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I'll bet you that camel milk yogurt is good.
Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
It's Sunday, February 16, 2025. This is your award-winning Kimbo Nation Media assassination episode 1739. This is no agenda.
Under the Golden Dome and broadcasting live from the heart of Texas Hill Country here in FEMA region number six in the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley where it turns out San Francisco is sinking.
I'm John C. DeVorek.
Oh, really now?
You're telling me the mudflats are...
The whole city is going down.
Where did this come to light?
It's all over the news.
Just go Google San Francisco is sinking and you'll find all these stories all of a sudden.
Now, if you look out the window, do you see any evidence of this?
Yeah.
Whoa!
Holy moly, look at that thing sink.
It's not like a ship going down 0.4 inches a year.
Parts of San Francisco, oh, not just San Francisco, and Los Angeles are sinking into the sea.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's what people have been wanting forever.
Oh, here it is.
Okay, so meaning, there's a second part to the story, meaning Sea level rise will be even worse.
By the way, this is the way the story's been going.
If something's sinking, it doesn't mean something else is going up.
All the stories say, in fact, this was even in Epoch Times.
San Francisco is sinking, so the sea level's going to rise somehow.
Due to climate change.
There you go.
A study led by NASA and NOAA has found that California is sinking in some areas.
It's only some areas.
Yeah, well, San Francisco is one of them.
I love to have the AI-generated art, you know, with the Golden Gate Bridge slowly sinking.
But, I mean, seriously, what is it?
Oh, it's 0.4 inches per year in sinking.
Are you in a sinking hotspot?
I'm on a solid rock.
On the East Bay.
It's not even close to sinking.
Okay.
That's where I can look and see the mudflats.
They haven't changed either.
I've stopped saying you should leave.
I'm in a solid zone here.
If I lived in Massachusetts, I'd leave.
You're going to be doing the show with a snorkel.
If you lived in Massachusetts.
I've been to Massachusetts.
You don't want to live there.
That's what I said.
No offense, but dude.
A lot of rainbow flags in Massachusetts.
It's out of control.
It is a bit out of control, yeah.
So I just wanted to give everybody a little overview of the mainstream media from the past week.
It's 30 seconds.
New warnings of a constitutional crisis just weeks into Trump's second term.
The stage is set for a constitutional crisis.
Could this signal the start of a constitutional crisis?
Legal experts say our country could be headed toward a constitutional crisis.
They're calling this a constitutional crisis.
This is a constitutional crisis.
I am unapologetic in suggesting we are in a constitutional crisis right now.
Are we already in a constitutional crisis?
Those two words, right?
Constitutional crisis.
So when people hear us say about four more years, and we just say we're basically in our final four years, I want you to understand this is the reason.
This was today, 2025. This is 2020. Warnings of an impending constitutional crisis ripped through the nation's capital.
There are experts who are saying this is a constitutional crisis.
We are at a dangerous time in our history, a constitutional crisis.
Probably the most severe moment since the Civil War.
This is 2019. We're now like one subway stop.
From a real constitutional crisis.
We are in, in effect, a constitutional crisis.
Constitutional crisis.
We're hearing it over and over again.
Nancy Pelosi's already said that Donald Trump is unfit for office.
She said that he belongs in prison.
She says that we're in a constitutional crisis.
If that's not enough to begin an impeachment inquiry, then what on earth is?
Here's 2018. A constitutional crisis, possibly.
The constitutional crisis alarm bells are ringing.
But is anybody listening?
And 2017. Might be on the path to a constitutional crisis.
We will ask two experts about whether or not this is a constitutional crisis.
We've never faced quite the constitutional crisis that we do right now.
They are fomenting a constitutional crisis.
Are we staring down the barrel of a constitutional crisis?
This is an existential constitutional crisis.
People, get a new script.
We're bored already.
These people.
This is it.
It's like, oh, okay.
They can't seem to come up with any new...
I mean, if they would just do a real job instead of just coming up with this.
And this is the whole mainstream media.
The whole thing is corrupted.
It's hopeless.
Not just mainstream media, but it's leaking through to podcasts.
Yes, because some podcasts are nothing more than a wannabe extension of the mainstream media.
I present you, Jon Stewart, in conversation with Jen Psaki.
But the overwhelming majority has been...
We are sleepwalking into a constitutional crisis.
Again, taking the bait.
By the way, I realize why Jon Stewart's podcast sucks so bad.
And this is actually a funny bit without him actually knowing it.
Jon Stewart is great at delivering scripted lines.
I mean, he does them so smooth.
He's just perfect at it.
Yeah, he's a pro.
He's an incredible pro.
But when he just has to ad lib, he can't do it.
It doesn't come out right.
It's all wrong.
And listen to this.
The larger thing.
And not defending the efficiency or value of the programs.
I would take it just one step farther.
And I worked at the State Department.
I think USAID is a tremendous institution.
I don't think it should be a front and center.
Top messaging argument.
Should people in Congress defend and use every lever of their power to prevent the Trump administration from gutting it?
Yes, because they play a pivotal role around the world, cracking down on corruption, defending a free press, a million things.
But I guess when it comes to how the Democrats are communicating with the public, the things that the Trump administration are doing that they should be talking about more, in my view, are getting access to people's...
Personnel information, social security data, anybody who's applied for a government job, that's millions of people.
Halting programs, which a judge this week said they haven't actually put back in place all of the funding halts, halting of the funding that they said they had.
You know, government's not popular, as you all know.
Congress is not popular.
Why would that be?
Right, I don't know.
Institutions are not popular.
True.
So if you're trying to reach people who are like, ugh, government, Washington.
Then talk about how this program that's being cut off is helping your kids have early childhood education.
It's helping you get Medicaid access.
It's helping you farmers have subsidies.
Wait for it.
That seems obvious, Jen.
Yes, it is.
Why are they not doing it?
I wish I knew the answer to that question.
That is the most painful sigh I have ever heard.
Self-realization all of a sudden.
Because it's no good.
Why is it so hard for them to just say, eh, it's probably no good?
They can't.
They can't.
And by the way, I wanted just not to change the subject, but my clean feed, you're right, the fonts have all changed now.
I got last on the list, I guess.
It's kind of an odd font.
It's a little more bold, don't you think?
It's a Helvetica style font.
It's a European style.
Yeah.
They're from the UK. So...
Yeah, I'd say the big news, the big news, the big, big, big, big, big news is everything's happening in Munich.
It's all in Munich.
Oh, yes.
I have a whole series of Munich clips.
Are they from NTD? I think they're...
No, they're from PBS. Oh, well, good.
Because the NTD stuff is just a little harsh sometimes.
But...
Yeah, I got the...
Four clips and then some anal clips.
Everyone has to understand that John titles his clips and he puts in their Munich overview and then overview anal, which I think stands for analysis.
Analysis?
Yeah, what else would it mean?
You can just put in analysis.
It's kind of jarring.
It's too long.
I've got to keep the...
You know, because when I print it out, I have the time over one side.
It's just the way your mind works.
Everyone knows.
Everyone agrees.
It's okay.
I'd like an overview because there's so much going on.
What is happening?
Are we going to war?
Is NATO involved?
I mean, what's happening?
I think this is a pretty good overview.
Today in Munich, Vice President J.D. Vance met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and with German political leaders, including the head of the far-right AFD party.
Oh, they forgot to say extreme right.
Ah, boy.
That latter meeting came after Vance spoke at the Munich Security Conference.
It's usually focused on Western adversaries.
Vance instead critiqued America's European allies.
Nick Schifrin is in Munich again for us tonight.
In front of a mostly European audience anxious for reassurance, today Vice President Vance delivered a scolding.
What I worry about is the threat from within.
The retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values.
World leaders were hoping for clarity on the administration's plans for Ukraine.
Instead, Vance expressed implicit support for right-wing parties, including Germany's AfD, whose leader he met this afternoon, and who's been endorsed by Elon Musk.
That's kind of disingenuous.
What he really said was, people don't like your immigration.
It wasn't just sitting there endorsing...
He also complained about free speech.
Yes, but here the PBS is saying he endorsed far-right parties.
This is slanted.
Of course it's slanted.
Of course.
Of course.
Including Germany's AFD. Let's go back here.
Instead, Vance expressed implicit support for right-wing parties, including Germany's AFD, whose leader he met this afternoon, and who's been endorsed by Elon Musk.
If American democracy can survive 10 years of Greta Thunberg's scolding, you guys can survive a few months of Elon Musk.
It's too bad he flubbed that line because it was a good one.
Yeah, he knew it was good.
This happens to me.
It happens to you.
Yes.
Oh, all the time.
You know it's a good line.
You know if you deliver it properly, it's going to come home.
And then you blow it.
You see this all the time.
So he knew it was a good line.
Yeah, and it fell so flat.
He choked.
Oh, no.
If American democracy can survive 10 years of Greta Thunberg's scolding, you guys can survive a few months of Elon Musk.
By the way, just on Greta Thunberg, it's interesting how everyone's complaining about the teenage Doge team, but yet hundreds of billions of climate change dollars were all based on the 15-year-old Greta Thunberg.
Right, who uneducated, who didn't even go to school because she was protesting all the time.
Just saying!
What no democracy, American, German, or European, will survive.
It's telling millions of voters that their thoughts and concerns, their aspirations, their pleas for relief are invalid or unworthy of even being considered.
Yeah, Bill, that's right.
That is a very implicit endorsement of the far right.
They're missing it because Europe is now saying extreme right.
They've changed that narrative.
Extreme.
They're freaked.
Of course they're freaked.
Rightly so.
Vance portrayed Europe as silencing critical and conservative voices, including by recently throwing out Romanian elections over Russian misinformation.
If you're running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you.
But in a new Wall Street Journal interview, Vance embraced Europe's position on Ukraine, that the West could increase sanctions on Moscow and even deploy U.S. troops inside Ukraine to reach peace.
Good afternoon, everybody.
And hours later, Vance met with Ukraine's delegation in a meeting that a senior Ukrainian official described to PBS NewsHour as, quote, very good.
We want to achieve a durable, lasting peace, not the kind of peace that's going to have Eastern Europe in conflict just a couple years down the road.
European leaders tell PBS NewsHour they're confused by what they consider mixed U.S. messages on Ukraine, including those repeated today by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during a visit to Poland.
The reality that returning to 2014 borders as part of a negotiated settlement is unlikely.
The reality of U.S. troops in Ukraine is unlikely.
The reality of Ukraine membership in NATO as a part of I think this was careless, and I think it was a mistake.
In my view, it would have been much better to talk about Ukraine's possible NATO membership and possible territorial changes at the negotiating table first, and then with Ukraine present, and not with them already having Putin's price hanging over them.
And European leaders continue to doubt that peace with Putin is possible.
President Putin says he's willing to meet.
But on what terms?
I had good conversation with President Trump.
We had some phone calls.
And he had a phone call with Putin.
And he said to me, I think that Putin, that he wants to solve the war.
I said to him that he's a liar.
It's amazing.
First of all, this Zelensky man, it's like, he's got a different story every 10 minutes.
And when did this NATO membership come back?
Everyone knows that's a non-starter.
I have no idea why they keep pushing it.
That's the whole problem.
It is the problem.
Yeah, and Vance was very clear.
I mean, I'm sure you have the clip.
Vance said it was more clear.
Yeah, like, no, the solution does not lie with Ukraine having NATO membership.
That's it.
And that was the problem since 2014. The whole thing started with the expansion of NATO. That's it.
And they're just...
Do you think that they're sniffing their own farts?
They really believe that this is possible?
I have no idea what they're thinking because they're not going to get...
You know, unless they kick the United States out of NATO, we can just veto it.
You know, the thing about NATO, you can't get in unless everybody says yes.
Yeah, right, right.
So you can say whatever you want.
We're the boss of them.
There was an alternative, just to get off this track for just one second, there was an alternative clip of Zelensky.
This is the talk Zelensky clip.
Oh, yes, good.
I asked President Trump, Mr. President, why did you talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin before talking to me?
That doesn't sound like AI at all.
I'm so convinced.
Talking to me and President Trump said he wanted to talk to the tallest one first and then the shortest.
I was not happy about this.
Then I told him that I want to create a European army.
And then he asked me if it was an army of short little midgets like me.
And I did not like that either.
All right, since you went down that track, I have to play a couple clips before we get back to the overview, because this is, I think, what it's really all about, and we should probably look at your anal clips based upon this.
This is the true, the real Zelensky, or this 10-minute Zelensky, about the European army.
The Ukrainian president, though, characteristically blunt.
Decades of the old relationship between Europe and America are ending.
From now on, things will be different, and Europe needs to adjust to that.
I really believe that time has come.
The armed forces of Europe must be created.
The armed forces of Europe must be created.
Now, we have talked about this since the beginning of the show.
I was in Europe and then later in the UK when the Lisbon Treaty was signed.
We all remember how that went.
Ireland, you voted wrong!
Do over!
Vote again!
And so I think Holland did the same thing, if I'm not mistaken.
They voted the wrong way first.
Was it Holland or France?
I think it was...
Well, one of the two.
It was mainly Ireland.
Besides, the point is that these countries, if they didn't vote right...
Yeah, then they re-voted.
They kept making them do it over and over until they finally came.
It's how democracy works.
Do you not understand democracy?
And there were three main promises for this Lisbon Treaty, which was the so-called Constitution of the European Union.
One was, no more passports, it's great, everybody can walk to the borders, you don't need to show your papers anymore, and if someone comes in illegally from another country, they can walk into your country too, it's great.
That second part they didn't actually promise, but it was implied.
The second promise, you'll all have the same money.
It's fantastic.
No more Gilder, no more Deutschmark, no more Franks.
No, you'll have the Euro.
It's great.
Overnight, 100% inflation.
Coffee went from two Gilders to four Gilders in Euros.
And the third was, we'll never have...
That was a good bit, by the way.
But it's true.
I know.
And Italy really got hit hard.
Oh, it got really bad.
People couldn't afford their espresso in the morning.
And the third promise was, we'll never have a European army.
No, no, no.
Well, actually, there was another one, which was, we'll never have European central finance.
No, we'll never do that.
That's encroaching very quickly.
And basically, the European Central Bank already makes a fact.
But we'll never have a European army.
I think that what is happening now, and I have a Redux clip from 2015, so that's 10 years ago, and we've been following this, and there are a couple other clips, but this is the best one.
I think what is happening now is the military-industrial complex, that's American weapons manufacturers in general.
Germany has a little bit.
Sweden makes some planes.
Not unimportant.
But really, if you want things that go boom and...
And that comes from us.
Wow, sound effects on the show.
Thank you.
The NATO thing is kind of a non-starter because, you know, it's like these guys, they don't want to pay.
You know, we've got our guy, definitely our guy, Mark Rutte over there saying, Luke, you must have 5%.
Otherwise, if you do a European army, it will be 8 or possibly 10 or more percents.
When they heard that, which is, I think, the total setup.
They're like, yeah, yeah, let's goad those guys into it.
And this has been on deck with people who have been paid off by big military contractors for over a decade.
This is Nigel Farage when he was still a member of European Parliament.
And this is right after the 2014 coup that Victoria Nuland, John Brennan, Lindsey Graham, John McCain...
All these suckers, they all orchestrated this, and there was a big setup to ultimately either result in more money being spent by the EU into NATO armaments.
Or just get them to start their own army.
That's fine with us, too, as long as we get more money.
I've been wondering why David Cameron's been slashing our armed forces, won't commit to 2%, is happy for us not to be able to defend our islands.
I think Mr. Juncker's given us the answer.
We're going to do it at an EU level.
We're going to have a European army.
Now, when I raised this last year with the Deputy Prime Minister, Liberal Democrat Nick Clegg, he said it was a dangerous fantasy to even talk about an EU army.
I hope every...
Every Liberal Democrat voter has heard Mr Verhofstadt today, the leader of the European Liberals, crying out for militarisation at an EU level.
Of course, the truth is, it's already happening.
We already have a European Defence Agency.
We already have EU battle groups on active service all over the world.
We already have an EU Navy active against the Somali pirates.
And who can forget Euro Corps here in Strasbourg last year, virtually goose-stepping that ghastly flag round the courtyard outside.
And of course the Lisbon Treaty, Article 28, provides for all of this.
Tony Blair was right.
He said the European Union is not a project about peace, it's a project about power.
And I think Mr. Juncker is trying to seize on an opportunity.
We ourselves in the European Union provoked the conflict through our territorial expansionism in the Ukraine.
We poked the Russian bear with a stick and unsurprisingly Putin reacted.
But this now is to be used as an opportunity.
To build a European army.
And when?
And when?
Then, you know, they get into a big fight, you know, for Hofstadt's interrupts.
But Nigel Farage saw it.
This is 10 years ago.
This was the whole point.
This was the whole setup.
And then you had...
Poor Mark Rutzer.
Now I understand why they chose him.
He was set up to fail.
This guy, this wishy-washy former prime minister, never married, Unclear about any relationships.
Used to be in Unilever's human resource department with the other ladies.
Now, he's just a wishy-washy, smooshy guy with a funny accent I like to mimic.
His whole job was to fail at getting them to pour more money into NATO. And now all he sees is people are complaining now.
What is this now?
And here's what NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte had to say at the conference on Saturday about Europe's task now.
To my European friends, I would say, get into the debate, not by complaining that you might, yes or not, be at the table, but by coming up as concrete proposals, ideas, ramp up the spending, make sure that the training and the weapons supplies come clear, but also come up with concrete ideas, what, for example, security guarantees could look like.
And I must say, since one day of complaining, what I've now been seeing on the European side of NATO is indeed that people are now getting into the concrete planning phase of what could that be.
Stop complaining!
You're all complaining.
Why are you complaining all the time?
They're going to go for it.
They're going to go for it.
This guy was set up to fail.
Hey, Mark, go ahead, boy.
Why don't you go try to get up it from 2% to 5%.
Good luck.
They already knew it.
This was the whole plan.
And now Trump is like, yeah, this is great.
You know what?
Screw you guys.
Why don't you go do something yourself?
Take care of it.
NATO is done, I think.
I think it's over.
Because it makes no sense to have a European and EU army and NATO. It's what we call duplication of efforts.
Yeah.
Redundancy.
Redundancy, yes.
So let them come up with, you know, three, four.
500 billion euros a year.
Hello, Europe.
It's going to be fun.
I wish I could get my daughter out.
You know, this is Europe.
The fact that we've had this era of peace for 70 years or more, it's a fluke.
Yeah.
If you know world history, it's a total fluke.
There were things like the Hundred Years Wars.
Good times.
I remember.
And they're constantly attacking Russia because of, you know, for one reason or another.
And Russia knows this and they're freaked out about it.
That's why they're so adamant.
Yeah.
They're not idiots.
I mean, we're very, you know, cloistered in the United States when it comes to world history.
So we think everything is the way it is today, the way it always was.
That's bull crap.
And to be fair, after World War II, which the Russians really...
Yeah, the Russians won the war.
But, you know, as usual, we came in, we stormed the beach.
I mean, it's not to be discounted.
No, not the Normandy thing.
Eisenhower was a good guy.
That was the real deal.
We flew the flag and we liberated.
We did liberate.
We were like, hey, you're free.
Not downplaying that at all, but the Russians, they lost millions of people just because they're a military society.
This is what they do.
And then we had the whole Bretton Woods thing.
And who jumped out?
The Russians.
They went, nah, we're not going to be your little son over here.
We want to control Europe.
And that is true.
They have definitely wanted to control Europe.
I think that dream may be gone by now, and they just want to be a part of the system.
But, you know, when the EU really drove this decision to kick Russia off of SWIFT... Yeah, that's an act of war.
They also got kicked out of the G8. Oh, that was a good one.
That was probably like, I hated those meetings anyway.
Who cares about that?
I don't want to go there.
But optic-wise, it was not nice.
Who's the aggressor?
Who's the aggressor?
And then the whole Nord Stream debacle.
Back to the analysis.
Well, no.
The overview?
You want overview three?
I'm sorry.
Overview, yeah.
We're on three, I believe.
Zelensky added today that Ukraine would need real security guarantees in order to make any ceasefire durable.
He said that the U.S. needed to be part of those security guarantees, but Amna, today's State Department spokesman, said, quote, we expect European partners to take the lead in establishing a durable security framework and look forward to their proposals.
So, Nick, tell us about the mood in the room during Vice President Vance's speech and also what you're hearing from attendees tonight.
Well, President Trump this afternoon called Vance's speech, quote, brilliant, but the speech landed like a lead balloon in the room because, again, Europeans have been dealing with mixed messages on Ukraine all week from the Trump administration, and they're hoping that the Trump administration treats them, treats Ukraine, as partners in trying to pursue peace.
Rather than going above Europe and Ukraine's head and speaking directly to Moscow.
That said, though, Amna, two senior European officials told me tonight that actually the speech was better than it could have been, that they preferred a scolding over a negative speech about Ukraine or even a speech in which the U.S. was announcing some kind of troop withdrawal from Europe.
But it's not just Europeans who are worried about Ukraine's policy.
Apparently, today, the Senate Armed Services Committee chairman, Roger Wicker, who's here today, called Hegsess speech in Brussels a, quote, rookie mistake.
The kind of thing Tucker Carlson could have written.
And Carlson is a, quote, fool.
That's what Wicker said.
Wow!
These reports bring in Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson.
Who's next?
Candace Owens?
Are they going to talk about her on PBS? Now that you mention it, I'm sure I was in the edit room right now.
Oh, we left her out.
Damn it.
Easy target.
Megan.
Megan Callow.
Code Bongino.
Throw it in there.
What a misser, people.
You know, it wouldn't surprise me if we start to hear some talk of, well, you know, maybe we should just close some of those bases in Germany.
Well, you know, Trump talked about that in his first term.
He did.
He went on about, what are we doing with all these bases all over the place?
It's costing us money.
What's it doing?
Some ill will is being derived from it?
Well, this is an interesting way to...
So we have a $200 billion trade deficit with the EU, which, interestingly, I heard the numbers, the way it works with the EU, they have a $200 billion surplus from China, and, I mean...
Deficit.
Deficit with China.
A $200 billion surplus with the U.S. So they kind of stay the same.
Whereas the U.S. has a $300 billion deficit with China.
So we have a $500 billion, at least $500 billion deficit between the EU and China.
So we could change that by, all right, you know, good.
Buy the stuff from us then.
Set up your own army.
That would be at least $200 billion, maybe more.
Well, when they set up their own army, they're going to buy our product for a while.
They have to.
I mean, everything's standardized on our stuff.
Yeah.
For a while.
Yeah, for a while.
Then you can do what you have to do to get back to a normal economy.
It's not just built on militarism.
What's a European gun?
What's a brand name of a European gun?
Ruger?
No.
Ruger for sure.
Czechoslovakian, yeah.
There's probably a few.
Let's go to clip four.
Glock.
Oh, Glock.
That's a good point.
Yeah, Glock.
Ukraine's defenders continue to say Russia is not serious about peace, and they have a case in point today that a Russian drone hit a radiation shield that protects the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
Now, earlier today, I talked about all of this, Ukraine, as well as Vance's speech, with Europe's top diplomat, Kayak Hollis.
Yeah, that doesn't sound fishy at all.
Yeah, I'm sure that was a...
There's some...
Well, the radiation shield is literally the dome they put over...
Yeah, and this drone falls on it.
And that thing is pretty...
It's built to last.
The whole point of it was like, lock it down, close it up, so a drone drops into it?
Okay.
Radiation shield.
All right.
Sounds very scary.
Radiation shield.
So we move to the analysis.
Okay.
Kayakalas, thanks very much.
Welcome back to the NewsHour.
I appreciate it.
Good to be here.
Last week, European officials came to Washington and were reassured, I'm told, by senior Trump administration officials about Ukraine.
Earlier this week, you and other senior European officials met with Vice President Vance in Paris and I'm told were reassured about the administration's focus on Ukraine.
But this week, we also heard from the Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, questioning whether Ukraine could ever get back occupied territory and essentially taking NATO off the table.
What's the impact of the mixed messages for the United States?
No more parties.
Well, the new administration is starting.
And, of course, we are building up our relationship with the new administration as well.
I mean, I've had good calls with Marco Rubio as well, who was also very shivering on Ukraine.
So, of course, we have to figure out the messages, what is right.
But this conference is a good place.
We have a lot of meetings with the representatives.
To understand what are the ideas, really, of the United States regarding Ukraine.
But can Europe actually make plans for Ukraine?
Can you and the United States work on a strategy for Ukraine when you're getting these mixed messages?
Well, we have the strategy in place.
I mean, for us, it's very clear.
It is to put the pressure on Russia to really stop this war.
When President Trump says that, I just want the killing to stop, it's easy if Putin would stop bombing Ukraine.
This night we heard that they were bombing the nuclear station.
So clearly Putin doesn't want peace.
I like how...
Chernobyl has become the nuclear station?
Isn't that thing completely defunct and down and shut?
Yeah.
It's the nuclear station.
This woman is the second to Ursula.
She's the foreign secretary of the EU. Oh, yeah.
And she's just another blowhard, unelected...
A DEI hire.
Unelected...
I just want the killing to stop.
It's easy if Putin would stop bombing Ukraine.
This night we heard that they were bombing the nuclear station.
So clearly Putin doesn't want peace.
So the pressure, the political, economical pressure should be on him so that he realizes that he can't win.
Realizes it's a mistake to be there.
But President Trump also said this yesterday in the Oval Office.
Quote, yes, I do believe Putin wants peace.
And quote, I trust him on this subject.
What's your response to his statement?
Well, maybe he doesn't know Putin as well as we do.
So, well, Putin is not really...
Keeping his promises, if you think about we have had such quick fixes, deals like Minsk 1, Minsk 2. Oh, what?
Putin broke Minsk 1 and 2?
Is that what she's claiming?
That's what she's claiming.
Wow.
Let's forget the Boris Johnson episode and the fact that the war would have been over if these agreements were put into play and they weren't.
Zelensky, largely.
Putin has specifically said, why don't we just hold to the Minsk Accord?
And who is this lady?
Where is she from?
Is she from Germany?
She's from originally, I'd have to look it up.
No, that's okay.
It's not that important.
Well, maybe.
She's one of those.
Yeah, one of those places.
One of those.
She could be anywhere.
But she's just typical EU spokesperson or representative or phony, you know, unelected official that runs the thing.
Yeah, she's a technocrat.
The EU is just a mess.
It's ridiculous.
A technocrat.
That's right.
That's the word.
She's a technocrat.
Here we go at six.
The previous acts of diplomacy between Russia and Ukraine.
Yes, previous ceasefire agreements that were only necessary for Putin and Russia to get their act together more and attack in a bigger scale.
So I think the history proves that.
And that's why they only understand the language of strength.
And we have to be really strong and firm that you can't win here.
Because if the United States is worried about China, if we can't get...
We can't get Russia right.
We can't get China right either, because they are carefully watching how this goes.
One of the possibilities when it comes to a possible ceasefire in Ukraine, if we were to get to that, would be for European troops to deploy inside Ukraine.
in your conversations with European leaders, are they willing to consider that even if, as Hexeth said this week, that the United States wouldn't protect them under Article 5?
They're always like, this is a constant theme.
Well, if you give in to Putin, everyone else is watching, and oh, now, oh, they're weak, now we'll come and grab something.
It's a domino theory, modern version.
Yes, yes, exactly.
We lived through the domino theory in the 60s and 70s, and that was bullcrap.
Which is the very reason why no one else wanted to go in the armed forces, because they all figured out we were fighting stupid wars in Vietnam and Korea.
And then no one wanted to be a part of it until, oh, the 9-11s.
Get the towel heads, everybody.
Because that was real.
Well, that was the spirit.
It was like, hey, the towel heads did this.
It turns out, maybe not.
Let's go into Iraq anyway.
Who cares?
Let's go in there.
I think we're on seven?
Yep.
We have to understand that there's no peace.
In order to have peacekeeping troops, you need to have peace.
But again, Putin doesn't want peace, and that is a big problem that we need to address right now.
And of course, if there is a peace, then we need to discuss what are the security guarantees.
Yesterday we heard the Defense Secretary of Ukraine saying that, you know, the U.S. gave us promises in the Budapest Memorandum, give up your nuclear weapons and we will defend you when Russia attacks.
And where are you now?
So he was really very vocal in saying that, you know, you have not kept the promises you gave us.
So right now, if we talk about security guarantees, then they really need to be credible.
What are these security guarantees that will really deter Russia from attacking again?
She's the Secretary of the Interior?
What is her title again?
I think she's the foreign minister.
Oh, foreign minister.
I think.
I have to go back.
She's the henchwoman of the Queen, Queen Ursula.
The joke in that, by the way, in that little commentary was the promises not kept.
Yeah.
We always have to remember that it was James Baker.
That's the real promise, yes.
And the promises that were made when the Soviet Union collapsed and it became Russia.
And the other countries all got independence, became independent, including Ukraine, from Russia.
And then we promised that we weren't going to move NATO one inch eastward.
And ever since then, that's all we did.
And that was a promise that Putin called us out on and didn't do anything about for a long time until this latest thing with Ukraine.
And that was the end.
That was the straw that broke the camel's back.
And it's his fault.
Okay.
You and von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, have both said publicly in the last couple days that any kind of tariffs Do you think the United States imposing tariffs on Europe would prevent Europe from working with the United States on Ukraine?
No, we have different cooperation points.
So it's clear that there are no winners in trade wars.
The consumers are the biggest losers because the prices rise due to this.
So I hope that these things are settled between the United States and Europe.
Okay.
If there is trade imbalance, then of course we can see what we can do about this.
But starting a trade war, I don't think it's a good thing because who is laughing on the side is China.
Okay.
You know, the tariffs are not a trade war.
No.
It's not, trade war is a little more extreme than a couple of tariffs on some goods and services.
It's a balance of payments.
It's an equalization of trade.
Seems to me.
But okay.
Yeah.
Let's call it a, everything has to be a war, by the way.
Everything's got to be a war.
It's the way the Europeans think.
Is that clip eight?
We always have to remember that World War I was, and it starts with, this is why the Ukraine thing is so dangerous, because World War I started with a lunatic assassinating the Archduke Ferdinand.
It was some maniac.
It had nothing to do with anything, and it just...
It escalated.
It escalated to a full-blown world war, and it was being fought all over, literally all over the world, South America and Middle East, every place got involved, including us.
I mean...
They can learn from us.
When we're angry at our neighbors, we just fight it out on the ice.
We just do a hockey game.
We beat each other up.
We beat you anyway.
Three to one.
You can't even skate.
That's how you do it.
You don't go into the trenches and kill a million.
Of course.
No, I saw clips.
Believe me, I did not see a hockey game.
Hockey's great.
I went to one hockey game in my life when I was in school in West Virginia.
Edie.
Her name was Edie.
Edie took Mudman and me to Pennsylvania, drove like six hours to go to a Flyers game.
And I'm at the game, I'm like, I don't even see the puck.
I have no idea what I'm looking at.
No, it was not for me.
I guess not.
But there was no fighting.
I mean, I like the fighting.
And the gloves are off!
That's the best.
You went to a hockey game back in the day and there was no fighting?
And it might have even been against New Jersey, which you'd expect.
I don't recall any fighting.
No, I'd be like, eh.
Oh, you'd remember it if you saw it.
Yeah, no, there was no fighting.
These guys, yeah.
But that ultimately is how you get some aggression out.
You know, just go beat each other on the ice.
Well, that's what soccer's supposed to do.
Yeah, it's not.
They don't have fighting in soccer.
That's the problem.
You know what?
This is a good point.
Soccer would score big in America, even with limited commercials, if there was fighting.
I think you might be onto something.
I don't like soccer.
I think it's boring, but I would maybe watch it.
But these guys are kind of wimpy, these guys.
They're all with their feet, you know, and they're prancing around and kicking the ball.
More head kicks.
I'm sorry, I kicked you in the head.
Oh, what can I say?
So where are we on these?
Yeah, your bonus anal.
Okay, here we go.
And finally, we've been talking about this.
Most of the security conference is focused on this, but the Vice President, J.D. Vance, gave a speech today in which he said that the greatest threat that Europe faces is from within.
And he said, quote, there is no security if you're afraid of the voices, the opinions, and the conscience that guide your own people.
If you're running in fear from your own voters, there's nothing America can do for you.
Is Europe afraid of the voices, opinions, and conscience of its own people?
Well, freedom of opinion, freedom of press is one of the fundamental values that the European Union stands for.
And as you see, we have a lot of...
I love...
You don't have freedom of speech, you have freedom of opinion.
You can have an opinion as long as you keep it to yourself and don't post about it.
Freedom of opinion, freedom of press is one of the fundamental...
You see that?
Freedom of opinion.
This is the problem right here, Europe.
Yes, you have freedom of opinion.
That right is secured for you.
You can have your opinion.
Just shut up about it.
Freedom of opinion, freedom of press is one of the fundamental values that the European Union stands for.
And as you see, we have a lot of elections going on all the time, a lot of very different groups.
Very vocal, and I don't really agree with that criticism.
And I think, you know, of course we deal with our domestic problems on our own, but we need to cooperate on the big international worries that we have, and this is, for example, the war in Ukraine.
Oh, man.
Well, you know what?
This whole thing escalated, and Vance got a new speech.
When Zelensky did this.
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky says he's directed his ministers not to sign off on a proposed agreement to give the United States access to Ukraine's rare earth minerals.
He said the document was too focused on U.S. interests and didn't include security guarantees for Ukraine that would deter future Russian aggression.
There are no very concrete things about security guarantees in this document.
And for me, it's very important the connection between some kind of security guarantees and some kind of investment.
Ukraine has vast reserves of critical minerals that are used in aerospace, defense, and nuclear industries.
The Trump administration has indicated it is interested in accessing them to reduce dependence on China.
I don't know why Euronews is up-talking all of a sudden.
And by the way, the ludicrous logic here is that we get the minerals and...
We would have to provide security because we want to protect the minerals.
The minerals, of course!
But no, no, they don't want to give us that.
Ukraine is a corrupt operation.
It always has been.
Yes, yes.
And nothing's changed.
All that's changed is there's a bunch of money.
And the idea behind the minerals was to pay us back for all the freebies they got and distribute it around the world for all we know.
This is ridiculous.
And for all the decades I grew up and lived in Europe, we loved Ukraine.
That's where you could do nasty.
You want some crazy drugs?
Ukraine.
You want the Ukraine girls?
Ukraine.
You want Hitman?
Ukraine.
You want to go party crazy?
Ukraine.
Everyone loved Ukraine.
It was all good.
There's no reason for this.
And I'm being a little flippant, but it fit in well.
You're not being that flippant.
It's the truth.
It's the truth.
The whole, yes, the unspoken part of it is exactly what you said.
By the way, just going back to soccer for a moment, here's your problem.
When someone's hurt on the field, it's always fake.
Oh, my knee.
Oh, my knee.
There's a lot of flopping, it's called.
Yeah, flopping.
Like, oh, I'm so hurt.
If someone was really hurt, you know, the leg is like bent.
Oh, you see that?
Bone sticking out.
In real sports, yes.
Yeah, yeah.
We're just trying to Americanize football to make it successful.
I'd like to go to MSNBC to get some fantastic analysis from our mainstream here in the United States.
Fundamentally, the goal is, as President Trump outlined it, we want the war to come to a close.
We want the killing to stop.
But we want to achieve a durable, lasting peace, not the kind of peace that's going to have Eastern Europe in conflict just a couple years down the road.
At this table, we want the American people to understand what's being said and what it really means for them.
So when they hear the vice president speak this way, and there's another sound that we can use, too, that sort of crystallizes that moment, what should people understand it means for them potentially down the road?
Not only is it isolation, but it's going to actually hurt you in your pocketbook at home.
When it comes to the United States, now looking like it only cares about itself, which it doesn't.
I get it.
Feeling that we're overextended.
I remember when I was growing up this idea of we should not be the policemen of the world.
I get that part.
But working alongside people, helping people with common values, helps American values continue.
So what we're really seeing is an entire reframing by J.D. Vance and Trump of what America actually stands for.
Right?
This idea that an America that stands up for democratic values, an America that stands up for pluralism.
And it's now turning to an America that stands up for colonialism.
Right?
Land grabs.
Real estate deals.
None of that benefits.
Real estate deals.
That only benefits the people who are making the real estate deals.
Lady, we just bought a plot of land for you in the Donbass.
Congratulations.
Now this is the best part of this combo.
And by the way, that guy that was there was Michael Steele?
Yeah, oh yeah.
The former Republican.
Former head of the RNC jerk.
Wow.
Alright, this continues and gets better.
I want to take a listen to the other sound we have of J.D. The threat that I worry the most about vis-a-vis Europe is not Russia, it's not China, it's not any other external actor.
And what I worry about is the threat from within.
The retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the United States of America.
One of the things that strikes me about the first piece of sound we played and then that piece of sound is that it sounds innocuous enough.
Now, we know what the values are, right?
We know what they are.
They cut it off.
This is a psychological operation on their viewing audience, all 15,000 of them.
It's like, oh, well, it's our values, our shared values.
And now they're going to tell you what those values are.
One of the things that strikes me about the first...
Well, they let Vance tell you, because he does.
Because it's psychological warfare.
It's propaganda.
One of the things that strikes me about the first piece of sound we played and then that piece of sound is that it sounds...
Piece of sound.
It's a piece of sound.
What was that?
It was a piece of sound.
P.O.S. Innocuous enough.
If you do not dig into the details and if you're not looking at it, which values are we talking about?
So let me pull up this from the Washington Post, which was that Vance met with the leader of the far-right German party.
So not what he said.
Not what he said.
No, no.
Something the Washington Post wrote.
Exported the MAGA message.
When they say shared values, which values, pray tell?
I wish I was exaggerating when I say...
Nazi values.
Nazi values.
That's it.
That's what Vance says.
What?
Nazi values.
Yes, of course.
Thank you, MSNBC. I wish I was exaggerating when I say Nazi values.
Right?
I mean, this is the far, far right party in Germany, which understands what this kind of extremism can lead to.
Far, far right.
We are not in power right now.
And for J.D. Vance to say the will of the people, apparently the will of the people is great when Trump wins in the United States.
But he refused to meet with the elected leader of Germany, the German chancellor, and instead goes and meets with this far-right extremist party out of power, saying they're the will of the people.
So what he's really presenting for the United States internally and overseas is that the will of the people is white, Christian, male, and willing to fight for that identity.
Let's just take a quick break.
What?
Let's take a quick break and listen to...
Boots on the ground, Frank from Germany.
Frank?
And he sent us a note and said, Adam, John, if you ever need any information from Germany, I'm here for you.
For instance, Alice Wiedel.
She is the leader of the far, far right, also known as extreme right, Nazi values, AFD party.
She is not only a lesbian, but she's married to a brown girl or refugee.
I didn't know that.
Cherry on top.
Anyway, the whole point is that it's bullcrap.
It's bullcrap.
It's bullcrap.
And they are headed.
AFD is headed for their strongest results ever in the elections.
Because the Germans, I feel bad for them.
You've got to get some pirate radio going or something.
Do some podcasts.
Where are the German podcasts?
I'm sure they're around.
Well, you have your contact right there.
Ask him.
I wonder if they're allowed to even...
Why is he listening to us?
Yeah, good point.
I wonder if they're even allowed to express their opinion.
You're only allowed to have it.
I do have three relatively short BBC clips about the Munich conference.
You want to hear those?
Sure.
The future of Ukraine took centre stage at the International Security Conference in the German city of Munich on Friday.
It came after several days of speculation about how President Trump's telephone conversation with Vladimir Putin on Wednesday might be the start of a process that will end the conflict.
On the sidelines of the conference, the US Vice President J.D. Vance...
told reporters that Washington could impose economic sanctions on Russia if it refuses to agree what he called a good peace deal that guarantees Kyiv's long-term independence.
There are economic tools of leverage, he said, and there are, of course, also military tools of leverage the US could use.
Later, he addressed the delegates at the meeting.
This is a security conference, and I'm sure you all came here prepared to talk about how exactly you intend to increase defense spending over the next few years in line with some new target.
And that's great, because as President Trump has made abundantly clear, he believes that our European friends must play a bigger role in the future of this continent.
We don't think, you hear this term, burden sharing, but we think it's an important part of being in a shared alliance together that the Europeans step up while America focuses on areas of the world that are in great danger.
Uh-huh.
Shared burden.
They want no part of that.
Well, later in the day, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, met the US vice president at the Munich conference.
Mr. Zelensky said they'd had a good conversation and that it would not be their last.
He said they needed to prepare a plan on how to stop President Putin and finish the war with Russia, and that President Trump was key to making that happen.
I hope, and we count, that really, President Trump will help us.
And I really count on him.
He is the president, and the United States is the biggest denature during the war.
I mean, comparable with other countries.
As I said, Europe also, but it's Europe, totally continent, yes?
United States gave a lot.
That's why I count on him.
People voted, and we really think, I see, yes, that he is a strong man.
And if...
He will choose our side.
And if he will not be in the middle, I think he will pressure and he will push Putin to stop the war.
He can't do it.
He's backtracking on everything that's been discussed.
It is baffling.
The head of the European Commission is Ursula von der Leyen.
This is my favorite.
Here's Queen Ursula!
President Putin says he's willing to meet.
But on what terms?
It is up to him to demonstrate.
That his interest is not to prolong this war.
It is up to him to show that he has given up his ambition to destroy Ukraine.
And let me be very clear.
What?
Yeah, I know.
She's 4'9 and acting like she's a giant.
She's got nothing.
But throws this stuff out there.
It's baffling.
His ambition to destroy Ukraine.
And let me be very clear.
A failed Ukraine would weaken Europe, but it would also weaken the United States.
Because what we have seen is the authoritarians of this world are carefully watching whether there's any impunity.
What?
This is their latest pitch.
The other woman had it too, which is, oh, they're watching.
The Chinese in particular, they're watching to see if we blow it.
Yeah, exactly.
If we blow it with this deal, then China's going to take over the world.
The authoritarians of this world are carefully watching whether there's any impunity, if you invade your neighbor and violate international borders, or whether there are real deterrents.
Yeah.
They're going to go for their own army.
They're crazy.
Macron is having a big meeting tomorrow.
Emergency meeting, everybody.
Pierre's ready for your hair.
Come on to Paris, everybody.
We're going to have an emergency meeting.
Trump is not going to help us.
All we wanted was simple.
Give us some rare earth minerals.
Send some money our way.
It was easy.
Someone got in the middle.
I think it's the military-industrial complex.
They've wanted this all along.
They knew NATO was not working.
They needed a new way.
And I think President Trump is keen to that.
Like, okay, fine.
We don't even need tariffs.
Just buy $200 billion a year worth of our stuff.
I think it's obvious.
Well, this is not...
So far, this is not going well for that war.
And then we didn't even bring up the Middle East thing.
I mean, Trump made a big fuss about high noon yesterday.
Yeah.
And he says, what I don't want to see is these three people released and two people released.
By the way, I've been doing a ratio thing with the number of people that they released and the number of people that Israelis released.
One to a hundred, I think?
It started at one to fifty.
Yeah.
There was 50 Palestinians are worth one Jewish hostage.
Then it went 1 to 60. Now it's 1 to about 110. 110 people per released hostage.
It's ridiculous.
Yeah, high noon came and went.
And now President Trump is at...
Don't talk about it.
He's at Daytona 500. Yeah.
That's better.
He's got the Beast on the...
He's going to get some cheers.
Did you see it?
He was on the track and then he's talking on the radio from the Beast as he's going around the track.
Oh, no.
I did not notice this.
The pace car.
It was great.
Yeah.
America.
So the Beast was the pace car?
Yes.
Yes.
Wow.
Yeah.
It was fantastic.
Give it a good workout.
Well, while we're on that topic, you know, President Trump keeps talking about his plan.
We're going to own Magaza and all this stuff.
And it was pointed out to me that this plan has been around probably since 2019. The plan is written up.
It's published.
It's well-known.
And, of course, it's Bibi Netanyahu's godson.
You know, remember, Jared Kushner had to sleep on the couch.
He Googled it.
Google it.
The spy for Israel.
The spy for Israel.
He went on Lex Friedman's show a year ago, after October 7th, and he explained the plan and the reason for the plan.
This was something I took on.
I was working on the political framework between the Israelis and the Palestinians and trying to understand what were the issues.
And the issues were not very many.
It basically was, you had a land dispute, so you had to figure out where do you put borders ultimately.
You had a security paradigm, which I was much more favorable to Israel's perspective on.
And obviously the events of the past 48 hours have fully justified that bias.
And then in addition to that, you had to deal with the religious sites, but I felt operationally that wasn't actually as complicated as people made it because you wanted to just leave it open for everybody.
Then I went through and I felt that the Palestinian leadership was fairly disincentivized to make a deal because There was just this paradigm where they had billions of dollars coming in from the international community, and I think that they feared that if they made a deal, they would lose their relevancy internationally, and the money would stop flowing into the country.
So what I tried to do is to say, you know, my approach when I would get into a hard problem would say, how do I understand all the different escape hatches?
How do I try to eliminate them?
And then build a golden bridge that becomes really the only but also the most desirable pathway for the decision makers to walk through.
So that makes sense.
Hamas didn't want to give up millions of dollars and payments that came in that would lose their relevancy.
It's probably a fair assessment.
Then, I don't know about the escape hatches, but okay.
Here's the business plan and the players in the plan.
So we developed a business plan for Gaza, the West Bank.
We threw in some improvements for Jordan and Egypt as well.
I spaced it off of the Vision 2030 that they did in Saudi Arabia, which I thought was a visionary document.
I went back through this process and I studied.
Basically every economic project in the post-World War II period.
So we looked at what they did in South Korea, why it was successful with some strong industrial planning.
We looked at Japan.
We looked at Singapore.
We looked at Poland, why it was successful.
We spent a lot of time on the Ukraine plan for the country and why it wasn't successful.
And that was mostly because of governance and corruption, which actually resembles a lot of what's gone wrong with the Palestinians, where there's no property rights, there's no rule of law.
That hard, right?
In the sense that between the West Bank and Gaza, you had 5 million people.
And we put together a plan.
I think it was about $27 billion.
We got together a conference.
I had the head of AT&T. We had Steve Schwartzman from Blackstone came, which is very gracious of them.
We had all the leading Arabic businessmen, the leading builders, leading developers.
And the general consensus of that...
We think that for Gaza in particular, it would cost maybe $7 to $8 billion to rebuild the entire place.
We felt we could reduce the poverty rate in half.
We can create over a million jobs there.
The only thing that people said was holding it back wasn't Israel.
What was holding it back was governance.
And people wouldn't have confidence investing there with the rule that Hamas was perpetuating.
The plan that the president is talking about, literally mentioning Jordan and Egypt, and the plan was advanced.
This plan has been going all along.
I encourage people actually to look at the plan.
It was very thoughtful.
It was 181 pages.
We went project by project.
Each project is costed out.
It's a real plan that could be implemented, but you need the right governance.
And all of the different Arabic countries are willing to fund it.
The international community is willing to fund it because they've just been throwing so much money at the Palestinians for years that's never been outcomes-based or conditions-based.
It's just been, you know, entitlement money.
And unfortunately, it hasn't really achieved any outcomes that have been successful.
So it's a great business plan.
It just shows, too.
Rebuilding Gaza could be easy, but like I said, the problem that's held the Palestinian people back and that's made their lives terrible in Gaza has not been Israel.
It's really been Hamas' leadership or lack of leadership and their desire to focus on trying to kill Israelis and start war with Israel over improving the lives of the Palestinian people.
I mean, Hamas has been running it now for 16 years.
And they don't have a lot to show for it.
And our posture with them was basically a very simple deal.
If you think about what's the end state in Gaza, it's actually not that complicated.
There's no territorial disputes, right?
The border's the border.
There's no religious issues there as well.
You're not dealing with Jerusalem.
You're basically just dealing with the fact that Israel wants to make sure that there's no threat from Gaza, so it's a demilitarization or some kind of security guarantee from a credible source where Israel doesn't feel.
Like, Gaza can be used to stage attacks into Israel or to fire rockets into Israel, but Hamas has not shown a desire for that or a capability for that, and I don't think there's enough trust to allow them to do that, which is why, you know, under the current circumstances, if you do want to have peace there, Hamas has to be either eliminated or severely degraded.
In terms of their military capabilities.
Yeah, checkmark, checkmark.
This is over a year ago.
This is exactly what has happened.
The plan has been underway for a long time.
This is why the president seems so confident.
And I'm pretty sure Jordan and Egypt are ready.
I don't see it.
What do you see then?
I see the same mess that's always been historically, and I don't see it changing at all.
I mean, let's look at the track record.
I think he's right about the fact that you had bad governance for X number of years, but it's also during that period of bad governance, which we have in California.
You have a period of brainwashing the public to make them think that this is great what they're doing.
And they're all full of shit, these people.
And the Palestinians are troublemakers because of it.
Because of the brainwashing.
Yeah.
You can find the textbooks and all the rest about how the Jews are terrible and all the rest of it.
And if that doesn't just disappear overnight just because you put some new people in, the same thing like in California or in these schools where they promote gender studies or gender ideology.
If the parents are in with it because they're dumb or lousy parents, they buy into it too.
But they haven't blown up the leadership.
That's the difference.
The Hamas leadership is gone.
That's the difference.
If you blew up Gavin Newsom, not saying you should, and got rid of these city councils and all the corruption...
Yeah, it would just reform.
It would reform.
It's going to reform in Palestine, too.
It's just the way it is.
Like an octopus tentacle.
It just grows on again?
Kind of.
But if you have a population that's all into it, It thinks that everything is hunky-dory, and they refuse to do this, they refuse to do that.
No, this is bullcrap.
This is going nowhere.
Well, I think this is the plan they're trying to implement.
Well, they can try all they want.
Good luck with that.
I think it's just a waste of time and money.
But, you know, it's idealistic.
Yes, yes.
They think that everyone thinks like an American.
This is not the way it is.
It's just like...
But he did make a good point about the corruption of bad governance of Ukraine and Hamas.
And the Ukraine's the same way.
And California.
Put them all in the same boat.
Or Massachusetts.
You're the Ukraine of America.
That's getting there.
Let's stick with the military-industrial complex and a little bit with Israel.
The Iron Dome.
We heard President Trump promise the Iron Dome is coming.
Although, is it going to be called the Iron Dome?
Here is our Secretary of Defense with the money, honey.
We need to update our nuclear triad on land, in sea, and on air.
But that also includes the Iron Dome.
Iron Dome or Golden Dome, whatever you want to call it.
Golden Dome.
We have embraced the executive order of President Trump.
We're going to ensure it's included in reconciliation money, in the FY26, all our budgets going forward, to invest in the ability.
Maria, get this.
Novel idea.
To defend our homeland.
That's why we're focusing on our southern border and the invasion there, the 100% operational control, and then our skies.
So, Golden Dome, Iron Dome, Maria, Money Honey, Bartiromo dives in deeper.
Joining me now is U.S.-Israel Education Association Senior Policy Advisor.
Okay, I love this.
This is the U.S.-Israel, the America-Israel Education Association.
Advisor.
Yes, this is the funding arm for AIPAC, and this is what I've consistently said because I've followed the money.
You can look at the 990s.
You can see that it's Raytheon and Boeing who put money into the education fund, non-profit, and the education fund funds AIPAC. Not for Israel to control everybody, but for the military-industrial complex to control everybody, which they do!
No doubt about it.
Yeah, we still have producers out there who listen to the show and think that you're a Zionist for even suggesting that we are dominating the situation in the way things go.
Yes.
Boomer Zionist, okay?
Oh, you're a boomer?
Yeah, boomer Zionist piece of crap.
That's what it is.
Well, yes, that's what one guy called you.
So why is this guy telling us about the Golden Dome?
Because he's part of the military-industrial complex.
And we're going to build this thing, and it's interesting.
And it's not going to do anything.
Well, listen.
Joining me now is U.S.-Israel Education Association Senior Policy Advisor and Rocket Scientist, Ari Sacher.
And he's a rocket scientist.
Not unimportant.
President Trump told me he's probably going to call it something else, something like the Golden Sphere or Golden Dome.
I think Golden Balls will be better.
The Golden Sphere, the Golden Dome.
We have to come up with a better name than that.
Me, he's probably going to call it something else, something like the Golden Sphere or Golden Dome.
Tell me how this works and a little about the Iron Dome that is used right now in Israel, sir.
So, let me tell you at the outset...
Which doesn't work.
The golden condom, the golden egg.
I mean, they've got to do something.
They've got to start marketing this properly.
Now, let's listen to what it is.
So, let me tell you at the outset, the president is using the term Iron Dome as a metaphor.
Wow.
Metaphor.
It defends small areas, city-sized areas against threats that are launched from about 40 miles away.
So it's perfect for defending Israel from Gaza, Lebanon.
It is not something that the United States needs very much.
The United States has a small number of batteries of Iron Dome, and that defends deployed forces.
But to defend the U.S. homeland, as the president wants to do, you need something completely different.
You're defending against rockets not launched from Canada or Mexico, or that I know of, but you're defending against rockets that are launched from North Korea, from China, from Russia.
Potentially.
And you need something far more complex than Iron Dome to shoot it down.
What the president is looking at is something that probably would be called space-based intercept.
You'd bring up a whole bunch of interceptors into outer space, and the whole intercept would take place outer space.
So if you want to call it Iron Dome, or you want to call it FRED, it doesn't make a difference.
It's not Iron Dome.
The chances of it succeeding are excellent.
The U.S. has a tremendous amount of engineers and gumption.
Space Force!
Yeah, baby!
Let's call it the Orange Dome.
There you go.
That's better.
Isn't there some treaty where we're not supposed to weaponize space?
I mean, it's not like we haven't already done that and the Chinese haven't already done that.
Yeah, I think there is a treaty.
It should get some pushback.
The whole thing is, this is just a fiasco.
No, I think it's brilliant.
I mean, that's what nuclear deterrence is all about.
Yeah, okay, you can bomb us, but then we're going to just wipe out your entire civilization.
No, no, no, no.
We zap your hypersonic missiles.
Sure we do.
With our golden stream.
I was wondering how long it would take for you to go there.
It took me at least six minutes.
Come on, give me some credit.
Well, you know, and Elon's going to build it.
I mean, I was alive when Reagan was like, yeah, we're going to put in Star Wars.
Whatever happened to that?
It didn't work.
None of this stuff works.
I mean, if you have a multiple re-entry product that's like you send it up at ICBM and then it breaks into a hundred little pieces and a hundred little bombs and it just goes scattering around every which way.
It's pretty hard.
You can stop one or two.
And then we have the upcoming drone warfare, which comes under the radar.
I mean, that's going to be, I think, going to be the future of a lot of these battles, these drones flying around.
This is a mess.
They've got to establish a peaceful world.
Yes.
Well, you do that through strength.
Through war.
Yeah, exactly.
Let's talk a little bit about the situation with...
Eric Adams.
Yeah.
In these clips, can you tell me exactly what the charges were on him?
Because as far as I can recall...
A couple of Turkish Airlines upgrades.
Because they said, I want you to introduce me to somebody and I'm upgrading you from business to first.
Just a little bit of that.
That all involves Turkey.
And also then there's a charge that they were getting to, which they didn't get to, which was him lying to the FBI. About what was going on.
But the whole thing was, you know, the Justice Department dropped it.
But the way, this is a presentation on PBS again.
Okay.
And this is a pack of lies.
This, I've traced this down.
I believe there's a beef going on between the Federalist Society and the Trump administration.
And a new guy, because there's a...
Change of leadership at the Federalist Society, and there's this guy who's taking over called Leonard Leo.
Can you tell me about the Federalist Society?
The Federalist Society is a super conservative operation that's involved with the judicial picks.
Gorsuch, Amy Comey Barrett, and Kavanaugh were all chosen by the Federalist Society.
When he was first in office, almost every judge that he appointed was...
Pre-picked by the Federalist Society.
Can I ask you a question?
So when I think Federalist Society, I think of the Federalist Party and the Anti-Federalist Party when we were getting the Constitution together and there was a beef.
It's not the same thing?
No, it's just a group of super conservatives that believe in very, very conservatives.
No leeway whatsoever type of operation.
And they're mostly concentrating on the judicial.
And they have people planted all over the place.
And I believe this is a power play because when Trump put in Pam Bondi without consulting these guys...
Oh, that's the issue.
These guys really think they're the tail wagging the dog and especially this new guy, Leonard Leo.
You should just look him up on Wikipedia.
He's an egomaniac who spends a lot of money at the seams, and he is throwing his weight away.
He's one of these guys who he thinks he's the president, kind of.
You know, you're the guy behind the scenes.
If anybody remembers old California politics from before I was born, but in the 30s and 40s, this guy, Arthur Samish.
Okay, so he supported...
Not only John Roberts, Sam Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett, but also Clarence Thomas.
Yes.
These guys really think they run the place.
Because they kind of do when it comes to the judicial to this point.
But they weren't consulted on Bondi.
And Bondi's got some issues that irk these guys.
And so I think the whole Eric Adams thing, the way it was handled, because we go through these clips, I'll tell you my complaints about each one of these clips, the PBS guys are having nothing but fun over this because the person who started this, and I believe the Federalist Society is behind the mass resignation.
Oh yeah, that sounds right.
When you have a mass resignation, somebody is orchestrating it.
I've been in enough operations to know this because I've done it myself.
Have you ever mass resigned?
I put together one.
It's a story that I'm not going to discuss.
You're a troublemaker, you.
I am a troublemaker.
And so this Danielle Sassoon is like, oh, she was the acting top prosecutor, U.S. attorney, la, la, la, la, la.
And nobody mentions in any of these reports, any of them, you can look and look and look.
You won't find it.
The fact is, she was in office as acting for three whole weeks.
Three whole weeks.
Yes.
Yeah, exactly.
So she shows up.
Next thing you know, she quits in a huff over the Eric Adams thing.
We'll go through these clips and I can complain more, but let's start with the Eric Adams fiasco clip one.
A wave of resignations is shaking up the US Justice Department after the Trump administration gave orders to drop the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
So far, at least seven officials have quit, and Adams is facing increasingly loud calls to step down.
The exodus began yesterday with one of New York's top federal prosecutors, and it's already being dubbed the Thursday afternoon massacre, recalling the famous Saturday night massacre during the Watergate scandal.
William Brangham begins our coverage.
Okay, hold on.
Sassoon, a member of the deeply conservative Federalist Society, is a rising star in legal circles.
In her resignation letter, Sassoon name-checked her former mentor, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
Okay.
Yes.
All right.
You've picked up on something important here.
This is good.
Her credentials are impeccable.
And the guy who's the other guy that I think was important on this is this guy, Hagan.
Scotton, Hagan Scotton, who was one of the guys who was leading the investigation of Eric Adams.
And the two of them, she has one child and one on the way, family woman, married, and this Scotton guy's got three kids, and you just don't up and quit a job like this with a big family like that unless you get guarantees.
So it goes, don't worry about it.
You can quit, but you're going to land on your feet.
When in fact, if you quit the way these two did and the other five, it's like, no, you're never going to get work again in this town is the way it should go.
But no, they've been set up.
This whole thing is a scam.
And the media loves it because these people are impeccable.
This Scott, this Hagan character, this guy's double bronze star.
He's got riddles up the ass.
These are super conservatives.
You can say, well, look, these super conservatives, they quit on the Trump administration because it's corrupt.
Trump's corrupt, and so is Pam Bondi.
But let's finish these clips.
Throughout this entire ordeal...
Today, New York City Mayor Eric Adams was playing defense.
I had to endure for something I didn't do.
I didn't do anything wrong.
Including a PR blitz on Fox News.
All the while, the U.S. Department of Justice is in upheaval.
Over the fate of the corruption case it brought against the mayor.
Yesterday, six DOJ officials resigned after refusing an order from the department in Washington to dismiss the case.
Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Danielle Sassoon, a Republican who clerked for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, started the exodus.
Oh, she started the exodus.
Okay.
Yeah, she was the initiator.
Working there three weeks, not taking orders from her boss.
So I just started the job.
I'm working there three weeks.
My boss says, you've got to drop this case.
I have reasons, or we have reasons, or we don't think it's a good case.
It doesn't make any difference.
Why?
Because you're working there three weeks, you're on probation, and you, oh, I'm not going to listen to you.
I quit.
And so then...
By the way, I expect you to say that one day on this show to me.
I think it's going to happen.
Not working for you.
I quit.
And so, and the media just slaps it up because this is like a kind of a crack in the armor here.
It's a soap opera.
It's a soap opera.
They love it.
Yeah, and it's bull crap.
And the logic of it makes no sense.
This is total insubordination that was orchestrated by somebody, and I suspect a Federalist Society.
On to clip two.
Three.
Three.
Oh, that was two?
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, well then clip three kind of summarizes an interesting thought.
Writing to Trump's new Attorney General, Pam Bondi, Sassoon accused Mayor Adams and officials in the DOJ of what amounted to a quid pro quo.
Oh yeah.
That Adams would aid Trump's immigration enforcement if the DOJ dropped his case.
Sassoon excoriated that alleged offer, writing, quote, It is a breathtaking and dangerous precedent to reward Adams' opportunistic and shifting commitments on immigration and other policy matters with dismissal of a criminal indictment.
Now, was she the one that said that Adams' lawyer had said that in the meeting?
I don't know who said that, but I just want to back into this concept that the The Justice Department, there's a couple of things.
The Justice Department, for one thing, did a deal with somebody?
Gee, that's never happened in the history of the justice system in the United States.
No one's ever done a deal with somebody to get them to cooperate from one way or another.
That's never happened before.
So this is a big shocker.
Quid pro quo!
Then they keep bringing up this prosecutorial misconduct.
That's bullcrap because...
Prosecutorial misconduct always has to do with screwing over some guy, not letting him go free.
So this whole thing is orchestrated and it's phony and the PBS doesn't dig into it.
Nobody mentions that this girl, this chick, Sassoon chick, was there for three whole weeks and she's standing up against the DOJ and Pam Bondi.
Give me a break.
Sassoon chick.
Sassoon chick.
How old is she?
Let me see.
She's young.
Yeah, she does seem young.
But she did some big...
She's 38. She's a millennial.
The Sam Bankman Freed prosecutor.
Yeah, the Sam Bankman Freed, and she also did...
She did something else.
She's no slouch.
No.
I'm not saying that.
She's not a slouch, but something's corrupt about the whole thing.
Yeah, the...
What else does she do?
We've done some racketeering cases, sex trafficking of students.
You know, for three weeks you do what you're told.
You'd think.
Especially in this sort of situation.
I mean, come on, this happens all the time.
And so even if there was a quid pro quo, which they keep talking about, they can't prove, but they keep saying it, say there was.
This guy is going to help Trump clean up New York and make everything better?
And this is a bad idea?
Come on!
Bad idea supply!
Do you want to hear the NPR clips on this, or do you have one more Eric Adams clip I see?
Play the last one.
Yesterday, Mayor Adams met with Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, and sat beside him on Fox News this morning as he denied Sassoon's claims.
That's quid pro quo.
That's a crime.
It took her three weeks to report in front of her a criminal action?
Come on, this is silly.
But then Homan implied that if Adams didn't help with immigration...
...in his office, up his butt, saying, where the hell is the agreement we came to?
Acting U.S. Deputy Attorney General and former Trump lawyer Emil Bovey, who ordered the dismissal, rejected the assertion that there was any quid pro quo.
In a response to Sassoon, he wrote that she, quote, lost sight of her oath and should not, quote, interpret the Constitution in a manner inconsistent with the policies of a democratically elected president.
Adams had pleaded not guilty last year to federal charges of accepting bribes and illegal campaign contributions from Turkish nationals.
Now, a flurry of Democrats are calling on Adams to step down.
And calling on New York Governor, Democrat Kathy Hochul, to remove him from office, which she'd have the authority to do.
For DOJ officials, the so-called Thursday afternoon massacre continued today.
Hagan Scotton, the line prosecutor who handled the Adams case, quit with a defiant message to Bovee, refusing his motion to dismiss the case.
Scotton wrote, I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool or enough of a coward to file your motion, but it was never going to be me.
Reportedly, Bovee was able to find a DOJ lawyer willing to sign the motion this afternoon.
This is a good sequence you had here, because exactly what you talk about, and of course, the focus of Sassoon is only that, you know, she's so awesome, and she really led the charge, and this is, you know, no one agrees because it's Trump and politicization, and he's going after his political enemies, blah, blah, blah, blah.
That's what's sticking.
It's really sticking.
And this interview, or this appearance he did on Fox with Holman, Has just got everybody in a tizzy, as of course we must once again resort to MSNBC and the superstar Joy Reid.
But we begin tonight with Donald Trump's take on law and order, as we now live in a country where the rule of law comes second to whatever Trump wants.
As of today, seven top federal prosecutors and officials, including the acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, Daniel Sassoon.
Saying that she witnessed Adams' attorney indicate that Adams would only be able to help push Trump's immigration enforcement policies if the charges against him were dropped.
And before I continue the clip, so apparently this happened three weeks ago when she just got there is when this horrible quid pro quo, This morning, Adams responded, of course, on Fox.
Of course!
Because that's the president's network.
Think about that.
Think about that.
Think about my attorney, Alex Spira, one of the top trial attorneys in the country.
Imagine him going inside saying that...
The only way Mayor Adams is going to assist in immigration, which I was calling for since 2022, is if you drop the charges.
That's quick per call.
That's a crime.
It took her three weeks to report in front of her a criminal action?
Come on, this is silly.
Yeah, it was okay.
This is silly.
But, you know, when you say it on Fox, it's not true.
Well, first...
I should note that Adam's attorney, Alex Spiro, who you just heard him mention, also represents none other than...
Who?
Who?
Can you guess who?
Who?
You'll never guess.
Jeffrey Epstein.
No, close, close.
I'll give you one more guess.
Weinstein.
Oh, man!
So close!
No!
Trump's co-president, Elon Musk.
Trump's co-president, Elon Musk.
I like the co-president thing she says.
Epstein would have been better.
Interesting, right?
Epstein would have been better.
Interesting, right?
It's interesting, right?
And second, it is hard not to find it ridiculous when Adams is seen sitting next to Trump's border czar.
Tom Homan, right there on Fox, who just minutes later...
All but confirms the quid pro quo with a threat to Adams on live TV. If he doesn't come through, I'll be back in New York City and we won't be sitting on a couch.
I'll be in his office up his butt saying, where the hell is the agreement we came to?
Up his butt?
Nice.
Tom Brokaw is rolling over in his grave.
He's dead.
That's what I said.
He's rolling over in his grave.
Yeah, you can't believe that news now.
I can't believe I'm using the term operator's butt.
And of course, everyone's quick to jump in because, hey, there's going to be a spot.
There's going to be a spot.
Let's jump in.
Let's bring in some familiar faces.
Very familiar to me as a former New Yorker.
Here this morning, Curtis Sliwa has officially filed paperwork to run for New York City mayor.
Sliwa!
I have to say, Curtis Sliwa was such a badass back in the late 80s and the 90s in New York.
The guardian angels.
It was the people protecting the people.
And he's still walking around with that silly beret on his head.
The beret, the red beret.
The beret is like, dude, we get it.
Sliwa is, of course, the founder of the Guardian Angels and was a Republican nominee for mayor in 2021, ultimately losing that election to Mayor Adams.
In a campaign post, Sliwa has said he will prioritize public safety and quality of life issues.
Meantime, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has been mulling a run for mayor as well.
Cuomo has not made things official.
But he did post a campaign-style video on social media yesterday.
It's frightening out there on the streets.
But we have been through this before as New Yorkers.
We've seen the ups, we've seen the downs, and we know how to make this city work and make this state safe for everyone, and that's exactly what we're going to do.
This was from a Valentine's Day event at the Johnson Houses Community Center yesterday, which was hosted by Assemblymember Eddie Gibbs.
Cuomo, quid pro Cuomo, not looking good.
He looks frail.
His voice is frail.
The governor?
Yes.
Very thin.
Looking kind of gauntish.
No, it's not good.
It's not good.
Let me see.
I think we're done with that, right?
We have nothing else on that.
I think we covered it.
So, interesting little piece of video I caught.
We've been talking about just staying in New York here with the...
The $59 million that was being spent on the Roosevelt Hotel for, I guess, does the No Agenda style guide allow us to say illegal aliens again?
I think that's back, right?
We can say that now?
I think we can always say it.
Well, you can have your opinions, but you've got to be careful about what you say.
In the UK, and this was on GB News, of course, Camelot Castle.
A Camelot Castle famous hotel that goes back to the time, you know, supposedly that's where King Arthur had his round table of knights and, you know, it's in a village and it's a castle and they got rooms in the castle.
I thought King Arthur was out in the western part of the country over in whatever that area is.
The western part?
The Camelot Castle.
Associated with King Arthur.
Well, that's just named Camelot.
No, but I'm reading from the...
Okay.
Listen, it's a castle.
That is bullcrabbing.
Please continue.
That's the marketing story, okay?
It's the marketing story.
The proprietor of Camelot Castle explained what the British government wanted to do with him regarding illegal aliens in Great Britain.
You refused a request from the Home Office to house migrants.
What did they offer you, and why did you turn it down?
Well, it was a considerable amount of money, Beverly.
It was probably double what we would normally make on a good year, because they offered full occupancy on a rolling contract for a year.
So how does that work?
Somebody literally just picks up the phone to you, or do they send you a letter?
They sent us a letter first, and to be honest with you, I thought it was a joke.
Well, because of the amount of money they were offering.
Well, I just couldn't believe that the government wanted to put, you know, illegal migrants up in four-poster beds at Camelot Castle.
I mean, it was absolutely remarkable.
It would have destroyed the village, because one of the things they said is to lay off all the staff, and all but two, because they do meals on wheels.
You clean the rooms once a week.
You're probably a big employer in the village.
Well, a major employer in the village and locally.
And, of course, those jobs in a village like Tintagel, they wouldn't be replaced.
No.
But also, they would have stacked the place up with about 300 people.
And, you know, you then have those people wandering around the village.
I don't know whether they intended to contain them or whether they would be allowed out and about.
I know in other areas, certainly hotels in Newquay have had some serious problems because there were a few hotels that did take the migrants there.
Well, of course they do.
They do spend their money there, and it would have destroyed the local economy.
You know, it's hard to say how many hundreds of thousands of pounds our guests spend in the village, but certainly...
A fair amount.
But it's also the cultural degradation that goes along with this.
New York.
What is it?
We got memos from people who had weddings scheduled.
Was it Pennsylvania?
It's all over the place.
The Netherlands.
It's like some sort of a conspiracy.
That's the thing.
It does seem like this was a coordinated move.
To destroy the world, basically.
Bring it all down.
Bring all societies, particularly in heartlands, just bring it down.
Bring it all down.
Yeah, who needs that aggravation?
No, but a lot of people took the deal, of course.
A lot of people took the deal.
Well, and when they offered twice as much as you'd normally get, which is what the guy implied.
Well, we know the Dutch, remember that family, van der Falk?
They took the deal.
And then the family got into a big fight over it and blew the family apart.
Half of them didn't want to do it and the other one was like, look at the money!
And he was taking money for just presenting the deal to the family, I think.
It's insanity.
Insanity.
And why?
Oh, I learned something.
You know this new style we've picked up of someone saying, Why?
Because it has a name.
Asking themselves questions.
It's called hypophora.
Hypophora?
Hypophora.
Figure speech in which the speaker poses a question, then answers the question.
And it is really a psychological trick.
And what's the trick accomplished besides annoy you and me?
That is the main reason they're doing it, of course.
To annoy you and me?
The rhetorical effectiveness lies in allowing the speaker to answer questions the listener may have.
So if you have this question, we're going to confirm your question and then give you the answer in a different direction.
Hypophora is used as a transitional device to take the discussion in a new direction, a device to catch attention, since a reader or listener's curiosity is stimulated by hearing a question and to suggest the answer that the reader or listener may not have thought of.
So, it's a good trick.
It's a control trick.
I like it.
Neuro-linguistic programming, I guess?
Now I like it more than before.
Now we have to really pay attention to who's doing it.
Well, yes, because people are just directing the conversation in the direction they want.
So in other words, there's no conversation.
No.
And why?
And why?
Because they want to control your mind!
That's why!
There you go.
I'm going to do...
I have one clip of bio-Leninism, which...
It's also known as trans-Maoism, as President Trump has now signed executive orders that government funds may not be used for gender operations, which is also known as gender-affirming care for children under 19, which really only means that Medicare can't pay for it.
If you want to do it, you want to pay for it yourself, and that's...
That's another thing.
So they're protesting this outside the Lurie's Children's Hospital, I think, in Chicago.
Hundreds of people protested outside Lurie's Children's Hospital.
Only one was trans who was protesting.
Everybody there does not look trans at all.
The people who were speaking on camera, not trans, except for one.
But that's a...
Male to female trans, which I don't think there was much operating done that perhaps breast enhancements.
Hospital Saturday.
Over the hospital's decision to pause gender-affirming surgeries for patients under the age of 19. Legislators have no business to be stepping into medical decisions.
The hospital says it will continue to provide some services for transgender youth.
We can receive gender-affirming hormones and puberty blockers, but if they're willing to take away top surgery, which is such a pivotal part of people's transition.
I just love top surgery.
You mean a...
Double mastectomy.
Double mastectomy.
It's now just known as top surgery.
Lives, then what's next?
The decision came shortly after President Trump signed an executive order stopping federal support for gender transitions.
A federal judge temporarily blocked Trump's executive order on Thursday.
Demonstrators say the move can cause serious harm to transgender people.
As we know...
Here it comes.
Now, you always want to throw this in because as we know...
Why?
Because, as we know...
To transgender people.
As we know, many trans youth who can't get access to healthcare commit suicide, unfortunately.
It's so tired.
It's so tired.
The evidence is not conclusive on that at all.
But that's the psychological trick we've played over and over again.
If we don't give trans children healthcare, note the term healthcare, They will kill themselves.
Demonstrators say the move can cause serious harm to transgender people.
As we know, many trans youth who can't get access to health care commit suicide, unfortunately.
At the rally, we heard from transgender advocates.
I'm the product of a transition before the age of 19 years old.
I just don't know if this man, dressed and looking very feminine, has had bottom surgery.
I was supported.
I had access to care.
And because of that, I'm standing here today, whole, healthy, thriving.
Parents with children who are patients at the hospital are healthy and thriving.
They're choosing to live their true selves because not doing so hurts them more than anything the bullies can do.
What do we do?
Many in the crowd fear the changes this hospital made are just the beginning.
Lori's is a leader in this space, so if they back down, other smaller companies and smaller organizations will follow.
In a statement, Lori Children's Hospital called the decision difficult and said they're monitoring further developments on this issue.
You know, in 1990, I did a documentary of Thailand.
And we did a whole bunch of crazy things, you know, drank cobra blood, stayed with the Hill Tribe.
Up near the Burmese border.
So they do a snake alley in Taiwan.
I thought it was, you know, they kill, first they make the cobra angry and then they milk him.
And then they slit him open.
Yeah, it's disgusting.
It's very disgusting.
And, you know, we went to see, oh, it was bad.
Went to see the Long Necks, which turned out to be a tourist trap.
But we also, in Bangkok, we went to a ladyboy show.
And I remember interviewing the ladyboys.
And I recall saying, So why do you want to be a woman?
In 1990, I was, how old was I? Like 30. 30-something.
Not even.
Yeah, 30. And they got mad at me.
They said, no!
No!
We're not women.
We're ladyboys.
They literally would get mad if you thought that they wanted to be women.
They said, no, we're just ladyboys.
This is what we want to be.
That would solve a lot of problems.
Well, that's not going to happen.
No, it's not going to happen.
I just wanted to say something on the DEI front, because I have breaking news.
It's breaking news.
My buddy, the former Hollywood executive, you know who I'm talking about.
Yeah, I know exactly who you're talking about.
Is suing Disney.
Good.
And so I can now tell you who his name is because it's in print.
Robert Steffens, Rob Steffens, who served as CFO and then president of Marvel from 2015 to 2023, filed a complaint Tuesday that a Disney executive informed him that he would not be promoted to president of Disney Consumer Products because of his age and race.
Steffens claimed that then Marvel CEO Isaac Perlmutter, also known as Ike, Told him in February 2022 that word came from then-Disney CEO Bob Chapek that he would not receive the promotion because the company couldn't award the job to, quote, another old white guy.
Perfect.
This is a lawsuit.
They just have to settle.
This won't even go to court.
The job was then given to a woman of, quote, ambiguous ethnicity, per the complaint.
One more.
Wilmer paragraph.
Stephens alleges he was also denied the promotion for objecting to other incidents of racial discrimination that he witnessed at the House of the Mouse in the past.
The former Marvel executive claimed that Disney was engaged in, quote, an official effort to promote vice presidents based on their race and a memorandum, so he has the receipts, that would have referred to employees with the racial signifier BIPOC. Disney's actions were willful, wanton, malicious, intentional, oppressive, and despicable, and were done in willful and conscious disregard of the rights, welfare, and safety of Mr. Steffens.
I'm thinking he's going to be starting his own entertainment company soon.
Well, that could be, but I think he should donate to the show.
Oh, yeah.
No, big time, because we've been a huge supporter of him without ever naming him.
So back to the gender issues, which I guess are somewhat related to that.
Yeah, related.
Let's go to there's a new gender.
No.
Yeah.
No.
It's unbelievable there were 75 and now 78. It is the policy of this administration there are two genders.
Well, here's the new one.
This is the gender season.
Did you know, however, there is a gender identity that is linked?
To the seasons.
This is called gender season.
And this is a gender identity I've only just learned about.
It's a micro-identity.
It's not an identity that I have ever heard discussed before.
It's a new one for me.
Gender season is an individual who explores their gender identity in relation to a season or all the seasons.
So this might be somebody whose gender expression and identity is linked to one season.
So for example, winter.
Or this might be somebody whose gender identity and expression changes depending on the season.
This is completely in line with what I've been saying for a year.
It's the gender season of reveal, everybody.
The gender season of reveal.
That's why people are named autumn and summer and winter and fall.
Okay.
Wow.
So there's...
There's that, and then we have the, this is a new movement that I caught early here.
This is the trans prepper.
Oh, this is good.
With concentration camps looming in the United States, here's what queer people are doing.
Yes, I said concentration camps, you can f*** off MAGA. Oh.
We are getting a go-bag ready.
We are getting all of our documents ready.
So driver's license, birth certificate, social security card.
Now, if you have to revert your passport and your documents to previously said gender identities that you were born with, do so.
I'm allowed to do so with my driver's license that says X on it in the state that I'm in.
I'm going Monday to revert that to my gender assigned at birth.
The next step, we're going to have a go bag with shoes, clothes for seven days, dehydrated food, think astronaut food, for seven days.
We're going to have $1,000 cash or prepaid credit card on hand.
And this is just for the emergency.
This isn't for permanency.
This is for a week of getting by off the grid.
We're going to have anything ready for the pets that we're taking with us.
So put some cat litter in your trunk.
Put some cat food or dog food in your trunk.
Make sure there's a leash there.
Make sure you have everything ready for everything that you're taking with you.
Make sure your medication is available and in extra stock.
So stock up on it.
Ask your doctor for a three-month supply at one time.
Keep your gas tank full.
All of this stuff available and ready to go in a moment's notice for every single person in your family.
You do not need a passport to get into Canada or Mexico.
You just need your documents.
But that doesn't mean you shouldn't have a passport ready to go.
Have a beautiful day and stay safe, my transgender family.
Wow, trans-survivalist movement.
That's interesting.
I think that they should all go to Berkeley.
We all meet with our go-bags in Berkeley.
We meet with our go-bags in Berkeley.
And have you found more of these videos?
I'll start bringing them up as they come.
Yeah, there's been a few.
So what concentration camps are they referring to?
He just says Google it.
MAGA. Well, I'm MAGA. Well, that's what he said.
Concentration camps.
Okay, let's see.
I'm Googling it as per instructed.
Well, they had them during the Nazi era, apparently.
Well, same thing.
This is the Nazi era.
Hello.
Yes.
Hmm.
I cannot Google anything current of said concentration camps.
Hmm.
Well.
You're not doing it right.
I'm not Googling right.
So I got a couple of clips about Doge.
Okay.
I just want to say, I feel bad for these people.
I mean, it's horrible that our fellow citizens have been so psyoped into this insanity.
And I wish there was something I could do for them.
You're doing what you can.
I am.
I'm doing what I can.
But it's not enough, obviously.
And they won't listen.
At some point...
At some point when you go over the cliff, you're in free fall.
There's not really any way.
There's no Superman coming to stop you from hitting the bottom.
In your opinion, having a decade on me, is there anything like this that has happened in the past with any group that felt so marginalized that they were prepping and fleeing for fear of their government?
The regular preppers?
Well, yeah.
They've been around forever, so this is just an offshoot.
I don't see the difference, really.
So I'm going to start with this clip.
This is Brooks.
Because Brooks and Capehart were on, yakking about everything.
And so I just took this little snippet from Brooks, and then I have to...
The guy, I feel bad about him.
He's delusional.
And this little lecture he gives here is...
I'm just about a guy missing the point, I guess.
I'm not sure how you can come to this conclusion, but here we go.
What I object to is Donald Trump was elected mostly by working-class people who have real problems.
They have health disparities with the rest of us.
They have educational disparities.
They have workplace.
They live in communities where social capital is low.
Does Brooks have a TikTok account?
Is that where he's doing this?
This is not on PBS. Yes, this is on PBS. Is he on Zoom?
What is this?
No, it's just the way it sounds.
No, he's a remote on this one.
Oh, yeah, he's remote.
Okay.
Donald Trump was elected by those people.
You'd think he'd care enough about them to do something on behalf of the people who elected them.
Instead, he's going after, you know, USAID. He's going after any place he thinks there might be liberal people with college degrees.
And so what we're seeing is not populism.
What we're seeing is a sort of Ivy League right-wing nihilism.
And to me that is so disorienting and so shocking and so appalling that you can't even serve the legitimate needs of the people who put you in power.
They're totally off the board this last month.
We need something to happen.
We need some kind of win that, you know, like stopping a war or something that can just put everybody on a different track.
I don't know if I can handle another four more years of this.
Well, the thing that bothers me is that he doesn't understand that what Doge is doing is exactly what his voters wanted.
Yes.
And showing the corruption and waste of their taxpayer money is exactly helping them.
I don't know what he's talking about.
I do have two more clips.
I want to play the Doge report.
There's a woman who comes on every day on Twitter, and this is often...
Released by Musk, who does the Doge Report, and here's the one she just did on the healthcare industry, which is worth listening to, because I may be bringing these in more often, then I have the bonus clip I want to play.
The Doge Report, healthcare edition.
So, just found that the U.S. healthcare corporation spent 95% of their income to shareholder payouts.
Yeah.
Not on more research.
Not on staffing issues, not on infrastructure, but shareholder payouts.
That totaled about $2.6 trillion over the last 20 years.
Fun fact, the U.S. taxpayers pay about 70% of those fees.
Also just breaking, if that wasn't enough to make you too fit to be tied.
2.7 trillion, again, 2.7 trillion dollars has been improperly paid out in Medicare and Medicaid to people outside of our country.
I hope you heard me.
I didn't say million.
I didn't say billion.
I said 2.7 trillion.
Dollars of taxpayer money has been improperly paid in Medicare and Medicaid to people outside of the United States.
Thank God for Doge, for exposing this, for showing you how they are robbing us blind, like wasting our money and lining their pockets.
More to come.
I'm going to tag on to this, and yes, I'd like you to keep on.
I saw that, but I think it's your beat now.
Keep tabs on her reports.
Breaking.
She should do a little better job.
Breaking!
Just breaking right now!
She's just a kind of an amateur doing good work.
But when it comes to the voter base who wanted all this and the medical industrial complex, for lack of a better term, RFK Jr.'s acceptance speech when he was sworn in with the president there Addressed exactly this.
President Trump has promised to restore the American dream in this country.
A healthy person has a thousand dreams.
A sick person only has one.
60% of our population has only one dream.
That they get better.
President Trump has promised that he's going to restore America's strength.
But we can't be a strong nation if we have a weak citizenry.
If people are sick.
60% of our people, 77%, as President Trump mentioned, of our children cannot qualify for military service.
And we need a man on a white horse now.
We need somebody who is willing to come in and has the spine and the guts and the strength to challenge orthodoxies, to stand in the way of vested interests.
And to break institutions that have turned against our democracy, President Trump has shown again and again that he is that hero.
Yeah.
Sucking up a little bit, but I love the basic premise.
Healthy people have a thousand dreams.
Sick people have one.
That's so right.
It's spot on.
Before we get to the last clip, which is the one that's a bonus clip.
I have a RFK clip, too, which is this is one of these clips where it's like, you know, I'd like to see this.
If he can do it, this was on one of the Turning Point meetings.
My initial inclination would be to use the Justice Department and the moral authority of the office, but also, you know, the Justice Department should immediately...
We'll begin an investigation of the medical boards and the collusion between the pharmaceutical industry and the medical boards that are delicensing these physicians who actually try to heal patients and try to treat them.
The Justice Department will also call in the medical journals.
That are corrupted by the pharmaceutical industry and explain to them that they're all going to be subject to criminal and civil RICO actions.
If they don't show us a way that they're going to stop revoking studies and refusing to publish studies that challenge the mercantile interests of pharmaceutical companies.
We're going to change the way business is done at NIH. This is new.
Now he's like, I'm going to leave them an out if they show that they can change their ways.
Yes, but this is going to be rough because they're going to push back on this.
So here's the bonus clip.
This was sent by our Grand Duke out of San Jose into me this morning, and so I thought it would be good because it talks about kind of the...
The underpinnings of Doge is quite interesting.
Of course I have, yes.
Democrats are doing everything they can to challenge Doge, and they're trying to take it out.
But here's why it's going to be nearly impossible for them.
In 2014, Obama created the United States Digital Service.
It was a government IT task force meant to fix the Obamacare disaster website.
It had full access to federal systems, but nobody paid much attention to it.
Now fast forward to 2025. Trump rebrands it as the United States Doge Service.
Same acronym, same funding, but a completely different mission.
Find the receipts.
Legally, Doge is untouchable.
Trump invoked five U.S. Code 3161, which lets him create temporary hiring authorities.
Now, Doge teams are inside every federal agency.
Each team has a lawyer, an HR rep, a young tech genius, an investigator, and they all report to Doge, not the agency they are embedded in.
Then...
Trump invoked 44 U.S. Code, Chapter 35, a law governing federal IT oversight.
Since USDS was already an IT oversight body, Doge now has access to every federal database.
You can't defund it because it's not a new program.
It's just a rebrand.
You can't sue for overreach because Trump used existing laws.
And if any agency fails, To comply, they are violating presidential authority.
Oh, and guess what?
Elon Musk was given security authorizations and top-secret classified access.
He now has oversight of every major federal system.
So Democrats, the deep state, they can't shut it down without rewriting multiple federal laws.
Man, that last...
First of all, yes.
And there's even all this video of President Obama and then Vice President...
Biden, you know, boasting about this.
Boasting about how great this was going to be and we're going to take care of it and we're going to solve everything.
But it's that last bit that has people so spun up.
You know who was out there hammering on me?
Amazing Polly.
What did Amazing Polly have to say?
Well, so, this is what I... I knew this already, but this time was different.
When you go on Rogan, you're not on Rogan and you're not done when you walk out the studio.
No, no.
That's when it all starts.
Then people make clips.
Walk out the studio.
Yeah, people make clips.
And just, there's a lot of stuff going on.
And there's a lot, you know, just because of the things I discussed, there were a lot of big...
Accounts that tweeted these clips.
So Bill Ackman, he was tweeting about...
Because I basically laid out the stablecoin system.
I talked about...
What's his face?
James O'Keefe.
So O'Keefe tweets out a piece.
So we got a lot of leverage out of it.
But...
When someone sends me a note, an email about the Rogan show...
I know immediately if they listened to it or if they watched it.
The people who watched it, people have lost the ability to listen.
Yeah, well, we've proven that on this show.
When we take our clips and the two of us, both of us, do the same thing.
We hear stuff that we wouldn't have heard if we watched.
It just gets so incredibly bad when it's video.
And particularly, you know, a clip might not have a little bit of, this is the thing I've trained myself in, you know, you have to go and find the original and listen to the context of the clip.
And so, Rogan says, what do you think are shit coins?
I'm like, there's only one, it's Bitcoin.
And that's it.
And everything else is no good.
And I said, you know, Bitcoin, there's a whole bunch of benefits to it, but I said, the way it seems to be going, and then I went into my whole spiel about, Stablecoin, how it's being put on top of treasuries.
And so my basic premise was, no, I'm good with Bitcoin, but amazing poly...
Oh, and I also said...
I said the same thing I said on this show.
A lot of people are pretty spun up thinking the PayPal mafia, they're going to encapsulate us in this control grid and we're all going to be forced cancer mRNA shots.
And I said, Joe, these people have been on your show.
They seem pretty nice, but a lot of people don't trust them.
And so what I actually was saying was the opposite of what amazing poly...
Oh, yeah, you're over these guys.
Oh, yeah, they were on his show, so they must be good.
And I'm like, did you actually listen to what I said?
No, these people have lost the ability.
And this is why we are the best podcast in the universe is because we don't have video.
You kind of have to listen to the show, and no one shares audio clips.
Let's be honest about it.
No, they don't.
No, why are you going to share it?
You can see a waveform bouncing around.
No, that's what people want on their TikTok and on YouTube and on Twitter and everywhere.
I've got to share a video, got to share a video.
Unless the video has big captions right on top of the video, then people kind of understand what you're saying.
But at that point, why are you even watching the video?
You're reading the text.
Yeah, you are.
So, I don't know.
So you've got grief.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, there's a lot of people who like the thing.
But, you know, you can tell the people who listen to it.
But it was just surprising to me that people who...
We respect Amazing Polly.
No.
Yeah, I've always thought she did good work.
No, no, no.
All I did was lay out what is happening and what the strategy is with the U.S. dollar.
And now, all of a sudden, I'm pro-control grid, so your money is controlled.
No, I actually said...
And I said, you can send a billion dollars on Bitcoin to someone else in the world in 10 minutes.
Nobody can stop it.
And then her response to that is, oh yeah, I'm for the little man.
You're only for the billionaires.
I said, it's an example.
You can send $10.
That's crazy.
It's crazy.
People are...
Obviously, she got under your skin with her misinterpretation of what you had to say.
No, I'm just sad.
I'm sad that people are so spun up, they're ready to pounce.
The minute they even hear something that fits with their thinking or bias or whatever you want to call it, they just pounce.
And so we have this just...
It contradicts their thinking.
Yeah.
But the thing is, I wasn't contradicting her thinking.
She didn't even...
No, but it's perceived.
Yeah, perceived.
Well, no, not even perceived.
Just confirming that the minute I bring up what might happen or what a strategy is, then it's like I'm all for it.
I'm just saying that people are losing their minds.
They're losing their minds.
This is news to you.
There's gambling going on.
Well, I didn't expect people like Amazing Polly to lose their mind.
Or other people who hear something we say like...
You know, that guy's been anti-war and Austrian economics has said, that's what we are.
We're anti-war.
You couldn't be more pro-Austrian economics if you're pro-Bitcoin, to be honest about it.
But the whole world has gone crazy.
It's a little tiring.
It's a little tired.
It's gone nuts!
It's gone nuts!
It's exactly what's happening.
They're going nuts.
And so people who listen to the show take their time, listen while you're washing the dishes, walking the dog, driving in your car, which I think is going to increase now that everybody has to go back to work and you don't have time to be watching videos all day long.
Crowded highways.
This is why the No Agenda show is good for you because it calms you down.
Because you get a little bit of insight into what is actually being said and not all this breaking, breaking, breaking!
Oh my god, you're on fire!
Alert.
Alert.
And with that, I want to thank you for your courage.
Say in the morning to you, the man who put the C in the quid pro cuomo.
Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one, the only, Mr. John C! Let's see.
Did I even get a count?
I don't think I got a count.
Is it broken?
I don't think it worked.
Let me try again.
Let me see.
There we go.
Oh, wow.
2607. Oh, wow.
2607. Good.
Yeah, that's good.
That's very good, actually.
Isn't that very good?
Well, 24 is normal.
Okay, so it's above average.
It's good.
It's above average, everybody.
It's very good.
We had, at one time, some time back, we had 4,000.
Yeah, well, this is an odd weekend.
It's funny.
It's a holiday.
You and I don't even think about it anymore.
I mean, I didn't know it was...
I have to be reminded.
I mean, I didn't even know it was President's Day weekend until we had some friends come over.
Last night, we went out to dinner.
And like, what is it?
It's busy in town.
What is this craziness?
There's people parked everywhere.
And I'd just seen the newsletter.
I'm like, oh, it's President's Day weekend.
And it's kind of Valentine's Day weekend.
And for us, it's just normal.
I'm prepping up until 5 o'clock because we're going out to dinner.
It's like normal business for us.
And I would like to say regarding the newsletter, alert, alert, alert, breaking, breaking.
For those of you who use Apple iPhones, iOS, they've redone their Apple Mail client.
You wouldn't know about this.
I wouldn't know about it, but I learned it from Tina.
Very similar to Gmail now, they automatically separate your email into promotions.
Wow.
So they've got four tabs at the top.
So if you haven't seen your newsletter, it may be in a different tab now.
And I don't know...
I should also mention, as you brought that Apple up, Apple Pay works with Stripe.
Oh, really?
Google Wallet works with Stripe.
Oh, really?
And so does Bitcoin.
Bitcoin works with Stripe?
If you look at this, go to the page, noagendedonations.com, and that takes you to the Stripe page, and you'll see the little Bitcoin marker there.
I haven't seen anyone get anything through using it, but people keep complaining about, oh, you should do this, you should do that, you should do this, you should do that, so we do it, and nothing happens.
I'm looking for the little Bitcoin.
I don't see the Bitcoin thing.
There's no Bitcoin thing there.
There's no Bitcoin thing.
I see an Amex.
Do I have to click on Donate?
Would that be it?
Let me click on Donate.
I'm clicking on Donuts.
I'm clicking on Donuts.
Crypto!
You can donate crypto!
Yeah, you have to click on donate to get anything.
And then you can click on crypto.
I'll test it.
And if you were doing this on an iPhone, a little Apple iPhone, iPay thing would crop up.
It probably didn't because you were on your computer.
Yes, of course.
Same with the Google Wallet.
Oh, sexy.
So now it's even easier to support your No Agenda show.
Is that what you're saying?
Well, it's technically easier, but it's going to be harder for the penny pinchers out there that like to listen and won't support the show.
Talk a big game.
You're never going to support the show.
Talk a big game.
Oh, you know, I'd do it if you did this.
But I was about to donate, but then you said you played a Jared Kushner clip, so you're clearly a boomer Zionist piece of crap.
I can't donate now.
I don't always agree with you.
It's alright.
This is the beauty of our show.
The beauty of our show is you don't have to.
It's called the value for value model.
And if you get value out of the show, you send it back somehow.
If you don't, then you're a douchebag.
We try to make it easy.
We try to make it very easy.
You can do that all kinds of different ways.
You can support us with time and your talent, which the artists always do.
For the last show, episode 1737, appropriately titled Swastikars, which we thought was kind of a genius title, we got art from Pickle Surprise, and Pickle Surprise won the Valentine's Day art, which, now, we almost didn't pick Valentine's Day art because John has no love in his life at all, apparently, and was like, oh, no, I don't know if we should pick Valentine's Day art.
Why are we supporting that commercial crap?
That's what I said.
Why are we supporting this commercial crap?
We normally support national holidays.
I do say that's true.
But there was nothing better than this piece.
I mean, the piece wasn't as elaborate as some of the other Valentine's Day pieces, which were really kind of busy but interesting.
With the simplicity and the piece itself, it was well done.
Now, I have to say, I used a piece.
Did you use the brown cheese?
We both considered using the brown cheese heart, which, by the way, turns out brown cheese comes from Norway, not from Denmark.
Sorry for misgendering your cheese, everybody.
I used the Like a Wrecking Ball piece by Douglas McCartsey.
Mick Artsy.
Yeah, with the Doge Dog on it.
The Doge Dog.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I just thought that was dynamite.
Now, do you know what this wrecking ball refers to?
Yeah.
Yeah?
All the commentary that doges the wrecking ball.
No, no.
This particular sitting on the wrecking ball like that refers to Miley Cyrus.
Miley Cyrus, right.
She was naked on the ball.
Oh, yeah.
I'm glad you remembered.
Okay.
Yeah, we all remember that.
Yes.
There were a couple other ones.
Let's see.
You did...
Now, I like the straws, kind of.
I kind of like the straws, although it was a little thing.
Yeah, I didn't like that one at all.
No, I liked the...
Because it didn't look like straws.
It just looked like something.
I don't know what it looked like.
Yeah, you didn't like it.
We all loved your dream girl.
That was a funny one from Darren, which, of course, is your dream girl.
That's all you watch all day long is people like that.
And, by the way, you can follow along on all of the art at NoAgendaArtGenerator.com.
You can contribute.
You can be a part of the art contest, which is not just a contest.
Everyone loves looking at different pieces of art.
By the way, some of these wind up at NoAgendaShop.com on T-shirts, hoodies, koozies, hats, you name it.
You can even suggest something to them.
Cups.
Cups.
You can suggest it to them.
And the artists actually get a piece of the action there.
We have no deal with NoAgendaShop.com.
They just donate from time to time when they feel like it's appropriate.
Do you like the more traditional, which was it?
One of the traditional ones you like?
I think I like Cupid's Arrow by Pickle Surprise.
Yes, yes, you did like Cupid's Arrow, Pickle Surprise.
And some came in late, I think.
Some came in.
I didn't see the heart with the straw in it.
That came late.
Blue acorn.
And the Microsoft party.
No one will understand that.
But that was everyone's favorite bit of the last show, the Microsoft party.
They really loved your story.
Yeah, well...
It's a good story.
It was a good story.
Somebody sent a nasty note and saying, yeah, this isn't the party.
You're full of crap.
This is the party.
And then he sent me a link to some party some software company's doing with Balmer as the keynoter.
I'm thinking, this guy's nuts.
Gotta love it.
So thank you very much.
All artists, we appreciate what you do in our value-for-value model.
And as always, we want to thank everybody who supported us with Treasure.
It is a key part of the value we need to keep this show going for another three years and ten months.
Or somebody said 40 more years.
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We'll mention everybody and the amount that they supported us with, $50 and above.
But we'd like to make a special segment here and hand out executive and associate executive producer credits, just like Hollywood, where that's all we can really do, Hollywood style.
But they are recognized by Hollywood.
In fact, Hollywood heavyweights like Dana Brunetti, famous from Fifty Shades.
I mean, he's produced for this show.
He's an associate executive producer, and he has created a segment, and he gets credits for that.
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We start off with Topeka.
From Kansas, which sounds kind of okay.
So it might be living in Topeka, Kansas.
Or is it...
I got the wrong thing.
Here is Rob.
Yeah, move over a cell.
I'm sorry.
One cell over, you'll be good to go.
That's odd.
Robin Tolbert in Topeka, Kansas.
I'm like, why would you call yourself Topeka if you're in Kansas?
Here it is, Robin says.
I started listening in June 2023 and donating by November 2023 because the worker is worth his wages.
And you two are absolutely worth the value.
This is what I'm talking about.
I was within $50 of making Damehood and looking for an appropriate number donation.
This is 51538. I should have mentioned that.
51538. Then I read about the Commodore Special, which I think this is the last week for the Commodore Special, no?
I'm going to extend it.
You're a pushover.
Until people give up on it.
You're a pushover.
I couldn't manage it last time, but I'm flush with cash at the moment, so I asked to be named Commodore R.C. Tolbert.
God's blessings on you and Gitmo Nation.
Thank you, Robin.
We appreciate that.
So Jay calls me.
Yeah.
Hey, what is this?
Why are these people asking for Commodore ships?
I said, we reintroduced it like two newsletters ago.
Does she not read the newsletter?
I called her out on it.
She didn't read the newsletter.
She's not listening to the show.
So we can say anything we want about her now.
Oh, really?
And she probably doesn't even show up because you know she's an iPhone user.
She wouldn't be caught dead with a green bubble.
No, she's not an iPhone user.
Really?
Respect.
But Brennan, I think, is.
Her husband.
Well, that's disappointing.
Very disappointed.
Mimi at least listens live sometimes.
Well, it's live.
Unfortunately, she only listens live.
No.
Too much work!
Sir Don, by the way, is in Owensboro, Kentucky.
He's up next with 5-15-38.
Sir Don of the Scandinavian Nancy Nichols, Happy Valentine's Day, Commodore Donald Bartholomew, Adam, reach out to Liberty Tree Podcast.
I'm sorry I read it that way, but that's...
No, that's what it says.
What it says.
They would benefit from your value-for-value guidance.
The Liberty Tree podcast could benefit from the value-for-value guidance.
That would be...
It means they need a lecture.
No jingles, no karma.
NSDQ. Blue skies.
It's interesting.
By 1538. I have no idea.
You got a Commodore ship, and I don't know what else.
It's very interesting.
People will actually email me or CC me on email to a podcaster and say, you know, I'm introducing you to Adam Curry.
He has great sound.
I'm sure he'll help you out.
Yeah.
I'm like, no.
I'm like, okay.
Paul Fellner is in Mitchell, South Dakota, 51538. That is another Commodore ship.
I see no note for Paul.
Is there any note for Paul?
I don't have a note from him either.
I don't know what...
He's going to have to come in late.
Well, I'm going to give him a double-up karma then, just for good measure.
You've got...
Double-up!
Karma.
I like the fact that everyone who took the Commodore ship, and there's three of them today, we'll put an announcement together for all of them later.
Not in today's show, necessarily.
But they all...
Coughed in the extra money for the cover of the fees.
That's beautiful.
Because it's $500, right?
They put in the $15.
Yeah, it's $500 for the comedy.
Much appreciated, people.
Much appreciated.
Ronnie Ross in Burns, Tennessee.
ITM gents, my buddy Martin Carter hit me in the mouth on November 2018 and he's never donated.
Please call him out as a douchebag.
Douchebag!
I've only recently donated $20 in the past and need a de-douching.
You've been de-douched.
And I will mention he came in with $420, so that's a big de-douching for him.
After this Dave Smith nonsense and another phenomenal appearance on Rogan, I felt compelled to donate.
This is a Rogan donation.
Is it a Rogan donation or a Scott Horton donation?
I think it's a toss-up.
Oh, because Dave Smith was the one that was...
Yeah, who was angry at me about what you said.
Oh, that's interesting.
So it's a combo.
It's a combo dough.
It's a combo dough.
Combo dough.
Combo dough.
Adam, I know you quit smoking, but I also know...
That the bong rip is a recorded short jingle.
And I've noticed it's been two years and counting since any producers have asked for the bong rip.
Do any producers smoke anymore?
So if you please, hit the bong for me.
And if any producers are in the Nashville, Middle Tennessee area, feel free to reach out to me for all your custom carpentry.
Oh, a carpenter.
Yeah.
And he says at, I'm going to read it, 615-593-6132.
This is Ronnie Ross, the carpenter.
Yeah!
A long overdue bong rip.
Yeah, man!
Drew Kester.
I'm going to say Kester, but in Holland we'd say Kuster, so I'm not sure.
He's from Helena, Montana, so Kester probably.
Hey, in the morning, gents!
Scott Horton donation here!
John, this is the best promotion we've ever done.
This is $350.58.
I had no idea who Scott Horton even was.
You know, when people told me, I remember, because he actually was on the No Agenda stream a decade ago.
So...
Oh, really?
Yeah, he's been around for a long time.
But you caught me off guard after two and a half hours of the podcast and there's someone raving and ranting about Trump being the gimp for Netanyahu.
And then, of course, I said, throw that in the bin with the view, which doesn't mean I equate anyone to the view, but that clip certainly was.
Anyway, Scott Horton donation.
More of this, please.
I normally give $5 a month sustaining donation, which is a pathetically small amount, but I figure, hey, if everyone did that, we could listen to the show coming to us live from Adam's yacht and John's lavish underground bunker.
Oh, yeah, that'll be the day.
First heard of you guys during a COVID anti-mask rally, some guy grabbed the microphone and yelled out...
Is this really true?
This is amazing.
And yelled out, Everyone should listen to the No Agenda Show!
Man, I wish I had a clip of that.
I wish we had that guy.
This donation comes with a bulletin to all my fellow liberty-loving Montanans.
Please support House Bill 404, the Defund the Guard Act.
We will be testifying for it at the Capitol on the 26th of this month.
So let's meet up there and stand against the Pentagon corruption and call your representatives.
Please put this donation, oh, this is plus fees, 333, towards my husband, James, Path to Knighthood.
You keep track of that, and when you're ready, we'll credit him, of course.
Love what you do.
Thanks, Drew Kester.
All right, beautiful.
Thank you so much.
Herbadood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 333.33, and he asked for a de-douching.
You've been de-douched.
To the audience out there, get yourself a de-douching while they last.
Upgrade to a producer, douchebag.
They're running out.
They're running out.
P.S. Last update to the2030club.com was over a decade ago.
What gives?
Episode 583 NA583 Super 2030. Secure your membership for $34.41 a month for a knighthood for $16.95 a month by 2030. Dvorak.org slash NA, which is probably the jingle he wants to play.
But yes, there's an old...
He found an old...
This is so archaic.
It's amazing.
An old website that we went back and forth on email about this and it's still up.
And Adam...
I guess posted it originally, and it's sitting on an AWS bucket somewhere, and it's still working.
It's actually got some information on there that's kind of interesting, and it's not 2030 yet, so I don't know.
The2030club.com.
That's right.
Thanks, Herbert.
It's old.
It's old, yes.
Sir Walkman, dude!
Playdivore.org slash NA. Oh, hold on a second.
Which still does not forward to noagendedonations.com, but I'm reliably informed today is the day.
Any minute.
Any minute now.
All I have to do is hit the button.
Yeah, that's all it'll take, and you'll automatically get a microphone.
ITM. Yesterday was Dame Toontz's The Data Queen and I's 33rd anniversary, and they never had a fight.
Obviously.
I cried.
What?
Cried donation.
So here you go.
What do you think he's trying to say?
Obviously, comma, cried?
Obviously, cried donation.
So here you go.
Obviously, somebody gave a donation.
I don't know.
To my data queen, I love you, babe.
Annoying each other for 33 years and still going.
Jingles.
Whole load and dumps.
I'm going to give you the whole load today.
They did dumps.
They call them dumps.
Big, massive dumps.
Because nothing says I love you like a whole load of big, massive dumps.
How beautiful!
Ah, you people are so romantic.
Bob D. Maple in Golden, Colorado.
333.33.
ITM, not the Kamala biscuit on my birthday.
The not Kamala.
I'm sorry.
The not Kamala biscuit on my birthday sound is actually from an old web series called Ask a Slave.
I told you.
Told you it was a camera.
On YouTube, specifically episode 3. Now you know.
Can I get a Trump, I'm gonna come, followed by Due to Climate Change?
Please?
P.S. Birds aren't real.
I'm gonna come.
Due to Climate Change.
You guys are so odd.
Yeah, these guys are out of control.
We are at Bazille Weijters in Doordrecht, the Netherlands.
Thor Drecht.
Thor 333.33 ITM. John and Adam de-douching in place, please.
Long overdue.
You've been de-douched.
Thank you for all you have done.
Keeping our amygdalas in check.
No jingles, no karma.
From Bazil Veiters.
From Seifenbergen in the Netherlands.
Thank you, Bazil.
A semi-anonymous vegan in Mill Park, Victoria, Australia.
To the best podcast in the universe.
That's awesome.
Short-time listener started during the Woofuloo.
First-time donor in need a dedouching.
You've been dedouched.
I thought I'd take advantage of the Commodore campaign and send through my $500 Australian, which is valid.
It's valid, so at 314, it will become a Commodore at $314 in Australian dollar-redues.
Thank you, Adam, for the hyperlocal podcast primer.
I've put that information to good use.
Keep up the good work, and here's to four more years.
The semi-autonomous, I'm sorry, semi-anonymous, vegan, vegan, vegan, vegan, VK3ITM. Lindsey Christensen is in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
$300.
Thank you very much, Lindsey.
He says, thank you both for all you do.
I'm a male.
My name is Lindsey.
Well, thank you.
Lindsey Graham.
Male's name.
It's one of those names like Pat.
Yes.
Sir Ross the Boss in Kennewick, Washington, 250.
He's the first associate executive producer, and he writes, please put a Ty Rebish on the birthday list.
He turned 22 on February 15th.
I hit Ty in the mouth a few years ago, and he's been a dedicated listener ever since.
That's good.
A happy birthday, Ty, from Sir Ross the Boss of Broken Ladder Ranch.
Very nice.
And since there was no location here, but he says, as I live in Abu Dhabi, I would like to be dubbed Sheikh Craigie Bin James Al Cortese and would like some Lugumat or Lugumat?
Lugumat.
Lugumat?
It's a donut hole covered in date syrup, so...
Oh, God!
Lugumat.
Do you think I pronounce it?
Lugumat or Lugumat?
I have no idea.
I'll say Lugumat.
I think lugamat would be the way I'd pronounce it if I was taking a shot at it.
He wants some lugamat and camel milk at the banquet table.
This is something I, this delicacy I have not tried myself yet, camel milk.
Neither one sounds that appetizing.
Many thanks to my shaker, Laura, who donated most of the money.
She's worth at least 200 camels!
I'll bet you that camel milk yogurt is good.
And thanks...
You know what?
I'll take that bet.
Could somebody please send some camel milk yogurt to John?
I will bet you.
Thanks to you guys for keeping us all sane.
I stopped listening to podcasts at 1.5 speed thanks to Adam.
Well, there you go.
That's why you are indeed very sane.
Mike Janssen's in Brussels, Belgium.
It says Brussels.
Is that the way it comes over there?
You say Brussels.
Brussels.
I say Brussels.
Bruges.
At 22087. She doesn't listen to the show, but now I feel obliged.
Te va giobene.
Chiara.
It's also my birthday, by the way.
You're on the list.
Love from Brussels.
Yes.
All right, Mike.
Frank Gravato is in Kenilworth, New Jersey, 216-17.
Adam and John, thanks for keeping us informed.
Adam, great job on Rogan.
Rogan donation.
Wishing my son James a happy birthday.
Could we get lots of karma and a birthday biscuit?
Well, yes, you can get both.
Not a problem.
And let me see.
John, did you ever find the driver defense guy from Oakland?
The driver defense guy from Oakland.
Wow.
No?
I have a pretty good memory, but I have no idea what he's talking about.
They always give me a biscuit on my birthday.
You've got karma.
Frank, send me a note, Frank.
Eli the Coffee Guy's up.
He's in Bensonville, Illinois.
Adam is...
Jacked up on coffee as we speak, 202.16.
Adam, you were obviously right during your interview on Rogan.
America needs a return to the principles set forth in the monument to the forefathers.
Faith, morality, law, education, and liberty.
If the revelations of Doge prove anything, it's that our government has strayed far from the founding ideals, regardless of the new season of the America.
The TV show is entertaining thanks to Trump and Elon.
Jingles.
Obama.
Yo, Elon.
Trump.
Wait, wait, wait.
Jingles.
Obama.
Yo, Elon.
No, no.
He's confused.
He means Neil deGrasse Tyson saying, oh, Elon.
That's what he's talking about.
Yes, that's what he means.
There is no Obama.
I'm not sure of it.
Eating the dogs.
You got eating the dogs.
Don't be a dick.
We don't have that.
It's not a jingle.
Yeah, we do.
We do.
We do, actually.
We do.
We do now.
We do now.
Producers in need of delicious, fresh, roasted coffee, visit gigawattcoffeeroasters.com and use the code ITM for 20% off your first order.
Stay caffeinated, says Eli the Coffee Guy.
You keep doing it.
It's ITM 20. What did I do?
You keep saying ITM for 20% off your first order.
It's ITM 20. Huh.
Yeah, I don't know why.
I have a block.
You do, you have a block.
They're eating the dogs.
Don't be a dick.
Yeah, there you go.
That's going to be a favorite.
That's going to be a favorite now.
Incognito, Plymouth, Michigan.
200. Adam, head over to my blog.
Link below.
Oh, I know who this is.
It's Incognito.
He is from anilria.com.
Enilria.com.
It's airline backwards.
I posted about rumors of a Southwest Airlines and JetBlue tie-up.
I don't think it's a merger, as too many people are whispering.
Probably interline, as in joint boarding passes and bag transfer, or code share if Southwest IT can get their heads out of 1979. Of course, it could all collapse if Southwest IT says, no, they can't do any of it.
It also requires Southwest pilot approval, which is a maybe.
We have a lot of Southwest pilots.
Give us the dirt, boys.
And girls.
Southwest barely exists north of Baltimore, and that's where JetBlue is big.
There's talk Trump will be laissez-faire on airline mergers, but there were none on his prior watch.
I donated $200 this week.
Just mention Enelria.
It's so difficult.
It's airline backwards.
Enelria.com.
But my blog is freemium.
Freemium.
He's got a freemium blog.
And Patreon just allowed comping.
So tell me if you want a comp account.
Yes, I actually clicked the link.
I got a comp account, and I appreciate it.
I get about an email every five minutes from your blog.
So you're about to get your own email box, just so I can...
Look at it later.
Thank you very much, brother.
He's actually given us a lot of good airline dirt in the past.
He's a very good resource and decided to add some treasure to his time and talent this time around.
So we wrap it up with Linda Lupetkin, our buddy in Lakewood, Colorado, who writes jobs karma she wants, and says for a winning resume and faster job search, go to ImageMakersInc.com.
That's ImageMakersInc with a K. And work with Linda Liu, Duchess of Jobs and writer of resumes, your go-to for all your executive resume and job search needs.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
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Shut up, slave.
Hey, did you hear about the new...
Non-addictive painkiller the FDA approved right before RFK Jr. came in?
No, but I'm sure it's addictive.
It's funny you say that.
Dronevix was just approved by the FDA. It's an alternative to opioids because makers say it's not addictive.
Family doctor Nita Bajor is joining us now.
She's from Oakview Medical Association.
I just want to mention this doctor is decked out, brand new lab coat, fresh out of the PR wardrobe closet.
She's got her stethoscope on, which is all, it's bejeweled, what do you call it, bedazzled.
She's got a name tag.
She's got stuff almost like medals.
She's just completely decked out.
Associates here in Greenville.
Thanks for joining us today.
Thank you for having me.
By the way, wasn't it Greenville?
Didn't we hear from someone that Greenville is where they test all these new food and new medications?
Remember that?
There are places around the country where that is true.
I think it was Greenville, yeah.
Dora is joining us now.
She's from Oakview Medical Associates here in Greenville.
Thanks for joining us today.
Thank you for having me.
How does it work?
So it's brand new.
It inhibits the receptor.
There's a specific receptor in the pain pathway that it inhibits and thereby lowers the pain signal for the patient.
So it's used mainly for acute pain.
Would you say it's just as effective as an ibuprofen, or how does it compare to other pain medications?
I think in the studies, they compared it to placebo and hydrocodone acetaminophen, which is kind of one of the traditional pain medications.
And they found that it was more efficacious and pretty good in relieving acute pain.
More efficacious than placebo.
Okay, so it works.
I mean, I think that's what people really want to know.
It works!
That's what people really want to hear.
It works!
It works!
Acute pain.
Okay, so it works.
I mean, I think that's what people really want to know.
Are there any side effects we need to know about it?
As with others, I mean, I think the concern is because it's not an opioid, is it going to also cause addictive or dependence potential?
And that, let's see, as the clinicians start using it more and more, we need real-life data to help us with that.
But it's supposed to be pretty well tolerated.
We'll just see how it pans out.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
The FDA has approved this.
How many people did you test?
Yeah, I think I read it up on the studies and it said it was tested on a couple hundred people.
What?
But again, you really need it to be given to millions of people.
Oh yeah, just give it to everybody.
We'll find out later.
Yeah, lab rats.
That's what you are, people.
Lab rats.
Be what any side effects could be.
That's right.
Because, you know, we have patients with many multiple chronic conditions and so...
When we introduce a medication, we're always monitoring and educating our patients.
So safety comes first.
Safety comes first by testing it on you.
Safety comes first.
All right.
Well, we look forward to seeing how effective it is and having another option besides opioids.
Absolutely.
I think hopefully we're excited about it.
Thank you, Dr. Bajor.
We're excited about it.
RFK Jr., stop this immediately.
That is not okay.
That is not okay.
I have a couple of Truthwanna wants to come out.
Very short clips.
We start with the mayor of Philadelphia, you'll recall.
She is well known for her...
Yeah, she's just...
Yeah, she can't...
Talk.
She can't catch a break.
Reminded us all through their excellence that...
Nothing is possible when we work together as a team.
Nothing is possible when we work together.
Nothing is possible.
And then we have Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley.
We are all willing to work with anyone who's serious about doing the work of censoring the American people and advancing progress.
Okay.
Censoring the American people.
And advancing progress.
Yeah, that makes sense.
It's amazing.
These people just say what they really mean.
What did she even intend to say?
What word did she mean instead of censoring it?
Yeah, you know, I heard that clip's a week old, and I almost had it for the show, and I was trying to decode it, too, and I couldn't come up with anything.
I have no idea what she might have been thinking.
Censoring the American people.
I can't.
I don't know.
Same reaction you have.
Somebody in the troll room should know.
It just takes a breakthrough in thinking to get them what she's trying to say.
They just say she's an NPC. They've got no other explanation for it.
She wasn't supposed to speak.
It could be.
She wasn't supposed to speak.
New details on the unfortunate crash between the Black Hawk helicopter and the regional jet.
Although this report kind of made me mad the way they characterized it.
And I also don't know if this is actually what happened or this is the full reason for it.
But there are two reasons that we're hearing now.
One is...
I didn't want to get any of this, but since you brought it up, After you play the clip, I do have a question, just kind of a rhetorical question.
Okay, all right, good.
You can ask the questions, and the pilot will answer.
This particular flight was a checkride for the pilot flying the Blackhawk.
Generally, a checkride is a practical exam that a pilot must pass to be qualified to perform specific aircrew or mission duties.
The Army does three types of check rides.
By the way, you'll hear the term CVR, that is cockpit voice recorder.
Instrument, annual, and night vision goggles.
The helicopter crew was likely wearing night vision goggles throughout the flight.
The NTSB says the helicopter pilots had an altitude discrepancy and weren't aware of how high they were.
This video shows the helicopter crashing into the passenger jet around 845, January 29th.
The American Airlines flight from Wichita, Kansas, was cleared for landing after a last-minute but routine runway change.
Audio from air traffic control reveals the military pilot acknowledged he saw the jet approaching the runway.
Today, investigators revealing a potential technical glitch.
17 seconds before impact, a radio transmission from the tower was audible on both CVRs.
Directing the Blackhawk to pass behind the CRJ. The portion of the transmission that stated, pass behind the, may not have been received by the Blackhawk crew.
Transmission was stepped on by a.8 second mickey from the Blackhawk.
And NTSB investigators say the preliminary report could take up to 30 days, but the full report could take up to a year before it's released.
So the only thing, before you ask your question, the only thing that really makes me mad is it was not a glitch.
When you key up the mic, then you don't hear anything but yourself speaking, so they may have keyed up and stepped on the transmission, but that's not a glitch.
That's just unfortunate.
And at.8 seconds, that's like someone just clicked on and then heard, probably heard that there was a message coming in and then let go right away.
The appropriate response would have been, say again.
But that didn't happen.
Your question?
A couple of things.
Why are these communication systems half duplex?
What specific, in this day and age, what specific reason are they half...
Duplex, because if they were a full duplex, it wouldn't matter if we keyed up or not.
Well, it's legacy.
There's also a separate issue.
Distance is another, so I believe the military uses amplitude modulation, and everyone else uses frequency modulation, AM, FM. They also use different bands, which by itself is a problem, because the aircraft don't hear each other.
But they both hear what the tower says because the tower broadcasts on both frequencies.
It's legacy.
It's pure legacy.
And full duplex would require digital, I think.
I don't think you can...
No, it wouldn't.
Well, you'd be sending and receiving.
You'd be sending on one frequency and receiving on the other.
There's offsets.
It's like going to a repeater.
There's lots of ways of doing it.
But it's beside...
But the question is, legacy is not an excuse for this kind of technology.
Are you kidding me?
Hold on a second.
Repeaters aren't...
If you're talking on a repeater, you're not able to have someone else speak at the same time.
Okay, well, let's just ignore what I said there.
The point is that there's no reason in the world you can't have full duplex communication in this day and age.
I think there is.
I don't think it's very...
I can talk on the phone as full duplex.
An old-fashioned telephone with a carbon microphone.
Yeah, well, if you want to have a very long string attached to your aircraft, that would work.
I can do it with a wireless phone.
If I'm on a wireless phone or if I'm on a cell phone, I can hear you talking while I'm talking.
How's that different?
I don't know why you're defending this.
I'm defending it because I don't think it's technically feasible.
When you have a duplex phone call, you have a full-time connection.
So you can't have everybody having a full-time connection.
Technically, I don't think it's that feasible, John.
I really don't.
Well, I'd like to hear from somebody out there as a radio expert.
Even though you're a general, I think it is feasible, and I don't understand why they have this whole idea that the thing clicked on for an eighth of a second.
Well, when did you have a ham radio conversation that was full duplex that wasn't digital?
Never.
I've had plenty of conversations on a telephone.
Yes, but...
I'm not hearing anybody else's phone.
They're all separate.
They're all in separate channels.
They're all using a cell system.
I don't see how this can't be done with airplanes.
That's one call at a time.
You can't have 20 calls open with everybody at the same time.
How many transmitters do you want?
If the tower is transmitting, I think it does go to everybody if they're not keyed up.
Well, you're now the new FAA administrator because you're asking for something which I don't think is technically feasible in the setting of aviation.
I would like to hear from others.
It just doesn't make sense to me that this is the technology that's so old it's ludicrous.
And you yourself defended it as legacy, which indicates it's old.
It's functional.
The legacy part is really the AM versus FM for distance.
Upgrade.
I just don't...
I mean, all right, well, we have plenty of smart people who can tell us how it would be possible.
I don't think it's possible in a multi-station setting.
You can have a full duplex with one person, but you can't have a full duplex with 10 planes.
I just don't see how that...
Then you're all...
No, I don't see that working.
What is your other question?
Well, the other question was, it seems to me that the whole thing is because of the bad altimeter.
Yes.
I don't like to emphasize that.
Who is the manufacturer?
No, no, no.
That's not how it works.
When you are flying in airspace, the tower...
Oh, actually, you can tune to the ATIS, so there's a special frequency, and you can listen to the current weather conditions at the airfield, and they will give you an altitude pressure.
Standard is 29.9, and so if the pressure is higher or lower, then you'll have maybe it'll be 30.1 or 30.2, and that's the only way you can determine your altitude.
From my understanding, they had two different altitude indications, which means they both either didn't listen to the current setting, Or the current broadcast of the current barometric pressure was wrong, but that doesn't make a lot of sense.
It's a big cock-up is what it is.
And here's another one.
Why are we having military training exercises in and around the most busy airport in the world?
Well, that I can't answer.
I don't think it's a good idea either, other than that they were flying a continuity of government mission, Which would require this.
And then there's also the night vision goggles, which I think reduces your field of view from like 75% with your peripheral vision to 40%.
But we may never know.
That's what they said.
We won't know for another year at least.
And then we'll all have forgotten about it, as it usually goes.
And we may never actually get the full details because the military doesn't like to talk about it.
So.
African news.
You got to do this once in a while.
What's African news?
African leaders are meeting in Ethiopia this weekend for their annual summit with conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan topping the agenda.
Heavy fighting continues in both countries.
In the DRC, rebels have seized another strategic city in the east.
Emmanuel Ogunza reports from Nairobi.
African leaders arrived in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have seized Bukavu, the second largest city in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, amid heavy fighting with the Congolese army.
In Sudan, the national army continues to gain ground against the paramilitary rapid support forces, with both sides refusing peace talks.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who is at the African Union summit, has urged leaders to propose solutions to conflicts that have displaced millions.
Several side meetings will discuss U.S. President Trump's freeze on foreign aid, which has severely impacted American-funded programs for health, water, and agriculture across the continent.
For NPR News, I'm Emmanuel Ligunza in Nairobi.
Okay, I have a real problem with NPR. I mean, they have no problem whatsoever using a British guy.
We're talking like this for something that's going on in America about our own news.
But then the minute it's about Africa, they have to bring an African guy in.
Who can you barely understand?
It just isn't compelling to listen to.
It's bad African news.
B-A-N. Bad African news.
That's what it's being called from now on.
I don't understand why they do it.
I just don't understand.
It's so wrong.
It's wrong.
It's very wrong.
I have one more TikTok I can play.
This is a woman who looks like a pig.
She's got the red hair and she's got just...
I hate to be insulting.
A little.
But she does look like a pig.
Sorry.
And she hates mega.
If you're out here celebrating Elon Musk and his supposed finding fraud, which he's not, I better not see you at a national park this summer.
I better not see you at any federal preserve or national monument or national park.
If you wear one of those red hats, get out.
Get out.
You know what?
They say the outdoors are for everyone.
It's not for you, babe.
It's not for you.
If you are a MAGA fan, the outdoors are not for you and national parks are not for you.
Why?
Because they just fired all...
She did it!
Hypophora!
I can't believe you didn't catch it.
It's not for you.
If you are a MAGA fan, the outdoors are not for you and national parks are not for you.
Why?
Because they just fired all probationary workers from the U.S. Forest Service.
Good luck!
Getting any bathrooms cleaned this summer.
Good luck having rangers for programs.
Good luck doing anything for our national parks because you just decided that that was fraud and that wasn't needed even though things like USAID are 1% of the budget because you don't know how to do research and you're so busy sucking up to billionaires.
And watching our federal lands be opened up for oil drilling and for exploration when they should be protected.
You think that they're going to do anything to protect the environment?
They absolutely are not.
Because you are so far up a billionaire that you have no idea what's going on.
So here's the thing.
If I see your camper or your ginormous truck at a campground this summer, at a National Park campground, Bestie, I might be confronting you.
I hope I don't see your red hat anywhere on the trails, because you don't deserve it.
The outdoors aren't for you.
Stay inside.
What is the point of these threats?
What's wrong with these people?
And by the way, what is that called again when you say why?
There's a phrase you use.
Hypophora.
Hypo?
Hypophora with a P-H. Hypophora.
Hypophora.
Why?
Because that's the name.
I think it's a good show title is the reason I asked.
Yeah, it's a very reasonable show title.
Well, just on the Doge front, and I don't know if this is true, we have a lot of producers in the Virginia and Maryland and D.C. area.
I keep seeing these real estate app maps that are being posted with every home is for sale and all these new listings.
Is that true?
Is my question.
Then is that exceptional for all of these homes to be for sale suddenly?
I would like to know.
Are any of you guys selling your home?
That would be another question.
The second thing is, I thought this was quite interesting, I know you saw it as well, about the 150-year-old Social Security recipient.
Which can mean several things.
It could be someone who's receiving on behalf.
And there's a lot of different things that could be.
But I like this one the most.
And I think I got this on X. I'm a coder.
Experienced coders know COBOL. No.
No, no.
Coders with experience in COBOL know COBOL. You're being a little douchey here.
Yeah, you might as well throw Fortran in while you're out.
Yeah, young coders don't.
Okay, young coders.
It's a legacy code.
When the Musk claims Social Security is paying thousands of 150-year-olds, I think someone should let him know that in COBOL, if a date is missing, the program defaults to 1875, which is apparently when these COBOL programmers were born.
So if you have 2025 minus 1875, it's 150. LOL, you idiots.
Interesting.
We have a lot of COBOL people who listen to the show.
I'd love to hear about that.
And, of course, I don't think any Social Security date field should be empty to start with if your birth year is not in there.
That doesn't make sense to me either.
Actually, the Social Security number will trace back to your birth date.
How do you figure that?
Every number is recorded, and to get your Social Security card, you have to put your birth date down, and it's encoded in the number.
Yeah, there's a linkage.
Can you decode your birth date from the Social Security number?
I've always believed you could, but I don't know that you can.
Hmm.
That's interesting.
What's your Social Security number?
Hey, why don't you blow me?
And by the way, this thing about, oh, they got this, oh, and Musk and all that.
I could find your social security number out if I really wanted to.
It's out there.
All right, you find my social security number.
Okay.
I, of course, will confirm it with you if correct.
Okay, I'll dig around.
I mean, you already know where I live.
You got a map, my home with a picture.
And that's all out there thanks to you.
Thanks to you.
I have gotten some nice gifts, I'll admit.
You got some gifts?
Yeah, I didn't get anything.
Sorry I got your home address off the internet, but here's a gift.
So now every package, every box that comes, if it doesn't say Amazon on it, I let Phoebe sniff it first, and then I poke it with a stick.
I'm not going to open anything that you send to me.
I've got to get some kid in the neighborhood to open my packages.
Hey, kid.
Now you're talking.
Give me these five bucks.
This is the funniest Doge thing I've heard of.
It's up in your neck of the woods.
Get a load of this.
San Francisco city officials are confirming three guys claiming to be from the Department of Government Efficiency, or Doge, tried to enter their offices today and get info.
They were dressed in Doge shirts.
We're the red MAGA hats.
According to the sheriff's office, they went into these offices at City Hall around noon today and demanded employees turn over digital information.
The employees refused, called the sheriff's office, but these men left before deputies got there.
The sheriff's office doesn't think these people were actually representatives from Doge.
President Trump created Doge when he took office in January, and he has put Elon Musk in charge of that.
I think it's great.
I like the idea.
That's pretty clever.
Now, in a different report, I heard they had Elon Musk masks on, which would kind of be a giveaway, I think.
I would say.
Even the MAGA hat.
I mean, can we get like a Doge badge?
Maybe that's something.
Is there a Doge badge?
Well, it's not the way they're doing it, but okay.
We're not busting in like that.
They're in there.
They're already working there.
I'm from the Doge.
I'm here to check your records.
I have two clips from NPR that I've been sitting on for a while because I have a complaint.
They must be warm.
This is the polar bear de-icing story that showed up.
First, I heard it on NTD like a month ago, and then it showed up on NPR a couple weeks ago.
Polar bears spend their days jumping from ice into water.
So if they get all wet, why doesn't their fur freeze?
NPR science correspondent Jonathan Lambert reports on a new study in the journal Science Advances.
Nanophysicist Bodle Holst got interested in studying polar bear fur while watching a German quiz show.
In that quiz show, I learned that polar bears are invisible in infrared cameras.
That essentially means that they're so well insulated that their fur takes on the temperature of their frigid surroundings.
That's the case on land and when they jump into icy water to hunt.
Because I had been working with anti-icing, I just suddenly was very puzzled because I was thinking, well, how do they manage that?
When they get into the water, they go out again.
Why do they not get covered in ice?
Meaning they stay cold, but their fur is largely free of ice.
Holst, who's at the University of Bergen in Norway, initially thought that the structure of the fur itself might have some kind of de-icing properties.
So her team used a high-powered microscope and zoomed in on some fur.
But we couldn't see anything special about the polar bear hairs.
They just looked normal.
But as she and her colleagues were handling the fur, they noticed that it was really greasy.
And when they washed the fur with soap, wet it, and froze it, it got icy.
And so we realized that this was down to polar bear hair grease, effectively.
Molecular analysis of the hair grease revealed that it was chock-full of certain compounds which are resistant to ice.
And the fur lacked a compound called squalene, which is found in other marine mammals.
Squalene, it turns out, has properties that make ice stick to it.
Well, this is riveting.
I'm glad you sat on this.
Here's my question.
These polar bears have been around forever.
And we're just discovering in 2025 that they have some sort of goop that goes into the fur and makes it so that it doesn't freeze and has de-icing properties.
It took the year 2025 to figure this out?
Meanwhile, we can predict climate change?
Are you kidding me?
I'm with you on that.
But that, of course, it kind of ruins the whole climate change.
Polar bear deal.
Well, that too.
Because, you know, it was, oh, the poor polar bear, he's standing on a rock of ice.
Oh, he has to swim!
I just found this an insulting piece, even though you thought it was boring.
I really got worked up about it because of this 2025, we're now discovering that polar bear grease.
It's got some de-icing properties and it took us this long to figure this out and we've been around polar bears for a long time.
This is unbelievable to me.
Objection.
I never said it was boring.
But the second part wraps it up, but it's not important.
We can say that this is what makes polar bear hair grease so efficient.
In fact, the team found that the squalene-free fur grease performed about as well as certain kinds of PFAS chemicals that have been used in ski waxes.
Holst hopes that her research could eventually lead to things like greener ski waxes, lubricants, and even new de-icing fluid for airplanes, all inspired by greasy polar bear fur.
This is great.
This is perfect.
We need to kill more polar bears to de-ice our aircraft.
I'm all in.
You don't have to kill the polar bears.
The chemical structures, that's what they uncovered, and they could just make the stuff from out of a refinery.
Squalene.
Is that the same as squalene?
Squalene free.
Squalene free.
Oh, squalene free.
You know what?
I'm outraged with you as well.
I think it's crazy.
Have we been afraid?
Polar bears, by the way, are pretty dangerous.
They're not as cute as they look.
No, they're nasty creatures, but we do shoot them once in a while.
And you can get the fur and do whatever you want with it, but it just seems to me ridiculous.
That in the year 2025, they finally discover that polar bear's fur doesn't freeze up like a mustache does on some dude?
I had a perfect out, but it just never worked.
You know why?
Because we're not full duplex.
That is the problem.
I'm going to show myself old by donating to no agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
If only a clean feed would do full duplex, everything would be solved.
We have tip of the day and some good end-of-show mixes on the way.
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It's number 10. They have, I guess they still have too many eggs.
Again, do a dozen.
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It's 29 days before spring?
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San Francisco, I wonder if you want to go to that, John.
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All right, this is the moment in the show.
We determine which ISO we're going to play at the very end of the show.
And I see you have three.
Three.
Why don't you go first today?
How many do you have?
I have two, but it doesn't matter.
I always go first.
It's time for you to go first.
Yeah, then go first again.
No, I want you to go first.
It's a tradition.
Up his butt.
Nice.
Who is that?
Up his butt.
Nice.
Up his butt.
Nice.
They're doing a hell of a job.
It's an amazing job they're doing.
Well, it's too bad it's one channel only, so that one drops by default.
One channel only.
By default.
Now we go to John's ISOs.
Which one goes first?
Let's start with damn good.
These boys are damn good.
Wow.
Wow.
You've got some amazing...
Why do I even try?
I shouldn't even try anymore.
Slick.
Slick show?
Slick?
Oof.
Oof.
The best.
Another spectacular show by the best.
This is so hard.
I think...
Slick show?
Slick?
I like that one.
These boys are damn good.
That's kind of the funniest.
I'd go with that one.
I think that's the best.
And now, everybody, and aside from the moment you've really been waiting for, for three hours, John's tip of the day.
Great advice for you and me.
Just a tip with JCB.
And sometimes Adam.
Created by Dana Burnetti.
Okay, this time I'm going to talk a little bit about glassware.
Glassware.
Nice.
Glassware.
So I think people should have the proper glassware when they serve alcoholic beverages.
Oh, I'm happy to hear this because I could not agree more.
I think we do not have good glassware here in the...
The curry compound, so I'm very interested in this particular tip of the day.
I could probably do a whole number of these, but I'm going to do this one in particular because this is a good one to make it really look like you know what you're doing.
Now, I will say that I understand that there's between a burgundy glass, a Bordeaux glass, all these different varieties of sauterne glass.
They're all slightly different.
You can have different glasses.
The old-fashioned brandy snifter, for example, is passé.
For the last 20 years, and if you pull one of those out, you're a rube.
Let's start with that.
So you either want a cognac glass or something, but in this case, we're going to discuss the Glen Karn Scotch whiskey glass, which is the glass.
Everyone should have a set of these.
Oh, I have this one.
I think I have this one.
You have a Glen Karn glass?
I think so.
It's a tiny glass.
Not that tiny.
Well, and it has kind of like a bulb and then at the top?
Well, here, look it up.
Just look up Glenn Karn, but if you want to go to glennkarnwhiskeyglass.com to find one of the vendors, Glenn Karn, it's spelled G-L-E-N-C-A-I-R-N. Yes, this is the one I have.
I have one of these.
Yes, I have a set.
You have a set?
I have two.
Well, they're designed for...
It came with the bottle, I believe.
It came with the bottle!
Woo!
Win!
I've got this one.
You have to do a glass for the next three shows.
This is a great tip.
I can do a lot of glass, believe me.
I think this is a dynamite tip.
But the Glen Carn glass is the Scotch whiskey glass.
Yes.
Period.
Yes.
But you can serve bourbon and all these other things, but you're kind of violating the rules.
This is really a Scotch glass, but it's a classy looking glass.
It's kind of stemless.
It's got kind of a foot.
Yeah, it has no stems, just the foot.
It's like a tulip with a foot.
Yes.
And this is an excellent glass.
And for scotch drinkers, I would recommend this.
Get a set of these six.
They have them everywhere.
Everyone sells them.
Amazon has them.
You can go to this website I just cited.
And they're here and there.
They can get pretty fancy, but just the regular one is the one you want.
I feel so bad now because, and Tina's going to be, I don't know if she's listening, because I think, There's some dudes, and they have bourbon.
I know it's not Scotch whiskey, but they have bourbon that has been aged in a sherry cask.
And I forget their name.
They may be in Texas, actually.
And they sent me...
Well, bourbon can't be in Texas.
They sent me their bourbon and a set of these glasses.
They sent these glasses, these Scotch glasses with their bourbon?
Yep, yep, yep, yep.
Is it okay for bourbon, too?
Well, it's not really, but it's not a bad idea.
It's not a bad idea supply.
It's just that it's a good...
Bad idea supply.
I'm happy that I have the right glasses.
I can't wait for the next tip of the day.
Tipoftheday.net.
Noagendafun.com.
Great advice for you and me.
Just a tip with JCD. And sometimes Adam.
Created by Dana Burnetti.
Wow!
Excellent tip, John.
This is very important.
I can't wait for the red wine glass, then we have the white wine glass, then we have the champagne glass.
I'd say this is your beat for the next three shows.
Well, I could do a lot of stuff on glasses, but I can do two.
I think you could do a book.
TooManyGlasses.com There you go.
Somebody register that right away.
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Like Jack Palance in the movie Shame.
Throwing the pistol at the sheepherder's feet.
Pick it up.
I don't want to pick it up, mister, you shoot me.
If all of the hostages aren't returned, 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.
Pick up the gun.
Turn off them.
Return all of them.
If they're not, return all of them.
Not in drips and draps, not two and one and three and four and two.
You all saw him.
He had a gun.
There's now a Kennedy in the Republican administration.
Never had a doubt.
Never had a doubt.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has officially just been confirmed.
Big talker is going to do this, is going to do that.
Everybody's jacked up about it.
A hundred things that I'm going to do immediately.
A hundred.
A hundred things.
And so he made some promises.
People who care about health.
And so he made some promises.
We should hold them accountable and make sure that these promises are noted.
Open the databases!
Big talker.
And overnight, you can say, oh, this vaccine is associated with diabetes.
It's associated with peanut allergies.
And I'll say that you guys are part of a racketeer.
That's the 97 more to go.
I can't wait.
We should hold them accountable and make sure that these promises are noted.
It's going to do this, it's going to do that.
Everybody's jacked up about it.
And so he made some promises.
The 97 more to go.
I can't wait.
I can't wait.
Ever since the fascist takeover by Donald Trump, Doge, Elon Musk, America now represents a serious threat to democracy across the world, especially in the Western world.
Don't be a dick.
Don't be a dick.
What kind of interviewer says don't be a dick?
I don't believe it.
I said more on that clip because we're 14 seconds.
I haven't thought about it.
I want to hear the don't be a dick.
Yes, I said concentration.
One of those ways is not to give billionaires a huge tax cut.
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