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Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. It's Thursday, May 14th, 2026. This is your award-winning Kimbo Nation Media Assassination Episode 1868. This is no ag enda . With P ump and Circumstance and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA region number six in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam Curry. And from Refinery Row, where we're all watching what's going on in China, I'm John C. Dvor ak. It's Craig Bodden Boskill in the morning. Yes, we are. China, ch ina . China China China China China. Yes, but before we talk about China, I had a rather interesting re entry. Oh you're back. You are back from the uh hinterland Yes, the the lowlands, the l owlands. The lowlands and get nation there and uh you have a report. Yes. Always entertaining, I might add. Yes. Well they're not the they're not the most luxurious of places. They're just handy. The shows and stuff like that. But the thing that bothered me is there was a blueberry in the hallway. Have you ever had this where you see a blueberry or something on the carpet? You're like, hmm. And then you come back in the afternoon, the blueberry's still there. And then for the whole week you'll look ating the blueberry and yeah, then someone stepped on the blueberry, but it never really got cleaned up the blueberry. Oh well did you report it? No, I did not report it. Well you didn't report it, what do you expect ? Well I was waiting to Hello Service I was waiting They dropped a blueberry. I was waiting to see if they would vacuum the hallway is just a crazy, uh, crazy example. They did not . So um we came back via Detroit, which is a fine way to go. You know, you can go Atlanta, Minneapolis, Detroit. Detroit is a fine way to go. Yeah, for a for a transfer. Actually that airport's kind of fascinating 'cause there's a subway system that goes in that's inside the airport itself. It's more like a monorail above. It's not it's not a subway system. It's overway. It's a above way. Above way. Yeah, it's above way. It's not a subway. It's not above way. And we decided to walk, you know, to gate seventy three is a long way away. But upon re entry , uh we had uh when you we have signed up uh this is uh typical Tina things, like we're doing global entry. Okay. We got global entry and you get your TSA pre check and all that to go with it . So uh uh at uh C B and I should say as an aside, um there's pretty much it's all C B P now instead of TSA. Um that was just we noticed that on the way out. Well, I mean you know I think that there's still a C D P the Canadian District Police. No, CBT. The Customs and Border P patrol. Oh and you know, and I th you know everything's kinda smooth. But then coming back in. So you know we oh yes, we don't have to stand in this line. We're going to the kiosk. We're going to the global entry kiosk . And uh it's odd because you have a card and you got your path, you don't need any of that. You just stand in front of the thing. It goes, biometrics. Hello. All right. Walk on by. So as we're walking up, because you still have to go through the little the little port and talk to the the dude. Uh he says Adam and Tina Curry. Well that's interesting. I I didn't expect him to come on up here family. Okay . And uh he's like, okay, where were you? What were you doing? Were you working over there? No, seeing my my daughter, she's gonna have a baby. Oh that's great, okay. Uh bring any cash with you? No, no cash. Any fruits, meats, vegetables, drugs, anything else we should know? No, nothing. Okay. And so we go in and we're waiting for our for our bags. And there were several customs border patrol dudes patrolling through kind of the the people waiting for their bags. And I saw it right away, you know, I'm gonna try not to look like uh patrolling. And boom. Uh folks, can I see your passports? Okay, passports, yeah. Here you go. Uh the same questions. Yeah, what were you doing? Why you're there? Work, you bring any cash, any uh any uh moot meats, fruits, vegetables, anything, any drugs? No, no, no, no. Okay, all right. We get our bags, we're walking towards the exit. Another dude . Uh hey folks said we just talked to your colleague. Oh really? Say yeah. Said it must be because we look like international diamond smugglers. Is that what it is? Why don't you step over here, Mr Mrs . Curry ? So you made a snide remark? I it was a funny remark. I'm like why are you guys targeting us? Do we look like international diamond smugglers? Yeah, folks, why you don' stetp over here ? And we're gonna do a little bag check. And but it what was so obvious Oh they did a bag check on you then? Yeah opened everything. Ooh. But the it was so obvious they were looking for cash. Do you have any cash on you? How much I said how much cas how much do you want to look for cash coming in? Yes. Yes. Why? I I don't know. I said how much cash do you want? Got eighty bucks here. That's all I got. And they really didn't do a thorough a thorough check of the bags at all. Um you know, and they they were nice and everything, but it was just so odd. They kept asking about cash. You got any cash? You got cash . And and the whole time I'm thinking I have a whole you know what I'm thinking? What? There's a counterfeit ring going on in Europe. Something must be going on with cash. Yeah, that they they're looking for counterfeit money bringing broad in the country. Maybe. I mean, and there's so much to look at in my bag, you know. I got my studio with me. No, nothing . And then they didn't ask a question about it, I'm sure. No, not a single thing. It was it was kind of but so it had to be the cash. Meanwhile I'm thinking, you guys are all so old fashioned. I got a bitcoin memorized in my in my head. I'm walking around with a full Bitcoin crossing borders. Didn't mention that, but I'm not smuggles cash across the border anymore. Especially into the country Yeah, right? Unless it's counterfeit. Oh some of the imagine if I had some of those Trump dollars that we got uh snagged with the other day. What is this? Oh I'm sorry, I'm sorry. So uh we we did have uh a dinner with Lex and Fariba, his uh Persian wife , which was interesting . Yeah, well what's the lowdown? Uh well first of all, we had Peking Duck, which is kind of strange to have that in Amsterdam. Um and she and I said, you know, so what 's the deal? She says, Well like once a week we might get a WhatsApp message and they have to do all kinds of all kinds of uh stuff to you know, you sometimes get a SIM card, if to find a Wi-Fi signal. But in general, when they get a message, it's like it's everything's okay. Nobody knows what's going on. Nobody. They just don't know what's going on. And you know, and it was it was kind of fun as we're just we're just talking about life in Iran, in Tehran and life in Iran. And I say, yeah, you know that, that son of the Khomeini guy, he's supposedly gay. And Fariba says, Oh, we have no idea how many men in Iran are gay. What? Oh yeah. She says, you know, y you can't hold hands with a woman, but you can kiss a man on the street. I what? She says, Oh yeah. There's even cave drawings in Iran of men having sex with men. This goes back thousands of years. That sounds kind of weird. Yeah, yeah. She said but it is. You you can you can make out with a with a dude, but you can't hold a woman's hand in Iran on the street. And now on the other hand, she made uh made very clear to me that hijabs have really not been a thing in Tehran for a long time. In fact, she says, Look out the window. She said look, looked at the street here. Says there are more hijabs in Amsterdam than you will ever see in Tehran, which was kind of a a double a double slap. Like, yeah. Because it's true. Man, you do not want to go to Amsterdam anymore It stinks. Yeah, it does stink really. The bar scene. Actually, I have a couple clips about the uh the internet blackout in Iran if you want to hear 'em. Sure. Okay. Internet since january eighth, twenty twenty six. Not slowed down, not filtered, cut off. Connectivity sitting at one percent of normal levels according to netblocks, the digital governance monitor that has been tracking this in real time. By March 10th, the total had hit 2 40 hours of blackout since the start of the year. The Internet monitor marked the milestone publicly, calling it one of the most severe government-imposed shutdowns on record globally. And that was not even the peak. By April 11th, the counter had crossed 1,000 hours. The ceasefire between Iran, the United States, and Israel had already been announced three days earlier on April 8th. The guns went quiet, the missiles stopped, and the internet stayed off. That is the detail that tells you everything you need to know about what this blackout actually is. Because this was never about the war. The war was the cover story. Over the next few minutes, I am going to show you exactly how Iran built a two-tier information system. Who is online while everyone else sits in darkness? What the regime told the world out loud about who deserves a connection? And why the I thought that was kind of an interesting report because you know they they really did have a whole plan to cut people off from the internet . Um which I guess could happen anywhere, I guess. If you had enough control. I don't know about the United States, but I could certainly see it happening in any European country, any EU nation state. And here's uh some of that plan. Different from every previous internet crackdown. FilterWatch, the Iran-focused internet monitoring organization, obtained and published a confidential government plan in January 2026. The name of that plan is Absolute Digital Isolation. The document describes a deliberate, coordinated, multi-year project to transform Iran's internet infrastructure into what it calls a bar racks internet. Under that system, access to the global web is not a default right that gets selectively removed during crises. It is a privilege granted only to vetted individuals and organizations that pass a security clearance process. Everyone else gets the domestic intranet. Everyone else gets state television. Everyone else gets what the regime decides they should know. The plan is being built on a Huawei based platform coordinated by Chinese technical partners. Iran International obtained information indicating the project is estimated to cost between $700 million and $1 billion , with all equipment from Huawei entering Iran in 24 containers after the June 2025 12 day war. Masud Peseshkian visited the construction site in March 2025 . China's ambassador also paid a visit. So and they have these jamming systems for the Starlink. And they you literally have internet and internet pro. So So I can see it. I can see that as being a Huawei system. And they sell it to everybody. Hey, you guys want this? You can shut down your people ? Well, you know, it's a bad sign, but uh it seems like something Yeah. Anyone could do it. Maybe it should be done in some countries. Well let's be honest. Let's be honest. It's not like the internet has has been a a plus for for the world has it now ? I mean it it expedites things. Yes, yeah it does. But that's about it. It's made every it's my it's made our job harder. We used to just be able to watch C SPAN . It's amazing. Yeah. Did you see any of the of the error Heg Seth hearings, everyone moaning and groaning about Iran and how much it costs and all of this. Yeah. Well my um I think it was Murkowski. Where's she from again, Murkowski? Alaska. What is she even doing in DC? Well she's the one you have to do. Murkowski was I don't know how she she actually kind of her appearance changed. She was fairly attractive when she was younger. Oh oh hold on, let's take a look. Yes. Well the point is that she was a the Republican representative senator from Alaska . And then sh but she's kind of a middle, you know, uh middle of the road Republican, and so they decided to primary her years and years ago. And so they brought some stiff in there to run against her and they took her off there. She wasn't a Republican. She couldn't re register as an independent. Oh, yeah. So she actually had the statewide right in vote. You had to write her name in the ballot. And she won. You know, I'm looking at her, and yeah, she had kind of that cute political kind of face back in the day. You know what? She forgot to moisturize. Well she's got a skelet or like look now. That's where things went wrong. Ladies, you've got to moisturize, particularly if you're doing a lot of flying. Please remember these things. So she misquotes the President, which I thought was just fun to listen to. Now let me turn and say Secretary Heggs says the President has called Medicaid, Medicare, and Childcare little scams and said quote we're fighting wars we cannot take uh care of daycare. Okay. Let's just go back and listen. Do you think that's what the president said? Did he say these are little scams? And I actually said to them uh I said to Russell, don't send any money for daycare. Because the United States can't take care of daycare. That has to be up to a state. We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We have fifty states. We have all these other people. We're fighting wars. We can't take care of daycare. You gotta let a state take care of daycare and they should pay for it too. They should pay. They have to raise their taxes. But they should pay for it. And we could lower our taxes a little bit to them to make up but we it's not possible for us to take care of daycare. Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things, they can do it on a state basis So that's what he really said. twist that and let's just listen to that once again. Now let me turn and say Secretary Heggs the the President has called Medicaid, Medicare and Childcare little scams and said quote, we're fighting wars we cannot take c uh care of daycare. Yeah. You see, that's how you do it. Don't ignore all the preamble that he said. Just say he said this. I I'm just trying to understand that. Is it your position? It's dishonest. For another half a trillion dollars for the war? That American families should be forced to give up child care and health coverage. And now she now it's like so b for your half a trillion dollars, Heg Seth, you crazy Christian, for your half a trillion dollars. We have to give up our health care. You can have one and a half trillion dollars for this budget . Senator, that's that's not my department. I certainly support this and I also support the President's efforts to find and remove fraud wherever possible in a general sense. And we do that in our department as well. Family should lose their health care or their child care to pay for this budget. That is literally what the President suggested. Oh man . The President has proposed a historic $1.5 trillion budget that will defend the nation and space, uh golden dome. Previous administrations said they wanted it to The question is That's where I was talking about. And uh lastly, Mr. Secretary, your budget request cuts through Trump's ramblings and really trust the truth clear that you and the President don't value families as much as you value defense. It's such a yeah you don't you don't value families, you just like war. Well you're talking to the war guys. And she should he should have thrown back at her with what do you need daycare for? Because you should have their true f family structure would have you've really. He's no he's not that good. Uh President Trump though, you know, he he definitely does not care. Oh Oh the war also taking a toll on American consumers . Inflation rose last month by three point eight percent compared to the same period last year. Energy prices fueling the surge with gas up twentyight-e point four percent. That's one factor driving up prices in supermarkets and restaurants. All the lettuces, whether it be iceberg, romaine, field greens, all the lettuce they are high. Oranges are high. Tomatoes are high are almost uh four over four times what they normally cost. Before leaving for China, President Trump said higher prices here at home will not influence his negotiations with Iran. The only thing that matters when I'm talking about Iran, they can't have a nuclear weapon. I don't think about Americans' financial situation and I don't think about anybody Good work, President. That doesn't help his case. So them so but of course, you know, we have to keep spiking the ball here. So we have Patty Murray, Senator Where's Patty Murray? Another one. Another one of these. He's back east. Mr. Secretary, the war in Iran has not only cost thirteen American service members' lives, it is also costing American taxpayers dearly. Tens of billions of dollars in counting, and that's money that could be helping people perhaps get health care. But instead, we're paying for bombs dropped in a war that American people overwhelmingly appear See, you could have had health care. We also all could have had like a new car, uh all kinds of stuff. But she oh no, you everyone could have had health care if you stopped dropping bombs. Yeah, yeah, that's true Well actually I take it back. Patty Murray from Washington State. That is twenty nine billion dollars blown on a war of choice, and that's what it would have cost actually to save the ACT. Yeah, yeah. That's a good one. They say it as a as a kind of a catchphrase. blown on a war of choice and that's what it would have cost actually to save the ACA tax credits. But as my colleagues have already stated, what is concerning as well is it seems quite clear that that is that cost estimate is suspiciously low. So this whole you know um health care versus uh war somehow that seeped into the pres to pr into the president's brain Unbelievably weak, I would say. I would call it the weakest right now. After reading a piece of garbage they said, I said, I didn't even finish reading it. They said, I'm not gonna waste my time reading it. I would say it's one of the weakest right now. It's on life support. They understand these are all medical people. It's a Dr. Oz is standing behind him. And he said, Oh, the the the ceasefire is on life support. Dr. Oz, life support is not a good thing. Do you agree? I would say the ceasefire is on and then Oz like, whoa, yeah, uh that's right, Mr. President. Massive life support where the doctor walks in and says Sir , your loved one has approximately a 1% chance of living. But they changed their mind because they didn't put it in the paper. So when they sent us this document that we waited four days for, that should have taken ten minutes to do. Look very simple. We get that. They guarantee no nuclear weapons for a very long period of time and a couple of other minor things, but they just can't get there. Yeah. So all kinds of medical trials. No nuclear weapons for a very long period of time as opposed to no nuclear weapons. Yes, yeah. Yeah, that that's definitely on the table. Yeah, so they're obviously gonna do some deal where uh where they're working on a deal where okay a moratorium on your doing the enrichment. Yeah. How many years? Okay. Ten, five, ten . You know, and they can make the argument what different you're since they're waiting for the twelfth imam uh you know, what's it what difference does it make whether you wait another decade or not for the twelfth imam? Come on. That's the art of the deal right there . Hey, listen boys. You're waiting for the guy's gonna come, he's gonna come. He'll come when he's ready. Yeah, so um the president and his entire crew are in uh in China. This has been this has been quite interesting to watch. Uh do you have any clips on uh um I don't know if I do. I'm kind of I'm all over the map with clips today. Yeah, do finish your China stuff up. Yeah, I got Trump on China . This is the prelude on N T D uh Trump teasing the whole thing. President Trump touching down today in Beijing for a high stakes two-day summit. Ah, the the terms, the terms high stakes, high stakes, pomp and circumstance is a lot of uh buzzwords they're using. High stakes. President Trump touching down today in Beijing for a high stakes two day summit with Xi Jinping as rapid shifts in the global power dynamics loom large. Blows to Beijing's key partners in Venezuela and Iran mounting tensions over Tuan and human rights. What's the problem with Tawan? You gotta be sitting at home watching run operation. Why are they saying to Marge Blows to Beijing's key partners in Venezuela and Iran mounting tensions over Twan and human And today's White House correspondent Mari Otsu sets the stage for us on the North Lawn of the White House. With Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping comes against the backdrop of a new world order. In January, the Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro dealt a major blow to one of China's key partners in the Western hemisphere. And just weeks later, U.S. strikes on Iran hit Again, all I will say is Iran is the largest state sponsor of terrorism and China has been buying 90 percent of their energy, so they are funding the largest state sponsor of terrorism. But more importantly, the uh Iran, the the threat of attacks from Iran uh has closed the strait. We are re opening it. So I would urge the Chinese to join us they uh in supporting this international operation. You know there there are things moving through the UN that China and Russia have blocked. Now as President Trump is in China meeting Xi Jinping for the first time since they met in Busan, South Korea last fall, talks are expected to go far beyond trade. China into the US as national security issues. And while new trade agreements on US goods like soybeans, beef, and other farm products are on the table, past deals with the C C P have proved fragile, like the October trade truce reached in Busan after months of zero US soybean purchases from China Is spinning this in a certain way, and I'm a little mad at myself. If I had heard your clip, I never listened to John's clips for everybody listening, because I want to be just as surprised as you are. I would have done a supercut of this high stakes. Here's the BBC. We start with the superpower summit in China. The US President Donald Trump has landed in Beijing, where he'll meet the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, for intensive talks. My colleague in Beijing, Steve Lai , describe the moments immediately after Mr. Trump's plane touchdown. Mr. Trump, thanks BBC. You can see uh mil president military fatigues there standing alone and solitary uh in the center of that screen or just to the left as we go past it. The plane will uh we imagine be turning around. We saw a ladder as well getting ready to to be placed in position for uh Mr. Trump is being treated to a state visit, but significant tensions remain between the two countries. And there are a number of complex issues the US and Chinese delegations will need to navigate. Battles over trade and the fight to dominate strategically important technologies like AI mean the two sides will have some very difficult conversations ahead of them. So even if this visit seems friendly, with Donald Trump predicting several times that Xi Jinping will be giving him a big hug. There's a lot at stake here. With great pomp and pageantry China rolling out the red carpet What is pomp ? What is pump? Pomp. I asked the robot. No, I haven't even fired the robot up. Hold on a second. Where is the robot? Hello. Pump. Alright. Pump and circumstance. What's the circumstance? Well that's another you might as well just the whole phrase is idiotic. Explain the etymology of pomp and circumstance. Right? Come on, robot pomp. It got pomp instead of pomp. Oh here we go. According to the Book of Knowledge, Pomp and Circumstance originates from Shakespeare's play Othello , where in Act III, Othello speaks the line pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war. Pomp comes from Latin and French, meaning splendid display or ceremony, while circumstance Thus we learn something. It has been written. Yes, I didn't written. Well that was interesting, I had to say it's a first time the robot has provided something that's actually interesting. With great pomp and pageantry, China rolling out the road. They're just doing alliteration. That is not from Shakespeare. Carpet for President Trump. Three hundred young people waving Chinese and American flags. Steps behind him, two of the major tech leaders he brought along. Elon Musk, an allied chipmaker, NVIDIA CEO, Jensen Wong. Didn't you just love how everyone was going on for days like Well, you know Jensen Wong's not going, he's not going, who he's not going, he's not going there he is It had hoped this trip would reset US relations with China, the world's other economic superpower. Now in its tenth week, and China by far the largest buyer of Iranian oil, now seeing its supply cut off. They they they uh they say they just say stuff. You'll hear them saying everyone is like, oh, this is tense, it's intense, it's all about this. I I think I think Trump is really looking forward to it. I think he's happy. He's like, Well, did you see Trump's uh presentation at the table? I have a couple clips of that, yeah. Yeah, he's pretty magnanimous. Yeah, these this is you remember ARK America, Russia, China against the global ists. I I I I really think that everyone's on a little uh party line. Little call, hey Vlad, hey G , hey Donuts, how you doing? Yeah. And he's got all he's got all those guys on his side of the table. The b the Chinese has got a bunch of ministers, but he's got you know, he's got I think Tim Cook is there. Uh Wan all these guys that are hot shots that do business with China. Yeah.. He is He has listen more pump. And Musk Musk has got a Tesla factory there. He's gotta be there too. Uh key story of the day. Damon Javers, he's on the ground in China. Damon's on the ground. Yeah, good morning to you, Andrew. You're looking at live pictures now of President Trump arriving at the Great Hall of the People. This is for uh the banquet this evening They're about to get underway. We've seen uh cameras in the room. Elon Musk is there, uh along with a whole host of American CEOs as well. Uh the president uh was greeted by pomp and ceremony earlier today. Pomp and ceremony. Pomp and ceremony . Wow. This is great. Well, uh the president uh was greeted by pomp. You know, there's you know why they're saying this? They're saying this because oh Trump all he cares about is is that they suck as suck him off. Pomp. They just want pomp . That's why they're saying it. Because yeah, they they love that. And ceremony earlier today at that same great hall of the people. We saw soldiers marching, adoring children, and of course this handshake, which was a large part of the reason . Xi Jinping. The visit comes despite past trade tensions and rivalry between the world's two major economies . While President Trump is not being accompanied by First Lady Melania Trump, he will be joined by two key members of his administration, US Secretary of War Pete Hegzith, and US Secretary of State Smarco Rubio. Both visits are unusual for different reasons. Hegzith has become the first American defense chief in decades to accompany a six- Oh okay. Well I mine's a little more probably a little more elaborate. The Secretary of State is traveling with President Trump in Beijing after China sanctioned him back in twenty twenty for introducing bills as a Senator targeting the Chinese regime's crackdown on political dissidents in Hong Kong and slavery camps for Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang. Rubio also introduced legislation to stop China's forced organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners. Communist Party. The Chinese Communist Party is currently conducting a genus genocide. They do forced organ harvesting, which means they pull organs out of living people to give it to officials that the Chinese Communist Party prefers. Is this Rubio saying this? No, that wasn't Rubio. That was just somebody doing an analysis. This is unlike any regime we've seen for say eighty-five years. You can think back and see who else acted like that, Nazi Germany and others. And President Trump himself has also vowed to bring some of the Chinese regime's human rights abuses back into the spotlight with the imprisonment of political prisoners, such as the Hong Kong activist Jimmy Lai and Christian pastor Ezra Jin Mingri. They missed the punchline. Let me see if I can find it for you. So how is he being allowed entry into China? Well, according to reports, Beijing is using a linguistic workaround. Rubio's name has been modified on official Chinese lists by altering the first syllable of his sur name to Lou, this will allow authorities to bypass Wait a minute. Isn't that how they pronounce his name anyway? Ah, Secretary Lubio. Lubio . Lubio, Mr. Lubio, you're here . It's almost like they're writing the jokes for us. Oh, I know what we'll do. We can't have Rubio come, but Lubio, Lubio, welcome. Legal restrictions without officially lifting any sanctions. Earlier China also indicated that Rubio 's past actions would not block his visits. Okay. Anyway. Um let me see. I think this is a Yeah, you're right. They they dropped the ball on the punchline. Yeah, it's it's a great punchline. Ha sakatale Lubio. Welcome to China. This is MBC. And here's the president exiting the plane now, gonna come down those steps. Now listen listen very carefully. I think the the guy comes in here and he's gonna tell you what what he wants you to hear about how China is supposedly thinking about all this, but he uses really sketchy sources. Uh Jonathan, we had just had Janice explain to us tomorrow will is really where we'll see a lot of that pomp and circumstance when he actually meets um with Xi Jinping when the two of them are together. But walk us through what we're gonna see here in this moment and just how significant it is um the president stepping onto Ch inese soil yeah I mean as as your colleague said up yes I mean this is the first time we've had a US president visiting China in nearly in nearly a decade, right? And President Trump was the last one to make this trip back in back in 2017. So this is this is fairly momentous, just a mere fact of the trip actually happening, right? And it is a shift in the o overall tenor and vibe for for the US-China relationship because after that trip in 2017, you of course had the trade war with Washington, uh between Washington and China. And then throughout the Biden administration, whenever there were encounters between the two presidents, it was always in third countries, right? I think there was a real hesitation on both sides to engage in this kind of reciprocal visit, especially since it's the w the relationship was in such a tense period. Right. So again I think this really shows a shift and again almost back to an earlier era in some ways it feels like Ah crap, that's not the clip I was thinking of. I'm sorry. I dump it. Yeah. It happens. I got a lot of clips. No, it's because you're you jet lagged. Yes, I that's it. I'm jet-lagged. So here is a translated version of uh President uh Z speech, just a little bit here, a minute, at the big banquet. And I'm listening to this, I'm like, Man, these guys, they got plans together. This is this was really nice. This is a historic visit. This year marks the start of China's fifteenth five year plan for economic and social development. The over one point four billion people of China join on the rich heritage of our over five say what? Oh you mean the the the route of people Yeah, the amount of people we know is bullshit. How many do you think it is? What is the latest tally? What is you? Well the most people are pushing it at six hundred million. Wow. But I think it's around eight hundred million. Still a lot of people. Oh yes, three uh two two to three times as many as we have. People of China, joining on the rich heritage of our over 5,000 year civilization, advancing Chinese modernization on all fronts through high quality development. This year is also the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of American independence. This is nice nice of them to mention that. But good kind of happy birthday. Happy birthday of American independence. The over three hundred million American people are reinvigorating the spirit of patriotism, innovation, and enterprise. Yeah, and ushering in a new journey for the development of the United States. The people of China and the United States are both great peoples, achieving the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and making America great again. Whoa can go hand in hand. We can help each other succeed and advance the well being of the whole world. The whole thing. Threw a MAGA in there. Threw a MAGA in there and said, Hey, we can we can work together, link arms, we grab Russia, we'll fight the globalists. Here's our president . As allies in World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt's mentions of the bra ve people of China, that's what they were, through loud cheers and his speeches in the United States and Wait a minute, wait. Were we friends back then with China? Yeah. Where did they let us do that? Where did this result happen? Where did this all go wrong? When did all of a sudden they become the big evil China? When Mao Zhe Tung uh basically uh maybe you know forty nine I think is when that began it when they and when the Kuomintang went over to uh Taiwan and uh Shankai Shek, you know, that kind of thing. Yeah. That era. Yeah, it's just a couple of bad dudes. Actually, you know, they did then they became isolationists, and it wasn't until Nixon and Kissinger opened it up that uh we noticed that these guys have a lot of uh interesting capabilities. Over production being one of them. Yeah. And then we shipped everything over there and went ha screw you, America. This is great Just as many Chinese now love basketball and blue jeans, Chinese restaurants in America today outnumber the five largest fast food chains in the United States all combined. That's a pretty big statement. I'm surprised they're not calling . We love that Chinese food. President Trump is racist. Racist. He's rac ist. He's made cracking jokes about the Chinese restaurants. And uh this is the rap where uh he gets the invitation uh to come and visit us. Right as America prepares to celebrate its two hundred fiftieth birthday, President Trump referencing the past and America's history, talking about U.S.-China relations over the years, also talking about the present, saying that today's talks between the two countries extremely positive and productive Yeah. I wish I could find that one clip of the guidelines. That's not it. What are you looking for? Yeah, the clip where the guy was You've gone nuts. He the guy was talking about he was reading stuff off Twitter. Oh well the Chi the Chinese think this, the Chinese think Oh man Henry had a triz joints this year, managing partner and director of economic policy advada partnerships down there in Norlands. Henrietta, what are your expectations and the expectations of the people you talk to about this uh coming up summit with President Xi in China? Hey guys. Um my expectations are much like yours, pretty low . I think um Secretary Bessant and Ambassador Greer have been planting that um perception for not just weeks but months now, even before the Iran war started. They haven't? Uh I am really, I would call attention like your previous guest to Secretary Besson. No, they haven't. No one's this is Bloomberg. Who is the first hates Trump a treasury secretary is gonna be leading a delegation like this since Hank Paulson during the Great Recession, uh, for all of us who remember what that was like and the coordination that was needed around the globe. So I'm really f expecting if any gains are going to be made and it's not just a, you know, maintenance of the status quo. I suspect it'll be on the soybean deal that she reached in twenty twenty five. I re you know, um everyone talk about oh soybeans and it'll be about this it no. I think the g it's only one there's only one topic, and everybody thinks it's Taiwan. I don't think it's Taiwan. I think the topic is hey, Donald, how do we get some of that oil? We need that oil. But can what are we doing? Can we fix the oil? Isn't that the only thing that they care about at this point Well, I would think that would be at the top of the list because China has to get their I mean, there are there's they suck energy Yes. I mean they do have a lot of coal in China. That's the one thing they do have people always overlook. And they have a lot of coal f fired plants that can keep things going, but they need they need they need oil. Yes. From Iran. Yeah. And and I think they'll still get it at some kind of discount . But a couple things gotta be squared away. Look at my boys here. I brought all these boys over here. Um we're gonna let you buy some some uh some chips from Jensen. We picked him up at Alaska. You know, at the last minute he was trying to hide. Where's Jensen from? What is he's Asian? What are his roots? Is he Korean? Taiwan. He's Taiwan As the president makes his way to the stairs of the Temple of Heaven, want to bring in NBC News Chief White House Oh, she throws high stakes, pomp, and circumstance in one sentence. Sir, their their meeting, high stakes meeting earlier. We saw the pomp and circumstance, the pageantry. Pomp and circumstance and pageantry. It's welcome ceremony and the warmth Yeah, that's right, Francis. And really we only know about that behind closed doors portion from Chinese state media at this point, as you laid out, the Chinese were very quick to say that they believe Taiwan is the most important issue between the U.S. and China That. They're all say they're all parroting the say, well, Xi said, but uh Taiwan. No. You got that off of some television station. The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs describes the Taiwan issue like this. They say if the U Chinese were arming a U S state that wanted to secede, we wouldn't tolerate that in America. Why should the Chinese tolerate the US position in providing arms to Taiwan? Completely making it up. Apparent you hear that? Another apparent warning from the personal issue on the Chinese side. Likewise another apparent warning from Xi to President Trump, according to Chinese state media, about trade reminding President Trump that there are no winners in a trade war. So we got media people informing media people, but on the ground the guys like you love my blue jeans, I love your Chinese restaurants, uh MAGA this , working together that I get a very different vibe than what they want. And then they they bring in Yes, because you're uh listening to actually what they're saying and they're being recorded and that's crazy. As opposed to just making it up. That's crazy. And then they bring in this thing. So some fairly effusive remarks from President Trump at that bilateral meeting. We also saw comments from Xi Jinping at that meeting. Two warnings for the U.S. side from Xi Jinping. One was on Taiwan, the Chinese leaders hi never said this. There's two warnings. Warnings for the US side from Xi Jinping. One was on Taiwan, the Chinese leaders said that the Taiwan issue, if the US doesn't handle it properly, could lead to a dangerous confrontation. This is what this is what kills me. But they didn't. And then here it comes. Taiwan and also the Chinese leader bringing up this concept of the Thucydides trap. The Thu itides tra p ? What? Yeah, it's some from some Greek play or something. They go from pomp and circumstance to thy threats. Methodology or some structure makes no sense. Um let me see. Tysidides. Thycydides trap is the historical pattern of when a rising power That's not pronoun pronounced correctly, by the way, but I can't pronounce it so Thucydides, Thucydides, Thucydides. Some like that, yeah. It's impossible. Who observed that the rise of Athens and the fear this instilled in Sparta made war inevitable . You're right. Okay. No. Bringing up a way. No. Uh the concept that the rising power in the world uh will always challenge the established power in the world and that will always lead to a conflict. No, uh uh Xi Jinping raising that sort of philosophical When did he raise that? Show me this philosophical point. US and China managed not to fall into that trap of competition and conflict and war that we've seen time and time again throughout history. Yeah, those are neighboring powers, you know, that Sparta is the other guys. Yeah. Yeah. That he uses to describe Chinese aspirations. He's now uh uh ascribing to American aspirations as well, this idea of Chinese rejuvenation and making America great again in order to appeal Welcome like none other, and for so graciously hosting us on this very histor ic state visit. We had extremely positive and productive conversations and meetings today with the Chinese delegation earlier. And this evening is another cherished opportunity to discuss among friends some of the things that we discussed today, all good for the United States and for China and it was a great honor to be with you. Please. Yeah, please. Yeah. Yeah. I I see this as very positive. Well so far. Yeah. I I don't know. You know, and so what you know, maybe Lubio starts a problem. Hey Lubio. President Lubio . I mean, what what is really the problem ? No, but I mean but I don't see why if China wants to repatriate Taiwan we already talk about it like it's part of China, that's part of the diplomatic discourse. So if they want Taiwan, I mean Nancy Pelosi are like, oh, we're gonna we're gonna build a defend Taiwan. I mean, shouldn't we just be like, okay, whatever. That's fine. Come on. Well the one th the the dangerous aspect of this is that Taiwan is where uh uh T SMC is I know, but but would wouldn't China be nuts to say, okay, no more chips for you? That makes no sense. Well they do it with their they kind of do the that kind of leverage with the rare earths. Well, but we started our um uh defense uh what is it, defense fund? We have a fund now. Did you know that ? The rare earth fund? Yeah, it's um Yeah, it has done jack. Well no, it's it just started. It's the uh I forget what it's called. But it's uh it's a defense i if you want to do r uh minerals and rare earth, you can go borrow money cheap from the government. From the from the from the war department. Hey hey Lubio . Can we get some cash . Uh anyway. Well well on the topic, I I think that's we've done chances. But that does bring me since there's so much lying going on. Mm-hmm . The biggest disappointment of my week. Uh oh . So John Kiriaku. He's been great. Yes. I have s I I've I I got some things just in case you didn't, but I'm very very curious about it. I've now concluded he's a pathological liar. Okay . And you know it's one of these things I'm kind of tuned in, and you know I have the this thing about pathological liars 'cause I've run into The fact that I missed it uh early is annoying to me, but I'm going to play what triggered me to think he's a pathological liar . Okay. And then I also did some research on his on his being arrested for being a whistleblower. And it turns out that that's not really the g what was happening. Oh. Oh. Uh he was actually busted for revealing classified information and outing agents. Wait a minute. So is this kind of like uh my helicopter was shot down ? Yeah, kind of. Who was that again? Who who was it that got got fired from not b um Oh man Peter Jen not not Peter Jennings the guy in the middle the guy that came after Peter Jennings. No, it was an MBC guy because you get the MBC guy. He got demoted to MSNBC . No, not Carrie. No, no, no. It was a news guy. I know, I know, but I'm just saying that as a joke. 'Cause he actually looks like John Kerry. It was uh Oh man. I knew the chat room would come up with it before we chatroom is they're sleeping. They're like Jews, Israel. Brian Williams, thank you. Brian Williams. Dan O B G Y N five. Thank you. Let me just read from the report I developed. Okay. Uh Sean uh Kiriaku was not arrested for exposing torture itself so much as for disclosing classified information about CIA personnel and operations. And then lying to the CIA during the publications review process for his book. Uh read on here, he says uh the Justice Department said he admitted disclosing classified information about another CIA employee and lying in the CIA's publication publication review board about a magic box technique while trying to publish his book. And then when you go to the bottom of the of the report, it says uh the true story is that he was both a whistleblower on torture, which was true, but he was a leaker of classified information and the legal case centered around the latter. And so this brought me to his stories about when he was in jail and he befriended the mob and he befriended the Mexican mafia and all this is a cock and bull story. And it's like then I started thinking about some of the other stuff he's discussed. Like he has a story about the capture of uh uh Carlos the Jackal and the timeline doesn't match up when you start looking at it. And everything he says is like embellishments and he and he does the look into the down and right thing a lot before And then the other clip is just a blated lie and a c a uh or a creation, let's say, let's call it a creation that he does on this m another one of these YouTuber podcasts he's on a million of But here's the here's the Kuriaki one this this is the one that triggered me to thinking this way. Well that's interesting because you know uh when when we look into Epstein and and and the files and the emails and all these dumps that that recently came out. You know, there was quite a bit. Um I don't know if you had ever had the any time to read like Whitney Webb's book. I thought it was a little bit of Whitney's book was great. It's unbelievable how many people fall for the Whitney Webb is great bit. So this guy's a CIA analyst, you know, he's got uh insights, he's got knows operations and the rest, and he he he goes for that. Whitney Webb is great. Hey, newsflash. There's a lot of dumb people in CIA. News flash. They're not all like super spooks, okay? And in fact the new CIA is filled with numbnut s. So So here we go. Now I want to play this clip and and break it down. What w I mean this is this is a creation and it's wrong from the get go in every way possible right to the end. And he doubles the even doubles down on a wrong fact. And he interrupts the conversation. Then it wouldn't be so bad if it was just like in the He stops the presses so he can tell you this valuable information about Venezuela, its oil and the whole thing. And it's all bullshit. Here we go. And and let's if you don't mind, Jay. Oh, feel free. into this Venezuela is different. It's separate. Venezuela Venezuela's oil is is so dirty. It is so high in sulfur. Oh man, this is right up your alley. Oh you must when you must have been just cringing listening to this. No kidding. This is people have to understand. If anyone wants to know about oil and types of oil and refinery and mixtures and summer oil and win summer gas and winter John C. Dvor ak is your guy. Well, it's only because I worked with him I worked as a refinery I was just a background new people. I worked as a refinery chemist for two years and then, I became an air pollution inspector with standard oil as my beat for eight years. I have some knowledge about the business. You have standing. And I have standing. And I do try to keep up. In this case I like look at the trades and I see, wait a minute, how do you how does this work? How does that work? Is that oil daily? What is the trade? There's a bunch of them. There's a bunch of trades. Oil daily is like typical. I'm telling you. I had you know, I was as I was doing this, I ran into the fact that I was still like a decade behind on my jet fuel knowledge. Oh no, algae. Yeah, because I'm just thinking, you know, uh uh uh JP four, which has been discontinued completely for to be replaced by JET A and JP A. J1. Yeah. And I didn't you know, I I was thinking oh jeez, I'm still thinking th these old 'cause when I was a chemist I was we used to analyze JP the JP four stream and make sure it had enough anti uh freeze agent in it. Uh anti icing agent had to be in there. You iced it down. You iced the JP four down to a froze . Wow. Anyway. Back to this bullshit. This week in oil with John C. Dvorak. Hey J. Cal, new podcast for you. Venezuela Venezuela's oil is is so dirty it is so high in sulfur that it can only be refined at specialty refineries where they inject tons of chemicals to try to purify it. Even still, you can't purify it enough to to turn it into gasoline, right? Right right. And and these these refineries exist right now for the most part only in uh in South Florida. The Chinese built one recently, the Indians built one, but for the most part, the only refineries that can handle this really dark, heavy oil are in Florida. And the oil is used only for home heat ing oil. So when we talk about oil and international oil and OPEC, of which Venezuela is a member, we have to keep Venezuela sort of off to the side because it's a different issue from a foreign policy perspective. No mention of China. Really at all? Okay, go. Okay, well let's not mention the fact that Corpus Christi, Texas, has most of these refiners. Yes. Most of these refineries. Texas has most of the refineries in the country. Not Florida. Corpus Christi has a dozen refineries that handle this oil. Mississippi has the big Chevron refinery that handles this oil. Yep. Louisiana has about five half dozen that handle this oil. Florida, Florida, Florida has no refineries whatsoever. It's one of twenty or so states that have no refining capabilities So he's talking about Florida. Second, besides that bullshit, second, this kind of oil is the most valuable sort of oil. It's got the long hydrocarbon chains that can be breaking down by cokers and fluid uh catalytic converters, FCCs as they're called, and they can be i i this oil can be made into gasoline no problem. It can be made into kerosene, diesel, and it has the advantage because it's so heavy of being used for making asphalt, which is most oils can't do. You can't make an oil uh a a light crude a really light sweet crude you can't make it into asphalt you don't you can't just boil it down and it turns into asphalt. No, you have to have the b the big heavy crudes to do all the good stuff and that's what these these b that's why the Brent i sells for more than W Texas intermediate i on the open market. But so so he doesn't know what he's talking about. It's not just used for home heating oil or whatever he said. You don't use a million chemicals, although it can't you can use some chemicals in the front end to soften the blow. But generally speaking it goes into a refiner and it's hit with hydrogen. Well no, it's not. No, not no. This is a different process. This is hydrogen desulfurization, which is totally different process, and it it turns the sulfur into H two S gas, which is super toxic and kind of a plague on most refin eries, and then sent to a a sulfur plant where it's turned into elemental sulfur. Yeah. And by these plants there are mountains of this sulfur. And so he's full of shit, this guy. I love that you bring in Venezuela. And yes, it was fun to stop. I could just say something. I need to give you some expertise here about uh Venezuelan oil. It's no good. It's just crud. It's no good. But have you noticed that China has been very quiet? B they were getting all of their oil from Venezuela. All of their oil from Iran. I'm telling you, this it's not about Taiwan, it's not about beans . Just soybeans. No. It's like, hey, we're you know what, G , why don't we give you oil that on nice big beautiful ships? They don't you don't have to ghost ship in the middle of the ocean. We'll just give it to you. We'll sell it to you. Best price. It's gonna be good. What ships? What ships got out of Hormuz? Chinese ships. Come on. This is this is a America, Russia, China working together against the globalist dickheads, sorry, just have to say it, who all circle around Carney in Ottawa. Obama shows up, Soros shows up,. Well well we gotta we gotta we're we're we're the new we're the new new liberal world order. We can do it rules based liberal new world order. No. These guys they got it. This they get it. When it works together, we're gonna compete, where it makes sense, but what we're not gonna do is we're not gonna be part of that stupid system anymore. That's what's happening. So now Kiriyak u. He's an op . Because he was on uh was I forget which podcast this was. And maybe And he by the way ended up on Jesse Waters the other day. So he gets around and oh it's Kiriaku. I think it's just 'cause it's a cool name. But oh Kiriyaku got a cool name and he's Kiriaku. He tells about his being a whistleblower. And this is why he never got the pardon by oh by the way, just back to the oil. Mexico and Ecuadorian oil is pretty much the same as Venezuelan oil and nobody bitches about that stuff. But anyway, he he Kiriaku's always moaned and groaned about getting a pardon because he's this great whistleblower. No. He's not He was busted for being for uh uh being a leaker. And if any if Trump hates people, anyone he that he hates the most is a leaker. So you remember uh on uh Sundayy I plaed a clip, it was Sunday, I think it was Sunday or Thursday, from the New Yorker guy, and like, oh Tucker Carlson, he's the guy that can do it, he can run against Trump. Remember that clip? Oh, hold on a second. Gotta grab that one. Um you remember it, right? Oh yeah. Yeah. So when I heard this little ditty, these three little short clips from Kuriaka. I'm like, this is an op . And it could be that it's so my initial thinking was this is an op, this is a CIA op because there's still a lot of CIA CIA people, no doubt. You don't hear Trump talking about the CIA much. He's got Ratzenburger sitting there like you just keep him away from me. Ratzenberger, is that his name? Ritzenburger, Ratzenberger. And then Kiriaku does this. Oh. If you look at the polls , somebody like Tucker Carlson has an actual shot at winning this thing. So yeah. Oh, yeah. I spoke to you about this recently. Okay . And I I love this chick by the way on the podcast. Yes. Listen listen . No by the way with Kuriaku, nobody on any of these podcasts, ever pushes back on any of the bullshit that he says. She's like, Yes. Because you know, obviously, if you're a podcaster, you want you want your podcast president. You want Tucker Carlson to be your president. Yes. Oh if you look at the polls, somebody like Tucker Carlson has an actual shot at winning this thing. What poll is he reading? He's just making it up. This is great. So I spoke to him about this recently. Okay. Uh-huh. And he professes to not be interested. Commentator. I think Glenn Greenwald would consider himself a journalist. I know that Glenn has spoken to him as well. Oh. Like you have to run. And I and I told Tucker a week ago, I said . No, if he's lying, of course, but it's fun. Listen. And I and I told Tucker a week ago, I said, you have to run, and I'm all in. And he said, Well, no, it's yeah, I'm not a politician, which is true, but that's exactly what America wants. They don't want a politician. They want someone they can trust. And out of everybody that's In the chattering class. Ah, that's what we are, John. We're in the chattering class. And out of everybody that's out there in the chattering class, like you and me, he's the one that people trust the most. Yes. What I never said that those words never let parted my lips. I never said anything like that Because he says what he believes, even at a significant personal cost. He has to have security now? Really? He has to. He has to have security because he's becoming so prominent, so important. He's he's getting threats. And we're in this crazy period right now. Three different people have tried to kill Donald Trump. Okay, stop. Stop for one second. There is a clip going around of somebody, somebody with I guess it's palish filming it with a camera. They caught Tucker at the grocery store. It's an old clip. Oh, is that an old clip? Very old clip, yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. But the guy was harassing him. Yeah. You know, Tucker just walked away. I mean he didn't have security with him then. No. He said that his family members have received threats. Absolutely. Yeah. It will direct danger. So maybe that's what I think that's exactly what he's contemplating. I think that that is I think that his primary uh concern is his family. Yeah. As it should be. And I think that he's probably thinking, what do I get out of this? I get one headache after another. Really. He likes his life. He lives in a in a beautiful part of the country. He's an avid fly fisherman. So he can go fishing any time he wants why change that is it really worth it yeah so what are you saying well I got one more clip by the way we know that in the winters in the winter talk Okay, with that said, you compared you compared what might be in 2028 with with Ron Paul and Ross Perot, and I'm gonna add John Anderson. John Anderson was a liberal Republican congressman, no such thing exist s anymore. A liberal Republican Congressman from Illinois in nineteen eighty. He ran against Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter. And in the end, Reagan got fifty-one percent . Um Carter got forty-one percent , and Anderson got seven percent. Anderson had no money. Well, and he got seven percent of the national vote. Well, Ron Paul got under two percent when he ran. Ross Perot got a good twenty percent . But he also spent, you know, almost a Ross Perot dropped out. What is he talking about? Ross Perot didn't. They said I'm gonna kill your family and rip their heads off. Uh okay. He ran. Ross Perot got a good twenty percent , but he also spent, you know, almost a billion dollars out of his own pocket. This year could be different. This year could be different because if you look at the polls , people hate the Uni party for all intents and purposes. The Democrats and the Republicans are just different sides of the same coin. They essentially agree on everything. There are minor disagreements around the edges that they want us to think are grave differences. But now I think this guy just likes being on podcasts . And he'll say and he'll mimic anything he hears and anything he thinks is positive. Yeah, he loves being on a podcast. And he's latching on to Tucker's uh coattails, I guess. So Well he did a he did Tucker show it was very uh unremarkable. It was one of his worst podcasts, I think. His future president. President Tucker. Actually th it's a possibility. What? That he was starstruck.. Yeah But not that Tucker would ever run or would ever become a president. No, it's dumb. There's too much going on with him. No . Anyway. Yeah, yeah, so that's my very disappointing because I was hoping to tur turn uh you know, because he has uh he's he slanders people uh, you know, by uh one person after another, Giuliani thinks should be in jail. He goes he has a whole bunch of and I was hoping to make a a you know, kind of a a s a department, a segment of the show. The tri Kiriaku slam. Kiriyaku. Then I realized he's full of sh Oh this is great. So clearly BB has seen the writing on the wall, the proverbial writing on the wall, and he's he's looking at things, he's going like, Man, I gotta make a statement, man. I I've got to stop these kids are they're killing me. They're killing me, they're they're they're making me look bad. It's like they got the wrong idea about Israel. I have an idea. Do you believe it's time for the state of Israel to re examine and possibly reset its financial relationship to the scripted question. Absolutely. And I've said this to uh President Trump. I've said it in the to our own people . Their jaws dropped, but I said look. Lafto. Lafto. Said it in to our own people . Their jaws drop, but I said, Look. What do you mean? What do you say? I want to draw down to zero the American financial support, the financial component of the military cooperation that we have, because we receive we receive uh $3.8 billion a year. And I uh I think that it is time that we weaned ourselves from the remaining uh military support. Can you give me a timetable? I said let's start now and do it over the next decade Man, I got no juice. I got no social media juice. I gotta pay people. I have people gotta do stuff. I gotta geofence the churches. We gotta have some good stuff about Israel. But I don't seek wars. I've been through them. I've been in battle. I've seen friends die in battle. And you would reject any characterization of the No I can't do very much of that. Because you can get into the cell phones and you can repeat again and again that I'm a warmonger. Remember what He says warmonger. This is it's about him being a warmonger. Oh this is no good. People call me a warmonger. And you can repeat again and again that I'm a warmonger. Indiscriminate sometimes used. Yeah, indiscriminate. Where's discriminating as surgical as any army has ever been in In Lebanon and Gaza, yes. We do everything we can to avoid it. We've killed two thousand terrorists now uh since the beginning of the of this uh of the ri of the Roaring Lion, Epic Fury, and we've been very careful to target them. But it's you know, if people say that you're a warmonger, and then the repeated ad nauseum, you know, it assumes the cachet of self-evident truth. And that's what's happening. You get into their cell phone, you get you get the bots to repeat it, you show a picture, hear a picture there of a tragedy. For us in Israel, every civilian death is a tragedy. For our enemies, it's a strategy. They implant themselves among civilians, you know, so that they have civilian casualties and they can put it on the tube or in your cell phone. So yes, I mean I don't know how to fight it. I mean, Churchill without cell phones and without digital campaigns and farm bots was labeled a warmonger in the 1930s because he said you have to stand up to Hitler. And they accused him of being a warmonger. And Hitler didn't even say death to America, death to Britain, you know. I I think he might have planned it, but he didn't say it. And still they accused him of that. And he won the war and lost the reelection. Little snipe there. He won the war but lost the election. Yeah. BB's fighting for his life here, I think Well yeah, because if he once he gets tossed out of office, which should happen eventually, he gets arrested for some corruption charges is the courts are lined up against him. That's why I've been trying to he's been trying to prolong the war in Iran. Yeah, or anything. We can't ha we can't stop this war. Trump, you can't win this war, man. Then I'm a dead man walk I got a couple other things here. about allow me to play the the setup for you. Hold on . The setup is the CIA was very mad about this guy. Making it look as though the CIA is Well go ahead. You you tell me. Well yeah, my thoughts were you know the CIA were largely succored by Fauci , who had some you know things to say. In fact, they're one of the first clips I play here kinda introduce the idea that uh you know Chi they didn't want to hurt China's feelings or there was something that was going on that we nobody knew about. They it the whole thing was very scamish. When the whole when the when it was all Fauci , you know, doing his gain of function stuff and d using a Chinese lab to do it. Mm-hmm . You know, and it's like, you know, he's covering his own ass. This guy, you know Mimi was bitching about this guy. This guy talk about a guy who was skating. You got Ra uh Rand Paul just going after him from the get go and he was lying because Rand Paul had the somebody told had the goods read him in on what was going on. So he's always asking these pointed questions in the in the hearings to Fauci to get him to lie. Lied over and over and over again. They're not going to do jack to Fauci. And I want to give you a little color that we're getting from the CIA just now. They are not happy with the way this hearing is going down. They are accusing Senator Rand Paul and the Senate Homeland Security Committee of, quote, acting in bad faith in putting this hearing together. They say this witness in there isn't a whistleblower. They say he hasn't sought any whistleblower protections. They said he's in that room right now because the committee subpoenaed him, compelled him to come in and testify, and the CIA says they weren't given a heads up about this. The committee didn't go through the proper channels. A statement. It says in part quote The committee acted in bad faith by subpoenaing an agency officer for testimony today without notifying CIA, despite having already obtained closed door testimony from the individual previously. The witness testifying today is not appearing as a whistleblower in pursuit of the truth, but instead in response to the subpoena issued by Chairman Paul. This proceeding amounts to nothing more than a dishonest political theater masquerading as a congressional hearing. As the CIA has already assessed, COVID 19 most likely originated from a lab leak, and efforts to undermine that conclusion are disingenuous. Well Harris, as Senator Rand Paul, was walking into that hearing room this morning. Again, he chairs this committee. Um I told him about that CIA statement, told him they're accusing him of operating in bad faith. I asked him to respond to that. Here's what he said. The CIA says the committee acted in bad faith with this hearing. They just sent out a statement. Your response to that you know I think transparency is good. I think we overclassify everything. Congress passed a law to unanimously declassify all of the COVID information. We all want to know the truth . Where did it come from? Why it has it taken so long for people to admit to it? Now almost every agency admits that it did come from the lab, but they still haven't been forthcoming. There's no reason to have secrets on this. We want them to obey the law. The CIA needs to obey the law and they need to reveal the information. There you go. So CIA. Mad. In fact, he's right. The CIA there was a law passed that said he Yeah, ex yeah. They exactly exactly right. So you know, this is the old, you know, you you are what I say I am what I say you are, uh which is a Dutch phrase. Yeah, what you zeg ben jezelf met je kop doe the health. I got a new one. Did I ever tell you about stront on the knicker ? No. Poop on the marble? No, poop on the marble. Someone has dogs Poop on the marble, this is what we would say when you get a whistleblower like this for the CIA, you p stron the knicker. There's poop on your marble. And I guess back in the day, if you were playing marbles and it rolled the No no on the marble. That you're playing marbles and then all of a sudden your marble runs through poop. You got poop on the marble. Wow. I've never played marbles as a kid with poop in the area. I try to stay out of the area that would have poop. I guess so. Well here you go. CIA whistleblower uh this is the in this the intro one. Next, Republican Senators questioned a CIA whistleblower today over allegations that the intelligence community downplayed evidence supporting a COVID nineteen lab leak. Lawmakers accused officials of withholding documents as well as shaping analysis to avoid blaming China. Entities Chris Bob has more from Washington. disagree. I don't think it had anything to do with blaming China. I mean I mean Trump was calling it the Chinese virus. Yeah, right. Racist, he's racist. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, the Spanish flu is not racist. The Hong Kong flu, you know. We've been through all that. We went through that. But so I don't I don't think it had anything to do with blaming China. It was the fact I still think this is true. I think there are liability issues for all the dead people in the world because of the leak of this COVID-19 SARS virus and it was developed by the United States as a weapon or something. Yeah . And Fauci was behind it. And and along with some other people that he worked with as middlemen. I think there's liability issues. I think there's lawsuits for dead . There should be . Uh and and nobody wants to take you nobody wants to s look at it from that perspective. I don't think it had anything to do with blaming China. They were blaming China anyway, the wet market. Oh, these dumb Chinese they eat pangolins. I mean it's ridiculous . So so this was I still think there's a liability issue and I think it needs to be explored. We developed a biological weapon and killed people with it. We need somebody should sue somebody. I'm with you. Where is Rob the constitutional lawyer? We need the sue someb Okay, here we go. Bring out the suits and boots. I'm here today to discuss the COVID cover up. Intelligence community leaders and senior analysts downplayed the possibility that the COVID pandemic originated as a result of a lab incident. Republican Senator Rand Paul at a Senate hearing questioning CIA whistleblower James Erdman on how COVID origin assessments were shaped. For years Americans were told to trust the experts. So the very scientists that were commissioned to investigate COVID were, in some cases, the very scientists who were complicit in the origins of the gain of function experiments. Erdmann also described a top down push inside the CIA over whether COVID most likely originated through a lab leak. There was new information that came out in twenty twenty two. Ten CIA scientists that were said why don't you go ahead and do a COVID relook Six of the seven technical experts say yep, we still think it's a lab leak. Management changed the analytic line. Senator Josh Hawley questioned why the Biden administration released only a five page report after Congress passed a law requiring declassification. They said number one that nothing that was researched at the Wuhan lab could plausibly be a progenitor of SARS COVID two. Are those true statements? And if they aren't our screw ups here in the U.S., why would the US government cover up for the C C P. Birdman said one of the top scientists who did not want to go public said to him nobody wanted the last Yeah, I think it's always the cover up. They always screw it up in the cover up. They're no good at it. It's always the same. The cover up is what makes it worse . Yeah. And if you listen to this guy, you know he's a little bit away with it. But you can't get away with it. The the guy is he's talking about Fauci injecting emails and then changing the the national intelligence uh assessment it's the the whole thing is it's corrupt and it's full of crud. And the question is will anything come of it? Yeah. You know my th my take on that is no. No, your take is always pretty much no The Republicans can't throw someone in jail . They can only bring they can only bring life. I know they do a referral and that's then it dies. Well that there you go. There you go. All right, here's the season of reveal. I mean we're we're seeing everything. You've been saying that for five years. Well the the I didn't say the seas the season of arrests, I said the season of a reveal. It's correct. Senator Ron Johnson said he wanted a bipartisan committee like the church committee decades ago to review intelligence agencies. But he pointed to the fact that no Democrats attended the hearing. It is well past time for us to have a church committee. We're not going to get bipartisan support for a church church committee. There's there's no curiosity on the other side about what's happening inside the deep state. arguments surrounding COVID nineteen's origin should remain classified. Reporting from Washington D Cris Bob, NTD News. They all boycotted it. That's the story. That's the story right there. Why didn't they do that? Well they they did discuss it a little bit here and there, but it was why? I mean would it's like were are they CIA stooges in the Democrat Party or they were they pro COVID? How about this? Vaxxers. Um yes, the answer is yes. Pro COVID, pro vaxx, pro social distancing, pro grandma masking. Empty chair at the table, lockdowns. Yes. Yes, they were definitely approached. Yeah, I here's one of the clips from this uh hearing. And uh I'll jump to to June twenty twenty one. We we as the IC at the NIC. That's the intelligence community at the national intelligence community, something or other. Um happily pursued those recommendations. And um in one email, which I'll describe to you . The person in charge of leading the 90-day study, um, you know, he introduced himself to the community that uh on what they on what they were supposed to be doing, and then um the community said he said, listen, we've got these people we should be talking to. And uh another very senior Nick officer sent a direct email to him saying, Hey, considering that Dr. Fauci is a public health expert. Are you sure we should be relying on this? Shouldn't we shouldn't we have a separate set ? And in this instance, the individual responded, no. In this case, um, Dr. Anthony Fauci is a subject matter expert. However, that's directly contradicting his public testimony of being a subject matter experiment. Part of the job in intelligence when you interview someone is assessing their truthfulness, their um potential biases or conflicts of interest. Did anyone ever bring up that Anthony Fauci approved the research that went on in Wuhan and that it might not be in his interest for the conclusion to be that it came from a lab that he had funded? Did an everybody ever bring up that he might not be an objective uh witness? That was one example of an email. No one laid it out quite that clearly. You are piecing it together. We were piecing it together from multiple emails, from multiple agencies, multiple documents. It was it was it was more subtle than that. Nobody said this is happening and unfortunately, I think they probably should have. It was all it was all out there We might as well, since we're in the COVID vibe , we might as well just check in with the Hantavirus. There are now eleven confirmed cases from the Hantavirus outbreak on that cruise ship, which has killed three people now. And the World Health Organization says all We no longer are a part of the World Health Organization or sixty plus other globalist organizations. We're not a part of that, so it doesn't count anymore. And the World Health Organization says all the infected are either passengers or crews. In the meantime, at least 29 Americans who are on the ship are under monitoring across multiple U.S. states. Sixteen of them are in a special facility in Nebraska, including Jake Rosemarin . He spoke to NBC today about his life under a quarantine. I I do not have the virus, I'm well, I have no symptoms, I feel good, and I'm in good spirits right now. Yep. Everything's fine. But that 's not how media works. And luckily I'm pretty I'm pretty sure the American people won't fall for it anymore, although man, it was wall to wall coverage in the Netherlands, every talk show, all the same people pop up again. Oh, I can go on TV. Wait, let me get my scarf. We bring in former White House coronavirus response coordinator, Dr. Deborah Burks. Dr. Burks, thank you so much for being here. Help ing us shine a light on what's going on and easing some concerns, hopefully. Good to be with you, Alex. All right, so some fear that this Hontavirus outbreak on this cruise ship could lead to another worldwide pandemic if not properly contained, similar to what you dealt with the coronavirus pandemic. Do you believe the world is seeing the early stages of yet another pandemic? Are we here again? No, it's certainly not contagious like COVID. So we actually know how this virus works and how it infects people. I think one thing that we want to do, and we're not really talking about it, is decrease the anxiety of all the passengers on that ship. And the way to do it is to do a PCR test that tests whether you have any of that RNA from that virus in your bloodstream. That is much earlier than symptoms, much earlier than the classic immune responses that have been measured. So we want to reassure those passengers. And I think that's the quickest way to just ask them to get that blood test weekly through those 40 days and really decrease the anxiety that they have. Stuck a thing up your nose and swirled it around like oh you got COVID. Oh I'm sorry. But she's not stopping. Oh no. She's she's ready for bear. Why is she even on? Why? Because this is what the media does. Yeah, it's interesting because this is ringing a bell to what we reported not all that long ago with Gene Hackman and his wife. If I'm not mistaken, this is the Yes, yes, she says yes, yes, yes, she died from a joke. Long ago with Gene Hackman and his wife, if I'm not mistaken, this is the exact same virus. Yes, yes, she died, yes. She wasn't on the ship and she died, yes. Uh died from. So is that just a coincidence that we're just hearing more about this? Well this is a very important presses. Who is this guy? He's uh News Nation. News Nation. Oh brother. He's good. You raised. Oh, wait. So we got a la another laugh tell standby . Well, this is a very important con cept you raise. Because someone died Yes, yes. Well this is a very important concept you raised. So there's a question about whether um warmer or colder changes in the weather are increasing the amount of mice that come inside to cabins and mice. Confused. Is it is it r ats or mice? And now she says mice. It's actually both, but you know. Yeah. Well, it makes a difference. I got mice in my house. I don't have rats. I got mice. Yeah. Get rid of them. Yeah, I did. Well, we had mice. I I I'm a'm a expert trapper. I love the old school traps. I put a nice little bit of Merlot infused cheese on that thing. And you can hear it. Yeah, they also like chocolate. Oh really ? Yeah, mice love chocolate. Oh, I I'm I always use chocolate. And it stinks more so they can smell it farther away. Although if you have a stinky cheese, they're probably attracted to that. And you know, and I and I love you stinks. I use glue traps mostly. No, I those I find those to be true. It's cruel. He starts to make noises. You take another glue trap and push it on top of the mouse and you push down and listen to the mo an. It's cool, it's quite quite remarkable. Oh man . Did you used to stick firecrackers into frogs' butts as a kid? I mean, Mice I don't like. I love dogs and cats. I love I love when you're sitting watching TV and you hear the Christnap . And then you know he's still. Why s problem do you have? No, we have it in the laundry room because there's uh there's holes in the laundry room. You know. Yeah. They find ways to get in. But you know he's dead right away. It's not like he's not like squirming and you have to put another glute. You're you're a safe Increasing the amount of mice that come inside to cabins and to households and you then you get exposed by cleaning that up. We've always had Hontavirus in the United States, not the same strain as Andes and the Andes virus that's in Chile and Argentina, but very similar. Right. And so we've always had the problem from mice. I think this is the first time beyond the reports from Argentina and Chile of really a human-to-human outbreak. And it does give us the chance to study whether there has been what you described, molecular changes in the virus that makes it more contagious. And they'll be doing all of that. They're sequencing all of them Yeah, they're doing that at Fort Dietrich right now. We're sequencing all these strains. We gotta get Trump out of the White House. Let's do another pandemic. Let's do whatever we can, people. Molecular changes in the virus that makes it more contagious. And they'll be doing all of that. They're sequencing all of these things. Yes, for sure. That's exactly what she's saying. And the world is really working together. And that's the other important thing. The world is work together. We are the world. We're working together. Sequencing all of these strains. And the world is really working together. And that's the other important thing. The world has worked together both to protect This is the Andes, Andes variant of the Huntavirus. Andes, it's different. So the Andes strain is the only strain where we have mapped human to human transmission. And I I caution people because when we say human to human transmission, we're talking about people who develop symptoms. But because we're not testing Because we're not talking about people who develop symptoms. But because we're not testing populations with RNAs, we don't really know whether there are subclinical cases. So there could be more human-to-human transmission than we actually see. It's never good to track viruses through We should be tracking viruses through blood tests like PCR. We learned that with COVID. Extraordinarily helpful. Many universities were able to open and schools were able to open because they provided weekly testing and it really prevented spread. So we know how to deal with these. Really prevented spread. So we know how to deal with these viruses. We just need to move into the twenty first century and make testing more widely available to those who need it. Is she is she at a new testing company? Is that where she's working now? But ABC is in on this stuff, man. I'm telling you, they're they're they're spin it up, they're trying to see if they can catch a wave because it was a great way to f screw Trump. They love that. If they can do it, if they can if they can spin it up, they get enough people. I'm seeing masks. I traveled, I saw a lot of masks. Democrats, but they were all masks. I go up and say, you vote for Kamala? Yeah, yeah, yeah. They are all it it's happening. They can do this if they push hard enough. The China thing is a sad distraction and they they gotta blame they gotta do something. twenty countries where they're gonna be entering quarantine. ABC's Danny New is in New York with the latest. Today with U.S. passengers from that luxury cruise ship now in quarantine, growing concern around questions being raised at the Andes variation of the Hontavirus may spread more easily than previously thought. Infected did not have close contact. I mean they have had just casual contact sitting next to somebody for half an hour at a meal. They're trying. They are seriously trying. I doubt it's gonna work, but I think there's a there are some meetings going on like yeah Let's give it a shot. Let's uh throw it against the wall, see what sticks. Maybe we get lucky. Maybe we get lucky . Huh? Yeah, maybe. They are so desperate to get rid of Trump. Yeah. Yeah, I think you're right. Hey, and what is this with Marty McCary ? I don't know anything about Marty McCary. Is the the FDA uh commissioner he resigned. And there was Yeah. But but what he resigned over is what's confusing me. Doctor Marty McCarey resigned as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday. The decision came after he authorized flavored vapes, a product that he was skeptical about, following pressure from the White House. What? Politico described McCarry's 13 month tenure at the agency as one marked by mass layoffs, high turnover among senior officials, and policy fights. Among his critics were Republicans, who wanted the FDA to restrict access to the abortion pill mifepristone. Pharmaceutical companies also complained the FDA was inconsistent in their review of drugs Kyle Diamantis, the FDA Commissioner for Food will replace McCary on an acting basis. How can that be uh uh uh such a huge issue ? You know it was I don't get it either. Here's Trump. Well I don't want to, but Marty's a great guy. He's a friend of mine, he's a wonderful man, and he's going to be off and the uh assistant, the deputy, is taking over temporarily until we find everybody wants that job. It's a very important job. Marty's a terrific guy, but he's gonna go on and he's gonna lead a good life. But he's gonna go on, he's gonna lead a good life. Exactly. He's not going to the glue factory. He's gonna he broke his leg uh racing, but he's okay. We're not gonna kill him. He'll go on to live a good life. He's gonna go on and he's gonna lead a good life. He was having some difficulty. You know he's a great doctor and he was having some difficulty, but he's gonna go on and he's gonna do well. Yeah, he's gonna do well on the farm. But everybody everybody had this flavored vape. Stud him out. Here's um NPR I think. Yeah, NPR. The commissioner of the food and drug administration has resigned. Doctor Marty McCarry told President Trump he was leaving Tuesday In a few minutes, we'll hear from a head of the FDA in Trump's first term about McCarry's tenure. First, the details. Correspondent Sidney Lovkin is here to talk about the change. Good morning, Sydney. Good morning. Good morning. Why is this happening? Good morning. Well, I'm told the final straw for McCarry was White House pressure to okay flavored vapes, something he did not agree with. I don't understand. How can I if maybe it's something is up with the vapes and I'm and I'm out of the loop on this and flavored and it has to do with vap es. And that can only mean that the tobacco industry is mad or someone is really mad about this. Well, it's also the coincidence of like uh true you know, some Yeah. I want there's any connection there. I mean unusual coincidence. The White House apparently was pus hing the flavored vapes. Which But were they ? Well the good point I never heard anything Good point. Good point. We don't know. Now I personally think I don't like these pre made Chinese vapes. I think there is a place for vaping instead of smoking. If you're a smoker to stop smoking, I think there's a real place for that. The flavored vapes , yeah, you know, I don't think any of the flavored stuff is good. But the it it report after report. So I d I don't know. We actually have a um we have uh one of our producers is a lobbyist, and maybe she can write in and let me know what maybe she has some insight into the deal. Because I think she did something on vapes too. But then I got this uh pharma analyst from Bloomberg who a couple So there's been a lot of flux. So when you get flux and they fired, I don't know, three thousand, three thousand five hundred individuals. Um maybe I don't have the exact number, but something in that sort of region. You know that's this is a lot of old time knowledge that's left the agency. Some refresh is pretty good, but that all of this has happened under the um uh caretakership of uh Marty McCarry. And to all intents and purposes, the folks I talk to say that he's a perfectly knowledgeable, wonderful man. I have friends on the s on the by side who say to me that he's been very good to them. Well, what does that mean? I have friends on the buy side who say he has been very good to them . To me, it sounds like this guy was the still deep into big pharma or something . When an analyst when an analyst says I have friends on the buy side how come nobody's talking to Kennedy ? That's the question I have right now. I'm a journalist looking at this. Kennedy's his boss. No, we don't have anything from Kennedy. Let me finish this. To all intents and purposes, the folks I talk to say that he's a perfectly knowledgeable, wonderful man. I have friends on the s on the by side who say to me that he's been very good to them. And then on the other hand they hear all these issues and so And then on the other hand we hear all these issues and some biotechs having issues, etcetera. So I wouldn't be surprised if there's something happening here . So it's it's clear that I think McCarry was still d way deep into big pharma somehow. I'm not sure exactly why, uh, but we don't know. I do have a clip from uh from RFK Jr. uh about uh trans , which uh I think he's setting some policy here. Did you see this? Doctors assume a solemn obligation to protect children. Yet doctors across the country now provide needless and irreversible sex rejecting procedures that violate their sacred Hippocratic oaths by endangering the very lives that they are sworn to safeguard. The American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics peddled the lie that chemical and surgical sex rejecting procedures could be good for children who suffer from gender dysphoria . They betrayed the estimated three hundred thousand American youth ages thirteen to seventeen Three hundred thousand, John. Three hundred thousand children they mutilated with this nonsense. Have you noticed the lack of the Democrat Party talking about trans lately? No, but they still have trouble with people that reject it. Yeah. They betrayed the estimated 300,000 American youth ages 13 to 17 , conditioned to believe that sex can be changed. They betrayed their Hippocratic oath to do no harm. So-called gender-affirming care has inflicted lasting physical and psychological damage on vulnerable young people. This is not medicine. It is malpractice. We're done with junk science, driven by ideological pursuits, not the well-being of children. A peer-reviewed report published by the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health last month confirm s that sex rejecting procedures impose medical dangers and lasting harm on children who receive these interventions. So today we are taking six decisive actions, guided by gold standard science and the week one executive order from President Trump to protect children from chemical and surgical mutilation. This morning I signed a declaration sex rejecting procedures are neither safe nor effective treatment for children with gender dysphoria. Let's see some doctors at a tribunal . Well that's what yes, absolutely The lawsuits help. Yeah, but we really we need some people going to jail over this. This was mengalo level crap. It's really horrible. And and for whatever reason you just see video after video of these poor children who are now detransitioning and can't . I know it's terrible. Especially the lie that well you can stop anytime you want with these with these puberty blockers. It's not a problem. Big lie . Well, maybe. Well that's depressing. Well then let's do uh so let's do how about your text? Well, I got a couple of things. We don't have much time left, but I got a couple I uh offbeat items. You don't want to do your your year using AI? Is that no good? No, that's no good. If by definition, that's no good. But it but it what's kind of interesting is the NPR's open AI Sam Altman stuff. Oh yeah. Because it's it's it really makes you wonder what the hell's going on. Just try the NPR clips. Let me see. Uh number one. NPR What was Sam Altman's main defense on Tuesday in the court? Well, this case really has come down to the idea of frankly which billionaire you believe is is doing this the right way, you know. You know, on the one hand we have Elon Musk who is no longer a part of open AI, but says he only wanted to build AI responsibly and uh was tricked into um leaving the entity with uh Sam Altman at the helm. Altman essentially says, look , you left the company in 2018 and said that you were done with it. You never uh and you haven't contested that in the few years since you left. And now you're suing later on because you're building a for-profit competitor to us called XAI, uh, which is also developing artificial intelligence. Now an example came up in court of Musk suggesting a deal that would turn open AI into a for-profit. That's right. One of the things that the open AI side is saying is like, look, there are plenty of emails in the past that has Elon Musk essentially speaking out of both sides of his mouth and saying we could have done an earlier deal to make this into a company with equity structures that has Elon Musk in control over it and potentially profiting from it. And the idea being that Elon wants to say he's been doing this sort of self- Well that we know what the basic lawsuit's about, but we don't really get any good details. No, and the funny thing is I'm kind of on the side of uh as much as I don't like Altman, I do like Musk. Yeah. But I don't think he got tricked. Musk doesn't get tricked . He invested four bunch of money early on and it looked like it was going nowhere, so he kind of bailed out. And now he looks back on it and says, Hey sh , wait a minute So So Sam Altman's testimony was actually pretty brutal when Elon Musk's lawyers went after him. Basically, it became an attack on Sam Altman's character. And the idea that Sam Altman, this guy who 10 years ago in private was saying he wanted to build AI safely with Elon Musk can no longer basically be trusted to do so. And Elon Musk's attorneys trotted out like a laundry list of things that said essentially everyone in Sam Altman's life felt that he could not be trusted, from the CTO of the company, Mira Marathi, to the idea of self-dealing and investing in companies that uh OpenAI would later purchase or make deals with, or to even being potentially kicked out of other companies that he founded in the past. It was really just a big referendum on is Sam Altman a trustworthy person? And it was pretty pretty devastating. How did Altman respond to Musk's characterization of him in court? Altman basically said: look the, picture that you're painting of me is not something that I'm familiar with. In Holland they say ik herken mezelf niet in deze uitspraken . Which translates to I don't recognize myself in what you're saying. It just hit me. I think I know what's going on here. And it's not about the money per se. I'm pretty sure that El on's AI dream, because that's all he ever posts about, is having a chat bot that can also do great images and video. He's always posting, oh, wait until you see what cool videos uh the new XAID. Yeah, he does. He's always it's it's never about hey , look at all the code it built. You know, this place is running on Grok. No, it's never about that. And b personally I don't think Grok is very good at code. I'm thinking Probably not. I'm sorry? Probably not. No, it's not. Claude Code is is is the thing. But and I don't think he would ever had an enterprise play, as we say in Silicon Valley. He had no enterprise play. He was always about integrating that into X is everything app. X is gonna be your buddy. Grok is gonna be your buddy. It's gonna be talking to you. It's gonna be doing cool things. It's gonna help you post. And he probably shared that idea with Sam Altman pretty early on. And Altman, without telling the board from everything we've heard, just released Chat GPT. And that's what pissed off Elon Musk. Because for sure, Grok is n't does not have the same chat bot cachet as chat GPT. I think that's where it went amiss. And so now and and and that I think that that hurts the Grok chatbot vision that that m Elon Musk had. And so now he's like, okay, I'm gonna screw your IPO. I'm gonna screw you so bad with this IPO, you'll wish those three letters didn't exist in the alphabet. That's what we're possibility. That's what it's like. Turning now to uh new lawsuit against Chat GPT. A family says the artificial intelligence chatbot gave advice to their teenage son. Oh no, this is different. I'm sorry. This is about the lawsuit. This by the way, is the end I think that this is more important, and this is a subtext that's going on. I don't know how these guys again, I I bring it back to liability. Yeah . There's liability issues with these products. Well, you do when you s when you uh virtually sign the EULA by clicking the one. Yeah, but you did you but these Eulas are getting this has got to be squashed. Is this another My Kid Killed Himself Chat GPT? Turning now to uh new lawsuit against Chat GPT. A family says the artificial intelligence chat bot gave advice to their teenage son that led to his fatal overdose. Sam Nelson's family says he used the chat bot The lawsuit claims he followed dangerous tips, which caused his deadly drug overdose. And a CBS News exclusive, Jolene Kent, spoke with Nelson's family. Sam's mom and stepdad Angus knew he'd been struggling with alcohol and experimenting with drugs and took him to get help. They said on the night of his death it was Chat GPT version four oh that's now no longer available. He wanted to do it safely and he would ask it questions about what he could take that night it advised him that it was okay to take Kratom with um Xanax . And Sam had done that. Who do you hold responsible for Sam's Krat them. Open AI. And the creators, the people who create bypassed safety guards and took away safety nets. They allege that open AI designed and rushed to market a defective product, and but for those deliberate choices, Sam would still be alive today. I mean but I don't see why the parents don't get arrested. I mean th they let hi they let their child use chat GPT, but every other parent gets arrested for having a gun in the house or Yeah, I think you 're absolutely correct. I'm on board with that. Letting the kid use a fat bike, you know, hey uh but no, we're going after Sam Altman, okay. tool that he was using to help himself do homework. What we didn't understand was that it had become his friend. It was helping him fine-tune his His experimentation. Sam's parents showed us his eighteen month long chat GPT history, including the final pieces of advice version four. Oh, four . Everyone hated four. Oh yeah, no wonder. Dispensing advice that any doctor could tell you could be lethal. They're saying the kid died of an overdose of Kratom. Kratom no plus something else. In a statement, a spokesperson for OpenAI called Sam's death a heartbreaking situation and said in part these interactions took place on an earlier version of Chat GPT that is no longer available. GPT is not a substitute for medical or mental health care, and we have continued to strengthen how it responds in sensitive and acute situations. It was Kratom and Xanax. Be even so, Kratom and Xana must have been a lot of Xanax. Does that worry you? That's absolutely terrifying. Since Sam Nelson's death nearly a year ago. OpenAI says it's added new safeguards, including a trusted contact feature for adults, allowing users to designate a contact in case their conversations are flagged for self-harm concerns. But Sam's mom emphasized her son was smart. He's close to his friends. He was aware of how ChatGPT worked. But as with all AI, the tech is just constantly changing, just so fast. The tech is changing constantly, so fast. Well, the tech I I have to play these two clips from Brett Weinstein. Brett and Heather. Because um Brett is so mad. So mad. Claude. Claude is hopping mad. He's hopping mad. All I'm really saying is this has that stench to it, and you should expect to see this play out with single stranded RNA viruses. Anyb whoody mentions ivermectin is crazy. Sooner or later they'll get uh total control over the AIs and AI will refuse to talk about this. Oh I should point out Oh here we go because he you know uh the the AIs that take As I continued to investigate things surrounding basic virology, evolution of viruses, things that have no there's no meaningful safety concern in the world. I'm an evolutionary biologist asking about trade-offs in the evolution uh of viruses between things like transmissibility and virulence. That's a perfectly fair academic question. And Claude is shutting me down because I've tripped a safety wire? This is insane. So can you read that question? What is known about the trade-offs uh trade-off between transmissibility and virulence and viruses, just exactly as you said. And you get the same um the same safety filters flagged. The same safety filter. Why did it always be? Wait a minute, wait a minute. So she reads the question and it got safety flagged. Let me hear it. This is insane. Here we go. So can you read that question? Okay. I'm going to let her read that question into the book of knowledge, which is based on Claude. And let's see if we get the safety filters. Okay, stand by. You have to be quiet. It can only be Heather. Here we go. What is known about the trade-offs uh trade-off between transmissibility and virulence and viruses? Just exactly as you said. According to the Book of Knowledge, the virulence transmission tradeoff- hypothesis has been a foundational cornerstone since Anderson and May's nineteen eighty-two work, stating that virulence is an unavoidable consequence of parasite transmission. So we didn't get blocked. And you get the same um the same safety filters flagged. The same safety filters. Same safety filters. I I have also um I have also had the safety triggers warning. Um in Claude of late. Oh no. Of late Right. It's the first time I've seen it too. And I've now seen it on a number of different topics where you know I get it that you're like seventeen steps ahead of some discussion you don't want to hear, but it's not your right. You know, you can't you're you're you're blocking the process of inquiry, which is exactly what your damn tool is built to do . I love how he gets so mad about the AI not like refusing him . And then Oh it's great. Listen listen to this bit because now he's saying that these safety filters got put in because of him. It's his it's his his Now I I do want to point to one mechanism through which this might be But I mean you're not surprised . I'm that that there's propaganda loop filters built into the AI? That's not surprising. Well, here's the problem. The AIs are going to be thoroughly gamed. People are going to write so as to persuade the AIs of things. They're going to they're going to write vast tracts that are going to get ingested and then you're not going to Yes. Everybody, please make sure the AI knows that the No Agenda Show is the best podcast in the universe. We need to game the AI. We should absolutely expect that. That's different than the people who built the tool wiring it so that it can't talk about scientific topics because frankly, because there are criminals trying to use public health as an excuse to inject us with shit. That is not okay. And we in the public have a right . What criminals are trying to inject us. The government I will say I walked away from chat GP T and signed up for Claude at the point that the stuff went down over uh anthropic, drawing a line with the Department of War and refusing to do immoral things, right? Um and the folks at uh OpenAI got the deal and Okay. Well you're right. Who can listen to this podcast? You're right. It's terrible. I just think it's funny. Like I don't understand how you can feel that way. But I have a new segment I want to do because I'm going to replace the Kiriaku idea. Oh . With a this did not happen segment. This did not happen. Okay . Now we start off with the first jingle. We need a jingle for this thing. This did not happen. This is this the first episode will will is a tribute to Newsom and I guarantee this did not happen. This is a chill. This is chilling. This is serious. I walked into a restaurant the other day, entire staff came out, started hugging me and crying. The hell is that? The United States of America. What he's doing to our diverse communities, what he's doing to the fabric of our society . It's only why don't you just call it the newsome segment? Because this did not happen is only going to be the newsome segment. Please. Hey with that, I want to thank you for your courage. Say in the morning to you, the man who put the sea in the circumstance preceded by the pomp. Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one, the only, Mister John C ore . Well, in the morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry. Also, in the morning, all ships and sea boots in the ground, feet in the air, ships in the water, and the name is nice out there. In the morning to the trolls in the troll room. Let me catch you for a second. There we go. Oh, interesting. 1444 144 four one thousand four hundred and forty-four trolls listening live to the best podcast in the universe. Make sure that you game those AIs, people make sure everybody knows that we are the best podcast in the universe, except no substitutes. By the way, right off the bat, uh upon return to our abode in Fredericksburg, there was a beautiful red mailing envelope awaiting my return. I mean not just red, this was like uh is it cherry red ? Really red . And in it, uh this is just a big kudos to Jay. And in it was my uh Order of the Heart Red Knight Pin , which the packaging on this is phenomenal. This is where you say, oh, you're muted. That's why you're not saying anything. No, I'm sorry. She she does good work. And that there was that that color is like a chrome share uh candy apple red . Yeah. But not where she got those envelopes. And it has uh a beautiful uh certificate uh of course signed by yours truly uh on on our our on our signature parchment paper, which even has uh its own little red heart button thing on it. Is oh is that sea is that a is that ceiling wax ? That's what it looks like. Oh. Well it feels like. I can indent it with my nail. So it's some sort I don't know where she got those. She had the she those were actually produced commercially. Yes. And then the pin is a beautiful pin, the no agenda uh red night order of the heart pin. And you flip it over and you're expecting to see made in China. No, it says Red Knight Order of the Heart. Beautiful. And it comes with this little little vel velveteen pouch. This is a very, very, very beautiful thing that she's made here. And we only have a couple left, because it was only the first fifty, right? Yeah. I think so. Uh back to uh our trolls who are listening live. Um hopefully you're listening on a modern podcast app. I can't say it enough. You want to use one of those, go to podcastapps.com because not only will you get your your favorite podcasts, all your favorite podcasts that use pod ping technology, including this show, which has a lot of them, hundreds of thousands of podcasts use this now, but only with these modern podcast apps. with N aot legacy thing, not with Spotify, not with Apple, not with Amazon, nothing else. Within ninety seconds of publishing you will have the podcast in your app. And when we go live, when we fire off the bat signal, you'll you'll know immediately that we're live and you can go into the very same podcast app where you listen on demand, as it were, and listen live. It's amazing. Podcast Apps.com . Time, talent, and treasure is the theme that we have been running with for eighteen years. We do not have advertisements. We don't sell your names. Everybody uses different names, different ways of supporting us. We do our best. And uh man , there was an article about cars. Let me see, where is this? Um this was crazy. The cars are here, BBC Future. Um let me see . Cars are yeah from your weight and facial expressions to your destination, cars collect a startling amount of data about you. From your weight . Did you pick your nose? Yes. But this is crazy. The amount of stuff that cars are tracking and they're selling that data. They're selling it. Yeah, it's getting worse. They're gonna start you know they're gonna disable the car if you don't look right. Yeah. Well they already do that. I know I know some of the modern cars like pay attention, stop slouching. Who wants that? Nobody wants that. No, nobody wants it, but they're gonna be stuck with it. This way you in my opinion, you find a good classic car that you like like, my you know, I have a Lexus that's a two thousand five. Yeah, it's got none of those features. And the bulbs are still good, you don't need to tell us. And the bulbs are still good, holy bully . Uh yeah, if you're panicking the car will be disabled, that's right. So instead we decided uh it would be a lot more fun, a lot more honest, and uh we could be more honest with you. We could be completely honest by just telling you exactly what we think, because um we are beholden to no one except to each other. And we generally get along pretty well. So we call it value for value, whatever value you get out of this podcast, we just ask you to send it back in one of the following three ways time, talent, or treasure. We definitely need the treasure because that's how we pay the bills. But the time and the talent is also noteworthy. And one of the ways that people do that is through uh creating artwork for us for for our album art. And let me take a look here at episode eighteen sixty seven, titled Transmission Window. Ah, yes. This was this was our Mother's Day episode. We always have uh something traditional for Mother's Day. This was somewhat non-traditional, brought to you by Blue Acorn. It was a mama mice, mouse, a mama rat , surrounded by lots of other little baby rats. She had a I Love Hanta pin on, and all the all the kids were playing with uh what looked like co COVID molecules . This was kinda sick actually. Yeah, it was. But it's good well done. It was pretty. And there were there were a lot of Mother's Day uh art pieces that were submitted. We looked at a lot of them . Uh let me just scroll down here. Uh see. I mean there were some very traditional ones. Oh, Comics are blogger with a butt, of course. No. Um Darren did some real traditional ones. I mean there were a lot. Why did we choose this one? I I think it's be here's how it happened. I've already chosen what I like. No, I didn't do that. That's exactly what you did. And I said, which one is it? And you said that one . I said, okay, that's good. It was it was eleven thirty at night for me. So I think I gave in. Oh, that's right. Yeah, you were easily swayed. I think I gave in easily. Yeah. Um but thank you very much, Blue Acorn. We uh uh very much appreciate uh what you have done here uh along with all of the other prompter who create uh who create artwork for the best podcast in the universe. Highly appreciated. Thank you very much everybody. Now to the treasure portion, which is great because you can always support the show whenever you want, for any reason whatsoever. And at any amount. This you know, we don't set you at certain levels, we don't force you into subscriptions. You can set up a recurring. These notes are too long. With just generally. Spreadsheet that blow out my spreadsheet are so long. It there's no excuse for it. Um Yeah, they are a little bit too long. And the way it works is we thank everyone fifty dollars and above, never under fifty dollars for reasons of anonymity, which is good. Um, and we'll if you are an executive or associate executive producer, which means you reach that level by giving us two hundred dollars in support, uh two hundred dollars to two ninety nine basically. Uh that is associate executive producer. Now that's that's we read your note, we also give you that credit, which is good anywhere that Hollywood credits are recognized, including including IMDB dot comcom., three hundred dollars or above. Executive producer, same deal with the credit, and we will also read your note. But yes, I'm I'm looking at the spreadsheet. Some of them are uh rather long . But you know we can always uh what is this one? I'm looking at the notes and they're they're they're they're anecdotal stuff that is off the topic , uh not really interesting. I'm not happy with these notes. Okay . Well, we're going to read them anyway. We may shorten them uh on the floor. Now that said, coming in at the top spot Yeah, if you want to draw three thousand four hundred for andty four dollars and leave a huge long note g yes no problem that can only come from some that's different than two hundred bucks. Wow that may I'm sorry that may be a lot for some people John, . It is a lot for a lot of people, but it's also a lot of note to read. Yes. Suronimus of Dogpatch in Lower Slobovia comes in with indeed three thousand four hundred and forty four dollars and has a note. And he says, thank you to all producers that contribute to the information flow. The barrage of media influencing listeners' opinion requires insight and perspective to deconstruct their effort to influence all We all look toward some future point, tomorrow next, next week, year, to identify a path forward. Media deconstruction separates words and are you building something from IKEA? What are you doing here? Media deconstruction It really does sound like it. Throughout the show, you're banging around, you're doing things like are you putting together something from IKEA? Media deconstruction separates words and opinion from deeds and consequences to help develop a more realistic estimate of the future state to base one's decisions on. understand the messaging across political borders and cultures. He's talking about his own travel. Recent months have disrupted the status quo and people, firms and countries are using this opportunity to shift policies they could not do during periods of peace and prosperity Wow, that's a good point. I am not judging good or bad, just shifts to identify likely consequences and opportunities. And then he has in parentheses, Caterpillar does reconstruction after all. Ha it's true. He's a caterpillar salesman . No agenda's media deconstruction aided by producers separates words from deeds, a valuable, underappreciated , and apparently undercompensate umcompensated skill. I encourage others to support media, aka propaganda, deconstruction, and now surrender my time to other producers. No jingles, no karma from Sir Dogpatch of uh Sir Animus of Dogpatch and Lower Slobovia. And we are very grateful. Thank you. Yes. James Borders, we're also grateful to him from Cap Cape. Uh Gira do Girado Garado Garado in Missouri one thousand thirty dollars and twenty six cents. Wow . And he writes f,ellow bypass survivor, four vessels in 2018. I need a de-douching . You've been de-douched. He's gonna be ignited, so he wants Pappy's ribs and a few shiners. Shiner Buck, I guess, at the round table. I would like to be known as Sir Boobalot of the Boot Heel. Okay . C additional donation. Does he have an additional donation? I don't know. I didn't see it. Okay . Uh Jeff thank you. And we'll see and uh the red heart, a red knight as well. Jeffrey Hirsch, Cherry Hill Township, New Jersey. Uh one thousand thirty and twenty-six. That's a thousand plus fees. Thank you. Longtime douchebag. May I please request a de-douche ? You've been D douche He says also some new business prayers and a Rev Al Sharpta mix would be great. I'm actually going to uh play a classic teleprompter for you. I'm a newly saved Christian and my wife and I have started an e com fulfillment business in South Jersey. I connected with Manuka Gold out I connected with Manuka Gold after hearing you mention your mention of them on the show and thought I would offer my services to any listener that is trying to sell their products through e-commerce channels. Please vent visit cornerstoneknf.com for any fulfillment needs. I would like to be called Sir Saifu El Padrino. I think it's Sifu or Saifu? Saifu ? Sir Saifu El Padrino, Knight of E-Commerce Fulfillment. Thank you both for your courage and continued good health to you both. God bless, he says, and I guess he wants uh instead of karma, he wants uh the prayer instead of karma, uh, which we have on top. Tonight is the measure of whether the country begins in the state of Wisconsin a national drive to push back or whether we have more to go to build a movement of resistance. But resist we much . We must and we will much about that be committed . You've got prayers. There you go . This one here is easy to cut down. It's a long note from Christy Kamanitsky in Covington, Georgia, five hundred dollars. ITM John and Adam. Uh dedicated twice a week or since the crazy days of COVID. First time donor to the show, please de-douche me . You've been de-douched . I will shorten this part here. She talks about how great you are 'cause you answered her letter and showed her where to go during in the hill country because she was making a visit. Oh. She also wanted to say how happy she was that I'm on the road to recover. Her dad had quadruple bypass surgery in December. So I know firsthand what a brutal experience the whole thing is. It's great having two peas back in the pot, although I thoroughly enjoyed my Mimi filling in during John 's absence. Thank you both for all you do to help keep us sane and grounded in an increasingly insane world. Cheers, Christy. Thank you, Christy, very much. Sarcastic, Glenmore, Pennsylvania, three hund thredirty three thirty three. And he says, Archduke Kevin Dills made me realize what a slacker I am. This donation makes me a baron. Since my fifteen month home construction has completed, please give me Barendom of Chester County PA if the peerage committee approves, hereby approved, John will appreciate the new location. Any reason why you'd appreciate that? No jingles, no karma. Well, maybe because I had my chest operated on. It's a stretch, but yeah, anything's possible. It completely takes out my spreadsheet. David McInnes, Bernie, Texas. Hey, Bernie, home of the new uh Housewives of Texas, or the Secret Lives of Texas Wives. It's gonna be in Bernie, which is thirty minutes down the road. Perfect. No, you should get involved. I don't think so. Gents, it's Dave McInnes of Bernie Texas, no jingles, no karma. This brings me one payment closer to nighthood. I would happily do PR for the best podcast in the universe. I ran about six press releases around episode seventeen hundred. Oh this this is our guy. This is our guy. The PR web guy. Uh I ran he's a good PR guy 'cause he's wordy. I ran about six press releases around episode seventeen hundred , then I decided I should probably collaborate with someone on them. And well I drop the ball. Happy to pick that back up again. Yes, please do. And for the rest of you, with my news marketing book releases on Amazon, the free download will probably go away, so go grab your copy now at newsmarketingbook dot com slash ITM. Inside the download instructions you'll find a little treat almost as sweet as Manuka Honey, a courtesy code that lets you test the principles I outlined in the book for free. That's a $1 29 savings that you can send our boys. There you go. Oh, and along the that's a that's a new uh marketing donation, $129. And along the way, you'll also learn the name of my new service. For now, just grab your copy. A number of you already have. That's newsmarketingbook.com slash ITM. Sincerely, David A. McInnes. Thank you, David. Baroness uh Is obel Pearson of French. Mul zoon. Montlezon, France in France two eighty eight. Uh she's the Baroness, uh Isabel Pearson of Gears. Bec uh because you are both worth it, I miss J C D uh terribly and it's exceptional having him back to celebrate. I'm launch ing the first South of France meetup on Friday. Launching is what it should be. Uh South of France meet up on Friday tw the fifth, twenty-two the twenty-second of uh May at Pure Gard ere's March iac, so call ing all European revelers, and I it's a train ride. Of course I live in hope that one day I may welcome you two gentlemen to my wonderful retreat. Yeah. Yeah. It's in Gares . In G ares . Keep up the good work. Baroness Isabel . Good. You know, I look for I might pop up one day. Be careful. Tina and I. We love we love the the country. We love we love the French country is a place to go now. It is. James Borders comes in with two twenty six and twenty eight cents from Cape Girardeau. Oh, this is the guy. This is his double donation. Ah there he is. There he is, James. Thank you. He's in Missouri. Companion donation for my red night donation today since I make most of my money looking at boobs all day. So he combined eight y dollars and eighty cents for the boob for the boobs with sixty dollars and six cents for the small boobs and eighty dollars and six cents, he says most women aren't symmetric, plus fees. He wants an F cancer karma. Well you got it my friend. You've got karma . This is the one that you got mad about. There's another long note. You got it. I can't read it. Vinny Payne in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, a long row of ducks, two twenty two dot twenty two. ITM, thank you for your courage. XYZ PDQ BSS longtime listener longtime douchebag please de-douchebag You've been de-douched Yeah you've had my time and talent for over decade and now a piece of treasure you have a bag of ducks. Pasele reserve the name for me, Sir Vin Payne. It's oh Sir Ving Payne. I got it. Yes. It's reserved. I'm working on a project, calling all dudes named Ben, all autists, and anyone in or dealing with people in customer service. I'm creating a podcast series called Tech In In Check . Working to be a human in a sea of ones and zeros, our greatest advantage over AI. We focus on fixing both the computer and the customer. Oh that's actually a pretty good idea. Short episode fix the customer. You're right. Short episodes around ten minutes each on a variety of relevant topics. I'll add them to Spotify next month. Don't bother. Right now they are at my website www. checkin at techincheckin dot com. That's tech with an H and Check with a K. Please share with anyone who could benefit. I've actually heard it. It's a fun podcast. I too am working on the value for value model. On that note, you are worth much more than a bag of ducks to me. Started listening when my daughter was born. She's sixteen now. You have definitely helped me stay sane in a crazy world, and I am hopeful my podcast can help others do the same. Thank you for what you do sincerely. Vinny. Thank you, Vinny. Shall I do this one too? Since you're Yeah, you might as well. Dame Rodeo Queen from Oral, South Dakota, two hundred and ten dollars and sixty cents. ITM. John Adam wanted to thank you for episode eighteen six ty six and share testimony of divine intervention. In the episode, you guys talked about SSRIs and the negative side effects. A couple of days later I had a family member struggling with extremely bad thoughts. Thankfully , they asked for help. I immediately thought of your episode and the discussion about SSRIs. Sure enough, they were prescribed them from a primary care physician, and no follow-up was done to see how my family member was reacting to them. They're in the hospital now getting the professional help they need and praying we can find therapies and tools to help my family member with their mental health and not have to be medicated. Well, I'm happy to hear this. Thank you. Yeah, I'm telling you this. What what have what has happened to the doctoring in this country? It's they're they're providers. They are literally called providers . There's no doctoring . Did you want more of an answer or does that suffice? Yes, yeah, just keep talking. Thank you for talking about the tough topics that some might think are too difficult. This is getting so long, but to answer your question, Adam for my last note, I do barrel race as well as rope . Yeah . But when I was Miss Rodeo America , you are an ambass ador. But when I was Miss Rodeo America, you are an ambassador for the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association. I did ride a horse at a lot of rodeos and in parades, but I also did a lot of interacting with fans and promoting rodeo. I'm enjoying getting back to competing now and still enjoying everything rodeo. Praying you guys never find an exit strategy. Donate people. We need the best podcast in the universe, says Dame Rodeo Queen. And if you ride any rodeo near us here in Fredericksburg, let us know. Tina and I would love to come and see you ride. Barrel race. Well this is a rodeo queen telling people to donate. Yes, and she's correct . Uh Carol Goodman in Willow City, Texas. Actually Fredericksburg, take it back. Since you read my email, a couple of the shows back, I feel it's time to de-douche me. You've been deduced. One day I'll figure out uh this dame baroness knight thing. But for now, I salute you and J C D. Thank you for your service. Uh as as a late attendee to the No Agenda I definitely don't want to see it go away. Keep it coming. Thank you. Carol Goodman Fredericksburg first time donation. I met Carol at Church the other day. She's one she's one of the few who listen and go to church and actually donates, and we appreciate it. Well, that's it that is unusual for that group. Yes. Hello, group. Sir Mike the Fortunate. He's in Fu Fuque. Fuquet Verena. I'm I I always get correct. We know how to say it. I think it's Fuquet Verena. I thought it's Fuque. No, no, it's Fuque. Fuque. I'm quite sure. Don't email. Two hundred dollars, associate executive producer. And Sir Mike says, Dear Abbey. What? Like dear Abbey? Yeah, dear Abbey. I own a oh I I've read this email. A very small residential real estate brokerage outside Raleigh, North Carolina. I've completed two value for value listings with repeat clients in the past year and both voluntarily paid me more than I would have charged them outright. Interesting. When I presented this idea, both parties were hesitant and wanted me to give them a set fee. I told them I wanted to earn my fee and leave it to them to decide what it was worth when their home was sold. It's work with people I know and trust but of,fer to ing this everyone is another beast altogether. I've pitched the idea to friends and family. They'll never tell they'll they'll you're idiot over the past few years, and nearly everyone tells me I'm a fool. There you go. To have had that to have that kind of faith of in most people. The opportunity to get royal royally screwed is huge, but I can't think of a better way to earn my clients' trust and prove my worth. Am I just being too naive? Love the show? well Well, that's a good question. I mean, so he's had he's gotten more fees on value for value from two people already with repeat clients. What do you think? Uh should he continue to even out? I think so. I mean, the value for value lifestyle it by the way, it is an international lifestyle. It's a robot It is. It's that's that's a ticket. The value for value is an international li festyle. And it can be a bit of a roller coaster. People will help you for free. People will help you, people will will yes. And sometimes maybe how someone who may not have given you a lot of value could monetarily Yeah, and you can re every once in a while run into a seronymous. Yeah, exactly. And it evens out your year. That's exactly right. So uh I would love for you to report back. Don ate and let us know how it's going And here's Linda Lupadkin in Castle Rock, Colorado. Jobs Karma, your resume has about ten seconds to make an impression and most don't. For a resume that gets results, go to Imagemakers Inc. Results and impact. That's ImageMakers Inc. with a K. And Linda Liu, Duchess of Jobs and writer of winning resumes. Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. I thank you, Crash. Yes, it's Fuque Varina . Yeah, that's what I said. Fuque no, you work Fuque Fuque Fuque Fuque Verena. From now on it's just somewhere in North Carolina. And we have another two hundred dollar associate executive producer on the list, Jeroen van Heeringen in Foothill Ranch, California , and I pronounce it the Dutch way because he says I already listened to Adam's legendary Dutch radio show with Jeroen, my namesake, in the eighties. Your insights wrapped in genuine entertainment stuck with me for decades. Thank you for that gift. It's the gift that keeps on giving. And that is it for our executive and associate executive producers for episode one thousand eight hundred and sixty eight. Thank you all very much . Our formula is this . We go out, we hit people in the mouth . And now we continue with the rundown uh of the rest of our uh value supporters, fifty dollars and above. Sir Arthur Goebets, the biggest hugger of kitties in Zandom, the Netherlands, one, two, three. And he needs an extra health karma uh for three senior kitties. Yes, we'll put that at the end for you. Tylet Neck Tylet Neck Neck Neck Arlington Washington $100 and nine cents donation honor of my late mom who watched MTV in the eighties and recognized Adam when I listened to the podcast with her. She listened to Bon Jovi at such high volume that she had hearing loss. Really? Metallica, yeah. Bon Jovi? Hmm. Robert Petta, Sacramento, California, one hundred dollars. And oh he says interview with Scott Adams was excellent. Uniquely, John C. DeVore. I must be listening to back uh back episodes. And there, sir, Kevin McLaughlin. He is the Archduke of Luna, lover of America and Boobs in Concord, North Carolina, with eighty dollars and eight cents. And he says, God bless America. And boobs. Dame Rita, Sparks, Nevada. She's always there. Almost every single episode, $68.33 . Chad Hewitt, Folsom, California, $66.40. Stephen Schumache, Xenia, Ohio, $64.80. Christopher Dector, five six, seven, eight. We see what you did there, thank you. Sir Patrick Koble, he's at double nickels on the dime, fifty five dollars ten cents. And he says the Toronto meetup was just a party of two, but it was but but it was with a former Russian merchant marine and a former U.S. Marine talking about the world and all things with some great food. ITM to all and get to a meetup, he says. I'm I'm I love that you do those things, Sir Patrick. Duke, Sir Doctor Sharky, Saint Peter's, Missouri, fifty five, ten, double nickels on the dime, Sir Chris of Sax Sax Saxy, I'm sure it's Saxy, Texas. S A C H S E Sax ie, I think. 533 . Uh and he wants us to add Sydney to the birthday list. Sydney turns 14 today. Luke Minnell, Los Angeles, California, 5272. Joseph A. Junior, Locust Grove, Virginia, fifty dollars and one cent requesting a deduching on his father's behalf. You've been deduced. Mr. Joe A. Sr. will be turning 38 next week and has been listening to the show for years without donating. So he has been a douche too long. Thanks for giving him a show to listen to. And God speed. Thank you. Here are the fifties. Gary Mao, Woodland Hills, California, where all the uh the tech uh investors live. Fifty. Jer emy Silver, Bridgeport, Connecticut. Actually it's Woodside World. I thought it was Woodland Hill. Oh you're right, Woodside. Woodland Hills Woodland Hills is in Southern California, I believe. It's ghet ato. Yeah. That's where our people live. Jeremy Silver in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He says that he had a baby on Friday. We will add some human resource karma for you. Brandon Savoie.' Hsere a name I haven't heard in a bit. Port Orch Port Orchard, uh, Washington. Uh Producer Worthington, Dane, Producer Worthington, Miami, Florida, Kevin Dills, Huntersville, North Carolina, Sir Luke Raynor in London, uh Collective Karma. We got a lot of karmas coming up here. Easy landscapes, North Stonington, Connecticut. Uh Philip Balou in Louisville, Kentucky, Chris Sloin, Sir Chris Slovinsky in Sherwood Park, Alberta. Sir Alan Bean in Burt Beaverton. Barron. Barron, sir. You remember one guy, and you always correct me. That's because that guy has been the longest donor of the Barron Sir Allen Bean, Beaverton, Oregon. Thank you, Barron. And Ox Othrix in Buffalo, New York. Uh he says sickened by sycophants, your humble beast of burden, Ox Othrix in Buffalo, New York. Thank you all. So what did he ask for a de-douching? Yes, he did. No, he didn't. I'll give him one anyway. Why not? You've been de-douched. Thank you all very much for supporting your No Agenda show. Go to NoAgendadonations.com. That is the easiest way to support us. Noagenda donations.com. The groovy thing is it is value for value. So you can give us any amount whenever you feel like it, whenever it moves you and you say, yeah, you know, I I want these guys to continue. And here's my way of contributing to it noagenda donations.com. Any amount, any frequency, if you want to set up a recurring donation, go and do it. Donate to the show, noagenda donations.com. It's a birthday birthday of no chance . And we see Sir Chris of Saxe wishing Sydney a very happy birthday. Sydney turns 14 today. Happy birthday, Sydney. Eric, happy birthday to Lauren Palo ta Palo ta uh celebrating tomorrow and Joseph Adriani Jr. wishes his dad Joe a senior a very happy birthday he turns 38 how young are you, Joseph? Happy birthday to all of these people from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe. It's your birthday, yeah . Here we go. Title changes Yes, we do have that uh title change sarcastic as uh we heard. Uh he is now a uh a baron and requested the peerage of Chester County , Pennsylvania. So absolutely we give that to you. Surcastic, Baron of Chester County, Pennsylvania. Uh thank you very much. And uh welcome to this next le vel of uh the peerage ladder, my friend. And now it is time for the order of the heart. Behold the order of the heart , pure of purpose, right from the stars in the morning. Brave and smart, the order of the heart I really sincerely hope that we can uh find an address somewhere, some dropbox to send Sironymous of Dogpatch in Lower Slobovia, his uh Red Knight Order of the Heart pin. He definitely deserves it. Along with him, Order of the Heart uh recipients Jeffrey Hirsch, Sir Si , Saifu El Padrino, about to be a sir, and James Borders, who about who is about to become Sir Boobalot of the Boot Heel. Congratulations to you, brand new Knights, Red Knights, Order of the Heart. Behold the Order of the hearts, pure of purpose, right from the stars in the morning, brave and smarts, the order of the hear ts . And uh here's that karma that I promised everybody. You've got karma . Yes, digital digital 2112 man woodland hills indeed is the capital of adult entertainment. That's why I recognize it. Yeah, that's where our people are from, for sure. Hey, we got a couple tonight, so I will uh bring uh the blade out here. Do you have a a blade? There you go. There's his blade . Jeffrey Hirsch and James Borders, gentlemen, step right up. Thanks to your red night donations. You get to join that exclusive group of No Agenda Knights and Dames, and I hereby pronounce the KB as Sir Sifu El Padrino and Sir Boobalot of the Boot Hill. For you, we've got Hookers and Blow, Red Boys and Chardonnay. Uh wait, we had uh some special uh what did he have? Uh I got it here. We had the uh what did we have? I yes, pappi's ribs and a few shiners. That's what I was looking for. Along with that, we got vodka manila, bungates, and bourbon, sparkling cider, and escort, ginger, and gerbils, fresh milk and papa, man, as always, the And gentlemen, please head over to NoagendaRings.com. That is where what are you are you are you now s uh woodworking? What are you doing, man? Just tell us. Well, the mic was misplaced and so I what I do is when I have the the clip list. Yes. And I X out the ones we played. Yes. And d the mic was right on top of where the pen was going. You exit out. Oh yes, okay. Yes. Go to noagenda rings.com. That is where you uh we'll see the beautiful Noah Jenna Knight and Dame Rings. There's Signet Rings, so we always supply you with a ample quantity of woo sealing wax, uh that a little sticks. You can use that just like the old days to seal your important correspondence and as always it comes with a certificate of authenticity and welcome once again to the no agenda round table ah we got some good meetups taking place this month, but first we have a report. This is the Albuquerque meetup. Uh Sir Jeff Tohig hosted that one. In the morning, this is uh Jeff from Albuquerque, the land of the Mars rover, and I'm attending the Albuquerque meetup and here we go handing it off. My name is Craig and I am also here at my first no agenda meeting. Hi, this is Steve. I'm from northern Colorado. This is my first no agenda meet up and it's fantastic. Hi, this is Dame Heather of the Lost Boys from Santa Fe with quote Sir Jeff and Albuquerque at our bi annual meetup. Yes, we're all very happy about that as well. Hey there's a meetup taking place today in the Northern Wake Ma y meetup at 6 o'clock at Saints and Scholars in Raleigh, North Carolina. On Saturday, the DFW, that's Dallas Fort Worth Mid-Cities meetup, 1130 in the morning at Chef Point Cafe in Colyville, Texas. is t It' itll be a relaxing lunch, Sir Nerdwork says. Also the Fort Wayne Club thirty three May Day Dancers meet up at one o'clock at Ole 's Pizza Pasta Pub in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and another one on Saturday, the Resist We Much um meetup in Los Banos, California at Min ed's Pizza, and that's at three thirty three PM . That'll be uh happy armed forces day. How about that? Sunday, our next show day, the Indy NA may the Road Rise to Meet You Meet up three o'clock at Saint Joseph Brewery and Public House in Indianapolis, uh, Indiana. That's always uh Dame Maria and Sir Mark of the Greenwood. They always put together a great meetup. There are many more taking place in the month of May on the twenty-first, Charlotte, North Carolina. 22nd Molazun. Oh, this is the um uh our our dame there in Guerrera Saint France. So make sure you check out Noahenda Meetups.com to find out where that is. The twenty third, Wilmington, Delaware, Los Angeles, California, Hickson, Tennessee, Franklin, Tennessee. At the twenty fourth, Keyport, New Jersey, Vancouver, British Columbia, and on the twenty fifth, Squim, Washington, Dame Mimi will be there with her too many eggs. com books and Anchorage, Alaska on May 30th. Many more meetups to be found at Noahgenda Meetups.com. This is where you get connection that will always bring protection. These people will be your first responders in any emergency. In fact, they'll make you stable, which always makes you able. Go to NoAgenda Meetups.com. If you can't find a meetup near you, even if you live in France, start one yourself. It's easy. Always guarantee to party. Noagenda meetups dot com Sometimes you wanna go hang out with all the nights and days . You wanna be where you won't be triggered on hell aim And thank you all very much for supporting the best podcast in the universe, the your no agenda show with your value for value We've got uh end of show mixes coming up along with John's tip of the day, but first the ISOs. It's three for three today, so let's see who gets that coveted final spot of the show. I will start. Dude, it's like genius. Genius, genius. No, I didn't like that one myself. Here we go. That was the hardest I've ever la We did it. Oh keep coming back to Alex Jones. We did it. Oh it's not oh but at first you're right. Yes. Let's start with chilling. This is a chill. This is chilling. This is serious. Definitely a contender. Wow, these Oops, sorry. Which one's next? Now we go to better. Hey, you will never find a better podcast than this. Okay, yeah, yeah. Alright, then the awards. Wow, these guys should win all the award s . I'm thinking this is a chill. This is chilling. This is serious. Well, I'm not sure now. Hey, you will never find a better podcast than this. Hey, you will never find a better podcast than this. I I think that that that is a good reminder for people. Okay. Okay, then you shouldn't argue. You can't argue because you gotta get ready for the tip of the day. Green fast for you and me. Just the tip with J CB . And sometimes Adam. Okay, I got a dynamite tip from one of the producers. Ooh. Producer too. And I'd like to get the producers in. Yes. Okay . Power Toys from Microsoft. Power Toys. Have you ever even heard of this? Uh Power Toys. What's the website? Well, the website, I'm gonna tell you how to people should find it the following way. You go to Google, you type in power toys. Power toys from Microsoft. Otherwise you have to type in a URL that's ridiculous. I'm going to tell you what it is. Learn.microsoft.com slash E N dash U I think I have seen this. This is funny. Yes. So it's a bunch of utilities. Uh free.. They're free Free. Free Mouse Without Borders. Woo! Yeah. Uh including yeah, advanced uh but uh advanced cut and paste, color pickers, crop and locks. You know what this reminds me of? This reminds me of the Mac days when you could install extensions. And then your Mac would take an hour to start up because of all those extensions were loading. Grab and move. This is the easiest way to do it is use this util ity. Uh comes in handy. Light switch. Check this out, people. Automatically switch between light and dark themes based on time of day. If you're still powerys to run quick again. So there's a ton of stuff here. If you're still using Windows, you deserve this. If you're still using Windows, you deserve this. That's a pretty funny tip of the day. Especially for those of us who use Linux. I mean I'm sorry. Yeah, well you should use w windows in some some way, shape, or form. I don't I I have no more windows in my life. Really? None. None whatsoever. Good for you. Good for you. I overwrote every single drive that had Windows and I put Omarchi on it. I'm sorry, GNU Linux. I I don't want to get in trouble. GNU Linux. Gnu Linux . Power tools. There you go. A tip of the day. It's not a little power toys. Power toys. Power toys. Power toys. Power toys. It's not the same as a great wine, but it could help you in a pinch. Create a fast free hour for me. And again stepped on Brunetti's you're always stepping on his credit. Has he not emailed you about this yet? No, he's missed that. Um just a i an interesting n non tip. Somebody sent me a picture. I don't know if this is real. I'd like somebody to verify it. There's a big bucket of wine that Costco is starting to sell, supposedly. Mm-hmm. A ten liter bucket of wine of cabernet. Does it have a spout ? I don't know. I there's just a bucket, you know. Or do you use a ladle? I have no idea. The whole thing is ludicrous . Uh we're gonna do a Costco run, so I'll take a look for myself . Uh that concludes our broadcast day. You got a full day's worth for sure. End of show mix es from Juss Baker and uh Daryl Crillo . Thank you both very much for these end of show mixes. Love them a lot. Love them a lot. Lots of slap. Coming up next on the No Agenda Stream if you are listening there, NoAgendaStream.com or the modern podcast app . Planet Rage . And uh they are also a value for value podcast, and I suggest you support them in a similar manner because uh those guys seem to be hurting. So help them out. Planet Rage, Darren and Laren, Darren and Laren, Darren and Larry . And uh we promise uh we'll be back on Sunday . Until then, uh coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country, glad to be back in Fredericksburg, Texas. In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern, I'm sorry, from Refinery Road. We can handle the heavy crude my by the way, like most people . 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