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	Send back your tote bags.
	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	Sunday, March 31st, 2024.
	This is your award-winning Gilmore Nation Media assassination episode 1647.
	This is No Agenda.
	Observing all the ops and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country, right here in FEMA Region No. 6.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, we wish everybody a happy Easter and congratulations, Boeing.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	Before we get to Boeing. - Happy Easter, John!
	Happy Easter!
	Happy Easter!
	He is risen!
	As we say, Happy Jesus Super Bowl Day!
	Super Bowl?
	It's Jesus Super Bowl.
	Yes.
	It's the big one.
	Or, as our president likes to say, Happy Transgender Day of Visibility.
	Because God knows we've never heard of such a thing.
	They need visibility.
	That is the first psychological operation I will mention today.
	There will be many more.
	Obviously, obviously set in motion to elicit a response.
	So transparent.
	Like, give me a break.
	Oh yeah, but a response from who?
	From Christians.
	Who cares?
	Ah, from Christians.
	And we get all mad.
	And then the transgenders get all mad.
	It's always on March 31st.
	It's our day!
	It's our day!
	I love my favorite.
	What, since the last three years?
	When did this happen?
	Yes, pretty much.
	Last year, do you remember this day being a... I kind of remember Earth Day, but I don't remember this being a special day last year.
	Why is it a special day now?
	Well, it has been the transgender day of visibility on the 31st since Biden entered office.
	I want to ask this question in general.
	What kind of a Catholic is this guy Biden?
	I'm just wondering, I mean, it just doesn't seem to match the general principles.
	No, at all.
	I mean, and he has, the president has to proclaim these things, so he proclaimed it on... I proclaim!
	On Good Friday, of course.
	Yeah, way to go, Joe.
	So, it wasn't like they didn't, you know, they didn't know, like, oh, this is great.
	He could have said, you know what, I'm proclaiming it on April Fool's Day today.
	That would have been funnier.
	Or April 2nd, for what all I care.
	Anyway.
	Actually, I didn't want to jump to this clip, but now I should look for humor.
	Yes.
	I just think this was peculiar.
	This happened just a couple days ago.
	This was the U.S.
	Navy ship Harvey Milk.
	I have a clip here and it just warrants commentary.
	The U.S.
	Naval ship named after civil rights leader Harvey Milk hosted a celebration in San Francisco this morning.
	It's the first Navy ship to be named after an openly gay person and one of six named after civil rights pioneers.
	Harvey Milk served in the Navy before coming to San Francisco, achieving the rank of Lieutenant No.
	junior grade.
	He later became the first openly gay elected official in California.
	Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi reflected on Harvey Milk's own words as he was sworn in as supervisor.
	Navy officials said the military is stronger today for the service of LGBTQ members.
	The USNS Harvey Milk is part of a class of ships that will provide fuel and cargo to Navy warships.
	Okay.
	Okay, Okay, so here's what got to me.
	Yes.
	So they have a gay, uh, he's a gay activist at the time.
	He's the one of the guys murdered by, uh... I would say he was an icon!
	The Twinkie guy.
	He was a gay icon.
	He was an icon.
	A guy-con.
	Yeah, they made a movie about him.
	A guy-con.
	He was a guy-con.
	Uh, and so they put, give him the... It just seems to me, if you... A sub maybe, or a P, even anything, but an oiler for a gay guy?
	Oh, there you go.
	I'm sorry.
	There it is.
	You know what?
	15 forever, brother.
	I love it.
	You celebrate your 72nd on April 8th, and you're still as funny as you were when you were 15.
	Is that April 5th?
	I thought it was the 8th.
	I don't know.
	April 5th?
	No, April 8th is some attack day.
	I'm not sure what that is.
	Okay, I'm sorry.
	Yes, April 5th.
	There is a meanwhile follow-up here to that clip if you want to play it.
	Outside the event at Pier 32, protesters gathered to sound off against U.S.
	support for Israel.
	Dozens of people chanted and waved signs as the motorcade left the event, with protesters calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
	They also claim the ship is headed for the Middle East to provide support for Israel.
	But a Navy spokesperson refuted that claim, saying the ship is headed to Norfolk, Virginia, where it will not be deployed for at least a year.
	About half a dozen demonstrators made it onto a gangplank of the ship, where they chained themselves to the gangplank.
	What kind of security does the U.S.
	Navy have that a bunch of these protesters are making up the gangplank and then chain themselves and have the time to chain themselves to the thing?
	This is unbelievable.
	There were protesters this morning during Easter Mass at St.
	Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan.
	Yeah?
	Yep, came in, unrolled a big banner, Free Free Palestine.
	Hey, wrong building people!
	You want Temple down the street?
	Well, they don't do that.
	Well, let's stick with the nautical theme for a second, because I'm pretty sure, and I have some evidence of this, That a lot of psychological operations, which are very sad, I mean, you know, your Twitter feed is a psychological operation, so, you know, it's not like everything's a PSYOP, but it is.
	PSYOP!
	PSYOP!
	There is a PSYOP, or a couple of PSYOPs in play, and it is my belief, based on some evidence, I think, That the military-industrial complex, specifically military intelligence, is playing games with us.
	You think it's possible?
	Well, I held the D.I.A.
	in much higher regard than the pickle factory C.I.A., but they seem to be doing it only for money.
	I know, I know, right?
	Whoa!
	Revelation!
	Well, the reason why is I have two women here.
	Who have spouses in the military intelligence, or former military intelligence, which means you still have, I mean, can you ever really leave the intelligence community?
	Probably not.
	Well, you signed your life away, so probably not.
	No.
	So, we talked about my neighbor down the street, Laura, and now she is married to former DIA, Who I believe worked directly for Flynn.
	Maybe not, I'm not so sure.
	And they're sweet people.
	But as we discussed on the previous show, she really stakes her journalistic reputation on the line for this bridge thing being a hack, a cyber hack, a GPS spoofing.
	And she got it, as she said, multiple places.
	She got it from intelligence people, current intelligence people, former intell... So, obviously, if military intelligence wants to get some message out, one of the easiest ways is to go to someone with half a million Twitter followers, and, you know, one who appears on Newsmax, and NewsNow, and America Today, and whatever all these programs are, to spread this message.
	And I'm not going to read, I did put them in the show notes, all anonymized, the unbelievable amount of boots on the ground that we have.
	I mean, we have the best, the best producers in the universe.
	This morning one came in from a bridge engineer.
	Who said no, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.
	All of these are pretty long notes.
	And almost all of them said nope, nope, nope.
	I think all of them said nope, nope, nope.
	Boots on the ground for one of our producers who was on the ship that hit the bridge in 1977 in Hopewell, Virginia.
	Very similar.
	Very, very similar.
	Um, we got one from, uh, a very good one and with a great rant at the end from, uh, now I know this, this spoof personally, uh, who piloted, uh, naval ships for five years.
	He says, no, no, this is not spoofing.
	And everyone kind of lays out the, uh, the obvious.
	Got a note from a trooper flight paramedic from the State Police of Maryland who was flying over this while this all took place.
	We have local boots on the ground.
	Just incredible people and I will take their word over any intelligence any day because they're on the ground.
	They've done this.
	And you know, could we be... I ran one of these notes partially in the newsletter.
	Correct.
	So, and I will say that I myself have had in the past, certainly before the 2020 election, a lot of military personnel telling me things that turned out to be really crap.
	Yes.
	And of course, I don't have a journalistic career to stake on it.
	I was like, I'm the MTV guy, believe me.
	No one cares about that.
	But it was through the ITV that I got a piece of information.
	I have a clip.
	That tells me that somebody is lying.
	The heavily laden container ship which hit and destroyed a road bridge in the American city of Baltimore overnight did so after its power failed as it prepared to sail underneath.
	But ITV News has been told this power failure wasn't a freak one-off.
	The ship was apparently blowing fuses in dock before it set out in the darkness.
	In a slowed version of the footage, you can see the lights on the ship go off and black smoke emerge before the collision.
	Authorities have confirmed it did suffer a power failure.
	A port worker has told us the ship had experienced serious issues before it set off.
	It was here for two days because it was a two-day working ship.
	And those two days, they were having serious power outages.
	Like I said, the reefer boxes that we have on there, which is the refrigerated boxes, they were actually tripping the breakers for our mechanics that were keeping the generators running on those while they were trying to fix the ship.
	And it was just not, they weren't even holding that.
	They were tripping breakers on that.
	So, I mean, they had a severe electrical problem.
	The result of its malfunction today, what the mayor of Baltimore has called an unthinkable tragedy.
	Now this, as far as I know, this hasn't, this, uh, worker, who looked like a worker, yeah?
	She looked like one of those on the doc, you had the hard hat, looked real official.
	Uh, this sounds very credible to me.
	That, oh, the refrigerator boxes are tripping the breakers.
	This thing had it going on for two days.
	Now, of course, we haven't really heard this yet because, you know, we're still looking for dead people and, you know, all kinds of other human interest stories.
	But I think that this is being abused, one, to Possibly point the finger at China.
	That's what, because you know, military industrial complex, they want to pivot to China.
	They want to build huge ships, submarines, want to reinstall bases on the islands, the pivot to Indo, the Indo-Pacific.
	But I think also this may be used for some political means.
	I was talking to one of our producers, Eric.
	He says, you know, wouldn't it, what you can almost just wait for is for Trump to start saying, this is taking too long.
	If it was me, I'd have this thing restored in six weeks.
	Yeah.
	If it involves building, this is true.
	He can do that.
	Yeah.
	You know, so, so.
	To me, this is a huge psychological operation, and I'm just going to believe our producers and this particular dock worker, and I'm sure more will come out about it.
	Now, the second military-industrial-complex psychological operation is one that I've been looking at for a while, and imagine my surprise when Naomi Wolf shows up in the Netherlands On a program called Black Box.
	I've been on this, I've been on this show before.
	And uh, Ancilla works there.
	Now, Anselmo was not doing the interview.
	Anselmo is one of our producers, who has sent us a lot of stuff over the years.
	And, you know, I hold Naomi in pretty high regard for most of her opinions.
	And she's, you know, she's influenced me in multiple ways, including on my faith journey.
	But here, she is going to start repeating some tropes about Uh, immigration in the United States that come from, as she credits here, her former military intelligence husband.
	Our southern border in the United States is open, and the State Department, my independent research found this to be true, is funding with the UN this mass immigration.
	There's a lot of evidence for that.
	So much evidence.
	16.5 million people now just walked over the border.
	They're being airlifted.
	They're being flown to strategic locations around the United States.
	They're being housed in barracks type accommodation which never happened to immigrants before in my country.
	And the same thing is happening in Europe.
	No disrespect, I'm the daughter of immigrants and the granddaughter of immigrants, but these people are being flown in from China, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Angola, places that export mercenaries.
	As well as Venezuela, cartel, gang members, whole cartels.
	And you look at the footage, my husband's a veteran and a former member of military intelligence, and he's identified that the groups coming in look like soldiers, train like soldiers, walk like soldiers, stand like soldiers, have military haircuts, they're fighting-age men.
	Overwhelmingly.
	And they're being stationed at strategic locations throughout the United States in large groups.
	What is that?
	This is a staging area.
	It's an invasion, right?
	At one signal.
	You saw the mayhem of the October 7th in Israel with a small group of terrorists crossing the border.
	At one signal you could have so much chaos that the elections have to be suspended.
	That's the plan or martial law.
	I mean, I'm sorry, Naomi, but you took her to a place that I did not expect from you.
	Wow!
	Oh yeah, it'll suspend the elections.
	Uh, okay.
	You know, this goes on almost every election cycle.
	There's a couple of things that have cropped up.
	This started with Nixon, I might add.
	They're going to suspend the elections, and Nixon, despite what just happened, is going to crown himself king!
	Oh no!
	Like Trump!
	Oh my god!
	And Biden, he's going to do it too.
	So she gets this from her former military intelligence husband, and I'm not saying that he is in the op.
	But I think that, you know, people's like, oh, Naomi's got a, she's on a Banyan Show.
	Let's tell them about China.
	And literally, she said, they have military crew cuts.
	Well, I haven't seen that yet.
	No, I haven't seen it either.
	I look at these videos, which they show a lot of on Fox because they like to.
	Yeah.
	And I don't see this at all.
	I don't see this at all.
	And she starts off right away with China and then compares it to October 7th that we'll have them on the inside ready to attack us.
	Which was not the way October 7th operated, by the way.
	No, no.
	So a second clip here.
	She's all in.
	And this is a huge mistake on her part.
	She uses the term for illegal immigrants.
	Same thing is happening here.
	But even if you just leave it, right?
	Even if these are thoroughly peaceful newcomers.
	Newcomers!
	Newcomers!
	I cannot believe that she did that!
	Hold on a second!
	I was expecting you to say something like, you know, wetbacks or something the way you set it up.
	No!
	Newcomers!
	Newcomers?
	That means she's... oh, that's not... that's a... wow!
	Yes!
	Imagine my surprise!
	Same thing is happening here.
	But even if you just leave it, right, even if these are thoroughly peaceful newcomers, Same thing is happening here, but even if you just leave it, right?
	Oh, hold on.
	She catches herself, doesn't she?
	She did.
	You could hear the oops.
	Yeah, she catches herself.
	In that three-beat pause.
	Yeah.
	Same thing is happening here.
	But even if you just leave it, right, even if these are thoroughly peaceful newcomers, as Ed Dowd said so rightly, just wait five years and you'll have a completely different America.
	Now wait for it, because now she takes us in a whole different direction.
	And a completely different Western Europe.
	And in America... Why?
	Because... Well, I'll get there.
	In America, the people who are injected will die off or be too weak to fight, and the people who take their places don't come from countries that have a history of human rights or representative democracy.
	And the same thing is true in Western Europe.
	And so I'll tell you the why.
	And this is the same why that goes back to the end of America.
	Western Europe, like Europeans need to wake up to the value of their own culture and their own history.
	And this is not a racist thing to say.
	It is just purely, you know, what Western Europe developed doesn't make you better than anyone else.
	But there are precious things in your culture that you have to, like, realize in time.
	You have to save and defend and fight for.
	And the same thing with the United States.
	Because it's only the United States and Western Europe that are the last obstacles to this globalist plan to create a feudal society around the world and to turn us into like nodes in a central bank digital currency, you know, vaccine passport, thoroughly tracked, surveilled suppression society.
	So I think she actually, in the beginning there, she said that these people would replace our military.
	Are they attacking our military or are they replacing them?
	Make up your mind.
	This is psychological warfare.
	It is.
	And this is the hidden in plain sight that's taking place.
	It is our own military.
	And they're doing it just so we can sell more stuff.
	That's all.
	War is a racket.
	Everybody knows it.
	Thank you, Smedley Butler.
	And this is just what it's going to be.
	Which brings me to the 2,000 pound bombs they're shipping over to Israel.
	Hey, this is, I think this is a PSYOP from the Israelis.
	I have a, yeah listen, I have a, because I went looking for the initial articles because I got the, hold on, here's, this is, I consider this to be a hit piece.
	Well let's just back up and explain what we're talking about.
	Well, I have a clip that explains it.
	Good.
	Let's do the clip and then we can...
	Deconstruct it!
	The United States has authorized a multi-billion dollar weapons package for Israel according to several media reports.
	It comes as President Joe Biden publicly acknowledged the pain being felt by Arab Americans over the war in Gaza.
	He has also faced criticism by some in his own Democratic Party.
	The decision follows a visit by Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant to Washington this week.
	The new arms package is meant to include 1,800 of the most destructive bombs used in Gaza.
	The White House declined to comment.
	Daniel, the U.S.
	says it's concerned about Israel's conduct in Gaza.
	Why then send it 2,000 pound bombs which are highly destructive, especially in densely populated areas like Gaza?
	Yeah that is a contradiction that is being discussed in the American media a lot.
	No.
	Apparently the Biden administration doesn't see a contradiction here because it says it provides these weapons not to Prime Minister Netanyahu with whom they have a difficult relationship at the moment and who is like of course calling the shots in the Gaza operation but that they're providing this for Israel's security.
	I think for the Biden administration they're in a way in a lose-lose situation because Its support for the Israeli military on the one hand, and then its opposition to the behavior of the Netanyahu government on the other, leads it into a difficult situation to a quagmire.
	Netanyahu has successfully lobbied Congress, not only the Republican Party, but also the Democrats, for many years, and he's now cashing in on what he had been successfully doing over the last decades.
	And on the other hand, of course, Joe Biden has opposition inside his own party.
	Many young Americans, not only Arab Americans, young people in this country see that there is a contradiction in these policies.
	And if you drive around here in America, you would probably see at the freeway a billboard which says, your taxpayers money kills children in Gaza.
	So this is a difficult situation and Biden seems not to be handling it very well.
	This isn't up.
	This news reporting started in the times of Israel, as far as I can tell.
	This is Netanyahu going, oh yeah?
	You and that douchebag who went to meet you?
	Our own guy?
	Yeah, we're gonna take you down.
	And these bombs, I mean, it's not like a new purchase or anything.
	It's just part of the standing work order.
	Oh, he's okayed it.
	No one from the White House is commenting.
	Okay.
	Well, the more interesting thing to this, which wasn't even mentioned in that report, is the 25 F-35s.
	Yeah, it's mentioned in the Times of Israel.
	They did mention it.
	Well, I've got it mentioned all over the place, let alone the Times of Israel.
	But I'm pretty sure it started with the Israeli media.
	I'm pretty sure.
	You don't think so?
	The Washington Post is the first ones that I know reported it.
	Last Friday they reported a quiet authorized arms shipment.
	Wow.
	And unless you can predate it from last Friday, I don't know.
	But the point is they got It's a very strange situation because it seems to me that the way it was done, the way it was reported and everything else, especially the... What do they need 30, 25 more jets for?
	Haven't they got their own damn jets?
	It's just like, how many more jets do you need?
	Do you have the pilots for them?
	I mean, what is the point of the 25?
	Those jets cost $90 million each.
	It's just to make Biden look bad.
	That's all I can see.
	I'm thinking the same thing.
	Just to make him look bad.
	But I don't necessarily think it was Israel trying to make Biden look bad.
	I don't think they understand the situation.
	And meanwhile, Netanyahu is under the knife with full anesthesia.
	And you know what happened the last time one of the world rulers had this happen?
	You mean King Charles?
	Boris Johnson.
	Oh, that's right.
	Boy, did they change that guy.
	He came out a whole different dude.
	He came out a whole different dude, and so Netanyahu's going in, I don't know, okay, he's going in for a hernia operation.
	Ouch.
	Full anesthesia, that's happening as we speak.
	Who's taking charge while he's under?
	I think Dick Cheney, I'm not sure.
	Perfect time for a coup if there ever was one.
	Do it now!
	Before we get totally away from Baltimore, I do have some clips I want to play, because they're educational.
	Okay.
	And they refer to what Baltimore really does there, because it wasn't well explained, but I found three clips, and they're kind of taken from two different shows that I pulled from NPR, even though the one person I think is the same.
	About the cars.
	The business that is hurting is Mercedes.
	Yeah, remember I told you that.
	We talked about it on the last show.
	But I didn't know all the details, and the details are in these three clips.
	I consider these clips informational, and this is to me interesting.
	Wait a minute, we're going to give people some information on this show?
	Step back.
	We try to just do deconstruction, but once in a while we do information.
	Step back.
	In Baltimore, crews are working on cutting up pieces of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge to remove it.
	And large equipment has arrived to help, including seven floating cranes, ten tugboats, and nine barges.
	Six people died in the collision, but four bodies remain missing.
	Meanwhile, it's a worrying scene for the auto industry because the Port of Baltimore handles more cars and light trucks than any other port in the United States.
	And now most of it is blocked.
	Some car companies are scrambling to find workarounds to get their vehicles from ships to dealers.
	And Pierce Camila Domenoski says companies can use other ports and then send them by land to Baltimore.
	Once the vehicles come off the ship, there is really important processing that has to happen.
	This includes adding parts, installing accessories on the vehicles, there's inspections, there's paperwork that has to happen before a vehicle gets the window sticker, and that happens at the port.
	And if you can't do that, even if you've gotten them off the ship, you wouldn't be able to sell the car.
	I would say, especially the Mercedes-Benz G-Class, Um, which is all EV.
	They have to install certain parts to even qualify for some of the subsidies.
	Oh.
	They have to be U.S.
	parts in order to qualify for the EV subsidies.
	Interesting.
	So, that wouldn't surprise me that this is a problem for them.
	Although the CEO, he was on CNBC, what was it, two days ago?
	He's like, eh, we're figuring this out.
	Of course, he's like, keep my stock up, people.
	Yes.
	That's why you go on CNBC.
	Everything's good.
	It's all fine.
	Don't worry about it.
	Everything's great.
	Here's clip two.
	What are the potential options?
	What are the alternatives?
	Yeah, from my conversations, there's three that really stand out.
	One is there is a part of the Baltimore Port that is still open.
	Right at the mouth of the harbor, there's a terminal that Volkswagen and BMW use for their vehicles, and that terminal has confirmed that they have a capacity to accept other vehicles, too.
	Second, companies could unload their vehicles at another port altogether and then drive them to Baltimore for the second part of the process, the processing.
	I talked to the Port of New York and New Jersey and Newark.
	They said they have been in conversations about this, that they could take vehicles off a ship and put them right on a car carrier bound for Baltimore.
	And Scott, one advantage of both of those approaches for Baltimore is it would still support jobs at the port even while ships can't get through.
	The other is companies could use ports that are much farther away where they are already processing their vehicles.
	So, for instance, there is the Port of Brunswick in Georgia.
	It's a long way from Baltimore, but the port says they have had conversations about being a backup option, and there are other ports up and down the East Coast that are also good candidates.
	They're places that companies are already doing this vehicle processing for other parts of the U.S.
	market.
	It would mean a longer drive to dealerships, but a lot of ships go up and down the East Coast and stop at multiple ports, so it might not require a detour at sea.
	And it would mean the carmaker could unload and process the vehicle at the same port, in the same place they already use, basically their normal process until the drive.
	Well, if I was a BMW and Volkswagen, I'd be like, hey Mercedes!
	I wouldn't be giving them any help!
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I can see you being that way.
	They're not American cars, okay?
	The American cars is different.
	One for all, all for one.
	This is a benefit to us, that's for sure.
	I think there's a final clip that's got a few little tidbits.
	However, does this mean that Baltimore could lose out on this important business in the long term?
	People have really emphasized to me this would be an interim solution.
	Baltimore's location right in the middle of the East Coast, the expertise and the equipment that Baltimore has for these kinds of vehicles in particular, that will still be there in the future.
	I spoke to one supply chain expert who was very confident that this was not going to hurt the port's long-term outlook.
	All right, so now we're up to date.
	Thank you for that information.
	I follow the thesis that this was an accident.
	I'm there too.
	And there's been three of these in the United States in the past.
	Yeah, it happens.
	It does.
	And the newsletter had a nice piece by one of our producers, Mitch, that he's been on these boats when they come, right after they're manufactured, they immediately have electrical problems.
	The boats, yeah.
	Yeah, the ships, they're junk.
	It's all junk.
	Yeah, it's everything like everything else.
	Like, as I mentioned at the beginning of the show, two Apache helicopters go down within 48 hours.
	Those Apache helicopters are made by Boeing.
	Oh, man.
	Yeah, but Boeing is in trouble.
	What was I reading about Boeing?
	There's now websites that you can, before you book your ticket, Yes, you mentioned it.
	You sent this to me and said, wow, this is not good.
	Making it easier for anxious flyers to choose their preferred aircraft.
	I think I'll choose that Airbus flight, if you don't mind.
	What's it called?
	Amiflyingbowing.com?
	Is that what?
	Yeah.
	Amiflyingbowing.com.
	Wow.
	This is very... You know, there's some thinking out there that, you know, the Chinese copied the 737.
	We've done stories on that in the past.
	Now, I don't think the U.S.
	airlines will be buying any Chinese aircraft pretty soon, but I could certainly see international carriers buying them.
	They've been trying to get this in for a long time.
	How long until the military industrial complex calls all of this, what's the word I'm looking for, incompetence, Chinese operations?
	I don't know.
	They're going to have a hard time proving that one.
	They don't need to prove anything.
	They just need to give it to Lara Logan.
	Well.
	The idea that the D.I.A.
	is messing with us is interesting.
	Because, why not?
	Well, for money.
	I mean, it's obvious.
	For money.
	Yeah, the money is there.
	Lots of it, too.
	Not a little bit of money.
	Laura's not a bad person.
	Her husband's not a bad person.
	I think they're being used.
	It makes me a little mad, actually.
	It's not cool.
	You know, we were talking about BYD and Chinese vehicles, etc.
	And there was an interesting note from one of our producers, Emerson.
	He says, in response to the ongoing discussion of the potential for Chinese cars to be brought to the United States, I'd like to point to a parallel industry where they're already making big inroads.
	Cheap Chinese dirt bikes.
	He says they began to flood the traditional multi-manufacturer dealerships back in around 2017.
	These were not outstanding products, but the price point and availability kept them flowing.
	When the pandemic started, good Japanese bikes were all held up at the ports.
	Perhaps manufacturing delays in Japan as well, these bikes became very hard to come by and was very annoying.
	Enter CFMoto!
	A new Chinese road bike built on platforms that have been farmed out from other manufacturers.
	The bikes are okay.
	They already build many of the components for these other manufacturers.
	The prices are cheaper than anyone else's and the only real detractor is the stigma of a Chinese bike.
	They have absolutely flooded the market, will pose a serious problem for Japanese and other affordable makes and models.
	Following this model, I can see an easy pathway for cars to enter the big box dealerships that already sell a variety of makes.
	There's a lot of these dealerships now, the no-haggle dealerships.
	You've seen these, I'm sure.
	Oh yeah.
	And it's like, this is your price, there's no haggling, buy it or get off the lot.
	Yeah, but the price is good.
	The price is good, yes!
	Now, we have to note something, which is, because I've been trying to follow this as best I can, Chinese manufacturing, it often starts off crappy, like these bikes might be, but unlike our products, which start off excellent and then deteriorate into junk, Boeing, an example, I'm guessing.
	The Chinese products tend to improve over time.
	Because as best price, you know, the best price orientation, they have another competitor comes in and makes this pretty much the same product, but sells it at the same price, but it's better quality.
	And that goes on and on.
	I mean, most of the hot high end cameras today, which are precision engineered for the most part, are made in China.
	The level of high quality product that comes out of China nowadays is pretty remarkable.
	So this frightening the fact that they took over the dirt bike business because they'll end up improving the product because they're very sensitive to criticism.
	And you'll end up with just take it over.
	You lost it.
	Yeah.
	And ultimately, best price matters.
	Yeah, it's actually not a bad strategy.
	Well, our producer here thinks that that would be a good way, especially with the port now, this would be the time to strike!
	They gotta hurry up.
	Do what?
	Oh, you bring in the cars?
	Yeah, bring in some cars.
	Well, BYD's got a factory, as somebody pointed out, it's in Costa Mesa or in Pasadena, there's a place, they make buses already.
	And they have a lithium-ion battery technology that doesn't blow up.
	Oh, please.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	I'm not going to believe that.
	I did a lot of research.
	I used to be like the battery guy when I was writing for Forbes.
	And I don't do it as much anymore.
	You were the battery guy?
	I didn't know you were.
	I wrote a lot of columns about the various battery technologies.
	Oh, I didn't know that.
	So I'm pretty good about battery technology and they use a new anode or a cathode on these new lithium ions that prevents, and they don't use as much rare earths.
	The batteries last longer.
	They don't hold quite as much power, but they're close enough and they last like 67% longer.
	They're just fabulous battery.
	Are these the salt batteries?
	These guys at BYD make all of them.
	Are these the salt batteries?
	No, no, it's lithium ion batteries.
	I think it's called lithium ion phosphate battery.
	I got an article from Deutsche Welle.
	Salt battery?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	The future?
	Yeah, from Deutsche Welle.
	It's not the future, believe me.
	Reading, let me read it.
	No, I'm just saying to that guy, not you.
	It's Deutsche Welle.
	Question, will China pull ahead with battery technology?
	Transforming business.
	When salt power e-cars rolled off the production lines in China, it hit the headlines, not only because sodium makes up one of our favorite table condiments, thanks Deutsche, but also because so far no electric vehicle has been able to run without lithium.
	And so, Deutsche Welle here is saying that these lithium batteries, or these salt batteries, are cheaper and don't blow up, and that they are the future.
	Now, I just heard you're the battery expert.
	I am, and I'm unfamiliar with the salt battery, so I'll look into this and I'll have a report by the next show.
	Okay, good.
	Very good.
	Salt and butter.
	Hey, I watched, uh... Upon your recommendation, I watched The Last Starfighter.
	Oh, you found it and watched it?
	Yeah, you know... Yeah, I was surprised that it came out in the 80s.
	I thought it was a late 70s movie.
	No, 1984.
	I, um... Yeah.
	Coincidentally.
	It's funny because you search for it on YouTube, you get the... I gotta tell you, that's kind of slick.
	You get it on YouTube.
	You get the trailer.
	And then when the trailer's over, it says, would you like to watch it now for $3?
	And you click yes, and then you're, you know, I have my Google account connected to PayPal.
	Done.
	I was watching.
	And it was pretty good.
	Now, you said without evidence that the last Starfighter movie hasn't been reproduced where the idea was that someone was trained on, now, so this kid was trained on the video game.
	Then he got zapped up to another dimension to go and, you know, fight the evil empire.
	But But apparently, Ender's Game?
	There was a couple of... What I said, specifically, was the movie itself, Last Starfighter, has not been reissued.
	They haven't remade that movie.
	They have used elements of it here and there, I'm sure, and somebody sent me a note listing a few of them.
	Yeah.
	No.
	All right.
	Okay.
	Good.
	Without evidence.
	The evidence is look at the logs of movies.
	I just wanted to say without evidence.
	Yeah, you love writing me about that.
	And by the way, the phrase is, there's no evidence.
	No, no, the phrase is, President Trump said without evidence.
	That's how it goes.
	Well, there's that.
	Oh, speaking of, so Tina, was it Mar-a-Lago for this?
	Oh yes, we need a report.
	Yes, will I have a report?
	We started off with where Trump was on the same day.
	Meanwhile, former President Trump was also in New York putting a spotlight on crime.
	He attended a wake for an NYPD officer gunned down during a traffic stop.
	The Trump campaign claims it will top Biden's fundraising record next week by bringing in $33 million at a Palm Beach event. 33!
	Oh my god, I have a 3x3 about this if you want to play it before we talk about it.
	Do you want my report or do you not want my report?
	I want the report, but I think teasing it out might work.
	And now it's time for 3x3.
	There it is, everybody.
	Experiment by J.C.D.
	Comparing stories from ABC, CBS, and NBC.
	The never-ending 3x3.
	Here are the top three news headlines from the top three ABC, NBC, CBS.
	Did they all draw from the same pool?
	Is it the same clips, the same Nat Pops?
	What are we looking at, John?
	What's interesting, this is about the big gala in New York.
	With Biden and Clinton and Obama, yes.
	And it was covered by the news media.
	This is when Trump, he had a better idea to go to the wake.
	Although he didn't get on the podcast with, was it, what's that podcast that just got a hundred million dollars?
	The podcast got a hundred million dollars and we get hardly 50 people donating?
	With Jason Bateman and Will.
	To be honest about us, no sweat off our balls.
	What's the name of that?
	Good for them.
	To be honest about us, no sweat off our balls.
	And he drops the mic.
	So what's interesting about these clips is they had a female reporter do all, every network used a female.
	Instead of bringing any guys out or anything, it's always a guy.
	Are you sure?
	Or was it just someone?
	No, it was Mary Alice Parks, Kaitlin DeHuey, and Kelly O'Donnell.
	Smartless is the name of the podcast.
	Smartless.
	Smartless?
	Yeah, that's the name of the hundred million dollar podcast.
	Amazon paid it.
	Amazon paid for that.
	Well, good for them.
	I don't know what to expect to get out of it.
	Well, they got a lot of ads.
	They got three presidents and a lot of ads.
	Yes, exactly.
	So let's go with ABC.
	Tonight, President Biden fresh off that record fundraiser.
	A show of force with Presidents Obama and Clinton by his side.
	His campaign claiming a $26 million haul in just one night.
	No press cameras allowed inside, the campaign instead releasing select clips.
	The president painting a stark choice for voters.
	This guy denies there's a global warming.
	This guy wants to get rid of not only Roe v. Wade, which he brags about having done, he wants to get rid of the ability of anyone anywhere in America to ever choose.
	And turning the tables on Donald Trump.
	I mean, all the things he's doing are so old.
	Speaking of old.
	You know, a little old and out of shape anyway.
	President Obama trying to energize voters around Biden's record.
	You've got record-breaking job growth.
	You've got an unemployment rate that is as low as it has been.
	The glitzy event at Radio City Music Hall.
	Which was designed to be a show of party unity, punctured by protesters.
	Blasting Biden for his ongoing support of Israel's war in Gaza.
	Shame on you!
	You are fucking!
	You're the side of Palestine!
	Those party divisions on full display.
	Today, Trump doubling down on his message of law and order after visiting the family of slain NYPD officer Jonathan Diller.
	It's got to stop.
	We have to have law and order.
	And when you have people repeat, this isn't a repeat offender, this is ridiculous.
	I like that she threw in penetrated by protesters and blasting Biden, all in the same sentence.
	Well written.
	Well written.
	I love alliteration.
	That really gets me.
	You do.
	And I'll bet you they all had the same pop pop pop party from Lizzo, didn't they?
	Well, let's listen to NBC and see what they had.
	With a dramatic flourish.
	Three presidents emerged.
	Democratic donors posted their images of this entrance at a glitzy New York City fundraiser.
	Needling a fourth president, Donald Trump, with a twist on the sensitive issue of age in this clip released by the Biden campaign.
	All the things he's doing are so old.
	Speaking of old.
	You know, a little old and out of shape anyway.
	Anyway... Tapping into the political skills of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama to sell the Biden agenda.
	You've got record-breaking job growth.
	You've got an unemployment rate that is as low as it has been.
	For African Americans, by the way, the lowest on record ever.
	Tickets started at $250, but donations soared as high as a half million for the star-studded night.
	The event raised $26 million, while outside, a large and loud protest over President Biden's policy on the Israel-Hamas war.
	Meanwhile, former President Trump created his own contrast.
	Joining mourners, grieving NYPD officer Jonathan Diller, who was shot and killed.
	The suspect, a repeat offender.
	Mr. Trump slamming President Biden for not directly reaching out to the Dillers.
	They could have called.
	You don't have to be a rocket scientist to know.
	Even a call would be perhaps, I'm not sure they'd take his call.
	Well, so this was Although they did not opt for the pa-pa-pa-party from Lizzo, they did have the same Trump clip, and also literally said in the beginning, the party releasing this clip of Biden doing a very bad old joke, whereas I saw some other jokes which were much better written.
	So I don't know why they released that one, but they have an EPK.
	Electronic press kit.
	Now, I'm curious what CBS did.
	They usually do something a little better.
	Well, ABC and NBC's reports, as you heard, except for the fact that ABC had the protesters screaming and yelling, which they left out of NBC, which NBC is terrible.
	Yes, it's a democratic machine.
	It's a machine for the Democrats.
	They left that completely out.
	They just kind of mentioned it in passing.
	But it was an identical report other than that.
	But let's see what CBS does.
	In New York City tonight, a parade of presidents.
	Headline... Oh, another good one!
	A parade of presidents!
	I mean, John, I wish we could be that good.
	In New York City tonight, a parade of presidents.
	Headlining an event at Radio City Music Hall that raked in 25 million dollars.
	There was 26 on NBC.
	And ABC.
	Joe Biden's re-election campaign.
	It's a record for a political fundraiser, bolstering Biden's significant cash advantage, even as he lags behind Donald Trump in the polls.
	Kamala and I desperately need your help.
	Because, look, there's only about six or seven states that are going to determine the outcome of this election.
	The Biden campaign has $71 million in the bank, compared to the Trump campaign's nearly $34 million.
	He's going to lose!
	Trump's legal troubles have been draining resources.
	A super PAC supporting him spent $8.5 million on legal fees so far this year, including $5.5 million last month.
	A crooked judge shouldn't say, we're gonna have you post a bond and take all of that money that I could be spending on a campaign.
	Sarah Briner is a campaign finance expert.
	In a race this close, can money move the needle?
	Money can definitely move needles in close races.
	And it's by getting just the smallest fraction of people to think about the race in the way you want them to think about it.
	Wow.
	Trump also tried to cash in on the Democrats' fundraising event today, asking for donations to help defeat the Biden-Obama-Clinton cartel.
	He was in New York today, attending the wake of a fallen NYPD police officer.
	So, CBS takes a different approach and goes for a blatant sales job, saying, all that money's out there, you know, it can make the difference, you should advertise with us!
	Well, they're smart.
	Because the idea is it's like old Les Moonves when he was there, you know, before he got cancelled.
	He's always for the money.
	Yeah, well, you know, Trump's good for the business.
	We have that clip here.
	And a great quarter, thanks to Trump.
	Yeah, here it is.
	Here it is.
	The advertising climate couldn't be better right now, and I've never seen it this hot for a number of years.
	Third quarter scatter was phenomenally good and fourth is even better than that.
	It's 2015.
	So as the year ends and we move into 2016 Guess what?
	In 2016 we have an extra AFC Championship playoff game, we have the Super Bowl, and we have a year of political advertising.
	That looks like it's shaping up to be pretty phenomenal.
	You know, we love having all 16 Republican candidates throwing crap at each other.
	It's great.
	The more they spend, the better it is for us.
	And go Donald.
	Keep getting out there and, you know, this is fun.
	You know, watching this, let them spend money on us.
	And we love having them in there.
	We're looking forward to a very exciting political year in 16.
	Great quarter, everybody.
	Great cue, guys.
	You know, I just dawned on me at this point that that comment, Go Donald, may be the thing that got him canceled.
	Not all the rest of it, which could have been a setup for all we know.
	Interesting.
	I never thought about it until I just re-heard that clip for the fourth time.
	Go Donald.
	Okay, you're out.
	Interesting.
	Interesting.
	Yeah, it could be.
	It was not smart.
	He was just being colloquial with all the financial reporters.
	Hey, great cue, Les.
	Great cue.
	Perfect, yeah.
	Yeah, it's going to be even better next cue.
	I have a report.
	No.
	Okay.
	I do have one more clip about this particular event.
	Well, let me play my report and then we'll do a clip and I have some other stuff.
	President Biden makes a big campaign stop in the Big Apple today.
	And it comes after last night's... This is local.
	...star-studded fundraiser where the current president and two former ones came together to break a record.
	Our D.C.
	Bureau Chief Ben Kennedy is live in Washington with more.
	Ben.
	Eden Calvin, in response to that record you were talking about, former President Donald Trump now plans to out-raise Biden, who had a multi-million dollar night.
	President Joe Biden boarded Air Force One Friday after campaigning in New York.
	It's there he made fundraising history with a record-setting $25 million in one star-studded event with musical performers Queen Latifah and Lizzo.
	We got three presidents in the field tonight.
	That sounds like a put-put-put on me.
	As Biden's two Democratic predecessors, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, join.
	and joined him on stage with late-night talk show host Stephen Colbert moderating.
	Now listen to this written gag.
	How would you describe what's at stake in this election?
	I think our democracy is at stake.
	Some 5,000 supporters paid between $225 and half a million dollars a ticket with an option to get a photo with all three presidents for $100,000 as the group took aim at the presumptive Republican nominee, former President Donald Trump.
	Donald Trump, as far as we can tell, has just been trying to win a third championship at his own golf course.
	My question to you, sir, can voters trust a presidential candidate who has not won a single Trump International Golf Club trophy?
	At long last, sir, have you no chip shot?
	Well, look, I'd be happy to play.
	I told him this before when he came into the Oval, when he was being, before he got sworn in.
	I said, I'll give you three strokes if you carry your own bag.
	A new national poll has Biden and Trump in a tight race in key battleground states, with both sides opening up more offices and hiring hundreds of new staff in an effort to reach voters in lock and a win come November.
	Can you imagine how cringe that must have been?
	I'll give you three strokes if you carry your own bag is the best that Colbert's writers could come up with for Biden?
	And he almost flubbed it too.
	Geez, that's just terrible and dreadful.
	Isn't that one of the oldest jokes in the golf universe?
	I don't know.
	I only know a few golf jokes.
	But I've never heard it before.
	It's not funny, that's probably why.
	Yeah, I got a kick out of this for a number of reasons, and you can maybe guess one of them.
	When NPR decided to cover this, they didn't decide to cover the event necessarily.
	I know which clip it is already.
	They decided to talk about neckties.
	The other day, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and Bill Clinton, three Democratic presidents, were all in one place to help Biden raise money for his re-election campaign.
	This, by the way, is the national treasure known as NPR.
	This is not a campaign story, though.
	It's not a campaign finance story.
	This is a segment about fashion.
	Because not one of these current or former commanders-in-chief was wearing what's typically a standard part of presidential outfits, a necktie.
	This prompted several men's fashion watchers on the internet to declare the death, or at least the beginning of the end, of the tie.
	Because, listen, if presidents are not wearing them at fancy events in midtown Manhattan, then who is?
	To dig more into this critically important topic, I am joined by fashion historian Kimberly Crisman-Campbell.
	Hey, Kimberly.
	Hey, Scott.
	How are you?
	I'm good.
	How are you doing?
	What your first reaction was to the discourse or the pictures of this event?
	I wasn't really surprised to see this for a lot of reasons.
	People have been, of course, predicting the death of the tie for at least a hundred years, but it really picked up after the pandemic and everybody went back to work, back to the office.
	The tie did not.
	Right.
	And like you said, this has been a long time coming, but is there something to the idea that there are far fewer ties in circulation than before?
	Absolutely.
	The sales of ties have been dropping for a long time, and I don't think they're ever going to go away, but it's not surprising to me that, especially at a Democratic fundraiser, which was a slightly more casual event than, say, a White House press conference, the tielessness was both a fashion statement and, I think, a subtle message to America.
	Yeah.
	What does it say, like, especially now that it's more optional in kind of more formal or more work setting for men or people who wear ties?
	Like, what is the statement at this point of, I am putting on a tie, I'm not putting on a tie?
	Well, as I said, I don't think ties will ever go away, but they really are reserved for the most formal events, for weddings, for graduations, job interviews, things like that.
	And they can actually work against a man in a less formal setting because they may come off as stuffy or pretentious.
	Oh, well, I'm glad, though, for those... that one minute and 59 seconds from our national treasure.
	Hey, that's just out of a 10-minute presentation that went on and on.
	Oh, my goodness.
	Yeah.
	Send back your tote bags.
	Well this brings me to a little mini report.
	Tina was at Mar-a-Lago for a, there's a movie called Into the Light and it's actually it's about psychological operations.
	I think it was part of a fundraiser for a group that goes and finds children who have been trafficked and rescues them.
	And she was invited by some friends here, so she went for a quick overnight, and she said a couple of interesting things.
	She said, Mar-a-Lago, by the way, she said, is very Florida, you know, very, you know, yes, it's, you know, it's opulent, I think was the word she used, very Florida opulent, so not gaudy, but Florida opulent.
	No Ubers are allowed on the premises, so they rented a car and they had a nice valet.
	She was very surprised that there was zero screening, security, metal detectors, ladies didn't have to open their bags or anything.
	Oh.
	And she was especially surprised because, um, about halfway through the evening, and by the way, Vivek was there.
	Vivek.
	So, so hold on.
	So they didn't, there's no security.
	Did she pick up some, uh, secret folders while she was there?
	She brought me back a napkin.
	She says, there was a goodie bag.
	What's in it?
	I left it there.
	Here's a napkin.
	But, oh, thank, okay.
	Well, there you go.
	Um, Vivek was there, and he spoke.
	General Flynn was there, and he spoke.
	And also there was James O'Keefe.
	And all he did all night was he was on his phone.
	That's all he did.
	He didn't talk to anybody.
	He was just on his phone all night, which I thought was kind of interesting.
	And halfway through the evening, all of a sudden, Whoops!
	Put on the brakes.
	He flew right back from New York and President Trump came in from the back of the room.
	And she said, now things changed.
	He says the Secret Service was outrageously amazing.
	It was just like this flood of people.
	And the hush came over the crowd.
	And she said that she actually found herself, surprisingly, she was fangirling over President Trump.
	She said he has an aura that is unbelievable.
	Yeah, you know, I ran into him once years ago when he was with Marla Maples, and I felt the same way.
	He has an aura.
	Yeah.
	It's hard to explain.
	He just has it.
	You can see it.
	It's like the guy's glowing as he's walking around.
	And she took some pictures and he actually looked pretty youthful, I would have to say.
	So I don't know what happened there.
	But he looked good.
	He did have a tie on.
	And it was not his 2016 tie that's too long.
	That always bothered me.
	And I predict that he will never go tieless anywhere he shows up because it's a part of concealing his voluptuous belly.
	He will never show up without a tie.
	And she said it was really quite interesting and he grabbed the mic and he spoke and she thought it was quite impressive.
	The only other thing she had to share is that now at all TSA, everywhere apparently where she was, and she had multiple flights to get there, the TSA is now asking you to take a picture of yourself, a biometric picture, Uh, and then you don't have to show your boarding pass.
	And she opted out.
	She said, can I opt out?
	Yes.
	You can opt out, you have to show your boarding pass.
	So this is now just standard operating procedure.
	Your picture is being taken at TSA.
	Remember it was just a test in a couple airports?
	Now it's just... No, they want to do it that way.
	And everybody's, okay!
	That's great.
	That's easy.
	Those things are pretty remarkable.
	Yeah.
	I mean, you can't really disguise yourself and get away with it.
	No.
	But upon some querying, you know, the answer comes, oh, no, no, it gets destroyed right away.
	Don't worry about it.
	Don't worry.
	Oh, really?
	Like those x-rays of the naked women?
	Yes.
	Don't worry about it.
	We destroy it and we take it away right away.
	It's all good.
	That's bullcrap.
	Speaking of goodie bags and such, this was actually quite a little interesting tidbit that came in from the BBC.
	Details have emerged of a crime wave of sorts on the world's most famous plane.
	Branded items such as glassware and pillowcases have been vanishing from the official aircraft of the President of the United States, Air Force One.
	The likely culprits... Oh, please!
	Journalists.
	From Washington, the BBC's Will Vernon reports.
	A source has told the BBC that last month the president of the White House Correspondents Association wrote an email to its members warning that removing items from the presidential plane is forbidden.
	Kelly O'Donnell said such behaviour didn't cast the journalists in a very good light, and must stop.
	Reports suggest the press corps' pilfering was identified after an inventory was taken aboard Air Force One following a visit by Mr Biden to the West Coast.
	Several items were found to be missing from the rear cabin of the aircraft, the section reserved for reporters.
	On the next trip, officials will likely be keeping a closer eye on the Presidential White Glasses.
	And hoping the journalists don't go home with anything other than a good story.
	There you go.
	Oh, they've been stealing from that plane.
	Everybody who has ever been on that plane steals something.
	You do that.
	That's what you do.
	And they know it and they replace it.
	Remember when I was at Buckingham Palace?
	And you stole something.
	No, I wanted to steal something.
	Went into the bathroom to steal a towel or some soap.
	And all they had was paper towel dispensers and soap all bolted to the wall.
	Oh yeah, they didn't want you stealing it.
	Well, they're cheap.
	Yeah, they are, they are, they're cheap.
	Alright, I have some Anderson Cooper 360 here regarding...
	Because of course, you know, this is just amazing.
	It's just amazing.
	And you can't underestimate what these presidents are doing for Joe Biden's campaign.
	Here is the one and only hundred millionaire, Van Jones.
	I think that anytime a police officer loses his or her life, that's a tragedy.
	People should show up.
	But the reality is that there is a big machine that has to be cut on for the Democratic Party.
	The Democratic Party cares about police.
	We can show that.
	But we've got to get this I thought that was great.
	The Democrat Party, they care about police, we can show that.
	Yeah, by defunding them.
	The Democratic Party cares about police, we can show that.
	But we've got to get this party to pull together.
	And if anybody doubts Barack Obama in particular, his ability to get some of the people back in this party, you've got men leaving this party, you've got young African Americans leaving this party, he can reach them in a way that nobody else can.
	Do you think he will be out there a lot?
	I don't think Barack Obama is going to sit this out.
	I don't think, by the way, I think we have two Obamas, two Clintons, and two Bidens who are not going to sit this out.
	I think you're going to see a full court press from the Texas party.
	What?
	I know, when I first heard it, I'm like, what?
	We got body doubles?
	I'm pretty sure they're talking about Killary and Big Mike.
	I don't think, by the way, I think we have two Obamas, two Clintons, and two Bidens who are not going to sit this out.
	I think you're going to see a full court press from the top of this party to the bottom because the consequence of a Donald Trump presidency, part two, is so catastrophic.
	In the minds of Barack Obama or Bill Clinton or anybody in this party, it just can't be allowed.
	And so, yes, it's unusual.
	This is an unusual time that we're in.
	But anybody who doubts Barack Obama's ability, oh, well, you know, who cares?
	No, no.
	Barack Obama can talk to people who are leaving this party and get them back.
	And he's got six months to do it.
	And he's going to play a tremendous role.
	Ah, OK.
	So how will they be sent into the field?
	How will you dispatch them?
	Outside the Biden-Obama-Clinton event.
	Is the Biden campaign planning more of these kind of joint appearances ahead, or is it more likely former Presidents Obama and Clinton will be dispatched separately onto the campaign trail?
	Well, certainly this is not going to be the last that we see of the two former presidents, and particularly I think former President Barack Obama.
	You know, the president Probably is going to be hitting the trail a lot more, especially as we get more into the fall.
	Our reporting is that he is likely to visit college campuses, for example, and also choose these key cities and key battleground states with the goal, of course, of helping to drive up enthusiasm among younger voters.
	As well as other key demographics like black voters and Latino voters.
	You know, these are two men, Anderson, as you know very well, who have been friends and obviously went through a lot together in their eight years together.
	So you can imagine that the time that they spent together this time around, this afternoon, a couple of hours, that they had a lot to talk about.
	And we were told by aides that they were catching up a lot and enjoying themselves, talking about a lot of the professional things, but also just their personal lives as well.
	It was an interesting trend on a social network, Twitter in particular.
	So they had video footage of Obama and Biden coming out of Air Force One on the tiny stairs, of course, the lower deck.
	Excuse me.
	And I don't know if you've seen this trend.
	That's actually the hold.
	Yes, it is.
	Yes.
	It's where they normally store the horses.
	They're coming out of the hold.
	Yeah, they're coming out of the hold.
	And, you know, there's something about Obama's leg or something, you know.
	But the trend is, what do you notice?
	Have you seen this?
	I may have, but I never could figure out what to notice.
	Me neither!
	So they had this video and they're like, look at Obama, what do you notice?
	And you know, and then there's 500 comments of, you know, oh, he's got a, he's got an ankle bracelet.
	Oh, his leg is a robot.
	I'm like, oh, come on.
	It's like, I like that.
	This trend is, is annoying.
	I, now I just skip them.
	Anyway, let's move over to Trump for a moment, because we need to bash him appropriately, particularly on the Jesus Super Bowl Sunday, the Resurrection Day.
	We need to complain about his religiosity, and who better to do that than Joy Reid?
	I'm wondering what one or two of your most favorite Bible verses are.
	I wouldn't want to get into it, because to me that's very personal.
	The Bible means a lot to me, but I don't want to get into specifics.
	Even to cite a verse that you like?
	No, I don't want to do that.
	Are you an Old Testament guy or a New Testament guy?
	Probably equal.
	A Medium Testament guy.
	Answer something, Trump!
	Are you an Old Testament guy or a New Testament guy?
	Probably equal.
	Today is Good Friday, which if Donald Trump had ever read or even briefly scanned the Bible, he might know.
	But if you are a Christian believer, you know that it marks the day Jesus of Nazareth, a Palestinian Jewish carpenter, born in poverty... Notice, notice what she says... I love it!
	Notice what she says, the Palestinian... She's a Palestinian!
	This is genius!
	He might know.
	But if you are a Christian believer, you know that it marks the day Jesus of Nazareth, a Palestinian Jewish carpenter, born in poverty, as a displaced refugee in his own land...
	This is phenomenal!
	Wow!
	They even got the displaced refugee angle!
	So good.
	Yeah.
	A man who performed miracles for the poor, the sick, and the hated.
	And who, despite being the son of the divine, died for the sins of the masses.
	A man whose entire ministry was about serving the poor, the immigrant, and embracing the rejected.
	Oh man, she kind of makes the whole tribulation there, the passion of Christ.
	She kind of takes some shortcuts.
	There's a little more than just that, but okay, let's continue, Joy Reid.
	And then there's Donald Trump.
	Oh, there we go.
	A man born with a silver spoon in his mouth, who has only ever served himself, and who is running for president again to keep himself out of prison.
	And yet, he has also cast himself as a modern-day Jesus.
	Oh, there it is!
	During this most sacred week in the Christian calendar.
	Well, to my knowledge, Jesus, the Messiah, never paid off a porn star to cover up committing adultery while his third wife was pregnant with his fifth child.
	Jesus certainly wasn't hawking Bibles as part of a never-ending grift.
	But for the low, low price of $59.99, you can buy the God Bless the USA Bible, the only Bible endorsed by Trump.
	Because to Donald Trump, a Bible is no more sacred than a Trump board game or Trump water.
	It's just another cheap tchotchke to sell to his followers, as is faith.
	It's just another thing to sell to frightened white evangelical Christians to get them to set aside what they know about their faith and vote for Trump anyway, to keep him out of jail.
	Trump has turned them into cult members, shared his persecution complex with them to get them to believe he's fighting a holy war for them.
	But because he doesn't know anything about the actual Jesus, Donald Trump doesn't understand that a real Messiah would never say migrants are poisoning the blood of our country.
	What Jesus actually said was, I was a stranger and you welcomed me.
	And before he died, he said, father, forgive them for they know not what they do.
	That was, that was about the Romans, but okay, Joy Reid, you're the expert.
	And I think he also came in... Is he sanctimonious or what is it?
	Yeah, I think that Jesus also came in and tossed everyone out of the temple and overturned the tax tables and did some other stuff.
	You know, there was quite a bit of violence.
	There was action.
	There was action, yes.
	That's the word I'm looking for.
	One last clip here, Joy.
	I'm enjoying you so much, Ms.
	Reed.
	I have to turn to my play pastor, my part-time pastor, Reverend Al Sharpton, who did my theology.
	Did I get my theology right?
	You were right on.
	No problem at all.
	Okay, good, because I listen.
	I listen to the pastors, including yourself, my big brother.
	My big brother!
	Because Trump is not a Christian.
	I mean, he's not a religious man at all.
	Do you know him?
	He's not religious.
	No, I've never heard him even discuss religion, let alone be accused of attending religious gatherings.
	Hold on.
	Stop, stop, stop.
	Aren't these the same Democrats who do everything they can to keep any mention of religion or anything out of the schools, and taking any religious note that shows up at City Hall, and you're moaning and groaning about it.
	So we have a guy who's neutral on religion and now it's bad.
	Or am I getting this wrong?
	He's the Reverend Al!
	He has credentials, man!
	No, I've never heard him even discuss religion, let alone be accused of attending religious gatherings, which is why it is so insulting to me as one who grew up in the church and have been a preacher since I was a boy.
	Hold on a second!
	Is Reverend Al forgetting his background?
	Reverend Al, allow me to play a little clip that reminds you of your days as a preacher, as a boy.
	What even works is Al Sharpton, who's still hanging around.
	This is a former backup dancer with James Brown, who was a crack dealer.
	He was a crack dealer and he was caught on camera by the FBI dealing crack.
	And they turned him into an informant.
	So he's certainly still on the FBI payroll.
	He's no reverend.
	Oh, OK.
	Insulting to me as one who grew up in the church and been a preacher since I was a boy, for him to not only come with selling Bibles.
	During Holy Week, I mean, this is the week that we, that believe in Christ, the real Christ.
	The real Christ?
	To take the Bible and say that.
	Which other Christ are we talking about?
	I don't know.
	And when you sell Bibles during Holy Week, isn't that time to sell them?
	That's exactly the time to sell them!
	I'm not getting a lot of the logic here.
	To take the Bible and say that this is the only Bible endorsed by Donald Trump.
	If you believed it was the sacred Word of God, who are you or I to endorse the Word of God?
	And add to it.
	There was no Council of Nicaea that added to the Bible.
	Donald Trump did it.
	He thinks he has the right to do it.
	I had to order one.
	You know that, right?
	I had to order one.
	I ordered one, of course!
	It's dynamite!
	By the way, there are a bunch of conflicting Bibles that are out there available.
	If you do Bible research in any way, shape, or form, especially online, they'll list them all to you, and a lot of them are so copyrighted you can't do anything.
	And they do.
	And the argument is made, this is the best Bible, that's the best Bible.
	That's nonsense.
	It's the King James.
	There is no one Bible.
	No, but the Trump Bible is the King James Version.
	So that would be considered by most the OG.
	Yeah, emphasizing the word old.
	The newer interpretations of the Bible, which have come out since and are used by a lot of scholars, are far superior.
	Well, here's what bothers me.
	My grandmother, whenever, this is some Curry family, I don't think I've ever told the story in the show.
	My grandmother was a real, a real, a real Jesus lover.
	And she had her King James Bible.
	And whenever we would assemble for Thanksgiving or some, you know, Christmas or some other stuff at Mead Road, which was, you know, what we called the homestead up there in Armonk.
	Upon leaving, the oldest grandchild present would read Psalm 121, which she called the going-away prayer.
	And we would always cringe because there was lots of yeas and other stuff in there.
	It wasn't English!
	And, you know, so it starts with, I lift up mine eyes unto the hills.
	And then I look at the new King James or the new international version and it's like, yeah, I took a glance over at the mountains.
	It doesn't, it's not quite the same thing.
	And then there's the message Bible, which is written basically for truck drivers.
	So there's a lot, there's a lot of different versions.
	Uh, but I think if you're Trump, then yeah, you would, you would sell the, uh, the, the King James version.
	Yeah.
	The one that's in the public domain, you can make the most money from.
	Boom!
	There it is.
	Let's go back to Al.
	Governor, let's start with the fatal shooting of New York City police officer Jonathan Diller.
	Now this is Kathy Hochul, the governor of New York, who was kicked out of the ceremony.
	They asked her to leave.
	Trump was there.
	All the cops are there.
	Hochul shows up and they ask her to leave.
	Was that in this interview?
	Which has dominated the news in your state since his death on Monday.
	Former President Donald Trump attended the wake on Long Island Thursday.
	Yesterday you went to the wake as well and you met with family members.
	The tragedy obviously sparked a debate about crime, guns, and criminal justice and many of us deplored the shooting of policemen.
	You've been consistent with that.
	But also consistent with everyone must stay within the law.
	What can you share about your thoughts on these issues as crime statistically has gone down in your state?
	But what do we need to do more of?
	Well, thank you, Reverend, for having me back on the show.
	And yesterday and today, the day of the funeral, it's been a heartbreaking experience for all New Yorkers.
	We grieve with this family, especially a young widow who has a one-year-old son who'll be raised without his father because of the horrific acts by a brazen criminal.
	And I went to the way to meet the family and speak to everyone from his wife and mother, father, brother, sister, everyone is just...
	So distraught and yes there's a lot of anger.
	Understandably there's anger about how these individuals who commit crimes over and over are back out on the streets again.
	So that's one of the reasons we worked hard with the legislature last year to change the bail laws so the judges have more discretion and you know there's a lot of complicated factors here but I totally understand the outrage of the family.
	I do and we're working hard to keep crime down.
	Ah, lady.
	Lady, lady, lady, lady.
	I love the statistically it's down.
	Oh, well, I have an example.
	They under-report it, it's like the cops, you know, it's just, it's down for a reason.
	Yeah, because of statistics.
	Yeah, underreported.
	They've also changed, as of 2020, they changed the reporting of, I don't know what to call them, sheets or forms or whatever it is nationally, and so a lot of stuff doesn't get filled out anymore.
	There's a lot of reasons for these numbers being bogus, but everyone knows it's not true.
	I mean, just go to San Francisco, or even I went to Oakland Chinatown the other day, and it was like, Oakland Chinatown used to be a pretty vibrant place.
	Half the place is boarded up.
	Here's a new trend of the oh-so-statistically-safe New York City.
	The NYPD is investigating this incident and several others like it.
	A woman suddenly punched while walking on a Brooklyn sidewalk, seemingly for no reason.
	I literally just got punched by some man on the sidewalk.
	In the last two weeks, several young women have posted on TikTok about getting randomly punched on the streets of New York City.
	Out of nowhere, this man just came up and hit me in the face.
	Tonight, with those videos as part of their investigation, police have made two arrests, including this man, Skiboki Stora, charged with attacking an influencer known as Hallie Kate, whose video's been viewed 49 million times.
	Literally, I fell to the ground, and now this giant goose egg is forming in my leg.
	A concussion, a black eye.
	Design student Mikayla Toninato shared a similar experience.
	So I just got back from the emergency room after getting punched in the face.
	Prosecutors said the man charged with assaulting her left the 27-year-old with a concussion and a visible mark on her eye.
	Police are investigating at least seven random assaults where the victim later posted on TikTok.
	None is believed to be related to another.
	Tonight, police are looking for this man in connection with the assault of a 25-year-old woman in Times Square who was slapped in the forehead and this man who allegedly punched a 24-year-old woman in the head.
	Well, police say these attacks are not part of a pattern, Mary.
	That doesn't make the many less scary.
	Felony assaults in the city are up about 3%.
	Other statistics, though, show the post-pandemic violent crime surge is continuing to level off.
	Oh, okay.
	That's where the stats come from.
	No pattern now.
	No, there's no pattern here.
	There's nothing to see here.
	Nothing to see here.
	Yeah, the punch in the face.
	In Brooklyn, please.
	This is unbelievable.
	Oh, goodness gracious.
	I got some Oakland reports.
	I got a way to fix these things here.
	I got some California stories.
	Okay.
	Which I normally don't do, but let's go with cameras everywhere, because that's gonna help.
	Oh, yes.
	Hundreds of new cameras promising to help make Oakland and the East Bay safer.
	Governor Newsom announced today the cameras will be placed on both city streets and on state highways.
	As our crime reporter Henry Lee shows us, many police departments already have this system, but this will be on a larger and more regional scale.
	Governor Gavin Newsom says hundreds of cameras that read license plates will soon be in place in Oakland and across the East Bay.
	Which will aid and support the efforts of law enforcement to focus on stolen vehicles.
	The governor made his announcement in a video recorded along Hagenberger Road in East Oakland, a hotspot for burglaries.
	The camera system is from Flock Safety and one that's already used by many law enforcement agencies.
	The cameras take still photos of the backs of cars and not people or faces.
	From there, police can track down specific cars and potentially arrest suspects.
	290 cameras will be on Oakland City streets under the purview of Oakland Police, while 190 cameras will be set up on state highways in the East Bay and monitored by the CHP.
	Images will be stored for 28 days.
	With many officers barred from chasing suspects in property crimes, supporters say these cameras will allow the cops to catch up to them later.
	We also feel that Big Brother isn't watching enough.
	That, you know, my big brothers, they always looked out for me.
	And I think that the ultimate big brother is our local police department.
	If they could help address some of the immediate You know, public safety issues around stolen vehicles and that kind of thing.
	You know, hopefully it'll have an impact.
	Others aren't so sure.
	The biggest unknown question is whose rules are we playing by?
	Brian Hofer is chair of the City of Oakland's Privacy Commission.
	He questions whether the CHP's privacy standards will be the same as Oakland's.
	I know my opinion is in the minority, that people are acting based on fear and also an unproven misguided belief that these cameras are going to solve all our problems.
	Wait a minute.
	Do I not recall story after story about how this was a problem, and no, you can't have this, this is illegal, and did they change something somewhere along the way?
	Yeah, they let you forget.
	Oh, you know what, can I just listen to this clip?
	This is a clip from 2023 about the, I think the San Jose License Plate Readers?
	Let me just listen to this for a second.
	Law enforcement and city officials have had enough, and they believe perpetrators shouldn't have a license to steal.
	So enter technology.
	It reads license plate numbers and converts them to text format.
	And if there's a match with a plate from a wanted hot list, law enforcement is alerted.
	Silicon Valley's San Jose implemented automatic license plate readers, ALPRs, throughout the city in October, near top spots like intersections and malls.
	I thought it was a big problem.
	I thought that there was legalities that had to be overcome, and I guess that just happened?
	It's okay?
	Did we probably have older clips that get there somewhere?
	Here's the second part of this Oakland report.
	James Birch of the Anti-Police Terror Project says money could be better spent elsewhere.
	Instead of these cameras, could we have, you know, professionals doing their work in the community to prevent violence?
	You know, those are the costs that we're seeing here on the streets in the city of Oakland.
	It's not clear where these cameras might be set up, but we've learned that the system could be installed beginning in the next 30 days and be fully complete by this fall.
	In Oakland, Henry Lee.
	Oh, so this is great.
	So this is the security industrial complex closing in on everybody.
	Your picture's taken at the airport.
	Your picture's being taken on the street.
	And in New York, they now have a new way of doing stop and frisk.
	Mayor Adams announced the start of a pilot program with a high-tech body scanner that could help keep people with guns out of the subway.
	The system, manufactured by Evolve Technology, is in widespread use at amusement parks and in at least 10 stadiums.
	Far less intrusive.
	Yeah, that's private property.
	Than airport security.
	The system generates an invisible electromagnetic field.
	As you walk through, your body disturbs that field.
	And the system is designed to look specifically for the distinct pattern of a gun.
	In a demonstration, the system detected the men with concealed handguns.
	A computer screen pinpointed exactly where the guns could be found.
	You'd be surprised how many people will see that machine and walk through thinking that no one will pick up their gun.
	We see it in our hospitals.
	People walking in with all sorts of weapons because they don't believe the machine actually works.
	The NYPD has not yet said how many they will use and precisely where they will be deployed.
	But we will start seeing them in the subways in early July.
	Yeah.
	Hey, it's less intrusive than TSA.
	No, they don't do it.
	They take your picture!
	What are you drinking?
	I think I heard something open.
	Ah, polar seltzer.
	No big deal.
	Okay.
	Now, the big fear, of course, is none of this.
	It's all cyber.
	It's all cyber.
	We're all worried about cyber.
	And we have the Deputy Director for Digital Innovation at the CIA, who, as far as I know, the CIA, they're not supposed to be operational in the U.S., correct?
	No, that's not true.
	We've talked about this, I had it in the newsletter.
	Ronald Reagan lifted those restrictions during his era.
	Oh, oh, hmm.
	Well, that's good to know.
	They can do what they want.
	Well, Julianna Galena, I think is her name, she appeared on NBC.
	Julianna Galena's title may sound bureaucratic.
	I'm the Deputy Director of the CIA for Digital Innovation.
	Her portfolio is broad and essential.
	Appointed in February, she's in charge of the CIA's efforts to detect and protect against cyber threats from abroad.
	Among her foremost concerns, threats to U.S. elections, particularly Russia spreading false information, creating doubt and swaying U.S. officials.
	And with China, she sees efforts to influence U.S. opinion as the biggest threat.
	If you're changing the minds of a group of people or many people, that's hard to undo it.
	It's hard to even know what the source was or how it happened.
	Including on social media.
	Are you on TikTok?
	No.
	Neither are her kids or her parents, she says.
	I tell them don't touch it.
	TikTok denies being owned by the Chinese government.
	But back at CIA headquarters, her biggest concern might surprise you.
	Honestly, the thing that concerns me the most is I'm worrying that maybe someone in my enterprise still has password 123 as the password.
	It's, you know, in other words, basic cyber hygiene.
	Cyber hygiene?
	I like that.
	How's your cyber hygiene?
	Cyber hygiene.
	And why isn't she on TikTok?
	Isn't she supposed to be checking this stuff out to make sure we're not getting screwed?
	You know, the CIA should be sending us donations because this is what we do.
	I have a multi-part breakdown of the 60 Minutes special.
	Special?
	Which is that?
	Oh, it's about TikTok and fake videos and AI.
	Oh, yeah.
	You want to hear some of this?
	I'd love it.
	Oh, you like the pain.
	As big tech firms wrestle with how to keep false and harmful information off their social networks... Oh, wait a minute.
	Hold on a second.
	Is this Leslie Stahl interviewing the Biden stooge who's presenting herself as a fact checker?
	Is that Kate Starb?
	I think so.
	Yeah, she works with the Biden administration, but she's got set up shop as a fact checker to make sure that the Biden stuff doesn't get, you know, doesn't get treated properly.
	Yeah, because that's truth.
	Yeah, of course.
	Truth.
	Truth.
	The Supreme Court is wrestling with whether platforms like Facebook and Twitter, now called X, have the right to decide what users can say on their sites.
	The dispute centers on a pair of laws passed in the red states of Florida and Texas over the question of First Amendment rights on the Internet.
	The Supreme Court is considering whether the platforms are like newspapers, which have free speech rights to make their own editorial decisions, or if they're more like telephone companies that merely transmit everyone's speech.
	Wow, that's a very simplified version of the issue.
	That is a terrible analogy.
	It really is.
	If the laws are upheld, the platforms could be forced to carry hate speech and false medical information.
	You will carry hate speech?
	You will carry the hate speech?
	The very content most big tech companies have spent years trying to remove through teams of content moderators.
	But in the process, conservatives claim that the companies have engaged in a conspiracy to suppress their speech.
	Ah, yes, yes.
	By the way, did you make the basket?
	Sounded like you hit it.
	I used to have a giant pile of cans in this studio, which I removed, but unfortunately another pile has been forming and I tossed that can into the new pile.
	So you literally have a pile on the floor of cans?
	Yeah, yeah, because it makes a great sound effect.
	Just listen.
	You are a unique man, John C. Dvorak.
	Very unique.
	Almost as unique as Kate Starbird.
	A new target is misinformation academic researchers.
	Now this is, this is something we could get into.
	Exit strategy.
	Who began working closely with the platforms after evidence of Russian interference online in the 2016 election.
	Evidence.
	Are researchers being chilled?
	Kate Starbird is a professor at the University of Washington, a former professional basketball player, and a leader of a misinformation research group created ahead of the 2020 election.
	Yeah, by Biden.
	Yes, of course.
	And she's a former basketball player.
	She never mentions this.
	This report, this CBS report, is classic nowadays kind of reporting where they just leave stuff out.
	Screw you, the public.
	60 Minutes has just fallen off the ship.
	Would you call that mal-information?
	Mis-information?
	I'd say so.
	Or dis-information.
	Yeah, definitely.
	We were very specifically looking at misinformation about election processes, procedures, and election results.
	And if we saw something about that, we would pass it along to the platforms if we thought it violated one of their policies.
	Here's an example.
	A November 2020 tweet saying that election software in Michigan switched 6,000 votes from Trump to Biden.
	The researchers alerted Twitter that then decided to label it with a warning.
	I understand that some of the researchers, including you, have had some threats against them.
	I have received one.
	Sometimes there are threats with something behind them, and sometimes they're just there to make you nervous and uncomfortable, and it's hard to know the difference.
	I love that it just jumps from, well, you know, the votes change, but you've had threats against you.
	I mean, this is not even journalism anymore.
	It's really bad.
	And, by the way, we all know who really is behind all the disinformation.
	Did your research find that there was more misinformation spread by conservatives?
	Absolutely.
	I think not just our research, research across the board looking at the 2020 election.
	How about safe and effective, lady?
	We found that there was more misinformation spread by people that were supporters of Donald Trump or conservatives.
	And the events of January 6th kind of underscore this.
	The folks climbing up the Capitol building were supporters of Donald Trump and they were misinformed by these false claims and that motivated those actions.
	Did that come out of the January 6th Commission?
	I thought it was Donald Trump's fault.
	What specifically were the false claims, does she say?
	No, of course not.
	Now let's get the other side of the story.
	Let's go to Jim Jordan, a Republican.
	Ohio Republican Congressman Jim Jordan is chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
	So how big a problem is mis- and disinformation on the web?
	Well, I'm sure there's some, but I think our concern is the bigger problem of the attack on First Amendment liberties.
	Congressman Jordan's Judiciary Committee... First Amendment liberties?
	That's an interesting way to put it.
	Do I like that?
	First Amendment liberties?
	And you can be sure that this has been chopped up.
	Oh, yeah.
	The attack on First Amendment liberties.
	Congressman Jordan's Judiciary Committee produced a report that concluded there's a censorship industrial complex.
	Oh, no!
	Where the federal government and tech companies colluded with academic researchers to disproportionately silence conservatives, which Kate Starbird vigorously denies.
	Oh!
	But Congressman Jordan says her group unfairly flagged posts like this tweet by Newt Gingrich.
	Pennsylvania Democrats are methodically changing the rules so they can steal the election.
	He complains that government officials put pressure on social media companies directly.
	A great example, 36 hours into the Biden administration, the Biden White House sends an email to Twitter and says, we think you should take down this tweet ASAP.
	Just a call alone from the government, he says, can be unnerving.
	You can't have the government say, hey, we want you to do X. Government who has the ability to regulate these private companies, government which has the ability to tax these private companies.
	He says that White House email to Twitter involved a tweet from Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
	and everything in the tweet was true.
	That tweet implied falsely that baseball legend Hank Aaron's death was caused by the COVID vaccine.
	Did they take it?
	It turned out they didn't.
	Thank goodness.
	And that post is still up.
	Well, it must be true then!
	Oh my God!
	It's still up, she decries.
	So we need something just as equally outrageous on the other side that hurt the Democrats.
	Katie Harbath spent a decade at Facebook, where she helped develop its policies around election misinformation.
	When she was there, she says it was not unusual for the government to ask Facebook to remove content, which is proper, as long as the government is not coercing.
	Conservatives are alleging that the platforms were taking down content at the behest of the government.
	They were!
	Which is not true.
	The platforms made their own decisions.
	Okay, what kind of decisions?
	What example do you have?
	And many times we were pushing back on the government.
	Can we talk about a specific case?
	Oh, which one do you think they have, John?
	I'm sure it's a loo- a- a- a Whopper.
	It's of Nancy Pelosi.
	It's a doctored tape where she looks drunk.
	We want to give this president the opportunity to do something historic.
	This was the video of then House Speaker Pelosi, posted to Facebook in 2019, slowed down to make it seem that she was slurring her words.
	Do these people have no humor?
	Do they not understand this was a joke?
	No, no.
	They actually have no humor.
	It's the most amazing thing I've ever seen.
	It did not.
	Why?
	Because it didn't violate the policy.
	Why?
	Why?
	Why did they not take it?
	Why?
	Why?
	It's disinformation.
	Why?
	She's never drunk.
	Did it come down?
	It did not.
	Why?
	Because it didn't violate the policies that they had.
	So did she put pressure on the company to take it down?
	She was definitely not pleased.
	She definitely wanted the company, yes.
	And it really damaged the relationship that the company had with her.
	Oh, it damaged the relationship.
	Oh, no.
	Like she cared.
	She was too busy buying stocks.
	She got no, she doesn't care, but what do you think of me, Twitter?
	I'm too busy buying stocks with my inside information.
	Okay, so now we're just almost done here.
	We get to the Supreme Court.
	A lot of this is now in the court.
	The Conservatives' campaign faced a setback at the Supreme Court on Monday when a majority of the justices seemed poised to reject their effort to limit attempts by the government to influence social media.
	The court is deciding in separate cases whether the platforms are like news organizations with a First Amendment right to control who and what information appears on their sites.
	It's going to be so interesting what comes out of that.
	Let's wrap this up with some accusations.
	Darrell West, a senior fellow of technology innovation at the Brookings Institution, says the clash over what is true is fraying our institutions and threatening democracies around the world.
	Half of the world is voting this year, and the world could stick with democracy or move towards authoritarianism.
	Well, we all know what we want.
	We all want authoritarianism.
	Half the world is voting this year.
	They're voting, and they're voting for authoritarianism.
	How do you do that, by the way?
	You have systems in place.
	This is great, this is good.
	Yes, how do you vote for authoritarianism?
	We have systems in place.
	And you can't, it's not like these kind of lame democracies that come late in the game and then they vote, you know, a Sharia government in place and they just dissolve everything.
	There's no mechanism.
	There is no mechanism in this country to do that.
	democracies around the world.
	Half of the world is voting this year and the world could stick with democracy or move towards authoritarianism.
	The danger is disinformation could decide the elections in a number of different countries.
	In the U.S., he says, the right wing has been flooding the Internet with reams of misleading information in order to confuse the public.
	And he's alarmed by the campaign to silence the academic researchers who have had to spend money and time on demands from Jim Jordan's Judiciary Committee.
	I wonder if there's a way to measure the shifting meaning of misinformation?
	Starbird says she and her team feel intimidated by the conservatives' campaign.
	So while they will continue releasing their research reports on misinformation, they will no longer send their findings to the social media platforms.
	Well, what good are you then?
	Oh, they have to pull back because this is a Biden op.
	Yeah.
	I want to mention in passing, which I don't have any clips for, and I should have gotten some.
	I guess they're doing, they're unleashing the AI on medical research?
	Yes, yes.
	You heard this too?
	Yes, yes.
	Do you have a clip?
	And they're turning, it turns out that most of the medical research that we've been inundated with is bogus.
	Is totally bogus.
	Well, I don't need AI to deconstruct this particular information that came out.
	More proof this morning that eggs have been getting a bad rap.
	A new study shows it's okay to eat an entire dozen on a weekly basis.
	Researchers say eating 12 fortified eggs per week had no adverse impact on good or bad cholesterol levels in people over... Hold on.
	Hold on.
	We'll get there.
	We'll get there.
	Don't worry.
	I'm going to promote the book.
	Don't worry.
	...had no adverse impact on good or bad cholesterol levels in people over the age of 50.
	And there were signs of potential benefits for seniors who ate eggs each day, such as improved cholesterol and insulin-resistant scores.
	But experts say more research is needed, so talk to your own doctor before you make any changes to your diet.
	Oh, really?
	Every time I make a change to my diet, I want to eat a new fruit, I have to call the doctor?
	They won't answer?
	I love these types of news reports because it's blanketed all over the place and, of course, with our no agenda research hat on, we go to look at the study.
	Diane, before you do that, did you notice that she dropped in the word fortified?
	No, I didn't.
	Yes, start the clip over.
	Why does it have to be a... What's wrong with a natural egg?
	More proof this morning that eggs have been getting a bad rap.
	A new study shows it's okay to eat an entire dozen on a weekly basis.
	Researchers say eating 12 fortified eggs per week... What is a fortified egg?
	That means they're feeding the chickens hormones or some damn thing.
	Who knows?
	So I go to look at this study and I didn't need AI.
	I just go to the study.
	It's perspective evaluation of fortified eggs related to improvement in the biomarker profile for your health.
	And all you have to do is go to the lead researcher, Neha J. Pagdipati, MD, FACC, and look at the disclosures.
	By the way, except for three, every single researcher is a consultant for Big Pharma, but the lead researcher states, research and research grants provided by Egglands Best.
	Which is a fortified egg.
	Yes, and I don't have to tell you who's paying for the website Egglands Best, do I?
	No.
	This is the fortified egg lobby.
	Yeah.
	And everyone just reports it.
	Oh yeah, oh, this is great news!
	Remember?
	Blue jeans, you're gonna get cancer.
	Blue jeans, no cancer.
	Beef, you're gonna die.
	Your artery's gonna get clogged.
	The same thing with cast iron skillets.
	It's gonna give you a heart attack.
	They're gonna kill ya!
	Meanwhile, everybody who listens to the sound of my voice knows that you need to go to TooManyEggs.com And don't get the fortified version.
	Get the regular version.
	It's just a regular book.
	It's a free PDF.
	That's right.
	But the book itself is a work of art.
	It is a work of art.
	It is well worth the $800 for the book.
	No, you're thinking that's the ABC book.
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	May 5th, I'm told.
	May 5th is the ABC book.
	Oh, I'm so excited.
	Can we go back to San Francisco for a minute?
	Oh goodness, okay.
	Although we haven't left it, we were in Oakland.
	Yeah, we were close.
	It's just a day in the life of San Francisco.
	Okay.
	I got three different stories here.
	Oh, is it as fun and safe statistically as New York City?
	Oh, probably better.
	Crime's gone down.
	Here's San Francisco, normal arrests.
	San Francisco police say they arrested dozens of wanted fugitives in a sweep in the Tenderloin this week.
	Officers say they arrested 54 people on Wednesday and seized 600 grams of narcotics during the multi-agency operation.
	34 of those arrested had outstanding warrants.
	Authorities with other city agencies also towed cars and impounded illegal food vending carts.
	Police say these operations will continue for the foreseeable future around U.N.
	Plaza and other areas.
	Illegal food vending carts?
	Yeah, there was some guy that had a cook stove and so they stole it.
	Say it ain't so!
	Yeah, they did that.
	Here's a good one too.
	This is another San Francisco story.
	Normal.
	This is, I put this, San Francisco normal.
	BART SHOOTING!
	In San Francisco, police are still searching for more people who may have been involved in a deadly shooting at the Powell Street BART station.
	It happened around 9.30 last night at Halletty Plaza.
	People, police found one person who'd been shot.
	They were declared dead at the scene.
	The victim's name has not been released.
	Hold on a second.
	Let me hear that again.
	People, police found one person who'd been shot.
	They were declared dead at the scene.
	Was this a trans person?
	She's using the they-them pronoun on a single person.
	That's interesting.
	Yeah, I caught it right away.
	You caught that, I missed it.
	Yeah, so they knew something.
	They're not reporting.
	People, police found one person who'd been shot.
	They were declared dead at the scene.
	The victim's name has not been released.
	Police tell us they located a gun, but no arrests have been made.
	That's pretty standard, it happens.
	If anybody out there wants a vacation in San Francisco, I'd advise against it.
	Yeah, and certainly don't leave anything in your car.
	And here's the thing, yeah, for sure.
	Can you imagine the pain in the ass it must be to have a rental, you go to San Francisco, you just park it, and it gets busted, they bust the windows on it, and you gotta take the car back.
	There goes your vacation, it must take forever to do the paperwork.
	Well, first of all, since when are we considering San Francisco a vacation destination?
	It's a one-way ticket to hell, my friend!
	Here's the last San Francisco normal yenderloin clip.
	For the first time, we are hearing from the plaintiffs behind a lawsuit aimed at the city of San Francisco over conditions in the Tenderloin District.
	Escape TV's Christian Kapton shows us these residents say they want the city to take decisive action to put an end to open-air drug markets and homeless encampments.
	Conditions in San Francisco's Tenderloin are the ongoing center of debate, and now the center of a lawsuit filed last week.
	Residents and hotels in the area say the city hasn't done enough to improve street conditions, and filed a suit in federal court, saying while they pay their taxes, they don't get the same services that other city residents receive.
	Several of the residents chose to remain anonymous, but are speaking out now for the first time about what it's like living in the Tenderloin.
	It is dangerous to come outside.
	I work three days a week.
	I have to walk two blocks up where there's drugs going around in drug dealers.
	This resident is raising two children in the Tenderloin and says it's not fair that they have to live in a dangerous neighborhood.
	All I'm asking for is just one thing, security.
	The attorney representing the plaintiff says the city has allowed the Tenderloin to sink into chaos.
	And it's a little bit more than that because there's evidence that the city has treated this neighborhood as the containment zone.
	This is where the city has directed this activity with the hope, apparently, if we can contain it to the Tenderloin, then maybe it won't spread to other neighborhoods.
	Oh my goodness.
	I mean, I believe this to be true.
	Oh, it sounds totally believable.
	But the Tenderloin?
	That used to be hip.
	No.
	The Tenderloin was never here.
	It was always a hellhole.
	When I was a little kid, I remember going through it with my dad and he's telling me, this is the bad part of town.
	It was always the bad part of town, still the bad part of town.
	Why was your dad driving you through there?
	Was he going to drop you off?
	Sometimes you've got to go through the tenderloin to get from point A to point B. But the idea that they've made it this way on purpose, I never considered.
	But then I think of the concept of Hamsterdam in the TV series The Wire, and I think, yeah, that's exactly what they're doing.
	And then once it's totally devolved into crap, then they'll Toss everybody out, raise it, as in R-A-Z-E, and then they'll build a new stadium.
	They need a new stadium.
	But I don't think they're going to, I don't know, this has been going on too long.
	I think they're just going to leave it as Hamsterdam.
	Um, I want to play a couple of clips from the Big Pharma, from the medical, everything's an industrial complex, so it's the medical-industrial complex.
	This is what your algos will tell you to be very afraid of.
	And the CDC is warning that monkeypox is on the rise again in the U.S.
	Current cases are nearly double what they were at this time last year.
	It spreads via skin-to-skin contact with symptoms like smallpox, but milder.
	Now the CDC says anyone with a high risk of infection should get vaccinated.
	To quote a trend, what do you notice in that clip?
	Vaccinated.
	No.
	What's different from the previous reporting on monkeypox?
	Skin-to-skin contact?
	Yes.
	It used to be men who have sex with men.
	Ah, yes.
	You're correct, sir.
	Now it's skin-to-skin contact.
	So let's complain a bit about the price of Ozempic.
	Tonight, a new study is raising questions about the high cost of the diabetes drug Ozempic and similar drugs now being used by millions of people for weight loss.
	Drug maker Novo Nordisk, charging nearly $1,000 a month for injections before insurance, rebranded.
	Researchers from Yale King's College Hospital in London and Doctors Without Borders claim that it can be made for less than $5.
	The study does not account for labor costs, tariffs and legal fees.
	The company says it spent almost $5 billion on research and development.
	And advertising!
	Did they mention the cost of advertising they put into that thing?
	No.
	Which adds to the bottom line?
	Yeah, it was half a billion dollars last year alone.
	So on that tip, there's, let me see, there's news that there are natural alternatives to weight loss drugs, Ozempic and Wegovy.
	Yeah, chewing gum.
	Well, we know that it's Slendermint, slendermint.com.
	But there are A team of computer scientists, here we go, is planning to announce the identification of two potentially viable natural alternatives to weight-loss drugs, Ozempic and Wegovy, made from naturally occurring compounds.
	Currently identified as compound A and compound B, the mystery extracts Which are identified using the latest artificial intelligence tools.
	Get ready.
	Will remain secret until the researchers obtain patents on their formulations.
	Yeah, and there goes the price.
	Exactly!
	It's so sick.
	One more warning from the CDC.
	Watch your kids!
	And now to an alert from the CDC.
	A rare type of bacterial illness that can cause meningitis is increasing.
	422 cases were reported last year, the most since 2014.
	One strain proving to be more deadly than usual, with one in six people dying.
	Most of the victims are middle-aged adults.
	The federal agency encouraging those eligible to stay up to date on their vaccines.
	No vaccines!
	Meningitis vaccine?
	Is there a vaccine for meningitis?
	I believe there to be, yes.
	It's just, everything's like, stay up to date on your vaccine.
	Yeah, just, hey, get your vaccine.
	Oh, you've got monkey pox, skin to skin.
	Used to be men who have sex with men, but no, now it's just skin to skin.
	And then what I thought was the funniest report from Kenya, and this started in 2018.
	I think we did something on the show.
	Do you remember that they were detecting tuberculosis with sound analysis?
	I actually don't remember that, but it sounds reasonable.
	They would analyze your cough.
	And then based upon your cough, you got tuberculosis.
	But they couldn't really get it above 70% accuracy.
	So now we've decided, well, let's just give the Kenyans some tuberculosis and let's build our app down there.
	Developing an app that could detect tuberculosis and other respiratory diseases.
	That's the challenge set by this team at the Kenya Medical Research Institute.
	In this room, they record the coughs of both sick and healthy people.
	The aim is to create a software that can analyze the noises and diagnose whether the person has the disease.
	It's a very convenient technology, new technology.
	The trials have been funded by the National Institutes of Health in the USA, but have not yet received regulatory approval.
	For Dr. Nduba, the project's lead researcher, the software could help curb the spread of tuberculosis by cutting down the diagnosis timing from two to three months to a few minutes.
	The biggest achievement is reduce time to diagnosis.
	The moment they get a cough, if you can just expose them to this software and determine this is TB, would reduce TB transmission in the community.
	And a lot of TB is due to transmission.
	The software has not yet met World Health Organization detection accuracy standards.
	The app must have a TB diagnosis accuracy of at least 90% and at least 80% in detecting the absence of infection.
	At present, the rate is 10% lower in both categories, but gives researchers a lot of hope.
	Geez, makes you want to cough listening to that report.
	I just love the report and I didn't know the World Health Organization had standards for cough analysis.
	I mean, it's gonna be, it's gonna be literally be, you're gonna go on an airplane.
	Okay.
	Cough.
	Alright, let me take a picture.
	Walk through the body scanner.
	Why fly at all?
	Why even travel?
	Well yes, I know this is the conclusion you've come to as a wise man.
	Here's another one.
	Why travel at all?
	Here's the Texas Boeing subcontractor clip.
	Oh yeah, this is another interesting story.
	The Texas Attorney General is investigating a key Boeing supplier that's already under scrutiny by federal regulators over the quality of its work on Boeing planes.
	Ken Paxton says he's looking into Spirit Aerosystems because of what he says are apparent manufacturing defects that led to numerous concerning or dangerous incidents.
	A spokesman says Spirit Aerosystems doesn't comment on investigations.
	Paxton wants the company to turn over more than two years worth of documents about flaws in manufacturing and also about the company's effort to create a diverse workforce.
	They've got a diverse workforce in there.
	I don't know why they slipped that in.
	I guess they weren't doing enough because it sounds like they weren't doing enough about diversity.
	I've been an inspector in an industrial situation.
	When products come in that are subcontracted out, they have to be re-inspected by the company that receives it.
	That's where the responsibility begins and ends and there's also something called final inspection on all these operations and that's where the real rubber hits the road.
	This is bullcrap.
	Blaming some subcontractor who doesn't have enough diversity.
	Yes, I'm with you.
	I mean, what can you say?
	The news is just filled with this.
	Why are we even watching news anymore and reporting on it?
	We should just fold it all up.
	It's all the same.
	It's all lies.
	It's lies.
	Lies!
	Lies, I tell you.
	Now, there was something that happened on the social meds, on social media.
	Sochmed.
	Yeah, that's what I call it, the Sochmeds.
	Sounds like the name of a soft drink.
	Yeah, Sochmed.
	Ah, now in small cans.
	This, um, I don't know if you saw this.
	It was BBC, BBC Hardtuck, Stephen Sackler.
	Oh, I have that same clip if you have it.
	Yeah, but I have the whole thing.
	It's a little, it's a little, there's a little more to it.
	And I have some commentary about this.
	By the way, Stephen is a dick.
	And Hardtalk has been like this forever.
	They just think it's so cool to be up with a British accent to just grill somebody unnecessarily.
	and not let, you know, and have this, it's just a terror.
	Hard talk 16 years ago when we started this show, I used to watch it because I had a different guy.
	But ever since the Stephen Sackler guy, or whatever his name is, came on it, and the arrogance and condescension of his style, the show's unwatchable and the BBC should take it off the air.
	Well, it was doubly disgusting because what everyone, the clip that went viral, And we're like, yeah!
	You stick it to the BBC, man!
	You tell them!
	Yeah, you tell them!
	But meanwhile, this was an entire net zero promotion.
	Complete acceptance that CO2 is killing us.
	And the president of Guyana did not push back on the bogus climate change charges.
	No, he's all in on it.
	This was a promotion of global warming, and everybody fell for it.
	Like, yeah, man, you tell them, carbon sink!
	We have to be very careful about this climate change stuff.
	This is the stuff.
	We're looking at Trump and Biden and Algos.
	It's the climate change.
	This is how they're going to lock you down.
	Welcome to Hard Talk.
	I'm Stephen Sacker and today I am in Guyana, South America.
	A country of some 800,000 people which, right now, can claim to have the fastest growing economy in the world.
	The reason?
	Oil.
	Vast reserves of the stuff located offshore.
	My guest today is Guyana's president, Irfan Ali.
	His country's newfound oil riches have stoked tensions with neighbouring Venezuela.
	They've also All right, so now we get into the thing that most people saw.
	Let's take a big picture look at what's going on here.
	So is oil really a blessing or a curse?
	All right, so now we get into the thing that most people saw.
	Let's take a big picture look at what's going on here.
	Over the next decade, two decades, it is expected that there will be $150 billion worth of oil and gas extracted off your coast.
	It's an extraordinary figure.
	But think of it in practical terms.
	That means, according to many experts, more than 2 billion tonnes of carbon emissions will come from your seabed, from those reserves, and be released into the atmosphere.
	I don't know if you as a head of state went to the COP in Dubai.
	Let me stop you right there.
	Let me stop you right there.
	Do you know that Guyana has a forest forever that is the size of England and Scotland combined?
	A forest that stores 19.5 gigatons of carbon?
	A forest that we have kept alive?
	A forest that we have kept alive?
	Does that give you the right?
	Does that give you the right to release all of this carbon?
	Does that give you the right to lecture us on climate change?
	I am going to lecture you on climate change!
	Because we have kept this forest alive, that stores 19.5 gigatons of carbon, that you enjoy, that the world enjoy, that you don't pay us for, that you don't value, that you don't see a value in, that the people of Guyana has kept alive.
	Guess what?
	We have the lowest deforestation rate in the world.
	And guess what?
	Even with our greatest exploration of the oil and gas resource we have now, we will still be net zero.
	Guyana will still be net zero.
	So he's right there with net zero, which means carbon credits, because that's how you get to net zero.
	He says carbon, but he really means carbon dioxide, because that's just become the thing now.
	Oh, it's carbon.
	It's just carbon.
	No, it's carbon dioxide.
	And it goes downhill from there.
	The Center for International Environmental Law has described the oil and gas production in Guyana as turning your country from, as you rightly put it, a carbon sink into a potential, quote, carbon bomb.
	Now, you may say you have every right.
	I mean, come on.
	This thing is a climate change promotion.
	Climate carbon bomb.
	Give me a break.
	Potential, quote, carbon bomb.
	Now, you may say you have every right to exploit that oil and gas.
	That is ridiculous.
	We, even with our, even with exploring and production of all our resources, we are going to still be carbon neutral.
	We are still going to be carbon neutral.
	Let me quote to you Greenpeace, who say quite simply, to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
	And you know that your own country is one of the most vulnerable to climate change because most of your population lives below sea level.
	And we have feared, guess what?
	Now this is interesting.
	So this guy, not only is he all actually really on a net zero, but now he's reminded that his country, most of his country, lives below sea level.
	But he's all in on sea level rise, of course, because, you know, that's what Obama knows with his house on the coast.
	And we have paid.
	Guess what?
	Guess what?
	We have paid for the mitigation.
	We have paid for the adaptation.
	We are the ones who have to find revenue.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	I haven't finished telling you what Greenpeace said.
	But let me tell Greenpeace.
	Greenpeace said we need to keep the majority of the world's remaining fossil fuels in the ground.
	Greenpeace can say that.
	You're not doing that.
	Greenpeace and you can say that.
	But we need to get resources and the developing world, we need to get resources to build the sea defences.
	We need to get sea defences to build a drainage and irrigation system.
	You just said that we're six feet below sea level.
	Who is going to pay for the infrastructure?
	Who is going to pay for the drainage and irrigation?
	Who is going to pay for the development and advancement of our country?
	Are you going to pay?
	It's not coming from anywhere.
	It's not coming from Greenpeace or anyone else.
	So, he's admitting, we've got to pump the water out, man.
	When the sea level rises, when our people start to drown, you're not going to pay for that hard talk, man.
	No!
	We're going to pay for it with our carbon.
	Isn't there a cynicism here in Georgetown, best expressed by your Vice President, who said recently, because there is this climate change imperative to decarbonise, our policy is to get as much oil out of the ground as quickly as possible.
	Now he said, that's harsh for those who think that you should be environmentally sound, but that is the reality of it.
	Those were very honest words from your Vice President.
	And that is what we are, honest, we are practical.
	So you're rushing to get this all out before any deal is done to quote Dubai Cop to transition away from oil and gas?
	You can say we are rushing but we are very practical.
	We have this natural resource and we are going to aggressively pursue this natural resource because we have to develop our country.
	We are committed to development of this region.
	We have to create the opportunity for our people because no one is bringing that for us.
	No one is paying our agenda.
	So, while everyone thinks this is a big win, it's not.
	The guy's all in.
	His vice president's all in.
	They have a different solution.
	Let's do it quick.
	I like the analysis.
	I'm going to give you a clip of the day.
	Oh, that is very kind of you.
	Because you're right, everyone just played the funny part.
	I had the clips isolated because, not because of the analysis, because it was humorous.
	Yes.
	Because it was.
	Yeah, I've told you.
	And, but you're absolutely correct.
	The whole thing is, it could have, might as well have been scripted.
	Yep.
	Yeah.
	Why else is the guy there?
	Hard talk, man.
	Yeah, why did he go to Guyana from UK?
	That seems like a kind of out-of-the-way trip.
	I hear Guyana is beautiful this time of year.
	Probably is.
	Probably a great time to take a couple weeks off.
	I bet it is, too.
	Yeah, it has to be.
	Oh, man.
	Should we do a little update on the other war that we stopped caring about?
	You know, the war that killed ten times the amount of people in Ukraine?
	What war is this?
	Well, it's the Russia-Ukraine war, the full-scale invasion.
	Oh, that's still going on?
	Yeah, but people don't care about that anymore.
	400,000 Ukrainian men have died, but Palestine.
	Do you have a clip?
	Oh, I have a couple of clips.
	Here's Zelensky on CBS.
	But one thing that strikes me is you're defiant, still.
	into the ruins of a bombed out building in eastern Ukraine.
	President Zelensky seemed upbeat despite recent setbacks on the battlefield.
	But one thing that strikes me is you're defiant still.
	You seem more frustrated than optimistic now.
	No.
	No?
	I got that wrong.
	You're still optimistic?
	No, no, I'm normal.
	I'm optimistic because this is only one plan how to survive.
	That plan for survival relies on U.S.
	support, which has helped keep Russian forces at bay in recent months.
	It was very hard, but thank God our partners, including the US and Europe, helped us with air defense missiles, so we lived through the winter.
	I understand that, but Americans will think we have spent tens of billions of dollars supporting Ukraine.
	Tens of billions?
	How about hundreds of billions?
	What's this tens of billions all of a sudden?
	Billions of dollars supporting Ukraine.
	It would not be right to say we just need another year or a billion dollars.
	It doesn't work like that.
	Ammunition is coming to us, but its production takes place in the U.S.
	and the money stays in the U.S.
	and the taxes are staying in the U.S.
	Oh, he's parroting the old trope of, hey, you're not spending money on Ukraine, you're spending it on the bombs that are made in the U.S.
	It stays in the U.S.
	It's good for America.
	Give me some credit, man.
	We joined him as he inspected vast, newly built underground bunkers just a few miles from the Russian border.
	They're also bracing for Russian retaliation after President Putin accused Ukraine of supporting the ISIS terror attack near Moscow last week.
	Allegations Zelensky dismissed as ridiculous.
	But that doesn't stop Putin from attacking Ukraine, right?
	Yes.
	And that's what I want to tell you.
	For him, he doesn't care what the reason is for attacking us.
	Yeah, he doesn't care.
	He doesn't care.
	He doesn't care.
	So then we have some anti-Russia, anti-Putin information, which is coming from Fox News.
	No.
	run by the democrat party uh staffed by nimrods and this is a good one there were four suspects who went to court on sunday and they didn't look very good did they no i mean in uh about six hours after the attack the russian uh military arrested and captured these four people the
	They were driving west of Moscow and they were pulled out of their car and there are videos online showing, frankly, some brutal torture.
	There's one in which a Russian soldier cuts off the ear of one of them and makes him eat his own ear.
	Wow!
	I didn't see that video.
	Is that on Telegram?
	I didn't see it either, but it's, I guess somebody must have seen it because that's the way the Russians operate.
	Exactly.
	They love ear eating.
	Yeah.
	Cartilage.
	Yeah.
	It's cartilage.
	Mmm.
	Yummy.
	Uh, let's do some quick financial news, which is always, I'm just, what are you laughing about?
	I'm just, that's crazy clip you just played.
	Well, I thought I was going to clip of the day.
	I already got my clip of the day, so I'm happy.
	You're not going to get clip of the day for ear eating.
	I think it's up there in the realm of Clip of the Day territory.
	The Poonami would have gotten Clip of the Day if that was true.
	Once lauded as the wunderkind of crypto, who kept the company of the rich and famous, this morning Sam Bankman-Fried begins a 25-year federal prison sentence.
	Bankman-Fried addressing the court, I'm sorry about what happened at every stage, things I should have done and said, things I shouldn't have.
	But the judge saying there was never a word of remorse for the commission of terrible crimes.
	You just need FTX!
	FTX wants the go-to celebrity-endorsed crypto exchange.
	Behind the scenes, customers did not know Bankman Freed was using billions of their money for himself to prop up his struggling Alameda hedge fund.
	At trial, prosecutors played this interview with our George Stephanopoulos.
	So you do know and you did know that FTX deposits were being funneled to Alameda?
	So I was vaguely aware that that was how some mires were being sent in the first place.
	Didn't that set off alarm bells in your head?
	So there were a lot of people who were involved in that process.
	And look, I really deeply wish that I had taken like a lot more responsibility for understanding What the details were of what was going on there.
	Customers of FTX lost everything.
	One victim telling the judge the money which I wanted to spend on a family home taken away as well as my children's education.
	In addition to the 25 years in prison, Bankman Freed was ordered to forfeit 11 billion dollars to compensate victims.
	It's one of the stiffest white-collar sentences handed down in recent years.
	And it reflected the judge's worry Bankman Freed could commit another fraud.
	There is a risk that this man will be in a position to do something very bad in the future.
	And it's not a trivial risk.
	So they... I have a take on this.
	So they send this autistic kid...
	Who was completely built up by Forbes magazine, by the media, particularly Hello CNBC.
	They send this kid to jail.
	He'll come out when he's 50.
	And everyone else gets off.
	All the celebrities who took money to promote this obvious scam.
	The politicians who took money.
	Money that was slushed through to Ukraine.
	His parents.
	His parents on the payroll.
	Lawyers from Stanford.
	Professors.
	Everybody gets a free pass and they send this schmuck to jail.
	It's really pathetic.
	It really is.
	I mean, even... I mean, Kim Kardashian and Snoop Dogg got in trouble for promoting some crap coin.
	But oh no, no no, Tom Brady's okay.
	Oh no, we'll let him go.
	And so this kid takes the fall for all of it, and everybody knew it was going on.
	Everybody.
	But that's okay, because those of you who lost all your savings you're gonna put into your house, oh boo-hoo.
	Did you not read the disclaimer?
	I think you played a clip from this special from NPR, but this is in your future, son.
	The idea is not new.
	Martin Luther King and the Black Panthers called for guaranteed income.
	So did President Nixon.
	These days, tech entrepreneurs argue cash aid will be needed as gig work, automation and AI threaten jobs.
	Preckwinkle wants to prove it works so it can someday go nationwide.
	Cash aid was fringe before the pandemic, but after all those COVID stimulus checks and emergency rental payments, interest exploded.
	Also, cities got their own pandemic money.
	They're using that, along with philanthropy, for small cash aid pilots.
	They target low-income households and pay them $500 or $1,000 a month for a year or two.
	But as that pandemic money runs out, It's possible this trend could fizzle.
	Basic income is not meant to replace other assistance, but add to it.
	To be clear, this and other guaranteed income programs do not require people to work at all.
	That's a selling point for supporters.
	They say it can give people time and space to find a better job or not.
	Except we're not going to call it universal basic income.
	We're calling it cash aid.
	Cash aid.
	if no strings cashed were made permanent.
	So far, with short cash aid pilots, researchers say there has been no impact on whether people have jobs.
	Some parents, though, have cut back gig work to spend more time with their kids.
	It's coming.
	Except we're not going to call it universal basic income.
	We're calling it cash aid.
	Cash aid.
	Sounds so friendly.
	I don't know what they're going to do to make this work.
	I agree with you because it just seems as though the system is set up But it's not as though the educational system hasn't brainwashed everybody enough to kind of expect it.
	Yeah, and Andrew Yang?
	Yeah, he popularized it.
	The Prophet?
	Yes.
	Do you want an offbeat clip?
	Something that shows that we're like years ahead of everybody else.
	Sure.
	Do we get to play We Told You So on no agenda?
	No.
	Okay.
	That is the most annoying of all the jingles we ever created.
	Thank God we stopped playing it.
	Yes.
	So I've picked this clip off, off the, this is kind of a weird, it was a weird thing that happened.
	I think it's kind of, needs a little discussion, but this is from the Gutfeld Show.
	Oh, you're going to spike the ball is what you're going to do.
	Ah, good for you.
	With the 100% clip.
	Oh, you're not going to spike.
	Well, before I play the 100% clip, can I just spike the ball for you?
	Okay, spike.
	Gutfeld did the Poonami.
	He did it as a sub-segment.
	He normally does, he does a scatological piece every so often, and I expected that's where it was going to appear.
	He literally did 20 seconds.
	Yeah.
	Which was a little disappointing.
	But yes, this is, a lot of people picked this up because we have been on this for a long time.
	Years.
	For years.
	The night on everything is racist.
	The phrase 100%.
	Donald Trump Jr.
	recently called out the Anti-Defamation League for including 100% in its list of terms related to hate and extremism.
	According to the ADL, 100% can be shorthand for 100% white.
	If that's true, I've been surrounded by white supremacists for years.
	But it's 100% about the gift.
	It's 100% about the gift, 100%. 100%. 100%. 100%. 100%. - 100%.
	100%.
	100%!
	Yeah!
	Awesome!
	4000%!
	100%!
	1000%!
	Yes!
	100,000 times percent!
	100%. Yeah.
	4,000%. 100%. 100%. 100%. 100%. 100%. 100%. 100%. 1,000%.
	Yes, 100,000 times percent.
	That's 100%.
	Okay, so I think the reason why they're doing this is because... 100 frickin' percent.
	They want to nail Trump with it.
	But I can tell you from my close... My best friend Moe is black.
	I always want to... I love saying that.
	But I have a good friend who's black.
	So-called black.
	And this is really, this came, by the way, almost everything comes out of black culture in America.
	And it was before... That's a stretch.
	Oh, I'd say a lot comes out of, what are you talking about?
	I say a lot.
	Yeah.
	You said everything.
	Almost.
	I said almost everything.
	I didn't say everything.
	Did I say everything?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Strike that from the record.
	Well, just continue with yours.
	This comes... Continue.
	Please continue.
	Okay.
	Go on.
	But go ahead.
	But go ahead.
	I'm sorry, I can never get it correct.
	You're getting it wrong.
	But go ahead.
	But go ahead.
	This is from the 100 emoji, which comes from black America saying 100.
	100.
	And then it became 100% and everybody started using it.
	And then my friend, who happens to be black, stopped using it because it became so popularized that it wasn't fun anymore.
	It's an emoji!
	Shouldn't we call Apple racist for having a racist emoji?
	I mean, come on.
	Yeah, this is, the Anti-Defamation League, they're off the reservation.
	When did the Anti-Defamation League go south?
	They have really lost their way.
	I think it's been that way for a long time, Joe.
	I think it has too.
	People just haven't called them out because they're afraid of them.
	Well, you know, the Southern Poverty Law Center's called.
	They want their spot back.
	They're the ones that are supposed to be doing it.
	Yeah, they're the worst.
	Are you doing a DH Unplugged on Tuesday?
	This Tuesday?
	Yeah, why?
	I have something that I think Andrew Horowitz, your compadre.
	So every Tuesday, DH Unplugged.
	I listen to it religiously.
	It is a fabulous show.
	Do you listen to it more often than not?
	I listen to it, I think all the time.
	Mainly just to hear you talk about me.
	Yeah, we do that every show.
	Yeah.
	So now I'm talking about your show and it comes on at 8 o'clock Eastern Time or 9?
	It's, let me think, 6, 7, 8, 9 Eastern.
	9 Eastern.
	So 8 Central and it's a podcast and it's a value for value podcast.
	It's on the stream.
	It's on the stream.
	It's live on the stream.
	It's a very, it's an outstanding product.
	I have a question for Andrew Horowitz.
	He is uniquely qualified to tell me what's going on with this story.
	Alright, we're back now with a baffling underwater mystery.
	Scientists are trying to figure out the strange phenomenon impacting fish in the Florida Keys, causing them to spin out of control and then wash up dead.
	State Fish and Wildlife officials and Florida's Bonefish and Tarpon Trust have logged nearly 200 incidents, with over 30 species acting this way, mostly in the Lower Keys, but as far north as Miami.
	Yeah, this is crazy.
	I was out on a six-hour charter.
	I had two people on the boat, and we were down off a ligament-biting bank, and we happened to see a fish floundering on the flats, and then so we got close to him.
	We wanted to see if there was a problem, and we could obviously tell that he was in distress.
	It turned out to be a sawfish, a critically endangered species that might lose four or five mature adults a year.
	But in just a few months, at least 27 have beached themselves or died after intense episodes of what anglers are calling the spins.
	So typically when we think of fish acting strangely or dying, we either think of low oxygen conditions in the water or red tide.
	And so we saw neither.
	At the Water School at Florida Gulf Coast University, Mike Parson's team is part of a statewide effort to solve the mystery of the spinning fish.
	And while tests for most toxins have turned up empty, the most promising suspect is found living off seaweed at the bottom, a tiny critter named Gambierdiscus.
	This is the highest we've seen of the Gambierdiscus cells in the Keys.
	We don't know if it's the main cause.
	The single-cell algae can produce various neurotoxins and is showing up at record high levels.
	But it's just one more stressor on marine life already reeling from pollution, overfishing, and off-the-charts ocean heatwaves brought by climate change.
	They gave it away.
	Took forever.
	Have you seen this?
	No, I have not.
	I'll look for it.
	They're spinning in circles, not horizontally, but vertically.
	They jump up and spin?
	Not jumping out of the water, underwater, just spinning around and around and around.
	So climate change is one answer and here's another one.
	Off the charts ocean temperatures are of course just one of the massive stressors on marine life down here these days.
	There was a three-year study recently in which a hundred percent of the bonefish that Whoa!
	Racist!
	Racist!
	We're tested in the Keys.
	Turned up at least seven different pharmaceuticals from opioids to antidepressants.
	And so this behavior has not been seen before, but it is sort of an attack from a thousand different angles for the creatures living down here and may be a warning for the rest of us.
	Yeah, if you start to spin in the bathtub, you know what's up.
	You gotta lay off the drugs.
	You gotta lay off the drugs.
	Wow.
	Yeah.
	Well, I'll ask him, because he's a major league fisher.
	He's a fisher, exactly.
	He's caught all the big boys, and he's done a good job.
	He's a fisher, man.
	I have a clip for you.
	Okay.
	there's going to be a lot of called ubra files or umbra files i think it's umbra files umbra files umbra yeah that's a person who's nutty about the uh solar eclipse in a little over a week a total solar eclipse will trace an arc across north america In that narrow path, the skies will completely darken.
	Temperatures will drop.
	It'll feel like the dead of night during the middle of the day.
	If you're traveling to witness this rare event, LifeKits' Regina Barber has tips on what to expect.
	Science writer David Barron says seeing a total solar eclipse is the closest thing to space travel you can experience without leaving Earth.
	It's like for a few minutes you are suddenly transported to some alien world.
	It's like you're living in some sci-fi movie, seeing a sky you've never seen, seeing the universe in a whole new way.
	It really can change your outlook for years to come, if not the rest of your life.
	It's really, you know, eclipse fever is off the chart here.
	Yeah.
	And, you know, Fredericksburg took the express position to not promote Fredericksburg as a place to come to see the eclipse.
	Many other towns... I think that was smart.
	Yeah, I mean, Travis County, which is Austin, everyone's declaring a disaster emergency now, and I know why.
	Federal money.
	So they're all declaring, oh, we have a disaster.
	They've got the National Guard coming out.
	For some reason, CERN, this is concerning, CERN is going to fire up the Large Hadron Collider on April 8th.
	Why?
	I know, it doesn't sound like a good idea.
	So, you know... What do they say their rationale is?
	I don't know.
	They're looking for stuff.
	They're looking for stuff.
	But, you know, if we survive, we'll have... I mean, I'll have the first-hand boots on the ground.
	I'll tell you this, when there's an eclipse, I've never been to a 100% one.
	Oh, racist!
	Racist!
	I don't think I... I'm pretty sure, unless I was a kid, I've not seen a total.
	But I've seen a 90 and a 70.
	They happen every so often.
	We get lucky when there's no cloud cover.
	The only thing that's, to me, that's super remarkable is as soon as it happens, the temperature drops like a rock!
	It's really cold!
	And then, but that's, obviously the sun's got nothing to do with global warming.
	If you're not convinced that the sun has everything to do with global warming, go down to Fredericksburg and spend, it's like, I think it's the last, what, five to eight minutes of totality.
	It'll be colder than, it'd be so cold you won't imagine.
	It's just really cold.
	So Sir Gene is coming out.
	He'll come out Sunday the 7th in the afternoon.
	And he's staying overnight.
	And we figured we could do worse, you know?
	Because if everything shuts down, if the world goes dark, at least we'll have Gene.
	Yeah, he's armed.
	He's prepared.
	I think he's bringing his urban assault vehicle.
	He's got everything.
	I told you he's bringing the night vision goggles and the thermal glasses.
	Yeah, we've got to look out for snipers.
	We've got to keep people off of our lawn, I'm telling you.
	Hey, with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage.
	In the morning to you, the man who put the sea in the carbon bomb.
	Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one and only Mr. John C. DeMora!
	In the morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry.
	In the morning, all ships and sea boots on the ground, feet in the air.
	This is Walter Davis and I said that.
	In the morning to all the trolls in the troll room.
	Hold up those hands, trolls.
	There we go.
	Let me see what's going on.
	Well, we had a peak.
	I have the full-on troll count for you.
	We had a peak, which was in 1982.
	That was about an hour ago.
	On the previous Sunday, we had 1576.
	Today, no, everyone's enjoying 1742.
	We're up by more than 200.
	We're up by 150 trolls.
	We're up by 150 trolls.
	Sunday we're supposed to have like 2,400 people.
	Well, but it's Resurrection Day.
	It's Easter, yes, I accept that.
	People are doing other stuff.
	Don't.
	What was it?
	Transgender, mark the transgender rationale or something, I don't know.
	Yeah, yeah, exactly.
	It's practice your pronoun day here.
	All right.
	The trolls are joining us usually through trollroom.io.
	That's where you can listen live.
	That's where we're counting all these live trolls listening along.
	And you can actually join the chat room and troll.
	Which is, actually the trolling's been kept to a minimum today.
	The trolls have been quite... Yeah, Easter.
	It is Easter.
	Yeah, we got the Easter trolls.
	The Easter trolls are out with us today.
	You can also participate by grabbing a modern podcast app.
	I've been using Podverse again.
	It gives you an alert when we go live.
	You can get the stream live.
	Also, the minute we publish the show, you get all of those cool, besides the fact that you get it within 90 seconds, you get all of those fantastic features, the chapters that Dreb does.
	We have a transcript that runs in real time.
	You can search the transcript.
	There's just tons of additional stuff.
	And it's brought to you by non-Silicon Valley douchebags.
	It's Mitch and his brother, man.
	They're just doing this together.
	Go to podcastapps.com.
	There are 20...
	Five, I think, now to choose from.
	And seeing as Google Podcasts is closing this week.
	We know, you knew that, right?
	Google Podcasts is- I thought they had already closed.
	Nah, they announced it real early.
	They moved everything to YouTube.
	Yeah, YouTube Music.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, that's going to work.
	No, of course not, stupid.
	So go ahead and import your podcast into a modern podcast app.
	We are in our 16th year of Value for Value, which is, as far as I'm concerned, the only way to run a show like this, because we don't just get the benefit of being able to speak our mind and not being censored, if only for not being able to mention a competing product.
	Can you imagine?
	I couldn't just say, I'm drinking Waterloo today, and what are you drinking again?
	I've been to Polar.
	Yeah, no, we'd have to be like, we'd have to be like, oh John, are you drinking your Perrier?
	I'm drinking a Perrier again today.
	We'd be making so much more money.
	Oh yeah, but we would be total stooges.
	But the show would suck.
	People gotta appreciate that in some way.
	I wouldn't be able to say, hey, I had a gigawatt Coffee Roaster's coffee beforehand.
	No.
	No.
	I'd have to be like, Starbucks is the bomb.
	It's great.
	No, that would be horrible.
	I had a good Starbucks meme in the last newsletter.
	Yeah, what was it?
	It was instead of going to Starbucks, I make coffee at home.
	Shout out my name and mispronounce it and then burn a $5 bill.
	Something like that.
	It was actually quite funny.
	All right.
	No, instead we have producers.
	We don't even have listeners.
	We have producers.
	We're not tracking you.
	We don't have pixels.
	That's how they track people on podcasts.
	Make sure you download it.
	We'll track you with a pixel.
	And that pixel gets tracked all over the place.
	That's so old-fashioned.
	That was years ago they used to track with pixels.
	This is why the podcast industrial complex is not doing so well.
	You know, ever since, uh, ever since Apple came out with iOS 17, they, uh, they stopped and this is, it's such a scam.
	The way, the way it works or the way it used to work is, you know, you subscribe to it.
	Let's say you have a daily podcast and you subscribe this daily podcast and then you listen to it on Monday, maybe Wednesday, you forgot.
	And then you listen again the next Monday.
	And, um, what Apple would do, which was actually, Actually, even better than most of these scam apps, is the minute you listened again, it would then go and automatically download the previous episodes.
	And they would count as downloads.
	Even though, of course, you're never going to listen to them.
	No, you're never going to listen to those old downloads.
	So Apple stopped doing that.
	It was the... Oh, there you go.
	There goes the numbers. 25%.
	25% drop in download numbers and there are still companies that are writing checks to advertisers, doing make goods for the rest of the year.
	Oh, it's horrible.
	Because the whole thing's a scam.
	Sorry to say.
	I mean, I'm sure that, you know, if you have your, if you use code Bongino, I mean, then you could track something.
	But even then, I mean, that's called DI, you know, direct inquiry.
	Anyway, it doesn't matter.
	Our producers help us with time, talents, and treasure.
	When you help us with time and talent, that is, that can often be a huge saving to us.
	As an example, we love having modern art that is new every single episode.
	We think it's good.
	We think that, uh, no, we know that it works, that people see these things like, oh, that's hilarious.
	Or cheesecake.
	And then they click and they listen and they get reminded of how awesome we are, or they're just intrigued if they're New Time listeners.
	Welcome, New Time listeners.
	You're now producers.
	Newcomers!
	Newcomers, exactly.
	Welcome to all the newcomers.
	So, um, we'd like to thank them.
	Um, so we basically just provide this show as is, but there's no hoops, nothing you have to, no tricks, no, uh, nothing, no, no ads, no corporate money.
	Premium content.
	No premium content, just full on full value.
	We give it our all.
	We don't hide anything.
	It's all premium content.
	That's the point.
	It is.
	It's all premium content.
	And if you value it, we just ask you to do something back for us.
	And we want to thank the artist who did something back for us.
	It was Tantaniel who was back again.
	Tantaniel got the mojo back and brought us, I mean, this was so good for a specific reason.
	This was, we had the story about McDonald's now carrying Krispy Kreme doughnuts and Tantaniel made a Big Mac with a glazed Big Mac, which looks utterly disgusting.
	Uh, with like pink glazing, which was interesting because a lot of people said, to be honest, I'd eat that.
	Can you imagine there are people out there?
	There's a lot of people that like to, there are some restaurants around the country, if you watch these obscure shows, like I'd eat that, um, that, that produced this product.
	Well, it looked disgusting to me.
	Yeah, well, it was disgusting to me, too.
	But that on his face was funny, but then what Tantaniel did with the McDonald's logo, and put this Noah, made it an N and an A, I mean, that is, to me, that was high-level professional work.
	It was very good.
	In fact, I look at the artwork before you do, and I concluded there was nothing.
	Here's how it works.
	After we do the show, and I'm sitting here drinking coffee, I'm drinking my Black Rifle, then my Gigawatt, then I'm drinking a Red Dr. Pepper, then I'm drinking a Waterloo.
	So by the time we've done the credits, I'm like, okay, why don't you look at the art?
	I've got to pee.
	And then I'll come back, and then I'll sit down and say, and what do you find?
	You're like, nothing!
	Normally, I'll say something, I think there's three, four good pieces here, and then see if we match up.
	But in this case, I said there's nothing, and I didn't really get a good look at, for some reason, the creme burger.
	The creme burger?
	Is that what it's called?
	Creme burger?
	Cream burger.
	Crispy cream.
	Cream burger, I guess.
	And there's just a lot of Taylor Swift is the devil and you really just and then a lot of the AI Let's let's stop there for a second Why do people not know us?
	We're not gonna put Taylor Swift as a devil in our art.
	No, and why aren't we gonna do that John?
	Well, it's probably some legal issues that could happen.
	We can get in trouble.
	Yeah, trouble, man.
	This may be slanderous.
	And you also can't use a celebrity to promote your product without paying them.
	That's the main issue right there.
	There it is.
	You got to be very careful with that.
	So just looking, there was, yeah, you know, the AI art is really ruining everything.
	I got to tell you, the AI art just ruins stuff.
	You look at it like, oh, oh, more AI eggs.
	To continue the story, so he comes back relieved, and I say, there's nothing, there's nothing.
	He says, oh, and he looks, he can't find money.
	Then, for some reason, this happens a lot, by the way, there's a piece like this Kremburger, and neither one of us really noticed it first pass, but when you see it, it's the winner.
	And that's what happened.
	It's just obviously the piece to pick.
	That's why there's two of us.
	And as I understand from the socials, Tantaniel threw that logo in as an afterthought.
	Well, good for her.
	Whereas that, to me, that's like, that made it.
	Well, yeah, it didn't make it for me.
	I mean, I liked it a lot, but I just thought the whole piece was the best.
	It's better for two reasons with the NA in the corner like that.
	One, it balances the piece so the composition is better.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	And the second reason?
	It's cute.
	Thank you to all the artists who participate in this contest.
	You can be an artist, too.
	There's no rules.
	Just, you know, throw it up there, open an account, and if we like it, we will choose it.
	If we don't, we'll criticize you and belittle you.
	That's something that you'll never get in the professional art world.
	They will not tell you that it was no good.
	They won't.
	They won't.
	They just won't call you.
	They won't call you.
	Why bother?
	Yeah.
	Too much work.
	Won't call you, won't pay you.
	Noah ArtGenerator.com.
	If you're listening live, you can just sit there and refresh and watch the art come in in real time.
	If you'd like to see many of these pieces, you can go there at any time or use that Modern Podcast app.
	They're in the chapters.
	And Dreb Scott uses, I think, almost every single one of them for every single show.
	So that's the time and the talent.
	We appreciate those producers, particularly these artists.
	And we also have people who bring us the third T, which is treasure.
	And this keeps our show going and we are very happy that we have a number of people who have supported us today.
	We thank everyone who comes in.
	$200 or above will read your note.
	Within reason, of course.
	And we'd like to bestow a credit of executive or associate executive producer on these people.
	And we start off with an old favorite, a friend of the show, who comes in every single month Seronimus of Dogpatch in Lower Slobovia.
	We never understand his numbers.
	We don't.
	It's never consistent.
	I'm a little weirded out because he didn't add a two, but I'm sure he had two $2 bills.
	Yeah, there were two $2 bills in there.
	This is a date of D-Day. Or V-Day.
	1944.
	V-E Day.
	Good point.
	Good point.
	1944, we could not be more appreciative of that.
	And he usually sends in a note.
	This is all in cash the way he sends it, which means there's no PayPal fees, no checking, cashing fees, no fees at all.
	He sends it from a different mailbox every single time.
	And in this case, it just said, from Sironymous of Dogpatch and Lower Slobovia, Ramadan Mubarak to all producers.
	Thank you.
	Ramadan Bark to you.
	And he, now this was, they always, NJNK, it's always a typewritten note.
	He had a musical cleft.
	Is that a cleft?
	It, I, or something, I don't know if it's a stanza, I don't know what it is.
	We sat around the table, because this happened before.
	And we sat around the table, Jay and Brennan and myself trying to figure this out, and it dawned on me what it was, because he's done this before.
	No note.
	Wow.
	I wasn't going to let that get by a second time with me being, you know, doofus about it.
	I had no note.
	Yeah, so it's basically just the, you know, the five lines musical scale.
	Yeah, it looks like a musical score with no notes.
	A musical score with no notes in it.
	So no, wow.
	We've solved the puzzle!
	It's a pun.
	We've solved the puzzle.
	It's kind of a visual pun, I guess.
	Thank you so much, Your Honor, of Dogpatch in Lower Slobovia.
	We really appreciate you.
	Fantastic.
	Travis Ulrich comes in with $1,000.
	He's in Lewiston, Iowa.
	Idaho, I'm sorry.
	And he says, special thanks to Sir To Dr. Sir, 1% baron of Liberland for punching me in the mouth.
	He'll be joining me for my 42nd birthday party this weekend, March 30th.
	I need a thorough de-douching.
	You've been de-douched.
	And please knight me Sir Insecticide.
	I like cake and beer.
	Yes, well I've ordered cake and beer for the round table.
	Obviously.
	We'll take care of you brother, no problem.
	Anonymous in San Francisco.
	Oh, of course, we had to have someone bring in a 666.66.
	Sure, for Easter.
	Yeah.
	It's a bunch of nines upside down.
	Eggs.
	Let's see what he says here.
	Where is this note?
	Oh, here it is.
	Dear John, it says.
	Okay, the devil is for you.
	Dear John, My hexakosiohexakontahexaphobia dictates that I not combine into a single check my desired donation of 333.33 to each of you.
	Love you guys.
	No jingles, no karma.
	Oh, that's right.
	He actually sent in a handwritten note and he sent two checks.
	Ah, okay.
	Of 333.33.
	Thank you.
	And so we combined them.
	I said, Jay, just put them together as a big donation, but it could have just as easily been two.
	And that was meant to be two, three, three, three, that's three, three checks.
	Okay.
	I feel better now.
	I feel better.
	Good.
	And Aaron.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	On the note.
	Yes.
	He said, please see my note, which I, do you have a note about pod tech.com?
	No.
	And that website does not seem to be resolving.
	Let me see.
	It says, as requested in my email, podtac.com to you and Adam.
	Please keep my... Was there nothing in his email?
	It's anonymous.
	I don't even know who it is.
	How can I search it?
	It's impossible.
	Can't help you.
	This is not good.
	Maybe there's a note at the end in the main message that we got.
	I don't know.
	I don't have it.
	Well, thank you.
	Take a look.
	We appreciate you.
	Well, let's go on.
	We'll get something eventually.
	Baron James Niddle, N-I-T-T-E-L in Spartanburg, South Carolina, 34375.
	Thank you for the make right.
	Referred to as a make good, just so you know.
	Here's some more money.
	Give me an F-cancer.
	Just for you guys, I just had a recurrence four years after a nephric... nephrectomy on my left kidney on my right adrenal gland.
	I'm 44 with two teenage girls solo.
	Baron James Natel.
	Well, uh... Alright.
	The prayer should go out.
	Prayers up, brother.
	You've got karma. - Bye.
	Kerry Barthel, parts unknown, comes in with 341.36 and says, happy birthday, John.
	Oh, she's on time.
	He's got it.
	Luka Sanders in Lebanon, Indiana.
	333.33.
	Good evening, John and Adam.
	Happy Resurrection Day from the American... Something has got us a mess.
	Truelar Woodworking.
	It feels fitting to donate 333 in my final hour of my 33rd year on this earth, and to celebrate the start of my 34th trip around the sun on resurrection day.
	I don't think he's listed on the birthday list.
	Oh, he's not?
	I'm just guessing by the color.
	It would be 34.
	In lieu of jingles, I would take a reading of Romans 5, 8 and Matthew 28, 5-6 from Adam.
	Romans 5, 8, but good commandeth his love toward us.
	He wants a reading from me.
	Okay, well, you give him the reading.
	I've already watched it.
	Romans 5.8.
	But God commandeth his love towards us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
	And then he wants a reading of Matthew 28.5.6.
	And the angel answered and said unto the woman, Fear not ye, for I know that ye seek Jesus which was crucified.
	He is not here, for he is risen.
	As he said, Come see the place where the Lord lay.
	He continues by saying, for today I'll skip the karma, simply bow my head in awe and worship at the saving grace of Jesus Christ, he is risen just as he said, hugs and kisses, Lucas Sanders.
	Beautiful man, thank you.
	That's a religious donation.
	Yes.
	Then we have the next one, this is a note from, oh no I'm sorry, this, Sir Pursuit of Peace and Tranquility, And he says, in the morning, boys, please find the enclosed 33333 representing my monthly donation for the month of March.
	Going forward, there will be an uptick in my monthly support from 222.22 to 333.33 because the universe has made clear to me that my current support plan is insufficient.
	See, this is some self-awareness right here.
	Sorry for this long note, John, but I must share recent developments driving me to this change.
	Pay attention, everybody.
	First year January jobs karma for oldest human resource landed him his dream job, tripling his current income last week.
	Then my keeper and I went to visit the Tokyo Tower, not realizing our visit was on March 3rd, 3-3, and discovered that the height of the Tokyo Tower is 333 meters.
	The following day, The Keeper went to a new hair salon called Trey, T-R-E-S, Hair and Beauty, which happens to be located on the third floor of its building, and requires you to walk through the third cafe to access the salon.
	And finally, when Adam chipped in a penny to my February donation episode 1639, my cumulative support totaled $3,333.33.
	Suffice to say, I am now committed to a new monthly plan of 333.33 going forward, starting with the third month of 2024.
	Please keep the best podcast in the universe going.
	I love you guys.
	No jarmas, no jingles, no karma, no jingles.
	Thanks for keeping it real, boys.
	No, thank you.
	Thank you very much.
	And thank you for, this is Sir Pursuit of Peace and Tranquility in the Lands of the Red Clay and the Cherry Trees.
	Thank you, my brother.
	That's beautiful.
	Justin Nelson comes in from Cold Spring, Minnesota, 3-3-3 with no note, no nothing.
	So he gets a double up Karma.
	You've got Karma.
	We move on to Greg DiBernardo, 3-31.
	He says, well, at least I didn't get suckered into a sad puppy this time.
	That always seems to get me.
	I'm actually a little disappointed that John didn't pull out a sad Easter Bunny picture to rally the troops.
	All kidding aside, as usual, you boys put together a heck of a show and I'm happy to be a supporter.
	This donation actually not only gives me permanent executive producer credit, but also makes me a knight.
	I would like to be named Sir Two Wheels and want to drink a white Negroni.
	Negroni?
	Negroni?
	What is that?
	Is that a wine?
	Negroni?
	Negroni, I think it's a liqueur.
	A white Negroni in honor of this glorious occasion.
	Hit me with all the Al Sharpton you got.
	Yes, I actually have a recent Al Sharpton.
	Your brother in truth, Greg.
	Pushing proven conspiracy theories.
	Pushing proven that they were not factual conspiracy theories.
	Yesterday, President Biden, quote, bifurcate laws that criminalize consensual gay sex in California.
	What are your thoughts?
	How do we, I mean, some say he's Jim Jones or Jim Jordan with a jacket on.
	He co-authored the bill on aid to Israel and reclaimed.
	God, this guy gets paid at least twice as much money as we'll ever make.
	Oh, more than that.
	Yeah, he gets paid a lot of money to be that way.
	To be a bumbling... So we had a special promotion for 331, which is the Today 331.
	One person came in and that was Dan the Man.
	Hi Dan.
	I'm surprised it was so low that we had that... What can I say?
	Sir Dan the Man came in at 3-3-1 to celebrate Easter.
	Another successful no-agenda promotion.
	Yeah, they never end.
	ITM gentlemen, my donation today at 3-3-1 brings me to a Viscount status.
	Accounting below, please change my title to Sir Dan the Man, Viscount of Southwest Florida, protector of Cape Coral and the islands of Captiva and Sanibel.
	Sanibel, yes.
	My donation today is in memory of Dante, a German shepherd.
	He was my companion for the last 13 years and he was a very good boy.
	He was a good boy!
	His watch ended on Friday.
	What is grief if not love persevering?
	Jingles.
	Little girl, yay, mac and cheese and a dog howling karma.
	You slaves can get used to mac and cheese.
	Mac and cheese.
	Mac and cheese.
	Macaroni and cheese.
	Cheddar melted together.
	Mac and cheese, mac and cheese, mac and cheese.
	You stopped.
	Oh, I'm sorry about that, man.
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	Captiva.
	My grandmother used to live there.
	Captiva.
	Been there many times.
	Ivan Fergus, Wilmington, North Carolina.
	First Associate Executive Producer, 21060.
	Happy birthday to me, almost at the round table.
	TooManyEggs.com.
	That's a note, Ivan.
	Thank you.
	Perfect.
	And then we have Sean Wright in Victoria, BC.
	Also 21060.
	No mention, no note, nothing we can find.
	So let's give him a double up karma.
	You've got Now, I thought I had this thing set.
	Our next, uh...
	Donation is 200 from Sir Mike Fuquayverina.
	Fuquay, Fuquayverina?
	I'm probably doing it wrong.
	Yeah, can't really get it right either.
	He says, attach, see the test question, a continuing educational test, an ed test question of taking care of obese patients my wife took this week.
	She is a nurse anesthesiologist.
	Beatings will continue until morale improves.
	Yeah, I sent some tests where, and she got the question, the answer to the question wrong.
	What is the best way to lose, to help your patient lose weight?
	I think she had checked off, you know, behavioral change and was wrong!
	How can you be wrong?
	It is surgery!
	Surgery!
	Ozempic wasn't even on it.
	Ozempic wasn't even on it.
	Thank you brother, appreciate it.
	Associate Executive Producership for you.
	And finally, we wrap it with Linda Lou Patkin, our buddy in Lakewood, Colorado, who says, Happy birthday, John.
	Asks for jobs, karma, and mentions that for a resume that gets results, go to ImageMakersInc.com.
	That's ImageMakersInc with a K for all your executive resume and job search needs.
	Or just find her, Linda Lou Patkin, Duchess of Jobs and writer of resumes on the producers list.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	And that concludes our Executive and Associate Executive Producers for episode 1,647 of the No Agenda Show.
	We are very appreciative.
	And of course, this doesn't just come with these shout-outs and your notes being read, but this is a credit that you can keep forever.
	This recording will serve as proof.
	You can use it anywhere that credits are recognized, which is usually douchebags in Hollywood.
	But it also looks good on your resume, your LinkedIn profile, or you can go to imdb.com if you don't have one already.
	Because you're not a producer, you are now.
	And you can open up an account and list it there.
	You'll see that you are in good company.
	And thank you For supporting the No Agenda Show, John is going to take us through to the 50s here.
	Name and location, unless there's something we pick up that we feel needs to be read.
	Okay, I was just looking at a note that was sent in, coming up, and this is it.
	This is from Brenda for, I think it's for Sod or for Cod in Poulsbo, Washington, and she sent in a nice note, I just want to mention that.
	But we don't read these notes at this level.
	Joseph Salino in East Syracuse, New York, 100.
	She came out with 133.33, by the way.
	Kevin McLaughlin in Concord, North Carolina, 8008.
	This is in addition to the birthday greeting that he sent earlier.
	Happy Easter, ladies, from your melon man.
	Kenny Halstead in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, 8008.
	Phillip Peterson in Longville, Texas, 7798.
	He got a birthday for his wife.
	Gary Blatt!
	PartsUnknown.
	Now everyone's... all the parts are... It's interesting, all these donations to the...
	These are all birthday donations, and this starts with Gary at 7777, but the rest of them is a stripper donation, if anyone wants to know.
	No, no, no.
	It's a striper donation.
	It says stripper.
	No, it doesn't.
	Oh, it says striper.
	That's what that is.
	Trust me.
	Daniel Mudge, 7465.
	Now, these, I'm just going to read these.
	These are all actually happy birthday John donations, and these are 7465s that they added the number.
	Another one from Kevin McLaughlin, 7465.
	Sir Rainman, 7465.
	Hold My Beer.
	James Dunbar.
	Eridudarian has got in there.
	Eric Hoff and Baroness Lady Bird.
	Those people all added the extra fee, which is appreciated.
	And then we have $72 donations wishing me a happy birthday, and it's Rita Harrington.
	It's crazy that these cities and states are missing, except for Willey in Grave, Netherlands.
	Baroness Ladybird, Rita Harrington, Sean Simmons, Dame Lacey, Anonymous, Steve Niles, David Hominy, William Rowland, Cameron Linda Mood, Kelly Hubbard and Willie.
	And I want to thank everyone, 18 people total, that said happy birthday.
	The birthday show will be next Sunday, by the way.
	Craig Kohler in Evansville, Indiana is 6502.
	That's a good donation.
	That is the original chip in the Apple II.
	Jamie Buell in Vista, California.
	We should do reminiscent donations.
	Jamie Buell in Vista, California.
	26006 or Shelfwood in I'm in Netherlands.
	I'm out in 5809.
	Josh Wilson in Farmington, New Mexico.
	5623.
	He's got a birthday.
	Shrinivas Murthy or Brahmin.
	5558.
	Gilbert Fraga in Los Angeles, California, 55-55.
	Peter Chong, 55-10.
	Nick Weber in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, 55-10.
	Paul Tittle, T-I-T-T-E-L, in Toronto, Ontario, 52-72.
	Alan Marchione in Salem, New Hampshire, 5271.
	Greg Mellon in Glenmore, Pennsylvania, 5047.
	Any rando book recommendations?
	Yeah, go get a copy of Propaganda by Jacques LOL and read it from beginning to end.
	Good book.
	And now we have the $50 donors wrapping it up, starting with Greg Mellon in Glenmore, Pennsylvania.
	I'm sorry, that was Greg who wanted a book.
	David Steele in Mobile, Alabama.
	Justin Kaler in Bluffton, Indiana.
	Leif Thompson in Meridian, Idaho.
	Ryan Sharp in Huntsville, Alabama.
	Brandon Locklear in Sugar Hill, Georgia.
	Jordan Tierney in Oral.
	South Dakota, Tony Lang in Castle Pines, Colorado.
	Justin Heiner in Vine Grove, Kentucky.
	And last on the list, Dragon Slayer in St.
	George.
	Wow.
	That's our group of donators.
	The show 1647.
	I want to thank every one of them.
	Thank you all so much and thank you to those of you who came in early with John's birthday donations.
	His birthday is this Friday.
	This Thursday we have a special, a Red Book special on the show as John will be giving away his daughter!
	You're giving her away.
	Are you giving her away?
	I'm giving her away.
	Are you?
	Have you?
	I've had it.
	Will she be off the payroll?
	Will that finally be done?
	No, that's not happening.
	She runs the book company.
	Oh, that's true.
	Yes.
	You must be very excited about the wedding.
	Yeah.
	Okay, there's the excitement.
	I'm going to step aside for the excitement, John.
	It almost hit me in the face like a wet salmon.
	Very nice.
	You've got to be careful.
	And John's birthday on Friday and then we'll be back on Sunday.
	This Redbook is great because you will hear a lot of Redbook predictions that came absolutely true and a lot that really didn't.
	Particularly from me, I will point out.
	But it's a fun show and our producer put that together and it's one of our nights and he will be appropriately credited.
	I think the fact that you identified probably the source of most of your bad predictions Yeah.
	As defense guys.
	Yeah, I know.
	Defense intelligence guys that played you for a sucker.
	That's right.
	Thank you to everyone who came in under $50.
	We never read anything there.
	That is for reasons of anonymity.
	The people come in right under that $50 level and of course we have our multiple Sustaining donation, which a lot of people use for layaways, which do add up.
	In fact, we have two layaway nights, which we are going to night today.
	I'm going to read, well, one note in full and one I will skirt around.
	The first one is from Scott.
	He says, I've now completed my night layaway plan.
	September 22nd to March 24th this month, and I wish to be knighted, sir, stick in the mud.
	I began listening after Adam's Glenn Beck podcast appearance and have awaited each installation since.
	Yes, it's another installation of the No Agenda Show.
	Here's to several more years of deconstruction.
	Thank you very much, Scott.
	Then Chris Snipes came in and he says, I hope this note finds you both well.
	Adam, happy Easter.
	He is risen.
	He is indeed.
	I love your conversion and pray you continue your journey.
	No worries.
	God bless John as a Catholic myself.
	I hope you return to the church one day.
	And he goes on to say, it's a very long note, he's been a longtime listener, he began listening to the Best Podcast in the Universe when JCD was a regular on that show in Petaluma.
	You guys got me through eight years of active duty army service thanks to the global war on terror.
	I continue to keep my amygdala small thanks to your media deconstruction.
	My wife and I have been married for 25 years.
	We have seven children and I'm a homicide detective in one of Georgia's largest cities.
	Do we have the best producers in the universe, or what?
	That's a good one.
	He says, I also work closely with the FBI and other three-letter agencies, but I'm not a spook!
	My wife runs a non-profit working to end abortion.
	And he goes, I mean, so they moved out of the city, they bought 20 acres, they're building a farm, growing meat chickens, pork, laying hens, and we'll soon have sheep, we want to know where our food comes from.
	The Egg Book!
	Yes, the Egg Book.
	I'd like to be known as Sir Chris, Knight of the Thin Blue Line and Tender of the Fall Line Farm.
	Very nice.
	Normal fare at the Round Table will do just fine.
	He says I'd like some jingles.
	I'd like, you're gonna need a Bitcoin and bingo, boom shakalaka.
	Actually, I see we have three knights here.
	So let me do that for you first.
	They're saying that all hell is gonna break loose and you're gonna need a Bitcoin.
	And then, I'm sorry, we had a third.
	This is the very long note.
	This is Crocky, and he says, In the morning, gentlemen, this donation brings me to the round table.
	I was hit in the mouth by fellow producer Nearly Normal early in this scandemic.
	Despite listening faithfully through every donation segment since then, I have yet to hear him donate in that time, so I shall call him out as a douchebag.
	I've found the show and community around it to be immensely valuable and happy to reciprocate with some treasure and encourage others to do the same.
	The NAS community is a small island in the sea of insanity, but it's a good place to stop and catch your breath as the world swirls around us.
	The deconstruction skills I've gained from the show have been immensely valuable, helping to more clearly see the manipulation and the agenda the M5eb uses against us.
	And then he has, oh man, it just went on and went very, very long here.
	But Sunday on the 33rd and it was a this weekend was an assault of messages and you know everything seemed to align it only is today an Easter show day with 33 in the date but also happens to be exactly 33 years since I took my first long strange trip with a grateful dead on a fateful Easter Sunday that would undoubtedly steer my path in new and interesting directions with the community not that all different from ours.
	Well, how about that?
	How about that?
	Please knight me, Sir Crocky of the Cosmic High Country.
	I would like to follow you at the round table.
	Oh, yes.
	A long note and a very long order.
	Sierra Nevada.
	Nevada?
	Did I say it right?
	Yeah.
	Sierra Nevada.
	I'm traumatized by Mimi.
	Sierra Nevada, pale ale, New York style, pizza twice, baked of course, and 85% dark chocolate.
	For jingles, please give me the NJNK.
	Oh, NJNK.
	We have a full end of show already, but we do have NPC there for you, so you'll enjoy that.
	And we'll see you gentlemen in a moment right here at the No Agenda Roundtable.
	Thank you all so much.
	Remember us at noagendadonations.com or for the old schoolers, vorac.org.
	And again, thank you to our Executive and Associate Executive Producers for 1647.
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Shut up, flame.
	Oh yeah, we got a list.
	Travis Ulrich turned 42 yesterday.
	Josh Wilson says happy birthday to his daughter, Aurora.
	She turned 3 yesterday.
	Happy birthday, Aurora.
	Evan Mackey turns 18 today.
	Jay wishes her dad, John, a happy birthday.
	Awww.
	He's giving you away.
	He's sick of it.
	And that will be on April 5th.
	Philip Peterson, happy birthday to his wife, Lisa Peterson, celebrates on April 9th.
	Ivan Ferguson's celebrating, and Lucas Sanders turns 34 today.
	Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe!
	And we see Sir Dan the Man.
	He is changing his title to Sir Dan the Man, Viscount of Southwest Florida.
	And, of course, we mourn with you for your trusty dog there, brother.
	And protector of Cape Coral and the islands of Captiva and Sanibel.
	That should be the entire title.
	Thank you very much, Sir Dan the Man.
	Now on to our knights.
	No dames today, just knights, but we do have a number of them because we have the... Ah, look at that blade.
	Whoa, that's a Roman sword right there.
	Yeah, I got one right here.
	Yes, beautiful.
	Travis, Ulrich, step up.
	Greg DiBernardo, Scott, Crocky, and Chris Snipes, all of you are here because you are about to join the No Agenda Knights of the Round Table.
	And I'm very proud to pronounce the KD as Sir Insecticide, Sir Two Wheels, Sir Stick in the Mud, Sir Crocky of the Cosmic High Country, and Sir Chris, Knight of the Thin Blue Line, and Tender of the Fall Line Farm.
	For you, we've got Hookers and Blow, Rent Boys and Chardonnay, Cake and Beer, Seattle and Nevada, Pale Ale, New York Style, Pizza Twice, Bake, of course, and 85% Dark Chocolate, along with that Reubeness, Reuben and Rosé, Bongetts and Bourbon, Ginger Ale and Gerbils, we've got Sparkling Cider and Escorts, and, yup, Mutton and mead.
	There you go.
	They're already munching on the mutton and mead.
	Enjoy that, gentlemen.
	And when you have a moment, go over to noagenderrings.com.
	That's where you can find the handsome rings.
	They're unisex.
	And you can give us your ring size.
	Handy ring sizing guide is there and an address to send it.
	It will come, along with the Certificate of Authenticity, and of course some beautiful wax, which you can then melt and then use your ring, which is a Cignet ring, to seal your important correspondence with.
	and thank you for supporting the No Agenda Show.
	No Agenda Meetups!
	Well, don't take it from us.
	You hear it from everybody else that No Agenda Meetups is where the community gets together.
	And of course, you have unity in your community.
	Can't spell it without it.
	People love hanging out with each other.
	You will be a very diverse group.
	I guarantee it.
	But still, it'll be something that you all We all have in common.
	It's the show, it's the media deconstruction, it's the distrust of everything.
	And you will find your tribe there, I guarantee it.
	And we have a meet-up taking place on Thursday, April 4th.
	Nothing today, which is kind of to be expected.
	That'll be the Northern Wake Semaglutide tasting at 6 o'clock at Hoppy Endings in Raleigh, North Carolina.
	Also on Thursday, Shills of Slenderman Soiree!
	See, we have a semaglutide meeting, which is weight loss, and then the Slenderman, slenderman.com.
	But that'll be at Local Logic in Mount Holly, North Carolina.
	Coming up this Saturday, Colorado Springs Mutton & Mead meet up, 12.30 at Antelope Ridge Meadery.
	In Colorado Springs, Colorado, on the next Sunday, Myrtle Beach, No Foolin' Meetup, 330 at 810 Bowling, Myrtle Beach Market Commons, and also on Sunday, Don't Be a Douchebag, the meetup is, that's round three, 530 at McNelly's in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
	These are just a couple of the meetups that are listed on the calendar.
	Anna Texas is doing that totality zone meetup on the 8th.
	Dayton, Ohio will have one.
	We've got London coming up on the 11th.
	Let's see, we have Leiden, the Netherlands on the 9th.
	Amsterdam, the Netherlands, June 15th.
	Oh my God, I mean, there's a lot on this calendar.
	Go check it out.
	Sir Daniel, our knight there, maintains noagendameetups.com.
	Please go and take a look.
	You can find one near you.
	Start one yourself, it's fun and easy!
	So much like a party.
	It really is like a party.
	You wanna be where you want me Drink it all, hell, flame You wanna be where everybody feels the same It's like a party So much like a party It really is, it's like a party Every single one of them, just like a party Okay, let me see I believe I have two ISOs.
	Let me see.
	Would you like to hear my ISOs first?
	Yep.
	It is so tight.
	I don't like that one.
	How about this one?
	On fire.
	It's fire.
	It's okay.
	Okay, let's go with, uh, I got three.
	Oh, well you... And they're all extracted from all kinds of stuff, so we don't know how they're gonna come out.
	Okay, alright.
	Let's start with the bottom one.
	Right, wrong.
	Okay.
	They may be right, they may be wrong.
	Ooh, I like that one.
	That's a good one.
	Yes.
	Never ended.
	It never ended.
	Okay, it's funny.
	I personally think that one's hilarious, but okay.
	Uh, it's not clear, Chris.
	And then come back.
	And we're gonna come back and do it again.
	Nah, it gets chopped off.
	Let me see.
	They may be right, they may be wrong.
	I like that one the best.
	Okay, I'm in with that one.
	I know, the other one was, it was, believe me.
	Yeah, it's hard.
	It's a hard life.
	It's a hard life.
	It's a tough go when you got the thing, you stretch it out and you look at the little blips on there and then you cut it off and you, oh, it didn't work and you try it again and again and again.
	Oh, the life of a podcast.
	Oh, it's terrible.
	Terrible.
	I got good news.
	Oh, yeah.
	Just to prove that there is good news in the world, and it's not all just all the stuff that the algos serve you up to get you all spun up and spun out.
	No, there's good stuff out there and John does nothing.
	Mimi does all the work and John just takes credit.
	What do we have today?
	I want to mention that other people do send these in, but a lot of them are really old, or they come off of TikTok, you don't know the dates, and some of them are staged, and I haven't gotten many good things.
	So people are not doing their best, is what you're saying?
	Yes.
	Okay.
	So this is the rescued Owlette story.
	A baby great horned owl which fell from its nest and faced hypothermia is back with its family.
	Yeah, and that's thanks to the teamwork of Think Wild and the Sun River Nature Center.
	Last Tuesday, someone found this baby Great Horned Owl in Christmas Valley.
	The owlet had fallen from its nest, and you can see the nest way up on the top of that middle tree there.
	That's a long fall, 20 to 30 feet.
	The Nature Center made the two-hour drive and rescued the owlet.
	They brought it back to the non-profit Think Wild.
	The owlet was hypothermic, but staff helped with its recovery.
	Then, on Friday, the Sun River Nature Center reunited the young owl with its siblings and parents.
	They're back in their nest in Christmas Valley.
	Think Wild says it's baby season for animals throughout Central Oregon, so keep an eye out.
	That's a great story.
	I thought it was cool they had a picture of an owl, that little owl that could look at while it was in the face.
	It'll grow quite a bit.
	Yeah, it was getting big too already.
	That guy's a douche!
	That's a great story.
	It was a wonderful story.
	He doesn't know how to back announce a good news story.
	No, no, these two guys from this whatever station is in Oregon, it's like It's like Waldorf and Statler as the anchors.
	And it's just like, it's just a real eye-roller to watch these two.
	That's why you want to have a lady on this set.
	Good news.
	Good, good news.
	Good news.
	Good, good news.
	Good news.
	And the good news is there will be a fabulous special for you on Thursday that you will not want to miss.
	Thank you.
	Because you'll hear some crazy stuff.
	Some that came true, some that didn't.
	Which ones?
	Which red books did it?
	You'll have to turn in Thursday to find out.
	John, happy Easter to you.
	Happy birthday in advance for Friday, and happy giving your daughter away.
	Well, thank you very much.
	Happy Easter to you and whatever else you're up to.
	And by the way, we have to thank somebody for the good work.
	That Red Book show is actually... I didn't think it could be done as fabulous.
	Yeah.
	Well, he will be credited ad nauseam on the show, of course.
	He's one of our knights.
	End of show mix is coming up.
	We have Stéphane Jacobson, we have Professor Jay Jones from China, and Sir Michael Anthony.
	And I'm coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country, soon to be in the zone of totality.
	In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Currie.
	And from Northern Silicon Valley, no totality here, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Coming up next on No Agenda Stream, we have That Larry Show with Sinner's Sunday, number 77.
	Remember us at noagendadonations.com.
	Until next time, adios, mofos, hui hui, and such!
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	Anthony Krispy Kreme is giving away a free donut between 5 and 9pm.
	I don't know if I could indulge and understand what I was even looking at.
	It was pretty wild.
	So nobody tried to, you know, some woman didn't come along?
	I didn't say that.
	Okay.
	I didn't say that.
	What I did say is that there were very curious things taking place.
	Two breakfast powerhouses are teaming up.
	Somebody tried to, you know, some woman didn't come along.
	Say it.
	Okay.
	I understand.
	What I did say is that they were very curious things taking place.
	Two breakfast powerhouses are teaming up.
	Three types of Krispy Kreme donuts are reporting to go on sale at McDonald's.
	Have you ever seen your Ted 2 puppy camp?
	You don't know.
	They call these freak-out parties.
	Uh-huh.
	And I miss it.
	Instead, these boozy drinks are not available in Dunkin' shops.
	Instead, they will be at local grocery stores, of course, and at Andy Liqueur's.
	Of course, why not?
	Sweeney says, flow can be a bit of a gateway to addiction.
	But anything can be addictive if you do it too much.
	Unless they're putting that conveyor belt inside of the McDonald's and rolling them off the cots.
	Shanahan?
	Shanna Chan.
	And that's her new name.
	Yeah, so let's make it a little racist while we're at it.
	So she's a druid.
	She's had a druidic ceremony.
	When I went to InfoWorld back in the 80s, it was run by druids.
	Horns on their heads and doing some ceremony.
	There's a lot of druidic bullcrap in Silicon Valley and she's a part of it.
	I met a druid in Amsterdam.
	We got DMT from a druid.
	How do you know he's a druid?
	Dude, he had the horns on his head and everything.
	No!
	Yes!
	Yeah, he had lots of Stevie Nicks type flowing robes and stuff.
	Nobody knows anything about him.
	Pliny the Elder wrote of the druid's appreciation for both mistletoe and human sacrifice.
	Yeah!
	To murder a man was to do the act of highest devoutness, he wrote, and to eat his flesh was to secure the highest blessings of health.
	He even described a battle in Wales in which druids covered their altars with the blood of captives.
	This woman was introduced to the campaign because Bobby the Op came in and he's polling about 12 percent.
	And initially he was taking from both Biden and Trump.
	But by bringing a druid in.
	You know, she's wearing like a druidic tree outfit with leaves and stuff.
	A pagan woman.
	She will kill any chance that a Trump voter is going to cross over and vote for Bobby the Op.
	Because he's only going to suck away the votes from Biden.
	And that's the reason she's there.
	That's the Op right there.
	I completely concur.
	Word around town.
	Oh, no.
	Oh, no.
	No way.
	And, yes, I have to agree.
	I don't like calling people gold digger easily, but she sure seems to have all the traits of one.
	That was the choice.
	It's like, well, look, you got a lot of money.
	I'll make you my VP.
	Part of the opposition insurance policy to make sure that Trump gets in.
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