The dog ate the pills.
Adam Curry, John C.
Dvorak.
It's Sunday, March 2nd, 2025.
It's your award-winning Gilmore Nation Media Assassination
Episode 1743.
This is no agenda.
Wearing our nice suits and broadcasting live from
the heart of the Texas Hill Country here
in FEMA Region Number 6.
Good morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley, where everyone's asking,
do you have Oscar fever?
I'm John C.
Dvorak.
I'd almost forgotten about the Oscars.
It's tonight.
That's right.
Forgot about it.
I'm sure there will be an extended dead
segment for Gene Hackman, who, as you know,
was killed because he was about to expose
the Epstein files.
I know.
It's so pathetic.
That actually came up?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, it's pathetic.
Is it thesis?
Oh, yeah.
No.
No, better.
He even put it on X.
Yes, he put it on X.
He said, I'm going to expose the Epstein
files.
Of course, the font looked a little wonky,
but that just may be me.
You know that guy?
Fake tweets are the best.
You know that guy?
Who is he?
He's a British guy.
He's kind of like a Stu Peters type
dude.
And he did a 20-minute X post
on it.
Oh, yes, this is what happened.
I don't...
That guy, I hope he gets paid.
Because...
The Stu Peters guy?
No, it's not the Stu Peters guy.
It's some other dude.
Come on, showroom.
You can help Adam here.
He's thinking of someone.
You must know who it is.
I can't remember who the guy is.
I don't know who the guy you're talking
about.
Well, when you hear people...
Piers Morgan?
People have sent you links from this guy
and you're always like, don't you ever dare
send us that again.
Oh, that guy who's always talking sideways to
the camera?
Yeah, exactly.
See, I knew you'd know who I was
talking about.
That guy.
Yeah, that guy.
He's all over it.
He's the worst.
He's all over it.
Oh, yeah.
But just wonder, it's like, does he have
ad money or...
He's got to have something.
Here, Gene Hackman.
I am ready...
Here, Gene Hackman, X post.
On February 24th.
Makes nothing but sense.
I'm ready to corroborate everything in the Epstein
client list and to put Bill Clinton and
others in prison if it's the last thing
I do.
And then it...
Here, this is the guy.
The news hits like a gut punch this
week.
That guy.
Gene Hackman, the old school Hollywood legend of
the French connection, Unforgiven and Superman, gone.
Gone.
Does that guy have a lopsided face?
Why doesn't he face the camera?
He might have a lopsided...
He's always cocked one way or the other.
He's never like looking at the camera.
He's like looking over to the side and
then is askance.
What is that?
What is that style?
Adam is at home alongside his wife and
one of their three dogs.
Oh, no.
A tragedy, sure.
But the details?
They're so twisted, even the mainstream media can't
whitewash it.
Oh, even the mainstream media can't whitewash it.
This is great.
Wow.
This is good.
Something is off.
Something's off.
Way off.
And the media are barely scratching the surface.
Why would they?
Here's what the media won't tell you.
Okay.
Gene Hackman wasn't some retired millionaire kicking back
in New Mexico.
No.
He was neighbors with Jeffrey Epstein.
Oh.
Yes, that's Epstein.
Well, I mean, his timing's a bit off
because Pam Bondi's botched release has been kind
of snowed under by other things taking place
in Washington.
Just on that for a moment.
On Bondi?
No, on Bondi.
How does that?
She had influencers and gave them all binders.
Binders with old bunk.
It's the same old stuff, yeah.
But how does that even happen?
I don't understand.
I mean, that's a huge botch.
Someone tried to screw her or tried to
screw.
Well, that's what she claims.
I mean, did she not look at the
binders?
Let me just double check for a second
before I hand out these binders.
Of course.
I have a clip of something that was
similar to this kind of thing.
This seems to be, I think, a theme.
This Tom Fitton thing.
What about this new series of clips called
BTS behind the scenes?
People bitching about, you know, the promises not
being kept or whatever.
Listen, this is similar to the Bondi thing.
I'm looking for behind.
Oh, here it is.
BTS.
I got you.
And then, of course, we have to pressure
the Trump administration because, as I said, there
are some agents, you know, they just can't
help but move slowly.
And you may recall Joe Biden was interviewed
by the special counsel and the special counsel
released a transcript that was edited as we
uncovered.
And the transcript wasn't enough.
In our view, there was an audio tape
and then should have been released of Joe
Biden.
And so what happened is that we sued
and there's the Biden people came up with
60 different reasons.
I'm exaggerating, obviously, to withhold this information from
us.
And so the court just a week or
so ago asked the Biden, asked the Trump
Justice Department, hey, hey, there's a there's a
new boss in town.
What's your position on this?
And rather than just say, oh, we want
to release the tapes, they said, well, we
need till May 20th to figure out what
to do.
That's frustrating, isn't it?
Wait a minute.
What what tapes?
Do you remember when Biden gave the deposition
to the investigator before Congress and said, well,
the guy is such a dumb, he's such
a dumb old man that, you know, there's
no way we can convict him.
So we're going to let it slide.
We can't put him on the stand.
He's too feeble.
I think something like that.
Yes, I do remember.
And then they said, well, let's listen to
the tapes, because they figured the tapes, if
you could hear what Biden was doing, then
it would have, you know, kept him from
getting reelected because he was still in the
running.
And of course, it happened that way anyway.
But beside the point, they wanted to hear
these tapes.
No, we'll give you a transcript instead.
And the transcript was edited.
And so they start working on getting the
tapes released.
And now that Trump got in, they figure,
well, here we go.
We get to listen to the tapes.
At least we get to listen to the
tapes.
And no.
Yeah.
So there's a lot of blockage, blockage.
I was listening to Joe Rogan talking to
Elon Musk because he had Elon back on,
which makes no sense.
I saw parts of that was good.
Yeah.
And well, what Elon said is, well, imagine
that, you know, you're, everyone hates you and
you're going in and then everyone is working
against you, I guess, but that's, it's still
inexcusable.
She lied on Jesse Waters.
I'm just going to hold on to that.
I'm happy to change my opinion on Pam
Bondi.
But right now she is nil, nil.
She's what?
Nil, nil.
You mean like a soccer game?
Yes, exactly.
Nil.
She has nil.
Negative one.
This was not good.
That's not your first out of the gate.
Here we go, everybody.
The Epstein files are going to drop.
Well, it was her fault.
Yes.
Yeah, it was bad.
Instead of being a hot shot on Jesse
Waters, she gets on the show as much
as she wants to.
Yeah, because Jesse has her number.
They text.
Well, Jesse has her.
Yes, he has her text number.
But Jesse always, Jesse has a very, his
story, not Jesse, but his producers have a
very good sense of photogeneity or actually telegeneity.
They bring on a lot of pretty women.
And more than the other shows in general.
You're telling me that Pam Bondi was a
DEI hire because she's pretty?
Yeah.
Actually, now you're thinking in those terms.
I mean, she's 60.
So she's held up a little.
She's my age, 60?
Yeah.
Really?
You can look her up, 59 maybe.
But she's basically 60.
And she...
Yeah, 59.
She is very telegenic.
Yes.
I don't know how she looks like in
person.
I guess she doesn't look that good.
We know because our producer said she looks
like Merle Haggard in a wig.
So I can't get out of my head.
But that's the thing about it.
You know, you're either, you're telegenic.
I mean, you can be, you know, beautiful
in different ways.
I can't get, it's hard to get out
of my head.
Merle Haggard in a wig is tough, man.
That's a tough thing to let go of.
So I'm sure that, I mean, you and
I never speak during the week.
Maybe an email or something innocuous.
Maybe you forward something funny.
Rarely.
I'm sure we probably had the same idea
for our deconstruction of what took place in
the Oval Office.
But this morning we got breaking news, breaking
news.
And I mean, I have clips of all
the meetings that went on and Zelensky in
the UK.
And, you know, we can back into it.
But I think what UK Prime Minister Starmer
did this morning kind of sums up what
we both thought was about to happen.
Would you agree?
I'm not sure, but probably.
I'm guessing there's, because you saw the newsletter
and I have a lot of my thoughts
in there.
A lot of it's based on some input
I got locally from Lib Joe.
Lib Joe's?
Well, stop.
Stop this show.
Well, not the normal Lib Joe's.
We get different.
Wait, you have new Lib Joe's?
Well, one Lib Joe's a temp.
What do you mean a temp?
Working at the Washington Post?
Hey, Uber drivers know what they're talking about.
The Uber drivers are very good information.
Yeah, I don't know.
Yeah.
And the other one's an old friend of
mine who's a big shot.
Big shot.
Who's also a liberal.
In the publishing world by any chance?
Yes, in the publishing world.
All right, then I have thoughts.
Yes, that's good.
That's a qualified source.
But it's still knee-jerk Democrat.
I think it was largely expressed.
I do have a clip from, I think
the best exemplification of this is the twerp
came on one of the shows.
We have the same clips.
You have the twerp?
I have the twerp.
Yeah, hold on a second.
I have two clips by the twerp.
She was on, the twerp was on with
- She's the worst, this woman.
But she exemplifies what these people are thinking.
Well, the interesting thing, and I'll play the
clip.
Now we're beating around the bush and the
producers are going, what the hell are these
guys?
Who's the twerp?
Well, first of all, I think we both
agree that what the president and the vice
president did was predetermine they were going to
undress this guy.
That's what it seemed like to me.
I can't, here's the one piece of evidence
when I got into an argument with the
publisher.
Yeah.
It was, his comeback was kind of, I
couldn't beat this comeback.
He says, oh really?
Well, then where was the signing table?
Why didn't they just do it, open up
the press conference, they had the signing table
with the document right in front of him,
signed, that's what they always do.
There's always a signing table so they can
sign the document.
The deal.
And you know, what was the point of
this rest of this crap?
Where's the signing table?
The signing table.
I'm, oh, the signing table.
No, because they knew that Zelensky wasn't going
to sign.
So they were like, okay, well, we'll bring
you into the Oval Office.
And for me, the clue was the journalist
in the blue suit jacket.
I love that guy.
Because I have that clip too.
Yeah, I don't know who that guy is.
Now we've created a puzzle for the audience.
Let me play the blue suit jacket guy.
Well, wait, let's start.
Okay, well, this is the part I'm going
to explain to the people out there listening.
The two of us are beating around the
bush, because neither one of us know exactly
how we should start this discussion.
I think we, I think we start with
the blue suit.
Go to the twerp and then start.
Well, if you're going to start with the
blue suit, I think you should predate that
and go to Trump in the greeting where
he ridicules Zelensky for not wearing a suit
at the beginning.
Do we have that clip?
Do you have that one?
I didn't clip that one.
I didn't clip it either.
The reason why, well, so yeah.
So Zelensky rolls up in the car and
President Trump, late, and President Trump is there
to greet him.
He says, oh, look, he dressed up.
That was pretty much, it was like an
eight second clip.
But this guy, I don't know who he
works for, but he was left with the
president.
The president turns to him, has to swivel
all the way around.
The guy has some dumb question first.
And then the president says, oh, you had
a second question?
That's felt set up to me, especially because,
who is this guy in the blue suit?
That would not have been a good situation.
What was your second question?
My second question for President Zelensky, do you
ever, why don't you wear a suit?
Why don't you wear a suit?
You're the highest level in this country's office
and you refuse to wear a suit.
Just want to see if you own a
suit?
Yeah, I have problems.
A lot of Americans have problems with you
not respecting the dignity of this office.
I will wear a costume after this war
will finish.
Yes.
Maybe something like yours.
Yes.
Maybe something better.
I don't know.
We will see.
Maybe something cheaper.
Thank you.
Now, the way I see that, that guy
was a shill.
The entire point was to rile up Zelensky,
which he did.
Because if you listen to what Zelensky is
saying, he's like, oh, maybe I won't wear
one like that.
Maybe it'll be cheaper.
So he was already a little bit annoyed.
And Trump afterwards complimented the guy.
Trump made some comment about the question.
Good job.
Good job, Jeeves.
And it was, yes, this looked like a
staged event.
And the thing that still is somewhat baffling
is the, and I think we can try
to analyze this, was the fact that Rubio,
who was not given a part in the
play and didn't have any lines, so he
didn't get scale.
He sat there in a grumpy, kind of
just in a grump mode.
He had one, he had one line.
He did.
They gave him one throwaway line.
He had one line.
I don't remember, what was his line?
It was a throwaway line.
But if we, okay, let's just step back
for a second, because everything that happened was
pre-told by Rubio in the Pixie Girl
interview, Catherine Heritage.
Right, which we played last couple shows.
Well, let me just, I'm going to play
that part again so you can hear it,
because now in context of what took place,
like, wow, you hear everything.
And I have to mention as an aside,
have you seen the size of Marco Rubio's
ears?
I haven't noticed.
They are, like, they're bigger than Granholm's saucers.
You take a look, go look at a
picture, and you'll go, wow, as I play
this clip.
I think President Trump is very upset at
President Zelensky, in some cases, and rightfully so.
Look, number one, Joe Biden had frustrations with
Zelensky.
People shouldn't forget it.
There are newspaper articles out there about how
he cursed at him in a phone call.
This clip resurfaced, and it resurfaced, an old
clip from MSNBC, and people on X are
going, oh, they tried to hide this.
It wasn't all that hidden.
Because Zelensky, instead of saying thank you for
all your help, is immediately out there messaging
what we're not doing or what he's not
getting.
I think the second thing is, frankly, I
was personally very upset, because we had a
conversation with President Zelensky, the vice president and
I, the two, three of us, and we
discussed this issue about the mineral rights.
And we explained to them, look, we want
to be in joint venture with you, not
because we're trying to steal from your country,
but because we think that's actually a security
guarantee.
If we're your partner in an important economic
endeavor, we get to get paid back some
of the money the taxpayers have given, close
to $200 billion.
And it also, now we have a vested
interest in the security of Ukraine.
All right.
So that's exactly what you even said at
the time.
And so all of this was known.
They didn't like the guy.
The guy was irritating them.
I should bring in one extra dimension.
I don't have the clip of it, but
Scott Besson came on with Laura Ingraham, Frau
Ingraham.
And Besson, who was secretary of the treasury,
I think, who met with Zelensky.
Remember, he went over there by himself?
Yeah, yeah.
And Zelensky wasn't there for him.
He was sleeping.
Well, Zelensky did meet with him after he
woke up.
And he said he was going to do
a deal.
He was going to do a deal.
Then he said he wasn't going to do
it.
That was the prelude to, it turns out,
the prelude to Rubio.
And so in other words, Besson went there,
tried to start that deal.
Fell apart.
And after kind of a phony baloney discussion,
because he wasn't, wouldn't have gone in the
first place.
So the second go round, it seems to
be Rubio.
And so you have a double teamed him
with Rubio and the vice president.
And the third go round is now Trump,
Rubio and the vice president.
And that didn't work out.
So would that.
So this was a setup.
I'll play the twerp.
And Susan Rice correctly identifies that it was
a setup.
But of course, it's because Putin.
Well, Nicole Putin, obviously, it's a very sad
day and an embarrassment for the United States
on the world stage.
Just for why does she come out of
the woodwork all of a sudden?
You have to question this.
Who does she work for now?
This is a good question.
I was thinking about this, too, which is
why as out of the blue, we haven't
heard from this woman.
And we for people out there, we generally
call her the twerp because she's a very
gnome like little character who is who is
a creep and small and a twerp.
And she comes out of the blue here.
I have no idea.
It's got to be the industrial complex.
She's not working for the USA.
That's for sure.
Because in this clip, you're going to hear
what comes up.
She's going to say that this deal was
not favorable to Ukraine.
So it was a bad deal.
She is a research fellow at the School
of International Service at American University.
And as of 2018, she's been on the
board of directors of Netflix.
It's probably how Obama probably got her in
there.
And she's the director of domestic of the
Domestic Policy Council.
Whatever that is another scam.
Here we go.
Let's step back and analyze what's happened here.
I think there's no question that this was
a setup.
You heard Donald Trump say at the end
of that clip he played.
This is great television.
This was a setup Vladimir.
I mean, excuse me.
I love how she messes up Vladimir with
Vladimir because she's so used to saying Putin,
Putin, Putin.
This was a setup.
It was on her mind.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, excuse me.
Vladimir Zelensky was compelled to agree to a
horrible deal that would have sent Ukraine's minerals
to the United States without any concrete security
guarantee.
It's a horrible deal for who?
Not for us.
Whose side is she on?
Well, we don't know.
Probably on the side of the globalists in
Europe.
Guarantees.
And yet, because he was trying to improve
a relationship with Donald Trump, he came to
Washington.
He came to the Oval Office and sat
down for a meeting.
Hat in hand.
That's my favorite.
There was no hat in hand.
No, he was all riled up.
And soon after he got there, the vice
president of the United States lit into him
and started a confrontation.
Now, I've been in countless Oval Office meetings
with heads of state, presidents and vice presidents
as national security advisors, UN ambassador and in
other roles.
I can tell you that the vice president
or the secretary of state or anybody else,
they don't jump in, hijack a conversation without
the express blessing of the president of the
United States.
So JD Vance did that deliberately.
Donald Trump knew what he was going to
do.
And I think, as he said at the
end, because he can't help himself.
This was a setup for the cameras.
It was a play to his base.
But above all, it was a play to
Vladimir Putin, to Vladimir Putin and to try
to humiliate Zelensky.
But Zelensky didn't play along with the script,
because Zelensky's got dignity and guts.
And Zelensky has people that he democratically represents.
And as- No, no, no, no.
It's under martial law.
There's almost been a year since they've had
elections.
No.
He couldn't sit there in silence as lies
were being told about how the war was
started, whose responsibility it was, you know, et
cetera, et cetera.
It happened during the administration that she was
in in 2014.
That's how the war was started.
And he tried to explain what is, in
fact, the case.
So the best part of that interview, I
thought, was this 33 second clip, which I
will just share with you.
It was an effort to humiliate him, to
scuttle the U.S.-Ukraine relationship so that Trump
no longer feels any obligation to provide support
and to hand U.S. interests in Ukraine
and potentially Europe to Putin on a silver
platter.
Why?
That's a great question.
No, it's not.
And listen- Susan, we're going to unfreeze
you.
I want to play- So the minute
she says that's a great question, the video
freezes.
It was poetic.
It was poetic, poetic.
Here is the most truthful moment.
It's 50 seconds.
The most truthful Trump moment in the Oval
Office.
This is, I think, is true.
Well, if I didn't align myself with both
of them, you'd never have a deal.
You want me to say really terrible things
about Putin and then say, hi, Vladimir, how
are we doing on the deal?
It doesn't work that way.
I'm not aligned with anybody.
I'm aligned with the United States of America
and for the good of the world.
I'm aligned with the world.
And I want to get this thing over
with.
You see the hatred he's got for Putin.
It's very tough for me to make a
deal with that kind of hate.
He's got tremendous hatred.
And I understand that.
But I can tell you the other side
isn't exactly in love with, you know, him
either.
So it's not a question of alignment.
I have to- I'm aligned with the
world.
I want to get the thing set.
I'm aligned with Europe.
I want to see if we can get
this thing done.
You want me to be tough?
I could be tougher than any human being
you've ever seen.
I'd be so tough.
But you're never going to get a deal
that way.
So that's the way it goes.
One more question.
And there you go.
I believe that's all to be true.
I got messages from friends overseas.
Here's my buddy, Michelle, in the UK.
What the F is Trump and Vance doing
supporting Russia after being in the Cold War
for 70 years?
They've turned on the whole world just for
some deals?
That's how it's being perceived.
Thanks to the media.
Well, he's not- Thanks to the media.
Exactly.
Thanks to the media.
And I want to put- just to
not go completely off track, but I do
want to play these clips because I think
it- You want to do Starmer first?
Because that's the big news.
Well, I was going to play the Galloway
material because it gives us all the background
we need.
Okay.
I don't- I'm not familiar with this.
And the reason I want to play is
because this is George Galloway.
Piers Morgan, just as a little background here.
He's funny.
I can't help but laugh.
Piers Morgan knows what he's doing.
He knows what good TV is.
He's always been a tabloid guy.
So he knows what a headline should be.
He does.
He knows how to get attention.
He's got no personality, really.
He got the attention of your clip machine.
This is how good he is.
He's good.
But so he- and you can hear
him defer, which is he doesn't get into
arguments.
If a guy goes off on him, on
Piers, he'd let him go because he knows
it's interesting.
But this is George Galloway, a notorious socialist
who's a writer for The Guardian, who's just
generally a creep in general.
Hates Trump.
Hates the United States.
Hates England, as far as I can tell.
He hates everything except the communist revolution.
But his discussion of the situation is so
on point that you have to say, well,
at least you nailed this part of it.
And here we go.
This is a three-parter.
I think it's excellent.
It's really come to something when having spent
a lifetime myself fighting against NATO and American
wars.
It's the Americans that are trying to stop
the war.
And Piers Morgan, Boris Johnson, and Keir Starmer,
who are trying to keep it going.
I don't want to keep it going.
You've got a lot of Ukrainian- I
don't want to keep it going.
You've got- Wait a minute, he put
Piers Morgan in the list?
That's great.
Yeah.
That's good.
You've got a lot of Ukrainian blood on
your hands.
Wow.
You have lied about this war from the
beginning.
I think Vladimir- You have lied about
the origin of this war, about the duration
of this war, about the course of this
war.
And now, having caused you and your war
party the death of a million Ukrainians while
claiming to love Ukrainians, you're now calling for
British lives to be lost.
What a load of absolute bullshit.
That constitutes close to a war crime.
You're going to regret it when, very soon,
Zelensky is sitting in a beachfront villa somewhere,
counting his ill-gotten gains, and all the
secrets of the rampant corruption between the Democrats
and the Zelensky regime begin to tumble out
of the cupboard.
This war did not begin three years ago.
You very well know that it began in
2014.
You very well know that it began with
a coup against the elected president of Ukraine,
backed by Victoria Nuland and the administration at
that time, and supported by you.
Man, everyone's going to hate Galloway now.
He can't even get the left on his
side with this.
I like the way he goes, you very
well know.
This is a trick I've never heard him
do, or anyone, actually.
I like this.
You very well know.
And he keeps it up.
And the whole thing is done for effect,
and it's very well done.
It's effective.
And it's very effective, and Morgan knows what's
going on.
And this was kind of, at least to
me, it's funny to watch Morgan.
He almost tries to stop him, but then
he gets him out.
He's on a roll.
And Morgan backs off, knowing that this is
good material that's going to get him the
views he wants.
But here we go.
You very well know that the criminalization of
the Russian language, which followed hard on the
heels of that coup, was the proximate reason
for an uprising in the east of the
country amongst Russian-speaking, ethnically Russian people.
You very well know that Zelensky and his
predecessor rained down shot and shell on the
people of East Ukraine for eight years before
Putin intervened.
It's possible that Galloway is really, truly an
anti-war guy.
That may be his reasoning, that he's just
so anti-war, which is good, that this
is why he's—and he's on point with this.
You're so right.
He's on point.
In 2022.
And that 14,000 people, most of them
women and children, were killed in that onslaught.
You very well know that Zelensky was preparing
for a final onslaught, a final solution.
And while I'm on that subject, you're always
telling us how much you love the Jews.
You're supporting a regime which puts up statues
to Nazi collaborators, to generals of the Galician
division of the SS.
Zelensky is Jewish, you know that, right?
You know Zelensky is Jewish, right?
But that's like saying there's no racism in
America because Obama— So you're calling the Jewish
leader of Ukraine a Nazi.
Is that your position?
By the way, I am a little disappointed.
Where are all my Jew haters to say
that Zelensky is controlling America?
I'm missing this in my time.
I'm missing it.
That's like saying there's no racism in America
because Obama was briefly the president of the
country.
The entire western part of Ukraine played a
decisive role in the mass murder of Jews
and Poles and others in the Second World
War.
And now they are heroizing the heroes of
the SS.
Why doesn't Donald Trump agree with you?
This is—I'm glad you got these.
This is very good.
This is— Yeah, he raps it and he
keeps—it doesn't end with—I mean, now the last
is the last clip, but it's just like
he brings in Donald Trump and this is
the part that I find was interesting.
Why doesn't Donald Trump agree with you?
Because he's wrong.
Well, you know, you have been up his
ass all of these two decades.
You've kissed his feet.
You've licked his boots.
You've fawned upon him.
Really?
You have been his super fan.
And now, on this fundamental question of our
age, he's entirely wrong.
Everybody watching knows you are Trump's biggest ass
kisser.
I like him.
I like Donald Trump.
I know you like him.
I don't like him.
And on many things, on many things— But
on this, he's wrong.
And the fundamental question— Let me finish.
The biggest question in politics in the world
today, he's got it completely wrong.
Ukraine was the most corrupt country in Europe—
What, more corrupt than Russia?
—before BitLess was designated by the economists, by
the FDA.
What about what?
Putin?
Yeah, Putin.
And it falls apart there.
Oh, that's good.
That's good.
Now, does Galloway also hate Trump?
Man, that was a little unclear.
Unfortunately, in that little exchange there, in there,
he says, I hate Trump.
Yeah, but Trump is doing the right thing,
but I hate Trump.
Yeah.
Interesting.
All right, so all of this culminated, I
think, as intended or as expected— There was
a hint it may have been intended because
Starmer, in this clip, does indicate that there
was some— Because he met with Trump the
day before, or it was— I think it
was the day before.
Two days before.
Yeah, well, Macron, I guess.
Macron was there, and so was Starmer.
They both met.
So there may have been some scheming going
on here.
We don't know for sure, but this thing,
this is— I don't know.
Starmer is not a character I would trust.
I don't think anyone trusts Starmer.
No, no.
Now, so we're going to play the announcement
from this morning?
Yeah, this is the one that came out
today.
First, we will keep the military aid flowing
and keep increasing the economic pressure on Russia
to strengthen Ukraine now.
Second, we agreed that any lasting peace must
ensure Ukraine's sovereignty and security, and Ukraine must
be at the table.
Third, in the event of a peace deal,
we will keep boosting Ukraine's own defensive capabilities
to deter any future invasion.
Fourth, we will go further to develop a
coalition of the willing.
Where have we heard this, coalition of the
willing?
Was that not Iraq when— George W.
Bush.
When we scammed everybody into going into a
different country?
And he's the one who said coalition of
the willing.
In fact, if people want to look something
up that's entertaining, the Council on Foreign Relations
did a whole paper on coalition of the
willing.
If you google coalition, I'm sorry, coalition, not
coalition, coalition of the willing, Council on Foreign
Relations, you can find it.
Coalition of the willing to defend a deal
in Ukraine and to guarantee the peace.
Not every nation will feel able to contribute,
but that can't mean that we sit back.
Instead, those willing will intensify planning now with
real urgency.
The UK is prepared to back this with
boots on the ground and planes in the
air, together with others.
Europe must do the heavy listing.
But to support peace in our continent and
to succeed, this effort must have strong US
backing.
We're working with the US on this point
after my meeting with President Trump last week.
And let me be clear, we agree with
the president on the urgent need for a
durable peace.
Now we need to deliver together.
Finally, we agreed that leaders will meet again
very soon to keep the pace behind these
actions and to keep working towards this shared
plan.
We are at a crossroads in history today.
This is not a moment for more talk.
It's time to act, time to step up
and lead and to unite around a new
plan for a just and enduring peace.
Thank you.
I like the just and enduring peace.
A just, that's what Zelensky said that too,
a just peace.
We need a just, whatever that means, a
just peace.
Doesn't mean anything.
And what's the thing, we're gonna have more
meetings, but let's not have too many meetings.
Give me a break.
So right after the Oval blow up, Zelensky
hoofs it over to No.
10 Dowling Street for the big embrace.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer welcomed Ukrainian President
Vladimir Zelensky to London on Saturday.
I want to thank you, people of the
United Kingdom, such big support from the very
beginning of this war.
The meeting follows the berating seen around the
world.
Berating.
President Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance
gave Zelensky in the Oval Office Friday.
God bless.
You don't know that.
God bless.
You will not have a war.
Don't tell us what we're gonna feel.
We're trying to solve a problem.
Don't tell us what we're gonna feel.
I'm not telling you.
Because you're in no position to dictate that.
You're in no position to dictate what we're
gonna feel.
President Trump is spending the weekend at his
Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach.
Before leaving D.C., Trump spoke to reporters
about Zelensky's dressing down that sparked new questions
about the next chapter in U.S. support
for Ukraine.
He's got to say, I want to make
peace.
He doesn't have to stand there and say
about Putin this, Putin that, all negative things.
What became clear, and I think what has
the president so frustrated and frankly angry, is
that it's not clear that Zelensky truly wants
to stop the fighting.
Many Republicans expressed support of the president after
the showdown with Zelensky.
But GOP Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska commented
on the situation on Axe, calling it a
regrettable conversation, showing the administration may try to
end all U.S. support for Ukraine.
All right, so as Tina and I were
talking about this, the first thing she said
is, well, who's his handler?
Who is making him do this?
And it seems very obvious to me the
EU and the UK are behind this, and
for very good reasons.
So he went to this emergency summit, and
he's sitting there, everyone's around the table, including
Queen Ursula.
They're all in all the panel, and Zelensky
lays out his plight.
Oh, what a difference a day makes.
Extraordinary.
I'm sorry, intro first.
We've seen in Washington in the Oval Office,
and because of this diplomatic debris, more than
ever, pressure.
Oh, I like diplomatic debris.
That's a nice one.
Diplomatic debris.
And because of this diplomatic debris, more than
ever, pressure on Keir Starmer, the UK prime
minister, really on this London summit.
But a very positive, constructive meeting, a lot
of warmth.
Indeed, the prime minister came out of that
famous black door, number 10, and gave a
big hug to President Zelensky and immediately drew
his attention to the cheers that had gone
up just outside the gates of number 10,
very much to say that the UK, the
Ukraine has a full backing of the United
Kingdom.
Then very warm words in front of the
cameras, briefly, very much appreciated by President Zelensky.
President Zelensky, who had requested, I understand, a
meeting with the head of state of the
United Kingdom, King Charles, and who has indeed
obtained it.
That had to be approved by the UK
government.
So interesting and very constructive, very positive.
That defense loan also announced last night.
So a lot of warmth, a lot of
backing.
And it's hoped that there'll be much more
backing in the London summit that will be
happening here at Lancaster House.
All right.
So then what was that report from?
That is from, I think, France 24.
They use the word warmth way too much.
Oh, and that was the contrast with Trump,
obviously, because it's an anti-Trump outlet.
And the warm embrace, you know, oh yeah.
You know, Zelensky also went into an office
with Starmer and I forget the woman's name.
You know, they signed a two billion pound
deal right on the spot before even this
summit took place.
So the UK was already in for two
billion pounds to keep something flowing.
And here's a, I have a couple of
clips here from this panel.
The stakes couldn't be higher.
The summit to take place on Sunday, hosted
by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, will bring
together leaders across Europe and will tackle.
Let me see if this is it.
You are secure.
I don't want that one.
Is it this one?
We hope that we can finish this war
this year, not in three years.
It's very, very difficult.
Very difficult for all our nation to go
through this war.
And all these, all these jimoks from the
EU are sitting there looking at him.
Oh yes, yes, yes, oh yes.
But with all respect to our soldiers and
our people.
So I can't speak about three years.
If we speak about how to prepare security
because of the Russia, they can come back
in 10 years.
If we will not be prepared, they will
not come back.
If we will pressure them, put them to
their place.
To their territory.
You have to put them to their place.
And if Ukraine will be in EU and
in NATO.
Uh-huh.
In the EU and in NATO.
There it is.
In closest years.
Of course, it will help us very much.
And I think that they will not come
back.
We will have strong army and strong allies
and strong unity, to my mind.
Because they will never, I mean, forgive the
world that they didn't win.
And you see that they will not win.
And then he takes it one step further.
And this is, this is real war talk.
You know, we are very often.
And also today we speak that we need
just and lasting peace.
And when we speak about the just.
And here you go.
An explanation of just and lasting peace.
Lasting peace.
And when we speak about the just and
this war.
It's difficult to find just in this war.
Because of such steps of Russia.
Their war.
Their way of this war.
How many people they killed.
Just killed and thousands in the prison.
And stolen children.
Stolen children.
And that's why we'll never forget it.
And we can't forget it.
And even if, I hope that our partners
on the same page with us.
Not only hope I see it.
But we'll never forget it.
And we will really do everything that people
who began this war.
Who unprovoked.
Unprovoked.
All these people.
Yes, really will.
Will answer.
And of course we will work on tribunal.
Even after the hard part of this war.
Even when we will go to the diplomacy.
We'll never, never forget these surnames and these
people.
Tribunals.
Okay.
That's not peace talk with tribunals.
And this, it's like a turning back the
clock two years.
It's the same stuff we've heard.
And like I explained to my friend Michelle.
Dude, we're responsible.
The USA is responsible for this.
Starts with James Baker.
Lying that, oh, we'll never expand NATO.
Then we expanded NATO over and over.
And then the coup.
Thank you, Victoria Nuland.
You just have to chalk that up to
the USA.
We let all that happen.
We let all that go.
And then Boris Johnson coming in.
Stopping the peace accord after Minsk II.
And the Europeans were already like, no, we
just want to get ready.
We use Minsk II just as a way
to arm up and get ready.
The whole thing has been a big giant
scam.
And really when you look at it.
This is part of the European Union project.
Yeah.
In fact, there's a couple of things to
note.
Which we don't have clips of.
But during this little, when Trump went off.
He did bring up the fact.
And just something I subscribe to.
Which was the EU was formed to screw
the United States.
Because they were losing out on trade.
And it formed specifically to outcompete us.
Yes.
And it hasn't worked, by the way.
In addition, one of the big problems.
There were a couple big promises.
I was there.
I was living there when it happened.
The EU would have all the same money.
It's going to be great.
And everything doubled in price the next day.
The minute the euro came in.
The next is you will no longer need
a passport.
Well, that helped with all the irregular migration.
That was all planned.
That was flooded the entire zone.
And they also promised.
We will never, ever, ever have a European
army.
I remember we played that clip from.
What's his face?
The Brexit guy.
Farage.
Who said it's just a lie.
You want a European army.
No, we'll never have a European army.
And we'll also never centralize the finances.
To have a federal central bank.
Yes, central bank and a tax.
And a tax, a generalized tax.
And so they need, in order to complete
the European Union project, they need the fear
of Russia.
And remember, it was, I think it was
Starmer and it was Macron.
We are now in a, we have to
have a war economy mindset.
A war.
This is what we're moving towards.
So that once you have a European army,
then you need to have European taxes to
fund that army.
And now you have the United States of
Europe, which they always intended to have.
And they don't care about their people at
all, at all, at all.
This is literally the finalization of the project.
And I'm sure that the globalists like Newland
and Lindsey Graham and McCain, they were all
in on it.
They loved it.
Lindsey Graham.
I do have the clip.
Is the Lindsey Graham.
He was obviously readied on the scheme of
the meeting with Trump.
He started off with, you know, Zelensky had
a pre-meeting, bipartisan pre-meeting, and he's
sitting there at the reception line.
Which is probably a violation of the Logan
Act, by the way.
Maybe.
But they all shaking hands.
Oh, Vladimir, so good to see you.
Oh, it's fantastic.
Do you have the Graham clip?
I have the Graham clip.
I have the whole Graham clip.
It's quite interesting because right after the thing
that took place, and it starts off when
I first heard it, because I heard it
live when it was going on.
I thought, oh, he's going to turn on
Trump, which then I did.
That thought lifted rather quickly because Graham doesn't
do that.
Graham is a screwy guy, a pro-war
guy, but he doesn't turn on the boss.
And so you ended up with this.
I don't see your Lindsey Graham clip.
Under Frakas.
It's all under Frakas.
Oh, I see it.
Yes, Frakas.
Got it.
So, Graham, what did I think?
Complete utter disaster.
Oh, by the way, stop, stop.
So the clip was terrible.
I mean, I think my clip is better.
Let me see.
No, this clip is really clean.
Once it gets going, I've cleaned it up.
I went through Adobe.
Believe me, it's understandable.
I hate Adobe.
It's so, they've gotten so bad with this
cleanup stuff.
They just turn it into AI voices like
it comes from 11 labs.
You get used to it.
Believe me, this is a much better than
that.
I know what you have.
And this, I had both.
And this one I prefer.
So, Graham, what did I think?
Complete utter disaster.
I've been to Ukraine eight or nine times
since the war started.
I understand the consequences of Putin's actions against
Ukraine.
I appreciate what the Ukrainian people have done.
They fought like tigers.
At the end of the day, I was
hoping that this minerals deal, which would be
transformative in the relationship, would go over well.
I talked to Zelensky this morning.
Don't take the bait.
President Trump was in a very good mood
last night.
Somebody asked me, am I embarrassed about Trump?
I have never been more proud of the
president.
I was very proud of J.D. Vance
standing up for our country.
We want to be helpful.
What I saw in the Oval Office was
disrespectful.
And I don't know if we can ever
do business with Zelensky again.
I think most Americans saw a guy that
they would not want to go in business
with.
The way he handled the meeting, the way
he confronted the president was just over the
top.
So I think the relationship between Ukraine and
America is important, vitally important.
But can Zelensky do a deal with the
United States?
After what I saw, I don't know.
President Trump, what did he say to you
about his interactions and whether he's— He was
shocked.
He was very upbeat.
I told Zelensky, we'll talk about security guarantees.
We'll talk about ceasefires and how the war
ends.
This is a process.
You have a new relationship with America.
A $500.5 trillion deal that President Trump
is proud of, that gives us an interest
worth defending.
Let's talk about the positive.
But he was terrible at Munich, Zelensky.
And I think he has made it almost
impossible to sell to the American people that
he's a good investment.
Senator Graham, thank you.
Do you think President Zelensky needs to resign
to presume these peace talks?
He either needs to resign and send somebody
over that we can do business with, or
he needs to change.
Yeah, he may get resigned.
By the way, Lindsey Graham is being primaried
by some MAGA person, I think an ex
-military guy.
So he has to suck up to Trump
to get the ever-important endorsement.
So, you know, Lindsey Graham, what a tool.
I have— Yeah, he played his part.
Yeah, he did.
I have Rubio post-fracas on CNN with
the Joker face, Caitlin Collins.
Two clips.
I thought this was— The lipless wonder.
There she is.
Thank you so much, Secretary Rubio, for being
here.
We just heard from President Zelensky.
He said he does not think that he
owes President Trump an apology for what happened
inside the Oval Office today.
Do you feel otherwise?
I do.
I do, because you guys don't see— You
guys only saw the end.
You saw what happened today.
You don't see all the things that led
up to this.
So let me explain.
The president's been very clear.
He campaigned on this.
He thinks this war should have never started.
He believes, and I agree, that had he
been president, it never would have happened.
Now here we are.
He's trying to bring an end to this
conflict.
We've explained very clearly what our plan is
here, which is we want to get the
Russians to a negotiating table.
We want to explore whether peace is possible.
They understand this.
They also understand that this agreement that was
supposed to be signed today was supposed to
be an agreement that binds America economically to
Ukraine, which to me, as I've explained, and
I think the president alluded to today, is
a security guarantee in its own way, because
we're involved.
It's not us.
It's our interests.
That was all explained.
That was all understood.
And nonetheless, for the last 10 days, in
every engagement we've had with the Ukrainians, there's
been complications in getting that point across, including
the public statements that President Zelensky has made.
But they insisted on coming to D.C.
This agreement could have been signed five days
ago, but they insisted on coming to Washington,
and there was a very—and should have been
a very clear understanding, don't come here and
create a scenario where you're going to start
lecturing us about how diplomacy isn't going to
work.
President Zelensky took it in that direction, and
it ended in a predictable outcome as a
result.
It's unfortunate.
That wasn't supposed to be this way, but
that's the path he chose.
And I think, frankly, you know, sends his
country backwards in regards to achieving peace, which
is what President Trump wants at the end
of the day, is for this war to
end.
He's been as consistent as anyone can be
about what his objective is here.
What about the apology he kept demanding?
But what specifically do you want to see
President Zelensky apologize for?
For being a douche.
Well, apologize for turning this thing into the
fiasco for him that it became.
There was no need for him to go
in there and become antagonistic.
Look, this thing went off the rails.
You were there, I believe.
It went off the rails when he said,
let me ask you a question to the
vice president.
What kind of diplomacy are you talking about?
Well, this is a serious thing.
I mean, thousands of people have been killed.
Thousands.
And he talks about all these horrible things
that have happened to prisoners of war and
children.
All true.
All bad.
This is what we're dealing with here.
It needs to come to an end.
We are trying to bring it to an
end.
The way you bring it to an end
is you get Russia to the table to
talk.
And he understands that attacking Putin, no matter
how anyone may feel about him personally, forcing
the president into a position where you're trying
to goad him into attacking Putin, calling him
names, maximalist demands about Russia having to pay
for the reconstruction.
All the sorts of things that you talk
about in a negotiation.
Well, when you start talking about that aggressively
and the president's a dealmaker, he's made deals
his entire life.
You're not going to get people to the
table.
And so you start to perceive that maybe
Zelensky doesn't want a peace deal.
He says he does, but maybe he doesn't.
And that active, open undermining of efforts to
bring about peace is deeply frustrating for everyone
who's been involved in communications with them leading
up to today.
And I think you should apologize for wasting
our time for a meeting that was going
to end the way it did.
So I'm seeing different things online.
I didn't clip anything.
One, because Putin is just speaking in Russian.
But apparently Putin says, you know, we got
more rare earth minerals than Ukraine.
Yeah.
We can do a deal with America.
We can do a better deal than they
can, basically.
And the other one that I saw was
some Ukrainian official, who knows, that said, well,
we just might have to ask China for
help.
Which I thought was interesting, if true.
I haven't seen that one.
And meanwhile, the professional signs are out in
front of the Tesla dealership in Manhattan.
Can you hear what they're singing?
No.
Zelensky is a hero.
Repeat after me.
Mic check.
What's that got to do with Tesla?
Well, Musk, you know.
Yeah, Musk isn't, he wasn't even in the
room.
If we hurt Musk, we hurt Trump.
I don't know.
So I have a bunch of, I have
a series of, uh, FRACA's analysis from NPR.
Okay.
Oh, that's always funny.
Which discusses this issue.
Can we start off by saying, hey, hi,
hoi, hi, how you doing?
Can we start off with one of those?
I don't know if I've got that one
in this one.
This week with that remarkable.
This week with that remarkable Oval Office press
conference on Friday with President Trump, Vice President
Banz.
And of course, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Zelensky.
NPR Senior Editor and Correspondent Ron Elving joins
us.
Now, Ron, thanks so much for being with
us.
Good to be with you, Scott.
President and Vice President flanking President Zelensky.
And then President Trump telling him he ought
to be grateful for U.S. military aid.
Yes, that's exactly how it went.
Okay.
All right.
NPR, the national treasure.
If you didn't have our military equipment, this
war would have been over in two weeks.
In three days.
I heard it from Putin.
In three days.
This is something.
Maybe less.
In two weeks.
Of course, yes.
It's going to be a very hard thing
to do business like this.
It's very hard to do business like this.
Ron, in your experience, anything like this in
the Oval Office, in front of the international
press?
Simple answer.
No.
The point appeared to be for Trump to
send a signal that the world could see,
including supporters of his America first theme here
in the U.S., but also including our
allies in Europe, the countries he wants to
stop, depending on the U.S. for security,
and perhaps also a signal to Vladimir Putin,
with whom he has been quite visibly cooperative
since returning to power.
And as to the presence of reporters, it
was less about the press than the cameras.
In fact, as the abortive meeting ended, Trump
could be heard to say to the departing
crews that it must have made, quote, great
television, unquote.
The act as if it was a hot
mic moment.
I mean, no.
Yes.
And by the way, that was exactly the
pitch of Susan Rice.
Yes.
Oh, yeah.
But this analysis was identical.
Yeah.
And identical to the conversation I had with
the publisher and identical to the conversation I
had with the Uber driver.
Wow.
That is a strong meme.
So it was a hijack to suck up
to Vladimir Putin.
Yeah.
All right.
President Trump gets support from Republicans in Congress
to essentially flip U.S. policy to support
Russia because support for Ukraine has enjoyed bipartisan
support.
Yes.
Judging by their public reactions in real time,
yes, President Trump will get their support, the
Republicans in the Senate by and large.
Even some of the biggest defense hawks, like
Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, were calling on
Zelensky to apologize to Trump for that meeting
or to resign as president of Ukraine.
So what they're making it about here is
the apology.
That's what we're going to be just hit
to death with for the next week is,
oh, he's such a little puny man.
He wants an apology.
What I thought was interesting was that after
he had the fracas, he did.
I didn't expect this to happen, but he
did do Brett Baer.
Brett Baer.
Yeah, he did.
Brett Baer.
Yeah.
He went to Brett Baer's show.
Yeah.
And the whole show, which I was stunned.
I thought he'd just cancel it.
But no.
In fact, I think Baer was stunned.
He mentioned it several times.
There's 30 seconds left on this clip.
I don't want to...
But I just wanted to also say that
that's all that show was about was the
apology.
Yeah, true.
Well, Fox News is run by Democrats.
Others found the whole thing unseemly.
They were expressing shock in private.
But on this issue, as on so many,
Republicans in Congress may utter criticisms or regrets
here and there, disagree, but they do not
break with Trump.
They vote with him.
They know what that will mean for them
in the immediate hours thereafter online if they
oppose him and on the phone and back
in their districts or their states.
And they know what it means when they
next face Republican voters.
Yeah.
It's only about politics.
It's only about the show.
Of course.
NPR.
Of course.
It makes nothing but sense.
Oh, man.
There's...
I have two more clips from NPR.
It was a good moment, though.
The whole thing was fun and well-timed.
Thank you, President Trump, doing it on a
Friday in between shows.
That was appreciated.
Oh, it was great.
What else do you got?
I thought it was, like, terrific.
What next?
In fact, that's one of the...
Another topic that comes up is that, well,
this is going to be a horrible...
No, this is...
This is...
This show is tough.
The next...
I guarantee by Thursday, there'll be another thing
that'll be just as good as this.
Yes, JFK files released.
It's going to be great.
Well, you don't know about that.
Let's play this fracas Ukraine rally.
Ukrainians are rallying around their president, Volodymyr Kuzinski,
after he was publicly berated in the White
House yesterday by President Trump and Vice President
J.D. Vance.
By the way, there's articles of impeachment now
in the Ukrainian parliament.
So I'm not so sure these reports about
rallying around Zelensky are all that correct.
I wonder about that myself.
But it's possible because the guy who is
pushing the articles of impeachment is one of
the oppositions that has been pretty much imprisoned
by Zelensky's dictatorship.
And I think Trump is correct about this,
by the way.
This guy has turned into a dictator that
for some reason we're all in on.
By the way, Sir Gene just sent me
a message.
He speaks fluent Russian because he's my handler.
And Sir Gene says, yes, Putin did say
Russia has way more rare earth than Ukraine
and is ready to do a deal with
the U.S. for rare material extraction from
all of Russia.
There we go.
Straight from the translator's mouth.
We always do well when Putin, actually it
would be pre-Putin, let the oil companies
and our oil companies into Russia because they
didn't have the...
At the very beginning, Russia's making a lot
of money off of oil and gas.
But at the very beginning, they've always had
the reserves.
They've had tons of them.
And everybody knew that because since Stalin, who
had gotten rid of all the bureaucratic class
that could do engineering, they had nobody that
knew how to get the oil out properly
using modern technologies.
And so they let our Exxon and BP
and all the boys came in and showed
the Russians how to do it.
And then Russia all of a sudden becomes
an oil economy because they were shown how
to do it right.
And they've benefited from it.
They know that they could bring in our
boys again.
Bring out the broader list again.
And here we go.
We could make money for everybody.
And I just don't get it why we
don't want to do that more.
It's just beyond me.
Clearly, our president does.
Yeah, but it still comes up with this
anti-Russian propaganda.
He comes up against this wall, this Putin,
Putin, Putin wall, and it's everywhere.
All right.
Let's continue with the fracas on NPR.
NPR's Joannica Kiss's reports from Kyiv.
Oh, this is their evidence?
TikTok videos?
What are you, a podcast?
What are you doing, NPR?
One prominent politician, Mustafa Nayyem, wrote on social
media that the Trump administration hates Zelensky and
Ukraine and sees Ukrainians as, quote, barriers to
backroom deals.
At the Kyiv food market, soldier Denis Sokolov
says Zelensky wants what's best for Ukraine.
The main difference is that Ukraine won't make
a peace, but Trump won't make a deal.
That's a huge difference in our politics, in
our vision to how we want to end
the war.
Making peace versus making a deal, he says,
are two different goals.
Let me just contradict the NPR lady here.
I have friends in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium,
the UK, and you know who they really
hate?
The Ukrainians.
They're sick of them.
Now, you won't hear that, and these friends
and family members are no fans of President
Trump, per se.
They're sick of the Ukrainians.
And the Ukrainians are walking around doing that.
I've seen TikTok videos.
I hate it here in Holland.
This place sucks.
The Dutch are no good.
The food sucks.
Kind of true.
It's like the whole thing.
Ukraine is known for its cuisine.
They must have something going on.
All right.
What's this?
Oh, the rally clip?
Is that the next one?
Yeah.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is hosting a
meeting of European leaders in London tomorrow to
show support for Ukraine.
Yeah.
Okay.
So we already know what came out of
that one.
Yes.
I mean, I don't know how much more
we can do.
The only thing is, I did get a
note that Haltebak Bunkers, who are a marine
fuel provider in Norway, has now declared they
will cease supplying fuel to U.S. Navy
vessels.
Well, that seems smart.
What?
Yes.
I missed this one.
Yeah, let me see.
Why?
Because, you know, let me see.
I have there, we have today been witnesses
to the biggest, this is apparently from Haltebak
Bunkers on X, so take it for what
it's worth.
Could be bullcrap.
Could be.
We have been witnesses to the biggest shit
show ever presented live on TV by the
current American president and his vice president.
Huge credit to the president of Ukraine restraining
himself for keeping calm, even though the USA
put on a backstabbing TV show.
It made us sick, short and sweet.
As a result, we have decided to an
immediate stop as fuel provider to American forces
in Norway and their ships calling on Norwegian
ports.
No fuel to Americans.
We encourage all Norwegians and Europeans to follow
our example.
Slava Ukrainia.
Okay.
All right.
I don't know if it's true.
But it seems highly unlikely.
Yeah, well, that's why I say it's an
ex-post.
You just don't know.
Um, someone recommended I read The Road to
Serfdom.
Have you ever read that from Hayek?
Long time ago.
Yeah.
So this person's book, this is right in
with, you know, you know, it's a hair
on fire thing.
Yeah.
But in a way, it's kind of, it
makes sense because Europe wants central planning.
They want central war planning, which means central
industry planning, because that's what the war economy
is.
They want the central bank.
They want the finances to get together.
They want the, they want the European Union
taxes to pay for everything.
And, you know, you just, everyone's like, oh,
whatever.
I don't know.
It's kind of sad.
So they need.
It goes back to the days of the
kings and queens and serfs and peasants.
This is a historic thing.
They've always had a de fiefdom kind of
thinking.
Well, I mean.
It's pathetic.
Sorry, EU, but yeah, it does feel a
bit like that.
So, well, wait until everyone really lose their
ever-loving minds when Trump starts doing a
deal with Putin.
That'll be fun.
It's good for the show, but phew, man.
Oh, it's not going to be fun to
watch.
No, but it's good for the show.
We have just as many Americans who think
the same way.
More professional signs as J.D. Vance and
family go on a quick little break.
For Vice President J.D. Vance and his
family, following yesterday's fiasco there in the Oval
Office with Ukrainian President Zelensky, there's some new
video now we have showing the vice president
being greeted by protesters holding anti-Vance, pro
-Ukraine signs as he makes his way there
to Vermont for a Stevenson vacation.
Screw America, pro-Ukraine.
More protesters met the Vance family outside of
the resort, and the family ultimately had to
move to an undisclosed location.
Undisclosed location.
Okay.
This is the same old thing with Maxine
Waters during the first administration telling, get in
their faces, get in their faces.
It's horrible.
Republicans.
It's really about Republicans.
The, so I do have two short clips
regarding J.D. Vance, Trump, and Starmer about
the free speech issue, which I still think
should be called freedom of speech, but okay,
everyone calls it free speech.
Here's J.D. Vance making a point of
it with the British Prime Minister.
I said what I said, which is that
we do have, of course, a special relationship
with our friends in the UK and also
with some of our European allies, but we
also know that there have been infringements on
free speech that actually affect not just the
British, of course, what the British do in
their own country is up to them, but
also affect American technology companies and by extension,
American citizens.
So that is something that we'll talk about
today at lunch.
We've had free speech for a very, very
long time in the United Kingdom.
Yeah, you had it for a very long
time, and then you did away with it.
And it will last for a very, very
long time.
Well, no, I mean, certainly we wouldn't want
to reach across U.S. citizens, and we
don't, and that's absolutely right.
But in relation to free speech in the
UK, I'm very proud about our history there.
I'll bet you're proud of it.
Here's Keir Starmer.
What is he talking about?
They're arresting people for Facebook posts.
You can get arrested for performative praying, which
I thought was a great term.
And so if you pray in front of
a window and someone sees it, that could
be seen, you know, as insulting and you
can get a citation or be arrested for
it.
But here's Starmer once again denying this.
I think he's on Breitbart.
He did say today, we do have this
special relationship with our friends in the UK
and some European allies.
But we also know that there have been
infringements on free speech that actually affect not
just the British, but also affect American technology
companies and by extension, American citizens.
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, I think, has
brought this up.
This is about UK's Online Safety Act.
Is the UK and EU trying to censor
speech?
No, we don't believe in censoring speech.
But of course, we do need to deal
with terrorism.
We need to do.
By the way, it's true.
They don't censor speech.
They just arrest you.
That's not the same as censorship.
He's being very tricky here.
We don't believe in censoring speech.
But of course, we do need to deal
with terrorism.
We need to deal with paedophiles and issues
like that.
But I talked to the vice president about
it today and we had a good exchange
about it.
And of course, he's right to champion free
speech.
We champion free speech in the United Kingdom.
And in relation to the measures that we've
taken, obviously, we're very mindful that it shouldn't
have an impact on US citizens.
Very demure, very mindful.
Now, what this is about, as you heard
it mentioned twice, it affects US technology companies.
What they're talking about here is the Apple
order.
This morning, rare bipartisanship in Washington over new
concerns about American cybersecurity.
This gives the UK the right to basically
spy on my data.
At issue is an order from the British
government that could affect people right here in
the US.
The UK government is reportedly demanding Apple provide
backdoor access to any data in its cloud
storage system.
They've demanded this access not only to citizens
of their own country, but to citizens around
the world, which is pretty scary.
Just last week, Apple said it would stop
offering an optional security feature in the UK
called advanced data protection, which is found under
settings.
That feature blocks Apple from unlocking your data.
Apple holds the key to all of the
data that's uploaded into iCloud.
And the reason they do this makes sense.
It's because, oh, I've lost my password.
And so Apple can say, don't worry, we'll
take care of you.
We can get that data back.
Advanced data protection says, no, no, no, I
don't want Apple to have the key.
But the UK may want Apple to go
further in providing data access, presumably for national
security or law enforcement.
Here at home, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi
Gabbard forming a legal response, saying this would
be a clear and egregious violation of Americans'
privacy and civil liberties.
Lawmakers urging action, saying these dangerous short-sighted
efforts by the United Kingdom will undermine Americans'
privacy rights and expose them to espionage by
China, Russia and other adversaries.
It's up to American politicians to start putting
the pressure on the UK and saying, whoa,
whoa, whoa, whoa, this is an American company.
This is a bit out of bounds.
It's kind of interesting to me that, you
know, the UK is looking at, well, they've
ordered Apple effectively.
And I think Apple has complied.
Like, don't encrypt it.
And our own spy agency, the NSA, seems
to be a trans cult.
They're just talking about talking all day.
I mean, what is going on in the
world?
Have you seen that?
That NSA situation has not really been exploited
by the mainstream media enough.
It seems to me, if I was the
editor of a Metropolitan Daily, I would take
that story and just go after it.
Well, it's the City Journal that's going after
it.
That guy, what's his name?
Christopher Ruffo?
Ruffo, I think.
Ruffo.
Yeah, he's going after it.
But the mainstream media can't go after it
because it's anti-trans.
It's transphobic.
It's no good.
They're still all in on that.
They can't do that.
So, speaking...
They're in a bind with this trans thing.
It's just beyond them.
Although, yeah, actually, I had a...
Let me see, I have a clip.
This is a TikTok clip, no less.
Oh, no!
No!
I'm in your turf.
This is a gay lady, and she's out
of the club.
Howdy.
My name is Julie.
I'm an adult human female.
And to be in the gay club, you
used to just have to do gay stuff.
I'm a girl.
I kiss girls.
Homo.
Done.
Easy.
Over with.
We get it.
No one gives a shit.
But now to be a gay, it seems
there's a lot more rules.
You got to read the fine print.
You have to subscribe to a political ideology.
You have to, apparently, be miserable and oppressed.
You have to hate everyone who thinks differently
than you.
Fam, I just can't do it.
I'm still going to be a gay, but
I ain't in the club no more.
All right?
If you're picking up what I'm putting down,
let's be friends.
Let's be friends.
All right, she's out of the club.
She's...
Oh, yeah, she's a big turf.
I don't think she cares about what anyone
does, but she just doesn't want to be
a part of the club, which is a
good sign.
Yeah, we found these clips over the years
of these lesbians, mostly.
The gay males don't bring it up as
much, but the lesbians seem to be very
upset about it.
All of them except Kara Swisher.
She's all in.
She is the leader of the cult.
Yeah.
That's because she's a Democrat.
She's stuck in the Democrat ethos that won't
allow you not to think that way.
That's my hate lesson.
I can't even listen to my hate lesson.
It's gotten so bad.
It's hurting the show.
I'm okay.
All right.
Thursday, I'll bring in clips from my hate
lesson.
It's okay.
It's always the same.
What house are you in today, Scott?
Oh, I hate Trump.
Me too.
Okay.
By the way, you know, we often play
these super cuts of the news media saying
the same thing over and over again.
Yes, it's an old gag that seems to
have legs.
Yeah, so I have a super cut of
influencers.
This kind of shows you how smart companies
are using the internet and TikTok and Instagram
to do exactly the same.
They give the influencers money.
They give them a script.
And in this case, they all are also
peeling a potato.
And this is for some supplement company, I
believe.
So it's the exact same thing.
They're peeling a potato with a potato peeler.
It's crazy.
And they say this.
My dad is one of the highest paid
nutritionists in California.
No one believes him when he says these
things.
My dad is the highest.
My dad is one of the highest paying
nutritionists, yet nobody believes him when he says
these things.
My dad was the highest paid nutritionist in
2024, and still nobody believes him when he
tells them.
My dad is one of the highest paid
nutritionists in all of California, yet for some
reason, nobody believes him when he says these
things.
That's the highest paid nutritionist in California, yet
no one believes him when he says these
things.
My dad's the highest paid black nutritionist in
Southern California, and yet no one believes him
when he gives them these simple.
My dad's one of the highest paid nutritionists
in all of Florida, yet no one believes
him when he tells them these things.
My dad's the highest paid nutritionist in California,
yet no one believes him when he says
these things.
My dad is one of the highest paid.
My dad is one of the highest paid
nutritionists, and here are some wild things he
swears by that no one ever believed.
My brother's the highest paid nutritionist in Europe,
yet no one in the US believes him
when he shares these secrets.
My dad's a dietician.
Of course he'll make me a healthy human.
My dad is the highest paid nutritionist in
all of New York, but nobody believes me
when I share this advice.
There you go.
Wow.
Who dug that one up?
Well, it's very easy to do for yourself.
If you have the TikTok app, I know
you only use it on the computer, but
maybe time to get the phone out of
the drawer, load the TikTok app.
And you search for a term, and in
the TikTok app, when you scroll, then it
starts playing.
Yeah, but you get a variety of...
Yes, but it starts playing the preview.
So this was literally just scrolling through the
previews, letting each one play as it came
by, and then scrolling further to go to
the next one.
Did you put this together?
I did not.
But I saw how it was done.
That's astonishing.
Is it surprising, though?
It's not as surprising in the least, but
the obviousity, which is a good word, by
the way.
Obviousity, I like it.
Yeah, the obviousity of this is people should
be frightened by it.
This is an op of the highest order.
We're just being played by these marketing people
in every which way.
You want to hear some big pharma plays?
Love it.
Okay.
Okay, first an easy one, just like, what
do you call it?
Low-hanging fruit.
It didn't take long for one-year-old
Soren's flu symptoms to land him in the
emergency room.
It was really overwhelming, and the fact that
the hospital was already so packed with kids
that were sick was also a startling thing.
But as soon as it seemed he was
getting better...
He then got RSV.
We had to quarantine him away from his
brother, and he was crying to hang out
with his brother, and it was just...
It was really heartbreaking.
Turns out there's been a big increase in
families dealing with the same situation.
So it's been different this year.
Dr. Olukemia Kinronola is used to busy days
and seeing sick kiddos, but not like this.
Thank you for picking up on that.
If there's one thing I despise, it's calling
kids kiddos.
It's creepy.
Busy days and seeing sick kiddos, but not
like this.
But on this particular day, we had flu
A, influenza A positive, about 20 cases.
In just my panel, it was really alarming.
It can be tough for parents.
So many of these viruses have similar symptoms.
Runny noses, coughs, some sort of fever.
But we asked, what is the key to
telling them apart?
For the flu...
If you see high fever, chills, lethargy.
For RSV...
Respiratory distress, either wheezing or just you can
see the retractions in the chest.
For COVID...
Some form of lymph nodes, so they're inflamed.
So that's more COVID.
And neurovirus.
Have a fever, not as high, usually it's
about like the 99.
Neurovirus, yes.
So we have four.
To 101.
And once kids do start to feel better,
they're actually more susceptible to other viruses at
that point.
The immune system was no easier for them
to get everything else.
After treatment, Soren is feeling better.
We're definitely on the up and up now.
Doctors say during this time, keep an eye
on your kid's symptoms and know that early
intervention works best.
You know, you know your child and kind
of trust your gut a little bit.
And in flu season, I'll be honest, it's
probably better safe than sorry.
So there's your quaddemic.
Unfortunately, the kid's not puking with norovirus.
But this one...
Yeah, how does that work?
How do you get norovirus and not puke?
Now, this is my favorite because it is,
this is a very important week.
And I'm not downplaying the importance of the
week because my daughter had an eating disorder.
My stepdaughter had an eating disorder.
Lots of girls have eating disorders.
But it is National Eating Disorder Week.
So let's celebrate with a new term.
On the Medical Watch this afternoon, it's National
Eating Disorder Awareness Week.
And there is a disorder affecting boys and
young men that you've likely never heard about.
It's called bigorexia.
Bigorexia.
Have you ever heard of this, John?
You've likely never heard of it.
But not bigorexia.
Dr. Huma Khan is the Director of Adolescent
Medicine at Advocate Children's Hospital and joins me
now.
Thanks for being with us.
So first of all, what is bigorexia?
Yeah.
So bigorexia is a term that describes muscle
dysmorphia.
It's a type of body dysmorphia in which
an individual is hyper-focused on getting very
muscular and lean.
And so what are some of the warning
signs to watch for?
Two warning signs.
Some of the warning signs.
He's in the gym too much.
Yes, this is crazy.
Bigorexia.
What are some of the warning signs?
Some of the warning signs to watch for.
So some of the warning signs are...
He'll kick your ass is one of them.
Your child is just getting very interested and
working out.
Oh no.
Oh, heaven forbid.
When you're interested in working out, you better
lay down, son.
You've got bigorexia.
And if these workouts are very expensive.
This isn't an April Fool's joke.
No, no, no, it's not.
This lady had a white lab coat on
and a stethoscope and everything.
Happening every day, multiple times a day.
And if this is also paired with any
restrictive eating behaviors, like adhering to a fad
diet, cutting calories, cutting carbs to the point
where you're noticing your child is no longer
eating like they used to.
But what's the difference?
Do you mean like eating healthy and...
What is this?
Your kid needs like an anti-report.
This is great.
No longer eating like they used to.
But what's the difference between, you know, a
child who becomes kind of aware of their
looks, if you will, as they enter the
teenage years and one who...
Watches Joe Rogan.
Is exhibiting conduct that parents should be concerned
about.
Yeah, I think that's a really interesting point.
And this week is National Eating Disorders Awareness
Week.
And I think it's really interesting to think
about, you know, we focus on eating healthy
and exercising and how that's important.
But it's also important to note that when
these things are done in excess, it can
be very dangerous.
Bigorexia.
There you go.
How is it dangerous?
By the way, the first report I wanted
to make a comment on.
Yes.
They like the idea of softening you up
with the kind of pre-propagandizing the public
that, oh, your kid has influenza, and he
gets RSV on top of that.
They always like to...
Which I don't know how often this happens.
But the idea is to make you think
that you're going to get two things at
once.
To keep in play the idea that when
you get the flu, you can also get
bird flu or something, or the two will
intermix and a third new disease will evolve.
You know, that whole concept, which is very
sketchy, has to be in the public frame
of mind so we can always keep people
in a state of fear.
Yes.
Bigorexia, also known as reverse anorexia, or megorexia.
How about magorexia?
There's a new one.
Magorexia.
I'm going to write it down.
Magorexia.
It'll be a thing.
You watch.
Magorexia will be a thing.
You have to define what it is exactly.
It's a beefed up Trump supporter.
No, no.
Bodyguards.
You wear red hats.
That's it.
That's magorexia.
I found this to be fascinating.
I can back up his claim about the
event taking place.
I can't back up his lab claims.
This is Dr. David Erb.
Dr. David Erb.
Not Herb, but Dr. David Erb.
The ERB, yeah.
Yes, and he has an explanation for the
measles outbreak in Texas, which I thought was
worth sharing.
Hi, everybody.
This is Dr. David Erb, Erb Family Wellness.
Quickly, everybody needs to know that it's national
news that there's a, quote, outbreak of measles
in Texas, and it's in Gaines County, Texas.
And the outbreak started with 14 individuals.
It was the outbreak.
The outbreak, 14 people.
What they did not tell you is, guess
what happened that caused the outbreak in Gaines
County, Texas?
It was a free measles vaccine campaign that
vaccinated a bunch of individuals and literally is
the cause of the outbreak.
If you actually, there's receipts on this.
You can actually go back and look.
There's articles on it.
And I know the propaganda wheel is turning,
but here's the thing.
It's not a coincidence that it's happening right
now when RFK Jr. is about to put
a dent in the whole pharmaceutical vaccine industry.
But here's the other thing.
There's a test called reverse transcriptase, RNA test,
that you can test individuals that have infections
and things and look at the virus.
And if you do that when people with
measles, you can see if it's a wild
viral strain of measles or if it's a
vaccine strain of measles.
And guess what you find invariably almost every
single time when you see these outbreaks.
Do you think it's wild measles or do
you think it's actually vaccines measles?
And what you invariably find most of the
time is that it's actually a vaccine strain
of measles, not wild measles, which means guess
what the cause of it was?
The cause was the vaccine program in a
time where they're actually trying to prove, you
know, that vaccines eradicate all these quote unquote
diseases when really the only thing that's keeping
these things going is literally the vaccine programs
that are actually causing people to get sick.
So I don't know about this claim.
I buy it.
And I'll tell you why.
I buy it too.
Yes.
I buy it because this reminds me of
the swine flu.
The number of vaccines that went out with
life swine flu in them and it was
some sort of a supposed accident.
I never believed that.
It was designed to plant swine flu.
Yes.
Good work.
And this makes nothing but sense because Kennedy's
coming in.
Let's plant some measles, a measles quote unquote
outbreak and then make a big fuss about
it.
I mean, listen, we don't put anything past
these ghouls.
Just because there's billions of dollars involved in
free money.
I mean, why wouldn't you try this trick?
Yes.
I mean, just like Hollywood, you know, let's
get rid of Gene Hackman.
Everyone will watch the Oscars.
And remember, Conclave is in the running.
So what we are hearing is the word
out of the Vatican is that the Pope
is in serious condition.
The words that they're using are extremely concerning.
He's been hospitalized for more than two weeks
with pneumonia and bronchitis.
And although it appeared as if his condition
was improving, things have taken a turn.
According to official reports, the Holy Father was
up this morning and praying in the chapel.
At some point, he suffered an isolated coughing
fit, which caused him to start vomiting.
And there's an isolated coughing fit.
That's quite the coughing fit.
If you start vomiting, this is not good
morning and praying in the chapel.
At some point, he suffered an isolated coughing
fit, which caused him to start vomiting.
And there's concern about aspiration, which is when
food or liquid goes into your airway instead
of through your esophagus.
The episode was so intense that he's receiving
what we are told is non-invasive medical
ventilation.
So what does that exactly mean?
Here's pulmonologist Dr. Barbara Mann from Mount Sinai.
We bring in the pulmonologist to explain this.
Non-invasive mechanical ventilation is a tight-fitting
mask that fits over your nose and mouth
and pushes air in and supports the work
of breathing.
This is really concerning.
He's an elderly man.
He's had many pulmonary complications to begin with.
He's been in the hospital for a while
now.
And although he may have been stable for
a couple of days, going into this acute
episode, I'm sure it set him back a
lot.
And it's unclear whether he'll be able to
recover from that or not.
So the question on everybody's mind says, Pope
Francis has been given his last rites, which
if you're not Catholic, it's a sacrament given
to those who are close to death.
That's like a question that was not in
my mind, but thanks for bringing it up.
It's not a question in my mind.
And it's not when you're close to death,
it's you're dying.
You're in the process of either dying or
you just died.
You're just right there at the death's bed.
It's not because you're gonna die.
You can do that tomorrow then.
The reason why we need this is because
of the Oscars tonight.
And it's unclear whether he'll be able to
recover.
I gotta say that you're probably right.
So the question on everybody's mind says-
Everybody's mind.
Pope Francis has been given his last rites.
You said on your mind, that's not on
my mind.
It was not on my mind until I
heard the clip.
Rites, which if you're not Catholic, it's a
sacrament given to those who are close to
death.
The Vatican hasn't said, if that was to
be announced, it would mean that the Pope's
condition has become so severe that death was
imminent.
And again, we just want to mention to
both of you that it has not been
announced, but people are waiting to see if
in fact they do.
So that's awful news to hear.
Let you go for sure.
All right.
Thanks, Teresa.
Awful, awful news.
Awful news.
I'm saying Conclave for the win tonight.
Conclave for the win.
Looks like a good movie, by the way.
Looks pretty interesting.
Isn't it about a gay, a transsexual priest
or something?
There's all kinds.
No, like the priest who becomes Pope has
ovaries and all kinds of...
It's perfect.
Yes, it's perfect.
It's perfect.
Oh, man.
It's perfect.
I thought Enora, was it Enora, the one
that seems to be the last minute favorite
until Conclave all of a sudden took over.
First, it was some one other movie, then
it was this Enora.
This is all bull crap.
I haven't seen any of them.
Enora.
What is Enora?
That's because none of these movies are any
good.
What is the Enora movie about?
It's about a whore.
Okay, thanks for the plot line.
That's basically it.
Yeah.
Comics for Blogger wants the Jesse film to
win.
Was it the Bondage movie?
What's the Bondage movie?
Pam Bondy?
No, no, the Bondage movie.
It's a...
Bondage movie.
Is that maybe Enora?
It's called Pain, I think.
It's called Pain.
Pain?
Yeah, I think it's called Pain.
Let me see.
There's a Bondage movie that's...
What is wrong with Hollywood?
These movies are all perverted.
A Real Pain is the name of the
movie.
It stars...
Oh, that's a comedy, though.
It stars Jesse Eisenberg and...
Yeah, Eisenberg.
He's the guy who wrote the script.
It's a comedy.
It's a light comedy.
It's not a hardcore Bondage.
I'm just telling you.
It's a light comedy.
Jesse's character is apparently a very talented screenwriter.
Wait a minute.
Is this another Brunetti production?
This sounds like it's got Brunetti written all
over it.
No, Brunetti's still out of it.
He's trying to get Scaramanga to do AI
movies now.
Have you been following that on X?
No, but Scaramanga's supposed to be doing this
with us.
Brunetti came in and stole him.
We're going to have to have Brunetti in
his EP?
Oh, yeah.
He stole him.
He stole Scaramanga from us.
He's like egging him on.
Like, oh, yeah.
Wow, this is a real Hollywood backstabbing Hollywood
move.
Yes, that's what Hollywood dudes do.
They sneak into your community, steal your guys,
and you think we're going to get a
Scaramanga movie created by no agenda?
No, no.
We're not getting no royalties, no residuals, no
nothing.
We don't even get a screen credit as
an associate.
Which, according to Brunetti, is the lowest of
the low.
Oh, man.
Thanks.
Dana Brunetti, maker of fine films as House
of Cards, series House of Cards and Fifty
Shades of Grey.
Big time no agenda producer.
Just came in to get ideas from our
people.
Nice.
Well, he came to the best.
Well, this is true.
This is true.
Fact check false.
Let's just stop at...
What?
Nothing, nothing, nothing.
What did you just do?
I just did a...
Fact check false.
Yeah, I just threw it in there.
Defending USAID clips.
This is from NPR.
Oh, yeah.
This is still ongoing, of course.
And this is interesting to me because this
is...
The NPR is all in, all this poor
USAID.
I want to go for these two clips
and I want to go to the...
I'm going to do this regularly and I
hate to tell you, but it's the best
I could find is Jesse Waters, who summarizes
some of the scams going on, and he
does a good job on almost every show.
Let me guess.
Is it trans, trans, LGBTQ trans?
Yeah, a lot of that.
Yeah, of course.
Because nothing gets the Fox viewers riled up
than two million dollars to some trans dance
party.
Yeah, that's right.
Sorry, it was trans dance party.
You got it wrong, USAID.
All right, NPR.
It's been a difficult week for the United
States Agency for International Development.
I love this guy.
I want him to do jingles for us.
You're listening to Noah Jenner's show.
You don't have to.
You've got the voice.
It's been a difficult week for the United
States Agency for International Development.
The Trump administration killed nearly all of the
aides of the aid agencies.
What?
Wow, what's his mind on?
They killed all the aides and you can
hear him go, oh shit, I said aides.
I mean aide.
The Trump administration killed nearly all of the
aides of the aid agencies programs, put thousands
of its employees on administrative leave or laid
them off.
Meanwhile, a legal battle between the government and
global health groups is going on about the
funds that are still frozen.
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court said it would
weigh in, though it hasn't issued a ruling
yet.
NPR global health correspondent Fatma Tanis joins us.
Hey, Fatma.
Thanks so much for being with us.
Thanks for having me, Scott.
The case has reached the Supreme Court.
Help us understand it, please.
So in January, when Trump officials at USAID
froze foreign aid funds, they also didn't pay
organizations for work that was done before in
December and January.
And these global health groups now say that
they've had to lay off staff and are
facing insolvency.
So they sued the government to make payments.
A federal judge then ordered the government and
set a deadline for last Wednesday to make
those payments.
But on Wednesday night, the Trump administration appealed
to the Supreme Court.
And Chief Justice John Roberts paused the case,
giving the government a reprieve.
Then on Friday, global health organizations urged the
Supreme Court to order the government to make
those payments.
It's about $2 billion that the government owes
these organizations.
And we're still waiting to see what the
court will do next.
And what about the terminations to the agency's
grants?
What kind of programs have been cut?
So the administration sent out termination letters to
organizations saying that it had determined that those
grants were not aligned with agency priorities and
that continuing those programs is not in the
national interest.
The administration has decided that more than 90
% of USAID's grants are to be terminated.
And some of those grants funded programs that
work to deliver the Trump administration's own policy
goals, like curbing migration, drug trafficking.
Others provided shelters for rape survivors or education
for children around the world.
Okay, it's horrible.
It goes on.
They go on and on and on.
And so I got to the end of
it because this last little bit here really
kind of irked me.
But wait, then Jesse Watters follows that.
Here we go.
Where does this leave the global assistance industry?
Well, it's quite the earthquake for the global
aid industry.
It's all interconnected.
So this move by the administration has far
reaching implications.
Millions of people around the world will feel
the impact.
One example, the UN said that 9 million
people in Afghanistan would no longer have health
services without US funding.
And organizations just say that there's no replacement
really for the role that the US had
in the global aid sector.
Okay, wait a minute.
9 million Afghanis are getting health care from
us?
Yes.
We have homeless encampments around the San Francisco's
filled with them.
There's tent cities on the main streets and
all the rest of it.
But we're paying for the health care of
9 million Afghani citizens.
Are you kidding me?
We have an epidemic of empathy in our
country.
An empathy epidemic.
And people get so focused on these things,
on the unhoused, on the poor Afghans, brown
people in sandy areas.
And they just forget about their own neighborhood,
their own neighbors, their own family.
It's really quite astonishing.
And it is an effect of media driven
MKUltra programming.
And it's unbelievable.
And NPR plays it to the hilt.
They're all in on this.
Now, of course, the funny thing is that
those 9 million Afghanis that are supposedly getting
health care from us, it's really not going
to them anyway.
It's going to the Taliban for their just
general funds.
That's because that came out in this report,
which is Waters discussing some of these scams
going on.
And then he kicks it to a congressional
hearing where they discuss this.
Doge found a $75 million contract for inclusive
justice in Colombia.
$40 million for indigenous peoples and Afro-Colombian
empowerment.
Another $40 million for female empowerment in Colombia.
Pretty sure this money's for cocaine.
But don't worry.
We're also going to give the Caribbean $3
million for being gay and lesbian.
You're gay and we want you to stay
that way.
And we still had money left over for
terrorists.
Mr. Roman, are you aware that we are
sending $40 million a week to the Taliban?
Yes, sir.
Can you name other instances of foreign aid
going to terrorist organizations?
We have assisted Al-Shabaab in Somalia.
There has been instances of the Hamzeh Network
in Sudan, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, Kataiba, Hezbollah,
Hayat al-Shams in Syria.
Dozens of terror organizations have received indirect assistance
from U.S. foreign aid.
Wow.
Bringing back a name.
A blast from the past.
Yeah, baby.
Al-Shabaab.
Hadn't heard from those guys in a while.
They get their money and shut up.
That's like 2015 time, Al-Shabaab.
Well, DOJ made some local news here.
San Antone is right down the road.
This was shocking to say the least.
The organization is also known as Endeavors.
And you may have seen its administrative headquarters
and wellness center on Dezabala Road, where it
has a cluster of buildings and storefronts.
DOJ focused on an overflow housing facility for
migrant families Endeavors operates in Pecos, Texas, which
DOJ says has been sitting empty while Endeavors
has been receiving the $18 million per month.
Homeland Security reposted DOJ's ex-post tagging U
.S. Attorney Ed Martin with the words, please
investigate, to which Martin responded, duly noted, we
are on it.
I went to Endeavors San Antonio headquarters today
to get a comment from the organization.
They responded late this afternoon by email.
Endeavors was responsible for maintaining operational readiness at
the Pecos shelter, ensuring the ability to scale
from cold status, operationally ready, but not actively
serving children to full use of 3000 beds
as needed.
Decisions regarding facility use and migrant sheltering locations
were made by the federal government, not Endeavors.
Any claims of corruption or mismanagement are baseless.
DOJ also claims Endeavors received its HHS contract
in 2021 after a former ICE employee and
Biden transition team member joined the nonprofit.
So, wait, $18 million a month?
Yeah, it was about a quarter billion dollar
contract.
$18 million a month for 3000 beds?
Empty.
Yeah, well, even if they're filled, let's see,
what is that?
$18 million, let me do a quick calculation.
Yeah, do $18 million divided by 3000.
Divided by 3000.
I'd say about $5,000 a bed, am
I correct on that?
I think it's $6,000 a day.
$6,000, no, a bed, a bed, $6
,000 a day.
$6,000 a bed, which means a month.
This is $18,000 a month, so it's
$6,000 a month per person.
Per bed, yes.
Yeah, or per bed, okay, which is what,
$72,000 a year?
Yes.
$72,000 a year?
Hey, come on, man.
For one bed?
John, if you and I had a hotel,
we would be swimming in dough.
We would.
We'd be ramming so many illegals in there,
you wouldn't know.
It'd be so great with our friends in
Washington.
Well, NPR is very upset about, you know,
the good money for the Afghanis, even though
it's going to Taliban, but they're okay with
that.
They're also very upset with the D.C.
attorney situation.
Before you move on, I want to do
that.
I have two more Doge clips, two more
Doge clips.
The first one includes Samantha Powers, who was
at a demonstration because, you know.
She had a picket sign.
Tonight, uncertainty remains over the mass federal job
cuts across several departments.
The federal judge in California ruled the recent
firings likely unlawful, and he said the Office
of Personnel Management had exceeded its authority.
The ruling does not mean those fired employees
will be automatically rehired or that future firings
will stop.
Former workers at USAID spoke out against the
cuts at a rally yesterday.
What is being done is one of the
biggest blunders in American foreign policy history.
It is one that generations of Americans will
look back on with horror.
Firings are now impacting the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, being impacted by the firings as
well with NOAA.
800 workers on probationary status have been laid
off.
Those who were not let go say the
fired employees include meteorologists who make crucial forecasts
at the National Weather Service.
Those NWS models are used by local meteorologists
across the country.
Chris Bianchi at our sister station 9 News
in Denver says that data is directly responsible
for keeping people safe.
That tornado warning is not issued by me.
It is not issued by the 9 News
weather department.
It is not issued by the TV enterprise.
It's not issued by anybody.
It's issued by the weather service.
So who would issue a tornado warning?
The unions fighting the federal layoffs called the
California judge's ruling a first step and vowed
to keep up the fight.
You know, these are just feeds of data
which any local meteorologist could translate and should
be able to understand what's coming.
I mean, as a pilot, I have that.
I have information like that.
Not only that, but yeah, okay, there's one
model that they create.
And these models, but when there's a big
storm coming, if you even watch the regular
weather channels or any of them, they show
you all the different models.
There's like 30 of them.
There's 40.
Oh, here's the European model.
Here's the Russian model.
Here's the model from NOAA.
Here's the model.
And they show all these different tracks.
In fact, when Trump was president, he did
his own model once, if you remember, because
he drew a map where the hurricane was
going to hit and they ridiculed him for
it.
And this is just overkill.
There's a question I have because this is
a little unclear and I'm trying to kind
of get to the bottom of it.
This is about Medicaid and this is going
around that people are very upset about this.
As far as I know, no decisions have
been made, but maybe you can enlighten us
on this one.
As an urgent care nurse practitioner, when I
see a patient, really my focus is on
what do I need to do for this
patient to help them?
Justin Gill is the State Nurses Association president
and worries about his patients who may delay
a medical visit because of cost.
This as the House and Senate Republicans are
working to pass at least $880 billion worth
of cuts to Medicaid.
Medicaid is a lifeline.
During a virtual press conference, US Senator Patty
Murray explained 782,000 Washingtonians would be at
risk of losing coverage if Republicans institute so
-called work requirements to qualify for coverage.
What would be the impact to your patients
access to care?
It's only going to make matters worse when
it comes to delaying care, leading to conditions
that are going to be much more costly.
ICU nurse Julia Barcott believes the cuts would
be devastating to the most vulnerable people.
She says 69% of the patient population
at Astragatopanish near Yakima is on Medicaid.
You would be surprised that it's your neighbors,
family members, relatives, friends that all have Medicaid
to help with expenses and to have a
more cost effective insurance.
State Senate Minority Leader John Braun says it's
too soon to know what the impact on
Medicaid will be.
As there are multiple proposals and after President
Trump has publicly said Medicaid will not be
touched.
A lot of our programs wrapped up in
Medicaid waivers.
I think all these are going to be
looked at pretty closely at the federal level
and we should be prepared for changes.
Gill adds the matter of caring for those
who need it goes beyond party lines.
Now from what I understand, part of this
is all fear mongering, of course.
By the way, what did they not understand
about Trump saying Medicare will not be cut?
They throw it in there.
They quote him correctly.
Medicare will not be cut.
Medicaid, Medicaid, Medicaid.
I'm sorry, Medicaid.
Medicaid will not be cut.
What part of that?
What is that?
What can't you understand about that?
Why are they doing this report?
They're doing the same thing.
I have two clips about this, by the
way.
The same thing with Social Security.
Bull crap.
The Republicans themselves have said, hey, we're going
to look for fraud.
That's what we're going to do.
From what I understand, this Medicaid fear mongering
is tied to the Social Security clamp down
and from videos I've been watching online, it's
mainly able-bodied young women who are being
required to work 20 hours a month in
some form of service in order to maintain
Social Security benefits, which include Medicaid.
That's what I've understood.
And that's probably actually true.
Well, letters have gone out, but that may
be a Biden thing.
That may not even be something from this
administration, well, not administration, even from this Congress.
So let's do your DC clips.
Let me see.
Before we go to this, since you're on
this topic, the Social Security clips are better.
These are called docial security.
Docial security.
Is this a misspelling or are you just
super smart on me?
This is good.
These two clips, and there's two of them,
they are trying to make it seem as
though they want to cut Social Security because
that's part of the scheme of make Trump
look bad, when in fact, they're cutting employees.
And the guy who does the report, one
of these NPR guys who comes in, he
knows this is a lie.
And so he fumbles.
And in both reports, these are two separate
reports, he fumbles differently, but he fumbles both
times knowing that this is...it's like guilt is
in him when he does this.
Which one do we go with first?
The anal?
We'll start with...the first one is not the
analysis.
The first one is the short clip, just
the twist one.
Another email is being sent to federal employees,
telling them to provide a list of their
accomplishments this week by Monday night and to
expect a similar email every week.
It's part of billionaire Elon Musk's efforts to
trim the federal workforce.
The Social Security Administration announced yesterday it's eliminating
thousands of positions.
NPR's Ron Elving has more.
At this point, the cuts are to Social
Security staff.
The administration announced Friday it plans to cut
7,000 jobs in response to an executive
order from President Trump, who has said he
wants to slash the federal workforce, even in
what have been considered politically sensitive functions, such
as Social Security.
Social Security advocates say that the agency...
What did he say?
Social Security?
Because the code...
He blows it at the end.
It's because...
I want to hear it again.
Politically sensitive Social Security.
So what's politically sensitive about cutting staff?
Nothing.
But cutting Social Security is politically sensitive, and
he knows they're trying to conflate the two
to try to trick the dumb listeners of
NPR and the people that give them money.
Let me hear it again.
He wants to slash the federal workforce, even
in what have been considered politically sensitive functions,
such as Social Security.
Social Security advocates say that the agency is
at its lowest level in staffing in 50
years, despite the growing number of recipients.
Social charcuterie, I think he said.
Social charcuterie.
So this report was kind of twisted.
So they didn't do it quite right.
So later, not in the same show, but
later came this report.
It was a little longer.
The same guy comes in.
Again, they try to twist it to make
it sound like they're cutting Social Security to
make Trump look bad, because he promised never
to do that.
Of course, the Democrats like to say, well,
are they going to cut it?
And so he has the same guilty response
reaction, only slightly different, but it's the same
guy.
Another email blast went out late last night
to federal employees, asking them to list what
they accomplished in the past week.
Is this different from the email that Elon
Musk's Doge Group sent out over a week
ago?
Lots of confusion about this last night, Scott,
and again this morning.
The email came late Friday from the Office
of Personnel Management, or perhaps still from the
rather shadowy depths of the Department of Government
Efficiency.
That's the province of Elon Musk and his
minions.
And Trump has tasked with slashing the federal
workforce.
This email from OPM reiterating the original demand
for the five bullet points looked like what
Musk wanted.
Now, it's not clear yet which of these
messages, the first one sent from DOGE over
a week ago, or this latest one, is
more legitimate.
And it's not yet clear whether this is
real or just a gesture of some kind.
Trump seems to suggest its purpose is to
see how many of these federal employees actually
exist or come to work at all.
But in the short term, it's another way
to lower trust and regard for the government
and empower those who would displace it.
In the half a minute we have left,
possible cuts to Social Security, which used to
be considered the third rail.
At this point, the cuts are to Social
Security staff.
The administration announced Friday it plans to cut
7,000 jobs in response to an executive
order from President Trump, who has said he
wants to slash the federal workforce, even in
what have been considered politically sensitive functions, such
as Social Security.
He's saying social charcuterie.
I'm telling you, he couldn't say it again.
We have politically sensitive social charcuterie.
I mean, it's like, what are you?
What's wrong with you, dude?
Politically sensitive, cutting the staff, which is probably
not necessarily there because the problem is they
cut the people that know what they're doing,
which is typical.
That's what you do.
It's not good, but it's not cutting the
payments to anybody.
Nobody's getting shorted on their Social Security payments
or benefits, but they keep trying to conflate
the two.
And they did in both reports.
And this guy feels guilty about it.
Clearly, because he keeps stumbling over it.
And by the way, breaking news, the Norwegian
government has posted that U.S. ships will
be refueled, and they apologized for the incident
last night.
Sounds like a rogue employee on the X
account there.
Yep.
Yeah.
The old rogue employee.
This is like the rogue employee, which reminds
me of the situation that took place recently
with Apple, where if you type in racist
on the iPhone, it comes up, you know,
it's doing voice recognition.
Software, you say to the phone racist, and
it's going to type it out, and it
types out Trump.
And then it erases and puts racist.
Can anybody confirm that in the troll room?
So you have to use Siri.
It was, I saw it confirmed.
I saw it, but you know, AI, whatever.
I want to know if anyone can confirm
it with their iPhone.
I would like to say if it confirmed
or not confirmed, if this even happened for
a split second, this is a rogue employee.
They blame this and that and the other
thing.
We all know what it was.
You know what I'm saying?
Some joker.
If the video was, I've only seen one
video of this.
How many have you seen?
I saw one guy do it live on
local TV.
Oh, okay.
All right, well then, good.
And it was like, You know, John, it
was not a rogue employee.
It was a glitch.
It's definitely a rogue employee, some joker.
I know the type.
It's like, I got an idea.
Hey, watch this.
This is what people do when you're working
for a company and you get an idea
like this and you think you can get
away with it.
And you maybe could.
Yeah.
If you're really a good hacker, you could
get away with a lot of stuff.
I'm all for it.
I think it's funny.
It was very funny.
I thought the whole thing was hilarious.
Yeah, I think it's good.
It's a feature, not a bug.
Just remember, it's a feature of the iPhone.
All right, now let's do your D.C.
attorney's clips because you're on a roll here.
Yeah, we get to more NPR complaining.
And this is the one, this is like,
so the clips are self-explanatory.
This is about the firing or the demotion
of these guys.
Okay, here's the logic.
I have somebody working for me who is
politically active and he's causing trouble.
And so I demote him.
Yeah.
My demoting him is not meaning I'm politically
active.
I'm just trying to get this political action,
out of your company, activism out of the
office.
Yes.
But no, no, that's not the way NPR
sees it.
No, no, no, that's not what's going on.
Here we go.
The new leadership in the Trump Justice Department
continues to take actions against career pro-
Is this guy on the air 24 hours
a day now?
He's on a lot.
The new leadership in the Trump Justice Department
continues to take actions against career prosecutors.
Yesterday, the acting U.S. attorney in Washington,
D.C. demoted several senior attorneys, including those
who oversaw cases against President Trump's political allies
and January 6th rioters.
NPR's Justice Correspondent Ryan Lucas joins us.
Ryan, thank you for being with us.
Hello, thanks for having me.
What can you tell us about these demotions?
Well, sources tell me and our colleague Kerry
Johnson that the acting U.S. attorney in
Washington, D.C., Ed Martin demoted at least
seven top prosecutors in the U.S. attorney's
office here.
One of them is John Crabb.
He was a supervisor in the office.
He was involved in the cases against Trump
allies Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro.
He also oversaw January 6th cases.
Another prosecutor is Greg Rosen.
He led the Capitol Siege unit.
That's the unit that prosecuted January 6th cases.
And then two of the other attorneys who
were demoted worked on two of the most
high-profile cases to come out of the
Capitol riot investigation.
One of the attorneys helped lead the prosecution
against Stuart Rhodes.
He's the leader of the far-right Oath
Keepers extremist group.
Far-right extremist group.
Rhodes was convicted at trial of seditious conspiracy.
One of the other attorneys helped spearhead the
case against Enrique Tarrio, the former head of
the Proud Boys extremist group.
Tarrio as well was convicted of seditious conspiracy
at trial.
So the bottom line here is all of
the attorneys who were demoted were senior prosecutors
with a lot of experience, and now they're
being reassigned to basically entry-level jobs.
Oh, no.
Seditious conspiracy.
What is that?
They overcharged these guys.
It's pretty obvious.
And then the fact that Bannon and Navarro
spent time in prison for what?
Yeah.
Is it good?
That was totally politically motivated, and there's no
question about it in anybody's mind.
I mean, what's Bannon doing in jail?
Seditious conspiracy.
If he got thrown in jail for being
a bad podcaster, that would be different.
He should be in solitary confinement.
If two or more persons in any state
or territory or any place subject to the
jurisdiction of the United States conspire to overthrow,
put down, or to destroy by force the
government of the United States.
Wow, that's a pretty heavy charge.
I'm having lunch with Joe Coffey.
He's one of the January 6 guys.
He's here.
He'll have stories to tell.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
You remember the guy with the crutch holding
the crutch up in the air?
Oh, he's that guy.
Yeah.
And so what he was saying was, pray,
everybody, pray.
And then he was getting beaten.
He's a peacekeeper.
Yes, he was getting beaten by some Capitol
cop.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, he got through.
That's a good guy.
You should buy.
You should be paying.
Of course I'm going to pay.
He goes to our church.
He just moved here.
So I can't wait.
We got a fun church group.
You should get a picture.
You should be holding up the crutch.
Yeah.
Get a shot of that.
Anyway, let's go.
Part two of this was reason given.
Well, one source tells me that Martin notified
these individuals by email.
And at least one of the emails, Martin
said that every U.S. attorney has to
assess the needs of their office as set
forth by the president and the attorney general
and, in essence, their priorities.
And therefore, these senior prosecutors were being reassigned,
effective immediately.
And at least one of the emails ended
by saying, this change is not temporary.
Now, I'm told that some of the senior
prosecutors were assigned to misdemeanors, which is where
brand new prosecutors in the office are usually
assigned.
Others were demoted to what's known as the
intake section, which is also for junior folks
in the office.
One person I spoke with described these demotions
as pure political retribution for working on cases
that the Trump administration does not like.
Now, I contacted the U.S. attorney's office
about these actions for comment.
It did not respond.
But this is not the first time that
Ed Martin, the acting U.S. attorney here,
has taken what appear to be retaliatory action
against the office he leads.
He previously fired more than a dozen prosecutors
in his office who worked January 6 cases.
So this is just the latest turmoil to
hit the U.S. attorney's office here in
D.C., which is one of the most
important in the country.
One of the worst in the country, too.
It's a known fact.
They're the guys who wouldn't do anything about
the Fast and Furious situation.
Oh, right, right, right.
And when, yeah, when Holder was taken as
contempt of Congress, they wouldn't press charges against
him.
But yet they'll throw Bannon in jail.
I can't argue the bad podcasting bit.
I mean, he needed to go away for
a bit.
And with that, I'd like to thank you
for your courage.
Say in the morning to you, the man
who put the C's in the social charcuterie.
Say hello to my friend on the other
end, the one, the only, Mr. John C.
DeMora.
Yeah, good morning to you, Mr. Adam Curran.
Good morning to you, Mr. Steve Booster, the
gramps in the air, subs in the morning,
the dames and knights out there.
In the morning to the trolls in the
troll room.
Let me count your trolls.
All right.
We outdid last Sunday.
Last Sunday, we had 2,573 peak trollage.
And today, 2,759.
Ooh, getting back to the good old days.
Which is now the over the last 100
shows, it's been 2,279 is the average.
So we're above average.
Very nice.
Well done, trolls.
And you know why, John?
You know why?
Trump is good for the show.
As long as he keeps up the blurt.
Keep on blurting, Prez.
It's good for us.
It'd be something between now and next Thursday,
Trump will do something.
He'll get everyone all riled up.
Yes.
Oh, Lord, please have President Trump do something
to rile everybody up.
It's good.
We love having the trolls with us.
They're in the troll room at trollroom.io,
or they may be listening on one of
those modern podcast apps.
Today, I'm going to promote PodVerse.
PodVerse, you can find PodVerse at podcastapps.com.
There's many more you can use, but these
apps, the ones that have the live notification
feature, you can listen to the live stream.
It's fun.
It's the modern way to listen to podcasts.
More and more people are moving towards recording
live in real time, which honestly, you should
demand from your podcast.
You know, that is, and that you should
be able to sit there in a troll
room and troll them, be the studio audience.
We have no fear.
We love it.
A lot of people have trouble, I think,
doing live to tape.
Oh, yes.
Which is the thesis.
One of the two reasons that we ever
started doing a podcast together is the two
of us philosophically are live to tape guys.
We are, yes.
We are no edit live to tape.
And it is a philosophy.
A lot of people won't, no, no, no.
You got to clean it up.
You got to record it, and then you
clean it up, and you do a cut
in, and a this and a that.
And you know that there's these modern editors
like Descript or Descript, I'm not sure how
you pronounce it, where you can actually sample
your voice.
And then if you, and you can, so
first you can edit on the transcript, which
is kind of cool, you know, like, I'm
going to edit this word out.
But you can also have it replace words
with your own voice.
I mean, at what point do you just
like give up?
Just give up.
It takes the soul out of it, people.
It just takes the soul out of it.
I don't understand.
Don't understand why they do this.
All of this is done under the value
for value model.
It's called overproduced.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Well, during COVID, when everybody was doing a
podcast, that's when the role of podcast editor
came about.
What do you do?
I'm a podcast editor.
You know, there are people with thriving careers
as editors for influencers.
Really?
Oh, yeah.
Christina's fiance is doing some of that work
now.
It's pretty good.
He gets, I think, is that like 75
bucks an hour?
And it was the response for the herky
jerk look.
That's become so in vogue.
Yes, yes.
Your head's over here, then it's over here
by a millimeter, then it's this way, looking
that way, looking that way.
Oh, yeah.
I need the words on the screen.
I need to pop something up.
You know, pew and flash.
Yeah, because, oh, no attention span.
It's like radio.
Anyway, we operate under the value for value
model, which is quite well understood these days,
which means we do the show.
We provide value to you.
If you don't get value, tune out.
If you do, consider returning some to help
us.
We ask for time, talent and treasure.
And we have a bunch of artists and
prompt jockeys who are always at the ready
to provide us some value back in the
form of artwork, which we like using in
two ways.
One is the actual artwork for each individual
episode, which looks nice in the modern podcast
apps.
And also, Dreb Scott uses them for his
chapter work, which is also a feature of
the modern podcast apps.
And you can, you know, you can jump
around, like, oh, let me see what this
section is about.
And it'll even have a handy image, which
should bring a smile to your face.
Because most of the images the artists put
together bring a smile to your face, some
more than others, which means we chose the
artwork from Matthew Dropko, officially Matthew Dropko 1972,
for episode 1742, 1742, which we titled Golden
Poop.
Oh yeah, that was our exit strategy.
The Golden Poop exit strategy.
Forgot about that.
And this was a worker chicken.
A chicken worker, actually, as was discussed during
the show.
You liked it right away.
I liked it right away.
You thought it was the only one worth
doing.
That's one of the reasons I liked it
right away, because I didn't see anything that
was going to work.
I think I submitted, no, you said, find
a better one and convince me.
That's pretty much exactly what you said.
That's exactly what I said.
Not in that voice.
But close.
We briefly discussed Darren O'Neill's po-casting.
What was that about?
Was that People of Color podcast?
I can't remember.
Po-casting, yeah.
Blue Acorn had a Jump Chomp Trump, which
was okay.
People doing...
The real AI ones are just becoming annoying.
Let me see what else was...
There really wasn't anything.
No, I can't see anything.
Oh, a couple of people tried to do
the gold card gag.
But that didn't...
Yeah, a lot actually, you're right.
Yeah, Nico Syme tried.
It just didn't quite work.
And Dame Kenny Bent had the right idea
with a Welcome to the USA tote bag.
But then instead of a gold card, she
had a platinum card.
And then Brunetti's partner, Scaramanga, did the black
kid eating the bat.
Yeah, we're like, yeah, no, we don't think
we're going to have a black kid eating
him.
That's going to be a great movie, Brunetti.
It's going to be, I'm sure you'll be
just fine.
But I saw a preview of the Brunetti
movie.
And it's a cheesecake lady sitting in a
coffee shop with Jesus reading the Bible.
And then James Bond outside is this very,
very strange plot.
I'm not quite sure exactly what they're trying
to do there.
The Acme of Podcasts.
No, you were right.
You were right.
I think it was the best one.
And we thank you very much, Matthew Dropko.
Anybody can participate in this competition, which is
the cool part about it.
You just go to noagendaartgenerator.com.
You can upload it.
If you're doing it live, when we're doing
it live, then you have a good shot
of being chosen.
Because right after the show, we find the
opening snippet.
We then check the credits, make sure they're
good.
It's like a nuclear code check.
We both go through the list, make sure
we don't miss anybody.
Make sure the switcheroos are all done.
Then we choose the title.
No, then we choose the artwork.
Then we choose the title.
That's the sequence.
So you can participate.
And remember, lots of this art gets used
in the modern podcast apps chapters.
Now to the treasure portion of our value
for value model.
This is where we thank every single person
who supports us with treasure, $50 and above.
And we start in this segment with our
executive and associate executive producers.
These are real credits.
You can use them anywhere.
Especially, you can show up to Dana Brunetti's
house and say, I'm an executive producer of
the No Agenda show.
Let me in.
And he'll probably get shot.
$200 above, associate executive producer.
You can put it on imdb.com or
any of your social media profiles.
Your LinkedIn looks very impressive there.
And we'll read your note.
$300 and above, you get an executive producer
credit and we'll read your note.
And we start off with Joel Sides from
Medina, Texas, who comes in with 515.38.
I'm pretty sure that's $500 plus the fees.
And he says, John, you are a very
good job of co-hosting the show.
I think he means do a very good
job.
I don't care what Adam says about you
around the hill country.
What?
I don't know.
What does he say?
I don't know what I say.
Ah, you do.
The show is always entertaining and very informative.
Thanks for all the hard work.
Oh, not you're not.
Oh, yes, I am.
Commodore Sides.
He's a little discombobulated in his note there.
But thank you, Joel.
I speak nothing but highly of Dvorak.
Some lady came up to me the other
day and said, John, what did she say?
John cracked me up with something.
I forget what it was.
Came up to me, not say like, hey,
man, you're so awesome or I saw you
on Rogan.
No, no, John was so funny on the
last show.
So it does happen.
People love you.
Sir, dude named Ralph in Miami, Florida.
He came in with 515.38. There we
go.
Same thing, which means the Commodore plus $15
.38 for the- For PayPal.
This note is for my donation of 15,
15 or 515.38 to earn my rank
of Commodore of the No Agenda Show.
I want to thank you both, the back
and the back office team and all the
producers for making the best podcast in the
universe possible.
The show has been a valuable resource to
me over the years.
May I please have some jobs, Carmen, to
ensure my job seeking success.
All the best.
Baron dude named Ralph.
Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs.
You've got karma.
We go to Jeff Barrick, I think, B
-A-R-I-C-H.
Barrick from Coos Bay, Oregon.
$3.50 and 93 cents, which he says
is $3.33.33 plus the PayPal fees.
Jingles requested the full Trump clip of they're
eating the dogs, eating the cats, they're eating
the pets, followed by little girl yay.
And this is a switcheroo.
Uh-oh.
All right, let me get this ready here.
In the morning, my name is Jeff Barich.
Okay, a handy pronunciation guide there, Jeff.
Thank you.
That is- You got it.
Got it.
Barich.
And this donation is for my smoking hot
wife Libby Barich's birthday on 3-3, which
is coming up tomorrow.
I'd like this $3.33.33 plus PayPal
fees donation to be in her name.
Libby donated on my behalf years ago.
I don't think either of us were deduced.
So we both need to be deduced.
We can do that.
Oops, I got a deduced.
You've been deduced.
So we'll say that's for Libby and this
one is for you.
You've been deduced.
The message to Libby.
Happy birthday.
And I want to thank you for all
your support over the years.
It is truly the glue that holds our
team together.
And I love you very much.
Message to John and Adam.
I'd also like to thank you guys for
your coverage and let you know that you
both really helped us stay sane throughout the
COVID craziness.
In Springfield, they're eating the dogs.
The people that came in.
They're eating the cats.
They're eating- They're eating the pets.
Still funny.
Still the winning quote for me for the
election.
That was the landslide quote.
The landslide quote.
People don't appreciate it for what it is.
Abel Dos Santos in Luanda.
Oh, Africa.
Africa news.
Africa donation.
This does not- What is that?
Congo.
Angola is from Angola.
Angola.
That's right.
Oh, that's pretty cool.
Well, that's nice.
We got a Luanda, Angola donation.
$343.75. Thanks for being the greatest podcast
in the world.
Universe, too, by the way.
Really appreciated searching or reaching out.
I'm sorry.
Reaching out from Luanda, Angola, Africa.
Send pictures.
What's your rig?
I want to see your rig down there.
Hey, Commodore G checks in from Cincinnati, Ohio
with $343.75. As always, you guys deliver.
Glad to be a producer on the Zelensky
Smackdown episode.
Commodore Indy the White Shepherd says hello as
well.
Infinity more years.
Ryan M.
in Cold Spring, New York came in with
$343.33. Hello, John C.
and Adam.
I, Ryan M.
of the Lower Hudson Valley, have finally arrived
at the round table with a third payment
of $343.33. I wish to be knighted
as Sir Weegee the Famous.
Sir Weegee the Famous.
Please have two tubes of both the salt
and pepper mix of both, which is the
name of the product, both the salt and
pepper mix available for me at the round
table.
Both is a hilarious, simple, and equally tasty.
It's good on French fries.
Tasty because it's a very fine grind of
salt.
Yes.
A tasty product that I have recently launched.
Ah, he's our guy.
He's our guy.
He's the both guy.
It's the salt and he's the both guy.
It's the salt and pepper mix with two
options.
One is more salt, less pepper.
The other is more pepper, less salt.
Okay.
Each of them at what we have thoroughly
determined to be the perfect ratio for which,
for whichever direction your taste buds lean.
Both can easily be purchased at useboth.com.
Useboth.com.
And our humorous content can be seen on
Instagram at use underlying both.
Use both.
Please play Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, and one goat
scream.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs.
Yeah.
Did you receive a package of like these
CBD THC pills?
No.
An outfit called, I think it's 1060 or
1090.
No, I did get, I did get my
first Ohio state hoodie though.
And I will be thanking everyone who sent
these.
Oh, that's nice.
No, I can't.
I don't know who this is.
And they sent us, they've got, it comes
in a bag that says definitely not drugs,
which is pretty funny.
I don't know who sent it.
I think it's 1060.
Well, I get some, okay.
I have a similar situation.
I had three, I can't remember the brand
name, Real Pepper or something.
There's these hot sauces, three different hot sauces
somebody sent.
It was packaged well enough that the fact
of the matter is the three bottles of
hot sauce, tobacco size bottles, Tabasco size.
I'm sorry.
Tabasco size bottles.
And there were three of them.
There's a habanero.
There's another, there's a kind of a regular
one.
And then there was the ghost pepper one.
The ghost pepper one broke.
Oh no.
Split in half.
Oh no.
And coated the packing material.
It didn't leak out of the box, which
is surprising.
But the packing material was soaked in ghost
pepper goo.
I was just.
And.
Go ahead.
So I had to rinse out the other
two bottles that were stained with the ghost
pepper goo too.
And I had to wash them off.
They were okay.
They came in intact.
The ghost pepper one, which was brand named
Oly, O-L-Y, Oly Ghost, it got
tossed.
That's funny.
And in this process of tossing it and
the packaging, it stunk up the house.
Which, the rather nice smell, by the way.
Ghost pepper aroma isn't that bad.
But it was like a very distressing for
me.
It's funny because last night we just watched
the Seinfeld episode where he has the hot
sauce that he has to bring back and
it gets crushed in the overhead bin on
the plane and it's all inside his suitcase.
Coincidence?
I don't remember that one.
Coincidence?
I think not.
Jeff Ria, Maricopa, Arizona, 333.33. First time
donation.
He doesn't ask for it, but I'm going
to deduce it.
You've been deduced.
He says, please play in order.
Don't be a dick.
Goat scream and you've got karma.
73 is Jeffrey Ria.
His call sign is alpha bravo for golf
tango.
73 is kilo five alpha Charlie Charlie.
Don't be a dick.
You've got karma.
A radar rider or at a radar rider
in Milton, Georgia, 333.33 TPP jobs.
Karma, please.
Which one's that?
I have it.
Oh, don't you?
This brings me the knighthood.
No, please knight me, sir.
Radar rider.
Thank you for your courage.
Brisket and bacon.
Interesting.
At the round table, please.
Jeffrey Hodge is in Linfield, New South Wales,
Australia, 297.17. Now, do you think that
this is a 300 donation that got chopped
down?
Seems well, it would come in at the
rate that it was.
It's a spreadsheet.
This wasn't put on by hand.
So this would be 297 in American dollars.
So it was definitely three, probably 333 or
higher.
I'm gonna have to move him up then.
Yeah, 333 might have been $8,000 for
all I know.
And Jeffrey says, Sydney, Australia.
Thank you.
My wife, Jen, hit me in the mouth
in 2024 and got me listening to the
best podcast in the universe.
Good wife.
Thanks for bringing some normality and levity to
a crazy world.
Trump is good for the show.
There will be no shortage of fodder for
four more years.
This is our first donation.
So we need a double de-douching.
You've been de-douched.
And we'll do one more for the wife.
You've been de-douched.
And we request they're eating the hogs.
Well, I don't think we have that one.
We'll have to replace the H with the
D.
It never gets old.
Regards, Jeff.
They're eating the dogs.
There you go.
They should be eating the hogs.
Yeah, it's good eating.
Dame Rita.
Hey, there's Dame Rita again in Sparks, Nevada.
She's been a regular recently.
222.22. A bunch of ducks there.
ITM, John and Adam, thank you for the
best.
Dame Rita.
Well, that's an easy one.
Matthew Martel.
I'm sorry.
Yes, Matthew Martel from Brumal, Pennsylvania.
210.60. He says, since you both love
content suggestions, here's a segment idea for you.
Take note.
Take notes, John.
I've got a pen.
John C.
Dvorak's Little Known Facts.
It's not a tip.
It's a fact.
Visit martelhardware.com.
That's double L, martelhardware.com.
Use coupon code USA plus bundle.
USA plus bundle for an additional 10%
off your order.
Hot pockets.
All right.
Geez.
Yeah, well, he's on board.
Along with Eli the coffee guy, who's on
the next name on the list in Bensonville,
Illinois.
203.02. And he has a longer note
saying, March 1st, I completed another trip around
the sun.
Oh, it's his birthday.
But my birthday present came a day early
in the form of a meeting at the
White House between Trump and Zelensky.
Politics is my sports ball.
And the game is finally entertaining to watch
again.
John, I think your newsletter analysis may be
correct.
Trump is out to stick it to the
Europeans.
Only time will tell how this plays out.
Jingles.
I'm going to come and F the EU
for all.
You know, there you go.
There you go.
For all the guests.
He's on board with that, too.
Yep.
For all the coffee lovers out there, visit
gigawattcoffeeroasters.com and use the code ITM20 for
20% off your order.
Thank you for your courage and stay caffeinated,
says Eli the coffee guy.
I'm going to come.
And Linda Lupakin checks in, as she always
does, every single show with $200, requests Jobs
Karma and says for a resume that gets
results, visit imagemakersinc.com.
It's the go to for all of your
executive and resume job search needs.
That's imagemakersinc with a K and work with
Linda Liu, Duchess of Jobs and writer of
resumes.
Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs.
Yes, that wraps up our executive and associate
executive producers for episode 1743.
Thank you all very much.
We, of course, want to thank everyone who
came in $50 and above, which will mention
our second donation segment.
Never under 50 for reasons of anonymity.
And remember, you can always put up a
put together a sustaining donation.
They're very helpful for us.
Go to noagendadonations.com.
Any amount, any frequency, it's all up to
you.
That's noagendadonations.com.
Again, congratulations to our executive and associate executive
producers.
Our formula is this.
We hit people in the mouth.
They're eating the dogs.
Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I have a side note clip.
I want to play side note about about
Joanne's House of Fabric that's closed.
Joanne's gone bankrupt.
I've never even heard of Joanne's House of
Fabric.
What is Joanne's is a massive chain of
fabric stores.
If you were a girl or a woman
older, because it turns out that and I
find this to be a depressing report because
it discusses the fact that nobody knows how
to sew anymore.
I can sew.
I can use a sewing machine.
I know how to wind the spindle on
the spool.
Of course you do.
I used to love it because that was
when I get to play accelerator pedal.
My mom taught me how to do it.
You know, when you're putting on the spool.
That was fun.
So that's over now, huh?
Do people even buy sewing machines anymore?
We have a family of people.
Everybody in this family has one of these
of the old Singer slant needle, which is
a classic sewing machine that has that's very
easy to use.
And they're one of the greatest all mechanical.
There's no.
So it's one.
It's got gears.
It's old fashioned.
By the way.
Thank you.
Untoward.
Yes.
The bobbin.
I'm sorry.
This is the bobbin.
The bobbin, right?
I wish I should have caught that.
You should have.
Yes, you should have.
Well, my.
Yeah, I dropped the ball.
Yeah.
Play this clip.
This is talks about the store closures.
If you love to sew or do other
projects with fabric, you might have already headed
to your local Joanne's store to pick through
what's left.
Joanne's for the non crafty used to be
the country's biggest fabric retailer, but it went
bankrupt.
And this week it started closing some 800
stores.
I've been to a couple of the stores
and I walk out and I cry.
Ingrid Crapo is a professional maker of things
with fabric.
I have 10 sewing machines.
I've done everything from uniforms for the University
of Maryland to mascots for all of the
sports teams in D.C. Crapo says she
will miss a well stocked fabric store.
She says the craft stores closest to her
don't have much of a selection and she
calls online shopping for fabric a nightmare.
But you didn't know, Michelle, that Joanne Fabrics
started out as, of all things, a cheese
shop in Cleveland during World War Two.
German immigrants Hilda and Bertolt Reich sold cheese
and fabric in a little store they ran
along with their friends Sigmund and Matilda Rohrbach.
I did not know that.
And you know what?
None of them was named Joanne.
No, but the store was named after their
daughters, Joanne and Jacqueline Ann, and it sold
more fabric than cheese.
And back then, making your own clothes was
often cheaper than buying off the rack.
Sewing is a lost art in America.
Mike Edwards, vice president at Joanne's in the
early 2000s.
That's the only reason they give?
Is sewing is a lost art in America?
I think that is the reason.
It's not.
Nobody knows how.
They don't teach it in school anymore.
They used to teach it in high schools.
They used to have auto shop in high
school.
They used to have wood shop in high
school.
They used to have metal shop in high
school.
They used to have, they used to teach
sewing in high school.
They used to teach cooking in high school.
Now they teach gender studies.
When I was a kid in Holland, they
taught us Pinnaken, Pinnaken, Pinnaken, and Pinnaken, you
had a mushroom, and so it was like
a wooden mushroom with a hollowed out core,
so like the mushroom stem would fit in
your hand, it was kind of lewd now
that I think about it, and you had
the mushroom head, and the mushroom head had
I think eight or maybe ten nails in
it, and you would use a crocheting needle,
and you would route the yarn around one
of the nails, and then pull it down
the bottom, put it back up, and pull
it down the bottom, so that you got
a long trail of, you know, of something
you Pinnaked, I'm sure some Dutch people are
going, wow, that he remembers that, Pinnaken, so
they taught us that, even the boys, even
the boys did the mushroom thing, it was
quite normal back in the day.
They don't teach anything like that, they don't
even show kids how to balance a checkbook,
oh, you don't need a checkbook, use a
credit card.
It's got Venmo.
They can't even add and subtract, I mean,
it's unbelievable what's happened to the education system.
Who needs a checkbook when you've got Venmo,
or Cash App, don't need it, you don't
need it, everything's going to the phone, in
fact, I have, I thought I had a,
yes, in Ohio, in Ohio they really want
everything on the phone, all your ID.
Representative Thomas Hall is one of the sponsors
of bipartisan House Bill 78.
The bill would allow Ohioans to use a
valid digital ID instead of a physical ID
card in almost any case, except voting.
We want to make sure that the infrastructure
is ready for that and secure for that
when we get to that day to allow
for digital IDs for voting, whether that's in
our lifetimes or the lifetimes after us.
Under this bill, you'd be able to use
a digital ID when you get pulled over
for any BMV purposes and at more local
businesses.
Yeah, moving towards the digital ID.
You know, now that I think about it,
my mom used to have patterns and she'd
put the paper patterns on the fabric and
then, and we always loved using that roller
with all the little teeth on it, so
you roll it along the pattern so then
it leaves the kind of the marks in
the fabric so you know where to cut.
And I remember the glorious day when my
mom wasn't home and I got her roll,
what does that thing called?
The roller?
The pattern?
Pattern roller?
Yeah, I don't know.
And right after I got out of college,
I had a girlfriend who was a fashion
designer and she actually made patterns and there's
also these famous pattern makers who do all
of them.
And I had a pattern made for shirts
for me and you could take these pile
of patterns and you take them to some
seamstress or somebody that knew what they were
doing and they'd make you a custom shirt
right off the spot.
I mean, these kinds of lost art.
Hey, all right, boomer.
That's about right.
It's like pathetic.
So the day that was very sad is
when I decided to use the roller all
over the Cherrywood coffee table.
I remember my mom, I didn't know if
she wanted to.
Well, there's the drawback to all of this.
I didn't know if she wanted to beat
me.
I remember a very sad, sad moment.
Where I'm running up and down your arm.
Very, very sad.
Look on her face.
Sorry, mom.
I forgot about that.
Oh, brother.
A little update on Gene Hackman.
The story gets crazier by the moment.
We started with Gene.
We might as well end with Gene.
Here at home, authorities say data from actor
Gene Hackman's pacemaker shows he was likely dead
for nine days before the bodies of he
and his wife were found at their New
Mexico home.
Santa Fe County Sheriff says the pacemaker shows
Hackman's last event was recorded February 17th.
Hackman and his wife Betsy, along with their
dog, were found dead this week in circumstances
officials deemed suspicious enough to warrant a thorough
investigation.
The cause of death remains unknown.
The pair did not show any external trauma
and there were no immediate signs of foul
play.
The pair is also testing negative for carbon
monoxide, likely ruling that out as a cause
of death.
Can you actually test for carbon monoxide posthumously?
In the blood, you can.
The blood.
Oh, you can?
Okay.
Yeah, because that's what it does.
I mean, it's just a blood disorder, actually.
But because it gets in the blood, you
know, it doesn't let the blood work.
What do you think?
What do you think happened here?
Mimi has the best theory.
Ah, can always count on Mimi.
If you got too many eggs or a
dead actor, Mimi's your gal.
Yeah, with the number of people and everyone
I tell it to, they go, oh, makes
nothing but sense.
Here's what happened.
It's Epstein.
Jep.
No.
So, so Hackman fell, had a fall or
something, or he had a heart attack, he
had some, he had an issue.
He fell and died.
Yeah.
The wife saw this and she didn't know,
couldn't revive him and she was freaked out.
And so she decided to take some, some
sedatives to calm herself down.
Took too many, passed out, dropped a bottle
of pills on the floor.
The dog ate the pills and it died
because there were pills all over the floor
and there was a dog in the house
and dogs eat crap off the floor.
So the, yes they do.
So the first thing you do if you
find your 95 year old husband dead is
grab the pill bottle.
Well, she was probably just enamored with this
guy.
She was, didn't know what to do.
So she went to calm herself down and
she took some, you know, who knows why,
but she took some pills and, or maybe
she said, I can't go on without him.
And maybe she killed herself.
That's possible too.
She was young.
Well, whatever the case was, the pills fell
to the ground and that's what just counted
for the dead dog because the other two
dogs were alive outside.
Hmm.
Well, that's, I mean, I don't see how
they can say it's a suspicious circumstances, but
well, there's three dead things.
And what's this three, what's this?
Three dead things.
What's this?
Yeah, well, it's a, it's a tragedy.
I'd like your input on this.
This is the Bezos change to the opinion
page on Washington Post.
Jeff Bezos wants to change things at the
Washington Post's opinion section.
He would like opinion writers to narrow in
on two things, personal liberties and free markets.
He said that they will cover other things,
but opposing viewpoints to those two positions specifically
would be published at other outlets.
It's yet another major change at the paper,
David Shipley, the editor of the Post's opinion
section stepping down rather than leading Bezos's new
direction.
So question one and two, question one is
why do you think he made the change?
And question two is why is everyone so
upset about it?
Well, first of all, we played this clip
in the last show.
Well then tell me, I don't, I don't
remember it.
Oh boy.
It's just beginning.
This is how it starts, yeah.
I think he's sick of the, of the,
of the orientation of the, of the, without
saying let's do more stuff that's pro-business
or, you know, pro or this compete with
the Wall Street Journal, let's be a little
more neutral.
He decided to take it this tact, it's
a tact, but what it really amounts to
is you guys are doing a crappy job.
It's very lopsided pro-Democrat reporting in an
environment that the general public, as you can
tell by the election, doesn't want.
We don't, and they're not gonna approach it,
the people, they're already, you guys already screwed
us over by, because of the not endorsing
Kamala Harris, and they're saying we're not really
gonna endorse her, even though I own the
place, and I say no, and it's usually
generally speaking in the history of newspapers, it's
always the owner who makes these decisions about
who gets endorsed.
So he says no, and then they have
a bunch of people walking off, and then
they have a whole bunch of people quitting
their subscriptions, that you look at that, you
say, no, no, this is not, we don't
want this kind of delicacy where you have
to be walking on pins and needles in
favor of something.
I'm gonna get a real audience that appreciates
the paper for what we do, so we're
gonna change our orientation.
That's all it is.
Everyone's all bent out of shape.
Yeah, well, why?
But exactly why?
I don't know.
Oh, because you don't like the idea of
privacy and liberty, and you don't like the
idea of...
We'll have none of that.
We'll have none of privacy and liberty, no,
that's no good.
Pro-business, pro-capitalism?
Can't have that.
No, we hate capitalism.
We want Marxism.
Give me a...
These people should be fired on the spot
if they complain, and the guy who quit,
good riddance.
I don't think...
Why do you quit?
In a market where the newspapers are failing
left and right, you can't get a job
doing any of this.
What's he gonna go?
Work for MSNBC?
This editorial page editor?
Where's he gonna go?
Pittsburgh?
Oh, no.
According to Kara Swisher.
Oh, yeah.
No, she listens...
Oh, Matt.
I should have clipped this.
I'm sorry.
She said, all kinds of people are calling
me, particularly from the New York Times, asking
me if I should hire this person from
the Post or that person.
Everyone's being poached from the Post now.
It's post-poaching.
And everyone's calling Kara Swisher to get her
input.
What?
What, she had a personnel for Newspapers USA?
What is this all about?
I don't know.
She's a tool.
She's a card.
Let's put it that way.
She's a card.
That's right.
There's an old term we should bring back.
Yeah, she's a card.
I got a note from one of our
producers saying someone very close to him is
a U.S. military drone operator, didn't say
which branch, and apparently his brother-in-law
got deployed last week and is currently dropping
bombs from drones onto cartel spots in Mexico.
This wouldn't surprise me.
No, but it surprises me that no one
is reporting on it.
If it's happening.
That wouldn't surprise me either.
Well, good point.
Let's talk about this.
Let's talk about it.
This is Trump.
He gave an interview to The Spectator on
a podcast, and this is an excerpt from
it, talking about Biden, who got Biden ousted.
And this podcast dropped like the day before
the Zelensky thing started.
It dropped.
You're right.
Oh, I'm sorry.
You're right.
Wow.
OK.
I'm always ridiculing that phrase.
Yes.
And I just used it.
Here we go.
I feel bad now.
Here we go.
I asked him, I said.
God, his voice sounds so bad on some
recordings, like he has no power.
I asked him, I said, so who do
you blame?
Because he was very angry.
He was a very angry guy, actually.
And he said, I blame Barack.
And I never think of him as Barack.
You know, you always hear Obama.
He said, you have to think of him
as Barack.
You have to think about that for a
second.
And he said.
And I also blame Nancy Pelosi.
I said, what about the vice president?
He said, no, I don't blame her.
Which was interesting.
Yeah.
He didn't blame her.
He blamed.
He told me he blamed those two people.
Not surprising.
No, not surprising.
Not surprising.
The guy buried by the other reporting.
So it is not that we didn't get
out, really.
I don't today.
I only have one.
I have one AI clip, and this is
actually, this makes sense to me when it
comes to AI, because the only thing I've
really seen AI good at is creating your
AI hate.
It's a lot of hate.
But I just don't want people to get
snookered into this.
I mean, when I see Glenn Beck having
actual conversations with Grok three and then telling
people about his conversation, I get worried.
Well, that's worrisome for sure.
Because I asked Grok, and Grok said this,
and I said, Grok, how old are you?
And Grok said, in human years, I'm 21.
But I gain in intelligence and knowledge about,
what was it, about 18 months per day.
And Glenn Beck's like, oh, oh, it's going
to take over.
It was going to be so smart.
Maybe Grok's a liar.
Yeah.
And then just wait until it gets hooked
up to quantum computing.
Oh, everything will all be over then.
Beck, invite me back.
I've got to set you straight.
Yeah.
Actually, he should.
He is a big fan of yours.
Yeah.
I like him.
I told you this.
You never heard it, but I heard it.
He says you're like his brother.
From another mother, is what he said.
Pretty kind of interesting.
Yeah.
Well, I like him.
I like Beck a lot.
Oh, he seems like a great...
I'd love to go over there and look
at his museum.
I've seen it twice now.
That museum is outrageous.
Yeah.
You would like it a lot.
Yeah.
Museums are all over the country.
You get to see them once in a
while here and there.
And they're just generally dynamite.
But half of the museum, or not half,
but a large portion of his collection is
just in the studio complex.
He's got like a 1930 Bugatti.
It's one of those things you got parked
in the hallway.
Yeah.
It's got some interesting...
It's a piece of art.
It's not really a car at this point.
It's beautiful though.
No.
So this made sense as something that AI
is good at, which is creating images, writing
stupid copy.
And so it makes sense that this is
happening.
This is in Virginia.
A shake up in the makeup of one
of Richmond's largest...
A shake up in the makeup.
Oh boy, everybody.
Shake up in the makeup.
A shake up in the makeup of one
of Richmond's largest employers is now underway.
CoStar Group, who operates real estate websites like
homes.com and apartments.com, laid off more
than 100 employees Thursday.
According to a company statement and people familiar
with the cuts.
Sources tell CBS 6 the cuts impacted multiple
departments.
Those positions included managers, editors, writers, production and
video staff.
Some who were laid off say they are
frustrated because they moved to the area for
the stability they thought they'd acquire from the
high-paying corporate job.
CoStar did not respond to direct questions about
the layoffs.
However, a press release on their website stated
the layoffs were due to annual performance management
and a reallocation of roles with the use
of artificial intelligence.
The company wrote in a press release, quote,
In the same release, CoStar said they will
be adding an additional 1,000 jobs over
the next year to their sales and market
analyst teams, as well as jobs from the
acquisition of another real estate company.
I'd like to hear Joy Behar.
Yeah, this is Joy Behar going off on
Musk.
And the theme of this is, Musk, go
back to Africa.
The guy was not born in this country,
who was born under apartheid in South Africa.
So has that mentality going on.
He was pro-apartheid, as I understand it.
Now I'm getting some flack because I said
that Musk was pro-apartheid.
I don't really know for sure if he
was.
He grew up at that time when apartheid
was in full bloom before the great Nelson
Mandela.
He was around at that time, but maybe
he was, maybe he wasn't.
He might have been a young guy, too.
So don't be suing me, OK, Elon?
They're allowed to say any lie they want,
but we have to be really strict.
That's why this show is important.
That's why this show sucks.
Because what was that all about?
Republicans can lie all they want, but we
have to be very strict.
Yeah.
How about your wall of receipts?
All right, this is a good series.
This is a couple of series from us
from last show.
This is from PBS.
It's the wall of receipts.
This is about the evidence that we have
about different kinds of corruption and whatever.
But this is the wall of receipts.
Here we go.
Billionaire Elon Musk says his campaign to fire
tens of thousands of federal workers and cancel
government contracts is in the name of rooting
out fraud and waste.
His Doge group has posted what it calls
a wall of receipts on its website that
claims it has saved billions by cutting certain
federal contracts.
But reports and government documents prove that many
of these so-called savings are either misleading
or incorrect.
Our White House correspondent, Laura Borrome Lopez, has
been looking into this and joins us now.
So, Laura, what kinds of savings are Musk
and his team claiming, and does the math
add up?
So Elon Musk and his team on that
wall of receipts say that their total cuts
equal $65 billion in savings.
They base that on contract cancellations, firing workers,
and, quote, fraud detection.
But as The New York Times first reported,
five of Doge's biggest contracts that they say
have resulted in savings ended up being deleted
from that wall of receipts after outlets pointed
out that there were errors.
And some of the biggest errors in savings
are, as CBS first reported, a USAID contract
for $650 million that was listed three times,
as The Intercept first reported, a Social Security
contract listed as $232 million instead of $560
,000, and an ICE contract that Doge listed
as $8 billion, when in reality it was
$8 million.
And it's important to note that that $8
million ICE contract was a credit line.
That means that ICE may have never ended
up paying out that total $8 million.
And some of these contracts were on the
wall of receipts were either already paid or
canceled under the Biden administration.
So Doge is essentially taking a lot of
credit in time for some of these contracts
that don't appear to be actually the savings
that they say they are.
Do we have any proof of what they're
saying here?
Because I keep hearing this, this $8 billion
versus $8 million.
No, this is kind of ant-fucking, too,
if you think about it.
Well, $8 million, $8 billion is quite the
difference.
Yeah, but still, they're going over, they're doing
accounting.
And this is an ongoing thing.
And yeah, there is a difference between $8
million and $8 billion, and you're going to
make these mistakes if you start throwing everything
up on a website, you know, just helter
-skelter is not being well organized and it's
not getting any support, especially by NPR and
the Democrats that think this is terrible, that
you're exposing any of this stuff, like promoting
gaydom in the Caribbean.
Gaydom?
Gaydom in the Caribbean is part two.
I know you were working the phones and
talking to vendors who appear on this so
-called wall of receipts.
What did they tell you?
So our colleague Kyle Madura spoke to one
of these federal vendors, a Taylor Jones.
His company, CulturePoint, does leadership and management training.
And his company was listed on Doge's wall
of receipts as having a contract for almost
$10 million.
But Taylor Jones told NewsHour that not only
was the amount of money wrong, it was
actually $100,000, but it was not a
guaranteed payment.
It was a credit line.
And the agreement with the government was never
signed.
We never had a contract, and we've actually
never had a contract with the government that
was, you know, a $10 million contract or
even a $1 million contract.
So not that we're opposed to it, but
it just never happened.
So we were a little surprised to start
getting calls from reporters about a non-contract
that was never executed.
So essentially there wasn't even a contract to
delete, Jeff.
And when you look at all of this
across the board, the math is really not
adding up to $65 billion.
There will be people who will say, well,
what Musk is trying to do is still
a worthy effort trying to clean up government
waste.
How much money has the team actually saved
so far?
So the actual savings is around $2 billion,
according to budget experts that we spoke to.
And again, as you noted, Musk says that
this is about, that these cuts are meant
to help reduce the deficit and pay for
Republicans' tax cuts.
Yeah, that's not what he says.
He says we need a trillion dollars, otherwise
we're going to go bankrupt.
That's what he says.
It's a little different.
This is just a skewed report.
I mean, yeah, I'm sure you can do
this and find, you know, errors all over
the place, at least at the beginning.
Eventually it gets shaken out.
The one I'm looking at, I think mainly
because, well, for two reasons, one, it's a
huge spook agency adjacent, spook adjacent company.
And also I know the guy who used
to run it, Ray Lane, is Booz Allen.
So Booz Allen.
Booz Allen is spook adjacent?
Yes.
Booz Allen is very spook adjacent.
And they have annually about $65 billion worth
of contracts, 98, according to the Wall Street
Journal, 98% of its money comes from
the government.
Wait, didn't Snowden work for them?
Yes.
Spook adjacent.
Yes.
Okay.
Yes.
98% of their income is from the
US government.
Really?
Oh, yeah.
They're basically just a huge government contractor.
Military industrial complex, CIA, NSA.
All kinds of stuff.
Booz, look it up, Booz Allen.
And I know- What do they do
for this money?
Well, now that's a good question.
Spooky stuff.
But the real question is, who are you
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Come on.
Are you wearing one of those things that
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I sewed it myself.
Are you kidding?
Or your Ohio State hoodie, perhaps?
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I'm going to show my support by donating
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Imagine all the people who could do that.
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Yeah, on No Agenda, in the morning.
Well, it seems the red carpet's already out,
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We've got to see the dead segment, got
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Bag?
I don't know what's in it, but I
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Okay, what's the total value?
Take a sloppy guess.
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$250,000 per bag.
What's in there?
I guess a lot of vacations.
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I mean, it's just, I'd have to look
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And we have Sir Brian with an I
celebrating on March 4th.
And also our very own Dreb Scott.
Happy birthday to those awesome producers.
And Dave Clevenger will be turning 74 on
March 5th, which is also my sister Willow's
birthday.
So happy birthday to everybody from the best
podcast in the universe.
Two Commodores to bring up.
So I'd like to congratulate these two for
supporting the No Agenda show.
We have brand new Commodores.
Commodore Size and Commodore Sir Dude Name Ralph.
Yes.
Congratulations.
Go to noagenderings.com.
Check out the Commodore tab and send us
your address.
Commodores arriving.
Woo.
Hey, three nights for us today, so that's
good.
We've got the Trident blade out.
I got a blade here.
That's a very good blade.
Come on up.
Ryan M.
Radar Rider.
And Tom Beard.
Beard.
All of you have supported the No Agenda
show in the amount of $1,000 or
more.
So I'm very proud to pronounce the KDS
Knight to the No Agenda roundtable.
Sir Wee G.
the Famous, Sir Radar Rider, and Sir Cooley
of Kruikenstocks.
For you, we have hookers of blow, red
poison, chardonnay, two tubes of both the salt
and pepper mix, brisket and bacon, gouda and
carlouse whiskey infused, tenlos frittai.
We also add to that some barn hits
of bourbon, sparkling cider and escorts, ginger ale
and gerbils, breast milk and babblum, and of
course, the ever-present mutton and mead.
All of you can also go to noagenderrings
.com and check out those handsome rings.
All you have to do is give us
your ring size.
There's a ring sizing guide at noagenderrings.com
and an address to send it to.
It comes with wax to seal your important
correspondence because they are signet rings and a
certificate of authenticity.
Once again, welcome to the roundtable.
No Agenda Meetups.
Yeah, man, the No Agenda Meetups, they are
something to behold.
You must go to one of these at
least once in your life and I guarantee
you, you will keep coming back because this
is where you get connection that provides protection.
Every single person you meet will be your
first responder in an emergency.
You go to noagendermeetups.com, that's where we
have the entire calendar.
You can add your own.
They're producer-organized.
They are a lot of fun.
And one of the biggest ones that has
been going on for many years now is
the Indie Meetup.
Here's Annette's mix of the February report.
Hello, this is Senator Mark.
And this is Dave Maria from Indianapolis.
We miss you, Annette.
We'll see you next month.
The theme for these 33 days, fire, fire
them all.
In the morning, not from Indianapolis, a bit
stuffy here, not woofloo, but Mike, this is
your spot.
Where are you?
Hey, this is Emily, your Shufflecrack spook.
And breaking news, I'm all out of beer.
Bruce here, just drinking some beer at the
Dugout.
Hey, it's Gary here.
I'm wondering, are they going to announce that
the Pope is dead before, during, or after
the Epstein-Lust reveal?
Hey, this is Carter.
First time to the Meetup.
Yeah, live here out of Nafganistan.
And I've got one thing to say, the
truth is stranger than fiction.
In the morning, RFK Jr., I had nachos
today.
Hi, I'm Lexi Julber.
I served the No Agenda folks today at
the Dugout in downtown Indy, and so far
it's been a great time.
In the morning, long live the king.
I love it.
Where is our Zelensky guy?
Hi, I didn't hear him.
He wasn't there.
We missed the Zelensky impersonator.
Disappointing.
Don't worry, everyone else in these reports imitates
somebody.
Not sure who.
Here's Leo Bravo's 60th Meetup he's done in
Los Angeles.
Hi, everybody.
It's Leo Bravo.
We're at Meetup number 60.
I'm passing the phone around for everyone to
say hello.
Hello.
This is Greta.
Thank you to Leo for hosting these meetups.
We love you.
And, you know, we are a family of
four who know agendas together, so it's been
the best thing that's ever happened to us.
And I just want to say, John, I'd
never heard of RSV either until 2021, and
I've been a mother since 2011.
Hi, this is Tommy.
This is my third meetup.
I want to say thank you very much
for continuing the show.
We watch it every day and we love
it.
Every day, twice a week.
Well, I try and listen to it every
day.
Hi.
I'm really grateful for the show.
My name is Devil Angel.
I loved your...
John, I loved your remark about Jimmy and
the bats.
It made me and my brother crack up
very much, so just keep doing what you
guys are doing.
Thank you.
In the morning.
This is Brian.
Connection is protection.
Thanks.
Nice event.
Good conversations.
And this won't happen in the morning.
Hey, guys.
This is Slick Rick having a good time
here with Leo Bravo and the gang in
the morning.
In the morning, this is Angie from The
Ranch enjoying the sun in Southern California.
It's Sir Lee Kim Full Pop here in
SoCal where it's still fun being an illegal
alien.
In the morning.
John, popular with the kids there.
That's really cool.
The kids love you.
Central Ohio, come on in with your report.
I'm not producing it.
This is just what's playing in the background.
This is Wild Bill with the Central Ohio
meetup.
Thanks for doing what you guys do.
And here we go to the next.
In the morning, bag slappers.
John and Adam, we need to get you
both on Who Are These podcasts as soon
as possible.
And you got to get on this little
piggy.
It'll be another win for the toe.
ITM, gentlemen.
This is Sir Rod, the one who parties
the night of Crocs and socks.
Linda Lou and Eli the coffee guy are
great.
But Kevin McLaughlin is a legend.
Well, this is Sir Leary.
I really like this podcast that you guys
do.
It's great.
It's phenomenal.
Keep at it.
I would say four more years, but don't
put a time span on perfection.
Also, John, since we're in Columbus and we
heard you're now complaining about Columbus people not
sending in a national championship sweatshirt.
We got you covered.
Don't worry.
I know there's a bunch of anonymous people
out there that don't come to the meetups,
but talk to y'all later.
So how many did you get?
How many hoodies or sweatshirts?
I've received one thus far, but I think
there's two or three more on the way.
Oh, I'm so happy for you.
Final meetup report.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I don't buy clothes.
The final meter report, meaning the final meter
report comes from San Francisco.
John couldn't make this one because he has
family dinners on Friday.
This is the Duke of San Francisco's birthday
bash meetup in the morning.
This is Sir Recalcitrant Crazy Steve at the
Duke of SF birthday meetup bash, and unfortunately
it's family night for JCD.
Sir Robertson of Two Sticks here, and happy
birthday, Ben.
Sir Montauk having a great time in San
Francisco.
This is Sir Lavish behind the schemes.
Happy birthday, Sir Ben, Sir Ben, Sir Ben.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Duke Ben.
Happy birthday, sir.
This is a dude named Ben Basch, or
is it Lai Chow, from Daly City, LCDC.
In the morning, this is Sir Lawrence of
Dystopia.
You are the Duke, Duke of San Francisco.
All right, this is the Duke, dude named
Ben, named Ben, Commodore of the SF Fleet.
We are bringing all the Commodores together to
defend the Bay Area Fleet for the Tahoe
Secret Underground Submarine Base that must be protected.
Woohoo!
This is Sir Julian, Baron of the Santa
Cruz Mountains.
Made it up from Santa Cruz.
Hope you guys make it next time.
Everyone's missing out.
And that's a long drive.
In the morning!
Hey, here's a little tip for those of
you putting together these meetup reports.
Try and get people to record before they
drink.
It helps with the editing.
I have to do a lot of edits
on these things sometimes.
Currently underway in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the Meeting
in the Desert meetup at the Saw Mill.
The Central Jersey meetup is also underway.
We Drink and We Know Things Apocalypse or
Season of Reveal Edition at 3BR Distillery in
Keyport, New Jersey.
And the Mount Holly Hypophora Hootenanny, also underway
in Belmont, North Carolina, at Muddy River Distillery.
On Thursday, you can go to the Central
Wisconsin WowSaw meetup at 333 Central at Sconus
in Schofield, Wisconsin.
The 805 Rooftop meetup at 4 o'clock
at Goleta HGI Rooftop in Goleta, California.
Dame Beth hosting that.
The Norther's Wake Publical Slave Gathering, 6 o
'clock at Saints and Scholars in Raleigh, North
Carolina.
Also on Thursday, the Orlando, Florida, Supper Time
meetup, 6.30 at Hourglass Brewing, Hourglass District,
Orlando.
And finally, the Tilburg meetup, Gitmo Nation Lowlands,
7.33 p.m. at Biercafe Kadinski in
Tilburg, the Netherlands.
We just heard one of our supporters coming
from Tilburg.
And those are just a few of the
meetups that you can find on the calendar
at noagendameetups.com.
Go there.
Look up your town.
Look up your zip code.
If you can't find anything near you, start
one yourself.
They're always a party.
It's always like a party.
We have some good end of show mixes
coming up for you.
Also, we have John's tip of the day.
And I wish I could say that I
had an ISO to compete with, but I
have nothing today.
I don't know how that happened.
I thought I had some.
I know how it happened.
You're giving up.
I'm not giving up.
It's just sometimes.
You threw your arms in the air.
And partied like I didn't care.
You have two.
Which one are we going to choose from
today?
Well, let's start with suit.
Why don't you wear a suit?
A little roomy.
A little roomy-boomy.
Okay.
Well, this one definitely isn't.
This is a crystal clear.
Wow, that was great.
I can't compete.
That's the problem.
Wow, that was great.
That's just a great end of show ISO.
There's no way I can compete with that
stuff.
Why do I even show up?
You should just do the show yourself.
Four more years.
JCD.
And now, everybody, it's time for the highlight
of the show, and it's John's tip of
the day.
Okay, first of all, I'm going to do
a little clarification on the last tip.
There's a number of factors that took place
when I recommended Zeus, the Greek season.
Oh, yes.
Yeah.
There was some pronunciation issues.
And it's like Tony C's is pronounced sashary,
sashary, Tony sashary.
People were mad.
I wasn't pronouncing it correctly.
Like James Carville called.
And then I was correct.
And by the way, the Tony C's seasoning
was not the tip of the day.
It was just a pass-through.
But they mentioned, I guess, the one that
people, if you really have Louisiana in or
whatever you call yourselves, you want Slap-Yo
Mama, which is the other seasoning.
I've never seen it, by the way.
I've never seen Slap-Yo Mama.
But that's supposed to be a kind of
usurped Tony C's somewhat, especially amongst the Louisianans
who are out of the state and they
picked Slap-Yo Mama as the one to
do.
And then another woman wrote in with a
recipe for Tony C's because she doesn't like
the fact that it has MSG in it.
But okay.
That said, the question remains, Adam was stunned
that I had picked a proprietary seasoning.
And why did I do that?
I thought you made your own.
Well, here's the deal.
Oh, here's the deal, everybody.
Okay, Biden.
Here's the deal.
Okay, Joe.
No joke.
So there are a lot of these things.
When I travel, I usually go to the
grocery stores in various areas and I look
for these proprietary seasonings, the hamburger seasoning, the
chicken jerk seasoning, all these different ones that
are pre-made.
Costco usually has a bunch of them.
They have a salt substitute from Kirkland right
now that's quite good.
It's a big thing.
It's just a bunch of herbs.
What's it made of?
Everything it seems to be in there, but
there's no wheat or anything that's bad.
What's wrong with just salt?
I'm going to finish my little exposition here,
which is the reason I even look at
these things or try them is because after
you're cooking for, you know, 50 years or
how long or ever long I've been cooking
for since college, you get sick of your
own food and you have to...
So you take these proprietary seasonings and instead
of making the steak the same old way
you've been making it for decade after decade,
no, you try somebody else's idea and you
dump their stuff on your steak and see
what it tastes like.
And so you try...
So I'm always looking for, like, for example,
Astor used to have the steak seasoning from
the Winn-Dixie stores down in the South.
They used to have this unbelievable steak seasoning
that I was using all the time because
it was just a perfect blend of spices,
herbs, salt and pepper.
But I've always trying these things out.
So I'm constantly on the lookout for this
sort of thing.
Can I just add one thing?
To vary my tastes.
Can I add one thing to your seasoning
talk?
Yeah.
Tina found out that when she does a
tri-tip, she loves doing a rub that
she makes herself, which includes espresso from gigawattcoffeeroasters
.com.
Yeah, a lot of people use coffee in
their rub.
It's...
Yes, it's very good.
It's very, very good.
With a little bit of brown sugar just
to make it even better.
It's perfect.
All right.
What's your tip of the day today?
Well, again, it's another proprietary product.
But I have to plug this thing before
I forget.
And it also gives me a moment to
complain about Amazon.
This is a...
One of the hot sauce providers out there
is called Melinda's.
And Melinda, you can go to the...
You look at Melinda Hot Sauces and it's
online and you can find their store.
You can go to there and you can
buy directly from them.
Now, Melinda, the one product which you find,
they also have distribution in grocery stores.
But to find this particular one, Melinda's Fire
Roasted Jalapeno Sauce, which is a mild...
It's not...
It's like out of five, you know, fire
engines, it'd be two.
It's a very...
It's a version of Salsa Verde, to be
honest about it.
I make Salsa Verde myself.
But there's something about this particular blend, this
Fire Roasted Jalapeno from Melinda.
It's almost addictive and it goes on everything.
Breakfast, eggs, it goes on hash browns, it
goes on steak, it goes on chicken.
It's so good.
There's not anybody in the family that's ever
had this stuff that doesn't agree that this
stuff is borderline addictive.
It's that good.
And all their hot sauces are good and
they come in a nice reusable bottle that
you could use for other things.
If you wanted to figure out how to
wash it out, you need a bottle brush.
That's the tip of the day, too.
Get a bottle brush, everybody.
So, Melinda's Fire...
Now, here's what I was going to complain
about.
You can go to their site and you
can order a bunch of stuff and you
have to buy 25 or 50 bucks worth
of hot sauces to get the free shipping.
Or you can go to Amazon and they
have it on Amazon, free shipping.
It's $6.95 for a bottle of the
big bottle, it's a big bottle, of this
stuff on the website.
It's $10.95 on Amazon.
Why is Amazon jacking up the price by
$4?
Because the free shipping's a scam when it
comes to a lot of products on Amazon.
I am going to send in a complaint
and I wish other people would do the
same thing to the Federal Trade Commission complaining
about this.
Oh, can you give us a template complaint
letter?
I could make one and put it in
the newsletter.
I think that's a grand idea.
I think that's very good.
Because it seems to me that this is
not right.
They're offering you pay, you pay a fortune
nowadays, it used to be 75 bucks, now
it's over $100, to get the free shipping
Amazon Prime and they jacked the price up
by $4, which is what you'd have to
pay if you bought it directly from Melinda's.
Hey Bob, what's all these letters from some
podcast?
I don't know, I don't know man.
Oh there it is everybody, if you want
to eat well, if you want the right
things in your mouth, you listen to John
C.
Dvorak's Tip of the Day, tipoftheday.net, noagendafund
.com.
You and me, just the two of us,
JC D.
And sometimes Adam, created by Dana Brunetti.
Yeah, there you go, that's it.
And as we end our broadcast day, we
see President Zelensky doing the class photo with
all the European leaders, and the caption reads,
ready to do the minerals deal.
Okay.
Yeah, they should be standing on a box,
I hope.
We shall see, we shall see.
If everything goes well with the connectivity, we
have a live fictional Battle of the Fictional
Douchebags with Lavish Pfeiffer, Sir Spencer and Sir
Seatsitter coming up next, which is always fun.
It's a hootenanny with all those kids get
together, if they can connect, we hope so.
And end of show mixes coming to you
today from Sir Scovey, Tom Starkweather, the melodious
owl himself, and a nice fun little AI
ditty from DJ Walker Techno.
Coming to you from the heart of the
Texas Hill Country, right here in Fredericksburg.
In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And I'm from Northern Silicon Valley, and for
the Oscars, I'll be eating chicken amole.
I'm John C.
Dvorak.
And we'll be rooting for the Pope movie.
Hey, remember us at noagendadonations.com.
It's value for value.
Keep the show running, everybody, four more years.
Until Thursday, adios mofos, a hooey hooey, and
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