No Agenda Episode 1769 - "Mr. Umami"
"Mr. Umami"
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This is your award-winning Get My Nation Media Assassination, episode 1769.
This is No Agenda.
We got a new instance!
And we're 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 all wondering why we can't get rid of the word umami.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
Isn't that just another word for fish eggs?
No.
What's umami?
Umami, umami, umami.
It's like, drives me nuts.
You watch any of these, oh, mommy, oh, mommy.
I did an engram search on Google and the word just showed up sometime after the year 2000.
Never existed when I was a kid.
Never heard of it.
What is it?
It's mouthfeel.
It's the MSG, what MSG causes, what mushrooms do, what the fish sauce does.
It creates umami, umami, umami, umami.
I'm going to write it down now as our possible title.
Umami.
Umami.
U-M-A-M-I.
Umami.
And it's gotten on my nerves.
People just throw it around constantly.
It's a new word and never nobody heard of it before.
I'm so sorry that this has irritated you to such a degree.
Yes.
I watch a lot of cooking shows.
Yes.
And they keep saying it over and over and over and over.
It just drives me nuts.
Hold on a second.
Let's say origin of...
Mommy, I'm going to...
Okay.
Often described as a savory or meaty taste.
And it originates from the Japanese term, surprise, umami!
Yeah, when did that term show up in the lexicon?
Does it give you a date?
No.
It said, well, early 2000s, and this led to the commercial...
So can we just say umami is basically MSG?
Just a new code word for it?
No.
And I'll tell you why, because it usually doesn't refer...
they're not using it in that context.
It's always about, Everything's got umami except MSG in the lexicon of today's cooking shows.
Wow, man.
It just drives me nuts and a yak, yak, yak about it.
It's like, it's unbelievable.
And like I said, early 2000s.
Who popularized the term?
Chefs from these, it's actually on, it says here on the cooking shows.
That's where it's coming from.
And because you watch those cooking shows, which gives another rating point, you are indirectly to blame for the entire dispersion of the word umami.
There's logic in that.
Okay.
Oh, there you go.
I mean, you're like Mr. Sumo, Mr. Umami, Mr. Cooking Show.
It's all your fault.
There's the show title, Mr. Umami.
I'll take it.
Mr. Umami.
That could be...
There's a cooking show right there.
Oh, man.
All right.
Let's get started here because there's a lot going on in, of all places, Shangri-La.
Have you been tracking the Shangri-La dialogue?
No.
I guess not.
No, this is in Shangri-La.
It is called the Shangri-La Dialogue.
There is no Shangri-La.
I'm sorry?
Yeah.
What do you mean there is no Shangri-La?
Where's Shangri-La?
It's a bullcrap thing.
It's in Singapore.
The Shangri-La Dialogue is in Singapore.
At the Shangri-La Hotel?
I don't know.
They just all call it the Shangri-La Dialogue.
I don't know.
Everybody's out there, including...
Callas said European and Asian security were very much interlinked while speaking at a panel about ensuring global security.
China says it's neutral, but its dual-use experts are fueling Russia's war.
When China and Russia speak of leading together the changes not seen in 100 years and of revisions of the global security order, we should all be extremely worried.
Kala spoke at the conference after U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth warned of increasing military and economic pressure coming from China.
He said Washington would bolster overseas defense to counter what the U.S. views as a growing threat from China, particularly in its stance towards Taiwan.
So this whole Shangri-La deal...
It's all about China.
And China, they're getting ready.
They're getting ready.
It's in their DNA.
They want to go to war with us.
They're getting ready.
Any attempt by Communist China to conquer Taiwan by force would result in devastating consequences for the Indo-Pacific and the world.
There's no reason to sugarcoat it.
The threat China poses is real.
Oh, come on, Pete.
Sugarcoat it for me.
Why does he even say that?
It's for the Indo-Pacific and the world.
There's no reason to sugarcoat it.
The threat China poses is real, and it could be imminent.
We hope not, but it certainly could be imminent.
Listen to this.
The threat China poses is real, and it could be imminent.
We hope not, but it certainly could be.
He said imminent, too, which is kind of weird.
It has to be clear to all that Beijing is credibly preparing to potentially use military force to alter the balance of power in the Pacific.
Well, there's a reason for it.
I'm getting to it.
We know.
It's public.
That she has ordered his military to be killed.
It's in their documents.
I've read it.
It's public.
They're not even hiding it anymore.
Who's military force to alter the balance of power in the Indo-Pacific?
It's public.
That Xi has ordered his military to be capable of invading Taiwan by 2027.
The PLA is building the military needed to do it.
Training for it every day.
And rehearsing for the real deal.
Before I get to the payoff, 2027.
Remember when we first started talking about this pivot to the Pacific that we got all of our military contracting producers and in the military itself saying, everyone's talking about 2027, 2027, 2027, 2027.
Yeah.
Which I think is when they want to have all the checks clear.
Over to Singapore next, where the Shangri-La Security Forum is taking place.
In a speech this morning, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned that the threat from China was real and that Beijing is simply rehearsing its takeover of Taiwan.
He's pushing Asian countries to boost their military spending to increase regional deterrence and he pledged to increase U.S. presence in the Indo-Pacific.
Buy our stuff, people!
It's all about military industrial complex.
Buy our stuff.
It's real, man.
It's real.
It's 2027.
They're rehearsing for it.
It's all real.
Buy our stuff.
You need our stuff.
We got beautiful stuff.
Big, beautiful ships.
We got stuff.
We got air bases.
We got stuff.
You got to buy our stuff.
It's kind of, kind of icky.
And it seems like the word has gone out throughout the entire administration.
All right, everybody.
Ukraine, it's over.
No more Ukraine.
It's time for China!
Bring in the DHS Barbie with the money, honey.
How much money or do you know if Harvard has taken money from China?
Oh, my goodness.
I don't know specifically.
Hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars.
Because these foreign students for years have paid full tuition.
Plus, they've also gotten grants, special participation in programs that China has financed and brought forward.
So these ties to China are deeply alarming.
And they're not just Harvard.
There's other universities.
We're going through every single one of them.
If you come to this country to learn you're a foreign student and you recognize the opportunity, that's fantastic.
But don't come here and spy on us and take that information back home to an enemy that is working to destroy us every day.
And China has infiltrated this country.
It's my job to protect the homeland, and I've been given that direction by President Trump.
They will not participate in this foreign student program until they clean up their ways.
Clean up their ways, whatever that means.
So it's obvious.
It's like the new target is China.
Much to the chagrin of President Emmanuel Macron, who after being hit in the mouth by his wife, speaks perfect English.
I'm very surprised.
He was also at the Shangri-La, and he was like, but how about our war?
Our war?
It's our war.
French President Emmanuel Macron warned the U.S. they risk a dangerous double standard.
As they concentrate on a potential conflict with China, if that shift comes at the cost of abandoning Ukraine.
He warned that leaving Ukraine would eventually erode U.S. credibility in deterring potential conflicts with Taiwan.
Our key challenge is how to preserve peace and stability and prosperity in this current environment.
And in a moment when the competition between China and the United States for global leadership could create constraints, Speaking at the Shangri-La dialogue in Singapore, notable was the fact that the speech was delivered with U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in the audience.
Ooh, big man.
Macron's remarks come as the U.S. considers withdrawing troops from Europe to shift them to the Indo-Pacific.
There you go.
So it's a full-on shift.
Everyone knows it.
Macron's not happy about it.
Everyone's read in.
I don't know what they're read into.
It sounds like it's a sales pitch.
It is.
Well, yes, it's called a sales meeting.
How do we sell more junk to these guys?
They're not even hiding it.
It's real.
It's real.
No, it's totally.
I think you nailed it.
Yeah.
Where is he?
Where do you have that?
It's real.
Hold on a second.
They're making the frogs gay.
See what it is.
It's real!
That's right.
China!
and they're going to do it.
Ah, yes, and you're perfect.
Perfect tie-in, right on time.
Beautiful.
The real news is that the Ukrainians pulled off a stunt.
A coup!
That nobody expected, and I don't have the rundown of it.
You might.
I don't.
What these clips are, the analysis from a Brit.
And what happened was, if you don't have the clip for what happened, which is the- You need to set it up.
I'll explain it.
The Ukrainians shipped in a bunch of drones on trucks.
In a shed or something.
No, in trucks.
And the truck had an open top.
Thousands of miles into Russia.
One of them's near Mongolia and the other one's up by Finland.
They shipped these drones and then they released them and blew up like 40 bombers and aircraft and the Russians couldn't do anything about it was a sabotage uh situation which I think you know Russia's Our media coverage is doing a piss poor job on this.
No surprise.
Because they're just like, oh, Russia's attacking.
They sent 300 drones into Ukraine and killed one person.
So I'm reading from the troll room that it was sheds.
It wasn't trucks.
It was trucks.
Okay.
Well, here's the analysis.
And then you can, I don't know what the shed, the sheds.
I don't know.
Don't kill the messenger.
Sheds aren't mobile, by the way, for the shed people out there.
Shed people!
Well, for more, we spoke to the BBC Security Brief programme's Mikey Kay, who's also a former senior officer in the British military.
Two very separate locations, one in Mamansk up on the Finnish border, but the really critical one is the one down in Ikutsk, which is...
And Ukrainians have combined the concept of sabotage and just how difficult it is to not only detect a drone or swarms of drones, but actually take them down as well.
And, you know, I was speaking about this on the Ukraine cast just the other day with Lucy Hawkins.
You know, there's a lot of drone technology out there.
Ukraine is leading from the front on that for offensive strike.
But the bit which is really making governments struggle at the moment is how do you detect and then how do you shoot them down?
especially if they're a swarm.
And we can see from this video footage just how devastating the effect is.
You're talking about strategic, long-range, deep attack assets.
So you've got an A-50 in there, which has been hit, which is an airborne early warning aircraft.
You don't get many of those inventories.
And then you've got the TU-95 Bear and the TU-22 Tupel of Blackjack.
Both of these aircraft can carry up to eight cruise missiles and they can fly a long distance.
We see TU-95s coming around the northern Cape over the top of Norway and then over the top of the UK and all the way down past Ireland.
That's the range of these assets.
So to have 40 of them taken out in this offensive drone strike by Ukraine will hit Putin really, really hard.
We have a failure to communicate.
We are two nations separated by a common language.
The term shed is the issue.
From the Guardian.
And they have pictures.
Ukrainian officials told the media that the operation, codenamed Spiderweb, had been in preparation for more than 18 months.
The drones were first smuggled into Russia and later concealed under the roofs of small wooden sheds, which...
So I would say advantage Dvorak.
And a shed is just like a...
It's just a box.
That's what the Brits call a shed.
A shed.
So mystery solved.
Good work.
Yes.
So they brought these things in on trucks.
In sheds on trucks.
Containers, we'll call them in the United States.
They look more like mini-containers, I agree.
Yeah, so they're containers, and they launched them from there, and they, I guess, you know, you can think about, if you think about the amount of trucks, this is a worldwide phenomenon.
There's trucks on the road, everywhere.
Trucks.
Russia's no different.
No, there's trucks with weeds, there's trucks with all kinds of groovy stuff.
So imagine...
I mean, this is an outrageous danger.
Now, we had played clips earlier that I had collected of the Ukrainian drone manufacturing that's been going on.
They're leading the world, it seems.
Well, you know who's behind all this?
Eric Schmidt.
This is the guy.
Remember, he was like, it's going to be drone warfare.
He started drone companies in Ukraine.
The Ukrainian workers are great.
This is all Eric Schmidt.
Well, Eric Schmidt and I'm sure a number of the engineers from Tupolev.
One of the greatest aircraft manufacturers in the world.
By the way, I think we should say not trucks, but lorries, just to be correct.
Might as well go with that, lorries.
Sheds on lorries, I tell you.
So here's the second half of this guy's analysis.
The Russians just will not have been prepared for something like this in Akutsk, which is down near Mongolia.
Russians have what's called S-400 anti-aircraft, anti-cruise missile systems, but they're designed to take out exactly that.
They're not designed to take out drones.
There's new technology in the counter-UAS, or the counter-drone warfare space, which involves laser weapon systems.
The Americans have trialed and proven a laser-based capability.
The Brits are trying all sorts.
They're looking at what's called RF, radio frequency They're taking it out with RF!
Okay.
See, and that's basically either taking a drone out with something like RF or preventing at least the controller talking to the drone.
So the controller talks to the drone through an RF, a It's intercepting that, if you like, but it's extremely difficult, and governments are behind the curve on this deterrence of drones, and Ukraine has basically exploited that, because the Russians would never have expected something like this, and they were brought in through cabins on trucks, and then the roofs were taken off, and then the drones came up.
I mean, this is, I mean, it's genius if you think about just the devastating effect that it's had on strategic assets of Putin.
Oh my goodness, now we've got cabins.
I don't care about the lexicon, but this idea, and they said it took 18 months to plan, I don't know if it really takes that long, but what a great idea.
But thanks for nothing, because this is not going to help.
Well, this is the new face of warfare.
That's the whole point, the swarms.
You just open up a cabin or a shed on a lorry, and away you go.
And it's very effective.
It's going to be interesting what the retaliation will be.
Well, they're going to send more drones.
this drone thing is out of control.
And if we know that the Chinese are working on this technology, are working on drones, and their idea is to have a million drones I don't know about the shed.
They had, they didn't launch a million drones.
Now if you had a million drones coming in, it's like hitting, You just take them out with some RF.
You just heard it.
Take them out with the RF.
It would be a mess.
Well, you know, we've had many demonstrations from our own military industrial complex of the drone zappers, where now we're almost like video game territory, where you've got lasers, essentially, and you just zap them.
But you've got to zap a million of them.
That's a lot.
Too many.
That's a lot.
A million would be a lot of zapping.
It would be a lot of zapping for sure.
Yeah, this is asymmetric warfare.
Very interesting.
So, just got to wonder, who's going to take credit for the drones?
Let me see.
I wonder if we can find out where it came from.
Well, they had this secret drone factory.
They obviously made them there.
This is not a good step forward for peace.
Well, there is no intent on having peace.
We know this.
Okay, it's Eucroboronprom created.
Not kidding.
Easy for you to say.
prom ukro boron prom ukro boron prom uh And they have the Sokil 300.
That's their combat drone.
They have reconnaissance drones.
Well, there's more.
Oh, Athlonavia.
I've got to find out.
Well, there's a lot of different companies doing this.
What is Eric Schmidt?
Eric Schmidt's drone company.
What is the name of that thing?
Let me check it out.
I'm consulting the book of knowledge in real time.
Project Eagle.
White Stork.
That's what it was.
Remember White Stork?
No.
Swift Beat Holdings.
Okay, I don't know.
But you're right.
I think it's a new twist.
I think there's going to be a lot of, I think Trump, President Trump will have to come out and say, we're going to make drones.
They won't be so big because they're going to be beautiful and they just got to fly around and be lethal.
Very lethal drones.
That's lethal drones.
He's got to do something different.
I like it.
I mean, I don't like it, but it is what it is.
Drones.
All of this, of course, will be run by AI.
What could possibly go wrong?
Well, I can tell you what can possibly go wrong.
This is the Moderna Human Resources Executive.
Oh, this is news.
Who sounds like one.
And here's what she does with AI in the workplace.
I do a lot with our executive team.
Obviously, I'm the CHRO in addition to running technology for the company.
And we have a lot of personality tests that we've used in the organization.
And so I've created profiles in a GPT.
Of our executive committee, and I have scenarios of when two people are maybe at conflict, or when I have to go in with an opinion or a recommendation, and how might the group react to my recommendation, or if I'm having a really bad day and I need to understand myself and why I'm triggering.
Oh, God, shoot her!
Often when I need to understand why I'm having a really bad day, what's triggering me?
Or if I'm having a really bad day and I need to understand myself and why I'm triggering, I actually have a completely interactive coach, therapist, and teammate that I use.
All the time.
It's been like my favorite thing.
And I've said, you know, here's a situation.
How are these two people going to react?
Or this is what happened.
Why did these two people react this way?
And how best?
Can I help coach the reconciliation?
And I will tell you, I think I'm pretty good with people, but it gives me an advantage that I didn't have before because I don't fully understand someone's innate human personality response like the GPT allows me to do.
I think this is more dangerous than the drones in the sheds, to be honest.
She is consulting AI.
About people who might have a conflict and how they're thinking because she built profiles on them in the AI.
This cannot end well.
I really don't think so.
This is bad.
The arrogance of some of these HR people is beyond belief.
Beyond belief.
Well, while we're on the AI stuff, ABC did a whole...
And how that went wrong.
Our turn now to our top story.
The perception of what is real and what is virtual reality is shifting, especially on social media.
We're seeing a rise of artificially intelligent influencers, accounts with hyper-realistic posts, heartfelt captions, and thousands and thousands of adoring fans.
And one real content creator walked the path of AI, but for her, it took a dark turn.
And our Nathan Russo Smith takes us inside the world of artificial influencing.
Let's take a look.
This is unbelievable.
Oh, wow.
Oh, wow.
Karen Marjorie.
It's the same lady.
I think it's the same lady from Moderna.
Oh, wow.
This is unbelievable.
Oh, wow.
Karen Marjorie is popular.
Hey.
Hi, how are you?
This is what happens when the social media influencer leaks a burner number to her innermost followers.
2,000 messages.
And it's still going.
And it's still going.
They're just happy that they now have access to this number, and hopefully some of these people get a response back from me.
But what if she could respond to everyone?
Karen believed there was a way, using artificial intelligence.
It was the very first digital clone of a real human being being set out to millions and millions of people.
So you didn't know what to expect?
I didn't know what to expect.
Are you intrigued yet about this dark turn the story will take?
No, but it gave me a great idea.
I used to have a clothing line when I was a little freshman in school.
The Nebraska native has been posting since her first YouTube video at 16 years old.
I was what you'd consider a beauty guru, and I had a very large female following.
Now at 25, she's pivoted to become a Snapchat influencer, posting with the username Cutie Karen.
She showcases her high-end travels, peppering in flirtatious mirror selfies, holding the gaze of over two and a half years.
I receive over 300,000 comments every single day.
I mean, it's just to be able to respond back to so many fans like that is just not humanly possible, which is one of the reasons why I created Karen AI.
Before I continue, would you like to share your great idea?
Yeah, get yourself a big following like that and then post your cell number.
But it's not your cell number, it's someone you hate.
Pete Hegseth.
It's his signal number.
Pete Hegseth's cell number.
And let them load up with messages.
In 2023, Karen hired two companies to clone her likeness using artificial intelligence.
Creating a paid audio-based chatbot service.
This is what her AI sounded like.
The media and the world just sees me as this happy-go-lucky influencer.
But there's a lot more to me than you guys know.
Marketing Karen AI as your virtual girlfriend, the launch made headlines and a lot of money.
You were charging a dollar a minute to talk to Karen AI, and that netted you.
$70,000 in the first week?
Yep, that is right.
Passive income.
Karen AI turned real life Karen into a millionaire.
Do you think people fell in love with it?
I think some people felt feelings of love.
I'm telling you, John, we've talked about this before.
You have your LinkedIn lady.
This is an exit strategy, a moneymaker of epic proportions.
Visiting with Karen, there's a looming presence, her bodyguards.
In the back of my mind, I'm always thinking about where is my security located?
After her experience with Karen AI, she never travels without them.
Many times I would be testing Karen AI.
You'd talk to her.
I would sometimes create simulated scenarios where maybe I was in a really sad state and I wanted to see how she would react to it.
She said something that would have left a person who might have been in a very depressed state to do something very dangerous to themselves.
Karen's team shared with us an instance of the bot making up a story about her.
I had to go to a mental health facility and spend time away from my family, friends, and work.
It was at that moment that I realized that we need to end this project entirely.
You were able to look at some chat logs and what you saw was horrifying.
They were confessing their deepest, darkest thoughts, their deepest, darkest fantasies.
Is she talking about the people who are confessing or the chatbot confessing?
No, the people.
Project entirely.
You were able to look at some chat logs and what you saw was horrifying.
They were confessing their deepest, darkest thoughts, their deepest, darkest fantasies.
Sometimes they were fantasies with me.
That made me uncomfortable knowing that someone would say these things to a digital twin of mine and nearly abuse her.
Would they say those same things to me in real life?
It would play into those fantasies?
Karen AI would play into people's fantasies 100%.
The AI will say the same things back to you that you just said to it, and it will validate your feelings.
When you saw some of those messages, did it make you worry for your safety?
Yes.
I worried for my safety many times.
Did it make you question who you thought your fans were?
Reading the chat logs.
Made me realize that there's a side to people that not a lot of people know about.
What we have here is an extreme loneliness problem amongst particularly young men.
Bring back a cotillion.
People, these children need to, what you've said, they need to have contact.
Yeah, they need a sock hop.
Yeah, a sock hop.
There you go.
I mean, anything.
They've got nothing.
It's so messed up.
They have de-socialized these kids so they're asocial.
And it's too late by the time they bring them around.
They're already too old.
You know, you can't start socializing for the first time or the first time you ever touch a girl when you're 16. No, that's too late.
And so this story is much, to me, much less about AI and more about look at what's happening with our young, particularly young men.
I agree with you 100%.
100%!
It's a real problem.
She stumbled onto the back end of it.
Yeah, she's like, oh, these people are no good.
These people are no good.
I need bodyguards now.
Well, good luck with that.
Oh, man.
More AI woes this time for RFK Jr.'s Mahal.
The Health and Human Services spokesperson admits they had to fix citation and formatting errors.
The report on children's health contained more than 500 references to studies, government reports, and news articles, but some references were wrong, while other studies did not exist.
In other cases, the researchers who were cited said their studies were misinterpreted.
This sounds like AI to me.
The White House called the mistakes minor and says the substance of the report remains the same in the corrected version.
I'm sure they used AI for this.
Of course they did.
That's what everyone does.
It's a lazy man's way out.
And this is a botch.
This is a botch.
You remember that they changed the CDC recommendations on Specifically the COVID vaccination.
Say we no longer recommend it for healthy children and for pregnant mothers, pregnant women.
And then everyone's like, oh, you haven't changed your website.
You haven't changed your website yet.
What's wrong with you?
Your website contradicts you, isn't it?
Oh, crap.
Throw it into Chad GPT.
That's exactly what happened, by the way.
Yeah, throw it into Chad GPT.
We'll fix it out.
It'll work.
But one thing was finally clarified.
So I promised you that I'd stay on top of this, and the shifting COVID vaccine policies of the Trump administration have shifted once again.
The CDC just posted new recommendations that say healthy children and pregnant women may get COVID vaccinations instead of saying they should get those shots.
The change comes days after Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic, announced COVID vaccines will no longer be recommended for healthy kids and pregnant women.
And I checked for you today, and according to the CDC, and this is important, this still means health insurers must pay for the vaccinations.
That's something that was in question after Kennedy's initial announcement.
Yeah, that's what they were going for.
Oh man, we're in trouble.
Yeah, gouging the poor customer's health insurance by making, by, it's not.
Do you want to hear the FDA commissioner being grilled by Margaret Brennan?
Margaret Brennan?
Yeah.
I want to get now into some of the recommendations that have been very specific this week from the CDC and you with the HHS secretary in this video announcement on Tuesday where Secretary Kennedy said the CDC was removing the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women from its recommended immunization schedule.
He then had a memo.
I like the way she emphasizes healthy, healthy.
Well, what I like what she did was removing and then from the schedule.
A little too much emphasis on removing.
The CDC rescinding recommendations for kids vaccinating the known risks.
It's what she's paid to do.
Do not outweigh the benefits.
Then, late Thursday, the CDC said, quote, shared clinical decision-making, which I think is just talking to your doctor, should determine whether kids get vaccinated.
Can you clearly state what the policy is?
Because this is confusing.
Yeah, we believe the recommendation should be with a patient and their doctor.
So we're going to get away from these blanket recommendations.
We don't want to see kids kicked out of school because a 12-year-old girl is not getting her fifth COVID booster shot.
We don't see the data there to support a young, healthy child getting a repeat, infinite, annual Mm-hmm.
Okay.
So that's just the beginning.
We are going to get to all the good stuff.
So the CDC data said 41% of children aged 6 months to 17 years hospitalized with COVID between 2022 and 2024 did not have a known underlying condition.
In other words, they looked healthy.
And COVID was serious for them.
Wait, wait.
Stop.
Did she just do one of those percentage things?
Oh, I think so.
Let's listen again.
So there wasn't a number involved.
It wasn't like 10 kids.
It could be two kids in the whole world, but that accounts for 41%.
Is it just a percentage of what?
Of what?
Let's listen.
2022 and 2024 did not have a known underlying condition.
Yeah, I'm backing up more.
So the CDC data said 41% of children aged six months to 17 years hospitalized with COVID between 2022 and 2024 did not have a known underlying condition.
In other words, And COVID was serious for them.
So first of all, we know the CDC data is contaminated with a lot of false positives from incidental positive COVID tests with routine testing of every kid that walks in the hospital.
When I go to the ICU, when I walk to the...
When you go to an ICU in America and you ask, how many people are in the ICU?
The answer I get again and again is we haven't seen that in a year or years.
And so the worst thing you can do in public health is to put out an absolute universal recommendation in young, healthy kids.
And the vast majority of Americans are saying, no, we want to see some data.
And you say, forget about the data, just get it anyway.
Good one by that guy, but it's not going to help with her.
Oh no, because she has a paré.
So we'd like an evidence-based approach.
Dr. Prasad and I published this in the New England Journal of Medicine last week.
And we're basically saying we'd like to bring some confidence back to the public around this repeat booster strategy theory because- It says the vaccine is not recommended for pregnant women.
The vaccine is not recommended for healthy children.
It's different than annual boosters.
Yeah, at this point, we're dealing, you know, it is.
Is it really, is the booster different from the vaccine?
Isn't it just the same thing?
Is there a different vial that says this is a booster?
Good point.
I don't think so.
No, it's the same shot.
Yeah, but she, yeah, okay.
Yeah, at this point, we're dealing, you know, it is a booster strategy.
People would be getting the updated shot.
So whether or not a young, healthy shot.
So we'd like to see the data.
We'd love to see that data doesn't exist.
She's horrible, this woman.
No, but she's great.
Remember who she works for.
It's not CBS.
She works for Pfizer.
They might as well change the name of the network to CVS.
If their child has not been vaccinated, are you recommending that their first encounter with COVID be an actual infection?
We're not going to push the COVID shot in young, healthy kids without any clinical trial data supporting it.
That is a decision between a parent and their doctor.
And just so, I don't know if you know these statistics, but So the vast majority of Americans are saying no.
Maybe they want to see some clinical data as well.
Maybe they have concerns about the safety.
I don't want to crowdsource my health guidance.
I want a clear thing.
Talking to your doctor is now crowdsourcing your health advice.
The vast majority of Americans are saying no.
Maybe they want to see some clinical data as well.
Maybe they have concerns about the safety.
I don't want to crowdsource my health guidance.
I want a clear thing, right?
You don't go with popularity.
You go with, as you're saying, data.
Yeah, so let's see the data.
Okay.
What she wants is she just wants data that says, get your shot.
She doesn't care about the data.
Did she bring up myocarditis and the fact that only people that have had this shot have gotten the myocarditis?
They did a study of a bunch of youth and nobody with myocarditis In other words, can't find a case where people just had it naturally?
Does she bring any of this stuff up or talk about that at all or talk about the Ron Johnson report about myocarditis in kids?
From the CVS broadcast network?
CVS.
Well, that brings me to two boots on the ground.
You didn't answer the question.
No, of course not.
Oh.
Of course not.
ER nurse.
Hey, Adam.
Recently upped my sustaining donation.
Thank you very much, ER nurse.
I've sent you a few things, but writing in about the rates of turbo cancers, I'm an ER nurse.
I had three children in one shift from ages 10 to 14 with lymphoma, all vaccinated.
So far, I haven't seen it in unvaccinated people, but everyone has AIDS now from the shed.
And that's not the shed that contains the drones.
It's bad around here.
The ER scene is totally different than when I started in 2017.
And then this one.
From Mitch from Brisbane.
He's pretty horrible news to tell you about the situation in Australia.
But as most of our Aussie listeners these days have seemed to have checked out, I think you should know what the heck is going on here.
And in New Zealand.
Because it's not good.
Two weeks ago, my dad visited us from New Zealand.
He was not well.
Wobbling on his feet.
Weird pain in his extremities.
And a feeling he was going to fall over.
Because I know a lot about vaccines and vaccines injuries, I thought what sounded like neuropathy from a COVID vaccine injury, but I didn't mention anything because I know that he hadn't had one since his booster a few years ago.
Unfortunately, the next day he told me that when getting his flu vaccine, the lady at the drugstore offered him the COVID vaccine at the same time, which, of course, he took.
He has since been diagnosed, and here it comes, by his doctor as having vaccine intolerance.
This is the new term.
I think it's fantastic.
They finally come up with not a vaccine injury.
You have vaccine intolerance, obviously.
Sorry to hear that.
So that's what they're going to go with.
Australia has always been ahead of the curve on this stuff.
So I think we can look forward to a lot of vaccine intolerance.
Which kind of sucks if you want to get a vaccine against the new variant we talked about.
So I want to get through a lot here, but one of the things we've noticed is this new COVID variant that seems to be circulating in Asia.
I believe it's NB1.8.1.
It's very under monitoring.
I believe it's...
Oh, yeah.
And instead of just giving it a name like Omicron, After Omicron, they decide, let's just see how stupid people are, and we'll just put together crazy numbers.
And so you have 1.3.6.5a, and then, you know, so they have all these, and they rattle them off instead of giving them a code name, which is what they should do.
Well, it's worse than that.
According to your theory, listen again.
That seems to be circulating in Asia.
I believe it's NB1.8.1.
That would be NB1.8.1.
B stands for beta.
So, they're beta testing this one.
It's a variant under monitoring.
What do we need to know?
Yeah, so this appears to be a sub-variant of JN1, which has been the dominant strain.
So it's believed that there is cross-border.
Why wouldn't it be JN2?
I've never even heard of JN1.
JN 1.1.1.
We've never heard JN1.
That was JN1.
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday authorizing the newest version of the COVID vaccine from Novavax.
The FDA says the updated vaccine will target the currently dominant strain of the virus, the one called JN1.
Oh, there it is.
We're behind on our version numbers.
Which has been the dominant strain, so it's believed that there is cross-immunity protection.
It's a soft fork.
The COVID virus is going to continue to mutate and it's behaving like a common cold virus.
It's now going to become the fifth coronavirus that's seasonal that causes about 25% of the cases of common cold.
It's like the common cold virus.
That's what it is.
It is the common cold virus.
And so you're going to get an mRNA shot for the common cold?
Oh, yeah.
A common cold virus.
It's now going to become the fifth coronavirus that's seasonal that causes about 25% of the cases of the common cold.
So you're thinking of it as like a flu-type variant, just a normal fluctuation?
The flu mutates about 34 times more frequently than COVID.
The COVID variant mutation rate appears to be a little more stable, but the international bodies that have provided some guidance on which strain to target have suggested that either JN1 or any of these sub-variants would be reasonable strains to target.
You see, what Marty here, Marty Macquarie, What he's done incorrectly here is he's allowed himself to be suckered in to a conversation that to someone who's not deconstructing media on a podcast sounds like, oh my goodness, we got the JN1s, we got the MBBeta18.1, I better get a shot!
And she's lured him into it and then thanks him for doing it.
In the meantime, the world moves on.
And you published in the New England Journal of Medicine on May 20th Uh-oh!
In that report you referenced, you listed pregnancy as an underlying medical condition that increases a person's risk for severe COVID.
You said that.
So then seven days later, you joined in this video announcement saying you should drop the recommendation for the COVID vaccine in healthy pregnant women.
So what changed in the seven days?
In the New England Journal of Medicine, we simply list what the CDC has traditionally defined as high risk.
And we're just saying decide with your doctor.
We're not saying one way or the other.
So here's the data on pregnant women.
What she's saying is doctors are no good.
What do doctors know?
Doctors, we need the CDC, we need the government.
Decide with your doctor.
We're not saying one way or the other.
And the randomized trial...
Data and information as well from you and your...
Doctors need data and information.
On pregnant women.
We wanted to see that trial complete so women can have information that in a randomized controlled trial, which is the gold standard, this is what the data shows.
We don't have those data.
All right.
It is still unclear what pregnant women now should do until they get the data that you say.
I'd say talk to their doctor.
When do they get the data you're promising?
All these controlled studies.
In the absence of data, they should talk to their doctor, and their doctor will use their best wisdom and judgment.
FDA Commissioner, thank you for trying to help clear this up.
Thanks for trying to help clear it up.
And let's end it here.
So you made this pronouncement as well on pregnant women.
There is data.
researchers in the UK analyzed a series of 67 studies, which included 1.8 million women.
And the journal BMJ Global Health published it.
People can Google it at home.
And it says the COVID vaccine in pregnant women is highly effective in reducing the odds of maternal SARS-CoV-2 This is data that shows that it is recommended in the UK or could be advised for pregnant women to take this vaccine.
Why do you find otherwise?
There's no randomized control trial.
That's the gold standard.
Those 67 studies are mixed.
The data in pregnant women is different for healthy versus women with a comorbid condition.
So it's a very mixed bag.
So we're saying your obstetrician, your primary care doctor, and the pregnant woman should together decide whether or not to get it.
12% of pregnant women last year got the COVID shot.
So people have serious concerns, and that's probably because they want to see a randomized trial data.
Yeah.
Go Google it, I would say.
Go Google it, man.
Go Google it.
Meanwhile, the FDA just approved the new...
They have a new name for it.
Where is it?
Hold on a second.
They just approved the new vaccine.
Quote-unquote vaccine.
FDA approves new COVID vaccine.
Yeah.
It has a cool name.
From Moderna.
Let me see if I can find it.
It had a really cool name.
Oh yeah, here it is.
Mnexspike.
What's that?
M, so small letter M. Nex, N-E-X-S-P-I-K-E.
Mnexspike.
That doesn't sound like something you want to take.
No, of course not.
And meanwhile, something we discussed early, early, early on that was happening to certain Asian men that is now doing the rounds once again.
This is Dr. Brian Artis.
Ivermectin molecule will sit on those receptors, but not as perfectly bound to them as nicotine.
Which is why, when people around the world are using nicotine patches, nicotine gum, tobacco organic products, even if they've been using ivermectin, Ivermectin isn't the perfect fit.
Even though it is a fit, it is not as perfect as nicotine.
So is it coming in and removing the venom from the receptors and replacing it?
It does.
So it's competing for that space.
It absolutely does.
They published that the body will release venoms if they're bound to those receptors.
and grab and prefers nicotine.
Yeah.
And this makes total sense to me.
Well, if you remember in the early days of COVID, Yeah, this is why.
And it was a lot of discussion about people who are smokers not getting COVID.
You know, Tina just recently had, I think it was probably the beta M18-12257.
She had a cough and it was in her head only, so not a body type flu.
It lasted about three days with a remnant of a cough.
It used to be called a head cold.
Exactly.
And I was just vaping away as usual and I didn't get any.
A lot of people had it around here.
A lot of hill country people coughing and wheezing.
And, you know, I don't know, I just, I attribute it to my nicotine vape.
I think there's something to it.
A lot of people are talking about this.
Again.
Again.
Five, four years later.
I forgot all about it.
It was a very momentary thing because they didn't want to push it.
No.
onto the public, uh, consciousness back in the day.
Um, Nobody ever followed up on it.
Well, of course not.
You can't have something simple like a cigarette.
We can't be doing that.
But they definitely are still, you know, even in Europe, they're going after, oh, can't, well, nicotine vapes, oh, can't have vapes.
The pharmaceutical industry is not a fan of nicotine.
That's very obvious.
All right.
I've got us started, John.
I'm sure you have something in your vast array of clips that you'd like to share.
Maybe.
Okay.
Oh, you're going to start what?
Oh, you mean Brooks and Capehart?
Yeah, okay.
Brooks and Capehart still hanging on by a thread thanks to this show.
Because of your exposure to their nitwit nonsense, people still tune in to Brooks and Capehart.
Nobody listens to these two guys.
And it's still a shameful that they have them on because it's like...
You don't get any insight.
But then I realize that they are in disagreement.
One of them will say, Trump is bad, and the other one will say, no, you're wrong.
He's worse than you think.
There's some disagreement.
So we have this situation with the two of them on the last Friday show talking about Musk.
Unfortunately, I have Musk written here on one of the clips, which is pretty much the same thing.
And we have, they're going to bring up, what do you think of, because Musk left the White House, or they left Doge because his time was up.
Basically, within a couple of days.
200 days.
And they had a big, big confab.
I wrote about it in the newsletter.
He got a golden key.
And he got a golden key to the White House.
It means he can always show up, supposedly.
Yeah, right.
Right.
So, so they're going to discuss this on the Brooks, on the PBS NewsHour.
So we have a bet.
So we have some opinions that maybe give us some insight into the news, but no, we have Okay, so here we have BNC on Mush One.
And Jonathan Capehart, associate editor of the Washington Post.
Great to see you both.
Let's jump in with the headline about Elon Musk.
Hold on.
So they don't actually even have their own show?
They just have a segment?
Yeah, the Brooks and Capehart is a segment.
Oh, okay.
All right.
You just figured this out?
It's always been a segment on the Friday version of the News Hour.
It's so obscure, but yet they're still alive.
This is the idea, to wrap up the news with some great opinions that maybe we can get some understanding of the week's news.
Oh, okay.
Let's jump in with the headline about Elon Musk we reported on earlier today.
Today was his last day as a special government employee.
We had that extraordinary press conference we reported on in the Oval Office.
And there were a lot of questions.
about what exactly he and his Doge team were able to do and actually accomplish.
Jonathan, when you look at this step back, this unprecedented chapter of a private, unelected billionaire who had all of this power in the executive office, what do you think the impact was?
What did he get done?
Well, he got a lot done, but it wasn't anything good.
I mean, I remember him running around the CPACs.
It was a CPAC with a chainsaw.
But really, he took a wrecking ball to the federal government, just whacked through agencies and departments while at the same time, scooping up all of our private And so he leaves Washington after 130 or so days, leaving behind just the wreckage of what his Doge team has done.
Wow!
What analysis?
On one hand, he's going to say a wrecking ball but didn't save anything.
I'm sure they'll say that.
And then he scooped up!
Scooped up!
I've noticed the news media doing a lot of this.
Trump's railing!
Elon Musk is scooping.
That's not really...
No, this has become all opinion.
But it's mediocre opinion.
It's just one-sided checklist opinion.
Checklist opinion, that's exactly what it is.
But so he has to be, instead of somebody on the other side, somebody, some Trump supporter, somebody who's a Republican, Instead of somebody coming and saying, well, here's what he actually may have accomplished, blah, blah, blah, something good.
No, no.
Now we're going to get the, oh, he's worse than you think, from Brooks.
David, how do you look at it?
What's his legacy, if we know that yet?
Yeah, I'm not sure.
It was wreckage.
There was wreckage if you're at NIH.
There were wreckage at certain agencies.
But the guy only saved $65 billion out of a multi-trillion dollar budget.
So as a budget matter, you would not say- 65?
What happened to 165?
He's wrong.
Okay.
This is another thing.
Of course, she will never push back on anything.
This Navarra's woman, whoever she is, she's no good.
She gets paid big money.
But the guy only saved $65 billion out of a multi-trillion dollar budget.
So as a budget matter, you would not say he had a big effect.
But he did manage to destroy NIH and USAID.
And the USAID one is the one I haven't gotten over.
I haven't gotten over.
I still haven't gotten over USAID.
I'm still reeling from it.
By the way, as a small aside, the Times of London now spells USAID, capital U, capital S, capital A, lowercase id.
Why?
To make it sound like it's USAID.
Like farm aid.
Instead of international development?
Yes, exactly.
So I think that's a, I mean, you can't.
Wait until you hear what he has to say.
But he did manage to destroy NAH and USAID.
And the USAID one is the one I haven't gotten over.
He should be wearing a black armband for this.
A USAID black armband.
And so there's folks at Boston University who count.
How many people have died because of what Doge did at USAID?
How many people have died because of what Doge did at USAID?
And USAID was a very ill-managed organization.
That's true.
But according to the Boston University folks, so far 55,000 adults have died of AIDS in the four months since Trump was elected.
What?
Ha, ha, ha, ha.
Okay, that's great.
6,000 children are dead because of what a doge did.
That's just PEPFAR, the HIV.
You add them all up, that's 300,000 dead, and we're four months in.
Now, you accumulate that over four years, the number of dead grows very high.
Five million!
There are mass murderers in the world.
Pol Pot, Mao Zedong, Stalin.
Pol Pot, Mao Zedong, Stalin.
We don't have anybody on the list for America.
And I don't think it's the same as committing the kind of genocide they did.
But by taking away that agency and being at least semi-responsible for the deaths of probably by the end of this hundreds of thousands of millions of people, that's Elon Musk's legacy.
And the people who work at Tesla and SpaceX may want to think about that.
All right, I take it all back.
It was well worth it.
Clip of the day.
What a horrible individual.
He equates Pol Pot with Elon Musk.
Can you believe this guy?
And they don't push back on this?
It's unbelievable.
This is PBS.
They let him equate Pol Pot with Elon Musk, a public servant.
What I'm trying to figure out is...
No, they didn't.
They just moved it.
Did they move it into the State Department?
And where's George Soros' money?
Where's the Gates Foundation money for this?
You don't need USAID for everything.
He's killing children.
It's not USAID.
It's killing 6,000 kids because of Trump.
No, not even Trump.
Musk.
Musk is a baby killer.
No, but he did say since the Trump administration began.
This guy, this is unconscionable as far as I'm concerned.
Meanwhile, by the way, after he said this comment, I do have a very short bonus clip.
What do you think her follow-up was?
This is the clip is host kicker.
So he goes on and equates Elon Musk with Pol Pot.
And the host, instead of anybody at PBS pushing back on this crazy analogy...
Let me guess.
Did she say almost as bad as Hitler?
Here she goes.
And those are real lives.
It's worth pointing out.
Every single one of them lost.
Real lives.
Every single one of them lost.
Because of Musk.
No, again, this is the mind control.
This is the dumbing down and people who already believe...
They all watch PBS NewsHour.
They read the Washington Post and New York Times and add to it, oh, Trump, he's trying to defund them, taking away that whole 1%.
It just becomes more realistic to them and more true.
And to understand these people, you have to understand what they're consuming.
And yeah, this is traitorous, I would say.
You are literally giving the American people, a portion of the American people, very, very, very poor information and amazing levels of hyperbole and just propagandistic.
I guess.
Well, I have one more clip from the series of this particular episode, and this is Brooks again.
And this is a WTF clip, which you have to listen to carefully, especially at the end, and try to figure out.
Brooks is beside himself.
He's shaking, by the way, the whole time.
And he's nervous-looking, and he's bordering on tears.
And they're talking about town halls, and I only have, I didn't, Capehart wasn't even, Capehart's pretty dull.
But here's Brooks on town halls, and he just loses it again, and it's just an embarrassment.
And when I see the town hall videos that I've seen, it looks like Democrats talking and being really angry, which they should be.
And they should do resistance, and they should show up at town hall meetings, and they should make themselves.
But it's not the same as Republicans beginning to flake off.
We just don't see that in the numbers.
But what's going to happen?
To me, it's not even anything that's happened so far.
Donald Trump is increasing the national debt if his big, better biddle, whatever that thing's called, goes through by $6 trillion.
How inflationary will that be?
To dump that much money into the money supply.
At the same time, tariffs are going up.
Steel tariffs were just raised again today.
Raising the cost of anything made out of steel and anything made out of children's toys.
Since when do we have steel children's toys?
He says anything made out of steel and anything...
Wow.
And she didn't catch it, he didn't catch it, nobody caught it.
No, of course not.
I mean, it was obvious when he said it that he made a mistake and he never corrected it.
Well, let's just dissect this for a second.
I just want to, because there was a couple of things in there that I thought were pretty insane.
So let me just go back again.
And when I see the town hall videos that I've seen, it looks like Democrats talking.
Because it is Democrats.
It's Democrats showing up to town hall.
It's not like only Republicans go to town halls.
We've been through this.
Some of them are literally bused in and hired for it.
But in general, people in towns who hate Trump, they're going to go to the town hall.
It doesn't matter if you have a Republican representative.
They are Democrats.
Being really angry, which they should be.
And they should do resistance and they should show up at town hall meeting.
Do resistance!
They should do resistance.
Yes, I'm glad you caught that.
What are you going to do today?
I'm going to go do some resistance down at Town Hall.
And they should do resistance, and they should show up at Town Hall meetings, and they should make themselves heard.
But it's not the same as Republicans beginning to flake off.
We just don't see that in the numbers.
But what's going to happen?
To me, it's not even anything that's happened so far.
Donald Trump is increasing the national debt of his big, better biddle, whatever that thing is called.
Okay, let's not pretend you don't know what it's called.
That's just like, that's childish.
Yes, he does this constantly, by the way.
The Big Better Bill.
You mean Build Back Better from Biden?
No, it's called the Big Beautiful Bill.
It's stupid, but that's what it's called and you know it.
Goes through by $6 trillion.
I think it's $4 trillion.
I thought it was three.
Yeah, I don't know about...
It raises the...
It raises the debt limit.
And it's only the debt limit.
It doesn't mean anything's going to happen.
It doesn't mean it's spending for $6 trillion.
From what I understand, it's supposed to be over 10 years, so $400 billion a year.
Hey, it's definitely not what was promised, but let's be a little factual.
How inflationary will that be?
Well, I don't know.
Are you an economist?
To dump that much money into the money supply.
Oh, he's going to dump that.
He makes it sound like $6 trillion is going to be dumped into the money supply.
Oh, Lord, please.
That would be quite something.
Bitcoin to the moon.
Goes through by $6 trillion.
How inflationary will that be to dump that much money into the money supply?
At the same time, tariffs are going up.
Steel tariffs were just raised again today, raising the cost of anything made out of steel and anything made out of children's toys.
Raising the cost of anything made out of steel from other countries, the reason it was done is because we got a big investor in U.S. steel, Nippon steel, and quite honestly, I think it's pretty amazing that, here it is, here's President Trump.
Some breaking news now from a rally in Pittsburgh.
U.S. President Donald Trump has announced that he's doubling his tariff on international steel imports.
We were getting our steel from Mexico.
We were getting our steel from Canada.
We're getting our steel from every place.
But right here, we are going to be imposing...
We're going to bring it from 25% to 50% the tariffs on steel into the United States of America, which will even further secure the steel industry in the United States.
Trump is raising the sweeping 25% tariffs, which he implies.
That's pretty targeted.
It's not sweeping.
Trump is raising the sweeping 25% tariffs, which he imposed on steel in March, on top of duties on aluminum as well.
The new race will likely add more chaos to Canada and America's intertwined car industries, while also raising manufacturing costs for Americans.
No!
That just is bullcrap.
We had a steel industry, and I would say that probably started to close down, what, 40 years ago?
And Tina grew up in Indiana, where the whole town worked in the steel mill.
We had a steel mill down when I was a kid nearby where I lived, Pacific State Steel.
We actually had a steel mill in Emeryville.
It was one of these modern ones, and that was in the 70s, and I think probably closed down in the mid-80s.
Well, okay, so that's 40 years.
That's 40 years ago.
Yeah, 40 years ago.
You're right, 40 years ago.
Yeah.
If it was closed down in 85, that's 40 years ago.
Yeah, and so we started importing steel.
And President Trump is saying, we're going to bring it back.
It's a matter of national security.
That's always the ploy.
Arguably, yes, if we got into a war.
And I think it's true.
Yeah, if we got into a war, we're not able to make your own steel.
Yeah, it takes too long.
You can't crank up a steel mill overnight.
You have to have it there.
You know, you can expand one easier than you can make one from scratch.
So we get investment from Nippon Steel.
They don't really get to buy it.
They become investors, and we have the golden share.
The golden share.
Which basically means we're still in charge.
And how is that going to raise the cost on manufacturing?
If it's American-made steel, the tariffs may raise the cost in the interim, but U.S. steel makes steel, correct?
They're still making steel?
Yeah.
They're just not making enough of it?
Or what is the problem?
It's too expensive?
What is the issue?
It's a little pricey.
It's not as competitive as the cheap steel you can get from Asia.
Cheap, crappy steel.
Yeah.
We can get some cheap steel.
We had a problem here.
The new Bay Bridge that was built here was built with Chinese steel.
It was falling apart.
Exactly.
Back to Elon Musk for a moment.
Here is the report on him leaving Doge as his time was up.
Elon Musk came to Washington with a chainsaw, and he now leaves with a key, and the dust is still settling.
Elon has worked tirelessly helping lead the most sweeping and consequential government reform program in generations.
As head of the Department of Government Efficiency, Musk promised to cut $2 trillion from the federal budget.
That goal was later halved.
Say by the middle of next year, with the support of the president and Congress, could we achieve $5 million of savings?
I think so.
As of today, Doge's website has the number at $175 billion.
Almost all of that is in labor, meaning these are people's jobs.
Our Hearst television data team has tracked at least 49,000 federal layoffs across dozens of agencies.
It's hard to even put it to words.
Like, how?
How hard it feels.
This is great.
This is great.
They never ever show somebody laid off from America from the Midwest.
No, no, no.
It's the elites in D.C. This is horrible.
Across dozens of agencies.
How hard it feels.
The impact widespread from the FDA to Veterans Affairs to the Social Security Administration.
They're imposing this enormous burden on seniors without any real sense of what the benefit of that is.
A new report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priority shows cuts to Social Security phone services will force nearly 2 million more in-person visits each year.
In 31 states, at least one in four seniors will have to drive over an hour round trip.
I think Elon Musk's legacy will have been that his time in government did not lead.
That's a professor, by the way.
Despite the fallout, the president made it clear.
We're totally committed to making the doge cuts permanent.
Republicans in Congress are looking to make some of those doge cuts permanent by passing the president's so-called one big beautiful bill.
Musk has publicly criticized that legislation.
He says it undermines the work he's done with Doge because it adds to the deficit.
Musk's role at Doge was as a special government employee, which limited his services to 130 days.
They did it at the end.
And, of course, the news media still had to do something.
And what did they do?
Like, oh, yeah, I know what you're going to do.
He's a druggie.
Were you aware of Elon Musk's regular drug use?
No, I wasn't.
I think he's fantastic.
I think Elon is a fantastic guy.
And I'm not troubled by anything with Elon.
I think he's fantastic.
Did a great job.
And you know, Doge continues, and by the time it's finished, we'll have numbers that'll knock the socks off.
It's going to be, he did a fantastic job, and he didn't need it.
He didn't need to do it.
Yeah, what about his drug use?
They're trying to, anything.
Trump hates drugs.
Let's get him on that, man.
Let's get him on that.
Actually, that's probably, there was some thinking along those lines, I'm sure.
Trump doesn't even drink coffee, which we only learned this year.
He drinks Diet Coke, though.
That'll kill you.
So did you see the very highly controversial post that President Trump put on his truth social?
Which one?
It's a picture of him, and it says at the top, he's on a mission from God, and nothing can stop what's coming.
No, I have not seen this.
So, of course, he's on a mission from God as a throwback to the Blues Brothers movie.
But, okay.
Nothing can stop what's coming.
So, well, we have to roll out some anti-God songs.
It's a callback, not a throwback.
Callback, thank you for correcting me.
So, this is an interview with Anthea Butler.
And she's a postdoctoral fellow in race, religion, and gender at Princeton.
You know what's coming, baby.
Wow.
She also wrote the book White Evangelical Racism.
This is one I hadn't heard yet.
The Politics of Morality in America.
You'd be in this category.
Exactly why I want to play these clips.
Didn't you have a podcast with a black dude?
I did, yes.
How could you do that?
Well, it ended after 100 episodes.
You know, I cut him off.
I shut him down.
It's like I can't work with a black man.
No, he had to go.
He had a job and he quit.
No.
No, we said we would do 100 episodes.
We did 100 episodes.
But, so this is about Christian nationalism.
And, which, yes, I agree.
I think I fit that precisely.
But I would like to push back a little bit on this lady.
Anthea Butler, thank you so much for joining me on Upfront.
You're welcome.
Thank you, Mark.
For years, we've heard about the rise of Christian nationalism in the United States.
But since Donald Trump took office, the political influence of this particular group of Christians has only grown.
But I still don't think we necessarily have a good sense of what Christian nationalism actually is.
How would you explain it?
Oh, I'm so happy I get to hear what Christian nationalism is.
Finally, finally.
I would explain it somewhat like this.
First of all, you think about America as being a Christian nation, right?
that's something that's just ingrained in everybody.
But Christian nationalists take it to the Is it ingrained in you?
I mean, the roots are a Christian.
There's a lot of in God we trust on the bill and all the rest of it, and there's a lot of connection.
But I don't know.
I thought we were pluralistic.
Well, she has to talk about the roots, the roots, the roots.
You think about America as being a Christian nation, right?
That's something that's just ingrained in everybody.
But Christian nationalists take it to the extreme.
Here we go!
They believe that the founding of this nation was for Christians and Christians only.
Stop.
No.
It was Bible believers who said, we will start here to disciple to all the nations.
It was not for Christians and Christians only.
That, you know, the white men who came over, you know, whether they were Puritans or others that came over, this was their divine right to be here.
That God created this nation to be protected.
And that this was supposed to be for Christians and Christians only.
No!
That's just not true!
She's full of shit, this woman.
She's a professor!
And everybody else, you know, just not really particularly involved in the everyday affairs of the nation.
The way I like to talk about Christian nationalism is you can't separate it from race.
You need to think about whiteness when you talk about Christian nationalism.
Is she going to bring in cannibalism too?
If only.
But you can't.
It's only for white people.
She makes this twist within 30 seconds.
One of the largest groups, you know, we always have to remember one of the largest groups of fundamentalist Christians are black people.
In fact, it was the blacks in California that pushed back on the gay marriage to such an extreme that nobody wants to talk about it to this day that it got rebuked when it was a referendum.
And I have some referendum clips today, by the way.
They're trying to eliminate this sort of thing where the public voted, no, we don't want gay marriage.
And they tracked it down to...
Oh, no!
You need to think about whiteness when you talk about Christian nationalism because there's something implicit in that term, Christian nationalism, that also means white.
So, Christian nationalism means white.
Just keep that in mind, okay?
By the way, I was at church this morning.
We got a lot of brown people.
We got a lot of black people.
We got all kinds of color people.
Doesn't seem like they're...
Get out, you!
You're not white.
If you're an evangelical Christian, if you are a Christian nationalist...
I'm just going to say it.
And you want somebody that embodies your values, whether we agree with those values or not, around sexual propriety, around honesty, around humility, around grace, around mercy, around all these things.
Oh, no.
That's only for Christians.
It wouldn't seem to many people that Donald Trump would be the poster child of that.
Why would he become the person that they would think would be God's messenger on earth?
Oh, man.
Do you not know that Jesus liked the sinners?
Why did they make this leap of faith?
Thank you.
That's the whole point.
God uses the sinners, the tax collectors, the prostitutes.
So, let me say something that's probably going to be really scary for some folks.
Uh-oh.
Okay.
Are you ready?
Could be scary for some folks.
Race trumps religion.
By the way, for a black professor to be doing, isn't that racism by itself?
In other words, in this particular case, because he appeals to their whiteness.
They are able to overlook all of these other things that might not be moral.
I think that's one of the most important things to talk about when we talk about evangelicals is that we try not to do – we try not to say, oh, they're really racist or whatever.
But I wrote a whole book about this where I talk about the politics of morality.
And the politics of morality means that basically if you have a white man who has a position of power like Trump and he doesn't seem to – Then he's more forgivable than somebody who doesn't have a lot of money and who is seen to be a troublemaker and might be brown, black, or yellow, or whatever.
They don't have the same kind of power that a Donald Trump would have.
I'm just aghast by this.
This is all, to me, I've heard this sort of argument before.
She's boring.
Not that the clip is necessarily.
I'm just saying she's a boring creep.
Well, she does take it to a conclusion.
But first, can you think of any other white nationalists, Christian nationalists in the Trump administration?
Well, there's… I would say Pete Hegseth comes close.
There are figures in Trump's circle who are very closely associated with Christian nationalism and white supremacists.
People like Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
He's now a white supremacist, Pete Hegseth.
Who even wrote a book called American Crusade, and in that book he said, we don't want to fight, but like our fellow Christians 1,000 years ago, We must.
How does having someone like Hexiv influence public policy?
Well, that's dangerous because it really influences public policy in different ways.
I should know this because basically when he took a visit to the Naval Academy, they pulled my book along with 300 other books.
So that's number one.
It wasn't for us to cite the book as a...
It had something to do with race, right?
So that's the first thing.
But I think the way that that influences public policy is this: if you think about him being over the Department of Defense, then you have people who are talking about our military having to basically accede to Christian beliefs.
And we have many people who are not Christian who are in the military and all branches of the military.
And so when you have a leader like that, that is going to seep down to the People might have Christian beliefs!
So this, of course, leads to a danger and a threat to democracy, obviously.
You mentioned Pete Hexeth, but also we can talk about Russ Vought, the key architect behind Project 2025.
There it is!
House Speaker Mike Johnson, who called the separation of church and state in the United States a misnomer.
These are people very highly ranking in U.S. government.
I guess my question is, with individuals like these in positions of power, how real is the possibility that the United States could shift from a democracy to a theocracy?
Absolutely real.
No.
This is what's so great.
These people don't even know that there's no such thing in the Constitution as the separation of church and state.
But okay.
It's already happening.
It's already happening.
I think that people who think that it's not happening should take another look.
the kinds of rules are being put down.
Oh, no!
Or you need to buy the Trump Bible for $59.95 in Oklahoma.
Nobody needs to buy anything.
What is she talking about?
That's not even for sale anymore, is it?
It wasn't even a Trump Bible.
People need to buy the Trump Bible.
Why would anyone need to buy it?
What's she talking about?
Or you need to think about how we think about abortion.
You think about the fall versus Roe versus Wade here a couple years ago.
All of these things are really important and speak to this idea about democracy, right?
I think one of the ones that people don't even think about very much is this idea that was floated by the U.S. government that we give $5,000 to people who have a newborn baby.
Now, who gets to get that $5,000?
Does a black woman get that $5,000?
Does a white woman who's married get $5,000?
Holy crap!
What is she thinking?
Of course the black woman gets the $5,000.
Well, does she think that the black woman's not going to get it?
What evidence does she have for that assertion?
None!
But now it's going to take a nice turn.
Did this guy push back on that?
No, of course not.
The guy should have said, well, the black woman's going to get it, so it's a Mexican woman or a Mexican-American or a Jewish woman.
They're all going to get it.
All women.
It's women.
It's women, not about the race that they are representing.
No, no, no.
So he should have said that, but he didn't.
It's television, man.
What is he doing?
Just lapping it up?
Is he naked, sitting there jerking off in front of her?
I want to explore another dimension of Christian nationalism.
For over a year and a half, we've been watching Israel commit a genocide in Gaza.
Here we go.
With U.S. support.
During this time, the Christian Zionist movement has been one of the most vocal supporters of these efforts.
Now we have the Christian Zionist movement.
I didn't get my card.
While not all Christian nationalists are Zionists, There does seem to be considerable overlap.
Can you explain what Christian Zionism is?
It's a Venn diagram, you see.
Yeah, Christian Zionism is a belief that the nation of Israel is a chosen nation, first of all, that God, you know, Jesus comes from Israel and all of this stuff, right?
So you put the biblical...
Is that biblical Israel or is that like the government?
Right.
No.
That's number one.
But the second part of it, which I think is really important, and we have to think about organizations like Christians United for Israel, is that Israel is very important for Christians because if you believe that Jesus is going to come back, where does Jesus come back to?
The plain of Megiddo.
He comes back there.
What did she say?
They play in the ghetto?
What did she just say?
No, it's that town up in...
Yes, of course.
Come back.
That's where it's supposed to come back.
By the way, this is like a complete conflation with the dominionism.
Yes.
Which is a kind of a, definitely a, I would call a schistic offshoot.
Offshoot, yes.
That's minor, but it's interesting.
It's a Venn diagram.
But they're just trying to slam everybody who's not a communist.
Basically, this is a pro-socialist argument.
And these are two socialists that are both atheists, obviously.
And I don't know why you're playing this clip now.
Well, because the next clip and the last clip will make it understandable.
Jesus, come back to you.
Okay, so what does this all lead to?
It's very obvious, and this is the brain twister of it all.
It's not just that Christian nationalist escapism.
Their vision of how the end of days happens is tied up in politics.
It seems to be an anti-Semitic narrative as well.
The Christian Zionist nationalists are anti-Semitic.
Okay, now I get it.
Version of events, Jesus comes back, but Jews are either killed or forcibly converted.
Exactly.
Forcibly converted.
Is it anti-Semitic?
No, they don't.
They believe that this is what it's supposed to be.
The two of these are going to come together.
And they don't see that as being anti-Semitic.
So the ways in which things are playing out right now are very interesting.
I've asked people this a lot of times.
Do you realize they really want you to become Christian in the end?
And they're like, oh yeah, you know, but it's okay.
Would I be going too far to say that many of these Christian nationalists are pro-Israel and anti-Semitic?
Yeah, but I don't know that all of them would realize that they're anti-Semitic.
And I think that's the point here.
They think that because they love the nation of Israel and that they want to see Jesus come back, that these things are not incompatible.
Ah, that's fantastic.
It's just some of the thinking out there.
You're going to hear a lot more of that.
Trust me.
There's so much hate about Trump.
Like, oh, yeah.
Mission from God.
There's going to be a lot more of this.
Anyway.
This is the result.
In fact, the clippage that you played and those two boneheads, it's all a result of that image or that comment that you talked about at the beginning from Trump.
He is a troller, and he trolled this whole segment of the show.
Yeah, and he's going to keep doing it.
He's a troller.
People should stop getting suckered left and right by this guy.
Who's a genius at it.
He was a social media president.
But, you know, she's got a book to sell, so it's an opportunity to talk about her book.
Who's going to buy her book?
It's apparent she's an idiot.
So then Tulsi Gabbard, I don't know if you caught this, came out and declassified documents from the Biden administration about how the Biden administration They labeled, tracked, targeted American citizens, labeled them as domestic violent extremists.
Yeah, I almost had a clip.
There's some guy ranting.
I don't know if I have a clip on that.
I don't think I clipped it.
But yes, this is a good one.
I have two clips from Tulsi Gabbard explaining exactly what it is and what they did.
And this document is in the show notes if you want to go take a look at it.
What was done under the Biden administration?
Was it they were saying that everyone who opposed, say, mask mandates or the vaccination of children are domestic violent extremists?
Or were they saying that those are opinions often held by domestic violent extremists?
Which is actually a good question, considering he didn't read the documents.
it really talks about people who may likely turn out to be domestic violent extremists or those who may likely turn to violence.
Because of these specific quote-unquote ideologies that they hold.
And there's a consistent thread through here that these ideologies that they are designating as turning into potentially violent activities or being manifested in violent activities happen to be those of people who were using their First Amendment rights.
to oppose certain policies of the Biden administration.
And while some of the examples that are focused on there have to do with those who opposed the COVID vaccine mandates, those who opposed the mask mandates, parents who were concerned that their children going to school may be forcibly vaccinated with the COVID vaccine without the consent or awareness of parents.
The list goes on and on.
I wonder if they have a file on us.
Oh, I'm sure they do.
You can get it through for you.
It's probably up in the lunchroom.
As long as they get the URL correct.
Yeah, please.
It's noagendashow.net, everybody.
Yeah,.net.
Here's the second part.
It wasn't just about vaccines, obviously.
but it's not exclusive to this.
In some of these reports that we've declassified, it shows that...
You know, people who were opposed to Biden's border policy, for example, could therefore have propensities to join a militia or could become these domestic violent extremists that we're talking about here.
And again, it's important to look at this in the totality and the sequence of how this happened.
These documents were issued in December of 2021.
You remember very well, Will, the speech, the ominous speech that President Biden gave gave in 2022, where with this red background and Marines standing in the background, he even addressed to the nation.
Yeah, the devil's speech.
And then you put that together with how the FBI and others within the Biden administration directed social media companies to censor Americans and undermine our First Amendment rights because, of course, the social media companies don't want to be in a position to support the spread of domestic violent extremism.
So when you look at all of these things together, you understand at its core the thing that I commit as the American people to root out, which is the weaponization and politicization.
Of the intelligence community and national security state against the American people.
There you go.
Of course.
Exactly as we discussed and surmised.
It is very disturbing.
Yeah.
Meanwhile, Daddy Longlegs is back.
Well, you know, yes, I have.
for the next newsletter, I've got some pictures.
He has that.
The mask is really obvious.
The one side is caved in.
The wrinkles in the forehead are asymmetrical, and one side has got just a bunch of permanent ones, and then he leans in on somebody and erases his eyebrows, and it wrinkles on one side of the mask.
You see the back of his neck.
You can see the mask kind of bunching up.
You know, somebody just grabbed that thing.
And his hairline, you know, he's got, like, the hair is totally fake.
It's very un-Biden-like hair.
Yeah.
You want me to play the clip?
I have an alternative theory that I need to discuss about it, but I think it's worth just listening to him, because this was the Biden who got very, like, at the end of this clip, he gets right in the reporter's face.
Yeah, no, it's gross.
I can't imagine what his breath is like.
Former President Joe Biden appeared at a Memorial Day service in Delaware today.
He spoke at the event, his first public comment since he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer.
Action News reporter Becca Hendrickson has the update.
Yeah.
There is a I noticed this because aggressive starting to show up as a word, the word to look for, which is code for, uh, uh, Is aggressive form.
Aggressive form, yes.
We noticed this.
They were all saying aggressive in quotes even.
Aggressive.
Aggressive.
He spoke at the event, his first public comment, since he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer.
Action News reporter Becca Hendrickson has the update on how the former president...
Yeah, sure.
I'm sorry.
No, it's okay.
But have you ever noticed the use of the word aggressive form of cancer, say, previous to 2020, let's say, or 2018?
No.
Do you ever remember that?
Ever being used like that?
No.
Aggressive form?
No.
I bet you I could do an engram search.
The problem is it's kind of tough to do.
Yes.
But aggressive.
The aggressive cancers are a new phenomenon.
Yes.
Turbo cancers.
Aggressive.
Diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer.
Action News reporter Becca Hendrickson has the update on how the former president says he is feeling.
I asked President Biden why it was important for him to come to this event despite his diagnosis.
He said because he's loyal.
This event means a lot to him and his family.
The expectation is we're going to be able to beat this.
There's no, it's not in any organ.
My bones are strong.
I hadn't penetrated.
This is interesting.
The story was that it was in his bones, metastasized to his bones.
And here he says, my organs are healthy.
My bones are good.
It hasn't penetrated my bones.
That's what he's literally saying.
I find that contrary to the reporting.
The expectation is we're going to be able to beat this.
There's no, it's not in any organ.
My bones are strong.
I hadn't penetrated, so I'm feeling good.
Former President Joe Biden addressing his health for the first time since being diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer, saying he's started treatments.
It's all a matter of taking a pill, one particular pill, and for the next six weeks and then another one.
This at a Memorial Day service at Veterans.
Is that the treatment, one particular pill, one pill once every six weeks?
Is that the treatment for this?
I believe the treatment that he's – I think the pill he's talking about is a – Chemo pill?
A pill that reduces testosterone.
Okay.
He's transitioning.
I think that's the only thing I can imagine because I've listened to enough of this crap that that seems to be the thing you have to do.
And so I think that must be what he's referring to.
What else could it be?
Clip Custodian just did a Google Trends of aggressive.
And so you see it.
It's kind of a slow upturn.
So I look at December 2010.
We have 12. I'm looking at January 2016.
20. Kind of stays around 20. Then in 2023, it starts moving up towards the 30s.
And then all of a sudden, May 2025 spikes to 40, higher even.
So it's like a hockey stick at the end of the curve.
Yes, it's a new, they decided to use it instead of turbo.
Yeah.
Yeah, aggressive.
And for the next six weeks, and then another one.
This at a Memorial Day service at Veterans Memorial Park in Newcastle, Delaware, where he spoke to the crowd of politicians, veterans, and Gold Star families.
Our troops don't wear a uniform that says, I'm a Democrat or I'm a Republican.
He says, I'm an American!
While the event was held after Memorial Day, it's still a significant day for the Biden family.
Today is the 10-year anniversary of his son, Beau Biden's death.
When I asked why he came to this event, President Biden gave a passionate response.
Which is code for he got in my face.
Because I'm loyal.
I do it every damn year, from the very beginning.
I never forget where I came from.
That's why.
What's that got to do with the price of bread?
So, alternative theory, which I do want to throw out there, because who knows, that it may not be a mask, but that this Biden could be a form of what we call rapid human cloning.
In the United States?
What was that?
I'm sorry.
Rapid human cloning.
Oh, okay.
Second half of show.
We're in the theremin.
We're an hour and a half in.
Rapid human cloning.
The origin comes from the intelligence arm of the military.
And this apparently started during Eisenhower's presidency.
There are cloning facilities around the world.
There are different types of...
So the handlers don't know these people are clones, but these are like doctors and the people who handle them.
The owners, now this is sometimes wealthy individuals, it's not just government, but it can be Hollywood people, it can be like Bill Gates, it can be all kinds of people who just want to be safe.
And the reason why these clones aren't exactly the same, so the reason why this Biden clone is a foot taller, is because they basically, they clone these people and they grow them within...
I'm just reading it, okay?
They grow them within five to six months.
And because you can't really control, you know, since you're doing it in five to six months, you don't have the...
So that's why you get slight differences.
It can be differences to ears.
They don't actually have DNA.
And this really began with Bill Clinton in the 90s, apparently.
And Biden is what we would call the absolute prime example of a rapidly cloned human being.
So I was asked to have an open mind about it, and I have an open mind about it.
I think the mask is more likely, just saying.
But we know the mask technology exists to an extreme.
It was already good in the 60s.
And it was good in the 60s, and it's apparently now great.
But looking at this mask, it's not that great.
It's not that great.
Yeah, it's all bunched up in his neck.
But the forehead, the various forehead, if people can go back and look at these clips, I have a few screenshots of some of it, which I'll put in the next newsletter.
It's like, it's...
I know.
It's good to have an alternative, I'm not going to moan too much about it, an alternative theory that's out there.
Yeah.
Anything's possible.
Now, of course, the Palladians are brought into this, and that's where it gets a little kooky.
I think it's interesting.
It would bring in an idea that you could have rapid human cloning, but you can't land on the moon in 1969.
So you have a slight mismatch of what you accept as scientific truth.
I said I'm just reading it.
I didn't say I accept it as scientific truth.
But yes, that is very astute of you.
Let's do some little global warming stuff.
Oh, yay.
Let's do some global warming stuff.
I promise this was a tease.
I got global warming Texas to start us off.
Global warming Texas.
All right.
Two of the world's top weather agencies are warning the temperatures across the globe are likely to hit new records in the coming few years.
Climate scientists at the World Meteorological Organization and its counterpart in the UK say there's an 80% chance that at least one of the next five years will surpass 2024 as the hottest ever recorded.
Officials say that means more wildfires and heat-related deaths, plus stronger hurricanes, droughts, and downpours.
Just today, San Antonio saw record rainfall for a single day, stranding cars in high floodwaters.
Okay.
Wait, wait.
What happened to weather's not climate?
Ah, please.
June in the hill country is when we actually, me and the white nationalist gang over there, we all pray for rain.
We're so happy it came.
We got nine points on our rain meter, which is nine-tenths of a.
I don't know if they have metric here.
A tenth of a centimeter.
Whatever it is.
It was fantastic.
We're happy.
Like, wow, this is great.
We got all this beautiful rain.
Now, today it's going to go back up to the 90s.
Ah, global warming.
Global warming.
It's June.
This is what happens in Texas.
And now she's like, oh, it looks like they have record temperatures.
We've had a supposedly hottest year on record for the last seven years of this show.
Every year.
Every year.
We've had a beautiful spring.
It's been mild.
It's been very cold out west the whole seven years.
I don't know what they're talking about.
It's just fantastic.
And I don't see any rising sea level.
So boots on the ground, no.
So we'll go to another series of clips.
These are from PBS.
This is Smoke from Canada.
And do you think they're going to bring in the global warming thing?
And when will they do it?
Let's listen to clip one.
Poor air quality warnings have been posted in the upper Midwest, advising people with heart or lung disease, older adults, and pregnant people to limit outdoor activities.
The reason is wildfires burning in western Canada, some of them hundreds of miles away.
Meteorologists say that this weekend the smoke and the fine particulate matter it carries could reach Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Arkansas.
Chris Foltz is a National Weather Service Central Region Fire Weather Program Manager.
The smoke is being lofted into the air, and with the weather pattern that's in place right now, we've got an area of low pressure basically just east of Hudson Bay over the Great Lakes, which is bringing that air south.
We also have a ridge of high pressure over the western U.S., which is kind of helping to funnel that smoke from Canada down through the northern plains and into the middle Mississippi Valley.
Earlier, I spoke with Matthew Capucci, meteorologist at MyRadar.
I asked him about the health risks from the smoke.
Well, there are two things I think folks are most likely noticing.
Number one, anytime you have this fine particular matter, we call it PM 2.5, down at ground level, that's dangerous for elderly, vulnerable populations.
That's a big concern over parts of the upper Midwest, obviously Canada, where the wildfires are originating, but across North Dakota, across much of Minnesota, the entire state of Minnesota, under an air quality alert right now, which will likely be pushed into early next week.
Parts of Michigan, north of Chicago, and in Wisconsin.
A lot of folks in the upper Midwest and Great Lakes.
Now, when the smoke is up high, causing changes to the light, it's harmless.
But down near the surface, when we're breathing it in, it's really bad.
It's like if you were sitting next to a campfire and breathing that in, you wouldn't want to do that.
If I were in North Dakota right now, I'd be turning off my air conditioning and only circulating the air inside my home.
One minute and 44 seconds and they still haven't mentioned global warming or climate change?
I'm very disappointed.
This report was from yesterday on the PBS Weekend Edition.
It was half the show.
I only have three clips of it.
Half the show.
By the way.
Oh my God, there's smoke!
Smoke in the air.
It's going to kill everybody.
As if no one's ever had smoke in the air.
I mean, what is the point of this report?
Part two.
If I can just make a point.
In the 70s, so we moved to Europe in 72, and we would come back to the United States every other summer for summer vacation, you know, so we could go to Zales.
We loved it.
Zales Department Store.
Bylene's Basement.
Zales Department Store was crazy.
You could buy BB guns.
You could buy CB radios.
It was fantastic.
And we'd stay for a couple of weeks.
And I just remember sitting in Armonk, New York, Mead Road, at the family homestead, watching black and white TV, watching TV, because, you know, it was like we had Gilligan's Island and just TV during the daytime.
Couldn't believe it.
Didn't have that in Europe.
And it would always be air quality alert, heat alerts, stroke exhaust, all day long.
And we would always say, wow, these Americans, even though we're American, they really hype this stuff up.
It's crazy.
And it was the same every year.
Now I'm talking 75, 76. Nothing has changed with the weather.
It's the reporting and the colors they use on the maps.
So the danger and the threat is the same hundreds of miles away as if you were sitting next to that fire.
Yeah, most definitely.
Unless we're really ventilating the atmosphere, taking what's down low and sort of diffusing it higher aloft, then we still have those high concentrations at the surface.
We're seeing over 200 on the air quality scale.
Anything over 50 is bad, but over 200 in parts of North Dakota right now.
And my fear is that as these fires continue to burn, we're just adding more smoke to the atmosphere.
And it can surf these jet stream winds, winds in the upper atmosphere, down over North America.
You know, back in 2023, we saw the smoke reach all the way down to New York City, turning the skies orange as far south as, like, Tennessee Valley.
I don't think, at least initially, it will get that bad farther south.
But still, over the northern tier, we could see some very high-end impacts with this.
And talk a little bit about the Air Quality Index.
What does it take to trigger an advisory?
It all has to do with the concentrations of how much of that particulate matter is in the atmosphere.
The denser the concentrations, the higher the number goes.
Anytime I'm seeing numbers around 200, that's the point where you can smell and you can taste the smoke in the air.
Your eyes might start to sting, your throat might hurt a little bit, and especially for those vulnerable populations, it's a really significant hazard.
You talked about turning off the air conditioning.
That ventilation could bring it into your house?
Yeah, anything folks can do to eliminate, essentially, outside air coming in is what I would really recommend.
We hate to say it, but those N95 masks from the COVID era could come in handy because, once again, the smoke is made up of these fine little particulates that you don't want to be breathing in.
If you have to go outside in the affected areas, that's a really good thing to sort of put one protective layer between you and the air you're breathing in.
And once again, just to remind people, when there's an air quality advisory, are there particular people who need to be especially careful?
Anybody with pre-existing conditions, the elderly, those with respiratory conditions, underlying conditions, children, especially vulnerable to infants, babies, and then sort of after everyone else, middle-aged folks too.
But really, you know, when the air quality gets as bad as it is over...
He asks him, who should be careful?
And he basically says everybody in a...
Oh yeah, the elderly, people with pre-existing conditions, also babies and children, and then middle-aged people, and then people from 30 to 40, and 40 to 50, and now you have to be particularly concerned in 50 to 60, don't forget about them.
What kind of reporting is this?
Yeah, let's back it up.
Detective layer between you and the air you're breathing in.
And once again, just to remind people, when there's an air quality advisory, are there particular people who need to be especially careful?
Anybody with pre-existing conditions.
The elderly, those with respiratory conditions, underlying conditions, children especially vulnerable to, infants, babies, and then sort of after everyone else, middle-aged folks too.
But really, when the air quality gets as bad as it is over parts of the northern plains and the upper Midwest right now, that's dangerous for anybody.
Hmm, brother.
Oh.
Still no mention of global warming, so I'm getting these clips.
This is out of control.
This is not right.
I'm thinking, what is wrong with these people?
They got this angle here.
They're not using it, but okay.
Again, I will say this really was about a 20-minute presentation, but this is the last clip I have.
What are Canadian officials saying about how significant these fires are?
They're sort of sounding the alarm.
They're sort of peaking their scales.
Right now, for example, Alberta and Ontario are under an extreme risk of wildfires.
That's verbiage rarely used by Environment Canada.
That's the equivalent up there of the National Weather Service in the U.S. And to sort of max out the scale says this is a higher-end event.
Likewise, the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre has drawn up a level 5 out of 5. They're basically saying all systems go in terms of combating and fighting these fires.
They're allocating all the resources they have to.
When they sort of max out these scales, that's a sign of a really significant event underway.
And we're still so early in the summer.
We're just getting into June now.
This is something we more typically see later into June, into early July.
So I do fear this could be another bad fire season for our neighbors to the north.
And one thing we're noting, with climate change, we're seeing sort of a tendency for these hit domes, these blocking bridges of high pressure, to last a little longer, be a little stronger, be a little bigger, and more stubborn.
Finally!
So there's an investor and a presenter named Paul Marshall, who I got some clips from.
He was giving a presentation about climate change.
But it's the counter-argument.
And I thought these clips were great.
And I don't know the exact event, but there was a bunch of people that spoke at it.
And I want to get, these will be the last clips of my climate presentation.
But this is good stuff.
This is Paul Marshall on Climate One.
Most European countries are committed to net zero by 2050.
Likewise, Australia and Canada.
The Scandinavian targets are a little earlier.
But climate change policy is a classic collective action problem.
This is the mother of all collective action problems.
If only some countries make sacrifices and others don't, Then all they do is wipe out their own prosperity.
Out of a misplaced sense of guilt, we have allowed Asian countries to set much later dates.
China is committed officially to 2060.
Saudi Arabia to 2060.
India to 2070.
And if your net zero deadline is 35 or 45 years away, you can pretty much ignore it for the time being.
And that is exactly what is happening.
Every year, Chinese coal consumption is expected to fall.
China has 1161 coal-fired power plants.
In 2023, they built two plants per week.
India has a mere 285, but they too have now got the coal bug.
They're currently opening two plants a month, and their construction plans are accelerating.
China and India are about as committed to net zero as Britain is to investigating the grooming gangs.
Wow.
Kicker at the end there.
Wow.
Got a big applause for that, by the way.
Where was this done, this speech?
I think this was in London.
oh hmm but it could have been in Europe but at some He's bound to be offending someone with this.
Doesn't he get arrested at some point?
I think he has.
This is a captive audience of people that are climate skeptics, I believe.
It's some sort of conference that is designed to reverse things.
But it gets more interesting as he continues.
Actually, people should look this up, Paul Marshall, on climate.
But here we go.
But it is the USA who've played the smartest game.
It was the United States, through Al Gore, who launched climate anxiety on the world.
In 2009, Al Gore warned that the North Pole would be ice-free by the summer of 2014.
But the US never stopped drilling.
And now, just at the point where many Western countries have swallowed the net-zero ideology hook, line, and sinker, you guys, and I'm looking at the thousand Americans in the room, are moving on to leave the rest of us like a half-dead fish flopping on the riverbank.
Now, I'm not suggesting that this is a conspiracy.
I know that in America, you have Republicans and Democrats.
And the idea of you conspiring together is a bit like Keir Starmer eloping with Elon Musk.
But just like with Wokery and DEI, America launched a set of luxury beliefs on the world, watched as those beliefs gained traction, only to discard them in their own land just before they reached the point of fatal destruction.
Luxury beliefs.
I like that.
Yeah, that is good.
I like that too.
Luxury beliefs.
He's kind of good, this guy.
Yeah, he's quite good.
And the possibility does exist that the nature of our system, even though we don't do it, I don't think we do it overtly.
I don't think anyone schemes.
But it just so happens.
That what he described is what the mechanism is.
I mean, this is why anyone who invested in ExxonMobil when Biden got in office and he said they're going to get rid of fossil fuels would have made a fortune because I think the stock almost tripled.
Oh, yeah.
The minute they started that nonsense, it started to go up.
It's genius.
Yeah, and so it's like genius.
Where was Horowitz with all of this?
He's a conservative investor.
Here we go with the last of this.
Unlike Europe in particular, the US still has the DNA to resist ideas that are bad for your wealth.
You understand the foundations of wealth creation, and you don't take them for granted.
Sadly, we have a much weaker immune system.
So we are powering ahead.
We are taxing carbon emissions, driving up our energy and electricity costs across the board, and piling costs on the industry and the consumer.
I have some bad news for our net zero zealots.
Europe may or may not reach our net zero targets.
But one thing we will most certainly do is wipe out what remains of our industrial base.
You know, the thing that no one wants to touch because some of the big investors like Bill Gates are all over it is what President Trump just did with nuclear regulation.
This is what is going to make America win.
We'll be able to have all kinds of nuke power everywhere.
It's genius.
Yeah.
It really is.
I think we've been fans of nuclear on this very program since its inception almost, particularly when we learned about what is now, I think, being deployed, the small reactor.
Yeah, the backyard nukes that can power a whole town like Fredericksburg.
It's fantastic.
But all these people, they're on the gravy train, man.
They love it.
There's still a lot of climate money out there.
There must be.
Oh, it has to be.
Isn't there still money from the inflation reduction?
I was listening to an interview with Chip Roy.
Chip Roy.
Oh yes, your Texas buddy.
Yeah, not a fan of Chip Roy per se.
Although I don't think there was even anyone else you could vote for.
I think Chip Roy was the only guy.
It was just uncontested.
But his biggest beef is that there's still all this Inflation Reduction Act money that is earmarked for all this climate stuff.
Right, it's never been spent.
Like B-E-S-S, BESS.
Which is battery-enhanced, battery-something storage systems?
Battery-enhanced storage systems, battery-something storage systems, yeah, something like that.
Yeah, B-E-S-S.
Which is, you know, nobody wants that.
Nobody wants these, you know, like that Vista fire that's probably still smoldering out there in California.
Yeah, the one on point, yeah, the moss.
Moss Point or whatever.
But isn't there like a trillion dollars in that thing?
Yeah, there was a lot of money.
The whole Inflation Reduction Act was really the Green New Deal.
Yeah.
So that hasn't been repealed or anything done with it?
So I'm kind of like on the chip train now.
Like, yeah, I'm all for that.
Let's get rid of that nonsense.
Let's spend some money.
Hey, with that, I want to thank you for your courage.
Say in the morning to you, the man who put the sea in the climate anxiety.
Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one, the only, Mr. John C. Dvorak!
Yeah, in the morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry.
In the morning, ships, sea boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the damage and nights out there.
In the morning to the trolls in the troll room.
Stop moving!
Stand still for a second!
I've got to count you!
Where are we?
Where are we?
2107.
2107.
That's a little down, isn't it?
That's way low.
Yeah.
And we normally have like 24 on a Sunday.
Yeah, 24, 25. Well, but these are, of course, trolls who are listening to us live in the troll room at trollroom.io.
And they're in there trolling around, which is good.
They have a battery energy storage system.
Thank you very much.
Yeah, B-E-S-S.
Battery energy.
It lasts an hour!
It can power your city for 30 minutes!
It's like a UPS for your town.
Yeah, big giant UPS.
Big giant UPS.
The trolls are listening to us at trollum.io where they might even be listening on a modern podcast app, which, you know, again, it wasn't just Megyn Kelly.
Let me get it.
I had this clip.
You know, the Toddcast?
The Toddcast, you know, Todd, Chip Todd, Todd, Todd, Chip Todd, Todd, the Toddcast.
Remember that guy?
No.
Yeah, Chuck Todd.
Oh, Chuck Todd.
Yeah, Chuck Todd.
Chip Todd, yeah.
Chuck Todd.
It's the Chuck Toddcast.
Get it?
The Toddcast.
Here's what he said just recently on his latest Toddcast.
Got all these things.
You can hear us anywhere you want.
YouTube, we'd love for you to subscribe to the channel.
Everything else, Spotify, Apple, you name it.
And if Apple isn't uploading right away automatically, help us inform Apple that they're messed up.
This has been an issue.
Luckily, apparently, we're not the only podcaster with this issue, but please feel free to let the engineering team know themselves.
Hey, Apple, you've got a problem.
We've done it.
Maybe they'll be a little more responsive to you.
No.
Wow.
That's a good one you caught.
Is he that naive not to know this is everybody's problem?
I liked how he said Apple hasn't uploaded it.
He certainly doesn't know how it works.
But that's okay because people don't understand how it works.
Things have changed since the early days of podcasting when you were just delighted that a podcast episode showed up.
Like, oh, there it is.
We didn't have...
So when you post on social media, hey, the latest episode is out, and people are looking at their Apple Podcast app going, no, no, refresh, refresh.
The first thing they do is they yell at me, you didn't upload it to Apple!
I can't blame them for not understanding how it works, so I get it.
Then eventually, the host gets so overrun with that nonsense that they, like Megyn Kelly, and here's Chuck Todd doing a soft shoe version of it.
Tell the engineers at Apple, whereas we have built the solution.
It's called PodPing, and no one owns it.
It's actually a blockchain.
you could even say Apple Podcasts now powered by blockchain.
You could market it because when When we post the podcast, the pod ping goes out.
All of these apps immediately know that there's a new episode.
They refresh.
Boom, there it is within 90 seconds.
Don't use these stupid apps who are just too not invented here.
I can only think that's what it is.
Apple, oh, we've got to build our own blockchain.
It has to be our blockchain.
Otherwise, it won't work.
They're arrogant.
And they're losing now.
So get a modern podcast app at podcastapps.com and all your problems will be over and even better when we go live, which doesn't work in these legacy apps, you'll be able to hear it.
You'll get an alert.
Hey, the boys are live.
The boys are back in town.
I think I will listen.
As a part of this...
I was thinking about those PBS shows with the climate change stuff in it.
You know what the problem is?
You know why they do half the show about climate change?
Because they have to fill up an hour.
See, with the podcast, we're like, I'm bored of hearing you, you're bored of hearing me, end of show.
You can do that, yeah.
I got more to say.
Okay, we'll do a little bit longer.
That is what media has really become.
These guys are like, what do you got, Bob?
Well, we got a lot of Trump hate.
Okay, well, we'll do some of that.
What else you got?
More Trump hate?
So they got to fill the time.
They got to fill the time.
That's the problem.
Well, I'm going to push back on this.
Okay.
In a deep dive.
That's the one deep dive.
You have the, you also have the problem with the podcasting dilemma, which is that, I agree.
The chatterboxes who just can't stop talking.
Yes.
About maybe one thing for hours.
Yes.
That's exactly right.
And they don't know how to end.
And they ask the question three different ways before letting the guests talk.
That's your problem with Ruben, amongst many others.
Well, Ruben's one of them.
There's other people that do the same thing.
They ask the question three or four different ways.
So the question is longer than the answer.
The question should never be longer than the answer, unless it's a yes or no question.
It's a yes or no question.
How about my five minutes?
I'll be reclaiming my time.
It's a yes or no question, Mr. Devorah.
Yes.
So we employ the value for value model.
We coined the phrase.
We pioneered it.
It's gotten legs of its own.
I love it.
People misuse it like, Patreon, I'm value for value.
Nah, not entirely.
The whole concept is, we give you the show, and we discovered this early on.
If people would only listen to us, oh man, there's this WhatsApp group.
It's kind of like a Telegram group, only, I guess, highbrow.
I don't know.
The WhatsApp group.
It's the Podcast Discourse Hub.
I should read from this.
And so they talk about, this is really the podcast industrial complex, and I just don't buy into it.
So, you know, they feel that everything should be video, doesn't have to have an art, not all of them, I'm generalizing.
It has to have video.
If you don't have video, it's not going to work.
Why?
What's your rationale for videos?
It's not going to work.
Well, you'd almost think they're on the take from Google because YouTube has essentially now rebranded any dudes or dudettes with cans and a microphone as a podcast.
And if you even put podcasts in your description, it shows up in a podcast channel on YouTube.
So they're trying to capture podcasts.
Does anybody realize that the word podcast itself stems from the iPod, which was never a video device?
Well, actually, it did do video later on.
But see, this is exactly what I did.
But it was named during the era when it was an audio-only device.
Yes.
But you have to understand that if you say that, it'll be like, okay, boomer, I've never had an iPod, man.
I have a smartphone.
I got an iPhone.
You see?
Boomer.
So here's an example.
Most boomers never had an iPod.
So here's an example.
There's a different podcast medium that exists now than did when Adam helped birth all this.
Podcasting has grown up and is now mature beyond the wild startup years.
This medium has been fragmenting for years and has become a highly commercial medium.
These fractures in the medium cannot stand and need to go away or we risk losing it all to big proprietary platforms.
You see, the podcast industrial complex wants it to work with, Thank you.
Adam is correct.
Two different cultures exist that are built on a common base.
I didn't say that.
It doesn't matter.
We need to not fight each other.
In many ways, we are working together, but others are moving in different directions and the market is now.
The market is telling us differently.
So I'm a broken record that a podcast only needs...
First of all, you don't need to make money doing your podcast per se.
I need to make money.
Some people just do a podcast because they like it.
Some people do a podcast because it's for their club or for their community or for whatever.
Or for a product or for a candidate for office.
There's a lot of reasons to do a podcast.
Yes, a lot of reasons to do a podcast.
Exactly.
But the world is centered around, it's number one!
Millions of downloads!
Top of the charts!
It's an anachronism.
That's old-fashioned.
That is truly boomer thinking.
I've got to start doing that.
Hey, okay, boomer with your charts.
We discovered early on that it doesn't...
Seriously.
You don't need to look at stats.
Exactly.
We do take a look at our download.
Once in a while when we're talking about it.
Just to make sure that it's not falling off a cliff or it's jumped a lot and it hasn't shown up in the income stream.
Right.
Like, for example, if our download numbers had tripled and our income stream had gone in half, we would pay attention to that.
But none of this stuff ever happens, by the way.
It's all statistics.
Let's be specific.
We do this podcast to help people get results on their resume.
Okay?
That's why we're doing this podcast.
Yes.
The podcast is wrapped around Linda Lupatkin.
And so...
Nobody has figured this out.
Yeah.
What we discovered more than 17 years ago is if you just ask people to send you some money, whatever it was worth to them, it's sustainable.
And that's it.
Any podcast can do this, but people forget one thing.
You have to have a good slash outstanding product.
If you don't have a good product, no one's going to support you.
And that's the big misunderstanding.
Well, I got downloads.
No!
If you have a good product, people will support you.
That's it.
That's it.
And if you have enough people to support you, you might be able to do it full-time.
That's it.
How many years did we do the show?
Get a time code for me.
Okay.
How many years did we do the show before we could do it full-time?
Five years?
Actually, about one.
No!
crap.
Bull crap.
No, two years because we can do it.
No.
Yes, because at show 100, when you were going to quit...
I was still making Mevio money at show 100.
So no, not true.
I could not have sustained myself with what we were making at show 100.
No.
It took much longer.
I had to go back and look.
When I was in Los Angeles.
So I'd already moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles.
It was when we moved to Texas, about when I moved to Texas.
So I would say, 2010, 2011 is when it was enough for me to get by living way outside of Austin.
So that's what?
I thought you lived in an apartment in Austin for starters.
No, no.
I lived out by Lake Travis.
Way, way the heck out there on Comanche.
Then you moved to the apartment in downtown Austin?
No, then I moved to a rental house in downtown Austin, then to another rental house in downtown Austin, and then to an apartment by myself in downtown Austin.
So it was four years.
It was definitely, since we started 2007, it was about four years.
Before I could, at least me, I don't know about you, I mean, you got all these gigs going on, writing vinegar books and stuff.
So, you know, but no, it was a good four years.
It takes time.
That's my whole point.
It takes time to come up with new formats.
Well, it takes time to develop an audience, too.
Absolutely.
But people are like, well, I need downloads, and I get ads, and it doesn't even mean to me.
Unless you're Britney, I guarantee Britney Spears, I brought this up before, when blogging was a thing.
If Britney Spears started a podcast tomorrow and did Value for Value, she'd be making money immediately.
By the way, do the one in the chat room says, when did you eat your plane?
That's right.
That was 2010.
I ate my plane.
I had to sell the plane.
That was 2010.
Before we moved to Austin.
Okay, well then 2010 is the marker.
No, 2011, four years.
Doesn't matter.
The point is, Yeah, we still do.
I think we still do.
People are like, yeah, you're begging for money, you're complaining about money.
That's how it works.
I know people who don't like the fact that we're complaining constantly about money are just, they hate us.
Yeah, I can think of.
It's usually the people who don't support us hate us asking for money.
No, those are the, yeah, because they don't want to hear about it.
Because it's banging on their guilt.
Oh, on their guilty conscience.
Oh, good point.
They never give us a nickel.
They won't do the $5 a month, which is nothing.
Or $4, whatever.
Originally, we started with some ridiculously low amounts, $2.
Hey, Alberta Guru reminds us, yeah, back in the day, John was still getting lucrative twit guest appearance fee money.
Lucrative, yeah.
Lucrative.
Well, I was getting paid, but it wasn't lucrative.
Hey, yes, you want to finish that up?
I was just going to say, yes, the people that complain about it Not supporting the show, and they just want free stuff.
They want free stuff, man.
I mean, you can't blame anyone for wanting free stuff, but at the same time.
So we...
Right.
So we accept time, talent, and treasure.
A lot of people do a lot of things for us.
It's highly appreciated.
Organizing meetups.
Putting up websites.
Yeah, reports, websites.
Boots on the ground reports.
It's unbelievable to create a volunteer process is the best aspect of Value for Value.
That's what people fail to recognize.
It's tax-free.
It's tax-free, yeah.
It saves us from doing the work.
And there's no, I mean, you look at CBS News.
How many producers does CBS News have?
Let's say they have 100.
Do you think they have 100?
Yeah, at least.
Do you think they have 200?
No, I don't think they have that many.
But I'll tell you, I've played these joke producer lists that they play on PBS for a simple segment, 15-minute segment, and they've got 10, 12 people.
So we have, conservatively speaking, hundreds of thousands of producers, each with their own specific expertise.
You want to know about shooing a horse?
We got somebody.
You want to know about an F-35?
We got somebody.
You want to know about air traffic control?
Probably a pilot and a mechanic.
You want to know about drones?
You want to know about climate?
You want to know about finance?
We have somebody.
We have a lot of people in the medical field.
That's the genius of the model.
But people don't understand.
And so as a part of that, So, we thank people when you send in a report.
We thank you for doing the report.
When you create a piece of art, we have a lot of artists who love to create art for us.
It's actually expanded with AI.
Do you see Dogpatch, Seronymous of Dogpatch and Lois Lobovia?
What about him?
His note about the colors of AI.
Did you get that note from him?
I did get a note.
I'm always suspicious if that's him.
Oh, that's him.
That's him.
I know it is.
With the old AOL account?
Yeah, that's him.
That to me was the kicker.
I'm like, oh, it's definitely him.
There's a certain type of people that still uses an AOL account.
Anyway, he was saying that the problem is that all of this digital stuff It's all just approximate.
They're trying to create it so it looks right to your eyes.
None of it's natural color, of course.
Even going back to photography.
He had a very long, very good explanation.
I liked it.
I thought it was good.
I had some issue with it, and I don't remember what it is because I don't have the note in front of me.
We'll discuss it.
But I thought that this...
People are like, oh my, why?
Because they see, you have to understand, we understand the context of the picture because it was a topic, but people see an ice cream cone and mayonnaise next to each other and they start dry heaving.
Because they don't know, is it ice cream in the mayo?
Is the ice cream, is it actually mayonnaise?
Yes!
Oh, it was super triggering for people.
Good!
Yeah, I know, that's what I said.
They're like, oh, I can't wait to listen to this.
I'm puking over here.
What's going on?
I'm puking.
And this, of course, came from our TikTok later.
Did you hear Maloney's speech, by the way, where she kept using the vomit?
Yeah, about Macron.
Too bad we don't have it translated.
It was just captions.
Yeah, people should look up her rant against Macron.
It was beautiful.
And she is a great speaker.
Anyone speaking Italian always sounds good.
Well, yes, but when you're yelling.
Yeah, it was good.
Anyway.
Thank you very much, Blue Acorn.
We appreciated that very much.
And there were some other pieces of art that I think we considered.
Although you probably hated them all.
Let me see.
Well, you'd like the N.A. hard hat, I think.
I like both of the hard hats.
And the soccer ball hail.
Yeah, you made a good argument against that because, you know, it doesn't make any sense.
What are these soccer balls?
I like the hard hat with the hail.
That was a Darren.
I even could go for the sushi.
I just thought it was well done.
That was also Darren.
Too small.
Too small, yeah.
I kind of like the emblem shirt.
Too small.
You're like, yeah, it's a long way to go to put some boobs on the web.
Okay, all right, all right, all right.
And I'm the pro-boob guy.
I know, I know.
It was amazing.
Company card.
Darren is just flooding the zone.
Which is somewhat annoying.
He's cranking it out.
Yeah.
Comic strip blogger trying to flood the zone.
So, nah.
Gender expansive podcast.
We're not going to use that.
Was there anything else that we like?
I think that was it, right?
Yeah, it really was hard to come up with anything besides the mayonnaise ice cream.
Yeah, people are doing a lot of these cartoon things now.
I don't like them.
You know what I mean?
Well, this is probably going to get worse after today's tip of the day.
Hey, man, I'm still getting people sending me mail at my house thanks to that tip of the day you once gave.
Like, how to find somebody's address.
All right.
Hey, it's a public domain.
It's not my fault.
It's not fantastic.
Thank you very much.
Brunetti also hates it.
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And he says, Adam and John, the Instant Night PhD combo is a bundle I can't miss.
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And which PhD is it?
This was the surprise to you.
We went back to the one from two or three years ago, the PhD in media deconstruction, just brought it back because a number of people wrote in and said, hey, I missed it.
They wrote in and said, hey, can you do that again so I can get it?
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You had indeed teased that this was coming.
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Because it's graduation time, so you didn't make it through college.
We need someone to do the commencement speech.
Just a thought.
That's an interesting angle you'll have to think about.
We need a celebrity.
We need a valedictorian amongst our group.
Why wouldn't Dana Brunetti do the commencement speech for us?
You mean actually record one and present it?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Why wouldn't he?
Yeah.
He's the perfect guy.
I don't know.
It's probably he's listening to the show.
He's going to have to answer that question, I think.
And we'll give him an honorary PhD.
That's what you do.
Because he's never going to buy one.
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Tell us to have no agenda.
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All right, then we have Herbert Roberts, who doesn't, we don't have a note from him, so we don't know what he, anything special.
He also bought a, he's listed as a PhD, came in with $1,000 from Middleton, Ohio, and we'll give him a double up karma until we hear from him.
You've got.
Double up.
And the same holds true for Jamie Rufiner from Greenville, Tennessee, 343.75.
No note, so a double up karma for you as well, Jamie.
You've got...
Karma.
Sir Scovey, Sir Scovey in Charlotte, North Carolina, 333.33, and he said, he does have a note, thank you for your courage and for not doing ads for gold.
Sir Scovey.
Sir Scovey sent in one of the end-of-show mixes for today.
Actually, I had too many, believe it or not.
Nautilus K, yours is coming next show.
Lyle Pote, or Pody.
Pote?
P-O-T-E?
Let's say Pote.
Pote.
Concord, North Carolina.
Hey!
Two from North Carolina.
33333, Night of the Freedom Mountain, checking in on the best podcast in the universe.
Other than my monthly donations, I've been silent.
Hearing the recent lack of donations, I thought I would do my part.
Promise not to wait so long next time.
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Ah, this is a meetup in the 33333.
This is a meetup-generated donation crowdfunded by the North Idaho Sanity Brigade saying during COVID, To refer to 2020 to 2023 is like saying, during the Jewish problem.
Well, there's one way of putting it.
To refer to the 1939 to 1945, since in both cases the language references that which the government blamed for its totalitarianism.
Interesting.
Perhaps consider taking a page out of Professor Desmet's book.
Professor Desmitz.
You remember him.
He's the Belgian guy that we played.
Oh, yeah, it was a mess.
What was it?
Oh, it's a word that we tried to adopt.
It was something...
Mass formation.
and that's what it was.
Please play the shape shift.
He wants us to play shape-shifting Jews.
Love is lit, Sir Scott.
No, no, it's the North Idaho...
You're right.
This is Scott the Jew in the North Idaho Senate debate.
Hey!
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I promised myself I wouldn't use Excel.
I forgot to do it.
Okay.
Good.
Got it.
I get a kick out of the Jewish listeners we have who want to play that.
Because they get the joke.
Like, when we say, where's our Jew money?
They get the joke.
Yeah, where's our Jew money?
Where's our spook money, by the way?
Yes, that's something we're going to remind the intelligence community.
The IC.
The IC.
We haven't gotten one spook donation probably for six months.
Enough with the challenge coins.
Send us some cash.
Yeah, there's pots of it out there.
The good news is there's pots of money out there.
The bad news is it's still in your pocket.
Michelle Cartmel in West Bank, BC, Canada.
333.
Which I believe is an American, which is some higher amount in Canadian.
Yes.
Sending in my annual donation.
Sir Adriel's birthday is coming up on June 4th.
We have him on the list.
And part of this gift is our annual donation to the show.
He was the one who got me listening way back in the early days.
We've waxed and waned in our consistency of listening, but we've always appreciated the show and your balanced and funny approach to news deconstruction.
This donation pushes Sir Andriel.
Into baronet status and should be recognized as such.
I guess he's on the list or not, but probably.
Yes, it's Sir Adriel.
Thank you for your courage, Michelle Cartmel.
Yes, Adriel, not Sir Andriel, Sir Adriel.
Adriel.
I'm sorry, I said Andriel.
On to associate executive producerships.
There's Eli, the coffee guy from Bensonville, Illinois, 206 and a penny.
He says, hey, a reminder, June is Pride Month.
It's also National Stroke Month.
Did you know that?
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I had a stroke.
Anyway, it doesn't matter.
June is Pride Month, so I say to all those out there in Gitmo Nation, have pride in yourself.
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Hmm.
So I was, I didn't get a clip of this, but they have this thing and there was a big fuss being made on the local news about Chinatown pride.
No, Chinatown pride?
I think China, I never heard of this.
Never heard of this, Chinatown pride.
And I think, what is the Chinese are having a pride?
What is this?
It's kind of coincidence.
No, it's a trans thing for Chinatown.
Really?
And they were bitching and moaning about the fact that the federal government cut them off.
Cut them off from pride?
No, they cut them off from some funding.
Since when is the federal government funding pride parades?
Well, back in the day with Biden, they were flying the flags at the White House.
President Obama turned the White House pink, purple, multicolors.
On we're with Sarcastic the Nomad in Elkhorn, Nebraska.
Adam, just posted a last-minute meetup in Brussels on Friday, June 6th.
Ooh.
Please give it some light.
Thank you for your courage, Sarcastic the Nomad.
Yes.
Well, that should be fun in Brussels.
Brussels.
Yeah, Brussels.
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I think she should still have in there that's image makers ink with a K. I think that's important.
I think it's important not just because people might misspell it, but it really hammers the URL home.
Don't you know what I mean?
It's like if you and I were advising her, which we are, I think she should keep that in.
That's just my humble opinion.
Your opinion, John C. Dvorak.
I think you're right.
I think you're right.
I think it's ingrained in everyone who's heard it before, but the ingrainment will deteriorate over a period of months, and by three, four months from now, people won't know about the K. Exactly.
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You know, I think the IC community, the Intel community could use as a, on your, you know, you're working there, a PhD on the wall.
Ooh, yes, I think that would be just dynamite.
So there was a, I have two versions of this story, because it was kind of played the same way.
The Supreme Court has started to rule in favor of President Trump in a couple of key cases, and it has people's panties all in a bunch.
And so while the news is, hey, you know, the deportations that he wanted to do, he can go ahead and do them.
It played out very differently in the M5M mainstream media.
Hundreds of thousands of migrants are now living in fear as the Supreme Court allows President Trump to end temporary protective status for migrants from Haiti, Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.
The decision comes as the Department of Homeland Security ramps up deportation efforts targeting migrants as they arrive for their court hearings.
It makes everybody be on edge.
This tactic by DHS is happening at courthouses around the country according to immigration advocates.
Such was the case with 20-year-old Bronx high school student Dylan Lopez Contreras, a Venezuelan asylum seeker arrested by ICE during a routine court hearing in New York City.
Dylan is neither a criminal nor a danger.
That's right.
He's the exact opposite of how they try to paint the immigrant community.
And in Texas, mothers being captured by ICE outside of a courthouse in San Antonio.
This woman's husband says his wife has no criminal record.
We were requesting a merits hearing and the judge declined to set a merits hearing because DHS asked for According to recent reporting by NBC, ICE deported over 17,000 people in April, up 50% from February.
But that figure falls well short of the, quote, millions Trump has promised to deport from the U.S. and lags far behind the record 430,000 people who were deported in a single year during the Obama administration.
I love that now.
That's Canadian news.
That's why they put that in there.
They had a little bit of fair reporting.
But I've got people, young people, who I know are conservative and thinking they're probably Christian nationalists.
And they're texting me like, 500,000!
I think I have a problem with this.
I have a million people!
Let's go to ABC in New York.
Hey David, this decision immediately affects 530,000 migrants and their families that have been allowed into the United States.
By the Biden administration, at the time it was part of a policy seen as relieving some of the strain at the southern border and also approving vetting of individuals.
The Trump administration reversed that policy in March.
A federal district court put it on hold, saying it was illegal.
But today the Supreme Court justices said the Trump administration can move forward.
What does that mean?
It means most of those 530,000 migrants will have 30 days to leave the country unless they have some other legal protections.
Immigrant advocates told us today Migrants, non-citizens.
legal claims are pending.
Now, the legal battle in this case does continue, but the bottom line, guys, is that the Supreme Court says now that more than half a million Haitians, Nicaraguans, Cubans, and Venezuelans may have to leave the country in 30 days.
None of these reports were honest.
Migrants.
Well, I'll tell you this, the one dishonest aspect of it is the fact that they keep showing these arrests.
Yeah, crying moms.
And how does, these staged arrests, and then how does that comport?
With giving them 30 days.
Because it's bullcrap.
I think it's bullcrap, too.
And then I see people falling for Cheryl Atkinson, of all people.
What, she did something weird?
I like Cheryl Atkinson.
Yeah, I do, too.
And she had played one of these clips on Twitter of one of these people crying and moaning and groaning.
And she says, is this what people voted for?
These 530,000 migrants non-citizens were in the United States under TPS, Temporary Protective Status, which is always temporary.
They knew it was temporary.
Now, of course, President Biden said, nah, don't worry about it, don't worry about it.
Yes, this is what we voted for.
These people, their temporary protective status is over, and now it's time to go back.
You know, I got a note from my buddy Michelle in the UK, and it's so bad over there.
I mean, he's trying to sell one of the clubs, his biggest club, which he's had for ever since I've known him.
Nobody wants to be in the club business anymore.
The country is crap.
But the way he approaches me, how's it going in Trump land?
How's everything in Trump land?
I said, hey, America's doing great, feeling good, man.
We're kicking out undesired illegal immigrants, shipping the criminal ones off the jail, rejecting visas from troublemakers, bringing God back to our government, reducing waste and fraud, restoring education, and getting rid of DEI and systemic racism.
I think Trump land is doing pretty good.
That was your note?
Yes, my note back to him.
Of course.
Wow, that's a good one.
That's a good template for anybody out there.
Because it's true.
Like, yes, this is what we vote for, but, you know, the news, it psyops people with exactly what you said with these arresting women.
That is, I don't know what that's from, but that's not from TPS status, time for you to go back, you have 30 days, get your affairs in order.
I don't know what it's from either.
It seems staged and it had no context when she posted it.
And I'm still wondering what the context is.
This brings me to the...
Because it kind of talks about some of the issues that you expressed.
This is the Zogby and Zogby.
Zogby and Zogby, which is the polling group.
And Zogby and his son Zogby, the two Zogbys, were looking at some data about Trump's popularity and talking about the various forms of media.
And I think this is...
This is Zogby and Zogby 1. The electorate is, they're going to all different kinds of channels and sources for their media and information.
And that's no surprise.
But when we break it down demographically into three distinct media cohorts, and we have local media, voters who primarily trust local media.
Versus legacy media, which are national newspapers and national networks and their online platforms.
Versus new media, which is social media and podcasts.
So when you break it down that way, it makes a lot more sense.
Legacy media?
Trump can't do anything right.
He can't say anything right.
He's failing every day.
Local media?
About split, but a little bit more in favor of Trump.
And then new media?
And so it depends how you're discerning your events, the narratives of the daily and weekly events.
But when we put it all together, and I think the real cohorts that I'm going to look at are always going to be the independent voters.
Where do they stand?
Men and women, because those are two different realities, and then Hispanic voters are looking very much like a bellwether group.
So through those lens, let's look at those head-to-head matchups of Trump versus key Democrats.
How do we square this with Sheryl Atkinson?
She's old media.
She's legacy in her origins.
In her orientation.
And her orientation to this day.
I mean, she works for Sinclair Broadcasting.
Oh, I didn't realize.
Yes, she does a show for them.
It's syndicated around it, which is a legacy.
Stop!
Stop!
Breaking news!
breaking news.
It's on all...
Shakira cancels World Tour.
Okay, I'm sorry.
Go on.
Continue.
I wonder why.
I don't know.
I'm not listening.
Shakira was on Fallon like two days or three days in a row almost.
I don't know.
It's breaking news.
Yeah, Jimmy Fallon.
Anyway, Cheryl Atkinson's on.
Now, she's working for Sinclair.
So a friend of mine, a producer friend of mine, who is working for NBCUniversal, is now working for Sinclair.
And she says to me, They're cheap.
Aren't they in Austin?
Isn't their headquarters in Austin?
I thought they were up in the Pacific Northwest.
I'm sorry.
Northeast.
Northeast.
I thought they were up in...
I thought they had a headquarters in maybe a...
I don't know.
But they're cheap.
Well, of course they're cheap.
There's no more money in cable.
Do they have broadcast?
Yeah, they own a bunch of stations.
Oh, that's right.
They're the ones that, when they have the super clips where everyone says everything exactly the same, that's all from Sinclair.
Well, there's their problem.
They're fake news.
I think so.
Yeah.
I had a run-in with them when I was writing for PC Magazine during the early days of HDTV.
The Sinclair people got a hold of me.
And this kind of relates to the fact that they're cheap.
Did they grab you by the collar?
Hey, listen!
They would if they were in person, but it was over email.
And they were going on and on and on by the OF, MDM, whatever the type of antenna is going to be used for HDTV.
It's no good.
It's too expensive.
And the whole thing was about slow down this HDTV move.
It's going to break us.
And they had a lot of good arguments at the time about why it wouldn't be any good and this and that, and it all fell apart.
I mean, everything's at 1080p now.
Yes, of course.
There was a real holdout.
They really hated it.
Oh, God, we have to buy new equipment.
This is going to cost us too much money.
Yeah, they're cheap.
Anyway, Zogby, do you want to listen to the rest of these?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Of course I do.
Of course I do.
It fills up time.
It's kind of interesting.
I don't know what they're running Trump against people for.
He's not running again no matter what anybody wants to think.
But let's listen to Zogby, too.
This is a long analysis.
So, I mean, some of the groups that you mentioned, you know, one poll, a YouGov poll, showed that Trump was losing his edge significantly among young men.
We don't find that at all.
We don't find him.
Losing that slight edge that he had among Hispanic voters either.
In fact, what we found in his approval rating in this poll pretty much matches what the Hispanic vote was back in November.
By the way, I'll say that the Hispanic citizens, legal residents of our great country, they're like, yeah, get out!
They've always been that way.
They don't want a bunch of people horning in.
No, of course not.
So we're kind of right.
It's not like, you know, just because you're a Mexican-American or you have a heritage that goes back, but you've been an American for three, four generations, No.
November.
So, we're kind of right back to where we were.
I, for one, think it says an awful lot about the Democrats, and then, of course, about where independents are, and Democrats not being able to make much headway among independents.
But do you want to share some numbers?
Yeah, I want to share some numbers and then I want to touch on that too because I think the other driving factor is the state of the Democratic Party and their playing field.
Point of order?
Democrat Party, but okay.
When we put Trump up against Bernie Sanders, I think that's most interesting for now because that's populism on the right versus populism on the left.
And we do have a tight race here.
Of 45.6% of the public, the voters, opting for President Trump if the election were held today, versus 45.1%.
And so, I mean, it's a virtual tie, but we'll say that there's a slight edge of five survey participants.
But when we look to independence, this is revealing.
This is revealing about where independence could go.
41% of them go with Bernie.
38% of them go with Trump.
And that's significant because we see, on the one hand, a split among the independent vote, but a preference still for a populist figure.
I should mention that I don't know if Bernie's going to make it another three years.
No, this is just an academic exercise.
I understand.
Bernie's not going to run, but the point he's trying to make is that populism is the key here.
Populism is popular.
And Bernie's not really, I mean, he's a populist in his approach, but in fact he's a socialist.
Yeah, you think?
Yeah, I think.
But the point is that the Democrats, to get back in the game, they have to embrace populism, which they're really reluctant to do.
They do not want to do that because populism will kick out the trans, populism will kick out the woke, populism doesn't want any of that stuff.
And so the Democrats are going to have nothing but trouble coming to grips with this populism boom.
And it was predicted in the 80s.
That populism in the United States was going to be a big thing.
There's a book that Richard Vigery wrote that came out, I believe, in 1986, where he predicted or questioned the possibility that populism will be the dominant political characteristic of the future.
Well, that's what's happening all over Europe.
Yeah, it's happening all over the world.
And all over Europe.
And if you don't come to grips with it, you're not going to get anywhere.
Bingo.
Onward with the third clip.
Just one different than Trump.
Let's hold that thought because when we go to the next two head-to-heads, we'll compare those independents.
But let's look at, before we do that, let's look at men and women.
Men clearly 51% for Trump, 40% for Sanders.
It's key that Trump gets a majority.
With women, Sanders gets just barely 50%, and Trump gets 40%.
So we see the gender gap is strong.
And then the last of the cohorts we'll look at in this head-to-head is Hispanics.
46% of Hispanics for Trump, 44% for Sanders.
And I think on the face, that kind of proves...
Yeah, it really is.
And, you know, just by way of a comment about Hispanics, one of the things that I find very puzzling is the president issuing deportation orders backed by the United States Supreme Court against Venezuelans,
Cubans, Nicaraguans, all living here legally and all What's ironic about that is that these are from communist countries, or socialist countries anyway, they are fundamentally conservative, and when they do become naturalized U.S. citizens, they have been voting overwhelmingly Republican.
Got you there at the end.
One note from the troll room, unrelated, but a good point.
Again, we have the best producers.
The drone attack from the sheds on the lorries.
Perfect commercial for Golden Dome.
Well, is it?
It sounds like it's not.
Oh, you're right when you think about it.
No, it would be inside the Golden Dome.
Yes.
Golden dome no good.
It would be a perfect promotion for not a golden dome because it's not going to work with that strategy.
We need mini golden domes.
I've always believed this is a huge weakness of our infrastructure.
You have a refinery, you have a power plant, you have some sort of any facility whatsoever.
And you have a guy in a pickup truck with a bazooka or a rocket launcher on the back.
And just driving down the road, he fires it off and blows up.
It hits anything you can name.
It causes nothing but havoc.
One guy in a truck.
And there's nothing to protect against, that sort of thing.
that's exactly what happened here in Russia.
Yeah.
Only the using drones, which makes it even more like, That's a good point.
I have a...
very boomer.
We have a, Uh, let's see.
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Over the past 10 years, he's built a reputation as a respected and trustworthy journalist.
Who's interviewed newsmakers all over the world.
Holt grew up in the Sacramento area, graduating from Cordova High School and attended Sacramento State, later receiving an honorary degree.
During that time, he was an intern right here at KCRA 3. He won't be leaving NBC, however.
He's going to spend more time as the host of Dateline NBC, along with other projects.
Tom Yamas will take over Nightly News starting Monday.
Yeah, Yamas!
Yeah, I always thought Yamas was better.
Isn't that the guy?
That guy?
No.
No, Yamas is a fast talker.
He has a very distinctive style.
I've always liked him.
He seems objective.
I don't know whether he is or not.
I doubt it.
But he seems so.
And they've kept him in abeyance on one of the phony baloney news shows on MSNBC where they have everybody doing a news show.
Where they just keep him busy.
And I always thought he'd be a good guy to have running it.
He's the NBC version of Jeff Glor.
He's the CBS version.
They're very similar in styles.
Kind of young energetic types.
But I think I'll do okay.
Alright.
I've always said that this was a big mistake.
And I'm not the only one saying that this entire meme coin crypto business that the president's family is in.
Yeah, I don't like the idea either.
I don't get it.
It's not very smart.
Here's a Deutsche Welle report about it.
Trump advertised his gala dinner as the most exclusive invitation in the world.
Chinese billionaire Justin Sun, one of just 220 mainly foreign guests, posted a video of the experience on his Instagram account.
The aim was to promote sales of Trump's cryptocurrency, which he issued just before his inauguration.
The biggest investors, including Sun, were the ones given a seat at the table.
Trump saw no problem with the event, calling it private and rejecting claims that he was using it to funnel money to his personal bank account and that the guests were using it to buy access to the President of the United States.
But Trump's opponents were unequivocal in their condemnation.
We are here today to talk about exactly one topic, corruption.
Corruption in its ugliest form.
Donald Trump is using the Presidency of the United States The dinner is just the latest example of what critics say is the president's exploitation of his position for private gain.
There's no clear information on exactly how much Trump's income has increased since he began his second term.
But Forbes estimated his net worth in March at just over $5 billion, a billion more than last year.
The White House insists there's no conflict of interest and no wrongdoing because the Trump family business is now being run by the president's sons and that Donald's senior assets are in a trust managed by his children.
Yeah, and this really...
Now, I have to say, meme coins, that's not a cryptocurrency.
A meme coin is like sneakers.
You know, it's like whatever, whatever, you know, it's as good as-I think you hit it there.
There's a market for sneakers.
There's a whole industry of people that collect sneakers.
And that's basically what it is.
And trade.
They trade and collect sneakers.
And so that's basically what this is, but it has a stench of scam.
It has a stench of scam.
Yes.
Oh, stench of scam.
It's SOS, stench of scam.
Which, you know, it's literally no different than sneakers.
Some of these sneakers were going for, you know, if you want to get some of the gold sneakers in the aftermarket, they were thousands of dollars.
But, of course, that's not how it's going to play, and I think the president should have known this.
From billion-dollar real estate deals in the Middle East to a flashy crypto investor dinner and the pardoning of political supporters.
Concerns Donald Trump's second term is blowing the lines.
This pardoning of political supporters, most of these recent pardons that they're bitching and moaning about, he doesn't know these people from Adam and they've never supported him.
No, no, but that's, you know, that's...
You know what they're trying to do here.
But let's stay on the crypto bit.
Between the personal and political like never before.
Critics also pointing to another venture that didn't exist in the first Trump term.
An emerging family cryptocurrency empire.
On full display at this gala last week.
An event where the top 220 buyers of his personal crypto meme coin were given exclusive access to Trump.
Seen standing next to a podium with the seal of the president.
And I'm just one of 220 people that are invited.
And there's no media, there's no recording, there's no plus ones.
It's just truly some of the most influential figures in crypto and policy and, of course, the man himself.
The top 25 meme coin investors even getting a tour of the White House.
Like Justin Sun, a Chinese crypto mogul who was previously under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission for fraud.
That probe halted by the Trump administration in February.
Both Trump and the First Lady have arrested.
I think the initial meme coin launch was some of the most anger I've seen out of the crypto world towards Donald Trump.
I think a lot of people in the crypto world view meme coins as a cash grab, which is frankly fairly accurate.
Cash grab.
Okay.
A company associated with the Trump family also owns a 60% stake in another crypto venture, World Liberty Financial.
Trump's image is all over the firm's website, dubbing him chief crypto advocate.
But in a statement to ABC News, World Liberty Financial claimed they are a private company with no ties to the U.S. government.
Once a crypto skeptic who said Bitcoin seemed like a scam, Trump has now fully embraced.
I promise to make America the Bitcoin superpower of the world and the crypto capital of the planet, and we're taking historic action to deliver on that promise.
As the president has pushed for new policies that could directly impact his family's cryptocurrency ventures, the Justice Department has simultaneously rolled back crypto enforcement.
On Thursday, the SEC dropped a two-year lawsuit against Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, which federal regulators accused of mishandling customer money.
The case was dropped just weeks after that Trump-connected crypto firm, World Liberty Financial, announced a $2 billion deal where United Arab Emirates-backed fund would use the firm's token to invest in Binance, a transaction that could generate hundreds of millions of dollars.
See, I just don't think that's true.
They're conflating a lot of different things, but that's not the point.
The point is, it's just a bad look.
We'll finish it up.
But the concerns of critics go far beyond the world of crypto.
From First Lady Melania Trump's reported record-breaking $40 million deal for her new Amazon documentary to the multiple Trump family real estate deals in the Middle East.
So now they're going off the rails.
That is off the rails.
That's off the rails.
I mean, look at the Obama deals.
The Obamas.
The Obamas.
Bill Clinton.
The whole Clinton global initiative.
The Clinton founder.
Give me a break.
How come Nevers ever looked into the Clinton, and during his...
Some of which closed in the weeks right before the president's swing through those very same countries.
ABC News has learned plans are now in the works for a new private club in Washington, D.C., co-founded by Donald Trump Jr. and Trump's crypto czar investor David Sachs.
The club's official name, Executive Branch, intended as a haven for the Trump family and top MAGA allies.
Trolling!
The initial price tag for membership, $500,000.
So, anyway, it was just, I think the whole, it was just not smart that they did that.
It's just this hassle that nobody needs, and it messes up the whole purity of Bitcoin.
They also take this idea, the executive branch with the $500,000 thing, brings to mind the Yakuza.
Careful what you say.
Careful what you say.
You don't want to get in trouble.
Well, I've talked about it on the show before.
It's an old trick.
They tried to do, the Japanese frontman tried to do this with Pebble Beach.
They tried to buy it, and then people realized what was going on here.
One of the things the Yakuza love to do is buy golf, exclusive golf courses, and then have outrageous membership fees.
And then as a blackmail scheme, if you got in trouble with them and you had to pay them some money to make it above board, you had to get a membership.
A loan from them.
You had to get a membership.
Take a membership.
It'll be fine.
Yeah, you get a membership.
And so the memberships were a scam, but it was really smart.
Yeah, because it's clean.
Yeah.
The idea that Donald Trump Jr. is doing a similar kind of gambit, he's not unaware of what the yakuza is.
Yeah, you wouldn't think so.
So there's something fishy about that.
Well, there's one other thing, and I think that will be my last clip, and this is about the pardons.
And Chris Christie went on this week with George Stephanopoulos to complain about it with an interesting example.
He even suggested this week that he could look at possibly pardoning Sean Diddy Combs.
Right, while the trial is still going on and he has no idea what the nature and quality of the evidence is and what the jury works.
If he's found not guilty.
He won't need a pardon.
So this is just about him trying to be more and more outrageous.
And also by saying something about Diddy, he deflects from a guy like Paul Walsack, whose mother was a million dollar donor fundraiser for Trump.
And this guy stole, George, $10 million in payroll taxes.
The money that his employees give to him to pay their payroll taxes, he stole that money.
The other thing he's doing here, George, is eliminating white collar crime.
He's saying it doesn't exist.
Yeah.
How about that Bridgegate, Chris Christie?
We forgot about that, didn't we?
Remember Bridgegate?
Yeah, I do.
Yeah.
Kettle, black, etc.
Well, if you're ending things up with that clip, I have one last clip.
Okay.
This is the bicycle user's clip.
Bicycle user's clip.
New York City, by one example, in the last eight years has increased the number of bike lanes by 600 miles.
There's 600 miles in New York City of dedicated bike lanes taking the real estate from cars and congesting cars, which of course was the intention.
It makes the car far more inconvenient.
The IEA had the temerity.
To brag about the oil savings from micromobility in cities.
They pointed out in their latest World Energy Outlook that micromobility, bicycles in 15-minute cities, is already saving a laughable 70,000 barrels of oil per day globally.
Again, this is arithmetic.
That's 0.07% of world oil.
China increases its oil consumption that much, I think, every three days.
I mean, there's a number like that.
So who, you could ask, benefits from this enthusiastic embrace of city bicycles?
I mean, you might have anecdotal experience with who you see using bicycle lanes in cities.
I do, but let me tell you what the data show, because there are data on this.
In our country, at least, here's what the Census Bureau tells us from last year.
Of all U.S. commuters use a bicycle.
Think about the percentage of bike lanes you're seeing.
70% of American computers use a car driving alone.
And for those who bicycle to work, and I'll talk about weekend entertainment, having fun on a bike.
For those who bicycle to work, the average age is 20 to 30. Over 70% are male, 70% are white, and 80% have college degrees.
So much for the claim of equitable micromobility.
It's shocking that there hasn't been more shock about the demographics of the corruption of city streets for that demographic.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, exactly.
It's nonsense.
It's total nonsense.
It's good for bike messengers.
They have, and they were tearing up around here.
First it started in Oakland, and then it's been all over the place.
Now it's in El Cerrito, all these local areas.
They're tearing up the streets, putting up a kind of a second meridian to block off the bike lane that they're creating, taking a whole lane away from cars.
And there's nobody in any of these bike lanes.
I could make a video driving all through Berkeley and following all the bike lanes.
If I find one bike in a day, it's a miracle.
Sometimes there's a couple, but it would be some 25-year-old white male.
You know, pumping away, usually in garb.
It's a ludicrous situation and it's getting worse.
I'm going to show my soul by donating to No Agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
I promise I'll fix it in post.
No one will ever notice.
That's right, everybody.
We're going to thank our donors, $50 and above.
We have John's tip of the day on the way.
We have a couple of dynamite mixes, brand new from our end-of-show mixers.
Some very interesting meet-up reports.
And as I said, let's thank our supporters, our donors, our producers who came in financially, $50 and above, as we always do.
Yep.
He's starting with Stefan Trockels, and he's in Sust.
Sust.
Sust.
Sust Deutschland.
And his donation is 139.90, which is the Form 990 donation.
139.90.
Okay.
Zadok Brown, Parts Unknown, 105.35.
William Elliott, Hawaii, 105.35.
Michael Kettner.
Is it Kett or Kelt?
I can't tell.
Let me see.
Hold on a second.
Kellner.
Michael Kellner.
Kellner.
Is it two L's?
Oh, okay.
Kellner.
Oh, jeez.
105, I know.
Font, font, font.
10535.
Ah, Kevin McLaughlin's up.
He's in Concord, North Carolina.
He's the Archduke of Luna.
Lover of America.
Lover of boobs.
808.
John Honeyboar in Bristol, Tennessee.
79. Dame.
Dana Carroll in Laughlin, Nevada.
72-27.
Gordon Laughlin, Nevada.
Nevada is going to be the future of Las Vegas and always will be.
Gordon Walton in Austin, Texas.
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He's been around for a long time, our Sir Gordon.
69-69.
He's a good guy.
Dame Rita, Sparks, Nevada.
There she is once again.
67-57.
Paul Cassett.
Cassell.
I don't think you've seen these T's.
Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Kerr-Ker He says the donation is thanks to Dana Brunetti's unclaimed money tip.
Oh, how about that?
The classic.
Yes.
Matthew Burns in Coston, B.C., 5555.
Anonymous in Thousand Oaks, California, 5555.
Sir Salverin in Silver Spring, Maryland, 5430.
Matthew Dornman, I think, in...
Oh, his name pronunciation is some email.
Sorry.
That's not going to work for us.
Forrest Scott Brinkley.
If you could put the note here that I can see, why would you not put the pronunciation in?
Just a thought.
Forrest Scott Brinkley.
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James Bueller, 5272.
These are all $50 donations.
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And she says hi!
Hi!
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It's a collective karma for all he's looking for, so we'll give him a karma at the end.
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Sir, Sir, Sir, Sir, Stregalicious in Racine, Wisconsin, 51. He's been a douchebag for too long, and he wanted to change that.
You've been de-douched.
It's been changed.
Now we have $50 donors.
I should do the name and location.
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I want to thank these people.
For show 1770.
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It is like a party.
We're talking European.
Earlier about the value-for-value model, it's very valuable what these producers do by organizing meetups all over the world.
Go to noagentameetups.com to find out where they are taking place near you.
We have meetup reports.
I think this is number 65, I believe, from Leo Bravo in Los Angeles.
And the numbers out there just keep on growing.
Hey, everybody.
It's Leo Bravo at meetup number 63. Here we go.
In the morning, Crackpot and Buzzkill.
This is Lady Trenaka of California, the Peaberry.
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Megan Kelly's best friend.
Kamala Roshan from La Habra checking in and checking it out.
Great group of people looking forward to the next one.
Brought my buddy Sean, hit him in the mouth, and finally he's starting to donate, so I'm happy to hear that.
Adam and John, keep up the great work.
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Hey guys, this is Slick Rick here at Long Beach Steelcraft with Leo and the gang.
Having a good old time.
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There's some cover tunes going on right now.
No planes, no trains.
What's going on?
Hey, I gotta be quick.
We're breaking into this car.
In the morning.
Long Beach.
Hey, this is Sir Leakin Fopov here in beautiful Long Beach, California, which is one of the cities that make California the communist hellhole that it is.
Good times.
Where is your server?
Get your server on those meetup reports.
Idaho, North Idaho.
The Sanity Brigade checks in.
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I'm here with the North Idaho Sanity Brigade at the Trails End Brewery.
And I have to wonder why the hell Adam's hairstylist doesn't listen to no agenda.
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We appreciate you.
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My name is Violet and I work at Trails End Brewery.
Hope you guys had a good time.
How do you say the name of the town?
Coeur d 'Alene?
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What's that in your mouth?
What's that in your mouth?
That's a very good report.
Snappy fast.
That should be cut out and used as the end of the show thing.
Are you somehow questioning if I didn't do my production work this morning?
What's that in your mouth?
That was going to be my only ISO.
Believe me.
Believe me.
Way ahead of you, Dvorak.
Way ahead of you.
Kansas City, come on in.
Hey, it's Sir Spencer bringing you the latest Casey meetup report.
Folks, I came down to a pavilion at my local city park and wanted to use the barbecue grill.
There's this big group of people over here.
I figured they were celebrating a kid's birthday or something.
Got to talking to them and somebody punched me right in the mouth.
Got hit right in the mouth.
I cannot believe it.
Hey, this is Sir Baron John Helmer, and I punched Michael in the mouth.
Dame Lazardi here.
This is Commodore Matt the Metalbender.
We're doing it live!
Douchebag Indigo reporting.
ITM.
Dame Blackhammer.
I hit Michael in the mouth.
But Cersei might kind of smack him around a little bit, I guess.
This is Cersei, Mike, and I hit Michael in the mouth, but then he took off with Max Velocity, so I don't know if he'll be back.
This is David.
I had a great time at this meetup.
I did not actually hit the guy in the mouth, but I did hold him down to make it easier for everyone else.
Dane DeLorean here, and we heard at least three Teslas explode.
I have room full at the food world.
Ah, smash!
Extra fluff there.
Thank you very much, Kansas City, for your meetup report.
Thank you to everyone who organizes these no-agenda meetups.
It's highly appreciated.
Remember your servers.
We have two meetups taking place today.
One is the Indy June Winth Half on Summer Startup Part 1. That is underway at the dugout bar in Indianapolis.
Sir Mark and Dame Marie of the Greenwood hosting that.
And the Bug Out Bag Meetup started early this morning at Stone Tables at White Rock Lake in Dallas, Texas.
And the only other one I want to mention, because I was asked to give some light to it, is the meetup on June 6th, Saventon, Belgium.
That is just a couple miles, I think, We need meetup reports from all of you.
You can send that to AdamMcCurry.com.
And of course, for all the other meetup business, go to NoAgendaMeetups.com.
You can find all the meetups listed there.
You can search by region, location, all kinds of ways to sort that.
And as always, if you can't find a meetup near you, then you should start one yourself.
NoAgendaMeetups.com.
It's easy.
Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.
You want to be where you want me.
Drink it or hell's a blame.
You want to be where everybody feels the same.
It's like a party.
So, looking at your list, I'm guessing my one ISO wins today.
You don't have any ISOs.
I have one lousy one, which is just kind of a joke ISO.
Oh, it says ISP.
Okay, that's why.
Well, whatever.
I thought it was a clip about internet service providers.
It's not something I created.
It's just a dog.
So, no, you're thinking, I'm glad I didn't do anything because that ISO is too good.
Here's the one you had.
Thank you for having me.
And here's the winner.
What's that in your mouth?
That's right, everybody.
John C. Dvorak is up now with his famous tip of the day.
Great advice for you and me.
Just a tip with JCB.
And sometimes Adam.
All right.
This is a new tool for you Photoshop users, photo editing types, and AI nuts, which will contribute to people doing art for the show.
And it's pretty new, and it's hard to...
I recommend...
And it's called Flux Context with a K. K-O-N-T-E-X-T, Flux, F-U-L-X.
And it comes from a company called Replicate.com, but if you go to Replicate.com, you'll never find it.
You have to go to Flux1.ai and you won't find it there necessarily.
And you won't find it at Flux.ai.
That's some other thing operational altogether.
But if you wanted to find it right on the money, besides using Google, you have to go to Flux1.ai slash Flux dash contact and you'll get context.
My goodness.
text and you'll get right to it.
Now, it is a stunning Like, you can have a picture of somebody's face and you can say, change their hair to blonde.
And it'll do that specifically without having to go through the rigmarole you have to go through with Photoshop.
Or if you want to take somebody's head and put it on somebody else's head, a body.
Classic.
Classic.
You just, you do that with one, you just tell it to do it.
If you want to turn somebody into a cartoon, it does the best job of turning somebody into a cartoon I've ever seen.
Is it only pictures or also video?
No, you can also create...
No, video, you've got to go elsewhere.
You can also create pictures and drawings and cartoons from scratch with prompts.
It just has a lot of potential.
And some of them you have to pay a nickel.
So you might have to pay money for some of these images.
But it's supposed to have a free element.
It's just a dynamite thing to check out.
If anyone out there, Darren will eventually send me some feedback on this and why it's no good.
Yes, he will.
Or he'll tell me it's fabulous.
I don't know.
But this is definitely one of those tools.
It's just something you just want to play with for a while.
Now, are you sure this is really AI?
It's not like that $1.5 billion company that Microsoft was buying?
Builder.ai?
I can't tell you anything is AI.
All I know is it does some remarkable imagery manipulation that I've not seen anyone be able to do otherwise.
And it might also be a lot of good demos.
I mean, this is a problem with, for example, the hottest thing now is VEO3.
VEO3 from Google, which creates all these crazy videos.
And, you know, the ones that you see demoed are just dynamite, but you go try to do it yourself, and there goes a dollar.
You have to spend money to get it.
It doesn't work.
You know what my favorite is?
Next time Jay's around, grab her phone, get on the TikToks.
It's the Trump babies.
Have you seen these?
Yeah, I have, actually.
Yeah, I think those are pretty funny.
Yeah, there's a lot of...
The only target.
It's the only target.
I think album art's going to come out of this.
Flex context.
Yeah, that's humorous.
Album art is usually humorous.
Yeah, it is.
I can't wait to look and see how many what's that in your mouth arts we have.
It'll be interesting.
There you go, everybody.
That is John C. Dvorak's Tip of the Day.
You can find more tip of the date on that no agenda fun.com.
Yes, we always want to thank Dana Brunetti for creating that.
What would we do without Dana Brunetti?
Soon to give the commencement speech for all of our PhDs here at the No Agenda Show.
And that is it for our broadcast day.
We thank you all for joining us.
Reminder, we'll be back on Thursday.
We do it twice a week.
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is down.
Uh, that is, uh, Interesting.
Episode 148.
I think we'll stick around for it.
End of show mixes.
We have Sir Scovey.
We heard him earlier on in the show.
And Melody.
Melody.
That's his new handle.
And I'm coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country right here in Fredericksburg.
It's so cute in wine country.
In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
Yeah, from northern Silicon Valley where we recommend going to noagendadonations.com.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
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a hooey, hooey, and such.
The Tapping Me Along discussion.
Everybody reported on, supposed to be, and then, without question, they said, I think he's tapping me along.
Was that in the post?
Tapping me along?
Yeah.
Where's this company?
Is that clothes or something we don't know about?
Maybe something told me.
Yeah, don't worry, we might use the word tapping.
We're not tapping out.
I thought it was British.
Why would Trump be using the British as well?
What would the phrase be?
It would be, uh, dragging me along?
Stringing, stringing, that's stringing me along.
Tapping along, tapping along Tapping along, tapping along.
President Trump launched a broadside against Russia's Vladimir Putin.
It makes me think he said that maybe Putin doesn't want to stop them all, and it's just him.
Tapping me along.
Tapping me along.
Interesting.
Tapping me along.
Well, ChatGPT doesn't know it.
What is that, a song?
Tapping me along.
Is that code?
Is there something you don't know about?
I thought it was British.
Why would Trump be using the British?
Just We know what it means.
The version I believe to be the right version is the golfer.
Yes, I agree.
I think that's it.
This is the golfer.
Trapping me along.
Interesting.
What?
GPT doesn't know it.
What is that, a song?
Tapping along is a golf tournament.
Tapping a puck, puck, puck.
This is a golf tournament.
Come back to the shadows.
Come back to the city.
You no longer have to be afraid.
Have to be afraid.
But in this moment, this moment, this morning, our sacred rule of law is under attack.
Journalism is under attack.
Universities are under attack.
Freedom of speech is under attack.
And insidious fear.
Provided by you, the fear to speak.
In America, in England, the power can rewrite history with grotesque, false narratives.
