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	Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
	It's Thursday, February 13th, 2025. This is your award-winning Gilboa Nation Media Assassination, Episode 1738. This is no agenda.
	Predicting sports ball scores for 17 years and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region No.
	6. In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where there's now a Kennedy in a Republican administration.
	What?
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	It's crackpot and buzzkill.
	In the morning.
	That's right, breaking news at this hour.
	All right, the president's pick for director of health and human services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has officially just been confirmed.
	Officially.
	The final tally was 52 to 48. It fell pretty much down party lines as expected.
	Yeah.
	It was not expected.
	There was a lot of consternation.
	People were like, I don't know.
	I don't know.
	Big Pharma won't let him in.
	Well, Big Pharma, something happened.
	They screwed the pooch.
	The only one, of course, who voted against him who's voted against every Trump appointee is Mitch McConnell, the turtle.
	Why do you think he voted against all of the nominees?
	He's a jerk.
	He always has been.
	Yeah, I guess.
	What else could it be?
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	Not much of a Republican.
	I guess they don't have...
	Kentucky should have voted him out.
	And he's got brain freeze.
	He's got something wrong with him.
	I'll say.
	Brain damage.
	There's a brain freeze moment of him almost every single day.
	Can you dig up the three clips that I asked you for the other day?
	Sure.
	The Kennedy clips.
	And this is the thing.
	I'm going to write this up as one of the columns I do.
	Yeah.
	Because I want to...
	He's okay.
	He got in.
	Big talker is going to do this, is going to do that.
	Everybody's jacked up about it.
	I mean, people who care about health and the big pharma and all the issues that we have in this country.
	And so he made some promises.
	Yeah, I want to start with the first one.
	I think, yes, and I want to just mention that we documented this some time ago.
	I am now going to, I think, we should hold them accountable and make sure that these promises are noted.
	Yes, promises made, promises kept.
	The first one, pharma advertising.
	I'm not intimidated by the agencies.
	I know how they work and I know how to change them.
	And most of those changes you do not need Congress for.
	The President, President Trump could have done it, had the power to do it himself, and President Biden has the power to do it himself.
	And I'll give you an example.
	With a stroke of the pen, you can change back the rule that allows...
	Pharmaceutical advertisers to do direct-to-consumer ads on television.
	That's one of the big problems.
	That's one of the reasons we have this entrenched agency capture, not only of Congress, because they control the airwaves, they control the evening news.
	75% of the revenues for those evening news shows are, you know, Anderson Cooper is coming from Pfizer and other pharmaceutical companies.
	And those companies are dictating content on those shows, and they dictate the official narratives.
	And they're able then to exercise huge control over Congress.
	So Congress is terrified of them.
	But with a stroke of the pen, you can say this is not good for the health of our country, which it isn't.
	We spend three times more than any other country for pharmaceutical drugs because of all this advertising.
	Stroke of the pen.
	I should mention something that you were thinking about, which is that these, you know how they make a big deal.
	Don't, you can't give medical advice.
	You can't do this because it's like, you know, Yes.
	I don't know if it's illegal or I don't know what the deal is, but you can't be like a podcaster saying, and then when you do that, you can't give medical advice.
	With the stock market, for example, you can't.
	I think it's you shouldn't.
	I don't know if you can't.
	I don't know.
	I think there's some rule or law or some code violation if you do it.
	These advertisers, that's all they do.
	I would say in this administration, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
	You know, say what you want.
	You can have your kid picking his nose on TV and rubbing it on the Resolute desk.
	I mean, you can do anything you want these days.
	Great.
	What a time to be alive.
	Did you not see that?
	I didn't see the nose picking TV, but that is a surprise.
	You rubbed it on the desk.
	Oh, that kid.
	X. Oh, is that the X kid?
	That's X, yeah.
	Alright, okay, so that's what Kennedy...
	Okay, that has to go, and I agree with that, because that will change the media landscape completely.
	Oh, it would bankrupt him.
	What will they do?
	Well, I think a lot of...
	Well, no, what will they do?
	They'll have to actually do their job and get real advertisers.
	They have to do it the old-fashioned way.
	Yeah, back to...
	Just sitting there taking orders over the phone.
	Back to beer, boobs, and bikinis.
	Come on, people.
	Okay, so that's one.
	That's clip one.
	Let's go with clip two.
	Open the databases!
	Another thing that I can do is I can open up all the databases.
	Right now, all the databases that you can actually check the efficacy and the safety of vaccines, like the Vaccine Safety Database.
	It's the top.
	It's all the vaccine records and the medical claims for 10 million Americans from the top 10 HMOs.
	You can look in there.
	And overnight, you can say, oh, this vaccine's associated with diabetes, this one's associated with peanut allergies, this one's associated with ASD, neurological tics, or whatever.
	That database, CDC keeps it in a lockbox, like Fort Knox, and makes sure no scientist is allowed in there.
	Well, I'll open up that database on day one.
	Yeah, this is my favorite, because I get to find out why I have neurological tics, and I can sue somebody over it.
	It might be a little late.
	What's it called?
	The statute of limitations.
	You may have a statute of limitations issue.
	It's also in Holland.
	I think you got the shot that gave you the Tourette's.
	No, I think it was seven.
	I think it's just before we left, actually.
	I may be in luck.
	I'll sue him anyway.
	That's going to be a tough one.
	I have robbed the constitutional lawyer on my side.
	I'm not worried.
	Good luck.
	He'll make it.
	It won't cost me anything.
	Well, there's that.
	And so he's going to open the database on day one.
	That means today, I don't think, you know, okay, well, maybe not today, but as soon as he gets his office cleared out or cleared in.
	Okay, now here's the last one.
	And, you know, I'll also bring all the medical journals, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Lancet, JAMA, into the Justice Department as soon as I appoint an AG. And I'll say to them, you guys are part of a racketeering syndicate.
	You're collaborating with these pharmaceutical industry to lie to the American public about the efficacy and safety of these products, and you're causing enormous harm, and we are going to sue you both civilly for damages, and we're going to sue you criminally, unless you come up with a plan right now as to how you're going to stop doing that.
	So I have a hundred things that I'm going to do immediately.
	A hundred!
	A hundred things!
	That's 97 more to go.
	I can't wait.
	So he's got a hundred things.
	I'm sure there's a number of issues in there, including, I think, the liability thing.
	That's got to go.
	Well, you mean the vaccine shield law?
	Yeah, the vaccine shield law.
	So you can make a crap...
	You could basically put dog shit in a vaccine.
	And we did have a similar situation, if you remember the swine flu episode.
	Episodic era where people were lined up for the swine flu shot and one of the providers of the swine flu shot was putting live viruses in the shot.
	Oh, yeah.
	What could possibly go wrong?
	So we'll see.
	If he's going to come in there as a big talker, we'll see how...
	I mean, so far, everybody's coming through with what they've said.
	So let's see if Kennedy's one of them.
	So the last one is Kash Patel, I guess, and he just got through the committee, so they're going to take it to the vote.
	I don't know if it's today or not.
	I think it's, yeah, well, it could be today, tomorrow, maybe.
	But yeah, they got Tulsi through.
	Tulsi was the one, I think, that we...
	Who knew?
	I'm stunned that Tulsi made it.
	There's something going on.
	Someone's got leverage.
	Someone's got leverage, man.
	Someone's got leverage.
	Pictures.
	Videos.
	I don't know.
	This is actually a very tough time for us because everybody's got clips and you've got the Senate and the House and everyone's going crazy.
	It's like that's not all that interesting anymore.
	We have to kind of find the nuggets and the real...
	Well, I got some Tulsi stuff we can play.
	Yeah, let's play some Tulsi stuff.
	Well, here's just the NTD confirmation, and then I have the Tulsi-Gabbard analysis.
	No, yeah, that's what you call it.
	Okay, here it is.
	Trump is continuing his plans to take control of the Gaza Strip to rebuild.
	Now he's trying to get nearby countries to temporarily host Palestinians.
	Later this month, Egypt will hold an emergency Arab summit to further discuss the new proposal.
	Reporting from Washington, D.C., Melina Wisecup, NTD News.
	The Senate voted this morning to...
	Gee, you could have clipped that off.
	What happened there?
	I don't know why it was...
	What happened there?
	Very unprofessional.
	Yeah, I agree.
	Okay, here we go.
	The Senate voted this morning to confirm Tulsi Gabbard as the Director of National Intelligence.
	This after Democrats ran out of the clock debating the nomination.
	Ms. Gabbard is a patriot.
	She's someone who's motivated by service.
	And she's been serving her country and community since she was 21 years old when she was elected to the Hawaii State Legislature.
	And after her first session in the Hawaii Legislature, she enlisted in the Army National Guard.
	But there are certain times you have to buck and stand up and say, no, this is just a very bad choice for America.
	And the nomination of Ms. Gabbard is simply one of those.
	I plead with my colleagues.
	I know it's the last minute.
	To think twice, to vote no, as we all will vote.
	Despite Democratic opposition and after 30 hours of debate, with 52 votes in favor and 48 against, Gabbard was confirmed.
	Former Senate Leader Mitch McConnell voted against the confirmation.
	He was the only Republican defector.
	Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman and veteran, is Trump's 14th nominee to be confirmed since January 20th.
	What I like about Ms. Gabbard, She's got fashion sense.
	She has cool outfits that work on TV and photos.
	You know what I mean?
	Everybody that Trump has got in there for the most part has fashion sense.
	They have a certain pizzazz.
	Flair.
	Pizzazz.
	A flair.
	Pizzazz.
	Yeah, that's all we really want in this movie.
	We just want to have the people look good, dress nice.
	He's got a clue.
	Yeah, finally.
	It's like casting.
	It used to be show businesses, or politics is show business for ugly people, and now it's like, no, it's just show business.
	Well, we have to make an exception with Kash Patel, the cross-eyed guy.
	Yeah, but he is a sharp dresser.
	He is a sharp dresser, and he's sharp on his feet, and he has a lot of broadcasting style.
	Well, that's from the All In podcast.
	Oh, wait, that's a different guy.
	That's Chamath.
	I'm sorry.
	Wrong guy.
	The other guy.
	The other guy.
	By the way, that guy, he's got some analysis that's pretty good, that Chamath guy.
	Is it Chamal?
	I think it's Chamal.
	I don't know how to pronounce his name.
	First or last name.
	It's all right.
	Everyone will get mad at me when you make mistakes.
	It's all good.
	You got that.
	Boomer.
	Okay, before we play the Dawson-Gavern analysis, you have to discuss that.
	I have nothing to discuss other than I look at my ex-timeline.
	I was going to do Rogan.
	You got blamed for something I said.
	I'm going to Rogan yesterday, and I get up in the morning.
	I'm like, whenever I read...
	Zionist boomer piece of crap.
	I'm like, okay, I'm just not going to read today.
	I'm just going to keep on moving.
	And that's the most offensive thing.
	How dare you call me a boomer?
	That's so wrong.
	You are a boomer, technically.
	That's all I got to say about it.
	You're the end of the boomers.
	End of the line boomers.
	I am not interested in a pod battle a la Drake and Kendrick Lamar.
	Get a grip, people.
	Move on.
	Move on.
	Yes, we do have to discuss our fabulous Super Bowl.
	Well, you want to do it now or after the...
	Yeah, I got to play the Gabbard stuff first.
	Gabbard, all right, Gabbard.
	He's changing the topic.
	Analysis one.
	Analysis one.
	Here we go.
	Joining us now to discuss the confirmation of Gabbard and the U.S. intelligence community is Nicholas Eftimiades, retired senior intelligence officer and author of Chinese Espionage Operations and Tactics.
	Nick, thank you so much for joining us.
	Good to see you again now.
	First, Gabbard has worn a lot of hats.
	A military veteran, a former congresswoman, and even a former presidential candidate.
	Well, there are a lot of things that each candidate would bring to the role.
	In her case, I mean, certainly first and foremost is trust of the president.
	And in that role, you couldn't have a more critical factor than that, than having the president's trust.
	So she has that.
	Secondly, she is rather committed, and you can hear this in her testimony, She's going to ensure that that intelligence community follows the rules and behaves in a way appropriate for U.S. intelligence.
	And lastly, I would say that she understands some of the strategic threats that present us today, China and Russia in particular.
	And she knows that these are going to be issues that are going to be, first and foremost, priorities for the intelligence community.
	Who is this guy?
	Some ex-spook.
	Okay.
	He's very amenable to her, and I think the point he made there was that she's a loyalist.
	Oh, yes.
	Well, obviously.
	I don't know why people are shocked by that, because that's what you want.
	But he didn't use the L word.
	I'm a little disappointed.
	No, he didn't.
	Which I think was a plus.
	That means he's not a Democrat.
	Democrats use that word.
	Okay.
	On television, for sure.
	All right, number two, here we go.
	I want to get to the foreign threats, but first on your second point, Senator Lisa Murkowski, who was initially holding out, said she decided to support Gabbert due to her promise to narrow the scope of the intel community to ensure the safety and civil liberties of Americans.
	What actions do you see Gabbert taking to follow through on that?
	Well, that's going to be interesting.
	I think the first, I know she wants to hit the ground running.
	But I think in the first couple of months, she's going to have to understand the playing field a little more.
	I think we're going to be looking at a new inspector general.
	I think we're going to be looking at reviews of operations.
	I think we're going to be looking at, in some cases, if appropriate, the cleaning of house.
	So I think she's going to get her hands on the bureaucracy first.
	And as she does that, I think she's going to put in specific measures relative to oversight of intelligence operations.
	Oversight of targeting, maintenance of records, and all the other things that potentially an intelligence agency can do to be weaponized or to just be a threat to the U.S. population.
	Now, wouldn't she be involved in the decision based upon intelligence if we should bomb Gaza on Saturday at 12 noon?
	Wouldn't that be the first thing she's involved in?
	Well, it would have to be by definition since she's there.
	I don't think we're going to bomb Gaza to smithereens, but I think the Israelis might.
	Yeah.
	We give them a bunch of bomb bombs.
	There you go.
	That was not a laugh like, ha-ha.
	By the way, that was not a laugh like, ha-ha, bomb Gaza people.
	That's not it.
	But, yeah.
	You Zionist shill.
	Now, critics are pointing to Gabbard's past, such as past comments sympathetic to Edward Snowden and past public support for Russia.
	Now, given her confirmation was mostly along party lines, do you think there's legitimate concerns over some of these issues?
	I think everybody's past changes the minute they get selected for a nomination.
	I don't think there are issues.
	Look, she's going to do what the president wants.
	I mean, that much has been very clear in virtually every candidate that's come up for nomination, that they're going to execute the will of the presidency.
	And so, you know, there are a lot of personal opinions that go on in this.
	It doesn't mean that they're going to be influencing in any way her performance in that role.
	So, no, I don't see those as an issue at all, really.
	Every candidate has come to the table with some quote that was thrown at them four years ago or five years ago.
	And, you know, the circumstances were different.
	The context was different.
	The knowledge base on that person's part was different.
	So I don't see that as a real issue to her functioning.
	Now, to one of your earlier points, how do you see Gabbard and the agency more broadly tackling the threats of Chinese espionage and intelligence operations on U.S. soil?
	Well, that's going to be an extraordinary challenge.
	I mean, as a system, as a government, we're not built for that, really.
	You know, the political warfare that China executes, we're not built to work against.
	The cyber attacks that China has done, absolutely relentless.
	And volume and levels of penetration we're not built to handle.
	So a little bit of restructuring is going to be in order.
	We're going to have to use, and she's going to have to use, a whole of government approach, you know, with other agencies in order to be able to respond to that and to protect the United States.
	I mean, just clearly, we're at this point outclassed.
	This guy is testing my patience.
	Whose side is he on?
	He's on NTD. Like, oh, China's the best.
	Oh, they outclass us everywhere.
	Really?
	That's what he's claiming.
	Well, I mean, they have built a F-35.
	How did they do that?
	Well, anything would fly better than our current F-35.
	All I see is these things pancaking into the ground.
	We suckered them into building an F-35.
	Perhaps that's what it is.
	The thing in there, the Snowden thing was always kind of interesting to me because she skirted that very well.
	They kept hounding her, the Democrats.
	Is he a traitor?
	And she wouldn't say, yes, he's a traitor because she doesn't think he's a traitor.
	She thinks him as a whistleblower because he exposed illegal activities.
	On the part of the intelligence community.
	Do you think Snowden will want to come home now?
	Or is he good now?
	I think Snowden's always wanted to come home.
	Well, he could come home, get a hero's welcome, ticker tape parade.
	I don't think he's going to...
	This is still sketchy.
	I don't know how they're going to get him back.
	He still may be working for the CIA for all we really know.
	This could have been an op gone bad.
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	Well, I mean, it could be.
	An op gone bad, and they're stuck with this guy who's stuck in Russian.
	As long as he...
	Once he gets his glasses fixed and he gets that nose pad on, then we'll know the op is over.
	That's been that way for too long.
	The glasses, yes.
	There's those phony glasses he wears.
	All right.
	Your last Gabbard clip.
	Now, to your point, the latest report from research group Maiter says that the intel community is not well positioned to tackle the full spectrum of threats from the Chinese regime.
	Well, you know, it takes time.
	We have a lot of what they call one-book wonders.
	I mean, you know, the intelligence community is getting smarter, but there's not a lot of depth of experience.
	We had thousands of people who were trained as Soviet, you know, area experts during the course of the Cold War.
	So that's going to take a little time.
	Building expertise is one.
	Number two is working cross-coordination.
	I mean, between agencies, you know, they have to work together because, you know, China strikes on so many different fronts.
	And number three, and I can't say this with enough emphasis, that we've got to get a national strategy, not just in the intelligence community, but throughout Commerce and U.S. Trade Rep and Security and Exchange Commission and the intelligence community and the Defense Department.
	I mean, all these have to be interlinked into one national strategy to be able to contend with China's, you know, China's assertiveness across multiple fronts.
	Now, on the issue of trust, do you see the likes of Gabbard and now John Ratcliffe with the CIA helping to increase the public's trust in the intel community, given the, say, 51 so-called spies who lied over the Hunter Biden laptop or reports of weaponization in the agency?
	Yeah, well, that's going to be interesting.
	I think the public trust will...
	But it is going to be difficult.
	I mean, their job is going to be immensely difficult because trust, once lost, takes a very long time to build back.
	So, I mean, that's in people's person-to-person relationships and certainly within, you know, with the government and the citizenry.
	So, I think they can make gains, but I think it's going to take time, and they need to be at it and keep pushing at it, and the release of documents that they're doing is going to be a first step.
	There are going to be a few painful months ahead as documents are released, but after that time, we should begin a healing process.
	Okay, I can't wait for the healing process.
	Well, that brings us to the clip of the release of the documents by...
	Was it Luna, I think, that came up with the comments?
	There's the Anna Luna files they're setting up.
	Besides the fact that they're going to release all these documents, there's a new congressional subcommittee that's going to look into all of them even more in more depth, and this was Anna Luna who's going to head it up, who's the bikini model.
	The White House, our intelligence allies, the Department of Defense, the Department of Justice.
	We'll be conducting investigations into the following.
	The assassinations of JFK, RFK and Dr. Martin Luther King.
	Unidentified aerial phenomena, also known as UAPs.
	Unidentified submerged objects, also known as USOs.
	The Epstein client list, the origins of COVID-19 and the 9-11 files.
	This task force will be a beacon of bipartisanship.
	On the Republican side, Representatives Burchett, Boebert, Burleson, Crane, Gill and Mace will be joining me.
	Anna Luna.
	Huh.
	Bobert, Mace, all the mean girls are going to be on this thing.
	Yeah, well, you know, this morning we got this report.
	The FBI has discovered new stuff.
	The FBI says it has uncovered 2,400 new records related to President John F. Kennedy's assassination.
	Officials say the documents contain about 14,000 pages worth of material that a disclosure board was supposed to review but never saw.
	The FBI has added the documents to its declassification process.
	It comes after President Donald Trump issued an executive order last month to declassify the JFK, RFK, and Martin Luther King Jr. assassination files.
	Now the video they showed was like old newspaper clippings, and I don't know exactly what 2,400 records they've found.
	It didn't look like much.
	I think they have another 10 days or so until it's time to release the files.
	We're all very excited.
	Trump's running out of executive order, so there's about 10 days worth of more executive orders to get out of his attention to screw up the media.
	Then they roll this out.
	That'll keep people busy.
	I want to talk about the Super Bowl for a second.
	I have two relevant clips, funny enough.
	First of all, it's amazing that the Eagles won.
	Considering there's something wrong in the water, after the mayor, now we have this city official.
	And finally, we want folks to sign up for our city's Ready Philadelphia public information and alert system.
	In fact, we have a special way to do that.
	You can text Ready Eagles.
	That's one word, no spaces.
	And that's R-E-A-D-Y-E-A-G-L-S. Epic Phil.
	What is wrong with these dumb Philadelphians they can't spell?
	Here's the View's take on the Super Bowl, in particular the halftime.
	You know I don't do sports, you know I don't do football, so I wasn't watching the game.
	I wasn't watching, but...
	Yeah, but this is her analysis.
	I wasn't watching, but I'm going to give you an analysis.
	Of course.
	I think today Donald Trump is going to sign an executive order banning black people from halftime.
	Because...
	You remember that?
	Last week we were talking about whether the NFL was capitulating to Trump by removing the term and racism from the end zone.
	Boy, did they not capitulate to Trump.
	When I saw Samuel L. Jackson dressed as a black Uncle Sam introducing Kendrick Lamar who then had like an entire formation of all black people making a U.S. flag.
	Listen.
	This much I know.
	All the black people on my feed were like, ooh, this is blackity-black-black.
	And all the races somehow get in.
	Man, were they hopping mad.
	So if the races are mad, I am happy as a clan.
	It was a huge, huge celebration of New Orleans.
	And you can't celebrate New Orleans without celebrating black culture.
	Welcome to...
	Black History Month, y'all!
	One of the panelists on the Gutfeld show pointed out, it was Tyrus, I think, the black guy.
	He says that Samuel L. Jackson wasn't dressed as a black Uncle Sam.
	He was dressed as Uncle Sam.
	Thank you.
	Very good point.
	Exactly.
	They don't get that, because they are the racists.
	These people are the racists.
	She's the worst.
	So, what did you think of the halftime, which is the thing we all have to talk about?
	What do you think about the halftime?
	Well, I watched a little bit of it.
	I mean, I skipped around the whole game because after the first quarter, you can tell the game was going to be boring.
	But I thought it was pretty well produced.
	I mean, I couldn't understand the word he was singing, half of it.
	I knew about the song, but I thought the thing was pretty spectacular, personally.
	What they should have done is like all these...
	Christian artists, they should have a big screen and the words up on the screen.
	No, I'm not kidding.
	It's really good.
	I mean, or have it in a lower third?
	It's not a bad idea.
	Why not?
	It was poorly mic'd, but the dancing was really spectacular.
	Oh, the dancing was great.
	Those kids with the dancing.
	Those kids, they know how to dance.
	But the whole thing was, I thought it was a good show.
	Of course, this is the only football game I watch once a year.
	I like the game.
	I thought it was exciting.
	You thought it was exciting?
	Yeah.
	Well, I don't watch football.
	And really, after the game, I sat next to Tina and I said, how do people watch one of these every week?
	That's tiring.
	No, the Super Bowl is a little different than a typical football game.
	Oh, is it longer for some reason?
	Actually, I think they stretch it a little bit.
	I mean, the quarters are the same length, but I think they stretch it...
	I think the halftime is stretched.
	Five minutes, maybe.
	I could be wrong.
	But the...
	No, it's just the...
	The intensity of the game is a little different.
	It's just...
	And it's overanalyzed.
	It's just slightly different.
	The weekly games are...
	And most smart viewers speed watch them.
	You record them.
	You record to about the third quarter and you start watching the game.
	You catch up at the end so you get to watch the end live.
	And you don't have to watch commercials.
	Which brings me to an important email I received about speed watching and speed listening.
	This is where you go, oh yeah, that's right.
	Oh yeah!
	I remember that ad.
	I'm sorry, the email?
	So...
	Speed watching, I'm just going to equate that to speed listening to your podcast, which I have claimed forever is bad for your health.
	Yeah, well, speed watching isn't watching at high speed.
	Well, then I'll leave that email for later.
	What speed watching is, is you turn the game on.
	You have it recorded about a half hour to an hour.
	You watch the game, it gets the commercials, boom, you skip ahead back to the game.
	Okay.
	The commercials, I watched on YouTube TV. Did I just not get any good commercials?
	There were no good commercials.
	And some of them were sickening.
	The flying eyebrows and the flying mustaches.
	What is that all about?
	And then also the tongue.
	This guy's tongue that comes out of his mouth.
	That was creepy.
	That was a creepy one.
	But Kanye apparently had some Nazi closing ads.
	I think people have moved to local ads more than national spots.
	Except for the Pfizer, you know, we're going to beat cancer, which is just kind of a...
	The whole thing was kind of gross.
	Sick.
	They're sick.
	Like, from the people who gave you cancer.
	You know?
	We're going to save you from it.
	I don't know.
	Anyway, we called it.
	You called it much more accurately than I did.
	I had a point spread, which was completely off.
	But we both said it was the Eagles.
	And were the Eagles the favorite to win?
	No, no.
	They were underdogs.
	So people must have made money and they're donating to the show today.
	I haven't seen any evidence of this.
	So just remember, we call these things more right than wrong, I think.
	And we do it from a political basis.
	We don't call it based on the...
	Although Philadelphia did have a better team.
	And it showed.
	Although your guy, Saquon, man, they had him covered.
	He couldn't do anything.
	They basically lost the game because of that tactic, that strategy.
	The tactic was to stop this one guy, Saquon Barkley, the running back for Philadelphia.
	And they spent all their efforts on that.
	And in the process, they lost the game hugely.
	Because that's all they could do is stop that one guy.
	They did stop him.
	I think he only gained 45 yards or so.
	And he was not MVP. 70 yards and 40 passing.
	And he was not MVP. Yeah, he didn't make MVP. I like Hurts.
	He was good.
	Yeah, he is good.
	Decent.
	And he can run, too.
	And I felt bad for Mahomes.
	Someone should tell him to stop chewing on that mouth guard.
	That's just irritating after a while.
	It's funny.
	Stephen Curry, the basketball player, does the same thing.
	There's a bunch of these nervous superstars that's chewing on the mouth guard.
	Do you think it was rigged, possibly?
	Yeah.
	I saw worm burners from...
	From Mahomes, like, how does he do that?
	Just throwing it to the ground.
	I can do that.
	Put me in the Super Bowl, coach.
	There was a...
	The reason I suspect there may have been something up is that early before the game started, they shot some side camera shots of the different players, and Mahomes had a look on his face like an unhappy look that was not...
	Some game in the news?
	You're not winning this game.
	Yeah, as soon as I saw it, I said, oh, okay, well.
	Well, maybe the whole thing was just rigged so that Taylor Swift can write another album when she breaks up.
	On the cast, on the television, they didn't show Taylor.
	Only once, one time, only one time.
	I only saw her...
	I never saw her even once, except on YouTube videos.
	Well, the YouTube videos, she was sitting next to a Satanist friend, which, that's what lost the game for him, as we predicted.
	Like, you can't bring Satan into the game.
	And they were booing her.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Let's move on to...
	That was a good rap.
	Yeah, I have nothing...
	Hey, we did it again, John.
	Good work.
	We called it again.
	It's one of the things we do.
	That's one of the things we do.
	On to Gaza.
	Well, President Trump is not backing down on his plans to simply take over Gaza during his meeting yesterday with the king of Jordan, King Abdullah.
	The president said the U.S. is simply going to take ownership.
	There is nothing to buy.
	It's Gaza.
	It's a war-torn area.
	We're going to take it.
	We're going to hold it.
	We're going to cherish it.
	And Mr. President, take it under what authority?
	It is sovereign territory.
	Under the U.S. authority.
	Trump's plan, which would require the forced relocation of two million Palestinians, is not being well received by the Palestinians themselves.
	I say to Trump that we will die in our country.
	We are not prepared to abandon our country.
	Palestine is for Palestinians.
	We do not belong to any other country.
	I urge you, President Trump, leave us alone and let us live.
	Let us rebuild Gaza.
	We can make it better and more beautiful than it used to be.
	Palestine is for Palestinians.
	This is well known.
	Palestine was here before Trump, and it will be here after Trump.
	No one has the right to divide Palestine or Gaza or the West Bank.
	And this is really the interesting point, because if you heard the president speak there, he said, you know, there's nothing to own.
	There's really nothing to buy, because who owns Gaza?
	That's really the point of contention.
	Actually, I got a clip here from Judge Knapp.
	Judge Knapp.
	Judge Napolitano, who...
	What's his podcast?
	Judging Freedom.
	He's a podcaster now.
	Yeah, Judging Freedom.
	Here's Trump on Air Force One on Sunday, either going to or coming home from the Super Bowl on buying and owning Gaza.
	Chris, cut number one.
	Steve Whitcoff said that process would take 10 to 15 years.
	Does your commitment to rebuilding Gaza extend beyond your time in office?
	I'm committed to buying and owning Gaza.
	As far as us rebuilding it, we may give it to other states in the Middle East to build sections of it.
	Other people may do it through our auspices.
	But we're committed to owning it, taking it, and making sure that Hamas doesn't move back.
	There's nothing to move back into.
	A demolition site.
	By what authority could he possibly own it?
	None.
	Owning it implies a sale.
	Who would sell it to him?
	At one point he said Israel would sell it to us.
	Israel doesn't own it.
	Israel can't conquer it.
	Israel can't defeat Hamas.
	Heg says American troops will never be there.
	I don't know if these people have even thought this stuff through.
	Well, so that's an interesting question because I know that...
	Until the Six-Day War was controlled by Egypt, then, of course, Israel captured it.
	I don't know if you own it, if you captured it.
	And, you know, Israel, they controlled the airspace.
	I mean, who does anyone...
	It's not a country.
	Palestine is not a country, although kind of half-recognized by the United Nations, kind of like a, eh, we'll give you a resolution.
	So, that is kind of the question.
	If you're going to buy it, which I doubt is going to happen, I even doubt that we're going to do anything.
	I think it still will be either Jordan or Egypt and they're going to do something.
	It just doesn't seem like...
	I think the whole thing is bullshit.
	I think Trump is just saying this stuff.
	This is a version of the blurt.
	It's a matter of him getting people all riled up.
	Napolitano's clueless about anything Trump.
	I mean, Napolitano's a podcaster largely because he didn't understand Trump the first time around.
	Wait a minute.
	We're still podcasters ourselves.
	Yeah, I know, but we started off as a podcaster.
	When you're at the bottom, you're not far to fall.
	We didn't get kicked out of Fox and a $10 million a year deal to become podcasters hitting the skids.
	When you're laying on the floor, there's not far to fall.
	You're right.
	There's a big difference between hitting the skids and, you know.
	Well here is, I think this is the France 24 short report.
	As far as I'm concerned, if all of the hostages aren't returned by...
	Saturday at 12 o'clock.
	I think it's an appropriate time.
	I would say cancel it and all bets are off and let hell break out.
	I'd say they ought to be returned by 12 o'clock on Saturday.
	And if they're not returned, all of them, not in drips and drabs, not two and one and three and four and two.
	Saturday at 12 o'clock.
	And after that, I would say all hell is going to break out.
	Here's Aaron Burnett.
	Before you continue, why do you think he said, I think it's an appropriate time?
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	What do you think?
	High noon.
	It's from the movie.
	Well, that's what I said earlier.
	High noon.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, but it's from the movie.
	Trump's, you know, over the age that this movie was very influential on his...
	Yes, boomer time.
	It's boomer stuff.
	It's boomer stuff.
	Not landing with everybody.
	No, but that's, I'm telling you, that's exactly why he said it's an appropriate time.
	There's no other reason to say, could have said 1215, I mean...
	But high noon.
	And is that central Gaza time?
	Well, it has to be Gaza time, obviously.
	Here's Aaron Burnett on CNN. So you just hear President Trump there.
	You said parcel land in Jordan where the Palestinians from Gaza will go live.
	Is that the case?
	Well, good evening and thanks for having me.
	This is Jordan's foreign minister.
	I did have a very good discussion with the president.
	Obviously those...
	The pressure took place before the expanded meeting where the ideas were discussed.
	President Trump presented his ideas.
	I believe he's driven by, as you said, humanitarian concern for Gaza.
	He believes that Gaza cannot be rebuilt without Gazans leaving their land.
	His Majesty was very clear that we have a plan through which we'll be able to rebuild Gaza without Gazans leaving their Gaza.
	They have a plan.
	And this is a very key position for Jordan.
	Beyond that, I think we had a very good discussion.
	His Majesty made it very clear where we stand in terms of we can put up a plan that will Okay, so very clear on your plan.
	Rebuild Gaza without moving Gazans out.
	And, you know, I don't want to put words in your mouth, but just to be clear, parcel of land in Jordan does not fit with that.
	It sounded like you were very clear that Trump said that before the meeting with King Abdullah.
	Okay, so Jordan seems to be willing to do something.
	I think, where was this clip?
	I've had a clip where Trump said he didn't think any hostages were still alive.
	I think it's this one from NBC. This morning, President...
	Oh my God, it's a Brit!
	It must be true!
	This morning, President Trump...
	Why is he yelling at me?
	This morning, President Trump in a standoff with Hamas, saying he wants to cancel the ceasefire deal if they don't release all hostages.
	Stop this clip.
	Why does NBC have this guy working?
	He's shouting at us with a British accent.
	What is the point of this?
	Is this professional?
	If it's British, then it's truthful.
	We all know that.
	What's the point of him shouting?
	It's like that old rich and famous guy.
	Oh, Robin Leach.
	Robin Lee's shouting.
	He's got a beautiful multi-million dollar yacht with champagne wishes and caviar dreams.
	Saying he wants to cancel the ceasefire deal if they don't release all hostages by Saturday.
	As far as I'm concerned, if all of the hostages aren't returned by Saturday at 12 o'clock, I think it's an appropriate time.
	I would say...
	Cancel it and all bets are off and let hell break out.
	The carefully negotiated ceasefire inching closer to collapse.
	And this morning, Israel says its military is on the highest level of alert after Hamas said it would indefinitely delay releases claiming Israel isn't meeting its obligations.
	And three hostages were freed last weekend in emaciated condition.
	Now the president's renewed threat that all hell will break loose.
	If they're not returned, all of them, not in drips and drabs, not two and one and three and four and two.
	This weekend, President Trump doubling down on his call for Palestinians to leave Gaza.
	Would the Palestinians have the right to return?
	No, they wouldn't because they're going to have much better housing.
	And ahead of a meeting today with the King of Jordan, threatening to potentially withhold funding for Jordan and Egypt if they don't cooperate by taking millions of refugees.
	Both countries are clear that's a destabilizing prospect they would not accept.
	Potentially another impasse at a critical moment.
	I thought I had a clip where he said he didn't think the hostages were even alive anymore.
	I do have King Abdullah...
	Wait, no, I have the Egyptian president.
	He also had a little sit-down.
	For Egypt, Donald Trump's plan to displace Palestinians from Gaza is a non-starter, and in a sign of its anger...
	Egyptian security sources said President Sisi would not go to Washington for talks if the agenda included Trump's vision.
	In Cairo, the mood is one of defiance.
	He wants to displace the Palestinians from their homes and ignite war in the region.
	This man has come to destroy the region.
	The entire Arab world must come together as one, and we must not allow anyone to strong-arm us.
	The U.S. president, though, has doubled.
	Double down on his suggestion for the permanent placement of Gazans to both Egypt and Jordan.
	I'm talking about starting to build, and I think I could make a deal with Jordan.
	I think I could make a deal with Egypt.
	You know, we give them billions and billions of dollars a year.
	Last year, the U.S. allocated $1.3 billion in military aid to Egypt, which, alongside Israel, has consistently been one of the biggest recipients of U.S. military aid.
	Since the U.S. brokered peace treaty between Egypt and Israel more than four decades ago, President Sisi has repeatedly said Egypt would never facilitate the expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza, aside from being an injustice to the Palestinians and an economic burden for Egypt, which narrowly averted a full-blown crisis last year.
	Sisi views Islamist groups like Hamas as a serious threat to his country's own security.
	The Egyptian foreign minister traveled to Washington on Sunday where Reuters reports it was made apparent in a meeting with the U.S. Secretary of State that the displacement plan would be on the table if Sisi visited.
	Yeah.
	I don't know.
	We'll see.
	I'm convinced that this is all bluff, like bluster.
	I'm going to do this, I'm going to do that under my own authority.
	We're going to take over the place and build the Riviera.
	And you just freak these guys out, and they say, no, no, no, we'll do it, we'll do it, we'll do it, and get them both in gear.
	Yeah, that's what it sounds like to me, too.
	No, because they don't want the Palestinians in their countries under any circumstances, because they're troublemakers, it's a known fact.
	And so they're not going to have any, okay, we'll do it, we'll do it, we'll do it.
	Let us do it, let us do it.
	You know, save your money, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and the next thing you know, they'll be doing it.
	Hmm.
	Instead of sitting on their hands, which is what they're doing now.
	No, it sounds like Jordan is definitely amenable to doing something.
	They're both going to have to...
	Them and probably a few other operations are going to have to do something.
	Saudis, maybe?
	Saudi money?
	Saudi money, yeah, maybe.
	Could be.
	Somebody, but Trump's not going to...
	We're not going to buy or take over Palestine.
	It's bullcrap.
	What would it be worth?
	Well, if you made it into the Riviera, it would be worth a lot.
	Put it into our sovereign wealth fund.
	And Trump did say early on, he says, and don't worry about it, it's not going to cost us anything.
	If you notice, he said that in the early going, when he first came, when he first blurted this idea out.
	Yeah, well, the wall was going to be paid for Mexico.
	How's that work?
	The wall was going to be paid for by Mexico, too.
	Yeah, well.
	And the check is coming for him.
	He just didn't say when they were going to pay for it.
	All right, I want to stick with, because it's kind of funny when you have the Brits, the British media is going crazy.
	They don't know what to do with this Trump-ness, particularly Doge.
	And it's great.
	This is LBC, so this is the...
	You know, the radio, the London Broadcast Corporation, I guess?
	The LBC. What is it called?
	Anyway, they also have video.
	Everyone has to have video of them in their studio.
	And here's how it starts off.
	They're soggy, dissolve, and last only a couple of minutes.
	Donald Trump has launched Straw Wars on paper straws.
	I'm LBC's Henry Riley, finding out if people want to make plastic straws great again.
	I like Straw Wars.
	I think that no one in America did that, that I could tell.
	Straw Wars is good.
	But they have to stay...
	It's a good pun.
	Mm-hmm.
	And it works, and it kind of surprises me that you mentioned that nobody on our side, who are notorious for good puns and headlines, didn't come up with Straw Wars.
	It should have been us.
	This show should have done Straw Wars.
	And then they have the Star Wars theme in the background.
	Yes, yes.
	It should have been us.
	Yeah, we get into the meat of it.
	On occasions they break, they explode.
	It's a ridiculous situation.
	Not talking about condoms there, unfortunately enough.
	Instead talking about plastic straws, the president.
	Straws.
	Important work.
	That the 47th President of the United States has to conduct, has got to do, flanked by Elon Musk, making it clear what he thought about plastic straws.
	The most powerful office on the face of the earth.
	Let's catch up now with Simon.
	You're being so diminutive about our most powerful office on earth.
	Straws are a big deal.
	Everybody hates the straws.
	You know, when I lived in the UK, five years, I found them to have incredible humor.
	The Brits?
	Yes.
	Oh, they have an understated style of humor that is outstanding.
	Yeah, I agree.
	But now they're getting all serious.
	Oh, this is ridiculous.
	Can you believe it, Jeeves?
	He's talking about straws.
	It's crazy.
	Straws.
	Straws.
	On the face of the earth.
	Let's catch up now with Simon Marks, LBC's Washington correspondent, of course.
	Simon, even by Trump standards, this was quite something to watch.
	Yes, it's just worth picking up, Lewis, on the fact that they always seem terribly obsessed with explosive devices.
	The condoms that were allegedly going to Hamas.
	Hamas.
	Hey, it's condoms and Hamas, okay?
	Start with the condoms and Hamas.
	Explosive devices.
	The condoms that were allegedly going to Hamas.
	Condoms.
	That President Trump said a few weeks, a couple of weeks ago, he had stopped from being sent to Hamas.
	Nonetheless, at the time, he inexplicably claimed that Hamas had somehow got their hands on them and were using them to make bombs.
	I don't quite know how you do that.
	I don't quite know how you do that.
	Now we discover that paper straws are potentially...
	I guess this guy's never done water balloons either.
	...explosive devices.
	I mean, I think what we witnessed...
	Did you hear what he said?
	Oh, no, straws are explosive devices.
	I don't think that was the point.
	I don't quite know how you do that.
	Now we discover that paper straws are potentially explosive devices.
	I mean, I think what we witnessed yesterday was, frankly, the country going full Ruritania.
	I mean, if you've ever watched the Marx Brothers, no relation, Groucho Marx in Duck Soup, acting as the president of Fredonia, I mean, at least that's satirical.
	What we saw in the Oval Office yesterday was...
	Hold on a second.
	I knew that would get you.
	What a callback.
	The 1930s movies, Duck Soup?
	How many people that even listen to the BBC or even our show?
	LBC. LBC, I'm sorry.
	Yeah, LBC. How many people that listen that, you know, can relate to the Duck Soup movie unless you're a Marx Brothers fan?
	And that's a very small number at this time in history.
	Give me a break.
	I mean, at least that's satirical.
	What we saw in the Oval Office yesterday was simply the most astonishing tableau anybody that has ever covered modern American politics has witnessed and underscored the fact that Elon Musk now is acting essentially as the de facto Prime Minister in a country that doesn't have a Prime Minister and in a country that doesn't have anything like Prime Minister's Question Time, where the Prime Minister would be held accountable by Parliament.
	They don't have any PMQ. No prime minute, no Elon question time.
	Although, I think we kind of had exactly that in the Oval Office.
	With his kid roaming around.
	With the kid on his shoulders and putting his boogers on the...
	Yes.
	All right, here's the last bit here.
	He is absolutely unrestrained by Donald Trump, and we should explain that the reason why, the ostensible reason why Elon Musk was in that room yesterday was because one of the executive orders that Donald Trump was signing was to empower Mr. Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, which of course is not a real government department.
	To pursue, as the executive order puts it, large-scale workforce reductions.
	Hold on a second.
	When you have an executive order creating the Department of Government Efficiency, you literally have an agency.
	He says it does not...
	This executive order breathed it into life.
	It created the department.
	It created it, yes.
	Just like USAID was created by executive order.
	By Kennedy.
	Yes.
	...the federal government.
	They're talking about for every four civil servants that resign or are fired, they're only going to replace them with one, and that one person has to be an absolute dyed-in-the-wool-make-America-great-again loyalist.
	So this executive order...
	Where did you say that?
	...substantially...
	I just wanted the word loyalist.
	You have to be a loyalist!
	It says it right there on line 13A, sub-marker 2. The director of Doge must be a loyalist.
	Loyalist.
	So this executive order substantially expands Elon Musk's capacity to oversee hiring at federal agencies.
	Mr. Musk made a whole slew of absolutely unsubstantiated claims about the fraud that he says he is uncovering throughout the federal government.
	Donald Trump said that the total amount of fraud within the federal government...
	May even top $1 trillion by the time Mr. Musk is finished.
	They talked together about kickbacks.
	That they claimed figures that the U.S. Agency for International Development had received as a result of dispersing the now, I think it's fair to say, former humanitarian development assistance organization's budget.
	I mean, the elephant in the room was the fact that when Donald Trump was president first time around, every...
	Okay, what do you think they're going to counter with as fraud on behalf of Trump 1?
	To counter the USAID fraud.
	What do you think the Brits will come up with here?
	What do they come up with?
	By the way, this whole thing is a ridiculous report.
	Oh yeah, but I needed entertainment after the Tulsi analysis.
	What is wrong with these people?
	What do you think it could be that they're going to say, it's so ridiculous.
	It's got to be Ivanka's deal with China label.
	President, first time around, every foreign delegation that arrived in Washington, D.C., dutifully booked into the Trump Hotel in the center of Washington, D.C. Dutifully.
	Now, since they are taking us back to the times of Boomer, allow me to take you back, Boomer, during the Clinton-Gore presidency.
	We didn't have Doge, we had Rigo!
	Do you remember Rigo?
	Oh, no.
	R-I-G-O? No, it rings a bell, but I don't remember it.
	This report tells us how to cut waste, cut red tape, streamline the bureaucracy.
	Change procurement rules.
	Change the personnel rules.
	And create a government that works better and costs less.
	The Reinventing Government or REGO report aims to save $108 billion over five years through eliminating scores of wasteful programs and regulations.
	Among the 800 recommendations, eliminating 12% of the federal workforce, merging some government agencies like the FBI, the DEA, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.
	Closing hundreds of government offices outside Washington.
	Oh no!
	Oh no!
	Yeah, it wasn't a problem then.
	No, it wasn't a problem then and the brists weren't bitching about it.
	And it did nothing.
	It also did nothing back then that I can recall.
	No, it did nothing.
	In fact, they were trying to get rid of that cave that they keep complaining about now.
	The cave is great.
	The cave is great.
	And they were trying to get rid of the cave, and I guess Obama tried to get rid of the cave, and everyone's trying to get rid of the cave.
	Here's a Doocy on the cave.
	Good morning.
	The effort to make the government more efficient has fallen down a mine shaft 230 feet below Boyers, Pennsylvania, in Butler County, where millions of manila envelopes represent the painstakingly slow federal retirement process.
	This is it.
	It looks like a place to ride out a nuclear explosion, but it's really where 700 federal workers very slowly process retirement papers by hand.
	The Washington Post described it in 2014 as a sinkhole of bureaucracy.
	So far, President Trump is pleased with efforts to make things more efficient.
	And he says he's not worried about potential conflicts of interest for Musk.
	You know what it's called, the mine, the mine shaft, the cave, it's called Iron Mountain.
	Yeah, Iron Mountain is very famous.
	There's a lot of stuff at Iron Mountain.
	Not just that.
	If they're going into Iron Mountain, I want to come along.
	There's also a lot of servers down there.
	Oh, yeah.
	Which is ironic, considering that they have the paper operations on one side that's server operations on another.
	If I recall, I think there was an internet service provider who was down there, too, back in the day.
	Maybe Red Dog or Red Bus or...
	I recall there was some...
	Redbus.
	Yeah, Redbus was, I think...
	Maybe, I don't know.
	Yeah, I think they had an ISP. Or maybe it was a backup company.
	Yeah, we got everything.
	We back it up in Iron Mountain.
	I think I might have actually told a client that at one point during Think New Ideas.
	Yeah, we do off-site backups.
	We take them off to Iron Mountain.
	Oh, wow.
	Where do I sign the contract?
	Meanwhile...
	It's a huge facility.
	Yeah, it's very big.
	Meanwhile, back on MSNBC, Rachel Manow back earning her keep, although she didn't get a raise.
	But she's really doing what she's supposed to do.
	Let's really dive into that Doge thing.
	Let's really, really figure out what's going, because that's why I'm here for the first 100 days.
	Every single day I'll be on the air to bring you the news about the horrible Doge.
	We're starting to see an upsurge in protests targeting Tesla dealerships, Tesla charging stations, just as sort of the corporate representation of Elon Musk since he owns Tesla.
	We talked last week about a seemingly impromptu protest at Tesla charging stations in the bitter cold up in Waterville, Maine.
	Now look, they're starting to happen all over.
	At a Tesla dealership showroom thing in Manhattan.
	A showroom thing!
	Sort of a big crowd turned out there with very good signage.
	Stop Musk's coup.
	Elon Musk is not my president.
	This is a coup.
	Take away the keys from Elon.
	Don't buy swastikars.
	I like that.
	I like swastikars.
	Swastikars is good.
	Also look in California, in San Luis Obispo, at a Tesla dealership there.
	More of the same.
	Stop the coup.
	Stop Musk.
	Save our democracy.
	Follow the rule of law.
	This is a pretty good one.
	Bad doge.
	Why do we say doge, right?
	Like, why are we playing along with the joke and their framing of it?
	There's just as much of a case that we should be calling it Dog E. Instead of Doge.
	I don't know.
	That's a pretty compelling case.
	Bad Doge.
	$25 million a year?
	How much does he get for this?
	$25 million a year.
	But the Tesla hate is a real thing, and it's not good if you own a Tesla in Portland, Oregon.
	The video shows the vandal covering his face, writing something on the hood of a car.
	That happened in broad daylight.
	I mean, he was brazen.
	And Tim Tease says the culprit...
	Targeted his Tesla, parked in his northwest Portland driveway on a quiet neighborhood street.
	During Super Bowl Sunday, while I was up watching the game, my son and I were watching the football game.
	I showed you the video, they spray-planted my car.
	When Tease went to investigate, he discovered the word Nazi, written in red.
	And he thinks there's a connection to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who's now serving President Trump.
	I get that people are upset about Elon.
	I'm upset about Elon, you know.
	I bought the car before.
	You know, Elon went crazy, hence the bumper sticker.
	A sticker that'll have to wait, since after cleaning, his Tesla is now in storage.
	I'm thinking about selling the Tesla, although I really like the car.
	This vandalism, reported to Portland police, follows other incidents, including a suspected arson at a Salem Tesla dealership last month.
	Yeah, they all have these stickers.
	I bought my car before Elon went crazy.
	Oh, what a bunch of weenies.
	I'm in California.
	I've seen no evidence of this.
	This is being played up as a kind of news media trick.
	Well, no, they're instructing people to do this.
	That's why.
	Yeah, that's what I meant.
	I should have said exactly that.
	That's what they're doing there.
	The media is complicit in the vandalism.
	There's no doubt about it.
	Let's go to other favorite news channels, CNN. Anderson Pooper is losing it.
	Governor Sununu is...
	Was it strange to see?
	It was surreal, but I've got to tell you, I know what you're not showing here.
	Musk gave seven specific examples off the top of his head of where the corruption and fraud were.
	I know you didn't play the clips.
	He was talking about a contractor that had a three-month contract.
	He was paid for 20 years.
	He was talking about welfare benefits that were being paid to someone that was technically 150 years old.
	He was talking about line items in the treasury that had no justification.
	He doesn't present any actual evidence.
	He's standing there in the Oval Office.
	Do you expect him to come in with 10,000 pages?
	I have to be clear.
	To complain about this administration about transparency, when this president takes open questions on a daily basis, yet Joe Biden didn't show up for a press conference in six months, is insane.
	These guys are being extremely transparent.
	They don't have to sit there and take the questions, but they do.
	It's all on the website.
	It's all out there.
	Okay, now listen to Pooper really lose it.
	We'll show where it is.
	Some of the details that have come out, like the $59 million spent on luxury hotels, it's actually not...
	You're talking about the FEMA money that was abused for migrants?
	That was FEMA money for migrants?
	That's okay now?
	No, I'm not saying it's okay.
	Don't put words in my mouth.
	So would you stop that?
	Would you stop that process?
	Don't be a dick.
	What kind of interviewer says don't be a dick?
	Unbelievable.
	Well, Pooper, I know he has more on that clip because Pooper...
	Yeah, he said 14 seconds.
	Don't be a dick.
	I have a thought about this.
	I want to hear the don't be a dick again.
	Don't be a dick.
	What I'm saying is the portrayal by him is just not factually accurate.
	He's talking about luxury hotels.
	I'm not as big...
	Look, I was in a hurricane.
	I saw what FEMA does.
	I think the issue, too, is these are congressionally appropriate funds.
	Blah, blah, blah.
	Okay, yes, you have a thought on Pooper.
	Yeah, he goes on about this.
	Okay, so FEMA picked up the Roosevelt Hotel, and they're putting all these people in there, including supposedly Lake and Riley's killer.
	Oh, I didn't hear that one.
	And Trent Aragway is in the Roosevelt Hotel.
	And you know what?
	They're eating the dogs in there.
	And so they have these, and they say this is, and so the people doing the commentating, I mean, not Cooper, but the guy being the interviewee, that's what I meant, says a luxury hotel.
	The Roosevelt Hotel is not a luxury.
	It's a dump.
	I stayed there 10 years ago, and it was nothing but people drunk in the hallways, weed smoke everywhere.
	Yeah, it's a shit hole.
	Yeah, thank you.
	That's the term.
	Exactly.
	So, Cooper...
	Besides the amount of money being overspent on these hotel rooms, which was ridiculous.
	I guess they're paying hundreds of dollars a night in FEMA money going to the hotel.
	Cooper's point was, it's a lie because it's not a luxury hotel.
	It's a lie because it's not a luxury hotel.
	And that was the point he was trying to make, and it was just falling apart.
	But this is pathetic.
	And the mainstream media is not covering any of the stuff that Doge has uncovered, and they have documentation for it.
	No, they're just fighting it.
	They're just fighting it.
	They're fighting it, yeah.
	Tooth and nail.
	It's crazy.
	This is...
	Actually, here.
	Then we have the House panel, the House oversight panel, which was a total...
	Waste of time to watch.
	Here's a short report about it.
	Do you have serious desire to engage in democracy and transparency?
	We welcome you to the Oversight Committee.
	Come and testify in front of the American people under oath because we want to know what you're up to.
	Elon Musk's increasing access to federal information has sparked lawsuits from several labor unions.
	Recent court filings revealed that one of Musk's employees was mistakenly given the ability to modify sensitive government payment systems.
	Well, Virginia Senator Mark Warner touched on the concerns about Doge's access to sensitive information on GMA3 today.
	He noted that much of the agency staff, who he called the Doge bros, are young tech professionals with little to no government experience, raising security risks in an increasingly hostile global climate.
	The problem with this kind of irresponsibility is people will die because we have seen when our agents get compromised, the adversaries are not squeamish about taking them out.
	In a recent letter to the White House Chief of Staff, Warner and several other Senate intelligence members demanded details on how Doge staff is What's being vetted and what's being done to protect Americans from misuse of information?
	They're like a flopping fish on the ground.
	You just need a Chinese guy with a club.
	Exactly.
	The star of the show, though, is without a doubt Miss Leave It, who has...
	I don't know about you, but I would recommend a little...
	A little less on the lipstick?
	Have you taken a look recently?
	It's just a tad too much?
	Maybe.
	I have to say that she comes on the various Fox shows, and depending on which show she's on, they have different makeup.
	I'm talking about in the briefing room.
	Yeah, in the briefing room.
	It doesn't bother me as much.
	It doesn't bother me.
	Just from a television standpoint.
	Maybe she's protesting Trump because you're supposed to wear red lipstick if you're protesting Trump.
	It's not red, no, but it's a little too shiny.
	It's just my personal opinion.
	She'll get feedback on it.
	Here she is with our boy Waters.
	So Obama knew about the retirement cave, spent millions to try to computerize America's workforce retirement paperwork, failed.
	Does President Trump promise we're going to shut this cave down?
	Yes, he does.
	And that's why Elon Musk and President Trump brought it to the American people's attention in the Oval Office yesterday.
	And as they did that, Jesse, I was watching the faces of the mainstream media reporters who were in the Oval Office.
	And there was sheer silence because it appeared that many of them, who are supposed to be writing the truth about our federal bureaucracy, had no idea that the federal retirement system is being processed deep into the ground and is not...
	Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
	And they are revealing the rot of this city every single day.
	Treat the federal government as a business.
	Small business owners across the country have to look at their money in and their money out every single day.
	Bureaucrats have never done that.
	And that's the other irony in the mainstream media saying that there's no transparency.
	I mean, before it was Elon Musk and President Trump doing this and being highly scrutinized for it, it was just unnamed bureaucrats in this city that...
	Nobody knew.
	Just writing checks.
	And finally, we're actually looking at the books and what they are revealing is truly appalling, but I guess not surprising when you look at the way that Washington has been run for decades.
	Again, the American people voted for this monumental change and that's exactly what they're getting.
	So this is, she's good.
	The only thing wrong with this is on Fox.
	She should be on CNN. She should be on MSNBC doing this rap.
	I guess they're not inviting her.
	They're not inviting her.
	She is good.
	What you just said is the reason.
	Yeah, because she's good.
	She's really good.
	She's sharp.
	She's fast.
	She doesn't use a big binder.
	Compare it to Kareem Jean-Pierre Abdul-Jabbar.
	Oh, there's not even...
	You have to compare it to some of the more classic press secretaries that are very competent.
	Psaki.
	She's better than Psaki.
	I think she was better than Kayleigh McEnany.
	Yeah, she's much better than Kayleigh.
	I have to say.
	The head and shoulders above Kayleigh.
	I think Dana Perino, she's probably better, but they're close.
	I think if you go back to Huckabee was not as good.
	No.
	Sean Spicer, that guy was terrible.
	And how about the Mooch?
	Scaramucci.
	Yeah, but he was never a press secretary.
	He was just a kind of a communications guy.
	Profile raising is what he was doing.
	And then we have people, I guess, getting a little bit nervous.
	Now, I'm going to take this with a big grain of salt because it's coming from Lady G, Lindy Hop Graham.
	Samantha Powers has been just texting me morning, noon, and night.
	Samantha, look in the mirror.
	The reason USAID is going to cease to exist as it did before is because it should.
	I can't go home and say, this is soft power.
	Operas, whatever agenda you got, needs to be focused on making America safer and prosperous by working with people.
	So USAID is a victim of their own excesses.
	I have a feeling someone said, Lindsay, you better get vocal about this stuff because we've got the dirt on you.
	And they must.
	Him and...
	McCain, Ukraine.
	There's questions about those two.
	Yeah.
	I'm sure there's something that's going to come out.
	It's not going to be pleasant.
	But he's handy to have around.
	I bet he's fun at parties.
	He has a funny style that seems trustworthy when it's not.
	Let's play this clip.
	This is the Doge Committee clip.
	I'm not sure what it is.
	Okay.
	Doge.
	Oh, NTD. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene was selected by Speaker of the House Mike Johnson to chair the newly created subcommittee on delivering on government efficiency.
	Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican from Georgia, highlighted the...
	Did he say delivering on government?
	So the committee is called Doge as well?
	This is not a Democrat problem.
	This is not a Republican problem.
	This is an American problem.
	Over the next decade, total interest payments are projected to be $13.8 trillion.
	House Democrats charged House Republicans with being complicit in what they called the hacking of the U.S. federal payment system by Elon Musk.
	Congressman, is there anything right now that the subcommittee might be working on where Democrats want to pitch in and also cut in these savings?
	Well, we'd love to talk about efficiency.
	I mean, I think, I mean, everyone is interested in government efficiency.
	This is not government efficiency.
	This is actually just cutting programs, cutting benefits.
	There are actually ways of saving resources and saving money.
	One of those ways is not to give billionaires a huge tax cut.
	Nice try, buddy.
	Now, I have two clips that are interesting to me because this is not being covered at all by the mainstream.
	They've almost avoided it assiduously.
	And these are two clips I got from NTD. And there's information in here that it's like, oh, well, that's interesting.
	How come no one's talking about this?
	This is the Greenland stuff, which is still in play.
	The U.S. government getting serious about buying Greenland.
	At a Senate hearing this morning, experts told lawmakers there's a lot at stake in the Arctic.
	Here's the story.
	The United States acquiring Greenland.
	Serious discussion is underway for the United States to buy Greenland.
	At a Senate hearing Wednesday, lawmakers and experts discuss what's at stake.
	Russia and China are both increasing their military presence in the Arctic.
	They want to be able to control the sea lanes, block freedom of navigation of our commercial N. She said it's vital for the U.S. to have a strong presence in those waters, as well as a strong presence at Greenland's resources.
	Greenland sits atop vast reserves of rare earth elements, materials critical for everything from technology to national defense.
	Senator Ted Cruz says controlling those minerals would reduce the world's dependence on China, which has a virtual monopoly on rare earth minerals.
	But experts say it's not just about economic security, but also physical security.
	Geographically speaking, Greenland and the U.S. are relatively close, about a four-hour flight.
	Foreign vessels have repeatedly arrived in Greenlandic waters without proper authorization or in violation of NATO protocols.
	Yeah, there's some reporting, but they're all too obsessed with Elon.
	Elon!
	Yeah, well, this is a good distraction because they're keeping...
	But they're missing this story, and now the second clip becomes very interesting.
	You've never heard of any of this.
	In one instance, a Russian submarine actually showed up.
	Arctic expert Alexander Gray says Denmark, which owns Greenland, has failed to keep Greenland secure, and the U.S. may need to step in.
	Other reasons Greenland is important.
	A potential source of significant hydropower.
	Good views near the poles for satellites, which need ground stations in the Arctic.
	undersea infrastructure like telecommunications, cables, and pipelines.
	Gray also says the U.S. doesn't have to buy Greenland, which it's tried to do four times already.
	Instead, America could offer an international agreement called a Compact of Free Association.
	Sovereignty by Greenland would be maintained at the same time...
	The United States would have a defense obligation and defense access.
	Compacts of free association first appeared during the decolonization period of the 20th century.
	The U.S. already has a compact of free association with the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and Palau.
	Oh, that's interesting.
	The compact of free association.
	The COFA. That would be a deal you could do, and that's probably where we're really headed.
	We're not going to buy it.
	What's really going to happen, yeah.
	But that could happen, and that would be the solution to the problem, and not one mainstream media operation is even discussing this.
	You're right.
	All they're talking about is Elon.
	Well, I do have an ABC report, which highlights the American humor, which is luckily back.
	Oh, man.
	I really miss just stupid humor, little bits of trolling.
	It's just, it makes you feel good to be an American.
	What at first seemed like a joke was now serious enough for the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee on Wednesday to hold a hearing entitled Greenland's Geostrategic Importance to U.S. Interests.
	Greenland has never been some remote island.
	It holds immense strategic...
	And economic importance.
	Currently, Greenland is a self-ruling autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark.
	President Trump mused about acquiring Greenland during his first term in office, but he has recently ratcheted up his rhetoric about the idea, calling it an absolute necessity.
	Witnesses said Greenland, with its proximity to the Arctic Ocean and its abundant rare earth minerals, is critical to U.S. interests.
	Greenland has long been a focal point for U.S. strategists.
	Looking to safeguard the periphery of our hemisphere.
	But Wisconsin Senator Gary Peters said Trump's assertion that the U.S. needs to own Greenland to defend American national security is wrong.
	So I'm disappointed that today we have to address another ill-advised Trump administration move against an ally.
	On Tuesday, Georgia Republican House member Earl Buddy Carter submitted a bill, H.R. 1161. It would authorize the president to enter into negotiations to acquire Greenland and to rename it Red, White, and Blue Land.
	Wow, it's like a shaggy dog story.
	Red, White, and Blue Land.
	Wow.
	And then the Danes, although I doubt this was actually Denmark.
	You saw the Denmarkification.com website?
	No.
	Of course, the...
	The domain name is protected.
	You can't get the who is information.
	You know, pussies.
	Yeah, that anonymizer thing is bad.
	Yeah, there's no aboot page.
	Okay.
	It has sunshine, Silicon Valley, and an abundant supply of avocados.
	These are some of the reasons cited in a satirical Danish petition for wanting to buy California from the United States.
	It's a tongue-in-cheek response to U.S. President Donald Trump's repeated wish to buy Greenland from Denmark, a proposition rejected by officials in Copenhagen and Greenland.
	By Wednesday, some 200,000 people had signed the petition, which, along with renaming Disneyland to Hans Christian Andersenland, pledges to bring bike lanes to Beverly Hills and organic schmarble to every street corner.
	It adds rule of law, universal health care and fact-based politics might apply.
	But why should Donald Trump give up the sunshine state, it asks.
	He's called it the most ruined state in the union and has feuded with its leaders for years, the website reads.
	We're pretty sure he'd be willing to part with it for the right price.
	It echoes comments Trump made about Greenland on his first day in office.
	Greenland is a wonderful place.
	We need it for international security.
	And I'm sure that Denmark will come along.
	Trump first floated the idea of buying Greenland in 2019. The autonomous territory lies on the shortest route from North America to Europe, making it strategically important.
	It's also home to a large American space facility.
	Blah, blah, blah, whatever.
	It was kind of cute.
	I doubt the Danes have that kind of humor, so I'm sure it was.
	I doubt it's true.
	I'm sure it was someone else.
	Isn't Denmark the one that has the brown cheese?
	I think it's the brown cheese.
	What about the brown cheese?
	I think Denmark has brown cheese.
	It just hit me all of a sudden that we've had a conversation about the brown cheese from Denmark.
	I don't remember this.
	Yeah, and someone sent me some.
	And it didn't keep very well in the fridge, if I recall.
	But it was kind of a little pungent.
	Then, of course, the other serious bit of negotiation that's going on between Russia and Ukraine.
	U.S. President Donald Trump claims to have had a lengthy and highly productive phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
	Posting on the social media platform Truth Social, Trump says they discussed negotiations to end the war in Ukraine and added that he's already appointed several officials to lead the talks.
	The Ukrainian government has revealed Trump also spoke to President Zelensky on the phone after his call with Putin.
	The conversation is reported to have lasted an hour, but no further details have been discussed.
	And then according to France 24, looks like the land...
	Retracement is in play.
	Pressure from the U.S. has forced the hand of the Ukrainian president to make a turnaround on his previous position not to give up any territory to Russia.
	Volodymyr Zelensky has now said he is ready to swap land in negotiation with the Kremlin to try and put an end to the three-year war.
	We're going to talk more about this with our international affairs editor, Kethevan Gorjastani, who joins me on the set.
	Kethevan, what more can you tell us about this proposal and how the Kremlin has responded?
	Well, you put it really well.
	It's a huge turnaround for Zelensky.
	Just think that a few months ago, right before the U.S. election, Zelensky had said that Ukraine was not willing to make any territorial concessions regardless of the U.S. election result.
	And now you have Donald Trump in power.
	Since then, Zelensky started talking about temporarily maybe ceding some territory to Russia in exchange for joining NATO. And now finally, openly, he says, We are willing to talk about a land swap.
	He's talking about something very specific.
	He says that he's willing to give Russia back the land, the Russian land that Ukraine controls right now in the Kurs region, which is pretty small compared to what Russia controls out of Ukrainian land.
	But when he was asked what land would he get in return, he said he didn't know and he didn't know what the Russians would be willing to.
	So this is an interesting balancing act that's taking place with the military-industrial complex, with NATO, with our own industrial base in the United States.
	And right now, everybody's over in Munich for the big security conference.
	And Pete Hegseth, our new Secretary of Defense, with the crazy Nazi tattoos.
	That guy, he's wearing a suit.
	I can't believe it.
	And he is holding high-level talks.
	U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth denied that the U.S. is betraying Ukraine, following comments that Ukraine should not join NATO and that it's up to Europe to protect itself and Ukraine from Russian aggression.
	Ahead of a meeting with NATO allies in Brussels on Thursday, he reiterated his call that Ukraine should prepare for a negotiated peace settlement and abandon hope to gain back all its territory from Russia.
	There is no betrayal there.
	There is a recognition that the whole world and the United States is invested and interested in peace.
	A negotiated peace.
	As President Trump has said, stopping the killing.
	And so that will require both sides recognizing things they don't want to.
	In response to the announcement from the Trump administration, NATO Chief Mark Rutte urged the group to significantly wrap up their own defense spending.
	Come on, we have to ramp up.
	Actually, I'm going to play a different clip.
	So, Rutte, Mark Rutte, had a nice talk with Pete Hedset.
	Heg Seth, yes, he's the guy who came to the party with.
	And we also talked to the other defense ministers.
	And remember that Rutte is working for America.
	We've forgotten this, but he's working for America.
	Clearly.
	A lot happened yesterday in the meeting, but also in the media.
	And no doubt that will be debated today and over the coming days and weeks.
	But there's also a clear convergence emerging.
	We all want peace in Ukraine.
	Then later.
	We all want Ukraine to be in the best possible position.
	Wait a minute.
	I need you to buy something first.
	When those talks start.
	Because, you know, we have to be very afraid because Russia and other threats are coming.
	To make sure that they can be concluded successfully.
	And as also Pete Hex said yesterday, the new American Secretary of Defense, it is crucial that whatever comes out of those talks, it is durable.
	It is enduring.
	No Minsk 3. No Minsk 3. We cannot have that again.
	We cannot have Putin again trying to capture a square kilometer, a square mile of Ukraine in the future.
	Thanks for translating the miles.
	Then, of course, we will also discuss today spending.
	Yes, spending.
	We have to spend more.
	Yes, we must.
	We have to spend more in American stuff.
	Yes, we need the stuff for Russia.
	Of course, we will also discuss today's spending.
	We have to spend more.
	Not only because the US expects that.
	Because they expect Europe to take its and pay its fair share.
	But also we have to spend more because we know the threat coming from Russia.
	And from other adversaries is increasing.
	What other adversaries?
	And that will be debated today.
	And here I think there is a clear expectation from the side of the U.S., but also a clear commitment yesterday that this alliance is here to stay for the generations to come.
	This guy is great.
	He is our top sales guy.
	He's doing a good job.
	That's the idea.
	That solves the problem with industrial companies.
	I have two clips.
	I have 45 seconds left of him.
	Oh, Ruta?
	Yeah, Ruta!
	And we will discuss today the Zen's industrial base.
	How to produce more.
	We are not producing enough.
	And this is a collective problem we have.
	From the US up to and including Turkey and including the whole of the European Union, Norway, UK. We have fantastic defense industries, but we are not producing enough.
	Well, listen, it's not enough because, you know, we are much worse off than Russia.
	We are producing in three months an ammunition.
	No.
	I would say Russia is producing in three months in ammunition what the whole of the alliance is producing in a year.
	And this is simply not sustainable.
	We have to ramp up the defense industry production.
	So these issues will be on the table today in the ministers of defense meeting and then afterwards also in the...
	Lunch we'll have with Minister Umarov of Ukraine, where we discuss the relations between NATO and Ukraine.
	So thank you very much.
	Maybe a few questions.
	Yes, no, I didn't answer any questions.
	So I think that they're kind of trying to time this.
	We need some commitments.
	We need some orders.
	Yes.
	So Russia can make as much ammunition in a month that they can in a year or whatever the comment was?
	I thought Russia was getting all their stuff from North Korea.
	They can't do anything.
	Oh, please.
	When did that change?
	That was just another hoax.
	North Korea just threw bodies at it.
	Here, have some dudes.
	I have two clips called Ukraine is Toast, and I think it summarizes as well as anything.
	This is, unfortunately, I spelled Ukraine with a J. And toast with A's.
	Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is in Brussels today saying Ukraine should not join the NATO alliance.
	He's the first official of the new Trump administration to visit the NATO headquarters.
	NTD's international correspondent Arian Pasdar has more on his trip.
	The bloodshed must stop and this war must end.
	Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the U.S. wants to end the fighting in Ukraine.
	This is NTD, I guess.
	Yeah, I love this guy.
	Because his accent is just fabulous.
	This is the guy that took the place of...
	Who is it?
	The guy who always sounded to you with the bad voice that was on ABC, or I think...
	I don't remember.
	I was taking a dump.
	Oh!
	Oh, Jeff Begay's?
	Jeff Begay.
	Yes.
	In opening remarks at a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, the Defense Secretary suggests Ukraine will have to take some losses in order to close a peace deal with Russia.
	We want, like you, a sovereign and prosperous Ukraine.
	But we must start by recognizing that returning to Ukraine's pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic objective.
	Not gonna happen, people.
	He says the goal of returning to pre-2014 borders in Ukraine was, quote, illusionary.
	Hexteth also talked about Ukraine's NATO ambitions.
	The United States does not believe that NATO membership for Ukraine is a realistic outcome of a negotiated settlement.
	Instead, any security guarantee must be backed by capable European and non-European troops.
	He added that peacekeepers in Ukraine should be deployed only as a non-NATO mission.
	The defense secretary also made clear that no US troops would go to Ukraine.
	Also on Wednesday, the U.S. Treasury Secretary met the Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky in Keith.
	Oh, interesting.
	I stopped it there because...
	What?
	Yeah, why?
	Oh, it's about SWIFT. It's about the money.
	But why would he...
	What's got to do with Zelensky?
	I don't know.
	Zelensky's not cut out of SWIFT. The Treasury Secretary went there to say, hey, look.
	Look at our numbers here.
	This is costing us money.
	We want this money back.
	We want it back in the form of your rare earths.
	We want it back in the form of you giving Cargile and these other guys a bunch of your land.
	We're getting our money back from this fiasco.
	And so they brought the Treasury Secretary.
	Why did the Treasury Secretary do the meeting with Zelensky?
	He brought the receipts.
	So these two clips, the second clip finishes, but...
	Good point, though.
	This is what's going to happen.
	No NATO. You lose the Donbass.
	You lose the territory.
	You lose Donbass.
	There's no NATO, and you lose Crimea for sure.
	Stop with that already.
	And then shut it down.
	That's what's happening, like it or not.
	Also on Wednesday, the U.S. Treasury Secretary met the Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky in Keith.
	This is my first official trip abroad, and it should be a strong signal that the war is a top priority for the Trump administration.
	President Trump says he wants Ukraine to use its rare earth minerals as a guarantee it will pay back the money the U.S. has sent.
	This way, the U.S. might also continue sending military aid.
	Zelensky on Wednesday told reporters that the U.S. had presented a first draft of an agreement.
	We believe that it provides the further guarantees for the Ukraine people of American assistance.
	The document is scheduled to be presented at the Munich Security Conference later this week.
	Yeah, you're right.
	I hear, by the way, from sources that Zelensky is starting to, I guess, trying to put sanctions against Poroshenko.
	Because there's going to be an election soon.
	There has to be, because they have no...
	I mean, Zelensky can't really even officially negotiate on Ukraine's behalf, because he's not president.
	So they have...
	Yes, they have to have elections.
	And according to sources, law enforcement agencies are already taking steps to investigate Poroshenko, Klitschko, and Timoshenko.
	Because, you know, he doesn't want one of those guys to become pretty.
	He doesn't want anyone to step up and be a competitor.
	Klitschko is on his side.
	No, I think that ended a long time ago.
	Klitschko's got strip clubs.
	He's got, like, some side hustle going.
	He got moved out.
	Strip clubs?
	Yeah.
	Gee, strip clubs in Ukraine?
	Huh?
	Who'd have thunk it?
	Never saw that one coming.
	Yeah.
	It's interesting.
	Yes, this is over.
	This bull crap is over.
	Yeah.
	Now, there was a little bit of a scare in Munich at the security conference, and what's the lady who just left MSNBC? What's her name?
	I don't know.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Andrea Mitchell.
	Oh, right.
	Yeah, she just had her big send-off.
	Thanks for 8,000 years on MSNBC. You did so great.
	But she's now a special reporter at the Munich conference in Germany.
	Breaking news overseas.
	The top news at this hour.
	A suspected terror attack in Germany.
	A car slammed into a crowd in Munich, which is the site of a global security conference right now.
	At least 28 people were injured.
	NBC's Andrea Mitchell is in Munich with the very latest.
	Andrea, good morning.
	Good morning, Savannah.
	The 28 people are taken to hospital.
	The suspect was driving...
	I was having this white Mini Cooper behind me and drove into a crowd of people who were here.
	They were not related to the security conference.
	They were protesters, union public workers, protesting for higher wages.
	So that was not related to any protest against the security conference.
	As these top leaders were arriving, the vice president on his way over here from Paris, where he had been, and other leaders, the secretary of state coming here.
	The suspect is an Afghan man.
	He's 24 years old.
	They say here, according to authorities, he was seeking asylum here in Germany.
	We don't know fully the motive, but he is certainly under arrest in communicating with them.
	He was known to police here for past violations on drug and other criminal charges, but nothing related to terrorism.
	So that's the situation.
	Security obviously tight as all of these leaders are gathering for a major summit.
	The main focus, of course, is Ukraine and the initiatives by President Trump.
	Everything that is now happening regarding Ukraine, Zelensky, President Zelensky also heading here, the conference starting tomorrow.
	It's a very odd choice of vehicle to mow people down, a Mini Cooper.
	I thought that was kind of overlooked in the reporting.
	And the reason, when I saw this come in, I'm like, oh man, because I wanted to play this clip, this really strange-looking young woman with a little bit cross-eyed, very odd makeup.
	I couldn't find a report in English of these files that have been uncovered in Germany that claim...
	That they're, you know, so right now AFD, the Alternative for Deutschland, we have, I think, maybe a little bit over a week before the elections.
	These guys look like they've got a lot of momentum behind them.
	We already saw the LGBTQIA protest with hundreds of thousands of dudes with wigs and eye shadow trying to protest.
	Yeah, I mean, trying to protest what's going on, which is obviously still a...
	You know, a last little hurrah from USAID funding into whatever dance party they had afterwards.
	Yeah, obviously.
	But they're...
	There is apparently, and with involvement from the FBI, a false flag attack planned.
	We are the target of a massive conspiracy.
	The German government and intelligence agency are orchestrating a huge false flag campaign which is going to associate the AFD with a real group of terrorists.
	But it goes beyond that because even the American FBI is involved among multiple international intelligence agencies.
	The deep state is writing the script and the media is going to blow it up in the headlines and on TV with bold photos that completely distort reality.
	How do I know this?
	because a whistleblower leaked the confidential case files to the alternative media outlet Auf Eins, where they just exposed the full extent of this brutal scheme.
	And this is putting their own existence at a very high risk.
	The supposed terrorists are the Saxon separatists who were recently arrested in a bloody confrontation with the police when one of the suspects got shot.
	However, it's important to note that the Saxon separatists themselves did not result to any violence.
	So what are the charges against them?
	The supposed terrorists are nothing but a group of far-right men whose beliefs are outside of the spectrum of what is deemed acceptable.
	The Saxon separatists.
	Saxon separatists.
	Yeah.
	Sounds like a heavy metal band.
	That's what I said.
	That's that weird girl.
	She's like on Twitter, on X. With a kind of cross-eyed, strange makeup.
	Oh, I think I've seen her, yeah.
	Yes, right, her.
	Yeah, you know what I mean.
	That one.
	No, I've seen her.
	I think she's a blonde.
	She's got kind of a round head.
	Yeah, exactly.
	That's the one.
	Yeah, she's got some good reports.
	I hope they don't do that.
	Maybe that'll be thwarted now because there's no more money coming in.
	Do just stop the payments.
	Hey, guys!
	We can't do this op.
	We didn't get a check.
	It has to end.
	Maybe the AFD can get somewhere.
	I like this woman, Alice.
	Alice, I guess.
	Alice Veedle.
	Is that her name?
	Yeah.
	She's the head of the thing.
	Oh, you mean the...
	The libertarian lesbian.
	Is she?
	Conservative.
	No, it wasn't a conservative.
	We discussed this.
	Yeah, she's a conservative.
	I don't know if she's a lesbian.
	Yes!
	She is?
	Yes!
	The AFD woman is a lesbian?
	I'm pretty sure.
	Let's see.
	AFD... Here, let's ask ChatGBT.
	Is the AFD woman a lesbian?
	Question mark.
	Let's see what comes out.
	Yes!
	Alice Weedle, co-chairman of the far-right alternative...
	How far can they be with a lesbian running it?
	Is it openly a lesbian?
	Well, she's very talented.
	I like her.
	Yeah, and she's tall.
	She's very tall.
	Yeah.
	That's why you're extreme right.
	Because, you know...
	Extreme right lesbians.
	I don't know how...
	I don't know how any of this works.
	It's all beyond me.
	It just does.
	It's all beyond me.
	Then we have Shake-Ups in New York City, which has been interesting to watch, particularly with the mayor.
	Yes.
	You might as well play the Bondi stuff.
	Okay.
	Is it from NTD? I have two clips.
	I have the short and the long, but I think the long-form Bondi, you might as well skip the short one.
	Yeah.
	Is it from NTD? I don't know if it is.
	I don't think it is.
	You're killing me.
	I need different voices.
	NTD is...
	Alright, here we go.
	Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on Wednesday that the Justice Department is suing New York over its so-called sanctuary city laws, which prevents law enforcement from arresting illegal immigrants.
	Bondi says that the DOJ filed the suit against the state of New York, Governor Kathy Hochul, Attorney General Letitia James, and State DMV Commissioner Mark Schroeder.
	Bondi criticized New York's green light laws, saying that they prevent law enforcement from accessing an individual's immigration status.
	New York has chosen to prioritize illegal aliens over American citizens.
	It stops.
	It stops today.
	Millions of illegal aliens with violent records have flooded into our communities bringing violence and deadly drugs with them.
	The DOJ filed a similar lawsuit last week against the state of Illinois for such sanctuary city laws.
	And in announcing the lawsuit on Wednesday, Bondi was joined by the mother of Kayla Hamilton, a 20-year-old who was raped and killed by an illegal immigrant, an MS-13 gang member from El Salvador.
	And he had a criminal record in 2020 in El Salvador for illicit gang activity.
	He came over as an unoccupied alien child saying that he was afraid of gang activity in his country.
	Health and Human Services called him a nice boy and he showed age-appropriate behavior.
	That fell so wrong when he murdered my daughter.
	Last week, Bondi ordered the DOJ to pause all funds to sanctuary cities.
	Now, it's not clear how long the pause is, but in the meantime, the DOJ is reviewing any contracts in those cities that may break the law.
	Federal law prohibits state and local governments from blocking immigration officers from accessing individual citizenship status.
	But several sanctuary cities have policies that restrict local authorities from cooperating with federal immigration officers.
	And Bondi ordered the DOJ to investigate such Yeah, another lawsuit she's started.
	Late today, new Attorney General Pam Bondi revealing a new lawsuit against New York State and its Attorney General Letitia James.
	The Attorney General accusing New York of resisting federal efforts to enforce the nation's immigration laws.
	Now, can they do that?
	Can they...
	I mean, I guess you can sue anybody for anything, but is it...
	Yes?
	They had that one guy, I can't remember his name, is always on Fox.
	Who's the professor at Georgetown, the legal guy.
	And he says they can and they can't.
	It depends on the loopholes and some of the provisions of the locals.
	And he thinks it's not as cut and dry as you might imagine.
	But O'Reilly was on Cuomo, and he claims that, he says, no matter what you think about these lawsuits, there's no doubt in his mind.
	And I think he might be right that this is Trump getting back at Letitia James.
	Oh, for sure.
	And a little F you with the mayor.
	Now to New York, where federal prosecutors have been ordered to drop the government's corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams.
	He had been facing five charges, among them bribery and fraud.
	A Justice Department memo says now that the case was interfering, however, with Adams' ability to help with President Trump's immigration crackdown.
	CBS News, legal contributor Caroline Polisi is here for more on this.
	Caroline, thank you very much for joining us.
	The Justice Department was at pains to point out that they're not dropping this based on the merits or a review of the evidence.
	They're not saying he's innocent.
	So what are they saying here?
	Right.
	The memo really is shocking.
	Shocking!
	Really, it's brazen.
	It's dripping with politics, right?
	As you noted, they are explicitly saying...
	This is CBS News, by the way.
	Gripping with politics.
	Not looking at the merits of this case.
	And the reasons that they're giving for this order to drop the case are, one, that it's distracting Mayor Adams from really getting in line with President Trump's immigration policies.
	You know, New York has traditionally been a sanctuary city.
	Back it up and play that laugh tell again.
	Well, because they all think Trump is crazy.
	One, that it's distracting Mayor Adams from really getting in line with President Trump's immigration policies.
	New York has traditionally been a sanctuary city, but Mayor Adams has recently really been getting behind the federal push with ICE agents, cooperating even with ICE agents in the immigration space.
	They've also really...
	Again, again, another laugh till.
	Is she high?
	She's high.
	She's high.
	She sounds like she's stoned.
	Getting behind the federal push with ICE agents, cooperating even with ICE agents in the immigration space.
	They've also really, in this memo, pointed to President Trump's, you know, this idea of the weaponization of the Justice Department.
	And Adams was very vocal, saying, feeling he was persecuted in this prosecution because he publicly spoke out against the Biden administration's immigration policies.
	There's been a bit of a bromance, if you will, between Adams and Trump.
	Remember, we had a last minute invite to the inauguration.
	So this has likely been in the works.
	But I will note, you know, the memo is saying that it should be dismissed without prejudice and that their acting head of the Southern District of New York can relook at the charges after the mayoral race in no way.
	Again.
	Wow.
	So they've discovered that this is a political move.
	No, really?
	Oh, okay, CBS. Race in November.
	Wow.
	Wow.
	It's a trial run.
	So basically they're saying, we're going to see how you do with getting in line with the Trump policies.
	And then maybe we'll see...
	I'll tell you one thing.
	The New Yorkers, they don't care.
	They don't like him.
	They think he's just no good.
	They're so disappointed in Adams.
	All he did was go to the clubs, hang out with his posse.
	Well, he was like, he promised...
	The world, when he ran the first time, because he's an ex-police, he's going to clean up the city, he's going to do this, he's going to do that.
	He didn't do Jack.
	He didn't do any of it, no.
	Well, he was hampered by the lawsuit over him getting an upgrade.
	Where was he?
	Was he going to get an airline upgrade to Turkey?
	Well, that came later, though.
	That came much after they started hating him.
	And then the bulldog, Tom Holt.
	He got an upgrade.
	Hey, I'm going to put you in first class.
	Okay.
	Tom Holman, the bulldog, was on Hannity talking about all of this immigration stuff.
	And tonight a very disturbing trend is taking hold as President Trump is implementing his mass deportation policy.
	I should have said about everything happening in the immigration space.
	Looks like every time ICE is preparing to launch a large-scale enforcement operation in a liberal city, information about that rate is leaked.
	Here with more is Trump, administration, Bordazar, Tom Homan.
	Tom, where are these leaks coming from?
	Well, look, we think it's coming from inside.
	And we know the first leak of Aurora is under current investigation.
	We think we identified that person under investigation right now.
	The California leak, Secretary Noem, she's correct on some of the information we're receiving, intensively toward the FBI. But I talked to the Deputy Attorney General all this weekend.
	They've opened up a criminal investigation.
	And they have promised that not only this person will lose their job and lose their pension, they're going to go to jail.
	They're going to criminally prosecute.
	So we're all over it.
	We've got the DHS IG investigating the first one.
	I have a pretty good idea of what happened.
	Can't share a lot because it's under investigation.
	But the IG's opened up a criminal investigation on the second one.
	We're sending a strong message.
	It's just not giving the bad guys a heads up so they can escape apprehension.
	We're arresting, you know, giving the Venezuela gang a heads up so we can't arrest them.
	You're putting officers' lives at risk.
	It's only a matter of time if we walk into a place where there's going to be a bad guy who doesn't care.
	He's going to be sitting and wait for the officers to show up and ambush him.
	This is not a game.
	So DHS and DOJ are connected at HIP to hold these people responsible in a criminal fashion.
	Yeah, I had that same clip.
	That is...
	This is going to happen.
	They're going to arrest an FBI guy for leaking to a criminal that they were going to get busted.
	Yeah.
	And he made it clear as an FBI guy.
	Yeah.
	So once that happens, that's going to be a big deal.
	Because that opens the door for Kash Patel.
	Clean house.
	Clean house.
	You can't have that?
	No.
	Here's the second part of this.
	The people in this country that don't belong here, but among them are known murderers and rapists and terrorists and cartel members and gang members.
	Special interests and donors.
	This is not an easy lift to begin with.
	And you've expressed confidence that you'll find them all.
	And the question is, how quickly do you think we can find them all?
	Well, Sanctuary Cities, they're putting up every roadblock possible.
	The bad guy in a county jail takes one agent to arrest a bad guy when he gets arrested and put in a county jail.
	We've got to send a whole team to the neighborhood.
	So it's going to be, it's very difficult in Sanctuary Cities, but we're going to keep coming.
	What are we doing about Sanctuary Cities?
	I'm going to double the manpower in those Sanctuary Cities.
	Sanctuary Cities, if we can't get them in their homes, we'll get them to place an appointment.
	We're going to have large-scale worksite enforcement operation.
	So we're going to send more resources.
	We're not going to stop.
	We're going to keep coming.
	We're going to keep coming with more.
	We're going to increase the targeting in those cities.
	We're going to get full steam ahead on sanctuary cities.
	Sanctuary cities are becoming the priority.
	Why?
	Because they're protecting public safety threats and national security threats.
	So we're going to double manpower.
	We're going to double operations.
	We're going to double targeting.
	We're coming full bore.
	And they're not going to stop us.
	I'm taking this seriously.
	I don't sleep well at night because I'm afraid of the people that are walking the streets here every day because sanctuary cities are protecting them.
	Sanctuary cities are sanctuary for criminals.
	Bottom line.
	So we're going to do everything we can to find them, regardless of what it takes.
	We've got a strong president of the White House that's giving us all the authority we need.
	We're coming.
	America!
	This guy's...
	This is the guy.
	He's like, what a character.
	I almost do his voice.
	He's got kind of a muffled...
	Rory mumbles a lot, but he means business.
	Daniel Sassoon, acting U.S. attorney, just resigned after the Justice Department directed her to drop the Eric Adams case.
	I'm outraged!
	I'm resigning!
	Well, good.
	Yeah.
	A lot.
	So much is happening.
	I just can't keep up.
	Can't keep up.
	The clips I didn't get, because there was just a long series of clips, was the Worcester, Massachusetts clips of all the blue-haired freaks and everybody in between.
	You know, Joe showed that.
	I was at Rogan yesterday.
	That's why I couldn't do the newsletter.
	I couldn't check the newsletter.
	Joe showed it to me during the show.
	I was like, oh, man.
	Because it's a sanctuary city for...
	For transsexuals.
	Yeah.
	You know, someone sent me...
	We've talked about...
	But the thing is that these people were making...
	They were screaming and yelling and they were nuts.
	They were completely nuts.
	And the city council knuckled under.
	Yeah.
	They approved it.
	I don't know if Joe knew that.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I knew that.
	But I felt just sad.
	I mean, I looked at how these people had makeup and a woman dressed as a guy and had glitter instead of a beard.
	I mean, this is mental illness.
	I have to suggest this.
	I have two things so people can think about these.
	Is it possible that the blue hair dye causes brain damage?
	That's thought number one.
	Yeah, possible.
	That's possible.
	It looks toxic to me.
	Yes.
	Former chemist.
	I'm with you, former chemist.
	Yes, it looks toxic to me.
	And the second thing is acupuncture is real.
	We know it's real.
	Is it possible that when you stick a pin through your septum?
	Or a nostril, a little nostril ring that you're poking into one of the pathways of an acupuncture pathway that affects the way you think.
	I'm going to get the emails again from guys like, hey man, I'm a big burly guy and I have piercings and I love no agenda and you're just messing with me because it's not true, man.
	People have done this all throughout history.
	Yeah, and all of them have, they take on certain personality characteristics.
	So someone sent me an interesting article, which is from years ago.
	You know, we've been talking about trans-Maoism, which is what we think this is.
	There's a new term, which is an old term because it comes from an old article, bio-Leninism, which I really like.
	Yeah, it's a nice term, but what does it mean?
	So, regular Leninism was what Lenin did in the 1800s.
	He raised all of the lower classes as a support base.
	In the 1800s, Russia, the lower classes had no prospects for a happy future until Lenin promised them a happy future.
	So, once Lenin gained power, these people became his staunchest supporters.
	Why?
	Because they had the most to lose.
	Lenin elevated them.
	If Lenin failed or lost power, their only hopes for prosperity would be gone forever.
	Bio-Leninism is the same idea, except with identity instead of class.
	Imagine a stereotypical trans, not implying that all trans people are freaks, actually, I said freaks.
	In any healthy society, these people would be suppressed before they could bring our kids to Drag Queen Story Hour.
	Bio-Leninism is where a leader intentionally pursues these people as a support base and elevates them to positions of status, power, and prestige.
	Why?
	Because this is such an affront to the natural order of a healthy society that it permanently links those people's prosperity with your own.
	I think there's something there.
	I like the term.
	Bio-Leninism.
	That's fascinating.
	Yeah.
	Now, is it a better term than trans-Maoism?
	Well, at least it's another potential show title.
	I mean, might as well use it.
	Well, there you go.
	That's all that counts.
	And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage in the morning to you, the man who put the C in the compact of free associations.
	Say hello to my friend on the other, I'm the one and only Mr. John C. DeMora!
	Well, We have 2116 as our topper.
	2116. Hold on, I lost my page here.
	Isn't that above average once again?
	2116?
	I don't know how long it's going to take.
	It's going to take forever.
	1800s are average for Thursday.
	Right.
	So we're above average.
	Yeah, we're above average.
	The podcast is an above average podcast.
	2160. I completely lost my page.
	It's a good number.
	Yeah, it's a very good number.
	Here we go.
	2116. I note these things, and I never go back and look.
	I just ask you if it's good or not.
	So these trolls are in the troll room at trollroom.io, and you know what's good about these trolls?
	They are listening live.
	And it's appreciated because you get them providing feedback.
	And, like, I didn't know that Danielle, that lady, had resigned, but they tell me that.
	You know, the other thing, there's something else that I find this unfortunate.
	So Horowitz and I had to pre-record the DHM plug show.
	Oh, why is that?
	Well, because I had to go to the Microsoft party.
	50th anniversary party.
	This is why people do not skip the donation segment because you're going to tell us about the party after you tell us about the troll room.
	Yeah, I'll tell a little bit about the party.
	So Mimi says, oh, you guys, what happened?
	I said, I went to the Microsoft party.
	I told you about this.
	And she said, oh, yeah, that's right.
	I said, so you didn't hear the show?
	She said, no.
	I said, well, you can always just...
	Download it and listen.
	No, I only listen live.
	Oh, how about that?
	She wouldn't download and she will not listen to a podcast unless it's live.
	The lady with the podcast business.
	A podcast studio.
	Pod Angelus, yes.
	There you go.
	Nice.
	So she doesn't listen to our show unless she listens live.
	Oh, interesting.
	And she'll say stuff like, oh yeah, I was listening and then somebody called.
	I had gotten a phone call so I didn't hear the rest of it.
	So I'm thinking that she's not the only one in the world that does this, that only listens live and won't really listen like a podcast is supposed to be listened to, which is a podcast.
	Well, people like listening live and of course we make that very...
	Very easy at trollroom.io.
	Also, you can use the modern podcast apps.
	I think Fountain just released a new version that has the chat built in.
	I'm not sure if it's the same.
	I've got to look into it.
	But you can find any of these modern podcast apps will alert you when we go live, which is kind of cool.
	And, of course, if you miss it and you're not like Mimi, then you can always listen to the podcast as it's automatically downloaded 90 seconds after we release it.
	And it's also healthier for you.
	I'm going to get back to that note, and then we'll come back to the Microsoft party.
	I've always said that it is a bad idea to speed listen to podcasts.
	Because, I mean, the only health reason I noticed and heard from it and got confirmation from is that when you're listening to podcasts at 1.5 or double speed, then when your wife or your kids, you know, they talk to you, you're irritated by them.
	Hurry up and just get it out!
	What do you want to say?
	Come on!
	Say it!
	Say it already, kid!
	What do you want?
	How was school?
	So it's not healthy.
	It's not good for your home life.
	And I got to know...
	You're probably right.
	Oh, I'm sure I'm right because I've got confirmation.
	But I got a new piece of confirmation from Air John.
	His nickname, I guess.
	Just wanted to tell you that I had circular hair loss at my neck.
	Oh yes, this is a good note.
	There was a big hole in my beard.
	You do not want a big hole in your beard.
	Everybody said to me, it must be stress.
	Then I remembered that episode where you said that listening at 1.5x is really bad.
	I was doing that because some douche on another podcast suggested it as I'm notoriously dozens of episodes behind I thought I could catch up.
	So I stopped listening at speed, went back to normal listening, and after a couple of months, My beard grew back.
	I'm convinced speed listening was the reason.
	Can't thank you guys enough.
	Hope to make another donation soon.
	How about that?
	I think it's possible.
	Me too.
	I mean, no agenda.
	Now.
	Wait, let me see.
	I'm trying to think of the commercial.
	No agenda.
	Your solution to alopecia.
	Come on, ladies.
	Are you losing your hair?
	Listen to no agenda in real time.
	So you had to go to the Microsoft party.
	Well, it was the 50th anniversary.
	Of Microsoft?
	Of the company, yeah.
	It's been around for 50 years?
	Yeah, believe it or not.
	Wow.
	So they had three events.
	There's one in San Francisco, one in different times, one in New York, and one up north.
	And it was a dud.
	It was unbelievable.
	A dud?
	By the way, I didn't make re-contact with the Lib Joes.
	You did?
	I think we're going to be back on track with them.
	More betting?
	The betting's going to be tough.
	What did they say?
	Both the Lib Joes?
	You saw both of them?
	Yeah, they were both there.
	What did they say?
	Hey, you're still alive?
	What did they say?
	No, you look good, is what they said.
	Were you wearing your MAGA hat at the party?
	No, I wasn't.
	We didn't even talk about politics.
	Oh, wow.
	Okay.
	And so, I know it's all about stories.
	But the thing with the event itself was in this place called Shack 15. I showed it to Jay, and I was describing it to her.
	I said, this is a depressing operation, this Shack 15. You go in there, it's just a huge...
	Room after room after room of people with just these open, like, family-style dining tables everywhere and people with laptops just working.
	And she said, oh, that's a live-work...
	That's a workspace, something or other.
	I don't know.
	Like, WeWork, I guess.
	WeWork, WeWork.
	It was kind of like this.
	Yeah.
	And I said, well, no, it's a private club.
	She said, yeah, they're all private.
	You have to join these things.
	And I said, it's the most depressing thing I've ever seen.
	There's all these people.
	I said, why don't they just work at home?
	I mentioned to one of the guys.
	No, because they want to get out of the house.
	And so they sit there by themselves.
	They're not mingling.
	There's nobody.
	It's not like a social club, it seems.
	It's just depressing to see all these kids, you know, they're all in their 20s, on laptops, just hundreds of them, literally hundreds of them scattered.
	Were they at the party?
	No, no.
	The party was in one of the separate rooms.
	And there were room after room after room.
	There's all these special rooms.
	This used to be, I believe, the World Trade Center Club, which was a big operation at one time.
	And so we were in a separate room, and there was no banners.
	There was not a woman at the front.
	Was there a cake?
	No.
	There was no woman giving out champagne.
	There should have been a champagne girl right at the front.
	Here's champagne.
	Was there a chocolate fountain?
	No.
	How about some of those shrimp deals?
	They had an hors d'oeuvre guy coming around with the worst tasting crab things.
	I couldn't even get through it.
	No shrimp deals?
	No shrimp piles of shrimp.
	There's no caviar.
	Nothing.
	No caviar?
	No caviar.
	Oh my god.
	No caviar.
	They had a bar and then there was no signage.
	Was there a freak off afterwards?
	It was the worst.
	And then the thing that was really disappointing was there was no go bag.
	Oh, no!
	Nothing.
	They had a couple of buttons.
	There's a couple of souvenir buttons that were useless.
	And then there was no T-shirt or 50th anniversary anything.
	It was like they were ashamed of being a company.
	Wow.
	Was Bill G there?
	No, nobody was there except a bunch of PR people.
	Wow!
	And the turnout was mediocre.
	Maybe 45 people.
	It could have been hundreds.
	Wait, a 50th anniversary of Microsoft with 45?
	Was there a dude in a giant Zune costume?
	There was nothing.
	It was unbelievably lame.
	It was the most lame thing.
	If it wasn't for re-meeting the LibJoes, it would have been...
	Even be worth my time.
	There's a woman there from Politico for some unknown reason.
	I gave her a little grief and she got mad at me.
	What did you say?
	I said, oh, you guys are in trouble.
	I pointed at her.
	You guys are in trouble.
	I don't think so.
	That's not true.
	I don't think so.
	Politico Pro is different, man.
	Anyway, there wasn't even mixing that was any good.
	It was only people that knew each other.
	It was terrible!
	Was there a guy in a clippy outfit?
	I mean, they could have done so much fun stuff.
	No, they knew it was going to be a dud.
	From the get-go, I'm pretty sure that's where they let it be a dud.
	Now, who invited you?
	The PR company?
	Yeah, no, it was all internal.
	So it was a PR guy that looked at one of the PR guys.
	He's an old-timer.
	And I did meet some guy who came up to me at the end.
	I was trying to leave.
	He says, oh, you know, he introduced himself.
	Because of you, I became a writer, blah, blah, blah.
	He went on.
	I was trying to get out of there, so I think I blew him off.
	But I told him, hey, listen to the podcast.
	He said, I listen to the podcast.
	And now I felt bad about it.
	So, if the guy's listening to the podcast, he should email me because I want to get in touch with him.
	What's his name?
	Call him out.
	Call him out.
	I don't have his name.
	I forgot.
	I was just getting out of there, so I don't remember his name.
	He was one of those irritating people.
	You're on your way.
	He wasn't irritating.
	He's just a guy.
	You're like, uh-huh.
	Yeah, that's great.
	Hey, man.
	Yeah, shoot me an email.
	Shoot me an email.
	Well, that was, yes.
	Well, that part's accurate.
	You got that right.
	Is it possible that there was a real party and you got invited to the fake one or something?
	You'd think so, but the fact that John Markoff was at this party, who was a Lib Joe, who went to the hangouts at the Hood Canal, and there were other couple of hot shots there that were at the high end, indicates no to that theory.
	It was just a dog.
	It was a howler.
	Wow.
	That is very disappointing.
	And it was in this depressing Shack 15 operation, which, according to Jay, was, oh yeah, that's the way they are.
	I'm thinking, who is into this?
	What entrepreneurs can put up?
	This is terrible.
	These live-work things.
	I was talking to Joe about D.C., about being at the inauguration, and actually I talked to his security guys before Joe showed up.
	They said D.C. was a lunatic mess.
	No one knew how to get anywhere.
	All the streets were shut off.
	Everyone there, everyone in D.C. had donated at least a million dollars to a campaign.
	And Joe said it was horrible.
	I got invited to the inauguration.
	I never mentioned it.
	He'd be standing there.
	But it cost money.
	Well, of course, Joe went because he got the president elected.
	Yeah, Joe should get in for free.
	But I'd just be standing there and people would jump in and start taking selfies and they all had kind of a like...
	It was very transactional.
	Everyone felt like they had the right to just jump in and butt in on a conversation.
	He said it was really not fun.
	And then I asked him, I said, how far were you from Hillary Clinton?
	He said about three rows.
	He said, did you smell sulfur?
	He didn't smell sulfur.
	He said he smelled a lot of things.
	Did he get the joke?
	Yeah, he got the joke.
	And I asked him, I said straight up, was it Biden or Daddy Longlegs?
	He said I was pretty sure it was the real Biden.
	Because he knew all about Daddy Longlegs.
	But yeah, he said it was a mess.
	Yeah, it doesn't surprise me.
	But maybe people can't do events anymore.
	I have no idea.
	But this thing was a joke.
	And it was kind of an embarrassment, I thought.
	But they felt pretty good about it, I guess.
	But what irked me the most was the lack of a go bag.
	I mean, come on.
	Bill Gates just came out with a new book.
	That could have been in there.
	A t-shirt could have been in there.
	A coupon could have been in there.
	There's a lot of stuff that could be in there.
	Nothing.
	A co-pilot discount code, Bongino?
	Yep.
	There could have been a lot of stuff in a go bag.
	No.
	No go bags.
	Very bad.
	Oh, and here's the real kicker.
	Oh, but wait, there's more.
	You know, when you go into a big event or something that's supposed to be a big event, you usually go to the desk and they check you in.
	And there's a pile of name cards there.
	And you look around and say, oh, so-and-so.
	And you see these other people's names.
	Oh, I can wait for them to get here.
	Everybody does this.
	You look over the names.
	It's what you do.
	Oh, look at that guy.
	Oh, Ryan Reynolds.
	All blanks.
	Here's a pen.
	Write your name on there.
	What?
	They didn't even have a printer?
	They didn't even have a printer to print people's names.
	Can you believe that here?
	And the problem was there's a lot of Z's and millennials there.
	They can't even write.
	So you look at the name tags.
	It's just some scribble.
	You can't even make it out.
	It was just unbelievable.
	Wow.
	That is the worst report I've ever heard.
	It just was the worst thing I've been to probably for a decade.
	Wow.
	Well...
	That was valuable information.
	I don't know if people think that they need to support us for this type of reporting.
	They should.
	Yeah, because you braved some really tough stuff there.
	Hey, I'm bringing it home.
	You are.
	You're bringing the bacon, man.
	Good deal.
	Yeah, we are value for value, which means you can support us with your time, your talent, or your treasure.
	And I'll tell you now...
	You know, Sir Daniel, he has done, he set up noagendameetups.com.
	He has released a new version, which is, I mean, he did a lot.
	Did you see all the new stuff he did?
	Yeah, it's like this is a classic guy.
	They can't just leave the stuff.
	I mean, well, like this, like, fixed, an email bug would stop the attendees from emailing organizers.
	Fixed, more reliable email delivery.
	This was a big problem.
	Fixed, sites should be much faster than before.
	Fixed, innumerable small visual fixes and updates.
	Fixed, hundreds of spam accounts removed.
	Thank you.
	Updated, to the newest version of the core plugins.
	Updated, revamped look for my meetups page.
	Updated, accounts page.
	You know, that's value right there.
	Amazing.
	Yeah, an RSVP page if you're logged in.
	It's a fresh theme.
	Fresh theme.
	It's a fresh, fresh theme.
	Then a new view for recently added a bit.
	What I'm trying to say here is this is the kind of stuff that people do for value.
	And it's very valuable to us because we could never afford to have people doing this stuff and setting it up and maintaining it and updating it.
	We couldn't even bring ourselves to have a meeting about updating it.
	So we thank our dudes named Ben and Dudette's named Bernadette for providing immense value in this way.
	And we also want to thank our artists who provide a lot of value by enabling us to have fresh artwork for every single episode.
	And for 1737, that was the episode from Sunday, we titled it Wrong Puberty, we want to thank Sir Shug, Sir Shug, a.k.a.
	Foe Diddley, for his going round and round U.S. aid bus.
	Which was a little contentious.
	He was even surprised, I saw.
	He was like, wow, I can't believe I was picked.
	But he was.
	And why was he picked?
	Well, I'm the one who pushed it.
	Yeah, you did.
	Well, that's why he was picked.
	Typically, we would do a Super Bowl image.
	And I think you said something to the effect of, yeah, that commercial piece of crap, why should we do that?
	I think that's what you said.
	In that voice.
	Yes, it's uncanny, isn't it?
	I think that's exactly what you said.
	And people kind of counted on it because there's a lot of Super Bowl art, and we did not pick the Super Bowl art.
	Of course, a lot of people are doing, don't do Taylor Swift.
	If you're doing Taylor Swift, you're just throwing your energy away.
	We're not going to do that.
	Forget it.
	I mean, there's always an exception to the rule that proves the rule, but no, it was just really...
	Let's see.
	What else did we look at that we kind of liked?
	Well, there was a piece I think you liked.
	Well, I had to laugh at the farmer's wife.
	You know, a nice hand-drawn piece of art, which she drew, apparently.
	A book.
	History, the remix by AI. I just like that she put something up there.
	Yeah, see, when I looked at all these pieces, there was nothing I liked at all except...
	This one piece.
	I thought there was one other piece.
	Let me see.
	I have to go to the next page here.
	I thought there was one other piece that we...
	A lot of hairy balls.
	Yeah.
	What was the...
	Darren O'Neill had, you know, a couple, Curry and Dvorak 33 shirts on, like football jerseys, and I'm an eight-feet-tall Chad of a guy, and you're a chick.
	Yeah.
	That was odd.
	That wasn't going to happen.
	And then in another one, I'm a black guy with...
	With a fro.
	With a fro.
	And I'm a bald guy.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	That wasn't going to work.
	I mean, we looked at Go Sportsball, but it's like, nah, that was too easy.
	There was a lot of art.
	We have to say that.
	There certainly was a lot of art.
	Avocado chips.
	We did like Joe Dirks' Value for Value.
	Oh yes, that's right.
	Vivade.
	Yes.
	I like that piece.
	That's a good piece.
	I have to agree, I did like that piece.
	Yeah, that was good.
	I think that was it.
	I mean, there's other things here, but the good news is you can take a look at this yourself by going to noagendaartgenerator.com and you can participate in this fabulous contest.
	Noagendaartgenerator.com.
	And it's not only artwork that goes onto the album art, but we use a lot of these pieces.
	Dreb Scott does the chapters in the modern podcast apps, and people like it.
	You can jump in, and it's also a visual cue.
	Ah, okay, I see a blue-haired freak.
	Oh, I know what segment that is.
	That's John's TikTok clips.
	So you can jump around, and it's cool.
	And thank you very much, Shug, Foe Diddley, a.k.a.
	Foe Diddley, for your artwork for episode 1737. Now we want to thank everybody who supported the show financially of the three Ts, time, talent, and treasure.
	In this segment, we thank the executive and associate executive producers, and they are executive producers because they came in $200 or above, and then you get this real credit, which you can use anywhere.
	Credits are recognized, which includes imdb.com.
	And we'll read your note.
	$300 and above, you become an executive producer, and we will also read your note.
	And we started off with an old favorite.
	He's back, Seronimus of Dogpatch and Loris Lobovia.
	Yeah, he must be very busy.
	The note was very short.
	It was short and...
	It does make a point.
	Yeah, so...
	2486. We do not know what these numbers mean.
	It's always different.
	It's always cash.
	It always includes $2 bills.
	So we want to make sure we mention the code 2486. Yes, and it's double counted to make sure we are accurate.
	From Seronymous of Dogpatch and Lois Lobovia says, I am pleased to continue supporting the best public service podcasts in the universe, included as payment for my Inno Agenda Plus Bundle subscription.
	It seems obvious that vacating Gaza will not succeed.
	The U.S. and Europe are fighting immigration while presupposing millions of Palestinians can be moved to other countries.
	There's too much regional wealth and existing conflicts to be bullied by the U.S. I think he's got a point here.
	I think we agree with him.
	Well, it follows in line with my thinking, which is this is bullcrap anyway.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I agree.
	This is just to jack them up so they can get to work.
	Yes.
	Jordan will probably be the odd man out here.
	They're probably going to do something.
	Well, thank you very much, Sir Anonymous of Dogpatch and Lois Lebovi.
	Always good to hear from you, and I hope the code is successful.
	Thank you.
	We appreciate your value.
	Yeah, well, we missed him for the last three months, I think.
	No, he couldn't.
	November was...
	Was it November?
	I think in November is the last time we heard from him.
	I'm just happy he's alive.
	You never know with this guy.
	Yeah.
	If we do the code wrong, it could be drastic.
	You never know.
	That's why we double count.
	Double count.
	Okay, we got Vesely Vesely?
	Yep.
	In Portland?
	Mm-hmm.
	667. This finally makes me a knight.
	Should the peerage committee agree...
	I wish to take the title of Sir Vesely of the Cedar Hills of which I reside.
	He also assumes it qualifies him for the rank of Commodore.
	We reintroduced the Commodore ship for two shows for people who missed out, and he'll get one of the Commodore ships.
	Oh, okay.
	Oh, you put that in the newsletter?
	I must have missed that.
	Yeah, I was right at the top.
	You reintroduced the Commodore ship?
	Just for two shows.
	Just to jack up some donations.
	We got one guy that took it.
	One guy took the bait.
	Hey, one guy's enough.
	We'll take him.
	Thank you, Vesely Vesely.
	And so he'll be a knight.
	Yes, we'll be knighting in a bit.
	Kathleen Runyon is in Belshazz, Louisiana.
	377.73.
	Ham donation?
	She says, I donate on behalf of my No Agenda co-pilot husband, Will, a.k.a.
	call sign Hard Time, who was also a marine helicopter pilot in real life.
	These are the guys you want listening.
	He finally deserves a dedouching.
	You've been dedouched.
	And check this out.
	He introduced me to No Agenda while we were dating.
	Now married with a child on the way, we still listen to No Agenda while cooking dinners during the week.
	It's one of our favorite times together.
	Thank you both for all you do, and I wish y'all would keep going for another ten years at least.
	Happy Valentine's Day, baby!
	Allocate donation to William Nutting, please.
	That would be Will, a.k.a.
	Call Sign Hard Time.
	Yeah, that's right.
	Call Sign Hard Time, yeah.
	All right.
	We'll take care of you.
	Reese Craig in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
	In the morning, Reese and Alex, brothers, long-time listeners, first-time Bongino code users.
	In this season of Reveal, we present to you a classic whodunit, Violet Shadow.
	This is a switcheroo for our sister, Greta.
	Okay.
	Switcheroo.
	Greta?
	The writer, producer, and director of Violet's Shadow.
	Love you, Greta.
	Cannot tell you how proud we are of you and your work.
	Alex and Reese.
	Released on February 3rd, Violet's Shadow is a fictional murder mystery radio play set in Ireland with an ensemble cast of voice actors.
	It's the perfect binge for Valentine's Day.
	New episodes.
	Violet's Shadow are released for free weekly on old-fashioned podcast apps.
	Yeah, take a look at it.
	Or listen.
	Glad to be part of the best podcast in the universe.
	Thank you for your courage.
	God bless.
	Nice.
	33333. I'm sure it will also be on the modern podcast apps, but that's cool.
	I love me a good radio drama.
	Audio drama.
	Looking forward to it.
	February 3rd.
	So it's out.
	We should go find it.
	Then we go to Wisconsin.
	Tomahawk, Wisconsin.
	Sir Anonymous sends us 233.33 associate executive producership for him.
	And he says, Hey, fellas, this is a switcheroo for my third and final human resource for his 25th trip around the sun and on the show day, no less.
	Happy birthday to my dude named Ken programming the machines that make jet engines that grind up people that are inconvenient.
	Yeah, a dude named Ken.
	Hold on, let me just put that in.
	That makes a switcheroo.
	They grind up people who are inconvenient.
	I don't doubt that.
	By the way, your commentary on Scott Horton and libertarians was a bit off the mark.
	I'm sure you'll get a lot of other commentary since your audience is, I'm guessing, over 50% libertarian adjacent.
	Because you guys are too, whether you know it or not.
	My only comment is that I'm a little disappointed that you didn't roll a log for part of the problem after lifting those Horton clips from Dave's show.
	They are good people doing good work and don't deserve the derision.
	Keep up the good work.
	Four more years.
	No jingles, no karma.
	Synonymous spirit of the Northwoods.
	Noted.
	Thank you.
	Appreciate it.
	Noted.
	What derision?
	I don't know.
	It's all you, baby.
	I just said they were boring clips.
	That's all I did.
	Yeah, well, maybe that was the derision.
	You said they were boring.
	Yeah, but that was a slam on you.
	I was slamming you, man.
	That's what the note was about that we got from that other guy.
	What other guy?
	Yeah, you were slamming me.
	You were doing what you do, which is every time I have a clip that's off the wall, you say it's boring when it wasn't.
	Sir Toots Ferry's up.
	He's in Valparaiso, Indiana, 223. From Sir Tooth Fairy.
	This donation would be higher if I was listening to Sunday's show live and heard JCD Super Bowl prediction before the game.
	John, that was scary accurate.
	You guys might actually know what you're talking about.
	No jingles, no karma.
	There you go.
	It's about time to realize what's going on.
	With a row of ducks, 222.22, Sir Fat Dad is back from Little Rock, Arkansas.
	He's Sir Fat Dad of the BM Mexicans.
	I remember him.
	I have been remiss in my donations, so enjoy this row of ducks requesting some...
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	I didn't have this set up.
	He wants some F-35 karma.
	And what else does he want here?
	Oh, it's F35 Race Karma for the Show Me State National this weekend in Springfield.
	You've got...
	Karma.
	You know, I saw a post on X from Ashland Speed, and she says, the No Agenda fans will be very happy in two weeks' time.
	I'm thinking we're back on the car, baby.
	We're back on the car.
	We're back on the car!
	Sir Jewclaw in Prairieville, Louisiana, 22087. To my dearest Valentine, Dame Mary Moon.
	By the way, this is a 214 donation.
	My dearest Valentine, Dame Mary Moon from Sir Jewclaw.
	There you go.
	And we have David, Sir David Fugizotto, who is the...
	Duke of America's heartland and the Arabian Peninsula, I believe.
	He's in Missouri.
	And this is also a 214 donation, plus fees to my lovely bride, Dame Melody.
	You are the best!
	Happy St. Valentine's Day, and thank you for your courage.
	Nice.
	Joe is up.
	Joe Terrio in Woodstock, Illinois, 220. It's probably the same thing.
	I'm guessing that...
	Didn't get the 87 cents charged to him for some reason.
	Interesting.
	Your favorite county clerk from the last red county in the Chicagoland area.
	I wanted to extend a special discount offer to the members of the Gitmo Nation.
	I'm co-hosting the America First Leadership Dinner with Laura Trump in the Chicago Burbs on the February 21st.
	It will be a great event with inspiring speakers, an exceptional dinner, and a room full of the area's most interesting people.
	But will they have a go-bag?
	Will they have badges?
	Pre-written badges.
	Visit mcgopac.com.
	That's mcgopac.
	mcgopac.
	To reserve your seat and use the coupon code ITM for 25% off.
	No, $25.
	$25, even better.
	If it pleases John and the podfather, give me a shot of election karma for my 2026 run.
	We're hobnobbing with the politicians.
	I like it.
	Very nice.
	Very nice.
	Joe Tirio.
	That is a county clerk, that's right.
	County clerk, that's right.
	County clerk.
	William Hoggie.
	Hoggie?
	I think Hoggie.
	Elkhart, Indiana.
	No, I'm sorry.
	My last name is pronounced Hoy.
	Wow.
	Okay.
	H-A-U-G-H-E-E. William Hoy.
	Hoy, Hoy, Hoy, Hoy.
	So his name is Hoy, and Becca is his valentine.
	That's beautiful.
	That's 214, by the way.
	Yes, Bowman McMahon is also 214. He's in San Antonio, Texas.
	And he says, John and Adam, that donation calls me and my lady to knight and damehood.
	I would like to apply the remainder toward a posthumous barrenhood for my late dad, James McMahon.
	No, he's not highlighted.
	Calls me and my dame to knight and damehood.
	I don't know.
	I'm confused.
	Hold on.
	I don't think he's on the list.
	I think this is just headed that way is what I have to assume.
	Yeah, I guess so.
	Okay.
	That makes sense.
	This is to mark the occasion of y'all clipping Scott Horton.
	Boy, this thing pays off in space, this Scott Horton guy.
	Yeah, we've got to do this more often.
	Host of the other greatest podcast in the universe.
	There's no such thing.
	The funny thing is...
	If you look at the X posts from people with about 38 followers, it's like, that's it!
	I'm never donating again!
	And what happens is people donate more.
	This is a gambit.
	Good work, Dvorak.
	You're very welcome.
	Scott Horton's show from TheAntiWar.com.
	If his broadcast warrants media deconstruction, this is great news!
	There you go.
	All caps.
	Thanks for all y'all do.
	I too am a Texas Hill country native and will soon host a No Agenda Meetup.
	Matthew 10.34.
	Talk about it.
	Love and peace.
	Matthew 10.44.
	Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace on earth.
	I did not come to bring peace but a sword.
	We just talked about it.
	Thank you.
	By the way, that Texas...
	We're not here wearing coveralls with no undershirt and have straw in our mouth, John.
	Hill Country is sophisticated.
	Hill Country is sophisticated.
	The Hill Country is filled with guys with coveralls.
	No.
	Vic Ogburn is in Charlotte, North Carolina, and he says, another switcheroo, please give this donation and give a birthday shout-out to my favorite human resource, Olivia, who turns 10 February 13th.
	That's today, Olivia Ogburn.
	Okay, Olivia is on the list.
	And happy birthday.
	And she loves Kamala.
	Oh, she loves Kamala.
	Why does she love Kamala?
	I think she likes the biscuit for her birthday.
	Well, it's not Kamala, but...
	They always give me a biscuit on my birthday.
	There you go.
	That was Kamala.
	No, it's not.
	That's what I thought, but it's not Kamala.
	It's from a movie.
	It's a mo-clip from a movie.
	Well, it sure sounds like Kamala.
	I know, I know.
	They always give me a biscuit on my birthday.
	From now on, we'll just say it's Kamala.
	Thank you for your courage, says Vic, and thank you very much.
	And Olivia, you're in the credits as an associate executive producer for the 2013-15 donation.
	Eli the Coffee Guy, here he is.
	He's in Bensonville, Illinois, if you want to find him.
	$202.13.
	I would like to wish my extremely talented wife, Jen, a happy Valentine's Day.
	Marrying her was a great decision.
	But making her my business partner was the best choice I ever made!
	Because she's a designer.
	Mm-hmm.
	Jingles boogity amen for producers who want to see why I kicked beyond...
	What is that?
	This thing fell.
	Why I kicked beyond my coverage, visit...
	Why I kicked beyond my coverage.
	Yeah, he married up.
	Oh, it's a football term.
	He married up.
	Yeah, it's a football term.
	That's when you punt the ball past the coverage and the guy can analyze better and make a longer run.
	You don't want to kick past your coverage.
	By the way, how about that 50-yard field goal?
	Nothing.
	This last season, these guys are kicking 50, 55, 60. It's unbelievable how these field goal kickers are kicking these 50-yard field goals when I would say 20 years ago...
	It would be like, wow!
	30. And this last year, this must have been 30 or 40 of them.
	Yeah, it was good.
	I know.
	And this guy was right down the middle.
	And he had to re-kick.
	He was like, oh, no, it's no good.
	Kick again.
	Oh, man, I just made that awesome feel.
	I'll do it again.
	That was good.
	No chokers there.
	No, there's some really talented kickers in the NFL. It's amazing.
	For producers who want to see why I kicked beyond my coverage, visit gigawattcoffeeroasters.com.
	Jen is not a professional graphics designer.
	Actually, she is.
	I think so.
	No, she is.
	If you did something for money...
	You're a professional.
	You're a professional.
	He's not like you had to work for somebody.
	He might not have paid her.
	Work!
	Wife, work!
	Work!
	Do some work!
	Draw something for my coffee, wife!
	Yeah, well, that's possible.
	Well, she gets half of it, so she's professional.
	Or a professional web designer, but you wouldn't know that looking at her work.
	Remember to use code ITM for 20% off your order.
	Stay caffeinated, as Adam does.
	And happy Valentine's Day.
	Eli, the coffee guy.
	Yeah, the code is ITM20. What did I say?
	You said ITM. I said ITM? Yeah, instead of ITM20. Oh, sorry.
	And Eli, thank you very much for the most recent shipment.
	You can stop for four weeks.
	He's sending too much.
	Yeah, I actually have a couple of...
	We love your brother, but you can stop for a month.
	Six weeks from now, maybe.
	Tina's like, we have no more room to store the coffee!
	Put it in the freezer.
	And then we have Linda Lupatkin from Lakewood, Colorado with $200 and she asked for Jobs Karma and says for a resume that gets results, visit ImageMaker's team...
	Are you okay?
	I just wanted to catch him flubbing.
	For some reason, her copy is flubbable.
	Visit ImageMakers.
	You know why?
	It's the way it's written.
	ImageMakers-Inc.com.
	That's why.
	Visit ImageMakersInc.com.
	Your go-to for all of your executive resumes and job search needs.
	That's ImageMakers Inc.
	with a K. And work with Linda Liu, Duchess of Jobs and writer of resumes.
	And she finishes up with a Happy Valentine's Day!
	Jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	You're up.
	Yeah, the green one, last one.
	Oh!
	Catherine McCloskey, it looks like, in Brookline.
	Oh, Brookline, Massachusetts.
	It goes without saying that I, but I will anyway, that we love the show.
	Four more years will not be enough.
	Would you kindly send some jobs, Karma, for my husband, Mo?
	Thanks.
	Our best, Kate McCloskey.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	And that concludes our executive and associate executive producers for episode 1738 of The Best Podcast in the Universe.
	universe thank you to these people uh who now have these credits and of course you'll be listed on the show notes page and in addition to that that credit is valid for the rest of your life you can use it anywhere credits are recognized in showbiz land for sure as an example on imdb.com but you can also put it on your linkedin or on your twitter profile wherever you want to and thank you so much we thank everybody 50 and above in our second segment our formula is this We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Water!
	Water!
	Shut up, flame!
	Shut up, slave.
	Well...
	Oh, you know what?
	I forgot Eli's...
	Sorry, Eli.
	I made good on it, though.
	Noagendeddonations.com I have a clip.
	Unless you're going to go into something.
	But I have a return engagement of the...
	Is it talk?
	Is this a talk clip?
	Well, it's actually...
	I don't even know where this shows up.
	This is the cannibal professor.
	Oh!
	We've played her before.
	Yes, we even had an end of show mix.
	She's a professor of black studies.
	Yes, and she claims that in America we ate black people.
	Yeah, we're all cannibals.
	Well, she's got new information.
	Oh, new stuff is coming to light.
	The reason we don't have a lot of Egyptian mummies is because why people ate them.
	And it wasn't just one or two.
	They ate them by the hundreds and almost to extinction.
	It was during the Victorian era.
	And if you know anything about the Victorian era, it was a long time after Egypt was already well-established.
	And if you know anything about Egypt, it is a very complex civilization.
	That's where we have The hieroglyphs, that's where we had large, large towering statues and figurines that one's mind simply just could not comprehend on how it was created.
	It was very advanced, way more advanced than the Victorian people during the Victorian era in England.
	The thing about this was the reason they ate these mummies and the reason that...
	I guess it still kind of remains today.
	The reason that they eat these black people is because they want to embody that progression.
	They wanted to advance, progress their civilization.
	And during the Victorian era, they figured what better way to progress than to eat the dead people who have been mummified in a progressive...
	I'm sorry, I'm trying to make sense of this, but that's literally their logic.
	Not to mention, it wasn't just, oh, they're going to eat them.
	They turned these mummies into medicine, known as mummier.
	Now the use of these mummified, this mummier, began in the 12th century and ended in the 18th century.
	It's also believed that this is actually where England and like Europe inherited the, and I say inherited loosely, inherited the idea that there was an afterlife.
	Because the afterlife is very much real.
	Especially when it came to ancient Egypt.
	They honored their ancestors.
	They did an inveneration.
	People like the priestesses and things that walked this ground.
	We're like embodiments of what is beyond what we see, right?
	And in the Victorian era, they kind of struggled with that.
	They didn't really know.
	So long story short, they ate us because they wanted what we had.
	You know, my friend, my friend, I think you forget how many people listen to the best podcasts in the universe.
	This woman clearly has figured out that the best way to get on our podcast is by spewing some utter nutso nonsense and making sure that you get it.
	So you can play these clips of her.
	You don't think she's right?
	All I know is if we crash in the Andes, I would eat you in a heartbeat.
	No, I do not think she's right.
	It's ridiculous.
	Okay, one more.
	I got one more clip.
	Oh, you're going to hurt me with another one.
	Well, now this is a talk clip.
	This is talk.
	Since you're the one, and I have to now agree because the season of Reveal...
	Wait a minute.
	Hold on.
	I have to say something.
	There were, I think, 12 submissions for the season of Reveal.
	I mean, it was unbelievable how many people sent in jingles for the season of Reveal, and I'll play two of them, and then I have the whole bunch in.
	I put it into a mix.
	Here's the first.
	It's the time for the season of Reveal.
	And then Jeff Smith, who we haven't heard from in a while, he also came in and he gave it a little extra, a little Jeff Smith slant.
	It's the time of the season of review.
	Woo!
	Ending in a minor chord.
	Very nice.
	Very nice.
	Okay.
	Excellent.
	It's so good.
	People sent in some dynamite stuff.
	I really appreciate it.
	Okay, so this is, shall I just go into the clip?
	And I think this is what the season of Reveal is all about.
	People are going to call me delusional, and I simply do not care.
	If you think in the same America where the Eagles who have denounced MAGA have a quarterback with an all-women, predominantly black management team, won the Super Bowl, Beyonce won Album of the Year in country, Black woman dominated the Grammys this year.
	You think Trump is president of the United States in 2025?
	You are the delusional one.
	And people want to say, the people who say Kamala won are delusional.
	I denounce that.
	Madam VP is my president.
	And I am not saying this because I'm a strong Democrat.
	I am an abolitionist through and through.
	But I do think she truthfully and honestly won the election.
	And in due time, that'll all be revealed.
	I have said that and I stand by that.
	Go birds.
	Go black women.
	Go black people.
	This has been a wondrous Black History Month thus far.
	Minus the interpersonal conflict, let me tell you.
	Pero.
	Much will be in...
	Revealed in due time.
	Yes!
	The season of reveal.
	It will be revealed.
	So they're still out there.
	That Kamala will win the election somehow.
	Somehow.
	Something's going to change.
	It'll be revealed.
	It will be revealed.
	All will be revealed.
	Okay, thanks for that.
	Here is some big pharma news.
	Joe brought this up to me yesterday.
	It appears that people who have been on Ozempic for a prolonged period of time are going blind.
	Yes, they're waking up and they got cloudy eyes and then they just go blind and it doesn't seem to be reversible.
	Who knows?
	Who knows what's true or not?
	I think there's seven or eight cases so far.
	I think it's worth keeping our people up to speed on because this is not good.
	It's not good.
	It just doesn't sound like a great product.
	CBS, this obviously is before RFK Jr. was confirmed to the Health and Human Services.
	Still trying to get everyone to...
	Get some vaccines!
	And if not, well, you're in danger.
	Your kids may be in danger.
	It's not good.
	Health officials in western Texas are trying to contain a measles outbreak among mostly school-aged children.
	Officials have confirmed at least 15 cases.
	It's the latest outbreak of a disease which has been virtually eliminated in the United States, and it comes as vaccination rates are declining.
	CBS's Minnie Bojorkas takes an in-depth look at the impact of the under-vaccinated.
	Now, forgive me if I'm wrong, but 15 people, that's basically two Brady Bunches.
	Thank you.
	And this is a news story.
	Yeah, it's not that many.
	No!
	We have a population of 330 or so million.
	But, oh, it's in Texas, and you know who's in Texas?
	Anti-vaxxers!
	Tampa area mom Tiffany...
	Oh, I'm sorry.
	We're in Tampa now.
	I thought it was Texas.
	Florida.
	Florida, same difference.
	Tampa area mom Tiffany Vargas says her 8-year-old daughter, who she asked not be identified, has not received childhood vaccines.
	So no measles, no chicken pox, no polio.
	Nothing.
	And why is that?
	Well, I started doing research and I saw that a lot of doctors were just having a really hard time answering the questions that I had.
	Her questions go beyond long-established safety studies to whether there's enough transparency from the medical community on possible side effects.
	Her research, she says, includes reading vaccine warning labels and looking into their ingredients.
	We're not anti-vaccines.
	We just want our questions answered.
	In Florida, parents like Vargas can opt out of vaccinating their children using a religious exemption, which is one reason Vargas moved her family out of New York.
	We were threatened to have CPS called on us.
	So I saw that this was going to be an issue, that I wouldn't be able to exercise my right as a parent to choose what would be best for my child.
	Wow, calling CPS Child Protective Services.
	That's amazing.
	Well, there's more to this story.
	The vaccination rate for Florida kindergartners has fallen to 88.1%, the lowest in decades.
	Nationwide, at least 10 states have also seen some vaccination rates fall.
	90% is not anywhere near good enough.
	That coverage rate will allow for the spread of vaccine-preventable diseases.
	Dr. Jeffrey Goldhagen is a pediatrician and professor at the University of Florida.
	What does it mean?
	Already, some Florida schools have seen measles outbreaks, like at this elementary school in Broward County last year.
	Related to vaccines, it's exhausting.
	Related to other issues that parents come into the office having read the internet and having formed their opinions.
	This story, there's one more short clip.
	It's just, they're shameless.
	This is the measles!
	While the vast majority of medical organizations say childhood vaccines are safe and effective, it's not enough for parents like Tiffany Vargas.
	So, is it safe to say that you're more concerned about possible side effects from a vaccine than you are her possibly getting measles or polio or something like that?
	100%.
	She's as convinced in her approach as most doctors are about theirs.
	Oh, brother.
	Polio.
	Meanwhile...
	They get vaccinated against measles?
	What's the...
	Okay, so I got 80% of the kids in my kindergarten class.
	88. 88, which is quite a few, and they all get vaccinated, and 12% don't get vaccinated, and my kids got vaccinated, so what am I worried about?
	Yeah, yeah.
	If they're safe and effective.
	That's the big question.
	But meanwhile, people need some flu shots.
	It's tracking a surge of flu cases.
	New data shows at least 24 million people have been sickened by the flu this year.
	13,000 of those cases have turned deadly.
	The rate is the highest level in 15 years.
	Health experts say that the best line of defense is to get your flu vaccine.
	However, rates of vaccinations have been very low this season.
	And we still have several weeks to go before the peak of the flu season is over.
	13,000 dead.
	If you just said COVID instead of flu.
	You could have started another pandemic.
	13,000.
	Yeah, they blew it.
	Yeah.
	And actually, flu deaths are outpacing COVID deaths.
	We're joined now by Dr. John LaPook, doctor.
	You are a practicing doctor.
	How much flu are you seeing day to day?
	John, I'm seeing a ton of it, and some of my patients are really, really sick.
	Yeah, and we know what they are.
	There's H3N2 and H1N1. The good news is those two strains are, in fact, covered in this year's vaccine.
	What we don't know is, have they changed?
	Have they mutated?
	Remember during COVID, you know, the variants, the mutations?
	Well, viruses, when they divide, they mutate.
	So how well matched is the current vaccine to what's actually out there right now?
	On top of that, this year, only about 40% of adults have taken the vaccine.
	That compares to about the same number as last year.
	It's a full 10 percentage points less than the season before the pandemic.
	Is that why we're seeing so many flu cases?
	Yeah, it could be.
	And, you know, this year, we're now seeing the first time since the pandemic, deaths from flu are more than deaths from COVID. And in about 22 states, that's the case.
	And in some states, like California, deaths from flu are about twice the death rate from COVID. Is this just a reminder?
	Flu is always with us, and sometimes it can be quite bad.
	Yeah, it can be quite bad, and it goes up and down.
	In fact, the CDC says that every year anywhere from 9 million to 40 million Americans get infected and 6,000 to 50,000 people die.
	That's a ton of variation this year so far.
	24 million infections, 13,000 deaths.
	And these are preliminary statistics.
	But you can still get the vaccination.
	Still enough time.
	Flu season can go to May as late as May.
	And it takes about two weeks for it to kick in.
	We're all going to die.
	Yep, eventually.
	And then the final big pharma news is about Anthony Fauci.
	It seems like the pardon that Joe Biden gave him may not...
	Protect him.
	The man once referred to as America's doctor, now a target of 17 state attorneys general, all Republicans, using a GOP-led congressional report released last year as the basis for an investigation into his response to the coronavirus pandemic.
	In a letter citing his attempting to discredit the lab leak hypothesis and mismanagement or negligence while serving in leadership at the National Institutes of Health.
	They shut down schools.
	They shut down business.
	And there are concerns by many of us from Dr. Fauci's testimony in Congress that He said things that we know weren't true.
	South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson is leading the effort, which he calls necessary as a result of President Joe Biden's preemptive pardon of Dr. Fauci.
	We're telling Congress, don't stop looking for the truth, so we're not prohibited from going forward with state actions, regardless of what Joe Biden did in the final moments of his presidency.
	Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency posted, as part of millions of dollars in canceled contracts through Health and Human Services, a $168,000 contract for an Anthony Fauci exhibit at the NIH Museum would also be cut.
	Do you think this holds water?
	They can really drag him in front of the states?
	I'm sure they can twist it around and maybe.
	It may be a waste of their time, but yeah.
	Ah, poor Tony.
	It may be that that whole, there's a lot of discussion going on in the courts now about these preemptive pardons.
	You can't pardon, there may be, they may conclude, and I think the Supreme Court might do this, conclude that you can't be pardoned for something you didn't, unless it was a crime you committed.
	Yeah, and you have to accept it too, don't you?
	I mean, you have to say, yes, I accept my pardon.
	Yeah, that's, yeah, I heard that too.
	That's what Schiff is waffling about.
	That guy.
	Waterboarding.
	That'll be fun.
	Well, I got another TikTok clip to play.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	And this is the more delusionals.
	You don't love your neighbors.
	This is delusional K.H. Prexy.
	People are going to call me delusional.
	No, wait a minute.
	Stop it.
	Stop the clip.
	Stop the clip.
	You have something in your mouth.
	What's that in your mouth?
	A lozenge.
	Oh, uh-huh.
	That's funny.
	You're like a nut.
	What?
	Yeah.
	No, we can't play this clip.
	We can't play this clip?
	I believe it's the same as the other clip.
	It's the exact same time.
	I think I just redid it.
	Named it different.
	So forget it.
	You got lucky.
	Wow.
	Okay, then I'll play a clip just for you because it's your boy, Banyan.
	We've got some breaking news right now.
	Steve Bannon has pleaded guilty to defrauding New Yorkers, but he will not be serving any prison time, we've learned.
	That is part of a plea deal.
	Bannon said that he did defraud people who donated to We Build the Wall and Law Online Affirmation during President Trump's...
	By the way, this has been dragging on for years.
	Yeah, so he finally pleaded guilty to it?
	Or are they just twisting the story to make it sound like it?
	No, I think maybe he did because they probably said, hey, look, we've got to get this off the books.
	We won't do anything to you, just plead and we're out of here.
	Started during President Trump's first term.
	We understand the fundraiser promised 100% of the donations would fund a wall along the southern border.
	You remember that campaign promise from President Trump's first term?
	But Mr. Bannon directed it elsewhere, the funds.
	This is Bannon's second criminal conviction after he served prison time for contempt of Congress.
	Bannon is on the outs, man.
	He's really, he's not a part of any of the fund.
	I bet he wasn't.
	What did he do?
	And besides that, he said Elon would be gone before the inauguration.
	Yeah.
	Well, maybe if he combed his hair.
	And by the way, I hope the president does say something to Elon about the kid.
	I mean, that's just, it's like, it was distracting.
	I think the kid mouthed something to the president like, Shut your effing mouth.
	It's not...
	I thought he told him to get out.
	Well, whatever it was.
	Like, just control your kid, Elon.
	You know, or have a nanny there or something.
	Why is he doing that?
	Is that to prove that he's a good dad?
	Or what do you...
	Just...
	It's bothersome.
	Well, he's been dragging the same kid around all over the place.
	I know, but why?
	What is the point?
	It's kind of unbecoming.
	I agree with you.
	It's unbecoming.
	This has to end.
	He's a prop.
	He's making the kid a prop.
	Prop kid.
	He's a prop kid.
	Yeah.
	That's not cool.
	And whose kid is it?
	Who do you have this kid with?
	Who knows?
	He can't keep track of himself.
	Where's mom, everybody?
	There is no mom.
	I got a super cut of the latest big balls.
	The big ball guy got...
	Picked by this, I guess, we have a guy, by the way, one of our producers works with Big Balls.
	Oh?
	I guess on the Neuralink thing.
	Oh, I didn't get that note.
	Was I copied?
	No, I have to go dig the note up.
	It's very interesting.
	But I guess he's also consulting for the state.
	This Big Balls kid must be really smart.
	That's that 19-year-old Muskade who goes by the online nickname Big Balls now has a role inside the State Department.
	A senior advisor within the State Department at 19. We begin tonight with Musk and Big Balls.
	A 19-year-old with the online handle Big Balls.
	In the one case of the Big Balls kid.
	Who has used the unfortunate nickname Big Balls online.
	Take a deep breath for just a moment.
	And ponder Big Balls.
	We're not even that crass.
	I mean, we play, of course.
	It's unbelievable, these people.
	Yeah.
	Well, anyway.
	Go big balls, would I say.
	I'm happy.
	I'm happy they're doing this.
	Or did it.
	I still think they did it.
	They've got it all.
	It's all done.
	It's all taken care of.
	It's a great time to be a podcaster.
	I should have tomorrow have JC over.
	I'm going to ask him about your thesis, which I still think is something we have to keep in the back of our minds that they...
	That the Musk group, the Doge people, stole the entire database of treasury disbursements and they're going over it.
	Yeah, they've had it at Mar-a-Lago in the basement.
	Next to the top secret files.
	Film at 11. A reminder, we do have some very cool end-of-show mixes coming up.
	Our end-of-show mixes have been working very, very hard, including a classic from UK PMX, which we haven't played in a long time.
	And John's tip of the day, so don't you think about going anywhere as John thanks the rest of our supporters for $17.38, $50 and above.
	And John muted himself.
	Hello?
	Hit the button.
	Hit the button.
	Oh, yeah.
	There you go.
	I'll cut it out and no one will ever know what happened.
	No, the funny thing is that I didn't do anything.
	It's just that somehow when I... Oh, I know what I did.
	It was the lozenge.
	It was the lozenge.
	Sir DC of...
	I guess he's in Oregon?
	He's Sir DC of the High Desert.
	No city, please.
	Oh, he took the city out.
	Or Jay did.
	He came in with $149.55.
	Michael Reed, $100.
	Dame Denise Camden, Ohio, $100.
	Smoking Hot Husband birthday coming up on the 4th.
	JJ, $80.80.
	Which is a chip.
	Another chip donation.
	$80.80.
	That's the big boy.
	Kevin McLaughlin, Archduke of Luna, Lover of America in Boobs, 8008. Sebastian Bochenek, Bochenek, Bochenek in Lamont, Illinois, 8008. Another Boobs guy.
	Andrew Wolfe in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 75. Shout out to Billy and Spud.
	Paul Cassett, or Cassell, Cassell, in Kenville, Texas.
	No, Kerrville.
	Kerrville.
	Oh, yeah.
	These letters, they run together on this spreadsheet.
	Uh-huh.
	In Curdville.
	Curd!
	There's no D in Curd.
	It's Curdville.
	Curdville.
	It's 25 minutes from my house, Curdville.
	Is it now?
	Yes, it is.
	75 bucks from him.
	Truly the best podcast ever.
	Don Mills in Shasta Lake.
	That's in California.
	$69.69.
	$69.69.
	Buy yourself some chocolates, people.
	That's what he says.
	Dame Rita.
	Dame Rita in Sparks, Nevada.
	There she is.
	67. Benjamin Norman in Dayton, Ohio.
	8325. 6325. Shall I do them, John?
	Are you having trouble reading today?
	I got floaters.
	You got a lozenge.
	I got floaters.
	I got floaters.
	I shouldn't laugh, but yeah, you got floaters all right.
	Danielle Pompeu.
	Pompeu.
	In Los Angeles, California, $60.
	Happy Valentines!
	Christopher Dechter, $56.78.
	Cameron Ling in North Branch, Minnesota, $56.78.
	Now, these are $50 donors.
	I think somebody jacked the fees up on them.
	Sir Patrick Coble right there.
	That's four more years he writes.
	Patrick Coble, he's back from Fairview, Tennessee, $55.10.
	I'm back on the road for some speeches.
	Oh yeah, he's a dude named Ben Speecher.
	Oh, he's going to meetups, I guess.
	February 23rd, Orlando.
	Keep an eye on the troops.
	James, I don't know, Fredericks.
	Fredericks.
	Fradrix.
	Fradrix.
	No, there's a pronunciation guide.
	You think it's Fradrix?
	Fradrix.
	It says it right there.
	Fradrix.
	Fradrix.
	It says it right there.
	Fradrix.
	Ah, Fradrix.
	5510. Scott Horton is our friend.
	Another Scott Horton donation.
	Love it.
	Scott Horton donation.
	We need a jingle, people.
	Scott Horton donation.
	Kate Fisk in Upper Dicker.
	Wow.
	Upper Dicker?
	East Sussex, UK, 5272. I'm in the UK. Please send help!
	Wow.
	And then, curiously, also, Russell Rose is also an upper dicker.
	And he says, 5272, S-O-S-U-K! Wow.
	It's bad over there.
	Upper dicker.
	Upper dicker.
	Yeah.
	Greg Marshall in Calgary, Alberta, 5272. Sir Economic Hitman in Tomball, Texas, 50-01.
	Now we're already to the 50s.
	I'm going to name a location.
	Starting with Stephen Schumach in Xenia, Ohio.
	Michelle Petty in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
	Tom Del Vecchio in Blandon, Pennsylvania.
	Andrew Grasso in Mineola, New York.
	Mike Moon.
	In Athens, Georgia.
	Gary Mao in Woodland Hills, California.
	Jared Yaw in Nashville, Tennessee is the theme.
	Brandon Savoy in Port Orchard, Washington.
	Patricia, Dame Patricia.
	Good old Dame Patricia Worthington in Miami, Florida.
	Regular for years.
	And Beth Bradshaw in Ladson, South Carolina.
	Last on the list.
	Baroness Knight.
	In Edmonds, Washington, those are all $50 donors.
	I want to thank them all and everybody else for helping us out on the show 1738. Yes, thank you all very much.
	And again, thanks to our executive and associate executive producers for this episode.
	Those titles are yours to keep forever.
	And please think of us at noagendadonations.com.
	If you want to set up a recurring donation, we appreciate those as well.
	Not as many Valentines as we have received in the past, but we know that...
	No agenda people just don't love.
	They don't love that much.
	What?
	No, not as many as received in the past.
	It's saying that we've always received.
	People do not like Valentine's Day that listen to this show.
	They have no love.
	They just got no love.
	I don't know what it is.
	Noagendadonations.com.
	Thank you all very much for supporting the show.
	Dave and Denise, wishing you a smoking hot husband, Fred.
	He celebrated on the 4th.
	Dana Carroll turned 60 today.
	Happy birthday, Dana.
	Sir Anonymous, happy birthday to his human resource, dude named Ken, turns 25 today.
	Vic Ogburn, happy birthday to his favorite human resource, Olivia.
	She's turning 10 today.
	And Luke Brown wishes his smoking hot wife, Abby, a happy birthday for tomorrow.
	She celebrates on Valentine's Day.
	And we say happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe.
	So we have a layaway dame, which is what happens when you set up a recurring donation at noagendadonations.com.
	And she says she's respectfully requesting a seat at the round table.
	This is Dana Carroll.
	As my monthly donation, any amount, any frequency, so she does 72.27, nice palindrome, monthly.
	It has brought her to damehood.
	She would like to be known as Dame Dana.
	Is it Dina?
	I think Dina.
	Dame Dina of the Nevada Lowlands.
	Not only is it a gift to become a dame on this day, February 13th, but it's also my 60th birthday.
	Please have Texas sheet cake at the round table with a tall glass of raw milk.
	I wouldn't mind a biscuit for my birthday.
	I think we have biscuits here, and it's not a Kamala biscuit, although it sounds like Kamala.
	They always give me a biscuit on my birthday.
	Thank you for all you do, especially for keeping my husband and I sane through all of the COVID BS. ITM, Dana Carroll.
	And so let me just make sure...
	Did you guys make sure it was raw milk?
	Yeah, it has to be raw milk.
	Yes, yes, yes, yes.
	With bird flu, please.
	Need some bird flu in there.
	And then we also have a knight, Vesely Vesely, who we heard donate earlier.
	So if you could...
	Here's my sword, if you can bring out your sword.
	Got it.
	Right here is the big boy.
	There it is.
	You got the big boy.
	All right.
	All right, Dana Carroll and Vesely Vesely, hop on up.
	Both of you are about to join the roundtable of the Noah Jim, the Knights and Dames, and I'm very proud to pronounce the KB as Dame Dana of the Nevada Lowlands and Sir Vesely of the Cedar Hills.
	For you, we've got hookers and blow, rent boys and chardonnay, Texas sheet cake and a tall glass of raw milk.
	I checked in myself.
	Along with that, beer and blunts.
	We've got Reuben S. Women and Rosé, Gases and Sake, Vodka, Madilla, Bong, Hits and Bourbon, Sparkling Cider, Nesquart, Ginger, We have breast milk and pablum.
	It's also raw milk.
	And then ultimately what everybody loves here at the round table is the mutton and the mead.
	Both of you head over to NoAgendaRings.com.
	Check out that handsome Signet ring, which is yours now, of course.
	All you have to do is send us a ring size, which you can use the handy ring size guide on the website, NoAgendaRings.com, and an address.
	And that comes with a certificate of authenticity, and because it is a Signet ring, you also get some wax.
	It's included to seal your important correspondence.
	And thank you both for your enduring support and for joining the roundtable of the No Agenda Knights and Dames.
	No agenda meetups.
	It's like a party.
	Ah, they're always like a party, those meetups.
	This is what you need.
	They are your first responders in any crisis.
	The people who you meet at the meetups, you need to get connected to be protected.
	And Colorado Springs is our only meetup report for today.
	They had a meetup recently.
	Colorado Springs meetup report.
	Cousin Vito.
	Hey, this is Clayton.
	No mutton this time.
	Just meet.
	Nightstalkers don't quit.
	Coming in from the Antelope Ridge Meadery.
	We are not going to the American government.
	Maybe no mutton, but maybe some people pot pie.
	Rocky Mountain Milkmaid here again.
	This is Greg.
	I drank all the mead.
	Sorry about that.
	This is M. Andrew Jones, and we got four more years of winter.
	Yes, the Mutton and Mead meetup.
	And we have a couple hanging out today, actually, although it's well underway, if not over, at the Munich Insecurity Conference meetup.
	Oh no, I see.
	It is in Munich, Germany.
	Sir Tyler Velasca posted that late at Kennedy's Bar and Restaurants.
	I hope someone showed up.
	And we'd love to get a report from München.
	You could also go to the Outer Swamp Meetup if you're in New York at 6 o'clock at Java Nation.
	That's a...
	Oh, New York time.
	I'm sorry.
	It's in Rockville, Maryland.
	Spooksville.
	There you go.
	The Outer Swamp Meetup.
	Also today, the Shrunken Amygdala Support Group kicks off at 7 o'clock in Cincinnati, Ohio at March 1st Brewing.
	On Saturday, the No Agenda Dallas-Fort Worth Mid-Cities Meetup.
	Now, that starts at 1130 in the morning, but you can get some bourbon at the Bourbon Street Bar and Grill in Bedford, Texas, or Nerdworks will be hosting that for you.
	Also on Saturday, the Michigan Local One Meetups are for lovers.
	2 o'clock at Sherwood Brewing Company in Shelby Township, Michigan.
	And on our next show day on Sunday, that's the 16th, Too Many Eggs, Keene, New Hampshire.
	This is their 10th meetup in a row.
	Margaritas Keene in Keene, New Hampshire.
	Make sure you go check that one out.
	And, of course, we have many more on our brand new, very cool-looking, noagendameetups.com website.
	Thank you very much, Sir Daniel, for continuing to improve that, make it easier.
	We started this because meetups.com sucked.
	And I think, you know, you have a product here, by the way.
	I'm just saying, you know, that's something.
	He could productize that, couldn't he, John?
	Yeah, I think so.
	You should consider that.
	It was like Sir Dean Onimus.
	He productized being at.io.
	I'm just saying, we sprout businesses everywhere these days.
	Noagendameetups.com.
	If you can't find one near you, 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 lame.
	You want to be where everybody feels the same.
	It's like a party.
	Yeah, he could sell it as a standalone product, and he could also sell a service agreement.
	For continued income if they wanted to keep him employed.
	So they get updates and upgrades.
	Yeah, upgrades and updates.
	He's a moneymaker.
	Scott Horton could use that.
	Scott Horton could use it, yes.
	I actually have five ISOs today, so I'll start.
	All hell is going to break out.
	Nah.
	Nah, it's no good.
	It's a horrible micing of the president, by the way.
	What could possibly go wrong?
	Hmm?
	Hmm?
	No, no.
	And we have this one.
	Who's a good dog against Doge?
	Nah, it's Rachel.
	I don't like her.
	How about...
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	And that one.
	And then my final candidate.
	Oh, my God.
	There's so much there.
	That's a good one, the last one.
	It's not bad, right?
	I only have one because I thought this was such a winner that it's either going to win or not.
	Okay, here we go.
	The best show ever, ever.
	How can I compete against these?
	This is because you're taking them from audiobooks.
	Oh my god.
	There's so much there.
	You're taking them from audiobooks.
	The best show ever, ever.
	What audiobook is that from?
	That's not an audiobook.
	That's an old one that I submitted some time back.
	And it came back and it won.
	Yeah.
	Wow.
	Unbelievable.
	Also unbelievable.
	It is time for John's Tip of the Day.
	Everybody loves it.
	Go to tipoftheday.net.
	Why am I yelling?
	Why am I yelling at everybody?
	I don't understand.
	Okay, so this is a tip that, this has been mentioned on the show before, but I'm going to make it an official tip because it's so much fun to play with.
	It's particularly fun with some of the terms and things that come around, especially use the gender ideology, gender studies, words like that.
	This is the Google Books Ngram viewer.
	Haven't you done this one before?
	No, not as a tip.
	Oh.
	It's just something I think 10 years ago I mentioned on the show, and I do use it a lot to see what the hell is going on.
	Like, when did this come about?
	And you do the Ngram viewer.
	It's Ngram.
	The letter Ngram.
	And you can look it up.
	It's Google Ngram viewer.
	And why would I do this?
	Sorry?
	Why would I do this Ngram viewer?
	What does this do for me?
	It shows you when...
	A popular term came into being and actually showed up in books and started being used.
	So if you look into things like gender studies, for example, use that as the words you want to check out, you'll see that this phrase never existed until about 1980. Huh.
	Hold on a second.
	Or you can look up something, say, like, there's some term going around and you keep hearing it.
	Like RSV, for example, or any of these things that I'm always bitching and moaning about to the fact that, well, I never heard that when I was a kid.
	Wow.
	That sort of thing.
	You can check and you find out that you never heard about it when you were a kid because it didn't exist.
	So I find this to be a very useful tool for analysis, but it's also fun.
	Like if you look at the word, like...
	Gay.
	You know, see how it's used over time.
	I mean, it's just a fascinating tool that people can play with.
	It only goes up to 2022. Oh, no.
	Yeah, but it's just to look for origins, not endpoints.
	Wait, I can go...
	Yeah, but I... I want to do 2023. Don't start complaining about the tips.
	I will not complain about the tip of the day.
	It's a great tip of the day.
	The N-Gram.
	It's at books.google.com.
	John C. Dvorak's tip of the day.
	Go to noagendafund.com or tipoftheday.net.
	Great advice for you and me.
	Just the tip with JC. So harsh.
	And sometimes I don't want to start a trend.
	Stop complaining about the tip of the day.
	I'm sorry, man.
	I'm sorry.
	Sorry, sorry, sorry.
	It is time to bid you all adieu.
	Adieu, everybody.
	Thank you for listening.
	We have Professor Jay Jones coming up.
	Also, multiple artists.
	Multiple, multiple artists.
	Thank you all for sending me your season of Reveal jingles.
	They will all be mixed together.
	I'm an end-of-show mixer today.
	And a UK PMX, which is a classic, classic, classic, classic, a derisive mix about the president.
	That's how it rolls.
	You can just recycle them, no problem.
	If you're listening now, stay tuned.
	If you're listening live, up next we have random thoughts on your No Agenda stream at trollroom.io or in your modern podcast app.
	And, of course, I want to remind you that I am coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country.
	It's Fredericksburg, Texas.
	And I say, in the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where it's raining, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	No, there's still no go bag.
	That's what you wanted to say.
	There's no go bag.
	Remember us at noagendadonations.com.
	Until Sunday, adios mofos, a hooey hooey, and such.
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	You name it, you name it, you name it.
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	Racist!
	It's the time of the season of reveal.
	The season of reveal.
	The season of reveal.
	No, it's not.
	The Great Awakening.
	It's the season of reveal!
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	Artificial intelligence.
	In paint.
	Removal tools.
	And her head is gone.
	Your ex-boyfriend, your ex-girlfriend in the photo, you click on her.
	And her head is gone.
	Boom!
	She's gone.
	And her head is gone.
	And boom goes the dynamite.
	No.
	How does it go with the ex-girlfriend?
	Boom!
	She's gone.
	And her head is gone.
	In paint?
	Disappears.
	How does that go again?
	You tap on the person.
	And her head is gone.
	So you have a photo and you got...
	Yes, and expect it to disappear.
	And boom goes the dynamite.
	It's all free.
	Boom!
	She's gone.
	And her head is gone.
	Adios, mofo.

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