adam on show 1839.
You credited to Chris Moore instead of certain
Nubbin has requested several times in notes and
emails.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
I believe we are correcting that today, sir.
Michael Biscagli, Biscagli, Biscagli is from Staten Island.
And he sent in, oh, this is a
get well note.
It was a very nice card that he
sent.
Let me see.
Yes.
Um, it said bringing you the strength you
need today and every day.
Get well soon.
I'm happy you're out of the hospital and
on the men says Michael with his 88,
88.
That's nice.
And nice when people send cards like that.
So old school and with $80 and 8
cents, he's there every single show.
Sometimes twice, uh, sir, Kevin McLaughlin.
He is the Archduke of Luke, a lover
of America and boobs.
And as always, he says, God bless America
and boobs.
Lane Lamoureux, $55 from the middle of Mesopotamia.
Rockets, drones, and missiles.
Oh, my proving.
Not all Americans have gone bonkers from a
university in Baghdad.
Thanks for your thanks to your deconstruction.
So it says San Francisco, but I guess
he's in Iraq.
Sounds like it.
Yeah, well, stay safe.
Surprise of he's the knight of astonishment, 54
and 44 from Yukon, Oklahoma.
Tyler, the mailman, Arlington, Washington, 51, 11.
I love you guys.
Keep going on five ever.
That's more than forever.
Bobby Bow in Bluegrass, Iowa, 50.
Nathan Knoll in Nederland, Texas, 50.
Terrence Clark in Jacksonville Beach, 50.
And finally, our last 50 is Joshua Johnson
from Omaha, Nebraska.
And these make up our executive and associate
executive producers.
And our $50 and above producers for episode
1855.
Thank you all very much for those who
supported us.
And consider supporting us by going to knowagenthedonations
.com.
You will not regret supporting the best podcast
in the universe, because that means we'll keep
going even when people are on their deathbed.
I'm telling you, knowagenthedonations.com.
Also a short list on the birthdays, but
they are here.
Evan Mackey celebrates a birthday.
And let me see.
Layaway Night, Sir Exiled Maniac.
I don't have any dates for these guys,
but I'll just take it as it's their
birthday.
So happy birthday from everybody here at the
best podcast in the universe.
Well, I'm very sorry, Sir Nubbin.
I'm not sure exactly what went wrong, but
there was no malice intended.
So today you receive your long overdue and
deserved title change.
You now become a baron.
And we thank you for your courage and
for your support of the best podcast in
the universe.
So we do have one night.
It is a layaway night.
And I believe I have a note here.
This is from A.
Jackson Pollock.
And he will become Sir Exiled Maniac.
He says, John Adam marches donation of 30.
Oh, this is a long time layaway.
3333 should leave me a penny short of
knighthood.
So if you can spare a penny, do
I have my pennies?
Ever since I went to Linux, I think
I lost my pennies.
You know, the Linux machine sucked up the
pennies.
Do I have it?
Nope.
I'm going to have to look for it.
I owe you.
Yes, it'll be.
I owe you is right.
There you go.
I think the ROI will be worth it.
I've also sent an additional 3333 this month
in order to sponsor a douchebag.
Save a podcaster.
I hope this concept catches on.
JCD's life and the show may depend on
it.
Please knight me Sir Exiled Maniac kennel master
of the Dutch Shepherds and Belgian Malinois.
Malinois.
You know who has Malinois?
Laura Logan.
She got five of them.
I had one.
Yeah, but these, these are the ones that
bit Luke Coffey and he had to get
plastic surgery on his face.
No, that's not good.
No, she has five of them and they
get out all the time and they're on
the street roaming around.
Like they are killers.
They can, I had one that was gentle.
Yeah.
But this dog, nothing could contain him.
He would get his escape.
He was an escape artist.
You know, one time we dropped him off
at a kennel.
Then we said, this dog will escape.
And don't worry about it.
We got to secure his facilities.
And so then we see the guy the
next time and he says, so I locked
the dog up and I'm walking down the
hall and I hear something clicking behind me.
The dog is walking right behind me.
They are escape artists.
Let me say that was actually pretty funny.
Let me save that one.
So I need to read some of this
note.
I don't know if you saw, if you
saw this note, but this is a hilarious
note.
Okay.
He says, so I've been having this recurring
dream and I'm starting to think it may
have something to do with the best podcast
in the universe.
It goes something like this.
Since the pandemic, I've been down on my
luck and financially strapped.
So I started directing gay porn movies out
of my house, unbeknownst to my wife while
she's at work.
I'm working with my associate executive producer, Dana
Brunetti and our biggest star, Eli, the coffee
guy.
We are discussing the next scene, which involves
little John's candied beads and a gigawatt coffee
enema followed up with good old fashioned La
Jolla salt rub and tug.
Suddenly the front door flies open and my
wife, Linda Lou, Duchess of Jobs and writer
of winning resumes unexpectedly comes home and cries
out in horror.
Mr. Timothy, what in the world?
What have you been shopping at?
Bad idea supply again.
Then she starts yakking at me something about
it.
If I don't change my wicked ways, find
Jesus and go to imagemakersinc.com.
That's image makers inc with a K.
She's always repeating herself and get myself a
winning resume that gets results.
And there's no doubt in her mind that
I would end up working at Martel hardware
for the rest of my life.
About this time, the alarm clock goes off
and from the radio, I hear the spooky
voice of a washed up VJ exclaiming in
the morning, followed by his geriatric handler sidekick,
bitching and moaning for three hours about low
donations.
What can all of this madness mean?
When will this sigh up end?
Four more years is what my conspiracy therapist
keeps telling me, but he says it may
end a whole lot sooner unless all the
douchebags in the universe donate at least once,
no matter the amount, although 3333 is the
magic number.
Ball is in your court, douchebags.
Stay safe and donate.
That's a Jackson Pollock plus no agenda is
a Picasso.
And that means that we need to ignite
this guy.
So if you can grab that little tiny
heart right here, that's beautiful.
Jason, come on up here.
He has the exiled maniac and you now
officially will become Sir Exiled Maniac, kennel master
of the Dutch Shepherds and Belgian Malinois.
And for you, we have, as always, hookers
and blow red boys and Chardonnay.
We got Harlan's and how dull we've got
red heads and rise, beers and blunts, cowgirls
and coffee.
Varnish Ruben has women and rosé, geishas and
sake, vodka, manila, bong hits and bourbon, sparkling
cider and escorts, ginger ale and gerbils, breast
milk and pablum.
And as always, the roundtable, especially for people
who write funny notes like that, we've got
mutton and me, you sir, head over to
no agenda rings dot com and give us
your ring size so we can send that
off to you.
And they always come with a certificate of
authenticity and a couple of sticks of wax,
so you can add those to your gay
porn movie.
Danny Brunetti will help you for sure.
And welcome to the roundtable, the No Agenda
Nights and Dames.
No Agenda Meetup.
Well, you heard it earlier.
Collabs happen, businessmen get together and all kinds
of beautiful things take place.
Connection is protection at the No Agenda Meetup.
These people will be your first responders in
any emergency or in business venture for that
matter.
And you can find them all at no
agenda meetups dot com.
Today there is a meetup and that is
at six o'clock.
The Northern Wake No Agenda Counter North Sea
Nexus Planning Committee Meetup.
And that'll be in North Carolina at Saints
and Scholars.
So make sure you check that out.
Coming up this month, this coming month, April
4th, Osaka, Japan.
I know that's going to be a good
meetup.
We've got a lot of people in Osaka
Eagle on the 11th.
This is a big day for the meetups.
Eagle, Idaho.
Albany, California.
Sounds like John just might make it.
Ladies, get your hot sexy nurse outfits on
for the photo op.
Lafayette, Louisiana and Fredericksburg, Texas.
Also on the 11th.
I will be there with the keeper.
Pastor Jimmy coming.
Well, we've got Matt Long.
It's going to be a hootenanny.
The 16th, Charlotte, North Carolina.
The 18th, Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Franklin, Tennessee.
Always a good meetup over there on the
18th.
Vancouver, BC.
The most broke place in Canada.
But they'll be doing a meetup on the
19th.
April 25th, Scheveningen in the Netherlands.
The 26th, Brighton in Michigan.
And Leipzig in Germany on April 30th.
No agenda meetups.
You will not regret going to these at
least once in your life.
Go to noagendameetups.com.
If you can't find one near you, no
worries.
All you got to do is start one
yourself.
It's easy and always guaranteed a party.
noagendameetups.com.
All right.
I got time for some ISOs here.
You only have two.
I see you got two ISOs.
All right.
I'll play mine first and we'll see how
we do.
That apparently was real.
Although that, well, maybe I'm wrong.
It came, I thought it came from the
Sean Hannity show.
But I could be wrong.
But I think it's AI.
Here's another one.
All right.
Okay.
All right.
I got two.
Yes.
See ya.
Catch you later.
Take it easy.
Okay.
Not bad.
And then impressive.
That's impressive.
Hmm.
I think I like see ya the best.
I kind of see ya.
Catch you later.
Take it easy.
I think we should leave it with see
ya.
Okay.
All right.
We'll do that.
Hey, everybody.
Before we go anywhere, it is time for
John's tip of the day.
You and me, just a tip with JCD
and sometimes Adam.
Well, not being out and about and the
last tip we picked, I've decided what obvious
things should people have that would be a
tip of the day?
And I got another one.
Okay.
It's not on the list.
I don't know why we haven't picked it
before.
But everybody should have one of these.
A carbon monoxide monitor.
Oh, yes.
I actually have one.
You have one?
Yes.
For when I fly.
I haven't used it in a while.
But yes, I have one for in the
cockpit.
Well, there's a lot of them.
There's tons of them out there.
They're about the two I'll recommend is the
first alert, which is 23 bucks.
And then there's the Kitty, K-I-T
-T-E, 27 bucks.
These are brands that are known.
And they're not expensive.
And they're valuable protection that everyone should have,
especially in and around the kitchen.
If you have gas appliances.
Now, are these just simple ones that beep
or make a noise?
Or can you get them that connect to
an app?
So your app will alert you?
No, but there's plenty that do.
And you can look for those.
In that, you know, in planes, we have
a very cheap one, which is a little
disc.
And the disc changes color.
And then you know that there's a lot
of carbon monoxide.
Yeah, I'd rather have something beeping at me.
Yeah.
And excuse me, I've had them go off
like false positive.
And here's what the pilots do.
How do you feel?
You feel okay?
Yeah.
You feel funny?
No, I feel good.
All right.
Feel good.
You sure?
Okay.
All right.
Feel good.
All right.
That's your check.
Because if you feel funny, then you know,
I am.
If you feel funny, you're in trouble.
Open the window.
I want to do something like that.
There it is, everybody.
If you want to find more of these
tips of the day, go to knowagentifun.com,
tipoftheday.net.
Great advice from you and me.
Just the tip of JCD.
And sometimes Adam.
Created by Dana Brunetti.
There it is.
Dana Brunetti, known for the gay porn, apparently
now.
In only a...
I appreciate giving you grief for that.
Well, hey, he needs to do some kind
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Might as well be in somebody's dreams.
End of show mixes.
MVP is back on.
And Molly Berry comes in.
Molly Berry did the Order of the Heart.
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Yep.
I am your sloperator.
Playing those tunes for you.
You know, these mixes today are pretty good.
They are.
Well, they have good lyrics.
People are figuring out how to, you know,
use good lyrics.
And then it's...
It's not as offensive that it's AI.
But you know, according to Rick Beto, we'll
all be making them ourselves on our Mac
minis at home.
And for more media deconstruction and more on
the war, we'll be back on Thursday.
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Oops, I'm sorry.
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