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And broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region No. 6. In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where we're celebrating the Cinco de Mayo show special.
I'm John C. Devorak.
It's Crackpot and Buzzkill in the morning.
You know, it's Cinco de Cuatro.
Yeah, I know.
May the fourth be with you.
May the fourth be with you, yes, indeed.
And we just missed it in the Netherlands on May 4th at 8 p.m.
I think we've talked about this before.
At 8 p.m., everybody stops.
The bells toll for, I think it's one or two minutes.
And we have a moment of silence for the victims of World War II.
Because tomorrow is Liberation Day in Europe.
Yeah.
We don't even celebrate any of that here.
I'm so confused about, you know, we've got...
We've given up.
We've given up taking credit for anything.
Yes, we got May 9th.
President Trump, April 29th, was it 1606 that they landed and founded Jamestown?
We got all kinds of proclamations.
I need to get that going again.
I used to track all the proclamations.
Obama was really, really good at it.
And then we got...
I don't think Trump did many of that in the first term, but Biden did nothing except for Trans Awareness Day, which was Easter.
So I've got to keep tracking that.
President Trump is doing a lot of these things.
Oh, wait, was May 6th?
Right, thank you, Od Melkert.
May 6th, Pim Fortan was murdered in the Netherlands.
And that was now, crap, what is that?
That'll be 25 years ago, I think.
He was the guy that he won posthumously.
They assassinated him two weeks before the election.
Yeah.
Like a knife in his heart.
No, no, no.
That was Theo Forhoch.
No, they shot him in the head at the radio station.
Oh, he was shot in the head at the radio station.
That's what I just said.
There's no security at the radio station, apparently.
Well, there was, but it was outside in the parking lot.
He had just walked outside and then Volkert von der Graf.
We had a famous Denver, this is years ago, 30 plus years ago, a famous Denver shock jock that was shot in the parking lot.
Yeah, who was that?
I forget that story.
Yeah, you remember that guy, yeah.
Yeah, you remember that guy.
But this was a politician, and it was 23 years ago, right.
And the guy who killed him is out free.
The Dutchman.
It's crazy.
Why not?
He served his time.
Pim's never coming back, but let him walk around.
It's all good.
You can't even say his name in the media.
You have to say Fulker van der G. You can't say his last name because he has protection.
He has rights.
He has rights.
Yeah, you laugh, but it's pathetic.
It is pathetic.
It's really pathetic.
It's great.
Hey, good news.
The Press Freedom Index is out.
The Press Freedom Index, everybody.
Which is a big deal in press land.
Yeah, especially if you're a left-winger.
Yes.
Well, let's have a listen here as to who's the best, who's number one at press freedom.
The European press is suffocating.
While the continent remains the leading region in the World Press Freedom Index, published on Friday by Reporters Without Borders, the situation is deteriorating.
Economic difficulties are threatening editorial offices, especially independent ones.
The media are facing both the end of American aid and the strengthening of Russian propaganda.
Stop.
So it's American aid that makes press freedom a big deal.
Oh, yeah.
Without American aid...
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
They can't do anything because they're too stupid.
They need American aid.
Wait until you hear the list.
Norway, Estonia, and the Netherlands dominate this ranking.
This is the best.
Number three in press freedom on the list is the Netherlands.
Are you kidding me?
One of the most suppressed countries news-wise in the world.
Oh, no.
Number three.
Already, this list is suspect.
You think?
Conversely, Greece, Serbia and Kosovo are the continent's lowest-ranked countries.
Within the European Union, Athens comes last.
In Greece, press freedom is really suffocated by impunity of crimes committed against journalists.
Here I'm talking about the assassination of journalist Georges Karavas in 2021.
There has been one trial so far and the accused have been acquitted.
Hungary!
Why?
Why?
Something happened in 2021?
Yeah.
So that puts them at the bottom of the list in 2025?
It's kind of like the Oscars, the way they do this.
It's bullcrap, but everyone's talking about it.
The Press Freedom Index is out.
It seems to be just because of how many journalists were murdered?
Well, that gives you negative points, yes.
They actually explain.
Have been acquitted?
Hungary, singled out for its attacks on the rule of law, ranks higher than Greece.
But it owes this to the fact that no journalist has been killed, explains Reporters Without Borders.
Well, get on the stick, Hungary!
Shoot some of those people.
You're not doing a good job.
The organization points out that the Hungarian Prime Minister uses other means to control information.
Some 80% of editorial offices are controlled by people close to Viktor Orban.
While Europe remains the safest zone for the media, reporters without borders stresses that the Union must remain vigilant.
It's so interesting.
Seven seconds, I'll finish.
The exact reason is the adoption last year of the European Media Freedom Act by the European Union, which is historical legislation.
So where do you think we are on the list?
We're down two spots, by the way, from last year.
I think we're around 20. 57. We're around 57. Yeah, and you know why?
Yeah, Heinz.
Because President Trump has such good relationships with the press.
This is insane.
At the bottom, you can already guess.
Let's see.
Where's Russia?
Russia, 171.
Djibouti.
Egypt is higher than Russia.
So yeah, the top five.
Press Freedom.
Best places to be a journalist.
Norway, Estonia, Netherlands, Sweden.
Sweden.
Well, all they do is lie about the immigrant situation.
Finland, Denmark, Ireland, Portugal.
Well, we know Portugal.
They lie about their outage.
Switzerland.
Germany.
Germany.
Number 11. Yeah, the more you suppress your people, the more press freedom you have.
Germany's 11?
Yeah.
That's ridiculous.
Yeah, right ahead of Liechtenstein, who I think the only people who live there are journalists.
How many people live in Liechtenstein?
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Liechtenstein.
I'm just kidding.
Well, when we get some Liechtensteiners to donate to the show, maybe we can be a little more genteel.
So, of course, this comes at an opportune moment where we have all kinds of issues in America where we are suppressing the free press.
We're shutting down Voice of America.
And, oh, no!
Oh, NPR, PBS!
More on that.
Let's bring in Clayton Wymers.
He's the U.S. Executive...
Oh, wait.
Stop.
Stop the clip again.
I'm going to be interrupted.
You are.
You are interruptive today.
It's okay.
Remember, as we listen to the NPR and PBS complaining, the total loss of income to these operations, if the government stops giving them money, which they will, and they have, I guess.
I guess Trump did something.
It's 1%.
1%.
Remember that.
It's $500 million, is according to Ms. Meyer.
But let's just continue.
This is a report from France.
For more on that, let's bring in Clayton Wymas.
He's the U.S. Executive Director of Reporters Without Borders.
Such a pleasure to have you with us on the program today.
As we just saw in that report, for the first time in history, the main index for press freedom is at its lowest ever score.
Starting with the United States, help us get a grasp of just how much press freedom has slipped under Donald Trump.
Thank you for having me.
It is important.
He's been there for a hundred days.
Already press freedom slipping.
All we see is press about him.
Negative.
All of it, except for Fox.
We're all positive.
Both sides of the same coin.
Bull crap.
Yes, but 85% of them are negative.
That number's been floating around.
Yeah, well, then how come it's slipping?
Remember that the index is a snapshot in time of the previous year.
All the data we collected is from 2024.
And so the decline in the United States is really one that's been going on for the better part of a decade.
Under Biden, I guess.
You know, when we first started doing the index in 2002, the United States ranked 7th.
17th in the world.
That is reflected in the fact that all five indicators that we measure have been taking hits year after year, especially the economic indicator due to massive layoffs in the media industry and the closure of newsrooms all across the country.
That's a problem.
But in recent years, it's really become a political and cultural problem with the massive decline in trust between the public and the media and outright attacks by politicians.
In particular, President Donald Trump.
I should add, though, that everything that's happened in President Trump's second administration for the past hundred or so days has not been counted in the index data, so the decline is continuing before our very eyes, and things are only getting worse.
It's only getting worse during Trump, even though in 85 percent...
There's no data, but it's getting worse somehow.
Here's what's so interesting.
They don't take the plethora of alternative media into account whatsoever.
There's been nothing but more, more press freedom.
Go look at the Midas Touch folks, if you believe them.
Yeah, there's a lot of them.
But maybe that's the point, is that there's too much press freedom.
And the people who consider it their job to be journalists who have data, that they think, oh, it's slipping because all this fake news.
Newsrooms, newsrooms, you know, a newsroom.
You know, the Midas Touch, there's no newsroom.
They got a newsroom.
It's a little closet where the guy sits, but it's a newsroom.
So thanks to the Jones Brothers Syndicate.
We have some of the morning, the Sunday morning shows are always the, That's the big press freedom round people like to do in Washington, D.C. Yeah, they used to service me with some clips once in a while, but those days are over because you've somehow queered the deal.
I don't know what you did.
Queered the deal?
Yeah.
I did nothing.
Maybe I just send them a note and say, thanks, I really appreciate you.
Maybe that's why.
You know, I'm pretty good about that.
So, CBS faced the nation.
Margaret Brennan had...
Paula Kerger on?
You're saying, who is Paula Kerger?
Who is Paula Kerger?
She is the CEO of PBS, your favorite station, your Cape Hardenbrook station.
And at the same time...
I thought Mara was, or was she PBS?
No, she's NPR, so she had them both on.
Oh, so she's a different spook.
Do you notice a pattern here?
The CEOs of the two largest government, partially government-funded...
News organizations with actual newsrooms are women.
And they got some complaining they're doing.
The president tweeted or socialed or truthed.
Republicans must defund and totally disassociate themselves from NPR and PBS, the radical left monsters that so badly hurt our country.
Monsters?
I have to tell you, I heard monsters.
What's this woman's name again?
Well, this is Margaret.
This is Margaret Brennan, but it will be...
Oh, that was Margaret?
I didn't understand.
Yes, yes.
I think it was.
Paula Kerger, K-E-R-G-E-R.
You look her up and I'll continue.
I thought of Cookie Monster.
I thought of Sesame Street.
And I thought of that children's programming.
That is in many ways what people think of when they think of PBS.
Absolutely.
Are you going to do that the whole show?
You step on my clips too.
Absolutely.
And out of this executive order, we believe it impacts our funding out of the Department of Education, which is a 30-year program that has supported not only the creation of many of the children's programming that you see on public television, but also the research that we do to ensure that that programming is not just safe and enjoyable, but that children, after watching, come away with understanding of basic letters and numbers.
Half the kids in this country are not enrolled in formal pre-K.
That's why programming for children is on public television.
They're not enrolled in formal pre-K.
We have to save the children.
Think of the children as...
Former pre-K.
Formal.
Former.
I mean formal.
Yes.
So their job is now to educate our children.
She's saying it right here.
That's what she's saying.
You don't have your child in pre-K.
It used to just be K. What happened to just K?
K-12.
Now it's P-K-12.
Yeah.
Now I have to...
Whoa!
You're a bad parent if you haven't enrolled your child in pre-K.
That's why programming for children on public television was created.
That was the idea with Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and everything that's followed since is to make sure that children that do not have access to a full array of resources.
Here's my question.
What have you done for me lately?
So that's your big claim to fame, PBS?
Mr. Rogers.
Mr. Rogers.
He's been dead for a decade.
In Sesame Street?
What have you done lately?
Have the opportunity to learn and to develop skills that they'll need the first time they enter preschool.
That may be at age two or three or four and sometimes five, not until they start kindergarten.
That's what's at risk.
That's what's at risk!
Oh, I thought it was press freedom.
I'm mistaken.
It's not press freedom.
It's the children.
President Trump hates kids.
They do, yeah.
Let's go to Catherine Maher.
By the way, there's nothing spooky about her.
No?
Where does she come from?
What's her background?
Baltimore.
Everything's pretty.
She was a pre-med student.
There's nothing that looks like she's got anything like that.
Well, unlike her, here's Catherine Maher, CEO of NPR.
Catherine, I want to ask you about...
The news.
When we went and we read the executive order, the language in there says government funding of news media in this environment is outdated and unnecessary, corrosive to the appearance of independents.
And Americans have the right to expect if their tax dollars fund public broadcasting that it's fair, accurate, unbiased, and nonpartisan.
How do you respond to the implication that your news coverage is not?
Well, just listen to the No Agenda show.
They tell you every soul we do.
Twice a week.
It's not fair and non-partisan.
I can't get over her.
She is...
That is, you know, the jingle.
Where's my jingle?
Yeah, this one.
Elitist voices of America.
This is NPR.
Or PBS?
Totally an elitist voice, this.
Is not fair and nonpartisan.
And unbiased.
First of all, I think it's important to note that I'm the CEO and we have an independent editor-in-chief who oversees the newsroom, and so I don't make editorial decisions, and that I think is just always an important point to make.
But I think our newsroom would really take issue with that.
By the way, stop.
I have to stop the clip.
So what?
It's an important distinction to make.
She says, oh, you know, I'm a CEO.
I don't make the editorial decisions.
I think that's an important point.
Why is it important?
Who cares?
But it's important to the elitist voices, I guess.
I don't know.
We have been on air for more than 50 years.
We have been covering news as it occurs across the nation, in local communities, overseas.
We have an extraordinary Washington desk.
Extraordinary.
And our people report straight down the line.
And I think that not only do they do that, they do so with a mission that very few other broadcast organizations have, which is a requirement to serve the entire public.
That is the point of public broadcasting, is we bring people together.
We've had a whole host of conservative voices on air of late.
What?
When?
When was this?
I've missed the conservative voices.
Well, that must be like Brooks.
A whole host, though.
It's like Jennifer Rubin, who always billed herself as a conservative blogger.
The woman's so left-leaning, it's ridiculous.
Making requests of the Trump administration to have their officials on air.
We would like to see more people accept those invitations.
It's hard for us to be able to say we can speak for everyone when folks won't join us.
Oh, I see.
It's their fault because they don't want to take the risk of being on your airwaves.
Okay, so you're not participating and therefore we have to do what we have to do.
That's my takeaway.
So let's talk about...
The White House and the talking points and what they're saying, because it's oh so mean.
So that was the executive order.
Then we went and we looked at the White House talking points and what they're putting on social media.
They're a lot more about you than you.
And on NPR...
That is a propagandistic usage when she says the White House statement about the situation is not talking points.
Talking points are specific.
There is usually a list of points or something that's transmitted around.
You're going to talk about this.
You're going to talk about that.
It's not published on whitehouse.gov.
It's not a press release.
A press release is not talking points.
She's saying that for a very specific purpose.
To get it ingrained into the listener's mind that it's propaganda from the White House.
It's bullcrap.
That is a good point, and I'm going to talk to the kids about that this month.
That's a good one.
Thank you.
So that was the executive order.
I am.
This is important that the kids understand.
Oh, that's right.
I forgot you're giving a lecture.
Yeah.
You might as well use the other one, which will come up in one of my clips.
Where somebody uses the word claimed instead of said.
That was already on my list.
Let's get back to the news deserts.
We looked at the White House talking points and what they're putting on social media.
They're a lot more about you than you.
And on NPR, they were saying things like a July 2022 editor's note that said the Declaration of Independence had offensive language against Native Americans.
We checked, and the word savages is used.
The White House faults your editors for avoiding the term biological sex when discussing transgender issues.
They apparently want you to use the term pro-life and faulted your use of the term anti-abortion rights to refer to activists.
They got some good talking points there.
So, when you see specific editorial criticisms like that, what do you interpret the intention of this being?
That they hate us!
What's the intention?
Leading the witness.
Let's do some mind reading, people.
Mind reading.
Well, I interpret the intention of this being trying to create a narrative around our editorial independence.
To control it?
To control it.
And I think that that is an affront to the First Amendment.
We have an independent news This is a difference between criticism and control.
Thank you.
Yes, thank you.
It's good that we're doing this because people just watch this and they just sucked it all up.
Well, that's the idea.
It wafts over you.
It's just bullcrap.
It's bullcrap.
It's bullcrap.
That is an affront to the First Amendment.
We have an independent newsroom and we will always have an independent newsroom.
From my perspective, part of the separation that the First Amendment offers is to keep government out.
In fact, the statute that...
Well, then why do you take government money if you want to keep government out?
Wow!
Great point!
What's up with that?
Was written when the Public Broadcasting Act was signed into law.
It was very explicit about interference from any member of the government, whether it is elected officials, whether members of independent agencies.
Hold on a second.
Yeah, sure.
Thank you.
Right after she says this, Brennan does the same thing, right?
She comes out and says, well, after all what you said, then why do you want government money at all?
That's what happens, right?
Statute that was written when the Public Broadcasting Act was signed into law was very explicit about interference from any member of the government, whether it is elected officials, whether members of independent agencies, because it is so sacrosanct, that division between the state and independent media.
That was the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967.
Set it up as a private corporation to give protection from influence and control.
I would assume that's also from the White House.
I've been listening to NPR.
I didn't clip too much.
They keep talking about, that's why it was set up with, you know, two years in advance, so that this money was done in 2023, and it's our money, and you can't just take that money away.
This was to protect us from the government involved with us, but we're still taking government money.
You know, you understand, but we can't have involvement from the government with government money.
President Lyndon Johnson, who signed the bill into law, creating the Public Broadcasting Act and creating the system that we all operate within, he noted in his remarks upon signing that speech.
Was that it does require a greater wisdom, and that's why we have a two-year advance appropriation.
There it is.
Is to insulate both of our work from political interference.
I think that that is critical that Americans understand that public broadcasting is meant to be independent so that we can serve the public interest regardless of whatever administration is in office or whatever Congress's whims are.
And the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was set up as a private corporation with that same intent.
So I think there was a lot of focus even at that point.
This is very interesting.
They keep harping on this.
It's an independent company.
Well, yeah, then go get independent money.
You know?
It's like...
And if it's only 1%, what's the big deal?
We'll find out, of course.
That protections would need to be put in place.
Because if we do our job, it is possible that we will...
We produce content that some people may wish we have done a different way, and this way it gives us the independence.
The other thing that keeps us independent is that most of our funding comes from viewers like you.
Viewers like you?
It comes from viewers like you, but still, we're here going to waffle on for an hour about the money from the government, but it comes from viewers like you.
We ask people to make contribution to public broadcasting for something they get for free, because we are available free to every home in this country.
And so, both the combination of the fact that it was built as a public-private partnership, there would be some public money that went into public broadcasting that would enable stations and small communities to exist.
Alongside the fact that most of our support comes from people and communities, that really does create something that is very independent and very responsive to the communities that we serve.
And by the way, a lot of them are red communities, so Republicans shouldn't be doing that.
I think we can wrap it up with this one, the declining trust in the news.
And if I may, just to give a sense of those numbers, for every single dollar that the federal government puts in, stations raise on average about $7 from private sources.
And so you also have to recognize that this order interferes with...
That was an interesting flub from public...
I wonder if that was truth coming out there.
I'm not sure.
$7 from public parks.
This is also one of those dipsy-do things.
Well, for every dollar spent, we get, you know, it's like the park service.
You know, for every dollar a government puts in the park, so we make $8.
Well, why don't you just make $7?
I mean...
This is like throwing numbers around.
Every dollar results in $10.
Yes, it's magic.
We are a magic money machine.
$7 from private sources.
And so you also have to recognize that this order interferes with the First Amendment rights of our listeners and viewers.
You've made a choice to contribute.
How does it interfere?
Stop.
This is just not true.
That's just a basic lie.
So the government not giving PBS money interferes with my First Amendment rights?
Yours!
Yours!
That's what she said, right?
That's what she said.
Well, she has a point, because if they can't fund Brooks and Capehart and Scott Simon, it will hurt the show.
Do you know Scott Simon only works on the weekends and he makes over $400,000 a year?
No, that's just painful to hear.
That's very painful.
In fact, somebody did a breakdown.
It came out of Doge, I think.
The money that they pay their anchors on PBS is...
I mean, it's not Fox, where you can get millions.
But for the amount of work they do, and it's mostly radio.
We were talking about the radio side.
For radio, that's well paid.
Especially for a weekend gig.
It's not working five days a week all day.
No, I mean, most people in radio are making $35,000 a year.
Seriously.
Except for, you know, you got a couple.
Sean Hannity, I'm sure.
Glenn Beck.
I mean, yeah, they're making millions.
Yeah, those guys make millions, but they have syndicated deals.
Yes.
Yes.
All right, let's continue.
The First Amendment rights of our listeners and viewers who've made a choice to contribute, and this is the news that they want to see and hear or the programming that they are committed to.
It did just stand out to us as journalists ourselves because the research shows that there's declining trust in media, in news, and the president was talking about that himself there, that he wants a free and fair press.
We're going to continue to cover this, and thank you.
Thank you for having us.
Hold on.
Now that's over.
Thank you for having me.
Why doesn't...
Brennan's got the woman there.
She just brought up a point.
Out of the blue, Brennan says, well, you know, there's declining trust in the media.
Goodbye.
Why doesn't she say...
I mean, it makes no sense.
Why doesn't she say there's declining trust in the media?
Why do you think that is?
It's a simple question that's not...
You know, maybe she can't answer, maybe she can't, but why wouldn't you ask that?
You've got the CEO standing right there, and you'd say, there's declining trust in the media, goodbye?
Well, she's taking that as a given fact.
That's what she's doing there.
Like, everybody knows that.
We just had the report about the press freedom is on decline.
It's slipping.
Ever since President Trump came in office, slipping.
It's going away.
People don't trust.
I would like to know what her answer to that question, that simple question, would have been, but Brennan, no.
Because of what you just said, she just made it as an assumption, as a statement of fact, and didn't want to even discuss it any further.
This is a terrible show.
These people get paid a lot of money to do this stuff.
It's a terrible show, and Brennan is no good.
Here's the last clip I got.
President Donald Trump signed a controversial executive order on Thursday.
It aims to cut money for NPR and PBS.
The American people are sick of funding institutions who promote values that they find repugnant.
The public broadcasters are accused of left-leaning bias.
I wanted to play both sides of the argument.
The White House...
Yeah, it's true!
The White House and Republicans say one glaring example was NPR's refusal to cover the Hunter Biden laptop scandal shortly before the 2020 election.
At the time, NPR released a statement that said, we don't want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories.
But it did turn out to be a real story.
Our current editorial leadership believes that that was a mistake.
As do I. Yeah, the whole country knows that was a mistake.
Definitely impacted the election.
Critics also point out how drag queens have been featured on PBS children's programming.
Oh, that's what they're doing.
See, they didn't bring that up on the CBS Meet the Press, but here they talk about it because after Mr. Rogers and Big Bird, we got...
Drag time story hour.
We impacted the election.
Critics also point out how drag queens have been featured on PBS Children's Programming.
The executive order directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to slash the more than half a billion dollars in federal funding for NPR and PBS.
Local stations could be hit the hardest, with some at risk of shutting down altogether.
In a statement, NPR said, we will challenge this executive order.
If they get $7 for every dollar that they get from the government, why would they be shutting down?
You know why?
It's because they have to buy the incredibly expensive programming from American public media, commercial organizations.
If you want fresh air, if you want any of these programs, you have to buy them at truly market value, syndicated programming market value.
There's no deal here.
And you can't FTP it.
You have to get it off their satellite system, which is another couple million bucks a year.
Where you could have for a buck fifty, you got Starlink.
Come on, people.
I'm at risk of shutting down altogether.
In a statement NPR said, we will challenge this executive order using all means available.
And PBS said, the president's blatantly unlawful executive order issued in the middle of the night threatens our ability to...
In the middle of the night.
In the middle of the night.
He issued it in the middle of the night so that we wouldn't notice it.
Oh, is that what you're trying to imply?
And PBS said the president's blatantly unlawful executive order issued in the middle of the night threatens our ability to serve the American public.
We use our broadcast as the emergency backup for emergency alerts for the country.
Oh, yeah, this is another big one.
Oh, yeah, I heard this one yesterday.
I mean, you know, if the power goes down, you know, it's...
We saw our broadcast that will save everybody.
Yeah, we would have done their little portable radios.
We'd be picking up PBS.
Like in Northern West Carolina.
No, it was Elon Musk's Starlink that saved people.
Not you guys.
I'm sorry.
And Ham Guy.
Hams!
Hams and Starlink.
It sounds like a breakfast.
Threatens our ability to serve the American public.
We use our broadcast as the emergency backup for emergency alerts for the country.
And you need 100% coverage to make that happen.
We have news deserts.
20% of Americans live in a place...
100%.
You need...
Not 99.999.
100%.
And here comes the news desert again.
In the middle of the night, threatens our ability to serve the American public.
We use our broadcast as the emergency backup for emergency alerts for the country.
And you need 100% coverage to make that happen.
We have news deserts.
20% of Americans live in a place where they have no local news coverage other than public radio.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting also released a statement saying the organization is not a federal executive agency subject to the president's authority.
It's safe to say this executive order will be challenged in court.
Yeah, all right.
Well, this will be fun because now they get to talk about themselves, which is all...
Oh, you should have heard on the media.
Oh, Brooke.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I couldn't even clip it.
It was all about us.
We're being suppressed.
There's this little thing called podcasting, people.
You know what?
You spent $100 million and had to shut it down because of your Neumann mics and your newsrooms.
Joe Rogan does more for information than you do.
All put together, all your stations.
Everybody knows it.
You know, that's interesting, that point you make, though, about the...
Using Starlink instead of these expensive satellites.
When I was doing a radio show for the Real Computing Show on PBS, the other network, public radio, and it cost a fortune.
You had to go up to the bird, and then you had the transponder number, and everyone had to download it from whatever.
Back in the day, MTV didn't have that kind of money when I started there.
They didn't even have a lighting director, makeup, or wardrobe.
And so to get the shows on the air, we recorded on Umatic High Band, which is basically a glorified Betamax.
And then they put it in a...
With a bigger cassette.
With a bigger cassette.
They put it in a Communicar, which was a low-rent, basically a cab service you could call.
And then they would drive it out to Long Island.
And then you'd have tape jockeys sitting there just, you know, hitting the VJ segment, then hitting the video, the music video.
We didn't have satellites.
Couldn't afford it.
And now, yes, it's actually, it's like $1.10.
It's not even $150.
I think it started off $99 was the introductory price, and now I think I pay $110 or $120.
And honestly, it's an expense for the show because it's a backup.
It's a backup to the backup to the backup.
But it's impressive.
And, you know, so to say that you need this, no.
The guys up at, they do Gramerica up in Canada.
They use it.
They use it on the air, I know.
And I didn't notice it until they pointed it out.
I mean, because I've been on that show and there's no latency.
It's quite nice.
Yeah, you should go back on.
I should.
They haven't invited me back.
They're probably...
The ratings went to the toilet when they got me on.
I don't think so.
People love it when you're on.
They do.
They always tell me that.
Dvorak, he's a ratings bonanza.
Get that guy on.
All right.
Well, I can go all kinds of directions now, but I will leave the floor to you, sir.
Well, what do I have?
I don't know.
There's a lot of stuff I don't have.
Because we don't listen to each other's clips, so I don't know.
What did you not get?
And I'll tell you if I got it.
What did I not get?
Okay, yeah, that's a good point.
That's a new element of the show.
I don't have a clip of the Ben-Gurion airport getting bombed by the Houthis.
Israel is on high alert after a missile impacted near Ben-Gurion airport outside of Tel Aviv.
The attack was claimed by Yemen's Houthi rebels who have regularly launched attacks on Israel since the start of the war in Gaza.
The attack resulted in a crater near the airport, but didn't damage any structures.
Authorities say at least two people were lightly injured.
Israel's defense minister has threatened to strike back, quote, sevenfold at the Yemeni militants.
So this is a new version of Go Fish.
So you say, I didn't get this.
I really like this idea.
And then I play it, and if I don't have it, then I tell you to Go Fish, and then you pick one of yours.
Let's try it for the second one.
What do you got?
Oh, well, you caught me flat-footed.
Come on, man.
I had the one, because that's the only one I was watching this morning.
I said, oh, that'd be nice to have a clip of that.
So that's all you can think of?
Yeah, unfortunately.
There must be something else that happened this morning.
I mean, I figured most of the morning stuff you pick up.
Well, President Trump was on with the manhands lady.
A welker?
Yes.
So he did ABC.
We know how that turned out.
I respectfully agree to disagree about the Photoshop.
Here's the interview in a nutshell.
You suck, ABC.
You suck.
Well, do you want to hear...
Yes, I would like to hear Welker.
Okay, this is pretty much all about tariffs, which covers two topics in one.
But sir, you acknowledge when you announced your tariffs, for example, the stock market dropped.
It's been volatile.
It has since gone up.
Do you take responsibility for that?
Yeah.
Do you take responsibility when it drops?
Ultimately, I take responsibility for everything, but I've only just been here for a little more than three months.
But the stock market, look at what's happened in the last short period of time.
Didn't it have nine or ten days in a row or eleven days where it's gone up?
So, so far, we're cordial.
It's not going to last.
And the tariffs have just started kicking in.
And we're doing really well.
Psychologically, I mean, the fake news was giving me such press on the tariffs.
The tariffs are going to make us rich.
We're going to be a very rich country.
So let's talk about the tariffs.
And I want to ask you about something you said this week.
Got a lot of attention.
You were at your cabinet meeting.
You said, quote, I'm going to quote what you said, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls.
And maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally.
I love this because this is my theory, too.
It's like, stop buying junk from China.
Wake up, people.
Are you saying that your tariffs will cause some...
Again, Trump hates children.
This is the new meme.
This is interesting the way she's twisted this, too.
It's like, maybe the kids will have two instead of 30, and they're talking specifically about toys from China, which is junk from China, which is what they're discussing.
And there's going to be less of it, perhaps.
I doubt it, by the way.
And she twists it.
Have you been ever...
I mean, we know some people with young kids here.
I am astounded by the junk that these kids have.
They have an entire room that is just their junk room.
Have you ever seen this?
Well, I have the problem with Theo.
Uh-huh.
It's that they won't let him have a lot of toys over there, so the junk is over here.
In your office?
No, in the downstairs front room, which has...
There's bins, so he has to put the toys back in the bins.
Oh, good, good.
It would look like I have a dozen kids if somebody comes and visits.
How many kids do you have here living here?
Yeah, well, exactly.
It's a lot.
And how come they won't...
But what do the kids...
What does a kid like to play with the most?
One of the main things is a wooden little car, a wooden car with wooden wheels.
I know, it's astounding.
It looks like it was made in Slovenia.
It's astounding.
But meanwhile, there's all this plastic junk and furry junk, probably toxic.
It's everywhere.
All right.
Are you saying that your tariffs will cause some prices to go up?
No, I think your tariffs are going to be great for us because it's going to make us rich.
But you said some dolls are going to cost more.
Isn't that an acknowledgement that some prices will go up?
I don't think a beautiful baby girl that's 11 years old needs to have 30 dolls.
I think they can have three dolls or four dolls.
Because what we were doing with China was just unbelievable.
We had a trade deficit of hundreds of billions of dollars with China.
Well, he's already gone from two to four dollars, so he's slipping.
He's slipping.
He's like, okay, you can have four.
Every child can have four dolls now.
Thank you, Mr. President.
By the way, are you running a baby daycare there?
Is that what you're doing on the side?
You got the dog kennel, and now you're running kids.
You got a dog kennel.
We got everything.
All right, so...
I have some tariff clips since you brought it up.
Oh, you don't want me to continue?
You want to interrupt?
Oh, that was the end of her?
We have more, Kristen?
Oh, yes.
It's all about tariffs.
And it's just about to get fun because...
Okay, no, play it out and then I'll play that.
I have a Buffett clip.
Buffett came in and said something nasty.
And then there's one more.
Well, it's about to become a dishonest interview, as you understand.
When you say they could have $3 instead of $30, are you saying...
Well, now it's $3.
He said $2.
Is it $4?
Is it $2?
Is it $3?
What is it, Kristen Walker?
I'm confused now.
When you say they could have $3 instead of $30, are you saying Americans could see empty store shelves?
No, I'm not saying that.
No more dolls for the kids.
Really, the whole...
A memo went out somewhere.
All right.
Let's go for the kids.
Trump hates children.
It must have been something like that.
Alright, here's our new angle, everybody.
This will kill him.
Yeah, this angle's gonna do it.
This will get him to quit.
Oh, will somebody please think of the children?
When you say they could have $3 instead of $30, are you saying Americans could see empty store shelves?
No, I'm not saying that.
I'm just saying they don't need to have $30.
They can have $3.
They don't need to have 250 pencils.
They can have $5.
This is NBC.
What a conversation.
This is network news.
It's not over.
But you're basically saying there could be some supply shortages because of the tariffs.
I'm basically saying we don't have to waste money on a trade deficit with China for things we don't need, for junk that we don't need.
Well, prices are already going up on some popular items from tires, strollers.
This is such a dishonest interview already.
There it is.
There it is.
It's a dishonest interview and we're only one minute in.
Prices are down on groceries.
Prices are down for oil.
Prices are down for oil energy.
Prices are down at tremendous numbers for gasoline.
And let me tell you, when you have the big thing, what he did, he spent like a stupid person, which he was, but he spent like a very stupid person.
And that was bad for inflation.
But what really killed us with inflation was the price of energy.
It went up to $3.90, even $4, and in California, $5.00 and $6.00, right?
Okay.
I have it down to $1.98 in many states right now.
Not in Texas.
Where is $1.98?
I don't know.
In Mississippi, maybe?
I have no idea.
It's like $2.50 here now.
It's $5 here.
Yeah, well, it's your taxes.
You go that much lower on energy, which is ahead of my prediction, because I really thought I could get it down into the $2.50s.
We have it down at $1.98 in numerous places.
Kristen, Kristen, first of all, put your hands under the desk because you look like a man.
Let's keep on the children thing.
Let's keep harping on that because we all know the number one out, President Trump hates children.
Let me give you some examples.
These are actual examples.
So you're saying the prices that are going down, some prices are going up.
Tires, strollers, some clothing in the wake of your terrace.
Excuse me, that's peanuts compared to energy.
Energy is 60% of the cost.
But sir, you campaigned on a promise to bring prices down on day one.
Well, I don't know when you say strollers are going up.
Strollers, keep on the strollers.
This is great, Kirsten.
What kind of a thing?
I'm saying that gasoline is going down.
Gasoline is...
Thousands of times more important than a stroller someplace.
But what do you say to Americans who say they voted for you because they want and they need relief right now?
They're getting it.
Right now?
What about those different items?
Who cares?
Stay on the stroller.
Despite the fact that we have a stubborn Fed.
You said dolls, even dolls could cost a couple of dollars.
Maybe they might, but you don't need to have, as I said, $35.
You can have $34.
And save a lot of money.
We don't need to feed the beast.
Don't feed the beast!
It's unbelievable.
Clip of the day.
Go on.
Oh, wow.
Okay, thank you very much.
Clip of the day.
I'll stop here because they kind of stay on tariffs, but let's put your tariff clips in here.
I think that's probably a wise idea.
Jeez.
It's great.
It's fantastic.
It's so pathetic.
President Trump.
So they've got to bring in Buffett because he's retiring and he's got to have his last shot in there.
You know, he's a Democrat.
And Bill.
I guess he's not friends with Bill anymore.
No, because of Epstein.
We all know that.
Buffett knows what's up.
He wants no part of it.
And I don't think he likes divorce.
I think that's a problem for him.
I think he might be right.
He's from, you know, he's from Wichita.
Yeah.
Here's Buffett anti-terrorist short.
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said the United States should not use trade as a weapon.
Buffett, who's the fifth richest person in the world, made the comments during today's annual meeting of Berkshire Hathaway, where he's CEO.
He also announced that he'll be retiring at the end of the year when he'll be 95. Yeah, don't use him.
Don't use him.
Why?
Because he's invested in Chinese companies, that's why.
Yeah, of course.
This other clip is Trump Tariffs MT.
Meanwhile, President Trump brushed aside recession fears in an interview for tomorrow's Meet the Press on NBC.
Mr. Trump said the pains of this transition period will lead to a flourishing economy.
It's the same question.
There are many people on Wall Street who say this is going to be the greatest windfall ever happened.
And that's my question, the long term.
Is it okay in the short term to have a recession?
Look, look, look.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Everything's okay.
But we are, I said, this is a transition period.
I think we're going to do fantastically.
This week, new government numbers show that the U.S. economy shrank in the first three months of the year.
That's the first drop in three years.
Imports in the first quarter surged as companies tried to beat tariff deadlines.
The tariffs on cars and car parts kicked in today, with significant changes intended to blunt the impact on U.S. carmakers.
Okay, let's go back to Kristen Welker, because now it's about Abrior Garcia.
Oh, jeez.
Kill more.
I'm curious to know what it means.
You declared a national emergency on the southern border.
What does it mean?
What does it mean?
Because we had a national emergency on the border.
You declared a national emergency on the southern border.
The order is still in place.
By the way, it means exactly what you said.
It means we have the most secure border we've ever had.
And I guess the question becomes...
When will you know that the emergency is over?
Are you planning to lift it at some point?
Is it necessary?
Because obviously the military is involved.
Will you lift that emergency?
Well, the biggest emergency is the courts aren't allowing us to take really bad people out.
We're going to talk about that, but talk to me first about this.
Talk to me first about this.
The border now is not the emergency.
The border is all part of the same thing, though.
The big emergency right now is that we have thousands of people that we want to take out, and we have some judges that want everybody to go to court.
Some of them you appointed, sir, including three on the Supreme Court.
I like that.
I've been hearing that more and more, you know, so that, you know, when they really want to hammer a point home.
Sir, some of them you appointed, sir.
Sir, shimmy your shoulders.
And we have some judges that want everybody to go to court.
Some of them you appointed.
Hold on a second.
What's an implication here is that the judges are political.
They don't know that they're doing this, but they're actually impugning the court system by making the comment, well, some of them you appointed.
In other words, so if you appointed them, they should go one way.
If you didn't appoint them, they're going to go the other.
As if the judges are all part of a political system instead of being a judiciary that's independent.
They're actually saying it out loud.
Yes, she's admitting that these judges are political.
And that, yes, I think you're right.
That's a good catch.
The big emergency right now is that we have thousands of people that we want to take out, and we have some judges that want everybody to go to court.
Some of them you appointed.
Sir, including three on the Supreme Court.
They change.
I mean, it's unbelievable.
It's unbelievable how that happens, but they do change.
Just to button this up, though, are you planning to lift that emergency order anytime soon, now that the border's secure?
No, we have an emergency.
We have a massive emergency overall.
It's an overall emergency on immigration.
And if the courts don't allow us to take people out...
If we had to have a court case, every single, think of it, every single person, we have millions of people.
If we had millions of court cases, figure two weeks of court case, it would be 300 years.
So meanwhile, the EPP, the Euro Parliament, they have the, what do they call them, the debates.
They have this thing in the European Parliament where they do debates.
And it's basically a reason to take a trip.
So they all went to Valencia, Spain.
Got there right after the blackout, coincidentally.
And Queen Ursula spoke.
She spoke for about half an hour.
I only got two short clips from her.
But, yeah, I mean, this is great.
What's happening in America is great.
It's great for us.
Now the world of trade is turning towards us.
And Friedrich, you mentioned it.
Since last year, we've concluded a new wave of trade deals from Mercosur to Mexico to Switzerland.
We're working with India and Indonesia, with the Emirates and Thailand, the Philippines and Malaysia and the Pacific.
If I, Cliff, decided to put what's-his-name yelling in Boston and we're going to be in Minnesota and then we're going to go to Iowa.
Well, that's why there's two of us.
They all want to deal with us.
Because we are fair.
We are reliable.
And we play by the rules.
Our own rules, but it's rules.
So, my friends, let's stay the course.
Cool-headed.
And united.
Because that's who we are.
And that's the European way of trade.
Let's stick to that.
This woman.
This is great.
But the key to our prosperity is to put our own house in order and to make business easy right here in Europe.
Okay.
Business is anything but easy in Europe.
So, she referenced Friedrich.
Friedrich.
Stop a second.
That is a fabulous point that has to be made.
Doing business in Europe is a pain in the ass for everybody.
Tons of paperwork, blue envelopes.
That's why they can't get their act together with entrepreneurial stuff.
They don't have anything like Silicon Valley.
It's very hard to invest.
There's all these roadblocks of this and that.
Even when they let you do something, they'll put up roadblocks.
I'm reminded of this.
One time I went, so I go to France, this is a long time ago, and I had an import license.
I worked with an importer so I can bring some wine back because I was going to take a big wine tour.
I was wondering what it was for.
Yes, of course, of course.
Yeah, I imported about, I don't know, 30, 40 cases.
Oh, beautiful.
But for about half the first cases that I got because there's these two different kinds of paperwork that were involved with getting the wine imported and exported.
Yeah.
And it was one kind, and there was another kind, one for doing something somewhere, and one for getting it out of the country.
And so I collected a bunch of wine from the Juransson region, and I went to see the guy who ran Hobayi, and he was looking at my paperwork.
He says, you got the wrong paperwork.
Your papers are not in order, Mr. Forak.
Well, he wasn't doing the exporting.
He just looked at it.
He says, this guy screwed you over by giving you the wrong paperwork.
Now you're going to have to go through a rigmarole to get this stuff out of here.
And I said, what?
He gave me the right paperwork for his wines.
I got a bunch of wine out.
But when I dropped the wine off, I dropped it off and there's all these, oh, you can't do it.
The French guys, the exporters that were there.
And he said, oh, this is no good.
You can't do this.
I said, okay, here.
Here's the wine.
Here's the paperwork.
If you can take care of it, you take care of it.
Or keep the wine.
I'm out of here.
I got to fly back.
The wine all got shipped.
It all got shipped.
Oh, really?
Yeah, it all got shipped.
It's all bullcrap.
They were waiting for a bribe.
That's what they were waiting for.
I don't know.
Maybe.
I don't know what it was.
For sure.
Your papers are not in order, Mr. Deweyck.
So, she referenced Friedrich.
Friedrich Mertz, also known as Mr. Peepers.
And Mr. Peepers made a...
I'm going to get to the blackout in a minute, but Mr. Peepers made a big deal about climate change.
Oh, climate change.
We have to be very careful because we have this issue where we want to increase our industrial base, but we kind of have no energy.
So he has a plan for it, and it's very sneaky, so he slips this in.
We have to find a better balance between fighting climate change, which is necessary more than ever, and protecting the environment on the one hand.
And avoiding de-industrialization, on the other hand, in our countries.
Bravo!
And so they're all like, yeah, that's right, we need more energy, we can't do anything.
Bravo!
However, my dear friends, whenever someone says to you, my dear friends, you're about to get screwed.
This is a very real and serious issue.
We will not tackle the enormous challenges ahead with a shrinking economy.
A shrinking economy?
Sorry to make fun of your accent there, but it's what it is.
The enormous challenges ahead with a shrinking economy.
We should be ambitious.
In cutting regulation and relying on market-based instruments such as ETS implemented by the European Union.
Yes!
ETS!
ETS!
Allow me to be very open on that.
Please.
Let us fight over regulation on all levels.
So he throws in ETS.
Which is the emissions trading system of the European Union.
So, oh, it'll be less regulation because you just got to buy some carbon credits.
That's all.
He's literally announcing a tax on all of the European Union member states.
And he's doing it under, we've got to tackle regulation.
We've got to make it easier.
Yeah, we'll make it easier.
Didn't say I was going to make it less expensive.
So then they bring out...
Paula Pino.
Paula Pino.
She is the spokeshole for the European Commission.
The worst spokeshole ever when it comes to English.
And so she chose to do it in English.
And I think if you're going to be a spokesperson, you shouldn't be the whole time.
And so she referenced the blackout that happened just the day, coincidentally, just the day before.
This Valencia meeting, and of course she brought it right away to disinformation!
We can really see how far manipulation of information can go and what a negative impact it can be.
On the basis of that fake article, there were reactions, thinking that there had been a deliberate attack behind, which is obviously very, very bad and can have very serious...
consequences.
So this again is an example on how information manipulation undermines the trust in credible sources and organizations She's talking about the article that came out that said it was a cyber attack.
And it can actually even divide our society in light of such a serious incident.
And In the Commission, we have several tools at our disposal to fight against manipulation of information.
It includes a task force on strategic communication and countering information manipulation, but also active collaboration with fact-checkers, with online platforms.
Fact-checkers!
We have many fact-checkers!
By the way, just a small interstitial.
Several people emailed me after I gave the report from our dude named Ben, named Ben, protector of megawatts, whose actual job it is to understand, protect grid networks, understand how they're working, what is working, what isn't working.
And he told me straight up, straight from the people he coordinates with, he talks with, he's in the business.
He said, this is what happened.
They lost.
15 gigawatts from France, and so they had no base load, then everything started to fluctuate, and then the system just starts to shut down.
That is what happened.
But oh no.
Here is an example.
Adam, you are misinformed about what caused the outage.
You must look at Kim Iverson's interview with Ben Davidson on YouTube called Magnetic Pole Shift, Europe's Just the Beginning.
If you know his credentials, he's the real deal, and he has it right.
Respectfully, you're a fan.
So, this whole nonsense that they launched into the atmosphere right away of, well, no, it's a very rare event, atmospheric conditions, and then we've got the space weather guy saying, oh, it's the magnetic pole shift.
That's what caused it.
Come on!
It's like a PSYOP on top of a PSYOP.
No, it's much simpler than that.
Although the European Commission doesn't know exactly what happened, we go back to Paula Pinho, and she brings in at the very end here...
She tosses over to the lady who's in charge of that.
Thank you, Christian, for giving me also the opportunity to precisely make this point and how important it is and how we really need to work together in light of information manipulation in order to counter it.
And if I still may add, on renewables and use this opportunity, I want to say that the Spanish and Portuguese operators, they are well experienced in handling high volumes of renewable generation in their...
electricity systems.
So we also have clear rules on the EU level in this regard and we ensure that the balancing of the electricity system and its capacity is capable to absorb renewable generations.
So we still don't know what was the cause of the blackout, but this is on the renewables that there is enough experience to handle it.
A follow-up such, we will not yet elaborate on that before we really have a solid assessment by the experts.
So, we don't know exactly what happened, but just so you know, we can handle renewables.
We've got expertise.
We don't know what happened, but we can handle renewables.
We can do it.
We don't know what happened.
We'll follow up when we know what happened.
Did you even hear my note that I read, or were you offline at that point?
Can you hear me?
I can hear you now.
Yeah, I saw what happened.
Well, I had to go back.
I had to do that because I was yakking at you for the last five minutes about one thing or another and you didn't hear any of it.
I'm sorry.
Oh, man.
What were you yakking?
Well, it's old news now.
Well, give me a shot.
Try me out.
I don't remember.
It was just like some comment I had about something that one of these clips you were playing.
This has been going on for like six, seven minutes.
Oh, I'm so sorry.
Well, I've got the thing.
I'll put the monitor right in front of me now so I can see if it happens again.
It's very annoying.
I'm telling you, it's a clean feed deal, man.
That's what I think.
I mean, it makes no sense for it to be anything else.
It just switches interfaces.
Like, oh, no.
I expected it to happen once a show.
Yeah.
Whenever I'm talking about psyops, there it goes.
Oh, let's...
Well, since we're doing that...
Let's talk about...
Chemtrails!
This, ever since Bobby the Op came out and talked about this on the Dr. Phil show, everybody has to get back into it.
We're all talking about the chemtrails.
We even talked about it on the last show.
I do...
Yeah, I think we talked it out on the last show.
We don't need to talk about it anymore, do we?
Well, we have to play the mainstream media clips about it, because it's funny.
By the way, there is...
Ample evidence, I'll send you the links, that there's aluminum, barium, all kinds of stuff in jet fuel, in today's modern jet fuel.
I know that you were an inspector back in the day, but it appears that there are particles now that should probably not be in jet fuel.
But this is France 24, here to debunk the Chemtrails conspiracy.
This time to have a truth or fate, Vedika Beheld is over by the big board.
Good evening to you, Vedika.
Today, then, talking about...
A conspiracy theory that's now reached all levels of the White House.
Chemtrails, Vedica.
Tell me what they are, because I don't know, and tell us what's going on.
I don't know.
I've never heard of it.
I'm a news anchor.
I've never heard...
What is this Chemtrails nonsense?
I've never heard of this.
Well, Mark, the US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has pledged that the US will fight...
Now, this is an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory that's been around for decades, but it's been consistently debunked by scientists as completely...
Debunked!
Debunked!
Not proven incorrect, but debunked.
So, the chemtrails conspiracy theory is the belief that these long-lasting condensation trails that we see in the skies left by aircraft, that they are, in fact, toxic chemical trails that are seeding the skies for weather modification, biological warfare in order to poison us, or even to control people's minds.
Yeah, correct.
Believers question the existence of these chemtrails and the inconsistencies of them.
They ask why they're not always there, why is it only some planes that produce them, or why do they come and then disappear, essentially.
Now, in reality, let's talk the science behind them.
Well, the scientific basis behind these, these are not...
They are essentially just temporary, plane-created clouds, and they're made up of water vapour, and they take place when the hot jet fuel exhaust, which is mainly water vapour with some soot particles, when that mixes with the colder air at high altitudes, this creates ice crystals that then form these trail-like clouds, and these dissipate based on the weather conditions.
It's amazing.
So these ice crystals, they float all the way down to the Texas ground.
Our weather conditions are perfect for ice.
This isn't to say that weather modification is entirely false.
As a context, we know that cloud seeding exists to induce rain in dry areas.
But this is on a very, very small scale worldwide.
But overall, Mark, according to a 2017 study, around 10% of Americans...
Yes, and it's about 70% of the town of Fredericksburg.
That low?
Well, I don't know the 30% of Democrats.
They expect the chemtrails before the grid goes down.
And so here she is, a very nifty way of turning it all around to say, well, you know, it's actually not a bad idea.
And that is scary, isn't it?
It's so scary!
It's so scary!
What's scary?
The chemtrails or the fact that people think they're chemtrails?
And that is scary, isn't it?
So how has this gone from conspiracy theory to actual US legislation?
Well, just recently, RFK Jr. appeared in an interview on the US television show Dr. Phil, and he said he'd do everything in his power to stop the emissions, and he appeared to blame chemtrails, the existence of them, on another government agency.
When he was asked about chemicals being sprayed in the sky and what he'd do about it, he took the question seriously.
Let's take a very quick listen to what he said.
It's not happening in my agency.
We don't do that.
It's done, we think, by DARPA.
And a lot of it now is coming out of the jet fuel.
Those materials are put in jet fuel.
I'm going to do everything in my power to stop it.
We're bringing on somebody who's going to think only about it.
Now, when he says, we think it's done by DARPA, what he's referring to is the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is a part of the U.S. Department of Defense.
Now, this isn't the first time he's publicly endorsed this.
He has previously replied to Chemtrail's fanatics on air saying, we are going to stop this crime.
But more recently, just a month ago, he replied to this person, this believer in the theory, who was pushing for bills in the U.S. to ban atmospheric geoengineering.
And what that is...
It is a new field of science where scientists are trying to find ways to fight the consequences of fossil fuel pollution that we as humans are creating.
Now, Kennedy essentially said that 24 states are moving to ban geoengineering and that the health and human services is going to do its part.
Well, what we know about that is that Tennessee has already banned the release of airborne chemicals in geoengineering, the chemtrails bill.
Florida is also moving along that bill forward.
And this February, Alabama also launched that discussion.
They're having those talks at the moment.
So we can see the escalation of this conspiracy theory throughout all levels of the U.S. government.
And as you said, there's zero scientific basis.
Give this girl the hook!
Give it a second.
...develops, but should U.S. states move to ban geoengineering, it is in its infancy, but this could have problematic consequences for looking for ways to fight the climate change and the effects of pollution that we as humans are causing.
So, us dirty humans, we're trying to ban chemtrails because we don't like it, but that could actually kill us all.
That's literally what she just did with her yak, yak, yak.
Well, she's going to kill us all as long-winded observations.
The lady doth protect us too much, methinks.
Well, I have serious doubts about things being put into jet fuel because those engines are very expensive and they're...
Sensitive to all kinds of things.
And then whatever the chemical is, it goes through the burning process, would be oxidized and screwed up massively.
I don't know why if you're going to start dumping stuff into the sky, you just wouldn't use winglets.
You have a little thing at the end of the wing, and you just spew it out, like when they did cloud seeding back in the 50s, 60s, and 70s in California.
They weren't doing it through the engine fuel.
They were just dumping it in the air.
Yeah, but it's DARPA.
They've got to come up with new things.
This is what they do.
Oh, I've got a new way to do it.
You can be skeptical.
That's fine.
Look, there are more in California than there are in Texas, so I'm fine with that.
Although the 70% of chemtrail fanatics, as she said, in Fredericksburg are all very upset that our Governor Abbott has not followed suit with Alabama.
And Florida and banned this practice.
This Alabama.
She had Obama on her mind, I think.
Alabama.
By the way, I do have a...
I have this...
Not to change the topic.
Yeah, you can change the topic.
I don't mind changing it.
I've done my chemtrails bit.
Since you brought Abbott in...
Where's my Abbott clip?
You have an Abbott clip.
Texas voucher.
Yeah, this is not reported anywhere.
The Governor of Texas has signed a law enabling over 5 million U.S. students to be provided with state funds to pay for education in private schools.
The scheme, costing a billion dollars in its first two years, is being regarded as a watershed moment in a conservative campaign to remake public education in America.
David Bamford reports.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has called his education voucher scheme the culmination of a movement sweeping through the U.S. Eligible parents in Texas will be offered $10,000 per year to opt out of the state education system.
The scheme, also being rolled out in other Republican states, has been strongly supported by President Trump, who accuses public schools of indoctrinating children with liberal ideology.
But Democrats and some rural Republicans argue it diverts resources away from already underfunded public schools.
Yeah, this session that the Texas Congress is going through right now, there's a lot of really amazing bills.
SB 13 is one of them.
And that will ban, completely ban, outlaw books, certain books in schools.
Libraries, class, anywhere.
And we know what books they are.
Yeah.
And I think it's going to pass.
Everyone's, you know, they'd already passed the House.
This voucher thing is getting no press.
This is from the BBC World Service.
That's where I got the story.
And it's a big deal.
It's a huge deal because this is what the Republicans have been trying to do since the 60s.
Yeah.
Yeah, go figure.
Oh my god, they're starting to accomplish it.
Let's don't report on any of them.
Give anyone any ideas.
And we say, well, okay, finally we can homeschool, but you're killing us with the chemtrails, Abbott!
Chemtrails!
Where's the jingle?
Chemtrails!
I knew it.
Of course.
Here's the funny story of the week.
I have some thematic stories, but I want to play a couple of these standalones.
This is the funniest story of the week.
Trump, somebody asked Trump.
Oh, is this about the picture?
Yeah.
Somebody asked Trump about being the Pope on the White House lawn.
He says, yeah, who do you think is going to be the Pope?
Would you like to be the Pope?
Yeah, I think I'll be the Pope.
He just casually said it as a joke.
So somebody either photoshopped, they like to say it's AI, but it looks more like Photoshop to me.
Photoshopped Trump in a Pope outfit.
And then they posted it, and then Trump White House reposted it.
Oh, now it's a big scandal on NPR and PBS.
And critics are speaking out about an artificial intelligence-generated image that President Trump posted last night to his social media platform.
It shows him seated, dressed as the Pope.
Later, it was reposted on the official White House account on X. In a post of their own, the Catholic bishops of New York State said, There is nothing clever or funny about this image, Mr. President.
We just buried our beloved Pope Francis, and the cardinals are about to enter a solemn conclave to elect a new successor of St. Peter.
Do not mock us.
Oh, that's a tough one.
So I got a lot of emails about this, because I am the resident religiosity scholar, all of a sudden, from Finland.
Our producer, Sir Wonderhelm, who was overboard and he came back and he sends me this.
He says, what is this?
This is not okay.
Is this supposed to be funny?
And I said, you know, we are strange in America.
But yeah, this is American humor.
It is funny.
You don't have to get it.
It's American humor.
But then I also got ones like this.
Let's see.
What is it here?
You know, this has to do with the Knights Templar and the Jesuits and Catholic infestation.
The black Pope runs.
Oh, brother.
Yes!
It's just a joke.
I mean, timing may be a little, a little bit...
I don't even care about the timing.
But people get so bent out of shape about it.
You know, Mark, Void Zero didn't say, oh, I'm outraged about this.
If Void Zero said something, then we'd say, okay, well, maybe.
He didn't say anything.
And he's a Catholic's Catholic.
He's the traditionalist.
He's like the old, he's like the guys at the FBI to be investigating.
Who says they aren't?
Well, maybe they are, but they can never find his house.
But the point is, is that it's like, no.
Give me a break.
This is classic.
Trump has done one thing.
There's another thing.
He had to actually come out and say he's not running in 2028 in one of the morning shows this morning.
People are so upset about him saying he's going to run for 2028.
Yeah, he never said it, by the way.
No, he just has a hat.
He's got a hat.
There's a hat, and the hat is funny, and it's Bannon.
I should still go back and get those clips of Bannon on Mars.
We need one of those hats is what we need.
I mean, those are collectibles.
Now that you mention it.
Yeah, it's a collectible, baby.
And I usually do the lookout for such things.
Yes.
Well, I'm sure some of our producers out there, you know, the thing is that one of our producers can send us each one of those hats if they can find them.
But, you know, I forgot to, I was very remiss because I, Hounded the Ohio State folks for all these sweatshirts, which I ended up with a bunch of them.
But I never hounded the Florida people because they won the basketball championship, which I had predicted, by the way, way in advance that they would.
Yeah, you should have done it on the show.
Did you do it on the show?
I did it on Horowitz's.
And I should have gotten, like a zippered hoodie that says Florida.
I don't have any Florida gear at all.
And I think having a floor, especially in California, having a Florida hoodie or a sweatshirt.
Sweatshirt is nice too.
That's good.
I want to stay with the Pope for a second because first I got this note.
I just had to get that in.
I'm sorry.
They're going to send it to you.
Don't worry.
You'll get it.
I'm hoping.
So first it was Gateway Pundit.
I'm like, eh, okay.
Headline.
Francis Macron reportedly meddling in the choosing of the next Pope is terrified that conservative Robert Sarra may sit on St. Peter's throne.
Really?
Yeah, and I'm like, eh, okay.
But then an article came through from Euronews.
Is France's Emmanuel Macron trying to influence who gets picked as the next pope?
And apparently he is.
The Italian press is like, hey, what are you doing?
He had a meeting at the French embassy in Rome.
You know, he's talking to bishops.
Are they in the conclave yet?
I think they're doing the meetings now.
I think he's just starting.
It's cardinals, not bishops.
What did I say?
Bishops?
Yeah.
Oh, cardinals.
Preparations for next week's papal conclave are underway as cardinals gather for prayer and reflection at the Vatican.
Nearly all 133 voting cardinals have arrived in Rome ahead of Wednesday's vote.
Ten of the cardinals are American.
108 were appointed by Pope Francis himself.
And inside the chapel, they'll vote up to four times a day until a two-thirds majority is reached.
The ceremonial chimney was installed yesterday where voting ballots will be burned.
What the church needs most at this time is to continue the mission that it received from Christ in response to the challenges and the needs, the difficulties and the opportunities of our time, namely from now on.
And some things to watch for when those voting ballots are burned.
If you see black smoke, that signals no decision was made.
And if the smoke is white, that will announce the selection of a new pope.
So, yeah, the story on Euronews is similar, saying he's afraid that we're going to get a pope who, you know, doesn't like, I don't know, trans stuff.
He doesn't like men marrying men.
Yeah, he's got a problem with that.
That looks like women.
Yeah, he's got a problem with it.
Not even a prerequisite, actually.
Well, you're right.
In Macron's case, it's not a prerequisite because his wife doesn't look like a woman.
He's married to a dude.
He looks more like a guy.
And in Italy, they've got psyops all over the place, including a game for the kids.
An online game by the name Fanta Papa has been created to predict who will be the next pop.
The app has 11 cardinals.
60,000 users of this game who will protect the next pop.
Who will be the next pop?
The app has 11 cardinals who are poised to become the next leader.
And by the way, my guy, not one of the 11 in the game.
Users have the ability to predict who will partake in the next point-if role.
The site, which was created in February when Francis was hospitalized, has more than 60,000 registered users.
I believe this game is a really fun game to play with friends and have a laugh.
Initially, my dad sent it to me, ironically, but now that it's going to be the conclave, I decided to have a go and try it.
And I know this is...
It has so many features and different things you can choose, so I decided to...
What kind of game is this?
It's like closer to the pin.
No, no, no.
It's like football teams.
And I decided to put Tagli as my captain, as my main candidate to become Pope because he looks like a nice guy and a fun person.
He's a fun guy.
The users have the ability to select a team just like Sokka.
They think have the best chance to become the next Pope.
The app has attracted thousands of youths.
They choose the top contenders or captains.
So far, players'top choices have been Francis Secretary of State, Italian Cardinal Pietro Perolin, closely followed by Matteo Mario Zuppi.
Yeah, my guy's not in there.
He's not in the game.
Your guy is the best idea, by the way.
But I had to go back and just reflect on this.
Trump dresses the Pope and the left being outraged by it, especially PBS getting all bent out of shape.
The gay community dresses as nuns constantly.
Man dresses nuns and they go around ridiculing the Catholic Church constantly and nobody says crap about it.
That is a very good point.
I think you're spot on.
That's right.
It's the story hour with the drag queen story hour in nuns outfits.
You're right.
You are spot on, as usual.
As usual.
I'm glad you went back.
I wasn't as spot on as I could have been with my timing.
Another short clip, just for educational purposes.
I don't know what's going on with this one.
Eric Adams is allowing the call to prayer in Manhattan.
Historic step here in New York City in support of the Muslim community.
Mayor Adams announced new guidelines clearing the way for the Muslim call to prayer to bring out freely.
For too long there has been confusion about which communities allow to imply their calls to prayer.
Imply?
To what?
Amplify.
Amplify.
Yeah, I've seen videos of these guys walking down the street with a big boom box and a wireless mic.
I have some thoughts on this.
One, if you've been in the Middle East at all, I've been a couple times, the call for prayer thing is not on Fridays.
It's six times a day all the time.
And it's actually quite pleasant if you're a tourist.
If you don't live next to it.
If you're not living there.
Because there's something romantic about it.
It's a nice Especially when you have some of these Muslim preachers, whether they're kumulas, who can sing, and they can sing in Arabic, and it's just a great sound, but very few people can do it well.
But it's all the time, and they have amplifiers, and it's very loud.
And this contradicts something that I was giving a lecture, I think it was in Dubai at the time, by a British guy who said, The Muslims, especially the Middle East Muslims, we're not talking about the ones in Indonesia, which I never heard this going on there, but they have this big thing about, oh, you can't do this, you can't do anything.
That's pre-Muhammad.
If it's not in the Koran, you can't.
So words for computer have to be manufactured.
They can't be, they have to be made out of words.
Everything has to be old-fashioned.
But yet they can use amplifiers and they got these huge speakers and the giant 10,000 watt amps.
That's okay?
How does that work?
Some Muslim can explain that one to me.
When I was in Iraq, or as some would say, Iraq, and I hope I have this.
I'd have to dig deep into the archives.
That was 2003.
I acquired an alarm clock.
And I think it came out of...
I think it was made in Pakistan.
Plastic alarm clock.
And six times a day, this clock would do the call to prayer.
Gosh, I hope I have that somewhere still.
Boy, that's a great item.
Yeah, it was one of those things you pick up on your travels.
Donate to a No Agenda They give us shows week after week Donate to a No Agenda It's a show that's really unique Donate to a No Agenda Listen to John and Adam speak Donate to a No Agenda Science is turning into...
So, let's amplify that in New York.
Yeah.
For the Church of No Agenda.
I'm all for it.
Well, the people in Amsterdam and Rotterdam are not happy, because this has also allowed this amplification of call to prayer, and it's not the culture of the Netherlands, or wasn't.
I think it probably is becoming that, and people are annoyed by it.
Just like they're annoyed by incessant church bells, I might.
Yeah, there was a lot of complaining about church bells in some areas.
Most of the time I've run it, when there's churches around, it's only been on a Sunday, and they'll ring the bells.
University of California has the Campanile, and they used to play songs at noon, various tunes.
I think they stopped even doing that.
I don't know if they do it anymore.
But they had enough bells up there they could play various recognizable songs.
Like what?
What recognizable songs?
Well, jingle bells would be during the wintertime.
They could play that easy.
Did they?
Yeah.
Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
Yeah, yeah.
I see you have a series.
I'm going to lead you into it with two very short clips.
We start off with breaking news.
A major scare.
Everybody, be afraid.
Be afraid.
It's very dangerous.
Breaking news.
Tonight from Chicago, health officials are warning travelers about possible measles exposure at Chicago's O 'Hare Airport.
They say an infected adult was in Terminal 1 from 10 a.m. until 8 p.m. on Tuesday and then again on Wednesday of last week.
That person who lives in Cook County testing positive for measles two days later.
This is crazy.
This is crazy!
Oh, important medical information.
One person has...
He was in the airport on Sunday and then again Wednesday.
Let's track him down and shoot him.
Shoot him, yes, shoot him.
Now to alarming health news.
Alarming!
The CDC reports that 216 children have died from the flu in the U.S. this season.
The highest number in 15 years.
Experts linked the increase to falling vaccination rates on kids.
Down from 64% five years ago to 49% this season.
And with flu season still ongoing, that number could climb.
60,000 people a year die from flu.
Yeah, that's what they say.
60,000.
The number is questionable.
So since you brought that up, I do have a series of clips from PBS about the flu vaccine and how important it is.
And I want you to guess who the guests are going to have, they're going to talk to on PBS.
You know, this fabulous product that the government helps pay for.
Oh, okay.
What stooge...
I hate to use the word.
What stooge bullshit artist?
The guy's the worst, worst of the worst.
Do you think they're going to bring on to talk about vaccinations?
Well, I have a couple of candidates.
Without a doubt, I would put Hotep at the top of the list.
Boom!
There were 12 seasonal flu-related deaths of children this week, according to the CDC.
That brings the total number of pediatric flu deaths this season to 216.
That's the most in 15 years, and the flu season isn't even over yet.
I'm detecting a pattern here that the...
The big pharma complex has injected into our news, into our independent newsrooms.
Experts say one reason for this new record could be the plummeting flu vaccination rate for American children.
It went from 64% five years ago to 49% this season.
Wait a minute, was that the same amount they said on the other clip?
That doesn't sound right.
I remember having a specific moment.
Now to alarming health news.
The CDC reports that 216 children have died from the flu in the U.S. this season.
The highest number in 15 years.
Experts linked the increase to falling vaccination rates among kids.
Down from 64% five years ago to 49% this season.
Seasonal flu-related deaths of children this week, according to the CDC.
That brings the total number of pediatric flu deaths this season to 216.
Yeah, the memo went out.
The same numbers.
That's the most in 15 years.
Exactly the same report.
It's almost the same guy.
And the flu season isn't even over yet.
Experts say one reason for this new record could be the plummeting flu vaccination rate for American children.
Who are the experts?
It went from 64% five years ago to 49% this season.
And this week, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced plans for new safety testing requirements for vaccines.
That could delay the availability of new vaccines, including a COVID booster for this fall.
This is at the Baylor College of Medicine.
Dr. Hotez, there's a lot I want to talk to you about.
This guy needs to be tar and feathered and run out of Texas.
Let's start with that new record for pediatric flu deaths this season.
What do you make of that?
Well, I think it probably is related to the decline in immunization since most pediatric influenza deaths occur among the unvaccinated, like most of the other viral infections that we've been seeing.
But remember, the context of this, this is on top of four-fold rise in measles.
Outbreaks over the last year, even before what was going on with this current major epidemic, a six-fold rise in pertussis cases.
Okay.
Yeah, so he goes, yeah, so everything is because of vaccination, of course.
This guy who they mentioned, well, play on.
The big picture is we're going in the wrong direction in terms of children not getting the vaccines that they should be getting.
Is this a holdover from the vaccination hesitancy that emerged during the COVID pandemic?
It very well might be.
There's been some Gallup surveys and others that have shown that spillover effect that the same parts of the country where adults were refusing to get COVID vaccines are now spilling over to childhood immunizations.
So, for instance, in West Texas, which had some of the lowest...
I think the big picture is...
There is that spillover effect from anti-vaccine activism that accelerated during COVID now into childhood immunizations.
Oh, yes.
Oh, yes.
Ginormous.
It's bigger than gigantic or enormous.
It's ginormous.
That's a very scientific term, I understand.
Ginormous is what the left uses, and that was popularized.
The term was mostly popularized by Rachel Maddow.
Oh, you're right.
She loved saying ginormous.
You're right.
One word.
I know you've developed vaccines yourself.
What do you make of what Secretary Kennedy said, that he wants to see new vaccines tested with placebos?
What do you think of that?
It's been his playbook the last few weeks.
Every few days he comes out with a new statement that misrepresents vaccine safety or effectiveness.
For instance, you know, he made it almost sound as if we don't routinely test vaccines against placebo control.
In fact, just about all of the childhood immunizations historically have been tested against.
Placebo controls, typically in randomized studies.
So I don't really understand the basis of the new announcement, other than the fact that, you know, when we do a randomized placebo-controlled trial for something like a COVID vaccine, we do it the first time around.
But as we're updating, because you're making minor adjustments in the composition of the vaccine to reflect new variants, we don't typically repeat the entire placebo.
Randomized controlled trial because they're incredibly expensive and sometimes they're not doable given the size of what they are and the time it would take.
So I hope he's not suggesting that we have to do an entirely new randomized placebo controlled trial every time we update a vaccine.
Wow.
Wow, what a scathing admission that is.
I know, but we're tweaking it.
We're just tweaking it.
What does that even mean?
We're just doing a little dance.
We're tweaking a little bit.
It's like just tightening the bolts on the cylinder head.
And some DNA.
And some frags.
Just adding some bits and bobs, baby.
We don't have to test that.
That's safe and effective.
They have to get liability back into the picture.
There's no liability.
You could be shooting people with dog poop.
It's no liability.
You can't sue them.
What good is it?
How is this protecting the consumer?
Is that the last clip?
No, you have one more.
I'm delighted to say.
More Hotep all of the time.
Is the effect of this to undermine confidence in vaccines, do you think?
Oh, yeah.
By the way, this is not scripted at all.
Or leading the witness.
Is the effect of this to undermine confidence in vaccines, do you think?
Well, this is the bigger picture.
Remember what RFK Jr. has been saying every few days.
First, he said the MMR vaccine was leaky, whatever that means.
And when he talks about suggesting people get the MMR vaccine, he always pairs it or often pairs it with a cocktail of useless interventions for preventing measles.
Or he says that the measles hospitalizations...
Are due to quarantine and isolation, which is not true.
These kids are really, really sick.
Now is the time the Department of Health and Human Services needs to be doubling down.
Hold on a second.
He says something kind of odd here.
Yeah, you noticed it too, didn't you?
Yeah, so he...
It's called like moving the Overton window, whatever it is.
So Kennedy says this is because people are quarantined and they're not getting measles anymore.
And then he says, no, these kids are sick.
It's a non sequitur.
Quarantine and isolation, which is not true.
These kids are really, really sick.
Now is the time the Department of Health and Human Services needs to be doubling down on telling the American people to vaccinate their kids and highlighting and emphasizing the safety and effectiveness of vaccines, not tearing it down.
So I do think it's starting to have a very damaging effect.
Dr. Peter Hotez, thanks as always.
As always.
You're on all the time.
We're bringing you back every chance we can because we're paid money to do it.
Yeah.
On top of the government funding.
It's pretty pathetic.
It's pretty pathetic.
Yeah.
Come on, Bobby.
Where's the RICO case?
Where's the stopping of advertising?
Talk is cheap, Bobby.
Come on.
Come on now.
I mean, I'll give him another 100 days.
I think the next 100 days of the Trump administration.
They're going to ramp it up.
They're going to ramp everything up so much.
Well, they're going to have to because people are demanding it.
I don't know what they're going to do about the Epstein thing because I believe now that that doesn't exist.
It's been destroyed.
The Diddy stuff, I don't know.
He's going to trial, I think, this week or this coming week.
Tonight, Sean Combs makes it official.
Hold on.
It was perfect timing.
It was perfect timing.
Oh, it was.
Do it again.
I'll edit it out.
Diddy is going to trial any minute.
Tonight, Sean Combs makes it official.
He's rejecting the government's offer to plead guilty and spare himself the possibility of a prolonged term in prison.
When asked if he turned down the offer, Combs answered, Yes, I do, Your Honor, as he stood in a baggy beige jail uniform.
Terms were not disclosed, but...
Prosecutors did say a plea could result in a shorter sentence for Combs than if he's convicted.
The decision guarantees Combs will face trial beginning just four days from now that will test whether one of music's most prolific figures used his power, wealth, and fame to sexually exploit both women and men for decades.
Combs has pleaded not guilty to racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution charges that accused him of coercing alleged victims into prolonged, drug-fueled sexual activity that he called freak-offs and threatening them into silence.
At trial, Combs will ditch the jail garb and wear ordinary clothes, as his lawyers argue the evidence shows consenting adults being intimate in their own way.
In their own way.
Everybody's consenting in their own way.
Passed out.
I thought his way was being passed out, so that's what I did.
So no Epstein, but we got Diddy.
Get the black man.
Well, that's also the thing.
He wants to go to trial because somebody, at least somebody in his camp knows that.
You go to trial, that means discovery.
And discovery means some names are going to come out that don't want to have their names come out.
And maybe they can do a deal or do something.
Or kill him.
Meanwhile, in related news, over in the United Kingdoms...
Overseas tonight, actor and comedian Russell Brand making his first court appearance since being charged with rape and sexual assault in London.
Brand pushing his way through a mob of photographers outside the courthouse.
Four women accusing him in separate alleged attacks between 1999 and 2005.
The judge releasing him on conditional bail.
Brand denies the allegations.
They are railroading this guy.
It sounds like a Snowden thing to me.
There's a little bit of that, but there's also, he's not doing himself any favors with his commentary.
Well, he lives in Florida now, but he doesn't even live in the UK.
Yeah, I know how they got him out there.
He has to, or he'll be extradited.
Was he extradited, or was he...
No, no, no.
He's still in Florida?
No, he has to attend the...
Yeah, he takes British Airways.
He has to attend the trials, but he can go back to Florida.
Seems kind of odd.
It is odd.
I have...
What's the time?
Yeah, we can do this.
I have three clips from the guy I like most when it comes to EU, UK, Ukraine, and NATO, Andrew Rusoulis.
He's the former military dude from Scandinavia.
About the minerals deal.
That we signed with Ukraine, which we've heard very little about.
Have you heard much about that in the U.S. media, besides that something happened?
Yeah.
We had a bunch of clips in the last show about it.
Yeah, but it just says we have a deal, but do you know the terms of the deal?
Do you know anything about it?
No.
We didn't get any of that from our clips.
Do you know?
Well, I thought the terms of the deal was we just had to spend a lot of money, give them more money.
We're going to speak with Andrew Rusoulis yet again.
He is a defense and Eastern European affairs expert with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute.
Andrew, thank you for joining us again.
Appreciate your time.
You're very welcome, Shane.
Okay, so this deal, we know this has been touted as key to Ukraine's fortunes here.
Zelensky is saying he's hopeful this guarantees continued support from the Americans.
So this was absolutely essential, right?
Well, it's an important building block.
It's a building block, but it's not a keystone.
That's the way I describe it to a peace settlement.
And we have to remember that the agreement that was signed now is a reasonably watered-down agreement.
Now, the key element of the first agreement that Ukraine proposed was that basically the United States, in return for having access to these minerals and revenues and so on, would provide solid military guarantees to Ukraine in the event of a peace settlement with Russia.
The Americans countered that with saying, no way for a security thing, and by the way, we want all this money.
Back from Ukraine to repay loans or costs that we invented in your defense.
So the Ukrainians said, no way.
Now, the third option, which they did sign, is a watered-down version.
There is no guaranteed American security for Ukraine, but there is a paragraph that suggests it might be possible.
It's an option for the United States to exercise.
So it's half an hour.
It's an option.
And for the Ukrainians, there is no obligation.
to repay debt, so-called, for American assistance.
Rather, the profits here, both American and Ukrainian, will be primarily directed at the reconstruction of Ukraine.
So that's the kind of...
It's a bit of a win-win, but it's not that huge thing that was supposed to be the security guarantee in the event of a peace settlement.
That's not there.
Okay, so the way I see this is if we make any money off of those minerals, if you got them, Then maybe we'll provide you some security if it's any good.
And any profits, we'll go and build stuff in your country which we're going to profit off of.
Sounds like a good deal for us.
Except for the fact we can't get to the minerals.
There's no real money going on.
It's possible there's no minerals at all and they're full of crap, those guys.
Ukrainians are criminals.
No offense to the Ukrainian listeners that we have, but they have a lot of shysters there.
Let's put it that way.
Does this mean there's a possibility of a peace deal?
Now, it comes at a time when we know and we heard from U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance just yesterday.
Peace isn't coming anytime soon.
So it looks like the prospect of reaching a broader deal with Russia and Ukraine, the hopes just continue to diminish, don't they?
Well, they continue.
I'm not going to say diminish, because every day it's a little different.
I would say to you, objectively, that talks are continuing.
And a lot of what's going on now, we don't hear about because it's behind the scenes, as it should be.
And so there's a lot of, I think, Looking for the deals that are in corridors.
The Americans are talking to basically everybody and trying to broker something, but they're also expressing frustration and saying they're not going to run around the globe at a high level, like Rubio's not going to run around the globe, right?
But officials are meeting.
They're talking.
I mean, we don't know the mechanisms, and it's behind closed doors.
Will this succeed?
We do not know.
Is there an incentive for both sides to come to an agreement?
Yes.
Depending on the terms.
Both sides at some point get exhausted by this.
But it's always the question of the deal.
You get exhausted, but for what benefit, what carrot is out there for you to actually make a compromise?
That's where things are right now.
You know, May 9th looms out there.
That's Victory in Europe Day.
The Russians would love to have a peace settlement then.
Would the Ukrainians agree with what the Russians want?
Would the Russians agree?
I don't know, Shea, but that's the next target date.
We'll see what happens.
What have we heard from Russia lately about this whole situation?
Well, on the deal, the Russians have not commented in any political way.
They've simply acknowledged that it exists.
It's kind of a so what.
It's kind of a so what.
But the Russians keep reiterating.
We're hearing two things from the Russians.
One, we hear the maximalist things we want, everything we said we want.
But two, there's been an important nuance.
Putin has said that he's prepared to meet with Zelensky, even though he sees that Zelensky is not a legitimate elected ruler because the five-year mandate is expired.
This is an important concession.
And the same from the Ukrainians.
Zelensky has said he's prepared to meet with the Russians and with Putin because even though there's a Ukrainian...
We can't negotiate with the Russians.
But he said, that's an exception, okay?
And Rubio is saying, at some point, the Russians and the Ukrainians are going to have to sit down and make a final deal.
And that's the point, you see?
So the fact that we've heard noises from Zelensky and Putin suggesting that doors open to sit down at a table one day means that they acknowledge this fact.
And I think the Americans are hedging them to this.
When will that happen?
I don't know.
But eventually, I believe it will.
Okay.
I like that.
By the way, where's that come from?
That is from Edmonton Radio.
That's why it sounds so crappy.
That was quite good.
Thank you.
I like Rasoulis.
I like this guy.
Yeah.
He's definitely in the know.
He's one of those ex-military guys.
Yeah, no, you can tell.
Yeah, he knows.
The way people do a presentation, whether they know what they're talking about or not.
Yeah, so then we don't get that kind of information here, in my opinion.
At least I'm not finding it.
In your opinion?
It's a fact.
I'm not finding it.
Before we take a break, should we do it?
You only have one, I see.
That's a little disappointing, but...
Well, actually, I have a pre-break clip, but I think it might be better for the second break, which is the Victor David Hansen clip on the Democrat Dilemma.
Oh, okay.
But I think that's a good clip to lead into the second break, and you'll see why when you play the clip.
Okay.
But for the clip, you're...
Hold on.
Yeah, everybody.
It's everybody's favorite moment.
This was the worst.
I could not find any good TikTok clips.
There were a lot of good ones that were visually interesting from distressed weirdos, but they didn't have the audio I wanted, and so this is the best I could do.
This is the only TikTok clip I have for today's show.
Disappointing.
Only one.
Yeah.
And it's short!
Oh, man.
All right, well, we'll take what we can get.
How can anyone with a functioning brain cell still say that Donald Trump was the correct choice for president after these first 100 days?
I just watched Kamala Harris' speech tonight, and it is very, very evident that it just should have been her.
She should be the president of the United States right now and not Donald Trump.
Did you see that speech by Harris?
She was drunk!
The speech was the worst.
She just babbled on about meaningless crap, including the elephant stuff.
I happen to have...
What do I have?
I have 30 seconds of it.
Yeah, play some of it.
In fact, please allow me, friends, to digress for a moment.
Okay.
It's kind of dark in here, but I'm asking a show of hands.
Who saw that video from a couple of weeks ago?
The one of the elephants at the San Diego Zoo during the earthquake?
Google it if you've not seen it.
So that scene has been on my mind.
Everybody's asking me what you've been thinking about these days.
Oh, brother.
there.
Yeah, she should be president.
Jeez.
So these TikTok people, you know, I keep telling you that they're just engagement farming and they just want to get clicks and likes and people are pushing back on me about that.
They're like, no, you have to understand these people are real.
These people are at my job.
These people are at my school.
These people are in my community.
I'll take the side of the pushbackers.
I agree with them.
Well, I'm actually sad about that.
I mean, these people are like clouds without water.
There are very few moments in our relationship and the relationship with you and the audience that you're an optimist.
Very, very seldom does this happen.
You used to wear rose-colored glasses when I first met you.
I remember that.
That's correct.
Correct.
But generally speaking, you have kind of a dim attitude.
Or a negative attitude.
But in this case, you have an extremely positive attitude thinking that everyone's a phony and life's good.
These people are legitimately nuts.
They're insane individuals that are pathetic.
And there's no other way of putting it.
But that makes me feel sad.
I know.
I know you don't like the idea.
They are clouds without water.
They are autumn trees without fruit.
In fact...
John, they are wandering stars for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever.
They are the fruit.
With that, I want to thank you for your courage in the morning to you, the man who put the sea in the chemtrail fanatic.
Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one, the only, Mr. John C. DeMora.
Well, here's a morning to you, Mr. Adam Crane and Morris.
Ships, sea boots on the ground, feeding the air subs in the water to the dames and the knights out there.
In the morning to the trolls in the troll room.
Let me count you.
Stop moving.
Stop moving.
Here we go.
Stop moving.
Stop moving.
*laughter*
Okay, that's getting better.
2,403 peak trollage.
That's not bad.
I'll take that.
They are hanging out at trollroom.io, which is where you can go to join the trolls.
Who are very handy.
I mean, I have the troll room open and out of the corner of my eye, my peripheral vision.
I see what you're saying.
I get one-liners.
I get jokes.
I get ideas.
All kinds of criticisms.
Trolling.
Trolls.
Lots of trolls.
But I like it.
We, in fact, have a studio audience where we do flash the applause sign, but you don't hear them.
It's a beautiful system we've devised.
You can also enjoy this on a modern podcast app by going to podcastapps.com.
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They do these live music shows.
It's really good.
Is that right?
Oh, yeah.
They do it all the time.
Hello.
Do you ever listen?
Saturday.
It's going to be Saturday.
I think 6 o 'clock is when it starts.
I'm usually doing clips on Saturday.
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And, of course, we have all kinds of extra cool bits.
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Thank you very much, Dreb Scott.
And it was a contentious pick.
It wasn't easy, the last show.
There were a lot of different things.
Nothing really stood out where we say, yeah, that's the one.
But Darren O 'Neill, it was still a laugh.
It's very inside, this piece of art, because you are famous, of course, as an author of many bestseller books.
And that was the piece that was missing.
It did not have the star emblem.
A little sticker.
A little sticker that says instant bestseller.
This was the Blackmail for Fun and Profit book, What's That in Your Mouth?
by John C. Dvorak.
I still laugh when I see it.
And expertly done through the AI by Darren O 'Neill.
I think there were some other pieces because at a certain point you said, I don't like any of it.
I liked the maple syrup on fire.
Yeah, but that was a Molotov cocktail.
Which Darren also did.
Well, what we really discussed were the Cobol t-shirts.
So we, for a long time, we talked about the Cobol knucklehead.
I personally liked the Cobol is for schmucks.
Yeah, but you violated your main rule.
It was too small.
It was too small.
You liked the Mastermind's unclippable wench, but I thought that was too very...
You also liked the boobs.
Of course, there was a boobage there from Scaramanga.
The boobabon with the girl riding the pedal bike on the Autobahn.
You even said, oh, how about the Ferrari in a country road?
I mean, none of that was right.
You were just grasping at straws.
You make it sound like I was a maniac.
A little bit.
And then we even discussed making Cobol for Schmucks the title.
And then we went, you know, that's not a good idea.
No.
I got a lot of feedback on the Cobol, as expected.
Let me see.
Where is my Cobol?
Yes.
So two things.
One from John Daly says, yeah, it seems obvious John's never seen Cobol.
The features of COBOL are straightforward, yes.
However, when you start talking about five million lines of production COBOL, it's a nightmare.
The features of the language are limited, which also makes it more difficult to do common and important things, which creates a bloat.
So real-world COBOL applications are not as cool as Java, for instance.
Who thinks Java is cool?
Which has features to create a kind of language of structure that allows quick interpretation, learning, and modification.
Bad variable naming, poor algorithms, kludges, hacks, bad managerial input all create bad unmaintainable code in any language.
COBOL is not simple in any real-world application.
So, huh?
He showed you.
Then...
Yeah, he saw me.
He's really accurate, too, since when I had a company called California Software, I actually sold COBOL, and they were postgraduate school COBOL.
You didn't code in it.
Plus, besides, I've never...
He says I didn't...
The way he put it, I was oblivious to the whole thing.
I used to sell the product.
That's the way I see it.
As far as I'm concerned, that gives me some credibility.
Okay.
And then he says Java, and he uses Java as the example.
Not JavaScript, which is not even really a language.
That's where his argument fell apart.
I agree.
But then, interestingly, very good article in Dev.2, which is a nerd website, about the dates, about May 20, 1875.
Yes, I think, did I send you that?
No, I sent it to you.
Oh, you sent it to me, somebody sent it to you, you sent it to me, and I sent it to you.
Yeah, it turns out that's a big hoax.
Yeah, it's a hoax.
It's an excellent article.
I think I posted it on Twitter.
If anyone follows my Twitter account, TheRealDvorak, you'll find a link to it.
Yeah, so I put it in the show notes.
So that really, truly was a hack perpetuated by NPR and that bogus lady on the last show.
Yep.
Because she acted like she knew exactly what she was talking about, and this is a hoax.
There's a very detailed article about this hoax, so it's just not true.
It's not true that...
That was a fantastic article.
It's a great article, yes.
Anyway, thank you very much, Darren O 'Neill.
Well deserved, I mean deserved, let's put it that way.
It's AI, so okay.
Darren definitely has that down.
He and Scaramanga should start a company together.
AI art.
I'm just saying, it'd be a great idea.
We have a lot of good AI.
We do.
Actually, those two are amongst the top.
There's no doubt about that.
So that's the time and talent portion of the value we like to receive back.
We always thank everybody who supports us financially, $50 and over on every single show.
And at this point, we'd like to thank our executive and associate executive producers.
If you support us with $200 or more, you get the title of associate executive producer.
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For this show.
And we kick it off right here in Georgetown, Texas with Tom Ania.
And he sends us $500 and he says...
What does he say here?
He says, gentlemen, a de-douching and a little camel karma would be much appreciated.
You've been de-douched.
I think he means yak.
And he says, if there are any fans of watercolor out there, check out...
www.lanaya.art.
L-A-N-A-Y-A dot art.
Thanks and regards, says Tom.
Here's your Yak Karma.
You've got...
Karma.
Now, I went and checked out the art.
And how is it?
This is his wife, I think.
Or his sister, probably his wife.
I think it is his wife, yeah.
Excellent.
A lot of originals for about $350, which is about what you want to pay for a watercolor.
That's about $30 for prints, which if they're done well, might as well be a watercolor.
Oh, I've seen these.
She's actually offered to send us a print, which I think we said yes to because it's cool.
And yes, and she does good work.
That's beautiful.
And classic watercolor looking stuff.
Everyone should have at least two of her pieces.
And she does commissions.
She does commissions.
Yeah, her commissions are mostly portraits and pictures of dogs.
Babies and dogs.
Babies and dogs.
I want a watercolor of my dog!
That's right.
That's about right.
That's right.
Thank you very much, Tom.
Alright, next on the list is Daniel Sean.
Gerald Morse in Spirit Lake, Iowa.
And he actually sent a note, and this is pre-Commodore off.
Actually, if Tom wants a Commodore ship, let us know.
We'll put you on the list as a laggard.
But this guy came in earlier, but it came in late, whatever.
He sent a care package with a bunch of beef jerky.
Oh!
Any beef jerky for me?
Yeah, the rats ain't yours.
Okay.
Thanks.
You want some?
I think so.
I love beef jerky.
He sent two packs, so maybe.
Maybe.
He'd be glad to send you some straight up.
Anyway, he's in Spirit Lake, Iowa, and he sent a handwritten note which says, please de-douche me.
Yeah, we can do that.
You've been de-douched.
And then he has an on-air note, just please deduce me, and he's got his Commodore name as Daniel Sean Gerald Morse, and then he has a bunch of off-air stuff, which I won't read because it's off-air.
It's off-air, people.
But it involves beef jerky.
It's off-air.
Thanks.
It's off-air.
Thanks, Daniel.
Commodore, semi-anonymous vegan.
There we go.
Mill Park, Victoria, Australia.
Hello, Australia.
This is a $1,000 donation, but it comes in as $319.
I'm just kidding.
ITM Adam and John, I would like to make this Commodore donation a switcheroo for my new human resource to be known as Commodore Spooky.
All right, let me do that.
So this was $500 Australian dollary dues, I guess.
Yeah, I guess so.
So he's not on the list, but why don't you put him on there?
No, I think he is on the list.
I thought there was only one on the list.
Well, let me check if that's him.
Let me just see.
It should be Morse on the list.
Morse is on the list, yeah.
Well, I'm sure that this was...
I'm going to put Commodore Spooky in there because I'm sure that this was $500 Australian.
And we do want to honor...
Yes, it's like 60 cents.
Wait until that stablecoin comes out.
You guys are going to have to pay up normal.
A de-douching, please.
You've been de-douched.
And a jingle from Elmer Fudd, who may or may not still be the Prime Minister of us here in Oz come the 3rd of May.
What does that mean?
Well, the election, I have the bonus clip for the donations.
I have a bonus clip too, but if you put an Elmer Fudd in there, we can certainly play yours.
Oz News, Albanese has been re-elected.
Days after Canada's general election resulted in a left-leaning leader making an unexpected comeback because of fears about President Trump's policies, the same appears to have happened in Australia.
Incumbent Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was returned to power with his Labour Party expanding its majority despite opinion polls at the start of the year showing it trailing the centre-right Liberal National Party coalition.
The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, who'd been compared to Donald Trump, lost the parliamentary seat he'd held for more than two decades.
A jubilant Mr Albanese addressed his cheering.
Be very, very quiet.
I'm hunting wabbits.
Okay, I get to play my Albanese clip then.
Australia's centre-left Labour Party has secured a second term in office in a landslide election victory.
The country's incumbent Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, is now set to be in office for his three-year term.
In his victory speech, he thanked voters for choosing, quote, optimism and determination.
Today, the Australian people have voted for Australian values.
For fairness, aspiration, and opportunity for all.
We both are so sick.
We have sick minds, people.
But at least we think alike.
Eli, the coffee guy's up on the list.
No.
Yes, he is.
You're right.
I'm sorry.
Go for it.
We're already there.
So this is a very short list.
Very short, very short.
Yeah, very short and crappy list today.
But okay, Eli's here.
And he came in from Bensonville, Illinois, 205-04.
Thanks for the last show's breakdown of the Eurodollar.
Ah, Eurodollar donation.
Eurodollar donation, yes.
It tied in well with Tucker Carlson's interview with Catherine Fitz.
So I watched that entire, I listened to that entire interview, and I've heard a lot of Catherine Fitz, and it always ends with this.
I don't know who Mr. Globalization is.
It's always the same.
Not that she's full of crap, but she's been doing the same thing for a decade.
I can't watch her.
The interview is worth a listen, but there is a lot to unpack.
As she put it, they are building a prison around us using the control mechanisms like digitized currency.
To what end is to be determined, but she has some interesting theories.
In my opinion, she's got nothing.
At Gigawatt, we still taste good old-fashioned Fiat USD, or we still take dollars.
So visit GigawattCoffeeRoasters.com and use code ITM20 for a quality bag of coffee at a good price.
Stay caffeinated, says Eli the Coffee Guy.
All right.
Thank you, Eli.
Brett Carothers.
Carothers.
Carothers.
Oh, that makes sense.
Carothers.
Nanaimo.
British Columbia.
Canada.
Hello, Canada.
Hello, Canada.
$200.37.
This is a switcheroo donation from my smoking hot wife, Brittany.
So let me make sure we put Brittany in there from Brett to Brittany.
That's not a problem.
Okay.
Britt to Brittany, consider it done.
She celebrates her 37th birthday on Sunday, show day, and may the 4th be with you.
She is the glowing light in our life.
Meadow, Hollandaise, and I are grateful for your shining down.
Please de-douche.
You've been de-douched.
So, they have a daughter named Meadow and a daughter named Hollandaise?
That's an interesting choice of names.
Hollandaise?
Yeah, Hollandaise.
Yeah.
As a Vancouver Island...
Must be a saucy girl.
Yeah, there it is.
As a Vancouver Island arborist, life is grand in the trees.
I love my wood chipper and I love what I do.
Hey, you need to get this guy...
You need to get him over to your place.
Hey, it's already taken care of.
Oh, you got the arborist coming?
No, he came last Saturday.
The tree is back to...
The tree is a completely different looking tree.
I don't know why you needed an arborist.
You just needed a saw.
No, no.
This tree is huge.
The trunk of this oak tree is about a yard.
Yeah, but you didn't chop down the tree.
It was just a branch.
Oh, no.
That would be a disaster.
The tree has been reformed.
He's an arborist.
He's not a hatchet, man.
John, please consider this partial payment for your window clearance pruning.
And just know I would never have rescheduled on you.
And he goes on to say...
For all your Central Island tree service needs, call Hollywood Tree Company, where we let the stars shine through.
Check out www.hollywoodtreeco.ca and drop ITM Bonsai Bongino on the phone or email for 15% off all tree and hedge services.
And he winds it up by requesting a biscuit for his birthday, smoking hot wife.
They always give me a biscuit on my birthday.
Boom!
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So, um...
As we were talking earlier, it's obvious that the machine, which is mainly media, and all the money that comes in from pharmaceutical and big food and everybody, they're going to start really hitting hard at Trump.
I think we're going to see a hundred days of craziness.
I think, yeah, they have to.
Yes.
We're starting to see the beginning of it with Hotez.
Yeah.
Well, there's also, and I always thought this was a mistake on the president's part, but now they're going after World Liberty Financial.
World Liberty Financial.
Both ABC and CBS did big pieces on them because this is clear corruption!
When Donald Trump was campaigning for re-election, he was also campaigning for cryptocurrency.
Big news, the World Liberty Financial token sale is now live.
Crypto is the future.
World Liberty Financial is a digital currency platform that says it's inspired by President Trump.
But it's more than inspired.
A company affiliated with the Trump family owns a 60% stake.
His crypto assets are as much as $2.9 billion.
Virginia Cantor has overseen ethics rules as a senior government lawyer in both Democratic and Republican administrations.
President Trump has sold stakes.
He sold gold sneakers, Bibles.
How is this any different?
At least those had some intrinsic value.
This is like a perfect vehicle to funnel money to him and his family to enrich them.
So, World Liberty Financial, and I haven't done a deep dive on them, but what it appears, and there's two different things.
There's the meme coin, and then there's World Liberty Financial.
I don't even know if the two are connected.
The meme coin is just dumb.
That was the mistake.
He never should have done a Melania meme coin.
I don't know if he was even involved in it, but that was annoying.
But this World Liberty Financial, it will be a lending, as I understand it, you will be able to borrow money at very competitive rates and you'll have different types of collateral, which could be Bitcoin, stablecoin, who knows, Dogecoin, who knows what it is.
I'll dive into that deeper, but this is the attack vector on the president.
And honestly, I think it's rightly so.
This was a huge, dumb move.
World Liberty says it's raised more than $550 million.
And this week, it announced it received a new $2 billion investment from an Abu Dhabi company.
How much the Trump family stands to benefit is unknown.
Another investor is Justin Sun, the eccentric Chinese billionaire.
Perhaps best known for buying and then eating a $6.2 million banana duct taped to a wall.
Back in 2023, President Biden's SEC charged Sun with securities fraud.
After Trump's re-election, Sun announced a $75 million investment in World Liberty Financial.
And just five weeks later, federal prosecutors asked the judge to pause the Sun investigation, citing public interest.
A CBS News analysis shows that the government has dropped a dozen cases against crypto firms since January.
Sun is one of more than 85,000 investors in world liberty so far.
Most are unnamed and unknown.
Unnamed, unknown, they're funneling money to the president for all kinds of favors, although what they...
Don't really mention here that these were really dumb, bogus lawsuits.
And the rules change, so that's why the lawsuits were dropped.
Here's the final clip from CBS.
We've got the president of the United States' firstborn, Donald Trump Jr.
At a crypto industry conference in Washington in March, the founders of World Liberty Financial promoted the company, along with the president's son.
I'm just super excited about what this can mean.
This guy is an attack vector.
For the future of banking, for the future of the financial systems.
Hold on, stop.
Back it up and start him again and start to think, who does he sound like?
He sounds like Zuckerberg.
Ooh!
Wait, let me back him up a little more.
There we go.
I'm just super excited about what this can mean.
Completely.
He's hanging out in Silicon Valley too much.
He's in the milieu.
There's something going on with the milieu because that is a very distinctive sound.
Completely agree.
I'm just super excited about what this can mean for the future of banking, for the future of the financial systems.
We tried to approach the World Liberty team, but they have declined our multiple requests for an interview.
World Liberty did not respond to questions about the potential profits for the Trump family.
In a statement, they said the Abu Dhabi company's investment sets a historic precedent.
The SEC, Justin Sun, and the Trump Organization did not respond to our questions.
And the White House said, report on something people actually care about.
So ABC had pretty much the same report, and I'll only play the clip that was relevant.
By the way, Elizabeth Warren is heading up a lot of this.
Elizabeth Warren, I think she probably represents old school banks, maybe City of London.
I don't know.
She's not just outraged because she's outraged.
She has big financial backers.
Liz is in all kinds of stuff, and we saw that over there.
Over-the-counter hearing aids.
If anyone is quote-unquote corrupt, I'd pin that on her.
But here's the kicker from ABC.
The White House telling ABC News in a statement, in part, President Trump's assets are in a trust managed by his children and there are no conflicts of interest.
President Trump campaigned on being a champion for the crypto community and he has taken significant steps to do that.
World Liberty Financial has also announced plans to launch a stablecoin, a cryptocurrency pegged to the U.S. dollar.
The company has reportedly sold $2 billion worth with a Trump family entity receiving a 75% cut of every sale.
And at the same time, Trump's White House pushed for new policies that directly impact stablecoins.
I've also called on Congress to pass landmark legislation creating simple, common sense rules for stablecoins.
If Congress does what Trump wants, it could help further legitimize cryptocurrency and, he says, expand the dominance of the U.S. dollar.
Just this week at a conference in Dubai attended by Eric Trump, World Liberty Financial announced a $2 billion investment from the United Arab Emirates to use the company's stablecoin.
Binance and the foreign investment firm are going to use Donald Trump's stablecoin to finance their transaction, essentially giving Trump a cut of that $2 billion deal.
Boy, looks like corruption, smells like corruption.
Stablecoin, baby.
It's the future.
It's coming.
It's coming.
Then there's the exit strategy that President Trump set up for himself.
Stablecoin exit.
Well, if it was all in a blind trust, he didn't set up anything.
Well, no.
Is Donald Jr. doing all the hard lifting?
You mean Donald Zuckerberg Jr.?
Donald Zuckerberg.
And for Elizabeth Warren, you know, to jump in, oh, looks and smells like corruption.
Okay.
Where'd all of her wealth come from out of the blue?
Yeah.
Magic?
Magic?
Well, I question the Trump makes 75%.
Oh, no, that's not true.
How does that even work?
It wouldn't make any sense whatsoever.
It's idiotic.
Maybe.
What's probably, there's probably some, I would guess.
That there would be a percentage of some transaction fee of.75.
If somebody saw.75 is 75%.
Yeah.
No, I'm with you.
That's bullcrap.
So that's just poor reporting.
But it's a beautiful system.
You buy treasuries, you get your 4%, and then you make stablecoin, and you get a transaction fee on top of it.
What are we doing this podcast for?
We should be buying treasuries, making stablecoins.
Weren't you involved in some Dutch coin of some sort some years back?
Oh, yeah, that was a shit coin.
You know what?
I got lucky.
God protected me.
That was just one of those ICO scams.
It was a scam?
Well, I mean, it was an initial coin offering, which people like Snoop Dogg and Kim Kardashian, they've had to pay millions of dollars in fines.
Yeah, it could have happened to you.
Yes.
Yes.
Why didn't it?
Because those guys couldn't get their crap together and they didn't figure it out at times.
You couldn't get the scam off the ground?
You saved your bacon?
Yes, big time.
I'm thankful.
Thank you, Jesus.
You saved me.
Yes.
It would have been a nightmare because I was the Kim Kardashian of this coin.
There's an ISO for you.
Kim Kardashian.
Without the big butt.
Or the money.
Or the money, yeah.
Let's go to TDS.
A big thing.
I think they're on to something here.
It's not a big deal, but it's a big enough deal that I think they can make some inroads and go after Trump with this.
This is a PBS report on TDA, the guys they've locked up.
In March, in order to speedily deport 238 Venezuelan men under an 18th century law, President Trump declared...
Under an 18th century law, unlike our 18th century constitution, which you always tout your First Amendment.
...with 38 Venezuelan men under an 18th century law, President Trump declared many of them to be alien enemies.
He claimed, he claimed, he claimed there were members of a transnational criminal organization called Tren de Aragua.
Which, he said, was conducting irregular warfare and undertaking hostile actions against the United States.
But a New York Times investigation couldn't find any evidence linking many of the men to that gang.
Ali Rogan spoke with Julie Turkowicz, the Times-Andes bureau chief based in Bogota, Colombia, and the lead reporter on that investigation.
Thank you so much for joining us.
In your investigation, for how many of these 238 men did you find connections to Trenderagua?
And how did you go about making those determinations?
We spent a couple of weeks doing record searches in the U.S., in Venezuela, in Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Colombia.
And what we found is that of the 238 individuals...
Sent on March 15th to a prison in El Salvador, 32 of them appear to have some kind of serious criminal record.
An even smaller number, just a handful, appear to have some possible connection to this gang, Trenderagua.
And this is reporting to the best of our abilities, barring any real information from the Trump administration.
Interesting.
First of all, if you're in the country illegally, you're a criminal.
I was hearing on NPR the other day that they're using Palantir to find these people, which by itself is concerning because, yeah, they probably screw it up because it's AI.
Let's use Palantir.
Well, you have to assume there's a screw-up.
Oh, yeah.
Somehow.
And that's what they're trying to track down.
And I think they got one.
Right.
But it's like this dubious nature of this reporting, which is, well, these are undocumented coming in.
They're undocumented.
Does Venezuela have a laundry list?
And they could go right up to them.
Hey, Maduro, can you give us the list of the Trent Aguagra guys so we can check their names against the names we have?
This is bull crap.
But okay, but let's assume that they spent a whole two weeks.
I mean, take it two weeks to get down there to find the right person to talk to.
But okay, let's go on.
You also reported on how the administration has been making these determinations, what criteria they're using.
Tell us about that.
Some of the documents that have come out in court filings in recent weeks indicate that the Trump administration is using a rubric to...
Essentially grade individuals who law enforcement believes might be Trenderagua.
When the person gets to eight whole points, they become a, quote, validated member of Trenderagua and thus are...
It's a meritocracy, baby.
It's a merit-based system.
Eight points, you're out.
eligible to be deported under the Trump administration's qualifications as an alien enemy.
And so four points, according to this rubric, are given for someone who has suspicious tattoos of the Trump administration that law enforcement officials believe are connected to Trenderagua.
Another four points are given out for style of dress that law enforcement officials believe are Trenderagua.
The example being tattoos specifically, obviously, are worth sort of half of the points that make someone a, quote, validated member of Trenderagua.
But experts in Venezuela tell my colleague in Venezuela that no, in fact, this group doesn't use tattoos as a marker of membership.
The term rubric is interesting because you said it's a checklist, but that's not the definition of rubric.
No, but she's using it, the way I understand it, she's using it as meaning checklist.
But read us the definition and I have a comment about that last clip.
Well, the definition has nothing to do with checklist, but there's a company called Rubric.
And they do data analysis.
Cloud data management.
So I was just wondering if maybe they're using the system rubric?
No.
Why should you look up the word rubric?
Rubric definition.
Here we go.
Do you want Merriam-Webster or the Collins?
Merriam-Webster.
Merriam-Webster.
An authoritative rule.
A title of a statute, that would be it, or an explanatory or introductory commentary.
She really needs a checklist.
She just likes saying Chile and Venezuela.
That's what she likes.
And rubric.
Now, she mentions that the whole kind of commentary at this point drifts off into these tattoos.
Yeah.
And at not one point in this entire, I think it was a four-part clip, do they mention that MS-13 at all?
MS-13 was part of this whole thing.
It was TDS plus MS-13 that were getting shipped off.
TDA.
And MS-13 is solely regarded as, you always have tattoos.
It's part of the scheme.
Right.
But they won't even mention MS-13 in this entire report.
And they'll just go on and on about the tattoos not being part of the T. I can never pronounce it correctly.
They cannot bring themselves to bring in the other aspect of this deportation, which is the MS-13 half of it.
Are you telling me that this PBS report is slanted and perhaps untrue?
I think it's slanted for sure and probably untrue in some sense.
One of the deported men whose family you spoke to is Arturo Suarez Trejo.
Can you tell me about him and his family?
He had been living in Chile and was making a living working actually installing refrigerators, but his real passion was music.
He meets his wife and other...
Venezuelan in Chile, and she becomes pregnant, and he eventually decides, you know what, I really want to make some more money for my family.
So I'm going to go have the kid in America so I can get my papers.
And he heads north.
He gets into the United States.
Actually, he left.
She stayed.
Oh.
Oh.
He heads north.
Oh.
And she becomes pregnant, and he eventually decides, you know what, I really want to make some more money for my family, and he heads north.
Sounds like she's saying she.
She's saying he?
It sounds like she.
Are you sure?
Well, play it again.
I thought it was he heads north because he's the one that was in the country, not her.
Venezuelan in Chile, and she becomes pregnant.
And he eventually decides, you know what, I really want to make some more money for my family.
And he heads north.
He gets into the United States.
He enters with this sort of Biden-era application that allows people to sort of appear at the border and ask for permission to enter.
He enters the country, is working in North Carolina, and one day he's in North Carolina filming a music video.
When ICE shows up, he calls his wife in Chile and he says, you know, honey, I'm coming home.
And that is when he suddenly disappeared and his wife stopped hearing from him until she types into Google, Venezuelans deported, and she sees him in a video, shaved, cuffed, and bent over in this Salvadoran prison.
Arturo Suarez is one of the individuals who does not appear to have a criminal record or a connection to Tren de Aragua.
Other than that, he came in illegally.
They make it sound like, oh, come on in.
Well, no, he came in illegally, but he used that stupid system that Biden set up.
The app?
The app.
So he came in legally through the channels that they allowed him to come in legally, and then he got railroaded and got shipped off supposedly, although I don't know how she recognized him bent over with his head shaved, but somehow she recognized him, which I think that's part of bogus reporting.
And now it turns out he's in the jail, but there's no proof of this that I can tell.
This story may be manufactured from scratch.
You know, the media has been flooded with stories like this.
You know, poor guy separates from...
My favorite is a four-year-old girl with cancer deported her.
You know, more Trump hates children.
The deporting children story is bogus as hell because...
Those kids were brought by the...
Mom was deported and she wanted to bring the kid.
And they're suggesting leaving the kid in the United States because it's an American citizen?
Okay, well the kid's always going to be an American citizen.
She can come back whenever she feels like it, when she's older maybe, and can live on her own.
No, it's wrong because President Trump should have immediately opened up Walter Reed or Mayo and put the kid in the cancer ward.
That's what he should be doing.
Because, you know, Trump hates children.
He just wants children with cancer to die.
You're right in your assertion five, ten minutes ago about this is going to be amped up.
I don't know about these stories being even remotely accurate.
They're definitely slanted.
And whether this guy even exists, this guy whose wife was pregnant in Chile, why didn't she come with him and have a baby here, which would be the smart money, seems to me.
Especially since he went through the trouble and they didn't want a bunch of single males coming in.
They liked the idea of a family.
But you bring her, it makes more sense.
The whole thing is very specific.
But his passion was music, John.
It's so unfair.
And then they throw the artsy angle and there's a refrigerator installer whose passion is music.
It's like a Dire Straits video.
Reference lost on you.
Yeah, it's money for nothing.
Oh, he's got it.
He's got it.
Yes.
All right.
You and your colleagues also reported on how Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has wanted more proof that these deported men are actually members of Tren de la Agua.
Where does that stand and might that impact this arrangement where he's going to house him in this prison for one year?
He says that is negotiable moving forward.
As far as what's going to happen next for these men, it's really unclear.
Nayibu Kele, the president of El Salvador, has said that this is at least a one-year term for these individuals.
And he has called that sentence renewable.
And we have also seen the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem, come out and say that she believes that these individuals should be in prison in El Salvador for the rest of their lives.
That is being contested in court, but that case is still pending.
That decision by Judge Boesberg in Washington, D.C. is still pending.
Julie Turko, thank you so much.
Thank you.
Yeah, they're going to attack them on everything.
It's going to be non-stop, non-stop, non-stop.
Anything they can do.
You know, we had a dinner Friday night, and I was sitting next to a woman, and I know her husband, he wasn't there.
I said, where's your husband?
She said, he's in the Dominican Republic buying tobacco.
I said, what?
And she goes through this whole thing about...
He's a cigar guy.
Yeah, Dominican Republic makes decent cigar tobacco.
Yeah, and it's one-third fermented.
And he's got this Cuban roller.
And she's from Havana.
Does she roll it on her thighs?
She's from Havana.
And she said, you know, we were talking because she was in Florida.
I said, oh, Ilion Gonzalez.
She says, oh, I remember that.
So you should listen to our show.
Because that's how we roll.
We don't roll on our thighs.
We roll with the Ilion Gonzalez references.
Anyway.
Yeah, she said, what was that all about?
I said, well, it was the first version of Tren de Aragua.
That's when, who was president then?
Clinton.
Wasn't it Clinton?
That must have been Clinton, yeah.
It was definitely a scandal.
And let's go to one of the most press-free countries in the world, the Republik of Deutschland, and what they're doing with politics.
It's quite an interesting little affair that's happening now.
Germany's domestic intelligence agency designated the whole AfD party as a confirmed right-wing extremist organization on Friday.
The agency says the AfD threatens democracy due to its xenophobic views on ethnicity.
It concluded that the party discriminates against non-ethnic Germans, denying them equal status, especially those from Muslim backgrounds, as Germany's Minister of the Interior, Nancy Fazer, explained.
The party reacted to today's decision, saying it is a serious blow to German democracy, pointing to the polls showing the AFD as the strongest force.
The AFD stated that it will continue to defend itself legally against defamation.
The decision follows a three-year review of AFD actions, statements and extremist links.
The AFD came second in February's general elections ahead of the incoming junior coalition partner, the SPD.
Parts of the AFD, like its youth link, were already classified this way.
Parliament could theoretically ask for the party to be dissolved, but this is considered highly unlikely.
So, we don't like that you're popular, so we're just going to have our security services call you domestic terrorists.
And we won't dissolve you, but everyone's going to stay away.
And by the way, you're youth, clearly Jugend.
5-day Jugend.
Well, you already classified you as little terrorists.
Our Secretary of State Rubio had some strong words for this.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called Germany a tyranny in disguise after its intelligence service labelled the far-right alternative for Germany party as right-wing extremist.
Rubio's comments made on the social media platform X drew strong backlash from Germany's foreign office.
They replied by saying the decision was a result of a thorough and independent investigation and that Germany has learned from its history that right-wing extremism needs to be stopped.
The label now applied to the AFD will allow authorities to monitor the organization more closely.
Meanwhile, critics, including AFD leaders and their U.S. supporters, say the move is politically motivated.
You think?
It's unbelievable what's happening in Germany.
Yeah, there's nothing like a right-wing organization run by a lesbian.
L2, a libertarian lesbian.
A libertarian lesbian seems unlikely.
You know, no sooner have we spoken about the Harvard endowment than President Trump says, you know, I think we're going to remove the tax-exempt status from the endowment.
Yeah, I discussed this in the newsletter a little bit.
Yeah, I missed the newsletter, unfortunately.
What did you say?
I think a lot of this is a trap.
And it was designed, it's a trap to get Harvard, because Harvard's deciding to sue back, and they're making a big fuss, and it's bringing it to light.
What it's doing is bringing to light the fact that the government is giving private institutions billions and billions of dollars when they have billions of dollars in their coffers already, and then it turns out they're treated like...
Yep.
So they have tax-free everything.
They can have this huge amounts of land.
They don't have to pay tax.
They don't have to pay property tax.
They don't have to pay income tax.
They have to pay nothing.
And this is being brought to light.
And the more that these colleges push back on it, the more it brings into the public eye, which is something I didn't really know how bad it was.
It brings into the public eye like, wait a minute.
Yeah.
This isn't right.
So these guys are screwing themselves.
And when you donate to the endowment, it's a tax deduction.
It's like you get it on the way in and on the way out.
It's no good.
No.
These guys are charging students hundreds of thousands of dollars to go get an education.
Meanwhile, they're tax-free and they're getting free government money and they're living the life of Riley.
No.
The Life of Riley?
I've never heard this.
I'm sorry to use that term.
That dated me.
Please do explain The Life of Riley.
This is a good one.
The Life of Riley was a phrase that was used.
My dad used to use it, too.
And it really was based on a TV sitcom.
And I think it was a radio show before it was a sitcom.
So it probably goes back to the 30s or 40s.
And it was a show called The Life of Riley.
Huh.
And you can look up The Life of Riley and you'll find some references to it.
This should probably be a television watching tip.
The Life of Riley.
I've never heard of this and you've never used this.
No, it's one of those phrases that your parents used.
Oh, like fiddlesticks?
Because it's like you're living the life of Riley, meaning you're doing nothing.
So was Riley living it up?
No, it was just a lazy.
It was like a lazy guy who was not...
Here we go.
William Bendix in...
Yes, William Bendix.
The Life of Riley.
It's, John, it's from the 50s.
The Life of Riley.
Nice, nice.
And complete episodes on YouTube.
Well, I'm going to have to watch that now.
The Life of Riley.
I'm excited.
The Life of Riley, yeah.
I'm excited.
Some of the people who are in that tax scam probably are as old as the life of Riley.
So I think this is a setup.
I think Trump, and they fell right into the trap and said, you're shutting up.
Beautiful.
Putting the clamps down on the Jewish thing.
Saying, we're going to not let that happen anymore.
But no, they had to be big shots.
You had to be a big shot, didn't you?
All right, Victor David Hanson, we got the five-minute warning.
Okay.
Here's Victor David Hanson talking about...
I think it's Victor Davis Hanson, actually.
Davis.
Yeah, I always say David.
I don't know why.
But I do.
But Victor...
VD...
VDH.
VDH, everybody.
VDH.
He has a commentary about the Democrats, and I don't know why, but it leads right into our donations.
If you look at the Democratic Party and the left in general, they have boxed themselves in.
On the one hand, they have no institutional power, no ability to...
To pass legislation, losing the House and the Senate.
No presidency, White House, no executive orders.
Ultimately, all of the cherry-picked district and circuit judges will be overturned by a largely conservative Supreme Court.
In lieu of actual power, then you look at what is the alternative.
Maybe the alternative is a 1994 Newt-Ginrich contract with America, an alternate agenda.
Yes, we can do better on the border than you can.
Yes, we have a better foreign policy with Iran.
There's nothing.
There's no shadow government.
There's not a young Bill Clinton ascendant.
There's no young Barack Obama.
There's nobody.
There's no leaders.
There's no agenda.
I'm going to show myself all by donating to No Agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
Yeah, on No Agenda in the morning.
I couldn't make it any slicker than that.
It's beautiful.
And it is time now to thank our donors, $50 and above.
We do have John's tip of the day coming up.
Some dynamite end to show mixes, a quick overview of the meetups, and some title changes under Commodore or two.
John, take it away.
Yeah, we've got a few people to thank, including Baron Ladekin, who's back from Houston, Texas.
And it came in with 100, and John Robinet is 100.
Commodore 128 came in with 8502.
Commodore 128 ship, I hope.
Commodore 128 ship was not 8502.
No, it's the Commodore.
You had the Commodore VIC-20, the Commodore 64, and the Commodore 128.
And I think it did have the 8502 chip.
No, no, there's no such thing as an 8502 chip.
Are you sure?
Yeah, pretty sure.
No, I'm not pretty sure.
I'm sure.
8502 chip.
Let's take a look.
Wasn't that the ZX80?
Yeah, the MOS Technology 8502.
8-bit microprocessor?
Yes.
There was an 8502, and I was unaware of it, and it passed me by while I was writing about these things back in the day, and it wasn't the 6502.
You were writing about Windows telecommunications, so you're forgiven.
I mean, it can happen.
You were doing other important stuff, ancient bestsellers.
Well, I think 8502 is a great donation number then.
I think so, too.
It's better than 6502.
It sure is.
Especially on a slow day.
Kevin McLaughlin's next.
He's in the Concord, North Carolina.
He came in with a better donation of 8008, which is a classic.
Boobs.
He's the Archduke of Luna, lover of America, and lover of boobs.
He is a lover, not a fighter.
He also says Laus Deo, which translates to praise be to God.
Laus Deo.
I'm not sure why he put that in there.
Well, why not?
Praise be to God.
Because he's been very consistent of not putting extra wordage.
Well, he has something to say.
Sir Michael in Hunlock Creek, Pennsylvania, 73-44.
Happy Swazzle Nuff.
Hey!
69-69, dudes.
Jaris Corporation, 69-69.
Chris Engler, 66-88.
Leo...
Bugo, Bugo, Bugo, B-U-G-O, 5825.
And he needs some jobs, Karma.
We're going to give you that at the end.
Michael Formanick, I think, I bet you.
5719.
And he says, I hope this donation finds you well.
That's a proper use of the term.
Of the form, yes.
Yes, thank you.
Dame Rita, our buddy in Sparks, Nevada.
5525.
Brian Furley, 5510.
Patrick Coble.
Hey, there he is.
He's in Fairview, Tennessee.
He's the Duke.
He's the Duke, he says.
Meet up, shout out, heading to Amsterdam, getting to hang out with Rob and other lowland producers.
Be there, be square.
Royal visit.
Ultra special amygdala checkup in light in the Netherlands Wednesday, May 14th at 7.33 p.m.
It's going to be a hootenanny.
When Patrick shows up, Yeah.
Drinks for everybody.
Troy Funderbuck in Burke in Missoula, Montana, 55. Nick Stark in Grants Pass, Oregon, 5427.
He's got a birthday call out for himself.
Yes.
Kyle Maxwell in Fort Lauderdale, 5425.
Paolo Moore in Fort Washington, Maryland.
5425.
This is the fabulous 5425 donation.
We got two people.
Woo!
May the fourth be with you.
So this is the kind of promotions that really make my day.
Yeah, good job.
Allison Olszowski.
It should be Olszowski, probably.
It's probably a mis-type, a typo.
Well, that came right off the spreadsheet.
Oh, no.
Osos, Osos, Osos, Osos.
In Powell's Bow, Washington.
Everyone should visit there if they're in the neighborhood.
Okay.
5328.
Newsletter guilt trip donation.
Good.
David Kaye says somebody.
David Keys in Riverside, California.
5328.
John...
Bozano in Madison, Alabama, 5272.
Eric Scholes in Dallas, Texas, also 5272.
He needs Jobs Karma.
I'll add it for him.
We'll put that at the end.
Also, Spencer Jaffe in Ratten Show, Palas Verdes, California.
He also needs Jobs Karma, 5272.
Lydia Terry in Rochester, New Hampshire, 5125.
A blank.
No name, no nothing.
5071.
I don't know how that ever happened.
It's the Invisible Man.
Kyle, or woman, Kyle Morrison in Duncan, BC, Canada, 50-01.
That's another birthday donation to Logan.
He wants a biscuit for his birthday.
They always give me a biscuit on my birthday.
Right now.
And now we're already to the $50 donors.
There's a little list here.
We'll just do names and locations, starting with Foster Birch in New York City.
Matt Frazee in St. John's, Florida.
Daniel LaBoise in Bath, Michigan.
James Sharamita in Napanok, New York.
Rebecca Ho, or Hogg, H-A-U-G-H, in Memphis, Tennessee.
Chris Conacher in Anchorage, Alaska.
Aichi Kitagawa, he's over there in San Francisco.
And that concludes our list of well-wishers and people who helped us produce show.
A 1761, I believe.
Yeah, 1761 is correct.
Didn't the TRS-80 also run on that 80 chip?
No, no, the TRS-80 was an 8080.
8080, right.
I learned on the Sinclair ZX80.
That was my first computer.
Actually, the TRS-80 may have been a Z80.
I think it was a Z80, actually.
The Trash 80. I still have my TRS-100.
I had a TRS-80 with the dual drives.
It was actually a very functional machine.
And I thought Radio Shack was going to stay in the business.
No, the batteries.
Came out with a 16-bit machine and then they just dropped the ball.
No, then they went with cell phones.
I have my old Radio Shack cell phone.
Didn't they do the Coco, the color computer?
Yes.
I think that had a crap keyboard.
I think that killed them.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, I love my Sinclair.
I love my truck and I love what I do.
Thank you very much to these donors, $50 and above, and of course our executive and associate executive producers.
Thanks to all of you who supported us under 50. Reasons of anonymity is why we never mention those.
I love my truck and I love what I do.
Here's a request of Jobs Karma.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
And remember, you can always send a recurring donation.
any amount, any frequency, go to noagendadonations.com It's your birthday, birthday Oh, so much We do have a nice list today.
Brett Carruthers, which is his smoking hot wife, Brittany.
A happy birthday.
She turned 37 on the...
Well, that's today, actually.
Cinco de Cuatro.
Mom, Dad, and Brother.
Cole.
Say happy birthday to Logan Morrison.
Celebrates today.
Nick Stark turns 27 today.
Danelle Mackey.
Hey, Danelle.
Celebrating today.
Oh, celebrating tomorrow.
The one, the only...
The adorable Dvorak, who loves his wooden car.
Tynan Rebich, which is Sir Ross the Boss, a very happy one for the sixth.
And also, Molly, a happy one for May 28th.
We say happy birthday to all of these people on behalf of the best podcast in the universe.
It's your birthday, yeah.
T-T-T-T-T-T-T-Tidal changes.
Turning facelessly.
Tidal changes.
Don't want to be into.
Yeah, we have a title change for Sir 920 of 920.
He has supported the best podcast in the universe and another additional amount of $1,000.
We're very grateful for that.
And he now becomes a Baron, Baron Tom, a warden of the frozen tundra.
Congratulations on that upgrade in your peerage here on the No Agenda Peerage Ladder.
And now it is time for our Commodores.
We've got two of them today.
We have Commodore Daniel Sean Gerald Morse and, just at the last moment, Commodore Spooky.
Both Commodores of No Agenda.
And as we always say, Commodores arriving.
Go to NoAgendaRings.com and you'll find exactly the spot where you can give us all the information that you want on your official No Agenda Commodore certificate.
We are happy to send that off to you.
And thank you very much for supporting the best podcast in the universe.
No agenda.
Beat up.
Smack up on it.
They are producer-organized.
They are all over the world.
You heard the call out there.
Sir Patrick is going to be attending the one in Amsterdam.
We have one today.
The Quad Cities Iowa Area Meetup, 7 o 'clock at Lopez in Davenport, Iowa.
Big Nasty is organizing that.
And it's not on the calendar yet.
We'll see why that didn't happen.
But on May 17th at 1776, right outside of Fredericksburg, Curry and the Keeper will be there.
Luminaries from the Austin area will, of course, be attending.
That's May 17th, and that is Matt Long who is organizing that.
On the calendar as well, Eagle, Idaho on the 10th.
Leiden in the Netherlands on the 14th.
Charlotte, North Carolina, the 15th.
The 16th, Whitefield, New Hampshire.
On the 17th, Bedford, Texas.
Colorado Springs.
Fort Wayne, Indiana.
New Kent, Virginia.
Springfield, Oregon.
The 18th, Keene, New Hampshire.
Kudlenburg in Gelderland.
The Netherlands on the 29th.
The 31st is Pensaken Township, New Jersey.
Long Beach, California.
I'm sure that'll be Leo Bravo on the 31st.
Indianapolis, Indiana, Part 1 on June 1st.
They have a Part 2 on June 29th, so two in the month of June.
Central Jersey on the 21st and Longview, Texas on the 29th.
Just a small sampling of the meetups that are available at NoAgendaMeetups.com.
You want to go to one of these because these people that you meet will be your first responders in an emergency.
When you go, you get connection that gives you protection.
NoAgendaMeetups.com.
If you can't find one near you, start one yourself.
It's easy and always a party You wanna be where everybody knows Like a party like a party like a party like a party black a party I see you have three.
One, two, three.
So, you spent some more credits on your AI extravaganza journey.
To try and make some good ISOs for the end of show.
I have one, which is a Sanco de Mayo ISO, which I think has possibility.
Here we go.
Get ready.
We're going for margaritas.
There you go.
It's kind of hollow.
Well, it's a hollow.
Is that you yelling?
No, no, no, no.
I don't know where it came from.
It's producer submitted.
I have one.
It's not even...
AI is a tough one.
Tough one.
Let's see.
Oh, that's a tough one.
No, that's a real ISO.
I appreciate that.
It's not very positive, but okay.
Okay, let's start with quality.
High quality stuff.
Can't beat it.
No, no.
That's a bad AI voice.
That's rejected out of hand.
No, no, no.
No, no, no.
Note that it's too good to be a podcast.
Okay.
Yes, you win once again.
I can't believe it.
Every single time the AI pictures are winning, the AI ousas are winning.
If only someone could make a hit song with AI.
That seems to be impossible.
And of course, we cannot make a hit with a tip of the day.
It's original from JCD.
Great advice for you and me.
Just a tip with JCD.
And sometimes Adam.
Created by Dana Burnetti.
Okay, this is actually a great tip.
People have to pay attention to the whole lecture, though.
It's going to be a little bit longer than usual.
Oh, boy.
Okay.
So, I've always liked bitters.
Bitters?
Which are after dinner drink you have at the end of the meal.
Ugh.
Ugh.
It helps you digest.
It's got all kinds of herbs and stuff in it.
They tend to have genetion, which is typically the main thing of most bitters.
Don't they have...
What's the other thing in the bitters?
Anise?
Anise?
Some do, some don't.
That's mostly...
The ones with anise tend to be more of like pastiche.
I like the anise.
I like the anise ones.
Well, there's lots of those around, but that's what we're talking about.
They don't have very little anise in these amaros, which is a sub...
A sub-segment of bitters, the ones that are made in Italy.
Most of these were designed in the mid-1800s.
They're using the exact same formula.
So what happened was I started drinking these things with my son-in-law, Brennan.
They used to come over.
He has what I would call, people who understand these things would say, an inquisitive palate.
Definitely looking for something that memorizes taste.
He's really good.
He's just sucking up to his father-in-law.
Well, I do blind tasting with these kids just to make sure they're not trying to buffalo me.
So we got into these bitters, and we got into these Amaros in particular, and we started going through a lot of them over a two-year period.
We probably went through, and I have a bunch of them already, and we went through the Swiss ones, the French ones, and we started.
Focusing on the best ones.
And we finally determined the absolute best after dinner.
And he had kind of some stomach issues, but these bitters were fabulous for after the meal.
You have like a shot in a bigger glass of about an ounce of bitters as your thing at the end of the meal, the digestif, as it might be called in France.
Digestif.
Braulio is the...
Creme de la creme de la creme of the great Amaros out of Italy.
I tried them all, the Furnets and all the rest of them.
It's so hard to beat this particular product.
It's not a cheap product.
They sell in the liters for about 50 bucks.
It's not a cheap product at all.
But you can go to the website.
It's available everywhere.
You go to the web, and it's a special kind of sub-segment of Amaro, which is the alpine ones, which means it was done in the mountains from mountain herbs, and it's got a blend of mountain herbs that was determined to...
And most of these things, by the way, were started off as medicines, and they were developed by pharmacists in the 1800s.
And this particular one is a stunner.
Is it available at Costco?
Not that I know of.
It may be on and off, but I've never seen it there.
I don't get it at Costco.
But Amaro Braulio, B-R-A-U-L-I-O.com.
Amaro, M-A-A-M-A-R-O-B-R-A-U-L-I-O, which is the name of the brand.
That's their website,.com.
It's a beautiful product.
It's aged.
It's the best of the best that we've tried all of them.
This is the go-to.
This is a very valuable tip.
What is it called again?
Braulio.
B-R-A-U-L-I-O.
Braulio.
Do you have indigestion after dinner?
Then you need Braulio.
It is John C. Dvorak's tip of the day.
Tipoftheday.net.
Great advice for you and me.
Just a tip with JCB.
And sometimes Adam.
Created by Dana Burnetti.
Many thanks to our producer who diligently updates tipoftheday.net and we also have noagendafund.com so you can always go back and look.
He's always tweeting him out or tooting him or posting him or slashing that X. It's a good deal.
Tips of the day.
It is a free resource from your No Agenda show.
Not to be confused with the tip of the day from Bill O 'Reilly for which you have to be a concierge member.
No bullcrap like that here, ladies and gentlemen, at all.
And this does conclude our Media Deconstruction Day.
We had a good time.
Good time doing it for you.
We do it as a public service.
Coming up next on the No Agenda stream, it's Gene Neftuliev.
Our Russian translator and Darren O 'Neill, our AI artist.
They have a show called Unrelenting and we'll be rolling out the Blitzkrieg Tariffs edition of their podcast.
It's beautiful.
End of show mix is from D's Laughs and Nautilus K. Nautilus K is brand new.
It's his second mix and he's loving it.
And he loves his truck too.
And I am coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country, in the picturesque village of Fredericksburg.
In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where I remain, I'm John C. Dvorak.
We return on Thursday.
Remember us at noagendadonations.com.
Until then, adios, mofos, a hooey, hooey, and such!
Huge Venn diagram overlap because what we really care about is trying to make sense of the world and not being distracted by all the meaningless distractions that happen out there that the world is.
Yeah, be the change you want to be and the change you want to see.
Podcasts talking about leading to act more hyper-loathing.
The stuff that's going to affect you the most is the stuff that happens in your town.
Absolutely.
We'll be right back.
The stuff that's going to affect you the most is the stuff that happens in your town.
