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This guy's out of control. He's insane. Adam Curry. John

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C. DeVore. It's Sunday, June 21st, 2026. This is your

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award-winning Gibbon Nation media assassination episode 1879. This is no

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agenda. and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas

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Hill At number six in the morning everybody, I'm Adam

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Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley, we're wishing everybody a

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happy Father's Day, at least in the United States. I'm

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John C. Dvorak. Vaught and Bosgill in the morning. I

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think it's Father's Day everywhere, isn't it? Not that I

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know of. It's Father's Day in Holland. Is it? Yeah.

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Is it in Canada? Canada never has anything the same

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day. No, I think it's only Mother's Day that is

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different in different countries for some reason. Thanksgiving is totally

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different. Well, yeah, because, you know, we have our own

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thing. but it's like that in the first, I believe.

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- Yeah, yes, but I think Father's Day is the

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same everywhere. Pretty sure. Pretty sure, pretty sure. Well, that's

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the robot. Let's get off to a rousing start. Okay.

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All right. Book of Knowledge. Is Father's Day celebrated on

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the same day around the world? All right. We're off

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to a start with the book of knowledge with a

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question that cannot stump him. According to the book of

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knowledge, Father's Day is not on the same day in

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every country. The third Sunday of June, today June 21st,

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is observed in some 86 countries. countries from the United

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States and the UK to India, Japan and Mexico. But

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Catholic Europe honors fathers on March 19th. The Feast of

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St. Joseph. The Southern Hemisphere waits until spring. Germany ties

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the day to Ascension. No. No, no, no. Ta-da! Are

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you right? When you're right, you're right. Okay, well, happy

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Father's Day, except for you Germans. Except for you Germans

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who don't care. You don't care about your dads. The

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fatherland of all places. What is Catholic Europe, anyway? I'm

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not so sure I know where Catholic Europe is. I

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think it means all the countries that are... for the

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pagans in Switzerland. Oh, okay. Oh, and the Lutherans in

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Holland. I don't know if there's a lot of Lutherans

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in Holland. Are you kidding? There's nothing left in Holland.

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All the churches are Airbnbs and WeWork. Now there's not

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much going on in that regard. Anyway, a little bit

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of sports ball to kick it off, everybody. Go Dutch!

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Go orange! 5-1 against Sweden. I got to tell you,

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I got the World Cup fever. Got the fever. Did

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you watch the game? Yes, I watched. Did you watch

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the whole game? The whole game. I did. Wow. Yeah,

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did you know their song? Everyone loves their song. The

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Dutch song. What is it? Let's go Dutch. The roof

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is coming off. Get ready for the chorus, John. Here

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we go! Here we go, from side to side. ♪

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Do the left ♪ the left The Dutch can't help

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it. They are just a hoompapa country. Well, they got

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that from the Germans. Yeah, of course. They are Dutch.

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blood it's even in their in their national anthem am

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i of german blood That's in the, and they are.

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Of course they are. So are the English. Everyone's from

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German blood. But somehow the Dutch celebrate Father's Day on

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the regular normal day as 86 countries. Yeah, because it's

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not Catholic. Exactly. Oh, man. So I got all the

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morning shows. I believe you have some analysis clips of

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the Iran deal. That deal falling apart once again, as

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predicted on this show. Let's start with... Now is this

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SS all the way? Or is it just the... I'm

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sorry, S-F all the way? S-S. S-S, you know. S-S.

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Oh yeah, it's your buddy. I'm Scott. Yeah. You spotted

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it. All right. But there's one here that says Iran

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fail NNPR. Is that the first one? The one? Okay.

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If we're going to play these, then we start with

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the overall one, which is the no. No, the no.

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It's the no. Iran failed. Lean on as NPR. The

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preliminary agreement President Trump signed Wednesday was Iran. Wait, what?

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What? You're playing a Ron Fale, Lennon as NPR? Yes.

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Iran fail, Len on SS and PR. Okay. Is that

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incorrect? Welp. Well, you have this one. You have this

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one. Iran's military said today it closed. That's it. Okay,

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that was the one I wanted to play. Oh, I'm

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sorry. That's Iran fail, right? The reason I want to

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play that first is because it's an overview. Okay, you

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need to work on the label. No, it's my fault.

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Iran's military said today it will close the Strait of

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Hormuz again because of Israel's continued attacks on Hezbollah in

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Lebanon. NPR's Jaina Raaf has more. Iran is now saying

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that it was Washington's job to ensure Israel adhered to

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that ceasefire. fire and it calls it a violation of

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the understanding that fighting is still going on they say

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that violation those ceasefire violations call the entire agreement between

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the u.s and iran including the opening of the strait

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of hormuz into question that's after israeli attack mostly southern

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Lebanon where Israeli forces have invaded and they're trying to

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take more territory. Hezbollah is fighting back there, so not

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much of a ceasefire. Pakistani officials who've been mediating the

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talks between U.S. and Iran on ending the war, along

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with Kotter, say the negotiations will resume tomorrow in Switzerland.

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kind of unclear. I mean, there's no, I couldn't find

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any real reporting on what's going on between Israel. Is

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it, is Lebanon still lobbing bombs in? I mean, all

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is that true i don't get this very little analysis

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other than Hey, they're screwing up the deal. That's what

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it's, I'm not going to argue that, but there was

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some analysis in these clips. which we'll play, which is

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that we'll start with the analysis SSNPR, which is Israel.

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Penal. dialysis. So we're leaving Leonon SS? Well, we can

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that should be played last. That's what it means. Thank

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you. You're better at this than I am. All right,

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here we go. Israel, who went to war with Iran

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alongside the U.S., has been highly critical of the framework

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for a potential deal between Iran and the U.S. This

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has not been received well in the White House, where

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President Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance used uncharacteristically tough

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language this week. against the U.S. ally. And here's Ron

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to be with you, Scott. President Trump used what I'll

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call choice words. Who is that guy? Good to be

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with you, Scott. It's wonderful to be here. You know,

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okay, so I looked into this guy. Yeah, because he's

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got a... He's got points. Because he's always on and

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he's the final... arbiter he's the last word he did

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bring bring him on so i looked him up he's

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a graduate of of uh i think it's chicago but

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he's stanford and cal berkeley yeah uh he's got he's

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he's he's a teaches at a lot of the spook

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schools yeah and but he doesn't seem to be a

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spook but maybe he is. Good to be with you,

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Scott. But his background is good enough that I think

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he can do this job and he's not like a

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phony. Okay, well, one thing's for sure. You've got some

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pipes on him. Thanks for being with us. Thank you,

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Scott. Good to be with you, Scott. President Trump used

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some what I'll call choice words. in an interview this

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week. Choice words. Why don't you just use the words?

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Whenever he says shithole country, you have no problem saying

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it. Why don't you just use the words, Scott? Talking

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about Prime Minister Netanyahu's decision to launch... Oh, stop a

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second. I was thinking about this. So there's a concern,

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of course, that the FCC is going to crack down.

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on cussing on the air, right? Is there? So what

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if you play a clip of Trump, the president of

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the United States, cussing up a storm? the choice words

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in this case, you just use that clip, what would

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the FCC do? Would they bust you? Or would they

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bust the president? Or what would happen? Well, if... If

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this was over the air and not a podcast, and

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if they really were enforcing that, which to my knowledge,

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they've never enforced the seven dirty words ever. They moan

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about it. Yeah, they moan about it. But you remember

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that every news outlet was going, shithole country, and this

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and that, and drop an F. bombs sometimes well that's

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cable so i haven't heard any cable doesn't count but

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when we were on mtv Um, And somehow the FCC,

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they were afraid of the FCC, although I don't think

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the FCC don't regulate cable, do they? They don't. It

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was the cable operators who put the fear of God

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into everybody.

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Oh, you better not do anything nasty before 10 p.m.

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video clip, MTV would get in trouble, not Madonna or

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whoever. So, yeah, of course it would be the broadcaster.

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so you're saying that's newsworthy. No, I said, I don't,

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it's not trustworthy or not. Doesn't the president trump the

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FCC? I don't know. This is a question I have

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not pondered, and I think we don't need to do

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it here either. Okay, we're done. President Trump used some

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what I'll call choice words in an interview this week

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talking about Prime Minister Netanyahu's to launch strikes on Beirut.

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right before the MOU was agreed to. Words we cannot

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play on the air. Let's just say that he questioned

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the Israeli prime minister's judgment. Then-Vice President J.D. Vance was

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asked during an interview with The New York Times whether

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he thought Israel has incentives for the agreement not to

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go through. And this is what the vice president posed

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to Israeli critics. What is your exact proposal? And, you

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know, you're a country of nine million people. You can't

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just kill your way out of solving every single national

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security problem that you have. I mean, how come these

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guys aren't dead yet? Why is Mossad not a... assassinated

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them. Doesn't everybody know that Israel controls these guys? Controls

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all of Congress? What is happening here? I'm freaking out.

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Why this kind of rhetoric? There's so much at stake

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here, Scott. There's the fragile ceasefire that may or may

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not be holding for the moment, as we just heard

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from Jane and Raph. Then there's the fate. of the

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MOU between the U.S. and Iran. There's at least a

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short-term chance for peace in the region, and then there's

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the future of the relationship between the U.S. and Israel

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that's been so important to both for almost 80 years.

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So, two months ago, the current war began with coordinated

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attacks by the U.S. and Israel on Iran, and it's...

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ally Hezbollah in Lebanon. Now the Trump administration wants to

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dial back, make a deal, or at least start to

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make one so the world oil market can recover and

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stop endangering the U.S. economy and the world economy. But

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Israel still sees itself fighting a threat at its doorstep

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from Hezbollah. Uh, so I- I had a brief conversation

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he's like, you guys don't understand. It says four of

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our soldiers got killed by Hezbollah. So we got to

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strike back. I'm like, well, I don't know who started.

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little analysis of what's really going on there. But the

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president does not seem to be happy, nor the vice

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president, with this. No, because they're ruining the deal. Yeah,

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they want to get the straits open to keep the

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economy, world economy. We can handle no oil. We can

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make it ourselves, but... It's a bad look. It's a

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bad look. You can't be a laggard. It's a bad

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look. If the world economy has issues, we have issues.

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Things are interconnected. Yeah, it's a bad look, too. It's

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like we got a deal. It's a bad look. It's

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a bad look. Come on, Netanyahu. It's a bad look.

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Netanyahu's got to go. This guy's been in too long.

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own cabinet saying, this is a bad deal. And from

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what I hear from my friends' boots on the ground,

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they're like, no, no, no, this is about us. Hmm.

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What do you mean it's about us? About Israel, like

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we're being, our soldiers are being killed, my son's going

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to war. It has to fight against Hezbollah. We have

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to fight back. That's the messages I'm hearing. Yeah, but

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aren't the soldiers that were killed, the Israeli soldiers, weren't

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they killed in Lebanon? This is what I don't know.

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We have no clue. Where's the boots on the ground

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from the news media? The news media. stinks. When the

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agreement to extend the ceasefire and open the Strait of

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But it is being questioned by many critics at home,

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most notably some members of his own party. What can

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you tell us? Conservative hardline Republicans are saying that this

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deal seems, if it is a deal, seems to... squander

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the military's successes of the past two months in exchange

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for little or nothing beyond a return to where things

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stood in February when ships were flowing through the Strait

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of Hormuz. As for nuclear weapons, Iran is apparently only

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required to say they won't develop them, ever. and to

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have more negotiations on the subject. And in exchange, the

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U.S. is offered to lift sanctions on Iran and make

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available some of Iran's financial assets that have been frozen,

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and even set up a fund to rebuild what Iran

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lost in the recent fighting. So some of these Republicans

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who object have been doubters for a while. Others, hey,

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might have been political, let's say, rivals. of the president

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at one time. Others had political scores to settle with

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Trump. But then you have such loyalists as Roger Wicker,

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Mississippi chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. These people

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seem genuinely surprised and distressed at this turn of events.

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Wicker, for one, says that the Iranians will use every

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penny that they get from this. new arrangement to further

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their ultimate goals, which are death to America, death to

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Israel. And yet Trump has lumped all these Republican critics

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together and dismissed them as, quote, fools. Okay. That was

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actually not bad, his analysis there. No. That's pretty good.

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And everybody is, you know, piling on. Oh, in terms

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of the Republicans. Oh, yeah. Almost everybody. I have some

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clips coming up. Almost everybody. Oh, OK. I think this

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might I think this will be the we got this.

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There's one more analysis clip. And then I think the

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Lebanon wrap the negotiations, the announcement of the agreement all

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occurred while the president was in France for the G7.

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And because the president has so much global responsibility is

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under. Unrelenting pressure at all times, a lot of observers

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noted. He looked and sounded tired. Wednesday news conference was

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especially. Dude, he looked tired. Oh, no, he's 80. He

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looked tired. Oh, this is no good. No good. I

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look in a lot of those clips and he didn't

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look that tired. It didn't look that tired to me

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either. Compared to Biden. Well, but I've seen Trump look

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tired. He didn't look that tired. Yeah, he gets tired

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when you travel overseas and you lose your sleep rhythm

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and you've got to sleep on the 7- Well, of

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course, he's got a big bed in there, but he's

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probably busy. He doesn't get a lot of sleep as

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it is. No. It's like, okay. But the insinuation here

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from Scott Simon is she's old and she's tired. He

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looked and sounded tired. The Wednesday news conference was especially

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striking. Trump was rambling, often off topic, lacking his usual

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bravado. What, just because he talked about granite? Thank you.

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The granite was fantastic. But it was hard not to

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notice the contrast with French President Emmanuel Macron, who is,

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after all, 32 years younger and hosted the summit with

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grace and assurance. Grace and assurance. Boy, pomp and circumstance

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has been bumped for grace and assurance. Where did this

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come in? That just was galling to hear that. Grace

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and... assurance. I'm writing that down. baby. Sounds like two

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sisters. You cooked that dinner with grace and assurance. He

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was younger and hosted the summit with grace and assurance.

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There was a little spat over a picture to be

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taken with the Italian Prime Minister, George Maloney. Trump said

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she begged him to take a picture with her. She

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took strong exception to that. I take exception. Now the

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Italian foreign minister has canceled a trip to the U.S.

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And then, Scott, at the end of the conference, when

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the G7 leaders posed for their usual class picture after

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the meeting, Trump stood as a caucus of one, while

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the others conferred and engaged with each other. Oh. Okay,

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so I was looking for that. He's all alone in

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the schoolyard. There was a moment at the end where

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everybody kind of, they took a either. It was either

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before or after the group shot. They all scattered around

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and they were all yakking with each other. And Trump

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was not yakking with anybody. So for the moment that,

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which was. not unusual for this entire event him to

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be wandering around by himself and then engaging with one

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person or another just you know Incidentally. I just thought

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it was one, it was that commentary was taken from

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a photo op showing Trump standing there kind of. It

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was a funny picture. I finally tracked it down. But

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we've done that with Zelensky, where he's looking like a

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little lost schoolboy. Yeah, you can do that with anybody.

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Just follow them along enough, and they're going to be

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by themselves for the minute. Take a shot. Look at

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this poor guy. That's perfect. So I thought that was

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inaccurate. an inaccurate description of things or or it was

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mean oh oh he's sleepy and he's all alone a

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preliminary agreement president trump signed wednesday with iran explicitly includes

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lebanon in the ceasefire but as you've reported it hasn't

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really been fully enforced Where does that leave the wider

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agreement with Iran? Well, as we've seen, Israel believes it's

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not bound by that wider agreement, which calls for ensuring

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Lebanon's sovereignty and territorial integrity. In fact, Defense Minister Israel

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Katz said the Israeli military is destroying Lebanese border villages,

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including infrastructure. making it impossible for 200,000 residents to return.

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And Israeli troops are trying to take a strategic Hezbollah

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position deeper into Lebanon. Hezbollah has been attacking Israeli tanks

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and troops to prevent that advance. Earlier this week, you

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were in Napatia.

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Still a center of fighting, much life like there. There

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was an awful lot of destruction, including downtown in the

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historic Ottoman-era market, hundreds of years old. All of that

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was heavily damaged. We met one of the town residents,

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Najeeb Ayyad, a little further into the city. Returning briefly

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to see the damage to his apartment. So a part

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of the building had collapsed and there was so much

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rubble it was difficult to get through the door even.

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There was the sound of artillery in the distance. You

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could see smoke rising. And inside all the glass had

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been blown out, including the balcony doors. He's saying, you

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see that? castle see what it looks like he says

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the israelis are still there and from his balcony you

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can see the beaufort castle it's a crusader era fortress

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on a strategic hill that's now occupied by israeli forces

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so he said that as long as there's really forces

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are that close, he could never move back. Yeah, this

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is... To me, it feels like Netanyahu has to have

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some kind of conflict going because he has elections coming

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up. And he needs to be a wartime president. Yeah,

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I think this is like a George Bush phenomenon. Yeah,

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otherwise he gets... kicked out. I mean, that just seems

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obvious. Do you remember that one election that George Bush

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ran for re-election and that's when they had the posters

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of the various colors showing the possibility of a terrorist

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attack and there was the red and the yellow alert

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and the green alert and they had them at the

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airports? Yeah, I remember. Of course. And just before the

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election, everybody went to orange alert. They made a big

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fuss about going to Orange Alert and they printed up

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all these posters with Orange Alert. Yeah, the posters, but

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there was no interchangeable color. They were just orange. Yeah.

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And they stayed orange forever. They were permanently orange. You

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couldn't put a little green sticker over them. It was

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all orange. Yeah, this doesn't feel very good. Well, from

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the morning shows, I have two guests. The first one

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is Susan Rice. uh gosh she's still around oh yeah

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oh yeah the twerp and she's there to to sow

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propaganda and to, to make Obama look good, of course,

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because she was part of that original JCPOA. So a

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couple of clips from her and then the surprise guests,

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or not a surprise guest, but with surprise information. You

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called this memorandum of understanding a jaw-dropping, horrific. surrender. With

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reparations. So what? Reparations. She's already going straight for reparations.

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Is it so egregious? because so many concessions were granted

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up front normally and shouldn't have been granted until after

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there was not only a fully comprehensive deal to at

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least deal with their nuclear program, but also that those

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provisions that were negotiated had been agreed. So let me

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just explain to you some of the things that were

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conceded up front. The Secretary just acknowledged. Iran, as of

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the signing of the agreement, so on Thursday, is now

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able to sell all of its oil and all of

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its oil products on the market unimpeded. Well, that's a

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good thing for the world. Okay. Yeah. That's kind of

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what we want. Everybody wants that. She's a very, very,

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very annoying person. ...the market unimpeded and use that money

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to rebuild itself. And use the banking system. And use

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the banking system. Under the Obama nuclear deal, they couldn't

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have relief from oil sanctions. They didn't need the banking

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system. We gave them cash. Until the deal was... He

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had pallets. He had pallets of cash. ...fully implemented. not

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just preliminarily agreed. Secondly, they get access to tens of

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billions of dollars of frozen assets in the very near

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term, within the next 60 days, contingent only upon the

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memorandum of understanding, this flimsy two-page document, being implemented. Repeat

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after me. Flimsy two-page document. Flimsy. It's so flimsy. The

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paper was just like rice paper. So flimsy. You're using

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like onion skin. So this is already. Not true because,

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first of all... General Patton on the down low, he's

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the one controlling it. giving them all of their money

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back. It's drips and drabs when we feel it's appropriate.

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But I guess that's not reflected in the flimsy two-page

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document. The memorandum of understanding this flimsy two-page document being

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implemented. That means essentially once they've opened the strait, they

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get all the access to their frozen assets without any

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constraint on how they spend it. In the Obama-era deal,

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they could only spend those frozen assets on humanitarian things,

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food and medicine. Now they can use it to fund

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their terrorist proxies. Ah, yes, that's what they will do

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because they like bombs on their heads. By the way,

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there wasn't any enforcement. angle to the Obama deal that

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they could enforce what she said. No, there wasn't. It's

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bull crap. She's just lying. But it wasn't a flimsy

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two-page document. It was hundreds of pages of carefully crafted

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diplomatic language, which... You know, the last newsletter I sent,

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which I discussed some of the funny aspects of this,

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which is... Both the Council on Foreign Relations and Chatham

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House. Yeah. Well, it's the same thing. It's the same

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thing. Of the global globalist environment. the globalists, let's just

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say, they pretty much... expressed the exact same thing. In

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fact, the Chatham House called this a surrender. Yeah. Or

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we lost. We lost the war. No, Trump. Trump lost.

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We didn't. Trump lost the war. The war of choice.

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Yeah. And it's all like all part of this. Let's,

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you know, we got to. They're clawing back. They're trying

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to claw back territory. They're trying to claw back their

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system. Trump tried it. The system, yeah, which has been,

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Trump is ruining their system. Yes, and so they're trying

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to claw it back in the hearts of minds. And

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they're doing it with grace and assurance. Iran, thirdly, will

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now be able, after 60 days, to charge fees for

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the transit of... Ships through the Strait of Fort Moose.

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This is a great reading of the document. So what

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she's saying is after 60 days, they can go right

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back to charging tolls. That's not really what the, from

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what I've read. No, it doesn't say that at all.

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No, it's an extrapolation. But if after 60 days. Of

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things going south. Yes. So I was like, okay. So

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it's pre-assumed that things are going to go south. Her

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analysis is based on presumption. Yes. They could never have

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done before. They get. $300 billion from the United States

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and our Gulf partners. No. Well, actually, partners will ensure

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that they get that money. No, that's not, that's, I

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read the agreement. I don't think it says, hey, us

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and our golf partners will assure you get that money.

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No, no, no, no. There will be a fund. when

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there's a final deal. And then two other things. When...

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When the deal is done, they say all sanctions against

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Iran, bilateral and multilateral, will be lifted. Under the Obama

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deal, after they had fully implemented everything, it was only

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the nuclear-related sanctions that were lifted. One last point. The...

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crazy thing about this memorandum of understanding that's that sets

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us back enormously is that we commit to withdraw U.S.

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military forces from the vicinity of Iran. That means our

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base is in the Gulf. Are we walking away from

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the Middle East as a result of this deal? The

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administration would say no, and they would say that those

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frozen assets, although I know exactly Exactly what it says

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in the memorandum of understanding. They say there has to

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be progress on the nuclear talks first. Right, exactly. But

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she's... Iran won this war, people. Most of our allies

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in the region seem to welcome this because it meant

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00:28:53,087 --> 00:28:58,419
an end to the war. Isn't a weak peace agreement

463
00:28:58,555 --> 00:29:01,061
better than a resumption of a war, which I know

464
00:29:01,101 --> 00:29:03,847
you opposed. I opposed this war because it was a

465
00:29:03,947 --> 00:29:07,535
stupid war. And it was obvious that when you wage

466
00:29:07,575 --> 00:29:10,883
a stupid war, that every prior president had the wisdom

467
00:29:11,003 --> 00:29:13,849
to avoid that you were going to end up with

468
00:29:13,930 --> 00:29:16,876
either bad outcomes or worse outcomes. So this is a

469
00:29:16,976 --> 00:29:21,941
great upside. down analysis she has. You can say every

470
00:29:22,002 --> 00:29:25,825
other president avoided the war. Because it wouldn't work. Or

471
00:29:25,886 --> 00:29:27,581
you could say, well, maybe it was time to do

472
00:29:27,662 --> 00:29:33,078
something. She's very convinced. She has a lot of conviction.

473
00:29:33,098 --> 00:29:35,266
Oh, she's unbelievable. She has conviction. It ends what you

474
00:29:35,327 --> 00:29:38,719
saw as a stupid war. It ends a stupid war.

475
00:29:38,699 --> 00:29:42,365
Why is she even on? Well, that's a good question.

476
00:29:42,385 --> 00:29:45,882
Why is she even booked? Who's the booker? Well, she

477
00:29:45,982 --> 00:29:52,923
is Obama. This is the Obama camp talking here. This

478
00:29:52,983 --> 00:29:55,912
is a very bad outcome. I obviously think we shouldn't

479
00:29:55,932 --> 00:29:58,038
have been in this war in the first place because

480
00:29:58,118 --> 00:30:00,008
it was. obvious for decades.

481
00:30:00,220 --> 00:30:03,289
That the only way to resolve this problem is through

482
00:30:03,329 --> 00:30:08,204
diplomacy. No, lady. And also, why is she using war

483
00:30:08,265 --> 00:30:12,257
of choice? She's saying stupid war. Yeah, she's making a

484
00:30:12,317 --> 00:30:16,009
mistake. You're supposed to say war of choice. By the

485
00:30:16,109 --> 00:30:18,277
way, one of the funniest talking points that the Chatham

486
00:30:18,297 --> 00:30:21,595
House had. is that they call it the memorandum of

487
00:30:21,736 --> 00:30:26,923
lack of understanding. Oh, what a British understatement. They're so

488
00:30:26,942 --> 00:30:29,547
funny. Now we're back to diplomacy with a far weaker

489
00:30:29,626 --> 00:30:33,132
hand. Yes, their military has been degraded, but Iran has

490
00:30:33,192 --> 00:30:36,415
now figured out they can use the Strait of Hormuz

491
00:30:36,476 --> 00:30:39,121
to hold us and the global economy hostage. - They

492
00:30:39,142 --> 00:30:43,529
figured that out before. - Yeah, I know. She's, okay,

493
00:30:43,691 --> 00:30:46,108
one more because this is the clip about Israel. Here,

494
00:30:46,148 --> 00:30:47,800
let's take a look at just what J.D. Vance said

495
00:30:47,861 --> 00:30:52,289
last week. Donald J. Trump is the only head of

496
00:30:52,329 --> 00:30:56,750
state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the

497
00:30:56,790 --> 00:30:59,392
nation of Israel at this moment in time. And he

498
00:30:59,451 --> 00:31:01,414
happens to be the head of state of the world's

499
00:31:01,474 --> 00:31:04,420
superpower. If I was in the cabinet of the Israeli

500
00:31:04,460 --> 00:31:08,885
government, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally

501
00:31:08,965 --> 00:31:12,411
that I have anywhere left in the entire world. First

502
00:31:12,471 --> 00:31:14,133
of all, is that an accurate description of the state

503
00:31:14,213 --> 00:31:16,896
affairs? It's an extraordinary statement. He said Trump is the

504
00:31:17,018 --> 00:31:19,622
only head of state sympathetic to... the nation of Israel,

505
00:31:19,961 --> 00:31:22,827
that the United States is the only powerful ally that

506
00:31:22,887 --> 00:31:25,913
Israel has in the entire world. I'd say that's pretty

507
00:31:25,953 --> 00:31:28,018
much correct at this point in time. I agree with

508
00:31:28,057 --> 00:31:32,165
you. This is absolutely correct. Is that true? I think

509
00:31:32,406 --> 00:31:40,088
that was an extraordinary statement. Extraordinary. Extraordinary. Extraordinary. I think

510
00:31:40,328 --> 00:31:44,395
that was an extraordinary statement. And I'm sure it shocked

511
00:31:44,655 --> 00:31:48,583
a lot of people, particularly in Israel. But one of

512
00:31:48,643 --> 00:31:53,911
the outcomes of this is, you know, as Prime Minister

513
00:31:53,951 --> 00:31:57,916
Netanyahu has himself publicly acknowledged on many occasions, he has

514
00:31:57,978 --> 00:32:02,866
tried to persuade... many prior presidents to engage in war

515
00:32:02,947 --> 00:32:07,896
with Israel against Iran and promising that that would result

516
00:32:08,798 --> 00:32:11,924
in regime change and an end to Iran posing any

517
00:32:11,964 --> 00:32:14,770
threat. This is her version of Bibi made us do

518
00:32:14,790 --> 00:32:17,096
it. What we've got as a result of that war,

519
00:32:17,155 --> 00:32:20,425
which President Trump was the first to. take the bait

520
00:32:20,625 --> 00:32:24,333
on what is a strength of Iran in terms of

521
00:32:24,393 --> 00:32:28,339
its geopolitical stature in the region, not militarily, conventionally in

522
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:31,445
the short term, but its nuclear program is fully intact.

523
00:32:31,465 --> 00:32:34,391
There is nothing in that agreement that requires that the

524
00:32:34,451 --> 00:32:37,277
nuclear material, the dust, as the president likes to call

525
00:32:37,297 --> 00:32:40,963
it, will be removed from Iran. It can stay there

526
00:32:41,044 --> 00:32:44,090
and stay in place. But the Israelis have suffered the

527
00:32:44,131 --> 00:32:49,323
most because now, you know, this administration, if you take

528
00:32:49,403 --> 00:32:52,210
the president and the vice president's words, has basically said

529
00:32:52,250 --> 00:32:55,857
to Israel, your concerns are not ours. Yeah, that's exactly

530
00:32:55,918 --> 00:32:59,875
what they're saying. And rightly so at this point. So

531
00:32:59,914 --> 00:33:04,901
then we have on CBS with Margaret. Lindsey Graham. And

532
00:33:04,961 --> 00:33:07,327
I know normally I was groaning too, like, oh, Lindsey

533
00:33:07,367 --> 00:33:13,940
Graham. But he is so stupid. I think he... basically

534
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:20,454
explains the whole plan. in quite some detail. And I

535
00:33:20,514 --> 00:33:23,344
was like, wow. Do you think he's stupid because he

536
00:33:23,644 --> 00:33:25,572
gave up the ghost? Or why do you think he's

537
00:33:25,592 --> 00:33:27,558
stupid in this case? Well, first, let's... I mean, we

538
00:33:27,598 --> 00:33:31,528
both think he's kind of dumb, but... In this case,

539
00:33:31,627 --> 00:33:34,139
what did he do? Well, first, let's start off with

540
00:33:34,199 --> 00:33:37,473
a typical Lindsey Graham opener of the interview. There's a

541
00:33:37,534 --> 00:33:39,581
lot that still hasn't been figured out. here in this

542
00:33:39,602 --> 00:33:42,447
deal. But you wrote nine days ago the idea of

543
00:33:42,467 --> 00:33:45,512
a U.S. plan with partners to create a fund of

544
00:33:45,574 --> 00:33:48,920
at least $300 billion. This is point six in the

545
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:53,229
memorandum is tone deaf and it's akin to a Marshall

546
00:33:53,269 --> 00:33:58,058
Plan for Germany with the Nazis still in charge. This

547
00:33:58,139 --> 00:34:01,371
is where. Lindsey started a day or two ago and

548
00:34:02,194 --> 00:34:04,947
right away he starts changing his tunes. That caught my

549
00:34:05,328 --> 00:34:09,083
attention. Why did you change your position and now you

550
00:34:09,204 --> 00:34:13,751
support it? Well, can you stop the clip for a

551
00:34:13,771 --> 00:34:18,773
second? Yeah. The reason it... You remember... It was probably

552
00:34:18,833 --> 00:34:21,088
when we did the last show at that. There was

553
00:34:21,128 --> 00:34:23,322
some moment, and I think we maybe even played the

554
00:34:23,383 --> 00:34:25,822
clip of it. Or you may have had it. I

555
00:34:25,842 --> 00:34:29,387
don't remember having it, but it was Trump. Somebody commenting

556
00:34:29,447 --> 00:34:31,776
to Trump about these Republicans who are bitching and moaning

557
00:34:31,816 --> 00:34:34,366
like Cruz and the rest of them. And somebody said

558
00:34:34,406 --> 00:34:38,793
to Trump, Lindsey Graham is made some... criticism of what

559
00:34:38,833 --> 00:34:42,257
you're doing there. And then Trump said something like, oh,

560
00:34:42,378 --> 00:34:44,961
what? Well, I'm going to have to talk to him

561
00:34:45,061 --> 00:34:49,387
about that. And he made some assertion that he was

562
00:34:49,467 --> 00:34:53,574
talking out of class. And so it's possible that he

563
00:34:53,653 --> 00:34:56,597
wrote that one thing. That's what became the comment that

564
00:34:57,038 --> 00:35:00,103
was asked of Trump. And then Trump's response resulted in

565
00:35:00,123 --> 00:35:02,927
what we're going to hear now. I think you're correct.

566
00:35:03,764 --> 00:35:06,971
Because before, I thought the money was coming from the

567
00:35:07,052 --> 00:35:10,902
West. If the West funds Iran, I think that would

568
00:35:10,981 --> 00:35:13,829
be a Marshall Plan with the Nazis still in charge

569
00:35:13,869 --> 00:35:19,849
for Germany. If the plan envisions the Sunni Arabs... Yeah,

570
00:35:19,869 --> 00:35:22,815
if the Sunni Arabs do it. Can you imagine if

571
00:35:22,934 --> 00:35:27,322
Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates invest $300

572
00:35:27,643 --> 00:35:30,827
billion in Iran? That would tell me that Iran has

573
00:35:30,909 --> 00:35:33,552
changed. To all the experts out there, do you think

574
00:35:33,653 --> 00:35:36,398
Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates are going

575
00:35:36,418 --> 00:35:39,684
to invest in Iran? with a theocracy bent on destroying

576
00:35:39,744 --> 00:35:43,831
Sunni Islam. So think it through. If the money comes

577
00:35:43,871 --> 00:35:47,420
from the Sunni Arab world, I hope it happens. It

578
00:35:47,460 --> 00:35:50,324
would mean that the Sunni Arabs believe that Iran has

579
00:35:50,385 --> 00:35:52,590
changed to the point they want to be a business

580
00:35:52,630 --> 00:35:55,956
partner. I pray that happens. I doubt if it will.

581
00:35:56,117 --> 00:35:59,967
You see, Lindsey Graham... He's not smart enough to think

582
00:36:00,007 --> 00:36:02,130
of it that way. This is the talk he got.

583
00:36:02,632 --> 00:36:05,737
Hey, man, shut up. Don't you see what's happening here?

584
00:36:05,777 --> 00:36:12,349
Because Saudi Arabia and Iran, they've been at war by

585
00:36:12,429 --> 00:36:14,712
proxy in Yemen for as long as this show has

586
00:36:14,732 --> 00:36:18,099
been going on. That's true. You know, like bombing all

587
00:36:18,139 --> 00:36:21,360
of Yemen. The Yemenis. Back and forth. Because, you know,

588
00:36:21,701 --> 00:36:24,206
one Arab does not equal the other Arab. It's Sunni

589
00:36:24,268 --> 00:36:27,817
versus Shia. This is poorly understood in the West. But

590
00:36:27,836 --> 00:36:32,248
it's also not the Iranians are not Arabs. I'm sorry.

591
00:36:32,269 --> 00:36:36,159
Yes, correct. But we're talking about the IRGC and the

592
00:36:36,300 --> 00:36:40,289
leadership. So... When I hear this, I immediately knew, oh,

593
00:36:40,713 --> 00:36:43,331
wait a minute. This has got to be with the

594
00:36:43,471 --> 00:36:49,382
Abraham Accords because this is Trump's signature move. And no

595
00:36:49,422 --> 00:36:54,172
wonder Israel hates this. His idea— Israel cannot like what's

596
00:36:54,211 --> 00:36:57,097
going to happen. His whole idea is— If he pulls

597
00:36:57,197 --> 00:37:01,168
it off. Well— I think Lindsey Graham is lifting a

598
00:37:01,248 --> 00:37:03,873
little tip of the veil to explain, just a tip.

599
00:37:04,295 --> 00:37:07,940
With Lindsey, it's always just a tip, to explain what

600
00:37:08,021 --> 00:37:11,788
the plan is here. And the plan is, funny enough,

601
00:37:12,068 --> 00:37:16,717
actually based on Iran not adhering to the MOU and

602
00:37:16,797 --> 00:37:18,682
the ceasefire. Well, I want to ask. about some of

603
00:37:18,704 --> 00:37:22,713
the criticism of the agreement from your fellow Republican colleagues.

604
00:37:23,135 --> 00:37:26,865
Take a listen. If we give billions of dollars to

605
00:37:27,007 --> 00:37:30,358
Iran, that money will be used to murder Americans. And

606
00:37:30,438 --> 00:37:33,168
so I don't believe we should do... Sir, Ted Cruz...

607
00:37:33,715 --> 00:37:36,701
who I think is a smart guy. Did he really

608
00:37:36,802 --> 00:37:40,592
think that, did he really buy into the... The propaganda

609
00:37:40,632 --> 00:37:44,114
that America was somehow going to give this $300 billion,

610
00:37:44,175 --> 00:37:48,010
is he that stupid? Is it possible that Ted Cruz

611
00:37:48,050 --> 00:37:52,976
was given a role? Oh, the heel. Ah, I love

612
00:37:52,996 --> 00:37:56,088
this. Yes, very possible. To Iran, that money will be...

613
00:37:56,168 --> 00:37:59,320
To smoke out the other douchebags. That would be possible.

614
00:37:59,456 --> 00:38:04,045
Maybe, because Truce is not dumb. Used to murder Americans,

615
00:38:04,186 --> 00:38:06,391
and so I don't believe we should do that. They'll

616
00:38:06,431 --> 00:38:11,061
use the money that is being released to rebuild their

617
00:38:11,742 --> 00:38:17,715
ballistic missile arsenal and begin to enrich again, and that's

618
00:38:18,336 --> 00:38:20,800
going to be a continuing danger. Even though it's not

619
00:38:20,822 --> 00:38:23,045
really discussed in these clips, there is a difference between

620
00:38:23,146 --> 00:38:27,534
ballistic missiles and intercontinental ballistic missiles, just as a side

621
00:38:27,654 --> 00:38:30,320
note. Yeah, a ballistic missile can be a short, just

622
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:32,985
a little... Yeah, could be like a rocket, a little

623
00:38:33,025 --> 00:38:35,891
rocket that goes to Israel. That's not intercontinental. It could

624
00:38:35,911 --> 00:38:38,996
be a continuing danger. That money, Brooke, we know, is

625
00:38:39,056 --> 00:38:42,514
not going to go to... build new hospitals or daycares.

626
00:38:42,534 --> 00:38:46,119
It's going to go to replenish their drone stockpiles, their

627
00:38:46,159 --> 00:38:50,846
missiles to support terrorists like Hezbollah and Hamas. We have

628
00:38:50,946 --> 00:38:54,531
13 Americans dead. We spent anywhere from $25 to $100

629
00:38:54,551 --> 00:38:58,556
billion in munitions. And it turns out we've lost a

630
00:38:58,576 --> 00:39:02,092
credible threat of attacking them. There's a lot of stuff

631
00:39:02,215 --> 00:39:07,386
in there that's bad. All of those Republicans are seriously

632
00:39:07,467 --> 00:39:10,666
doubting the president here, Senator Graham. Do you agree with

633
00:39:10,706 --> 00:39:16,941
their concerns? No, I don't. We're not giving any money

634
00:39:17,021 --> 00:39:21,121
to Iran that can change that. Wow, yeah. Oh, not

635
00:39:21,181 --> 00:39:25,233
Lindsey Graham. No, I don't. No, he's come on. We're

636
00:39:25,273 --> 00:39:28,340
not giving any money to Iran that can change the

637
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:33,074
course of history to try diplomacy. Is the MOU problematic?

638
00:39:33,094 --> 00:39:36,595
Yeah. I'd rather try diplomacy than take it off the

639
00:39:36,614 --> 00:39:39,895
table. The money Iran gets is not going to change

640
00:39:39,916 --> 00:39:42,583
the future. the future of Iran. It's not enough to

641
00:39:42,643 --> 00:39:47,309
reconstruct the country. If you don't have a diplomatic path

642
00:39:47,690 --> 00:39:49,894
through the MOU, then you have to go to war

643
00:39:50,375 --> 00:39:54,501
or some other form of coercion. Let's try this. Let's

644
00:39:54,601 --> 00:39:57,905
try a diplomatic solution. Now, this is where I think

645
00:39:57,945 --> 00:40:00,009
he starts to unveil the plan.

646
00:40:00,092 --> 00:40:02,936
And it's a violent plan, but it is a plan.

647
00:40:03,195 --> 00:40:06,661
I think it's going to fail. What happens next? I

648
00:40:06,701 --> 00:40:09,664
spent four and a half hours with President Trump Friday.

649
00:40:10,146 --> 00:40:13,510
Uh-oh. Oh, this is good. I've given you a borderline

650
00:40:13,530 --> 00:40:15,914
clip of the day already. Oh, I will accept your

651
00:40:15,954 --> 00:40:21,271
borderline clip of the day. I can see this coming.

652
00:40:21,452 --> 00:40:24,983
Oh yeah, no, and so he got the full playbook.

653
00:40:25,436 --> 00:40:30,117
And I think because... Yeah, four hours worth of lectures.

654
00:40:30,177 --> 00:40:33,753
No one gets four hours with Trump. Melania doesn't. No

655
00:40:33,773 --> 00:40:37,150
one gets four hours with Trump. So he got the

656
00:40:37,494 --> 00:40:40,195
full lowdown, and now Lindsey Graham is going to lay

657
00:40:40,255 --> 00:40:44,101
this out. I think the exact plan... And of course,

658
00:40:44,121 --> 00:40:46,668
everyone's like, oh, Lindsey Graham's stupid. And he may be,

659
00:40:46,788 --> 00:40:48,572
but I think he's telling us what's going to happen.

660
00:40:48,753 --> 00:40:52,240
I think it's going to fail. What happens next? I

661
00:40:52,260 --> 00:40:55,228
spent four and a half hours with President Trump Friday.

662
00:40:55,527 --> 00:40:58,255
Here's what I think will happen next. If this deal

663
00:40:58,335 --> 00:41:01,141
fails, President Trump is going to take. the Strait of

664
00:41:01,221 --> 00:41:04,809
Hormuz over by force. The United States will control the

665
00:41:04,849 --> 00:41:07,815
Strait of Hormuz. We'll charge a fee for all those

666
00:41:07,875 --> 00:41:11,222
who go through to pay for the operation. And we're

667
00:41:11,262 --> 00:41:14,367
going to expand the Abraham Accords in calendar year 2026.

668
00:41:14,467 --> 00:41:18,255
We're going to get Saudi Arabia to join the Abraham

669
00:41:18,295 --> 00:41:21,996
Accords. This is the big statesman. Senator Lindsey Graham, who

670
00:41:22,056 --> 00:41:23,920
all of a sudden is like, we're going to do

671
00:41:24,001 --> 00:41:26,306
this. We're going to get the Abraham Accords. We're going

672
00:41:26,347 --> 00:41:30,096
to charge everybody for the Straits of Hormuz. Yeah, this

673
00:41:30,155 --> 00:41:33,804
is hardly, it's not presented as speculation. No. I mean,

674
00:41:33,864 --> 00:41:37,806
it's not. You can tell the difference between when somebody

675
00:41:37,827 --> 00:41:41,043
is telling you something they think. Here's some possibilities, and

676
00:41:41,083 --> 00:41:44,009
you usually have a few different ones. But when you

677
00:41:44,088 --> 00:41:48,157
have this self-assured one, two, three, this is what's going

678
00:41:48,197 --> 00:41:51,644
to happen, this is somebody else's talking, not you. This

679
00:41:51,724 --> 00:41:54,690
is the plan. This is it. I think you nailed

680
00:41:54,751 --> 00:41:58,097
it. Iran has a slim chance, a slim chance, if

681
00:41:58,137 --> 00:42:00,751
they say, okay. We're going to play ball, but the

682
00:42:00,833 --> 00:42:04,001
idea is we need... We know they won't play ball,

683
00:42:04,021 --> 00:42:06,248
so what he's saying is what's going to happen. We

684
00:42:06,327 --> 00:42:10,478
need to get Saudi Arabia in the Arab Accords, and

685
00:42:10,619 --> 00:42:12,425
Israel doesn't like any of that, but they're going to

686
00:42:12,445 --> 00:42:14,635
have to just do it. So we're going to get

687
00:42:14,695 --> 00:42:17,954
Saudi Arabia because they have Medina and Mecca and you

688
00:42:17,974 --> 00:42:20,304
know, they are the center. They're the center of everything.

689
00:42:20,706 --> 00:42:23,454
Not Iran. You can't leave them out. No, we need

690
00:42:23,494 --> 00:42:26,123
those guys in the deal. And this is what Trump

691
00:42:26,144 --> 00:42:31,054
is going for. It's ballsy. 2026, we're going to get

692
00:42:31,094 --> 00:42:35,208
Saudi Arabia to join the Abraham Accords, which is the

693
00:42:35,288 --> 00:42:38,117
biggest change in 5,000 years in the Mideast. And if

694
00:42:38,217 --> 00:42:41,815
Iran contests. control of the Strait of Hormuz by the

695
00:42:41,894 --> 00:42:45,740
United States will obliterate them. So to all the people

696
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:51,347
listening, if this diplomatic effort fails, President Trump is going

697
00:42:51,367 --> 00:42:53,612
to take the Strait of Hormuz. We're going to run

698
00:42:53,672 --> 00:42:55,894
it. We're going to try to get Saudi Arabia to

699
00:42:55,974 --> 00:42:59,719
join the Abraham Accords and the Arab-Israeli conflict in 2026.

700
00:42:59,952 --> 00:43:03,663
And if Iran continues to attack Israel and Lebanon, the

701
00:43:03,702 --> 00:43:06,672
new policy will be we'll hit Iran. So to the

702
00:43:06,731 --> 00:43:10,021
Iranians, if you're listening, when you use Hezbollah to attack

703
00:43:10,141 --> 00:43:12,608
Israel, I think the new policy will be we will

704
00:43:12,668 --> 00:43:17,619
attack Iran. I'm not so sure about that part. But

705
00:43:18,123 --> 00:43:20,864
this last clip he just he just really It's all

706
00:43:20,905 --> 00:43:23,269
laid out. And of course, it's all Lindsay's idea, as

707
00:43:23,309 --> 00:43:25,733
you know. You have just laid out how you could

708
00:43:25,773 --> 00:43:28,358
turn what you think is a flawed document into an

709
00:43:28,458 --> 00:43:33,688
opportunity. Because the great strategist, Lindsay Graham. Yes. I took

710
00:43:33,748 --> 00:43:37,416
this flimsy two-page document. I turned it into a strategy

711
00:43:37,476 --> 00:43:41,063
to solve everything in the Middle East. You're also suggesting

712
00:43:41,123 --> 00:43:43,992
there that you can get Benjamin Netanyahu or whoever is

713
00:43:44,032 --> 00:43:46,780
the next prime minister of Israel to recognize a Palestinian

714
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:49,827
state, which is the price of normalization with Saudi Arabia.

715
00:43:50,952 --> 00:43:53,465
How could you do that on the brink of an

716
00:43:53,505 --> 00:43:57,494
election? Well, for about two years, Margaret, in case you

717
00:43:57,534 --> 00:44:02,193
missed this. I went to Riyadh and Jerusalem working on

718
00:44:02,233 --> 00:44:06,480
normalization with President Biden. We're going to announce a framework

719
00:44:06,521 --> 00:44:11,269
to have Saudi joined Abraham Accords at the end of

720
00:44:11,389 --> 00:44:16,336
October in 2023. Iran attacked on October the 7th. That

721
00:44:16,356 --> 00:44:23,496
is an interesting timeline. So they were close, supposedly, to

722
00:44:23,557 --> 00:44:27,537
getting the Abraham Accords or something like it. Right. And

723
00:44:27,879 --> 00:44:31,609
what did he say? October, October 3rd and then October

724
00:44:31,629 --> 00:44:38,904
7th. And remember... This whole October 7th... as horrible as

725
00:44:38,984 --> 00:44:43,902
it was, was a security lapse unparalleled in all of

726
00:44:43,922 --> 00:44:48,176
Israeli history. And we heard nothing but people saying, hey,

727
00:44:48,196 --> 00:44:52,808
man, they let that happen. So if you're B.B. Netanyahu

728
00:44:52,928 --> 00:44:56,331
and you don't want these Abraham Accords, you might let

729
00:44:56,391 --> 00:45:01,477
something happen. I'm not... accusing anybody, but it seems... It's

730
00:45:01,537 --> 00:45:07,343
a valid... thesis abraham accords and uh at the end

731
00:45:07,383 --> 00:45:11,639
of october in 2023 iran attacked on october the 7th

732
00:45:12,059 --> 00:45:15,825
That created a real problem. The Arab world is very

733
00:45:15,925 --> 00:45:18,881
upset about Gaza and everybody in Israel. very upset about

734
00:45:18,981 --> 00:45:21,526
October 7th. But we're going to pick up where we

735
00:45:21,566 --> 00:45:24,673
left off. And Donald Trump is going to empower me

736
00:45:24,733 --> 00:45:29,422
and others to jumpstart what we, an effort to get

737
00:45:29,522 --> 00:45:32,909
Saudi to join Israel. There will be accommodations made by

738
00:45:32,969 --> 00:45:36,356
Saudi and Israel to Saudi and Israel. You have no

739
00:45:36,396 --> 00:45:39,562
better friend than Donald Trump. to Bibi. Donald Trump stood

740
00:45:39,603 --> 00:45:42,348
by you when other people wouldn't. I'm not asking you

741
00:45:42,408 --> 00:45:45,495
to do anything to jeopardize the future of Israel's security,

742
00:45:45,815 --> 00:45:48,220
but I'm asking you to be open to expanding the

743
00:45:48,240 --> 00:45:51,407
Abraham Accords and finding a solution to the Palestinians that

744
00:45:51,467 --> 00:45:54,333
are good for Israel and, quite frankly, good for the

745
00:45:54,373 --> 00:46:01,407
world, to Saudi Arabia. Now's the time to open negotiations

746
00:46:01,447 --> 00:46:04,593
yet again for you to expand the Abraham Accords, for

747
00:46:04,633 --> 00:46:07,098
you to join. I think this is going to happen

748
00:46:07,138 --> 00:46:10,104
in 2026, and it can't happen until Iran's in a

749
00:46:10,144 --> 00:46:12,749
box. If we get a deal, if we get a

750
00:46:12,790 --> 00:46:15,254
deal, Iran will be in a box. If we don't

751
00:46:15,295 --> 00:46:17,832
get a deal, Iran will be in a box. To

752
00:46:17,912 --> 00:46:20,261
Lebanon, to the people in Lebanon, help is on the

753
00:46:20,321 --> 00:46:23,954
way. Hezbollah has been terrorizing your country for a long

754
00:46:24,014 --> 00:46:27,577
time. That's about the end. I think that's the whole

755
00:46:27,637 --> 00:46:30,635
plan right there. Thank you, Lindsay. Now we know what

756
00:46:30,675 --> 00:46:36,853
to look for. Super, super easy to see. Like, okay,

757
00:46:36,874 --> 00:46:38,195
listen. Listen to Ron, we're going to let you, we'll

758
00:46:38,215 --> 00:46:41,164
give you 60 days. and either you do it our

759
00:46:41,245 --> 00:46:44,066
way and then saudi arabia come on we got these

760
00:46:44,126 --> 00:46:47,680
guys in a box You don't want to play? Okay.

761
00:46:48,259 --> 00:46:52,977
Then we'll take it all over. with another war of

762
00:46:53,121 --> 00:46:59,273
choice. Another war of choice. Another war. choice. Yeah. Well,

763
00:46:59,293 --> 00:47:02,782
I think we did the whole... We solved it. We

764
00:47:02,943 --> 00:47:06,030
analyzed it better than anyone. Yeah, I think we're pretty

765
00:47:06,050 --> 00:47:10,641
good at it. Well, we nailed it. Well, we can

766
00:47:10,681 --> 00:47:13,328
pat ourselves on the back in 60 days. We'll see.

767
00:47:13,528 --> 00:47:18,800
We'll see. But it seems... I don't know. I mean,

768
00:47:19,386 --> 00:47:24,747
we just, we really don't know, obviously. Anything could happen.

769
00:47:25,151 --> 00:47:28,259
Anything could happen. Let's talk about the opening of the...

770
00:47:28,583 --> 00:47:32,141
of the streets the opening and the supposed closing which

771
00:47:32,201 --> 00:47:34,311
they say is not closed but it's open it's open

772
00:47:34,371 --> 00:47:38,414
it's closed it's open it's closed Here's CBS with a

773
00:47:38,975 --> 00:47:43,021
guy from the Rand Corporation talking about how difficult it

774
00:47:43,061 --> 00:47:46,225
is to open the Hormuz Straits. The agreement with Iran

775
00:47:46,245 --> 00:47:49,229
also reopened the Strait of Hormuz and ships are starting

776
00:47:49,269 --> 00:47:52,354
to move through the major waterway again, but traffic may

777
00:47:52,414 --> 00:47:55,338
not get back to normal right away because of dozens

778
00:47:55,398 --> 00:47:57,963
of mines. that need to be cleared in the area.

779
00:47:58,344 --> 00:48:00,428
So I want to bring in Dr. Scott Savitz, a

780
00:48:00,508 --> 00:48:04,436
senior engineer and professor at RAND, School of Public Policy.

781
00:48:04,496 --> 00:48:07,943
Thanks for joining us. What is a realistic timeline for

782
00:48:07,983 --> 00:48:11,230
the Strait of Hormuz to reopen for commercial traffic? Are

783
00:48:11,250 --> 00:48:15,619
we talking days, weeks, months? So appreciable traffic can start...

784
00:48:15,599 --> 00:48:18,585
to move within days. It's likely that narrow corridors can

785
00:48:18,625 --> 00:48:23,313
be cleared. On the other hand, getting the entire Strait

786
00:48:23,494 --> 00:48:28,884
cleared may take weeks, possibly months. Full traffic, normal traffic

787
00:48:29,024 --> 00:48:31,929
as it was before the war, will likely resume within

788
00:48:31,969 --> 00:48:37,183
a few weeks. Ehh... Okay. So, you know, is everyone

789
00:48:37,203 --> 00:48:39,709
still talking about these so-called minds, which I just don't

790
00:48:39,750 --> 00:48:43,633
believe. I don't believe there's the mines in there. No

791
00:48:43,693 --> 00:48:46,573
one blowed up. It'd be crazy to mine the Straits

792
00:48:46,654 --> 00:48:51,590
of Hormuz. No one benefits from that. They keep saying

793
00:48:51,610 --> 00:48:54,856
there's mines there. Yeah, they keep saying it. There's no

794
00:48:55,021 --> 00:49:00,240
evidence. And so here's a CNBC to get the to

795
00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:02,846
get the lowdown on the oil markets. So what does

796
00:49:02,927 --> 00:49:06,295
this deal actually do? Well, first and foremost, and critically

797
00:49:06,356 --> 00:49:09,363
for the energy markets, it reopens the Strait of Hormuz,

798
00:49:09,383 --> 00:49:12,692
and it also lifts the U.S. naval blockade. Secondly, it's

799
00:49:12,732 --> 00:49:16,461
going to give Iran an immediate waiver to export during

800
00:49:16,501 --> 00:49:24,798
this 60-day ceasefire period. I've been speaking with analysts here

801
00:49:24,818 --> 00:49:27,824
in Vienna about what this could mean for oil flows

802
00:49:27,904 --> 00:49:30,610
over the next few months. David Fyfe at Argus Media

803
00:49:30,670 --> 00:49:33,916
told me it could take several months before shipping and

804
00:49:33,956 --> 00:49:37,751
exports normalize. And Rita Sand at Energy Aspects also weighing

805
00:49:37,831 --> 00:49:40,355
in. She was a little bit more cautious, saying she

806
00:49:40,395 --> 00:49:44,883
doesn't expect Hormuz flows to return to pre-war conditions anytime

807
00:49:44,983 --> 00:49:50,432
soon. Yeah, everyone is like, oh, cautious, cautious, cautious. Now,

808
00:49:50,953 --> 00:49:54,178
we are now looking at premium gasoline in Texas at

809
00:49:54,438 --> 00:50:00,009
about. $4.20 down from over $5. So people are...

810
00:50:00,092 --> 00:50:03,949
not smiling, but they're like, huh? Okay. A little bit

811
00:50:03,969 --> 00:50:10,954
better. California is still outrageously high and a rare non-retarded

812
00:50:11,036 --> 00:50:16,369
moment from former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. California is making some

813
00:50:16,389 --> 00:50:23,219
major mistakes. in policy wise because They make fuel, very

814
00:50:23,340 --> 00:50:27,563
expensive. So our fuel is around $2 per gallon more

815
00:50:27,603 --> 00:50:30,733
than the average in the United States. And the reason

816
00:50:30,773 --> 00:50:35,887
is because the Californian legislators somehow feel like they don't

817
00:50:35,947 --> 00:50:39,237
want to have a refinery in California. So the refineries

818
00:50:39,297 --> 00:50:41,657
now go to Texas. So now you have to go

819
00:50:41,717 --> 00:50:44,121
and ship all the oil to Texas, then you do

820
00:50:44,141 --> 00:50:46,266
the refining, and then you go and ship it back

821
00:50:46,346 --> 00:50:48,690
again. But what do you think happens when you ship?

822
00:50:49,351 --> 00:50:53,538
That creates pollution. So it is absolutely contradictory to what

823
00:50:53,577 --> 00:50:56,682
they believe in. So they're a little confused, which is

824
00:50:56,742 --> 00:51:02,130
not... unusual with legislators, may I remind you. Yeah. Plenty

825
00:51:02,150 --> 00:51:07,682
of refineries in California. You know what he's saying. He's

826
00:51:07,762 --> 00:51:10,356
talking to simple people in California. You're all pretty simple

827
00:51:10,396 --> 00:51:12,327
out there. So we got to put it in terms

828
00:51:12,347 --> 00:51:17,418
you can understand. So, whereas the G8, the G7... And

829
00:51:17,460 --> 00:51:20,971
by the way, the reason that the gas... He left

830
00:51:21,090 --> 00:51:23,380
out the most important. I don't want to just start

831
00:51:23,422 --> 00:51:26,114
correcting these kinds of clips, but he left out the

832
00:51:26,173 --> 00:51:29,307
most important part about the fuel price is that it's

833
00:51:29,387 --> 00:51:36,166
a special. Once in the world blend that's special to

834
00:51:36,226 --> 00:51:40,581
California that burns a certain way and creates... a certain

835
00:51:40,641 --> 00:51:44,349
kind of pollution that is peculiar. And so it costs

836
00:51:44,389 --> 00:51:47,474
more to make this gasoline than it does normal gasoline.

837
00:51:47,655 --> 00:51:50,420
Now, so is that because of where you are on

838
00:51:50,460 --> 00:51:52,405
the map or is that because of legislation? No, it's

839
00:51:52,425 --> 00:51:56,211
because they've decided. They're the weird ones who started the

840
00:51:56,251 --> 00:51:59,875
idea of the low sulfur diesel that results in diesel

841
00:51:59,976 --> 00:52:02,603
everywhere being. too expensive but we also did the same

842
00:52:02,644 --> 00:52:06,130
thing with gasoline creating a special blend of gasoline that

843
00:52:06,190 --> 00:52:12,344
is very good at not producing nitrogen oxides and other

844
00:52:12,403 --> 00:52:17,994
things that cause smog literally. So you don't hear about

845
00:52:18,034 --> 00:52:21,322
smog anymore in Los Angeles. part of that is due

846
00:52:21,342 --> 00:52:25,951
to the fact that this gasoline, the effluent, the exhaust

847
00:52:25,971 --> 00:52:28,255
from these gasolines do not produce that kind of... I

848
00:52:28,275 --> 00:52:30,298
thought it was Obama who fixed all that. I thought

849
00:52:30,358 --> 00:52:34,686
Obama fixed up the... Yeah, that's bullshit. Okie doke, no?

850
00:52:34,726 --> 00:52:38,266
Bullshit. All right, so just to wrap this up, the

851
00:52:38,306 --> 00:52:41,344
G7, the big summit. where Trump was sleepy and all

852
00:52:41,425 --> 00:52:45,054
alone in the schoolyard used to be the G8 for

853
00:52:45,114 --> 00:52:49,144
people who have forgotten. Yeah, right. When Russia, who still

854
00:52:49,184 --> 00:52:51,992
should be in it. Of course they should. It's size.

855
00:52:52,112 --> 00:52:56,809
It's GDP. But no, we hate those, you know. I

856
00:52:56,829 --> 00:52:59,112
mean, we're not going to let you in the Olympics,

857
00:52:59,315 --> 00:53:03,315
in the Eurovision. and certainly not in the G8, but

858
00:53:03,376 --> 00:53:09,860
yet somehow Volodymyr Zelensky is there. Hanging out. and expecting

859
00:53:09,920 --> 00:53:14,137
Putin to show up. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has expressed

860
00:53:14,177 --> 00:53:18,032
willingness to meet his Russian counterpart for face-to-face talks on

861
00:53:18,112 --> 00:53:21,163
ending the war, speaking at a the historic monastery that

862
00:53:21,202 --> 00:53:24,670
was damaged in an overnight attack by Russia, Zelensky said

863
00:53:24,710 --> 00:53:28,036
he had offered to meet Vladimir Putin at the G7

864
00:53:28,096 --> 00:53:44,909
summit. demonstrate again that they don't, they are not ready

865
00:53:45,530 --> 00:53:49,018
to speak about this. Zelensky will attend a working session

866
00:53:49,077 --> 00:53:52,545
with G7 leaders on Tuesday, giving him the opportunity to

867
00:53:52,644 --> 00:53:55,311
show Trump that he holds more cards than he might

868
00:53:55,351 --> 00:54:00,019
have thought, including Ukrainian troops' recent progress on the battlefield.

869
00:54:00,219 --> 00:54:02,688
which also comes on the back of receiving a 90

870
00:54:02,748 --> 00:54:07,083
billion euro loan from the EU and Kyiv's defense cooperation

871
00:54:07,163 --> 00:54:12,000
with Gulf nations. I keep hearing from my military sources

872
00:54:12,079 --> 00:54:16,534
familiar with the matter. that Russia is about to make

873
00:54:16,595 --> 00:54:22,802
something go big boom in Ukraine. Yeah. So you mentioned

874
00:54:22,862 --> 00:54:24,905
it in the last show. I just got to keep

875
00:54:24,945 --> 00:54:27,309
saying I'm the Lindsey Graham of podcasts, man. I just

876
00:54:27,349 --> 00:54:30,173
got to keep saying it to make sure. These military

877
00:54:30,253 --> 00:54:32,657
sources are yours. The ones that said they're going to

878
00:54:32,677 --> 00:54:37,244
take over the election back in 2020. Quantum dots. Quantum

879
00:54:37,404 --> 00:54:41,034
dots are all over the place. I thought the other

880
00:54:41,137 --> 00:54:46,608
big news, which... due to presentation was not played up

881
00:54:46,688 --> 00:54:50,278
much at all except probably Fox and lots of podcasts.

882
00:54:50,298 --> 00:54:54,346
We might as well join the chorus. That was... Tulsi

883
00:54:54,385 --> 00:55:01,074
Gabbard, outgoing. Yeah, I want to... Yeah, when you're... The

884
00:55:01,135 --> 00:55:04,454
thing that happened today. Tulsi Gabbard, you're going to tell

885
00:55:04,494 --> 00:55:06,217
him, and you have the clips. I don't have any

886
00:55:06,237 --> 00:55:10,224
of that. But today, the Washington Post. Don't give away

887
00:55:10,284 --> 00:55:13,931
the punchline. There's a punchline? Well, you've got a punchline.

888
00:55:13,951 --> 00:55:16,355
Today, the Washington Post. This is not from today. So

889
00:55:16,376 --> 00:55:19,907
this predates whatever you have to share. So let's think

890
00:55:19,970 --> 00:55:22,945
of this. a logical show rundown. I'm going to play

891
00:55:22,985 --> 00:55:25,029
the gabber clips. But I'd like to jump in and

892
00:55:25,090 --> 00:55:27,154
jump in with a punchline before you can tell it.

893
00:55:27,615 --> 00:55:31,684
No, go on. Believe me, my punchline will wait and

894
00:55:31,724 --> 00:55:34,490
it doesn't have anything. I have no punchline. You've got

895
00:55:34,530 --> 00:55:37,637
the punchline. I'm just giving people something that they may

896
00:55:37,697 --> 00:55:43,032
not have heard. Yeah, and why is that? Because... This

897
00:55:43,051 --> 00:55:47,380
is the most significant thing she's done. Yes. And she

898
00:55:47,420 --> 00:55:49,445
had a big stack of papers on her desk, a

899
00:55:49,525 --> 00:55:51,570
very... Did you see the size of that stack? Yeah,

900
00:55:51,590 --> 00:55:56,947
it was a stack. Very, very tepid presentation. Yeah. Your

901
00:55:57,027 --> 00:56:00,404
favorite type of presentation. It almost, looks like AI. That's

902
00:56:00,465 --> 00:56:04,259
how tepid it is. This is... This is terrible. She's

903
00:56:04,418 --> 00:56:06,385
not good at that. So I've just pulled two short

904
00:56:06,425 --> 00:56:10,494
clips. Before the COVID pandemic, Dr. Fauci, as head of

905
00:56:10,534 --> 00:56:15,288
the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, provided millions

906
00:56:15,448 --> 00:56:19,322
in U.S. taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain of function

907
00:56:19,382 --> 00:56:24,179
research on bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology,

908
00:56:24,679 --> 00:56:28,032
work which is now widely viewed as the source of

909
00:56:28,092 --> 00:56:32,186
the unintentional lab leak that sparked the pandemic. Now in

910
00:56:32,206 --> 00:56:35,525
support of President Trump's maximum transparency, I do find it

911
00:56:35,646 --> 00:56:40,007
interesting that she says in here the unintentional lab leak.

912
00:56:41,132 --> 00:56:45,188
There's no reason. for her to say that. Well, there

913
00:56:45,208 --> 00:56:48,429
shouldn't be a reason, but I think there is. Oh,

914
00:56:48,510 --> 00:56:50,554
interesting. I didn't catch that. She could have just said,

915
00:56:50,655 --> 00:56:53,860
the lab leak. But now it has to be unintentional

916
00:56:53,920 --> 00:56:57,317
lab leak. Of the unintentional lab leak that sparked the

917
00:56:57,356 --> 00:57:01,427
pandemic. Now, in support of President Trump's spark. You know,

918
00:57:01,447 --> 00:57:03,217
this is irritating me now that I hear this again.

919
00:57:03,778 --> 00:57:08,199
Sparked the pandemic? No, caused the pandemic. Not spark. Caused.

920
00:57:08,971 --> 00:57:12,181
Spark means that there was fuel everywhere and it was

921
00:57:12,282 --> 00:57:14,588
ready to go and you just needed a spark. No,

922
00:57:14,608 --> 00:57:18,139
no. It started the pandemic, if you want to say

923
00:57:18,159 --> 00:57:26,757
it. correctly. Now, in support of President Trump's maximum transparency

924
00:57:26,818 --> 00:57:30,505
mandate, today, on my final day as Director of National

925
00:57:30,545 --> 00:57:37,418
Intelligence, I'm releasing never-before-seen communications and documents that expose exactly

926
00:57:37,518 --> 00:57:59,695
how Fauci works. Okay, and then... The other piece of

927
00:57:59,755 --> 00:58:02,682
significance, because there's a lot of fluff in her statement,

928
00:58:03,806 --> 00:58:07,938
Fauci lied. The COVID pandemic caused tremendous hardship and pain

929
00:58:07,998 --> 00:58:11,949
for millions of our fellow Americans and countless people around

930
00:58:12,010 --> 00:58:15,806
the world. Now, after years of lies and censorship and

931
00:58:15,885 --> 00:58:20,960
cover-ups, the American people deserve transparency. Transparency, truth, and accountability.

932
00:58:21,603 --> 00:58:24,610
The tactics that were used to hide the truth are

933
00:58:24,730 --> 00:58:28,699
straight from the deep state playbook. Politicized self-serving leaders like

934
00:58:28,759 --> 00:58:32,726
Dr. Fauci covered up their own wrongdoing and abuses of

935
00:58:32,827 --> 00:58:38,358
power, manipulated intelligence, lied to Congress, and undermined a duly

936
00:58:38,438 --> 00:58:42,574
elected president by restricting his access to the vital facts

937
00:58:43,077 --> 00:58:47,061
he needed to keep the country safe. It's time you

938
00:58:47,766 --> 00:58:52,420
know the truth. No, it's time someone is held accountable.

939
00:58:53,320 --> 00:58:56,501
And we can't hold Fauci accountable because he got a

940
00:58:56,985 --> 00:59:02,927
retroactive pardon from the previous president. president. Which Trump is

941
00:59:03,128 --> 00:59:07,400
trying to say, well, it was auto-penned, so it was

942
00:59:07,461 --> 00:59:12,436
no good. But, I mean, where is the outrage? Where?

943
00:59:12,983 --> 00:59:16,721
It's not on Fox. It's not anywhere. There's no real

944
00:59:16,903 --> 00:59:20,724
outrage. Like, first of all... Nothing new. We knew about

945
00:59:20,764 --> 00:59:23,851
it. We've heard about the emails. Well, we have. Yes,

946
00:59:23,911 --> 00:59:26,175
we have. Yes, we have. There's nothing new to people

947
00:59:26,215 --> 00:59:28,661
that have anything to do with this show. No, but

948
00:59:28,820 --> 00:59:30,846
no one else heard this. They only hear it on

949
00:59:30,905 --> 00:59:35,086
podcasts. No one is saying, well, that's baffling to me.

950
00:59:35,309 --> 00:59:41,145
Breaking news! It's suppressed. So your punchline of the Wall

951
00:59:41,166 --> 00:59:44,807
Street Journal or the Washington Post. So she talks about

952
00:59:44,887 --> 00:59:48,739
in there that when people. There was retribution by the

953
00:59:49,041 --> 00:59:53,886
intelligence community whenever anybody said anything about this. Remember that

954
00:59:53,947 --> 01:00:00,009
was in there. Today's Washington Post. Tulsi Gabbard, her gur-

955
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:04,664
and the mysterious messages that helped shape her political career.

956
01:00:05,244 --> 01:00:09,849
Big giant story by this character. This guy, John Swain,

957
01:00:10,152 --> 01:00:15,813
a Brit. From The Guardian? Uh-huh. And if you just

958
01:00:15,934 --> 01:00:18,873
read, like, this is supposed to be reporting, but it's

959
01:00:18,974 --> 01:00:22,027
really written like an... like an op-ed, but like a

960
01:00:22,128 --> 01:00:24,751
personal account. Let me just read you the first paragraph.

961
01:00:25,268 --> 01:00:30,326
The first time I spoke with Rebecca Salzberg, she told

962
01:00:30,385 --> 01:00:33,496
me that Tulsi Gabbard was a free thinker who took

963
01:00:33,657 --> 01:00:38,447
orders from no one. And you can see where this

964
01:00:38,489 --> 01:00:40,791
goes. Yeah, of course. But so I said, well, who's

965
01:00:40,852 --> 01:00:47,003
this guy, this Swain character? So here he is, he

966
01:00:48,008 --> 01:00:51,204
was at the Guardian, the left-wing Guardian, we all know

967
01:00:51,245 --> 01:00:56,388
that place. some of his stories. Trump impeachment. Esper indicates

968
01:00:56,448 --> 01:01:02,111
Pentagon will cooperate. Sean Hannity's sheriff friend faces mounting ethics

969
01:01:02,252 --> 01:01:08,003
allegations. Jeffrey Epstein, Jeffrey Epstein, Jeffrey Epstein. Violence in the

970
01:01:08,043 --> 01:01:14,406
name of Trump. We all know he's unfit, Joe Walsh,

971
01:01:14,446 --> 01:01:18,386
to challenge Trump. It's just Trump, Trump, Trump. Wait, is

972
01:01:18,406 --> 01:01:21,998
this Joe Walsh from the Eagles? Yeah, that, no, that's

973
01:01:22,018 --> 01:01:26,614
a different Walsh. Oh, okay. It goes on and on.

974
01:01:26,734 --> 01:01:32,026
But this guy is just a hit job guy. In

975
01:01:32,066 --> 01:01:34,792
the business, it's called a hit piece. Yeah. And this

976
01:01:34,872 --> 01:01:36,797
guy is like one of these guys who writes these.

977
01:01:37,137 --> 01:01:40,566
And so this is. So immediately she's out of office

978
01:01:40,848 --> 01:01:44,229
one day. Or a couple of- I guess a couple

979
01:01:44,289 --> 01:01:48,078
of days. And bingo, just warning this, the hit piece

980
01:01:48,138 --> 01:01:51,305
comes out after she's gone because you're not going to

981
01:01:51,325 --> 01:01:56,146
do it while she's the head of DNI. No. And

982
01:01:56,187 --> 01:01:59,039
it was also brought up by, it wasn't Fauci, it

983
01:01:59,099 --> 01:02:05,397
was one of the commentators said that... that actually Congress

984
01:02:05,919 --> 01:02:09,415
required the release of all these files that Tulsi released.

985
01:02:09,995 --> 01:02:14,305
back in the 2020s after like when biden was still

986
01:02:14,345 --> 01:02:17,457
in office and a this woman Averill, the one that

987
01:02:17,497 --> 01:02:19,850
was ahead of DNI, I think her name was Averill

988
01:02:19,911 --> 01:02:23,049
Harriman or something like that. She just refused to release

989
01:02:23,129 --> 01:02:25,780
them because she was afraid that they were going to

990
01:02:25,820 --> 01:02:28,853
go after her. This is a concerted effort. This is

991
01:02:28,913 --> 01:02:33,301
the intelligence community. There's something up with this whole thing,

992
01:02:33,341 --> 01:02:35,916
and I think it harkens back to the clip I

993
01:02:35,977 --> 01:02:40,170
played. a few years ago of John Malone discussing how

994
01:02:40,250 --> 01:02:44,819
important his mRNA was to the intelligence community because they

995
01:02:44,859 --> 01:02:48,927
thought they could be used as a universal vaccine for

996
01:02:49,067 --> 01:02:54,114
any crazy thing that comes along. It's not John Malone,

997
01:02:54,134 --> 01:02:57,111
it's that, you know, the other Malone. Robert. Robert Malone.

998
01:02:57,253 --> 01:03:01,599
Robert Malone. Bob. I'm trying to think. Bob. What would

999
01:03:01,640 --> 01:03:06,311
you call that clip? Oh, it'd be Malone. It'd definitely

1000
01:03:06,351 --> 01:03:08,262
have Malone's name in it. Yeah, and I got lots

1001
01:03:08,342 --> 01:03:12,076
of Malone here. Yeah, it had to do with universality.

1002
01:03:13,564 --> 01:03:18,078
MRNA maybe would be in there. I wish I could

1003
01:03:18,118 --> 01:03:21,626
recall the name of it, but it was him discussing

1004
01:03:21,646 --> 01:03:25,033
in great detail, so he knew that this whole thing

1005
01:03:25,073 --> 01:03:28,341
was a CIA idea, that they were looking for a

1006
01:03:28,381 --> 01:03:33,051
universal vaccine, and there was two candidates. One was the...

1007
01:03:33,252 --> 01:03:36,562
Maybe this is it. Let's see. All these circumventing... of

1008
01:03:36,664 --> 01:03:42,656
normal procedures and rules. That's happening because largely our intelligence

1009
01:03:42,736 --> 01:03:47,154
community is pushing that through the administrative state structure. And

1010
01:03:47,194 --> 01:03:50,468
why are they doing it? I think if we just

1011
01:03:50,870 --> 01:03:53,725
back up for a minute and say, okay, let's try

1012
01:03:53,765 --> 01:03:55,736
to give them the benefit of the doubt for a

1013
01:03:55,796 --> 01:04:03,111
moment. Okay, okay, okay. What I think they are believing.

1014
01:04:03,851 --> 01:04:07,800
is that they have to push this. They have to

1015
01:04:07,840 --> 01:04:12,089
get acceptance for this technology because there are no alternatives

1016
01:04:12,189 --> 01:04:15,496
and the threat is so severe, in their opinion, in

1017
01:04:15,536 --> 01:04:19,442
their spooky world. The threat is so severe that something

1018
01:04:19,522 --> 01:04:22,191
has to exist, and this is the something they've latched

1019
01:04:22,331 --> 01:04:25,180
onto. And I'm saying this not to defend them. I'm

1020
01:04:25,320 --> 01:04:28,450
saying this to try to help you to understand what

1021
01:04:28,490 --> 01:04:31,904
you've been subjected to. No, I'm not. That's a little

1022
01:04:31,965 --> 01:04:33,657
out of context for it to be the one we're

1023
01:04:33,697 --> 01:04:38,222
talking about. Yeah, it's about the mRNA. He talked about

1024
01:04:38,242 --> 01:04:40,667
these technologies. There was two of them in play. There

1025
01:04:40,707 --> 01:04:44,454
was the mRNA and then there was the adenovirus, which

1026
01:04:44,514 --> 01:04:49,023
is what the Johnson & Johnson shot was. And adenovirus

1027
01:04:49,043 --> 01:04:51,368
is used for Zika. They were playing around with that

1028
01:04:51,468 --> 01:04:55,215
kind of technology as a quick, you know, because you

1029
01:04:55,235 --> 01:04:56,979
can get from A to B. In other words, you

1030
01:04:56,999 --> 01:05:00,716
can... quickly make a vaccine without having to wait to

1031
01:05:00,776 --> 01:05:03,600
three to five years or whatever it takes to develop

1032
01:05:03,780 --> 01:05:07,966
one. With both these technologies and adenovirus, they dropped the

1033
01:05:08,026 --> 01:05:10,910
ball. They said, nah, screw this. It's no good. This

1034
01:05:11,250 --> 01:05:15,596
mRNA, it's the answer to everything. And so they've been

1035
01:05:15,637 --> 01:05:17,941
trying to push it down everyone's throat. could never get

1036
01:05:17,961 --> 01:05:20,369
it past testing. So they said, hell with it, just

1037
01:05:20,429 --> 01:05:22,998
release it. Make sure that everyone has to get it

1038
01:05:23,018 --> 01:05:25,285
and we'll see really if it's effective or not. We'll

1039
01:05:25,326 --> 01:05:27,132
see how it does. We'll see how it does. See

1040
01:05:27,874 --> 01:05:35,842
how it does. Yeah, but it's... It's noticeable that no

1041
01:05:35,922 --> 01:05:39,737
one is doing anything with this. Nobody's doing anything with

1042
01:05:39,797 --> 01:05:42,674
the Tulsi Gabbard releases, what you're saying. Yeah. And I,

1043
01:05:43,057 --> 01:05:46,994
yeah. It's very noticeable. Does that mean that everyone is

1044
01:05:47,054 --> 01:05:51,666
afraid? Have they been threatened? I mean, okay, so the...

1045
01:05:51,686 --> 01:05:54,252
There's something underlying it that we don't know about, but

1046
01:05:54,272 --> 01:05:57,535
it has to have something to do with that. clipped

1047
01:05:57,596 --> 01:06:00,387
at Malone where he's talking about mRNA and how important

1048
01:06:00,427 --> 01:06:04,100
it was. or it is or supposed to be and

1049
01:06:04,182 --> 01:06:07,040
it's not. That's the joke that these guys are living

1050
01:06:07,060 --> 01:06:12,124
in the dream world. That technology stinks. Yeah, it sure

1051
01:06:12,206 --> 01:06:16,390
does. Oh, instead, this is what your mainstream news does.

1052
01:06:16,410 --> 01:06:18,601
There's been a flu out. break at an Air Force

1053
01:06:18,701 --> 01:06:22,249
base in Texas just weeks after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth

1054
01:06:22,649 --> 01:06:26,678
ended mandatory vaccines for service members. Oh, you see, there's

1055
01:06:26,818 --> 01:06:28,902
a correlation. I'm glad you got that clip because I

1056
01:06:30,005 --> 01:06:37,059
heard that. Oh, what a crock. You know, coincidence. The

1057
01:06:37,079 --> 01:06:41,468
correlation coincidence is not causation. It's not because of Hegseth.

1058
01:06:41,548 --> 01:06:43,653
It's only 34 seconds. Let's hear it. There's been a

1059
01:06:43,753 --> 01:06:46,518
flu outbreak at an Air Force base in Texas just

1060
01:06:46,659 --> 01:06:50,887
weeks after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ended mandatory vaccines for

1061
01:06:50,947 --> 01:06:54,575
service members. Multiple media outlets are reporting there are more

1062
01:06:54,615 --> 01:06:59,445
than 150 cases at last. at Joint Base San Antonio.

1063
01:06:59,966 --> 01:07:02,892
An Air Force spokesperson is cited as calling the outbreak

1064
01:07:03,052 --> 01:07:07,401
localized and saying mitigation measures are in place. In April,

1065
01:07:07,461 --> 01:07:10,808
Hegseth announced that he was rolling back a decades-old mandate

1066
01:07:10,928 --> 01:07:14,576
requiring that U.S. military personnel get an annual flu shot,

1067
01:07:14,956 --> 01:07:19,647
saying the mandate was, quote, overly broad. I'm ju- I'm

1068
01:07:19,728 --> 01:07:22,653
kind of annoyed that I can't find... You know, some

1069
01:07:22,693 --> 01:07:25,618
of your clips are so poorly labeled, but this might

1070
01:07:25,659 --> 01:07:28,384
be it. Let me see. This is Malone. The truth

1071
01:07:28,564 --> 01:07:34,775
is that DARPA, which is the operational development arm, basically

1072
01:07:34,816 --> 01:07:37,134
the CIA... I think this is the one. Fell in

1073
01:07:37,195 --> 01:07:41,608
love with the RNA technology over a decade ago. They

1074
01:07:41,668 --> 01:07:46,037
decided to capitalize it and force it into the market

1075
01:07:46,057 --> 01:07:49,404
space. And for instance, they're the ones that have capitalized

1076
01:07:49,464 --> 01:07:53,813
through In-Q-Tel, their investment arm, the new RNA manufacturing facilities

1077
01:07:53,913 --> 01:07:57,600
up in Canada. This is a CIA program. Don't, don't,

1078
01:07:57,983 --> 01:08:00,399
you know, there's no... This is the clip, right? Yep.

1079
01:08:00,822 --> 01:08:04,111
Now, do you know what it's labeled? Oh, you're going

1080
01:08:04,131 --> 01:08:07,867
to embarrass me. Yes. No, not at all, because I'm

1081
01:08:07,947 --> 01:08:14,990
able to decode. So it's called Malone 6 Wow. the

1082
01:08:15,010 --> 01:08:18,102
new RNA manufacturing facilities. Yeah, it's a wild thing. This

1083
01:08:18,462 --> 01:08:21,769
is a CIA program. Don't, don't, you know, there's no

1084
01:08:22,290 --> 01:08:27,522
ambiguity here. I'm not telling state secrets. The technology was

1085
01:08:27,722 --> 01:08:31,014
basically pulled out of the trash can. because it had

1086
01:08:31,054 --> 01:08:34,550
been suppressed by Merck after I developed it over 30

1087
01:08:34,590 --> 01:08:39,364
years ago and advanced very aggressively by DARPA. DARPA funded

1088
01:08:39,485 --> 01:08:43,052
and basically built Moderna. They're continuing to push all this,

1089
01:08:43,412 --> 01:08:46,218
and they're pushing it through the government. And what you're

1090
01:08:46,278 --> 01:08:52,250
seeing is the power of the intelligence community and the

1091
01:08:52,630 --> 01:08:57,440
new biodefense industrial complex that's developed since the act. attacks

1092
01:08:57,521 --> 01:09:00,952
and really goes beyond that in being able to push

1093
01:09:01,032 --> 01:09:04,263
their agenda through the government. When you see all these

1094
01:09:04,323 --> 01:09:09,440
things that Paul's documenting, all these circumventing of normal procedures

1095
01:09:09,520 --> 01:09:14,890
and rules. That's happening because largely our intelligence community is

1096
01:09:14,971 --> 01:09:19,311
pushing that through. the administrative state structure. There you go.

1097
01:09:20,755 --> 01:09:24,974
There you go. Yeah, and that's why, that explains why

1098
01:09:25,014 --> 01:09:28,061
the Tulsi Gabbard report is going to go nowhere. And

1099
01:09:28,101 --> 01:09:30,987
that's why Fauci is not going to get indicted. And

1100
01:09:31,027 --> 01:09:33,413
that's why all the references, all the stuff that Rand

1101
01:09:33,453 --> 01:09:37,023
Paul has been sending these referrals to the judge. DOJ,

1102
01:09:37,043 --> 01:09:40,118
he said himself, and they just get kicked back. Nope,

1103
01:09:40,138 --> 01:09:44,091
nope, nope, nope, and nope. Somebody else is pulling the

1104
01:09:44,131 --> 01:09:49,130
strings here. Yeah. Yeah, and it's the intel community. It's

1105
01:09:49,291 --> 01:09:52,947
probably the CIA specifically. And they just got their hands

1106
01:09:53,007 --> 01:09:55,799
in the pot. They're saying, no, you're not messing with

1107
01:09:55,819 --> 01:09:59,162
this. This is important for national security purposes. We really

1108
01:09:59,223 --> 01:10:00,008
like this technology.

1109
01:10:00,060 --> 01:10:03,608
and they can't come up with anything else. And they're

1110
01:10:04,088 --> 01:10:07,555
in too deep. They can't say we made a mistake.

1111
01:10:07,576 --> 01:10:10,983
They can't say it's no good. This technology stinks. It

1112
01:10:11,023 --> 01:10:13,268
doesn't really work. They're trying to make it into a

1113
01:10:13,328 --> 01:10:16,534
flu vaccine now. Yeah, I think the intelligence community also

1114
01:10:16,814 --> 01:10:24,135
preferred Betamax over VHS. V2000, that was another good format.

1115
01:10:24,154 --> 01:10:28,627
I like that. The P2000, Philips. Philips. The Philips. It

1116
01:10:29,288 --> 01:10:33,539
was superior technology. Yeah, superior technology. They didn't have the

1117
01:10:33,579 --> 01:10:39,423
porn industry to support it. It was football. football. I

1118
01:10:39,463 --> 01:10:41,046
don't care what, you know, people always say, well, the

1119
01:10:41,087 --> 01:10:44,413
porn industry put on VHS and not beta. No, beta,

1120
01:10:44,573 --> 01:10:46,497
when it first came out, I've made this, I'm going

1121
01:10:46,518 --> 01:10:48,381
to make it, this is an old argument, nobody knows

1122
01:10:48,400 --> 01:10:50,725
what we're talking about. When beta came out, they were

1123
01:10:50,805 --> 01:10:54,252
good, you could record an hour. When VHS came out,

1124
01:10:54,292 --> 01:10:58,432
you could record an entire football game, two hours. And

1125
01:10:58,472 --> 01:11:01,404
then it was later extended to four, so you could

1126
01:11:01,465 --> 01:11:04,958
definitely get a game in. And Betamax just couldn't hold

1127
01:11:05,019 --> 01:11:09,006
as much stuff on the cassette. That's why it failed.

1128
01:11:09,068 --> 01:11:12,490
How is that true? Well, it's your thesis. I like

1129
01:11:12,572 --> 01:11:17,112
it. That's the thesis I've had since that argument began.

1130
01:11:17,152 --> 01:11:20,292
Because it was always... the argument went, it was better

1131
01:11:20,453 --> 01:11:25,453
quality. No, no, no. I've never heard, I don't recall

1132
01:11:25,512 --> 01:11:28,041
you saying that it was because of the length of

1133
01:11:28,221 --> 01:11:30,548
the recording length. I just don't recall that. That's because

1134
01:11:30,569 --> 01:11:33,237
we never talked about it on this show. This argument

1135
01:11:33,277 --> 01:11:38,560
goes way back. To like when? Like Twit? No, I

1136
01:11:38,600 --> 01:11:43,332
mean, when was the Betamax VHS wars? That's when there's

1137
01:11:43,372 --> 01:11:45,717
a bunch of other guys. Johnny Come Lately is coming

1138
01:11:45,778 --> 01:11:48,685
in with all kinds of different formats. Let's ask the

1139
01:11:48,725 --> 01:11:53,380
book of knowledge. Yeah, when was these wars? Well, let's

1140
01:11:53,421 --> 01:11:57,055
formulate the question properly. It's like, how about this? Why

1141
01:11:57,074 --> 01:12:00,123
did VH1 win? VHS win over. No, you don't give

1142
01:12:00,144 --> 01:12:02,287
you bad information. You don't know that. Because it's going

1143
01:12:02,307 --> 01:12:05,193
to use that porn argument. You don't know that. My

1144
01:12:05,373 --> 01:12:08,880
thesis is not as well accepted even though it's the

1145
01:12:08,939 --> 01:12:11,164
accurate one. You don't know? This is the book of

1146
01:12:11,244 --> 01:12:15,672
knowledge. How dare you? How very dare you! Book of

1147
01:12:15,774 --> 01:12:21,413
Knowledge. Why did VH- win over Betamax. How dare you?

1148
01:12:21,714 --> 01:12:24,387
How dare you question the authority of the book of

1149
01:12:24,488 --> 01:12:29,238
knowledge? According to the book of knowledge, VHS triumphed over

1150
01:12:29,338 --> 01:12:34,811
Betamax primarily because JVC licensed the VHS format broadly to

1151
01:12:34,831 --> 01:12:39,181
multiple manufacturers, flooding the market with cheaper machines and longer

1152
01:12:39,241 --> 01:12:43,698
recording times. Beta's initial one-hour limit could not capture a

1153
01:12:43,779 --> 01:12:50,912
full football game, while Sony kept Betamax largely proprietary. DOS

1154
01:12:51,459 --> 01:12:53,557
It has been written. So I would say the book

1155
01:12:53,598 --> 01:12:57,945
of knowledge is now authoritative. Well, I nailed my thesis.

1156
01:12:58,006 --> 01:13:00,367
That's funny. Must have gotten... into the corpus. This is

1157
01:13:00,448 --> 01:13:03,727
not Wikipedia. This is the book of knowledge, my friend.

1158
01:13:04,915 --> 01:13:09,943
That's what it is. Ha! Well, I'm kind of pleased

1159
01:13:10,003 --> 01:13:12,203
about that. Even though I was wrong, I'm pleased that

1160
01:13:12,284 --> 01:13:14,989
my book of knowledge had it right. This is good

1161
01:13:15,049 --> 01:13:19,479
news. This is very good news. Uh, okay, a little

1162
01:13:19,560 --> 01:13:26,848
in- in- What is it? Not entremont? Entremont. No, no.

1163
01:13:26,888 --> 01:13:31,641
What is in between? Intermezzo. No. You're the foodie guy.

1164
01:13:31,681 --> 01:13:40,820
What is that little food gabagoo? Wait a minute. What

1165
01:13:40,940 --> 01:13:43,628
is the... Here, would you like your gobbledygook before you

1166
01:13:43,668 --> 01:13:48,141
go to the second course? Hold on. I wanted to

1167
01:13:48,261 --> 01:13:50,467
ask the book of knowledge. Hold on a second. We

1168
01:13:50,507 --> 01:13:53,075
got to ask... The book of knowledge is now confused.

1169
01:13:53,175 --> 01:13:55,602
Now it's like it's trying to answer something else. Hold

1170
01:13:55,622 --> 01:13:58,561
on a second. Let's see if I can interrupt. it

1171
01:13:58,601 --> 01:14:01,543
book of knowledge what is that gob of goo you

1172
01:14:01,563 --> 01:14:08,499
get between You get between courses in a fancy restaurant.

1173
01:14:08,855 --> 01:14:16,563
Let me see. Da Ba Goo. This is too stupid.

1174
01:14:17,659 --> 01:14:21,240
According to the book of knowledge, that gob of goo

1175
01:14:21,401 --> 01:14:26,511
is called a pinched palate cleanser. A food or beverage

1176
01:14:26,531 --> 01:14:30,401
served between courses to prepare diners for the next course.

1177
01:14:30,822 --> 01:14:35,975
Typically with neutral flavors designed to remove lingering aftertaste. The

1178
01:14:36,015 --> 01:14:39,993
most common form is a fruit. Sorbet, whose sharp citrus

1179
01:14:40,054 --> 01:14:44,594
and cold temperature temporarily reset the taste buds. And in

1180
01:14:44,674 --> 01:14:47,631
France and Italy, this course is formally known as the

1181
01:14:47,691 --> 01:14:53,269
CAD Intermezzo. Yeah, you're right. Thus. It has been written.

1182
01:14:53,390 --> 01:14:58,486
Intermezzo, you're right! I'm gonna roll. I love that it

1183
01:14:58,728 --> 01:15:04,874
said, that gob of goo. I'm a programming wizard. All

1184
01:15:04,894 --> 01:15:09,313
right. The intermezzo is a... Former Vice President of the

1185
01:15:09,353 --> 01:15:14,686
United States, Kamala Harris. uh who uh is out there

1186
01:15:15,308 --> 01:15:20,922
doing uh interviews and all these fora fora Because, you

1187
01:15:20,942 --> 01:15:23,775
know, of course, you know, in 2028, we expect her

1188
01:15:23,815 --> 01:15:26,829
to run again. I think she's really serious about running.

1189
01:15:27,311 --> 01:15:32,250
Well, this is one of her better. word salad answers

1190
01:15:32,270 --> 01:15:35,287
that we've heard since she was vice president. You've talked

1191
01:15:35,307 --> 01:15:38,697
about that you're thinking about running for president, right? How

1192
01:15:38,777 --> 01:15:41,924
is that thought process going? What's the process in that?

1193
01:15:41,964 --> 01:15:44,009
And I know you're on a listening tour. And I'm

1194
01:15:44,049 --> 01:15:47,417
curious what you're hearing from people as you've gone around

1195
01:15:47,457 --> 01:15:50,103
the country. What people are telling you that maybe you've

1196
01:15:50,143 --> 01:15:53,250
learned that you didn't know before the process of doing

1197
01:15:53,310 --> 01:15:55,435
so? Man, we need to go on a listening tour.

1198
01:15:55,815 --> 01:15:58,864
But literally, we'll go on... stage or just sit there.

1199
01:15:59,571 --> 01:16:02,991
And just have everyone just have people have mics and

1200
01:16:03,052 --> 01:16:06,583
yell stuff at us. And we'll just listen. I think

1201
01:16:06,844 --> 01:16:10,721
it's very no agenda. All right, let's hear what she

1202
01:16:10,902 --> 01:16:24,551
has to say. What people are telling me includes... That

1203
01:16:24,612 --> 01:16:30,006
they want to believe. in systems. And they've lost trust

1204
01:16:30,128 --> 01:16:36,732
in those systems. What I hear a lot is that

1205
01:16:36,833 --> 01:16:41,405
people know that At the end of... This administration, there

1206
01:16:41,486 --> 01:16:45,592
will be a lot of debris. Debris. I tell them

1207
01:16:45,733 --> 01:16:49,210
often I can't guarantee that it won't get worse before

1208
01:16:49,250 --> 01:16:52,090
it gets better. But the one thing I do know

1209
01:16:52,150 --> 01:16:53,398
is at the end of it, there will be a

1210
01:16:53,458 --> 01:16:57,440
lot of debris. Debris? And it would be irresponsible. to

1211
01:16:57,500 --> 01:17:00,950
then address that in a way that we only talk

1212
01:17:01,010 --> 01:17:03,196
about what should we do, what do we need to

1213
01:17:03,277 --> 01:17:06,245
do to rebuild, if we do that with any sense

1214
01:17:06,285 --> 01:17:15,028
of nostalgia, that would be irresponsible. The status quo. is

1215
01:17:15,048 --> 01:17:17,547
not working for a lot of people. And what the

1216
01:17:17,648 --> 01:17:23,100
people are telling us is that They want things to

1217
01:17:23,181 --> 01:17:28,940
be better. And in some places, what that sounds like

1218
01:17:28,960 --> 01:17:33,041
is we want that to be broken. But they don't

1219
01:17:33,203 --> 01:17:38,924
actually necessarily mean break it through destruction. Thank you. But

1220
01:17:39,005 --> 01:17:46,711
they do mean it has to be better. Wow. -

1221
01:17:48,347 --> 01:17:54,519
It's crazy, man. Crazy. Would. Well, we're on crazy. Okay.

1222
01:17:55,451 --> 01:17:58,660
How about a couple of, uh... Whatever, girls. Oh, this

1223
01:17:58,801 --> 01:18:02,469
early in the show? That's a good time. I remind

1224
01:18:02,570 --> 01:18:06,039
you. Now we go to Ebola. I remind you that

1225
01:18:06,119 --> 01:18:08,448
on the last show, you said, I'm never playing it

1226
01:18:08,508 --> 01:18:11,138
again. And now you've already... No, I've decided I'm going

1227
01:18:11,158 --> 01:18:13,466
to go to 10 and I'm up to 9. And

1228
01:18:13,526 --> 01:18:16,397
after 10, I'm going to stop unless there's a huge

1229
01:18:16,457 --> 01:18:21,345
demand. Okay. But let's move it ahead and go to

1230
01:18:21,386 --> 01:18:25,319
Ebola because nobody's talking about it. Wait a minute. What

1231
01:18:25,339 --> 01:18:30,091
happened to the whatever girls? We'll bring them back. That

1232
01:18:30,151 --> 01:18:34,775
is a national emergency, a national security issue. You know,

1233
01:18:35,017 --> 01:18:40,625
the people this dumb are... are successful in porn. One

1234
01:18:40,685 --> 01:18:42,855
girl, you know, one girl said in one of the,

1235
01:18:42,956 --> 01:18:45,126
I do one of the ones I didn't clip. She

1236
01:18:45,227 --> 01:18:47,658
says, I don't see the point of having to know

1237
01:18:47,759 --> 01:18:51,116
all this. No. And I think she was right. That's

1238
01:18:51,397 --> 01:18:53,223
a good point. I take the side of the girls

1239
01:18:53,264 --> 01:18:56,335
that don't know these things. It's like, how many people

1240
01:18:56,375 --> 01:18:59,470
know how many continents there are? It could be a

1241
01:18:59,590 --> 01:19:01,794
six, a seven, is it eight? I don't know myself.

1242
01:19:02,455 --> 01:19:04,740
And it's like, you know, okay, yeah, maybe you should

1243
01:19:04,780 --> 01:19:07,745
know that the United States is north of Mexico. That

1244
01:19:07,785 --> 01:19:09,949
would be kind of sounds like something you should know.

1245
01:19:10,270 --> 01:19:12,214
But what difference does it make if you're never going

1246
01:19:12,234 --> 01:19:16,063
to go there? I have mixed feelings about a lot

1247
01:19:16,104 --> 01:19:18,877
of this. But let's go to Ebola. This is, and

1248
01:19:18,957 --> 01:19:26,052
it's spelled E-N-P-L-A, N-P-L-A, just to keep in the scheme.

1249
01:19:26,173 --> 01:19:28,758
Funny enough, I had already queued those up thinking this

1250
01:19:28,879 --> 01:19:33,449
is probably the Ebola clips. Literally, E-N-P-L-A, N-P-L-A. I'm like,

1251
01:19:33,469 --> 01:19:36,696
oh, it's got to be Ebola. Yeah, okay. The B

1252
01:19:36,796 --> 01:19:40,246
is right next to the N. Who knows? My touch

1253
01:19:40,286 --> 01:19:43,632
typing is the worst. Yes, it's pretty bad. All right,

1254
01:19:43,652 --> 01:19:47,960
here we go. The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic

1255
01:19:48,000 --> 01:19:51,286
of Congo that emerged last month is surging at an

1256
01:19:51,306 --> 01:19:55,934
unprecedented pace with at least 900 cases and nearly 250

1257
01:19:56,095 --> 01:20:00,009
deaths confirmed since then. Health officials there.

1258
01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:03,533
are overwhelmed with cases. Emmett Livingstone just returned from a

1259
01:20:03,573 --> 01:20:06,323
reporting trip to the region and joins us. Emmett, thanks

1260
01:20:06,363 --> 01:20:08,752
for being with us. You've spent a week in a

1261
01:20:08,771 --> 01:20:11,240
tour in the area that's... Oh, can I just say

1262
01:20:11,341 --> 01:20:19,421
something? Okay. I didn't quite decode everything. So here's... So

1263
01:20:19,460 --> 01:20:22,175
Typically, John will put SS in the clip, so I

1264
01:20:22,235 --> 01:20:30,006
know to play... Suffer in succotash! I'm Scott. Simon. So

1265
01:20:30,046 --> 01:20:33,914
while I had decoded NPLAR. This is what it says.

1266
01:20:33,994 --> 01:20:40,307
It's N-plot, bigger, Messoni, NPR. *Chuckles* And so... I think

1267
01:20:40,368 --> 01:20:47,704
you meant to have... Ebola Bigger Mess SS1. NPR. Yeah.

1268
01:20:48,046 --> 01:20:52,238
Wow. So, I mean... Just after working together for 18

1269
01:20:52,278 --> 01:20:55,929
years, it's like an old married couple. I don't know

1270
01:20:55,948 --> 01:20:57,954
what you like for breakfast, but I can decode and

1271
01:20:57,975 --> 01:21:00,681
plot. Who cares? Part of the outbreak. How bad is

1272
01:21:00,822 --> 01:21:04,668
it? Yeah, to put it bluntly, the situation is dire.

1273
01:21:04,850 --> 01:21:07,113
For lots of people, life is still continuing as before,

1274
01:21:07,293 --> 01:21:09,658
but because it has to. Children are going to school,

1275
01:21:09,698 --> 01:21:11,643
people are going to church on Sundays and so on.

1276
01:21:12,123 --> 01:21:14,908
But there's also a growing sense of fear. Ebola is

1277
01:21:14,929 --> 01:21:17,613
spreading across a huge and difficult to access area. It's

1278
01:21:17,634 --> 01:21:20,298
also spreading in Bunia, a city of over one million

1279
01:21:20,359 --> 01:21:23,612
people. And there is a massive international response underway, but

1280
01:21:23,631 --> 01:21:26,676
this outbreak was caught very late. In the hospitals I

1281
01:21:26,737 --> 01:21:30,002
visited, there was a constant arrival of suspected Ebola patients.

1282
01:21:30,523 --> 01:21:33,127
And in many cases, because of poor health infrastructure, there's

1283
01:21:33,167 --> 01:21:36,212
no way to isolate these cases. So they risk infecting

1284
01:21:36,273 --> 01:21:40,158
others. People are also dying every day. Health personnel also

1285
01:21:40,198 --> 01:21:42,430
say they don't have enough PPE. Doctors explained to me

1286
01:21:42,470 --> 01:21:45,615
that lots of PPE, like masks or gloves, is single

1287
01:21:45,756 --> 01:21:48,582
use, so there needs to be a constant supply. And

1288
01:21:48,601 --> 01:21:51,407
because the disease has spread so widely, nurses in rural

1289
01:21:51,466 --> 01:21:54,471
areas are coming into daily contact with suspected Ebola patients

1290
01:21:54,551 --> 01:21:58,667
too, and for the most part, they have nothing. All

1291
01:21:58,775 --> 01:22:02,185
right. The point is that we haven't played anything on

1292
01:22:02,326 --> 01:22:05,599
Ebola for the last two shows. I actually brought some

1293
01:22:05,658 --> 01:22:09,671
Ebola clips today. And it's like it's been getting worse.

1294
01:22:09,711 --> 01:22:13,561
It hasn't improved. And it's not the top of the

1295
01:22:13,943 --> 01:22:16,590
news. I don't think the networks are talking about it

1296
01:22:16,609 --> 01:22:21,184
at all. I know why. It's worsening. to remember that

1297
01:22:21,264 --> 01:22:37,158
jingles work. ♪ Bowler. It's time to speak about Ebola,

1298
01:22:37,520 --> 01:22:41,945
Ebola. Ebola. You, of course, have been inside Ebola treatment

1299
01:22:41,966 --> 01:22:46,391
centers and hospitals. How are the health care workers coping?

1300
01:22:47,355 --> 01:22:50,456
I saw a difference between doctors working in Ebola treatment.

1301
01:22:50,779 --> 01:22:57,814
Oh, crap. I'm sorry. Didn't mean to do that. treatment

1302
01:22:57,855 --> 01:23:01,483
centers and other health personnel. Only a handful of these

1303
01:23:01,542 --> 01:23:03,847
treatment centers are operating at the moment, and they've been

1304
01:23:03,908 --> 01:23:07,154
set up specifically for Ebola patients. The doctors working there

1305
01:23:07,173 --> 01:23:10,000
are often world specialists. But then there's the other health

1306
01:23:10,060 --> 01:23:13,064
personnel, the community nurses or doctors working in small clinics.

1307
01:23:13,506 --> 01:23:16,110
They're not trained for this, and yet they're highly exposed.

1308
01:23:16,712 --> 01:23:19,157
Dozens of health workers have already been infected, and some,

1309
01:23:19,238 --> 01:23:21,694
unfortunately, have already died. And of course, as you said,

1310
01:23:21,713 --> 01:23:25,399
the number of cases is quickly rising. Are healthcare workers

1311
01:23:25,498 --> 01:23:29,765
able to keep up doing contact tracing, isolating people who

1312
01:23:29,805 --> 01:23:32,207
are infected? Yeah, it's actually hard to know for sure

1313
01:23:32,269 --> 01:23:35,091
because so much of this outbreak is happening out of

1314
01:23:35,153 --> 01:23:38,577
view. The government says 72% of contacts are being traced,

1315
01:23:39,018 --> 01:23:41,502
but aid workers are very skeptical. of this figure. Some

1316
01:23:41,542 --> 01:23:43,947
told me off the record that it's probably around 40%.

1317
01:23:44,828 --> 01:23:47,333
What this means in simple terms is that the outbreak

1318
01:23:47,394 --> 01:23:50,140
is out of control. And of course, that means there's

1319
01:23:50,159 --> 01:23:52,784
a risk of regional spread. Many people are not turning

1320
01:23:52,824 --> 01:23:55,831
up to hospitals or health centers and are dying unnoticed.

1321
01:23:56,472 --> 01:23:59,097
Health responders just don't know where all the cases are.

1322
01:23:59,118 --> 01:24:01,613
So for example, It emerged this week that there have

1323
01:24:01,634 --> 01:24:04,677
been dozens of suspicious deaths in a displacement camp in

1324
01:24:04,717 --> 01:24:07,521
Bunia. This camp is right next to the city's airport

1325
01:24:07,782 --> 01:24:10,565
and the headquarters of NGOs. If it's confirmed to be

1326
01:24:10,605 --> 01:24:13,229
Ebola, it's spreading right under the nose of the official

1327
01:24:13,289 --> 01:24:17,234
response. And then isolating suspected patients is also a huge

1328
01:24:17,295 --> 01:24:20,298
problem. There's no system of triage in many hospitals or

1329
01:24:20,340 --> 01:24:23,595
clinics. So suspected Ebola patients can be clumped together with

1330
01:24:23,654 --> 01:24:26,542
others. To give you a concrete example, I visited a

1331
01:24:26,582 --> 01:24:29,550
hospital 40 kilometers outside of Bunia where there was only

1332
01:24:29,729 --> 01:24:32,618
one block of toilets for patients. So if you had

1333
01:24:32,677 --> 01:24:35,765
Ebola or, say, appendicitis, you had to use the same

1334
01:24:35,786 --> 01:24:41,600
facilities. All right. I have two Ebola. clips a little

1335
01:24:41,621 --> 01:24:45,469
more exciting because no one cares about Africa we want

1336
01:24:45,488 --> 01:24:48,895
to hear about death and and and how horrible and

1337
01:24:49,336 --> 01:24:51,680
could it come to us and the CBS did a

1338
01:24:51,761 --> 01:24:54,527
decent job top health officials in Africa are warning that

1339
01:24:54,606 --> 01:24:58,094
the Ebola outbreak in Central Africa could become the worst

1340
01:24:58,314 --> 01:25:02,163
in history if transmission rates are not flattened. The director

1341
01:25:02,222 --> 01:25:06,011
of Africa flattened the curve. Disease control and prevention says

1342
01:25:06,592 --> 01:25:09,479
more than 200 people thus far have died in the

1343
01:25:09,500 --> 01:25:12,967
Democratic Republic of Congo and neighboring Uganda. The total number

1344
01:25:12,988 --> 01:25:16,817
of confirmed cases nearly 900 and appears to be growing.

1345
01:25:16,836 --> 01:25:18,925
That is the number of cases. I want to bring

1346
01:25:18,985 --> 01:25:22,222
in Saira Medad. She is an infectious disease. disease epidemiologist

1347
01:25:22,644 --> 01:25:26,110
at Harvard University's Belfer Center. Saira, I'm glad to have

1348
01:25:26,131 --> 01:25:28,735
you with us. Thanks for joining us. Walk my audience

1349
01:25:28,775 --> 01:25:31,081
through what we know and what we fear might happen.

1350
01:25:31,502 --> 01:25:33,926
Yeah, well, I think first I'll start by sharing that

1351
01:25:34,346 --> 01:25:38,335
the current Ebola outbreak of the Budapest virus is already

1352
01:25:38,375 --> 01:25:41,221
the third largest Ebola outbreak on record. So that really

1353
01:25:41,261 --> 01:25:43,488
goes to show you that a little over one month

1354
01:25:43,528 --> 01:25:46,457
since this outbreak was detected, it's already the third largest,

1355
01:25:46,476 --> 01:25:50,148
which is expanding in geographic location. We're up to 31

1356
01:25:50,349 --> 01:25:53,783
health zones in three provinces being affected. Okay, so we've

1357
01:25:53,823 --> 01:25:56,841
already heard flatten the curve. What else do we need?

1358
01:25:56,922 --> 01:26:01,417
We need... I think we need testing, testing. Testing, oh,

1359
01:26:01,438 --> 01:26:04,125
testing. And my favorite. This is not just a story

1360
01:26:04,164 --> 01:26:07,011
of the number of cases that are being detected. It's

1361
01:26:07,091 --> 01:26:08,594
a story of the number of people that are also

1362
01:26:08,654 --> 01:26:12,060
being contact traced. And that's also where we're also falling

1363
01:26:12,100 --> 01:26:15,266
behind. So there's a lot that's complicating the matter. The

1364
01:26:15,587 --> 01:26:18,713
first is, as we talk about contact tracing, these are

1365
01:26:18,734 --> 01:26:21,500
the number of individuals that have come in contact with

1366
01:26:21,539 --> 01:26:25,047
a. confirmed case of Ebola. Now estimates show that we

1367
01:26:25,086 --> 01:26:27,752
should be tracking about 33,000 and the reason why we're

1368
01:26:27,771 --> 01:26:30,216
coming up with that 33,000 number is because it's the

1369
01:26:30,256 --> 01:26:33,283
magic number. It's for every one case. Oh, interesting. Good

1370
01:26:33,302 --> 01:26:35,586
catch. We're typically looking at about 40 contacts that they

1371
01:26:35,627 --> 01:26:39,173
may have. Now, according to the most recent World Health

1372
01:26:39,234 --> 01:26:43,335
Organization report, their only contact tracing about 4,000 of those

1373
01:26:43,636 --> 01:26:46,262
individuals. So there's a very large number that still are

1374
01:26:46,423 --> 01:26:49,832
out and they're not being contact traced. So there's lots

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01:26:49,893 --> 01:26:52,239
of complexities. And the one thing that I'll also share.

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01:26:52,564 --> 01:26:55,676
That's an outbreak is occurring in an area of conflict,

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01:26:56,257 --> 01:27:02,020
of neglect, of militarized response and a huge humanitarian need.

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01:27:02,000 --> 01:27:06,335
So there's lots of confounding factors here. USAID. No, I

1379
01:27:06,375 --> 01:27:08,041
think what we should do is we should bomb them.

1380
01:27:08,240 --> 01:27:10,869
I mean, we need to save the world. President Trump,

1381
01:27:10,970 --> 01:27:13,118
we've got to bomb him. That's the only way to

1382
01:27:13,158 --> 01:27:15,856
get rid of it. Let's do our little medley of

1383
01:27:15,877 --> 01:27:18,586
Ebola jingles just to get out of this. And in

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01:27:18,606 --> 01:27:24,921
the black trunks, weighing in at over three... Cheers! A

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01:27:24,940 --> 01:27:46,829
FOOSIL BITE! THE KILLER! You can tell. you ♪ Town

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01:27:46,872 --> 01:28:01,332
hall is back ♪ Bola, he comes from Africa like

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01:28:01,351 --> 01:28:07,176
Kim Diary. Everybody. If Ebola breaks out in the United

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01:28:07,195 --> 01:28:11,073
States, I'm going to quarantine myself. I'm wearing a mask.

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01:28:11,113 --> 01:28:13,042
I've already got it in place for my family. The

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01:28:13,141 --> 01:28:23,384
African. Don't touch your friends. It's something dangerous. ♪ Mama

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01:28:23,463 --> 01:28:29,243
Ebola has passed on ♪ ♪ Bro, Ebola's gonna kill

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01:28:29,384 --> 01:28:34,114
us all ♪ So speaking of Africa. I was watching

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01:28:34,957 --> 01:28:38,167
the, of course it was recorded, so I watched the

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01:28:38,188 --> 01:28:42,749
opening of the Obama Presidential Center. It's not a library,

1395
01:28:42,769 --> 01:28:48,973
it's a center. And man, it was insufferable. It was,

1396
01:28:49,394 --> 01:28:51,538
although it was kind of fun to see President Biden

1397
01:28:51,618 --> 01:28:55,445
walking around dazed and confused. Yeah, the same old Biden.

1398
01:28:55,606 --> 01:28:58,391
I'm like, is that Daddy Longlegs? Do I go this

1399
01:28:58,631 --> 01:29:00,755
way? Do I go that way? That's the guy. He

1400
01:29:00,795 --> 01:29:04,366
was like, oh, my daughter's in there. What? And all

1401
01:29:04,426 --> 01:29:07,775
the elites were there. You had, whenever you have, what

1402
01:29:07,795 --> 01:29:12,447
is it, John Legend and Bruce Springsteen on the same

1403
01:29:12,548 --> 01:29:18,195
stage. Okay. And, uh, Valerie Jarrett apparently is in charge

1404
01:29:18,235 --> 01:29:22,575
of this whole deal. And, ugh, it's just sick, sicko,

1405
01:29:22,676 --> 01:29:27,128
sicko people. And, uh, oh, by the way, did anybody

1406
01:29:27,229 --> 01:29:30,584
ever point out that, you know, this, this building, which

1407
01:29:30,664 --> 01:29:34,764
is a screwy looking thing, it's got no windows. And

1408
01:29:34,945 --> 01:29:38,459
no one ever says the obvious. Why doesn't it have

1409
01:29:38,499 --> 01:29:42,054
any windows? Well, it's being built in the rough part

1410
01:29:42,074 --> 01:29:44,873
of town, the south side of Chicago. where the windows

1411
01:29:44,914 --> 01:29:49,400
would be shot out. And board it up. So you

1412
01:29:49,461 --> 01:29:54,379
can't have any windows in that area. It seems racist

1413
01:29:54,460 --> 01:29:59,444
if you ask me. So, um, Fox had a report,

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01:29:59,948 --> 01:30:00,008
uh,

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01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:03,287
on some of the minority contractors who helped build this

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01:30:03,466 --> 01:30:06,332
monstrosity. Yeah, this is a scandal. This is quite the

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01:30:06,353 --> 01:30:10,621
scandal. It's over about $100 million probably that's estimatedly probably

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01:30:10,640 --> 01:30:15,050
owed to contractors on this project. One contractor may be

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01:30:15,069 --> 01:30:20,704
anywhere from $40 to $50 million. Another contractor... told me

1420
01:30:20,784 --> 01:30:24,953
they're old $100,000 another one told me they owe $4

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01:30:25,012 --> 01:30:29,261
million so we have over 10 contractors that are being

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01:30:29,320 --> 01:30:33,509
hurt and crippled by this particular project so that is

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01:30:33,609 --> 01:30:39,881
Omar Sharif Omar Sharif pretty young he is president of

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01:30:39,921 --> 01:30:43,387
the african-american contractor association and he's commenting on how much

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01:30:43,427 --> 01:30:46,956
they're owed from the obama library bill that was unveiled

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01:30:47,015 --> 01:30:49,560
yesterday that was four years late and way over budget

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01:30:49,680 --> 01:30:53,548
almost double the budget they intended for 300 billion uh

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01:30:53,609 --> 01:30:57,476
300 million it's up over 850 million michael jordan joins

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01:30:57,537 --> 01:31:01,604
us now he's michael jordan Michael Jordan, this is great.

1430
01:31:01,645 --> 01:31:07,756
Thanks for having me, Brian. I think the final bill

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01:31:07,777 --> 01:31:10,341
is going to go well over $1 billion. That $850

1432
01:31:11,083 --> 01:31:14,511
million figure has been there since 2021, and we haven't

1433
01:31:14,551 --> 01:31:17,596
got an updated figure since. So it's a scandal. It's

1434
01:31:17,657 --> 01:31:19,823
a scandal that people have not been... paid. And you

1435
01:31:19,863 --> 01:31:22,856
remember Trump is the most horrible guy all over Trump

1436
01:31:22,877 --> 01:31:25,569
for not paying his contractors. But Obama, we seem to

1437
01:31:25,670 --> 01:31:30,876
miss that. What's the delay? I spoke to several subcontractors.

1438
01:31:30,935 --> 01:31:33,703
I was in Chicago two weeks ago and they told

1439
01:31:33,743 --> 01:31:36,652
me that the place, the work site was totally chaotic.

1440
01:31:36,693 --> 01:31:40,221
There was just over-regulation, too many people there. asking them

1441
01:31:40,242 --> 01:31:43,228
to do too many things that weren't in line with

1442
01:31:43,568 --> 01:31:47,195
specifications and a two-year job turned into a five-year job

1443
01:31:47,235 --> 01:31:49,199
for a lot of these subcontractors and a lot of

1444
01:31:49,239 --> 01:31:52,246
them now face financial ruin. A lot of them are

1445
01:31:52,485 --> 01:31:54,770
owed millions of dollars for this project. And a lot

1446
01:31:54,791 --> 01:31:57,556
of them are minorities, right? Yeah, several. You had Omar

1447
01:31:57,577 --> 01:31:59,889
Sharif on there. I spoke to Omar. when I was

1448
01:32:00,390 --> 01:32:03,534
outside the center. And he's an advocate for these black

1449
01:32:03,555 --> 01:32:06,680
owned subcontractors. And they're afraid to speak out. A lot

1450
01:32:06,699 --> 01:32:09,404
of them have signed non-disclosure agreements. So they can't go

1451
01:32:09,484 --> 01:32:13,149
public. They can't reveal any documentation. I spoke to one.

1452
01:32:13,890 --> 01:32:15,634
He didn't want to go public. He said he's owed

1453
01:32:15,774 --> 01:32:18,618
two and a half million dollars. And he said he

1454
01:32:18,639 --> 01:32:20,823
would be happy to walk. away with one million dollars

1455
01:32:21,144 --> 01:32:23,649
but his business has been around for 40 years he

1456
01:32:23,689 --> 01:32:26,795
feels he's financially crushed and you know i've we found

1457
01:32:26,854 --> 01:32:29,761
out with several other subcontractors we thought it would be

1458
01:32:29,801 --> 01:32:32,225
an excellent project for them to work on but we

1459
01:32:32,284 --> 01:32:35,591
find out it's a very shameful project for them because

1460
01:32:35,652 --> 01:32:38,939
we have not gotten paid and they should pay us

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01:32:39,099 --> 01:32:41,823
as they sell with their celebrities today. And they had

1462
01:32:41,863 --> 01:32:44,770
Bruce Springsteen there. They had Bono there. They had Oprah

1463
01:32:44,829 --> 01:32:47,997
there. Tom Hanks, who is the who-who of celebrities who

1464
01:32:48,016 --> 01:32:50,802
have had nothing to do because Joe Biden was basically

1465
01:32:50,863 --> 01:32:53,929
a corpse when he was in the Oval Office. And

1466
01:32:53,969 --> 01:32:56,132
now this is the time to show up and look

1467
01:32:56,172 --> 01:32:58,217
back at his eight years. What else do you think

1468
01:32:58,257 --> 01:33:01,027
was noteworthy about the event? A lot of billionaires there

1469
01:33:01,488 --> 01:33:05,135
yesterday, Brian. They could pay all these guys. Yeah, and

1470
01:33:05,175 --> 01:33:07,298
it's the little guy that's getting crushed. You know, this

1471
01:33:07,319 --> 01:33:11,046
was supposed to uplift the minority community, the local contractors.

1472
01:33:11,506 --> 01:33:16,275
I really don't understand. What does CNN or Ms. Now

1473
01:33:16,376 --> 01:33:19,652
have to lose by exposing this? No one cares about

1474
01:33:19,711 --> 01:33:23,922
Obama. What do they have to lose? They should. They

1475
01:33:23,963 --> 01:33:27,948
should say, this is a scandal. I mean, it just

1476
01:33:27,989 --> 01:33:31,515
makes them look really, really horrible. Why don't they do

1477
01:33:31,577 --> 01:33:39,104
that? Why doesn't CNN and MSNOW cover this? Yeah. They

1478
01:33:39,144 --> 01:33:43,413
don't want to. Okay, but that's my question. There's nothing

1479
01:33:43,453 --> 01:33:45,878
to lose. Obama's not going to become president. They have

1480
01:33:45,899 --> 01:33:54,829
the prestige to lose. They're still Democrats protecting turf. So

1481
01:33:54,890 --> 01:33:57,149
President Obama- And this makes the Democrats look bad because

1482
01:33:57,210 --> 01:34:00,301
Obama's a Democrat. Kind of pushing, you know, he was

1483
01:34:00,440 --> 01:34:04,715
behind the Biden administration. You still have the Valerie Jarrods

1484
01:34:04,835 --> 01:34:08,807
out there. The same old, same old people. The stooges

1485
01:34:08,847 --> 01:34:12,613
that ran the thing. So you know, I know. All

1486
01:34:12,633 --> 01:34:16,632
right, so President Obama spoke, and I'd forgotten how much

1487
01:34:16,693 --> 01:34:19,462
we had to clip his... His speeches. I didn't do

1488
01:34:19,524 --> 01:34:21,837
it here. It's only a minute. But if I had

1489
01:34:21,957 --> 01:34:24,163
clipped out all the silences, it would have been like

1490
01:34:24,184 --> 01:34:27,573
40 seconds. We just have to work overtime with that

1491
01:34:27,594 --> 01:34:31,163
guy. A few weeks away from America's 250th birthday, it

1492
01:34:31,243 --> 01:34:35,936
is worth remembering. just how radical the whole idea of

1493
01:34:35,997 --> 01:34:42,948
self-government really was back in 1776. To that point, human

1494
01:34:42,988 --> 01:34:48,204
history was a tale of conquest and caste. and rigid

1495
01:34:48,265 --> 01:34:54,998
hierarchies. A world where the strong dominated the weak. where

1496
01:34:55,059 --> 01:35:01,100
power and wealth and status flow through lineage. and the

1497
01:35:01,140 --> 01:35:06,770
many were ruled by the few. But out of the

1498
01:35:06,872 --> 01:35:10,797
fire and steel of a revolution, a different story took

1499
01:35:10,817 --> 01:35:16,055
flight on this continent. A declaration that we are all

1500
01:35:16,157 --> 01:35:21,158
created equal. Endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights.

1501
01:35:21,498 --> 01:35:24,945
And that in the newly independent United States, there will

1502
01:35:25,006 --> 01:35:29,896
be no kings or lords, no serfs or subjects, but

1503
01:35:30,037 --> 01:35:35,166
only citizens. Each of us free to pursue our own

1504
01:35:35,287 --> 01:35:39,243
version of happiness. Yeah, don't drone me, bro. So he

1505
01:35:39,323 --> 01:35:45,920
brings up... Isn't it inalienable? He says... I always thought

1506
01:35:45,939 --> 01:35:47,945
it was inalienable, but I've looked it up and it

1507
01:35:48,006 --> 01:35:51,577
is unalienable. I don't know how I was also incorrect

1508
01:35:51,618 --> 01:35:54,689
about that. So he brings up the 250th birthday, and

1509
01:35:54,729 --> 01:35:58,320
I want to give you props, John C. Dvorak. Okay.

1510
01:35:58,300 --> 01:36:01,354
He's like, okay, I'm leaning forward now. What? Say what?

1511
01:36:01,756 --> 01:36:03,987
Hold on a second. Let me put down my comic

1512
01:36:04,027 --> 01:36:09,640
book. Um... You said that there was two different 250

1513
01:36:09,760 --> 01:36:14,591
organizations. Yeah. Yeah, I don't think this was well discovered

1514
01:36:14,652 --> 01:36:17,337
by anybody until you unveiled it here on the No

1515
01:36:17,358 --> 01:36:20,106
Agenda show. Yeah, we do that. And, you know, we

1516
01:36:20,146 --> 01:36:22,372
always listen to PBS. I think they're listening to us.

1517
01:36:22,752 --> 01:36:26,359
It's America's 250th birthday. And if you're confused between America

1518
01:36:26,378 --> 01:36:28,884
250 and Freedom 250, we're going to break it down

1519
01:36:28,923 --> 01:36:32,650
for you with Liz Landers, our White House correspondent. Liz,

1520
01:36:32,970 --> 01:36:36,837
let's jump in first. What's America 250? America 250 is

1521
01:36:36,958 --> 01:36:41,207
a nonpartisan. nonprofit organization that was set up by Congress

1522
01:36:41,627 --> 01:36:45,274
in 2016, so 10 years ago. And it was an

1523
01:36:45,454 --> 01:36:49,323
order of Congress signed to celebrate America's 250th birthday, which

1524
01:36:49,382 --> 01:36:52,007
is coming up July 4th. Now, what is Freedom 250?

1525
01:36:52,309 --> 01:36:56,095
Freedom 250 is a different organization. This was started and

1526
01:36:56,216 --> 01:36:59,369
founded through a White House... task force called White House

1527
01:36:59,409 --> 01:37:03,055
Task Force 250. President Trump signed this into an executive

1528
01:37:03,176 --> 01:37:06,121
order really at almost the beginning of his second term

1529
01:37:06,161 --> 01:37:09,725
back in January of 2025. And the White House said

1530
01:37:09,765 --> 01:37:12,189
at the time that they are engaging all levels of

1531
01:37:12,250 --> 01:37:16,657
government, the private sector, nonprofit and educational institutions and every

1532
01:37:16,737 --> 01:37:21,827
citizen around the country to celebrate. And of course, as

1533
01:37:21,867 --> 01:37:24,632
we know, it's a mess. Now Freedom 250 has come

1534
01:37:24,712 --> 01:37:29,061
under scrutiny. Why? Freedom 250 has come under scrutiny for

1535
01:37:29,101 --> 01:37:32,548
a few reasons. Mostly that some people believe that it

1536
01:37:32,609 --> 01:37:35,675
has become a politicized event with President Trump sort of

1537
01:37:35,756 --> 01:37:39,141
becoming the namesake of some of their events. President Trump

1538
01:37:39,243 --> 01:37:42,989
announced on his social media platform, Truth Social, that two

1539
01:37:43,069 --> 01:37:45,975
of the events that were tied to Freedom 250 are

1540
01:37:46,055 --> 01:37:50,465
part of their celebrations. A rally on June 24th coming

1541
01:37:50,564 --> 01:37:53,570
up and then another one on July 4th on Independence

1542
01:37:53,631 --> 01:37:57,319
Day are both going to be now Trump rallies. And

1543
01:37:57,338 --> 01:38:00,364
then they've also... come under some criticism in the last

1544
01:38:00,425 --> 01:38:02,829
several weeks after they announced that there were going to

1545
01:38:02,850 --> 01:38:05,614
be concerts on the National Mall and a number of

1546
01:38:05,654 --> 01:38:10,704
pretty high-profile high-profile including people like people like Martina McBride

1547
01:38:10,744 --> 01:38:14,452
and Bret Michaels of the band poison pulled out of

1548
01:38:14,493 --> 01:38:16,596
the event saying that they didn't realize that it was

1549
01:38:16,657 --> 01:38:19,845
going to be a political type event. Freedom 250 says

1550
01:38:19,885 --> 01:38:23,737
they're not political, but still those artists withdrew. Yeah, big

1551
01:38:23,817 --> 01:38:27,307
artists, Bret Michaels of Poison. Big, big artists. Big names.

1552
01:38:27,920 --> 01:38:33,948
Big names. You know, all those people that bailed out

1553
01:38:34,048 --> 01:38:38,916
from the... Freedom 250. They were all booked by the

1554
01:38:38,956 --> 01:38:41,404
same guy. Ah, what is it now? It was the

1555
01:38:41,585 --> 01:38:44,273
one guy booked them all. They were all the clients.

1556
01:38:44,673 --> 01:38:50,578
And the agent that was the booker. He was, his

1557
01:38:50,659 --> 01:38:56,113
name was Jeffrey Epstein. No. Yeah. The guy's name is

1558
01:38:56,175 --> 01:39:00,545
Jeffrey Epstein? Yeah. I would be changing my name. Yeah,

1559
01:39:00,586 --> 01:39:04,261
it would be too, but apparently he just did this

1560
01:39:04,381 --> 01:39:06,409
on his own, and they said, hey, we don't want

1561
01:39:06,430 --> 01:39:10,297
to do this stuff. Hmm. All right, I just want

1562
01:39:10,317 --> 01:39:15,617
to sneak in some AI talk here. As it continues

1563
01:39:15,657 --> 01:39:19,806
to be interesting to follow what's happening in the forthcoming

1564
01:39:20,568 --> 01:39:25,144
IPOs. Axios is getting more and more access. We got

1565
01:39:25,164 --> 01:39:28,971
to figure out who runs this Axios operation. Who's behind

1566
01:39:29,054 --> 01:39:32,701
that? Well, we've looked into it before. It's a bunch

1567
01:39:32,740 --> 01:39:38,327
of lefties. Yeah. Is it? Is it? I think there's

1568
01:39:38,346 --> 01:39:41,940
some spooks involved. I think, let me see Axios. Let

1569
01:39:41,961 --> 01:39:44,497
me see if they can, is there a... Does it

1570
01:39:44,516 --> 01:39:48,048
have a wiki page? Yeah, look at the Axios masthead.

1571
01:39:48,068 --> 01:39:50,878
Let me see. What is he? Oh, listen to this.

1572
01:39:51,301 --> 01:39:55,735
Axios is an American news website based in Arlington, Virginia.

1573
01:39:56,155 --> 01:40:00,010
Hello. Home of the Spooks. Founded in

1574
01:40:00,028 --> 01:40:03,908
2016 and launched the following year by former Politico journalists

1575
01:40:04,412 --> 01:40:09,572
Jim Vande Hei, Mike Allen, and Roy Schwartz. Uh, let

1576
01:40:09,980 --> 01:40:15,666
me see. Okay, but in September 1st, 2022, Cox Enterprise

1577
01:40:16,087 --> 01:40:21,564
bought it for $525 million. So it's owned by Cox

1578
01:40:21,645 --> 01:40:27,203
now, apparently. Well, they got good access. They got access

1579
01:40:27,243 --> 01:40:30,117
to the president talking about Anthropic. You know, we have

1580
01:40:30,157 --> 01:40:34,152
a situation with Anthropic. And we didn't like what they

1581
01:40:34,172 --> 01:40:37,863
were doing. And so far, I think they've behaved very

1582
01:40:37,922 --> 01:40:44,849
responsibly to our... request. Do you view Anthropic and to

1583
01:40:44,890 --> 01:40:49,559
a degree its CEO, Dario Amadei, as a threat to

1584
01:40:49,578 --> 01:40:54,208
national security? Well, not now, but a week ago, maybe.

1585
01:40:54,229 --> 01:40:57,775
I was with him yesterday. He made a speech. I

1586
01:40:57,836 --> 01:41:00,030
made a little speech. We were in the room. On

1587
01:41:00,051 --> 01:41:04,615
the G7? And seems like a nice guy, smart guy.

1588
01:41:05,323 --> 01:41:10,367
But he responded to us very quickly. Because, you know,

1589
01:41:10,408 --> 01:41:14,452
it's tremendous liability. People get put in prison immediately for

1590
01:41:14,492 --> 01:41:17,363
that. You know, you can't play games with that. And

1591
01:41:17,404 --> 01:41:20,601
he responded very responsibly, I thought. far. I think he

1592
01:41:20,641 --> 01:41:25,452
will. All right. So responded responsibly. And the president is

1593
01:41:25,532 --> 01:41:27,414
very up to speed on how this went down. You

1594
01:41:27,456 --> 01:41:29,980
have the power to use the Defense Production Act. I

1595
01:41:30,001 --> 01:41:32,225
have the power to use a lot of things, yeah.

1596
01:41:32,305 --> 01:41:35,251
Would you consider using the Defense Production Act to possibly

1597
01:41:35,350 --> 01:41:38,998
regulate or control AI? I would, but I'm not sure

1598
01:41:39,019 --> 01:41:40,666
I have to do that. I think so far it's

1599
01:41:40,706 --> 01:41:45,557
been very responsible. Actually, it was a competitor. Amazon. And

1600
01:41:45,578 --> 01:41:49,814
a part owner. Amazon. That turned Anthropic in. They didn't

1601
01:41:49,854 --> 01:41:52,666
like what they were doing. They were very concerned. Think

1602
01:41:52,706 --> 01:41:56,626
of it. It's a part owner. And, uh... I think

1603
01:41:56,707 --> 01:41:59,435
it worked out very well. I think. This was Amazon,

1604
01:41:59,456 --> 01:42:03,140
you know? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Amazon Web Services. They said,

1605
01:42:03,159 --> 01:42:09,300
hey, we were able to jailbreak it. Okay. Yeah. I

1606
01:42:09,340 --> 01:42:12,453
have another AI clip, but just a quick shorty here.

1607
01:42:12,774 --> 01:42:15,704
Another Axios interview. They get good stuff out of the

1608
01:42:15,765 --> 01:42:18,255
president. Listen to this. Meanwhile, in a new interview with

1609
01:42:18,296 --> 01:42:21,425
Axios. President Trump was asked what he learned about the

1610
01:42:21,466 --> 01:42:24,265
limits of his power during this war with Iran. Here's

1611
01:42:24,284 --> 01:42:26,814
what he said. What have you learned about not just

1612
01:42:26,854 --> 01:42:29,119
the exercise of power, but the limits on your power

1613
01:42:29,400 --> 01:42:32,086
as a result of the conflict? There are no limits.

1614
01:42:32,367 --> 01:42:35,072
No, not I haven't learned that lesson yet. I know

1615
01:42:35,112 --> 01:42:37,978
there are, but, you know, there are no limits. We

1616
01:42:38,018 --> 01:42:42,320
defeated them. Totally militarily. However, beginning of conflict, you had

1617
01:42:42,381 --> 01:42:46,659
talked about you only wanted unconditional surrender. And, well, the

1618
01:42:46,779 --> 01:42:50,612
MOU doesn't look like unconditional surrender. Well, it really probably

1619
01:42:50,712 --> 01:42:53,721
is unconditional surrender. It is? I think so. I got

1620
01:42:53,761 --> 01:42:55,587
no limits to my power, baby. I can do whatever

1621
01:42:55,648 --> 01:42:57,835
I want. Yeah, this clip was played by all the

1622
01:42:57,895 --> 01:43:01,396
shows this morning. Hell yeah. And with all these Democrats,

1623
01:43:01,417 --> 01:43:03,895
and they should use this as a campaign for the

1624
01:43:03,975 --> 01:43:12,288
midterms. The guy's out of control. He's insane. Power hungry.

1625
01:43:12,612 --> 01:43:17,680
Yeah, maybe they will. So what I find interesting about

1626
01:43:17,904 --> 01:43:21,715
what's happening with the AI. uh build out is all

1627
01:43:21,774 --> 01:43:26,132
these companies are now raising debt through bonds So I

1628
01:43:26,172 --> 01:43:30,622
guess it's getting pathetic. It is pathetic. I mean, this

1629
01:43:30,682 --> 01:43:32,827
means no one else wants to invest in him. No

1630
01:43:32,867 --> 01:43:35,734
one wants to buy shares. So, well, okay, a bond

1631
01:43:35,793 --> 01:43:39,149
maybe. We'll do something with that. Here's CNBC. Well, so

1632
01:43:39,168 --> 01:43:41,733
this AI boom and all of this reliance on debt

1633
01:43:41,773 --> 01:43:43,956
to fund the data center build out, it's giving tech

1634
01:43:43,975 --> 01:43:46,740
investors a lot more reason to watch the bond market,

1635
01:43:46,780 --> 01:43:48,743
especially when you look at the 10 years. So smaller,

1636
01:43:49,123 --> 01:43:51,849
high growth tech stocks have really always been pretty rate

1637
01:43:51,889 --> 01:43:54,493
sensitive, but the giants in tech have been historically a

1638
01:43:54,533 --> 01:43:56,256
lot more immune to what is going on with rates

1639
01:43:56,655 --> 01:43:59,301
and the Fed because of their fortress balance sheets. But

1640
01:43:59,661 --> 01:44:02,306
that is changing significantly. The biggest tech companies are now

1641
01:44:02,367 --> 01:44:07,497
expected to spend about $750 billion on this AI build-out

1642
01:44:07,657 --> 01:44:09,981
just this year. And recently, a handful, as you mentioned,

1643
01:44:10,002 --> 01:44:13,087
Brian, have tapped debt markets. You have NVIDIA and Oracle.

1644
01:44:13,529 --> 01:44:16,354
Meta filed for about a $30 billion offering. Amazon has

1645
01:44:16,414 --> 01:44:20,542
filed the paperwork for a loan facility. and then OpenAI

1646
01:44:21,224 --> 01:44:24,129
has pointed to access to public debt as one major

1647
01:44:24,190 --> 01:44:27,236
motivator to actually go public. Analysts I've been talking to

1648
01:44:27,276 --> 01:44:30,863
widely expect this borrowing spree to continue, barring any sort

1649
01:44:30,903 --> 01:44:33,709
of rate shock here, but these companies have been depleting

1650
01:44:33,729 --> 01:44:36,635
their cash reserves at the same time. Goldman Sachs noting

1651
01:44:36,715 --> 01:44:39,841
recently that after accounting for CapEx... Free cash flow is

1652
01:44:39,942 --> 01:44:42,868
at its lowest level since the dot-com era. You can

1653
01:44:42,887 --> 01:44:45,332
see that chart there. Part of this is all financial

1654
01:44:45,393 --> 01:44:47,757
engineering, so there are reasons you would want to borrow

1655
01:44:47,818 --> 01:44:49,782
instead of actually spending your cash. When it comes to

1656
01:44:49,822 --> 01:44:51,465
these tech companies, it can be a lot more capital

1657
01:44:51,524 --> 01:44:55,012
efficient. It can preserve some flexibility. Peter Buchvar put it

1658
01:44:55,052 --> 01:44:57,336
well. He told me earlier, Brian, bottom line, tech investors

1659
01:44:57,377 --> 01:44:59,561
are learning what it's like. to be an investor in

1660
01:44:59,603 --> 01:45:03,594
an old economy industrial business. What's your take on this?

1661
01:45:04,416 --> 01:45:08,929
Wow, it's nuts. Okay, nuts, but explain the difference between...

1662
01:45:09,048 --> 01:45:11,682
Explain if you're... In the bond market. Well, it's a

1663
01:45:11,702 --> 01:45:14,377
bookkeeping thing. I mean, they have the, and I can't

1664
01:45:14,436 --> 01:45:16,789
explain it because I'm not a CPA. No. But there's

1665
01:45:16,829 --> 01:45:21,244
some bookkeeping angle. That allows them to, the way it'll

1666
01:45:21,284 --> 01:45:25,713
be written off if the whole thing folds is easier

1667
01:45:25,734 --> 01:45:28,961
to do under these circumstances because it's just a debt.

1668
01:45:29,481 --> 01:45:31,626
And you can also, you can carry it forward. There's

1669
01:45:31,645 --> 01:45:34,532
all kinds of, it has to do with tax implications.

1670
01:45:34,551 --> 01:45:39,470
There's a lot of fancy footwork that goes on. in

1671
01:45:39,530 --> 01:45:41,630
some in an effort to deal with the fact that

1672
01:45:41,649 --> 01:45:44,555
you've got way too much cash flow here that's going

1673
01:45:44,574 --> 01:45:46,448
to be have to be dealt with i i don't

1674
01:45:46,469 --> 01:45:49,362
know i i can't give you any more It's just

1675
01:45:49,563 --> 01:45:54,304
there's something fishy. Well, we can smell the fishy. We

1676
01:45:54,344 --> 01:45:56,353
just don't understand it. But it doesn't seem right. Well,

1677
01:45:56,413 --> 01:45:59,259
we don't because neither one of us are... Or accountants.

1678
01:45:59,520 --> 01:46:02,538
No. But there's somebody out there that can maybe explain

1679
01:46:02,557 --> 01:46:05,576
it a little better. Maybe our guy, local guy here.

1680
01:46:06,572 --> 01:46:08,601
I want to talk about something that you talked about

1681
01:46:08,681 --> 01:46:11,716
with me after the show and you had another fail.

1682
01:46:11,738 --> 01:46:15,957
That was in confidence. Oh I don't even know what

1683
01:46:15,997 --> 01:46:21,038
you're talking about. Yeah, the robot didn't put the spreadsheet

1684
01:46:21,060 --> 01:46:23,708
together correctly. Yes, yeah, the robot failed. Yes. So I

1685
01:46:23,729 --> 01:46:27,948
discuss this with JC. You want to explain what it

1686
01:46:28,069 --> 01:46:30,246
is? I want you to explain it and I'll explain

1687
01:46:30,265 --> 01:46:33,512
what he said. that you're doing wrong oh oh it's

1688
01:46:33,552 --> 01:46:35,929
my fault okay it is but no it's not your

1689
01:46:35,988 --> 01:46:38,742
fault it's the ai's fault but it's There's a trick.

1690
01:46:39,042 --> 01:46:42,069
Okay. Oh, well, okay. I've heard most of the tricks.

1691
01:46:42,088 --> 01:46:47,359
So the robot, the same one who knew correctly that

1692
01:46:47,420 --> 01:46:50,606
it was taping football games. So the robot is on

1693
01:46:50,646 --> 01:46:53,494
the ball. I have the robot. The minute I hit

1694
01:46:53,515 --> 01:46:55,426
the end of show mix, I say, robot, do the

1695
01:46:55,485 --> 01:47:01,020
credits. And the robot... knows now it's written scripts but

1696
01:47:01,061 --> 01:47:03,586
i'll just say the robot knows to go into the

1697
01:47:03,646 --> 01:47:07,376
spreadsheet to pick out the names 200 to 300 put

1698
01:47:07,395 --> 01:47:11,586
them into my uh outline and in the credits under

1699
01:47:11,626 --> 01:47:14,853
associate executive producers and then 300 and above and put

1700
01:47:14,892 --> 01:47:18,224
those into the executive producers also knows to pull out

1701
01:47:18,264 --> 01:47:20,221
the Knights, the Dames. So it's all nicely in the

1702
01:47:20,282 --> 01:47:23,680
show notes. And it works five times in a row

1703
01:47:23,760 --> 01:47:27,359
perfectly, and the sixth time it just farts and does

1704
01:47:27,500 --> 01:47:33,457
everything wrong. And I'm curious what JC had to say

1705
01:47:33,497 --> 01:47:37,706
about that. He says the mistake you're making is you're

1706
01:47:37,787 --> 01:47:43,747
telling it it's doing something wrong. This is counterintuitive. He

1707
01:47:43,768 --> 01:47:49,663
says in particular, especially Claude, has a tendency to absorb

1708
01:47:49,682 --> 01:47:53,452
a criticism that didn't do something right. And then from

1709
01:47:53,511 --> 01:47:56,720
then on, assume that, well, I guess it's okay once.

1710
01:47:56,699 --> 01:47:59,452
in a while and it'll keep doing it. He says

1711
01:47:59,532 --> 01:48:03,529
it'll get worse. Really? You have to start from scratch.

1712
01:48:03,670 --> 01:48:08,216
In other words, you reset. And start the process from

1713
01:48:08,297 --> 01:48:11,204
the beginning as if it never made a mistake. Oh,

1714
01:48:11,225 --> 01:48:14,052
well, okay. So when he says reset, I presume he

1715
01:48:14,092 --> 01:48:17,314
means clear the context, which I do. But these are

1716
01:48:17,435 --> 01:48:20,085
actual skills that I've written for it, that it has

1717
01:48:20,166 --> 01:48:24,564
written. And when you call a skill, it is supposed

1718
01:48:24,605 --> 01:48:26,952
to call the same scripts and do the exact same

1719
01:48:27,011 --> 01:48:30,641
thing every single time. It's just interpreting me saying, run

1720
01:48:30,681 --> 01:48:35,005
those scripts. And yet then it'll come back. And when

1721
01:48:35,086 --> 01:48:36,676
I say you did it wrong, you know what the

1722
01:48:36,778 --> 01:48:40,368
answer is? Oh, I'm sorry. I was freelancing instead of

1723
01:48:40,408 --> 01:48:44,270
adhering to the skill. This is the problem. Yeah, well,

1724
01:48:44,751 --> 01:48:48,519
you're not supposed to do that. According to him. Okay,

1725
01:48:48,538 --> 01:48:50,623
okay. In other words, don't ever say he did anything

1726
01:48:50,684 --> 01:48:52,368
wrong. Just tell him to do it over or start

1727
01:48:52,467 --> 01:48:55,253
over. How about this? So you need positive reinforcement. Good

1728
01:48:55,354 --> 01:48:59,006
job, but let's try it this way. Good job. Stupid.

1729
01:49:01,670 --> 01:49:03,673
Thanks. All right. Well, we're off to speed on how

1730
01:49:03,713 --> 01:49:06,599
to do it. All right. There is no doubt in

1731
01:49:06,658 --> 01:49:12,208
my mind that AI is going to increase jobs, increase

1732
01:49:12,408 --> 01:49:16,065
opportunity for people. For those of you who get into

1733
01:49:16,166 --> 01:49:20,779
it and know... So using chat GPT or a chat

1734
01:49:20,859 --> 01:49:23,670
bot is not the way to do it. You've got

1735
01:49:23,690 --> 01:49:25,777
to get this thing loaded on your computer so it

1736
01:49:25,817 --> 01:49:29,168
can destroy your files. And after a couple of rounds

1737
01:49:29,229 --> 01:49:30,713
of that, you'll understand how it works. I like to

1738
01:49:30,734 --> 01:49:32,621
destroy the files, which it does all the time. It

1739
01:49:32,720 --> 01:49:37,244
literally... I did what? This morning... I have another skill.

1740
01:49:37,286 --> 01:49:40,265
I call it... stage. So I say, here's all my

1741
01:49:40,326 --> 01:49:43,693
clips. Now I want you to organize those into meta

1742
01:49:43,712 --> 01:49:47,559
categories. So like Iran, right? So I have Iran. And

1743
01:49:47,600 --> 01:49:52,569
then subcategories, Beirut, Israel, before the MOU was signed, after

1744
01:49:52,609 --> 01:49:56,538
the MOU was signed, from the right. So we didn't

1745
01:49:56,577 --> 01:49:59,706
play any of these. responses from the right, responses from

1746
01:49:59,745 --> 01:50:00,009
the left.

1747
01:50:00,347 --> 01:50:03,520
Hormuz Oil, Vance in Switzerland, and then the Sunday shows.

1748
01:50:04,042 --> 01:50:07,596
So it's pretty good at doing that. But in the

1749
01:50:07,636 --> 01:50:12,618
meantime... I had created the end of show mix. I

1750
01:50:12,679 --> 01:50:15,887
put the spreadsheet in the donations folder. I put two

1751
01:50:15,948 --> 01:50:19,277
meetup reports into the meetups folder. I put the ISOs

1752
01:50:19,317 --> 01:50:24,152
in the ISOs folder. And... and the robot's doing this

1753
01:50:24,393 --> 01:50:28,240
plate skill, and it just deletes all those folders. I'm

1754
01:50:28,863 --> 01:50:31,769
like, what happened to my folders? Oh, oh no, I

1755
01:50:32,210 --> 01:50:35,778
broke my own rule and deleted them. Let me see

1756
01:50:35,838 --> 01:50:39,688
if there's a backup. Of course, no. And so I

1757
01:50:39,769 --> 01:50:43,192
had to do all that work over again. Let me

1758
01:50:43,212 --> 01:50:46,228
see if I can find its exact... Wow. Oh, yeah.

1759
01:50:46,308 --> 01:50:49,864
It's exact words. Let me see. What happened? When I

1760
01:50:49,924 --> 01:50:54,824
reshipped the renumbered folder at 12.02, I used rsync --delete

1761
01:50:54,884 --> 01:50:59,148
on the whole show folder. --delete removes anything. That isn't

1762
01:50:59,188 --> 01:51:01,552
in my local mirror. My mirror only had the 08

1763
01:51:01,572 --> 01:51:04,376
meta folder. So it deleted your top level donations, end

1764
01:51:04,456 --> 01:51:09,084
of show, ISOs. And your JCD clips folder survived only

1765
01:51:09,124 --> 01:51:12,289
because you added it at 1204 after my sync. This

1766
01:51:12,369 --> 01:51:16,756
is the exact thing the stage doctrine warns against. Quote,

1767
01:51:16,776 --> 01:51:20,619
do not delete extraneous files. Adam may have dropped files

1768
01:51:20,659 --> 01:51:25,374
there. I rationalize --delete as safe because the folder was

1769
01:51:25,675 --> 01:51:31,659
new this session. That was wrong. Yeah, that was wrong,

1770
01:51:31,700 --> 01:51:39,009
all right. So... Screw these AIs. I'm glad you're doing

1771
01:51:39,050 --> 01:51:43,812
this. Yeah, well, what it's teaching me is that, A,

1772
01:51:44,413 --> 01:51:47,759
you don't have to boo your commencement speaker about AI,

1773
01:51:48,680 --> 01:51:51,846
because if you get a little bit proficient and you

1774
01:51:52,126 --> 01:51:54,911
learn to do stuff like backup files, because the robot

1775
01:51:54,951 --> 01:51:59,118
will delete your crap, you can use it to some

1776
01:51:59,158 --> 01:52:04,091
advantage. No doubt about it. But you can't let this

1777
01:52:04,112 --> 01:52:07,883
stuff just run alone and run your company. That's not

1778
01:52:07,903 --> 01:52:11,426
going to work. And it will never work as long

1779
01:52:11,467 --> 01:52:15,560
as these things hallucinate. So it will never... It'll never

1780
01:52:15,620 --> 01:52:19,758
work perfectly, ever. No, well, when we get to quantum,

1781
01:52:19,778 --> 01:52:24,983
it will. Get quantum. Once we hit the quantum, we'll

1782
01:52:25,003 --> 01:52:28,603
be fine. All right, well, I got a couple of

1783
01:52:28,643 --> 01:52:32,093
things. I got some CIA stooge that was on CNN

1784
01:52:32,134 --> 01:52:35,042
I thought was funny. Okay, let's hit him. Tonight, Bill

1785
01:52:35,082 --> 01:52:38,332
Pulte, the Trump loyalist and federal housing official who started

1786
01:52:38,372 --> 01:52:41,846
today as acting director of national intelligence. despite having no

1787
01:52:41,906 --> 01:52:45,358
intelligence experience, using his first public comments in his new

1788
01:52:45,418 --> 01:52:48,448
role not to talk about U.S. intelligence, but to tout

1789
01:52:48,548 --> 01:52:53,405
government-owned mortgage entities Fannie Mae and FAC. It comes as

1790
01:52:53,425 --> 01:52:57,607
CNN reports that Pulte, after visiting DNI headquarters yesterday, requested

1791
01:52:57,667 --> 01:53:00,295
a list of every employee in the office. so he

1792
01:53:00,335 --> 01:53:03,712
could determine whether to fire hundreds of them. Sources say

1793
01:53:03,752 --> 01:53:06,457
that Pulte also asked if he'd have access to a

1794
01:53:06,517 --> 01:53:09,823
government plane and a security detail and whether he would

1795
01:53:09,883 --> 01:53:14,992
receive top-secret security clearance. Out for now, John Seifer, a

1796
01:53:15,012 --> 01:53:18,337
28-year veteran of the CIA's clandestine service, who was warned

1797
01:53:18,377 --> 01:53:21,884
about the danger of... Pulte overseeing U.S. intelligence. John, thanks

1798
01:53:21,904 --> 01:53:23,728
so much for being with us. What does it tell

1799
01:53:23,748 --> 01:53:27,735
you about Pulte when he's asking about a security detail

1800
01:53:27,775 --> 01:53:31,663
and access to a government plan? He's unserious and unqualified.

1801
01:53:31,723 --> 01:53:33,827
But for me, the bigger issue is it shows that

1802
01:53:33,867 --> 01:53:37,614
the president doesn't take the intelligence community seriously. If he

1803
01:53:37,675 --> 01:53:40,568
continues to put these kind of people in there. who

1804
01:53:40,588 --> 01:53:43,361
clearly are there just to do his bidding and to

1805
01:53:43,421 --> 01:53:46,194
try to sort of use the intelligence community as his

1806
01:53:46,375 --> 01:53:51,048
own detective agency to... to declassify information, to create conspiracy

1807
01:53:51,109 --> 01:53:55,504
theories. Ah, create conspiracy theories. Oh, that's cool. Okay, so

1808
01:53:55,544 --> 01:53:58,996
this guy's saying the president should never do that. Not

1809
01:53:59,056 --> 01:54:03,843
like Obama. telling him to change the entire Report political

1810
01:54:04,365 --> 01:54:06,673
reports that said Russia had nothing to do with the

1811
01:54:06,693 --> 01:54:13,646
2016 election. There's nothing like that Why do we even

1812
01:54:13,988 --> 01:54:16,862
argue this anymore? I don't know why we bother, but

1813
01:54:17,003 --> 01:54:20,822
you're right. But here we go. It shows that the

1814
01:54:20,862 --> 01:54:23,756
president doesn't take the intelligence community seriously. And if he

1815
01:54:23,817 --> 01:54:27,173
doesn't want unfiltered intelligence, then there really is no reason

1816
01:54:27,213 --> 01:54:31,294
to have an intelligence community, frankly. Wow. And Pulte asking

1817
01:54:31,334 --> 01:54:33,422
for the name of every employee to see whether to

1818
01:54:33,562 --> 01:54:37,517
potentially fire hundreds of them. I mean, Trump clearly wants

1819
01:54:37,617 --> 01:54:42,085
to. uh alter the way that the ODNI functions. Yeah,

1820
01:54:42,105 --> 01:54:44,049
I don't know how a list of people can show

1821
01:54:44,129 --> 01:54:46,854
anybody who's loyal or not loyal or what party they

1822
01:54:46,895 --> 01:54:52,486
belong to. As you know, public servants work for all

1823
01:54:52,566 --> 01:54:58,528
different... for Republicans and Democrats, different presidents. And. In no

1824
01:54:58,628 --> 01:55:02,675
way does anybody in the intelligence community show their partisan

1825
01:55:02,735 --> 01:55:05,639
support or is it written down in their thing. So

1826
01:55:05,699 --> 01:55:07,763
I don't know what a list of employees does for

1827
01:55:07,823 --> 01:55:10,908
him. And if his job is just to fire everybody

1828
01:55:11,108 --> 01:55:13,612
in the Directorate of National Intelligence, it goes to the

1829
01:55:13,672 --> 01:55:15,956
question of do we really need a Directorate of National

1830
01:55:15,976 --> 01:55:20,491
Intelligence? The thing was created. in 2004 to coordinate between

1831
01:55:20,531 --> 01:55:24,437
intelligence agencies. It's sort of a process job to try

1832
01:55:24,457 --> 01:55:27,983
to create standards and make sure regulations across the community

1833
01:55:28,023 --> 01:55:31,468
work. But ever since it began, you know, the people

1834
01:55:31,648 --> 01:55:33,611
inside the community that do the real work, the real

1835
01:55:33,651 --> 01:55:36,436
spying and the analysis, have always rolled their eyes at

1836
01:55:36,456 --> 01:55:38,940
the DNI and see it sort of as a... just

1837
01:55:38,960 --> 01:55:42,228
an extra layer of burden. And so, sure, if they

1838
01:55:42,248 --> 01:55:44,313
want to fire people, then just get rid of the

1839
01:55:44,353 --> 01:55:46,558
DNI. I think it would do everybody a good service.

1840
01:55:46,739 --> 01:55:48,704
Oh, yeah, I would much rather have that. Wait, wait,

1841
01:55:48,724 --> 01:55:51,470
what's his argument here? I would much rather have that.

1842
01:55:51,530 --> 01:55:53,716
This guy stinks, but they should get rid of the

1843
01:55:54,157 --> 01:55:57,995
whole place. And then he also says there's no partisanship

1844
01:55:58,035 --> 01:56:01,612
in these. In the spying community, like the 51 intelligence

1845
01:56:01,733 --> 01:56:05,087
officers that came out with the Hunter Biden laptop bullcrap,

1846
01:56:05,589 --> 01:56:09,568
half of them were still working. So this guy is

1847
01:56:09,648 --> 01:56:12,626
like, it's just they don't have their act together with

1848
01:56:12,647 --> 01:56:18,767
the messaging here. It's also not true. Because... George W.

1849
01:56:18,828 --> 01:56:25,515
Bush in 2008 with executive order 13470. solidified the DNI's

1850
01:56:25,636 --> 01:56:31,613
legal authority to direct intelligence gathering and analysis. So that's

1851
01:56:31,653 --> 01:56:34,223
a little bit more than just kind of like doing

1852
01:56:34,284 --> 01:56:38,691
paperwork. Yeah. And set policy for intelligent sharing with. foreign

1853
01:56:38,915 --> 01:56:44,811
agencies for the hiring and firing of senior intelligence officials.

1854
01:56:45,295 --> 01:56:50,208
The DNI was given further responsibility for the entire intelligence

1855
01:56:50,288 --> 01:56:57,720
communitaze, whistleblowing, and source protection by President Barack Obama. Why?

1856
01:56:57,759 --> 01:57:01,999
presidential policy directive 19 so there was a lot it's

1857
01:57:02,019 --> 01:57:05,595
a there's a lot more power this guy's basically lying

1858
01:57:05,919 --> 01:57:11,139
Whoa. A CIA spook lying? Hmm. Let me think about

1859
01:57:11,159 --> 01:57:14,850
that. Maga Loyalists, who we know have Trump's ear, are

1860
01:57:14,930 --> 01:57:18,260
encouraging him to clean house. Here is Steve Bannon. earlier

1861
01:57:18,300 --> 01:57:21,065
today in response to CNN's story on Pulte. Get your

1862
01:57:21,125 --> 01:57:23,550
guy to walk into everyone in the office. Everybody who's

1863
01:57:23,590 --> 01:57:26,055
in that room that's not your person, that did not

1864
01:57:26,276 --> 01:57:29,121
come with you, and you say, you're fired, you're fired,

1865
01:57:29,342 --> 01:57:31,887
you're fired, you're fired, and if I need to, I'm

1866
01:57:31,907 --> 01:57:33,991
going to start a criminal investigation and sweep your phones

1867
01:57:34,091 --> 01:57:35,935
up and see who talked to CNN and the New

1868
01:57:35,955 --> 01:57:39,745
York Times. Fight fire with fire. A far-right activist, Laura

1869
01:57:39,785 --> 01:57:43,116
Loomer, tweeting this as well, quote, we are expected to

1870
01:57:43,177 --> 01:57:46,508
see some well-deserved mass firing soon, adding, whenever they want

1871
01:57:46,528 --> 01:57:48,937
some other voice on the other side of an argument,

1872
01:57:48,957 --> 01:57:52,717
they always pull out the nutjobs. Oh yeah, well this

1873
01:57:52,797 --> 01:57:55,508
is clearly what everyone else thinks is Laura Loomer. Fight

1874
01:57:55,648 --> 01:57:58,920
fire with fire. A far-right activist, Laura Loomer. tweeting this

1875
01:57:58,960 --> 01:58:02,428
as well, quote, we are expected to see some well-deserved

1876
01:58:02,448 --> 01:58:05,494
mass firing soon, adding, quote, we all know who needs

1877
01:58:05,574 --> 01:58:11,186
to go. Criminal investigations, mass firings. To your point about

1878
01:58:11,246 --> 01:58:14,152
just getting rid of the ODNI, I mean, is this

1879
01:58:14,232 --> 01:58:16,336
even the most efficient way to do that if that

1880
01:58:16,577 --> 01:58:18,500
is what Trump is trying to accomplish? No, of course

1881
01:58:18,581 --> 01:58:21,947
not. I mean, we want, I think most Americans agree,

1882
01:58:21,987 --> 01:58:26,997
we want a professional, serious, and expertise-driven intelligence community. You

1883
01:58:27,037 --> 01:58:31,505
want an intelligence community that's focused on foreign adversaries. These

1884
01:58:31,565 --> 01:58:34,972
people are talking about creating partisan people who just do

1885
01:58:34,992 --> 01:58:38,819
whatever the president wants and get involved in domestic issues.

1886
01:58:39,147 --> 01:58:42,072
I mean, our intelligence community, foreign intelligence community, is very

1887
01:58:42,172 --> 01:58:44,636
powerful. And if it starts doing things like getting involved

1888
01:58:44,676 --> 01:58:49,445
in our elections, in election voting systems, this is exactly

1889
01:58:49,505 --> 01:58:52,510
what we've had decades of reform about to make sure

1890
01:58:52,590 --> 01:58:57,438
that we don't have that. We can't have anyone seeing

1891
01:58:57,478 --> 01:59:00,828
what we're doing. No, no, no. We can't have that.

1892
01:59:01,490 --> 01:59:06,345
Laughable. Oh, that is laughable. I have one short clip

1893
01:59:06,365 --> 01:59:09,855
here from ABC, which stuck out like a sore thumb.

1894
01:59:10,307 --> 01:59:16,337
considering there's no heat on this Disclosure Day movie. a

1895
01:59:16,358 --> 01:59:21,374
second. Do we have a box office on that? Disclosure

1896
01:59:21,797 --> 01:59:26,964
Day. Negative number. Movie box office. Let's see. Because no

1897
01:59:27,044 --> 01:59:32,615
one's talking about it. 60, what is it? 66 to

1898
01:59:32,635 --> 01:59:37,819
66 million. In the US. Oh, that's not too bad.

1899
01:59:38,307 --> 01:59:41,041
That's for one weekend? Let me see what it is.

1900
01:59:41,363 --> 01:59:44,419
Let me see. Where's that total? Let me see. Where's

1901
01:59:44,460 --> 01:59:52,495
the number 66? Uh... interesting it's only shows oh maybe

1902
01:59:52,515 --> 01:59:57,271
I'll do this here domestic total As of June 21st,

1903
01:59:57,292 --> 02:00:00,008
that's today. 78.3 million.

1904
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:02,914
after its second weekend, which saw a drop of 62%

1905
02:00:02,975 --> 02:00:08,845
to drop to 17 million. Worldwide total approximately 128. With

1906
02:00:08,926 --> 02:00:12,684
a production budget of $115 million, estimated marketing costs of

1907
02:00:12,703 --> 02:00:17,095
$80 million. The film needs to gross around $300 million

1908
02:00:17,136 --> 02:00:22,429
worldwide to break even. You'll probably barely make it. Yeah,

1909
02:00:22,548 --> 02:00:26,456
so it's not a blockbuster by Steven Spielberg's standards. It

1910
02:00:26,657 --> 02:00:28,621
looks like a dog. So let's amp it up a

1911
02:00:28,661 --> 02:00:33,510
bit. Did China and Russia reverse engineer alien technology? Well,

1912
02:00:33,590 --> 02:00:36,615
there's a frightening thought for this Friday. It's one of

1913
02:00:36,676 --> 02:00:39,020
the claims made by Jordan Flowers, the executive director of...

1914
02:00:39,000 --> 02:00:46,595
UAP being unidentified anomalous phenomena, of course. Now, Flower says

1915
02:00:46,675 --> 02:00:49,902
in this latest batch of declassified UFO documents, there's evidence

1916
02:00:49,942 --> 02:00:54,331
that American adversaries retrieved downed UAPs and tried to make

1917
02:00:54,390 --> 02:00:58,078
their own versions. Translations, flying saucers were picked up by

1918
02:00:58,118 --> 02:00:59,601
the likes of Russia and China and they have been

1919
02:00:59,641 --> 02:01:02,649
tinkering with them ever since. Now, he also mentions claims

1920
02:01:02,729 --> 02:01:05,537
that the Russians and the Chinese have been surveilling the

1921
02:01:05,677 --> 02:01:10,270
United States' UAP programs. Okay, they reverse engineered it. There

1922
02:01:10,291 --> 02:01:13,376
you go. That makes nothing but sense. Yeah, sure they

1923
02:01:13,438 --> 02:01:19,524
did. Okay. Uh, well I think, uh, with that... I

1924
02:01:19,543 --> 02:01:21,492
could thank you for your courage. I say in the

1925
02:01:21,532 --> 02:01:23,300
morning to you, the man who put the C in

1926
02:01:23,340 --> 02:01:25,668
the CIA stooge, say hello to my friend on the

1927
02:01:25,748 --> 02:01:33,564
other end, the one and only Mr. John C! -

1928
02:01:33,585 --> 02:01:49,466
In the morning to the trolls. 5,551 live trollage at

1929
02:01:49,506 --> 02:01:52,356
the peak listening to us at noagendastream.com or using a

1930
02:01:52,476 --> 02:01:56,853
modern podcast app. And yes, a lot of people were

1931
02:01:56,893 --> 02:01:58,779
like, hey man, I didn't get the bad signal. I

1932
02:01:58,800 --> 02:02:00,983
can't. listen to it live in pod verse it's not

1933
02:02:01,042 --> 02:02:04,167
working we did have some problems and that got solved

1934
02:02:04,188 --> 02:02:07,212
so sorry about that um this is it's amazing any

1935
02:02:07,233 --> 02:02:08,895
of this stuff works at all really it's what i

1936
02:02:08,954 --> 02:02:11,479
can only say uh so the trolls are back they're

1937
02:02:11,519 --> 02:02:13,202
listening and it's good to have you all here no

1938
02:02:13,261 --> 02:02:18,114
agenda stream.com this is a value for value program Which

1939
02:02:18,197 --> 02:02:21,149
means we, uh... for coming up in 19 years in

1940
02:02:21,229 --> 02:02:25,163
October. We don't run ads. We don't take corporate money.

1941
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There's no barriers to entry as long as you have

1942
02:02:28,273 --> 02:02:31,730
a podcast app or even a browser. you can listen

1943
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to the show and we're happy that you can. All

1944
02:02:33,880 --> 02:02:36,770
we suggest is that at some point when you feel

1945
02:02:36,810 --> 02:02:39,020
like you've received value from the show, send it back.

1946
02:02:39,000 --> 02:02:42,649
to us at noagendadonations.com. We take time, talent, and treasure,

1947
02:02:43,050 --> 02:02:44,634
which means there's other ways that you can support us

1948
02:02:44,713 --> 02:02:48,724
as well. For instance, you can organize a meetup. I

1949
02:02:48,965 --> 02:02:51,350
still haven't got my Ukraine meetup. I'm a little irked

1950
02:02:51,390 --> 02:02:54,488
about that. Organize a meetup. You can send us boots

1951
02:02:54,548 --> 02:02:56,984
on the ground. People help out with clips, with story

1952
02:02:57,045 --> 02:03:00,163
ideas and expertise. We do have the best. producers. We

1953
02:03:00,203 --> 02:03:05,266
have more producers than any other news program or any

1954
02:03:05,346 --> 02:03:10,512
podcast anywhere. We have... hundreds of thousands of producers who

1955
02:03:10,573 --> 02:03:13,443
are always ready to give us their experience and their

1956
02:03:13,563 --> 02:03:17,376
expertise and it pays off in spades as they say

1957
02:03:18,180 --> 02:03:22,850
And one way is, uh... to prompt in your. I

1958
02:03:22,869 --> 02:03:26,005
was talking with Dave Jones about AI slop, and I

1959
02:03:26,065 --> 02:03:29,894
said, you know, We saw this curve in an accelerated

1960
02:03:29,914 --> 02:03:33,654
ramp, and I think we are a very good... Petri

1961
02:03:33,715 --> 02:03:40,921
dish of AI generation, AI content generation. where We had

1962
02:03:40,961 --> 02:03:46,707
artists. who were Darren O'Neill, actually, he did a lot

1963
02:03:46,747 --> 02:03:49,795
of stuff with Photoshop, but we had a lot of

1964
02:03:49,835 --> 02:03:55,149
top-notch artists. Darren flew to the top of the list

1965
02:03:55,930 --> 02:04:00,064
once the AI began. Well, you're jumping the gun. So

1966
02:04:00,524 --> 02:04:05,635
we had all these artists, and once the AI slop

1967
02:04:05,675 --> 02:04:09,461
generators came in, people started using that, and the artists

1968
02:04:09,502 --> 02:04:13,729
became very disillusioned and upset because they would spend an

1969
02:04:13,810 --> 02:04:16,134
hour or longer on a piece of art, and someone

1970
02:04:16,194 --> 02:04:18,478
came in and typed in, do a funny thing like

1971
02:04:18,538 --> 02:04:22,591
this. And then we'd pick that because it was funny.

1972
02:04:22,915 --> 02:04:26,474
Then we went through. At least a year, I'd say,

1973
02:04:26,695 --> 02:04:29,780
of, oh, my Lord, look at this. It's all orange.

1974
02:04:30,141 --> 02:04:35,330
It's all the same. It's really nothing exciting. Once in

1975
02:04:35,370 --> 02:04:38,075
a while. I don't think it was a whole year,

1976
02:04:38,155 --> 02:04:40,716
but there was a long period. A long period. And

1977
02:04:40,797 --> 02:04:43,451
from time to time, an actual artist would do something,

1978
02:04:43,490 --> 02:04:45,662
would just pop to the stack like, oh, that's great,

1979
02:04:45,681 --> 02:04:49,119
we'll use that. And now we've gotten to this place.

1980
02:04:49,444 --> 02:04:52,474
where people are starting to understand how to use the

1981
02:04:52,533 --> 02:04:55,604
tool and they there's still a lot of slop no

1982
02:04:55,645 --> 02:05:00,220
doubt about it but there there's some useful good funny

1983
02:05:00,228 --> 02:05:04,341
things. And it still comes down to the God-given creativity

1984
02:05:04,381 --> 02:05:07,792
that you put into your prompt and what you really

1985
02:05:07,832 --> 02:05:11,283
want it to be. And now I can see it

1986
02:05:11,323 --> 02:05:13,512
starting to pay off. I mean, not if people had

1987
02:05:13,554 --> 02:05:17,449
to pay what the actual compute charge is, because that

1988
02:05:17,470 --> 02:05:19,920
would end it very, very quickly. You might forget it.

1989
02:05:19,899 --> 02:05:23,395
that would end very quickly uh but for 1878 we

1990
02:05:23,537 --> 02:05:27,271
titled that the dream build loop There was a nice

1991
02:05:27,351 --> 02:05:30,215
piece here from Blue Acorn. Now, Blue Acorn is an

1992
02:05:30,376 --> 02:05:34,118
OG artist. And this piece was more intricate than I

1993
02:05:34,158 --> 02:05:37,712
thought at first. This is the California bear leaving California.

1994
02:05:37,733 --> 02:05:40,301
You've got all kinds of dead. people in the form

1995
02:05:40,322 --> 02:05:44,510
of ghosts submitting ballots. But then in the background, there's

1996
02:05:44,550 --> 02:05:48,738
the ghost train high-speed rail to nowhere. There was a

1997
02:05:48,819 --> 02:05:51,824
lot of stuff in here. It's a great piece, the

1998
02:05:52,005 --> 02:05:53,748
more that I look at it. Yeah, it is a

1999
02:05:53,809 --> 02:05:57,155
good piece. It really is. And you can tell by

2000
02:05:57,195 --> 02:06:00,051
the comments that people leave on it. or wherever you

2001
02:06:00,112 --> 02:06:05,195
post it. But more importantly... It's a hat trick. It

2002
02:06:05,317 --> 02:06:09,082
is. Blue acorn three in a row. It's amazing. That's

2003
02:06:09,141 --> 02:06:13,445
right. He had the Roosevelt, um, wrestling match. He had

2004
02:06:13,466 --> 02:06:17,380
the, the ballots in Alaska. And you can tell he

2005
02:06:17,399 --> 02:06:19,545
has a style. You can tell it's his. I don't

2006
02:06:19,565 --> 02:06:23,351
know, which is also kind of interesting. that works that

2007
02:06:23,412 --> 02:06:26,047
way. So congratulations, Blue Acorn. We had a couple other

2008
02:06:26,087 --> 02:06:29,506
pieces that we looked at. Scroll down here. Now, today,

2009
02:06:29,966 --> 02:06:31,913
people who have been doing artwork for the show, been

2010
02:06:31,934 --> 02:06:35,243
listening, you know that we're very traditional when it comes

2011
02:06:35,284 --> 02:06:39,056
to these types of holidays or celebratory. Right. Yeah. We

2012
02:06:39,077 --> 02:06:41,755
need holiday stuff. Can I mention something about the hat

2013
02:06:41,814 --> 02:06:47,466
trick? Yeah. The two of us tend to... issue Use

2014
02:06:47,525 --> 02:06:50,073
that word. Oh, yeah. We can't let him win. We

2015
02:06:50,113 --> 02:06:54,002
can't let him win. Hat tricks. Yeah. And, you know,

2016
02:06:54,023 --> 02:06:57,172
oh, he's going for three in a row. Now let's

2017
02:06:57,211 --> 02:07:02,349
find something that's better. Let's screw him. you Just so

2018
02:07:02,389 --> 02:07:05,702
you know how hard it is to achieve a three

2019
02:07:05,742 --> 02:07:09,524
in a row like that. It's very difficult. Yeah. Uh,

2020
02:07:09,545 --> 02:07:13,369
there were a couple of MOUs. It wasn't really anything

2021
02:07:13,430 --> 02:07:16,440
that great. It stood out. It stood out as a

2022
02:07:16,502 --> 02:07:20,740
good piece. So yeah, so today we'll obviously... You'd be

2023
02:07:20,761 --> 02:07:24,229
looking for something. Noagendaartgenerator.com, by the way, is where you

2024
02:07:24,270 --> 02:07:28,722
can submit your art during the show. Noagendaartgenerator.com. Today is

2025
02:07:28,823 --> 02:07:34,867
Father's Day in America, not with the European Catholics. And

2026
02:07:35,409 --> 02:07:38,024
here's my observation. I may have made the same observation

2027
02:07:38,086 --> 02:07:43,577
last year, but I get more. men and fathers congratulating

2028
02:07:43,636 --> 02:07:48,055
me on Father's Day than children or women. And this

2029
02:07:48,117 --> 02:07:53,039
has been quite the thing, where the fathers... are lifting

2030
02:07:53,121 --> 02:07:56,739
each other up. Hey, man, like, you know, rob the

2031
02:07:56,779 --> 02:08:01,099
constitutional lawyer, you know, all kinds of people just. Men,

2032
02:08:01,239 --> 02:08:07,020
fathers, we send each other happy Father's Day. Tina forgot.

2033
02:08:08,176 --> 02:08:10,827
And it wasn't, it wasn't, and you know, I'm like,

2034
02:08:10,846 --> 02:08:14,662
whatever. And, uh, I'm a stepdad and I treat her

2035
02:08:14,702 --> 02:08:18,863
girls as my own. And so we walk into the

2036
02:08:18,944 --> 02:08:21,966
church and the kids are giving. little Father's Day pen

2037
02:08:22,027 --> 02:08:24,438
gifts. And she says, oh, wow. Yeah, Happy Father's Day.

2038
02:08:25,081 --> 02:08:27,693
And it really hit me. It's like, we have been

2039
02:08:27,752 --> 02:08:32,079
so brainwashed about dads. You need to talk about the...

2040
02:08:32,467 --> 02:08:38,570
the unnecessary gay men kissing in Netflix and Prime TV

2041
02:08:38,591 --> 02:08:44,512
shows. Every single dad... is always a doofus. Homer Simpson,

2042
02:08:44,573 --> 02:08:51,379
Everybody Loves Raymond, you know, was it Bundy? What was

2043
02:08:51,441 --> 02:08:55,811
that show called? Married with children. Married with children. All

2044
02:08:56,093 --> 02:08:59,995
dads are portrayed as idiots in commercials. Like, oh, I

2045
02:09:00,035 --> 02:09:05,109
bought the wrong one. BAD ON FIRE! We're portrayed, culture

2046
02:09:05,170 --> 02:09:10,653
has turned us into dumbos. And- Buffoons. Buffo- buffoons. There

2047
02:09:10,672 --> 02:09:14,014
it is. That's the right word. Buffoons. And it's paying

2048
02:09:14,176 --> 02:09:17,698
off because now. Even my own wife didn't even think

2049
02:09:17,779 --> 02:09:23,605
of Happy Father's Day. We've just been turned into blithering

2050
02:09:23,685 --> 02:09:27,259
buffoons, nothing matters, you're not important, you're no good, you're

2051
02:09:27,279 --> 02:09:34,536
not doing anything. And it's scandalous, quite honestly. War on

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02:09:34,657 --> 02:09:40,613
men! Okay, let me tag that one. All right. It's

2053
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scandalous. And it's an outrage. It is kind of scandalous.

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It is. It is. And we shouldn't stand for it.

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We should not stand for this anymore. Dads are important.

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They do good things. We do. So we always like

2057
02:09:56,815 --> 02:10:00,009
to thank everybody who supports the show financially, $50 and...

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above. You can send that to noagendedonations.com. There's no obligation.

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There's no certain amount you have to support us with.

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Whatever value the show is to you, and that value

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is very subjective to your means and what you find

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valuable, you go to noagendedonations.com. Put a number down. We

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love numbers. We love the numerology. People come up with

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fun stuff. And we also love it when people send

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02:10:25,805 --> 02:10:28,292
in the fees to cover the fees. And Sir Scovey

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02:10:28,813 --> 02:10:31,942
kicks us off today. He will be our first executive

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02:10:32,002 --> 02:10:36,153
producer. $300 or above gets you the exclusive Hollywood credit

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of executive producer. $200 or above associate executive. producer, but

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He is also grabbing one of those remaining 10 red

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knight pin slots. He's from Charlotte, North Carolina. $1,000. He

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02:10:48,820 --> 02:10:52,528
added the fees, so that's $30.26. And he says, happy

2072
02:10:52,787 --> 02:10:56,534
Father's Day, gentlemen. There you go. Another dad wishing us

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02:10:56,574 --> 02:11:00,395
happy Father's Day. I should read my list. of people.

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Men, all men. Men. I got one from Tina's sister.

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02:11:05,399 --> 02:11:10,064
That was very nice. um So there's Pastor Jimmy, there's

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Maverick the periodontist, there's Cody from Kerrville, there's Jeremy the

2077
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Dell dealer, there's Charles the Pharaoh Life guy. Texas Slim,

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David Wicker, Rob Carty, Andrew Horowitz. I'm missing John C.

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Dvorak on this list. Happy Father's Day, John. Hey, same

2080
02:11:30,128 --> 02:11:32,194
to you. Yeah. See, because no one, did you get

2081
02:11:32,275 --> 02:11:36,006
any Father's Day well wishes from? From Jay. Well, yeah,

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02:11:36,027 --> 02:11:39,537
she works with you. She has to. It'd be very

2083
02:11:39,577 --> 02:11:42,243
weird if she forgot. Anyway, back to Sir Scobie's note.

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Happy Father's Day, gentlemen. Please accept this donation of $1,000

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plus fees. With the red knight order of the heart

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pins running low, it's best to get in on this

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02:11:50,279 --> 02:11:54,347
sweet heart deal while one can. Oh, cute. I love

2088
02:11:54,387 --> 02:11:57,654
it. It's a unique and special way to celebrate and

2089
02:11:57,916 --> 02:12:01,652
to acknowledge John's medical ordeal. and to celebrate his recovery

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02:12:01,712 --> 02:12:04,636
for which we are all thankful. And here's something fun.

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This donation brings me to... GRA- Is that right? That

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is the top of the list, man. You can't get

2093
02:12:14,953 --> 02:12:18,201
much bigger than Grand Duke. Accounting attached? Well, then we

2094
02:12:18,242 --> 02:12:20,689
have to get a jingle for him. Can we have

2095
02:12:20,729 --> 02:12:26,065
a Grand Duke jingle? Somehow I... So I thought we

2096
02:12:26,105 --> 02:12:29,912
had a Grand Duke jingle. No, we have every Grand

2097
02:12:29,972 --> 02:12:33,148
Duke jingle is specific to the person. Yes, we need

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we need a okay. All right, everybody. I need, uh,

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02:12:37,253 --> 02:12:38,625
so we have, this is what it sounds like. Ladies

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02:12:38,685 --> 02:12:42,629
and gentlemen, I present. The Grand Duke of the Pacific

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Northwest, Sir Dwayne Mellonsong. Yeah, well, he needs a jingle.

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Okay, I'm going to write that down. Let me just

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02:12:48,179 --> 02:12:51,966
make a note of that. Brand Duke, and what does

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02:12:51,987 --> 02:12:57,095
he have his title changed to? Archduke of the Piedmont,

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02:12:57,115 --> 02:13:00,622
so it would be Grand Duke of the Piedmont. Okay.

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We'll get right on that for you. So he sent

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his accounting complete with pivot table, I guess. My first

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donation will show 1, 2, 3, 4 in April of

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02:13:11,920 --> 02:13:14,787
2020, and I have no intention of stopping. Thank you

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02:13:14,827 --> 02:13:18,015
both for the outstanding product. Cheers to the two best

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podcasters in the universe. Sir Scovey, Archduke of the Piedmont,

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02:13:21,784 --> 02:13:28,577
soon to be Grand Duke. Oh, that's sweet. Onward with

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02:13:28,618 --> 02:13:32,985
your, sir, your honest mechanic. And he's just in South

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02:13:33,025 --> 02:13:35,470
Carolina. We just had North Carolina. We're in South Carolina

2115
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easily, to be exact. And he came in with 1,000,

2116
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putting him on that list. dropping our Count to eight

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left. Uh... And he has a short note, says, thank

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you, guys, for all you do. Sir, you're an honest

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mechanic of Easley, South Carolina. It's a beautiful thing. Sir

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Tan Lee, Sir Tan Lee, the weather champ is in

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Port... Orange, Florida, $350.93, and says, ITM gents, happy Father's

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02:14:05,554 --> 02:14:08,201
Day. There's another dude. Happy Father's Day to you both

2123
02:14:08,301 --> 02:14:10,405
and to all the fathers out there. I haven't been

2124
02:14:10,447 --> 02:14:13,595
able to donate since episode 1750 because I'm still working

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on my exit strategy, weatherchamps.app. The only play-to-earn weather app

2126
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on the market. That's interesting. I realize this donation is

2127
02:14:24,513 --> 02:14:27,905
only $2.60 per episode, which still makes me a bit

2128
02:14:27,945 --> 02:14:30,574
of a douchebag, but I'll do better moving forward. By

2129
02:14:30,634 --> 02:14:33,423
the way, I noticed the rain stick hasn't gotten much

2130
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action lately. Well, no, because it's been raining here. I

2131
02:14:37,659 --> 02:14:39,919
don't need rain. Does anybody need rain? Have we heard?

2132
02:14:39,959 --> 02:14:42,625
Calls for rain? We got storms? No, it's been flooding.

2133
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There's a whole bunch of floods all over the place.

2134
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He has an idea. This time of year, which is

2135
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rare. He says... Tornadoes? Yep. What would you think if

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weather champs had a no-agenda rain stick weather game? When

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we need rain, you break out the stick and no

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agenda nation can play along. It's true value for value.

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fashion. 20% of the rain stick game proceeds would go

2140
02:15:03,918 --> 02:15:07,250
to no agenda. Well, where's the 80% go? It's our

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02:15:07,311 --> 02:15:11,843
rain stick. It's our rain stick. Just say the word

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and I'll make it happen. Anyway, use code NOAGENDA for

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entire year at weatherchamps.app. Keep up the great work. God

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bless. And just play Donate to Know Agenda. I didn't

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actually. Have that. Uhhhh... Donate to no agenda. Uhhhh... Donate

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to a No Agenda. They give us shows week after

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week. Donate to a No Agenda. It's a show that's

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really unique. Donate to a No Agenda. Listen to John

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and Adam speak. Donate to a No Agenda. Science is

2151
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turning into a clique. There you go. Manuka Gold's up

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in Hudson, Florida. 3-3-3-3-3. Uh, he writes... Hello, gentlemen. We

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wanted to start with a customer shout out. We get

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so many nice emails and notes. to No Agenda listeners

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this week. Daniel Hall wasn't just supportive of our family

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business, he also had an incredible amount of integrity proving

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once again that No Agenda has the greatest listeners in

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the world. Happy Father's Day to all the dads out

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unique medicinal properties of our Manuka honey. Signed, the Manuka

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Gold I had a cramp last night. A charley horse

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again? A charley horse where? Your leg? Upper left thigh.

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02:17:09,939 --> 02:17:12,931
Oh. So what happens is you want to get out

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of bed, but you can't extend your leg. Right. So

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02:17:16,646 --> 02:17:19,417
I'm hopping. I'm hopping. And I'm going to put it

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next to him. You see? It's not really. And, uh...

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I'm telling you, I put the Manuka Gold on it,

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02:17:25,991 --> 02:17:28,130
it went away, I got back to sleep. I don't

2172
02:17:28,151 --> 02:17:30,639
know what it is, but that stuff works for me.

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02:17:31,795 --> 02:17:32,982
So I'm gonna put it next to my bed. I

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don't get cramps often, but man, the charley horse is

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02:17:36,000 --> 02:17:38,551
the, it wakes you up and you're like, "Aah!" Let

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02:17:38,571 --> 02:17:41,004
me get one of your foot. Oh yeah, oh yeah.

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That's bad too. Has that increased for you after your

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02:17:45,869 --> 02:17:52,123
procedure? No, not at all. Any benefits? Any benefits? Any

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02:17:52,183 --> 02:17:56,252
benefits? Yeah, my blood pressure's way down. I have a

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02:17:56,312 --> 02:17:59,620
more steady heartbeat. Do you run the marathon fast? now?

2181
02:17:59,920 --> 02:18:03,908
No, I still haven't gotten my any... The stamina is

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02:18:04,008 --> 02:18:07,054
getting closer to normal, but not quite. Stamina? Oh, how's

2183
02:18:07,074 --> 02:18:12,725
your stamina? Stamina stinks. That's the problem. Sir Optimus. But

2184
02:18:12,745 --> 02:18:15,991
that could have something to do with being old. Aw.

2185
02:18:16,603 --> 02:18:18,491
So, you know, when you get old, you lose a

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02:18:18,512 --> 02:18:20,476
certain amount of weight. and you lose a step. I

2187
02:18:20,496 --> 02:18:24,255
gotta tell you the past... five or six shows, it's

2188
02:18:24,315 --> 02:18:28,979
like you never had anything happen. No, that's good. Exactly

2189
02:18:28,999 --> 02:18:32,455
the same as before. We had hoped for an improvement.

2190
02:18:32,977 --> 02:18:37,498
Yeah, you're not going to get that. Sir Optimus is

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in San Ramon, California. 333 and 17 cents. Happy Father's

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02:18:42,088 --> 02:18:43,951
Day to you, John and Adam. Happy Father's Day to

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02:18:44,051 --> 02:18:47,036
all the No Agenda Fathers of Gitmonation. Though I was

2194
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originally knighted via show the 1500 promo, this donation officially

2195
02:18:52,566 --> 02:18:56,393
brings me beyond the traditional 1K knighthood threshold. I am

2196
02:18:56,473 --> 02:18:59,438
proudly no longer a discount knight and will finally order

2197
02:18:59,478 --> 02:19:04,708
my signet. ring. Thank you. My primary mechanism for donating

2198
02:19:04,748 --> 02:19:06,953
to the show has been my cash back credit card

2199
02:19:07,013 --> 02:19:09,798
points. Well, that's an interesting idea. The more I spend,

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02:19:09,878 --> 02:19:14,027
the more you win. Exit strategy. No agenda credit card.

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02:19:14,207 --> 02:19:16,191
Yeah, that's what I want. I want people getting a

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02:19:16,271 --> 02:19:17,934
bill at the end of the month that says no

2203
02:19:17,994 --> 02:19:21,051
agenda on it. That sounds like a great idea. This

2204
02:19:21,111 --> 02:19:23,234
has been discussed in the past, but I hope it

2205
02:19:23,295 --> 02:19:25,598
might help my fellow producers unlock an easy way to

2206
02:19:25,658 --> 02:19:29,864
trigger donations. Humbly requesting house buying karma here in Danville,

2207
02:19:29,904 --> 02:19:34,430
California. The Bay Area is so nonsensical. Let's see how

2208
02:19:34,490 --> 02:19:38,256
long the AI investment circle jerk goes until the bubble

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pops. God bless you both, says... optimist is that a

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02:19:41,447 --> 02:19:44,251
problem is there a problem with the with housing in

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02:19:44,291 --> 02:19:47,455
the in the area Well, now that you mention it,

2212
02:19:47,475 --> 02:19:49,200
we can play a bonus clip, one of the rare

2213
02:19:49,381 --> 02:19:52,230
clips we can play during the donation segment. Wow, a

2214
02:19:52,410 --> 02:19:55,640
bonus clip. Okay, what is it? This will be a

2215
02:19:56,543 --> 02:19:59,051
California house tax scam.

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02:20:00,252 --> 02:20:04,757
Buying a new house in California? Congratulations. Sacramento just added

2217
02:20:04,778 --> 02:20:09,945
$324,000 to your price. No, I'm not joking. It's called

2218
02:20:09,966 --> 02:20:16,135
AB-130, Section 58, page 137 of a budget bill our

2219
02:20:16,174 --> 02:20:19,459
buddy Newsom signed last June. Everybody was staring at the

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02:20:19,719 --> 02:20:22,993
HOA. fine cap on the front of the bill. Meanwhile,

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02:20:23,415 --> 02:20:27,152
on page 137, they buried the biggest housing tax in

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02:20:27,211 --> 02:20:32,047
California history. Here's how the scam works. The state calculates

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02:20:32,086 --> 02:20:34,255
how many miles the people living in that new house

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02:20:34,495 --> 02:20:37,668
are going to drive for the next 20 years. And

2225
02:20:37,709 --> 02:20:41,041
if they're driving more than Sacramento thinks is acceptable, The

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02:20:41,061 --> 02:20:45,808
developer pays a penalty, $2 per extra mile. 20 years

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02:20:45,849 --> 02:20:49,935
deep. Over the life of the fee, $324,000. What? Per

2228
02:20:49,976 --> 02:20:53,395
home. And that cost doesn't come out of the developer's

2229
02:20:53,454 --> 02:20:56,486
pocket. It comes out of yours, added to the purchase

2230
02:20:56,525 --> 02:21:00,319
price or the monthly rent. You bought a $600,000 house.

2231
02:21:00,520 --> 02:21:05,469
It's now $924,000. Rent was supposed to be $2,500. Well,

2232
02:21:05,530 --> 02:21:09,558
now it's $3,850. For what? Because Sacramento doesn't want you

2233
02:21:09,599 --> 02:21:12,625
driving to work. Oh, and our good friend Ashley Zavala

2234
02:21:12,665 --> 02:21:15,550
on ABC 10, well, she's still saying it's just a

2235
02:21:15,591 --> 02:21:20,020
study. That what lawmakers approved was not a tax. Ashley.

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02:21:20,000 --> 02:21:25,138
Read page 137. I'll wait. Wow! What kind of sucky

2237
02:21:25,200 --> 02:21:31,125
system is that? Unbelievable! Wow! I don't quite understand it,

2238
02:21:31,445 --> 02:21:33,816
but it sounds bad. It's going to be, I'm sure

2239
02:21:33,855 --> 02:21:36,225
there's going to be some suits that'll be over. It's

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just one of these things. They keep doing this stuff

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02:21:38,192 --> 02:21:40,584
because Newsom is totally convinced that. We don't go all

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02:21:40,623 --> 02:21:43,397
electric, even though our grid can't handle it. Yeah. It's

2243
02:21:43,417 --> 02:21:46,533
already been calculated. We can't get enough electricity to make

2244
02:21:46,593 --> 02:21:51,490
everything electric. And now they've determined that, you know, like

2245
02:21:51,550 --> 02:21:55,745
Berkeley, for example, has been pushing making it illegal. New

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02:21:55,806 --> 02:21:58,514
housing can't have gas in it. No, of course. You

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02:21:58,534 --> 02:22:05,179
have to have all electric. And they were permushing the

2248
02:22:05,579 --> 02:22:10,226
induction. We talked about this. J.C. had this. Induction stoves,

2249
02:22:10,826 --> 02:22:13,710
which apparently have a magnetic field that is so far

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02:22:13,771 --> 02:22:17,435
away from the stove that you can't legitimately cook on

2251
02:22:17,456 --> 02:22:22,744
them without being maximally punched. With this magnetic field which

2252
02:22:22,924 --> 02:22:25,863
which can be cancer inducing and it's right around the

2253
02:22:25,904 --> 02:22:29,620
height of your crotch Yeah, it's not good. No, here's

2254
02:22:29,662 --> 02:22:32,736
the karma for Sir Optimus. Older than that. You've got

2255
02:22:33,118 --> 02:22:39,925
karma. Wow, that's no good, man. say the least. Uh,

2256
02:22:40,007 --> 02:22:46,891
so we're- Scott, Scott, Scott. Scott Scott more more butter

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M-O-H-R, in St. Albert, Alberta, Canada. In the morning. This

2258
02:22:54,082 --> 02:22:57,966
donation is to be a switcheroo 60th birthday gift from

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02:22:58,027 --> 02:23:03,949
my brother, Michael Moore butter. who lives in Saskatchewan. Could

2260
02:23:03,968 --> 02:23:08,689
he please get him de-douched and a mac and cheese

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02:23:08,808 --> 02:23:21,373
jingle? You've been de-douched. Mac and Cheese by Ongram. Yes.

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02:23:21,394 --> 02:23:28,070
And 333 from Lane Lamoureux. Who is in Baghdad. Ooh,

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02:23:28,533 --> 02:23:31,130
he's in Baghdad. He is. Can you turn your speakers

2264
02:23:31,150 --> 02:23:35,054
just a bit? I'm having trouble. Okay, keep going. He's

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02:23:35,133 --> 02:23:40,219
in Baghdad in the Baghdad Governant IQ 333. Your boots.

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02:23:40,200 --> 02:23:42,885
on the ground buddy is back at the American University

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02:23:42,925 --> 02:23:46,692
of Iraq Baghdad you guys have become my buddies from

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Boise to North Scottsdale and now Baghdad love the absence

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of ads loads of laughs plus relevant info relevant info

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while I live abroad we want to be your friend

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Lane We definitely want to be your friend. Let us

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02:24:01,977 --> 02:24:06,664
know what's going on there in Baghdad. What's happening? How's

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02:24:06,683 --> 02:24:11,155
the nightlife? Yeah, he's probably in the green zone. How

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02:24:11,216 --> 02:24:12,863
are you in the, how are the bars? Are you

2275
02:24:12,884 --> 02:24:17,568
in the green zone? That was good. That was very

2276
02:24:17,629 --> 02:24:20,402
good. They were talking about green zones. to read the

2277
02:24:20,463 --> 02:24:23,852
next one. This is from dude named Jeff. Kurt Elaine

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02:24:23,872 --> 02:24:28,647
in Idaho. 250, associate executive producer, credit for him. Dear

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02:24:28,707 --> 02:24:31,235
John and Adam, dude named Jeff here, longtime producer and

2280
02:24:31,295 --> 02:24:33,922
donor of time and talent. One of my talents has

2281
02:24:33,962 --> 02:24:36,610
been sharing no agenda in video form. Oh, I know,

2282
02:24:36,751 --> 02:24:38,696
I saw this the other day. Years ago, I was

2283
02:24:38,736 --> 02:24:41,162
making YouTube videos. with visuals from the show like the

2284
02:24:41,322 --> 02:24:44,929
oil pipeline maps, artwork, and the troll room. Unfortunately, that

2285
02:24:45,050 --> 02:24:48,657
ended with content strikes during COVID, but that passion never

2286
02:24:48,737 --> 02:24:53,467
faded. Now, thanks to AI and the Podcast Index, I've

2287
02:24:53,507 --> 02:24:57,094
started making clips from my own podcast and for friends,

2288
02:24:57,114 --> 02:24:59,719
including the Noah Jenner Show. It's a great way to...

2289
02:24:59,699 --> 02:25:02,225
hit people in the mouth with a zinger from the

2290
02:25:02,285 --> 02:25:05,792
best podcast in the universe. Thanks, Adam, for reposting one

2291
02:25:05,832 --> 02:25:07,897
of my clips on X where you were discussing the

2292
02:25:07,977 --> 02:25:11,304
laughable football flops. If anyone wants to try it out,

2293
02:25:11,665 --> 02:25:13,890
make your own clips from a podcast, try out my

2294
02:25:14,010 --> 02:25:21,996
app, clipperoni.com. Clipperoni, like macaroni. Clipperoni.com. It transcribes and finds

2295
02:25:22,036 --> 02:25:25,738
the viral moments into shareable video clips. Well, this is

2296
02:25:25,779 --> 02:25:30,191
good for us. Especially if you're a host. a podcast

2297
02:25:30,271 --> 02:25:32,598
and want to share it on platforms like YouTube or

2298
02:25:32,658 --> 02:25:35,245
TikTok, but like Adam, don't want to spend time in

2299
02:25:35,325 --> 02:25:39,297
post-production. Let Clipperoni.com do the work for you. I'd love

2300
02:25:39,337 --> 02:25:41,785
to hear what... fellow producers think of what I've built.

2301
02:25:42,146 --> 02:25:44,313
Thank you guys for continuing to bring us the best

2302
02:25:44,373 --> 02:25:47,383
podcasts in the universe. And may you never find an

2303
02:25:47,443 --> 02:25:53,026
exit strategy. Yeah, people, use clipperoni.com on this show. On

2304
02:25:53,248 --> 02:25:55,814
this particular episode. Let's see how it works. Yeah, it's

2305
02:25:55,875 --> 02:26:01,045
very interesting. Dame Mama Thunder's up. She's in the... Bitterroot

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02:26:01,125 --> 02:26:07,416
Valley, Missoula, Montana, 2-12-12. And she writes... uh itm boomers

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02:26:08,018 --> 02:26:10,327
first time donor long time listener i was gifted my

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02:26:10,387 --> 02:26:12,113
name if she's a first time donor you might as

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02:26:12,134 --> 02:26:18,700
well dedouche you've been dedouched I was gifted my damehood.

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02:26:18,761 --> 02:26:20,544
Oh, she has actually been gifted it. The Dame Hood,

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02:26:20,564 --> 02:26:23,131
yes. By her husband two and a half years ago.

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02:26:23,487 --> 02:26:26,352
After the birth of our first son and after just

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02:26:26,392 --> 02:26:28,877
having our second son, I realized I'm long overdue for

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02:26:28,917 --> 02:26:31,662
it to donate. This is a switcheroo for my husband.

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02:26:32,043 --> 02:26:36,371
This goes to Troy Funderburk. Good old Troy. Who we've

2316
02:26:36,431 --> 02:26:38,575
heard from a lot. Good old Troy. Babe, thank you

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02:26:38,595 --> 02:26:42,759
for being such an incredible husband and father. I fall

2318
02:26:42,839 --> 02:26:45,024
more and more in love with you every day watching

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02:26:45,064 --> 02:26:49,354
you teach Teddy on his bike and love on Jasper.

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02:26:49,414 --> 02:26:54,446
And love on Jasper fills my heart. Okay. We are

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02:26:54,546 --> 02:26:56,631
so proud of you and love you so much. Happy

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02:26:56,731 --> 02:27:00,239
Father's Day. There's one. Yeah, the first one. To the

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02:27:00,259 --> 02:27:03,569
wheelie. Best dad, wheelie, best dad in the universe. Obviously,

2324
02:27:03,589 --> 02:27:06,835
one of the kids says wheelie. Wheelie. Wheelie. It's wheelie

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02:27:06,875 --> 02:27:10,121
good. Jingle request. 33 is the magic number in mac

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02:27:10,141 --> 02:27:14,789
and cheese. Huh? Interesting. Please also throw in some millennial

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02:27:14,849 --> 02:27:20,934
karma. Thank you, sirs. Most sincerely, Mabel Jean Funderburk. aka

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02:27:21,034 --> 02:27:25,190
Dame Mama Thunder of the Bitterroot Valley. I think, didn't

2329
02:27:25,211 --> 02:27:29,988
we have a specific millennial karma? I think we did.

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02:27:30,230 --> 02:27:34,943
Millenial. I think we did. Hold on a second. Millennial.

2331
02:27:38,723 --> 02:27:46,536
and is it double n millennial Yes. We had... No,

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02:27:46,740 --> 02:27:52,892
that's not it. millennial Karma. I thought we had a

2333
02:27:52,954 --> 02:27:58,709
millennial karma. Nope. Now I'm obsessed with it. Hold on,

2334
02:27:58,729 --> 02:28:01,444
let me see. Yeah, he's obsessed. I'm obsessed. This is

2335
02:28:01,464 --> 02:28:05,856
going to never get, the show's never going to end.

2336
02:28:05,876 --> 02:28:11,512
Yeah, all right, here we go. 33, that's the magic

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02:28:11,532 --> 02:28:16,479
number. It's the magic number. You slaves can get used

2338
02:28:16,520 --> 02:28:18,994
to mac and cheese, mac and cheese, mac and cheese,

2339
02:28:19,034 --> 02:28:23,791
macaroni Cheap cheddar melted together. Mac and cheese, mac and

2340
02:28:23,811 --> 02:28:32,115
cheese, mac and cheese. Mac and cheese. Hey, everybody. You've

2341
02:28:32,155 --> 02:28:36,238
got karma. I knew it was in there somewhere. And

2342
02:28:36,259 --> 02:28:40,182
there's La Jolla Salt Corporation coming in with $210.60. from

2343
02:28:40,242 --> 02:28:45,104
La Jolla, California, and says, Hobnobbing among lunar economy pioneers

2344
02:28:45,365 --> 02:28:49,383
preparing for the IPO of our new Arm Salt X.

2345
02:28:50,187 --> 02:28:54,461
We wish to pause and suggest producers purchase a sea

2346
02:28:54,541 --> 02:28:57,811
salt scrub for themselves, their friends, and family. Nothing quite

2347
02:28:57,851 --> 02:29:02,023
addresses the punishing effects of the frozen dark vacuum. Thank

2348
02:29:02,103 --> 02:29:23,082
you. no agenda podcast on instagram yeah there you go

2349
02:29:23,102 --> 02:29:29,941
and uh wind up by saying uh go podcasting You

2350
02:29:29,982 --> 02:29:33,013
notice that the previous donation was the first one that

2351
02:29:33,053 --> 02:29:39,933
wasn't from a dude? saying happy Father's Day. Interesting. Just

2352
02:29:39,996 --> 02:29:43,785
noticing. In fact, we get another example coming. Eli the

2353
02:29:43,845 --> 02:29:50,659
coffee guy. And... 200, which is unusual. Yeah, there's no

2354
02:29:50,859 --> 02:29:54,910
coded date in there. And no name of city that

2355
02:29:54,970 --> 02:29:59,080
came through the spreadsheet, oddly. He writes, I'm fortunate to

2356
02:29:59,140 --> 02:30:00,008
have two fathers.

2357
02:30:00,000 --> 02:30:03,066
Dad, who is 83, still bowls twice a week. and

2358
02:30:03,105 --> 02:30:06,230
runs a computer repair business. My stepdad passed last year

2359
02:30:06,251 --> 02:30:10,096
from complications of a bypass. Add to that the father

2360
02:30:10,138 --> 02:30:13,454
figures of my uncles and grandpa who were union pipe

2361
02:30:13,534 --> 02:30:17,174
coverers. Needless to say, I have all of them to

2362
02:30:17,215 --> 02:30:19,352
thank for the man I am today. To thank for

2363
02:30:19,393 --> 02:30:23,254
as I... I strive to be that same role model

2364
02:30:23,274 --> 02:30:26,436
for my son. Happy Father's Day, all. It takes a

2365
02:30:26,799 --> 02:30:30,369
real man to raise real men, and those men need

2366
02:30:30,510 --> 02:30:36,166
real coffee. So visit gigawattcoffeeroasters.com and use the code ITM20

2367
02:30:36,186 --> 02:30:39,216
for 20% off your order. Happy Father's Day, and stay

2368
02:30:39,297 --> 02:30:42,263
caffeinated, says Eli. the coffee. That is great. Still loving

2369
02:30:42,304 --> 02:30:44,748
that cold brew, Eli. Thank you. Hey, there's the Indy

2370
02:30:44,789 --> 02:30:48,255
No Agenda Meetup from Greenwood, Indiana. That's Sir Mark and

2371
02:30:48,296 --> 02:30:51,021
Dame Maria host that every single month. $200. This is

2372
02:30:51,060 --> 02:30:55,088
the Indy and a Meetup switcheroo. And Dame Cindy of

2373
02:30:55,148 --> 02:30:59,218
the Tito's gets the associate executive producer and she says,

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02:30:59,718 --> 02:31:02,380
no, no double. Karma, not entirely true, but we'll give

2375
02:31:02,441 --> 02:31:09,766
it to you. You've got... Pharma. Which moves us to

2376
02:31:09,826 --> 02:31:14,381
Linda Lupatkin in Castle Rock, Colorado. Linda Lupatkin, $200. Jobs

2377
02:31:14,422 --> 02:31:17,551
Karma, your resume has about 10 seconds to make an

2378
02:31:17,632 --> 02:31:21,433
impression, and most don't. For a resume that gets results,

2379
02:31:21,494 --> 02:31:27,343
go to ImageMakersInc.com. Linda helps professionals and executives position their

2380
02:31:27,403 --> 02:31:31,167
experience so employers can see the value. That's ImageMakers Inc.

2381
02:31:31,208 --> 02:31:33,871
with a K. And Linda Liu, Duchess of Jobs and

2382
02:31:33,951 --> 02:31:39,608
writer of winning resumes. Best, Linda. Jobs, jobs, jobs. and

2383
02:31:39,691 --> 02:31:46,020
jobs. Let's vote! karma. And that wraps up our associate

2384
02:31:46,101 --> 02:31:48,837
and executive producers. Oh, we have one more. I'm sorry.

2385
02:31:49,159 --> 02:31:53,049
Two more. Oh, I'm so wrong. You're right. I was

2386
02:31:53,090 --> 02:31:57,733
wrong. Dakota Walker, Portland, Maine, $200. Hi, John and Adam.

2387
02:31:58,055 --> 02:32:00,904
With today's donation of $200, I believe I finally reached

2388
02:32:00,943 --> 02:32:04,711
knighthood accounting below confirmed. I have completely goofed on my,

2389
02:32:05,111 --> 02:32:07,176
I completely goofed on my last donation note where I

2390
02:32:07,217 --> 02:32:10,963
asked for help obtaining vaccine exemption for my kids in

2391
02:32:11,004 --> 02:32:14,210
Maine. I gave the wrong email address. If anyone has

2392
02:32:14,251 --> 02:32:18,620
helpful information, please send it to the correct email address.

2393
02:32:18,600 --> 02:32:24,942
607 Walker at gmail.com. So exemption for the kids in

2394
02:32:25,042 --> 02:32:29,274
Portland, Maine. It's a real problem up there. Email address

2395
02:32:29,315 --> 02:32:35,552
6607walker at gmail.com. Request, think of the children jingle, House

2396
02:32:35,573 --> 02:32:38,424
Buying Karma. Happy Father's Day to all the fathers. In

2397
02:32:38,444 --> 02:32:47,083
Gitmo Nation. I'm the child of the- You've got karma.

2398
02:32:49,170 --> 02:32:51,657
And now we're at the end with Amy Lynn in

2399
02:32:51,779 --> 02:32:57,308
Cold Spring, Minnesota. 200. Happy Father's Day, gents. There you

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02:32:57,328 --> 02:32:58,520
go. There's a lady telling us how to do it.

2401
02:32:58,500 --> 02:33:00,397
Happy Father's Day. Second one. Second one. This is a

2402
02:33:00,418 --> 02:33:06,279
switcheroo for my smoking hot. Huzz, huzz. Dan the man.

2403
02:33:06,379 --> 02:33:10,203
Huzz. Happy Father's Day and thank you for always supporting.

2404
02:33:10,719 --> 02:33:20,300
Zaley. Zaley. Zaley. And I, no matter what. Egg, egg.

2405
02:33:21,775 --> 02:33:25,147
It looks like Exley. It looks like Exlax. What life

2406
02:33:25,248 --> 02:33:28,720
throws at us and to respond to his Mother's Day

2407
02:33:28,740 --> 02:33:33,746
donation for me. Ah. Amy Lynn is not a stripper.

2408
02:33:34,431 --> 02:33:37,890
You're welcome for keeping this house together. Ha ha! Parenting

2409
02:33:37,951 --> 02:33:40,685
a teenage girl is hard. But we got this. On

2410
02:33:40,765 --> 02:33:46,136
another note, if you're looking for down-to-earth fun hairstylists, come

2411
02:33:46,456 --> 02:33:52,206
see me at my suite in Waite Park, Minnesota. Refreshed.

2412
02:33:52,707 --> 02:33:59,020
It's called the Refreshed Hair Studio. Let's... quote, do this.

2413
02:33:59,000 --> 02:34:02,512
Smiley face. Last but not least, thank you too for

2414
02:34:02,532 --> 02:34:08,313
the bi-weekly media deconstruction and entertainment. It's immensely appreciated and

2415
02:34:08,413 --> 02:34:16,496
enjoyed. Sincerely, Amy Lin, not a stripper. Oh wow, bummer.

2416
02:34:17,043 --> 02:34:18,855
All right, now we get to thank all of our

2417
02:34:18,916 --> 02:34:22,288
execs. and associate executive producers. These credits are the real

2418
02:34:22,347 --> 02:34:24,854
deal. You can use them anywhere. These Hollywood credits are

2419
02:34:24,915 --> 02:34:30,168
recognized, including IMDb.com. We appreciate you, and congratulations with your

2420
02:34:30,189 --> 02:34:35,789
credits. Our formula is this. We hit people in the

2421
02:34:35,809 --> 02:34:52,013
mouth. $50 or above, never under 50 for reasons of

2422
02:34:52,134 --> 02:34:55,907
anonymity. And Amy Harmon comes in from Asheville, North Carolina.

2423
02:34:55,927 --> 02:34:59,319
$1.77 and 60 cents. Ah! It is a 17 cents.

2424
02:34:59,299 --> 02:35:03,343
donation. Waza Waza to the best dad in the universe

2425
02:35:03,362 --> 02:35:05,032
who doesn't listen to the show but I hear in

2426
02:35:05,073 --> 02:35:08,797
a mouth all the time XOXO Hey, come on, Dad.

2427
02:35:09,343 --> 02:35:15,332
Stuart Walton from Staffordshire. That's in England. 105.61. And he

2428
02:35:15,372 --> 02:35:20,667
made a $100.25. Uh... One for every year since dad

2429
02:35:20,727 --> 02:35:22,516
died. Donation to the show in honor of my late

2430
02:35:22,577 --> 02:35:27,118
father, Ken Walton, CBE. That's a citizen of the British

2431
02:35:27,198 --> 02:35:30,744
Empire on Father's Day, 21st of June. This is my

2432
02:35:30,804 --> 02:35:32,952
sixth annual Father's Day donation in honor of my late

2433
02:35:33,013 --> 02:35:35,384
father, Ken Walton, CB, who died of a heart attack,

2434
02:35:35,463 --> 02:35:40,183
age 71, on Father's Day, June 2001. 25 years ago,

2435
02:35:40,746 --> 02:35:43,879
putting for a birdie on the 11th green at Bishop's

2436
02:35:44,182 --> 02:35:47,885
Stortford Golf Club. Died too young to see all his

2437
02:35:47,924 --> 02:35:50,713
grandchildren have succeeded, and I miss him every day. A

2438
02:35:50,773 --> 02:35:56,050
real-life commander of the British Empire, pardon me, commander of

2439
02:35:56,072 --> 02:35:59,406
the British Empire, awarded on the Queen's birthday. birthday honors

2440
02:35:59,468 --> 02:36:04,308
list in 1984 for services to British industry. Oh, that's

2441
02:36:04,328 --> 02:36:06,884
a very nice. That's a knighting. That is a knighting.

2442
02:36:07,528 --> 02:36:11,725
Emily, in the middle of nowhere in Nebraska, 105.35, saw

2443
02:36:11,764 --> 02:36:13,512
the newsletter for the first time when the link was

2444
02:36:13,592 --> 02:36:17,514
on Noah Jenner's Instagram story. Aha! So here's someone who

2445
02:36:17,879 --> 02:36:23,036
found us through the Instagram. Instagram story, no less. Jay

2446
02:36:23,056 --> 02:36:26,272
is really rocking it. Been listening for years by the

2447
02:36:26,311 --> 02:36:31,403
recommendation of Saddle Tramp Brand on Instagram. Please de-douche me.

2448
02:36:31,423 --> 02:36:35,691
You've been de-douched. Richard J. Lindquist with $100. Thank you.

2449
02:36:35,752 --> 02:36:39,719
Your favorite pool guy, Austin, Roseville, California, $100. Drinking Blanche.

2450
02:36:39,700 --> 02:36:59,468
You've been de-douched. Tim Heasel, uh, came in with a

2451
02:36:59,487 --> 02:37:03,024
boob donation plus fees. So that's 84.38. Thank you very

2452
02:37:03,084 --> 02:37:08,515
much, sir. Becoming heroic in Shererville, Indiana. Also, boob donation

2453
02:37:08,555 --> 02:37:12,122
with fees, 84.29. Happy Father's Day in heaven, sir. Becoming

2454
02:37:12,163 --> 02:37:15,590
heroic. Sir Kevin McLaughlin, Archduke of Luna, lover of America

2455
02:37:15,629 --> 02:37:19,737
and boobs from Concord, North Carolina with 80.08. God bless

2456
02:37:19,798 --> 02:37:25,534
America and boobs. Sir Marv Santella. Santella in Tucson, Arizona,

2457
02:37:25,575 --> 02:37:30,042
73-44. And he wants a shout out to his son,

2458
02:37:30,202 --> 02:37:33,449
Corey Santella, his first Father's Day. Congrats! Many more to

2459
02:37:33,488 --> 02:37:37,695
come from Sir Marv. Nicholas Leary, Columbus, Ohio, 72-72. Sir

2460
02:37:37,716 --> 02:37:41,754
Doherty in Stevens City, Virginia. Happy Father's Day, Sir Not

2461
02:37:41,814 --> 02:37:46,581
Jake from Sir Doherty, 5678, 5678. We see it. Double

2462
02:37:46,620 --> 02:37:49,684
Nicholas and a Dime from Danielle Williams in Weed, California.

2463
02:37:50,245 --> 02:37:55,313
Lydia Terry, Rochester, New Hampshire, 5333. Matthew Funk, St. Helens,

2464
02:37:55,452 --> 02:38:00,445
Oregon, 5272. Bob Funk, happy 50th Father's Day. to the

2465
02:38:00,486 --> 02:38:05,719
best father in the universe. Sir Selverin? Silver Spring, Maryland,

2466
02:38:05,739 --> 02:38:08,882
5272. Happy Father's Day from Sir Selvrin of the DC

2467
02:38:08,903 --> 02:38:12,518
Swamp. Have a wonderful... Father's Day and first day of

2468
02:38:12,599 --> 02:38:17,084
summer. Carl Vogler, 5272, thanks us for the sanity. You're

2469
02:38:17,104 --> 02:38:21,986
welcome. Sir James Durante, San Diego, California. California 5272, happy

2470
02:38:22,066 --> 02:38:24,375
Father's Day to Adam and John. Also, happy Father's Day

2471
02:38:24,415 --> 02:38:28,030
to my dad, John, and myself, Sir James Durante of

2472
02:38:28,210 --> 02:38:34,516
Durante of San Diego. Love Dame Nancy of the Confused.

2473
02:38:34,697 --> 02:38:36,703
I think it's just Dame Nancy of the Confused. San

2474
02:38:36,724 --> 02:38:40,477
Bruno, California, 5244. Thank you for working on Father's Day.

2475
02:38:40,538 --> 02:38:44,334
Yes! May we point that out? We work on all

2476
02:38:44,375 --> 02:38:48,969
kinds of holidays. Forrest Martin, $50.05. Here are the 50s.

2477
02:38:49,189 --> 02:38:57,213
Isaac Boyney and Waterbury, Vermont. Long-term freeloader. Please de-douche. You've

2478
02:38:57,233 --> 02:39:09,055
been de-douched. John Fitzpatrick from Herber- Springs, Arizona, Arkansas. I

2479
02:39:09,095 --> 02:39:11,680
should mention that we only have two 50s. That's it.

2480
02:39:11,840 --> 02:39:14,866
And we didn't get the checks this week because the

2481
02:39:14,926 --> 02:39:18,754
post office was closed on the dubious holiday called Juneteenth.

2482
02:39:19,014 --> 02:39:21,806
Ah, so you did not get your pickles either. I

2483
02:39:21,849 --> 02:39:26,920
didn't. Pickles. Your Louisiana dill pickles. I thought those already

2484
02:39:26,961 --> 02:39:29,547
came. Well, you didn't mention it. Did you get him?

2485
02:39:29,967 --> 02:39:34,794
Yeah. Did you try him? Well, I'm on a no-salt

2486
02:39:34,834 --> 02:39:37,834
diet, so I haven't tried them yet. Oh, that's a

2487
02:39:38,035 --> 02:39:42,758
bummer. Oh man. When can you, when can you, can

2488
02:39:42,798 --> 02:39:44,902
you ever eat them again? Can you ever eat? I

2489
02:39:44,962 --> 02:39:47,748
think, yeah, but it won't be like tomorrow. Oh, I'm

2490
02:39:47,828 --> 02:39:50,433
sorry. Oh, I was all excited to hear you. How

2491
02:39:50,533 --> 02:39:53,920
wonderful. Because when you taste these pickles, you'll never want

2492
02:39:54,141 --> 02:39:58,114
any other pickles again. Well, they're in a secure place.

2493
02:39:59,001 --> 02:40:00,008
They're in the skiff.

2494
02:40:00,924 --> 02:40:05,052
In the skiff. They're all set in the skiff. Thank

2495
02:40:05,093 --> 02:40:07,457
you, everybody, for supporting the No Agenda Show. Go to

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2497
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up as a recurring donation. Any amount, any frequency, it's

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all up to you. That's how value for value works.

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noagendadonations.com. On the list today, Joe Lackey says happy birthday

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02:40:26,730 --> 02:40:30,439
to Steve Brock. He turned 66 on the 22nd. And

2501
02:40:30,539 --> 02:40:33,466
Scott Moorbutter wishes his brother and gave him a switcheroo,

2502
02:40:33,585 --> 02:40:36,813
Michael Moorbutter, a very happy birthday. He turned 60 years

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02:40:36,913 --> 02:40:39,459
old. And so we say, yeah, happy birthday from everybody

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here at the band. This podcast is a universe. ♪

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The slayin' ♪ ♪ That's strange ♪ Yeah, we got

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a really big title change, and that means it is

2507
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time for a jingle because Sir Scobie now becomes... the

2508
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Grand Duke of the No Agenda show and that is

2509
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quite the big deal to be a Grand Duke and

2510
02:41:07,391 --> 02:41:12,319
with that donation he also will be a knight, a

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red knight in the Order of the Heart and we

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might as well get those guys out. Right from the

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start Sir Scovey. to be known as Grand Duke of

2514
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the Piedmont. Sir, you're on a both of you support

2515
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the no agenda show and precisely the right amount to

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become red knights order of the heart congratulations to the

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both of you behold This that you need to go

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to noagendarings.com to let us know where to send your,

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if you don't already have a No Agenda Knight ring,

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you will get that added as well. But you need

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to go there for your special pin and your certificate

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that you are a Red Knight Order of the Heart.

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by going to noagendarings.com. Now we have one night to...

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To bring up on the podium here. Yeah, I got

2525
02:42:27,192 --> 02:42:31,109
the blade right here. Woo! It's a beauty, everybody. Dakota

2526
02:42:31,148 --> 02:42:35,655
Walker, come on! Yeah, you can just walk around the...

2527
02:42:35,674 --> 02:42:38,108
Yeah, there's the steps up there. Perfect. He's on the

2528
02:42:38,147 --> 02:42:42,735
podium. Thank you very much. For your support of NOAA

2529
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Gen, the amount of $1,000 or more, that makes you

2530
02:42:46,579 --> 02:42:48,683
an official Knight of the NOAA Gen Roundtable. I am

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proud to pronounce the KD as Sir Dakota Walker. For

2532
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you, sir, we have Hookers & Blow, Rent Boys, and

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Chardonnay. We've got dyed soda and video games on beta.

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We got beer and blunts, we got cowgirls and coffee

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barners, Ruben S. Ruben and Rosé, Gays and Sake, vodka,

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vanilla, bong hits and bourbon, sparkling cider and escort, gin,

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trail and gerbils, breast milk and pablum, and of course,

2538
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as always, the round table, mutton and meat. Who doesn't

2539
02:43:13,987 --> 02:43:16,231
love the mutton and the meat? And you too, sir,

2540
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go to noagendarings.com. We'll be happy to send you your

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No Agenda Night Ring. All we need... from you is

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your ring size, which you can size conveniently with the

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ring sizing guide on the website. Send us your address,

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we'll get it to you. It is a signet ring,

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so it comes with wax to seal your important correspondence,

2546
02:43:32,083 --> 02:43:35,329
and as always, a certificate of authenticity. Welcome to the

2547
02:43:35,389 --> 02:43:49,347
roundtable, Sir Dakota Walker. No agenda! no agenda meetups and

2548
02:43:49,388 --> 02:43:52,296
they take place all around the globe on all days

2549
02:43:52,355 --> 02:43:54,743
of the week and this is the latest from Leo

2550
02:43:54,763 --> 02:43:58,313
Bravo up there in Los Angeles in Wilmington California actually

2551
02:43:58,795 --> 02:44:01,682
for I think this was number 76 Hey everybody, it's

2552
02:44:01,701 --> 02:44:04,827
Leo Bravo at Meetup number 76. I'm going to pass

2553
02:44:04,847 --> 02:44:07,292
the phone around. My friends have things to say. Hi

2554
02:44:07,313 --> 02:44:10,680
Leo, I'm here at RT in San Pedro. Enjoy the

2555
02:44:10,719 --> 02:44:13,685
show for many years, guys. Hey John and Adam, it's

2556
02:44:13,706 --> 02:44:16,031
your lead Kim Faux Pop just here in beautiful Wilmington,

2557
02:44:16,050 --> 02:44:22,864
California, just enjoying the day after Juneteenth. Tally-ho! This is

2558
02:44:22,944 --> 02:44:25,610
Angie from the ranch enjoying this lovely company here for

2559
02:44:25,870 --> 02:44:29,156
the no agenda meetup with Leo Bravo. I am not

2560
02:44:29,458 --> 02:44:32,825
the server. This is Eric at the computer. I am

2561
02:44:32,885 --> 02:44:34,727
not the server either, so I don't know who the

2562
02:44:34,789 --> 02:44:37,574
server is this time. This is Donna in the morning.

2563
02:44:37,713 --> 02:44:43,420
Hi, Tina. Hi, John. Hi. Adam, hi, Mimi, I hope

2564
02:44:43,440 --> 02:44:46,739
you all are doing great. Hey, this is B Dizzle

2565
02:44:46,819 --> 02:44:54,060
and uh... Hey, we'll fix this in post. Thanks. Hello

2566
02:44:54,101 --> 02:44:57,290
from B Dizzle in the morning and... Oh, no. Hold

2567
02:44:57,370 --> 02:45:01,412
on. This is Commodore Kirk in the morning. In the

2568
02:45:01,472 --> 02:45:05,825
morning. Love Leo Bravo and his merry band in Los

2569
02:45:05,966 --> 02:45:08,691
Angeles and the area there. A lot of people in

2570
02:45:09,052 --> 02:45:11,077
that area who come to the meetups. But the biggest

2571
02:45:11,257 --> 02:45:14,286
one is always the one that Annette Miller puts together

2572
02:45:14,306 --> 02:45:16,691
in a great meetup report. It is the indie meetup.

2573
02:45:17,372 --> 02:45:19,477
Hi, this is Sir Mark. And this is Day Maria

2574
02:45:19,497 --> 02:45:29,996
having a fantastic... It's super stoked to be watching the

2575
02:45:30,278 --> 02:45:44,369
UFC! from Carmel. Suggestion for John when fisting nuts in

2576
02:45:44,429 --> 02:45:49,097
public, be sure to select cocktail peanuts, not red skin

2577
02:45:49,118 --> 02:45:53,868
peanuts. Hey, it's Nick. Happy Japan versus Netherlands World Cup

2578
02:45:53,888 --> 02:45:56,914
Day, everybody. Thank you. Hey, this is Emily here, your

2579
02:45:56,933 --> 02:46:00,200
shufflecrat and spook, learning all about drugs and show... to

2580
02:46:00,219 --> 02:46:02,584
all my people on the border because I work with

2581
02:46:02,625 --> 02:46:06,352
you in HR. Bruce here just enjoying the good company.

2582
02:46:06,372 --> 02:46:09,439
Gary here. Happy birthday, King Trump. That too soon? Hi,

2583
02:46:09,478 --> 02:46:11,943
this is Dame Cindy of the Tito's. I think my

2584
02:46:12,023 --> 02:46:14,648
next name will be Dame Cindy of the Nut Queens.

2585
02:46:15,370 --> 02:46:18,115
I think that's what Benny suggested. Anyway, thanks to Mark

2586
02:46:18,136 --> 02:46:21,451
and Maria and we are certified landmines. free. Hello guys,

2587
02:46:21,531 --> 02:46:23,736
it's Emma. I'm a server here at Blind Owl Brewery.

2588
02:46:23,915 --> 02:46:26,763
I have this wonderful group, No Agenda. They have been

2589
02:46:26,882 --> 02:46:29,930
wonderful. Y'all come down on 62nd and Benford. Y'all come

2590
02:46:30,149 --> 02:46:33,057
see us. We got some freshly brewed beer, some made

2591
02:46:33,096 --> 02:46:36,164
to scratch kitchen items. Y'all come see us. Thank you.

2592
02:46:37,046 --> 02:46:43,768
Happy Blind Day! Thanks, King Don. That server had a

2593
02:46:43,869 --> 02:46:47,018
clue. Yeah, oh yeah. This is exactly what servers should

2594
02:46:47,078 --> 02:46:49,486
do. Come on down. We got the freshly brewed beer.

2595
02:46:49,505 --> 02:46:52,259
We got scratch from the kitchen. Oh yeah. What a

2596
02:46:52,318 --> 02:46:54,885
promotion. That's how you do it. Yeah, that was dynamite.

2597
02:46:54,986 --> 02:47:00,319
That's how you do it. So Scott Auld, A-U-L-D, added...

2598
02:47:00,299 --> 02:47:06,015
an emergency meetup. at Pipe Smoke and Cheeseburgers. That's in

2599
02:47:06,095 --> 02:47:09,081
Charm City and Boca Raton, the mouth of the rat.

2600
02:47:09,461 --> 02:47:13,227
Boca Raton, Florida, Charm City Burger Company. Started about an

2601
02:47:13,288 --> 02:47:16,474
hour ago, so if you're in the area, go say

2602
02:47:16,513 --> 02:47:20,040
hi. It's never a good idea to do a meetup

2603
02:47:20,059 --> 02:47:22,004
announcement. on the day of, but we'll see if that

2604
02:47:22,043 --> 02:47:25,772
worked out for you. For Friday, that's the next meetups

2605
02:47:25,792 --> 02:47:28,599
that we have on the list. We have Zone Spooky

2606
02:47:28,699 --> 02:47:33,458
Kinder Meeting. Oh, that's in Berlin. Hello, Deutschland. That came

2607
02:47:33,497 --> 02:47:36,708
in at the last minute too. Zone spooky kinder meeting.

2608
02:47:37,384 --> 02:47:41,702
Hmm, Berlin, Germany. All right. Spooky, huh? And Rotterdam in

2609
02:47:41,743 --> 02:47:45,290
the Netherlands on the 26th. Time to exchange notes. Yes,

2610
02:47:45,389 --> 02:47:49,417
please. We need some meetup reports from you guys. On

2611
02:47:49,458 --> 02:47:52,103
the 27th, we have Fort Wayne, Indiana. And, of course,

2612
02:47:52,123 --> 02:47:54,709
the Get John out of the House meetup in Albany,

2613
02:47:54,728 --> 02:47:57,694
California. Go meet John. Bring a head on a stick

2614
02:47:57,735 --> 02:47:59,759
of me, if you don't mind. Houston, Texas on the

2615
02:47:59,779 --> 02:48:03,826
27th. the 28th, Decatur, Alabama, and Longview, Texas, also on

2616
02:48:03,867 --> 02:48:06,211
the 8th. On the 2nd of July, Raleigh, North Carolina,

2617
02:48:06,291 --> 02:48:10,781
the 11th, Eagle, Idaho, the 14th, Scottsdale, Arizona, Asheville, North

2618
02:48:10,820 --> 02:48:13,826
Carolina on the 15th, and Charlotte, North Carolina on the

2619
02:48:13,846 --> 02:48:16,130
16th. You guys are going to be really into your

2620
02:48:16,171 --> 02:48:19,117
meetups. And there's a lot more in August, in September.

2621
02:48:19,197 --> 02:48:20,800
We go all the way through October. You can find

2622
02:48:20,921 --> 02:48:24,127
all of them at noagentameetups.com. This is free. There's no

2623
02:48:24,186 --> 02:48:26,813
cost to do it, no cost to entry. You just

2624
02:48:26,872 --> 02:48:29,818
go and find people, make connections. It gives you protections.

2625
02:48:29,859 --> 02:48:31,683
Every single one of the people you meet at these

2626
02:48:31,743 --> 02:48:34,628
meetups will be a first responder for you in case

2627
02:48:34,709 --> 02:48:37,895
of any emergency. The meetups, they make you stable. It

2628
02:48:37,954 --> 02:48:41,406
makes you able. Go to noagentameetups.com. If you can't find

2629
02:48:41,507 --> 02:48:43,755
one near you, here's an idea. Start one yourself. It's

2630
02:48:43,835 --> 02:48:49,374
free, it's easy, and guaranteed, always a party. Sometimes you

2631
02:48:49,394 --> 02:49:10,295
want to go hang out ♪ Sing ♪ have John's

2632
02:49:10,396 --> 02:49:13,001
tip of the day coming up next. People complaining about

2633
02:49:13,040 --> 02:49:15,997
your poop gummies. I didn't think it was a good

2634
02:49:16,038 --> 02:49:20,983
tip. I don't know. You know what? What? No, no,

2635
02:49:21,003 --> 02:49:24,631
just asking. No, I don't. What? I don't know. I

2636
02:49:24,893 --> 02:49:27,197
don't know what. So tip of the day is coming

2637
02:49:27,256 --> 02:49:29,740
up next. And of course, we have our end of

2638
02:49:29,820 --> 02:49:32,045
show mixes. But before we do that, we'd like to

2639
02:49:32,104 --> 02:49:35,170
select an ISO, something we play at the very end

2640
02:49:35,229 --> 02:49:38,075
of the show. And I have real people. John has

2641
02:49:38,415 --> 02:49:41,120
been working as AI robot again. So I'll start. No.

2642
02:49:41,319 --> 02:49:44,837
These are real people. Oh, real people saying real things

2643
02:49:44,897 --> 02:49:48,207
that weren't AI generated. Of course. Here's mine, the first

2644
02:49:48,368 --> 02:49:54,111
one. Go into the well. I thought that was pretty

2645
02:49:54,173 --> 02:49:58,536
good actually. How about this? Gosh, I can't think of

2646
02:49:58,656 --> 02:50:00,009
anything more important than this.

2647
02:50:00,860 --> 02:50:04,801
I'm glad you liked that one. That was a good

2648
02:50:04,922 --> 02:50:08,750
one. I agree with all of that. Yes, 100%. I

2649
02:50:08,809 --> 02:50:10,735
think I have a bit of a contender here. Gosh,

2650
02:50:10,774 --> 02:50:14,844
I can't think of anything more important than this. That's

2651
02:50:14,885 --> 02:50:17,412
pretty good. All right. What do you have? I don't

2652
02:50:17,432 --> 02:50:19,457
know where you got that one. I have a couple

2653
02:50:19,537 --> 02:50:22,444
of, I got a Biden. The No Agenda podcast is

2654
02:50:22,505 --> 02:50:28,152
great. Not a joke. I'm serious. Not kidding. It's never

2655
02:50:28,212 --> 02:50:31,636
gonna win with me. Well, you don't like Biden? It's

2656
02:50:31,736 --> 02:50:33,922
just, there's no energy. It's not a way to end

2657
02:50:33,941 --> 02:50:36,909
a show. No energy from Biden? Wow, that's a shocker.

2658
02:50:37,090 --> 02:50:39,557
I know, so why even try? And besides, they're too

2659
02:50:39,617 --> 02:50:42,205
long. They need to be... three seconds. These are five

2660
02:50:42,286 --> 02:50:46,499
seconds. Oh, let's go with Tom Cruise. Real Mission Impossible

2661
02:50:46,519 --> 02:50:50,289
is he's actually finding a better podcast than No Agenda.

2662
02:50:50,830 --> 02:50:53,216
You know, do they give you a video with this

2663
02:50:53,277 --> 02:50:55,884
at the same time? Yeah. Yeah. Why don't you post

2664
02:50:55,904 --> 02:50:58,742
the video on X? I already did. That'll be better

2665
02:50:58,803 --> 02:51:01,994
than that. No, I think my ISO wins. You laughed

2666
02:51:02,014 --> 02:51:05,432
at my ISO. Yeah, I think it does. But nobody

2667
02:51:05,493 --> 02:51:12,731
can beat John's tip of the day. Great advice for

2668
02:51:12,752 --> 02:51:16,788
you and me, just the tip with JCB. And sometimes...

2669
02:51:16,808 --> 02:51:22,408
Of course. Of course you lost them. I did. -

2670
02:51:23,339 --> 02:51:27,618
You're gonna have to stop tape. All right, stop tape,

2671
02:51:27,659 --> 02:51:30,327
everybody. Stop tape. What does that mean? You have to

2672
02:51:30,367 --> 02:51:34,379
go somewhere else? No, I have to go downstairs. I

2673
02:51:34,419 --> 02:51:38,150
closed the browser which had the information opened. No, I'm

2674
02:51:38,211 --> 02:51:40,056
never going to edit this out. This is too good.

2675
02:51:40,177 --> 02:51:42,247
Yeah, you will. Hold on. It won't take me but

2676
02:51:42,267 --> 02:51:44,862
a sec. That's like you looking up the thing from

2677
02:51:44,923 --> 02:51:50,451
Malone. Yeah, that's my point. Yeah, maybe. Yeah. Except the

2678
02:51:50,471 --> 02:51:54,261
payoff was bigger. Depends on what this is going to

2679
02:51:54,281 --> 02:51:57,169
be. Payoff was much bigger with Malone. I found a

2680
02:51:57,229 --> 02:52:00,117
clip that said Malone 6. Wow. And knew it was

2681
02:52:00,177 --> 02:52:10,557
the one. I mean. That is saying something. See if

2682
02:52:10,598 --> 02:52:12,996
I can play something to entertain people in the meantime.

2683
02:52:13,017 --> 02:52:18,134
Yeah, play something to entertain. That wasn't very exciting. Well,

2684
02:52:18,154 --> 02:52:23,166
that didn't do anything. No. John C. Dvorak's Pet Bebop

2685
02:52:23,808 --> 02:52:25,653
Day. Wow, we haven't played that in a long time.

2686
02:52:26,175 --> 02:52:31,392
If you see something, say something. Fact check false. Oh

2687
02:52:31,412 --> 02:52:37,670
my God! Woo! Listen to that horn! The Distraction of

2688
02:52:37,730 --> 02:52:47,606
the Week on Noah's Show. And uh... Nothing to see

2689
02:52:47,708 --> 02:53:04,178
here. Did you find it? You know, this is annoying

2690
02:53:04,259 --> 02:53:11,083
now. He can't find it. I- hold on a second.

2691
02:53:12,175 --> 02:53:24,545
Just look under email from Mimi. I'm doing... Oh, okay.

2692
02:53:24,565 --> 02:53:29,793
I found it. Oh. Amen. Jeez. Uh, this is, it's

2693
02:53:29,853 --> 02:53:32,587
not, I should have remembered it, but I just couldn't

2694
02:53:32,687 --> 02:53:34,315
quite, I had to make sure I got it right.

2695
02:53:34,671 --> 02:53:36,800
This came in from Dame Bang Bang, by the way.

2696
02:53:37,182 --> 02:53:40,035
Oh, all right. This is a pre-July 4th tip of

2697
02:53:40,075 --> 02:53:43,427
the day. It's for people who are going to drive,

2698
02:53:43,508 --> 02:53:47,670
which I think is most people. There's a website you

2699
02:53:47,710 --> 02:53:56,710
should put on your list of websites called pure-gas.org. Pure-gas.org.

2700
02:53:56,730 --> 02:53:59,396
Yeah, and this is a list of all the gas

2701
02:53:59,436 --> 02:54:02,738
stations in the country. that don't put ethanol in the

2702
02:54:02,799 --> 02:54:06,903
blend. Oh. Because a lot of people don't like it.

2703
02:54:06,923 --> 02:54:09,169
It's not necessarily good for a lot of cars to

2704
02:54:09,209 --> 02:54:11,837
have ethanol because a lot of people put 10% ethanol

2705
02:54:11,897 --> 02:54:14,825
in their gasoline to stretch it. And the ethanol is

2706
02:54:15,085 --> 02:54:20,911
sometimes dangerous to certain hoses and things. Pets. Hey! My

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gas station in Fredericksburg. is on the list yeah well

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there it's one of the stations now that said i

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will mention that uh This family here, we have two

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cars that run. pretty much run ethanol. The E85, uh...

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flexor gas cars are fabulous because right now in California,

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if you have an E85 car, you can use 85%

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ethanol. And it sells for $3.50 as opposed to $6.

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Oh. Amazing. But yeah, pure gas.org is for people that

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are, that are freaky about. their gasoline, they went pure.

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gasoline and not watered down hey breaking news vance is

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shaking hands and hugging with the iranians in switzerland Ah,

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then he won't get blamed. No, he won't get blamed,

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but they still might get blowed up. Wow, that's amazing.

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That's good news. That's a good way to finish the

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show. That is. And a good tip of the day,

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John. Now I know that I am getting my gas

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at the right place. These people are good. I like

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these people. It's a family-owned business, too. There it is,

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everybody. Get all of the tips at noagendafun.com. Tip of

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the day. I'm Ned. JCB And sometimes, I don't. Created

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by Dana Burnetti. Wow, everything just fit in perfectly. So

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good, so good, so good. Stay tuned, though, to noagendastream.com,

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or if you're listening on the Modern Podcast app, we

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have OBDM. Our big dumb mouth coming up next with

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World Cup UFO abduction. Oh, cool. Nothing screams second half

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of show than that, does it? That's beautiful. Thank you,

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trolls, for being here with us. And happy Father's Day,

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everybody. Especially for, you know, actual dads out there. It's

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okay. We guys can say that to each other. End

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of show mix is from Cam, Molly Berry, and MVP.

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And as always, we will return on Thursday to bring

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you more media deconstruction, help you understand what's going on

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in your world with a couple of laughs and gaffes

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as well. Coming to you from the heart of the

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Texas Hill Country here in Fredericksburg, Texas. In the morning,

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everybody. I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley, I'm

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John C. Dvorak. Please join us on Thursday. We look

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forward to it. Enjoy your Father's Day. John, happy Father's

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Day to you. Happy Father's Day to you. We'll see

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you on Thursday. Remember us, please, at noagendadonations.com. Value for

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value for your time, talent, and treasure. Until then, adios,

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sun and the USA. Oh, the deal is on. Shoebop,

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is open. ♪ Anchors roll ♪ Diplomatic Tango Oh, baby,

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a diplomatic tango on a tie rope string Oh baby

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wait and hear the clips no agenda will bring Open

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than this.