No Agenda Episode 1670 - "The Meloni"
"The Meloni"
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This is your award-winning Kimmel Nation Media Assassination Episode 1670.
This is no agenda.
Fake and cheap and broadcasting live from 11 feet below sea level in Schiphol, Amsterdam, in the lowlands, in the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Currie.
And from Northern Silicon Valley, where you miss the federal holiday.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
We had a holiday?
What holiday?
Is it a holiday today?
No.
When's the holiday?
Yesterday was a holiday, a federal holiday.
What?
Oh, June?
Oh, Juneteenth, of course.
How could I miss it?
In fact, I would like to start the show with some gaslighting clips.
Some, okay.
Now, by the way, did you know, because I, I mean, I think you had part of it or all of it in the newsletter.
I don't really remember because I couldn't, when you sent it to me, there's no way I could, I could get to looking at it.
Um, originally, Juneteenth was celebrated on January 1st.
Did you know that?
No.
Yeah.
Why would it be called June 10th?
That makes it even worse.
What's the date?
January 1st.
That makes sense.
Obviously, I'm gaffing it a little bit, but black Americans used to celebrate January 1st because 1863 is when slavery ended.
That's when the Emancipation Proclamation was signed by President Abraham Lincoln.
And then, of course, this Texas thing in Galveston, you know, two years later.
It makes no sense, because black Americans used to celebrate on January 1st.
Well, I think that's what would lead right into the Juneteenth clip that you'll like.
Okay.
The Juneteenth BS clip?
Is that it by any chance?
When I hear woke people explain Juneteenth, it makes me wish that Rosa Parks personally forced y'all to sit in the front of a school bus and go to history class.
Now walk with me.
Walk with me!
Somehow the left has convinced you that Juneteenth was the abolition of slavery and when a black revolution arose, but what it really proved is that some people remain enslaved mentally and that's all it takes to keep you on the plantation.
If you know the actual history, Democrats kept black people enslaved for two and a half years after slavery was abolished until white, mostly right-wing men came on June 19, 1865 and said, y'all have been free since 1863.
Get off the plantation and go get a job.
I wish we could celebrate what Juneteenth actually is, but instead we continue to let the left repackage segregation and sell it back to us.
There is no such thing as a Black Independence Day, but if that's what you want to call Juneteenth, then I don't want to see y'all twerking on a boat on July 4th.
Well, there you go.
That's such a better way to explain it.
I hadn't even thought of it that way.
Democrats kept it quiet.
Yeah, of course.
I like that!
That was gaslighting, which I discuss in the newsletter.
I had a gaslighting promotion, which nobody bought into, so we had a very lousy showing for the donations.
But it brings me to Jean-Pierre Van Damme.
Oh baby, I love this clip.
I love this whole topic.
Well, here we go.
The first one is Jean-Pierre Deepfakes.
This is her at the press conference.
Oh, I thought you were going to start with the... OK.
I thought you were going to start with the supercut.
Here we go.
There seems to be a sort of rash of videos that have been edited to make the president appear especially frail or mentally confused.
I'm wondering if the White House is especially worried about the fact that this appears to be a pattern that we're seeing more often.
Yeah, and I think you all have called this the cheap fakes video, and that's exactly what they are.
They are cheap fakes video.
I love this part, John, because this is the memo they sent out earlier, obviously.
They are done in bad faith, and some of your news organization have been very clear, have stressed that these right-wing critics of the president have a credibility problem.
Because of the fact checkers have repeatedly caught them pushing misinformation, disinformation.
And so we see this, and this is something coming from your part of the world, calling them cheap fakes and misinformation.
And I'll quote the Washington Post, where they wrote about this, and they said, how Republicans use misleading videos to attack Biden in a 24-hour period.
And to their credit, we have a conservative Washington examiner did call them out as well, calling out the New York Post.
Ironically, several recent sheet fakes actually attacked the president for thanking troops, for thanking troops.
That is what they're attacking the president for, both in Normandy, this happened, and again in Italy.
And I think that it tells you everything that we need to know about how desperate Republicans are here.
and in I love it.
Instead of talking about the president's performance in office, and what I mean by that is his legislative wins, what he's been able to do for the American people across the country, we're seeing these deep fakes, these manipulated videos.
And it is, again, done in bad faith.
Fact check, false.
I love this.
I love it.
I love that you got the longer version of it because what was trending online was like 47 seconds or so.
It wasn't really... No, no.
She goes on and on and on.
I have the other... We can play that later.
I have the... There were three other questions that were asked that no one has really played.
We can play that in a minute.
Well, we can play this.
I'll finish this with a couple more here.
Please, please.
First of all, after she did this, she went on Nicole Wallace, which is the clip J-O.
It should be J-P, but J-O, which is kind of what she was doing.
Nicole Wallace, and she doubles down with the same, and I like the way she pushes the idea that the whole deep fake terminology was not her idea.
Oh no!
It was the media.
I think there is so much misinformation, disinformation, as we've been talking about.
You talked about the video of the President wandering, and it's not true, right?
The President wasn't wandering.
No, he didn't wander!
Uh, a parachuter that was right in front of him.
And what you saw is, uh, the Republican Party really manipulating what was being said and what was being seen by the American people.
It's also very insulting to the folks who, the viewers who are watching it.
And so we believe we have to call that out.
We've been calling it cheap fakes.
That is something that came from, directly from, uh, the media outlets and calling it that.
The fact checkers and calling it that.
Yeah, I love that.
The media, we didn't come up with it, it was the media.
The fact checkers came up with it.
Fact checkers, whose job is to check facts, came up with the whole term.
And so that last clip, which is the supercut, and then you can play that other one, is just, the word went out, and so this is all clips from MSNBC and CNN of various stooges, including people that I thought were off the air like Stelter.
What's still going on and on, making it up as they go along, as if Joe Biden wasn't staggering around.
Cheap fakes.
Videos of real events that are intentionally manipulated.
Karine Jean-Pierre and others are calling these cheap fakes.
But what it is, is truly deceitful behavior.
What the White House is calling cheap fakes?
We were hearing about so-called cheap fakes.
It's playing out on right-wing media.
These videos, I mean, they're blatant lies.
These are cheap fakes, was the White House and Biden people called them?
Cheap fakes are a little bit simpler.
They're cheap.
They're just distorted, out-of-context videos, chopped up in certain ways, constructed in certain ways.
That's what we're seeing.
We've seen all of the cheap fakes of Joe Biden suggesting that he's out of it.
So yeah, I did hear Stelter.
What's he even doing there?
Did he call in as a guest?
He was on the table as a guest, yeah.
On the table as a guest.
He was on the table.
Well, I gotta hand it to whoever came up with this because they knew that they couldn't use deepfake because obviously it's not AI, but they want to allude to that, allude to the deepfake, and then they throw in the cheapfake.
I think it was a good term.
Of course, they passed out the memo to their, as you pointed out, their stooges.
And they also, they kind of took our win away from us if we go back to January 28th of this year.
No Agenda Episode 1629.
What were we talking about then?
I think when it comes to AI, we had an event take place.
Something is on the horizon.
I have said that this AI stuff The way it's going to be used is something's going to come out and we need to flood the market with thinking like, oh, that's just AI.
Yeah, no, that's not real.
That's just AI.
And this is part of the SWIFT op.
Now, a disturbing trend on social media struck one of the world's biggest stars this week when explicit AI generated images of Taylor Swift began to circulate on X.
Elon Musk is great at making money from the government, so I wouldn't put it past him.
Somehow he's involved in this op.
This is nothing new.
This is nothing new at all.
No, but what I think is happening, and I have a piece of Jean-Claude Van Damme Pierre with the quote, There were fake, sexually explicit images of Taylor Swift all over social media this week, like generated by AI.
How concerned is the White House about the misuse of this kind of technology?
And does the White House want to see Congress move forward on legislation that would make sharing, posting images like that a federal crime?
I'm glad you asked that question because it is a lot.
No.
First of all, all these questions are approved before the press conference.
So for Jean-Pierre Van Damme to say, I'm glad you asked that question, this was a set-up question.
We are alarmed by the reports of the circulation of images that you just laid out, false images to be more exact, and it is alarming.
So while social media companies make their own independent decisions about content management, we believe they have an important role to play in enforcing their own rules to prevent the spread of misinformation.
We don't get the full two points, and then we get one point.
One point for the setup.
It just wasn't.
Yeah.
It just wasn't a defense.
It was close enough.
You know, close enough.
And there we go.
You know, now that deep fakes are firmly embedded in everybody's mind, they use a different term, the cheap fake.
Although we all saw, we all saw what really happened.
Before I get to that.
Yeah, and they show, and there's extended version of those clips, all unedited.
There's no edits at all.
Biden roaming around staggering.
Don't believe your lying eyes is what they're saying.
You're not seeing that.
No, no, no, no.
You're seeing something wrong.
That's just your bias.
CBS also jumped in.
I mean, I do have a couple of short ones here from CBS.
It wasn't just the cable companies.
You've probably heard of deepfakes, but just last week as President Biden was at the G7 Summit in Italy, cheap fake clips went viral on social media and were picked up by some news outlets.
Don't you think that this new term, they just roll it out like everybody knows what it is?
It's unbelievable.
That CBS clip eluded me.
But that's more ridiculous than the MSNBC CNN clips because they say it as a matter of fact.
Take a look at this clip for example.
It shows Biden and other world leaders watching a skydiving demonstration before the president is seen walking away and looking in another direction.
Walking away.
outlets claimed that he was sort of just aimlessly wandering away.
The clip amassed millions of views within just a few hours, when actually, if you widen out, you can see that he was talking to one of the members of the military that was participating in that demonstration.
The wrong guy.
How prevalent are cheap fakes?
And how big of a problem will they be in this election?
Prevalent!
Let's take a look with executive editor of CBS News Confirmed, Rona Tarrant, who joins us now from Studio 57 to explain.
Hi Rona, it's great to see you.
So, hi.
So, they're bringing the executive editor, John.
This is not just some slouch, this is not some pundit.
Oh, they're freaked out.
This makes it obvious that they're freaked out about this and they're bringing in the big guns and they're doing everything they can do.
Gaslight, which is the theme here, gaslight the public and use this term cheap.
There's no fakery involved.
He turned around and started wandering off.
What's the fake part?
Well, first of all, let's go to this term.
I mean, this is cheap fakes.
You and I, we're dummies.
It's been around, man.
Tell us how long cheap fakes have been around.
I'm assuming they've been around since the beginning of the media because, you know, anybody...
Yeah, pretty much every night on the news, lady.
Can take an image and manipulate it to make it look like it suggests something that didn't happen.
That's exactly it.
It really is a case of old techniques.
Oh no, listen to that.
Another Brit running our news.
Go figure.
Needs new technology.
So, as you said, cheap fake videos and that's videos that are edited in a really simple way.
Those have been around as long as political videos have existed.
So there's a few ways, for example, that people might be familiar with.
One is there might be a long video and you might take a very short clip and you take out key context.
True.
Another is maybe you slow something down and it makes it sound like someone is slurring their words.
That was when Pelosi was actually drunk, but you know, it was slowed down, okay.
Or another is you might splice several pieces together and it makes it sound like someone said something that they didn't.
This is literally describing every Joe Biden video that's out there.
It's literally describing what CBS News has been doing for years.
What's different in this election and the last two elections in the presidential elections is, number one, everyone has access to mobile phones where they can edit, and number two, most people have social media accounts where they can publish this stuff.
Okay, let's stop.
Stop it.
Does she explain what exactly the edit was when Joe Biden turned around and started walking in the wrong direction toward this other paratrooper that was over there?
We all saw what it was.
A guy was packing his bags.
They started talking to him.
The guy was trying to get out of there.
And meanwhile, the action was in the front where the cameras were, and Maloney had to go over there and grab him and say, hey, over here.
Everyone came around and then came behind him looking in the other direction so he would turn around, if you remember correctly.
So they were all looking in the right direction.
They all came around to keep him from doing it again.
Where was the edit?
He was deceptively edited.
Social media accounts where they can publish this stuff.
So it's worth saying these are not anything new.
You know, when Trump was president, these targeted him as well.
But what we are seeing in the last few weeks is really the steady stream of videos that are targeting President Biden, and in particular, taking aim at his age.
Ah, that's it.
They're taking aim at his age.
Because you can't do that with Trump for some reason.
That's weird.
Okay, so what is the impact?
I mean, this has got to be very impactful.
This can sway voters.
Is there any way to measure the impact that these videos could have on the 2024 election?
Yeah, just look at the download numbers.
You know, like podcasting.
It's so accurate.
In comparison to other forms of misinformation?
You know, that's a really great, great question.
You want to respond?
Oh man!
How is that even remotely a great question?
And by the way, it's just like, this is so misleading.
It's shameful.
That's what makes it so groovy though.
There's something I really like about it.
For us.
For us.
Thank you.
Thank you CBS.
You know, that's a really great question.
I think, you know, in terms of what our team has been tracking, we have seen these so-called cheap fake videos.
They are targeting Biden and they are targeting Trump.
However, we have seen, particularly in the last few months, the videos targeting Biden are getting a lot more traction online, and in particular the ones that target Biden's age.
So, for example, like you had said, claiming that he is wandering off and really was having a conversation with somebody.
He's not having a conversation?
Yes.
Do you have something to say?
It just annoys me because we've all seen this video and we've seen the extended version of it because it's posted and you can see the whole thing.
And he just turns around, starts wandering off and yakking about something.
The guy's trying to pack his parachute.
He's not paying any attention to Biden.
There's no conversation involved.
These videos are effective because they are, they're called cheap fakes for a reason.
They are quick, they're easy to publish and oftentimes they have big impact on people who are just scrolling through their phones, they watch it for five seconds and they move on.
No, like Democrat voters?
Also what's interesting about this is we've heard a lot about the fear of deep fakes in this election.
And we've seen that deepfakes haven't really shown up in the way that maybe people were worried about them showing up.
These videos that are edited in a really basic way with technology that's been around for a long time are effective to the extent that the White House is addressing them.
Ah, okay, there it is, there it is.
By the way, that's an Irish accent that she has.
Yes, you're right, you're right.
There was one in the last show, too, that you said was British, and she was Irish, or he was Irish.
I'm sorry, I apologize.
No, but I just said, I've noticed that the Irish are moving in.
Well, besides, they're very, they all hate Trump, and they all love Biden.
Oh, interesting.
Hmm.
Okay.
Last one, last one.
Just an observation.
Yeah, no, it's a good one.
Last one is, because they know their viewers so well, they know their viewers, here's a question that is important and pertinent.
How can voters best discern between videos that are real and videos that are not?
So social media platforms sometimes they will attach fact checks to these videos.
So sometimes on X you might see community notes or on Facebook you might see fact checks.
However the reality is for the vast majority of them they're not going to have anything attached.
So unfortunately it really is on the viewer.
Number one piece of advice I would have is always check your sources.
If you see something on an account, is this a partisan account?
Is it pushing for a particular candidate?
And does it have a history of posting misinformation?
And the second thing, which I think is really important, is always seek another source.
So don't just take it from one account.
Make sure that you get a second source or even a third source.
And most importantly, make sure that's a credible source.
And CBS Confirmed is one of the most credible.
Rona Tarrant, thank you so much for breaking it down with us.
I appreciate it.
CBS Confirmed, John.
Just in case you didn't know, CBS Confirmed is one of the most credible ever.
Ever, ever, ever.
It's very credible.
Wow.
That took a lot of guts.
Oh, they're shameless.
So, but there were three other questions in this press conference that got no play.
Everyone's just showing the Biden video where he's, you know, wandering off and looking at some other dude packing his chute.
But there were three other instances that were obvious that also did get some virality.
And these were asked of Jereen.
Jereen.
That's her new name.
Her new name is Jereen. Jereen.
Two instances in recent days where leaders, former President Obama and George Maloney had early, they physically put hands on the president to guide him and show him.
Now, did you see this one where he was on stage with Obama and Jimmy Kimmel Believe me, we all saw it.
Well, you were gone.
I saw it.
That one was a hot, hot one because he looked like he was staggering off the stage.
Obama grabbed him by the wrist.
Well, somebody pointed this out on one of the hater shows, that people in dementia get startled when they'll freeze up and then somebody will touch them, grab their hand or their wrist or something, and they jump, kind of jump, because it's like they're snapped out of it.
And that's exactly what happens.
Obama grabs his wrist and Biden snaps out of it, looks over at him, and then he's walking slowly off the stage.
Carefully off the stage because he looks like he's going to keel over.
I think it's probably time to reinstate the term elder abuse.
We haven't talked about it for a while.
This is another theme, by the way, that I've noticed on the right-wing shows.
Every one of these shows has been bringing up elder abuse.
Oh, really?
See, I haven't seen or heard anything.
I just, hmm, it's a natural occurrence then.
Interesting.
Well, it's because we've brought it up.
You've brought it up.
Years ago.
Me, I have not brought it up.
The President of the United States is not subject to elder abuse.
He's the President.
And so, criticism is what I would call it.
So, does that go for podcasters?
Like, when we're old and demented, then it's not really elder abuse if we're getting dragged on social media?
We get blasted anyway.
Okay.
Let me continue here with Jareen.
Stage directions.
Are they doing that on their own, or has anybody asked them to run the show?
First of all, let me spoke to the most recent, right?
As we saw on Saturday, President Obama's office put out a statement, so I would refer you to that statement, about what was being accused by others.
And he said this did not happen in the sense of what people were saying they were seeing, right?
Or what was being falsely reported.
That's funny.
They're like family to each other.
No, I think Obama's been pretty clear he hates Biden.
I think that's universally understood.
They are friends.
They're like family to each other.
And I think that's what you saw.
That's funny.
They're like family to each other.
No, I think Obama's been pretty clear he hates Biden.
I think that's universally understood.
Everyone knows that.
You saw the president put his hand on the back of President Biden.
And they walked off the stage.
After taking questions or at an event taking questions from Jimmy Kimmel.
That is what you saw.
No, I'm pretty sure I saw President Obama grab President Biden's But I would refer you to President Obama's office statement.
They talked about this, they discussed this, and they came out with it pretty quickly.
Maloney, how about Maloney?
I don't have anything, I don't know specifically what happened with Maloney.
Oh, I mean, look.
Oh, of course I know!
Maloney!
Oh, that one!
Oh, yeah!
There's so many of them to keep track of.
That was, as I said, it was a cheap, uh, you know, a cheap fake.
That was... It was a cheap shake.
Definitely a cheap fake.
It was.
It was!
This was widely fact-checked.
Widely.
That video was widely fact-checked, including by conservative media, on what happened, what occurred.
The president walked over to give a thumbs up to divers who had just landed right in front of him.
And if you run that tape a little bit longer, you would see what was happening, what the president was actually doing, and it is a cheap fake.
So this is without nothing and he's totally normal?
What I'm saying is... I don't know who asked that, but I like it.
So you're telling me he's totally normal?
She can't really answer the question.
Nothing, and he's totally normal?
What I'm saying is, this is a president... See, she can't say, no, he's totally normal.
Listen to this bit.
Let's step back for a second.
Yeah, better.
Instead of, and I said this moments ago, instead of Republicans, you know, focusing on the president's performance in office and what he's been able to accomplish, his actual record, they do these cheap fakes.
They're cheap fakes.
And you're asking me about the Maloney.
Listen how she's banging the desk, too.
I mean, she bangs that desk like nobody's business.
Yeah, she does.
She bangs the desk when she's trying to get a point across.
Yes, she does.
About the... Did she say THE Maloney?
Like it's some sort of like a U-turn to Brody, or is it THE Maloney?
I'm doing a Maloney, baby!
It's a new dance craze, John, on TikTok.
and what he's been able to accomplish, his actual record, they do these cheap fakes.
They're cheap fakes.
And you're asking me about the Maloney.
You're asking me what happened.
That video.
It's a new dance craze, John, on TikTok.
It's the Maloney.
Do the Maloney.
Video.
Oh, man.
This is, thank you, Jareen.
I love you.
Jareen is like shooting fish in a barrel.
Okay, let's talk about Juneteenth.
Yeah!
Now the Juneteenth one is the best.
Because this is where everyone's dancing and grooving and Biden's just standing there like, lunch.
Or whatever he was thinking.
I don't know what he was thinking.
It was sad.
Alright, it's almost over.
Let's roll this out.
The president stood there, listening to the music, and he didn't dance.
Excuse me, I did not know not dancing was a mental, was a, it was a health issue.
Whoa!
Whoa!
Oops.
Uh, Jareen, could you come into my office for a moment?
Um, yeah, we're trying to focus on the president's age with these cheap fakes, not his mental health.
So, could you ixnay on the entelmay meltdown?
...to the music, and he didn't dance.
Excuse me, I did not know not dancing was a mental, was a, it was a health issue.
That is a weird thing to actually... And then she, but she then goes on to say health issue.
It was supposed to be an age issue.
She's dying on the podium here.
She's dying.
I heard all this too.
I didn't clip it, but now that you mention that, I didn't catch that right away.
That's quite revealing.
Excuse me, I did not know not dancing was a mental, it was a health issue.
That is a weird thing to actually flag when if you if you look at the people who are around him is it you look at the expanded video of the people who around him they were not they were there were some folks who were not dancing either and that has been fact-checked I mean just because you're standing up listening to music and not dancing that is not a health issue No, it's supposed to be an age issue.
He said it again.
Did you watch the real extended clip where they're all seated first and then they're clapping and he was clapping like a, well, I don't know what to say, but like a white man off on the 1 and the 3.
Everybody's clapping pretty much with the beat and he's just kind of randomly clapping.
Did you see this?
Yes, I have seen it.
It hurt me.
It's very painful.
It's pretty pathetic.
When someone claps on the 1 and the 3 instead of the 2 and the 4, it's a real problem.
It's yeah, no, that's that's beyond white.
Yeah.
And but the funny thing is that it this is literally Emperor has no clothes.
That's what this is.
And for those of you who don't know the story, because they don't teach it in school anymore.
Look it up.
The Emperor has no clothes.
He's naked.
No, he's not.
He's got beautiful, beautiful, beautiful clothes on.
He's not mental.
I mean, health old.
No, it's nothing.
Nothing wrong.
Well, gaslighting.
Which the Emperor Has No Clothes story is gaslighting.
That's right, it is classic gaslighting.
Classic.
It's just, it's like, wow, okay.
I mean, how do you go to bed at night and say, and you go like, yeah, I told them, they believe it.
Seriously?
Is that how that goes down, do you think?
When Shireen goes home?
I think they're irked.
If you're Shireen or whatever her name is, that we're now calling her.
Well, I don't think she's got the brainpower to be honest about it, but I would say just the whole group around Biden, they have to be just irked with themselves and with the situation because they know, they think Biden could do a better job of hanging in there.
I don't know.
It's hard to say.
I think they're concerned, but I don't know if they lose sleep over it.
With this level of gaslighting, they must have a plan B. I mean, you wrote about it in the newsletter.
I guess the plan B is we do a switcheroo.
Did you write that?
That Hillary could come in?
Hillary comes in and replaces Kamala.
It's in the newsletter for people who got rid of their subscription.
It's very elaborate.
Hillary takes over from Kamala.
Kamala has some sort of a health issue.
Something happens.
Yeah.
And Hillary's brought in at the last minute because people say, well, it does a number of things.
One thing, it brings the women, the big Hillary fans back into the scene.
Revenge!
Revenge!
Oh wait, hold on.
Duck!
She's swooping around again.
So it brings her back into the fold, brings the women back into the fold, puts Hillary, and Hillary's like two years younger than, I think she's one year younger than Trump.
And so if Biden, if something happens, he has to quit or he's 20.
She, by the way, one thing about Hillary for sure, she'd 25th Amendment him.
Oh yeah, in a heartbeat.
She'd have no hesitation.
In a heartbeat.
Sorry, Joe.
You gotta go.
Yeah, exactly.
So he wouldn't serve out his term and Hillary would take over because the Democrats don't want Kamala Harris to be the first female president under their watch.
Now, what can we do with Kamala?
What do we do about Kamala?
I mean, you say some kind of health issue.
I think that's a little too easy.
Well...
This is, I did not answer the question fully in the newsletter because I don't know either.
No.
Now there is some rumor she wants to run for California governor and I think Gavin Newsom's term will be up.
Of course her chance of winning, this is the one opportunity for the Republicans to get somebody in.
Nobody in California likes her.
Even though they elected her Attorney General, but it was kind of like just everyone's a Democrat gets in.
And maybe the machine could get her in as Governor.
But she's campaigning.
So, you know, there has to be a reason that she stops campaigning.
Well, it's an alert for us to keep an eye on her.
She was on Sherry, that miserable show that used to be Wendy Williams got taken out, she got ousted for some health reason, and this woman Sherry took over her show and they fired all the whole staff, everybody's changed, and Sherry's
Unfortunately, unfortunately, I think the only way to really make it happen for her to save face, for her then to, you know, to phase out is, I think the, I think her husband has to go.
So she can go into bereavement.
The guy's expendable, let's be honest.
Yeah, I agree.
I mean, if we're just thinking like these people do, you know, it's like... If we're thinking like these people do... These people.
These people think this way.
Well, they don't have to kill the guy.
They could also just make him sick.
No, no, no.
She needs to help him.
You know, she needs to be with her man, Doug.
I mean, face it.
A name like Doug.
I mean, no offense to Dougs, but it's kind of like, oh, Doug.
Poor Doug.
Don't you just see the cartoon character Doug when you think Doug?
I think of that voice that you used to have, Doug, that used to be on the stream.
Doug the Newsreader.
That's what I think of.
So, in an odd way, I think I can connect these next two clips.
First of all, I know you've seen it, but the news here is Extinction Rebellion.
First they paint Stonehenge orange.
Yeah, they did.
Like, wow.
And then suppose— That's a lot of respect for the environment.
Well, you know that they removed all those stones back in the 70s?
You know that they moved all that stuff out of the way?
And they completely reset them?
What year was that?
I think it was the 70s.
Well, I visited Stonehenge first time in 1973.
I was there.
That's when there were cows in the field.
There was nobody around.
You could go sit on the stones.
And it was like, oh, that's cute.
Then the next time I went, which was like 20 years later, it was like, holy mackerel, it's all fenced off.
There's a big parking lot.
People are standing around looking at it.
Oh, see, if you look at, I've never actually looked this up, but I have seen the pictures.
Uh, apparently it was moved.
Oh.
In 1958.
Oh no, that says that's not moved.
I'm about to fact check false.
Here, though the stones were moved, taken from Wales.
From Wales?
So they were in a whole different spot.
I don't know about that.
I've seen pictures where they have cranes.
I thought that they were just fortifying them.
Not a huge deal.
I mean, it seems kind of weird, but anyway.
Then they supposedly spray paint Taylor Swift's jet.
Which I can't confirm that's her jet.
I think they spray-painted two or three.
Well, they showed a video on the BBC, they had a video of this woman.
First of all, she had a high-pressure fire extinguisher filled with orange paint and she did two jets.
She ran from one to the other.
It took her about, I'd say, five to ten seconds to paint the entire side of the jet with this fire extinguisher.
I mean, it just sprayed it out like there's no tomorrow.
And then that was it.
It was a very short clip.
Well, I guess one of their cohorts made the movie.
Yeah.
The video.
But it was pretty amazing.
It was pretty, pretty, pretty.
It was impressive.
Yeah.
Let me tell you, if that happens to your plane, you're grounded.
You're not taking off.
Paint is very important on aircraft.
You can't just spray paint and say, oh, I'm good to go.
That has to be worked.
But I don't know if it's her jet.
I don't know.
I think she does.
We know she owns one because she leases it out.
But I didn't see anything that looked like an intercontinental jet.
No, I'm not sure.
You know, some sap, you know, some sap with the G5.
Okay.
Some sap gets his airplane spray painted because Taylor Swift is over in Europe.
Kind of sucks.
Um, but an old favorite came back in the news here because she's now on tour.
So it's part promotion, but I've never heard them go so in depth into this particular phenomenon, which is the transient, mind you, transient global amnesia of Taylor Swift.
Do you remember we talked about this months and maybe a year ago?
I forgot.
Good line by the way.
Now, imagine paying hundreds of euros to see your favourite artist in concert, only to get home and realise you can't actually remember their performance.
It might sound crazy, or at least quite unusual, but since the start of Taylor Swift's tour, that is precisely what some fans say has been happening to them.
It's a phenomenon called transient global amnesia, And to tell us a bit about it, our science editor, Julia Sieg, is with me in the studio.
Julia, first of all, what are we talking about here?
Hi, Nadia.
So, indeed, it did happen to French fans, but also fans in the United States.
And tickets there are thousands of euros.
But they're called Swifties, right?
They're the Taylor Swift fans and they all reported not being, some of them reported not being able to recall Taylor Swift's performance during the heiress tour.
Now some don't remember the color of her outfits or choreographies, but for others it's a total blackout.
They don't remember some entire portions of her show, but they always vividly remember whatever happened before the show or after the show.
Now the phenomenon was so widespread that a psychiatrist from New Jersey decided to investigate these fan testimonies and she even published a research paper and she believes it is the syndrome called transient global amnesia which is characterized by a temporary loss of memory so it's actually due to an overload of excitement and stress so it overwhelms the brain which makes it unable to encode memories if you will so our our memory is extremely sensitive to stress let it be
Positive emotions, but also negative emotions.
If you're overwhelmed by negative emotions, you're more inclined to develop post-traumatic stress disorder.
But if you're overwhelmed by positive emotions, then you're more inclined to develop somewhat of this amnesia.
So, our old friend the amygdala is involved in this.
Hold on a second.
Isn't this the same phenomenon that critics would say it was a forgettable performance?
Yeah, I like it!
The No Agenda Take is always just a little different everybody.
Now it's very similar to what you may feel, this sensation that you have when you're having a lot of fun, that time is flying by.
That's exactly what the phenomenon is all about.
Now it's related More specifically to an overreaction of the amygdala in the brain.
So when your body faces stress, what it does is your liver releases glucose into the bloodstream and into the muscles.
The muscles then send a signal to the brain and the amygdala is then going to release a neurotransmitter called neuroadrenaline.
Adrenochrome, baby.
There's just a little bit of it.
It helps encode the memories, but if there's too much, it's counterproductive and you suffer a memory loss.
This is such an interesting story, Julia.
And look, is this only happening to Taylor Swift fans?
This is the important thing because...
I mean, I've been to a lot of concerts.
I have been to some sports ball events.
I've been around.
Tell me if you've ever had any of this happen during any of these other places where it apparently just can happen.
To Taylor Swift fans.
No, it can actually happen for other events.
Sports events.
If you're a sports fan, you're so overwhelmed by someone's victory, for instance.
It can happen during a wedding, a graduation ceremony.
No, no.
All I remember from weddings is, is this thing over?
No!
I've been to a lot of things, too.
I've seen Jimi Hendrix six times.
Oh, yes!
Six times?!
I've been to games where there's a clinching game, Warriors, for example.
Or I've been to the World Series with the A's and the Giants.
I've seen a lot of these high-end events.
I went to a Super Bowl.
I remember all of these things!
I have known you for 17 years almost.
Well, I've known you for longer, but we've been doing this show for 17 years.
I can't recall.
It might be transient global amnesia, but I cannot recall you ever telling me that you went to see Jimi Hendrix six times.
Yeah, I have said it a couple times.
Wow!
I saw Jimi Hendrix six times, I can even name them.
In fact, I can remember it so well, I can tell you every venue.
The last time I saw him was at the Berkeley Community Theater where he unrolled his national anthem with speakers all across the stage and he had his various, you know, he invented the wah-wah pedal supposedly.
And he stomped on some pedal and his sound would go rap, rap, rap back and forth across a very large stage.
And he was just a terrific performer.
Are you experienced?
One of the times I saw Jimi Hendrix, he was so drunk that I actually left.
I was dating somebody and it was so bad that I left.
I actually walked out of a Jimi Hendrix concert.
Did you leave your date behind?
No, she came with me.
What better things to do?
I'm always happy to hear something I didn't know about you.
Alright, let's continue.
Whenever there's too much anticipation, excitement, pressure, or emotion, you can go through that amnesia.
Now, more specifically, we're seeing it with concerts.
Why?
Because they've changed so much in the last few years.
As you can see here, you have strobe lights, every two seconds there's a surprise, an explosion, lights, you know, even costume changes, and it's perhaps almost too much for our brains.
Yes.
It's very similar to what we see with young kids when they're watching video games or cartoons and it's going too fast.
Well, that's when the attention actually goes down and you can't encode the memory anymore.
This is the true swift up.
They are mind controlling your children.
There's messages flashing everywhere, their amygdala freaks out, they can't remember anything, and meanwhile, VOTE DEMOCRAT!
Or something like that.
Something's going on.
Something like that is happening.
VOTE DEMOCRAT!
And we need boots on the ground.
Where are my Swifties at?
I need to know what is flashing everywhere.
What is the messaging?
Vaccines are We need to know what is being done there, besides the, I'm a witch.
Cause there is that whole witchcraft thing.
You notice the kids don't come off of the, out of the stadium going, wow, the witchcraft stuff was great.
No, deeply embedded.
It's concerning.
Very concerning.
I just read that Donald Sutherland passed away.
Oh, he did?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, today.
He's an enjoyable actor.
Yes.
Happy Eid, everybody.
Do I pronounce it Eid?
Eid?
I think it's pronounced Eid.
It's big deal over here in Muslim Holland.
Eid.
I mean, every night there's... Well, we usually get a donation from, uh, Sir Anonymous on Eid.
Well, maybe he's just late.
That's alright.
But happy Eid, seronimous of Dogpatch and Lower Slobovia, and all of our other Muslim friends.
So the big thing here is the inhumane butchering of the lambs and the goats.
And they have the man on the street, they go up to these Butcheries and there's a whole bunch of dudes hanging around with beards.
And then one guy comes out, he's got all blood splatters over his face.
No, it's great!
Hey, the Jews do that too on their own special day.
We do it on our day.
We just do it differently.
Meanwhile, there's not one Swarma place is open to get a Swarma.
Because everybody's celebrating Eid.
And which was kind of... I think you can put it off.
Put what off?
Getting a swarm?
No, the whole, this, this, this thing goes on forever.
They're not stopping with the celebration.
I was gonna get a swarm out with Taxi Eric.
You remember Taxi Eric, right?
Oh yeah, he almost got me killed.
Yeah, that's what I keep telling him.
I keep telling him.
John, all John remembers about you is you almost killed him.
So, um, he, uh, he drove me to Christina.
Christina's house.
And we're driving through the city.
And, you know, if you really want to know what's going on with the temperature of the nation, you got to talk to the guys on the street, the cab drivers.
They know what's happening.
And he, and he'll be like, look at that, another Range Rover, Ukrainian.
Look at that Bentley, Ukrainian.
And it's true!
It's true!
Yeah, I bet.
There's high-end vehicles all with Ukrainian license plates, and people are mad now.
Yeah, well, all those cars are bought with American taxpayer money.
Yeah, I don't know about that, but it could be.
But what they're mad about is that, you know, they're getting free housing, they're getting a stipend every single day, do whatever they want to do, and they've got their Range Rover and they're parking on the sidewalk.
Don't even get a ticket.
It's... It's... People are... There's no... Let me put it this way.
No Ukrainian flags flying around everywhere.
You know, in Europe, they're so concerned with Ukraine.
Ukraine.
Everyone's like, get rid of this stuff.
We don't like it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'll bet.
It's just a general feeling everywhere.
Everybody is sick and tired of it.
People get fed up, but what do they do about it?
Nothing.
Well, that's part of why they voted for Geert Wilders, of course.
Because, you know, they're like, well, I'll vote for that guy.
He'll fix it.
He'll fix it.
Nobody fixes anything.
That's the point.
The big story here is Mark Rutte.
He's the... Yeah, what about him?
Well, he is the former Dutch Prime Minister, the guy who got... Your buddy?
No, I don't know him.
I thought you met him?
No, I know the Climate Pope, Timmermans.
And the other guy, Balkanend, he's the guy before Mark Ritza.
The guy with the little, you know, student glasses.
No, so Ritza is the Nimrod, the... what do you call him?
The Nudnick.
He's the Nudnick.
Nudnick.
Nudnick.
Nudnick, who's been the Prime Minister for eight years, you know, used to be in HR at, what was he like, Unilever, I think?
He was literally an HR lady at Unilever.
And then all of a sudden he was Prime Minister.
Okay, sure.
And, you know, he's, no one, no one really liked him at all.
Very, you know, very Just wishy-washy.
He's just a nothing burger.
I hate I said that, but he is.
You said it.
I know, he's just a wishy-washy dude.
So now that Viktor Orban... Milk toast is the old term.
Milk toast, there you go.
So he wrote a letter to Viktor Orban because he's just been waiting in the wings to replace Jens Stoltenberg, the NATO guy.
Or as they say, the NAVO guy.
And if one country, one of the European Union member states says, no, no, I don't want him to be that, or one of the NATO members, I'm sorry, if they say, no, we don't want that guy, then, you know, it's off the table until everybody agrees.
And Rutte wrote a personal letter to Viktor Orban and said, okay, it was your agreement, because you remember he buckled on the Ukraine money.
He said, as per your agreement, I guarantee you here in writing, the letters published everywhere, it's guaranteed in writing that Hungary will not have to put in any people or money for Ukraine.
And so I said, okay, are you good to go then?
As long as my people aren't gonna have to go fight your stupid war and you can't take our money.
So now all that's left is Romania, I think.
Is Romania in NATO?
I'd have to look.
I think so.
Yeah.
I think they probably are.
Yeah, probably are.
Probably are.
So, and that kind of just shows you, I think everyone here knows, like, that guy's gonna be in charge of NATO?
Well, that must be a scam.
Because that guy's a nudnik.
I gotta teach the Dutch that word.
He's a nudnik!
It's a good term.
So let's go to Richard Engel to get the true lies, because of course, spook.
Let's find out about the latest in the Ukraine aid.
How's that working out for everybody?
You know, we sent some more money over, $65 billion, then we took $50 billion from the Russians, or we lent it with the Russian The Russian money as our security deposit.
Let's see how that's working out.
Jackson, thank you.
Tonight, Russian President Putin is set to visit North Korea amid Kim Jong-un's growing support for Russia's war in Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian commanders hope American aid will push back Russia's momentum.
Our Richard Engel is there.
We have to warn you, some images in this report are disturbing.
Abrams tanks today defend Ukraine's eastern front line near the Russian border.
Resupplies of American weapons are flowing again, and Ukrainian troops tell us they're arriving just in the nick of time.
Resupplies of American weapons, including these tanks, are now finally, after long delays, making their way to the front lines.
And it's making a difference.
Ukrainian troops have already been able to slow down a major Russian offensive.
Ukraine is flush at the moment.
$60 billion in aid from Congress, $50 billion more from interest on frozen Russian funds.
And at a conference on peace in Switzerland over the weekend, the United States was among 80 nations pledging support for Ukraine's territorial integrity.
But a tank commander here tells us he's worried about pressure on Ukraine to make a deal with Russia.
Everyone in the West should understand that once we cede more territories to Russia, it will not stop.
I love peace, the peace conference.
That's the one thing no one ever talks about over here.
It's never about peace.
No, it's just like, more weapons, more weapons.
We've got to stop Russia.
We can't have peace negotiations.
We can't talk about peace.
It's not profitable.
And Ukrainians have a more immediate problem, a Russian technological innovation, so-called glide bombs.
This shopping center was hit by just two glide bombs.
Yeah, yeah, you identified those first.
And the impact was devastating.
Russia has vast quantities of old-fashioned style bombs, and by attaching wings and a basic guidance system to them, Russia has not only managed to extend their range, but turn them into precision weapons that Ukraine has been struggling to deal with.
Surveillance video captured the moment of the attack.
Officials say 19 Ukrainians were killed, including two children.
President Zelensky says Russia is now firing 3,000 glide bombs a month.
Commanders tell us they don't have an effective way to stop them.
Seeking more weapons for his war here in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin tomorrow travels to North Korea, which U.S.
officials say has been providing Russia with large quantities of artillery shells.
That's the thing that I'm skeptical about.
You don't fire them, you drop them.
Yes.
I'm skeptical about this North Korea supplying their shells.
Does that sound right to you?
No, it doesn't sound right to me, but they could be as part of, I don't know what, I have a clip on North Korea, a Putin North Korea clip, Putin in North Korea NTD 134 clip, maybe it'll shed some light.
As Russian President Vladimir Putin is wrapping up his trip to North Korea, meeting with Kim Jong-un, they're pledging to strengthen their ties.
They've signed a new security agreement promising to help each other if either is attacked.
The leaders of Russia and North Korea have signed a new security agreement promising to come to each other's aid if they are ever attacked.
Now, the details of this agreement are still unclear.
They're calling it a comprehensive strategic partnership agreement.
They said they're aiming to strengthen their military and economic cooperation.
This comes amid Western sanctions on the two countries.
The deal is drawing international attention.
The U.S.
and its allies are concerned over weapons and ammunition that North Korea provides to Russia in exchange for economic assistance.
Russia's economy and military are mostly reliant on the Chinese Communist Party, and this was reiterated on Tuesday by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
Putin's visits to North Korea demonstrates and confirms the very close alignment between Russia and authoritarian states like North Korea, but also China and Iran.
If China in particular, which professes to have a strong interest in ending the war, if it really means it, it will stop fueling the war machine and will continue to do everything we can to cut off the support that countries like Iran and North Korea are providing.
This marks Putin's first visit to North Korea in 24 years.
After North Korea, Putin's visiting Vietnam's capital, meeting with its leaders.
As Russia is facing growing international isolation, it's seeking the assistance of other authoritarian countries.
Okay, so a couple things.
First of all, I can't wait until Margarita gets in because he'll be much more fun to make fun of with his Dutch accent.
Then he's talking like this, you know?
I'm looking forward to that.
Second, so he's going to Vietnam.
Also, you know, competitor to China.
North Korea.
Interesting choice.
How about this?
Perhaps Putin is thinking, you know, I've got to draw this out because it looks like Trump might get in.
I can deal with Trump.
We can manage this situation.
We can figure out, for all I know, they're already talking.
I don't know.
Wouldn't it be awesome, and I use that word specifically, to have the summit between Trump and Putin in North Korea?
Or Vietnam for that matter.
Or Vietnam.
But North, because Trump went to, you know, he stepped over the line.
Yes, he's actually stepped foot in North Korea unlike anyone else.
And then that would put North Korea in a whole different light.
We could get them out of, you know, like, hey, these guys actually helped something.
You know, I don't know.
I have a feeling there's a reason for this.
It's not just for some supply chain.
Where's the supply chain of weaponry?
Do we have trains going?
Putin doesn't need to go there if they're buying shells from North Korea.
They're buying shells, so what?
It's not for economic assistance.
They give them hard cash and say, give us some shells and there we go.
We don't need to visit.
It's just, hey, Kim, send me a Venmo invoice.
I think you're onto something.
There's some other reason.
Why else would he be going there?
He's not going there to confirm a shell deal.
Let me check the shells, man.
Exactly.
He may be planning something in advance.
Trump may be involved.
Now, at the same time, the danger is that the nut jobs who are running the show over there in Ukraine and NATO, they're probably going to try and, oh, before Trump comes in, we got to do what we can do.
So I'm a little concerned about that, too.
Because they could do something.
Yes, because the gravy trains over once Trump gets in.
Yeah.
Because, you know, a cat who's driven into the corner can make strange jumps.
This is a Dutchism.
Yeah.
Say it again.
Een kat in het nauwgedreven maakt rare sprongen.
So if you corner a cat, it can make weird jumps.
Yeah, cats can do weird jumps.
Cats can do weird jumps, yes.
But the war machine, I mean they've got plenty to work on because just in case we can't keep that Ukraine thing going...
Yeah, I think we should add Lebanon to the problem.
This footage released by the Israeli army claims to show it striking a base operated by Hezbollah in Lebanon.
The militant group says at least three of its fighters were killed in the attack, as footage from the ground showed smoke billowing into the air about 30 kilometers from the border.
On the Israeli side of the border, air defenses shot down rockets launched by Hezbollah Wednesday, an apparent retaliation for that strike.
This has Israel's army issued a statement statement saying it was ready for a full-blown conflict with the militant group.
As part of the situational assessment, operational plans for an offensive in Lebanon were approved and validated, and decisions were taken on the continuation of increasing the readiness of troops in the field.
That announcement followed the release of drone footage that Israel said was taken by Hezbollah, showing possible targets in several Israeli cities, and comments from Israel's foreign minister who vowed in an all-out war Hezbollah will be destroyed and Lebanon severely beaten.
The militant group responded by promising the same for Israel.
Israel knows that no place will be safe from our missiles and our drones, and our strikes are not indiscriminate.
Israel knows that we have a list of targets, and we have the ability to reach these targets, and we will shake the foundations of Israel.
Since the October 7th attacks by Hamas in Israel, Hezbollah has launched ongoing attacks in northern Israel, killing at least 16 soldiers and 11 civilians.
Israeli strikes in Lebanon during the same period have killed more than 400 people, Most of whom were Hezbollah fighters, but dozens of civilians have also been killed.
I mean, if you're Hezbollah, what are you thinking?
Like, this is a good idea.
You know, today's news, for example, talks a lot about how the army, the IDF, is going, well, you know, we're not going to be able to kill all these Hamas guys, and I think Netanyahu's nuts, and they're getting into a little beef, but meanwhile, this Hezbollah thing's been cranked up, and I have two clips on that.
We will see.
Hezbollah action one.
This is N.T.D.
Lawmakers from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee are in the Middle East on Wednesday.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog told them it's crucial that the U.S.
and Israel maintain strong ties.
Watch.
The visit comes as a high-level meeting between Israel and the U.S.
has reportedly been cancelled.
That's according to Axios and CNN, citing two U.S.
officials.
This comes after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this on Tuesday.
The administration has been withholding weapons and ammunitions to Israel.
The reports say an envoy for President Biden later told Netanyahu that the accusations are inaccurate and out of line.
On Wednesday, the Israeli government gave this update.
Ammunition and weapons that the Prime Minister referred to are in the process of being delivered to Israel.
This comes as tensions at the Israel-Lebanon border keep rising.
Hezbollah says Israeli strikes killed four of its fighters on Wednesday.
Israel, meanwhile, says the Iran-backed group fired 15 rockets from southern Lebanon towards a city in northern Israel.
Most of that city has now been abandoned.
Living right now in Jerachmona is very sad.
The city is empty most of the time.
The head of Hezbollah said no place in Israel will be safe from attacks if a bigger conflict breaks out.
He also threatened other countries in the Mediterranean.
In response, Israel is already strengthening its military readiness in the north, saying they're getting ready for any possibility.
We have an obligation to change the situation in the north and return the citizens safely to their homes.
Habibi's becoming a problem because, like, hey, shh, shh, shh, be quiet about the weapons.
That's not good for Joe.
He's got problems enough.
Don't talk about that.
I don't think he likes Joe.
No, of course he doesn't because they're not helping him out anymore.
And what's the second part of this Hezbollah clip?
And lastly, the United Nations Human Rights Office says Israel may have violated the laws of war by failing to distinguish between civilians and fighters in Gaza.
Unlawful targeting when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack against a civilian population may also implicate the commission of crimes against humanity.
The UN office came to that conclusion by assessing six Israeli attacks that caused a high number of casualties.
Israel called the analysis flawed.
I don't understand.
I keep hearing Thomas Massey in the back of my mind going, these guys, they want to take it all to Iran.
Is this just the next step?
And what is Hezbollah thinking?
Oh, this is a good idea.
Yeah, let's shoot some rockets into Haifa.
Yeah, that makes sense.
Israel's going to go into Lebanon.
It's obvious.
That's the next step.
And then what?
Then what?
Then we have the Democratic National Convention.
Right on time.
Yeah, I don't know.
Yeah, it's obvious to me too.
I agree that they're going to shift focus because this Gaza thing is done.
It's the best they can do.
And Netanyahu's under a lot of pressure, but if we create a really kind of a nasty, nastier situation with Hezbollah, they're bigger, they're stronger, they got more stuff.
Yeah, that's exactly what's going to go.
And isn't Lebanon on the West Clark 7?
It's one of the countries that was supposed to have taken over years and years ago.
We never did.
It's kind of rubble-ized and financially rubble-ized for sure.
I mean, the place is a mess.
And then all of a sudden the Houthis start acting up again.
And I don't know about you, but I see video It's like is that they're trying to make it look like some kind of submarine targeted one a sub ship and then you know it blows up the back part or there's an almost honestly it looks like a fake and then you see another shot and it blows up the middle section but you but you don't see in neither shot do you see so in the in the in the mid in the midship shot the back is still fine.
But then, when they hit the back of the ship, the midship is fine.
So, it's like, make up your mind.
What did we blow up here?
Well, I know that they, I have one clip, which is the weirdest clip I have on this list.
Which is, they claim to have sunk the Eisenhower.
The Eisenhower?
Yeah, the USS, the giant aircraft carrier.
Okay, do we have any... Here's a report on it.
USS Ike.
This is great.
The Houthis claim to have hit or even sunk the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Red Sea.
Now Captain Christopher Chowda Hill is using his social media profile to show his crew remains ready for combat.
I think most of the false claims that have occurred about us, you know, for instance, saying that we've been sunk, I think it's been about two or three times in the past six months we've allegedly been sunk, which we have not been, is almost comical at this point, right?
Hill also wants to show the morale of the nearly 5,000 personnel aboard the Eisenhower remains high.
He says the nuclear-powered ship will continue with its traditions, despite Houthi attacks and misinformation.
So we're going to celebrate Taco Tuesdays because it's my absolute favorite day of the week.
That will never end.
You know, I will show videos of our... What happened?
Hey!
Okay.
It used to be we're going to have a cookout, we're going to have hot dogs and hamburgers, and now we're at Taco Tuesdays or Thursdays?
This is weird.
So we're going to celebrate Taco Tuesdays because it's my absolute favorite day of the week.
That will never end.
You know, I will show videos of our ship's facility dog because he makes a difference here.
People like having him around.
He improves moods.
So that, if you call that an integration warfare campaign, you can't.
Captain David Rowe commands the destroyers escorting the Eisenhower.
He says his crew works diligently to address the needs of the mission.
Now, using the appropriate effect weapon, weapon system on the appropriate threat to preserve magazine depth, to have more missiles, to not, is a certainly germane tactical question that my captains are constantly reviewing.
Okay, so we have no real... Goes on, I stopped it.
Has no real answer if he's been sunk or not.
Three times.
I mean, he could still have Taco Tuesdays.
Yeah, he says it's gonna happen forever.
On the shore.
This is costing us a fortune.
Yeah.
That whole group, that group, that carrier group, if you see pictures of it, it's the Eisenhower, there must be 50 ships surrounding it.
This is not a cheap venture.
And it's the taxpayer.
We're picking this up.
And what good does it do?
I do have a couple more Hoot the Analysis clips which really condemn the whole thing because it's costing us a million dollars to shoot down a $1,000 piece of crap every so often.
A cargo ship is believed to have sunk in the Red Sea after being attacked by Houthi terrorists.
Earlier we spoke with Justin Logan, Director of Defense and Foreign Policy Studies at Cato Institute, about the U.S.
approach to the Houthi attacks.
Now to begin, reports note of escalation in the Red Sea by the Houthis.
This is after a bulk ship carrier sank along with reports of a remainer on board being killed.
Now this does come after weekend attacks on two ships as well as an American destroyer.
How do you read these latest moves, especially when it comes to war in the region and fears of this escalation?
Well, I think the administration's Middle East policy has really gone from bad to worse.
I mean, they infamously said that before the 10-7 attacks, the Middle East hadn't been as quiet as it was then in decades.
Then the 10-7 attacks happened.
We built this magical mystery pier, which is now disintegrated off the coast of Israel.
And then there's this months-long war with the Houthis, which was just... Did he call it the magical mystery pier?
Is that what he called it?
Yeah.
That's pretty funny.
And in decades, then the 10-7 attacks happened.
We built this magical mystery pier, which is now disintegrated off the coast of Israel.
And then there's this months-long war with the Houthis, which was just revealed both that we've spent over a billion dollars fighting them and that they are making progress.
As you mentioned, they have sunk a second vessel, potentially killed one Filipino mariner, So this thing has really gone from bad to worse and, you know, anybody who's had their hands on this Middle East policy should really hide their head in a bag because it's been just an absolute disgrace from pillar to post.
You really need to look at that video of the so-called sinking of that ship.
It's bullcrap.
I mean, where's the rescue?
There's no video of anything except there's a little crosshairs and then you see an explosion.
Is that the Filipino ship he's talking about?
I think so.
It's very unclear because why do any reporting?
Let's just say it's happened.
The whole thing is a disaster in terms of like, in this next, he mentions this along the way, which is that we're protecting, we're not doing it, this is not protecting anything that's got to do anything to do with us.
Well there's, no, there's one thing.
That if the, um, if the Iranians, Houthis, whoever, whoever, flavor of the day, if they sink a ship in the Straits of Hormuz, then it is blocked.
You know, there's that little narrow bit there?
Yes, right.
This was the storyline of the one-season episode of Rubicon.
I don't think it was in the Strait of Hormuz, that Rubicon.
I thought it was.
It was right in the middle of the Strait of Hormuz.
I tried to look it up.
Regardless.
No, it's okay.
It's a choke point.
It's a choke point.
And that would severely hamper international shipping.
of energy and, you know, you could just do that and blame it on Iran.
Here we go.
These people are crazy.
Just play part two of this.
Expanding on the Houthis' part, reports note that the Navy faces its most intense maritime fighting since World War II, with near daily attacks targeting commercial vessels as well as warships.
How have the Houthis tied down the U.S.
Navy in the Red Sea?
Well, it's really strategic malpractice on the part of the United States.
The Houthis are doing what they've been doing for years, and indeed decades, which is what military people refer to as shoot and scoot, right?
You have very light munitions, you're very mobile, and the minute you launch, you get out of there.
And so their limited ability to retaliate.
Moreover, the technologies that the United States are using Are many orders of magnitude more expensive than what the Houthis are using?
If you look at the cost that we spend to shoot down one Houthi missile, which is not particularly accurate, you're talking about in the neighborhood of a million dollars to destroy 2,000 or 5,000 at most dollars worth of technology.
This is a bad deal for the United States.
And that's how you tally up a billion dollars of expenditures over just about six months With very little to show for it in terms of military or political developments.
I like the shoot and scoot.
That's good.
Shoot and scoot.
That would explain the problem with catching these guys.
That's what we should have on the instructions for our no agenda slingshots.
Scoot and shoot.
Perfect.
Anyway, the last clip, which is this one, brings up something that irks me.
Expanding on that, the Cato Institute, where you're based, has a peace-out titled, The U.S.
Military Role in the Red Sea Now Turning Offensive is a Bad Deal, noting that the U.S.-led coalition Operation Prosperity Guardian has cost the U.S.
too much.
Given that, what should be the U.S.
strategy in the Red Sea going forward?
Well, I think we got roped into this by telling ourselves a story about freedom of navigation, which sounds like a really good principle to defend, right?
We want commercial ships to be able to go anywhere they want with impunity.
However, that's not the way the international economy works.
So if you look at what's transpired, the ship traffic going through the Red Sea has gone way down, and there's a significant rerouting of maritime traffic from the Middle East around the Cape of Good Hope.
Almost all of this carriage is going to Europe.
Almost all of the trade is going to Europe, not to the United States.
So it's not the case that we sort of run a maritime convoy with every trade shipment that goes around the world.
And that does increase the costs at the margins for European consumers of these goods that have to pay more mariners and have to burn more fuel to reroute away from the Red Sea.
But I think before you get into a shooting war with the Houthis, you want to have a story that you can tell yourself.
Yeah, they gotta tee that up.
it would be worth paying and what that likely cost would be to make a dent in the Houthis' ability to launch these attacks, which, while terrifying, are not that consequential.
I mean, they've been at this for the better part of six months, and they just sank their second vessel.
And even so, there's still some commerce going through the Red Sea.
So I think we have been in for a penny but should not be in for a pound on this thing.
Yeah, they've got to tee that up.
I think it's perfect because the minute you get the choke point there, you have the Houthis with Iranian missiles sinking something.
We can send over more liquid petroleum gas ships.
Exactly.
Everybody here sees it.
We can make out on the deal if we get the hell out of there.
Yep.
Scoot and shoot.
Everyone here knows it.
They said, hey, you know, it's kind of weird.
When that Nord Stream 2, when that got blown up, you know, by Putin who did it himself, it's kind of weird that you guys showed up right away with all that liquid petroleum gas.
That was really interesting.
That's why I say, hey man.
So it makes no sense that we're there at all in the Red Sea.
What are we protecting?
We're protecting shipping to Europe?
Let them protect it themselves.
No, I think we're going to sink something and then blame it.
This has false flag written all over it.
All over it.
Wouldn't that be perfect?
Then we can saber rattle.
That's an interesting theory.
I like doing a false flag and then getting out.
It's about time.
We tried.
It's about time for a false flag.
We need a good false flag, people.
Yeah, we're way overdue.
Before we take a break, two clips.
I've been tracking this and I think there's a new angle that has come in, which I like.
I mean, I don't like it, but I like what they're exposing in our season of Reveal.
And this is about the constant droning on and pushing of age restrictions for social media.
And I think... Oh, congratulations.
You brought it up first, I didn't think much about it.
You said you had this thing about Australia being a test bed, and within a week, that's all they're talking about over here, a week later, is putting restrictions on social media so the kids don't get hurt.
There's something extra going on and I think we can deconstruct this.
Here's the first one from NBC.
The stark warning from the nation's top doctor accelerates a national push to limit kids' access to social media.
In the New York Times, the Surgeon General writes, the mental health crisis among young people is an emergency and social media has emerged as an important contributor.
On Today, Dr. Murthy said adolescents average five hours per day on social media.
When adolescents spend more than three hours a day on social media, we're seeing an association with a doubling of risk of anxiety and depression symptoms.
Many of them say that they can't get off it.
Because the platforms are often designed to maximize how much time our kids are spending on them.
Research suggests texts, posts, and online bullying can undermine kids' self-confidence, especially body image, with some taking their own lives.
Many of them say that they can't get off it because the platforms are often designed to maximize how much time our kids are spending on them.
You have blood on your hands.
In January, top social media CEOs faced bipartisan fury.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologized to victims' families, insisting that Facebook is working to reduce social media's harmful effects.
To make sure that no one has to go through the types of things that your families will have to suffer.
The Surgeon General recommends phone-free zones at school and at home during meals, bedtime, and social gatherings.
And kids should have no access to social media until they're out of middle school.
Okay, so here's what I've been tracking.
We're seeing states enact rules and laws themselves.
Not all passed yet, but HOKL came in from New York.
I'm pretty sure California has done this, probably other states.
And I've been tracking my hate listen pivot with your buddy Karis Swisher, your protégé.
And Prof G. And they keep, they've been saying this for months.
I've just been waiting and waiting and waiting.
And they keep bringing up the same analogy to social media age-gating, as they like to call it.
We need to age-gate that.
It should be easy.
Technology exists.
Age-gate them.
It's just like the tobacco industry.
Now to the Surgeon General calling for a tobacco-style warning label on social media, saying it poses a mental health crisis among young people.
Elizabeth Schulze has those details for us.
Good morning, Elizabeth.
Good morning, Rebecca.
And the U.S.
Surgeon General now wants to put those warning-style labels on social media, like what you'd see for cigarettes or tobacco.
In an op-ed in the New York Times, Dr. Vivek Murthy writes, A Surgeon General's warning label, which requires congressional action, would regularly remind parents and adolescents that social media has not been proved safe.
He says that similar labels that were put on tobacco products helped dramatically reduce their usage.
Now, Murthy is pointing to data that shows teens who spend more than three hours a day on social media face double the risk of anxiety or depression.
The average user that age was on social media for almost five hours a day.
Last year, Murthy sounded the alarm about how social media is contributing to a mental health crisis among younger Americans.
He has urged Congress to pass legislation that would stop platforms from collecting data about kids and putting restrictions on push notifications or auto-scrolling.
And while there is bipartisan support for some of those measures, none of them have passed in Congress.
Guys, something so many parents are thinking about here.
Five hours a day on social media.
Trust me, I saw that number and I said, I need to get home and take some phones away.
Right?
Exactly.
Oh, wow.
Wow.
All right.
That clip was on Need More Gain.
This is the second time you've done a clip that's too low.
I can barely hear it.
It was out of balance.
There's something with Clean Feet.
Everyone else heard it.
Something with clean feed is a problem.
But wait, wait, no, no, I have something to say here.
I was leading up to this whole thing, all you can think about is the audio quality, please.
When we make the comparison between social media and tobacco and warning labels.
Now we know a lot about the warning labels.
First of all, when you put the warning label on it, it makes people want to smoke more.
So it only makes kids want to be on social media more.
But what is the main thing of tobacco regulation that we learned from the Master States Agreement?
Taxation.
Taxation goes to the states to pay for all the people who don't have health care who will need the mental health care.
I think we're getting a social media tax.
Per state that's coming in, just like cigarettes.
Put it in the book.
Yeah, I want it in the red book.
There's something, something about this, this comparison to tobacco that is not just about age gating, it has to do with taxing.
I think that's an interesting, well no one, no one's heard that yet.
Nope.
I have two clips on cell phones in schools, which is similar.
Okay.
Because, and what gets me about these two clips, cell phones in school in Los Angeles mainly, is that as I listen to these clips, I can't believe that they've been allowing, I guess I haven't been paying attention or I did know this but I wasn't really tuned into it, that you have a class full of kids, and half of them are on their phones in the classroom, scrolling or dicking around or whatever they do,
How is this, like, inducive to luring anything?
I don't get why it's been allowed to begin with.
I'm sorry.
At what point did you think that we were still teaching children in school?
I mean, neither of us have kids in school anymore.
It's a mess.
It's a free-for-all.
Only some smaller schools, private schools, You know, homeschools.
They're do- The rest is a mess.
The teachers are woke.
They're not doing- Oh, everyone's on meds.
And everyone's on their phone.
It's a disaster!
It is.
72% of high school teachers said a cell phone distraction is a major problem in the classroom.
That's according to a report last week by the Pew Research Center.
Educators in Los Angeles are taking action on this issue.
By early next year, students in the nation's second largest school district will no longer be able to use cell phones during the school day.
NTD's Christina Corona has more on the decision from the LA Unified School District.
The Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education voted Tuesday to ban cell phone use during the school day.
Board member Nick Malvoin, who pushed the bill, stated that students They're surreptitiously scrolling in school, in class time, they have their head in their hands walking down the hallways, they're not talking to each other or playing at lunch or recess because they have their airpods in.
The ban, which includes lunch and breaks, aims to improve students' interpersonal communication skills and reduce social media distress and cyberbullying.
It's crystallizing these deleterious effects, the harmful effects on students' academic achievement, on their mental health, on their physical health.
He noted that in other school districts with this policy, kids are happier, engage more with each other, and show improved academic performance.
One teacher said that years ago, Students having a cell phone in class wasn't as much of an issue as it is today.
This year, even with a very strict no cell phone policy in my classroom, it was an uphill battle.
Managing student use of smartphones as a classroom teacher is now more like running a non-stop marathon.
However, many board members oppose the bill, arguing that cell phones are essential for safety.
All right, just because I can feel the steam already rising, I want to say there are many good teachers.
I know they've been castrated.
They have no power.
They're living in this woke complex, and it's being shoved down their throat.
There's plenty of good ones, and it's very difficult.
I think if you choose that profession, I hold you in high regard.
It's a tough, tough gig these days.
And luckily there are, you know, I'm seeing initiatives, 8th grade is kind of the thing that, because the parents have to agree.
No cell phone, not just school, no cell phone until 8th grade.
That's what a lot of parents are talking about these days.
I think no cell phone until you're 80.
Now, the smartphone came out in 2007.
It's taken 17 years, are you telling me, to get to the point where, gee, maybe we shouldn't have these things in class?
Yeah, I think that what's happening is that the adults themselves are now realizing, wow, I'm really messed up.
My brain's all jumbled.
What must this be doing to the kids?
I think it took a long time to realize.
Remember, all we could report on for the first 10 years of smartphones was, oh, look at the new iPhone!
Oh, look at this one!
New phone!
New phone!
Well, that wasn't me.
No, that's not.
Part 2, it shows that some people are still resisting.
Our cell phones also provide some comfort, as I can reach my son or we can reach our children and he can reach me during an emergency or when he needs me.
What emergency?
Another member stated that some kids will use their devices regardless.
The cell phone is going to exist anyway.
And before you do that bad cell phone, what's going to be next?
They're going to have it on their watch.
They're going to have a watch that tells them the same stuff.
The same stuff you can do on the cell phone, you can do from your computer.
However, for some students, using cell phones is a necessity.
It's just that some of our newcomer students utilize... Newcomers!
The newcomers!
Good one!
It's just that some of our newcomer students utilize phones for translation purposes.
Obviously a person is ideal, but sometimes in less common languages there's a utilization of phones in class for that purpose.
Schools will be able to determine how to implement the phone ban, whether by requiring phones to be stored in lockers or pouches during the day.
The resolution instructs staff to develop and present policies and a plan to the public.
And whenever I get an email from a teacher, I say, well, what should I do?
I said, leave the school and find the homeschool movement.
You're in high demand.
You'll love the hours.
You'll love the environment.
Just, you gotta, you gotta opt out of this.
This, this is, it's unfixable.
It's unfixable.
I think it is unfixable, especially if you're going to have apologists like the last clip had.
Oh, well, you know, they need it anyway.
Oh, it's a case of an emergency.
I want my kid to be able to get ahold of me.
What emergency?
What, what, how often does this happen?
No, but that, that's because we've, we've raised this whole, you know, my gen, a generation now behind me, they've been raised as ninnies.
You know, they're worried about everything.
Worried about their kids, you know?
Not a good word.
What if there's an emergency?
What if there's a school?
What if there's a school shooting?
I won't know.
I won't know what to do.
No.
Ninnies.
Hey, with that, I want to thank you for your courage.
In the morning, to you, the man who put the C in the cheap fake, say hello to my friend on the other end, the one and only Mr. John C. DeMora!
Well, in the morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry.
In the morning, all ships and sea boots on the ground, feedin' the air, subs in the water, and the dames and knights out there.
Hello there, trolls!
We caught you for a second.
Hold on a second.
Oh, don't move!
Don't move!
We're up today.
This is nice.
We, uh, let's see.
On the last Thursday, we had 1584.
Today, we have 1609 extra trolls in the troll room.
Good to see you there, trolls.
Remember, you can join the trolls live on our Thursday and Sunday shows.
Did you crack something open there?
No, no, I'm sitting here like, no, I just... I thought you were... I'm mixing stuff off the list.
I wanted to know what you were drinking.
You can join the trolls at trollroom.io or the fancy new noagenda.stream.
Very nice, very nice website that Sir Tim CodedMonkey put in.
I gotta make sure I say CodedMonkey.
And, well, you can use a modern podcast app.
There's plenty of them.
Podverse is a great one to use.
Castamatic, Podcast Guru, Fountain.
You can find them at podcastapps.com.
Why are they so cool?
Well, first of all, they're built by independent people, so you can have something changed or added if you want to.
You can talk to the developer also.
When we go live, you don't get this on Apple or Spotify, they don't even have live in their podcast apps.
When we go live, boom, you get a notification, you tap on it, you're listening live, you get chapters, you get transcripts, and the minute we publish it, about a minute and a half, 90 seconds later, you get notified if you're listening later.
It's fantastic.
I don't see why you would still use... I get people, it hasn't uploaded to Apple for five hours after the show, I'm sleeping out!
Get a real app!
Stop it!
Stop it!
Rev... If you're listening to this show, you should be against the man.
Certainly against Spotify.
That's... I can't find your podcast on Spotify!
There's a reason for that.
Because they want to put ads in.
Because you have to sign a contract.
That's not how podcasting's supposed to work.
Take it from me!
I was there.
Yeah!
That's... You're the guy.
I was there.
I was there.
I don't get it.
It's very weird.
Didn't Spotify call you and ask you for some advice at some point?
Oh yeah, when they were rolling out, when they're getting ready for their podcast strategy, they had, it was the big consultancy, not Anderson, but the, where Mayor Pete's from.
Indianapolis?
No, no, the consultancy.
The consultant for the consultancy.
Oh, uh, McKinsey.
McKinsey, yeah.
They did a big white paper.
And my advice was, don't do it.
What has McKinsey got to do with the price of bread when it comes to podcasting, when they have somebody who actually invented the whole thing?
Like you, for example.
You didn't just ask, and you probably would have given it away.
Well, they called me.
McKinsey called me and said, well, you know, they had all these questions.
I said, this is a dumb idea.
Stay out of podcasting.
You'll only screw it up.
And you should have said, instead of that, you should have said, well, my fee is... No, I wanted to warn them.
And they promised me a copy of the report, which they never gave me.
So McKinsey are liars.
They're liars.
It's horrible.
They're liars.
Unbelievable that happened.
Liars.
Yeah.
Gee, I wonder why that happened.
No, I said, don't do this.
This is stupid.
And they spent a billion dollars and it didn't work.
There you go.
That's how it goes.
Obviously, they try to do an advertising play, as we say in the business.
We've got an advertising play.
Well, how did that work out?
It didn't.
It didn't.
They got all the big names, like Michelle Obama and the Kardashians and Meghan Markle and Harry, and it failed.
Because no one cares.
They're not podcasters.
It's just celebrities doing an MP3, trying to get some ad money.
And then they couldn't even fulfill it.
They had to open it up and put it on all the podcast apps.
And, you know, people always say, you know, it's so smart that you guys didn't go with advertising because, you know, you can't get deplatformed.
I just want to be honest about it.
The real honest reason, because we weren't thinking about deplatforming in 2007.
We weren't thinking about that.
No, because it wasn't a thing.
I think brand safety was already kind of bubbling under.
You know, there was some talk about it, that term specifically.
Yeah, but it wasn't like it was once they deplatformed Alex Jones and they made a big fuss and they started throwing people off the air.
You're out!
Yeah, it wasn't like that.
The reason why we didn't want to have an advertising model in the beginning was because we didn't want to have any meetings with advertisers.
Do you know how tedious that is?
That was the main thing you said, or you had actually more lewd ways of putting it.
I did.
We don't want to talk to those guys.
It's tedious.
It's horrible.
You have to have meetings.
And then, listen, we didn't really quite like your read on that last show.
You know, you didn't really punch it home.
And John stopped making noises when Adam's doing the read.
You know, who needs that nonsense?
That's exactly what you'd get.
And then they'll also be like, you know, we get in fights and be like, well, we really like John's read better.
So we're going to have him read everything.
And then, you know, be like, well, you know, we get in fights about it.
It would be bad between us.
It would be bad blood.
More money though.
Well, although something kind of amazing happened today.
Yes, we do have people that are super supporters that come in every so often, but it wasn't for them.
No, I mean, the amount of donations is very sparse today.
Yeah, we only have 35 actually.
But, and this is kind of the random number theory, and this is what we discovered with Value for Value, somehow the roller coaster evens out along the way.
Duchess Kim of the Fluffernuttys decided... Nutter Fluff is... It says Fluffernuttys.
Yeah, but I think that's a typo.
I was talking to Jay about it earlier.
Nutter Fluffy.
I think you're right.
It didn't sound right when I read it.
No, it's in the note.
It didn't sound right when I read it.
She's cam keeper of the nutty fluffers.
There you go.
Fluffers, nutties.
Hey, what's wrong?
What is Jay thinking of when she's doing the spreadsheet?
She cracked up and she said, well, just, you know, you guys can fix it in the post.
And no one told me.
Fix it in post.
Another thing we decided we never do.
She decided to come in with two donations.
The first one is really incredible, is none other than the coveted, soon to be rewarded with, I hope, a challenge coin or a tote bag.
We're still working on it.
Tote bag!
Is the magic number donation, also known as the Rub-A-Lizer donation.
So, 3333.33, she just comes in, lays that right down, and then comes in with another 1,000, which is a switcheroo, you have it there in front of you.
So, 3333.33.
She just comes in, lays that right down, and then comes in with another 1,000.
Which would be my read.
Which is a switcheroo.
You have it there in front of you.
Yeah, I do.
ITM John and Adam.
She needs some jingles.
Retirement karma.
That's an interesting thing to develop.
Little girl, yay and screw your freedom.
This donation's a switcheroo for my dad, John.
It's his birthday, June 26, 65.
He's gonna be 65.
And a Father's Day gift from all his Oregon family.
I would like to knight him.
Pop pop of the pocket protectors.
And keeper of his 15 grand babies.
At least somebody's doing their part.
At the round table, can I get him some Patron Platinum and Tomahawk Steaks?
Which is an interesting thing.
He taught me how to be tougher when things got hard, and how to push through any obstacle in my way.
Because of him, I am where I am today, which is... In a good spot, apparently.
In a good spot, we like.
And I would change nothing from our past.
Shit was hard, but we still kicked some ass.
Thank you, Dad, for everything.
Wow.
Oh yeah, you two are great as well.
Keep up the good work.
Duchess Kim, keeper of the Nutty Fluffers in Hubbard, Oregon, has $1,000.
Wow, and that's a switcheroo for him, as you said, and we don't necessarily have an exit strategy karma, but I'll make one up for you.
Screw your freedom.
Wow!
Exit strategy!
Four more years!
Exit strategy!
Four more years!
You've got karma.
Well, she actually went to retirement karma, not exit strategy.
Yeah, but that's retirement.
When we say exit strategy, that's retirement.
Look, did you have anything better?
I never thought of it as retirement.
I thought of it as doing something different.
Well, do you think he's just going to sit on his butt?
He's got stuff to do.
With a daughter like that, I doubt it.
Yeah, he'll probably be doing something.
Onward to... Yeah, there's no such thing as retirement for people like that.
No, not like that.
Jereen Faust is in Heidelberg, Missouri.
333.33.
This is also a switcheroo to Blaine Brining for his birthday, June 22nd.
Happy 60th birthday to my smokin' hot husband, Brian Brenning in Evansville, Indiana.
Please de-douche it.
You've been de-douched.
As I recently hit him in the mouth.
I love you, baby!
From Jareen.
Oh, how nice.
Uh, Sir D... Oh, I'm sorry, you're Germanized.
Sebastian de... Oh.
Sebastian de Stigler.
Stigter.
Sebastian de Stigter.
De Stigter.
Sebastian de Stigter.
And he's already our associate executive producer.
We're done with the executives just that quickly.
292.01.
And he says, in hindsight, it took way too long to get to knighthood, but I made it.
Keep doing what you're doing.
May you never execute on your exit strategy ideas.
What if we did?
Please knight me as knight of the Dutch spirit grounds.
Equals completely wrong and literal translation of the, of the, the Geestgronden.
Already blessed with karma, so not, not needed.
If any jingles at all, please select them yourselves.
Best Sebastian.
Oh, the Geestgronden.
That's what it is.
The Geest, the Geestgronden.
I'm gonna give him a karma.
He wants that.
You've got karma.
By the way, I wanted to, uh, I want to thank Geri.
Geri is the one who spent 15 hours knitting the monkey.
Which is the show title.
Remember I got that, uh, that knitted monkey from the meetup?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So her son gave it to me and I said, Oh, I got a monkey.
And he's like, dude, my mom has spent 15 hours on that.
Can't you like thank her?
Like, okay.
I think you're right.
Good point.
Good point.
Here's Sir D from Martensdijk, the Netherlands.
Hey guys, forgot to donate at the meetup.
It was nice meeting you, Adam.
That's 210 and 60.
And John, I love my old Lexus and I love what I do.
Sir D of the Hollandsche Rating.
All right.
They're these Dutchmen.
I love these guys.
Like, hey, you know, I've got to make sure I pony up for the meetup.
Thank you.
Thank you, brother.
Linda Lou Patkins on the list, and she's last on the list.
This is how grim it is.
In Lake, thank you, Juneteenth.
Linda Lou Patkins, Lakewood, Colorado.
$200, as usual.
She says, jobs karma.
She hasn't missed a beat for an unrivaled resume that gets results.
I try to blast through it without flubbing.
I can't even get past results.
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That's ImageMakersInc.com.
And partner with Linda Liu, Duchess of Jobs and writer of resumes.
I guess she does good work.
She does.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
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Screw your freedom.
Shut up, Steve.
Yay.
Can we start with the bonus clip? .
Now, did you get my email?
Yeah, did you get my email about the bonus clip?
No, I didn't.
What did it say?
It said, do you realize this is from 2019?
No, it's from 2020.
I think, okay.
Somebody researched it and said it was from 2020.
So it's four years old.
I mean, everyone's, this clip is going viral.
I'm like, who cares?
It's old.
I mean, we know everyone.
I know that it's old, but it got, it fell through the cracks because of COVID.
Oh yeah.
Oh, okay.
So we're going to dig this old cow out of the canal?
I'm digging the cow out of the canal.
Because it's clogging up things.
And because the guy who's... This is from New Amsterdam or Amsterdam News.
New Amsterdam.
Yeah, it was about the Bellevue Hospital.
It was from a novel.
They turned it into a TV show.
It lasted five years somehow.
And it ended in 2023.
I mean, it's at least two years old.
And And the guy who was the creator of this show is a huge Democrat.
If you look him up in Open Secrets, he's donated him.
He's a big Biden supporter.
Oh.
And so I thought, because of all that, that it would be worth listening to this.
I had never heard it before.
Make yourself comfortable, there's a couch over there.
Hey, is he okay?
Yeah, yeah, he's, um, he's okay.
I had CFAS answer some questions from a Harvard test known as UNREST.
It is designed to, um, measure someone's level of social resistance.
Social resistance?
When people like us oppose the values and policies of the dominant culture.
That's right.
And what does that have to do with... Your son, he feels threatened on a daily basis.
Like everything he's earned can just be taken away.
He's disenfranchised.
But because his life is seemingly free from all this, because he can't name it, he's internalizing it.
Name what?
Racism?
I think your son's tumor was caused by racism.
Yes!
The beauty!
The tumor's caused by racism.
The tumor's caused by... I would credit one of our producers for sending me that.
And I looked into it.
Of course, you find it when it's an old clip.
There's no doubt about it.
But I never heard it.
And the fact that they'd have the guts to put something like that on TV is just astonishing.
Well, remember it was during COVID.
You made the point.
A lot of stuff was going on in 2020 and they shot it before that, of course.
They probably shot it when Trump, you know, Trump was president and we have Black Lives Matter.
And so there, there was, there was all that stuff that was going on, but it doesn't matter because we have still a lot of racism happening, particularly at American Airlines.
Interesting little gaffes in this clip too.
Well, Fort Worth-based American Airlines is responding after three black passengers accused the airline of racial discrimination.
CEO Robert Isom wrote a letter to airline employees Tuesday that called the incident unacceptable.
Now, three black passengers sued American in federal court last month, accusing flight attendants of removing them due to racial discrimination.
The airline says another passenger complained of an offensive odor, which led to their removal.
But the lawsuit says flight attendants made no mention of an offensive odor on an earlier flight on the same day.
American CEO wrote in that letter to employees that the airline would take immediate action in the aftermath of this incident, forming an advisory group that would focus on improving the travel experience specifically for black customers.
Now, the NAACP responded with a statement saying, quote, The NAACP is pleased to see that American Airlines has taken initial steps towards a path to forge a path rather towards a more inclusive experience for all.
While it is unfortunately common for black consumers to experience racism and discrimination at the hands of corporations, it is not common to see such swift and decisive action.
She's divisive.
Her head's filled with diversity and divisiveness and she can't even get it out.
Yeah, I heard that.
She can't even get it out right.
So, I mean, that, it's a weird story.
Like, did the black people stink?
Is that what you're saying?
Was that the accusation?
How about this for an idea?
You team up with some, some guys or some, anybody you want.
You, you're the white person and you team up with some, and you, you make this complaint to get them kicked out so they can sue and you get part of the, you get a piece of the action.
In other words, the whole thing's a scam.
Is that possible that anyone would do that, you think?
No self-respecting black American would, no.
I don't think so.
Scammer!
Let me stick with the trans-Maoism for a second.
I got some feedback.
Remember the U-turn sign that was taken down, which was a clear symbol of LGBTQIAP hatred?
Yeah.
Remember the story, right?
And I was saying, you know, there's something weird about this.
What are they promoting?
What is going on?
Why is the drag queen there?
Well, guess what?
The drag queen is none other than maybe, M-A-E-B-E, who was elected in California, District 30, elected to Congress.
Under that screwball name that he, she uses?
Yeah, with the wig and everything.
Maybe a guy, I think is what the name was.
Something like that.
Maybe for Congress, but okay.
Yes, here's Maybe's platform, Universal Healthcare, tuition-free college, housing for all, environmental justice, LGBTQIA rights.
Racial justice, abolish ICE, livable wage, no more war.
I'm all in with maybe.
And reproductive rights.
And the website is maybeagirlforcongress.org.
Well, maybeagirlforcongress.org.
So that's what this was about.
And you remember that then there was this weird signage everywhere about baby gay.
And we were questioning what that is.
Yeah, Baby Gay.
Well, trust our anonymous gay accountant to check in.
And the anonymous gay accountant, who has my number, texts me, Dude!
Dude!
Dude.
That's how he talks.
Dude!
Baby Gay is not a gay couple's baby dressed up in pink.
There's no Baby Gay book they're selling.
A baby gay is just some guy that has recently come out of the closet.
He could be 30 or 25 or 50 or 18 or whatever.
Oh, it's slang.
Yes, just someone new at being out in gay culture.
Some people think the term is funny and some don't like it.
It's animosity in the gay community.
Yeah, bound to be.
Yeah.
And then, this report, which is... Well, at least we're keeping up, somehow.
Yeah, well thank you.
This is why we have producers.
This is why you don't have listeners, we have producers.
Whenever we say something off, or dumb, or whatever, or even if there's something we haven't said and you think you want to tell us... Wow, bless you.
You want to blow your nose now?
I think you do.
No, no, I'm fine.
Whenever there's something that, everyone's an expert at something.
Everybody is an expert at something.
And your job is to let us know.
So, the anonymous gay accountant, he's an expert in accounting and gay.
So, perfect.
Appreciate it.
And then there's this story which has an interesting kicker at the end.
A case in the making since 2017, now in the hands of the Colorado Supreme Court.
For background, Autumn Scardina, a transgender woman, ordered a pink cake with blue frosting commemorating her transition.
Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cake Shop refused after learning its significance.
I will not recreate a custom cake expressing any message that violates my religious beliefs, regardless of who asked for it.
Under the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act, it's illegal for places of public accommodation, like retail stores, to discriminate against protected classes of people, which includes transgender people.
But Phillips lawyers of the conservative legal group Alliance Defending Freedom claim a recent Supreme Court ruling protecting artists' freedom of speech is on their side.
When the Supreme Court ruled in 303 Creative, the court reaffirmed that Colorado can't force artists to express messages they don't believe.
The Constitution prevents the government from forcing cake artists, website designers, photographers, and other artists to express messages they don't believe in their custom art.
While some LGBTQ rights supporters watching the case are concerned about how the justices will rule in light of 303 Creative, Scardina's attorney claims that case is too narrow to apply, sticking with this argument.
Businesses are not permitted to discriminate against members of the public just because they object to their gender identity.
This isn't Jack Phillips' first time in court.
Back in 2018, the U.S.
Supreme Court sided with Phillips in a narrow ruling after he refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple.
The U.S.
Supreme Court announced it would take up that case in 2017.
And on the same day it made the announcement, Scardina called requesting the pink and blue cake.
So this is all posturing.
It's all phony.
It's all fake.
This person is not really offended.
They're just trying to make a point.
Meanwhile, everyone's hair on.
It's the same guy from the gay cake.
The Gay Cake.
Yeah, the Gay Cake.
It's a show title.
They didn't want to do the Trans Cake, but it was filed on the same day of the Gay Cake ruling.
This is just... Well, it's free publicity.
I don't know what they're up to.
Well... Colorado is more screwed up than California is, basically.
Well, but this brings me to another case that I think is worth discussing.
Because I'm going to take the other side on this, and I think I know what's going on here.
This is Louisiana, who have now put into law that the Ten Commandments must hang in every single public school classroom.
Critics say it threatens to blur the separation between church and state enshrined in the First Amendment in the U.S.
Constitution.
Republican Governor Jeff Landry signing into law new legislation requiring the Ten Commandments be displayed This bill mandates the display of the Ten Commandments in every classroom, in public, elementary, secondary, and post-education schools in the state of Louisiana.
Because if you want to respect the rule of law, you've got to start From the original lawgiver, which was Moses.
That's right.
Amen.
All right.
Amen!
Louisiana, the first state in the country to require that the religious text be displayed in public schools.
The law orders that posters no smaller than 28 by 35 centimeters be put up.
On them, commandments must be laid out in large and easily readable font.
While the religious text will be the central focus, it will also be paired with the statements detailing that the Ten Commandments have been a prominent part of American public education for almost three centuries.
Soon after the bill was signed into law, civil rights groups vowed to sue.
In a joint statement, the American Civil Liberties Union and several other organizations say the legislation is unconstitutional.
The First Amendment promises that we all get to decide for ourselves what religious beliefs, if any, to hold and practice without pressure from the government.
Politicians have no business imposing their preferred religious doctrine on students and families in public schools.
It's not the first time such a case has come up.
In 1980, the Supreme Court ruled that a similar Kentucky law was unconstitutional, but with six conservatives now in the top court, supporters of this new law believe the justices would rule in their favour in any potential lawsuit.
Yeah, I don't think it's about the Supreme Court.
I think that, first of all, as much as I think it's a great idea, I'm going to give it to ACLU on this one.
Obviously, this is where the so-called separation of church and state in the First Amendment does apply.
The government cannot mandate anything religious.
I think you can make an argument that this is a mandate of a religious text.
However, I think they're doing it to get the to get the pride flags out.
I think that I think this is a setup.
That's an interesting theory.
It might be a way to get the pride flags out because there's too many of them becoming a problem or make them a certain size.
35 centimeters, your flag can only be this big, something like that.
I think so.
That's interesting.
Because why else would you do this?
Well, California, talking about all these issues, Cal, since you're playing these localized clips, play this clip here, which is, I think, more concerning than anything.
I don't, to be honest about it, I don't think the Ten Commandments are a big deal to take out of the schools.
It's a good idea.
But Cal, schools, and the pronoun law.
School districts in California would be banned from forcing teachers to notify parents if their child asks to go by a new pronoun.
Today the State Senate approved this proposal and it now heads to the Assembly.
Supporters say it protects LGBTQ students from bullying and harassment.
Opponents say the bill strips parental rights and undermines the trust between schools and parents.
Hmm.
Well, this is the so so in other words the kid is a girl at the school and wants to be a boy and then the and wants to be called geezer or whatever.
Him.
Dude.
Yo.
The teachers are forbidden from mentioning any of this to the parents.
It's great.
Take your kids out of school.
It's crazy.
It's funny.
You can't have a cell phone, but you get... And then the rationale is to prevent bullying?
Doesn't the bullying take place in school?
Not at somebody's house?
Unless you're bullied by your parents?
Is that what they're saying?
They're saying the parents are bullies?
Is that what they're trying to imply?
It's nonsense.
It's nonsense.
Now, let me just go back to religion.
I think we can safely say, and we may even be able to prove it scientifically, that climatism is a religion.
Would you agree?
We've discussed this before in the past and listed the Bible of that religion and on and on, and the various saints of that religion.
Hansen, for example.
This is not a new topic.
No.
Then I'm not going to discuss that as the topic.
But I think they shouldn't be able to teach it in school.
This climatism is out of control.
Okay.
You started the show off talking about gaslighting.
You want to hear some gas lighting?
Here's Kathy Hochul, Governor of New York.
This is not a natural hot weather stretch for us here in the state of New York, especially upstate.
But we are going to be seeing temperatures at levels we have not seen in our lifetimes.
And I want to update New Yorkers on what we're doing about this significant public health event.
Right now, everywhere north of New York City is under a heat advisory, and it's only going to get worse.
Starting today in the Genesee Valley and the Finger Lakes and starting tomorrow, extreme heat will hit everywhere in the great state of New York.
Now what does this mean?
It's a dangerous mix of high temperatures and extreme humidity causing feels like temperature of over 100 degrees.
Now that's hot!
Now you and I have both, by the way the social media just blasted this.
Of course.
There's all kinds.
You and I have both been in New York.
Yeah, I lived there for 12 years and in New Jersey.
And you lived in the area forever.
Yeah.
And it's like this every summer.
I was there one year to some meetings.
I had to be there right in the middle of summer.
I think it was in August.
And it was so hot and humid that literally had to change my clothes three times a day.
Because you just get soaked.
Yeah.
And it's just a mess.
And this isn't in our lifetimes.
I remember walking on the streets of New York City and the tar was sticking to your shoes.
Now, okay.
It's terrible.
It can get miserable there.
And very, very humid.
And it just hangs there.
Now, of course, this is because of the so-called heat dome, which they are now lying about.
We discovered this on a previous episode.
They're saying, oh, this is the carbon dioxide.
It hangs in the air.
And that creates a wet blanket over everything and that's why it's hot.
Instead of the humidity and even some dust.
There's all kinds of stuff that causes it.
But this is not the carbon dioxide.
But oh no!
More than a dozen cities hit new record highs today, including Boston, Hartford, Connecticut, and Gary, Indiana, as 18 states broil under the heat dome.
Tina's... Broil!
Tina's entire family still lives in Indiana.
She grew up literally on the other side of the train tracks from Gary, Indiana.
Guess who hasn't been calling like, Oh, it's so hot, Tina's sister!
You won't believe it!
Her family.
Because, like, okay, it's a little warm.
But, oh, geary Indiana.
Please.
And what are we talking?
90 degrees.
Oh, no!
It's 90.
The map is red.
In some places, it felt as hot as 110 degrees.
Felt as hot as.
So it wasn't actually that hot.
It just felt that way.
CBS's Lili Luciano reports from a brutally hot Philadelphia.
In the city of brotherly love, the heat came early.
It's super hot.
EMT Donyell Green says he's bracing for a busy season.
Are you making those knocks earlier in the season you feel?
Yeah, last summer it was actually summer when we started getting our heat strokes or heat exhaustion.
The city has already declared its first heat health emergency of the year through Saturday.
In Vermont?
We're out here for the next couple days just trying to beat the heat, get out of the heat dome.
There are parts of the state today that are almost 10 degrees hotter than Miami.
Meteorologist Shel Winkley with Climate Central says Miami is almost hotter than Miami is 87 degrees.
Is Horowitz calling you saying I can't do the show?
It's too hot?
I'm melting here?
This is, this is gaslighting.
Meteorologist Shel Winkley with Climate Central says the shifting weather patterns have a culprit.
Talk to us about the impact of human activity on these heat patterns.
As we pollute our atmosphere with things like carbon, extra carbon from burning oil and natural gas and coal.
By the way, I think he means carbon dioxide.
I'm just going to keep harping on that.
I refuse to allow people to just call it carbon.
It's not carbon.
It's carbon dioxide.
That's what you've told us the problem was.
You can't just show... You know what?
It's going to be carb.
That'll be it.
And before you know it, carbs is just going to be carbon dioxide.
Carbs.
Talk to us about the impact of human activity on these heat patterns.
As we pollute our atmosphere with things like carbon, extra carbon from burning oil and natural gas and coal, what we're essentially doing is trapping in a lot of this heat.
It adds that wool blanket over the top of us so that heat is basically trapped.
There's nowhere for it to go.
And what's happening too is that the nighttime temperatures are also rising, so there's not enough time for the cities, for the land, for people to recover before the sun comes out, so it only keeps getting hotter.
All right.
Important explanation.
Willie Luciano, thank you so much.
Oh, important explanation.
Thank you.
It's a lie.
That is not what... I need to go back and get some old Heat Dome clips.
Just so they can hear what they were talking about when it was actually a heat dome.
Which we've had.
Heat domes happen.
Not these.
Oh, it's carbon dioxide.
It's carbon.
It's just hanging in the air, the carbon, like a blanket.
It has more to do with the barometric pressures.
Yes, it's all about the pressure.
Now, so this was a nice little one of those performative Q&As in Senate, which is always fun to listen to.
And it's meant for podcasters so we can pull clips.
This is the House Science Committee.
They had a hearing on California's train emissions.
Train?
Yes.
Because trains emit emissions.
You know, trains.
Electricity emissions.
It's carbon, man!
And so this is Representative McCormack from Hmm.
I don't know where he's from.
Well, it doesn't matter.
So he's grilling this poor sap, who's there trying to say, you know, talk about the emissions, and oh boy, oh, we can't have trains.
They're not even that great.
But we can't have trains, because, you know, carbon heat dome.
Mr. McCormick, you're recognized for five minutes.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Abbott, you just brought up an interesting point about the ocean rising.
How much has it risen in the last 50 years?
I'll have to get back with you on that, Congressman.
Not a significant amount, obviously.
Fifty years.
Since 1970, what's the carbon emissions, the carbon content to the atmosphere, is it greater or less than what it was in 1970?
Could you repeat that question again?
The carbon content, the carbon dioxide levels in the entire Earth's atmosphere, was it greater or less than it was in 1970?
I would say greater.
You care to state that, bet money on that?
I'll let you answer the question, either that I'm right or wrong.
Okay.
And what percentage of the atmosphere is made up of carbon dioxide?
It's a little over 400 parts per billion.
So, 0.04%, right?
Of that, how much comes from human beings?
About 11%.
How much comes from the United States?
14% of that, how much comes from trains in the United States?
0.5%.
So, we're talking about eliminating 0.000003% of the Earth's atmosphere carbon dioxide.
That's what we're talking about.
Is that a negligible effect when it's compared to 1971%?
Yes.
Thank you.
in 71%?
Yes.
Thank you.
So I love science.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's how we need to look at this stuff.
But oh no, it's going to kill us all.
Well, they had that one congressional hearing where they asked a bunch of people what was the percent, how much percent carbon dioxide is in the atmosphere.
Oh, people think it's 30%.
They weren't even close.
It's .04%.
It's hardly any.
Yeah, what I learned here is that... And that guy, by the way, said parts per billion.
It's parts per million.
Yeah, per million.
Well, when you get down to it, then it's parts per billion.
When he... when it's the percentage of the trains, it's parts per billion, because you're another thousand million.
I think.
A thousand mil... yeah.
0.0004%.
That's 4% per billion.
Or parts per billion, I think.
Gaslighting.
I love science!
Thank you to our producer, David, who came across a peer-reviewed published paper in the January 2024 volume of Global Ecology and Conservation.
It's a very hefty document.
It's in the show notes, of course.
I'll spare you the boring academic details because, you know, these are people who know how to read this stuff.
That's who our producers are.
The nutshell of this is that in the latest series of papers that claim to have detected a global greening trend over the past couple of decades with an extra leafage equivalent to the total area of 1.4 times that of the contiguous United States now covering Earth.
Furthermore, the trend shows sign of acceleration.
Correlating the greening with multiple time series, the authors found that this trend was most correlated with increased CO2 levels, followed by changes to air temperature.
How about that?
It was a guy on one of the, it was on NPR some years ago, that went on and on about his, he had greenhouses and he had been pumping extra CO2 into them to get the plants in the greenhouse to go nuts.
Plants need carbon dioxide.
Not just plants, but you know, Sir Gene, he has snakes.
He has two snakes.
I think one is 17 feet and the other one is a small one, about 7 feet.
And they're in his house.
And he usually has the carbon dioxide levels in his house up to about 1,200 or 1,400 parts per million.
He says the snakes love it.
He's member there's a whole community, you know more co2 community.
There's that newsletters and secret meetup more co2 Yeah, we don't have enough.
No, we don't know if it drops below like I think 300 I think it's, I think 260.
It'll kill everything on Earth.
Yeah, we die, exactly.
Hmm.
Makes you wonder why they want it to go down.
And of course, more gaslighting in California with the climatism.
Two months early, fire season has ignited in California.
Dry conditions and high winds are fueling the flames, making it difficult for firefighters to contain the blaze.
We have two and a half years of unburned fuel in a lot of places because we haven't had a big major fire over the last couple of seasons.
We've had them bumping off, but not to this size.
The post fire has been burning since Saturday, so far scorching 56,000 square kilometers, forcing evacuations with only 25% of the blaze contained.
So you can see our number one nemesis is this wind.
That wind is really whipping up there even worse than it is right here.
So that's really what is the biggest challenge right now.
As you can see behind me, the fire destroyed this car along with other structures in the town of Gorman, about a hundred kilometers north of Los Angeles.
Luckily, no one has died.
California has seen a surge in fires in recent years, making it difficult to insure some homes.
Scientists say human-caused climate change is worsening these extreme weather events.
And now, a dangerous heat wave is gripping much of the western U.S.
Well, broadly across the West, this heat wave will probably mark the start of increased fire activity, and it is still early in the season, so vegetation has not approaching its peak seasonal dryness that would typically occur sometime between August and October, depending on where you are.
So the fire risk will be increasing.
The fire extends beyond California.
In New Mexico, two wildfires rage, triggering evacuations and confirming an early start to a devastating fire season.
That's France 24 in case you're wondering about that read.
Yeah, I was wondering as a matter of fact.
They got a new dude in there.
Yeah, I think he also doubles at the W's.
What is it?
N-T-D.
Not N-T-D.
You pencil necks!
So of course, you know, they haven't had a good fire in two years, so yeah, no wonder, no forest management, but okay.
There's no forest, yeah, we used to manage this stuff.
And I don't know what they took the money away from it.
I guess because of global warming.
I don't know.
It's just the whole thing seems like a setup.
Well, we're getting ready for COP 29.
That's why these stories have to increase.
This is the big COP where we're finally going to figure out how we're going to finance it all, how we're going to pay Wait, where's this one taking?
What private airplane hangar nearby is this taking?
Where did all these climate guys have to fly on their private jets to this time for the cop?
It's a fan favorite.
It is basically the Casablanca of the Middle East, Baku.
Okay.
Remember Baku?
Baku is like, it's awesome.
I vaguely remember Baku.
I know they've finally taken it out of Europe because one time it was in Holland, I think, or someplace where it just happened to be a fluke and it was snowing.
It was during the show era.
Baku is, I mean, that's, I mean, that's, you might as well do it in Dubai.
Yeah, it's hot.
No, but it's also nice.
It's nice.
It's, you know, you got all kinds of amenities that are cool if you're doing a, you know, a big meet-up.
Yeah, gold.
But of course, we don't, I mean, it's not just the fires, it's not just the heat dome.
No, no, no.
It's also the tropical glaciers.
Forget about Ukraine.
And if there was then a two degrees rise in temperatures, what could that mean?
Well, and thank you very much for having me.
You know, this is, in a way, the third kind of crisis that's happening right now.
It can be very difficult to focus on this with Gaza, with Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, but the reality... So the minute she says that, it's just the third crisis, because of course we had the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, that means she's here to deliver talking points.
By the way, she sounds exactly like that woman that used to be running NPR that talked about advertising.
She's got that same voice, that cadence.
It can be very difficult to focus on this with Gaza, with Russia's full-scale invasion.
Now you're driving me crazy.
Let's listen to it.
NPR.
Advertising.
Okay.
You know, I always have a problem.
Oh, this is the one.
I think this is the one.
I do this to mess up the show.
You know that, right?
You're very good at it.
Underwriting?
Oh, man.
Advertising, whatever you want to call it.
Yeah, but that's what you think.
That's what you think it would be.
Whatever.
You want to?
Oh, heck, thank you.
Okay, let's listen.
Let's go to this lady first.
...of Ukraine, but the reality is this crisis is going on right now.
Okay, moving on to money.
How are NPR's corporate underwriting revenues holding up in the recession?
And what about foundation grants?
Um, two different stories.
Underwriting is down.
It's down for everybody.
With Gaza, with Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, but the reality is this... I mean, this is the... Kind of.
Kind of.
Crisis is going on right now.
The EQ is different.
It's the same cadence.
It's the same lady.
This is going on right now, and it will indeed be irreversible.
Parts of it are right now already.
There's a very good chance, for example, that the West Antarctic ice sheet has already tipped.
But we can slow.
John, the West Antarctic ice sheet has tipped.
It's tipped.
It's fallen over.
It's tipped.
Well, if Trump gets in, they won't have to pay taxes.
The West Antarctic ice sheet has already tipped, but we can slow it down so that we're probably looking at maybe three meters of sea level rise that we can no longer.
Three meters?
We're maybe looking at three meters of sea level rise?
Uh, when is this going to happen, lady?
...stop, but we may be able to stretch it out to 800 or 1,000 years.
Oh!
Oh!
Is that what the model says?
In 800 to 1,000 years, it's going to be... Okay.
Glaciers, especially tropical glaciers, are disappearing incredibly quickly right now, and Venezuela lost its last glacier, La Corona Glacier, sometime in the past year.
And so these have inevitable consequences for humans.
Just this morning, the group ISIMOD, which is an international organization focused on the Himalayas, advised the countries in that region to prepare for drought this year because snow is at a record low amount in river basins such as the Indus.
And so this is ongoing.
It's sort of the slow crisis, but the inevitable crisis.
Inevitable.
And it's something we have to focus on.
And that we can still prevent the worst of, if we can stick to 1.5 degrees.
But unfortunately, we're not on that track in any way, shape, or form right now.
I think a thousand years.
You know what?
Let's take a gamble.
Let's take a gamble.
You know, isn't slow crisis, as a term, an oxymoron?
It's a slow crisis.
That's a very good point.
Yeah, a crisis is something that happens kind of immediately.
It's a crisis!
It's a crisis!
Run, run!
Get hair on fire!
Yeah, good point.
But no, slow crisis?
What is that?
It's a bullcrap term.
This is like the bullcrap term about cheap fake.
Same thing.
This is what we're getting.
A lot of these gaslighting terms.
The minute she was done with the interview, all her buddies called and said, oh man, you're buying at Baku.
You're buying drinks.
Good one.
Slow crisis.
Slow crisis.
Good one.
Luckily though, the European Union is fixing it.
The culmination of a long battle within the European Union.
A long battle.
That's really a relief.
Environment ministers from the bloc's 27 countries, meeting in Luxembourg, have backed the nature restoration plan.
Finland, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and Sweden voted against it, while Belgium abstained.
And after opposing the text in March, Germany this time voted in favour of the legislation, meaning it can now pass into law following months of setbacks.
The plan requires Member States to introduce measures restoring nature on a fifth of their land and sea by 2030.
It's a clear signal that the protection of the environment and nature is important for our future, for the existence of us all, for agriculture and for forestry.
It's therefore also a sign of better protection for our population.
The vote had just enough support to pass, with Austria's environment minister defying her conservative coalition partners by pledging to back the policy because, she said, the health and happiness of future generations is at stake.
My decision to support this law has been intensely debated.
I know I will face opposition in Austria on this, but I'm convinced that this is the time to adopt this law.
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer promptly responded that his government would file a complaint at the European Court against a, quote, unlawful vote.
This is exactly what the farmers in the Netherlands and France, what they all protested against, is this, oh no, no, we have to get rid of cows and get rid of farms.
It just has to be nature.
Just has to be nature.
I was walking with Christina in Rotterdam.
They got plenty of nature in the city.
It's great.
There's no farm, no cows you need to get rid of.
It's perfect.
And it's getting very green because of all the CO2.
I wonder if they're panicking.
Oh, it's a slow panic for them.
Final clip.
I saved this one for last.
It's for you.
It looks like, even though they've had some problems, They will be raising money to fix your potholes.
The pothole problem is going to be fixed in California.
With more than 30 million registered passenger vehicles in California, the state says it shells out more than $8 billion a year to maintain the roads those cars drive on.
Much of that cost is paid from money collected here, at the pump, from gas taxes.
But because so many Californians now own electric vehicles, the gas tax money is starting to dry up.
Um, a $4.4 billion loss in revenue because of these issues.
Which is why Caltrans wants to instead charge drivers per mile and is now enrolling people in a six-month pilot program to test out the concept.
And what's unique about this pilot is this time we'll be collecting actual revenue from participants.
So why would you participate in a program that charges you about three cents for every mile you drive?
Caltran says it will waive gas tax fees and give participants up to $400.
Drivers would track their miles by taking a photo of their odometer or using a transponder placed in their car.
You have big concerns about being tracked.
Any data that's shared is totally at the control of the participant.
They choose how much data.
The data is processed by our account manager and it does not come to Caltrans.
All that Caltrans would see is the number of miles.
It's not going to ever see any of your location information.
If you'd like to participate in the pilot program, you can sign up on Caltrans' website.
Now, participants will be charged two different rates.
Some will be charged a flat rate per mile, and others will be charged based on the fuel efficiency of their vehicle.
That's the tricky bit in there!
So, you'll be charged based upon the fuel... How's that old Lexus doing on fuel efficiency?
I get about, uh...
I don't know, I think you get about 19 miles per gallon on the thing.
That's pretty good.
But it's no EV.
Pretty good?
That's pretty good, but it's no EV.
No, no, I mean, you'd be getting... I thought you were a hybrid.
It's amazing what- 50, 60 miles per gallon.
It's amazing what they're doing there in California.
It really is.
Oh yeah, this is- and by the way, if they had all this pothole money before the EVs showed up- Pothole money.
Why aren't their potholes fixed?
This is bullcrap.
I like pothole money.
These are lies.
This is gaslighting.
This is the theme of today's show.
Gaslighting.
I got my pothole money.
JCD ain't happy.
Pothole money.
There's a hip-hop song in there somewhere.
Pothole Money.
Yeah, it's not bad.
Let's go... I got some interesting... Let's... How about doing Pothole Money?
I got... Gates is building nukes and so he's out of the news a little bit.
I want to get these... I want to get these clips out of the way because it's about Hunter Biden's verdict.
It's from the Heritage Foundation.
Had an expert come on one of the shows.
I think it's NTD.
And discuss what's actually going on, which is that, you know, because I watched Jon Stewart and it's like, oh, you know, everybody's even Steven because, oh, yeah, Trump got, you know, maybe political, but look what they did to Hunter Biden because he got found guilty and he's not going to be pardoned, which.
Is unlikely.
So here we go.
I want to play these two clips.
It's only two of them.
It's H.F.
Hunter Biden.
We're joined now by Mike Howell, the executive director of the Oversight Project at the Heritage Foundation.
Mike, on Tuesday, the jury in the Hunter Biden's federal criminal case found Hunter guilty on all three of the charges that he faced.
What was your initial reaction when you learned this guilty verdict?
Yeah, not surprised whatsoever.
Was born tonight, wasn't born last night, and the fix has been in for some time here.
I mean, I really worry that the propaganda media is going to play this as a both sides thing.
They're going to basically say at the high level, oh my gosh, Hunter was held accountable and that's what's happening to Trump.
And then when they're categorically different things of degree and kind and implications.
What's happening with Hunter is essentially they picked the lowest level thing that didn't connect to Joe, the thing they could paint in the light of addiction, the most sympathetic light, as a means to absolve him for guilt and everything else.
What the American people really care about, what I care about, is not that Hunter was a crackhead, not that he was a crackhead that got his dead brother's wife addicted to crack cocaine.
She's the one who found the gun and got rid of it.
All that's immaterial.
What's material is the corruption in the federal government that Joe Biden and and his family were running an international pay-to-play influence and peddling scheme in some of the most corrupt regions of the world, to include Ukraine and the CCP, you know, our enemies in the CCP, and other corrupt regions.
Have you ever met a crackhead?
I met a guy that eventually became a crackhead, but I don't know that I've ever met an active crackhead.
Did you?
Yes, just this week.
You know, Christina has, she went to school and she's now a social worker in a, I think they have 30 people in this house and they are adults, not just, I think it's all male, uh, middle age, uh, you know, like 40 to 70, so middle age and above.
And they either have light mental issues or drug addictions, but most have both.
And this one guy, he was a crack addict and he was quite entertaining.
You know, he's also a No Agenda fan.
What?
Oh, yeah.
We have crackheads listening to our show.
We have the unbelievably wide audience, which is another reason we couldn't take advertising.
It's really true.
I don't want to say his name.
He's great.
He was quite interesting.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Absolutely.
He's very, you know, Hunter may have been a very fun guy to hang out with when he was on crack.
That's what some people think, except for his missing teeth.
Well, oh yeah, there's definitely that.
The dental hygiene is not great with the cracks.
It's an acrid smoke that just basically eats away at everything.
Yeah, it does.
It's terrible.
It does.
It's not good.
It's not an outstanding product, people.
I'm not endorsing it.
What happened in this arc, starting from a year ago when we were in federal court, they were trying, the same federal court, by the way, that he just got convicted in.
David Weiss, the prosecutor, same prosecutor here, tried to give Hunter a plea deal, say, you know, accept liability for the gun and tax stuff, and we'll pardon you for all this other stuff that connects back to Joe and the corruption that the American people are upset with.
We sniffed that out, got it blown up, and so here they are back at the drawing board today, convicting him of the gun charge, but still no movement on the things that American people care about.
And what this sets up for, not only is the misinformation that, like, the law is being applied evenly in this country, but for a pardon of Hunter, they picked this sympathetic thing that you can't, or you can wrap in addiction and all those things, and you cannot connect to Joe, and it sets up Joe for a pardon of Hunter, a pardon that and you cannot connect to Joe, and it sets up Joe for a pardon of Hunter, a
But for all the things connecting not only back to Joe and his family, but the thing I'm even more concerned about than the Bidens is the intelligence community and law enforcement who sat there and watched this corruption happening in plain sight.
Not only did nothing, but hit it and then used every tool at the disposal of the awesome force of the U.S.
government and even some other governments to go after President Trump, which they're still doing today.
And so this is not a both sides thing.
This is corruption.
Okay, that's actually a good analysis.
So you can pardon from everything, all crimes.
Close the book on the Bidens.
Yeah, that's what you do.
That's how you do it.
These guys are not stupid.
No, they're doing a good job.
Okay, here's another thing I think we need to delve into.
This, I think we're at level gaslighting on this Boeing thing as well.
Now remember, there's only two real manufacturers of any merit when it comes to commercial aircraft, Airbus and Boeing.
Both are huge defense contractors.
So there's got to be, I'm now thinking that Congress is sending a big message to Boeing saying, you need to donate more money.
Because this is really, I mean, the coincidence of yet another whistleblower showing up just before the latest hearing with the CEO.
Listen to this interview with Blumenthal, who I don't like anyway.
That guy's terrible.
Listen to how she pronounces his name.
We've got breaking news for you this morning.
A current Boeing employee is accusing the airplane manufacturer of cutting corners.
This latest whistleblower came forward hours before Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun will be grilled on Capitol Hill today.
And there, of course, are growing questions over the safety of Boeing's aircraft, which is why he is speaking to those on the Hill.
Democratic Senator Richard Brumenthal chairs the subcommittee.
I like that she says Brumenthal.
I don't know why I like it.
She corrects herself later.
So Brumenthal is doing the interview here.
He's about to grill the CEO and a new whistleblower shows up.
What are the chances?
To those on the Hill.
Democratic Senator Richard Brumenthal.
Wait, wait, before you say that, I don't have a clip.
But I did watch this, and it was Holly, who's a great showboater.
Big time.
Who went, who really dug into the amount of money, the CEO was making 36 million.
No, no, no, 30, no it was 33, it was 32.8, 33 million, which of course is the magic number.
Well, it was still, it was a, The way he was digging into the guy's money, it was like, you know, you're making an awful lot of money, where is our cut?
And I'm looking at open secrets and they Boeing has only spent in 2024.
Two point nine or two point nine four million dollars.
That's not even 10 percent of the guy's salary.
Exactly!
Where's your tithe, dude?
We need at least $6 million from you.
Where's your tithing?
Listen to the numbers.
We've got for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, $210,000.
For the Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee, $210,000.
For the National Republican Congressional Committee, $210,000.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee, $210,000.
Nothing to Biden, nothing to Trump.
They have to give you that half and half.
Oh, wait.
$1,000 to the DNC Services Corporation.
Tim Kaine, Democrat, got ten grand.
And Nikki got nothing.
Mark Warner got nothing.
So this is a lot of nothings here, including Biden and Trump, at least not so far.
I think this is a shakedown.
You're right.
You make $33 million.
You've given $2.9 million.
What's wrong with you?
And that's the corporation.
Where's your individual?
You have to look him up individually to see if he gave any money.
What's his name?
I don't know.
Calhoun?
Calhoun.
Yeah, but I don't know his first name.
You have to look it up.
I'll find it.
I'll find it.
But whatever the case, I think, yeah, Shakedown.
This is an extortion game and they're trying to humiliate the guy.
Yeah.
Doing a pretty good job.
I'm all in on this thesis.
Completely.
to those on the Hill.
Democratic Senator Richard Brumenthal chairs the subcommittee holding today's Boeing hearing.
He joins me now.
Thank you so much, sir, for coming this morning.
We are all very curious about this last-minute whistleblower who's come forward.
You, I think, actually spoke to him.
What did you learn from him, from this new whistleblower?
This whistleblower, Sam Mohawk, is one of a dozen who have come to us in recent months.
And his allegations are extraordinarily serious.
He is saying that Boeing used non-conforming parts, those are parts that are defective or damaged or undocumented and mistracked, in airplanes, installing them, and then lying to the FAA about how it was storing those non-conforming parts.
This kind of violation of trust is part of a pattern, a broken safety culture at Boeing.
The company promised it would turn around that safety culture after the two crashes that occurred in 2018 and 2019.
There was a deferred prosecution as you... Trump did that, by the way.
...recall on the condition that Boeing, in effect, improved its performance.
Trust me, dude.
We really want you to do well, Dave Calhoun.
We should want Boeing to succeed.
It's a company.
Trust me, dude, we really want you to do well, Dave Calhoun, but you got to pony up.
A company that is key to our economy and to aircraft manufacturing.
My economy.
Yeah, exactly.
Major aircraft manufacturers in the world, I want to help it regain trust by facing the facts.
And the facts are very bluntly and deeply alarmingly that Boeing has failed to comply with the conditions that it promised it would.
And absent from, actually I have a little bit of the Boeing's, I have a report here.
Absent, as far as I could tell, unless you saw, but I don't see Pete Buttigieg anywhere.
Is he in there?
Is he being grilled about the... I mean, ultimately it falls under his... It's in his portafalia, is it not?
It would be.
He's the head of the Department of Transportation.
Yeah, he's in charge of the FAA.
Well, he can't pony up any money, so what would be the point?
Instead, Jane Pauley does puff pieces of him and Chaston and their kids at home cooking pancakes.
Which is not a good look when your planes are falling out of the sky.
Met by chance of shame as he entered the hearing room, Boeing CEO David Calhoun quickly apologized to the families of those who died in two MAX 8 crashes overseas.
And promised Boeing is changing.
Our culture is far from perfect.
But we are taking action and we are making progress.
But Calhoun came under immediate bipartisan fire.
This hearing is a moment of reckoning.
There it is.
For the Max 8 crashes, the Max 9 door plug blowout in January, quality control breakdowns, defective parts, and whistleblower reports of falsified documents, intimidation, and retaliation.
It appears that Boeing has fostered a culture that censors people who try to speak up and help.
You're the problem.
And I just hope to God that you don't destroy this company before it can be saved.
Today, a new whistleblower claims Boeing's 737 MAX assembly line lost hundreds of parts that did not meet Boeing's specs, which he claims were hidden from FAA inspectors and may have ended up in planes, and that it could lead to a catastrophic event.
I have not directly spoken to any of the whistleblowers.
Do you think that'd be a good idea to do that?
Yeah, I think it would.
Tom, the Justice Department could still charge Boeing and the CEO.
Yeah, prosecutors have until July 7th to decide, but Boeing is critical to the national economy, the space program, national defense, so the government has a lot to weigh in deciding whether to file charges.
National defense, you know, that could also be an angle.
Someone's trying to lean on them.
Maybe someone else wants to get in on their defense action?
Build some different military planes?
Anything's possible.
But this is a shakedown of some sort.
I don't think of some sort, just a shakedown period.
It's not any particularly different kind of shakedown than these guys do.
All you have to do is look at their net worth of all these people that are in Congress.
When they got in, what they were worth and then what they got became worth like six years later on a pretty kind of a modest salary somehow, they became worth a fortune.
Almost all of them.
How about Josh Hawley?
I'm sure Hawley's right up there with him.
He's one of the best of the group in terms of like of showboating up in Congress.
I mean, I find it very entertaining.
He's really good at it.
But I'm sure Josh Hawley's got some buck story.
They all do.
They said it was nonpartisan.
That's a giveaway in today's world.
Yeah, because they're definitely not doing it for our safety.
Let's be honest.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
We want to make sure people fly safe.
We want Boeing to succeed.
That's what they're saying.
We want Boeing- They do!
They want them to succeed, but they want their cut.
How much you make them, dude?
33 million?
And you gave us 2.9?
Only half of that went to us?
Hmm.
It's cynical, but I think there's something to it.
I like it.
I don't have any argument against the thesis.
It's got to be what it is.
I have a couple of clips I wanted to get out of the way again.
This is Robert Reich.
You've got to explain who Robert Reich is.
This guy.
Robert Reich is the former Labor Secretary under Clinton.
He's a professor at Cal.
And he's a left-wing stooge, and he does a podcast.
Oh, with his mistress.
With some woman.
Whatever.
I don't know.
We don't know that.
We don't know that.
Well, that's true.
You're right.
I never asked her pronouns either.
But and he wears this.
He's like he's a professor and he's professorial and he's and he wears this raggedy ass T-shirt.
He's like a like a beat up old one that's in the commercial with his old beat up and the guy's embarrassed to be at a restaurant wearing it.
And that's what he wears on his podcast.
And I find it to be like off-putting.
Why does he even have to He's going to be on video with the podcast.
Just do an audio podcast.
Yeah, he's on video and he dances a little bit.
He does a little thing at the beginning where they play their little intro music.
What's the name of this podcast again?
I have to get the name.
Whatever the case is, Robert, you can just look up Robert Reich Podcast.
Thank you.
Thank you for the search tip.
Coffee Clutch.
That will be the tip.
That could be a tip.
I could use that tip.
Coffee Clutch.
The name of the show is Coffee Clutch.
Clutch.
Coffee Clutch.
Yeah.
I think it's spelled with a K. Yes.
K-O-A-T-C-H.
Coffee Clutch.
I'm all for Clems.
I'm Robert Reich.
So he has his normal talking points and he's part of the group of every Democrat there is going after our Supreme Court, especially Clarence Thomas.
Yes.
And so they just put this stuff out there to just part of the whole situation to get You know, Alioto, not Alito, Alito and Thomas are under fire.
Alioto used to be the mayor of San Francisco.
And Alito and Thomas are targets because of this upcoming, they haven't finished their ruling on the Chevron deference, but that's supposed to come next month.
We'll see.
It's cranking up.
It's cranking up.
So let's play a break.
Well, what about the Supreme Court and the bump stock opinion?
So basically what happened was the court threw out in a decision led by Clarence Thomas a ban that would have stopped this addition to a gun and made it faster.
It's my translation.
Wow, great translation.
It's the right translation.
I think the interesting thing to me here is this is not a Second Amendment right-to-gun case.
This is another example of the Supreme Court trying to erode the legitimacy of administrative agencies who are tasked with the job of interpreting statutes.
If administrative agencies in the federal government and the executive branch can't interpret statutes, then who's going to interpret the statutes?
Nobody.
Okay.
Hold on a second.
Well, I worked for an administrative agency when I was younger, for almost a decade, not quite.
This was the Chevron deference, which says you can, you know, these agencies have all this leeway, was in 1984.
I worked there before that, even got through.
How were they operating?
How were they operating before 1984?
According to him, it can't be done!
I would like to remind everybody that it was Trump, during the Trump administration, that the bump stocks were banned after the Vegas shooting, which was blatantly not a bump stock, which fires rounds much faster than the belt-fed machine gun that was obviously used.
I mean, we remember we were dissecting the sound.
We went over this to an extreme.
Everything.
So, um... That whole, it was the fishiest thing.
They never really solved it.
The guy who was a gun dealer was supposedly doing it, and he was dead somehow.
The whole thing, that whole thing was...
I think at the time it came out that Al-Qaeda, not Al-Qaeda, but ISIS or somebody along those lines.
MBS was roaming around Vegas and some other Saudi prints.
We do not know the full story.
No, this story's never been revealed.
Okay, wrap it up with this guy.
Notice that they went right after Clarence Thomas and they're gonna do it again.
Of course.
And Thomas, in two opinions, on this bump stock and also on the National Labor Relations Board and Starbucks, basically said the administrative agencies had gone beyond their official realm of power.
The Supreme Court doesn't like administrative agencies.
It would like instead either the president or Congress to take more responsibility.
Honestly, Heather, this goes so much beyond an activist Supreme Court.
I mean, this is a Supreme Court that is out of control.
That bump stock opinion was really in the face of what happened in Las Vegas.
Everybody remembers what happened in Las Vegas.
How many years ago?
Just a few years ago.
A few years ago, 60, I think, people killed.
60 people killed.
400 injured.
I mean, it was big.
Because the shooter used a gun stock.
It's the only thing that we have done as a country.
John, the shooter used a gun stock now, not a bump stock, but a gun stock.
Because the shooter used a gun stock.
It's the only thing that we have done as a country to try to control guns.
And we can't even do this with the Supreme Court and Clarence Thomas.
I know it.
In a weird way, they're kind of tying these two things together.
I think this is the clip, because the two things together being the Supreme Court, Chevron deference, and oh my, Trump's going to get rid of the entire administrative state.
Oh, what's going to happen?
Dr. Gupta, I often talk about the Trump hangover, the fact that even when he is not in power, there are still reminders everywhere of the effect that he had on public opinion, and these attitudes about vaccines are just one example.
Absolutely.
You know what we saw pre-pandemic to now.
Maybe this is not the clip, but let's listen anyway.
50% increase in the number of parents who think pre-pandemic to now that routine childhood vaccinations like measles, mumps, and rubella should be voluntary.
Just over the course of the last few years.
So this spillover effect is real.
And we're seeing this death of expertise.
Dr. Fauci talked about it a few days ago.
The unwillingness to buy into expertise.
What does that mean?
We've created an unsafe environment for people as they navigate their own healthcare journey.
That they're going to rely on supplements, things that are not FDA approved because they don't believe in the FDA, whatever it may be.
So now we have a bunch of individuals who are willing to take their own healthcare decisions, leveraging the internet or leveraging their favorite podcast host.
And that's not where expertise is found.
There's no expertise here, let's be very clear.
Neither John C. DeVore or Adam Curry claim to have any expertise in anything.
You might have lived through the pandemic, but we don't know anything.
Or, we know nothing.
Yeah, that didn't quite connect the way I wanted it to.
No, but it was still entertaining.
And it's interesting because what it did point out is that there's a number of these podcasts, gal guy podcasts, where the woman throws these softballs to the guy and he goes on and pontificates and then she's agreeing.
If you listen to the other one with Reichs, oh yeah, blah, blah, blah.
Oh yeah, gun stocks.
Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.
That's actually how I envisioned this show, that you would just do that with me, but it turned out so different.
Yeah, well, you know, it's hard for me to go, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.
In fact, I agree with you two or three times today.
I know, it's already hard, yeah.
What am I going to do?
Fauci's out with a book, and he's doing the rounds.
Yeah, it's great.
I did nothing!
Which puts him, kind of puts him in play for bird flu, although there wasn't a lot of bird flu happening the past few days.
So we're kind of in limbo there.
And I have several different pieces, but I think the one that is most, because he was on, basically did big CBS interviews.
with Gail.
Actually, I'll play one clip from Gail because that was kind of interesting.
It's almost like he's giving Trump a pass while taking credit for it.
I read your book over the weekend and I love how you started it.
First of all, that's a lie.
We know he didn't read that.
You're too busy pounding Ozempic with Oprah.
I read your book over the weekend and I love how you started it with Albert Borla of Pfizer calling you to say, Tony, I think we have a vaccine and I think it works.
You said you literally sort of- Oh, that's a lie.
That can't be!
Yes.
Borla Callaway!
Ring ring!
Fauci!
Fauci!
Yeah, I think we got a vaccine.
I think it works.
It was already patented before the whole thing took place.
This was a scam, this interview.
It's ridiculous.
You said you literally sort of broke down and had a very emotional moment because you didn't think this would be possible that quickly.
No, I did not.
I mean, this is historic in what was accomplished.
11 months, if this were 10-15 years ago, this would have taken years and years.
But the combination of the exquisite science that was put in both for the mRNA as well as for the actual immunogen or the business end of the vaccine was just amazing.
Because you were talking about you're on the front lines of AIDS.
And at the time, Bill Clinton said, hopefully we'll have a vaccine in 10 years.
And as you point out, we still don't have an AIDS vaccine, but yet we have this for COVID.
Yeah, it was an amazing scientific accomplishment.
And also the amount of effort that was put in with Operation Warp Speed to get millions and millions of doses made before we even knew it worked.
That was very, very helpful in getting it done so quickly.
How about that?
Isn't that interesting?
Why would he be out there saying these things?
They can blame everything on Trump.
They can make the Republicans hate Trump.
And now he's basically saying, yeah, I did that.
I took the call.
I made it happen.
There's something going on in the background.
It also could be part of getting Trump in.
There was kind of a funny two-parter, very short, about Trump versus Biden.
You spoke about your relationship and write about your complicated relationship with former President Donald Trump.
He could possibly be our president again.
Given that you know him personally, from a public health perspective, do you believe he is fit to lead us?
Good, interesting question.
Is he fit to lead us?
If he is elected president.
You know, I don't want to get into what's fit or not.
From a public health perspective.
From a health standpoint, he missed opportunities to use the bully pulpit of the presidency to tell people to do things that would keep them safe.
How about Biden?
What about Biden?
Do you believe he is fit to lead us for the next four years?
Absolutely, because the first thing he did when I became his chief medical advisor, we had a conversation literally the first day, saying we want to go with the evidence and the truth, and if we make a mistake we correct it, but we've got to be honest with what's going on.
That was his first words to me.
Oh, brother.
Alright, I'm gonna give you three more.
They're short.
Well, the first one's over a minute, but the other ones are very short.
I know I'm breaking all the rules.
I'm sorry.
But sometimes, you know, you just gotta prove there's a rule by making an exception to it.
Rachel Maddow with Fauci.
It did seem, the way that you described it, that President Trump didn't understand some of the basics about the flu and that it's a different virus than COVID.
He said to you that he didn't see why he would have to get a flu shot if he didn't have the flu.
He didn't understand that it was preventative and not treatment.
That's true.
He also said at NIH, why can't we just use the flu vaccine to prevent COVID?
Right.
Do you think he does not know what a vaccine is?
I think now he, you know, after all of the things we've told him, the thing that I think underlies this, Rachel, is that he wanted it so much to be like the flu because historically the flu peaks and it goes away in March.
And it wasn't there at all during COVID.
April is gone, and then you can go on with the election cycle.
That's a season!
But it wasn't doing that.
It wasn't going away.
Notice how he slips in the election season there for just... That was very interesting.
I hadn't heard that before.
I'm gonna roll that back.
Blue peaks, and it goes away in March.
April is gone, and then you can go on with the election cycle.
That's a season!
Then you can go on with the election cycle.
It wasn't doing that.
It wasn't going away.
No!
He kept on saying it's gonna disappear like magic and that's when I had to start saying no I'm sorry but that's not gonna happen and I had to do that publicly and then when that didn't work he started invoking magical cures like hydroxychloroquine you know and then when it became clear that wasn't working he brought in Scott Atlas who told him everything he wanted to hear and it was just
Wanting so much for it to go away and figuring out if it wasn't going to go away naturally, I'm going to act like it's going to go away.
Well, that's not the way I remember it.
But let's drill down on, uh... I don't remember that either.
This is bullcrap.
Let's drill down on hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, shall we?
Was it dangerous for him to promote hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin and those other cures, well, supposed cures that don't actually treat COVID?
Stop, stop.
When did Trump ever promote ivermectin?
I think he did.
I don't think he did.
He brought hydroxychloroquine into the conversation.
That's the main thing he brought in.
He said, I've heard good things, he said, and it was brought in by somebody else.
He said it, and then he was beaten to death with it by every, you know, left winger.
And he never mentioned ivermectin.
I don't think you can find it.
Possibly later.
No, I'm not finding a single ivermectin clip even.
How about that?
How about hydroxy?
Yeah, hydroxychloroquine.
Ivermectin came into the picture way later.
Yeah, a lot about hydroxychloroquine, but nothing about... we don't have any clips of Trump that I can find talking about Ivermectin.
That's interesting.
Let's just make it up.
Let's just say he said it, because that's what, Matt, I'll just say, you know, bring it in, because you still have to slam Ivermectin, because it's just a cheap cure for a lot of stuff, and we don't want that out there.
Supposed cure.
Yeah, I mean, obviously it is.
I mean, I don't want to get into how many numbers of people would have made a difference, but clearly... Oh, it would have made a difference to somebody?
He missed an opportunity, because there were people out there who knew nothing about this, who were saying hydroxychloroquine works, and we know that not only does it not, but it actually hurts people.
He could have used the bully pulpit of the presidency to say, hey, listen to the scientists, but he didn't do that.
I also don't recall that hydroxychloroquine hurts people, but okay.
No, there was a ton of studies about it, and it was pretty harmless.
And by vermictin, even more so.
I mean, there's millions of cases, doses of this stuff out there.
And then the final clip, Rachel does me a solid, takes us right back to 2020.
In terms of the vaccine development that did happen in this country that you described as being almost miraculous in terms of the pace going from within 11 months from the identification of the pathogen to a safe and effective and deployable virus.
Obviously, that's something that the United States of America contributed to the world's response and has a lot to be proud of, and you have a lot to be proud of.
That's right, Rachel.
A safe and effective deployable virus.
Right on.
Nailed it.
Thank you.
I miss clips like that.
It's unbelievable.
It's unbelievable.
All right, so Fauci takes all the credit.
For getting a safe and deployable virus out there within 11 months?
I don't know.
You're right.
There's some background going on here that is weird.
Why would he even want to have a book out?
You're retired.
Take your millions.
Go away.
Yeah, it's not like he's a pauper.
Pauper?
Pauper.
You know, a pauper.
A poor person.
Oh, a pauper.
P-A-U-P-E-R.
Yes, a pauper.
A pauper.
A pauper.
It's pauper.
A pauper.
A pauper.
It's my Dutch.
A pauper.
A pauper!
Alright, anything else you got to reference?
Now you have one out there, Jason.
You played a clip where she made a botch.
I do have a Jill Biden making a... You have to listen very carefully to what she says.
But it's a gaffe.
A Biden-esque gaffe.
It runs in the family, I guess.
And here we go.
This election is most certainly not about age.
Joe and that other guy are essentially the same age.
Let's not be fooled.
Joe isn't one of the most effective presidents of our lives in spite of his age, but because of it.
He isn't one of the most effective.
Because of his age.
That's dynamite.
Thank you, Jill.
You're right!
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.
Earlier we thanked our executive and associate executive producers for episode 1670.
We're very grateful for The Strong, although just from a few that came in.
Of course, we are really adamant about asking over and over for any value, any value that you want to send back to the show, no matter what it is worth to you.
It's good by us.
Certainly, if you can do something in the sustaining donations arena, where you give something every month or every week or per show, $5 may be a lot to you, but we will take it.
We love it.
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And John is actually going to read the few donations we have down to the fifties.
Yep.
Starting with Robert Lang in Tabinga, Queensland, Australia.
1-2-6-5-2.
Uh, that actually may be pushing him up to do a calculation on, if that's American, with a dollar reduce, that may be $200.
Uh, I don't know.
Nathan, I think it is.
Nathan Cochran and Frank, it'll be moved up.
Oh, that's Nathan from Mercy Me.
I keep forgetting his night name, but he's the bass player.
Nathan Cochran from, oh, and he's in Franklin, Tennessee.
He sure is.
One, two, three, four, five.
Yep.
He's the bass player?
Yes.
Oh, good.
Yeah, he's good.
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100.
He needs some health karma.
We'll put that at the end.
Joseph Pinto in Atlanta, Georgia.
100.
Kevin McLaughlin.
He's finally right there, right away.
Here he comes. 8008.
The 1670 boob donation.
He's actually the Archduke of Luna.
Richard David Asaba, 7770, is a tribute to the greatest father of all, Lord God.
Oh, that's that 777 thing, you brought that up to me.
Dear Dad, we're very happy we still have you with us.
Kuss from Irma and Anita.
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Dear Dad, we're very happy we still have you with us.
Kisses from Irma and Anita.
Nice.
Sir Rick in Arlington, Washington, $69.96.
Ulrich Horkins in Wiener Neustadt, Austria, $6,666.
And he wants his job.
He's got birthday wishes.
I don't know if the birthday girl's on there, because it's not yellow.
But check out Spanish girlfriend Eva, who turns 47 on the 21st.
Abelson Dos Santos, Luanda, Oh, where's Luanda A-O?
A-O?
Luanda.
A-O?
A-O.
It's an African country, I think.
6425.
Hmm.
I don't know A-O.
A-O?
A-O.
A-O.
Sir Richard... This is a good, interesting list of characters here today.
Yes, definitely.
Sir Richard Hufford in Tempe, Arizona.
6425.
Did you check the birthday?
I'm still working on it.
6425.
We love our No Agenda Nation.
Uh, over 3K, he makes him a baron.
He's on the list for an upgrade.
Rachel Midwife Rising in Phoenix, $64.25.
Sir Digi in Indianapolis, Indiana, $64.25.
Sir Digi in Indianapolis, Indiana, 6425.
Sir Becoming Heroic in Cherville, Indiana, 6190, which is a – that 6190 and 6425 are the Juneteenth donations.
Robert Rose in Cedar City, Utah, 6190.
And he's going to send checks in from now on, he says.
Sir Kevin O'Brien in Chicago, Illinois, 6006.
Stephen Banstra, Baron of BNAs, 5993.
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Matthew Martel, 5856.
And he's actually martelhardware.com.
Who's code Bongino 33?
Yes.
Okay.
I wonder when Bongino's going to find out.
Figure it out.
He's like, man, I'm really killing it with the codes this week.
I mean, I'm just, I'm getting loads of bennies here because, you know, whenever you use code Bongino, you get a discount, but Bongino gets money.
Well, assuming that... I think he's not getting money, because I'm sure his Martel hardware is not paying him.
He doesn't have Code Bongino.
Code Bongino seems to work everywhere.
Yeah, that's what somebody wrote in us and gave us as a hint.
That's like a tip of the day.
Use Code Bongino, you'll be making money.
That is not the tip of the day.
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Sir, I have the street for me, $55.55.
Dean Roker, $55.10.
Heather Reitmeyer in Green Bay, Wisconsin, a birthday call out to her sister Haley, $50.50.
And she's $50, curiously.
Lady Vox in Ketchikan, Alaska, $50.13.
This is a switcheroo for my son Axe, A-X-E, in honor of his 13th birthday.
Like it or not, you guys are examples to our boys who are becoming men.
Oh.
Huh?
Alright.
We're examples.
So speak like the weight of the next generation rests on your shoulders.
That's right.
Okay, well, that's exactly the way we feel.
Yes.
Peter Odo in Ridge, New York.
Oh, these are all $50 donors.
We're there already.
Luke Olson in Alexandria, Virginia.
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Matt Illingworth.
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And last on our very short list, Sir Babaluchi in Vinemont, Alabama.
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We've got a lot of Barons now.
It's good to see that.
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We do.
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We're baroned up.
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Welcome, gentlemen, to the Roundtable.
Thank you for your support of the That's right.
Of course, I was here for one of the big meetups in Amsterdam, the No Agenda Amsterdam crew, which was fantastic.
A lot of people came from outside of Amsterdam.
Of course, everybody's emailing me now.
It's nice to have some correspondence, if I can get through it all.
Thank you all for coming.
We have no other reports.
We do have a meetup taking place today, the Tucson Summer Solstice Soiree.
Which is underway now, I think, at Canyons Crown in Tucson, Arizona.
The North Georgia Monthly Meetup, 6 o'clock, Cherry Street Brewing, Alpharetta, Georgia.
The Denver Summer Solstice Strawberry Moon Meetup will be at 6.30 today in the City Park Denver Museum of Nature and Science in Denver, Colorado.
Charlotte's Thirsty Third Thursday, 7 o'clock at Ed's Tavern, right after the show.
Head over there in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Tomorrow, the Central Ohio Post Father's Day Meetup in June, kicking off at 5.30.
Ooh, this is a secret location.
You've got to contact Sir Leary for the information.
Go to noagentomeetups.com for that.
Saturday, the Fort Wayne Barbecue and Brew Club 33 Meetup at 1 o'clock in Shiggs in Pitt.
Got it.
It's the Shiggs & Pitt Barbecue & Brew in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
That should be a good one.
On Saturday, the I Did That Seattle Meetup, 2 p.m., and you need to go to Edmunds, Washington.
I believe the website, noagenda, meetups.com, has more details.
The tiny amygdalae of Anchorage.
Unite!
2 o'clock, Alaska time.
Sir Lane's House in Anchorage, Alaska.
Oh, I'd love to go to that.
I'll bet that's fun.
Alaska is great to go.
Another Gitmo Nations Lowland.
This is the Happywood near the K.U.T.
meet-up on Sunday, our next show day, one o'clock Central European time in Tilburg, Brabant, Noord-Brabant, the Netherlands.
Sir Hendrik organizing that.
We have the South Florida Margarita Meetup at 2.30 in Lenora's Alton Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.
This is all Sunday, by the way.
The Indiana Proud Tribal Meetup, Blind Owl Brewery.
Who doesn't know it?
Mark and Marie of the Greenwood organized that.
It's always big.
It's always great.
We get a beautiful report.
That'll be on Sunday.
And the Kansas City Meetup, some like it Hot Edition, 333 at Variety, KC Playground at Wyandotte, Wyandotte, Wyandotte, Wyandotte, Coney Park, Bonner Springs, Kansas.
And finally, the International Candanavian Finland Summit, makes nothing but sense, 6 o'clock in Helsinki.
At Stones in Helsinki, Finland.
Hey, send some meetup reports, people.
We love hearing them.
I'll even edit out some of the ums and the ahs and the dumb stuff.
I'm happy to do it.
We love hearing from you because these meetups, they really mean a lot.
They mean a lot to your fellow No Agenda Gitmo Nation citizens.
You learn a lot.
You converse a lot.
Anybody can go.
Even if you're shy, the No Agenda meetup is for you.
You're outlandish.
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The No Agenda Meetup is for you.
It's always a good time.
Connection is protection.
You will not regret it.
Noagendameetups.com.
Go there to find out if there's one near you.
If you can't find one, start one yourself.
Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.
You want to be where you won't be.
Triggered or held to blame.
You want to be where everybody feels the same.
It's like a party.
Let me see.
Let's see, I have, uh... Two... Actually, more than I thought.
I have... Four ISOs.
I'm gonna go first.
Yes.
Ready?
Yeah.
I find this all fairly confusing.
That's a good one.
It's okay, it's okay.
It's all a bunch of hogwash.
That's a good one, too.
It's not bad.
Yeah, not bad.
Hillary Clinton.
Okay, since we talked about it.
You didn't like that?
You didn't like that one?
No.
Oh, okay.
Then I have my final, which I think is a winner.
Now that's hot.
I actually like the second one the most, not that last one.
I have a kind of a one that's a perfect end of show.
Okay, let me see.
You only have one.
Up.
Yeah, okay.
I'll play it.
Buh-bye.
Hey, you're always doing those!
It's like, it's always buh-bye!
Bye!
Bye!
Buh-bye!
Yeah, well, that's the end of the show, but I will say that second one that you have... Yeah?
You wanna hear it?
Play it again.
It's all a bunch of hogwash!
I think it's a good one.
Thank you.
It's from C-SPAN, by the way.
C-SPAN Original.
That's the kind of people they have listening over there.
That's it!
They do.
Our ISO is set.
It's not good news, it's good advice, John C's Tip of the Day.
Now, can I mention something before you do the Tip of the Day?
A competitive tip?
Well, I have a tip, but I have to say that I was excoriated for bringing a boomer tip to my friends.
What was the boomer tip?
Your tip of the week!
Which was what?
AliExpress!
Oh yeah, a lot of people.
Mimi gave me grief and so did Brunetti.
Everybody gave me, I said, I said to Tina, hey, Ali expresses, oh, this is great.
She, she, she talked to the, to my stepdaughter in, uh, in New York.
She's like, oh yeah, four years ago, boomer.
Like, thanks, John.
Thanks a lot!
Hey, it was new to me.
What am I supposed to say?
I mean, everybody laughed at me.
Christina, remember after the show, I was like, oh, it's in Dutch.
Mimi said, why don't you plug Timu next?
That's what everyone said.
Timu is even newer than AliExpress.
So your tip of the week is, you're on probation.
Oh, please.
On probation!
Now we know he's trying to sink the tip of the day.
No, I love the tip of the day.
Okay, my tip is the one I get.
This is a tip I'm going to give.
This tip is a product tip.
Again, it's a product that's been there.
It's been out a while and you used it recently.
I got you to use it because you're having trouble with your machine.
It's called the Glary Utilities.
It's free.
It's out there.
It's available.
People should download it and use it.
You can also get an upgraded version, but you don't need to.
It does all kinds of cool stuff.
It's called G-L-A-R-Y Utilities.
Google it.
Duck, duck, go it.
Bing it.
Bing it.
You'll find it.
Bing it.
I would use it.
It's a great product.
So I was thinking about... You yourself said that it sped up your machine.
It did.
It did.
No, the, the, the Glarry product is an outstanding product.
Although when, uh, when it said, do you, you know, cause you said, Oh, you should defrag your, your drive.
And, and the Glarry was giving me like, Oh, do you really want it?
This is an SSD drive.
Do you really want it?
This could decrease the lifespan of your drive.
Yeah, well, in the olden days it would, but today's SSDs aren't built with the same memory technology.
Well, their warning was kind of freaking me out.
I'm just saying.
Well, the problem with SSDs, we might as well bring it up.
There we go.
Is that they, especially the early ones, the early old ones had a limited lifespan because you could only read, write, read, write to the same cells X number of times.
It was very low.
In fact, the numbers were so low in the early days.
How low?
That nobody would use an SSD.
But since then, they're just as reliable long term as a magnetic drive.
They're just worried that you maybe have an old piece of crap SSD, and you know, just give you a little warning there, because it does have to do a lot of work.
It's doing a lot of reading and writing and moving stuff around, so yeah.
So after I did that, being a Windows user on the studio machine for software reasons, the only software that I really like is Windows only, please don't tell me to run it under Wine, under Linux, please stop, it doesn't work.
I actually went into the settings.
I found a tip.
I went into settings.
This is an amazing one for Windows because stuff was kind of slowing down.
It's not a very powerful machine.
It's a Bumblebee.
What is that thing?
What's the Bumblebee?
What is it called?
The B-Link.
Yeah, the Bumblebee Link.
It has eight gigs of memory, but it's not very powerful, particularly if you have multiple programs.
No, they're useful as utility machines.
Yeah, and it really doesn't have to do much, but it's kind of pushing it.
And so I went into settings, advanced settings, and there's actually a little button you can toggle off all of that fancy stuff.
Like shading and predetermining, you know, making images in your Explorer window, and animations when you minimize something.
Man, you turn that off, the machine screams.
It screams, I tell you.
It would scream if you put Linux on it, too.
Yeah, that's right.
And run anything Underwine!
There's your tip!
Run everything under wine analytics.
All right, everybody.
Thanks for coming out tonight.
We got one more for you.
It's called The Tip by Adam Curry and John C. DeMora.
Thanks, Jingle Makers.
You're getting better.
You're definitely getting better.
Love it.
All right, that is our broadcast day for today.
Coming up next, we've got... What do we have on the stream?
Complex Candor, Liberty 2, Duties and Freedom.
Oh, this Dame Lady Vox.
All right.
The name Lady Vox always has cool stuff.
Yeah, she wishes her son Axe a birthday.
Yes, that's right.
Axe.
End of show mixes.
End of daughter Hatchet.
End of show mixes.
We have, oh, the one and only Cliff Custode and Neil Jones had time to do it amidst all of the other things he's working on.
And Professor Jay Jones, not related, he's in China.
Both of them coming in with end of show mixes.
And this concludes our broadcast.
They'll be back in Texas tomorrow and hopefully the show from the Hill Country coming to you now from 11 feet below sea level Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Currie.
And from Northern Silicon Valley, where I'm 350 feet above sea level, I'm John C. DuBois.
We return on Sunday, right here on No Agenda.
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Until then, adios, mofos, a-hooey-hooey, and such.
We're going to begin this hour with the latest on a dangerous bird flu and concerns that the virus has the potential to become.
Here you go.
The P word.
The P word.
Yikes.
The P word.
Yikes.
Thank you.
Bye.
Bye. Bye.
Yikes.
Yikes.
But if you do get one of those Frankenstein flus where you have a combination of a bird flu and a human flu.
Here we go again.
I-- I-- I-- I don't want to feel here we go again.
Pandemic.
Yikes.
Here we go again.
EXIT STRATEGY!
Four more years!
EXIT STRATEGY!
Here we go again.
Exit Strategy!
Four more years!
Exit Strategy!
Four more years!
Makes me want to throw my hands in the air.
Let you throw your hands in the air.
And Google like you just don't care.
If you get a note, tell you to vote.
Let the Algo say, oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
It's much worse than you think.
Google sends out a reminder at a rate two and a half times greater to Democrats.
We have no idea how bad it was here during the COVID lockdowns.
Cheery and happy and bright.
The situation's even worse than you thought it was.
Just kill more Ukrainians.
We would condemn humanity to a future without hope.
They would make Mengele blush.
500 million people are hitting Google daily.
We're all looking for AOC porn videos.
Yes.
Oh girl, baby girl.
How bad is it?
Don't even play.
Probably somewhere between 25 and 50 percent mortalities.
It adds up.
Get worried.
Get worried.
The U.S.
military is prohibited from targeting Americans with propaganda.
That's true.
But here's the scary part.
Franken-flu?
Hold on a second.
Mail-in ballots, mask up, flatten the curve.
Bird flu pandemic.
We need no agenda shop with some t-shirts and hoodies and stuff.
I'm not putting a mask on.
I'm not gonna do that.
No way.
Is the bird flu in the air?
Unvaxed, just don't care.
Mask up?
But if you believe, roll up the sleeve while the fountain screams, oh yeah.
Just say it's bull crap.
Bird flu, question mark, your mama.
That's not a great question.
COVID disinformation.
And at some point, they're going to send out partisan mail-in-your-ballot reminders.
And at some point, they're going to send out partisan go-vote reminders.
