Boom, boom, crop, boom.
Adam Curry, John C.
Dvorak.
It's Thursday, May 15, 2025.
This is your award-winning Give on Asian
Media assassination episode 1764.
This is no agenda.
It's been six weeks and we're still broadcasting
live from the heart of the Texas hill
country here in FEMA region number six in
the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
I'm from northern Silicon Valley where you've noticed
that Trump finally looks tired.
I'm John C.
Dvorak.
It's crackpot and buzzkill in the morning.
He does look tired, doesn't he?
Well, he's wandering around the guy in Abu
Dhabi.
Yeah.
And he's just on his last legs.
You could, it just doesn't have, you know,
it's like, uh.
I'm tired just watching the guy.
It doesn't, doesn't surprise me.
I'm like.
Pooping every, yeah.
Hey, but before we get anywhere, breaking, breaking,
breaking, breaking.
Ow, Isis.
We will follow them to the gates of
hell.
Yeah.
Say goodbye to the old boss.
Say hello to the new boss.
Everything remains the same.
Strike one for Kash Patel, who was out
on the social medias this morning touting this.
Oh yeah, we took care of him, boy.
We protect you Americans.
Six weeks cycle, cycle still in full effect.
And now it's time for.
Sorry.
I was, was so well-timed.
It was so well-timed.
No wonder we're getting no donations.
You're going to blame me now.
Police and the FBI say they have stopped
a planned terror attack at a Metro Detroit
military base.
The accused mastermind, a 19-year-old former
member of the Michigan Army National Guard.
Again, a lot developing here at this hour.
Going to bring in Robin Murdoch with our
Fox 2 Detroit team.
Joining us live with what we know and
what is still left to figure out.
Good morning, Robin.
Good morning, Josh.
Yeah, what could have happened here is absolutely
frightening.
As you just mentioned, a 19-year-old
Melvindale man is behind bars this morning for
allegedly planning a terrorist attack at the TACOM
military facility here in Warren, where we are
right now.
He apparently, according to court documents, had been
planning this attack for about a year, and
he was arrested on the day that he
was supposed to carry this out.
So he was arrested on Tuesday.
19-year-old Ammar Syed had allegedly been
taking a couple or talking to a couple
of different undercover officers who were posing as
ISIS supporters.
Now, federal investigators say that he told them
how to make Molotov cocktails, gave them ammunition,
and even flew a drone over the military
base here to help plot that attack against
Syed.
Was arrested on the very same day he
was supposed to carry out this mass shooting.
Now, neighbors, as you can imagine, they were
just shocked when they saw the FBI raiding
his home in Melvindale.
The allegations are alarming and simply frightening.
Yeah, okay.
Same as it ever was.
They talked to this poor 18-year-old
kid for a year, hyping him up.
They got pictures of him doing Alawak bar
with the ISIS flag.
Hey, kid.
Hey, fly this drone around.
And the minute he gets to go, we
got you.
We're protecting you, America.
Cash in peace, Cash Patel.
That is lame.
It would be one thing if he was
like, oh, you know, that was the previous
FBI.
But no.
Why would they change the formula that works?
It doesn't work.
Except for you and I.
It's entrapment of children.
The guy always ends up getting off.
Most of these guys end up getting off.
This is a child who was just being
jacked up.
And they should have said to him, hey,
hey, son, sit down.
A year ago.
Sit down, son.
What is wrong with you?
Let's talk to you about this.
Get your parents in here.
Oh, that's 30 years ago.
Yeah, but this is MAGA.
This is America.
This is New America.
This is not Biden's America.
What is this nonsense?
Bush era did it.
Yeah, well, of course.
Everybody did it.
But this is MAGA time.
The Kash Patel was going to be different.
He's going to be different.
I'm going to do everything different.
No.
When's the last time that happened?
Well, I'm just saying that I'm very disappointed.
Very disappointed.
What a, what a loser system.
Oh, come on, kid.
Here, I'll show you how to make a
Molotov cocktail.
Make your own ammunition.
Like you just can't, like you can't go
out and buy it.
Make your own ammo.
I'll show you how to make some ammo.
We'll keep you busy.
These guys have been working this for a
year, wasting our money on this nonsense.
Well, that I agree with that part of
it.
Nonsense.
No, it's just, it is, it is not
cool.
Very disappointing.
He's up there now with A.G. Barbee.
Strike one against, actually, A.G. Barbee has
two strikes for Epstein and for JFK.
I'm sure she was probably, she's probably out
there today too.
Well, we saved everybody.
I don't know if you're going to go
with that.
Terrorist attack.
The strikes.
What about Diddy?
Where's the, where's the tapes?
Well, the tapes apparently were showed in court.
Well, some, well, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
The freak off tapes here.
Sean Diddy combs in Cassie Ventura on the
red carpet for a movie premiere in March
of 2016.
Jurors shown similar pictures from that night today
in court in the sex trafficking and racketeering
trial of Combs.
He has pleaded not guilty to all charges
against him.
Ventura and Combs were dating at the time,
but split in 2018.
Taking the stand for a second day, she
told jurors she wore a lot of makeup
and sunglasses that night to cover bruising on
her face.
Ventura testifying those bruises were caused by Combs
two days before the premiere during a drug
-fueled sex party he called a freak off.
She told jurors Combs threw a vase of
flowers at her when she tried to leave
the hotel.
The jury seeing this image showing shards of
glass on the floor in the hotel hallway.
This video of Combs throwing Ventura to the
ground- The hallway beating.
What?
No, no, no, no, no, listen.
And kicking her in that hallway was also
entered into evidence.
Prosecutors showing the jury seven still images from
those videos in court today.
Ventura testified when she got home, a friend
noticed that injury at her swollen lip and
called police.
She said she didn't want to name Combs,
so police left.
Jurors showed a text message from Ventura to
Combs saying you are sick for thinking it's
okay to do what you've done.
A prosecutor asked how frequently did Sean put
his hands on you during freak offs?
Ventura responded too frequently.
A lot.
The singer testified the freak offs also became
private pornography shoots with Combs setting up video
equipment to record that she felt humiliated, testifying
it was just not okay for me and
that she felt like an object without a
choice in whether or not to participate.
Ventura testifying Combs threatened.
I'm sure that this clip said they showed
the freak off videos.
Hold on her career and family.
Prosecutors showing the jury and only the jury.
Some of those videos in court today.
Uh huh.
Told you the defense is arguing Ventura that
tells us that they saw some of the
only the jurors.
Some of the what videos?
Which one?
The freak off video.
She said it right there.
The freak off videos that were that were
recorded by Combs here saying she feared for
her career and family.
Prosecutors showing the jury and only the jury.
Some of those videos in court today.
Yeah, the freak off videos.
They've shown them some of the freak off
video.
So do you keep throwing the word freak
off in there?
They said it.
She said they showed the jury some of
the videos.
They didn't say freak off videos.
You play it over and over again and
you're hearing it wrong.
They're talking about the porn pornographic video shot
during the freak.
Listen, listen, open your ears and listen from
Ventura to Combs.
Saying you are sick for thinking it's OK
to do what you've done.
A prosecutor asked how frequently did Sean put
his hands on you during freak offs?
Ventura responded too frequently.
A lot.
The singer testified the freak offs also became
private pornography shoots with Combs setting up video
equipment to record that she felt humiliated, testifying
it was just not OK for me and
that she felt like an object without a
choice in whether or not to participate.
Ventura testifying Combs threatened to release the videos
when he was upset about something saying she
feared for her career and family.
Prosecutors showing the jury and only the jury
some of those videos in court today.
That's so it's those videos.
That's clear from the report.
You agree?
No.
OK, I inferred.
Yes, it's implied.
They're saying the video, the freak off videos
that she was OK, but they don't use
it.
They don't present it that way.
OK, I'm going to parse it because that's
what they do.
That's what the media does.
They they say one thing and then they
kind of lead you astray and then make
you sound like you're something like something's going
on when it's not.
Unless they said they showed them freak off
videos, I'm not.
They showed videos.
OK, well, it showed some of those videos.
And OK, whatever you just hear it differently.
That's fine.
It's fine.
You know what?
I spoke to those high school kids here
yesterday morning and it was really that's right.
You were a big guy.
You were the you were the.
Superstar speaker to the high school.
Yes.
And and I it was actually very good
for me because I realized as I was
sitting there talking about, you know, it was
supposed to be a propaganda.
And, you know, if you look up the
definition of propaganda, it is influencing people through
communications.
Doesn't have to be mass communications can even
be through hairdos or hats or anything like
that to work on their on their emotions.
That's exactly what it is.
And, you know, I referred to Edward Bernays,
who wrote the book, and that was all
before Hitler.
And that was 1929 when he had the
suffragettes and the torches of freedom.
And this is cigarettes.
Yeah.
And as I'm going through it, I'm like,
you know, every single thing, even stuff you
and I say is all propaganda.
And when I said, who do you think
is the biggest propagandist in America right now?
One kid, Levi, stuck up his hand.
He went, President Donald Trump.
I said, yes, MAGA.
He's got hats.
He's got a slogan.
It's just he's not playing on fear necessarily.
And then I just remember.
You don't have to play on fear to
make it propaganda.
No, but fear is much easier to do.
But, you know, all most people have is,
he's Hitler.
He's taking free jets.
Speaking of which, I see you have a
3x3.
I guess the Jones Brothers syndicate has brought
you back into their inner circle.
Am I assuming this correctly?
They chum the water once in a while.
And now it's time for 3x3.
Chum the water.
Experiment by JC Dean.
Oh yeah, baby.
Comparing stories from ABC, CBS and NBC.
So before you get into it, I just
want to say that is it possible that
someone in the M5M news media will figure
out the algorithm that is President Donald Trump?
Do they not understand by now that this
is, to use a term, chum in the
water to look over here while I'm doing
something over there?
Because if you even try to figure out
where did this story come from about the
jet?
Where did it come from?
It came from the Trump administration themselves.
They planted this.
They launched it.
And everybody, everyone, everyone went for it.
It is baffling how...
He's the master troller.
Everybody knows this.
He's a master propagandist.
It was fantastic.
He played right into them.
No, they played right into him.
Yes, they played right into him.
And I'm just like the BBC is doing
a better job at reporting these days than
anything we have.
And oh man, they even have it.
What was the name they have now for
it?
What was it?
I saw the rising.
What is the rising?
Had something, the rising.
The rising.
Oh yeah, listen to this.
Bride Force One controversy.
Bride Force One.
Oh, we have a name for it.
Oh yes, it's a controversy.
He's taking favors from Qatar.
He can't fly in a jet that might
explode him in air because they've planted bombs
on it.
Or are eavesdropping.
How feeble minded are you people?
Or are they just playing a game?
Do you think they really know it all?
And they're like, okay, we'll play the game.
Is that possible?
No, I worked in there.
Then we are, you and I are working
amongst people who are below our intelligence level.
I don't know if we can do this
anymore.
It is so insulting that this just, you
know, the news is filled with it.
Here in the United States, we have no
news.
No news.
It's all entertainment tonight.
It reminds me, you know, I was watching
CBS.
I didn't get any clips from the show,
but CBS with John Dickerson and this other
character whose name I can never remember is
French.
And they're trying to recreate the Chet Huntley,
David Brinkley combo.
Two guys yakking with each other.
And it's just not working.
You can tell that both these guys, the
one guy's big.
He's a big dark skinned guy with a
French name.
He's maybe black and maybe Spanish.
I can't tell.
And John Dickerson, who's, you know, white as
you can be.
And Beta, you know, he's very soft spoken.
And these two guys are like, just like
water and oil.
I mean, they don't, you can tell they
don't like each other because Huntley and Brinkley,
people don't remember them.
I'm old enough to.
They were cordial.
They liked each other.
They'd hang out.
You could just tell it was a good
team.
You watch these two guys.
It's like watching, you know, a couple that
just hates each other.
Here's another thing I realized in preparation for
my big speech for the high school.
These kids, why would they listen to this
show?
The next generation is not interested in what
we're doing.
They don't watch television at all, at all,
at all, at all.
Zero.
They don't watch PBS.
They don't listen to NPR.
None of this.
It's, it's, you know, we're, we're.
You brought this up.
And it reminds me, as I have seen
some notes from some of these, this group.
There are some kids who do, but it's
rare.
A few, a few.
Sure.
But I've seen notes to this effect, what
you just said, condemning the show because who
cares about what CBS said?
I mean, it's not the fact that CBS
still has millions and millions of viewers.
And it does affect the public and it
definitely affects Washington more than anything.
Because the people in Washington, our leaders all
watch these networks.
Our leaders all read the New York Times,
etc.
And so there's some reason to do this,
but.
Not much.
Basically, basically condemning us for being, what difference
does it make?
We need to be screaming and yelling about
other podcasters.
Here was my test.
Anyone hear about the President Trump jet controversy?
Three hands.
Three, three hands.
This has been blanketing our media for a
week.
Three, three hands.
How many kids were there?
A hundred?
No, less than that.
And I say, how many of you have
heard about the TikTok ban?
Boom, all hands up.
What was it about?
China's tracking us.
Of course, I dispelled that for them.
But that's, that's, that's the whole point.
It's like you actually, I've been withholding you
from the right direction from the show.
We just need to do wall-to-wall
TikTok clips, man.
Wall-to-wall.
Don't forget some today.
Yeah, I just need to do wall-to
-wall TikTok clops.
TikTok clops.
Tick-tick-tock-tock clops.
And we just got to be commenting on
them.
And we got to be talking about Megyn
Kelly.
And we got to be talking about Dave
Smith on Tucker Carlson.
And about all these people.
That's, that's, that is the future of the
show.
Otherwise, we're riding our audience into the pearly
gates.
Into the pearly gates.
There's something to be said for that.
And I think others would agree.
Now, I do have a Dave Smith clip
I want to play later.
Which reiterates, the reason I caught this.
It's a real good one too.
You'll get a kick out of it.
I don't think most people caught it.
But it reiterates something else that we've, in
the background, have discussed.
Well, do you want to do the three
-by-three first?
Or do you want to go?
I'm sorry.
You already introduced the three-by-three.
We've got three clips about the stupid jet.
Three clips from stations you kids don't watch.
The kids don't care about.
But I'll tell you this.
This is not an emolument situation as far
as I can tell.
You have to remember that we receive, we
receive gifts from foreign countries all the time.
We do?
The Statue of Liberty?
Oh no, I thought you and me, like
the show.
I'm like, what?
Oh, I wish.
Send me a jet.
We get a box of candy once in
a while.
From out of state.
Yeah.
Yes.
I do get some sweatshirts and hoodies.
Yeah, but your point is well made.
Of course, there's all kinds of gifts.
But you know, the whole idea here is,
let's start some noise that makes it look
like Trump is trying to benefit from his
kids.
You know, they're doing hotels in Qatar.
And this is all, this is a grift.
It's a grift, man.
It's a bunch of grifters.
That's the implication.
So let's start with, let's start with the
CIA, the CBS.
Air Force One, an undeniable representation of American
power, ferried President Trump to the Middle East
today.
But three months ago, the president toured an
opulent Boeing 747, described as a flying palace
with a master bedroom, elegant bathrooms and staircase,
offered to the U.S. government free of
charge by the royal family of Qatar.
Trump seems all in.
And I could be a stupid person and
say, no, we don't want a free, very
expensive airplane.
But it was, I thought it was a
great gesture.
Frank Kendall served as Air Force Secretary in
the Biden administration and says this idea shouldn't
fly.
It's a symbol of the presidency.
It's a symbol of the American people.
And it's just frankly wrong for the president
to be flying an airplane, which when anyone
sees it will be seen as a gift
from Qatar.
The Qatari plane is built by Boeing in
the U.S., but it would have to
be scrubbed for spyware.
And it lacks at least a billion dollars
worth of presidential parts, a flying situation room,
a medical clinic and top secret technology.
Air Force One is a flying White House.
It is equipped with everything the president needs
that you can get into a 747 so
he can do his job while he's traveling.
This aircraft will not have those things.
So how much is it going to cost
to retrofit a palace into the White House?
It would take years and it would be
very expensive.
But Kendall says the commander in chief has
the power to fly on any aircraft he
wants.
And he can say, I don't care about
any of those things.
All I want is a luxurious airplane that
I can fly around on.
And is our other lawmakers in Washington OK
with this gift?
No.
Oh, there's bipartisan condemnation of this.
Democrats are saying they're going to block Justice
Department nominees because officials there have signed off
on this agreement.
The president himself, back in his first term,
accused Qatar of being a funder of terrorism.
But for now, he says he wants the
plane.
You know, the thing that I don't think
anyone mentioned might be in your three by
threes, not a single person, news person or
not, mentioned that the term Air Force One
is any if the president decides to get
into a Cessna 172 and fly around, that
is then Air Force One.
So just a small point.
But they didn't even make that.
They don't make any points that said this
is all bad.
By the way, that's interesting.
These not the guys on the networks, but
all these people, these spokespeople, I'm starting to
hear this more and more.
People are pronouncing, you know, Qatar's been pronounced.
Gutter.
You noticed it, too.
Oh, yeah.
Gutter.
It's gutter.
It's.
Cutter.
You could say cutter or Qatar.
I always I like Qatar better.
Qatar's.
I like Qatar better.
Sounds like a guitar.
You know, yeah, guitar.
I play my guitar in Qatar and my
chicks for free.
So, yes, I've noticed this gutter thing myself.
Well, I'm sure the subliminal gutter.
It's just the gutter.
There's the gutter over there.
That's the reason.
There's a reason to say gutter.
Well, there's a reason to say Keeve.
So let's go with let's move to I'm
going to say let's go to NBC.
The president is defending his decision to accept
a super luxury jumbo jet from the Qatari
government for the Pentagon to use as the
new Air Force One amid ongoing delays for
a replacement jet from Boeing.
A White House official confirms these are pictures
of its interior.
The president says the jet will be transferred
to the Trump Presidential Library Foundation when he
leaves office.
The White House says legal details are still
being worked out on the proposed gift, while
Qatar says no final agreement has been reached.
I think that was a very nice gesture.
Now, I could be a stupid person and
say, oh, no, we don't want a free
plane.
We get free things.
We'll take one, too.
Aviation experts tell NBC News the jet would
likely have to be dismantled part by part
to look for listening devices, then upgraded with
expensive systems.
Same story.
And missile defense.
Democrats are blasting the proposed gift as a
threat to national security.
What people will now see is.
Wait a minute.
Don't they want him dead?
Isn't this wouldn't this be great?
Yeah.
Get on that plane, man.
Who knows what's going on now?
It's a threat to national security.
All of a sudden.
Blasting the proposed gift as a threat to
national security.
What people will now see is the most
powerful man on Earth flying around in a
plane paid for by a foreign government.
It's disgusting.
It's wildly corrupt.
It's corrupt.
There you go.
It's corrupt.
They all took the chum.
It's like a chew toy.
Like, you know, there's another aspect of my
chew toy.
Another aspect of this is to give the
needle to Boeing for not finishing the jet.
They're supposed to be.
This was taking 10 years and they can't
get this, you know, the 747 presidential upgrade
done.
To me, that was the whole point of
saying it.
That's what I think.
I think it was one of the.
Yeah, for sure.
Well, but then he subsequently went and did,
you know, like a hundred billion plus dollar
deal for Boeing.
Like, and he said, get those jets out
there, boys.
Come on now.
So, yeah.
Can't believe we're discussing this.
But that's exactly what your propagandistic news media
all around the world has done.
And we only have one left.
And this will take it to any reason.
Saving ABC to the end.
I do want to mention that on today's.
It was very interesting on today's The View.
They had the regular team and then they
brought Kelsey Grammer on to talk about his.
What does he have?
He has a new movie book, a new
book.
What is it?
Tell all book, because he's been 5 5
about the murder of his sister 50 years
ago.
Kelsey Grammer is an interesting dude, man.
So he's got this book.
So they brought him out.
Yeah.
Sonny Hauston and Joy Behar were not on
the set when Kelsey was on the set.
Now, I thought, well, maybe they filmed it
some other time.
But once Kelsey left the set, those two
came back on.
I wonder why.
Well, because Kelsey works for Fox and he's
a Republican.
Kelsey Grammer works for Fox?
Yeah, he's on the Fox, whatever that streaming
services doing history lessons.
I missed that.
Yeah, it's a gig.
Well, it is a gig.
But the fact is that those two stiffs
would not.
ABC has got to get it together.
They can't put up with this guy.
This is you can't do that.
You can't walk out on a guest because
of politics when they're talking about a book
about a dead sister.
Like anyone, like anyone cares what they do
on The View.
Who cares?
Well, I guess the ABC execs sure don't
care.
No, no, they don't.
But so here we go.
So I save ABC for last because they're
the worst.
President Trump today defended the $400 million gift
he wants to accept from the government of
Qatar, a massive 747-8 luxury jet that's
been called a flying palace.
The jet, which is bigger and more luxurious
than Air Force One, would almost certainly be
the most expensive gift ever from a foreign
power.
It has two fully furnished floors, plush carpet,
leather couches and two bedrooms.
Under the entirely unprecedented arrangement, the Qatari royal
family would give the plane to the Pentagon
to be used as Air Force One.
But shortly before Trump leaves office, ownership would
transfer to the Trump Presidential Library Foundation.
I would never be one to turn down
that kind of an offer.
I mean, I could be a stupid person
and say, no, we don't want a free,
very expensive airplane.
Democrats say accepting the Qatari jet would be
clearly illegal, violating the Constitution's ban on gifts
from foreign heads of state.
His shameless self-enrichment is without equal in
American history.
Hillary Clinton pointed to the president's comments that
children might have to settle for just two
dolls because of the impact of his tariffs.
Clinton posting, so American children should make do
with two dolls while Donald Trump gets a
free sky palace from the Qatari government.
Well done, ABC.
Oh, well done.
OK.
And the top Democrat on the Armed Services
Committee, Jack Reed, flagged alarming national security concerns,
warning using the Qatari jet as the new
Air Force One would, quote, pose immense counterintelligence
risks by granting a foreign nation potential access
to sensitive systems and communications.
Trump today angrily dismissed the criticism.
They're giving us a free jet.
I could say, no, no, no, don't give
us.
I want to pay you a billion or
400 million or whatever it is.
Or I could say, thank you very much.
Attorney General Pam Bondi argues the arrangement with
Qatar is legal, insisting the plane is not
a bribe because the Qatari royal family is
getting nothing in return.
So that was Jonathan Karl, right?
Yep.
So then.
So John, did you see Jonathan Karl getting
interviewed about this huge story he's been talking
about?
No.
Oh, oh, yes.
In the meantime, we turn to the uproar
over the 400 million dollar gift from the
government of Qatar tonight, a luxury 747 jumbo
jet to be used as Air Force One
until the end of Trump's term when the
White House says it would be decommissioned and
donated to the Trump Library.
Tonight, President Trump answering questions on this.
And there are many critics asking, is this
ethical?
Is it legal?
And how safe is it for an American
president to be flying on a jet given
to him by a foreign nation?
President Trump saying he would be a stupid
person to turn the offer down.
Jonathan Karl broke the story.
And John's back on this tonight.
He broke the story.
Not break the story.
He broke it, baby.
Jonathan Karl is the man.
He broke the story.
He had inside sources that, oh, they're giving
Trump a jet.
Someone in the White House called Jonathan Karl
and said, that's why, by the way, that's
why Trump did this.
Mr. President, what do you say to people
who view that luxury jet as a personal
gift to you?
Why not leave it behind?
Your NBC fake news, right?
Only ABC.
Well, a few of you would.
Let me tell you.
So he calls out ABC fake news because
he gave the story to ABC to humiliate
them.
It's so obvious what's going on here.
And they took the bait and the hook
and the line and the sinker.
But Jonathan Karl, he's a hero.
President Trump today defended the 400.
That's similar to your clip.
I want to get to the Jonathan Karl.
He listens to this.
OK.
Trump today angrily dismissed the criticism.
They're giving us a free jet.
We had all that.
Maybe this.
OK, John, you broke the story.
All right, John Karl, you broke the story.
John, you laid out there many of the
questions, but there's another one.
And it's a big one.
You know, folks are asking how safe would
this be for an American president to be
flying around on a jet given by a
foreign government?
And wouldn't this jet have to be significantly
taken apart to make sure it's secure from
surveillance, from spying?
And how long would that take?
David, it would require extensive modifications.
The Air Force has strict requirements for any
presidential aircraft in terms of the security and
communications features.
A presidential plane must be able to operate
even in the event of a nuclear blast.
And of course, as you mentioned, it would
have to go through a security sweep to
search for listening devices and tracking devices.
How long would it take?
The White House, White House officials have suggested
it could be done by the end of
the year.
But many experts say it could actually take
years to accomplish all of that.
John Carl, who broke the story on this
week.
John, thank you.
He broke the story.
He was handed the story so they could
be human.
Trump is in his element here.
And he got everything he wanted, including delusional
Democrats.
And the Democrats are fighting it only because
they want to fight.
They have Trump derangement syndrome.
You know, if it was somebody else, they
wouldn't fight.
If you had a normal person, you had
some stiff sitting behind you, they'd be fine.
But they have Trump derangement syndrome.
You know, Senator Schumer has become a Palestinian.
Welcome.
I don't know when they're going to give
him the ceremony, whatever the ceremony may be.
It's terrible what's happened to the Democrats.
Yeah.
So he got that extra.
I thought France 24 did a great job
because they pulled in some of his classic
quotes while he was on the road.
Touchdown of Air Force One in Doha for
the second leg of Donald Trump's Middle East
tour.
And the red carpet is rolled out.
Greeted on the tarmac by Qatar's emir, Tamim
bin Hamad Al Fahmy.
The U.S. president was treated to a
traditional sword dance and a procession of camels
for a formal welcome at Qatar's royal court,
where Trump got down to business, signing an
array of deals between Washington and Doha, including
a record order of Boeing planes by Qatar
Airways.
From Boeing, that's the largest order of jets
in the history of Boeing.
That's pretty good.
Over 200 billion dollars.
Didn't hear anyone on ABC, NBC or CBS
talk about that.
But 160 in terms of the jets.
That's fantastic.
A joint statement on defense cooperation and a
drone deal were also signed.
The lavish welcome also saw a sit down
in the luxurious Al Emiri Palace, where the
U.S. president was full of praise.
You're going to have a look at this.
It's so beautiful.
As a construction person, I'm seeing perfect marble.
This is what they call perfecto.
What a beautiful place.
And we appreciate those camels.
I haven't seen camels in a long time.
Best camels ever.
I love your camel.
So you got beautiful camels.
Trump also expressed his admiration for the Qatari
emir and Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman,
who he met in Riyadh on Tuesday.
You two guys get along so well and
like each other.
You sort of remind me a little bit
of each other, if you want to know
the truth.
They're both tall, handsome guys that happen to
be very smart.
A charm offensive in Qatar as Trump comes
under fire for saying he wanted to accept
a luxury jet worth $400 million from the
oil rich Gulf country, arguing that he would
be stupid to turn down a free gift.
So, as I said, the BBC, they actually
were reporting on stuff about this major trade
deal.
It's, you know, it's reported between 600 billion
and 1.2 trillion dollars.
I don't know exactly where it comes from,
but it's impressive numbers.
And at least they had some some journalistic
reporting.
President Trump is continuing his tour of the
Middle East.
On Wednesday, he was in Qatar, where he
signed a series of deals, including a huge
order for Boeing planes.
It's the largest order of jets in the
history of Boeing.
That's pretty good.
It's over 200 billion dollars, but 160 in
terms of the jets.
That's fantastic.
So that's a record.
And congratulations.
What?
Was that error message in the middle of
that clip?
Was that from your clip?
He said 160.
No, no, I'm talking about the window sound.
No, I didn't hear a window sound.
That's on your end.
Mr. Boeing, get those planes out there.
Our North America editor, Sarah Smith, is traveling
with Mr. Trump.
So what sort of welcome?
Well, was Jonathan Karl traveling with Mr. Trump?
I doubt it.
Has he had on his tour so far?
It's been very lavish.
These Arab states that he's visiting seem to
be competing with each other to show who
can put on the more sumptuous welcome for
Donald Trump.
So as he came in from the airport
this afternoon, he was met by a caravan
of camels and there were dancing men with
swords along the length of the highway.
And now he's turning up for a state
dinner at the Royal Palace.
And yet again, there is all kinds of
ceremony to greet him there.
And he loves it.
I mean, you can see how much he
is enjoying this tour of the Middle East,
where he is being feted by royalty and,
you know, as he visits some of the
wealthiest countries in the world.
And he's able to seal some very lucrative
deals as he goes around clearly enjoying himself.
Not just lucrative deals, but of course, there's
this huge arms deal with Saudi Arabia, which
is a clear signal to the Iranians like,
hey, we're not going to do anything, but
these guys will.
They don't like you.
So all I have to do is snap
my fingers and you guys are in trouble.
So let's make a deal.
We begin in Saudi Arabia.
President Trump has made a raft of significant
announcements in the Gulf state on the first
day of his tour of the Middle East.
Speaking after a lavish lunch hosted by the
kingdom's crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, he said
the two had signed commercial agreements worth more
than $600 billion.
The White House said these included the largest
defense sales deal in history.
That was a minor detail Jonathan Karl didn't
bring up.
Mr. Trump spoke at an investment forum in
the Saudi capital Riyadh, heaping praise on his
hosts.
I want to thank his royal highness, the
crown prince, for that incredible introduction.
He's an incredible man.
Known him a long time now.
There's nobody like him.
I've never forgotten the exceptional hospitality show to
us by King Salman, who's just, we talk
about a great man.
That is a great man.
That is a great man, a great family.
President Trump said Iran was the most destructive
force in the Middle East and contrasted its
actions with what he deemed as positive developments
on the Arabian Peninsula.
In his speech, Mr. Trump urged Tehran to
make what he called a deal with Washington
or face devastating consequences.
I'm here today not merely to condemn the
past chaos of Iran's leaders, but to offer
them a new path toward a far better
and more hopeful future.
I want to make a deal with Iran.
If I can make a deal with Iran,
I'll be very happy if we're going to
make your region and the world a safer
place.
But if Iran's leadership rejects this olive branch
and continues to attack their neighbors, then we
will have no choice but to inflict massive
maximum pressure.
Pressure.
Drive Iranian oil exports to zero and take
all action required to stop the regime from
ever having a nuclear weapon.
Iran will never have a nuclear weapon.
This is so good.
He's in Saudi Arabia and says, I'm here
to make a deal with Iran.
This is called the $600 billion deal of
devastation we will unleash on you if you
don't do a deal.
It's baffling that no news media puts these
two little bits together.
Well, NTD did.
Wow, NTD.
NTD.
I mean, Fox did.
Not where's your clip?
Well, I don't have to play those clips.
But the point is, is that it has
it was discussed.
But you're right.
What you're saying is that the big three.
Yes.
Said nothing because they were there in the
bag for the Democrat Party and Chuck Schumer.
Yes.
And I agree.
And then this was underplayed, I felt in
the United States.
But the meeting with the the new the
new guy in Syria, who's not a new
guy.
We've known about this guy, but it's OK.
This is a guy.
And Trump will go meet him.
It wasn't expected to be a long meeting.
Donald Trump had merely said he would say
hello to the Syrian president, Ahmed al-Shara.
I'll just say hello to Saudi Arabia.
But this was the first time in a
quarter of a century that an American leader
met their Syrian counterpart.
And more than that, Mr. al-Shara leads
a group still listed as a terrorist organization
by many countries, an offshoot of al-Qaeda.
But speaking afterwards, President Trump made clear his
name.
That brief hello is intended to be just
the start of a new diplomatic era between
the two countries.
Brief hello.
We are currently exploring normalizing relations with Syria's
new government, as you know, beginning with my
meeting with President Ahmed al-Shara.
Secretary Rubio's meeting with the Syrian foreign minister
in Turkey.
I am also ordering the cessation of sanctions
against Syria to give them a fresh start.
Fresh start.
And that, of course, represents a major concrete
development in the new U.S.-Syria diplomacy, a
concrete step which is not merely of interest
to businesspeople and economists.
Just listen to these ordinary Syrians welcoming the
news on the streets of the capital, Damascus.
The feeling is indescribable.
Unbelievable happiness.
Hopefully, God helps this country and it will
be better for everyone.
Congratulations to everyone.
There is incredible happiness for all Syrians.
It will be great for our country.
Construction will return.
The refugees will return.
Everyone will return.
The prices will drop.
There is good to come, God willing.
It just needs a bit of patience.
But good things are coming our way.
So you and I would just be like,
OK, well, that's interesting.
A guy used to be a terrorist.
And now we're going to wipe the slate
clean.
It's probably a little jab towards Israel at
the same time.
But see, this is where we're doing things
wrong.
We need to be like Scott Horton.
We need to go on Judge Knapp show
and talk about what a horrible dictator.
And this is no good.
Before you go on to that clip, since
you're going and going, I don't want you
to get too far off the track.
But I know what you're headed.
Just as a subtext, I want to mention
the fact that this show has determined early
on during the ISIS era that ISIS was
created by us.
And the one thing that was very noticeable
about ISIS is they never attacked Israel.
They never had anything negative to do with
Israel.
No, Israel is their handlers.
I think that's pretty well established now.
So so when Trump meets with his ex
ISIS guy.
He's an employee.
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
But you see, that's not the way to
go.
That's not what gets people to listen to
our show.
I'm just I'm doing media deconstruction on ourselves.
This is going to be the theme for
the show.
It is.
Don't worry, I've got to.
I got TikTok clips coming.
I know.
You're going to save the day with TikTok
clubs.
I can't say it.
TikTok, TikTok, Klop Klip Klops.
So, yeah.
So, of course, Scott Horton, who wrote the
book.
He wrote the book on everything.
He went on Judge Knapp to set the
record straight.
According to Max Blumenthal, they are slaughtering Alawites
and Christians in Syria.
By the thousands.
This is the guy that Trump embraced.
This is the guy that Trump praised.
And this is the guy, the head of
the government, theoretically, from which Trump removed sanctions.
This is a guy who, until a month
ago, Trump's own State Department had a $10
million bounty on his head.
Yeah.
And look, the thing is, I wrote my
book is called Enough Already, Time to End
the War on Terrorism.
And I don't argue in there that there's
no enemies out there.
There are Bin Ladenites out there.
And I would never recommend in a million
years that Trump lead another war against this
new Bin Ladenite state in Syria.
Somebody else is going to have to work
that out.
But for God's sake, we shouldn't be backing
him.
So lift the sanctions, yes, but officially normalize
relations with them.
I don't know why.
Why can't we lean on the Turks to
put somebody who's not a former, supposedly, sworn
blood oath member of Al-Qaeda in charge
of Damascus?
It's crazy.
And clearly, it's up to the Turks to
decide.
They have 100,000 times the state power
that this new Syrian regime has.
They can go in there and change things.
Why does this have to be the status
quo?
See, this is what we're doing wrong.
You need to go on Judge Knapp's show,
and you really need to get out there,
John.
You need to say, listen, I wrote the
book on vinegar.
And I know that this is not the
way to go with Syria.
We can't do this.
This is a murdering butcher.
We can't have any of this happening.
And Trump is corrupt.
With respect to Mohammed bin Salman, Trump has
to cozy up to him.
Trump's boys are building high-rises in Saudi
Arabia.
Yeah, Trump's boys.
I'm not going to talk to you because
you butchered, I forget the fellow's name, the
reporter from the Washington Post.
Khashoggi, I can't remember his name.
Khashoggi's name.
Yeah, Khashoggi, Crown Prince Bonesaw, we used to
call him there.
No, NBC called him that.
There's still no actual evidence that took place.
Scott Horton wrote the book.
I think I might have got Kennedy in
trouble on Fox Business Channel for calling him
that.
But yeah, he is a murderer.
And he's, of course, the butcher of the
Yemenis from 2015 through 22 as well.
Mohammed bin Salman is a terrible guy.
And I don't know the intricacies of Trump's
son's business relations over there.
They ought to be able to keep that
separate, even if they are doing that.
And they should not be doing that while
he is in power.
But even if they are, they ought to
be able to keep that separate.
And just like Joe Biden ought to be
able to say, I'm sorry, your business interests
don't mean anything compared to the foreign policy
interests of the United States of America.
And if we have to play hardball with
these countries, we're going to.
But yeah, clearly, it's a major disincentive for
doing that.
Yeah, see, this is our problem.
We're too glib.
We're too cavalier.
We're laughing.
We're laughing about everything to make people happy
and to make them not so somber about
the news.
We have to be like, well, this is
serious business, man.
And they can't accept a jet.
What is your opinion of this $400 million
plane as a gift that the Qataris want
to give to the Defense Department and then
to Trump's library?
I mean, do the Qataris give these things
not expecting a quid pro quo?
I can't imagine.
And, you know, it's really a shame.
I mean, the whole idea is just crazy.
Trump ought to obviously just turn them down
and say thank you.
But no, thank you.
It's a massive conflict of interest.
Just that there any foreign state, if it
was the English or the French or anybody
else, the Statue of Liberty, anybody, Germans, we
shouldn't be doing this kind of deal with
any foreign country.
And clearly, when it's a monarchy, a royal
monarchy in the Middle East, it's crazy.
They were camel drivers, man, not a monarchy.
They just made them made up some titles
for themselves that we would have that kind
of relationship with there.
And then, yes, of course, just like with
every foreign expenditure in this country, there's a
massive conflict of interest, you know, with all
of the exactly.
And it's you got to take responsibility.
Don't worry, I'll spare the rest.
But it gets down to Israel eventually.
Believe me, we should not be paying for
Israel to slaughter innocent people.
That's what it always comes down to with
these guys.
Well, there's also there's another thing going on.
I have a clip that kind of backs
up that clip again on Judge Knapp.
Hey, you're fishing in my in my pond.
Well, this clip has been floating around and
this is Scott Ritter.
Another fine, another fine, another fine example.
And I'll say this.
This is this started once Trump.
Here's the backstory was written up in the
newsletter about how it's possible that Hexeth was
set up.
Yes.
They wanted him out.
They wanted him out because they want because
Mike Waltz and all that.
There's still neocons around and people don't like
using the term anymore because it's I don't
know why.
But Mark Levin is part of this.
And he went after Tucker Carlson on his
on his radio show and calling him Oswald
the 30 mocking him for being a kind
of a pretty boy.
And I went back and listened to the
Dave Smith thing where Tucker brought up Mark
Levin and Dave Smith.
The Dave Smith clip, which is the one
I have is going to do with this
particular topic.
But Tucker was very mild about complaining about
Mark Levin.
He said that Mark Levin is once war
with Iran.
And he does.
If you listen to Mark Levin radio show
or his TV stuff, he wants war with
Iran.
He wants Iran to be bombed to oblivion.
You know, Israel's the greatest place in the
world.
And bomb Iran bomb.
He's the bomb bomb bomb.
Yes, bomb Iran McCain.
John McCain.
Yes.
And Mike Waltz apparently was doing a thing
with Netanyahu and the whole set up to
get Hex was actually a set up.
It was kind of a double crossed.
And the idea was to get rid of
Mike Waltz because he has been.
Doing back deals with Netanyahu to bomb Iran.
Yes.
And Trump is totally against it.
And but that's one of the reasons he
went to the Middle East to tell everybody
there that, look, we'll do it, but we
don't want to.
No, well, we'll have the Saudis do it.
We don't want to.
But if we have, we don't want anybody
to do this.
He doesn't want to.
No, he doesn't want to do anything like
that.
He's more anti war than Dave Smith and
Scott Horton combined.
So you got these guys coming out of
the woodwork.
And he would include Douglas Murray in that,
as I discussed in that article in the
newsletter that people should be subscribed to.
But here is a Scott Ritter all of
a sudden turning into a neocon and turning
on the whole administration, Trump and everybody in
between in a way that is just like,
what is wrong with this guy?
Marco Rubio is a bigger traitor to Donald
Trump and Donald Trump's policies than Mike Pompeo
was.
It is it is Marco Rubio that has
sunk the Russia policy and he's sinking the
Iran policy.
He's preventing Trump from achieving the policies.
When I say prevent Trump, it's because Trump
is ultimately, at the end of the day,
a very weak and insecure man who doesn't
have what it takes to stand up, look
people in the eye and say, you're fired.
And that's what he needs to do to
Marco Rubio right now, fire him, terminate his
existence.
But he took 100 million dollars from Edelman's
widow.
And, you know, gosh, he surrounded himself with
the wrong people.
But Donald Trump, this is why he's failing
right now because of Marco Rubio.
And Marco Rubio is behind Mike Walsh being
kicked out.
Does Donald Trump understand what's at stake in
the special military operation in Ukraine?
No, I don't think Donald Trump.
I don't think Donald Trump can spell Russia,
let alone understand the complexities of Russia.
He certainly doesn't understand Ukraine because he is
although he's a schizophrenic when it comes to
Zelensky.
One minute he rightly calls him out as
this irresponsible dictator.
The next minute he speaks about him as
if he's the legitimate leader of a viable
nation state.
He doesn't know how to deal with NATO
or Europe.
He's all over the place.
And one of the reasons because of the
conflicting guidance he's getting from his national security
team, led by Marco Rubio, who is, you
know, continues to sell, you know, Europe is
a viable ally.
Europe is not our ally.
This is a very enlightening clip for me.
The Fred freak out crew has been talking
this way about Rubio for a couple of
weeks, which means it's in the it's in
the it's in the transom is being transmitted.
And we know exactly where that comes from.
Defense.
Former defense intelligence people.
And so Rubio not to be trusted.
Be careful.
And and our problem here, John, is that
we are swimming against the tide.
And the tide is you've got to be
against our tax dollars paying for Israel to
kill people.
Forget our tax dollars anywhere else, killing people
in much larger numbers.
But that is exactly what we are up
against.
And that's why people like.
And and I hope you go to the
Tucker clip next, because I listened to the
Dave Smith.
Ball spike show with Tucker.
And I think it was complete, a complete
mistake the way they analyze that conversation.
I'll just reiterate it very shortly.
Douglas Murray went there and he can't because
Tucker's correct.
Douglas Murray's like a boarding school kid and
he debates in a certain way and he
and he says things in a certain way
in that regard.
And but what he was saying was.
We on the right and speaking for him,
not for me, we on the right have
to be careful what we're saying, because the
kind of stuff that we're talking about with
Israel leads to Jew hate.
That's what he was trying to say.
And he just couldn't say it that way
because he knew that, you know, I'm Jewish,
you know, everyone, Scott Horton, I'm Jewish.
That's not the point.
The point is, that's what's going on.
That is the narrative, regardless of what our
tax dollars are doing in every other nook
and cranny of the world, killing many more
people.
That's the narrative which is based on the
whole Whitney Webb conspiracy bull crap that Israel
has the goods on everybody and that this
is why we don't have the Epstein papers,
because we'll find out that the entire Congress
and Senate and everybody's being blackmailed for for
kiddie fiddling.
You know, is there some of that?
No doubt.
But is that rampant?
No, it's the other way around.
We control Israel, as is witnessed by President
Trump doing a deal with the Houthis.
Hey, stop bombing our ships.
Do whatever you want to Israel.
It's the other way around.
And people are just they can't stand us
for it, John.
That's the problem.
That is it.
That's the only thing.
What else am I going to do?
So no, I'm not going to play the
Dave because the Dave Smith clips are not
about what you just said.
I think you summarized it beautifully.
OK, I do have some Trump in the
Middle East analysis clips that bring in all
kinds of interesting information that nobody discussed.
And I think it's all good stuff.
This is NTD, I'm presuming.
Yes, because I have to say this NTD,
they bring in these experts and they go
back and forth with Tiffany and they really
bring out a lot of stuff that other
analysts on other shows and Fox and all
the rest and Fox is really shallow, which
is what the Dave Smith clips about, by
the way.
I'm sorry, I have to interject one more
thing and then I'll be quiet about it
because.
No, if you're on a roll on this
topic, so keep talking.
OK, so again, I can see in the
troll room.
OK, so we control Israel by having an
Israeli handler for every one of our congressmen.
It's AIPAC, man.
OK, I'll say it to you one more
time.
Follow the money.
AIPAC gets its money from the American Israeli
Education Foundation.
Yeah, there's some rich Jews and American Jews
who donate to that.
But the bulk of the money that goes
to AIPAC is all from military contractors.
It's Raytheon, it's Boeing.
AIPAC is a military industrial complex system that
that's where the money is coming from, not
from Israel.
It's coming from our own companies who want
to are our congressmen and senators controlled by
the military industrial complex.
Hello, Eisenhower.
Yes, of course they are.
And the few that go against it.
I see you guy from Missouri whose wife
died all of a sudden.
After he told everybody exactly how it worked.
It is not Israel that's controlling our Congress.
It is the it is the contractors, the
big military industrial complex.
Where does the term come from?
From the warning President Eisenhower gave to us.
That's the warning.
He didn't say, watch out for Israel.
They're going to get us.
They're going to control us.
No, you're being fooled by AIPAC nonsense.
All right, I'm done.
I got to say, I just got to
reiterate.
No, we were wrong before.
We've said it before.
And we say it again.
And I'm sorry, Massey from Kentucky.
I'm sorry.
Yeah, Massey.
Poor Massey.
And he just keeps, he's oblivious.
He's a good guy.
And he said exactly how it works.
And everyone took that to be Israel's got
the goods.
No, they will primary you.
How do they primary you?
With lots of money.
Where does the money come from?
Follow the money.
American-Israeli Education Foundation.
Look at the 10 at the form 990s.
Look at the money.
It's Boeing.
It's Raytheon.
It's the huge military contractors.
That's the problem.
Yes.
Let's do some analysis.
Let's go to the analysis from NTD.
Progress report on President Trump's first trip to
the Middle East.
Like much of his presidency, it involves a
lot of deals and surprises.
One of which was his meeting today with
Syria's leader, a former member of Al Qaeda,
urging him to normalize relations with Israel.
That happened after Trump announced he would lift
sanctions on Syria.
His actions are even drawing some support from
congressional Democrats.
Joining me now to discuss all of this
is David Wormser, Middle East Affairs Analyst at
the Center for Security Policy and Foreign Policy
Specialist.
Oh, it sounds like a spook.
What kind of guy is this?
How come we don't have one of these
operations?
The Center for Security Policy.
Yeah.
Okay.
David, thank you so much for joining us.
A slew of developments coming out of Trump's
Middle East trip, as mentioned above, Trump's lifting
sanctions on Syria and met with the current
leader who calls himself a reformed terrorist.
How big of a change in diplomacy is
this on Trump's part?
What are his goals here?
Well, I think he did it somewhat as
a favor to the Saudis.
The Saudis really were pushing for this.
And there wasn't an overarching reason that he
saw to completely stiff the Saudis on it.
So while there's grave reservations, and those are,
first of all, his terrorist past, Shara, the
leader of Syria's terrorist past, number one.
And number two, the fact that Syria is
a divided country, it's not unified.
So when Trump met Shara, he essentially said,
listen, I'm willing to work with you.
He said it in very diplomatic ways, and
it was very kind.
But he said, listen, I'll work with you,
but you've got to put your country together
and you're on probation.
So he did lift the sanctions, but they
can be reimposed if necessary.
So I think this was more what he
was giving the Saudis.
And he walked into something he may have
realized, he may not have realized.
I'm not sure.
But it was really a very aggressive power
play by the Saudis against the Qataris, who
are at strategic odds with each other.
This was really in the backdrop to this.
The backstory to this is the Saudis were
trying to outdance the Qataris.
Wow.
Yes.
Well, President Trump is genius.
Hey, I'm going to go get money from
all these guys.
Oh, no, this is what you, this is
sales.
Yeah, it's- They used to, PC Magazine
sales guys I used to work with, I
mean, I never got to deals or anything,
but I used to always take sales training
and try to see what they were up
to, because it was interesting.
And one of the publishers said, well, yeah,
here's what I like to do.
You got these two computer companies and you
say, you go into one of them and
you say, look how much your competition's going
to spend on advertising this next quarter.
Yes, that's what you do.
Yes.
You're not going to let them outspend you,
are you?
I forgot to look.
Was President Trump wearing his brown shoes?
I don't know, but he wore the purple
tie, which is very rare in Saudi Arabia.
This is a tip.
And then he goes to, when he goes
to Qatar, he goes and he compliments the
two guys and he keeps bringing in Ben
Salman's name.
And the thing is that anyone who follows
this closely, they hate each other.
Yeah, of course.
And so Trump is playing it, you know,
and he's just having, he must be amusing
the hell out of himself.
But I like this guy's analysis that it
was Ben Salman that got Trump to, hey,
I want meet the guy from Syria.
Maybe you can fix, you know, patch that
up.
And that's what he did.
Ben Salman's a more powerful guy than in
this whole picture.
You mean Prince Bonesaw?
Bonesaw.
Bonesaw's pretty, pretty talented.
I love how they think that that guy,
like Ben Salman himself, saw Saad Khashoggi in
little bits and pieces.
Yeah, I'm sure.
I'm sure of it.
You're following the mainstream narrative, people.
Yeah, let's go on.
I have five of these.
Yeah, OK, we'll move on.
I want to get to that.
But first, how likely are we to see
Syria sign on to the Abraham Accords?
I don't think it's going to be very
time soon, very soon.
First of all, Syria, the government only controls
40 percent of the country.
Number one.
Number two.
Number one.
Number two.
Number one.
Number two.
OK, stop the clip.
I'm stopping.
I am sick and tired.
This started with Biden.
I'm sick and tired.
You start to hear it all the time.
Number one.
Number two.
Yes, I'm hearing it on Fox.
I'm hearing it from Emily Campagno.
I'm hearing it from Gutfeld.
Everybody.
Number one.
Number two.
Number one.
Number two.
Number one.
Number two.
I'm sick of it.
I'm with you.
First or well, first of all, there's a
million things you can say.
They're number one.
Number two.
Well, it's because these people all got a
briefing, a memo, and it had little numbers
next to it.
One.
Say this.
Two.
Say that.
OK, that's number one.
And what was number two?
I got number two.
Number two was this.
That's what's happening there.
Number one.
Number two.
Number one.
Number two.
Number one.
Number two.
The minorities are gravitating toward Israel.
So there's some tension between Syria and Israel
over the minorities.
The Israelis are protecting now the Christians to
some extent, certainly the Druze and some of
the others.
So I think it's a long time coming
before Syria is put together and Syria is
in a comfortable state to deal with Israel.
Then you have the strategic overlay where Syria
is part of a larger strategic battle.
And that may be more the key to
what drives the Abraham Accords in the long
run.
But for the moment, Syria is way too
much of a political football to initiate and
join those accords.
Where is someone talking about the son-in
-law, Jared?
Hasn't anyone brought up Jared yet?
Jared's been completely out of this.
Jared has.
Oh, Jared's taken a billion dollars from the
Saudis.
Jared, Jared, Jared, Jared.
Another Jew.
Jared the Jew.
Somebody should ask the question, where's Jared?
Hereby asked.
But nobody does.
No, of course not.
With Trump's Middle East trip, how do you
see this fitting in with his strategy for
dealing with Iran?
Because, for instance, we heard in Trump's speech
with the Saudis that he doesn't believe in
permanent enemies, signaling a softening on Tehran, but
reiterating that the U.S. will not allow
it to have a nuclear weapon.
How are you reading that?
Yeah, it's a great question.
I think what happened here is that there's
a number of reasons why he went to
Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
UAE is kind of with Saudi Arabia.
So by bringing Qatar and Saudi Arabia into
this happy family, and again, I think in
the long run, it's not such a happy
family.
I think Qatar and Saudi Arabia have two
very different agendas and are not very friendly
to each other.
But nevertheless, the strategy here, I think, was
if you get Qatar and Saudi Arabia, you
pull them out of the Chinese orbit, which
is protecting Iran.
You pull them away from Iran, and you
essentially isolate Iran in the region.
And when you isolate Iran in the region,
and then if you impose sanctions, Iran really
starts facing binary choices.
You're alone.
You're sanctioned.
You're blockaded.
The Chinese can't help you.
The rest of the region's abandoned you, and
the Israelis are about to come after you.
So you have a choice.
Give up your nuclear program and join this
happy family or pursue that, but then you're
going to face the consequences.
So I think that's really the Iran strategy
behind some of this.
Yes, yeah, of course.
Give it up, Iran.
And it's not the Iranian people.
You know, this is another thing.
I'm so tired.
You know, I was tired of now.
I was talking to some Fred Freakout people,
and I'm like, you know, Trump's abandoning Israel.
What do you mean?
Well, he's no longer talking to Netanyahu.
Netanyahu is not Israel.
It's Netanyahu.
Now, Iran is not all the Iranian people.
Iran is actually pretty cool looking these days.
It's modern.
People aren't wearing the hijabs anymore.
Women are walking around in skirts, showing their
ankles.
You know, Russia, Russia is not, it's Putin.
You have a problem with Putin.
This is all dumb.
It's completely dumb.
And the people just sit around, go, what
are they feeding me?
Let me eat it all up.
The Jews, I got it.
They're running the world, man.
Yeah, this all started when we got rid
of no agenda social.
This is when it all started.
This is when we would start on the
downhill slope.
Because we got rid of them.
You mean when it formed?
No, no, no.
When they pulled the plug, that's, I call
that getting rid of them.
When they pulled the plug, I didn't pull
any plug.
When they pulled the plug, that's when people
know those guys, they're all in on Israel.
They're getting checks.
They know where their bread is buttered.
We are going against everything we've always gone
against.
And we've been right every single time.
Oh, no, we're always right.
COVID, Ukraine, everything.
When Ukraine started, we're like, no.
People are like, you're horrible.
Look at my Ukraine flag.
Oh, we lost a lot of audience because
of Ukraine.
Yeah, yeah.
They're all in on this.
But you know what?
We're not, we don't have that quirky face
like Whitney Webb.
The little face.
We don't live in Chile.
And we can't talk about, you know, how
it's the Jews.
And it goes back to, you know, all
the rich Jews.
And then Palantir, Palantir and Elon Musk, they're
all going to control us.
Your Honor, you did get your gigawatt coffee.
I did.
Yes, I did get the gigawatt coffee.
And we also got some decaf for Tina,
which I did not drink.
That's obvious.
But this is important stuff.
Because you and I have other things to
do if people are not going to listen
to us.
I don't know what, but we'll find something.
We'll find something to do.
I would normally try to stop you from
this never-ending lament.
Yeah, but you're not.
But you're not.
Well, no, it's because I'm reminded of another
great evangelist, I don't want to call him
an evangelist, TV guy, TV religious guy, Gene
Scott.
Gene Scott used to come on and complain
and complain.
About not getting enough donations.
Exactly.
He would stop the show.
Yeah, I'm stopping this.
I'm walking away.
He stopped the show.
I'm pulling the plug.
And he'd lower his glasses.
Sometimes you wear two or three pairs of
glasses on top of each other.
These glasses.
I'm wearing them now.
Look, I'm lifting up one.
And he'd drop his glasses over his nose
and he looked down over the glasses and
he said, is this okay?
Is this important to you?
Does this matter?
You're listening?
You don't care?
And he'd go on.
The whole show would be that.
I don't want the whole show to be
that because I got more clips.
Let's go to clip four.
And I want to dig into some of
those deals with the happy family you just
mentioned, because Trump did strike a deal with
the Saudis.
That's about $600 billion.
And a $244 billion one with Qatar.
You just mentioned they're very different.
But how significant are these two deals?
And how do you see that changing the
dynamic in that region?
Maybe pulling away from China, for instance.
Oh, they're very big.
They really make America the economic focal point
of these massive economic powers, these oil powers.
We haven't even seen yet what's going to
be unveiled in the UAE in the next
two days.
But that will probably add a considerable amount
to the total of purchases, consumption, and investment
in the West, and specifically in the United
States, America first, by these countries.
I think if you add it all up,
at the end of the day, we're talking
close to $2 trillion worth of deals and
investments and arms sales that will come out
of this trip.
That's an awful lot of money to infuse
in the American economy.
And it really helps the president with his
America first agenda, especially to get through the
immediate period of offsetting the damage done by
tariffs until the longer term gains of the
tariffs would kick in, according to what he
believes.
Oh, we move quickly to tariffs.
That's interesting.
Now, it's interesting to remember something that we,
because of Biden, for four years as we
did this show, we forgot about, because before
Biden, we had other presidents that this show
has been on forever.
And we've noticed that one of the things
all the presidents do is that they're ultimately
salesmen for the military industrial complex, and they
go overseas, if you remember.
Yes.
All of them would go overseas and do
deals.
By the way, that's all, just to remind
everybody, that's all we really make.
Have you seen an American car recently?
What does it look like?
They're all militaristic looking.
That's all we know how to make.
War stuff.
We make war stuff.
It's high margin.
Yes.
Oh, war stuff is super high margin.
Yeah.
So, you know, it's a winner.
Yeah.
Our presidents would always go over and do
these deals.
Biden never did, because he couldn't sell anything.
This guy was lost.
He couldn't sell his way out of a
paper bag.
So we go on, and so, but Trump's
just, yeah, I mean, Trump, as old as
he is, he's still a killer salesman.
And that's what we have to remember.
And this is what benefits the country.
It benefits the country beyond belief.
So let's go on, no matter how much
they hate him.
By the way, the TikTok clip's coming up
will prove that.
So let's go to the final clip.
Zooming out a bit here during Trump's speech
in Saudi Arabia, he criticized those he called
neocons and interventionists, saying they messed up Middle
East policy.
What are your thoughts on all of that?
Yeah, he's really reacting to the Iraq war
and especially not just knocking Saddam out, which
had its own strategic issues, but there were
ways to do it.
What he's really reacting to is that we
sat there after the war, occupied Iraq and
had sort of a, we had a nation
building presence trying to rebuild Iraq, which became
kind of an endless bogged down situation.
The Iranians and Syrians were taking potshots at
us there, and we lost four or five
thousand soldiers doing this, which is a horrific
price.
And I think that's what he's really reacting
to.
Even if you have to do something, do
it like what you did just now in
Yemen.
You go in, you send a signal, you
destroy the enemy or you make it clear
to one there's a huge price to pay
being in conflict with the United States.
But don't go in, take over the country,
have a semi-colonial presence to rebuild it
and take responsibility for the country.
It's much more important to let them do
that, let the Iranians do it, let the
Iraqis do it, let the Yemenis do it.
It's just something America can't do in that
region.
We're not Middle Eastern and we don't play
that game well.
And we stop playing that game because we
can't motivate a single smart young American person
to go over there and die for this
nonsense anymore.
We're not going to do it.
This is why we have Israel.
Let them do it.
This is why we have Saudi Arabia.
Let them do it and let them pay
to do it by buying our stuff.
They have ideological problems.
That is the region that they live in.
That's the world they live in.
Trump's long-winded speech in Saudi Arabia.
It was very interesting.
It was kind of interesting.
It was a very good speech.
It got no coverage by the mainstream media,
but it was quite good.
It was well written.
It was too long, as usual, because it's
just the way it is.
You put up with it.
By the way, I'm reminded of, I was
thinking about this because the speech was on
forever.
It was a long one.
And I remember.
When he puts his arm down, he's leaning
on his elbow, reading the teleprompter, you know,
oh, we're in for a long one.
This is going to be a long speech,
isn't it?
And so I'm reminded the first time I
went to China.
We went to the mainland.
I've been to Taiwan and I've been to
Hong Kong, but I never was in China
itself.
And the first time I went there, the
government came out and gave us, we're a
bunch of touring journalists or managers.
We couldn't put the word journalist on the
passport because they didn't like that.
So if you go to China, you're always
a manager.
So there's these guys that would come out
and start lecturing us.
And it was like a Chinese harangue.
It was going on forever.
I mean, it was like you wanted to
shoot yourself.
It's yak, yak, yak, yak.
And that's what, for some reason, this is
Trump style.
Oh, interesting.
You can't take it after a while.
It's like, just end it, man.
But I'm with you.
Where do I sign?
Let me buy that.
It's part of it.
Where do I sign?
You've worn me down, salesman.
You've worn me down.
Well, actually, interestingly enough, if we can move
away from the Middle East for a second,
the sales continue in the EU.
And our boy Mark Rutte, Mark, has paid
off.
Germany has now come out and said, yep,
we're going to push it to 5%
for NATO defense spending.
That was the ask, continuously, 5%.
And Germany just said, when does this come
out, this announcement?
I think it came out.
I'm crediting Rutte.
Well, of course, Rutte did it.
Here, German Foreign Minister Johann Waderspul said the
country was backing US President Donald Trump's call
to increase the defense spending target of NATO
members to 5%.
Before Trump, before Trump in 2016, they weren't
even putting up to 2%.
Yep.
Well, now they got the go-ahead from
Queen Ursula that they can borrow the money.
So like, okay, we can borrow the money.
We're good to go.
Let's do it.
And just to give him the props, here
is the obligatory marketer to clip.
I really want to welcome you to Antalya
for this important foreign ministers meeting.
And I want to thank our colleague from
Turkey.
Really, Hakan.
He can't say.
So in Dutch, it's Turkey.
But he can't say Turkey for some reason.
So he says, Turkey.
Our colleague from Turkey.
Really, Hakan, thank you so much for making
this possible and the hospitality.
It is really amazing.
Oh, it's amazing hospitality.
It was just great.
I had cookies in my room.
We will have a very important meeting today
in the run-up to the summit in
The Hague.
Oh, The Hague.
You know what's happening in The Hague.
The Hague is my home country.
This is where we're going to have our
big, big meeting.
And you know what it's going to be.
We need to discuss how to make sure
that NATO will be stronger.
That means more defence spending.
That means more defence industrial production.
But also how to make sure that NATO
is fairer.
That we equally distribute the burden amongst allies.
And that is only fair.
But also a NATO which is more lethal.
Not by becoming offences.
We need to be killing machines.
By being so strong that nobody will ever
attack us.
No.
Because they know if they would, this defensive
alliance, if we will be attacked, our reaction
will be devastating.
That's going to, it's going to cost a
lot of money.
That's what we will discuss today.
How to make sure that we make a
success out of the The Hague summit.
It will be a splash.
It's a splash.
Of a NATO which is standing there at
the world stage.
Stronger than ever.
So again, thank you for being here.
And now it is my honour.
This is the best.
This guy is the most effeminate, weak, girly
man ever.
And he's just walking around like a peacock.
Like, we're the rulers of the world.
NATO will have all, we're going to make
a splash on you.
We'll splash you here.
We'll splash you there.
Yeah, don't mess with us.
Just make sure you pay for it.
It's amazing.
That this guy can actually, that he succeeded.
He got Germany to the 5%.
And once Germany goes, how can France stay
behind?
No, no, everybody has to go.
Everybody's got to go.
And he's fantastic.
He's great.
You know, Rutte was there.
I mean, Rubio was there.
Rubio was with Mark.
Hanging out together.
Because they're all in Istanbul.
And you want to hear...
That's right.
Yes, for the...
Yeah.
And so I have a little bit of
Marko.
Who, by the way, is not to be
trusted.
He's a snake.
He's no good.
Careful with this guy.
Thank you.
And I think today's meeting sets up what
I hope will be, I believe will be
a very successful leaders level meeting coming up
very shortly.
NATO has the opportunity to grow even stronger
in the alliance.
You know, the alliance is only as strong
as its weakest link.
And we intend and endeavour to have no
weak links in this alliance.
That's interesting.
The alliance is only as strong as its
weakest link.
So if someone doesn't pay up, the 5
% were weak for some reason.
This is an interesting analogy.
So it's setting up nicely.
And it's good to see, you know, the
president has just submitted a budget for a
trillion dollars of defense spending, which is unheard
of.
It's unparalleled.
And it's not just spending money.
It's spending money on the capabilities that are
needed for the threats of the 21st century.
It's not just spending money.
It's spending money for important things.
We need the Golden Dome.
All kinds of different threats that look different
from the threats in the past.
And so I think today sets up that
leaders meeting, which will be very productive.
I also think, obviously, that the big issue
on everyone's mind is what's happening with Russia
and Ukraine.
The president of the United States has been
abundantly clear.
He wants the war to end.
He's open to virtually any mechanism that gets
us to a just, enduring and lasting peace.
And that's what he wants to see.
He wants to see an end to wars.
He wants to keep wars from happening.
The purpose of NATO is to prevent wars
through its strength.
And that's why, you know, we want to
see it grow stronger.
The purpose...
Let me just hear that again.
I just want...
That should be on his tombstone.
The purpose of NATO is to stop wars.
And that's what he wants to see.
He wants to see an end to wars.
He wants to keep wars from happening.
The purpose of NATO is to prevent wars.
Okay.
Can we just write that down?
The purpose of NATO is to prevent wars
in places like, I don't know, Ukraine.
All the states that we expanded eastward.
Libya.
Prevent wars.
Prevent destruction.
Prevent it through its strength.
And that's why, you know, we want to
see it grow stronger.
Spending levels among all partners that allow everyone
to be stronger.
It makes the alliance stronger.
And also he wants to end wars.
And that's the hope with Russia and Ukraine.
We'll see what happens over the next couple
of days in that regard.
But we want to see progress made in
that regard.
And whatever mechanism is outlined.
Whatever the process is that needs to happen.
I mean, we are open to being constructive
and helpful in any way we can to
end a conflict.
No, and end the conflicts by spending more
money on our stuff.
It's genius.
It's just genius.
There will be wars and rumors of wars.
It all has to happen.
It's never going to stop.
That is just the world the way it
is.
There is something much more important playing out
this Saturday.
Saturday is a big day when it comes
to competing countries.
Are you aware of this?
Saturday.
Saturday is a big thing taking place in
Switzerland of all places.
This is a big meeting of the creative
minds.
It's that time of year again.
World Economic Forum.
Close.
To Switzerland, where the first of two Eurovision
Song Contest semifinals have taken place in the
city of Basel.
Fifteen countries performed on Tuesday night, including Sweden.
This just took place a couple of months
ago.
No, it's once a year.
That's how fast the time is going.
And for you, it's even worse.
See, I thought it was like maybe half
a year ago.
You're like, this was last week.
That's what happens when you get older.
Time is accelerating.
Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Norway and Croatia.
Among the favorites was Sweden, with a catchy
tribute to sauna culture.
Ah, Sweden with a catchy tribute to sauna
culture.
And Dutch singer Claude, with his emotional ballad,
C'est la vie.
Ah, the Dutch are in the running.
In total, 37 countries will compete for a
place in Saturday's grand final.
I heard more about the first semifinal from
our correspondent, Charlotte Gallagher, who's in Basel.
She began by telling us how the Swedish
band got on.
Well, they did really well.
They are a huge favorite here in Basel.
They're also currently the bookies' favorite as well,
which is no surprise, really, because if there's
one thing that Sweden does really well, it's
writing a Eurovision banger.
They have won it.
A Eurovision banger.
John, have you got a new Eurovision banger?
How is this even news?
It's lightheartedness because they, of course, will make
it political.
Really well.
It's writing a Eurovision banger.
They have won it so many times.
We were in Malmo last year because they
won it the year before.
Switzerland obviously won it last year, so that's
why we're in Basel.
But it could well be going back to
Sweden next year.
It's a hugely popular song.
It's got a great staging.
They're sat in a sauna, so it really
catches the eye.
It's really funny.
I met a lady from Stockholm earlier, Karen.
She was really excited, and I said, but
what will it mean for the song, you
know, Eurovision, to come to Sweden again?
She went, it'll probably mean higher taxes for
us, but I'm still excited.
This is a big deal.
We do have a lot of people listening
in Europe, and all Europeans, believe me, the
streets are quiet on Saturday night.
Everybody is checking it out, and I need
your insight and your expertise as a musical,
what is it?
Listener.
Aficionado is what I was going to say.
That's a good word.
These are the top three contenders.
I have about 30 seconds of each, and
I would like to get your opinion as
we start off with three entrants.
Ukraine, of course.
We still need to have the political angle.
Ukraine could pull in the top prize because,
hey, Ukraine, right?
We have Sweden because they are clearly the
favorites with their sauna culture, and we have
the Netherlands with Claude.
So I give you Zifferblatt, bird of prey
from Ukraine.
This person, I don't know if it's a
dude.
I don't know if it's a woman.
The person looks just like Zelensky.
What do you think?
Journey from the 70s.
Yes, journey.
Yes, nailed it.
All right.
So you say that's a journey from the
70s, not bad.
I think the Netherlands has an interesting entrant.
Claude with C'est La Vie.
The song is apparently in French spoken so
often in the Netherlands.
But C'est La Vie is a good
title because everyone knows the term C'est
La Vie.
And you complain about our end of show
mixes.
All right.
So that's C'est La Vie.
Cliché on that one.
What a dog.
But I think Sweden will win because they
have...
It's a banger.
It is...
Believe me, Europe, particularly the Germanic side and
the Viking side, they still want drinking songs.
They still want to go...
That's what they want.
And I think...
Yeah, so they can hold the beer stein.
Yes, and I think Sweden has it locked
up.
See, that's the hook.
This is an anthem style.
Yes, exactly.
Which should catch...
Could win the award.
You might be right.
It goes...
But it still sucks.
It's bad.
It's mediocre.
Who let the dogs out?
Why don't you just do that?
But here's the hook.
Sauna.
See, the whole world will be singing this
song.
Holy, holy, holy sauna.
Sauna.
Yes.
Yes, they win.
Okay, just to wrap this up.
It's just code for get naked.
Yeah, here's...
And here is the political angle.
And what's the atmosphere been like there in
Basel?
Well, no one likes the Jews.
It's very different, I'd say, from Malmo last
year.
It does seem a bit more relaxed.
Malmo was quite tense at times because of
the conflict in Gaza and Israel.
And you felt that as soon as you
got into the city.
We haven't seen that yet in Basel.
There is a protest, though, tomorrow against Israel's
inclusion in Eurovision.
And also when Israel perform in the second
semifinal on Thursday.
The contestant says she expects to be booed,
essentially.
And people will be allowed to bring Palestinian
flags into the arena.
They weren't necessarily allowed to do that in
Sweden last year.
People had those flags taken off them.
This year, they will be allowed to bring
them in.
So I think we'll probably see the mood
towards Israel and the Israeli contestant here in
Eurovision on Thursday.
But at the moment in town, in the
city centre, people seem pretty happy that Eurovision's
here.
There's lots of turquoise flags.
Yeah, blah, blah, blah.
The only reason they should be against Israel
is because they're not...
Why are they part of Eurovision?
There's nowhere near Euro.
This is the problem I've had.
Won't they have a Nigerian candidate?
They could, if you're a member of Eurovision.
That's the only reason to pro...
But oh, no.
Oh, I've got a protest.
Oh, whoa.
Whoa, Israel can't sing songs.
It's a problem.
It's rampant.
And we are...
What's next?
We're fighting upstream, John.
We're upstream.
All right, time to get real.
Hey, young people.
We're hip.
We're with the in crowd.
We can do TikTok TikTok clops.
Well, I got a bunch of them.
I got actually five TikTok clips that are
all various...
They're various styles.
Oh, let's start with this one.
Here's a black woman complaining...
Or not complaining.
She's trying to educate us about gingers.
Gingers are no good.
They have no soul.
I just need to remind y'all again,
everyone who is ginger, who has red hair,
those are black people.
All gingers are black people.
If they have red hair, they are black.
You see a white man with red hair.
That's a black man.
You see a white woman with red hair.
That's a black woman.
Gingers are black.
All gingers.
Wow.
Okay.
Well, that's...
I can write that one down.
That's a T-shirt, by the way.
Gingers are black.
All right.
I'm loving this insight from TikTok.
Well, that was a different woman than the
one that keeps going on about how all
white people are cannibals.
Remember that one?
It's true.
Everyone knows it.
It's on TikTok.
Now, of course, we have the wimpy guy.
Like, just really a wimpy guy threatening everybody
because you're MAGA.
Me, MAGA.
Peter Thiel.
Trump.
JD Banz.
Elon Musk.
Fear us.
We are the masses.
You are the 1%.
We are the 99%.
Think about it.
Think about it, keyboard warrior.
You know...
Think about it.
It's sad because he's clearly angry.
You know, this is the...
He has no other means to show his
anger other than speaking into the deep void
on TikTok to people like you.
So it's...
I feel for these people.
I feel bad for this guy.
I'm in the minority.
I'm inside the majority.
You're in the minority on this.
What do you mean?
Oh, no, I feel bad for all these
people.
I hope all these people, you know, that
they calm down and they stop out of
this.
Eventually it will.
One day it will.
So let's go to Department of Education nut.
Good morning.
It's Monday.
I have a question for those that have
voted for this administration.
Did you vote for the Department of Education
be taken out?
Yeah, let me check.
Yeah.
Yeah, I did.
Yes.
Dismantled.
Did you vote for that?
Yep.
Yeah.
I'm just curious.
I'm sure you wanted them to change things,
but dismantling a department that helps your children.
You mean the department that puts those books
into my children's schools?
No, I'm pretty sure that I voted against
that.
And helps a lot of people.
Putting it with the states is not the
answer, especially if the states don't have income
taxes and if they're going to start taking
those away too.
Hold on a second.
We have a state that doesn't have income
taxes.
We have some of the most beautiful roads,
some of the best infrastructure.
We get taxed in other ways, for sure.
But I think you're wrong on this, TikTok
gal.
Our children will hurt for this.
They want to take away abortion.
This is a great phrase.
They want to take away abortion.
Our children will hurt for this.
They want to take away abortion.
Well, if you don't take away abortion, that's
when the children will really hurt for this.
You know, they get aborted.
If you have a baby, you got to
take care of it.
They don't help you there.
Then you take away education support.
I just, I'm curious.
What's your mastermind thought plan?
And I wonder if it's good as is,
then whatever.
Have a great day.
But this is just people who are grossly
misinformed.
That's all.
She doesn't even understand how a taxless, income
taxless state like Texas works or Nevada or
others just doesn't seem to understand it.
And she, I don't know if she has
children.
If she had children.
What do you think?
Probably not.
So she's just under-informed and a little
over-socialized.
She, you know, again.
You can make excuses all you want for
these people.
I'm not making excuses.
I have compassion for them because I feel
bad.
Yeah, I don't.
I know you don't.
Well, it's okay.
You don't need to shut me down just
because I have compassion.
No, this is the toxic empathy is what
you have.
Oh no.
Oh no, there's no empathy.
Empathy is something completely different.
There's no empathy here.
No, sir.
It is compassion, not empathy.
Toxic compassion is what you have.
Toxic compassion.
Oh, here we go.
The only one who's toxic is you.
Which one?
Here we go.
Here we go with the idiot leaving the
United States.
Okay, so since Trump won the election, we're
cooked.
Yup.
I'm going to be leaving the US and
I'm going to be moving to Hawaii.
So we'll see how it goes.
And I'll update you guys.
Again, someone who has not been educated and
completely over-socialized, who does not understand the
United States includes Hawaii.
That is a kicker.
You should have held that one for last
unless this is the best of the bunch.
No, they're all good.
This one, this is not.
That may have been the best, but we'll
try this one.
It was pretty good.
I just saw this video.
I mean, I've been seeing a lot of
videos.
You need to set this up.
I don't know what's happening.
What's going on with this?
Okay, here's a woman crying and she's letting
it be known that this is the way
everyone must be feeling because she is.
You know, if you're feeling a certain way
because of Trump, obviously everybody's feeling that way.
And so she's eliciting kind of like she's
hoping, I guess, but yeah, yeah, yeah, we
should overthrow the government.
I'm not sure what the goal of this
is.
Overthrow the government.
Okay, yeah, I'm all for it.
Let's do it.
I just saw this video.
I mean, I've been seeing a lot of
videos.
Anyone else having a hard time not just
breaking down crying several times a day because
you're just watching the horror happen.
The horror of so many people around you
that either have no idea, don't care or
pretending it's not.
And like you're crazy and you're just a
conspiracy theorist and you're just insane and you
just are too dramatic and you just need
to calm down and you just need to
shut the fuck up.
But you want to help and there's nothing
you can do because you don't have money.
You don't have billions of dollars.
You don't have, I don't have any dollars
that I can spare.
Frankly, like truly.
But that's the only thing that seems to
kind of make a difference.
And you can't even do that.
You can't even do that.
You can only speak.
And now we can't even speak.
So watch and cry.
It is, I guess.
You know, the worse it gets, it's not
like the quieter I want to get.
It's the angrier I get, the louder I
want to be.
I've just been screaming for so long that
I'm not sure I, who I'm even talking
to anymore.
Who's left?
It's still, what else do you need to
see?
Oh no, there's lots of you left.
There's, there's a lot.
So I think the reason I have compassion
for these people, we have a family member
who does this on TikTok.
Exactly this.
And it's, it is, I can tell because
I know this family member that it is,
it's an outlet and the feedback is important.
Yeah, you're right on.
You're spot on.
Yes, I'm with you.
I'm also crying.
I'm also worried.
I'm also scared.
These people are scared because these dark media
forces have scared them to no end about
stuff.
They can't, she did in a minute and
15, she didn't even say what she's scared
of.
It's just scared.
She's scared of people.
She's scared, scared.
So this is just, it's just a, that's
real.
That's probably the realest clip that you played
of the bunch.
This really happens.
And people need this feedback because no one
else in their right mind can have a
conversation with them.
So that's for sure.
Yeah, so, and so the algos put those
people together and they see more people saying
this and they believe that the whole world
is like them.
That is the, the true genius of TikTok
is that whatever you're into, you're going to
get a lot of it all the time.
It's not just going to switch all of
a sudden midstream.
And so in that regard, she needs to
get off the internet.
She needs to get off her TikTok for
sure.
None of those kids really had phones by
the way at the high school.
Three, three had a smartphone.
Well, that was, that's new information that needed
to be discussed.
Oh yeah.
In fact, the most common phrase heard from
their parents.
So they have phones.
They have like flip phones and other phones,
but nothing.
Now they have computers at home and so
they can go on YouTube.
Okay.
The most common phrase heard is you can
have a smartphone as a wedding present.
And that's the attitude of the parents here
in Fredericksburg which I think is a good
thing.
And they all wear uniforms.
It was nice.
Oh, you went to a school where there
were uniforms.
Almost all the schools here have uniforms.
I think even the public school may have
a uniform.
I think.
Yeah, I'm for that.
I always liked that when we were in
England and Christina went to school, uniform.
You know, it takes away a lot of
issues.
You know, you don't have the cooler kicks
on or whatever.
Everyone's got the same duds.
No, I'm for that.
You against that?
You don't like uniforms at school?
Well, I've never gone to a school that
had uniforms.
Ever.
And I don't know anybody who did except
you.
So I can't say one way or the
other.
I think that theoretically, in some situations, it
would be a good idea.
But then again, it's kind of militaristic.
No, it's not.
Yeah, it's totally militaristic.
Hmm.
So no agenda millennial in the troll room
says, kids don't have phones, but they have
Adam Curry speak.
What the F kind of school is that?
This is what's happening, John.
We're alienating everybody.
Even the no agenda millennials.
What?
I don't think we've alienated any no agenda
millennials.
Well, the no agenda millennial literally just said
that.
Yeah, but that's it still is.
Did he quit?
I quit.
I'm off.
I'm quitting the chat room.
Never hear from me again.
No, it would never do that.
Because, you know, that's that's where they get
their feedback.
That's they need that.
They need the troll room.
They need it as part of their DNA.
So here's a tick tock crowd for the
elites.
Different venue to complain about America and Donald
Trump.
And guess where that is?
Con, baby, in France.
The 78th Cannes Film Festival opened on Tuesday,
bringing together the world's most famous cinema personalities
to celebrate another year of storytelling.
Day one featured a star studded lineup from
world renowned filmmaker Quentin Tarantino to supermodel Bella
Hadid.
American actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro,
who've worked alongside each other on three occasions,
stole the show on the opening day.
DiCaprio, who skipped the red carpet, awarded veteran
81 year old De Niro with an honorary
Palme d'Or.
But every once in a while, even the
most private of giants deserves their moment.
A moment to be acknowledged, not just for
their work, but for the quiet, lasting influence
they've had on so many lives.
We are so important, everybody.
We, we, we are important to you.
On my life.
So without trying to speak for the entire
world of cinema here tonight, but probably doing
it anyway, there is no one more deserving
of this Palme d'Or lifetime achievement award.
Who is no more deserving for this Palme
d'Or lifetime achievement award?
Who is no more deserving?
None of them.
Can you give me a name?
Well, De Niro got it, didn't he?
Mr. Robert De Niro.
De Niro, an outspoken critic of Donald Trump,
quickly shifted the moment to politics as he
slammed the US president for his administration's attacks
on arts and culture.
America's Philistine president has had himself appointed head
of one of our premier cultural institutions.
He has cut funding and support to the
arts, humanities, and education.
And now he has announced a 100%
tariff on films produced outside the US.
Let that sink in for a minute.
Stop the clip for a second.
Couple of things to note.
Philistine was funny.
Couple of things to note.
Why is the government supporting the arts?
It's the government.
You don't want the government involved, it seems
to me, because they're going to try to
influence one way or the other.
So you don't want that.
I would say you are correct.
The second thing is the reason about taxing
the foreign films was as, which was not
fully understood by me when I first heard
about it, is to keep the business in
the United States and help locals make money,
the people in Los Angeles, the Angelenos, and
the people in New York.
He's got a studio that he built in
New York City with his buddy.
They built a giant soundstage, De Niro did,
and the idea is to keep the business
there and to keep the business in Hollywood.
So what's wrong with that exactly?
What's wrong is what's wrong between the ears
of Mr. De Niro, who I guess he
gets accolades for doing this, and he has
taken every opportunity at every award show for
the past eight years, maybe longer, to do
this at award shows.
Like, I'm going to show him, hold my
beer.
If you're the award show guys, I'd have
to say I'd probably do it.
Your worst show guy said, well, you know,
our awards aren't getting any attention.
What are we going to do?
No one ever pays attention to the con
Palme d'Or.
Well, no one's ever been televised, and I
know of the Palme d'Or, especially the
Lifetime Achievement Award, which who knows who got
it.
You name one person who's gotten it before,
I can't think of one.
But your original point is spot on.
You don't want, you don't actually want the
government involved in the arts for the obvious
reasons.
But here they are complaining because said the
millionaire De Niro, well, I'm not making enough
money now, I guess.
What else is he saying?
Because he's saying that they're cutting the money
off.
That's no good.
Or is he saying, because I hear a
lot of this too, like, so here I
am rich, rich director, producer, movie star.
I presume he's rich.
I have no idea.
But no, he's got plenty.
He's got plenty of money.
You would think he does.
What he's kind of saying is all those
little unsuccessful people get no chance like me.
That's what I mean.
It's very an elitist position to take.
It's like, well, all the things that are
not sponsored, you know, it's almost like the
music business.
You know, it's like, ah, the little people,
they have no chance.
They can't get on the radio.
They can't get on Spotify.
It's an elitist position.
He happens to be a very good actor.
And I think a decent director.
He's produced a lot of things, which means
he put his money into it.
I don't know if he's directed anything.
I think he's directed some things.
But even that series I watched on, I
think Netflix was, you know, about him being
president was good.
And I watched it because I wanted to
rid myself of bias.
And I'm very, I'm very able to separate
the arts and his art from him, the
person.
But remember, this is the guy who literally
was saying what Robert Kennedy Jr. saying now
about the MMR vaccine and has a child
with it and all this stuff.
It's just dark forces.
Hollywood must be controlled by Satan.
And support to the arts, humanities and education.
And now he has announced a 100%
tariff on films produced outside the U.S.
Let that sink in for a minute.
OK, I'm letting it sink in because he's
outside the U.S. He's trying to curry
favor to term to coin a term with
the foreign audience.
Fully well knowing that if you want to
be successful in the film business, you need
the American audience.
You can't put a price on creativity, but
apparently you can put it.
Well, why don't you work for 10 bucks
or scale?
Then it's creativity.
You can't put a price on it as
long as it's 10 million dollars a film.
You can't put a price on creativity, but
apparently you can put a tariff on it.
Of course, this is unacceptable.
All these attacks are unacceptable.
The opening ceremony concluded.
Yeah, unacceptable.
Poor Robert.
He made a he made a bad deal.
That's what happened.
He made a bad, bad deal and he
can't get out of it.
He has to stay stuck in that.
So Jake Tapper is out with his book.
He's shopping it around.
Have you had a chance to read his
book?
No, I have not.
Have you?
Of course not.
But it's about.
Of course not.
They did not send me an advanced copy.
So how could I read it?
They didn't ask me to do a blurb.
So what can I say?
Otherwise, I would have been like best analysis
of the Biden presidency ever.
So here he is.
Well, I don't have the clips.
At least as a good.
But I will say this, that Fox in
particular are spiking the ball because they were
under Biden being seen a little fart forever.
And so they have.
So they've found every clip from Tapper's past
that they can.
I have that one.
Well, there's the one about with Laura Trump,
but there's a ton more.
I have a ton more.
Well, let's play him.
Well, you want that?
You want to hear the the promotion of
the book first?
I want to hear the hear the clips
first, then the promotion of the book.
How do you think it makes little kids
with stutters feel when they see you make
a comment like that?
It's very clearly a cognitive decline.
That's what I'm referring to.
It makes me uncomfortable.
You have you are no.
This is so amazing.
It's so amazing to me that.
And then try and figure out an answer.
Cognitive decline of Biden embraces his stutter talking
about it while Trump mocks it, exaggerates it,
belittles it.
He's sharp physically.
I mean, mentally.
I think the question is physically right.
Right.
Or so.
Right.
And the guy who's his chief opponent is
only three or four years younger than me.
I mean, you have questioned President Biden's age,
mental fitness, ability to lead of those supporting
Biden.
You said, quote, shame on all of you
pretending everything is OK.
You're leading us and him into a disaster.
Do you worry that you damaged him at
all?
I don't doubt that you got hugs and
handshakes behind closed doors today and maybe even
publicly some of them because they like you
personally.
But I've heard a lot of really nasty
stuff about you from your Democratic colleagues.
I mean, just like what is he thinking?
Exercise and narcissism.
I mean, false claims to The Wall Street
Journal about President Biden's mental fitness and acuity.
He's 81 claims and his memory.
You know, it doesn't seem great.
It's not horrible.
But I don't understand the outrage behind closed
doors.
Biden's shows signs of slipping.
Unquote.
The Wall Street Journal is owned by News
Corp, which is run by the Murdoch's.
Oh, yeah.
Beyond the headline, there is some critical nuance
here.
The article is mostly based on observations of
Republicans with former speaker Kevin McCarthy, the only
one going on the record.
They do note in the article that most
of the criticism comes from Republicans.
Have you heard any concerns from anyone who
has met with President Biden about him seeing
a little slower?
No, the Russians are trying to do to
make us and the public not trust the
our election integrity.
Joe Biden has dimension, all this stuff.
It's all crazy.
Jake Tapper on the defense for years and
now years and years and years.
He did this continually.
Laura Trump is still demanding an apology.
He brought he's the one who promoted the
stuttering idea.
And as somebody pointed out, we've noticed this.
He never stuttered before.
Never had a stutter in his maybe when
he was three, but he never stuttered throughout
his career as a senator or even the
vice president.
Now, all of a sudden, he's a stutterer.
You know, so Jake Tapper is a big
phony.
Well, what's amazing is how Jake Tapper can
get up in the morning and shave and
look at himself and think, yeah, I wrote
a good book.
A new book is outlining new claims about
former President Biden's physical and mental health.
The book Original Sin claims Biden's health had
become so severe that there were internal discussions
about putting the president in a wheelchair after
the election.
They started putting aids around him as he
walked to Marine One, the helicopter that was
to kind of hide from public view how
bad his gait was, how bad his walking
was.
At a fundraiser last year with actor George
Clooney, the author's claim Biden seemed severely diminished
and did not recognize Clooney despite Biden knowing
him for decades.
According to the book, former President Obama, also
at that fundraiser, had difficulty making sense of
Biden's behavior and blamed Biden's busy schedule.
But the authors say Obama would come to
realize that scheduling was not the fundamental problem.
A Biden spokesperson refutes the book, saying, we
continue to await anything that shows where Joe
Biden had to make a presidential decision or
where national security was threatened or where he
was unable to do his job.
In fact, the evidence points to the opposite.
He was a very effective president.
Last week, Biden and the former first lady
pushed back against a slate of new books
claiming he was dealing with cognitive decline at
the end of his presidency.
You are wrong.
There's nothing to sustain that.
The people who wrote those books were not
in the White House with us.
And they didn't see how hard Joe worked
every single day.
A Biden spokesperson says the authors did not
fact check the book with them.
That's the best part.
It didn't fact check it, man.
None of it's true.
This is, it's just amazing.
Did ABC Good Morning America call them out
for like, hey, everyone defended this sharp as
attack over and over.
And now, oh, it's a great.
Does ABC own a publishing company like CBS
does?
Is that possible?
I think they do.
But I don't think that's the group that
brought the book out.
It's, I was.
So there's a couple of different things here.
But you continue and I'll, I was going
to say was they should stop all of
this.
It's just elder abuse.
The guy's over.
He's done.
It's like, let him just leave the guy
be.
Here's the problem.
Here's the problem I have.
The 25th Amendment doesn't work.
It doesn't do Jack.
It's pretty obvious.
It wasn't from the last month of this
administration.
We saw it when he's wandering around, going
into the jungle.
He's loses his train of thought.
Constantly losing his train of thought and then
screaming dignity.
And one thing or another.
And obviously other people were running the White
House.
And there was the auto pen signing the
documents.
The 25th Amendment is a fraud.
It doesn't work.
No, it's never going to get executed.
There has to be a coup.
Do you, what do you recommend?
I don't know.
I think it has to go to Congress
or somebody or some other form.
I mean, the Congress could impeach, but that's
no good because it's pretty almost impossible in
this day and age.
We know that doesn't work.
Well, it won't work because you can't get
enough people in the Senate because you need
like 60 or 70 people to say yes.
And that's not going to happen.
And I don't know.
I have no idea.
All I know is that the 25th Amendment's
a fraud.
It was put in place because of Wilson.
And this situation would have been the one
where it should have been executed.
But nobody's going to bring themselves to do
it.
Well, government is a fraud in that regard
then.
It's a governmental amendment, you know, the Senate
and the Cabinet, and they can do this.
But they don't.
Because they were running the show and they
loved it.
Anthony Blinken.
Where's Anthony, by the way?
What's he doing?
Does he have his consulting business up and
running yet?
No, he's probably working for some think tank.
He'll be back.
So of all the big news that the
president had, which is, you know, trillions, well,
no, he had $600 billion in deals, deals
everywhere, deals.
Of course, we're going to spend a trillion,
we heard on defense, which is a good
100 to 200 billion more than the last,
the last, the last, the last completely waste
of money for an operation that can't be
audited.
The last big, beautiful bill.
But I think the, the drug price executive
order was, was big news because outside, you
know, Congress is very hesitant to ever do
anything against insurance companies.
And of course, the unspoken of middlemen, the
pharmacy benefit managers.
And President Trump did just a beautiful job
of explaining how massive the scam is of
the overpayment we make in the United States
with the insurance and the drug companies and
the pharmacy benefit managers, where your copay is
basically what every other country in the world
pays for something.
But somehow you got screwed.
And you're still paying premiums for something.
You have to pay the premiums and you
have to pay the drug price to the
premiums just to go into somebody's pocket.
That's just like stealing.
It's completely stealing.
Of course, insurance companies really are nothing more
or less than banks.
And that's why everyone's deathly afraid of them.
They don't do anything.
But President Trump brought it to the people
and he explained very well what was going
on.
I thought this was probably one of the
best things he's ever done when it comes
to explaining the problem.
I brought it up with the drug companies
represented by somebody who's very, very.
I'm sorry, wrong one here.
I mean, I'll tell you a story.
A friend of mine who's a businessman, very,
very, very top guy.
Most of you would have heard of him.
Yep.
Highly neurotic.
Who?
What fat neurotic guy do we know that's
very successful?
Who could this be?
Plenty of them.
Okay.
Brilliant businessman, seriously overweight.
And he takes the fat, the fat shot.
The fat shot.
Everybody loved this.
The fat, the fat shot.
He's taking the fat shot.
And he called me up.
And he said, President, he calls me.
He used to call me Donald.
Now he calls me president.
So that's nice respect.
But he's a rough guy.
Smart guy.
Rough guy.
Very successful.
I wouldn't even know how we would know
this.
But because he's got comments, the president, could
I ask you a question?
What?
I'm in London and I just paid for
this damn fat drug I take.
I said, it's not working.
I love the Trump throws that in.
It's not working, right?
Is that the problem?
It's not working.
No, man, it's too.
I'm a billionaire.
It's too expensive.
This fat shot.
He said, he said, I just paid $88.
And in New York, I pay $1,300.
What the hell is going on?
He said, so I checked.
And it's the same box made in the
same plant by the same company.
It's the identical pill that I buy in
New York.
Hey, hold on a second.
It was a shot.
Now it's a pill.
Yeah, there's a bunch of people that jumped
on that.
That's interesting.
Do you think that was just an oversight
on his part?
He just made a mistake?
Yeah, he's doing winging it.
He's doing stick.
He's doing a stick.
He just is not rehearsed.
Most of his material that's funny is just
off the cuff and he's working it.
Yeah.
And it's the same box made in the
same plant by the same company.
It's the identical pill that I buy in
New York.
And here I'm paying $88 in London.
In New York, I'm paying $1,300.
Now this is a great businessman.
So but he's not familiar with this crazy
situation that we have.
But he was stunned.
Stunned.
He was stunned.
And so then what does our president do?
He goes and talks to the drug companies.
Hey, drug man, the fat shot.
Why is it so cheap over there and
so expensive over here?
I brought it up with the drug companies
represented by somebody who's very, very smart.
Good person too.
And we argued about it for about half
hour.
And then finally, he just said, because they
can't justify it.
He just said, look, look, you got me.
You got me.
Yeah, you got me.
Prez, you got me.
You got me.
It's like a couple of gangsters are on
a table.
Hey, man, how come that vig is so
high?
Hey, Mario, you got me.
You got me.
I can no longer just.
They've been justifying this crap for years.
They said, oh, it's research and development.
I said, well, research and development.
Other countries should pay research and development too.
It's for their benefit.
It was just one of those things.
And the other countries would set a price
and they'd meet the price.
And they'd say, if you don't meet the
price, you can't sell it in our country.
I said, well, then you walk away.
And, you know, they'll call you back and
they'll sell it in the country.
But now they'll have to do that.
So for the first time in many years,
we'll slash the cost of prescription drugs.
And we will bring fairness to America.
Drug prices will come down by much more,
really, if you think.
59.
If you think of a drug that is
sometimes 10 times more expensive, it's much more
than the 59%.
You know, it depends on the way you
want to analyze it.
But in one way, you could analyze it
that way.
But between 59 and 80, and I guess
even 90%.
So when I worked so hard in the
first term, and if I got prices down,
I remember I was the only one to
ever get prices down for a full year.
But I'd get them down like 2%.
And I thought it was like a big
deal.
Well, we're getting them down 60, 70, 80,
90%.
So have you read the executive order about
this?
No, you have it right there, though.
Of course I do.
There's a couple of things that are of
note, and this kind of flows into another
freak out, not here in Fred, of course.
Another freak out is about Medicare.
That, you know, the big, beautiful bill, because
they never really explained this part.
The big, beautiful bill will have, you know,
Medicare steep, steep cuts.
Here, actually, I'll play this.
House Speaker Mike Johnson today working to solve
Republican in-party fighting.
I think we'll get everybody to yes.
As their proposed cuts to Medicaid divide the
party.
Late Sunday, Johnson unveiling their plan to cut
hundreds of billions of dollars to Medicaid, fueling
concerns it would leave millions of low-income
and disabled Americans without care.
You're going to die.
I continue to maintain my position.
We should not be cutting Medicaid benefits.
Republican Senator Josh Hawley yesterday with an op
-ed in the New York Times, writing, if
Congress cuts funding for Medicaid benefits, Missouri workers
and their children will lose their health care
and hospitals will close.
It's that simple.
And that pattern will replicate in states across
the country.
I love how hospitals will close has nothing
to do with hospitals.
But Hawley is jumping on the bandwagon.
And he's wrong in this case, because the
numbers add up.
If you look at what's happening here.
We are struggling with rural health care coverage.
And, you know, Republicans, we need to be
making that better, not worse.
Protesters today blocking the doors to one of
the hearings on Capitol Hill, where members of
Congress dissect the proposed cuts.
A critical piece of the big, beautiful bill.
President Trump has been asking for to fund
his agenda.
With the one big, beautiful bill, we can
ignite the second Trump economic boom and improve
the lives of millions of our neighbors back
home.
If the cuts are approved, it would go
against what Trump said back in February.
Can you guarantee that Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security
will not be touched?
Yeah, I mean, I have said it so
many times.
You shouldn't be asking me that question.
OK, this will not be read my lips.
It won't be read my lips anymore.
We're not going to touch it.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says the cuts
would slash Medicaid more than ever before.
It's cruel.
It's heartbreaking.
Senate Democrats will continue to expose this devastating
plan and fight for American families.
Blah, blah, blah.
So the whole point of the executive order,
which, of course, is an executive order.
So if it doesn't turn into legislation at
some point, it goes away.
But the whole point is you can slash
money from the Medicaid budget because Medicaid is
overpaying for all of these drugs.
Because, of course, Medicaid pays pretty much full
price.
What the insurance companies and the pharmacy benefit
managers have jacked this all up to.
But President Trump's executive order is to make
it a most favored nation pricing.
And there's a whole bunch of existing laws
on the books, like the Sherman Act and
all kinds of stuff where this can be
done.
So that Medicaid will have to pay a
lot less.
No one will actually lose anything.
That's the theory, at least.
No one will lose any medicines.
They will just be cheaper to the United
States government and the United States people.
But the real gotcha in here is Section
4, enabling direct-to-consumer sales to American
patients at the most favored nation price.
To the extent consistent with the law, the
Secretary of Health and Human Services, Bobby Beopp,
shall facilitate direct-to-consumer purchasing programs for
pharmaceutical manufacturers that sell their products to American
patients at the most favored nation price.
So you will finally be able to buy
your medication at a normal price, which most
of you are already doing, from India, from
any other place.
That's the big gotcha here.
You know, if you look for ivermectin, you
can get 2,000 ivermectin pills for like
50 bucks from India.
If you can buy it in America, it's
going to be hundreds of dollars.
So he's really put in a bypass here
that also goes for hospitals and pharmacies, etc.,
where you can get your stuff at most
favored nation pricing and go around the system.
I think it's long overdue.
And everything else is just bullcrap.
Okay.
I don't have anything to add to that.
No, there's nothing to add.
Just staying with pharma for one minute.
I told you it was coming, that the
Deutsche Lady, she had her commission, the Pfizer
commission.
They investigated what happened with Pfizer and Ursula
and the text messages.
And they figured it all out.
And nothing will happen.
This is a legal and political thunderclap.
The general court of the European Union has
condemned the European commission's lack of transparency in
the negotiations on vaccines during the COVID-19
pandemic.
The judges annulled the commission's refusal to disclose
the text messages exchanged between its president and
the head of Pfizer.
These text messages between Ursula von der Leyen
and the pharmaceutical giant took place during negotiations
on the purchase of almost 2 billion doses.
The commission maintains that it does not hold
these text messages and that their content was
insubstantial.
Not a convincing line of defense.
For the moment, it's still unclear why they
thought that these messages did not include important
information.
So this needs to be clarified.
And also, in a way, we can see
that in general, there is still a lot
of secrecy around this.
We still don't know.
It's still unclear if these messages were deleted,
if, as the courts say, were deleted on
purpose, automatically.
What happened there?
In our opinion, since the beginning, text messages
should be included.
The court criticized the commission for failing to
provide credible evidence to explain why it was
unable to provide these text messages at the
request of a journalist from the New York
Times.
In addition, the judges considered that the institution
was unable to clearly specify whether or not
these text messages had been deleted.
The commission remains unclear on this issue.
I didn't say that any messages were deleted.
What I did say were that, as in
any access to documents request, what we first
do is to check, are there any registered
documents that fall within the scope of the
request?
We did that, didn't find any.
The commission considers that the judgment does not
call into question the procedures for registering documents,
but rather a lack of explanation.
It interprets the court decision as an indication
that it will have to justify itself better
in the future.
Oh, you know, they deleted themselves.
It's, you know, it's just what happens.
This, and Ursula just wafts away, no problem.
She's gonna walk away with no problem anyway.
Yeah, there is, of course, somewhere there's a
record of these text messages.
Yeah.
The NSA has it.
I'm sure the NSA does have it.
I'm sure somebody has it.
So, well, I'm glad the German lady did
all that work for nothing.
Nothing, nothing, nothing comes out of these things.
They're corrupt.
Corrupt.
R.F.K. Jr. Well, I guess I
got one clip from the hearing.
They were grilling him left and right.
R.F.K. Jr. is in front of
Congress, in front of, first he's in front
of Congress, then he was in front of
the Senate.
What was it all about?
Was it just to grill him?
Because he's a bad guy and he's, they're
trying to get rid of him.
And so they're trying to embarrass him.
They can't do it.
Trying to contradict him.
That clip that was, what was it, we
talked about a couple of shows ago of
the guy, head of one of the committees
that's supposed to be running Kennedy.
R.F.K. Jr. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm in charge of him.
I own him.
He has to talk to me every month.
That guy?
R.F.K. Jr. Yeah, that guy.
So he's got a couple of compatriots.
They're all Democrats.
These Democrats, I mean, they loved Kennedy until
he became a Republican.
This is really simple.
But let's listen to him go.
This is it's went on with all of
them.
But especially the Democrats, the Republicans were fine.
But the Democrats kept trying to, you know,
they're pushing vaccines.
Oh, the measles thing.
You had two dead kids.
My God.
And we had 20 shootings in Oakland.
Doesn't matter.
But these two dead kids.
No, they're black.
It doesn't matter.
This doesn't matter.
So so here's one of the back and
forths.
Health Secretary Robert F.
Kennedy Jr. says that reducing dependency on China
for critical medicines is a priority for him
and the Trump administration.
NTT correspondent Jason Blair has more from Kennedy's
testimony on Capitol Hill.
They're directly and narrowly focused on creating dominance
across the globe.
During a House committee meeting, HHS Secretary Robert
F.
Kennedy Jr. agreed when asked if over relying
on China for critical pharmaceuticals poses a threat.
We saw the problem with supply chain control
by the Chinese during COVID.
And this is a priority for me and
for this administration.
RFK Jr. says that they've been working hard
to bring more medicine production into the US
and that he's been meeting with pharmaceutical CEOs.
I've met repeatedly with Eli Lilly, which is
now building nine facilities, nine factories in this
country.
Kennedy says that China also has a program
called the Thousand Talents Program that is designed
to steal US IP and technology.
And we have facilitated that at NIH.
I funded Chinese scientists with contracts that don't
require them even to report their science back
to our country.
But they give it directly to Chinese military
scientists on bioweapons research that we gave them
the technology for.
After testifying in front of the House Appropriations
Committee, Kennedy was a witness in a second
hearing in front of the Senate.
He was interrupted by protesters during his opening
statement.
The witness will suspend.
The committee will come to order.
Tina told me that the guy from Ben
and Jerry's was protesting.
I don't get the protests at all.
What are they protesting against?
I don't get it.
It seems like a plant to me.
But then the best clips are these, which
is Chris Murphy comes on and he starts
asking Kennedy a bunch of pointed questions.
And Chris Murphy is a showboater from Connecticut.
He shows up a lot.
He's trying to become president.
He sucks.
He's stupid.
And here he goes into it.
This is a Chris Murphy series.
This is him talking to Kennedy.
That is not what happened.
You've done the opposite.
You canceled $12 billion in grants to the
states, including my state, that are used to
administer and track vaccines.
You promised Chairman Cassidy.
When did I do that?
Madam Chair, would you allow me to finish
my question?
Keep going with your questions.
When did I do that?
Let me, let me, let me finish my
question.
Just tell me when I did it so
I can understand what the question is.
You have canceled $12 billion in public health
grants to states, whether you know this or
not.
That funding is used by the states in
part to be able to administer and dispense
information about vaccines.
Hmm.
Why does it take $12 billion to administer
information about vaccines?
Hey, I'll take $1 billion and talk about
it three hours long, twice a week.
It's unbelievable.
That's just scam, obviously.
For one state.
But could he answer the question about it?
Did he even know why it had been
canceled?
Well, it continues pretty much in order.
So here he comes.
Let me give you, Mr. Secretary, let me
give you, let me, let me give you
the full panoply of the things you said
before this committee that didn't turn out to
be true.
You also promised Chairman Cassidy that the FDA
would not change vaccine standards from, quote, historical
norms.
But what happened as soon as you were
sworn in?
You announced new standards for vaccine approvals that
you proudly referred to in your own press
release as a radical departure from current practice.
And experts say that that departure will delay
approvals.
You also said specific to the measles vaccine
that you support the measles vaccine.
But you have consistently been undermining the measles
vaccine.
You told the public that the vaccine wanes
very quickly.
You went on the Dr. Phil show and
said that the measles vaccine was never fully
tested for safety.
You said there's fetal debris in the measles
vaccine.
And this morning- All true, all true.
This morning in front of- Do you
want me to lie to the public?
That's not, none of that is true.
None of that is true.
Of course it's true.
That is true.
Of course it's true.
I'm sorry, Mr. Secretary, that is true.
You've got your senator begging your property.
And I will submit- You do not
know what you're talking about.
For the record.
Let's have a little bit of order so
that you can get your question and he
can get his.
I didn't ask, I didn't ask for a
response yet.
I understand that.
I'd like to lay out the predicate of
my question before I'm interrupted by the witness.
He should have some respect for this committee.
By the way, the Ben and Jerry's guy,
Ben, Ben Cohen, he was kicked out of
the hearing with Robert Kennedy Jr. for protesting
Congress's funding of the Israeli military.
He went to the wrong hearing somehow.
Oh, that's funny.
It's just like, uh, no.
It's like a Woody Allen movie.
Exactly.
So we wrap it with this one.
Just this morning in front of the House
of Representatives, you also said that you, in
fact, would not recommend that kids get vaccinated
for measles.
You said you would just lay out the
pros and cons.
Okay, so this is the summation of everything
that you have said to compromise people's faith
in the measles vaccine in particular is contrary
to what you said before this committee.
You said you support the measles vaccine.
But then you have laid out a set
of facts that are contested.
And I will submit information for the record
from experts who contest what you've said about
the vaccine.
And the result is to undermine faith in
the vaccine.
It's kind of like saying, listen, I think
you should swim in that lake.
But, you know, the lake is probably toxic
and there's probably a ton of snakes and
alligators in that lake.
But I think you should swim in it.
Nobody's going to swim in that lake if
that's what you say.
And so I want you to acknowledge that
when you say you support the measles vaccine
and then go out and repeatedly undermine the
vaccine with information that is contested by public
health experts, that is not supporting the vaccine.
And so I guess I have two simple
questions for you.
One is, can you clarify what you said
in the House this morning?
Are you or are you not recommending that
families get their children vaccinated?
Or are you just giving people the pros
and cons?
And do you understand that when you say
these things about the measles vaccine, what ends
up happening is less people get the vaccine?
That may be what you want.
But do you understand that the result of
constantly questioning the efficacy or safety of the
vaccine results in less people getting the vaccine?
So I don't necessarily want to spend the
remaining 20 seconds in an argument over the
science, but you at least understand that that's
the consequence of what you're saying.
And are you actually still recommending people get
the vaccine or are you not?
Senator, if I advise you to swim in
a lake, then I knew there to be
alligators.
And wouldn't you want me to tell you
there were alligators in it?
So are you recommending the measles vaccine or
not?
What I've said and what I said-
Doesn't sound like you are, if that's-
Are you going to let me answer?
Are you going to keep it or are
you not?
Are you going to let me answer?
What I pledged before this committee during my
confirmation is that I would tell the truth,
that I would have radical transparency.
I'm going to tell the truth about everything
we know and we don't know about vaccines.
Are you recommending the measles vaccine or not?
I am not going to just tell people
everything is safe and effective if I know
that there's issues.
I need to respect people's intelligence.
Thank you for answering the question.
Wow, I don't think I saw that clip
on mainstream news.
I wonder why.
I have a lot of really good clips
about big pharma because outside of the military
industrial complex, which runs a lot, that is
probably number two.
They certainly run the media.
But before we do that, I'd like to
thank you for your courage to say in
the morning to you, the man who put
the C's in the caravan of camels, say
hello to my friend on the other end,
the one, the only, Mr. John C.
DeWaar.
Yeah, well, in the morning to you, Mr.
Adam Crane.
Morning to you, Mr. Steve Woodson.
Raffy in the air.
Sub's DeWaar.
Name's nice out there.
And in the morning to the trolls in
the troll room.
Hello there, trolls.
How you doing?
How you rocking?
How you rolling?
Hello.
Oh, we don't have a peak troll count
for some reason.
Why is that now?
Always something.
It's always something.
We're around 1500 right now, but usually it's
probably around 18, 1900.
Interesting.
Didn't show up.
Anyway, the trolls are there.
The trolls are very cynical.
I've noticed.
I've been paying attention to them today.
They're like, it's all performative.
No, they don't care.
These people are no good.
We're all going to die.
They have no joy.
Where's your joy and chaos, trolls?
It's all good.
It really is.
Everything's going to be fine.
This is a show put on for your
benefit.
It's just a show.
Bobby the Op is right.
I'm not going to tell you to swim
in the lake if there's alligators in that.
I'm not going to do that.
No.
So the trolls are in the troll room,
trollroom.io. If you want to go in
there and be beaten around like you're in
a bouncy ball, fill, you know, one of
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Did I tell you that already?
Yeah, you did last show.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
You went on and on about it.
Yeah, because that's what I've been...
Ever since Apple made the change where you
can have an alternative payment method in your
app, because that was the whole thing, is
you can't do it now.
No, they lost that big epic court case
and the judge excoriated them.
So they have to.
They have to allow buttons and links in
apps that do not use the Apple in
-app payment system, i.e. Apple gets 30
% of it.
So that's good news.
It's good news for freedom, John.
For freedom.
Freedom, baby.
Screw your freedom.
That's right.
It's a good day for freedom.
And, of course, you also, with those modern
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I learned something that I can impress my
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I just felt better because I don't feel
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Well, then just send something back to us.
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You can do any version of that that
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We have artists who love sending us their
talent and their time by making artwork that
we can choose right after the show.
They do it live while we're on the
air, which is very impressive.
They use a variety of tools.
And it's clear that the tool of choice,
although expertly applied, was artificial intelligence generative AI
for the episode 1763, which was on Sunday.
We titled that AI Factory.
We were contemplating doing A1 Factory to stay
online with our fine secretary of education, but
we decided against that because we thought people
would probably look at it and think that
we were the dopes and not the secretary
of education.
I know, it's a fine line.
Very fine line, very fine line.
However, Francisco Scaramanga, I mean, we went way
off base.
We're traditionalists when it comes to holidays and
observances for veterans or for Christmas or Easter,
and Mother's Day has always been kind of
sacred for us, and we veered off the
path.
No.
What do you mean, no?
We went over this and over this and
over this, and I came...
You, yes, you.
I said, I like this piece, and you
said it was gruesome, which is a rule.
I said, does it apply to the gruesome
rule?
Can we apply that to this piece of
art?
The gruesome rule, I think, was in play,
and so I looked at it, and I
think it's a hilarious piece.
It's very funny.
By the way, I will say this.
There is a bunch of these AI art
pieces that come out dingy.
Yeah, dingy.
And somebody's got to fix this.
The art is dingy.
We had this, the last couple of pieces
came out dingy.
There's no white.
The dynamic range of the piece is minimal.
So it's muddy looking.
Because it's a photocopy of something else.
Who knows what it is.
But the piece I really liked was Happy
Mother's Day by Darren O'Neill with the
flying mom.
You're not an NPC.
I was pushing that at the end, but
then you, because I had first chosen this,
you had said, No, you're going to eat
it.
And this is going to be your fault.
And you insisted that we take this horrible
piece by Scaramanga.
You are turning history around.
I'm telling you the story.
The pregnant mom, the kid in a body
suit, with a package, as you put it.
And the poor girl with the eyes got
poked.
I mean, it's just a tremendously gross piece.
From now on, I'm taping our conversations about
art so I can play back the truth.
You said, I love this piece.
This is a great piece.
And I said, I said, no, this is
horrible.
And by the way, the kid has a
huge package.
This is weird.
This is not good.
That's what I said.
That's what you said.
Yeah, but you were pushing for this.
You weren't pushing for anything else.
She's like, this is the one, man.
This is it.
This is the one.
And you said Francisco Scaramanga is great.
I heard you say it.
He is great.
He's great.
But so is Darren.
Darren is very good.
I actually use the mom with the flying
mom as a bat signal piece of art.
I like that as well.
However, it was Francisco Scaramanga who scores once
again with his kegger for mom art.
That's what the title is.
And I'm just looking to see if there
was anything.
I think I pushed maybe for one other
Mother's Day.
No, there really wasn't.
It was weak.
Yes, and a lot of the art is
dingy.
You're right.
You're so right about that.
That's an interesting observation.
A lot of Pope.
A lot of Pope stuff.
A lot of raw dogging.
I probably noticed this more with this, with
not this piece, but the one, the last
piece would look good on the art generator.
But then when it showed up on the,
it was dingy.
It didn't have any white.
Yeah.
It's not white.
The contrast was minimized.
And they said the Scaramanga piece is probably
the worst example of this.
There is no dynamic range.
No, no.
But don't worry.
We'll fix it.
Once we have more compute.
Try a different system.
I had lunch with a new guy in
town.
He's a little bit younger than me, which
was nice.
Everyone's a little bit older than me.
Wait, wait.
How did this come about?
Oh, they moved.
He's just walking down the street and just
had lunch with some rando?
Hey, now he actually does the mixing at
church for the worship team, which is Christianese
for band.
And he's a musician.
So he plays guitar, but he's doing all
the mixing.
And finally, it's starting to sound good.
It really sounds good.
And he is a sales guy for the
hyperscalers.
And so he said, so I won't mention
his company, but they sell AI products and
they sell products where you can select the
model you want.
And so I said, oh, this is great.
So we sit, so I go out to
lunch.
We go out to lunch, have a little
chat.
And I said, well, what do you think
of this AI?
He says, you know, people in the industry
are saying, this is like jet travel.
This changes everything.
He says, this is bull crap.
He says, it's all still machine learning and
it's pretty good at it.
But there's no, like me, he says, there's
no intelligence in this artificial intelligence.
Zero, zero.
He says, we're not even at 0.1
% of anything intelligent.
Now, if you give it structured data and
you want to sift through it and find
things and categorize, yeah, that's machine learning.
It's machine learning.
That's where we were before the AI hype
took off.
Then it took off because people like Scaramanga
can make this stuff.
And we're like, we're gobsmacked.
Like, wow, this is great.
How did you do that?
Or you can make a country song because
all the AI generators only make country songs.
You notice that?
Oh man, I made a great song with
AI.
It's always a country song.
So that's just, he agrees with me.
It's just a parlor trick.
So that made me feel very good.
I paid for lunch.
Good to go.
Wow.
He got you.
What else do you want me to say
that I agree with?
Hey, a big $49 check at Werner's Cafe.
I think- 49 bucks for lunch is
a lot.
It's Fredericksburg, baby.
It's better to eat at home here.
For two people?
Two sandwiches, two drinks, and pie?
49 bucks is kind of- What do
you pay for in California for that?
$3.50. Okay.
All right.
I'm moving to Cali.
They'll tax you on the back end.
Don't worry.
They make it up in volume.
So thank you very much, Francisco Scaramanga.
Thank you to all of our artists who
diligently participate in this wacky contest at noagendaartgenerator
.com.
We really do appreciate what you do.
Now to the donations.
It'll be a quick list.
And of course, I've been grousing about this
because this is the lowest that's been in
a long time.
I want to point out that this is
the only gig we have.
So, you know, and this is a full
-time job.
And it's not so much about, you know,
executive producers, associate executive producers.
That's really nice.
But it's really where are the people who
just appreciate us and just give us five
bucks a show?
That's what I'm missing.
Well, the over 50s today.
Yeah.
In other words, everybody, including associate executive producers
and people paid over 50, is a grand
total of 28 people.
Yeah.
Since the newsletter is 29,000 something.
This is less than one person per thousand.
That's the newsletter.
And we have about 800,000 to a
million listeners.
Well, I'm going to take a look right
now.
I'll take a look at that.
And only 28 people.
That's telling me something.
That's telling me.
It's telling us that they're listening.
We still have the terabytes that are flowing
from the server.
Well, here I have.
In April, we had down in April.
We had 743,000 unique listeners.
That's April.
That's down.
That is down.
It's down from about 800.
850, 860.
We used to be up floating around in
a bump.
We're on our way down, baby.
We're on our way out.
We're old.
We're yesterday's news.
We're not enough TikToks.
Wrap us in fish.
I mean, that's nothing.
We're just a whole bunch of old boomers.
Got to play with boomers.
Nobody cares.
So maybe we play TikTok clips.
Anyway, we do like doing this.
By the way, I have to say the
TikTok clips come in bunches.
Like, you know, you don't see anything.
Every once in a while, someone will send
me one.
Say, look at this one.
And I catch it.
And it's just hooked to a bunch of
other ones.
Bang, bang, bang, bang.
They're all, you know, they're nailing it.
It's called an algo, by the way.
Yeah, but the algo doesn't trigger right all
the time.
Because if, for example, if I'm using Jay's
phone.
Yeah.
Oh, no.
The algo always drives me to the same.
But it's a phone.
It's an app.
The app is doing all kinds of stuff
under the hood that you don't see.
That's why it knows.
I'll tell you what I get a lot
of.
If it's if I'm left on my own,
if the thing figures who I am and
they want to give me stuff, I like
lousy cooking videos.
People who can't cook.
Yeah, there's a lot of that.
And they can.
And it's like a joke to watch.
I mean, you can't.
It's like watching a train wreck.
You just can't.
Now, watch what is who would eat this?
And that's one.
That's one.
The other ones are the phony baloney elaborate
videos that show you that something you could
do this, that and the other thing.
And then magically something happens, which is bogus.
My fate.
The most recent one I had, there's a
guy.
OK, guy takes a he takes a wine
glass and he wraps the bottom in foil
and put some foil on the bottom of
the stem.
So it's all foil up.
Then he puts lays it on a on
a box and the bar and he's got
the wine glass pointed against the wall and
he's got all the foil around it.
And then he takes his phone, turns on
a video, puts the phone up against a
foam block.
So it's so it is being so it's
up kind of up against the wine glass.
And suddenly, magically, the image on the phone
is projected onto the wall.
Oh, no.
Yeah, there's a lot.
It's like dead serious.
It's bullcrap.
Well.
You know, if you just gave up on
this show and spent your time making tick
tock videos of you cooking, you would do
better.
I guarantee you, you would do better.
Thank you.
Cotton gin.
Eighteen hundred and four was the total.
The script broke.
That's all right.
That's decent.
But you're right.
Twenty nine, twenty eight, twenty nine people above
50.
And it's and a lot of the executive
associate executive producers, they figured out, oh, I
can I can put an ad in here.
So I'm a little I'm a little down
on twenty nine.
But you got to remember the first cell
is OK.
It's twenty eight.
So the bottom line is it's value for
value.
And if we don't feel that we get
the value back, whatever that means to us,
whatever it means to you, if you don't
give us anything, then we will find I
will find something else to do.
And if I find something else to do,
John, you have to find something else to
do.
You're not going to do the show on
your own.
It's not a threat.
It's a promise of the value for value
show that now I would watch that I
would watch the John Tick-Tock show.
I mean, Tina shows me the cooking videos
all the time.
This is one old bag.
And she and I say that because she
says about herself and she she's cooking.
Her son is always there.
And you were you apologize.
You were using the term old bag.
Yeah, I don't want to be mean.
And and she's thrown like everything is cheese
and I throw a lot of cheese.
All these guys, they always top it with
a bunch of cheese, cheese, cheese, melt the
cheese on it.
And she always tastes it.
Oh, it's delicious.
There's yes.
People love that.
People love cooking stuff.
It's putting everybody out of business.
It's Tick-Tock is a scourge.
We should ban it.
The Chinese are tracking you with it's no
good.
And we do want to thank our Dutch
producer, who was the top executive producer today
with five hundred and twenty six thirty six.
And this is a longtime supporter, Marcel van
Dongen from Schravenhagen in the Netherlands.
ITM Gents, he says my first donation was
a fifteen hundred dollar in double up episode
fifteen oh one.
I was announced but not knighted.
Whoa.
So I think that makes me a black
Insta Baron douchebag.
Well, you're not a douchebag.
That's for sure.
I hope I'm not too late for the
title of Commodore.
I think we made an exception for him.
Did we not?
Yeah, because of this complaint.
Well, and he's a spot on.
I'd oh, I hope I'm I says I
hope I am too late.
I think it means not too late for
the title of Commodore.
I'd rather have a ZX Spectrum title.
My 60th birthday is coming up this Thursday,
May 15th.
So happy birthday.
Can I have a deducing?
You've been deduced.
And for the roundtable, some drop shot and
stroopwafels.
Drop shot.
Okay, you got it.
And a title change from night of the
I remember.
That's he said.
Try with two bleeds tonight or Baron of
the Calangela hideout.
We are planning on building a resort on
the Calangela Island in.
Is that pronounced that right?
Calangela Island in Lake Victoria and thinking how
to do the V for V model there.
Don't.
I advise against it now.
It won't work.
Douchebag show up and they'll just take advantage
of you.
Any tips?
Yeah, don't.
Thank you for your courage.
Marcel van Dongen.
Marcel, I don't know if we ordered.
Let me make sure we get that order
for you.
52636 was his donation.
Yes, and I'm making sure that we have
your drop shot and the stroopwafels at the
roundtable.
You bet, sir.
Thank you very much, Marcel.
Kevin Cuneo Cuneo.
One of the two in San Carlos is
over here with our anonymous cop, I guess.
350 93.
I can John and Adam, please deduce me.
You've been deduced.
This donation of 33333, which is what it
amounts to before the fees, which, by the
way, are only 15 cents.
If you use a check.
That's right.
May I please request baby making karma and
Trump jobs karma.
Cheers, Casey in San Mateo County.
Jobs, jobs.
You've got karma.
There you go, Kevin.
And remember, if it works, you got to
name your kid after John and Adam.
Kevin Cuneo, San Carlos, California.
ITM Adam and John, please deduce.
Well, there we go.
You've been you're reading the same note.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Well, he got a double deducing.
Sir Brian with an eye.
That's the one I needed to do.
Sir Brian with an eye.
Who does not know Sir Brian with an
eye?
He's from Cedar Park, Texas.
Three thirty three.
And he says I shall now be gallivanting
and meetups as a baronet.
But I request no title changes.
My current name already carries too much clout.
And I don't want to confuse my fans.
And if fans want to meet Sir Brian
with an eye, he will, of course, be
at the meetup, the Fredericksburg meetup coming up
this Saturday.
It's actually in Lukenbach at the 1776 bar.
We will all be there.
Three thirty three p.m. Thank you, Sir
Brian with an eye.
And we look forward to you and your
fans.
The town is named Lukenbach?
Lukenbach, yes.
Very famous town.
Very fine.
Very famous.
Lukenbach.
That whole area must just have been taken
over by the Germans.
Well, yes, it was founded by the Germans
in, I want to say, 1840 something.
And supposedly...
Anybody ever ask why?
Who were these Germans that went to Texas
in 1840?
These were very brave people who were looking
for a better life than jolly old Deutschland.
And they settled here and they apparently, the
Fredericksburgians, made a deal with the Comanche Indians
that was never broken.
They treated them right.
And there you go.
That's the history of Fredericksburg.
You might notice the name Fredericksburg.
You know, name after...
Oh, yeah, I know that.
Frederick.
I didn't know they had a bunch of
ancillary towns named with German names all over
it.
We've got the Schlitterbahn over there an hour
away.
Everything is German here.
And how this went over during World War
II?
So a friend of mine of ours, he
does estate sales, which means you go into
dead people's homes and you find all the
gems and you buy them up and then
you sell them.
He says, here in Fredericksburg, there's a lot
of paraphernalia and flags and stuff with swastikas
on it at the estate sales.
I don't know if he puts those up
for sale right away, I find a lot
of interesting stuff.
I bet he does.
Dave Sorensen probably finds interesting stuff.
He's in Winthrop, Washington.
It came in with $233.99. Forgive me,
fathers, for I have sinned.
It has been 301 days since my last
donation.
This row of ducks, I guess it was
22222 plus the fees.
It was hardly absolved me, but I do
appreciate you both so much and still haven't
missed an episode since the first one I
listened to.
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Now we have a note from the Dale
family.
It's our last associate executive producer title and
it is written, uh, it looks like, uh,
written, this is, it's very 3D.
Uh, it was written with pen and ink
or one of those really fat, uh, nubs.
Nub?
Is it a nub?
A nib?
A nub?
What do you call that?
I don't know.
Nib.
Nib, yes.
ITM John Adam, until now we have only
made small token donations, but I'm afraid it
wasn't enough to de-douche.
So please de-douche our team post haste.
You've been de-douched.
Over the years, the Noah Jenner Show has
filled an important modern events and critical thinking
component in our home school.
Ah, I love this.
That's right.
By the way, hello to all the kids
from heritage school listening, all three of you.
This is not a school though.
It's a family education project and we wrote
a book about it.
We didn't go through a publishing house.
This book did not have to be approved
by a corporate editor.
It told the story as best we could
of our 19 year home education journey and
the educational pedagogy we developed that led to
our daughter getting a 1460 on the SAT.
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Boost this value for value audio book on
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This is not a school.
So you can get that a modern podcast
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I like that.
Thank you, John Adam, Albie, fountain and the
Noah Jenner.
I was thinking fountain.
And the Noah Jenner Nation for helping us
navigate the value for value model and giving
us an opportunity to work outside the system
to tell our story our way.
Keep up the great work.
Jingles.
Resist we much.
R2D2 karma.
And ants.
And oh, and a you might die.
I'm sorry.
I didn't get my you might die.
Hold on.
Might die.
Yes, of course.
We always have that handy.
Okay.
Oh, it's the Dale family.
John, Jessica, Caitlin, Casey and Kayla.
And John has been working on this for
a long time in this project.
I've helped him from time to time.
He had questions.
You know, they were doing the RSS feed
by themselves, but they did what most people
don't do is actually reach out to someone
who knows how to do this stuff.
So that was a double.
I know what what they ask for advice
and help.
So I get a lot of emails from
John.
And so go boost those kids.
They are pretty cool.
But resist we much.
We must and we will much about that.
Be committed.
You might die.
All right, everybody.
Stand by.
Here comes a little bit of John's ant
song.
And that concludes our executive and associate executive
producers for episode 1764.
It still is the best podcast in the
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And I love getting notes like that.
That really does make my day.
And when you say that, that it helped
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Not a homeschool, but your schooling project at
home.
That gives me hope.
Hope for humanity.
Hope for America.
Yes, I salute you.
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They can be used even in con.
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What up with the no agenda show?
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Our formula is this.
We go out.
We hit people in the mouth.
Before we continue on our merry way, I
do want to play this Dave Smith.
OK, get closer to the microphone, though, so
we can all hear you.
I'll try to.
OK.
If there's any closer, I'd be behind it.
Yeah, well, that way it might work.
So he was on Tucker.
Talked bitching and moaning about Douglas Murray and
they went on Murray.
They went on and on.
But a couple of things came out of
that had nothing to do with that.
One was the the comment by Tucker that
it's possible that they're going to because there's
the way Smith saw it.
And I think Tucker, to some extent, they
saw the future as podcasting.
No kidding.
Wait, wait.
Did they say that that Adam Curry had
something to do with that?
They didn't mention your name, of course.
No.
Why would they?
No.
But the point is, is that they talked
about how media has when a new guy
comes along and exploits the media presidential candidate,
for example, like Roosevelt exploited radio before anybody
else did.
Kennedy did television, did the fire fireside chat.
Kennedy did television.
Trump did social media.
And then he got on the podcasting thing,
did the three hour podcast.
They talked about that.
That's right.
And Tucker said, oh, I think they're going
to crack down.
And I said what I think, which I
said to myself, what I think is I
still think that someday down the road to
be licensing or something like that, because they
can't let this thing go crazy.
Well, we have the only but the most
thing I thought mostly about you and podcasting
2.0, which means they can't crack down.
Correct.
So so to give you kudos, that's, you
know, minor compared to the one I thought
when I got this clip where they brought
up the fact that Smith was, you know,
they were maybe giving him a gig on
Fox as a contributor.
He did mention the amount of money they
get paid.
This is rando contributors on Fox make a
hundred K a year.
Whoa, that's not bad.
No.
And so they just show up and do
a comment, you know, there's a slow.
It's all the same as usual suspects.
But they brought this little ditty up, which
is something you've been asserting since day one
about Fox.
And I let it play.
Greg Gutfeld and Tom Shalhoub, who was hosting
Red Eye at the time, they started using
me on their Fox News shows.
And so it was like the first time
in my career I'd like started getting on
TV.
And I remember a few people at Fox
had told me that they were like, hey,
there's like some people in management are like
interested in you like they're they're taking, you
know, some interest in you.
And then it was kind of explains me
not like ever directly, but it was like,
you know, you're you're a little out there.
For Fox News.
And I remember at the time I was
broke.
I mean, dead broke.
Only on just to put a finer point
in that.
What do they mean?
Not in your personal life, your personal.
Oh, no, no, no.
More buttoned down than most people who are
at the time.
It wasn't.
This is before I was married and had
kids and stuff.
But that's what they don't care.
I found out pretty quickly by just doing
shows at Fox News and then going to
the bar afterward with some of the people
there.
You're like, oh, conservatism, Inc.
Is not exactly what you thought.
They're actually pretty liberal to the bar hang
after the show, I would say.
But vindicated once again, vindicated.
Yes, of course.
They're a bunch of Democrats running Fox News.
We know that.
Yeah.
But it is confirmed with that clip.
And of course, Tucker said, yeah, yeah, they're
a bunch of what you get.
Go to the bar and you'll find out
what they're really thinking.
Well, I since you brought up podcasting, I
have a question for you.
This is a industry wide question.
It is it is rampant throughout the PIC,
the podcast industrial complex, which is basically people
who do advertising.
By the way, we could switch to advertising
and do pretty well.
I'm just telling you, even with our, you
know, because we have a million downloads a
month.
That's a thousand CPMs. That's not bad.
We could do OK.
I'm just saying.
Yeah, we don't want to do that, people.
No, of course I don't want to do
that.
I'd rather give up.
I'd rather rage quit.
Would you be cool?
Adam Curry rage quits.
Anyway, Adam Curry rage quits.
So because aging co-partner in the lurch,
we have a picture of you in a
rocking chair like he left me.
He stranded me.
I got nothing to do.
No one visits me nowhere to go.
Anyway, this is a good question for you.
Because of the nature of how podcast advertising
works, which I will say right off the
bat is a scam because it is.
It's based upon downloads and you can buy
downloads.
You can create bots that do downloads.
Yeah.
You know, most of the hosting companies, they
all adhere to the IAB standards and they're
they've been verified, which cost them $50,000
or some crazy amount because, you know, in
order to be verified, which means they came,
we checked your logs.
There's no fake downloads here.
Whatever.
Of course, when Apple decided they weren't going
to have past episodes download automatically, everything went
down 20% and people had to pay
millions of dollars and make goods.
We'll just leave that by the side.
Downloads, not a scam, people.
Okay.
But the nature of the measurement is iffy
at best.
So what happened is and so podcasting is
under attack, not podcasting 2.0, but podcasting
itself is under attack because YouTube in particular
came in and said, oh, no, we're the
number one podcasting platform in the universe.
Have you heard this?
Have you seen the numbers?
Have you seen the press releases?
They barrage the market.
I'm about to find out.
Well, they barrage the market.
We have the most podcast.
Now, of course, they're not a podcast platform
because, yes, you can give them your RSS
feed, but they just use it to slurp
in your videos and that's it.
Or even your podcast.
You can't change your feed or take something
out.
You know, no, it's ingested.
It's done.
And you can mark your YouTube channel as
a podcast.
Now, advertisers love this because, oh, I can
advertise on podcasts and I can get real
numbers.
Of course, YouTube has very detailed statistics and
they can say, well, you got a million
plays.
What is a play?
Well, it's 60 seconds.
It's not even it's like 20 seconds of
someone watching.
But OK, that's fine.
That's a view or that's a play.
So the advertising industrial complex for podcasting started
to call videos on YouTube podcasts.
Do you see the problem here?
Well, the problem is every the whole thing
is a scam.
Right.
But so when you don't have to me,
you have an RSS feed.
That's a podcast.
You host it at a hosting company or
we happen to have void zero.
We hosted ourselves.
We're in control.
YouTube can't you can even upload audio with
a picture on it or whatever.
But that's not a podcast.
A podcast is independent.
It's just it's decentralized.
It's distributed.
No government, no Silicon Valley company can take
you down even if Apple decides, which they've
done in the past.
They don't want your podcast on the on
the Apple podcast apps.
They do it all the time.
Spotify deletes episodes all the time.
That can't happen.
And that to me is a podcast.
You have your RSS feed and it's an
independent thing.
Do you do you have an opinion on
this?
Can you tell me what is a podcast?
If someone said what's a podcast, how does
John C.
Dvorak define that?
I would say a podcast is an independently
produced audio product that might have a video
component, but it's basically an audio product that's
distributed through RSS to various mechanisms.
And it can be anything from A to
Z in terms of how it's structured or
how it exists or what it's about.
Thank you.
I'm with you on that.
Let's listen to Bill O'Reilly's definition of
what a podcast is.
I drives me crazy.
People go, oh, I watch your podcast on
a podcast.
Look, if you guy has tattoos and dirty
sneakers, it's a podcast.
If he's dressed as dapper as I dress,
it's a broadcast.
There you go.
If you have dirty, if you have dirty
sneakers and tattoos, then it's a podcast.
If you're dressed like Bill O'Reilly, it's
a broadcast.
He says this on his podcast.
No, it's he refuses.
He's moving to netcast next, I hear.
Yeah, I'm surprised he doesn't do netcast, which
was another denial.
All right.
Hey, the saga continues.
So that was a shaggy dog story.
It was a shaggy dog story.
It was indeed.
But I'm glad that you have a better
definition of what a podcast is than Bill
O'Reilly.
Well, anybody would.
Anybody would, yes.
So the scam continues.
They continue to scam the American public and
everyone's in on it.
Oh, man, it's falling apart.
It's dangerous to fly.
Don't go to New Jersey.
Happening today, the FAA will continue discussions with
six major airlines about the ongoing delays at
Newark Liberty International Airport.
The agency wants to reduce the number of
flights at the airport in North Jersey.
Meanwhile, we're learning new information about the two
radar outages in the last two and a
half weeks at a Philadelphia facility that manages
flights for Newark.
During that time, air traffic control could not
see or talk with planes.
The FAA explained on Capitol Hill yesterday that
the primary and backup lines both failed.
The agency says it is now working to
add a third line.
Again, our air traffic controllers who are in
this grand Gitmo nation all say that happens
all the time.
And adding another one of these lines to
communicate with the radios is not going to
help.
We just need a whole different system.
But they're really going to go out.
It's going to be billions and it will
take forever to implement.
And this is just like the drone story
or just like any other story that hypes
the media and scares everybody.
Oh, they can't see us on the radar.
We're all going to die.
Hasn't happened yet.
And as predicted, the blame goes to the
previous administration, specifically Pete Buttigieg.
So I was all set before we had
the rigged election to give out a brand
new gorgeous system to one company that was
going to do it all thing.
One of the best companies in the world
that you know very well.
You know, there are three or four of
them that do it.
And when they took over, Buttigieg has no
clue.
You know, he drives to work on his
bicycle with his with his in all fairness
with his husband on the back, which is
a nice loving relationship.
But he didn't have a clue.
This guy didn't have a clue.
As predicted, blame it on Buttigieg.
I'm glad you got that clip because I
saw that clip.
It's old.
It's great.
But it's so funny.
This is his bicycle with his husband.
It's hilarious.
He never stops.
He doesn't.
Back to the kind of the medical industry.
Another huge controversy.
This is the controversy that we've been tracking
with Casey Means.
You know, we can't have her as Surgeon
General.
The meaningless post.
But OK.
Oh, no, we can't have her because she's
a shill for big pharma with her brother.
And it's no good.
And NPR investigated.
President Trump has a new pick for U
.S. Surgeon General.
He's tapped wellness influencer Dr. Casey Means.
That's in place of his original.
We need to be wellness influencers.
Maybe that's a gig for us.
What do you think?
Well, I mean, you're living a long time.
We just say, well, this is how we
live.
This is how we've stayed alive so long.
Don't you think that's a good gig?
Wellness influencer?
Yeah, and wine reviewer.
Choice.
Former Fox News contributor Dr. Jeanette Neshwat.
NPR's Will Stone is here with the details.
Hi, Will.
Hey there.
Why did Trump drop his first pick for
Surgeon General?
So no official statement from Trump or the
White House on that.
But it seems there may have been a
few issues at play here.
So first, Neshwat had come under scrutiny recently
for misrepresenting her medical credentials, including where she
went to medical school.
This was revealed by an independent reporter, Anthony
Clark, and has been matched by other outlets,
though NPR has not independently confirmed the reporting.
At the same time, Neshwat was also facing
some strong opposition from those on the right.
And in Secretary Robert F.
Kennedy Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again or Maha
movement, one reason was her support for COVID
policies like masking and vaccines.
So whatever the rationale, Trump took to social
media this week and announced he tapped Dr.
Casey Means instead, saying she has, quote, impeccable
Maha credentials.
Well, we're about to find out about those.
By the way, the three stooges were far
ahead of their time with Maha.
Maha.
Yeah, we continue.
Well, tell us more about Casey Means.
Who is she?
Yeah, she's a wellness influencer, author, and entrepreneur.
She has a company that sells glucose monitoring
devices to consumers.
Her background is in medicine.
She went to Stanford Medical School and went
on to surgical residency, but she dropped out
pretty far along in the program.
Her book is kind of a self-help
diet type of book.
It really catapulted her into the online wellness
space.
She's been on big podcasts.
She appeared at a highly publicized congressional roundtable
on nutrition last year that featured Secretary Kennedy
and other big names in the Maha world.
But her resume is definitely a problem for
many in medicine and public health.
She did have a practice in Oregon, but
again, never completed her residency, and she doesn't
have an active medical license right now.
I called up Dr. Richard Carmona to get
his take on this.
Carmona was the surgeon general under George W.
Bush.
Every previous surgeon general, when you look, they've
got the license.
They've got the residency.
They have had at least some leadership ability
that's scalable, and we don't see any of
that here.
I think that our nation deserves better.
I think this is so great.
Can you name three former surgeon generals?
I can name Coop.
That's one.
The bearded guy.
I can add this last guy.
The weird Indian character.
You can't name him.
Navish Shreem Shreem.
Navish Navidat.
No, you can't, because they're not.
They're not just not that important.
Sorry to say.
And Coop said, don't smoke.
And it didn't stop me.
How are her supporters responding to this?
Well, Secretary Kennedy is doubling down on his
support.
He's claiming Dr. Means will be the greatest
surgeon general in American history.
It's also worth noting her brother, Callie Means,
is a prominent advisor
to
Kennedy.
A lot of her messaging aligns with the
secretary.
She rails against the health care industry, big
food and big pharma.
Talks a lot about nutrition and lifestyle.
Here's what Kennedy said on Fox News just
the other day.
Casey Means, we felt, was the best person
to really bring the vision of Maha to
the American public.
She has a unique capacity to articulate it.
Now, Casey Means has made statements casting doubt
on the safety of certain vaccines and the
vaccine schedule.
She's also endorsed things like raw milk, similar
to Kennedy.
All of this is concerning to experts in
public health.
But some in the Kennedy coalition are not
happy with the pick.
For example, Kennedy's former running mate, Nicole Shanahan,
has criticized the choice heavily, as have others.
And some of the pushback has to do
with her vaccine stance, that she has not
come out strongly enough against vaccines, especially the
COVID shots.
So this choice is revealing, I'd say, some
fractures in the Maha coalition.
And that, plus concerns about her lack of
experience, could derail her nomination.
We'll see.
That's NPR's Will Stone.
Thank you so much for talking with us.
Thank you.
Glad that NPR finally got the story.
Yes.
Yes, there's a lot of problem because she
has not come out strongly enough against the
COVID shot.
And this is the criticism.
And of course, I think Kelly, the last
show we played, Kelly.
That's right.
Megyn Kelly's clip where she, I think, you
know, does a reasonable job of defending the
woman and says that you can't come out
as a big anti-COVID shot person and
expect to get.
No.
Confirmed.
But because the half of Congress is bought
and paid for by the pharma companies, and
they don't want to, they could, as far
as they're concerned, fax is the way to
go.
Get vaccinated for everything.
Get 86 when you're a little baby.
But this has been going on for a
long time.
Before she was even in play for Surgeon
General, she and her brother had been accused
of being shills coming out of nowhere.
All of a sudden, they're on all the
big podcasts.
I don't think you're anything until you've come
on the No Agenda Show.
Oh, wait, we don't have any guests.
And they would not denounce the COVID vaccine.
And that is the problem.
And Maha is going uh-uh to her.
So it'll be interesting to see how this
confirmation goes.
In the meantime, this was very peculiar this
morning that I saw on Fox News when
it comes to vaccinations.
And they brought out Tucker Carlson's old doctor
pal.
Remember that guy?
The old dude?
Whenever Tucker was on Fox, yeah, he had
this one doctor.
And it was the same guy over and
over.
We always made fun of him.
Usual suspects.
That's what they do.
Usual suspects.
And here's the news.
HHS Secretary R.F.K. Jr. $500 million
from COVID-19 projects with the goal of
a universal vaccine to protect against multiple strains
of a virus at once.
Fox News Senior Medical Analyst Dr. Mark Siegel
is here to tell us all about this.
This would be getting one shot for the
flu that could maybe last 10 years.
How long have we heard this story?
One shot.
Only one.
One and done.
It's good to go for the flu.
Never get another one for the rest of
your life.
I'm surprised we haven't got clips on this
from 10 years ago.
We probably do.
I think it's going to start with the
flu.
And if we get there with the flu,
maybe we can broaden it to more shots.
The whole idea is that you get a
different flu shot every year.
Right.
Or we did that with COVID.
So it's because we look at the virus
that enters the cell.
Only that protein.
Just that protein that gets it into the
cell.
And it causes a lot of problems and
a lot of changes.
And you have to change the shot all
the time.
And it doesn't always work with flu.
So now, President Trump and RFK are bringing
into place Jeffrey Taubenberger, who's the number one
flu researcher in the world, in my opinion.
Very excited about this guy, Taubenberger.
He's now the head of the National Institute
of Allergy Infectious Diseases, which is the job
that Fauci had.
And you know who this guy is?
He went into the tundra in Alaska and
discovered the Spanish flu.
That's how amazing he is.
Amazing.
And he's been working on flu vaccines for
a really long time.
You already nailed it, which is you try
to get into the shot different proteins.
So you get one response that will work
for all flu.
We got to get there.
We got to get great.
Then you don't have to get a shot
every year.
Absolutely.
Great.
Great program.
I'm not for this.
I don't think this is a good idea.
Well, the vaccine companies aren't for it either.
Obviously, that's why it's never going to happen.
That's true.
That's not good.
Why would you want that when you can
give a shot every year, every year?
Could be dog crap in this shot.
Who cares?
You're not liable for anything.
So you just manufacture could be distilled water.
Shot, shot, shot, shot.
Do you think this is free here at
the pharmacy?
Do you think this is Robert Kennedy Jr.?
You think he's just like, go over here,
work on that for a while?
Is that what this is?
Could be.
Yeah, possible.
All right.
Last thing I have is about fluoride.
Because, of course, and this is, I think,
a very good thing.
Bobby has said, we've got to stop this.
States everywhere are stopping fluoridating their water.
Should have happened decades ago.
But the pharma industry is not taking this
lightly because, oh, no, it's bad.
It's really bad.
And what?
Fluoride tablets?
No, it's bad.
In today's health watch, the FDA is getting
ready to take prescription fluoride drops and tablets
for kids off the market.
So this comes as Health Secretary Robert F.
Kennedy fights to remove fluoride from our drinking
water.
Let's bring in CBS News medical contributor.
That's Dr. Selene Gounder.
Yes.
Editor-at-large for public health at KFF
Health News has sorted it out for us.
Good to see you, Dr. Selene.
KFF Health News, by the way, as far
as I know, a bought-and-paid-for
publication.
It's like one of these, oh, we do
health news.
OK.
No, KFF is the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Yes, exactly.
Yeah, they're just a Kaiser shill.
Yes, exactly.
They sorted it out for us.
But they sorted it out for us.
Good to see you, Dr. Selene.
So how big a deal is this move
from the FDA?
So FDA Commissioner Marty Macri announced yesterday that
they are considering or planning to phase out
fluoride supplements such as tablets and drops for
kids.
And what we know is that fluoride supplements
really do still make a difference despite fluoride
in the water.
In some places, you don't have fluoride in
the water.
And many kids don't actually brush their teeth
regularly with fluoridated toothpaste.
They don't all make it to the dentist
on a regular basis.
And so we know that fluoride in general
can reduce the rate of cavities by about
25 percent, despite having other layers of protection.
So, OK, so what she's saying here is
for kids who don't brush their teeth and
don't get regular checkups, I can understand that,
but they don't brush, you don't brush your
teeth.
Fluoride can help.
No, you can't have gunk in your teeth
all day.
I know a lot about teeth.
You cannot have gunk in your teeth and
think that a fluoride tablet is going to
solve that.
But she, Selene Gounder, is on the sales
path.
Is there any evidence of kids getting access
to these drops and overusing them or any
kind of negative effects?
Oh, we need access to it.
Well, it's interesting that you ask that, Tony.
So the attorney general of Texas.
Interesting you ask that because it was in
your prompter.
The script was there.
It's interesting that you ask that, Tony.
So the attorney general of Texas is suing
Colgate and Procter and Gamble over flavored kid
friendly toothpaste.
We do know that, for example, with tobacco
or vapes, flavoring can encourage more use.
And the argument here is it could encourage
overuse of toothpaste if they're flavored for kids.
That'll be the day kids are eating the
toothpaste.
Give me a break.
Mommy, can I brush my teeth another 10
times today?
Because the toothpaste is so tasty.
All right.
So fluoride is banned from water and fluoride
supplements.
What are parents to do?
Well, at least for now, you still have
the toothpaste, the mouthwashes, the dental applied dentist
applied varnishes.
But as I mentioned, in Texas, they're actually
going after some of the toothpastes.
So, you know, the big concern here is
that you have 70 million Americans who do
not have dental insurance.
We know that kids, low income kids have
three times the risk of dental cavities that
go untreated to other kids.
And so we know that certain populations are
really going to go.
What did she say?
They go untreated to other kids make it
sound like it's infectious somehow.
I have dental insurance.
We know that kids, low income kids have
three times the risk of dental cavities that
go untreated to other kids.
And so we know that certain populations are
really going to see a surge in cavities.
Surge that was always raised.
Fluoride.
Good, good, good.
Now this stuff is so confusing to all
about good.
Yes.
OK, got it.
Got it.
Thank you.
All right.
Good, good, good.
It is that they mentioned throughout these reports
that the dentist can put a coating of
fluoride on your teeth, which is the way
it's supposed to be done.
Direct contact with the enamel.
She said the fluoride tray.
Yes, she did mention that briefly.
But the issue is the true issue is
we need to have better dental care.
People need more education on dental care.
It's very important.
Take it from a person who has a
small car in his mouth.
And it's a set us back quite a
bit.
And it was so that I would be
able to still speak and not have dentures.
So and that's because it's not because I
didn't brush with fluoride.
Believe me.
All right.
Well, that went nowhere.
Now, what do you mean?
Nowhere.
It's important information.
Man, you're supposed to say man, man.
All right.
Take us out.
You get one more shot.
I got one shot.
One shot.
You got one shot.
I got a screw.
Well, let's do the Trump in the judiciary
because that that's going on as we speak.
This is a big deal going on in
the Supreme Court right now about all the
crap that's being thrown at Trump by these
just rando judges.
So let's play these two clips.
A legal fight over one of America's oldest
national security laws is heating up.
The Trump administration just won a federal judge
in Pennsylvania has ruled that President Trump can
invoke the Alien Enemies Act, an 18th century
wartime statute to deport migrants suspected of gang
ties.
The ruling from U.S. District Judge Stephanie
Haines marks the first judicial support for Trump's
use of the law, putting her at odds
with three other federal judges in Texas, Colorado
and New York.
Trump invoked the law in March targeting members
of Tren de Aragua, or TDA, a Venezuelan
gang he labeled a foreign terrorist group.
Clip was supposed to go.
This has been misclipped.
I'm playing your clip.
All right.
Well, pull it.
Pull it.
I pulled it.
Pull it.
Oh, no.
There goes building seven.
I'll give you one up.
One more shot.
Not on this.
All right.
This time we're going to go back to
the public complaining about something.
This is a complaint of mine, too, which
has been about EULAs and licensing and all
the whole background that started with WordStar, where
you never really bought their software product.
This stems back in the early days of
mainframes.
You never bought the software product.
You bought a license to use it.
Now Nintendo's making poor kids buying a game.
Nintendo's making poor kids buying a game.
Now you don't own the game anymore.
You get the license to use it.
Nintendo are updating our user agreement for the
Switch 2.
If you make any unauthorized modifications to your
Switch 2, we will remotely deactivate your console
so that you cannot play any more games.
Whoa.
I understand deactivating online play and the store
with mods installed, but deactivating the console itself?
People will own the Nintendo Switch 2.
They should have rights to do what they
want with it.
Actually, they will not own the Switch 2.
They will own the license to play the
Switch 2, and that license can be revoked
at any moment.
What?
You sound like the big brother of gaming.
In addition to this, physical games will no
longer be installed on the game cartridge.
The game cartridge will only contain a key
to install the game over the internet.
Then what's the point of physical?
And why are you charging another $10 for
it?
People will be paying $80 for a key?
Yes, exactly.
A key to access the license to the
game.
So we won't own anything.
This is insane.
You know what else is insane?
Selling out Switch 2 pre-orders within an
hour.
Do you know my car?
I have a console with like, you know,
a screen.
It popped up a EULA the other day.
Oh no.
Oh yeah.
One of these days, it's like the insurance
company taking over everything.
They took over the medicine business.
They took over, you know, they're trying to
take over car repair business.
They're trying to take over home appliance business.
The insurances create these middlemen.
The other big scam going on, it's never
going to end, is the idea of licensing
the car.
In other words, you're not going to buy
a car, but you don't really own the
car.
You bought a license, $20,000, $30,000,
$40,000, $50,000 for a license to
use the car.
That's where it's headed.
That's what's coming.
And if you don't agree to the license,
they turn your car off.
You know who's going to do that first?
Elon.
I guarantee you Tesla will be the first.
They already do it, basically.
Yeah.
This is, you don't, you won't own anything
and be happy.
This is what it stems from.
I'm going to show my support by donating
to No Agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
Yeah, on No Agenda, in the morning.
At New Rules starting Sunday, we're going to
make shorter shows.
We're crazy.
What are we doing?
We were way over today.
It's my fault.
Oh, not over again.
Well, let's start with getting these people out
of the way here.
Let's move them out.
All right, move them out.
Lucas Williams in Roswell, New Mexico, our buddy
there in the old space area.
An alien Roswell, $100.
Boom, right at the top, Kevin McLaughlin.
Shows you how dire it is.
Conquer North Carolina.
He should be like 10 deep.
Yes, he should be.
8008, he's the Arstuk Aluna lover of America,
lover of boobs.
We have another 8008 from Al, I don't
know, Gonsulin in Missouri City, Texas.
Let me see.
Missouri City.
8008.
Yeah, Gonsulin.
He's a gigawatt coffee lover.
Oh, aren't we all?
The Last Fast Eddie in Alameda, 8008.
He's got some 8008s in.
Urine Snellders.
Urine.
Urine Snellders in Ennis, Texas, 75.
He's got a call out to his friend,
Veronica.
Dame Toni.
Oh, no, Dame Toni Helps.
Haven't heard from her for a while.
She's been here the last couple of times
with the On Gigi donation.
She's in Oklahoma City.
And she wants the full On Gigi.
Here it comes.
I'll just have an apple in my room.
Adam Herbert, South Windsor, Connecticut, 6161, which should
be an...
Give her another On Gigi.
That's On Gigi, 6161.
I'll just have an apple in my room.
Christopher Dechter, 5678.
Jonas Malpas in Belgium.
He's in Belgium.
5272.
Adam Hurst in Alexandria, New South Wales, 5272.
Sur Economic Hitman in Tombill, Texas, 5001.
And boom, we're already at the 50s.
And there's not that many of them, but
there's a few.
Name and location, starting with Gary Ma in
Woodland Hills, California.
Dame Patricia Worthington, our friend in Miami, Florida.
She hasn't given up.
Brandon Savoie, another one in Port Orchard, Washington.
What's his title?
Get a title.
Kennel Petalia.
What do you think?
Petalia in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Kevin Dills in Huntersville, North Carolina.
Diane Schwannenbeck in Johnsburg, Illinois.
Easy Landscapes in North Stonington, Connecticut.
Easy Landscapes.
Philip Ballou in Louisville, Kentucky.
Chris Lewinsky in Sherwood Park, Alberta.
And last on a very, very, very, very
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I would like to request though, Escargot at
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He got into you guys through me because
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Although I disagree with some of the assertions
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It's like a party.
All right.
We still have some pretty good end of
show mixes coming up.
Even though what John says and I like
them.
We have a tip of the day with
a complaint that came in about the tips
of the day.
And we'll have to take care of that.
But the tips of the day are very
valuable.
And right now we'd like to look at
the ISO clips that we will be using
to end the show with.
John, have you done more AI work?
Is that what you've been been at?
Up to some this and that and the
other.
I didn't get the sentient AI back yet,
but give her a rest.
Why don't you do yours?
I have only one.
I think it may be a winner and
specifically for this show.
So I'd like to go last.
Oh, it's just complaining.
Yes, of course.
We'll start with Bear Monkey.
That was better than a bear fighting a
monkey.
Okay.
All right.
I'll take it.
Do we have scared?
I was scared out of my mind.
Nah, it's too much background noise.
Then while best.
Wow.
Best three hours you'll ever spend.
That's pretty good.
Here's mine.
It's a no AI.
Bye bye and donate.
Nah.
You gotta admit that's pretty good.
I like it because it has the donate
promotion.
Yes, I knew you would like it because
it has the donate.
It's a little bit under modulated, but you
can probably boost it a bit.
Yeah, let's use that.
I'm going to pass.
I'm going to keep my two, though, because
I like them so much.
Yes, they are so dynamite.
I'm going to bump them.
You're going to bump them.
They've been bumped.
And now, everybody, we will never bump this.
It is John's tip of the day.
You and me, just the two of us
with JCD.
And sometimes Adam.
Created by Dana Brunetti.
We have a complaint.
I want to hear the complaint.
We always get a complaint.
The complaint comes from Dana Brunetti, creator of
the tip of the day.
And he says, vid angel question marks.
Tip of the day has turned into my
Frankenstein.
First, the tip about the Chinese crap app,
Timu, and now the censorship app vid angel.
It's a horrible product and shouldn't be used,
much less paid $10 a month for.
I use it, use it on the No
Agenda podcast, and it reduced it down to
30 seconds.
Please let the listeners know of my disgust
and disapproval of this censorship.
You are promoting John C.
Dvorak.
People who use this should be better parents
and look at the ratings before watching something
with their children.
Don't expose them to censorship.
Maybe vid angels should pivot and work only
to remove all the woke propaganda in film
and TV.
Actually, even that censorship, I couldn't get behind.
Thumbs down.
I have to kind of agree with him.
Yeah, I have to agree with it.
I think Dana Brunetti's honest.
I disagree with you both.
And the thing is, you sound like him
when you do that.
I know, it's pretty good, right?
He never sent me that note, of course.
And I'm surprised that when you said his
complaint by Dana Brunetti, I figured that the
complaint was his name wasn't pushed toward the
front of the credits.
No, he cares for humans and he cares
for art.
Oh, yeah.
Well, him and De Niro should get together.
Yeah, they should hang out together.
I agree.
And be a fine pair.
Okay, so this tip of the day is
for...
I thought I had it.
I thought I've given it.
I think I mentioned it on the show.
I never gave it as a tip of
the day.
And I went back and looked in the
DojaIntoFun.com and then searched the whole site,
couldn't find it.
So I figured, oh, you know, I should
give this tip of the day.
It's a fabulous product.
It's a freeware product called IrfanView.
You've heard of it?
IrfanView, what?
I guess you haven't heard of it.
No.
It's I-R-F-A-N-V-I
-E-W.
It is an image software package that's for
quick viewing of images, also quick converting of
images.
For example, the horrible image format W-E
-B-P.
What's that iPhone format?
Like, they have iPhone sometimes send it.
There's a bunch of these horrible formats that
nobody uses.
But this will read them if you get...
Or also put in the plugin package.
But this will read anything.
It reads KDC files, which is like the
early, early digital format from Kodak.
H-E-I-C.
That's what Apple phones send.
H-E-I-C.
It'll read it.
It's horrible.
But as soon as it loads it in
and you want to save it, you go
save as, it'll save it as a JPEG.
It'll save it as a PNG.
It'll do anything you want.
And can you convert sizes?
Yeah, you can do that too.
Well, I should use that because I'm always
converting sizes for the Noagen Art.
I will take your tip and I will
let you know how I get on with
it.
That's a good idea.
And it does minor editing.
It's really good for a fast crop.
For a fat boom, boom, crop, boom.
You're there.
It'll do a fast crop.
It'll do a sharpened image.
It'll do a couple of quick and dirty
kind of contrast changes and some other.
Very simple, super fast.
So when you hit the image, it loads
it right away.
It also plays movies faster than the Microsoft
products.
The Microsoft player is slow and the Microsoft
photo stinks.
And get rid of those things.
But the problem I have to say, there's
just as an add-on here.
You can't, it doesn't, you know, in the
olden days, when you're loaded Earth Fan View
and say, would you like it to do
all these things?
And say, they have a list of GIF
and AVI and all these different formats.
It'll read and you just click yes for
all of them.
No, now you have to go into the
settings.
I think, which I think is illegal.
You have to go into the settings and
hand change all the defaults to Earth Fan
View.
But once you do that, you're good to
go.
I think this is a good tip.
And this is now, again, this is a
freeware, shareware, or is it open source?
It's shareware freeware.
It's not open source.
So you can donate to the creator of
this product?
Yeah, this has a donate button.
Okay, buy him a coffee.
I like paying for my software.
Excellent tip, everybody.
John C.
Dvorak comes through once again, and you cannot
criticize him for this tip of the day.
Well, you could, of course, criticize him, but
we will reject your criticism because that was
a good tip of the day.
Oh, there she is on time.
Tina the Keeper enters the studio, meaning I
got to get dressed for dinner.
So that means, yes, it does.
That's it for our broadcast day.
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Oh, my head.
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Until then, adios, mofos, hui, hui, and such.
A-1 teaching, you know, every year starting
that far down in the grades.
And that's just a, that's a wonderful thing.
A-1 teaching, A-A-A-A-1
teaching, A-1 teaching, A-A-A-A
-1 teaching.
There's a school system that's going to start
making sure that first graders, or even pre
-Ks, have A-1 teaching, you know, every
year starting that far down in the grades.
And that's just a, that's a wonderful thing.
We're going to have internet in our school.
A series of tools.
We're going to have internet in our school.
Artificial intelligence.
We're going to have internet in our school.
A series of tools.
We're going to have internet in our school.
Artificial intelligence.
A-1 teaching.
A-1.
Kids are sponges.
We're going to have internet in our school.
A-1.
Artificial intelligence.
You talking about A-I?
We're going to have internet in our school.
A-1 teaching.
Artificial intelligence.
What?
We're going to have internet in our school.
And a couple of people got their tit
in the ring over your newsletter.
I felt bad about it.
A rare apology.
Well done, though.
You're like saying, I was wrong, Mea culpa.
The past month has been nothing but Honest
John.
Honest John, it's always been Honest John.
Honest John.
Wow, who are you, Honest John?
What, who are you?
Honest John.
Who are you, Honest John?
Wow, what, who are you?
Pfft.
Who are you?
Honest John, it's always been Honest John.
It's my old nickname.
They used to call me that in high
school.
Sure.
Wow.
What are you?
Who are you?
Honest John.
It's always been Honest John.
They used to call me that in high
school.
I felt bad about it.
I thought it would make up for the
clip.
Not at all.
But hold on.
Your No Agenda show has actual people who
work in the places where the bullcrap is
taking place.
You're not tech billionaires.
What tech billionaire owns major media?
It's all a lie.
You're not tech billionaires.
No, no, that's not true.
It's all a lie.
You're not tech billionaires.
No, no, that's not true.
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