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Yeah, I saw the fly.
I'm not buying it.
Adam Couric, John C. Dvorak.
It's Thursday, March 20th, 2025.
This is your award-winning Kimo Nation Media Assassination, episode 1748.
This is No Agenda.
Suffering a constitutional crisis and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region No.
6, it's...
In the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley, where we discovered that the Aussie intelligence agencies were behind the cover-up of JFK's assassination.
I'm John C. DeVore.
I'm sorry, I crashed you.
You were out of runway.
I was.
You were out of runway, man.
I know.
Sorry about that.
Just say I'm John C. DeVore.
I'll edit it in.
No one will know the difference.
Right now?
Yeah.
I'm John C. Devorak.
It's Crackpot and Buzzkill in the morning.
No one will know.
There will be no edit.
You're right.
You are correct, sir.
There will never be an edit.
Editing is no fun.
No, what's the point?
I don't want to deal with that.
Well, the files are out, and we now know Elvis is alive.
Well, they're not completely out.
We have to remember that the third are still missing.
Yeah.
You know what?
I have to be honest with you.
I really don't care.
There's nothing earth-shattering.
I mean, half the people say, the Russians knew it.
They told the CIA.
The CIA didn't, you know, they covered it up.
The Jews did it.
I mean, it's everything.
It's everything out there.
Yeah, it depends on who you want to...
Well, no, I mean, of course, it depends on what you look at, but...
It's like there's no conclusive evidence.
Do you mind if I just play the one clip I have, which is from the CIA broadcast systems, which would be the only ones you'd be interested in in their report for this particular matter?
After more than six decades of waiting, several thousand new pieces of history now in America's hands.
They've been waiting for this for decades, and I said during the campaign I'd do it, and I'm...
I'm a man of my word.
On Tuesday, the Trump administration released thousands of unredacted files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 in Dallas.
Most of the files are now posted on the National Archives website, sharing important details about Lee Harvey Oswald, who investigators say was JFK's assassin.
Even ones detailing Oswald's movement in Mexico and the Soviet Union months before the assassination.
What could be major, but it won't be what the public's expecting, is information that the CIA knew more about what an unhinged character Lee Harvey Oswald was only six weeks before the assassination.
Author Gerald Posner wrote the book Case Closed, one of the first publications to state Oswald alone killed the president.
He says these files are not a smoking gun, but still important.
Dallas's DNA, it was associated with Dallas in a way that other assassinations have not been.
According to FBI expert and JFK historian Ferris Rookstool, he says, quote, The records paint a much broader picture of intelligence involvement in monitoring, downplaying, and concealing critical information about Oswald and the JFK assassination.
The FBI and CIA had pre-assassination intelligence on Oswald's activities, but chose not to act, and later engaged in delivery.
Now the CIA is leading us down their path, I guess.
Of course, that's what you do.
I have two clips.
JFK, these are from NTD.
Well, that is quality guaranteed.
The Trump administration releases the JFK files, making good on the president's campaign promise.
NTT correspondent Jason Blair gives us a snapshot of the release.
I think it's the same guy who I just had in my clip, the Jason Blair guy.
I could be wrong.
The Trump administration released the files on Tuesday that contain about roughly 60,000 to 80,000 pages.
And some of these files have been released before.
However, there was a lot of information redacted.
And this batch appears to have much of that redacted information.
And this is something that President Trump said that he wanted.
So people have been waiting for decades for this.
I don't believe we're going to redact anything.
I said, just don't redact.
You can't redact.
And you'll make your own determination.
The files have been released on the U.S. National Archives website and it could possibly be weeks before we know for sure if there are any bombshell revelations in the JFK case.
So far, there are new details coming out with a lot of stuff still being discovered.
For example, there is information detailing how the CIA went about tapping telephones in Mexico City to monitor communications between the Soviets and Cubans at their diplomatic facilities.
Which these facilities are where Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald visited in the months leading up to the assassination.
There's also instructions detailing CIA operatives on how to wiretap.
And there's new info on covert activities in Cuba targeting revolutionary leader Fidel Castro.
And there's been some buzz on a previously released note going around again on social media.
This allegedly was written by JFK's son, JFK Jr., I think that was the Easter egg they put in there.
Let's just put a little fun thing in here, shall we?
Let's do a little...
Oh, I'm sure there's more than one.
Yeah, a lot of statecraft.
The CIA wanted Israel redacted.
You know, it really is the biggest ever in all show history.
The distraction of the week on the old agenda over there.
Heaven forbid we bring out the Epstein files.
Oh no, we can't do that.
So let's play part two of this.
A court has blocked that part of Trump's order for now.
Still, Cameradella says the problem is...
Nobody really understands what illegal DEI means.
He says nothing about federal anti-discrimination law has changed.
What's this?
Oh, I'm sorry.
It's completely the wrong clip.
I don't know how that happened.
I'm sorry.
JFK's grandson, Jack Schlossberg, reacted to the...
I was wondering why DEI was in the JFK files.
...release criticizing networks for covering it.
He wrote on social media, quote, you don't need to cover the fake JFK document story, especially when there's so much real news.
Oh, there you go.
JFK's nephew, RFK Jr., who is the current Secretary of Health and Human Services, has frequently been a supporter of the release of these files.
He has previously said, quote, a government that withholds information is inherently fearful of its citizens'ability to make informed decisions and participate actively in democracy.
So you're telling me that there's another tranche yet to be released?
Or will never be released?
According to a guy that showed up on Jesse Waters, he says one-third of the files are missing.
And by the way, this Schlossberg character who...
Condemned the JFK Jr. commentary where he called Biden a...
And he's a Kennedy, I guess.
Where he called Biden a traitor.
Who cares?
Why is he defending Biden in any situation like this anyway?
It's beyond me.
The whole thing is...
He's kind of dumb.
Well, yeah, it's a distraction, but at the same time, it's fun.
Oh, yeah.
There's these threads all over Twitter that go on forever.
And there's redactions all over the place.
Who are we kidding here?
I love it when people throw it into Grok.
Come on, Grok, tell me who killed JFK!
Grok has done nothing.
Grok can't even draw a clock face.
Grok is a front for the CIA.
People have asked Grok, though.
The documents prove that Oswald was the lone assassin when it comes up with it.
I've been noticing this more and more.
People I respect will say, well, I looked it up on Grok, or I looked it up on ChatGPT.
I'm like, I can't talk to you.
You looked it up on ChatGPT?
That means it's right?
What do you think this is?
Did you look at the sources?
Did you just...
Take that for whatever ChatGPT said is true?
It's concerning.
I have used these systems a lot, and I get the biggest kick out of the fact that if you use more than one, in other words, you don't ask Rocky, ask Rocky.
Oh, you get different answers.
You get different answers.
Of course.
And if that doesn't tell you that, well, I don't know here.
Why is that giving me a different answer?
The question is, what are you doing?
In this moment.
What?
What are you doing in this moment?
Oh, the in this moment.
Yes.
I got it for you.
The strength that we have is in this moment.
Listen to your constituents.
Center them in this moment.
But I can tell you that there are a lot of people that are watching his leadership in this moment.
This is the moment.
I think about what's happening in this moment.
What's important is that we meet this moment.
So, are these current Democrats the ones to meet the moment?
Meet the moment.
What do you want to see?
What are us doing right now in this moment?
And which Democrats are actually going to stand up against Elon Musk and Donald Trump in this moment?
The fight that you all are exhibiting is not just what the base wants, but it's what this moment requires.
In this moment.
Okay, well, you got that.
I had the same clip.
You did.
It's a super cut of in this moment.
Let's try to figure out what is this all about?
It's about this moment.
It's this very moment in history, this time.
It's kind of like in the morning.
What is the op here?
What are they trying to accomplish by dropping this in this moment into every conversation?
I mean, what is it supposed to do?
I think it's an NLP trick.
Yeah, but what?
I don't really know.
It's noticeable.
It's very noticeable, but when I first ran into it, I'm thinking, What are you trying to do?
Are you guys that lost?
Or is it code to show that you're all on the same team, maybe?
I mean, it baffles me.
Okay, hold on a second.
I'm going to ask ChatGPT, and they will tell me.
Ask ChatGPT.
Here we go.
You grok it.
The phrase in this moment can be relevant to NLP, Neuro Linguistic Programming, in a couple of ways.
Yes.
What question did you ask?
Oh, my question is, how is in this moment an NLP?
Of course, I had to prompt it.
I just want to make sure we're coming out of the blue with that.
Mindfulness and presence.
NLP often emphasizes the power of being fully present.
Language patterns and reframing.
Oh, they're just throwing that in.
State management.
Oh, I like that.
The concept of state refers to one's mental, emotional, and physiological condition.
Practitioners often use phrases like, in this moment, to guide individuals into a more resourceful state by directing attention to their current feelings.
I think that's true.
That is probably what it is.
That's probably straight from the NLP guidebook.
It's like, in this moment, when you're watching it, you think, oh my God, what's happening in this moment?
Let me feel inside myself.
I don't feel good in this moment.
How do you feel in this moment?
Maybe.
Maybe.
I can't figure out what these guys are up to at all.
Well, in this moment, I think the real in this moment is what's happening in Europe.
They have gone collectively nuts.
I mean, like, really, all-out warmonger.
Let's just not pussyfoot around it.
Let's go, let's go, let's go.
Let's spend the money.
Let's go into debt.
We need the war machine.
A roadmap to rearmament.
On Wednesday in Brussels, European commissioners laid out their 800 billion euro plan to make Europe an independent defense power.
450 million European Union citizens should not have to depend on 340 million Americans.
Okay, that's fine.
To defend ourselves against 140 million Russians who cannot defeat 38 million Ukrainians.
Ideas already tutored by committee.
How arrogant is that?
What did he say?
He said, 420 million Europeans should not have to rely on 340 million Americans to defeat 140 million Russians who can't even defeat 8 million Ukrainians.
That's because they haven't used their 20,000 nuclear weapons yet, you tool.
Defeat 38 million Ukrainians.
Ideas already tutored by Commission President von der Leyen in recent weeks.
The Commission believes 650 billion euros could be raised block-wide if member states are given more lassitude in their budgetary rules.
And laid out on Wednesday, plans for the 150 billion euro Security Action for Europe, or SAFE, fund.
The EU would take out loans in its own name and issue loans to member states making joint purchases of defence equipment.
An approach aimed at promoting interoperability between member states' militaries.
The instrument also hopes to stimulate homegrown defence industries, with 65% of funds ring-fenced to be spent in the EU, Norway and Ukraine.
Companies in third countries like the US, UK and Turkey could benefit too, but subject to conditions.
Other partner countries, entities and products can be eligible for common procurements subject to an agreement with the union on financial conditions and security of supply.
Alright, so we get 40% of that, so roughly 300 billion euros.
We'll take it.
And meanwhile...
Where we heard on the last show that Volkswagen is retooling one of their closed factories to make bombs.
The Belgians and other car manufacturers, they're like, this is a great idea.
57,000 square meters of industrial space here in Brussels is currently at a standstill.
But what if this huge Audi factory became a weapons factory?
That's the idea put forward by the Belgian defense minister in the wake of European plans to rearm Europe.
There's a factory that's no longer in use, with an industrial base that's super easy to convert to the defense industry.
For example, for light-armored vehicles, and for other possibilities, including drone production.
Many Belgian companies are interested.
I bet they are.
Since no one's buying the cars, apparently.
They're shutting down.
But the worst, John, the worst came from Queen Ursula, who traveled to Denmark, very strategic, of course, because what do we know about Denmark?
They still think they own Greenland.
So she went to Denmark.
She goes to a military academy.
And talks to the cadets.
She doesn't say cadets.
She says cadets.
And she starts off by saying, what is the best way to avoid war?
If you were to give a recommendation, if the Curry-Dvorak Consulting Group were to give a recommendation, how do you avoid war?
Well, I think you do avoid war.
You try to keep open communications between various possible war groups.
Advocates, or not advocates, but people that you might have a beef with.
Boy, you couldn't have been more off base.
That is not how you avoid war.
And this historic academy is one of the reasons I chose Denmark to speak about security.
And to make the case that if Europe wants to avoid war, Europe must get ready for war.
You want to avoid war by getting ready for war.
Well, that's not quite the way I would have done it.
This is insanity!
And Denmark is hugely aware of its own security.
Poor Denmark.
Oh, yeah.
And these poor kids sitting there.
Not least.
Denmark's a small country that, you know, just gets caught up in this stuff.
They don't really have any...
At this point in history, they should be like smart money Switzerland, which just stays out of these conflicts completely.
No, instead...
Hey, we'll hold your money.
Hey, we'll hold your beer while you two guys fight.
You're the cannon fodder kids over there.
Not least because of its unique strategic geography, but also because of recent events.
I'm, of course, talking about the ongoing war in Ukraine and conflicts in other theaters, but also the repeated and continued attacks on critical infrastructure in the Baltic Sea.
And, of course, the ongoing competition for influence in the Arctic region, including Greenland.
Yeah, okay.
So, yeah, that's why she's there, including Greenland.
And the war economy is coming back.
Of course, Russia.
They can't even turn back if they wanted to.
No way.
And we're just deserting them.
The security architecture that we relied on can no longer be taken for granted.
The age of spheres of influence and power competition is well and truly back.
Just take Russia.
We already know its determination to deny other countries their right to choose their own path.
And now Russia is on an irreversible path.
Irreversible.
They can't turn back.
It's irreversible.
How can that be?
It's irreversible.
To creating a pure war economy.
It has massively expanded its military-industrial production capacity.
40% of the federal budget is spent on defense, 9% of its GDP.
And this investment fuels its war of aggression in Ukraine while preparing it for future confrontation with European democracy.
There's no evidence of this.
She's making this up as she goes along.
And just as these threats increase, we see our oldest partner, the United States.
Move their focus to the Indo-Pacific.
Well, yeah, there's that.
We're building big, beautiful ships.
She got that right.
She got that part right.
So, what exactly does this war economy entail?
What are you going to spend all of this money on, Ursula?
That means large-scale pan-European cooperation to address gaps in priority areas.
that starts with fundamentals like infrastructure and military mobility.
By 2030, we need a functioning EU-wide network of land corridors, airports, and seaports to facilitate the fast transport of troops and
And we have to learn the lessons from the battlefield and the changing nature of modern warfare.
We have seen the importance of drones and counter-drone systems in Ukraine.
And Europe needs to develop all types of unmanned systems and the advanced software and sensors behind them.
And the same goes for cyber and using military artificial intelligence or quantum computing.
Oh! You didn't put that in your shaggy dog story now.
Quantum computing.
Oh yeah, that's where your money's going, people.
Quantum computing.
But then the final clip, the final clip is really what this comes down to because it's all just about getting Ukraine and just making Ukraine European or NATO, whatever we want to make it.
And this strategy has a name.
Ladies and gentlemen, the third priority for European defense...
It's perhaps the most strategic.
And that is increasing support for Ukraine.
This is what we call the steel porcupine strategy.
Yeah, baby.
The steel porcupine?
The steel porcupine strategy.
Yes, it's the steel porcupine strategy, and she will explain.
This is what we call the steel porcupine strategy.
Because we need to make Ukraine strong enough.
To be absolutely indigestible for any potential invader.
You see, if someone wants to eat the steel porcupine, then the steel spikes will stick out of your throat and your stomach.
It's indigestible.
Ukraine will be a steel porcupine.
So we need to invest in Ukraine's strength in deterrence through denial.
We have done a lot already.
We have supported Ukraine.
They're in denial, all right.
Deterrence through denial.
In deterrence through denial.
We have done a lot already.
We have supported Ukraine with about 50 billion euros in military support alone.
And trained more than 73,000 Ukrainian troops.
And our support for Ukraine's accession to the European Union remains as strong as ever.
But there is a lot more that we can do.
Oh yeah, so much more.
They're crazy, John.
They're completely nuts.
She wants war.
She just wants war.
I don't see any other way to look at it.
Yeah, that's what she wants.
How do you get that way?
Adrenochrome?
Meanwhile, let's play this clip before we continue, which is the Ukraine energy fiasco.
Yeah, NTD?
Yeah.
Ukraine now agrees to a partial ceasefire with Russia after President Trump speaks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
But as Trump says the two countries are on track for a ceasefire, overnight strikes raise questions about enforcement of a truce.
Joining us now live is NTD's White House correspondent Iris Tao.
Good evening, Iris.
What are the biggest takeaways from Trump's call with Zelensky today?
Good evening to you, Tiff.
So the hour-long call between President Trump and Zelensky today yielded a few major things.
One, Zelensky now agrees to a temporary energy ceasefire after Trump just yesterday got Putin to agree to one also over a long phone call.
And Putin might be seeing a new deal coming out between the U.S. and Ukraine.
The White House says President Trump today in the call suggested to Zelensky that the US can help Ukraine run some of its power plants, and that is to give them some protection of their energy infrastructure.
President Trump also discussed Ukraine's electrical supply and nuclear power plants.
He said that the United States could be very helpful in running those plants with its electricity and utility expertise.
American ownership of those plants would be the best protection for that infrastructure and support for Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
Here's what I don't understand.
The M5M is emphatic about pronouncing Turkey as Turkey-yay, Kiev as Kyiv, but when it comes to Putin, it's Putin.
I'm just pooing.
Or as Mark Levan calls him, Putin.
Oh, Putin, yeah.
I've heard Putin by more than a few people.
Which, of course, I believe is just a subconscious way of...
Implying it's Rasputin, Putin.
I have a funny NPR foreign clip, which just, like, it made no sense when I heard this one.
Listen to this.
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he plans to talk with President Trump.
Now it's Volodymyr, Volodymyr, Volodymyr.
It's Volodymyr, Volodymyr.
He says he plans to talk with President Trump today by phone.
This comes after Trump spoke yesterday with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The Russian leader says his country will agree to stop targeting Ukrainian energy facilities for 30 days.
But Ukrainian officials say Russia is still firing drones at them, even hitting two hospitals overnight.
NPR's Eleanor Beersley says that the conversation between Trump and Putin has gotten Europe's attention.
This is deeply shaking the continent.
There's a view that Putin is stalling so he can continue the war and that he's playing with Trump, who Europeans believe is naive, has no experience with Putin, and wants a peace deal so badly he'll do anything.
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
You can't have it both ways, NPR.
You can't say that he's a puppet of Putin, that there's Russian collusion, and then say he has no experience with Putin.
They're contradicting themselves now.
They don't know what to do.
They're warmongers too.
They are.
Who is the host of PBS NewsHour these days?
What is the format of the NewsHour?
The format is there's a woman with kind of a multiculted woman and various guys.
I use that black gay guy.
Oh, K-Part?
No.
No, no, no.
K-Part is a commentator.
Is the man-hands lady on the NewsHour?
No, the man-hands lady, that's Kirsten Welker.
She's on NBC News.
I found a NewsHour bit from 1994.
Now, this is about NATO expansion.
And it was a, well, he calls it a debate.
It wasn't really a debate.
And the so-called debate is between the former ambassador to Russia, Matlock, and Henry Kissinger.
And listen to the difference in PBS NewsHour from what we know it today and what it was in 1994.
The End
First tonight, the debate over expanding the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance to several countries in Central Europe.
The debate flared today at the European Security and Cooperation Summit in speeches by President Clinton and Russian President Yeltsin.
Since the collapse of communism in Central Europe, there have been proposals and debate over whether and how to expand NATO.
Which now guarantees mutual protection for 16 Western nations in Europe and the US and Canada.
To such countries as Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia.
Today, at the so-called CSCE summit in Budapest, President Yeltsin repeated his country's opposition to that idea.
He warned of a cold peace.
And said the world could not be run from one capital, a reference to Washington and the U.S. But the issue of NATO expansion has also divided American officials and analysts.
We take up the story with two of them, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Jack Matlock, former U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia, now a professor at Columbia University.
I found this to be fascinating because it's not even that long ago.
What is it, 30 years?
1994?
And these countries hadn't come into NATO yet, and already the Russian president was saying, hey, hey, hey, no, no, no, no, no.
But no, that doesn't matter.
We don't care.
Starting with you, Ambassador Matlock, the Russians are clearly very unhappy about the prospect of expanding NATO.
Let's start with this.
Actually, what is the U.S. policy right now?
How quickly is the Clinton administration pushing to expand NATO from what you can...
My understanding is that their position is that the East Europeans should be prepared for NATO, and though no date has been set, that the question is not if, but when.
And NATO itself recently, just for background here, recently voted to come up within a year with a list of sort of conditions for membership for potential members.
So the issue is moving forward, as you understand it.
Is that correct?
The issue is moving forward, but we have to be careful not to trap ourselves in an endless waffle.
When we say the issue is not if, but when...
The responsibility of national leaders is not to ask rhetorical questions, but to answer them.
So we have an obligation to give some sort of an answer to when.
And the Russians are not unhappy about the timing.
They're unhappy about the fact.
And therefore we ought to face that as early as possible.
So the Russians were unhappy about the fact at all, while we collectively were already talking about doing it.
But who was really pushing it?
This answer was surprising.
Well, where is the pressure, as you understand it, Jack Matlock, where is the pressure coming from for quick expansion inside NATO?
We know that certain Eastern European or Central European countries like Poland would love to be a member quickly.
But where is it coming from with inside NATO?
Well, my understanding is that the Germans have been sort of the principal advocates within NATO.
They're joined by certain others.
I'm one who feels that while we should leave the possibility open, that we should make clear that we would back expansion only if there is a threat which needs to be met.
In other words, we should use it to pressure the Russians to ease off on the rhetoric and to behave in a manner which does not threaten the EU. Another problem here is that I think it's much more important for the Poles, the Czechs, and
the other East Europeans to get in the European Union.
This is important economically, they need the markets, and I suspect that some Europeans look at NATO as almost a surrogate for doing what would be a more difficult matter for
I thought that to be interesting.
Yeah, it was interesting.
In fact, well, this goes back to this...
Period.
That was Robert McNeil that was the host there.
And that was during the era when it was called, before it was NewsHour, it was called the McNeil-Layer Report.
And those are two guys that came from mainstream media over to PBS to set up shops because they felt that the half-hour news shows on network TV, which is still there, were no good.
So they figured an hour with a little more thoughtful discussion would be better.
Not knowing that giving an hour away like that or creating this hour's show after they left, both McNeil and Lehrer, it turned to, except during that short period when Gwen Ifill was there and she kept it in play.
And then it just became a left-wing bunch of stooges.
So I thought it was interesting that Europe was cobbling together what they're now completing, the European Union project.
And that they really saw NATO, a war machine, as a way to get that going.
And luckily, last clip...
Former Ambassador Matlock reminds us that we made some promises about NATO expansion.
There is one other factor here that we seem to be forgetting, and we did, though it was not a legally binding assurance, we gave categorical assurances to Gorbachev back when the Soviet Union existed that if a united Germany was able to stay in NATO, NATO would not be moved eastward.
And, you know, I think that the current Russian government is very clear about that.
But that assurance was given to the Soviet Union, doesn't it?
That's right.
It is not illegally binding.
That's their loophole.
Well, we gave that assurance to the Soviet Union, not to Russia, you see.
It's a very different thing.
But it was, you might say, a geopolitical deal.
And if we simply ignore it, then certainly if I were a Russian, it would be hard for me to interpret this, even though it may not be intended that way, and it is not.
And now you can hear Kissinger.
Talking about those pesky Russians, they're stopping the American war machine from doing important work.
Is anything less than an attempt to shut Russia off from Eastern Europe?
That was a line that Yeltsin used today, that it would isolate Russia and sow the seeds of discord.
But here's a country that has 20,000 nuclear weapons.
The possibility that Poland would start marching into Russia is zero.
And I repeat, this is not in terms of political architecture conceived as a Cold War situation because Russia can participate in the European security countries in all the political issues, but one has to keep in mind what a weak Russia has done
in the last...
When we were assembling forces in Iraq a few weeks ago.
Really?
Back in 1994 already, huh?
Yeah, of course.
Russia said no.
Serbia and Baghdad in a political demonstration that certainly in practice discouraged any American military move on Serbia.
They have clearly taken traditional Russian positions.
Understandably so.
But Russia thinks of itself as a major geopolitical player, which it has every right to do.
And I think it was two years later that we bombed Serbia.
Yeah.
Clinton.
Yeah.
Was that Madeleine Albright who was then the Secretary of State?
It could be.
That's the moment where we accidentally hit the Chinese embassy and blew it to smithereens.
Yeah, so this has always been a horrible system.
I don't think President Trump's going to get us out of it.
I think he wants to keep it.
I don't think he can get us out of it.
No.
And with all this JFK stuff coming out, RFK, JFK, RFK, JFK, all the Ks.
It's going to, you know, where it looks like they're going to, Bobby Kennedy still sticks by the guns where it's, you know, he says, JFK pulled us out of Vietnam, or said let's get out of Vietnam completely because there were 75 dead soldiers that were over there and they shouldn't have been fighting,
but they were, and he was dead a month later.
His commentary.
Yeah, but I don't think there's anything about Vietnam in the JFK drop, is there?
I don't know.
I haven't heard anything about it.
Let's ask Grok.
Ask Grok.
Ask Grok.
Lee Harvey Oswald.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's the guy.
All right, where do you want to go from here?
I have a lot.
Well...
Whoa.
I'm sorry.
Whoa.
I changed my position in the chair and banged the mic with my fist.
Oh, no.
So there's that.
How about going to, since we're down, let's do the Ukraine peace talks and get that out of the way from the World Service of the BBC.
Shortwave.
Yes.
Ladies and gentlemen, the BBC World Service.
The U.S. has confirmed further peace talks will be held in Saudi Arabia on Sunday, but it's not yet known whether a delegation from Ukraine or Russia will be involved.
In his call with Donald Trump on Wednesday, President Putin agreed to continue the talks.
Our Russia editor Steve Rosenberg says it's a sign of a growing relationship between the two countries.
The Kremlin is saying the kind of things we haven't heard the Kremlin say about an American president for years.
Today, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov claimed that Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump trust each other and understand each other well.
There is another thing that President Trump understands.
Because the Russians have dropped plenty of hints.
And that is that there are lots of lucrative deals, potentially, for America to do in Russia.
Lucrative deals?
Oh, no!
But Trump isn't...
It wasn't covered by NPR.
Trump's a bonehead.
He has no experience with Putin.
Putin.
Part two.
Which is fueling suspicion that Mr. Trump may prioritize deal-making with Moscow...
Over ensuring a just peace for Ukraine.
Ooh, the just word.
A just peace, which means taking stuff.
A just peace.
How about just peace, not a just peace?
No, it's a just peace, which means we take your 300 billion euros and we tell you to sod off.
Mind you, one deal that Donald Trump has so far failed to convince Vladimir Putin to sign up to is a comprehensive ceasefire.
The Kremlin leader has laid down a string of conditions for that, including an end to Western armshipments to Kiev and to Western intelligence sharing with Ukraine.
Still, the Kremlin continues to praise Donald Trump.
On the streets of Moscow, though...
People are more cautious.
Tatiana tells me she doesn't like how Donald Trump keeps changing what he says and does.
One minute he's giving you something, she says.
The next he's taking it.
Vladimir tells me he's still waiting for proof that Trump will improve relations with Russia.
We've been promised things before, he says.
It's almost as if Russians cannot believe what they're seeing.
That it's too good to be true.
An American president who says he wants better relations with Russia.
That was interesting.
The public at large is now...
Yeah, heaven forbid we want decent relationships with 20,000 nuclear warheads.
This is against the entire globalists.
When you look at it on the map, you really start to see what the expansion of NATO was.
You know, you kind of understand that, yeah, you know, the globalists on our side, and when I say our U.S., E.U., they wanted to make sure that they captured everything that could fall into a vacuum or that could be sucked back into Russia.
And they do that by saying, well, Putin wants that, which may be true.
I mean, you know, he clearly wants to do business with them.
Yeah.
And then Ukraine, it's like the pearl.
It's like the perfect little, well not little, huge piece of land that they just can't allow him to influence.
And that was really the genesis of the whole problem, is when Poroshenko decided, you know, he was the president of Ukraine, said, you know, I think I'm going to do a deal with Russia instead of with the EU.
That was the start of it all.
Yeah, and that's where they brought in Newland and John Brennan was over there, the Maidan thing, the whole thing.
Had to get everybody out.
Were they donuts, cookies, or were they pretzels?
I can't really remember.
I don't remember.
So meanwhile, we're going to stay in Europe for another couple of clips.
Turkey.
There's a turkey mess going on that nobody's done.
The mainstream media is not talking about this whatsoever at all.
Turkey-yay.
Turkey-yay.
How does the BBC World Service pronounce it?
Well, we'll find out, won't we?
In Turkey, students outside Istanbul University...
How is that?
That's a violation of standards, I think.
That's not right.
That's the BBC.
They said Turkey.
That's incorrect.
The following report incorrectly identifies Türkiye as Turkey.
In Turkey, students outside Istanbul University were pepper-sprayed by riot police as they protested against the detention of one of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's biggest rivals, the mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu.
In a rare display of public anger, crowds chanted anti-government slogans while the main opposition called his arrest a coup against our next president.
These locals in Istanbul voiced their outrage.
I think these are all political decisions, and I'm sure that a large part of the country thinks so.
There is no justice, there is no law.
There is always a judiciary that only enforces the decisions taken by the government.
There is no other explanation for this.
I'm furious, that's all I have to say.
Our situation is not getting any better.
The reasons are already obvious, but of course there must be a cover for this.
But at a news conference, Turkey's Justice Minister, Yılmaz Tunç, defended the arrests.
I would like to underscore that the Republic of Turkey is a state governed by the rule of law.
Everyone is equal before the law.
No individual or group is granted special privileges.
The Turkish lira plummeted to its lowest level following Mr. Imamoğlu's detention, falling by almost 15% against the dollar.
Well, Emery Temel from the BBC's Turkish service joins us now.
Emery, Mr. Imamoğlu and 100 politicians, journalists and businessmen were detained.
What are they accused of?
The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office described Ekrem Imamoğlu as a suspected criminal organization leader.
He was accused of corruption in tender processes.
Prosecutors also accused Mr. Imam Oluf aiding the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, PKK, as well.
And Turkish Justice Minister Yılmaz Tunç said a total of 106 individuals have been detained into two investigations into terrorism and corruption.
The wild card here is, I think, the Gulen network, who, of course, lost their leader.
Fethullah Gulen.
He died, what, last year?
Late last year?
Yeah.
I wonder if these people are part of the network.
No, this whole thing is very suspicious.
We'll never have any clue because the reporting is so mediocre.
They can't even get the name of the country right.
How can we trust anything?
Turkey, yay, ladies.
He added that investigations will remain confidential.
Mr. İmamoğlu denies all the charges.
His wife, Dilek İmamoğlu, dismissed the accusations as ridiculous and manufactured.
And the opposition says Mr. İmamoğlu is being targeted to stop him running against President Erdogan in the next presidential elections.
How much of a threat is he to Mr. Erdogan?
Ekrem İmamoğlu is seen as the strongest rival to the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a future election.
As President Erdogan himself, Mr. İmamoğlu seemed ready to use Istanbul mayorship.
He's a very popular politician.
Won the mayoral race twice in 2019 and was resoundingly re-elected last year.
And Mr. Imam Ali is expected to be named as main opposition Republican People Party's presidential candidate in a primary vote on Sunday.
However, yesterday his university diploma was revoked.
This move was largely seen by the opposition.
As an aim to eliminate him from the Turkish politics because a college degree is a constitutional requirement for a candidacy in Turkey.
And Mr. Imamoglu was preparing to appeal this decision, but what happened this morning left him in an uncharted territory.
If he will be arrested, the government may appoint a trustee to the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality to replace Imamoglu.
And as it stands now...
Ekrem Imamoglu will not be able to run in Turkey's next presidential election.
I'm surprised that no one...
I'm sorry?
I was going to say the giveaway that this is a scam is the fact that they took his diploma away.
The university was told that...
The guy got a degree.
He needed a degree, I guess, to run for office in Turkey.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, he's had this degree.
It's like it felt like somebody...
The University of California called me and said, we're revoking.
Your bachelor's degree.
What?
How do you do that?
Let that be a warning to you trolls.
If you troll too hard, we're revoking your no-agenda PhD and maybe even your commodorship.
Take it away!
Oh, man.
You'd expect a lot more reporting on this from the media because it is a NATO country that is in disarray right now.
Well, it's always kind of in disarray.
I'm actually surprised.
I never heard this from any other source, including NTD.
Nobody's covering this except the BBC's World Service.
Yeah, well, they've got to fill the airtime somehow.
You know, now that there's a vacuum with the Voice of America being gone.
Oh, now everyone's going to switch to us on Long Wave.
I was going to clip something, but it's so dumb.
It's like, oh, the Voice of America has 360 million listeners in their audience.
I'm like, no, they don't.
That's bull crap.
No, they don't.
President Trump is right getting rid of that because they're propagandizing the Americans with a lot of nonsense.
So I think we can't go around...
Yes?
Well, I don't know where you're headed, but I do have one more kind of obscure clip of information that's not being played anywhere else, and that's followed by a couple of very strange clips.
But this is the unreported South African news.
There's another blurt that nobody picked up on.
I didn't hear this anymore.
Is this about the ambassador that we kicked out?
No, not about the ambassador.
Once again, President Trump, manga.
Making African news great again.
Almost 70,000 South Africans have expressed interest in resettling to the United States, following an executive order by President Donald Trump offering citizenship to farmers from the country.
The South African Chamber of Commerce in the USA says it's handed over the details of those interested to the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria.
Now, this is the first time that we're getting an indication of the level of interest in South Africa to Mr Trump's offer to resettle South African farmers.
Now, for some context, on the 7th of February, President Trump issued an executive order accusing the South African government of discriminating against white Afrikaner farmers.
These are descendants of Dutch and French settlers here in South Africa.
This is something that President Cyril Ramaphosa has repeatedly denied.
Nonetheless, a month later, President Trump extended his invitation to any South African farmer who felt discriminated against and also offered them citizenship.
Following this, the South African Chamber of Commerce in the U.S. says it launched a platform on its website inviting people who were interested in resettling to fill in a few basic details.
We don't know the professions of these people, so we don't know if they qualify for resettlement, if they're farmers.
And this is just an expression of interest.
These are not people who've applied for resettlement yet, but they say they're interested in this.
And according to Sarkoza, around 67,000 people filled in this form and have expressed an interest in resettling to the United States.
Most of them were aged between 25 and 45, and the majority of them had dependents that would be coming to the US.
That's a great idea.
I didn't know about that.
Nobody knows about it.
That's a good idea.
I mean, those guys know how to farm.
Yeah, they do.
Yeah, and, you know, a lot of our young people don't want to farm anymore.
They just want to sell the farm.
Yeah.
No, this is, again, not being, this is unreported.
I'm stunned how the mainstream, well, I'm stunned there's gambling going on.
Yeah, but they could use, the M5M could use that to say, well, Trump wants to bring in South Africans.
Yeah, whiteies.
Yeah, whiteies.
He only likes white people.
Yes, yes, Nazis.
I don't understand.
Yeah, I agree with you.
It's a missed opportunity by the mainstream media.
Now, then there's this other story, which is the...
If I can just say, the reason why they're not doing it is they understand, like we do, that African news is automatic tune-out, so...
Yeah, so that's going to be the real tune-out, though, is this story.
Okay.
This is the...
It's under...
Cape Town?
Cape Town?
Yeah.
Cape Town.
So the South Africans have a contingent of people that they sent to a...
Antarctic site where they rolled up.
They were mad.
Didn't a fight break out or something?
There's one guy there that's apparently gone nuts.
And he's a psycho and they can't get him out.
So this is a report from a South African radio station.
And they brought in one of the ministers who does nothing but make excuses for, no, we've got it under control.
And the guy says it's totally full of crap.
This went on for a long time.
I only have two short clips of it.
But, I mean, it just goes on and on and on with this guy apologizing for this whole situation.
I thought it was amusing.
Here we go.
All right, you're on Cape Talk.
My name is Dan Corder.
As I said a few minutes ago, I'm genuinely thrilled to be joined by Minister Dion George, who's the Environment Minister, more specifically of the DFFE, the Department of Forestry, Fisheries, and the Environment.
Dion George, thank you for joining us.
Your department is in the middle of a rapidly exploding story that has developed in the last few days.
We really caught a hold in the media in literally this morning.
About SANE 5, our Antarctica research station that South Africa is the custodian of and manages, and about allegations that one member of our research team down there has been accused of physical assault, potentially even sexual assault,
that has, well, it depends on which kind of statement and press release or which journalist you read, but has potentially expressed remorse, underwent further evaluation, but potentially also has a sexual assault allegation outstanding.
We've also heard suggestions from the media that members of the rest of our research team felt unsafe and wanted to be evacuated and then they weren't.
Can you just clear up exactly what is going on for all of us who are swimming in too much journalism right now?
Ha ha!
Yes, good afternoon.
Thanks for having me on this afternoon.
I think, yes, we must stick to the facts.
And also, I think that we really...
We do need to avoid sensationalizing the situation.
There is, in fact, a situation that we are dealing with very successfully.
What happened was one of the members of the team at Antarctica had an altercation, verbal altercation, with another member regarding a task that needed to be done.
And that did escalate, and there was a physical assault.
Not serious injuries.
The doctor attended to them and that was okay.
Everything's good.
Nothing to worry about.
Nothing to see here.
Yeah.
So this guy who sounds like kind of a Mr. Peeper's character continues.
What are they doing at that Antarctic base?
Are they looking for the flying saucers?
Are they looking for the ice wall where the rest of the continent of the flat earth is located?
During this period of time when it's the worst of conditions, usually most of these bases are abandoned.
Team at this one and the South Africans keep a team.
Are they running the earthquake machine?
What is happening?
What is happening down there?
That's never explained in the entire report.
When you mean physical assault, was it a punch-up?
What was it?
Punch-up!
I do not know the whole detail of it, but it was a physical altercation.
There was no serious injuries.
Okay.
And that did happen.
There was no sexual assault.
That is not correct.
There was an allegation of sexual harassment against the same individual.
And what we've done is we've immediately had our team of psychologists and experts on the situation right at the very outset.
Because obviously it's very harsh circumstances down there.
The window has now closed for returns, etc.
Yes, sorry.
Can you just unpack that?
Yes, exactly.
Because some of our listeners have already said, well, you know, the Cape Agalas only goes down at this time.
It's only in December.
It's a boat.
But I know of people who have been flown down.
I know that the weather changes.
Is there no way to get people out who want to get out?
Because I imagine even if this has been resolved and even if there are psychologists and doctors on the ground or online, there are now potentially people in that research team who feel very unsafe working in a small station, in a small environment, in a small community of people.
Working with our psychologists, it's very clear that there is headway getting made.
Oh, that's a good story.
Headway getting made.
That's a story for a Netflix miniseries.
Limited series.
Exactly what Mimi said.
By the way, if I may just for a moment, I think that the streamers are making big mistakes.
You know, we've been trying to follow a couple of shows.
Well, first of all, Roku is now testing autoplay ads on the home screen.
Do you have a Roku?
You don't have a Roku, do you?
I do have a Roku.
I have a couple Rokus, but I don't use them because my smart LG TV, which is recommended during the tips of the day some time ago, has a bunch of stuff built in, so I don't use Roku.
Yeah, but if you have a Roku box, now all of a sudden you bring up the home screen where you select your icon for the streaming service of your choice, and they've got ads autoplaying.
With audio.
That's interesting.
Which brings me back, okay, the guy, okay, this is interesting.
I don't know if it's that interesting.
It's a little inside baseball.
Well, you're on the hook now.
It better be interesting.
Well, it probably won't be that interesting.
But the guy who is the CEO of Roku, I had lunch with once.
And he was, and the reason I...
I had a chat with him because he was the guy who started Replay TV, which was the original competitor of TiVo.
And I went to the rollout of Replay TV, and his whole modus operandi, his whole idea of how you're going to make money with Replay TV, which was just basically a DVR...
Was skipping the ads.
Yeah, but his idea was...
Throwing in more ads in situations where you couldn't skip them.
He really liked the idea of now you have a captive audience.
Let's throw some ads at them that they can't do anything about.
So it makes nothing but sense that he would do this with Roku.
What's the guy's name again?
Because he's invited me to his backyard barbecue a couple of years in a row.
The CEO of Roku?
Yeah, yeah.
What's his name?
I don't know what his name is.
He has a house in Austin.
He does?
He's a really nice guy.
That's what people say.
I mean, he's like a really nice guy.
It never worked out.
It's like, hey, come by on Thursday.
Thanks for knowing what I do.
And he would have Willie Nelson.
I think his house is probably a pretty big place.
Anyway, but my general complaint, the streamers seem to have a new strategy.
They are now releasing episodes weekly.
Where it used to be you'd get the first three, then you'd get another batch, in some cases the whole thing.
You could kind of pace your own viewing habit.
Right, which is what you want.
Yeah, but they're doing away with that.
And so basically, if you look at White Lotus, which we watched season two and now it's season three, so now we'll watch it.
Now they're turning it into an eight-hour movie.
And they don't have big cliffhangers after each episode.
It just kind of ends.
The tension is just...
It's tension throughout.
It's building up.
It's building up.
But then you have to wait a week.
I think it's a losing...
I know why they're doing it because people would come in, get the deal for one month, pay for one month, cancel right away after they've binged the series they want to see.
So they're trying to stretch people out.
Over at least two months or longer.
Or the not one month free thing.
Yes.
Because that's the idea.
You can't binge.
I think it's a mistaken strategy.
Also, the episodes just go on and on and on with no resolution.
If you have an episode, you need a resolution with some cliffhanger at the end.
They don't have that.
Just like, we'll see you next week, sucker!
I don't think it's real.
That sounds like you have a problem.
I don't know.
I find most of my watching has just gone deteriorated completely because of, I mean, except for a couple of shows that I like.
It all sucks.
I have like two, three shows maybe that I'll watch over and over.
And I mean, I still find there is some network stuff that is still nominally good.
I still think NCIS is a well-written show.
That's compelling and well done.
Other than that, the FBI stuff is not that interesting.
They killed a couple of them.
Which brings me to some clips.
I need to get into a different...
Category here.
You're just going on and on with your clips.
I just gave you Cape Town.
This is the show.
I gave you Cape Town.
I get to do something now.
Cape Town was borderline, man.
Well, yeah, it was.
We need to talk about the Elon hate.
I got clips.
Okay, well, let me start off with a supercut, and it's long, so you can, if you're sick of it, let me know.
Saying on my phone, I don't know, some of you know this on the iPhone, they've got that little stock app.
I added Tesla to it to give me a little boost during the day.
225 and dropping.
Elon Musk, you didn't create U.S. aid.
The United States Congress did for the American people.
And just like Elon Musk did not create USAID, he doesn't have the power to destroy it.
And who's going to stop him?
We are!
We are witnessing a constitutional crisis.
We talked about Trump wanting to be a dictator on day one.
And here we are.
This is what the beginning of dictatorship looks like.
Today, it's USA.
Tomorrow, it's our healthcare.
It's Social Security.
It's our livelihoods.
It's our freedoms.
So stand up for USA Today.
USA Today.
What?
Stand up for USA Today.
The newspaper must stay around.
Don't take any longer.
It's our health care.
It's social security.
It's our livelihoods.
It's our freedoms.
So stand up for USA Today, USA Today, so that we can stand up for all of our freedoms in the days ahead.
This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today.
Let's call it what it is.
The people get to decide how we defend the United States of America.
The people get to decide how their taxpayer money is spent.
Elon Musk does not get to decide.
We are here to save lives, because that is what AID does.
And no one elected Elon Musk to dismantle it.
Elon Musk, where are you?
Bring your ass!
That's over here so you can see.
Finally, Maxine Waters is back.
Who's here?
This is like a bank robber trying to fire the cops and turn off the alarms just before he strolls into the lobby.
That is what they are doing.
They are dismantling the federal government, which will deny.
The American people, the services and the resources that allow them to help to raise their families, have a secure economy, and a secure future for themselves.
I mean, it goes on and on and on.
Oh, keep playing.
You said I can stop it.
Yes!
Oh, okay.
Every time you hear Doge, the Department of Government Efficiency, you just remember, it is the Department of Government Evil!
While we're sitting here, Donald Trump and Elon Musk are recklessly and illegally dismantling the federal government, shuttering federal agencies, firing federal workers, withholding funds vital to the safety and well-being of our communities,
and hacking our sensitive data systems.
No way be cooperating with House Republicans who want to shut down the Department of Education and destroy Medicare and Medicaid.
And we should not stand by as the richest man on the planet gives himself and his companies huge tax cuts while the American people get absolutely nothing.
Doge staff to carry out this agenda across all these agencies.
All right, so I have four clips, then I'll let you go with your clips.
No, I don't have anything to top stab.
I want to mention something, though.
This idiot, Waltz, Tim, tampon Tim, as they call him.
He's, you know, gloating about the downturn in Tesla stock.
The pensioners in Minnesota...
Hold like 127 million shares or some crazy amount.
Yeah, some outrageous number of shares, and he's happy that they're losing their ass?
Are you kidding me?
He doesn't know what he's talking about.
But the attacks on Tesla are interesting because...
And if you just scroll through a timeline, you'll see all of these Teslas have 20 cameras or whatever it is.
I know, it's funny.
So when someone keys the car, then you're on camera and then they're busting people for this.
And I'll get to what I think this is in a minute, but first, two quick clips from Anderson Cooper 360.
New Tesla safety concerns after another violent act of vandalism against the company.
This was a targeted attack against a Tesla facility.
The most recent happening Tuesday in Las Vegas.
Police say a person dressed in black shot and set fire to several Tesla vehicles at a repair facility.
The word resist was spray-painted on the building.
The FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force is now conducting an investigation in order to identify the suspect and a motive.
Violent acts like this are unacceptable regardless of where they occur and specifically to those who might think that something like this...
is justifiable or potentially even admirable.
We want to let you know it's a federal crime.
We will come after you.
We will find you and prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law.
Justice Department officials announced just days ago that 24-year-old Daniel Clark Pounder has been arrested in connection with a Molotov cocktail attack on a Tesla charging station in South Carolina.
CNN has reached out to his attorney for comment.
If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in federal prison.
So this is so out of control, and I would have to say the Democrat representatives, they're the ones who are stoking this up.
I mean, just listen to what they're saying.
You heard it in the supercut.
So they had to take action.
And there was something called the Tesla takedown call.
Which we know that's kind of like the gay guys for Harris, white dudes for Harris, Hollywood for Harris.
They're doing the Zoom calls again.
And so they bring on this very weak young lady who is the host of the call.
And they bring in a bunch of actors and people telling you what to do and what not to do.
And this was great because they bring in Alex Winter.
Who has a movie to promote.
Alex Winter is from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.
Okay.
Dude.
Hey, dude.
Hey, man.
I think they have another, like, the third movie in the series coming out.
And so they're bringing all these people in.
They bring on Alex Winter, an actor.
Alex Winter is an actor, director, and writer who has worked across film, television, and theater.
As an actor, Winter recently co-starred in the anticipated third installment in the Bill& Ted franchise.
Please welcome Alex Winter.
How's it going?
Thanks so much, Annie.
It's really great to have you here.
I like that he says it's very great to have you here, even though that was her line.
I'm not quite sure where that went wrong in the script, but that was incorrect.
Alex Winter.
How's it going?
Thanks so much, Annie.
It's really great to have you here and great to see everybody on this thing.
Like most of the world, I was appalled by Elon Musk's Nazi script salute, which kicked off his all-out assault on our government.
And I wasn't surprised to see people protesting him soon after that.
There was a protest in early February at a Tesla story that caught my eye because only one person ticketing attracted a huge group of bystanders who were also being adversely affected by Musk and his criminal actions with Doge.
Then more protests sprouted up in mid-February, and I decided to protest at a Tesla store in my town.
I expected it to just be me and maybe one other person.
But when I got there with my little sign, there were dozens of protesters, and within an hour, there were close to 100.
I'm a big believer in nonviolent protests.
It's protected by the First Amendment.
It's a constitutional right, and it's foundational to a working democracy.
And it's been wild to see the tens of thousands of citizens around the world who are now organizing these grassroots, non-violent Tesla takedown protests.
Grassroots, non-violent.
They're like parties.
Hold on a second.
He's not a very good actor.
No.
Is he actually looking down and reading it?
Yes, yes.
He's reading off his screen.
Oh, he's reading off...
Okay, so...
Yeah, yeah.
Because it just sounds...
I mean, he's not a good prompter reader either.
I mean, this doesn't sound natural in the least.
It sounds terrible.
But the fact that he lent himself for this, and what they're trying to do is they're trying to calm it down.
Because they know it's out of control.
They know they're complicit.
So that's why he's emphasizing non-violent.
Exactly.
It's grassroots too.
Grassroots non-violent.
Mostly peaceful protests.
And it's been wild to see the tens of thousands of citizens around the world who are now organizing these grassroots non-violent Tesla takedown protests.
They're like parties with dancing and music.
One had a mariachi band.
We had marching bands.
Another one had Joan Baez playing her guitar in Palo Alto.
It was pretty rad.
Oh, it's just a party.
There's mariachi bands.
There's no one keying Teslas.
There's no one firebombing Teslas.
There's no Molotov cocktails.
But, you know, Elon Musk is a Nazi.
But I think the Tesla takedown matters for several key reasons.
One is that it gives many people a means to get out in peaceful protests to make their voices heard.
Very important right now.
And it also matters because it helps people to learn the facts about the reckless and deadly activities of Musk and Doge that are impacting people directly.
But as far as actually taking Tesla down, I don't think it's actually on any of the protesters.
Elon Musk only has himself to blame for tanking this company.
Tesla was permanently tarnished the moment Musk gave that Nazi salute and followed it with his brutal attack on the lives of ordinary citizens.
It's all on Elon.
There is no conspiracy.
There is no well-funded conspiracy.
Yes, there is!
Why would you even say there's no well-funded cabal when you're literally reading the script given to you by at least a funded cabal?
Come on!
It's all on Elon.
There is no conspiracy.
There is no well-funded cabal.
It's just Elon Musk who has taken Tesla down.
And meanwhile, the protests will continue to grow.
They won't stop until Musk is stopped.
That means more people in the streets, more people learning the facts about his attack on our democracy, more people who aren't afraid of standing up to corruption and bullies.
There are millions and millions of us.
And when we all stand together in solidarity, that's when we win.
What this is, as far as I can take, is a globalist takedown action against American manufacturing.
I think the truly wealthy, but many of them Democrats, probably more of them Democrat than Republican, they just don't want American manufacturing.
And, okay, Elon's an easy target.
You know me, I'm not a fan of Elon Musk.
No, that's true.
You're actually pretty skeptical about Elon Musk in general.
But he is manufacturing stuff.
He is making cars here as well, yes, in China.
He is building rockets here.
Yeah, but he's not bringing the Chinese cars here.
No.
No, that's true.
That's true.
The cars he sells here are made here.
So let's check in with our favorite protege, Kara Swisher.
Let's hear how she feels about Elon Musk.
Well, it's very typical.
This is how he conducts himself all the time.
He's always in a state of high drama, high agitation.
He did this when Tesla was in big trouble.
He had to sleep on the floor of the factory even though there was a hotel next door because it was dramatic.
He thinks he's the center of the universe, which is really strange.
He's very into video games, and so I think he thinks he's sort of ready player one.
He thinks nothing can happen without his existence.
He often used to say if Tesla failed, the human race was doomed to me on a number of occasions, things like that.
So, you know, it's massive narcissism with a lot of talent and a lot of PR and a lot of drama.
And that's what you're seeing right now.
The word he likes to use is hardcore, which is just hustle porn.
It's just a different way.
They do this in Silicon Valley.
They sleep under their desks.
I think this is an accomplishment to show how committed they are.
It just means they're exhausted.
You know, this is what he does.
He's up all night.
And so, you know, I work on weekends.
That's my superpower.
Well, Caitlin, I know you work on weekends and so do I. I don't think we consider it a superpower.
So this was actually quite a mild piece by Kara Swisher, but contrast that.
With Kara Swisher talking about Elon Musk before he bought...
Twitter, which of course was the Democrat messaging machine.
And so I think he gets annoyed when, you know, people don't see the grand vision of what he's doing.
And what he's doing is incredibly hard.
What he's executed on has been so impressive, you know, in terms of the car and the space, SpaceX, just the rocket stuff is really astonishing achievements at the same time.
And he does have to build a company, but, you know, it's a really interesting situation.
I think the suggestions that he's crazy, because he goes on Twitter, and he seems to be playful on Twitter.
I'm not sure people, I think people are reading too much into it, his candy company, or various things he's doing.
He's just messing with people.
He's like that.
Having had a number of encounters with him, and small tiffs, and I've had a number of them, he's just like that.
And I appreciate it, I have to say, compared to a lot of people who are polite to your face and not behind your back, he's pretty much what What you see is what you get, and this is what you get when you have someone this creative, this innovative, and this certain of his vision.
Oh my, oh my, Tara.
I see what you were doing to try to move my stuff out of the way.
You had this old clip.
Yeah.
That's a good one.
Who found that for you?
I came across that.
The old clip or the new clip?
The second clip.
Oh, that was on Twitter.
That was on X. Oh, Musk probably dug it up.
Of course, of course he did.
Now, it's so out of hand that Musk went on Hannity, friendly fire, to go say, what is going on here?
Why?
Why do I see people like...
I woke up this morning and saw...
That Teslas will put ablaze in one of your dealerships in Vegas.
I've seen this happen all over the country.
Bullets are being fired.
Charging stations are put ablaze.
Teslas are being put ablaze.
You have experienced assassination, threats of assassination for you and your family.
What have you done that warrants this?
Because I see nothing that you have done except help our country.
Yeah, I mean, it's really come as quite a shock to me that there's this level of really hatred and violence from the left.
I always thought the left, you know, Democrats were supposed to be the party of empathy, the party of caring, and yet they're burning down cars, they're firebombing dealerships, they're firing bullets into dealerships, they're just,
you know, smashing up Teslas.
Tesla is a peaceful company.
We've never done anything harmful.
I've never done anything harmful.
I've only done productive things.
So, I think we just have a deranged...
There's some kind of mental illness thing going on here, because this doesn't make any sense.
I think there are larger forces to work as well.
That's a great line.
I think there's some kind of...
Really?
Gambling?
There's a mental illness thing going on here.
There's some kind of mental illness thing going on here because this doesn't make any sense.
I think there are larger forces at work as well.
I don't know who's funding it and who's coordinating it because this is...
This is crazy.
I've never seen anything like this.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
There's a second part to this that can be done.
You actually tweeted out, and I'll put it on the screen, the level of violence is insane.
It is deeply wrong.
Tesla just makes electric cars and has done nothing to deserve these evil attacks.
You just rescued two astronauts that have been in space for 286 days.
They were only supposed to be there eight.
You helped the people in North Carolina, Tennessee, California.
You have, I think, the most creative and innovative car on the market.
You created Starling for communications that's used by hundreds of countries.
You're working on helping the blind see and all of these other things.
President Donald Trump, who also is a friend of mine, and that you have identified well over $100 billion in waste, fraud, abuse that our federal government never should have been spending.
Is that what it comes down to?
Yeah, it turns out when you take away people's, you know, the money they're receiving, fortunately, they get very upset.
And they basically want to kill me because I'm stopping their fraud.
And they want to hurt Tesla because we're stopping this terrible waste and corruption in the government.
And, well, I guess they're bad people.
Bad people will do bad things.
Okay.
Yeah, it's obviously coordinated, and we know who it's coordinated by, and it's the same people who were calling for violence against Donald Trump before he was president, Maxine Waters.
All these people just yelling and yelling and yelling.
And I think that the Tesla takedown call is their move to try and tamp it down a little bit.
Yeah, that's absolutely correct.
Someone's going to get hurt.
You're absolutely right.
Wow!
Wow!
This is a moment, ladies and gentlemen.
Mark the time!
But what's interesting...
Is this idea, this subtext of the possibility that the globalists do not really want the United States to reestablish itself as a manufacturing center of the world?
Oh, I'm convinced of it, because that's exactly what President Trump is doing.
That's what the tariffs are about.
That's what everything is about.
They want to keep it in China and Taiwan.
When I was a kid...
Ah, here we go.
Nice.
Wait, I think I have...
Let me see.
I think I have a...
Let me see.
Yes, here we go.
When you were a kid, we're in the rocking chair.
Yeah, there we go.
Yeah.
So when I was at Berkeley, I was studying at the business library, and I was reading, this was like 50 years ago.
I'm reading in there, I'm reading documents about how the country, how America was, this was back 50 years ago, how would they...
The whole idea is to turn America into a service economy.
And customers, customers for the rest of the world.
Yeah, and we're going to be a service economy, and our manufacturing was designed 50 years ago to start going away, so we would be bringing stuff in from here and there, and you put it together here, maybe you do whatever you do, but the whole country would be a service economy because the globalists,
they don't see it as, you know, They don't see any reason in a globalist sense that we should be building anything.
Why?
You'd just be a service economy.
And if the world was a perfect place, yeah, that'd be great.
If no one was ever going to attack you or try to steal your stuff.
Well, I mean, you can't create a...
An economy that's just based upon me cooking for you, you shining my shoes, that guy washing my car.
I mean, eventually, the money has just been flowing.
That's the whole Trump doctrine.
That's what the tariffs are about.
And believe me, I think he's really going to put them on, and he'll put them on for good.
Or until people come to their senses.
I think I have a clip about that.
Where is it?
Yeah, I think this is it.
This is from Scandinavia, CBC.
And we are going to make the country more affordable for working Americans.
The U.S. Trade Secretary is offering new insight into the Trump administration's tariff plan.
During an interview airing on Fox News, Scott Besant offered a roadmap of what to expect starting next month.
Maria, what's going to happen on April 2nd, each country will receive a number that we believe represents their tariffs.
So for some countries, it could be quite low, for some countries, it could be quite low.
A senior Canadian government source says it is believed the number will be the new tariff rate.
Besant said it will be determined on how fair the Trump administration views the trading relationship and take into consideration tariffs imposed on U.S. goods and other trade-related barriers.
He says it will be the starting point for a negotiation.
If you will stop this, we will not put up the tariff wall.
If you do, then we will put up the tariff wall to protect our economy, protect our workers, and protect our industries.
This appears to be at odds with some of what the president has said before.
Just yesterday, Donald Trump seemed to warn that tariffs would be imposed on April 2nd.
Second is Liberation Day for our country because we're going to finally be taking in money.
In a statement to CBC News, the White House cautioned...
How does that contradict?
I don't understand what she just said there.
How does that contradict?
What is the contradiction?
We'll back it up and listen more carefully.
We will not put up the tariff wall.
If you do, then we will put up the tariff wall to protect our economy, protect our workers, and protect our industries.
This appears to be at odds with some of what the president has said before.
Just yesterday, Donald Trump seemed to warn that tariffs would be imposed on April 2nd.
April 2nd is Liberation Day.
How is that different from what Besson said?
I think what she's implying is that he...
is that Trump...
Sounds firm with the April 2nd stuff, and he sounded like it may or may not happen.
That's all I can imagine.
April 2nd is Liberation Day for our country because we're going to finally be taking in money.
In a statement to CBC News, the White House cautioned that details have not yet been finalized, saying the reciprocal tariff plan has yet to be unveiled by President Trump, but adding that all members of his team are aligned on this policy.
And Besant is an interesting guy.
Besides being openly gay and married, never mentioned by the M5M because, you know, that would kill the narrative.
They never mention, they don't talk about Tammy Bruce is gay.
No, can't do that.
And she's the spokesperson for the Defense Department, I think, or Pentagon.
Yes, yeah.
One of them.
Besides that, he also is the guy who worked with the Soros hedge fund when they broke the Bank of England and shorted the pound.
Oh, that's right, yes.
This is the guy who knows how to do it.
He's a sharp operator.
Besant also suggested there will be opportunities for countries to escape tariffs.
I'm optimistic that April 2nd, some of the tariffs may not have to go on because a deal is pre-negotiated or that once countries receive their reciprocal tariff number, that right after that, they will come to us and want to negotiate it down.
It has been an erratic start to the Trump presidency when it comes to trade policy.
Blanket 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico were threatened, delayed, imposed, and then paused with some exceptions, followed by 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports.
Trump has made it no secret.
He does not view the Canada-U.S.
trading relationship as fair.
Absolutely one of the worst.
He's complained about protections for Canadian dairy, made false accusations about Canadian banking rules, exaggerated and complained about the trade deficit, the list goes on and on.
While the White House did not provide any detail about a number or tariff rate for Canada, it is a frequent target of Trump's anger.
And Canada is making some weird moves, like cancelling part of the order for the F-35.
This is very dumb.
The F-35 has long been a political football in Canada, and it seems destined to be one again.
The defense minister raised the issue with me.
The issue, says Prime Minister Mark Carney, is whether the F-35 is the right warplane for Canada.
The fact is that under the contract, as you may know, after a certain number of purchases, then we have options on subsequent aircrafts.
Canada has already paid for its first tranche of 16 F-35s to be delivered in the next few years.
It planned to buy 88 in total from defence contractor Lockheed Martin for $19 billion.
But that could change.
Defence Minister Bill Blair.
The Prime Minister has asked me to go and examine those things and have discussions with other sources, particularly where there may be opportunities to assemble those fighter jets in Canada to properly support them and maintain them in Canada.
That is a very obvious reference to the company that placed second in Canada's fighter jet competition.
Dude, what are they doing?
That, I don't think, you can't just, you know, go ahead and, oh, we'll change this out.
I mean, you'll have, what, are they going to have Saab jets now?
That means that, well, in fact, you'll have two supply chains, you need different runways.
This is the wrong weapon system to reconsider.
Retired General Tom Lawson is the country's former top military commander and a former consultant for Lockheed Martin.
He says operating two types of fighters is something the military doesn't want to do.
It's costly.
Two training regimes, two supply chains, and separate hangars.
Lawson also warns any further delays risk wearing out the current CF-18s.
There's a very real scenario where everything gets delayed to the point where there are no fighters flying in Canada for a period of time.
And that would be a further blow to Canada's struggling Air Force.
New documents obtained by CBC News show only 40% of RCEF aircraft are serviceable and ready to fly and fight.
We don't have war stocks to sustain a fight.
Critics have suggested the F-35 should be dropped because it's vulnerable to U.S. interference.
Former test pilot, retired Lieutenant Colonel Billy Flynn says the same could be said for all U.S. military software and weapons supply chains.
There is nothing unique about the vulnerability of the F-34.
Reducing Canada's F-35 purchase could also affect aerospace firms in this country.
To date, $3.5 billion of Canadian parts have gone into the program, contracts that could be vulnerable, depending on the direction the political wind is blowing.
So I look at the map of Canada, and the provinces are very interesting, particularly the ones that connect to the United States border.
And there's moves being made.
This is a great guy.
In Alberta, which I think that borders on Washington State?
I think mostly B.C. is Washington State and Alberta is probably over Montana, Idaho, maybe a touch of Washington.
Let me just see real quick.
No, you're right.
You're right.
The border is on Montana.
But, you know, it's connected to us, and there's moves being made.
What we're proposing to do, first and foremost, is to free Alberta from governance by idiots in Ontario and Quebec.
So, I've been involved with an organization called the Alberta Prosperity Project for a number of years.
Interestingly, we're now up to over 60,000 members, which is more members than the United Conservative Party of Alberta at this point.
The goal is to educate Albertans on the benefits of independence, free of the structural problems caused by Canadian federalism, which has effectively turned Alberta and Albertans into colonized citizens,
into a colony of Quebec and Ontario, which we're all sorely fed up with.
So myself and a number of other Albertans have decided that enough is enough.
We're tired of being governed by complete idiots, and we're at a unique point in history with the newly elected Trump administration to send a delegation to Washington to discuss with the Trump administration
their support.
for Alberta independence and to gauge the level of support in the Trump administration for an independent Alberta free of Canada, to gauge their support for Alberta either becoming a U.S. territory or a U.S.
state. Yeah, baby!
We'd have a big foam finger sticking up into Canada.
Alberta.
Where all the wealth is.
Right?
Alberta is the key to the whole country insofar as balancing the budget because of all the energy they have there.
Yeah, the oil, right?
Yeah, oil, shale, shale oil and oil and everything else.
A lot of stuff.
I bet there's interest.
Well, that ain't got...
It's pretty funny.
That's all I can say.
It'll definitely cause a stir.
He has 60,000 members.
That's not bad.
I thought that was interesting.
Well, you got me on that one.
You're up.
Okay, well, let's take a look at policing.
The Chinese police in the United States and the big scandal that's taking place.
That's still going on?
Let's start it up again because now they're going to pass some laws.
The Congress is getting involved.
A group of Republican lawmakers in the House have introduced a bill to combat China's efforts to establish secretive police stations on American soil.
Congresswoman Ashley Hinson, who sits on the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, introduced the Expel Illegal Chinese Police Act of 2025 last week.
The committee's chairman, Congressman John Molinar, co-led the bill.
Joining us now to discuss these latest efforts to combat the CCP's operations in the U.S. is Jimmy Quinn, national security correspondent at the National Review.
Jimmy, thank you so much for joining us.
Great to have you with us again.
Now, first, what are these secretive Chinese police stations?
What are they doing on U.S. soil?
What these Chinese police stations are doing is they are involved in repression.
They're involved in political outreach to U.S. politicians.
It's a violation of America's sovereignty.
Far and short are these offices that are set up within other legitimate semen community organizations that already exist.
Many of them have been co-opted, actually, by the PRC and the Chinese Communist Party.
And these people are forced to set up a police station.
And, you know, the claim by the Chinese government is that they're just processing paperwork, helping people with their driver's licenses.
But the thing to know is that These are not approved by the U.S. government.
These are illegal law enforcement outposts in our country.
In this case, in the middle of Manhattan.
It's something that everyone should be wary of.
So this one was shut down.
There might be two more in the country, according to some research out there.
But it's a very scary situation.
Only two?
Only two left?
I don't know what he says, but who knows?
But the question comes to mind is, every time I hear this kind of story, and this TV show, it's on CBS, is FBI International.
Isn't that an oxymoron?
What's the FBI doing?
And the show's about various FBI offices around the world.
How's that different than this?
Or what about the spy stations, Berlin Station, or these places that the CIA runs that are in other countries?
How's that different?
You know, just, there's one page that was removed from the CIA JFK file drop, and it is the page about the CIA's involvement in non-governmental organizations.
It's now gone.
It's gone from the website.
About how official cover is necessary to enable our officers to work overseas in often hostile and volatile environments.
That's why CIA uses State Department cover companies.
Yeah, we do this.
But do these Chinese police, do they wear uniforms and have billy clubs?
And hats and helmets?
I mean, it just doesn't make a...
The story just baffles me somewhat because of the fact that we do this everywhere.
Yeah.
And now the Chinese, you know, they're accused of, well, the problem with this, the Chinese police, they look for Chinese that are over here and then they go, you're Chinese, you should be promoting China.
Or something.
It's just beyond me.
I guess maybe we don't do that.
I'm not sure.
Well, we don't use restaurants as cover, that's for sure.
Yeah.
At least there's good food involved.
Okay, let's do part two.
And to your point, Congressman John Molinar saying, quote, these stations represent a direct threat to our national security and undermine the rule of law in the United States.
What would this legislation do in terms of combating this?
So this bill goes after the agencies and the officials within the People's Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party who are involved in this program, both here and in China.
It would impose...
Full blocking sanctions on certain officials who are involved in running the police station.
Typically, it's the Ministry of Public Security.
As we learned through the federal indictment of the two men who operated the station in Manhattan, the Chinese consulate is involved as well here in New York.
So Chinese diplomatic outposts are involved.
So there's this kind of alphabet soup of different PRC security agencies, diplomatic arms that play a role in operating the police stations.
So what these lawmakers are trying to do is they're trying to go directly after the people who I
think the use of the term police station, That sounds propagandistic to me.
I mean, there are no actions.
It's not like there's a shield on the door and they've got a front desk and they've got a jail.
I mean, this is conjuring up imagery.
The guy, the sergeant at the front desk.
Yeah, and this is NTD, of course, who hate the Chinese Communist Party.
But they're not the only ones that use the term.
No, I mean, I'm saying the term is being used purposefully.
To conjure up images that may be...
Yeah, like there's an alien police station in your city.
The communist Chinese party is running this police station in San Francisco.
I mean, you could say a safe house for spies.
There's all kinds of different ways you could describe it.
But police station is very specific.
Yeah, I agree 100% with you.
Oh my god, that's two in a show.
Hello, is this...
I do it all the time.
I'm always...
This shows, we get like Capehart, that other guy.
Are you John C...
Brooks and Capehart.
What, are you calling me Capehart?
You're right.
You're the Capehart.
I'll be Brooks.
I'm not going to be Capehart.
No, no.
Now, zooming out a bit, we hear a lot of talk about the long arm of the CCP, where Chinese dissidents, human rights activists, or members of faith groups and ethnic minorities, like, say, the Uyghurs, Tibetans, Falun Gong, are targeted even on U.S. What your viewers need to know is that there's this thing called the United Front.
It's a concept that the party has run throughout its history, stretching back basically to its founding.
We're talking about the early...
You know, 20th century through the 1930s.
And it's a strategy that the party has used to basically co-opt people who aren't officially party members to get them to do the party's bidding.
And it just tries to convene people.
It operates through them.
It's kind of the lifeblood of the entire system, where people will, different agencies within the CCP and within the PRC, will turn to united front actors, and they'll ask them to do things like hunt down a dissident,
as we saw in this case.
Where the defendants in the Chinese police station indictment are alleged to have worked with the Ministry of Public Security to find dissidents on U.S. soil.
So the United Front is here.
It's dangerous.
And it's very influential, unfortunately.
And it's kind of the connective tissue for all of these malign, long-arm repression activities.
Very concerning indeed.
Jimmy Quinn, thank you so much for joining us.
How's that different than that?
Very concerning indeed.
Well, this brings me to something I was hoping would come up.
We love listening to how people speak in the mainstream, and NTD is mainstream of sorts.
We have discovered the term apophora, which is when someone says why and then answers the question.
There's another one that I bumped up against, Is the explanation for terms like dictator, ally, that's a favorite one right now.
You know, Trump's ally.
Police station is actually another one.
And it's called emotive conjugation.
And I had not heard of this term.
But it's real simple when it's explained, and I found a clip of Eric Weinstein explaining this concept, which was developed by Russell Bertrand.
You're looking for emotive conjugation or Russell conjugation.
Turns out Bertrand Russell had been here earlier, and in 1948, he was on the BBC, and he said, let's look at the construction.
I am firm, you are obstinate, he, she, or it is a pig-headed fool.
And that was just a moment where I said, Oh my gosh, I don't realize that I have been given no extra information about the three conjugations that he's gone through, and yet I feel differently.
I like the fact that somebody is firm and steadfast, and I dislike the fact that somebody is pig-headed.
And then I realized that this could actually be weaponized as part of an arms race, that maybe the newspapers were in fact conjugating.
President, strongman, dictator.
And so I remembered this very strange phrase from years past.
Panamanian strongman, Manuel Noriega.
And I thought, who would come up with a construction that awkward and always invariant?
And then everyone repeats it.
And then everyone uses it.
Exactly.
Hawkish.
He's hawkish.
And so what I came to understand is that the big boys don't play around with faking the facts.
What they realized is that we have multiple opinions on everything.
But our emotional state selects which opinion.
And the person who figured this out is Frank Luntz.
And Frank Luntz is a Republican pollster.
There's a video of him where he asks people, you know, what do you think about undocumented workers?
Oh, you know, they're doing a great job and we have to recognize their contribution.
Well, do you support illegal aliens?
No, no, no.
They should be deported.
In an instant.
And then you see that the mind doesn't see itself.
And so we are both for and against everything.
I love this.
Of course, we've seen it.
We call it out, but I never knew it had a term.
Yeah, it's an awkward term.
It's not a good term.
As a term, it sucks.
Yeah, but like newcomers, there's another one we've identified.
Yeah, newcomers.
I'd like to figure out where the...
The usage of the false accusation or false...
The thing they always keep using with Trump.
False equivalence?
No, not false equivalence.
Without evidence?
No, no.
I'm talking about when they say Trump falsely claims that the election was rigged.
Falsely claimed.
He claims that the election was rigged.
He doesn't falsely claim it, but they say falsely claimed.
That construction.
Where does that fit into the scheme of things?
And I see it all the time with Trump.
They're always throwing a crazy little phrase in here and there.
I think the strongman example is a good one.
Yeah, strongman, president, dictator.
All those terms.
We identify them.
Yeah, we don't categorize them.
We just identify them.
That's what we do.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
I'd like to lighten the mood a bit.
Talk.
Talk to talk.
I'm ready.
I'm ready?
I'm ready.
Yeah, I'm ready.
Wow, you actually...
Oh, this is the thanks I get for saying you were right.
Correct, correct.
How about that?
You are right, yes.
These things always pay off.
They do.
It's a big payoff for you.
Big payday.
You get to do your trans talk clips.
Well, let's start with trans women in sports being okay.
Oh, hold on a second.
Where is this?
Talk.
Oh, talk.
Yes.
If your daughter doesn't want to compete against trans women in sports, maybe your daughter just shouldn't play sports.
Ever thought about that?
Maybe she just doesn't have that competitive spirit.
Maybe she's just mediocre.
Maybe she's not that good.
Because you know what?
There are cis women that beat out the boys every single freaking day.
So, if your daughter is making all of these excuses because she thinks that a trans woman has biological advantages over her, which is probably brainwashing that you cause, if she's complaining about the biological advantages that trans women have,
she's going to complain about the biological advantages that cis women have, okay?
What if there's a cis girl on her team that's six feet tall?
Is she going to complain?
What if there's a cis girl on her team that has extra large feet and so has great feet?
Balance.
Is she going to complain?
What if there's a cis girl who has extra long arms?
Is she going to complain?
She's going to complain about every damn thing, okay?
So maybe it's time to hang it up, okay?
Accept the mediocrity and go on to play piano or something like that, okay?
Okay, well, after this she went outside and keyed a Tesla.
Tell me.
She went right away.
Yes, exactly.
That's what she did.
They caught her on the camera.
I'm a little concerned.
It seems your TikTok algorithm is intersecting with mine because I've seen these clips.
Uh-oh.
Well, here's the trans...
I actually have two more.
This is the trans woman leaving.
This is a common one we're starting to hear more and more of.
I'm leaving the country.
And I could use a little help.
As you might imagine, being a trans woman, I'm not super excited about the direction this country is headed.
I live in an area that is still relatively safe for trans people, but I'd rather not be here if and when that stops being the case.
So I'm leaving by the end of the year with my fiancé to live in a place that has more constitutional protections for people like me.
However, moving is expensive, generally.
Let alone moving to a whole-ass other country.
Oh, was there a call for a GoFundMe on this particular talk clip?
Well, it seems like my TikToks tend to come off of Twitter.
They don't have the connections.
Because a lot of the gay men who are worried about their rights, they're moving to Spain.
Yeah, and the thing is, when you want to move to another country, you're going to learn something very interesting.
You can't just show up and say, I want to live here.
There's all kinds of requirements.
You can't just say, oh, I want to be a citizen here.
No.
No.
The EU?
No.
You can't just show up.
Well, I mean, if you walk across the border from some, you know, like from Morocco, maybe, or from Algiers or whatever.
But, no.
You can't just go to the UK, for instance.
Can't the UK be like, okay, do you have work?
Do you have a sponsor?
These people are going to find that it's not as simple as that.
Then we have the other extreme of these clips, and this was the trans mom.
No, a gay mom of a trans kid or something.
I don't know.
It's hard to say.
But in Deerfield, Illinois, there's this big brouhaha over this boy who's determined that he's a girl, and he shows up in the women's locker room and got his dick hanging out, and girls don't like that.
So there's been a big fuss made by the moms.
Yes.
And then the school locked the girls in there and said, you have to change in front of this kid.
No, no.
Yes.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, absolutely.
The school did that?
Yeah.
And now there's all kinds of lawsuits going on.
We have lost our ever-loving minds.
But here's what you're dealing with.
This is the Deerfield clip.
This is the woman who comes out and she just lays it on the line, how good it is to protect this trans girl.
Tina Nelson, she, her pronouns, community member and part of the LGBTQ community.
Thank you for prioritizing the safety of the student that's been targeted.
By an organization that weaponizes religion to push the white supremacist agenda of their cis white husbands.
Church people.
Excuse me.
Excuse me.
This is...
I have the mic.
Let's be respectful.
Please be respectful of each other's times.
Targeting a middle school student...
Because of your white God?
Yeah.
Excuse me, can we pause for a second?
This is a time for us to listen, to hear your viewpoint, and we want to hear that.
Okay.
Thank you.
Yes.
So, children that are raised by those who hate, vilify, and fear-monger will hate, vilify, and fear-monger their peers.
So, education is super important.
Sex education is super important.
This is just a kid.
And it's...
I'm just...
I'm really grateful to see how full this room is of support for this kid instead of the petty women that target him.
I'm glad you gave the backstory because I wouldn't have understood it.
And by the way, what is cis white?
You're cis white husbands.
Yes, and you're white God.
And she also makes the point, she makes the point that these women aren't...
They don't think for themselves as their cis white husbands that think for them.
That's the only reason it's going on.
Any of this is going on because of the cis white husbands that tell these dumb women what to do and how to think.
This woman, and if you look at her, she's all tatted up and she's got piercings and there's some creepy kid behind her that looks like a goth trans of some sort.
And it was just cringe, cringey, and it's a term I don't like.
Yeah, that is kind of a term I wouldn't expect from you, cringey.
Well, you know what it is.
It's TikTok itself.
That is the issue.
That is what is creating, here's another term, brain rot.
Katie Paige Rosenberg, a freshman at the University of North Carolina, Asheville, recently realized what too much scrolling was doing to her.
How many hours were you spending on your phone?
Oh God, probably like nine.
Nine hours?
I was just kind of constantly on it.
You may have heard stories like hers before.
I wasn't able to focus because I would have to take out my phone every couple of minutes.
But now you can actually see the science behind it.
Smartphones have wide-reaching changes all over the brain, and specifically it grows here and it shrinks there.
Psychiatrist Brent Nelson is applying this new science at Newport Healthcare, which has mental health treatment centers for teens across the country.
This is a brain that's addicted to a smartphone.
These are MRI images from a recent study in Korea.
All the red indicates increases in brain activity, the effects of...
Smartphone addiction.
Do you want your brain to be this colorful?
You don't.
Why?
Well, because this is showing where the brain is working extra hard compared to a non-addicted brain when asked to do actually a pretty simple task.
Yeah, I love it.
I'm really sad at this point that I pissed off the brain scientist from Austin.
This is the kind of stuff he would be doing.
Remember that?
Oh, yeah.
Totally remember it.
That's too bad.
You were a bad boy.
Yes.
I was supporting Trump without admitting I was a Republican!
You never have been a Republican.
No, but that was his wife.
She got real mad at me.
That's what happened.
All right, second part to this.
Addicted smartphone users' brains were so colorful, so active, it made them less attentive and more easily distracted.
What's now informally called...
Brain rot.
What does that look like in real life?
Yeah, let's take a school, for example.
Sitting in class, and you're trying to focus.
They're going to be looking around, not attending to what the teacher is trying to teach them.
Dr. Nelson says emerging research points to even greater risks.
We're just starting to see these changes and we know they're connected to behavioral changes, depression, anxiety.
The dangers are hiding in there.
Social media had really influenced me in a lot of ways.
TikTok would kind of push these videos of people popping in edible before school.
Yeah. If I do this, maybe I'll
To deal with that, last year she checked in to a treatment facility.
I don't think I'd be here.
It was really bad.
Katie had to give up her phone in treatment.
There, she found other outlets from drawing to playing guitar that helped rewire her Gen Z brain.
The key, perhaps, analog antidotes reminiscent of another generation.
Playing in the dirt.
Drinking from the hose, sort of the Gen X kind of mentality, is shown to actually allow folks to recover, to feel better, to make it easier to kind of go about their day.
There it is!
Drink from the hose!
Play in the dirt!
Play in the dirt, children!
That'll fix it!
Yeah, I'm all in on this.
I can see it.
Well, you're talking to the wrong guy.
No, I mean, you have no idea what this is.
I create brain rot on myself sometimes.
Sometimes on, like, a Monday, which is I try to kind of do a little bit of a Sabbath, just, you know, and I can't get away with it, but at least I don't look at news and I don't, you know, I'm just, I'm not doing the typical, I'm not doing emails on Monday.
Don't send me an email on Monday.
It goes to the bottom of the stack.
But then I'll sit on the couch around 3. Let me see what's on YouTube.
And then it'll be 5 o 'clock and I've seen a thousand cop body cam videos.
I've seen all kinds of things.
Like, what did I just do to myself?
And it goes by real quick.
You don't even realize it.
There is an addictive quality to it.
And it rots my brain.
And then I need two more days to recuperate.
So I can do the Thursday show.
Well, that's interesting.
I don't know if it's interesting.
Baby's been babysitting Theo a couple of times because they've had to go do some stuff.
How old is Theodorable at this point?
I don't know.
I have no idea.
Seven, maybe.
He's your grandkid.
You don't know how old he is.
I don't know how old you are.
This is where you say, he's new.
I don't remember.
He's new.
I don't use that part of my memory for that sort of thing.
Clearly!
Don't count on John for a birthday present, Theo.
So the...
He can watch these...
He plays Minecraft.
He's always yakking about it.
And I always tell him, I'm not interested.
I don't want to hear about it.
And I shut him down.
Grandpa!
Grandpa!
Come look at my Minecraft!
Look at my blocks!
And it's just like a terrible game.
And so it turns out when he comes over once in a while, he wants to watch it.
Of course, his parents have now said, no more of this.
I was used to show him if he wanted to be entertained on the television.
Let me guess.
Russian car crash videos?
Absolutely.
He loved those.
Kids love watching Russian car crash videos.
Just a tip.
This is the tip of the day.
The tip of the day.
Early tip of the day, everybody.
And so he wanted to watch some Minecraft videos.
Oh, God.
And the Minecraft videos are all...
It talks about the very...
I don't know if they're cheats or whatever.
It's just so dumb.
I mean, the characters are just blocks.
They're just dumb.
Low-res blocks.
They're just blocks.
There must be 10,000 hours of Minecraft videos on YouTube.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, it's a big thing.
Sure.
It's unbelievable.
I said, well, you want to watch Wednesday?
I want to watch that one.
He points it when it's on the screen.
And I look at it because they have the time on the lower right-hand side showing how long they are.
Two and a half hours.
Oh, yeah.
These streams?
Sure, I've seen those.
I mean, I haven't watched them, but I see them pop up.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, my God.
It's just boring as hell.
How about this?
I have an idea.
Here's a grandpa moment.
Why don't you go out and get a huge Lego set?
He's got Legos.
Does he like Legos?
Yeah.
But you should buy him a set.
Believe me, he's done that.
He's been bought plenty of Lego sets.
But he loves Minecraft.
It's such an extreme.
He likes playing it.
He likes learning about it.
He likes the cheats.
I think.
I don't know what he's watching.
Is it like Second Life where there's all kinds of sex stuff going on in Minecraft?
No, I don't think so.
As far as I guess, there's just a bunch of block characters wandering around kicking each other.
It just doesn't make sense to me the whole game.
How about a chemistry set?
Do they still make those?
No, they don't.
When I was a kid, I had a real chemistry set that could blow things up.
And I had sodium pentothal.
Oh, you did now?
Yeah.
That's pretty cool.
Yeah.
And someone said, hey, that's truth serum.
So it tasted awful.
Let me tell you that.
It didn't work very well.
You had to inject it.
And then you had the microscope set.
I definitely had a microscope set.
I had a real chemistry set when they were real.
Yeah.
And they were dangerous and poisonous and toxic.
I had one of those.
You had sulfur in there.
Beyond that, you had all kinds of stuff.
It was awesome.
Good times, good days.
They won't sell those anymore to kids because, oh, they might, you know, kill themselves.
And that was your Boomer Update.
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Your Boomer Update is complete.
And with that, I want to thank you for your courage.
Say in the morning to you, the man who put the C in the emotive conjugation.
Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one, the only, Mr. John C. DeMora.
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In the morning, all ships of sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the names and knights out there.
In the morning, control was in the troll room.
I'm counting you now.
Hold on a second.
All right.
It's not all that great.
1927 was our peak.
1927, which is...
I don't even think...
I think that's below average at this point.
Average is 1,800.
No, I'm looking at the averages right now.
The average of Thursday is 1,993.
That was, oh no, that was the last show.
Last 10 shows, 2,084.
The last 100 shows, 1,904.
You're off!
But in general, Thursdays are up 4.7% over the last 100 shows.
Who cares?
Nobody cares!
I mean, it's like saying, how many downloads do you have?
Who cares?
Nobody cares.
Nobody cares how many downloads.
We just care if we can keep the show going.
What else would I do?
Well, I know what I'd be doing.
I'd be watching Minecraft videos.
On the phone, doom scrolling.
Doom scrolling is very bad.
What do you do when you're really not working?
What do you do?
I'm writing or I'm on...
Sorting email, or trying to clean up my office, or sorting towels, folding laundry.
Sorting towels?
Yeah, sorting towels.
Folding laundry, or sometimes I maybe get in the car and go someplace.
Yeah.
Where do you go?
Costco.
Yeah, okay.
So it's not someplace, it's Costco.
Yeah.
Are you doing stuff?
Well, that's good.
That's good.
Not always.
I mean, sometimes I'm just watching television aimlessly, trying to find something worth watching, which is not easy to do.
No, no.
So you watch your series during the day?
Not in the evening, right?
You don't watch TV in the evening?
You watch sports.
Sports, I bet.
Sports.
No, I don't watch that much sports.
I watch...
No, I'm not...
I follow sports, but I don't sit there and watch it like a basketball game.
That's what...
I don't know.
At home, sitting there watching a whole basketball?
Forget it.
The games are always the same.
Wait until the last two minutes and you get to see the game.
So when you're sorting towels, do you have to match the washcloth with the towel?
Or are you trying to make a matching set?
No, I don't do it.
That's getting carried away.
What do you do then?
I just fold them and put them in the drawer.
Oh, you said sorting.
You said sorting.
Well, that's kind of sorting.
You got to take the...
Because there's towels that go in one drawer, and there's dish towels, and there's kitchen towels, and there's bath towels.
There's three kinds of things you've got to sort.
You've got to select them.
You've got to select them.
Wow.
You should consider some single-use towels.
It's called paper towels.
Yeah, exactly.
I've got those, too.
Do you have a dispenser?
Paper towel dispenser.
Not one of those round ones.
I've got to roll.
Not one of those in the bathroom.
Pull out a brown sheet?
No.
I don't know what that is.
Yeah, you've been to a restroom, and you wash your hands, and then there's a dispenser, and you pull out a brush.
Oh, that's not a bad idea.
Yeah.
But then you have to spend your days refilling them.
I don't need that aggravation, no.
We want to thank the trolls for being here.
Almost 2,000 of you listening in.
It always does bring me joy.
It brings me joy.
It brings me joy that people are listening to our boomer banter.
Boomer banter, everybody.
They listen at trollroom.io.
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You'll be alerted within 90 seconds of us sending it out.
There's a lot of advantages.
We are a value for value proposition.
Not like Roku where you've got an autoplay ad that you can't shut it up.
Unless you quickly select something else, but then you go to Netflix and they autoplay.
I don't like that either.
I just want to scroll through the little squares.
I don't need to have a preview automatically play.
Does your smart TV do that?
That annoys you.
That does annoy me, yeah.
Why?
Because I just want to look at the description.
It gives you a little sample.
It's a free sample.
It's all free.
It's a sample, though.
I don't want the sample.
I want to click to get the sample.
Well, maybe they should have a toggle.
You can turn that off.
That would be an idea.
I like the little sample.
I'm sure that they're counting that as a view.
Hey, man.
It's all done in minutes.
If you read the trades, it's all billions of minutes.
There's that.
So, yeah, I bet you they do, because since it's done in micros, it's done it by second by second.
I'm sure they do that.
Yeah.
The whole thing is sleazy.
Yes.
Well, no sleazier than charging it.
And the content is junk.
There's so much garbage.
It's poorly written, poorly acted.
We wound up watching the Marky Mark movie.
What was the Marky Mark movie?
What's that called?
The Mark Wahlberg movie is The Family Plan.
It's from 2023.
Yeah?
He's a car dealer.
He's got a little family.
And then it turns out...
Oh, you mean it's starring him?
Yes, it's starring him.
I thought it was like a biography or something where you described it.
No, I just call him Marky Mark because I know him as Marky Mark.
He produced it too.
It turns out he was an assassin.
Oh, that's creative.
It was a feel-good movie.
I can't help it.
A feel-good movie about a car dealer who's an assassin.
Yes, it was a feel-good movie.
Wow.
Anyway, so we just give you top quality entertainment and media deconstruction every single Thursday and Sunday.
That's all we do.
We don't charge you for it.
We don't make you jump through hoops.
There's no free preview.
The whole thing is a free preview.
Listen to the whole thing.
If you don't like it, then you should have bailed out long ago.
And the best part, of course, is the donation segment.
That's where all the magic happens.
And a lot of that is the content that comes from our producers themselves.
But first we need to thank our artist who brought us the artwork for episode 1747.
We titled that Hi-Fi Intel, which is exactly what we provide.
High Fidelity Intelligence, just for you.
That's what we do.
And now this was from a brand new artist, Gun Monkey.
I think Gun Monkey had been on the art generator for two hours.
And this doesn't happen very often.
It's happened about three times.
Yeah, but all recent, I think, since the advent of AI.
And this was an interesting piece.
It was a flying Volkswagen bus.
From the repurposed factory.
Yes, exactly.
And it had all kinds of U.S. Navy bombs, and it had Korean Dvorak bombs.
Yeah, I don't get the U.S. Navy aspect to it, but okay, it's fine.
I did get a note from Gun Monkey.
Oh.
Yes.
And it turns out Gun Monkey is a girl.
I didn't know that.
Gun Monkey is a girl?
Yes.
What did she have to say?
Wait a minute.
Hold on a second.
Is this...
Let me make sure I'm saying this right.
Did we choose Gun Monkey before?
No.
No.
Well, what was the cow art?
Who did the cow art?
That was also Gun Monkey.
Yeah, we chose Gun Monkey two shows in a row.
Oh, and she's new to the thing.
Yes.
Oh, that's odd.
She did the cow?
Yeah.
Gun Monkey did the cow?
Yeah, Gun Monkey says, I want to thank you for selecting the cow art for 1746.
I've been listening to No Agenda since 2020.
Well, Gun Monkey didn't do this thing.
This was done by someone else.
You're right.
Yeah, this is T.I. 1 Pipple, who was the first.
That's a mistake on my part.
Yeah, what are you giving Gun Monkey the credit for this guy's work for?
Gun Monkey deserves no credit.
No.
Who did this one, then?
This is T.I. Pipple.
T.I. Pipple?
Pipple J. Oh, sorry, T.I. Pipple J. Which probably means something in Haxor.
Yeah.
Well, I didn't get a note from T.I. People today.
And this was a first submission, because he submitted five pieces the first time ever, and he got a winner.
Or she.
Could be a she.
I don't know.
Could be.
Well, I'm still going to read this note.
I don't know.
You got sidetracked.
Was Gun Monkey flirting with you?
What's the deal here?
Well, no.
Gun Monkey said that he's a she.
And Gun Monkey is a professional artist, and I wanted to welcome Gun Monkey to the show, even though Gun Monkey has been listening since 2020.
And Gun Monkey also owns a gallery.
GunMonkeyArt.com Makes sense, doesn't it?
I guess.
So I don't know about people, Jay.
Pipple Jay know nothing about, but we appreciate Pipple Jay.
Yeah, but Pipple Jay is the one who came in first time, because Gun Monkey has submitted before.
Yes, you're right.
Pipple Jay guy, or girl, came in first shot, and this happens rarely, but it has happened before.
Great job.
Comes in with five pieces, and two of them I thought were quite good.
Yes.
Actually, they were all okay, but...
Two of them are really good.
And she won the Volkswagen Flying Bus, the Flying Bug.
Yeah.
No, it's a bus.
It's a bus.
Yeah.
Pipple Jay, let us know about you.
I love getting notes from the artists.
Was there anything else that we looked at that we need to discuss?
No, actually.
This was such a clear winner.
I think we both determined it to be the...
Yeah, I think we picked it pretty quick.
Because it stood out.
Yeah.
Yes.
Oh, there's a lot of fun art for today.
Yeah, there's a lot of stuff.
There's a lot of stuff, yeah.
Oh, by the way, people who thought it was a good idea to have puking leprechauns and puking Irish, no.
We're not going to choose puke art.
No.
One of the things you have to remember, we have unwritten rules.
Including grotesquery.
Grotesqueness, yes.
Anything that's grotesque or kind of sickening or nauseating is not going to be picked ever.
Automatic fail.
Because we don't want that association or people associate no agenda with something gruesome.
Don't like it.
Don't want it.
Not going to accept it.
So anyway, thank you very much, PeopleJ.
We appreciate you.
And we also always thank the people who support us because...
Unlike the download scam, which is like, oh, you know, we had a million downloads.
Okay, how much is that?
That's what they say to advertisers.
You don't even know if people listen to it.
That's the scam right there.
You know, downloads.
There's not much else you can do.
What else can you do?
There's nothing else to be done.
Can't be done.
Nothing else to be done.
So that's why podcasting is a problem.
That's why it's all moving to YouTube.
Because you can, you know, you get...
30 seconds of view time?
Boom!
Someone watched.
Yep, that's not a scam.
Now, instead, we just ask you to support the show with whatever you think the show is worth to you.
It's called the Value for Value Principle, the Value for Value Model.
And we thank everybody.
That's an important part of the feedback loop, or an important part of Value for Value is having the feedback loop.
Some people take advantage of us, send in very, very long notes.
That's not the idea, but we will comply as much as we can.
And we thank everybody.
There's one couple coming up.
I know.
That are just like, come on.
I saw them.
And some are just pure puzzling.
We thank everybody, $50 and above, and we make special mention of our executive and associate executive producers.
These are people who donate $200 and above, and that means that you become an associate executive producer.
That's a real credit.
You can use it anywhere credits are recognized, Hollywood style.
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Same thing, only you're an executive producer.
And back with a vengeance is Seronymous of Dogpatch and Lower Slobovia, our top executive producer today.
With 3-3-5-2.
Man.
Bringing home the bacon for us.
I'm sure there was at least one $2 bill in there?
Well, two.
Good $2 bill.
3-3-5-4.
I have 3-3-5-2 on my note here.
Oh, it says 3-3-5-4 on the spreadsheet.
Okay, this is very important because if we get the code wrong, someone's going to die.
So, written on the note is 3352.
On the spreadsheet, she put 3352.
Jay could be responsible for death.
Normally, here's what happens.
We're very concerned about this note.
No kidding!
So, usually, the anonymous donation comes in.
I count it and keep the...
There's the first weak spot.
No.
I count it and then I have somebody else count it.
So two people count it and you get a number.
And if the number matches, that's the number we use.
In this case, I never counted it this time because I was cooking or something.
I was sorting towels.
I was sorting towels.
And so we have this problem.
Well, hold on.
Do you recall there being more than one $2 bill?
I'd have to go look in the drawer.
Next to your phone?
Next to the phone.
Now everyone knows where the money is kept.
The drawer phone.
We're running this show out of John's drawer, okay?
Laughably, that's closer to the truth.
Oh, man.
There is a drawer that has money in it.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I don't know what to say.
So the people out there that are...
That need this code.
They're going to have to try both these numbers and see what happens.
From Seronymous of Dogpatch and Lois Lobovia, thank you to all producers for their ongoing effort to make this a primary news and information source.
Also, thank you to producers offering insight on algorithms and attribution capacity, John's Oasis column, and John and Adam's willingness to read a long note.
Can you do it again and hold it?
We'll read his long note.
Well, and then he posted four...
He posted some music notation.
Yes, I was told about this.
And are you looking at the note?
Because I'm looking at it.
And so it's four...
Not bars.
Can anybody read this musical?
Do you have an instrument there?
You can play those four notes?
Well, it's the same note every single time.
But one is like...
And then the second line is...
What does it sound like?
Does it sound like anything to you yet?
No, I have no idea what this is.
And then he'll tell us, and then it'll be something that we go, oh, duh.
But then he also has three pieces highlighted in yellow.
Yes, I don't understand that either.
He's gone out of his way to confuse us.
It's a problem.
It's a real problem.
You know what I'm going to do?
I have an idea here.
Hold on a second.
So he's musical.
Well, I don't know if he's...
Well, maybe he is.
That's an interesting point.
Let me see if I can post this into the troll room.
Yes, if anybody out there can play these notes.
There you go.
The trolls have it.
And it says 2733.
I don't know any of what this means.
Anyway, he does close it by saying, Ramadan...
Before this show ends in four years, we will have this figured out.
Ramadan Mubarak, may this Ramadan cleanse your soul and bring you closer to the Almighty.
He closes.
No jingles, no karma.
And the trolls are now speculating in their typical stupid troll way.
So we'll never get a straight answer.
It was a good idea.
How stupid am I?
All right.
Thank you very much, Seronymous.
Please let us know if we got this number correct.
It's on the note is scribbled, 3352.
So I'm going to think that that is the correct code, the correct number.
That's what I'm thinking.
And I apologize for any death and destruction that occurs.
Does the spreadsheet have been put on later?
Yes.
I apologize for any death and destruction.
Okay.
I've got to get my mouse to work.
Come on, mouse.
You can do it.
There we go.
Okay, now we've got Dame Becky.
Oh, Dame Becky.
She came in and she has a note.
Okay, this is going to be annoying if I can't get this thing to work so I can switch over to the note.
There it is.
Okay.
Okay, ITM Jensen closes a belated birthday donation for the two of us.
Mr. Mike Baronet of the Great Katy Prairie celebrated 74 trips around the sun on March 8, 2025.
Dame Becky, Baronetess of the Great Katy Prairie.
Celebrate 73 trips around the sun on March 2nd.
So they're both marchers.
The donation takes us each to Baron Baroness and we hereby request the territory of the Gulf Coast of Texas.
No jingles, no karma.
Keep up the amazing work you both do to keep us sane and our amygdala shrunk.
Regards, Becky.
Kenny, or Becky Kenny, that's Becky Kenny, yeah, in Katy, Texas.
Yeah, obviously, she's a regular.
Then we got two checks of 333.33 from Chap Williams in Edmond, Oklahoma, which, of course, totals 666.66.
But there was no note.
I do not have an email.
I have nothing of the sort.
So I will just give him a Double Up Karma.
I say thank you very much.
You've got...
Double Up!
Karma.
We'll expect a note eventually.
Ryan Schubert in Richmond Hill, Georgia.
$500.
Checking in from Savannah.
Unless it's actually in Savannah.
Yes.
Please de-douche my wife.
De-douche up!
Sorry.
You've been de-douched.
Sorry.
Fat-fingered it.
And I request baby-making karma no jingle.
You've got...
Karma.
I do want to thank the fine folks over at NoAgendaChocolates.com.
Another box came in, John.
Have you received another box?
No.
Of turtles?
No, I haven't seen any turtles.
And I got a hoodie.
A Little John's Candies hoodie.
Oh, that's cool.
Yeah.
Tina took that right away and said, These people are trying to kill us!
Well, maybe.
Ryan Schubert.
Oh, I'm sorry.
That's you.
Go ahead.
You do Ryan Schubert.
No, you just did him.
I'm doing Scott Lamont.
There we go.
In Somerset, Massachusetts.
$350.93.
My final night payment, Sir Scott the White Knight of Pottersville Village in Somerset, Taxachusetts.
At the round table, Caymus Cabernet Sauvignon and salt and vinegar almonds.
And that's his entire note, so you got it.
Thank you.
Baroness Sarah Rupert in Oakland, California, 33333.
She writes, happy 50th birthday today to Jonathan Rupert from Baroness Sarah Rupert.
And the original No Agenda sucker baby, Violet.
Ah, Violet.
She's older now.
We love you so much.
This donation plus the, it's called a trap baby, by the way.
Trap baby.
You can call it sucker baby if you want.
We love you so much.
This donation plus the one he made in December.
And our subscription has earned him a seat at the round table.
Could you knight him today on his 50th birthday as Sir Jonathan Rupert?
Please wish Jonathan a happy birthday and an ITM when you come to the April 5th meetup for John's birthday at our new restaurant.
They have a pizza place they own, the two of them.
Oh, cool.
Over on Piedmont.
It's also a grand opening weekend of our second Pizzeria Violetta.
They named a pizza place after the trap baby.
She was now older.
Located in the new Prescott Market in West Oakland.
Oh, that's another place.
Double check address from the meetup site to make sure you go to the correct location.
Okay.
They're going to have a chain of these places.
We have the VIP section reserved for the No Agenda family.
We'd love to be the new meetup spot for the Bay Area.
There you go.
Baron, dude named Jeff.
333.33.
This donation pushes me past Viscount status.
Nice.
Huge dose of relationship karma.
I need all the help I can get.
You got it.
I'm going to throw in a goat, actually.
Make sure you get the right stuff.
You've got karma.
Goats are always good for relationships.
North Idaho Sanity Brigade donation in Concord.
Yes.
dearest boomers.
It should be noted that the meetups just might be the single easiest way to generate executive and associate executive producer donations.
Attendees can simply plunk down bits of cash into the center of the table.
You'll have Brunetti-esque big boy forever credit before you can see
Ha ha ha!
Yes, a lot of people are complaining.
They're saying your phony ISOs are phony because an ISO is short for isolated clip.
That does not mean AI generated clip.
So it's unfair what you're doing.
It should also be noted that Adam, since something was amiss, yeah, after three and a half months, at the very beginning of the ISO gate, but John gaslit him.
By falsely claiming they were coming from audiobooks.
It wasn't early.
It was about a month into it.
Hold on, stop.
It wasn't a false claim.
You claimed it.
No.
Well, there's a use of false claim.
Yeah, exactly.
But it wasn't right away when I...
It was after about a month before he decided to call me out on these clips, and that's when I gaslit him, if you want to put it that way.
Yes, yes.
I would use the term bullshit at him.
With the idea that it came from an audiobook because it made nothing but sense because they were very crisp and clear.
And it sounded like an audiobook person.
Anyway, he continues.
Love is lit.
Sir Scott the Jew and North Idaho Sanity Brigade.
Yes, and I got a post note asking the North Idaho Sanity Brigade.
Brigade requested a doo-doo.
I'm all tongue-tied today.
You got it?
You got it?
You're hanging in there.
A de-douching for Jack Kramer.
You've been de-douched.
And according to Darren O 'Neill, the sheet music in the image appears to be from Beethoven's Symphony No.
9 in D minor, opus 125, specifically the fourth movement, which includes the famous Ode to Joy meme.
The highlighted sections correspond to recognizable melodic patterns from this symphony.
So he sent it to AI.
Oh, yeah.
Of course he sent it to AI.
Good idea.
Ode to Joy.
That was a good idea.
Ode to Joy, which is the European Union's national anthem.
Oh, that's what we're dealing with here.
Okay.
We're starting to figure it out.
We're on to you.
We're on to you.
Thanks to AI.
Yes.
Actually, thanks to Darren.
Anon, in anonymous, place unknown, 222.22, a row of ducks, hopefully short and sweet this time.
This row of ducks was the steak dinner monies that was previously allocated to the Osaka Castle Cherry Blossom Viewing and Amygdala Shrinking Meetup, hosted by Sir Bill of Osaka.
That's in Japan.
And Sir3D, and that was on Saturday, April 5th at 1333.
See no agenda meetups for more details.
Bring your own beer.
Hopefully I will be sporting a night ring next time I go to that meetup.
Was happy with the results of the TPP karma, so I definitely recommend producers donate $200 and pick that again.
Pick that.
Again, thank you to the extensive list of producers that have provided value to the show through the three Ts, time, talent, and treasure.
Adam, don't feel bad.
The Zoomers and...
And newer, called the millennials and older, boomers.
I don't feel bad at all.
I learned on the last episode, it's because we have incredible knowledge.
Jingles, JCD Hot Pockets, beautiful, yum, and a TPP Jobs Karma.
Hot Pockets, beautiful, yum.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs.
You've got...
Sir Paulie Bravo.
Paulie Bravo.
In Fort Collins, Colorado.
Nice town.
220-87.
25th anniversary.
Thanks, Violet.
Thanks, Violet Wild on Spotify.
Okay.
Anyone ever go to a JoCo cruise?
On a JoCo cruise?
What's JoCo cruise?
I don't know what a JoCo cruise is.
Happy birthday, Chauncey.
Sir Paulie Bravo in FOCO.
Okay.
Joko FOCO.
I don't know.
Hey, look who comes in with $212.
It's our guy, Blockman Bing.
Oh, yeah?
That is the guy whose note we read who was complaining about us.
That's right.
Calling us out for all kinds of things.
Turns out he lives in New Jersey, Tintin Falls, and he says...
That makes nothing but sense.
Long-time boner, first-time donor.
Not, well, not the first-time complainer.
I've been listening since Adam was on Twit in 2010.
But I only started listening religiously since COVID.
I used to love the chemtrails and trains good jingles.
I could get those, a dedouching, and goat karma, please.
I thought there was more to this note.
Did this note get redacted?
Not that I know of, and I'm wondering whether this is the same guy or he's just someone using the name.
Hold on a second, because I remember this note was longer.
Is Jay editing?
No, he doesn't do that.
Here.
It's a very long note.
Yes, side notes.
This is interesting.
I'm glad I caught this because the side notes are interesting.
I am an Indian Hindu doctor.
I voted Republican in every election since I turned 18, 20 years ago.
I took a little offense at being labeled a drive-by.
That was John.
That's the same guy.
That was my accusation, by the way.
I'll take full credit for calling him a drive-by.
You are correct.
I have emails with Adam dating back to 2010 when I started listening.
And then he says, useful idiot is a term that, because he called us useful idiots for Israel.
Useful idiot is a term that harkens back to the Cold War to reference non-commies doing the propaganda legwork for commies.
Yeah, there used to be a podcast called The Useful Idiots that Matt Taibbi used to do.
This is relevant today in non-Israelis defending Israel by...
Not calling out their crimes against humanity.
You see, I think that is a problem.
You cannot say we are defending anybody because we're not calling someone out for their crimes against humanity.
Because then you never stop.
So we're defending thousands of people.
We're defending thousands of people being killed in Syria.
We're defending...
The killing of people in Somalia.
Oakland, for that matter.
Oakland!
Yes!
We are pro-death in Oakland!
No, you can't do that.
You can't do that.
So, I take some exception with that.
Anyway, I'm glad I got the rest of your note.
And so we wanted a Chemtrails, which I hadn't seen, obviously.
Chemtrails trains good.
And what else did he want?
And, uh, de-douching?
You've been de-douched.
And the goat karma coming up.
Ten trails.
All aboard, trains good, planes bad.
Thanks for your note, brother.
You've got karma.
We take no offense at your opinions.
No, we don't take any offense.
You've been listening for 15 years and you finally donated.
And it comes around.
And it took us calling out his note.
Yeah, if it wasn't for that, we would probably have still not heard from him.
He would still have been driving by, just shooting spitballs.
La Jolla Salt Corporation in La Jolla, California.
Didn't you get some of their product?
I got some of their product.
No, I got none of their product.
Their product is outstanding.
What is it?
Salt?
Read the note.
Oh.
211-865 is what contributed.
He, she, whatever group, this corporation.
It says, decimate dry skin with a luxurious sea salt scrub from LaJollaSalt.com.
Enjoy the dazzling moisture and exfoliating power of our small batch sea salt scrubs.
Handmade by the sea in the village of La Jolla.
For complete decimation, kick in for a bundle of ten.
LaJollaSalt.com.
Putting the sea back in sea salt scrub.
LaJollaSeaSalt.com.
Thank you for your courage.
They forgot the Code Bongino offer.
Yeah, I noticed there was no discount there.
I'm surprised.
It's a great product.
I have tried it.
I exfoliated like a madman.
Dame Stacey is in Billings, Montana, $2.10 and $0.60.
In the morning to you, gentlemen, this is a March 21st birthday donation to me.
I want to thank Saddle Tramp for hitting me in the mouth a few years ago.
Ah, Saddle Tramp.
How is Saddle Tramp?
Haven't heard from her in a while.
Although I have not been able to fully hit anyone in the mouth, I have smacked my husband around with different segments.
I'm requesting a non-Kamala biscuit for my birthday jingle.
Please stay safe.
Dame Stacey of Yellowstone Country and the Black Hills.
They always give me a biscuit on my birthday.
Eli the Coffee Guy in Bensonville, Illinois.
There we go.
$203.20.
This, by the way, I'm not sure.
This one we put in here because it came in and it got one of the pending things.
This happens with PayPal every once in a while.
Yeah, I know.
Hey, we don't know.
It looks dubious.
It could be a terrorist.
Yeah, coffee guy.
So the guy comes in every show with almost the same amount of money.
And then they have to flag it.
Oh, problem.
It gets flagged out of the blue because it's a randomizer.
There's no real work being done here.
He writes, well, news agencies railed against the administration for deporting an innocent pro-Palestine advocate for exercising his free speech.
You guys called out Mahmoud Khalil.
I have a clip.
I have a bonus clip.
Ah, bonus clip, everybody.
Right in the middle of this.
Let's play the bonus clip.
All right.
What is it called?
Khalil.
Could have figured that one out.
A federal judge in New York today rejected the Trump administration's efforts to keep Columbia protester Mahmoud Khalil in a Louisiana detention facility.
The protesters' attorney said the government wanted to avoid New York and New Jersey.
Our legal correspondent Arlene Richards finds out whether location matters.
A New York federal judge on Wednesday ordered that Columbia protester Mahmoud Khalil be transferred to New Jersey.
In a 33-page order, Judge Jesse Furman moved the entire case to a New Jersey federal court.
He ruled that since Khalil was still being held in a New Jersey facility, when his attorney requested his release, the case must be heard in New Jersey.
One of Khalil's attorneys said in a statement that the government moved him to Louisiana to avoid having the case heard in New York or New Jersey.
Critics say Louisiana's appeals court is the most conservative in the country, whereas New Jersey's Third Circuit panel is evenly split with six conservative judges and six liberal judges.
International law attorney Gerard Felitti said in a text message that the court explicitly said there was no basis to conclude that the government transferred Khalil from New York to Louisiana for an improper purpose.
He adds that deportation decisions are made by immigration courts.
Appeals are typically made to the Board of Immigration Appeals and then, in certain circumstances, to the appropriate federal court.
Felitti confirmed that Louisiana federal courts do lean conservative, whereas New Jersey federal courts have historically been less inclined to uphold deportation orders.
But he said, we are far from the deportation stage.
Right now, the New Jersey court would have to decide whether Khalil's rights were violated in the first place.
He said what we will hear are arguments about whether his First and Fifth Amendment rights were violated by the government.
The attorney said if the court rules in Khalil's favor, the government will have to be successful on appeal in order to proceed with a deportation hereafter.
I talked to a constitutional lawyer, Rob, and rob.lawyer.
And I said, what's going on with all this?
Who is in charge?
He said, well, this is how it was written.
The executives, Article 2, and the judicial, Article 3, they were meant to make it all at odds with each other.
It's called checks and balances.
So this is how our system was meant to work.
Confusing and annoying.
Good work, founding fathers.
It pays the bills.
Doesn't this somehow go back to Madison versus Marburg?
You guys called out...
I'm going to continue the note.
Okay.
You guys called out Mahmoud for being a spook.
It's that type of deconstruction that makes No Agenda truly the best podcast in the universe.
Thank you for your insight jingles.
Spot the spook, of course.
George Clooney is a spy.
For producers, spooks or otherwise.
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Eli the coffee guy.
I spot the spook.
Spot the spook.
Everybody wants to spot the spook.
George Clooney.
Is a spy.
Was it Marbury versus Madison?
Marbury, yeah.
Marbury.
You said Marburg?
I did.
Yeah, you're thinking of the Ebola type virus.
I'm thinking of Mark Wahlberg, and I'm confused.
Oh, that could be too.
Julianne Corrente is in New Berlin, Wisconsin.
$200.
And that is an associate executive producership, and she comes in right away and says, use your boobs!
Don't let doctors or your own doubts tell you that you can't breastfeed.
Is this a thing?
What?
Yeah.
Well, here she goes.
When did breastfeeding go out of vogue?
Oh, I'm sure there's all kinds of issues.
Even men still breastfeed.
So Leslie can make more money selling that bony baloney stuff?
I guess.
I'm sure there's a campaign against it.
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A must-have for any pregnant lady.
More onesies won't make postpartum easier, but this will.
Thank you for your courage.
Baby making karma, please, for all of those in need.
That is an interesting new service.
Producer.
Yeah, there you go.
Here's your baby marking karma.
Milk producer, in this case.
Again, your code is N-A-8-0-0-8.
Jesse Scalarud in Murrieta, California, 200.
This is a switcheroo donation for my son, Andrew Scalarud.
I hit him in the mouth about four years ago, and we've enjoyed every show since.
This is a special birthday donation.
He turns 20 on March 24th.
This is his last birthday at home.
He leaves April 8th for the Air Force to join our cybersecurity warriors.
His mom and I...
Oh, there's a dude named Ben.
Yeah.
His mom and I will miss him terribly.
Terribly.
But Gitmo Nation will get another awesome dude named Ben.
Thanks, No Agenda, for helping me raise my son with appropriately sized amygdala.
Thanks, Andrew, for being a better son than I could have...
Asked for jingles.
Man overboard.
Time to stand.
Human resource.
I don't know that one.
Gitmo Nation national anthem.
That's too long.
Hit it.
And cruise missile sound effect.
Okay, here's what's going on.
When you listen to the live...
These are things only for the live show.
So, time to stand is when I say, come on, trolls, rise and sing.
Oh, rise and stand.
Then I play the Gitmo Nation National Anthem.
Oh, he listens to the live show then.
Yeah, and then you say, hit it.
Those things are reserved for people who listen to the pre-stream right after Darren O 'Neill, the pre-show guy.
So, I do, however, have the man overboard and the cruise missile effect.
I think that will be sufficient.
Man overboard!
There you go.
Beautiful.
And at the end...
Oh, no.
There's two more.
Well, let me read Linda so you can have the last one.
No, I don't want the last one.
I can't read it because it blows up my spreadsheet.
I cannot read this last note.
You think my spreadsheet is any better?
Well, it's...
You don't care.
Go for it.
You do Linda Lupatkin.
Good luck with your read.
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Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
I love your smugness.
I'm not a choker.
Dale J. Thompson, Cannon Beach, Oregon, $200, our final associate executive producers, and he wrote quite a note, but he says, when did the No Agenda show morph into the Twilight Zone?
I have a strange account to relate what happened to me this last Sunday afternoon, as our illustrious previous occupant would say, true story, no joke.
Almost every Sunday afternoon, you can usually find me taking my dog on a long walk around my Fairburg while I listen to my favorite podcast.
This past Sunday was no exception, and most of the time I'm listening to the podcast that was recorded that very day.
This past Sunday was an exception because I was catching up with the previous Thursday's show.
So, then he goes on, he says, about 45 minutes into the walk, at the 1 hour 36 mark in my show, when my headphones started acting up, so he pulled out his cell phone, tried to fix it, he's using both hands, the dog is impatient, so he gets the headphones plugged back in,
he hits play on his phone, but the sound is coming out of the cell phone speaker instead of the headphone, so he's fiddling with it some more, my impatient dog is yanking on the leash, and then he yells at the dog, hey, stop!
And now for the strange part.
Right after I yelled at my dog, what should come out of Adam's mouth in the middle of the clip but...
Did you say something?
No, it was the clip.
I thought someone said, hey, stop!
This was at the 1 hour 36 and 37 second mark.
Hmm.
Okay, so now I'm a little freaked out.
What are the chances?
This is a very strange coincidence.
Maybe some force in the universe is playing with me and I don't like it.
So perhaps I need to make a contribution to placate the no-agenda gods to let them leave me alone.
Absolutely.
He nailed it.
Except I'm a Christian and I don't make offerings to idols.
You're not an idol.
We work pretty hard.
Anyways, I'll be sending you my contribution.
You deserve it.
Perhaps you can put a good word in with whoever or whatever caused this incident and get this nonsense to stop.
Word put in.
Consider yourself taken care of.
And that concludes our executive and associate executive producers for episode 1748.
We appreciate every single one of you.
Thank you for...
Supporting us, we will thank the $50 and above donors in our second segment.
And of course, if you go to NoAgendaDonations.com, you can always set up a recurring donation.
Check to see if yours that you set up previously is still working.
A lot of those get canceled and there's no notification of it.
NoAgendaDonations.com, any amount, any frequency.
And thanks again to these executive and associate executive producers.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
New world border shatter slaves.
Boom shakalaka.
I have an Ask Adam kind of thing?
Kind of thing?
Well, it's like, I want to, because this is a clip I took from NPR, and it sounded, I heard, what I heard was later corrected, but what I heard, I want to see if you hear.
Okay, do I play the jingle first, or the Ask Adam?
No, but I would play the jingle first.
Ask Adam, ask Adam, will he know or will he won't?
I don't know, but here we go.
Ask Adam, ask Adam, yeah.
Answer the question, go!
Okay, I'm ready.
So they name a call sign for a radio station, and what I heard was not...
Don't tell me, don't tell me what you heard, because that may...
No, of course not.
I want you to tell me what you hear.
Okay.
From KUNC and the NPR Network, this is In the NoCo.
I heard KUNC.
Okay.
I know what you heard.
You heard K-U-N-T.
Yeah.
She was more clear later in the clip.
And then when she said it, because I heard it, I said, what?
What kind of a state?
How did they allow this?
And then she said K-U-N-C.
More clearly, later, and I said, oh, that's interesting, and I went back and played this again.
I still heard, misheard it.
You were set up at that point.
You were set up.
It could be.
Set yourself up.
Well, I'm glad you got it.
We were talking about AI during the donation segment.
Welcome back, everybody who doesn't listen to the donation segment.
You missed some good clips.
Ha, ha, ha.
Oh, yeah.
Joke's on you.
And that included a decodation of Seronymous of Dogpatch's musical notation.
Which we believe now is an ode to joy.
We're not sure yet.
But AI is being applied everywhere.
What could possibly go wrong?
As we hear from the UK Times podcast.
Laura, you've got the story in the paper today about David Lamme, the Foreign Secretary.
He's bringing AI and novel technologies into the Foreign Office to help to diplomats practice negotiation scenarios.
That's fascinating.
I do, and he is.
It is fun, isn't it?
I mean, everybody in government is tasked with thinking about ways that they can use AI and talk about the opportunities of AI.
But David Lamme, never one to be left out, is trying very hard in a speech today at the British Chambers of Commerce to talk.
We'll talk about how the Foreign Office can deliver growth.
So there'll be some comments for Foreign Office staff, there'll be various new units and insight groups.
But the thing that caught my eye the most talking to people in government about this in recent days was the upcoming announcement on artificial intelligence, which is actually that they're developing, they've got two new AI tools inside the Foreign Office and they are developing ways to help diplomats to actually do negotiations.
they're trying to create virtual realities so you could just drop an ambassador with a VR headset into a meeting with an overseas Prime Minister and say, you should use them now.
Talk to a Donald Trump bot.
Exactly. They're
I'm not massively convinced,
but I think it will be very interesting to see how ambassadors and high commissioners aim.
Why don't they just have the UK AI talk to the US AI?
Take out the middlemen.
Yeah, and then go into that mode.
The high speed.
It's not high speed.
It's 35 baud.
We talk...
Thank you.
I did have a concerning note here.
Yes.
From Tom's hardware blog.
There are apparently USB-C cables when scanned with a CT scanner reveals electronics in the connector that include an antenna and another die embedded in the microcontroller.
Ooh.
That sounds like a pretty cool device.
Ooh is right.
We don't know what it does.
Well, you know what it does?
It's a spying device.
You can get them?
Where can you get them?
I don't know.
At Hack 5, apparently, according to the Troll Room.
Hack 5. I didn't realize that.
I want to call out a script.
I'm disappointed in Miss Leave It and Peter Doocy.
For playing out a little show in the press room.
This was funny but yet unnecessary because it was obvious you colluded.
And this discredits Peter Doocy of Fox News.
There is now a member of the European Parliament from France who does not think the U.S. represents the values of the Statue of Liberty anymore.
They want the Statue of Liberty back.
So is President Trump.
Absolutely not.
And my advice to that unnamed, low-level French politician would be to remind them that it's only because of the United States of America that the French are not speaking German right now.
So they should be very grateful to our great country.
Kelly?
So obvious.
Yeah, that's pretty bad.
Yeah, I was turned off by that.
I want to get this out of the way, which is the stranded astronauts' controversy.
Controversy?
Yeah, they weren't stranded.
No, they weren't.
Well, depends on who you talk to.
I have two clips.
I have the astronauts' return.
But before I play that, I want to play the stranded astronauts' clip.
This was a couple weeks ago when they were at a press conference.
They were floating around in the...
In the pod, and they were asked this question.
I like that you titled the clip Stranded Astrobots.
Here's the question.
Our next question is from Aaron Gregg with the Washington Post.
Hi, everyone.
Thanks for doing this.
So, my question relates to Elon Musk.
My goodness, this sounds just like those quarterly calls from Wall Street.
Our next question is from the Wall Street Journal.
Hey everybody, great cue.
Yeah, I have a question for the astronauts.
Our next question is from Aaron Gregg with the Washington Post.
Hi everyone, thanks for doing this.
So my question relates to, Elon Musk has said that he made the offer to bring you guys back earlier and that it was denied.
My first question is, is that true?
And if so, what would that have looked like?
Was he offering to make another flight?
Pushed seats on another flight.
Could you give us some background there?
I can only say that Mr. Musk, what he says is absolutely factual.
We have no information on that, though, whatsoever.
What was offered, what was not offered, who it was offered to, how that process has went, that's information that we simply don't have.
So I believe him.
I don't know all those details, and I don't think any of us really can give you the answer that maybe you would be hoping for.
Well, that's interesting.
So the answer they were hoping for, of course, is that, yeah, Biden stranded them.
Yeah.
But they were offered a trip back and then Biden actually did strand them, left them up there.
And then it's kind of, now it's become a bone of contention amongst the media.
Well, the word stranded isn't being used correctly.
They like being up there and all this.
They were lost in space.
And so we have the astronauts return clip, which just kind of summarizes them coming back.
Two NASA astronauts are back on Earth after an extended stay on the International Space Station.
Their mission was set to last only eight days, but Butch Wilmore and Sonny Williams ended up spending nine months in orbit.
Central Florida Public Media's Brendan Byrne has more on the astronauts' 286 days in space.
It was a picture-perfect return as the SpaceX Dragon capsule gently splashed down under a canopy of four parachutes just off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida.
And splashed down, Crew-9 back on Earth.
But their mission wasn't as smooth as their return.
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sonny Williams arrived at the station back in June in Boeing's Starliner spacecraft designed to take astronauts to and from the station.
It was a test flight, but during their arrival, the crew encountered problems with the spacecraft's thrusters.
Starliner docked successfully, but NASA decided it wasn't safe enough to take them home.
Instead, they went with another company, Elon Musk's SpaceX, for the return journey.
Starliner was sent back to Earth without a crew in August, and an already planned crew mission flew to the station in September with only two of its four seats taken by NASA's Nick Hague and Russia's Alexander Gorbanov.
The empty seats were for Wilmore and Williams.
The four returned home together.
Nick, Alex, Butch, Sonny, on behalf of SpaceX, welcome home.
During their extended stay, Wilmore and Williams became part of the station crew, conducting 150 unique science experiments and multiple spacewalks.
NASA's Steve Stitch says despite the mission not going as originally planned, You know, Butch and Sonny's return on Dragon, to me, shows how important it is to have two different crew transportation systems.
NASA says Boeing is committed to flying Starliner again, although when that will happen and whether or not it will carry a crew is still unclear.
What I find fascinating about all this is that the blue thing, was it Blue Horizon, Blue Origin, what is Bezos' outfit called?
Yeah.
Blue.
Baby blue.
They've had a lander on the so-called moon for two weeks, and you've hardly heard anything about it.
Mainly because...
It's not doing anything up there.
Well, it's out of power now.
It's done.
Yeah.
I thought...
Yes?
I was going to say...
Well, you can finish that.
That thought, because I was discussing how I thought that they stayed up on the space station and collected a bunch of overtime.
Blue fail.
Blue fail.
But one of our producers looked into it and found out that they weren't going to get any overtime at all.
They got kind of gypped by this whole thing.
Yeah, they got like $170 a day or something.
Yeah, it's like meals and transportation.
I think they did get some drink coupons, possibly.
That's a rough deal, man.
That's no good.
Somebody pointed out that both of them weren't young, and so they're going to have a hard time recovering.
Yeah, hard time.
And then, of course, there's the fly.
You probably saw the fly video.
Yeah, I saw the fly.
I'm buying it.
It could be any sort of anomaly.
I think the whole splashdown was AI generated.
It was just AI.
AI is not that good.
AI is very good.
It's very good at that stuff.
And that Jensen guy, he keeps doing...
Who's Jensen?
Jensen from NVIDIA.
Oh, Jensen Wong.
Yeah, he keeps doing these Steve Jobs things with his leather jacket.
His leather jacket and his sneakers.
Yeah, and he's got a robot accompanying him.
Yeah, and he's treating the robot like a dog, and there's a stand over there.
It's like, it's so fake.
I had dinner with that guy.
Yeah?
Yeah, some years back before they really got big.
When he was still a gaming guy?
Yeah.
Winnie's still a gaming guy.
Yeah.
Nice guy.
Yeah, I'm sure he is.
I like him.
You can go kick him in the shin.
I'm sure he's even nicer now.
Yeah, I'll bet he is.
He won't have dinner with me now.
No, no, no, not at all.
Who's that guy?
Who?
I think we need to...
I'm going to wrap up my offerings for today.
With some measles, because we've got to sound the alarm!
New York City, under alert!
I'm calling on all New Yorkers.
If you've not been vaccinated, your child's not vaccinated, please step up and get it done.
Today, Governor Kathy Hochul spoke about why she is sounding the alarm, encouraging all New Yorkers to get vaccinated against measles.
While the outbreaks in Texas and New Mexico may seem far away, 13 other states are reporting cases of measles.
Including New York State.
And there is an outbreak in Ontario, Canada, which borders New York.
Governor Hochul is hoping to combat any vaccine hesitancy.
The vaccination has been determined to have saved 60 million lives over the last 20 years alone.
60 million lives.
That's extraordinary.
60 million lives saved?
What?
Yeah, that's what she's saying.
What is she, nuts?
She's saying that the vaccine has saved over 60 million lives from the deadly measles.
Oh my god.
That just doesn't, that's just, that sounds a bit...
No, it's bullcrap.
That's what it sounds like.
We cannot go backwards in this time of fear and disinformation.
It'll only wreak havoc on our state.
Let's go forward together.
The state launched a new web portal today with information about measles.
About 81% of New York residents have received at least one MMR dose.
That is the measles vaccine.
Not enough!
Since 1989, two doses have been recommended.
The first dose is given at the age of one, the second at four to six years of age.
She's doing this all wrong.
You've got to offer french fries.
And a Big Mac.
And then they will get vaccinated.
But the worst part is Dr. Peter Hotep.
Oh, God.
Yes.
Well, he's celebrating because it was, you know, COVID broke out.
Celebrating another day of life from the looks of him.
Five years ago was when we first came out with the mRNA vaccine, which, as you know, has been incredibly successful.
Just ask him.
Just ask President Trump.
Saved millions of lives.
Almost as many as the measles vaccine.
It's just fantastic.
Five years ago tomorrow, Moderna introduced the first human trials for a COVID-19 vaccine.
But the point, and the point you made to us all those years ago, is that the research that went into that vaccine and the others started well before the pandemic.
In some cases, 40 years before the pandemic, including research that you'd done.
This is the kind of thing we're talking about here.
Research that's being done in the background that most people don't even know for diseases that we don't know that we're going to suffer from.
Yeah, that's exactly right, Ali.
Remember the work going in to show that the spike protein, especially the receptor binding domain of the spike protein, is the target of any vaccine strategy against the coronavirus, whether it's SARS or SARS-2, which is the cause of COVID-19.
That was work that was funded in our lab all through the 2010s and possibly even earlier than that.
So that was a decade of research funded by the NIH.
And then all of the research that led...
The American people too often have the impression that mRNA vaccines arose out of nowhere, and it didn't.
Of significant support from the National Institutes of Health that funded two convergent lines.
One, for showing the spike protein as a target for coronaviruses.
And second, how to shape the mRNA as a vaccine strategy.
A vaccine strategy.
Not a gene therapy.
A vaccine strategy.
And of course, he is singing for his supper here because he's afraid that Bobby the Op may just defund his research.
Well, what we learned from talking to you all those years ago and since then is all that we don't know about biology, about chemistry, about disease.
My argument is that's okay.
It's okay if everybody watching the show doesn't know what the NIH does.
It's okay if you don't know what clinical trials are going on out there.
Allie Velshi from MSNBC.
Velshi. Velshi.
Oh, Velshi.
Velshi.
The fact that you can target them because people don't know what they are and that the government can get away with impunity and saying we're cutting all of this research.
You shouldn't have to know what it is.
You do have to know that important work is being done.
Important work.
Well, and not only that, Ali, you're absolutely right, but the other aspect is now with this mRNA having proof of concept that it works for infectious diseases.
It doesn't work.
It works.
It doesn't work.
Proof of work.
It's like Bitcoin.
Proof of work.
We have proof of work that it works.
Proof of work.
It works.
Safe and effective.
It works.
Well, and not only that, Ali, you're absolutely right, but the other aspect is now with this mRNA having proof of concept that it works for infectious diseases...
And now we're turning it to a cancer therapeutic.
Oh, yeah!
Of course!
Yes!
Problem, reaction, solution!
So there was a recent report that an mRNA vaccine is showing a lot of promise in pancreatic cancer, which, you know, in the past has been such a devastating condition that's taken the lives of so many of my friends and colleagues over the years.
We're now looking at...
People, as you know, that had pancreatic cancer.
I'd say that's something wrong with that.
With that group.
With that group.
There's something going on there.
My friends and colleagues over the years.
We're now at Baylor looking at the possibility of creating an mRNA for triple negative breast cancer.
So, again, this is going to be the next generation of cancer therapeutics, and we can't now cut that off.
And then we have other pandemic threats coming down the line.
There's this thing called H5N1 that's affecting cattle and poultry, and now there's been 70 human cases so far.
There's no human-to-human transmission.
Not yet!
But that could happen.
And it could happen over the next couple of years.
And so we're going to need new vaccines for that.
And that can only come through support from the National Institutes of Health.
I love the conflagration.
Conflagration?
The confusion about vaccines and therapies.
And this guy is a ghoul.
He's a total ghoul.
But why does the NIH have to be...
I thought drug companies, pharmaceutical companies, vaccine manufacturers and all the rest can do their own damn research.
Very good.
Thank you.
Very good point.
That's the research side.
Then there's the political side.
And when I say that, I'm referring to the measles situation we've got in the United States.
I mean, we've not talked about a measles outbreak in this country for a very long time.
Largely something that people thought was eradicated.
An outbreak!
It doesn't take much to shift the political winds, to cause people to say, I don't need vaccines, they're dangerous, they're going to cause autism, or whatever the case is.
In some cases, those concerns are rooted in some valid fears, and in some cases, like MMR, they're simply...
Not.
And yet we have a head of HHS who suggests that there may be other ways to deal with measles.
Yeah, like getting it?
Just a thought?
Yeah, and it's not the kind of message we want to get out.
I'm here in Texas where the measles epidemic...
I'm sorry.
An epidemic?
Epidemic adjective.
Affecting or tending to affect a disproportionately large number of individuals within a population.
This is not an epidemic.
It's also not an outbreak.
It's some kids with measles.
Yeah, and it's not the kind of message we want to get out.
I'm here in Texas where the measles epidemic is pretty serious business.
We're at least 250 known cases, and some of my colleagues in West Texas are telling me that number may be considerably higher.
And the one thing you can't hide is the 34 hospitalizations.
Uh-oh, there it is again!
Now, you called this out a couple of shows back, and I said, well, that was just a mistake.
But I think you're right now.
You are correct.
I can't argue.
Thank you.
I was correct.
I can't argue with your logic.
Yep.
You say deaths and then you correct yourself.
They are planting it.
It's another, it's a trick.
Texas are telling me that number may be considerably higher.
And the one thing you can't hide is the 34 hospitalizations.
In Texas right now because of measles.
Measles is a serious illness that causes measles pneumonia.
It causes measles croup.
It causes permanent neurologic injury.
Measles tics.
And this is what's racing through the unvaccinated populations in the state of Texas.
And the only way to slow this epidemic down right now is to vaccinate our population, do catch-up vaccination campaigns.
You can even vaccinate individuals.
That's patently false.
It's not the only way.
There's many ways.
Like letting everybody get the measles.
It's not the only way.
We've been exposed to the virus.
If you vaccinate within 72 hours, that has to be all hands on deck.
Wait a minute.
You can vaccinate within 72 hours of getting the measles and then it'll cure you?
That's not true.
No.
Vaccinate our population.
Do catch-up vaccination campaigns.
You can even vaccinate individuals who have been exposed to the virus.
If you vaccinate within 72 hours, that has to be all hands on deck.
All hands on deck!
I don't know.
I'm really head-scratching what our Health and Human Services Secretary is saying.
He's starting to talk about vitamin A as a preventative.
It's not.
It's crazy.
As a steroid, I don't know where that comes from.
The overwhelming message needs to be to vaccinate our population and stop it.
And as long as we have an unvaccinated population in Texas, this virus will continue to race through it.
I think of it like a hurricane over warm Caribbean waters.
As long as there's warm water, that hurricane will continue.
It's the same with an unvaccinated population.
It's a hurricane!
Unvaccinated population is like a hurricane.
Wow.
I have no words.
I have no words.
There's nothing you can say.
No.
It's just insane.
All right, take us home, John.
You mean with a...
With a clip.
Just ended up with a clip.
Okay, it's a two-parter.
This is the DEI...
Okay, yes, I'm just telling you, we're going long.
I don't want to go long.
Let me just play something short.
Yeah, play something short.
It couldn't be any shorter than this.
I'd like to know how this works, but Mexico's captured the FBI's most wanted guy.
The White House announced the capture of another fugitive from the FBI's 10 most wanted list.
The statement says the fugitive is called Francisco Javier Mambadales and that he's a senior leader of the brutal MS-13 gang.
He'll be extradited from Mexico to face charges in the United States.
Oh, that's easy.
The Mexican gangs don't want to...
Terrorists.
Right here.
They don't want that guy.
We don't want this guy.
This guy's no good.
Take him.
Yeah, take him.
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.
Yeah, on No Agenda.
Yeah, we are going a little bit long, but it's good because we've got Commodores.
We've got tons of birthdays.
The Commodores again.
Yeah, the Commodores are stepping up, man.
They're stepping up.
Hey, Nathan.
Hey, hey.
Good to hear from you.
Yeah.
Franklin, Tennessee.
That's right.
Tennessee's a music place.
It's Music City, USA, baby.
Brendan Forcade in Polesbo, Washington.
$100.
Anyone who gets a chance to go through that town is quite cute.
Kevin McLaughlin in Concord, North Carolina.
8008.
There he is.
He's the Archduke of Luna.
Lover of America and lover of boobs.
Jason Mayeri.
Mayeri?
I don't know.
In Wanaki.
Wanaki, Wisconsin.
K9FYW 73. 73. 73. 73. 73. Kilo 5 Alpha Charlie Charlie.
He says the nation's fifth largest cell carrier is being eaten by the second largest.
I don't even know who is number five.
Dame Becky's up.
69, 69. She's in Arlington, Washington.
Sir Lineman, 67, 89. Baron of southern Illinois.
Oh, he's getting surgery next week to remove a brain tumor the size of a tennis ball.
Jeez, that's gotta hurt.
Well, we stop right away for karma for him.
Health karma.
You've got karma.
Kevin O 'Brien.
Not going to mess around with that.
Chicago.
6006.
Small boobs.
Scott Schreiber in Madrid, Maryland.
Oh, I'm sorry.
He's not in Madrid, Maryland.
That's what it says.
But no, it's Madrid, Spain.
Some province or whatever it is.
MD.
5798.
Happy Father's Day in Spain from Scott Schreiber by the Riverside.
Okay.
Thanks, Scott.
Sir Brofessy in Lancaster, New Mexico.
5555.
He's in the White Mountains.
Dean Roker, 5510.
Srinivas Murty in Culpeper, Virginia.
Somebody's pounding something.
Stop the hammering!
Outside.
5273.
And it's a happy birthday.
To Radha Murty.
Turning 95. Ooh, good work.
Bob Newell in Penfield, Pennsylvania, 52.50.
And now we've got to read to the 50s.
It's actually a pretty short list today.
And the $50 donors are another short list.
Chris Cowan in Austin, Texas.
Scott Lavender in Montgomery, Texas.
Luke Olson in Alexandria, Virginia.
Andrew Gusick in Greensboro, North Carolina.
And last, Michael Sikora.
In New Richmond, Wisconsin.
I want to thank these folks and everybody else for helping us do show 17. I don't know what it is.
48. 48. You don't know how old your grandson is, don't know what show it is.
Numbers, numbers.
But you know how to sort the towels.
Thank you to everyone who came in under $50 for reasons of anonymity.
We never mention those.
And remember, you can always put together a sustaining donation.
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You determine the frequency.
Go to noagendadonations.com.
Help us out.
And again, thanks to our executive and associate executive producers for episode 1748.
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Well, Dame Becky turned 73 on March 2nd.
We say happy birthday to her.
Sir Mike turned 74 on the 8th.
Dame Stacy, she celebrates tomorrow.
Jesse Scholarud wishes his son Andrew a very happy birthday.
He'll be 20 on the 24th.
Srinivas Murti.
Happy 95th birthday to his mom, Radha Murti.
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Happy birthday to Chauncey.
Long birthday note here from Claire Hedges.
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You are the body of an athlete, the mind of a stoic, the spirit of a warrior, and the heart of a poet.
Happy birthday from everybody here.
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And Baron Dude named Jeff becomes Viscount Dude named Jeff.
Thank you all so much for the extra support.
We really appreciate it.
Now we have a couple of Commodores that we can welcome.
They will receive their official certificate, as always.
We are very proud to welcome the following Commodores.
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Commodores arriving!
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That'll be interesting for Sir Anonymous of Dogpatch in Lower Slobovia.
I'm very curious where he's going to pick up his Commodore certificate.
You never know.
You never know.
Two nights to bring up today.
Bring up your night blade, John.
We got two nights.
There you go.
No, that's beautiful.
Hey, Scott Lamont and Jonathan Rupert, both of you hop up on the podium.
You are about to go on Knights of the Noagent Roundtable.
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No agenda meetups.
It's not your party.
One of the best parts Being part of No Agenda Nation is going to a meetup.
This is where you meet the people who will be your first responders in an emergency.
These are producer-organized.
You can find them at noagendameetups.com.
They are the people who bring you connection and protection.
And this is exactly what took place at the North Idaho Sanity Brigade meetup.
This is the North Idaho Sanity Brigade, and we are in the moment.
It sure scoffed a Jew here.
My dad is one of the highest-paid nutritionists in North Idaho.
But for some reason, nobody believes him when he says he has big erection.
Sir Donald of the Fire Bottles trying to figure out why I'm the only one here who has programmed a vacuum tube computer.
This is Lloyd the Brewer.
I'm the newest member of the North Idaho Sanity Brigade.
Just want to say thank you for what you do and see you tomorrow morning.
Adam, good pronunciation of Coeur d'Alene.
I don't got anything to say.
That was my son, Quincy.
This is Sir Dusifer finishing up a six-day snowboard run.
And hanging out with the North Idaho Sanity Brigade in the morning.
Sir Elefants here in the morning.
This is Brian from West Falls, soon to be Sir of Stable Storefronts.
A couple suggestions for a show title, credibility flambé, perhaps an end-of-show ISO.
Bring back real isos!
That's my crew right there, man.
Nice to see Sir Dusifer hanging out there.
There's a lot of famous people in that one.
Yeah, we got Sir Donald with the fire bottles.
That was very good.
Remember to include your servers in these reports, please.
We got a couple of meetups taking place today.
Underway as we speak, the Central Wisconsin Wow Saw in Skonis.
That's in Schofield, Wisconsin.
The It's Cold is Hot Tucson meetup underway at Canyons Crown in Tucson, Arizona.
The Denver Spring...
Equinox meetup kicks off in just about an hour and a half from now at Lincoln's Roadhouse in Denver, Colorado.
Charlotte's 33rd Thursday.
This is their fourth anniversary.
That'll be this evening at Ed's Tavern in Charlotte, North Carolina.
And tomorrow, the Round Rock Roundup, 633 here in Texas.
Round Rock, Texas.
Cork and Barrel.
On Saturday, the City of Fountains meetup at 2 o 'clock at Burg and Barrel in Overland Park, Kansas.
And on Sunday, our next show day, the Dems Ides of March Indy No Agenda Meetup, 3 o'clock at St. Joseph Brewery and Public House in Indianapolis, Indiana.
That's always a big group.
We always look forward to your meet-up.
Many more on the calendar.
All of these meetups again are scheduled and produced by producers.
Go hang out.
Figure out who else is listening.
You will always enjoy a No Agenda Meetup.
In fact, it's like chips.
You eat one, you can't stop it all.
Go to noagendameetups.com.
If you can't find one near you, start one yourself.
It's easy and always a party.
Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.
You want to be where you want me.
Triggered or hell or lame.
You want to be where everybody feels the same.
It's like a party.
Yeah, baby.
Always like a party.
And now we come to the phony baloney ISO competition that John is just cheating and we want real ISOs, so I'm going to play some real ISOs and then you can play your cheats, okay?
So here's my first one.
And so, there we are.
Nah, it's too muddled.
It's too muddled.
Here's another one.
Here's another one.
Yet again, I find myself amazed.
Yeah, didn't like the cutoff.
Here's my favorite.
Hey, you can be my age.
It's going to be a lot different.
That was you.
Yeah, I figured.
Okay.
All right.
Come up with your phone.
Okay, so Mimi said to me.
Yeah.
She challenged me.
She says, you know, you've been caught.
Now you've got to try to get the thing to do some.
Some, you know, street sounding, some ghetto, something that's a little different.
Oh, wait, wait.
So you're not doing ISOs, you're once again doing...
No, I'm doing the same ISOs because I couldn't get...
I tried to get everybody on the list.
I think if I upgrade my subscription to...
No, that's not an ISO.
That's an AI phony baloney jack-off.
Okay, but the phony baloney, if I could get...
I wanted to go, yo, yo, yo, what up, dope show.
It can't do that?
No!
Hmm.
Everything works out except the dope show.
It won't say dope show.
Okay, all right.
So what we're going to do now, we're not going to call it ISOs.
We're going to call it the agentic AI segment.
And I will see, I'm not going to compete with you on who can make better AI voices.
Yeah.
Okay.
The show evolves, you know.
Yeah, okay.
But we can't call it an ISO.
No, I just called it an ISO for the purposes of the list, so you can find it on the list.
So I got three.
All right.
What do you got?
I got done.
We're done.
Now go home.
Yeah.
Great.
I give up.
Another great show.
That sounded pretty AI.
That's a fail.
That's a fail.
And that guy couldn't do yo, yo, yo, what up?
No.
Which is incredibly white of you, but okay.
I digress.
Yeah, of course it is.
I'm white.
Hello.
Hello.
And the final one?
Sexy.
Another show that exudes sexiness.
Yes.
You're losing your touch, man.
You know, now I've lost.
Let me hear this one.
We're done.
Now go home.
I kind of like that one the best.
Yeah, I used that one.
All right.
And now, everybody, it's time for everybody's highlight of the program.
This is John C. Dvorak's Tip of the Day.
Great advice for you and me.
Just a tip with JCD.
And sometimes Adam.
Created by David Brunetti.
Today's show is for free photo editing software.
GIMP!
It's the GIMP!
To compete with GIMP.
Oh, okay.
Because GIMP is actually quite hard to use.
It's very powerful, but very difficult to use.
So I'm having fun with this other one.
It turns out there'll be tons of them out there.
Not tons, but maybe a dozen.
Very usable, free products.
Are you going to alternative.net?
No, I dug this one up through some more deeper research.
Okay.
This is PhotoDemon.
PhotoDemon.
PhotoDemon.
And I would recommend people get it and play with it.
And you get it at PhotoDemon.
Don't get it anywhere, but their main source.
I went to GitHub to find their real source of it, which is PhotoDemon.org and download it from there because everyone else is, you know, you can't trust these download sites anymore.
No, that was a previous tip.
Spyware with their downloads.
PhotoDemon.org, I think they're on version 12. And I would recommend playing with it if you like to play with some photo editing stuff.
Oh, that's a pretty good tip.
I might even follow that tip myself.
Yeah, give it a shot.
I'll give it a shot.
There you go, everybody.
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Great advice for you and me.
Just a tip with JCP.
And sometimes Adam.
Created by Dana Brunetti.
Thank you very much, Dana Brunetti, for creating that.
What would he do without you?
What would we do?
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We've got end-of-show mixes.
I've pulled up an oldie, which is from 2016.
It's a compilation, which just runs for about a minute 20. I think you'll like it.
Brian Longenecker, classic.
And L.O.B.G., another Vladimir Putin classic.
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Send us new mixes.
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