You know, this guy is a crank. Adam Curry, John
C. Dvorak. It's Thursday, June 18, 2026. This is your
award-winning Give My Nation Media Assassination episode 1878. This is
no agenda. We're all raving about Ranch and broadcasting live
from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in
Yeah, and from Refinery Row, where we're all concerned about
the big report of the rapists in the UK, I'm
John C. Dvorak. and buzzkill the mo- The rapist from
the UK. I don't even want to know. Are they
here? Did you see the report? No. Depends. I mean,
there's a lot of reports in the world. What report?
It's a big 250-page report on the grooming gangs and
the 250,000 girls raped. Did we need a report? Apparently
the bridge did. Did we really need a report? By
the way, quad screen, Obama. Wall-to-wall Obama opening up the
presidential center. It's not a library, apparently. It's a center.
It's good to see him back. The tower. Yeah, the
tower. So, I just want to start with something really
nice? Ooh! I spent a couple hours, which is, as
we discussed before we started the show, is two. Couple
hours just enjoying. all of the videos on X. And
subsequently on YouTube. That's all I really have. I don't
have Instagram or anything else. of tourists, mainly Europeans, but
some Australians and Japanese. who have discovered that America is
awesome. Have you seen any of these? I've seen all
of them. You don't think they're staged? No! No. You
don't think they were put together by the FIFA people
to get more people to come over to these soccer
matches? Oh, yeah, okay, sure. No. I'm just asking if
you don't think that. I said no, and then you
asked the question again, so the answer is no. Well,
no, I re-asked it in a different manner. Hey, these
stadiums of 70,000 people are full. It's not like people
aren't going to the games. But, you know, no. How
is this about FIFA? It's people enjoying our hospitality, how
friendly people are, that people say hello. They're loving. They
cannot believe that the school bus. in America are actually
yellow school buses. It's like... The way I see it...
All of Europe, of course, we've had the same programming,
have been brainwashed into thinking all we are is just
one big bunch of racist, crazy people who are fat
and lazy, shooting at each other. with a dictator running
the whole show. And now of course, you know, people
are like, wow. We really love your fast food or
your food in general. chicken fried steak, waffles. uh pancakes
i mean they have pancakes but you know pancakes with
chicken Waffles with chicken. um You know, people only know
us from the movie. If you've never been to America
and you only see it... America through the lens of
the movies and television shows and Grand Theft Auto. You
know, I think people are amazed that on one hand,
they feel like they're living in the movie because. Yeah,
the houses really look like that. Big obsession with our
fire hydrants. This is fascinating. People just loving the fire
hydrants. Okay. Well, I'm glad you're getting a kick out
of it. I like the guys roaming around at midnight
saying, hey, I'm not. getting mugged. Well, that's the South
African guy. Yeah. And it wasn't even at midnight. It
was during the day. Like, look, women are walking through
the park. No, there was a guy at midnight roaming
around. Same guy. Oh, okay. At a truck stop. And,
of course, you know, this is different if you go
to New York City or you're in downtown Los Angeles.
How about Oakland? Take them down to International Boulevard. Well,
I think this has changed attitudes. I think it's changed
American attitudes. People like, yeah, you know, we kind of
take it for granted that we have Costco and Walmart
and Buc-ee's, but also we have small diners and we
have. dive bars and ice houses and cowboy ranches. I
think the people who came to Texas who went, you
know, really outside of, even people who went to Fort
Worth was just touristy. But went a little bit further,
no, people are exploring and they're really loving our country.
And I like it. And they're saying, hey, you guys
are- patriotic you got flags everywhere we're not even allowed
to put up flags in our country You've got prayer
on the bottom of your cups. No. I'm not so
cynical as you. I think it's great. I think it's...
I've been to Sweden. Every other house has got a
flag 24-7 all day of the year. Flag nuts in
Sweden. I was talking about the UK specifically. Oh, well,
the UK. Well, they can't put a flag because it's
illegal. It's hate speech. Exactly. Exactly. You got people going
to gun ranges holding a gun for the first time
in their life. And like, well, that wasn't, that's, you
know, they're really, they're shaking. Like, I'm going to shoot
this guy. Oh shoot, it's coming! And then after they
shot the gun, like, oh, I want to shoot that
some more. So, you know, they love our cars. They
love the Dodge Charger. They love our trucks. And the
amount of people who are so surprised that the yellow
school buses are actually yellow school buses. They're just, they're
joyous. It's just, I find it interesting, fascinating, and also
endearing. And I'm proud to be an American. And I'm
happy that people are here. There was no setup for
this. FIFA did no marketing. You know why? No one
did any marketing because it was Trump's deal. The media
didn't talk about it. You know, it's Trump, FIFA. I
talk about it. I know the reports about it. There's
no FIFA fever. Turns out... People love it. People love
coming here. They always have. It's been a tourist attraction
forever. Yeah, but... I just don't find it to be.
It's something fishy about it. I'm sorry. I'm glad you
enjoy it. I'm glad you like it. I'm glad you're
happy. Nobody puts flags up around here. Well, no, you're
in California. What do you expect? Yeah, well, I don't
hear anybody. That's why you're so grouchy about it. You
live in possibly the worst state now, the worst. area.
in the country. Where everyone's just grouchy and sour and
upset and not happy. You know, you're an... um an
exception but it's gotta it's gotta wear down on you
Not really. Okay. I find it relaxing. Well, you're a
different, I don't think you're the stereotypical American. Nor do
you live in a stereotypical American place. You just don't.
Anyway. uh so well on the topic of the since
we're making these comparisons i do want to play this
crazy clip You've gone from screwball to crazy, okay. Duke
or Duke Foley sent over. I said, I should play
that clip. This is the UK and this is the
bonus clip. UK and GDP rank. We are poorer than
every single... When voters were asked to guess where the
UK would rank in terms of GDP per capita if
it were a US state, gave on average the response
of seven. The actual answer is 51st. Many people in
Britain today do not fully grasp how far we have
been fading. People of course have a general sense that
our economy is going to be Our economy has not
been growing strongly enough for some time. But too many
tend to think we are still much richer than most
of our peers. And the fact is, we are not.
We are poorer than every single US state. Yeah, that's
why people are coming here. They're like, you guys are
rich. Everything's big! Well, we always have been, but... The
interesting thing is that I looked it up. Ah, come
on. So I looked it up. I think it's probably
true. And in fact, the per capita GDP of the
UK is $52,000. Mm-hmm. The worst state in the United
States for... Per capita GDP is Mississippi. at 55,000. Wow.
And there's a number of states with 100, 110, 118.
108, I think, is California's 108. Well, you have 2%
that make up for the rest, so yeah. Yeah, it's
still the... But still, the fact is the UK's. per
capita GDP is terrible compared to us. Yes. And they
have no money. They're broke. That's why the defense secretary,
when I quit, we can't defend this country. I'm not
going to take that on me. I'm out of here.
Yeah, he took somebody with him to a... I forgot
who. Okay, so while we're on the UK... Man. On
the media, NPR. These people are... They are sick, sick
and crazy. So we've had these, we haven't. There's been
the riots in...
Ireland. And of course it's coming in, in Northern England
and everything. It's all, it's all going to happen. This
there's, there's mutiny. There's civil riots. And on the media,
on the media, decides to not discuss at all why
people are writing, but blame it all. on Elon Musk.
This is On The Media, I'm Brooke Gladstone. And I'm
Michael Loewinger. This week, Elon Musk took his company, SpaceX,
public in an IPO billed as the largest in history.
SpaceX is on track to become the most valuable company
ever to go public and make its founder, Elon Musk,
the first trillionaire. think he'd have his hands full with
that, but apparently Musk has also had time to write
many, many, many racist posts on X, some of which
helped spark violent riots in the UK over the last
couple of weeks. The events this week began on Monday
when a Sudanese man was arrested and charged with attempted
murder for stabbing a white man in Northern Ireland. The
attack comes in escalating tension. Hold on. This guy tried
to chop the guy's head off and then gouged out
his eyes. Oh yeah, no, You're wrong, man. This is
not the problem. ...invested and charged with attempted murder for
stabbing a white man in Northern Ireland. The attack comes
amid escalating tension over immigration across Europe. A video of
the gruesome incident immediately appeared on social media. And then...
Elon Musk writing on X this week only by... Okay,
so the implication here from our friends at NPR is
that, oh, the video was on social media, but it
wasn't until Elon Musk started tweeting about it that everything
kicked off. So Tommy, Tommy Robinson, you know who Tommy
Robinson is. Of course. What would you call him if
you had, you know, like he is a Tommy Robinson
is a fill in the blank. He's a natural born
troublemaker who is a patriot, a UK patriot. Spurred in
part by posts from a notorious conspiracy theorist. Tommy Robinson
is the most prominent far-right activist in the UK. So
on the media calls him a conspiracy theorist because everything
he's saying is made up, you see. There's no immigration
problem. There's no rape going on. Nothing like that. The
guy's just filled with conspiracy theories. David Gilbert is a
reporter at Wired covering disinformation and online... Extremism. When did
Wired cover disinformation and online extremism? Now Wired is a
big disinformation. I'm actually ashamed that I was on the
cover of Wired magazine with my face and an iPod
now. Back when it was something cool. It was like
being on the cover, you know, if you were in
fashion, on the cover of Vanity Fair. I saw your
face on the cover of Wired. How come it's not
on the wall? Uh, it is. It's in the garage.
That's where I hang all my stuff now. He says
things really... He had a wall. Yeah, in the garage.
When did you go to the garage? I thought I
was in the house. No, when we moved to this
house five years ago. I said, I'm tired of all
this crap in the house. And I don't need these
high school trophies. So I got rid of the trophies.
And then moved everything. No, I've always kept the trophies.
And we've talked about this. Well, you never talked about
it. I always knew about the wall, but I never
knew that you moved it to the garage or a
closet. Yeah. It's much more like, you know, where guys
hang out in the garage. They got Ford signs on
the wall, Valvoline. RC Cola. Yeah, so I have a
wall there. I'll take a picture of it. I'll post
it. Extremism. He says things really heated up after Elon
Musk reposted one of Robinson's videos. He has... a huge
amount of followers online. But what he's really expert at
is inciting anger, stoking tensions, and making it seem as
if the UK is under attack from minorities. Well, minorities.
Notice how they move the goalposts on everything. It's under
attack. No, it's under attack from... immigrants who have got
on a boat, came in, and your country said, oh,
poor immigrants. Let them stay here. Give them some money.
Give them a hotel room. So here is the 24-hour
roadmap. From Musk to Mayhem. Give me the roadmap of
how we went from a bystander video. to violence in
the streets. A bystander video! Can you believe this? They're
calling that quasi-beheading, eye-gouging, throat-stabbing a bystander video. What is
wrong with these people? Huh. That's just, I'm flummoxed. Give
me the roadmap of how we went from a bystander
video to violence in the streets of Belfast in just
24 hours. As you said, it was 10.30 at night
in Belfast. Someone videoed it. We don't know who. They
posted it online. Exactly one hour later, Tommy Robinson posted
the video. That video got six million views. A few
hours later, Elon Musk responded to Tommy Robinson and then
spent the next 24 hours posting consistently about this case.
Many major US accounts on X started amplifying the video
when people woke up in the UK on Tuesday morning
after the incident. By 7am, people were posting about having
protests. in Belfast and other cities in Northern Ireland. Far-right
groups on Facebook started organising. Then Elon Musk posted about
the protest and said that this is enough, we have
to take a stance. People have to push back against
this. And by 7pm that evening, there were masked men
on the street who were kicking in doors of migrants.
terrorizing migrant communities across Belfast. I find this to be
just amazing. They have moved from an actual problem that
they won't report on to blaming it on Elon Musk
and his posts. I don't know, it's just like... This
is... This is very pathetic. And they continue. Elon Musk
wrote, murderous migrants beheading innocent people in their hometown is
what's making people angry, not social media. He reposted messages
claiming that British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, quote, hates white
people. This is just like white supremacist great replacement theory,
right? It has been repackaged recently under a term called
"remigration" which is something that has been bubbling up in
Europe for a few years and has been embraced by
the Trump administration recently. So it's this idea that white
people are under attack and so therefore we need to
kick... everyone else out that doesn't look like us. So
they pull it to racism continuously. So yes, it's a,
they say, replacement theory, which is a cover for the
actual document that exists, which is replacement migration, United Nations.
document. I read the documents, man. talked about it. You
can find it on bingit.io. It was a real plan
and they're executing that plan. It's been going on for
a quarter century. What are these people imagining would happen?
Imagining. They have a 30-year plan that would happen in
three phases. The first phase would see the worst. of
the worst what we're seeing in the US at the
moment where they're trying to deport people who are threats
to society of criminal records and are there illegally. The
second phase would see people who are in the country
legally but are not citizens and who have not assimilated
and are not white and they should be sent back
to their countries as well. But what the third phase
shows what these people really want. They would look at
citizens who do not assimilate to the Western cultures, traditions,
and religions. For example, if they are still practicing religions
other than Christianity, if they're cooking foods that are not
traditional foods in Germany or France or the UK or
America. Wait, like Indian food? food like bullshit you've been
to britain they eat indian food like it's going out
of style in fact take out in in in the
uk refers to indian food not chinese like it does
here yeah exactly now this is crazy then they would
be kicked out and who gets to decide what assimilation
looks like Oh my god, that was weird. When I
asked Martin Sellner, who was called the godfather of re-migration
at the conference in Portugal... Wait, get a time code.
You like that one? I have to hear that again.
You have a time code. You got a time code.
Consider it done. Who exactly decides this? He couldn't really
give me an answer. Let me go back to what
actually started it. And by the way, as you're doing
this... As you're doing this, I'm scrolling through the Elon
Musk... Timeline. Very good. This bullcrap is mostly Eli. Yeah,
he mentions it now and again, but he's yacking about.
SpaceX, and Grok 90% of the time. He's promoting stuff.
Yeah, exactly. He's got other things to do. To decide
what assimilation looks like. When I asked Martin Sellner, who
was called the godfather of remigration at the conference in
Portugal, who exactly decides this, he couldn't really give me
an answer. Ultimately, it comes down to whoever's in power
will decide. Say what? Elon Musk! Yeah, Elon was aside.
He's in charge of it all, apparently. Well, she'll bring
me to a clip now that you mention it. Okay.
From Pivot.
Oh, no. from Pivot. So unfortunately you can't, if you
visualize, you can see a little better, but I didn't
realize on the Pivot show, this is a... your buddies
yakking about Elon and... And Kara is just in the,
as, what's his name, Yaxon, she mumbles, oh yeah, oh
he's terrible. She just keeps mumbling little bitty ditties under
her breath the whole time. Yeah, she's... she's... she's... Something's
wrong with her. Let's listen. Let's be clear. Elon Musk,
in my view, can probably decide who the next president
is. If that's correct. He spent $250 million. When will
these people get over this idea that money wins elections?
They were the same people who were... Who were like,
Elon spent $100 million in Wisconsin and failed. He failed.
And now they're like, he can determine who the next
president is. Let's be clear. Elon Musk, in my view,
can probably decide who the next president is. Yeah, that's
correct. He spent $250 million. and had influence on the
election. Maybe he didn't decide it. This guy spends more
money than AIPAC. A lot more money than APAC. Why
don't we run him out of the country? But he
had the influence on it. What happens if he decides
to put two and a half percent of his net
worth or. 25 billion or a hundred times what he
spent. Well, he may just lose all that money. I
think you would be happy. CNN will be happy. All
the cable news would be happy if he's going to
spend that kind of money. People will take it with
open arms. Bring your money, Elon. These people are nuts.
Hey, you know... Remigration. Send Kara Swisher back to wherever
she came from. And Professor Scott, too. This poor man.
He's so self-absorbed. It actually is kind of amusing to
watch his body language. Oh, what do you mean? Well,
he's just, you can see that he's full of himself.
I mean, he's very overconfident. He's actually rich. He has
millions of dollars. He's loaded. The guy's loaded. Exactly. Anyway,
I want to go back to the UK to Keir
Starmer because now we have this problem. It's Elon Musk.
It's X. It's social media. I'm surprised that they haven't
slammed the door on social media. Probably shuttered all the
social media companies except Blue Sky. Of course, you wouldn't
want to shut them down. Well, they've now become a
European initiative. but you're close because let's look at the
sequence of things that happened. Everyone gets a digital ID.
And that's now a thing. You know, it hasn't completely
rolled out now, but everyone has to get a digital
ID. It was initially, oh, you can't work without a
digital ID. They rolled that back a little bit. But
the digital ID is, in essence, being rolled out in
the UK. So we would use the digital ID to
make sure that you are 16 years or older. in
order to use social media. But that also means that
we know who you are. We got your account. We've
tied it to your digital ID and all rolls out
under the guise of. Protecting the children! Because today is
a big moment for our country. This is a big
step. Real change for our children. and our future. Because
today I can announce that the government will ban access
to social media for all children under the age of
16. I'm This is not some... Something I do lightly.
And I will not present it as cost-free, as if
social media has brought no benefits to young people. Because
clearly, that is wrong. But government is always about choices.
And it's clear to me that a full ban is
the right choice. I come to it as a parent
myself. I know exactly the fears that we all feel
when we're thinking about this issue. All I've ever wanted
for my own children, hand on heart, is for them
to be happy and for them to be safe. And
I think that's what any parent wants. But I ask
the question now. Do we truly believe? that social media
creates a happy environment for our children? Do we truly
believe that it's a place where they can feel safe?
Safe. I don't think I even need to answer those
questions, do I? Oh, okay. Don't answer the question, then.
So I think that's, that this is under the guise
of, uh, think of children. I think they've also banned
VPNs. No, I don't know about that. I only know
about this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. They don't want
people getting on these things. We need to talk about
the deal, man. We need to talk about the deal.
The MOU, the deal, the big deal, the big deal.
the big thing that's happening are you switching gears already
well i'm finishing the uk stuff well no i have
uh uk what what more is there to say it
sucks And everyone who's from there, who's here, loves it
here. That is the story. Of course they do. That's
the story right there. It's prettier. Well, actually, how about
this? I can ease us into it with a transition
clip. Whatever the pressure on me and others, whatever the
noise, I'm going to act in the British national interest
in all the decisions that I make. And that's why
I've been absolutely clear that this is not our war.
or we're not going to get dragged into it. UK
Prime Minister Keir Starmer now singing a different tune, telling
President Trump in a phone call yesterday he's, quote, ready
to support a U.S.-Iran peace deal. Meanwhile, the prime minister
receiving letters of resignation from both his defense secretary and
armed forces minister. over concerns the nation isn't properly defending
itself. Former Trump State Department Senior Advisor Christian Witten joins
us now. Great to see you, Christian. So explain to
us, what is this about face from Keir Starmer all
about? Well, Starmer's in crisis. He has been for some
time. He won a resounding mandate two years ago. It's
a five-year mandate, but he's about to be ousted by
his own party. He's an incredibly unpopular politician. The Labour
Party is now in third place before Reform UK, which
is sort of a MAGA-like party that came out of
Brexit in the UK, and the traditional Tories. One of
his buddies in Cabinet He's going to lose a by-election
this week in which the person likely to be elected
wants to challenge him for the premiership. So amid this
flailing, Starmer is looking for some sort of victory. I'm
not sure what President Trump actually wants because Starmer is
weak. He was not just failing to support the United
States, this fundamentally important... important ally to Britain, but actually
actively campaigned against Trump's decision. Yeah. Perfect segue. I'm giving
you a 10 on that. Thank you. I should have
played it and not said anything. Yes, thank you. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. Spike in the ball doesn't help. Yeah. All
right, let's go. Man, the media, they just love this
deal. They love the deal because it sucks. This is
crazy. Why do we even do this? Trump is no
good. Obama's deal just warmed over again. No, that's my
favorite bit. That's my favorite bit. Is that it looks
like Obama's. deal. It's the same. It could have done
nothing. It had been better. Let me see. I have
a, I have morning Joe doing just that. Uh, let
me see. Where is, uh, Here it is. Morning, Joe.
Yes. This temporary deal we've reached and. We don't really
know exactly what's in it. My concern is... But we'll
comment anyway. Well, of course. We don't know what's in
it, but I'm telling you something. It's no good. Deal
on nukes, which Donald Trump said this is why he
was fighting the war. It is identical, as in plagiarized,
as in... Plagiarized. Carbon copied mimeograph sheet off of Obama's
deal. They use the same words. They lifted it off
of the Obama deal and put it on this deal
on nukes. So the whole idea that Obama was weak
on nukes. and he's going to be tougher if you
even read the language. Hold on a second. This hasn't
been released, has it? Well, the memorandum of understanding, there's
versions have been floating around, the Iranians. Yeah, but it's
just all bull crap. They don't know what it really
says, but he's. How could it be? Okay, I'm sorry,
just- play it. A 14-point memo went out and then
everyone's saying this is it and it's an MOU. It
doesn't even matter. It doesn't even matter. It contracts. They're
as good as the blood they're written in. This is
why Trump, he's just doing what he does.
It's like, I'm going to buy this building or I'll
put my name on this building. We'll do the construction.
All right, I'll sign the MOU. Let the lawyers take
care of it. I'll see you in two months. You're
not going to sit there and read through the legalese.
Anyway, this memorandum of agreement. It's identical. Okay, well, here's
Obama's. Iran affirms that under no circumstances will Iran ever
seek, develop, or acquire any nuclear weapons. That's July 14,
2015. Republicans melted down. Donald Trump said it was the
worst plan ever, that Iran was going to get a
nuclear weapon because of this deal. And this is what
Donald Trump says. Iran cannot develop or purchase a nuclear
weapon. And actually, it's actually closer than that. I will
get it. He doesn't even have it. Right there is
two different. Literally two different words. Procure versus purchase. They're
full of crap. They're totally full of crap. And since
it's Obama, we gotta get Obama on. It is doubtful
that any agreement that arises... is going to be significantly
different. or a significant improvement from the deal that we
had in the first place. had worked for a long
stretch of time before. Weedling. The United States pulled out
of it. Okay. All right. Thanks, Obama. He's doing his
pre-promotion for the Presidential Center. Back to MSNBC. I think
it's here. There are sort of two clear losers politically,
and one is President Trump himself. There aren't good answers
to those questions. Loser! Two sources close to the White
House confirmed to me that all of President Trump's advisors,
the closest people to him, had turned against this war.
They had all were pushing them to just end it
at any cost because it's been so disastrous politically. And
then I had a diplomat in the region talk about
another person I think who's a loser in this politically,
and that's Bibi Netanyahu. This person from the region said,
I think most people have turned against the war for
domestic political reasons. They're referring to countries, I'll say, you
know, in the Gulf. And the majority are frustrated with
Bibi Netanyahu. So it's an extraordinary outcome. We were just
talking about it before we started how just imagining that
this war would end this way based on what the
president promised on February 27th. I think there's no question
Iran is coming out stronger. Iran is much stronger. Iran's
the winner, ladies and gentlemen. So. They knew this was
coming. They knew this was coming, so they sent Vance
out. Vance went everywhere, including The View, which I have
the clips. I don't think we should play them. It
was so stupid. These women are so disappointing as human
beings. Vance, by the way, besides being on The View,
was on every... Without fail. Every Fox show. Not just
Fox. He was on CBS, CBS. He was on NBC.
He was everywhere. He was on Gutfeld. He was on
The Five. He was on everything. I know. This guy.
Well, of course, he has a book to plug, so
that's the gimmick. Maybe that's why they had him. That's
an interesting point. Because these were probably pre-booked for the
book. Wow, the timing is interesting. So they had him
out ready to do all, he had all these. these
appearances booked in it because it's his calendar too. I
wonder, by the way, when he booked it, because this
is overbooking. If I've ever seen overbooking in my life,
this has got to be it. I wonder if anybody
knew that he was so ridiculous. He booked that he
was on every show. Because generally speaking, if you're a
journalist, let me give you a quick example. journalists would
often get notes from these PR companies. And my favorite
one was always when I was at PC Magazine and
somebody wanted me to write a column about something, they'd
send a note saying, oh, you should write a column
about this guy because he's great. In fact, he was
written about in Vogue and in Harper's and he was
in the New York Times. He was in the Washington
Post and he was in the blah, blah, blah. And
they list off all these things that he's done. And
I'm thinking, why am I going to write about him?
I look like Johnny Come Lately. I'm not writing about
him. Johnny Come Lately. I get these. There's so many
of these coming out now. in my email box because
you know a podcaster and my adam mccurry.com people find
that everywhere i'm getting and you can market a spam
all you want It keeps coming in. I'll have to
read a few more of those in the future because
it's exactly like that. And sometimes... But first of all,
what idiot are you? What idiot PR person are you?
I hate you because you know I don't do guests
if you listen to the show. You don't. So now
I hate you. I hate this strong word. I think
you're foolish. So here's Vance on CBS about the comparison.
And one final point on this. You know, you hear
a lot of comparisons. How is this? How is this
the same from the JCPOA? I think that fundamentally misunderstands
where we are. We have comprehensively destroyed their nuclear program,
and this agreement is about ensuring that they don't rebuild
it. The JCPOA was fundamentally about bribing them to stop
the construction or to cease a nuclear program that was...
already in progress. It's a very different background, a very
different sort of leverage, and I think really a different
outcome for the American people. So the president was very
clear at this G7 meeting, which used to be the
G8 until everyone decided Russia had to get out. Just
pfft. People don't even remember that anymore. Get out. We
don't like you anymore. We do. We do. The president
was very clear about the difference between JCPOA and this
MOU and 60-day deal. It's very different. Obama did not
have... was not in the position to say this. Bomb
Iran if they don't comply, but there's nothing enforceable. in
the deal itself, is that correct? - It doesn't have
to be. I let him know, I said, "Look, if
you don't adhere to the agreement, "I don't wanna do
that." We're going to bomb the hell out of you.
And I don't think that they're going to veer from
the agreement. What else am I going to do? Am
I going to say I'm going to take you to
court? Let me take you to court. Let me sue
you. No, we're gonna bomb the hell out of them
if they violate the agreement. I don't want them to.
I want them to honor the agreement. Again, the strage
slows up. Bad things can happen, you know, in war.
Terrible things happen, like you mentioned the question before about
the school gets hit, other things get hit. Bad things
happen in war. War is a nasty place. I see
it. I see it. I see it better than maybe
anybody has ever seen it. Okay, so that is the
deal. You stop doing this or I bomb you. Mr.
President, you've been saying all week that this deal permanently
prevents Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. But the drafts
of the deal... mentioned Iran's nuclear program. So can you
explain how exactly the deal achieves that goal? at a
level that was three times greater, and they knew that
I will bomb them. Now, that's with me as president.
If you have a weak, pathetic president, maybe that doesn't
happen, but I can only do the job that I
have to do. I have a long time to go.
I have almost three years, close to three years. Time
is going fast. Bomb them, bomb them, and bomb them
again. Okay, so then there was part of the drafts
and New York Times. I saw people posting, we're going
to give them $300 billion. This is horrible. We're the
losers. Bonjour. This is Peter Doocy saying bonjour. Because he's
in France. kind of sad bonjour bonjour you've been clear
president trump the united states is not going to directly
pay iran but the u.s is going to let the
iranians start making billions Selling oil, accessing this reconstruction fund.
$300 million fund. It's only $300 million fund. It's only
if they're doing things right. Remember this also. When you
talk about billions of dollars, they've had much more than
a trillion dollars worth of damage done. They got a
long way. They'll be 15 to 20 years to rebuild
what they have right now. I don't see why it's
so hard for people to understand that the deal is
kind of obvious. You do what we say or we
bomb you. You don't need more than one paragraph that
says that. People may not like it. But, you know,
and the 300 billion is coming from the... The Gulf
states, they're the one. Yeah, it's mostly in terms of
investment. Yeah, of course it is. And it's all going
to flow into. No, they're just giving him money. No,
it's all going to flow into. the Abraham Accords will
all be a part of this. And then, this is
the part that I find rather interesting.
And funny enough, only Morning Joe. talked about it. Here's
Vance on CBS about Israel. Let me ask you this
before you go. Is Israel on board with this? It
doesn't appear so at this time. What are you hearing?
What are you thinking? Well, Gail, of course, Israel's been
a good partner, but we do expect... They've been participating
in this peace agreement. They've been participating in our talks
with Iran. They understand where our perspective is. And what
the president has said is that we expect everybody to
honor this agreement. There are always, Gail, these bumpy moments
with these ceasefires. Sometimes someone will fire and sometimes somebody
will... responds. We think right now that there are probably
people within Iran because of the internet blackout. They're not
even aware that this deal has happened. So we certainly
expect the Israelis are going to be a participant in
this peace process. But we think it's going to be
good for them. It's going to be good for us.
It's going to be good for the Gulf Coast coalition.
And Gail, if the Iranians... So... Israel is not happy
with this. And Trump doesn't care. Only Morning Joe, for
some reason, is the only place you could find talking
about this. Let's talk about... what it is to be
an Israeli this morning, looking at the United States. I've
heard from a lot of strong supporters of Israel over
the last day. That's Joe saying... Some of my best
friends are Jewish. They feel betrayed. You had, on October
7th, more Jews killed than any day since the Holocaust.
Netanyahu started a three-year war. Uh, much of it, uh,
I've just absolutely found, uh, to be... way over the
line and the abuse heaped upon people in Gaza and
leveling of Lebanon, but the Israeli people went along with
it. Support it. because of october the 7th but they
launched a three-year war against iranian proxies And Iran itself,
Netanyahu went in and pushed Donald Trump into starting this
war. Okay, so there's that meme again. Bull crap. Yeah,
it's bull crap. So Trump talked about this a lot.
particularly when it was sitting down with the al-Qaeda guy
who now runs Syria. And I suggested to Israel to
let... Fox was all over this. You make it sound
like nobody else talked about it, but everybody on Fox
was talking, especially the part you're going to play, which
is turning it over to Syria. Yeah, there was a
little bit more than that. And I don't watch Fox
religiously. uh i do find stuff from them but i
i take them with this This is from C-SPAN. I
was just watching on C-SPAN because I don't trust any
cable news media. And I suggested to Israel to let
Syria take care of... But you're telling me Fox was
talking about how Israel was disappointed or were they playing
these clips? Both. Okay. I think they do a better
job of doing it. Right there. That was played over
and over. And I didn't like Syria. I didn't like
where... Two hours before we're signing the agreement, that there
was an attack. In Lebanon, in Beirut. It wasn't like
in the southern... and, you know, it was in Beirut.
I did not like that. I let them know that.
He wasn't, he was not holding back on this. Yeah,
no, this was the clip that they played over and
over, over and over. There's a couple more. I was
very responsible for the gentleman that's here, that's now the
president of Syria. He's done a tremendous job. He's put
that country together in a year and a half. Sort
of like our country, a year and a half, similar
size. They said, please don't put him there. He's a
very violent man. Al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda. They said, well, I know
one thing. A Boy Scout's not going to work. Did
Fox have that clip? They didn't have the Boy Scout
part. I love that. But they had the rest of
it. He's upset about the apartment getting leveled because of
one guy. Yes. But this is not a man who
is controlled by BB, Net, and Yahoo. That's my point.
Well, that's everybody's point. Except the people that hate our
show. We'll get that done. That's a small one. And
we'll work with Israel and get it done. But I'd
like to do it. I mean, you have to do
it. People living there... Buildings are being dropped. On top
of them. or right alongside of them. How would you
like to live there? It's so unfair, especially Beirut. You
know, you go into Beirut, and I looked at the
scene two days ago yesterday where they hit. That was
a big hit. That was unnecessary in my book. And
now he's going to take it to Bibi personally. I've
had a great relationship with Bibi, but now Bibi has
to be more responsible with respect to Lebanon. Lebanon used
to be a great country. It was a country where
you had professors, doctors, lawyers. The great intellect was in
Lebanon. Now it's just, it's terrible. I would say of
all countries they've been treated the worst. And they can't
defend themselves. And they have Hezbollah, which is a problem
for them. So, no, I'm not happy with the way
Israel has... handled themselves with Lebanon and with Hezbollah. They
should have been able to do this yet faster. It
just goes on forever. And when that happens, it throws
a negative light on the big deal, and that's the
deal with Iran. So when you ask me about Bibi,
An unbelievable relationship. Unbelievable relationship. Unbelievable. I think that's what
it means. It's unbelievable that I even have this guy
call me on the phone. Well, my favorite clip from
Trumbo, he says, if it wasn't for me, he'd be
in jail. Well, that wasn't a clip. That was the
Axios reporting. He confirmed that on the New York Post
interview. We played that a couple of weeks ago. Let's
listen to what Al Jazeera has to say. All right.
I mean, they don't talk about what you just played
so much with the Syria-Israeli thing, but they talk about
the... what might be going on with what Iran really
demands. Iran's top diplomat says that any agreement with the
United States must include the release of blocked Iranian funds,
sanctions relief, and Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon, as we've been
discussing. Listen to Abbas Araki, and then right after that,
U.S. President Donald Trump. The first phase is to end
the war, the Strait of Hormuz, the naval blockade, and
the other topics related to freeing the frozen assets of
Iran, the reconstruction. Every other topic that is related will
be dealt with through talks and negotiations for the coming
60 days until we reach a final agreement. During the
final agreement, we'll talk about the nuclear matters and lifting
the sanctions. From our perspective, the two sides of this
agreement are America and Israel on one side and Iran
and Hezbollah on the other. The end of the war
in Lebanon is an inseparable part of the complete end
of the war. and the end of the war includes
the end of the occupation as well. Meh, alright. Sounds
about right. That's what it sounds like. It sounds right.
Then we have the CBC chiming in with a couple
of analysis pieces. Good things are happening. Only a few
people have seen the fine print of Donald Trump's... deal
with Iran, the one he claims will reopen the Strait
of Hormuz and end the war. But the U.S. president
says within days, everyone will. Iran will never have a
nuclear weapon. And it says it loud and clear. Meeting
with leaders from the Persian Gulf on the sidelines of
the G7 in France. Trump was peppered with questions about
Israel and its intensely negative reaction to his deal. In
extraordinary remarks, Trump positioned himself as Israel's savior. Without the
United States, there would be no Israel. Without me, there
would be no Israel because no other president was willing
to do what I did. Equally remarkable was his assessment
of Israel's military tactics fighting Hezbollah in Lebanon, where more
than 3,800 people had been killed. In criticizing the impact
on civilians, Trump echoed arguments more commonly used by Israel's
harshest international critics. Israel's fighting Hezbollah too long and too
many people are being killed. And you don't have to
knock down an apartment house every time you're looking for
somebody. Because there are a lot of people in those
apartment houses. And they're not all Hezbollah, that I can
tell you. Yep. Okay. So the CBC is addressing it
to some extent. is part two. The potential lifting of
sanctions to ease Iran's crippled economy and the future of
its nuclear program, which both the U.S. and Israel said
necessitated the war, have been kicked down the road to
be dealt with during two months of negotiations, said Iran's
foreign minister, Syed Abbas Arrachi. Israel's full withdrawal from the
Middle East.
from Lebanon must come first, he said. Israel's Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu did not address Trump's criticisms of him or
his war tactics, but Monday night he vowed to maintain
Israel's occupation of southern Lebanon, casting doubt on how long
the negotiations will last. with Iran will last. If Trump's
deal holds, shipping lanes will reopen and more attacks and
bombings averted. But with Iran's leadership emboldened, the alliance between
the United States and Israel is being tested, perhaps as
never before. Oh, okay. Yeah, valid. By the way, I
keep saying by the way. unbelievable Right now, CNN and
Ms. Now. are doing full-on live coverage of... this presidential
center and there's john legend and they're they're on stage
they're performing uh bruce springsteen You've got the Obamas dancing.
Oh, Stevie Wonder's there. George Bush is there. Uh, George
Bush is there? Oh yeah, oh yeah, dancing like a
white guy. Oh man. It looks like a very small
exclusive concert. Which it would make sense. It's just, okay.
All right, it's Live Aid, everybody. It's just like Live
Aid. We need to go. All right, we need to
go live. We need to go live. It's so awesome.
Obama's on. Let's go. Crazy. Wow. Now, the president didn't
do himself a lot of favors with everything he said.
dead in France. Here's Anderson Cooper picked up on it.
The nuclear dust, we're going to want that. And I
think we're going to get that. We're going to get
the dust back. The dust. The nuclear dust. The nuclear
dust. We're getting the nuclear dust. That was a term
I made up because it's sort of, you know, it's...
A simpler term for... people understand it's nuclear dust sort
of dusty but i said we get the nuclear dust
He can call it whatever he wants, but they're not
getting it. When asked about it today, the president said
that's no longer a problem because the material was buried
by American airstrikes, which led to this very long soliloquy
about granite and marble. Heh. They were building, or they
were enriching material, as they say. I call it nuclear
dust. They were enriching material under granite mountains, granite being,
for those not in the construction business, granite being a
very strong, the strongest stone. It's not as pretty as
marble, but it's much more... It's much stronger. It's a
lot stronger. Like the new granite I put. on the
stairs of the White House going to the Oval Office
to black granite. It's rated one million years plus. No
marbles rated that. Marbles rated 100 years if it's outside.
So these are granite. Yeah. It's about granite. I mean,
I was expecting to go back about the pool. Olympic-sized
swimming pools. Now with algae. I think it's funny that,
yeah, granite is a different, we use it, we have
used both of these. products and yeah marbles porous yeah
oh it's it's stains you got to be real careful
it's stains but granite does nothing yeah um let's see
there was one analyst i did get this from fox
who explained the difference between This Iran deal, which is...
do what I say or I throw a bomb on
your head versus the JCPOA. Former President Obama was on
TV earlier today saying, you know, whatever deal the president
is able to sign, that it wouldn't be much different
than his deal, the JCPOA. Can you tell us how
this deal is different and how it is better? So
broadly speaking... the JCPOA deal negotiated under President Obama allowed
Iran a path toward a nuclear program. Because when we
talk about enriched uranium, and this is really important when
we look at the difference in these deals here, and
I don't want to give you too much of a
lesson on enrichment, but it's actually quite important when we're
talking about the Obama deal versus the deal that was
just signed. right now. During the Obama administration, it allowed
Iran to continue enriching uranium. And the way that uranium
is enriched, the uranium ore is actually extracted from the
ground, and then through a chemical process, it turns into
yellow cake. And then another chemical process, it turns into
hexafluoride gas, and they spin that gas very rapidly in
advanced centrifuges. And ultimately, the heavier particles go to the
outside and the lighter ones stay in the middle. And
this is repeated over and over again until you get
to a higher purity of enriched uranium. And to take
enriched uranium from, let's say, 5% to 10% to 20%,
ultimately to 60%, and eventually 90%, which is weapons... grade
material can be a matter of weeks, if not days.
And so allowing the Iranians to keep advanced centrifuges and
then enrich uranium, eventually closer to weapons grade material, set
them on a path toward a weapon, because that is
a process that is needed to create a nuclear weapon,
even if they weren't doing it at that moment. agreement
does not allow the Iranians, according to this senior administration
official, to keep any of their enriched material. And that
means they're not going to be able to repeat that
process in advanced centrifuges. And then once U.S. forces leave
the region, increase the purity of the enriched uranium again
toward a nuclear weapon. All right. So that kind of
explains it as a little bit different. And the only
thing we care about is the price of gas. The
FIFA tourists. That's right. The FIFA tourists, they already love
it. They're like, I can't believe how cheap your gas
is. What are you complaining about? I'm from Sweden. I'm
from Germany. It's so cheap, it's amazing. And the president
was asked about it. this by his shill in the
uh in the press pool thank you president trump i'm
sorry this is a different show oil prices are now
plummeting how do you see this agreement further affecting energy
prices in the u.s and the u.s economy in the
long term and uh secondly mr president how do you
think vice president jd vance did on the view yesterday
Well, first of all, thank you for the word "plummeting"
And that means oil prices are going to come down.
You know, if you make donuts, you have a heating,
you have a stove. Donuts! You have to buy the
heat. You need the gas or the electricity or whatever
you're using. Oil is the biggest thing. You get oil
prices coming down, and they're going to come down, and
we're hitting in the threes now for gasoline, and that'll
come down a lot lower. I don't know what plummeting,
I'm not sure exactly what plummeting, I mean, you plummet
to your death, so that's like all the way down
to the bottom. What is the definition of plummeting? falling
fast let's ask the robot book of knowledge give me
the definition of plummeting Oh my goodness. Let me try
that again. Book of Knowledge. Give me the definition of
plummeting. Oh, the book of knowledge is broken. Okay. Did
you look it up? No, it means falling fast. Does
it mean falling fast? Really? What do you think it
means? Plummet? Let me see. Definition of. fall from an
altitude? Well, let's see. I just want to... I'm just
asking. Let's see here. The robot should be at- The
robot is broke! The robot's broken. To fall very quickly
and suddenly. Okay, fall very quickly and suddenly. I don't
know if it's, it is dropping. It has gone down
below 80. It dropped from 100 to 75, so. Well,
that's 25%. That's quite a fall. have slid down and
the Brent has also come down to a 78.3%. Global
prices have continued to come down and this is also
going to affect not just India but also our neighboring
countries of China, Japan, South Korea, Europe which were heavily
affected by the Now what's interesting is that CNBC is
starting to publish articles about an oil glut. that is
on the horizon. that there would be too much oil.
Have you picked up on this? No, but that'd be
great. Yeah, well, they call it the golly buff. effect.
Mr. Vice President Brian Sullivan, thank you again for coming
on the program. I want to follow up with that
because I think it's incredibly important what you just said,
that if Mohammad Ghalibaf, who is seen as a more
hardliner, is at the table, that would be construed as
an even better symbol, a better sign of where this
negotiation... May go. Would you agree with that, that getting
somebody like a Mohammed Ghalibaf, the speaker of the House
who is seen as more of a hardliner internally, would
be viewed as the best possible outcome here rather than
one of the more moderates that might be seen as
a little more pro-White House, and yet you still might
have this division and factions inside of Iran. Well, I
think the best outcome is a good deal for the
American people, which we have. Fundamentally, we're dealing with everybody
in the Iranian system. You know, there's the IRGC, the
sort of regime hardliners, the military side. There's the political
side.
leadership and within the political leadership, you have people who
are more hardline and less hardline. We expect to have
a full spectrum of representatives at the negotiation on Friday.
Again, we've been talking to these people, sometimes indirectly, but
sometimes directly, and that's what's fundamentally changed under the president's
leadership. We are now... speaking directly to the Iranian system.
We have some good relationships there. So this is going
to be a successful negotiation because, you know, we're not
passing messages through various back channels anymore. We're actually talking
to them. And when you talk to them, you figure
out what's real, what's fake, what are they serious about,
what are they not serious about. And the thing I'd
add to that is... We fundamentally have all the cards
here. We don't have to give the Iranians anything if
they don't make the commitments that we want long term
on the nuclear program. Yeah, you're right. Blah, blah, blah,
blah. Can I ask you a quick question? Yeah. I
thought the negotiations were done last week over the weekend
and they were going to sign the agreement on Sunday.
And the Iranians said, no, we're not going to sign
it on Sunday. We're going to sign the M-O-A or
M-O-E or whatever the hell it is. M-O-U. M-O-U. M-O-U.
on Friday and they're going to go sign it on
Friday. Now, what now all of a sudden I'm hearing
that this is negotiations with all kinds of factions. Well,
what? Wait, what? No. uh the memory said yes here's
how i understand it because since you asked me the
question I am asking you the question. And as an
aside, the definition of glut is flooding the market with
more supply than there is demand. The memorandum of understanding.
If you, what I've read, 14 points. is no more
than... Shut up. Don't create nuclear bombs or I will
bomb you. And we'll figure out all the details in
the next 60 days. And that's what Vance is going
to sign on Friday. some elaborate science makes it sound
as though they're going to be doing negotiations on Friday.
But that's when the technical, the technical, technical negotiations will
start. Who's going to go in and check it? You
know, what are the checks and balances? To me, it
doesn't matter. What the president is saying, and whether Americans
like it or not, he's saying... Stop that nonsense or
I will bomb- It's literally saying I will put a
bomb on your head. That's the deal. You don't need
anything else. I mean, his point is valid. So we
have a 150-page document. What's the point? And if they
violate the document, there's no point. His point is valid.
What's his point? Get rid of all your nuclear dust.
Don't mess with the straight of the moose. Is that
a point or is that an assertion? No, that's a
point. That is a point in the memorandum of understanding.
Stop messing with shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. That's
it. Or I will put a bomb on your head.
That's it. That's the whole deal. Will that hold up
in international court? No, that's what Trump said. What am
I going to do? I sue these guys if they
break the deal? Now, as long as he's president, that's
the deal. And the next president, we'll see. He even
said that. Did you see when he walked into the
G7? And said, I'm the boss. Did you see that?
Yes, I did. It was hilarious. It wasn't good enough
for audio, unfortunately. Yeah. There was a lot of fun
things that happened at the G7. And my favorite was
Starmer, like, we did this. We're going to do this.
We're all in. Aren't we good? Well, let me first
say how much we welcome the deal. that President Trump
has been able to get in this situation and congratulate
him and the mediators on the work that they have
done because this is a really important breakthrough. At the
G7 here, we've been discussing the details of that deal.
Oh, we're discussing the details. You're not in the negotiation,
Starmer. As you will know, President Macron and I put
together a group of countries prepared to play their part
in terms of reassurance to get vessels through the strait.
That is hugely important in terms of reopening the strait.
opening the strait. Very, very important for us in the
United Kingdom. Very important. Because, of course, the strait being
closed in the way that it has, has had an
impact on our economy, had an impact on every household
across the country. So we'll play our full part in
relation to that. Yes, we're here. We're side by side.
Our special relationship is restored. We're good to go. And
And if anything, I still fully believe that this was
just as much about killing the old systems. with Lloyd's
of London, you know, now there's all these other insurance
companies. We're the ones that are controlling what's happening there.
And the, the... City of London and the British Crown,
all those people, they're cut off. They're out of the
deal. Go mess around with NATO and Ukraine and see
if you can make that work. I think it's a
very good deal for America. And it was interesting because
the... the oil baron, he's like, You know, a lot
of analysts are saying it's going to shoot up over
100, 150. What are you talking about? I don't think
this... We've heard this before. I don't think the deal
will really be finalized until well after the midterms. That
doesn't seem likely. After the midterms? Now, I think there's
a lot of guys in the oil business like we
we got to keep this going this is great for
us I got a Obama clip just came out. Play
my Obama clip. Obama clip. Hold on a second. Winnie
the Obama The Obama. Let me just, I just, I
just, I just, I just. I just want to be
clear about this. Imagine if I had pulled Fox News'
credentials from the White House press corps. Are you so
bored with me that you're gonna put a poorly edited
Obama clip in all of a sudden? Poorly edited. Oh,
that's the worst thing to say. Click, click, click. It
wasn't even rhythmic. Click, click. Ow. We have that. No,
no, no. Hey! See? That's a good Obama. So, um...
Just as an aside... There was a story that ran
that unreported every place, it seems to me, during all
this brouhaha and the G7 and every place else. is
I bet you haven't heard about this, the Rubio row
with India? No, I haven't. The U.S. Secretary of State
Marco Rubio has told his Indian counterpart that any violation
of the blockade of Iran will not be tolerated. He
also warned against what he called the illicit transport of
Iranian oil in the... Strait of Hormuz. Ambarasan Etirajan reports.
Mark Rubio made the comments after the Indian foreign minister
Subramaniam Jaishankar called him to protest over the killing of
three Indian seafarers by an American strike on a merchant
vessel. It was one of three ships with mostly Indian
crew that were attacked this week. as the US enforces
its naval blockade on Iran. Delhi lodged a strong diplomatic
protest. Despite the two countries sharing close ties, the latest
comments by Mr Rubio are clearly seen as a snub.
As one former Indian diplomat pointed out, there was no
regret over the killing of unarmed civilian sailors. of a
friendly country. I had not heard that. BBC, interesting. Yeah.
I hadn't heard that. This is from the same country
where they're doing this to their school children. Now woke
schools teaching pupils at Stonehenge was built by black people,
Alex. Yes, so children are being taught... that Stonehenge, this
is a story mail online today, Stonehenge was built by
black people and the Roman Emperor Nero married a trans
woman. These are the stories that are being, and they're
also being told in pro-transgender lessons that slaves have to
be had their body parts altered and it was a
form of gender transition. I mean, you couldn't make it
up. Yeah, of course. That's exactly what they're doing. You're
topping me now with this jack-off clip. It's like shooting
fish in a barrel. Do you want to talk about
Ukraine and Russia for a minute, or is it too
much war? I'm going to go to something else. I
think we can move on to other stuff. Okay. There's
nothing going on there that I can tell that's worth
talking about that's new. Well, Ukraine drones hit targets in
Russia again, and what I'm hearing... I'll take it with
a grain of salt. is that Russia may be ready
to... um show what they can really do. Like, hit
them with something bigger. Yeah, well, we'll see. Like a
mini-nuke. It seems highly unlikely because all the... Radiation will
go into Russia. It depends on where. If they hit
them near Poland, they'd go into Poland. It depends on
how the wind is blowing. Well, that would make... They're
not doing that. Um... Here's something, although we already knew
it and we already discussed it. Byron Allen was on.
on CBS, the station where he, I see David Letterman
now at the Obama Presidential Center. Oh my goodness. Oh,
man. It's a party you do not want to be
at. It's like, I don't want to be there. The
only thing with John Legend is the giveaway. And Bruce
Springsteen, both on the same stage because their music is
so alike. Here's Byron Allen explaining his deal. So how
did this deal turn out? Like, how did it work?
Because you talked to Kevin Frazier about it. Yeah. This
is something that you had to come out of pocket
for. It's something you're very passionate about. Yeah. So the,
you know, the networks are challenged because sports rights are
very expensive. Of course. And, you know, add dollars and
shit. from linear to digital. So there's some financial pressure.
And I've invested about a billion dollars buying ABC, NBC,
CBS, and Fox affiliates and other assets like the Weather
Channel. So I bought the Weather Channel about eight years
ago. And what I said to the networks, I said,
look, you're spending about 150... on Colbert and the show
after Colbert. And I'm running half-hour infomercials, spray on hair,
you know, abs in 24 hours. I said, save your
money. I will put my show, Comics Unleashed, on. Now,
I started Comics Unleashed, well, first of all, they said
this is great. Yeah, they said this is a great
idea. You're going to save us $150 to $170 million?
Well, I love that you use your business mind to
kind of transform. from the comedy world, but you just
mentioned that you've written jokes for David Letterman, and you
know the public criticism from Letterman, from Kimmel, from others
about CBS canceling Colbert. How does that sit with you
as the person who's taking on this time slot? I
think it was a very unfortunate event. I love Stephen
Colbert. I'm a big fan. Once they made the decision,
I said, okay, this isn't show business. business show. You
know, they say, you know, they're losing lots of money.
I said, here's a solution not to lose lots of
money. And I think we can hold on to his
audience and hopefully build on it because it is business
show, not show business. And I'm sure that CBS right
after that said, so people were wrong that it wasn't
Trump who got him fired. It was really about money.
Yeah, they didn't. They didn't. One more that you will
be interested in. The guy's a genius. Byron Allen? Yeah.
I don't know. I'm skeptical about buying all the local
affiliates, though. What is the long-term value of that? He
sees everything as a vehicle for infamy. infomercials and his
shows. Yeah, but, okay, I just don't know what the
viewership is anymore. It has to be, I mean, just
over time it's declining. There's enough evidence of that, so
I just wonder. If he can make it work. No,
I'm sure he's made a calculation. He hasn't made any
mistakes. He's not dumb. He's not dumb. So here is
an ad that popped up that Steve the clip collector
included in his batch to me this morning Did you
know that the average American sees up to nine pharmaceutical
ads every day? That adds up to 16 hours of
pharmaceutical ads every year. Are you sick and tired of
pharmacy? pushing medications you probably don't even need just to
drive up profits? You're not alone. Nearly three out of
four American voters want Big Pharma to stop advertising directly
to consumers. But Big Pharma ignores what people want. In
2025 alone, drug makers spent $9 billion. on direct-to-consumer advertising.
Enough is enough. Big Pharma needs to give that time
back to Americans. Voters are ready for lawmakers to take
a stand and get Big Pharma off our airwaves and
out of our living rooms. Tell Congress it's time to
ban direct-to-consumer advertising by pharmaceutical companies. Learn more at pharma
reform alliance.com paid for by pharmaceutical reform alliance, Inc. How
about that? It's about time. I don't know why they
have to put together a group when all that should
happen is the president and the... HHS secretary should just
put just put the kibosh on it. We're the only
country besides New Zealand in the entire world that allows
this. Well, they're calling... And it's created a situation where
the big pharma's pushing people around. They've got too much
political power. Clout. If you look at pharma reform alliance
dot com, this is quite a big group. of partners.
I'd say on this page, probably about 50 of them.
Like who? The name of you. Okay. I'll start at
the top. Association of Builders and Contractors in Greater Michigan.
Ash woodworking. Yeah, that's like... Bad Idea Supply should be
on here. Let's see. Uh... California. So far, two lightweights.
Well, there's a lot of them. California African-American Chamber of
Commerce, California Black Chamber of Commerce, California Hispanic. Calis- Palazien
Chamber of Commerce, a lot of chambers of commerce. Citizens
unite. Let's see. I'm looking for some big names here.
Doster Law Offices, meaningless. Event ticket authority? Uh... It's, you're
right, it seems like a lot of small... small company,
a lot of real estate people for some reason. And
they say they are, what do they say here? A
bipartisan alliance whose members are united by common goals, holding
Big Pharma accountable for ripping off the American people and
making prescription drugs more affordable and accessible in the United
States once and for all. I smell Trump somewhere. And
they have a... Not done well enough to be Trump.
They're at 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue. So it's not like... Avenue
K. It's not like Avenue K. the Republican women of
East Alabama. I know. I like that they're doing the
ads. And if, you know, yes, I'm sure that. The
reason I say I smell Trump is because he knows
that it's a problem if he just signs an executive
order. It has to go through Congress. They need a,
dare I say it, a grassroots movement. That's what they
need. I think someone's trying something. Did banning cigarettes ad
require that? Congress, yes, it did require Congress, absolutely. Do
we know that for a fact? We can't ask the
robot anymore. I think the robot may be fixed. Kick
it, kick it. No, hold on. Let me see if
the robot is... Let me see if the robots... working
again. What was your question? Did it require an act
of Congress to ban cigarette advertising? Book of Knowledge. Did
it require an act of Congress to ban cigarette advertising?
I'm not still broken. What does it do? It flips
a page and dies? Yeah. Hmm, it's getting an error.
Talk about voter fraud. I have the other robot working
on fixing that robot. As we speak. It'll get fixed
during the show. Have the one robot fix you. There
you go. Now you're talking. Exactly. Let's go with, I
guess, some voter fraud clips. Okay, you want to set
it up? Uh, yeah. Voter fraud in California is ridiculous
and is being ignored. And people, you know, we talk
about it all the time on the show. We had
some good clips about how it works. And but, you
know, they've been uncovering stuff left and right. And there's
got to be something done about it because, you know,
half of the dead people in California are voting. Now
because you haven't registered, I need to register you so
I can get paid too. This is the video taken
on Skid Row that the Department of Justice says has
sparked an investigation into voter registration fraud in Los Angeles.
The video created by right-wing political activist James O'Keefe. was
posted back in March. And on Monday, Assistant Attorney General
Harmeet Dhillon, alongside First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Saley and
officials with the FBI announced an arrest and charges in
the case. They say 64-year-old Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong, a
longtime signature gatherer for petitions, has been charged with paying
people, including some experiencing homelessness, to register to vote. Prosecutors
say her motivation? Petition gatherers are paid for valid signatures,
which require the person signing to be a registered voter.
She would then gather, starting in 2025, stacks of voter
registration forms from the Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters.
and then go to Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles
to have homeless people first sign the voter registration forms
and then sign the signature petitions. In exchange, they say
she would offer cash, which is illegal under federal law,
and have them use her old address on the form.
These were often small sums of money. as well as
cigarettes and phone cards. Yeah, it's the homeless people they're
paying. It's also an example of marketing. Explain. Well, smart
marketing. She gets paid so much for signatures on petitions.
She has these people create those signatures so she can
get, she probably makes $5 per signature on a petition
and costs her two bucks to get somebody to create
a new.
voter registration, she makes three bucks on the arbitrage. Right.
Well, that was because California law allows ballot harvesting. Which
I don't think is legal everywhere. It's a fabulous marketing
opportunity for this woman. uh she should be given at
least some kudos from the one of the uh You
know, maybe an award or something from an advertising age,
perhaps. Oh, the golden, what is it? What does it
have in the golden lion? What is it? Something like
that. A golden lion for this wonderful, wonderful campaign. The
announcement comes as California prepares for the June 2nd primary
election. with Monday marking the deadline to register to vote
for a mail-in ballot, while in-person voter registration extends to
May 23rd. Federal officials also tied the case to a
broader legal battle over access to California's voter rolls, which
they suspect have undocumented residents registered to vote, something California
officials have denied. In terms of what the broader electorate
thinks about this, it's not the case that folks are
worried about... people who are ineligible participating. Matt LeSignier is
a political science professor at Cal State University, Long Beach.
He says cases of election fraud are rare in the
U.S. amid safeguards like signature verification, Ains says research continues
to show that voter fraud has little to no impact
on election outcomes. Nationwide, we see this less than two
dozen in the thousands of elections that we have across
the country. So it is a microscopic rate. of incidents
in voter fraud. He also warned of the difference between
voter registration fraud and a fraudulent ballot that actually gets
counted for a race. Federal prosecutors have not alleged that
fraudulent ballots were cast in Brown Armstrong's case, but when
asked about the scope of this investigation, they say it's
just the tip of the iceberg. of the iceberg. This
is part of a larger investigation. We'll get into all
that, I think, soon in the future. And until more
arrests and charges are announced, experts say elections in America
remain secure. Yes, secure and safe and effective. They always
do that. I mean, it's a ridiculous report. I mean...
I've got two more clips, but play this one instead
or skip to this voter fraud taxes in L.A. This
is a. Twitter guy, somebody, you know... Twitter guy! And
some just said local bitching and moaning about the obvious.
So the people of L.A. literally just voted to increase
their own taxes. And I don't mean they did that
by voting for Karen Bass. No, I mean, there was
an actual ballot question saying, hey, do you guys want
to pay more in taxes? And the people of L.A.
apparently said yes. Now, you may be asking yourself, who
the fuck would vote to raise their own taxes? Well,
here's how that vote actually went down. So the people
that came and voted in person, yeah, almost unanimously. voted
against that ballot measure. They were like, go to wait,
you want to raise our taxes? Fuck that. But. Then
you had the mail-in ballots. And in the early mail-in
ballots, they also voted against it. But the ballots that
came in... After Election Day, you know, the ones that
were like 65% Nithya Raman? Yeah, they... overwhelmingly voted in
favor of raising their own taxes. By the way, they
raised it from 9.7. They've raised their sales tax from
9.75 to 10.25. They voted in favor of a more
than 10% sales tax. But yeah, I mean, look, here's
the thing. You can argue that it's strange. That so
many late ballots, you know, 65% were in favor of
Nithya Raman. I think it's even crazier than more than
80% of those ballots. were in favor of raising their
own taxes. Yeah, which brings us right back to the
very beginning of this episode. You live in a crazy
place. I'm not in LA. It's California. California is, it's
nuts. Well, I think it's corrupt. Okay. Placed with fraud.
Well... I have a question for you. I have a
report. for you and I need to ask you a
question about it before you fall into the Pacific Ocean.
A new study finds San Andreas has built up more
pressure today than in the last 1,000 years, priming the
SoCal region for just what geologists have warned about for
decades, the big one. You've got to remember, imminent to
a geologist is like... in the next century. Iconic seismologist
for the USGS, Dr. Lucy Jones, says this study tells
us a lot, but it doesn't tell us everything. It
doesn't tell us when the next earthquake's going to be.
To understand the future, geologists looked to the past, compiling
data from the last 1,000 years and creating this snapshot.
The red along the fault represents... historically high pressure built
by over a century of calm with no significant quake
to ease the Earth's energy. Unfortunately, there in Southern California,
you guys are plagued with a lot of different fault
lines, including the sort of the different parts of the
San Andreas itself and other faults like the San Jacinto.
And it's at that intersection of faults sitting here at
the critical corridor of the. Cajon Pass that acts as
a gateway through the state, meaning a potentially massive quake
stretching from one end of California to the next. So
there have been some earthquakes in the past that look
like they went the whole length from south all the
way to north through the Cajon Pass and the stress
level is extra high on sort of both sides of
that right now, increasing the chances that the next... one
could actually rip right through that area and be a
larger earthquake overall. A double fault rupture much worse than
a single fault event, which we know is still deadly,
like the 1989 6.9 Loma Prieta quake in San Francisco,
killing 63 people. Well? Your local boots on the ground
knowledge of this thousand year stress on the fault? Well,
we've been talking about this something going to happen in
Southern California for the last decade. Yeah. Yeah. Earthquake wise.
And so they're still talking about it. The way I
see it, something's going to happen. It's going to be
in the next 50 years. Okay. Yeah, that's a bet
would be easy to take. Book of knowledge has been,
the robot has been fixed by the robot. Let's ask
the question again. Book of Knowledge. Did it require an
active Congress to ban tobacco advertising on television in America?
Yes, he's back. He's working. Okay. Book of knowledge. If
we can actually find anything. According to the book of
knowledge, yes, it most certainly did. The Public Health Cigarette
Smoking Act was a 1970 federal law approved by the
United States Congress and signed into law by President Richard
Nixon, which banned cigarette advertisement. on American radio and television.
There you go. Yeah, that means it's never going to
happen. Maybe. The cigarette people were never the kind of
lobbyists that the pharma people are. Well, they should have.
They're just a couple of cigarette companies. They weren't really
selling stuff for thousands of dollars a pill. they weren't
lobbying like this, they weren't contributing to the campaigns of
the president to the extreme that the farmer people are.
This is never going to happen. You just bummed me
out. Well, maybe Elon Musk with his trillion dollars can
lobby everybody. He can get the president elected, so maybe
he can do that. Yeah, maybe. We should lobby Elon.
Well, on the topic of California, they might as well
play a little bit of this. You don't want those
other two fraud clips? You're good with those. Oh, yeah,
let's play those. Let's play fraud clips because these are
from ABC. A Los Angeles County woman has agreed to
plead guilty to paying people on Skid Row to register
to vote. Federal officials announcing the charge against. Brenda Lee
Brown Armstrong this week, which carries a maximum penalty of
five years in prison. The National News does. Jeff Harris
joining us. And according to her plea agreement, we do
know Brown Armstrong allegedly worked as a petition circulator for
nearly two decades. There is striking social media video. What
else is coming to light? So in that plea agreement,
Brown Armstrong admitting to working as a paid petition circulator,
allegedly targeting the homeless while gathering signatures throughout the Los
Angeles area. The bombshell admission coming after federal officials got
their hands on an undercover video. The Justice Department announcing
this week Brown Armstrong has been federally charged with and
has agreed to plead guilty to one felony count of
paying another person to register to vote, including the homeless
along L.A. Skid Row. We're committed to protecting the integrity
of all American elections at the Department of Justice Civil
Rights Division, but there needs to be a commitment by
people and leaders here in California. According to her plea
agreement, Brown Armstrong, for nearly two decades, worked as a
petition circulator, being paid by coordinators to gather signatures to
qualify initiatives, recalls, and referendums for California state ballots. She
paid the homeless around two or three bucks to fill
out voter registration forms, instructing them to use her own
former L.A. residence. Yep. Yeah, it's just basically the same.
but reiterated more professionally. I want to play this clip.
This is Newsome whining. This is only part of a
six-minute rant. Oh, can I do the setup for this?
Is this the Justice Department probe? Oh, there's a setup?
Yeah, I have a setup. I got a setup. Oh,
okay. I got a setup. California Governor Gavin Newsom is
accusing President Donald Trump of ordering the Justice Department to
launch a politically motivated investigation into him and his wife.
Newsom says federal agents have been questioning his family, his
friends, and former employees. The Democratic governor has frequently mocked
President Trump on social media.
Newsom claims the DOJ is searching for a crime that
does not exist. He says he is being targeted for
one reason. Okay. You want your whining? Yeah, and there
was this, so Newsom goes on the TV and he
starts whining. In recent days, federal agents have knocked on
the doors of family, friends, and former employees. Not because
they found a crime, because they're simply trying to find
one. They're demanding records. They're abusing the grand jury process,
digging through years and years of random documents. Donald Trump
isn't just coming after me because of my mean tweets.
He's coming after me because I'm considering running for president.
because he hates that I've consistently called him out over
and over again for his lies and deceit. Donald Trump
is simply the most corrupt president in American history. He's
not going after him anyway. It's after his wife. Yeah,
well... You're making $3.5 million a year, and it's not
that it's illegal to take most of the money from
an NGO or any of these little organizations you start.
It's that they think there may be some tax fraud
involved. Oh, I thought it was behest payments is what
it's called. Which is, well, that's probably that. too they're
looking for something so she's suspicious she seems She seems,
I don't know if you've seen her much recently, but
we see her here. She seems oddly nervous about, not
just since this began. No kidding. But for a long
time, she seemed oddly nervous. Hmm. She reminds me of
Waltz's wife. Uh... The turning the page woman who is
just like bug eyed and acting really strange. Well, so
the way I understand the behest payments is, and you're
right, the way I understand it is a... A company
can donate money to the governor and it would be
for any nonprofit the governor designates. And the governor happens
to designate some or all of that money to his
wife's nonprofit, which I think is some LGBTQ plus nonsense.
And then, you know, you see that these companies, notably
AT&T and Comcast, get huge $70 million, $125 million contracts
with the state of California. Yeah. And the fact that
he's out there saying this tells me there's something there.
Yeah, I agree. He went on and on and on,
protesting too much. Yes, don't. You know, if you just
lay low and, you know. But no. He's done it
out of style. Um, so... Let's see if this is
the clip that I was looking for about the screw
worm. All of a sudden, people are starting to figure
out that the cartels The Mexican cartels are smuggling 800,000
cattle a year from Central America into Mexico with fake
ear tags, falsified records. And this is what's brought the
screw worm back to Texas. And I'm telling you, when
they really get into it, they're going to. find more
than cows they're going to find drugs and people yeah
you want a uniform response in some way and this
is not what i thought it was this sucks This
is not the clip I thought it was. Yeah, but
I've heard that too. Well, we talked about it on
the last show, and I heard it maybe from... Texas
Slim, I wouldn't be able to say for sure. um
And I think we're going to see. Art imitating life
in Dutton Ranch from Taylor Sheridan. I think that's where
the storyline is going to go. This is going to
come out. It's going to be pretty big. And then,
you know, what Trump is going to do. He's going
to go bomb some cartel guy. Which is what we're
doing now. Well, he's done it before. Yeah, that's what
I'm saying. It's what we're doing now. We're bombing cartel
people. I, you know, as an American, I'm kind of
digging it. Yeah, let's go blow some people up. Suckers.
And an update on the S... SPLC, Southern Poverty Law
Center. Oh, these guys. This is great. New details are
drawing attention to a former top official at the Southern
Poverty Law Center, the organization best known for tracking hate
groups and extremism. It's always worse than we thought. According
to the Justice Department's expanding... case against the SPLC, a
senior official identified in court documents as employee two, was
in a romantic relationship with a confidential informant embedded inside
the white supremacist group National Alliance. They didn't just pay
him to foam into hate, they told their donors they
were fighting. They actually dated him. The superseding indictment alleges
the informant, known as Field Source Number 9, received more
than $1 million in payments from the SPLC over several
years. Prosecutors also claim employee 2 and the informant shared
a home and two joint bank accounts. The indictment alleges
approximately... in donor money ultimately flowed into those accounts and
was used to pay the couple's personal living expenses. While
the indictment does not identify employee two by name, news
reports have identified the person as Heidi Barrick, the former
director of the SPLC's intelligence department. project and a prominent
researcher of white supremacist movements. This is so good. This
is so good. Have you seen this woman? No. Oh,
how can I put this tactically? Uh, she could- Tactically,
you mean- you mean- You don't mean tactically, you mean...
What do I mean? What's the word? tactfully. Tactfully, thank
you. Yes, how can I put this tactfully? The cartels
could have smuggled her from Mexico. Well, she looks Spanish.
No. She looks like a... Okay, what's her name? I
forget. I had it at the end there. Let's see.
Let's see. get her new by name news reports have
identified the person as heidi barrick heidi barrick Heidi Baric.
Look at Heidi Baric. It's like... Yeah, it seems exactly
like the kind of woman who would be shacking up
with a Hitler sympathizer. A neo-Nazi. Bovine-esque. Thank you. Thank
you. The troll room was helping me out. Yes, that's
good. bovine-esque would you would you hire her as a
supermodel yes she has a fake ear tag you can
okay did you find her No, there's no pictures ever
in here. There's some thin blondes that doesn't sound bovine-esque.
No. Um... While you're looking for that, briefly... Jeff Bezos
doubles down on his vision for AI and I am
all in on AI. With Bezos. I know there's a
lot of concern that many people have, including many smart
people, that AI is going to make humans redundant and
so on. I totally disagree with this point of view.
And I think, in fact, AI is going to create
a labor shortage because it's going to make it possible
for people to identify more. We have an endless set
of things to invent and we are only limited today.
We are limited not by our imaginations, but by what
we can actually do. I promise you every single person
in this audience has had an idea. for a new
business or a new product or a new device that
they wish they you could manufacture. And that idea stayed
in your head. And went nowhere and the reason it
stayed in your head and went nowhere is because it's
too hard to do and it wasn't worth it And
if we can accelerate the dream-build loop, all of the
ideas will then become possible. Dream-build loop, yes. capabilities but
by our imaginations i love that too the dream build
loop It's more like a gap. The dream build loop.
Another Silicon Valley term that I never heard of. Dream
build loop. Well, it's new. He's launching something new. Yeah,
I think it's good. Might as well. The dream build
loop. It's expensive. Now for the first time, NVIDIA. going
to raise 20 billion dollars in debt. Why is this?
I don't know. They're making nothing but money hand over
fist. Do you think it's like an insurance policy somehow?
Like, hey, you know, something's going to happen. We may
need some extra cash. Yeah, they might want to have
some cash. Yeah, that's possible. Or maybe take some off
the table or to buy back shares. I mean, they
got to just... Well, if it's used to buy back
shares, that'd be scandalous. Okay, like the circular financing that's
going on in this whole industry. isn't scandalous by itself.
And then you have this, sorry, Bernie Sanders. Man, he
really is proposing. He's falling for this hook, line, and
sinker. for the only need is that these guys with
a stop for a second don't forget that everybody is
falling for the quantum hook line and sinker. Quantum nonsense.
Where's the quantum computer? The one that'll do things so
fast that passwords will be obsolete. The, uh... um the
scam here which it goes back to when they had
that big meeting and
And Musk was there, and Ellison was there, and Altman
was there, and they had this closed-door meeting with all
the senators. Oh, this is so dangerous, what AI can
do in the future. It's going to take away everybody's
job, and we need special regulation, we have to be
involved in everything. This is the... Holtman was saying with
chat, before even the chat bot came out, oh, we
can't release chat GPT-2. We can't release that because it'll
kill the economy. You know, or, you know, anthropics like
mythos. Oh, we can't release that. It was too dangerous.
Well, that was, we've already discussed this, that it's part
of a marketing strategy. Yeah. So, but the marketing strategy
now is. And I think they're all in on it.
I think these guys want it. Please, would you become
shareholders of our companies so that when this thing blows,
you'll bail us out? We all go down together. We'll
go down together or you bail us out. I mean...
What is our GDP based on? Currently. Isn't it just...
Uh... I mean, GDP doesn't mean... Boeing's Lockheed. Yeah. No,
this definitely. But it... Are those the big GDP contributors?
Boeing and Lockheed are for sure. Yeah. So that's interesting.
So you don't think the A, the Mag 7, the
Mag 7. You don't think they contribute to the GDP?
Well, they contribute to the, they definitely contribute to the.
The stock market indexes, since they own half, I mean,
they're... Well, this is interesting because I keep hearing everywhere,
and I don't know, I keep hearing, oh, well, you
know, the whole GDP is all built upon the AI
companies and the Magnificent Seven. Is that true? No, not
the GDP. Getting nothing from these guys. Oh, this is
good to know because I can... Well, they're losing money.
How's that a positive benefit for GDP? Well, what is
GDP? This is good to know. People don't know this.
The gross domestic product. What is being made, manufactured, what's
it worth, what's the value? on an annualized basis. In
fact, ask the robot, what is GDP? What's the definition
of GDP? Okay, we'll ask the robot. Book of knowledge.
What is the definition of GDP and what are the
10 biggest companies in America that contribute to the U.S.
GDP? Now you're talking. Now you're talking. Yeah, let's see.
It's a multi-stager. We don't know if the robot can
handle... It might be too much. We're asking AI about
AI. This should be interesting. It's scribbling a lot. Here
we go. According to the book of knowledge, gross domestic
product, or GDP, is the total monetary value of all
goods and services produced within a nation's borders over a
given period, serving as the primary measure of a country's
economic output and health. As for the 10 mightiest corporate
titans contributing to that grand sum, the freshly inscribed Fortune
500 list for 2026 reveals the following. Ranked by revenue,
one, Amazon, $717.2 billion. Walmart, $713.3 billion. United Health Group,
$448.4 billion. Apple, Toshua. Thus, it has been written. It
crapped out after Apple. There you go. Apple sells a
lot of phones. That's a real product. But the AI
companies won't be listed. What do they produce? Let me
ask the top ten again. Book of knowledge. Give me
the top ten companies in America that contribute to U.S.
GDP. There we go. I just want those to cut
off for some reason because it's still a robot. Robots
suck. plankers. They're no good. Don't. What? Don't insult it
while it's working. According to the book of knowledge from
the freshly inscribed Fortune 500 list of 2026. They can't
handle it. Here are the 10 mighty. No, it's going
to. it's going to cut out again. I insult, I
have to insult it. It's not doing its job. Excuse
me, Amazon and Walmart again. Yeah, well Amazon and Walmart
would be at the top of the list. It'd be
easier to just look it up. Jim Rohn. top 10
GDP companies in the USA. Okay. We'll just ask the
other robot. I'm going to ask the real one. The
real one. Walmart, Amazon, United Health Group, Apple, CVS Health.
Berkshire Hathaway? Oh yeah. Alphabet at 7, ExxonMobil at 8,
Microsoft at 9, and Costco at 10. Where's the AI
companies that are killing us? It's not in there. There
won't be. They suck. You're right. You are right. But
where's Lockheed Martin? Well, that surprises me. Yeah, they're not
in there. Yeah, they should be in there. They take
a lot of money. Maybe that's all it is. The
top 10 Department of Defense contractors, Lockheed Martin, RTX, that
used to be Raytheon, North of Grumman, General Dynamics, Boeing,
L3. Oh man, those guys. Wasn't that... L3 guys. Remember
they did all the... L3 Harris. That's Harris. Yeah. Lados,
Huntington Ingalls Industry, Booz Allen Hamilton, and CACI International. So
yeah, so this is bullcrap. So they don't need a
bailout. I don't need anything like that. Well, I'm glad
we solved that. We didn't solve anything. I was misinformed.
I was misinformed. Well, you were misinformed. That's true. Well,
let's listen to Bernie Sanders then. Wait, where's Bernie? Why
is Bernie not playing? Oh, here he is. Let's talk
about AI. You know, these companies have, you know, Dario
Amadei at Anthropic has talked about the potential for, you
know, huge unemployment among entry-level white-collar jobs in the next,
you know, five or ten years. You're introducing a plan
for the government to use a one-time... Well, Anderson. AI.
is the most transformative technology in the history of humanity.
It's going to impact every man, woman and child. Right
now it is being owned and pushed by the wealthiest
people in the world. Mr. Musk, Mr. Bezos, Zuckerberg, Ellison
and others. Their goal is simply more wealth and more
power. My own view is that given the fact that
the foundation of AI is based on human knowledge, they've
accumulated all of human knowledge. Oh, yes. After 19... You
know, this guy is a crank. Must play. even have
anything in the LLMs that before the year 2000. Yeah,
they do. No they don't. There's a cutoff point. They
start putting that stuff in, they get a bunch of
racists, they get misogyny, they get stuff that ruins the
LLM. Well, the whole thing is that LLMs as a
knowledge base is dead anyway. He doesn't even, he's behind
the curve. LLMs are good. He's a crank. People in
America must play a vital role in the future of
AI. What does that mean? It means that the public
should have 50% of the seats. on the major AI
companies in order to prevent bad things from happening. You
talked about mass unemployment. It is quite possible that over
the next decade, tens of millions of jobs will be
lost. Yeah, that's Elon's. No one will have to work.
It's going to be a great world. All Bernie Sanders
sees is... Yeah, socialism, universal basic income. And that money
would be funneled back to citizens in the United States?
Right. Right now we're talking about, for a start, a
5% every year. The fund, which we estimate right now
would be about $7 trillion. 5% of that would be...
Wait, where's he... this money from? I don't know. You're
asking the wrong guy. He just appeared. He somehow thinks
that there's seven trillion dollars they're going to put in.
We use direct dividends to every man, woman, and child
in this country. Starting in the beginning, it would be
about a thousand dollars per person per year. If AI
is valuable and... grows as quickly as people think it
might, that number will go up. In addition, you'll have
large amounts of money available that makes sure that in
America every man, woman, and child has health care as
a human right, that we improve the education opportunities, we
build the housing that we need. So bottom line here
is we cannot allow AI just to be used... to
benefit the very richest people in the world. It has
got to be used to benefit all of us. What
do you mean? It's 20 bucks a month. I got
a chat bot. It benefits everybody. It's a beautiful thing.
It's benefiting the listeners of the No Agenda Show. Yeah,
book of knowledge. You've met with Sam Altman, CEO of
OpenAI. How'd that go? How'd that go?
Well, I didn't understand what he was talking about. Well,
I think Sam is a very good salesman. Yes. But
bottom line is, it's very hard to talk with anybody
from the industry when they, in a sense, have a
gun at your head. So we can chat and chat.
He's got a gun to his head? He should, he's
been checked for arms. Anybody from the industry should have
a gun at your head. So we can chat and
chat, but what Sam and the other CEOs of the
industry are saying, look, if you want to regulate us,
if you want to protect the American people. We have
endless amounts of money in super PACs to defeat you.
We are very close to the president of the United
States. We were his inaugural. He is a fellow oligarch.
And you ain't going to do anything. And I think
what we're looking at right now is a grassroots movement,
which is taking place. Opposition to data centers, deep concern
about the growth of AI. We're seeing real movement in
a direction that says that AI has got to work
to benefit all of us and not just a few,
that AI cannot be used to wipe out millions of
jobs where people have no place. There won't be jobs
available to them. So I think we are needing momentum.
Nobody has voted for this, which is one of these
things I keep coming back to. That's the point. Oh,
wow. To be continued. Thank you. So he should have
been around during the invention of the steam engine if
he wants to see something replacing workers. It's Jevons' dilemma,
man. We all know it. Vance is up there now.
Defending the difference between Obama's deal and Trump's deal. Is
Vance at the tower? No, no, Obama's still at the
party. He's speaking now. He's at the party. He's wagging
his finger. Vance is using both hands like he's stroking
something really big. And he's at the White House in
the press room. Vance uses his hands too much. He
does. He's a little bit like Newsome. But Vance keeps
his hands in the zone. He doesn't move. He doesn't
go all over the map with him. You're right. He
doesn't go all over the map with his hands. Yeah.
All right. Well. Beautiful. We've solved most of the world's
problems here. I feel much better about everything. Well, they're
good. I got a clip that maybe will depress you.
Okay. Probably, maybe it won't. This is kissing in Colorado.
Kissing in Colorado. Okay. Well, I can't believe I'm about
to say this, but a high school teacher in Colorado
was just. terminated because she had skits in her classroom
and in those skits she required students to kiss each
other many of them being the same sex and felt
really uncomfortable and if they didn't do it she would
fail them according to the investigation students were assigned roles
in french language skits titled the boring kiss several students
alleged that they were expected to to kiss classmates as
part of the performance. One student refused and received a
zero on their grade in another walk down. The teacher
says she never forced anyone to kiss one another. She
did say you could blow a kiss or do a
gesture. But no one's really buying that answer. See, the
issue isn't just whether students were physically forced to kiss
one another. The issue is that this teacher put these
students in a... position where they had to decide in
front of their classmates and under the authority of their
teacher who controlled their grades whether they were comfortable participating
in what a judge described as a personal and sexualized
activity. Why is kissing required in any high school assignment?
And that was not the only concern. There were allegations
that the teacher shared deeply personal details. about her life
with the students, including discussions about abuse, infertility, and suicidal
thoughts. There were no criminal charges that were filed, but
the district did conclude that the environment did cross work
professional boundaries. A foreign language class should be teaching French,
not putting teenagers in situations where they feel pressured to
kiss one another because of a grape. Wow. Go Colorado.
Yeah, they're advanced in Colorado there. Forced kissing. I have
a gripe, man. Tina and I have been looking, because
we've watched all the series we want to watch, and
we're scanning around on... Yeah, you're on this one thing,
Dutton Ranch seems to be your thing now. Yeah, but
it's, you know, it's... It's once a week, so we
have to wait. Oh, no. Yeah, I know. It's back
to the old days. There's no more binging. And so,
you know, there's a whole bunch of new series. on
Netflix and Amazon. and every single series, particularly the comedy,
every single one. has gotta have gay guys making out.
It's gay guys making out kissing I haven't seen this.
Long kissing sequences of gay guys. I haven't seen it
on Fox. No, I said Amazon and Prime. Amazon and
Netflix, not Fox. Oh, oh. Oh, Fox wouldn't do that.
And I know it's Pride Month, but... It's disgusting you.
Why don't you just say it? Yeah, it is. I
don't want to see it. And it's just like... Yeah,
a lot of people don't. But it's... And the writing
is funny. It's a funny show. Well, the writing's funny.
But there's always gratuitous gay guy kissing. It's just, I
don't understand. Is that such a necessity? Gratuitous gay guy
kissing. Yes. Is that a necessity? Yeah. Wow, that's the
question of the year. In entertainment. Let's ask the robot.
In entertainment. Yeah, there we go. Now we're going to
get a real answer. Book of knowledge. Is gratuitous gay
guy kissing a necessity for modern television series? Let's see
what the book of knowledge comes up with now. According
to the Book of Knowledge, in today's television landscape, series
increasingly respond to social demands for queer representation, and it
has become a focal point for the audiovisual industry. Though,
whether it serves the story or merely the mandate of
advocacy groups like Gillard, The gains have often been clustered
on a handful of shows, demonstrating missed opportunities to tell
fuller stories. suggesting it is less organic necessity and more
institutional pressure. Well, there you go. Thus, It has been
written. Yeah, institutional pressure. You want to get something made?
Glad. Did you call it GILAD? But it's glad, I
think he's talking about. It's glad. Yeah, it's institutional pressure.
There you go. That's for Hollywood. Well, Hollywood, I don't
think... Interesting. That's actually an interesting answer. So there's institutional
pressure to have gay guys kissing in front of everybody
during a series because they want to normalize it. Yes,
it's called programming. Yeah, in fact, it's called TV programming
to be exact. Now, they don't have gratuitous male-female kissing.
Not that much. Well, you know, one of the things
they've noticed during the slowdown in birth rates... is that
a lot of it they think sociologically may have to
do with the fact that when there was a lot
of babies being born, there was a lot of TV
shows that had a lot of kids on there as
part of the show. They had, you know, the Leave
it to Beaver show, Ozzie and Harriet, the Brady Bunch,
and all these shows that have a children element. And
it was gratuitous, children element in all these shows, and
people said, well, children are kind of cool. Look at
them, they're funny. They're hanging around. Let's have a kid.
But now it's like, oh, there are two gay guys
kissing. Let's find a guy and go kiss him. So
I think it's, yeah, the TV people are trying to
ruin the country. I'll tell you, you're lucky. Lucky you're
not across from me in the same room. I might
have to go for you. Yeah, well, just keep it
to yourself. Hey, with that, I want to thank you
for your courage. Say in the morning to you, the
man who put the C in the drug cows. Say
hello to my friend on the other end. I wish
I could kiss him. John C! Yeah, in the morning
to you, Mr. Adam Curry. In the morning, I'll ship
a sea-boosting raffineer or something to the water. The name
is nice out there. In the morning to the trolls
in the hotel room. It's obviously vacation. 1291. Wow! Yeah,
people on vacation. Well, obviously that and the fact you
couldn't get the bat signal to work. That does not
help. And it's still busted. So I'm going to have
to bring in the big guns. Somehow to publish this.
That's annoying. It's terrible. It happens. You know, it's amazing
any of this stuff works, really. I'm truly amazed. that
we can talk to each other with almost no delay.
It streams out. The pod ping technology, which will work.
This is just a problem on my end. I'm still
trying to figure out what happened to my Brave browser
this morning. Yeah, that's interesting. I don't know what happened
to your brain. It just didn't work, huh? Well, I
booted it up, got to the show, and it says,
oh, your microphone has been turned off by the browser.
Please reset it. What are you talking about? It says,
check the icon at the top of the browser, the
microphone icon. There's no microphone icon on the browser. So
they upgraded something for your security. They upgraded something and
now the Brave browser doesn't work with Cleanfeed. Well, what's
bad is that you have to be on edge. That's
atrocious. The edge is quite horrible. So the bat signal,
when applied, will get you...
You alright? your no agenda show within 90 seconds, not
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that Franco. Good guy. Cast-o-matic? Cast-o-matic, yes. Only on Apple.
But it's... dynamite products. We are Value for Value. Which
is a very simple concept, although difficult for people to
implement. We've been doing it for 18 years. It'll be
19 years in October, and the system is thus. We
give you the show. Complete. No secret things. clubs, no
behind the scenes, no bonus episodes or bonus content. No,
we just give you the full show in all its
glory for you to do with and to consume it
however you want to. There's people who are, I found
this out the other day. on X. Some guy says,
your show hasn't arrived on YouTube. Music. Wait, YouTube Music?
We've never given our RSS feed to YouTube music. No,
I do it myself. You do it yourself, okay? So
you're helping us build an audience on YouTube music, and
when you go away or you get tired of it,
then... then the show goes away for those people. Well
done. Well done. Thank you. We had three downloads on
Spotify. They've deplatformed us completely. due to the end of
show mixes because they hear music and say, oh, it's
music. Music must be bad. Must be bad. Yeah, so
that's not a very good. platform no get those modern
podcast apps so value for value is a concept we
came up with which you thought would be better than
advertising and many people say oh so good you don't
advertising you don't do ads uh because you know it
keeps you clean of corporate interests and you can't get
the you know your money can't get taken away by
the advertisers and that's That's true. But the real reason
is Adam and John just didn't want to have meetings
with advertisers because those are the worst meetings that we
don't even have meetings with ourselves. We're not in the
meeting. No, we just, when we see each other, we
grouse. We don't even see each other, we haven't seen
each other in five years. No, if we saw each
other, this show would not be on. be around, I
can guarantee it. There's not a partnership like this in
the world that's involved with entertainment in any way, shape,
or form that lasts more than a few years because
they just get on each other's nerves. You mentioned this
to someone on X regarding Cisco and Ebert. Yeah, because
they played a clip of these two guys. I met
both of those guys. And both of them kind of
had a little, you know, a little nothing good to
say about the other guy. They really didn't like each
other. They really were irks. I think they did for
a while, and then they got on each other's nerves.
Yeah. They had slightly different personalities. I mean, Cisco was
kind of was, at least when I met him, I
don't know him, the guy, but he was hot. He's
a nice guy. Both the guys are terrific, by the
way. But Sisko was kind of haughty and kind of
looked down his nose, you know, kind of guy. And
Eber was kind of a goofball. And just fun guy.
Are they both stuck? With a lot of opinions. Are
they both still alive? No, I think they're both dead.
Yeah, because someone trolled him and says, Ebert's birthday is
dead. If the guy's dead, then do we celebrate his
birthday? I think he's dead. I mean, he ended with
jaw cancer and they took half his face away. Oh,
no. Oh, no. Oh, that sucks. That's horrible. So, um...
But yeah, we don't want meetings with each other. We
certainly don't want. And if we had to have meetings
with each other with advertisers, oh, that's like a tinderbox.
Can you imagine? Because, you know, you'd be like, yeah,
we'll do that. Yeah, whatever. We'll take the money. It's
not going to be that way. You would. Oh! No,
no. Oh. Mr. Cave. Here's a Siskel and Ebert sound
clip. Let's see. Why is it? Why do I not
hear it? Oh, I know why. Let's do this for
a second. You did. It's Thriller Week on Cisco and
the Ebert at the Movies and we've got three new
ones. And the movies, not at the movies. And that's
why we're doing it this time. Oh! It's Thriller Week
on Cisco and Ebert in the Movies and we've got
three new ones. Dennis Quaid in The Big Easy, Michael
Caine in The Fourth Protocol, and Kevin Costner and Gene
Hackman in No Way Out. That's this week on Cisco.
And Ebert. and the movies. And the asshole. And that's
Rod. And the asshole. That would definitely be me. That
would be me. I'm glad we're, this is good. We
have a good thing going, John. Don't mess it up.
Ha ha ha! Yeah, people always say, why don't you
guys do it? Besides that, who are they? I will
mention this. One of the things that people don't, who
is kind of inside baseball, but. but cueing each other
without visceral cues. When you're in the studio together, you
can look at somebody, you can, you know, raise your
eyebrow. I mean, there's ways of getting people to. do
certain things when you're working with them in the same
room to cue them to bring something up or to
do something. We have to do it at a very
advanced level. It has to be anticipatory. It's much more
difficult to get the cues correct. And we miss them
probably. a few times more than we miss them usually
at least once a show but generally speaking it's it's
phenomenal how good we are don't break your arm patting
yourself on the back but yeah um Many radio professionals...
have said to me, man, how long does it take
you to edit that show? That's a good one. I
know I've heard this comment too. What? What? No, no,
no. Live to tape or nothing. We're not doing this
show if it has to be edited. No. There you
go. Another thing we would never do. Live to tape.
It is what you get. What you get, what you
see is what you get. And what you see is
one way that people help us with value. for valued
time, talent, or treasure, and that is creating or prompting
artwork for our album art. And we want to thank
Blue Acorn for bringing us the artwork for episode 1877.
We titled that Flim Flam, a fine word we need
to bring back into the vocabulary, into the corpus. And
this was Roosevelt. flipping a guy over his shoulder at
the UFC, at the big fights at the White House.
It was relevant because we learned that many presidents have
been into wrestling. Grappling and wrassling. And Roosevelt apparently once
flipped a senator over his shoulder. Do we even know
if that is a sh- Historically correct. Did we even
check that? We do not know. It could be folklore.
Yeah, well, it was fun anyway. So we appreciate that.
Let's take a look at the No Agenda Art Generator,
noagendaartgenerator.com. Let's see. Were there any other things that we
considered? I think you were complaining there wasn't anything in
it. I know that you use the Comics for Blogger
Ideal for Hydration Break Polish Potato Vodka for the newsletter.
Yeah, Jay picked that. She picked that one. Well, Jay
is a good judge of art. Oh, I like the...
It wasn't as good as the Roosevelt thing, but I
like the... The Noah Jenner-Kurian Dvorak in the grass in
front of the reflecting pool. Because we had a clip
about someone peeing. uh 86 47 was kind of okay
a lot of we said those ulster says no or
those old Those are old. Okay, those are old. What
else was there? A couple other. Yeah, you're right. I
was, oh, I, I kind of like Trump saying I
love, you know, on the, on the White House balcony.
With a megaphone, with a banner, I love inflation. But
yeah, that was it. There wasn't much. Do better, people.
Do better. You can do better. You know, this is,
what's happening here. As we have a break in the
dream. Build loop. You got to dream and then you
got to build. And if you don't have dreams, then
you can't build. So the dream build loop. has to
be implemented here for the art. You can do it,
people. There's also a dream donate loop that is also...
failing there is now i think it's because of the
whatever girls clips that's my personal opinion 50 seconds oh
it's not about how long it's just the fact that
we even consider it people think we're we're horrible people
oh i agree i'm with you on that i agree
with you but there are people who take time out
of their day To email me. One guy. No, that's
the one guy who said, please send this to John
because I can't remember how to spell his name. I'm
going to read the note. Oh, you have it there.
Good. This is from one of our producers. Dear Adam.
Writing in with an opinion instead of a fact, because
I think you would appreciate a measure, a measure of
the pulse of your listener base. You talk about getting
emails all the time where people rage quit your show
because your opinion on Israel is wrong or whatever.
I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to
quit the show based on your opinion because your show
is one of the only shows with actual sincere, honest,
and interesting opinions that don't. just fall in lockstep with
politics. Whether you guys agree or disagree. with me on
some subject. I know it's sincere and I know it's
at least a useful perspective, so I'm not going to
get upset about it. Follow this. The follow this is
to say that I'm not upset enough to stop listening,
but... There's always the big but. Yeah. I am legitimately
annoyed. I just wanted to write in to let you
know, or rather to let you to let John know.
That in the five years that I've been listening to
your podcast, the only segments I have ever skipped are
the whatevers. girls As a guy who's pushing 40 and
hasn't been on a date in 10 years. Here it
comes. Listening to a bunch. This is it. This is
it. This is his real problem is right here. Start
that segment over again. I will. It's not about us
playing the girls. It's this. No, he's irked. because of
himself. This is a self-inflicted wound. There's a guy who's
pushing 40. and hasn't been on a date in 10
years. listening to a bunch of stupid girls who already
have made more money than I'll make in my life.
does not cause enjoyment for me. I'm just going to
keep skipping that section. I'm not going to quit your
show or anything, but since this is a useful data
point, I thought I would write in and let you
know that I might actually be a... that it might
actually be affecting listener retention. I don't like that segment,
and I skip it every time it comes up. And
that is the only segment I have ever skipped on
your show, signed the 40-year-old guy who hasn't been on
a date in 10 years. Thank you for reading that
again, because... This That part of it broke my heart.
That part of the email. I heard that, I'm like,
oh. Yeah, I completely empathetically felt his pain. And I
bet a lot of men are like that. You know,
dating is over. There's no dating. Yeah, you know it
is. There's only it's hit the skids it it has
and it broke my heart to hear that like oh
So his real problem is not with the segment And
you look these things up. So has he ever donated?
He's, I, I, well, normally I do look him up.
I did not look him up individually, but I... I
pretty, I wasn't, it wasn't the kind of letter where
I'd look him up so he said, oh, he doesn't
donate or doesn't care. So I didn't look him up,
but I'm pretty sure he's donated. I personally think it
would have been better if he sent in a donation
with this note. Yeah, then we would have read it.
Yeah, even if it was by Reddit anyway, but we
It would have been guaranteed red. Oh, yeah. If it
was $50, it wouldn't matter how much you donated. Well,
$50, I don't know. Yes, yes. $300 would help. *laughs*
But that, now I understand the real problem. The problem
is... that he hasn't been able to get a date
for 10 years. 10 years. And now he's listening to
these women who I guess he would like to date
them. We're not. I'm trying to make the connection between
how... Well, I don't think he wants to date me.
He's just irked that they're rich. Although, believe me, half
of them aren't. No, they're not. This is a random
group of girls and a lot of them don't. you
know, just dipshits and some of them are only fans
of dummies and some of them make a lot of
money and some make millions. I mean, it's a huge
range of... of women that go on that show and
a lot of people. Here's my advice. Here's my advice.
You got to get one of them Darren O'Neill deals.
Darren O'Neill has a deal, man. wife works and he
does like shows he's just podcasting He does a rock
and roll pre-show, he does a show with Larry, he
does a show with Gene. He might cook. I mean,
he might cook. I don't know if he cooks. People
who cook always brag about it. But the Darren O'Neill
deal, I'd like that. I'd like a Darren O'Neill deal.
That'd be fantastic. Can you imagine? You'd love it too.
Imagine Mimi was bringing in all the dough. Well, that
dog kennel, though, you should franchise that. The dog kennel.
The dog kennel. Yeah, we should. We have a reason.
The problem is it's a personnel situation. The only reason
the dog kennel works so well is because we... Just
like an Elon Musk, we lucked out and got a
guy that's a lunatic about dogs, and, you know, he
can run that kennel. I mean, that's the hardest thing
in the world is still personnel. Yeah, and what is
the kennel index? Is it full? It's always full. The
thing's always full. Oh, you know, I mean, full in
the way where... It's overloaded where it's probably full. Yeah,
I'm guessing. Check it. We need to understand. We should
just blow it up and we'd get more money into
the show. Darren is telling me in 31 years, my
wife has made about 10 meals. There you go. But
maybe they eat out a lot like you. We eat
home. all the time. You're always saying, you got any
dinners? Any dinners coming up? Any dinners coming up? Yeah,
I'm always saying that. So here's the story. I got
a story for you. Because you go out to dinner
with these local famous people and they usually have some
inside scoop for us. So here's a story. You want
a story? You want a fun story? A Fredericksburg? I'm
always looking for a Fredericksburg story. Lightens my day. So
the Fredericksburg ladies. There's two of them. And they're both
in their 80s. And they are like whippersnappers. And these
women are fantastic. I love them. They're funny. They're kind
of, you know, borderline. Whippersnapper specifically refers to a young
person. But they're, okay, if you have an 85-year-old who
is just hilarious and sharp, a bit like you, hilarious
and sharp, only a woman. Only woman. How do you
describe that woman? Sprite. No, it's more than that. They're
still wearing blue jeans. Lively. They're wearing blue jeans that
they wore when they were 18. They're tight. And they're
funny. And both their husbands are billionaires. So there's this
group of women, like six of them. And. They're always
doing birthday parties for each other. Oh, my goodness. The
birthday parties. Because it's always who's invited. It's like middle
school. Anyway. So... And I'm leaving the names out because
it just protects the image. It sounds like Palm Beach,
but continue. No, it's not at all like Palm Beach.
You would never know. that they're rich. You would never
know. But how you find out is when one of
the two billionaire ladies said, hey, let's all go to
the house in Vail. you So that's a clue, right?
It's a clue. Yeah, kind of. We'll meet you at
the airport. Tuesday at 1030. So I, and this is
a little airport here, the one where I take off
from. and drive up there. There is a... Cessna Citation
Excelsior XLS. Like a $20 million airplane, net jets. It's,
you know, everyone's driving up to the plane. You know,
it's like top notch. They had to pre-order their lunch
for on the plane. I've never been in a plane.
Maybe once. And so I was like, this is pretty
awesome. Of course, dudes weren't invited. And so they jet
off to Vail. The very next day. What happens with
NetJets? The very same plane crashes and burns in Laredo.
first accident net jets has ever had in their history.
And now they're all like, should we drive home? I'm
like, no, no, no, no. The chances of that happening
are impossibly small. Yeah, so there's the rich lady story.
This is rich white lady problems. Shall I take the
net jets home? Or shall we have the Bentley drive
us home? There's your story. Yeah, that would have been
good if you had some cli- to go with it.
If I had a clue. The Blanco Lario channel. Or
Captain Steve explains what happened. I will say, I think
that the pilots on that net, they did a great
job with that emergency landing. I don't know what happened
to the aircraft. We probably won't know for a while.
But they rode that thing all the way down onto
the highway. Six people. One perished, sadly. But to have
five people survive a crash of that magnitude? Amazing. Those
guys did a great job. I mean, it sucks, but
I'd like to know what happened. This is not the
kind of plane that should have that happen. Anyway, no
billionaires here and not for a long time, but we
do have many people who love our show. and probably
are dating. I don't know and they love supporting us
and they do that with the treasure of the time
talent and treasure and now we have an entire family
The Milligan family. And they come in with $1,000. They
even added the fees. So it's $1,000, $1,030.26. And as
you know, above $300, not only are we guaranteed to
read your note, but we'll also give you the executive
producer credit, which is good anywhere. Hollywood recognizes these credits.
IMDB.com. $200 or more. Associate Executive Producer. And so they're
also going to be, well, they have a whole note
here. This is for a red knight order of the
heart. Bob. Can I interrupt you? Yeah. There's only 10
slots left. Oh, okay. It's ending. All right. Very good.
Wow. Because we're out of pins. We are. We're going
to be out of pins after ten more red nights.
It's all over. So the Milligan family, they're from Elko,
Nevada. Bob celebrates this June his post. C-A-B-G. cabbage see
cabbage Heart surgery. It's his ninth birthday of his post-cabbage
heart surgery. 70th post-utero trip around the sun this Juneteenth.
His 46th Father's Day and 47th wedding anniversary. Wow. He
feels honored that the federal government is created a holiday
in his honor. And we are formally requesting the peerage
committee to grant his night name of Sir Coach Bob
the Builder, Lord of Wild Horse and Slayer of Fish.
I think that one's available. If Lord is deemed unacceptable,
we humbly request Master. I'm okay with Lord. Are you
okay with Lord? Lord of Wild Horse? Yeah, sure. Yeah.
His family humbly requests in his honor home-brewed lager and
smoked trout for the round table. That's what that smell
is. and the Reverend Al mix up with a goat
scream. as they always crack him up. In addition to
his red knighting, he also requests a healthy de-douching. Oh,
let me get the de-douching machine. You've been de-douched. As
he has been a man overboard for not donating in
a long time. This is from his wife, Kelly, of
47 years, his kids, Jake, Becky, and Matt, their spouses,
and nine grandchildren. He can thank his sons for hitting
him in the mouth. 15 years ago, the family that
no agendas together stays together in the morning from the
entire Mulligan family. And we have a brand new Sharpton
first time we're playing it. Of why they're having these
fights on the White House law and the UFO and
all, whatever they call it. You've got. That's our new
one. That's our new one. It's also Milligan, not Mulligan.
Did I say Mulligan? I meant Milligan. Yeah, he did.
I didn't know you took up golf. Manuka Gold comes
in from Hudson, Florida. 33333. From Manuka Gold, we're happy
to... continue to support the show. Ah. We'd rather put
your money here with actual humans instead of with Facebook
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Dad a gift. It probably won't get there by Father's
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you for your courage, the Manuka Gold family. They're keeping
the show afloat. Love it. So that's, that is our
last. Executive producer, we drop to the associate execs, Eric
Haleen. And I have no location for Eric Hallein. but
does send us $263.22 and says, thank you. And we
say thank you very much for your courage. It takes
us to Connor Brogan. in Amherst, Ohio, $2.50. It's the
$2.50 donation. Good day. $2.50. America. America donation. It's America
donation. We're finally getting some of those in. I have
been listening to the show for well over a year,
but this is my first donation to your wonderful cause.
D-douching, please? You've been d- I wanted to thank you
both for the time and effort you both put forth
in these shows. As perfect as it is, no other
podcast in the podverse will match your banter analysis and
humor that you guys bring. It was a blessing to
discover your podcast. I'd like to know how you did.
How did you discover the podcast? It's always good to
know. For marketing purposes. Yes. And I look forward to
hearing many more episodes to come. I would like to
shout out to the greatest father I could ask for.
Jeremy Brogan as it's his 52nd birthday today, June 18th.
Dad, your incredible mentor, a kick-ass... chef and a perfect
role model for how to be a good man. Thank
you for all the lessons you've provided me in my
23 years being here on earth and I look forward
to many more memories to come. Karma for all, Connor.
Oh, what a wonderful note. You've got karma. you And
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won in a long shot, I doubt we would see
New York Knicks-level riots. Politics is my sports ball, but
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He keeps forgetting to put his his night name into
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of our Mercy Me boys, Franklin, Tennessee. 123.45. Guido Elshoff
in Leiden in the Netherlands. $100 and he says I
love your show please dedouche me. You've been dedouched. And
coming in as he always does with $80 and $80.
Sends the boob donation. Kevin McLaughlin. He is the Archduke
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Maryland, $52.72. And what is it? Oh, we have a
nighting here. How do I pronounce that? Ciao! Wow. Okay.
Wow Alves is from Ribeira de Sintra in Portugal. I
turned 40 on the 17th and I couldn't think of
a better way to celebrate than becoming... and a night.
I've been listening since show one, and although I've made
several small donations, I've never been deduced. You've been deduced.
I tell many stories of how you've helped me over
the years, but I don't want to make this too
long, so I'll just share one. You used to say
that your goal is to make us sound smart around
the water fountain. Water cooler, yes. When I was in
vet school, we had a class about animal breeding and
selection. The professor was telling us that many companies do...
this and ask if anyone knew what Monsanto was. After
controlling the urge to sing the Monsanto jingle, I went
into an expose of Monsanto roundup and how they were
suing farmers. Every head in the room turns toward me
with a WTF or how the heck does he know
this? Look on their face. NA has been a part
of almost half of my life and I just wanted
to say thank you. Please knight me, sir. Wow. Wow.
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I slide towards retirement slash disability. We're happy to help
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frequency, noagendadonations.com. Bye. Well, we already heard all of them,
but there it is. Wow. Alba, soon to be a
knight, turned 40 yesterday. Connor Brogan wishes his dad, Jeremy
Brogan, a very happy one. He is celebrating this Juneteenth,
turning 52. And the Milligan family wish Bob Milligan a
very happy... He turns 70 tomorrow. So we say happy
birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the
universe. And now... *BOOM* *Demonic voice* only 10 slots left
so get in while the going is good but already
recognized here, Bob Milligan will become a Red Knights Order
of the Heart, Contribution ♪ This ♪ - Still today,
there's my blade, if you can bring yours out, There
we go. Out of the sheet. There it is. Bob
Milligan and Wal Alves hopping up on the podium. Both
of you are about to become knights of the Noah
Jenner Roundtable. Bob will become a red knight, order of
the heart. And I am very proud to hereby pronounce
the KD as Sir Coach Bob the Builder, Lord of
Wild Horse and Slayer of... and Sir Wal Alves, the
Knight of Sintra. ginger ale and gerbils, breast milk and
pablum, and of course the mutton and meat that we
find every single time here at the NOAA General Roundtable.
is always included and Sir Bob you will get the
special red heart red knight order of the heart pin
which just the packaging by itself is phenomenal you will
love that and we thank you both and your families
for becoming knights of the no agenda roundtable My Ukraine
meetup report. So sad we haven't received that yet. I
just want some audio from Ukraine before, you know, Putin
nukes it. Be nice. In the meantime, there are meetups
taking place all over the world. In fact, today there's
one taking place in Ed's Tavern, Charlotte, North Carolina. Carolina.
It is the Charlotte's Thirsty Third Thursday meetup, 7 o'clock
tonight on Saturday. Leo Bravo does it again. The Flight
of the Know agenda is number 76 at 3.33 p.m.
in the Chowder Barge in Wilmington, California. And throughout the
rest of the month, we've got Rotterdam in the Netherlands
on the 26th, Fort Wayne, Indiana on the 27th, Albany,
California. John will be there. at what's the pizza place?
What's it called? The Mallard Club, it's a bar. I
thought it was the pizza place. We're doing it at
the Mallard Club, as far as I know. Well, what
was the pizza place? Violetas. Oh, it's the Mallard Club.
The Mallard Club sounds like... Sounds like it's a lot
of wood. Is there a lot of wood in the
mallard? clothes yeah in fact this is it's fashioned after
Excuse me, a hunting lodge. It's like a little hunting
lodge inside. Yeah, nice. Unfortunately, depending on the bartender, if
it's dimly lit, you don't really appreciate that. The coolness
of it being a hunting lodge. If they get a
bargain, lights it up it's pretty cool my opinion is
any and whenever you're over 50 dimmed lighting is best
I'm kind of all for that. Well, that's what they
do. They keep it dim. but Believe me, the place
is nicer if it's lit. On the 28th, Decatur, Alabama.
Nice. Longview, Texas. And we'll go into July here, Raleigh,
North Carolina, Scottsdale, Arizona, Eagle, Idaho, Asheville, North Carolina, and
Charlotte, North Carolina. One day separate from each other. Go
to noagendameetups.com. It's really cool to go to one of
these meetups. You will make connections that will give you
protection. Everybody you meet. will immediately be your first responder
in any emergency. You will not regret it. No one
has ever emailed and said, I regret going to the
meetup. If you have, you need to email me immediately.
I've never heard that. I've never heard someone, wow, that
was a bummer. That was no good. No, because they're
fantastic. NoahJennerMeetups.com. If you can't find one near you, start
one yourself. It's easy. and always a party. *music* the
same Now we have John's tip of the day coming
up and some toe-toppers of the No Agenda end-of-show mixes
from our end-of-show mixers prompting their way into history. For
some reason, I have like a crazy amount of ISOs.
So I'm just- Well, let's go with him. Okay. And
then bloop, bloop, and then bloop. Okay, that's one. I'm
just one weed and a hamburger. No, that's no good.
How about this one? Take that, evildoers. Pretty impressive. Remarkable,
actually. Okay, come on, come on. That was good, that
was good. That is incredible. Play that again. That is
incredible. No, that's not that good. Here's another one. The
world is crazy. I think the con- tender here is
this one. Pretty impressive. Well, remarkable, actually. I think that's
a contender. It's okay. All right. What do you have?
What do you have? It's the best of your bunch.
Let's put it that way. What do you have? I
don't know why you have just sound effects. Whoop, whoop.
That was... Well, I don't know why you only have-
That's Alex. you love, Alex. Why do you have bad
AI versions of presidents? What? These are real clips. Okay.
Here's Biden. Can someone tell me a better podcast than
No Agenda? He has no energy. Biden? What? Barry seems
authentic to me. Okay. Oh, Biden's got no energy. He's
got no energy. It's the comment of the day. Let's
try Obama. Yeah, I was going to podcast until I
heard the No Agenda show. It's great. I hate them.
You're posting these videos everywhere like, oh, look, we have
an endorsement from Obama. Oh, look, we have an endorsement
from Biden. You know that that's like a real boomer
move. It's a boomer move. is jealous. It's total boomer.
Like, it was like, no one. Hey, get, get a
clue. What clue? I'm a boomer. Ah, there you go.
Well, we'll choose one of them. One of those two
bad presidents. After you do tip of the day. Wait,
you gotta pick one. Nah, I was just gonna choose.
I'm gonna play both at the same time. Can someone
tell me a better podcast than Noah Jenner? It's great.
That's what I'm gonna do. It's perfect. Now you got
it. You nailed it. Time for tip of the day
with John. It's fast for you Just the tip with
JC Green. I got a probiotic fiber gummy. Probiotic fiber
gummy. And what is this for? What is the point
of this?
It's got fiber. It's got probiotics. If you're a boomer
or anybody else and you need your fiber, you need
your gummies, it's just a good product. We've been chomping
these things down. Now, what do you need fiber for?
What is the fiber for? Well, you need fiber for
your gut health. Oh. You don't want a leaky gut.
You need your gut health, man. Don't you watch these
ads? Oh, that's right. You pay not to watch ads.
That's right. I pay. Gut health. That's why. Gut health.
Got it. Yeah. Okay. I can't read the name. This
is like... Tutartin, I think, is the brand. It's almost
impossible to read it. It's so small. Boy, does it
have protein. Yeah. Does it? Doesn't it approach you? But
anyway, they have on Amazon probiotic fiber gummies. Okay, and
what is the name? I think it's too tartan. I'm
going to have to look it up. But what is
the point? You're giving us a tip of the day.
You're just telling, hey, if you... No, but there's a
ton of these things. You don't have to buy this
one brand. You need to tell us, okay, gut health.
How do I know if I need that for my
gut health? This is a tip of the day. You
do. Everybody needs to have fiber. They need probiotics. It's
just a fact. Do I have to give a lecture,
a medical lecture just to promote some cheap gummies? Well,
this is a tip of the day. And so typically,
you'll tell me why it's going to improve my life.
And so what is... It'll improve your poops. Oh, there
it is. Well, I will give that a try. Will
my poops be firmer? They'll be more regular, firmer, and
you'll feel better about things. The most boomer tip of
the day ever. What happened to prunes? What happened to
prune juice, man? This is a... Okay. Back in the
day. I take note of the details. Okay. Prunes are
good too, by the way. Okay. You have to give
us the name so we don't get the wrong poop
powder. Yes, yes. Okay. Well, I mean, like I said,
okay. Let me look it up. You're just making my
life miserable. Hey, I didn't come with the poop tip
of the day, okay? It wasn't my idea. You're just
randomly saying, oh, get some gummies off of Amazon. Well,
you might as well get those. Those bear, one of
those bear gummies that has 30,000 comments. What is it?
HarryboGold That's the gummy I would recommend. Go look at
the comments on HarryboGold. Okay, I will. Do you have
it? Do you have your favorite? Yeah, the one that
we're using here is 9-in-1. This is a 9-in-1, by
the way. This is a family thing? This is J.J.
and Brennan's thing and I started eating these. Pretty tasty.
9-in-1 probiotic from pretty good. Taryn to Taryn. Oh, man.
The whole, now do you have a, do you have
to pull a number to get into the bathroom? Do
you have like one of those? There's a little bunch
of buttons you push. All right. There it is, everybody.
You can get all the details at tipoftheday.net. Totaria, I
guess. Maybe that's it. Totaria. Just the tip with JCB
One second, I got more stuff. Oh, you got more?
There's also 5 billion CFU bacillus coagulans. Oh. Psyllium husk.
Oh, right. Inulin. Oh my God, it's got everything in
it. They're pineapple. It's delicious. It's the Swiss Army knife
of gummies, I tell you. It's got everything. Anyways, Totaria.
Totaria. That's it. T-O-T-A-R-I-A. Totaria. Okay. All right. As in
toe-tapper. You never know what you get with the tip
of the day. Could be a Chardonnay. It could be
a gummy. It could be gummies. Or a box cutter.
Or a box cutter. I mean, this is fantastic. The
box cutter was a great tip, by the way. The
box saw. Did you get one? Yeah, yeah, oh yeah.
Did you chop any boxes up? I chopped some boxes
right away. *Gasps* Those of you listening at noagendastream.com or
your modern podcast app, do stay tuned because up next
we have random thoughts. Sir Darren Paul McCartney O'Neill okay
I can't wait for that that'll be dynamite that's the
guy who just does podcasts and his wife brings home
the bacon it's amazing what a gig that guy has
end of show mixes from Sir Johnny B MVP and
Just Baker and we will return on Sunday. Once again,
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