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	A science warrior.
	Adam Curry.
	John C. Devorah.
	It's Sunday, May 12, 2024.
	This is your award-winning Give Our Nation Media assassination episode 1659.
	This is no agenda.
	Celebrating unsung heroes and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region No.
	6.
	In the morning, everybody!
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from Northern Silicon Valley, where everybody's blocking celebrities, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's Crackpot and Buzzkill!
	In the morning!
	I saw those clips.
	I just saw the titles.
	I'm like, oh, okay.
	I guess he's all over it.
	He's got the coverage.
	But before we do anything, Happy Mother's Day, everybody.
	Happy Mother's Day.
	Happy Mother's Day, everybody.
	Happy Mother's Day.
	And I'm seeing people love their mothers more this year than last year for some reason.
	And with good reason.
	Oh, it's because the bird flew.
	With good reason.
	And may I suggest, if you're in America, maybe even, I don't know if it's in Europe, but if you have the opportunity, take your mom to see the movie Unsung Hero in theaters now.
	You, she will love it, you will love it, you will cry, you will, you will have a sweet time.
	You'll kiss 20 bucks goodbye.
	It's a good movie!
	We went to see it yesterday.
	In the theater!
	Can you believe it?
	You actually, whoa, what?
	Yeah, I know, we went to the theater.
	Theater, yes.
	Yeah, I know.
	Well, the theater experience these days is very different.
	Why?
	I mean, these seats, you have electric reclining seats.
	Cup holders.
	Lots of room.
	Nah, there's leather.
	We have one of the dinner theaters around here.
	They show first run movies and you eat dinner.
	Yeah, that's lame to me.
	I just want to sit there.
	That's lame, but the electric chair's okay?
	Yeah, but I want to eat dinner while I'm watching a movie.
	I want to watch the movie and I want to have a pretzel.
	A pretzel and a sugary drink.
	Dots.
	Dots and good and plenty.
	Well, I think before... So what's this movie about that you bring up?
	Oh, it's about an Australian family.
	The dad's a concert promoter.
	It's a true story.
	Concert promoter and he goes bankrupt in Australia during, I think it was 87, so it was like a financial crash and must have hit Australia harder.
	And so the family moves to Nashville and they got like eight kids, seven kids.
	And, of course, everything falls apart and they wind up clean scrubbing toilets and mowing lawns.
	Oh, this is fascinating.
	It sounds uplifting.
	And, you know, yeah, but then what happens is the daughter becomes a music superstar, two of her brothers become music superstars, and King & Country and Rebecca St.
	James.
	This is all 90s stuff.
	And it's a true story, and it's good, but of course at the end it turns out it was really the mom that kept everyone together, so we'd say mom is the unsung hero.
	Oh, I get it.
	You see?
	It's a beautiful... Now people won't go and see it, now that I've given it away.
	Thanks.
	Spoiler alert!
	Anyway, I'm pretty sure that we have done this every year since the inception of this program.
	I think we have always made time to celebrate the magic that is Eurovision television broadcasting.
	Let's put it a different way.
	Change that we have to you.
	I'm sorry?
	You are the one that has focus.
	I have nothing to do with this segment.
	Yes.
	You were a kid, you got into it when you were a kid, and you've been into it ever since, and you watch it religiously.
	You've never missed it, ever?
	I don't think I've ever missed a Eurovision Song Contest.
	Ever.
	From what I can tell, you never have.
	And you bring us, and we don't even need to watch it because you bring us up to speed, every year with your report.
	Yes.
	Well, this was a very controversial year, John.
	A lot going on.
	The report is a little more complex.
	Tell me more, Adam!
	Well, first of all, Israel, now you have to understand that Eurovision Broadcasting, the Eurovision Broadcast System, EBS.
	By the way, the theme this year was United by Music.
	So, of course, we have Australia is in the European Broadcast System.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	Every year we go through this.
	What was the theme last year?
	Satan on the Way, I think.
	Okay, that's what I thought.
	By the way, the true winner this year, once again, was Satan, who has taken over Europe.
	There's no doubt about it.
	But it's not just Europe, you know, you have Australia's in there and Israel and Russia.
	They kicked Russia out because, you know, Russia bad.
	Russia is not even allowed to participate anymore.
	And as we noticed this year, everything was very effeminate.
	More so than in previous years.
	More so than when the bearded lady won?
	Yes, even more so.
	Even more so.
	So first we need to start with the controversy that Israel was in this at all, we're united by music, but no!
	No, we need Palestinian protestors!
	It's the largest live music event in the world, and one that prides itself on bringing countries together through music.
	But this year's Eurovision contest, held in the Swedish city of Malmö, is more divided than ever over its inclusion of Israel.
	I would like it to be so that the music will unite people and we all love music but this year music is dividing people and I don't like that.
	Putting on a show like Eurovision just feels wrong when these things are happening so I'm showing my support for Palestine and I hope that the countries and the leading people of the countries will react in some way.
	Crowds of over 10,000 people took to the city streets chanting Free Palestine.
	So there was a lot of, lot of protesting, and it was amazing!
	I couldn't believe my locker now that was held in Malmo, Sweden this year.
	Listen to who shows up, and you tell me who this protester is.
	100,000 visitors have gathered in Malmo for Eurovision, a competition that prides itself on uniting countries through music.
	But the inclusion of Israel has sparked outrage among pro-Palestinian demonstrators.
	Just like on American and European campuses, They're calling for boycotts and disinvestment from Israel.
	Protesting against the country's operations in Gaza.
	I think they should be everywhere.
	And once again, young people are leading the way, showing the world how we should react to this.
	Yeah, who was that?
	I don't know.
	I have no idea.
	It was a girl with a Dutch accent.
	It was Greta.
	Greta Thunberg.
	What?
	Yeah, with a keffiyeh scarf, everything.
	She's gone from climate change to keffiyeh.
	Oh my God, that's a catch.
	She is a professional protester.
	Let's just put it that way.
	Yes, you'd have to say that now.
	A professional protester.
	She's obviously not focused on what she should be focused on.
	No.
	If she's going to be what she's focused on, which is climate.
	And she's doing this, got nothing to do with, this is ridiculous.
	You're right.
	She's now, she's just, she blew her cover.
	Yeah.
	You can just call her up and say, I need you to protest for this.
	And like, okay, do you have a scarf?
	All right.
	I'm good to go.
	Now... Where'd she get the scarves?
	She's probably selling them.
	So, now to the incredible controversy which happened just hours before the dress rehearsal.
	The Netherlands was in the finals.
	They were to be in the finals.
	But something happened, and for the first time in my memory, the Eurovision... And you've seen every one of these things?
	I've seen every single one of them since I've been alive.
	The Netherlands was disqualified from participation!
	The EBU, the organizers of the Eurovision, have actually kept their public statement rather vague, just saying that there was an ongoing police investigation involving a female crew member, without really giving any further details.
	But then today in the course of the afternoon, Af Rotos, the Dutch broadcaster, who is one of the many broadcasters funding and broadcasting the Eurovision every year, has come out with a statement on social media.
	Saying that Joost Klein did in fact make a threatening movement towards a female crew member.
	But this was in reaction to her not leaving him alone after he repeatedly said that he didn't want to be filmed.
	Very, very fishy, John.
	the disqualification or the exclusion of Joost Klein from the event rather disproportionate and say that they are disappointed with the decision.
	As you can imagine, the reactions of the fans have been pretty intense, both at the venue as well as on social media.
	They say they're confused and they don't quite understand why this happened.
	Very, very fishy, John.
	Very fishy.
	Why all of a sudden they disqualified him.
	What happens to the So some guy on the song and dance team for the Netherlands took a swing at some woman?
	No, the guy on the Netherlands, because it's just a guy with huge pointy shoulder pads, with the song Euro Papa, which is about the EU being your daddy.
	Oh, there you go.
	That's the real reason.
	I guess, um... Hero Papa.
	We gotta get a copy of that.
	No, you don't.
	I'm not playing any songs this year.
	They were all equally bad.
	I heard the Israeli woman.
	She's had a pretty decent summer.
	It's got that Taylor Swift style, you know?
	It's like Milk Toast.
	Yeah, no, it was all pretty bad.
	But so whatever happened, I think, you know, I'm sure that they were just sticking a camera in his face.
	He went, ah!
	Like one of those moves.
	And, well, you're disqualified right away.
	The Netherlands tuned out unanimously.
	The lowest television ratings ever.
	Of course!
	Outrage!
	Outrage!
	How could this have happened?
	Now we're starting to get ready to pay it off and I am just so pleased that I can bring you two short clips from the BBC.
	Before you do this, I'm going to say this.
	I followed it.
	I was going to get some clips.
	I said, why bother because Adam will over cover it.
	But I waited.
	I knew today was the day the winner wins and I have no idea who it is.
	So this would be a surprise to me.
	I let you report it and I'm going to be shocked.
	Unlike the outcry for everyone, like, we should not have this be a political contest.
	It's always a political contest.
	Yeah, we've noticed that over the years.
	That is obvious.
	It has been a complete political contest.
	I would even say Israel had, in the I think there's prejudging.
	The whole thing is rigged.
	It's worse than U.S.
	elections, trust me.
	I think Israel probably would have had a chance to win, but of course all these other countries gave Israel zero points!
	Which is French for zero points.
	Zero points!
	Zero points!
	Because, you know, you're genociders!
	But it wasn't political at all.
	Let me guess, the winner was Joe Biden.
	Not even close.
	After protests and controversy, the winner of the 68th Eurovision Song Contest in Sweden has been announced.
	It's Switzerland.
	That was Nemo singing The Code.
	The competition was marred by divisions over Israel's involvement, which sparked pro-Palestinian demonstrations in the city of Malmo, where Eurovision was held.
	At one point, though, when the votes came in, Israel's Eden Golan was in the lead.
	She finished fifth with 375 points, but it was Switzerland and Nemo's night, taking 591 points.
	Mario Mashiri is in Malmo covering the extravaganza.
	So it's very obvious we went for a safe, uh, let's just do Switzerland and no one will be pissed off.
	Yeah, neutral.
	Neutral beat, let's just do that, it's safe.
	Now listen carefully.
	You know, but for one thing though, they could have played, actually played their song instead of that piece of crap they played.
	No, that's the winning song.
	What?
	Stay tuned!
	After a week of high drama and high controversy at last it all boiled down to who sang the best song according to the juries and who sang the best song according to audiences and yes as you mentioned already the winner Switzerland winning Actually, by a good margin over Croatia, which came second, and France, which came third.
	It was an amazing competition, and Nemo, the Swiss act, they were absolutely brilliant.
	They literally won the majority of all the jury votes, and they ended up coming first.
	It was a nail-biting final couple of seconds, when you saw the split screen, and you saw Croatia, and you saw Switzerland.
	Switzerland did 183 points, from the audience vote to win the competition, and they got that, and they were so pleased.
	Now, listening from this report, would you consider this to be a band?
	Nemo?
	Well, you heard they.
	They won.
	They did a great job.
	They had a fantastic performance.
	Oh, I see where you're going.
	So this is actually just a solo act and that's their pronoun?
	Yeah, you better believe it!
	Switzerland has won the Eurovision Song Contest.
	Nemo is the first non-binary contestant to take home the crystal microphone.
	Their song, The Code, is a drum and bass, opera, rap and rock tune about Nemo's journey of self-discovery as a non-binary person.
	Hold on, hold on!
	You're not even at the punchline.
	Nemo's journey of self-discovery as a non-binary person.
	So do you get it?
	The song is about Nemo's, their self-discovery as a non-binary person.
	Their song, The Code, is a drum and bass, opera, rap and rock tune about Nemo's journey of self-discovery as a non-binary person.
	Switzerland's winner Nemo faced the press and flew the flag of pride.
	This was one of the most queer representations we've seen at Eurovision, which is amazing.
	I want to shout out all the other queer artists this year.
	Give it up!
	Give it up for everyone!
	And just to be a part of it was special and to know that a song that has changed my life and a song where I just speak about my story has touched so many people and maybe inspired other people to stay true to their story is the most insane thing that has ever happened to me.
	Europe is lost.
	I mean, you know, gay, lesbian, sure.
	But queer, non-binary, they, them, their?
	No.
	This has to be rejected.
	This is just, and just in time for Pride Month!
	Come on.
	How does that even work?
	Hater.
	Yes, I'm a hater.
	I am!
	It's nuts.
	Stay true to your story.
	My story?
	That's what he said.
	Or she.
	Or they.
	What am I thinking?
	They.
	They.
	Yeah.
	So you brought up a point which is the grammatical issues here.
	With the BBC!
	Yes, the sticklers.
	Yes.
	We want sticklers.
	They wouldn't allow this kind of thing where you'd say they for a guy, a dude in a dress or whatever he is.
	It's she, they.
	What am I doing?
	I can't even keep up myself.
	They're trying to confuse me.
	Yes.
	And there it is.
	But when did non-binary all of a sudden, that's queer.
	That was never in the book.
	And remember, I think non-binary was started queer.
	No, queer used to just be gay guys.
	They used to just be queers.
	Remember that?
	The good old days?
	Yeah, we're here where queer get used to it.
	That was the original when the Gay Pride, first one of the Pride months took place, and it was in the 80s, I believe, and we're here where queer get used to it, was the banner.
	And it didn't at the time refer to non-binaries, but it's been taken over.
	Yes, hijacked!
	We've had clip after clip of lesbians bitching about the situation.
	And remember, not only was Nemo, with code, the queer winner, but we had the crazy Irish queer.
	Do you know what makes me special?
	I'm a queer.
	And I'm a- Alright, so queer is non-binary- I love her scream.
	Queer is non-binary witches, apparently.
	I mean, get it together, people.
	Get a definition down, so cisgenders can figure it out.
	So we don't confuse Adam, who forces himself to watch this crap.
	I love it.
	I love it.
	Yeah, you do.
	That's the problem.
	And just in time for Pride Month!
	And Target is reportedly pulling LGBTQ themed merchandise from certain locations during Pride Month.
	Bloomberg reports the move follows a backlash blamed for a drop in sales last year.
	Some stores had to remove items after a spike in confrontations between workers and customers.
	Where'd you get that report?
	That's from ABC.
	Where are the locations?
	Did they mention any of them?
	One of them?
	Just one of them would help?
	Is it Southern California?
	Is it Texas?
	Is it Louisiana?
	Is it Michigan?
	I guarantee you it's not Berkeley and it's not Austin.
	I can guarantee you that right now.
	I don't know where it is, but it's not any others.
	Not those two.
	Not those two.
	I'd like, you know, this reporting, I've got a few examples of this today.
	It's left out information.
	You know, they don't tell you anything.
	They tell you, well, this is happening, but they don't tell you what the location, you don't have, you can't get a feeling for the developmental aspect of it.
	You don't understand, they don't want you to understand anything anymore.
	They just make these blanket statements and they hope that you, you know, can live with it.
	Just live with it.
	Live with it, queer!
	What did you say?
	What did you call me?
	Say that again.
	What did you say?
	I didn't say anything.
	You said, live with it, queer.
	That's what you said.
	I did?
	Wow.
	I can just see you walking the streets of Berkeley.
	Hey!
	Live with it, queer!
	Are you talking to me?
	I'm sorry.
	This is, I mean, this is just fallen times.
	This is not cool.
	What happened to Abba?
	That's funny because there's a special in ABBA.
	Of course there's a special.
	It's still relevant.
	ABBA's still rocking it.
	But no.
	We gotta have queers now.
	Queers for Palestine.
	That's my favorite.
	It just has to stop.
	It has to stop.
	You know what?
	At least we can just stop doing the they-thems.
	Come on.
	Stop it now, BBC.
	Although in Britain now... The they them is annoying, but all the other pronouns are too.
	Why is this so important to these people that they start to cry on TikTok if they're mispronouned?
	It's not even misgendered, it's mispronouned.
	Because you can be any gender in the world and be gg or whatever it is.
	Because that's your pronouns.
	There's never a relation.
	This is interesting.
	There's not a direct relationship between the pronouns and the genders.
	No, exactly.
	They just, it's random genders and random pronouns on top of random genders.
	Yeah.
	So that makes it just, what is the point of doing this to the public?
	Why is this advocated by anybody?
	Well, I can tell you what it's resulting in.
	Get off my lawn!
	What it's resulting in, in Sweden, they now have equality ombudsmen in schools.
	Just in case someone is misgendered.
	In this case, a non-binary student was misgendered by the teacher and the teacher refused to call the student the Swedish Hen, which is the Swedish word for they.
	And now the school has to pay the aggrieved student $15,000.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	How did you get that one?
	That's in the... well, it's in the Daily Mail, so I'm gonna... That's a great story.
	Isn't that awesome?
	Yeah.
	That's what it's for.
	It's a money-making scheme.
	I'm sorry.
	It was just... I'm just putting my foot down on the pronouns.
	No.
	No, but just stopping that.
	Well, you can put your foot down all you want.
	This is the Titanic we're dealing with here.
	You gotta wait for it to sink.
	It's only a matter of time.
	Right now, you know, before LGBTQ really popped off big time, it was Black Lives Matter.
	You remember when Black Lives Matter had that big, it was the big concert, and it was in Los, I think it was Los Angeles, and it was like the big culmination, and then all of a sudden everyone was on the Pride stage, and then Black Lives Matter was like, bye, see ya, remember that?
	Vaguely.
	I don't remember it as obviously as... Well, that's... then everything kind of moved over towards... We're taking over the place.
	And then all of the leaders of Black Lives Matter, they all kind of went, you know, bought mansions and kind of disappeared into the woodwork and all the hundreds of millions of dollars that Nike and all these companies... Yeah, it's like when they went to Haiti.
	Kind of all... all just... everything just went quiet all of a sudden.
	Well, now...
	Now, with the Israel protests and also some LGBTQ stuff, I think you'll recall many of these smaller organizations like Justice for Austin's Black Artists Coalition or something like that, they never had a 5013C status.
	They were all members of different larger organizations, which typically were really meant to bust people out of jail without bail.
	Or to just get them out of jail, so you get arrested, you go to jail, here's the money that the people gave you to, to forward, you know, to, to progress African Americans in the arts, and of course it was only used to bust the protesters out of jail, the troublemakers.
	So now, Black Lives Matter, a lot of these small... You're on a roll today.
	I'm so so tired of all this crap.
	Oh, brother, there we go.
	Yeah, I'm almost 60.
	So now a lot of these Black Lives Matter, these small organizations, these bogus organizations, now they're figuring out that they all got ripped off.
	This is a unique situation in that we have Two progressives engaged in what I think is going to be a very bitter fight.
	Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation is suing Tides Foundation, which is a nonprofit that manages cash for nonprofits who don't have status with the IRS, so smaller nonprofits.
	BLM GNF is saying that they entrusted $33 million to Tides Foundation back in 2020 when they did not have status with the IRS, essentially for safekeeping and for management of that cash.
	In 2021, when they asked for that cash back, Tides refused and said they were giving money to other BLM chapters.
	So the key question is, who has the right to the donations that came into Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation.
	So this is a big fight.
	One of the things that Tides has been in the news for lately is that it's acted as sort of a flow-through non-profit for a lot of the groups that are funding the campus protests at Columbia, at NYU, at Berkeley.
	So Very much under the microscope right now.
	What is Tides, which is an organization that has about $1.4 billion in its coffers.
	What is Tides really doing with the cash that is entrusted to them by these other groups?
	And how are they doling it out?
	Yeah, notice it was $33 million thereafter, which is no coincidence, of course.
	And Tides is clearly a troublemaker organization.
	It's a clearing house for Soros.
	He put 14 million in.
	The whole thing, the way that that story was described, I know about this is going on.
	It's kind of almost a local story.
	The way it sounds, the IRS should go look at this.
	Yes.
	It sounds as though they're using the Tides Foundation as a place for slush funds to go in and out.
	And, you know, these guys, oh, we're too small to be a we're a small nonprofit.
	Therefore, we give it to the Tides and they give it back to us.
	What is this going on here?
	You're supposed to... It's not that hard to file this paperwork if you're going to be a non-profit.
	Be a non-profit, don't be a phony baloney front.
	Yeah, that's what they are.
	Phony baloney front.
	Exactly.
	For Marxists.
	For, as they say, trained Marxists.
	Troublemakers.
	Troublemakers!
	Corporate America should be ashamed of themselves.
	Oh, they just fall right into play.
	And, you know, just while we're on it, if all these protesters are so, oh, so mad about, you gotta divest, you know what?
	Get rid of your Gmail.
	Alright?
	Google is a bad apple in all this.
	If you're really serious, get rid of your YouTube.
	Stop it!
	No more YouTube for you!
	All of this stuff, but no, they're not sincere.
	They're not sincere.
	They're phonies.
	They're all phonies.
	Phonies.
	Yeah, phonies.
	Little non-binary phonies.
	Tired of them.
	I really am.
	I'm tired of it.
	Actually, little non-binary phonies.
	Is it a show title?
	I think it's probably an apt term.
	Almost a good show title.
	A little long.
	I think it's apt because I look at these blue-haired women and all the rest of it and you have to think that You're drawing attention to yourself.
	You got a bone in your nose and you got the whole nine yards with the look and feel.
	It's not a bone.
	It's a cow ring.
	It's a bone.
	A cow ring in your nose or a bone.
	It doesn't make any difference.
	It doesn't matter.
	But it's just like, these are phonies!
	Yeah, and this is all starting, there's a great book, I haven't finished reading it, it's called Age of Grievance, what is it, Age of Grievance?
	Yeah, something like that, I know about this book.
	It's very interesting because it's all starting in middle school and in high schools.
	This is where these kids are really getting psyoped.
	And I have now learned about this, and this is, I mean it's crazy, this thing called The Whole Child Initiative?
	Yes, it's been around.
	Okay, so what this is, the CDC is now in it with money.
	The Whole Child Initiative, they give money to probably the similar or the same type of psychiatrists and doctors who are after one meeting telling your kid, you're a boy!
	And they're putting these clinics into schools, and then the parents are being told, hey, you know, it's okay, checkups, everything, it's all free, it's all part of the school.
	Vaccines is to get all the kids shot up with mRNA.
	Vaccines, but also SSRIs, propaganda, and at this point... Take these pills, you're a boy.
	I wanna be a boy!
	You gotta homeschool.
	Or start a new school.
	Because the good news is, the way this is going, these children are not going to reproduce.
	So this'll be over by the time your kids are 30.
	Two generations.
	Two generations.
	It'll end.
	Because they're just gonna die off.
	They're either sterilized, or same-sex, non-binary, no-binary, no-nary.
	Little non-binary phonies, it'll go, and they'll have no job because they're useless.
	It's like, I'm like, why even try to, hey, Moms for Liberty, stop trying to change the school!
	It's not worth it.
	Start a new school, Moms for Liberty school, whatever.
	It's not worth it anymore.
	Bleh.
	Are you done?
	I am, yeah, yes!
	I'm done!
	I'm sick and tired of it!
	Check the audience numbers.
	Okay.
	Wait a minute.
	You think the audience numbers are going to go down?
	You think they're going to go down because I'm saying this?
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I don't know.
	Most people like a rant.
	The blue haired people are all upset with me?
	The point I was making at the beginning about this, there's a movement going on to issue celebrities.
	Yeah, this is hilarious.
	And it's, but it's not what, you know, it's interesting.
	I have the contrasting clips here.
	These are people on TikTok who talk about, we have one of our producers is following this closely and I got all updated.
	This is about, this is some sort of rejection I think to the, because of the, I think the economy combined with people throwing their richness in your face at the Met in particular.
	Oh yeah.
	It's become an issue with the masses at the TikTok level.
	But it's being... I have to play this first, which is the NPR take on it, because they actually had a report on it.
	I think it's NPR, is it?
	Yes, it says it.
	It says NPR.
	Hold on, let's see.
	The Leadest Voices of America.
	This is NPR.
	Or PBS.
	A social media campaign.
	Oh, sorry.
	Wait, wait.
	So this is the NPR report.
	And so to find a reason, a rationale, they've dreamed this up.
	This is bogus.
	This is what you're going to hear is complete bullshit.
	Here we go.
	A social media campaign aimed at pushing celebrities to speak out about the conflict in Gaza went into overdrive this week after the Met Gala.
	NPR's Chloe Veltman reports users on TikTok earned millions of views for their videos telling people to block stars like Taylor Swift, Nicki Minaj and Matt Damon.
	The calls to block celebrities on social media... Did she say Matt Damon?
	Yeah!
	Matt Damon is now Matt Demon.
	Taylor Swift, Nicki Minaj, and Matt Demon.
	The call to block celebrities on social media have been going on for months.
	But Monday's Met Gala, with its unchecked display of privilege and wealth, enraged TikTokers like Christopher Claflin.
	Flexing on the peasants only works when the peasants aren't watching other peasants be wiped off the face of the planet.
	The star-studded annual event took place just as thousands of Palestinians were fleeing an Israeli assault on Rafah, Gaza.
	The block seeks to undermine stars' advertising revenue on social media.
	But many users on these platforms are also complaining that they are still receiving ads related to stars they blocked.
	That's because ads are often not run through the celebrities' accounts, but third parties.
	Chloe Valtman, NPR News.
	What?
	Some third parties?
	Couple of things here.
	One, this is a media example, this is a, we don't use this term much, but I call it shoehorning.
	And shoehorning is where you have a phenomenon taking place and you don't understand it, and instead of just listening to it and kind of figuring it out... You fit it into a model.
	You fit it in, you shoehorn it into a model, and in this case it's Gaza!
	There is no, I, the clips I have, there's no indication of this.
	This is just a, a, um...
	A pushback against these people.
	It's eat the rich, eat the rich, eat the rich.
	Well, it's an eat the rich thing.
	It has a lot to do with it.
	And it all stems, and it's not like this British woman said.
	It hasn't been going on for months.
	This is fairly recent.
	In fact, the TikTokers, one clip claims it's been going on for two weeks and boiled up during the Met Gala, which has really offended a lot of people.
	But let's listen to these guys.
	Who are actually pushing it, and they're on TikTok.
	They're talkers, and let's just start with the first guy.
	They're talkers.
	All right, here's the talker.
	Blocking celebrities is now the latest trend in social media, including high-profile celebrities such as Kim Kardashian, who has already lost millions of followers.
	This all stems from a recent publicity event at the Met Gala in which influencer Hailey Bailey said, let them eat cake.
	Which, as you know, if you ever took a history class back in college, that is a reference to the famous Queen Marie Antoinette.
	Who essentially belittled her peasants and said that she was better to them due to being an elitist with a lot of money.
	And this has caused massive outlash over social media due to the fact there's a massive wage disparity in the world today.
	With influencers making millions and millions of dollars to post on social media, and everyday people simply struggling to make ends meet and pay their bills and get a job.
	The effect has caused many celebrities to lose massive amounts of followers, hoping that celebrities will lose a lot of their income as a result.
	What do you guys think about this whole trend about blocking celebrities on social media?
	Okay, well, I'm gonna withhold judgment until you're finished with your presentation.
	Now, the other thing is, you know, again, NPR went with Gaza as the reason for this, which is bogus.
	They could have gone with climate change, but that was a bit hard.
	And they weren't going to go with wage issues or anything like that because that hurts Biden.
	Yeah.
	So they had to dream up this Gaza thing.
	And it was really annoying to listen to their report because I'm sure there's probably some TikToker out there that has something to say about Gaza.
	But this other guy here, this is the second one.
	I'm not going to.
	This is the only one I had.
	The other only one I'm going to play.
	Is, again, more like the typical TikToker complaining.
	Okay, so this whole trend of blocking celebrities has got to be the best thing to ever happen to the Internet.
	If you're unaware, there's currently a trend going around on TikTok and gaining a lot of popularity of people that are blocking celebrities on social media.
	Celebrities such as Oprah, The Rock, Kim Kardashian.
	The thinking behind this is that these celebrities have ascended into almost a god-like tier in society.
	They're so rich, they're so famous, and they do a lot of weird stuff, and they don't give a shit about us.
	If we all just go and block them and don't pay any attention to them, then they lose all of their brand deals, all of their ad revenue, and all of their popularity.
	And this trend literally just started two weeks ago, but has picked up major popularity in the last few days.
	And Kim Kardashian has already lost 3 million followers on Instagram.
	And I personally think this is awesome.
	I mean, these celebrities are so rich and famous, and then they go to these places like the Met Gala, which, by the way, costs $75,000 per ticket, and they dress up in all this weird, demonic shit, and just act like they're better than everyone else, when they don't realize that we're the reason that they're famous in the first place.
	So now you let me know, what celebrity should we do next?
	Should we do Taylor Swift?
	Should we do Doja Cat?
	Who should we do?
	No.
	So your ultimate conclusion here?
	There's a kind of a pushback against these.
	I think it's that a portion of the public was offended by the fawning bullcrap about this Met Gala.
	And if you want to hear my overall conclusion, I think Trump's behind this whole thing.
	I think elements of the intelligence community have decided to pull this stunt, the elements that are pushing for Trump, because Trump, when he was offended years ago, this is part of that retribution thing, when he was offended years ago and not invited to the Met Gala, even though he had before been invited, I think this is a payback.
	Well, that's not a bad way of looking at it.
	This is 100% pathetic.
	It's pathetic people... You said 100% though.
	I did.
	Because it's 100% pathetic.
	It's pathetic people who think they make a difference to anyone's life on social media, and I'm looking at you, KnowAuthority.social, people posting all day long, and at the end of the day, wow, I really made a difference.
	I started a conversation.
	No, you didn't.
	No, you didn't, people on X. You're there because you're being sucked into a system of patheticness.
	That's all that it is.
	Please run around in circles, post on your social networks, post on TikTok, post on Insta.
	No one cares.
	It doesn't make a difference.
	It's not going to change anything in the world while the elites crush you!
	That's it.
	That's all that it is.
	Please.
	You know, X has, whoa, freedom of speech but not of reach.
	It's the same thing with TikTok.
	You're not gonna get, you know, and you know what?
	You get a number millions of views, who knows?
	It's probably all lies.
	It's probably all lies!
	Lies!
	It's just lies!
	It's just a number!
	You think you're doing something?
	You think you're broadcasting something?
	You're not!
	You're not!
	It's pathetic!
	Stop it, all of you!
	Go outside!
	Look at the Northern Lights!
	Throw a ball!
	No, no!
	Just look at the Northern Lights, please!
	It was, uh, what a bogus hype this was.
	Besides beautiful pictures.
	You know, the number of people with Y2K freakouts.
	Whoa!
	Whoa!
	The grid's gonna light up on fire!
	The internet's down!
	Everybody's gonna... Now, handbands were dead.
	For sure, the handbands were dead all Saturday morning, Friday evening, but around Saturday afternoon, they picked up.
	And it's good for the space weather, guy.
	I think everyone really got a kick out of that.
	I have three clips.
	Okay, what you got?
	And I have a question which is another one of these, what are they missing here?
	This is part of it, but first I'm going to start with a minor clip.
	This is a quick rundown that PBS did and then I'm going to follow it up with better stories by NPR.
	Did a better job.
	Okay.
	And unusually strong storms on the sun are producing brilliant displays in the night skies here on Earth.
	The splashes of dazzling colors known as the Northern Lights are being seen as far south as the Florida Keys, across the West Coast from Seattle to Southern California, and in Europe from the United Kingdom to Spain.
	Scientists say we're in a period of peak solar activity.
	A large number of explosions called solar flares and coronal mass ejections are sending energized particles into space.
	When those particles hit Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field, a vivid, colorful glow is produced.
	The spectacle is drawing people out into the night to see it and photograph it.
	NOAA's Science Space Weather Prediction Center issued a rare, severe geomagnetic storm warning, saying power grids, GPS, and high-frequency radio transmissions could be affected.
	Sightings of the Northern Lights may be possible through the weekend and into next week.
	I would just like to point out that HAARP was lit up May 8th to May 10th, so that may have contributed to some of the low-latitude Northern Lights that we're seeing since.
	Second, I'd like to say, I think a lot of these pictures were enhanced digitally and were jacked up in color.
	Yes, I do.
	Let me finish.
	Particularly the ones in Hill Country, because I was here, I was looking at it, and I saw pictures from people that did not represent what I saw 30 miles up the road.
	Yeah, that's what I was going to interrupt you for.
	Is Mimi noticed this?
	Because she was in Washington at the time and so she actually could go outside and see both the red and the green.
	But, when looked at through her camera phone, it was jacked up.
	Because the sensors on a camera or a phone, we had San Francisco with some shots of the Golden Gate Bridge showing it, I can look out my front window It's the same thing, and I saw nothing.
	If I would go and get, I should have, I got one of my... If I had gotten a camera... You have a cataract issue, so I mean, let's be honest.
	I have any cataracts.
	I have both, both clean.
	They're fixed?
	I get more light through these lenses I have in my eyeballs than you do.
	Yeah, well, I'm, I'm, I'm, yes, true.
	So, uh, but the point is, is that if I had used a sensor, I just left it open for a while I would there would have been something there so that's what you're doing what I'm saying is that these yeah the photos are better than what you yes the camera the particularly iPhones they are enhancing things which really is it's an interesting aspect of what we're witnessing today with photography because the
	The images you see are better than the reality.
	They're more colorful.
	They're more rounded.
	They're fuzzy.
	I mean, it's fake.
	It's fake.
	Our whole life online is fake.
	It's fake.
	All right, we're talking about fake.
	Let's go to NPR's report on this.
	The strongest solar storm in over 20 years is underway right now.
	Underway!
	The sun is sending charged particles into the Earth's atmosphere.
	That can create beautiful auroras.
	It can also disrupt the power grid here on Earth.
	Didn't!
	The storm has reached level G5 on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scale, and that's the highest level possible.
	Astrophysicist Regina Barber, host of NPR Science Podcast Shortwave, joins us now.
	Regina, thanks for being with us.
	Thank you.
	I'm excited.
	Well, I guess... Is she a ham operator?
	Tell me, tell me she's a ham.
	Tell me she's a ham.
	Shortwave?
	That's the name of her podcast.
	You would think she's a ham operator if she had that name for a podcast, but I don't know.
	Thank you.
	I'm excited.
	I guess I am too, although I haven't seen it yet.
	What have I missed?
	Yeah, me neither.
	I was a little too south, but there's the solar storm and it arrived last night and it gave a lot of people a pretty good show.
	I've been seeing images popping up on social media of people in Europe and London, Spain, even images from like Florida, even as south as Alabama that saw these northern lights.
	My sister was sending me images from Washington state and they're they're gorgeous.
	I'm really sad that I missed it.
	What's going on on the surface of the sun?
	So basically this is happening because the sun's magnetic field, it has a magnetic field like Earth, but it goes through these like 11 year cycles.
	And it's approaching its solar maximum like right now.
	It'll approach the maximum in 2025.
	And what NOAA saw, which is the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, they saw that there were these massive sunspots.
	There was a group of them, like a cluster of them, and they were 17 times the diameter of Earth.
	And these sunspots, they're these cooler parts on the sun's surface, they're related to its magnetic field getting tangled up.
	But what happens with the sun's magnetic field, that tangling can unwind and eject stuff.
	Sun stuff towards us.
	Those are called coronal mass ejections, and they kind of look like these huge loops.
	Wow, anyone, anyone could have given this report.
	Wow, thanks NPR.
	So that's the whole thing?
	They bring in an expert who says the exact same thing but with a black female kind of a ghetto accent so they can make sure that we know that they're diverse.
	And here's heliophysicist India Jackson.
	Those loops are full of plasma that can rain down back on to the sun and are typically associated with magnetic field lines.
	And then those field lines, they get twisted up and knotted up and then they break.
	They pop.
	And then it spits out all of those high-energy particles that hurtle towards us, and we have to prepare for those things to come.
	And she says sometimes these ejections are accompanied by, like, bright flares of light on the sun's surface, and that's what Noah saw on Wednesday in addition to those sunspots, and that kicked off this severe geomagnetic storm.
	And as of now, Noah thinks there are, like, several of these coronal mass ejections that came towards Earth.
	Regina, that doesn't sound very comforting.
	There could be some side effects, right?
	Yeah, so basically these chunks of sun coming at us can disrupt the Earth's magnetic field and it can cause some problems and it creates electricity along very long power lines.
	It can cause this extra electricity to happen in power grids and that can kind of mess them up.
	So here's Jackson again.
	Now, when it comes to the power grids, the primary concern is the geomagnetically induced currents that can cause overload circuits and that can lead to blackouts.
	Okay, so none of this happened.
	There were no blackouts.
	I was monitoring Starlink, which I have as a backup.
	Didn't go down.
	This, something's up with this.
	Well, you know, that was bringing me to my point.
	And it was never asked, even if anybody on that show that you heard, the multi-diverse show.
	This was, he said, the guy, this was a G5, the highest level.
	The question is, and it should have been asked, why didn't it blow up something?
	The highest of this, we've been threatened with this forever.
	Oh, you know, what's going to happen, a big thing is going to, if it's aimed right at us and it hits us, a big giant, you know, solar blast is going to knock out the power.
	We need to modernize our grid.
	You were even alluding to this a little bit on Thursday's show.
	You're like, oh, this report, this report.
	Um, okay.
	So, first of all, what this is obfuscating is the obvious, certainly here in Texas, it is Mother's Day.
	Normally, and I've been here for 15 years, Mother's Day, moms are in bikinis!
	At the pool!
	It's 65 degrees!
	We are at the solar maximum, it came early, this, the weather is getting cooler, and please, just look at the pretty colors!
	It's May 2024, and the sun's about to flip its solar maximum.
	This is the year the sun takes center stage in a grand performance that will leave you questioning our entire existence.
	Recently, our star emitted an X4.5 class solar flare, one of the largest flares of this solar cycle.
	They have the capability of impacting satellite communications and even our power grids here on Earth.
	The sun is ramping up its activity, expected to reach a solar maximum before the end of 2024.
	That's a year earlier than anticipated.
	During this peak, we'll see more sunspots, more solar flares, and yes, more coronal mass ejections.
	It's a busy time for our Sun.
	In 2024, the Sun's magnetic poles are set to flip.
	This event, which happens approximately every 11 years, can intensify solar storms and paint beautiful auroras, even at lower latitudes.
	And we're going into 11 years of colder weather.
	Please look at the pretty colors.
	Please don't discuss the temperature in Texas.
	Please.
	What's it like where you are, John?
	Is it normal?
	Is it kind of the same for this time of year?
	Yeah, I would say for three days we had a nice summer.
	It was 88 here two days ago. - That's rather warm.
	- And now today it's cold.
	What?
	- Isn't that warm for your neck of the... - 88, yeah, well for May we get the 80s and then it cools off and then it gets freezing by July.
	But it's right now because we had three hot days, the fog rolled in, it's cold.
	So pretty, it's not atypical out here.
	I think that generally speaking it's been cooler.
	I think it is cooler.
	Of course it's cooler and I've been tracking this since I was 15 years old because I had a CB with a single sideband and we'd snip the diode so you could slip into the 10 meter band and I'd be talking on 12 watts PEP to Ohio from the Netherlands and that was at that time was the height of the solar cycle.
	That's where I learned about it.
	That's where I learned about the ionosphere and skip.
	Right, the ionosphere bounce.
	Yeah.
	And so these pictures, I have a feeling that it's possible that they flipped on HAARP to give us pretty pictures.
	It was on.
	This is not disputed.
	From May 8th to May 10th, they flipped on HAARP to give us pretty pictures.
	Of course, they're very pretty because of the phony sensors that make everything look more beautiful.
	Your life is better.
	Thank you, Apple.
	And so just pay attention to that.
	Pretty colors.
	And be worried about stuff going down.
	The fact that nothing went down and coronal mass ejections, they're real.
	I mean, 1972, I want to say, Hawaii, telephone poles were on fire.
	It really did happen.
	Well, there was also some period earlier in the late 1800s that took out the telegraph system of the country.
	It seems to me that with this reporting, you had a G5.
	I like the way they always make five the top.
	It's with tornadoes, with storms, with hurricanes.
	So this is the same thing.
	It's a G5, the max.
	But nothing happens.
	But nothing got blowed up.
	So who measures this and how do they measure that?
	What's the main measuring system?
	Who is in charge of that?
	Well, that's a good question.
	I don't know.
	We should look into this.
	I'll bet you it's Noah.
	Something's amiss is the way I see it.
	Yes.
	Something should have blowed up.
	Yeah.
	Very disappointing.
	Very, very disappointing, nothing blowed up.
	With that, it was the Great Carrington Event, that was in the 1800s, but there was another one, I know I was in the early 70s, and was right over Hawaii, and then they had fires and all kinds of stuff starting up as well.
	I remember in 1990, Wow, I'm going to say 96, maybe 1997.
	DirecTV was off the air for three weeks because of a mass coronal ejection event.
	I don't remember this.
	Oh, I do.
	I had DirecTV at the time.
	I was in New York, and at the time I was running my company, which was listed publicly on NASDAQ.
	That's why I remember this so well, because I couldn't watch CNBC.
	Which was important at the time.
	Yeah.
	With Mark, who died.
	Mark and the CNN girl.
	What's her name?
	Erin.
	Erin Burnett.
	Erin Burnett.
	That was your morning fair.
	And boom, it was gone.
	We didn't have cable in New York.
	We didn't have all that cool stuff.
	You got it on DirecTV.
	They had cable in New York.
	Not in our building.
	We didn't have that.
	Not like the expanded cable.
	No, we didn't have that.
	So yes, I think that we've been duped, and someone needs to account.
	We've been duped.
	That's what this show is about.
	How are we duped today?
	Someone needs to account for how come nothing went down, but yet all these pictures were pretty, and who does these measurements?
	Is that Noah?
	I'll bet you it's Noah.
	Who also, let's remember that Noah changed the earthquake scale on us to make everything look much worse.
	Remember, it went from the Richter scale to the momentum scale.
	Well, the Richter scale was what was used when I was a kid until just, I don't know, what, 10 years ago when they changed it to this bullcrap.
	Yeah.
	You know, how much was it shaking?
	Report, and we'll make up some number.
	Yeah, like a 7, you'd all be dead.
	Like a 7, like California broke off into the ocean.
	But now a 7 is what used to be a 2.
	Well, no.
	Not a 2.
	Yes!
	Yes!
	No, it used to be a 2 you couldn't feel.
	At all.
	And you can feel a 7.
	We need the no agenda fear scale.
	That's what we need.
	It's a 9 on the fear scale.
	Anyway.
	The only people that still care about climate change and are protesting are the farmers.
	Polish farmers chanting green terror Ursula von der Leyen.
	Thousands are rallying against EU environmental regulations they say are hurting the Polish economy.
	Now, they're calling for a referendum.
	That's why we're here, because of what Brussels is offering us.
	The Green Deal is not a Green Deal, it's a Red Deal.
	The only thing it's good for is throwing in the bin.
	The European Union's Green Deal is an ambitious commitment to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050, making the bloc the first climate-neutral continent.
	But Poland's trade unions say it's unfair for workers and will raise the cost of living.
	Each government is signing the climate agreement first.
	Now the implementation of the Green Deal and no matter the political outcome.
	After the EU Parliament elections, Poles will see significant raises in the energy and food costs.
	It will affect the lives of the Poles.
	Some protesters also condemned Ukrainian farm imports that they say are undermining their revenues.
	No, it's good on the farmers in Europe.
	They're still trying.
	They're still trying to wake people up to say, hey, you know, we're going away.
	This is not going to end well for you with your Green Deal or the Green New Deal.
	And here in America, you know, they're much more sophisticated.
	They don't say, like, we're going to get rid of farmers.
	No.
	We just tell everybody you've got bird flu.
	There are new fears in this country about the potential impact of the H5N1 bird flu on humans.
	After it first jumped to dairy cows back in March, the virus has now spread among dairy cattle across nine different states.
	A Texas dairy worker developed mild symptoms of the disease.
	We're happy to say they've recovered.
	Our chief medical correspondent, that's Dr. John LaPook, has been speaking with the experts and joins us now.
	John, a lot of people getting worried, so glad you're here.
	Good morning, Gail.
	There's no evidence of a lot of people getting worried.
	Public health officials are closely monitoring for any signs H5N1 is mutating into a form that could spread from human to human.
	There's no evidence that has happened yet, but that's the latest.
	The outbreak has raised questions about our ability to do enough testing to understand how widely the infection is spreading.
	Keep in mind, it's tough to coordinate efforts with so many groups involved, including the CDC, the FDA, dairy and cattle industry, and more.
	So, why the concern about a possible jump to humans?
	I spoke to one of the top bird flu experts, Dr. Jerry Parker, a veterinarian at Texas A&M.
	He told me he never envisioned a scenario where the virus would make the jump to cows.
	That was something nobody imagined?
	I didn't.
	I have to admit that.
	And I don't think our colleagues at the national state level did.
	And they should have.
	We fundamentally did not have a response plan and playbook for how to deal with H5N1 getting into dairy cattle.
	And I think that slowed our response and has caused confusion.
	I find this, first of all, every rancher who I'm in contact with says, this is bull crap.
	This is a hoax.
	It's not true.
	This bird flu in the dairy cows is, they're like, no.
	And how come we don't hear any of this in Wisconsin?
	It's only Texas.
	Only Texas cows.
	Oh, it's in eight states, but let's only focus on Texas.
	Why?
	Because Texas beef can feed the nation.
	We've got to get rid of it.
	And how do we do it?
	We go to the testing industrial complex.
	One big fear is that a pig or some other animal could become infected with both the human and bird flu, and that could cause a mixing of genes that produces a new virus capable of spreading easily from human to human.
	Epidemiologist Dr. Larry Brilliant has worked in public health since helping to eradicate smallpox in the 1970s.
	I asked him, is there enough testing going on to find out how widely bird flu has already spread?
	Break out your PCR, everybody!
	No.
	No.
	They should activate every surveillance system that would help them find out which animals are sick.
	They should use wastewater.
	They should be checking the water in bilges of ships and bilges of airplanes.
	Here's a good reason to do it.
	We have antivirals.
	We have treatments.
	We can make a vaccine very quickly.
	Ah, wastewater testing, John.
	Wastewater testing.
	There it is.
	We've been waiting for it.
	Wastewater testing.
	And of course, particularly in Texas, the ranchers are like, no, no, no.
	You're not coming on my ranch.
	You're not testing anything.
	They're going to start testing wastewater downstream.
	But they have an idea that might change some ranchers' minds.
	Nothing we just heard there is very comforting to me.
	What's being done to increase the testing?
	You know, it turns out that poultry farmers are reimbursed for financial loss related to bird flu.
	There's an insurance policy.
	That's not true with cattle ranchers.
	And in addition to that, there are a variety of reasons why people working there, various workers, may not want to get tested.
	So I've heard that the USDA and the CDC are working on a plan to incentivize more testing.
	So they're going to pay people for testing, but in there at the beginning was really the real trick, is they're going to expand compensation for ranchers.
	If we detect bird flu, we're going to cull your herd, but you get paid for it.
	Here's the deal.
	So was this question asked with these clips of yours?
	Did somebody say, hey, if they have bird flu, do they drop dead like any, like typically happens with people?
	They get bird flu, they die, the birds die.
	What happens to the cows?
	Do they die or are they just floating around like Typhoid Mary?
	Well, the last clip is titled, How Worried Should We Be?
	So how worried should we be right now?
	Right now is the key word.
	Last night, the CDC told me, and they gave me the latest, unless you're in close contact with potentially infected animals or you're drinking unpasteurized milk, the risk to you right now is very low.
	But remember, things can change.
	We've learned, unfortunately, from the pandemic.
	I know this pandemic can change.
	Especially with viruses.
	They can change on a dime.
	Right now, they can mutate, they can change, we've seen that happen, and that is why there's such concern among public health officials and others, and why the CDC and others are really trying to stay on top of this.
	Yeah, because first it was just one, and now it's moved to nine states, and it just seems like it can turn on a dime.
	So I'm wondering, at what point do you get worried?
	Get them off the air, these people.
	She literally said, on a dime.
	Just one, and now it's moved to nine states, and it just seems like it can turn on a dime.
	So I'm wondering, at what point do you get worried?
	You're saying, don't worry, worry.
	Today.
	Today, yeah.
	No, the worry would be if it changes in mutations, genetic compositions, so that it can spread easily from human to human.
	Right now, there's been no evidence of that.
	If there's no evidence of that, there's one human got a relatively mild infection.
	He had conjunctivitis, he was given Tamiflu, he recovered.
	But that's what people are looking for.
	And we don't want it to happen without us realizing, you know, if you do this, you, you know, you don't know what's going on.
	You got to do this and say, what is going on?
	Where is it?
	How widely is it spread?
	This is, this is, this is a setup and it's not for vaccines.
	It's a setup to call the herd.
	No, I have a, I have a series of clips on this.
	Okay.
	It's a little more elaborate.
	It combines all kinds of things instead of just worrying about one H5N1.
	There's new variants of COVID and there's measles.
	This is PBS.
	This is COVID H5N1 concerned.
	Four years after the start of the pandemic, hospitalizations for COVID are at an all-time low.
	But there are new variants.
	Now, bird flu is in the headlines.
	It's been found in at least 36 dairy herds across nine states.
	But so far this year, there's only been one confirmed human case.
	So how concerned should we be about all of this?
	Oh, my goodness.
	So I got to cut, chop this up a little bit.
	Yeah, good.
	I'm glad you chopped it, chopped it.
	So this is also sweetened, by the way.
	So the This is that presentation style I like to deconstruct where it's good news but presented in a bad way.
	Hospitalizations are down!
	What are we gonna do?
	Lowest ever!
	It's like the lowest!
	It's the lowest!
	Should we be concerned?
	I mean, how obvious can this be?
	But when you hear it, the way he presents it, it sounds like BAD!
	You know what we're missing?
	BREAKING!
	BREAKING!
	MOST ALERT!
	So let's go to two.
	Katelyn Gedolina writes the popular newsletter, your local epidemiologist, and she was just named... Is that a popular newsletter?
	I mean, seriously, your local epidemiologist?
	Is that a popular newsletter?
	Play from the beginning again, because it's actually better.
	Katelyn Gedolina writes the popular newsletter, your local epidemiologist, and she was just named one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people in health.
	So, Katelyn, how concerned should we be about bird flu?
	Oh, man.
	You gave this to me to put in the show notes.
	Yes, it's in the show notes.
	And I did.
	This is times 100 most influential people in health, which includes luminaries such as Scott O'Neill, mosquito engineer.
	Rory Collins, democratized health data.
	John Leonard, genetic editor.
	Dora Chomiak, supporting Ukraine.
	Most important person in health.
	Yeah, supporting Ukraine.
	This is crazy.
	There's also Vivek Murthy, he's at the top of the list.
	We also have Macron.
	He's a titan.
	Titan.
	Vivek Murthy is a titan.
	A titan.
	So we also have Emmanuel Macron, whose title is a powerful message.
	And we have Jimmy Carter, determined health hero.
	I like Halle Berry, a voice for menopause.
	Come on people, this is great.
	John Fetterman, destigmatizing idiocy.
	I'm sorry, disability.
	Yeah, he's an important health influencer.
	Yes.
	So here's who's not on the list.
	This is the bogus list, but I got this.
	It's typical.
	We've talked about this in the show for years because I've been in these meetings.
	You sit down and you start listing people and you put it together and you have these are bogus.
	By the way, by the way, HOTEP, Peter Hotez HOTEP, science warrior.
	Yeah, there you go.
	So we have RFK's not on the list who wrote a book and it seems to be pretty important because he does a lot of lawsuits and the rest are besides the brain worm.
	Fauci's not on the list.
	No, we can't have that.
	Kind of a shocker.
	Burks is not on the list.
	But then you have people who are true influencers like Peter McCullough, not on the list.
	No, no.
	Or it's people like even Sherry Tenpenny, I would put her on the list.
	And the frontline doctors, people like that.
	How about Burks?
	Burks should have been on the list.
	No, not on the list.
	Too controversial.
	But who's the big superstar not on the list?
	The guy who should be on the list, probably the most influential of all these people.
	Bill Gates.
	Exactly.
	Why isn't Bill Gates on the list?
	That's a... Do you know what that is?
	A great question.
	It is a great question.
	I know the answer.
	Okay, what's the answer?
	Buddhist Time Magazine, currently owned by...
	I should know this.
	I don't know.
	Who?
	Who runs Salesforce?
	Oh, is that, yeah, Benioff.
	Benioff, yeah.
	He hates Gates.
	Benioff comes from the Larry Ellison School of Management, because he came right out of Oracle, and the idea there is to hate Bill Gates.
	That's not a bad idea.
	And so they hate Bill Gates based on their thesis.
	I mean, Ellison has always had a beef with Gates.
	And so Benioff won't put Gates on this list.
	And that's the simple thing.
	And Gates is the number one guy.
	He has got the money, the influence, and he's talking a big game all the time.
	And he's not on the list.
	Give me a break.
	Yeah, we need to do it.
	But this newsletter woman is.
	Yeah, well, she's very influential.
	Very popular newsletter.
	She's more popular than Bill Gates.
	Okay.
	So that's an aside that needed to be done.
	Well done, sir.
	Okay, let's move on.
	Now we get into the meat of this.
	Clip three.
	Yeah, you know, what's clear is that this is continuing to spread among cows and other animals.
	But the risk to the general public is very low.
	And this really means there's nothing we can do other than don't touch dead birds or animals.
	Don't drink raw milk.
	Can maybe even call your congressman for better biosecurity support.
	Oh!
	But this is definitely not March of 2020 and it's definitely not even January of 2020.
	But of course the situation can change and usually with outbreaks it can change very quickly.
	I think that alarm bells for the general public should really start going off if we start seeing human-to-human spread.
	Right now, it's really an all-hands-on-deck response for public health to prevent another pandemic and staying laser-focused on protecting the small group of Americans that are at higher risk, and that is dairy and poultry workers right now.
	Another thing that's caught a lot of people's attention was the report that the FDA had found dead viral fragments in milk.
	Milk bought at grocery stores.
	That sounds pretty scary.
	How concerned should people be about that?
	It is scary, and it does sound scary, but I calmed down when I knew that we have over 100 years of data on the effectiveness of pasteurization.
	Also, just to confirm that the pasteurization was working, the FDA tried to grow active virus from these pasteurized milk samples from grocery stores and the experiments failed, which is actually a good thing because that means these viral fragments were broken pieces that just could not replicate and thus we cannot harm us humans.
	Since those studies have been done on the milk, they've also tested other milk products like cottage cheese and sour cream and those are safe as well as beef and grocery stores is also safe to consume.
	I will say that I'm not always a fan of your sweetening.
	These are spot on.
	This is well done.
	This is right in the sweet spot.
	You'll be annoyed later.
	This is an attack on raw milk in the raw milk industry.
	There's no doubt about it.
	They've been trying to do this.
	I was talking to Mimi about this.
	We have a raw milk dairy up north and we drink it constantly.
	Delicious, by the way.
	But the problem is with raw milk, you have to keep the batches separate, you have to do this, the cows can't eat chicken shit, it's just the whole process, the dairies are super clean, they have to be maintained, it's hard to do, and the inspections, if you were a government inspector having to inspect a raw milk dairy, it's a pain in the ass!
	It's too much work.
	Can I just say, it is also an attack on raw milk.
	This whole thing is not only to attack raw milk.
	I don't believe that.
	I think it's... You might be right, but I can tell you this.
	Raw milk is a bugaboo.
	They hate it.
	They don't like to have it in the market.
	They don't want to deal with it.
	You know why?
	It'll help you live a healthy life.
	Die, you slaves, die!
	It's more along the lines of my shit in meat thinking, which is the reason we don't use gamma radiation in this country to sterilize products, which is the way to go.
	Even for milk, it'd be better than pasteurization, which cooks the milk.
	Gamma radiation Everyone kind of subtly knows this, but gamma radiation, which is a sterilization mechanism, is used in Europe a lot.
	And you could take and run all your beef through it, just a big machine, and just go right through it.
	And it would take care of E. coli, which is a deadly bacteria if it's the bad E. coli that gets in your system, if you eat it because it's an undercooked meat.
	You wouldn't have to worry about it, ever.
	But everybody knows what would happen.
	Dog shit would be in the meat and they just sterilize everything and it's fine and dandy.
	You're not going to get sick from it, but you'd be eating crap.
	And that's what would happen.
	And this is the same thing with these super clean raw milk dairies.
	We don't, you know, it's like, Oh God, I got news for you.
	There's no money in this.
	We've debased the money since 1971.
	So your food has to be debased as well.
	Everything has to be chemicals and sawdust.
	That's where this is going.
	Petrochemicals and sawdust is now food.
	No, get rid of all food.
	I think the bottom line here is just do not drink unpasteurized milk.
	It can make you very sick, especially at this time.
	All right, thanks lady.
	It can make you very sick, especially at this time.
	At this hour.
	At this hour.
	So don't drink at this hour.
	You know, this woman should be strung up.
	Okay, five.
	So that's bird flu.
	Let's talk about COVID.
	Tell us about these new variants that have the intriguing nickname, FLIRT.
	Yeah, so what we know is that COVID continues to mutate, right, right, right, right?
	This is just what viruses do.
	The latest and greatest variant is Omicron, but with very small changes, right?
	These FLIRT variants have only two additional mutations on the spike protein.
	This is compared to about 50 changes that we saw with the huge Omicron wave back in 2021.
	So just with two small changes, we know that this isn't going to cause a tsunami of infection.
	It's just not different enough than previous ones.
	The question is whether it will cause a wave, a wavelet, or nothing at all.
	A wavelet?
	And fortunately, time will just tell.
	So only two mutations.
	Does that mean that if you got a booster last fall or since last fall, that would take care of it?
	That those variants would not be able to get around that booster?
	If you're up to date on your COVID-19 vaccine, which for the majority of people means a fall vaccine, some are eligible for a spring vaccine.
	And yeah, it's not a perfect match, but it will certainly help against severe disease and death.
	Because this has mutated a little, that may mean we will see a little more infections than before, but you are very well protected against severe disease if you're up to date.
	Is the COVID vaccine going to continue to be reformulated and keep up with these variants?
	And sort of almost like the annual flu, they have to figure out what the dominant strain is going to be.
	Yeah, that's exactly right.
	It looks like we're moving towards a flu model, right?
	Right, right, right.
	So where COVID-19 vaccines will be updated every year to match as best as possible the circulating strain.
	This is unbelievable.
	Hold on.
	Study finds, quote, significant increase in cancer mortality after third COVID dose.
	But you sent me, but you sent me, and that's the study that just came out, but you sent me another link, which I think people should also read in the show notes under the Big Pharma heading.
	How much damage have vaccines done to society?
	Which is, which is a sub stack.
	But a very good article about vaccines in general.
	They've just always been a crap product.
	They kill people.
	All of them.
	Am I paraphrasing that correctly?
	You're not too far off.
	Like even the smallpox vaccine of course started smallpox epidemics.
	Duh.
	Yeah, there's something fishy about some of this stuff, I have to say.
	Alright, so I think we're on to our last clip.
	They go on and on about the vaccines as you get more shots.
	I'm very tired now.
	I'm fatigued from this.
	Okay, good, because we have a change of subject.
	Go!
	Measles.
	There was a global surge in measles.
	There was some talk earlier that the United States was worried about what was going to happen here.
	What is happening with measles here in the United States?
	Yeah, I mean, measles is coming in hot this year.
	Coming in hot!
	And while the U.S.
	has a small number of cases, right, 132 cases across 21 states, it's still more than double than we had last year.
	I think the biggest problem with this is we're giving measles opportunity to spark more, right, with more embers because fewer people are getting vaccinated.
	And the challenge and problem with this is it just increases the probability of a spark finding a really large unvaccinated pocket and spreading like wildfire.
	So we were really wanting to reduce these embers as much as possible right now.
	Ladies and gentlemen, the comedic stylings from the one and only Mr. John C. Dvorak.
	I am very pleased with that.
	And I gotta tell you, I'm just going to now, from this day on, going to become a devout anti-vaxxer.
	I'm not gonna waffle and say, I want safe vaccines.
	No.
	I think they're all dumb.
	They're all probably bad.
	You know, get your kid out of school.
	Don't put your kid in these schools.
	Let all those vax kids sit in there.
	I'm just against it now.
	This makes no- and I- seriously, I see no benefit.
	There are many people in Hill Country with college degrees who are doing like, nah, I'm not vaccinating my kid, that's okay, thanks.
	They get nothing.
	Not- not- not even the- the- the- like the basics.
	Nothing.
	And you know what?
	Kids seem pretty smart.
	Running around like normal kids.
	Having a good time.
	They're gonna get measles!
	They should!
	They should get measles.
	Wow!
	I found that whole piece to be just a promotion from every which way, anti-raw milk, pro-dox-vax-vax, you know, and you need another one, you might be eligible, she says, eligible for a spring vaccine.
	Spring vaccine, everybody!
	Go read that article.
	That article in the show notes about the history of vaccinations.
	Wow.
	It goes back to the 1700s, curiously.
	Yes.
	I didn't realize that the smallpox vaccine was in the late 1700s.
	That's how long ago.
	Yes, during Catherine the Great.
	Catherine the Great was credited with a lot of that.
	But of course, the more sane people will say, you know, we got indoor plumbing and we got, you know, hygiene and we figured out we should bathe and that seemed to help a lot.
	There used to be a period in the Middle Ages where people would never, they thought it was the devil's work to bathe.
	You know, when, when, really?
	Yeah.
	There's stories about the bathing situation in the footnotes of Toynbee's A Study of History.
	There's a bunch of stories about the craziness that went on during these eras.
	When I was reading this, this article, it dawned on me that when we moved to the Netherlands, There was a whole bunch of vaccinations the family had to take.
	Back in the day, that was a thing.
	And I think a lot of it was just, oh, you're going to Europe.
	Oh, you better get all these vaccinations because you're going to Europe.
	And do you know when my Tourette's started?
	When I was seven years old, when we were in the Netherlands after all those vaccinations.
	I think I'm vaccine-injured!
	I didn't have that.
	You know, that's possible.
	I think it's, that's what hit me when I'm reading this.
	I'm like, hey, wait a minute.
	That's interesting.
	That's an interesting insight.
	That is, especially, you never had it before seven.
	Nope.
	Nope.
	And they went through all kinds of tests, you know, sensors and brain.
	My parents were very concerned.
	What is wrong with our kid?
	And it was bad back then.
	I mean, I was like, jerking my head all over the place.
	Yeah, like remember the girls in the early HPV vaccines that were having all these issues?
	Yep, yep.
	But I think I was permanently vax injured.
	I think you might be right.
	Yes, I want compensation.
	Well, who are you going to get it from?
	Good luck.
	Thanks, I'm a little depressed about that now.
	With that, sorry, I'd like to thank you for your courage.
	I'm not going to give you anything, give you ten grand.
	Say in the morning to you, the man who put the C in the CME, ladies and gentlemen, say hello to my friend on the other end, the one and only, Mr. insert sound effect here, John C. Delorey!
	Okay, we've counted them.
	I think a couple got away, so the best count I have is 1943, which is a tad lower, about 23 lower than last Sunday.
	But we are also a tad later, so 1943.
	These trolls, by the way, are hanging out in the troll room, which is a place where everybody knows your name.
	You can go to the Troll Room at TrollRoom.io.
	You can log in there, listen to the live stream, which is NoAgendaStream, NoAgendaStream.com, or you can do both with the Modern Podcast app, which will also alert you when we go live on Thursdays and Sundays, and also many other shows.
	Because the trolls, the troll room, no agenda stream, it's 24-7 and there's tons of live stuff that happens so you can get an alert.
	Like when that Larry, you know, what's it, Unrelenting with Gene and Darren, or what's the, Rage, Planet Rage, I mean these are all shows that you can Subscribe to, and even if you're like, I'm in a meeting, I can't listen to them live, the Modern Podcast Apps will alert you within 90 seconds of publishing the podcast.
	So, podcastapps.com.
	How long does it take for Apple to do that?
	Oh, anywhere between 20 minutes and 3 hours.
	Wow.
	Yeah, and they spend an enormous amount of resources polling all of these feeds.
	I mean, it's very ungreen of them.
	Very ungreen.
	Ooh, I like ungreen.
	I'm going to start using it.
	It's very ungreen of them.
	Ungreen.
	Now, we don't have ads on this show, which should be obvious to you, which is why I just declared myself an anti-vaxxer.
	That would have been a non-starter for any ad.
	You're done.
	Done.
	There'll be no advertising ever again on this show.
	That's right.
	I like it when you do that.
	Just say, that's right.
	That's right, Curry.
	That's right, Curry.
	You're right on the money, Curry.
	You're nailing it.
	So we coined a concept a long time ago.
	And it was interesting.
	You know, I often go on several top brand, top notch podcasts, like the Megyn Kelly podcast.
	And with such luminaries, I'm not the only celebrity and star who goes on a podcast like that.
	Roseanne Barr.
	Was on the Megyn Kelly Show.
	And she was talking about money and the world and Roseanne is a little a little out there sometimes.
	I want to play this one minute clip just to get us into the mood.
	There isn't like just a few families that should own everything in the world.
	There isn't.
	That's true.
	And they're so stupid, like you said.
	Luckily, they are stupid, because arrogance always accompanies ignorance.
	That's what Torah says.
	They're always the same two sides of the same coin, and they undo each other.
	Let's hope.
	And so their arrogance is such that they've actually made with their greed and their whatever they do in their bubbles and their bursting bubbles and making more bubbles and their scams and fraud.
	They've actually made money obsolete and it's worthless.
	Now that's just great.
	That's my optimistic.
	Sign of the future because that is the dream of the end of debt slavery.
	That's leaving Egypt.
	That is the dream of humanity.
	It's so great and it's crumbling and they're being exposed and it will be replaced with a better system that works for human beings, all human beings.
	And it'll come from us and our intelligence, because we have the will and the means and all the technology to do that.
	Without money, but with something else.
	Value for value.
	There it is!
	Wow, it's like a Shaggy Dog story.
	A Shaggy Dog clip, yes!
	We have seeped into Roseanne Barr's brain.
	She didn't get that just out of the ether.
	Uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh.
	Because this concept has gone broad, it's gone deep, everyone's talking about it.
	It is the only way forward.
	Yes, everyone's talking about it.
	We're talking about value for value.
	You know, they used to say, oh, you're begging for money, or I'm just going to tip you.
	No, no.
	Now it's value for value.
	People are onto it.
	They're getting it.
	We're pioneers, John.
	We're leading.
	We're leading a revolution.
	Now, we have many ways you can contribute to this program.
	One is by helping us lower costs for things we could never afford anyway, such as new art.
	There's no way we could afford artists to be doing spec art for every single episode, no!
	But that's why we have many of the great Dutch masters at work.
	And from other countries, but the Dutch masters, they really seem to be nailing it.
	And once again, One of our artists gave us the artwork for episode 1658.
	The title of that was Spaving.
	And the great Dutch grandmaster Nesworks gave us the artwork for that.
	This was the game Debt Jubilee.
	Very controversial, this choice.
	Because I didn't like it.
	And John was like, ooh, I want it.
	But we both have a bone to pick.
	With Darren O'Neill, also known as Preshow Guy.
	Because he had the right idea.
	We were talking about- Oh yes, yes.
	Darren had the winning art piece.
	Both of us saw it right away, but Darren's- He screwed it up.
	He screwed it up.
	He choked, he choked.
	He had- He choked.
	He had a car with a generator on the back.
	It was well done, but it wasn't a Tesla!
	It didn't even look like an electric vehicle.
	It looked more like a Porsche or something.
	It was the wrong car.
	Well, you kept calling it a Porsche.
	It looks like a kind of a Toyota Silica.
	Not a Silica, but a... Nah, it looks sportier than that.
	But it was not a Tesla.
	No, there is a Toyota that looks kind of like this.
	But it wasn't a Tesla.
	It was so... I mean, everything was perfect about this piece of art, but he blew it.
	He choked.
	Yeah, I don't understand what he was thinking.
	Yes.
	I mean, he's not a Dutch master.
	That's probably the issue.
	Well, I mean, he's one of the leading artists, historically, for getting stuff in, because he always comes up with good ideas.
	He's being kicked out of the group.
	But this was a botch.
	I mean, yes, a botch.
	Now, I personally liked Bill Walsh's Brain Worm.
	Uh, which was a hilarious, hilarious brain worm.
	And, and, and you made a point, you said, NO!
	I don't want creepy art!
	Ever!
	Why, I have said that, not in that voice.
	That's one of your other characters, not me.
	I think, I think that was very close to it.
	But the thing, I don't understand why you like this piece because the under crackpot in Buzzkill is, says Adam Curry and John C. DeVore, too small!
	Which is your main complaint.
	When you said that, I said, you're right.
	I said, you're right, you're right, you're right.
	And then we just looked and said, I don't want anything with devils, which I kind of agree with.
	We had a lot of Eurovision with devil stuff.
	Yeah, no brains.
	I could have gone with the brain worm, but I'll accept it.
	The Sugar Kills Africans, we saw some problems with that.
	The Sugar Kills Africans is probably our...
	It was up for discussion, that's for sure.
	We're like, we really can't do this, can we?
	No.
	We decided against it.
	No, of course not.
	So Nesswork's piece, is what you're trying to say, was a fallback piece.
	It was kind of a fallback piece, yeah.
	That you kind of agreed to with protestation.
	Yes, yeah.
	And I would say, and then you said, Dead Jubilee, nobody even knows what that means, even though you're the one that discussed it on the show!
	Yeah, but when you look, see, you have to understand, I believe the art needs to entice people to go listen to the show.
	I see this, I'd be like, I don't want to listen to that show.
	That's just... So you think the smiling worm is going to entice people to listen to the show?
	If our names were bigger, then I would have pushed for that very hard.
	I would have called an audible.
	And comic strip blogger, you can stop putting the black baby eating sugar in... This is the fourth time he's brought this back.
	It's not going to get chosen.
	And anyone doing Trump AI is Stormy Daniels?
	No.
	No, please.
	Please, people.
	I'm worried.
	I'm worried about today's art.
	Already I'm worried.
	How about just nice Mother's Day art?
	Yeah, today's art will be picked because it's a Mother's Day special.
	It has to have a Mother's Day theme.
	So come up with something creative that has something to do with Mother's Day.
	Or just put Mother's Day in a nice pot of flowers.
	What a concept!
	So that's our talent and time portion of the three T's, talent and treasure.
	And now we would like to thank our executive and associate executive producers.
	These are the people who we thank at the beginning of the show.
	It doesn't mean that they're extra special.
	This is just the way Hollywood operates.
	You get an executive producer or associate executive producer title at credit risk and they're good for your lifetime.
	Why don't you start off, John, with Sir Kevin Dills.
	So I'll give you a solid, I'll read the long one that's next.
	Yes, and Jay mentioned that the Longwood needs to be read in its entirety.
	I know.
	Sir Kevin Dill starts us off in Huntersville, North Carolina at $512 and we haven't heard from him for a while.
	No, it's good to hear from you.
	In the morning is my annual, oh that's why!
	It's his annual donation.
	This is his annual birthday donation.
	I'll be turning 38 on show day, May 12th.
	That's right.
	Please add me to the birthday list.
	You are on it.
	No jingles, just karma.
	Thank you for your courage, Sir Kevin Dill's Duke.
	Duke, I say, of North Carolina.
	Thank you very much, Sir Kevin.
	You've got karma.
	Alright, then we move to the suit and tie guy from Illinois, and this is 33911.
	And he starts off with a Mother's Day remembrance.
	He says, this is a Mother's Day donation, the amount of 33, 333, well actually says 33911, in honor of my own mother, Sarah, who died last year.
	I'm sorry if this is long, but I have not typed publicly about her death until now.
	And so we will share this since this is a big, big thing for you.
	One year ago was the last time we did anything nice, that's him and his mom, and things were normal.
	I drove her to Chicago so she could get a new passport for a cruise a couple weeks later.
	She came back from the cruise not feeling well, spent that summer in and out of hospital, and died in September.
	On the drive, I was able to play your show to her for the first time.
	We didn't really talk about your show, but she was teaching me media deconstruction before you were.
	I grew up in a household where we all knew industrial news media lied all the time.
	She spent over 20 years with state and national PTA in leadership and convention planning roles.
	I'm going to include a photo of her and Rod Blagojevich for proof that she was a mover and a shaker.
	After she retired from PTA, we started the world's only synthesizer convention together.
	I think you had a cool mom, brother.
	It was called KnobCon.
	Now in its 12th year, it was her event, and I intend on keeping it going until I follow her into whatever comes next.
	Hey, sir, Mark Hall, KnobCon.
	He's a synthesizer nut.
	I love it.
	She would want me to mention this.
	She had ovarian cancer five years ago and went through surgery and chemotherapy and was in total remission until after the fake vaccine and her numbers went back up afterwards.
	She blamed this on the fake vaccine and while yes, she did have cancer, she developed a series of blood clots towards the end and that actually killed her.
	And what actually killed her out was a blood clot while she was recovering from a second cancer surgery, which had actually gone pretty well.
	We will never know if that clot was caused by the cancer or the fake vaccine, but I would like to know what life for her would have been like without the scamdemic.
	Can you sense a theme on this show?
	Any No Agenda enjoyers into electronic music who heard this and want to come to Nobcon for free should email me and mention this episode and my mother's name.
	Contact is knobcon, K-N-O-B-C-O-N, knobcon.com at suitandtieguy.com.
	There you go.
	And, uh, that's, uh, he did not ask for any jingles or anything, but we did read that for him.
	And, uh, we will be remembering your mom.
	And I love that she started Nobcon.
	Where's Nobcon?
	I don't know.
	We're gonna find out.
	If we're gonna find out.
	Why don't you look it up?
	Nobcon sounds like a hoot.
	It's a hoot.
	What are you laughing for?
	Why are you laughing?
	It's a word.
	You're a knob con.
	It's a hoot.
	It's a hoot, I tell you.
	I've been around and it's a hoot.
	Listen to this.
	Knobcon.com.
	September 6th to 8th in Chicagoland, USA.
	Oh, probably at the big convention center, I'm guessing.
	By the way, this is big.
	This is not a small convention.
	Holy moly!
	I mean, I might even go to this.
	This looks good.
	All right.
	Well, you know, Darren should go to it.
	He's nearby.
	He's Mr. Knob.
	He's Mr. Knob, and he can go.
	Hey, Darren, don't forget, you can get it free.
	It's free.
	Free for you, Darren.
	Mike Kinney's up.
	He's in Katy, Texas.
	We know him.
	He's 33333, and he has a switcheroo.
	Gents, this donation is for Becky Kinney, baroness of the great Katy Prairie for Mother's Day.
	Please give her an F-cancer on her great day.
	Here's hoping you never find your exit strategy.
	Mike Kinney, baronet of the great Katy Prairie.
	You've got karma.
	Bye.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	We have, uh, Whitney DiLoretto from Boring- What about CHAP?
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	CHAP, I'm sorry, CHAP.
	I missed ya.
	Jump right over ya, CHAP.
	CHAP is, uh, CHAP Williams is in Edmond, Oklahoma.
	333.33.
	No notes till he gets a double up karma.
	Sorry, CHAP.
	You've got... Double up... Karma.
	There we go.
	Thanks for catching that.
	We got CHAP.
	Caught CHAP.
	Good.
	Whitney DiLoretto is in Boring.
	Oregon.
	Which I think is one of the great names for a city in Oregon.
	Because most of the cities could be named boring.
	In Oregon... Jingles!
	Don't eat me, Bojiden!
	Noodle Gun and Little Girl Yay!
	DiLoretto!
	Sisters in Boring Oregon!
	Whitney here!
	Youngest of the three and the nurse of the family, I'd like to confirm all the craziness of health care you hear about.
	It's true!
	And your deconstruction is spot on!
	I wanted to let you know that no agenda family know that our amazing Mother's Day Dame Jazzy of Humboldt Redwoods has gained her wings on August 20, 2023.
	Happy Mother's Day, Mom!
	We miss you greatly.
	She loved your show so much and gave her so many great laughs and smiles before it was her time.
	She's looking down, laughing at us all, cheering for you both.
	Sorry, I'm botching this read.
	Please put this donation towards my damehood and de-douche me!
	You've been de-douched.
	As it is my first for myself.
	Four more years.
	Thanks, Whitney.
	Thank you so much, Whitney.
	That's beautiful.
	Here we go.
	Don't eat me, Bogite, and you're scary, so scary.
	I'm gonna shoot you in the face with my noodle gun, you racist piece of shit.
	I got my pasta glock locked and loaded.
	Yay!
	There you go.
	I luck out once again.
	Benjamin Domzalski.
	Domzalski, Cleveland, Ohio.
	333.
	And it just says Cleveland, Ohio.
	Hello, Cleveland, Ohio.
	I think that deserves a double up karma because there's no number.
	Karma.
	We'll give you that.
	Thank you, Benjamin.
	Go down to the Associate Executive Producers.
	Oh, so I had dinner with Brunetti.
	Oh!
	How was it?
	And he bit you.
	Of course, it reminds me of that because he's still complaining.
	Associate Executive Producers are bullcrap.
	Yes, yes.
	Did you have any nice wine?
	Of course.
	Yes.
	Was it from his cellar?
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	He doesn't have a cellar.
	He lives in a trailer.
	I'm sorry.
	I forgot.
	He's trailer trash, I tell ya.
	No, he came over to the house so I pulled out a bottle from the cellar here.
	He came to your house?
	Yeah, of course.
	Wow, did he bring his wife?
	Yeah.
	Oh man, that sounds like a hootenanny.
	I would have flown out for that one.
	Yeah, you probably should have.
	Yeah, well thanks for inviting me.
	You know, it was the last minute.
	He was in town anyway?
	Is that one of those?
	Yeah, they've got a horse show.
	Ah, there it is.
	Did you go to the horse show?
	Did I go to the horse show?
	No, I've got work to do.
	I've got a show to produce.
	I'm sorry, you're right.
	So, did Alex win?
	Did she do well?
	Actually, this year, for a change, she won two awards so far that I know of.
	Wow.
	Best of Horse.
	Best of Horse?
	Best of Horse.
	All righty then.
	At least he's consistent.
	I'm jealous.
	You should be jealous because he brought a bottle of his, of some, he's part of some cask club where you get these special bottlings of... Now, now, now, did you get him sauced up so he promised you a bit part?
	I've decided I don't want a bit part anymore.
	I want to be a casting director.
	Okay, onward.
	Douglas Schneider in Austin, Texas, right down the street from you, 220-222.
	This is my annual No Agenda Mother's Day donation toward my mother's damehood.
	Mom, I'm so excited for you to finally be a grandmother.
	God has truly blessed our family.
	Happy Mother's Day, your devoted son, Doug 2X Karma.
	Okay, well, we'll get 2X Karma then.
	You've got Karma.
	That's 220-222.
	We'll do 2X.
	Karma.
	Alright, Dame Slamy checks in from Bastrop.
	That's in Texas.
	Also a row of ducks.
	222.22 ITM.
	John and Adam.
	Dame Slamy writes, Happy Mother's Day to all the moms!
	My mom rocks!
	But she doesn't listen to the show.
	But my job sucks!
	So I'd like some big-ass jobs, Karma, please.
	Thanks for all you do.
	And she ends up by saying, Love is lit!
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Karma.
	Doug Andrews comes in from Sykesville, Maryland, with 211-66, a simple note.
	Baby-making karma, please.
	Oh, guaranteed to go.
	You've got karma.
	We're famous.
	We're famous for impregnating.
	I mean, I have to say, when people ask for baby-making karma on this show, it usually works.
	We're quite famous for that.
	Jimmy Rowe is in Warrington, Pennsylvania, 20667.
	Hey, John and Adam.
	Jimmy Rowe from Warrington, PA.
	I was hitting the mouth of my douchebag nephew while on a family vacation in the Caymans in February.
	Love the podcast, but bummed I only have four more years to listen.
	Can I get a de-douche?
	You've been de-douched.
	And I want an R2-D2 Karma and call out to my nephew to get off his rear end and donate.
	Hold up the great work in the morning, he says.
	You've got... Karma.
	Our buddy Eli the Coffee Guy from Bensonville, Illinois is up at 205.12.
	I would like to wish my wife Jennifer a happy first Mother's Day.
	You are an amazing wife, great business partner, and a marvelous mother.
	She's probably, I think she's the one that designs the gigawatt Coffee Roasters.
	The labels.
	Uh-huh.
	You bring joy to our family every day.
	Thank you for being you.
	For those of you that dropped the ball getting the mom, getting the mom in their life a Mother's Day gift, it's never too late!
	Visit GigawattCoffeeRoasters.com.
	Use ITM20 for 20% off your first order.
	Mom will love it.
	Stay caffeinated.
	Eli, the coffee guy.
	And I will say, if you've been wondering, Why I'm like I am today?
	Up until about five minutes ago when I finished it, I've been drinking a Gigawatt Coffee Roaster's Costa Rican Dota Tarazoo Snapshot Coffee.
	The canned?
	Yeah, the canned one.
	It's nitro.
	It says, shake vigorously to activate nitro.
	Well, I did.
	I did.
	I would... Those canned coffees they make, which are quite unique... Yes, they are.
	...are strong.
	Dude, I'm trippin'.
	This is fantastic.
	I'm trippin'.
	I'm trippin'.
	It's like... I only drink a half a can.
	When I drink one of them, I only drink half of one, and it's like enough.
	Oh, no.
	I drink the whole thing and my Tourette's is out of control.
	Roland van Ippenburg is in Bilthoven, the Netherlands.
	$200.04.
	No note, so we'll give you a double up, Karma.
	You've got karma.
	And then we go to Daniel Lipinski, who's in Minnesota in Cold Spring, to be exact.
	$200 is a switcheroo for a smoking hot wife, Amy Lynn!
	And not a stripper!
	Great name though!
	Amy Lynn!
	Uh, it is a great name.
	Uh, Happy Mother's Day.
	I used Zaley Christmas money on it.
	Oh, Zaley.
	Oh, this is obviously her daughter's.
	I used Zaley's Christmas money on this.
	It was the 200 bucks.
	There you go.
	Thanks, Zaley!
	Let's do it, let's do it.
	Since Amy Lynn is not actually one of our showgirls.
	Straight from Reseda, here she is, Raven!
	Give it up!
	There you go.
	Tom's in Nashua, New Hampshire.
	$200 associate executive producership.
	Hey fellas just want to say thanks for your media deconstruction.
	It helped me immensely during the COVID years knowing I wasn't insane on that matter.
	Although I was let go after not allowing the vaccine into my life.
	Lost his job.
	Thank you boys.
	I was able to turn it into a blessing.
	I first found your show while perusing the armpit of the internet that is 4chan.
	4chan donation.
	Your format took me a little while to get used to, but now I look forward to your show twice a week to hear honest takes on world events.
	Keep up the good work!
	I request a de-douche.
	You've been de-douched.
	And I'd like some love karma.
	Your friend in Tom in Nashganistan, New Hampshire.
	Thank you very much, Tom.
	You've got karma.
	And we wrap this up with our last associate executive producer, our regular, Linda Lou Patkin.
	And she comes in from Lakewood, Colorado with $200.
	And she says, Jobs Karma, which we give her, for a speedier, and she has a message, for a speedier job search, go to ImageMakersInc.com for all your executive resume and job search needs.
	That's ImageMakersInc.com.
	Or just find Linda Lupatkin, Duchess of Jobs and writer of resumes on the producer list.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs!
	Let's vote for jobs!
	That wraps up our Executive and Associate Executive Producers for Episode 1659.
	We'll be thanking more people down to the 50s later on.
	And, of course, we always want to thank everyone who comes in with those sustaining donations, which can be anything you want, make it up, as long as it's a regular subscription-based thing so it's recurring.
	We really appreciate those.
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	You can use them on LinkedIn, use them on your social media profile, or maybe even open up an IMDb account.
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	Become a producer.
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	Yes.
	Okay, um...
	How about some Gaza report?
	Okay, so depressing.
	We've got a summary.
	It's a summary, so if we don't have nothing else after that, it would be perfect.
	No, we're never going to get away with that.
	Is this your PBS report?
	Yeah.
	In Gaza, tens of thousands of Palestinians are being forced to flee again.
	The Israeli military has issued new and expanded evacuation orders amid signs that it's preparing to move into densely populated central Rafah.
	About a third of Rafah has been evacuated.
	That's more than 300,000 people in all.
	Many of them have already been moving several times in the past seven months as they fled Israeli air bombardment.
	This time they're being told to go to what the Israeli military is calling an We received a call from the army, a recorded call, asking us to evacuate the area we are in.
	We are preparing to go to Mawassi because they said it is a humanitarian area, but we do not know whether to go.
	I don't think it will be a safe area because the Israeli army does not have a safe area in Gaza.
	They target everything.
	Yeah, there's a couple other things that we need to discuss.
	killed at least 19 people, 16 of them women and children.
	The UN warns that a full-scale Rafa invasion would further cripple humanitarian deliveries of much-needed food, water, and fuel.
	Yeah, there's a couple other things that we need to discuss.
	One of them is this report that we got on Thursday that Netanyahu, specifically calling out Netanyahu, had ignored the ceasefire agreement that supposedly Hamas had agreed had ignored the ceasefire agreement that supposedly Hamas had agreed to.
	and And luckily one of our trolls said, oh no, no, no, that's fake.
	And this is, unfortunately this is always the issue, is people like to post on social media that we suck and we're no good and you don't deconstruct right.
	They forget that you're a producer and you need to send us stuff so we can do something with it.
	Just listening and saying you suck is not helpful.
	You suck!
	I mean, we're just dudes who are just, you know, trying to pull everything together.
	Um, we do our best.
	And so I finally got a little more detail on what actually happened.
	Now, take into account, this is from the Times of Israel podcast, but it sounds like probably this is what happened.
	Hamas did not come back with some kind of yes.
	Or two paragraphs saying, yeah, we can live with this, to the green-lit by Israel proposal that was conveyed to them at the end of last month.
	That's what they said they did.
	They said, we have accepted the ceasefire proposal.
	But they didn't.
	They issued a fairly lengthy document of their own.
	This offer is a duplicitous and deceitful offer that will not bring home most of the hostages.
	Most of the hostages, the way that Hamas has built this, will be retained, with Hamas having made all the gains that it wants to make, all the conceivable gains.
	And what do I mean by that?
	I'll just give one very small example.
	They state that the first, first of all, they state that not all the 33 hostages to be released in the first phase will be alive.
	They then state that the first to be released will be women, including female soldiers.
	In return for women and female soldiers.
	And notice what they said, that most of them probably are not alive, which is what we've been saying all along.
	They are asking for essentially 50 Palestinian security prisoners to be released for each of the female soldiers, of whom there are believed to be five.
	And of those 50 security prisoners, they want 30 of them to be people serving life terms.
	They've removed Israel's demand for a veto on which security prisoners are released.
	They say they will choose the prisoners.
	and then when you start to look at that and by the way they're only gonna release the first set of prisoners on the third day and the next three prisoners then and the next three a week later basically in those first two releases they can secure the freedom of It's more complicated than that, but at least 150 Palestinian security prisoners doing life terms.
	And there's another two minutes of explanation, which I'm not going to bore everybody with.
	It will be a clip in the show.
	We always publish all of our clips so you can take a listen to that.
	It just goes on and on and on.
	So it doesn't seem like it was exactly as portrayed in some of the media.
	Now let's go to the United Nations.
	All of the media!
	Let's go to the United Nations where we are working very hard on a two-state solution which is pretty much what everybody wants except for Israel.
	This is certainly a boost for the Palestinians because it shows a flood of international support for them.
	The resolution essentially upgrades their rights here at the United Nations but it doesn't give them full UN membership.
	The US vetoed that initiative last month in the UN Security Council.
	So this General Assembly resolution determines that a state of Palestine is qualified for membership.
	And it gives the Palestinians the right to propose agenda items, to speak in debates, and to speak on all issues, not just those related to the Palestinians.
	It also gives them the right to be elected as officers in the Assembly's main committees.
	It does not, however, give them the right to vote here at the UN.
	So essentially, it's symbolic.
	Well, Palestinian Ambassador Riyad Mansour was almost moved to tears as he spoke on the podium in the General Assembly Hall on Friday.
	He said that there had never been a more significant vote.
	The United States, Israel's ally here at the UN, was one of the nine countries that voted against this resolution.
	The US argues that pushing for Palestinian membership here at the United Nations is not helpful because a two-state solution should be brokered through negotiations, direct negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
	Now, Israel's ambassador was furious about this vote.
	He accused the UN ...of inviting modern day Nazis into its fold and said that Churchill would be turning in his grave.
	The Israelis are well known for using props here at the UN when they speak and Gilad Erdan brought along a mini wireless shredder to shred the UN Charter to show his opposition.
	Yeah, did you see that?
	What?
	Did you see that?
	Yeah, he brought out a paper shredder and like, oh, and put the resolution through the paper shredder.
	It's all theatrics.
	No one cares.
	I mean, even these kids on campus, I don't think they care.
	They just want the right kiffier.
	Give me my scarf.
	And all they talk about is divest, divest, divest, divest.
	They're not even talking about dead people anymore.
	It's all so cynical.
	That's actually, that's a good point.
	That's all it is?
	They don't talk about dead people at all.
	All they talk about is the best.
	The best!
	The best!
	Overnight, George Washington University in Washington D.C.
	going into so-called emergency mode, restricting access to certain areas of campus.
	Free pre-college diving!
	As anti-war protesters marched through the streets stopping outside the school president's office and forming a line across from police while demanding the school divest from companies with ties to Israel.
	Divest it now!
	33 people were arrested earlier this week at a pro-Palestinian encampment at the university.
	Police say they deployed pepper spray after officers were assaulted.
	The school says only six of those arrested are current students.
	I want to ask you a question.
	I mean, I definitely wasn't old enough.
	You might have been.
	During the Vietnam protests on college campuses in the 60s, Were they talking about the financial, like don't invest in war companies or bomb companies?
	No.
	Or were they, they were holding up pictures of dead Vietnamese, were they not?
	I mean, what, what was, what were they?
	Well, there wasn't even that.
	Most of the action was in the, in the, in the form of teach-ins, which resulted in, in teach-ins.
	Just simple protests to end the war.
	There was two messages, stop the draft and end the war.
	That was it.
	So they did have their own interest at heart to stop the draft.
	People didn't want to go to die.
	You know what?
	That would be interesting.
	Send some of these kids over there.
	Send some kids over there to die.
	Yeah, that would change things.
	Get a draft going.
	Yeah.
	Ship them.
	Yeah.
	Blue hair.
	You know, every so often the Democrat Party tries to Make it seem as though they want to re-institute the draft.
	Is that only the Democrats?
	Yes, and the reason they want that is because they know it will create an uproar with the students who will always vent their anger at the Republicans.
	That's a very strange logic, but believe me, it makes sense to them.
	And then Bibi Netanyahu, who doesn't know him, appeared on Dr. Phil!
	Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remains defiant after President Biden threatened to withhold more U.S.
	weapons from Israel.
	Netanyahu saying, if we have to stand alone, we will stand alone.
	Biden already halting a shipment of 3,500 bombs, saying the U.S.
	will not provide Israel with weapons to attack Rafah, the southern Gaza city where more than a million Palestinians have sought refuge.
	Israeli forces already launching what they describe as limited operations there.
	Netanyahu providing details on that operation in an interview overnight with Dr. Phil.
	We've destroyed about 20 battalions of the Hamas' 24 terrorist battalions.
	We have another four to go, they're in Rafah, and that's why we want to go into Rafah.
	And Netanyahu had this to say about the students protesting on college campuses in the U.S.
	First of all, you have a lot of ignorant people there, whose, I'm sorry to say, whose sense of history at best goes back to breakfast, not even that.
	They don't have the faintest clue what Hamas is.
	You know what's interesting is that none of the other Arab countries, except for the Iranian Revolutionary, uh, uh, what are they called?
	Islamic?
	Guardian?
	No, Islamic State, Islamic Republic of Iran, which is the mullahs, not the people of Iran, who could easily be Americans.
	Jordan, Syria, none of those countries are like, oh, Israel, no, death to them.
	None of them.
	They all want this done, and they all don't want the Palestinians.
	Jordan is getting ready to make sure no one comes into Jordan.
	They already have 700,000 Iraqis, because once they come in, that's it.
	Can't get rid of them.
	And Egypt, they got the check.
	I don't know if it cleared, but they got their 7 billion euros, so they better let people in soon.
	Well, they're going to make concentration camps outside of town is what they're going to do.
	The holiday camps, John.
	I'm sorry, what am I thinking?
	Holiday camps.
	Final clip here.
	Senator Lindsey Graham, you know, he's still on his comparison.
	And I guess the question is, why does Israel need the most massive bombs that can potentially level an entire block in order to wage this war?
	Why can't it be more precise?
	Yeah, cherry bombs.
	Listen, you know, here's what I would say about fighting an enemy who wants to kill you and your family.
	Why did we drop two bombs, nuclear bombs, on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
	So he's doing this again, and by the way, one of our producers sent in a note and said, when he asked that of General Brown and Austin, the appropriate response Would have been.
	Senator, our job is to follow the constitutional orders of the Commander-in-Chief.
	Instead, they went homina, homina, homina, homina.
	Those guys don't even report to the Commander-in-Chief.
	That's why they didn't think of it.
	That's how horrible our military industrial complex has become.
	Well, you know, Milley said himself he was basically not going to listen to anything Trump told him to do.
	To end a war that we couldn't afford to lose.
	You don't understand, apparently, what Israel is facing.
	They're facing three groups.
	Three groups.
	Iran, who has received $80 billion in aid.
	When Trump left office, they were exporting 300 barrels of oil a day.
	Now they're at $1.3 million a day.
	So it's about oil?
	Is that what you're concerned about, Lindy?
	They've been enriched by Biden.
	They're taking that money to kill all the Jews.
	So when we were faced with destruction as a nation after Pearl Harbor, fighting the Germans and the Japanese, we decided to end the war by bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear weapons.
	That was the right decision.
	Give Israel the bombs they need to end the war they can't afford to lose and work with them to minimize casualties.
	What a ghoul!
	That guy's unbelievable.
	He is a ghoul.
	Vote, hey, South Carolina, what's wrong with you?
	They just keep voting him in.
	Oh, that guy is a ghoul.
	He's a horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible man.
	And he was responsible for setting up the coup in 2014 in Ukraine.
	That guy is no good.
	Ugh.
	It's disgusting.
	How do you really feel about Lindsey Graham?
	He still does with his mom, you know.
	No, no he does not.
	Like Cliff Clavin from Cheers?
	You think so?
	Mom may be dead by now.
	We have an update.
	I actually got this from Sir Mark Hall who is in Panama.
	Sir Mark Hall's in Panama?
	Yeah, I think he's half Panamanian.
	He has a place down there.
	Oh, he's a half Pan Am.
	Yeah, and he said, he's a half Pan Am.
	He said a couple of details, a couple of infos.
	One, he said, hold on a second, let me just, I'm pulling up my text message right now.
	He said, so he doesn't have a car down there, so he's taking cabs, and I don't know if it's Uber, but he says, I'm getting rides in a lot of Chinese sleds here in Panama.
	Dong Feng's, BYD's, Chong Sun, GAC Motors, ad nauseam.
	Yeah, BYD, they're taking over the place.
	Lots of Chinese vehicles.
	I don't have a clip, but it looks like the Chinese vehicles will be shortly taking over all the European brands before they come here.
	And then, he said, hey, you know, we have a new president here in Panama, and he is making good on his presidential promise.
	Which is that, you get it?
	He's making good on that to promise.
	That was last night, Jose Raúl Molino's acceptance speech after winning the presidency in Panama.
	Molino's platform included stopping the flow of migrants going through the country's Darien Gap, one of the worst jungles in the world that connects South America with North America.
	In an interview on YouTube this morning, Molino vowed to close the jungle and to repatriate all of the migrants to where they came from, while respecting human rights.
	I have personally taken our Fox SA viewers to the Darien Gap, where more than half a million people crossed in 2023.
	Molino, who was Minister of Defense when Panama had to battle Colombia's guerrilla group out of the Panamanian side of the jungle, says a wall cannot be built, but technology will help to keep migrants out and stop the flow to the United States.
	Well, good for him!
	Closing that Darien Gap.
	Well, you know what's gonna happen is they're gonna send some boys down there.
	Hey, look at this picture.
	You better open that Darien Gap because we've got the International Office of Migration right there on the other side, so you gotta open that up!
	Well, there's also, uh, we just fly them in hell with it.
	Well, obviously.
	That's the easiest way to go.
	Skip the middle, man.
	Just put him in a Boeing and fly him straight to Minnesota.
	Well, no.
	Let's fly them to Seattle because things are breaking there.
	I spoke with the Equality in General manager.
	He tells me the city of Seattle has yet to pay for any rooms since the asylum seekers moved back in earlier this week.
	He also says he has not received a contract for this two-month stay.
	This whole situation is causing a lot of panic for these families that have made the city of Kent their home on and off for the last several months.
	Now today we spoke with this group of asylum seekers.
	They chanted for the city to keep them in Kent.
	By the way, these asylum seekers, so they're in a hotel and the city has not paid the hotel yet, which is a couple hundred thousand dollars bill.
	And these asylum seekers, this is great!
	They got clean clothes, like the guy's wearing a brand new cap.
	You know, he's complaining about his kid not being in school.
	It's like they get an attitude now.
	They just moved into the hotel this week after camping at Seattle's Powell Barnett Park.
	The city put out a notice they'd have to clear out by today, and as we checked, they did.
	And as we reported on Monday, Seattle promised to fund about two months of their hotel rooms.
	Jose Mayo says the constant moving is stressful and impacts his and his three-year-old son's education.
	My son has been missing school for like about a month and a half because of the issues that we have moving from one place to the other and we do not want to move because we have established a beautiful community here.
	In response, a Seattle spokesperson clarifies the city is committed to providing all of this funding for 45 families through June 30th and that they empathize with the frustration and confusion.
	She adds that the exact details of that housing and shelter arrangement in terms of location may be adjusted.
	Imagine that!
	Hey, I don't want to move!
	My kids already missed too much school!
	Pay my bill!
	If we back up, you have to assume the only way you get an attitude like that is you've been invited.
	You've been invited, you've been promised, of course.
	Promises have been made to you, because you only get an attitude when somebody breaks a promise.
	So they promise them this, they promise them that, and who's doing the promising?
	It's that UN operation and our US government.
	Who do not care about us, about the citizens of America.
	But what about the homeless and the people that die, the hundred thousand, hundred thousand people that are dying of fentanyl poisoning?
	Well, I'll tell you, that's a hootenanny.
	There's so much money in that fentanyl smuggling, you know who's doing it.
	And by the way, the Border Patrol, who are so neutered, so neutered by the policy of our government, who clearly do not like the citizens of the country, They're so bored they're putting together tequila brands.
	These top Border Patrol officials, pictured at a tequila distillery in Mexico, are now part of an internal investigation into whether they violated ethics or security protocols.
	Current and former officials tell NBC News.
	These photos, which were posted on social media, shows Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens, Rio Grande Valley Sector Chief Gloria Chavez, and others, with Mexican tequila maker Francisco Javier Gonzalez.
	Sources with knowledge of the relationship between Gonzalez and the officials say he was working to create a Border Patrol tequila.
	To be unveiled at the Border Patrol Centennial Celebration.
	Internal investigators now asking whether the CBP leaders properly disclosed their contact with Gonzalez, a foreign national, and whether they accepted anything that would violate ethics rules, officials tell NBC News.
	It all comes during a tumultuous period for Border Patrol.
	And the last year and a half, two top officials left the agency after allegations surfaced of sexual misconduct.
	And a whistleblower report recently questioned why a top medical officer tried to order fentanyl lollipops to bring with him while providing security for the UN General Assembly.
	While Border Patrol tequila is now off the menu, the agency is still preparing for its 100th anniversary later this month.
	The celebration includes two golf tournaments, a parade, and a black tie gala, all sponsored by DHS contractors who get hundreds of millions in government contracts.
	Customs and Border Protection said its finance and ethics officers are conducting careful reviews around the centennial events.
	Well, well, well.
	How about that?
	Sounds like parties all the time.
	Yep.
	Fentanyl, popsicles, parties, black tie affairs, all paid for by contractors.
	This is so corrupt.
	I know.
	Where'd you get that clip?
	That's NBC.
	Wow.
	That's NBC.
	That, by the way, I think is courtesy of the Clip Custodian.
	It's one of the Jones Brothers Syndicate.
	Both of them have been active today.
	Yeah, I haven't heard from Steve for a while.
	He's been depressed after being cut off in a 3x3.
	He doesn't like you.
	He's like, John is just not my cup of tea.
	That seems unlikely.
	So, yeah, this is all very bad.
	It's all very bad.
	You know?
	This whole thing.
	I don't even know what to say anymore.
	Oh, because it's our government.
	Our government hates us.
	Well, here's a good example of this not happening.
	This is international.
	I have a Katie Hopkins rant.
	Oh, boy.
	Which is actually quite good.
	She's complaining about this Sadiq Khan guy got elected as the... Again?
	Again, the London mayor, and the guy's a creep.
	Isn't the majority of people in London, aren't they Muslim at this point?
	No, I don't believe they are, but the point that she makes is that really nobody voted in this election anyway.
	Nobody wants to give consent to anything.
	Katie Hopkins was a professional broadcaster who had a LBC show.
	She's kind of annoying.
	She got pretty annoying.
	She's always been annoying.
	She's always been annoying.
	But she got cancelled, and so now she's a TikToker.
	But she still has the professional chops.
	And, you know, she does have points.
	She has points to make.
	They're a little low over the top, but I think it's worth listening to her.
	There is a reason that only 40% of London turned out for the London Mayoral vote.
	And when BBC's Nick Robinson says, ooh, 1,500 votes between two candidates, this proves your vote matters.
	Absolute tosh.
	The reason people didn't turn out for the local elections isn't because they're not informed or because they couldn't be bothered.
	It's because they no longer want to give validity ...to the democratic process of voting because they cannot stand a single politician.
	We have politicians sending pictures of their nuts to someone and them being easily blackmailed.
	We have politicians making it illegal for me if I don't agree that Michael is now Michaela because he tucked his meat and two veg up into a pair of Spanx.
	We have politicians laundering taxpayers' cash through war or plandemics and putting it straight into the pockets of their mates.
	People no longer trust politicians of any sort and don't want to give validity to the democratic process because we don't want them to think they've got a mandate.
	Blimmin' Sadiq Khan has now 17% of London's votes.
	That's not a political mandate.
	And most importantly of all, we're supposed to be governed by consent.
	Well, people aren't just accepting that we're going to be governed by consent.
	People are no longer giving consent to be governed.
	And what comes next may not be pretty.
	So, historically speaking, when this happens, which of course has happened in historical times, what does happen?
	When people are just so sick and tired of it, they're like, they don't even feel like they're being governed by consent or that have any, that there's no mandate.
	What historically happens?
	Is this where revolution comes into play?
	The pitchforks come up?
	Usually not revolution.
	You usually just have a strong man figure come in and kind of clean house.
	House cleaning does take place every so often.
	Not necessarily via a revolution.
	I mean, when's the last revolution?
	That worldwide that has occurred.
	It was of any importance outside of a, you know, Ecuador or a phony revolution was just some some military junta takes or I guess I guess in the South.
	How about Haiti?
	Haiti is probably the only one.
	I think that's pretty cool.
	I think it's more of a civil war than a revolution.
	But yeah, yeah, Haiti is probably more real than anything.
	And that's always been a mess.
	It's not pretty.
	Hey, you know what?
	There's good news, though.
	And I'm not trying to usurp your good news clips, but I am seeing change in the United States of America, which I love.
	I love it how Americans are just like, you know what?
	We're sick and tired of this.
	No, no, no.
	We're just going to go back to what we think is right.
	Two schools in Virginia are getting new names.
	Actually, they're old names.
	The names of Confederate officers.
	The Shenandoah County School Board is the first in the nation to revert to names from before the racial reckoning of 2020.
	And as CBS's Nicole Killian reports, the community is fiercely divided over the move.
	In a 5-1 vote, the Shenandoah County Virginia School Board voted to restore the names of two schools to Confederate generals after a heated, hours-long meeting.
	Why are we here tonight?
	To go back to a time in history That was very cruel.
	Everyone is going to think that we're racist rednecks and that's not okay.
	The schools were initially stripped of their confederate names in 2020 after massive protests surrounding the death of George Floyd.
	Mountain View High School will be renamed for Confederate General Stonewall Jackson, while Honey Run Elementary School will bear the names of two Confederate generals, Robert E. Lee and Turner Ashby.
	Do you see this as a slap in the face to African Americans who live in this community?
	It is absolutely a slap in the face to African Americans and quite frankly the school board as it is currently comprised made a decision to go against the will of the people there.
	I respond by saying hopefully this can open up dialogue where people can sit down and civilly discuss issues such as this.
	Mike Sheeby said the renaming process four years ago was flawed.
	It was the process.
	It was not followed.
	And people were not given a voice in their own government, which are, I mean, that's the cornerstone of our of our republic.
	And that's the point.
	That's the point.
	Turn everything back.
	Then let's just go back to before we were all psyoped into the George Floyd mania.
	And then we can sit down and calmly decide if we want to change this or not.
	I think that's that's hopeful.
	I like that.
	And even more hopeful is this report.
	There is a noticeable shift in post-grad choices for many high schoolers this year.
	In fact, many are embracing alternative routes as opposed to traditional college paths.
	And there's a surge of young adults entering trades or immediately starting their careers after high school.
	A fact that could put college attendance numbers in 2024 lower than in 2020.
	Students looking at skilled trades is definitely, I guess I'm gonna say, making a comeback in terms of post high school options.
	It's making the outlook a little bit bleak for fall enrollment.
	Experts say this coming fall enrollment will tell them a lot about the current mindset of high school seniors.
	Yes!
	Right on!
	This is great news!
	We need people who can do stuff.
	Yeah, plumbers.
	Yes, plumbers, carpenters.
	They get good money.
	It's not like it's a bad idea.
	No, it's a fantastic idea.
	Yeah, trade school.
	Let's bring back apprenticeship.
	In fact, I am now offering apprenticeships for podcasters.
	If you're a young person who wants to become a professional podcaster, apprenticeship's available with me.
	You should be able to pick up a few kids.
	Yes, and get them to work for free.
	That's what apprenticeships are all about.
	That's the idea.
	Or chief.
	Yeah, do some stuff around the house, too, while you're at it.
	You pick up your dry cleaning, all the stuff that apprentices are supposed to do.
	So there, you know, if it's not enough that the, who was it?
	Let me see, where is this?
	I forget who did it.
	The FBI has now had to reluctantly admit that they staged some of the Trump-Mar-a-Lago crime scene photos.
	In fact, the cover sheets that read Top Secret, which you were all giddy about, you wanted some of those.
	I got them.
	And you got them.
	Well, you probably got them from the FBI because they planted them and positioned them in the photos.
	Yeah, the whole thing was a scam, and it turns out that Jack Smith had to admit to it, and now the case is going down the toilet.
	But, don't worry, we've got a new one.
	Former President Donald Trump may owe $100 million in back taxes for Trump Tower here in Chicago.
	That's according to the New York Times and ProPublica, which looked into IRS audits of the Trump family business.
	According to their report, the IRS says the former president used tax loopholes to write off his losses on the Chicago Tower twice.
	The first write-off was in 2008 before Trump Tower opened.
	Trump claimed the tower qualified for the tax code of worthless, meaning he would not see a profit.
	So, of course, no source for this, but we're gonna get him with the IRS now.
	People are relentless.
	It's really funny because a loophole is the purpose of a loophole is a loophole.
	It's the whole point!
	He used a loophole!
	Well that's what it's there for, hello?
	Everyone uses the old crappy building loophole.
	Oh my, I got another Trump thing here and a new jingle to introduce this particular clip.
	At the tone, a clip from the view will be played.
	Shelter in place.
	Can I say just one quick thing?
	Yeah.
	The one thing that was also interesting is that Madeline went over all of his important contacts, people that he called all the time because she had to get a list.
	This is Trump's speed dial.
	Tom Brady, Jeanine Pirro, Mika and Joe, Sean Hannity, Mark Burnett, Michael Cohen, Bill Belichick, David Pecker, and Allen Weisselberg, and Serena Williams.
	So what do you make of that list?
	Serena Williams was a regular call?
	Serena, it was striking to me.
	The people that... I mean, Michael Cohen doesn't fit in that list.
	Because he turned against him.
	Yes, but these were people that he was calling in 2017.
	In 2017, those were his most important contacts.
	I can't believe it.
	He was friends with, like, normal people!
	Unbelievable.
	And that was Sonny Hoskins, I guess.
	Yes.
	Of course!
	Of course.
	She's the worst, that woman.
	She is pretty bad.
	Well, no, you know who's really bad?
	Uh... James Carvel.
	Yeah, I haven't heard from him for a while.
	You have a James Carville clip?
	Oh, I have two James Carville clips.
	Okay, well we stopped the show for that.
	Well, it's worth it because he, I mean, he used to be relevant.
	Probably, I think his relevancy probably went away, what do you think, 10, 15 years ago?
	He was a big deal at the time.
	He was actually irrelevant when we started this show, which is almost 17 years ago.
	Seriously.
	Here we go.
	If they get a hold, there will be no government left.
	There'll be no rights left.
	You'll live under theocracy.
	You'll end up Christian nationalism.
	But that's all right, you little fucking 26-year-old.
	You don't feel like the election's important.
	I mean, they're not addressing the issues that I care about.
	He's yelling at 26-year-olds who will never even hear this.
	He's going off the rails.
	This is a minute long, but I think you can bear with it.
	Trump's more ahead than he's ever been.
	Fewer people think January 6th was any kind of what it was.
	It was an assault on the temple of democracy, the Constitution.
	I don't know what the fuck you want to say.
	It's going the wrong way.
	It's not working.
	Everything that we're throwing is spaghetti at a wall and none of it is sticking.
	Me included.
	And it's hard when you're starting your 80th year.
	And you know, like anybody else, I have an opinion of myself, and the opinion I've come to is, I don't matter!
	That's right!
	It doesn't matter!
	You can prepare, you can be on TV, you can write pieces, you can have a YouTube channel, you can have a podcast.
	Podcast?
	Nothing!
	Nothing!
	You know, we gotta, like, try to think of something different.
	Because what we're doing is really, really not working.
	What is he talking about?
	About himself.
	That no one cares about him.
	And in the brilliant words of Valerie Gale Clark, my mother, no longer with us, but I know she's up there smiling at me, she would say, oh, dry up and blow away.
	That's what Carville needs to do.
	Dry up and blow away.
	Well, he needs to have something better, a better president.
	You know, ever since that movie came out, The Color or whatever it was, it was this movie, it was about the Clinton election for the first president election.
	It brought out the fact that Carville is apparently a flasher.
	A flasher?
	You know, a guy who shows himself to just random flasher.
	Yeah, a flasher.
	You know what a flasher is?
	I kind of remember this.
	It was in the movie.
	And everyone was like, oh, there he is again.
	The flasher.
	Oh, God.
	When is this guy going to give it up?
	And I think it hurt his career.
	You think?
	Let me see.
	Did we have... I don't know if we... Flasher.
	I kind of remember that.
	What a creepy guy, then.
	That's no good.
	That's very creepy.
	Okay, I think this is rather important, as tomorrow we've got a... Well, first of all, let's... Yeah, let me start with this.
	Tomorrow, big announcement happening.
	Big, big announcement.
	Now this Monday, OpenAI is set to announce plans for a search engine powered by artificial intelligence.
	That's according to Reuters News Agency.
	It's the latest challenge to search...
	Hi Alison, good question.
	And that announcement would come a day before Google's annual developer conference.
	Well, for more, I'm joined by our technology editor.
	Hi, Alison.
	Good question.
	I think if you ask Google CEO Sundar Pichai, he would not say he's nervous.
	He'd say he was not sweating.
	And certainly he'd say he's not dancing to anyone's tune.
	In fact, that's exactly what he told Bloomberg this week in an interview with Emily Chang.
	That was a jibe at Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who in February last year said the release of their new Bing chat with artificial intelligence would make Google dance.
	Make Google dance!
	That's my opinion.
	I think it's interesting.
	I think Google, you know, Big companies do mess up and do go away.
	This does happen from time to time.
	It happens all the time.
	That's kind of the way it is.
	Google is vulnerable.
	And if anything, I think perplexity has a shot at I don't know what Microsoft is, because of course, you know, OpenAI, whatever they're gonna do, it's gonna, it's, isn't OpenAI basically owned by Microsoft at this point?
	Well, I'm of the opinion that we have the... By the way, this is a tech segment, and this is probably the best technology segment you'll get anywhere.
	Nowadays.
	Of the opinion, we're dealing with the idea of when you're in a motorcycle, you don't look at the rock.
	Yeah.
	Good point.
	You look at where you're going not what you don't want to hit because you'll hit it.
	So you're telling me that Google's looking at the rock?
	Yeah, if you're in a motorcycle or any even a car and you see something you don't want to look at it because you'll you'll veer toward it and hit it.
	This is a well-known thing you do.
	But I believe this is a metaphor for or even a it's just an example and that analogous to a lot of other things in the business world and Google because I remember this from the early days of Silicon Spin when Sergei used to be on the show a lot.
	Google is well aware of what happened to AltaVista.
	Yep.
	And this was the era when Yahoo was still the number one search engine.
	Google didn't really take off as the owner.
	And didn't Yahoo buy their search from, was it Excite?
	Did they buy Excite?
	Oh, they bought it from everybody.
	They bought a slew of different companies and they just got worse and worse.
	Because Yahoo could never implement anything properly.
	It was a terrible company.
	But Google was always aware of what happened to Alta Vista.
	In other words, Google's looking at the rock.
	Yeah.
	That's a great analogy.
	It's a great one, great one.
	Yeah, you are the great one.
	But he is looking at, or they're looking at the rock, and so that's bad.
	I mean, this is from the beginning, so they've always been looking at the rock.
	It's two Indian guys duking it out.
	Just as a little observation.
	Well, that makes it funnier.
	Can you imagine?
	I like the other Indian guy, I forget his name, but Perplexity.ai.
	Have you seen Perplexity?
	No, I'm not familiar with it.
	I think it's a crappy name, because they keep forgetting what it is.
	But Perplexity.ai, that's actually an interesting search engine.
	Oh, okay, I'll check it out.
	It uses AI and says... I will be using it this week.
	It says, ask questions, trust the answers!
	And I've asked it several things, I'm like, well, I'll never know.
	Oh, how about this?
	Why don't we use the John C. Dvorak test, and that is, what is the best weed whacker?
	Am I correct?
	Is that not the question?
	That's the test!
	Okay, what is the best weed whacker?
	It comes back and says...
	Based on the search results, ooh, I like that, the best weed whacker, also known as a string trimmer or weed eater, depends on your specific needs and preferences.
	Here's some top recommendations.
	Then, uh, let's see, the Echo DSRM 2100 is highly rated.
	For a battery-powered option, the Makita, the DeWalt DCST972X1, another excellent cordless trimmer, and it has, uh, you know, I'm liking what they do.
	It has all of their...
	It has all of their sources listed.
	By the way, I was talking to Willow.
	You know, Willow, she has her master's in, her whole thesis was in online psychology and she works for a search recommendation engine company, something like that.
	And so she does a lot of, she's building large language models for clients.
	And she says that, you know, it's like, it's basically a chatbot that never comes up with a... I got no answer because it's always going to recommend a product.
	And I said, you know, we'll see.
	I think this is going to all end up in quantum computing.
	She said, oh, we almost missed the boat.
	It's already there.
	She said, clients are all jacked about quantum computing.
	They all want it.
	And they say that Google actually has a phenomenal search based on their quantum computer, but it's not affordable.
	No one can afford it.
	How does that work?
	I don't know.
	Because it's vaporware as far as I'm concerned.
	I think the whole thing is bullcrap.
	I bet you that Google is just doing demos that look really impressive.
	I'm with you.
	I don't think it's real at all.
	Yeah, and gee, Silicon Valley and doing fake demos to show up right, that's not a new idea.
	Final question I have for you, I have my own opinion.
	Your opinion, this is kind of the white man's Drake versus Kendrick Lamar.
	What did you think of the Apple ad, the crush Apple ad for the new iPad?
	Oh, the crush Apple ad?
	I haven't seen it.
	There you go.
	Have you heard about it, though?
	Yeah, I've heard about it.
	So, here was my thought.
	Apple ads were great.
	They started with the 1984 introducing the Mac.
	Years ago when they were using Chiat Day.
	Chiat Day, that's right.
	Jay Chiat himself was involved.
	Jay Chiat, who I had drinks with him once.
	Yeah, I think I spent a drink or two with Chiat.
	He's a great guy.
	And by the way, he's also a great He's got this attitude about don't complain about stuff.
	I was talking to him about ad buying and how it's been ruined by these dummies that come out of college and all of a sudden they're hired as the ad buyer.
	They never read the magazine, never do anything.
	He says, you know, this is just the kind of complaints you hear from sales guys.
	They just complain.
	Forget it.
	Do your work.
	So, my thinking is that Apple is now a destructive company.
	And let me just explain.
	And I think that this shows you what is happening inside Apple.
	Steve Jobs, now he was gone for a period there, but you know, for the past, you know, before he passed away, it was very creative.
	It was always positive.
	It was about creation.
	He himself was messianic in a way.
	It was, we create Totally.
	We're for the crazy ones.
	We're for the oddballs.
	We create.
	We're creators.
	We make beautiful things.
	And now the company has turned into demonic, evil, crushing people.
	Here we go.
	These things do not pass by management unobserved or unapproved.
	When you, in your heart, in your soul, you're like, yeah, let's crush all that stuff.
	Let's show destruction.
	That's who they've become.
	And I think that I, I sure.
	So you think this is just all symbolism?
	This is, this is who they are now.
	They are about negativity.
	This is just crushing symbol.
	They can't keep it to themselves.
	They can't because they are.
	No, because nobody can.
	You can't keep it to yourself.
	No, they are all about crushing and breaking things down, and they are no longer positive.
	There's no longer an aspirational, positive company.
	This is coming from deep inside its DNA.
	I'm looking at you, Tim Collins!
	Wow, that's an interesting thesis.
	I'm gonna show my school by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on No Agenda!
	Well there you have it.
	There you have it.
	We do have a few people to thank for show 1659.
	That's right.
	Next show is 1660.
	A lot of opportunities there.
	Christopher Mangan starts us off with the donation segment.
	Second half of the show, which we're now back to, if you haven't noticed.
	That's right, that's right.
	It feels good, doesn't it?
	Doesn't it feel good?
	It's, you know, I like changing things now and again.
	I never minded everything being at the end because, you know, but I think this is better.
	Because it breaks up things.
	This show is tedious, let's face it.
	Christopher.
	Let's face it.
	It's just tedious.
	That's a bumper sticker.
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	It's so dense with it.
	Sometimes we're so dense with information that people can't even listen.
	They just need to smoke a cigarette after the show.
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	That's about right.
	Okay, well Christopher Mangan's not smoking a cigarette.
	He's in New York City where I think it's banned.
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	Oh.
	Whatever that means.
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	Wait, the Douglas Murray?
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	Isn't Douglas Murray that British guy who's intellectual?
	Or is that a different... I don't know.
	But we don't have a city here for him so I have no idea who he might be.
	I must be wrong.
	But he has a Dame donation with love to all past, present, and future mothers.
	Moms.
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	Dennis Schott in Zweifenhausen.
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	I'm gonna read this because he says he just did a donation of 200 old-fashioned Dutch guilders.
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	And we'll be enjoying John's pronunciation of my hometown, which is?
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	Yes.
	Mother's Day call-outs are going to be mentioned on today's show.
	And that was one of them.
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	Boobs, every show.
	That's right.
	Sir Smitty in Noblesville, Indiana, 75.
	Got a birthday call for his smoking hot wife Mandy.
	Urine van Herringen.
	Urine van Herringen.
	In Foothill Ranch, California.
	He's probably called Jerry.
	Hey, Jerry!
	This is his annual cappuccino abstaining donation.
	He's given up a cappuccino to give it to us.
	What kind of cappuccino costs $63.25?
	It's a good one.
	It's probably from Gigawatt.
	Their stuff is well-priced.
	That's right.
	Lady Vox in Ketchikan, Alaska.
	Sixty-one.
	I have another birthday call-out.
	The prettiest cowboy in the universe.
	James Friedrich in McFarland, Wisconsin.
	Fifty-eight-oh-nine.
	He does have a message, I have to say.
	Let's donate, dirtbags!
	That's what he says.
	Cervant, Cervant5403.
	And we got a birthday, a Mother's Day call to Earlene Burdette.
	Love you, Mom.
	Sir Stuart 5403.
	These 5403s are all part of the fabulous promotion.
	Hey, there's more people loving their moms this year than last year, I think.
	Yeah, it wasn't like COVID though.
	No.
	Sir Stuart 5403.
	To our mother Jill, 90 and still going strong.
	All our love and best wishes for many years to come.
	How about that?
	William Alston, Happy Mother's Day, Mom, 5403.
	Have fun whale watching.
	Aaron Hagstrom, 5403.
	HM, Happy Mother's Day to my mom, Myrna.
	Love the jingles for jobs.
	We'll give you a jobs card at the end.
	I love to help people.
	This is interesting.
	I'll put it out there.
	I love to help people buy precious metals and earn an income while doing so.
	Just email.
	LadyLiberty at countermail.com.
	Okay.
	Rita Harrington who is 5403 and she did send a note in which I got an email late which said happy Mother's Day to all mothers.
	Yeah.
	That was nice.
	John Catalano, 5124.
	No note.
	John M Adams, 5124.
	Merrily Adams of Bon Secours.
	Happy best birthing person.
	Okay.
	Dude named Ralph in Miami, Florida.
	Happy Mother's Day to my mom, Mercedes.
	And to all No Agenda Show moms.
	Sir Economic Hitman in Tombow, uh, Tombow, T.C.
	I have no idea where, but that supposed to be a state of some sort?
	I have no idea.
	Oh, T.C.
	That's funny.
	I think it's, it's, it's probably Tombow, isn't that North Carolina?
	Tombow?
	I think it's Texas.
	Tombow, Texas.
	Oh, yeah, that one.
	The C is right next to the X. So yes, Tombow, Texas.
	There you go.
	50-01.
	Since it's a check, it seems that somebody might have mistyped it.
	Michelle, now the rest are $50.
	Let's just run through them.
	Michelle Petty, Stephen in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
	Stephen Shumake in Xenia, Ohio.
	Corey Cunningham in Warrington, Virginia.
	Andrew Grasso in Mineola, New York, 2020.
	Tom Del Vecchio in Blandon, Pennsylvania.
	John Spade in Edmond, Oklahoma.
	Mike Moon in Athens, Georgia.
	Gary Mao in Woodland Hills, California.
	Stephen Ng in Box Elder, South Dakota.
	Dragonslayer in St.
	George and Baroness Knight.
	Formerly Dame Night in Edmonds, Washington.
	That is our group of producers for show 1659.
	Yes, and I would like to say Happy Mother's Day to our moms both in heaven and of course to Tina and to Mimi for being fantastic mothers.
	And to all the mothers out there who may be moms of fur babies, that counts.
	It counts too.
	This way you go.
	That's right, John.
	That's good.
	That's right.
	Right, right, right, right.
	Thank you all very much for supporting us.
	Again, a reminder that we love all of those sustaining donations.
	We love anybody who is helping us out in any fashion whatsoever.
	That's how Value for Value works.
	All you have to do is just put whatever value it equates, the show equates to you, put it, just send it to us.
	Five dollars could be an enormous amount for you.
	That's good.
	We love you for that.
	And here are the, here's the karmas that were asked.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You've got Carmen.
	And we'll throw in one more service goat, just to make sure.
	You've got Carmen.
	Thank you all very much.
	And remember, know what you're in the donations dot com.
	And here is our list.
	Sir Kevin Dills turned 38.
	Oh, he turns 38 today.
	Happy birthday, Sir Kevin Dills.
	Sir Smitty wishes his smoking hot wife, Mandy Smith, a happy birthday.
	She celebrates tomorrow.
	Stacy wishes Sir Comforts, a.k.a.
	John Jensen, a very happy one, turning 57 on the 17th.
	Lady Vox says happy birthday to the prettiest cowboy in the universe, Sir Keeper of Vox.
	He'll be turning 61.
	And we say a big happy birthday to Grace Jones.
	Not that one, but the one who is the wife of the clip custodian, Neil Jones.
	She celebrates on Wednesday.
	Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe!
	And he'd probably say happy Mother's Day to Grace as well.
	And now let's check out the No Agenda Meetup scene.
	No Agenda Meetups.
	Now, before we move any further, let me see.
	Oh, this is a report, a meetup report from Leiden, the Netherlands.
	A lot of people showed up there.
	Baron Rob welcoming 43 people at the meet-up in Leiden.
	Brandon from The Hague.
	Let's go.
	I'm Nick with the smart people of Leiden.
	Oh, hey Adam and John.
	Yeah, only the smart people are here.
	What?
	In the morning, Adam and John.
	My first meet-up.
	Thank you for all you do and greetings from the old country.
	Hi Adam and John, my first meet-up too.
	My name is Irma, I'm from Aalsmeer.
	Thank you for all you're doing, I love you.
	We love you!
	Hi, this is Arno, enjoying the meet-up and the city of Leiden.
	Hello, my name is Anita, I'm enjoying the meet-up my first time and in the morning!
	This is Roland again, connection is protection.
	In the morning, this is Freya.
	This is Hans van der Valk enjoying local beer and good company in the morning.
	Sebastian enjoying small amygdala's.
	All right, there you go.
	And then I remember the Blaine Washington meetup.
	They sent me 15 separate clips and I'm like, no, no, no, it can't be four minutes.
	And they did the right thing.
	They went back, chopped it down, came up with a minute of a no agenda meetup report.
	In the morning, John and Adam, this is Alan at the Vault Bistro and Wine Bar doing our fourth corner meetup report where I can still see socialism from my deck and no one bullrushes the border because we're all armed and we're all congenial.
	Hi, I'm Chester reporting from Blaine at the meetup.
	I'm still a douchebag, I promise I'll make amends.
	In the morning, this is Mark here from the Blaine meetup.
	Thank you for your courage.
	In the morning from FEMA region number 10, this is Jason.
	So stoked to find some other No Agenda listeners.
	And I got to cut loose from church even though I work at a church in order to be at this meetup.
	Love you guys.
	In the morning, thank you for having me, and what I really want to know is, Adam, what are you drinking?
	Get back to work!
	Get back to work, you monkey!
	Did I say you can stop working?
	No!
	Thank you, and that was our human resource.
	So at our meetup today, I'm meeting people I've never met before in my life.
	My name is Chester, and we've had great conversation, and I feel like we've all been friends right from the beginning.
	And it is true, you know, we're all like-minded individuals that are seeking a little bit of sanity through your media deconstruction and finding new friendships and camaraderie.
	From Freedom Region 10, in the morning.
	In the morning!
	Now that's my point exactly.
	Get off social media.
	Stop wasting your time on TikTok.
	Go to a meetup.
	Go hang out with some people in real life.
	That will enrich you.
	And you know what?
	You might even start something.
	You might start something locally where you actually make a difference in your community.
	I'm just saying.
	But that won't be happening tonight in Indianapolis because the Indy meetup has been moved to next Sunday, the 19th.
	So if you are planning on going, as usual, a lot of people go there.
	Marco Maria always taking good care of everybody.
	It has been moved.
	Attention, attention.
	It has been moved until next Sunday.
	On Thursday, May 16th, the Charleston Thirsty Third Thursday kicks off at 6 o'clock at the Royal American.
	That's in Charleston, South Carolina.
	And on the same day, Charlotte's Thirsty Third Thursday monthly meetup So there's two similar, but that's 7 o'clock at Ed's Tavern in Charlotte, North Carolina.
	And we've got quite a list going on for the month of May and all the way into June.
	And June 15th I'll be at the Amsterdam meetup.
	It's going to be a pretty big meetup.
	They're expecting about 100 people.
	They could take 150.
	So go to noagendameetups.com to check out all the details there or to find any meetup that might be near you.
	If you can't find one, oh please, start one yourself.
	It's easy and connection is protection.
	at noagendameetup.com.
	Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.
	You want to be where you want me.
	Drink it all, hell, flame.
	You want to be where everybody feels the same.
	It's like a party.
	Oh, I only have one ISO, and I don't know if you're going to like it or not.
	Play it.
	Have you the brain worms?
	What did he say?
	Have you the brain worms?
	Oh.
	Yeah, I knew, I knew you wouldn't like it.
	I knew it.
	No, I got three.
	I knew I was a loser.
	Alright, what you got?
	Hopefully they're good.
	Let's start with excited.
	I'm excited.
	Sounds very excited.
	Mm-hmm.
	I'm excited.
	I'm excited.
	It's over.
	Oh, yeah.
	Oops.
	It's over.
	I might say that again.
	It's over.
	All right, and then we have the final one.
	It's you.
	Is that me?
	Yeah.
	Really?
	It's over.
	It's over.
	Well, that's a great ISO, obviously.
	Yo.
	Okay, here's the last one, which is the one I prefer, which is Oh Yeah.
	Oh Yeah.
	Yeah, that's a good one.
	I like it.
	I like it.
	You've sold me.
	No problem.
	It's good that we'll use that one.
	That's what we're going to go with.
	Good news, everybody.
	All right, let's find out what we can leave you with for the rest of your Sunday.
	What is our good news story of the day?
	We're going to go with a nine-year-old kid who is a parent.
	They're in a tornado situation and the car got hit by a tree and the kid had to escape the car to go get help.
	And here we go.
	So imagine being nine years old, your family truck crashes, and you see that your parents are trapped inside and they're injured.
	It would have been understandable to be frozen in fear, especially because they were in the middle of a tornado.
	Instead, though, this little boy acted quickly, and he saved their lives.
	I was really, really scared.
	This morning, nine-year-old Branson Baker dubbed a hero after helping save his parents' lives when they were caught in an EF4 tornado.
	The storm tearing through Oklahoma, April 27th.
	Branson and his parents, Wayne and Lindy Baker, racing for safety, driving to their friend's storm shelter.
	We could pretty much see this tornado within about a mile, two miles away from us.
	But as we turned, the tornado turned itself.
	The tornado uprooting a tree, hitting the Baker's truck full force, trapping Wayne and Lindy, but Branson able to escape, running over a mile to get help.
	As soon as I went to go get help, I said, don't die.
	Branson sprung into action really quick.
	He's a very courageous son.
	For a nine-year-old boy, Not many adults would have done what he did.
	Wayne now recovering from back, neck, and arm injuries.
	His wife, Lindy, still in the hospital.
	But it's Lil' Branson's heroic acts in the spotlight doing everything for his mom and dad.
	He couldn't be more proud to be a father.
	Agree, what a brave little boy.
	Awww.
	That is a good new- You know what we used to call that kid?
	You know what we'd call that kid back in the day?
	What?
	A good doobie.
	A good doobie?
	Don't you remember Romper Room?
	No.
	Oh, man.
	I never saw Romper Room.
	I wasn't a Romper Room kid.
	I don't know.
	And they'd call you out like, hello to all the Adams out there.
	Yeah, Romper Room.
	And if you did something heroic, you would get called out as a good doobie.
	A doobie!
	I know, later I'm like, yeah, I'm a good doobie, alright?
	They were right all along.
	Probably part of the brainwashing.
	Probably.
	Ah, that is it for your Mother's Day.
	Happy Mother's Day!
	What a wonderful, the unsung heroes of our lives.
	Go hug your mom, or call her, if you can, if she's around.
	It's lovely.
	Love moms.
	Moms are great.
	Coming up next on the No Agenda stream in the Your Modern Podcast app, or if you're at trollroom.io, just keep on the stream.
	We've got Mere Mortals.
	It's the Mere Mortals book review, where Kyron Down from Australia will be reviewing The Useful, A Be Useful.
	It's a book by Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Kyron's good at this kind of stuff, so take a look at that.
	Also, end of show mixes, we've got... Oh!
	Clip custodian Neil Jones had some extra time to bring you an end of show mix along with Professor Jay Jones, who was just knocking it out of the park.
	Every single show.
	And we could use some more of these end-of-show mixes, you lazy bums.
	Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country, right here in Fredericksburg, Texas, FEMA Region No.
	6.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from Northern Silicon Valley, I'm John C. DeVore.
	Remember us at noagendathedonations.com.
	Until Thursday, everybody, adios, mofos, hui hui, and such!
	And remember that we just had this bird flu scare, which is not over.
	But oh, it wasn't in the ground beef.
	The USDA says the negative results tonight confirm the meat supply is safe.
	Thank God.
	It might be in the milk, but it's in the ground beef.
	This morning, the FDA insists the nation's milk supply is safe.
	But when people, you know, people listen very poorly to the news and they hear breaking, breaking, breaking, ground beef.
	What about bird flu?
	It's never the first known case of a human getting bird flu from a mammal in the U.S.
	I guarantee you that people are like, well, maybe you should just have some chicken tonight.
	You cannot get this strain of bird flu from eating poultry.
	Yeah, well, unless I'm sure I want to have some grizzlies.
	You're on chicken!
	Bird flu has halted production at the nation's largest producer of fresh eggs.
	I heard something about ground beef.
	I don't like it.
	And they're all jumping in on it.
	Meantime, there are reports a bottlenose dolphin in Florida has died from bird flu.
	Possibly the first dolphin in the U.S.
	to die of the virus.
	I would have to say if it wasn't planned, man, they really picked up quick because the fake meat people are back.
	They're not going to give up.
	They're all in!
	So we have the ability to grow meat much more efficiently than the conventional way, and that's going to be really important.
	I mean, the protein requirements of the planet are going to double between now and 2050.
	So adding another tool to be able to sustainably make protein is going to be really important.
	Thank you, science!
	Thank you, science.
	We have science.
	I know you love science.
	Silent free these people!
	It's alive!
	It's alive!
	Thank you.
	Do you have no memoir?
	There's no movie.
	How about R.F.K.
	Jr.
	saying it every single time?
	Ask the question, Tucker.
	Do you believe the CIA had any role in Kennedy's assassination?
	No, I don't think so.
	There's your message.
	So it's a point of disinformation, it seems.
	We'll launch the brain worm story.
	It should have been a clue right there.
	Start with the brain worm.
	Doctors found an abnormality.
	A worm.
	That got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died.
	Experiencing severe memory loss and mental fogginess.
	It should have been a clue right there.
	But there's no mention about Joe Biden having the top of his skull taken off.
	He lies about everything.
	This may not be true.
	I have two cranial aneurysms.
	There's your message.
	It's just an absolute true story.
	I said no.
	Lie.
	There's no memoir.
	There's no movie.
	So this guy's like a walking nightmare.
	Some more bad news.
	They didn't have enough on Kennedy with brain worm.
	Kennedy also says he was diagnosed with mercury poisoning at one point.
	And what kind of impact did that have?
	The cognitive issues, memory issues.
	So this guy's like a walking nightmare.
	Let's go back to the worms!
	Ah, I love it!
	Let's just show you the inside of RFK Jr.' 's brain.
	So this guy's like a walking nightmare.
	Predatory fish?
	He ate predatory fish?

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