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It's Sunday, February 23rd, 2025. This is your award-winning Kimbo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 1741. This is No Agenda.
Booing Borla and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas whole country here in FEMA Region No.
6. In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where the witch is dead, I'm John C. Dvorak.
It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
Let me guess, you're referring to Joy Reid?
Yes.
You know what?
It's hurting the show.
It hasn't done anything yet.
Joy Reid is a staple.
Joy Reid is a staple.
She's going to be a podcaster, let's face it.
Yeah, but she's going to be a TikToker, I think.
I think she'll be a TikToker.
Well, she's done a lot of TikToker already.
Yep, could be.
She's actually more unhinged on TikToker than she is normally.
You know who's going to replace him, don't you?
Just a team of jerk-offs?
Yeah, what's the guy's name?
Michael Steele's one of them.
Yeah, exactly.
Here, I have...
Listen, this is the team that will be replacing Joy Reid on MSNBC. And tell me this isn't hurting the show.
What would you have us do?
I would actually...
You know what?
I'd just like you to show that you give a damn.
That you have a little emotion about the fact that people are losing their jobs indiscriminately.
That this...
This individual sitting down at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue has given absolute power to one man who brings his son into the Oval Office whose son says to him, you're not the president.
You shouldn't be in that chair.
Now, where did he get that from?
He got it from his daddy.
Because that's what his daddy thinks of the man who brought him into the Oval Office.
So I just like to see somebody wake the hell up and get excited about the fact that your country is under assault.
They're not at the gate anymore.
They're in your bedrooms.
They're in your living rooms.
They're in your businesses.
They got your data, dumbass.
They got all your stuff.
Elon Musk has his tentacles in everything you're doing.
Not just off of X. But now he's in the Treasury Department.
He's in the Labor Department.
He's in the Department of Homeland Security.
And nobody seems to give a damn.
I want somebody to show that they care enough to get off their fat ass and say something about it.
This is all part of the Democrats.
And he, of course, is supposed to be a Republican.
Just going unhinged.
I mean, we've been noticing the cursing.
The cursing's out of control.
Damn this, damn that, off your fat ass.
Did you hear James Carville?
He was cursing?
No, no, no.
He's always cursing.
This is not even a cursing clip.
He is so upset.
And he was on...
What's the blockhead?
Sean Hannity's show.
Was the microphone pointing up his nose this time?
What LSU outfit was he wearing?
No, he was wearing an LSU hoodie, of course.
And he was on with Sean Hannity, which by itself is always kind of fun.
Carville was on Sean Hannity.
I missed it.
Listen to his voice.
I see your party screaming and yelling and acting like lunatics, and you're smarter than that, because that's not you.
And you're kind of spinning a little on me because you got your ass kicked in this election and everyone thought you were all going to win.
What was that?
That was his voice.
I have no idea what that was.
It was like something locked in his vocal cords.
Listen again.
Your ass kicked in this election and everyone thought you were all going to win.
He's doing a voice.
No, no, no!
I did not do that!
I don't think he was doing a voice, man.
It was...
That was very strange.
I had to go back and watch that show and see what he does.
The brand new chair of the DNC, Ken Martin.
Oh, that guy.
The white guy from Minnesota.
The Milk Toast from Minnesota.
The Milk Toast from Minnesota!
Well, even he's swearing, and it was difficult.
I don't think he wanted it to come out this way, but he couldn't even hold back himself.
He was talking to my new favorite show to watch, Politics Girl.
You ever watch her?
Politics Girl.
Yeah, she's good.
I think she'll be a source of information for the future.
Hey, listen to this.
We cannot show up four months before an election, and the first conversation we have with someone is asking them to do something for us.
To vote for our candidates or our party.
I mean, think about this.
Why are we losing ground with Latino voters?
Why are we losing ground with young voters?
Why are we losing ground with every single demographic group?
There's a million reasons.
But one is because they only see us during an election.
Usually the last few months.
And when they hear from us, we're asking them for something in return.
And then they don't see us again for two years.
They feel like we're using them for their vote versus actually caring a shit about what's happening in their lives.
So we've got to get back to actually showing them that we give a damn.
What?
The phrase is giving a, not caring a.
I know, but it's so rampant throughout this milieu that...
The word shit just has to come out.
And he's not used to it.
You can tell.
Otherwise, he would have said, you know, giving a shit.
He said, we got carrying a shit.
I say shit.
He says, like, carrying.
I've got a pile of it in this bucket, and I'm carrying it.
And he even ends with a dam at the end.
Actually showing them that we give a dam.
We give a dam.
They're all in the same room, these people.
But the funniest...
And I don't know if, I don't think he's, I think he's probably politically agnostic, but he is back on the show, ladies and gentlemen, making his re-entry, the one and only Reverend Manning, Elon the monkey, wore a hat or cap.
Into the sacred Oval Office.
The late, great Ronald Reagan, it is reported, would not go into the Oval Office without having a jacket on.
That's how much he honored the work of Abraham Lincoln and all the other presidents, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John Kennedy and a bunch of others that came before him.
Ronald Reagan wouldn't go into the Oval Office without a jacket on.
And yet that Elon the monkey stood there in a black t-shirt and a black hat and wouldn't take the hat off while standing in the Oval Office.
You take your hat off when you show respect.
You take your hat off to be courteous.
You take your hat off to recognize a power greater than you.
Well, Elon Musk kept his hat off because there ain't no power greater than him.
Trump ain't greater than him.
The Constitution ain't greater than him.
And you saw that.
And you know it.
You saw it and you know it.
Elon the monkey!
That's good.
It's good.
I like it.
That's a good one.
Elon the monkey.
Of course, referring to Doge, we are the Department of Podcast Efficiency here, also known as DOPE. So, I was listening to...
Well, there's a lot of stuff that took place.
The CPAC had their annual fest.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, there was a lot going on there.
And I have some clips from it because I think...
Explain what CPAC is.
CPAC is the Conservative Political Action Committee, but it's also run by...
I think it's conference.
I think it's action conference.
I think CPAC is...
I don't think it's committee.
Well, people can look it up and then correct me.
I'm looking it up.
Or you.
Yes, conference.
Conservative Political Action Conference, yes.
Okay, so the big conference takes place once a year, and it's been going on forever, and it's been...
It was out of the public eye for a long time, because it was a bunch of...
It was boring.
It was boring.
Yeah, Trump came along and livened things up.
Exactly.
But he also brought some of his cronies into livening things up, and I just want to play two clips from Tom...
Tom...
Yeah.
Tom Holman.
Holman.
Yeah.
These are very short.
This is the kind of thing this guy does.
How you doing?
Look.
How you doing?
All right.
Right there, that should just be our universal greet.
How you doing?
Look.
How you doing?
Look.
Let me start out by saying this.
If I offend anybody today, I don't give a shit.
Don't care.
The media in the back room, I'm sure I'll be reading a lot of hip pieces on me tomorrow.
I don't give a shit what you think about me.
I get asked all the time, there's a big part of this country that hates your guts and I don't care.
I don't care.
Because we got a job too.
You know, I wake up every day for the last four years pissed off because the Dwight administration took the most secure border in my lifetime and unsecured on purpose.
Right?
I worked for six presidents starting with Ronald Reagan.
Every president I ever worked for...
Hold on a second.
How old is this guy?
He worked under Ronald Reagan?
I don't think so.
He's 63. Well, he probably worked under Ronald Reagan when he was in his 20s.
Okay.
Right?
He's 63. He looks 80. I'm just saying.
Right?
I worked for six presidents starting with Ronald Reagan.
Every president I ever worked for took steps to secure the border.
Even Clinton Obama took steps to secure the border because they clearly understood you can't have national security without border security.
They got it.
Joe Biden is the first president in history of the nation who came into office and unsecured the border on purpose.
So for four years I wake up every day pissed off.
That changed November 5th.
Now I wake up every day excited because I work for the greatest president of my lifetime, Donald J. Trump.
A lot of that kind of thing.
I have a second Holman clip, which I think is...
I don't know what the point of having him even talk was.
Just to go up there and grouse.
Police Commissioner of Boston.
You said you doubled down on not helping the law enforcement office of ICE. I'm coming to Boston.
and I'm bringing hell with me.
I looked at the numbers this morning.
I stopped counting at nine.
Nine child rapists that were in jail in Massachusetts.
But rather than honoring an ICE detainer, release them back into the street.
You're not a police commissioner.
Take that badge off your chest.
Put it in the desk drawer because you became a politician.
You forgot what it's like to be a cop.
Oh, my goodness.
84, Reagan was still in office?
Yeah, he was in office till 88. Okay, so he was at INS as a Border Patrol agent.
Okay.
He started young.
And you know what?
He clearly doesn't give a shit.
He does.
He's like, this is the typical profanity.
Now we have, I'm going to play these quickies from Trump, because I think I've caught some new material.
Trump, they've taken a lot from his speech that he gave on all the different networks.
They took a piece here and a piece there.
Well, of course.
That's what you do, is snippety up.
In fact, here's the typical example.
This is Trump's CPAC summary on NPR. President Trump used a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference to tout his agenda one month into his second term in office.
Speaking to CPAC attendees, Trump said he wants something in return from Ukraine for the billions of dollars the U.S. spent helping the country defend itself against Russia.
Europe gave it in the form of a loan.
They get their money back.
We gave it in the form of nothing.
So I want them to give us something for all of the money that we put up.
And I'm going to try and get the war settled, and I'm going to try and get all that death ended.
Russian state media say preparations are underway for a face-to-face meeting between Trump and Vladimir Putin.
Yeah.
So, you know, it sounds like it was actually kind of a...
No, that's not true, that Trump gave some pretty funny...
Bits.
He had some new material.
In fact, I think most of the speech was new material.
I think he's working on some stuff.
Okay, so what are his bits?
Well, here's one of them.
This one here, he kind of abruptly ended, but this was his bit on going after Rachel Maddow.
And we have great confidence, and they've lost their confidence, as I said.
They've really lost their confidence.
I watched them.
They're really screwed up.
I watched this MSNBC, which is a threat to democracy, actually.
They're stone cold mean, but they're stuttering.
They're all screwed up.
They're all mentally screwed up.
They don't know what.
Their ratings have gone down the tubes.
I don't even talk about CNN. CNN's sort of like...
I don't know.
They're pathetic, actually.
But MSNBC was mean.
Their ratings are absolutely down.
There's Rachel Maddow.
What does she have?
She's got nothing.
Nothing.
She took a sabbatical.
Where she worked one day a week.
They paid her a lot of money.
She gets no ratings.
I should go against her in the ratings because I'll tell you, she gets no ratings.
All she does is to talk about Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.
All different subjects.
Trump this, Trump that.
But these people are really, I mean, they lie.
They shouldn't be allowed to lie every night.
They are really a vehicle of the Democrat Party.
Yeah.
Anyway, then he drops it.
It wasn't all that funny.
No, I'm getting to the funny one.
Okay.
So now we have him talking about Bill O'Reilly.
Okay.
Together we've achieved more in four weeks than most administrations achieve in four years.
We made a lot of progress.
I heard O'Reilly last night say Donald Trump for the first four weeks is the greatest president ever in the history of our country.
That was O'Reilly.
Bill O'Reilly is alright.
You know who he said second was?
George Washington.
I beat George Washington.
I love beating George Washington.
Thank you, Bill.
Okay.
So, that means he listens to Chris Cuomo's show.
Oh, because did O'Reilly say it on Cuomo?
No.
The only place I know that O'Reilly shows up is on Cuomo.
Is on Chris Cuomo.
Okay.
Got it.
So that's kind of interesting.
And so there he goes off on the one we'd expect is Joe Biden, and this I think is good.
He could go with cameras on him, television, fake news on him, probably because he knows they wouldn't cover it badly.
You know, they covered him as well as you can cover him.
How the hell can you cover the guy well?
But he had this incredible ability.
He could barely walk in the sand.
Somebody thought he looked great in a bathing suit.
And he'd walk in the sand pulling a thing that weighed about six ounces.
You know those aluminum?
See, aluminum's very good.
A child, it's meant for children and very old people to lift, right?
So he would put it down, and he'd put it down, and he'd fall into it, and he'd immediately fall asleep in front of the media.
I could never do that.
That's the only thing.
That's the only thing.
I could never do it.
Now, he was sleepy Joe, but he was crooked as hell.
You know, there's no question.
He was a sleepy, crooked guy.
Terrible, terrible president.
He was the worst president in the history of our country.
I don't care, I'll say it.
Jimmy Carter passed away recently, and he passed away a happy man.
He was a happy man when he passed away, because he said that it's not even close.
Joe was the worst, and believe me, I have to clean up the mess.
I'm cleaning up the mess, and it is a mess on the border with inflation.
Every single thing he touched turned to shit, okay?
It's true.
Now Franklin Graham's angry at me.
You know that?
Franklin wrote me a letter.
He said, I love your speeches.
I love them.
I love them so much.
They'd be better if you would never use foul language.
And I told him, I said, Franklin, you know, Franklin Graham's a great guy, by the way, does a great job.
The son of the great Billy Graham, right?
But I said to Franklin, you know, sometimes you need it for emphasis.
You know, based on your theory of how important the president is for culture, we're going to have toddlers walking around saying shit this and shit that.
I know.
It's terrible.
It's not my theory, by the way.
It's a political science thesis that every political science course teaches in universities across the world.
Well, I'm giving you full credit.
That the president is the moral authority.
I'm giving you full credit.
Yeah, I'm not going to take it.
The president is moral authority, and so when he starts cussing, which he does, everyone starts cussing.
It's just like part of the thing.
Is that maybe why you see all these news hosts doing it as well?
Because of the president?
It has to be.
But they're not good at it.
I mean, it's like...
It's the F-bombs from the left that are...
Because I get all these TikTok clips.
I don't have any today.
I have one, maybe.
Dodge that bullet.
And so these poor women, they're just throwing out F-bombs left and right as though it's something cool.
I'm not getting what the thinking is on this.
It's really sounding like truckers and the worst kind of trucker.
Even truckers don't cuss this much.
I have a very short CPAC clip.
Like I said, all this gold at Fort Knox, it's the public's gold.
It's your gold.
So, like, I think you have, like, a right to see it.
You want to take a tour?
You know.
Yeah.
I think we should have a tour.
And then the president last night was like, I think he's in favor of it.
That would be cool.
And then it should be like a live tour.
Like, you can see what's going on.
Open the door.
Like, what's behind it.
You know, I think I'd watch that.
You know what that reminds me of?
Geraldo?
Geraldo Rivera with Al Capone's Vault.
Yeah.
Because I think what's going to happen is they're going to open it and it's going to be there.
The gold's going to be there.
Oh, it's going to be there.
It's going to be there.
And they won't be like, oh, that was bogus.
But for all we know, it's tungsten.
We've all forgotten the tungsten scandal.
No, I haven't.
I haven't.
Could be.
It could be tungsten.
I guess weighing it doesn't make any difference.
You've got to drill it.
Yeah, you've got to drill it.
You've got to drill it.
Otherwise, you can't tell what it is.
I think it's a mistake.
There's a callback for people who don't know what we're talking about.
There was a, I think there was about 10 years ago, there was a big scandal.
People were selling gold bars, but all they were were chunks of tungsten coated in gold.
I think it's more than 10 years ago.
It was a while back.
It was when you were a gold bug back in the day.
I still am.
I just don't have it anymore.
Yeah, well, we won't need to get into that, but you'd be loaded.
I'd be loaded.
I'd be rolling in dough.
But the idea was that people were buying gold bars because it was a big deal to do so, but a lot of them were scams because tungsten has pretty much the same weight as gold.
Yeah.
And it's just that, you know, so you coat it with gold and you got a gold bar when it's really tungsten.
And I guess it was a lot of it that was showing up out of the blue all over the world.
So, take credit for the blurt.
Take credit for the blurt.
I'm taking credit for the blurt.
I won't take credit for the cussing, but I'll take credit for the blurt.
You can take credit for the blurt, and the blurt is working.
The blurt is paying off.
And the first blurt was the Magaza blurt.
Ah, we're gonna own that.
We're gonna take it.
We're gonna take all of Gaza.
We're gonna own it.
We'll take very good care of it.
We're gonna turn it into the Riviera.
It's gonna be great.
And it is paying off in spades.
The Arab Summit in Riyadh is billed as an unofficial fraternal meeting.
Diplomatic sources say the main point on the agenda is how to counter Donald Trump's proposed plans for Gaza, which sparked global outrage.
The U.S. president said the U.S. would take over Gaza, in his words, own it, and turn it into what he called the Riviera of the Middle East.
And to achieve that, forcibly displace two million Palestinians to Jordan and Egypt.
Diplomats from those...
Countries are attending the Riyadh Summers along with the six members of the Gulf Cooperation Council.
The Palestinian Authority has also been invited.
Egypt has already begun formulating a plan for Gaza that would unfold over three to five years.
It hasn't yet been published, but it's understood it would begin with debris removal and eventually lead to the reconstruction of infrastructure, housing and services, as well as steps towards an independent Palestinian state.
The proposal could include $20 billion in funding from wealthy Arab states, but financing such a plan could be the biggest challenge.
None of those states are going to be willing to put in, you know, finance and begin a reconstruction process unless the political process is in play.
We can be sure that the conditions would be set around a political arrangement or a political governing structure that they can all agree to and one that Israel accepts and one that the U.S. is fully behind.
Displaced people in Gaza have been returning to their homes, but they're finding mass destruction.
The UN estimates rebuilding Gaza will cost more than $50 billion.
So, right down to the amount, right down to the need for political reform.
I'm glad you got this clip.
I have another one which will lead you into your bonus clip.
This Blurt thing is interesting.
And I'm...
I don't know if...
Well, before you play the second clip, then let me just throw this interjection in, because I didn't get these clips.
There was a...
PBS people went into Dearborn to talk to some Muslims about this.
Because the Muslim community in Michigan supported Trump in a big way.
And so they went in and said, what about, you know, because they hated Biden and his policies in the Middle East.
And so they...
Talked about this.
He wants to get rid of all these Palestinians.
He wants to do this.
He wants to get them riled up the way PBS would do.
What did they say?
They said, you know, yeah, that's what he said, but he also wants Canada to be the 51st state, which is obviously never going to happen.
And these Muslims, they all agree that, no, this is the way Trump operates.
It's not a big deal.
Why are you taking it so seriously?
We're not.
It's an interesting template because the news media can't resist going all in and saying how, and you know, of course they need that because there's no news anymore.
It's just all opinion.
Rachel Maddow's opinion, CNN, everything's a bit, Fox, everything's opinion.
So they, you know, so Fox can go, whoa, we're just going to own it, we'll clean that right up.
And then Rachel Maddow's head explodes and CNN pretends to be all intellectual about it.
But meanwhile, He's just that believable enough that the Egyptians, the Jordanians, and the Saudis would go, you know, we probably should do something here because that guy's crazy.
And from time to time, he's going to have to come through on stuff and do something just to keep that fear alive.
So here's the other blurt that was, well, it's been a constant blurt about, Give us all your minerals!
We want all your minerals!
A minerals deal between the US and Ukraine may be closer than ever.
On Friday, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky indicated that his country was working on a draft agreement.
Today, Ukrainian and US teams are working on a draft agreement between our governments.
This is an agreement that can add value to our relationship.
And the main thing is to work out the details so it can work.
I hope for a fair result.
U.S. President Donald Trump wants Ukraine to give U.S. companies access to its vast natural resources as compensation for the tens of billions of dollars of aid delivered during the war.
In return, Ukraine is seeking security guarantees from the United States.
Sources say that the two sides made significant progress during a visit to Ukraine this week by retired General Keith Kellogg, Trump's special envoy to Ukraine and Russia, although there is no concrete timeline on how long such a deal would last.
Those talks came just days after the U.S. President fired several barbs at his Ukrainian counterpart, including calling Zelensky a dictator and falsely blaming Ukraine for starting the war.
Some have speculated that was a tactic to try and rattle the Ukrainians, and now Trump is more confident than ever of getting a deal done.
I think we're pretty close.
I think they want it and they feel good about it.
And it's significant.
It's a big deal.
But they want it.
And it keeps us in that country.
And they're very happy about it.
Ukraine's soil holds some 5% of the world's mineral resources.
The proposed partnership would give the United States access to deposits of critical minerals, including aluminium, gallium and titanium.
You know, we're not going to get any money back.
We're just going to get exclusive access to it, which is what he wanted in the first place, to cut off China's leverage.
At least that's what it seems to me.
And then we're going to give security guarantees in exchange.
This is his new chit.
So you want security?
You're not going to get it from NATO. You get it from me?
Zelensky's still a roadblock.
In fact, this is what this clip is leading to, the bonus clip.
Before you play that, which is Marco Rubio telling one of the pixie scoop girls.
Yeah, it was Herridge.
Was it Herridge?
Yeah.
That Zelensky's a two-faced liar, is what he basically says.
But I was thinking about this.
They have these resources.
They have minerals that are important minerals.
They have oil.
We know about that.
That's been discussed in the past.
And they're the breadbasket of probably Africa and much of Europe.
But that deal was already done.
Cargill already has it.
No, I'm just saying, I'm talking about the country itself.
It has these resources.
And it has nuclear power all over the place to power the place.
This is like a goldmine of riches and the two-bit mentality of the Ukrainians should just be a bunch of thieves and crooked, corrupt, basically penny-ante corruption.
It's an embarrassment.
Well, yes, it is, but because of the resources is why the corruption has always been so rampant.
It's all two-bit stuff.
You know, if you really, you know, leveraged it, you know, did your job right, you'd be making tons of money every which way, but okay.
Yeah, but it's historical.
They didn't have the strong leader to shore it all up, and, you know, and everyone got hoodwinked into thinking, oh, okay, Minsk, we're good with Minsk.
And it was the Europeans, the EU, who used the Minsk II agreement to arm up, because they have their own agenda.
And they're, if anything, I'd say the European Union are the stupid ones.
They should be looking at it and saying, you know, this is kind of what we need.
And they had plenty of time to do that, but instead, they want to go fight Russia.
So here we have Rubio sitting down with Harage discussing a meeting he and Vance had with Zelensky.
And this is very, I mean, I'm liking Rubio more and more as he does this stuff because he's not, he just plays it so straight.
He has an interesting way of biting his lower lip when he's done with a sentence.
Have you seen that?
No, I'll look for it.
He's biting his lip so he doesn't say anything off base.
He's like, I finished a good sentence.
Stop.
Okay.
When President Trump posts that President Zelensky is a dictator without elections.
What are you thinking?
I think President Trump is very upset at President Zelensky, and in some cases, and rightfully so.
Look, number one, Joe Biden had frustrations with Zelensky.
People shouldn't forget it.
There are newspaper articles out there about how he cursed at him in a phone call because Zelensky, instead of saying thank you for all your help, is immediately out there messaging what we're not doing or what he's not getting.
I think the second thing is, frankly, I was personally very upset because we had a conversation with President Zelensky, the vice president and I, the two, three of us.
And we discussed this issue about the mineral rights, and we explained to them, look, we want to be a joint venture with you, not because we're trying to steal from your country, but because we think that's actually a security guarantee.
If we're your partner in an important economic endeavor, we get to get paid back some of the money the taxpayers have given, close to $200 billion.
And now we have a vested interest.
Hold on, hold on.
He said some of the money the taxpayer plus $200 billion?
No, he said it was $200 billion.
I thought it was $350 billion.
Well, he thinks it's $200 billion.
The numbers are all over the place on this.
That's a problem.
Yeah, let's listen again.
But because we think that's actually a security guarantee if we're your partner in an important...
Which is exactly what you said one or two shows ago.
You said Zelensky saying we're not going to do that without security guarantees is asinine because, of course, if we're in there getting the minerals, it's a security guarantee.
Yep.
And we discussed this issue about the mineral rights, and we explained to them, look, we want to be a joint venture with you, not because we're trying to steal from your country, but because we think that's actually a security guarantee.
If we're your partner in an important economic endeavor, we get to get paid back some of the money the taxpayers have given, close to $200 billion.
It also, now we have a vested interest in the security of Ukraine.
And he said, sure, we want to do this deal.
It makes all the sense in the world.
The only thing is, I need to run it through my legislative process.
They have to approve it.
I read two days later that Zelensky's out there saying, I rejected the deal.
I told him no way that we're not doing that.
Well, that's not what happened in that meeting.
So you start to get upset by somebody.
We're trying to help these guys.
One of the points the president made in his messaging is, it's not that we don't care about Ukraine.
But Ukraine is on another continent.
You know, it doesn't directly impact the daily lives of Americans.
We care about it because it has implications for our allies and ultimately for the world.
There should be some level of gratitude here about this.
And when you don't see it and you see him out there accusing the president of living in a world of disinformation, that's highly, very counterproductive.
And I don't need to explain to you or anybody else, Donald Trump's not...
President Trump's not the kind of person that's going to sit there and take that.
He's very transparent.
He's going to tell you exactly how he feels.
And he sent a message that he's not going to get gamed here.
He's willing to work on peace because he cares about Ukraine.
And he hopes Zelensky will be a partner in that, and not someone who's out there putting this sort of counter-messaging to try to hustle us in that regard.
That's not going to be productive here.
I agree with you.
I'm liking Rubio.
The problem I have with him is, one, he...
I watched all 40 minutes of this interview with Catherine Herridge, and she's independent now.
She's no longer with a news organization.
She's on X, as far as I can tell.
And he never cracks a smile, never has a joke.
And he's funny.
I think he is.
He can be very funny.
He's made some good jokes.
When he was trying to be funny, when he ran against Trump the first time in 2016. The tiny hands thing, that was kind of funny.
The tiny hands gag and some other stuff.
And he was doing basically a stand-up routine.
It was quite funny.
We played a bunch of clips from it.
His timing was good.
Everything was good.
He has good stage presence.
And then, of course, he lost big time.
Bigly.
Bigly.
And he stopped doing it.
He stopped trying to be funny.
And all of a sudden, he became very serious.
And you're right.
He hasn't cracked a smile.
I am happy.
I have heard from...
Very reliable source that there is a team going into the State Department outside of DOGE to check on what they're doing, which is kind of interesting.
It's not a DOGE team.
It's another team.
And I was happy to hear that because that's, you know, you don't hear DOGE going into the State Department.
Haven't heard about it at all.
And we know there's an intelligence agency in there.
They've got their tentacles and everything.
Every embassy is a CIA station.
There's a lot going on in the State Department.
The techno experts.
Did they get fired when Hillary Clinton left?
Didn't she have 2,000 techno experts?
Of course, she had a lot of them.
All kinds of stuff going on.
The internet and the suitcase.
I have two other shortish clips of Harrods with Rubio, which I thought were worthwhile.
This is about Havana syndrome.
You recall at embassies, people were getting zapped, or we didn't know exactly what was happening with them.
What was the basic narrative about that?
It was true, then it wasn't true.
It was like a microwave weapon.
They were weaponizing and they were aiming it to be in the hotel rooms of American diplomats.
And whether it was true or not, they still had never been totally resolved.
Well, here we go.
I want to ask a question about Havana Syndrome or AHIs, these debilitating neurological conditions, State Department personnel, intelligence, community, military, even families.
Have directed energy weapons been used against U.S. government personnel?
I do not believe in the conclusions that we've seen in the past, and I think evidence in time will prove me correct, that these things happened by accident.
That these things were a result of mass hysteria or some pre-existing conditions.
Now, in some cases, maybe.
But I have no doubt in my mind that something caused people to be suffering from these things in different posts around the world, not just limited to Havana.
There's a lot of work still going on.
I think we're going to learn a lot more about it over the next few years as more work goes into it.
But I've met some of these people.
I've interacted with them for years.
I can't explain every case, but I think there are most definitely cases where there is no logical explanation other than the fact that some external mechanism caused them to suffer brain injuries that in many cases look like they were hit over the head with a baseball bat or assaulted somewhere.
We can't ignore that.
And in the meantime, what we have to ensure is that whether they were State Department personnel or working for some other agency, that those people are getting the treatment and the support that they need.
And it's a top commitment of mine to make sure these are people we sent abroad to serve our country, they were harmed in the service of our country, and they deserve our ongoing support, not being accused of things like mass hysteria.
It's government gaslighting.
Well, I think it's outrageous.
And I don't know what the intent was behind that, but ultimately...
This State Department is going to be transparent with them.
Anything we know, they will know.
And in the meantime, we are going to assume the worst, and we're going to treat them as if they were victims.
No matter what, we're going to treat them as if they were people that were harmed.
Okay.
Rubio's all over it.
And then, just at the very end, it was just interesting, because I'm sitting there like, wow, you know, this is Rubio with heritage.
That's, you know, she's a networkless person, a networkless pixie.
And she brought it up.
Will you open up the State Department briefing room to independent journalists?
Yes.
We're here today.
We're here talking.
I was going to say, Secretary Rubio, you could have given this interview to any reporter, any major corporate outlet, but you chose an independent journalist who posts on X. Yeah, and I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings, but here's my observation.
We have to go where the people are.
And so we need to communicate with people.
We need to be able to...
This is their State Department.
It's not my State Department.
I'll be here for a number of years, and then my job is done, and I'll go back to being a private citizen.
But this will always be their State Department.
And we're making decisions every day, and they deserve to hear from us.
Where are people getting their news and information?
That's where we need to be delivering our news and information.
I still talk.
I just went overseas.
We had a bunch of people from different traditional outlets on our trip, and we're not going to exclude them.
But we have to be able to communicate people where they're getting their news and information.
What we can't allow to have happen is we can't allow our message to solely be provided through the filter of legacy traditional media outlets whose...
Sadly, I don't mean to hurt their...
I'm not trying to be mean here, but the readership is down, the viewership is down, the ratings are down.
They're down!
We have to take our message where people are getting their news and information and any sort of long-form interviews where you're getting serious questions and can provide answers to nuanced issues, not little sound bites that they run during the cable news hour, you know, for news and entertainment purposes.
So we'll engage everybody, but we'll most certainly see a greater emphasis on independent journalism because that's where people are getting their news and information.
Yeah, there you go.
That's a smart move.
I want to go to my new go-to for some analysis.
It's crazy that it comes from the CBC. I played him on the last show, Andrew Rissoulis, former defense guy in Scandinavia, and he had...
He had just some good points about what the president said at CPAC and about Ukraine.
U.S. President Donald Trump has once again signaled that he wants to end the war in Ukraine, but with a condition for Kyiv.
Earlier today, he spoke at a conservative gathering in Maryland.
Trump said he wants to recover the cost of American military aid sent to Ukraine by securing access to certain resources.
Europe gave it in the form of a loan.
They get their money back.
We gave it in the form of nothing, so I want them to give us something for all of the money that we put up, and I'm going to try and get the war settled, and I'm going to try and get all that death ended.
So we're asking for rare earth and oil, anything we can get.
It's not fair.
It's just not fair.
And we will see, but I think we're pretty close to a deal, and we better be close to a deal.
Anything we can get!
All right, so...
What could possibly be behind all of this thinking?
Andrew, let's start on that point that Donald Trump was making in that speech, rather defiantly, saying we want anything we can get, specifically zeroing in on those rare minerals.
What's behind this?
I mean, he had said he wants to achieve peace in Ukraine.
He'd said that pretty much from the get-go.
But this week, he has been really forceful about getting President Zelensky to accept his terms.
What do you think is behind all this?
Well, it represents the major shift in Trump's foreign policy, particularly as we see it in Ukraine, which is not based...
On protecting the liberal rules-based international order, which the Biden administration has been doing, and it's not so much a defense of democracy versus autocracy.
What Trump is doing across the board, he is advancing America's interests.
That is financial interests, security interests, but you have to understand it's transactional interests.
And so he's saying...
You know, Ukraine isn't that important for the United States.
He said repeatedly they're on the other side of the ocean.
You know, we've spent a lot of money and we want to get a bit of a financial payback.
That's exactly the line he's taking.
And that is, of course, again, a major shift from the previous administration and from previous administrations that the United States have had more or less since 1945. It seems very logical because, of course, we've heard him say this over and over again.
Years ago, he went to the World Economic Forum and said, no, no, no, patriots, our own country first.
But this is, I mean, I'm just realizing that the elites of the world, from media to politicians, they're shocked.
They're absolutely shocked.
He only cares about America?
What?
That's not how you're supposed to play.
You're supposed to be for the rules-based liberal world order.
And they are shocked.
But this is what I wanted to ask you.
I mean, how rare is this?
It's rare!
The aid that Ukraine received from the previous U.S. administration, specifically in ammunitions, in military aid that President Biden had promised and delivered to Ukrainians, under no circumstances did it seem like that came with a caveat that you're going to have to repay us in kind or in any other way.
How rare is this in terms of American foreign policy?
It's just crazy, I tell you.
It's extremely rare, and you have to really go back certainly to pre-World War II and sort of the isolationist period.
And Trump himself sees America between the Civil War and World War I as a golden age with the economic tariffs and all that stuff.
And America was very isolationist in that period.
So it's America first, America in the Western Hemisphere.
That's also very important and basically motivated by enriching America's financial interests.
What a crazy idea.
How could you ever think of doing something like that?
I think it's really shaking these world leaders up a lot.
They just can't believe that he doesn't want to play ball.
And when he says, well, there's a whole ocean in between us and Ukraine.
It's not such a big deal for us.
And I have, if you want to hear them, I have a couple.
I have a report by Richard Engel, our NBC resident spook.
Oh, our buddy.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, about the war.
It filled with nat pops and all kinds of beautiful things.
President Trump is pushing for American access to Ukraine's wealth of valuable minerals as part of a deal to end the war with Russia.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, under intense pressure from the United States, is considering the proposal as President Trump's...
Listen to the music.
That's not Richard Engel.
No, no, he's coming up.
This is the intro to Richard Engel.
But the music, it's so demure.
It's like, oh, boy.
The approach to Zelensky raises concerns about the future of Ukraine and the terms of peace in the war Russia started three years ago.
Russia started.
NBC News Chief Foreign Corp.
I just have to remind everybody who doesn't know what a nat pop is.
This is a television term used by the news producers where they just...
Cut in bombs and explode.
Screaming ladies, dying children, anything to just get your emotions going.
Capturing Ukrainian cities on their way to the capital, Kyiv.
Russia is picking off Ukraine's military facilities one after another.
But Ukrainian troops are fighting back.
He said his goal was to overthrow President Zelensky, who saw his country's future with the United States and Europe instead of Russia.
Putin claimed Zelensky, who's Jewish, was actually a dangerous American-backed Nazi.
Russia cannot feel safe, develop, and exist with a constant threat emanating from the territory of modern Ukraine.
I got so tired just from this first report.
It's like, oh man, it's like this, this, Putin's so bad, and Zelensky, who's Jewish, he couldn't be a Nazi?
Oh no!
So, it was a shock to Ukrainians when President Trump this week, adopting the role of peacemaker, blamed Zelensky for starting the war.
You should have never started it.
You could have made a deal.
And beyond rewriting history, Trump opened peace talks in Saudi Arabia with the Russian side.
Ukraine wasn't invited.
Russia occupies 20% of Ukraine's territory.
I mean, the lies are amazing.
You know, rewriting history.
Well, no, if you look at the history, it was kind of Ukraine saying they were going to get nuclear weapons in and be part of NATO that started it with our coup in 2014. Yeah.
See the clips going around now of McCain over there taking movies or videoing the...
Maidan thing with Newland and the other creeps.
Brennan.
Stop!
Stop rewriting history!
Trump officials have suggested Putin may be allowed to keep it.
At a school in Harkiv built with USAID funding that President Trump...
Oh, throw that little plug in!
Teachers and staff wonder why Trump seems to be favoring Putin.
This is a propaganda piece.
Yes, well, it's Richard.
But it's so transparent and almost over the top.
It's almost as done as though it's like, let's overdo it so people will notice that this is a propaganda piece.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
This is working extremely well on people who are open to this type of messaging.
Trump is horrible.
I mean, he took away the USAID money from children.
From children, I tell you.
Ludmila Ivanova is a math teacher.
What do you make about the things that President Trump is saying and doing about Ukraine?
It is very sad because we feel we have lost a partner and a friend.
And we hope that soon President Trump will change his position, she said.
A few miles away, troops manning the front lines see ominous signs.
Oh, man.
I have two more pieces to this.
You want to hear it, or is it too much?
Oh, it's pretty tedious.
I would play one more, see how it goes.
Out here in eastern Ukraine, the fighting is relentless, with Russian drone and missile attacks coming almost constantly, especially when the weather is clear like today.
But now Ukrainian troops say they have perhaps an even bigger problem, wondering whether they still have support from Washington.
Does it feel like decisions are being made about Ukraine without Ukraine's input?
Does it feel like it?
Yes, this is exactly the feeling we have, said Ivan, a commander of the 127th Brigade.
It does influence the mood.
It's very demotivating.
At a rehab clinic, some soldiers told us they think Ukraine is caught between a rock and a hard place and has few options.
But Lodimir Chayka is a sergeant in the Storm Brigade.
Some critics have said that President Trump is exploiting Ukraine, is taking advantage of its position right now in order to...
Exploiting.
Exploiting Ukraine.
How are we exploiting Ukraine?
Extract resources.
Between two evils, you have to pick the better one, he says.
If I have to choose between the United States and the possibility that Russia will take over our country, I pick the United States.
False equivalency.
I might as well play the last one because this kind of boils it all down to what Richard Engel is trying to communicate.
Some Republicans, Richard, pushing back this week on President Trump's characterization of Zelensky as a dictator and Ukraine as the aggressor in the war.
But what does his hostile stance mean for a potential deal to end the war?
Well, it makes Ukrainians, as you saw in that package, very nervous.
They think that Trump and Putin have some sort of...
Special relationship that they are trying between the two of them to carve up Ukraine.
And Ukrainians say that if there is a bad deal, if they are forced to accept a deal that leaves this country weak and unstable, it would only lead to more conflict in years to come.
They see right now the future of this country is being decided.
The future map of Ukraine is being locked into place, at least for now.
The borders are going to be potentially redrawn.
And the very They're skeptical, based on what they've seen so far, that President Trump is going to be an honest broker.
And they worry much more that he's going to cut a favorable deal for Vladimir Putin, potentially forcing the Ukrainians to sign away natural resources.
But they say, if they're in a weak position, it's bad for Ukraine, and long-term, it's bad for Europe, and also bad for the United States.
Wow.
Everything's bad.
It's bad.
And, you know, the thing that I'm working on a supercut, I just don't have enough good ones.
This guy.
No, it's Engel, man.
I don't have enough good ones yet, but there's this ongoing messaging that I'm seeing from M5M, and the message is there's a growing backlash.
Voters are fed up with Doge and fed up with what Trump is doing.
And they're pressuring Republican lawmakers.
They're pressuring them.
And, oh, there's a lot of pressure from people.
I see no evidence of this.
There is zero evidence of what you just said.
I'm noticing it, too.
I'm noticing on MSNBC and NBC mostly, also a little ABC. They're doing this.
They're making these claims that, oh, his numbers are down.
Trump's numbers are going down.
Even PBS won't go that far, although Brooks and Capehart will.
Oh, you have a Brooks and Capehart?
Well, if I'm going to bring this one in, it's going to probably have a follow-up clip, but this is Brooks and Cape.
This is the classic example of PBS's analysis.
They bring Brooks and Cape.
This was last Friday.
They bring Brooks and Capehart to talk about what's going on with Ukraine and Trump.
So let's start with Ukraine.
No one expected Donald Trump to handle global affairs like his predecessors.
But he has fully adopted Russia's false propaganda on Ukraine, calling Zelensky a...
How come he didn't say playbook?
What's wrong with the script?
Rewrite that script.
...tater falsely stating that it was Ukraine that started the war.
Oh, this is...
This is...
This is the literal rewriting of history that they're doing.
This is an ongoing rewrite of history falsely stating that Ukraine started the war.
This is amazing.
Rhetorically turning against a democracy that was invaded in favor of the invader.
What are the implications, Dave?
Yeah, it's pretty revolutionary.
I mean, I think first you can say goodbye to NATO. NATO is really built around Article 5, the promise we make to each other that we will...
Defend each other.
And I don't think Trump is going to defend anybody else.
But I think the bigger story is a shift in values.
That American foreign policy and Western foreign policy has been built around democracy, promotion, human dignity, human rights.
And so we banded together to sort of promote those causes.
Donald Trump doesn't see that world that way.
He sees the world as a place where ruthless mafiosos get to do what they can.
There's a famous line from the Peloponnesian Wars, the strong do what they can, the weak suffer what they must.
And so I think in Donald Trump's world, there are three ruthless mafioso countries.
Russia will have hegemony over its region.
We will have hegemony over our region.
And China will have hegemony over their region.
And so anything that gets in the way of ruthless mafioso is being eliminated.
And some of that is international alliances.
But some of this is just the idea that you shouldn't interfere in other people's elections.
And some of it is the idea that you shouldn't be able to invade neighboring countries.
And so all those rules are being rewritten.
What about that?
Are we on the precipice of the end of the alliance as we know it?
There's nothing David said that I disagree with.
There's nothing David said that I disagree with.
There's nothing David said that I disagree with.
So is this the idea of perspective?
So when we watch PBS NewsHour, we get some sort of indication that maybe we can get...
Some understanding of what's going on.
But no, we have two guys who agree with each other on everything they say, all anti-Trump.
You've got the one guy, the Cape Heart, the prissy character, who just hates Trump because he's a big Kamala supporter.
And you have David Brooks, who claims to have once been a conservative, and he hates Trump because he's always been wrong about him from the get-go.
And so we have two haters on here, and this supposedly gives the public perspective.
Stop giving these people money.
Why can't they find someone who can maybe describe what Trump is doing in some positive way or in any way other than, oh, he's just a mafioso.
All he wants to do is push people around.
Come on.
You are tilting at windmills, my friend.
I am.
Here, play the Trump versus Zelensky, which is another PBS clip.
President Trump levied new shots against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky today.
First, he told a radio interviewer that he didn't think it's very important that Zelensky attend meetings aimed at bringing the war to an end.
Then President Trump stepped up his criticism while speaking to a group of governors gathered at the White House.
I've had very good talks with Putin, and I've had not such good talks with Ukraine.
They don't have any cards, but they play it tough.
But we're not going to let this continue.
This war is terrible.
These latest comments follow a week of escalating tensions between Trump and Zelensky, which has seen the president refer to Zelensky as a dictator and falsely claim that Ukraine started the war.
They keep doing that.
Yeah, they falsely claimed that he started the war.
He mentioned in passing there was a clip that you played earlier.
Where he says if he hadn't started the war, in other words, he didn't go right to the negotiating table, and he'd begun fighting in defense, we could say, which is fair.
But it's not the same as, this guy started the war.
He never said that.
In fact, a lot of stuff that's going on on PBS and NPR both, mostly PBS, by the way, is false accusations.
They're saying stuff that didn't happen, didn't exist.
You can play this clip if you want to continue this kind of thinking.
This is the Pentagon firings and certain kinds of BS in this report from PBS. President Trump's shake-up of Washington reached the Pentagon as he fired several top military leaders, including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the admiral leading the Navy.
Last night, Mr. Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said they were dismissing Air Force General C.Q. Brown as the country's senior military officer.
Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the first woman to lead the Navy.
General James Slife, the vice chair of the Air Force, as well as the top lawyers for the Army, Navy, and Air Force.
The president has selected retired Air Force Lieutenant General Dan Cain to be the new Joint Chiefs Chairman.
That job requires Senate confirmation.
Mr. Trump has spoken highly of Cain since meeting him in Iraq during his first term.
Eric Edelman has served in several senior positions in the state and defense departments under both Republican and Democratic presidents.
He's now at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
Mr. Edelman, how unusual is this?
A new president coming in in his first month, getting rid of the...
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and a bunch of other leaders.
It's crazy!
It's unprecedented, John, as far as I'm aware.
We've had presidents relieve other senior commanders of positions.
Of course, President Truman relieved General MacArthur during the Korean War.
President Obama relieved General Stan McChrystal.
But that was for cause.
And in this instance, no cause has been given.
So it's really unprecedented as far as I can see.
Oh, hold on a second.
Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964. He just got in, walked into the office, immediately appointed William Westmoreland as chief of staff, fired the other guy.
You're out, you're in.
As soon as Richard Nixon got in, immediately replaced Westmoreland with...
Creighton Abrams in 72, the minute he got in.
Gerald Ford appointed William Wayland as chief of staff in 74, served until 76. George H.W. Bush, as soon as he got in, he appointed General Marshall Thurman.
This is bullcrap.
And they're just playing this straight up because this guy comes on and says, oh, I don't think so.
This is unprecedented as far as I know.
And this is PBS playing this as news?
Are you kidding me?
The difference here is President Trump fired them.
He should have said, I've relieved them of duty.
You see, it's a little kinder.
I've relieved him of duty.
That's what it should have been.
Relieved him of duty.
These reports from PBS are pathetic.
We're never going to make four more years at this rate, people.
This is no good.
I want to get back to this backlash, though, because I have a boots-on-the-ground report.
Tonight, the Pentagon announcing it will eliminate the jobs of some 5,400 employees beginning next week.
The latest and one of the deepest known cuts to any one federal department.
A DOD statement saying the termination of as much as 8% of the civilian workforce is to, quote, produce efficiencies and refocus the department on the president's priorities.
A new Washington Post poll shows the president's early actions are unpopular, supported by just 43% of Americans.
57% of respondents telling the Post they believe the president has exceeded his authority.
The president dismissing concerns about the cuts without providing evidence.
No evidence!
We've polled it, and people are thrilled.
They can't even believe it's happening.
Earlier, the president speaking to a bipartisan gathering of governors at the White House.
The president also butting heads with Maine's Democratic Governor Janet Mills over her state's refusal to comply with the president's executive order seeking to ban transgender women from women's sports, threatening the state's federal funding.
You better comply, because otherwise you're not getting any federal funding.
Good, I'll see you in court.
I look forward to that.
That should be a real easy one.
And enjoy your life after governor, because I don't think you'll be in elected politics.
So, just on the backlash.
And by the way, now there's a video going around of this governor in a drag show.
Oh, really?
Yeah, she's dancing and prancing on the stage in some sort of weird outfit.
That's what you do.
That's what you do as governor.
So Tina and I were invited to the annual Lincoln-Reagan dinner here in Fredericksburg Friday night.
Rick Green from the Patriot Academy invited us to go and sit at his table.
He was emceeing the event.
And so this is...
I don't support any political party.
I've never belonged to any political party.
This was the Gillespie County, Hill Country, Texas GOP. 100%.
I'll bet.
And Chip Roy was there, and he did a couple of minutes of schtick saying...
It really was schtick.
Did he talk about his latest resolution to get us out of the UN? He did talk about that.
He talked about all of the different...
Bills that are coming that are meant to put the executive orders into law.
So we talked about that.
Then we also had Ellen Troxclare.
I think Troxclare.
She was our district, this district's representative.
And she did a lot of hey guys, you know, a little waffling.
So the keynote speaker was actually interesting, this young Latino kid, Abraham Enrique, and he talked about how they got the Latino vote for Trump, and because it was a Lincoln-Reagan dinner, he referred to Reagan, I guess, said at one point, he says, Latinos are Republicans, they just don't know it yet.
And his big joke of the evening was, Republicans are Latinos, you just don't know it yet.
The kid was funny.
That's a good twist.
The kid was good, but...
We like Mexican food.
But there was no pushback.
No one was booing any of the things that were being discussed.
You know, cheers for Doge.
Everything's fantastic.
The thing that was really disappointing is everything was...
Democrats are stupid.
The liberals are insane.
They're no good.
I'm like, you people, this is like, that's not, you know, at one point, this Enrique kid, he says, you know what Democrats don't do?
And people, they don't go to church!
I'm like, you know, dude, like, they are just as unhinged as the Democrats.
And I think they're making a big mistake by this rah, rah, rah, oh, it's all so great, it's all fantastic.
Spiking the ball.
Yes, and then the final speaker, this was a huge mistake.
He was like a politics nerd.
He might be, he's doing stuff in the Texas Senate.
And he went on, he had a hundred PowerPoint slides, you know, with graphs and pie charts.
And he's telling everybody that, and this is true, I know that the Republicans in the Texas House at the Capitol...
They're all teaming up with the Democrats just to get on the right committees, and they're not really doing any of the things that you'd expect Republicans to do.
And he was so boring that his message was lost, and they were like, ah, Trump, it's all great!
And they're missing that their own state is in peril by, I guess, what you'd call rhinos.
It was kind of disturbing and disappointing.
It's like, no, just as you need to have a counterbalance, a smart counterbalance in our political system, which we don't have.
Democrat Party is all trams.
You know, you can't just sit around going like, yeah, Trump took care of it.
You're going to be disappointed in like 24 months.
Because that's, you know, this president, he really has like 100 days to get everything done.
Because then everyone's going to start thinking about midterms and they're all going to be running around trying to unseat each other.
So, you know, I was like, really?
That's what it is?
Disappointing.
Yeah, these kinds of things are always that way.
Yeah, I've never been to one.
Partisanship.
It's just very dull.
They did have good pulled pork for dinner.
I'll have to say the pulled pork was amazing.
Well, for Texas.
Texas is not a pork country.
It's a beef country.
Yeah, it was good.
It was good.
Here's another, let's see, federal firings.
This is from ABC. Tonight, President Trump taking a victory lap, touting his federal firing spree to a crowd of supporters gathered at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
I've ended all of the so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion programs across the entire federal government and the private sector.
And notified every single government DEI officer that their job has been deleted.
They're gone.
They're fired.
You're fired.
Get out.
You're fired.
And tonight, Elon Musk posing a new ultimatum to federal workers.
Explain what you've done or resign.
Posting on X, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week.
Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.
Musk giving no details about the criteria or who will judge the responses.
But polls show voters are concerned.
A Washington Post-Ipsos poll shows 53% of Americans disapprove of what Trump has done since the office.
57% said Trump has gone beyond his authority as president and only 34% approve of how Musk has handled his role.
Republican lawmakers starting to feel the heat.
Angry Americans across the country from Georgia to Kansas are pushing back.
We are all freaking pissed off about this.
You're going to hear it and feel it.
And overnight, President Trump firing the nation.
They literally have one.
So Americans everywhere are there.
Oh, they're pushing back.
It's a real problem.
They have one soundbite.
Americans across the country from Georgia to Kansas are pushing back.
From Georgia to Kansas?
Is that across the country?
That's not across the country.
From Georgia to Kansas, it's like a four-hour drive.
It crosses the Bible Belt right through the buckle, but that's about it.
Angry Americans across the country from Georgia to Kansas are pushing back.
We are all freaking pissed off about this.
You're going to hear it and feel it.
And overnight, President Trump firing the nation's top military leadership, ousting General C.Q. Brown as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the nation's top military officer, alongside several other senior leaders.
Trump aims to rid the military of leaders who support diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, as Brown and some of the others who were fired had done.
So a lot of our producers work in government, and I've received a lot of emails from people.
And they receive this, tell me the five things you've done.
And the general consensus that I'm hearing is, first of all, funny enough, they feel their work-life balance has improved now that they have to go back to the office.
Ah, yes.
I can see.
Well, I think that makes sense.
That's work.
And then you go and you go home.
Yeah, as opposed to just being working the whole time and running back to your laptop.
This is a very typical business move.
I've fired people from my companies.
I've fired people who I was friends with.
It's very difficult, but certainly if you think New Ideas was a service business and we lost a client, then the team has to go if you can't replace it.
You can't have eight people dragging down on slim margins as they were.
It's very hard.
It sucks.
We had 700 people at one point.
And then, yeah, you say, okay, you know, we've been around for a year and a half.
Now let's see what everyone's doing so we understand.
And we'd say, you know, describe what you're doing.
What have you done?
But there was always a follow-up.
And it was, how could we make you more productive?
And I don't know if they're going to do that.
And everything I'm reading from people is, you know, our systems suck.
The middle management sucks.
We're not empowered.
It's a big one.
We're not empowered.
So I wonder where they're going to put the actual E in Doge into efficiency.
Because something has to change in the way things are done.
Yes, I think not.
You think that's not going to happen or you don't think it's necessary?
Both.
Because a lot of this is make work.
Sure, sure.
It's a giant welfare system to keep people employed and keep the economy running.
A lot of these government jobs, it seems to me.
And having worked in the government, I'd say you don't have to.
Okay, well, you definitely have that experience.
Well, I'm going to lead you into another list of clips.
We have, as we know, quite a number of postal service workers who listen to the No Agenda show.
Mail carriers are big podcast listeners.
Surprise, surprise?
Well, they should be.
They should be.
They love listening to the podcast.
They're not watching YouTube.
No, they're listening to the podcast while they're running around.
People have been there for 25 years or more.
And now they're very worried about what President Trump is going to do with the post office and the United States Postal Service.
And I see that you have a number of clips about this.
I do.
And the thing is, again, we're dealing with, I think, a slanted There's reporting from PBS, incredibly inaccurate.
They're promoting that.
You know, this is all anti-Trump stuff.
Can we just say that the Postal Service was written up in the Constitution?
It's not just like, I don't think it's something you can just get rid of.
No, you can't, and it also actually predates the Constitution.
Does it?
Oh, really?
I didn't realize that until these clips, but yes.
I think it was formed in 1725, if I'm not mistaken.
Wow.
And it was part of the system.
It's a great idea.
We're supposed to have true privacy where you can send anything to the mail.
It's illegal to open someone's mail.
Yes, and there's laws that allow us to bus criminals for all kinds of different things.
Mail fraud, yes.
It's a handy little thing.
Law enforcement benefits from the way it operates.
So the thinking is they're trying to stick Trump with Trump.
He wants to look at it But they're trying to promote the idea, and there's no evidence, and I'll use that phrase, no evidence.
It's going to be a show title one of these days.
No evidence that he wants to privatize it.
Right, but our mail carriers have been completely inundated with SIOP, and that's the number one thing they worry about is...
If he privatizes it, it's going to be too expensive.
It's going to be no good.
It's going to be horrible.
They're all freaked out about that one thing.
Yes, because that's the one thing that the PBS and the mainstream media wants to stick on Trump because they know it'll freak out people.
And it's just a freak out mechanism.
Let's just blame Trump.
Currently, Trump's thinking about maybe incorporating the Postal Service into the Commerce Department and leaving it at that for a number of reasons.
But the notion of privatizing is bullcrap.
If you listen to the report, you can kind of pick up where they kind of imply that Trump wants to privatize it.
Trump has never said this, but let's go with clip one.
President Trump reportedly plans to fire the governing board of the U.S. Postal Service and place the independent agency under the control of the Commerce Department, a move that could be the first.
When they say independent agency, what does that even mean?
I don't know what it means and they don't explain it.
How can it be independent if it's under the control?
Well, I think what they're doing is they're trying to compare it to USAID. That was an independent agency?
Isn't everything an independent agency?
This is all propaganda.
It's propaganda.
We'll start over.
President Trump reportedly plans to fire the governing board of the U.S. Postal Service and place the independent agency under the control of the Commerce Department, a move that could be the first step in privatizing a service established 250 years ago.
The White House initially denied that an executive order to make that change is in the works, but late today, President Trump admitted that he's considering it.
Jacob Bogage broke the story for the Washington Post, and he joins us now.
Thanks for being with us.
Hold on.
Jacob Bogage?
Is he the progenitor of bogativeness?
Jacob Bogage?
Jason Bogus.
Nice.
Hey, great to hear from you, Jeff.
Thanks for having me.
So what are your sources telling you about what the administration is planning and what it could ultimately mean for the U.S. Postal Service?
Well, step one here would be to place the Postal Service, take it out of independent status, and embed it inside the Commerce Department.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was just sworn in today.
And we've reported over the course of months that he's been engaging with then President-elect and now President Trump about privatizing this agency.
So taking it out of that independent status would be step one.
And step two would be leadership changes.
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy announced he plans to retire soon and the Board of Governors can be fired for cause by the president.
That could be another step.
Okay.
So this report has already introduced the idea of privatization twice with no evidence.
No evidence!
Well, this will certainly lead to legal challenges.
What have experts been telling you about the authority the president would have to dissolve the Postal Service leadership and then effectively move it to the Commerce Department?
So the Postal Service has to have a board of governors.
These are bipartisan individuals.
Appointed by the president, confirmed by the Senate, and then they together select or can remove the postmaster general.
There are powers that the Postal Service has on things like service, on things like rates and prices, on major investments that can only be made by the governors.
So you have to have a board in place.
And that's kind of what's complicating this for the White House a little bit.
How do you take these individuals who can only be removed for cause from an agency that by law is independent, you can't legally move it into the Commerce Department, how do you bring that under the control of the White House?
You know, that's a legally dubious question.
He sounds dubious.
Okay, so it's a legally dubious question, and there's no evidence they're doing any of this.
In fact...
The way they presented it earlier, there was going to be an executive order, and then there was not going to be, and then Trump says, well, I was thinking about it, maybe.
This is really propaganda that we're listening to.
Just to slam Trump.
It took the media a couple weeks to get on their feet, and now they're full bore.
Full bore.
Anything they can pick up on, oh man, you should hear that Midas Touch podcast.
You know, the one that has dethroned Joe Rogan?
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
It's 15 episodes a day of...
Trump sucks!
Seriously.
Play this clip!
Trump sucks!
He's worried!
So this is the WTF clip of the series, and there's just a real eye-roller in here.
Well, President Trump, as you well know, he's long mused about privatizing the Postal Service.
And as you mentioned, the Commerce Secretary...
Hold on, stop.
This is the third mention of privatized because Trump has long mused.
Mused.
What does this even mean?
He's long mused.
Where's the evidence?
Has he written a statement saying he wants to do this?
Or he's just mused?
I mean, I've mused about it, so what?
What does mused actually mean?
It means...
Oh, kind of think about it in a casual way.
No, no.
To become absorbed in thought.
To think about something carefully and thoroughly is not what you said.
Oh, okay.
This is not casual.
No, he's been thinking about this.
And these people are familiar with the president's thinking.
Yeah, they're mind readers.
Mentioned the Commerce Secretary was sworn in today, and here's what the president had to say about USPS during that ceremony.
Well, we want to have a post office that works well and doesn't lose massive amounts of money, and we're thinking about doing that, and it'll be a form of a merger, but it'll remain the postal service, and I think it'll operate a lot better than it has been over the years.
It's been just a tremendous loser for this country.
Tremendous amounts of money are being lost.
It's undeniable that the Postal Service has been losing money.
It had a lot to do with the way its pensions were organized.
It's lost more than $9 billion in the most recent fiscal year.
Does that strengthen the case for privatization?
Does that $9 billion include the pre-funding of the pensions?
He didn't quite make that clear.
Well, he kind of indicated it might.
But yes, it obviously is why they lost so much money.
How did that end?
I'm sorry.
That was it.
How did that end?
It's lost more than $9 billion in the most recent fiscal year.
Does that strengthen the case for privatization?
Again, privatization.
So it's PBS and the media that are pounding the privatization thing as though it's a theme when it's not.
It's not a theme.
This is a creation.
This is their creation.
They may have actually pulled it off and made it privatized because of the way they're promoting it.
But they're promoting it.
Nobody else is.
All right.
Sorry.
Well, President Trump, as you well know, he's long mused about privatizing the Postal Service.
And as you mentioned, the Commerce Secretary was sworn in today.
And here's what the president had to say about USPS during that ceremony.
Well, we want to have a post office that works well.
No, this is clip four.
This is clip four.
Is it the same length?
Let me see.
Clip two?
No.
Clip three?
No.
Okay, well, obviously I failed to clip off the beginning of this one.
You're going to have to play it.
I'll pick it up.
That was a blunder.
It was another one of my editing mistakes.
I take full responsibility.
People are pushing back on you, Dvorak.
People are mad.
They're pissed off at your editing skills.
In 1970, the Postal Service didn't have a profit motive.
Its motive was to serve people all across the country with equal and reliable service.
We changed that in 1970. It's a long story we don't need to get into right now.
But we changed that to be more of like a crown corporation or a government-sponsored corporation.
So, what do we lose without an independent Postal Service?
Well, this is an agency that belongs to all of us, doesn't belong to the White House.
Because it's independent, it has an obligation to serve all of us equally, reach everybody's address with the same service and the same pricing.
A privatized postal service, or one in which mail delivery becomes political, will not have the same motivation.
Again, now they're just doing hypotheticals and then imagining what bad things are going to happen because of the privatization.
Yeah, and there's Postal Union, of course, so they can rile those people up.
This is all meant to rile people up, and it's working.
It's working.
And the last one is just a little gotcha in here.
I played this little bonus ending clip, which is like, wait a minute, let me think about this.
To your point, in many cases in parts of the country, it's the only mail carrier, the only mail service.
And e-commerce giants like Amazon rely on the Postal Service for those last-mile deliveries.
So how could that affect the mail-in packages that Americans get?
Okay.
He said that in some parts of the country, the U.S. Postal Service is the only mail service.
Are you in some part of the country where there's a competitor?
No, no.
I've never seen a competitor.
I think it's illegal, actually.
That's a good point.
That's a good point.
But they bring it up as, oh, in some parts of the country, the postal service is the only postal service.
What, FedEx won't deliver?
I'll bet you they will.
Well, it's beside the point.
The only one that does postal service, the FedEx doesn't do postal service.
You know, they do messaging.
It's basically an overblown messaging service.
Big Mike Messenger.
It's like a bike messenger, basically.
Postal service is postal service.
There's no competition.
So why would you say what he's just said?
That, oh, in some parts of the country, it's the only mail service.
As if.
This is a terrible operation, this PBS. It just gets worse by the minute.
And it's slanted and propagandistic in this reporting.
And they're part of the reason that everyone's all worked up about privatization.
They're the ones who are bringing it up.
Nobody else is.
There's some ex-account called Doge underscore USPS, and it's all, you know, people have been following.
I don't think it's an actual Doge account.
It's probably PBS put that together.
Yeah.
But they're just trying to, and I think it's part of their methodology is to try to regain union support.
Union, yeah, exactly.
Get the unions all riled up.
There was a good, I didn't clip it, Trump had a very good bit about why he picked a labor secretary, a woman, because she's a little left of center.
He says, the labor party's all supporting me.
I had to throw him a bone.
A woman?
But he's a misogynist.
I mean, look at what he's done.
He's got women everywhere.
They don't say misogynist much these days.
He's also a racist.
He's also a racist.
So he brought a whole bunch of token black people to the White House.
And I jest, of course.
And he threw them a bone.
The last administration tried to reduce all of American history to a single year, 1619. But under our administration, we honor the indispensable role black Americans have always played in the immortal cause of another date, 1776. We like 1776. In the very first skirmish of the Revolutionary War at Lexington Green, an enslaved black man named Prince Estabrook.
Do you know Prince Estabrook?
Yeah.
Answered history's call and fought as the Minutemen alongside the other patriots of the very small Massachusetts town.
Couldn't protect itself, but they did a good job.
Prince was wounded in the early morning battle, becoming not only the first African-American soldier to fight in the Revolution, but among the very first Americans to spill their blood, one of the first in the nation to spill blood in that very, very tough time.
Soon, Estabrook joined the Continental Army and ultimately won his own freedom along with that of his fellow Americans.
His legacy will endure and we're very proud to honor him today.
It's a very important day in our country and we honor him.
First person to spill blood happened to be Tim Easterbrook.
Tim!
Wait, Tim?
You switched from Prince to Tim.
First person to spill blood happened to be Tim Easterbrook.
Tim, okay.
Today I'm pleased to announce that we will be including the...
Statue of Prince Estabrook in our new National Garden of American Heroes.
We're going to be doing a Garden of American Heroes.
And now that I think of it, I must tell you, sadly, most of them, I guess all of them, are not with us any longer.
I was going to put Tiger in the Garden.
He's talking to Tiger Woods.
There was one interesting moment, and I mean, he handles this.
In a typical Trump fashion, he's calling out people, great business leaders are here with us.
I have no idea why Albert Bourla, the CEO of Pfizer, was there at the...
To get booed.
Yes!
Appreciate it very much.
We also have the head of Pfizer here, so I want to thank him.
One of the great people, one of the great businessmen.
Thank you, Albert.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
Now, do you think he's saying thank you just because he thinks that the microphones won't pick up on the booing?
Or is he saying thank you for booing him?
He smirked.
He's saying thank you for booing him?
No, I don't think he's that crass.
I don't know, man.
But he was smirking.
He thought it was funny that Burla was getting booed.
That was interesting.
It was very interesting.
It was a very funny moment, yes.
So, Big Pharma is going nuts right now.
I mean, there's report after report about measles, and we're all going to die, and the bird flu, and, oh man, there's a new, what is this, a global concern grows for new pandemic after a research team in China detects COVID-like virus in bats with the same potential to infect humans.
It goes on and on and on.
Closer to home, The GLP-1 providers, OSHMPIC, WAGOVI, they are doing everything they can to make sure that you do not get your GLP-1 except in their approved overpriced package.
Overpriced package, yes.
Look, it has a dial so you can never shoot up too much.
And I had to get these two clips.
This is from WGN in Chicago.
I think it's right after the morning news.
It's the morning show.
It's a coffee clutch.
And they bring in...
I think she's called an injection doctor, which is even crazier.
I swear to God.
I think it's like injection doctor.
And she's very well versed in what she's saying.
She's not saying the drugs that you're buying on the black market.
She's not saying that they are not good.
She's saying...
You're doing it wrong, and you don't have the expert supervision of the packaging that we have, and your provider, who, of course, you can only have your provider, can only give you the very expensive approved GLP-1 products.
I'm against all of this.
And she even throws in the side effects.
That you can get if you basically inject too much.
That's what this is all about.
But it's brought to you by this team, who of course are ultimately being paid by pharmaceutical advertisements, as don't get the black market stuff.
Everyone is running towards the cheapest available versions of Ozempic and Manjaro, but what are the dangers of getting these injectables online?
Aesthetic nurse injector Neha Thengel joins us.
Nurse injector?
I've never heard of someone like that.
She has a nurse injector now.
A nurse injector.
Manjaro, but what are the dangers of getting these injectables online?
Aesthetic nurse injector Neha Thengill joins us now to break it all down.
I saw an article recently of a Big Brother candidate or somebody who was on the show who almost died from getting black market Ozempic.
Yeah, she was on the UK Big Brother.
Yes, it is.
He almost died from getting black market Ozempic.
This is...
GLP-1 is not patented.
I don't even think it's patentable.
It's...
What does he call it?
It's a...
One of those things called...
Peptide.
It's a peptide.
So, you know, it's available.
But...
Yeah, it's Black Market.
I'm getting Black Market Ozempic.
Yeah, she was on the UK Big Brother show.
And she said that she got this injectable on the Black Market.
She took...
Quite a bit of it, more than her recommended dose.
So she took too much of it.
Okay, so was it the black market stuff or that she took too much of it?
Doesn't matter because it was on TV, it was on Big Brother in the UK. Perfect.
She said she was puking.
She was nauseated, she had diarrhea, and at one point she had three bags of vomit next to her.
Oh my goodness.
Oh no!
And then here, I just read another article.
This 26-year-old, she was a social media influencer.
You know how every company wants to use these social media influencers to get their name out?
They gave her the medication for free.
She took five times her recommended dose.
Okay, well then that was dumb.
She took five times the recommended dose.
Okay, so it's not the stuff, it's the dosage.
She didn't know that.
They told her to take.5.
She took.5 and ended up in the hospital puking.
So she knew what they told her to do still?
Apparently.
And she contacted them and there The response was, well, nausea is a side effect of it.
It is.
You know, good luck.
And ended up taking five times her dose, went back to the hospital with heart palpitations, had some elevated liver enzymes.
I mean, she could have really died, right?
So to get these medications online and not knowing who you're going to go to, the sterility of the drug and where it's being made and who you're getting it from is such a big, big issue out there.
This went on for seven minutes.
I only have another minute and a half.
I won't torture you too much.
But it was just, you're going to see a lot of this in so many ways, in this relatable format.
This was done on network TV. They discussed this situation.
What happened was the Ozempic people, who also make Wagovi, same group.
They finally got their supply chain down so they could start cranking it out again to the point where there's not a shortage as supposedly was a shortage.
That's what allowed the FDA to approve the ability of these compounding pharmacies to make this stuff.
In fact, the way the reports all ended was, now we can put these guys out of business.
I imagine that's why they're so cheap, because you don't know what's in it.
No, because it should be cheap.
Because it's a jip otherwise.
What do you mean?
You don't know what's in it.
That's cheap.
I imagine that's why they're so cheap, because you don't know what's in it.
These people should be strung up.
There's no reason for the news media to be this corrupt.
Well, to be fair.
I guess this is my thing for today, because everything you hear, every report we're playing, is just bad.
It's bad information.
This is so good, though.
They're lying to us.
It's so good.
At that all-time day high, you're a little bit more expensive.
You know, I can get it on, you know, this website or this website.
A little bit more?
It's like $60 for one and $1,200 for the other.
Expensive.
You know, I can get it on, you know, this website or this website for $50 or $100 and I say, you know, you're not paying for just a drug.
You're paying for the expertise, the knowledge, the support.
You can go online and just ask for the medication and someone's going to give it to you.
But how do you know you qualify for it?
And how do you know what drugs are good for you and what medications?
What side effects?
In a given week, probably anywhere from three to five messages I get.
Hey, I have this vial.
What do I pull the injections out to?
Or, hey, I'm having this side effect.
What do you think I could do?
And it's like, I can't really guide you because I'm not your medical provider.
You need to reach out to the company that you got the medication from.
But there are just so many people that are looking for that bargain.
And hey, look, I know times are tough.
I'm for that bargain, but at what cost?
Right, right, right.
Looking for the segment, I all of a sudden found, you know, Facebook clickbait.
Oh, my gosh.
I mean, there is just no way that you can get an injectable for $50.
Come on.
I scroll through Instagram.
Come on.
There's no way you can get an injectable for $50.
That's just not possible.
If it's not expensive, it's no good.
$50 is high.
Facebook clickbait.
Oh, my gosh.
Oh, my gosh.
There is just no way that you can get an injectable for $50.
Come on.
and no more than seven or eight different companies pop up.
And yeah, I got on there once just to see what it was.
I went through the profile and they recommended three drugs they'd never heard of.
Yeah.
And I was like, lady, all the drugs I see on TV I've never heard of.
I can't remember the names.
They recommended three drugs they'd never heard of.
Yeah.
And I was like, oh yeah, this is a bad idea.
Well, you know, are the drugs coming from China or like Europe or, you know, someplace?
Wait.
Other drugs come from China or like Europe?
That's literally where Ozempic comes from.
From Europe.
Is it from Norway?
Uh, I guess one of the European drug makers.
Yes.
Oh, if it comes from Europe, you can't trust it.
Let's see what it was, and I went through the profile and they recommended three drugs I'd never heard of.
Yeah.
And I was like, oh yeah, this is a bad idea.
Well, you know, are the drugs coming from China or like Europe or, you know, someplace like that?
Are they being regulated?
And do you know if you're a candidate, if you don't even have...
Like, a meeting with a provider, a consultation, how do you know that you're okay?
If you're 300 pounds, you need it!
What if you have an underlying thyroid issue, or you have elevated liver enzymes, or you really are a diabetic and have hypertension and things like that?
Like, I know times are tough, but at what cost do you say, I'm gonna take the cheaper route and not go see a medical provider?
I mean, I think, isn't even Kim Kardashian marketing a GLP-1 drug now?
Is that right?
Yeah, I think so.
Maybe Chloe.
One of those.
Probably Chloe.
She looks like the type.
She looks like the type.
But there's a lot of worry in the market about RFK Jr. He hasn't really, I guess Monday, tomorrow will be his first day.
Already he's issued two bombshell orders on vaccines because you know he's an anti-vaxxer.
It has mainstream doctors terrified.
Oh, they're terrified.
He ordered the CDC to scrub its digital wild-to-mild flu vaccine campaign.
That was to...
So that's good.
Yeah, that's what I would think.
He's changing the advisory committee, you know, from shills to maybe someone who has a clue.
Who actually cares.
And this is my favorite.
When he was sworn in, he had a little speech.
And I'll tell you what people have emailed me about.
Actually, I think it's in this clip.
In case you didn't hear it, there was an interesting comment by RFK Jr. in a speech he made after being confirmed as Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Who is this guy?
This is the kind of stuff I get emailed.
But it's going around.
It's worthless.
It's only 40 seconds.
Here's the part I'm referring to.
20 years, I've gotten up every morning on my knees and prayed that God would put me in a position where I can end the childhood and chronic disease epidemic in this country.
On August 23rd of last year, God sent me President Trump.
And we need a man on a white horse now.
Kennedy's reference to Trump as a man on a white horse is rather interesting from a biblical perspective.
As the rider of the white horse is the first of the four horsemen of the apocalypse, he is also the Antichrist.
So Trump is the Antichrist now.
I just wanted to say...
I'm pretty sure that the rapture comes before the tribulation, so if Trump is the first of the four riders of the apocalypse, as long as I'm still doing the podcast, you have nothing to worry about.
If I get zapped away and I'm not here anymore, then you should worry.
Until then, calm down, everybody.
Calm down.
Does that mean I get all the checks?
You also have to do all the production.
I can do production.
Yeah, sure.
I just don't like doing production.
Sure.
You're so great at editing.
I mean, what could possibly go wrong?
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Have you heard about the Super Pigs?
The Super Pigs?
Yes, the Super Pigs.
It's another plague from Canada.
Blame Canada.
I thought it was the, okay.
Man, there was like three or four ways I could have gone with that joke, and I dropped the ball on all three.
On the U.S.-Canadian border, there's an epic battle between man and beast going on, and it seems the beasts are winning.
Large wild hogs are wreaking havoc on ranches and farmland on both sides of the border.
In tonight's In-Depth, CBS's Adam Yamaguchi travels to Canada.
To track the so-called super pigs.
Super pigs!
We got super pigs!
As the sun sets on the Canadian prairie, the search begins for one of North America's most destructive animals.
These tracks are clearly quite fresh, right?
And you can see them going in both directions.
Professor Ryan Brooke of the University of Saskatchewan has been tracking them for years.
They're here for sure, no question.
And like lots of them, not just two, three.
There's a lot of pigs out there.
It's kind of mildly alarming...
Brooke is one of Canada's leading authorities on the so-called super pigs.
He calls them an ecological train wreck.
They're crossbreeds, wild boars deliberately bred with domestic pigs.
Big, smart, and prolific breeders.
Their population now spreading out of control.
Why is it so difficult to eradicate this problem?
I think there's two challenges in Canada.
One is their biology makes them very, very hard to get rid of.
They reproduce faster than you can shoot them.
Nuh-uh.
They will eat anything to survive with devastating consequences.
You've eaten everything that's a value off of it.
He's lost all this.
You know, the problem is Canada needs more guns.
We have an active tourism industry in Texas of shooting wild hogs, the super pigs.
In fact, you can rent a helicopter.
You and your buddies can go around flying, shooting up hogs.
Shooting pigs in the sky.
They'll give you a 50 cal, whatever you want.
They are a horrible plague.
They ruin everything.
Oh, they're a terrible product.
We have them in Marin County.
Terrible product.
But they're good eating.
Let's look at the positive side.
No, I've heard that they're not good eating.
Interesting.
No, I've heard nothing.
They first showed up in Marin County because somebody brought some real ones, some Marcassons, because they were used to butch when they're young.
When they're old, I don't know what that's like.
But when they're young, they make a terrific bacon.
You can have wild boar bacon.
Really?
You can also have wild boar steaks.
But wild boar bacon is just dynamite.
If it's just dynamite, you can buy it.
Whole Foods has it often.
And it's, yeah, no, they're delicious.
In fact, the idea was to bring Marcus on in for a couple of restaurants in the Bay Area that like to serve this...
Wild boar.
Really?
And then they escaped into Marin County and started breeding like nuts.
And so now there's like thousands of these stupid pigs all over the place.
They breed real quick.
Like every six weeks or something, they're popping out piglets.
It's crazy.
Yeah, so that's an issue.
And so they haven't been able to control them.
And Marin County, everyone goes like this.
Guns?
Eek!
Yeah, exactly.
So you don't have...
Exactly.
You kind of have the same as the Canadians' attitude about these things.
In Marin County, they're afraid.
So the pigs are taking over.
Super pigs, John.
Not just pigs.
They are good.
Somebody can show me some evidence.
I've had wild boar.
I used to have Marcus on it.
There's a place, a restaurant in San Rafael called Maurice and Charles, which for a long time was the number one gourmet restaurant in Northern California.
And they would serve these various pig dishes.
From these wild boar.
They're killer.
Let me set you up.
Have you heard about the pig problem in Canada?
Come on.
Come on.
You don't have one ready?
At least one of them?
One clip?
No, one joke.
Like you had all these jokes ready and I set you up.
Believe me, I dropped the ball.
For some reason, I'm not on my game today.
You can tell.
Ever since I had that one bad edit.
Which you then gave me grief about later in the show.
I have not been myself.
No, but that's when you said that you would get all the checks and you could do everything yourself.
I didn't start with the grief.
Right away, I'm dead.
Well, you're the one that says you're going to leave the show by going floating up into the atmosphere out of the blue.
I get raptured and then you're like, all you can think is, how about the checks?
Well, that seems to be the most important thing if I'm stuck.
Okay, on a more serious note, things are not going well with the Pope.
Well, it does seem that his condition has deteriorated today.
The Vatican said that he had a prolonged respiratory crisis today in hospital that required a high flow of oxygen.
He also had a blood transfusion for a disorder that seemed to be related to anemia.
Now, the doctors briefed the media yesterday for the first time since Pope Francis was admitted to hospital a week ago, and they said yesterday one of the biggest concerns is septus, which is a blood infection, and if he does get that kind of infection, it could affect his organs and ultimately cause his demise.
So, at the moment, a great deal of concern, the crisis...
He has been named by the Vatican as a crisis and his condition has been considered critical.
So a lot of millions, well millions of Catholics are going to be watching on very anxiously at the Pope's health.
What is his outlook like?
Well, the doctors who briefed the media yesterday said that he would have to stay in hospital at least another week.
Now, he's already been in there for eight days.
He's staying on the 10th floor of the Gemelli Hospital in Rome.
He has a private suite and we're getting updates in the morning and the evening.
But there is a great deal of concern about the deterioration that we seem to have seen today and tonight will be critical in terms of what happens next.
Now, this, of course, is very bad news for the Pope.
At 88, there's talk of sepsis and double pneumonia.
These are not good things at an old age.
What it is good for is for the Academy Awards vote, and we never want to put anything past the entertainment industry, the movie Conclave.
Is up for a vote.
And if you don't want to know what the movie is about, then don't listen.
I'm going to spoil it.
Do you know the plot?
You're going to give away the entire plot line?
How are you going to spoil it?
It's not possible.
Yes, I'm going to give away the entire plot line.
Okay, go.
The Pope dies right before they seal up to go talk and blow smoke out the chimney.
A mystery cardinal shows up, and he had the secret diocese of Kabul.
So all these scandals...
Is this the Stanley Tucci character?
I don't know who plays him.
Scandals.
The frontrunner for Pope, for new Pope, falls from grace after the mystery guy gets in after some stirring speech.
But then...
Turns out the new guy, the mystery guy who shows up, has an appendectomy.
Turns out he also has ovaries.
Only Hollywood could come up with this one.
And then there's some Islamic terrorist plots, and there's all kinds of issues.
Oh, brother.
Yeah, I can see what you say.
Spoil it by ruining the movie by telling us it stinks.
I like the ovaries part.
That's kind of like, whoa, alright.
Didn't see that one coming.
That's very interesting.
I'll probably watch it now because of that.
Give us a review when you're done.
The reports coming in on the Pope are contradictory.
There's reports this morning.
Oh, he's going to be fine.
He's not critical.
Oh, he's going to be dead tomorrow.
So you don't know.
Seems to me that he's a goner.
I think so, too.
And that means we have to get back into our predictive modes, and that means you, mostly, as the guy with second sense about these things.
I cannot make my prediction.
You know, this is going to be it, because you blow this one.
Then I'm done.
Then I'm toast.
Then you might as well take over the show, take all the checks for yourself.
Take the checks and let you go float up to the sky.
But there's more disappointments ahead, everybody.
I saw your appearance at CPAC with Ben and with Ted Cruz.
And one of the things that you alluded to, and this is something Donald Trump has talked about.
He's talking to Pam Bondi.
The DOJ may be releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients?
Will that really happen?
It's sitting on my desk right now to review.
That's been a directive by President Trump.
I'm reviewing that.
I'm reviewing JFK files, MLK files.
That's all in the process of being reviewed because that was done at the directive of the president from all of these agencies.
So have you seen anything?
You said, oh my gosh.
Not yet.
What?
Yes.
What?
There's no oh my gosh in the Epstein client list?
What?
No, didn't she say yes?
No, that's not what she said.
No, listen.
That's all in the process of being reviewed because that was done at the directive of the president from all of these agencies.
So have you seen anything that you said, oh my gosh?
Not yet.
Not yet.
Oh, not yet.
No.
There's no oh my gosh.
Well, she hasn't even looked at it, I'm sure.
They're sitting on her desk.
Bull crap.
I can't believe she said, but she has the JFK file, the MLK files.
All on the desk.
Do you know the JFK files is like a room full of documents?
How could it be on her desk?
Why?
I ask you.
Well, my question to you, I'm just going to paray with a question.
Why are they on her desk?
They have to be disclosed.
That was the executive order.
Did it say Pam Bondi gets the check at first?
Is she in charge of redacting?
She's ad-libbing.
Oh, well.
Disappointment.
She should be saying, well, she should have at least said, well, you know, you never know.
I can't wait.
It's on my desk.
I haven't gotten through all of it yet.
But instead she says, no, I'm not yet.
She shouldn't be going through any of it.
It's supposed to be released and released means released.
Well, the Epstein list, was that in the executive order?
I don't think so.
And what is this list?
Is it just a list of people he knows?
Or does it have like...
Five chicks, three chicks, adrenochrome.
I mean, what is in this list?
You're asking the wrong guy.
I never got invited.
You only went to that owl place.
That's the only place you went.
And that was a dud, too.
The owl.
Yeah, what was that place called again?
The Bohemian Grove.
Yeah, Bohemian Grove.
And you said it was a huge dud with a bunch of old farms.
I never said it was a dud.
It wasn't what everyone says it is.
It's just a drinking club, as most things.
You didn't get invited to the special party.
You didn't get invited to the freak-off.
That's what happened.
I guess not.
I do have one Bohemian Grove story, though.
There's always this...
There we go.
There's this story about the owl, this giant owl.
Yeah.
That was Golem or whatever the hell that was called.
The effigy that they burned for Beelzebub.
It's a big giant owl.
It's like a giant monster's owl.
And this guy says, you want to go see the owl?
I said, yeah, hell yeah, I want to see the owl.
The owl, there's nothing left.
It's rotted.
It's like a stump.
And it's like, he says, there it is.
I said, where is it?
I said, that's what's left of it.
This owl has been gone for 40 years.
It's been just rotted away from the day they built it.
And it's just nothing.
And it's like, well, that's kind of disappointing.
And that's not what Alex Jones is telling us.
Wait, but there were no old guys walking around naked, burning up the owl?
No, but I did learn something interesting.
Ah, here we go.
Floating around with some guy.
I got this flashlight.
You're just roaming around at night.
And there's all these crickets and birds and all the frogs.
All this noise.
And the guy says, stop, don't move.
So you stop and you wait about 15 seconds.
All the noise stops.
It's silent.
And now take a few steps.
There's all the frogs and birds.
It's piped in.
No.
Yeah, it was dynamite, by the way.
I was thinking of doing it in my backyard.
So there's motion sensors.
So you're walking around at night.
It's so interesting.
Chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp.
And then you stop moving.
Boom.
Silent.
Then you move again.
Ah, there it is.
Chirp, chirp, chirp.
Wow.
I thought it was a fabulous idea.
That is crazy.
That was crazy.
Huh.
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Oh, very nice, trolls, very nice.
Above average.
25.73 on the troll room count today.
Those trolls are very spicy today, John.
I've even kicked one out just to show them that I have power.
Which only, you know...
You're fired!
You have been relieved of your troll rapture.
You've been relieved of your troll duties.
They come back after five minutes.
It's okay.
It's just like refragging.
It's no big deal.
They're in the Troll Room at trollroom.io.
That's where you can join anytime we do a show live.
Of course, it's the No Agenda stream, which means you can join in anytime, 24 hours a day.
There's always somebody in there trolling about something.
Tons of live shows.
And if you want, you can also listen on the modern podcast app, like Fountain.
And you can boost.
There's chats.
There's comments.
There's all kinds of things.
We have the chapters, obviously, of these modern podcast apps.
You can find it at podcast.io.
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And speaking of the art for the chapters, that comes from our No Agenda artists.
They upload to one of our value-for-value websites, which, let's be honest, every single one of our websites is value-for-value, meaning we didn't build them, our producers built them for us as a return in value for the value they receive from the show.
And they do that at noagendaartgenerator.com, and we always like to thank the artists who we chose for the album art, but again, a lot of this shows up in the chapter art.
Which Dreb Scott always diligently puts together for us.
And we chose a piece by Tante Neal, which we have to be quick to point out.
We did not choose it because she groused about the one before that.
Yes, we have to mention that.
We have to mention that.
It was not my favorite, honestly.
It was okay.
It was the War of the Words in the Russian disinformation space.
I did like the font that she used, and it was a nice rubble-ized image.
There were a couple other ones that we looked at.
And by the way, that brings...
Where's Tantanil on the leaderboard?
Let me see.
She's one of our Dutch masters.
She is...
Wow, where is she?
Oh, that's All Time.
Let's see, Rolling Annual.
She's third place on the rolling annual.
Rolling six months, she's sixth.
Rolling 90 days, she's sixth.
But all time...
Oh, she's also sixth place of all time.
Okay.
She's up there, man.
She's important.
She's a very good artist.
And she doesn't use AI, which is something that I like.
As we look down the list, there were a lot of female pilots.
Oh, by the way, turns out, as far as I understand, the pilots of the...
Canadian Air that landed hard and...
Delta.
Delta that landed hard and wound up upside down was a 26-year-old female pilot who...
Now, it's not...
In fact, it's quite normal for the first officer to land...
She was the first officer, so co-pilot.
Not abnormal for them to land the plane while the pilot does the radio.
She had 1,500 hours, which is more than enough.
She qualified.
Bad day.
We still don't know if it was just a hard landing or if there was a mechanical failure.
But it's kind of sad because now everyone's like, well, it was a female helicopter pilot who crashed into the CRJ. It was a female pilot who rolled the plane.
This is bringing back the woman driver idea.
There's one tree in the desert and she hits it.
Yeah.
And in both cases, there was a responsible...
A sexist would say.
Yes.
There was a responsible pilot in command who is ultimately responsible for what happens, whether you're the instructor on a check ride or if you're the captain and you're allowing your co-pilot to land, it's still ultimately your responsibility.
But I get all kinds of messages.
You still think female pilots are as good as men?
Meanwhile, of course, she was named and shamed.
Of course.
So she's going to be toast.
No, she's toast.
She's scarred.
Toast.
It's unfair.
Terrible.
It's unfair.
I think so, too.
Nobody died.
That's the key.
That's what we call a good landing in aviation.
If everybody walks away.
Yeah, she's having to be upside down, but still.
Yeah, if everyone walks away.
You've got a story for life.
Yeah, well, she's probably scarred for life.
Because, yeah, they...
I'll bet she is.
I feel bad.
Ever happened before this exact kind of scenario where the play flips over?
Geez.
Yeah, that was quite a classic.
Well, we still don't know exactly what happened, but we'll know eventually.
Well, we do know one thing.
It was upside down.
It was upside down, yes.
Let's see.
There were a lot of doge cam pieces of art.
Doge cams on dogs.
Doge cams on...
People, doge cams on chicks.
A lot of rented chickens.
A lot of rented chickens.
There wasn't on Gigi, and I never met on Gigi, so I don't know if that was a true depiction by Darren O'Neill.
But no one would understand that piece of art.
No one would understand it.
You kind of like the chicken cam?
The chicken taking a selfie, which baffled me?
I did like that piece.
Yeah.
Then there was...
Lots of black popes.
A little too early for the pope jokes, people.
A little too early.
Yeah, I see.
Too soon.
Yeah, too soon.
We're not going to do that.
So, in general, a lot of AI slop, and then a very acceptable piece from Tantanil.
I didn't see much else.
No, it was pretty lame.
Yeah, it was light.
Light on goodness, I would say.
But you can only blame the show.
If we don't come...
Home with the goods and deliver some interesting storylines that people can develop art from.
It's our fault, not theirs.
Did we do anything for this show?
Do you think that we...
Not yet.
But wait, the show isn't over yet.
We still have time.
We also, in our time, talent, and treasure return of value for value, we'd like to thank people who support us financially.
It's incredibly important so that we can do stuff like pay bills.
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Collect all thousand.
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And that is exactly what Aditya Trimurti did, who is from Hyderabad in Pakistan, I believe.
No, India.
What is AP? AP? Yes.
It's probably the province.
Okay.
Sorry I said Pakistan.
That was a huge blunder on my part.
In India...
Oh, yeah.
You insulted him.
He'll never donate again.
Actually, Aditya emailed me a longer note.
Let me see if I can find this.
About censorship.
And this will probably make Aditya never donate again because Aditya will probably get rolled up.
But Aditya said that freedom of speech...
In India is almost gone.
And it's, he says, our Prime Minister Modi is a mixture of Robert Mugabe and Idi Amin.
And he's been weaponizing agencies, throwing people in jail.
You know, there was a cartoon of Modi that he had everybody, every magazine was forbidden, it was forbidden.
To actually print it.
It got scrubbed off of the internet.
He cut off Facebook, YouTube, and X. Or whenever he wants to, he gets them to shadow ban accounts.
And he says, that stupid ignorant bitch Palky Sharma that you and John rely on for Indian news is Modi's mouthpiece now.
So...
Not me.
No, I'm not relying on her, but at least she's understandable.
No offense, but it's like Africa news.
Africa news, us white people here in the West can't understand it.
This freedom of speech issue around the world, Germany, UK, India, and I can't even imagine what's going on in some of these other countries.
It's pathetic.
It is.
And remind me, I have a clip about that after we're done.
So Aditya sent us $733.33.
We love that.
Thank you.
And said, thank you so much, Adam and JCD. Jingle requests is jobs, jobs, jarbs.
Jarbs?
Jobs, jobs, jarbs.
And karma for all.
And please de-douche my fellows in India.
You've been de-douched.
And Aditya becomes a knight with this donation and requests a samosa and Johnny Walker blue at the round table.
Johnny Walker Blue.
Is that any good?
Have you ever had the Johnny Walker Blue?
The Walker Blue is the top of the top.
Yeah, it's expensive stuff.
Is it good?
It's really good.
But for the money, I would tell people to get the green.
I think Johnny Walker Green has a delicious scotch flavor that is for the price.
There's no comparison for the price.
Okay.
By the way, my night name will be Certainty of the New East India Company.
All right.
Certainty.
As in certainty.
Certainty.
Certainty.
Yes.
Another pun.
Certainty.
Yes.
Unbelievable.
Thank you very much, Acha.
We appreciate you.
Piers Chidley Chidley.
Oh, wait.
I'm sorry.
I had to do the jobs karma.
Jobs.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Jobs.
Jobs and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs.
So we've got Piers Chidley, I'm guessing, Chidley, C-H-I-D-L-E-Y, in Brighton, East Victoria, Australia.
I'd say Chidley, probably.
Chidley.
I'd just guess.
I'm going to stick with Chidley.
Okay.
He came with $526.36, which is, if that's American money, that's a lot of Australian dollars.
ITM, gentlemen, medium-time listener, first time donating.
So please de-douche me firstly.
You've been de-douched.
Been listening for about six months from Melbourne, Australia, and can't get enough.
Had to get myself...
There's another country with issues with free speech.
Yes, yes, a lot of issues.
Had to get myself some Commodore ship.
Love your work, guys.
Thank you.
Okay, well, thank you.
You got it.
Just got a message on Telegram.
Bro!
Bro!
Your quote, she doesn't use AI about Tantaniel and no agenda, is wrong!
She used AI for the last two artworks that she won, just for your info, because truth matters if you want to go to heaven.
Okay.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I'm happy.
I'm good to go now.
Yeah.
Thanks for the input.
Sean in La Habra, California, 51538, and says, I'll take Commodore over douchebag any day.
Just a thorough de-douching and some jobs karma for my friend Sam.
You've been de-douched.
Thank you, John and Adam, my in-check amygdala, and I appreciate you.
Sean from La Habra, California.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs.
Nika Karma.
And now we go to a note that came in from Crystal Galarte in Napa.
Napa, Napa, Napa.
$333.33.
And the note, which is handwritten, says, John and Adam, please add this donation to the Randy Gularte contributions.
333.33.
Thank you for the perspective.
In other words, for his knighthood, I guess.
Thank you for the perspective on current events.
You are our entertainment on morning walks and long car rides.
Yes.
And there we have Sir Donald of the Fire Bottles written on United Federation of Planets, Starfleet Command letterhead, which I just noticed is trademarked.
Is that an intergalactic trademark or is that just a trademark for the U.S.? I noticed that.
Gentlemen.
And this is 333.33.
I feel douchebaggery creeping up on me.
To dispel the evil vapors, please accept this one-tenth of a Rubblizer donation.
Long live the North Idaho Sanity Brigade.
No jingles, no karma.
Sir Donald of the Fire Bottles.
Commodore J-Stroke in Norton, Ohio.
J-stroke?
333. Hey, John and Adam, I'd appreciate John not dismissing my note with a hmm.
Can I get a harumph?
Check out chupacabracanoe.com for some great content and gear.
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Chupacabra.com.
I'm sorry, chupacabracanoe.com.
You guys are the best.
In four more years, give me a China is asshole.
Sign Commodore J-Stroke.
Donald Trump don't trust China.
China is asshole.
I'm looking at it right now.
Do they sell canoes?
Let me see.
They sell...
Oh, they sell...
That's...
Hoodies.
Okay.
All right.
So much for the canoe.
Kathleen C. Melody, St. Clair Shores, Minnesota.
Michigan, I'm sorry.
The first associate executive producer for The Bunch, $250.56.
Hello, Adam and John.
My dear friend Mike, turn me on to your show.
It is indeed the best podcast in the universe.
Can I get two screaming goats, please?
Thank you, and good business to you both.
All the best.
Kathleen C. Melody.
There's one.
And there's two.
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Belfair?
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Curtis Cole.
Cool.
That's how you pronounce it, actually.
Cool.
It's cool.
It's cool.
I knew a guy named Joe Cool.
No.
Yep.
Did he smoke camels?
East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, 200. No, Joe Kuhl was a notorious...
This is a period way back in the day when we were building cars from scratch.
I had a Sterling.
I built it.
Wait a minute.
Stop.
Here's a story I don't know.
You built a car from scratch?
Well, you buy the body from a fiberglass operation.
These were called Sterlings.
You can look them up.
Yeah, they were kits, right?
Yeah, a car kit.
And I had a Volkswagen frame.
Porsche engine.
Wait a minute.
You had one of these?
These are awesome looking cars.
Yeah.
It's like a Corvette that's been stepped on and elongated.
It's smashed.
It was fun to drive too.
Nice.
So the problem was that the taillights were never approved properly.
So you had to get a different back end for the thing because this guy Joe Cool who had bought one of these Sterlings.
Was driving around ditching cops.
And they finally caught up to him, and they threw the book at him, and then they threw the book at the car.
So they impounded his car?
Well, they took the car and they made it so everything that was on it was illegal, you know, because it was pretty, you know, you can look at the car, it's obviously some issues with the legality of the thing.
And so the taillights were the big...
Sticking point.
So they had to swap out the taillights on all the cars.
No thanks to Joe Kuhl, who I don't know whatever happened to him.
Now, did you complete the kit?
Yeah, I had driven it for a couple years.
And it says here the price of the kit was $2,100?
Yeah, yeah.
It was cheap.
What happened to it?
I sold it to some auto mechanic down in San Jose after I put in mothballs because there's a couple of features.
Just a couple things that fell off.
Like brakes didn't work.
No, the car worked fine.
The hardest part was getting a Porsche engine onto the Volkswagen transmission, and it was an experience in itself.
It all had to do with the flywheel.
And so you had to get a flywheel from a fastback, some screwball Volkswagen.
I finally got the right one.
It was unbelievable.
I gave up on doing anything mechanical.
You know what they should do?
They should do one of these kits where you just take a Tesla car engine, you know, and the chassis, basically, and then you could build your own car on top of it.
The guy who used to run Boardwatch magazine has been doing this.
Really?
What you just described.
Really?
Well, there goes that idea.
Another exit strategy ruined.
So Curtis Cool in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, came in with $200.
Halfway to nighthood with this $200.
Keep up the Commodore going for a while longer.
I want a star and an anchor on my shoulder, too.
Commodore.
Okay.
Please call out my older brother Doug as a douchebag.
Douchebag!
Tina's right.
Tina's right.
Tina.
Tina, my wife.
Is right, he says.
He writes this down very emphatically, that Tina's right.
You guys could handle a few chickens.
I think there's a thing going on at the household there.
Yes, I believe so.
I believe so, yes.
Well, he says she's right, that Tina, your wife, Tina, We got the message.
We have 12 chickens with two coops and they're pretty easy to care for.
Sure.
To care for, yeah.
Get some meat rabbits instead if you don't want...
I can just imagine.
The rabbit poop is cold fertilizer and can be put directly into a garden.
I'm with you, Curtis.
This is not a good idea.
She will never hear this segment.
I will cut it out.
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Steven Peterson in Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia.
We got a lot of Aussies today.
That's a good thing.
That is good.
200 bucks.
Greetings from Queensland, where we are fast becoming a Starmer state.
Starmer-ish, he says.
Starmer-ish, which is the head prime minister of the UK who's a dick.
Thanks for your entertaining...
Wait, wait, wait.
You can't go to that wedding in the UK now because they're going to arrest you at the airport.
I just said he's a dick.
He knows that.
You cannot say that.
You can't.
Thanks for your entertaining...
Well, I'm sorry.
Too late.
That doesn't count.
Thanks for your entertaining and informative work.
No jingles, no karma.
Well, thank you for the...
For the help from down under.
Yes, and even though it's, I guess that's Queensland dollary-do's?
Yeah, well, it doesn't get to the three.
It's all right.
Well, he gets in as an associate executive producer, along with our other associate executive producers and executive producers, and we do have some Commodores to welcome on later on.
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Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
Donald Trump don't trust China.
China is asshole.
Shut up.
So there's a lot of news about privacy and we were just talking about the UK and your friend, the Prime Minister over there, your buddy.
As the UK had said to Apple, we have to be able to access everybody's stuff.
You cannot encrypt it.
And here it is.
Apple scraps encryption security feature after ordered to create a backdoor for Big Brother Starmer to access British iPhone users' texts, audios, videos, and pictures.
Yes.
Yes.
So you have an end-to-end encryption feature on Apple that also goes into iCloud, which means you encrypt it and then it can't be decrypted on the iCloud.
That's what they say.
That is now no longer available to UK users of the iPhone products, so they are easy to buckle.
In the Netherlands, looks like the Netherlands will be the first with a digital ID from the government.
Yay!
Yes.
So you will have to authenticate for all kinds.
Everything in the Netherlands is digital.
You will need this government digital ID in order to access any services with the government, which means, of course, it's just one small step away from, I don't know.
Chipping!
Well, no, to be authorized.
Or authenticate yourself in order to use social media.
Social credit score.
Well, yeah.
I mean, you will be known.
Apparently also there's a bill for this in the UK. But don't worry.
You don't have to worry.
Don't worry, people.
Don't worry.
A new piece of legislation introduced last week.
I say it's a new piece of legislation.
It's a rehash of an old piece of legislation that the Tory government had attempted to push through.
I want to focus on digital identity.
This is going back a couple of years.
One type of digital identity which could be developed under the trust framework is similar to a wallet, but created securely on your device.
It lets you store various trusted pieces of information about yourself.
We call these pieces of personal information attributes.
The really excellent thing that the government has now announced, and everybody will be extremely impressed by this, I have no doubt.
is the Office for Digital Identity and Attributes.
This has been launched in the last few days.
This organisation is all about enabling digital identities.
And they say in this blog post, to prove who you are across the economy today, you have to use a patchwork of paperwork from the government and the private sector.
Proving your age in the supermarket, opening a bank account, buying a house.
These processes are complicated, time-consuming and expensive.
There is a better way to check that someone is who they say they are.
We call this digital identity.
Digital identity can make people's lives easier and unlock billions of pounds of economic growth.
And they say in this blog, we're doing this without any form of government identity card.
So don't worry, it's...
All absolutely voluntary.
Don't worry.
The system does not involve a centralized database, they say.
Using a digital identity will be completely voluntary.
You will be in control of your data and who it's shared with.
And they say that instead of a centralized database, you'll be able to choose from the range of digital identity and attribute providers based in the private and charity sectors.
I think Noah Jenner should register to be an attribute provider.
Okay.
I think that's a great idea.
You know, already I'm getting emails from people saying, I want to move to the States.
Will you vouch for me?
See, I won't sponsor you, but yeah, I'll vouch for you.
Sure.
You're a good producer of the No Agenda show.
That's what I will say.
You're a solid person.
People are leaving the country.
I can see why.
And the fact that they say, don't worry.
Whenever the government says, don't worry, you're probably in trouble.
Now, there was one thing that, and I don't know exactly where the $5,000 number came from, but President Trump is talking about the savings of doge, or as Kara Swisher likes to say, doggie.
Which is exactly what Matt, she got that from Rachel Maddow.
She's the one who developed that joke.
But she has to keep saying, doggy, that's what I call it.
Doggy, that's what I call it.
Doggy, that's what I call it.
Cute.
It's not even cute.
It's dumb.
Anyway.
I meant that sarcastically.
Yeah, he says 20%, what was he saying?
20% will go to pay off the debt.
60% will go towards the budget for next year.
And 20%, he's going to give to Americans cash, a check, $5,000.
Have you heard about this?
Oh, yeah.
I think Musk is the one who introduced the idea to Trump who ran with it.
I mean, can they even do that?
He can't do that.
This is another blurt.
It's a blurt.
Okay.
All right.
When I get the check for five grand out of the blue, I'll be happy.
According to New York Democrat Jasmine Crockett.
Oh, yeah.
What a dipshit she is.
Now, President Trump says he likes the idea of giving some of the savings from Doge back to Americans as kind of a dividend.
Would you support that?
Listen, he's just telling a lie.
He's not the one that had anything to do with the $1,200 refunds that people had during the midst of COVID that was done by Democratic House and Democratic Senate.
Right now, what they're going to do is say, hey, we want to give you a refund, but Congress won't let us because they already know that there's just no money for that.
The only reason that those refunds came before was because we were living in different times.
This was a time in which, hopefully, Hopefully we won't ever go through again.
We had a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic.
The bad part is that I don't know if it's once-in-a-lifetime because we know that Ebola, unfortunately, was detected right here in New York here recently.
And if we continue down this road of getting rid of scientists or deciding that we don't want to rely on experts as relates to what they're telling us to do or we don't want to deal with vaccines and medicine in this country, then we may be facing not only our next pandemic but our next pandemic.
Two, three, or four pandemics because of their incompetence.
So no, we are not in the business of giving out money.
And honestly, I don't know what $5,000 will do for you.
What?
No.
Okay, this woman.
$5,000.
I can do a lot for me.
I do a lot for anybody.
So she is like, they're grooming her to be the next presidential candidate.
They're really pushing her.
Really?
She has a machine behind her, yeah.
Oh.
This I did not know.
Because she's a chatterbox and she can keep yakking away.
They think they can mold her into something that's important.
Oh, boy.
She's a total dipshit.
You know, just talk about Germany.
They've got the elections coming up.
Their results are coming in today.
It's taking place as we speak.
And it looks like...
Let me see.
I have the latest here.
I don't think we have a full count yet.
According to Süddeutsch's Wahnsinn, the two main parties, each lingering near the 5% mark, just barely crossed the threshold.
Razor-thin margin.
If the numbers hold as a final outcome, Friedrich Merz will not be able to build a coalition.
And the Alternative for Deutschland has doubled their amount of percentages and supposedly seats in the German parliament.
So that will be very interesting to see what happens.
We really won't know until tomorrow, I guess.
We're going to play these clips about the elections.
And again, it's public broadcasting propaganda.
Let me guess.
Far-right?
Extreme-right?
Nazis?
Elon Musk?
Well, there's a little of that, but it's more subtle in this case.
They're talking about the dangers, of course, of the AFD. But the other thing is they keep making the assertion that the Trump administration is supporting the AFD and is countering American interests and the Trump administration is supporting them and blah, blah, blah.
When, in fact, Elon Musk is indeed supporting them.
And then what J.D. Vance said at the Munich Security Conference, where he scolded the EU in general and Germany specifically about their freedom of speech issues.
He never said anything about the AFD, but they're making the implication that because he said that, that means he's supporting the AFD. In the German capital of Berlin today, a man was critically wounded in a knife attack at the city's Holocaust memorial.
And the suspected attacker was arrested hours later near the scene with blood on his hands.
All this just two days before voters go to the polls in an election dominated by concerns about immigration.
The country is expected to reject the incumbent left-leaning Chancellor Olaf Scholz in favor of a center-right candidate followed closely by an anti-immigration party that has the backing of the Trump administration.
Special correspondent Malcolm Braden reports now from Germany.
Magdeburg in former East Germany.
Two months have passed since the terror attack by a Saudi Arabian doctor who drove his car into a packed Christmas market, killing a nine-year-old boy, five women, and injuring 300. The tributes have diminished, but not the grief of El Kepesh.
There have since been two more Islamist attacks in southern Germany that have claimed four lives and driven Magdeburg street food vendor Diana Daum to despair.
One attack after another happens.
How far does it have to go?
The attacks have galvanized support for the anti-immigrant AFD, the Alternative for Germany party.
Now is the time for our security, says leader Alice Weidl.
Now is the time for a new beginning.
Oh, Alice Weidel.
Alice Weidel.
You know, there's another guy, Mertz.
Yeah, it looks like he's the Christian Democrats and the CSU. What does that stand for?
The Christian Democrat Union.
Okay, so it looks like they are claiming victory.
They should win, and this Mertz guy, who's, as I mentioned, in the newsletter, and there's a photo of him compared to Mr. Peepers, a character from the 50s.
He does look like Mr. Peepers, doesn't he?
He looks just like him.
He's a wimpy guy.
He's a total wimp.
But he speaks, his English is really good.
Oh, okay.
Do you have a clip of him speaking?
No.
Oh, great.
There may be him speaking within these clips, but this is just a rundown of the election, and the propaganda that...
Somehow Trump is supporting the AFD when that's not true, but the PBS wants to push that narrative because they're far right, far right, far right.
While the AFD has doubled its popularity since the last election, it's expected to come second, but barred from joining the next governing coalition.
Barred!
All the opinion polls suggest that the center-right Christian Democrats, the CDU, will win the election and lead Germany's next government.
They've accused the outgoing left-leaning coalition of being soft on immigration.
The CDU is promising to restore law and order and make the country safe again.
Unless there's a major upset, Germany's next chancellor will be Friedrich Merz, a pro-business lawyer.
During a debate with social democrat rival Olaf Scholz, Merz warned of the consequences of failing to tackle migration and Germany's flagging economy.
Then we will finally slide into right-wing populism, and I am standing here to avoid exactly that.
I will only sign a coalition agreement that includes a turnaround on migration and a turnaround on the economy.
Scholz, the outgoing chancellor, also signaled his willingness to get tough on immigrants.
Perpetrators must be severely punished, and if they've committed such offenses and do not have German citizenship, then they must certainly expect that we will return them to their country of origin.
Hmm.
Big talk.
Where were you years ago, dude?
Dude.
Dude.
So, on with the three.
Despite its popular support, the AFD is regarded as beyond the pale by all the mainstream parties.
and they've agreed a so-called firewall to keep the far right out of office.
But can Mertz create a stable coalition government without the support of the AFD? Catherine Kluver Ashbrook is a German-American political scientist.
If that coalition holds is strong enough in terms of its majority, then he can absolutely push out and sideline the AFD. Now, is that majority going to be stable enough for the AFD to not hit the coalition with a lot of obstructionism and make their life very hard?
Those are what the numbers on Sunday will show.
Right now, those numbers are very, very tight.
Helped controversially by Elon Musk, who declared his support for the AFD when he interviewed Alice Weidel on X.
Only AFD can save Germany.
End of story.
Yes, because you rightly said there is a difference of making a law and then enforcing it.
Then Vice President J.D. Vance entered the fray at the Munich Security Conference.
What no democracy, American, German or European, will survive is telling millions of voters that their thoughts and concerns, their aspirations, their pleas for relief are invalid or unworthy of even being considered.
Vance's intervention played well in Magdeburg.
We want to be heard, but we're not being listened to.
The politicians up there do whatever they want.
They lie to us and serve only themselves instead of serving the people.
They call themselves Democrats but behave in a way that is far from democratic in my eyes, especially because they always refer to German history.
This exclusion and marginalization, we've seen that before, and it must never happen again to anyone, not even to the AFD. So this Merckx guy is a former BlackRock board member.
Oh, I didn't know that.
Yeah, yeah, that kind of makes sense.
Just looking at him, you know, like, yeah, one of those guys.
So the idea that, you can hear it there, at the beginning of the report, the PBS NewsHour claimed that Trump administration was supporting the AFP. And throughout the report, we have Musk, who is...
But he's not the Trump administration.
And J.D. Vance, who just talked about free speech, has got nothing to do with it.
So that was basically just another propagandistic lie on the part of PBS. But can't they now say Trump's no good because he failed, he didn't get AFD to win?
Yeah, that's what they'll do.
Was that the last clip?
No, no, there's one more.
Here we go.
But there was outrage elsewhere.
We respect the presidential elections and the congressional elections in the U.S., and we expect the U.S. to do the same here.
Whether it's the defense minister or the chancellor or the president, but also average people feel highly offended by the fact that somebody would attempt to officially meddle in the way that they perceive the functionality of their democracy.
But the AFD's deputy leader, Beatrix von Stork, couldn't be happier.
How important is the endorsement of the United States Vice President?
I don't think it shifts numbers, but it shows to our enemies that they maybe should be a bit careful and that we have got strong allies, we have got strong connections towards the United States and towards Russia.
In recent weeks, there have been large protests against Germany's lean to the right.
Actor and musician Herbert Gronerbeier.
Our democracy is under fierce attack, be it from smear campaigns, disinformation, fake news, trolls, or from enemies of democracy in the parties and in the media, who do not just want to jeopardize our peaceful liberal coexistence, but destroy it.
Hmm.
Yeah.
There you go.
There you go.
Wow.
Yeah, these guys are scrambling.
They really hate populists.
They don't want to listen to the public.
It's the global guys.
Dead end.
What do we call them?
Those global guys.
You know, it's like the global guys.
Those guys.
I do want to call out the Daily Caller for stealing your line.
Headline, Daily Caller.
It appears Democrats have finally picked a hill to die on.
That is lifted right from you.
Well, there you go.
We get a lot of stuff lifted from this show, by the way.
I'm sure they do.
And they say the Democrats are dying on the hill of trans.
Yeah, they are.
Well, the way I'm seeing it is that they have one last shot.
Because they're true believers.
And there's a good book by Eric Hoffer called The True Believers.
Required reading for anyone with an actual education.
Or not.
It's just required reading.
And you're subscribed to such an extreme and you're sincere.
That's the thing that's always overlooked by the right.
The right thinks these people are insincere, but I don't.
They're sincere and they're going to give it one more go-round, which takes them right through the midterms.
Like, yeah, no, we're going to stick with this because it's...
The right side of history, because everyone should be trans, and we should love our trans people, and make people trans, and introduce them to the ideology of trans.
And then after the midterms, that's when the rebuke will take place, where they get serious.
So they're going to lose the midterms, it seems to me.
The Democrats, which normally they wouldn't.
Well, if they keep going at this pace...
They're not going to stop.
Why would they stop?
I had...
It was kind of funny.
Because of James Carville lecturing them?
That guy.
Let me see.
No, the...
That guy who I played the clip from earlier.
Yeah, Ken Martin.
So...
He's the guy that's supposed to provide the direction for the party, right?
He's the chair of the DNC? Isn't he supposed to...
The Milk Toast.
Yeah, Milk Toast.
What do we call him?
I already forgot what we called him.
Got a good name for him.
Milk Toast Martin.
There we go.
Milk Toast Martin.
Milk Toast Martin.
Yeah, perfect.
So here's another clip of him on Politics Girl, which is interesting.
No one watches it, but it's an interesting podcast.
And I think the thing is, is that you were saying in the campaign for DNC chair that one of your biggest concerns coming out of the 2024 election was America's perception of the two parties, right?
That they had switched somehow.
That people somehow think the Republicans are the party of the working class and Democrats are the party of the elites, which, of course, based on politics, So what do we do about that?
Because the Republicans clearly have used their extraordinary messaging machine to paint the Democrats as the enemy.
So how does the party then redefine itself under those constraints?
Here you go.
I mean, this is straight from the horse's mouth.
We're going to find out exactly how they're going to do it.
Define itself under those constraints.
Well, I think it's really important to realize, and I don't know when this happened, Lee, but our party started to message to...
Smaller and smaller parts of our coalition, right?
And while I think that worked to a certain degree, what we lost is the thing that connects all parts of our coalition, all of these disparate groups of folks, right?
In Minnesota, I'll use an example.
I mean, what connects a corn farmer in southern Minnesota with a steel worker on the Iron Range with a new refugee in the Twin Cities?
It's economics, right?
It's kitchen table issues.
It's a belief in the American dream.
The belief that if you work hard, no matter where you're from, no matter where you live, no matter who you are or who you love, you should be able to actually achieve economic success and climb the economic ladder, build a better life for your family, right?
Yet so many people right now, and this has been happening for some years, so many people who are part of our coalition feel That they can't achieve that American dream, that there are obstacles in their way, that they're being forgotten and left behind, right?
They're working their asses off.
They're working harder than they ever have before, and they don't feel seen or heard by a government, whether it's state and local government or the federal government.
They don't feel seen or heard by politicians.
That doesn't sound like much of a strategy to me.
But it does lead to a clip.
Oh, bingo, boom, shakalaka.
This clip, this is the cult clip.
I got this off of the net.
I like to see the whole thing.
You got it off the net.
I got it off the net.
And they're discussing which party is a cult, and they talk about how the Democrat Party is a cult.
And what he described kind of fits into what this woman's saying about being an ex-Democrat, a cult member, because they don't let you talk to...
To them, they shut you down.
Here we go.
I think both sides are very tribal.
Yeah.
But in terms of cult, at this moment in time, I think the left is more cult-like.
I was in it for 20 years.
What's known today as the woke left, but we used to call it social justice left, progressive left.
Known by conservatives as woke.
Right, but here are some of the characteristics that I think make it.
More cult-like than perhaps the conservative side.
One is that if you had questions, you had to check your privilege.
There was always some line that they would use to get you to stop asking questions, which is sort of cult-like.
And then the other thing was there was this encouragement to separate from people who didn't agree with you.
And so I slowly over time whittled my world down to just people who were in the social justice left.
And there was really...
For people who left, which I did eventually, which was a long process, it's a bit like you become an apostate.
You don't just leave or have different opinions.
It's like once you leave, you can't come back.
Oh, man.
This reminds me of a story.
I didn't hear this story firsthand.
I heard it from Tina, who heard it from someone here at the women's group.
One of the many women's groups.
A lot of women's groups here, and I learn a lot from them.
Relatively new people.
Moved from California to Texas.
And they had a dinner party.
And they had a big mansion.
And so everyone's in there.
And, you know, so it's a big to-do.
There's all kinds of other details which I'm going to leave out.
I'll tell you later about those details.
And so at the table, the topic of the Dixie Chicks comes up.
And I had to look it up.
The Dixie chick said something disparaging about then-President H.W. Bush.
W. And I had to look up what it was.
It was kind of funny in hindsight because they said on stage, we're ashamed that our president is from Texas.
That was the entire line.
And they got...
They got deplatformed.
They had the number one song on the country charts, the number one album.
For three years, they could not get their record played on country music stations.
And they ultimately wound up changing their name to The Chicks, which I thought was kind of odd.
It's like Lady Antebellum just had to change her name to Lady A because they're also woke.
And so the hostess says, what do you think of that for the Dixie Chicks?
And someone said, well, I thought it was kind of ridiculous.
The hostess picks up her plate, slams it down on the table, and storms out and didn't come back for the rest of the party.
What?
Yeah.
Completely unhinged.
What was she unhinged about that?
That they didn't agree that the Dixie Chicks were straight-up heroes for saying they were embarrassed the president was from Texas.
And that someone had the audacity in her home to say, well, no, it's kind of ridiculous, that whole thing.
So this woman that stormed out was a Republican?
No, she's from California.
Hello.
See, I'm not getting the gist of this then.
Oh, because she didn't defend the Dixie Chicks as being...
Righteous.
Yes, then the hostess who was clearly...
And so the hostess in California thought that because she should have...
Yes, but she's in the Democrat cult, got so outraged that she lifted up her full plate of food and slammed it on the table and then stormed out.
Wow.
That's cult, man.
That's cult behavior.
Yeah, very much.
I guess you had to be there.
Would have been better.
I'd like to have been there.
I don't think we're going to get invited now.
That ship may have sailed.
A little interesting tidbit about Newsom's Inferno here in California.
By the way, I think that battery plant is still igniting as we speak.
No, it reignited.
Yeah, that's what I said.
It reignited.
The word still is not implied.
I'm sorry.
It reignited.
It reignited.
Well...
There's some lessons to be learned about filling up your state with battery cars.
With its sun-drenched lifeguard towers, bronzed surfers, and bikini-clad volleyball players, Will Rogers State Beach is one of the most recognizable stretches of sand in the world.
Thanks to the global cult classic, Baywatch.
But now the iconic beach is barely recognizable.
Surrounded by the ruins of burned homes and palm trees, The parking lot is a sorting ground for hazardous waste from the wildfires.
The beach babes have been replaced by Environmental Protection Agency crews in hazmat suits.
The decision to sort through hazardous waste along the coast has prompted protests.
Sort the hazardous waste in its place!
Sort the hazardous waste in its place!
The EPA says there is no ideal spot and that speed is of the essence.
Steve Kalinog is the EPA's Incident Commander for the LA Fires.
What about all those Teslas and electric cars that were incinerated?
Where do they go?
The lithium-ion batteries is a unique phenomenon in our modern-day life.
When lithium-ion batteries are damaged, and in this case by high heat and flames, they have the potential for reigniting and exploding.
Days, weeks, months after they've been impacted.
So we have to treat them like unexploded ordnance, or as the military calls UXO. We have to process them so they can be transported safely to a recycling or disposal facility.
Yeah, who knows where that facility is?
Over here.
Over here, on Moss Point.
Throw it in here, no one's going to know.
They think it's part of the old fire.
Months later, it can reignite?
Yeah, this stuff is just bad stuff.
This is not a good product.
Well, since you brought this up, here's the L.A. fire chief.
The mayor fired her.
That was funny.
The mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, dismissed the city's fire chief today over her handling of last month's deadly wildfires.
In a statement, Bass said she's removing Chief Kristen Crowley effective immediately, adding that 1,000 firefighters that could have been on duty on the morning of the fires broke out were instead sent home on Chief Crowley's watch.
The Palisades fire erupted in early January and went on to destroy or damage 8,000 homes and other structures.
At least 12 people were killed.
Because they don't mention it as part of a back and forth because this fire chief blamed the mayor.
And then the mayor went to Africa.
And then meanwhile, the associate, whoever, the assistant fire chief murdered.
The other lesbian.
Murdered.
She got murdered.
I didn't hear about that.
Oh, yeah.
She got murdered and they think it may be the wife.
No.
The wife can't be found, at least as of a couple days ago.
She got murdered.
Stabbed to death.
I didn't hear about that.
In her own house.
That's the big burly one.
The one that says, you know, if you're in a far too bad.
She got stabbed to death?
Yeah.
She's dead.
Did you hear the so-called, I don't know if it was, actually the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, that call about her trip that got leaked?
Have you heard this from, I think this is from CJF, so that's O'Keefe.
Did you hear this call?
No, I don't think so.
No, listen to this.
Just in terms of my trip, just so you know, I'm missing two work days.
That's it.
And if President Biden extends me an invitation, I took it.
And hopefully you can read in between the lines.
But I would just appreciate, just, and it's hard for me to tell you this, but hold tight.
You will understand soon.
Ooh, creepy.
I couldn't understand a word she said.
Yeah, that's why I didn't clip it.
She says, I'm going on this trip and President Biden, I'm only going to miss two work days.
President Biden extended an invitation to me and just hold on.
You will find out in just a few days.
Yeah, it's a lot of insinuation.
Find out in a few days about what?
Well, that was a few days before the fire, of course.
So insinuating that she knew that there was going to be a fire.
Hmm.
Yeah, that's O'Keefe, man.
You know, I was like, I got props for O'Keefe.
He's doing interesting stuff.
You just never know.
So here is what I call the wow clip for the day.
Oh, a wow clip.
We'll take a wow clip.
Although this has been played up a little more than at the time this came out.
This was a clip of another lawsuit against NBC that they're just, eh, whatever, this is the way it goes.
NBC has settled a defamation suit filed by a Georgia gynecologist who had been falsely labeled a uterus collector.
NPR's David Folkenflik reports the segments aired on the shows of MSNBC. The coverage at issue kicked off in September 2020 after advocacy groups presented a whistleblower complaint to federal authorities.
The whistleblower was a former nurse at a facility run by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.
She alleged the doctor had performed mass hysterectomies.
The presiding judge ruled in June that, quote, the undisputed evidence establishes that multiple NBC statements are false and found that the plaintiff, Dr. Mahendra Amin, had performed only two hysterectomies there.
NBC was not protected by the fact it was relaying false claims by others, the judge noted.
The announcement in court papers of the settlement follows a number of high-profile settlements of cases by media companies, several involving President Trump.
Yeah, this is kind of interesting.
Was Rachel Maddow said stuff?
Yes, Rachel and the other ones are all full of shit, these guys.
Is that just because they just went all in on this whistleblower?
Is that what happened?
They all went all in because it was like they were pro-immigrant, pro-immigration, and this doctor was supposedly performing mass hysterectomies on immigrants.
Every time they get one in the office, they give them a hysterectomy.
But if I understand the case, it wasn't so much about the incorrect reporting.
It was more about Rachel Maddow and others saying he was the uterus collector.
I think that was part of it.
That was malice.
Yes.
Malice.
Malice.
What's the difference between malice and what's the other term?
I don't know.
Well, yeah, you can sue slander.
You got slander.
You got malice.
Oh, slander and libel.
No, malice is an element.
Slander and libel, one's in print, one's by saying something in public.
But malice is meaning that you're doing it on purpose to defame.
You're purposely defaming somebody.
That means malice.
If you did it by accident, which...
Then that's different.
Lawsuit's harder to throw at you.
But if you're doing it because you're just a mean prick.
Oh, okay.
So if she just reported straight up without her typical snarky editorial, that probably would not have been a strong lawsuit.
That's kind of what I'm driving at.
Yeah, I think that's probably true.
Yeah, she does her normal snarkiness.
Don't be snarky, Rachel.
But the thing is, it's a $30 million settlement that a person gets, which is a nice payout.
But that was Maddow's salary.
So it's a spit in the bucket for NBC and Brian Roberts, the guy who's the CEO of Comcast, who really is behind all this, I might add.
But it sets a dangerous precedent, because now, you know, she says something snarky.
They should be suing, and more suits should happen, I think.
Before we go into our break, I'd love to hear your Mangione clip.
It's just an update on Mangione's.
Here we go.
Also in New York, Luigi Mangione, the man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, appeared in court today for the first time since his arraignment on state murder and terror charges two months ago.
His attorney said there were search and seizure issues during Mangione's arrest.
Outside the courthouse, she said a number of factors are complicating his right to a fair trial.
He is being publicly treated as guilty and having the presumption of guilt as opposed to the presumption of innocence, which is what he is entitled to.
Mangione has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
He faces a separate federal case that could carry the death penalty.
That's interesting because I got a text from the Zoomer in New York and she said, I'm boots on the ground, I'm boots on the ground.
And there were tons of people, free Luigi.
They all had free Luigi masks on.
They're all running around.
People with free Luigi written on their bald heads.
There was a lot of pro...
Well-organized.
Yeah, pro-Luigi stuff.
Here's kind of a related clip.
Tonight, as Luigi Mangione's murder case moves forward, reports that the Justice Department is now investigating United Health Group's billing practices.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the new civil probe is looking into allegations the company profited off false diagnoses.
Last summer, the journal reported UnitedHealth added diagnoses to patient records for conditions they weren't treated for, triggering an extra $8.7 billion in payouts to insurers.
News of a DOJ investigation sending UnitedHealth stocks plunging 7% yesterday, a $30 billion loss in market value.
The company calling reports of fraud misinformation.
And as for that federal investigation into UnitedHealth Group tonight, the DOJ declining to comment.
Yeah, yeah.
I think they're going down on that.
I think so, too.
This whole thing is going to implode, and Kennedy and Bondi together are going to make life miserable for a lot of these operations, which are scammers.
Yes.
And by the way, I'd love to have a free Luigi hoodie.
I finally got my...
A bunch of people finally chimed in, and I'm getting myself some Ohio State gear.
Yes.
I want to thank everybody for giving me a shout-out, or not a shout-out, but an email.
The notes I saw were like, the reason no one sends it to you is because you called it a third-rate institution.
That was so long ago, and it had nothing to do with the football team.
I'm going to show my support by donating to No Agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
They're like elephants there, man, in Ohio.
You've got to be careful.
When you say something disparaging, they remember.
Well, I'll tell you something.
The people that aren't third-rate are our donors.
That's correct.
Starting with Jonathan Halper.
In Charlotte, North Carolina, 16346. That's a belated Valentine gift to Zelensky.
Aww, to Zelensky.
He wants some jingles you might want to add at the end, maybe.
Anonymous UK accountant in Bromley, UK, 10535. He wants some karma, too.
Sir Andy, I'd like to know where this is.
Niceville, Florida.
Niceville?
Niceville.
Oh, that sounds nice.
101. It's a happy birthday to Christy.
And she needs a biscuit for her birthday.
We'll give her that, maybe.
Yeah.
Ian Field, 100. Daniel George in Danbury, Connecticut, 100. ITM from FEMA Region 1. Let me give you the biscuit.
I just found it.
They always give me a biscuit on my birthday.
It took me a minute to find it.
Yeah, that's Camilla.
No, it's not.
Brian Lillard in Prosper, Texas.
8888. Kevin McLaughlin in Concord, North Carolina.
He is the Archduke of Luna lover of American boobs.
8008. He continues his stretch.
Sir Herb Lamb in Sugar Hill, Georgia, we haven't heard much from recently, but there he is with 8008. He's the Duke of the Deep South.
Yeah, he said he's been a bit overboard since before the holidays, but I guess he's back.
Welcome back, Duke.
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Way to go.
So you can just do it right from your phone.
You go to knowitinthedonations.com and you can hit it where you can pay right on your phone.
It doesn't get much better than that.
Yeah, you hit the donation button.
It comes up and it'll give you a little thing.
You can click on that and boom, you're good to go.
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You've been dedouched.
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You've been dedouched.
A special shout-out to John and his modern hype machine powerhouse of a newsletter.
Modern hype machine powerhouse.
Nice.
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Now he got to the $50 donors and there's not a lot of them.
Michael Sikora in New Richmond, Wisconsin.
Matty.
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Commodore Crummy in El Cajon.
Nice.
Commodore Crummy.
David Moreno, M. Moreno in Atlantic, Iowa.
He's actually in Davenport.
He has a website.
DaveMarinoSoftware.com.
I wonder what he does.
I bet he does some sort of software.
Oh, Betty Software.
Wow.
Shareware.
Oh, I'm not kidding.
He does freeware and donationware.
Oh, does he now?
Yes.
DMFileNote.
DMFileNote allows you to create descriptions for any file or folder, regardless of type.
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Saw that their sustaining donation had expired, so please check that.
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And Sir Andy says happy birthday to Christy.
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Ah, close.
Almost made it.
And then one night, it's our Indian night, so I'm going to grab out a nice...
Ooh, this is a nice Indian blade.
It looks good, this one.
Look at this one.
Oh, jewels, I tell you!
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That's quite the theory on that.
For you, we've got Hookers& Blow, Rent Boys, and Chardonnay, but as you requested, we have Samosa and Johnny Walker Blue.
It's the good stuff.
Along with that bong hits and bourbon, sparkling cider and escorts, ginger ale and gerbils, breast milk and pablum, and the mutton and the mead, which I'm sure you will enjoy.
Consuming.
You should also go to NoAgendaRings.com and there you will find a ring sizing guide.
Make sure you get us the right size and an address.
We'll send it off to you.
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Or you can use it to seal your important correspondence with the provided wax and also a certificate of authenticity.
Thank you and welcome to the roundtable.
No agenda meetups.
It's not your party.
And we do have a couple of meetups.
The producer organized groupings that take place.
There's going to be a big one in the sky, John, but you're not going to be a part of that.
Everyone's real sad.
You're just going to sit here and take all the checks.
But there's one Sunday.
There's a couple happening today.
There's another one.
Except for the checks that flowed up with you.
No, it's no good.
I'm taking my Bitcoin with me.
Hey, here's the meetup from Arlington, Virginia.
This is DC Girl at the Arlington meetup at Astro Donuts and Beer Hall.
Jeff from Springfield.
Glenn here.
John and Adam, I feel so plugged in like a battery for the New World Order.
This is Sir Bob, Black Knight of the Chesapeake Bay.
Not a spook.
Hi, Adam and John.
This is Edgar the Puppet.
I dropped Adam's name in order to score an interview with Lara Logan at CPAC yesterday.
I'm so proud of myself.
Hello, Adam and John.
This is Paolo.
Scott Horton sent me.
And this is Sir William of Wisconsin Tucky.
Don't forget to wax your ceiling.
This is Roundy.
I had nothing to do with that puppet.
In the morning!
Ah, now I gotta check Edgar.
Sir Roundy gets himself on this thing twice?
Yeah, as Edgar and as Roundy.
One as a puppet and one as himself?
Now I have to go see what he did with Laura Logan.
She hasn't yet a new podcast, John.
She's got a new podcast.
It's Going Rogue with Laura Logan.
Available on YouTube and Rumble.
Yes.
So it was Laura Logan.
I thought I heard her say Laura Loomer.
No, no.
And he dropped my name.
She'll be like, oh yeah, I know him.
He's my neighbor, Adam Carolla.
Anyway, meetups.
Did I tell you that story?
No.
We were at the opening of some bar here on Main Street, the White Elephant, I think is what it's called.
And she's there, and she's my neighbor, and she's introduced me like, hey, I want to introduce you to Adam Carolla.
And I'm like, oh, brother.
No.
Yeah.
Now, she felt bad about it because someone corrected her.
She felt bad about it after someone corrected her.
Well, yeah.
Shouldn't she have caught herself?
No?
No.
Oh my god.
It's a common mistake.
It happens.
What?
It happens more often.
I mean, how many people used to say, hey man, I love your dad's work?
Referring to Tim Curry, the actor.
That's kind of died off.
Yeah, that's died off with the years.
Yeah, I used to get a lot of that.
Today, the Orlando Yoga and Lunch Meetup is actually underway at Great Southern Box Company.
The yoga is optional.
It's in Orlando, Florida.
But, of course, it's organized by the very entertaining Dame Meowterson, so I expect a good meetup report from her.
The Indy Noah Jenner 33 Days of DJT Huzzah also underway as we speak in Indianapolis at the Dugout Bar.
They're always good for a fantastic report.
It's a big group.
Over 100 people usually show up.
Our next show day, the North Georgia Monthly Meetup, 6 o'clock at Cherry Street Brewing in Alpharetta, Georgia.
And that's what's coming up in the near future.
We do have San Francisco, California, just at the end of the month on the 28th.
And many more, actually, to be found all around the globe, including the Netherlands, Osaka, Japan, Kulemborg.
Also in the Netherlands, Tilburg.
Wow, the Netherlands are going crazy, man.
And also Wisconsin and New Jersey.
Go to NoAgendaMeetups.com.
That's where you can find an entire beautiful calendar.
It's a fantastic website with lots of features.
You can send people RSVPs, replies, updates, all kinds of things.
Thank you very much to Sir Daniel for providing that very valuable website.
NoAgendaMeetups.com.
If you can't find anything on there near you, you should just start one yourself.
It's easy and it's always a party!
Sometimes you wanna go hang out with all the nights and days.
You wanna be where you want me, triggered or hell lame.
You wanna be where everybody feels the same.
It's like a party.
Yeah, baby, always a party.
Tim Curry, 78?
Nah, it's too young.
Too young to be my dad.
It's been quite the struggle.
You could have had a kid when he was 18. Yeah.
Yeah, possible.
But then I wouldn't be working.
I'd be rich, living off daddy's teats.
Would have been great.
Instead of just podcasting.
It's been a struggle to keep up with your end-of-show ISOs.
You have had so many good ones.
I have three.
You have three.
It's time to determine which ISO we will stick at the end of the show, and I'm going to go first.
Elon the monkey!
No, I guess not.
I like it as a clip, but I don't think it's in the show.
Get fired!
No.
How about this?
This reveals a perverted mind.
This is actually pretty...
It's not bad.
It's not great.
It's not bad.
Let's try.
I'll start with Amaze.
That was Amazeballs.
Oh, man.
Already you've knocked my clip off the board.
Here we go with Crazy.
It's crazy!
It's crazy!
No, it's not.
I don't like the...
You know what that was?
No.
Jon Stewart and AOC. Yeah.
No.
No good.
Let's try Top That.
Try and top that for a killer show.
Ooh.
That was amazeballs.
I think amazeballs.
Try and top that for a killer show.
Hold the top that one because...
That was amazeballs.
That's just too good.
Where did you get that?
That came from a book.
I can't think of which one.
These books.
People, start looking at books and get me some clips.
I need some end-of-show ISOs.
And now, as always, time for John's tip of the day.
Great advice for you and me.
Just a tip with JCB.
And sometimes Adam.
Created by Dan Bonetti.
So this tip comes from the last show we did, where I had to move my gear over to another machine, and you went on and on about how great I sounded.
Yes, you actually sounded great.
Well, then after the show was over and I moved stuff around, I noticed that...
As great as I sounded, I was actually coming in from South America on a VPN. Oh, really?
Yeah, that's what I said.
That's interesting.
So I want to recommend a VPN, the one I use.
Okay.
The one I use, which I've done enough research on VPNs.
I don't like the fact that this VPN exists in the United States because it could be a spook operation, but I'm not sure.
But it does a really good job, but it does a fabulous job with bandwidth.
You send out a fast signal, megabit or gigabit.
I have gigabit material here.
It goes out and comes back faster than you'd imagine.
The last show we did came in from South America.
I'm shipping my voice to South America.
It's doing a turnaround and coming back into Texas.
And it sounded great, as Adam said.
So this product is Private Internet Access, and this will be the VPN I recommend.
Yeah, it's PIA, just one letter different from you-know-who.
PIA. So, yes, from CIA. So it's probably, you don't know, but it's good.
Only use it for your podcast, people.
Just use it for the podcast, if you're doing a podcast with me.
It's perfect.
The VPN comes in handy for any kind of illicit activities.
Yes, which you don't do.
It also prevents you from getting certain kinds of diseases off the net.
It doesn't prevent you from getting various malware, from what I can tell, but it does a good job of keeping you isolated.
And a poison pen letter is a perfect idea to have one if you don't want to get in trouble.
And it's a good product.
And it works well.
And they have nodes all over the world.
And all over the United States if you have to stay in the country.
So you want to watch some videos that are...
You have to be part of that country.
You have to be in the country to watch the video.
This is when we gather news.
We need to do this once in a while.
You put a VPN up.
Put yourself in the UK and you can get stuff that you might not be able to get over here.
And what is the cost of said product?
It's pretty cheap.
It's like $10 or $12, $15 a month, something like that.
Because I got the...
You know Christina's in this reality show in Holland?
Did I tell you that?
Yeah, you told us a couple times.
Yeah.
So I wanted to watch.
And it's so crazy.
It streams on a thing called Videoland, which is an end-a-mole service.
And so she gave me her login.
I'm like, okay.
I'll go get a VPN. And I got the ProtonMail VPN. Those guys are pretty reliable, right?
I would go with that.
They got tons of servers in the Netherlands.
And so I hook it up to a Netherlands server.
And right away, the video land says, no, that video is not available in your country.
How does it know?
I tried all the different VPN servers in Holland.
I mean, I guess they must know that that...
And by the way...
There is a blacklist that floats around.
I've found there's some of this PIA stuff sometimes hits one of these lists, depending on which nodes you're coming in from.
And you have to be aware of that, and so you have to try a different provider.
Well, I'm going to try PIA. The crazy thing is...
I would pay for it if they just let me.
But no.
No, you're not in Holland, so you can't pay for it.
Is that crazy?
Are these people insane?
Yeah, they're insane.
Exactly.
Not insane is John's tip of the day.
Find it at tipoftheday.net.
Great advice for you and me.
Just a tip with JCB.
And sometimes Adam.
Created by Dana Burnetti.
That's right.
Also, noagendafun.com, which has all kinds of other groovy things that we do, such as our book list, our movies list, and find that at noagendafun.com.
Of course, tipoftheday.net for all of those tips of the day, which is a fan favorite.
We are going to shut down the broadcast for today, but we will return on Thursday to bring you the latest media deconstruction.
I'm sure there will be a plenty.
Probably some stuff from, I don't know, EU, NATO, Ukraine, Deutschland.
The usual suspects.
The usual suspects, yes, but we love doing it for you.
Trump!
Keep those far right!
Coming up next on the No Agenda stream, you can just keep listening if you're in trollroom.io.
It's a brand new Value for Value music show.
It's the Mountain Music Happy Hour.
So check that out.
And we'll be back on Thursday.
End of show mixes, only two.
I had to cut one out.
We've got Sir Michael Anthony with the Aunt Gigi Psy mix and David Kekta.
Both perfect end of show mixes.
Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country in the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And I'm from northern Silicon Valley, where I remain.
I'm John C. Devorak.
Remember us at noagendadonations.com.
Until then, adios mofos, a hooey hooey, and such...
I'll just have an apple in my room.
You're not doing it right.
I'll just have an apple in my room.
I'll just have an apple in my room.
I'm Gigi.
She's the best.
I'm divorcing my husband because he booed Taylor Swift at the Super Bowl and I still don't think he believes me, to be honest, but he might want to start because I just filed my paperwork at the courthouse and you can see right here the date of separation is this your Super Bowl.
I'm not just doing this because of the action of booing.
I'm doing this because of everything that it represents in our relationship.
I have loved Taylor Allison Swift since I was 12 years old.
That's not a man.
That's a boy.
And when you see that, you can't really unsee it.
Get an MRI.
Get a 360 MRI if you're in it.
Have you ever noticed how Elon Musk has a resting rich asshole face?
Get a 360 MRI if you're in it.
HIV is important.
She reads her asshole face.
I'm not.
We're learning now about mitochondria and viral impact and brain fog and the changes in our neurons and the cells that nourish our neurons that really allow us to think and move.
