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I've been misgendered. Adam Curry, John C. Devorah. It's Thursday, May 7th, 2026. This is your award-winning Kimbo Nation Media Assassination Episode 1866. This is no agenda . Completely me atless and broadcasting live from the hotel with the flaming logo at Stiffle Airport in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam Curry. And from the refinery row, uh, where we're wondering is, that war over or what's going on? I'm John C. Deborak. It's Craigbottom Buzzkill in the morning. Yeah, you just don't sound yourself. Well maybe it's maybe it's the rig. Maybe it's Linux. I don't know. I don't know. In. the morning Well you're in you're not even in the country. No. And then all I get is you just the low end you said it was missing. No, it's not. It's your your voice no. You've trans um Transformed. Yeah, you've tried to transform. You sound trans. I don't know. It's like you sound trans now. You sound you sound like uh like your your voice is an octave higher. I don't know. I've been misgendered. I think you're right. I've been misgendered . Uh yeah, here we are, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It's been a rough uh it's been a rough couple of hours for me here. Ooh, now we have stories to tell. Well, it's not all that exciting other than we left the house at eleven AM yesterday. Uh San Antonio to Atlanta went fine, and then we sat on the runway for a long time because of the storms in Atlanta. Which shortens the sleeping time on the aircraft uh because why don't you sleep while you're sitting on the runway? Well you know, it's just thanks. That didn't work. And then there was a lot of turbulence. And Tina, who normally doesn't normally turbulence, she bopped right off. She's like, oh, boom, she's gone. I'm sitting there like I still feel the turbulence when I'm walking a round. So we got in much later than expected. Uh didn't get as much sleep. And I've had I've had nothing but technical problems here today. Oh no. Yeah, yeah. And I tested the whole rig, everything tested it out, everything's fantastic. And then the minute we gotta go live, the whole stream system at all my credentials had popped out. And this hotel , two days Maybe Lennox is illegal in Holland. It will be. You know what's illegal in Amsterdam? Advertising meat . What? Yeah, you heard me. Oh, come on. Yes . Yes. Advertising meat. So you can't what about advertising a hamburger? No, no, you cannot advertise a hamburger meat in Amsterdam. In just in Amsterdam or the whole country? No, Amsterdam. Amsterdam has its own special uh its own special policies. Yeah. You can't advertise there's no advertising of meat products in Amsterdam . Wow. Yes, please. Hotel, we always stay at the uh at the airport hot el. Um they have a huge logo on the side of the hotel. Two days ago, the logo caught fire and they on the outside of the building and they evacuated all two hundred and eighty people. So I guess we're kind of lucky that we didn't show up uh earlier. And so I've literally been in the hotel room getting set, prepping, getting ready, fixing stuff, you know, the USB is disconnecting. The gremlins are in the machine, so I'm completely relying on you to drag us through the show. And I can do it. And I want to remind everybody, this is a value for value production, which again people seem to have forgotten. Yeah, the word the uh the the trouble hold on a second. People should know that you have to go through a rigor roll a lot of trouble we keep the we keep doing this show when either one of us travels. I stopped traveling after COVID, but Adam still m takes a trip or two. And this is a pain in the ass, but we do it to we do it. Yeah, we do it. We work on holidays too. Yeah. You could be seeing your daughter right now instead of doing this show. I could be doing a lot of things instead of doing the show. So we just asked you to support us if you get any value from it. If this is of no value to you, then okay, well we'll figure something else out. What do you mean the news cycle? I think the news cycle's attractive. Really? Oh, I think I think it's incredibly attractive. There's there's lots of fun things to talk about. Yes, but they're all minor. They're not like big trends or anything that's gonna change the Well no , I think you're wrong. No, no, I think you're wrong. What happened is we have too many big things. You know, it's like we barely got out of COVID. Barely . You know, if you really think about it , people are still traumatized by that. That was a good one. That was a big one . Um then we've had Epstein files, but it's all unsatisfactory. You see, people they're not getting any they can't get any And so the they're just mad about everything. And you know, and and we're not the guys that uh that are just, you know, cynical all the time and and so we're not and we're not pump ing it up. And saying everybody sucks. But let me start off with with just a fun little thirty seven second clip just to give everybody ideas. Speaking of COVID. You know uh Quest Love Quest Love . By the way, I want you to do some follow up on this not advertising meat. Okay . It's been going on for a while, but now it's official. So you know Questlove? Questlove. No. Yeah, is it he do yeah, I think he's isn't he with uh isn't he a Jimmy Kimball's band ? Or maybe uh Jimmy Fall maybe Jimmy Fallon's band. Oh he was uh the someone 's band. He was in someone's band. He was one of those late night show bands. I think it could be the I think you might be thinking about uh other guys now off uh the British k guy. No, no, no. No, no. I'm I'm waiting for the troll room to tell me. Anyway, troll room. Trol room is slow. Yeah, it was what? Kilto. No. Anyway. When you hear the guy, you'll recognize I'm pretty sure he was he he was in one of those late night TV show bands. And so this guy is yeah, it was Fall yeah, Fallon's band. See, I I know I'm right, Fallon's band. So if you're in Fallon's band 's band is the roots . Yeah. Quest love and the roots. Exactly. Okay. Thank you. So if you're in Fallon's band during COVID, what are you gonna do? I don't know what are you gonna do. You're gonna take the shot. Of course you have to take the shot that's required. And all of your buddies are gonna take the shot. They have to take the shot. That's what it was an edict. Listen to this. In the last year alone . And you know, I wondered , is there a pandemic happening that I'm not aware of? I'll say for me, in the last eight months, I've lost eleven friends. Oh yeah. Oh my god. Like even the day that I found out D'Angelo had cancer, D'Angelo was the sixth person in a twenty-four hour period that broke the news to me. And even then it it was like in humor because five other people had broke the news to me like earlier that day The Food and Drug Administration has withdrawn the publication of studies that tracked the safety of the COVID nineteen and shingles COVID 19 vaccines and shingles vaccines are safe. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has expressed doubt about the safety and efficacy of several vaccines. Yes, exactly. Can you read the writing on the wall ? My lord they can't. In fact, it's embarrassing. And I will say this about that pulling those studies. The the f pushback on that was there they go, there's Kennedy doing his anti vaxx thing. They're not paying any attention to the underlying reasons they did this, which was they they they drew conclusions that weren't valid conclusions to draw from from the data. That's the reason they did it. Mm-hmm. And they and the I see more anger about oh, look at this another example. This is just Kennedy's anti-vax thing. Is this known Well let's go to the next one. Before we even do your three by three. Do you have any No the three by three is about Iran? We can do the we can do that in a minute. I want to do henta virus. Let me hit you with a hentavirus. A British crew member requires urgent medical care, and a passenger from the UK remains in a critical but stable condition . The World Health Organization says it has identified a total of seven cases in the outbreak. Our correspondent Kumsa Fil ani has more. From the cruise line owners, a company called Ocean Expeditions, is they've confirmed that they are currently working on plans to carry out a medical evacuation of two crew members who are still on board that MV Honduyus cruise ship off the shoreline of Cape Verde. Now, this is because they've not been allowed to disembark the 149 passengers who are from various nationalities around the world. Um, the local authorities there have expressed concern that they don't know the full details of the disease and they're concerned what that would mean for the population. So they've so far . Killed the clip accidentally. Um the point of this is that for whatever reason, henta virus keeps coming up in our lives over and over and over again. Let me take you back to episode thirteen sixty two, july twenty twenty one . And then there's another weird report which um this has cropped up many times, but it seems uh orthohan tavirus is cropping up here and there. The last time it was a big news story was in twenty thirteen. Of all places, Camp Curry in Yosemite Yeah, Hanta would be uh it's places like Camp Curry. And it's it's mouth it's from from mice, right? It's uh mouse crap. But if you read if you read about it. Uh hantavirus uh single stranded envelope negative sense RNA virus. RNA. Uh so our that already caught my eye. Like, oh it's RNA might have something to do with it. But if you look at the symptoms, man, it's very, very similar to uh to COVID. Very and it's um it gets it's in your airways as well. Yeah. So I don't know if that could be mistaken for it or God knows that has never had huge numbers, I don't think that would have come from watching. So that was twenty twenty one. I didn't go back to twenty thirteen, but this is just last year. In other health news researchers with the Virgin with Virginia Tech are warning of a disease they say has pandemic potential. Pandemic potential What what uh it's I like the alliteration, pandemic potential. That's it's p it's too long. But it would have been a show title. What's that, John? Pandemic potential. What do you think NBC News learning? Two U.S. flagships. Wait, through the straight news, did we reach the what's happening news we hadn't heard of four years, but now all of a sudden has pandemic. Oh my goodness. What is going on here? The whole double curry. Everything's out of control. All right, here we go. Well b well first of all, I mean the real one would be bird flu, but it's probably measles. It's called Hontavirus. You may have heard about it recently. It's called Hontavirus. You may have heard about it recently. It's the infection that killed Gene Hackman's wife. And also caused three deaths in California recently. The fire the virus. How can that be how can that th does it transfer from human to human? How can it have pandemic potential rat poop? You get it from rat or a mouse poop and saliva. I love how you're talking to Adam from twenty twenty five while the clip is playing. Yeah, I'm targeted. We'll get back here. That was great. That was great. Grow up. What do you mean grow up? The thing is though, there's not there's more than one kind of henta vir us. This this is the part that gets confusing. This now we're in today's world. There's lots of different hantavirus around the world. Most of it is in eastern uh China where it's a different form. It's a hemorrhag ic uh fever that's you know when you can have uh bleeding and it can cause kidney failure. But in the Americas, it's a different form. It's called HPS hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome, where you can have sort of a cardiovascular collapse and a and a respiratory or pulmonary lung collapse. Unfortunately in the Americas, it can be uh one of the strains is the anti Most of the the Hontavirus cannot be transmitted through human to human tract It starts off with non-specific symptoms, fevers, gastrointestinal symptoms, but then very rapidly can affect the heart and lungs and cause a fatal type of pneumonia setup, or what we call ARDS, which stands for uh acute respiratory distress syndrome. Basically the lungs can get filled up with fluid and uh it it's very severe. The most likely way of getting this uh all forms of Hontavirus is through close contact with rodent droppings, urine, uh, you know, secretions, and it is not through human to human transmission. That's why the general population does not have to be concerned about getting this. This is definitely not the next pandemic. Oh, okay. All right. Well, that's disappointing. Well, I have my cruise ship clip from NBC , which did a quick summary. It's not that great. Okay. Tonight an urgent medical evacu ation to take place at any moment. Three people suspected to have the high-risk hontavirus on a cruise ship now off the coast of Cape Verde in the Atlantic Ocean expected to be transported to the Netherlands using two air ambulance planes according to the Cape Verde Ministry of Health and the ship's operator. Already three people who were aboard the ship have died. In protective gear and supplies being delivered to the roughly 150 people on board, including 17 Americans. I will also show you what my room is like Jake Rosmarin is a passenger on the ship and in a news statement, said that safety measures are in place, including social distancing and masking. Islands, where the ship is expected to arrive in the next several days. There they will be examined and sent to their home countries. Um for uh Immunologist Stephen Brad fugh underscores the severity of the virus. If you get sick with the cardiopulmonary Hontavirus, on average there is a thirty-five percent death rate. And that thirty-five percent is high when you compare it That's right. Influenza is far lower. COVID's around one to two percent. The World Health Organization says at least some of the passengers may have contracted the virus through human to human contact. This is the part this is this is the part that I'm uh I'm having a tr I'm struggling with human to human. Yes, this is the they they they have the talking points. Human to human contact is one of them. And the the one you caught earlier there in this clip, which w was actually kind of cool, asymptomatic. Oh, yeah. See, they ran the asymptomatic thing at us during COVID. They sure did. Which is a key. It's a key to success. Asymptomatic spread specifically. Yeah. So you could not have any symptoms whatsoever. You're not sneezing, you're not coughing, nothing. You just walking around. And and you're fine. You're you're in good shape. And but you're spreading, you're like typho everybody's typhoid merry. Listen, our our uh our trolls are so jaded they're like yeah bring back uh zika we want where's zika we want zika zika was where it was at man yeah so those two Dutch people died. They died on the ship. That's not Yeah, that's not well, it's the cruise ships. The only people who I know who go on cruises are Old and Andrew Horowitz. I don't understand why that guy is so big on cruises. Everything Roger McGuinn's another one. Well, but Roger McGuinn goes on those really high end luxurious like you know, a hundred and fifty rooms and he does his special show and you know the up and it's it's beneath him to do a show. He doesn't do a show. He does a lecture. He he brings his guitar on for his lecture. I know he does. He of course he does because he plays the guitar. If you go visit him at his house, he's playing the guitar. High end cruise ship with you know caviar and there's a bird, an actual bird, Roger McGuinn, a bird, and then he just lectures you? No, no, no. I'd I'd be I want my money back. No, of course. We want him to play some songs. So his lecture I'm sure is he lectures you but he's sure he will play a song while he's lecture. Yeah. Yeah. But do that riff then nobody can do that. But that's a eight miles eight miles high riff he likes to show it off. That's different than Horowitz, who likes going on I can't believe that he still does that. You know, and then the cruise ship is gets stranded or it sinks or capsizes. It just is you you're just being a bigot according to these guys. I am a bigot. Big time. I I I cannot believe The M five M is saying that, I'm paying attention. It's no, it's definitely Well they're hard up for they're hard up. Yes, because Asymptomatic, thirty-five percent death rate. Remember when COVID first showed up? Yeah, it was same numbers. It was similar numbers like that. It was a symptomatic. And if you touch something, you touch a bag of potato chips and somebody else touches the chips , they'll catch it. Here's uh America's doctor, Celine Gowder. Doctor Gowder, thank you very much for being here. We're in a post-COVID world. Post COVID world, everybody. That means pay attention. We've got news for you that just mindscape People are scared. They hear about an outbreak and they're worried. I know you say this is not COVID. Explain to me why. So this is not COVID. The Andes but virus, which a kind of uh Hontavirus requires close prolonged contact between two people in order to have transmission. When we've seen this happen in the past, it's been in the context of uh spouses, uh that kind of close uh contact. What makes this really hard to contain is the fact that it's on a ship and the timeline. So you have this long incubation period. Could they in theory come home safely? Yes. The risk of spreading this on a flight is very low. They would need to be near a hospital that has a heart-lung bypass machine because that's what you need when you get really sick with Hontavirus. But it is uh something that we can anticipate that some countries won't want to accept them, right? Um and this goes back to the Ebola days, 2014, 2015. Ebola days. These passengers may well need to quarantine on the ship. That out of office message just got a little longer. Dr. Gabriel, thank you. Remember, she's the doctor whose husband dropped dead . But from the shot. Come on. Yeah, he was he was a reporter at the wasn't he at the Olympic Games Oh right, the Olympic guy. Yeah . Yeah. I I kind of like the Ebola days. Ebola days. The Ebola days. Yeah, it was good times. Ebola days. Yeah, I remember that good old days. Remember that guy got off the plane and just we were all waiting for him. We had we were all watching live on TV. The guy got off the plane and went home. He got off the plane, got into the ambulance, popped out of the ambulance, walked in, like, here I am, I bowler guy. Yeah. And there was also some some woman or something that just jumped on her bicycle and took off into the woods. Yeah, so I think that but you see, this this is the problem is we've had so much uh news has just jacked us all the way up that now we're just numb to it. We're just numb. Like it whatever you know, Ebola, Zika, Hanta You know , okay, war whatever Swine flu Swine flu I don't come back. Let's do your three by three. Get that. Now it's time for three by three. It's an experiment. Experiment by JCD . Comparing stories for ABC, C B S and M B C The Never Ending three by three that's right, three by three. John's got the big headlines from the big three. This is about the ceasefire in Iran and and we're gonna start off with let's start off with uh ABC. Tonight, even as Iran fires missiles and drones at American Navy ships and our ally, the United Arab Emirates, the Trump administration insists the ceasefire is not over. Official insisting quote we have not even begun yet. Adding, we know full well that the continuation of the status quo is intolerable for America. Yesterday, the administration launched an effort to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to commercial traffic. But in the past forty eight hours, only two commercial ships have crossed, more than fifteen hundred stacked up outside. And late tonight, the president abruptly announced he was pausing the U.S. effort . It came after Iran opened fire on some commercial vessels, including American Navy ships, which fired back . Earlier Secretary of State Marco Rubio emphasizing that didn't mean the U.S. had resumed attacks on This is a defensive operation. And what that means is very simple. There's no shooting unless we're shot at first. Okay? We're not attacking them. We are only responding if attacked first. This is a defensive operation. Rubio then taking it a step further, declaring that Operation Epic Fury itself is over. This, though President Trump's goal in starting the war to eliminate Iran's nuclear program, remains out of reach. Ten weeks in, are we any closer to getting rid of Iran's nuclear material? Yeah, but look here's the the way to think about Iran. So their ability to build a shield behind which they could hide their nuclear program was wiped out. That's a very substantial Well that's one of the topics that needs to be discussed. I don't know about the I I think you're linking it. Uh Epic Fury is a president notified Congress. We're done with that stage of it. I love I love this. It's over, man. What are you talking about? Sixty days, thirty days. It's over. The thing is over. It's a ceasefire. We reset. We're back to we're basically we're in March. Okay. We're in March now. There's no war. It's all good. All right. So that was ABC. Who's next on deck? Well, let's go to NBC. Tonight NBC News learning two US flagships that passed through the Strait of Hormuz had U.S. military security teams on board, two U.S. officials say , part of President Trump's new Project Freedom attack. Iran still targeted both ships with missiles, drones, and armed small boats, but the U.S. military intercepted the attacks and blew up the boats. I call it a skirmish. It's not war. Iran today once again targeting the United Arab Emirates after this strike yesterday. Today the UAE saying it shot down more Iranian drones and missiles across the country. They're bombing commercial tankers. It's just outrageous. With Secretary of State Marco Rubio saying President Trump's new effort to open the Strait of Hormuz by protecting ships from Iranian attacks was a critical defensive step. There is no international law that allows you to say I'm gonna put mines in an international body of water and I'm going to blow up ships that don't listen to us and try to go through. That's what Iran is doing. This is a criminal act. And someone needs to do something about it. That bottleneck of oil tankers continuing to drive gas prices higher, now reaching four dollars and forty eight cents on average in the U.S. This NBC News analysis shows the prices highest on the west coast and across the R.ust Belt But Rubio defending the effort he says keeps the Iranian regime from getting a nuclear weapon. If Iran had a nuclear weapon and they decided to close the straits and make our gas prices like $9 a gallon or eight doll a garsallon, we wouldn't do anything about it because they have a nuclear weapon. And just moments ago, President Trump posting that at the request of Pakistan and others, and because progress is being made in talks, he says, they will pause project freedom, which protects those commercial ships in the strait. All I can think of when I hear Project Freedom is Freedom. Project Freedom . Okay. You know, Rubio should have said fourteen dollars a gallon. It's not gonna it's all gonna come down. It's I was below. The one thing is he doesn't exaggerate well. It's below a hundred dollars today. Yeah, it dropped like a rock because Trump came out and said he said uh we're gonna get the n the nuclear they're gonna drop the nuke program, we're gonna get their the product that that's buried under the ground. I don't know how they're gonna do that by the way, since it's buried under the ground, but he's gonna get it. And uh he made all these assertions, but he says, But if that doesn't work out, we're gonna bomb 'em again. I mean, this is ridiculous. It's fantastic . What do you mean? We have Yeah, I know you you enjoy it. We have nothing but time on our side. And er here's what I keep hearing. There are hundreds of empty tankers on the way to America. Is this I don't know. We only have so much. I see no evidence. I see no evidence of this. I keep looking at Galveston, like, you know, where are where are these tankers? That could be bull crap. I th I think it may be. Let's let's listen to your CBS version and stuff. And CBS of course we are I say for last all the time now because uh since it's been taken over by Barry Weiss. But this Secretary of State Marco Rubio said today the offensive stage of the war is over, but the U.S. military is now focused on defense in the form of breaking Iran's blockade and its hold on the global economy. The Pentagon says 15,000 American service members are involved in Project Freedom, which is two American-flagged commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz safely. American destroyers are on station supported by hundreds of fighter jets, helicopters, drones, and surveillance aircraft. More than 1,500 ships are thought to remain stranded. The Iranian regime claims it still controls the Strait of Hormuz. Iran's foreign minister referred to Project Freedom today as Project Deadlock. This is really a classic question of chicken here and who will blink first. Grant Rumley is a former Middle East advisor at the Pentagon. Do you think that the US military has effectively ended the de facto Iranian blockade of the Strait of Homo 's. No, I don't think so. You know, the US can can block nine out of ten shots, but if one of those Iranian vessels gets through and scores a hit, it has a large and disproportionate symbolic effect. The U.S. says Iran has attempted to disrupt its operation in the Strait of Hormuz with cruise missiles, drones, and boats. But President Trump and other American officials said today that the ceasefire with Iran is still holding Yeah, and there's all uh there's so much inform ation of all sorts. And by the way, someone just put a a map into the troll room. There does seem to be a lot of ships coming to uh to our coastline here. But there's sure that Yeah. There's lot of ships. You have no idea. Nobody know breaking news. Nobody knows nothing. And then, you know this, pro jectiles. Oh, it was struck by projectiles according to the UK Maritime Observatory. These guys sit on Twitter and they watch for someone to post something on Twitter and like, oh And in News Justine a tanker has reportedly been struck by projectiles and projectiles. What is that? It could be bananas, it could be hand grenades. In the Strait of Hormuz, the vessel was targeted one hundred and forty five kilometers north of the city of Fajaria in the United Arab Emirates according to the UK Maritime Trade Operations Agency. It is a second vessel to be hit today. The crew has been reported safe, and this came either shortly after or shortly before Donald Trump announced on Truth Social Okay, so we have that report about projectiles and then Ms. Ms. Now has this report. So David uh speaking of reporting, um I'm gonna let you sort through this one for all of us. Uh uh Barack Ravid, of course, uh with Axi as is saying that a senior U.S. official denied that a U.S. ship has been hit by Iranian missiles. Um it is obviously we're we're the early moments of this, so uh uh I certainly am not placing uh uh any sort of moral equivalency between government of Iran and uh the US government. I will simply say we have two eyewitnesses saying that eyewitnesses the two ships were in fact hit uh according to Al Jazeera. And we have one senior official right now uh on background telling Axia. Background means don't mention my name Okay, so no one knows anything. And the press here's their questions. For Secretary Hagsath, are there still concerns about mines in the strait and can you kind of clarify these reports of kamikaze dolphins that we've heard about. What? It's like sharks with laser beams, right? Um the threshold of restarting is a political decision above my pay grade. What I'll say is it's more low harassing fire right now. It feels like Iran is grasping its straws to try to do something across the southern flank. To to your question, David, their command and control structure remains very fractured. And uh I think they're struggling to maintain control down echelon at the edge, but um we're still it's still pretty low level kinetics at this point in time. Uh and I can't confirm or deny whether we have kamikaze dolphins. Uh but I can confirm they don't. Okay, you know, it's like what happened to the mines? They were my oh mines, they've mined it all. We have to close it up because of the mines. Well how come no mines blew up the Mersk shipped that we escorted on the w the on the way out. There's no mines. This is this has been another hoax. This whole thing. Here's the CEO of Mersk saying Saying, you know, yeah, we worked it all out and we left with the US Navy. In this case here we were approached by the US government and and uh the US Navy specifically uh saying that they wanted to to take some ships out. Uh we went through intense preparation together with them, looked at all uh the aspects of of the mission and and whether we could stand in for the safety of of the crew uh if we were sending the the ship uh along in that operation. Our assessment was that the the US Navy had made an extremely uh thorough uh plan and that we felt comfortable we could get the ship through without uh without risk. And and then uh we conducted the operation here earlier in the week and we're very pleased to see that everybody got safely uh on the other side without without any incident. So a very well executed mission uh by the US military and thank God uh for that, because then it means that uh the ship is free and the crew uh now can get back to uh to doing the work that that they want to do and are supposed to do rather than be stuck in the Gulf. We know where the mines are or did our kamikaze dolphins figure that out? When will the media learn that this is all just bull crap? It really all is. This is this is a this is an economic game. This is Sal Mercagliano. What's going on with shipping? He explains a little bit of how this works. Now this has led to meetings in London with what's called the Joint War Committee. Now I'll have a link below for this. The Joint War Committee is made up of representatives of Lloyd's, the big insurer house, and other underwriters who determine basically where insurance goes. If you look right now, the the rate to go through the Persian Gulf uh through the Strait of Hormuz was roughly about 0.15 to 0.25% of value to go through the straight. That's what you were paying above and beyond. And that was good for seven days. Well, what we've seen happen is the insurers canceled this. So you get stories like this from Jonathan Salls over at Reuters, London Marine Insur ers are expanding the Gulf high risk zone as the Mideast conflict escalates. So that joint war committee that met on Monday has determined that they're adding high risk areas around Bahrain, Djibouti, Kuwait, Oman , Qatar, they're expanding out the danger area. Now, that danger area is going to require more money. The insurance rate is going to jump from 0.15, 0.25% to anywhere from 1-2. Yeah. That's all that this is. The the joint war committee, a bunch of ex spooks in the UK, they d they go to Lloyd's and say, Well, we think it's pretty dangerous over there. Why? Well, we read on Twitter that the uh UK Maritime Observers, they said that you know there were projectiles. Oh, okay, we better jack up those rates. Poop the the strait is closed again. It's all it's all a scam. It's been this way for for a hundred years . It's nothing to do with mines or dolphins or I like the dolphins though. Well the idea is great, of course. Of course. So the dolphins aren't stupid. No dolphin I don't think there's such you can't have a kamikaze dolphin. They they don't want to die. I'm with you. I think after the first one blew up, I think the rest of them would get the get the idea. This is not a good thing. Yeah, I got some clips from NPR about the US combat oper ations. US Combat operations are over. Uh yeah. Didn't you know that? It's uh there's no more war. We've heard the president say the war is over, nearly over, will be over in two weeks several times now. Is it actually over this time? Yes. Yeah, I mean we really don't know. I mean Rubio says the focus now is on negotiations and that the US is going to be involved in defensive operations. There's no shooting unless we're shot at first. Okay? We're not attacking them. But if they are attacking us or they're attacking a ship, you need to respond to that But to your point, I mean we also heard earlier in the day Trump expressing frustration that Iran's leaders had yet to capitulate after two months of U.S. military and economic pressure. They should wave the white the flag uh the white flag of surrender in hockey they say uh uncle right in uncle shows how things just are changing Wait a minute. Do they say that in hockey or is that that's at the schoolyard. Isn't that where you're supposed to and where does it hockey? Where does that even come from, say uncle? Flag of surrender in hockey they say uh Yeah. Has there actually been progress? Yeah, it's interesting because Trump's words were very different than some of the messaging being delivered by Rubio, who told us yesterday that the two sides were still trying to figure out what the specific issues each side were willing to negotiate about That's the object of this diplomacy is to come up with some level of understanding about what are the topics that they've agreed to negotiate on. We don't have to have the actual agreement written out and one day this is highly complex and highly technical. But we have to have a diplomatic solution that is very clear about the topics that they are willing to negotiate on and the extent and the concessions they're willing to make at the front end in order to make those talks worthwhile. Which may be the same thing, I don't know. I don't know. They just say these things. Yeah. Exactly. Maybe we should just ignore the whole topic. No, no, no, you can't because it's a part two is affecting ever Well yeah, well here in California it's seven dollars and eleven cents. Yeah, well that's your own fault because all the oil companies left because of you, know, just horrible California, and you've got uh f three, four dollars worth of taxes on top of that . So don't come crying to me, Camifornia. I mean and the big issue, right, is still the Strait of Harmuz. More than a hundred ships a day used to travel through that waterway before the war. And it's only since the US and Israel started this war that Iran took control of the strait. So if combat operations are over, as we heard from No, what they did was they said, Look , we're we're sitting here on the straits of her moo moose. We got we got property right here, and here's where the straits are. We're gonna shell anything that tries to come through. But they didn't. They've been doing it all along. What do you mean they didn't ? Well how we we just took a shot. They sent drones, they sent missiles, they sent projectiles. You said so yourself. Oh projectile. We just took a ship out. Where w where was the boom boom boom from that? None of it. It was their break. You are lunch break Yeah, I mean that was Rubio's big push. And he said under no circumstances can the US allow Iran to normalize the idea that they can control the waterway, but he also stopped short of saying what action would take place. Now the Secretary of State briefed the press on this latest development. Is that unusual? Well, I mean the administration really came across the board yesterday with a stepped up message about the war. Defense Secretary Pete H And Rubio said that Iran needed to make a sensible choice that leads them to reconstruction and prosperity. I know what the right choice is for Iran. I hope that the people over there making decisions will make the right one. Yeah, I mean the message boils down to a mix of de escalation combined with this kind of tough talk. And it can be confusing at times. Oh okay. MPR. All right . So this brings us to the War Powers Act, which I find fascinating 'cause I dn hadn't really ever looked into it specifically because it kind of never came up. I think maybe not even under Bush, because that was different. You know, it was uh the the Twin Towers coming down was different. Uh but this Twin Tower this um War Powers Act where you're supposed to have sixty days and then you can extend another thirty days. This is a very interesting constitutional issue which goes back a long time in our history, and there's a lot of misunderstanding about it, even in the hallowed halls of Cong Well, I do want to start with the Iran War. We're approaching tomorrow's sixty day deadline for the President to come to Congress, set by the War Powers Act. It's time for Congress to weigh in on the war in Iran, especially now that we're past the 60-day threshold. I don't think we have any active kinetic uh military bombing firing anything like that right now. We're trying to rubber a piece and it would be I would be very reluctant to get in front of the administration in the midst of these very sensitive negotiations. So we'll have to see how that plays out. But the Constitution specifically states 60 days. What? But the president has called it a war. The Constitution . The Constitu . This is why I dove into this. Listen to this. Not a war right now. I'm saying that we do not have uh military kinetic military action at the moment . As President Trump has said, this is a war, but what do you make of Speaker Johnson saying that the United States is not at war. Well, it's a dodge from Speaker Johnson, and you know, after the 60-day mark, we begin 30 days in which the law is very clear, the president has to withdraw U.S. forces absent a congressional authorization. Being in the region , not engaged actively in kinetic force or kinetic action isn't what the law says . After sixty days, he has thirty days to withdraw. So absent congressional action, the law says the president has to bring those troops home. So I just when I heard that like, oh it's in the Constitution, I'm like, okay, let me go check my constitution. I don't think so. So uh now we go back to Rubio. Look, guys, I I love talking about this topic. You talk about the War Powers Act. Okay, I love it. I was hoping somebody would ask. Alright, hold on, hold on. No, no, boy. Okay. And I love it. I'll tell you why I love it. Because even as a senator, I said something. The War Powers Act is un constitutional. 100%. Now, this is not the position of me, not the position of the President of the United States now. This is the position of every single president that has occupied this position since the day that law passed. It's completely unconstitutional. Now we comply with it in terms of like notification because we want to preserve good relations with Congress, right? And we do that. But even as a senator, I would say that the War Powers Act is one hundred percent unconstitutional. And look, I know some of you, whatever you want to say, but this is not this president's position. That has been the position of every single presidential administration since the day that law passes an infringement on the president's constitutional powers. We don't acknowledge the law as constitutional. Nonetheless, we comply with elements of it for purposes of maintaining, you know, good relations with Congress. And we want them to be involved and we want them to be informed. I have gone on Capitol Hill, I don't know, four times this year for all Senators and all House members and Intel committee and gang of a we want him to be involved in this. But but I want to be clear on the point of the War Powers Act. It's unconstitutional. And uh it every president and every administration is taking that position. Okay, so now I'm interested. We've got people in Congress saying it's in the Constitution. And then we have Rubio saying the War Powers Act is unconstitutional. So I had to dig and I dug so deep that I wound up with the great one . Which was Mark Levin. I did. He had Professor John Yu on the show, and when you learn about the War Powers Act and its history, it's actually educational. Welcome back, America. We're here with Professor John U , who's probably, from my perspective, the expert on the War Powers Act. He's been writing about it for thirty years. You can go to all these journals and law reviews, and he's been duking it out with other professors. You know, John U, it's amazing. I watch Bernie Sanders. He immediately gets up and says, but Donald Trump there is unconstitutional. You got an AO C, uh, who of course we always turn to when we want some constitutional expertise. She said the President needs to be impeached. Now these are two radical Marxists who really are not inclined to like the Constitution, nor like our military. What do you say to them about impeach the president over the War Powers Act? Is the War Powers Act constitutional? Let's start right there. I agree with you, Mark. I don't think it is. The Constitution sets out the war powers. Congress can't use a law to rewrite the Constitution. And the Constitution says the President is the Chief Executive of the United States and he is the Commander in Chief. understood those phrases to mean that the president has the primary responsibility to protect our national security. Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist paper said energy in the executive is a definition of good government because he was explaining why are these clauses in the And he said it's response it's necessary to protect the communities, our community, from attack. That doesn't mean Congress has no power. Congress has the power to provide funds or to cut them off. That's how Congress ended the Vietnam War. That's how Congress ended the Mexican-American War of 1848. And so when you go back to the days of Madison, the uh and then later the War Powers Act Right. In fact in fact the I I I think it took a lot of guts to play Mark Levin stuff, but he did a lecture once and i explaining how Madison uh had it so that con the Constitution it says Congress Yes. Well the he the But the but the original the original guys wanted to say Congress can make war. Yes, here's the clip. And by changing it from make to declare the president can make war and if they want to declare it, that's just im it dimin it it it it uh shrunk the the power I mean to say you declare war doesn't mean that much i if you can't make war. Exactly. It's just you declare it and it's only been done the last time it was done it was in World War II. Here's here 's you. Here's you explaining that exact switch. The biggest mistake, as you say, the war powers resolution is that it orders the president to pull out troops and end fighting after an arbitrary thirty days or maybe sixty days. And that means that Congress is actually interfering in the way the military is conducting combat operations, which is the President's power's commander-in-chief. And as you say, Mark, when the Constitution was first introduced in the Philadelphia Convention, the Constitution originally had said Congress has the power to make war . And that was changed to declare war because people thought that gave Congress too much authority. And I'd even point you to something else Madison said. In the Virginia ratifying convention, which was the key convention to approve the Constitution, Patrick Henry actually got up and said he he might have been the Bernie Sanders or AOC of his day, and he said, I'm worried about the president going off of military ventures. How are you going to stop him? James Madison doesn't get up and say the declare war clause will stop the presidentstead. In, he says Congress will have to cut off funds because the power of the purse is the ultimate check of the people on the executive branch. Exactly . That's and w how come Congress why don't they do that? Why don't they say we're not going to fund the war? Why not? So what you just showed in your reporting in that clip, unfortunately, is that Democrats are playing politics with the Constitution and engaging in political posturing while we have men and women in the field. The politics are apparent because as you just pointed out, you could look at President Obama in 2011, you could look at President Biden's strikes on the Houthis. The Democrats only think that the Constitution demands Congress's authorization for war when Republicans are president. When Democrats are president, these same people who are in the Congress at those times didn't raise a doubt, didn't draw anything into question. And I have to say, President Trump put Congress on notice even more so than any of these past Democratic presidents. Not only did he move all these forces into the region over time ? But he attacked Iran just last June. If members of Congress wanted to stop the war in Iran, they had plenty of time to use the fund ing power, which is their ultimate power over war, between June and now. And let's just say they know how to use the funding power when they want. Even when they pass a nine hundred billion dollar spending bill for the defense department. They at the same time closed down the Department of Homeland Security because Democrats are upset about the use of the border patrol in Minneapolis. So they know how to use the funding power they want to. They just don't want to because they want to engage us then in political posturing against a Republican president. I think that's part of it. I also think they're all in the bag for the military industrial complex. Sure they have to be. There turns out someone did some research there is one military industrial complex contractor in except for maybe one or two, every single congressional district and they're all little sometimes little contractors, but they're always providing a lot of jobs. The whole place has been co-opted by the military industrial complex. That's where we that's our real source of uh uh GDP. Yes. Uh oh I'm sorry. Israel APAC. No . It's these guys. Yeah, it's the military industrial company. Because every single state in the Union has some kind of military contractor. So there's not going to be a single representative or senator standing up and saying, Well, we should pull the we should pull the plug on that. No . No . And and sorry to let everybody get reelected. No, no sorry to let everybody down, but we are a war nation. It's what we do. We're good at it. We are good at it. Only now we're doing it for us instead of for Britain and Europe , you know, those that um where's that clip ? So uh, you know, there's been uh all kinds of uh issues with Germany because uh Mr. Piepers thought he'd But so he's trying to get back in graces, good graces. Sea coast on Monday. The German minesweeper and its crew of up to 45 sailors are now heading to the Mediterranean and not to the Strait of Hormuz, unless certain conditions are met, outlined by Germany's defence minister. We are moving it in advance to the Mediterranean, making all the preparations we can. So in the event of a ceasefire, a lasting truce, or a framework under international law, we can obtain a mandate from the Bundestag and as soon as that's in place continue to operate. Germany has said the ship could be deployed to help clear underwater mines from the Strait of Hormuz in order to secure shipping routes which have been severely disrupted amid the US-Israel war with Iran. Berlin remains far away from such a decision. Around 2,000 ships have been stuck since the war began at the end of February. The idea is once the war is over, then the Germans send their minesweeper to go find mines that don't exist. All they're gonna find is a bunch of kamikaze dolphins. And for the troll room, when I say yes, we we are doing war for us, yes, we're doing war for we have always fought wars for Europe and for Britain. Except for uh Vietnam War and that was a really bad one. And so what is happening in that case that we were succored by the French Yes. Thank you. So when I say we're fighting it for us, we're fighting it because we have not gotten any of the benefit of what's been going on s particularly in that region with oil. None of it . We've been we got screwed over and over and over again. And so now we have our own oil and screw Europe. Speaking of Roger McGuinn, there's a time for for war, there's a time for peace, there's a time for love, there's a time for hate. It's just a fact of life. You're all dreamers. Dreamers. And how bad is this war? It's not bad. That sounds I know it sounds cavalier , but considering the benefit we're getting and finally we're getting, because everything is changing for America. I can't it's unbelievable how people can't see this. And and maybe Trump will pull it off. Maybe it's Maybe. Maybe if you're talking about the New World Order and the and the they of the world, all you have to do is look at what's happening with the banking sector? Look at what's happening with the Federal Reserve. You know, I I had to look into that as well because I wasn't convinced that the Chair of the Federal Reserve is the only person who determines the rates, and it turns out he's not. And this is th what's happening here with uh Chairman Powell saying, Oh, uh okay, you can you can vote another guy in, but I'm staying on board so that he can tip the scales and they have more votes to do whatever the banks want. It's banks. It's banks, the Federal Reserve. This is not it's not government, it's banks. Finance committee. You are also as most people know the chairman of the banking committee. You played a key role in moving Kevin Borsh as a committee to the full Senate. He'll be uh I assume on a party line vote at least, confirmed as Fed Chair. Yep. Um very soon. Um Jerome Powell, the man he's replacing, much to the chagrin of uh Mr. Trump, yes, um, is staying on. What do you think about that? Staying on as Fed Governor it is in the law that he can do it. Yeah, so he could say the to the end of twenty twenty eight or maybe middle of twenty tw enty thirty first, twenty twenty eight is when he would have to get off. The truth of the matter is he's breaking seventy-five years of precedent. Every time you get a new chairman, the former chairman leaves. That's good news because what you don't want are these uh philosophies in conflict. Uh and I think Jay Powell's making a significant uh mistake Right, because the Fed is, you know, the chairman doesn't have tutilateral control, right? He just for people that don't know this he has to rule by some sort of consent. Exactly. And he would be there. So how do you get rid of him? Prayer . Lord . We need some prayer on this issue. Uh honestly I think it's gonna be his decision. All signs point to his departure before twenty eight, but I do think he's maybe just poking the president in the eye a little bit. I don't think so. I think he it fully intends to stay on. And here's how the actual interest rate decisions are made on the FMOC. Fed Governor is appointed to 14 years, and once they are in that seat, they're extraordinarily difficult to remove by design, both to keep the Fed independent from political pressure and to stop governors from bowing to whoever happens to be in the White House in that decade. And it is actually the governorship, not the chairmanship, that carries most of the real power . Each governor gets a vote on the Federal Open Market Committee, which is the committee that actually sets interest rates. This committee is made up of seven governors from the Fed in Washington, of which one is the chairman, as well as representatives from five out of the 12 regional Federal Reserve branches to make a total of 12 voting parties. Out of this group, the chairman is more of a first amongst equals kind of role, responsible for communicating what the Fed is doing, running the meetings, and managing the institution's public face through press conferences, but the actual decisions on rates themselves are made by a vote between everybody on the committee with everybody getting an equal vote. Now, this is a problem for an administration that wants to use the chairmanship as a lever to crank down rates, because even a friendly chairman can be outvoted by the other 11 people in the room, which creates an even bigger problem for the administration. Exactly. So Trump wants the rates lower. Yo everybody wants rates lower. Everybody. I want rates lower. Everybody wants wor yep. Everybody wants rates lower. But they're political. They're political and I think that you know you lower the rates for banks. It's not necessarily No power. Based on the current board makeup, are there people there who will disagree with Warsh? Who would push back on some of these changes? Absolutely. And remember, monetary policies made by a committee, the seven governors in Washington and five of the twelve reserve bank presidents out in the region. And at today's meeting, three of those presidents basically fired a shot across Kevin Warsh's bow. They said they did not want a statement that implied that the Fed's next move is to lower interest rates . So he is not going to be able to do anything on interest rates very quickly because so many of the policy members are against him, and he still has to deal on major changes in Fed communications and stuff, he'll need a consensus of the board. So I suspect this will be a slow process. Exactly. So it ain't over. It ain't over . At all. And so what are they doing? They're rebuilding the international world order, formerly known as the New World Order, with the bankers, and here is the central bankers central banker, uh The world is undergoing a rupture across several dimensions in technology, in energy, in commerce, and geopolitics . Integration is being used as a weapon by some , and the rules are not constraining the hegemonts. Now we have to actively take on the world as it is, not as we wish it to be. We know nostalgia is not a strategy, but we don't think that we're destined to submit to a more transactional, insular, and brutal world. And gatherings such as these point to a better way forward . In closing, we're here because of your invitation, again, thank you for that, but we're here because of the moral and security imperatives of our cooperation in the Cusaucas, in the Baltics, in Ukraine, across Europe, and also because of the immense potential for our partnerships to build a better, more prosperous, sustainable and just world for our citizens. And I'll close with this . Uh it's my strong personal view that as the international order will be rebuilt, but it will be rebuilt out of Europe. And so I am very appreciative of the symbolism of this invitation. Yeah, out of Europe and you know the code words he had in there that in implied Trump. Yeah. Transactional means Trump. Yeah, because Trump is breaking that apart. And it looks like uh the Macron brothers are the ones that are gonna try and uh try and save the world or their world. The president of France Macron goes to China, spends about six hours meeting with Xi Jinping, and then on the flight back, he's talks to a bunch of reporters. And here's what he told the reporters. He told the reporters, number one, that it's time for Europe to break away from the United States, not to depend on the dollar, not to depend so much on us, uh to become their own third superpower. The second thing he says, which I found really interesting, was that Europe needs to make sure that they don't get involved in conflicts that are not their conflicts, specifically that Europe should not be picking sides on Taiwan between the United States and China. And so I think this is a good moment for us to ask Europe. Does Macron speak for all of Europe? Is Macron now the head of Europe? Is he now the most powerful leader in Europe? Because if he is, then there's some things we're gonna need to change. Number one, you know, Europe, including France specifically, has depended heavily on the United States for 70 years for their own defense. In fact, when Macron tried to play global superpower and send troops to North Africa to fight terrorists, he couldn't even get his own troops there. We had to fly them there and we had to fly them back. So if they're gonna break off on their own and follow Macron's lead, uh that's gonna save us a lot of money. Okay, okay, future future president. Um so here's Queen Ursula, and she's stepping up to the plate now. Continent like ours with, limited fossil fuels resources, should lead the world on electrification. This is the reason why last December we proposed the Grids package. Its goal is to make our energy and infrastructure fit for the elect rification age. And I am very glad that last week in Cyprus the European Parliament, the Council agreed to speed up the negotiations. And as a next step we will put forward our electrification action planning. Are they gonna electrify everybody? I mean, didn't we didn't we go through the electric didn't we go through the electrification age when you know like the eighteen eighteen late eighteen hundreds ? And th these people are insanely stupid. By the summer with an ambitious electrification target. And speaking of finances, in the current European budget we have set aside almost EUR three hundred billion euros for energy , ninety five billion of which are not used so far. I know I'm preaching here almost in the wrong church, but let us use this to make the switch now to electricity, not just in transport, but also in industry and so she's talking about uh using electricity in industry. So w are you gonna use um windmills and solar panels for your steel? Is is that what I'm hearing? This this that makes no sense. And here's the numbers. This is the second energy crisis within four years. And the lesson should be very clear. Our overdependency on imported fossil fuels makes us vulnerable. Let me give you two figures. By the way, where does this electricity come from? So so what she's saying and or implying, I would say, she's implying that all the electric none of the electricity is gonna be come from coal powered generators or or natural gas powered generators or anything other than solar and wind and maybe some water? No, nuclear. She's she's gonna add nuclear back into the Well nuclear's okay, but but they they killed the four reactors. Why did they shut down all the German reactors? To kill Germany, which happens to be the industrial heart of the EU . They are they are they want serfs . They want dumb slaves to clean their homes title. What? The culture . Suicidal. What's this? We've known this all along, that the Europeans are suicidal. So they want war all the time. I mean, like you said, we've been selling them arms and ammunition. We still will be doing that. That's what we do best, is make this stuff. And they can go kill themselves. So what is the show title that needs to write down ? W hat? I I hear your computer bleeping . Is that no? Yeah. Oh no. Okay . Okay. Uh let's continue. No, it's not me. In just sixty days of conflict , our bill for fossil fuel imports has increased by over twenty seven billion euros, without one single molecule of energy in addition. So the way forward is obvious. We must reduce our over dependency on imported fossil fuels and we must boost our home grown affordable clean energy supply from renewables to nuclear in full respect of toc technology neutrality. With the green agenda in the EU, you'll never get new nuclear plants. It'll take decades. Decades for that to happen. Already today, Member States. Suicidal, I said suicidal su but suicidal culture, suicidal queen suicide. I mean we gotta come up with more low carbon sources in their energy mix are less impacted by the crisis. Take a country like Sweden . If where the gas price increases by one euro per megawatt hour , the electricity bill only increases by zero point zero four euros per megawatt hour . Because almost all of Sweden's electricity comes from renewables and nuclear. So this is how we insulate ourselves from future shocks, and this is the path to independence of Europe. All day long . So it's not all that fantastic in Sweden. And luckily there's a this is a dead man walking. This is the Polish member of European Parliament, Dominik Tarzin ski . And he laid it out, man. They throw grenades into hair salons in a broad daylight. In Germany, not a single day goes by without someone being murdered with a knife. In Sweden, for example, you have bomb attack every other day. I can continue, but you just don't care. Those are not real problems for the European left wing politicians. No, you are going to solve the situation in Minnesota. You are seriously discussing here the rule of law in the United States and criticising the American government for deporting illegal aliens, for deporting criminals out of their territory in the same time when Western European cities are gradually turning into a war zone. We should do exactly the same. We should deport them from Europe and not legalize their stay. We should listen to them and not what you are proposing to all of us. Everybody can see no you are enemies of Europe. You hate Europe, you hate our nations and you want to destroy the future for our children. We should stop you, we should defeat you politically if we want to survive. Otherwise it will be the end of Europe. Yes, exactly. The end of Europe. He's great. Yeah, he's the the the Nigel Farage of the era. Yeah. Yeah. Without the understatement. No understatement with this guy. No. More of him. More of him . So something that uh we've been talking about on the show for at least five years, ever since I met Texas Slim . And this and I'm gonna play these clips because it shows you how long it takes government to get anything together, to get anything done , even in a government that actually wants to get stuff done. This is about the meat packers. And Texas Slim was screaming this, hi heaven. Like, you know, there's a cartel, the meatpackers , they're not even American companies. They're screwing the ranchers. This is why we have the lowest herd count ever, not because of drought and all these other bull crap reasons. No, because there has been an absolute cartel of beef in the United States, and so now they're doing something about it with the new A G Barbie, the AG AG Ken, A. G. Ken Barbie, Todd Blanche. All right, good morning, everybody. Um today we are here to talk about our progress here at the Justice Department to hold meat packers accountable . As you all know, last November the President tasked the department to investigate the costs and prices of beef . As a result, we prioritized investigating potential antitrust violations in U.S. cattle and beef market s. In the beef industry, the big four processors control over 8 5 % of the beef processing market . Two of the big four are primarily foreign-owned . Multiple plant closures across the country, the current market structure, and high concentration in the industry indicate anti-competitive activity. Since the President's executive order, the department has been actively investigating with a review of over three million documents, hundreds of industry participants, including ranchers, cattlemen, producers, and processors have been contacted and many interviewed as part of this ongoing investi gation . More broadly, the department has also executed on the President's Executive Order to stop anti-competitive behavior in the broader food supply market . Later this week, we will be announcing an historic settlement that will directly affect the prices of proteins like chicken , pork, and turkey. This business model allows competitors to exchange competitively sensitive information on every aspect of the protein industry and has raised the pri ces on chicken, raised the prices on pork, and raised the prices on turkey. So it's good that they're doing that. It's good they're breaking up this cartel. Um and you know, luckily there's still you know, Texas Slim. Somehow he got beef.com. I don't know how he did that. So he's got beef.com, and you can find your local rancher and do lots of stuff. And I like all this and I like what Blanche is doing. But then the most un American thing is like I I want our justice department, I want these guys and SWAT teams, I want them busting into these offices, I want boxes being carried out. I want uh JBS and Cargill and Tyson executives. I want him in handcuffs. I want perp walks. No. What do we do? We want snitches. There is more work to do and we need your help. I want to remind everyone and anyone in the industry that if you have information about antitrust crimes, about price fixing, bid rigging, market allocation Through our whistleblower rewards program, which is we do in partnership with the United States Postal Inspection Service. What ? When the postmaster general's involved in this? Come on. You can be financially rewarded for coming forward with information about this behavior. Just to put a a fine point on it, if your report, if the information you provide helps us secure a criminal penalty in excess of one million dollars, you can be entitled um to recover and receive fifteen to thirty percent of that of the money that we recover. So whether you're a farmer, a purchaser, a processor, you can help protect food security in America, by reporting these types of violations and potentially criminal conduct. We will use every law enforcement tool available to help reduce food prices and vigorously enforce the antitrust la ws to ensure every aspect of the agricultural industry competes on a fair playing field. If you see something, say something I don't know what this tells me. They got nothing. They got nothing on these guys. This this is all hope. This is a snitching thing. Oh my god, we we've got we can't prove a thing. These guys are are on the up and up from what we can tell, because we can't prove anything. Maybe you know, we can get some snitches. Maybe and maybe that'll do something 'cause they got nothing. They're not gonna get anywhere with this. This is a dead end. This is not gonna go anywhere. I don't know. People that are involved in price fixing knew how to do it. You do it through third parties, you do it by looking what w is what the airlines do. What is the United's charging for this flight to Chicago? Uh what are we gonna charge? Let's charge the same thing. I mean, you can't this is nonsense. These big four are dominating and they're going to continue to dominate unless they boil down to two or they become monopolists. But with this with four of them, they look competitive. They're not. But it's like light bulbs, the Westinghouse light bulb scandals in the past for price fixing price fixing, but length of burn fixing. Yeah, the whole thing. Wasn't it five L I D by the way Osram LEDs do that now too. They crap out. Let me you 're I'm gonna tell my LED story at the same time. First explain the OSRAM scandal. That's what that was. It was price fixing amongst the light bulb manufacturers , not in price per se, but how many hours the last and I believe there's still a light bulb today that has been burning for over a hundred and ten years. There's there's plenty of cool light bulbs that burn forever. Yeah. But the LEDs should burn forever, at least a lifetime of anybody that's living. So I you know, I bought an LED bug bulb for the front porch 25 years ago. It was one of the first LEDs, American-made LED light bulb. They couldn't get much power out of it. It was nice and yellow. And so I put it So the bug bulb is still burning. Meanwhile, all these Chinese lamps I buy that are LED, they they burn out in a year. They're like the they're like filaments. Well what happens? They start to blink, blink, blink, they start flashing, and you can't stop the f you turn it on and off. Maybe it stops for a while and then it starts blinking and flashing because the circuitry in the in the bulb is no good. The junk, junk, I tell you, this the every LED bulb you buy should last forever Your lifetime. Good for life. Should be good for life. And none of them are, except my bug bulb. Wait, no, and you and your bulbs in your in your two thousand nine Lexus. There's another it was in with no no it's not it was a two thousand nine. No no no no no no two thousand nine that's that's a new car. It was a 2003, I think. It's a it's it's 30 year old car. And uh Yes. The bl how does that work? Every bulb in the Lexus, the interior lamps, everything the the headlights, the tail lights, the in everything. The bulbs never burn out. Where do they get theseulsb? We're being scedrew, Mr. Devorak. The whole thing is a giant scam. I am so busy right now marking the the the recording. I got so many great openers from you. Giant scam. Well, you want to hear scam. All right, I'm going to set you up. I'm going to set you up with this. Here's the setup. Pennsylvania's Hershey Company says it's seeing a jump in the sales of mints and gum. And they say it's all due to the rise of GLP 1 weight loss drugs. The company says the sales of their icebreakers mitz rose 8% in the first quarter of the year. Yes. And I want to say that I've noticed this. I've noticed women who are on the on the on the O that they have bad . Yeah, Ozempic. That they have bad bad breath. This is very noticeable. Particular ly particularly in church. Yeah. Particularly in church. I'm not pointing anybody out, but I'm just like, you know, girl, you're on the O and your breath is hawking. But that's what does it smell like? Uh death warmed over? Just nasty. You know, it's It has to do it I think it has to do with um uh what is it uh what is the word ones. Keetones, thank you. Thank you. Keetones. Yeah, it has to do with ketones . Uh rapid weight loss can do that. But it doesn't matter because here is a no agenda show prediction come true in the worst possible way through our president. Today I'm thrilled to announce that starting on july first we will also provide Medicare patients with the coverage for weight loss drugs like Ozepics. knew it was coming. Now it's not the bananza they thought it was gonna be. Zeppound WeGovi will be available for fifty dollars a month. Fifty dollars a month. Wow. $50? Now think of that. $50 a month. So if it was $1,300 , now it's $50 , and the $1,300 doesn't cover a whole month. So it's really even more than that. The fat vax. So it's now down to fifty dollars. So that's where you get it. And also and you remember when I cut insulin No yeah, and I goes into the whole insulin th So there it is. Now it's not it's not the bonanza they wanted it to be. Um and I think you still have to pay for it yourself. I mean is Medicare picking up a piece of the cost or how does that work? I mean I can't imagine that they're like, okay, fifty bucks Medicare is being drained. Yeah. You know, it's being eviscerated by these b various overpriced drugs that they're overpriced on purpose and the ridiculous amount of prescriptions that are going out. Yeah. That's why it's going to be bankrupt in no time. I'm going to be one of the last people on Medicare. I don't think so. Four years to go sense it when you're in the system that they're they're doing everything they can to drain it. Yeah. So uh RFK Jr. trying trying to do some stuff.ing Try . But I I think it is hopeless. Here he is on the SSRIs, which uh we call the modern uh the modern MK Ultra. In Washington. United States does not just face a mental health crisis, we face a dependency crisis driven by overmedicalization. We will no longer treat them as the default. We will treat them as one option. Kennedy has narrowed in specifically on SSRIs, the most widely prescribed class of antidepressants. That includes household names like Zoloft, Paxel, Prozac. The user base is huge. Roughly one in six Americans reported taking an SSRI this year. One in six. Kennedy acknowledged that patients can benefit from them. And he stressed that he wasn't telling anyone to just stop. No. He argued that too many people start taking the meds without knowing how long they'll stay on them. The meds with no He has singled out SSRIs before. He's previously claimed without evidence that they are partly responsible for the rise in school shootings and that they can be hard to quit than heroin, something he repeated yesterday. For his new effort, Kennedy announced several initiatives like trainings and new guidelines to nudge clinicians to help patients get off medications and consider other treatment options like therapy or exercise. No major medical organizations were represented at yesterday's event. Of course not. But so this news is slowly, slowly getting through the and you and I agree that there's probably a lot of people who listen to our podcast who are on SSRIs. One in six. So we say this not be not to scorn you but to try and help you because we've been following the SSRI MK Ultra for a long time and they stopped reporting on shooters if they were on SSRIs or not , you can never get that information. And you can't get that information because they're advertised on television. Another thing, RFK Jr. said that he would stop with the swipe of a pen. If he was president, I guess if he was president, yeah, somebody pointed out that that's the comments were when he was running for president, even though he should have the exact same goals. Yes, and and this president should be able to do that and he should So here is Ella M. Hoff . Yeah. I'm glad you know this is funny, because I was looking at this clip and I said, I should I get this clip of Ella and I decided against it, but I'm glad you got it, because it's a it's an example of people that are stuck on these and who and by the way, shocker she takes these things. Yeah, she she she was crochet ing in Brooklyn when she heard the news. I'm just sitting here crocheting. And just so people know, Ella M. Off is uh Kamala Harris's stepdaughter. I'm just sitting here crocheting, waiting for a friend, and I was just listening to this podcast that the Wall Street Journal put out about SSR Is and anti -anxiety meds and kind of the over-prescription of them in America. And it was making me think a lot because I've been on SSRIs for over a decade, almost 15 years probably, and they were calling out the lack of research on long-term use of these things. They were calling out the lack of information that doctors give about coming off of these meds and kind of the psychological effects they can have. And it really got me thinking how little I've thought about that naively , obviously, but I've noticed that every time I've gone off of it for a week or missed it or for whatever reason, like it has been really hard for me and I've had a really hard time. And I guess this is just something I was wondering if you guys have thought about or relate to or kind of consider when you're thinking about going on meds like that. Meds. Because I don't know if this is something that I feel like is being talked about enough because I feel like so many of us are on these meds and this is like actually happening. Like people get off of them and they kind of bring Yeah, my general thoughts are girl, I pray for you. Meds. Because you get brain zaps and all kinds of horrible things. And your no agenda show is going to go one step further. We are going to play a clip, which may be shocking to some. So parents, younger children probably should n't hear this. They may not understand all the words necessarily. Uh, this is a health and human services testimony from a woman named Lauren , and she is testifying about PSSD, which we 've talked about on the show before, which may be responsible for the incredible low birth rate we have, because uh people on these meds don't want to have sex, and sex in fact is not pleasurable for them. Love is not even capable for them. So the hallmark symptom of PSSD is genital numbness. Yes, like complete loss of sensation in your genitals for me. I clearly hate to talk about this, but my clitoris is completely numb as if it's the back of my elbow. I have no sensation internally. I'm 23 years old. Um sufferers also lose the ability to orgasm permanently, like for the rest of their lives, and their libido entirely, which for me and what a lot of other people experience is like a sudden onset , like chemical asexuality that just never goes away. Um, and in my opinion, I don't think it's sensational to say that this is a form of chemical castr ation, that it is permanent. Um but beyond that, PSSD is not just a loss of sexual function, but a loss for some people of emotional function as well. That has been the case for me before this. I was a super emotional uh empathetic, loving, caring, like Sylvia Plath reading and resonating girl. And the day I woke up with this injury, I quite literally felt my soul leave my body like I'm so serious. It was the most unbelievable inorganic thing I've ever experienced and it's a common symptom of people who have this condition. Um to this day it's been years for me, I'm twenty-three now. I can't feel love for my own mother, which is the hardest thing on earth. Dude, this is poison. This is poison . This is very bad. You know, they're not gonna play this on CNN because that's their their bread and butter. They're a terrible situation. So you sent me two clips. You sent me a clip of um Trigonometry. Trigonometry. And an Adam Corolla podcast. And they were both about this woman, Helen Andrews , um, who wrote an essay, which I after you sent me those clips, I'm like, I I've heard about this this lady and uh I go look it up. Yeah, the essay's famous. Yeah, there's a famous essay. And so I was able to pull three really short clips, all around 40 seconds, from a speech she gave. And she in this essay, which is linked in the show notes, she very clearly explains how wokeness and the f w really she calls it the feminization of America, but really the world is ruining us. You want to add anything to it before uh I played these schools. Well I thought Corolla's uh take on it. And I'm not a Corolla fan. Um You know, he he invented podcasting, you know. Yeah. Yeah, that's what that's what I've heard. Um Um I thought his take on it was quite it was a it was a little nonchalant take that was uh mostly reflective of what's going on in Los Angeles. And of course we have the Spencer Pratt guy that's kicking ass with almost a daily new AI ad that's phenomenal. Yeah, they are getting a lot of getting some traction, that's for sure. Yeah. Which it which is d derives l a bit from this woman, but he says he's been working on his thoughts for fifteen years about this about this issue, about the feminization issue. Yeah, also And and and part of it was just to summarize, uh women like to talk and once they and they they're satisfied by talking about fixing something, but it's the uh men who actually get the j the the work done. Women do get work done, but they they can also just talk talk talk and never get anything done. Here's the uh intro. The libertarian econom ist Tyler Cowan once wrote a blog post describing all of the revolutions he's seen in the course of his lifetime, starting with the moon landing when he was a little boy and going up chronologically to today's advent of AI . And there were only seven revolutions on this list because this was only the greatest and most earth-shaking ones. And right there, between the fall of communism and the invention of the Internet was something called the great feminization . That is not a phrase that a lot of Americans know, but future historians may well rank it as having greater importance than almost any other revolution Aaron Powell Including Communism. So here's a brief description. I have referred several times so far to feminization without defining what that means. I'll have a lot to say about it in just a moment. But if you want to put it in a single sentence, you could say that feminization equals wokeness. Everything you think of as wokeness is simply an epiphenomenon of demographic feminization . Think about all the things that wokeness means, uh valuing empathy over rationality, safety over risk, conformity and cohesion over competition and hierarchy, all of these things are privileging the feminine over the masculine. And it makes so much sense that the Democrat Party us es this activates women . It really does activate them. When you have a uh uh uh a class that is uh suppressed, like oh, oh yeah, oh yeah, no, this is horrible. Yeah, we have to do something about that. This is the the Kar ens, the the white liberal women of America, certainly . And it's it's kind of frightening when when you read this essay and you see all the th all the fields that have been now really taken over by women , uh education, psychology , um and medicine. Medicine, yeah. Oh yeah, how about COVID? Burks and Walen sky and was it Walensky? Wellensky, I think her name was shut it down. Shut it down, shut him in. Everybody stay home. There was no masculine female mayors. Female mayors. How about Queen Ursula ? All of this stuff. And she has uh and she is also skeptical that this can be turned around, but she does have one recommendation where we should start if we want to defeminize. So that's agenda item number one. Get rid of all the HR ladies. Who's with me? Just fire them . And then we'll see how it shakes out. If your company has too few women, that might indicate that you have a problem with your recruiting pipeline. On the other hand, it might not. Either way, we're not gonna send a team of lawyers after you to second guess you. Yeah. And it's not that women are bad. It's just when women control certain sectors or industries or policy, they ness don't necessarily have a get it done way of doing things. Climate change is another great example. You know, how many meetings, how many hundreds of billions of dollars do we not have in meetings about doing and it never get there, ever? Because it nothing to ne nowhere to get. Many meetings. Yeah, just meetings and meetings and meetings and meetings. That's because they the need for consensus. Consensus, yeah. That was really inter and I think a lot of women will read this and go, hmm, that's interesting. Yeah, a lot of them would be irked about it. Yeah, probably. Your sexism doesn't help. My sexism? Really no . Uh see, what we need is a president who says stuff like this. We provided one hundred percent expensing and bonus appreciation, which is tremendous, one of the the biggest things that you have. I mean it's uh people have no idea how big that is, the businesses do. So that businesses can deduct 10 percent0 of the cost of new facilities, equipment, and capital investment in the first year. It used to take 38 years of deduction. Now you get it done in one, you can take one, so you can expand. I think that's what made us so successful in the first term but now we have it for a ten year period so you have it for a while. I really was gonna make it for a one year period. That would mean you spend all your money immediately. Now unfortunately I gave you too much time. I was sort of against that. I said, let's do it for a shorter period of time, but we did it. It's the right thing. And this way when I get out of office in let's say eight or nine years from now , I'll be able to use it. I'll be able to use it myself. Yeah, baby. That's great. Let's talk about climate change for a minute. Oh must rap.. All All right right. . Climate I gotta do some funny clips here. But I ha i it there's a very interesting follow-up clip. This climate New Orleans needs to prepare. New Orleans is a vibrant city, home of the French Quarter and the birthplace of jazz. Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans ? It's hard to imagine that it all might disappear . Yet that's the verdict of a study published this week in the Nature Sustainability Journal. It finds that sea level rise means the city could end up being surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico by the end of the century. Jesse Keenan is one of the studies co- director of the Center on Climate Change and Urbanism at Tulane University, and he joins me now. Professor, good morning. Is New Orleans doomed? Well what we see is that currently atmospheric temperatures are roughly where they were during the last interglacial about 125 to 150,000 years ago. Now there's a lag between global temperatures and sea level rise, but when we begin to add it up, there's a recognition that New Orleans has a matter of generations to prepare for a transition north to the mainland and away from the coast. So a transition is relocation the only option for New Orleans? Well, we don't really get into the engineering specifics, but it's generally agreed that it would be nearly impossible to engineer a multipurpose levee and dike system around New Orleans. About 80% of New Orleans land area is underwater, or below sea level, I should say. It's essentially a bowl, you can think about it in those terms. So to be surrounded by opalm water and be exposed to increasingly stronger hurricanes, the land itself is sinking and the seas are rising. So that combination really makes it nearly impossible to be able to engineer solution to keep New Orleans afloat Did you see that uh Mexico City is sinking by half an inch a year? Yeah, it's been doing that forever. Yeah. Well does doesn't that eventually become don't they wind up in Australia or something? China. Yeah, it's been doing that forever. Well, so is Venice. Yeah, well, Venice, yeah. Venice is definitely, I mean, that thing's underwater ever y every three weeks. Now it's important to note the study predicts the surrounding of New Orleans and even the possible submersion of New Orleans sometime in the future. And you don't know exactly when you're fish flopping on the streets. But is anyone actually making plans for this possibility in the future? Well I wouldn't say it's so much of a prediction as that the geological evidence and the paleoclimatic evidence points us in the direction that New Orleans will be surrounded by open water and it is very likely that it will be inundated. That question, whether we have decades or maybe over a century to go, is in a way open to science. But the real question is when and what does it mean to begin to plan a transition of the population of, businesses, of capital, and that's the challenge we have ahead of us in terms of public policy. There is not currently planning by the city or the state to begin this transition. What we have seen in recent years, which is critical, is we highlight in our work, is that there has been sediment diversion from the Mississippi River that can build land. And by building land in and around New Orleans, you can buy time. And buying time is the most critical aspect here. Now that project was killed by the governor just last year as not being particularly cost effective as it was argued. The reality is much of the expense of that project was actually paid for by BP oil spill money from a number of years ago. So the reality is that every decade that we can buy to help transition is critical for the success of environmental management, environmental quality, what we leave behind, but also the humane treatment of Proposing ? Moving the city. Oh . Moving the city? Moving the city? Yeah, it's move it. Get it out of there. Gonna sink. So here's this guy. I thought this would be a nice counter counterbalance. This guy Greg Braden, a profess or, climatolog ical climatologist guy's not bought off. Listen to this little uh little piece by this by by this guy on climate change in general. Another example, uh I'm gonna use climate change as a geologist. I'm very passionate about this. You believe in it? Climate change is a fact. No, I've been talking about it since nineteen seventy nine. It's also a fact that humans are not causing it. Humans are not causing it and the real scientists know this. Cow farts. It's not the cows. Cow farts. NASA knows that n over ninety percent of the CO two there is an increase in CO two. Okay, it's just I'm I made a statement and I want to I just want to justify this. Is there more CO2 in the atmosphere now than there was 10 years, 20, 50, 100 years ago? The answer is absolutely yes. Is it a bad thing? The answer is no. Is it the most we've ever had? We're right about four hundred and forty parts per million right now in geologic history. We're looking Cretaceous over a thousand, or the Jurassic over a thousand parts per million, Triassic 2,000 parts per million. The earth was lush, the earth was green, life was abundant during that time. And what we see in geologic history, and this is fascinating me, there are times when CO two levels are high and the temperatures are low, and times when just the opposite is happening. It's not necessarily a one-to-one correlation. Where's the CO two coming from? NASA knows uh I've got it I've got a bunch of videos on this. Over ninety percent of the CO two is coming from the oceans, warming. Warm water holds less gas. Here's the kicker. The oceans are warming from underneath, not from the top. If it was from the CO two on the top, you know, the warming of the air, it would be coming from the top. It's warming, the glaciers are melting from underneath, the CO two is coming. Um the oceans are warming from underneath from tectonic processes that happen about every twelve thousand five hundred years that people just don't want to talk about . It is a uh a tectonic process that begins in the core, translates perturbations into the mantle, into the crust, the weak areas of the crust. You see more tectonic activity, more volcanic activity was exactly what we're seeing. Give this guy the hook. He's not a wrong things. That's not right . Yeah. So your point being we still gotta we still gotta move New Orleans. Yeah well move New Orleans. Move New Orleans. Probably don't have to. Here's here's a question . Here's a question for you. Did you ever meet Ted Turner ? I never met Ted Turner. I uh Will Hurst told me a couple of stories because he's met Ted Ted Turner, and his only story about Ted Turner is there is a uh there is a line to the bar and there was somebody standing there. Looked like they were in the line, but they weren't in the line and the line moved and Ted was behind these people. By the way That's he said that was Ted Turner. That sounds that sounds like Ted Turner. And I will just say you do not want to be proclaimed dead by me on the podcast. Because I think I said he was dead just a couple weeks ago . And so now he's dead. Ted Turner was never a man to shy away from a challenge on land or sea. Time to go. Whether bringing the America's Cup back to the U.S., oh yeah, saving the American bis on , getting the Atlanta Braves to the World Series , or changing the way we all consumed news. The skies over Baghdad have been illuminated. Cover wars now largely because of the way CNN covered the first Gulf War live. We intend to cover all the news all the time. He was a hard-drinking cigar smoking adventurer. He had kind of an earnest Hemingway vibe, just with deeper pockets. I get thousands, millions, and billions mixed up. Turner had all kinds of nicknames. The mouth from the South and Captain Outrageous. In twenty eighteen, though, he disclosed to CBS Sunday morning's Ted Coppel that he was fighting Louis body dementia. It's a uh mild case of what people have as Alzheimer's. His memory back then hadn't forgotten his three marriages, especially the one to Jane Fonda. Have you ever quite got over her? No. Do you think you ever will? No . When you love somebody and you really love 'em, you never stop loving them. He never got over his love of the American West either, and his philanthropic efforts will live on in perpetu ity. We don't really own anything, he said. We just borrow it for a while. Yeah. That's pretty good. Considering how he lived Oh man, he was so right about that. And they laughed at him. They laughed didn't did he he had uh W TBS first, right? Superstation TBS ? I d I can't remember the whole history, but I but the fact is that they laughed at him a lot and said he was full of he didn't know what he was doing was very yes, very common Yeah, super station W T B S uh that was that was so it was Yeah, TBS turner broadcasting system. So that was a superstation first, which meant he syndicated all through a whole bunch of television stations and later via satellite, or maybe the distribution was through satellite. But the big thing he did is he would take old movies cheap or cheaper than you know first run stuff. He'd take old movies and he would play them at 11:05 and 805 because he knew that when people had seen the headlines on the news and were bored, they would be switching around, and then they'd hit the beginning of one of his movies. And it was genius . Until podcasting came along. Yeah. It sure did, baby. Let's I gotta cuck some uh one more Tucker Carlson thing I want to get out of the way. Oh Oh man. It's kinda nutty . Well he's like he's there's something's up. I'm convinced now that either he's got Meds or this meds? And the fact that he forgot he didn't what well I don't know what the Antichrist is and all that stuff. We played those clips last show. I thought were very revealing about maybe it's a cry for help, maybe it's a signal, maybe it's code, I don't know. But he pulls the stunt with he pulls a similar stunt with Dave Rubin who got irked about it. Uh he Tucker casually says Dave I say he didn't know who Dave Rubin was. And Dave Rubin played the clip on his show and then blasted Tucker because Tucker even blurbed his book and he been to his house and on and on and this is the Tucker Redux Dave Rubin piece. Dave Rubin? Whoever that is is, he conservative? Okay. I guess. Whatever. You know, it's funny, Tucker. Is he conservative? Well, first off, I as I often point out, I'm actually not a conservative in the in the strictest capital C sense of conservat ive, but I do believe that defending my liberal positions has become a conservative value. Yeah, that's true. That's true. But also, Tucker, you blurbed my book on classical liberalism. E read it for you. Here I'll even put you I know you are a big fan of doing this because it makes you look like you're smart. Um Dave Rubin is one of the bravest, smartest people I know, as well as a tremendous television presence. So who changed since then? Is it me or is it you, buddy? Is it me or is it you? It's not me. Um Tucker also literally walked into my house because I was one of the first people to have the home studio of gone independent. And and I think his actual quote was holy F and Holy effin shit . You did it. You did it. H the blurb of the of the book, when he signed his last book to me, said you're doing it for all the guys stuck at corporate jobs or something like that. Uh again, I tried to I tried to uh broker a piece with him and Ben. But the reason I'm doing this, you know, I don't as you guys know, I don't like doing the things about people that I've known or I was friends with or just when I've been through just that I knew Jank and Hassan and Candace and all of these people, it's it's weird. I think about it a lot. Like how did this happen to me? Um but this guy, he is a fraud like there were plenty more videos. We got into it before the show 'cause there were so many of them that it's like, how many times did this guy have to expose himself No, this this is um I think this is something else. This is the video the video thing. This is this is why we're still here. Hang ing on by our fingernails, but we're still here. Is once you get into video , people need the it's just it's like an obsession. You know, and you have to fight with somebody else on Erica and Erica can fight can fight uh Ben Shapiro and Ben Shapiro can fight Tucker and Tucker can fight uh you know, the Ben Shapiro can fight Dave Smith and Dave Smith goes on Joe Rogan and Joe Dr. It's like blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. And it's going to implode . Well, it's definitely boring. Yes. But uh watching these guys g do a rotation. But I I still think there's more to it than that with Tucker 'cause something's up and he and now we're starting to see some uh attacks. Do you think it's an it could be an actual illness? I don't want to make light of it. Well then that could be that's possible, but I think whatever the case is, they're going after Tucker. Listen to this guy, one of the Oh man. Play this clip. Did you guys know that when he started the Tucker Carlson Network, do you know who started up the funding of his network? This is content. This is public knowledge. The guy's name, uh, he runs a company called 1789 Capital, an investment firm that was founded by Om id Malik. He funded the launch of the Tucker Carlson Network. He's a Muslim man. Fifteen million dollars he gave to Tucker Carlson. Many other credible sources are saying that uh since January, Qatar , wealthy Islamic min nation, is funding Tucker Carlson. If you give me fifteen million dollars, I might not think Sharia law is that bad either. Exactly. Yeah, whatever. I'd we shouldn't participate in this. Yeah, we should. No, no . I love it. But you don't have to. I I can get the clips. And then you'll poach me later when you get a good one. Well, I mean someone's gotta save the show. Yeah. So I'll here's the fight that I am interested in, which yeah is just not a lot of uh Yeah, it's right there, right here in Oakland. Hey Scott, so we're learning a bit from Greg Brockman. He was the president of O Open AI or is the president of OpenAI now. He was the co-founder. Wrapping up his testimony this afternoon over in Oakland. It's week two of this Elon Musk versus OpenAI tribal trial. We did get news that Open AI plans to spend fifty billion dollars in compute, at least for the rest of this year. That was one big headline. Brockman, as I mentioned, co-founder of the company, he answered a lot of questions about his personal financial ambitions. So he has what he described as a $30 billion stake in this company at this point. He kept a journal to document per uh professional events in his life, personal events. That has been a big highlight and a big piece of evidence in this trial. Musk's personality and leadership style also came up in Brockman's testimony. Musk has claimed that he is responsible for helping recruit some of the key players at OpenAI and therefore deserves a lot of credit. about that in his own testimony. Brockman talked about his reputation of being extremely hard driving and that certain candidates were very attracted by that, but others didn't like it as much and it actually wasn't as big of a deal in terms of recruiting. So that just was a big topic of conversation overall. He did also talk a bit about overall Musk's just leadership style. We did get a a moment that he talked about of Musk tearing a painting of a Tesla off the wall. Scott, but that's the latest. He's wrapping up that testimony, and we are expecting to get Siobon Zillis, who's a close, close executive of Musk, also the mother of his children. The backdrop here, of course, Musk has sued opening Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, alleg ing that they essentially, as Musk put it, stole a charity. What do you think is gonna come out of that? I mean, it does the way they finagle that turning a non profit into a for profit, it just seems seems sketchy But the thing about Musk I have to say is you have to judge the uh results not the uh the commentary and when they I have to assume and I could be wrong, but I don't see how you could could I don't see how it how he could be, but Musk is has to be a judge of character in terms of people working for him that is that is unparalleled. He he has to be the guy who who picks people that that know what they're doing or do it well. And he and I think his influence on that company probably was more than this guy, Musk sent a few people over, but they were no good or we l didn't like him or whatever. I I'm not buying it. I think that Musk he they run the the SpaceX and all these other operations and to do the kind of financial dealings and and and to sue in a certain way and get a get billions of dollars left and right. He he's gotta have a skill set that is just uh that we we can't fully understand. And it has to do with picking people. Which I always thought that you get a guy who knows how to pick an executive uh to help him run a business smarter than you, uh got certain kinds of skills but might be dependent a little bit, is is non trivial. Yeah, you really want Musk and Trump together. Musk to hire and Trump to fire. That would be the good combo. Yeah, Musk would be the he should be the head of personnel. Well we're gonna see. I mean it things are gonna start moving in this AI world, and we're already seeing AMD and all these CPU companies. Uh people are figuring it out. It's like, oh, we don't need all this computes, we just need it in our computers at home . I can see this coming . It's coming. And then Well something's coming. It's not gonna be pleasant when it blows up. It'll ruin the show for sure. And with that, I want to thank you for your courage. Say in the morning to you, the man who put the sea in the climate change, cow fart. Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one, the only Mr. John C devo Yeah when the morning you Mr. Adam Crony Minister see boots on ground subs water and dames and nights out there. Oh hold on I'm still I was still stuck in that mode. Hey, in the morning to the trolls in the troll room. Let me count y'all. Let me see. Troll count. Troll count. Let me do an actual troll count and we see fourteen fifty-three of the trolls in the troll room But I'm still here doing the show because that's what we do . And we're going to Nashville later this month, and it'll be on a Sunday, and there's things I could be doing, but I'm gonna do the show because we care about the show and we think that it's important that people understand the world that's going on around them from a different perspective, not just yelling into the void because we're on video . And that's what's that's what seems to be happening. The whole podcast industrial complex is now. Everyone's crazy about video. And you know what they're doing? They're doing a horrible disservice to podcasting. Podcasting should be audio. I mean, it's something you should be able to do while gardening. You can't watch a video while garden ing. So what is happening is all of the not all, but most of the big hosting companies, they are um offering video podcast but it's no longer RSS based it's done with an API exactly it's done with an API and so your video gets published to Apple, it gets published to Spotify. Oh, by the way, we're back on Spotify. I uh I got someone to uh I got a representative who emailed me. Hey, this is Spotify. Yeah. They said, Hey, is there anything we can do for your show? I said, yeah, how about you put our show on? I've been trying to get it on for for four months. Ow, hold on me . And they check and they come back. Oh yeah, well we had a sum of okay. I thought we weren't on Spotify because they wanted to run ads. Yeah, well they don't they have new terms of service. They don't run ads. Oh, okay. Yeah. So I said, okay, we'll go back on then. That's fine. If they run ads then we'll take it off. But that was that was the whole thing. Uh so they're breaking the RS and in fact if Spotify, if you up if you have audio, if you have an audio podcast and then you upload video , they then take the audio from your video and your RSS feed is completely broken for audio . I think Apple may be doing the same thing. It's why are they doing this? Uh I think the reason they're doing this is they understand that if they just have an open RSS feed that can come into their platforms, their podcast platforms, it'll be filled with porn and other things other things they don't like. I would think that's a that's a concern. Yeah. But it's not a podcast. Now you can be deplatformed in seconds by the ex the exact people who that you know that I built the podcast index for with Dave J ones. For this very reason, because you will get when the banhammer is there, it gets used. So anyway, enjoy your video experience. We're just going to stay audio and we remain value for value. I should probably mention you want to get one of those modern podcast apps to listen to this podcast. First of all, you're supporting independent developers, which is it important, especially if you get their their you know, premium package, which is usually two ninety nine a month, gives you all kinds of extras. Uh we suggest you do that. They are on board with the modern podcasting standards, podcasting two point oh, which has all these extra features. Uh these are being slowly adopted by the big boys, but if you want to stay ahead of the curve, then you want to be with us. Um in addition to that, one of those features is the live, the we call it lit, uh the live item tag. So when we go live with the podcast, which more and more podcasts are now doing, you get an a notification in your podcast app. And then when we publish it, you're not waiting around for fifteen minutes, half hour, an hour, sometimes longer. No, within 90 seconds, you'll know that your podcast, your best podcast in the universe, has been updated. So value for value, I talked about at the beginning of our podcast. Um it's very simple system. We exist by the producers who produce the show. That is every single one of you who is listening. We don't consider you listeners. We don't consider you an audience. We don't consider you lesser than. Fans? Oh man. How many people like how many fans do you have? Got zero fans. In fact, we have more hate listeners than fans, but they're all producers. And the way you fans. You do you have any fans, John C. DeVorg? Do you have any super fans? Surely he's a fan someone's a fan over there. No no fans? No fans . So we decided in week three of our podcast that well we, we don'tt want to do that. We don' want to be beholden. We need a fan club. We don't want to be beholden to advertisers. No. At all . We don't want to force people into paying things that they maybe can't afford . But from time to time, if you're listening and now we're well into two hours, if you think, you know, I did get some value out of this, I learned something. Maybe there was something that triggered you, but like, oh, but I I could talk about this with my family or I could approach this topic in a certain way or maybe I could stay away from certain people who are on meds. You know, or maybe you could save somebody who's on meds, whatever it is. Well you might be on meds. Yeah, maybe we're helping to save you. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. Yeah, it's hard to get off these things. That's the idea. Try Jesus. That's that's my recommendation. Well you can try anything. Yes. Um so just send us some value back. If you get value from the show, you can do that with time, talent, or treasure. Many people help us with time and talent, and one of those ways is through uh the album art that we always uh change up for every single episode. Uh eighteen sixty five, our previous episode we titled that, The Wide Awakes. And uh this art came from uh Jeffrey Rhea, and it it was controversial for us. Um the speaking of the meds, this was uh the SSRIs, the SSRI army coming towards you looking very you know, starting happy and then getting less happy, then becoming devilish and then coming at you with knives and with a noose and with a gun and we of course it's AI generated . The thing that uh was controversial is we typically will deny art if there is a glaring AI generation error in the art . Which this one had. Yeah, it did. There was a dude with three arms. But Yeah, but it did in the in the context of the fact it wasn't a dude with three arms. It was a pill with three arms. A pill could have any number of arms that it wants to have. And that's how we got around our our ban? Did you ever figure out the Greek letters uh that are around No, it's just a bunch of Alpha Omega stuff. I have no idea. Yeah. Pi is in there. I didn't quite understand that. Jeffrey Ria, thank you very much for bringing us that artwork. We appreciate that. Let's take a look and see if there was anything else that we discussed at the time ? Um I don't think there was anything. We had trouble with the finding this piece. Well we both thought um cisco Scaramanga's uh passport but photo rejected was funny. Yes, it was. The guy at the back of his head. Uh you were very enamored by uh static lullaby static lullaby's uh fake money, a fake uh thirty-three dollar bill. You thought it was good for some reason. No, I thought it was something frameable. I didn't think it was for the show because we don't do pictures of ourselves. No. I thought it was something you should I suggested that you get him to send you a copy autographed. Ah that's a good hanging on your wall. That's what I was talking about. I messed that up. And of course, Comics or Blogger With a But. Uh this time it was a cat. Yes, in fact that was going to be Jay was wrapping up the newsletter. I wrote the copy, but sh she puts it together and she was gonna choose that piece. Really ? Wow And I caught it before it would went through and I changed it. 'Cause I don't think a puckered butthole is necessarily something that's that's great. Well the the the the butthole was a cat. The butthole was the clawed logo, so I kind of understood where comics or blogger was coming from. Oh I see. Okay. Yeah, the little clawed uh insignia. No No . Uh so we love to thank people who support us with their treasure. Fifty dollars and above, never under fifty for reasons of anonymity. We go through the list and we have a special reward for every single uh person who can uh support us with two hundred dollars or more. Not only will we guaranteed read your note, but also we will give you the title of associate executive producer for this episode. It's in the credits in the show notes. It's a credit that is that is recognized by Hollywood people because you can even put it on imdb.com in addition to your LinkedIn or your social media profile, three hundred dollars and above. Same uh note reading, and you get the title of executive produ cer. So we'll start off with Countess Knight from Edmonds Washington, who hits us up with four hundred dollars, and uh she will become a countess, and that's all she had was Viscountess Countess. No no she becomes a she becomes a Viscountess, she is a countess. Is that how it works? Viscountess bigger than countess? Yes. Uh yeah, I think so. I think so, yes. And that's all that's her entire note, so thank you very much. Countess. She made a point. I don't I don't want to use my name, I want to be Dame Knight. And so and she was sc old us if we read 'cause it would come through PayPal at with her name on it. So we've memorized. And Jay, everybody Okay, yeah. And so now it's gonna have to be Viscountess Countess. I no it moves the Countess. Yes. I think Viscountess is lower. Hold on. Yes. I I I thought Viscountess came before. Yes, please do. Uh we need to get this right. Uh I need a browser here. What? Yeah, drunk Say what? Say what? Peerage. Peerage. I'm sorry, it's peerage. ht m. Uh Yeah, that's peerage. It may have a blink tag. Yes. People are having trouble with your uh sign up link to the newsletter. I I w I notice this. You have to keep hitting it over and over and then eventually it goes through. I'm gonna have to m create a new one. Oh please. You don't have the password to that server. You can't create anything there. But still we're going to Okay, five time Knight becomes a Viscountess . Yes, she's gonna be Viscountess. She's bigger than Countess. Perfect. We yeah. Yeah. Love it. Love it. I don't even see Countess on here, to be honest about it. All right. Um Onward was Sir Lawrence in Logan Port, Indiana, 333ree eight eight and he sent in a note or she or he Larry Larry yes Larry Stewart Sor Lor Sir Sir Lawrence of Logan sport, Indiana. John, it's actually a postcard from Route 6 . John just what you need. Jesse James hideout. Happy Recovery had the same procedure in twenty eighteen and I'm still here. Wow. Larry Stewart . Okay. Yeah, we are. Sir Ichabod is in Lake Forest Park, Washington, and he sends us three hundred thirty three dollars thirty four cents, which I think is an anomaly, because he says to Crackpot and Buzzkill, here's my latest installment of three hundred thirty three for the last one hundred shows. So we got an extra extra penny out of it. I'm usually playing catch up with my podcast, so I end up listening to the greatest podcast in the universe a week or two after the fact. With that amount of time to further digest what has happened in the world, I'm always amazed at how spot on your analysis is as things are happening just at the moment. I figured out how. For a long time listeners, we might remember that Adam isn't a boomer. He's from the future, and even had a time machine that we could all ride in. It's been a long time. Adam, can you set the time for just returning to now so, we don't have to come back, but I would love to go for a ride, please. I love that nauseating feeling it gives me. Plus I'm worried about Sparky the dog. It's been a long time since I haven't heard him bark. Did anyone leave him w ater? So he is requesting the uh the time machine, the dimension time machine, which we indeed have not ridden in in quite a while. So I dug it out. Uh it's been in the podcast bag, so I have that. She also all he wants a little girl yay. He says, Damn, it's good to hear your voice, John. Your humble servant, Sir Ichabot of the Bike Path, Gorble, Baron of the S eleucid Empire. Seleucid, Seleucid Empi re. There we go. Alright, everybody, get ready. Here we go. Stand by. It's gonna hurt just a little bit. You might get dizzy. It's going to be only America first. Amer ica first America . We choose love There's Sparky. There he is. Wow . Woo! If you're dizzy, just look at the ground, it'll all go away. Thank you, Suri Kabod. That was a fun ride. Yikes. Okay, so I have to correct myself . I did find it . Countess comes next after Viscount. Ah, okay. So she becomes a countess. From Viscountess to Countess. Got it. Makes sense. So that's a seven times night. Seven X . Onward . With Sir Greg Birch, our buddy in Port Angeles, Washington, the Dentite. Six six six my sixtieth celestial orbit uh what ? Naps naps now legal. You can take naps whenever you want. Whenever you want, yes. Yeah. Uh Sir Greg Burst. So he's got a birthday coming up as two hundred fifty dollars. Thanks, Greg. Austin Allen, Roseville, California, two hundred and twenty-five. He's uh he writes in and says hello gents. It's Austin Allen, not to be mistaken, with Cole Thomas Allen, and no affiliation with the wide awakes. Just your favorite pool dude representing hell. I mean California. Making sure your pool feels great and not like the disgusting high chlorinated public pools and hotel pools. Thank you guys so much for all you do. I listen to you guys The fear porn of the legacy media. Your pool guy has about ten seconds to make a good impression and most don't. Throw back to Lindsay Lupakin. For the best pool service in the greater Roseville area, email Aston uh at MD uh S Austin MD Pool sca at gmail.com. That's M D for Marley's Dad Pools and C A for California at gmail.com. Named so it is M D Poolsca at gmail.com. Uh named after super his amazing daughter Marley who I love so much. Stay chlorinated, says Austin the Pool Guy, and the frogs are gay. Oh I didn't get the frogs are gay. Hold on a second . You know whenever we play these jingles, that's w that's immediately when people uh request the jingles. It's uncanny that way. I don't like 'em putting chemicals in the water that turn the friggin' frogs gay. There you go. You got it . Jordan T ierney in Oral , South Dakota. Yeah. I found you guys in twenty twenty after watching a saddle tramp story where she talked about the podcast in twenty twenty. I was Miss Rodeo America and due to the pandemic the pandemic served until the end of twenty twenty one. This is Jordan is a woman. Yes. The Jordan it's a Jordan woman. Thank you uh so much for keeping me sane during that time. You're welcome. You guys helped me during everything keep everything in perspective. And to see through the BS . I did the fifty dollar a month payment uh starting in twenty twenty four and reached the full amount of damehood in early twenty twenty five. I would like to be known as Dame Rodeo Queen Which uh which which Cabernet do we want for her? Uh let's see what not just any old Cabernet. We want a good cabinet. reserve would do. B V private res erve cab. Okay. I have I have ordered it. It will it will be and then she says, I think I did that correctly. Please edit anything you need out No jingles, no karma. God bless Dame Rodeo Queen. Dame Rodeo Queen. Was this are you a barrel rider or that that's my favorite rodeo. Barrel racing. Is it barrel racing? Is that barrel rider? Okay. Hey, let me get on that barrel, I'll ride it. I think I think you can call her a barrel racer . She may have been a barrel racer. Or barrel racer. My first wife was a barrel racer. You had a first wife? What? Stop the show. What? Is she still alive? Yeah. Do you ever talk to her ? I don't uh maybe I haven't talked to her for a couple since COVID. Did she was she listening to during COVID? Since COVID is my go to now. I haven't done this since COVID. I haven't traveled since COVID. I haven't talked to my first wife since COVID. I I haven't changed my underwear since COVID. That's right . Well. Can I ask what her name was? Her first name only? Yeah, Vicky. Vicky . Hmm. She could jump on a horse bareback and take off like a rocket. Oh man. There's you never cease to amaze me, John C. DeWorak. Nor does Eli the Coffee Guy, who is in Bensonville, Illinois. He comes in with two oh five and seven cents. That is, of course, a two hundred dollar associate executive producer donation along with the date. And he says, Living in Chicago lands suburb, I've noticed the flag at the local schools and library has been at half staff more often than full masks in recent years. Since COVID and just kept going. It used to be the half staff meant something serious had happened, nine eleven, real tragedies. Now it feels like it's done to demoralize us. Hard to feel like the country is standing tall when old glory ain't. Thanks, Pritz ker . Nothing helps pick up the morale like a good cup of coffee, though. Please visit gigab coffee roasters dot com and use code ITM twenty for twenty percent off your order, and as always, stay caffeinated, says Eli the Coffee Guy. Bob Dietrich in good old Flower Mound, Texas, two hundred dollars. Uh from eighteen sixty-four point cast . Just Baker. Just Baker. He did just Baker. He did the mix. Just Baker. Just the mind blown maker. Just baker, the mind blown maker. The little rhyme there. With the distorted organ intro to the next gen rap. I was blown away. Boom. After twenty replays in the car, I decided to I decided the automobile speakers weren't cutting it. Some more of these, please. I don't know if it's a original or sparked from another artist but Bravo. No, it's all it's all uh Suno . Just Baker. Just Baker's new on the scene. He competes. He competes . And also, if you want to talk about competing, then you want to know about Linda Lupatkin from Castle Rock, Colorado. She supports us almost I think every single show with two hundred dollars and she just wants jobs karma. And she says rightly so your resume has about ten seconds to make an impression, and most don't for a resume that gets results, go to ImageMakers Inc. com. Linda helps professionals and executives turn their experience into a clear story of leadership, results, and impact. That's ImageMakers Inc. with a K and Linda Lou, Duchess of Jobs and Writer of Winning Resumes. And she wants some jobs, Karma. Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. So I got an email from a recruiter. This must be a scam . Do you ever get emails from recruiters? If you get it, you know it's a scam. But do you get an email from a recruiter? No, I don't think so. And he's like, hey, you know, you with your decentralization and with your podcasting two point oh experience I. think have the perfect opportunity for you in a leadership role. I'm like, okay, I'll bite. And then you know, I said, well, if you're more interested, then I will, then I will uh I'll send you more information. And then you know he sends me like I said, okay, what what say is this a job? Is this a consulting gig? Is this uh what is it? Oh no, it's leadership at adobe. I'm like, what ? That makes no sense . Right? Yeah, exactly. Well, they can give you a job at Adobe? Well he's a recruiter. I don't I don't think. But he wants you to work at Adobe? I uh it must be a scam. The next thing he sends me. No, it's gotta be. Yeah. The next thing he sends me has got to be. Well, if you uh Continuing with our supporters, uh fifty dollars and above, Christopher Myers is in Dallas, Texas, and uh he sends us a hundred and eighty five dollars and says, Donate better. Yes. Definitely low donations. Uh we would like to see more uh value coming back to us. Maybe for Mother's Day. You know, Mother's Day is next Sunday, that's the next show. That's right. That's when it was stellar. And after that, it's like it's just mom. Yeah. We we totally kicked ass during the COVID year for the moms. Yes. And now oh well, you know, whatever. Yeah, whatever. Exactly . Mansur Rod in Alpharetta, Georgia. I hope I pronounced that right. One, two, three, four, five. We see what you do there, what you did there. Thank you very much. We appreciate that. Then we have Jim Carlson from Denver, Colorado. He sends us $100, but he also had a note, which I'm gonna bring up here and I liked it because it was uh here John and Adam a short note greatest podcast ever I enjoy your bot your podcast John keep getting better. I am turning eighty on is this twelfth May? Twelfth of May, I think, or seventeen, I think twelfth of May, twenty-six, and I do not want to BS n to be any younger. Catman's what cat what ? Why are you laughing? Why you raffin'? Is silly. Catman something. Jim Carlson. Catmandoo. No, Catmando . Anyway. Eighty years old. And he still listens to the best podcast in the universe without wearing his hearing aids. I wonder how many people we have who are octogen arians that listen to this show. Well, they better donate quick. I think you guys yeah, you're you know eighty dollar donation eighty dollar donation for the you you oxygen area just saying get get your donation in now you don't you d you don't want to get up to heaven and like actually we I went back and forth with one of our producers who who's eighty free, eighty four, eighty five. Really? In the mid eighties. Yeah. And he says, I gotta get my night hood in before I'm gone. I told him he's got a bad attitude. Very bad attitude. Don't look at that rock when you're driving your motorcycle. Exactly. That's what I told him, the old rock thing. Yes. Rihanna Kosinski , Karsland, Alberta. That's in Candinavia, eighty three seventy-four. And uh also wants to add um uh birth to the birthday list, Josh of BC from Zak and Rihanna, Alberta, Canada, and a switcheroo donation and do de douching for his birthday. You've been de-douched. Uh he hit Zach in the mouth many moons ago before COVID, and thanks is in order. John, so glad you're okay. You have me worried for a beat. Ha! Thanks. Thank you for your courage, says Rihan. Jason Shepherd, Trinidad, Colorado, eighty dollars seventy six cents. And there's Sir Kevin McLaughlin, Archduke of Luna, lover of America and boobs. He is the OG boob donor. And he comes in with eighty dollars and eight cents. God bless America and boobs. We have Zurek Koj jak from Prague. I think that's how you pronounce it. Yeah, you pronounce it Pro Prague. yeah and he wants an F karma, which I'll hit him with right away. You've got karma. And next on the list, she's always there, Dame Rito from Sparks, Nevada, 6833. Thank you so much, Dame Rita. Gwen Sobiski, Kettering, Ohio with 67. David Cox from Austin, Texas, 6325. Dame Teresa Martin, Camarillo, California, 6 si1,xty one sixty one. Uh that's uh something with a sticks and a dicks. I forget what that is. Eric Flinor, Palmyra, Palmyra, um Michigan ? Yeah, as opposed to supposed to Miss Mississippi. Oh, you know you're Mississippi. Michigan. George Sousa Hillmark . She is 5555. George Susa Hillmark California fifty three thirty three Jorge Hernandez Lake Stevens Washington fifty three thirty three Gregory Brahman in Saginaw Michigan fifty two seventy two uh uh donation of the best podcast in the univer forse the best mom in the universe, Wendy Brayman is how you pronounce it. Wendy from Gregory. There you go, Mom. There's a first Mother's Day donation. And Bradley Bowlman in Duluth, Minnesota, 5218. We've got Josiah Thomas in Ankeny, Iowa with 51. Here the fifties, Foster Birch, New York, New York, Alex Avala, Sir Alex, the winning Sir Alex Savala in Kyle, Texas, Edward Mazarick in Memphis, Tennessee, Stephen Ray, Spokane, Washington, Carl Vogler in Dillon Beach, California, Frankie Perez in San Diego, uh Carrie Jackson, Watertown, Tennessee, Jason Delu zio, Miami Beach, and Aichi Kitigawa checks in from San Francisco, Califor nia with fifty dollars. Thank you all very much for those of you who do support us. Uh we would like to see more of that, please. Uh it is value for value. We really feel like we're putting the value in, we're bringing a lot to the table. It's worth it, it.' Its good. If you if you don't support, then things do s tend to go away. And you know, I don't know if we can do four more years at this point. I may have to get that gig at Adobe . Yeah, yeah, I think you should go to work for a dope y. You'd fit right in. I would not fit in at all. That's a horrible idea. I don't want to work at a dope. The other one was uh uh what's that uh AI company? He had two for me. Snowflake. Like, I'm not gonna work at any company, no s name So Snowflake. That's a horrible idea. I am I I'm a v executive vice president at Snowflake. Thank you very much. Oops. Thank you very much to our executive and associate executive producers. We're producing episode 18 is this. We go out, we hit people in the mouth. Shut up there you go. I should have done that earlier, but we thanked everybody. Uh fifty dollars and above as we always do. Noagendonations.com is where you go to support the show with your treasure. Noagendadonations.com. Any amount, anytime you want to. We love the numerology. It's always fun to do. It supports the show. It keeps the show going, keeps the wheels grinding, keeps the machine humming. You can even do a sustaining donation, any amount, any frequency, noagendadonations.com. It's a birthday birthday . And here's our list. Uh Sir Greg Burks, turn sixty uh May 6. Happy birthday to him. Uh Zach and Rihanna of Alberta, Canada, wish Josh of British Columbia a very happy birthday. He celebrated uh celebrates today, actually May 7th. And Jim Carlson turns 80 years old on May 12th. Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe. Oh we have title changes. Boy it's been a while since we had one of those. No douchebags for our Viscountess who today becomes a Countess. That will be the Viscountess Knight. We always remember her name as Viscountess Knight, but now she'll be known as Countess Knight, thanks to an additional one thousand dollars support uh to the best podcast in the universe, and we thank you very much. We have a dame and we have a knight to bring up today, John. So if you can there's my sword, if you can grab yours. There you go. Yeah, you're getting stronger. Bigger blade. Jordan Tierney and Rob Butcher. Both of you step up. You have supported the No Agenda Show in the amount of $1,000 or more, and that means I am very proud to pronounce the KD as Dame Rodeo Queen and Sir Jimmy Chimkins of the Bloody Goiter. Wow, that sounds nasty. For you, we've got Hookers and Blow, Rent Boys and Chardonnay. Uh we actually have a bottle of 2020 B V private reserve cab by request. Along with that, we've got Harlots and Haldol. 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Sarcastic and Nomad, thank you for your courage. Microdos ing. I'm macrod os . That was bad. But we appreciate it no matter what. Hey, there's a meetup taking place tomorrow. A couple of them actually. We have the May eighth Happy Hour Buda meetup. Ah, that would have been right down the road from me, but I'm not there at the time, so that'll be at Astra in But, Texas. Yes, it is pronounced Buda. The National Dutch amygdala check up. Now this will be in locale sixteen fifty in Leiden in the Netherlands. Uh' thatll be at eight o'clock uh Dutch time. Unfortunately, I won't be able to attend. I'm going out to dinner with my daughter. Sorry. Uh Saturday Take your daughter to the meetup. She'd love to meet people. She's seven months pregnant. She doesn't really want to go anywhere at the moment. The Treasure Valley Boise meetup, three o'clock at the old state saloon in Eagle, Idaho. Make sure you catch that one. Also rub her tummy. Also on Saturday, the Sonoma W ino Country Meetup. That'll be at 3 33 P.M. in Santa Rosa, California, and that'll be at Fieldwork and Mums the Word in Nashville, six o'clock at Tenfold in Nashville, Tennessee. That is also on Saturday. Make sure you go to these meetups if you can in the month of May. We still have Unionville, Ontario on the 13th, Raleigh, North Carolina on the 14th, Collieville. I got it right this time on the 16th, along with Fort Wayne, Indiana, Los Banos, California. The twenty first, Charlotte, North Carolina. The twenty-third, Wilmington, Delaware, Los Angeles, California, Hickson, Tennessee, and Franklin, Tennessee, dueling Tennessee meetups on the same day. And on the twenty fourth, Vancouver, British Columbia, and Squim, Washington, where Mimi will be uh the TooMiniEggs.com book lady, uh, and John's Much Better Half, uh, that'll be on May 25th. And that's it. Of course there's a lot more taking place which you can find at noagenda meetups.com. You head over there, find one near you. If you can't find one, here's a novel idea. Start one yourself. It's free of charge. All you gotta do is find a place, advertise it, and let's get it going. Noagenda meetups.com. Always fun, always easy, and always a party. Sometimes you wanna go hang out with all the nights and days . You wanna be where you won't be, triggered or hell aim . You wouldn't be where everybody feels the same . It's like a party. Yeah, baby. We have uh end of show mixes coming up, which I think you will enjoy. We also have John's tip of the day, but first we're going to choose the end of show IS.O Is see you have two. I'll go. I have four, so let me hit you with mine. Okay. You ready? Hit it. I agree with ya . There's one . Oh my goodness, goody goody gun drops. You're gonna love him. Uh lovey's still on the air. That's it. We're done. And the final one. This is incredible. I kind of like that one. I like the incredible one . Yeah. It was future tense for the Alex Jones one. Get closer to the mic, man. You're cutting out. Uh let's start with uh Fabulous. It's over. Fabulous show. Don ate now. Not at all, A I. Okay. Good needs more energy . I wanted it to be soft and demanding. No agenda. This was no agenda. Except no substitutes. Okay . That's uh taken from uh what was it? Uh what was the what was the TV show that had that ? I don't know. Yeah was it We'll do that one. I like that. Accept no substitutes, that's true. And there is no substitute for John C. Dvorak's tip of the day . Creative fast for you and me. Just the tip with JCD . And sometimes Adam . Okay . Of course. Oh, get closer to the Okay . I'm I'm I haven't changed anything. Uh-huh. So uh everyone's moaning and groaning about the last tip . So I I I'm going back to the well uh and going back to the wine tips, which everybody seems to love. We love our wine tips . Nineteen uh nineteen twenty twenty three Kirkland signature shablis . Oh, another Kirkland. Yeah, there was Costco. You know, people can go to Costco, it's cheap. Uh I lost track of the price unfortunately. Oh it couldn't have been more expensive. Nine dollars. They don't charge much more than that for their wines, do they? Not for these Kirkland ones, no. Now here's the thing. This one is particular ly uh Pierre Bris y, winemaker on the back of the label. This says Pierre Bricy. Okay. So Pierre did the wine. So Chablis is an area the north northernmost part of Burgundy. And they're known for making uh and the the grape use in Chablis always Chardonnay. And so it's a Chardonnay, which is you know the ABC folks may or may not like it but it doesn't taste like a like a California Chardonnay, so people shouldn't complain about it too much. And it says Chablis, so I guess that would would be would benefit people who hate Chardonnay. But it's it's not the tip the sh a typical Chablis in the normal low carbon dioxide years of the of your uh with the climate change not being what it was tends to be steely they describe it as steely flinty sharp hold on a second. Are you telling me that climate change i. e. more parts per million of our CO two makes the wine better? Oh yeah, the Germans will tell you this right tomorrow. You call go to go to the Rhine and and and ask Well this is an argument that has never been used. I think we should before on the show. I can't recall, but I I think it's a big deal. Yes. More so some of these areas that make this this sketchy, you know, sometimes good, sometimes bad wines, Burgundy's a good example. They're basically every vintage is good. And so uh so this Chablis is not like the flinty, harsh, you know, acidic Chablis of of the of that people expect. It's a very soft, gorgeous wine. And I would say, uh I would t t check it out, especially all the you people that hate uh you know, the California shards. Shards I'm using the thing. Shard. I sharded man, that's right. Hey there it is. There's a dynamite tip of the day from John C. Deborah. Get them all at noagendafun.com, tip of the day.net. Great fast for you and me. Just the tip with JCD . And sometimes at home. Created by Dana Bernetti . Let's see how we do. Right on schedule. Perfect. Hey y'all. Remember us at NoAgendedonations.com if you would ple ase. I'll be here Sunday night once again. John will be here Sunday afternoon. Bringing you the best podcast in the universe, breaking down all the media, the deconstruction that you need to function. I think that's kind of a rhyme . Uh if you stick around, up next we have random thoughts . That'll be on uh the Noagenda stream. We just keep it running in your modern podcast app or if you're listening in a web browser not on YouTube that's for sure. 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