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I like me some bubbles. You like your bubbles? I

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like bubbles. Adam Curry. John C. DeVore. It's Thursday, July

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16, 2026. This is your award-winning Give Our Nation Media

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Assassination episode 1886. This is no agenda. Suffering from rain

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stick backscatter and broadcasting live from the heart of the

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Texas Hill Country right here in FEMA region number six.

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In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern

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Silicon Valley where I'm wondering what is Microsoft Hello and

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why would I want it to enhance my experience? I'm

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John C. Dvorak. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill. In the morning.

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Wait a minute. Isn't Microsoft Hello a really old product?

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cropped up this morning on a boot. On a boot?

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I booted a machine that says, hello, would you like

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to install Microsoft Hello to enhance your experience? What is

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it? What is Microsoft? I don't know. I never saw

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or heard of it. It sounds like, you know, when

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you said that, the first thing I thought of was,

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remember the old Mac 512? And you boot that up

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and it would have that cursive, hello. Yeah, the little

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hello guy. The little hello, yeah. I'm sure it's some

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kind of AI thing. can't be because your your system

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that was co-pilot no copilot schmopilot but your system doesn't

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upgrade copilot schmopilot copilot schmopilot copilot schmopilot i tell you

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isn't it but isn't that in uh Isn't your system

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un-upgradeable? Yeah, I know. It's Windows 10. That's interesting. So

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maybe... It must be, they must have upgraded your... What's

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that browser called? Edge. Oh, that's possible. Your Edge browser.

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Yeah. Microsoft, remember they integrated the browser into everything? They're

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always screwing with you. It became such a nightmare. Everybody

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was creating viruses. There was a point when I think

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of Windows, you just couldn't turn it on. It's like,

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don't turn it on today. It's not a good idea.

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Oh, yeah, because it was Tuesday. Patch Tuesday. They were

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going to load up some junk that was going to

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ruin your machine. No, it wasn't Patch Tuesday. It was

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when they had Internet Explorer and, you know, like, well,

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we're integrating the Internet into everything. So you open up

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your files, you know, a file window, and it would

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be connected to the Internet. Just in case. Just in

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case. Just in case. Just in case. You need to

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browse the web. Oh, my goodness. Oh, we've come a

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long way. We've come a long way. And thank you

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very much for the... For the rain stick. You're killing

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people. You're the one who insisted. Well, it was a

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request by a producer. And I was in Amsterdam and

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I did not have my rain stick with me. And

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you were pointing it at Colorado, but as always, it's

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the backscatter. It's the butt of the stick. I just

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pointed straight up in the air. Well, the radials must

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have been somehow bouncing off the ionosphere. It has rained

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here for five days, almost nonstop. You haven't been there

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for five days. How would you know? What do you

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mean? We came back on Monday. Okay, four days. But

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it was raining on Sunday. How would I know? I

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know people here. I thought you didn't get out much.

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And if you recall, last year in July, it was

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July 4th, July 4th weekend, we had a very similar

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scenario where we had just a storm front just hovering

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over all of the hill country, and it wound up

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killing a couple hundred people, you know, kids in holiday

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camps. It may not be... As bad, well, for a

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couple of reasons. One, The alert system is just going

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off nonstop now. Three times in the middle of the

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night. And for some reason on the iPhone, you can't,

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well, you can. You can turn it off and say,

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don't give me alerts. But that's kind of like the

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whole point is if there's something, you know, some dire

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situation, you kind of want to be alerted to it.

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because they didn't do it as much last year. Yeah,

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it's like crying wolf. A little bit. Well, I got

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two earthquakes. alerts over the last couple weeks yeah for

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there was no earthquake in either case there was no

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earthquake yeah and there was none around there wasn't an

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earthquake anywhere in the vicinity and i got one of

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them was duck and cover and the other one was

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find something to hold on to no yeah stand in

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the doorway Anyway, it is bad here. They're talking about

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a 35-foot wall of water coming down the Guadalupe River.

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down the road, stores and restaurants are flooding. First of

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all, let's get one thing so everyone out there knows

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this. What is your elevation? Well, my elevation here is

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almost 1,400 feet. 1,400 feet. You're almost on a mountain.

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Pretty much. So people don't have to worry about you.

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People like John C. Dvorak and Mimi Dvorak, who called

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me yesterday. Mimi insisted. So I'm in the car. I

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knew you were at elevation. I'm in the car. Driving

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back from a meeting. And, you know, this one thing

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I don't want to see the day before a show

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day is JCD real cell phone pop up on my

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dashboard. I can only think a couple things. I'm like,

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he's in the hospital. He's in the hospital. This is

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it. Oh, no. He's in a car wreck. No, I

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thought hospital. Somebody shot him. No, I'm going to have

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to deal with that. Like, what are we going to

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do now? And then it's you and Mimi on the

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speakerphone. Hey! Are you wet yet? And Mimi, she is

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a max velocity storm chaser groupie of epic proportion. It's

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really bad near you. Don't go to the east, you're

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gonna drown. There's storm chasers in Fredericksburg. She really loves

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that stuff. She is a weather junkie. Yeah, yeah, so

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I had to make the call. And you were telling

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her, like, he's at elevation. There's no problem. She wouldn't

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believe it. I'm just putting that out there so other

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people don't ever, you know, start to think that, oh

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my. Well, it usually takes a couple days and then

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you get people from Holland. Are you okay? You know,

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because you can see how the news kind of trickles

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through. You need to have some dead people and, you

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know, some horrible pictures and a single baby shoe floating

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by. Then people are like, oh, wait a minute. Isn't

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that where Adam lives? And I love it. It's appreciated.

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I like that people care and they want to check

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in on me. But yeah, we're pretty safe here. Although

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there was a tornado just like 30 minutes down the

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road. That doesn't happen very often. Certainly not in the

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hill country. Onward. Onward with the top news item. I

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don't care what you say. Breaking at this hour. Right

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now, officials can't pinpoint the exact source or sources of

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this outbreak. It's a food or waterborne disease caused by

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a parasite, cyclospora. And pinpointing precisely where it's coming from

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is a challenge. Michigan is bearing the brunt with more

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than 2,600 reported cases, including 44 that have landed people

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in the hospital. Joining us to explain what all this

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means and how to stay healthy is Dr. Omer Awan.

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He's at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Dr.

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Awan, thank you so much for being here. To start

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off with, if I were to ingest this parasite, how

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do I know that I've got it? What are the

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symptoms people should look out for? Well, the typical symptoms,

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William, are things like nausea, fatigue, bloating, and of course,

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explosive watery diarrhea. symptom that's been getting a lot of

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attention because this is really different because most stomach bugs

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usually the watery diarrhea lasts about two or three days

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with the cases of cyclosporiasis the diarrhea can last weeks

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if not months and that's what makes this so problematic

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this is this is what's kind of crazy this month's

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business and apparently um you can get it a week

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before the symptoms appear tonight 34 states grappling with cyclospora

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parasite that can be found on fresh produce making Americans

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sick. Michigan zeroing in on lettuce. Its top doc says

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there is a clear preliminary signal pointing to the leafy

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green. Why do you suspect lettuce? We've interviewed about a

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thousand out of the 3,000 cases we have so far.

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Lettuce seems to be an ongoing exposure for those who've

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been impacted. Federal officials say Michigan is one of four

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Midwestern states where the cases could be linked. Taco Bell

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today confirming It removed limited ingredients at select restaurants while

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authorities continued their broader review, noting public health officials have

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not confirmed a link to Taco Bell. The Washington Post

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reports federal and state health officials are investigating the chain,

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citing two individuals familiar with the probe. CDC did not

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comment.

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Dr. Bagdasarian. So there was no location that came up

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in 100% of cases, but there certainly were restaurants and

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fast food chains that did come up. Including Taco Bell?

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right now. The CDC says it's confirmed 1,645 cases of

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cyclosporiasis and is aware of 5,100 more. Christina Serafino says

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she ate fresh fruits and vegetables hiking last month and

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got sick for weeks. Just really strong gas and bloating

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pains. And on top of that, you're not eating, so

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you're hungry and you're having hunger pains also. I mean,

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this is unlike... members of our producing audience being Patriot

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Front. members of which one is by the way for

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later Um, A lot of people have this bug. friend

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of Sir Beavenhour, producer for 16 or 17 years. Yes,

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I had it three nights ago, contracted it, contracted it.

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One of the beachside resorts at Myrtle Beach. Only lasted

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one night. The next day was pretty much gone. See,

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I don't think that he had it. I don't think.

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No, now if you're going to have it for a

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month, that sounds more like, you know, one of the

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quick bug, whatever it's called. Well, here's a please redact

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my name if read on air. It's one of our

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nights. Because if word got back to my wife that

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I was sharing this, I'd probably be a knight experiencing

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homelessness. Listen to this. My wife seems to have come

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down with the explosive diarrhea, or as I read in

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an article, ferocious diarrhea. That's even better. went first looking

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it up. She's actually got it pretty bad, and for

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about a week, she could barely function away from a

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toilet. After about a week and a half, she decided

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to go to the urgent care to see if there's

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anything they could do. They sent her home with a

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test sample kit, plastic bowl, and other cups to retrieve

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said sample. They should put you in a bed and

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give you fluids intravenously and then maybe send you home.

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had tested positive so this tests PCR I'm sure but

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there's also nothing that can be given to you to

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get rid of it you just have to fight it

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out she was so what's the point of the test

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exactly she was told some people can get over it

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in days she's now on about three weeks fortunately it's

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become less explosive Yeah, I would think so. So last

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night. Balls have got to get tired at some point.

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bad. And I did not have, not to be too

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graphic, I did not have explosive diarrhea. But it wasn't

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good. And I'm thinking. man, what am I going to

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do? This, this is horrible. I feel miserable. And I

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actually... Stop tape. What do you mean stop tape? Stop

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tape. Why? During the show, you can do it. If

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you stop tape, we'll understand. Stop tape. No. I'll be

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right back after a word from... Well, and here's the

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point. So I'm like, oh, man, what can I take?

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You know, I just feel miserable. And I took two

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tablespoons of the Manuka gold honey. slept like a baby,

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woke up perfectly fine. I don't know if it's related,

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but... That's all I could think of. Like, what can

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I do? Which is the plain honey? Well, it's the

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honey with all the stuff in it. The be well

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honey. The be well honey? Yeah, be well. It has

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a... Because apparently cumin or... Q-cumin. Is that Q-cumin? Is

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that the molecule of cumin? Curcumin. Curcuma. Is that different

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from cumin? Yeah. What is curcumin? It's more like pepper.

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They got a lot of stuff mixed in there. That

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is supposed to neutralize this bug. But let's just think

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about this. Now we're being quacks on the show. This

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is not medical advice. We're not advising you on anything

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medical. But I'm thinking about this. Do you know that

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more people die from diarrhea globally than anything else? Yeah,

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and mostly in India. Yes, just poop their brains. out

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and then they die. something. I don't know if they

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don't have the right curry or whatever. And the next

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thing you know, they're dead. It's really bad. I mean,

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by a long shot, the amount of people globally who

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die from diarrhea is much more than, certainly more than

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gunshot wounds. Yeah, best of all in India. Well, could

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this, I'm just throwing it out there, because of the

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nature of this thing, could this possibly be a gain-of-function

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bioweapon? Oh, come on. That hasn't come up in the

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conversation yet. No, but they don't really know how you

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get it. I know. They keep talking. They blame lettuce

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for everything. Well, lettuce and taco. There's a lettuce-hating component

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of society that doesn't like the salad eaters of California.

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But there's also some warfare going on amongst the fast

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food guys because Taco Bell is the one that is

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in the crosshairs. Tonight, Taco Bell saying they have voluntarily

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removed some ingredients at select locations as the food-borne parasite

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cyclosporiasis rapidly spreads across the U.S. The company stating public

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health officials have not confirmed a link to Taco Bell

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or any specific ingredient supplier, restaurant, or retailer, adding they

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will closely monitor the situation. State health officials say there

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have been more than 600 new cases of cyclosporiasis in

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Michigan alone since yesterday. Health officials now pointing to lettuce

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as a possible source of the outbreak state. We're continuing

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our trace back investigation on multiple produce items including the

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lettuce. The CDC confirming cases in 34 states. Today warning

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that cases in Michigan, West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio seem

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to have a similar source. The parasite spread through contaminated

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food or water can cause severe digestive issues including diarrhea.

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Symptoms usually begin about one week after becoming infected. It

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was really bad. There were there were moments where I

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was literally just camped out in the and like I

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don't care I'm just gonna lay on this floor David

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the CDC is telling doctors to stay alert health officials

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say thoroughly washing your fruits and vegetables even if they're

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labeled pre washed is an important step in preventing illness

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good advice sounds awful Stephanie Ramos tonight thanks good advice

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sounds awful thanks a lot Steph let's get my I

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have an NTD clip about the same thing you should

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pipe play it it's under cytos shit ptosis you have

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No deaths. to two weeks after infection. The primary symptom

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is diarrhea. Other symptoms can include loss of appetite, cramping,

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and fatigue. The CDC is urging doctors to specifically test

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patients with prolonged gastrointestinal illness. Officials say the outbreak may

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involve multiple clusters, with evidence pointing to a common source

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in Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia. Investigators have not

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identified a specific contaminated food, although lettuce and salad greens

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are the main suspects how about this what if it's

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contaminated glp1 Everybody's on that stuff. Gastro. But they had

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this interesting idea. Here's a question that I have. Since

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they have this test that somebody would yell, I went

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in, I had to take the test. Why don't they

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just grab a bunch of food and start testing it?

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Well, this is why I'm bringing it up. Because it

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doesn't seem like anyone is coming up with any normal

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solutions in their kind of... With 5,000 cases, you'd think

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you'd be able to... When you do tracing, you say,

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where'd you go? Where'd you eat? Where'd you go? Where'd

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you eat here? Where'd you eat here? But then there's

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this very odd, oh, it doesn't kick in until after

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a week. Since when is that a thing? telling you

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something else is going on here. I like my gain

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of function angle, but I think I'm... I'm looking more

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at... It's got a GLP-1. I mean, just one batch

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being contaminated. Or, you know, something. Could be anything. It

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seems to me that they should have... Normally they would

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have isolated. The car's by now. Yeah, whenever it's... What

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is the other foodborne illness? They always trace it back

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to some tomato at some supermarket. Or listeria. Listeria, yeah.

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Listeria, they got no problem. Boom, there it is. But

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this one, oh, we don't know. Lettuce, maybe. Yeah, maybe

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lettuce could be Taco Bell. Not even close. You know,

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I'm looking at lettuce in the supermarket like, I think

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I'll just have my salad with cucumber. I don't want

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any lettuce right now.

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We don't frequent Taco Bell. But just something is wrong

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with this. The bell's gone overpriced. Something is wrong with

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this story. Well, we're checking in on disease. Might as

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well get a little Ebola update. What's your reaction when

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you hear the CDC warning about how quickly this is

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spreading? The pace of the spread, Diane, is really concerning

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here. The trajectory shows exceptional rapid growth. Right now, this

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Ebola outbreak is already half the size of the outbreak

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that we saw in 2018. That was the second largest

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outbreak recorded in history. And that took two years to.

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combat. Right now we're only two months into this current

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outbreak and as James was stating this is the Bundy

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Bujo strain. This strain does not have a targeted vaccine

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or a targeted therapy but the main concern here is

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in contact tracing. The World Health Organization is estimating that

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these estimates are likely an underestimate as tens of thousands

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of people still need to be traced back. Do people

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in the US or other countries need to be worried

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about this? Our concern here and our risk, excuse me,

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our risk here in the United States is relatively low.

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Wow. Low. I did get a text message from Homeland

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Security. Because, you know, well, because we're global entry members.

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And, you know, if you've traveled to Uganda, you better,

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like, come and see us. Immediately. Oh, so on the

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way back, traveling back from, you know, in the new

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security state. uh that is uh the european travel story

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a little bit that's a minor travel story So when

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you leave Schiphol Airport... First you check in, you show

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your passport, then you go to the exit, the Customs

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and Border Patrol exit for the Netherlands. We don't have

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that in America, but in the EU when you leave

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they check you. And it's all automated. Your picture is

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already in their system. So you all wait in little

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lines and then you get up to the booth and

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the little doors open and then you get in the

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booth and then the doors close and then you have

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to put your passport on the little shelves and it

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eats your passport. And then it says, wholesale! And then,

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camera goes up and down, gets you right in the

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eye, the lights go on. And then a clock, like

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a spinning wheel of death appears, like, please wait, please

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wait. And so Tina went through, no problem, I go

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in there. The guy comes over, he says, do it

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again. Okay, put it in. And red lights flashing. And

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they're over there looking at some terminal. They come in.

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They say, well, you have to go over to that

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line, you know, the line with a thousand people. You

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got to go through that line for a manual exit

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check because we have two traveler profiles of you. So

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what does that mean? Well, we just got new software.

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I'm like, uh-huh. So he just got new software, and

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there's two traveler profiles. I don't even know what that

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means. But there's two traveler profiles, and we don't know,

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the system doesn't know which one to choose. So you

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got to go talk to those guys. So I go

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in that line. It takes about 15 extra minutes. And

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I said, here's my passport. And I said, they sent

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me over from the machine because I have two traveler

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profiles. And this guy says, no, I only see one.

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You're good to go. It's like, what is that? It's

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like, yeah, we got a new software. This is troubling.

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It's already breaking down. Unbelievable. But something interesting did happen.

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This is one of these so-called silent airports. So the

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whole thing is automated when you... What does that mean?

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Well, I'm going to tell you. So they don't have...

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They have signs and lights and they don't have... you

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know, like speakers everywhere. You know, go on. Please follow

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the red footsteps. Move to the left. Go over there.

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Wait. Stop. Slave, shut up. It's not your turn. Wait.

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Go. Go. Carousel sex. So they don't have that. Instead,

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they have signage. And so you signage that yells at

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you. Well, and here's the interesting part. So you go

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through the security line and then there's a stop point

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and they have these carousels and then, and the carousels

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go round and round and then one is free and

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it's like a little slot and you cozy up to

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the, to the open slot and the carousel and a

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bin pops out underneath. You pull that out, put it

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on top, put your bag on, and then you go

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towards the body scanner. And so this sign is saying,

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wait, it's just, it's silence, wait. And then it'll go

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arrow and then tell you what number to go to.

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You know, we're like sheep. And I'm in this line.

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I keep hearing something. What am I hearing? And I

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thought my glasses were hitting my hearing aids. And then

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as I get closer to this sign, I hear it

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says, wait, wait. Number six. Go. Now. Wait. Stop. It

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was coming through my hearing aids. So they have this

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LE Bluetooth, low energy Bluetooth that is breaking into my

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hearing aids to tell me where to go. And apparently

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it works on AirPods and all kinds of other Bluetooth

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devices. It's for blind people. Yeah. Well, blind people with

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hearing aids, I guess. It was pretty interesting. I didn't

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know you could just break into someone's LE Bluetooth, low

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energy, and then just talk to them. Yeah, it's overriding.

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Yeah, you can do that with RF. Hmm. Well, so

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you can do that to AirPods as well? I think

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so. Cool. It's just like a broad spectrum signal. It's

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a real... It just blows everything away. Okay. Well, this

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is cool. So it's just the same as a jammer

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would do. Right. But it's a really interesting experience because

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someone's talking in your head and you're like, what is

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going on? What the what? So it would be cool

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to just walk, drive down the street, have a little

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antenna sticking out of the car and just go... Look

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at it, yo. Turn around. And we have to have

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the earbuds in. I want one of these systems. You

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need a big linear amp in the trunk. Yeah, a

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heater. And you can just blow through everything. I want

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one of these. That's a cool little device to have.

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Hotty, what you doing? Watch out for the poop. There

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was a period during the CB radio fad, which I'd

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call it what it is. Back in the day. And

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these guys would have these, and it was notorious. These

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guys would have these linear amps. Yeah, the heaters. We

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called them heaters. And they would blow. And so I

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was driving past one once with just listening to FM

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radio. And it went right into my radio. Oh, yeah,

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of course. Of course. right away. Yeah, so you could

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easily do what you're describing. Well, if anyone knows... It'd

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be annoying and you'd probably get... It's illegal, but, you

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know, it'd be fun. I'm sure I can... I'm sure

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I can get something off of Timu. Yeah, you probably

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could. No doubt. I just bought a couple of... Okay,

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so they got this new technology. I don't know what

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it's called. It's got some stupid name. I should bring

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these. I got to bring these in. We'll talk about

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them. I bought two. They're a new type of walkie-talkie.

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They're long range. And Bao Feng makes them. Oh, the

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10 water? The illegal 10 water? Is that the one?

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Maybe. Could be. I don't know. But you get two

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of them, and you can get four of them, you

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get six of them, on Teemu. And it's like, they're

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like 12 bucks for two of them. It looks like

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a... Wow. How is that? I'll bet you that'll broadcast

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to any Bluetooth, just as long as you stay... I'm

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sure it's really, really well-tuned. Oh, man. Well, it's Bao

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Feng, so it's not like junk. Those guys are the

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best. I mean, whatever it is. But it's so cheap.

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It's like, oh, yeah, we'll be competing with these guys

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sometime soon. No, no. I carry a Baofeng in my

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luggage all the time, just wherever I go. And the

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battery, I haven't recharged it in five years. Same thing.

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I have a Baofeng that I drag around, and it

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just never, the batteries never die. How does that work?

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What kind of magic do these guys have? You just

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turn it on. Oh, full bars. There's the battery. Chup,

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chup. We're good to go. It's crazy. I have no

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idea. Crazy. Hey, so... yesterday I was driving around like

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why are all the flags at half staff I couldn't

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I couldn't figure it out. Like, why are the flags

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that have half staff? It's because of Lindsey Graham. Yeah.

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I didn't know that. I didn't know that there was

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a general order for half staff or half mass. I

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don't know there was an order. I think people were

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just doing it. Well, we have some new information about

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Lady G's untimely death. And there's a little update here.

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Tonight, new video showing more than a dozen FBI agents

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fanning out across the Washington home of the late Senator

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Lindsey Graham. The FBI shutting down the street as investigators

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spent several hours on scene, taking photos and searching the

464
00:29:41,236 --> 00:29:45,419
property. Two law enforcement sources familiar with the scene tell

465
00:29:45,459 --> 00:29:47,820
NBC News their work is out of an abundance of

466
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:51,523
caution. So far, no evidence has emerged to suggest foul

467
00:29:51,623 --> 00:29:55,806
play. A preliminary medical examiner's report revealed Graham suffered from

468
00:29:55,846 --> 00:29:58,507
a tear in the main artery of his heart, but

469
00:29:58,528 --> 00:29:59,988
they are still waiting on a toxicologist.

470
00:30:01,561 --> 00:30:07,525
Wow. That isn't very typical, I don't think. Like, send

471
00:30:07,585 --> 00:30:09,686
the feds in, the FBI, to go check it out.

472
00:30:09,746 --> 00:30:13,429
Oh, there was a bunch of... No, there was... The

473
00:30:13,509 --> 00:30:16,231
part you missed was there was a bunch of insistence.

474
00:30:17,792 --> 00:30:21,174
on the part of various legislators and others that they

475
00:30:21,614 --> 00:30:24,296
autopsy him. Because, oh, you know, he just came back

476
00:30:24,336 --> 00:30:27,778
from Ukraine. Something suspicious could have happened. Oh, he was

477
00:30:28,159 --> 00:30:30,961
just talking about the Chinese. Something suspicious could have happened.

478
00:30:31,421 --> 00:30:34,023
Oh, he just hates the Russians. Something suspicious could happen.

479
00:30:34,543 --> 00:30:37,465
So they got all bent. Everyone got... You know, it's

480
00:30:37,565 --> 00:30:46,611
amazing. adult adult persons of above average intelligence. We'll text

481
00:30:46,731 --> 00:30:50,554
my wife. Hey, um... What does Adam know about Lindsey

482
00:30:50,594 --> 00:30:54,397
Graham? It's really too coincidental that he just came back

483
00:30:54,457 --> 00:30:57,018
from Ukraine. And of course, you know, there's a story

484
00:30:57,098 --> 00:31:01,441
that he was visiting a drone plant in Ukraine and

485
00:31:01,501 --> 00:31:04,383
the Russians took it out. And all I can say

486
00:31:04,463 --> 00:31:07,806
is, well, why would you cover that up? Why would

487
00:31:07,826 --> 00:31:11,168
that have to be kept secret? I mean, and especially

488
00:31:11,188 --> 00:31:13,930
the news. It's a great, it's a better story than

489
00:31:13,970 --> 00:31:18,753
aortic rupture. Yeah, hey, Lindsey Graham was blown up in

490
00:31:18,813 --> 00:31:23,997
a drone fa- Have we lost the ability to think

491
00:31:24,497 --> 00:31:28,960
a little more simplistically and just, okay? Do you know

492
00:31:28,980 --> 00:31:30,841
what I mean? You know what I mean? Yeah, Occam's

493
00:31:30,941 --> 00:31:36,685
razor's dead. Yeah, Occam's razor is indeed dead. And there's

494
00:31:36,765 --> 00:31:41,288
also, I mean, that's a good one. The world isn't

495
00:31:41,369 --> 00:31:45,331
quite as complicated as people think it is. At some

496
00:31:45,411 --> 00:31:50,195
point, the world just became like, oh, everything's just crazy.

497
00:31:50,555 --> 00:31:55,678
There's elites everywhere. We're just killing everybody. There's a degree

498
00:31:55,738 --> 00:31:59,321
of truth to some of it. If you just think

499
00:31:59,441 --> 00:32:03,644
logically, why? Why would anyone do? It's like the Charlie

500
00:32:03,724 --> 00:32:08,047
Kirk thing. It's the same thing. Well, so-and-so killed him.

501
00:32:08,107 --> 00:32:12,089
The deep state killed him. Israel killed him. J.D. Vance

502
00:32:12,150 --> 00:32:15,372
killed him. Everyone killed everybody. I'm like, well, why didn't

503
00:32:15,392 --> 00:32:19,174
they just kill him? Why did they have to go

504
00:32:19,234 --> 00:32:24,298
through this elaborate ruse and then get a patsy and

505
00:32:24,338 --> 00:32:29,902
his family to cooperate? It's like, at what point is

506
00:32:29,922 --> 00:32:34,905
this just not make any sense? Right away, it doesn't

507
00:32:34,965 --> 00:32:38,087
make any sense. You know, it's just like, come on.

508
00:32:40,169 --> 00:32:43,991
It's actually funny. Where's my... I had a couple of

509
00:32:44,071 --> 00:32:53,378
clips about this. J.D. Vance was on Rogan. Yeah, I

510
00:32:53,498 --> 00:32:55,719
saw a clip of it. Yeah, what clip did you

511
00:32:55,819 --> 00:33:01,203
see? I don't know. It wasn't that interesting. I agree.

512
00:33:01,263 --> 00:33:07,187
It wasn't super interesting. Here it is, let me see.

513
00:33:09,529 --> 00:33:13,952
manse. And those two guys, I don't know, I didn't

514
00:33:14,032 --> 00:33:16,293
see enough of it. I only saw clips. I didn't

515
00:33:16,313 --> 00:33:19,876
see that they actually watched the show. I wonder if

516
00:33:19,956 --> 00:33:22,698
those, they don't seem like they have personalities that would

517
00:33:22,778 --> 00:33:32,044
jive. Who Joe and, uh... And J.D. Vance? Yeah. This

518
00:33:32,144 --> 00:33:39,149
is very interesting. Can't I find this? Well, at a

519
00:33:39,189 --> 00:33:41,771
certain point, now I'm kind of mad about this. I

520
00:33:42,071 --> 00:33:46,014
had these two J.D. Vance clips all specked out. Yeah,

521
00:33:46,014 --> 00:33:52,918
and this sucks. But he was talking about propaganda and,

522
00:33:52,938 --> 00:33:55,180
you know, he's kind of jumping on the Israel is

523
00:33:55,220 --> 00:33:59,803
doing stuff bandwagon. It was kind of interesting. See you

524
00:33:59,803 --> 00:34:03,666
next time. What is this? Libya basically turned into a

525
00:34:03,706 --> 00:34:06,668
failed state. You had a refugee crisis, you had people

526
00:34:06,748 --> 00:34:09,229
pouring into Europe, pouring into other parts of Asia, other

527
00:34:09,269 --> 00:34:11,471
parts of Africa. Now that's about Libya. Here he is.

528
00:34:11,511 --> 00:34:13,973
This is the one. I don't even mind an effort

529
00:34:13,993 --> 00:34:17,515
to try to influence, you know, foreign governments try to

530
00:34:17,535 --> 00:34:19,837
influence the United States all the time. You know, Israel

531
00:34:19,897 --> 00:34:21,998
does it, other countries do it. It's just sort of

532
00:34:22,058 --> 00:34:26,281
the nature of the beast. What bothers me is actually

533
00:34:26,341 --> 00:34:33,526
when Americans allow, meaning American leadership, allows influence to affect

534
00:34:33,586 --> 00:34:37,309
their judgment and to affect what they are advocating for.

535
00:34:37,629 --> 00:34:40,150
That's what really bothers me. People are always going to

536
00:34:40,211 --> 00:34:42,712
try to influence the United States of America whether they're

537
00:34:42,792 --> 00:34:47,055
allies of ours or enemies of ours. But again when

538
00:34:47,095 --> 00:34:49,877
I open up the pages of Time magazine and I

539
00:34:50,017 --> 00:34:53,420
see that there's a literal foreign influence campaign being funded

540
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:56,642
to tank the very deal that I was pursuing and

541
00:34:56,782 --> 00:34:58,403
oh by the way many of the people who were

542
00:34:58,423 --> 00:35:02,646
receiving that money were actually attacking me in completely dishonest

543
00:35:02,726 --> 00:35:04,887
ways, you know, my response to that is, well, go

544
00:35:04,947 --> 00:35:06,508
to hell. I'm going to do what I have to

545
00:35:06,528 --> 00:35:10,371
do for the American people. I represent Americans first. Yeah,

546
00:35:10,411 --> 00:35:13,533
he was referring to some kind of Israeli campaign in

547
00:35:13,613 --> 00:35:20,198
that, which I thought was interesting. And this whole... Preliminary

548
00:35:20,298 --> 00:35:25,261
hearing with, you know, for what's the kid's name? Ryan.

549
00:35:28,183 --> 00:35:32,286
who said he killed Charlie Kirk. Oh, yeah, that guy.

550
00:35:32,646 --> 00:35:39,711
Yeah. It's like... It is. How can that not stop

551
00:35:39,851 --> 00:35:45,155
everybody from the exploding microphone nonsense? The defense is not

552
00:35:45,395 --> 00:35:50,378
using this. Because it was a shape charge, man. The

553
00:35:50,438 --> 00:35:53,360
defense is not saying, we'd like to show you Exhibit

554
00:35:53,601 --> 00:35:58,724
A with the Egyptian military aircraft that were circling around.

555
00:36:00,045 --> 00:36:04,528
There's none of that. And I think the tide is

556
00:36:04,668 --> 00:36:10,212
turning. Well, you're an optimist today. Yeah. Some international travel

557
00:36:10,312 --> 00:36:16,276
always kind of screws you up. Something I've observed. Oh,

558
00:36:16,956 --> 00:36:20,199
I think the tide is turning. Okay. But then again,

559
00:36:20,219 --> 00:36:25,422
I get what's going on. Good for you. Well, it's

560
00:36:25,462 --> 00:36:29,065
so weird because for at least 15 years, I was

561
00:36:29,225 --> 00:36:32,167
all in on all this stuff. And it's just all

562
00:36:32,247 --> 00:36:35,169
bullshit. All of it. All of it. Yeah, well, you

563
00:36:35,229 --> 00:36:37,851
got that part right. No, but you were the one

564
00:36:37,911 --> 00:36:40,092
always setting me straight, and now I'm like, you know.

565
00:36:41,033 --> 00:36:43,895
Ladies and gentlemen, most of this stuff is just BS.

566
00:36:46,857 --> 00:36:48,178
It doesn't make it quite as exciting. The show is

567
00:36:48,258 --> 00:36:53,601
built on a lie. It doesn't make it very exciting,

568
00:36:53,621 --> 00:36:57,944
you know, and that's to our detriment. But if you

569
00:36:58,024 --> 00:37:00,206
just want to get spun down a little bit and,

570
00:37:00,446 --> 00:37:03,288
you know, and talk some sense, you know, I think

571
00:37:03,328 --> 00:37:06,410
we're the place for you now. We've always been the

572
00:37:06,450 --> 00:37:12,094
place. Well, let's play a couple of offbeat clips then.

573
00:37:12,194 --> 00:37:16,137
Why? You're always like, offbeat, screwball. Well, this is not

574
00:37:16,217 --> 00:37:21,020
that offbeat. This is the hearing for Todd Blanche. Oh,

575
00:37:21,100 --> 00:37:24,863
yes. Trying to worm his way into the job that

576
00:37:24,903 --> 00:37:27,685
he should get. There were a couple of good hearings

577
00:37:27,805 --> 00:37:30,727
on the Hill. There was quite a few, actually. In

578
00:37:30,807 --> 00:37:33,849
fact, right now Congress is in session. They had a

579
00:37:33,949 --> 00:37:36,331
fraud hearing and the Democrats refused to show up to

580
00:37:36,531 --> 00:37:39,333
it. Of course. I thought that was worthwhile. Why would

581
00:37:39,373 --> 00:37:41,394
you do that? Nick, surely he's there. Forget it. We're

582
00:37:41,434 --> 00:37:46,858
not coming. So, um... Play this. This is my favorite

583
00:37:46,958 --> 00:37:48,739
clip. This would be my favorite clip for the day,

584
00:37:48,859 --> 00:37:52,702
actually. Okay. This is Todd Blanche having to deal with

585
00:37:52,782 --> 00:37:59,446
this, with... White House idiot from Rhode Island on C-SPAN.

586
00:38:00,307 --> 00:38:03,429
Let me ask about the FBI. How long do you

587
00:38:03,469 --> 00:38:06,931
intend to put up with that Kash Patel character? Are

588
00:38:06,951 --> 00:38:09,173
you good with his airplane jaunts? Are you confident he's

589
00:38:09,193 --> 00:38:11,294
not drinking on the job? Are you sure none of

590
00:38:11,334 --> 00:38:14,937
his travel is a pretext for vacation activities like snorkeling

591
00:38:15,057 --> 00:38:18,059
Olympics and visiting girlfriends? Are you sure he knows what

592
00:38:18,079 --> 00:38:21,121
he's doing? Do you vouch for him? Are you willing

593
00:38:21,121 --> 00:38:23,763
to look at whether he lied to this committee? That's

594
00:38:23,843 --> 00:38:28,446
an extraordinarily obnoxious question, Senator, and I have full faith

595
00:38:29,067 --> 00:38:32,069
in Director Patel work that he's doing every day. Great.

596
00:38:32,109 --> 00:38:34,390
You got to own that. You got to own that.

597
00:38:35,271 --> 00:38:38,353
What is this chasing his girlfriend around with the government

598
00:38:38,393 --> 00:38:41,255
plane? I didn't hear this one. I haven't heard it

599
00:38:41,315 --> 00:38:43,596
either. He's just making it up. I like the guzzling

600
00:38:43,757 --> 00:38:50,741
beer. The guzzling beer. This guy is just the biggest

601
00:38:51,021 --> 00:38:54,984
dick in Congress. And here he continues. This is as

602
00:38:55,144 --> 00:39:00,488
it goes on. He just reads, he reads him the

603
00:39:00,548 --> 00:39:04,030
riot act. He reads Blanche the riot act and just

604
00:39:04,130 --> 00:39:06,032
wraps with, he doesn't even ask him a question. He

605
00:39:06,112 --> 00:39:10,355
just goes off. One last thing, if I may. You

606
00:39:10,415 --> 00:39:14,217
have refused to exclude January 6th rioters from your anti-weaponization

607
00:39:14,317 --> 00:39:17,860
fund. You have refused to put in writing that the

608
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:20,922
slush fund is dead. Indeed, you signal to allies that

609
00:39:21,002 --> 00:39:25,065
payouts are still on track. You have vacated seditious conspiracy

610
00:39:25,145 --> 00:39:28,307
convictions against members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.

611
00:39:28,867 --> 00:39:32,049
You hired January 6th rioter Jared Wise, who had urged

612
00:39:32,049 --> 00:39:37,113
the mob to kill police officers. You've scrubbed press releases

613
00:39:37,133 --> 00:39:42,016
about January 6th prosecutions and called the releases partisan propaganda.

614
00:39:42,096 --> 00:39:46,539
You denied that Trump encouraged any violence on January 6th.

615
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:49,481
You've cleaned house of every attorney who worked on a

616
00:39:49,561 --> 00:39:55,445
case related to Trump. Justice for violent rioters meant that

617
00:39:55,565 --> 00:39:57,947
every one of them was either pardoned or had their

618
00:39:57,987 --> 00:39:59,428
sentence commuted.

619
00:40:00,019 --> 00:40:02,741
I hope that our colleagues who are concerned about what

620
00:40:02,821 --> 00:40:05,923
happened on January 6th take that into account. Thank you.

621
00:40:06,404 --> 00:40:09,926
Would you like to respond? I would. Almost everything the

622
00:40:09,966 --> 00:40:13,509
Senator just said, and he's protected, he's allowed to lie,

623
00:40:13,969 --> 00:40:18,512
but almost everything he just said was absolutely false. Starting

624
00:40:18,532 --> 00:40:21,374
with the fact that I have never... I have never

625
00:40:21,954 --> 00:40:24,436
said that any sort of violence against law enforcement is

626
00:40:24,516 --> 00:40:27,138
appropriate. I have never said that publicly. I have never

627
00:40:27,218 --> 00:40:29,099
said that in a speech, and I certainly do not

628
00:40:29,179 --> 00:40:33,502
believe it. I did not hire the person referenced. And

629
00:40:33,542 --> 00:40:36,244
that is, again, something that just happens not to be

630
00:40:36,324 --> 00:40:40,667
true. When I talk about what happened with the convicted

631
00:40:41,027 --> 00:40:44,470
January 6th defendants, I talk about what President Trump did.

632
00:40:44,870 --> 00:40:48,813
He has the absolute right to pardon anybody for any

633
00:40:49,033 --> 00:40:51,575
reason he sees fit. And every one of them got

634
00:40:51,655 --> 00:40:54,577
pardoned or commuted. I am not celebrating that. It is

635
00:40:54,657 --> 00:40:57,138
a fact. And the fact that my department had to

636
00:40:57,198 --> 00:41:00,761
take action in response to those pardons by dismissing some

637
00:41:00,821 --> 00:41:03,083
cases is exactly what I have to do under the

638
00:41:03,143 --> 00:41:06,445
law. And it's what I did. So that the narrative

639
00:41:06,825 --> 00:41:09,887
that the senator just suggested and put on me as

640
00:41:09,967 --> 00:41:14,650
something I believe is absolutely not true. Outrage. Outrage, I

641
00:41:14,730 --> 00:41:18,753
tell you. But Blanche did screw up. And the news

642
00:41:18,833 --> 00:41:22,175
media pounced on this. Ha ha ha! We got you

643
00:41:22,256 --> 00:41:26,699
now Blanchie! The moment tonight with maybe the most staying

644
00:41:26,779 --> 00:41:30,321
power at today's confirmation hearing for Todd Blanch coming during

645
00:41:30,481 --> 00:41:34,284
friendly questioning about his relationship with the President. I'm his

646
00:41:34,364 --> 00:41:40,528
lawyer. Was his lawyer. Whoops! Oh no! Oh no! He

647
00:41:40,628 --> 00:41:45,331
said the quiet part out loud! I'm his lawyer. Was

648
00:41:45,411 --> 00:41:50,775
his lawyer. And now I'm the Deputy Attorney General. no

649
00:41:50,875 --> 00:41:54,738
longer the president's personal lawyer, likely adding to Democrats' concerns

650
00:41:54,798 --> 00:41:58,120
that Blanch, if confirmed as Attorney General, would do President

651
00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:01,262
Trump's bidding to go after political rivals. Who you are

652
00:42:01,302 --> 00:42:04,004
is someone willing to sacrifice everything you once believed in

653
00:42:04,845 --> 00:42:08,407
for that title. Blanch spent some 15 years at the

654
00:42:08,407 --> 00:42:12,450
DOJ before moving to private practice, representing then-candidate Trump in

655
00:42:12,510 --> 00:42:15,912
his 2024 hush money trial in New York, now as

656
00:42:16,212 --> 00:42:24,958
acting AG, touting progress. But facing pointed questions about why

657
00:42:25,038 --> 00:42:27,980
he signed off on a controversial settlement after President Trump

658
00:42:28,060 --> 00:42:32,343
sued the IRS, the DOJ initially agreeing to an extraordinary

659
00:42:32,483 --> 00:42:37,747
$1.8 billion so-called anti-weaponization fund. The settlement fund's just not

660
00:42:37,827 --> 00:42:41,510
moving forward. Since scuttled in the face of intense opposition,

661
00:42:41,710 --> 00:42:45,993
including from Republicans like Senator John Cornyn, who remains undecided.

662
00:42:46,573 --> 00:42:50,476
I'm not going to make a decision until I have

663
00:42:50,496 --> 00:42:53,718
to. Reminder from your No Agenda show. We've done this

664
00:42:53,798 --> 00:42:57,440
before. This is nothing new with presidents putting their personal

665
00:42:57,500 --> 00:43:03,104
attorney or legal confidant atop of the DOJ. John Kennedy

666
00:43:03,184 --> 00:43:07,868
put his brother. That's right. He had Robert. George Washington

667
00:43:07,908 --> 00:43:13,131
had Edmund Randolph, his private attorney. Harding had Harry Doherty,

668
00:43:13,231 --> 00:43:17,634
his personal attorney and campaign manager. Nixon had John Mitchell,

669
00:43:18,755 --> 00:43:22,758
his own law firm partner. Reagan had William French Smith

670
00:43:22,958 --> 00:43:27,241
and Edward Meese, both personal attorney and legal advisor, and

671
00:43:27,281 --> 00:43:30,923
George W. Bush had Alberto Gonzalez. This is nothing new.

672
00:43:31,524 --> 00:43:34,186
No, it's not only new, but John Yoo, that guy,

673
00:43:34,366 --> 00:43:38,168
that Berkeley professor of law who's also the guy who

674
00:43:38,628 --> 00:43:44,492
penned the torture note. who's quite good as an analyst,

675
00:43:44,553 --> 00:43:46,934
he shows up on Fox quite a bit. He says

676
00:43:47,054 --> 00:43:51,998
it's common and it should be expected. Yeah. But, you

677
00:43:52,058 --> 00:43:56,321
know, the news media does not do what I just

678
00:43:56,361 --> 00:44:00,023
did. It's so easy. It's so easy. Anyway, there was

679
00:44:00,043 --> 00:44:05,847
another hearing. There were some good hearings. Federal Reserve Chairman

680
00:44:06,067 --> 00:44:11,711
Warsh. Warsh. was interrogated by Al Green. Al Green, the

681
00:44:11,811 --> 00:44:17,935
idiot. This is so good. Al Green is a moron.

682
00:44:17,935 --> 00:44:20,797
Who is going to be out next year after November

683
00:44:20,897 --> 00:44:24,940
because he lost his primary. Yeah, he is. But he

684
00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:28,002
starts off, he tries to pull the old churchy card.

685
00:44:28,042 --> 00:44:31,004
Chair recognizes the gentleman from Houston, Texas, Mr. Green, who

686
00:44:31,144 --> 00:44:34,306
is a ranking member of our subcommittee on oversight and

687
00:44:34,367 --> 00:44:38,489
investigations. Mr. Green. Over here, Mr. Chairman. Thank you. Thank

688
00:44:38,549 --> 00:44:45,634
you, Mr. Chairman. ranking member as well and welcome you

689
00:44:45,694 --> 00:44:48,316
to the committee, Mr. Chairman, but I would also say

690
00:44:48,416 --> 00:44:53,700
to you that I will pray for you. insincere. And

691
00:44:53,740 --> 00:44:57,202
I'll pray for you because many of the questions that

692
00:44:57,262 --> 00:45:02,886
have been predicated today. hinge upon a belief that you

693
00:45:03,026 --> 00:45:09,550
will sanction the president's desires. It is thought among the

694
00:45:09,550 --> 00:45:14,114
general public that you're in the position you're in. Because

695
00:45:14,774 --> 00:45:18,216
the president could not. had the influence that he wanted

696
00:45:18,276 --> 00:45:20,818
to have with the prior chair, and he believes he

697
00:45:20,858 --> 00:45:23,780
can have it with you. So I hope that you

698
00:45:23,860 --> 00:45:28,063
will stand firm. and honor your commitments that you're making.

699
00:45:29,124 --> 00:45:31,245
though some of them are not firm commitments, as I

700
00:45:31,365 --> 00:45:34,988
understood your language. So this whole hearing was all about,

701
00:45:35,048 --> 00:45:37,810
will you stand up to him? Will you do what

702
00:45:37,890 --> 00:45:42,093
is right for the banks? Will you do what is

703
00:45:42,133 --> 00:45:45,615
right for everybody except the American people and stand up

704
00:45:45,695 --> 00:45:49,258
to the president when he criticizes you? And man, I'm

705
00:45:49,398 --> 00:45:52,139
so happy that Al Green will no longer be representing

706
00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:55,862
any part of Texas. This guy truly is an idiot.

707
00:45:56,543 --> 00:45:59,545
And I think they gave these questions to him. To

708
00:45:59,605 --> 00:46:02,587
make him look even stupider. You indicated that you're interested

709
00:46:02,667 --> 00:46:07,150
in war. I appreciate this. Huh? But I believe you

710
00:46:07,190 --> 00:46:12,073
should also be interested in speculative bubbles. Speculative bubbles. So

711
00:46:12,133 --> 00:46:15,535
they gave him the bubbles questions. My assumption is that

712
00:46:15,596 --> 00:46:19,078
you are. Are you interested in bubbles, speculative bubbles? I

713
00:46:19,278 --> 00:46:22,560
love speculative bubbles. I like me some bubbles. You like

714
00:46:22,620 --> 00:46:27,544
your bubbles? I like bubbles. Mr. Chairman? We've got a

715
00:46:27,604 --> 00:46:30,646
wide lens. We spend a lot of time thinking about

716
00:46:30,706 --> 00:46:32,487
what's happening. I'm going to take that as a yes.

717
00:46:33,768 --> 00:46:36,710
Now, given that this old, like, yes or no question,

718
00:46:36,770 --> 00:46:39,112
I'll take that as a yes. This is so boring

719
00:46:39,172 --> 00:46:42,174
and tedious, you people. You're interested in speculative bubbles. Let's

720
00:46:42,214 --> 00:46:44,615
just talk about a bubble that occurred. Now, what kind

721
00:46:44,655 --> 00:46:47,037
of bubble occurred? What kind of bubble could you think

722
00:46:47,177 --> 00:46:50,559
of that they gave to Al Green, not the sharpest

723
00:46:50,639 --> 00:46:53,882
crayon in the box? What kind of bubble? Well, the

724
00:46:53,942 --> 00:46:56,343
only bubble out there right now is the AI bubble,

725
00:46:56,343 --> 00:46:59,966
so it has to be that. No, no, no, no.

726
00:47:00,946 --> 00:47:05,690
President Trump's meme coin, dollar sign Trump. Meme coin. Dollar

727
00:47:05,750 --> 00:47:12,895
sign Trump. His meme coin profited an average of $1.74

728
00:47:13,155 --> 00:47:17,418
million per day. Over his first year. Can't believe I

729
00:47:17,518 --> 00:47:22,881
missed that boat. $1.74 million a day. This amounted to

730
00:47:22,961 --> 00:47:29,926
approximately $636 million in total royalties and licensing fees generated

731
00:47:30,547 --> 00:47:36,110
at its launch. While this was happening... During that same

732
00:47:36,190 --> 00:47:41,174
period of time, nearly 1 million investors lost a combined

733
00:47:41,214 --> 00:47:47,878
$3.8 billion. This is because that meme coin Lost Value

734
00:47:48,899 --> 00:47:53,362
Oh. Dropped precipitously in value. Precipitously. It was a bubble.

735
00:47:53,983 --> 00:47:57,085
By the way, it is nothing. Anybody who's listening to

736
00:47:57,145 --> 00:48:00,027
me, if you've invested in a meme coin, you've invested

737
00:48:00,067 --> 00:48:05,811
in nothing. Zero. Zero. Okay, so... Hold on a second.

738
00:48:05,831 --> 00:48:11,715
Does he know that the chairman of the Federal Reserve's

739
00:48:12,135 --> 00:48:15,137
monetary policy has got nothing to do with meme coins?

740
00:48:15,677 --> 00:48:19,280
But he's going to come back. He's using that. This

741
00:48:19,640 --> 00:48:23,222
is why it's so funny. He's using that term speculative

742
00:48:23,323 --> 00:48:27,425
bubble to show that whenever the president wants something, it

743
00:48:27,525 --> 00:48:31,588
only behooves the president personally and screws everybody else out

744
00:48:31,628 --> 00:48:35,531
of money. And then here comes the crux. This is

745
00:48:35,591 --> 00:48:37,712
really one of the funniest things I've heard in a

746
00:48:37,772 --> 00:48:42,436
long time. I think that we should concern ourselves with

747
00:48:42,496 --> 00:48:46,739
these speculative bubbles. And whether you like it or not,

748
00:48:47,359 --> 00:48:50,321
you have to concern yourself with it because when you

749
00:48:50,461 --> 00:48:54,224
lower interest rates, You lower the rates such that there's

750
00:48:54,264 --> 00:48:58,286
more capital available for people to use for speculative reasons.

751
00:48:58,687 --> 00:49:02,189
Okay, let's just hold here for a second. So this

752
00:49:02,309 --> 00:49:05,131
num nut is going to tell us that we should

753
00:49:05,151 --> 00:49:09,494
have higher interest rates because otherwise we'll get speculative bubbles.

754
00:49:09,754 --> 00:49:12,336
There's no other benefit that you can think of of

755
00:49:12,436 --> 00:49:15,698
lower interest rates other than it's going to benefit people

756
00:49:16,259 --> 00:49:19,481
to create speculative bubbles, even though, as you pointed out,

757
00:49:19,961 --> 00:49:22,963
the AI bubble is done just fine with interest. rates

758
00:49:23,023 --> 00:49:25,725
at 5% so you have to be concerned about it

759
00:49:25,745 --> 00:49:28,327
whether you want to or not because you don't want

760
00:49:28,347 --> 00:49:32,250
to see a speculative bubble. Can I have your assurance

761
00:49:32,290 --> 00:49:35,912
that you will be concerned about these speculative bubbles, Mr.

762
00:49:35,932 --> 00:49:42,877
Chairman? So, Congressman, we want a resilient, strong, safe financial

763
00:49:42,997 --> 00:49:46,199
system. And we are looking at financial markets and we're

764
00:49:46,199 --> 00:49:48,541
looking at the real economy to make sure we deliver

765
00:49:48,661 --> 00:49:51,182
on what we can. Some of these other subjects are

766
00:49:51,222 --> 00:49:53,824
really more in your purview and responsibility. They're in my

767
00:49:53,944 --> 00:49:56,846
purview. Excuse me for interrupting, but I have to. They're

768
00:49:56,846 --> 00:49:58,868
in my purview, but only because I...

769
00:50:00,039 --> 00:50:02,061
choose to have them in my purview and I make

770
00:50:02,141 --> 00:50:03,782
an issue of them. I have to vote on them.

771
00:50:04,222 --> 00:50:06,984
But they're in your purview too because you decide whether

772
00:50:07,004 --> 00:50:08,885
the rates go up or down. And if you lower

773
00:50:08,966 --> 00:50:14,149
them, then people can engage in these speculative bubbles such

774
00:50:14,289 --> 00:50:18,452
as the Trump meme coin. And they can lose a

775
00:50:18,472 --> 00:50:22,395
lot of money. Oh, brother. Can you imagine having to

776
00:50:22,475 --> 00:50:26,738
sit through that? I mean, that represents people. Well, this

777
00:50:27,118 --> 00:50:32,081
reminds me of that other character that's in Congress who

778
00:50:32,161 --> 00:50:38,606
thinks the islands can flip over. The Maldives. The Maldives

779
00:50:38,646 --> 00:50:43,469
will tip over from climate change. No, from population. Oh,

780
00:50:43,809 --> 00:50:46,351
population. Too many people on one side of the island.

781
00:50:46,771 --> 00:50:49,513
And then there was this, I think this was Elizabeth

782
00:50:49,613 --> 00:50:54,356
Warren. Hank Johnson is that guy. So it's all just

783
00:50:54,437 --> 00:50:57,719
about, will you be independent? Do you work for Donald

784
00:50:57,739 --> 00:51:02,182
Trump? Yes or no? Who is this? Sounds like Hiromu.

785
00:51:02,322 --> 00:51:04,924
No, it's not Hiromu. If I'm permitted to say, we're

786
00:51:04,964 --> 00:51:08,826
an independent central bank. We're honored to be independent. Our

787
00:51:08,906 --> 00:51:13,970
independence came from you. Okay, that's enough. Thank you. That's

788
00:51:14,050 --> 00:51:17,893
enough. Don't answer the questions with truth. Yeah, it was

789
00:51:17,953 --> 00:51:32,443
the Federal Reserve Bill of 1913. them are voting on

790
00:51:32,523 --> 00:51:36,665
interest rate policy. Yeah, she's Spanish. She's from Costa Rica?

791
00:51:37,826 --> 00:51:40,288
Where is she from? I don't know her. I don't

792
00:51:40,308 --> 00:51:42,269
know. It's not in my notes for some reason. I

793
00:51:42,389 --> 00:51:46,192
have not heard that voice before. No, it's not my

794
00:51:46,372 --> 00:51:49,054
it's not my intuition to engage in hypotheticals. But I'll

795
00:51:49,094 --> 00:51:52,556
tell you this. The Supreme Court says an easy way

796
00:51:52,716 --> 00:51:55,938
out. The Supreme Court said that the Federal Reserve and

797
00:51:55,938 --> 00:51:59,161
the conduct of monetary policy is independent. The extent there

798
00:51:59,201 --> 00:52:02,243
were questions about it, the court's answer to those questions.

799
00:52:02,803 --> 00:52:06,446
So what would you do? I would continue to do

800
00:52:06,506 --> 00:52:10,969
my job. If the president publicly pressures you to pursue

801
00:52:11,489 --> 00:52:14,511
a different course than the one you believe is in

802
00:52:14,571 --> 00:52:18,954
the economic, that you believe the economic data supports, will

803
00:52:18,994 --> 00:52:24,798
you follow the president's wishes or follow the data? My

804
00:52:24,898 --> 00:52:27,140
commitment to you is to follow the law and follow

805
00:52:27,180 --> 00:52:30,462
the data. Follow our very best judgment. If you decide

806
00:52:30,542 --> 00:52:31,603
this is the way to go, this is where the

807
00:52:31,643 --> 00:52:35,786
data shades and he publicly criticizes you and tells you

808
00:52:35,846 --> 00:52:40,869
how disappointed he's in you and all of that. If

809
00:52:40,949 --> 00:52:43,151
he shames you in public, will you still do your

810
00:52:43,191 --> 00:52:47,674
job? What the data tells you to do. I will,

811
00:52:47,734 --> 00:52:52,457
Congressman. You ready for that? I'm ready to follow the

812
00:52:52,517 --> 00:52:55,559
law and I'm ready for the Fed to deliver on

813
00:52:55,979 --> 00:52:59,862
the expansive remit that you gave us. It's just like.

814
00:53:00,563 --> 00:53:05,126
This is so embarrassing. It's just embarrassing that these people

815
00:53:05,226 --> 00:53:09,228
are in Congress even. Well, luckily the left side of

816
00:53:09,248 --> 00:53:11,510
the party is going to wipe them all out shortly.

817
00:53:11,590 --> 00:53:15,973
That'll be good. Yeah. You mean the DSA-ers? Yeah. Yeah.

818
00:53:16,133 --> 00:53:19,676
Warren was in fine form, too. She kept yammering about

819
00:53:19,736 --> 00:53:23,198
some secret meeting. Did you know about the secret meeting?

820
00:53:23,998 --> 00:53:27,521
Do you know about a secret meeting? What's she talking

821
00:53:27,581 --> 00:53:30,463
about? Can you just answer the question about the vice

822
00:53:30,663 --> 00:53:34,065
chair and her secret meeting? Sure, I'm happy to, to

823
00:53:34,105 --> 00:53:36,507
the extent I can. I had some secret meeting about

824
00:53:36,667 --> 00:53:39,969
something where something got leaked or I don't know. How

825
00:53:40,029 --> 00:53:41,831
would you know about it if it was a secret?

826
00:53:42,151 --> 00:53:45,853
That's what he's saying. I'll share it with you. The

827
00:53:45,893 --> 00:53:47,955
vice chair has been an excellent colleague in my first

828
00:53:48,015 --> 00:53:50,597
seven weeks. I'm aware of the letter you sent to

829
00:53:50,657 --> 00:53:54,719
the inspector general. Out of an enormous respect for him,

830
00:53:55,580 --> 00:53:57,882
his investigation, what he chooses to do with it. I'm

831
00:53:57,882 --> 00:53:59,803
going to leave to him to do without trying to

832
00:53:59,863 --> 00:54:03,686
micromanage that. And I'd be interested in the judgments that

833
00:54:03,966 --> 00:54:07,668
he comes to. So you will support his investigation. Have

834
00:54:07,688 --> 00:54:10,350
you made your own investigation? Did you ask her if

835
00:54:10,450 --> 00:54:13,212
she spoke at a secret meeting during the blackout period?

836
00:54:13,712 --> 00:54:18,255
I agree with the suggestion. Elizabeth Warren is a tool.

837
00:54:18,416 --> 00:54:24,420
She's just annoying. Then we had the nominee for... Uh...

838
00:54:26,481 --> 00:54:30,024
Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton. who I believe is

839
00:54:30,124 --> 00:54:34,467
highly qualified. He's been in the spook business for, I

840
00:54:34,527 --> 00:54:39,330
think, 20 plus years. And he has been nominated to

841
00:54:39,470 --> 00:54:43,092
step in once. bull in the china shop is done

842
00:54:43,112 --> 00:54:48,856
uh bill pulte yeah and uh And, you know, so,

843
00:54:49,137 --> 00:54:53,620
and again, it's just these questions like, It's so embarrassing

844
00:54:53,660 --> 00:54:55,861
that this is what our government is doing on a

845
00:54:55,961 --> 00:54:59,344
day-to-day basis. I believe he had the most electoral votes.

846
00:55:00,324 --> 00:55:04,147
So he won the election. He followed our process, had

847
00:55:04,187 --> 00:55:07,249
the most electoral votes, was declared the winner. Who won

848
00:55:07,309 --> 00:55:10,971
the 2020 election? You know, I'm not going to do

849
00:55:11,052 --> 00:55:13,373
this with you. Who won the 2020 election? I think

850
00:55:13,373 --> 00:55:15,995
I've answered the question. We can keep doing this. We've

851
00:55:16,015 --> 00:55:19,317
tried umpteen different ways to give to the ability to

852
00:55:19,397 --> 00:55:24,040
just acknowledge that Joe Biden was the president. I've acknowledged,

853
00:55:24,040 --> 00:55:28,123
Senator, that Joe Biden was the president. As you see,

854
00:55:28,243 --> 00:55:30,525
he would not answer, at least not directly. And the

855
00:55:30,565 --> 00:55:32,566
Georgia Democrat, John Ossoff, who you saw a bit of

856
00:55:32,626 --> 00:55:36,229
there. No, no. They want him to say, and this

857
00:55:36,329 --> 00:55:38,490
is a director of national intelligence. I don't see what

858
00:55:38,550 --> 00:55:40,892
it has to do with who won the election, but

859
00:55:40,912 --> 00:55:47,056
they want him specifically to say Biden won the election.

860
00:55:47,216 --> 00:55:49,238
And he says, well, you know, he got the most

861
00:55:49,258 --> 00:55:55,682
electoral votes. You refuse to answer a basic question about

862
00:55:55,742 --> 00:55:59,765
who won a presidential election? But you asked to lead

863
00:55:59,865 --> 00:56:05,849
America's intelligence community? What does that have to do with

864
00:56:05,969 --> 00:56:09,711
anything? Isn't it humiliating to be unable to answer this

865
00:56:09,812 --> 00:56:12,634
question? It's humiliating to sit there and have to listen

866
00:56:12,693 --> 00:56:17,957
to these questions. To have to indulge the president's delusions.

867
00:56:19,538 --> 00:56:24,482
We know, you know, everybody in this room knows the

868
00:56:24,562 --> 00:56:28,024
truthful answer to that question. Why can you not give

869
00:56:28,064 --> 00:56:30,546
it? I think I gave you the answer. So then

870
00:56:31,486 --> 00:56:37,030
they bring on Senator Mark Kelly. This will wrap it

871
00:56:37,110 --> 00:56:39,072
up. Senator Mark Kelly joins me now. Senator, it's good

872
00:56:39,132 --> 00:56:42,034
to see you. You heard probably some of the Republicans

873
00:56:42,114 --> 00:56:43,575
in the last session. You know, a lot of them

874
00:56:43,675 --> 00:56:45,496
think a lot of people watching might think this is

875
00:56:45,496 --> 00:56:47,277
Democrats want to get the Republican, you know, get the

876
00:56:47,277 --> 00:56:49,338
Trump people to say this. But you went on to

877
00:56:49,399 --> 00:56:51,520
make a more important point, I think, which is if

878
00:56:51,580 --> 00:56:53,661
he won't say a simple fact that Joe Biden won

879
00:56:53,721 --> 00:56:56,443
the election, will he stand up to the president when

880
00:56:56,463 --> 00:56:59,425
the president needs to hear tough intelligence or when there's

881
00:56:59,445 --> 00:57:02,808
a debate or dispute with the president about key facts

882
00:57:02,868 --> 00:57:06,490
in maybe a sensitive national security situation? Did Jay Clayton

883
00:57:06,550 --> 00:57:08,952
give you confidence today that he will be that man

884
00:57:09,092 --> 00:57:13,535
if he's to confirm to this job? Absolutely not. And

885
00:57:13,775 --> 00:57:16,837
it was, John, it was rather disappointing. I mean, the

886
00:57:16,917 --> 00:57:20,740
entire hearing, I didn't hear anything that gives me any

887
00:57:20,800 --> 00:57:22,821
kind of reassurance that this guy is going to do

888
00:57:22,901 --> 00:57:25,623
the job the way the American people deserve. This is

889
00:57:25,703 --> 00:57:30,367
a critical position. And the American people's safety is on

890
00:57:30,427 --> 00:57:34,149
the line here. He's going to direct 18 intelligence agencies.

891
00:57:34,789 --> 00:57:36,871
And what we're trying to get at here is if

892
00:57:36,931 --> 00:57:39,513
he can't in that room, I mean, the president's down

893
00:57:39,553 --> 00:57:43,415
the street at Pennsylvania Avenue. I mean, he's not looking

894
00:57:43,455 --> 00:57:44,776
right at them. What is he going to do when

895
00:57:44,796 --> 00:57:46,958
he's sitting in the Oval Office or the Situation Room

896
00:57:47,558 --> 00:57:50,540
and the president disagrees with him? But he has studied

897
00:57:50,560 --> 00:57:54,463
the intelligence, and this is a critical national security issue,

898
00:57:54,563 --> 00:57:56,865
and the safety of the American people are at risk.

899
00:57:57,065 --> 00:57:59,006
Is he going to tell the president that he's wrong?

900
00:58:00,187 --> 00:58:01,968
And I don't see any evidence that he would do

901
00:58:02,068 --> 00:58:07,712
that. So I was incredibly disappointed today. Just so disappointing.

902
00:58:08,713 --> 00:58:13,976
And then the big controversy is the search for the

903
00:58:14,537 --> 00:58:19,480
leaker. about Air Force One. And I think you and

904
00:58:19,540 --> 00:58:24,363
I might disagree on some of these issues with journalists.

905
00:58:24,784 --> 00:58:28,606
This is... This is a setup of it. Exclusive CNN

906
00:58:28,666 --> 00:58:32,589
reporting tonight on the investigation into leaks about security shortcomings

907
00:58:32,629 --> 00:58:34,990
of the new Air Force One. Last week, you'll remember,

908
00:58:35,291 --> 00:58:37,492
the president flew the old plane instead of the new

909
00:58:37,632 --> 00:58:39,734
one when he left the NATO summit. The White House

910
00:58:39,794 --> 00:58:42,015
claims it was so that U.S. service members could tour

911
00:58:42,055 --> 00:58:43,937
the new one. The New York Times said it was

912
00:58:44,017 --> 00:58:47,579
because the Qatari gifted plane lacked key defense systems. And

913
00:58:47,619 --> 00:58:51,061
the president was incensed by that reporting. Now we've learned

914
00:58:51,081 --> 00:58:53,323
some government officials have been asked to turn over their

915
00:58:53,383 --> 00:58:55,485
phones at the White House as part of a leak

916
00:58:55,585 --> 00:58:57,886
probe. And as Evan Perez joins us now with more.

917
00:58:57,906 --> 00:59:00,148
Evan, what more have you learned about this White House

918
00:59:00,208 --> 00:59:02,629
probe? Yeah, this was an extraordinary scene at the White

919
00:59:02,669 --> 00:59:06,952
House last Friday where Kash Patel, the FBI director, and

920
00:59:07,052 --> 00:59:10,755
Susie Wiles, the chief of staff, essentially helped orchestrate what

921
00:59:10,795 --> 00:59:14,297
was hours long numbers of people from the White House,

922
00:59:14,618 --> 00:59:18,000
people who may have known about the president's trip, were

923
00:59:18,080 --> 00:59:20,902
brought in, their devices were taken from them in some

924
00:59:20,942 --> 00:59:24,644
cases, and they were being questioned by FBI agents because

925
00:59:24,724 --> 00:59:27,686
of this leak hunt. of course, is trying to figure

926
00:59:27,726 --> 00:59:30,228
out who in the government could have possibly leaked this

927
00:59:30,308 --> 00:59:33,510
information to the media. And the president, as you pointed

928
00:59:33,610 --> 00:59:37,273
out, John, is very, very obsessed, very much obsessed with

929
00:59:37,313 --> 00:59:40,475
this. And that, again, took place at the White House.

930
00:59:40,515 --> 00:59:42,877
We have a statement from the White House about this

931
00:59:42,917 --> 00:59:46,039
unusual scene. They said leaks that jeopardize the safety of

932
00:59:46,039 --> 00:59:49,641
the president, his staff, and a traveling press pool are

933
00:59:49,681 --> 00:59:51,963
dangerous and a threat to national security. The White House

934
00:59:52,003 --> 00:59:55,626
takes these leaks seriously and would do everything legally to

935
00:59:55,786 --> 00:59:58,568
ensure or the individual or individuals are caught and it

936
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does not happen.

937
01:00:00,059 --> 01:00:02,801
Again, that's, of course, from the White House this evening.

938
01:00:03,582 --> 01:00:07,004
So, you know, I've been thinking about this and the

939
01:00:07,545 --> 01:00:11,928
not disclosing your sources. I don't think that is actually

940
01:00:12,328 --> 01:00:16,671
protected under the First Amendment. The First Amendment gives the

941
01:00:16,871 --> 01:00:21,374
press the freedom to print whatever they want. It doesn't

942
01:00:21,414 --> 01:00:25,437
give them the freedom to not do their civic duty

943
01:00:26,618 --> 01:00:29,099
for national security, etc. I think it was actually, there

944
01:00:29,099 --> 01:00:35,964
was some... Supreme Court cases. that overruled this. And, you

945
01:00:36,004 --> 01:00:40,807
know, it's... I don't know if, I don't think it's

946
01:00:40,847 --> 01:00:44,850
protected under the First Amendment. You disagree? No, it probably

947
01:00:44,970 --> 01:00:48,132
isn't. Yeah. Okay. I never thought it was. It's just

948
01:00:48,172 --> 01:00:50,754
a gentleman's agreement. Look, you're going to tell me something,

949
01:00:50,754 --> 01:00:55,777
I'm going to protect you. Right. Can't make me talk.

950
01:00:56,018 --> 01:00:58,739
There was the Bandsburg v. What's protected is you can't

951
01:00:58,840 --> 01:01:04,944
testify against yourself. Right. Bandsburg v. Hayes in 1972, 5-4

952
01:01:05,024 --> 01:01:12,049
Supreme Court decision. Uh... The this was the court consolidated

953
01:01:12,069 --> 01:01:15,411
three different cases of reporters who had investigated drug synthesis

954
01:01:15,471 --> 01:01:18,513
and the Black Panther Party. When called before grand juries,

955
01:01:18,513 --> 01:01:21,215
the reporters refused to name their anonymous sources, arguing that

956
01:01:21,255 --> 01:01:25,678
doing so would dry up their news gathering pipelines and

957
01:01:25,758 --> 01:01:29,861
destroy. Here comes press freedom, which is not the text.

958
01:01:29,981 --> 01:01:33,003
It's freedom of the press. And the court ruled the

959
01:01:33,023 --> 01:01:36,685
public's interest in prosecuting and deterring crime via the grand

960
01:01:36,745 --> 01:01:40,608
jury system outweighs the incidental burden placed on the press.

961
01:01:40,668 --> 01:01:44,451
But the press, they just keep on going about free

962
01:01:44,551 --> 01:01:47,653
press, man. It's free, free press. Joining us now to

963
01:01:47,713 --> 01:01:50,735
discuss this is Will Creeley. He's the legal director for

964
01:01:50,875 --> 01:01:55,658
FIRE.org, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. Will, thank

965
01:01:55,698 --> 01:02:00,982
you for joining NewsHour. It's an honor. Thank you for

966
01:02:00,982 --> 01:02:05,025
having me. journalists have in this case? Well, the law

967
01:02:05,125 --> 01:02:08,007
has been clear for a long time that somebody else's

968
01:02:08,027 --> 01:02:11,589
illegal conduct does not remove speech about a matter of

969
01:02:11,629 --> 01:02:15,272
public concern, like the president's new jet from First Amendment

970
01:02:15,332 --> 01:02:19,535
protection. There's no federal shield law, but the heart of

971
01:02:19,555 --> 01:02:22,837
the First Amendment does indeed protect this kind of activity.

972
01:02:23,317 --> 01:02:26,419
What we're seeing here should be a last resort. Subpoenaing

973
01:02:26,780 --> 01:02:30,702
reporters is a shot across the bow designed to get

974
01:02:30,742 --> 01:02:34,225
people to stop asking about subjects the administration would rather

975
01:02:34,245 --> 01:02:37,087
not talk about. And it's chilling. In this case, the

976
01:02:37,127 --> 01:02:40,049
subpoenas were issued to these five New York Times reporters

977
01:02:40,189 --> 01:02:43,571
and some were served at their homes. Is that unusual?

978
01:02:43,691 --> 01:02:45,392
And why do you think it was done in that

979
01:02:45,492 --> 01:02:49,655
way, in your opinion? It is unusual, and it's theatrical.

980
01:02:49,975 --> 01:02:53,438
It's designed to send a very clear message. Stop asking

981
01:02:53,538 --> 01:02:57,100
questions, sit down, and shut up. I'm awfully tired of

982
01:02:57,180 --> 01:03:00,202
federal law enforcement agents showing up on people's doorsteps about

983
01:03:00,282 --> 01:03:03,485
protected speech, and unfortunately, this is just the latest in

984
01:03:03,565 --> 01:03:07,527
a pattern. This administration has evinced a real hostility to

985
01:03:07,587 --> 01:03:10,789
press that should concern Americans no matter their politics. It's

986
01:03:10,850 --> 01:03:13,992
designed to get people to sit down and be quiet.

987
01:03:14,212 --> 01:03:16,113
Yeah, I wonder if we still have that clip. What

988
01:03:16,173 --> 01:03:19,115
was the guy's name? Thank you. Rosen is the guy

989
01:03:19,135 --> 01:03:22,017
who got busted. Rosen, that's right. And they throw him

990
01:03:22,057 --> 01:03:26,540
in jail, right? Yeah. Let me see. Obama was the

991
01:03:26,600 --> 01:03:29,462
worst for this, and they never bring it up. No,

992
01:03:29,542 --> 01:03:32,404
no, it's all Trump invented it. Give me a break.

993
01:03:32,444 --> 01:03:36,007
Was it Jay Rosen? No. No, it's not Jay Rosen.

994
01:03:36,007 --> 01:03:41,550
He's the professor. Jay Rosen. Who was it? Who was

995
01:03:41,611 --> 01:03:45,913
it? Which Rosen? Let me see. Jail? Maybe I can

996
01:03:46,014 --> 01:03:50,837
find it that way. No. Obama I can't seem to,

997
01:03:50,997 --> 01:03:52,638
that was, it was quite a long time ago. I

998
01:03:52,678 --> 01:03:54,279
don't know if we even have those clips from back

999
01:03:54,359 --> 01:03:58,322
in the day. I don't know if the archive goes

1000
01:03:58,322 --> 01:03:59,883
back far enough. We probably do, but it's not going

1001
01:03:59,883 --> 01:04:03,325
to be easy to find. Yeah. But yeah, Obama's doing

1002
01:04:03,365 --> 01:04:06,087
it, but so is, you know, everybody bitches and moans

1003
01:04:06,147 --> 01:04:09,449
about the press. The press bitches and moans about the

1004
01:04:09,490 --> 01:04:11,471
press. That's who bitches and moans about the press. Everybody

1005
01:04:11,471 --> 01:04:13,172
bitches and moans. Yeah, I got one more clip here.

1006
01:04:13,372 --> 01:04:15,414
You mentioned this, but this is not the first time

1007
01:04:15,454 --> 01:04:18,716
that the Trump administration has tried to subpoena or question

1008
01:04:18,836 --> 01:04:22,578
journalists about stories that are critical of the administration or

1009
01:04:22,599 --> 01:04:26,281
the president. Is this a pattern that you're seeing? How

1010
01:04:26,361 --> 01:04:33,026
would you describe this kind of behavior? against the Washington

1011
01:04:33,066 --> 01:04:35,427
Post, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal. Just

1012
01:04:35,447 --> 01:04:38,609
last week, my colleagues were in Iowa State Court defending

1013
01:04:38,669 --> 01:04:42,772
a pollster, Ann Seltzer, against charges filed by the president

1014
01:04:43,313 --> 01:04:47,816
alleging that her poll constituted consumer fraud. It's beyond the

1015
01:04:47,856 --> 01:04:50,277
pale. It is a direct attack on the First Amendment's

1016
01:04:50,317 --> 01:04:53,500
protection of our free press. In the 250th anniversary of

1017
01:04:53,540 --> 01:04:58,323
our country, we should demand better. How does this administration

1018
01:04:58,443 --> 01:05:02,766
compare to previous administrations? I mean, other presidents and other

1019
01:05:02,806 --> 01:05:06,809
administrations have asked reporters to reveal their sources, but how

1020
01:05:06,869 --> 01:05:10,271
does this moment compare to those? That's right. Other presidents

1021
01:05:10,291 --> 01:05:12,212
have done it, but this is not something we should

1022
01:05:12,232 --> 01:05:14,494
get used to. Just because other presidents have done it,

1023
01:05:14,614 --> 01:05:18,196
and they have of both parties, isn't a grounds for

1024
01:05:18,256 --> 01:05:21,719
justification. We shouldn't normalize this behavior. We should ask for

1025
01:05:21,759 --> 01:05:26,062
the freest press we can demand. That's what we deserve.

1026
01:05:26,222 --> 01:05:28,964
under the First Amendment. That's what we are guaranteed beyond

1027
01:05:29,004 --> 01:05:31,826
deserved. Again, I think that you have to look at

1028
01:05:31,846 --> 01:05:34,968
this in the larger context of the president's attacks on

1029
01:05:35,088 --> 01:05:38,730
the press. Really, almost from day one, attacking the press

1030
01:05:38,790 --> 01:05:42,313
has been a trademark of his. And the result is

1031
01:05:42,513 --> 01:05:45,595
a chill on speech. It's a chill on speech. There's

1032
01:05:45,595 --> 01:05:50,058
been no chill. It's worse than ever. Where's the chill?

1033
01:05:50,158 --> 01:05:54,701
Hello? I don't know. I don't see any chill. No.

1034
01:05:54,921 --> 01:06:01,226
I see people moaning groaning more than ever. Anti-Trump. Trump's

1035
01:06:01,266 --> 01:06:04,188
fault. So the president had kind of a very interesting...

1036
01:06:06,970 --> 01:06:12,593
interesting change of heart over the Straits of Hormuz. Where

1037
01:06:12,693 --> 01:06:16,816
first he started, he said, hey, man, we're going to

1038
01:06:16,876 --> 01:06:20,039
charge everybody some money. We're going to charge everybody 20%,

1039
01:06:21,840 --> 01:06:24,982
which came out of nowhere all of a sudden. Trump

1040
01:06:25,082 --> 01:06:28,744
changing his tune after oil prices soared and American Gulf

1041
01:06:28,905 --> 01:06:34,088
allies called to complain. Kings and emirs and all of

1042
01:06:34,128 --> 01:06:36,770
the people that we all know and we all love.

1043
01:06:36,950 --> 01:06:38,591
And they said, we'd love to do it a different

1044
01:06:38,651 --> 01:06:40,993
way. We'd love to invest in the United States with.

1045
01:06:41,893 --> 01:06:46,036
Billions and billions of dollars. Can we play that clip

1046
01:06:46,056 --> 01:06:48,938
on the last show? What's that? It wasn't that last

1047
01:06:48,998 --> 01:06:51,980
show clip. No, no, this is a new clip. No,

1048
01:06:52,300 --> 01:06:54,402
no, no. I think that happened on the, on the

1049
01:06:54,462 --> 01:06:59,545
last. No, it just happened after the show. Sunday. When

1050
01:06:59,605 --> 01:07:04,769
it did 20%, that was after the show. No, it

1051
01:07:04,829 --> 01:07:07,271
must have been somebody brought up on Horowitz. That's what

1052
01:07:07,331 --> 01:07:09,933
I think. But tonight, one thing is clear. The Strait

1053
01:07:09,973 --> 01:07:14,155
of Hormuz is closed. Iran firing on multiple cargo ships

1054
01:07:14,295 --> 01:07:17,057
and on American allies in the region. So then the

1055
01:07:17,177 --> 01:07:19,999
new gambit came in, which is, you don't have to

1056
01:07:20,079 --> 01:07:22,341
pay a toll, but just invest in us. I was

1057
01:07:22,381 --> 01:07:25,523
wondering if you could explain your changing thinking on the

1058
01:07:25,663 --> 01:07:29,886
Strait of Hormuz, applying a 20% fee. How did you

1059
01:07:30,026 --> 01:07:35,090
get to the decision you just made? basically don't take

1060
01:07:35,170 --> 01:07:39,072
anything, we don't need the oil at all. And it

1061
01:07:39,132 --> 01:07:41,254
wasn't important for us, but it was important for allies.

1062
01:07:41,414 --> 01:07:44,696
I was called by different people, different countries, kings and

1063
01:07:45,657 --> 01:07:48,379
emirs and all of the people that we all know

1064
01:07:48,519 --> 01:07:51,501
and we all love. And they've been, frankly, they've been

1065
01:07:51,561 --> 01:07:54,843
very strong partners. And they said, we'd love to do

1066
01:07:54,903 --> 01:07:56,724
it a different way. We'd love to invest in the

1067
01:07:56,804 --> 01:08:00,787
United States with billions and billions of dollars. We would

1068
01:08:00,827 --> 01:08:04,530
like to invest tremendously in the United States. Tremendously. opposed

1069
01:08:04,570 --> 01:08:07,732
to charging a fee. And I like that actually, because

1070
01:08:07,752 --> 01:08:09,453
I don't think anybody should be able to charge a

1071
01:08:09,533 --> 01:08:15,017
fee for the straight or for any other straight relationship

1072
01:08:15,537 --> 01:08:17,999
in terms of other sections of the world. I don't

1073
01:08:18,019 --> 01:08:21,241
think anybody should be really in that position. But we

1074
01:08:21,301 --> 01:08:24,583
were doing it as a reimbursement. The Gulf states are

1075
01:08:24,644 --> 01:08:27,866
going to invest a tremendous amount of money into the

1076
01:08:27,906 --> 01:08:31,208
United States. And that was very satisfactory to me. I

1077
01:08:31,268 --> 01:08:35,351
think it's actually much better. a couple of analysts on

1078
01:08:35,451 --> 01:08:38,913
CNBC and you know I was like what what is

1079
01:08:38,953 --> 01:08:42,315
he doing this is completely stupid why would you even

1080
01:08:42,676 --> 01:08:44,977
say oh you want 20% this is is he just

1081
01:08:45,037 --> 01:08:47,779
pulling stuff out his butt as usual or is there

1082
01:08:47,799 --> 01:08:50,621
something behind it and then to change it around to

1083
01:08:50,681 --> 01:08:53,783
well you guys you should be paying 20% but instead

1084
01:08:53,823 --> 01:08:56,705
as long as you invest billions and billions and billions

1085
01:08:56,765 --> 01:08:59,847
and trillions of dollars in America will protect you you

1086
01:08:59,887 --> 01:09:01,929
don't have to do that but now I'm listening to

1087
01:09:01,929 --> 01:09:11,996
these analysts and it seems like The Strait of Hormuz

1088
01:09:12,056 --> 01:09:34,831
may even just be made redundant at some point. off-ramp

1089
01:09:34,891 --> 01:09:39,475
to this conflict. Daniel, you hinted at something very important

1090
01:09:39,635 --> 01:09:44,398
here that perhaps it's a political tactic during negotiation. By

1091
01:09:44,458 --> 01:09:47,320
the way, none of the two parties completely abandoned the

1092
01:09:47,320 --> 01:09:51,002
negotiating table and that perhaps explains why the market is

1093
01:09:51,062 --> 01:09:53,544
not in a panic mode. I mean, you would expect

1094
01:09:53,604 --> 01:09:56,846
in a period of so-called ceasefire to continue to see

1095
01:09:56,946 --> 01:09:59,288
this kind of tit-for-tat actions.

1096
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:02,421
As long as the two parties are still talking, and

1097
01:10:02,441 --> 01:10:04,963
that's something we should remember, I think that gives us

1098
01:10:05,023 --> 01:10:08,085
some hope that these are more targeted, limited attacks and

1099
01:10:08,085 --> 01:10:11,067
not really a fully-fledged war, as we saw, let's say,

1100
01:10:11,107 --> 01:10:14,369
two months ago, for instance. So there could be a

1101
01:10:14,469 --> 01:10:17,932
tactic to force both parties to stick to the negotiations,

1102
01:10:17,952 --> 01:10:20,273
to reach a deal at a certain point. But, of

1103
01:10:20,353 --> 01:10:23,956
course, the market does not like this kind of uncertainty,

1104
01:10:24,056 --> 01:10:26,097
and that's why we are seeing these kind of developments

1105
01:10:26,237 --> 01:10:31,601
overnight in oil prices. I think even under the worst-case

1106
01:10:31,601 --> 01:10:35,163
scenario, some oil continued to flow through the Strait of

1107
01:10:35,264 --> 01:10:38,085
Hormuz. Yes, some of it continued to flow through the

1108
01:10:38,085 --> 01:10:42,528
Strait of Hormuz, but all of these countries, they're all

1109
01:10:42,689 --> 01:10:47,712
scrambling and they're all building alternative transit routes, which is

1110
01:10:47,852 --> 01:10:50,774
pipelines and all kinds of other things. But it remains

1111
01:10:50,814 --> 01:10:52,936
to be seen what is the next chapter for Hormuz.

1112
01:10:52,976 --> 01:10:56,858
More importantly, while this is happening, something else equally important

1113
01:10:56,958 --> 01:11:02,602
is happening, are continue to looking to look for alternatives

1114
01:11:02,662 --> 01:11:05,424
to divert away from hormones. So who knows maybe by

1115
01:11:05,524 --> 01:11:08,766
the time the hormones crisis is resolved we don't need

1116
01:11:08,846 --> 01:11:11,588
to rely as much on hormones to get oil and

1117
01:11:11,648 --> 01:11:14,410
gas and other products out of that strait. Here's one

1118
01:11:14,490 --> 01:11:18,693
other analyst about it. For global trade it does affect

1119
01:11:18,753 --> 01:11:21,155
the flow of trade and all that but You do

1120
01:11:21,235 --> 01:11:26,018
see trade adapt, move to other routes. For example, DP

1121
01:11:26,158 --> 01:11:30,401
World Port has other ports around the world, and those

1122
01:11:30,501 --> 01:11:33,944
operations have increased. So you'll see expansions in other alternatives.

1123
01:11:34,344 --> 01:11:37,666
For the UAE itself, all focus is on Fujairah right

1124
01:11:37,786 --> 01:11:43,690
now. What doesn't make the headline enough is that the

1125
01:11:44,030 --> 01:11:47,193
cost of shipping insurance will stay up for a while.

1126
01:11:47,673 --> 01:11:51,275
So businesses will go where there's less friction, where there's

1127
01:11:51,335 --> 01:11:55,378
less cost. So we expect to see more activities within

1128
01:11:57,420 --> 01:12:01,102
from Fujairah's side. So they're just moving into other ports.

1129
01:12:01,162 --> 01:12:05,065
They're moving it out. I think this whole idea is

1130
01:12:05,165 --> 01:12:09,047
just to make the whole straight kind of irrelevant. I

1131
01:12:09,067 --> 01:12:11,529
don't know if it can be done. Well, if you

1132
01:12:11,589 --> 01:12:14,611
look at the shipping, the thousands of ships that are

1133
01:12:14,911 --> 01:12:18,414
around, it won't be overnight. No, it won't be overnight,

1134
01:12:18,434 --> 01:12:20,956
but they've got the pipeline, which is funny enough. Wasn't

1135
01:12:20,996 --> 01:12:23,377
that a Clinton thing back in the day? The pipeline,

1136
01:12:23,437 --> 01:12:26,059
taking it up to Turkey and then from Turkey, getting

1137
01:12:26,099 --> 01:12:29,201
it into Europe and taking it over to the Black

1138
01:12:29,301 --> 01:12:31,583
Sea and just all these different routes. I think the

1139
01:12:31,643 --> 01:12:34,064
pipelines, we're going to have to be doing a pipeline

1140
01:12:34,125 --> 01:12:40,349
episode again soon. Well, we're due. Yeah. I think there's

1141
01:12:40,369 --> 01:12:45,052
something. Something is up with this. this, the whole thing.

1142
01:12:45,372 --> 01:12:48,194
Well, I mean, there are, there are theses out there

1143
01:12:48,274 --> 01:12:50,876
that, that said this was the whole thing was to

1144
01:12:51,176 --> 01:12:53,338
shut down the straight of her moves. Well, that wouldn't

1145
01:12:53,358 --> 01:12:57,941
surprise me. wouldn't surprise me. Well, I guess the only

1146
01:12:57,941 --> 01:13:01,523
thing I've got is they're bringing it to complicate matters.

1147
01:13:01,683 --> 01:13:06,046
Here's a clip. The Iranian conflict is now targeting the

1148
01:13:06,126 --> 01:13:09,609
Houthis. Next, the Treasury Department has announced sanctions against an

1149
01:13:09,629 --> 01:13:13,151
underground network that has been helping the Iranian regime obtain

1150
01:13:13,171 --> 01:13:15,933
weapons. This comes as Iran is threatening to use the

1151
01:13:15,973 --> 01:13:19,175
Houthi terrorist group to expand their attacks on commercial shipping.

1152
01:13:19,756 --> 01:13:23,158
NTD's Jason Perry has the details. The United States continues

1153
01:13:23,198 --> 01:13:26,120
to increase its efforts to help secure the Strait of

1154
01:13:26,180 --> 01:13:30,463
Hormuz. And on Wednesday, the Treasury Department announced another round

1155
01:13:30,543 --> 01:13:34,646
of sanctions connected to the Iranian regime. The Treasury's Office

1156
01:13:34,746 --> 01:13:38,568
of Foreign Assets Control has sanctioned targets involved in an

1157
01:13:38,668 --> 01:13:43,732
international network helping to get weapons for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary

1158
01:13:43,792 --> 01:13:47,935
Guard Corps. Details of the sanctions include two individuals in

1159
01:13:48,055 --> 01:13:51,898
Russia and one in Italy accused of assisting Iran to

1160
01:13:51,958 --> 01:14:00,243
get weapons. Vanguard Tactical Supply Limited, which served as an

1161
01:14:00,383 --> 01:14:04,226
intermediary in helping Iran get weapons. The fresh round of

1162
01:14:04,326 --> 01:14:08,269
sanctions comes after Iran's attacks on vessels in the Hormuz

1163
01:14:08,329 --> 01:14:12,772
Strait. However, Iran has warned that if U.S. strikes continue,

1164
01:14:13,152 --> 01:14:16,734
Iran could expand attacks on commercial shipping to the coast

1165
01:14:16,875 --> 01:14:20,557
of Yemen through its proxy, the Houthi terrorist group. The

1166
01:14:20,617 --> 01:14:24,660
Houthis are located near another strategic waterway for global trade,

1167
01:14:24,980 --> 01:14:30,444
the Bab al-Mandeb Petros Katinas, research fellow at the Royal

1168
01:14:30,604 --> 01:14:50,518
United Services Institute, explains. He said the Houthis don't need

1169
01:14:50,598 --> 01:14:53,700
to attack every ship. They just have to complete a

1170
01:14:53,800 --> 01:14:59,464
limited number of successful attacks. insurance cost for commercial vessels

1171
01:14:59,564 --> 01:15:03,867
to skyrocket, causing ships to avoid the Red Sea altogether

1172
01:15:04,167 --> 01:15:07,109
and take a much longer route around the southern tip

1173
01:15:07,229 --> 01:15:12,613
of South Africa. All this energy that we're creating here

1174
01:15:12,653 --> 01:15:17,096
in the United States, we're getting another data center in,

1175
01:15:17,496 --> 01:15:21,719
I think, near Austin. And they will be, I think

1176
01:15:21,719 --> 01:15:29,904
they'll be generating 750 kilowatts of... gas-fired energy. And we

1177
01:15:30,225 --> 01:15:38,210
were talking about the data centers maybe being utilities. decentralizing

1178
01:15:38,370 --> 01:15:44,594
the energy, the electricity sources in America. And I got

1179
01:15:44,634 --> 01:15:46,836
an email from an old friend of the show who

1180
01:15:46,916 --> 01:15:51,639
apparently still listens, Atomic Rod Adams. No, we haven't heard

1181
01:15:51,679 --> 01:15:55,722
from him forever. For years. Yeah. And I want to

1182
01:15:56,002 --> 01:15:58,444
share this because, you know, this is what he does.

1183
01:15:58,564 --> 01:16:01,926
He was a... Was he a commander of an atomic

1184
01:16:02,346 --> 01:16:06,709
submarine? Yeah, he's a... Now I think he became a

1185
01:16:07,010 --> 01:16:10,652
nuclear consultant. A nuclear consultant. Then things were bad for

1186
01:16:10,712 --> 01:16:14,815
a while. Business was down, particularly during the Biden administration.

1187
01:16:15,956 --> 01:16:19,158
You and John mentioned advanced nuclear demonstrations during Sunday's show.

1188
01:16:19,498 --> 01:16:22,440
As you stated, four new reactors started operating on or

1189
01:16:22,500 --> 01:16:25,442
before July 4th. You don't hear much about this anywhere.

1190
01:16:26,163 --> 01:16:27,964
I was lucky enough to be present for the final

1191
01:16:27,984 --> 01:16:31,366
two of them, Deployable Energy on June 30th and Allo

1192
01:16:31,586 --> 01:16:35,429
Atomics very early, 1220 a.m. on July 4th. It was

1193
01:16:35,589 --> 01:16:37,631
cool to be boots on the ground as an observer

1194
01:16:37,711 --> 01:16:41,653
for these historic events. I also witnessed Valar Atomics producing

1195
01:16:41,693 --> 01:16:45,716
the first electricity from an advanced reactor. Those success stories

1196
01:16:45,776 --> 01:16:47,577
are likely to be joined by two to four more

1197
01:16:47,837 --> 01:16:50,559
new reactors by the end of the summer. The reactor

1198
01:16:50,639 --> 01:16:54,482
pilot program, which helps to speed reviews, approvals, and facility

1199
01:16:54,542 --> 01:16:58,125
construction, includes 11 projects and is designed to continue to

1200
01:16:58,185 --> 01:17:01,987
provide acceleration even after reaching the interim goal of having

1201
01:17:02,047 --> 01:17:05,189
three start by July 4. There's a tremendous amount of

1202
01:17:05,289 --> 01:17:08,632
energy and excitement in the nuclear industry, stimulated by a

1203
01:17:08,652 --> 01:17:11,574
collection of four executive orders, all signed on May 23,

1204
01:17:11,714 --> 01:17:18,138
2025. likely to see any new nuclear plant construction. He's

1205
01:17:18,198 --> 01:17:21,801
probably right. but he might be interested in learning that

1206
01:17:21,841 --> 01:17:25,183
many of the advanced nuclear companies are headquartered in California.

1207
01:17:26,464 --> 01:17:28,625
So he says California's got a couple of them in

1208
01:17:28,725 --> 01:17:35,730
Torrance and El Segundo, Oakland, Santa Clara, Berkeley. Hey, Berkeley,

1209
01:17:35,950 --> 01:17:38,732
California, deep fishing in Berkeley, right around the corner. In

1210
01:17:38,832 --> 01:17:41,354
Texas, there's a whole bunch of them. Well, this is

1211
01:17:41,414 --> 01:17:45,857
good. This is what we need. Yeah, I agree. I

1212
01:17:45,917 --> 01:17:48,759
think it's cool. It's good that we're doing that. We

1213
01:17:48,799 --> 01:17:53,742
couldn't get any of that stuff done forever. No, because

1214
01:17:53,782 --> 01:17:56,845
of one or two mishaps. Now I would say the

1215
01:17:57,005 --> 01:18:03,389
most interesting... legislation to pass which still doesn't mean that

1216
01:18:03,469 --> 01:18:06,071
we're going to get get anywhere with it is the

1217
01:18:07,952 --> 01:18:12,335
What is it? The Protect the Sunshine Act? You hear

1218
01:18:12,415 --> 01:18:16,018
about this? No. Yeah, this is it. It's a debate

1219
01:18:16,058 --> 01:18:19,520
that has consumed a lot of time, literally. But yesterday,

1220
01:18:19,560 --> 01:18:23,102
Congress took its biggest step yet toward ending the twice-yearly

1221
01:18:23,182 --> 01:18:26,685
changing of the clocks. The House passed the Sunshine Protection...

1222
01:18:26,885 --> 01:18:31,848
Say what? Yeah, yeah, this was overplayed on Fox and

1223
01:18:31,908 --> 01:18:35,851
every place in between. This is, this is, every year

1224
01:18:36,111 --> 01:18:38,113
or every couple of years we get this story. It's

1225
01:18:38,153 --> 01:18:41,115
like a rerun of old news. Well, they're trying. They're

1226
01:18:41,135 --> 01:18:51,922
trying something new. They're not, they're getting, it's... This, this

1227
01:18:52,122 --> 01:18:57,726
is, this is not Fox, as an aside. This is

1228
01:18:57,866 --> 01:19:00,468
PBS. changing the clocks we are joined now by scott

1229
01:19:00,548 --> 01:19:04,291
yates founder of the lock the clock alliance it's always

1230
01:19:04,310 --> 01:19:06,032
good to see you so you've been pushing for this

1231
01:19:06,752 --> 01:19:10,135
for years we've seen momentum before it's not become law

1232
01:19:10,655 --> 01:19:13,797
why might this time be different Well, we've never seen

1233
01:19:13,897 --> 01:19:16,579
it pass the House before. I mean, it's never gotten

1234
01:19:16,579 --> 01:19:18,660
to the floor for even to be able to have

1235
01:19:18,720 --> 01:19:21,022
a vote. So this is just a huge step forward.

1236
01:19:21,562 --> 01:19:23,504
And I think it shows the kind of momentum that

1237
01:19:23,544 --> 01:19:26,606
we have. And I think it shows the excitement over

1238
01:19:26,986 --> 01:19:30,909
an issue that's actually bipartisan. I was pleased to see

1239
01:19:30,989 --> 01:19:34,311
a wide margin, both among Republicans and Democrats voting for

1240
01:19:34,411 --> 01:19:36,332
it. So I think with that kind of momentum, we

1241
01:19:36,392 --> 01:19:38,234
can go over to the Senate and say, look, this

1242
01:19:38,314 --> 01:19:44,218
is what the people want. the country and in the

1243
01:19:44,258 --> 01:19:46,859
House vote yesterday. We've never been this close, John. This

1244
01:19:46,920 --> 01:19:49,721
has been the first time. We're getting somewhere with this.

1245
01:19:50,202 --> 01:19:52,323
But I think this is good. We got to check

1246
01:19:52,463 --> 01:19:56,966
the prop bet market on this baby. This is a

1247
01:19:57,127 --> 01:19:59,908
solid no. Well, would they?

1248
01:20:00,060 --> 01:20:02,001
But this guy, what this Yates guy is saying is

1249
01:20:02,201 --> 01:20:04,122
they need to push it to the states. This is

1250
01:20:04,142 --> 01:20:06,424
going to make it even more fun. So the states

1251
01:20:06,484 --> 01:20:09,366
can decide what time zone they want to be in.

1252
01:20:09,466 --> 01:20:11,707
This makes my head spin. In your view, what do

1253
01:20:11,787 --> 01:20:14,950
we gain by stopping the twice yearly changing of the

1254
01:20:14,970 --> 01:20:17,251
clocks? One of the things I was really encouraged to

1255
01:20:17,291 --> 01:20:20,533
hear yesterday were all different politicians kind of getting up

1256
01:20:20,634 --> 01:20:23,876
and talking about the health detriments of the clock changing.

1257
01:20:24,316 --> 01:20:25,977
You know, it wasn't that long ago that we just

1258
01:20:26,037 --> 01:20:28,599
thought of changing the clocks for daylight saving time was

1259
01:20:28,639 --> 01:20:31,961
kind of annoyance. of it as deadly, but now the

1260
01:20:31,981 --> 01:20:34,563
research is really clear that it really is deadly and

1261
01:20:34,643 --> 01:20:38,025
very disruptive. It's bad for schools, it's bad for businesses,

1262
01:20:38,145 --> 01:20:40,967
it's bad for everybody. The only thing that we don't

1263
01:20:40,987 --> 01:20:43,929
agree on completely is on which time zone we should

1264
01:20:43,949 --> 01:20:46,551
be locking into, but I think we've got a solution

1265
01:20:46,651 --> 01:20:49,873
to be able to address that without having to have

1266
01:20:49,894 --> 01:20:52,795
the clock change twice a year, which is what I

1267
01:20:52,836 --> 01:20:55,597
think most people actually are the most interested in. It's

1268
01:20:55,637 --> 01:20:57,719
just they don't really care that much which one we

1269
01:20:57,799 --> 01:21:00,261
lock into. They just don't like the switching. What's the

1270
01:21:00,301 --> 01:21:02,802
solution? Well, the solution is actually an amendment that I

1271
01:21:02,902 --> 01:21:05,324
proposed back when it was in the Senate last year

1272
01:21:05,924 --> 01:21:09,347
to have a two-year implementation period. And what that allows

1273
01:21:09,527 --> 01:21:11,688
is for each state to be able to have enough

1274
01:21:11,748 --> 01:21:14,931
time and the school boards to weigh in and everybody

1275
01:21:15,271 --> 01:21:17,332
in a state to be able to say, look, this

1276
01:21:17,412 --> 01:21:18,933
is a time that makes the most sense for us.

1277
01:21:19,674 --> 01:21:22,816
Anybody that says they've got a perfect solution that works

1278
01:21:22,876 --> 01:21:25,498
for every state in the country has some other agenda

1279
01:21:25,538 --> 01:21:31,322
they're trying to push. who sits and also works for

1280
01:21:31,402 --> 01:21:35,465
Indiana, well, that's just not possible. So I think if

1281
01:21:35,525 --> 01:21:38,086
we have a two-year implementation, which is an amendment that

1282
01:21:38,186 --> 01:21:40,448
was accepted and is now part of the Senate version,

1283
01:21:40,928 --> 01:21:44,171
that would give people of, for instance, Indiana and Michigan,

1284
01:21:44,171 --> 01:21:45,752
a couple of states that I think would be really

1285
01:21:45,792 --> 01:21:48,594
well served to be on permanent standard time to be

1286
01:21:48,634 --> 01:21:51,515
able to make that decision. So it's kind of crazier

1287
01:21:51,576 --> 01:21:55,078
than I thought it would be. So each time zone,

1288
01:21:55,118 --> 01:21:59,681
each state would be able to determine what time 7

1289
01:21:59,721 --> 01:22:04,404
o'clock is. So today we have two hours difference between

1290
01:22:04,464 --> 01:22:08,987
California and Texas. It might be one hour. Can you

1291
01:22:08,987 --> 01:22:12,210
imagine if every state just, what's the time there? Well,

1292
01:22:12,270 --> 01:22:15,051
we're in Indiana. I mean, Arizona still does its own

1293
01:22:15,152 --> 01:22:17,533
thing, and Indiana until recently used to have their own

1294
01:22:17,633 --> 01:22:20,855
time. Yeah. So it's not that unusual. But every state

1295
01:22:20,936 --> 01:22:23,437
might get a little funky. No, the whole thing's a

1296
01:22:23,517 --> 01:22:26,659
joke. These things never come to fruition. It's just going

1297
01:22:26,659 --> 01:22:29,802
to keep going. Once it was established, they can't get

1298
01:22:29,862 --> 01:22:33,724
rid of it. Because I was kind of convinced, kind

1299
01:22:33,744 --> 01:22:40,389
of like you, that, well, this is interesting. Gutfeld they

1300
01:22:40,469 --> 01:22:43,351
had the little group of comedy comedians on there and

1301
01:22:43,391 --> 01:22:45,272
it was just was split right in the middle no

1302
01:22:45,392 --> 01:22:48,174
it should be daylight savings time all the time no

1303
01:22:48,314 --> 01:22:50,836
it shouldn't because then in the morning and during the

1304
01:22:50,916 --> 01:22:52,717
certain time of year it'll be too dark for the

1305
01:22:52,817 --> 01:22:55,079
kiddies and they have to pick up they won't be

1306
01:22:55,139 --> 01:22:57,280
able to see the bus when it comes and they're

1307
01:22:57,280 --> 01:23:00,162
gonna get it mugged and killed so think of the

1308
01:23:00,262 --> 01:23:03,505
children we can't do daylight savings all year but wait

1309
01:23:03,645 --> 01:23:06,507
there's but then if we do standard time all year

1310
01:23:06,527 --> 01:23:08,628
round then it's too dark at night nobody's gonna go

1311
01:23:08,668 --> 01:23:11,350
out and shop is gonna be bad for commerce. This

1312
01:23:11,450 --> 01:23:15,513
is not working. So there's a solution for this which

1313
01:23:15,633 --> 01:23:18,175
came in the same week as this news. Yeah, take

1314
01:23:18,215 --> 01:23:20,836
the Earth out of orbit. No, no, no. It's the

1315
01:23:21,056 --> 01:23:26,040
new company, Reflect Orbital. This is, so if you don't

1316
01:23:26,140 --> 01:23:28,482
like the fact that your kids have to walk to

1317
01:23:28,542 --> 01:23:32,204
school in the dark. Well, then you just rent some

1318
01:23:32,264 --> 01:23:36,187
time from Reflect Orbital and they can spread some sunlight

1319
01:23:36,327 --> 01:24:01,804
on a five kilometer patch of Earth. reflect orbital plans

1320
01:24:01,864 --> 01:24:05,427
to have more than 50,000 satellites in action by 2035.

1321
01:24:05,887 --> 01:24:10,130
However, some astronomers, wildlife experts, and others oppose this idea

1322
01:24:10,250 --> 01:24:13,252
completely. They claim that the light from the mirrors could

1323
01:24:13,292 --> 01:24:17,535
distract airplane pilots, could wreak havoc on astronomical observations, and

1324
01:24:17,635 --> 01:24:21,438
interfere with sleep-wake cycles. I think this is very cool.

1325
01:24:21,498 --> 01:24:24,840
I'm surprised it's not an Elon Musk operation. Yeah, that's

1326
01:24:24,840 --> 01:24:27,902
not happening either. Yeah, it is. What a screwball story.

1327
01:24:28,022 --> 01:24:31,004
They'd give me a crap for a screwball story. They're

1328
01:24:31,044 --> 01:24:34,747
demoing it. They already have one up there. And so

1329
01:24:34,847 --> 01:24:37,689
you say, okay, let there be light, and they just

1330
01:24:37,749 --> 01:24:41,531
reflect. You know, there's things called street lamps. No, but.

1331
01:24:41,651 --> 01:24:44,453
Let's say. Why do you need a satellite? Light up

1332
01:24:44,553 --> 01:24:47,536
the street. I lost my key somewhere in the yard.

1333
01:24:48,076 --> 01:24:52,559
Let's order some light for five minutes. Yeah, that would

1334
01:24:53,219 --> 01:24:57,082
be so inexpensive, you can be sure. Well, just reflecting

1335
01:24:57,142 --> 01:25:02,586
some light. Yeah, 50,000 of them. How much space junk

1336
01:25:02,666 --> 01:25:06,328
do we actually have? I don't know. There's enough of

1337
01:25:06,388 --> 01:25:09,510
the Starlink satellites to go around. Too much going on.

1338
01:25:09,510 --> 01:25:15,074
They should put Starlink's mirrors on them. Yeah, I see

1339
01:25:15,134 --> 01:25:20,958
him regularly flying by. regularly so biden's come out with

1340
01:25:20,958 --> 01:25:22,819
a book oh he's coming out with a book in

1341
01:25:22,900 --> 01:25:27,783
november uh-huh and he produced a uh a little video

1342
01:25:27,883 --> 01:25:30,365
of him talking about this book coming out wait a

1343
01:25:30,365 --> 01:25:33,387
minute don't tell me this is another uh listen to

1344
01:25:33,587 --> 01:25:37,209
no agenda show segment no no this is actually this

1345
01:25:37,289 --> 01:25:40,772
is biden uh-huh uh and i have two clips because

1346
01:25:40,812 --> 01:25:44,334
i have a short version which is the segment that

1347
01:25:44,394 --> 01:25:49,258
i want to i want you to listen to saying

1348
01:25:49,458 --> 01:25:52,460
okay so let's play the long promotion for the book

1349
01:25:52,660 --> 01:25:56,122
okay Since I left the presidency, I've had a lot

1350
01:25:56,142 --> 01:25:58,544
of people ask me, "Joe, what have you been doing?"

1351
01:25:58,664 --> 01:26:04,548
"Joe!" "Joe!" I've been spending a lot of time with

1352
01:26:04,568 --> 01:26:07,750
my family. I'm dealing with a cancer diagnosis and I've

1353
01:26:07,770 --> 01:26:11,253
been getting treatment and it's been going really well. I

1354
01:26:11,333 --> 01:26:12,994
want to thank all those of you for their prayers

1355
01:26:13,074 --> 01:26:15,756
and support and well wishes. This meant the world to

1356
01:26:15,856 --> 01:26:20,359
me and to Jill. I've written a book about my

1357
01:26:20,459 --> 01:26:25,242
time as president. It's called Promise Me America. It's coming

1358
01:26:25,282 --> 01:26:28,885
out in November, and it's available for pre-order now. It's

1359
01:26:28,905 --> 01:26:31,847
about the challenges we face as a nation, about the

1360
01:26:31,907 --> 01:26:41,353
decisions I made. why I made them. country through COVID,

1361
01:26:41,673 --> 01:26:46,497
rebuilding our economy and restoring our democracy after the attack

1362
01:26:46,637 --> 01:26:50,379
on January 6th. Any donation as long as we're in

1363
01:26:50,439 --> 01:26:56,924
Afghanistan. Strengthening NATO and supporting Ukraine. It's about why I

1364
01:26:57,004 --> 01:27:00,246
chose to run for re-election and why I chose to

1365
01:27:00,326 --> 01:27:03,588
step aside. Is this a coloring book that he is

1366
01:27:03,648 --> 01:27:09,893
releasing? Or is it actual words? Be nice. I get

1367
01:27:09,913 --> 01:27:13,075
the segment there that where he mumbles a bit. Tell

1368
01:27:13,135 --> 01:27:16,457
me what he says. Any donations, longest one I've got.

1369
01:27:17,298 --> 01:27:21,781
Strengthening NATO. Okay, something about the war in Afghanistan. Let

1370
01:27:21,801 --> 01:27:24,442
me listen again. Any of our nation's longest war in

1371
01:27:24,482 --> 01:28:05,791
Afghanistan. Strengthening NATO. Strengthening NATO. Wow. Wow. So is he

1372
01:28:05,831 --> 01:28:08,512
going to do an audio book? Because that would be

1373
01:28:08,653 --> 01:28:16,398
genius. I'd buy it. Wow. Yeah, so I'm going to

1374
01:28:16,418 --> 01:28:18,539
be competing with him with my book. I'm going to

1375
01:28:18,539 --> 01:28:22,822
be talking to Mimi about it. Yeah. My memoirs. Yeah,

1376
01:28:22,882 --> 01:28:26,865
your book would be great. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Here's what

1377
01:28:26,905 --> 01:28:30,828
I understand about books. There's no money in it. No,

1378
01:28:30,948 --> 01:28:33,830
it's not the idea. Well, I'm not running for president.

1379
01:28:34,730 --> 01:28:37,472
What's the idea? Well, if you ever run for president,

1380
01:28:37,472 --> 01:28:40,354
you've got the book. Right. What do you do a

1381
01:28:40,434 --> 01:28:42,476
book for if there's no money in it? You have

1382
01:28:42,516 --> 01:28:45,398
to get, it's a service. It's like, why do we

1383
01:28:45,458 --> 01:28:47,819
do this podcast before we don't get any money? It's

1384
01:28:47,899 --> 01:28:50,521
a service. I know, but I already do a public

1385
01:28:50,601 --> 01:28:53,023
service. Now I've got to do another service? Well, you

1386
01:28:53,103 --> 01:28:56,005
know, you haven't done the, yeah. The thing is. Yeah,

1387
01:28:56,445 --> 01:29:02,589
exactly. It never ends. But here's what I realize. Because

1388
01:29:02,709 --> 01:29:05,731
throughout the years, I've written blog posts and stuff. And

1389
01:29:07,533 --> 01:29:09,954
I think I've told almost every single story on the

1390
01:29:09,974 --> 01:29:11,996
show at some point, which is good because I have

1391
01:29:12,076 --> 01:29:17,359
transcripts of everything. I'm worried that my recollection of things

1392
01:29:17,560 --> 01:29:21,122
may not be the way it actually happened. Someone comes

1393
01:29:21,182 --> 01:29:23,644
out of the woodwork and says, hey, you're full of

1394
01:29:23,704 --> 01:29:29,548
crap. What do you do in that case? Oh, that's

1395
01:29:29,588 --> 01:29:33,270
going to happen. Yeah, well, of course it is. But

1396
01:29:33,310 --> 01:29:36,152
then what do you do? You say, that's the way

1397
01:29:36,212 --> 01:29:41,236
I remember it. Okay. I just can't slander anybody. Well,

1398
01:29:41,276 --> 01:29:43,557
that's easy enough. Well, but I got to tell my

1399
01:29:43,637 --> 01:29:45,799
Richard Marks story. Unless they're dead. I got to tell

1400
01:29:45,819 --> 01:29:49,061
my Richard Marks story. Is he dead? No, but he's

1401
01:29:49,101 --> 01:29:52,904
litigious. He's very litigious. He's crazy. Richard Marks is crazy.

1402
01:29:52,924 --> 01:29:54,685
You don't even mention him in the book. But it's

1403
01:29:54,725 --> 01:29:58,187
a great story. No, now we- Well, why don't you

1404
01:29:58,327 --> 01:29:59,988
call him up? No! And tell him it's-

1405
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:02,481
If you can tell the story. I don't need his

1406
01:30:02,521 --> 01:30:04,723
permission to tell the story, do I? Well, if you

1407
01:30:04,763 --> 01:30:07,825
don't want to get sued, maybe. Well, see, now I

1408
01:30:07,865 --> 01:30:14,910
don't want to do a book. Boy, you're easy. What

1409
01:30:14,990 --> 01:30:18,092
a pushover. The worst thing about Richard Marks, who I

1410
01:30:18,172 --> 01:30:20,433
had a... I don't even know who... You're talking about

1411
01:30:20,473 --> 01:30:22,695
somebody nobody knows who you're talking about. Are you kidding

1412
01:30:22,755 --> 01:30:26,758
me? Richard Marks in the 80s and 90s had number

1413
01:30:26,938 --> 01:30:29,820
one hits back to back. You know, just because you

1414
01:30:29,920 --> 01:30:32,001
don't... He was the Marks Brothers? Who are you talking

1415
01:30:32,041 --> 01:30:38,746
about? I will play you a Richard Marks song. He

1416
01:30:38,846 --> 01:30:42,769
sings? He's a singer? Yes, he's a singer. Yes. But

1417
01:30:42,889 --> 01:30:48,453
what group? Richard Marks. He's just Richard Marks. I never

1418
01:30:48,573 --> 01:30:51,735
heard of him. No, I'm not surprised you've never heard

1419
01:30:51,815 --> 01:30:58,119
of him, but he's quite famous. me see what He

1420
01:30:58,199 --> 01:31:03,082
has all new songs. Where's his biggest hits? Uh, wait,

1421
01:31:03,203 --> 01:31:06,085
what was it? Right here waiting for you? Right here

1422
01:31:06,785 --> 01:31:16,131
waiting for you, Dick Mark. This kind of stuff. Oh,

1423
01:31:16,131 --> 01:31:18,273
this is the kind of stuff I don't like. That's

1424
01:31:18,333 --> 01:31:20,134
probably why I never heard it. No, of course not.

1425
01:31:20,274 --> 01:31:25,458
This is boring. Look at... Oh, that's Bryan Adams. Hold

1426
01:31:25,518 --> 01:31:27,899
on a second. Light some candles, people. Wait, that's Bryan

1427
01:31:28,020 --> 01:31:29,621
Adams. That's not even Richard Marks. Oh, you don't even

1428
01:31:29,621 --> 01:31:31,662
get the right guy. Here we go. This is him.

1429
01:31:32,302 --> 01:31:37,246
This is him. There's your... Sounds the same. 1980s DX7

1430
01:31:37,366 --> 01:31:42,950
synthesizer sound. He comes out of the smoke. Oh yeah,

1431
01:31:43,070 --> 01:31:45,471
this is good. Oh yeah, he's got his blue jeans

1432
01:31:45,671 --> 01:31:52,236
on. Sits down at the piano. You don't remember this

1433
01:31:52,276 --> 01:31:59,601
song? No. It sounds like a dime a dozen. It's

1434
01:31:59,681 --> 01:32:02,343
a long intro. Hold on. Okay, you can stop it.

1435
01:32:02,343 --> 01:32:08,607
No, I want to hear him sing now. Anyway. So,

1436
01:32:08,847 --> 01:32:11,029
I made a joke about his hair once on MTV,

1437
01:32:11,229 --> 01:32:13,711
which was okay. You know, I had hair. Did he

1438
01:32:13,851 --> 01:32:16,352
have long hair, short hair, or bald? He had big

1439
01:32:16,412 --> 01:32:18,754
hair. He had big hair like you had. Yeah, and

1440
01:32:18,814 --> 01:32:21,096
I said, there's Richard Marks with his hair at number

1441
01:32:21,196 --> 01:32:23,477
four on the top 20 countdown. He tried to get

1442
01:32:23,537 --> 01:32:26,119
me fired. Thank you. He literally tried to get me

1443
01:32:26,219 --> 01:32:31,182
fired. For what? Because I made fun of him. How

1444
01:32:31,363 --> 01:32:32,804
did you make fun of him? You said he had

1445
01:32:32,844 --> 01:32:35,946
hair. I'm telling you. He went to Abby Conowitz. He

1446
01:32:36,026 --> 01:32:38,968
went to Rick Krim. The irony would be if he's

1447
01:32:39,028 --> 01:32:42,430
bald now. No, he's not. Well, no, the hard part

1448
01:32:42,610 --> 01:32:46,273
is, you know who he's married to? You won't know

1449
01:32:46,293 --> 01:32:52,417
her either. Daisy Fuentes. Nick Fuent is his sister? You're

1450
01:32:52,457 --> 01:32:55,719
hopeless. This book is not for you, okay? This book

1451
01:32:55,799 --> 01:32:58,981
is not for you. Don't worry about it. Don't read

1452
01:32:59,082 --> 01:33:01,523
it. Mimi and I will make a book, and we'll

1453
01:33:01,543 --> 01:33:03,565
make a book, we'll make a book. And I want

1454
01:33:03,585 --> 01:33:06,086
to do that whole download the PDF, and if you

1455
01:33:06,166 --> 01:33:08,848
want to buy it, then value for value, just send

1456
01:33:08,868 --> 01:33:11,650
me some money. You'll get something out of it. No,

1457
01:33:11,650 --> 01:33:13,792
we'll get nothing. You'll get nothing out of it. No,

1458
01:33:13,872 --> 01:33:15,653
you'll get something. You just want me to do it

1459
01:33:15,653 --> 01:33:17,394
so I can go on a promo tour and promote

1460
01:33:17,394 --> 01:33:19,235
the show. I think it would benefit for not having

1461
01:33:19,335 --> 01:33:22,898
anything about Richard Marks, though. No, no. Because that was

1462
01:33:22,898 --> 01:33:27,161
a legendary fight. This is legendary. Wow. And then we

1463
01:33:27,161 --> 01:33:30,943
were on a live... You're unselling the book as we

1464
01:33:31,063 --> 01:33:36,287
speak. you radio show and he says I hope you

1465
01:33:36,367 --> 01:33:39,989
get cancer that was Richard Marx That was kind of

1466
01:33:40,050 --> 01:33:42,971
cute. Yeah, so there's good stories there. It's good stories.

1467
01:33:44,553 --> 01:33:49,156
Let's play this clip, fun fraud testimony, NTD. Fun fraud

1468
01:33:49,276 --> 01:33:52,498
testimony. And following a string of major criminal fraud cases

1469
01:33:52,558 --> 01:33:56,521
in federal programs, Senate lawmakers hear from investigative journalists and

1470
01:33:56,661 --> 01:34:00,663
watchdogs on how to stop billions in taxpayer fraud before

1471
01:34:00,744 --> 01:34:04,826
it happens. NTD correspondent Jason Blair has the takeaways. When

1472
01:34:04,886 --> 01:34:07,568
a fraudster commits fraud, he or she steals from all

1473
01:34:07,588 --> 01:34:10,630
of us. The Senate Homeland Security Committee is looking to

1474
01:34:10,750 --> 01:34:15,233
tackle widespread fraud being exposed across the country. Chairman Rand

1475
01:34:15,274 --> 01:34:19,316
Paul compares the federal government to private businesses that verify

1476
01:34:19,416 --> 01:34:23,419
payments up front. Washington pays first and asks questions later

1477
01:34:23,979 --> 01:34:26,601
if it asks them at all. No private business would

1478
01:34:26,661 --> 01:34:30,604
survive this way. A bank confirms an account exists before

1479
01:34:30,684 --> 01:34:34,547
wiring the money. A credit card company flags suspicious changes

1480
01:34:34,927 --> 01:34:39,170
in seconds. Paul highlighted major criminal cases in Minnesota. Prosecutors

1481
01:34:39,190 --> 01:34:43,052
have now charged 15 people in Minnesota with schemes involving

1482
01:34:43,092 --> 01:34:49,077
more than $90 million. One autism services scheme alone, $46.6

1483
01:34:49,237 --> 01:34:53,079
million. The Justice Department calls it the largest Medicaid autism

1484
01:34:53,159 --> 01:34:57,182
fraud case in its history. Independent journalist Nick Shirley, whose

1485
01:34:57,202 --> 01:35:01,685
investigations helped expose those Minnesota cases, tells the committee the

1486
01:35:01,745 --> 01:35:05,308
problem is nationwide. Now the highest government-funded daycare in Minnesota

1487
01:35:05,348 --> 01:35:08,190
has pleaded guilty to daycare fraud, and the largest autism

1488
01:35:08,250 --> 01:35:15,955
bust in American history has been exposed. Journalist James O'Keefe

1489
01:35:16,015 --> 01:35:20,118
describes undercover work that contributed to a federal prosecution. We

1490
01:35:20,158 --> 01:35:22,840
recorded a woman named Brown handing over cash as payment

1491
01:35:22,860 --> 01:35:25,061
in exchange for a homeless person to register to vote

1492
01:35:25,441 --> 01:35:28,804
in a federal election. Now that is a federal crime.

1493
01:35:29,004 --> 01:35:33,407
Ranking member Gary Peters describes bipartisan legislation he helped pass

1494
01:35:33,727 --> 01:35:37,870
to stop conflicts of interest with pharmaceutical companies. After learning

1495
01:35:37,910 --> 01:35:40,331
that a company was being paid with tax dollars to

1496
01:35:40,412 --> 01:35:44,674
advise the government on oversight of the pharmaceutical industry, while

1497
01:35:44,755 --> 01:35:49,198
simultaneously being paid by pharma companies to help market their

1498
01:35:49,258 --> 01:35:52,980
drugs. You know, the fraud in America, I got a

1499
01:35:53,120 --> 01:36:00,645
stat here. where this was. have the budget. It, here

1500
01:36:00,645 --> 01:36:08,411
it is. Nine days. of improper federal payments. Equals the

1501
01:36:08,491 --> 01:36:14,695
entire annual budget we send to Israel. Nine days. Two

1502
01:36:14,815 --> 01:36:18,538
weeks of only Medicare and Medicaid fraud. I mean, it

1503
01:36:18,638 --> 01:36:21,960
is out of control. Yeah, can you imagine what it

1504
01:36:21,960 --> 01:36:26,223
would be like with Medicare for all? Oh, pfft. Please.

1505
01:36:26,243 --> 01:36:29,345
We'd be broke. The whole country would be down. Did

1506
01:36:29,405 --> 01:36:31,867
I tell you that when I went to visit Lex,

1507
01:36:31,967 --> 01:36:34,689
remember my first boss on his estate? Yeah, Lex. Lex

1508
01:36:34,809 --> 01:36:38,411
Luthor. Yeah, on his estate. He's got an estate. The

1509
01:36:38,471 --> 01:36:41,693
guy has made so much money from art. I mean,

1510
01:36:41,993 --> 01:36:44,455
do you walk through? We went to the Modern Museum

1511
01:36:44,535 --> 01:36:47,757
of Art in Amsterdam, the Stedelijk Museum. He's got better

1512
01:36:47,797 --> 01:36:49,839
stuff at home, yeah. Oh, let me tell you. Do

1513
01:36:49,899 --> 01:36:52,441
not go to the Stedelijk Museum. It is a jip.

1514
01:36:53,782 --> 01:36:56,663
It's a total, like, what is this? It's a jip.

1515
01:36:56,804 --> 01:37:00,786
It's stupid. It's a jip. It's a jip. It's like,

1516
01:37:00,966 --> 01:37:04,669
oh, there's some sand on the floor with two shoes.

1517
01:37:05,930 --> 01:37:11,814
And the title is Wim T. Schippers is gone. Go

1518
01:37:11,874 --> 01:37:16,197
to Lex's house. Oh, there's five Warhols. Can you get

1519
01:37:16,217 --> 01:37:17,518
me an invite so I can go to his house

1520
01:37:17,558 --> 01:37:20,320
someday and look at his art? Yeah, I think so.

1521
01:37:20,420 --> 01:37:22,021
Well, you should have been there for the expo when

1522
01:37:22,081 --> 01:37:25,643
he had his... Well, it's too late now. I'm just

1523
01:37:25,663 --> 01:37:27,965
saying now. You know, you go to the bathroom. There's

1524
01:37:28,005 --> 01:37:31,227
two Keith Herrings. He has pop art. And then he

1525
01:37:31,287 --> 01:37:35,330
has these photos. He's got... photo of the Beatles at

1526
01:37:35,390 --> 01:37:37,892
the at the Cavern Club. Cavern or Tavern? Or was

1527
01:37:37,972 --> 01:37:41,894
it Cavern Club? In Berlin. You've never seen this photo

1528
01:37:41,994 --> 01:37:44,756
before. It's before the one that everyone has always seen.

1529
01:37:44,796 --> 01:37:48,919
I mean, he's got the most amazing stuff. Anyway, what

1530
01:37:48,959 --> 01:37:52,001
was my point? I don't know. It was about fraud.

1531
01:37:52,101 --> 01:37:55,664
Yeah, it was something important. Oh, about the health care

1532
01:37:55,724 --> 01:38:00,087
system. Medicare for all. So the Netherlands, oh, they've got

1533
01:38:00,147 --> 01:38:03,829
free health care. It's great. So when he needed something,

1534
01:38:03,889 --> 01:38:07,532
and he's 81 now, he cannot go to a doctor

1535
01:38:07,632 --> 01:38:10,554
and pay the doctor privately. He has to wait in

1536
01:38:10,654 --> 01:38:13,336
line for weeks or months like everybody else. Why? I

1537
01:38:13,336 --> 01:38:16,598
thought you could do that. No, not in the Netherlands.

1538
01:38:16,758 --> 01:38:22,182
Nope. Nope. What about under the table? No, they won't

1539
01:38:22,242 --> 01:38:26,625
do it. He says, I've tried everything. Yeah. He says,

1540
01:38:26,685 --> 01:38:29,127
you have to go. Yeah. If you get a specialist,

1541
01:38:29,567 --> 01:38:32,489
then you might for something very specialized, you might be

1542
01:38:32,509 --> 01:38:34,730
able to get in within a week. But in general,

1543
01:38:34,890 --> 01:38:40,014
back of the line, everybody's treated the same. It's equity.

1544
01:38:40,054 --> 01:38:45,238
It sucks. It's equity. You're getting all feisty now. It's

1545
01:38:45,378 --> 01:38:48,680
equity. So just when you thought AI couldn't get any

1546
01:38:48,740 --> 01:38:54,804
worse, introducing Anthropics Claude for teachers. You're also a mom.

1547
01:38:55,825 --> 01:38:59,767
This is Amadai. This is the CEO's sister who's also

1548
01:39:00,968 --> 01:39:04,751
in management at the company. You're also a mom. Is

1549
01:39:04,831 --> 01:39:07,413
this something you would hope to see in your children's

1550
01:39:07,453 --> 01:39:10,655
school someday? I personally feel really, really excited for what

1551
01:39:10,695 --> 01:39:14,317
it means. Oh, really, really, really, really excited. Kindergarten this

1552
01:39:14,377 --> 01:39:17,620
year. And I'm really hopeful that his school will adopt,

1553
01:39:17,900 --> 01:39:22,003
you know, Claude for teachers to help tailor curriculum for

1554
01:39:22,103 --> 01:39:24,905
him and for his classmates. There are going to be

1555
01:39:24,985 --> 01:39:29,007
parents who hear this and feel nervous because parents have

1556
01:39:29,087 --> 01:39:33,370
watched their kids with smartphones and screen time and social

1557
01:39:33,450 --> 01:39:39,154
media. And they've seen the unwanted, unintended consequences that they

1558
01:39:39,214 --> 01:39:41,796
weren't really prepared for. This is in the hands of

1559
01:39:41,896 --> 01:39:47,980
teachers now. nervous that this new technology is going to

1560
01:39:48,040 --> 01:39:52,303
repeat those same mistakes. I completely understand and relate to

1561
01:39:52,363 --> 01:39:56,746
this worry. And I think a key difference here is

1562
01:39:56,806 --> 01:39:59,968
that cloud.ai remains for eight.

1563
01:40:00,000 --> 01:40:05,964
18-year-old users and above only. So individual students below the

1564
01:40:06,004 --> 01:40:09,346
age of 18 won't have access to the tool directly.

1565
01:40:09,386 --> 01:40:13,869
And I think this isn't because we necessarily feel worried

1566
01:40:13,989 --> 01:40:16,651
that this is a terrible thing to give to kids.

1567
01:40:17,111 --> 01:40:19,933
But I think the reality is we just don't know

1568
01:40:20,093 --> 01:40:23,976
enough about AI's impact on the developing brain. So let's

1569
01:40:24,016 --> 01:40:27,418
just use it on kids. For Anthropic to feel comfortable

1570
01:40:27,478 --> 01:40:31,321
giving access to students directly. We know that AI can

1571
01:40:31,401 --> 01:40:36,284
hallucinate. It can make mistakes. If this chat bot were

1572
01:40:36,444 --> 01:40:39,887
to make a mistake, if it were to give the

1573
01:40:39,947 --> 01:40:44,730
wrong information or bad advice or reinforce bias, who would

1574
01:40:44,770 --> 01:40:48,092
be accountable for that? These models are not foolproof. They

1575
01:40:48,212 --> 01:40:51,795
do make mistakes. And part of how we have worked

1576
01:40:51,915 --> 01:40:55,818
with teachers in developing this technology and really listening to

1577
01:40:55,978 --> 01:41:00,481
their questions and concerns is helping to, you know, when

1578
01:41:00,581 --> 01:41:04,363
an AI might be entering unknown territory, what are the

1579
01:41:04,443 --> 01:41:09,947
signs to look for? could possibly go wrong. Do not

1580
01:41:10,347 --> 01:41:13,870
let your children into a school where they have clawed

1581
01:41:13,930 --> 01:41:19,974
for teachers. This is not a good idea. I'd say.

1582
01:41:20,434 --> 01:41:23,276
Here, I got an AI story this week. All right.

1583
01:41:24,197 --> 01:41:27,739
Google. Big Google. And what does the future hold for

1584
01:41:27,839 --> 01:41:31,402
the news industry as more people read AI-powered news summaries?

1585
01:41:31,922 --> 01:41:36,805
NTD's David Lam asks an expert. Some news publishers are

1586
01:41:36,826 --> 01:41:40,328
concerned about being asked to join Google's new pilot program

1587
01:41:40,428 --> 01:41:44,371
for AI-powered article overviews. According to a report in The

1588
01:41:44,471 --> 01:41:47,613
Information, content would be shared in Google News and Gemini

1589
01:41:47,753 --> 01:41:51,155
AI, giving Google broad rights on how to use the

1590
01:41:51,195 --> 01:41:55,498
content. Matthew Gilbert, a senior lecturer of marketing, shares his

1591
01:41:55,518 --> 01:42:05,885
thoughts on the current landscape of news summaries. it links

1592
01:42:05,965 --> 01:42:08,167
to the actual articles but before any of that you're

1593
01:42:08,187 --> 01:42:12,170
getting summary and what's interesting is I think a lot

1594
01:42:12,210 --> 01:42:14,251
of people if they already see what they already need

1595
01:42:14,731 --> 01:42:17,573
they're not going to even click through beyond that. Currently

1596
01:42:17,633 --> 01:42:21,496
the Google News Showcase platform pays publishers to create and

1597
01:42:21,536 --> 01:42:26,499
curate online news content through a licensing program but publishers

1598
01:42:26,559 --> 01:42:28,661
fear that if they opt out of the new pilot

1599
01:42:28,861 --> 01:42:31,743
they may risk losing the fee they currently receive when

1600
01:42:31,803 --> 01:42:35,365
Google shares their articles. Gilbert also notes that there's a

1601
01:42:35,425 --> 01:42:39,708
risk to articles that feature deep investigative content. There's a

1602
01:42:39,748 --> 01:42:42,550
real big risk that what you're producing gets lost in

1603
01:42:42,610 --> 01:42:46,133
the shuffle or doesn't even get seen at all because

1604
01:42:46,153 --> 01:42:48,494
if all that it's looking for is the sort of

1605
01:42:48,514 --> 01:42:54,599
top level shorthand takeaway, that deeper investigation that more important

1606
01:42:54,618 --> 01:42:57,641
information is not going to get read. Google says that

1607
01:42:57,681 --> 01:43:01,763
for years it has produced 24 billion monthly visits to

1608
01:43:01,863 --> 01:43:05,606
news websites. Chances are their content will still probably in

1609
01:43:05,686 --> 01:43:07,487
some way or another still be getting fed into the

1610
01:43:07,567 --> 01:43:09,789
AI system whether or not they even are aware of

1611
01:43:09,829 --> 01:43:13,752
it or not. Yeah, this news is broken. They need

1612
01:43:13,832 --> 01:43:18,795
to stop this. This value for value by individual journalists

1613
01:43:18,855 --> 01:43:23,958
is, I think, the only way to go. Maybe. That's

1614
01:43:23,979 --> 01:43:30,063
your opinion? Yeah, my opinion is maybe. You're an independent.

1615
01:43:30,083 --> 01:43:31,864
There's a restaurant, by the way, in the Bay Area

1616
01:43:31,864 --> 01:43:34,506
that's doing value for value. Do they call it value

1617
01:43:34,546 --> 01:43:38,168
for value? No, they don't, but it's definitely value for

1618
01:43:38,248 --> 01:43:41,851
value. Have you been? No. And what do they do?

1619
01:43:41,971 --> 01:43:44,553
Just pay whatever you think the meal was worth? Yeah.

1620
01:43:44,893 --> 01:43:48,715
Or can you also choose to wash up? What do

1621
01:43:48,916 --> 01:43:52,618
you mean? Oh, you mean do the dishes? Yeah, time,

1622
01:43:52,698 --> 01:43:55,080
talents, and choices. Wash up. Yeah, wash up or, you

1623
01:43:55,120 --> 01:43:58,922
know, like, I don't know, set tables. I don't know

1624
01:43:58,982 --> 01:44:01,444
about that. Maybe. I don't think so. I think you

1625
01:44:01,484 --> 01:44:03,966
should go investigate. Get in that old Lexus of yours,

1626
01:44:03,986 --> 01:44:07,728
drive over there, and go take a look. Maybe I

1627
01:44:07,768 --> 01:44:09,690
will. Maybe I'll get out of the house and check

1628
01:44:09,790 --> 01:44:11,411
it out. And you should record it and you should

1629
01:44:11,431 --> 01:44:14,213
say, this sucks. I'm not giving you any money. Just

1630
01:44:14,233 --> 01:44:16,334
do that. And then Google can take and summarize it

1631
01:44:16,354 --> 01:44:19,356
and I get nothing out of all the effort. No.

1632
01:44:20,217 --> 01:44:22,618
Your sub stack is value for value. Can't people send

1633
01:44:22,679 --> 01:44:24,620
you money if they want to to the Oasis? Yeah,

1634
01:44:24,700 --> 01:44:26,501
they can send me money. Do they send you money?

1635
01:44:26,541 --> 01:44:28,483
Does it work? Yeah, I get some money. Okay. Well,

1636
01:44:28,523 --> 01:44:31,985
then it works. The system works. You're living the new

1637
01:44:32,105 --> 01:44:38,509
international lifestyle. Enjoy. It sucks. It stinks. Thanks. So we

1638
01:44:38,589 --> 01:44:43,613
know about the Apple OpenAI lawsuit. Do you have any

1639
01:44:43,673 --> 01:44:50,157
thoughts on that? Yeah, it's a gem. That's just my

1640
01:44:50,297 --> 01:44:54,360
thought. Maybe. My thought is maybe. You can't have maybe.

1641
01:44:54,440 --> 01:44:56,362
Everything I say, you can't just come back and say

1642
01:44:56,482 --> 01:44:59,063
maybe. I think maybe is the theme for today. Maybe

1643
01:44:59,264 --> 01:45:06,488
what? Maybe what? Maybe what? Maybe they'll win. Well... Maybe

1644
01:45:06,548 --> 01:45:09,110
or not. What are you thinking about in this lawsuit?

1645
01:45:09,210 --> 01:45:11,092
Well, I'm just going to lead it into a clip

1646
01:45:11,212 --> 01:45:17,316
because OpenAI, supposedly they revealed what they're doing. And it

1647
01:45:17,416 --> 01:45:52,460
sounds... Dumb. screen-free AI companion designed for your house. It

1648
01:45:52,540 --> 01:45:55,982
does sound really similar to Amazon's. Alexa would be a

1649
01:45:56,182 --> 01:46:00,405
portable battery-powered device, would help control smart home devices, answer

1650
01:46:00,465 --> 01:46:04,828
questions, play music. As I mentioned, has been extremely secretive

1651
01:46:04,928 --> 01:46:08,130
about these plans. Rumors have ranged from a wearable pin

1652
01:46:08,471 --> 01:46:11,212
to some sort of earpiece. No comment from the company,

1653
01:46:11,253 --> 01:46:13,914
but sources I've talked to say the designs could change.

1654
01:46:13,994 --> 01:46:15,796
It's still very much in the works, and this report

1655
01:46:15,876 --> 01:46:19,198
does also say the device may launch the end of

1656
01:46:19,218 --> 01:46:22,420
this year. OpenAI's entire hardware push, though, is now very

1657
01:46:22,480 --> 01:46:25,702
much under fire after Apple on Friday sued the company

1658
01:46:25,802 --> 01:46:29,945
and its top team members over allegedly stealing intellectual property

1659
01:46:30,025 --> 01:46:33,368
devices. Overall, it's been a major strategic push for this

1660
01:46:33,408 --> 01:46:37,811
company. It did pay $6.5 billion to buy iPhone designer

1661
01:46:38,131 --> 01:46:42,574
Johnny Ives' startup late last year. So a screen-free... Yeah,

1662
01:46:42,614 --> 01:46:44,615
we talked about this on the last show, too. No,

1663
01:46:44,715 --> 01:46:47,417
we did not. Yes, we did, because we talked about

1664
01:46:47,637 --> 01:46:50,840
specifically You and I both agreed that Silicon Valley does

1665
01:46:50,900 --> 01:46:53,982
this all the time. And we specifically talked about Johnny

1666
01:46:54,242 --> 01:46:56,203
Ives. Yeah, but we didn't talk about the device. This

1667
01:46:56,303 --> 01:46:57,564
is new. You didn't know about the device. No, the

1668
01:46:57,584 --> 01:47:00,786
device. No, the device. This is Alexa. Well, I don't

1669
01:47:00,826 --> 01:47:09,692
know. Visit? Yeah, set timer. I think it's just a

1670
01:47:09,832 --> 01:47:14,155
chatbot block. Play my play. That would be worse. Set

1671
01:47:14,235 --> 01:47:19,319
timer. Okay. You want to talk about the weather? What's

1672
01:47:19,399 --> 01:47:22,941
it going to talk to you about? Hey, people talk

1673
01:47:23,001 --> 01:47:26,344
to their chatbots all day long. So might as well

1674
01:47:26,404 --> 01:47:30,106
have it in the house. Oh, God, can you imagine?

1675
01:47:31,267 --> 01:47:34,349
No, it's not for me, but yeah, I can imagine.

1676
01:47:34,689 --> 01:47:36,971
I mean, yeah, I can. They don't have any other

1677
01:47:37,031 --> 01:47:40,113
business. What is this super cut you have? I might

1678
01:47:40,113 --> 01:47:42,295
as well drag you through it, drag you through these

1679
01:47:42,315 --> 01:47:44,356
last few minutes. I just got a kick out of

1680
01:47:44,376 --> 01:47:49,500
these super cuts. This is when Elon, somebody put these

1681
01:47:49,500 --> 01:47:57,625
together recently. When Elon Musk bought Twitter. They were all

1682
01:47:57,765 --> 01:48:01,468
over it. And we're talking about everybody that hated this

1683
01:48:01,548 --> 01:48:06,111
whole idea. And I got two super cuts that talk

1684
01:48:06,251 --> 01:48:09,553
about, first of all, was the end of Twitter. Elon

1685
01:48:09,613 --> 01:48:12,715
Musk has managed to bring Twitter to the brink of

1686
01:48:12,815 --> 01:48:16,318
collapse in just three weeks. This is the end or

1687
01:48:16,458 --> 01:48:19,040
was the end of Twitter. What does one come back

1688
01:48:19,160 --> 01:48:21,942
from destroying Twitter, burning it to the ground? Elon Musk

1689
01:48:22,202 --> 01:48:28,286
burning the business to the ground. platform formerly known as

1690
01:48:28,446 --> 01:48:31,868
Twitter thanks to his decisions. Twitter is really in an

1691
01:48:32,009 --> 01:48:34,550
ever quickening death spiral. They're going to have a hard

1692
01:48:34,630 --> 01:48:38,433
time just keeping the lights on over at Twitter given

1693
01:48:38,513 --> 01:48:43,576
this mass exodus. Advertisers but also users heading for the

1694
01:48:43,716 --> 01:48:46,418
exits. It's a shithole right? Elon fuck that shit up.

1695
01:48:46,498 --> 01:48:49,360
There's better engagement on threads. He is not a media

1696
01:48:49,460 --> 01:48:51,542
platform owner. He's never done this. He doesn't know what

1697
01:48:51,562 --> 01:48:53,743
he's doing. It has to be just a question of

1698
01:48:53,783 --> 01:48:57,606
time before whether it's Mastodon or some other that actually

1699
01:48:57,666 --> 01:49:01,829
operates in a responsible way, takes over all of the

1700
01:49:01,869 --> 01:49:04,991
Twitter users. We will go there. Elon Musk can, you

1701
01:49:05,011 --> 01:49:06,292
know, this could be all fun and games for him.

1702
01:49:06,292 --> 01:49:07,933
At the end of the way, he's going to drive

1703
01:49:07,973 --> 01:49:10,194
this business into the ground. There will be nothing left.

1704
01:49:10,415 --> 01:49:13,797
All advertisers are gone. You can't have a major brand

1705
01:49:13,817 --> 01:49:17,460
in this country and be putting your ads on platforms

1706
01:49:17,500 --> 01:49:19,441
like this that are unsafe for children, that are spreading

1707
01:49:19,461 --> 01:49:23,263
misinformation about COVID. It's actually killing people. He's a dangerous

1708
01:49:23,283 --> 01:49:27,186
man. I've said it many times on this show. about

1709
01:49:27,226 --> 01:49:31,029
media deconstruction I think that that qualifies as clip of

1710
01:49:31,029 --> 01:49:35,852
the day. Wow, that's an obscure catch. It does. Well

1711
01:49:35,952 --> 01:49:39,034
so then we have after it didn't collapse in three

1712
01:49:39,134 --> 01:49:44,278
weeks like everyone predicted. What did we say? You said

1713
01:49:44,358 --> 01:49:49,421
the Fediverse was gonna take over everything! The Fediverse is

1714
01:49:49,481 --> 01:49:53,104
the way to go, man. Decentralized, baby. It's cool. The

1715
01:49:53,184 --> 01:49:56,726
Fediverse. Ask Comics for Blogger. He's been kicked off every

1716
01:49:56,826 --> 01:49:59,988
single instance on the Fediverse ever. And then the one.

1717
01:50:00,039 --> 01:50:03,182
Once he's allowed on, he says, this is no good.

1718
01:50:03,582 --> 01:50:10,927
I can't syndicate with no agenda, no authority social. The

1719
01:50:11,027 --> 01:50:16,391
most censored Fediverse node on the network is no authority.

1720
01:50:17,531 --> 01:50:21,254
The most censored. And all they do there is they

1721
01:50:21,314 --> 01:50:26,658
do these... Fediverse was co-opted by the left. That's the

1722
01:50:26,718 --> 01:50:30,700
problem. Your whole idea originally, which I'm mocking now, but

1723
01:50:30,780 --> 01:50:34,323
in fact, it could have been true, except it was

1724
01:50:34,423 --> 01:50:38,806
co-opted by the left, which they do, and it's ruined

1725
01:50:38,866 --> 01:50:43,909
it. Well, it depends on how you view it. That's

1726
01:50:43,909 --> 01:50:46,251
the way I view it. Okay. That's the way you,

1727
01:50:46,391 --> 01:50:50,514
like we have podcast index.social and it's, it's beautiful. It's

1728
01:50:50,594 --> 01:50:54,517
not political at all. It's just about podcasting 2.0. It

1729
01:50:54,597 --> 01:50:58,339
is a fan. It's a fantastic system works really well.

1730
01:50:58,840 --> 01:51:01,521
And people can still follow or, or, or, you know,

1731
01:51:01,902 --> 01:51:04,163
jump in if they want to. And that has not

1732
01:51:04,203 --> 01:51:07,225
been ruined by, by any, any political stuff at all.

1733
01:51:07,305 --> 01:51:12,589
It's really good. And there's no moderating. sit around blocking

1734
01:51:12,709 --> 01:51:17,432
people and telling them to stop. The only one instance

1735
01:51:17,472 --> 01:51:21,955
that I block, and that's noauthority.social. good and then you

1736
01:51:21,955 --> 01:51:23,717
know because i don't i don't have the time to

1737
01:51:23,817 --> 01:51:31,702
be blocking poast and, you know, was it shitposters.social. Once

1738
01:51:31,782 --> 01:51:36,265
in a while I get all these direct messages because

1739
01:51:36,305 --> 01:51:40,548
they have these contests. The faggot of the month. and

1740
01:51:40,588 --> 01:51:43,210
then oh god yeah and i was up against some

1741
01:51:43,270 --> 01:51:47,172
dude from sweden i lost You lost? You weren't faggot

1742
01:51:47,273 --> 01:51:48,874
of the month? I was not faggot of the month.

1743
01:51:49,374 --> 01:51:52,816
Oh, that's a shame. I know. Well, there's one more

1744
01:51:52,896 --> 01:51:57,199
shorter clip, which is the super cut of after the

1745
01:51:57,259 --> 01:52:00,181
three weeks was over and they didn't flop. They started

1746
01:52:00,662 --> 01:52:04,945
calling Twitter a cesspool. Elon Musk has turned X, formerly

1747
01:52:04,985 --> 01:52:08,267
known as Twitter, into a cesspool. Twitter X is just

1748
01:52:08,307 --> 01:52:10,909
such a cesspool now. But it's also a cesspool. Everything

1749
01:52:10,949 --> 01:52:13,270
that goes on, it's a circus cesspool. Twitter right now

1750
01:52:13,330 --> 01:52:16,112
is a cesspool. Twitter is a cesspool, or X, I

1751
01:52:16,172 --> 01:52:19,875
guess it's called now. Cesspool. Just bad information lies. Cesspool.

1752
01:52:20,055 --> 01:52:23,577
Twitter is becoming a deeper, darker. The cesspool of disinformation

1753
01:52:23,657 --> 01:52:26,720
and chaos has now really become a cesspool of mis-

1754
01:52:26,720 --> 01:52:29,782
and disinformation. The Twittersphere as it is has really gone

1755
01:52:29,802 --> 01:52:33,004
berserk lately. It's got to become almost a cesspool of

1756
01:52:33,064 --> 01:52:38,628
misinformation. Arguably, it's never been this successful. I know. I

1757
01:52:38,708 --> 01:52:42,610
think it's, yeah. And I think particularly with the XAI

1758
01:52:42,830 --> 01:52:45,913
integration. And now the thing I did predict. And Grok

1759
01:52:46,013 --> 01:52:48,574
helps a lot being on there. The thing I predicted

1760
01:52:49,335 --> 01:52:52,237
is the money stuff. That's coming. I predicted that years

1761
01:52:52,297 --> 01:52:54,658
ago. And that's coming. I agree. You have and hasn't

1762
01:52:54,719 --> 01:52:58,001
happened. But I'm not saying that that's a bad prediction.

1763
01:52:58,281 --> 01:53:01,123
I think the Fediverse prediction was a bit much. But

1764
01:53:01,203 --> 01:53:04,745
that other one about the money, yep. Yeah, that's happening.

1765
01:53:04,825 --> 01:53:07,547
Apparently it's already in beta. And from what I understand,

1766
01:53:07,627 --> 01:53:11,670
And... If you put your money into the X wallet,

1767
01:53:11,750 --> 01:53:13,191
and I have no idea how it's going to work.

1768
01:53:15,333 --> 01:53:18,895
you'll get 6%. I don't know how we... Ooh, it's

1769
01:53:18,915 --> 01:53:29,242
going to be a fintech company. Yeah. Fintech. Fintech. Oh,

1770
01:53:29,342 --> 01:53:33,965
you cracked me up, Dvorak. Fintech, yes. That's another buzzword

1771
01:53:34,065 --> 01:53:40,009
from the past. Fintech. Would it have something on banking

1772
01:53:40,090 --> 01:53:45,133
about money and fintech? What was it? Ummm... Was that?

1773
01:53:45,493 --> 01:53:52,918
Oh yeah. The clarity act. Yeah. That's what everybody's waiting

1774
01:53:52,998 --> 01:53:55,440
for, the Clarity Act, so we can... What's the Clarity

1775
01:53:55,620 --> 01:53:58,382
Act? The Clarity Act is supposed to give clarity on

1776
01:53:58,442 --> 01:54:04,746
how stable coins work and... I think the main thing

1777
01:54:04,946 --> 01:54:07,528
is, the way I understand it, and there's probably a

1778
01:54:07,548 --> 01:54:11,231
lot more in the clarity act. The main thing is

1779
01:54:11,611 --> 01:54:15,293
the guys who are doing stable coin. They want to

1780
01:54:15,474 --> 01:54:20,217
be able to give people interest on their deposits. And

1781
01:54:20,277 --> 01:54:24,280
the banking sector is going, no, you can't do that.

1782
01:54:24,320 --> 01:54:26,961
That's our business. And if you want to do that,

1783
01:54:27,102 --> 01:54:31,444
you should become a bank. Subsequently, I think Circle, USDC,

1784
01:54:31,985 --> 01:54:35,547
has become a bank. So I have two clips from

1785
01:54:35,647 --> 01:54:50,457
Loomis. Senator Loomis is the one driving this. take that

1786
01:54:50,558 --> 01:54:54,000
vote. Can you give us some color on that? We've

1787
01:54:54,060 --> 01:54:59,484
continued to work on ethics language that the Congress has

1788
01:54:59,604 --> 01:55:02,486
to live under and the president has to live under.

1789
01:55:03,566 --> 01:55:06,368
So some of the issues are things like can a

1790
01:55:06,568 --> 01:55:10,851
state attorney general sue an elected official? For some reason,

1791
01:55:10,911 --> 01:55:15,254
they're talking about something other than... the clarity act here.

1792
01:55:16,535 --> 01:55:20,138
You're talking about ethics? I don't know what that clip

1793
01:55:20,238 --> 01:55:22,319
is. You guys, your clip. Yeah, I don't think that

1794
01:55:22,399 --> 01:55:25,762
clip is not valid. But I do have a Jesse

1795
01:55:25,842 --> 01:55:30,705
Waters clip. about our money as jesse the paid a

1796
01:55:30,765 --> 01:55:34,227
visit to the treasury and hung out with uh Our

1797
01:55:34,347 --> 01:55:37,129
General Patton on the down low. Tonight we're taking you

1798
01:55:37,189 --> 01:55:41,332
somewhere the cameras usually don't go. The Treasury Department's secret

1799
01:55:41,492 --> 01:55:45,335
vault. And we found something that's never been seen before.

1800
01:55:45,735 --> 01:55:52,600
Beautiful room. And here is the Treasurer's vault from 1863.

1801
01:55:53,340 --> 01:55:55,262
And, you know, Jesse, I can't let you pass the

1802
01:55:55,302 --> 01:55:59,344
gate. No? Too much money in there, Jesse. All right,

1803
01:55:59,444 --> 01:56:03,507
you don't trust me. Well, it's not you. It's not

1804
01:56:03,567 --> 01:56:06,649
you. that before yeah exactly and so what used to

1805
01:56:06,729 --> 01:56:09,031
be in this vault or what's in this vault now

1806
01:56:09,511 --> 01:56:11,072
well i can't tell you what's in there now but

1807
01:56:11,112 --> 01:56:14,014
americans used to come and catch their checks here that's

1808
01:56:14,114 --> 01:56:16,616
that's exactly what i was thinking i can't show you

1809
01:56:16,656 --> 01:56:18,478
what's in there now because there's no money there's no

1810
01:56:18,598 --> 01:56:21,660
actual cash in there where they came here yeah or

1811
01:56:21,760 --> 01:56:26,083
banks could stop the clip Hey, what was this? What

1812
01:56:26,383 --> 01:56:28,724
ever happened to the visit to Fort Knox that we're

1813
01:56:28,784 --> 01:56:32,007
supposed to see by these Fox people? Or someone's going

1814
01:56:32,007 --> 01:56:34,408
to go visit Fort Knox and show the gold? That

1815
01:56:34,448 --> 01:56:37,390
was Elon. He was going to live stream it. Yeah,

1816
01:56:37,490 --> 01:56:40,232
what happened to that? Well, they don't want to embarrass

1817
01:56:40,312 --> 01:56:43,855
anybody because there's no gold. Well, I can't tell you

1818
01:56:43,875 --> 01:56:45,796
what's in there now, but Americans used to come and

1819
01:56:45,836 --> 01:56:49,739
cash their checks here. That's where they came here? Yep,

1820
01:56:49,919 --> 01:56:54,622
or banks could present and get greenbacks. Solomon Chase, who

1821
01:56:54,782 --> 01:56:59,846
was the Treasury Secretary during the Civil War, created the

1822
01:56:59,906 --> 01:57:03,008
greenback. We used to have, states used to have their

1823
01:57:03,048 --> 01:57:07,671
own money, banks used to issue their own money, greenback

1824
01:57:07,731 --> 01:57:10,753
so people could swap for greenbacks here. Were there silver

1825
01:57:10,853 --> 01:57:13,935
coins? Were there gold coins? Were there certificates? All of

1826
01:57:13,955 --> 01:57:16,397
the above. Okay. And we still have all those, but

1827
01:57:16,757 --> 01:57:21,681
now most people use currency. I hear there might be

1828
01:57:22,021 --> 01:57:26,003
a new brand of currency around the corner. Well, it's

1829
01:57:26,043 --> 01:57:29,866
the same currency, just different series. And it's going to

1830
01:57:29,946 --> 01:57:33,689
look different. Well, it's going to have one big change

1831
01:57:33,789 --> 01:57:37,191
on it. They have for the 250th, the president The

1832
01:57:37,191 --> 01:57:39,032
President's signature is going to be on it for the

1833
01:57:39,112 --> 01:57:43,075
first time, so I think it's fitting. Donald Trump is

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01:57:43,195 --> 01:57:47,238
President during our 250th anniversary, so it'll be the President's

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01:57:47,278 --> 01:57:50,760
signature and my signature on it. so much for my

1836
01:57:50,860 --> 01:57:56,845
$250 bill idea. I mean, have you seen these? That's

1837
01:57:56,885 --> 01:58:00,167
not collectible. Is that collectible? No. I don't think so

1838
01:58:00,287 --> 01:58:03,609
either. Although there's going to be this gold $1 coin.

1839
01:58:04,790 --> 01:58:07,312
With Trump on it. Well, there's the coin that I

1840
01:58:07,432 --> 01:58:10,414
have with Steve Jobs on it. Yeah, that's pretty collectible.

1841
01:58:10,414 --> 01:58:14,857
Yeah, I'd say. Boots on the ground, a note. We

1842
01:58:14,977 --> 01:58:18,099
finally have one. A producer and knight of the no

1843
01:58:18,179 --> 01:58:21,021
agenda roundtable. Gentlemen, I've been a longtime listener of the

1844
01:58:21,061 --> 01:58:23,863
show. I've been a knight since 2020. I was listening

1845
01:58:23,863 --> 01:58:27,766
to episode 1884, Code Brown, when I heard the challenge

1846
01:58:27,806 --> 01:58:30,027
for any producers who are members of Patriot Front to

1847
01:58:30,107 --> 01:58:34,170
step forward. Okay, here he is. I'm a member, photographer,

1848
01:58:34,250 --> 01:58:40,014
and social media influencer. Patriot Journal on Instagram for Patriot

1849
01:58:40,074 --> 01:58:43,797
Front. This is like the marketing guy. Okay. I'm sure

1850
01:58:43,837 --> 01:58:46,098
if you look hard enough into my donations, you can

1851
01:58:46,198 --> 01:58:48,780
figure out who I am. Well, we have no time

1852
01:58:48,860 --> 01:58:51,262
to do that. We're not doing that. We're not doing

1853
01:58:51,302 --> 01:58:53,503
that. Just tell us or we don't care. I don't

1854
01:58:53,543 --> 01:58:55,505
mind. I don't even want to know. With all that

1855
01:58:55,645 --> 01:58:57,766
said, I ask that you keep any and all personal

1856
01:58:57,826 --> 01:59:00,568
information private. You ask why we wear the mask. I

1857
01:59:00,708 --> 01:59:03,990
do so for my wife and children. Our opposition, Antifa,

1858
01:59:04,210 --> 01:59:10,895
Marxists, etc., to run to our employers and claim we

1859
01:59:10,975 --> 01:59:14,518
are Nazis. Historically, they are often successful. And then he

1860
01:59:14,577 --> 01:59:17,520
says something interesting, because the influencer, after all. Would you

1861
01:59:17,580 --> 01:59:20,622
guys be interested in interviewing the leader of Patriot Front,

1862
01:59:20,722 --> 01:59:24,144
Thomas Rousseau? I can't make any promises, but I believe

1863
01:59:24,144 --> 01:59:26,145
he would be up for it. My Instagram account is

1864
01:59:26,205 --> 01:59:29,288
also a wealth of information, from answers to commonly asked

1865
01:59:29,368 --> 01:59:32,490
questions to speeches, etc. I'm happy to answer questions as

1866
01:59:32,530 --> 01:59:34,471
well, but I do not speak on behalf of the

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01:59:34,511 --> 01:59:40,435
organization. Only Thomas does. I would say no. We don't

1868
01:59:40,495 --> 01:59:44,378
really do interviews. I don't think so. Something might be

1869
01:59:44,458 --> 01:59:48,220
done. Hey, you might do it. for a best of

1870
01:59:48,320 --> 01:59:51,863
show. We'll call it the Nazi episode. We could do

1871
01:59:51,923 --> 01:59:52,984
a couple of Nazis.

1872
02:00:00,440 --> 02:00:04,182
Oh, man. Actually, what would be fun would be do

1873
02:00:04,282 --> 02:00:08,085
the patriot front guy and do the head of the

1874
02:00:08,085 --> 02:00:12,648
Democrat socialists. Oh, yeah, together, like a debate. In the

1875
02:00:12,708 --> 02:00:14,670
same room? No, I don't think they would get along.

1876
02:00:14,770 --> 02:00:18,112
Host a debate. You should host a debate. You should

1877
02:00:18,132 --> 02:00:21,534
debate him. Whatever happened to those? That was a thing

1878
02:00:21,614 --> 02:00:25,377
for a little bit there, podcasters debating each other. I

1879
02:00:25,477 --> 02:00:28,319
missed those days. Those days were good. Nobody cares about

1880
02:00:28,399 --> 02:00:32,842
podcasters. With that, I want to thank you for your

1881
02:00:32,902 --> 02:00:34,543
courage, say in the morning to you, the man who

1882
02:00:34,623 --> 02:00:38,866
put the C in the cytoshitosis, say hello to my

1883
02:00:38,986 --> 02:00:40,787
friend on the other end, the one, the only, Mr.

1884
02:00:40,867 --> 02:00:50,254
John C! ...in the morning our ships to sea, boots

1885
02:00:50,254 --> 02:00:54,356
to the ground. Feet in the air! In the water

1886
02:00:54,377 --> 02:00:56,478
and all the games tonight. Hey, in the morning to

1887
02:00:56,498 --> 02:00:59,080
you trolls in the troll room. Stop moving around. Let

1888
02:00:59,140 --> 02:01:07,025
me catch you. There we go. Peak trollage of 1,339.

1889
02:01:07,125 --> 02:01:08,946
It's kind of typical for a Thursday. Good to have

1890
02:01:08,966 --> 02:01:12,269
everybody here. Up 100 from last show. They are listening.

1891
02:01:12,889 --> 02:01:16,432
Last Thursday. Listening live to our stream because this is

1892
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a live-to-tape program. No editing. No going back on multi-tracks

1893
02:01:21,515 --> 02:01:24,777
and fixing little stumbles and brr's and err's. No, no.

1894
02:01:25,137 --> 02:01:27,579
We are just professionals. Fix it in post. We are

1895
02:01:27,619 --> 02:01:35,605
professionals. And we give you the real deal. Thursdays. Okay.

1896
02:01:36,745 --> 02:01:41,409
And, uh... That means that when you want to, you

1897
02:01:41,449 --> 02:01:44,171
can just listen live to us. You can also, and

1898
02:01:44,211 --> 02:01:46,292
I think that's a big part of our success formula,

1899
02:01:46,412 --> 02:01:52,536
actually. People like live. There's something about it that gets

1900
02:01:52,776 --> 02:01:59,481
like emergency or urgent, emergency pod. Even if they can't

1901
02:01:59,501 --> 02:02:01,983
listen live, they know that it has a live feel

1902
02:02:02,063 --> 02:02:05,425
to it. Don't you think most podcasts feel dead? Just

1903
02:02:05,545 --> 02:02:10,849
dead. Oh, the NPR ones for sure. The people who

1904
02:02:10,909 --> 02:02:14,471
host those are dead. But these days, and oh man,

1905
02:02:14,571 --> 02:02:16,873
I am so grateful. A lot of podcasts do feel

1906
02:02:16,993 --> 02:02:19,995
dead. Yeah, just dead because it's like, yeah, you know,

1907
02:02:20,035 --> 02:02:22,417
they don't have the excitement. They're not walking on the

1908
02:02:22,437 --> 02:02:27,420
high wire like we are. Yeah, right. Tightrope. Tightrope walking.

1909
02:02:27,460 --> 02:02:29,922
I'm on the tightrope. And I'm so happy we never

1910
02:02:29,982 --> 02:02:32,804
went to video and did YouTube. And I see this.

1911
02:02:33,104 --> 02:02:37,027
So Tina, she used to listen to Megyn Kelly religiously.

1912
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Religiously. Now, with video, everybody just, including Megyn Kelly herself,

1913
02:02:45,352 --> 02:02:49,235
they just cut segments. So it's like five minutes here,

1914
02:02:49,415 --> 02:02:54,418
seven minutes there. And so she's scrolling along on Instagram

1915
02:02:54,538 --> 02:02:56,940
or whatever. And they go, oh, yeah, I watched the

1916
02:02:56,980 --> 02:02:59,182
Megyn Kelly show. Do you really watch the show? No.

1917
02:02:59,522 --> 02:03:01,723
No. No, I just get a clip. I think this

1918
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is, well, you identify what I thought about this too.

1919
02:03:05,686 --> 02:03:10,049
You identified a problem because I don't watch, Rogan show

1920
02:03:10,169 --> 02:03:12,591
once in a while. Yeah. I don't think I've watched

1921
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one for about a year because I just see these

1922
02:03:14,312 --> 02:03:16,453
little segments and I figured that's the best of the

1923
02:03:16,493 --> 02:03:21,737
show. Hey. It's like best of. Something amazing just happened.

1924
02:03:22,618 --> 02:03:27,221
Tina just texted me and said, I'm listening. She might

1925
02:03:27,241 --> 02:03:29,522
have the explosive diarrhea. Are you not feeling well, babe?

1926
02:03:32,024 --> 02:03:37,167
She never listens to the show. She's this amazing. She

1927
02:03:37,208 --> 02:03:42,771
says, ha. Hot you. I'm listening now. I always say,

1928
02:03:42,831 --> 02:03:44,192
why don't you listen to the show anymore? She says,

1929
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because I get you live here. I get all your

1930
02:03:46,374 --> 02:03:50,356
conspiracies. I'm sick of it. I think that's what she's

1931
02:03:50,417 --> 02:03:54,679
really saying. I'm sick of it already. So anyway, but

1932
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she's my canary in the coal mine. So when something

1933
02:03:57,321 --> 02:04:03,265
bubbles, because she's watching people working out. She's an Instagram

1934
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girl. Reels. Then she gets in the dog algo. though

1935
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i have to say you know see the dogs doing

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stuff and cooking, man, it's still all with cheese. But

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then once in a while, she gets in the podcast,

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Algo, and it's literally just these, same with Rogan. I

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don't know if, how many, I just don't think a

1940
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lot of people watch an entire two or three hour

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02:04:27,522 --> 02:04:31,104
Rogan anymore. Don't they just get the best of clips

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and just watch that? There's millions of these accounts that

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post little clips. You know, I got on an interesting

1944
02:04:39,410 --> 02:04:49,037
algo stream. On Instagram? Yeah, on Instagram. Chick-fil-A. Uh-huh. Every

1945
02:04:49,117 --> 02:04:52,839
other thing was a Chick-fil-A post. People in cow costumes,

1946
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people, just one thing after another. It must have been

1947
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a hundred, and they're all native ads of some sort.

1948
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I don't know how they're doing it, but Chick-fil-A was

1949
02:05:03,106 --> 02:05:06,909
just producing tons of these Instagram posts from all over

1950
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the place. Damnest thing I've ever seen. Huh. And how

1951
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long were you in this algo hole? As far as

1952
02:05:15,635 --> 02:05:20,238
I know, I'm still in it. If you want to

1953
02:05:20,258 --> 02:05:22,819
be alerted when we go live, you need one of

1954
02:05:22,840 --> 02:05:26,942
these modern podcast apps. These have been around, they're mature

1955
02:05:27,042 --> 02:05:29,784
now, these apps. They're, you know, five, six years, these

1956
02:05:29,884 --> 02:05:32,846
new apps have been around and they are still much

1957
02:05:32,906 --> 02:05:36,169
better than the legacy apps. If only for this reason,

1958
02:05:36,829 --> 02:05:40,071
that when you subscribe to the podcast, when we go

1959
02:05:40,211 --> 02:05:43,694
live, and there's several other, a lot of live podcasts,

1960
02:05:43,694 --> 02:05:47,576
certainly in the No Agenda Nation realm, Gitmo Nation, you

1961
02:05:47,656 --> 02:05:49,598
get a note, you get boom, your app, goes, hey,

1962
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the boys are going live. And a little art, you

1963
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know, like, oh, a tap, boom, you're listening. And I

1964
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think maybe even more important, because of the pod ping

1965
02:06:00,005 --> 02:06:04,188
technology we deployed across hundreds of thousands of podcasts that

1966
02:06:04,308 --> 02:06:07,750
use this now. But of course, Apple and Spotify don't

1967
02:06:07,890 --> 02:06:10,592
use this. So when we publish the show, within 90

1968
02:06:10,672 --> 02:06:14,235
seconds, your app notifies you. So it's no longer refreshing

1969
02:06:14,335 --> 02:06:17,297
and waiting, where's my podcast? No, boom, it just happens

1970
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right away. As you heard earlier, we are enjoying the

1971
02:06:22,860 --> 02:06:26,143
benefits of the new international lifestyle known as value for

1972
02:06:26,203 --> 02:06:29,865
value, which is the only way to go. We don't

1973
02:06:29,905 --> 02:06:33,288
have to worry about anything. We say, well, I guess

1974
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slander would be one, but we don't have to worry

1975
02:06:35,389 --> 02:06:40,973
about pissing off advertisers or misreading something or giving the

1976
02:06:40,993 --> 02:06:44,415
wrong promo code. None of that stuff. All we have

1977
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to do is just do the show, which we do

1978
02:06:48,458 --> 02:06:51,640
kind of as a public service, We like continuation. We

1979
02:06:51,720 --> 02:06:55,102
like doing the show. And the only way that we

1980
02:06:55,163 --> 02:06:57,804
can do that is if you support us. And you

1981
02:06:57,844 --> 02:06:59,966
do that by returning whatever value you got from the

1982
02:06:59,966 --> 02:07:03,328
show. So there's no set number, no set amount of

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times. We will tell you honestly when donations are down.

1984
02:07:08,632 --> 02:07:11,934
If we don't say anything, then donations are good. They're

1985
02:07:11,934 --> 02:07:15,777
a little bit down today, but it's not horrible. It's

1986
02:07:15,817 --> 02:07:18,578
kind of been the same forever, hasn't it? Yeah, it's

1987
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been... dull. Dull? Well, really? I mean, you know, it's

1988
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been low, generally. Yeah. It's been higher. But it's consistently,

1989
02:07:31,627 --> 02:07:35,170
but it's not like... you know, bouncing all over the

1990
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place. It's just about this and, you know, here and

1991
02:07:37,631 --> 02:07:41,974
there, plus or minus a few donations. It's amazing how

1992
02:07:42,235 --> 02:07:47,918
it kind of evens out. with, you know, like just

1993
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when the numbers are really bad, then someone will come

1994
02:07:50,120 --> 02:07:53,182
in with a big donation. It's really interesting how it

1995
02:07:53,242 --> 02:07:55,464
works. I mean, we could write a book about that,

1996
02:07:55,584 --> 02:08:00,127
but why would we? There's no money in it. Haven't

1997
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we considered that? Didn't someone at some point want us

1998
02:08:02,368 --> 02:08:05,671
to write a value for value book? I thought I

1999
02:08:05,711 --> 02:08:08,853
got it. It's really more of an essay. It's like

2000
02:08:08,893 --> 02:08:14,497
half a book. It's like half a sub stack. Anyway,

2001
02:08:14,837 --> 02:08:17,699
you can support us in multiple ways. Time, talent, and

2002
02:08:17,779 --> 02:08:22,522
treasure. That is the system. And a lot of people

2003
02:08:22,602 --> 02:08:26,325
do things for us. Set up websites, run different things

2004
02:08:26,405 --> 02:08:29,867
for us. It's really quite amazing how much people are

2005
02:08:29,927 --> 02:08:33,950
willing to help. Boots on the ground helps enormously. And

2006
02:08:34,310 --> 02:08:37,732
show art. Artwork is always good because we see that

2007
02:08:37,812 --> 02:08:41,635
as promotion. Whenever we post a show, it also shows

2008
02:08:41,735 --> 02:08:44,937
up in your podcast app. shows who has done this

2009
02:08:45,538 --> 02:08:49,681
before AI we were definitely like one of three shows

2010
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that did it consistently had new artwork for every single

2011
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show because it was so hard to make and we've

2012
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trained people to doing things in a certain way and

2013
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you know what works and we know what works And

2014
02:09:02,129 --> 02:09:06,492
it's an attention grabber. So when we saw the artwork

2015
02:09:06,592 --> 02:09:10,175
by Jeffrey Rhea for episode 1885, we titled that one

2016
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Adult Daycare. We went, yeah, that's the one. It was...

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I guess that's a Code Brown ED explosion. Yeah, something

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02:09:21,522 --> 02:09:24,204
like that. There's a bathroom. But it's nice. It was

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no agenda. Curry and Dvorak. I think Jeffrey Rhea is

2020
02:09:28,027 --> 02:09:31,309
a hybrid artist. I don't think this is all AI.

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He's never told us. I'm just thinking. Or has he?

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02:09:34,511 --> 02:09:36,452
I'm just thinking that he's a hybrid artist. We have

2023
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a lot of those hybrid artists. Yeah, in other words,

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02:09:39,815 --> 02:09:42,236
you do the AI and then you take and drop

2025
02:09:42,236 --> 02:09:44,558
it in Photoshop and fix it. Do some stuff. Yeah,

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do some stuff. And let's see. I mean, like color

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balance. Hello. How much work does that take? I love

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when you say, I can fix this by color balancing.

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I'm like, I'm not going to wait for that. No,

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just choose something from Darren.

2031
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Let's see. We actually had some funny art, just funny

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for us. No more Darren O'Neill. That was Miss Cho

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Ho. Um... Well, some comics for blogger put a lot

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of stuff up there, including Darren O'Neill even did a

2035
02:10:19,012 --> 02:10:24,676
no more Darren. Stop Darren slop. All stuff we'd never

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use, but we got a laugh out of it. Appreciate

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that. um yeah his yeah there's a big number of

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no more darren yeah we kind of like the the

2039
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instructor jumping out of the airplane but it's kind of

2040
02:10:39,646 --> 02:10:44,890
gruesome No. Yeah. Yeah. I liked the blue acorn Sam

2041
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I.M. with the cat in the hat with the green

2042
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brain. And you thought that was too gruesome. I can't

2043
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remember. I'm looking for it. Oh, that one. Yeah, I

2044
02:10:54,016 --> 02:10:56,418
don't like that at all. I don't like his neck.

2045
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I don't like the brain. What's wrong with the brain?

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It looked nice. Sick. All right. Jeffrey Ria, thank you

2047
02:11:05,324 --> 02:11:09,006
very much for your contribution to the best podcast in

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02:11:09,027 --> 02:11:11,989
the universe. It is highly appreciated. Now we go to

2049
02:11:12,029 --> 02:11:14,831
the treasure portion. These are people who support us, $50

2050
02:11:15,051 --> 02:11:17,712
and above. We'd like to thank everybody, not under 50

2051
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for reasons of anonymity. And there are a lot of

2052
02:11:20,194 --> 02:11:22,616
people who give us very small amounts, you know, $2,

2053
02:11:22,856 --> 02:11:30,161
$3, $3.33, $11.11, $12.12. So the list would just be

2054
02:11:30,201 --> 02:11:32,422
a little bit too long. But we always like to

2055
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highlight, people who are in the fortunate circumstance to be

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able to give us an executive or associate executive producer

2057
02:11:39,267 --> 02:11:42,629
donation so it's 200 or more not only are we

2058
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guaranteed to read your notes which people take advantage of

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02:11:45,652 --> 02:11:49,254
in interesting ways But we will also give you the

2060
02:11:49,414 --> 02:11:55,498
title, showbiz Hollywood title of associate executive producer, $300 or

2061
02:11:55,698 --> 02:11:58,140
more, and you get the executive producer credit. And these

2062
02:11:58,200 --> 02:12:00,822
can be used in any Hollywood situation. So it's the

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02:12:00,882 --> 02:12:04,304
real deal, including imdb.com or put it on your LinkedIn

2064
02:12:04,424 --> 02:12:06,926
or in your social media profile, on your letterhead. And

2065
02:12:06,966 --> 02:12:09,188
if anyone ever questions that, we'll be happy to vouch

2066
02:12:09,268 --> 02:12:13,731
for you. So our first executive producer and coming in

2067
02:12:13,871 --> 02:12:18,654
straight away with $1,000 plus the fees, which is $30.26,

2068
02:12:18,794 --> 02:12:21,696
is Sir Dan the Man. Sir Dan the Man's been

2069
02:12:21,736 --> 02:12:24,518
around for a while. He's from Cape Coral, Florida. And

2070
02:12:24,538 --> 02:12:27,680
he has a longer note here. Let me see what...

2071
02:12:28,000 --> 02:12:31,563
And at first, request for a kidney. He has a

2072
02:12:31,583 --> 02:12:35,225
request for a kidney? This is the first? This is

2073
02:12:35,345 --> 02:12:37,287
a no agenda first to know what he's about to

2074
02:12:37,367 --> 02:12:40,889
read. He needs a kidney? No, his wife does. Well,

2075
02:12:41,109 --> 02:12:43,871
let's see what's going on. Dear Adam and John, I'm

2076
02:12:43,931 --> 02:12:46,153
writing as a long-time No Agenda listener and supporter to

2077
02:12:46,213 --> 02:12:48,474
let you know I'll be making this show donation of

2078
02:12:48,494 --> 02:12:51,136
$1,000. I appreciate the work you do and the community

2079
02:12:51,156 --> 02:12:54,518
you've built around the show. Normally, I would remain semi-anonymous,

2080
02:12:54,578 --> 02:12:57,180
but these are not normal times for my family. I

2081
02:12:57,260 --> 02:12:59,442
want to humbly ask you to share this message with

2082
02:12:59,482 --> 02:13:01,723
the No Agenda community about my wife, Linda, and her

2083
02:13:01,823 --> 02:13:05,966
kidney transplant journey. A few weeks ago with no warning,

2084
02:13:06,006 --> 02:13:10,089
we found out that she is in end stage renal

2085
02:13:10,289 --> 02:13:14,652
failure. Dr. Dvorak, what does that mean? It'll make sure

2086
02:13:14,692 --> 02:13:19,415
kidneys stop working. And you have two kidneys. So both

2087
02:13:19,495 --> 02:13:23,098
kidneys have failed, I guess? Yeah. You only need one.

2088
02:13:24,159 --> 02:13:26,780
We have started GoFundMe to help with the medical and

2089
02:13:26,820 --> 02:13:30,623
related expenses that come with transplant care, recovery, travel, and

2090
02:13:30,803 --> 02:13:34,306
ongoing support. Most importantly, Linda is also in need of

2091
02:13:34,326 --> 02:13:37,167
a kidney donor. And anyone who will be willing to

2092
02:13:37,208 --> 02:13:49,796
get tested can start the process at www.mcdonor. mtilivingdonor.org mtilivingdonor.org

2093
02:13:50,637 --> 02:13:53,218
If any fellow producers or listeners feel moved to help,

2094
02:13:53,319 --> 02:13:57,201
whether by donating, sharing the fundraiser, or considering living donor

2095
02:13:57,321 --> 02:13:59,903
testing, it would mean a great deal to our family.

2096
02:14:00,243 --> 02:14:03,085
So I'll put this link in the show notes, in

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02:14:03,165 --> 02:14:06,387
the credits. Thank you for considering the request, and thank

2098
02:14:06,427 --> 02:14:09,069
you for the laughs, the insight, and the community you

2099
02:14:09,169 --> 02:14:11,891
continue to create. I'm grateful to be able to support

2100
02:14:11,911 --> 02:14:14,653
the show, and I would be deeply grateful any help

2101
02:14:14,733 --> 02:14:17,415
spreading the word for Linda. And he wants a mac

2102
02:14:17,535 --> 02:14:20,297
and cheese and a jobs karma and all the health

2103
02:14:20,357 --> 02:14:22,639
karma we can spare. So I'm going to up the

2104
02:14:22,739 --> 02:14:27,102
ante here. If any No Agenda producer donates their kidney

2105
02:14:27,202 --> 02:14:29,583
to Linda, I will take you out to dinner personally.

2106
02:14:29,723 --> 02:14:31,925
I will come to wherever you are in the country

2107
02:14:32,305 --> 02:14:34,847
and I will take you out to dinner. But it's

2108
02:14:35,027 --> 02:14:38,469
only if it's your kidney. Now if it's your kid's

2109
02:14:38,549 --> 02:14:44,253
kidney, you get two dinners. Guaranteed. Well, we certainly hope

2110
02:14:44,293 --> 02:14:46,034
for the best, Sir Dan the Man, for you and

2111
02:14:46,114 --> 02:14:49,597
for Linda. You slaves can get used to mac and

2112
02:14:49,597 --> 02:14:53,219
cheese, mac and cheese, mac and cheese, macaroni and cheese,

2113
02:14:53,319 --> 02:14:56,922
cheddar melted together, mac and cheese, mac and cheese, mac

2114
02:14:57,062 --> 02:15:03,606
and cheese. Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for

2115
02:15:05,348 --> 02:15:09,951
jobs. That is definitely a first. Definitely a first on

2116
02:15:10,011 --> 02:15:12,673
the show. Yeah, definitely. Mr. Lips is up. He's at

2117
02:15:12,693 --> 02:15:17,756
346.46. He has a note that's just the opposite. It's

2118
02:15:17,836 --> 02:15:20,398
short. Thanks for all you guys do. Love you both.

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02:15:20,878 --> 02:15:23,740
Mr. Lips. Love you mean it, Mr. Lips. Hey, there's

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and thank you for the nice feedback on Sunday. We

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Not only is it amazing for brain health, but it

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also lowers the risk of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. And on

2128
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a personal note, as someone who took care of my

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mother full-time for six years while she battled Parkinson's, I'm

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a faithful drinker of dark roast black coffee, and that

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seems to be gigawatt coffee's specialty. I can't wait to

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and the entire Manuka Gold family. Thank you, Manuka Gold.

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It's interesting. Gigawatt also sent Jace a birthday gift of

2138
02:16:25,762 --> 02:16:30,506
coffee. Oh, this is so nice. Small family business. We

2139
02:16:30,566 --> 02:16:34,368
have another interesting note here. This is Rosalind K. Price

2140
02:16:34,468 --> 02:16:41,153
in Birmingham, West Midlands, UK. $3.33. you Thank you. I'm

2141
02:16:41,213 --> 02:16:45,096
a choreographer in the UK who got canceled in 2021.

2142
02:16:45,576 --> 02:16:49,118
And since then, I've set up a support organization. And

2143
02:16:49,158 --> 02:16:58,145
we should link to it. www.freedominthearts.com. Freedominthearts.com. All one word.

2144
02:16:58,585 --> 02:17:02,147
Your show gives me and my family strength and hope.

2145
02:17:03,208 --> 02:17:07,051
So I looked into this. Yeah. This is a very

2146
02:17:07,171 --> 02:17:12,274
famous person. In fact, I sent you a show notes

2147
02:17:13,495 --> 02:17:17,958
memo, which has a link to her interview on GB1

2148
02:17:18,378 --> 02:17:22,001
out of the UK. Yeah. On YouTube. I haven't seen

2149
02:17:22,081 --> 02:17:26,304
it yet. I haven't seen it. It's fascinating. She was

2150
02:17:26,404 --> 02:17:29,966
a famous choreographer in the UK that did all these

2151
02:17:30,326 --> 02:17:38,372
very elaborate productions. the Rosie Kay dance troupe. Really? And

2152
02:17:39,112 --> 02:17:44,156
she just mentioned at a house dinner party to some

2153
02:17:44,616 --> 02:17:48,259
new group of dancers, she just casually said, well, I

2154
02:17:48,339 --> 02:17:52,462
don't know if trans does impinge on, it seems to

2155
02:17:52,762 --> 02:17:56,484
be a trans thing. Yeah. Impinges a bit on women's

2156
02:17:56,664 --> 02:18:00,327
rights. And she got canceled because there's a whole structure

2157
02:18:00,427 --> 02:18:03,949
set up to get her fired from her, her own

2158
02:18:04,089 --> 02:18:09,293
company. And the whole thing is very interesting. She describes

2159
02:18:09,353 --> 02:18:11,775
some of it or some of the mechanisms to fight

2160
02:18:11,855 --> 02:18:14,937
against it on this website. Yeah, they got toolkits and

2161
02:18:14,977 --> 02:18:19,260
all kinds of stuff here. But the story in the

2162
02:18:19,720 --> 02:18:23,323
video is more interesting than her website. So we're here,

2163
02:18:23,363 --> 02:18:26,004
myself, Rosie Kay, and this is Denise Farmy in the

2164
02:18:26,024 --> 02:18:30,387
red over here, to launch the new Boycott Crisis and

2165
02:18:30,447 --> 02:18:35,871
the Art Beyond Boycott toolkit. You know what? So for

2166
02:18:35,951 --> 02:18:41,315
her, I think she should join the new international lifestyle

2167
02:18:41,375 --> 02:18:44,277
of value for value. This is the kind of person

2168
02:18:44,297 --> 02:18:48,240
who could do that. Maybe. Yeah. We're happy that we

2169
02:18:48,360 --> 02:18:51,202
give you and your family strength and hope. That's so

2170
02:18:51,302 --> 02:18:55,104
nice. Thank you, Rosalind K. Price. That's nice to know.

2171
02:18:56,385 --> 02:19:00,288
We're doing good, John. Yeah, we're doing good. That's us.

2172
02:19:00,368 --> 02:19:03,290
We're doing good for people. I like that. Peter Muir

2173
02:19:03,530 --> 02:19:06,812
is in Houston, Texas. $327. Thank you, Peter. I've been

2174
02:19:06,812 --> 02:19:09,234
listening to you guys for about 16 years at least.

2175
02:19:09,914 --> 02:19:13,076
And one of those weirdos, and was one of those

2176
02:19:13,157 --> 02:19:15,198
weirdos that went back to the beginning when it was

2177
02:19:15,298 --> 02:19:19,481
bare bones. I guess I'm paying it backwards now. ITM

2178
02:19:19,641 --> 02:19:26,426
times 34. ITM times 34. X34. I'm not sure what

2179
02:19:26,566 --> 02:19:28,767
X34 is. I don't know what that means. Thank you.

2180
02:19:30,128 --> 02:19:37,213
Sir Dave D-A-H-A-P. DAHAP. It's all caps. DAHAP? In Gladstone,

2181
02:19:37,433 --> 02:19:46,459
Missouri. It must mean something. Yeah. Uh, $257.94. This is

2182
02:19:46,860 --> 02:19:50,022
the first associate executive producer. Happy birthday to the BC

2183
02:19:50,342 --> 02:19:59,808
country ITU heading to Tanzania. Tanzania. Tanzania. Tanzania. I knew

2184
02:19:59,908 --> 02:19:59,988
that.

2185
02:20:00,059 --> 02:20:06,924
Didn't sound right. Tanzania. Tanzania? What? Where's Tanzania? I don't

2186
02:20:06,964 --> 02:20:13,008
know, man. Tanzania. Heading to Tanzania for a few weeks

2187
02:20:13,068 --> 02:20:17,471
to help an NGO that works with victims of human

2188
02:20:17,571 --> 02:20:21,514
trafficking. Wow. Traveling karma, please. We'll keep an eye out

2189
02:20:21,554 --> 02:20:26,157
for more Africa news. It's a crowd pleaser. Sir Dave

2190
02:20:26,317 --> 02:20:35,684
Dahab. You've got karma. Over to Indianapolis, Indiana, $2.57 and

2191
02:20:35,764 --> 02:20:39,186
94 cents. I'm pretty sure that's $2.50, a freedom donation,

2192
02:20:39,306 --> 02:20:41,968
plus some fees, Sir Digi. And he says, this is

2193
02:20:41,988 --> 02:20:44,210
from Sir Digi. And we thank you very much, Sir

2194
02:20:44,250 --> 02:20:49,233
Digi. And then we go to Jeremy Brogan in Amherst,

2195
02:20:49,433 --> 02:20:54,817
Ohio. $250.15. Now, I realize he put the fees in,

2196
02:20:54,917 --> 02:20:59,280
too, because he sent in a check. That's $0.15. $0.15

2197
02:20:59,280 --> 02:21:05,404
process. Nice. Compared to $7.94. Right, right. Hello, people. Mm-hmm.

2198
02:21:06,865 --> 02:21:12,629
ITM, gents, a slightly late and matching quarter millennium donation

2199
02:21:12,729 --> 02:21:15,671
plus fees. Yeah, plus fees. Can I ask you a

2200
02:21:15,711 --> 02:21:19,254
question about? fees? 15. Let me ask you a question.

2201
02:21:19,774 --> 02:21:24,617
Yeah. So if someone sends us $250 plus fees, so

2202
02:21:24,677 --> 02:21:30,041
that's $257.94, don't we get docked over the $257.94 for

2203
02:21:30,101 --> 02:21:36,645
fees? I'm not sure how they do the calculation. Okay.

2204
02:21:36,645 --> 02:21:39,727
All right. But that money is what we get. All

2205
02:21:39,727 --> 02:21:44,911
right. We'll carry on. Thank you, John, for making me

2206
02:21:45,071 --> 02:21:50,455
cry while shaving when reading my son Connor's note for

2207
02:21:50,515 --> 02:21:55,778
my birthday. Father's Day slash Father's Day. Now he wants,

2208
02:21:55,959 --> 02:21:59,261
oh, okay, this is for you, sorry. He wants suffering

2209
02:21:59,401 --> 02:22:04,404
succotash with a we're all going to die. And then

2210
02:22:04,484 --> 02:22:09,888
he says five to eight more years. Jeremy Brogan, Amherst,

2211
02:22:10,188 --> 02:22:15,192
Ohio. on with your five to seven more years. Suffering

2212
02:22:15,272 --> 02:22:28,421
succotash. I'm Scott. Simon. Nailed it. Hey, there's Sir Cal

2213
02:22:28,541 --> 02:22:32,543
from Lavender Blossoms in Northville, Michigan with 227.72. I've never

2214
02:22:32,543 --> 02:22:34,605
met him for a while. I'd love to hear from

2215
02:22:34,705 --> 02:22:36,506
our boy, Cal. Thanks for all you do. Keep it

2216
02:22:36,586 --> 02:22:41,249
up. John, tip of the day. Drink motherwort tea for

2217
02:22:41,370 --> 02:22:45,772
calming and healing the heart. Love yous, Sir Cal of

2218
02:22:45,873 --> 02:22:51,777
Lavender Blossoms. I'm pretty sure LavenderBlossoms.org is still up and

2219
02:22:51,877 --> 02:22:53,938
still operating, aren't they? We haven't looked at them in

2220
02:22:53,998 --> 02:22:56,500
a while. Oh, yeah, for sure. Let me see. Lavender

2221
02:22:56,980 --> 02:23:04,425
Blossoms. Because he grows that lavender himself. Lavender, is it

2222
02:23:04,505 --> 02:23:09,489
Lavander? Lavender. Hmm, I don't know. It doesn't look like

2223
02:23:09,529 --> 02:23:12,070
it's up. I might not be doing it right. Thank

2224
02:23:12,090 --> 02:23:15,753
you very much, Sir Kyle. We appreciate you. Now we

2225
02:23:15,873 --> 02:23:20,856
have, you have to pronounce his surname. I would pronounce

2226
02:23:20,956 --> 02:23:26,861
it Miles Vredenburg, Miles. But you apparently, it's a Dutch

2227
02:23:26,921 --> 02:23:31,123
pronunciation, it would be different. Yeah, Vredenburg. What about his

2228
02:23:31,183 --> 02:23:38,609
first name? Miles? Miles? Miles Fredenberg. And that translates to

2229
02:23:39,189 --> 02:23:46,054
Freedom Mountain. Freedom Mountain. Miles Freedom Mountain in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

2230
02:23:46,154 --> 02:23:48,755
Or it could be Berg. Just Freedom Berg is probably

2231
02:23:48,815 --> 02:23:54,239
more accurate. 20115 As an American, I'm curious to hear

2232
02:23:54,379 --> 02:23:57,001
the correct Dutz pronunciation. Oh, he doesn't even know. That's

2233
02:23:57,021 --> 02:24:03,906
good. That's a good one. That's good. First and foremost,

2234
02:24:04,006 --> 02:24:09,510
please de-douche me. You've been de-douched. I could also use

2235
02:24:09,550 --> 02:24:11,891
some jobs. I'm a dude named Ben looking for an

2236
02:24:11,911 --> 02:24:14,873
exit strategy. Thanks for all you do. I appreciate you

2237
02:24:15,013 --> 02:24:22,999
folks. Miles Fredenberg from Commie, Cambridge. Massive two shits. jobs,

2238
02:24:23,459 --> 02:24:52,019
jobs, and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. You've got karma.

2239
02:24:52,179 --> 02:24:56,422
and executives position their experience so employers see their value.

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02:24:56,862 --> 02:24:59,684
That's Image Makers Inc. with a K and Linda Liu,

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02:25:00,144 --> 02:25:04,627
Duchess of Jobs and writer of winning resumes, best Linda.

2242
02:25:04,827 --> 02:25:11,692
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. You've

2243
02:25:12,552 --> 02:25:21,379
got karma. Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. You're going all

2244
02:25:21,499 --> 02:25:25,161
RoboCop again. I'll do this one. Something's weird with your

2245
02:25:25,201 --> 02:25:32,166
connection all of a sudden. Yeah, you're no good. I

2246
02:25:32,286 --> 02:25:34,648
think you said change networks. I would say that's a

2247
02:25:34,668 --> 02:25:37,510
good idea. And I will read the donation note from

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there. Give thanks. Are you back? Keep going. Did you

2254
02:26:10,512 --> 02:26:13,134
switch? Because you're good now. No, I didn't switch yet.

2255
02:26:13,434 --> 02:26:16,296
But I have a feeling it's not just you. I

2256
02:26:16,336 --> 02:26:18,678
think it's a routing issue because every single time it

2257
02:26:18,738 --> 02:26:23,501
happens... My YouTube TV, the quad screen goes into a

2258
02:26:23,581 --> 02:26:27,223
circle. That would seem like it's not me. Yeah, well,

2259
02:26:27,243 --> 02:26:30,566
it's the connection between me and California because no one

2260
02:26:30,606 --> 02:26:34,168
has had any... Has any had any issues in the

2261
02:26:34,208 --> 02:26:36,710
stream is still good. The chat rooms up, so I

2262
02:26:36,750 --> 02:26:43,515
don't know. Scam likely go away, scammer. Our final associate

2263
02:26:43,535 --> 02:26:50,299
executive producer is Sean. at InvestorPortalPro.com. What is this? Houston,

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Texas, $200. A long-time listener, first-time caller, no need to

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de-douche. Well, okay. Listen up if you've got a business

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the code ITM for 20% off. That's InvestorPortalPro.com or 212-658-0862.

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Love some jobs, Karma. And do you have anything with

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Art Bell? I don't think we have anything from Art

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Bell. Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs. Let's vote for jobs.

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You've got karma. And that concludes our Executive and Associate

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02:28:15,537 --> 02:28:21,201
Executive Producers for episode 1,886. We appreciate what all of

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02:28:21,241 --> 02:28:24,363
you have done for us today. We'll thank everybody right

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02:28:24,423 --> 02:28:26,925
after we tell you once again that these credits are

2285
02:28:27,025 --> 02:28:32,729
real and Hollywood style. Our formula is this. We hit

2286
02:28:32,769 --> 02:28:50,841
people in the mouth. for our Value for Value treasure

2287
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supporters, $50 and above. Stefan Trockels in Soos, Deutschland, $110.11.

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We see your pal in Rome. And he said he

2289
02:28:58,787 --> 02:29:00,868
was happy to have met Joe from Michigan today in

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02:29:00,908 --> 02:29:06,012
his local restaurant. It was founded in 1638. Wow, that's

2291
02:29:06,012 --> 02:29:10,835
an old restaurant. There is the Archduke of Luna, Love

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02:29:10,875 --> 02:29:13,457
of America and Boobs for Kevin McLaughlin in Concord, North

2293
02:29:13,497 --> 02:29:17,479
Carolina with his every single show boob donation, $80.08. God

2294
02:29:17,520 --> 02:29:22,203
bless America and boobs, he says. Juraj Kojak in Prague

2295
02:29:22,303 --> 02:29:24,905
checks in with a boob donation. Thank you. Hello, Prague.

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James Edmondson, South Plainfield, New Jersey, double nickels on the

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dime. Lane Lamoureux in Gilbert, Arizona, $55. And says it's

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Lane, your buddy in Baghdad, far from the green zone,

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22 kilometers, in fact. Apart from a few times ordinance

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has flown over campus walls, we're in a green bubble.

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Summer break is here. The pools are open. Luke Munnell

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in Los Angeles, California, $52.72, and we hit the 50s.

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Whoa! That was fast. Uh, Samitra Saravana in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

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50 bucks, thank you. Sir Kevin Dills.

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We'll see you next time. Podcasts in the universe. It

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really means a lot and it keeps the show going.

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02:30:34,443 --> 02:30:36,444
So thank you. And if you'd like to support us,

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02:30:36,484 --> 02:30:40,107
go to noagendadonations.com. Anytime you feel like it, anytime you

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feel like you got some value out of this podcast,

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send it back to us. You can even set up

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a recurring donation, any amount, any frequency, noagendadonations.com. And we

2312
02:30:55,697 --> 02:30:58,960
have only two birthdays today. We have end of show

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02:30:59,060 --> 02:31:03,663
mixer Sir David Kechta, who wishes Helena Kechta a very

2314
02:31:03,743 --> 02:31:08,986
happy birthday. She turned 16 yesterday. Happy birthday, Helena. And

2315
02:31:09,067 --> 02:31:12,789
Sir Dave wishes country ITU a happy birthday. We say

2316
02:31:12,869 --> 02:31:14,870
the same. Happy birthday from everybody here at the best

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02:31:14,951 --> 02:31:43,330
podcast in the universe. and he sent a note, 'cause

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02:31:43,370 --> 02:32:01,022
it's under the normal amounts that we read notes. Tribune.

2319
02:32:01,542 --> 02:32:03,584
Much better value for value. With the No Agenda show,

2320
02:32:03,644 --> 02:32:06,806
I wish to change my moniker to Baronet Sir Gary

2321
02:32:06,886 --> 02:32:12,150
who plays taps. I've been state director for buglesacrossamerica.org for

2322
02:32:12,210 --> 02:32:16,993
many years. I've led my state's 173 volunteers providing live

2323
02:32:17,073 --> 02:32:21,256
taps free of charge for any veterans' honor services. Wow,

2324
02:32:21,256 --> 02:32:24,598
that's very cool. If you'd mention my organization, remind families

2325
02:32:24,658 --> 02:32:27,060
of vets when they are arranging honors to ask if

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02:32:27,120 --> 02:32:30,882
they have a live bugler, BAA's website is an easy

2327
02:32:30,962 --> 02:32:34,165
portal to make sure those 24 notes have a heartbeat

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02:32:34,245 --> 02:32:36,906
behind them. It's always free of charge and always deserved.

2329
02:32:37,227 --> 02:32:39,968
Hoping your search for an exit strategy continues to be

2330
02:32:40,089 --> 02:32:42,991
a failure in the morning. And yes, with that, Sir

2331
02:32:43,051 --> 02:32:47,173
Gary, you become a baronet Sir Gary who plays taps.

2332
02:32:47,634 --> 02:32:51,036
And we thank you for your continued support of the

2333
02:32:51,116 --> 02:33:02,724
show. Very nice. Hey, it's time for the meetups. Meetup

2334
02:33:02,724 --> 02:33:05,406
reports. When it rains, it pours, so to speak. Here

2335
02:33:05,526 --> 02:33:10,249
is the Keller, Texas meetup report. Hello, NOAGENDA Nation. This

2336
02:33:10,329 --> 02:33:13,411
is Yeoman Zag here at What's on Tap in Keller,

2337
02:33:13,511 --> 02:33:17,034
Texas. I'm having a beer by myself, but as a

2338
02:33:17,114 --> 02:33:20,316
friend of mine says, that's okay. The journey to a

2339
02:33:20,336 --> 02:33:24,159
well-attended meetup is a beer by yourself. In the morning.

2340
02:33:24,179 --> 02:33:27,421
Aww, in the morning. I'm sorry no one showed up.

2341
02:33:27,421 --> 02:33:29,022
We sent some pictures, though. It was kind of cool.

2342
02:33:29,802 --> 02:33:32,985
Here's the Scottsdale, Arizona meetup report. This is Lynn, the

2343
02:33:33,065 --> 02:33:36,767
hostess with the mostess at the Scottsdale No Agenda Media

2344
02:33:36,887 --> 02:33:42,451
Deconstruction Meetup. And it has been amazing. Hi, this is

2345
02:33:42,511 --> 02:33:45,733
Dame Stephanie at the Scottsdale Meetup enjoying some tacos and

2346
02:33:45,773 --> 02:33:49,036
some great company. Quick shout out to the Blonde Squad

2347
02:33:49,116 --> 02:33:53,118
plus Trish. Hey, this is Sir Don Baron of Chandler

2348
02:33:53,539 --> 02:33:57,461
enjoying some tacos and some cold beers. Love is lit.

2349
02:33:58,262 --> 02:34:01,264
Hey, this is Bruce and here at the Scottsdale meetup.

2350
02:34:01,704 --> 02:34:06,187
First time, our new listener and here enjoying company of

2351
02:34:06,267 --> 02:34:10,951
like-minded individuals. Hey, this is Gina from Phoenix at the

2352
02:34:11,011 --> 02:34:13,192
Scottsdale meetup. I want to give a shout out to

2353
02:34:13,252 --> 02:34:15,914
my brother Dale in Cannon Beach for hitting me in

2354
02:34:15,974 --> 02:34:19,096
the mouth about three years ago. ITM John and Adam.

2355
02:34:20,497 --> 02:34:24,360
Hey, I'm Mike. I'm a douchebag. And no agenda people

2356
02:34:24,420 --> 02:34:28,202
are cool. Okay, Regina, I don't listen to the show,

2357
02:34:28,362 --> 02:34:31,825
but maybe I will. In the morning, John and Adam.

2358
02:34:32,245 --> 02:34:35,827
This is Rick from Mesa. We're here at Loco Patron.

2359
02:34:36,568 --> 02:34:39,950
Our host, Lindsay, is awesome. And I love the show.

2360
02:34:42,092 --> 02:34:46,235
Hey John and Adam, this is your conscience speaking. I

2361
02:34:46,295 --> 02:34:49,417
know what you did. Just kidding. I don't know what

2362
02:34:49,417 --> 02:34:53,079
you did and I don't care. This is Kenny. Bye

2363
02:34:53,079 --> 02:34:56,422
now. Hey, this is Scott Sanders in North Scottsdale. We

2364
02:34:56,502 --> 02:34:59,904
dodged the monsoons and the dirt, wind, so we're all

2365
02:35:00,024 --> 02:35:06,749
clean and we enjoy our meetup. I'm not as weird

2366
02:35:06,769 --> 02:35:08,870
as my husband. I don't listen to the podcast. I

2367
02:35:08,970 --> 02:35:13,013
apologize, but I'm sure it's amazing. I love the No

2368
02:35:13,093 --> 02:35:17,556
Agenda crew. They are awesome. They've been amazing guests. The

2369
02:35:17,616 --> 02:35:20,378
No Agenda meetup people are some of the most interesting

2370
02:35:20,418 --> 02:35:22,719
and fun people ever in my life. Great shout out

2371
02:35:22,780 --> 02:35:24,801
to Lindsay who set up the whole thing, the whole

2372
02:35:24,841 --> 02:35:27,863
mastermind behind the project. Everyone here seems to lead great

2373
02:35:27,943 --> 02:35:29,824
lives and seem like amazing people. And I hope to

2374
02:35:29,824 --> 02:35:33,367
see them again soon. Well, there you go. Long, but

2375
02:35:33,427 --> 02:35:35,808
a lot of people at the Scottsdale, Arizona meetup. And

2376
02:35:35,868 --> 02:35:39,591
you hear it there. The people are fun. There's amazing

2377
02:35:39,671 --> 02:35:42,073
people. You will meet so many cool people at a

2378
02:35:42,133 --> 02:35:45,655
No Agenda meetup. People you just might have never, ever

2379
02:35:45,935 --> 02:35:49,117
encountered anywhere else. but because of the show, because of

2380
02:35:49,638 --> 02:35:52,300
the nature of Knowage and the Nation and Gitmo Nation,

2381
02:35:52,340 --> 02:35:54,961
you'll get together, you're going to enjoy it. And sometimes

2382
02:35:55,041 --> 02:36:03,127
people even get married. Well, in the beautiful evening, it's

2383
02:36:03,167 --> 02:36:16,076
Sir Scott the Jew. It's another meet-ups wedding. came out

2384
02:36:16,156 --> 02:36:20,219
for us. Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, Stella's on the Hill hosts

2385
02:36:20,239 --> 02:36:24,522
a great wedding. Beautiful couple, Holly and Jeff, in the

2386
02:36:24,582 --> 02:36:28,084
morning. Here at the impromptu meetup at the wedding overlooking

2387
02:36:28,124 --> 02:36:31,226
beautiful Coeur d'Alene Lake. And I want to say congratulations

2388
02:36:31,226 --> 02:36:33,988
to the happy new No Agenda couple. And as a

2389
02:36:34,068 --> 02:36:37,230
reminder to Jeff and Holly, the couple that No Agenda's

2390
02:36:37,250 --> 02:36:41,813
together stays together in the morning. This is a dude

2391
02:36:41,833 --> 02:36:44,155
named Jeff, and I just have to say I met

2392
02:36:44,295 --> 02:36:48,498
my smoking hot wife at a no agenda meetup. So

2393
02:36:48,618 --> 02:36:51,740
get out there, find the connection that is your protection.

2394
02:36:52,200 --> 02:36:54,942
Come on, you dorks, get out of the basement. Good

2395
02:36:54,982 --> 02:36:59,325
things happen. Here in beautiful sunny Coeur d'Alene. Celebrating Jeff

2396
02:36:59,405 --> 02:37:02,307
and Holly's wedding in the morning. This is Holly the

2397
02:37:02,367 --> 02:37:04,569
bride. Thank you, No Agenda Meetups. That's how I met

2398
02:37:04,629 --> 02:37:08,051
my keeper. It doesn't get more No Agenda than that.

2399
02:37:11,894 --> 02:37:17,858
Oh, isn't that wonderful? We've had several weddings happen here

2400
02:37:18,959 --> 02:37:21,180
on the show. We've had proposals on the show, and

2401
02:37:21,220 --> 02:37:23,882
it's nice to hear that we made another love connection

2402
02:37:24,382 --> 02:37:26,704
at a No Agenda meetup. There you go. Now, is

2403
02:37:26,764 --> 02:37:29,466
that an endorsement or what? I don't need to say

2404
02:37:29,506 --> 02:37:32,188
anything else other than we have a meetup taking place

2405
02:37:32,228 --> 02:37:36,591
today in Charlotte, North Carolina, Edge Tavern. It's Charlotte's Thirsty

2406
02:37:36,651 --> 02:37:39,453
Thursday Monthly. It'll be on at 7 o'clock tonight. On

2407
02:37:39,553 --> 02:37:41,794
Saturday, the meetup down at the sea at Warehouse No.

2408
02:37:42,034 --> 02:37:45,717
9, No. 9, No. 9. nine that is in san

2409
02:37:45,797 --> 02:37:50,800
pedro california and guess what warehouse number nine 333 pacific

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02:37:50,880 --> 02:37:54,323
time Coming up this month, what's left of it, on

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02:37:54,403 --> 02:37:58,085
the 25th of July, three, Spicewood, Texas, Anaheim, California, and

2412
02:37:58,145 --> 02:38:02,108
Fort Wayne, Indiana. On the 26th, Squim, Washington. Will Mimi

2413
02:38:02,208 --> 02:38:05,811
be attending? Do we know? No, I don't know. Okay.

2414
02:38:06,351 --> 02:38:10,054
Just say maybe. Just say maybe. Maybe. Oh, yeah, maybe.

2415
02:38:10,214 --> 02:38:14,677
Maybe. Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, their next meetup, July 30th. Who

2416
02:38:14,737 --> 02:38:17,138
will be the next bride? And also on the 30th,

2417
02:38:17,278 --> 02:38:19,780
Alpharetta, Georgia. These are the No Agenda meetups. What a

2418
02:38:19,840 --> 02:38:22,422
great place to go hang out with people. It's completely

2419
02:38:22,482 --> 02:38:24,904
free of charge to make them, set them up, to

2420
02:38:24,964 --> 02:38:27,966
go to attend them. It's very easy to do. Go

2421
02:38:28,046 --> 02:38:32,749
to noagendameetups.com, and you will find out very quickly how

2422
02:38:32,829 --> 02:38:35,451
to put it all together. You can list it there,

2423
02:38:35,831 --> 02:38:37,612
and if you can't find one near you, why don't

2424
02:38:37,672 --> 02:38:40,234
you just start one yourself? It's super easy, and they

2425
02:38:40,294 --> 02:30:00,000
are always guaranteed a party. ♪ Mix and date ♪

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Drink it all I'm thinking, I was just looking at

2427
02:39:03,010 --> 02:39:08,293
all my systems here. When you started to RoboCop. YouTube

2428
02:39:08,353 --> 02:39:15,078
TV went down. My anthropic Claude codes all disconnected. I

2429
02:39:15,158 --> 02:39:18,620
think there might have been a minor earthquake somewhere. in

2430
02:39:18,840 --> 02:39:22,183
in california something happened in california i think the whole

2431
02:39:22,323 --> 02:39:27,426
internet burped over there Possible. Yeah. Troll Room, check it

2432
02:39:27,526 --> 02:39:29,808
out. So let me know if something happened. Because it

2433
02:39:29,868 --> 02:39:33,490
was the weirdest thing. Go to the USGS earthquake site.

2434
02:39:33,570 --> 02:39:35,152
They have all of them up today. Yeah, see if

2435
02:39:35,192 --> 02:39:37,933
something's going on. Or if it was just some internet

2436
02:39:38,094 --> 02:39:41,316
glitch. You know how that works. We have John's tip

2437
02:39:41,336 --> 02:39:43,377
of the day coming up in just a few, along

2438
02:39:43,457 --> 02:39:46,459
with our end-of-show mixes. But we always like to end

2439
02:39:46,519 --> 02:39:49,181
the show with the humans versus the machine. It's the

2440
02:39:49,361 --> 02:39:54,225
end-of-show ISOs, isolated clips. I bring people, John brings machines.

2441
02:39:55,305 --> 02:39:56,726
I'm going to start mine because I don't think I

2442
02:39:56,786 --> 02:39:59,988
will win. Here's my first. Oh, that was hilarious.

2443
02:40:01,240 --> 02:40:03,001
Actually, that's not too bad. I kind of like that

2444
02:40:03,141 --> 02:40:09,005
one. How about this one? Thank you very much. And

2445
02:40:09,146 --> 02:40:12,468
always from the well. Incredible job. Thank you so much.

2446
02:40:14,269 --> 02:40:17,371
I think they're kind of flat. Yeah, I don't know

2447
02:40:17,411 --> 02:40:22,514
who they're thanking. Yeah, us. Us. I have two celebrities

2448
02:40:22,574 --> 02:40:27,718
here, politicians. Amazing. Yeah, I got Kamala Harris. John and

2449
02:40:27,858 --> 02:40:31,580
Adam are John and Adam, and they are both good

2450
02:40:31,820 --> 02:40:38,084
podcasters as long as they podcast. It's very long. She's

2451
02:40:38,225 --> 02:40:41,607
long-winded. What can I say? Yeah, long-winded. Yeah. Let's try

2452
02:40:41,667 --> 02:40:45,229
Obama. Day! Don't know if you can find a better

2453
02:40:45,289 --> 02:40:50,052
podcast than No Agenda. Yeah, okay. A definite winner. Very

2454
02:40:50,152 --> 02:40:52,434
good. Hey, it's time for John's tip of the day.

2455
02:40:52,494 --> 02:40:57,177
Great advice for you and me. Just the tip with

2456
02:40:57,517 --> 02:41:05,102
JCB. Adam. product. No, I only do those once a

2457
02:41:05,322 --> 02:41:10,526
month. Oh, okay. Ah, good. No, this is a cool

2458
02:41:10,606 --> 02:41:12,967
product. This is a summer product for the people in

2459
02:41:12,987 --> 02:41:17,050
the Northern Hemisphere. These things are fantastic. And this is

2460
02:41:17,130 --> 02:41:20,272
a pretty good one. And this comes in various lengths.

2461
02:41:21,133 --> 02:41:25,315
Depending on your patio. Uh-huh. This is a, and I'll

2462
02:41:25,335 --> 02:41:35,942
spell it, Mel, M-E-L-L-B-R-E-E, Melbrae Mister. For outside patio. They're

2463
02:41:36,323 --> 02:41:41,646
$19 for a 30-footer. They're pre-assembled misting cooling systems with

2464
02:41:41,826 --> 02:41:44,808
eight brass nozzles. Oh, I love these things. These are

2465
02:41:44,908 --> 02:41:48,190
great. And Texas has them all over the place. Yeah,

2466
02:41:48,230 --> 02:41:52,493
of course. Texas, of all places, would love these things

2467
02:41:52,573 --> 02:41:59,058
because they're good for the patio, backyard, garden, greenhouse, chicken

2468
02:41:59,158 --> 02:42:03,501
coop, doghouse. And what it does, and I've run, You

2469
02:42:03,821 --> 02:42:07,763
set it up and it puts out this extremely fine

2470
02:42:07,883 --> 02:42:13,507
mist of water and it creates evaporative cooling in the

2471
02:42:13,547 --> 02:42:17,450
vicinity of the mist. Yeah. So it's nice. It feels

2472
02:42:17,510 --> 02:42:19,091
great. Now, do you just hook it up to the

2473
02:42:19,511 --> 02:42:21,592
outside tap? Is that what you do? Yep. You hook

2474
02:42:21,652 --> 02:42:24,514
it up to the outside tap and just string it

2475
02:42:24,574 --> 02:42:26,235
all over you wherever you want to put it and

2476
02:42:26,255 --> 02:42:30,118
then turn it on. Turn it on, dead man. And

2477
02:42:30,178 --> 02:42:34,801
what does this product cost? 19 bucks. Wow. What is

2478
02:42:34,861 --> 02:42:38,483
it called? That's for the 30-footer. Okay. It goes up

2479
02:42:38,564 --> 02:42:40,665
in price if you want like 60 foot. And the

2480
02:42:40,705 --> 02:42:47,289
brand once again? Melbrae, M-E-L-L-B-R-E-E. I'm telling you, if you

2481
02:42:47,409 --> 02:42:49,831
want to stay cool during the summer months, John's Tip

2482
02:42:49,851 --> 02:42:53,754
of the Day is the place for you. Free advice

2483
02:42:53,854 --> 02:42:59,677
for you and me, just the tip with JCB. sometimes

2484
02:42:59,717 --> 02:43:02,859
add Created by Dana Burnetti. Of course, you can find

2485
02:43:02,940 --> 02:43:07,442
all of John's tips at tipoftheday.net and noagendafun.com. And we

2486
02:43:07,543 --> 02:43:10,304
come to the end of our broadcast day. As you

2487
02:43:10,324 --> 02:43:12,386
know, we do it twice a week on Thursdays. End

2488
02:43:12,466 --> 02:43:16,849
of show mixes coming up. We've got Bonald Crabtree, Just

2489
02:43:17,009 --> 02:43:23,813
Baker. Let's see, we've got Sir Johnny B. And I

2490
02:43:23,913 --> 02:43:29,697
put Oisteen Bergers in abeyance. I'm sure we'll get to

2491
02:43:29,837 --> 02:43:35,261
it. It's always his own compositions. And coming up next

2492
02:43:35,481 --> 02:43:37,742
on the NO Agenda stream, or if you're still listening

2493
02:43:37,802 --> 02:43:41,165
in your modern podcast app, we have the Millennial Media

2494
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Offensive, very popular podcast. They'll be coming up next. And

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we will return with you on Sunday. Of course, that

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all depends on whether there's an earthquake in San Francisco

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or not. If you guys keep your internet connection up.

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I haven't heard anything, so I guess it was just

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a temporary blip or glitch. So coming to you from

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the... Say what? What'd you say? I didn't say anything.

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I thought you said something. Coming to you from the

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heart of the Texas Hill Country, where we are still

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suffering from the rain-stripped backscatter. In the morning, everybody, I'm

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Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley, where people are

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hearing voices, I'm John C. Dvorak. We'll be back on

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Sunday. Remember us at noagendthedonations.com. Until then, adios, mofos, a-hooey-hooey,

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and such. Yeah Lights gone. Bye. ♪ ♪ Nope. Is

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it CIA mask? Nope. Rumors flying like confetti in a

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storm, but he's just in a nursing home. In Super

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HD 4 Solid. Say the old turtle's still kicking. Tucked

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away where the cameras don't reach. Came back with a

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face that looks like it filed for an extension on

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the years. Some whisper, it's a stand-in, wearing someone else's

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skin. We won't solve the riddle here. Details keep stacking

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in. Turtle crawled out of whatever hole they had him

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in, looking brand new, like time decided to run backwards

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just for him and nobody else in the room. Holding

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up today's paper like it's non-clad proof, he's still drawing

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breath, while half the internet's convinced they rolled out a

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new one, no matter who knows how to do them.

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As some claim they slapped the flesh-colored forgery straight from

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the three-letter crowd. The kind that sweats and blinks on

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command when the lights get too loud. Others say they

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just swapped the frame and kept the same voice on

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the line. Either way, the picture's dropped and now the

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timeline doesn't quite align. The turtle shell, whatever shell they

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had to me. For the whole new time The show

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won't close. That's never how this goes, but the glow

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up is glowing, and the story keeps pulling at the

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loose ends, it shows. Triple Mitch. Or mask me Or

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a model Mitch Worth a second glance Value for value.

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Outro Music you you you for a crime. mofo devorek.org

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slash n a day don't know if you can find

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a better podcast than no agenda