I like me some bubbles. You like your bubbles? I
like bubbles. Adam Curry. John C. DeVore. It's Thursday, July
16, 2026. This is your award-winning Give Our Nation Media
Assassination episode 1886. This is no agenda. Suffering from rain
stick backscatter and broadcasting live from the heart of the
Texas Hill Country right here in FEMA region number six.
In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern
Silicon Valley where I'm wondering what is Microsoft Hello and
why would I want it to enhance my experience? I'm
John C. Dvorak. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill. In the morning.
Wait a minute. Isn't Microsoft Hello a really old product?
cropped up this morning on a boot. On a boot?
I booted a machine that says, hello, would you like
to install Microsoft Hello to enhance your experience? What is
it? What is Microsoft? I don't know. I never saw
or heard of it. It sounds like, you know, when
you said that, the first thing I thought of was,
remember the old Mac 512? And you boot that up
and it would have that cursive, hello. Yeah, the little
hello guy. The little hello, yeah. I'm sure it's some
kind of AI thing. can't be because your your system
that was co-pilot no copilot schmopilot but your system doesn't
upgrade copilot schmopilot copilot schmopilot copilot schmopilot i tell you
isn't it but isn't that in uh Isn't your system
un-upgradeable? Yeah, I know. It's Windows 10. That's interesting. So
maybe... It must be, they must have upgraded your... What's
that browser called? Edge. Oh, that's possible. Your Edge browser.
Yeah. Microsoft, remember they integrated the browser into everything? They're
always screwing with you. It became such a nightmare. Everybody
was creating viruses. There was a point when I think
of Windows, you just couldn't turn it on. It's like,
don't turn it on today. It's not a good idea.
Oh, yeah, because it was Tuesday. Patch Tuesday. They were
going to load up some junk that was going to
ruin your machine. No, it wasn't Patch Tuesday. It was
when they had Internet Explorer and, you know, like, well,
we're integrating the Internet into everything. So you open up
your files, you know, a file window, and it would
be connected to the Internet. Just in case. Just in
case. Just in case. Just in case. You need to
browse the web. Oh, my goodness. Oh, we've come a
long way. We've come a long way. And thank you
very much for the... For the rain stick. You're killing
people. You're the one who insisted. Well, it was a
request by a producer. And I was in Amsterdam and
I did not have my rain stick with me. And
you were pointing it at Colorado, but as always, it's
the backscatter. It's the butt of the stick. I just
pointed straight up in the air. Well, the radials must
have been somehow bouncing off the ionosphere. It has rained
here for five days, almost nonstop. You haven't been there
for five days. How would you know? What do you
mean? We came back on Monday. Okay, four days. But
it was raining on Sunday. How would I know? I
know people here. I thought you didn't get out much.
And if you recall, last year in July, it was
July 4th, July 4th weekend, we had a very similar
scenario where we had just a storm front just hovering
over all of the hill country, and it wound up
killing a couple hundred people, you know, kids in holiday
camps. It may not be... As bad, well, for a
couple of reasons. One, The alert system is just going
off nonstop now. Three times in the middle of the
night. And for some reason on the iPhone, you can't,
well, you can. You can turn it off and say,
don't give me alerts. But that's kind of like the
whole point is if there's something, you know, some dire
situation, you kind of want to be alerted to it.
But I think they're overdoing it now, which is bad
because they didn't do it as much last year. Yeah,
it's like crying wolf. A little bit. Well, I got
two earthquakes. alerts over the last couple weeks yeah for
there was no earthquake in either case there was no
earthquake yeah and there was none around there wasn't an
earthquake anywhere in the vicinity and i got one of
them was duck and cover and the other one was
find something to hold on to no yeah stand in
the doorway Anyway, it is bad here. They're talking about
a 35-foot wall of water coming down the Guadalupe River.
This is not good. Kerrville, which is about 25 minutes
down the road, stores and restaurants are flooding. First of
all, let's get one thing so everyone out there knows
this. What is your elevation? Well, my elevation here is
almost 1,400 feet. 1,400 feet. You're almost on a mountain.
Pretty much. So people don't have to worry about you.
People like John C. Dvorak and Mimi Dvorak, who called
me yesterday. Mimi insisted. So I'm in the car. I
knew you were at elevation. I'm in the car. Driving
back from a meeting. And, you know, this one thing
I don't want to see the day before a show
day is JCD real cell phone pop up on my
dashboard. I can only think a couple things. I'm like,
he's in the hospital. He's in the hospital. This is
it. Oh, no. He's in a car wreck. No, I
thought hospital. Somebody shot him. No, I'm going to have
to deal with that. Like, what are we going to
do now? And then it's you and Mimi on the
speakerphone. Hey! Are you wet yet? And Mimi, she is
a max velocity storm chaser groupie of epic proportion. It's
really bad near you. Don't go to the east, you're
gonna drown. There's storm chasers in Fredericksburg. She really loves
that stuff. She is a weather junkie. Yeah, yeah, so
I had to make the call. And you were telling
her, like, he's at elevation. There's no problem. She wouldn't
believe it. I'm just putting that out there so other
people don't ever, you know, start to think that, oh
my. Well, it usually takes a couple days and then
you get people from Holland. Are you okay? You know,
because you can see how the news kind of trickles
through. You need to have some dead people and, you
know, some horrible pictures and a single baby shoe floating
by. Then people are like, oh, wait a minute. Isn't
that where Adam lives? And I love it. It's appreciated.
I like that people care and they want to check
in on me. But yeah, we're pretty safe here. Although
there was a tornado just like 30 minutes down the
road. That doesn't happen very often. Certainly not in the
hill country. Onward. Onward with the top news item. I
don't care what you say. Breaking at this hour. Right
now, officials can't pinpoint the exact source or sources of
this outbreak. It's a food or waterborne disease caused by
a parasite, cyclospora. And pinpointing precisely where it's coming from
is a challenge. Michigan is bearing the brunt with more
than 2,600 reported cases, including 44 that have landed people
in the hospital. Joining us to explain what all this
means and how to stay healthy is Dr. Omer Awan.
He's at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Dr.
Awan, thank you so much for being here. To start
off with, if I were to ingest this parasite, how
do I know that I've got it? What are the
symptoms people should look out for? Well, the typical symptoms,
William, are things like nausea, fatigue, bloating, and of course,
explosive watery diarrhea. symptom that's been getting a lot of
attention because this is really different because most stomach bugs
usually the watery diarrhea lasts about two or three days
with the cases of cyclosporiasis the diarrhea can last weeks
if not months and that's what makes this so problematic
this is this is what's kind of crazy this month's
business and apparently um you can get it a week
before the symptoms appear tonight 34 states grappling with cyclospora
parasite that can be found on fresh produce making Americans
sick. Michigan zeroing in on lettuce. Its top doc says
there is a clear preliminary signal pointing to the leafy
green. Why do you suspect lettuce? We've interviewed about a
thousand out of the 3,000 cases we have so far.
Lettuce seems to be an ongoing exposure for those who've
been impacted. Federal officials say Michigan is one of four
Midwestern states where the cases could be linked. Taco Bell
today confirming It removed limited ingredients at select restaurants while
authorities continued their broader review, noting public health officials have
not confirmed a link to Taco Bell. The Washington Post
reports federal and state health officials are investigating the chain,
citing two individuals familiar with the probe. CDC did not
comment.
Dr. Bagdasarian. So there was no location that came up
in 100% of cases, but there certainly were restaurants and
fast food chains that did come up. Including Taco Bell?
You know, I'm not going to comment on those specifics
right now. The CDC says it's confirmed 1,645 cases of
cyclosporiasis and is aware of 5,100 more. Christina Serafino says
she ate fresh fruits and vegetables hiking last month and
got sick for weeks. Just really strong gas and bloating
pains. And on top of that, you're not eating, so
you're hungry and you're having hunger pains also. I mean,
this is unlike... members of our producing audience being Patriot
Front. members of which one is by the way for
later Um, A lot of people have this bug. friend
of Sir Beavenhour, producer for 16 or 17 years. Yes,
I had it three nights ago, contracted it, contracted it.
One of the beachside resorts at Myrtle Beach. Only lasted
one night. The next day was pretty much gone. See,
I don't think that he had it. I don't think.
No, now if you're going to have it for a
month, that sounds more like, you know, one of the
quick bug, whatever it's called. Well, here's a please redact
my name if read on air. It's one of our
nights. Because if word got back to my wife that
I was sharing this, I'd probably be a knight experiencing
homelessness. Listen to this. My wife seems to have come
down with the explosive diarrhea, or as I read in
an article, ferocious diarrhea. That's even better. went first looking
it up. She's actually got it pretty bad, and for
about a week, she could barely function away from a
toilet. After about a week and a half, she decided
to go to the urgent care to see if there's
anything they could do. They sent her home with a
test sample kit, plastic bowl, and other cups to retrieve
said sample. They should put you in a bed and
give you fluids intravenously and then maybe send you home.
Asked her to bring the sample back to the lab.
She did. A day later, told that she was she
had tested positive so this tests PCR I'm sure but
there's also nothing that can be given to you to
get rid of it you just have to fight it
out she was so what's the point of the test
exactly she was told some people can get over it
in days she's now on about three weeks fortunately it's
become less explosive Yeah, I would think so. So last
night. Balls have got to get tired at some point.
I woke up at like 1.30 and I felt really
bad. And I did not have, not to be too
graphic, I did not have explosive diarrhea. But it wasn't
good. And I'm thinking. man, what am I going to
do? This, this is horrible. I feel miserable. And I
actually... Stop tape. What do you mean stop tape? Stop
tape. Why? During the show, you can do it. If
you stop tape, we'll understand. Stop tape. No. I'll be
right back after a word from... Well, and here's the
point. So I'm like, oh, man, what can I take?
You know, I just feel miserable. And I took two
tablespoons of the Manuka gold honey. slept like a baby,
woke up perfectly fine. I don't know if it's related,
but... That's all I could think of. Like, what can
I do? Which is the plain honey? Well, it's the
honey with all the stuff in it. The be well
honey. The be well honey? Yeah, be well. It has
a... Because apparently cumin or... Q-cumin. Is that Q-cumin? Is
that the molecule of cumin? Curcumin. Curcuma. Is that different
from cumin? Yeah. What is curcumin? It's more like pepper.
Oh, because I think that's in the be well honey.
They got a lot of stuff mixed in there. That
is supposed to neutralize this bug. But let's just think
about this. Now we're being quacks on the show. This
is not medical advice. We're not advising you on anything
medical. But I'm thinking about this. Do you know that
more people die from diarrhea globally than anything else? Yeah,
and mostly in India. Yes, just poop their brains. out
and then they die. something. I don't know if they
don't have the right curry or whatever. And the next
thing you know, they're dead. It's really bad. I mean,
by a long shot, the amount of people globally who
die from diarrhea is much more than, certainly more than
gunshot wounds. Yeah, best of all in India. Well, could
this, I'm just throwing it out there, because of the
nature of this thing, could this possibly be a gain-of-function
bioweapon? Oh, come on. That hasn't come up in the
conversation yet. No, but they don't really know how you
get it. I know. They keep talking. They blame lettuce
for everything. Well, lettuce and taco. There's a lettuce-hating component
of society that doesn't like the salad eaters of California.
But there's also some warfare going on amongst the fast
food guys because Taco Bell is the one that is
in the crosshairs. Tonight, Taco Bell saying they have voluntarily
removed some ingredients at select locations as the food-borne parasite
cyclosporiasis rapidly spreads across the U.S. The company stating public
health officials have not confirmed a link to Taco Bell
or any specific ingredient supplier, restaurant, or retailer, adding they
will closely monitor the situation. State health officials say there
have been more than 600 new cases of cyclosporiasis in
Michigan alone since yesterday. Health officials now pointing to lettuce
as a possible source of the outbreak state. We're continuing
our trace back investigation on multiple produce items including the
lettuce. The CDC confirming cases in 34 states. Today warning
that cases in Michigan, West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio seem
to have a similar source. The parasite spread through contaminated
food or water can cause severe digestive issues including diarrhea.
Symptoms usually begin about one week after becoming infected. It
was really bad. There were there were moments where I
was literally just camped out in the and like I
don't care I'm just gonna lay on this floor David
the CDC is telling doctors to stay alert health officials
say thoroughly washing your fruits and vegetables even if they're
labeled pre washed is an important step in preventing illness
good advice sounds awful Stephanie Ramos tonight thanks good advice
sounds awful thanks a lot Steph let's get my I
have an NTD clip about the same thing you should
pipe play it it's under cytos shit ptosis you have
No deaths. to two weeks after infection. The primary symptom
is diarrhea. Other symptoms can include loss of appetite, cramping,
and fatigue. The CDC is urging doctors to specifically test
patients with prolonged gastrointestinal illness. Officials say the outbreak may
involve multiple clusters, with evidence pointing to a common source
in Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia. Investigators have not
identified a specific contaminated food, although lettuce and salad greens
are the main suspects how about this what if it's
contaminated glp1 Everybody's on that stuff. Gastro. But they had
this interesting idea. Here's a question that I have. Since
they have this test that somebody would yell, I went
in, I had to take the test. Why don't they
just grab a bunch of food and start testing it?
Well, this is why I'm bringing it up. Because it
doesn't seem like anyone is coming up with any normal
solutions in their kind of... With 5,000 cases, you'd think
you'd be able to... When you do tracing, you say,
where'd you go? Where'd you eat? Where'd you go? Where'd
you eat here? Where'd you eat here? But then there's
this very odd, oh, it doesn't kick in until after
a week. Since when is that a thing? telling you
something else is going on here. I like my gain
of function angle, but I think I'm... I'm looking more
at... It's got a GLP-1. I mean, just one batch
being contaminated. Or, you know, something. Could be anything. It
seems to me that they should have... Normally they would
have isolated. The car's by now. Yeah, whenever it's... What
is the other foodborne illness? They always trace it back
to some tomato at some supermarket. Or listeria. Listeria, yeah.
Listeria, they got no problem. Boom, there it is. But
this one, oh, we don't know. Lettuce, maybe. Yeah, maybe
lettuce could be Taco Bell. Not even close. You know,
I'm looking at lettuce in the supermarket like, I think
I'll just have my salad with cucumber. I don't want
any lettuce right now.
We don't frequent Taco Bell. But just something is wrong
with this. The bell's gone overpriced. Something is wrong with
this story. Well, we're checking in on disease. Might as
well get a little Ebola update. What's your reaction when
you hear the CDC warning about how quickly this is
spreading? The pace of the spread, Diane, is really concerning
here. The trajectory shows exceptional rapid growth. Right now, this
Ebola outbreak is already half the size of the outbreak
that we saw in 2018. That was the second largest
outbreak recorded in history. And that took two years to.
combat. Right now we're only two months into this current
outbreak and as James was stating this is the Bundy
Bujo strain. This strain does not have a targeted vaccine
or a targeted therapy but the main concern here is
in contact tracing. The World Health Organization is estimating that
these estimates are likely an underestimate as tens of thousands
of people still need to be traced back. Do people
in the US or other countries need to be worried
about this? Our concern here and our risk, excuse me,
our risk here in the United States is relatively low.
Wow. Low. I did get a text message from Homeland
Security. Because, you know, well, because we're global entry members.
And, you know, if you've traveled to Uganda, you better,
like, come and see us. Immediately. Oh, so on the
way back, traveling back from, you know, in the new
security state. uh that is uh the european travel story
a little bit that's a minor travel story So when
you leave Schiphol Airport... First you check in, you show
your passport, then you go to the exit, the Customs
and Border Patrol exit for the Netherlands. We don't have
that in America, but in the EU when you leave
they check you. And it's all automated. Your picture is
already in their system. So you all wait in little
lines and then you get up to the booth and
the little doors open and then you get in the
booth and then the doors close and then you have
to put your passport on the little shelves and it
eats your passport. And then it says, wholesale! And then,
camera goes up and down, gets you right in the
eye, the lights go on. And then a clock, like
a spinning wheel of death appears, like, please wait, please
wait. And so Tina went through, no problem, I go
in there. The guy comes over, he says, do it
again. Okay, put it in. And red lights flashing. And
they're over there looking at some terminal. They come in.
They say, well, you have to go over to that
line, you know, the line with a thousand people. You
got to go through that line for a manual exit
check because we have two traveler profiles of you. So
what does that mean? Well, we just got new software.
I'm like, uh-huh. So he just got new software, and
there's two traveler profiles. I don't even know what that
means. But there's two traveler profiles, and we don't know,
the system doesn't know which one to choose. So you
got to go talk to those guys. So I go
in that line. It takes about 15 extra minutes. And
I said, here's my passport. And I said, they sent
me over from the machine because I have two traveler
profiles. And this guy says, no, I only see one.
You're good to go. It's like, what is that? It's
like, yeah, we got a new software. This is troubling.
It's already breaking down. Unbelievable. But something interesting did happen.
This is one of these so-called silent airports. So the
whole thing is automated when you... What does that mean?
Well, I'm going to tell you. So they don't have...
They have signs and lights and they don't have... you
know, like speakers everywhere. You know, go on. Please follow
the red footsteps. Move to the left. Go over there.
Wait. Stop. Slave, shut up. It's not your turn. Wait.
Go. Go. Carousel sex. So they don't have that. Instead,
they have signage. And so you signage that yells at
you. Well, and here's the interesting part. So you go
through the security line and then there's a stop point
and they have these carousels and then, and the carousels
go round and round and then one is free and
it's like a little slot and you cozy up to
the, to the open slot and the carousel and a
bin pops out underneath. You pull that out, put it
on top, put your bag on, and then you go
towards the body scanner. And so this sign is saying,
wait, it's just, it's silence, wait. And then it'll go
arrow and then tell you what number to go to.
You know, we're like sheep. And I'm in this line.
I keep hearing something. What am I hearing? And I
thought my glasses were hitting my hearing aids. And then
as I get closer to this sign, I hear it
says, wait, wait. Number six. Go. Now. Wait. Stop. It
was coming through my hearing aids. So they have this
LE Bluetooth, low energy Bluetooth that is breaking into my
hearing aids to tell me where to go. And apparently
it works on AirPods and all kinds of other Bluetooth
devices. It's for blind people. Yeah. Well, blind people with
hearing aids, I guess. It was pretty interesting. I didn't
know you could just break into someone's LE Bluetooth, low
energy, and then just talk to them. Yeah, it's overriding.
Yeah, you can do that with RF. Hmm. Well, so
you can do that to AirPods as well? I think
so. Cool. It's just like a broad spectrum signal. It's
a real... It just blows everything away. Okay. Well, this
is cool. So it's just the same as a jammer
would do. Right. But it's a really interesting experience because
someone's talking in your head and you're like, what is
going on? What the what? So it would be cool
to just walk, drive down the street, have a little
antenna sticking out of the car and just go... Look
at it, yo. Turn around. And we have to have
the earbuds in. I want one of these systems. You
need a big linear amp in the trunk. Yeah, a
heater. And you can just blow through everything. I want
one of these. That's a cool little device to have.
Hotty, what you doing? Watch out for the poop. There
was a period during the CB radio fad, which I'd
call it what it is. Back in the day. And
these guys would have these, and it was notorious. These
guys would have these linear amps. Yeah, the heaters. We
called them heaters. And they would blow. And so I
was driving past one once with just listening to FM
radio. And it went right into my radio. Oh, yeah,
of course. Of course. right away. Yeah, so you could
easily do what you're describing. Well, if anyone knows... It'd
be annoying and you'd probably get... It's illegal, but, you
know, it'd be fun. I'm sure I can... I'm sure
I can get something off of Timu. Yeah, you probably
could. No doubt. I just bought a couple of... Okay,
so they got this new technology. I don't know what
it's called. It's got some stupid name. I should bring
these. I got to bring these in. We'll talk about
them. I bought two. They're a new type of walkie-talkie.
They're long range. And Bao Feng makes them. Oh, the
10 water? The illegal 10 water? Is that the one?
Maybe. Could be. I don't know. But you get two
of them, and you can get four of them, you
get six of them, on Teemu. And it's like, they're
like 12 bucks for two of them. It looks like
a... Wow. How is that? I'll bet you that'll broadcast
to any Bluetooth, just as long as you stay... I'm
sure it's really, really well-tuned. Oh, man. Well, it's Bao
Feng, so it's not like junk. Those guys are the
best. I mean, whatever it is. But it's so cheap.
It's like, oh, yeah, we'll be competing with these guys
sometime soon. No, no. I carry a Baofeng in my
luggage all the time, just wherever I go. And the
battery, I haven't recharged it in five years. Same thing.
I have a Baofeng that I drag around, and it
just never, the batteries never die. How does that work?
What kind of magic do these guys have? You just
turn it on. Oh, full bars. There's the battery. Chup,
chup. We're good to go. It's crazy. I have no
idea. Crazy. Hey, so... yesterday I was driving around like
why are all the flags at half staff I couldn't
I couldn't figure it out. Like, why are the flags
that have half staff? It's because of Lindsey Graham. Yeah.
I didn't know that. I didn't know that there was
a general order for half staff or half mass. I
don't know there was an order. I think people were
just doing it. Well, we have some new information about
Lady G's untimely death. And there's a little update here.
Tonight, new video showing more than a dozen FBI agents
fanning out across the Washington home of the late Senator
Lindsey Graham. The FBI shutting down the street as investigators
spent several hours on scene, taking photos and searching the
property. Two law enforcement sources familiar with the scene tell
NBC News their work is out of an abundance of
caution. So far, no evidence has emerged to suggest foul
play. A preliminary medical examiner's report revealed Graham suffered from
a tear in the main artery of his heart, but
they are still waiting on a toxicologist.
Wow. That isn't very typical, I don't think. Like, send
the feds in, the FBI, to go check it out.
Oh, there was a bunch of... No, there was... The
part you missed was there was a bunch of insistence.
on the part of various legislators and others that they
autopsy him. Because, oh, you know, he just came back
from Ukraine. Something suspicious could have happened. Oh, he was
just talking about the Chinese. Something suspicious could have happened.
Oh, he just hates the Russians. Something suspicious could happen.
So they got all bent. Everyone got... You know, it's
amazing. adult adult persons of above average intelligence. We'll text
my wife. Hey, um... What does Adam know about Lindsey
Graham? It's really too coincidental that he just came back
from Ukraine. And of course, you know, there's a story
that he was visiting a drone plant in Ukraine and
the Russians took it out. And all I can say
is, well, why would you cover that up? Why would
that have to be kept secret? I mean, and especially
the news. It's a great, it's a better story than
aortic rupture. Yeah, hey, Lindsey Graham was blown up in
a drone fa- Have we lost the ability to think
a little more simplistically and just, okay? Do you know
what I mean? You know what I mean? Yeah, Occam's
razor's dead. Yeah, Occam's razor is indeed dead. And there's
also, I mean, that's a good one. The world isn't
quite as complicated as people think it is. At some
point, the world just became like, oh, everything's just crazy.
There's elites everywhere. We're just killing everybody. There's a degree
of truth to some of it. If you just think
logically, why? Why would anyone do? It's like the Charlie
Kirk thing. It's the same thing. Well, so-and-so killed him.
The deep state killed him. Israel killed him. J.D. Vance
killed him. Everyone killed everybody. I'm like, well, why didn't
they just kill him? Why did they have to go
through this elaborate ruse and then get a patsy and
his family to cooperate? It's like, at what point is
this just not make any sense? Right away, it doesn't
make any sense. You know, it's just like, come on.
It's actually funny. Where's my... I had a couple of
clips about this. J.D. Vance was on Rogan. Yeah, I
saw a clip of it. Yeah, what clip did you
see? I don't know. It wasn't that interesting. I agree.
It wasn't super interesting. Here it is, let me see.
manse. And those two guys, I don't know, I didn't
see enough of it. I only saw clips. I didn't
see that they actually watched the show. I wonder if
those, they don't seem like they have personalities that would
jive. Who Joe and, uh... And J.D. Vance? Yeah. This
is very interesting. Can't I find this? Well, at a
certain point, now I'm kind of mad about this. I
had these two J.D. Vance clips all specked out. Yeah,
and this sucks. But he was talking about propaganda and,
you know, he's kind of jumping on the Israel is
doing stuff bandwagon. It was kind of interesting. See you
next time. What is this? Libya basically turned into a
failed state. You had a refugee crisis, you had people
pouring into Europe, pouring into other parts of Asia, other
parts of Africa. Now that's about Libya. Here he is.
This is the one. I don't even mind an effort
to try to influence, you know, foreign governments try to
influence the United States all the time. You know, Israel
does it, other countries do it. It's just sort of
the nature of the beast. What bothers me is actually
when Americans allow, meaning American leadership, allows influence to affect
their judgment and to affect what they are advocating for.
That's what really bothers me. People are always going to
try to influence the United States of America whether they're
allies of ours or enemies of ours. But again when
I open up the pages of Time magazine and I
see that there's a literal foreign influence campaign being funded
to tank the very deal that I was pursuing and
oh by the way many of the people who were
receiving that money were actually attacking me in completely dishonest
ways, you know, my response to that is, well, go
to hell. I'm going to do what I have to
do for the American people. I represent Americans first. Yeah,
he was referring to some kind of Israeli campaign in
that, which I thought was interesting. And this whole... Preliminary
hearing with, you know, for what's the kid's name? Ryan.
who said he killed Charlie Kirk. Oh, yeah, that guy.
Yeah. It's like... It is. How can that not stop
everybody from the exploding microphone nonsense? The defense is not
using this. Because it was a shape charge, man. The
defense is not saying, we'd like to show you Exhibit
A with the Egyptian military aircraft that were circling around.
There's none of that. And I think the tide is
turning. Well, you're an optimist today. Yeah. Some international travel
always kind of screws you up. Something I've observed. Oh,
I think the tide is turning. Okay. But then again,
I get what's going on. Good for you. Well, it's
so weird because for at least 15 years, I was
all in on all this stuff. And it's just all
bullshit. All of it. All of it. Yeah, well, you
got that part right. No, but you were the one
always setting me straight, and now I'm like, you know.
Ladies and gentlemen, most of this stuff is just BS.
It doesn't make it quite as exciting. The show is
built on a lie. It doesn't make it very exciting,
you know, and that's to our detriment. But if you
just want to get spun down a little bit and,
you know, and talk some sense, you know, I think
we're the place for you now. We've always been the
place. Well, let's play a couple of offbeat clips then.
Why? You're always like, offbeat, screwball. Well, this is not
that offbeat. This is the hearing for Todd Blanche. Oh,
yes. Trying to worm his way into the job that
he should get. There were a couple of good hearings
on the Hill. There was quite a few, actually. In
fact, right now Congress is in session. They had a
fraud hearing and the Democrats refused to show up to
it. Of course. I thought that was worthwhile. Why would
you do that? Nick, surely he's there. Forget it. We're
not coming. So, um... Play this. This is my favorite
clip. This would be my favorite clip for the day,
actually. Okay. This is Todd Blanche having to deal with
this, with... White House idiot from Rhode Island on C-SPAN.
Let me ask about the FBI. How long do you
intend to put up with that Kash Patel character? Are
you good with his airplane jaunts? Are you confident he's
not drinking on the job? Are you sure none of
his travel is a pretext for vacation activities like snorkeling
Olympics and visiting girlfriends? Are you sure he knows what
he's doing? Do you vouch for him? Are you willing
to look at whether he lied to this committee? That's
an extraordinarily obnoxious question, Senator, and I have full faith
in Director Patel work that he's doing every day. Great.
You got to own that. You got to own that.
What is this chasing his girlfriend around with the government
plane? I didn't hear this one. I haven't heard it
either. He's just making it up. I like the guzzling
beer. The guzzling beer. This guy is just the biggest
dick in Congress. And here he continues. This is as
it goes on. He just reads, he reads him the
riot act. He reads Blanche the riot act and just
wraps with, he doesn't even ask him a question. He
just goes off. One last thing, if I may. You
have refused to exclude January 6th rioters from your anti-weaponization
fund. You have refused to put in writing that the
slush fund is dead. Indeed, you signal to allies that
payouts are still on track. You have vacated seditious conspiracy
convictions against members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.
You hired January 6th rioter Jared Wise, who had urged
the mob to kill police officers. You've scrubbed press releases
about January 6th prosecutions and called the releases partisan propaganda.
You denied that Trump encouraged any violence on January 6th.
You've cleaned house of every attorney who worked on a
case related to Trump. Justice for violent rioters meant that
every one of them was either pardoned or had their
sentence commuted.
I hope that our colleagues who are concerned about what
happened on January 6th take that into account. Thank you.
Would you like to respond? I would. Almost everything the
Senator just said, and he's protected, he's allowed to lie,
but almost everything he just said was absolutely false. Starting
with the fact that I have never... I have never
said that any sort of violence against law enforcement is
appropriate. I have never said that publicly. I have never
said that in a speech, and I certainly do not
believe it. I did not hire the person referenced. And
that is, again, something that just happens not to be
true. When I talk about what happened with the convicted
January 6th defendants, I talk about what President Trump did.
He has the absolute right to pardon anybody for any
reason he sees fit. And every one of them got
pardoned or commuted. I am not celebrating that. It is
a fact. And the fact that my department had to
take action in response to those pardons by dismissing some
cases is exactly what I have to do under the
law. And it's what I did. So that the narrative
that the senator just suggested and put on me as
something I believe is absolutely not true. Outrage. Outrage, I
tell you. But Blanche did screw up. And the news
media pounced on this. Ha ha ha! We got you
now Blanchie! The moment tonight with maybe the most staying
power at today's confirmation hearing for Todd Blanch coming during
friendly questioning about his relationship with the President. I'm his
lawyer. Was his lawyer. Whoops! Oh no! Oh no! He
said the quiet part out loud! I'm his lawyer. Was
his lawyer. And now I'm the Deputy Attorney General. no
longer the president's personal lawyer, likely adding to Democrats' concerns
that Blanch, if confirmed as Attorney General, would do President
Trump's bidding to go after political rivals. Who you are
is someone willing to sacrifice everything you once believed in
for that title. Blanch spent some 15 years at the
DOJ before moving to private practice, representing then-candidate Trump in
his 2024 hush money trial in New York, now as
acting AG, touting progress. But facing pointed questions about why
he signed off on a controversial settlement after President Trump
sued the IRS, the DOJ initially agreeing to an extraordinary
$1.8 billion so-called anti-weaponization fund. The settlement fund's just not
moving forward. Since scuttled in the face of intense opposition,
including from Republicans like Senator John Cornyn, who remains undecided.
I'm not going to make a decision until I have
to. Reminder from your No Agenda show. We've done this
before. This is nothing new with presidents putting their personal
attorney or legal confidant atop of the DOJ. John Kennedy
put his brother. That's right. He had Robert. George Washington
had Edmund Randolph, his private attorney. Harding had Harry Doherty,
his personal attorney and campaign manager. Nixon had John Mitchell,
his own law firm partner. Reagan had William French Smith
and Edward Meese, both personal attorney and legal advisor, and
George W. Bush had Alberto Gonzalez. This is nothing new.
No, it's not only new, but John Yoo, that guy,
that Berkeley professor of law who's also the guy who
penned the torture note. who's quite good as an analyst,
he shows up on Fox quite a bit. He says
it's common and it should be expected. Yeah. But, you
know, the news media does not do what I just
did. It's so easy. It's so easy. Anyway, there was
another hearing. There were some good hearings. Federal Reserve Chairman
Warsh. Warsh. was interrogated by Al Green. Al Green, the
idiot. This is so good. Al Green is a moron.
Who is going to be out next year after November
because he lost his primary. Yeah, he is. But he
starts off, he tries to pull the old churchy card.
Chair recognizes the gentleman from Houston, Texas, Mr. Green, who
is a ranking member of our subcommittee on oversight and
investigations. Mr. Green. Over here, Mr. Chairman. Thank you. Thank
you, Mr. Chairman. ranking member as well and welcome you
to the committee, Mr. Chairman, but I would also say
to you that I will pray for you. insincere. And
I'll pray for you because many of the questions that
have been predicated today. hinge upon a belief that you
will sanction the president's desires. It is thought among the
general public that you're in the position you're in. Because
the president could not. had the influence that he wanted
to have with the prior chair, and he believes he
can have it with you. So I hope that you
will stand firm. and honor your commitments that you're making.
though some of them are not firm commitments, as I
understood your language. So this whole hearing was all about,
will you stand up to him? Will you do what
is right for the banks? Will you do what is
right for everybody except the American people and stand up
to the president when he criticizes you? And man, I'm
so happy that Al Green will no longer be representing
any part of Texas. This guy truly is an idiot.
And I think they gave these questions to him. To
make him look even stupider. You indicated that you're interested
in war. I appreciate this. Huh? But I believe you
should also be interested in speculative bubbles. Speculative bubbles. So
they gave him the bubbles questions. My assumption is that
you are. Are you interested in bubbles, speculative bubbles? I
love speculative bubbles. I like me some bubbles. You like
your bubbles? I like bubbles. Mr. Chairman? We've got a
wide lens. We spend a lot of time thinking about
what's happening. I'm going to take that as a yes.
Now, given that this old, like, yes or no question,
I'll take that as a yes. This is so boring
and tedious, you people. You're interested in speculative bubbles. Let's
just talk about a bubble that occurred. Now, what kind
of bubble occurred? What kind of bubble could you think
of that they gave to Al Green, not the sharpest
crayon in the box? What kind of bubble? Well, the
only bubble out there right now is the AI bubble,
so it has to be that. No, no, no, no.
President Trump's meme coin, dollar sign Trump. Meme coin. Dollar
sign Trump. His meme coin profited an average of $1.74
million per day. Over his first year. Can't believe I
missed that boat. $1.74 million a day. This amounted to
approximately $636 million in total royalties and licensing fees generated
at its launch. While this was happening... During that same
period of time, nearly 1 million investors lost a combined
$3.8 billion. This is because that meme coin Lost Value
Oh. Dropped precipitously in value. Precipitously. It was a bubble.
By the way, it is nothing. Anybody who's listening to
me, if you've invested in a meme coin, you've invested
in nothing. Zero. Zero. Okay, so... Hold on a second.
Does he know that the chairman of the Federal Reserve's
monetary policy has got nothing to do with meme coins?
But he's going to come back. He's using that. This
is why it's so funny. He's using that term speculative
bubble to show that whenever the president wants something, it
only behooves the president personally and screws everybody else out
of money. And then here comes the crux. This is
really one of the funniest things I've heard in a
long time. I think that we should concern ourselves with
these speculative bubbles. And whether you like it or not,
you have to concern yourself with it because when you
lower interest rates, You lower the rates such that there's
more capital available for people to use for speculative reasons.
Okay, let's just hold here for a second. So this
num nut is going to tell us that we should
have higher interest rates because otherwise we'll get speculative bubbles.
There's no other benefit that you can think of of
lower interest rates other than it's going to benefit people
to create speculative bubbles, even though, as you pointed out,
the AI bubble is done just fine with interest. rates
at 5% so you have to be concerned about it
whether you want to or not because you don't want
to see a speculative bubble. Can I have your assurance
that you will be concerned about these speculative bubbles, Mr.
Chairman? So, Congressman, we want a resilient, strong, safe financial
system. And we are looking at financial markets and we're
looking at the real economy to make sure we deliver
on what we can. Some of these other subjects are
really more in your purview and responsibility. They're in my
purview. Excuse me for interrupting, but I have to. They're
in my purview, but only because I...
choose to have them in my purview and I make
an issue of them. I have to vote on them.
But they're in your purview too because you decide whether
the rates go up or down. And if you lower
them, then people can engage in these speculative bubbles such
as the Trump meme coin. And they can lose a
lot of money. Oh, brother. Can you imagine having to
sit through that? I mean, that represents people. Well, this
reminds me of that other character that's in Congress who
thinks the islands can flip over. The Maldives. The Maldives
will tip over from climate change. No, from population. Oh,
population. Too many people on one side of the island.
And then there was this, I think this was Elizabeth
Warren. Hank Johnson is that guy. So it's all just
about, will you be independent? Do you work for Donald
Trump? Yes or no? Who is this? Sounds like Hiromu.
No, it's not Hiromu. If I'm permitted to say, we're
an independent central bank. We're honored to be independent. Our
independence came from you. Okay, that's enough. Thank you. That's
enough. Don't answer the questions with truth. Yeah, it was
the Federal Reserve Bill of 1913. them are voting on
interest rate policy. Yeah, she's Spanish. She's from Costa Rica?
Where is she from? I don't know her. I don't
know. It's not in my notes for some reason. I
have not heard that voice before. No, it's not my
it's not my intuition to engage in hypotheticals. But I'll
tell you this. The Supreme Court says an easy way
out. The Supreme Court said that the Federal Reserve and
the conduct of monetary policy is independent. The extent there
were questions about it, the court's answer to those questions.
So what would you do? I would continue to do
my job. If the president publicly pressures you to pursue
a different course than the one you believe is in
the economic, that you believe the economic data supports, will
you follow the president's wishes or follow the data? My
commitment to you is to follow the law and follow
the data. Follow our very best judgment. If you decide
this is the way to go, this is where the
data shades and he publicly criticizes you and tells you
how disappointed he's in you and all of that. If
he shames you in public, will you still do your
job? What the data tells you to do. I will,
Congressman. You ready for that? I'm ready to follow the
law and I'm ready for the Fed to deliver on
the expansive remit that you gave us. It's just like.
This is so embarrassing. It's just embarrassing that these people
are in Congress even. Well, luckily the left side of
the party is going to wipe them all out shortly.
That'll be good. Yeah. You mean the DSA-ers? Yeah. Yeah.
Warren was in fine form, too. She kept yammering about
some secret meeting. Did you know about the secret meeting?
Do you know about a secret meeting? What's she talking
about? Can you just answer the question about the vice
chair and her secret meeting? Sure, I'm happy to, to
the extent I can. I had some secret meeting about
something where something got leaked or I don't know. How
would you know about it if it was a secret?
That's what he's saying. I'll share it with you. The
vice chair has been an excellent colleague in my first
seven weeks. I'm aware of the letter you sent to
the inspector general. Out of an enormous respect for him,
his investigation, what he chooses to do with it. I'm
going to leave to him to do without trying to
micromanage that. And I'd be interested in the judgments that
he comes to. So you will support his investigation. Have
you made your own investigation? Did you ask her if
she spoke at a secret meeting during the blackout period?
I agree with the suggestion. Elizabeth Warren is a tool.
She's just annoying. Then we had the nominee for... Uh...
Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton. who I believe is
highly qualified. He's been in the spook business for, I
think, 20 plus years. And he has been nominated to
step in once. bull in the china shop is done
uh bill pulte yeah and uh And, you know, so,
and again, it's just these questions like, It's so embarrassing
that this is what our government is doing on a
day-to-day basis. I believe he had the most electoral votes.
So he won the election. He followed our process, had
the most electoral votes, was declared the winner. Who won
the 2020 election? You know, I'm not going to do
this with you. Who won the 2020 election? I think
I've answered the question. We can keep doing this. We've
tried umpteen different ways to give to the ability to
just acknowledge that Joe Biden was the president. I've acknowledged,
Senator, that Joe Biden was the president. As you see,
he would not answer, at least not directly. And the
Georgia Democrat, John Ossoff, who you saw a bit of
there. No, no. They want him to say, and this
is a director of national intelligence. I don't see what
it has to do with who won the election, but
they want him specifically to say Biden won the election.
And he says, well, you know, he got the most
electoral votes. You refuse to answer a basic question about
who won a presidential election? But you asked to lead
America's intelligence community? What does that have to do with
anything? Isn't it humiliating to be unable to answer this
question? It's humiliating to sit there and have to listen
to these questions. To have to indulge the president's delusions.
We know, you know, everybody in this room knows the
truthful answer to that question. Why can you not give
it? I think I gave you the answer. So then
they bring on Senator Mark Kelly. This will wrap it
up. Senator Mark Kelly joins me now. Senator, it's good
to see you. You heard probably some of the Republicans
in the last session. You know, a lot of them
think a lot of people watching might think this is
Democrats want to get the Republican, you know, get the
Trump people to say this. But you went on to
make a more important point, I think, which is if
he won't say a simple fact that Joe Biden won
the election, will he stand up to the president when
the president needs to hear tough intelligence or when there's
a debate or dispute with the president about key facts
in maybe a sensitive national security situation? Did Jay Clayton
give you confidence today that he will be that man
if he's to confirm to this job? Absolutely not. And
it was, John, it was rather disappointing. I mean, the
entire hearing, I didn't hear anything that gives me any
kind of reassurance that this guy is going to do
the job the way the American people deserve. This is
a critical position. And the American people's safety is on
the line here. He's going to direct 18 intelligence agencies.
And what we're trying to get at here is if
he can't in that room, I mean, the president's down
the street at Pennsylvania Avenue. I mean, he's not looking
right at them. What is he going to do when
he's sitting in the Oval Office or the Situation Room
and the president disagrees with him? But he has studied
the intelligence, and this is a critical national security issue,
and the safety of the American people are at risk.
Is he going to tell the president that he's wrong?
And I don't see any evidence that he would do
that. So I was incredibly disappointed today. Just so disappointing.
And then the big controversy is the search for the
leaker. about Air Force One. And I think you and
I might disagree on some of these issues with journalists.
This is... This is a setup of it. Exclusive CNN
reporting tonight on the investigation into leaks about security shortcomings
of the new Air Force One. Last week, you'll remember,
the president flew the old plane instead of the new
one when he left the NATO summit. The White House
claims it was so that U.S. service members could tour
the new one. The New York Times said it was
because the Qatari gifted plane lacked key defense systems. And
the president was incensed by that reporting. Now we've learned
some government officials have been asked to turn over their
phones at the White House as part of a leak
probe. And as Evan Perez joins us now with more.
Evan, what more have you learned about this White House
probe? Yeah, this was an extraordinary scene at the White
House last Friday where Kash Patel, the FBI director, and
Susie Wiles, the chief of staff, essentially helped orchestrate what
was hours long numbers of people from the White House,
people who may have known about the president's trip, were
brought in, their devices were taken from them in some
cases, and they were being questioned by FBI agents because
of this leak hunt. of course, is trying to figure
out who in the government could have possibly leaked this
information to the media. And the president, as you pointed
out, John, is very, very obsessed, very much obsessed with
this. And that, again, took place at the White House.
We have a statement from the White House about this
unusual scene. They said leaks that jeopardize the safety of
the president, his staff, and a traveling press pool are
dangerous and a threat to national security. The White House
takes these leaks seriously and would do everything legally to
ensure or the individual or individuals are caught and it
does not happen.
Again, that's, of course, from the White House this evening.
So, you know, I've been thinking about this and the
not disclosing your sources. I don't think that is actually
protected under the First Amendment. The First Amendment gives the
press the freedom to print whatever they want. It doesn't
give them the freedom to not do their civic duty
for national security, etc. I think it was actually, there
was some... Supreme Court cases. that overruled this. And, you
know, it's... I don't know if, I don't think it's
protected under the First Amendment. You disagree? No, it probably
isn't. Yeah. Okay. I never thought it was. It's just
a gentleman's agreement. Look, you're going to tell me something,
I'm going to protect you. Right. Can't make me talk.
There was the Bandsburg v. What's protected is you can't
testify against yourself. Right. Bandsburg v. Hayes in 1972, 5-4
Supreme Court decision. Uh... The this was the court consolidated
three different cases of reporters who had investigated drug synthesis
and the Black Panther Party. When called before grand juries,
the reporters refused to name their anonymous sources, arguing that
doing so would dry up their news gathering pipelines and
destroy. Here comes press freedom, which is not the text.
It's freedom of the press. And the court ruled the
public's interest in prosecuting and deterring crime via the grand
jury system outweighs the incidental burden placed on the press.
But the press, they just keep on going about free
press, man. It's free, free press. Joining us now to
discuss this is Will Creeley. He's the legal director for
FIRE.org, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. Will, thank
you for joining NewsHour. It's an honor. Thank you for
having me. journalists have in this case? Well, the law
has been clear for a long time that somebody else's
illegal conduct does not remove speech about a matter of
public concern, like the president's new jet from First Amendment
protection. There's no federal shield law, but the heart of
the First Amendment does indeed protect this kind of activity.
What we're seeing here should be a last resort. Subpoenaing
reporters is a shot across the bow designed to get
people to stop asking about subjects the administration would rather
not talk about. And it's chilling. In this case, the
subpoenas were issued to these five New York Times reporters
and some were served at their homes. Is that unusual?
And why do you think it was done in that
way, in your opinion? It is unusual, and it's theatrical.
It's designed to send a very clear message. Stop asking
questions, sit down, and shut up. I'm awfully tired of
federal law enforcement agents showing up on people's doorsteps about
protected speech, and unfortunately, this is just the latest in
a pattern. This administration has evinced a real hostility to
press that should concern Americans no matter their politics. It's
designed to get people to sit down and be quiet.
Yeah, I wonder if we still have that clip. What
was the guy's name? Thank you. Rosen is the guy
who got busted. Rosen, that's right. And they throw him
in jail, right? Yeah. Let me see. Obama was the
worst for this, and they never bring it up. No,
no, it's all Trump invented it. Give me a break.
Was it Jay Rosen? No. No, it's not Jay Rosen.
He's the professor. Jay Rosen. Who was it? Who was
it? Which Rosen? Let me see. Jail? Maybe I can
find it that way. No. Obama I can't seem to,
that was, it was quite a long time ago. I
don't know if we even have those clips from back
in the day. I don't know if the archive goes
back far enough. We probably do, but it's not going
to be easy to find. Yeah. But yeah, Obama's doing
it, but so is, you know, everybody bitches and moans
about the press. The press bitches and moans about the
press. That's who bitches and moans about the press. Everybody
bitches and moans. Yeah, I got one more clip here.
You mentioned this, but this is not the first time
that the Trump administration has tried to subpoena or question
journalists about stories that are critical of the administration or
the president. Is this a pattern that you're seeing? How
would you describe this kind of behavior? against the Washington
Post, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal. Just
last week, my colleagues were in Iowa State Court defending
a pollster, Ann Seltzer, against charges filed by the president
alleging that her poll constituted consumer fraud. It's beyond the
pale. It is a direct attack on the First Amendment's
protection of our free press. In the 250th anniversary of
our country, we should demand better. How does this administration
compare to previous administrations? I mean, other presidents and other
administrations have asked reporters to reveal their sources, but how
does this moment compare to those? That's right. Other presidents
have done it, but this is not something we should
get used to. Just because other presidents have done it,
and they have of both parties, isn't a grounds for
justification. We shouldn't normalize this behavior. We should ask for
the freest press we can demand. That's what we deserve.
under the First Amendment. That's what we are guaranteed beyond
deserved. Again, I think that you have to look at
this in the larger context of the president's attacks on
the press. Really, almost from day one, attacking the press
has been a trademark of his. And the result is
a chill on speech. It's a chill on speech. There's
been no chill. It's worse than ever. Where's the chill?
Hello? I don't know. I don't see any chill. No.
I see people moaning groaning more than ever. Anti-Trump. Trump's
fault. So the president had kind of a very interesting...
interesting change of heart over the Straits of Hormuz. Where
first he started, he said, hey, man, we're going to
charge everybody some money. We're going to charge everybody 20%,
which came out of nowhere all of a sudden. Trump
changing his tune after oil prices soared and American Gulf
allies called to complain. Kings and emirs and all of
the people that we all know and we all love.
And they said, we'd love to do it a different
way. We'd love to invest in the United States with.
Billions and billions of dollars. Can we play that clip
on the last show? What's that? It wasn't that last
show clip. No, no, this is a new clip. No,
no, no. I think that happened on the, on the
last. No, it just happened after the show. Sunday. When
it did 20%, that was after the show. No, it
must have been somebody brought up on Horowitz. That's what
I think. But tonight, one thing is clear. The Strait
of Hormuz is closed. Iran firing on multiple cargo ships
and on American allies in the region. So then the
new gambit came in, which is, you don't have to
pay a toll, but just invest in us. I was
wondering if you could explain your changing thinking on the
Strait of Hormuz, applying a 20% fee. How did you
get to the decision you just made? basically don't take
anything, we don't need the oil at all. And it
wasn't important for us, but it was important for allies.
I was called by different people, different countries, kings and
emirs and all of the people that we all know
and we all love. And they've been, frankly, they've been
very strong partners. And they said, we'd love to do
it a different way. We'd love to invest in the
United States with billions and billions of dollars. We would
like to invest tremendously in the United States. Tremendously. opposed
to charging a fee. And I like that actually, because
I don't think anybody should be able to charge a
fee for the straight or for any other straight relationship
in terms of other sections of the world. I don't
think anybody should be really in that position. But we
were doing it as a reimbursement. The Gulf states are
going to invest a tremendous amount of money into the
United States. And that was very satisfactory to me. I
think it's actually much better. a couple of analysts on
CNBC and you know I was like what what is
he doing this is completely stupid why would you even
say oh you want 20% this is is he just
pulling stuff out his butt as usual or is there
something behind it and then to change it around to
well you guys you should be paying 20% but instead
as long as you invest billions and billions and billions
and trillions of dollars in America will protect you you
don't have to do that but now I'm listening to
these analysts and it seems like The Strait of Hormuz
may even just be made redundant at some point. off-ramp
to this conflict. Daniel, you hinted at something very important
here that perhaps it's a political tactic during negotiation. By
the way, none of the two parties completely abandoned the
negotiating table and that perhaps explains why the market is
not in a panic mode. I mean, you would expect
in a period of so-called ceasefire to continue to see
this kind of tit-for-tat actions.
As long as the two parties are still talking, and
that's something we should remember, I think that gives us
some hope that these are more targeted, limited attacks and
not really a fully-fledged war, as we saw, let's say,
two months ago, for instance. So there could be a
tactic to force both parties to stick to the negotiations,
to reach a deal at a certain point. But, of
course, the market does not like this kind of uncertainty,
and that's why we are seeing these kind of developments
overnight in oil prices. I think even under the worst-case
scenario, some oil continued to flow through the Strait of
Hormuz. Yes, some of it continued to flow through the
Strait of Hormuz, but all of these countries, they're all
scrambling and they're all building alternative transit routes, which is
pipelines and all kinds of other things. But it remains
to be seen what is the next chapter for Hormuz.
More importantly, while this is happening, something else equally important
is happening, are continue to looking to look for alternatives
to divert away from hormones. So who knows maybe by
the time the hormones crisis is resolved we don't need
to rely as much on hormones to get oil and
gas and other products out of that strait. Here's one
other analyst about it. For global trade it does affect
the flow of trade and all that but You do
see trade adapt, move to other routes. For example, DP
World Port has other ports around the world, and those
operations have increased. So you'll see expansions in other alternatives.
For the UAE itself, all focus is on Fujairah right
now. What doesn't make the headline enough is that the
cost of shipping insurance will stay up for a while.
So businesses will go where there's less friction, where there's
less cost. So we expect to see more activities within
from Fujairah's side. So they're just moving into other ports.
They're moving it out. I think this whole idea is
just to make the whole straight kind of irrelevant. I
don't know if it can be done. Well, if you
look at the shipping, the thousands of ships that are
around, it won't be overnight. No, it won't be overnight,
but they've got the pipeline, which is funny enough. Wasn't
that a Clinton thing back in the day? The pipeline,
taking it up to Turkey and then from Turkey, getting
it into Europe and taking it over to the Black
Sea and just all these different routes. I think the
pipelines, we're going to have to be doing a pipeline
episode again soon. Well, we're due. Yeah. I think there's
something. Something is up with this. this, the whole thing.
Well, I mean, there are, there are theses out there
that, that said this was the whole thing was to
shut down the straight of her moves. Well, that wouldn't
surprise me. wouldn't surprise me. Well, I guess the only
thing I've got is they're bringing it to complicate matters.
Here's a clip. The Iranian conflict is now targeting the
Houthis. Next, the Treasury Department has announced sanctions against an
underground network that has been helping the Iranian regime obtain
weapons. This comes as Iran is threatening to use the
Houthi terrorist group to expand their attacks on commercial shipping.
NTD's Jason Perry has the details. The United States continues
to increase its efforts to help secure the Strait of
Hormuz. And on Wednesday, the Treasury Department announced another round
of sanctions connected to the Iranian regime. The Treasury's Office
of Foreign Assets Control has sanctioned targets involved in an
international network helping to get weapons for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary
Guard Corps. Details of the sanctions include two individuals in
Russia and one in Italy accused of assisting Iran to
get weapons. Vanguard Tactical Supply Limited, which served as an
intermediary in helping Iran get weapons. The fresh round of
sanctions comes after Iran's attacks on vessels in the Hormuz
Strait. However, Iran has warned that if U.S. strikes continue,
Iran could expand attacks on commercial shipping to the coast
of Yemen through its proxy, the Houthi terrorist group. The
Houthis are located near another strategic waterway for global trade,
the Bab al-Mandeb Petros Katinas, research fellow at the Royal
United Services Institute, explains. He said the Houthis don't need
to attack every ship. They just have to complete a
limited number of successful attacks. insurance cost for commercial vessels
to skyrocket, causing ships to avoid the Red Sea altogether
and take a much longer route around the southern tip
of South Africa. All this energy that we're creating here
in the United States, we're getting another data center in,
I think, near Austin. And they will be, I think
they'll be generating 750 kilowatts of... gas-fired energy. And we
were talking about the data centers maybe being utilities. decentralizing
the energy, the electricity sources in America. And I got
an email from an old friend of the show who
apparently still listens, Atomic Rod Adams. No, we haven't heard
from him forever. For years. Yeah. And I want to
share this because, you know, this is what he does.
He was a... Was he a commander of an atomic
submarine? Yeah, he's a... Now I think he became a
nuclear consultant. A nuclear consultant. Then things were bad for
a while. Business was down, particularly during the Biden administration.
You and John mentioned advanced nuclear demonstrations during Sunday's show.
As you stated, four new reactors started operating on or
before July 4th. You don't hear much about this anywhere.
I was lucky enough to be present for the final
two of them, Deployable Energy on June 30th and Allo
Atomics very early, 1220 a.m. on July 4th. It was
cool to be boots on the ground as an observer
for these historic events. I also witnessed Valar Atomics producing
the first electricity from an advanced reactor. Those success stories
are likely to be joined by two to four more
new reactors by the end of the summer. The reactor
pilot program, which helps to speed reviews, approvals, and facility
construction, includes 11 projects and is designed to continue to
provide acceleration even after reaching the interim goal of having
three start by July 4. There's a tremendous amount of
energy and excitement in the nuclear industry, stimulated by a
collection of four executive orders, all signed on May 23,
2025. likely to see any new nuclear plant construction. He's
probably right. but he might be interested in learning that
many of the advanced nuclear companies are headquartered in California.
So he says California's got a couple of them in
Torrance and El Segundo, Oakland, Santa Clara, Berkeley. Hey, Berkeley,
California, deep fishing in Berkeley, right around the corner. In
Texas, there's a whole bunch of them. Well, this is
good. This is what we need. Yeah, I agree. I
think it's cool. It's good that we're doing that. We
couldn't get any of that stuff done forever. No, because
of one or two mishaps. Now I would say the
most interesting... legislation to pass which still doesn't mean that
we're going to get get anywhere with it is the
What is it? The Protect the Sunshine Act? You hear
about this? No. Yeah, this is it. It's a debate
that has consumed a lot of time, literally. But yesterday,
Congress took its biggest step yet toward ending the twice-yearly
changing of the clocks. The House passed the Sunshine Protection...
Say what? Yeah, yeah, this was overplayed on Fox and
every place in between. This is, this is, every year
or every couple of years we get this story. It's
like a rerun of old news. Well, they're trying. They're
trying something new. They're not, they're getting, it's... This, this
is, this is not Fox, as an aside. This is
PBS. changing the clocks we are joined now by scott
yates founder of the lock the clock alliance it's always
good to see you so you've been pushing for this
for years we've seen momentum before it's not become law
why might this time be different Well, we've never seen
it pass the House before. I mean, it's never gotten
to the floor for even to be able to have
a vote. So this is just a huge step forward.
And I think it shows the kind of momentum that
we have. And I think it shows the excitement over
an issue that's actually bipartisan. I was pleased to see
a wide margin, both among Republicans and Democrats voting for
it. So I think with that kind of momentum, we
can go over to the Senate and say, look, this
is what the people want. the country and in the
House vote yesterday. We've never been this close, John. This
has been the first time. We're getting somewhere with this.
But I think this is good. We got to check
the prop bet market on this baby. This is a
solid no. Well, would they?
But this guy, what this Yates guy is saying is
they need to push it to the states. This is
going to make it even more fun. So the states
can decide what time zone they want to be in.
This makes my head spin. In your view, what do
we gain by stopping the twice yearly changing of the
clocks? One of the things I was really encouraged to
hear yesterday were all different politicians kind of getting up
and talking about the health detriments of the clock changing.
You know, it wasn't that long ago that we just
thought of changing the clocks for daylight saving time was
kind of annoyance. of it as deadly, but now the
research is really clear that it really is deadly and
very disruptive. It's bad for schools, it's bad for businesses,
it's bad for everybody. The only thing that we don't
agree on completely is on which time zone we should
be locking into, but I think we've got a solution
to be able to address that without having to have
the clock change twice a year, which is what I
think most people actually are the most interested in. It's
just they don't really care that much which one we
lock into. They just don't like the switching. What's the
solution? Well, the solution is actually an amendment that I
proposed back when it was in the Senate last year
to have a two-year implementation period. And what that allows
is for each state to be able to have enough
time and the school boards to weigh in and everybody
in a state to be able to say, look, this
is a time that makes the most sense for us.
Anybody that says they've got a perfect solution that works
for every state in the country has some other agenda
they're trying to push. who sits and also works for
Indiana, well, that's just not possible. So I think if
we have a two-year implementation, which is an amendment that
was accepted and is now part of the Senate version,
that would give people of, for instance, Indiana and Michigan,
a couple of states that I think would be really
well served to be on permanent standard time to be
able to make that decision. So it's kind of crazier
than I thought it would be. So each time zone,
each state would be able to determine what time 7
o'clock is. So today we have two hours difference between
California and Texas. It might be one hour. Can you
imagine if every state just, what's the time there? Well,
we're in Indiana. I mean, Arizona still does its own
thing, and Indiana until recently used to have their own
time. Yeah. So it's not that unusual. But every state
might get a little funky. No, the whole thing's a
joke. These things never come to fruition. It's just going
to keep going. Once it was established, they can't get
rid of it. Because I was kind of convinced, kind
of like you, that, well, this is interesting. Gutfeld they
had the little group of comedy comedians on there and
it was just was split right in the middle no
it should be daylight savings time all the time no
it shouldn't because then in the morning and during the
certain time of year it'll be too dark for the
kiddies and they have to pick up they won't be
able to see the bus when it comes and they're
gonna get it mugged and killed so think of the
children we can't do daylight savings all year but wait
there's but then if we do standard time all year
round then it's too dark at night nobody's gonna go
out and shop is gonna be bad for commerce. This
is not working. So there's a solution for this which
came in the same week as this news. Yeah, take
the Earth out of orbit. No, no, no. It's the
new company, Reflect Orbital. This is, so if you don't
like the fact that your kids have to walk to
school in the dark. Well, then you just rent some
time from Reflect Orbital and they can spread some sunlight
on a five kilometer patch of Earth. reflect orbital plans
to have more than 50,000 satellites in action by 2035.
However, some astronomers, wildlife experts, and others oppose this idea
completely. They claim that the light from the mirrors could
distract airplane pilots, could wreak havoc on astronomical observations, and
interfere with sleep-wake cycles. I think this is very cool.
I'm surprised it's not an Elon Musk operation. Yeah, that's
not happening either. Yeah, it is. What a screwball story.
They'd give me a crap for a screwball story. They're
demoing it. They already have one up there. And so
you say, okay, let there be light, and they just
reflect. You know, there's things called street lamps. No, but.
Let's say. Why do you need a satellite? Light up
the street. I lost my key somewhere in the yard.
Let's order some light for five minutes. Yeah, that would
be so inexpensive, you can be sure. Well, just reflecting
some light. Yeah, 50,000 of them. How much space junk
do we actually have? I don't know. There's enough of
the Starlink satellites to go around. Too much going on.
They should put Starlink's mirrors on them. Yeah, I see
him regularly flying by. regularly so biden's come out with
a book oh he's coming out with a book in
november uh-huh and he produced a uh a little video
of him talking about this book coming out wait a
minute don't tell me this is another uh listen to
no agenda show segment no no this is actually this
is biden uh-huh uh and i have two clips because
i have a short version which is the segment that
i want to i want you to listen to saying
okay so let's play the long promotion for the book
okay Since I left the presidency, I've had a lot
of people ask me, "Joe, what have you been doing?"
"Joe!" "Joe!" I've been spending a lot of time with
my family. I'm dealing with a cancer diagnosis and I've
been getting treatment and it's been going really well. I
want to thank all those of you for their prayers
and support and well wishes. This meant the world to
me and to Jill. I've written a book about my
time as president. It's called Promise Me America. It's coming
out in November, and it's available for pre-order now. It's
about the challenges we face as a nation, about the
decisions I made. why I made them. country through COVID,
rebuilding our economy and restoring our democracy after the attack
on January 6th. Any donation as long as we're in
Afghanistan. Strengthening NATO and supporting Ukraine. It's about why I
chose to run for re-election and why I chose to
step aside. Is this a coloring book that he is
releasing? Or is it actual words? Be nice. I get
the segment there that where he mumbles a bit. Tell
me what he says. Any donations, longest one I've got.
Strengthening NATO. Okay, something about the war in Afghanistan. Let
me listen again. Any of our nation's longest war in
Afghanistan. Strengthening NATO. Strengthening NATO. Wow. Wow. So is he
going to do an audio book? Because that would be
genius. I'd buy it. Wow. Yeah, so I'm going to
be competing with him with my book. I'm going to
be talking to Mimi about it. Yeah. My memoirs. Yeah,
your book would be great. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Here's what
I understand about books. There's no money in it. No,
it's not the idea. Well, I'm not running for president.
What's the idea? Well, if you ever run for president,
you've got the book. Right. What do you do a
book for if there's no money in it? You have
to get, it's a service. It's like, why do we
do this podcast before we don't get any money? It's
a service. I know, but I already do a public
service. Now I've got to do another service? Well, you
know, you haven't done the, yeah. The thing is. Yeah,
exactly. It never ends. But here's what I realize. Because
throughout the years, I've written blog posts and stuff. And
I think I've told almost every single story on the
show at some point, which is good because I have
transcripts of everything. I'm worried that my recollection of things
may not be the way it actually happened. Someone comes
out of the woodwork and says, hey, you're full of
crap. What do you do in that case? Oh, that's
going to happen. Yeah, well, of course it is. But
then what do you do? You say, that's the way
I remember it. Okay. I just can't slander anybody. Well,
that's easy enough. Well, but I got to tell my
Richard Marks story. Unless they're dead. I got to tell
my Richard Marks story. Is he dead? No, but he's
litigious. He's very litigious. He's crazy. Richard Marks is crazy.
You don't even mention him in the book. But it's
a great story. No, now we- Well, why don't you
call him up? No! And tell him it's-
If you can tell the story. I don't need his
permission to tell the story, do I? Well, if you
don't want to get sued, maybe. Well, see, now I
don't want to do a book. Boy, you're easy. What
a pushover. The worst thing about Richard Marks, who I
had a... I don't even know who... You're talking about
somebody nobody knows who you're talking about. Are you kidding
me? Richard Marks in the 80s and 90s had number
one hits back to back. You know, just because you
don't... He was the Marks Brothers? Who are you talking
about? I will play you a Richard Marks song. He
sings? He's a singer? Yes, he's a singer. Yes. But
what group? Richard Marks. He's just Richard Marks. I never
heard of him. No, I'm not surprised you've never heard
of him, but he's quite famous. me see what He
has all new songs. Where's his biggest hits? Uh, wait,
what was it? Right here waiting for you? Right here
waiting for you, Dick Mark. This kind of stuff. Oh,
this is the kind of stuff I don't like. That's
probably why I never heard it. No, of course not.
This is boring. Look at... Oh, that's Bryan Adams. Hold
on a second. Light some candles, people. Wait, that's Bryan
Adams. That's not even Richard Marks. Oh, you don't even
get the right guy. Here we go. This is him.
This is him. There's your... Sounds the same. 1980s DX7
synthesizer sound. He comes out of the smoke. Oh yeah,
this is good. Oh yeah, he's got his blue jeans
on. Sits down at the piano. You don't remember this
song? No. It sounds like a dime a dozen. It's
a long intro. Hold on. Okay, you can stop it.
No, I want to hear him sing now. Anyway. So,
I made a joke about his hair once on MTV,
which was okay. You know, I had hair. Did he
have long hair, short hair, or bald? He had big
hair. He had big hair like you had. Yeah, and
I said, there's Richard Marks with his hair at number
four on the top 20 countdown. He tried to get
me fired. Thank you. He literally tried to get me
fired. For what? Because I made fun of him. How
did you make fun of him? You said he had
hair. I'm telling you. He went to Abby Conowitz. He
went to Rick Krim. The irony would be if he's
bald now. No, he's not. Well, no, the hard part
is, you know who he's married to? You won't know
her either. Daisy Fuentes. Nick Fuent is his sister? You're
hopeless. This book is not for you, okay? This book
is not for you. Don't worry about it. Don't read
it. Mimi and I will make a book, and we'll
make a book, we'll make a book. And I want
to do that whole download the PDF, and if you
want to buy it, then value for value, just send
me some money. You'll get something out of it. No,
we'll get nothing. You'll get nothing out of it. No,
you'll get something. You just want me to do it
so I can go on a promo tour and promote
the show. I think it would benefit for not having
anything about Richard Marks, though. No, no. Because that was
a legendary fight. This is legendary. Wow. And then we
were on a live... You're unselling the book as we
speak. you radio show and he says I hope you
get cancer that was Richard Marx That was kind of
cute. Yeah, so there's good stories there. It's good stories.
Let's play this clip, fun fraud testimony, NTD. Fun fraud
testimony. And following a string of major criminal fraud cases
in federal programs, Senate lawmakers hear from investigative journalists and
watchdogs on how to stop billions in taxpayer fraud before
it happens. NTD correspondent Jason Blair has the takeaways. When
a fraudster commits fraud, he or she steals from all
of us. The Senate Homeland Security Committee is looking to
tackle widespread fraud being exposed across the country. Chairman Rand
Paul compares the federal government to private businesses that verify
payments up front. Washington pays first and asks questions later
if it asks them at all. No private business would
survive this way. A bank confirms an account exists before
wiring the money. A credit card company flags suspicious changes
in seconds. Paul highlighted major criminal cases in Minnesota. Prosecutors
have now charged 15 people in Minnesota with schemes involving
more than $90 million. One autism services scheme alone, $46.6
million. The Justice Department calls it the largest Medicaid autism
fraud case in its history. Independent journalist Nick Shirley, whose
investigations helped expose those Minnesota cases, tells the committee the
problem is nationwide. Now the highest government-funded daycare in Minnesota
has pleaded guilty to daycare fraud, and the largest autism
bust in American history has been exposed. Journalist James O'Keefe
describes undercover work that contributed to a federal prosecution. We
recorded a woman named Brown handing over cash as payment
in exchange for a homeless person to register to vote
in a federal election. Now that is a federal crime.
Ranking member Gary Peters describes bipartisan legislation he helped pass
to stop conflicts of interest with pharmaceutical companies. After learning
that a company was being paid with tax dollars to
advise the government on oversight of the pharmaceutical industry, while
simultaneously being paid by pharma companies to help market their
drugs. You know, the fraud in America, I got a
stat here. where this was. have the budget. It, here
it is. Nine days. of improper federal payments. Equals the
entire annual budget we send to Israel. Nine days. Two
weeks of only Medicare and Medicaid fraud. I mean, it
is out of control. Yeah, can you imagine what it
would be like with Medicare for all? Oh, pfft. Please.
We'd be broke. The whole country would be down. Did
I tell you that when I went to visit Lex,
remember my first boss on his estate? Yeah, Lex. Lex
Luthor. Yeah, on his estate. He's got an estate. The
guy has made so much money from art. I mean,
do you walk through? We went to the Modern Museum
of Art in Amsterdam, the Stedelijk Museum. He's got better
stuff at home, yeah. Oh, let me tell you. Do
not go to the Stedelijk Museum. It is a jip.
It's a total, like, what is this? It's a jip.
It's stupid. It's a jip. It's a jip. It's like,
oh, there's some sand on the floor with two shoes.
And the title is Wim T. Schippers is gone. Go
to Lex's house. Oh, there's five Warhols. Can you get
me an invite so I can go to his house
someday and look at his art? Yeah, I think so.
Well, you should have been there for the expo when
he had his... Well, it's too late now. I'm just
saying now. You know, you go to the bathroom. There's
two Keith Herrings. He has pop art. And then he
has these photos. He's got... photo of the Beatles at
the at the Cavern Club. Cavern or Tavern? Or was
it Cavern Club? In Berlin. You've never seen this photo
before. It's before the one that everyone has always seen.
I mean, he's got the most amazing stuff. Anyway, what
was my point? I don't know. It was about fraud.
Yeah, it was something important. Oh, about the health care
system. Medicare for all. So the Netherlands, oh, they've got
free health care. It's great. So when he needed something,
and he's 81 now, he cannot go to a doctor
and pay the doctor privately. He has to wait in
line for weeks or months like everybody else. Why? I
thought you could do that. No, not in the Netherlands.
Nope. Nope. What about under the table? No, they won't
do it. He says, I've tried everything. Yeah. He says,
you have to go. Yeah. If you get a specialist,
then you might for something very specialized, you might be
able to get in within a week. But in general,
back of the line, everybody's treated the same. It's equity.
It sucks. It's equity. You're getting all feisty now. It's
equity. So just when you thought AI couldn't get any
worse, introducing Anthropics Claude for teachers. You're also a mom.
This is Amadai. This is the CEO's sister who's also
in management at the company. You're also a mom. Is
this something you would hope to see in your children's
school someday? I personally feel really, really excited for what
it means. Oh, really, really, really, really excited. Kindergarten this
year. And I'm really hopeful that his school will adopt,
you know, Claude for teachers to help tailor curriculum for
him and for his classmates. There are going to be
parents who hear this and feel nervous because parents have
watched their kids with smartphones and screen time and social
media. And they've seen the unwanted, unintended consequences that they
weren't really prepared for. This is in the hands of
teachers now. nervous that this new technology is going to
repeat those same mistakes. I completely understand and relate to
this worry. And I think a key difference here is
that cloud.ai remains for eight.
18-year-old users and above only. So individual students below the
age of 18 won't have access to the tool directly.
And I think this isn't because we necessarily feel worried
that this is a terrible thing to give to kids.
But I think the reality is we just don't know
enough about AI's impact on the developing brain. So let's
just use it on kids. For Anthropic to feel comfortable
giving access to students directly. We know that AI can
hallucinate. It can make mistakes. If this chat bot were
to make a mistake, if it were to give the
wrong information or bad advice or reinforce bias, who would
be accountable for that? These models are not foolproof. They
do make mistakes. And part of how we have worked
with teachers in developing this technology and really listening to
their questions and concerns is helping to, you know, when
an AI might be entering unknown territory, what are the
signs to look for? could possibly go wrong. Do not
let your children into a school where they have clawed
for teachers. This is not a good idea. I'd say.
Here, I got an AI story this week. All right.
Google. Big Google. And what does the future hold for
the news industry as more people read AI-powered news summaries?
NTD's David Lam asks an expert. Some news publishers are
concerned about being asked to join Google's new pilot program
for AI-powered article overviews. According to a report in The
Information, content would be shared in Google News and Gemini
AI, giving Google broad rights on how to use the
content. Matthew Gilbert, a senior lecturer of marketing, shares his
thoughts on the current landscape of news summaries. it links
to the actual articles but before any of that you're
getting summary and what's interesting is I think a lot
of people if they already see what they already need
they're not going to even click through beyond that. Currently
the Google News Showcase platform pays publishers to create and
curate online news content through a licensing program but publishers
fear that if they opt out of the new pilot
they may risk losing the fee they currently receive when
Google shares their articles. Gilbert also notes that there's a
risk to articles that feature deep investigative content. There's a
real big risk that what you're producing gets lost in
the shuffle or doesn't even get seen at all because
if all that it's looking for is the sort of
top level shorthand takeaway, that deeper investigation that more important
information is not going to get read. Google says that
for years it has produced 24 billion monthly visits to
news websites. Chances are their content will still probably in
some way or another still be getting fed into the
AI system whether or not they even are aware of
it or not. Yeah, this news is broken. They need
to stop this. This value for value by individual journalists
is, I think, the only way to go. Maybe. That's
your opinion? Yeah, my opinion is maybe. You're an independent.
There's a restaurant, by the way, in the Bay Area
that's doing value for value. Do they call it value
for value? No, they don't, but it's definitely value for
value. Have you been? No. And what do they do?
Just pay whatever you think the meal was worth? Yeah.
Or can you also choose to wash up? What do
you mean? Oh, you mean do the dishes? Yeah, time,
talents, and choices. Wash up. Yeah, wash up or, you
know, like, I don't know, set tables. I don't know
about that. Maybe. I don't think so. I think you
should go investigate. Get in that old Lexus of yours,
drive over there, and go take a look. Maybe I
will. Maybe I'll get out of the house and check
it out. And you should record it and you should
say, this sucks. I'm not giving you any money. Just
do that. And then Google can take and summarize it
and I get nothing out of all the effort. No.
Your sub stack is value for value. Can't people send
you money if they want to to the Oasis? Yeah,
they can send me money. Do they send you money?
Does it work? Yeah, I get some money. Okay. Well,
then it works. The system works. You're living the new
international lifestyle. Enjoy. It sucks. It stinks. Thanks. So we
know about the Apple OpenAI lawsuit. Do you have any
thoughts on that? Yeah, it's a gem. That's just my
thought. Maybe. My thought is maybe. You can't have maybe.
Everything I say, you can't just come back and say
maybe. I think maybe is the theme for today. Maybe
what? Maybe what? Maybe what? Maybe they'll win. Well... Maybe
or not. What are you thinking about in this lawsuit?
Well, I'm just going to lead it into a clip
because OpenAI, supposedly they revealed what they're doing. And it
sounds... Dumb. screen-free AI companion designed for your house. It
does sound really similar to Amazon's. Alexa would be a
portable battery-powered device, would help control smart home devices, answer
questions, play music. As I mentioned, has been extremely secretive
about these plans. Rumors have ranged from a wearable pin
to some sort of earpiece. No comment from the company,
but sources I've talked to say the designs could change.
It's still very much in the works, and this report
does also say the device may launch the end of
this year. OpenAI's entire hardware push, though, is now very
much under fire after Apple on Friday sued the company
and its top team members over allegedly stealing intellectual property
devices. Overall, it's been a major strategic push for this
company. It did pay $6.5 billion to buy iPhone designer
Johnny Ives' startup late last year. So a screen-free... Yeah,
we talked about this on the last show, too. No,
we did not. Yes, we did, because we talked about
specifically You and I both agreed that Silicon Valley does
this all the time. And we specifically talked about Johnny
Ives. Yeah, but we didn't talk about the device. This
is new. You didn't know about the device. No, the
device. No, the device. This is Alexa. Well, I don't
know. Visit? Yeah, set timer. I think it's just a
chatbot block. Play my play. That would be worse. Set
timer. Okay. You want to talk about the weather? What's
it going to talk to you about? Hey, people talk
to their chatbots all day long. So might as well
have it in the house. Oh, God, can you imagine?
No, it's not for me, but yeah, I can imagine.
I mean, yeah, I can. They don't have any other
business. What is this super cut you have? I might
as well drag you through it, drag you through these
last few minutes. I just got a kick out of
these super cuts. This is when Elon, somebody put these
together recently. When Elon Musk bought Twitter. They were all
over it. And we're talking about everybody that hated this
whole idea. And I got two super cuts that talk
about, first of all, was the end of Twitter. Elon
Musk has managed to bring Twitter to the brink of
collapse in just three weeks. This is the end or
was the end of Twitter. What does one come back
from destroying Twitter, burning it to the ground? Elon Musk
burning the business to the ground. platform formerly known as
Twitter thanks to his decisions. Twitter is really in an
ever quickening death spiral. They're going to have a hard
time just keeping the lights on over at Twitter given
this mass exodus. Advertisers but also users heading for the
exits. It's a shithole right? Elon fuck that shit up.
There's better engagement on threads. He is not a media
platform owner. He's never done this. He doesn't know what
he's doing. It has to be just a question of
time before whether it's Mastodon or some other that actually
operates in a responsible way, takes over all of the
Twitter users. We will go there. Elon Musk can, you
know, this could be all fun and games for him.
At the end of the way, he's going to drive
this business into the ground. There will be nothing left.
All advertisers are gone. You can't have a major brand
in this country and be putting your ads on platforms
like this that are unsafe for children, that are spreading
misinformation about COVID. It's actually killing people. He's a dangerous
man. I've said it many times on this show. about
media deconstruction I think that that qualifies as clip of
the day. Wow, that's an obscure catch. It does. Well
so then we have after it didn't collapse in three
weeks like everyone predicted. What did we say? You said
the Fediverse was gonna take over everything! The Fediverse is
the way to go, man. Decentralized, baby. It's cool. The
Fediverse. Ask Comics for Blogger. He's been kicked off every
single instance on the Fediverse ever. And then the one.
Once he's allowed on, he says, this is no good.
I can't syndicate with no agenda, no authority social. The
most censored Fediverse node on the network is no authority.
The most censored. And all they do there is they
do these... Fediverse was co-opted by the left. That's the
problem. Your whole idea originally, which I'm mocking now, but
in fact, it could have been true, except it was
co-opted by the left, which they do, and it's ruined
it. Well, it depends on how you view it. That's
the way I view it. Okay. That's the way you,
like we have podcast index.social and it's, it's beautiful. It's
not political at all. It's just about podcasting 2.0. It
is a fan. It's a fantastic system works really well.
And people can still follow or, or, or, you know,
jump in if they want to. And that has not
been ruined by, by any, any political stuff at all.
It's really good. And there's no moderating. sit around blocking
people and telling them to stop. The only one instance
that I block, and that's noauthority.social. good and then you
know because i don't i don't have the time to
be blocking poast and, you know, was it shitposters.social. Once
in a while I get all these direct messages because
they have these contests. The faggot of the month. and
then oh god yeah and i was up against some
dude from sweden i lost You lost? You weren't faggot
of the month? I was not faggot of the month.
Oh, that's a shame. I know. Well, there's one more
shorter clip, which is the super cut of after the
three weeks was over and they didn't flop. They started
calling Twitter a cesspool. Elon Musk has turned X, formerly
known as Twitter, into a cesspool. Twitter X is just
such a cesspool now. But it's also a cesspool. Everything
that goes on, it's a circus cesspool. Twitter right now
is a cesspool. Twitter is a cesspool, or X, I
guess it's called now. Cesspool. Just bad information lies. Cesspool.
Twitter is becoming a deeper, darker. The cesspool of disinformation
and chaos has now really become a cesspool of mis-
and disinformation. The Twittersphere as it is has really gone
berserk lately. It's got to become almost a cesspool of
misinformation. Arguably, it's never been this successful. I know. I
think it's, yeah. And I think particularly with the XAI
integration. And now the thing I did predict. And Grok
helps a lot being on there. The thing I predicted
is the money stuff. That's coming. I predicted that years
ago. And that's coming. I agree. You have and hasn't
happened. But I'm not saying that that's a bad prediction.
I think the Fediverse prediction was a bit much. But
that other one about the money, yep. Yeah, that's happening.
Apparently it's already in beta. And from what I understand,
And... If you put your money into the X wallet,
and I have no idea how it's going to work.
you'll get 6%. I don't know how we... Ooh, it's
going to be a fintech company. Yeah. Fintech. Fintech. Oh,
you cracked me up, Dvorak. Fintech, yes. That's another buzzword
from the past. Fintech. Would it have something on banking
about money and fintech? What was it? Ummm... Was that?
Oh yeah. The clarity act. Yeah. That's what everybody's waiting
for, the Clarity Act, so we can... What's the Clarity
Act? The Clarity Act is supposed to give clarity on
how stable coins work and... I think the main thing
is, the way I understand it, and there's probably a
lot more in the clarity act. The main thing is
the guys who are doing stable coin. They want to
be able to give people interest on their deposits. And
the banking sector is going, no, you can't do that.
That's our business. And if you want to do that,
you should become a bank. Subsequently, I think Circle, USDC,
has become a bank. So I have two clips from
Loomis. Senator Loomis is the one driving this. take that
vote. Can you give us some color on that? We've
continued to work on ethics language that the Congress has
to live under and the president has to live under.
So some of the issues are things like can a
state attorney general sue an elected official? For some reason,
they're talking about something other than... the clarity act here.
You're talking about ethics? I don't know what that clip
is. You guys, your clip. Yeah, I don't think that
clip is not valid. But I do have a Jesse
Waters clip. about our money as jesse the paid a
visit to the treasury and hung out with uh Our
General Patton on the down low. Tonight we're taking you
somewhere the cameras usually don't go. The Treasury Department's secret
vault. And we found something that's never been seen before.
Beautiful room. And here is the Treasurer's vault from 1863.
And, you know, Jesse, I can't let you pass the
gate. No? Too much money in there, Jesse. All right,
you don't trust me. Well, it's not you. It's not
you. that before yeah exactly and so what used to
be in this vault or what's in this vault now
well i can't tell you what's in there now but
americans used to come and catch their checks here that's
that's exactly what i was thinking i can't show you
what's in there now because there's no money there's no
actual cash in there where they came here yeah or
banks could stop the clip Hey, what was this? What
ever happened to the visit to Fort Knox that we're
supposed to see by these Fox people? Or someone's going
to go visit Fort Knox and show the gold? That
was Elon. He was going to live stream it. Yeah,
what happened to that? Well, they don't want to embarrass
anybody because there's no gold. Well, I can't tell you
what's in there now, but Americans used to come and
cash their checks here. That's where they came here? Yep,
or banks could present and get greenbacks. Solomon Chase, who
was the Treasury Secretary during the Civil War, created the
greenback. We used to have, states used to have their
own money, banks used to issue their own money, greenback
so people could swap for greenbacks here. Were there silver
coins? Were there gold coins? Were there certificates? All of
the above. Okay. And we still have all those, but
now most people use currency. I hear there might be
a new brand of currency around the corner. Well, it's
the same currency, just different series. And it's going to
look different. Well, it's going to have one big change
on it. They have for the 250th, the president The
President's signature is going to be on it for the
first time, so I think it's fitting. Donald Trump is
President during our 250th anniversary, so it'll be the President's
signature and my signature on it. so much for my
$250 bill idea. I mean, have you seen these? That's
not collectible. Is that collectible? No. I don't think so
either. Although there's going to be this gold $1 coin.
With Trump on it. Well, there's the coin that I
have with Steve Jobs on it. Yeah, that's pretty collectible.
Yeah, I'd say. Boots on the ground, a note. We
finally have one. A producer and knight of the no
agenda roundtable. Gentlemen, I've been a longtime listener of the
show. I've been a knight since 2020. I was listening
to episode 1884, Code Brown, when I heard the challenge
for any producers who are members of Patriot Front to
step forward. Okay, here he is. I'm a member, photographer,
and social media influencer. Patriot Journal on Instagram for Patriot
Front. This is like the marketing guy. Okay. I'm sure
if you look hard enough into my donations, you can
figure out who I am. Well, we have no time
to do that. We're not doing that. We're not doing
that. Just tell us or we don't care. I don't
mind. I don't even want to know. With all that
said, I ask that you keep any and all personal
information private. You ask why we wear the mask. I
do so for my wife and children. Our opposition, Antifa,
Marxists, etc., to run to our employers and claim we
are Nazis. Historically, they are often successful. And then he
says something interesting, because the influencer, after all. Would you
guys be interested in interviewing the leader of Patriot Front,
Thomas Rousseau? I can't make any promises, but I believe
he would be up for it. My Instagram account is
also a wealth of information, from answers to commonly asked
questions to speeches, etc. I'm happy to answer questions as
well, but I do not speak on behalf of the
organization. Only Thomas does. I would say no. We don't
really do interviews. I don't think so. Something might be
done. Hey, you might do it. for a best of
show. We'll call it the Nazi episode. We could do
a couple of Nazis.
Oh, man. Actually, what would be fun would be do
the patriot front guy and do the head of the
Democrat socialists. Oh, yeah, together, like a debate. In the
same room? No, I don't think they would get along.
Host a debate. You should host a debate. You should
debate him. Whatever happened to those? That was a thing
for a little bit there, podcasters debating each other. I
missed those days. Those days were good. Nobody cares about
podcasters. With that, I want to thank you for your
courage, say in the morning to you, the man who
put the C in the cytoshitosis, say hello to my
friend on the other end, the one, the only, Mr.
John C! ...in the morning our ships to sea, boots
to the ground. Feet in the air! In the water
and all the games tonight. Hey, in the morning to
you trolls in the troll room. Stop moving around. Let
me catch you. There we go. Peak trollage of 1,339.
It's kind of typical for a Thursday. Good to have
everybody here. Up 100 from last show. They are listening.
Last Thursday. Listening live to our stream because this is
a live-to-tape program. No editing. No going back on multi-tracks
and fixing little stumbles and brr's and err's. No, no.
We are just professionals. Fix it in post. We are
professionals. And we give you the real deal. Thursdays. Okay.
And, uh... That means that when you want to, you
can just listen live to us. You can also, and
I think that's a big part of our success formula,
actually. People like live. There's something about it that gets
like emergency or urgent, emergency pod. Even if they can't
listen live, they know that it has a live feel
to it. Don't you think most podcasts feel dead? Just
dead. Oh, the NPR ones for sure. The people who
host those are dead. But these days, and oh man,
I am so grateful. A lot of podcasts do feel
dead. Yeah, just dead because it's like, yeah, you know,
they don't have the excitement. They're not walking on the
high wire like we are. Yeah, right. Tightrope. Tightrope walking.
I'm on the tightrope. And I'm so happy we never
went to video and did YouTube. And I see this.
So Tina, she used to listen to Megyn Kelly religiously.
Religiously. Now, with video, everybody just, including Megyn Kelly herself,
they just cut segments. So it's like five minutes here,
seven minutes there. And so she's scrolling along on Instagram
or whatever. And they go, oh, yeah, I watched the
Megyn Kelly show. Do you really watch the show? No.
No. No, I just get a clip. I think this
is, well, you identify what I thought about this too.
You identified a problem because I don't watch, Rogan show
once in a while. Yeah. I don't think I've watched
one for about a year because I just see these
little segments and I figured that's the best of the
show. Hey. It's like best of. Something amazing just happened.
Tina just texted me and said, I'm listening. She might
have the explosive diarrhea. Are you not feeling well, babe?
She never listens to the show. She's this amazing. She
says, ha. Hot you. I'm listening now. I always say,
why don't you listen to the show anymore? She says,
because I get you live here. I get all your
conspiracies. I'm sick of it. I think that's what she's
really saying. I'm sick of it already. So anyway, but
she's my canary in the coal mine. So when something
bubbles, because she's watching people working out. She's an Instagram
girl. Reels. Then she gets in the dog algo. though
i have to say you know see the dogs doing
stuff and cooking, man, it's still all with cheese. But
then once in a while, she gets in the podcast,
Algo, and it's literally just these, same with Rogan. I
don't know if, how many, I just don't think a
lot of people watch an entire two or three hour
Rogan anymore. Don't they just get the best of clips
and just watch that? There's millions of these accounts that
post little clips. You know, I got on an interesting
algo stream. On Instagram? Yeah, on Instagram. Chick-fil-A. Uh-huh. Every
other thing was a Chick-fil-A post. People in cow costumes,
people, just one thing after another. It must have been
a hundred, and they're all native ads of some sort.
I don't know how they're doing it, but Chick-fil-A was
just producing tons of these Instagram posts from all over
the place. Damnest thing I've ever seen. Huh. And how
long were you in this algo hole? As far as
I know, I'm still in it. If you want to
be alerted when we go live, you need one of
these modern podcast apps. These have been around, they're mature
now, these apps. They're, you know, five, six years, these
new apps have been around and they are still much
better than the legacy apps. If only for this reason,
that when you subscribe to the podcast, when we go
live, and there's several other, a lot of live podcasts,
certainly in the No Agenda Nation realm, Gitmo Nation, you
get a note, you get boom, your app, goes, hey,
the boys are going live. And a little art, you
know, like, oh, a tap, boom, you're listening. And I
think maybe even more important, because of the pod ping
technology we deployed across hundreds of thousands of podcasts that
use this now. But of course, Apple and Spotify don't
use this. So when we publish the show, within 90
seconds, your app notifies you. So it's no longer refreshing
and waiting, where's my podcast? No, boom, it just happens
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you know what works and we know what works And
it's an attention grabber. So when we saw the artwork
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Adult Daycare. We went, yeah, that's the one. It was...
I guess that's a Code Brown ED explosion. Yeah, something
like that. There's a bathroom. But it's nice. It was
no agenda. Curry and Dvorak. I think Jeffrey Rhea is
a hybrid artist. I don't think this is all AI.
He's never told us. I'm just thinking. Or has he?
I'm just thinking that he's a hybrid artist. We have
a lot of those hybrid artists. Yeah, in other words,
you do the AI and then you take and drop
it in Photoshop and fix it. Do some stuff. Yeah,
do some stuff. And let's see. I mean, like color
balance. Hello. How much work does that take? I love
when you say, I can fix this by color balancing.
I'm like, I'm not going to wait for that. No,
just choose something from Darren.
Let's see. We actually had some funny art, just funny
for us. No more Darren O'Neill. That was Miss Cho
Ho. Um... Well, some comics for blogger put a lot
of stuff up there, including Darren O'Neill even did a
no more Darren. Stop Darren slop. All stuff we'd never
use, but we got a laugh out of it. Appreciate
that. um yeah his yeah there's a big number of
no more darren yeah we kind of like the the
instructor jumping out of the airplane but it's kind of
gruesome No. Yeah. Yeah. I liked the blue acorn Sam
I.M. with the cat in the hat with the green
brain. And you thought that was too gruesome. I can't
remember. I'm looking for it. Oh, that one. Yeah, I
don't like that at all. I don't like his neck.
I don't like the brain. What's wrong with the brain?
It looked nice. Sick. All right. Jeffrey Ria, thank you
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for reasons of anonymity. And there are a lot of
people who give us very small amounts, you know, $2,
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a little bit too long. But we always like to
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able to give us an executive or associate executive producer
donation so it's 200 or more not only are we
guaranteed to read your notes which people take advantage of
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straight away with $1,000 plus the fees, which is $30.26,
is Sir Dan the Man. Sir Dan the Man's been
around for a while. He's from Cape Coral, Florida. And
he has a longer note here. Let me see what...
And at first, request for a kidney. He has a
request for a kidney? This is the first? This is
a no agenda first to know what he's about to
read. He needs a kidney? No, his wife does. Well,
let's see what's going on. Dear Adam and John, I'm
writing as a long-time No Agenda listener and supporter to
let you know I'll be making this show donation of
$1,000. I appreciate the work you do and the community
you've built around the show. Normally, I would remain semi-anonymous,
but these are not normal times for my family. I
want to humbly ask you to share this message with
the No Agenda community about my wife, Linda, and her
kidney transplant journey. A few weeks ago with no warning,
we found out that she is in end stage renal
failure. Dr. Dvorak, what does that mean? It'll make sure
kidneys stop working. And you have two kidneys. So both
kidneys have failed, I guess? Yeah. You only need one.
We have started GoFundMe to help with the medical and
related expenses that come with transplant care, recovery, travel, and
ongoing support. Most importantly, Linda is also in need of
a kidney donor. And anyone who will be willing to
get tested can start the process at www.mcdonor. mtilivingdonor.org mtilivingdonor.org
If any fellow producers or listeners feel moved to help,
whether by donating, sharing the fundraiser, or considering living donor
testing, it would mean a great deal to our family.
So I'll put this link in the show notes, in
the credits. Thank you for considering the request, and thank
you for the laughs, the insight, and the community you
continue to create. I'm grateful to be able to support
the show, and I would be deeply grateful any help
spreading the word for Linda. And he wants a mac
and cheese and a jobs karma and all the health
karma we can spare. So I'm going to up the
ante here. If any No Agenda producer donates their kidney
to Linda, I will take you out to dinner personally.
I will come to wherever you are in the country
and I will take you out to dinner. But it's
only if it's your kidney. Now if it's your kid's
kidney, you get two dinners. Guaranteed. Well, we certainly hope
for the best, Sir Dan the Man, for you and
for Linda. You slaves can get used to mac and
cheese, mac and cheese, mac and cheese, macaroni and cheese,
cheddar melted together, mac and cheese, mac and cheese, mac
and cheese. Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for
jobs. That is definitely a first. Definitely a first on
the show. Yeah, definitely. Mr. Lips is up. He's at
346.46. He has a note that's just the opposite. It's
short. Thanks for all you guys do. Love you both.
Mr. Lips. Love you mean it, Mr. Lips. Hey, there's
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Not only is it amazing for brain health, but it
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It's interesting. Gigawatt also sent Jace a birthday gift of
coffee. Oh, this is so nice. Small family business. We
have another interesting note here. This is Rosalind K. Price
in Birmingham, West Midlands, UK. $3.33. you Thank you. I'm
a choreographer in the UK who got canceled in 2021.
And since then, I've set up a support organization. And
we should link to it. www.freedominthearts.com. Freedominthearts.com. All one word.
Your show gives me and my family strength and hope.
So I looked into this. Yeah. This is a very
famous person. In fact, I sent you a show notes
memo, which has a link to her interview on GB1
out of the UK. Yeah. On YouTube. I haven't seen
it yet. I haven't seen it. It's fascinating. She was
a famous choreographer in the UK that did all these
very elaborate productions. the Rosie Kay dance troupe. Really? And
she just mentioned at a house dinner party to some
new group of dancers, she just casually said, well, I
don't know if trans does impinge on, it seems to
be a trans thing. Yeah. Impinges a bit on women's
rights. And she got canceled because there's a whole structure
set up to get her fired from her, her own
company. And the whole thing is very interesting. She describes
some of it or some of the mechanisms to fight
against it on this website. Yeah, they got toolkits and
all kinds of stuff here. But the story in the
video is more interesting than her website. So we're here,
myself, Rosie Kay, and this is Denise Farmy in the
red over here, to launch the new Boycott Crisis and
the Art Beyond Boycott toolkit. You know what? So for
her, I think she should join the new international lifestyle
of value for value. This is the kind of person
who could do that. Maybe. Yeah. We're happy that we
give you and your family strength and hope. That's so
nice. Thank you, Rosalind K. Price. That's nice to know.
We're doing good, John. Yeah, we're doing good. That's us.
We're doing good for people. I like that. Peter Muir
is in Houston, Texas. $327. Thank you, Peter. I've been
listening to you guys for about 16 years at least.
And one of those weirdos, and was one of those
weirdos that went back to the beginning when it was
bare bones. I guess I'm paying it backwards now. ITM
times 34. ITM times 34. X34. I'm not sure what
X34 is. I don't know what that means. Thank you.
Sir Dave D-A-H-A-P. DAHAP. It's all caps. DAHAP? In Gladstone,
Missouri. It must mean something. Yeah. Uh, $257.94. This is
the first associate executive producer. Happy birthday to the BC
country ITU heading to Tanzania. Tanzania. Tanzania. Tanzania. I knew
that.
Didn't sound right. Tanzania. Tanzania? What? Where's Tanzania? I don't
know, man. Tanzania. Heading to Tanzania for a few weeks
to help an NGO that works with victims of human
trafficking. Wow. Traveling karma, please. We'll keep an eye out
for more Africa news. It's a crowd pleaser. Sir Dave
Dahab. You've got karma. Over to Indianapolis, Indiana, $2.57 and
94 cents. I'm pretty sure that's $2.50, a freedom donation,
plus some fees, Sir Digi. And he says, this is
from Sir Digi. And we thank you very much, Sir
Digi. And then we go to Jeremy Brogan in Amherst,
Ohio. $250.15. Now, I realize he put the fees in,
too, because he sent in a check. That's $0.15. $0.15
process. Nice. Compared to $7.94. Right, right. Hello, people. Mm-hmm.
ITM, gents, a slightly late and matching quarter millennium donation
plus fees. Yeah, plus fees. Can I ask you a
question about? fees? 15. Let me ask you a question.
Yeah. So if someone sends us $250 plus fees, so
that's $257.94, don't we get docked over the $257.94 for
fees? I'm not sure how they do the calculation. Okay.
All right. But that money is what we get. All
right. We'll carry on. Thank you, John, for making me
cry while shaving when reading my son Connor's note for
my birthday. Father's Day slash Father's Day. Now he wants,
oh, okay, this is for you, sorry. He wants suffering
succotash with a we're all going to die. And then
he says five to eight more years. Jeremy Brogan, Amherst,
Ohio. on with your five to seven more years. Suffering
succotash. I'm Scott. Simon. Nailed it. Hey, there's Sir Cal
from Lavender Blossoms in Northville, Michigan with 227.72. I've never
met him for a while. I'd love to hear from
our boy, Cal. Thanks for all you do. Keep it
up. John, tip of the day. Drink motherwort tea for
calming and healing the heart. Love yous, Sir Cal of
Lavender Blossoms. I'm pretty sure LavenderBlossoms.org is still up and
still operating, aren't they? We haven't looked at them in
a while. Oh, yeah, for sure. Let me see. Lavender
Blossoms. Because he grows that lavender himself. Lavender, is it
Lavander? Lavender. Hmm, I don't know. It doesn't look like
it's up. I might not be doing it right. Thank
you very much, Sir Kyle. We appreciate you. Now we
have, you have to pronounce his surname. I would pronounce
it Miles Vredenburg, Miles. But you apparently, it's a Dutch
pronunciation, it would be different. Yeah, Vredenburg. What about his
first name? Miles? Miles? Miles Fredenberg. And that translates to
Freedom Mountain. Freedom Mountain. Miles Freedom Mountain in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Or it could be Berg. Just Freedom Berg is probably
more accurate. 20115 As an American, I'm curious to hear
the correct Dutz pronunciation. Oh, he doesn't even know. That's
good. That's a good one. That's good. First and foremost,
please de-douche me. You've been de-douched. I could also use
some jobs. I'm a dude named Ben looking for an
exit strategy. Thanks for all you do. I appreciate you
folks. Miles Fredenberg from Commie, Cambridge. Massive two shits. jobs,
jobs, and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. You've got karma.
and executives position their experience so employers see their value.
That's Image Makers Inc. with a K and Linda Liu,
Duchess of Jobs and writer of winning resumes, best Linda.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. You've
got karma. Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. You're going all
RoboCop again. I'll do this one. Something's weird with your
connection all of a sudden. Yeah, you're no good. I
think you said change networks. I would say that's a
good idea. And I will read the donation note from
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switch? Because you're good now. No, I didn't switch yet.
But I have a feeling it's not just you. I
think it's a routing issue because every single time it
happens... My YouTube TV, the quad screen goes into a
circle. That would seem like it's not me. Yeah, well,
it's the connection between me and California because no one
has had any... Has any had any issues in the
stream is still good. The chat rooms up, so I
don't know. Scam likely go away, scammer. Our final associate
executive producer is Sean. at InvestorPortalPro.com. What is this? Houston,
Texas, $200. A long-time listener, first-time caller, no need to
de-douche. Well, okay. Listen up if you've got a business
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Love some jobs, Karma. And do you have anything with
Art Bell? I don't think we have anything from Art
Bell. Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs. Let's vote for jobs.
You've got karma. And that concludes our Executive and Associate
Executive Producers for episode 1,886. We appreciate what all of
you have done for us today. We'll thank everybody right
after we tell you once again that these credits are
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people in the mouth. for our Value for Value treasure
supporters, $50 and above. Stefan Trockels in Soos, Deutschland, $110.11.
We see your pal in Rome. And he said he
was happy to have met Joe from Michigan today in
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an old restaurant. There is the Archduke of Luna, Love
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Carolina with his every single show boob donation, $80.08. God
bless America and boobs, he says. Juraj Kojak in Prague
checks in with a boob donation. Thank you. Hello, Prague.
James Edmondson, South Plainfield, New Jersey, double nickels on the
dime. Lane Lamoureux in Gilbert, Arizona, $55. And says it's
Lane, your buddy in Baghdad, far from the green zone,
22 kilometers, in fact. Apart from a few times ordinance
has flown over campus walls, we're in a green bubble.
Summer break is here. The pools are open. Luke Munnell
in Los Angeles, California, $52.72, and we hit the 50s.
Whoa! That was fast. Uh, Samitra Saravana in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
50 bucks, thank you. Sir Kevin Dills.
We'll see you next time. Podcasts in the universe. It
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So thank you. And if you'd like to support us,
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mixer Sir David Kechta, who wishes Helena Kechta a very
happy birthday. She turned 16 yesterday. Happy birthday, Helena. And
Sir Dave wishes country ITU a happy birthday. We say
the same. Happy birthday from everybody here at the best
podcast in the universe. and he sent a note, 'cause
it's under the normal amounts that we read notes. Tribune.
Much better value for value. With the No Agenda show,
I wish to change my moniker to Baronet Sir Gary
who plays taps. I've been state director for buglesacrossamerica.org for
many years. I've led my state's 173 volunteers providing live
taps free of charge for any veterans' honor services. Wow,
that's very cool. If you'd mention my organization, remind families
of vets when they are arranging honors to ask if
they have a live bugler, BAA's website is an easy
portal to make sure those 24 notes have a heartbeat
behind them. It's always free of charge and always deserved.
Hoping your search for an exit strategy continues to be
a failure in the morning. And yes, with that, Sir
Gary, you become a baronet Sir Gary who plays taps.
And we thank you for your continued support of the
show. Very nice. Hey, it's time for the meetups. Meetup
reports. When it rains, it pours, so to speak. Here
is the Keller, Texas meetup report. Hello, NOAGENDA Nation. This
is Yeoman Zag here at What's on Tap in Keller,
Texas. I'm having a beer by myself, but as a
friend of mine says, that's okay. The journey to a
well-attended meetup is a beer by yourself. In the morning.
Aww, in the morning. I'm sorry no one showed up.
We sent some pictures, though. It was kind of cool.
Here's the Scottsdale, Arizona meetup report. This is Lynn, the
hostess with the mostess at the Scottsdale No Agenda Media
Deconstruction Meetup. And it has been amazing. Hi, this is
Dame Stephanie at the Scottsdale Meetup enjoying some tacos and
some great company. Quick shout out to the Blonde Squad
plus Trish. Hey, this is Sir Don Baron of Chandler
enjoying some tacos and some cold beers. Love is lit.
Hey, this is Bruce and here at the Scottsdale meetup.
First time, our new listener and here enjoying company of
like-minded individuals. Hey, this is Gina from Phoenix at the
Scottsdale meetup. I want to give a shout out to
my brother Dale in Cannon Beach for hitting me in
the mouth about three years ago. ITM John and Adam.
Hey, I'm Mike. I'm a douchebag. And no agenda people
are cool. Okay, Regina, I don't listen to the show,
but maybe I will. In the morning, John and Adam.
This is Rick from Mesa. We're here at Loco Patron.
Our host, Lindsay, is awesome. And I love the show.
Hey John and Adam, this is your conscience speaking. I
know what you did. Just kidding. I don't know what
you did and I don't care. This is Kenny. Bye
now. Hey, this is Scott Sanders in North Scottsdale. We
dodged the monsoons and the dirt, wind, so we're all
clean and we enjoy our meetup. I'm not as weird
as my husband. I don't listen to the podcast. I
apologize, but I'm sure it's amazing. I love the No
Agenda crew. They are awesome. They've been amazing guests. The
No Agenda meetup people are some of the most interesting
and fun people ever in my life. Great shout out
to Lindsay who set up the whole thing, the whole
mastermind behind the project. Everyone here seems to lead great
lives and seem like amazing people. And I hope to
see them again soon. Well, there you go. Long, but
a lot of people at the Scottsdale, Arizona meetup. And
you hear it there. The people are fun. There's amazing
people. You will meet so many cool people at a
No Agenda meetup. People you just might have never, ever
encountered anywhere else. but because of the show, because of
the nature of Knowage and the Nation and Gitmo Nation,
you'll get together, you're going to enjoy it. And sometimes
people even get married. Well, in the beautiful evening, it's
Sir Scott the Jew. It's another meet-ups wedding. came out
for us. Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, Stella's on the Hill hosts
a great wedding. Beautiful couple, Holly and Jeff, in the
morning. Here at the impromptu meetup at the wedding overlooking
beautiful Coeur d'Alene Lake. And I want to say congratulations
to the happy new No Agenda couple. And as a
reminder to Jeff and Holly, the couple that No Agenda's
together stays together in the morning. This is a dude
named Jeff, and I just have to say I met
my smoking hot wife at a no agenda meetup. So
get out there, find the connection that is your protection.
Come on, you dorks, get out of the basement. Good
things happen. Here in beautiful sunny Coeur d'Alene. Celebrating Jeff
and Holly's wedding in the morning. This is Holly the
bride. Thank you, No Agenda Meetups. That's how I met
my keeper. It doesn't get more No Agenda than that.
Oh, isn't that wonderful? We've had several weddings happen here
on the show. We've had proposals on the show, and
it's nice to hear that we made another love connection
at a No Agenda meetup. There you go. Now, is
that an endorsement or what? I don't need to say
anything else other than we have a meetup taking place
today in Charlotte, North Carolina, Edge Tavern. It's Charlotte's Thirsty
Thursday Monthly. It'll be on at 7 o'clock tonight. On
Saturday, the meetup down at the sea at Warehouse No.
9, No. 9, No. 9. nine that is in san
pedro california and guess what warehouse number nine 333 pacific
time Coming up this month, what's left of it, on
the 25th of July, three, Spicewood, Texas, Anaheim, California, and
Fort Wayne, Indiana. On the 26th, Squim, Washington. Will Mimi
be attending? Do we know? No, I don't know. Okay.
Just say maybe. Just say maybe. Maybe. Oh, yeah, maybe.
Maybe. Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, their next meetup, July 30th. Who
will be the next bride? And also on the 30th,
Alpharetta, Georgia. These are the No Agenda meetups. What a
great place to go hang out with people. It's completely
free of charge to make them, set them up, to
go to attend them. It's very easy to do. Go
to noagendameetups.com, and you will find out very quickly how
to put it all together. You can list it there,
and if you can't find one near you, why don't
you just start one yourself? It's super easy, and they
are always guaranteed a party. ♪ Mix and date ♪
Drink it all I'm thinking, I was just looking at
all my systems here. When you started to RoboCop. YouTube
TV went down. My anthropic Claude codes all disconnected. I
think there might have been a minor earthquake somewhere. in
in california something happened in california i think the whole
internet burped over there Possible. Yeah. Troll Room, check it
out. So let me know if something happened. Because it
was the weirdest thing. Go to the USGS earthquake site.
They have all of them up today. Yeah, see if
something's going on. Or if it was just some internet
glitch. You know how that works. We have John's tip
of the day coming up in just a few, along
with our end-of-show mixes. But we always like to end
the show with the humans versus the machine. It's the
end-of-show ISOs, isolated clips. I bring people, John brings machines.
I'm going to start mine because I don't think I
will win. Here's my first. Oh, that was hilarious.
Actually, that's not too bad. I kind of like that
one. How about this one? Thank you very much. And
always from the well. Incredible job. Thank you so much.
I think they're kind of flat. Yeah, I don't know
who they're thanking. Yeah, us. Us. I have two celebrities
here, politicians. Amazing. Yeah, I got Kamala Harris. John and
Adam are John and Adam, and they are both good
podcasters as long as they podcast. It's very long. She's
long-winded. What can I say? Yeah, long-winded. Yeah. Let's try
Obama. Day! Don't know if you can find a better
podcast than No Agenda. Yeah, okay. A definite winner. Very
good. Hey, it's time for John's tip of the day.
Great advice for you and me. Just the tip with
JCB. Adam. product. No, I only do those once a
month. Oh, okay. Ah, good. No, this is a cool
product. This is a summer product for the people in
the Northern Hemisphere. These things are fantastic. And this is
a pretty good one. And this comes in various lengths.
Depending on your patio. Uh-huh. This is a, and I'll
spell it, Mel, M-E-L-L-B-R-E-E, Melbrae Mister. For outside patio. They're
$19 for a 30-footer. They're pre-assembled misting cooling systems with
eight brass nozzles. Oh, I love these things. These are
great. And Texas has them all over the place. Yeah,
of course. Texas, of all places, would love these things
because they're good for the patio, backyard, garden, greenhouse, chicken
coop, doghouse. And what it does, and I've run, You
set it up and it puts out this extremely fine
mist of water and it creates evaporative cooling in the
vicinity of the mist. Yeah. So it's nice. It feels
great. Now, do you just hook it up to the
outside tap? Is that what you do? Yep. You hook
it up to the outside tap and just string it
all over you wherever you want to put it and
then turn it on. Turn it on, dead man. And
what does this product cost? 19 bucks. Wow. What is
it called? That's for the 30-footer. Okay. It goes up
in price if you want like 60 foot. And the
brand once again? Melbrae, M-E-L-L-B-R-E-E. I'm telling you, if you
want to stay cool during the summer months, John's Tip
of the Day is the place for you. Free advice
for you and me, just the tip with JCB. sometimes
add Created by Dana Burnetti. Of course, you can find
all of John's tips at tipoftheday.net and noagendafun.com. And we
come to the end of our broadcast day. As you
know, we do it twice a week on Thursdays. End
of show mixes coming up. We've got Bonald Crabtree, Just
Baker. Let's see, we've got Sir Johnny B. And I
put Oisteen Bergers in abeyance. I'm sure we'll get to
it. It's always his own compositions. And coming up next
on the NO Agenda stream, or if you're still listening
in your modern podcast app, we have the Millennial Media
Offensive, very popular podcast. They'll be coming up next. And
we will return with you on Sunday. Of course, that
all depends on whether there's an earthquake in San Francisco
or not. If you guys keep your internet connection up.
I haven't heard anything, so I guess it was just
a temporary blip or glitch. So coming to you from
the... Say what? What'd you say? I didn't say anything.
I thought you said something. Coming to you from the
heart of the Texas Hill Country, where we are still
suffering from the rain-stripped backscatter. In the morning, everybody, I'm
Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley, where people are
hearing voices, I'm John C. Dvorak. We'll be back on
Sunday. Remember us at noagendthedonations.com. Until then, adios, mofos, a-hooey-hooey,
and such. Yeah Lights gone. Bye. ♪ ♪ Nope. Is
it CIA mask? Nope. Rumors flying like confetti in a
storm, but he's just in a nursing home. In Super
HD 4 Solid. Say the old turtle's still kicking. Tucked
away where the cameras don't reach. Came back with a
face that looks like it filed for an extension on
the years. Some whisper, it's a stand-in, wearing someone else's
skin. We won't solve the riddle here. Details keep stacking
in. Turtle crawled out of whatever hole they had him
in, looking brand new, like time decided to run backwards
just for him and nobody else in the room. Holding
up today's paper like it's non-clad proof, he's still drawing
breath, while half the internet's convinced they rolled out a
new one, no matter who knows how to do them.
As some claim they slapped the flesh-colored forgery straight from
the three-letter crowd. The kind that sweats and blinks on
command when the lights get too loud. Others say they
just swapped the frame and kept the same voice on
the line. Either way, the picture's dropped and now the
timeline doesn't quite align. The turtle shell, whatever shell they
had to me. For the whole new time The show
won't close. That's never how this goes, but the glow
up is glowing, and the story keeps pulling at the
loose ends, it shows. Triple Mitch. Or mask me Or
a model Mitch Worth a second glance Value for value.
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