I wasn't pushing back enough on Adam.
Adam Curry, John C.
Dvorak.
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In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from Refinery Row in the North San
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In the morning...
We're a pair today, aren't we?
Happy Easter.
Happy Resurrection Day, as we say.
Happy Easter, yes.
And happy birthday!
Thank you.
Happy, happy birthday.
Wow, you are sounding chipper today, man.
That won't last.
No, I know.
I walked into church this morning.
I heard the last show.
About one hour in, I can't...
I can barely talk.
Yeah, I gotta go to bed.
It got pretty bad there.
But again, it's fantastic that you're first, alive.
This is good news.
Two, you're back on the show within just
weeks of having open-heart surgery.
And, as people pointed out to me this
morning at church, JCD sounds softer.
What?
You sound softer.
Like your heart has softened.
And I said, give him a week or
two.
I said, give him a week or two.
Don't worry.
Softer about what?
People said I wasn't pushing back enough on
Adam.
You're turning soft, Dvorak.
You're not pushing back enough on Adam.
Pushing back on what?
Wait, you're actually getting these emails already?
Yeah.
Oh, man.
That's not so nice.
What did I say that you need to
push back on?
What did I do wrong now?
Well, that's what I was wondering.
I mean, there must have been something.
Oh, they just randomly say, you didn't push
back enough, but yet they have no examples.
Okay.
No, I think that staring death in the
face will do that to you.
Don't you have a different outlook on life?
I guess not.
Um...
No, not really.
Is that a no?
Trying to get more sleep.
How's that going?
That must be the hardest part.
No, it's terrible.
So, you're just not sleeping much at all?
Well, no.
And it throws you off.
Well, not sleeping will throw you off, of
course.
Yeah.
So, I get this dry mouth for a
number of various reasons.
Yes.
And it kind of makes me talk funny
at some point.
And so, today I'm testing out a whole
slew of cures that I'm going to use
throughout the show.
Sprays, mouth sprays, goo.
Tell us about the goo.
And some other things to see how that
goes.
Okay, so you just get dry mouth, and
then it's annoying.
Oh, yeah.
And you start biting your cheek when you're
talking.
Oh.
How is that related to open heart surgery?
It has to do with the drugs and
all the other things.
It's hard to say.
Also, I'm on this minimalist, because of the
nature of the fluid retention, that you have
fluid around my lungs.
I can't have more than 1.5 liters
of liquids of any sort per day.
And so, that keeps you kind of like
semi-dehydrated.
You're parched.
Parched, I tell you.
Wow.
Well, again, loving that you're here, man.
Loving that you're here.
I'm not complaining.
Actually, I am complaining.
Quite a bit, but that's okay.
It's all right, because John, good news, good
news, breaking news, we got him!
Good morning and happy Easter.
The US crew member who was missing in
southwestern Iran after his F-15 fighter jet
was shot down has been rescued.
The successful extraction was announced by President Trump
overnight on True Social.
The president simply said, we got him, before
providing new details that dozens of US military
aircraft were used to retrieve him as US
leadership tracked his location.
It was a daring operation that included hundreds
of US forces racing against the clock to
rescue the crew member.
Fox News has learned that after the fighter
jet was shot down on Friday, the weapons
systems officer hiked to an elevated mountain ridge
where he hid and waited for retrieval.
The pilot of the jet was rescued by
US special forces on Friday, but President Trump
said they waited to confirm as to not
jeopardize this second operation.
The president added, quote, this is the first
time in military memory that two US pilots
have been rescued separately deep in enemy territory.
The IDF said they avoided striking this area
as American planes and helicopters flew at a
low altitude, hoping to find any sign of
the service member.
Anything to set a record with this president.
First time, first time, first time any airman's
ever been rescued behind enemy lines.
I'm surprised he didn't slam dead John McCain.
Not like that McCain.
Ha ha.
You could have expected that from him.
I'm sorry.
He hasn't used a John McCain joke for
a long time.
Well, McCain's dead, so it's not that funny.
This was an interesting rescue.
They had paratroopers, CIA, all kinds of stuff
going on.
According to US officials, the rescued airmen and
all rescue crews are safely out of Iran.
A senior administration official tells NBC News the
CIA launched a deception campaign spreading word inside
Iran.
It was probably on X and Facebook.
Hey, hey, hey guys, we're going to spread
some fake news over here with the CIA.
It tells NBC News the CIA launched a
deception campaign spreading word inside Iran that US
forces already found him.
And while the Iranians were confused and uncertain,
the agency used, quote, unique exquisite capabilities to
search for and find the American airman.
Unique and exquisite capability.
Exquisite.
Not just any unique, exquisite.
Tonight, the search is over for the second
US crew member of the F-15 E
-Strike Eagle that was shot down by Iran
on Friday.
The pilot was rescued several hours after the
plane went down, but the search for the
second airman continued, taking rescue crews and special
operation forces more than a day to safely
locate him.
The two-seater fighter jet was shot down
in a remote area of Iran.
This is the first time a manned US
aircraft has been shot down behind enemy lines
during this war.
President Trump calling this one of the most
daring search and rescue operations in US history.
Ever!
Posting his reaction to social media saying in
part, this brave warrior was behind enemy lines
in the treacherous mountains of Iran, being hunted
down by our enemies, who were getting closer
and closer by the hour, but was never
truly alone, because his commander-in-chief, secretary
of war, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, and fellow war fighters were monitoring his
location 24 hours a day, diligently planning for
his rescue.
At my direction, the US military sent dozens
of aircraft, armed with the most lethal weapons
in the world, to retrieve him.
I don't know.
I'm missing that in this story.
You know what was interesting?
I was watching this, of course, you know,
like, oh man, we got one of our
guys is down, and is lost, and there's
all kinds of fake photos everywhere, particularly on
Telegram.
But this next report was consistent.
This is one little thing that everybody kept
saying, which I found very peculiar.
Let's get more on our breaking news now.
The rescue of the US airmen who's been
missing in Iran after their plane was shot
down.
John Hendren joins us now on the line
from Washington, D.C. John, what more can
you tell us?
Well, we were told by the US government
source that overnight in Iran, a missing crew
member of the downed F-15 has been
located, and there was a rescue effort, but
there was a fierce firefight.
The latest information we have is that that
crew member, and we don't have a gender,
is still, has not left Iranian territory, and
because of the ongoing hostilities, there could be
still danger to that person, also to other
people involved in that rescue effort.
So this is an ongoing, active rescue effort,
but that airman is not safely out of
Iranian territory, and I want to be clear
when I say airman, in the US military
parlance, that doesn't necessarily mean a male, we
don't know the gender of this person.
The US rescue team still needs to successfully
exfiltrate, get out of the country, and to
safety, and we have not confirmation that that
has happened.
So this kept on going, all these reports,
we're not sure, it could be a she,
could be a he, unknown gender, airman is
just something we say in the military, doesn't
mean it's a man, could be a woman.
Where did this come from?
This was Al Jazeera, but they were all
doing it.
CNN was doing it, everybody was doing it.
Al Jazeera?
Yeah.
They're hung up on gender?
They were all, it was the constant thing.
I only pulled this one clip because I
like how this guy sounds, he's sitting right
there at command.
But how hard was it to look up
how many female F-15 fighter pilots there
are?
I think three.
Of 5,000.
It wouldn't be that hard to figure out
it wasn't a woman?
I don't, it was strange.
It's like wokeness popped back in for some
reason.
This is very odd.
Yeah.
That was my feeling about it too.
What is this?
Anyway, everybody's happy.
You got anything on this pilot?
I had a couple of clips before they
caught the guy.
I X'd him out heck with it.
X'd him out.
The guy apparently was, I heard all the
reports this morning, is damaged, he's very injured.
Oh, okay.
Badly.
Oh.
How badly badly?
Well, badly enough that they would mention it.
Okay.
He probably got broken or something or other.
Who knows.
All right.
I only have one Iran update by the
way.
Okay.
And it says Iran update.
Here we go.
Tonight, missiles lighting up the skies over the
Middle East.
As Iran and the United States escalate attacks
on key infrastructure, civilian sites also hit.
Iran saying U.S.-Israeli airstrikes ripped through a
prominent university in Tehran.
Video showing flames still burning inside.
And extensive damage to Iran's 100-year-old
medical research center.
The director general of the WHO saying that
since the start of the war, the WHO
has verified more than 20 attacks on healthcare
in Iran, resulting in at least 9 deaths.
Meanwhile, Iran's forces not letting up.
Striking a desalination plant and oil refinery in
Cuba.
Why do we have a Brit on ABC?
This is always puzzling to me.
You always note this.
I'm sorry.
I'll keep going.
It comes 24 hours after the U.S.
struck this critical bridge linking the city of
Karaj with Tehran.
Iranian state media saying more than a dozen
were killed.
And tonight, new satellite images showing the destruction
at bases hosting U.S. troops in the
region.
At least 365 U.S. service members have
been wounded since the war with Iran began
five weeks ago.
13 killed in action.
And Lindsay, more reports of heavy bombing in
Iran's capital Tehran tonight and the regime firing
back towards Israel.
Yeah, you know, if you want to get
any news, you have to go to the
Indian Pakistani news services now.
They're jumping in.
Most of their stuff is just, you can't
understand these people.
No fault of theirs.
But, and then they'll use AI voices, which
makes it completely discredited.
But the IRGC went on, well, the Times
of India had an update, an Iranian update
from the IRGC, and here it is.
As we have stated, we declare to the
American Zionist enemies that your information about our
military capabilities, power, and equipment is incomplete.
You know nothing of our vast and strategic
capabilities.
Do not hope that you have destroyed our
strategic missile production sites, long-range offensive drones,
modern air defense, and electronic warfare systems, or
special equipment.
With such a belief, you will only deepen
the quagmire in which you have trapped yourselves.
The centers you mistakenly believe you have targeted
are utterly insignificant.
You know nothing.
I love these guys.
Like a Woody Allen bit.
Bring Marshall McLuhan in from behind the palm
tree.
The guy is great.
He's funny.
Like, you know nothing.
We've got all kinds of cool stuff here.
It's like everybody over in Iran is a
Baghdad Bob.
Very much so.
Now, there's, I'm receiving all, speaking of Baghdad,
I'm receiving all these reports that Iraqis are
protesting everywhere.
I can't really find any video of it,
which I think in this day and age
is kind of strange.
Why would the actual Iraqis be protesting?
The Iranians in Iraq might be.
Well, no.
It's Iraqis who are protesting and they're mad.
About what?
Well, because people are getting killed around the
bases.
Oh, yeah.
Thousands thousands Sadr supporters in Baghdad.
No to Israel.
No to America.
No video clips.
But Al Jazeera has all kinds of pictures.
How can Al Jazeera have pictures and no
video?
It just doesn't make sense to me.
It doesn't make sense.
I think we're getting bad reporting.
Yes.
But we're getting some fun stuff here at
home.
Marco Rubio wrote on X The Trump administration
will not allow our country to become home
to foreign nationals who support anti-American terrorist
regimes.
In 2020 fiery protests erupted in the Middle
East when the major general was assassinated by
the Trump administration during a targeted strike while
he was visiting Iraq.
On Wednesday President Trump referenced his killing of
the major general during his address to Americans
about the war in Iran.
He was an evil genius brilliant person.
Horrible human being.
I would have changed that script for the
president.
I would have said, Mr. President don't call
him an evil genius.
That's not the right thing.
To Americans about the war in Iran.
He was an evil genius brilliant person a
horrible human being, however.
If he lived, we would have had probably
a different conversation tonight.
But you know what?
We'd still be winning and winning big.
Afshar and her daughter's green cards now permanently
revoked.
What a time we live in where the
secretary of state doesn't do a news conference
just does a post on X.
And we're taking her visa away.
Get out.
You celebrate the death of Americans, you're gone.
I heard that she denied all this.
And she says I'm no relation.
But she's gone.
It's tough.
Tough.
It's a fog of war, John.
Stuff happens.
Well, is that going the way I predicted?
No, no.
It's going to be another two or three
weeks, give or take a couple days.
Which means it won't be two or three.
That means it's going to go on and
on and on.
Maybe.
I actually think you're kind of partially right.
I'm pretty sure that we're going to get
to a point where we leave and the
straights will just figure it out for yourself.
Do you need energy from the straights?
You got to go get it yourself.
The thing I thought was kind of interesting
in terms of there's all these different theories
about what's really going on and whether Trump
was trapped into this by the neocons.
And one of the things is they want
to grab that, I guess, almost nearly a
thousand pounds of enriched uranium, send in some
troops, grab the stuff, and then we can
flee.
But everything I've read indicates that this stuff
was buried with one of those bombing attacks.
You can't get to it.
First you have to excavate the area to
get the stuff out, which would take a
month.
And then you have to protect the area
with the troops.
Everything's become very impractical.
Well, unless you're looking at some other things
that the president wants to achieve.
This report suggests that maybe part of what
he wanted to achieve is being achieved.
Listen carefully.
Iran has developed a plan to charge a
toll to oil tankers passing through the Strait
of Hormuz of approximately one U.S. dollar
per barrel with payments to be made in
Chinese Yuan or stable coins.
Hello!
Stable coins!
We got the payment rails going.
There's no other stable coin than a USD
stable coin.
So that could be a big win.
That's interesting.
Mm-hmm.
Uh...
I mean, yeah, yes, we have higher gas
prices.
Yes.
But it's nothing compared to what's going on
around the world.
And the energy crisis is crazy.
The head of the International Energy Agency is
warning that it could take up to six
months to restore oil and gas flows from
the Gulf.
Fatih Birol told the Financial Times that the
world is facing what could be the most
severe energy crisis in history.
He also warned that politicians and markets are
underestimating the scale of the disruption.
Let's take you live now to the New
York Stock Exchange.
Can you stop that clip?
Yeah.
Let me ask you a logical question.
When they come up with these kind of
assertions, it's going to take six months.
Okay.
You stop the energy supply for four weeks.
Then you release it.
Now, why would it take six months to
catch up?
It should take four weeks.
Well, I've asked you this about fertilizer and
some other things.
Some things take time to start up.
But the actual oil?
I'm with you on that.
Does it take extra months to transport it?
I'm not sure.
They're just exaggerating to scare the public.
Or to bounce markets.
How about that?
There's even reports that there are tankers with
oil who are running around in circles out
in the ocean not unloading, for instance, in
the port of Rotterdam in, what's the name
of this?
There's some outfit that does this all the
time.
I'll have to look for it.
Terrafuga or something like that.
These guys have been known to do it.
It's like, well, we've got the oil, but
we're just going to do some circles for
a little bit and get that price jacked
up.
That's what I think this is.
This is market manipulation.
Oh, it's going to take forever.
Estimating the scale of the disruption.
Let's take you live now to the New
York Stock Exchange where the market has just
closed for the day.
Al Jazeera's Kristen Salumi is there.
How did the market fare today, Kristen?
There you go.
It's a financial report, so we've got to
freak everybody out.
Yes, well, climbing oil prices and fears of
higher interest rates continue to weigh down the
markets.
We're seeing all of the major stock indexes
in the red again today.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average down a percent.
The NASDAQ closing down two percent and more
telling even than that is that this is
the fourth week in a row that the
indexes have been trading lower.
And this as oil prices remain elevated in
particular, the Brent crude, the international benchmark trading
at $110 a barrel.
So help me understand something because we have
two numbers and I think I finally understand
what the difference is between the two numbers.
We have the spot market which where oil
is somewhere at $135, $140 a barrel.
Then we have the Brent.
Now, the Brent is futures?
Is that what I'm understanding?
No, no, no.
Brent is a type of oil and you
compare that to what you compare it to
in the pricing is compared to WTI which
is West Texas Intermediate.
It's got nothing to do with any of
those other numbers.
So Brent is $110 but the spot is
$140.
What is this difference?
I don't understand that.
I think one is the normal way of
true normal channels.
In other words, you want to buy it
immediately.
You want to get some right now.
You want some oil?
Hey, so I want it right now.
I need it.
I got some in my pocket.
Well, this is what's happening with gasoline for
vehicles in Europe.
In Barcelona, drivers filling up their cars know
it won't cost them full price.
The government has decided to lower the VAT
on fuel from 21% to 10%.
This is fantastic.
So the price of gas at the pump
has increased significantly so the government is saying
we're going to make it the same price
by lowering our value added tax from 21
to 10 which at the end of the
day, the government is going to have a
shortfall on their tax revenue which will come
right back to bite everybody in the butt
later.
This is the weirdest thing I've ever seen
governments do.
They're doing that in various states around the
USA.
Certain areas are knocking off their onerous, not
in California by the way, but in other
places they're taking the taxes off.
What good are these taxes?
Why have them on there at all?
The taxes are bogus anyway.
VAT on fuel from 21% to 10%.
The measure is expected to save drivers an
average of 30 cents per litre.
It's a welcome relief for many Spaniards at
the start of the long Easter weekend.
That's a saving of 12 euros.
That's not bad.
We're in a better economic situation than France.
That's why our government can afford to do
this.
That's not the case in France.
Good luck.
I hope you'll have that soon too.
The measures are due to remain in place
until the 30th of June.
The Polish government has also taken steps to
prevent citizens from paying too much at the
pump.
As well as lowering VAT, the government has
also introduced a daily price cap on fuel.
For this taxi driver, who drives up to
300 km a day, the measures make a
big difference.
To put it simply, rates today are almost
back to where they were before prices skyrocketed.
Without these measures, he would have had to
add an extra 12 euros to each fare.
Over the course of a month, that amounts
to almost 300 euros in savings.
So yes, the measures are essential.
In Lithuania, the government has opted for a
different approach, encouraging people to take the train
instead of driving, by offering half-price tickets.
We will closely monitor train ticket sales, and
if demand is high, we will add more
carriages.
The measure will remain in place until the
31st of May.
So, the crisis, I was talking to Kristina
the other day, and they have gas in
their old home for cooking.
It's tripled.
Price has tripled.
I don't see any real reason for that
to have happened at this very moment, but
I guess they used to have a lot
of gas everywhere, until they decided to stick
windmills into the North Sea.
Instead of getting the gas out of it.
In Germany, they are messing with the laws
of nature.
The faster, the better.
That's the motto of many German drivers.
For them, speed is freedom.
It's a pure adrenaline rush, the whole time.
Like when a plane takes off, and you're
pressed back into your seat.
It reduces stress, and does you good.
Basically, it's a drug.
A legal drug.
But that could soon come to a halt.
30 kilometers an hour.
That's now the speed limit in more and
more German inner cities.
Like Aachen.
It's a sign of the times, but one
that doesn't sit well with Kemal Isak and
his brother Cem.
The two car tuners feel they're being unfairly
targeted.
Where it's appropriate, and about people's safety, especially
for children, kids going to school in the
morning, it's absolutely justified.
But there are plenty of places where it's
not necessary.
Also in other zooms, where the speed limit
is higher than 30.
There you can see it's not just about
the speed limit and safety, but rather, let's
call it arbitrary.
Just arbitrary.
Everyone's mad.
You can't limit our fastness in Germany?
That's un-German.
Sie ist nicht deutsch.
France 24 says the EU is not sincere.
This is really bad.
For more, we're joined now by Francesco Sassi,
Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science
at the University of Oslo.
Thanks so much, Professor, for being with us
on the programme this evening.
Let's start with this so-called toolbox of
new measures that the EU is going to
be rolling out.
We know that it's going to include proposals
on lowering tax rates for electricity and grid
tariffs.
But what exactly needs to be done at
this point to help Europeans and people outside
the EU as well deal with this current
crisis?
First of all, thanks for the invitation to
be here tonight with you.
Let me begin with some honest truth.
The EU has not been so sincere with
the population.
We are facing indeed the largest supply disruption
of oil in the oil market coming from
the Middle East right now.
We have never seen such a disruption in
the history of energy markets.
And the EU is not really communicating this.
The population is preparing some vague measures in
this toolbox of reduced prices, reduced taxes, sorry,
on electricity and other kinds of energy products.
I think he's right.
I think the European Union has lied to
their constituents saying it's OK.
We don't need any of that stuff.
Certainly not from Russia.
We've got windmills.
We've got solar.
We don't need the nuclear plants.
I think this is coming home to roost
right now.
And remember when the Germans were laughing at
Trump?
When he said, you're going to be dependent
on the Russians for your energy.
Was it the United Nations?
Yeah.
Stupid orange man.
So the result is exactly what you'd expect.
Russia's LNG exports to Europe have hit a
record high in March 2026.
What?
I thought it was all banned.
Oh, OK.
I guess not.
No.
...from the Middle East reshapes global energy flows.
According to data compiled from Bruegel and reported
by TASS, Russian LNG deliveries to the European
Union surged to 2.46 billion cubic metres,
an all-time monthly high.
The spike comes as conflict in the Middle
East disrupts key energy routes, including the Strait
of Hormuz, sharply reducing LNG flows from the
region.
OK.
So the kicker is they've been lying about
Russia all along.
All along.
This week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said some
of his allies asked him to scale back
attacks on the Russian oil and gas sector,
like this one.
Hey, Vlad, stop hitting the gas and oil
stuff, man.
We need that over here in Europe.
...even though Russia's ability to fund the war
in Ukraine is being hugely boosted by high
oil and gas prices.
If we're talking about three months or six
months, they might get anywhere from $100 to
$150 billion in additional revenues.
For four years, Ukraine's allies have piled sanctions
on Russian oil and gas exports, forcing Moscow
to use a so-called shadow fleet of
tankers.
Hundreds of aging vessels under false flags, often
with tracking systems turned off.
There's extreme risks associated with these vessels.
They're oftentimes not insured.
The UK says it will soon join other
European nations in seizing at least some of
those vessels in European waters.
So why, at the same time, would some
allies ask Zelensky to hold back on attacking
Russian energy?
Well, around a quarter of the world's oil
supply comes from Gulf countries, much of that
now impacted by the Iran War, but almost
12% more comes from Russia.
To keep that flowing, the US has already
lifted sanctions on some Russian oil.
The net effect here is not only that
these parties will be able to sell that
oil to the tune of billions of dollars,
but it also now frees up their capacity
so they can start moving new cargo that's
oftentimes illicit, too.
The European Union has also delayed some stronger
oil and gas sanctions on Russia.
They cannot, at the same time, give more
money to Russia while they're spending on rearmament
against Russia.
Of course, the risk is the US.
So decisions made across the West in the
coming months could signal just how much it
is willing to pay to support Ukraine.
So, you can look at it as, well,
we're not getting out of there fast enough,
or look at what we're doing to Europe,
the UK, some Asian countries, China in particular,
and that we've got stablecoin running.
Maybe that's what this was about to some
degree?
Yeah, that's far-fetched.
I mean, I like the idea.
Far-fetched is my middle name, brother.
But I can't think these guys aren't that
sharp.
I don't know.
Meanwhile, it's costing us a lot of money
to be over there.
We've got three aircraft carriers.
We've got all these jets flying around burning
fuel.
It's really...
Asking for more money from Congress.
How much money do these...
Hey, I have an idea.
Audit the Pentagon.
Well, okay, I have a theory about that.
First, from what I understand, it's about $380
million a day.
So, we're at $18-20 billion, which is,
compared to what NASA just is, kind of
cheap.
But this is the thing that keeps coming
back, and it's actually something you introduced to
the show on the last episode that got
me thinking about this.
This is the defense budget.
The president wants to boost military spending by
more than a trillion dollars while proposing slashing
domestic programs here at home.
And John Hopperstead in the newsroom with more
on what would be a historic increase.
John, good morning.
Good morning, Bill.
Yeah, this would be $1.5 trillion for
defense, and that would be the highest level
of military spending in modern history.
As we take a live look at the
Capitol this morning, we expect to hear a
response from some lawmakers, many of whom will
be shocked at this hefty price.
The president has signaled that the military, though,
is his priority, especially with the ongoing conflict
in Iran.
But it's a big ask, with the country
running nearly $2 trillion annual deficits, and the
debt heading past $39 trillion.
And then there is concern about what kind
of programs here at home could be cut.
Here's a look at some of them in
this proposed budget.
$768 million to refugee resettlement programs, $5 billion
to National Institutes of Health, which many say
perform critical medical research in this country.
The administration proposed $20 billion in cuts to
the NIH last year, but Congress rejected it.
And $356 million to administration for strategic preparedness
and response.
This helps the country prepare for public health
emergencies and then also respond to them, but
that would be slashed in this budget proposal.
Earlier this week, in comments at the White
House, the president raising some eyebrows when he
told the crowd that the budget should be
focused on the military as we fight wars,
and that things like daycare, Medicare, and Medicaid
should not be funded on a federal level,
but by individual states.
So with everything going on, we're all being
inundated with the Artemis, we're going to the
moon, we're going around the moon, we're doing
the moon thing, to the moon, but it's
not really about the moon.
Three clips, and this will lead you into
your clips that I saw you already have.
Which clips are those?
The alien stuff.
Oh yeah.
The alien stuff, you took me down a
very dark road with this.
Oh good.
So here's where I think a lot of
this extra money, because we're already at $1
.1 trillion, so we're talking $400 billion, so
that would be a couple hundred billion overruns.
Jared Isaacman and NASA officially announced their timeline
and plan for our own base on the
moon.
The $20 billion project will replace the plan
to deploy a space station in lunar orbit,
which was 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 base,
and why the change of plans?
Let's get some answers with the Director of
Government Relations at the Planetary Society, Jack Carelli.
I don't know what this Planetary Society is.
Is that like Bill Nye the Science Guy?
Does he work there?
I have no clue.
I don't know why they're being brought in.
Let's talk about the literal nuts and bolts
of this, because the Lunar Gateway station was
already built in orbit, but the game plan
now is to do something that's permanently stationed
on the moon's surface.
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, 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.
Now, you have to have read President Trump's
Space Force policy, which sets a 2028 deadline
for the moon base that they're talking about
here, the Lunar Gateway, which is all part
of the Golden Dome, which brings it back
to the Pentagon, which we will not audit
under any circumstances.
And it's a bonanza, and it's a marketing
ploy that's taking place right now.
Here's the CEO of Firefly, who also wants
some of that Golden Dome dollars.
So if you think about it, we have
the capability, the entire space ecosystem, to launch
our satellites, build and operate our satellites on
orbit, and now process that data using the
SciTech AI algorithms on orbit.
That's huge because there's a lot of emphasis
on space-based orbital data centers.
There's a lot of emphasis and reignited focus
on the moon, and there's also a lot
of upside opportunity with things like Golden Dome.
So we have all the entire ecosystem to
make those programs into reality.
This is what it is.
This whole exercise, this space launch, is all
to get people all lathered up and all
excited about the expenditure for space, but it's
really the Golden Dome.
President Trump on Tuesday unveiled plans for a
so-called Golden Dome.
It's his twist on the Iron Dome, the
informal name for Israel's missile defense system.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth characterized it as an
important step for the U.S. This right
here, the Golden Dome for America, is game
-changer.
It's a generational investment in the security of
America and Americans.
President Reagan 40 years ago cast the vision
for it.
The technology wasn't there.
Now it is, and you're following through to
say we will protect the homeland.
CBS News Pentagon reporter Eleanor Watson joins us
now.
Ellie, what did President Trump say about what
this would cost and how long it would
take?
President Trump in the Oval Office today said
that the total cost for this project would
be about $175 billion, and it could take
just three years to complete.
Now that's on the low end of the
estimates that experts have been offering on what
such a system may take.
The caveats here are that the $175 billion,
including $25 billion that is just a down
payment to get the system started, which is
included in the reconciliation bill that has not
yet passed, none of that funding has been
provided by Congress yet.
President Trump is optimistic that Congress is supportive
of the plan, and he'll get that funding.
And then the other caveat is that the
program, the Defense Department still has to choose
many of the contractors to build up this
program.
Now the first step was taken today in
the Oval Office where President Trump named Space
Force General Michael Gutthein as the program manager
for this.
So he will see this building start, and
when it ends, if it ends in three
years, that will be quite a success story
since this is such an expansive program that's
going to integrate missile defense from the seabed
all the way to space.
So we always have- All the way
to the moon?
Are you kidding me?
No.
This- The dome doesn't need to be
up there?
This whole thing is about money.
And we always see alien stories before the
entertainment comes out.
Bob Lazar, who is the man, his documentary
came out this week, Spielberg's Disclosure Day, June
12th.
Apple has a UAP film.
The X-Files is rebooting.
And when you said that about Spielberg, I'm
like, yeah, we know that the Pentagon funds
all kinds of games.
They also gave him a Medal for Distinguished
Public Service for some of his movies.
The Military.com, that's their news outlet, is
running features on all of the UFO movies.
This is marketing.
It's marketing for a half a trillion dollar,
one year, half a trillion dollar bonanza budget.
Everybody's jumping in.
Yeah, I totally agree.
It's definitely marketing tricks.
So let's listen to some of these clips.
Now, the clip I played last show was
Matt Gaetz.
And he was kind of getting things going.
But he wasn't doing a very good job
of it and got condemned.
So let's bring on an actual working congressman.
Oh yeah, this is great.
Let's drop him on the Benny show.
Benny's got his...
I looked him up.
He actually seems to be very sincere.
Oh, he's totally sincere.
I thought he might be funded by military
contractors.
Very little amount, turns out.
So they just got a good guy.
A guy who's all in on this.
And so Tim Birchett, congressman from Tennessee.
Yeah, Tennessee.
He comes on the Benny, who's the front
man for a lot of this stuff.
What, Benny Johnson?
Benny Johnson, yeah.
Oh, Benny Johnson's the front man.
Interesting.
Well, he has to be, because first he
had Matt Gaetz, then he gets this guy.
He's been doing this.
He's been pushing this more than anybody.
So here we go.
I don't have the tinfoil hat on just
yet, congressman, but I'm wondering, you know, kind
of how you react to that, because you
are connected.
You're on the UFO subcommittee.
I mean, I'm just wondering what you make
of that.
Have you heard anything like that?
Well, I'm still a member of Congress, so
I can't really comment too much on what
Matt said.
But I will say this.
Wait, seriously?
Are you being serious, or is that tongue
-in-cheek?
I'm being 100% serious.
I've been briefed by just about every alphabet
agency there is.
And I'll just tell you this.
If they would release the things that I've
seen, you would stay up at night worrying
about or thinking about this stuff.
We just need to disclose it all.
I'm sick of it.
Well, I was briefed.
I'll just tell you this.
I was briefed last week on an issue,
or excuse me, two weeks ago, and it
would have set the earth on...
This country would have come unglued, I think,
if they would have heard all that I
heard.
They would demand answers.
And we need to.
Unfortunately, it just keeps getting covered up and
covered up, and the people that know are
dying or disappearing, as the case may be.
And for the record, I'm not suicidal.
And I don't take risks.
I'm glad you said that.
I'm speechless, Congressman.
You should be.
I told the President, release it all.
And the problem is, the people that are
around the President don't know...
And the President doesn't know the questions to
ask.
A few of us are going to have
to get with the President and tell him
what he needs to ask and where he
needs to look.
I mean, you know, we're in meetings and
they give addresses and tell locations of items,
I'll just say.
And the public has a right to know,
dadgummit.
It's your tax dollars.
Let's leave it out there.
You got my attention, Congressman.
I appreciate you being as forthcoming as you
have been tonight.
And we look forward to having you back.
Look, I know Donald Trump wants to disclose
something.
He hasn't done it yet, but I think
he will.
You know, when you say stuff like, I'm
not suicidal, people are disappearing left and right,
hey, maybe, maybe, because I don't believe this
at all.
As much as I want to believe in
UFOs and aliens, I have not been convinced
in 18 years of this show, tried to
meet an alien, everything, disappointment after disappointment.
You've been there with me on this journey.
Oh yeah.
That's why I had to take it over.
What if there's a couple of guys inside
the Pentagon who are like, you know, you're
hoodwinking the American people.
You got everyone.
You got Benny Johnson out there.
You got Congress people who were promoting this.
They're saying all kinds of crazy stuff.
And no, no, no, no, no, no.
Follow up on the breaking news, a defense
official telling our White House correspondent Libby Dean
that the Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has
asked the Chief of Staff of the Army
to immediately step down, retire immediately.
This is General Randy George, served in that
role since 2023.
And that official says that Secretary Hegseth lost
trust and confidence in General George and believes
it's time for a change in leadership.
Current Vice Chief of Staff expected to be
nominated for that role.
It does require Senate confirmation.
Again, just in from Libby Dean.
More as we learn it in a day
of shakeups.
How about that?
So maybe that's what this is about.
We got to get people out of there
who don't want to go along with the
program.
I think they fired that guy because he's
part of the group that misadvised Trump on
Iran.
The whole Iran thing?
Yeah, I think so.
I like my theory better.
Your theory is more in line with what
we're playing for clips.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, they had some hearings.
Recent hearings?
More hearings recently?
Yeah, I think these are pretty recent.
This is this guy Knapp and he's talking
to Congress and I got three clips from
him that are kind of entertaining.
Okay.
Start with one.
Here we go.
I'm George Knapp, Chief Investigator Reporter at KLAS
-TV in Las Vegas.
I began my pursuit of this weird mystery
way back in 1987 and for 38 years
I've always approached this as a news story.
It's not a matter of faith or belief
to me.
It's a story and it's an important one.
The public has been told over and over
since the late 40s there's nothing to worry
about here.
These mysterious craft seen by millions of people
in the skies, in the oceans, over the
land are not real.
They're not a threat.
The witnesses are wrong.
They're crackpots.
Don't believe it.
That changed for me.
What got me hooked is the paper trail.
Documents that were squeezed out of the U
.S. government after the FOIA, Freedom of Information
Act became the law of the land.
And those documents paint a much different picture
than what the public, the press, and Congress
have been told over many years.
The documents from military and intelligence personnel behind
closed doors admit that, quote, these things are
real.
They're not fictitious.
They can fly in formation, they're evasive, and
they outperform any aircraft known to exist, including
ours.
Don't look over here!
Nothing to see here!
Ooh, look at that!
Yeah!
Oh, nothing.
I want to remind everybody my problem, you
have problems with all these clips, and I
have problems with all these clips, whether they're,
you know, just promoting a movie or whatever.
Because Philip Corso's book, The Day After Roswell,
has yet to be mentioned in any context
by any interviewer, interviewee, or anybody in between.
And what exactly is in Corso's book?
The goods!
It's real!
He's got all the details.
He never had an NDA, he never had
to sign off.
He was there early in the game.
And he wrote a book describing everything, which
he regretted, by the way, as he got
older, because of the hassle, but...
This book has never been refuted.
No.
It's never been debunked.
No.
Let's go to clip two.
Do you think that any of this is
a psyop by the U.S. government?
Psyop?
Entirely possible.
Our government and other governments have admitted that
they've tried to use UFOs to cover secret
projects, but I think they also do some
reverse engineering of those claims.
So, years after people start seeing UFOs over
Area 51, for example, they come up with
a story, oh yeah, that was...
We planted that story.
I read in a major newspaper just a
couple of weeks ago, they planted this story
and an Air Force colonel went out into
the desert, went to a bar at Rachel,
and gave them some fake UFO photos, and
that's how the whole story about Area 51
started, which is preposterous.
Because it's real.
That was Nancy Mace.
Yes.
And now we go to the third clip
of this series, and I don't know when
this hearing was held, but it was Congress
and House on space aliens.
Here we go.
I think there's probably multiple reasons at the
start.
When these things first started invading our skies
in large numbers, we were scared.
It was right after World War II, and
we didn't know what they were, and they
didn't want to panic the public, and that
was probably a good call.
Over time, I think the lying sort of
became institutionalized, you know?
Flights over Washington D.C. in 1952, they're
seen, they're captured on radar, jets are chased
after these objects, and then we get an
explanation, it was a temperature inversion.
And those kind of lies have been told
for a long time.
What was told to me by an investigator
from Congress, a guy named Richard D'Amato,
who was sent after this story by Robert
Byrd and Harry Reid, he came out to
Nevada, tried to get into Area 51, did
get in there, looked around, talked to people,
trying to get to the bottom of it.
He believed that this program, reverse engineering, etc.,
was inside, had been moved inside these corporations,
and he said, when this comes out, people
are going to go to prison.
And he meant people who were basically misusing
legitimate national security funds, tens of billions of
dollars in order to keep this cover-up
going.
I also believe there's a legitimate reason for
the cover-up, in that there is undeniable
connection of national security involved in this technology.
If we are racing for it to master
that technology against the Russians and the Chinese,
which is what I have been told by
Senator Reid and many others, then it is
a race that's critical to our survival.
There could be a form of disclosure, I
think.
Yes, it's real, it's from somewhere else, without
revealing all the details that would allow someone
else to have an advantage in the race
for this technology.
I gotta be skeptical.
What?
I just gotta be skeptical of all this.
And you're familiar with this Greer character?
Yeah, yes.
He's in entertainment now.
He creates entertainment products, the Greer character.
Yeah, well, here he is.
Hold on a second.
Greer.
Where's the Greer?
The last clip.
Oh, I see.
I would like to offer you the unredacted
version of it that's very sensitive for you
to convey over to your friend, Mr. Vance.
But I think that, because he needs to
get read in on this properly before speaking
about it too much.
It's a very serious issue, and I will
tell you, if this is disclosed improperly, it'll
be a thousand times worse than COVID.
And I think that when you're talking about
the fact that we are being visited by
advanced civilizations, they are not hostile.
If they were hostile, we'd be gone.
But we have approached them very hostilely.
We have literally downed at least a thousand
or more of their spacecraft using illegal electromagnetic
pulse weapons.
I know where they're being used and how
they're being used.
And we have captured those bodies, some living,
some dead.
And Mr. Gates was correct in saying that
there are some gruesome programs being run by
military where they've been trying to combine DNA
of these creatures with humans, and they come
out with these monstrous looking things that are
used to abduct people.
So everyone's hearing alien abductions.
It's not the extraterrestrials doing it.
It's a covert human program.
And we know this, and we can prove
it.
So this is a huge story.
It's the biggest scandal in the history of
the United States in its founding.
I think for our 250th anniversary, we should
be liberated from the secrecy and these extraordinary
technologies that could benefit all of humanity need
to begin to be looked at to be
brought out.
So that's what we're doing with the Disclosure
Project.
So this is perfect, because this is pretty
much from what I can tell, the script
of Spielberg's Disclosure Day movie.
Where they meld people with the alien DNA.
It's like a setup.
This is the guy who gets medals from
the Pentagon.
Come on.
It's a massive promotion.
Here's the trailer.
So here she is.
They've morphed her DNA.
She starts to crackle.
Oh no, what's happening to her?
Bob, what's happening to Alice?
Do you understand what she's saying?
I hear her.
It's gibberish.
I can't understand it.
And I can't.
What's happening to me?
People are starved for the truth.
People are starved!
I'm just sorry that they made you a
part of it too.
Hello, Jane.
Please.
Now she's with aliens.
It's all good.
Deep bass.
Yes!
We're all going to learn the truth!
This semi-nine year terror campaign of lies
has to end!
Lies!
What are you going to do?
Full disclosure to the whole world.
That truth will upend all established order across
the entire world.
But isn't this ultimately just to get more
money for defense?
Isn't that what it always is?
That's what the Greer guy was doing.
If I recall, we had clips of him
saying we need more money for defense for
this.
We need more money for defense.
And right on cue, Lazar is on Rogan,
saying, just coincidentally, it's all at the same
time with this Project Gravitar.
Hi, I'm Bob Lazar.
In December of 1988, I was hired as
a senior staff physicist by a U.S.
defense contractor called EG&G Special Projects.
I was told that I would be working
on an advanced propulsion system out in a
remote area of the Nevada test site.
Known as Area 51.
Wanting to protect myself, I decided to go
public and reveal the secrets of S4.
Well, there's actually nine flying saucers, flying discs,
that are out there of extraterrestrial origin.
He is not your typical straight-laced science
guy.
If you wanted to hire a guy who
could think out of the box and help
solve problems, Bob is probably the best person
in the country to do that.
He's perfect for it.
Yes, if you need to think out of
the box and solve problems like how can
we up that defense budget to $1.5
trillion, Bob is your guy.
He solves problems.
Sorry, everybody.
I'm just not buying this.
I get the biggest kick out of the
fact that when it was brought up with
J.D. Vance, he kind of changes the
subject and says it's demons.
Well.
Which is why the Greer guy mentioned that
Vance should be read in because we got
money to make here.
So read this guy in.
And then at the same time, Tucker, who's
been attacked by a demon, brings on an
exorcist for a long interview about it.
Did you see that thing?
Yeah, I had to watch it.
I didn't clip it because I thought you'd
roll your eyes at me.
Yeah.
The Catholic priest exorcist.
Demons are real.
Vance saying the aliens are demons is not
helping the cause.
This guy is going to very slowly move
himself out of the position of being the
next president.
And Rubio is going to get the job.
Rubio is the guy.
Definitely.
Rubio can just post something on X now.
He doesn't even have to do a press
conference.
I am Rubio.
Did you see the post by Trump this
morning?
Which one?
Oh, about Bruce Springsteen?
No, no.
About the Iran war and these sons of
bitches are idiots and bastards don't know what
they're doing.
No.
And then he F this and F that.
All he was missing was Happy Easter.
You didn't see this?
No.
Oh, it's dynamite.
But who is he?
Oh, he's just grousing.
But about who?
The military?
No, about the Iranians not getting to the
table.
Somebody put it in the chat room that
note.
When you read it you go, what?
Was he like stoned?
But that's what he always does.
That's the alco.
Easter?
Well, he did his Easter thing.
He did a nice Easter message for everybody.
Which I will play since you bring it
up.
Here he is.
This holy week I'm proud to join with
Christians across the country and around the world
to celebrate the most glorious miracle in all
of time.
The resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ.
In his life Christ displayed true humility.
In his death he modeled true love.
And in his resurrection from the tomb he
proved that even death itself will not silence
those who place their trust in almighty God.
As it says in Gospel of John, for
God so loved the world that he gave
his only son for whoever believes in him
should not perish but have eternal life.
Eternal life, such beautiful words.
This Easter millions of Christians all over the
globe will be reminded that because of what
Jesus did on the cross, all of us
can live every day with hope in God's
promise.
Knowing that in the end evil and wickedness
will not prevail.
In the spirit of joy and renewal this
Easter we also celebrate the extraordinary resurrection of
faith and religion in America.
As I have often said, to be a
great nation you must have religion and you
must have God.
In churches across the nation on Sunday, the
pews will be fuller, younger, and more faithful
than they have at any time in many,
many years.
Religion is growing again in our country for
the first time in decades.
Happy Easter to all.
May God bless you.
May God bless the United States of America.
Our country is doing so well like never
before.
Thank you.
So contrasted with his post from this morning
at 7.08 AM, Tuesday will be power
plant day and bridge day all wrapped up
in one in Iran.
There will be nothing like it.
Open the fucking straight you crazy bastards or
you'll be in living hell.
Just watch.
Praise be to Allah.
President Donald J.
Trump.
Huh?
Did someone, yeah, so the question you would
ask.
That's a little unhinged.
Yes, it's like are you having a stroke
Mr. President?
And what would the praise be to Allah?
Like ridiculing the religion.
I don't know who's, do you think he's
writing that himself?
That has to be him.
I find it hard to believe.
That is crazy.
And he's already, he already blew up a
couple of bridges.
He was already in it.
He warned it.
He said, I see some beautiful bridges.
Take care of those bridges.
That is not Holy Speak on the holy
day, Mr. President.
No, I would say, I would say definitely
not.
No, no, certainly not after that beautiful Easter
message.
You're going to do that.
That does not make sense.
So, that brings me to, there was something
else that was kind of in the same
vein.
Oh, yeah.
You know, there is this thing going on
with the Zeds.
They're all becoming religious.
Yes.
But there's also these, you've been following the
teen takeovers?
Teen takeovers?
No, I'm not familiar with it.
They're all over the place.
Teen takeovers?
What is this about?
Well played, teen takeover.
Which one?
You have two?
The second one is the local story about
the teen takeover today in Alameda.
Okay, here we go.
In the East Bay, Alameda police are on.
No, no, don't play that one.
Play the backgrounder.
That's a nationwide trend known as teen takeovers.
A kind of flash mob for a new
generation.
Oh, flash mobs are back.
Yay!
Yeah, but this is a mass, this is
flash mob to the times ten.
That's a nationwide trend known as teen takeovers.
A kind of flash mob for a new
generation.
Lots of kids showing up in the same
place at the same time.
But police say it's a mess and sometimes
it turns violent.
CBS News correspondent Jason Allen has more.
Sheriff deputies sprinted to break up fights as
teenagers swarmed a trampoline business near Tampa.
It's just a teen takeover.
In Chicago, teens raced up streets running on
top of parked cars.
In Jacksonville, teens could be seen attacking each
other right in front of law enforcement.
At another Jacksonville takeover event in February, five
teenagers were shot.
Organized on social media, a wave of spur
-of-the-moment meet-ups has been creating
chaos in American cities and has even spread
overseas.
Is it advertised as a let's come cause
chaos?
For the most part, yes.
That's what it appears to be.
It's bring your drama.
In Mesquite, Texas, police keep a close eye
on social media for posts advertising the teen
takeover.
When police found out that there was a
takeover planned here, they started adding more resources
like this visual deterrence to let kids know
they're watching and it worked.
The takeover didn't happen.
Lt.
Michael Kelly warns these incidents can overwhelm law
enforcement and turn dangerous very quickly, like this
recent one in a neighboring Texas county, which
ended with damage to cars and three arrests.
So if they're doing it in a public
place, is there a risk to just the
general public?
Absolutely.
Yeah, and that's why we have to be
out here because we have to maintain safety
and security for everybody.
Police say they're tracking the trend closely, trying
to prevent the next takeover and keep their
community safe.
Jason Allen, CBS News, Mesquite, Texas.
You mind if I just ask the robot
about these things for a second?
Yeah, please.
Hold on a second.
Let me see.
I think I can get the robot here.
The robot was working earlier today.
What is this connection?
It turns out a lot of these are
mostly black kids, too.
Gee, okay.
I know, shocker.
Didn't expect that.
Let's see.
Her connection's failing.
She was fine a minute ago.
Yeah, these things don't work.
They don't work.
These things don't work.
Why don't you have it reconnect?
Meanwhile, why don't you play the Alameda?
This started in the east coast and kind
of moved west.
In the east bay, Alameda police are on
alert patrolling, as you can see, because of
possible beach takeover parties.
The events are being advertised on social media
for tomorrow and Tuesday.
These takeovers are expected to attract a lot
of young people, causing safety concerns.
NBC Bay Area's Christy Smith has more.
It was a popular day for a stroll
near Crown Beach in Alameda.
Come tomorrow, you can expect some extra police
presence in the area.
Alameda police say they're monitoring two unpermitted beach
takeover parties after posts circulated on social media.
Kira says she's heard about it.
Yeah, they were saying that there was going
to be some type of beach takeover event
or something.
Alameda police posted on the department's social media
page that they're worried about the safety and
supervision of minors.
One event promotes an assassin-style game using
water guns and water balloons, adding it may
seem like fun, but similar games in the
past have led to unintended and dangerous consequences.
Sergeant Feliciano says there will be increased patrols
to promote public safety.
And if you'd like to come and follow
rules, we welcome you.
Anything starts going sideways or you just start
disturbing the peace of other people in the
area, then that's when we'll have to step
in and make sure that we don't have
those minors that are drinking.
We don't have people smoking on the beach.
Meantime, Alameda police posted they're urging parents to
talk with their kids and discourage participating in
unpermitted gatherings.
Kara says she's not worried.
I think it's fine.
I think people need to chill out a
little bit.
Especially right now.
There's so many awful things going on in
the world, but kids have a good time.
That's my take.
In Alameda, Christy Smith, NBC Bay Area News.
Let me see.
Robot.
What can you tell me about the teen
takeovers and their origin?
You're impressive.
Impressive.
Okay.
It doesn't work.
Screw it.
I'm never going to try that again.
Huh?
No, it's Google.
It's Google's robot.
Sucks.
Well, I had not heard of these, but
we've seen a lot of black kids cause
ruckus everywhere.
Yeah.
In cities, but now it has a name.
Now we're just calling it teen takeover.
That's what we're doing.
Well, when I first heard of it, I
thought it was like an extension of the
Zed riots overseas that we'd been following a
bit.
It started in Morocco and went all over
the place.
But this is something else.
It's just a free-for-all.
The problem isn't when it's in open spaces.
There's also teen takeover of vids from Chicago
and all of these different cities.
These kids, the latest trend is for them
to jump on cars and then run from
car to car to car to car on
the cars, basically ruining the roofs and the
hoods of these vehicles.
There's nothing anyone can do about it.
They had nothing better to do, I guess.
I guess not.
It was our boots on the ground in
the region who actually called it this morning.
I don't know if you saw his email.
I'm just going back to Trump for a
second because that's still blowing me away.
He says, ...
...
Yeah, yeah Interesting Probably need to talk about
a G Barbie AG Barbie out And
this Blanche character.
I didn't realize that he was the president's
personal lawyer He I think for obvious reasons
he can't be confirmed to be the AG
he'll never get through a confirmation No, so
we have another name here We are continuing
to follow a breaking news as Fox News
is reporting that Attorney General Pam Bondi is
out and a new Development coming up in
just the past a few moments right here
This is some new information is Fox News
is reporting that Todd Blanche is set to
become the interim Attorney General, so if you're
just joining us at this hour You can
see a graphic with three individuals Attorney General
Pam Bondi Deputy Attorney General Tom Blanche and
EPA administrator Lee Zeldin The reason why all
three of those are on the screen is
that a President Trump reportedly?
Has fired Attorney General Pam Bondi that is
according to two sources familiar with the matter
who spoke with a Fox News Digital and
President Trump is reportedly considering replacing Bondi with
Environmental Protection Agency director Lee Zeldin that is
according to sources a familiar with that matter
Miss now had other names if I were
the president I would just elevate Todd Blanche
He is the number two at the Justice
Department He knows him.
He trusts him He is acting as his
personal attorney even though he is supposed to
be Deputy Attorney General of the United States
if he doesn't choose Deputy Attorney General Blanche
it would it would behoove the president to
choose I think Jake mentioned a senator whose
name might be in the mix choose someone
from the Senate Which would make it a
little bit easier to get that person confirmed,
but Alina Haba Janine Pirro Wow good luck
with those selections if the president does decide
to do something as crazy as that I
don't think so Didn't we have a theory
in the beginning that he had all these
pretty people up front and he had all
the deputies were Were the real people running
stuff behind the scenes?
Yeah, but they weren't doing anything either No
Particularly not when it comes to the real
reason for this firing the Epstein files So
the president's attitude on her John for the
last several months really has been quite sour
and a lot of it has to do
With the backlash over the handling of the
Epstein investigation The president doesn't like the headlines
are getting they don't like the negative response
that they're getting even from Republicans from their
base And folks on Capitol Hill and also
John I had this two-week deadline where
Pam Bondi is supposed to go and testify
on Capitol Hill because they subpoenaed her including
Republicans on that committee the House Oversight Committee
and so the White House has been eyeing
that deadline.
It's April 14th I believe that she's set
to go and testify as As a date
and this is something the president have been
talking about back in January it appeared to
subside a bit John and then now has
kind of Resurrected itself where this is a
conversation.
We started hearing from sources was really heating
up in the West Wing on Monday Yeah,
you know There's a lot of these guys
going on about Epstein files and this is
the reason and yeah She screwed that up.
But the but when you dig deeper, the
reason is because she couldn't do anything with
Comey She couldn't do anything with Jack Smith
She couldn't do it.
You know, she had all these opportunities to
get some of these lawyers that were that's
falsely without evidence Indicted Trump here and there
all over the place She did nothing in
that regard and if the Epstein thing is
minor, oh, I'm in agreement with you But
that's not what the general population thinks the
general populate population has been Completely psyoped into
believing that this is still a cover-up.
They're all pedophile protectors Your theory is even
worse Which is high-end hookers.
I end hookers.
Yeah, obviously.
Yes.
I end young hookers.
Yes.
No, it's So the She's she's toxic no
matter what I'm I think you're right that
he's mad that she didn't lock anybody up
Yeah, especially call me.
Yeah, that would that should have been a
slam dunk.
Yeah, and that's he lied before Congress is
obvious It's just and somebody else mentioned.
What about a Fauci?
She didn't do anything about that either.
He lied before Congress I think that I
mean these guys are like if you lie
before Congress, that's that you got the evidence
right there It's on video.
Yeah, I think let me see.
I think I have a clip about that
Let me see what this is joining us
in our fifth seat this former federal prosecutor
Temidayo and Ganga Williams Temidayo, is it surprising
to you that the president wants to jettison
Pam Bondi at this stage?
It's not surprising because I think she's been
a terrible AG I think what's surprising is
that the core for issues that she has
been politically loyal to him and not the
rule of law So what does surprise me
is that again and again, she has desecrated
this department I served as a former federal
prosecutor as a part of a prosecutor.
I was proud I was I thought it
was a patriotic job and what she has
done again and again is choose Trump over
country So for him to fire her and
point to the Epstein files, that's actually her
standing behind him.
She's completely She screwed the roll-up about
that But it's not because she was trying
to do the right things because again and
again She was trying to obstruct justice in
rolling out the so-called client list.
She said existed She said it was going
to be released now There's no list and
we're having a redactions and taking the amount
of federal agents from doing things like counterterrorism
She put them on handling thousands of names
seeking president Trump's name and redacting him So
do I think he should fire her?
Yes, but for the reasons that he's going
to do it.
Absolutely not Maybe it wasn't the clip I
thought there was one of these clips was
talking about Fauci and this last one I
got facing Bipartisan backlash the Department of Justice
sending a letter to Congress Defending its handling
of the release of more than three million
pages of files tied to convicted sex offender
Jeffrey It was legally was that was that?
No, these all is everything that's all they
talk about.
I Thought I had a clip about Fauci
required to send the DOJ listing more than
300 high-profile names that appear in the
files It includes some people who've been dead
for decades and is not evidence of any
wrongdoing Some have no known Association with Epstein
like Elvis and the DOJ arguing the millions
of pages the department withheld and the heavy
redactions in the records It released were to
comply with privacy protections in the law writing
No records were withheld or redacted on the
basis of embarrassment Reputational harm or political sensitivity
or some lawmakers not buying it This is
a massive cover-up being led by the
White House and the DOJ Even several Republicans
arguing the DOJ did withhold files or redact
information.
The new Epstein files Transparency Act Explicitly says
must be made public Republican congresswoman Nancy Mace
writing the excuses provided for not releasing all
the files will not hold up in a
court of law This isn't going away until
people go to jail.
I don't know where it is.
But yes, I'm in agreement.
What about Fauci?
What about?
the whole Biden clan.
Oh, yeah, it was especially hunter.
That was an easy wrap-up easy wrap
-up What she really and you keep seeing
that picture or that video of her and
the president?
Walking through the halls of the White House
and she's sashaying with her white.
Yes.
She doesn't look she's Exactly what she does
Like if you're gonna walk like that, you
gotta have some talk lady Yeah, that's unfortunate
But I don't know who who who can
do it, I know you think that's a
They do it to every just Steve Bannon
ended up in jail.
I mean, come on and Now apparently Patel
is on the block Well, I'm not convinced
of that.
Well here I've got to I've got it
straight from the source from From India All
eyes on FBI director Kash Patel as fresh
reports suggest he could be next to go
Atlantic reported a major decision could be imminent
one that may trigger a wider shakeup across
the Trump administration former FBI agent Kyle Serafin
claims There is a decent possibility Patel could
be fired.
He says the move could come swiftly possibly
within hours Serafin also suggests the timing may
be strategic He believes Donald Trump may want
to frame the decision as his own not
one made under mounting pressure FBI director Kash
Patel has been one of the most closely
watched figures in the Trump administration His personal
life has frequently made headlines drawing attention well
beyond his official role There have also been
reports of Patel using FBI aircraft for private
travel including trips to attend sporting events Allegations
that have sparked sharp criticism and now a
fresh controversy has added to the pressure Patel's
personal email account was recently hacked The breach
has been linked to an Iran-backed group
known as Handala hack team The group released
old photos and parts of his resume online
Along with a chilling warning saying this was
just the beginning.
Yeah, this handala hack group tomorrow.
Think about it This is our own intelligence
guys We gotta go.
Yeah, we got to get rid of this
Patel.
I know what we'll do Let's put some
weird stuff on his hacked email And some
there's some banking connection this all This all
Cascaded from the day.
He was in the locker room at the
on the hockey team.
Yep.
Yeah.
Well, it was a mistake Yeah, it was
a huge mistake Dude, you got a government
job this stuff.
You just can't do anymore It's it's just
not a good look Particularly the freak out
he was having.
I mean, I understand he's a hockey guy
and he was happy.
Yeah.
Well, I took the FBI jet I Was
there anyway Neighborhood Northern Italy Well, they were
sending a lot of for security reasons sending
a lot of spooks over there.
But yeah Yeah, he has stuff to do
at home It's just not a good look.
Well bond Gino couldn't even last a year
Maybe because of all the stuff cash was
doing I know this guy Maybe but people
will find out because once if cash goes
the next thing, you know bond Gino talk
Yeah People are not not liking him anymore
Not like it who bond Gino why they
feel that he's weak and he's any and
he failed Well, he is weak and he
failed and hence the reason people don't like
him anymore There was there was something that
came across the radar which I was thinking
hmm, is this a warning or Is this
a native ad the FDA has flagged a
California chocolate brand that was spiked with Viagra
ingredients It's a Luna reports The FDA says
to chocolate products sold online across the US
have been recalled after they were found to
contain Undeclared prescription drug ingredients used in Viagra
and Cialis the products sold by Bay Area
company gear aisle contains sildenafil and tadalafil According
to the FDA those ingredients can cause a
life-threatening drop in blood pressure when mixed
with nitrates found in some prescription medication men
who use nitrates to treat heart conditions run
the highest risk of danger when Consuming these
ingredients the recalled products are gold lion aphrodisiac
chocolate male enhancement sachet and a loom sex
chocolate male sexual enhancement booster The FDA said
customers should stop using them immediately Gear aisle
has not received reports of adverse reactions and
has contacted customers about returns and refunds So
the FDA they sent out a notice and
they say, you know, there's so much in
here.
It could kill you I'm like, well, how
could I just have could you tell me
how much is too much?
Can I just have a little more detail
on that like to know how much is
too much and little John's Candies?
I see that you know after your collab
with a gigawatt coffee.
There might be a new market opening up
for you Yeah, there you go John can't
have it.
I can't have it.
Yeah nitrate.
You don't have to have nitrates to you
No, I'm not as far as I can
tell What do you mean?
Oh, no, wouldn't you?
Yeah, okay I would know yeah, you would
so so there's there's a new bug I'm
gonna get this out of the way a
bug Yeah, the HMPV virus Yet another version
of the common cold, this is the new
kovat cold Various a combat.
This is just two things.
You have the new you have the new
cicada kovat Yeah, who played this and then
you have the another clipsite once I got
three clips, okay The clip I think is
good the good to part one and two
new H MPV virus of foot you send
your kids a daycare and they invariably come
back with some cold or flu or some
virus Well, it looks like a lot of
kids are coming back with a new virus
That's because the human met an euma virus
otherwise known as HMPV is spreading across the
US right now It's symptoms are pretty much
identical to that of the common cold including
things like a cough fever sore throat as
well as nasal and chest congestion however It's
worth noting that it is a different virus
from influenza and interestingly this new virus does
not have any vaccines or known treatment Oh,
no, HMPV can cause upper and lower respiratory
illness in people of all ages Especially in
young children older adults and people with weakened
immune systems symptoms commonly associated with HMPV include
I think this is what your pastor had
It was bad Yeah, it's this.
Oh Interesting, but that's weird thing was we
were all together the four of us in,
Florida Like in you know together the whole
time in the car we had dinner together
With a sitting close to each I think
same row on the plane and Both of
them got really sick for like three weeks
It took them to get over this and
we didn't have it at all.
So yeah, but in a d3 Aficionados, yeah,
that's true And interestingly this new virus does
not have any vaccines or known treatments quote
HMPV can cause upper and lower Respiratory illness
in people of all ages, especially in young
children older adults and people with weakened immune
systems Symptoms commonly associated with HMPV include cough
fever nasal congestion and shortness of breath Yeah
in some people these symptoms may progress to
bronchitis or pneumonia the symptoms of HMPV can
be similar to symptoms from other viruses that
cause upper and lower respiratory infections There is
no vaccine or treatment that can prevent HMPV
infection Meaning that you basically just have to
suffer through it and make sure you stay
hydrated get some rest and eat chicken soup
And what's interesting is that according to the
CDC's National Surveillance System the one that tracks
these viruses HMPV is really currently on the
rise by the end of March in nationwide
tests that were positive for respiratory viruses 6
.3% of them were positive for HMPV,
which is lower than influenza But notably it's
higher than kovat 19 roughly three times higher
they also found that HMPV it peaks later
sometime around April meaning in the next month
or so as Influenza cases go down HMPV
cases will likely make up a larger proportion
of the people who are sick.
Hmm Well that very well could be it's
HMPV.
I hadn't even thought about that Yeah, the
latest man Hey, man, don't you want the
latest thing?
It's called a Vaccine it was was a
note that you this would not have been
promoted because everyone's just thinks a bad cold
But this they got to bring out the
new the whole you know Detail so they
can bring out a vaccine, of course your
RSV vaccine you get your flu shot So
this is just a severe common cold, is
that your your that was my thing Yes,
it's not it didn't just show up out
of the lab from Wuhan Well, we don't
know a couple of other things worth noting
here according to data from wastewater scan org
Which tracks pathogens in American wastewater the region
of North California seems to be getting hit
hardest by this new virus Regardless though The
symptoms are mild and if the virus does
get too bad Like for somebody with a
weakened immune system or a young kid Hospitals
can provide oxygen and IV for hydration and
a bed to rest on But not much
else given the fact that at the moment
there is no real antiviral treatment for HMPV
Although there was actually a paper just published
in nature magazine.
You can see it up on your screen
It was published in February of 2026 Outlining
the work that's being done on developing a
monoclonal antibody treatment for HMPV So that might
be coming around the pike regardless though The
mortality rate for most people is similar to
the flu So no real reason for alarm
just a heads up that fever that your
kid and you might be going through It
might not be the flu.
It might be a new novel type of
virus.
Whoo Something new something.
Yes.
Well everything is here's another another source and
this is the Cicada variant and that I
don't know if they mentioned the This this
HMPV or not, okay, there is a new
variant of kovat that has recently it's the
same guy Is this like a whole?
This is part three There is a new
variant of kovat that has recently emerged across
25 different states and as is the usual
case with these new Variants this one was
given a new interesting name It's called the
cicada variant quote a kovat 19 variant is
buzzing back to life after years of flying
under the radar Nicknamed cicada for its long
hibernation period and noisy return The strain is
now fueling a steady rising cases around the
globe including in the US now aside from
this That's what marketing is this?
Hey We got to come up with a
new variant, but all these names have kind
of sucked Let's do something like this it
hides for a long time and then it
pops up and makes a lot of noise
I know cicada variants.
Yeah, Bob That's the ticket hibernation period and
noisy return The strain is now fueling a
steady rise in cases around the globe including
in the US now aside from this cool
name the official name for this new variant
is BA dot 3 dot 2 and it's
an offshoot of the Omicron strain of SARS
kovat 2 it was first detected over in
South Africa in November of 2024 But it
did not begin circulating more widely until September
of last year 2025 After which it's now
been spotted in 23 different countries and the
proportion of this virus is growing as well
for instance according to this report here from
the CDC and you can see that the
cicada variant now accounts for upwards of 30
% of cases in Some parts of Europe
and then specifically in regards to here in
the u.s Quote the variant first appeared
in the u.s in a traveler passing
through San Francisco International Airport from the Netherlands
in June of 2025 But it wasn't until
January of this year that BA 3 2
showed up in a clinical sample from a
u.s patient as of February 11th cicada
had been detected in 4 u.s Travelers
and 5 patients as well as airline and
wastewater samples across 25 states including New York,
New Jersey and Connecticut But before we go
ahead and shut down all of society Once
again, it should be worth noting that here
in the u.s At least this new
cicada variant accounts for very little something like
1% of all kovat cases The concern
with it though is the large number of
mutations that are present on the spike protein
quote The strain carries roughly 70 to 75
mutations in its spike protein the part of
the virus that helps it enter human cells
Giving it what experts call immune escape characteristics
That means it could partially dodge protection from
vaccines or prior infections Potentially making it easier
to spread and therefore it's known and therefore
this is what's known as a vo I
which is a variant Of interest.
That's what we call a takeover that someone
didn't edit out.
It's protection from vaccines or prior infections Potentially
making it easier to spread and therefore it's
known and therefore this is what's known as
a vo I Which is a variant of
interest for the people who study these things.
They're basically monitoring the situation vo I I've
learned something vo I variant of interest Yeah,
well, that's pretty depressing Staying with Medical stuff.
We now have a new sheriff in town.
It's sheriff Vance and he's in your town
Move over Nick Shirley sheriff Vance is coming
to knock some heads together Take names and
roll up the fraud early morning, Southern, California
FBI SWAT making simultaneous arrests of hospice owners
accused of bilking millions from federal taxpayers You
have anything to say about those charges Have
you got any That husband and wife he
a doctor she a nurse do business as
st Francis palliative care out of this high
-rise office Accused in the criminal complaint of
enrolling hundreds of patients who do not qualify
for hospice But billing the federal government as
if they did Well, the investigation is called
operation.
Never say die They're targeting phantom hospice centers
and so far it's working yesterday the feds
arrested doctors nurses and psychologists accused of pocketing
60 million right under greasy Gavin Newsom's nose
But here's how they got caught all of
the terminally ill patients weren't dying Lolita Minard
a 65 year old woman in Anaheim.
She ran a company named Topanga hospice care
She billed Medicare for more than nine point
one million dollars over a five-year period
for the care of supposedly terminally ill patients
This company had a death discharge rate of
85% When you go to hospice You're
usually gonna you're going there to die You're
not I have an 85 survival rate coming
out of your hospice facility That is five
times more than the national average of 17
% Yes, President Trump has named vice president
JD Vance the fraud czar Yeah, I was
thinking about this and I think I know
why why?
to get Newsom Yeah, that's the whole and
he wants Vance because it's a possibility of
Newsome running against Vance Mm-hmm is what's
in the cards right now.
And so the two of them because he
puts Vance into this bogus job They're gonna
have to butt heads and you get to
see the two of them buddy butting heads
It'll be a plus for Vance.
It's not be another WWE move Yeah So
supposedly this is somewhere between a hundred and
eighty and two hundred and eighty billion dollars
in fraud a year a year Now is
that is that California state fraud or is
that is I guess it's federal fraud, right?
Well, it's California's fraud, but it's federal money.
Yeah.
Wow.
That's a lot.
Yeah, that's a lot Well good.
That's good.
He needs that in his portfolio He needs
a portfolio.
He's got nothing What is he doing?
He's not doing anything.
No, he just goes on talk shows.
He's on Rogan.
I guess recently No, I haven't seen him
on right he went on Rogan recently and
that's funny I understand I didn't see that
pop up Got a couple things that may
be of interest around AI Something very interesting
happened in the tech world and You probably
never heard of the TB PN podcast Exactly
be TB PN value tainment.
No It might as well have been no,
it's not from value tainment It is a
podcast that I had never heard of.
Well, here's their announcement on the podcast Some
big news went down for them We are
live in the TV penultimate temple of technology
the fortress of finance the capital of capital
We have some huge news This is from
the open AI blog open AI acquires TB
PN accelerating the global conversation about AI This
is not an April Fool's joke.
April Fool's was yesterday.
We didn't do anything for April Fool's Day.
This is real This is a very interesting
deal.
I think a lot of people will be
interested in this.
We're very excited about this we have a
bunch of Context and information to share about
how this changes things what changes what doesn't
I'm sure there's a million questions We're trying
we're gonna try and get to them all.
Yeah, very very strange I think this is
maybe the first time in history There's been
a deal like this and then two people
that are a part of it have to
go and talk for yes Three hours straight,
but it's technology business as usual over here
Let's go over to feed you see most
posts on the open AI blog She shared
this message with the company earlier today She
says I'm excited to share that we've acquired
TB PN This acquisition brings a team a
strong editorial instincts deep audience understanding and proven
ability to convene Influential voices across tech business
and culture.
That's I'm still gonna be in the soundboard
Yeah, you are TVM has built something pretty
special It's one of the places where the
conversations about AI and builders is actually happening
day to day a lot of you already
watch it And rely on it to stay
close to what's going on as I've been
thinking about the future of how we communicate
in open AI One thing that's become clear.
Is that the standard communications playbook just doesn't
apply to us.
We're not a typical company We're driving a
really big technology technological shift and the mission
of bringing And with the mission of bringing
AGI to the world comes a responsibility to
help create a space for real Constructive conversation
about the changes AI creates with builders and
people using the technology at the center So
rather than trying to recreate that ourselves It
made a lot of sense just to bring
them in Support what they're doing and help
them scale while keeping what makes them special
a core part of this is editorial independence
We can say whatever we want because we're
live and we don't need to run anything
through anyone It's not possible.
It is it would be very difficult to
have somebody here.
Okay So they bought open AI bought this
podcast for as open AI says in the
low hundreds of millions of dollars And This
podcast has been around for eight months eight
months now the podcast is Really?
It's guys from Peter Thiel It's X Or
not even X is venture capital guys and
they have all of the AI Leaders on
this podcast live every single day.
It's a complete.
I'm surprised you've never heard of it It's
a complete tech bro circle jerk so, you
know one day Altman's on and then Zuckerberg
and then they just keep rotating around and
then the guy from Anthropic and then someone
from so that it is the place where
Silicon Valley if it wasn't bad enough how
they are new circular Financing they're all talking
to themselves in this circle about oh, it's
gonna be great and what is the good
and is the bad and was the danger
and and the future and all this stuff
and So this was a very surprising acquisition
for an AI company.
It's like what what is the story with
this?
So as it turns out Chris Lehane is
Now the strategist for open AI does this
name ring any bells Sounds vaguely familiar.
He was the crisis guy in the Clinton
administration They he was dubbed the master of
disaster He does political and crisis management.
He was press secretary for Al Gore's 2000
campaign but the big his big thing was
really Monica Lewinsky, so they they brought the
Clintons brought him in and he is a
crisis guy So open AI has him and
he did some like an online seminar type
thing 2025 I got three short clips so
you can kind of hear what his strategy
is when he's going in To a place
like the White House or perhaps a company
To help them if they have crisis and
they need crisis communications First we've got to
get to the core audience Who is the
most important audience that you are speaking to
that you're disclosing information to because ultimately Those
people are the ones who are going to
make a decision up or down and whether
you're credible and whether ultimately you can be
Trusted going forward so you need to identify
exactly who it is Now typically there's a
series of concentric circles, right?
There's a bullseye of the most important audience
or most important audiences and it expands outward
Doesn't mean you have to be mutually exclusive
You could talk to all the audiences But
most importantly you need to make sure you
were talking to your core audience and build
out from there So if I'm just going
to extrapolate this and overlay it on the
TBPN value tainment podcast acquisition I'd say yeah,
you want to be talking to your core
audience, which is people who have invested over
a trillion trillion a half dollars And are
wondering when is this thing gonna work?
When is it gonna do what you told
me was gonna do We got all this
money in here So you need to make
sure that people have the right facts The
only way you can kill bad facts or
correct bad facts is with good facts And
so there is a burden of proof so
to speak on the person who is in
a crisis You simply can't say that what's
been reported is not true or it's only
half true Or that there's another side of
a story to actually get your story out
there to actually convey and communicate effectively in
an incredible way You either have to be
able to provide people the specific facts Particularly
the core facts that they're looking at in
a particular situation Or you need to be
able to identify a process that you're going
to pursue to be able to get to
those But at the end of the day
you can't get the small details wrong, right?
There's been so many situations where someone has
been in a crisis and they've actually tried
to do everything right They've disclosed, they've disclosed
to the core audience that they want to
talk to But they get a fact wrong,
they get a fact right, they have something
off And suddenly that particular thing that they
missed, that particular detail that they got wrong
Looms much bigger because people are going to
have a very cynical and skeptical perspective of
them And if that detail is wrong, they're
going to think for some reason you're trying
to hide it Or for some reason you're
not trying to communicate it in a truthful
way So you have to make sure that
when you're going to put the information out
You've thought through the questions that you're going
to get And you either can answer them
with a level of detail and specificity that
your core audience expects Or provide a process
that you will pursue to ultimately get there
What better way to do that than with
a podcast?
Everybody trusts a podcast And when you do
all this, when you follow his crisis management
scheme What's the crisis?
They have a crisis The crisis is nobody
wants to put any more money in after
this The secondary market is broken And the
stuff sucks That's the crisis They are about
to, they're going to have three IPOs So
they put together a podcast Just to try
to buffalo everybody that nobody listens to I
never heard of it No, the only people
who listen to it are Silicon Valley people
The only people who matter The VCs That's
what it's about The crisis is...
Now I have to...
You're going to have to listen to it
Yeah, and here's the final one Crises, there
is a natural human tendency to not communicate
as forcefully and as effectively As you need
to When in fact in a crisis, you
want to err on the side of almost
over communicating To begin with, there is so
much noise and information out there That enable
to break through with your message To resonate
with your core audience To give the information
that people are looking for You need to
do it loudly You need to do it
consistently You need to do it repetitively And
you need to do it in a way
that ultimately does resonate with them So that
they are hearing it So when you're in
a crisis, it's not good enough just to
put out the information Sometimes it's not good
enough just to put out the information You
have to do it any number of times
And you have to be able to determine
Is your core audience hearing this, right?
Because you could be fully disclosed You could
be doing everything right Desperation But if they
don't hear it You're not actually accomplishing what
your strategy is designed to accomplish Yes, it's
desperate That's why they hired him Just like
he was hired by California Edison during the
California energy crisis Goldman Sachs during the financial
crisis Cisco when the bubble burst Lance Armstrong,
he had a couple of crises Al Gore's
Current TV when it fired Keith Olbermann Madonna
when she had that whole Kabbalah Center and
everyone hated her Rob Reiner and the first
five Hollywood studios This guy has been...
This is what he does He was brought
in because they see a crisis And the
crisis is it's not working out the way
they want it to Of course not Right,
so that's why you...
And you buy it I don't...
I also have a hard time believing the
low hundreds of millions of dollars No, this
is...
We talked about this before But that's your
noise You throw the number out there to
make everything look catchy Yeah, you make some
noise, exactly Yeah Yeah, you make some noise
I think it's great Props to Dave Jones
He's the one that found the clips from
that guy Yeah, nails it So yeah, no
one wants to buy those shares on the
secondary market anymore Everyone wants to get out
Go public Sam, quick So we could get
out of this Get us out of here
Get us out quick And then you've got...
So Benioff, Salesforce Benioff is...
You know, he had a whole Salesforce day
Like a carnival And with clowns and Ferris
wheels for his customers Yeah, he likes...
He's a showman He's a showman And so...
And he invites Kramer to come out and
do the show live I love Jim Kramer
He invites Kramer out Everything's fine You just
don't understand AI core, okay?
Everything's going to be fine Look, some people
said to me, you know what?
He ought to just create agent force Separate
that from the rest of the company Make
two companies And two companies would be worth
more Absurd It's complete lunacy People don't understand
that agent force is part and parcel Salesforce
It is the core of every product we
make now It is the platform A year
ago, it was a product that we were
like showing Here we're in this formative stage
Today we have tens of thousands of deployments
And those customers are all ready to get
to another level of execution And we're also
introducing all kinds of exciting new products Michael
Dell is using new agent force supply chain
Agent force 20,000 suppliers already on it
And we're working with those suppliers That's amazing
All through this agentic platform That's a big
breakthrough Now, so I just want to put
a stake in this AI eating software argument
You know AI, you know software Is AI
crunching software?
Is that the end of software?
Do you know with the software as a
service model?
Is it over like some say?
Or am I watching someone who's making billions
using it?
There's this kind of crazy narrative That these
analysts are trying to help right-size this
To help people understand That's why I'm so
grateful that you're here by the way I'm
so grateful you're here to save me Because
everyone's saying that I'm gonna go out of
business Help me Kramer Workday, it's you That's
why you have to be here That's why
these people have to be That's why I'm
here That's why I'm here You have to
see this to understand That this software is
transforming itself That you can do things You
can now You know the first time I
ever used the word was agent And agentic
was on your show I know Now that
was still only a little over a year
ago They were like I was trying to
sign up It was only a little over
a year ago All I heard was this
software can do things It can do stuff
Ah it's glorious Sounds like the two of
them should blow each other And then the
CEO of Anthropic I'm still trying to figure
it out I have a feeling those guys
might be some of those I forget the
name every single time Altruists The effect of
altruism I think they're part of that gang
No Yes That's the creepiest group there is
I have a feeling Well maybe or an
offshoot of it You know they're like Oh
we don't want to use it for autonomous
weapons And all this stuff And you know
Well they are the ones who backed off
on signing an agreement With the Department of
War or somebody Yes But here he is
on CNN with Anderson Pooper And you know
his big statement at the Anthropic Day Which
we had the clip of Wang Andrew Wang
Like oh this is it Everyone's going to
be unemployed So well everyone's going to die
Oh you be getting ready He's kind of
walking a lot of that back A well
-known and respected tech CEO Dario Almeida Is
he well-known and respected?
Can you confirm he's well-known and respected?
Well I don't know him Is he respected?
I don't know Has he been around?
Did he run IBM?
No I don't think so And you really
looked into him It's a cutting edge AI
company called Anthropic Is raising alarms tonight about
AI's potential impact On employment that could soon
be felt Well he says AI can lead
to incredible advancements Like medical breakthroughs and boost
the economy He believes it could also lead
to half of entry-level White-collar jobs
disappearing And 10 to 20 percent unemployment In
the next one to five years It's something
that's been talked about Within tech circles for
a while But rarely so starkly and so
publicly I spoke to him just before air
about that And other implications he thinks AI
may have on society Dario you've said that
AI could wipe out Half of all entry
-level white-collar jobs And spike unemployment to
10 to 20 percent How soon might that
happen?
Well let's uh uh uh So first of
all thanks for having me on the show
But uh uh uh uh uh uh Thanks
for having me on the show Just to
back up a little bit you know I've
been building AI For over a decade And
I think maybe the most salient feature of
the technology And what is driving all of
this Is how fast the technology is getting
better Um a couple years ago you could
say that AI models were maybe as good
as a smart high school student I would
say that now they're as good as a
smart college student And and and sort of
reaching past that I really worry particularly at
the entry level That the AI models are
are are you know Very much at the
center of what What an entry-level human
worker would do And so it's hard to
estimate you know Exactly what the impact would
be And and you know there's always this
question of adaptation And and you know these
these technology changes have happened before But I
think what is striking to me about the
this this AI boom Is that it's bigger
and it's broader And it's moving faster than
anything has before And so compared to previous
technology changes I'm a little bit more worried
about the labor impact Simply because it's happening
so fast That yes people will adapt But
they they may not adapt fast enough And
so they're they're you know there may be
an adjustment That sounds to me like he's
walking it back Well you know it's because
it's happening fast To be honest I don't
even know what he's saying How about this
this is the last one Is he he's
going to cure cancer Previously in the past
ed you're the future You've described a future
where cancer is cured The economy grows at
10% a year The budget is balanced
And 20% of people don't have jobs
John C.
Dvorak resident economist How does that sound to
you?
Right now 20% don't have a job
Right and people don't have jobs That's that's
exactly what I was getting to right Where
I I agree with all the positive potential
I think that I think that isn't wrong
But but you know I think I think
the quote You know the quote you just
flashed is is maybe too Maybe too uh
optimistic maybe too sanguine Oh sanguine sanguine sanguine
Qu'est-ce que c'est sanguine?
Yeah what what is sanguine?
Like uh I think it means like calm
Maybe too uh optimistic maybe too sanguine About
the ability for people to to to adapt
You know people have adapted to past technological
changes But I'll say again everyone I've talked
to has said This technological change looks different
It looks faster It looks harder to adapt
to It's broader The pace of progress keeps
catching people off guard And and so I
don't know exactly how fast You know the
the you know the job concerns I don't
know how fast people are going to adapt
It's possible it'll be it'll it'll it'll it'll
it'll all be okay But I think that's
um I think that's too sanguine an approach
I think we do need to be raising
the alarm I think we do need to
be concerned about it I think policymakers Sanguine
cheerfully confident optimistic Optimistic Yeah calm It's too
sanguine It's too sanguine but used it twice
Yeah he likes the word sanguine Sanguine so
I wouldn't use it once Yeah and for
good reason We shouldn't be using that word
Yeah I don't know I don't know What
is he talking about?
You know we're great We're going public Vote
for me Vote for me But these guys
Poor guy Altman this guy Moscow None of
them can talk They never had any media
training But they've all been in media continuously
Yeah I know but they just I don't
know Isn't that part of the job of
a CEO?
They used to be part of the job
of a CEO A well-respected He has
to present well Yes It's called presentation Yes
You don't see uh what's his name uh
Jensen Wang You know the Nvidia guy stuttering
when he goes up there in his In
his leather jacket No and he's had media
training That's how he got the whole leather
jacket deal in the first place It's perfect
It's perfect Well I don't know I see
it uh I see it being great for
people on their own computers And that might
work and that might be something But all
this other stuff I'm very skeptical Desktop AI
This yes from the from the data center
to the desktop It's like when they came
with desktop publishing Yeah They came with desk
Yeah the one thing after another became desktop
Well why this should might as well too
So that's well I think that's where it's
going What does JC say and he certainly
has some He has some insight I want
to see him tonight I don't know I've
been chatting with him recently Well he should
be he should be talking to you every
single day You almost died Yeah Yeah wow
How come he's not over there all the
time Like I'm so happy dad you're still
here Well he doesn't You know I'm not
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a AI is ruining the internet In a
number of different ways I'll give you an
example My friend Dave Jones He runs the
podcast index An open podcast index For anyone
who has a podcast Anyone who wants to
develop something So as an API With these
stupid Claude bought lobster crap things That people
have just willy-nilly installed on their Mac
minis People have now made podcast generators That
will spin up 500 podcasts of dreck A
minute Yes I heard this And start submitting
it to the index And it's killing our
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Can't you bump them?
Yeah but it's a moving target Dave has
a job by the way He's got a
day job Yeah but this AI is You
know everyone's launching bots And all kinds of
stuff It's getting out of control So you
can imagine that Sir Paul Couture Has had
quite a go of it Ever since AI
art came into being And we even saw
it on the last show After the show
we were looking to choose some art And
there was like you know 50 copies of
the same art Had been auto spewed onto
it He's been battling bots He's been battling
Honestly he's been battling horrible art Like child
porn that people have been trying to upload
So he's become a security guy at the
same time He just used to be It
stinks It does stink It really stinks And
then also there's you know The abuse he
takes from artists You know when something doesn't
work You know how people are Instead of
thinking wow This is just a guy who's
doing this In his spare time to help
the show And people get so Just out
of whack And out of balance of understanding
volunteerism So he had to And it was
eating up resources So he moved the entire
art generator To some CDN Overnight literally And
he has been And he's but he's also
added new features He's done a whole bunch
of work And I really want to say
Thank you Sir Paul Couture Thank you for
your courage Thank you for what you've been
doing With the art generator I'm surprised you
didn't throw up your hands And say screw
it And pulled the plug many times John
you and I have talked about it Like
this guy one day is just gonna freak
out And I think he did But it
still seems to be here He's a trooper
He is a real trooper He's a good
guy And so first we want to thank
Blue Acorn Who brought us the artwork for
episode 1856 We titled that one Cislunar We're
still not sure what it means But it
was a fun title And this was really
the only piece that we liked It had
everything in there Sad puppy, alien, a donate
button Had some coffee It had the no
agenda hat Had flying saucers It had everything
It had all It sufficed You know it
had everything we needed So now let's take
a look at The stuff we didn't pick
Which was pretty much everything There was nothing
good Was there anything that we even considered?
I don't think so Uh yeah I was
very disappointed by Darren What did Darren try
to do?
He did an olive oil bottle It looks
nothing like anything Yeah the olive oil bottle
was no good He tried to sneak in
an overhead projector I did see someone One
of our producers tweeted a picture of an
overhead projector He found in his school I
think I have one in the basement Of
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bonanza It's going to be like storage wars
at your place Can I have the rights?
Can I have the rights to the uh
To the Dvorak archive?
We can auction pieces off That'd be fantastic
I don't need the money I just want
the production rights Me and Bernetti will fly
in Bernetti can drive down Okay anyway So
yeah there was nothing And just looking at
it right now I don't know if we
I don't know if we have anything we
can pick yet Well at least the uh
The girl with the With the bunny ears
Yeah yeah Has an Easter theme Yeah We're
going to pick something that's either It's going
to be an Easter theme Of course Not
a capitalist agenda with a With a rabbit
cropping out eggs No that's not going to
work That's not going to happen No that
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John I'm not going to read the number
because it's all the same These are all
birthday greetings for you, John Naira Saulian, I
think it is, Atlanta, Georgia Randy O'Rourke,
Bradford, Pennsylvania Happy birthday, Buzzkill Stephen Mann, Plymouth,
Michigan Happy birthday, happy Easter Get well soon
Alan Schaff, St. Paul, Minnesota Happy birthday, Good
Health Karma, John Derek Tipton, Madera, California Happy
birthday, John Streg, Streg, Streg Racine, Racine, Wisconsin
Jason Edmonds, Johnson City, Tennessee John, we're so
happy you made it to this birthday Christy
Carlton, Seminole, Florida Spencer Christian, Wahiawa, Wahiawa in
Hawaii Don't die on me yet!
Happy birthday Jack Schofield, Yankee Town, Florida Happy
birthday, Johnny D Dame Toni Helps, Oklahoma City
Happy birthday, John I hope this helps with
the hospital bills Dame Toni Ron Fairchild, Helotes,
Texas Happy birthday, John That's Ron, the Cogent
Business Solutions in Helotes, Texas Ryan Tiporton in
Burnsville, Minnesota Welcome back, happy birthday to the
original Tech Grouch I mean, he did a
great job, but the buzzkill is needed Happy
birthday, Sir Becoming Heroic And he's from Shererville,
Indiana We have Sir Zee Anonymous in Liverpool
Happy birthday, John That is in the UK,
of course Harrison Nobles, Castle Hayne, North Carolina
Jesus Christ is the risen saviour Happy birthday,
Job Keep, John, keep living Keep living, that
is our motto Keep living B-Dub, Springfield,
Oregon Happy birthday, JCD My pedometer read 7
,474 after my morning walk today Couldn't ignore
the sign to donate Sir John in Blaine,
Minnesota Happy birthday, speedy recovery We have Kirk
Satoff in Novato, California Sir Beboop, New Brighton,
Minnesota That is Sir Beboop of the frozen
tundra Thanks for all the hard work, young
man That's for you, Job Service, service, night
New York, New York Checking in to wish
John a happy birthday Sir David Fugazotto And
he's a duke in Gladstone, Missouri Happy birthday,
John Joel Koz in Pittsburgh 73 is KC3LVG
Alex Salihauer So Joel Koz was in, he's
in India He's not in Pittsburgh He's in
Indiana-ola What did I say?
Oh, he said, well, he, no, never mind
This is what it says on the spreadsheet
Oh, I see And I'm looking at that
He's in Indianola But then it says Pittsburgh
in the note Well, who knows?
By the way, KC3LVG, 73s 73s Dame Rita's
in Sparks, Nevada And she is our final
birthday wisher with 7474 Chad Hewitt, Folsom, California
6640 God is good, happy Easter David Cox,
Austin, Texas 6325 Dame Teresa Martine in Camarillo,
California 6166 Les Tarkowski, Kingman, Arizona Small Boob
606 James Springer also comes in with the
small boobs 6006 from Ann Arbor, Michigan And
he says, your media deconstruction is essential to
shrink my amygdala Keep up the good work
Chris Chinney, Allen, Texas Double nickels on the
dime Small token of my appreciation and honor
of JCD's surviving And JCD's birthday My own
birthday on 4-6 Please put me on
the birthday list as I complete the halfway
century Mark, love and light, you're on it
Anonymous, Sarasota, Florida 5374 Happy birthday, John, be
well Sir Alex Zavala These are the 50s
Sir Alex Zavala in Kyle, Texas 50 Priscilla
Rubio in Norwalk, California 50 Happy birthday, John,
and happy Easter And Carrie Jackson, Watertown, Tennessee
rounds out our list These are our producers
What happened to all our 50s?
Yeah, they fell off the map, didn't they?
The last couple of shows I don't know
Remember we had like at one point where
they had like 10 or 15 We got
three I wish I could tell you what's
going on I don't know I'm telling you
something's up Something's up and it's a problem
It's a problem, I tell you Well, thank
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and gentlemen My partner for over 18 years
John Charles Dvorak Turned 74 years old today
And thank you all for celebrating with us
Jillian Pilch turns 42 today Chris Chitty will
be celebrating tomorrow And sir, by his grace
Wishes his red hot mama Jules A very
happy birthday Celebrating today as well Happy birthday
from everybody here At the best podcast in
the universe It's your birthday now So I
think we should get the two Let's see
We have our Orders of the Heart And
I think I have Here we go Behold
the Order of the Heart Pure of purpose
Right from the start In the morning Brave
and smart The Order of the Heart Yes,
the Order of the Heart We have Sir
Artemis of Dogpatch and Lower Slumovia And Sir
Jimmy Chimkins of the Bloody Goiter Gentlemen Both
of you will be receiving a special Special
lapel pin As you are now members of
the Order of the Heart And thank you
very much for supporting John's heart And getting
him back on And double nights And double
nights as well Behold the Order of the
Heart Pure of purpose Right from the start
In the morning Brave and smart The Order
of the Heart Come on man, that's good
That's good That's a real jingle right there
That's a good one Yeah We do have
a couple of meetups coming up In fact,
a really big one on Saturday But first
we have one meetup report Which I have
not reviewed So your results may vary I
just remembered that I Stuck this into the
meetups folder But I forgot to go back
As usually I check these for big pauses
and stuff Let's see how we do on
the Fort Wayne meetup report Adam and John
Shannon reporting in from Fort Wayne We had
our routine pretty good meetup And we had
a We have a collection of rubber duckies
And thanks for the doxing of Adam's address
We'll mail them to him in Texas In
the morning Jared from Fort Wayne Shelly from
Fort Wayne Welcome back JCD Michelle from Fort
Wayne Mike from Fort Wayne Enjoy the morning
Good afternoon Dane Trinity from Fort Wayne Glad
to be back in the group In the
morning John Adams Sir PBR Street Gang Just
going through our typical deconstruction Thank you for
your courage Welcome back John In the morning
There you go So normally I cut those
a little bit tighter But it wasn't too
bad Thank you Fort Wayne And I'm sorry
Yeah I got real lucky on that one
You're right Let's see We have some important
meetups coming up Now these no agenda meetups
Are a thing of beauty to behold You
really have to go to at least one
in your lifetime And I guarantee you You
will want to go to more of them
Now you can find this at noagendameetups.com
Another website that we hope will not get
spammed out of existence Thanks to AI Submissions
So thank you Sir Daniel who manages that
And Mimi who works with him as well
It's like a TED Talk Only it's not
It's just a hangout With a whole bunch
of people who listen to the show There's
no registration No fees You just find a
local neighborhood hangout or bar Where you can
meet up You put it on noagendameetups.com
You go you hang out This connection will
give you protection These people will be your
first responders in any type of emergency I
guarantee it So go to noagendameetups.com And
that is where you will find that we
have some great meetups coming up this Saturday
We have four We have the Treasure Valley
Boise meetup That's 3 o'clock at Old
State Saloon in Eagle, Idaho We have the
Northern Silicon Valley Get John and Mimi Out
of the House meetup At 3.33pm Pacific
at Club Mallard in Albany, California Sir Rick
Halston Crazy Steve II is hosting John, looking
good still that you're going to be there?
I'm doing everything I can to attend this
meetup I can go there I'm sure I
can hang out there for at least 45
minutes if not longer And then leave Then
say hi to everybody Yes So go say
hi to John and Mimi The Suffering Succotash
South Central Louisiana meetup 7 o'clock on
Saturday That is the Adopted Dog Brewing Company
in Lafayette, Louisiana And then we have also
on Saturday The fourth semi-annual Fredericksburg, Texas
meetup This is FBG Matt and his lovely
wife Who are organizing this at J6 or
Jenny's Place The 1776 Bar and Full Moon
Inn Bed and Breakfast in Fredericksburg, Texas All
of your stars will be there Your favorite
stars I'm sure the Baron of the Armory
Scott will be there Sir Brian with One
Eye Dirty Jersey Whore I'll be there Tina
the Keeper will be there Pastor Jimmy will
be there And I'm reliably informed Greg and
Ashlyn Speed will also be attending Come on
man, this is a hootenanny You got to
be there That is this coming Saturday Then
our next meetup on the calendar is April
16th That is Thursday That's out there a
little bit The fifth anniversary edition of Charlotte's
Thirsty Third Thursday at seven o'clock Eastern
at Ed's Tavern in Charlotte, North Carolina And
the rest of the meetups for April is
Fort Wayne, Indiana On the 18th in Franklin,
Tennessee The 19th Indianapolis, Indiana Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada The 25th Scheveningen in the Netherlands The
26th Brighton, Michigan Leipzig is in the house
on April 30th in Germany And wherever possible
get us a meetup report We love receiving
those Go to knowledgeinthemeetups.com You'll find all
the information for every single one of these
meetups Looking forward to seeing everybody Saturday And
remember knowledgeinthemeetups.com If you can't find one
near you, start one yourself Always fun and
always guaranteed a party Sometimes you want to
go hang out with all the nights and
days You want to be where you won't
be Triggered or held to blame You want
to be where everybody feels the same It's
like a party And we're coming up on
the end of the show We got a
very nice end of show mix which we
have for you And John's tip of the
day But also we have some ISOs Let
me see You have a couple here I
see I have, you have two, I have
two I kind of phoned it in so
Shall I just give you mine?
Yeah All right, here we go I've fallen
and I can't get up I just had
to pull that one for you Yeah No,
I didn't think so And here's the other
one The number 33 is everywhere I like
that one What else you got?
You should put that aside for a regular
Yes Okay, I have crackpots They're crackpots Well,
not bad, not bad I kind of like
that one Then age You look good for
your age Ah, it's a little muddy at
the beginning You look good for your age
They're crackpots I have to say that I'm
thinking The number 33 is everywhere Should we
try that one?
I think we should try that I like
it Hey everybody, before we do anything It's
time now for John C.
Dvorak's tip of the day Okay,
this is one of the I don't do
this much anymore But I got I did
get this one from Mimi And it's a
cleaning tip Cleaning tip Last time she had
a cleaning tip It was how to get
blood out of your carpet Yeah, it was
something like that It was gross I heard
it Dog pee, dog pee Dog pee It
was gross I'm with you It was gross
Well, this is close But nothing like that
Close but not gross This is active washing
machine cleaner Hmm A washing machine cleaner And
this is for pet owners It's got a
bunch of enzymes Deep clean Descaler for cat
and dog hair, urine, odor This stuff does
It builds You get You know, if you
have animals Do we have animals?
And this is like good for the kennel
The kennel is a kennel tip Everyone owns
a kennel You throw this into an empty
washing machine And it cleans out the tub
completely Gets rid of any animal Dog stench
What's the name of the product again?
It's active Amazon has it as an Amazon
choice Active washing machine cleaner for pet owners
It's to tune up your washing machine You
have to clean the machine out itself Once
in a while Yeah, because Phoebe is a
real shedder And we need this You need
this stuff We have hair everywhere Yeah If
you have a dog that sheds And you
wash stuff Just casual stuff around the house
It's going to get into the washing machine
Yeah You want this product Well, I'm going
to get this product Tina will be very
happy Because if there's someone who complains about
pet hair It's Tina And she's right Around
20 bucks Yep It's a steal everybody There
it is John C.
Dvorak's Tip of the Day Get them all
at noagendafund.com tipoftheday.net And sometimes
Adam Created by Dana Burnetti And we made
it once again Through another episode of the
best podcast in the universe We're on 75
% power here people And we're still rolling
it out for you John, I can't believe
how you continue to show up Bring it
Bring all the heat you got Yeah, people
do want you to be a little bit
meaner though So if you can bring some
of that back Yeah, I'll get meaner as
it goes on As it goes along Yeah,
as you go along Stay tuned to the
Noagenda stream Grumpy old dames are coming up
next Always fun to listen to them Because
man, they are grumpy dames I'll tell you
that Grumpy old dames An end of show
mixes Three dynamite mixes All from MVP Man,
that guy does not give up And we
will be returning to your airwaves On Thursday
with another multi-hour deconstruction of your media
Help you understand what's happening in the world
As we figure it out as well Coming
to you from the heart of the Texas
Hill Country Where we're gonna have that big
meetup on Saturday in the morning everybody I'm
Adam Curry And from Refinery Row up here
in the north part of the San Francisco
Bay I'm John C.
Dvorak We'll see you on Thursday Please remember
us at noagendadonations.com Until then, we say
adios, mofos A-hooey, hooey And such The
suction's gone limp and the inbox is rotting
While Houston sits back and does nothing but
twatting I'm elbow deep in a lunar-grade
shitstorm While Outlook keeps asking to repair and
perform The valve is jammed shut and the
server is fucked Every bit of this mission
has officially sucked I'd flush the whole crew
if the handle would move But I'm trapped
in a glitch with nothing to prove It's
a zero-g nightmare Uploading debris in a
blue screen Of death staring back at me
The waste tank is screaming The email is
dead I'm losing my mind and I'm seeing
red Microsoft's garbage And NASA's cheap plumbing Are
the only two things that I didn't see
coming Burn it all down Delete the account
Brush the void I've been having this recurring
dream And I'm starting to think it may
have something To do with the best podcast
in the universe It goes something like this
Since the pandemic I've been down on my
luck And financially strapped So I started directing
gay porn movies out of my house Unbeknownst
to my wife While she's at work I'm
working with my associate executive producer Dana Brometti
And our biggest star, Eli the coffee guy
We are discussing the next scene Which involves
Little John's candy beads And a gigawatt coffee
enema Followed up with good old-fashioned La
Jolla's salt rub and tug Suddenly the front
door flies open And my wife Linda Lou,
Duchess of Jobs And writer of winning resumes
Unexpectedly comes home And cries out in horror
Mr. Timothy, what in the world What have
you been shopping at?
Bad ideas apply again Then she starts yakking
at me Something about it If I don't
change my wicked ways Find Jesus And go
to ImageMakersInc.com That's ImageMakersInc with a K
She's always repeating herself And there's no doubt
in her mind That I would end up
working at Martel Hardware For the rest of
my life About this time The alarm clock
goes off And from the radio I hear
the spooky voice Of a washed-up VJ
Exclaiming in the morning Followed by his geriatric
handler Sidekick bitching and moaning For three hours
about low donations What can all of this
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When will this sigh up end?
Four more years is what my conspiracy therapist
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douchebags in the universe Donate at least once
No matter the amount Although 3333 is the
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