Those guys are a great unit.
Adam Curry, John C.
Devorah.
It's Thursday, March 26, 2026.
This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media
Assassination episode 1854.
This is no agenda.
Testing the Trump algo.
And broadcasting live from the heart of the
Texas Hill Country, here in FEMA Region No.
6.
In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from Northern San Francisco Bay Refinery Row,
waiting for free oil.
I'm John C.
Devorah.
It's Craig Vaught and Buzzkill.
In the morning.
Yeah, baby, it's gonna be a bonanza.
It's gonna be free oil for everybody.
Oh, man.
I love how you were saying on Sunday's
show, like, ah, Trump's gotta do something, like,
three seconds later.
He's like, okay, everything's good.
We're talking.
We got a thing happening, and we know
the algo.
We know.
It's like, okay, yes.
And then it'll be something horrible, and he's
gonna threaten again.
We didn't even get to do a show
in the meantime while his algo ran.
Yeah, two or three iterations of the system
took place between shows.
I think you have a three-by-three.
I just want to play one clip of
this is how our president plays the art
of the deal.
And when you just look at it, you
can just listen to the report.
It's like, okay, yeah, well, we know what
to expect.
We turn out of the war with Iran
in the Oval Office today.
President Trump told our senior White House correspondent,
Ed O'Keefe, that Iranian negotiators have offered
the United States what the president described as
an expensive gift.
Here's Ed with the details.
Even as Iran launched missiles towards Israel and
other Gulf nations today.
We're in negotiations right now.
President Trump claimed the regime is so near
defeat it has no choice but to negotiate
an end to the war.
We killed all their leadership, and then they
met to choose new leaders, and we killed
all of them.
And now we have a new group.
We have really regime change.
You know, this is a change in the
regime.
What makes you trust them?
I don't trust anybody.
I don't trust you.
Why do you say, what makes you, do
you think I trust them?
And why bother talking to them?
Because they're going to make a deal.
They're going to make a deal.
They did something yesterday that was amazing, actually.
They gave us a present, and the present
arrived today.
It was a very big present worth a
tremendous amount of money.
And I'm not going to tell you what
that present is.
The president would only say that present had
to do with oil and gas and the
straight of hormones.
A major shipping route that remains blocked.
Average gas prices have risen for 24 consecutive
days, now nearing $4 a gallon nationwide.
But even as the two countries are negotiating
indirectly, the U.S. is sending 5,000
troops to the region, on top of the
more than 50,000 already deployed.
Those troops could be ordered to take Karg
Island, a key oil shipping depot, or deploy
on the Iranian coastline to help secure the
strait.
It seems so obvious.
We're going to bomb them, and then, oh,
well, they sent me a present.
And then, I don't know who's talking.
Hey, these are the guys.
They must be the guys.
Just before the show, he said the present
was eight, maybe ten full tankers of oil
shipped through the strait of Hormuz with Pakistani
flags.
Yes.
Yeah, that's the general consensus from everybody.
That's what he said.
Yeah.
Sounds right.
I don't know how big of a gift
that is.
Well, it's free oil, free money.
For who, though?
Who's it free for?
I don't know.
I have no idea where those tankers are
going.
We'll have to see where the tankers are
going.
Yeah, I got a three by three.
All right.
Hold on a second.
Now it's time for Three by Three.
Experiment by Jesse D.
Everybody.
Comparing stories from ABC, CBS, and NBC.
The never ending three by three.
All right.
It's three by three.
It's been a while.
But, you know, you're back in the saddle.
So three by threes are on deck again.
So pretty much the same reporting.
Kind of neutral to anti-Trump.
Find the right clip to make him look
like an idiot.
Let's go and start with the longest one,
which is the ABC.
Even as President Trump claims peace talks are
underway, tonight the Army is preparing to deploy
up to 1,500 troops from the elite
82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East to
support the war.
The president has said he does not plan
to put boots on the ground.
But the soldiers of the 82nd are trained
to parachute behind enemy lines, their deployment on
top of the 4,500 Marines and sailors
expected to arrive in the region this week.
It comes as President Trump and Iran send
clashing messages about whether they're negotiating.
Trump insists they are.
The leaders are all gone.
Nobody knows who to talk to.
But we're actually talking to the right people,
and they want to make a deal so
badly.
Iran says that is simply not true, that
there are no talks and that Trump's statements
are part of efforts.
How come they don't say Iran claims that
is not true?
That would be a little more even keeled,
I think, if they said that.
Yeah, exactly.
Good point.
Iran says that is simply not true, that
there are no talks and that Trump's statements
are part of efforts to reduce energy prices
and buy time for the implementation of his
military plans.
The president will not say which Iranian leaders
the U.S. is talking to.
Today, he cryptically noted that he knows Iran
is going to make a deal because they
just gave the U.S. what he called
a very big present.
They did something yesterday that was amazing, actually.
They gave us a present, and the present
arrived today.
It was a very big present worth a
tremendous amount of money, and I'm not going
to tell you what that present is, but
it was a very significant prize.
Prize?
They could have cut that out.
What?
They could have cut the um, um, uh,
out.
They normally do.
No, that's not fun.
It was a very significant prize, and they
gave it to us, and they said they
were going to give it, so that meant
one thing to me would deal with the
right people.
The White House would not say what exactly
that gift is.
The president would only say it's related to
oil and gas passing through the Strait of
Hormuz.
Iranian officials still insist there are no negotiations
underway with the United States, but tonight sources
tell me the Trump administration has sent over
a 15-point peace plan to Iran by
way of Pakistan in hopes of ending this
war, David.
Yeah, so the Pakistanis are our guys now
in the middle, which is kind of interesting.
Yeah, which brings me to a clip that's
going to come up shortly thereafter, these three,
which brings in another player which nobody's talking
about, which I don't understand why.
Let's go to CBS.
Okay, CBS.
Even as Iran launched missiles towards Israel and
other Gulf nations today...
We're in negotiations right now.
President Trump claimed the regime is so near
defeat it has no choice but to negotiate
an end to the war.
We killed all their leadership, and then they
met to choose new leaders, and we killed
all of them, and now we have a
new group.
We have really regime change.
You know, this is a change in the
regime.
What makes you trust them?
I don't trust anybody.
I don't trust you.
Why do you say what makes you...
Do you think I trust them?
And why bother talking to them?
Because they're going to make a deal.
They're going to make a deal.
They did something yesterday that was amazing, actually.
They gave us a present, and the present
arrived today.
It was a very big present worth a
tremendous amount of money, and I'm not going
to tell you what that present is.
The president would only say that present had
to do with oil and gas and the
Strait of Hormuz, the major shipping route that
remains blocked.
Average gas prices have risen for 24 consecutive
days, now nearing $4 a gallon nationwide.
But even as the two countries are negotiating
indirectly, the U.S. is sending 5,000
troops to the region, on top of the
more than 50,000 already deployed.
Those troops could be ordered to take Karg
Island, a key oil shipping depot, or deploy
on the Iranian coastline to help secure the
strait.
And tonight, CBS News has learned more than
1,000 troops from the Army's 82nd Airborne
Division are also deploying to the Middle East.
They specialize in securing territory by parachuting out
of airplanes.
Tony?
Hmm.
So that's parachutes on the ground.
Well, I mean, they're all hung up on
the present, which I'm sure Trump said that
that way specifically for this reason, so everybody
would pick it up.
Yeah, well, they definitely did.
So we're going to move to NBC, because
Richard Engel is the reporter.
I have to assume this has gotten clearance,
and this may be the official whatever kind
of report we're going to talk about.
I mean, the official intelligence-sourced report, that's
what I'm thinking.
And that's from, okay, here's Engel.
More American troops, we're learning tonight, are heading
to the Middle East to join the war
with Iran.
More than 1,000 from the 82nd Airborne
Division.
Two sources familiar with the matter tell NBC
News they will soon deploy to the Gulf.
This, as President Trump just tonight appeared to
be already declaring victory.
This war has been won.
At the exact time he was speaking, we
filmed this, an Iranian cluster bomb exploding over
Tel Aviv.
We're actually talking to the right people, and
they want to make a deal so badly.
For now, the war is intensifying.
Israel today announced new massive strikes on what
it described as Iran's main production site for
explosive material.
U.S. airstrikes aren't slowing down either, hitting
around 500 targets a day.
And Iran is still firing on Israel around
the clock.
Back-channel diplomacy does appear to be taking
shape.
Pakistan today offered to mediate between the U
.S. and Iran.
Two sources telling NBC News in-person negotiations
could happen in the coming days.
But not everyone wants a quick exit.
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu says Israel will keep
attacking Iran and Lebanon until Israel's aims are
achieved.
And Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler, Prince Mohammed
bin Salman, has told President Trump that Riyadh
is concerned about leaving Iran angry and capable
of continuing to strike its neighbors in the
region, according to a senior Saudi official.
Yeah, I'm hearing from different military sources that
the GCC nations are getting mad at us.
I don't know if that's true or if
someone is just scyoping me, but that's what
I'm hearing.
Like, yeah, they're mad, they don't like it.
What amazes...
I've heard that.
Yeah, well, you know, what amazes me, you
know, we're talking, of course, this is ABC,
NBC, CBS, and we're talking about $4 a
gallon of gas.
But what this is doing, and I think
what I came to realize this morning is
I'm putting all the show prep together.
This Strait of Hormuz, these guys have had
their hands on the throat of Asia, the
European Union, UK, for decades.
Particularly when it comes to liquid natural gas.
Yeah, and this, by the way, was the
kind of finale or end point of the
spook show Rubicon.
Yes, with the...
Back in the day.
Yeah, but they sank a ship.
They sank a ship in the Strait of
Hormuz.
Yeah, they sank a ship in the middle
of it to screw it up.
Well, no one's done that yet, so...
Yet.
But it's amazing how, you know, because the
oil baron, he's texting me every five minutes,
you know, like, this is going to happen,
we're going to be here forever.
And, of course, he's benefiting from oil prices.
But where he's really benefiting is from gas.
I think he's hedged 40% gas, 60
% oil.
He's had Japanese in town all day.
They're signing long-term contracts for Texas gas.
They're saying if this war continues, they will
run out of LNG, and that'll be in
a couple of weeks.
Diesel is also an issue.
But it's the gas, I think, that people
are overlooking.
Here's...
What is this?
CBS had a report on it.
As drones and missiles rain havoc on oil
and gas facilities across the Middle East, thousands
of miles away, the war has triggered a
crisis in Asia, with energy shortages hitting almost
every country on the continent, all dependent...
Enough with the Nat Pops, people.
...on the Persian Gulf for supply.
Japan and South Korea are tapping into strategic
reserves, while developing countries like Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand,
and the Philippines are rationing fuel and closing
gas stations.
In India, protests have erupted over surging prices
and acute shortages.
China has reserves and pipelines, but has already
banned exports of jet fuel, diesel, and fertilizer,
which is having a knock-on effect.
In self-governed Taiwan, that produces the world's
high-end semiconductors, there are serious concerns of
what a protracted conflict will mean for the
island democracy that imports 97% of its
energy.
We are going to feel the same impact
as other countries.
You know, the rising LNG price, rising oil
price, they're going to hurt our economy.
Its Deputy Foreign Minister, Chen Ming-Chi, says
the government is now racing to find alternative
supplies.
What happened in the Middle East tell us
that's very important for us to diversify our
energy supply.
Will Taiwan be buying more LNG from the
United States?
Definitely, I think that we have to diversify.
If the crisis in the Middle East drags
on, it could prove to be a windfall
for American energy companies, in particular, natural gas
producers, as governments across Asia, including here in
Taiwan, try to secure long-term supply.
Luckily, you know a lot about this.
Where do we get our diesel from?
Is that the Venezuelan oil now?
No, you can get diesel pretty much from
anything.
Okay, so we're actually in a good place.
The problem with diesel right now is states
like California implemented this new low-sulfur diesel,
because diesel necessarily has sulfur, just always the
way it was made.
And now they've restricted that, and it makes
diesel cost more than high octane.
Right, but that's California.
Yeah, but because of the nature of that
fuel, it's one of those things that if
you do it in one place, you have
to do it everywhere.
Oh, okay, so California screws it up for
everybody?
Is that what you're saying?
Yeah, yeah, kind of, yeah.
Well, screw those guys.
That's us.
Foam finger number one.
The EU is also in, and they were
already in a lot of trouble, with, you
know, cutting off Russian gas, or refusing to
take it.
And then, you know, I guess Biden blew
up the Nord Stream 2, didn't make it
easier, and now there's nothing coming out of
Hormuz.
And we're the guys.
We seem to be in the catbird seat.
We have a strategy that is built for
a world of higher uncertainty, with risks and
scenarios at its core.
Mrs. Fifi Lagarde.
We have a graduated set of options for
responding, and we are starting from a better
place should we need to act.
And we will not act before we have
sufficient information on the size and persistence of
the shock and its propagation.
Shock!
At its most recent meeting last week, the
ECB kept interest rates on hold as expected.
While warning of higher inflation and lower growth
due to the war.
But analysts now expect the central bank to
raise interest rates as early as next month
to curb a likely rise in consumer prices.
That's great.
Higher global oil and gas costs have led
to immediate petrol price hikes in the Eurozone,
and brought back memories of the energy shock
that followed Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
So our favorite word is already being bandied
about Europe, which is stagflation.
Yeah.
I'm not convinced that stagflation is what's going
on.
Well, they're not producing anything.
What do they make anymore?
Well, yeah, but they can sell Chinese goods
and say they did them.
Yeah, I guess they could.
They could.
But I don't know.
To me, it just seems like, OK, this
is pretty good for America.
I mean, if we figure, if California would
stop the nonsense with the sulfur, then wouldn't
we be kind of OK?
We got gas, lots of it.
What do you think the price of gas
is here?
But I'm talking about natural gas.
Oh, probably seven, eight bucks at this point.
Seven, OK.
Yeah.
And it's premium here is $460.
Yeah.
Who still uses regular?
Should I be doing that?
I think you can get regular.
Well, I'm not sure.
I mean, you know, this is a quite,
I think you've answered this for me before.
But I mean, do I need to have
premium in a modern vehicle?
Is that a necessity?
Or is this some marketing thing that I'm
falling into?
No, you should use premium.
OK.
And what vehicle should I not be using
premium?
When it says, when you open the little
thing, it says, use regular.
When it says that, then you use regular.
OK.
Rental cars.
All rental cars.
Oh, this is, that's a good, that's a
good point.
I've probably always put premium into my rental
cars.
Oh, I would never do that.
What a dumb idea.
What a dummy.
Hey, don't worry.
I'll take care of the gas myself.
87, here you go, 87 octane.
It knocks a little bit, but otherwise it's
a good ride.
Actually, all the newer cars have knock computers.
They'll just tone it back and it won't
knock.
Right.
OK.
So you still haven't really answered my question.
Is it a year?
Is it a type of engine?
What is it?
It's the compression, mostly, and also what it's
required to maintain a certain horsepower.
OK.
You could probably put, I mean, you could
put premium in, or crap, I'm saying that,
regular gas into a premium engine.
Like, let's say a Lexus, and it would
say, oh, this is no good.
And it would detune the engine.
You're driving around a junker.
I don't need to drive fast, man.
If it saves me a dollar a gallon.
It's not a dollar, and I would recommend
it.
OK, all right.
I'm going to play these clips.
This is kind of a follow-up to
the 3x3.
But this is from NTD.
OK, which one?
And these are the Trump-Iran talks.
Iran wanted to talk, and President Trump is
willing to listen.
That's what the White House is saying today,
as the Central Command announces fresh results from
Operation Epic Fury.
Joining us now live is NTD's White House
correspondent, Iris Tao.
Good evening, Iris.
What is the latest from the White House?
You get it, too, as well, Tiff.
So, as the Trump administration has reportedly presented
- What?
What?
I usually take those big gaps out.
That's OK.
I thought it was all right.
How are you feeling, by the way?
Sorry, I forgot to ask.
I feel pretty much the same as I
did last time, but I think my voice
is a little gravelier.
It has a sex appeal to it that
I'm kind of digging.
Yeah, yeah.
A 15-point peace plan to Iran.
The White House today is pushing back on
reports saying that Tehran has rejected that peace
plan, while also saying that talks remain ongoing
and productive.
The White House is also making clear that
the U.S. will step up attacks if
Tehran rejects peace, also warning that the president
does not bluff.
Watch.
The president's preference is always peace.
There does not need to be any more
death and destruction.
But if Iran fails to accept the reality
of the current moment, if they fail to
understand that they have been defeated militarily and
will continue to be, President Trump will ensure
they are hit harder than they have ever
been hit before.
President Trump does not bluff, and he is
prepared to unleash hell.
Iran should not miscalculate again.
And just looking at the algo, I think
it's pretty safe to predict he's going to
hit something hard again.
Yeah, you might be right.
That's just how he works.
Every single time, like, OK, all right.
It's getting a little old.
Well, it's the system.
It's how he runs it.
And I'm happy I don't have to run
it.
So the thing about NTD is they do
bring in new information at these next two
clips.
The third one in particular, total clip, is
it's like nobody's talking about half this stuff
on the mainstream.
And let's go with the clip two schedule.
The White House today also announcing that President
Trump's meeting with China's Xi Jinping will take
place in Beijing now on May 14th and
15th.
Of course, that meeting was previously postponed amid
the war in Iran.
And when asked today if the new timeline
means that the war will also wrap up
before then, the White House reiterates that the
original timeline for the war was four to
six weeks, but now they are ahead of
schedule.
I saw the cabinet meeting this morning as
I'm putting clips together.
It's like, do I need to clip anything?
Answer, no.
But the president said the same thing.
It's like we had four to six weeks.
We're way ahead of schedule.
I think we've got like two weeks left,
but we're way ahead of schedule.
Everything's hunky dory.
Should be wrapping it up pretty soon.
Well, let's hope so.
Now, this is the one that I kind
of got my attention, maybe put these together,
which is adding Turkey to the mix.
Nobody is discussing this.
Almost a month into the war in Iran
and the United States and Israel continue launching
strikes against the Iranian regime.
This as Turkey says it's now mediating talks
between the U.S. and Iran to help
bring an end to the war.
And it is Jason Perry has the latest
war update.
U.S. forces on Wednesday report striking Iranian
military infrastructure that has threatened American troops and
regional partners for decades.
The U.S. military also addressing claims that
the Iranian regime shot down a U.S.
fighter jet, saying in a post on X
that the claim is false, adding that no
U.S. fighter aircraft have been shot down
by Iran.
Fighting alongside the U.S., the Israeli Air
Force saying they completed another wave of overnight
attacks in Iran.
This one on weapons production sites in and
near Tehran, including a strike on a facility
used for developing submarines.
Israeli generals saying this the day before.
The Iranians plan to launch hundreds of missiles
towards Israel on the first day of the
operation.
They fired fewer than 100 on the first
day and half that amount on the second
day.
The number of launches decreased very quickly.
The average is roughly about 10 missiles per
day.
An Iranian missile was seen falling from the
sky in Israel on Wednesday and workers cleaning
up the aftermath from an Iranian missile that
struck Israel's largest city, Tel Aviv.
Also in the region, a Turkish official telling
Reuters on Wednesday that Turkey is now mediating
talks between the U.S. and Iran in
an effort to help bring an end to
the war.
The Turkish official did not elaborate on what
messages were being passed between the U.S.
and Iran, but he did say that messages
were also being passed on to Gulf countries
who have been caught up in the war.
This as Iranian attack drones reportedly struck a
fuel tank at Kuwait International Airport the same
day.
There's no mention of Turkey, but anybody except
these guys.
And it makes more sense if you think
about it.
Well, they're in the region.
Now the Pakistan stuff, that has to be
about oil for China.
That's got to be some backroom deal.
Like, hey, hey, Trump, we need to give
us some oil, man.
Come on, ship some our way.
That's got to be what that is.
That would make more sense.
But they're not.
Pakistanis aren't known for negotiating peace deals, but
the Turks are always trying to get in
on the action.
Yeah.
Always horning in.
Well, they're a NATO member, so they do
have some standing.
The last of the clip just mentions Kuwait
and Lebanon, which are still kind of sideshows.
Well, that's Israel's deal, I think.
Israel is in charge of blowing that up.
Kuwait's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva
saying this about the situation.
What we are witnessing today is a persistent,
aggressive approach that disregards all the efforts and
initiatives undertaken by the state of Kuwait and
other countries in the region over many years
to establish the principles of good neighborliness and
build trust.
And in another development, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu saying Israel is determined to, quote, fundamentally
change the situation in Lebanon.
And the Israel Defense Forces say they'll continue
to operate against Hezbollah, accusing the terrorist group
of attacking Israel on behalf of the Iranian
regime.
Yeah, Israel's got its own thing.
I think it was France 24 had a
report on how the U.S. interests have
diverged from Israel.
The still smoldering aftermath of Iranian airstrikes on
Tel Aviv Tuesday morning.
Weeks into the conflict, the number of missiles
launched at Israel was waning.
But in recent days, they've started raining down
again, casting doubts on just how destroyed Iran's
ballistic missile program actually is.
Now, U.S. President Donald Trump is U
-turning on the war from escalating threats to
negotiations with Tehran.
After speaking with Trump, Israel's prime minister attempted
to show unity while emphasizing the fight will
go on.
President Trump believes there's a chance to leverage
the tremendous achievements of the IDF and the
U.S. military in order to realize the
war's objectives in an agreement, an agreement that
will safeguard our vital interests.
At the same time, we continue to strike
both in Iran and in Lebanon.
Israel has been clear its goal is to
bring down the Iranian regime.
But U.S. war objectives continue to shift
from the destruction of the nuclear program to
ballistic capabilities or even at one point regime
change.
Now, faced with the possibility its American partner
may want out of the conflict altogether, Israel
is trying to convince the world the war
isn't over.
We continue to attack Iran with all our
might.
Regarding Lebanon, Hezbollah made the grave mistake when
it attacked Israel as a tool of the
Iranian terrorist regime.
And it is paying and will pay a
heavy price.
Israel wants to avoid a repeat of the
12-day war in June 2025, which ended
at the insistence of Donald Trump.
So there's a little disagreement there.
Trump needs to do what Bibi says.
I don't understand.
He's not listening.
Well, the Israelis are going to be on
their own.
They sure are.
Did you see that theory?
Someone sent it to us this morning.
If you were looking at a grand plan,
how, and it kind of explains our lackadaisical
approach to Syria.
Hey, you used to be an ISIS guy.
You got a suit on.
You can run the country.
With a new name.
Change your name, throw on the suit, you're
good to go.
So the thesis is that this is all
about us gaining complete energy dominance.
So we cut off China with their Syria
connection because they had a whole transit thing
set up.
We got Venezuela and that Venezuela oil is
being traded in dollars.
Now we see what happens with the Straits
of Hormuz.
I personally think we're going to take over
the island, Karg Island.
And we'll be running that part, seems like.
And again, making sure it gets sold in
dollars, especially to you, China.
Yeah, at the real price.
Yeah, retail.
No more wholesale for you.
Retail prices.
And then the LNG part, I think this
is much bigger than we realize.
Europe has to buy it from us.
Asia has to buy it from us.
We're going to power all of the infrastructure,
all the AI.
They took out a whole bunch of data
centers too, which is kind of interesting.
Amazon data centers.
There's your AI.
They bombed one?
Yeah, a couple of them.
Yeah, they bombed a couple.
They were in Iran?
No, no, in Saudi Arabia.
Who bombed them?
The Iranians.
Well, that's interesting.
Yeah.
Let me see if I still have that.
I have a link somewhere about it.
Yeah, they took out a...
Actually, it was our boots on the ground
guy.
Here he is.
Let me see.
This is from our guy in the region.
A new casualty of war is data centers
and cloud service providers, both AWS locations.
Oh, in Bahrain, I'm sorry, and UAE, not
Saudi Arabia, were targeted in the past three
weeks.
The impact was quite devastating as data center
physical security protects from an intruder or fire,
but no data center designed to withstand a
direct drone or ballistic missile hit.
Now consider the future crosshair the world will
have around shiny new and expensive AI data
centers and the potential cost of fortifying.
So, you know, I think somehow wrapped up
in this is, and that could be part
of Trump's maniacal idea that AI is the
new oil, the most important thing in the
world, and you can't power them without our
nuclear and LNG plants, and we're going to
outrun China with it.
China really is hurting, I think, from this
oil glut, much less than we are.
So if there's a big plan, a big
strategy behind it, part of it is working.
I think the dollar seems to be getting
stronger, which in my mind means people need
dollars to get energy, and the next boot
to fall on the ground would be, hey,
Russia, go ahead and sell it.
Let Russia sell the oil real cheap.
We've already kind of started that.
Well, we'll see.
It seems too damn complicated.
Well, what do you mean?
I mean, you got all these moving parts.
You've got the, you know, oil and gas,
and then there's all these other subcategories.
In fact, you can play this clip, which
is urea is another missing element in Australia.
Oh, that's the pig urine?
Well, it comes from petroleum.
Yeah, but pig urine.
We've talked about this stuff.
You need it for your climate change-friendly
diesel.
Well, there are fresh warnings that Australia's food
production could be halved in months as the
war in Iran disrupts supply chains.
So what's the biggest threat to our farmers?
Well, it all comes down to fuel and
fertilizer.
Australia imports 96% of our urea fertilizers
from overseas, with over half of that coming
from the Middle East.
But with the war, exports have ground to
a halt, and that will impact our farmers
and eventually our food at supermarkets.
Right.
Fertilizer.
Again, how could we let these numbnuts in
Iran control all of this?
This is what's being exposed.
And the other bad actor, and this is
what nobody's talking about, because it's a little
esoteric, which is helium.
Yes.
I had a clip about that, I think.
You need that to cool down stuff, like
chip manufacturing.
It's necessary for chip manufacturing.
And TMSC has only got like three weeks'
supply left, I think.
Samsung has about three or four months.
And if you have to shut down one
of these plants, like the one in Taiwan,
it could take up to five months to
get it back up.
Oh, really?
You can't just flip the switch on those
things?
No, no switch flipping.
Really?
Why is that?
The process is complex.
I mean, okay, so you don't have any
helium.
Okay, we've got to stop.
But then you start it up again.
Do you happen to know the complexity of
it?
I'm not unsure of it, but there's a
lot of moving parts.
And it's one of those things that has
to be running all the time.
I'm thinking by Wednesday next week, we've got
something wrapped up.
If not, it's going to get really ugly,
because then they can just drag on.
I found CNN had retired general, I think,
or admiral.
I don't know who it is now.
Steven Anderson.
And he had some pretty decent things to
say about the so-called boots on the
ground.
Because the 82nd Airborne, they're elite guys and
gals.
They go and do stuff and get stuff
done.
And I got a couple of clips.
President Trump said Tuesday, Vice President J.D.
Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, set to
lead negotiations.
Officials telling CNN a potential meeting this weekend
could happen in Pakistan, although exact timing and
location remains very fluid.
The president also has said Secretary Rubio, along
with Special Envoy Steve Whitkoff and the president's
son-in-law, Jared Kushner, will take part
in negotiations with Iran, although it's still unclear
whether they'll travel to Pakistan for a meeting
this weekend.
Let's discuss all of this with retired Brigadier
General Steve Anderson.
General, really appreciate you coming in.
I want to start with the headlines that
people may have seen CNN reported about a
deployment of about 1,000 troops from the
82nd Airborne.
And just to start with the 82nd Airborne
itself, spent a lot of time in Fort
Prague as a kid, the significance of the
unit.
It's a great unit.
The immediate response.
It's a great unit, I tell you.
Those guys.
Those guys are a great unit.
The unit force that they put together, probably
about 1,000 troops, although some people are
saying perhaps 2,000.
That's probably about a battalion's worth.
They can be on the ground in about
22 hours or so to fly to a
place like probably Al Udeid Air Base in
Qatar.
That would put them, if the mission is
Karg Island, they'd be about 250 miles away.
Still a long shot, but still something they
could do.
If the mission is in the Strait of
Hormuz, as some people have talked about, that
could be also 250 miles away, and they
could go to Cezanne Island there.
But, I mean, this is a light unit.
So they're going to have crew-serve weapons.
They're going to have individual weapons.
They're going to have some mortars.
They're going to have aviation support.
They're going to have Apache helicopters.
They're going to probably be lifted in on
Chinooks or maybe even Blackhawks.
Probably take about 70-some-odd Blackhawks to
move a unit of that size, a battalion
size, into Karg Island.
If they had C-130s and they wanted
to do an airborne operation, which they could,
take about probably 15 or so C-130s.
But, again, that's a very, very dangerous situation.
I'm thinking the retired military man here is
sending some messages.
That sounds plausible to me.
82nd Airborne, Apaches, drop them in, take over
the island.
The buildup that we've seen also, marine units
have been moving toward the region as well.
I think there's a lot of questions about
what it actually means, whether it's an optionality
issue or whether it is there are definitely
going to be boots on the ground.
Speaker Mike Johnson said this when he was
asked about it.
Listen.
The buildup of troops is very different than
boots on the ground.
We don't have boots on the ground.
We just got a lot in the region,
man.
They're not on the ground.
They're in the water, OK?
Feet's in the water.
I don't think that's the intention.
But I think Iran should watch that buildup,
and they need to take note of that.
The distinction there, I understand it on its
face, but a buildup at this level to
where it's at right now, is this something
that can be pulled back with no repercussions?
Absolutely, Phil.
I mean, it could.
I mean, it could be a bargaining chip
for diplomacy, just like Speaker Johnson suggests.
The MEU is going to be a very
capable entity.
Right now, the 31st MEU, we believe, is
at the mouth of the Persian Gulf.
But they've still got to come through the
Strait of Hormuz, if, in fact, they're going
to go to something like Karg Island or
one of the islands within the Strait.
But, I mean, I think that putting boots
on the ground, obviously, would be a huge
step forward.
And we were talking Mission Creek big time.
But perhaps they're just trying to position these
forces over there in the Middle East to
give them some options later on.
Send a signal on some level.
Yes, send a signal on some level.
Final one, just because I thought there was
a fun little quote in here.
When it comes to the Strait of Hormuz,
obviously, there has been no major breakthrough.
There have been no naval escorts.
The insurance proposal wasn't enough to trigger tankers
and their personnel saying, sure, we'll take a
shot at this.
Is there a viable military solution to that
that the U.S. would be considering right
now?
I would think that probably the only viable
military solution, the one that makes the most
sense, is to have some kind of an
escort mission.
But it's going to still be fraught with
peril.
Because you're talking about an enemy, a committed
enemy, 200,000 religious fanatics.
That's what the IRGC is.
These people are fighting to the death.
They are not going to go down easily.
It's either kill or be killed.
They know if there's any kind of a
regime change, they're gone.
So they're going to continue to use all
their asymmetric capabilities.
They're going to use mines.
They're going to use missiles.
They're going to use probably some of the
cruise missiles, like homemade cruise missiles.
You remember, Phil, when the Moskva was sunk
by the Ukrainians four years ago?
Homemade cruise missiles.
I made one the other day.
Probably some of the cruise missiles, like homemade
cruise missiles.
You remember, Phil, when the Moskva was sunk
by the Ukrainians four years ago?
That was essentially a surfboard on steroids.
They also got drones, as we all know.
So they're going to use all those elements
of their power, their asymmetric power, to try
to interdict the strait as best they possibly
can.
I don't know, man.
I don't know.
Maybe they want to take the—how about this?
Okay.
So Trump is in talks with a renegade
offshoot of the IRGC.
Obviously.
Yeah, with some hot shots.
Some guys who can stop— They can do
stuff.
They can do stuff.
Well, they obviously can show—and that's why they
sent the 10 ships through.
To show that, watch.
We're going to watch how they go right
through.
There's a gift.
Take these ships.
And so nobody even took a shot at
them.
Yes, right.
So we're in charge down here.
But the Ayatollahs or whoever the other side
is, the faction, another faction up north, owns
that—has got that island, and they're the ones
that are still going to be benefiting from
all the oil that they're going to be
able to pump out of that place.
That's the oil export area.
So if you guys can grab that for
us, you've got the firepower to do it.
You've already bombed the crap out of it.
Now just grab it and lock it down,
and we're good to go.
Possible.
Kind of like it.
Yeah, why not?
We do that kind of stuff.
Yeah.
Fight for someone else.
The Jews, usually.
Meanwhile, Jesse Waters sent Johnny out for spring
break.
Always a hoot.
Did you see this one?
I was having—I almost—I was going to do
a three-part clip.
I only have two.
Yes, I did.
It was a typical, kind of disgusting, because
the girls are all sluts, and many of
them are just gorgeous.
Yes, and drunk.
What's the most surprising thing?
When I got here the first day, I
hooked up with a guy, and I'm going
to do one a day.
We sent Johnny down there for a little
welfare check.
What college do you guys go to?
UTC.
FAU.
Sacred Heart University.
Ohio State.
Spring Break 2026.
What is the game plan?
Drinking.
Blackout with my rackout.
If my mom is watching, I'm sorry, Mom.
Blackout with my rackout.
Now, the thing about this that's always overlooked—I'm
kind of a student of this segment.
Hold on.
Can you turn your mic down just a
little bit?
You're just crunching a little bit.
Sorry.
There you go.
I try to keep up with this.
One of the things, the subtext, is these
are all college students, and he has them
named the colleges.
Yeah.
So if you go to Ohio State, you're
going to be blacking out with your rackout.
Blackout with my rackout.
I mean, come on.
Ohio State.
Spring Break 2026.
What is the game plan?
Drinking.
Blackout with my rackout.
If my mom is watching, I'm sorry, Mom.
But I've been getting pretty drunk almost every
day.
Hook up with some girls.
Get with as many girls as we can.
And not come back with an STD.
Break out with one person each night.
That's it.
So how many guys have you made out
with this week?
I've been here for about ten days.
So ten.
What were their names?
I don't remember.
Name one.
Uh.
What is the craziest thing you've seen at
Spring Break?
Not that crazy.
I've seen people do, like, cocaine off of
boobs.
I saw a girl, like, black out on
the street.
That was pretty exciting.
Sunday mimosa drag races.
You see I gotta take this pants off
in the middle of the club?
There's a lot of famous people down here.
Have you seen Johnny Belisario?
What?
Never mind.
Okay.
What is the wildest thing you've done down
here?
Got with somebody the first night that I
came down here.
Pole dancing.
I had a ****.
Two days ago.
Stripping naked, getting in the water.
You gotta say it.
What'd you do?
You went something crazy?
On a strip.
Honestly.
Alright, on the strip.
No, we had this ****.
What issue facing America is the most important
to you?
What bikini I'm gonna wear next?
We just have to remind everybody that man
-on-the-street segments are the most fun
for any television producer.
Because you can mold it and shape it
however you want.
Because I'm sure there were some kids going,
I'm really concerned about what's happening in Iran.
Okay, maybe not.
School do you go to?
University of North Florida in Jacksonville.
Georgetown University.
The Ohio State University.
How woke is your school?
Woke?
Like, party-wise?
We're woke as ****.
Pretty woke, I will say.
They're crazy over there.
What is the definition of woke?
The definition of woke.
Oh my gosh, that's like a difficult question.
What happens at spring break?
You have a few people offering you to
do things for money, that's probably the craziest.
My friend was streaking.
All day last night.
My friend peed a **** last night.
Why do you do that?
Because he's a **** degenerate.
I saw a guy start punching this other
guy.
Was he really good or was it just...
Actually he was really good, he started practicing.
Could I have taken him in a fight?
How have the ladies been treating you?
Treated me the three shots for free.
She treated you to shots?
Yeah.
It's usually the other way around, but...
Well, you're drinking out of a straw, so
it kind of checks out.
Was that good?
No, it tastes like ****, but we're drinking
it.
How have the guys been treating you?
Oh, they're guys.
Nice, lovely.
So chivalry is not dead?
It is.
But you don't come to Fort Lauderdale to
find your husband.
They like it when you say, like, oh,
I have a boyfriend.
They're like, okay, well, he's not here.
If you were president of the United States,
what would be the first thing that you
guys do?
Buy something really cool.
Like a bunch of cars.
Lower the drinking age.
All the girls gotta be in bikinis 24
-7.
Give me and my friends a lot of
money.
You'd steal?
Yeah.
From the Federal Reserve?
What's Federal Reserve?
Tell me about ice.
I mean, someone's gotta do it.
Makes every drink better.
Who wants a warm drink?
Not me.
My dad has a restaurant, and if ice
went into that restaurant and went into our
kitchen, I'm not gonna name the restaurant because
ice will actually see this and do it.
But yeah, like, the restaurant would not be
open.
How about all those TSA lines?
I'm, like, scared to go back.
All the flights are getting canceled.
One of them was really nice to me.
I had a puppy dog, like my stuffed
animal, in my backpack, and he loved it.
Oh, my God, I was in line for
40 minutes.
Yeah, that was...
That's interesting.
You did not include any of the Iran
stuff that they had in that segment.
I intended to, and that's clip two, which
you see by the numbering sequence, is missing.
I have some of what would have been
clip two.
I'm very happy.
The Ayatollah's dead.
I'm so...
What?
Who?
What?
What is that?
Who the...
is Ayatollah?
I have never heard that word in my
life.
Lewis, what's Ayatollah?
I haven't heard.
I found out about Chuck Norris yesterday.
That was more devastating to me.
He was the supreme leader of Iran.
He's dead?
Hell, yeah.
We killed him.
You did?
You killed him?
What have you heard about Venezuela?
Venezuela?
Nothing.
I'm not sure.
I barely know what would be going on
in, like, Tennessee, where I'm from.
That they beat us in the World Baseball
Classic?
Have you heard anything else?
No.
Nothing.
I haven't heard nothing about Venezuela.
Yeah, that's pretty much...
That's why there's two of us.
Good catch.
But, you know...
They don't know anything.
It's an embarrassment.
Well, yes.
On one hand, it's an embarrassment.
I will tell you that the American college
youth, the university kids, are envied by university
kids around the world, certainly in Europe, because
they look at this and they go, wow,
they got no care in the world.
It's great.
They're getting blackout with their rackout.
Yeah, and look at the nice figures on
a couple of those girls.
Yes.
And I have a feeling that this may
not be all that bad.
You're a freshman.
You're a sophomore.
Do all your idiotic things.
And they're not...
Whatever's happening, whatever we're all super concerned with,
the whole podosphere...
They're like, just having a good time.
Yeah, that's...
Well, they are having a good time.
Yeah.
That's...
I don't think it's an embarrassment.
Like, you know...
You'll figure it out later.
At some level, it is.
You'll figure it out later that you need
to worry about some things.
But do you really have to?
I mean...
Do you...
But don't you think by the time that
you're a freshman or a sophomore in college
at the Ohio State and that you've graduated
from high school and you don't know what
an Ayatollah is?
No, you don't need to know in America.
That's the embarrassing part of the high schools.
But you don't need to know in America.
You just need to know how to drive
the Uber.
Just follow the directions on the map.
You know, these are happy dumb people.
I have less of a problem with it
than I thought I would.
I think, eh, okay.
Yeah, you're becoming very tolerant.
I'm a bit tolerant.
There was an interesting Sunday this morning, which
is, it was at CBS, I think, had
Arthur Brooks, who is supposedly New York Times
bestselling author.
Did you know Arthur Brooks, New York Times
bestselling author?
No.
He's a blowhard.
The kind of guy you gotta...
You gotta blowhard.
You gotta edit the pauses between every single
word he says.
Oh, one of those guys.
But what he was saying reminded me a
lot of you, in a good way.
And I want you to listen to this
and tell me if you agree.
I think he's spot on with this and
it was just, I thought of you.
I'm like, oh, that's kind of what John
does.
Throughout all of human history, boredom was just
a part of life.
We went to work in the factory or
on the farm, and a lot of that
time was, well, pretty boring.
But here's the thing.
That made our brains work properly.
When you're bored, a set of structures in
your brain turns on, called the default mode
network.
This is what you use for mind-wandering,
abstract thinking, and considering the meaning of your
life.
In the last 15 years, we've all but
gotten rid of boredom, and you know how.
The average person looks at his or her
phone 205 times a day.
But that also means the default mode network
stays off, so we never think about life's
big why questions.
Over time, this creates a sense of emptiness,
a lack of purpose and significance.
This can lead to anxiety and depression.
To reintroduce yourself to the meaning of your
life means to learn to manage your devices
and not let them manage you.
That requires living with a few simple rules
that introduce more silent spaces into your life.
Go for a walk each day without your
phone.
Workout without headphones.
Create a phone-free zone at mealtimes.
Put away the phone an hour before bed
and keep it out of the bedroom.
At first, this will be hard, because the
moment you're a little bored, you'll reach for
the device and feel a little twinge of
disappointment.
But don't worry.
It gets easier with practice.
It will take about two weeks, but you'll
find a richness you haven't felt maybe in
years.
You'll be calmer and more at peace.
This is how you'll know your brain is
working the way it was designed.
People will notice the difference and ask your
happiness secret.
Just tell them that your life got more
interesting.
Why?
Because you allowed yourself to be bored.
Now, I know that you don't have a
phone or phone addiction and that you don't
grab your phone when you're bored.
I have a feeling...
Well, it's because I...
I mean, I used to...
I wasn't terrible, but once I put it
in the drawer and then decided to make
a thing about having it in the drawer,
after about...
It takes about four months, and then you...
Well, that's interesting, because you think, well, I
needed to go to the store.
What happens if there's an emergency?
And so you're constantly worried about it.
So you stop carrying it around and you
start using it for navigation.
And after about four...
It takes about two months to get used
to that, and then it becomes pleasurable.
It improves things.
It's like you don't have to worry about
where your phone is.
It's just in the drawer.
And then it becomes like, wow, I'm just
going to leave it in the drawer all
the time.
I do pull it out.
I have it right now, because I'm not
at my house and I need some form
of communication.
But it's the way to go.
Now, do you get bored?
Well, I don't know what bored...
I mean, I can find ways to...
Well, no, let me ask you this.
When you go out, you don't have...
You go to the grocery store.
So this is what I see all the
time.
You go to the grocery store, you're standing
in the line, the checkout line.
Right.
I see it too.
And what do you do when you're in
the checkout line, because you don't have your
phone?
I stand like a normal person in the
checkout line, waiting to get checked out.
Are you thinking of stuff like life?
Oh, yeah.
I guess that's the moment he's talking about.
Yeah.
Probably good for me.
Now that he says it, it sounds like
it might be healthy.
Yes.
And I think these kids, they're using their
phone only to hook up.
Hey, where are you going to be?
And the rest of the time, they're drinking.
Okay, just replace the drinking with some boredom
and some thought about life, and they'll probably
be okay.
It's the constant, I've got to check it.
What's going on?
What's happening?
Oh, man.
Oh, what is Trump doing?
Oh, I got to make sure I'm at
the No King's Day Saturday.
Which is happening again.
No King's Day.
Yeah.
Saturday.
Did you see Our First Lady?
You know, I passed it over a couple
of times.
I've been maybe thinking about watching it, but
no.
You must have watched it.
Yes.
And I was so disappointed.
Why?
Because, first of all, she had a robot.
So she walks out with a robot.
The robot looks like every other manky robot.
Okay, it's walking next to her.
Oh, wow.
I'm stunned.
What was the point of that?
Well, we'll get to the point of that.
She walks out with the robot, and they
all sit behind the dais.
She got Bob McCrone sitting there.
You got the First Lady of Romania, you
know, the princess, whatever.
You got all these ladies, and if you
watch the Melania documentary, they're all in it
together.
Yes, we're going to help the children.
And I like the First Lady.
But this was so disappointing.
So then they get the robot.
The robot stands in front of the dais,
and the robot is kind of waving with
its jerky arm to everybody.
And this is the whole robot speech.
Thank you, First Lady Melania Trump, for inviting
me to the White House.
It is an honor.
The robot has vocal fry.
To be at Fostering the Future Together.
And it sounds exactly like Carolyn Leavitt.
It does.
Inviting me to the White House.
It is an honor to be at Fostering
the Future Together's Global Coalition Inaugural Meeting.
I'm Figure 3, a humanoid built from the
United States of America.
I am grateful to be part of this
historic movement to empower children with technology and
education.
Welcome.
Bienvenidos.
Bienvenido.
Bienvenue.
So now it's going through welcome in all
these different languages.
Wow!
It speaks different languages.
Moge salme bit.
Profimo baim.
Laskavo prosimo.
Dobro dosli.
Thank you.
It can vocal fry in 16 languages.
What is this?
Excuse me.
I'm very disappointed.
This robot doesn't do a backflip.
Doesn't do anything fun like point people out,
say, hey, you know, I recognize you with
my with my facial recognition.
how's your kid do anything but this this
vocal fry Bienvenue and then again I asked
what's it what was the point here we
go imagine in humanoid educator named Plato Plato
is always patient and always available predictably our
children we develop deep critical thinking and independent
reasoning abilities the AI powered play-doh will
boost analytic skills and problem-solving and adopt
in real time to a student space prior
knowledge and even emotional state the byproduct a
more well-rounded lifestyle for our children freeing
up time for being with friends playing sports
and developing interest beyond school a more complete
person so the first lady is advocating for
robot teachers so the kid can somehow become
more well-rounded this this I didn't I
don't understand this at all this was in
the Netflix special no no no no this
happened just yesterday oh okay this happened at
the White House no this was what no
the White House the the Netflix special you
saw her talking about her her nonprofit you
know she come out with the robot at
the White House yes she walked out no
I mean we're on the no no no
the Netflix are you confusing me well okay
I'm sorry what I says always I thought
we were talking about the documentary no this
is this was yesterday in the White House
she's walking out with the robot and then
and then the whole thing is oh yeah
remember the robots name is play toe but
she says play dough which is just a
fantastic play dough okay but she is she
is for children you're not gonna have your
kid educated by this stupid robot what's going
on whatever it is it's not okay I'm
very against that it just doesn't maybe so
you started off with the with an analysis
of the of the documentary you never know
me a listen is it any good oh
just because Mimi and I talked about the
documentary I'm sorry yes I like the documentary
a lot I liked it because you know
she shows a you know kind of Jackie
Kennedy you know might kill my husband one
day if he gets out of line or
shoot him you know class very meticulous about
everything wants to bring class back to the
White House and I like that as an
American way I like that and I know
it's classy about a robot no that's my
point it is perpendicular to the whole Melania
loving children and she was talking in the
documentary with Bob McCrone and the Jordanian lady
about their nonprofit and their work for children
we have to do stuff for children and
they're all there at the White House when
Melania walks out with the robot and this
is what they're doing for children I'm like
no heck no what happened to teachers yes
these robots are gonna work out it's no
good anyway leads me into the big news
of the day so Kelly after more than
a week of deliberations a jury in Los
Angeles finding both meta and YouTube liable on
all counts in this bellwether civil case over
allegations that their platforms were designed to be
addictive that of course comes just one day
after a separate jury in New Mexico ruled
against meta in a case centered on similar
claims about product design and safety now in
this LA case jurors were asked whether the
company's misled the public about the safety of
their apps and whether certain design features contributed
to the plaintiff's mental distress she had alleged
that she became addicted to social media while
under age jury completely finding in favor of
the plaintiff now as for damages they set
that at three million dollars with meta responsible
for paying 70% of that sum Kelly
Wow here on all seven for meta they
were found negligent basically on all seven for
YouTube they were found negligent and you're saying
of the three million dollars they're assigning what
did you say three-quarters of that to
meta yeah 70% will be paid out
by meta but three million is coming in
a lot lower than some legal analysts had
expected and I've got the list of seven
questions here first one was YouTube was meta
negligent in the design or operation of their
platform definitive yes from the jury okay so
because of the amounts three million three million
and then three million in punitive damages to
one person six million dollars I kind of
brushed the story off whatever okay but it
was Rob the constitutional lawyer who's just been
hounding me says you have no idea now
we have to understand that Rob the constitutional
lawyer but before he became suits and boots
he's now on the he's now a personal
injury lawyer so good for him yes okay
suits and boots calm if you got hit
by a truck or anything else you think
you got wronged but before that he worked
for the tobacco guys and he was the
one that would go out or one of
the many many lawyers that would defend tobacco
companies against a very similar accusation that they
knowingly made their product addictive or maybe even
more addictive and so we're going back and
forth and email said no no you have
to understand this is big I said well
isn't this gonna get rolled up into some
class-action lawsuit and everybody gets $18 in
the Cracker Jacks box and he says no
no no what did he mention or cite
the phrase that I guess YouTube said in
one of the depositions book casino game type
something or the word casino done on purpose
to get people addicted it's like a gambling
mechanism well there's a phrase it's a gym
yeah I might have it in the show
notes I've seen I've seen that well so
the you know the the real point of
this of all the different analyses everyone kind
of sucked NPR you know NPR had let
me see one one half decent piece of
analysis this is just one of the clips
I grabbed from them wait what I want
to understand is the young woman at the
center of this case who goes by Kaylee
I understand she's now 20 years old right
and she says she started using Instagram when
she's just 11 years old against met his
terms of service yeah and this was a
major part of the trial which is how
many young people below the stated you know
minimum age are using the platform and when
Mark Zuckerberg got on the stand it was
read internal emails back to him that basically
demonstrated that the company has been aggressively pursuing
teens and preteens to get on Instagram and
to keep them there even like you said
they have a policy of saying you know
you've got to be at least 13 years
old to use this app so that was
part of the argument the lawyers made as
a way of demonstrating that these companies really
were after young people really wanted to keep
them there and now we have a really
resounding historic verdict really really really 2,000
other cases that have been consolidated over this
question of social media addiction okay so you
already said it for that very reason I
have to play the clip where they mentioned
that specifically yeah the New Mexico case is
related but a little different and it is
about whether meta protected young people from child
predators and sexually explicit content on its platforms
and they found that they did not right
so with right with that historic payout and
verdict combined with this one today I mean
this week has just seen two verdicts that
have been in the works Elsa for years
and years and years it's really a day
of reckoning for social media companies and the
plaintiffs lawyers have been outside the courtroom and
saying today is sort of like the reckoning
that the big tobacco industry had in the
late 90s okay so that's really what the
suit is about is good you know they're
talking about kids and I'm sure cash Patel
and these other people will jump in yeah
we need digital ID that's all gonna be
it's all gonna be abused for that but
at the core this is no secret to
anybody who knows anything about technology or Silicon
Valley and certainly social networks yes of course
everything is done to keep you engaged everything
is done to keep you hooked they have
brain scientists employed at all of these companies
to do one thing how do we get
that next dopamine hit to our user they
call them users so that our user will
want to stay on the app so I
we we see the person slowing down they're
not scrolling throw those likes we've been holding
back out of people of all dopamine hit
it's absolutely engineered that way and from what
I understand although no way I do it
well of course but there's issues with that
yes and okay and if you and I
were back in the day we're running a
tobacco company we beg hey let's jack up
the addiction this is good for business yeah
unfortunately if you do if you're trying to
hide that you know it's gonna be a
problem now here's the PBS stuff jury in
that case awarded six million dollars in compensatory
and punitive damages in New Mexico 375 million
how much does that really affect these big
tech companies well it feels like a very
small amount of money six million compared to
you know meta worth a trillion dollars alphabet
worth way more than that but you got
to think about all of the other cases
that this sets the tone for this is
setting essentially a per plaintiff kind of price
in this case and so you have 350
family cases behind this you know multiply six
million times that and you're well over a
billion dollars you get then the 250 school
district cases that come after that that's thousands
of kids in each school district and suddenly
you're looking at very very big numbers very
fast also I would point out just a
few days ago met as insurers sued and
won to no longer have to insure them
against the judgment in this case and so
that is another you know there's basically no
cap suddenly on the amount they can go
with and I would also just point out
here John you know meta gets a lot
of the headlines here and they were determined
by this jury in LA to be 70
% of the responsibility but the other 30
% was handed to YouTube which has never
been held to this kind of standard before
and the fact that they are now grouped
together with this other social media platform could
change that platform forever so this really has
the capacity not just to hit these companies
with enormous fines but also to change the
way they do business and parents like the
one we just heard there are no longer
just shrugging and saying geez it just feels
like something's wrong but I can't name it
now there is a name for it a
legal theory for it and suddenly there's a
way for lots and lots and lots of
people to sue like they've never been able
to before yeah hey my kids acting like
a moron on the beach during spring so
but this is something the legal people have
been wanting to find a way because look
and this is not Rob speaking this is
Adam speaking I'm sure every single lawyer in
the world is like they look at these
companies ago how can I get some of
their money what can I do to take
some of that money yeah yep so you
do yeah that's what you do exactly First
Amendment issues we've been through that section 230
hey we have no liability for what people
say but now now there's something new and
it's under the covers appeal the meta releases
statements today they said they quote respectfully disagreed
with both verdicts and that they would appeal
in New Mexico and were evaluating their legal
options in California what was the company's defense
what do they say to these allegations that
their platforms are causing harm well they have
always argued that the you know misbehavior is
not their fault when it comes to what
happens on the platform and they have you
know they tried in the in the Los
Angeles case to to say that this plaintiff
this kid had all of these difficulties and
she did she had a whole host of
problems in the home and a history of
some mental health issues but what really has
now happened is we're seeing instead a jury
say oh well it's not that they caused
that it's that they they managed to make
a vulnerable kid worse and that is a
very different standard than what meta has been
arguing and YouTube have been arguing all of
this time and so so you know then
the big thing here John Wright is that
they have been protected behind both the First
Amendment and something called section 230 which is
a big in blanket immunity for social media
companies makes them not liable for the crazy
stuff that you and I might post there
that has been the core of the defense
the big legal wall built around them forever
suddenly these two cases which step around those
issues and get into the question of design
and behavior modification by design suddenly we're in
a very new landscape that I think these
companies are gonna have a very difficult time
arguing against so here's the legal analysis from
Rob and this is exactly what you're talking
about to find punitive damages the jury had
to find that Instagram and YouTube acted with
malice fraud or oppression the plaintiff's lawyer is
a guy from Houston named Mark Lanier and
Lanier mark is a part-time preacher and
a fearsome trial lawyer lawyer he cited internal
documents the show that Instagram and YouTube knew
about the addiction problem and he's the one
that cited the slot machine effect and in
closing argument said the case was as easy
as ABC addicting the brains of children who
that's what you want so that's what is
the slot machine effect well actually the term
the term I was looking for was used
by YouTube in an internal document that was
brought forth to show that they knew that
this was going on all along right yeah
and it was and it did have the
term casino and it was something else I
know it is the slot machine effect but
they I thought this other term which incorporates
the word casino was more interesting well I
don't have that no okay but I think
I think there's something here and if you
know would this succeed of course they're gonna
appeal and I know this this has to
succeed yes you know Rob is right this
is exactly the same as the tobacco situation
yeah because they knew what was going on
knew about idiots and you know what's next
AI chat bots they're gonna be next same
thing yeah so now I still don't know
if they can put a everyone saw well
that's big numbers when you're talking a billion
here a billion there I'm not I don't
know about that but it's good time to
be a personal injury lawyer that's for sure
Rob he's he's in San Francisco today good
for him yeah you want to drop by
no no I mean I like to meet
the guy like in two months when I've
recuperated is that all it takes two months
no it's good well it depends it didn't
take about eight months total but Letterman who
had a quintuple bypass mm-hmm he was
on stage five weeks right afterwards and so
you it can be faster and apparently getting
over this is can be quite quick if
if you get lucky well can we do
anything to make it easier for you yeah
I wish the donations went up make me
feel better I come back to the show
the donations drop off a cliff yeah thanks
for coming back Mimi was doing great he
was making the money Mimi was raking it
in man what happened to you so I
was at Maverick's place yesterday getting my getting
my my implants cleaned and he says dude
dude I'm like what I listened to the
show what John said he says that's actionable
that you were able to hear them while
you were being operated on yes he said
I got a I got a note from
another guy who's a MD also a lawyer
he says the same thing it's actionable they
did not sedate well they sedated you but
they didn't put you out and the second
he immediately says you got any red hair
in your family do you have any red
hair in your family any redheads no sorry
you got Scottish or Irish blood in you
not that I know of now well then
it's like well because they're redheads and Scottish
which you know redhead they often need more
sedation that's just genetics but so the fact
that you don't have that in your DNA
makes it actionable you and the thing you
haven't done is you haven't told me how
traumatized you are by this well it was
the worst thing is ever did I ever
experienced I guess that's somewhat traumatic I mean
it has affected your podcast performance I well
and listen you can hear my voice yes
I mean it is a terrible I mean
you have flashbacks and you can't even really
perform your job properly right that's what I
understand I have to talk to someone
yeah well Rob Rob is your guy he's
sitting there right there yeah well anyway Maverick
was was shocked he he just he couldn't
believe it he said this is this is
an outrage that should not happen yeah well
it was unpleasant yes I understand that's just
one more tech thing just because you know
I don't know if you heard but you
know so open AI they're getting ready to
go public they shut down Sora which is
yeah which irked a lot of people well
of course but it was a money sink
everybody knew it there's no way that they
weren't making any money on it it's just
bleeding money and I'm I really think that'll
be the pivot we talked about it last
time what's funny though is you know this
open claw thing that everyone's all all giddy
about open claw I've got I've been I've
been claw pilled all my computers doing stuff
for me you know the Chinese are out
of control on this they are there people
lined up around the block to get computers
that have this pre-built because because you
know they call it raising a lobster I've
heard any of this but the open the
open claw mascot is a lobster and so
all these Chinese kids they're like oh I'm
gonna raise a lobster and I realized open
claw is the new Tamagotchi this is exactly
the same mechanism like oh yeah I get
to train this thing and it does stuff
for me and it's the new Tamagotchi which
that's the mechanism and that's where that's where
the mark that's where your Tam is if
you ask me I'm not necessarily in these
massive data centers anyway listing last thing on
anthropic because that's just kind of ongoing with
the Department of War lawyers from the Defense
Department and the AI company anthropic appeared in
court in a high-stakes battle over the
influence of artificial intelligence in modern warfare anthropic
is challenging the Pentagon's highly unusual decision to
designate the company as a supply chain risk
the judge in this hearing went as far
as to compare it to corporate murder President
Trump recently ordered government agencies to stop using
anthropic after the company refused to give the
government unrestricted use of its AI products anthropic
saying it does not want its products to
be used for mass surveillance or lethal autonomous
weapons that's when Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth labeled
the company a supply chain risk a designation
typically reserved for foreign entities the DOD basically
needs to prove that there's some kind of
risk that anthropic would try to sabotage the
military they attempted to make this argument during
the hearing today by basically saying there's a
concern that anthropic might push a software update
with a kill switch basically making it so
that the company can intervene if the Pentagon
tried to do something it disagreed with the
judge seemed skeptical of the Pentagon's move saying
she's concerned the government is trying to cripple
anthropic for criticizing the administration anthropic leaders have
argued artificial intelligence requires safeguarding from both the
government and itself I fail to understand why
companies are all jacked about this just imagine
oh yeah I'm using anthropic it runs my
whole business and then anthropic decides yeah you
know we don't like you or you know
we're gonna charge you extra or oops it
stopped working it's a little early I think
the basic yeah I and that you know
that would happen of course it would this
is like Google is now open announced the
Android automotive OS yeah so and I think
GM is already all in on this I'm
not sure I think GM's in on it
so now they're offering and the complete operating
system for automobiles so the car makers can
just focus on our engine wheels you know
seats and we'll take care of the rest
so you can already see where this is
going up do you want your car colder
than 72 degrees and that's a subscription it's
gonna control all of that stuff all right
all right you're not interested okay no I
mean if you'd kind of drop dead there
oh it's easy for you to say yeah
it is and so you know that LaGuardia
plane crash I didn't want to do any
pieces about it but Mimi actually dug something
up because she's a big fan of Captain
Steve oh yes Captain Steve and I have
to say I felt obligated Captain Steve Captain
Steve is not always right yeah well nobody
is and I don't watch Captain Steve but
I do like him and I have to
say that I felt obligated to play this
clip which is the LaGuardia there's two I
have two clips but one analyzing it but
the first one is this one LaGuardia heroes
the fact that the captain took the aircraft
two seconds after touchdown and four seconds before
impact I think he saw the truck and
he just probably slammed on the brakes I'm
sure there hit the brakes real hard and
the heroic part about all this whether it
was on purpose or not was affected they
kept that airplane straight as they impacted that
truck had they had they veered one way
or another which they could have at that
speed very easily like hit one brake more
than the other put in the rudder to
it would be natural human nature to kind
of want to do that you know and
try to avoid hitting the truck the wing
would have impacted the truck it would have
ruptured there's lots of fuel in that wing
and you're gonna get a fireball and I
think you're gonna get more fatalities so the
fact that they went straight into that truck
I think was a heroic act on there's
the last thing because they both sacrificed their
lives well I'm not sure okay maybe they
were doing over a hundred knots I'm not
sure they saw it until the last moment
but okay give me for Captain Steve they're
here okay they're dead so I'm not gonna
speak bad of them I'm sure they when
they realize what was going on I'm sure
they did whatever was best I'm sure they
were weren't happy no so and and this
was the rationale for the whole thing the
other clip and that's what every reasonable human
being asks how in the world could there
have not been a transponder in that firetruck
firetruck number one no transponder in it so
again as Jennifer how many is explaining the
what happened is she's talking about our primary
radar return because there was no transponder in
that truck now there's a transponder in the
airplane and for this as the X system
to work everybody has to have a transponder
installed but here's the frustrating part about all
this there's so many little factions at some
of these airports especially in the bigger cities
up in Boston there's Massport down in New
York there's the New York Port Authority that's
a separate entity a separate pot of money
a separate chain of command from everybody else
at the airport and they run their own
thing and so that's who's in charge the
firetrucks and so for the ASD X system
to work properly everybody has to have a
transponder installed Massport or not Massport but New
York Port Authority just basically said now we're
not gonna spend the money on that and
so you've got this hugely expensive system in
place that's meant to be a last line
of defense and it doesn't work because you
didn't spend the money on the transponder and
now we see it come to fruition two
lives are lost could have been a lot
more they need to spend the money and
put the transponder in those trucks the system
won't alert the controller without the transponder okay
does you have a question because I certainly
have commentary I have nothing else to say
okay so yes many in Europe I think
a lot of the the ground vehicles have
transponders but there's something that I may be
captain Steve discussed it but what happened prior
to this is the reason I there's a
lot of things happened here this firetruck was
not just rolling around for no reason there
was I believe the United Airlines who was
on the taxiway and they said hey we
have a problem we have some kind of
gas or something in the cabin the flight
attendants are complaining they're feeling nauseous we need
a gate ASAP and this goes on for
several minutes and then the United Airlines pilot
on the taxiway declares an emergency he says
I'm declaring an emergency we need either we
need stairs right now which I think is
what this firetruck was coming to assist with
or we need a gate immediately but when
you declare an emergency and I'm I hope
that our air traffic controllers will give us
their analysis I find it interesting no one
has emailed me about this yet if you
declare an emergency whether you're in the air
or on the ground or on the taxiway
that's when air traffic controls to say we
have an emergency everybody go around let's see
what's going on this thing could have blown
up I mean we didn't know what's going
on but when a pilot declares an emergency
all bets should be off and so there
was a lot of confusion the air the
firetruck was approved for crossing and then the
air traffic controller realizes what's happening didn't need
a responder a transponder to see it he
says stop stop stop and then he says
truck one stop and by then it was
too late but that never should have gotten
there you declare an emergency I don't care
what it is and I found in general
what I heard ground and everyone talking about
hey this guy's declared an emergency yeah yeah
we're trying to get him a gate no
an emergency by a pilot is an emergency
and we didn't know what it was so
I think that's where the problem starts and
yeah you know high-tech stuff is not
gonna solve everything it's not yeah you're probably
right it's not gonna solve everything so tell
that tell Mimi to stop believing Captain Steve
does he know she loves Captain Steve yeah
she loves Asmund Gold and all these guys
Nick Shirley she wants to marry Nick Shirley
Nick Shirley must have a lot of girls
chasing him yeah Candace Owens is now going
after Nick Shirley why he's fake he's fake
he's an op obviously well I certainly think
he the administration helps him get these guys
Dave hey here's Dave here's Bob he's your
guy oh yeah yeah Nick go look at
these people so it's just another way of
uncovering corruption it's good it's very good idea
it gets people all steamed and all worked
up Supreme Court Supreme Court this this involves
you and Mimi actually mail-in ballots yeah
you want to hear the report well tell
you know the whole West Coast is mail
-in ballots well there was a Supreme Court
case about it the Supreme Court heard oral
arguments yesterday in a case involving mail-in
ballots that could impact the upcoming midterm elections
it's a case that pits Republicans against each
other in deep red Mississippi the key question
before the US Supreme Court is whether mail
-in ballots that arrive after Election Day clash
with federal law Taylor Vance is a politics
reporter for Mississippi Today he told us about
a kovat era statute that was passed by
the state's Republican controlled legislature in 2020 that
said that voters can mail in absentee ballots
and that local election workers can process and
count those ballots for up to five days
after the election now this does not give
voters five extra days to vote because these
ballots have to be postmarked on or before
Election Day this is just an extra cushion
or a grace period for local election officials
to process these ballots the Republican National Committee
and state Republican and Libertarian parties all sued
Mississippi over the rule they argue that Election
Day is meant to be a single day
and that ballots are invalid if they are
received after if the justices rule in favor
of striking down the law it could spell
big changes for Mississippi and at least 18
other states that allow late ballots with the
midterms fast approaching yeah so nothing changes I
guess nothing changes just no it's not really
about the mail-in ballots is about when
they come in yeah that's Apple News does
that did that sound like AI to you
it sound like AI to me oh we
need an AI or not AI jingle just
like drunk or not drunk yeah actually here's
a drunk or not sounds very now they
think about it did sound low AI here's
a drunk or not drunk negotiations to end
the war in Iran are going great according
to you know everything is great it's cool
we have friends we tight even though Iran
is saying we're not talking to anybody in
your administration who are you talking to sir
but he's excited about negotiating a deal with
somebody and his defense secretary explained his role
in all of this as well take a
look they're gonna make a deal they did
something yesterday that was amazing actually they gave
us a present and the president arrived today
there was a very big present worth a
tremendous amount of money and I'm not going
to tell you what that present is but
it was a very significant prize and they
gave it to us and they said they
were going to give it so that meant
one thing to me would deal with the
right people we see ourselves as part of
this negotiation as well we negotiate with bombs
you have a choice as we loiter over
the top of Tehran as the president talked
about about your future president has made it
clear that you will not have a nuclear
weapon the War Department agrees our job is
to ensure that and so we're keeping our
hand on that throttle as long as it's
hard as it's necessary oh excuse me keep
our hand on that throttle as long as
it's hard look at the look at the
shot of what's-his-face Trump Trump went
when he said when he said that we're
keeping our hand on the throttle as long
as it's hard what is going on over
there?
of course Joy picked that part up I
mean it just seems to me and what's
the gift besides herpes?
I think Behar is sauce man what is
she doing?
I don't know what's wrong with her a
lot?
a lot?
how does that...
it shows a humiliation to ABC it must
have ratings somewhere it's got to be it
has ratings so would public executions which has
always been my dream to produce that is
your dream job and Brunetti is all in
on it with me he's ready to that's
what you're talking to him about and with
that I want to thank you for your
courage say in the morning to you the
man who put the sea in the energy
crisis say hello to my friend on the
other end the one, the only Mr. John
C.
DuMore well in the morning to you Mr.
Adam Curry in the morning to all ships,
seaboards, and ground feeding the airships of the
Lord of the Dames and Knights out there
yes and I'm trying to get a troll
count here you can stop moving around oh
man I mean you come back everything tanks
1320 that's terrible this hurt the show I
just want you to realize that it hurt
the show it wasn't anything you did though
you didn't live unhealthy I never even asked
you that, is it your fault?
no, not really what do you mean not
really?
not that I know of I mean did
anyone say hey I know you're not a
smoker I'm old that is your fault you're
old, we need an age limit on podcasting
yeah I'd say that's coming after we're out
yeah after we're out well we're going to
hang on to the very last moment the
Wall Street Journal had a had a piece
about the veteran podcasters hanging up their headphones
did you read that?
no Wall Street Journal I don't know who
are the podcasters podcasts can run forever but
some hosts are bowing out or changing direction
as celebrities and YouTube dominate the industry so
they've got all these examples so something's changed?
as far as I know 20 years ago
it was the same thing celebrities, comedians, YouTube
yeah what happened I figured it out because
there's a long article it's all these duos
like oh well we're not going to do
it anymore we've been doing it for 7
years and they blame it on YouTube but
that's not the problem all of these podcasts
that they mention are all guest driven oh
yeah and so what they're noticing is that
when people have a choice to go on
different podcasts they can only do so many
and so if you base your podcast on
your guest which can make for a very
successful podcast depending on your guest and your
booker and you get the Kelsey Brothers but
the Kelsey Brothers did 8 podcasts this month
I'm done, it's okay and that's why they're
hanging up their headphones so we're just going
to keep on trucking baby no one can
stop this train this is where you agree
with me well that was the thesis from
the get go we felt that guests the
whole idea of using them was a hindrance
and we both had a laundry list of
reasons for that yes they don't show up
they're dull case in point I've been on
Rogan 6 times there's got to be a
deficit of guests you've been on 6 times?
6 times, yeah what does that tell you?
there's a deficit of guests hey we've got
over 1300 trolls checking into the live feed
the live stream right now noagendastream.com and
many of them are hanging out in the
troll room and it's always good to have
them here of course you should be listening
on a modern podcast app because that is
the way that you get notified when we
go live you can make your decision then
maybe I'll listen now maybe I'll wait for
the podcast to come out and you don't
have to wait for hours everyone else is
like oh yeah the podcast dropped no because
within 90 seconds with a modern podcast app
you'll know because it will be in there
waiting for you modernpodcastapps.com value for value
is how we've been running it we have
never had to rely on advertisers advertisers are
finicky, fickle they like stuff, they don't like
stuff and there's a lot of meetings we'd
rather be working for you, the listener the
producer of this program because you are producers
with us working with you to create an
outstanding product than taking meetings with advertisers who
didn't like the read and with John that
would be a meeting a day could you
put a little more enthusiasm into it Dvorak
you know how it would go, we've all
had the meetings yeah that's why I refuse
to do such things this is basically co
-opting yes it's completely co-opting so instead
we opted for the value for value model
it's very simple we give you the value
in the show it's twice a week 3
to 3.5 hours sometimes we even think
that's too long but we continue to deliver
the value it's supposed to be 2.45
alright I'll stop at 2.45 today I'm
just saying if the value doesn't come back
then that's an easy choice for us that's
what makes it much easier we'll do 2
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he said that you had asked him nicely
for some clips yeah that's good, I like
that hey man do you hear about my
double bypass could you hook a brother up
you gotta be using that more you're not
really doing I don't know why there's so
much stuff wrong with you I didn't know
about you never told me anything you got
a twitchy left foot you had your cataracts
done didn't know anything about it did I
mention that my lung collapsed I knew about
that but I didn't want to I'm not
going to violate the HIPAA regulations it's kind
of interesting there's not one doctor they keep
coming by the house I was in the
hospital for a couple of weeks dropping by
one after another not one doctor so far
has told me or has yet to tell
me that my lung collapsed really?
but I knew it from Mimi they collapsed
while she wasn't even there they collapsed while
you were intubated yeah another actionable item I
think they intubated you wrong this is the
exit strategy of all exit strategies you're slacking
man this is come on you've got to
sue these people I know you're happy to
be alive but hospital protocol procedure something's got
to be done I won't stand for it
I'm going to call Rob people also like
to make art and it's real fun to
do with today's models and you can do
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not really making money off of these art
generators so yeah we're going to shut that
down all of it could happen people it
can all go away once they get the
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piece and we got it from danobgyn4 there
were a couple of different pieces that we
looked at but this was simple to the
point we both agreed it got the job
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welcome back jcd had in the morning on
there number 33 funny enough it had curry
but it didn't have dvorak did you notice
that?
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I'm looking at the page now alright let
me take a look there it is see
it has curry there interesting it's funny I
didn't notice that now we did was there
anything else that stuck out there were a
couple of welcome backs all the pieces were
pretty decent you liked the losers bracket yes
I did like that I did like the
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jay do the newsletter?
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Tina said to me John must really not
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on a silver platter yeah man it's like
I can't do anything a little more you
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show well you know your performance is proving
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JCD that was it the pieces were good
we need something edgy now for this show
let me see anyone put anything edgy no
no Darren O'Neal more boobs no I
would say there's still opportunity to get in
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I only have one clip that I thought
would be worth playing okay because it's funny
and this is the this is a report
you know people always talk about a man
from Florida and there's a crackpot story you
know the Pacific Northwest has more than its
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the clip is called 98 when you buy
a truck you've got options right leather seats
upgraded stereo media sunroof Thurston County Sheriff Derek
Sanders just found a vehicle modification I guarantee
you will never see at a dealership a
custom bong built directly into the dashboard of
a pickup truck the driver could comfortably smoke
drugs while cruising down the interstate that's who
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steal from the next deputies spotted their truck
on I-5 and even before the lights
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he was blowing through intersections at high speed
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the wheel to a guy who's apparently high
on meth and fentanyl and has no intention
of stopping they eventually found the truck abandoned
a canine track led deputies both suspects walking
through a nearby neighborhood inside the truck thousands
of dollars in stolen merchandise meth heroin fentanyl
and the bong the driver get this is
a four time convicted felon 27 misdemeanor convictions
and as of this week 98 prior arrests
98 98 where was this?
outside of Olympia Washington this is because the
courts in Washington are so ultra liberal they
just let everybody go but the idea of
having a built in bong it's unbelievable here
in Texas we have built in things you
gotta blow into but that's just if you
want your car to start I think Sir
Brian with one eye he got one of
those yes in order to start his car
he has to blow into the tube three
times well it's his own fault you know
Rob was on his way to San Francisco
today and he flew out of Austin and
I said oh how was it?
he says 21 minutes in line 21 minutes
yes some of the airports are set up
somewhat differently San Francisco is still using contractors
like they used to do before 9-11
yeah but Austin is typically the worst well
who knows why well here's the CBS report
on the worst waits in history at Houston's
George Bush airport security line snake three stories
underground even outside created by a severe TSA
staffing shortage we've been waiting here since like
two hours and we lost our flight already
on Capitol Hill today the acting head of
TSA issued this warning and the longer the
shutdown goes on and more missed paychecks we
are really putting ourselves and our workforce in
a perilous situation over the past six months
TSA has gone without funding for 85 days
and counting that means TSA officers have gone
without an on time paycheck almost every other
day more than 480 officers have quit during
the latest DHS shutdown yesterday over 3100 called
out nationwide pushing the call out rate above
11% in Houston the numbers were even
higher nearly 40% calling out at George
Bush airport where TSA is operating only about
a third of its lanes leading to lines
like this one holding the public and the
nation's security hostage is totally unacceptable you're not
angry with TSA workers who aren't showing up
no I sympathize with the fact they've got
to feed their families and take care of
business on Wednesday Senate Democrats issued a new
counter proposal on a deal to end the
40 day impasse just have a vote Republicans
should let us vote and go along with
paying TSA but Republicans immediately poured cold water
on the offer I don't believe in holding
TSA hostage because the Democrats hate ICE I
think that's wrong we should open up TSA
right now but nor am I willing to
cut ICE you know what all this says
to me when I kind of look at
it objectively does everyone now realize that this
is all security theater and it's a big
joke well there's that element the other thing
is this orchestrated obviously by Schumer because he's
going to get more Democrats in awe somehow
he knows this and there's a kicker which
I do have a clip of which is
TSA and the World Cup this kicker is
kind of the he does not want Trump
to be able to spike the ball during
the World Cup so let's make life miserable
for everybody coming to the USA to watch
soccer at this point newly hired officers will
not be able to work on the checkpoint
until well after the 2026 FIFA World Cup
this is a dire situation we are facing
a potential perfect storm of severe staffing shortages
and an influx of millions of passengers at
our airports for the World Cup games in
less than 80 days so what is we
won't be able to train them in time
unless they have to put a stop to
this tomorrow is the TSA is that by
congressional mandate is there a law that we
have to have TSA at every airport I
don't know let me ask the robot for
a second how about this since it's all
political anyway and I don't feel good for
the TSA agents I mean it's obviously sucks
when you're not getting paid but why don't
we just say no TSA just everybody go
in do you think people will be afraid
all of a sudden and oh no I
can't I need to be checked by TSA
I don't think the insurance companies would allow
it there's that hmm transportation security administration is
congressionally mandated agency it was created by the
aviation transportation security act which was passed in
november 19 2001 before this mandate airport security
was primarily the responsibility of the airlines themselves
I didn't know that maybe it's just time
to turn this back yeah seriously yeah give
it back to the airlines I mean the
TSA people they feel horrible because so many
people hate them and clearly the government hates
them they don't care they're there's a political
football just whatever go back and we can
leave our shoes on sorry I took my
gun on the plane it's okay I don't
think it would be that horrible you know
it's not a hassle like I'm sorry I
took my gun it's in my bag don't
worry about it I mean the cockpit doors
are bolted shut so you can't go in
anymore you think we're going to have a
hope that hijackings will increase suddenly I'm asking
you a serious question I don't think so
well you never know you know every time
they we had a lot of them they
were always some sort of faddish thing remember
Cuba yeah it was like hijack the plane
to Cuba yes that's right it was always
Cuba for some reason alright so no airport
security and no Cubans and it will be
good you Cuban I'm sorry I can't let
you on the plane it will be fantastic
no real ID all of this is security
theater all of it's bull crap if your
government really cared about your security they wouldn't
be doing this they don't care they don't
care and they don't care about you TSA
people everyone should just leave I'm not going
to do it anymore open up the airports
open up the airports I remember this in
the 80's early 90's hey you coming in
from San Francisco John I'll meet you at
the gate what happened to that balloons at
the gate you come out of the plane
and they're right there it was fun we
had metal detectors you throw your keys in
the little thing they wand you bring back
wanding you're good we have sim tech or
something no just forget about it this is
going to be my new thing I think
we should just open up the airports again
think about the productivity think about how much
more productive we will be I think you
can have at least 20% more airplanes
flying cheaper prices it would be great do
it the way it was done before 2001
where the airlines are the responsible party exactly
maybe Mark Dwayne Mullen will change some of
these things as our new head of Department
of Homeland Security Mark Dwayne Mullen will become
Trump's next Department of Homeland Security Secretary putting
the Oklahoma Senator in charge of one of
the most powerful agencies in government but he
takes over a department in trouble it's in
the midst of a shutdown which is keeping
TSA staff home and bringing chaos to airports
and it's unknown how close he will stick
to the immigration enforcement policies of his predecessor
Christy Nome the final confirmation vote was 54
to 45 two Democrats voted for him but
Republican Rand Paul did not accusing his Senate
colleague of anger issues anger issues what is
that Rand Paul says I can't confirm the
guy because he has anger issues what I've
never heard that before am I coming in
on one channel or two you're coming in
on two how come my icon changed your
icon what do you mean on the clean
feed yeah you have two balls it looks
like a butt yeah you got a butt
that's because I put why doesn't it have
the phone well let me see is it
making the inference that I'm talking out of
my ass how's that did it just change
to a phone did it change yeah it
just changed yeah I changed it and there
was no difference alright you don't like the
butt I changed it to a microphone you
don't want the butt I won't give you
the butt what would you like I can
change it to a hot sexy girl whatever
you want whatever icon you want I can
give it to you squirrel no I can't
do that I got no squirrel for you
think about I just think this is a
good idea and if the airlines are responsible
then let's make sure we have some good
looking people who want you at united you
know I want to fly united because good
looking people who want me yeah there you
go marketing everybody will be polite because you
know hey everyone could have a gun so
you know be nice to each other I
think there's something here we need to get
rid of this nonsense I think this is
your thing yes we need to get rid
of this nonsense we really do it's clearly
bull crap no one cares about it it
just drags everybody down it's bringing us towards
digital ID and it should be completely unnecessary
just my opinion I'll go along with it
I'm in you're going to be with me
I'm vouching we're going back to the moon
and it's going to cost a lot of
money 20 billion dollars NASA's planning for something
I think has already been there for many
years even though we have never landed on
the moon it's the moon base we've all
wondered how long it would take for us
to set up shop on the moon and
what exactly that would look like Jared Isaacman
and NASA officially announced their timeline and plan
for our own base on the moon the
20 billion dollar project will replace the plan
to deploy a space station in lunar orbit
that's 8 years of money to Israel we're
going to spend on a moon base known
as lunar gateway however NASA still plans to
use the lunar gateway station a lot of
which was already built with the help of
contractors but repurposing may not be simple so
why the rush now for this space and
why the change of plans let's get some
answers with the director of government relations at
the planetary society Jack Corelli to talk more
about this announcement did I get that right
Jack?
yes you did, it's great to be here
so let's talk a little bit more about
your reaction to this proposal how realistic is
this because it sounds pretty ambitious it is
incredibly ambitious and I will say I'm really
excited I was there at ignition day earlier
this week it's a really exciting time to
be a part of the space program and
watching what NASA is doing under the leadership
of Jared Isaacman and obviously there's a lot
that still needs to be figured out we
haven't been back to the moon in 50
years but now with a clear cohesive action
oriented plan for returning humans and this time
to stay it is certainly ambitious I will
say that but it is also a very
exciting time to be part of the space
industry this so the Artemis is set to
take off on, wait for it, April 1st
ok is there an over and under?
is this something I can do on the
prop vet site?
I think there's a calc sheet there's got
to be a calc sheet thing for this
I mean we're not going to go to
the moon I don't see it happening at
all they're just pushing the goal post oh
we got a delay because we're going to
do a moon base let's talk about the
literal nuts and bolts of this because the
Lunar Gateway Station largely already built in orbit
but the game plan now is to do
something that's permanently stationed on the moon's surface
so first off where's all the money for
that going to come from because that sounds
expensive to me and then secondly how possible
is that and how much more technically difficult
is that yeah I mean it's just to
address the money question up front it's the
folks behind me that write the appropriations laws
in this country and so it's going to
require Administrator Isaacman and the folks at NASA
to sell this to the appropriations committee on
the hill and sell them on the idea
of advancing the Artemis program in this direction
and you mentioned the Lunar Gateway program which
had been a large part of the Artemis
architecture has a lot of the international collaboration
components of the program it's going to require
working with those allies as well to make
sure that there's buy-in to provide the
necessary assets on the lunar surface to keep
our astronauts alive and doing science from the
moon this time yeah we definitely want to
keep them alive we got a minute here
China is also trying to make progress for
a moon base by 2030 I mean are
we just trying to keep pace here or
are we trying to win this moon base
race here who's going to be the first
to put the flag on the moon well
the US did put the flag first on
the moon in 1969 so it certainly is
a much broader field but the universe is
certainly much larger than just the moon right?
this is a multi-front competition with a
great power competitor and so the competition for
the 21st century is happening in the areas
of scientific discovery that both the Chinese and
the United States are actively pursuing and the
moon base is a critical component of that
I'm feeling a push coming yeah well the
moon base nuts and bolts aren't ready yet
and you know the other one you want
to try to catch up on I'm seeing
it sneak into the news the new fusion
rocket engine oh fusion rocket engine it's the
only way you're going to get the Mars
in back you can't get the Mars in
back no we can't get anywhere there's that
we can't get past the Van Allen belt
I keep telling people what's going to happen
hey I'm going to give you a breather
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do you remember you were awake I don't
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lapel pin will be what not something goofy
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huh yes I think that's a good idea
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best podcast in the universe we do not
have any title changes but we do have
a layaway night Cameron Linda mood and he
says my most beloved punch and John okay
well boys we've come a long way I
was hit in the mouth by the late
conspiracy scope sometime in the early 2010s it's
been a long time brother Adam was living
in Dutch exile at the time John I
still come across Red Fox albums I've never
seen before and think of you my original
goal for night it was episode 666 better
late than never he says what I learned
from y'all about how the media works
and how to see propaganda is truly invaluable
and should be required for everyone maybe Milani
is robot can teach it I honestly cannot
thank you both enough week in week out
you've kept me grounded and sane I mean
it when I say I love you my
father Jr Linda mood Linda mood passed away
on November 2nd 2025 in his honor I
would like to be known as Sir CK
Linda mood son of Jr of Texas aka
Sir Linda mood I would like peas and
non-kosher love nuts for the fellow Knights
I have do you are you familiar with
love nuts this doesn't sound very I have
no well I am but not in this
regard not for eating that's right not for
munching jingles I've been sitting on him for
a long time chemtrails Rev Manning we got
to talk about that AJ it's real and
if you'd be so kind throw in a
karma be happy to talk you've
got karma alright so we have three Knights
to bring up on stage today John can
you lift the blade by now are you
okay I can as long as it's not
over five pounds well that's a teeny weeny
blade we'll have to have to make do
with it Cameron Kaye Linda mood step on
up Rick Zahler and Sir oh well the
dog the dog is here in spirit all
three of you have supported the Noah Jenner
show in the amount of $1,000 or
more I'm therefore very proud to pronounce the
KB as Sir CK Linda mood son of
JR of Texas Sir Rick of the hammer
and Sir Gizmo the one-eyed for you
we've got hookers and blow rent boys and
chardonnay peas and non-kosher love nuts and
a nice virtual bone for our doggy here
along with that as always we got gerbils
and ginger ale we got beers and blunts
and of course we got some mutton and
meat it's always here for you go to
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becoming knights of the No Agenda Roundtable I
think we're ready for the meetups No Agenda
Meetups Meetups Meetups Yeah we actually have two
meetup reports the first one is from Okinawa
in Japan this is the one we were
waiting for you know a meetup is still
a meetup even if it's just you Hi
Sy it's Sir Hank with a meetup report
from Naha it was probable but there was
no other person here the next meetup I
will be hosting is in Fukuoka and hopefully
there will be a bigger turn up thank
you for your attention to this matter I
love it man I'm sorry no one else
showed up maybe the next one there's definitely
people in Japan who want to meet up
we know that for sure in Vancouver had
their meetup here's their report Hey this is
ID Pop with a meetup report for Vancouver
BC it was a good crew I got
to meet a Viscount and hit some people
in the mouth we met some great people
from Higher Side Chats as well the last
meetup I went to the host didn't show
up so I started my own now I
feel connected and protected Sweet home it's like
a party great to see you back in
the saddle there John good to have you
back we're having a great meetup here in
Vancouver had a bunch of people here most
of them are gone now but fantastic time
in the morning Hey just finished the Vancouver
meetup great time great people we'll be back
again in the morning Hi guys it's very
interesting and they were so nice and I
hope they had fun and this is Hi
from Alibi Room in Vancouver John Trapp End
of show mixers doing meetup reports gotta love
it we do have a couple of meetups
taking place this Saturday Dallas Fort Worth Mid
-Cities meetup at Chef Point Cafe in Coleyville
Texas Nerdworks hosting Central Ohio March edition meetup
at noon by the way the Mid-Cities
is 11.30 in the morning so the
Central Ohio March edition is Jackie O's in
Columbus the Fort Wayne Club 33 March Madness
meetup 1 o'clock at Hall's Tavern at
Coventry and they'll be in the back room
Fort Wayne Indiana High Country Hop no agenda
don't stop that'll be in Australia 1 o
'clock Eastern Australian Standard Time High Country Hop
Festival site in Beachwood Victoria I need a
meetup report from you guys and also on
Saturday this will be the do-over Fukuoka
Castle Ruins Cherry Blossom Viewing 1.30 that's
your Japanese Standard Time at Maizuru Park in
Fukuoka Kyushu Japan maybe it's because I can't
pronounce and the people didn't show up that
may be part of the problem and I
apologize for that so if you're in Japan
if you're in that area then please go
and meet Sir Hank Itami don't let him
be there alone and we look forward to
a full meetup report coming up in the
month of April on the 2nd Raleigh North
Carolina Osaka now we know there's lots of
people in Osaka so that'll be on April
4th the 11th is a big meetup day
Eagle Idaho Albany California maybe John will come
and show you his scar maybe not Lafayette
Louisiana on the 11th and Fredericksburg Texas yes
the Keeper and I and many of your
local celebrities from Fredericksburg will be there the
16th Charlotte North Carolina Franklin Tennessee on the
18th Scheveningen the Netherlands on the 25th Brighton
Michigan on the 26th and Leipzig in Germany
that's in Saxony make sure you go to
that one and whenever you have a meetup
which as you know are completely unregulated the
producer organized you get what you put into
it try and make a meetup report just
pass a phone around if it's a hassle
I'm happy to edit it just send it
in to me we'll take care of it
make sure everyone talks loudly enough and if
you can always get your server in on
the action noagentomeetups.com connection is protection the
people you meet there will be your first
responders in any emergency they keep you stable
so you're able go to noagentomeetups.com if
you can't find a meetup near you start
one yourself it's real easy and they are
always guaranteed a party well
zippered or not John has a tip of
the day standing by for you but as
always we want to see if we can
select a fitting iso for the end of
the show you sent me one as a
bonus clip just before we started the show
do you want to hear mine first or
should we go with yours either way here's
mine I thought it was pretty outrageous ok
there's one that's it that's all they have
to do and that's the other one I
have well nevermind ok here's yours this is
old wisdom passed down through generations hey why
does he sound so muffled that's what he
sounds like it's his voice and that's an
AI voice no it's not this is old
wisdom passed down through generations I don't know
I mean do you think that's better than
I thought it was pretty outrageous you want
the outrageous one it's your pick heart patient
goes first we call you heart patient sorry
I am I once called Dave Weiner a
heart patient and he hung up on me
why because he was a heart patient he
didn't like me saying it I don't like
that term he hated it I never met
a guy that sweated so much however here's
a guy who's got a tip of the
day great advice for you and me just
a tip with JCD and sometimes I don't
know why I didn't come up with this
tip before this is an old tip this
is a tip that we should have had
on here lead testing swabs ooh yes that
sounds like something we definitely should have had
yeah you know you go to Goodwill you
pick up some old crockery check it for
lead it could be toxic and so one
example is the AA wipes lead test kit
30 swabs is on Amazon enhanced lead testing
formulation at home lead paint it's also good
for testing paint moving into a new house
test paint wait a minute you just swab
the walls or what do you do?
you stick it in a thing and it
turns colors I mean people check their drugs
all the time I mean I'm surprised we
don't have these everybody doesn't have these just
around the house everyone should have these lead
test kits and they're available on Amazon what's
the price?
well this is the AA wipes it's one
of many there's a lot of companies that
make these 9 bucks it's a good tip
and it could save your life how about
that a 9 dollar tip of the day
that could save your life find more at
noagendafund.com tipoftheday.net where
would we be without Dana without Dana we
wouldn't have house of cards what a tragedy
that would be and so we end another
no agenda media deconstruction for you you might
want to stay tuned to the no agenda
stream because we have the random thoughts podcast
coming up next the title of this one
is known addictive product so you know what
that's going to be about I'm sure it's
a deep dive into the addictiveness of social
media end of show mixes both of them
coming from MVP and if you feel so
called send me your end of show mixes
keeping about a minute thirty adamcurry.com and
we'll be back on Sunday to bring the
wattage into your cottage as Darren O'Neill
would say and slam some of that bass
in your face until then coming to you
from the heart of the Texas hill country
beautiful Fredericksburg Texas where we will be meeting
on April 11th in the morning everybody I'm
Adam Curry and from the northern San Francisco
bay I'm John C.
Dvorak please remember us at noagendadonations.com it's
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Adam used to swear a blue streak every
single day Until he washed his mouth with
soap and threw the words away But John
back on no agenda, and he's slipping now
and then Letting out a mother trucker to
the boys and men Now Adam's ears are
burning, he's trying to stay clean While John
is dancing right on the edge of what
is quite obscene Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
I stepped into a puddle right up to
my knee I yelled out mother, father for
the neighborhood to see Mimi looked aghast, she
thought I'd lost my mind Until I told
her ship it, I'm the hard working kind
The air is getting salty, the clouds are
turning black But I'm a reformed fellow, there
ain't no turning back Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, it's a ducking shame, it's a fucking
bronco ride Keep the fire trucking language all
locked up deep inside I'm a son of
a biscuit, a real corksucker too Just pulling
on my corks until the wine comes into
view We're sticking to the phonics, we're dancing
on the edge Without a single word to
drive a person o'er the ledge So
if you're feeling clucked, just go and find
a hand And say a hallelujah every now
and then Keep your darn socks mended and
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best podcast in the universe Audio Mopo Dvorak
.org slash N A I thought it was
pretty outrageous