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chop off your bits. Ooh. Adam Curry, John C. Devorah.

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It's Sunday, May 3rd, 2026. This is your award-winning Give

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Our Nation Media Assassination episode 1865. This is No Agenda.

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Dropping middle names and broadcasting live from the heart of

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the Texas hill country here in Phoenix. In the morning

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everybody, I'm Adam Curry. One buzzer. In the morning Yeah,

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this guy is, he just came out of nowhere, didn't

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he? The Spencer Pratt cat? Well, I'll tell you, he

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is the social media genius. Oh, yeah, his videos are

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fantastic. I think he- Videos plus a bunch of shills?

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Shills? What kind of shills? All these different women coming

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on with the- It looks like they're going to talk

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about one thing, then they talk about Spencer Pratt. And

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then there's all these anti-the-other-people videos done anonymously by different

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outfits. It's a phenomenon. You gave me a lot of

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code there. So women come on different shows? If you

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go through Twitter or X, you see some woman. standing

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there looks like she's going to get bitch and moan

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about something and so she starts complaining as she goes

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into a big rant about spencer pratt being the only

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solution so it's kind of like a baba buoy Well,

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it's a little more advanced than that. Well, of course,

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anything is more advanced than the Bubba Booey gag. But,

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oh, interesting. So this guy's got legs. When are the

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elections for governor? Is that the same November time? No,

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it's for mayor of L.A. Oh, mayor. Oh, and when

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is that? When is the election for that? I'm November.

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Oh, we just had our mayoral election here. On Saturday?

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kind of odd. Our guy in Hays won. It wasn't

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for Mayer. It was for... school district. I misspoke. But

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he won, Alex Zavala. Good. I got here in Fredericksburg

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one. Randy Briley. Things are changing. Texas is moving towards

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the left, they say. I think not. I think not.

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So... I noticed something this past week, which. has never

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happened. In the 18 years we've done this show. And.

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It's borderline second half of show topic, but maybe not.

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When you have a... Mass shooter, a killer, an assassin,

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a criminal. We're always looking out for a couple of

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clues. Number 33 is a big one. We're always looking

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out for You know, the FBI to be in touch

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with this person previously. Yes, exactly. Three names. The three

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names. Yes, this is usually number one. The three names.

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And here's what happened this week in the M5M. Cole

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Thomas Allen. Cole Thomas Allen. Cole Thomas Allen. Paul Thomas

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Allen. Cole Allen *Captions by: Michael Jackson* Since when has

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that ever happened? I don't recall it ever happening. So

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that is strange. And I think it's... probably mainly media

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trying to Push him up a little. Shh, gotta be

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quiet. We can't give this guy three names. That makes

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him sound super, super bad. And there were so many

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strange things that went down regarding this. Um... You know,

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everything is upside down with this guy. You know, let's

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get a little refresher on the background of Cole Thomas

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Allen. The suspect, 31-year-old Cole Allen, is a teacher from

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Torrance, California, south of Los Angeles. He reportedly wrote a

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manifesto. Festo to his family and he's been interviewed by

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la TV Christine Frizzell reports My impression is he was

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a lone wolf, whack job. These are crazy people. President

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Donald Trump seemingly unshaken, following a gunman in his vicinity

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for the third time. in less than two years. This

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suspect, seen in surveillance video running through a security checkpoint

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and within moments being captured by law enforcement, is 31-year-old

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Cole Thomas Allen from Torrance, California. He reportedly had a

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1,000-word manifesto he sent to his family, now published in

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the New York Post. friendly federal assassin, describing his targets

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as administration officials, not including FBI Director Kash Patel, adding,

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"I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile rapist

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and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes." He

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also mocked the "insane lack of security" at the hotel,

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writing, "I walk in with multiple and not a single

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person there considers the possibility that I could be a

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threat. including the president. Other revelations so far that the

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suspect was part of a group called the Wide Awakes

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and attended a No Kings protest in California, where he

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also was working at an educational counseling and test prep

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company. The wheelchair breaks. Back in 2017, a local ABC

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station interviewed him about an emergency wheelchair break. So this

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is still, here he's still Cole Allen Thomas. And this,

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you know, the whole thing about this guy fits. It

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works perfectly. in our cesspool of cynicism, which is what

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we are surrounded with everywhere. social media, podcasts, our very

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own Troll Room. And so here's NewsNation. NewsNation. who now

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lead the charge by dropping the middle name. But they

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did dive into this Wide Awakes, which almost nobody did.

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Have you ever heard of the Wide Awakes? No. It's

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a historical group! As the administration is working on reviewing

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how to best protect our president, the FBI is working

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on finding out exactly who Cole Allen is. What news

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nation? Did you forget his middle name? Led him to

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attempt this attack on the president. They forgot his last

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name. President. Investigators say Allen professed to be part of

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a loosely... organized progressive group known as the Wide Awakes,

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which has roots dating back to when Abraham Lincoln was

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elected president. Investigative correspondent Rich McHugh joins us live. So

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Rich, this is a grade school teacher with no criminal

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record. That's right, Nicole. You know, we're learning more and

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more about. Cole Allen, as the days pass here. And

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the group that he was apparently aligned with, that his

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sister told authorities that he was a member of, called

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the Wide Awakes. Here's what we know about this group

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and his affiliation with them at this time. So the

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Wide Awakes appear to be part of a group called

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the Sunrise Movement. It's a political movement or organization which

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wants to end billionaire rule and stop the climate crisis

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that it wants Donald Trump. Out of power. One of

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their activist campaigns is Ice Out for Good, focusing on

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ice, and members of that campaign call themselves wide-awakes, quite

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literally agitators whose sole purpose is to is to disrupt

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ICE. In Los Angeles and Minneapolis this past winter, they

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held no sleep for ICE protests outside of ICE hotels

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with the goal of getting ICE out of their cities.

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They've held these protests in Portland and in D.C. too.

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On their website, they write, for almost a year, Donald

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Trump has been using ICE as an occupying army. to

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intimidate and repress those who would stand against him. To

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win climate action, we need to live in a democracy,

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and that means preventing Donald Trump from establishing his own

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personal Gestapo. The origins of this group and this name,

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as you mentioned, go way back to the pre-Civil War

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era. At that time, the wide-awake... a movement dedicated to

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abolishing slavery. They protected abolitionist politicians from violence while relentlessly

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harassing pro-slavery politicians. showing up at their homes, banging pots

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and pans. This is so strange. It's like it's upside

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down. Pro-abolitionists that were... That happened during Lincoln's time? And

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they're part of the Sunrise Movement? These kids who were

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singing and in the hallways. Something is very strange about

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all this. Well, the Sunrise Movement website... yeah is way

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too slick with too many uh professionally designed logos and

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signage Uh... and symbolism. I'm looking at it now. Yeah,

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signage and symbolism, exactly. So the charge was, while you're

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looking at that, the charge was led by former President

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Obama, who's like, this is the craziest thing. I don't

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understand this at all. Barack Obama claims that no one

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knows the motive of Cole Allen, the man who tried

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to assassinate President Trump at the White House Correspondents Dinner,

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allegedly. is also getting backlash for claiming to reject political

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violence, saying, quote, Although we don't yet have the details

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about the motives behind the shooting at the White House

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Correspondents' Dinner, it's incumbent upon us all to reject the

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idea that violence has any place in our democracy. It's

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also a sobering reminder of the... courage and sacrifice that

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U.S. Secret Service agents show every day. I'm grateful to

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them and thankful that the agent who was shot is

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going to be okay. People immediately called him out for

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being a hypocrite. Allen left a detailed manifesto about his

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motive. He wrote that he was, quote, no longer willing

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to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat his

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hands with crimes and planned to target Trump and administration

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officials. Investigators confirmed the manifesto and his social media were

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full of anti-Trump and anti-Christian rants. He followed accounts like

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Representative AOC, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, and Senator Elizabeth Warren.

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His sister told police he talked about doing something to

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fix the world and that he had ties to radical

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groups like the Wide Awakes and the No Kings protests

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in California. But Obama still claimed nobody knows the motive,

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even though the manifesto was already public. And Attorney General

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Todd Blanch in D.C. police said the motive was. clear

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anti-Trump bias. Meanwhile, Obama has repeatedly warned that Trump is

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a threat to democracy and an authoritarian. He has said

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things like Trump threatens the very foundations of our democracy

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and compared to some of his actions to those of

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strongmen, which is basically dictators who rule with personal power

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instead of... following normal democratic rules. Conservatives point out that

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Obama and his fellow Democrats spend years pushing the narrative

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that Trump is dangerous, illegitimate, and a threat to the

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country. They continually demonize Trump in attacks that are repeated

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by the mainstream media and amplified on platforms like Blue

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Sky. Blue Sky, yes, and then. On the PBS NewsHour.

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I checked your clips. You didn't have them. I was

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happy because I had a find. as I was paddling

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in your water. Listen to what Brooks said. I look

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at the 2028 election with a great sense of foreboding.

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And if you look at who thinks violence is justified.

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It tends to be younger people by a lot. Most

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progressives and most conservatives oppose violence, but you get two

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and a half times as many progressives saying it's justified

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than not. But what strikes me about this guy, about

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the guy who shot in Butler, about the guy who

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shot Charlie Cook, Kirk. They haven't seemed to have thought

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about it that much. They're radicals who have a big

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manifesto and an ideology. It seems almost flippant the way

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they go into these things, almost like half-thought-through and jokey.

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And I can't quite make sense of what that kind

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of lighthearted nihilism that drives people to, on a whim

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almost, do something that is horrific and life-changing. two and

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a half times more likely to be the left, David

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Brooks says. I've never heard him go off the reservation

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like that before. In fact, his compagnon, Capehart, was just

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flustered. Jonathan, how do you look at it? Well, excuse

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me, I'm not going to... just let the comment that,

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you know, progressives, you know, more than folks in the

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far right are, you know, think that violence is justified.

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It is something that the American people feel. They're a

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little more comfortable with it than they were, say, five

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or ten years ago. You and I were in that

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room. we walked through the magnetometers together. We stood in

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that spot. The thing now a week out that I've

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been thinking about. And I keep coming back to it,

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is that when I heard the five bangs, I remember

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hearing five very loud bangs. Bang, bang, bang. My immediate

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action was so instinctive. Drop to the floor under the

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table and be quiet. Like a little girl. I've never

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been in a situation like that. But as an American,

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and certainly as a journalist, having to cover all of

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these things and to listen to the recordings and the

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films, you sort of learn through osmosis. what to do.

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And to me, the bigger issue here is gun violence.

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Why was I not surprised that this had happened? And

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I've been to that dinner at least a dozen times

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since 2000. Because I'm important. And so, yeah, there's an

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issue of... you know People feeling that political violence is

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the way to go and that we are in a

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highly charged atmosphere. But what's been sort of a specter

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over all of us for even longer is the scourge

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of gun violence. Yeah, good try. No one is picking

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up on that. No one is going with gun violence

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at this time. Even MS now formerly known as MSNBC,

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MSNOW, even they are seeing what's really happening. This is

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a person who attended one of the most prestigious STEM

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universities in the country, the California Institute of Technology, Caltech,

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got an engineering undergrad degree, got a master's in computer

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science and was working. As Mika said early on, he

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was working as a part-time teacher, but he described himself

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as a game developer. You can find video online of

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him touting a wheelchair invention that allowed wheelchairs to be

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more stable. This was an accomplished, articulate person with a

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loving family, apparently. who went down a path of radicalization.

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And the reason we know that is he's written a

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thousand word document where he describes exactly why he did

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this. And he describes President Trump as a pedophile and

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a racist rapist. He doesn't say he was targeting Donald

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Trump. He says he was targeting Trump administration officials. He

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apologizes to his family in this post. attended or was

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associated with a no kings protest. So it really fits

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the pattern of what we've seen with Luigi Mangione, accused

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of killing the United Healthcare CEO, or Tyler Robinson, accused

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of killing Charlie Kirk, of the sort of people on

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the far left fringes who have become radicalized. who are

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living in a world of unreality, bombarded by conspiracy theories,

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who decide that they have to take violent action. And

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it's contributing to a climate of political violence in this

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country that we have not seen since the 1960s. So

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more questions will be asked, and the FBI is pouring

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over. This man's writings and his social media, they serve

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a search warrant. They were at his house in Torrance,

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California yesterday. So a lot more investigation still being done.

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But that that thousand word document that's being that's been

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widely published and Donald Trump commented on it last night

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on 60 Minutes, that says a lot about and explains

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a lot about. what appear to be the motives here,

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guys. So there's a cycle, I think, at play here.

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of this is like the 60s political violence all over

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again. And what are the chances that Anna Polina Luna?

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do a morning show. Right now we've got Annapolina Luna.

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She's down there with the prize van. Annapolina, what you

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got? She has hearings coming up on May 13th. which

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we've been talking about for pretty much 18 years on

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this show. From Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, I think our

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next task... force hearing will be on mk ultra and

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revealed chilling blueprint to manipulate americans minds through covert drugging

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with vaccines So I went down memory lane, looked at

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a couple of clips that we played in the past,

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and the one thing missing from all of the mainstream...

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M5M analysis for a long time. is the modern version

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of MKUltra, which is not necessarily the CIA. I don't

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know about vaccines, but we know what it is. We

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know exactly what it is. SSRIs. You're going to get

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on the air and say, hey, we just give it.

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This is from 2013. It's a sedative at night. When

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even Thom Hartman could talk about it. Don't even use

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it as an antidepressant anymore. And they're not going to

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tell you that it's an SSRI reuptake inhibitor. Does that

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sound familiar? Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, which is the same

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family of drugs as... Axel and what's the most famous

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one of all? Prozac. You wrote a book talking about

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Prozac. Prozac, Axel, Zoloft. And the thing about it is

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that it's not selective. It's just a reuptake inhibitor of

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serotonin, but it also inhibits the reuptake of some other

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drugs. But it's in that class of the drugs. So

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it increases the levels of circulating serotonin. And these drugs,

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these SSRI drugs, all of them have suicide or homicide

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associated with them, do they not? They do. They do.

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Yeah, don't worry about the sounds. We'll just... Oh, yeah,

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you can hear me shuffling around. It's hard to hear

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here anyway. I have so much equipment set up. That's

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quite all right. Not to worry, Dr. Bregan. We're talking

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with Dr. Peter Bregan, a practicing psychiatrist and the author

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of Medication Madness, among other books. And he's pointing out

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that the Navy Yard shooter was on an SSRI drug.

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SSRI drugs have been associated with, correct me if I'm

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wrong, most of the mass shootings that we know of

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in the... in the history of the United States. Is

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that, is that an accurate statement? So. Perhaps we're just

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missing the obvious here? that a good portion of our

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country, certainly people in their 30s, 20s and 30s and

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younger, but it's always, you know, the kids, the kids,

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the kids. Hey, it's the moms. It's the young dads.

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It's the young people. It's the young... It's the incels.

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Sorry, incels. They're all on these SSRIs. And if all

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day long, all day long, you get messaging from... President

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Barack Obama from everybody on the blue cry. I mean,

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I saw the video of that guy walking around the

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hotel hallways back and forth. These people are, in effect,

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modern MKUltra. It's not that hard. Well, this is a

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new thesis. I like it. I mean, see, and really,

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when you think about it... This stuff has been going

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on since the 50s with these drugs. That really brought

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this home first was a drug called... reserping, which has

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been used to treat people who had hypertension. Now, it

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also became used as a drug to treat people who

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are anxious, a drug to treat kids who are hyperactive,

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a drug to treat people who are depressed, and a

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drug to treat people who have psychosis. But the interesting

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thing was that people being treated with hypertension, of course,

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had no nervous problems at all. And they would say,

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I mean, there are reporters saying when they're in treatment

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in places like the Mayo Clinic, good clinics, they're reported

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as, say, you know, the first few doses I became.

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very agitated. I began having thoughts that were very unusual

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for me. Tostad included things like... like homicide. And it

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was only when I came off the drug that I

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realized it must have been the drug that did this.

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The reason we know about it, and everybody agrees, Recipent

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does these things. It makes you depressed. It makes you

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suicidal. It makes you homicidal. Everybody agrees about that because

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this is a drug that was cheap and generic, and

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no pharmaceutical company had any interest to defend it. But

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when exactly the same things begin to happen on the

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later antipsychotics and the SSRIs we have now, of course,

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the pharmaceutical companies are making billions of dollars out of

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this, and they have every interest to defend the drug

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and tell people, no, heart drug couldn't cause this. So...

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Maybe it never really even was the true MKUltra. Maybe

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the algo is the MKUltra trigger. Maybe I've been looking

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at this in the wrong way. Like, oh, it's got

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to be the CIA doing it. No, it's all around

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us all the time. And Brooks maybe sees it. Capehart,

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he's probably on him. No, it's gun violence. Scourge of

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gun violence. Guns. No, no. The guy had knives just

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in case, as an aside. So there's, there is something

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that the mainstream media. can't report on because they still

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have the drug companies as their largest advertisers. No one's

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going to do any news reports on it. And no

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one, not even the. The big three, you know, the

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CBS, NBC, ABC, they're not going to do it. But

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this seems to me... No, they're beholden. They are completely...

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They're locked in, locked and loaded. Co-opted. Yes. So it's

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no wonder that a guy like this, just add blue

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sky. Oh. They're captured. Yeah, they are captured. I can

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go on. That's good. You got any more? I like

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it. Captured, beholden. captured yeah yeah co-opted co-opted co-opted yes

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co-opted captured We need more Cs. So... Which reminded me,

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I wanted to mention this to you before we did

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the show, which was to dig up Kennedy's... Promise. Oh,

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his three promises? Where he had these four things he

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was going to do. stop the corruption of the... of

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the periodicals, uh, stop TV advertising. Yeah. There was a

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promise. I think it was, was it called promise? It

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was some sort of promise or something. RFK promise. Maybe

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that's what it was. I don't think it was. It's

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probably this label. We'll never find it. No, we'll find

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it. I don't think he's done anything. All he's done

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so far is he talks a lot, talks a big

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game, but he just seems to have just gotten the

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red dye out of food and that's about it. And

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that wasn't even one of his promises. He's turned the

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pyramid upside down. RFK, was it promises? Was it, no,

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it was something else. It was like a to-do list

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for him. Yeah, I'm mad now that I, why can't

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I find this? Jr. Well, one of them was... advertising

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so maybe I can find it that way. Oh, RFK.

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Okay, RFK Jr. Junior Dangerous, was that it? Yes, I

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have them. Ready? Go. Number one. I'm not intimidated by

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the agencies. I know how they work and I know

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how to change them. And most of those changes you

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do not need Congress for. The President of President Trump

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could have done it at power to do it himself

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and President Biden has the power to do it himself.

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And I'll give you an example. With a stroke of

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the pen. You can change back the rule. That allows

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pharmaceutical advertisers to do direct-to-consumer ads on television. That's one

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of the big problems. That's one of the reasons. We

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have this entrenched agency capture not only of Congress because

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they control the airwaves, they control the evening news. 75%

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of the revenues for those evening news shows are, you

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know, Anderson Cooper is coming from Pfizer, another pharmaceutical company,

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and those companies are dictating content on those shows and

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they dictate the... the official narratives and they're able then

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to exercise huge control over Congress. So Congress is terrified

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of them, but with a stroke of the pen. You

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can say this is not good for the health of

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our country, which it isn't. We spend three times more

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than any other country for pharmaceutical drugs because of all

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this advertising. Okay, that was one. Promise number two. Another

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thing that I can do is I can open up

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all the databases. Right now, all the databases that you

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can actually check the efficacy and the safety of vaccines,

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like the vaccine safety database. It's the top. It's all

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the vaccine records and the medical. claims for 10 million

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Americans from the top 10 HMOs. You can look in

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there and overnight you can say, oh, this vaccine is

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associated with diabetes. This one's associated with peanut allergies. This

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one's associated with ASD, neurological ticks or whatever. That database,

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CDC keeps it in a lockbox. like Fort Knox, and

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make sure no scientist is allowed in there. Well, I'll

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open up that database on day one. Day one? Day

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one, I'm still waiting to make my claim about being

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vaccine injured in Tourette's. And then the final, I promise.

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And, you know, I'll also bring all the medical journals.

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the New England Journal of Medicine, the Lancet, JAMA, into

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the Justice Department as soon as I appoint an AG.

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And I'll say to them, you guys are part of

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a racketeering syndicate. You're collaborating with these pharmaceutical industry. lie

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to the American public about the efficacy and safety of

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these products and you're causing enormous harm and we are

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going to sue you both civilly for damages and we're

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going to sue you criminally unless you come up with

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a plan right now as to how you're going to

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stop doing that. So I have a like I have

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a hundred things that I'm going to do immediately. Well,

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um... A hundred, he said. He said a hundred. Didn't

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he just say that right there? He said a hundred.

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A hundred things. He's done one. On the advertising. I

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think he's done more than one. They did indict that

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one dude from the Wuhan lab. We'll see. We'll see.

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We'll see. He's right-hand man. We'll see where that goes.

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He got to the 11th. But on the advertising... The

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damage is done. The only thing, if you take away

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the big pharma advertising, The only thing that might achieve,

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and that's a big might, is that there would be

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reports about SSRIs. I mean, we go back to Shempton.

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Shantix? Enchantix which they couldn't tell you that you know,

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I still believe Anthony Bourdain would be alive today if

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he hadn't taken shantyx You know, that stuff makes you

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crazy. Or made you crazy, or allegedly made you crazy.

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We have tons of reports. People waking up naked. A

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lot of reports from our producers. Waking up naked on

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the neighbor's lawn. I don't know how I got here.

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What the heck? But so the SSRIs, I think that

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is, I mean, even if you stopped advertising, kids have

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breaks in school these days. You know, 12-year-olds. Oh, all

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right, everybody, 10, 15, time for everybody to take your

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meds. Teacher, gotta take my meds. Everyone's gonna take their

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meds. Ah, it's so entrenched. When I was a kid,

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nobody took meds. No, you took meds, you were a

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weenie. What are you? What's wrong with you? What's your

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meds? That is the... That is the basis of the

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problem. But then you just need to add inflammatory language

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and expose everybody to it. And it's not just kids.

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The people taking these drugs are 30. 20s, 30s, 40s,

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50s. Okay, back in the day we had Mom's Little

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Helper. Bye. Which was, what was that mom's, was that

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Prozac? It was a tranquilizer, it's different. Yes. Yeah. The

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SSRIs, admittedly, they don't even really know how they work.

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They just work. Yeah. So. Although I was gonna laugh

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at him. Chuck Todd kinda has the right idea. He's

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such a weenie. Listen to Chuck Todd. You know, Chuck

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00:30:39,753 --> 00:30:42,096
Todd does podcasts now these days. I'm not going to

463
00:30:42,117 --> 00:30:44,080
any more events where Trump's at them. I don't feel

464
00:30:44,121 --> 00:30:47,425
safe. Wherever Donald Trump is. Chaos follows him. Chaos follows

465
00:30:47,465 --> 00:30:50,230
him. And you are less safe, right? If you decide

466
00:30:50,270 --> 00:30:53,194
to go into his orbit, you have become less safe.

467
00:30:53,936 --> 00:30:57,301
He's just, he does not care about your safety. protect

468
00:30:57,343 --> 00:30:59,787
you if you go into his orbit because he's always

469
00:30:59,807 --> 00:31:02,292
going to protect himself first. He's more likely to throw

470
00:31:02,353 --> 00:31:04,758
you under the bus. He's more likely to have you

471
00:31:04,798 --> 00:31:07,442
be the target of Iranian assassins if you're John Bolton

472
00:31:07,603 --> 00:31:10,229
or Mike Pompeo. And he's going to pull any sort

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00:31:10,269 --> 00:31:13,013
of federal support, right? You know, I think about when

474
00:31:13,295 --> 00:31:17,604
somebody using Donald Trump's words and actions targeted me and

475
00:31:17,644 --> 00:31:20,009
a bunch of other members of the press. You know

476
00:31:20,028 --> 00:31:22,994
who I didn't hear from? Donald Trump. Right. So the

477
00:31:23,035 --> 00:31:26,821
guy doesn't care when people commit violence in his name.

478
00:31:27,282 --> 00:31:30,849
He only cares when the violence is committed against him,

479
00:31:31,211 --> 00:31:34,217
and he does not see that he is a contributor

480
00:31:34,297 --> 00:31:36,856
to the atmospherics of the world we're living in right

481
00:31:36,919 --> 00:31:43,882
now. Okay. So anyway, all eyes on the cesspool of

482
00:31:43,961 --> 00:31:47,980
cynicism that is social media, because anyone could fall prey

483
00:31:48,020 --> 00:31:51,637
to this. Anyone. It's not even a political spectrum anymore.

484
00:31:52,099 --> 00:31:54,692
It's just whatever you've been inundated with, whatever has been

485
00:31:54,732 --> 00:31:58,515
injected into you. into your brain. We weren't built for

486
00:31:58,615 --> 00:32:02,269
this. We weren't built for this type of information, this

487
00:32:02,412 --> 00:32:07,586
ingestation. We can't handle it. And especially not if we're

488
00:32:07,666 --> 00:32:09,838
on drugs that no one really knows how they work.

489
00:32:09,919 --> 00:32:13,883
But they might make you homicidal or suicidal. Okay. What

490
00:32:13,923 --> 00:32:18,986
could possibly go wrong? There, now I'm being cynical. Yep,

491
00:32:19,047 --> 00:32:23,012
you are. Yeah. Let's stick with Kennedy. Are we done

492
00:32:23,032 --> 00:32:24,358
with this thesis? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think we are.

493
00:32:24,378 --> 00:32:26,367
Yeah, the thesis is done. Yes, the thesis is over.

494
00:32:26,528 --> 00:32:29,663
But we'll follow it closely. Oh, yes, because there's something

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00:32:29,762 --> 00:32:35,961
up. I'm going to probably take the side that... It

496
00:32:36,044 --> 00:32:41,292
does slant. you politically. The SSRIs by itself slant you

497
00:32:41,333 --> 00:32:46,691
politically? Yeah, I'm going that way. Well, by the same

498
00:32:46,711 --> 00:32:50,104
reasoning, it may want you to chop off your bits.

499
00:32:51,963 --> 00:32:57,589
Ooh. Ooh. Ooh. So here we have-- Kennedy. Yeah, it's

500
00:32:58,035 --> 00:33:01,490
a true story. He did, you know, he's... You know,

501
00:33:01,851 --> 00:33:04,219
again, he's got these promises he's going to do 100

502
00:33:04,259 --> 00:33:07,811
things he's done. Yeah, maybe five. Yeah. But let's, here

503
00:33:07,852 --> 00:33:10,099
he is at a hearing and kind of backing off

504
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:13,702
on some of his thinking. Kenny Jr. hadn't testified on

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00:33:13,742 --> 00:33:17,682
Capitol Hill since September. That changed this past week. He's

506
00:33:17,723 --> 00:33:20,348
just wrapped up seven hearings with several House and Senate

507
00:33:20,368 --> 00:33:23,776
committees. The topic was supposed to be his agency's budget,

508
00:33:23,875 --> 00:33:27,563
but lawmakers asked him questions far beyond that. Today, Kennedy

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00:33:27,643 --> 00:33:32,071
testified before two Senate committees, Finance and HELP, which stands

510
00:33:32,132 --> 00:33:35,920
for Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. NPR's Selena Simmons-Duffins was...

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00:33:35,900 --> 00:33:37,884
watching and is here to give us the highlights. Hey,

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00:33:37,903 --> 00:33:40,750
Selena. Hi, Rob. Okay, so how did the hearings go

513
00:33:40,769 --> 00:33:43,494
today? You know, there were some intense moments, which wasn't

514
00:33:43,535 --> 00:33:46,740
a big surprise because Secretary Kennedy has gone into shouting

515
00:33:46,801 --> 00:33:49,968
matches with lawmakers many times over the last year. I

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00:33:50,608 --> 00:33:54,477
was listening carefully to how Kennedy talked about vaccines. Prior

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00:33:54,517 --> 00:33:57,362
to joining the Trump administration... Of course, he built his

518
00:33:57,423 --> 00:34:00,868
reputation on anti-vaccine activism, but then there has been some

519
00:34:00,910 --> 00:34:03,494
reporting that the White House is worried about his stance

520
00:34:03,575 --> 00:34:07,162
and policy changes on vaccines as a political liability because

521
00:34:07,301 --> 00:34:10,407
his positions are pretty unpopular. Here is an exchange with

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00:34:10,467 --> 00:34:14,436
Democratic Senator Michael Bennett of Colorado about the measles vaccine,

523
00:34:14,797 --> 00:34:18,864
and he references CDC acting director... Are you taking the

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00:34:18,905 --> 00:34:23,534
position as your CDC director has taken that the measles

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00:34:23,594 --> 00:34:29,224
vaccine is vital to keeping American children healthy in this

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00:34:29,264 --> 00:34:32,050
country? Are you taking that position today? That has not

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00:34:32,150 --> 00:34:35,637
been your position. That's my position. We promote the measles

528
00:34:35,757 --> 00:34:39,414
vaccine. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Huh, that's his position. So

529
00:34:39,434 --> 00:34:41,418
is that a new position for Kennedy? You know, the

530
00:34:41,478 --> 00:34:44,081
moment did strike me as a bit of a shift

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00:34:44,242 --> 00:34:47,166
because Kennedy usually says that the measles vaccine is effective

532
00:34:47,365 --> 00:34:49,929
for those who decide to take it, framing it as

533
00:34:49,949 --> 00:34:53,074
a personal decision, which is not really how public health

534
00:34:53,153 --> 00:34:56,119
works. So him agreeing with the statement that the measles

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00:34:56,159 --> 00:34:59,295
vaccine is close. What? vital to keeping American children healthy

536
00:34:59,335 --> 00:35:02,500
in this country was definitely notable. Although I don't want

537
00:35:02,539 --> 00:35:05,463
to overstate it. In most hearings, most of the time,

538
00:35:05,563 --> 00:35:09,148
Kennedy still hedged when he was talking about promoting vaccines.

539
00:35:09,168 --> 00:35:12,474
Wait a minute. I'm misunderstanding how public health works. Apparently

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00:35:12,534 --> 00:35:14,996
public health only works if things are mandated. Yes, if

541
00:35:15,056 --> 00:35:17,019
they tell you what to do. You must do this.

542
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:20,250
or else you cannot make a choice my body myself

543
00:35:20,291 --> 00:35:26,619
forget it Yeah. That's what she said. Yeah. NPR, baby.

544
00:35:26,639 --> 00:35:29,650
Yeah, I caught that, too. Here's part two, which is

545
00:35:29,911 --> 00:35:32,782
kind of interesting. Okay, so we heard a Democratic senator

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00:35:32,802 --> 00:35:35,773
ask him questions. How did Republican senators question Kennedy? They

547
00:35:35,813 --> 00:35:38,322
were, by and large, very friendly. They wanted to talk

548
00:35:38,362 --> 00:35:41,126
about, you know, certain policy issues. There was a lot

549
00:35:41,166 --> 00:35:43,771
of praise. How old is she? Twelve? I'm just trying

550
00:35:43,793 --> 00:35:46,717
to guess by the voice. And agreements to work together.

551
00:35:46,737 --> 00:35:49,063
I was really at the edge of my seat when

552
00:35:49,103 --> 00:35:53,170
Republican Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana questioned Kennedy because there's

553
00:35:53,210 --> 00:35:56,898
been this simmering conflict between the two men. Cassidy is

554
00:35:56,958 --> 00:36:00,913
a physician. He supports vaccines. He made Kennedy promise not

555
00:36:00,932 --> 00:36:03,838
to make big policy changes in exchange for his confirmation

556
00:36:03,878 --> 00:36:08,125
vote. Kennedy has violated those promises, and I was really

557
00:36:08,164 --> 00:36:13,333
expecting Cassidy to challenge Kennedy about those policies. Instead, he

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00:36:13,373 --> 00:36:16,898
expressed concern. I am a doctor who has seen people

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00:36:16,978 --> 00:36:20,610
die from vaccines. preventable diseases. And when I see outbreaks

560
00:36:20,710 --> 00:36:24,001
numbering in the thousands and people dying once more from

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00:36:24,061 --> 00:36:29,896
vaccine preventable diseases, particularly children, it seems more than tragic.

562
00:36:30,016 --> 00:36:33,768
That was very striking for Cassidy to go relatively easy

563
00:36:33,847 --> 00:36:37,157
on Kennedy when it comes to vaccines. Now, Cassidy is

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00:36:37,278 --> 00:36:40,686
facing a... tough primary race in Louisiana, and President Trump

565
00:36:40,726 --> 00:36:43,851
has endorsed a rival in that race. These hearings were

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00:36:43,893 --> 00:36:47,159
ostensibly about the Health and Human Services budget. What did

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00:36:47,179 --> 00:36:49,704
you learn there? Yeah, not a lot. There really weren't

568
00:36:49,744 --> 00:36:51,889
a lot of questions about the budget, even though Kennedy

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00:36:51,909 --> 00:36:55,836
has made some big changes. He's cut 20,000 people from

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00:36:55,876 --> 00:36:59,583
the staff of HHS. He's requesting a budget cut for

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00:36:59,643 --> 00:37:03,231
next year. He's proposed eliminating whole agencies. He was asked

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00:37:03,291 --> 00:37:05,976
a few times about programs that were being zeroed out.

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00:37:06,418 --> 00:37:08,782
One of them is Title 10, which is a federal

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00:37:08,822 --> 00:37:12,010
program that provides free birth control and STI testing to

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00:37:12,070 --> 00:37:15,335
low-income people. And each time he was asked, he would

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00:37:15,396 --> 00:37:18,222
say the national debt is... really high. We have to

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00:37:18,402 --> 00:37:22,389
make cuts somewhere. But there was also strikingly little about

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00:37:22,570 --> 00:37:25,175
his plan to stand up a new agency called the

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00:37:25,235 --> 00:37:29,043
Administration for a Healthy America. He would need Congress's help

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00:37:29,143 --> 00:37:31,608
to do that. And there was really no progress on

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00:37:31,648 --> 00:37:34,213
that front last year. It really doesn't sound like there's

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00:37:34,233 --> 00:37:36,838
going to be a priority for Kennedy for this year

583
00:37:36,898 --> 00:37:39,851
either. Now, did you watch the hearing at all? Did

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00:37:39,871 --> 00:37:41,400
you have a chance to watch any of the other

585
00:37:41,460 --> 00:37:44,072
things that were going on? I watched a little bit

586
00:37:44,112 --> 00:37:45,565
of it, but I didn't get to watch the whole

587
00:37:45,625 --> 00:37:50,108
thing. I mean, is he just a disappointment? No, I

588
00:37:50,168 --> 00:37:55,364
think he's pinned in. by the bureaucracies, by the underlings.

589
00:37:55,465 --> 00:37:58,019
It's just a, it's a night, you know, he doesn't.

590
00:37:59,083 --> 00:38:02,429
From the outside, as a lawyer suing them, you know,

591
00:38:02,530 --> 00:38:06,257
it looks like one kind of animal. But when you're

592
00:38:06,318 --> 00:38:10,144
the animal, it's like a completely different thing, a structure

593
00:38:10,164 --> 00:38:12,909
you're not familiar with. You've never been the head of

594
00:38:12,971 --> 00:38:15,976
an agency. It's all new to you, and you have

595
00:38:16,056 --> 00:38:20,068
no idea how the... how the mech there's a mechanism

596
00:38:20,391 --> 00:38:25,079
in all these agencies that overwhelms you. He can't do

597
00:38:25,179 --> 00:38:28,644
this, he can't do that. When he gets outside and

598
00:38:28,704 --> 00:38:31,929
just starts talking normally to people in these various podcasts

599
00:38:31,949 --> 00:38:34,434
he does, he gets to talk about stuff that he'd

600
00:38:34,494 --> 00:38:36,117
love to do, but you can tell he can't do

601
00:38:36,157 --> 00:38:38,661
it. Here's a clip from him on a pod. talking

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00:38:38,702 --> 00:38:46,693
about the chickenpox vaccine. When CDC was thinking of recommending

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00:38:46,753 --> 00:38:52,135
this chickenpox vaccine as mandatory for children. They did a

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00:38:52,157 --> 00:38:54,887
study and the scientists they hired to do that study

605
00:38:54,927 --> 00:38:58,440
was a scientist called Gary Goldman, a contract scientist. And

606
00:38:58,521 --> 00:39:01,146
he did this study in an isolated place in California

607
00:39:01,186 --> 00:39:05,016
called Antelope Valley, a long-term study. And what they find

608
00:39:05,076 --> 00:39:08,003
is if you give the chickenpox vaccine, mass vaccinate with

609
00:39:08,063 --> 00:39:13,481
chickenpox, it stops chickenpox, but it causes it. Shingles epidemics.

610
00:39:13,900 --> 00:39:18,219
later on. which are 20 times as deadly as chickenpox.

611
00:39:18,387 --> 00:39:22,855
So if you go, so nevertheless, despite those studies, we

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00:39:22,914 --> 00:39:25,619
mandated for American children in this country. In Europe, they

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00:39:25,659 --> 00:39:29,306
don't. If you go to the British National Health Service

614
00:39:29,365 --> 00:39:32,831
website right now, you can read on that where they

615
00:39:32,911 --> 00:39:37,418
say, we do not recommend chickenpox vaccines because it causes

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00:39:37,478 --> 00:39:41,324
shingles. Epidemics later on and that's the problem. You can't

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00:39:41,364 --> 00:39:44,003
just look at you know, you can say that this

618
00:39:44,456 --> 00:39:47,764
product is going to prevent this particular disease. But you

619
00:39:47,804 --> 00:39:53,726
have to look at the long term. Yeah. I mean,

620
00:39:54,070 --> 00:39:56,715
but what is it? I mean, I don't quite understand.

621
00:39:56,735 --> 00:39:59,235
You look at... Trump and Trump doesn't give a crap.

622
00:39:59,592 --> 00:40:02,898
But anything, I'm going to do this. I don't care

623
00:40:02,938 --> 00:40:05,949
if you don't like it. A lot of stuff is

624
00:40:05,989 --> 00:40:09,798
ineffective because the judges shut it down. The system shuts

625
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:13,789
it down. He's in court a lot. That's annoying. The

626
00:40:13,809 --> 00:40:16,898
fact that he's got this Iran war thing as far

627
00:40:16,938 --> 00:40:19,987
as it goes. as it got is pretty amazing. Yeah,

628
00:40:20,007 --> 00:40:22,112
I agree. But Trump is, and Trump's also on his

629
00:40:22,152 --> 00:40:25,161
second go round. His first go round, he was completely

630
00:40:25,240 --> 00:40:28,329
flustered. They had him in, you know, on this Russia

631
00:40:28,389 --> 00:40:31,539
hoax thing, which Obama was behind. Had him on the

632
00:40:31,579 --> 00:40:34,817
hook. You know, he was, he got nowhere. So, and

633
00:40:34,858 --> 00:40:39,867
that was four years of frustration. to impeachments. So Kennedy's

634
00:40:39,927 --> 00:40:42,099
just, you know, stumbled into this thing. He thinks he's

635
00:40:42,119 --> 00:40:46,586
going to, you know, he... discussed earlier how cool it

636
00:40:46,666 --> 00:40:49,416
was that he would get this job and thank God

637
00:40:49,456 --> 00:40:52,303
for his prayers were answered that he could be the

638
00:40:52,364 --> 00:40:55,614
head of this thing and kick some ass. And now

639
00:40:55,673 --> 00:40:57,880
he's in there and he's kicking no ass. as far

640
00:40:57,900 --> 00:41:00,083
as I can tell, and I don't think that he's

641
00:41:00,143 --> 00:41:04,652
ever going to. It would take him at least four

642
00:41:04,711 --> 00:41:09,460
years to untangle the web of deceit. So as we

643
00:41:09,521 --> 00:41:13,246
say in Texas, like stepping in a red anthill, fire

644
00:41:13,347 --> 00:41:16,128
ants. Get in there. That would be bad. Get in.

645
00:41:16,289 --> 00:41:20,163
Oh, man. There was something else that happened around Kennedy's

646
00:41:20,282 --> 00:41:23,670
orbit this week. Here in Washington, President Trump making a

647
00:41:23,731 --> 00:41:27,519
big move, dropping his controversial nominee for surgeon general after

648
00:41:27,579 --> 00:41:30,005
her confirmation got stalled on the Hill because of opposition

649
00:41:30,025 --> 00:41:33,353
from his own party, from Republicans. Here's the president in

650
00:41:33,372 --> 00:41:36,791
the last couple of hours formally signing that withdrawal. After

651
00:41:36,873 --> 00:41:39,675
months of questions about whether the Senate would actually confirm

652
00:41:39,695 --> 00:41:43,260
Dr. Casey Means, she was his previous pick. Lawmakers on

653
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:45,403
both sides of the aisle had criticized her for not

654
00:41:45,443 --> 00:41:48,809
being supportive of enough vaccines, for promoting the use of

655
00:41:48,869 --> 00:41:52,653
psychedelic drugs as therapy, for previously criticizing Americans' use of

656
00:41:52,693 --> 00:41:55,637
birth control, saying it had horrifying health risks, and over

657
00:41:55,677 --> 00:41:59,487
her qualifications generally. So she has now been pulled. The

658
00:41:59,547 --> 00:42:01,896
president and health secretary today are both blaming this guy,

659
00:42:01,916 --> 00:42:06,452
Senator Bill Cassidy, a Republican, for, in their view, sabotaging

660
00:42:06,532 --> 00:42:10,847
means is confirmation. New pick. Here she is, a radiologist

661
00:42:10,907 --> 00:42:13,141
and Fox News contributor. The president says she is a

662
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:15,956
star physician. We should note here this switch up marks

663
00:42:15,976 --> 00:42:19,144
the president's... third Surgeon General nominee. Monica Alba is at

664
00:42:19,164 --> 00:42:22,190
the White House. An interesting sort of, I don't know

665
00:42:22,210 --> 00:42:23,333
if you want to call it a back down, it

666
00:42:23,373 --> 00:42:25,858
feels like an acknowledgement of the reality here, that Casey

667
00:42:25,918 --> 00:42:27,963
Means was stuck in this limbo, and I think it

668
00:42:27,983 --> 00:42:29,967
seems like the President just wants to move on. Fair?

669
00:42:29,987 --> 00:42:32,331
What are you hearing? I think that's absolutely fair, Hallie.

670
00:42:32,351 --> 00:42:35,297
It's been almost a year since he did nominate Casey

671
00:42:35,356 --> 00:42:37,581
Means, and ultimately realized that she just wasn't going to

672
00:42:37,621 --> 00:42:39,465
have the support, wasn't going to be able to get

673
00:42:39,525 --> 00:42:41,889
across the finish line for a Surgeon General, so he

674
00:42:41,929 --> 00:42:44,755
did withdraw her nomination. But you just mentioned all of

675
00:42:44,775 --> 00:42:46,900
the key players here, and we can unpack that a

676
00:42:46,940 --> 00:42:50,427
little bit, because Senator Cassidy had been a crucial vote

677
00:42:50,547 --> 00:42:54,315
in order to confirm HHS Secretary Kennedy, right? Given some

678
00:42:54,335 --> 00:42:56,820
of the promises that at the time, Senator Cassidy had...

679
00:42:56,800 --> 00:43:00,086
said he had received from him on certain policy. And

680
00:43:00,126 --> 00:43:02,831
then you have Casey Means, who is a very close

681
00:43:03,072 --> 00:43:07,641
ally of Secretary Kennedy. And Secretary Kennedy is pretty disappointed

682
00:43:07,681 --> 00:43:11,128
and upset today, writing on X that he believes that

683
00:43:11,148 --> 00:43:15,317
this was basically a large attempt to get someone who

684
00:43:15,496 --> 00:43:20,306
has been, he says, by removing this appointment and technically

685
00:43:20,427 --> 00:43:24,414
and very directly criticizes Senator Cassidy. And he says he

686
00:43:24,596 --> 00:43:27,902
once again did the dirty work for entrenched interests seeking

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00:43:27,981 --> 00:43:31,148
to stall the Maha movement. This is what Secretary Kennedy

688
00:43:31,208 --> 00:43:34,175
is writing about Senator Cassidy and, quote, protect the very

689
00:43:34,215 --> 00:43:37,536
status quo that has made America the sickest nation on

690
00:43:37,699 --> 00:43:42,739
earth. I agree with that. And Cassidy's a bad actor.

691
00:43:42,981 --> 00:43:47,663
He's obviously co-opted by the pharma. And that's what he

692
00:43:47,682 --> 00:43:50,414
did. Yeah, he's a doctor, so he's got creds. And

693
00:43:50,454 --> 00:43:54,490
he's got this comment about, oh, yeah, vaccines have saved

694
00:43:54,530 --> 00:43:58,237
lives. Yeah, in areas where you have, like... yellow fever

695
00:43:58,358 --> 00:44:02,222
and typhus and you have classic vaccines yeah they do

696
00:44:02,282 --> 00:44:05,927
they stop it Yeah. But he's also all in on

697
00:44:06,186 --> 00:44:08,795
mRNA, which is not a vaccine at all. No. And,

698
00:44:08,815 --> 00:44:10,802
you know, the rest of it. It's just like, or,

699
00:44:10,922 --> 00:44:13,510
and the flu shot every year, which, as we know,

700
00:44:13,550 --> 00:44:16,057
because we have the clips, and we have the documentation.

701
00:44:16,077 --> 00:44:18,744
That gives you the flu. gives you the flu so

702
00:44:18,784 --> 00:44:20,849
what you know but he's all in on that too

703
00:44:21,672 --> 00:44:26,483
this is so the corruption is beyond again get pharma

704
00:44:26,744 --> 00:44:31,360
ads off tv So there was a new side effect

705
00:44:31,501 --> 00:44:35,576
of our favorite drug, although is it a drug? You

706
00:44:35,735 --> 00:44:37,429
know, they should call it a vaccine. seen since you

707
00:44:37,490 --> 00:44:43,648
injected GLP-1. I mean, if mRNA is a vaccine, then

708
00:44:43,708 --> 00:44:46,052
why not? It's a fat vaccine. Yeah, a fat vaccine.

709
00:44:46,414 --> 00:44:49,340
So the idea is you take the GLP-1, you inject

710
00:44:49,420 --> 00:44:52,206
it. Some people have resorted to saying, no, no, no,

711
00:44:52,585 --> 00:44:55,844
no, I'm microdosing it. Yeah, that's what it is. Of

712
00:44:55,864 --> 00:44:59,483
course you're microdosing it. It's what I said for 15

713
00:44:59,543 --> 00:45:02,757
years. What? 15? Since I was 15 years old. I'm

714
00:45:02,797 --> 00:45:07,371
just microdosing the weed. I'm okay. Don't worry about me.

715
00:45:08,208 --> 00:45:11,157
So, you know, your butt falls off, your face falls

716
00:45:11,338 --> 00:45:15,594
in. You're doing this to look better by losing weight.

717
00:45:15,813 --> 00:45:20,585
What's that over there? Your muscle fades away. And now...

718
00:45:20,726 --> 00:45:24,152
As GLP-1 drugs help millions of Americans lose weight, more

719
00:45:24,193 --> 00:45:26,577
and more users report dealing with side effects like hair

720
00:45:26,597 --> 00:45:29,844
loss. And that's creating a billion-dollar opportunity for the hair

721
00:45:29,905 --> 00:45:32,630
treatment industry. Oh, it's an opportunity. It's not just a

722
00:45:32,710 --> 00:45:35,956
trend. I will call it an old category reset with

723
00:45:36,438 --> 00:45:39,563
a wide space of... of opportunity for both life science

724
00:45:39,643 --> 00:45:42,731
and beauty brands. I spoke with one GLP-1 user who

725
00:45:42,791 --> 00:45:44,875
experienced hair loss while she was on the weight loss

726
00:45:44,934 --> 00:45:47,300
drug. She said she used to have really thick hair,

727
00:45:47,519 --> 00:45:49,443
but it took a full year before she noticed it

728
00:45:49,483 --> 00:45:52,309
was falling out in clumps. In clumps, I tell you.

729
00:45:52,349 --> 00:45:56,838
In clumps. Wow. So you want to look better by

730
00:45:56,878 --> 00:46:02,945
losing some weight. And the result is. You lose your

731
00:46:03,005 --> 00:46:06,530
libido. You lose your butt, you lose your face, and

732
00:46:06,570 --> 00:46:10,976
you lose your hair. Congratulations, you weigh five pounds. Come

733
00:46:11,099 --> 00:46:18,045
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756
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you are not listeners. You are producers of the best

757
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podcast in the universe. And while you're talking about the

758
00:47:39,128 --> 00:47:44,451
other competition, have you heard the new InfoWars? Well, I

759
00:47:45,072 --> 00:47:47,257
know I have a little bit of inside information, but

760
00:47:47,297 --> 00:47:48,940
why don't you lead us down the path and I'll

761
00:47:49,021 --> 00:47:51,487
fill it in. So the onion, you know, ended up

762
00:47:51,547 --> 00:47:55,416
winning the bid and it was explained by some lawyers

763
00:47:55,496 --> 00:47:58,222
and it makes some sense. Onion wanted to turn it

764
00:47:58,262 --> 00:48:00,786
into a parody site, a parody of what InfoWars was.

765
00:48:00,806 --> 00:48:03,353
Well, here we go, new InfoWars 1. Hi, everybody. It's

766
00:48:03,373 --> 00:48:07,862
Tim Heidecker here. I'm broadcasting now live on the Internet.

767
00:48:07,922 --> 00:48:11,509
Thank you for joining me. We have major, major announcements

768
00:48:11,608 --> 00:48:14,896
to go through here. Lots going on. Lot of turmoil

769
00:48:14,916 --> 00:48:18,141
the past couple days on our road. To total victory,

770
00:48:18,181 --> 00:48:21,889
we have just won a major battle, folks. Okay, Alex

771
00:48:21,989 --> 00:48:25,536
and his gang of liars and scoundrels have been cast

772
00:48:25,657 --> 00:48:30,907
out into the street. They have lost InfoWars, InfoWars.com, and

773
00:48:30,967 --> 00:48:35,536
their various platforms now. They have been cast out, ladies

774
00:48:35,556 --> 00:48:39,925
and gentlemen. And make no mistake. we will be the

775
00:48:39,985 --> 00:48:43,010
new InfoWars. Now, we've got to go through the machinations

776
00:48:43,090 --> 00:48:45,916
of the court, and we've had some setbacks over the

777
00:48:45,956 --> 00:48:48,402
past couple of days, but that is not stopping us.

778
00:48:48,483 --> 00:48:52,451
It is not tempering our resolve. You know, as a

779
00:48:52,570 --> 00:48:55,818
fake Alex Jones, that's actually not bad. It's not bad,

780
00:48:55,858 --> 00:48:58,074
but then here's where I... Here's where I drew the

781
00:48:58,134 --> 00:49:01,679
line. The fake Alex Jones brings in a fake Donald

782
00:49:01,739 --> 00:49:06,405
Trump. And this is just just to preface it. The

783
00:49:06,565 --> 00:49:08,648
word I mean, there is a million people that can

784
00:49:08,688 --> 00:49:12,594
do Trump. Why they got this guy. This is the

785
00:49:12,693 --> 00:49:17,364
worst of the worst. Lots going on here. Do we

786
00:49:17,425 --> 00:49:22,134
have anybody on the line? There's... I want to say,

787
00:49:22,155 --> 00:49:27,242
Tim, hello. This is the President of the United States

788
00:49:27,302 --> 00:49:30,268
of America. Ladies and gentlemen, we have the President of

789
00:49:30,288 --> 00:49:33,373
the United States, Donald J. Trump, a man that I

790
00:49:33,733 --> 00:49:37,701
have recently been feuding with over some of his... policy

791
00:49:37,740 --> 00:49:40,465
decisions, but a man that I believe is a good

792
00:49:40,507 --> 00:49:44,594
man and he's going to find his way through all

793
00:49:44,675 --> 00:49:46,498
this. But sir, it is a pleasure to have you

794
00:49:46,577 --> 00:49:51,789
on here. Thank you. We're going to have our disagreement.

795
00:49:51,809 --> 00:49:55,155
We're going to have our fights, but we love each

796
00:49:55,275 --> 00:50:01,304
other. And when we love... Love can conquer all. Okay.

797
00:50:02,268 --> 00:50:04,793
Now, is this recent? This is old, isn't it? This

798
00:50:04,813 --> 00:50:07,483
has got to be old. No, it's just they're using

799
00:50:07,523 --> 00:50:15,538
the Infowars website. They're doing this now? Yeah. That's what

800
00:50:15,599 --> 00:50:18,503
I said, especially the Trump. That was the end. I

801
00:50:18,543 --> 00:50:21,090
cut it off. I'm not going to be listening to

802
00:50:21,112 --> 00:50:26,447
the great parodies. So Alex Jones signed off the InfoWars.

803
00:50:26,996 --> 00:50:31,445
on Friday at 12 o'clock. Everybody who's been working on

804
00:50:31,485 --> 00:50:33,498
the show is in the studio. I didn't clip it.

805
00:50:33,759 --> 00:50:36,576
They were like, toasting. This is it, the end of

806
00:50:36,615 --> 00:50:39,442
an era. And they said goodbye to InfoWars. And so

807
00:50:39,864 --> 00:50:43,581
I immediately texted Sir Ducifer. I'm like, dude, what's going

808
00:50:43,722 --> 00:50:48,373
on? He says, oh, no, AlexJonesLive.com. Just, we need to

809
00:50:48,413 --> 00:50:51,704
get rid of all the baggage of InfoWars. The name,

810
00:50:51,764 --> 00:50:55,409
the trademark, the domain name. So now it's just alexjoneslive.com.

811
00:50:55,429 --> 00:51:01,387
It's the same guy, same thing. Same deal. Same products.

812
00:51:01,407 --> 00:51:06,018
Same dynamite products. But I'm sure, which has always been

813
00:51:06,079 --> 00:51:10,309
an interesting business model, I thought. Well, according to the

814
00:51:10,409 --> 00:51:12,449
lawyers that were doing an analysis, I don't have any

815
00:51:12,550 --> 00:51:17,420
clips from that. Uh... Jones was doing 36 million in...

816
00:51:17,427 --> 00:51:21,045
pill sales. Yeah, that wouldn't surprise me. Yeah. Wouldn't surprise

817
00:51:21,085 --> 00:51:25,335
me. Uh, okay. He also had a bunch of weird

818
00:51:25,396 --> 00:51:32,496
domain names. He was squatting on, uh... Probably, uh... 5

819
00:51:32,516 --> 00:51:35,987
000 names including because i looked at the lists that

820
00:51:36,007 --> 00:51:40,565
were going through them yeah Joe Rogan exposed dot com.

821
00:51:40,947 --> 00:51:44,389
Hey, I've got a lot of winners, too. But, you

822
00:51:44,429 --> 00:51:47,355
know, I was going through my domains because I have

823
00:51:47,396 --> 00:51:51,159
to pare down. Because I have just too many. And

824
00:51:51,545 --> 00:51:54,791
some of them, if you get like a... You know,

825
00:51:54,813 --> 00:51:58,574
different dot somethings. Like, Dotto. You don't want a .fm.

826
00:51:58,838 --> 00:52:02,791
.fm is 150 bucks a year. No, it's too much.

827
00:52:02,851 --> 00:52:06,751
It's way too much. When I registered MTV.com, I emailed

828
00:52:06,791 --> 00:52:11,195
the dude. In charge of the internec. I said, hey,

829
00:52:11,476 --> 00:52:13,826
can I have MTV.com? Sure. Do you want anything else?

830
00:52:13,846 --> 00:52:18,275
Yeah, curry.com, elvis.com. Okay, you got them. It's good. No

831
00:52:18,376 --> 00:52:23,514
charge. Nothing. Back in the day. It was good times

832
00:52:23,596 --> 00:52:29,985
back in the internet days. That's when art.com Yeah. Sold

833
00:52:30,608 --> 00:52:33,561
for a million dollars. Yeah. I still have diaries. You

834
00:52:33,581 --> 00:52:36,954
know, I have Infowars.nl. You know, your diaries thing seems

835
00:52:36,994 --> 00:52:40,117
to me to be... It's unsellable. I don't get it.

836
00:52:40,358 --> 00:52:42,655
Well, on the last show, I said I'd give you

837
00:52:42,675 --> 00:52:46,347
$200,000 if you got me a million. I'm working on

838
00:52:46,389 --> 00:52:48,280
it. I'm going to agent this thing for you. And

839
00:52:48,300 --> 00:52:50,112
then we're going to get a NetJets. We're going to

840
00:52:50,152 --> 00:52:52,873
the Bahamas, baby. I'm gonna blow it all in one

841
00:52:52,914 --> 00:52:59,556
go. You deserve it. I have Infowars.com. NL for some

842
00:52:59,719 --> 00:53:04,802
odd reason. I don't know why. I would get rid

843
00:53:04,842 --> 00:53:10,179
of that. No kidding. No kidding. I have a couple

844
00:53:10,219 --> 00:53:12,367
of clips. I'm sorry. Did you want to do something

845
00:53:12,467 --> 00:53:14,253
else? Yeah, I was going to do one more screwball

846
00:53:14,333 --> 00:53:18,505
clip. Yeah, sure. So Tucker... It was front page of

847
00:53:18,545 --> 00:53:23,340
New York Times. He was interviewed by this reporter who

848
00:53:23,481 --> 00:53:26,425
actually turns out to be quite good at doing follow-up

849
00:53:26,525 --> 00:53:30,092
questions with Tucker. Oh, like an actual reporter, an interviewer,

850
00:53:30,132 --> 00:53:33,978
someone who's doing something? She was pretty good. She nailed

851
00:53:34,059 --> 00:53:38,523
this guy. I have two clips from it. Now there's

852
00:53:38,646 --> 00:53:40,862
one that says... Antichrist. And what's the other one? I

853
00:53:40,902 --> 00:53:46,293
don't have it on this list. Kidnapper, Utah. Transgeneer. Kidnapper.

854
00:53:47,016 --> 00:53:51,304
Transgeneer. No, no. It says Tucker. No, it says. Oh,

855
00:53:51,425 --> 00:53:54,911
hold on a second. Oh, no. I have. No, I

856
00:53:54,931 --> 00:53:59,827
only have. Oh, Tucker on J.D. Vance. Yes. Yeah. Dick.

857
00:53:59,847 --> 00:54:04,327
Got it. Play that. JD has been subject to, this

858
00:54:04,387 --> 00:54:07,300
is well known, but I'll just confirm it. Hold on,

859
00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:11,146
stop it right there. He starts off about J.D. Vance

860
00:54:11,668 --> 00:54:15,467
being, you know, they're out to get him. He says,

861
00:54:15,487 --> 00:54:18,824
it's well known, but I'll confirm it. Well, he always

862
00:54:18,864 --> 00:54:22,039
has facts. He's confirming what? He has facts. He has

863
00:54:22,059 --> 00:54:26,079
inside information. So this woman does not put up with

864
00:54:26,141 --> 00:54:30,693
this. So let's start it over and note that he's

865
00:54:30,753 --> 00:54:34,005
trying to buffalo this poor girl and she's not buying

866
00:54:34,065 --> 00:54:36,514
a word of it. She sees him as a phony.

867
00:54:36,596 --> 00:54:38,362
Who is this girl? What is her name? I don't

868
00:54:38,402 --> 00:54:40,588
have Renee in my hand. We got to keep an

869
00:54:40,730 --> 00:54:43,137
eye on her. If she's good, she's good. JD has

870
00:54:43,237 --> 00:54:46,909
been subject to, this is well known, but I'll just

871
00:54:46,929 --> 00:54:53,072
confirm it, nonstop, treachery from people on the neoconservative side.

872
00:54:53,092 --> 00:54:55,927
Who are these people? Around Marco Rubio. And they have

873
00:54:55,967 --> 00:54:59,509
been totally against JD Vance from the very beginning. Who

874
00:54:59,528 --> 00:55:02,193
do you mean specifically? You know, I don't know is

875
00:55:02,454 --> 00:55:05,077
the real answer. I don't know. You're accusing people of

876
00:55:05,137 --> 00:55:06,860
treachery, so I'm wondering. Well, I know there's been a

877
00:55:06,940 --> 00:55:09,065
lot of treachery, for sure, and I know they were

878
00:55:09,224 --> 00:55:13,050
so mad about J.D. getting that job. They? Who's they?

879
00:55:13,070 --> 00:55:16,376
Within the White House? I don't, you know, I don't

880
00:55:16,476 --> 00:55:18,840
know the answer to that. I've never worked... So like

881
00:55:18,862 --> 00:55:20,947
if you don't work there you can say you you

882
00:55:20,967 --> 00:55:22,413
know you can say what you think you know But

883
00:55:22,514 --> 00:55:25,021
it's hard to really know. This is me looking skeptical.

884
00:55:25,202 --> 00:55:26,887
Yeah, well no I just mean being honest like I

885
00:55:26,947 --> 00:55:29,617
don't really know you know okay that this is a

886
00:55:29,677 --> 00:55:33,793
very good clip And the reason why is this is

887
00:55:34,076 --> 00:55:38,155
how... My cousin, Lucy, loved her dearly when she was

888
00:55:38,175 --> 00:55:41,177
a little girl. She was married to Christopher Buckley. which

889
00:55:41,277 --> 00:55:45,286
is the son of William F. Buckley Jr., etc., etc.

890
00:55:45,688 --> 00:55:47,431
Oh, they're not married anymore? I thought they still were.

891
00:55:47,612 --> 00:55:51,362
Oh, no. They got divorced a long time ago. She

892
00:55:51,722 --> 00:55:56,514
had the house in Georgetown. She had the 66 Corvette.

893
00:55:56,534 --> 00:56:01,795
I mean, everything. Perfect. Perfect DC family. And this is

894
00:56:01,896 --> 00:56:06,286
how the Beltway talks. The way Tucker talks. And he's

895
00:56:06,327 --> 00:56:08,599
been there most of his life as well as Buckley,

896
00:56:09,101 --> 00:56:13,688
his brother, the Carlson kids. And this is how you

897
00:56:13,728 --> 00:56:16,454
talk at a dinner party. You know, and you just

898
00:56:16,516 --> 00:56:18,295
say these things and you throw out there, you know,

899
00:56:18,315 --> 00:56:19,911
there's a lot of no. knows this and I'll confirm

900
00:56:19,931 --> 00:56:22,860
it. And, you know, there's a lot of these people

901
00:56:22,880 --> 00:56:24,525
and it's a fact, you know, it's just a fact.

902
00:56:25,007 --> 00:56:27,876
And no one in those circles will question it like

903
00:56:27,916 --> 00:56:31,597
this woman is. And so he's so used to just

904
00:56:31,657 --> 00:56:34,907
throwing that out there because someone told him, someone within

905
00:56:34,947 --> 00:56:38,719
the Beltway crowd who he trusts. And that's not, you

906
00:56:38,739 --> 00:56:42,465
know, that's. I understand that. You know, someone's connected to

907
00:56:42,525 --> 00:56:44,615
someone else. Oh, I must know what they're talking about.

908
00:56:45,219 --> 00:56:50,438
So he's being called out on his milieu. It's me,

909
00:56:50,500 --> 00:56:53,471
yeah. Well, she did a good job there. So in

910
00:56:53,552 --> 00:56:57,228
the next clip, he comes up with she and she's

911
00:56:57,289 --> 00:56:59,719
a reporter for The New York Times. And so she.

912
00:56:59,791 --> 00:57:05,958
reads it, she reads. A quote from him. that is

913
00:57:06,661 --> 00:57:09,858
written down word for word for word, and he denies

914
00:57:09,998 --> 00:57:12,793
saying it. And so in the middle of this next

915
00:57:12,853 --> 00:57:14,940
clip, I could have divvied this up a little differently,

916
00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:16,206
but right in the middle of the clip, you'll hear

917
00:57:16,226 --> 00:57:22,331
a slight different intonation, and that's Tucker. saying the quote

918
00:57:22,911 --> 00:57:25,500
From a, you know, from some, some, they bring in

919
00:57:25,519 --> 00:57:28,188
a clip on his podcast. Yeah. They bring in a

920
00:57:28,208 --> 00:57:30,335
clip of him and then they go back to Tucker

921
00:57:30,675 --> 00:57:34,728
still denying it. This is fascinating. What I was saying,

922
00:57:34,929 --> 00:57:39,849
which is you cannot mock. other people's gods. and put

923
00:57:39,869 --> 00:57:42,630
yourself in their place. period. That is a deal killer

924
00:57:42,670 --> 00:57:44,532
for me. That's worse than the war with Iran, in

925
00:57:44,592 --> 00:57:47,237
my opinion. Yeah. But I ask because, you know, you've

926
00:57:47,257 --> 00:57:49,221
been talking on your show about whether Trump is the

927
00:57:49,300 --> 00:57:52,525
Antichrist. I have not said that. On your show, the

928
00:57:52,565 --> 00:57:55,090
day after Easter, you noted he did not put his

929
00:57:55,130 --> 00:57:57,934
hand on the Bible during his swearing-in ceremony as president.

930
00:57:58,394 --> 00:58:00,518
You said, and I'm quoting, maybe he didn't put his

931
00:58:00,559 --> 00:58:02,744
hand on the Bible because because he affirmatively rejects what's

932
00:58:02,784 --> 00:58:05,510
inside that book. And then on a recent show, you

933
00:58:05,570 --> 00:58:07,956
went further saying, here's a leader who's mocking the gods

934
00:58:07,996 --> 00:58:10,643
of his ancestors, mocking the god of gods and exalting

935
00:58:10,704 --> 00:58:15,355
himself above them. Could this be the Antichrist? I actually

936
00:58:15,396 --> 00:58:17,704
did not say, could this be the Antichrist? Here's a

937
00:58:17,786 --> 00:58:22,134
leader who's mocking the gods of his ancestors. mocking the

938
00:58:22,175 --> 00:58:26,668
God of gods. and exalting himself above them. Could this

939
00:58:26,768 --> 00:58:32,235
be the Antichrist? Who knows? I don't know where that

940
00:58:32,275 --> 00:58:34,315
comes from, but I know that those words never left

941
00:58:34,376 --> 00:58:37,199
my lips because... I'm not sure I fully understand what

942
00:58:37,219 --> 00:58:40,356
the Antichrist is, if there's just one. I actually tried

943
00:58:40,396 --> 00:58:43,871
to understand it. I may have said some are asking

944
00:58:43,911 --> 00:58:46,478
that I'm not. weighing in on that because I don't

945
00:58:46,518 --> 00:58:53,394
understand it. Wow. Interesting. So they have the exact quote

946
00:58:53,434 --> 00:58:56,619
that she reads. And he denies it and says, those

947
00:58:56,699 --> 00:58:58,668
words never left my lips. And then they have, of

948
00:58:58,807 --> 00:59:02,570
course, they have the actual him actually saying it. This

949
00:59:02,650 --> 00:59:06,545
is, to me, an indictment of what a phony this

950
00:59:06,567 --> 00:59:09,659
guy really must be. Well, again, what you hear him

951
00:59:09,760 --> 00:59:12,913
say is. I don't really know what the Antichrist is.

952
00:59:12,954 --> 00:59:15,722
And then he goes on with that bull crap. Yeah,

953
00:59:15,742 --> 00:59:18,431
because he says these things with such authority, and then

954
00:59:18,451 --> 00:59:20,416
when he's called on it, he says, well, I don't

955
00:59:20,436 --> 00:59:22,509
really know what the Antichrist is. is and if there's

956
00:59:22,528 --> 00:59:27,161
just one or many of them and revelation and you

957
00:59:27,204 --> 00:59:33,405
know, Personally, I find his, uh... His so-called knowledge of

958
00:59:33,445 --> 00:59:37,742
scripture, extremely annoying because he does that all the time.

959
00:59:37,862 --> 00:59:42,119
Well, the Bible says, I'm a Christian, I'm a Christian.

960
00:59:42,288 --> 00:59:45,940
It's how we do it. So, but on the other

961
00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:49,364
hand, I know that people have accused me of saying

962
00:59:49,405 --> 00:59:52,246
things like, I didn't say that. And then I go

963
00:59:52,286 --> 00:59:54,586
back and listen like, oh, crap, I did kind of

964
00:59:54,626 --> 01:00:00,733
say that. Yeah, but that's different than a reporter confronting

965
01:00:00,775 --> 01:00:04,009
you with an exact... quote. And she says it was

966
01:00:04,130 --> 01:00:08,226
quoted. I'm quoting you. And they read the quote. At

967
01:00:08,288 --> 01:00:12,172
that point, would you deny it? No, I'd be like,

968
01:00:12,333 --> 01:00:15,630
what? I said that? I must have been high. I'd

969
01:00:15,690 --> 01:00:18,322
do something different than what Tucker did. It never left

970
01:00:18,362 --> 01:00:21,760
my lips. Now, it's possible. that he was possessed and

971
01:00:21,800 --> 01:00:24,483
it wasn't his lips that the words left from. Yeah,

972
01:00:24,503 --> 01:00:27,568
it was the demon, that damn demon that scratched him

973
01:00:27,648 --> 01:00:33,257
up. The enemy. That's where I'd go with it. Well,

974
01:00:33,277 --> 01:00:36,382
okay, if he does that, then I'll be backing off.

975
01:00:36,463 --> 01:00:41,556
I'd give him a pass for that. All right. Over

976
01:00:41,576 --> 01:00:44,853
to you. General Patton on the down low. I've changed

977
01:00:44,893 --> 01:00:48,168
it. I kept hearing myself say gay General Patton. I

978
01:00:48,188 --> 01:00:50,197
didn't like it that much. I like General Patton on

979
01:00:50,217 --> 01:00:54,742
the down low. Our treasure secretary, Scott Besant. And he

980
01:00:54,782 --> 01:00:57,777
had this, he was on Kudlow's show, which is pretty

981
01:00:57,838 --> 01:01:01,657
insufferable usually. Oh, Kudlow. Kudlow always seems to be in

982
01:01:01,697 --> 01:01:06,018
the bag. He's in the bag for everything. He's almost

983
01:01:06,099 --> 01:01:10,864
like a Kramer. He's just a Fox version of Kramer.

984
01:01:11,443 --> 01:01:14,728
I like this because we got a little bit more

985
01:01:14,769 --> 01:01:18,632
of a timeline from Besant. And I have a couple

986
01:01:18,672 --> 01:01:22,036
clips here, three clips. It was he was on for

987
01:01:22,056 --> 01:01:24,295
a half an hour it was really good when it

988
01:01:24,356 --> 01:01:31,672
comes to the coordination of Operation Epic Fury and Operation

989
01:01:31,873 --> 01:01:36,846
Economic Fury. All right, Operation Economic Fury is helping to

990
01:01:36,905 --> 01:01:39,672
win the war. Coming from the Treasury Department, we welcome

991
01:01:39,713 --> 01:01:43,581
back Treasury Secretary Mr. Scott Besson. Secretary, thank you for

992
01:01:43,621 --> 01:01:46,387
this. I know you're a very busy chap, but you

993
01:01:46,427 --> 01:01:49,954
know, your economic fury is doing a lot and it's

994
01:01:50,034 --> 01:01:54,824
sort of offshore bank accounts and shipping issues. And I

995
01:01:54,884 --> 01:01:58,791
love this, the teapot refiners off the coast of China.

996
01:01:59,251 --> 01:02:01,175
And just tell us a little more about this, because

997
01:02:01,235 --> 01:02:04,155
I think this is going to be very. powerful stuff

998
01:02:04,458 --> 01:02:08,514
and is already having an impact. Larry, good to be

999
01:02:08,574 --> 01:02:12,380
with you. And to be clear, the president gave the

1000
01:02:12,501 --> 01:02:16,608
operation, gave the order for max pressure campaign more than

1001
01:02:16,688 --> 01:02:19,534
a year ago. He gave it to me and Treasury

1002
01:02:19,974 --> 01:02:24,061
last March. It was that pressure that. brought the Iranian

1003
01:02:24,121 --> 01:02:28,269
economy to a standstill in December that led to the

1004
01:02:30,034 --> 01:02:33,780
protest. The largest bank in Iran collapsed. The central bank

1005
01:02:33,822 --> 01:02:38,391
had to monetize the debt and that created massive inflation.

1006
01:02:38,451 --> 01:02:42,679
Their currency is down about 60 or 70 percent versus

1007
01:02:42,739 --> 01:02:45,331
the U.S. So they're in the middle of a currency

1008
01:02:45,411 --> 01:02:49,677
crisis. And what we're doing now is, you know, we've

1009
01:02:49,719 --> 01:02:52,322
been in a long race and we are sprinting for

1010
01:02:52,362 --> 01:02:55,206
the finish line. President Trump told me three weeks ago

1011
01:02:55,226 --> 01:03:00,335
to up the pressure again. And we have gone to

1012
01:03:00,356 --> 01:03:06,760
the buyers of... Iranian oil and told them that we

1013
01:03:06,980 --> 01:03:10,809
are going, we are willing to do secondary sanctions. What

1014
01:03:10,829 --> 01:03:13,556
you don't hear General Patton on the down low say

1015
01:03:13,576 --> 01:03:16,222
is, PB Netanyahu called me and said, hey, I got

1016
01:03:16,282 --> 01:03:21,387
a plan. No, this was well thought out. And they

1017
01:03:21,755 --> 01:03:26,635
even... thought out and I guess war game the whole

1018
01:03:27,248 --> 01:03:30,601
Riots. Like, this will get people to the streets when

1019
01:03:30,643 --> 01:03:33,112
their money's not worth anything and they can't buy anything.

1020
01:03:33,213 --> 01:03:37,168
That was over a year ago. Now, this second clip

1021
01:03:37,208 --> 01:03:41,920
here is a little disappointing because they talk about crypto.

1022
01:03:41,960 --> 01:03:44,927
And it's very unclear whether is it Bitcoin? Is it

1023
01:03:45,106 --> 01:03:50,338
Ethereum? Is it stable coin? I'm pretty sure it's mainly

1024
01:03:50,420 --> 01:03:53,626
stable coin, which also shows you how they will be

1025
01:03:53,686 --> 01:03:56,132
willing to use stable coin in the future. But it

1026
01:03:56,193 --> 01:04:00,101
all falls under the heading of crypto. Seizing assets, are

1027
01:04:00,141 --> 01:04:04,525
you not? I... That's right, Larry. We were able to

1028
01:04:05,586 --> 01:04:11,338
grab about 350 million crypto assets and then on top

1029
01:04:11,378 --> 01:04:14,485
of another 100 that we had recently gotten. So we're

1030
01:04:14,505 --> 01:04:19,215
almost at half a billion there. And we are freezing

1031
01:04:19,295 --> 01:04:23,655
bank accounts everywhere. More importantly, we are making people less

1032
01:04:23,795 --> 01:04:27,186
willing to deal with the regime. And then so it's

1033
01:04:27,246 --> 01:04:32,463
the economic fury along with the blockade, because now the...

1034
01:04:32,820 --> 01:04:36,697
The port at Karg Island is at a virtual standstill

1035
01:04:36,737 --> 01:04:42,492
in terms of loadings. We think that the Iranian... Storage

1036
01:04:42,532 --> 01:04:47,362
will be full soon. They'll have to start. capping in

1037
01:04:47,402 --> 01:04:51,672
their wells, which will lead to permanent problems. And, you

1038
01:04:51,954 --> 01:04:55,003
know, again, the regime won't be able to pay their

1039
01:04:55,083 --> 01:04:58,813
soldiers. And equally important, Larry, is they won't be able

1040
01:04:58,893 --> 01:05:03,364
to fund their proxies, whether it's Hezbollah. Hamas around the

1041
01:05:03,423 --> 01:05:07,452
world because one of President Trump's goals in this was

1042
01:05:07,552 --> 01:05:12,101
to stop Iran's ability to project terrorist power around the

1043
01:05:12,141 --> 01:05:16,128
world. Iran was the largest sponsor of state terrorism around

1044
01:05:16,170 --> 01:05:19,737
the world. They've been killing Americans for the past 47

1045
01:05:19,856 --> 01:05:23,757
years and that's... coming to a stop now. All right.

1046
01:05:23,777 --> 01:05:28,829
So, okay. Crypto. But this final clip, this, I think,

1047
01:05:28,869 --> 01:05:31,576
shows the genius of what Besant was doing. And remember,

1048
01:05:31,615 --> 01:05:34,081
this guy worked for Soros. He knows how the system

1049
01:05:34,141 --> 01:05:38,192
works. He knows how the money flows. He understands finance.

1050
01:05:38,547 --> 01:05:43,202
FNAF. And this is how they decided. to break up

1051
01:05:43,362 --> 01:06:06,608
OPEC. A couple million barrels more per day from maybe

1052
01:06:06,648 --> 01:06:08,452
two, two and a half million to as much as

1053
01:06:08,532 --> 01:06:11,659
five million. The UAE has chosen to side with the

1054
01:06:11,759 --> 01:06:15,465
United States in the dollar block. I think that's most

1055
01:06:15,527 --> 01:06:19,094
significant. Whatever you did, whatever you have up your sleeve,

1056
01:06:19,153 --> 01:06:23,548
Mr. Besson, I think is a pretty clever play. Look,

1057
01:06:23,568 --> 01:06:29,398
the UAE and several other Gulf countries and some of

1058
01:06:29,559 --> 01:06:32,905
our Asian allies have requested swap lines. And to be

1059
01:06:32,965 --> 01:06:37,492
clear, Larry, that a swap line is not a bailout.

1060
01:06:37,913 --> 01:06:42,047
It is just a swap for U.S. dollars for... the

1061
01:06:42,108 --> 01:06:45,313
local currency at a fixed price. It is either done

1062
01:06:45,614 --> 01:06:49,780
from the Fed or Treasury to the central bank. It

1063
01:06:49,840 --> 01:06:54,128
is the ironclad credit. These are some of the most

1064
01:06:54,309 --> 01:06:56,992
liquid countries in the world. And they just asked for

1065
01:06:57,032 --> 01:07:02,634
the swap line as another layer of... prevention and safety.

1066
01:07:03,074 --> 01:07:07,922
So we are happy to support our allies during this

1067
01:07:08,021 --> 01:07:13,269
time. And this is when during a conflict, we stand

1068
01:07:13,349 --> 01:07:17,635
by them and we show our support both militarily and

1069
01:07:17,817 --> 01:07:22,628
economically. And they. The UAE has made the decision to

1070
01:07:22,748 --> 01:07:25,373
get out of OPEC, which is why I'm confident that

1071
01:07:25,452 --> 01:07:27,577
once we get on the other side of this conflict,

1072
01:07:28,038 --> 01:07:32,226
that we will see oil prices and gasoline prices lower

1073
01:07:32,286 --> 01:07:35,371
than they were when the conflict began. And if you

1074
01:07:35,391 --> 01:07:38,255
look at the forward crude market, it's telling you the

1075
01:07:38,297 --> 01:07:41,322
same thing. I mean, they're basically... I've chosen free markets

1076
01:07:41,663 --> 01:07:45,289
over price controls. And my guess, I don't know, Venezuela,

1077
01:07:45,650 --> 01:07:49,699
Ecuador, Nigeria, they may follow suit. The Abraham Accords may

1078
01:07:49,739 --> 01:07:52,885
go a lot lower. The dollar system, you've always been

1079
01:07:52,925 --> 01:07:55,391
a strong dollar guy. That's why I think this is

1080
01:07:55,451 --> 01:07:58,076
a great move. I'm not sure people understand just how

1081
01:07:58,115 --> 01:08:02,014
important this UAE thing is. But I wanted to highlight

1082
01:08:02,036 --> 01:08:05,106
it later. I agree with Kudlow. I think this is

1083
01:08:05,146 --> 01:08:08,025
a great move. And you watch, you watch ships going

1084
01:08:08,105 --> 01:08:11,996
straight to UAE. They're all in the dollar system. Stay

1085
01:08:12,016 --> 01:08:14,744
in the dollars. You don't want that staple coin. Yeah.

1086
01:08:15,085 --> 01:08:17,832
That's why the swap line. Those clips kind of, since

1087
01:08:17,851 --> 01:08:20,899
they talk about Iranian oil going to China. I have

1088
01:08:20,960 --> 01:08:25,082
a China clip on this. I think this is an

1089
01:08:25,243 --> 01:08:28,931
odd clip because they're warning the Chinese public. I don't

1090
01:08:28,952 --> 01:08:31,016
know what the public's got to do with this, but

1091
01:08:31,057 --> 01:08:35,588
play the China using Iran oil clip. China is instructing

1092
01:08:35,649 --> 01:08:38,536
its citizens not to comply with new U.S. sanctions on

1093
01:08:38,617 --> 01:08:42,350
Chinese oil refiners. After the U.S. said the five oil

1094
01:08:42,411 --> 01:08:47,559
refiners were buying Iranian oil, NPR's Emily Fang reports. China's

1095
01:08:47,640 --> 01:08:50,423
Commerce Ministry said for the sake of national security, the

1096
01:08:50,524 --> 01:08:53,748
U.S. sanctions would not be enforced. Before the war, most

1097
01:08:53,788 --> 01:08:57,054
of Iran's oil ended up at small private refineries in

1098
01:08:57,154 --> 01:09:00,619
China, ferried there by a so-called shadow fleet of ships.

1099
01:09:00,851 --> 01:09:03,975
which the U.S. has also begun sanctioning. And that oil

1100
01:09:04,037 --> 01:09:07,822
trade, the U.S. says, provided Iran's regime with much-needed cash.

1101
01:09:08,582 --> 01:09:11,927
U.S. sanctions means those oil refineries in China will not

1102
01:09:11,988 --> 01:09:14,270
be able to use the U.S. dollar to do business

1103
01:09:14,371 --> 01:09:18,096
or buy international insurance or dock at Western ports. But

1104
01:09:18,277 --> 01:09:21,301
China settles most of its purchases with Iran. in Chinese

1105
01:09:21,443 --> 01:09:25,073
Renminbi. And today's announcement that it will not recognize these

1106
01:09:25,134 --> 01:09:28,645
American sanctions is a clear signal to ships carrying Iranian

1107
01:09:28,744 --> 01:09:32,155
oil that the Chinese refiners would still be happy to

1108
01:09:32,216 --> 01:09:36,771
receive their cargo. Emily Fang, NPR News. Hmm. I mean,

1109
01:09:36,851 --> 01:09:40,470
if Iran is receiving Remden B, What are they going

1110
01:09:40,491 --> 01:09:44,085
to do with it? What are you going to buy

1111
01:09:44,145 --> 01:09:47,813
with that? I mean, if you want some food. Buy

1112
01:09:47,893 --> 01:09:55,210
Chinese missiles. Okay. Yeah, that's about it. Why even bother

1113
01:09:55,251 --> 01:09:57,536
with the money part? Just ship some missiles over. Oh,

1114
01:09:57,596 --> 01:10:03,664
because that's not that easy. Nah. Nah, the Shadow Fleet

1115
01:10:03,745 --> 01:10:08,176
is real. That's for sure. You ever look at a

1116
01:10:08,216 --> 01:10:10,320
world map of all the oil tankers in the ocean

1117
01:10:10,440 --> 01:10:13,125
at one time? Yeah, there's hundreds and hundreds. It's like

1118
01:10:13,166 --> 01:10:15,490
millions. I don't know about millions, but there's a lot

1119
01:10:15,510 --> 01:10:18,757
of them. Well, there's thousands. Hundreds. I'd say hundreds. I'm

1120
01:10:18,777 --> 01:10:20,793
about thousands. I think there's at least a hundred. What

1121
01:10:21,607 --> 01:10:25,847
are you eating? No, I'm having a lozenge. Oh, okay.

1122
01:10:26,299 --> 01:10:32,003
Valid. So, eh. I don't know. I think that we've

1123
01:10:32,043 --> 01:10:35,738
got OPEC falling apart. You've got UAE. They're like, hey,

1124
01:10:35,798 --> 01:10:39,753
we want to pump more. We want more. We're buddies.

1125
01:10:39,814 --> 01:10:42,347
We want to be in the dollar. We can do

1126
01:10:42,367 --> 01:10:46,428
5 million barrels. Then Saudi Arabia goes, hey. We can

1127
01:10:46,468 --> 01:10:48,394
do that. We want to do some more oil. And

1128
01:10:48,434 --> 01:10:52,327
then more oil, more oil. Yeah, once they all get

1129
01:10:52,367 --> 01:10:56,942
the bug. Yeah. Then you won't even need Iranian oil.

1130
01:10:56,982 --> 01:10:59,751
It's like, we've got enough of this stuff. It's good.

1131
01:11:00,991 --> 01:11:06,381
I can see it. Now, of course... We have some

1132
01:11:06,422 --> 01:11:10,622
issues. With the war, or should we say it's a

1133
01:11:10,803 --> 01:11:13,113
military operation? I'm not sure if we call it a

1134
01:11:13,153 --> 01:11:15,922
war, a military operation. Is it a war? I don't

1135
01:11:15,942 --> 01:11:18,158
know what it's called anymore, just an embargo. I don't

1136
01:11:18,178 --> 01:11:21,381
know. You say that you're not actively at war. Here

1137
01:11:21,421 --> 01:11:23,470
is what President Trump had to say on Friday. I

1138
01:11:23,490 --> 01:11:24,977
want to play it for you. Get your reaction on

1139
01:11:25,017 --> 01:11:26,805
the other side. This is from this morning. Meet the

1140
01:11:26,845 --> 01:11:30,290
press with Todd Blanche. They don't like the word war

1141
01:11:30,310 --> 01:11:35,003
and they call it a military operation because that way

1142
01:11:35,043 --> 01:11:37,350
you don't have a war, you don't have legal problems.

1143
01:11:38,292 --> 01:11:41,561
Is the president effectively arguing? If you don't call it

1144
01:11:41,621 --> 01:11:43,865
a war, you don't have legal problems. He's talking about

1145
01:11:43,945 --> 01:11:47,132
the War Powers Resolution. Yeah, right. Because that way, you

1146
01:11:47,172 --> 01:11:49,958
don't have a war, you don't have legal problems. Is

1147
01:11:49,998 --> 01:11:54,587
the president effectively arguing that he can avoid congressional approval

1148
01:11:54,627 --> 01:11:57,914
by avoiding using the word war? He's not effectively arguing

1149
01:11:57,954 --> 01:12:00,219
anything except that he is trying to keep this country

1150
01:12:00,259 --> 01:12:03,572
safe. Oh, okay. All right, Todd. All right, Todd Blanchard.

1151
01:12:03,592 --> 01:12:05,876
There's a good yes, man. Let's go to NBC. The

1152
01:12:05,936 --> 01:12:09,682
war is now 60 days old, an important marker. A

1153
01:12:09,722 --> 01:12:14,710
1973 law requires the president to end military conflicts unless

1154
01:12:14,810 --> 01:12:19,758
the commander-in-chief gets congressional approval to continue. The administration says

1155
01:12:19,818 --> 01:12:25,208
the ongoing... ceasefire paused that 60-day clock. Republican leadership agrees.

1156
01:12:25,990 --> 01:12:29,617
But Democrats and some Republicans say it's time Congress gets

1157
01:12:29,677 --> 01:12:33,886
involved. One GOP lawmaker says she plans to introduce an

1158
01:12:34,006 --> 01:12:38,455
authorization for use of military force, AUMF, when the Senate

1159
01:12:38,495 --> 01:12:43,705
returns. The president should have before engaging in military action

1160
01:12:44,266 --> 01:13:01,682
at this scale that we're seeing now. oil tankers moving.

1161
01:13:02,183 --> 01:13:05,569
This as American drivers face surging gas prices, with the

1162
01:13:05,670 --> 01:13:10,058
average cost of a gallon now $4.39. But in many

1163
01:13:10,118 --> 01:13:13,666
parts of the country, it's even higher. $6.19, I'm not

1164
01:13:13,726 --> 01:13:16,471
touching it. $40, $50 to fill my tank, but now

1165
01:13:16,491 --> 01:13:20,800
it's from empty, it's $80 to $90. That's forced. drivers

1166
01:13:20,880 --> 01:13:24,146
to find alternative ways of getting around. I just got

1167
01:13:24,167 --> 01:13:26,832
a monthly bus pass. Kind of putting in that calculation

1168
01:13:26,872 --> 01:13:29,537
of how much this thing costs and how much it

1169
01:13:29,557 --> 01:13:31,461
costs to drive every day, it just makes so much

1170
01:13:31,521 --> 01:13:33,505
more sense as a college student just to do this.

1171
01:13:34,086 --> 01:13:37,012
President Trump says he doesn't need congressional approval for the

1172
01:13:37,052 --> 01:13:40,419
war. In letters to Congress today, he says the hostilities

1173
01:13:40,399 --> 01:13:45,938
terminated the day the ceasefire began last month. But he

1174
01:13:45,978 --> 01:13:49,169
did not address the naval blockade on Iranian ports. That's

1175
01:13:49,290 --> 01:13:54,184
not war. That's just a blockade. Come on! Congress is

1176
01:13:54,285 --> 01:13:57,542
flummoxed by this. Like, well, no one ever did this.

1177
01:13:58,266 --> 01:14:00,619
No one ever called it something else. Wait a minute.

1178
01:14:00,599 --> 01:14:05,689
Blanche Blanche Republican Senator Susan Collins posted quote the president's

1179
01:14:05,769 --> 01:14:10,058
authority as commander-in-chief is not without limits That deadline is

1180
01:14:10,158 --> 01:14:13,805
not a suggestion. It is a requirement. Are there any

1181
01:14:13,885 --> 01:14:16,390
legal limits on the president's powers to carry out the

1182
01:14:16,431 --> 01:14:20,438
war with Iran? Suggesting the president Trump or this administration

1183
01:14:20,499 --> 01:14:23,465
or the Department of War is violating the law is

1184
01:14:23,545 --> 01:14:27,252
just completely wrong. It's not appropriate to say that. We

1185
01:14:27,292 --> 01:14:29,918
are not. We are complying with the law. Oh, man,

1186
01:14:29,958 --> 01:14:33,765
he is a yes man. Don't answer the question. Just

1187
01:14:33,805 --> 01:14:37,513
say it's inappropriate. It's wrong. Axios reports per sources the

1188
01:14:37,553 --> 01:14:40,379
plan set a one month deadline for negotiations on a

1189
01:14:40,419 --> 01:14:43,444
deal. to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, end the U.S.

1190
01:14:43,465 --> 01:14:46,631
naval blockade, and permanently end the war in Iran and

1191
01:14:46,731 --> 01:14:49,777
in Lebanon. Per the Iranian proposal, only after such a

1192
01:14:49,837 --> 01:14:52,823
deal is reached, another month of negotiations would be launched

1193
01:14:52,863 --> 01:14:55,528
to try and reach a deal on the nuclear program,

1194
01:14:55,568 --> 01:14:58,513
the two sources said. The president is leaving the door

1195
01:14:58,654 --> 01:15:01,419
open for more strikes if a deal is not reached.

1196
01:15:01,491 --> 01:15:04,996
Yes, we continue. This will go on. It'll be another

1197
01:15:05,056 --> 01:15:09,843
month at least. And ABC, well, maybe if we just

1198
01:15:09,883 --> 01:15:12,427
tell them that his numbers suck. And in this new

1199
01:15:12,487 --> 01:15:16,092
ABC News Washington Post Ipsos poll, Trump is underwater on

1200
01:15:16,333 --> 01:15:20,078
every single issue they tested. With two-thirds of Americans saying...

1201
01:15:20,098 --> 01:15:24,471
What if you're... Underwater, what is the baseline for underwater?

1202
01:15:25,339 --> 01:15:27,745
I think 50%. Oh, okay. The country is headed in

1203
01:15:27,785 --> 01:15:31,775
the wrong direction. But that being said, his base is

1204
01:15:31,875 --> 01:15:36,406
still with him. 85% of Republicans approve, but look closer,

1205
01:15:36,466 --> 01:15:40,677
the share who strongly approve has dropped to 45%, and

1206
01:15:40,737 --> 01:15:43,810
that is the lowest. among Republicans across both of his

1207
01:15:43,870 --> 01:15:46,835
terms. Then if we dig into the issues that's driving

1208
01:15:46,895 --> 01:15:50,461
this, about three quarters of Americans disapprove of how Trump

1209
01:15:50,521 --> 01:15:53,726
is handling the cost of living. Roughly two thirds disapprove

1210
01:15:53,786 --> 01:15:56,611
on the economy, the issue that Trump campaigned on. And

1211
01:15:56,651 --> 01:16:00,357
a majority say using military force against Iran was a

1212
01:16:00,437 --> 01:16:06,705
mistake, Gio. Speak mistake. It's a big mistake. It's a

1213
01:16:06,726 --> 01:16:13,499
big mistake. And of course the president. Do you see...

1214
01:16:14,239 --> 01:16:17,051
He must have tea with the president all the time,

1215
01:16:17,111 --> 01:16:20,948
don't you think? Well, he's definitely the number one go-to

1216
01:16:21,009 --> 01:16:23,262
guy for the press. Corps. Oh, yeah. I mean, he

1217
01:16:23,923 --> 01:16:27,410
gets the questions ahead of time. And then I'm sure

1218
01:16:27,430 --> 01:16:32,039
it's like, make it sound good, Deucey. Commander come in

1219
01:16:32,060 --> 01:16:35,927
here yesterday. Was he briefing you on a different approach

1220
01:16:36,007 --> 01:16:37,971
and options? What kind of options? How would it look

1221
01:16:38,031 --> 01:16:40,396
different? I mean, do we want to go and just

1222
01:16:40,516 --> 01:16:43,646
blast the hell out of them? Finish him forever or

1223
01:16:43,686 --> 01:16:45,918
do we want to try and make a deal? Those

1224
01:16:46,018 --> 01:16:48,028
are the options. Do you want to go blast the

1225
01:16:48,129 --> 01:16:51,105
hell out of him? I prefer not. On a human

1226
01:16:51,145 --> 01:16:53,693
basis, I prefer not, but that's the option. Do we

1227
01:16:53,753 --> 01:16:56,883
want to go in there heavy and just blast them

1228
01:16:56,943 --> 01:17:00,595
away? Or do we want to do something? They're a

1229
01:17:00,615 --> 01:17:03,731
very disjointed unit here. But you can understand Peter, very

1230
01:17:03,752 --> 01:17:08,418
disjointed. I mean, they, um... They're not getting along with

1231
01:17:08,479 --> 01:17:11,809
each other. And it puts us in a bad position.

1232
01:17:11,829 --> 01:17:14,236
One group wants to make a certain deal. The other

1233
01:17:14,276 --> 01:17:17,887
group wants to make a certain deal, including the hardliners.

1234
01:17:17,907 --> 01:17:20,414
The hardliners want to make a deal, too. Why wouldn't

1235
01:17:20,454 --> 01:17:23,506
they? They have no navy. They have no air force,

1236
01:17:23,526 --> 01:17:30,206
they have no anti-aircraft, they have... They have no nothing.

1237
01:17:30,226 --> 01:17:32,712
Something about a New Yorker saying they have no nothing.

1238
01:17:33,254 --> 01:17:36,181
It's just great. They have no nothing. But on the

1239
01:17:36,242 --> 01:17:39,149
way back, when we're done with Iran, which I think

1240
01:17:39,189 --> 01:17:41,876
will probably be in about 45 days, when we're done

1241
01:17:41,916 --> 01:17:44,416
with Iran, we're going to... Swing by Cuba. Thank you,

1242
01:17:44,436 --> 01:17:48,573
Dan. Good job. An architect who's really talented, he's done

1243
01:17:48,613 --> 01:17:50,358
a lot of work for me. He's got a flair,

1244
01:17:50,679 --> 01:17:54,972
a beautiful Hispanic flair in particular. And he comes from

1245
01:17:55,012 --> 01:17:57,800
originally a place called Cuba. Cuba. Which we will be

1246
01:17:57,840 --> 01:18:07,942
taking over almost immediately. No, Cuba's got problems. We'll finish

1247
01:18:08,044 --> 01:18:10,988
one first. I like to finish a job. On the

1248
01:18:11,048 --> 01:18:14,176
way back from what we'll do, on the way back

1249
01:18:14,477 --> 01:18:17,945
from Iran, we'll have one of our big, maybe the

1250
01:18:18,005 --> 01:18:21,835
USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, the biggest in the world,

1251
01:18:21,855 --> 01:18:25,654
we'll have that come in. stop about 100 yards offshore

1252
01:18:25,674 --> 01:18:29,983
and they'll say thank you very much we give up

1253
01:18:30,467 --> 01:18:35,715
People get so disjointed over these jokes. Seriously, I see

1254
01:18:35,755 --> 01:18:38,751
it in the troll room. He's laughing about murdering people.

1255
01:18:39,459 --> 01:18:44,570
Get a grip on your pearls. And this was a

1256
01:18:44,793 --> 01:18:49,985
gem about Ilan Omar. Ah. This is your president in

1257
01:18:50,526 --> 01:18:53,634
true stand-up form. But J.D.' 's done a great job.

1258
01:18:53,675 --> 01:18:58,326
Thousands and thousands of people are... It's a fraud. I

1259
01:18:58,367 --> 01:19:01,134
mean, look at the wonderful country. It's a beautiful country.

1260
01:19:01,154 --> 01:19:04,088
You should try it sometime. Somalia. It's a beautiful... place

1261
01:19:04,955 --> 01:19:08,786
It's got no government. It's got no military. It's got

1262
01:19:08,951 --> 01:19:13,549
no... Anything. It's got one thing that's really strong. Crime.

1263
01:19:13,609 --> 01:19:16,397
It's got a lot of crime. They have no police.

1264
01:19:16,438 --> 01:19:19,667
All they do is run around shooting each other. It's

1265
01:19:19,708 --> 01:19:24,223
filthy dirty, disgusting dirty. It's a horrible place. They come

1266
01:19:24,303 --> 01:19:32,292
here and Ilhan Omar. You ever hear of him? She

1267
01:19:32,313 --> 01:19:40,648
hedged it. They have nothing but crime, poverty, pollution, everything

1268
01:19:40,729 --> 01:19:43,953
is horrible over there, nothing good. They say it's the

1269
01:19:43,993 --> 01:19:46,239
worst country anywhere in the world. We got some beauties

1270
01:19:46,339 --> 01:19:48,705
out there, but it's the worst. And then she comes

1271
01:19:48,765 --> 01:19:52,334
here from Somalia and she tells us how to run

1272
01:19:52,354 --> 01:19:57,040
the United States of America. She says. She says the

1273
01:19:57,120 --> 01:20:00,844
Constitution gives me certain rights. It gives me certain rights.

1274
01:20:01,871 --> 01:20:05,000
And I demand... that I be given these rights. Get

1275
01:20:05,040 --> 01:20:16,710
the hell out. What a phony. And then she married

1276
01:20:16,771 --> 01:20:19,060
a brother to come in. I don't know, you know?

1277
01:20:20,064 --> 01:20:22,334
But I think, I would imagine they're looking at her.

1278
01:20:22,354 --> 01:20:25,035
I have nothing to do with it. I would imagine.

1279
01:20:25,055 --> 01:20:28,807
Of course I have nothing to do. I have nothing

1280
01:20:28,847 --> 01:20:33,372
but. I believe she married her brother, which is totally

1281
01:20:33,392 --> 01:20:37,471
illegal. Although it's a lovely couple, actually, but it's a

1282
01:20:38,456 --> 01:20:40,547
little bit on the illegal side. Darling, I love you

1283
01:20:40,608 --> 01:20:48,070
very much. Good night, brother. Let's go to bed. Isn't

1284
01:20:48,090 --> 01:20:53,368
she despicable? I can't stand watching. I'm going to miss

1285
01:20:53,430 --> 01:20:57,571
him. I'm going to miss him. I think it's funny.

1286
01:20:58,695 --> 01:21:07,034
So many people get so upset about this. Yeah. Yeah,

1287
01:21:07,154 --> 01:21:11,752
it's unexpected, you know. Yeah. Nobody knows what to make

1288
01:21:11,792 --> 01:21:13,699
of it. It's okay if you're upset about it, and

1289
01:21:13,759 --> 01:21:15,365
I'm okay with that, and I'm okay with you being

1290
01:21:15,426 --> 01:21:17,955
upset about it, but not if you're on SSRIs, okay?

1291
01:21:18,791 --> 01:21:21,547
Just make sure if you're on SSRIs and you're upset

1292
01:21:21,608 --> 01:21:24,651
about it, your meds ain't working. Okay, you gotta get

1293
01:21:24,692 --> 01:21:27,949
different meds. But when the topic of a run, I'm

1294
01:21:27,969 --> 01:21:30,595
also getting this out of the way, the smuggling of

1295
01:21:30,616 --> 01:21:35,484
the... of the satellite receivers going on right now is

1296
01:21:35,544 --> 01:21:39,755
kind of It's a topic of discussion. This is Iran

1297
01:21:40,439 --> 01:21:46,461
internet smuggling. NPR. A network of Iranians have been smuggling

1298
01:21:46,682 --> 01:21:51,292
Starlink satellite terminals into the country. The technology is the

1299
01:21:51,332 --> 01:21:55,581
most common way of bypassing the internet blackout in Iran,

1300
01:21:56,123 --> 01:22:00,252
one of the longest in history. Our reporter Reha Kansara

1301
01:22:00,432 --> 01:22:04,721
has more. Iranian regime has proven that... During the shutdown,

1302
01:22:04,781 --> 01:22:08,409
they can kill. It is crucial for Iranians to be

1303
01:22:08,489 --> 01:22:12,477
able to portray the real picture of the situation on

1304
01:22:12,537 --> 01:22:15,463
the ground. I'm speaking to an Iranian man who is

1305
01:22:15,543 --> 01:22:19,851
part of a clandestine network dotted across the globe, helping

1306
01:22:19,911 --> 01:22:24,345
to smuggle Starlink terminals into Iran. Plus... We want to

1307
01:22:24,405 --> 01:22:26,953
make sure that whatever gets out of the country is

1308
01:22:27,936 --> 01:22:32,449
not being manipulated by the Iranian regime's narrative. What he's

1309
01:22:32,490 --> 01:22:35,459
doing is putting a lot of people inside the country,

1310
01:22:35,479 --> 01:22:39,995
including his family, in danger. He only agreed to speak

1311
01:22:40,035 --> 01:22:42,471
to me on the condition that I do not reveal

1312
01:22:42,531 --> 01:22:46,815
his real identity. We purchase Starlinks and smuggle them through

1313
01:22:46,875 --> 01:22:50,941
the borders. It's a very complex operation. I'm not going

1314
01:22:51,001 --> 01:22:53,825
to give you the exact number, but we have sent

1315
01:22:53,905 --> 01:22:57,270
over a dozen, and we are actively looking for other

1316
01:22:57,330 --> 01:23:01,597
ways to smuggle in more. The satellite technology, which helps

1317
01:23:01,657 --> 01:23:05,078
people connect to the internet, has become a vital communications

1318
01:23:05,178 --> 01:23:08,724
lifeline for tens of thousands of people in Iran. For

1319
01:23:08,784 --> 01:23:11,569
more than two months, they've been in a digital black

1320
01:23:11,610 --> 01:23:14,835
hole. It was triggered by the ongoing war with Israel

1321
01:23:14,915 --> 01:23:18,562
and the US. The Iranian government said they shut down

1322
01:23:18,602 --> 01:23:22,285
the internet because of security concerns. It's one of the

1323
01:23:22,367 --> 01:23:35,725
longest nationwide internet sh- I don't think this is entirely

1324
01:23:35,825 --> 01:23:40,875
true anymore. Commercial flights, I've heard, have resumed from Tehran.

1325
01:23:41,711 --> 01:23:49,110
Um... phones seem to be working? And I hope on

1326
01:23:49,191 --> 01:23:51,803
May 11th, which I think is Monday, I'm going to

1327
01:23:51,863 --> 01:23:55,642
have a... a dinner with lex and his wife who

1328
01:23:55,682 --> 01:23:58,210
has all her family in tehran and I'll get some

1329
01:23:58,251 --> 01:24:00,364
more boots on the ground, but I don't think it's

1330
01:24:00,445 --> 01:24:04,687
quite that bad as portrayed here. It could be not

1331
01:24:04,748 --> 01:24:08,286
as bad as portrayed, but I think it's interesting that

1332
01:24:08,327 --> 01:24:14,548
Musk's... system It's become such an interesting kind of a

1333
01:24:14,668 --> 01:24:18,521
proposition for people that need to get Internet access without

1334
01:24:19,163 --> 01:24:21,792
going through channels. Well, this is the Internet in a

1335
01:24:21,852 --> 01:24:25,022
suitcase. Remember that? Well, it's a little more than that,

1336
01:24:25,083 --> 01:24:28,461
I think. No. I mean, the internet in a suitcase,

1337
01:24:28,501 --> 01:24:33,785
that was, that was. It was pre-Starlink. Yeah. Oh, no,

1338
01:24:33,805 --> 01:24:36,217
it was definitely pre- Let's see. Here's Lucifer. I get

1339
01:24:36,237 --> 01:24:38,871
a lot of invitations to speak these days. Oh, that

1340
01:24:38,911 --> 01:24:43,014
was the kid. I was that kid. was working at

1341
01:24:43,034 --> 01:24:45,643
the state department who later had to leave he was

1342
01:24:45,683 --> 01:24:48,708
the internet in a suitcase but i have one you

1343
01:24:48,728 --> 01:24:51,412
know musk sent out had some bonus deal because i

1344
01:24:51,452 --> 01:24:53,496
have the starlink as a backup i know i thought

1345
01:24:53,536 --> 01:24:55,479
you had it hooked up no i have i have

1346
01:24:55,519 --> 01:24:58,444
starlink hooked up but that's a pretty big dish and

1347
01:24:58,464 --> 01:25:02,460
then he said for five dollars a month If you

1348
01:25:02,501 --> 01:25:04,304
don't hook it up, we'll just charge it. five bucks

1349
01:25:04,364 --> 01:25:06,964
a month you get the the mini portable one which

1350
01:25:07,025 --> 01:25:12,715
is really tiny How tiny. Uh, it would fit in...

1351
01:25:13,519 --> 01:25:17,414
briefcase The whole thing. We'll give you the dimensions of

1352
01:25:17,454 --> 01:25:20,992
the dish. I have to get it. Not even the

1353
01:25:21,073 --> 01:25:23,157
dish, actually, just the flat panel. I'll play your second

1354
01:25:23,198 --> 01:25:25,046
clip. and I'll get it out of the closet. Yeah,

1355
01:25:25,066 --> 01:25:27,476
play the second clip. Okay. But it's not the first

1356
01:25:27,536 --> 01:25:30,876
time this year the internet has been switched off. In

1357
01:25:30,936 --> 01:25:34,776
January, the country was plunged into darkness during a deadly

1358
01:25:34,857 --> 01:25:40,722
crackdown on protests. Media organisations, including the BBC, relied on

1359
01:25:40,763 --> 01:25:44,324
a drip-feed of information from inside the country a lot

1360
01:25:44,344 --> 01:25:47,796
of which was shared on social media using Starlink Internet

1361
01:25:48,137 --> 01:25:53,265
to verify and document atrocities committed by the authorities. Marwa

1362
01:25:53,305 --> 01:25:56,937
Fatafta from digital rights group Access Now says the blackout

1363
01:25:57,018 --> 01:26:00,229
helps the government conceal what's happening inside the country. In

1364
01:26:00,570 --> 01:26:02,737
times of crisis, this is not only an attack on

1365
01:26:02,778 --> 01:26:05,604
freedom of expression, ...expression, press freedom or access to information

1366
01:26:06,225 --> 01:26:10,754
is a matter of survival. Shutdowns inflict serious physical, psychological

1367
01:26:10,874 --> 01:26:14,762
and economic harms on people and they shatter a society's

1368
01:26:14,822 --> 01:26:18,950
ability to preserve and withstand hardships. And no matter what

1369
01:26:18,970 --> 01:26:21,094
the justification may be for a government to kill the

1370
01:26:21,135 --> 01:26:25,925
switch, communications blackouts... are a clear violation of human rights

1371
01:26:26,046 --> 01:26:29,514
and they can never be justified. Multiple arrests have been

1372
01:26:29,574 --> 01:26:35,589
made of Iranians importing, procuring, selling and buying Starlink. Many

1373
01:26:35,629 --> 01:26:40,300
have been accused of espionage. Roya Boromand from the Boromand

1374
01:26:40,340 --> 01:26:43,419
Center for Human Rights says since the regime came into

1375
01:26:43,399 --> 01:26:48,509
power in 1979, it's always sought to conceal information. Only

1376
01:26:48,590 --> 01:26:53,019
its methods have changed. Iran has denied citizens' right to

1377
01:26:53,179 --> 01:26:57,167
seek, receive and impart information for decades. But in the

1378
01:26:57,207 --> 01:27:01,957
face of internal calls for regime change and external military

1379
01:27:02,017 --> 01:27:06,434
attacks, it has escalated the hunt and the arrest of

1380
01:27:06,514 --> 01:27:12,527
citizens who circumvent censorship using Starlink devices. It's about the

1381
01:27:12,568 --> 01:27:20,371
size of an iPad. Oh. And it weighs one kilo.

1382
01:27:21,687 --> 01:27:26,323
It was a two-pound iPad. It's a slab. But yeah,

1383
01:27:26,489 --> 01:27:30,805
that's it. It's like an iPad Pro, I would say.

1384
01:27:30,825 --> 01:27:34,067
It's just a flat panel. Yeah. Well, yeah. It's a...

1385
01:27:34,455 --> 01:27:38,089
Let me see the depth here. The depth is... About

1386
01:27:38,110 --> 01:27:41,112
an inch and a half. Oh, it's, yeah, I guess

1387
01:27:41,153 --> 01:27:44,409
it gives enough room. Yeah, so it's... it's small. I

1388
01:27:44,429 --> 01:27:46,167
mean, it's, it's, it's an, you can put it in

1389
01:27:46,187 --> 01:27:50,088
your pants. You could smuggle it in your pants. Yeah,

1390
01:27:50,108 --> 01:27:53,196
it's fantastic. That's the only, I mean, you can't hate

1391
01:27:53,236 --> 01:27:55,830
the guy for that. That's Starlink stuff, although he doesn't

1392
01:27:55,890 --> 01:27:59,173
do reverse DNS, which is a real problem. That's kind

1393
01:27:59,214 --> 01:28:04,889
of wonky network-wise. A lot of nerds. complain about that.

1394
01:28:04,909 --> 01:28:08,291
Like you don't have reverse DNS. Not everything's going to

1395
01:28:08,352 --> 01:28:11,790
work well. Well, you know, one of the problems you

1396
01:28:11,810 --> 01:28:15,976
have with all this gear... is that in the UK,

1397
01:28:16,016 --> 01:28:20,892
for example, you know, they have these roving vans with

1398
01:28:20,932 --> 01:28:24,211
the big dish on the roof. Looking for people with

1399
01:28:24,231 --> 01:28:30,498
illegal TVs. Yeah. Because the receiver is also a transmitter.

1400
01:28:30,518 --> 01:28:32,708
It's not even a big dish. It's a small dish.

1401
01:28:32,768 --> 01:28:34,415
I've seen them. I thought it was a big dish.

1402
01:28:34,596 --> 01:28:37,822
No, no, no, no. It's a small dish. Well, they

1403
01:28:38,044 --> 01:28:41,893
look for the illegal TVs. Uh, because you have to

1404
01:28:41,914 --> 01:28:45,163
have a license. in the be in in the uk

1405
01:28:45,183 --> 01:28:48,639
yes to watch television which is ludicrous but okay it's

1406
01:28:48,679 --> 01:28:52,431
their system Well, yeah. They have a king. They have

1407
01:28:52,472 --> 01:28:57,210
a king. Let them. No kings, man. No kings, man.

1408
01:28:57,391 --> 01:29:00,366
It's unclear when the internet will be restored, but a

1409
01:29:00,427 --> 01:29:04,431
government spokesperson has said once the situation returns to normal,

1410
01:29:04,995 --> 01:29:08,806
so will internet access. The smuggler and others like him

1411
01:29:09,107 --> 01:29:11,853
will continue to fight for vital information to get in

1412
01:29:11,933 --> 01:29:16,042
and out of Iran until restrictions are lifted. I think

1413
01:29:16,122 --> 01:29:19,149
people and the world should hear the real voice of

1414
01:29:19,229 --> 01:29:23,178
Iranians. This is our goal and we will continue working

1415
01:29:23,218 --> 01:29:30,318
towards it. End. End. Okay. Well, I'll find out more

1416
01:29:30,358 --> 01:29:33,830
next week or the week after that, Tuesday, the 11th,

1417
01:29:33,971 --> 01:29:39,282
hopefully. We'll find out more. Find out more. Uh, let's

1418
01:29:39,343 --> 01:29:46,485
see, um... Let's do a little... A little big tech

1419
01:29:46,586 --> 01:29:49,744
AI news. Always fun. A little big tech AI news.

1420
01:29:49,825 --> 01:29:53,855
No AI news. AI news. Yes, everyone's joining in now.

1421
01:29:54,516 --> 01:29:57,082
We're good. Hey, man, we're good. You can use our

1422
01:29:57,102 --> 01:29:59,428
stuff. Let's do war with our stuff because it's so

1423
01:29:59,548 --> 01:30:03,458
solid. Alphabet's Google has reportedly joined a list of tech

1424
01:30:03,498 --> 01:30:05,963
firms to... sign a deal with the U.S. Department of

1425
01:30:06,003 --> 01:30:09,490
Defense. It's to use its AI models for classified work.

1426
01:30:09,991 --> 01:30:13,678
The Information reported the deal on Tuesday, citing a person

1427
01:30:13,758 --> 01:30:16,764
familiar with the matter. It added the agreement allows the

1428
01:30:16,804 --> 01:30:20,853
Pentagon to use Google's AI for any lawful government purpose

1429
01:30:21,293 --> 01:30:25,443
and puts it alongside OpenAI and Elon Musk. XAI, which

1430
01:30:25,584 --> 01:30:29,147
also have deals to supply AI models for classified use.

1431
01:30:29,535 --> 01:30:32,725
Classified networks are used to handle a wide range of

1432
01:30:32,825 --> 01:30:37,941
sensitive work. They include mission planning and weapons targeting. Reuters

1433
01:30:38,002 --> 01:30:41,954
couldn't verify the report. The Pentagon signed agreements worth up

1434
01:30:41,994 --> 01:30:45,677
to $200 million. each with major AI labs last year,

1435
01:30:46,078 --> 01:30:50,711
including Anthropic, OpenAI and Google. Reuters had earlier reported the

1436
01:30:50,751 --> 01:30:54,582
Pentagon wanted top AI companies to make their tools available

1437
01:30:54,722 --> 01:30:58,513
on classified networks without the standard restrictions they apply to

1438
01:30:58,673 --> 01:31:03,056
users. The information reported Google's agreement requires it to help

1439
01:31:03,156 --> 01:31:06,818
in adjusting the the company's AI safety settings and filters

1440
01:31:06,959 --> 01:31:10,667
at the government's request. Alphabet and the US Department of

1441
01:31:10,728 --> 01:31:13,635
Defense, which has now been renamed the Department of War

1442
01:31:13,675 --> 01:31:17,445
by President Trump, didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.

1443
01:31:17,906 --> 01:31:21,475
Google said it supports government agencies across both classified and

1444
01:31:21,515 --> 01:31:25,634
non-classified projects. and added it was committed to the consensus

1445
01:31:26,115 --> 01:31:29,800
AI shouldn't be used for domestic mass surveillance or autonomous

1446
01:31:29,860 --> 01:31:33,926
weaponry without appropriate human oversight. The Pentagon has said it

1447
01:31:33,966 --> 01:31:37,050
has no interest in using AI to conduct mass surveillance

1448
01:31:37,171 --> 01:31:40,676
of Americans or to develop weapons that operate without human

1449
01:31:40,716 --> 01:31:44,062
involvement, but wants any lawful use. of AI to be

1450
01:31:44,102 --> 01:31:47,370
allowed. I like the, uh, we don't need your AI

1451
01:31:47,410 --> 01:31:52,644
for mass surveillance. We just buy it from Google. We

1452
01:31:52,684 --> 01:31:55,251
don't need to spend money on you guys for that.

1453
01:31:56,215 --> 01:32:00,295
Yeah. That's stuff I have to say. Now, for certain

1454
01:32:00,356 --> 01:32:04,291
things, this stuff is really, really impressive, although... Dave Jones

1455
01:32:04,473 --> 01:32:08,420
over there at Podcast Index. He and I have been

1456
01:32:08,602 --> 01:32:13,199
doing comparisons. And if you use Claude Code with Opus

1457
01:32:13,219 --> 01:32:16,860
4.7. which will cost, if you want to get anything

1458
01:32:16,900 --> 01:32:19,412
done, $100 a month. If you really are using it

1459
01:32:19,432 --> 01:32:21,261
a lot, $200 a month, which is a lot of

1460
01:32:21,301 --> 01:32:26,435
money. He's using... pi, P-I, P-I dot dev, which is,

1461
01:32:26,637 --> 01:32:31,644
uh... an agentic thing. And you can connect that to

1462
01:32:31,684 --> 01:32:36,019
any large language model. And he has, at his job,

1463
01:32:36,080 --> 01:32:39,483
he has a $3,500 machine. I forget what he calls

1464
01:32:39,524 --> 01:32:41,647
it, but it has all the RAM and everything in

1465
01:32:41,708 --> 01:32:45,167
it that you need. And he's running QEN 3.6, 35

1466
01:32:46,334 --> 01:32:52,373
billion parameter. It is equal. equal to Claude Code with

1467
01:32:52,413 --> 01:32:55,908
Anthropix Opus 4.7, except you don't have to pay a

1468
01:32:55,948 --> 01:33:00,003
subscription. You got to shell out some money up front.

1469
01:33:00,487 --> 01:33:03,964
So when you hear the next clip. These guys are

1470
01:33:03,984 --> 01:33:07,190
going to run into trouble. The investors will run into

1471
01:33:07,230 --> 01:33:10,116
trouble somewhere down the road. And it's been a tough

1472
01:33:10,156 --> 01:33:14,444
week for OpenAI. Reports of missing key targets, Sam Altman

1473
01:33:14,504 --> 01:33:18,792
on trial against Elon Musk, and now, rival Anthropix business

1474
01:33:19,233 --> 01:33:21,958
may have caught up. Kate Rooney has more in Tech

1475
01:33:21,998 --> 01:33:25,654
Check. Hi, Kate. Hi, Kelly. So that's what we're hearing.

1476
01:33:25,754 --> 01:33:27,997
I am hearing that Anthropic right now is in talks

1477
01:33:28,037 --> 01:33:31,262
to raise another round of capital. If it does go

1478
01:33:31,362 --> 01:33:34,267
forward as planned, it could value this AI giant at

1479
01:33:34,327 --> 01:33:37,812
as much as $900 billion. This is according to a

1480
01:33:37,872 --> 01:33:40,896
source familiar with those deal talks. Kelly, no term sheets

1481
01:33:40,977 --> 01:33:43,501
have been signed yet from what I'm told. Discussions are

1482
01:33:43,581 --> 01:33:47,328
still ongoing, and Anthropic did decline to comment. But this

1483
01:33:47,368 --> 01:33:49,914
would be more than double the company's last valuation of

1484
01:33:49,934 --> 01:33:53,220
private markets and then put it ahead of rival OpenAI,

1485
01:33:53,280 --> 01:33:57,449
which was last worth around $850 billion. That was after

1486
01:33:57,469 --> 01:34:00,114
its record fundraise earlier this year. It does come as

1487
01:34:00,154 --> 01:34:04,623
both of these AI giants look to go public. According

1488
01:34:04,683 --> 01:34:08,671
to sources, could depend on market conditions, but Anthropix exploding

1489
01:34:08,711 --> 01:34:11,657
revenue growth has been the main reason that investors have

1490
01:34:11,717 --> 01:34:14,503
been lining up to back them. So Anthropix last reported

1491
01:34:14,543 --> 01:34:17,729
run rate was around $30 billion. Sources now tell me

1492
01:34:17,770 --> 01:34:20,194
that is closer to $35 billion. It would be up

1493
01:34:20,255 --> 01:34:23,321
from $10 billion just last year. So, cloud code has

1494
01:34:23,361 --> 01:34:26,046
been the major revenue driver here for this company. Also,

1495
01:34:26,086 --> 01:34:28,270
a lot of intrigue around mythos. This, of course, is

1496
01:34:28,331 --> 01:34:30,735
the cybersecurity model. It's gotten a lot of buzz. It

1497
01:34:30,816 --> 01:34:33,381
is now only available to a select group of companies,

1498
01:34:33,721 --> 01:34:36,427
but it's really added to the allure for investors when

1499
01:34:36,467 --> 01:34:38,791
we talk about the potential power of these models. In

1500
01:34:38,811 --> 01:34:42,138
the last hour, though, Anthropic did make another move in

1501
01:34:42,178 --> 01:35:01,407
the cybersecurity. Yeah, this is not going to end well.

1502
01:35:02,915 --> 01:35:06,466
There's too much money and no money coming in. What

1503
01:35:06,506 --> 01:35:11,040
makes you think that? I can do math. I can

1504
01:35:11,121 --> 01:35:17,329
calculate. This is not going to work out. Well. Maybe

1505
01:35:17,409 --> 01:35:19,823
after the midterms. Something's got to... I mean, how much

1506
01:35:19,884 --> 01:35:22,761
longer can these guys delay their IPO? They have... to

1507
01:35:22,822 --> 01:35:24,758
come out soon no it has to be sooner than

1508
01:35:24,819 --> 01:35:27,643
later yeah do you think it'll be before the midterms

1509
01:35:31,391 --> 01:35:35,516
Well, it may be before the midterms, but it's not

1510
01:35:35,537 --> 01:35:39,365
going to, the collapse won't be before the midterms. Will

1511
01:35:39,385 --> 01:35:42,553
the collapse be in 2027, you think? Early 2027? It's

1512
01:35:42,593 --> 01:35:45,238
gotta be next year. Yeah. It's going to be so,

1513
01:35:45,521 --> 01:35:49,679
so amazing to watch. I mean, it'll suck. It's not

1514
01:35:49,719 --> 01:35:51,932
going to be good for the donations to the show.

1515
01:35:51,952 --> 01:35:56,155
No. You have enough trouble. Could it get any worse?

1516
01:35:57,119 --> 01:35:59,699
All right, now the people who clearly are going to

1517
01:35:59,900 --> 01:36:04,780
lose out are Hollywood. Hollywood is just struggling. They are

1518
01:36:04,820 --> 01:36:10,384
struggling to hold on. And the Oscars who are going

1519
01:36:10,424 --> 01:36:13,012
to YouTube. They put their foot down. Yeah, they did.

1520
01:36:13,453 --> 01:36:18,388
Artificial intelligence could revolutionize the film industry, but it won't

1521
01:36:18,468 --> 01:36:21,557
be winning any Oscars. New rules set out by the

1522
01:36:21,638 --> 01:36:25,447
Academy of... motion picture arts and sciences on Friday stated

1523
01:36:25,548 --> 01:36:28,616
that in the acting category only roles credited in the

1524
01:36:28,676 --> 01:36:32,525
film's legal billing and demonstrably performed by humans with their

1525
01:36:32,566 --> 01:36:36,888
consent will be considered eligible The new rules also say

1526
01:36:36,968 --> 01:36:41,745
screenplays must be human authored to be eligible. They come

1527
01:36:41,985 --> 01:36:44,490
hot on the heels of the unveiling of an AI

1528
01:36:44,550 --> 01:36:49,098
version of the deceased film star Val Kilmer at CinemaCon,

1529
01:36:49,419 --> 01:36:53,346
a yearly event that showcases new films for cinema owners.

1530
01:36:53,827 --> 01:36:56,191
The producer of the film, called As Deep As The

1531
01:36:56,251 --> 01:37:01,929
Grave, explained: We do take archival footage, pictures. and voice

1532
01:37:01,989 --> 01:37:05,635
recordings to build a character and from there we have

1533
01:37:05,675 --> 01:37:07,818
to integrate that character into what we already filmed. We're

1534
01:37:07,838 --> 01:37:10,402
making a bold claim, bold statement, which is that we

1535
01:37:10,442 --> 01:37:13,427
believe we're doing this in an ethical way. The director

1536
01:37:13,487 --> 01:37:16,232
of the film was at pains to reassure both actors

1537
01:37:16,312 --> 01:37:19,176
and the wider film community. Actors are not going to

1538
01:37:19,196 --> 01:37:22,663
be replaced and we're going to make And that really

1539
01:37:22,723 --> 01:37:25,468
comes down to the entire community coming together to help

1540
01:37:25,488 --> 01:37:28,374
set these guidelines and guardrails for everybody so we can

1541
01:37:28,394 --> 01:37:30,498
follow a structure, because the technology is going to be

1542
01:37:30,539 --> 01:37:33,384
here no matter what we do. The Academy declined to

1543
01:37:33,464 --> 01:37:37,553
comment on if Val Kilmer's AI-rendered performance would be eligible

1544
01:37:37,693 --> 01:37:41,627
for an Oscar, saying that eligibility would be rev... I

1545
01:37:41,647 --> 01:37:47,959
think we should make a pact. If I die before

1546
01:37:48,039 --> 01:37:52,774
you, I fully endorse recreating me with AI. Okay, you're

1547
01:37:52,794 --> 01:37:55,342
done. Tourette's and all. Make sure it's all in there.

1548
01:37:55,362 --> 01:38:00,157
Make sure it's accurate. Darren can do it. He's prompting

1549
01:38:00,217 --> 01:38:04,404
as we speak. Darren's got all these little, he doesn't

1550
01:38:04,445 --> 01:38:07,113
get a lot of play, but I've been reposting the

1551
01:38:07,494 --> 01:38:11,627
little animations he's been doing. Yeah, with the girls? Pretty

1552
01:38:11,647 --> 01:38:14,807
dynamite. The girls? Yeah, always something growing. He's got a

1553
01:38:14,847 --> 01:38:18,466
cartoon version now, which was pretty decent. Although, for some

1554
01:38:18,506 --> 01:38:22,322
reason, the No Agenda shirt... on one girl turned from

1555
01:38:22,362 --> 01:38:25,929
black to green. Oh, well. Right in the middle of

1556
01:38:25,969 --> 01:38:29,756
the animation. Oh, well. How does that happen? You can't

1557
01:38:29,876 --> 01:38:32,742
iterate. Once it's done, you've got to accept it or

1558
01:38:32,822 --> 01:38:35,287
reprompt and you just get a whole new version. Yeah,

1559
01:38:35,307 --> 01:38:37,531
you might as well just go with it, you know.

1560
01:38:38,143 --> 01:38:41,593
But yeah, the Val Kilmer thing is one. But Star

1561
01:38:41,613 --> 01:38:44,381
Wars had a, or it was either Star Wars or

1562
01:38:44,421 --> 01:38:47,871
an old Star Trek movie, had some, there was a

1563
01:38:47,952 --> 01:38:50,519
dead actor, but they had to bring him in to...

1564
01:38:50,971 --> 01:38:54,401
This was years ago. They had to bring in kind

1565
01:38:54,441 --> 01:38:57,690
of a model of him because he was necessary for

1566
01:38:57,730 --> 01:39:01,240
the storyline. And he wasn't even alive. They put it

1567
01:39:01,260 --> 01:39:04,227
in, nobody ever talked much about it. Ooh, that's great.

1568
01:39:04,508 --> 01:39:06,994
And then there was the movie, the Scorsese movie, where

1569
01:39:07,014 --> 01:39:10,022
they had De Niro and all these people change their

1570
01:39:10,663 --> 01:39:15,261
ages or younger. They're all, you know, basically masked. No,

1571
01:39:15,764 --> 01:39:19,592
but this is about money. It's just about money. You

1572
01:39:19,613 --> 01:39:23,902
know, I say now... As I speak. You may recreate

1573
01:39:23,942 --> 01:39:26,250
me when I'm gone and make money off of me.

1574
01:39:26,470 --> 01:39:31,586
Please. Well, we'll see what happens with the Curry estate.

1575
01:39:31,747 --> 01:39:39,125
The Curry estate. Yeah, the Curry Estate. We're pissed off.

1576
01:39:39,387 --> 01:39:45,282
Okay. Here's SAG-AFTRA to round this out. It looks like

1577
01:39:45,302 --> 01:39:48,931
this is the writers and the screen actors guild, but

1578
01:39:48,971 --> 01:39:51,617
not everybody's here. I don't think the directors guild is

1579
01:39:51,858 --> 01:39:55,285
set yet. We are following developing news now. SAG-AFTRA has

1580
01:39:55,346 --> 01:39:58,493
reached a tentative agreement with the major Hollywood studios avoiding

1581
01:39:58,553 --> 01:40:00,678
a repeat of the strikes from just three years ago.

1582
01:40:00,858 --> 01:40:04,183
NBC. 54's Macy Jenkins is live outside the... By the

1583
01:40:04,243 --> 01:40:06,258
way, the troll room is asking, can we do it

1584
01:40:06,359 --> 01:40:10,930
now? Well, I'd have to approve it now. If you

1585
01:40:10,970 --> 01:40:12,741
can do it now, we can split the proceeds. It

1586
01:40:12,761 --> 01:40:16,543
won't be as good. Well, if it is... It won't

1587
01:40:16,584 --> 01:40:18,641
be as good. Come on. Okay. I got after a

1588
01:40:18,702 --> 01:40:24,149
headquarters in mid Wilshire. Macy. Hi Kathy and Jonathan. Well

1589
01:40:24,169 --> 01:40:27,014
listen, we will not know what's in that agreement until

1590
01:40:27,054 --> 01:40:30,060
the SAG National Board has a chance to review it.

1591
01:40:30,420 --> 01:40:32,985
One of the biggest issues, just like it was three

1592
01:40:33,025 --> 01:40:36,892
years ago, protections against AI, which is getting smarter and

1593
01:40:36,952 --> 01:40:44,475
more advanced by the minute. This cinematic showdown between Hollywood

1594
01:40:44,555 --> 01:40:48,060
A-listers Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise drew millions of views

1595
01:40:48,140 --> 01:40:51,565
on social media earlier this year and harsh critiques because

1596
01:40:51,585 --> 01:40:56,012
this is completely AI generated. They're taking the likeness of

1597
01:40:56,092 --> 01:40:59,577
major performers like Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt and they're

1598
01:40:59,597 --> 01:41:02,643
just able to replicate it. in seconds. It's a major

1599
01:41:02,703 --> 01:41:06,370
concern for SAG-AFTRA actors like Chuck Slavin. One he hopes

1600
01:41:06,450 --> 01:41:09,957
is addressed in the tentative agreement reached Saturday between SAG

1601
01:41:10,058 --> 01:41:13,925
and the AMPTP, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television

1602
01:41:13,986 --> 01:41:16,070
Producers. Well, I have to tell you, I'm a little

1603
01:41:16,110 --> 01:41:19,737
concerned. Overall, I think the future is rapidly changing, and

1604
01:41:19,797 --> 01:41:23,164
I think that... We certainly need to protect image likeness

1605
01:41:23,224 --> 01:41:25,509
when it comes to AI. We need to ensure that

1606
01:41:25,569 --> 01:41:28,275
members get royalties and residuals on the work that they're

1607
01:41:28,315 --> 01:41:31,962
doing. Scanning is a major threat. A tentative deal avoids

1608
01:41:32,022 --> 01:41:37,393
a repeat of 2023 when SAG-AFTRA's 160,000-plus members went on

1609
01:41:37,433 --> 01:41:41,161
strike for four months, demanding fair pay and protection. against

1610
01:41:41,361 --> 01:41:45,088
AI stealing their livelihood. It comes just one month after

1611
01:41:45,128 --> 01:41:48,034
the Writers Guild of America reached a four-year deal with

1612
01:41:48,074 --> 01:41:52,523
the AMPTP. Historically, these contracts have been three-year deals, but

1613
01:41:52,563 --> 01:41:55,369
in exchange for adding the fourth year in the WGA's

1614
01:41:55,429 --> 01:42:00,880
recent agreement, the union received a $321 million infusion. into

1615
01:42:00,961 --> 01:42:04,433
its health fund. Looking at how fast technology is advancing,

1616
01:42:04,834 --> 01:42:08,829
a four-year deal locks us into a disadvantage. So you

1617
01:42:08,869 --> 01:42:12,204
all can sit at home being sick. Well, that's great.

1618
01:42:13,135 --> 01:42:18,201
No, Hollywood loses. They lose. They lose. That's just... Well,

1619
01:42:18,221 --> 01:42:20,717
they've got to lose for sure. Yeah, they've already kind

1620
01:42:20,838 --> 01:42:24,352
of... lost. I mean they have no stories. Everything is

1621
01:42:24,392 --> 01:42:28,961
a sequel. What is the new sequel coming out? Is

1622
01:42:29,001 --> 01:42:32,885
something another new sequel? Everything's a sequel. Yeah, everything, they

1623
01:42:33,736 --> 01:42:37,593
ran out of ideas. Yeah. How did that happen? How

1624
01:42:37,633 --> 01:42:39,692
did that happen? Let me ask you. How did that

1625
01:42:39,732 --> 01:42:43,164
happen? It's never happened before. They were making movies back

1626
01:42:43,204 --> 01:42:46,190
in the silent era, in the 20s and the 30s.

1627
01:42:46,210 --> 01:42:48,634
There were all kinds of great movies. The 40s, great

1628
01:42:48,675 --> 01:42:52,662
movies. 50s, great movies. 60s and 70s, especially the 70s,

1629
01:42:52,722 --> 01:42:56,850
tremendous films. What happened? Too many movies being made. There's

1630
01:42:56,870 --> 01:43:00,397
not enough. I wouldn't say there's a ton of them

1631
01:43:00,417 --> 01:43:04,319
being made now, are there? Oh, yeah. I think it's

1632
01:43:04,379 --> 01:43:07,426
just short. Yeah, no, no. They're going straight to Netflix

1633
01:43:07,506 --> 01:43:11,314
in eight mini-movies. Oh, yeah. Eight series. Yeah, you're right.

1634
01:43:11,334 --> 01:43:12,797
You're right. You're right. That's where that goes. Tons of

1635
01:43:12,837 --> 01:43:15,843
crappy movies on Netflix. Yeah, where it should be an

1636
01:43:15,864 --> 01:43:17,427
hour and a half movie and they turn it into

1637
01:43:17,527 --> 01:43:20,332
eight hours and call it a series. And then if

1638
01:43:20,435 --> 01:43:26,285
it gets enough, then they'll do another series. Yeah, we're

1639
01:43:26,305 --> 01:43:29,423
due for another Blair Witch Project, one of those deals.

1640
01:43:29,779 --> 01:43:32,400
Some kids come along and do something that blows everybody

1641
01:43:32,460 --> 01:43:35,368
away. You're cheap, yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's gonna happen. What

1642
01:43:35,408 --> 01:43:39,590
do you make of this Epstein suicide note? Well, here's

1643
01:43:39,631 --> 01:43:42,828
a clip. No, hold on a second. Here we go.

1644
01:43:42,848 --> 01:43:46,034
I got it. New Tonight did accuse sex trafficker Jeffrey

1645
01:43:46,154 --> 01:43:49,580
Epstein, write a suicide note before attempting to take his

1646
01:43:49,660 --> 01:43:52,184
own life. The New York Times reporting that a note

1647
01:43:52,404 --> 01:43:55,329
may exist and is being held under seal by a

1648
01:43:55,409 --> 01:43:59,777
federal judge. Epstein allegedly writing, it's time to say goodbye.

1649
01:44:00,158 --> 01:44:04,105
According to this man. convicted murderer Nicholas Tartaglione, a former

1650
01:44:04,246 --> 01:44:07,392
NYPD officer who shared a cell with Epstein in 2019.

1651
01:44:07,652 --> 01:44:12,642
Tartaglione said something similar in a podcast last year. Jeffrey

1652
01:44:12,662 --> 01:44:16,190
Epstein wrote a suicide note. He says he discovered the

1653
01:44:16,270 --> 01:44:20,759
note after Epstein's apparent suicide attempt weeks before his actual

1654
01:44:20,799 --> 01:44:23,042
death. It was in my book, yeah, when I got

1655
01:44:23,083 --> 01:44:31,202
back into the city. Tertaglione adding... you know, looked into

1656
01:44:31,263 --> 01:44:34,328
me for months and found nothing. NBC News has not

1657
01:44:34,368 --> 01:44:36,940
seen the note, and The Times says it has not

1658
01:44:36,981 --> 01:44:39,754
either. In a statement, the DOJ says it is hard

1659
01:44:39,794 --> 01:44:42,462
to comment on a note. it has not seen, adding

1660
01:44:42,482 --> 01:44:46,691
the department underwent an exhaustive effort to collect all records.

1661
01:44:47,412 --> 01:44:50,919
Epstein's death, which the medical examiner's office declared a suicide,

1662
01:44:51,240 --> 01:44:54,726
has been the subject of intense scrutiny, with many speculating

1663
01:44:54,767 --> 01:44:58,694
without proof that Epstein was murdered. A suicide note could

1664
01:44:58,774 --> 01:45:02,783
potentially dispel the conspiracies. The New York Times is asking

1665
01:45:02,823 --> 01:45:05,771
the federal court to unseal the alleged suicide note, which

1666
01:45:05,852 --> 01:45:09,221
is caught up in Tartaglione's legal proceeding. The Times arguing

1667
01:45:09,261 --> 01:45:12,109
he talked about the note in that podcast and public

1668
01:45:12,249 --> 01:45:16,562
interest in Epstein is immense. I got an interview with

1669
01:45:16,664 --> 01:45:21,581
Steve Eder. He's the... One of the reporters on the

1670
01:45:21,621 --> 01:45:23,925
byline for that story about the note. He was on

1671
01:45:23,986 --> 01:45:26,431
CNN. Listen to this. Now, the Times reports that the

1672
01:45:26,491 --> 01:45:29,617
alleged suicide note was sealed by a federal judge as

1673
01:45:29,677 --> 01:45:32,924
part of the cellmate's criminal case. My source on this

1674
01:45:32,964 --> 01:45:35,088
tonight is on the byline of this story, the investigative

1675
01:45:35,108 --> 01:45:37,994
reporter for The New York Times, Steve Eder. And thank

1676
01:45:38,034 --> 01:45:39,838
you, sir, for being here, because I want to start

1677
01:45:39,858 --> 01:45:43,250
with how this. possible note was recovered. The cellmate apparently

1678
01:45:43,310 --> 01:45:46,101
says he found the note in his cell tucked into

1679
01:45:46,141 --> 01:45:49,687
a graphic novel. end up locked away by a judge.

1680
01:45:50,028 --> 01:45:52,174
What's a graphic novel? Is that a novel? Is that

1681
01:45:52,215 --> 01:45:56,106
a comic book? Comic book. Yeah, it takes a circuitous

1682
01:45:56,166 --> 01:45:58,292
path, I guess, to being locked away from a judge.

1683
01:45:58,312 --> 01:46:00,619
But basically, the short of it is, is that the

1684
01:46:00,599 --> 01:46:04,387
The cellmate says that he discovered the note in the

1685
01:46:04,407 --> 01:46:07,233
days after Epstein was found injured in his cell, right?

1686
01:46:07,754 --> 01:46:11,441
And he turned it over to his lawyers. His lawyers

1687
01:46:11,782 --> 01:46:13,806
apparently, according to a document that we reviewed, tried to

1688
01:46:13,887 --> 01:46:17,033
authenticate it, weren't able to right away. And then it

1689
01:46:17,213 --> 01:46:20,989
ended up being moved over to... his criminal case, not

1690
01:46:21,029 --> 01:46:23,313
the Epstein case, but this other case that was playing

1691
01:46:23,474 --> 01:46:27,221
out kind of parallel and ended up sort of sequestered

1692
01:46:27,281 --> 01:46:30,587
from the Epstein proceedings in this whole other separate case

1693
01:46:30,667 --> 01:46:33,132
for years now. And in that case, the judge put

1694
01:46:33,152 --> 01:46:38,718
the letter, this purported note under seal. If you're interested,

1695
01:46:38,758 --> 01:46:41,902
I have another clip. that explains the process of how

1696
01:46:41,963 --> 01:46:45,189
it got under seal. Yes, please. Before we get to

1697
01:46:45,229 --> 01:46:47,634
the contents of the note and what it might mean,

1698
01:46:47,674 --> 01:46:50,419
why is it locked up in a courthouse? Like, why

1699
01:46:50,459 --> 01:46:52,944
wasn't it released as part of the Epstein document? Yeah,

1700
01:46:53,065 --> 01:46:55,189
so even before that, John, good morning to you. I

1701
01:46:55,249 --> 01:46:58,395
think it's important to discuss whether it's authentic or not.

1702
01:46:58,415 --> 01:46:59,798
I want to get to that, but just tell me

1703
01:46:59,818 --> 01:47:03,305
why it's locked up. is that it was under seal.

1704
01:47:03,385 --> 01:47:06,491
And apparently judges have vast discretion with respect to whether

1705
01:47:06,531 --> 01:47:09,918
they're putting something under seal, which means it's not in

1706
01:47:09,978 --> 01:47:12,763
the public's view. It's not in the court records. If

1707
01:47:12,803 --> 01:47:15,569
you go and right now we have a system in

1708
01:47:15,609 --> 01:47:17,813
federal court, state court too, where you can literally go

1709
01:47:17,873 --> 01:47:19,697
into the docket and look at a variety of materials.

1710
01:47:19,717 --> 01:47:21,260
Well, there are some materials that are under seal. materials

1711
01:47:21,581 --> 01:47:23,624
that are sensitive that are not going to be in

1712
01:47:23,685 --> 01:47:26,570
that docket because a judge in that judge's discretion will

1713
01:47:26,630 --> 01:47:29,937
seal it. That's what they did here. Remember, this involves

1714
01:47:30,037 --> 01:47:33,724
Tartaglione. Who's he? He's a person who was convicted. He

1715
01:47:33,744 --> 01:47:37,090
was Jeffrey Epstein's cellmate, and he ultimately was convicted for

1716
01:47:37,151 --> 01:47:40,357
four, yes, four quadruple murder. And as a result of

1717
01:47:40,397 --> 01:47:42,942
that and them sharing a cell, He purportedly, that is,

1718
01:47:43,243 --> 01:47:46,509
Mr. Tartaglione found the note, reported it to his lawyers.

1719
01:47:46,529 --> 01:47:48,293
He had about 18 of them, by the way, over

1720
01:47:48,313 --> 01:47:51,058
the course of time. And they got involved, the lawyers

1721
01:47:51,098 --> 01:47:52,902
did, with respect, hey, what should we do with the

1722
01:47:52,962 --> 01:47:54,926
note? How do we authenticate the note? Should we put

1723
01:47:54,946 --> 01:47:57,091
the note under seal? It became the subject of a

1724
01:47:57,151 --> 01:48:01,219
lot of controversy. The attorneys argued it was attorney-client privilege.

1725
01:48:01,199 --> 01:48:04,666
incident to their communications and them seeking advice and will

1726
01:48:04,706 --> 01:48:08,994
Jeffrey Epstein claim that I actually, Tartaglione, his cellmate, killed

1727
01:48:09,034 --> 01:48:10,878
him or tried to kill him and so what do

1728
01:48:10,898 --> 01:48:13,903
we do? And so the judge ultimately said it's going

1729
01:48:13,943 --> 01:48:15,747
to be away from public view, it's going to be

1730
01:48:15,867 --> 01:48:18,552
in a vault in the federal courthouse and it has

1731
01:48:18,853 --> 01:48:21,578
remained there for all this time. Basically a judge has

1732
01:48:21,698 --> 01:48:25,652
his... under his purview right now, involved in a separate

1733
01:48:25,672 --> 01:48:28,056
case, which is why it was not part of the

1734
01:48:28,216 --> 01:48:31,902
Epstein files per se. And the source here, this is

1735
01:48:32,023 --> 01:48:36,610
from a cellmate charged with four murders, quadruple murder, who

1736
01:48:36,690 --> 01:48:38,453
said he found the note and is the only person

1737
01:48:38,473 --> 01:48:40,877
that we know so far to tell us what was

1738
01:48:41,037 --> 01:48:43,742
on it. Time to say. So the credibility of the

1739
01:48:43,803 --> 01:49:03,924
source? What am I going to do now? Burst out

1740
01:49:03,984 --> 01:49:07,635
in tears. They found nothing, meaning indicating what was on

1741
01:49:07,655 --> 01:49:10,885
that particular note. Well, I don't think this means very

1742
01:49:10,966 --> 01:49:17,253
much. It's interesting, though, how that happened. Yeah, it's kind

1743
01:49:17,294 --> 01:49:20,335
of fascinating, I guess. I didn't realize it's so easy

1744
01:49:20,375 --> 01:49:26,977
to ditch stuff. Yeah. There's another, um... Yeah, man, you

1745
01:49:27,018 --> 01:49:33,027
predicted this so early on. About parents getting... Sued. Getting

1746
01:49:33,107 --> 01:49:36,539
locked up for their children's crimes. Yeah, well, it hasn't

1747
01:49:36,579 --> 01:49:39,047
really caught on yet to an extreme. Well, no, it's

1748
01:49:39,087 --> 01:49:43,040
catching. A beloved Vietnam War veteran and teacher has... died

1749
01:49:43,201 --> 01:49:46,267
two weeks after he was allegedly hit by a teen

1750
01:49:46,448 --> 01:49:50,537
on an e-motorcycle. Now the teen's mother is facing manslaughter

1751
01:49:50,577 --> 01:49:54,525
charges. CBS LA's Nicole Comstock with the charges and the

1752
01:49:54,626 --> 01:49:58,873
heartbreak from friends of the victim. After a two week

1753
01:49:58,934 --> 01:50:03,221
long fight for his life, treasured Vietnam veteran Orange County

1754
01:50:03,281 --> 01:50:07,371
teacher Ed Ashman has died. This after prosecutors say a

1755
01:50:07,391 --> 01:50:12,783
14-year-old boy illegally riding a powerful e-motorcycle hit Ashman while

1756
01:50:12,843 --> 01:50:15,590
he was walking home from school and left him in

1757
01:50:15,630 --> 01:50:19,980
the street. I feel pretty bad. was 81 and I

1758
01:50:20,000 --> 01:50:22,547
didn't want to see him go out like that. "Long

1759
01:50:22,567 --> 01:50:25,272
time friends and neighbors say after serving our country with

1760
01:50:25,332 --> 01:50:28,798
honor as a fighter pilot, then dedicating his golden years

1761
01:50:28,898 --> 01:50:32,203
to mentoring the next generation at El Toro High School,

1762
01:50:32,844 --> 01:50:36,170
it's a shame that a young teen's actions allegedly led

1763
01:50:36,230 --> 01:50:39,375
to his death." "The Vietnam War, he went through that

1764
01:50:39,796 --> 01:50:43,606
and then this happened." The boy's mom, Tammy Jo Mayher,

1765
01:50:43,647 --> 01:50:47,313
has now been charged with involuntary manslaughter. The new felony

1766
01:50:47,353 --> 01:50:50,599
complaint alleges she was also an accessory after the fact,

1767
01:50:51,060 --> 01:50:53,845
harboring and concealing her son so he could avoid arrest

1768
01:50:53,905 --> 01:50:57,351
and punishment. Police say they already told the boy's mother

1769
01:50:57,392 --> 01:51:00,357
a year ago, on body-worn camera, that she could face

1770
01:51:00,477 --> 01:51:03,986
criminal charges. for continuing to allow her son to ride

1771
01:51:04,006 --> 01:51:09,034
the e-motorcycle that requires a driver's license. Orange County District

1772
01:51:09,094 --> 01:51:12,980
Attorney Todd Spitzer says in writing, this mother essentially handed

1773
01:51:13,040 --> 01:51:17,206
her 14-year-old son a deadly weapon and despite multiple warnings

1774
01:51:17,306 --> 01:51:22,024
on the dangers, continued to let him illegally ride. Hmm.

1775
01:51:23,979 --> 01:51:25,807
Well, they get this kind of an open and shut

1776
01:51:25,867 --> 01:51:29,443
case. It's a little more easier to push than someone

1777
01:51:29,463 --> 01:51:32,417
who's just a careless parent and lets their kid go

1778
01:51:32,517 --> 01:51:36,635
wild. Well. This is a question for Darren O'Neill. He

1779
01:51:36,977 --> 01:51:41,148
keeps track of the murders and shootings in Chicago. How

1780
01:51:41,209 --> 01:51:43,580
many parents of those kids, because a lot of them

1781
01:51:43,601 --> 01:51:45,952
are kids, do you ever hear in a story like

1782
01:51:45,992 --> 01:51:51,059
this? Well, none yet. No, none. It's going to happen.

1783
01:51:51,767 --> 01:51:54,270
That doesn't seem like it's... You have to get a

1784
01:51:54,351 --> 01:51:58,420
build... There has to be a build-up. of case law.

1785
01:51:59,095 --> 01:52:01,692
So it's gonna have to be after, you know... Maybe.

1786
01:52:02,623 --> 01:52:06,302
dozens of cases like this go through and so you

1787
01:52:06,343 --> 01:52:11,146
can put together this kind of an indictment. Based on

1788
01:52:11,247 --> 01:52:14,166
something that's happened already. But it never used to be

1789
01:52:14,226 --> 01:52:17,082
that way. I don't understand. I mean, he used to

1790
01:52:17,144 --> 01:52:22,466
go to juvie. Why the parents now? I just don't

1791
01:52:22,506 --> 01:52:26,715
get it. It doesn't make sense from a legal perspective.

1792
01:52:31,551 --> 01:52:36,929
It will. Shut up. It will make sense. Shut up.

1793
01:52:37,070 --> 01:52:39,919
It will. Shut up. The law will be the law.

1794
01:52:40,151 --> 01:52:44,692
I don't like it. Well, I kind of like it.

1795
01:52:44,713 --> 01:52:50,099
Really? Okay. Uh... How about a drunk or not drunk?

1796
01:52:50,615 --> 01:52:53,027
Oh, we haven't had one of those in a while.

1797
01:52:53,047 --> 01:52:55,297
I don't even know if I can find the jingle

1798
01:52:55,378 --> 01:52:57,387
or not. I'm drunk. Yeah, I was hoping for the

1799
01:52:57,468 --> 01:53:01,734
jingle. Not drunk. Drunk or not drunk. Uh... Let me

1800
01:53:01,755 --> 01:53:03,716
see. I have it here. I think I have it

1801
01:53:03,777 --> 01:53:07,619
here. No, that's not it. You know, whatever happened to

1802
01:53:07,699 --> 01:53:12,053
that jingle? Drunk or not drunk. I have a million

1803
01:53:12,113 --> 01:53:14,843
drunk or not drunks, but none of them says, this

1804
01:53:15,004 --> 01:53:17,593
is the jingle, Adam, the one you're looking for. Oh,

1805
01:53:17,633 --> 01:53:19,980
here it is. In fact, I have it. Drunk or

1806
01:53:20,041 --> 01:53:25,816
not drunk, jingle original! Drunk or not drunk! Found it.

1807
01:53:25,878 --> 01:53:28,615
Yeah, I found it. All right, here we go. Can't

1808
01:53:28,656 --> 01:53:32,286
wait. I gave it set it up. This is one

1809
01:53:32,326 --> 01:53:38,531
of the... one of the Reverend Al's meetups, and he's

1810
01:53:38,571 --> 01:53:41,777
got Kamala Harris. So are you gonna run again in

1811
01:53:41,838 --> 01:53:53,506
28? Um, Listen, I might. I might. I'm thinking about

1812
01:53:53,567 --> 01:53:57,842
it. But let me say this. Let me say this.

1813
01:53:58,629 --> 01:54:01,913
I am thinking about it. But let me also say

1814
01:54:01,973 --> 01:54:11,753
this. I served... for four years. being a heartbeat away

1815
01:54:11,774 --> 01:54:18,833
from the presidency of the United States. I spent countless

1816
01:54:18,894 --> 01:54:23,319
hours in my West Wing office. footsteps away from the

1817
01:54:23,399 --> 01:54:26,783
Oval Office. I spent countless hours in the Oval Office

1818
01:54:26,823 --> 01:54:30,816
and the Situation Room. I know what the job is.

1819
01:54:32,515 --> 01:54:36,639
And I know what it requires. and I am thinking

1820
01:54:36,680 --> 01:54:40,180
about it in the context of then You know, is...

1821
01:54:40,983 --> 01:54:45,392
Who and where and how can the best job be

1822
01:54:45,432 --> 01:54:47,637
done for the American people? That's how I'm thinking about

1823
01:54:47,657 --> 01:54:51,525
it. I'll keep you posted. I'll keep you posted. Okay.

1824
01:54:52,046 --> 01:54:56,595
All right. All right. Vice President of the United States.

1825
01:54:57,367 --> 01:55:05,367
Kamala Harris. Drunk. I'm going to say not drunk. I

1826
01:55:05,388 --> 01:55:07,323
think she's not drunk. I think it's a different, you

1827
01:55:07,343 --> 01:55:11,032
need a different jingle for her. Black or not black.

1828
01:55:11,052 --> 01:55:12,958
I think she's trying to do kind of a... Oh,

1829
01:55:12,978 --> 01:55:15,526
jeez. Yeah, she's kind of trying to do like an

1830
01:55:15,707 --> 01:55:18,596
urban type vibe. You know, I was just steps a

1831
01:55:18,817 --> 01:55:23,162
heartbeat away. Hop it away from the presidency. No, I

1832
01:55:23,202 --> 01:55:25,096
don't think she's drunk here. You think she's drunk? Okay,

1833
01:55:25,318 --> 01:55:29,394
I just, it seemed drunk to me. Well, okay. She

1834
01:55:29,455 --> 01:55:32,487
seems drunk to me all the time. How about SSRIs?

1835
01:55:34,827 --> 01:55:41,882
Interesting. I have this old PBS NewsHour clip, and the

1836
01:55:41,902 --> 01:55:43,509
only reason I want to play it is because it's

1837
01:55:43,549 --> 01:55:50,890
got the 33,000. is in the in the title okay

1838
01:55:50,990 --> 01:55:53,621
and 33 is a magic number okay this is ukraine

1839
01:55:53,742 --> 01:55:59,301
shut down 33 000. Russian attack drones. Ukraine says it

1840
01:55:59,361 --> 01:56:03,529
shot down more than 33,000 Russian drones in March. That's

1841
01:56:03,589 --> 01:56:06,736
the most in a single month since Russia's invasion more

1842
01:56:06,776 --> 01:56:09,662
than four years ago. Ukraine has been ramping up its

1843
01:56:09,722 --> 01:56:13,930
drone capabilities in response to Russia's relentless aerial attacks and

1844
01:56:14,050 --> 01:56:17,878
increasingly taking the fight back across the border. Officials said

1845
01:56:17,918 --> 01:56:21,347
today... Ukrainian forces can now strike much deeper inside Russia

1846
01:56:21,728 --> 01:56:24,395
than they could at the start of the war. Earlier

1847
01:56:24,435 --> 01:56:28,505
this month, Moscow accused European nations of expanding drone support

1848
01:56:28,565 --> 01:56:32,275
to Kyiv, prompting a warning today from Russia's defense minister.

1849
01:56:32,919 --> 01:56:37,857
This sort of action facilitates the sharp escalation of the

1850
01:56:37,918 --> 01:56:43,102
military. and political situation across the entire European continent and

1851
01:56:43,143 --> 01:56:49,277
can have unpredictable consequences. Just yesterday, Poland's Prime Minister announced

1852
01:56:49,318 --> 01:56:52,686
that his country will partner with Ukraine to manufacture what

1853
01:56:52,726 --> 01:56:56,616
he described as a drone armada. Poland and Russia share

1854
01:56:56,636 --> 01:56:59,866
a border and Russia has violated Polish airspace on a

1855
01:56:59,967 --> 01:57:09,984
number of occasions since the Ukraine war started. ♪ The

1856
01:57:10,005 --> 01:57:14,659
magic number Now, the clip I'm most interested in, just

1857
01:57:14,760 --> 01:57:20,896
perusing your list, is the limited edition. Trump passport. Yeah,

1858
01:57:20,917 --> 01:57:23,086
you know about that, no? No, I don't, but I'm

1859
01:57:23,186 --> 01:57:25,416
interested and I'll tell you why after I play your

1860
01:57:25,476 --> 01:57:28,007
clip. The U.S. State Department- I'm going to guess why.

1861
01:57:31,627 --> 01:57:34,080
Your passport's running out and you want to get one.

1862
01:57:34,100 --> 01:57:36,353
Yes! The U.S. State Department is rolling out a new

1863
01:57:36,494 --> 01:57:39,283
limited edition passport. forth, it includes a picture of President

1864
01:57:39,343 --> 01:57:42,128
Trump. The State Department posted what it called a sneak

1865
01:57:42,229 --> 01:57:45,455
peek on social media. It shows the president's image on

1866
01:57:45,475 --> 01:57:48,301
the inside cover with his signature and gold lettering at

1867
01:57:48,341 --> 01:57:51,167
the bottom. The back cover shows a more traditional scene

1868
01:57:51,207 --> 01:57:54,233
of the Declaration of Independence. The release is part of

1869
01:57:54,273 --> 01:57:59,685
the commemorations marking the 250th anniversary. of American Independence. It's

1870
01:57:59,765 --> 01:58:02,632
also the latest effort to put Mr. Trump's mark on

1871
01:58:02,672 --> 01:58:06,021
the nation, which includes his images on government buildings, his

1872
01:58:06,101 --> 01:58:08,948
name on what was the Kennedy Center, and a planned

1873
01:58:08,968 --> 01:58:12,557
arch in Washington, among others. Yeah, this is an obvious

1874
01:58:12,637 --> 01:58:16,289
collectible. I feel the same way. I want to get

1875
01:58:16,410 --> 01:58:19,663
one too because my past force expired oh my oh

1876
01:58:20,211 --> 01:58:22,256
You should get on that right away. You can do

1877
01:58:22,296 --> 01:58:23,559
that now. Well, no, you don't want to get on

1878
01:58:23,579 --> 01:58:26,085
it right away because it hasn't been released yet. It's

1879
01:58:26,165 --> 01:58:28,651
coming out in the summer. Oh, okay. And it's only

1880
01:58:28,691 --> 01:58:31,518
going to be a limited edition, I believe, of 50,000.

1881
01:58:31,798 --> 01:58:34,661
Oh! So you're going to have to get in right

1882
01:58:34,681 --> 01:58:38,119
at the right moment. So I got a note from.

1883
01:58:38,351 --> 01:58:40,841
State Department, they send out emails now and they say,

1884
01:58:40,861 --> 01:58:44,114
hey, you can renew online. This is crazy. You can

1885
01:58:44,456 --> 01:58:48,582
make your own passport picture. And they show you how

1886
01:58:48,642 --> 01:58:50,249
to do it? Yeah, I did that with my passport

1887
01:58:50,289 --> 01:58:53,983
already years ago, decades ago. Do you remember decades ago?

1888
01:58:54,063 --> 01:58:56,292
Do you remember? You used to have to go to

1889
01:58:56,332 --> 01:59:00,321
a special photographer. He had to have special film, a

1890
01:59:00,361 --> 01:59:05,787
special backdrop. It was all special, special, special, special dude,

1891
01:59:06,330 --> 01:59:10,043
special shop. They had to wait, they had to develop

1892
01:59:10,205 --> 01:59:13,099
it, you know, in a dark room. It used to

1893
01:59:13,139 --> 01:59:15,380
be very complicated. Now you can just take your own

1894
01:59:15,501 --> 01:59:20,248
picture and submit it? This was years ago. The last

1895
01:59:20,308 --> 01:59:23,233
two passports I've had, I took my own picture with

1896
01:59:23,313 --> 01:59:25,818
a digital camera at the right, you know, against a

1897
01:59:25,878 --> 01:59:30,246
blank wall, cut it out and submitted it. It went

1898
01:59:30,286 --> 01:59:33,772
in the passport just fine. Well... This isn't new. When

1899
01:59:33,872 --> 01:59:39,577
I renewed mine, which was... Seven years ago, for some

1900
01:59:39,617 --> 01:59:41,495
reason I got a seven year passport, I don't know

1901
01:59:41,535 --> 01:59:46,844
why. Maybe it was ten years, nine years ago. He

1902
01:59:46,884 --> 01:59:48,476
couldn't do it. That was not. I don't know how

1903
01:59:48,557 --> 01:59:50,471
you got to do that, but there was no offer

1904
01:59:50,552 --> 01:59:53,736
for me. to do that online with my own. I

1905
01:59:53,756 --> 01:59:56,855
just did it. Just now you said, just, you just

1906
01:59:56,895 --> 01:59:59,047
did it. You just. You just did it. You just,

1907
01:59:59,087 --> 02:00:02,104
here's my favorite. Did you do it with your phone

1908
02:00:02,124 --> 02:00:04,881
in the drawer with that one? No, I used a

1909
02:00:04,962 --> 02:00:08,613
good quality camera. Oh, okay. I had a perfect background.

1910
02:00:08,633 --> 02:00:11,021
It was exactly the same as you'd get. I had

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02:00:11,462 --> 02:00:15,094
Jay or somebody take my picture two or three times

1912
02:00:15,154 --> 02:00:17,722
and took the best one, cut it. into the exact

1913
02:00:17,802 --> 02:00:20,771
right size, blew it up to the right size, printed

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02:00:20,831 --> 02:00:24,824
it out myself, and then cut it into a square

1915
02:00:24,904 --> 02:00:27,051
and submitted it and went right through it. And this

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02:00:27,131 --> 02:00:32,354
is, like I said, at least two passports ago. Well,

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02:00:32,515 --> 02:00:34,766
I was unaware. Anyway, I want one of them, so

1918
02:00:34,786 --> 02:00:36,515
I'll wait until it's released. I'll try and get in

1919
02:00:36,615 --> 02:00:38,202
on that. Yeah, this is it. It's going to be

1920
02:00:38,242 --> 02:00:40,832
a timing issue. A hot item. It's a hot item.

1921
02:00:40,872 --> 02:00:43,683
I want that. But a lot of people, we don't

1922
02:00:43,823 --> 02:00:48,416
want it. I want it. I want it! That'd be

1923
02:00:48,457 --> 02:00:51,817
hilarious. I want this gold coin. I want everything I

1924
02:00:51,858 --> 02:00:54,296
can get. Because we're never going to see this again.

1925
02:00:54,397 --> 02:00:59,735
You know, somebody back in 2020... sent me a box.

1926
02:01:00,347 --> 02:01:05,903
Full of Trump collectibles. Oh, what'd you do? Phony dollar

1927
02:01:05,943 --> 02:01:08,812
bills. Yeah, I got those. I got the Trump. And

1928
02:01:08,852 --> 02:01:12,903
a bunch of coinage and stickers and all kinds of

1929
02:01:12,944 --> 02:01:15,815
stuff. It's just a huge. And it was just so

1930
02:01:15,896 --> 02:01:17,573
much stuff, I just packed it up and put it

1931
02:01:17,594 --> 02:01:20,120
in the attic. It might be worth a fortune someday.

1932
02:01:20,140 --> 02:01:24,731
So listen to this. The last no agenda meetup. You

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02:01:24,751 --> 02:01:27,382
know, which was here at J6 or Jenny's place and

1934
02:01:27,422 --> 02:01:30,924
people were very kind and donating on the spot. And

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02:01:30,984 --> 02:01:33,154
so we counted, you know, we count out the money

1936
02:01:33,175 --> 02:01:34,983
and then we send you the check. And then, you

1937
02:01:35,003 --> 02:01:36,852
know, we, cause we do that all officially. We don't

1938
02:01:36,892 --> 02:01:39,161
want it to, you know, there's nothing. It's all above

1939
02:01:39,221 --> 02:01:42,533
board. We pay our taxes. Yeah, we pay taxes. Too

1940
02:01:42,553 --> 02:01:46,265
many taxes. And so, Tina, I'm usually like, just keep

1941
02:01:46,306 --> 02:01:48,192
the cash around, you know. Tina's like, no, I'm going

1942
02:01:48,212 --> 02:01:49,637
to take it to the bank. We take it to

1943
02:01:49,677 --> 02:01:54,743
the bank. And, you know, like maybe six $100 bills.

1944
02:01:55,483 --> 02:02:04,073
And the bank manager's like, um... Uh... Do you realize

1945
02:02:04,134 --> 02:02:08,571
that these are not all real? I'm like, what? You

1946
02:02:08,611 --> 02:02:14,021
had six counterfeit bills? No. two were $100 bills with

1947
02:02:14,142 --> 02:02:20,974
Trump on it. Yes. Someone handed off phony Trump hundies.

1948
02:02:22,321 --> 02:02:29,700
Oh, brother. I thought it was pretty funny. Oh, I'm

1949
02:02:29,780 --> 02:02:32,435
sorry. I didn't mean to try and scam you, Mr.

1950
02:02:32,516 --> 02:02:36,856
Bank. Yeah. You didn't notice this? No! No, we didn't

1951
02:02:36,937 --> 02:02:40,491
notice it. accounting because the the the back that just

1952
02:02:40,511 --> 02:02:42,077
looks normal you look at the front like oh this

1953
02:02:42,157 --> 02:02:45,469
trump that can't be a real hundred dollar bill that's

1954
02:02:45,489 --> 02:02:49,737
hilarious That was a good guy. Can you cash this

1955
02:02:49,838 --> 02:02:56,537
bill with Trump's picture? Or did that good work? Hand

1956
02:02:56,558 --> 02:03:00,191
in your nightmare. Hand in your night ring. Hey, with

1957
02:03:00,211 --> 02:03:01,735
that, I want to thank you for your courage. In

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02:03:01,755 --> 02:03:03,379
the morning to you, the man who put the C

1959
02:03:03,600 --> 02:03:06,348
in co-opted and captured. Say hello to my friend on

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02:03:06,388 --> 02:03:12,653
the other end. Be one, the only, Mr. John. Well,

1961
02:03:12,673 --> 02:03:14,242
good morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry. Also in the

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morning, all ships to sea, boots on the ground, feet

1963
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in the air, subs in the one on the dames

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tonight. It's out there. In the morning to the trolls

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in the troll room. Let me count you. Here we

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go. And away we go. 1,589 trolls listening live to

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02:03:28,482 --> 02:03:31,873
the live stream. Which means someone's interested in what we

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have to say, and we like that. For those of

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02:03:34,434 --> 02:03:36,468
you who stuck with us since the beginning of this

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program, this is where you... Return the value you receive

1971
02:03:40,147 --> 02:03:42,352
from this show. You send us emails about it. You

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02:03:42,392 --> 02:03:44,476
let us know about it in person. Now make it

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come true. Value for value. There's no ads. There's no

1974
02:03:48,184 --> 02:03:52,834
subscriptions. Nothing's mandatory. No hoops. No jumps. No tote bags.

1975
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Although we used to have tote bags, but they were

1976
02:03:54,738 --> 02:03:57,771
toxic from China. So we got rid of those. We're

1977
02:03:57,791 --> 02:04:00,936
going to kill people. Remember those tote bags we had?

1978
02:04:01,719 --> 02:04:04,267
Oh, yeah, the ones that stunk from the coal tar.

1979
02:04:04,488 --> 02:04:08,702
It was some kind of toxic chemical. It never worked

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out. Time, talent, and treasure. That is exactly what we

1981
02:04:12,982 --> 02:04:14,708
ask for. By the way, you should be listening to

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us in a modern podcast app. We certainly hope that

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you are because... That way, when we go live, you

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get the automatic bat signal, which tells you we're live.

1985
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And in the actual podcast app, just like a radio

1986
02:04:25,296 --> 02:04:28,041
receiver, you can then listen to us live. And in

1987
02:04:28,081 --> 02:04:30,565
fact, a lot of the different No Agenda shows all

1988
02:04:30,866 --> 02:04:34,031
use this live stream capability, and it'll all give you

1989
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an alert, and then you can listen to it live

1990
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in your podcast app. But maybe just as important... One

1991
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of the 28, 27, 28 new features that we've added

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to podcasting, part of the podcastindex.org and podcasting 2.0, is

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the fact that within 90 seconds of updating our podcast,

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you'll get the alert and it'll be on your device.

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No more waiting on these legacy apps. Just don't wait

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for it. So value for value. support us in many

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02:04:58,996 --> 02:05:03,577
different ways. Time, talent, and treasure. We always appreciate people

1998
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doing things, boots on the ground, helping us with clips,

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with ideas, with your expertise. Everyone's an expert in something.

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And when it comes around, when it's your time, it's

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02:05:14,354 --> 02:05:18,100
your responsibility to let us know exactly. what we got

2002
02:05:18,160 --> 02:05:21,006
wrong or to set us right before we even get

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02:05:21,066 --> 02:05:25,495
started on some topic. And of course, we also appreciate

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02:05:25,555 --> 02:05:29,343
people who do artwork for us, which is increasingly easier.

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But is it really? I think the competition's gotten harder.

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People are doing more. They're getting more into the finesse

2007
02:05:36,919 --> 02:05:39,029
of... prompting. The same with the end of show mixes.

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I think we have three great ones again today. Do

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02:05:40,879 --> 02:05:42,849
you like the one about you? Did you hear that

2010
02:05:42,869 --> 02:05:46,358
one? About your open heart surgery? The one I liked

2011
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the best was the heavy metal one about the show.

2012
02:05:49,673 --> 02:05:52,065
Yeah, the first one. The second one was good, too,

2013
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John. I mean, you just don't like the first one

2014
02:05:55,029 --> 02:05:58,741
the most. Okay, well. And I asked the guy, I

2015
02:05:58,902 --> 02:06:01,235
said, are you using Suno? He said, yeah, I'm using

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02:06:01,315 --> 02:06:04,151
Suno. So people are getting better at this prompting business.

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And that goes for Blue Acorn. who just had a

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02:06:08,533 --> 02:06:11,311
good idea. And we have a good idea and you

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can implement that. It just works. It doesn't matter what

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tools you use as far as I'm concerned. This was

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the... artwork for episode 1864 we titled that point cast

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A lot of people enjoyed us talking about the old

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computer days. About point-point- A lot of people. Yes, I

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got a lot of notes about it. 504, eh? Hey,

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02:06:31,144 --> 02:06:34,112
they remember the good old days. No, it was young

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people who could not believe. We had a processor. technology

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with a North Star Drive. Wow. - A North Star

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Drive, now that's a blast from the past. Seagate, baby.

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Seagate. Blue Acorn made us a beautiful piece of art.

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It was soft sector, not hard sector. Back when floppy

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disks were floppy. Actually floppy. This was the young ladies

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on the beach. spelling out 8008, a classic calculator joke.

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From the days of... Seagate floppy, Seagate drives and floppy

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disks. a boob donation number and nicely slipped in there

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little uh nick the rat on the beach little rat

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Little rat on the beach. Yeah. Which was nice. Yeah.

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So it was a good piece. We both liked it.

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We looked at a couple other things. We look at

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noagendaartgenerator.com. That's where everybody could participate. Everybody can. upload their

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work. We use it in other things as well, not

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just the album art for the show, which is critical

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02:07:44,868 --> 02:07:54,222
to us, but also for newsletters and for... blogger. Yeah,

2043
02:07:54,242 --> 02:07:59,652
I saw that. So, uh... *laughs* No, CSV, just no.

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02:07:59,832 --> 02:08:02,319
Talking about a blast from the past, next to the

2045
02:08:02,379 --> 02:08:06,270
seashells was the Flying Toasters. Yeah, to me, I liked

2046
02:08:06,310 --> 02:08:08,776
the Flying Toaster one, but I thought that was good.

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I want to mention the Flying Toasters, the people that

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did the Flying Toasters, they were in Berkeley. Yeah. That's

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02:08:15,174 --> 02:08:22,710
the company that became. Move. No! What? How did they

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02:08:22,750 --> 02:08:27,565
go from flying toaster screensavers to moveon.org? They did. They

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just did. Wow. Hmm. Interesting. A little tidbit for the...

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That's a pivot. Yeah, no kidding. Honorary mention to Neswork,

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Nesworks. It was a little discombobulated, but I like the

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02:08:45,386 --> 02:08:47,862
fact that I think he did this art. you know,

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02:08:47,883 --> 02:08:53,838
with old school tools. 86ing the M5M. kicking some seashells.

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02:08:55,044 --> 02:08:57,034
It wasn't quite there. We liked it, but it just

2057
02:08:57,094 --> 02:09:02,779
wasn't quite there. um Very disturbing what people or what

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02:09:02,840 --> 02:09:05,347
the LLMs think you should look like with Baby and

2059
02:09:05,387 --> 02:09:08,677
the Bypass, the new podcast for Spotify. Yeah, apparently bald.

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You're dead. You're basically dead. Even I didn't like that.

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um I still thought. The BB on the beach is

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02:09:19,455 --> 02:09:22,443
funny, but we never use that one. No, that's never

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02:09:22,464 --> 02:09:26,391
gonna happen. Still gives me a chuckle looking at it.

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02:09:26,875 --> 02:09:29,686
I think that would be a lot of different. We've

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02:09:29,726 --> 02:09:31,955
done shell art before when this thing came around the

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02:09:32,016 --> 02:09:36,092
first time. And just looking at what's here, there's plenty

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02:09:36,192 --> 02:09:39,520
of, you still got plenty of chances. to become the

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artwork for episode 1865, noagendaartgenerator.com. And now we thank the...

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Producers who supported us financially, which is critical to our

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operation. You can go to noagendadonations.com and you can... Support

2071
02:09:58,169 --> 02:10:01,589
us there, any amount, anytime you feel like it, just

2072
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any way you want to do it. It's all good.

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But we do need you to do it. And we

2074
02:10:08,491 --> 02:10:14,639
start off with Jason Peterson. From Round Rock, Texas, and

2075
02:10:14,700 --> 02:10:18,519
not too far from here. He comes in with 1000

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02:10:18,499 --> 02:10:23,935
$30.26, so this was a donation I presume he sent

2077
02:10:24,157 --> 02:10:27,316
on the 30th. And he said, no jingles, no karma

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02:10:27,356 --> 02:10:30,042
from soon to be Red Knight Commodore Jason. And yes,

2079
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you will be a Red Knight in the order of

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02:10:32,147 --> 02:10:34,593
the heart. And you will be that momentarily. And we

2081
02:10:34,634 --> 02:10:38,609
thank you very much, Jason, for your support. So it

2082
02:10:38,649 --> 02:10:41,320
goes with Jim in Dallas who came in with $1,000.

2083
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And he has a note he actually wrote. piece of

2084
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paper. Attached, you'll find a long overdue donation been following

2085
02:10:50,387 --> 02:10:55,467
John's sage advice and Adam's hairstyles for years. Back in

2086
02:10:55,488 --> 02:10:58,689
the day, it was John, Jerry Purnell, and Leo. who

2087
02:10:58,850 --> 02:11:01,566
were the go-to guys for all things tech, still miss

2088
02:11:01,626 --> 02:11:06,423
the good old Cranky Geeks V-Blog days. Best wishes, John.

2089
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Here's hoping for a speedy and full recovery. Recently went

2090
02:11:08,894 --> 02:11:13,033
through a heart health-related episode myself. For now, a little

2091
02:11:13,113 --> 02:11:19,903
karma will do. Jim in Dallas. You've got Karma. He's

2092
02:11:19,923 --> 02:11:23,149
also on the birthday list. He is. Anonymous in Charlotte,

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North Carolina, 514.7 cents. ITM Gents, as anonymous, please accept

2094
02:11:29,140 --> 02:11:33,969
this donation of 488.33 plus fees. And thank you for

2095
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the ongoing value and cheers to the best podcast. In

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the universe. Anonymous. All right. Thank you. Night of Sandy

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Parks in Kelverton, New York. 33342 A Job's Karma plus

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random Sharpton, please? Alas, alas, he writes, if only I

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had enough time, talent, or treasure to donate as much

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as you deserve. Cheers to you both, your hearts and

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amygdalas and all the Norwegian donation. Night of Sandy Parks.

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E-S-P-I-C-T. Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs. Let's vote for jobs.

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And coming in with the classic $3.33 and 33 cents,

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Dennis Cato from Tampa, Florida. And he says, ITM Adam

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and John, a big thanks to all the listeners who

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helped make our Manuka Gold Relief Gel a massive hit.

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that's the kind where you can't stretch your leg. Your

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leg is locked up. Yeah, it's terribly painful. Hurts, hurts,

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hurts. And I'm in the dark. I'm in the bathroom.

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I'm like, oh, what am I going to do with

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this? And Tina had just cleaned up the whole. cabinet.

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I'm like, ah. So I'm there with the, you know,

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I gotta get my, I didn't have my phones, I

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don't know, flashlight. My vape was in the bathroom, so

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I'm using the little display from the vape, and I

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found it, and I put some of that Manuka Gold

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Relief Gel on it. Wait, was the bathroom dark? You

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needed a flashlight? Yeah, the bathroom's dark. I turned the

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light on, then Tina would wake up. You taking a

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shower? What were you doing in a dark bathroom? I

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was asleep. It was 1:30 in the morning and I

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wake up with this charley horse so I struggle to

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the bathroom which is connected to the bedroom So, you

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know, if I turn on the light, I might awaken

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my bride. Oh, heaven forbid. Exactly. Exactly, heaven forbid. So

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I find it, she kept it right in the front.

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And within, this is... You know, I used to use

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the, um... Oh, cows, lavender, blossom stuff? Yeah, you should

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just punch the charley horse. That's right. Right. Does that

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work for you? Oh, yeah. Really? Just punch it. I

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did try to punch the Charlie horse, but it didn't

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work out so well. But the relief gel, within seconds.

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I don't know if it's psychological. I don't know how

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it works. Who cares? It works. It works. The placebo.

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effect in action. I'm happy with it. We're thrilled people

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are getting genuine natural help with their pain. We also

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And what are you doing now? I'm... Clicking my... My

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tongue on my mouth. Why? To add impact to the

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sales pitch. It worked. Thank you very much, Manuka Gold

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people. Small, small family business there in Tampa, Florida. And

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we're happy that... that no agenda is supporting them. That's

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great. Austin the pool guy's up. He's in Roseville, California.

2157
02:15:45,335 --> 02:15:49,932
He's an associate executive producer with $225 donation. Hey, Adam

2158
02:15:49,952 --> 02:15:53,665
and John, first-time donor in need of a de-douching. Whoops.

2159
02:15:54,689 --> 02:16:01,510
Don't want to do that. You've been. D-Douched. 38 year

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02:16:01,570 --> 02:16:05,039
old and first saw Adam on Joe Rogan and everything

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02:16:05,555 --> 02:16:12,447
and everything said Hit. Okay. especially when talking about fluoride,

2162
02:16:12,749 --> 02:16:15,990
which is still impossible to get my doctor's, my doctor

2163
02:16:16,030 --> 02:16:21,001
wife to understand. Uh-oh. A lot of people, uh... Just

2164
02:16:21,145 --> 02:16:25,209
do not. Don't get the argument. Yeah. I love listening

2165
02:16:25,249 --> 02:16:28,537
to John, too. He's like the grandpa I never had.

2166
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You're both amazing, and I always look forward to listening

2167
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to you guys while running my own business. Cleaning pools.

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No, it says cleaning. He says cleaning pool. He does

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02:16:39,885 --> 02:16:43,356
say cleaning pool, but I corrected his grammar. That's like

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driving truck. You clean pool. All right. Yeah, that's what

2171
02:16:46,927 --> 02:16:50,696
he said, but I avoided it. It's good to hear

2172
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donations are coming from my area in hell. Roseville. I

2173
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mean, California, I'm in Roseville, and if anyone in this

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area would love top-of-the-line pool service, I've been in business

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for 10 years and a No Agenda fan for two.

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Please eel me, eel me, eel me. eel me at

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mdpoolssca no wait mdpools california ca mdpoolca at gmail.com MD

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is for Marley's dad pool service named after my daughter.

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I'm totally looking to start a meetup in my area.

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Would love to hang out with like-minded individuals. So if

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02:17:32,851 --> 02:17:35,476
anyone wants to email me for that too, I'd love

2182
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to get something together. Thank you both for everything and

2183
02:17:39,917 --> 02:17:46,205
saving people from being. Black Pilled Daily, your new favorite

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pool guy and boobs on the ground for any pool.

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What? Boots. Oh, boots, boots, not boobs. That's in your

2186
02:17:52,945 --> 02:17:55,432
mind. Boots on the ground for any pool related things.

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Austin, the pool guy. All right, Austin. Thank you. Hey,

2188
02:17:58,521 --> 02:18:01,973
there's Eli the Coffee Guy checking in with 205.03. He's

2189
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always at $200. And then the date, 5-3. He says,

2190
02:18:06,825 --> 02:18:09,576
we've all been watching the seed man get deplatformed in

2191
02:18:09,677 --> 02:18:13,272
slow motion for years. The term lawfare feels a bit

2192
02:18:13,372 --> 02:18:17,027
too polite for burning someone's media operation at the stake.

2193
02:18:17,799 --> 02:18:21,609
It was a little disconcerting to go to the InfoWars

2194
02:18:21,649 --> 02:18:25,298
website and just see off-air on the homepage. It also

2195
02:18:25,378 --> 02:18:27,544
shows the limits of the ability of the system to

2196
02:18:27,604 --> 02:18:30,631
silence dissenting voices. You can pull the plug on a

2197
02:18:30,671 --> 02:18:34,240
studio, not the signal. After all, there's a war on

2198
02:18:34,301 --> 02:18:37,519
for your mind. Adam, thank you for leading the charge.

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podcasting 2.0 decentralization is the only way to go and

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the only way to go for good coffee is to

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visit gigawattcoffeeroasters.com and use code ITM20 for 20% off your

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order stay caffeinated says Eli the coffee guy and he

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wants a dealer's choice Alex Jones Jingle. if we have...

2204
02:19:00,189 --> 02:19:02,672
Here's one. That's when I declare a jihad on their

2205
02:19:02,692 --> 02:19:07,296
ass. Let me try something. Get the frogs or gay

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02:19:07,436 --> 02:19:13,541
out. Oh, oh, the frogs. Okay. Frogs. Frogs. Gay. A

2207
02:19:14,445 --> 02:19:17,337
classic, of course. I don't like them putting chemicals in

2208
02:19:17,357 --> 02:19:20,840
the water! to turn the friggin' frogs gay. Oh, classic.

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Classic, classic, classic. Linda Lupatkin in Castle Rock, Colorado, 200.

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Jobs Karma. Your resume has about 10 seconds to make

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an impression and most don't. For a resume that gets

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results, go to imagermakersinc.com. Linda helps. professionals and executives turn

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their experience into a clear story of leadership results and

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impact. That's Image Makers Inc. with a K. And Linda

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Liu, Duchess of Jobs and writer of winning resumes. Jobs,

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02:19:55,049 --> 02:20:02,366
jobs, jobs, and jobs. Let's vote. And a couple more

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associate executive producers with $200, Steve from Hillsborough, Oregon. And

2218
02:20:06,373 --> 02:20:09,178
Steve says, thank you for sparing all of our sanity

2219
02:20:09,218 --> 02:20:11,782
during the trying times with the COVID hoax. Keep up

2220
02:20:11,822 --> 02:20:14,928
the great work as your media deconstruction is second to

2221
02:20:14,988 --> 02:20:23,502
none. God bless. Dame Toni Helft. In Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,

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200 bucks. She wrote a note. She's got a birthday.

2223
02:20:25,757 --> 02:20:29,471
I think she, yeah. Did I say, I said, you

2224
02:20:29,512 --> 02:20:32,773
said he. But I probably didn't. This is where you

2225
02:20:32,813 --> 02:20:35,485
say, you're supposed to say, that word never left my

2226
02:20:35,546 --> 02:20:39,168
lips. That word never left my mouth. Dear John and

2227
02:20:39,268 --> 02:20:42,073
Adam, first off, I want to say how happy I

2228
02:20:42,233 --> 02:20:45,719
am that John's recovering so well. I was very concerned

2229
02:20:45,779 --> 02:20:49,164
when he had his heart attack and subsequent surgery and

2230
02:20:49,284 --> 02:20:54,693
very distressed hearing about his anesthesia problems. I'm no doctor,

2231
02:20:54,773 --> 02:20:58,519
but I'm fairly certain you're not supposed to be awake.

2232
02:20:58,499 --> 02:21:02,229
Yeah, that's what they tell me. No kidding. Yeah, yeah,

2233
02:21:02,250 --> 02:21:09,167
yeah, yeah. Personally, I would be having... having trauma flashbacks

2234
02:21:09,207 --> 02:21:12,520
for, oh, for sure. Second, I noticed that in episode

2235
02:21:12,540 --> 02:21:17,811
1860, there were no donations in the $100 range. This

2236
02:21:17,913 --> 02:21:21,907
is very concerning to me. I know money is tight

2237
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right now, but maybe people don't realize that this is

2238
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not a charity and that you guys are doing. income

2239
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tax returns are in. So share your good fortune, yes

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you should, with the best podcast in the universe. Thank

2241
02:21:38,608 --> 02:21:42,915
you for that, Dame Tony. Finally, it's my birthday on

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02:21:42,975 --> 02:21:46,921
May 5th. Everybody's birthday is on May 5th. So here's

2243
02:21:47,001 --> 02:21:50,146
a birthday donation gift for you. Happy birthday to me.

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02:21:50,567 --> 02:21:54,033
No jingles or karma. Thank you for your courage. God

2245
02:21:54,133 --> 02:21:58,584
bless you both. Dame Tony Helps. Thank you, Tony. Appreciate

2246
02:21:58,624 --> 02:22:01,129
that. And thank you to all of these executive and

2247
02:22:01,189 --> 02:22:05,397
associate executive producers of episode 1865. A reminder how it

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works. If you can support us with $200 or above,

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between $200 and $300, not only will we guarantee read

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your note, but you will also receive an associate executive

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producership credit, which is good. Anywhere Hollywood credits are recognized,

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including imdb.com, $300 or above, and that gives you an

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executive producer credit, and of course we'll read your note

2254
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as well. We appreciate what you are doing. We appreciate

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that you are supporting us in such big numbers. We

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could always use more, but we say congratulations to these

2257
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executive and associate executive producers. Our formula is this. We

2258
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hit people in the mouth. And here's the rest of

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our producers $50 and above never below 50 for reasons

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We see you 4999s and lower numbers. We see you

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all and we appreciate all of you. Baron Lattican, Houston,

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Texas. Speaking of the hundreds, there he is, the only

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$100 donor today. Jason Shepard, Trinidad, Colorado, 8076. There's Mr.

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Boob, Kevin McLaughlin. He is the Archduke of Luna, lover

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of America, and boobs from Concord, North Carolina. Carolina and

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he says God bless America and boobs with $80.08 Sir

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Sigma Shoreline Washington 7650 birthday donation for his dad Sir

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Ross of the Broken Ladder Ranch from Sir Sigma. Is

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that the Broken? Is there more? Let me just expand

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this for a second. The Broken Ladder Ranch. Dame Rita!

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Ah, good to see Dame Rita in from Sparks, Nevada.

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dollars and six cents zadoc brown the third pukalani pukalani

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pukalani hawaii connections protection protection he says donate 59 thank

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you eric flenor In Palmyra. Michigan. Did I say it

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right? Yes, Michigan. 55-55. Anyone's house karma for everyone else.

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Okay. Double nickels on the dime. 55-10 from Brian Furley.

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Troy Funderburk in Missoula, Montana. 55. Dame Nancy of the

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Confused in San Bruno, California. 52-44. And she says donations

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help to discourage exit strategy conversations. Keep your favorite podcasters

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Terry Dominelli in Rochester, North Carolina, New Hampshire. Leslie Walker,

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Roseburg, Oregon. Walker Phillips in San Rafael, California. Rounds out

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our 50s. And that's it. Short list today. We definitely

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could use more. You did receive your tax returns. And

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remember to put us in your will. It's always a

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than once, you can do a recurring donation, any amount,

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any frequency works. We appreciate it all. Noagendadonations.com. *Song* on

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April 26th at D Mackie. Dame Toni Helft also celebrating

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on May 25th. And Sir Sigma says happy birthday to

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his dad, Sir Ross of the Broken Ladder Ranch. Happy

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birthday from all of us here at the best podcast

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in the universe. Yes, it's good. And then we have

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not one, but we have two Orders of the Heart.

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Behold the... Miss time Very limited edition pins that come

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with your $1,000 donation along with your knighthood if you're

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not already a knight. Jason Peterson and Jim Indalis. is

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Grab our night. We did have one karma request. How's

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selling karma for everybody? You've got karma. And an F

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cancer for Clayton Swim. You've got... karma and then we

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have the one night so let me get Blade here.

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Are you back? Are you back? You've muted yourself. That's

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what happened. You've muted yourself again. I'm right here. Okay.

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Where's your sword? I will hold, hold on a second.

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Okay. It's the little one. A teeny one! Jason Peterson,

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hop on up, sir. You are about to become not

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just a knight, but a red knight, and you've already

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had. Supported the show in many amounts of thousands of

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dollars for which we are eternally grateful, but hereby I

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am proud to pronounce the red Welcome to the roundtable,

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sir. We got some redheads and ryes, we got beers

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and blunts, we got Gerbils, breastmilk and pabliment. Ho ho!

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Let me right it's here for you at the round

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table and you sir should go to noagendarings.com let us

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know what size ring you have and we'll take care

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of you along with your beautiful red knight order of

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the heart pin which will be coming to you and

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of course along with your signet ring which is an

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Our knight rings are all signet rings, our dame rings

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as well. You get a certificate of authenticity and several

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sticks of wax to seal your important correspondence. Welcome to

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the roundtable, Red Knight Commodore Jason. No agenda! in California,

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as we heard earlier from our associate executive producer. And

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02:28:44,076 --> 02:28:45,802
it's very easy to do because all you have to

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02:28:45,843 --> 02:28:48,612
do is go to noagendameetups.com. You just start one and

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02:28:48,673 --> 02:28:50,941
then you just let everybody know about it. And once

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02:28:51,001 --> 02:28:54,192
it's on the calendar at noagendameetups.com, I'll mention it. We'll

2337
02:28:54,232 --> 02:28:55,918
continue to promote it. You can do all kinds of

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02:28:55,938 --> 02:28:58,689
things. things to promote it and people will show up

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02:28:59,312 --> 02:29:05,020
they usually do i'm a little disappointed um Christopher Wexelberger.

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02:29:05,375 --> 02:29:09,191
He did the Leipzig, Germany meetup. He said it was

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02:29:09,272 --> 02:29:12,074
a good meetup, but he didn't record a report. He

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02:29:12,135 --> 02:29:15,792
sent a written report. Which is, I wanted to hear

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02:29:15,853 --> 02:29:19,910
some... German voices, I wanted to hear your server. I

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02:29:19,950 --> 02:29:22,032
will read his very short report. I call it a

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02:29:22,052 --> 02:29:27,112
success. We were three dudes having a good time. even

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02:29:27,172 --> 02:29:30,282
though neither hookers nor blow were involved. I would like

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02:29:30,322 --> 02:29:33,171
to thank Dirk and Thilo for stopping by. We decided

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to gather again in the near future, so keep an

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02:29:35,639 --> 02:29:39,266
eye out. for the next Leipzig meetup announcement. Keep up

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02:29:39,286 --> 02:29:41,450
the great work, says Christopher. Thank you very much. Appreciate

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02:29:41,490 --> 02:29:44,015
that you did that. Next time, just get your phone

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02:29:44,075 --> 02:29:45,839
out. Just record it. I'll cut it up. Don't worry

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02:29:45,879 --> 02:29:49,546
about it. We have a meetup taking place today. It

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is, in fact, it is well underway. The TMI EVAC

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02:29:52,793 --> 02:29:56,340
Zone Win, Lose, or Drone Meetup at Evergreen Brewing. Camp

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02:29:56,360 --> 02:29:58,604
Hill, Pennsylvania. So I hope to hear a meetup report

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02:29:58,644 --> 02:30:01,189
from that. And coming up on the 8th of May,

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02:30:01,269 --> 02:30:04,716
Buda, Texas, Leiden, the Netherlands. On the 9th, Eagle, Idaho,

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02:30:04,797 --> 02:30:08,444
Santa Rosa, California, and Nashville, Tennessee. The 13th, Unionville in

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Ontario. Raleigh, North Carolina, the 14th. The 16th, we have

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Fort Wayne, Indiana, Coleyville, Texas, Los Banos, California. and Wilmington,

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02:30:17,072 --> 02:30:20,196
Delaware, along with Fort Wayne, Indiana, too, in Indiana. May

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23rd, Los Angeles, California, another Leo Bravo meetup, I'm sure.

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Hickson, Tennessee, on the 23rd, and Franklin, Tennessee. And the

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02:30:27,767 --> 02:30:32,234
25th is Squim, Washington. Mimi will be attending, so bring

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02:30:32,274 --> 02:30:36,180
your TooManyEggs.com books, and she will gladly sign them. for

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02:30:36,201 --> 02:30:38,274
you. You should probably have some along with her for

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02:30:38,294 --> 02:30:41,324
sale. You can buy them on the spot. These are

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the no agenda meetups. This is where connection brings you

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02:30:43,749 --> 02:30:45,914
protection because the people you meet at a meetup will

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02:30:45,994 --> 02:30:49,803
be your first responders in any emergency guaranteed. They're the

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02:30:49,843 --> 02:30:51,948
people that keep you stable, who will keep you able.

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02:30:51,988 --> 02:30:55,356
Go to noagendameetups.com. Find one near you. You can search

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02:30:55,596 --> 02:30:58,203
many different ways. If you can't or if we just

2375
02:30:58,263 --> 02:31:00,029
feel like it, even if there's one in your area,

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02:31:00,049 --> 02:31:03,519
you can always set up another one. Go ahead. Noagentameetups.com.

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02:31:03,539 --> 02:31:07,310
Set up one yourself. It's easy and always guaranteed a

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02:31:07,571 --> 02:31:30,273
party. *music* same John's tip of the day coming up

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02:31:30,634 --> 02:31:33,224
along with three dynamite end of show mixes. You will

2380
02:31:33,264 --> 02:31:35,513
love that. Before we do anything, though, we need to

2381
02:31:35,593 --> 02:31:38,124
select our end of show ISO. We've kind of forgotten

2382
02:31:38,164 --> 02:31:39,691
why we do it, but it is kind of fun

2383
02:31:40,133 --> 02:31:43,208
because we get to select odd things that are short

2384
02:31:43,389 --> 02:31:45,539
and we'll play at the very end of the show.

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It's a three for three today. So I'll go first

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because you always think you have something better than me.

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I went to the well for this one. It's really

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02:31:54,456 --> 02:31:59,723
incredible. Easy, obviously. We have this one. Props to them.

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02:32:00,207 --> 02:32:05,506
And that's it! Oh, that's no good. That's no good.

2390
02:32:05,908 --> 02:32:10,400
That's actually pretty good. Yeah. Okay, I got three. Let's

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02:32:10,782 --> 02:32:18,109
start with crazy. These are crazy people. These are crazy

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02:32:18,150 --> 02:32:21,259
people. It's alright. I could use it in a pinch.

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02:32:21,999 --> 02:32:26,327
Amazing. Another great show. Amazing. I have to stop it

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02:32:26,347 --> 02:32:30,230
there because there's like seven seconds left, so. you didn't

2395
02:32:30,291 --> 02:32:32,400
cut that one right we can use that one i'm

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02:32:32,441 --> 02:32:36,680
fine with that another great show amazing she hasn't sound

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02:32:36,720 --> 02:32:40,127
very amaze but okay no okay boobs if you like

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02:32:40,227 --> 02:32:44,095
boobs donate to no agenda okay that's clearly the one

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and again there's like 16 seconds left you're what i

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02:32:49,105 --> 02:32:51,750
tried i don't understand why i'm screwing this up you

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02:32:51,810 --> 02:32:54,355
are screwing it up but you can make up for

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02:32:54,395 --> 02:32:59,039
it with another dynamite tip of the day It's for

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02:32:59,060 --> 02:33:04,664
you and me Just the tip with JCB. and sometimes

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02:33:04,684 --> 02:33:08,708
add Tip of the day ideas, just send them with

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02:33:08,728 --> 02:33:11,284
the subject line, tip of the day, which is exactly

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02:33:11,345 --> 02:33:15,303
what Commodore Sir Mech did. With this pretty good tip,

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02:33:15,323 --> 02:33:19,361
I checked it out. It's a software product called Ventoy.

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02:33:19,862 --> 02:33:21,907
It's one of the big, I've seen these things before

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02:33:21,947 --> 02:33:23,932
and I've used them. Ventoy? This one here seems to

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02:33:23,992 --> 02:33:27,580
be pretty damn good. Ventoy? How do you spell Ventoy?

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02:33:27,600 --> 02:33:36,279
V-E-N-T-O-Y. Okay, Ventoy. And it's Ventoy.net. Right? Yeah. Venturi.net This

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02:33:36,440 --> 02:33:41,315
allows you to create bootable USBs. which can come in

2413
02:33:41,395 --> 02:33:44,005
quite handy if you're on the road and you just

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02:33:44,126 --> 02:33:48,201
take your whole system and make a bootable USB, stick

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02:33:48,241 --> 02:33:52,245
it in someone's computer. And blow it up. Change the

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02:33:52,326 --> 02:33:55,708
boot order and boom, you got your whole system. booting

2417
02:33:55,769 --> 02:34:00,365
from the USB drive. It just works well. Huh. So

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02:34:00,569 --> 02:34:04,793
what's wrong with just taking your computer? What if you

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02:34:04,833 --> 02:34:07,661
got a big giant desktop piece of, just a, I

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02:34:07,681 --> 02:34:09,646
don't, you know, in my case, I could do that

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02:34:09,686 --> 02:34:12,775
because I'm hauling around these nucks, these little bitty things,

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02:34:12,835 --> 02:34:17,108
but no. You don't want to. Or you say you

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02:34:17,148 --> 02:34:21,657
have a work office. You have a home office and

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02:34:21,697 --> 02:34:24,622
an office computer, and it's a big clunker, and it's

2425
02:34:24,642 --> 02:34:28,249
a company thing. It's not a laptop. Yeah, there's plenty

2426
02:34:28,309 --> 02:34:31,655
of reasons that you want a bootable USB. Or we

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02:34:31,695 --> 02:34:34,636
say you got a secret system. You got a bunch

2428
02:34:34,696 --> 02:34:40,880
of stuff you don't want people looking at. Well, I'll

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02:34:40,900 --> 02:34:45,221
be honest. I always have a bootable USB of Omarchi

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02:34:45,603 --> 02:34:49,545
Linux. I carry that with me just in case I

2431
02:34:49,586 --> 02:34:53,425
need to set up a whole new show. Like a

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02:34:53,445 --> 02:34:57,211
whole new show system. Yeah. But that would be pretty

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02:34:57,291 --> 02:35:00,706
much really the end, the end of everything if I

2434
02:35:00,746 --> 02:35:02,915
had to resort to that. That would be pretty bad.

2435
02:35:04,743 --> 02:35:08,321
Yeah, well... Well, this is not... Anyway, it uses just

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02:35:08,401 --> 02:35:11,235
an ISO file. Create an ISO file, drop it on

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02:35:11,295 --> 02:35:13,844
here, and it'll... works well all right check it out

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02:35:13,924 --> 02:35:15,891
please everybody who's going to do that raise your hand

2439
02:35:15,931 --> 02:35:18,660
without talking find them all at tip of the day.net

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02:35:18,720 --> 02:35:28,834
noagendafun.com Just the tip with JCB And sometimes, Adam. Created

2441
02:35:28,914 --> 02:35:32,219
by Dana Burnetti. I got more pleasure out of your...

2442
02:35:32,515 --> 02:35:36,120
Bordeaux Blanche. I have another wine tip coming next show.

2443
02:35:36,342 --> 02:35:40,926
Okay, good. And that concludes your broadcast day for today.

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02:35:41,488 --> 02:35:43,575
Coming up next on the No Agenda stream, we have

2445
02:35:43,755 --> 02:35:49,676
our big dumb mouth, OBDM. And, oh, they're going to

2446
02:35:49,696 --> 02:35:55,922
be talking about the Infowars shutdown. AI consciousness and Area

2447
02:35:55,942 --> 02:35:59,550
51 quakes. A second half of show if I've ever

2448
02:35:59,651 --> 02:36:02,798
seen one. Ever seen one before. So that'll be next

2449
02:36:02,858 --> 02:36:04,802
on the No Agenda stream. If you just keep listening

2450
02:36:04,843 --> 02:36:07,088
to your modern podcast app, it will be the same.

2451
02:36:07,970 --> 02:36:10,395
And end of show mix is from Just Baker, who

2452
02:36:10,455 --> 02:36:15,045
is just kicking butt. with the Sunos, Chris Mattson, an

2453
02:36:15,165 --> 02:36:20,998
MVP, of course, bringing you the latest in anything promptable.

2454
02:36:21,058 --> 02:36:23,743
I think they're pretty good. And we will be back

2455
02:36:23,864 --> 02:36:27,090
on Thursday. I will be coming to you from Amsterdam,

2456
02:36:27,151 --> 02:36:31,904
the Netherlands, looking forward to... Ooh, risky. Risky. Yeah, very

2457
02:36:32,007 --> 02:36:35,327
risky. Coming to you from the airport hotel, the one

2458
02:36:35,387 --> 02:36:39,115
that had their logo just catch on fire. Coming to

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02:36:39,135 --> 02:36:41,820
you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country, Fredericksburg,

2460
02:36:41,860 --> 02:36:45,187
Texas. In the morning, everybody. I'm Adam Curry. And from

2461
02:36:45,247 --> 02:36:49,555
Refinery Row, I'm John C. Dvorak. Remember us at noagendadonations.com,

2462
02:36:49,595 --> 02:37:29,621
please. Until Thursday, adios. Fosahooiehooie and such. IT'S SHOWTIME! ♪

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02:37:29,641 --> 02:37:47,855
Terminated ♪ Thanks to the oil kings. ♪ Mayday in

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02:37:47,875 --> 02:37:53,635
the streets, they're marching for the cause ♪ We're right.

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02:38:03,623 --> 02:38:07,099
♪ We see right through the agenda ♪ ♪ Gas,

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pain, pain, strife ♪ ♪ Jango ♪ you Sunday edition,

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02:38:25,155 --> 02:38:37,917
no agenda. Just the truth, baby. John C. Davoo Rack?

2468
02:38:37,937 --> 02:38:53,233
John C. Yeah, John C. Experimental pointing device. What about

2469
02:38:53,254 --> 02:38:59,162
the bypass? He doesn't need it. Just put this mouse

2470
02:38:59,968 --> 02:39:08,859
in there and call it good. Someone's counting sponges on

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me you The anesthesia didn't take *music* ♪ Virgin's got

2472
02:39:35,639 --> 02:39:40,518
good hands though ♪ ♪ Smooth practice crew ♪ -

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You can hear it all. During my Staring at the

2474
02:39:49,239 --> 02:40:07,292
ceiling Counting ceilings Journey Like you died and you're not

2475
02:40:07,313 --> 02:40:18,513
dead yet. said John C. John Fee. I'm so sick,

2476
02:40:18,534 --> 02:40:33,339
yeah You're asleep, but you're not. Making jokes like this

2477
02:40:33,420 --> 02:41:07,356
old geezer Surgeons. Close up. is the listening to these

2478
02:41:07,437 --> 02:41:10,573
voices. During the surgery or during the interview? Yeah, no,

2479
02:41:10,613 --> 02:41:47,727
during the surgery. Oh! I know. Easy. ♪ Hey ♪

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Bye. Expire! Climbing back! *Fighting with the shadows* Trolling, trolling.

2481
02:42:08,683 --> 02:42:21,317
Showroom. Trolling, trolling, trolling *Demonic voice* you ACTION! Trollin' Trollin'

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02:42:21,338 --> 02:42:46,920
Trollin' Adios, mofo. Dvorak.org slash N-A. agenda.