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This is your award-winning GiveOnNationMedia assassination episode 1774.
This is no agenda.
Just days away!
And broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region No. 6 in the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where everybody's getting it wrong, I'm John C. Dvorak.
It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
In the morning.
Ha ha ha ha ha.
That's what I've been saying for the past three days, Satina.
Everyone's getting it wrong.
It's all wrong.
It's all wrong.
By the way, happy Juneteenth.
Oh, yes, Juneteenth.
Happy Juneteenth, everybody.
That's right.
You know what Juneteenth is about, don't you?
Yeah, about the dummies in Texas.
No.
Juneteenth is about voting.
Today is Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day and Emancipation Day.
The federal holiday commemorates the end of slavery in the United States.
And there will be multiple events happening across our area today, including one with Reverend Al Sharpton and Spike Lee at Juniors in downtown Brooklyn.
Good morning, Pedro.
Well, we just heard Phil talk about voting.
That is going to be the message here this morning.
Reverend Al Sharpton is expected to be here at the iconic restaurant here in Brooklyn with the award-winning filmmaker Spike Lee to kick off the Juneteenth celebrations this morning.
Now for civil rights activists, Juneteenth serves as a potent reminder that freedom isn't merely declared, it must be protected through things like voting.
So Juneteenth celebrates the freedom of enslaved African Americans.
There you go.
You got Al Sharpton and Spike Lee out there saying, Happy Juneteenth!
You gotta vote Democrat!
They're getting an early jump on the midterms.
That's all.
Juneteenth, as you know, it's about voting.
It's all about voting.
Police.
Capture.
Capture.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Are they celebrating Juneteenth outside your door there in Berkeley?
No.
They're not even protesting.
I don't know what's wrong with this area.
Could you please get that area into shape?
They are not following the rules, man.
They're not following the rules.
Well, yes, you are right.
Everyone's getting it wrong.
So I see your clips.
Of course, as we know, I never listen to your clips.
You have no idea what clips I'm bringing.
We have not coordinated.
We don't talk.
We don't really want to talk in between shows because we talk seven hours a week.
It's more than enough.
You sound like a magician on the stage.
That's right.
Don't look over here.
You've never met me.
You don't know who I am.
Have we ever met each other before?
Come forward to the stage.
Have we ever met each other before?
I don't think so.
Have we discussed?
Have we pre-planned anything?
No, we haven't.
So I will get you into your clips with two clips to get you started.
First, we'll start with a little...
1995.
Iran will be capable of producing alone, without importing anything, nuclear bombs within three to five years.
The deadline for attaining this goal is getting extremely close.
Iran and Libya are racing to develop nuclear weapons.
Iran is gearing up to have to produce 25 bombs, atomic bombs a year, 250 bombs in a decade.
By next spring, at most, by next summer, at current enrichment rates, Iran is so dangerous.
Weeks away from having the fissile material for an entire arsenal of nuclear bombs.
Iran has to produce an arsenal of nuclear weapons.
They have the wherewithal, the stored up preserved knowledge to make a bomb very quickly if they wanted to do it.
Iran has produced a nuclear weapon in a very short time.
It could be within a few months.
My favorite of those is 2012, because we were doing the show, and in the United Nations, he held up that drawing of a bomb, like a spy versus spy bomb.
Oh, that great, yes, I forgot about that drawing he held up.
It was ludicrous.
So we've been just weeks away, months away, days away, very close nuclear arsenal since we've been tracking it, 1995.
And this whole thing...
This is the lead-in into your clips, I'm sure.
He campaigned on pledges to end wars and not start new ones.
The issue has exposed divides within Trump's MAGA base.
Conservative pundit and Trump ally Tucker Carlson is one of those opposed to deeper involvement.
Tensions reached boiling point when he interviewed Republican Senator Ted Cruz, accusing him of knowing nothing about Iran.
You're a senator who's calling for the overthrow of the government and you don't know anything about the country!
Trump hit out at Carlson on his Truth Social page saying, Somebody please explain to Kooky Tucker Carlson that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
Others on Carlson's side include Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, who took to social media to urge decisions that put America first.
Thoughts echoed by Charlie Kirk, the founder of conservative activist group Turning Point USA.
Take out the Ayatollah.
Resist that temptation.
That's a zeal.
The very same zeal got us involved.
On the other side of Trump's orbit, Senator Lindsey Graham says Washington should do whatever it can to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear bomb.
If diplomacy fails, Mr. President, President Trump, you've been great.
Help Israel finish the job, give them bombs, fly with them if necessary.
Fox News personality Mark Levin took it one step further, saying anyone who wasn't on board with wiping out the threat posed by Iran was a Marxist-Islamist.
An Islamo-Nazi regime with a nuclear warhead, intercontinental missiles that have threatened to assassinate the President of the United States.
Gee!
And we have morons, fools, running around the country.
This isn't Magna.
Magna?
This isn't what I voted for.
Magna?
No, I did not vote for Magna.
No!
No.
So that's just a little sampling of what has been going on.
And oh my lord.
That's actually good.
That's the overview.
That's the overview.
So, over to you.
We have not met before.
I have plenty of stuff, but I'm going to go off track a bit at the beginning by bringing up a couple of kind of factors.
And it was based on one of our Martell, our Martell guy, Martell Hardware.
Oh, MartellHardware.com!
Gold!
He says, I know you hate Scott Horton, but you should listen to this.
Oh, I clipped it.
Oh, you did?
Well, is this the part where he talked?
Well, you probably didn't clip what I wanted to clip.
No, I'm sure I didn't clip, and I want to come to that later.
But go ahead and- You know, it's the same blather.
You know, the guy's, you know, not a big fan.
But, you know, and he's just, it's hard to look at.
And so, not that I know.
I know, it's beneath me.
But what is the tent he's in, is my question.
He's in a tent.
That's a good question.
But when he said that the deterrence on the part of Iran over the years has always been we could build a nuclear missile, but we're not going to do it.
We're not going to build a nuke.
But the threat of us possibly doing it is what the deterrence was.
And I found that...
that to explain a lot.
And that combines with something I ran into on an Indian...
This was pretty coincidental.
I was looking something up and it was an Indian celebrity website where they talk about celebrities and how tall they are.
You know, I always like to do this anyway.
How tall they are, how fat they are, and all the rest of it.
And there was an entry for Donald Trump from 20 years ago.
In the entry it said, Donald Trump hobbies, reading.
Oh no!
And what did he like to read?
Mein Kampf, of course, because he has it next to his bed.
Mein Kampf, we all know that.
He liked to read histories and biographies.
And when you start thinking about it, that's kind of, that's interesting because he's kind of thinks of himself as a historical character and a biography and he's a biographical type of guy and histories.
And if you like reading histories just like reading them, you're going to be reading a lot of world history.
That means he's very familiar with Tamerlane.
Tamerlane was a Genghis Khan clone in the 1300s, and he had an experience with Persia.
Because I remember this myself.
Tamerlane was taken over the place.
he's the one who created the modern Middle East in the 1300s.
And he...
You got 60 days?
Didn't quite say that.
But wanted to do a deal, and sent some emissaries, and the way one story goes, they said, screw you, we don't give a shit what you think, chopped an emissary's head off, put it in a box, and sent it back.
Nice.
Tamerlane took Persia out.
Trump rebelized the entire country, killed everybody he could.
No one knows this anymore, John.
No one knows this history.
No one knows this.
And it turns out when you start looking into it, the Persians have always been a-holes bringing this sort of destruction on themselves over and over and over again throughout history.
That is a good little piece.
He has to be aware of this.
And it's at the point where...
It's got nothing to do with, oh, Iraq or being sucked into a never-ending war.
We're just sick of it.
We're sick of Iran.
Right since Reagan got in, he wanted to bomb because he took out the Marine barracks and killed 40 Marines or whatever it was.
Over and over again, they created Hezbollah, Hamas, no matter what.
Alex Jones thinks.
Israel funded him, man!
They created it!
I looked it up!
I looked it up.
I looked it up.
And so, and their death to America, death to America ever since 79, where they took over the embassy illegally by all international law and kept our people there for a year.
It ruined the Nightline show, which is, we're going to stay on the air forever until they let the guys go.
And the whole thing.
We're sick of it.
We're just sick of it.
And Trump knows the story.
He put the deadline on there.
It happened the day after the 60 days was up, just like Tamerlane.
We're just sick of Iran.
Bush wanted to bomb him and couldn't do it because the CIA said, don't worry about it.
They don't have a bomb.
The CIA intelligence people and Tulsi Gabbard are probably all right.
They probably don't have a bomb.
But they have this threat they're going to do a bomb if they have to.
And they're in debt to America, debt to Israel, and they're just horrible.
Trump is the one that's going to say, screw it, Bibi, go ahead and bomb the hell out of him, and maybe we'll do even more after this gets going.
And that's the basis for all this.
It's got nothing to do with never-ending wars, or they have a nuke, they don't have a nuke.
They have a nuke, or they got a nuke two weeks away.
All this bullshit.
We're sick of it.
We're sick of it.
Since you bring up the 60 days, I think this is warranted to play.
Striking Iranian nuclear facilities.
Where's your mindset on that?
I can't say that, right?
You don't seriously think I'm going to answer that question.
Will you strike the Iranian nuclear component?
And what time exactly, sir?
Sir, would you strike it?
Would you please inform us so we can be there and watch?
I mean, you don't know that I'm going to even do it.
You don't know.
I may do it.
I may not do it.
I mean, nobody knows what I'm going to do.
I can tell you this, that Iran's got a lot of trouble, and they want to negotiate.
And I said, why didn't you negotiate with me before all this death and destruction?
Why didn't you negotiate?
I said to the people, why didn't you negotiate with me two weeks ago?
You could have done fine.
You would have had a country.
It's very sad to watch this.
I've never seen anything like it.
Everyone thought it was going to be the reverse.
I didn't think so.
And I was telling them, you've got to do something.
You've got to negotiate.
And at the end, last minute, they said, no, we're not going to do that.
And they got hit.
Remember 60 days?
And then came the 60. 61 is going to become a very famous number.
That was one hell of a hit, that first hit.
That was one hour ahead.
Not sustainable, to be honest.
There you go.
He's bringing up the history, just as you said.
61!
It was 60, but now it's 61. 61's going to go down in history.
I'm going to be bigger than the history books.
61. 61. So he's the one, after Reagan and Bush and everybody in between wouldn't do anything, he's decided that that's it.
Yeah.
Drew a line, created the 60 days, But let's listen.
Meanwhile, everyone's all bent out of shape, so I've got these clips.
You brought up Tucker Carlson.
Yes, I did.
Just for you.
You had a really good Levin clip.
So let's listen to, so Bannon had Tucker on his show and they had some pretty good exchanges, but then Tucker, which he's more comfortable as the host, Yes.
But let's listen to this one.
This is not part of this about the series.
The series is...
This is Ben and Tucker talking about Mark Levin.
And Tucker, it's interesting when you look at his waveforms, when he's revealed...
Oh, he goes, small up, small up, small up.
Is that kind of his waveform?
No, he has, when he's revealing certain things, he drops his voice to an extreme.
Oh, yeah.
And he's like telling secrets out of class, so he drops his voice.
Now, I boosted all those up, and when I boosted them, it sounded normal.
So he's got some sort of tell that goes on with this...
But it's clear when you bring it up.
It's a very interesting phenomenon.
But here he is talking about Mark Levin because there's a beef going on between the two of them.
And Tucker is a maniac.
And Tucker's whole thing is like Don Rickles when he insults people.
He says, no, no, just kidding, just kidding.
I love the guy.
I love the guy.
And then he doesn't laugh.
Exactly right.
And he says he loves everybody.
Of course.
Here we go.
The platform of Fox, though, it's just not Mark.
Why is Fox, like all weekend, it's just cheerleading.
You can play side-by-side Iraq in 2003.
Oh, I was there.
And here.
And what's happening today?
Why is this apparatus?
Well, Levin's the funniest because he's terrible on TV.
And, again, I never had any problems with him at Fox.
He kind of controls Hannity in this weird way.
I never understood what that was about.
I never really cared to learn.
Sean was great to me, always nice, and so was Levin.
So I just kind of stayed away.
But they didn't want to put him on TV because he's, like, screechy and he's just not a coming president.
Mark Levin on TV!
I'm literally floating in and out of consciousness and the attendant has taken the remote to go have a cigarette.
You're going to flip the channel when Mark Levin gets on TV!
It's like listening to your ex-wife screaming about alimony payments.
It's like, not appealing.
So they wouldn't put him on TV.
And then Sean pushed and they gave him some kind of weekend show that nobody watched.
Now I don't have a TV, but – He was just telling me that he's like all over prime time.
So what is that?
That's not by popular acclaim.
That's not like their viewer survey.
It's like, you know, we need a lot more Mark Levin.
Less Jesse Waters, more Mark Levin.
Mark Levin!
What they're doing is what they always do, which is just turning up the propaganda hose to full blast and just trying to knock elderly Fox viewers off their feet and make them submit to what you want.
This is where the population, the voters, are ahead of the political class and the media.
The American people do not want any more engagement in a foreign war.
They saw Iraq, they saw Afghanistan, were just out.
I think because they're racist.
Is that what you're saying?
They're just bigots.
I love doing his laugh.
I'm getting pretty good at that.
You got it.
I think I've nailed it.
Wait, that was bad.
You got it.
I've tried it.
I'm not even close.
It hurts.
It hurts.
It's not an easy one.
Well, you know, a lot of good stuff does hurt.
Yes.
So, Bannon is on the show, and he wants Tucker to become part of government.
Yeah.
I heard all this, by the way, so I'm glad.
And when I saw the clips come in, I'm like, oh, dynamite.
John did it.
Thank God I don't have to do it.
Yeah, most of my time was spent boosting those.
I bet it was.
I bet it was.
You know, getting to normalizing the signal.
Jeez.
Yeah.
So Bannon, for some reason, he sees everything as a we, and he thinks he's part of something.
And if you look at, by the way, Bannon does have an operation called The Movement.
The movement?
Out of Brussels.
Really?
Do you know about this?
No.
Out of Brussels?
That can't be good.
No.
The movement is a worldwide populist movement, literally, to get all these governments to put populists in.
And it's a political organization of some sort.
And it's called The Movement, and Bannon runs it.
And he's behind it.
He's got his Seinfeld money.
He's got his fingers in a lot of different pots.
Yeah, well, I sent in an article.
It's in the show notes, yeah.
Unmasking Steve Bannon.
Yeah, I put it in the show notes.
Yeah, it's in the show notes.
People should read it.
It reminds us, because it reminded me, that Bannon is the one who came up with the sleazy scheme to put up the wall in Texas.
You know, the money disappeared, kind of.
It was dubious what happened there.
It was dubious, that's all we can say.
But what was he involved for in the first place?
Sorry.
Now it's a tick.
Please don't do that.
So here he is trying to cajole Tucker into becoming political, and when you listen to Bannon, everything's a wee, wee, wee, as though he's got a big organization behind him, and maybe he does.
But it's very creepy, but these two clips lead into the four really good clips where they start talking about the CIA and who knows what about what.
It's very interesting.
We need a handful of smart people around President Trump.
They're saying, look, we put Cash and Bongino in the FBI.
We've put Ellis in.
We are stamping, as we say in the Netherlands, in the old country.
We are stamping, aren't we, said the elephant to the mouse.
So he says, we put in Bungie.
We put in Pachanek.
Yeah, he did it, man.
He's running the show.
Steve Bannon is your overlord.
By the way, what he's about to say to Tucker is very similar to what Pachanek said to me.
We really need a guy like you in U.S. government, Adam.
Really?
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, he's like, isn't it time for you to return and come to the USG?
No, I don't think I want to be in the USG.
Huh.
Okay.
I forgot to tell you that.
Put Cash and Bongino into FBI.
We've put Ellis and Ratcliffe's CIA.
We've put a handful of great people at DOJ.
We've put Pete and a handful of great people at Defense.
We've put Tulsi and Joe Kent and a handful of people at DNI.
It's not enough.
The apparatus still runs the deal.
We are hanging on in a very tenuous shape.
We need to go to war.
Like, they want to go to war in Persia.
We need to go to war with them.
We have to do that now.
Damn, if I got anywhere near any kind of institutional power, which I've never sought, and I don't seek now, but if I ever did, you know, I think the Tom Cottons and the donors and people like that, I mean, I think that would be really hard.
Okay, Pilgrim.
Yeah.
Please.
So he says that, and it's like, what is abandoning?
And he's doing this in public.
This is like a public...
Recruiting.
It's a recruitment.
It's not a we.
What I see Banyan doing here is he knows the power of Tucker's audience.
He knows it's a different audience probably that watches him, or at least it's a Venn diagram, but not all of it.
You're right.
It's not the same audience that watches The War Room.
Right, so he's trying to draw Tucker in, which is what you're seeing across the board, whether it's Dave Smith, whether it's...
I mean, it's all clicks.
They're all clicking together.
And it's very disturbing because of the podcast.
But there it is.
I think you nailed it.
I think that's...
And I agree, it's disturbing.
I don't like seeing stuff like that.
But anyway, let's listen to part two of this recruitment promotion.
That would be really hard.
I think they'd put kiddie porn on my computer and get pancreatic.
I don't know, man.
First off, just the announcement of that, the intention of that, would unmask.
Part of this is going through an unmasking.
Who's on our side?
And who's not on our side?
Because a lot of people that are pretending to be on our side are on the opposite side.
Yeah, and this is where they kind of kicked into the whole CIA talk, which I found to be very interesting.
Because, man, Tucker knows a lot about the CIA.
Well, he let a little thing slip in that little episode, which is the reason I kept it in.
He says, well, you know, the problem is I get in there and then he says something, he says my computer.
Yeah, and pancreatic cancer.
And pancreatic cancer.
Well, but didn't he bring that up in the conversation about the CIA that, you know, some guy was not loyal to Langley and then he got pancreatic cancer?
And died really quickly?
Not in this discussion that I remember.
But that's possible.
But this pancreatic cancer thing has always been somewhat disconcerting because it's a very rare form of cancer and it crops up a lot more than you'd think with famous people.
Steve Jobs had it, for example.
An aggressive form of cancer.
And he didn't quite finish saying pancreatic cancer.
He just kind of started to say it and then pulled back.
So I found that to be screwy.
So here we go.
Now they're going to start talking about they're going to start talking shop.
And this is some of the best stuff.
It's like really outstanding.
They bring in the CIA but there's a kicker in the first clip which triggered my whole Catching all this.
Otherwise, I wouldn't have recorded any of this until this happened.
I would like to have John Ratcliffe go to the sticks, and I think Ratcliffe's a good man.
John Radcliffe should go to the stakes and say two things.
Just say it.
Because he's kind of been in hiding in that.
And then he ought to be open to court.
He's never criticized.
No one ever criticizes John Ratcliffe.
Well, the reason I think they're not criticizing John Ratcliffe, and John Ratcliffe's a good man, but you have to remember, John Ratcliffe was a mayor of a small town in Texas that went to Congress, did a great job.
President Trump likes him a lot.
He's got Mike Ellis over there, but they're two guys.
We don't have 10 political appointees, which we should have.
We've got two guys running that building.
That's the way the agency is structured.
There's no civilian control of the CIA.
Well, you know better than anybody.
You know better than anybody, Tucker.
Really?
So that triggered, obviously when I heard that, it's like, okay, let's get some more clips here.
You know better than anybody.
What they dropped out of that, which really irks me.
About some of these guys, and Bannon being one of them, is they say there's two guys running that place, running the building.
Two CIA supervisors of some sort.
Two guys.
And it's not Bradcliffe or whoever's the head guy.
It's two guys.
Who are the two guys?
I'm asking anybody out there.
I'd just like to know who they are.
Do we know who they are?
I do not know.
Well, they both know there's two guys.
Yeah.
So they both must know who they are.
So why don't they just mention their names just so we can know who they are?
But Tucker knows better than anybody.
And Tucker knows better than anybody.
And, of course, we know the names are all fake because you have to do that.
And they're wearing masks, so it doesn't help.
Well, that's all possible, yes.
It could be fake names, fake faces.
The whole thing.
Yeah, that's always a possibility.
So here we go.
It runs the way it's going to run.
I mean, we sent Pompeo over there.
It's an army.
It's a business.
It's a government agency.
It's a country.
It's a venture capital firm.
It's literally a venture capital firm.
And its budget is unknown, its reach is...
And we have no idea what they're doing.
Of course, because the majority of things that they do are not...
Even the door kickers.
No, it's they're working through some exile group they've been funding for 30 years, right?
They will also look you right in the eye.
Oh, I know.
And lie to you.
Oh, I know.
Because that's the wilderness of mirrors, right?
Look, look.
And they're smart.
Somebody said to me the other day, someone knowledgeable said, the problem with the U.S. government is like, why can't we do this or that?
And like, if you wanted light rail, you know we couldn't do it.
And this person said, because all the smartest people in government are at CIA.
Yeah.
Hmm.
Hmm.
So that's interesting in itself.
Yes, yes.
Well, for sure we don't hear much about the CIA.
We hear a lot about Kash Patel and Dan Barchino.
Yeah, who Bannon put in.
Yeah.
Thank you, Bannon.
Yeah.
Okay.
So we continue with this because they're just doing a brain dump here and this is...
Here we go.
He does.
They also, with the interagency process, they control the entire process.
This is why downsizing NSC was so important.
When you have this, we have these detailees that come from all the different departments, because NSC should have 30 people, but it had 250.
There are 60 political appointees, right?
And there's 280 come from different agencies to do all the different paperwork.
They have the interagency process.
The CIA controls that process.
They control the process.
They control over the DHS.
They control over the Justice Department.
They are embedded deep because they've been around, you know, they've been around so long and they know how to embed deep, right?
With the smartest people out there.
And so if you don't get control of that, They're like a Praetorian Guard right now.
We have to lance this.
This is like the late stage of the Roman Empire when the Praetorian Guard kind of ran the deal and they would put forward every legionary captain that they thought was going to be good for a time.
And they are planning right now to thwart President Trump's second term.
Make sure they wait him out, and they're going to have a hand-selected person for the third term.
And I don't say this as a conspiracy theory guy.
This is just basic facts.
Totally true.
They're so clever that if you criticize them, they will leak to people that you work for them.
I happen to know.
Yeah, I'm getting some of that, actually.
I am.
Locally up there?
No, no, no.
On the socials.
Uncle CIA, we all know you.
What were you doing in Amsterdam?
Yeah, you went to Moscow.
Yeah.
Well, you should probably make notes of who's doing that.
So I immediately think, oh, okay.
When I heard that, I'm like, oh, yeah, that makes sense.
If you criticize the CIA and you have a voice somewhere, they're going to tell, oh, you're part of it.
Of course.
It's a good bit.
Yeah, it's a great bit.
I love it.
Tucker thinks it's a fabulous idea.
Yeah, I can see that.
But then you have to consider, let's reveal a few things that should be known.
The CIA likes alcoholics, but they do not adhere to anyone using drugs.
No, only booze.
They like boozers.
They like boozers.
And you were notorious.
Weed.
Weed.
I was weed, not booze.
You were a weed guy.
No good.
So you're disqualified immediately from the get-go.
So no, I don't think you are, and I don't see how you could be based on anything.
I was a hitman for the CIA at MTV.
I was out there killing the rock stars.
You weren't even the handler or anything.
So people who think that are screwy.
But it doesn't mean you don't know anything.
That's true.
Because, you know, Tucker knows a lot.
More than anybody.
So I believe that Tucker's not a...
Yeah, he interned.
His dad worked for a propaganda arm of the agency, which is the voice...
Actually, he was the head of the Broadcast Board of Governors, which oversees the Voice of America, which is even above the Voice of America.
Yeah, and I'm totally convinced he's not in the CIA.
No, I'm sure he isn't.
Like me, he isn't.
The same as Stuart Copeland from the police.
He's not in the CIA.
Another druggie.
But there's other people that we are totally convinced are in the CIA at some level.
Or have something to do with intel at some level.
We've seen it, we know it, and I think we're good at this.
So let's go to Tucker's little finale here where he's, you know, the thing about it, he probably laments that he's not the CIA, especially since they credit him for being in there, blaming him, you know, because they tried to smear him by CIA.
This is a very funny bit.
If you're an effective critic of CIA, Joe Kent, I've lived this personally, but also Joe Kent, a wonderful man, a totally sincere man.
Great man.
Former CIA contractor, lost his wife in Syria, in Obama's Syria war, and became an opponent of the way things are running.
And they, CIA played in his primary.
And the way they did it was by convincing Republican primary voters that Joe Ken, who's the single most effective critic of CIA in the United States, was actually...
I mean, like, wow!
I tip my non-existent hat in deference to the brilliance of that.
This is how brilliant they are.
You notice from President Trump the arc that he went through on Friday.
You know something's up when David Ignatius at the Washington Post, which we call the Langley Bugle.
He's the head of the comms.
I'm aware.
When Ignatius comes out on Morning Joe and says...
He's acting like your commander in chief.
That should be the red flare that goes up and goes, what the fuck?
I know!
It's too frustrating to have a TV because it's too frustrating to watch.
I don't know a single person who doesn't like David Ignatius personally, and that would include me, and he's just such a courtly man.
He's like the Murdoch.
You can't dislike him.
He's just got elaborate, wonderful manners.
He's very nice.
He's the spokesman for CIA.
Yeah.
Do you think they still are the Langley Bugle?
They must be.
Oh, absolutely.
Yeah, under Bezos.
Yeah, well, Bezos got all those CIA contracts for his Amazon sellers.
There you go.
There you go.
Yeah.
So it's all part of a scheme.
Well, um...
Yes, please.
Run with the ball?
I've hogged enough.
Yeah, so I will stick with Tucker for a moment because the other big thing, oh boy, Tucker went tete-a-tete with Ted Cruz.
Tete-a-tete with Ted.
Before you play that, I will mention that I saw this, but I also saw this guy, he's called Captain Ted Phil or some black guy.
I think he's like a cop or ex-cop or something, and he does analysis of these clips, and he did a great takedown of Tucker on this, saying that this whole thing was, Tucker was insincere, this was created just to embarrass Cruz, he asked questions that anyone couldn't answer.
This is a very interesting expose of Tucker being an a-hole.
Well, what I found interesting, Is that this all was pointing towards Israel.
This was all about Israel, Israel, Israel, AIPAC, Israel, influence, Israel, Mossad, Israel, Israel, Israel.
And then, Ted Cruz, then this was funny for me, personally, as Ted Cruz brings up scripture.
Let's get into Iran momentarily, but you suggested it was a strange thing.
That I said a minute ago that when I came into the Senate, I resolved that I was going to be the leading defender of Israel.
And what you didn't ask is why.
So let me tell you why.
No, you said I was obsessed with Israel.
And you had just told me that, like, your driving motive to get to the Senate was to defend Israel.
I'm like, I don't think I'm the one who's obsessed with Israel.
Okay, so, Tucker, words matter.
Uh-huh.
And you know that.
I said I resolved to be the leading defender of Israel, and you said your driving motive, the reason you're in the Senate.
You want to be the leading defender of Israel.
I would think if I ran for Senate, I'd be like, there are people dying of drug odies on the street.
My driving motive is to fight for Texas and America and to fight for jobs and to fight for the Constitution.
And you played a very, very careful word game of a lie to you.
No, the one who said it, not me.
So you still haven't asked why, but I'm going to tell you why.
Okay.
And the reason is twofold.
Number one is a Christian.
Here we go.
Growing up in Sunday school, I was taught from the Bible.
Those who bless Israel will be blessed.
I guess he did.
That's where he came of age.
How do you grow up in Sunday school?
It's only once a week.
Well, you're nitpicking.
Cruz is already on the ropes here, so he's not speaking straight.
Oh, you're right.
He's not speaking straight.
He's on the ropes.
What am I doing jumping on him?
He's on the ropes.
Growing up in Sunday school, I was taught from the Bible.
Those who bless Israel will be blessed.
And those who curse Israel will be cursed.
And from my perspective, I want to be on the blessing side of things.
Those who bless the government of Israel?
Those who bless Israel is what it says.
It doesn't say the government of, it says the nation of Israel.
So, that's in the Bible.
As a Christian, I believe that.
Where is that?
I can find it to you.
I don't have the scripture off the tip of mine.
You pull out the phone and use it.
It's in Genesis.
So you're quoting a You don't have context for it and you don't know where in the Bible it is, but that's like your theology?
I'm confused.
And they go on and on about this.
I won't bore you with it.
By the way, this is an insincere discussion because he says, where was it knowing the answer?
He knew the answer.
He knew.
Well, the thing is, Yaz is in Genesis 12. I will bless those who bless you.
Whoever curses you, I will curse.
That's what God says to Abraham.
That gets repeated in Numbers and in Isaiah.
But really, it doesn't say you have to defend Israel.
It doesn't say you have to go fight for Israel.
It says, I will bless those who bless you.
I didn't want to get into the scripture itself.
I just was trying to point out that this is an insincere conversation.
Completely.
Completely.
So, that is true.
And what Ted Cruz grew up on is just nonsense.
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
Yes.
But there's nothing about defending it, you know, or going to war for it.
There's nothing at all about that.
So that was insincere in his fact, and you're right.
It was a set-up question from Tucker, who also just had Genesis in mind.
It's like, bleh, whatever.
But then Tucker gets to where he really wants to get is what is a popular talking point that we've discussed on the show many times, because it's the Jews!
I'm only trying to get to the question of what AIPAC is, and I don't think you're being straightforward about it.
AIPAC is...
And you're saying, no, that's not true.
You're saying that they don't coordinate with the Israeli government.
I coordinate.
They talk with them.
I don't know what they do.
But why don't you care?
Isn't it meaningful if a foreign government is- Of course you do.
I talk with foreign countries all the time.
But the law is, and a lot of people have been prosecuted under this law, that if you are lobbying on behalf of a foreign government, you must register.
That's it.
It's really simple.
And I don't know why, if I'm working for Malaysia or Qatar, You know, isn't that interesting that he brings up Belgium and Qatar?
You know, because Steve Bannon, you just mentioned Brussels.
It's just, there's so many things that I, what else?
There's a lot of, I think the point you're going to make, I'm going to make it for you.
There's missing pieces of information that probably help us understand the situation better.
But there's also people are talking to each other and they're bringing up the same thing.
Yeah, there's a milieu of this.
Something that Bannon said, too.
I'm like, huh, I haven't heard that in a while, and I'll hear it three times this week.
Anyway, so Brussels...
You haven't heard it and then all of a sudden you're hearing it all the time.
Everybody's talking about it.
I always find that extremely disturbing.
I'm working for Malaysia or Qatar or Belgium, and I'm working on behalf of its government's interests through a group of Americans who are representing the friendship between those two nations.
I have to register under the Foreign Agent Registration Act, and if I don't, I can go to jail.
And people have gone to jail, including people I know.
So I don't understand why we don't just be honest and say they're lobbying on behalf of a foreign government, they're coordinating with the government.
You know that that's true?
That is not only not true, that is false.
They're not coordinating with the Israeli government?
So right after this, the Hausfrau from House and Habit, you and I have talked about her before.
She's big in the right-wing conspiracy circles.
So she has to go after Tucker for Tucker going after Israel and AIPAC.
and I'm not going to repeat what I keep saying about that, with some spooky...
And, you know, it's like, oh, look at Tucker.
Oh, he got money from Qatar.
Oh, boy, he didn't disclose that.
And then I go and find the document, and it is a FAR disclosure document, which is from...
and it says, in person.
So, the services were delivered in person, Tucker, But they make it look like, oh, Tucker, he's in the pocket of the Muslims now.
Oh, what is he doing against Israel?
It was hilarious.
And then, of course, in...
The Jews are drawing us into a war.
They're doing it.
Trump is stupid.
Manga is splitting up.
What are we doing?
And right on cue, here comes Anonymous.
Hello, my fellow citizens of America and others across the globe.
This is The Architect, speaking on behalf of Anonymous.
Seventeen days remain until we release everything.
But first, there's something we feel the need to bring to light now.
It may not be able to wait.
This is not a drill.
This is not speculation.
This is a warning based on extremely reliable intelligence.
Oh, wait for it.
We have acquired verified information that a major attack is being planned on domestic soil.
It will be brutal.
It will be visible.
And it will be blamed on a foreign faction.
One from the Middle East.
But that is a lie.
But instead, it's a hyper-militarized power with deep influence through sexual blackmail in our intelligence.
Yeah, you're starting to get the picture.
So, what anonymous, quote-unquote anonymous, is saying, guy without a hoodie.
But okay, anonymous.
Oh yeah, one of our greatest allies who control our government with sexual blackmail.
They're going to do a false flag.
Another 9-11 is coming in.
So the internet is just filled with this.
And people yelling at me, oh, you think it's about China?
So enter Scott Horton with Tom Woods, because I got the same email from our producer, who was kind of snide.
Like, John's best friend, Scott Horton.
Scott Horton.
You see snidiness where I see humor.
Oh, well.
It wasn't directed towards me, so I was happy with all of it.
And so I have two clips, and then I'm going to get into two series.
But first of all, Tom Horton is not wrong about this.
He's not wrong, but he's misguided in his conclusion.
Because of his insanity about, you know, it's the same thing that Dave Smith has.
You know, Israel!
Israel!
Epstein files!
Israel!
Iran can't have a nuke.
They can't have a nuke.
Implying and begging the question ridiculously that they were making one and that they were about to have one and that they would have had one if we hadn't done this.
Instead, they're just lying.
I mean, Donald Trump is conflating the Ayatollah's unwillingness to completely abandon enrichment, to let America take every last one of his centrifuges out of the country, and is conflating that with them having a bomb.
This is what George W. Bush called shorthanding it.
It's a lie.
It's a damned lie.
And Donald Trump knows it's a lie.
And his own intelligence agencies told him last week they are not making news.
And then, worse, they were supposed to meet two days ago on Sunday.
And apparently, here are our choices.
We don't know for sure.
Our choices are either one, Donald Trump in the most dastardly, treacherous, just completely, you know, most gratuitous act of anti-diplomacy and with consequences for decades to come for
sure, was lying and pretending that he was still negotiating with the Iranians, all the while he was setting them up for the Israelis to go ahead and get them in decapitation strikes and reassuring them that they didn't need to go to alternative locations and whatever to protect themselves.
Don't worry, the attack's not coming.
We're still negotiating with Donald Trump and then sneak attack them in a Tojo style fashion.
I think I said Tom Horton, but I meant Scott Norton.
He is correct.
And Trump was lying.
And I think I know why.
And I think I can prove it.
But first, let's go to the other theory, which, of course, involves Tucker.
Or the other alternative is that.
This is what Tucker Carlson says.
He believes he was told that Trump really was negotiating in good faith and he really had told Netanyahu to wait and then Netanyahu went ahead and did this anyway and is now dragging Donald Trump by the hair into the thing and then Donald Trump is handling that by saying, oh yeah, I meant to do that.
This was my plan all along.
So you take your choice.
I think the...
No, I think they were really negotiating.
There's a third option.
They were really negotiating, and Trump said, I'm negotiating, but he knew exactly what would happen on day 61, and that was based upon his 60 days history knowledge.
So Scott Horton is not wrong, but his conclusion is sad.
So I have two series.
The first is from the China Observer.
Now, the China Observer is, as far as I can tell, a YouTube channel.
It might be run by NTD or Falun Gong, for all I know.
But they have a lot of interesting little tidbits about the current Iranian-China-Israel situation.
According to data from commodity firm Kipler, over 90% of Iran's oil currently go to China.
Most of this oil is sent to small independent refineries in Shandong province, known as teapots.
In 2022, in order to secure higher profits, Chinese companies began buying large amounts of Iranian oil under sanctions.
This puts Iran in a weak position when it comes to pricing.
In 2024, an official from Iran's Chamber of Commerce called the trade relationship with China a colonial trap.
Because China pays for oil and yuan instead of U.S. dollars, Iran is then forced to use that money to buy large amounts of Chinese goods, deepening its economic dependence on China.
Iran exports around 1.7 million barrels of crude oil per day.
If these exports are cut off, China's private refiners would, for the first time in years, have to buy oil at market prices.
As the world's largest oil importer, China has been increasing its reserves for three months straight, adding over 1 million barrels a day.
Associate Professor of Diplomacy Chen Xingmo of The Tam Kang University in Taiwan said Iran has long relied on China to buy oil because international sanctions have restricted its trade.
So this war could have a major impact on China's oil supply.
He also said Russia has wanted to sell more oil to China, but Beijing prefers to diversify its sources.
You said something?
Yeah, Russia is the beneficiary of this whole situation.
And they're fine to go along with it.
Everybody surrounding Iran is fine going along with the program, whatever the program might be.
Well, the program consists of the China-Iran comprehensive cooperation play.
And again, I'm sure this is a major anti-China.
On March 27, 2021, China and Iran signed a long-term cooperation framework called the China-Iran Comprehensive Cooperation Plan.
According to the agreement, the two countries would work together in finance, infrastructure, healthcare, defense, and more.
China committed to investing $400 billion in Iran over 25 years.
And both sides would establish free trade zones.
In return, Iran would supply China with oil at stable, low prices and allow China deeper access to its banking and telecom sectors.
This deal was part of China's Belt and Road Initiative.
But four years later, the deal has seen slow progress.
While China has continued to import large amounts of Iranian oil, other key areas like infrastructure investment have lagged behind.
It wasn't until 2023 that Chinese firms secured a few major contracts, including one for building Iran's largest airport.
It's worth noting that on June 9th this year, Iran Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi met with Chinese Ambassador Song Pei Wu This has meant to strengthen diplomatic ties between Beijing and Tehran.
But even though this relationship looks strong on the surface, war can change everything.
If the Iranian regime collapses, That $400 billion deal would become worthless.
So when President Trump says, I've been talking about this for 35 years, about Iran not having nuclear bomb, no, what he's been talking about is about China.
He's always been talking about China, the China virus, China this, China's ripping us off.
It's always been about China and this is no different because this is, Iran was a key.
Diplomacy professor Cheng Qingmo believes that the Chinese Communist Party established its so-called comprehensive partnership with Iran in 2021 to use Iran as a base for expanding influence in the Middle East.
The goal was to bring the region into China's Belt and Road Initiative and turn it into a front line against the West.
But so far, this entire plan appears to have failed.
Cheng said that the 2021 agreement was supposed to be a major infrastructure investment plan, $400 billion over 25 years.
But now, less than four years later, the survival of Iran's current regime is already in question.
The infrastructure investments China made in Iran are now essentially lost.
Similar failures have happened in other Belt and Road projects across Southeast and Central China.
On June 17th, President Trump posted online claiming full control of Iran's airspace and said they had located Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
He demanded Iran's unconditional surrender and warned that patience is wearing thin.
Trump and Israel's goal is to wipe out Chinese and Russian influences in the Middle East.
That way, the U.S. can shift its focus into the Indo-Pacific and counter-threats from China.
If Iran suffers a serious defeat, China's influence in the region will begin to shrink.
The U.S. strategy is clear.
Concentrate its efforts on dealing with the Chinese Communist Party.
That is indeed the entire focus.
And there's another country in there that kind of came and went, and the story was a little quiet, and Trump met with the guy, and, you know, so basically the Chinese were doing this with Syria as well.
Chung added that China has long backed Syria's Assad regime, which has already collapsed.
Iran's regime is now on the edge.
With China's support, Iran once helped groups like Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis spread their power in the Middle East.
But things have changed, and now it's much harder for China to expand in the region.
At this point, the US is the one steering the situation in the Middle East.
He also noted that while the Israel-Iran conflict was unfolding, Xi Jinping was visiting Kazakhstan.
At the same time, both Russia and China have lost their geopolitical foothold in the Middle East.
India and Pakistan.
In one clip, people laugh out loud as they drive past large portraits of Iranian military officers who had just been killed in airstrikes.
Young Iranians have long grown resentful of the country's aging political elite, who rule over them with absolute power.
Israel's military not only bombed the headquarters of Iran's army intelligence, but also took out the Ministry of Justice building.
One Iranian citizen said, the Justice Ministry was the worst, constantly cracking down on anyone who dared to speak up.
They said, if you don't obey, they put you on trial.
It's about time they got a taste of being judged by bombs.
So, I think that all rings pretty true.
I agree with that.
I want to add a couple of things.
Besides the fact that if I had played this clip for you, In fact, I was waiting for you to complain, and you didn't do it.
I'm only complaining as if I was you.
Well, thank you for being so much better than me.
I like the China thing, by the way.
I'm not done.
I'm waiting for more.
But I want to mention that if we remember Libya, you could take the same thesis and put it on Libya.
Because if you recall, When they went into Libya to rebelize that country, the Chinese were in there.
All over the place.
All over the place and had these buildings that they abandoned and ran for the hills.
Yep.
There's a whole bunch of structures still standing, I think, in Libya that were projects the Chinese have begun.
A lot of infrastructure stuff, too.
and they just ran for the hills.
The Chinese do not want to, No, the Chinese don't, they don't actually want...
They'd rather give you fentanyl.
They'd rather give you fungus.
They'd rather fund protests.
That's how they...
That is the smokeless war.
That is how the Chinese operate.
And it's not stupid.
No, it's not stupid, but it has some, Indeed.
But nobody, by the way, is recognizing this except that woman who can barely speak and you.
Well, wait.
That's not true.
Wait, there's more.
I found the Geopolitical Economy Report, which is hosted by a guy named Ben Norton.
And Ben Norton, he's a lefty.
He's a leftist.
He's a super leftist.
He's no friend or fan of Israel or America, which makes me like him even more to play his clips.
And he's part of the gray zone.
You know the gray zone, right?
The gray zone outfit.
So the guy is well-versed.
This was actually over an hour, this whole YouTube video.
I pulled a couple of clips, the ones I think are most important.
I cut some stuff up because he's talky.
He's talky.
But he brings it all together in no-agenda fashion, and I'm just like, wow, okay.
And let's just, so this is the history of how we got here, how we got here and how We play different versions of this.
This is, I think, the most concise.
The U.S. is using Israel as a proxy specifically to redirect blame and literal incoming missiles away from the U.S. and toward its proxy.
And this isn't in any way to excuse Israel for the horrific crimes it's been carrying out in Gaza, in Syria, in Lebanon, and now in Iran.
Of course, Israel is directly responsible for these war crimes and crimes against humanity.
But it's important to point out why Israel is carrying out all of these horrific crimes, and it's on behalf of the U.S. Empire.
This was spelled out very clearly in a plan that was published by several U.S. government officials.
For the Washington, D.C.-based think tank, the Brookings Institution, which is very closely linked to the U.S. government and basically acts as a kind of outsourced arm of the U.S. government.
In 2009, these U.S. government officials, these U.S. imperial planners, published a strategy paper titled, Which Path to Persia?
Options for a New American Strategy Toward Iran.
And chapter five is titled Leave it to Bibi.
That is Benjamin Netanyahu.
So leave it to Netanyahu, allowing or encouraging an Israeli military strike on Iran.
In this paper, these US government officials at a US government-backed think tank wrote that the US should encourage Israel to attack Iran.
And this is what they said, quote, The Israelis in conducting the strikes themselves in the expectation that both international criticism and Iranian retaliation would be deflected away from the United States and on to Israel.
Exactly what we're seeing happen.
Exactly.
And leave it to Bibi.
I think that's kind of funny.
I like it, yeah.
A little leave it to Beaver play on leave it to Bibi.
Let's just remind each other about who Bibi is.
This is exactly what the US empire is doing today.
I mean, they spelled it out so clearly.
It's so obvious.
Trump personally gave Israel the green light.
He knew about the operation.
He helped to plan it.
Trump delivered Israel hundreds of missiles three days before Israel started the war.
And the US has been giving Israel billions and billions of dollars of weapons and military assistance.
For decades, but especially since 2023, to carry out these proxy wars on behalf of the U.S. Empire.
And this is why the former U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig famously said, quote, Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk.
It is located in a critical region for American national security, end quote.
So in other words, Israel is an unsinkable aircraft carrier for the U.S. Empire.
And by the way, Netanyahu is an American.
He was raised and educated in the U.S. He went to high school and college and got his first job in the U.S. He had U.S. citizenship twice, and he only gave up his U.S. citizenship in order to be Israel's prime minister.
But he is an American.
And what he's doing is serving the interests of the U.S. empire.
Exactly.
And so when I hear Tulsi Gabbard come out and say, hey, wait a minute, my intel says there's no nukes.
No, of course there's no nukes.
But this is the lie the president is using for a very old play, playbook, I might even say.
Well, I don't see the president...
You and the other guy, Horton, say the president's lying about what?
The president never said that they're...
Okay, good point.
Good point.
Trump is very tricky.
I think I did hear him say, though, at some point they were close, not far away.
You know, he might have slipped on that.
That's a definitional thing.
I'm okay with that.
I'm okay with that.
So technically he's not lying, but he's under the guise of they can't have a nuclear bomb.
Something very different is going on, and it's been going on for a long time.
So this brings me to the first goal of the U.S.-Israeli War on Iran, which is to maintain U.S. hegemony in West Asia, also known as the Middle East.
This was clearly spelled out by the Pentagon, the U.S. Department of Defense, back in 1992 in the infamous Wolfowitz Doctrine.
This was a plan that was written by the Undersecretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz, a notorious warmonger.
And in the Wolfowitz Doctrine, he stated very clearly that the goal of the U.S. Empire was to prevent the rise of any other superpower that could challenge the dominance of the United States in the world.
At this time in the 1990s, the Soviet Union had just been overthrown a year before, in 1991.
The U.S. was the only major power in the world.
It was a unipolar world dominated by the U.S. empire.
And they wrote very clearly...
And they named several regions.
Among them were the Middle East slash Persian Gulf and also East Asia.
And those are the main two areas today that the U.S. military is targeting, especially under Trump.
In East Asia, the US is militarizing the region to try to encircle China as part of the New Cold War.
And now, of course, the US is using Israel to wage war all across the Middle East, West Asia, to try to recreate the region, overthrowing all of the independent governments.
And propping up pro-US regimes.
So Trump's main goal, in my mind, is China.
It's always been China.
And there's very good Trumpian reasons for this, mainly inflation.
We are the biggest oil producer and gas producer by quite a bit over everybody else.
And, you know, we've been shipping off the liquefied natural gas over to Europe.
There's even talk of the U.S. now taking over the Nord Stream 2, which I find hilarious.
You know, this is about oil politics and oil prices because it always is.
And today the U.S. has largely succeeded in weakening OPEC because the U.S. has become the number one producer of oil.
but the point is that the U.S. is very concerned about the possibility of oil production and prices of oil in the global market being used as a geopolitical weapon given that the global south and also Russia and China are leading producers of oil and natural gas in the world so if they were to It could cause significant economic damage.
And would lead to very high rates of inflation.
Because when the price of energy goes up, it is an input in basically all other parts of the economy.
So when the price of oil and gas goes up, the price of everything else goes up.
And this obviously has led to a lot of political instability in the U.S. So the U.S. is very concerned about the stability of the price of oil and natural gas in global markets.
And of course, this has been staring us in the face since this started, and we bring it up all the time.
For 17 years, we've been talking about this.
We didn't bring it up in this latest kerfuffle between Israel and Iran, but here it is.
So again, this makes it very clear why the U.S. and Israel are waging war on Iran, because they already succeeded in overthrowing Syria and removing Syria from the resistance axis.
Israel has also been waging war in South Lebanon against Hezbollah, the Lebanese resistance group that has its origins in the 1980s in the fight against Israel's illegal occupation of South Lebanon.
So Israel weakened Hezbollah and killed its leadership.
Israel has been taking control over Gaza, colonizing Gaza.
Colonizing the West Bank, which according to international law is occupied Palestinian territory.
The U.S. under Trump and also under Obama and Biden were waging war on Ansar Allah in Yemen, weakening them.
And of course the U.S. government invaded Iraq two times in the Gulf War and then again in 2003 in the Iraq War.
And now the final target is Iran, which the U.S. and Israel are now attacking.
This was famously admitted by Wesley Clark, the former U.S. general and commander of NATO.
Back in 2007, in an interview, he admitted that the U.S. military had made plans to overthrow the governments of seven countries in five years.
He said, I just got this down from upstairs, meaning the Secretary of Defense's office today, and he said, this is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries.
In five years, starting with Iraq and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and finishing off Iran.
And after we got Syria, we had them all.
And the very good question in the troll room, why don't they just tell us this is what's going on?
Because this is marketing.
Trump is marketing, but nuke, nuke, have a nuke.
Everyone's afraid of a nuke.
It's a nuke.
He does not want to tip his hat, so to speak, although I think the Chinese are not stupid.
No, they know what's going on.
This is a war against the BRICS, and the BRICS is the final clip, and this really brings it all together, and it makes sense.
I really believe that President Trump talked to Iran and said, hey, we can do better business, you guys with us guys.
Don't go into business with the Chinese.
Don't go into business with the Russians.
Do business with us.
We've already got the Saudis on board, we think.
Come on.
Don't be idiots because I don't want to have to play my other card, which means I activate BB.
Which brings us to one last point, which I'll make after you play this clip.
Iran has good relations with many countries in Africa, and Iran has become very close to China and Russia.
And in 2023, the BRICS summit was held in South Africa, and Iran was invited to become a full member, and of course, it accepted this invitation.
And as of the 1st of January 2024, Iran has been a full member of BRICS.
Along with the original five members, Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, as well as Egypt, the UAE, Ethiopia, and Indonesia.
And Saudi Arabia has been invited to join BRICS, although it has not officially given an answer.
It's likely that Riyadh is using that as a bargaining chip with Washington and saying to Washington, well, if you put too much pressure on us, we'll join BRICS.
So it's a card they can always play.
But getting back to Iran.
So Iran is now a full member of BRICS, and when Iran officially joined the Global South-led organization, the Iranian state media outlet Noor News published an article explaining its goals.
It noted that Iran is seeking to, quote, lessen the influence of imposed sanctions over its economy, end quote.
They also said that BRICS will help to challenge the, quote, Current unilateral world order, end quote.
So they're talking about the U.S.-dominated unipolar order creating a more multipolar world.
And then finally, this is a very important quote.
Iran's state media outlet said that by joining BRICS, this will, quote, deepen the current existing relations between Beijing, Moscow, and Tehran as the three main architects of the new world order, end quote.
So Iran is saying we have an alliance with China and Russia to challenge the U.S. empire.
So it's obvious why the U.S. empire is so concerned about this and is trying to do everything it can to divide this alliance.
So the way I see it.
You're the linchpin in the middle of the Middle East.
We need to have you guys with us.
And I think he was genuinely sad that he had to have Bibi go and kick off this missile back and forth because people die.
None of it's great.
I don't like it either.
But honestly, I'd rather have the United States being the unipolar power in the world than Russia, China.
You pay now.
You pay now.
They will lock you down.
And so, President Trump is America first.
This is what he was voted in for.
And it's an ugly business.
It's a racket because everybody's making money on this at the same time.
But I think he is truly doing what is the best thing for America right now.
And maybe one day people will see it for what it is instead of running around like a bunch of chickens with your head cut off saying, Israel, Israel, you've got the goods on Trump.
No.
This is to protect, I think, peace in the world long term.
Let's add one more theory, which is one we've talked about before.
And I saw another guy come out, another Middle Eastern guy come out with it.
Which is the fact that this is all theater.
People are getting killed, but they're not getting killed at the rate that they could be getting killed.
No, everyone's running out of ammo, too.
They're running out of missiles.
This is the idea that Israel, the United States, and Iran are doing back-channeling.
They've always been doing that.
And the whole idea is to get why Trump had to kill Soleimani and they killed the head of Hamas.
They're taking out.
everybody except Khomeini.
Oh, no, because they need him.
They need somebody.
They need the guy to sign the documents, just like we did with Japan.
But they've got to get rid of all the hardliners.
Yes.
And the scheme that just took place, like, yesterday, which was the one where the Israelis, they said they were going to do something.
It hasn't been played up as much as they could have been.
They took out another group of army guys by setting up a fake meeting.
You know, sort of text or something.
Well, come over here.
Don't worry.
It's important.
Stand in the circle.
Stand in the circle.
And they blew them all up.
But they're all hardliners, and they've got to get rid of all the hardliners.
And that's the reason that Trump told Netanyahu not to kill Khomeini.
And the people of Iran are cheering.
They're happy.
That's what we're told.
No, I mean, that's- No, very young, and you need Komeni to sign the papers like the Emperor of Japan in World War II.
You need someone of authority to say, yep, okay, well, I guess we're not going to do that.
That's where they didn't kill the emperor.
Yes.
And of course.
So you have, so this whole thing is the way it's being, and it's odd that two boomers that do this show, I think we see through most of the bull crap I think China's a key element.
A lot of this is bullcrap.
Trump's doing the right thing.
He's not a liar.
But you've got the Bannons and the Tuckers.
Everybody.
And Dave Smith and Scott Horton.
Everyone's running around.
Israel owns us.
They run everything.
No.
I don't understand how you can come to that conclusion.
And by the way, this country is shaped like an aircraft carrier, too, if you take a look at it.
Releasing the Epstein tapes would help a lot.
I'll be honest about it.
That doesn't help in any way.
Which brings me to the bogus Jufre eclipse, which I have.
We can get to.
Yes, I am.
But before...
I can't believe ABC didn't understand what this was about.
This morning, authorities are investigating anonymous pizza deliveries sent to members of Congress and the people who protect them.
Sources tell ABC News multiple lawmakers, both Democrats and Republicans, along with U.S. Capitol Police leaders, have received unsolicited pizzas at their homes.
They don't understand what it's about?
Really?
Pizza?
Pizzagate?
Pedophilia, child stuff.
You don't understand what this message is about?
No.
The delivery is likely aimed at sending the message, we know where you live.
It's not a laughing matter.
Capitol Police saying these recent pizza deliveries are troubling and yet again bring to light the heightened threat landscape we are living in.
So that just goes on.
I thought it was hilarious that they're sending pizzas and no one's making the connection.
At ABC at least.
It's so obvious.
ABC, owned by Disney.
Hello?
Yes.
Let's do Virginia Dufresne.
Okay, so these tapes show up, and the first place that they come up is that, you know, this one guy, I can never remember the Awful Truths, the name of the podcast.
I can't remember the name of the podcast, but it's...
Oh, that guy.
That's a great podcast.
That is the most conspiratorial thing ever.
What is the guy's name?
He's so full of it.
So he's got the tapes.
So this is supposedly a Dead Man Switch series of revelations that are going to come out from Virginia Goofrey.
Goofrey.
Whatever.
She's dead.
I mean, she's dead.
She's dead, and this is a dead man.
She explains it.
She's a dead man switch.
I dispute the authenticity because of something she said in here.
I think these are AI-generated.
I like them, and I think they're entertaining, and I think it's funny, and I think if they keep coming out with these, it's going to be great, but I don't believe them.
If you're watching this, it means they got me.
My dead man's switch activated automatically after I missed two scheduled check-ins.
I had it set up months ago because I knew this day was coming.
I did not die by accident.
I was murdered to keep their secrets buried.
My name is Virginia Louise Jouffre.
I was one of Jeffrey Epstein's victims.
I survived Little St. James, but survival came at a price.
I saw too much, knew too much, and now they've silenced me.
But it's too late for them.
They thought killing me would bury their secrets, but this video is going to a few organizations I trust, ones that have been exposing the truth for decades.
You know who you are.
It's your job to continue this fight.
I was 16 when they reeled me in.
I worked at Mar-a-Lago, folding towels, cleaning lockers.
My father kept the tennis courts immaculate.
We were just working folks trying to scrape by.
He was never the threat.
The real predator was Gil Lane Maxwell.
Prim and proper, smiling, promising to teach me massage therapy at the Pink Mansion in Palm Beach.
I had no idea I was being fed into a nightmare machine.
Epstein's Island was hell disguised as paradise.
You've heard some names linked to him, but those are just the sacrificial pawns.
The real players, the ones they've protected at all costs, are still hiding in plain sight.
I'll name two now.
Now, who else got these tapes, so-called tapes?
Well, that's the question I have, because I know that this Awful Truth show, or whatever it's called, I like the name of it.
I mean, it's not the Awful Truth.
It should be.
She says she sent it out to these people.
I don't know.
There hasn't been any follow-up on this.
It hasn't been covered much.
No one's even come out and called it a fraud.
Or AI or whatever.
It's just this kind of just ambling along on the social networks and I find the whole thing peculiar.
Hmm.
What is the name of this podcast with that guy?
Does that make sense?
It could be.
I think it's the real people's voice.
Anyway, here's the next one.
I'll name two now.
The first, a former U.S. president, Barack Obama.
Publicly, he's revered.
Privately, he was one of the worst.
He wasn't there for the girls.
He was there for the island boys.
Young boys, trafficked and groomed.
I saw him more times than I can count, always without his Secret Service detail, sometimes with his Hollywood friends, George Clooney and Tom Hanks.
I still have nightmares about them, arrogant and drunk on power, slinking into the cabanas with kids barely out of childhood.
The second, Bill Gates, the billionaire philanthropist, loved by the media, hailed as a savior.
We called him the benefactor, and we used to dread seeing him naked.
But he didn't come to party.
He came to experiment.
Genetic experiments, human experiments.
I saw him inject a young girl with something they said was a genetic enhancement.
She was younger than me, strapped to a table, terrified, treated like a lab rat while they muttered about seeding the future of the species.
These men think they are gods, playing with life like it was theirs to own.
I'm telling you now, Epstein isn't dead.
They staged his death because he was too valuable.
He held blackmail on some of the most powerful people on earth.
Files, videos, confessions.
They couldn't risk him talking, but they also couldn't risk him gone, so they hid him.
Stashed him under the protection of the same elite who once paid him to supply them with flesh.
And they thought killing me would stop this from coming out.
They were wrong, and there is so much more to come.
They are going to people who can make a difference and nobody can stop it now.
Not even the law enforcement agencies in the US and UK.
The same ones that buried the evidence I handed them can stop this truth from getting out.
If you're watching this, you are the resistance.
Don't let my death be just another headline.
Turn their lies to the ground.
Make the world see the monsters behind the masks.
And to any survivors out there, don't give up.
We're in this together.
They can't kill us all.
Make them pay.
Well, so these videos are, I guess, just audio over a still frame.
Yep.
And when you say data drops and detonate, I'm like, no.
It sounds very anonymous type AI work to me.
Not that I don't want to believe it.
Not that I don't want to believe it.
No, let's look at it as entertainment.
But it's the Gates stuff that triggered me.
It's her comment.
I've known Bill for 40 years.
I haven't seen him for a decade or more, but if I saw him, we know each other.
He liked mom types.
Sorry?
He liked mothers.
He didn't like young girls.
No, he did like young girls.
That's the key.
I can tell you this.
Young, petite blondes.
When she said he didn't come for the girls, there's no way.
I thought that's what she said about Barack Obama.
No, she said about Gates, too.
She said he didn't come for the girls.
Right.
Actually, both of them.
She said that about Barack because he came for the boys.
But Bill didn't come from the girls also.
He came to inject people with genetic material or something for the future.
This is bull crap.
If anything, Bill Gates is notorious for chasing women.
I mean, I've told the stories before about pick me, Bill, the t-shirts and the whole thing.
This makes no sense.
I want it to make sense, John.
I want it to be true.
This is so good.
It's so juicy.
Well, hopefully she'll have more material that we can mock, but...
Well, this is the first data dump, the first detonation.
There's much more alliteration to come.
Yeah, it's going to come out time because it takes that long to get the voice right.
Yeah.
Maybe she's not dead.
That thought crossed my mind.
Well, that's always possible, too.
Whatever the case is, this is a smokescreen for us.
I mean, they could do something.
They could help us out here, the government, with, I don't know, 10,000 hours of tapes.
Is that what the number they threw at us?
Let's put it this way.
This is better than what the government's given us so far.
This is great.
This is dynamite material.
Oh, man.
If you haven't heard it, now you have.
That's good.
Let me just play two quick clips here because the Paris Air Show is on, which is not really in Paris.
It's in Le Bourget.
I've been to this air show.
I found it extremely boring.
There's a bunch of guys in uniforms walking around, a bunch of guys in suits, and it's all about war stuff.
And CNBC caught up with the COO of Lockheed Martin.
And I would say that Mark Rutte is doing his job very well.
Hi, welcome back to Paris and the Paris Air Show.
I'm Phil LeBeau, live with the COO of Lockheed Martin, Frank St. John.
Thank you for joining us.
Lots to discuss because defense is the topic that is happening right now.
And a lot of people are saying, defense spending, are we in the beginning stages here, given everything we're seeing, Ukraine, the Middle East, or are we sort of in those middle innings?
Where would you say we are?
Hey Phil, good to see you again.
And I would say we are in probably the beginning of a three- to five-year surge in defense spending, especially here in Europe.
The first couple of years, there was a lot of dialogue and understanding the issue and understanding the demand for deterrence capability.
Now we're starting to see those budgets come into play in the European countries, as well as some increases back in the U.S. domestically.
So I think for the next three to five years, budgets are going to be pretty substantial.
The business is up.
Everything's groovy.
We're just in the first inning of the game.
This is great.
That's what it sounds like.
And then he asked him about the Golden Dome.
Back in the U.S., a lot of people have heard the president talk about the Golden Dome missile defense system.
On paper, makes sense.
But you know there are more than a few cynics out there saying, now wait a second.
huge country like the United States, could Golden Dome actually work?
Give me your perspective in terms of...
Well, as the world's leader in integrated air and missile defense, Lockheed Martin is really proud to be part of bringing President Trump's vision to us.
And there are a lot of existing capabilities, be it space-based sensing, command and control, surface-based sensing, and effectors that have been proven in conflict over the last several years that are already in existence.
The real challenge is scaling that up in quantity, And then creating the integration of those separate pieces.
And so we definitely think something can be fielded on a rapid pace.
Realistic?
Yes, it's very realistic to have a basic capability on the field within a couple of years, and then in parallel be developing the more advanced threat deterrents, things like space-based interceptors and the like.
How much do the drone threats that are out there now change?
Oh, wait for it.
Directed energy weapons.
It's not true.
They don't exist.
No one uses them.
Conspiracy theory.
Well, it's interesting because the drone threats are, if they're large, we're going to be seeing them handled by the kind of systems we're seeing operating in the Middle East today.
The smaller drone threats, we're actively working on laser weapon systems, high-powered microwaves, ways to deal with those smaller drone threats down kind of in a lower layer.
Ah, what a bonanza.
What a bonanza.
So in short, to summarize the first hour of the show, There's not going to be a nuclear war.
When you see on Instagram, Iranian state media released a video of a guy stroking a bomb that had a big nuclear symbol on it.
It's not going to happen.
Just look at the floor.
The spinning will stop.
It's all going to be okay.
For now.
For now.
Oh, yes.
Now, what won't be okay is big pharma.
Big pharma under a lot of pressure right now, as RFK Jr. is definitely talking about restricting advertising of pharma products on television.
And even CNN had an article like, this will hurt news coverage.
This will hurt news coverage.
Because that's all of our adverts.
They're just coming out and saying it now, which is the funniest thing.
Then the way he's going to do it, this is according to Bloomberg.
So before the loosening of advertising regulations by the FDA in 1997, U.S. pharma companies had to list all possible side effects for medication.
If they wanted to mention which condition the drug was being advertised was intended to treat.
Reading out the long list of side effects took too long and it drove up the cost for airtime too high meant there wasn't as much broadcast advertising as there is today.
The FDA changed this and allowed ads to disclose fewer side effects like, you know, death and also allowed companies to direct customers to talk to their doctor.
Call a phone number or visit a website to get more information.
So rolling that back by itself will, first of all, be a bonanza for the televisions, particularly television news.
Yeah, because the 30-second ads have to go to 60 seconds to get in all the bad stuff.
Exactly.
Exactly.
This ACIP that everyone's making such a big fuss about, the advisory panel on biologics, and of course that's really vaccines.
So RFK Jr. discussed some of the issues.
You remember that, I think it was Celine Gounder, CBS doctor.
Well, this was just like they just dated something wrong on one of their disclosure forms, and we went and looked at the disclosure form, and no, the report, the report was much more damning.
She was misleading the audience.
Well, she was lying.
But you look at the report, it's like, well, 40% didn't even sign the disclosure form, didn't hand it in, they didn't list all the disclosures.
And here's RFK Jr. talking about one particular doctor, Dr. Paul Offit.
So practically, what do you think will be the outcomes of pregnant women not being able to get vaccinated?
I'm sorry, that's the wrong clip.
Here it is.
This is it.
Well, you know, this change, Martha, has been a long time coming.
In 2002...
The Government Oversight Committee held hearings about ACE that lasted almost a year, and they issued a scathing report about the institutionalized conflicts of interest and corruption.
One of the examples they gave was that four out of the five members who voted to recommend the rotavirus vaccine to this schedule had a direct financial interest in that vaccine.
One of those individuals voted to add it to the schedule, and then he subsequently sold his vaccine.
He owned and developed a guy called Dr. Paul Offit, and...
So he said he won the lottery because of his vote.
That panel found that 97% of the people on the committee had conflicts of interest.
So, Dr. Paul Offit.
$186 million.
Nice little payday for voting for a vaccine that you then sold the patent to.
And here's Dr. Paul Offit now about this taking the COVID vaccine, of which he was a huge beneficiary of approving it, what he's saying about this no longer being recommended.
So practically, what do you think will be the outcomes of pregnant women not being able to get vaccinated against COVID?
What you'd like to see is you would like to see what is inevitable happening, which is that a pregnant person gets COVID, suffers severely or dies, and then there's a lawsuit against the federal government.
Saying that I couldn't get this, I couldn't afford the vaccine, and I couldn't pay for it, and my insurance company wouldn't pay for it.
And my doctor was scared to give it.
And now, you know, I've suffered, or in the case of the family, this person has died, and they sue the federal government.
For what should be an obviously winnable lawsuit, which is that every other country considers this to be a high-risk condition.
We don't.
You made it much more difficult for me to get this vaccine, and I'm going to sue you for it.
So you can't sue the manufacturers of vaccines when you are injured by their product, but this doctor in the pharmaceutical industry says, well, you should be able to sue the government for telling you not to take it.
What an upside-down world these people live in.
And a pregnant person should die, and then they can have a lawsuit.
That's what I want.
I want someone to die.
That's what he said.
That's literally what he said.
Horrible man.
He is a horrible man.
What do you have on Naomi Wolf?
I love my Naomi Wolf.
Tell me what you got on Naomi Wolf.
This is an indictment.
She had an EMF guy on who was just a...
What is an EMF guy?
Not EMF.
IMF.
No, no, no.
EMP.
No.
Make up your mind.
I'm trying to get it.
It's the electromagnetic field, EMF.
Oh, EMF.
So like Wi-Fi signals and stuff?
Yeah, Wi-Fi signals.
Signals from your satellite dish.
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
I got it.
Okay, so EMF.
She's got an EMF guy on who's selling some product or something.
Well, let me guess.
A bracelet.
A bracelet?
Similar.
Yeah, okay.
So she...
This is just a condemnation clip.
We play these once in a while.
I dig them up.
You dig them up.
We both do it.
And it's a clip showing that the person that we're listening to and you have an admiration for is an idiot.
Yes, that's fine.
I can still admire her whether she's an idiot.
So this is a clip that proves she's an idiot.
She has this guy on about EMF.
He's talking about, you know, what you can and can't do to minimize.
Like, I'm on board with this idea of minimizing our availability to getting blasted by all these radio waves.
And that's why I have the home networking thing as opposed to Wi-Fi.
Yep, I know.
I'm on board with you on that, for sure.
Yeah.
And I took a Wi-Fi router, or not a router, but a repeater that was in my bedroom.
Oh, bad.
We have no Wi-Fi.
Oh, yeah.
No, that's been gone for years.
But I noticed my sleep improved.
Sure.
So there's something to it.
But not this.
Now, this is the she's an idiot clip about her and her concerns about the radio frequency problems.
Wow.
So there are other EMF product companies out there I know because I And my husband was like, are you insane?
This is voodoo.
How do you know this is going to work?
And I have no evidence that it worked.
$400?
She has a pendant she wears she spent $400 for.
Wow, exit strategy, bro.
We got to be selling pendants.
And you know what we have?
We got med beds.
That's what we have.
We got med beds for y 'all.
Don't worry.
We're going to fix all that ails you with a med bed.
So I had to get that clip just to say, hey, okay.
Poor Naomi.
Yeah, that's kind of bad.
Yeah, she's very...
And throughout this discussion, she had a lot of, oh, wow, and oh, my God, oh, my God, because she didn't know anything.
She's so...
This guy's just bulldozing her.
And it was just, it was a pathetic, pathetic presentation.
Well, let's just stay on that and preventing yourself from death, from all kinds of horrible things.
This is CBS.
And this is a breakthrough.
We have a breakthrough.
Now to that breakthrough in the battle against AIDS.
Decades after an AIDS diagnosis was a death sentence, the FDA today approved the first drug that is almost totally effective in preventing the disease.
It is lenacapivir.
To show you just how far we've come, the CDC reported the first cases in 1981.
The next year, the disease got a name, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
That same year, actor Rock Hudson announced he had it.
In 1987, the FDA approved the first AIDS treatment, AZT.
Yeah, that was a good one, Fauci.
In 1991, Magic Johnson of the LA Lakers announced he was HIV positive.
In 1992, AIDS became the number one cause of death for American men ages 25 to 44. After treatment of AZT.
In 1997, highly active antiretroviral therapy increased HIV life expectancy by 15 years.
In 2021, the FDA approved the first long-acting shot used for HIV treatment.
Since 1981, more than 700,000 people in this country have died of AIDS.
So, what is this wonder drug?
Tell us more about it.
And Dr. John LaPook joins us now.
John, people using the word breakthrough for this, does it warrant that?
This is huge.
I remember my first patient with HIV-AIDS, March of 1981, first bet on the left.
It was the first bet on the left.
By the way, this is an ad, just so you know.
This is a marketing exercise with a very specific reason.
He does.
You think this is a native ad?
Do you think they're paid for the time?
Yeah, well, it's not necessarily to sell the product, but they need something else.
The product is new and you'll hear it.
On the left, he died and so did every single patient with HIV I saw for years.
Then we had these new drugs that were effective and the concept of taking a pill every day to prevent HIV AIDS.
The problem was people weren't compliant.
They weren't taking it.
It was hard to get it to people and there was a stigma associated with taking it.
By the way, all bull crap.
PrEP has been nothing but advertised to death on television.
And people didn't comply.
Let me see.
You don't want to die because of what you've been told.
So you have to take a pill.
I think the pill is even once a week.
And that was the problem.
The problem was people, they wanted to die.
They didn't take the pill.
It was hard to get bull crap.
Bullcrap!
It's on the insurance schedule, everything.
This is not true.
The problem was people weren't compliant.
They weren't taking it.
It was hard to get it to people.
And there was a stigma associated with taking it.
An injection twice a year, that's more than 99.9% effective at preventing HIV AIDS in people at high risk.
What are the obstacles that remain here, John?
We're hearing that cost is super high.
Oh, there it is.
to a spokeswoman today from Gilead.
She said it's gonna be about $28,000 a year at list price.
At list price.
Best price.
Best price.
28,000.
Best price.
Best price.
But they're making all sorts of efforts, she said, to make it more widely available to everyone.
But the problem, of course, is in the United States, we have decreased support from federal programs both inside the United States and abroad for HIV prevention.
So the question remains, are we going to be able to have access and use and instructions for people who need it?
My goodness.
Isn't there a $1 solution, which I was told as a kid?
Wear a condom?
Wasn't that the one dollar solution to this problem?
Not even that a dollar, is it?
No, I think they're more probably.
The ones I need.
That was good.
The timing was good.
Thank you.
Thanks, I appreciate it.
No, I didn't write it down.
That came out on the fly.
I know you couldn't have.
On the fly.
So, my goodness.
My goodness.
It's like, no.
One day they should really publish.
I have so many books on it.
People I knew.
They all died of AIDS after AZT treatment.
They went into the hospital and that was it.
Oh, I tested positive.
It was like COVID.
It was the same people.
Birx and Fauci.
Oh, I tested positive.
I'm going to the hospital.
Didn't come out.
Oh, I tested positive for COVID.
Went in the hospital.
Didn't come out.
Ugh.
These ghouls.
These ghouls, these people.
And now, oh, we need government money for this.
For this, oh, it's only a shot.
Well, I thought the messaging in that particular presentation, I'll call it, was really just to get you to associate that with the pregnant woman that can't get the shot because she can't afford it or whatever.
Oh, you know, we got a boots on the ground from one of our producers.
Let me read this to you.
From the douchebag mailman.
My wife is five months pregnant.
She's 30. I'm 35. We've been trying to get pregnant for six years with no success, which I attributed to vaccines I received while in the Air Force.
My wife has been adamant since day one of her pregnancy, so I guess it worked, that she doesn't want hospitals involved at all, but started all of her appointments through a local women's clinic because of our insurance.
After much research on vaccines and the vitamin K shot, we both agreed we will leave our baby's health to God and respond as responsible parents, but we did not want to take the chance with any vax.
So I had to test my doctor without letting her know our position.
I said to my doctor, we don't have an opinion yet, but this is our first baby, so we don't know what we don't know, and we'd love to know your opinions about vaccines.
She starts explaining how privileged she is to be in the medical field so she doesn't even have to research the vaccines that she feels are bad for people like us because of all the misinformation out there.
She explains how we as a country are going back in time because of anti-vaxxers and how many cases of measles and polio have already been reported.
Really?
Polio?
Five minutes of doom and gloom.
Obviously I'm nodding along like I'm totally eating her BS, but I can see my wife about to blow up.
So even though I knew we would never see this doctor again, I wanted to see how deep the hole goes.
I said, what brought this conversation up as a commercial for the COVID vaccine and how safe it is for pregnant women?
So we wanted to get it, but we want to get your input before we do.
She turns to my wife and says, if we have a COVID outbreak, the first people who are going to die is the pregnant woman!
I recommend you both get the vaccine to protect yourselves and your baby!
You can see as she walked out how proud of herself she was for convincing us that there are zero reasons to question a vaccine.
We have an appointment with a midwife this week we'll be having at home.
Water birth.
Screw the experts.
In the morning to you both.
Good job.
Good job.
Excellent report.
Excellent report.
All that was missing was a recording.
Yeah, yeah.
Come on, people.
Wear a wire.
Do better.
Yes, do better.
Wear a wire.
Wear a wire.
Come on, man.
Either that or get a good cell phone program and just leave the phone on the record.
Because the cell phones record very well.
Yeah, well, the iPhone has a built-in recorder.
You can just use that.
Yep, just put that on and record the conversation.
Real easy.
Real easy.
What else you got, John?
We got a few minutes before we take a break here.
I got some TikTok stuff.
I got a crazy...
I got the hitman stories.
I also have the long Aisha, the black chick on PBNPR.
Oh, let's do Aisha.
That'll fit nicely.
I think that time.
Okay, well, this is long.
This is long.
But they're short, luckily.
It's long, but they're short.
I'm confused.
Long, but they're short.
This is about a thing they're trying to do.
This is...
Have you had two concerns?
Me personally?
No, in general.
Everybody.
Everybody has these two.
There's only two main concerns.
Inflation?
The real big problems.
Not Trump.
Inflation?
No.
Well, then I'm lost.
That was my big one.
Housing's number one.
Housing.
Cost of housing.
Okay.
Yeah.
Climate change.
I'm sorry.
I should have known better.
How can I be so stupid?
Climate change.
Why isn't that number one?
No, housing is number one because it's not number one in this presentation because we're talking about something called the green social housing.
And that's not the clip.
The clip we're listening to is Laisha.
Aisha's big story, number one.
We go beyond the news to bring you one big story.
On this show, you know, we often talk a lot about the problems facing our country and our world.
But today we have a story about a solution.
It addresses two of the biggest problems affecting people across the country, housing and climate change.
*Pewds laughing*
Wow, they played that horn on NPR?
I'm baffled.
Amazing.
So now we've got two.
By the way, the troll room has different priorities, like one, drugs, two, how to get them.
I'm like, yeah, okay.
Yeah, well, that's more likely to be the real consensus as opposed to housing and climate change.
To tell us more, we have NPR's climate solutions correspondent, Julia Simon.
I want this job!
Climate Solutions Correspondent.
Not the Climate Correspondent.
Not the Weather Correspondent.
Climate Solutions Correspondent.
To tell us more, we have NPR's Climate Solutions Correspondent, Julia Simon.
Hello, Aisha.
Today, I want to take you to a place that's working to combat climate change through their housing.
That place is Vienna.
So, Vienna.
Austria?
You're not talking about, like, Vienna, Virginia.
No.
Vienna, Austria.
You know where I get my scripts from.
Okay, okay.
Julia, like how did you find yourself reporting on climate and housing in Vienna?
And it seems like you're very good at Did they put this Viennese waltz underneath the music, or did you do that?
No, I didn't do it.
Oh, brother.
Julia, like, how did you...
And it seems like you're very good at getting these good gigs.
Oh my goodness, you are right.
And like many great adventures, this one started at a happy hour.
A happy hour for climate researchers.
And these climate researchers, they kept repeating one word over and over.
Vienna.
Vienna, Vienna.
And I was like, what is the deal with Vienna?
I had to find out.
A few months ago, my colleague Ryan Kelman and I traveled to the Austrian capital.
My hat just flew off because it's very windy.
Boondoggle!
We were in this big grassy park with playgrounds full of kids.
There's a bunch of apartment buildings around this park, but one stands out.
It's a modern building.
It's lots of wood, lots of windows.
On one of the top floors, I see a guy in a beanie waving.
That's him waving to us.
And we finally catch up to him.
How are you?
I'm fine.
Great!
This is Sebastian.
Schublach, if you need the full name.
Schublach works at a think tank.
He's lived in this modern building for about six years with his wife and two young daughters.
He loves talking about his apartment building, so he takes us on a tour.
Should we go upstairs?
Yes, let's do it.
It's six floors plus a basement, 34 apartments, lots of shared amenities.
Look at how beautiful!
Like a library.
A sunlit library.
A rooftop.
Did she mention what think tank this guy works for?
Is he working in some kind of climate solutions think tank?
No, she never does.
Wow.
And by the way, these clips, we're on the three, I think.
This presentation must have been 45 minutes.
Well, we had to make up for the cost of it to send these nut jobs to Vienna to go, Hi, hey, hi.
That's pretty much...
Okay, we're going to three.
Here we go.
And Ayesha, there are a lot of climate-friendly aspects, things that help the building reduce planet heating pollution.
The plants on the roof, they help keep the building cool in the summer, so it uses less energy.
There are solar panels.
They're on the rooftop.
Oh, just over there.
There are cool window shades on the outside of the apartment that help keep out the sunlight and the heat in summer.
Shoublok uses a switch to put them up and down.
Do you mind showing us?
A switch!
A switch!
This all sounds really nice.
But, I mean, he must be paying a lot for this.
A lot for this.
For the plants on the roof.
Electric switch to close the blinds, basically.
How is that climate-friendly?
It doesn't sound climate-friendly to me.
No.
It's using electricity.
Should be charging a Tesla with it.
Oh, I'm sorry.
We don't buy Teslas anymore.
Wow.
So we go on to clip four, which is, you know, Aisha reading her script, and she says, how much does it cost?
And so they tell her, oh, it's not that bad.
All right, go on.
Well, for a four-bedroom utility is included, plus the shared space.
He pays about $1,700 a month.
Which is not cheap, cheap, but it is definitely affordable.
Oh, God.
You don't want to know what people are paying in America.
Aisha, the whole reason we came to Vienna is because this climate-friendly apartment, it's not some fancy private apartment.
It's actually subsidized by Vienna's city government.
It's something called social housing.
Oh, dude.
Okay.
So now I know what to tell my daughter.
Can I just take an interrupt before you get to your big payoff?
Yeah, please.
I only have two clips left.
Because Christina and Kevin, they want to start a family, and they're looking for an apartment with two.
It would be great if it had three bedrooms.
They'd settle for two.
And they can't find it because they don't qualify for social housing or climate-friendly social subsidized housing.
And because of the asylum seekers, Who get all the housing, it's impossible to find anything.
And they're really having a tough time.
And now I'm like, nah, you need to go to a climate social subsidized housing, I gotta tell her.
By the way, and if anyone knows anything in Rotterdam, even outside of Rotterdam, please email me, adamccurry.com.
They're desperate.
So there you go.
My commercial is done.
That was good.
Yeah.
Okay, four.
No, five.
Isn't it five?
Five.
Oh, we're on five.
And so social housing, is that...
Like, what exactly is that?
Social housing, it's kind of like public housing.
It's the government playing a role.
And look, we're in this moment when the Trump administration is posing big cuts to public housing, cutting funding to reduce climate pollution.
You might think now is a bad time to learn about climate-friendly housing in Vienna.
But in places like Chicago and Denver, government officials think now is actually a great time.
Yeah, it's a great time.
Because of Trump.
Because of Trump.
Trump is...
It's like government housing.
No, it's government housing.
Not like.
It is government housing.
So they bring this up, and the last clip is the one that says green social housing, which is government housing, and about what's going on.
Chicago is implementing this, and we have to...
Chicago is the one that built the tenements that they had to tear down one after the other because it was ridden with gangs.
Chicago is always doing this stuff and they're always failing over and over and over again.
And here they are again, because now there's a green component to the argument.
So we're going to have these crap people.
Here we go.
So how much progress has Chicago made?
They expect the first groundbreaking for this new green social housing next year.
I mean, we just passed this ordinance, so we have some work to do to implement and get this off the ground.
But Aisha, it isn't just local politicians getting inspired by Vienna.
I am Tina Smith, and I am United States Senator from Minnesota.
Senator Smith went to Vienna a few years ago.
She was on holiday, but she couldn't help herself from researching the housing.
I'm constantly thinking about this because I'm always trying to figure out how cities are dealing with the housing crunch, which is such a huge issue in America.
When Senator Smith got back to Washington, she got together with her colleague in Congress, New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Last of all, they introduced something called the Homes Act.
It would establish a new housing authority to make affordable housing and provide money for climate upgrades.
The upfront money to be able to make the kind of energy improvements that are so important to lower costs for people in the long term and also deal with climate pollution.
The bill hasn't gone anywhere yet.
Climate pollution.
Oh, man.
And they said the bill's going nowhere because it's going nowhere and there's no such thing as climate pollution.
There is a new report.
Study suggests climate disasters hit the brain before babies are even born.
Quote, quote, what we are seeing is compelling evidence that the climate crisis is not just an environmental emergency.
It is potentially a neurological one.
Yes.
Your baby, your baby is dying from climbing...
Suggests a new report.
Peer-reviewed by PLOS One.
Yes, yes.
And then let me ask you, weren't we way past the 1.5 degrees that everyone was at?
Are you sure we're past that?
I'm pretty sure we've gone past it.
I mean, I can recall that we'd already have to be.
It's colder than ever around here.
No, but I mean...
Well, let's listen.
The world is heating up and faster than predicted.
That's the finding of a new study.
Humans are releasing so much greenhouse gas that within three years, planet Earth will likely be unable to avoid 1.5 degrees Celsius of long-term warming since pre-industrial times.
The 1.5 degree goal established by the 2015 Paris Agreement has been a cornerstone of international efforts to curb climate change.
At 1.5 or at 2 degrees, We now expect higher risks to ecosystems, to poor populations, for tipping points to happen.
This is my favorite.
For tipping points to happen.
Is 1.5, isn't that the tipping point?
That was the tipping point.
But now, he said that's 1.5 or 2. Yeah, for tipping points to happen.
For tipping points to happen and for extreme events to happen.
So we expect them to happen at lower levels of warming compared to the evidence and the scientific knowledge we had at the time of the Paris Agreement.
Ah, the Paris Agreement was wrong.
We have new evidence.
Researchers say humans can release only 130 billion more metropolitans.
tons of CO2 before the 1.5 limit becomes inevitable.
And we're on crank to reach that limit by early 2028.
Within three years, we will have emitted...
Coincidentally, isn't that an election year, 2028?
I'm just saying.
And we're on track to reach that limit by early 2028.
Within three years, we will have emitted the remaining carbon budget for limiting warming to 1.5 degrees with at least a 50% chance.
So that means if we emit more, there is only lower chances than one in two that warming will be kept.
Scientists say crossing that limit would mean worse heatwaves, bigger storms, and small island nations engulfed by rising sea levels.
You missed the last bit there.
I'm sorry, play it again.
Lower chances than one in two that warming will be kept.
Scientists say crossing that limit would mean worse heatwaves, bigger storms, and small island nations engulfed by rising sea levels.
We're being engulfed by rising sea levels!
Oh, man.
And so much money in these climate solutions.
So much money.
And we are not getting any of it.
Yeah.
But what have we learned?
We've learned in this show, so far we've learned about carbon budget, our carbon budget.
Yeah, and climate pollution.
Climate pollution and the multipolar world.
So, look out for those terms, everybody, and avoid them like the plague.
And with that, I want to thank you for your courage.
Talk, talk, talk.
Stop, stop.
What happened?
I'm out of control.
You're out of control!
I am out.
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 solutions correspondent.
Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one, the only, Mr. John C. DeMora.
Yeah, well, in the morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry.
In the morning, our ship received boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the names of knights out there.
In the morning to the patrols in the patrol room.
We're trying to count the patrols.
Seems like we have a problem tonight.
I can't get the accurate troll count.
Come on, Cotton Gin, what's going on?
It was probably somewhere around a little under 1800.
I'm waiting to see if it shows up.
Hmm.
Hmm.
No, I don't know.
Got a lot of trolls.
Not as much as we should have, but a lot of trolls are tuning in, and they are doing that at trollroom.io.
By the way, on the quad screen right now, I forgot to mention, President Trump has said, two more weeks before I make a decision.
Two more weeks.
That takes that long for the last carrier group to get in place.
Yeah, two more weeks.
1943.
There we go.
1943.
Oh.
That's up.
That's up a little bit.
Well, you know why.
Bombs.
Iran.
Oh, see those guys are shitting for the Jews again.
Where's our Jew money?
We got like a hundred bucks last time.
Yeah.
Where's our Jew?
What a jip.
Yeah.
How come we don't have Tucker Qatar money?
Come on, people.
Step it up a little bit.
This is getting annoying.
We don't get climate money.
None of that money.
And I just love people who think that we shill for that.
It's like, okay, well, yeah, it's not a profitable shilling business we're in then.
So the trolls, they're at trollroom.io, and we've got a lot of, we've got more trolls than regularly listening in.
That's great.
You can also get into that troll room.
You can actually troll around, do stuff.
They've been pretty funny today.
A lot of, like, boomers, boomers, boomers, boomers, boomers, boomers.
You know what?
Although I believe I'm boomer adjacent, in this case, I will step over the line and say, you should be happy you've got boomers who are here to tell you, out of experience and long lifetime, what is bullcrap.
Yeah.
Yeah, seriously.
I don't get it.
That's just, that's what the kids do these days.
You know how it is.
What do you say about our parents?
Oh, man.
We didn't have a good term.
We didn't say, hey!
Hey, silent generation!
What did we say?
We had nothing to say.
We didn't have a cool term for them.
For our parents?
Yeah, well, my parents were born just before the Second World War, so what did it make them?
Boomers?
No, the boomers were born in 46 and up.
Okay, so what were my parents then?
They were either silent generation or the greatest generation, one of the two.
Well, see, that doesn't work.
Hey, hey, shut up, you greatest generation people.
See, it doesn't work.
Boomers.
That sounds better.
Boomers.
Boomers.
We got gypped on that, too.
The way this program works is we always ask for Muslim and Jew money.
Never works.
We try to get climate money.
Never works.
So instead, we decide, you know what?
We don't run big pharma ads because they take up the whole show with all their disclaimers about how you're going to die from their products.
So instead, we said, if you get any value out of this program, this podcast that we do twice a week, we've been doing it over 17 years, just send some value back to us from time to time, whenever it hits you.
You know, like, oh, that was valuable to me.
What was that worth to me?
Well, let me look at my wallet.
It's different for everybody, and that's what I love about the system.
If everybody supported us, even with a couple of bucks, it would be much better, but it's all right.
It's what it is.
You can go to noagendadonations.com, or you can support us in other ways, sending in boots on the ground.
We've got lots of people doing technical work for us, like our websites, the Noagenda Meetups websites, the Noagenda Art Generator is another example.
And, of course, we have our prompt jockeys, formerly known as artists, who are working diligently, putting together artworks so that we can look cool, suave, funny, and relevant.
With a modern piece of art, and we're very traditionalist in that case, in that regard, which is why on Father's Day, we try to go for a piece of Father's Day art, and we looked at the art generator, there were a lot of them, but the one we chose was from Blue Acorn, who has had several wins in the past few months, and it was a, I would call it graffiti, John calls it graffiti, that is something we will never agree on, that said, Happy Father's Day, no agenda, Kareem Dvorak, and we both liked it.
We didn't even have an argument about it.
Just like, yeah, that's the one.
Right?
It's true, yeah.
Yeah.
What else was there?
I like that style anyway when somebody can pull it off.
Well, you said, we haven't had graffiti in a while.
I'm like, no, we haven't had graffiti in a while.
It's true.
We haven't had graffiti in a while.
Graffiti.
Probably five years, maybe.
No, it hasn't been that long.
I don't believe that for a second.
No.
Yeah.
I don't think so.
Maybe two.
We see we had some Happy Father's Day socks.
It was actually kind of low on the Father's Day art, wouldn't you say?
It wasn't a lot of it.
Yeah.
You have nothing to say, do you?
You're just done.
No, I'm sorry.
Are you writing a book?
Are you doing something else?
Yes, I am.
I'm in the middle of writing a book on vinegar.
It's so old, man.
Most of these appear to be prompted works, and I kind of like Scaramanga's passed-out dad, two beers.
No, you don't kind of like it.
You liked it.
Yeah.
The issue is, again, Curry Dvorak is very small, and we are very important in the artwork, so that's a mistake Scaramanga makes more often.
He thinks his art is more important than the show.
Yeah, that's what he does.
That's him.
Yes, and his art is looking more and more washed out.
This is the problem with AI.
That piece, yes, we both noticed this.
It has got a very limited dynamic range, which is the term I like to use.
And it's noticeable.
Where's the white?
There's no whites.
There's no whites.
There's no blacks.
It's all mud.
And this is the same thing that's happening with the DH Unplugged show, which goes live Tuesdays and is available to you Wednesday once a week.
It's a great show about the financial markets.
And even Horowitz is like, this is no good.
I can't get it to look good anymore.
So what's happening?
I'm looking at all the yarn and see which ones have big dynamic range in this.
The ones that are probably done by Photoshop, which are no good.
That's the problem.
it really is not a lot Common Strict blogger did something on Photoshop or something that's very high.
Blue Acorns, though, I'm looking at his works, and they all have Yeah, and all the cartoon stuff is looking like all the other cartoon stuff.
Yes, this is really bothersome because there's so many different styles of cartooning.
Why do they all have this same kind of pudgy look of the pudgy kid in the show?
What was it called?
The Texans talk to each other like this.
Oh, a dad?
King of the Hill.
King of the Hill, yeah.
Yeah, it was Bobby.
They all looked like Bobby.
But look at Scaramanga's Dr. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band.
It's the same washed out.
Everything's getting washed out.
Low dynamic range, as you say.
It's noticeable.
It's noticeable, and I think it's a problem.
It's hurting the show, people.
It's hurting the show.
Thank you very much, Blue Acorn.
We appreciate your contribution as always.
All of the artists, real or prompting, it all ultimately comes down to what is the conceit?
What is your idea?
What is the joke?
What is the gag?
And then the execution.
But we will even go for poor execution from the farmer's wife kids over...
No, it's the farmer's wife, I think.
Oh, it's the farmer's wife kids.
Yeah, you're right.
Yeah, over, you know...
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It was suggested that that is the Juneteenth donation.
Juneteenth.
Did you promise any special credits for Juneteenth donations?
I just said it was a good idea.
Oh, well, it's a very good idea.
Dynamite.
I love it.
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Sir Danimal's up next.
He came in with 500 bucks, and he sent in a note, which I have somewhere here.
There it is.
Nope, there it is.
A very short note.
He's up there.
He's way up there.
He should be boosting his titles.
He's in high range.
ITM's Guardians of Reality, he writes.
Happy Father's Day to you both and to all the dads out there.
Karma, please stay safe, Sir Danimal, Baron of the Secret City.
All right, stay safe yourself.
You've got karma.
And then coming in with $333.33, another note.
It appears these are no longer scans.
These are pictures that Jay is taking.
No, this is not.
Here's the issue.
There was an issue.
Yeah, Jay is sick.
Oh, who did the spreadsheet?
Brennan came over.
Oh, that's awesome.
And he did it, and so it's going to be different.
Wow, that's so cool that he did that.
He stepped in for his wife.
That's nice.
Yeah, no, he's a good guy.
He is a good guy.
And, you know, of course, we'll dock Jay's pay, give it to Brennan.
Dear John and Adam.
There you go.
This is the actual, the real Adam Curry, by the way, you just heard.
That's right.
This is from Dame.
I remember this is the item he used to when he was at Medio we'd go out he'd always be smoking so he's outside smoking because you can't smoke in buildings in San Francisco so he's outside smoking he's got his phone and he's smoking while looking at the phone and people would come in late They'd be coming in five minutes late.
Ten o 'clock.
And he'd always look up, oh, so, hey, glad you could make it.
We start at nine here.
And he'd just ridicule each person as they came in late.
You would stand there with me, Dvorak.
Because I was cracking up.
It wasn't five minutes late.
It would be like 10, 10.30.
I'd be, hey, good morning.
I was here at nine.
Yeah, I'm an a-hole.
Dear John and Adam, writes Dame Tony Health, ITM donations have been so bad lately I feel compelled to donate now instead of waiting until show 1776 for the big bicentennial event.
I recently moved to Oklahoma City and purchased a new built home.
This is the second house I've purchased in five years.
I noticed that homes are no longer made with landlines in them, making it mandatory for people to have cell phones if they want to call someone.
I don't even know if it's possible to have one installed.
This makes your idea of putting your phone in a drawer impractical.
So your phone in a book box is not a good exit strategy.
Sorry, Adam.
No, they got nicks.
Also, something I've noticed about the protesters.
Why are they carrying flags from their home countries if they are protesting being sent back there?
They are so proud of the nation.
Why not stay there?
It makes no sense to me.
They burned the American flag but want to stay here.
They are just protesting to cause commotion and nothing more.
Senseless.
But enough ranting.
Thank you for your courage.
Dame Tony Helps.
Sent from my iPhone on a piece of paper.
Nice.
Thank you very much, Dave Tony.
A couple of things.
One, if you have an internet connection, your internet provider, 90% of all internet providers can give you a landline phone as part of the service, free.
My landline is from sonic.net.
It's fiber optics.
It comes into the little box there, the fiber box that comes in the house.
And off of that, Is the landline, which feeds into the wire, well, it is wired in the house for a landline.
It plugs into that and covers the whole house with landlines.
So you can get it.
You can get a landline.
You can put this phone in the drawer if you have an internet provider.
The only good phone is a landline, and the phone should be made out of Bakelite.
Ah, the tech grouch.
Where is he?
Where is he?
So Tomonymous, Tomonymous in English.
A mouse?
A mouse?
A mouse, Pennsylvania?
Emus.
I'm going to say Emus.
E-M-M-A-U-S.
Somebody from Pennsylvania should know how to pronounce it.
Because I look at it and it says a mouse.
A mouse!
315.
Tomonymous here.
Giving a huge thanks to all the producers of No Agenda and an even bigger thanks to Adam and John for creating V4V and continuing to dedicate their time to the greatest podcast in the universe.
If anybody loves movie podcasts or just wondering if a film is worth a watch, check out the Daily Ratings podcast or dailyratings.com.
It's like a value-for-value rotten tomatoes, which has been corrupted, by the way.
Yes.
Or IMDB, but actually good.
It's a love and light, Tomonymous.
All right, then we have a note from Slovenia.
This is nice.
Yes, I have to comment on this when you're done.
Luka Dusak, $300.
And let's see what Luka says.
Hi, John and Adam.
In our emails, you mentioned...
You visited Ljubljana, the capital of horse meat, wooden cars, and your First Lady Melania.
Wow, what a trio.
You also mentioned you regretted not buying some Tito memorabilia, so I went out and got some for you.
Thank you and Adam for the best media deconstruction show on the planet, and I hope this letter finds you well.
Luca Duzak from Slovenia.
Oh, that's very nice.
Thank you, Slovenia.
Yes, he sent some memorabilia in a box.
Tito memorabilia?
Yeah.
Wow.
He got some Tito stamps for my stamp collection.
Oh, there you go.
And a Tito coin.
And there's a replica, I think.
I hope.
I think.
A Nazi poster.
Nice.
Which was a wanted poster for Tito.
They wanted to kill him.
Wow!
And that's an original poster?
No, I think it's a replication.
It's too good.
As an archivist, I know old from new.
Okay.
And it doesn't have the earmarks of something that originated in the 30s.
That's very cool.
But it's still cool looking.
That's very cool.
And there was another item or two that came.
Oh yeah, cassette tape of some Tito's speeches or songs about Tito.
I haven't played it yet.
But yeah, I want to thank him for going out of his way to get me some Tito memorabilia.
Very nice.
Onward.
Lawrence Cornell in Battle Creek, Michigan.
24697.
Jobs karma for my son, Gavin the Giant Ginger.
I have a visual.
Please.
Thanks to all who make the show possible.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
Karma.
Moving right along to Cole Calistra in Punta Gorda, Florida, 233, Associate Executive Producership for you, Cole.
Thank you for your courage, he writes, looking for some OG jobs karma since my employer, AWS, decided I need to relocate from Florida to New York in two months if I wanted to keep my job.
Well, yeah, that's a step down.
Sir Kalistra, jobs karma for you.
Not to mention the tax burden.
Exactly.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
You've got karma.
And if I was him, I'd quit.
Yeah, are you in Florida?
No state income taxes?
No, no.
Better life?
Horrible.
Nicer weather except for the hurricane season, which is coming up?
Brian McCormick in Morgantown, West Virginia.
Well, I was in Salem, but we often traveled to Morgantown.
Yeah, that's where the whores were.
Hey, by the way, bonus content.
There's huge articles and videos in the Netherlands.
You know, prostitution is legal if you're an escort or in a brothel in the Netherlands.
Are those little booths considered brothels?
No, that's done.
They got rid of the red light district.
What?
Yeah, they turned it into the fashion district.
What?
Yeah, they ruined it.
The socialists, they ruined it.
Which reminds you of a story.
So they're doing interviews with escort ladies about the NATO summit and business is booming!
Particularly the dinner dates and overnight stays.
It's really funny.
Because there you can just interview them like, oh yeah, no, we've got everyone's books.
Do they name names?
No, no, no, no.
Come on.
They have professional courtesy.
They're not going to do that.
They're professionals.
Oh, well.
Tell that to Stormy Daniels.
Brian McCormick, let's go back to him.
He's in Morgantown, West Virginia, 222.
This is his donation.
This is actually a switcheroo, so you might want to make a note.
This is a donation of 222.
the associate executive producer credit goes to Kim.
The only person that I've ever successfully hit in the mouth.
Now, do you think Kim is related to him or is it a...
And in this case, The row of ducks has a meaning.
Okay.
Jingle request.
I love my truck.
Respect Reverend L. on the more you know.
And the more you know.
What is...
I don't know if he's related or not, but get her in the mouth.
Just be Kim.
All right.
We're waiting.
Look.
There it is.
Sorry.
I lost it in the pile of crap.
I gotta clean this desk off.
I love my truck and I love what I do.
R-E-S-P-I-C-T.
The more you know in the morning.
Eli the Coffee Guy checks in from Bensonville, Illinois.
We love Eli the Coffee Guy and his outstanding product.
20619.
Happy Juneteenth.
It's funny.
I spent my whole life not knowing about this amazing holiday, and I'm black!
But you're not in Texas, and you're not dumb.
Thank you.
Yet another great excuse for a paid date off for all the government workers out there.
Thank you, Adam and John, for your dedication of working through the holidays, from Easter to Thanksgiving, and now Juneteenth!
It's not President's Day, and we ain't selling mattresses, so no Juneteenth sale here at Gigawatt Coffee Roasters.
However, we do offer 20% to fellow producers on their first order by using code ITM20, so grab a bag today.
Thank you for your courage, and stay caffeinated, says Eli the Coffee Guy.
That brings us to Linda Lupatkin.
And by the way, I'm out of coffee.
I'm on my last bag.
It's in the grinder.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Bagless.
You're bagless.
How about you?
We're still good, but I think we're back on the schedule with Eli.
Tina really appreciates the decaf.
You only need to send one bag.
It's okay.
She doesn't drink all that much coffee anymore, but she does appreciate it.
And I like anything that's dark roast and gets me hopped up.
Yeah, if you listen to the pre-show, we can all tell.
Linda Lou Patkins, she's in Lakewood, Colorado, and she wants Jobs K. Special Ks.
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That's ImageMakers Inc.
with a K. And work with Linda Lou, Duchess of Jobs and writer of winning resumes.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs!
Well, she's rewritten her copy, but I don't like, I don't think it's that bad.
You know, I kind of like the, for a resume that tells your story, highlights your wins, and shows why you're unique.
I think it's well done.
I think some of the girls at the escort business use that too.
Let me show you my wins and show me why I'm unique.
Sailor.
Thank you very much to these executive and associate executive producers.
We are very grateful for the value you send back, and obviously it's because you get value out of the show.
That's how simple it is.
That's how it works.
Anyone can go to noagendadonations.com, set up a donation.
A recurring one if you want.
Any amount, any frequency, or a one-timer.
There's many different ways to support the show.
All of it matters.
Every single bit, and we appreciate everybody, and we'll thank the rest of our producers, $50 and above, in the second segment.
And again, thank you to these executive and associate executive producers.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
You.
What?
Order.
Shut up, slave.
Shut up, slave.
you you you you you Well, I want to play some TikTok clips.
Okay, you've got to come close to the microphone, though.
I'm on top of it.
Did it change again?
Did the volume change?
I haven't changed anything.
No, you just move away.
No, I wasn't.
I was on top of it.
If I was any closer, I'd be behind it.
Talk.
Talk TikTok.
All right, TikTok clips, everybody.
The moment everybody's been waiting for.
Who cares about nuclear war?
TikTok clips on deck.
Well, then, if you're concerned about that, I can do a hybrid clip.
This is TikTok on nuclear war.
Economists agree that to enter World War III on the same scale as World Wars I and II would end our world.
If there was a nuclear war, yes, billionaires would be able to survive the two weeks to a month they'd have to wait for the nuclear fallout to settle.
But the problem is that there would then be a food shortage, which would kill about 5 billion people.
Not to mention society as we know it would be completely destroyed.
There would be no agriculture, no infrastructure, most likely no technology.
We'd have to rebuild everything.
What is the point of being a billionaire and surviving through a fallout?
If there is no society, if there is no working class to exploit, to extract wealth from.
Billionaires don't just want to survive.
They want to live in luxury, which is why they need the working class.
Do they give a single fuck about our survival?
No.
That's why proxy wars will continue in the Middle East and Africa because they view those humans as disposable to further their economic interests.
But they need our labor to maintain their lifestyle, so therefore our interests are aligned with theirs.
And a nuclear war would mean the end of life as they know it.
That's why I find this whole situation to be Highly unlikely, but let me know what you'll think in the comments.
The more you know in the morning.
Thanks.
I'm educated now.
No, you're not, because for one thing, she said that the billionaires are going to go underground and crop up after a few weeks.
Yeah, yeah.
With the thermonuclear bomb, not a hydrogen bomb, but the big bombs, the fission fusion fission bombs, these are the ones that are packed in – The radiation lasts for years.
What happened to the neutron bomb?
That was going to be cool, because the buildings would be there, but we'd all die.
I love the neutron bomb.
That was when I was a kid.
Oh, the neutron bomb.
Oh, no, they've developed something that will kill the people but leave the buildings.
That was always curious to me.
There was a backlash against the neutron bomb.
I'll say.
Anyway, so now she doesn't know what she's talking about.
Because you can't rubble eyes if you only kill the people.
Yeah, and rubbleization is the key.
People don't realize that.
This is one of the few shows that understands rubbleization.
We have a rubble eyes.
Yeah, you caught me off the door.
You got me off the door.
Your supposed racist words.
Unfortunately, this is the whole clip.
I only meant to clip the first three words, so after the third word, you can kill it.
Here are six words that you use every day that have racist origins.
Although these words might seem harmless, they are rooted in a long history of oppression and racism in the U.S. Wait a minute, does picnic come up again?
Is that in this?
No, no, no.
Oh, okay.
No, she's got these new words.
New words.
Picky.
This refers to enslaved people.
Is this the same chick as the nuclear war chick?
No, this is a different one.
All these chicks are starting to sound the same.
They're in the same TikTok milieu.
They're blending together.
This refers to enslaved people were forced to pick nits or lice out of other people's hair.
It was a very dehumanizing task.
Number two, gyp.
This is actually related to the word gypsy, which is a slur for Romani people.
Number three, no can do.
This was originally a sentence or term used to mock Asian Americans, primarily Chinese immigrants, to make fun of their- Best price!
Okay, you can kill it there.
No, I want to hear it.
Who were typically seen as too confident, and it was definitely an insult that preceded violence against Black people.
Number four, the peanut gallery.
This term refers to in segregated theaters when Black people had to sit in the worst, cheapest seats in the house.
And finally, we have the term grandfathered in, which is in reference to when Black people were forced to take literacy tests in order to vote, aka a form of voter suppression.
White people who had been grandfathered in the right to vote did not have to take these tests.
So if you're a white person, please stop your...
Peace and love.
Peace and love.
Well, I didn't...
The peanut gallery sounds...
So the whole thing, this is all nonsense.
But the one thing that keeps cropping up, and I've heard it before, and I had a...
Well, JIP is something we say all the time.
JIP is the one.
I'm going to bring this.
What people don't realize, it seems as if they credit gyp as being derived from gypsy.
But it's the other way around.
Yeah, we were saying gyp, and they went, hey, that's who we are.
We'll be gypsies.
Exactly.
In fact, let me read from this etymology page.
Chad GPT.
All right.
Gyp is attested from 1794 as universal slang for a servant that waited on students in their halls.
This is said to have been especially true in Cambridge.
And a story told there derived from the Greek gyps, G-Y-P-S, gyps for vulture in reference to thievish habits of the servants.
So gypsy derives from gyp, not the other way around.
Wow.
So she was actually racist.
So you can say gyp, and I would just suggest to people, I'm going to cut this out.
I'm going to print it out, cut it out, and keep it in my wallet.
When somebody calls me out for using the word gyp as a slur against gypsies, no.
It's not the case.
Gypsy was derived from gyps, not the other way around.
Wow.
The more you know.
Well, you know, I get so irked at these women.
Oh, I know so much.
Well, she was actually racist by using the term gypsy.
Gypsy is actually the slur.
It is.
Yes, it is.
Wow.
Well, according to some people.
Oh, John, your clips are so educational today.
It's just amazing.
All right, I'll give you one more.
One more.
Okay, well, let me think here.
Which one can I...
I know, that's why I'm letting you choose one more.
Thanks for nothing.
I want to play the glitch.
I can't quite get it.
One of the things that we've noticed, and it started with the who's going to wipe our asses, comment by one of the Democrats.
I don't remember.
And the comment that was on The View some years ago was, who's going to clean the toilets?
Yes, yes.
This idea that all the immigrants that have come over are here to be our personal slaves and clean the toilets and pick the fruit that no one else will pick and work on a construction site that no one else will work on.
This is all bogus.
You can hire people to do these things, but you have to pay them a living wage or at least a wage.
And so we'd rather have this constant theme that these are slaves that we want to keep here because they work cheap or they do stuff that nobody else will do when people will do these things.
It just runs through the Democrat Party.
It's just beyond me.
But here's a woman, obviously from, you know...
So I'm in my beautiful city, L.A., and I have friends texting me like all morning.
My gardener didn't show up.
My housekeeper didn't show up.
Oh, my farmer's market was closed.
Everyone's scared.
Well, this is not going to just happen in L.A. And you one percenters that only voted for Trump because of money?
Money?
Guess what?
You're going to have to do your own dishes or clean your own house or mow your own lawn and all that wonderful produce, the organic produce you get for your brunches?
All gone.
Yeah.
You're going to actually have to do some work around your house.
These people are important.
What?
What is the one percenters?
Is that the one percenters of Democrats who voted for Trump?
Is that some kind of new slur?
I have no idea what she's talking about.
Sounds like a new slur that, you know, he won by one percent and it was you people.
That's what I'm thinking that means.
That could be.
But this idea that people can't do the dishes.
Yeah.
Well, you know.
It's like, what?
I do the dishes.
President Trump, turncoat that he is.
This morning, confusion after immigration and customs enforcement agents were told to resume raids on hotels, restaurants and farms days after President Trump suspended those raids.
Trump saying this last week.
We can't do that to our farmers and leisure too, hotels.
The president acknowledging the agriculture and hospitality industry's reliance on undocumented workers.
But now the administration reversing its position once again, telling ICE agents to continue carrying out arrests at farms, hotels and restaurants.
A Homeland Security spokesperson saying these operations target illegal employment networks that undermine American workers.
Trump yesterday was asked about the reversal.
We look everywhere, but I think the biggest problem is the inner cities.
We're looking everywhere.
I love how I say, you know, it's farmers and then, oh no, it's the inner cities.
It's a very confusing report.
And of course, they'll also mix up the term immigrants with illegal immigrants.
Some fellow Republicans now pushing for the return of these worker exemptions.
If you take all of them away, those companies tell me that they're not going to be able to, you know, produce.
Now, worker exemptions, this is getting a little confusing.
We do have very specific Immigration visas for temporary workers.
So I'm not sure if they mean the exemptions that already exist and people can use or the exemptions in the ICE raids.
Where we got that clip, that was a bad source.
It's ABC.
They chopped up what Trump had to say in an awkward way.
Where did this come from?
is bad.
This is from ABC.
Oh, it's bad.
A dramatic confrontation in New York.
ICE agents arresting a city official and mayoral candidate who was linking arms with an immigrant agents were trying to arrest.
Where is it?
Where is the water?
I have my hand here.
What did he say?
This was interesting.
I want to hear that again.
The official and mayoral candidate who was linking arms with an immigrant agents were Illegal immigrant.
And he was linking arms as a mayoral candidate.
This is the new thing.
Show you're bold against Trump.
Go in and make a ruckus during a press conference.
Oh, I'm a senator.
I'm a mayoral candidate.
I'm linking arms with an illegal immigrant.
Arresting a city official and mayoral candidate who was linking arms with an immigrant agents were trying to arrest.
He was pushed against the wall and arrested, but was released without charges.
I said you assaulted an officer.
I mean, you guys all saw it on video, so you know exactly what happened.
I certainly did not assault an officer.
Lionel Woese, ABC News, New York.
ABC.
He said ABC News.
I thought I said NBC.
He said ABC News.
Okay.
I just need to remind everybody that There's many different visa programs.
I have helped people come in.
I have also helped some people years and years ago who were like, hey, I'm here illegally.
Can you help me?
Yeah, I can help you out.
There are lawyers who do this.
They're actually cheaper than the coyotes.
But the whole, certainly during President Biden's administration and before, The whole idea of just saying, oh, you know, don't worry about it.
You come in, you overstay your visa, which is the biggest problem, people overstaying an existing tourist visa.
But then it's just like, I just come across the border.
It's no problem.
They might arrest you, but then you get released.
That is what created the problem.
And I got some emails from some of our producers.
Well, we need a comprehensive immigration reform.
Arnold Schwarzenegger was on The View.
And everyone clipped a little bit of him saying, you need to get back to America.
But then he went right back into comprehensive immigration reform.
No, no, we have fine...
The only one I never liked is they force anyone who wants to come into the United States as a permanent resident.
To get all your vaccines, and for the longest time, that included the COVID vaccine, unless you could prove that you've had your vaccines.
I've never liked that provision.
Asylum is also possible if you come from a country designated as qualified for asylum, and you go through a port of entry, and you can actually get it done.
So, yeah, there's people listening to the show like, well, I don't like it.
I don't like deporting immigrants.
They're not immigrants.
They're illegal immigrants.
And you can do it legally.
Unfortunately, our own government and our own government money through the UN immigration program, which is billions of dollars who are telling people how to do it, unfortunately, that gave everybody the wrong idea and a misconception.
You can come into America legally.
It is very possible.
It takes a little bit longer than your trip if you just want to walk across the border.
But it's possible.
And we're pretty fun-loving people.
We want you.
We want you to come in.
We want you to be here.
That's the fallacy, and people need to be reminded once in a while.
Anyway, here's an interesting story from the Bay Area.
That I caught, and I wondered if you had heard any more about it.
According to court documents, 45-year-old Austin Hills, the great-grandson of the founders of the famous Hills Brothers Coffee Company, was driving his Land Rover at about 3.15 Thursday morning and began tailgating a Tesla security guard who was out on his lunch break.
In court documents, investigators say Hills turned off his headlights and attempted to rear-end the security guard's Tesla.
Investigators say Hills also followed the security guard into the Tesla parking lot, attempting to ram his car.
Investigators say the security guard managed to evade him, and that's when Hills abruptly left the parking lot and began ramming another occupied car parked on Page Avenue.
We've learned the woman in that car was also a Tesla employee on her lunch break.
When police arrived, they say Hills took off onto 680, again shut off his lights and began driving erratically, leading officers to end the chase.
Hill was ultimately arrested later that morning in Napa.
Police say they found a variety of items in his car, including multiple cell phones, laptops, a metal pressure cooker, a gas mask, a drone, extended shell casings, gas cans and alcohol.
Once again, Hills'family has a long legacy in the Bay Area.
His great-grandfather co-founded the famous Hills Brothers Coffee Company that opened in San Francisco in 1898.
Investigators are still...
blaming stress for his lack of memory.
Tesla derangement syndrome as far as I'm concerned.
What's this with the pressure cookers back again?
That's a little concerning.
This whole story is something's wrong with this story.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Some rich heir.
I don't know if he's rich, but I don't know.
Well, Austin Hills, 45. He drove a long way.
Well, Austin Hills, I thought Austin Hills was older because he was a co-owner of the Gergich Hills Winery.
Which I'm not going to have to look up.
So he was a wine connoisseur, and that's why he went back to Napa, which makes sense because that's where the wine is.
Oh, that's why he had alcohol in the car.
He had a couple of cases of their finest.
Could be.
After he used his extended magazines.
Okay.
This whole story is something's amiss.
Yes.
I have a boots on the ground from the constitutional lawyer.
I'll play the clip first, and I will read what his opinion is on the latest Supreme Court ruling.
Tonight, the Supreme Court's conservative majority upholding Tennessee's ban on some gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors, clearing the way for 24 states to continue enforcing similar bans.
In the 6-3 decision, Chief Justice John Roberts citing evolving science and profound implications, rejecting the argument that denying trans kids access to puberty blockers and hormone therapy amounts to sex discrimination.
Roberts writing the issue should be left to the people, their elected representatives, and the democratic process.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by liberal justices Kagan and Jackson, dissented in sadness.
Writing the court's decision inflicts...
I love it.
Oh, no.
So those three want to...
Dissented in sadness.
Boys have chopped their nuts off.
Joined by liberal justices Kagan and Jackson, dissented in sadness.
Writing the court's decision inflicts untold harm to transgender children and the parents and families who love them.
What they are saying is that trans people...
You can legally discriminate against trans people.
The sponsor of the Tennessee ban praising the court's decision.
The court affirmed what we believe, and that is that states do have a compelling interest to protect kids.
I won't say I'm optimistic.
LW, a trans teen who brought the case and asked us not to show her face, told us last year she'll keep pursuing the treatments in another state because they changed her life.
I think really the big difference was when I got on hormones.
That was incredibly helpful.
David, an estimated 100,000 transgender teens and their families live in states where those treatments are banned, but today's ruling has no impact in other states where gender-affirming care for minors remains legal.
So, thank you.
You know what jumped out at me in that report?
No.
What?
A hundred thousand?
That's what they said.
I thought it was like some minor, oh, don't worry about it.
You know, there's one kid, you know, here and there.
Yeah.
So in the few states that have the ban on hormone blockers for kids, there's 100,000.
I guess.
So here's what Rob the constitutional lawyer writes.
And he says, first of all, we need to understand that this was...
Those, by the way, are mental diagnoses.
The main question was whether the Tennessee law violated the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.
Supreme Court says no, because it applies equally to boys and girls, no matter what they think they are.
The plaintiffs disagreed and said it treats normies better than kids who identify as something other than their birth sex.
He says you'll be interested to see how the court addresses this.
This will echo throughout other cases because equal protection arguments are made all the time.
Equal protection was an important element in Obergefell v.
Hodges, the case that held 5-4 that gay marriage is a constitutional right.
It was often said that gay marriage bans did not violate the equal protection clause because it applied equally to men and women.
But that case shot that argument down.
Note that the holding applies only to a specific set of diagnosis.
Watch for sex change doctors to run an end around by inventing new diagnoses.
So we have...
So, we need to come up with a new term.
Which I don't have yet, but we need to come up with a new term.
It'll come up.
As soon as you or I see it, we'll notice it.
There it is.
We're in a moment in this country.
This is the ACLU's behind this.
Well, of course.
Of course they are.
We're in a moment, according to this ACLU guy, reading from the story on CNN, a very long story on this topic.
We're in a moment in this country where the transgender people in this country are under attack!
Oh no!
In lawless ways!
Said Chase Estrangio, an attorney with the ACLU, who represents transgender teens at the high court.
We are remaining vigilant and ready to fight back.
Yes.
So it's not ending.
You're right.
It's not ending.
ACLU.
And then, of course, this is the really big news.
The big, big news.
And I love how CNN frames all of this.
This is Trump Mobile!
And our money laid from sneakers to watches, even Bibles.
The Trump Organization has been cashing in on President Trump's popularity.
Today, the Trump Organization says it's now getting into telecommunications and offering Trump Mobile, a new wireless service.
The plan, it starts at $47.45 a month.
A nod, of course, to Trump's two terms as the 45th and 47th president.
CNN Tadaskold has more on the latest business venture by the Trump family.
My new Trump watches.
Trump fans can already wear a Trump-branded watch and sneakers.
Soon, they'll also be able to have a Trump phone in their pocket.
Eric and Donald Trump Jr. announcing Trump Mobile, cell phone plans that will use other wireless carriers' networks and eventually sell their own gold-colored phones.
Plans are set a symbolic monthly price of $47.45, a nod to Trump's presidencies.
But they'll also bundle in telemedicine and roadside assistance.
A big part of what we've done right now in the world has been focused on technology for people who have been underserved, whether that's been in crypto or anything else.
But one of the places where we felt- I love Eric Trump.
You've been underserved, underserved.
Okay.
The Trump sons claim their mobile phone will be entirely made in America, taking on device giants like Apple and Samsung, which President Trump has threatened with high tariffs if they don't start building their phones in America.
If they're going to sell it in America, I want it to be built in the United States.
Yeah.
Yeah, well, you said it, and there's some tricky language around where it's made.
Trump Mobile is just the latest money-making venture for President Trump's family, as they capitalize on his presidency in unprecedented ways.
Oh, I don't know about unprecedented.
Hello, Bidens.
Many of those businesses have benefited the president himself, who made more than $600 million last year, according to financial disclosure forms and Reuters.
Much of that is from recent ventures like Trump Media and his Trump crypto coin.
Hold on a second.
Trump Media?
That's not making any money.
Are they counting the value of the stock that he owns?
That's what it sounds like.
That's not the same as income.
That's a money-losing company.
Yes, it is.
That company's not making anything.
Recent ventures like Trump Media and his Trump CryptoCoin.
He's also made money last year from Trump watches, Trump sneakers, Trump fragrances, Trump guitars, and even Trump Bibles.
Trump guitars?
Yeah, there were Fender guitars.
I miss the Trump guitar.
He didn't make anything off the Bible.
That was Lee Greenwood.
He made zero money on the Bible, I'll say.
But it was a Trump meme coin, not a CryptoCoin.
Though Trump has ceded control of the Trump Organization to his children, experts have called out the many conflicts of interest as the federal government regulates many of the industries he's making money from.
Including wireless phones.
I have to say...
Wait, wait, wait.
Let me finish.
23 seconds left.
And Phil, I've been speaking to people who actually make cell phones.
They say the claim that this phone will be made in America is pretty dubious.
That's because there are certain chips and even a GPS crystal that you can literally only find in Asia.
And Eric Trump seemed to allude to this in an interview.
He did say later, eventually all the Trump phones will be built in the United States.
I have a story about this, but you go first.
I was going to say, I had a note from a publishing mogul that we talk about occasionally.
He said, you want to review this phone?
This idiotic phone?
He's not a big Trump fan.
And I say, hell yeah, I'll review the phone.
My first complaint would be, why is it $47.45 when it should be $45.47?
They're trying to gouge the customer for $2.
I'd review the phone.
That's not the phone, that's the service.
Yeah, well, the service.
But it's called the T-Trump Service, Trump Mobile.
Trump Mobile, yeah.
Yeah, but it's part of it.
And the phone, I don't think that I say I agreed to do a review because I hate phones anyway, so I'm going to be objective.
Not.
Wait a minute.
Is this going to be a published article?
Yeah, yeah.
Awesome.
You're back, baby.
You're back.
I'm telling you, the phone will never show up.
It's never going to happen.
It's like the vinegar book.
You're back, baby.
You're back reviewing phones.
Welcome back, man.
Welcome back to tech journalism.
Awesome.
You can go back on Twit now.
Review the Trump phone.
Yeah, this phone will never see the light of day.
You don't think so?
No.
We have a friend who shall go nameless.
And she buys all this stuff.
Her kids have Trump outfits.
She's a collector.
She's a wearing collector.
Her kids got little Trump outfits.
She's got Trump.
Her husband has Trump ties.
Trump boots.
His tie is signed.
They go to Mar-a-Lago and get the stuff signed.
There's a shop at Mar-a-Lago.
You can get a glittery clutch with Trump on it.
They love all this stuff.
They are on fire for Trump.
They love everything.
This is a real thing.
People love Trump memorabilia and stuff.
I think a lot of it, not all of it, but a lot of it is very collectible.
Highly collectible.
Yeah, and it's going to be valuable at some point in the long future from now.
I'd give it 100 years.
Yeah, crap's going to wind up in a garage somewhere, in a garage sale.
Oh, look at this!
Just like a poster, a Nazi poster of Tito.
Nazi poster of Tito.
And then I got one more.
We should do a five-minute warning here.
This showed up on MSNBC.
It has a little bit of a boom, boom, pew, pew lead in.
Yeah, probably.
I mean, even the other day when they...
What?
No!
Oh my god It appears there has been a road Ship 36 just blew up That was the moment a SpaceX Starship undergoing testing suffered a catastrophic failure overnight.
The explosion sending a fireball into the night sky that could be seen dozens of miles away.
Thankfully, no one was injured.
Now SpaceX is investigating what went wrong with the Starship.
Rocket Elon Musk says one day we'll carry humans to Mars.
Impress me and go to the moon.
NBC News senior correspondent Tom Costello covers aviation.
He's joining us now.
Aviation.
That video is incredible.
How did this happen, Tom, and what does it mean for future missions?
What does it mean?
Well, that's going to be the focus of this investigation that SpaceX will lead.
The FAA, of course, will be a party to it, but this has not been a good year for Elon Musk with SpaceX.
This latest explosion, yet another setback for Musk's lifelong quest to eventually send humans to Mars.
But more immediately, NASA needs Starship.
The rocket that blew up and needs Starship to get to the moon.
*laughter*
Funny how we can't seem to do it anymore.
I don't get it.
We've lost it.
We lost the plans.
We lost the CIA, all the smart people.
We lost the smart people at the CIA.
All right, five minutes.
You get your last clip.
Let's go.
Well, we got a couple of series about the Minnesota shooter.
We want to get that out of the way.
Yeah, before the story's gone.
Okay, Minnesota hitman.
It's NPR, everybody.
Elitist voices.
I hope it's Scott.
Investigators are still determining the motive behind the killing of a Minnesota state representative and her husband over the weekend.
They say that Vance Belter had a much larger list of people he was apparently planning to target, including other Democratic elected officials and abortion rights supporters.
One area of his background is yielding some insight into the views he held about abortion, and that is his religious connections.
Empire's domestic extremism correspondent, Odette Youssef, is here to discuss...
Okay, so what do we know about his religious connections, his religious background?
We know that he graduated from a school in Texas called the Christ for the Nations Institute, which has put out a statement condemning the violence and saying it's not what the school teaches.
But the CFNI is considered to be a precursor to a movement that is now referred to as the New Apostolic Reformation.
And we know that when Belter was in Africa two years ago, he spoke during sermons about his belief in modern-day prophets and apostles in the U.S., and experts say this is distinct to NAR theology.
And so, you know, now the NAR, up until recently, has been considered a fringe strand of the evangelical right.
It's a neo-charismatic expression of Christianity.
But, you know, a really important aspect of the NAR movement, Mary Lee's, is its political aspirations.
There's an idea they espouse called dominionism.
Oh, wow.
You haven't heard that one, have you?
Wow.
He's a dominionist.
There we go.
Yes.
Neo-charismatic.
Another good one.
I like it.
Yeah, they got terms in here that I've never heard, but they're bringing in, oh, dominionism.
This was during the George Bush administration.
This is when they first cropped up.
This was the idea.
There's an offshoot of Christians that are trying to protect Israel because, you know, there's got to be a second coming at some spot around there, and they don't want to.
Don't want to miss it.
They don't want to pockmark the land so nothing bad happens when they return.
And so they're nuts, the Dominionists.
No offense.
We must have a few that listen to this show.
I'm sorry to say that.
Always thinking of donations.
Very good, John.
Very good.
I will say this.
I haven't noticed any Dominionist donations.
Oh, okay.
But onward with the clip to get it out of the way.
And that is a belief that they are called to take control over every aspect of society to impose Old Testament biblical governance.
And so this has been a powerful anti-democratic movement that has aligned itself with the MAGA movement and has also fed concerns about rhetoric that could inspire extremist violence.
Well, they got to it finally.
Okay, a lot to take in there.
You're talking about this has fed concerns about rhetoric, could inspire extremist violence.
Is there evidence that would actually give cause for concern that this faith community might turn to violence?
Well, some leading figures within the NAR were critical in mobilizing and fomenting anger within Trump's base in the period leading to the January 6th attack on the Capitol.
But in the context of these attacks in Minnesota, you have to look at the language and framing around the topic of abortion.
Fred Clarkson from Political Research Associates says there's reason to be concerned that the NAR is priming the pump for this kind of violence.
There's been a decided uptick in the rhetoric and vision of violence in the United States from apostolic leaders for some time.
No, this is bullcrap.
Apostolic leader.
So they switched real quick from immigration Nice switcheroo.
They had to do the switcheroo, but they still can't account for the fact that I'm still convinced the guy was a professional hitman.
He floats around here and there, went to Africa, and his wife was caught with passports for all the kids, $10,000 in cash, which I think was the prepayment for an assassination of somebody.
For the job?
The prepayment, because $10,000 is not enough.
No.
And they were all going to flee the country after he did whoever he was supposed to kill and get away with.
And he had the expensive mask.
It was not a cheapie.
And, you know, the whole thing.
This is all bull crap.
But it's a good shot.
It does take a shot at these Christian nutcases because they're all some Trump supporters.
Yes, and there's an uptick in violence in the sermons.
And there's an uptick in violence by the apostolic community.
Leaders.
Leaders.
Apostolic leaders, yes.
The neo-charismatics.
And you wonder why they're having their funding taken away.
And within that rhetoric, Mary Louise, you'll hear abortion discussed as ritual child sacrifice and as something that empowers demons.
Absolutely.
Can we connect extreme rhetoric with the violence we just saw in Minnesota?
So we know that Belter railed against abortion in America during at least one sermon abroad, so it was an issue he cared about.
And there was an interesting detail in the federal complaint filed against Belter yesterday, which said that he sent a group text to his wife and other family members a few hours after the rampage occurred, and it said, dad went to war last This language of war is the language that the NAR uses when talking about taking dominion over society.
Clarkson says it's clear who the enemies are in that war.
And they are views historic Christian churches and civil government and its leaders as enemies, as, you know, infested with demons.
These are things that they talk about.
All the time.
The question is, at what point does the rhetoric meet the reality?
So in a sentence, Odette, is the case here that the rhetoric met the reality?
I think it's hard to say at this point, Mary Louise, but we will be learning more as the investigation continues.
Wow.
They're really conflating a lot of things.
Spiritual warfare is very different.
As long as Trump is somehow involved, it's his fault.
I'm going to show myself old by donating to no agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh, yeah, that'd be fab.
Yeah, on no agenda.
In the morning.
Time to thank some Dominionists for their support of the show, Value for Value.
Yes, you were going to say?
I was going to say that we have some donations and we have some people to thank.
We don't have as many as I'd like.
No.
But we do have a couple of regulars that keep coming back for more, which is Dame Rita.
She's at the top again.
Yes.
For some reason, it's Dame Dita here.
Well, that's Carl.
Ever since Stripe came along, she's been donating regularly.
Good.
Which is interesting.
She's in Sparks, Nevada, a nice little town outside of Reno in 133.33.
And I will read her note.
Just to encourage her.
Because you like her.
You like her.
Yes, encourage her.
She's great.
Thanks for all your hard work and dedication.
I can count on you for the best media analysis.
She's not dumb.
Sir Cunkelberry comes in from Atlanta, Georgia.
Oh, by the way, Dame Reed is 133.33.
This Cuncleberry is 130-03.
He's Sir Cuncleberry of the Dirty South.
Trent Lomelino in Cedartown, Georgia.
Another Georgian, 125.
He needs a dedouching.
You've been dedouched.
Nathan Cochran in Franklin, Tennessee.
One, two, three, four, five.
Nathan, that's one of your Mercy Me boys right there.
Donating that gig money.
He's a Mercy Me contributor.
Donating the gig money.
Jeffrey Montagna in Phoenix, Arizona.
105.35.
V4V is awesome.
Stellar content, he says.
Brother.
Simon.
I'm guessing Simon Lubczewski.
Sounds about right.
That's close.
I don't know where he's from.
It doesn't say.
A hundred bucks.
I want to thank him.
S-Z-Y-M-O-N.
Michelle Galinas in Phoenix, another Phoenician.
A hundred dollars.
Oh, she has an attached note you want to take a look at and see if there's anything important.
Well, she becomes a dame.
Oh, okay.
You have to read the note.
Yes.
Please, Damie.
Dame Shell.
Lost in Arizona.
Hi, John and Adam.
Checks are better in a card.
It's easy.
Thank you for always being the voices of reason.
Underlined.
My husband passed away from cancer on 4-28-25.
That's recent.
F cancer jingle, please.
And hit me with some karma to help me going forward.
Of course.
Michelle.
Gelinas.
That's how you pronounce it, Gelinas.
Thank you for your courage.
Sorry, Michelle, but we are happy to dame you momentarily, and I will hit you with that F-cancer now.
You've got karma.
Going to Amsterdam to Joe Dirks.
He came in with 9626, which is the Wobo donation.
What is the Wobo?
We should know this.
Somehow I think we should know what a Wobo donation is, but I can't recall.
Well, 9626 is the Wobo donation.
It's the Wobo donation.
And Kevin McLaughlin, Conquer North Carolina.
He's the Archduke Luna lover of America, lover of boobs.
And he came in with 8008.
He's on a roll.
Sir Eric in Punta Gorda, Florida.
8006.
This is Juneteenth.
This is his 25th anniversary with Dame Rachel.
And they never had a fight.
Now everybody celebrates their anniversary on June.
Good call.
Sir Don in Wyndham, New Hampshire, 7161.
Joseph Green in Stevenson Ranch, California, 7344.
He calls that the no-agenda slave donation, which is 69 plus slave fees.
Sir Fat Dad in North.
Little Rock, Arkansas, 6969, dudes.
Chad Hewitt in Folsom, California, 6640, which stands for 66 books, 40 authors.
A biblical reference!
Now, what is that biblical reference?
Is it in Genesis?
No.
Yes, Ted Cruz.
66 books in the Bible, 40 authors.
Sir Kevin O'Brien in Chicago, 6-0-0-6, small boobs.
Les Tarkowski in Kingman, Arizona, 6-0-0-6, same.
James Edmondson in South Plainfield, New Jersey, 55-10.
Dean Roker, 55-10.
Mark Miller in Lennon.
Lenox, Lenox, Kansas or something.
5272.
Biscuit on your Juneteenth, he requests.
Sir Z-Nonymous, 5272.
Liverpool.
He's in Liverpool.
He's in Liverpool, UK.
We need more UK donors.
We do.
Chris Osterhaus in Cincinnati, 5271.
Bob Newell in Penfield, Pennsylvania, 5250.
Sir Richie Rich.
I haven't heard from him for a while.
5150.
And now we have a few $50 donors to wrap it up.
Starting with Chris Cowan in Austin, Scott Lavender in Montgomery, Texas, Andrew Gusick in Greensboro, North Carolina, Chris Areskog in Charlotte, North Carolina, Terrence Boyer in Tuscola, Illinois, and last on the short list, I might add, Robert Sweeney in Baltimore, Maryland.
I want to thank these people for making shows.
1774.
A pretty good show.
I had a lot of fun today, actually.
And we did now...
Brennan?
What's his name?
Brennan.
Brennan.
Jay's husband, Brennan.
He added a de-douche request that came in on the transfer from Marco Kennelly Ullman.
Hi, it says, I donated $50 in honor of my husband, Marco Kennelly Ullman.
Apparently, I was supposed to request an undouching.
*laughs * Since he's been a day one listener but never donated.
I think he will be a donor now.
We just had to get him started.
Thanks so much.
Well, here's your undo shape, of course.
You've been de-douched.
And thank you to these donors, $50 and above.
Of course, we never mention anything under $50 for reasons of anonymity.
I only see one $49.9 today, but we won't mention you.
And lots of 33s and 4s and 3s and 2s, and we appreciate everything.
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Jeffrey Tollig turns 60 tomorrow.
How you doing, Jeff?
And Sir Richie Rich celebrates his birthday on June 25th, and we say happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe!
It's your birthday!
We do have that one dame, Michelle Gailinas.
Ah, I forgot how to do it already.
And let's bring her up right now, if you don't mind.
She needs it desperately.
And she now joins the elite group.
Of Knights and Dames of the Noah Dinner Roundtable.
We are happy to have you here.
We love you so much, Michelle.
And I'm very proud to pronounce the KD as Dame Shell.
Lost in Arizona.
For you, we've got some Rent Boys and Chardonnay, if you're up for it.
Also, along with that, we've got Cookies and Vodka, Harlots and Haldol.
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We don't have any meetup reports per se today, but we do have a list of some coming up.
In fact, Charlotte's Thirsty Third Thursday kicks off at 7 o 'clock tonight at Ed's Tavern in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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That'll be at 11.30 in the morning.
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And our final show.
We'll meet up, mention, and of course the next show day, TooManyEggs.com in Keene, number 13, Elm City Brewing Company in Keene, New Hampshire.
There are many more No Agenda Meetups to find and to organize at NoAgendaMeetups.com.
Go ahead, take a look.
If there isn't one near you, start one yourself.
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It's easy to do.
Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.
You want to be where you want me.
Triggered on hell's blame.
You want to be where everybody feels the same.
It's like a party.
They really are like a party.
When is your next meetup?
You need to go to another meetup, man.
People love seeing you at the meetups.
Eh, coming.
Eh, coming.
What is coming is end of show mixes.
We have John's tip of the day.
And, right now, we decided, I got some complaints, like, the ISOs used to be fun, until you found out that John was doing the AI, now they all suck, and they used to be better.
I'm like, you know, I rarely make an ISO myself.
I always wait for people to send them to me, and the quality, I would say, indeed has been low.
But that's not our fault.
It's up to you.
You guys are the producer of the show.
So what is your...
I have a real one.
And I was hoping you could beat it because I hate to badger people with these AI ones that are terrific, by the way.
Yes, okay.
So I'll play your ISO right now.
We've just been on a run of really good shows lately.
It's a little long, but it's fitting because it's true.
Let me try mine.
That's so special.
Nah.
This one may be better.
Hey, Ron can't have a nuke.
Well, I got the laugh out of you, so that is the winner of the ISO contest.
Right now it is time for John's Tip of the Day.
Great advice for you and me.
Just a tip with J.C.D.
So this is not a cleaning product, but this is a product that's Queens.
What is the difference, we wonder?
Well, if you remember, I had this thing called a Scrub Daddy.
Scrub Daddy?
Which was a screwball sponge made out of some very harsh plastic.
Yes.
I found something better.
Okay.
And I don't even know how it got in the house.
I think Jay dropped one off or Mimi told me about them later after I played with it.
It's called a Scrub Buddy.
Sounds like something you get in Amsterdam at one of those massage parlors.
Scrub Buddy.
So the Scrub Buddy, and there's different versions of it.
If you look up Scrub Buddy, they have a store.
They've got all kinds of different ones.
The ones you want are the cheap.
It's like a sponge.
It's an actual sponge that's covered on both sides with a kind of an envelope of some...
But this stuff is like a Brillo pad in terms of, I mean, you could scrub your skin off with whatever plastic this is.
But the reason you want it is because if anybody out there, I know you shouldn't be doing this, and you have to throw them out after a while so they're disposable, but if you have a non-stick pan with whatever coating you've got, At some point, stuff starts to stick to it.
And you have to scrub it off, but you can't use a Brillo pad or anything.
No, no, you ruin your non-stick coating.
Not the case with a scrub buddy.
This thing will take off anything, and it doesn't hurt the surface.
I don't know what it is, how they've done it, what kind of plastic this is that's coated.
That's not coated.
It's like an envelope around a sponge.
It's a terrific product, and the problem with that compared to Scrub Daddy, the Scrub Daddies you can wash in the dishwasher, you can clean them, and at some point the Scrub Buddy has to be tossed because it just does such a great job.
How many scrubs does a Scrub Buddy do?
I think you can do about 10. Oh, okay.
But these are 10 major.
Ten major, major, major issues.
Big scrubs.
Yeah, little scrubs you could do, I don't know, 100, but the big scrubs where you really get in there and grind something off.
Wow.
What are you cooking, man?
That you have major scrubs in your non-stick pan.
It happens.
Yeah, I'm confused.
There it is, the Scrub Buddy, everybody.
That is John C. Dvorak's Tip of the Day.
Find them all at tipoftheday.net.
Created by Dana Brunetti.
Yes, thank you very much, Dana Brunetti.
Where would we be without Dana Brunetti?
We'd be nothing, I tell you.
Absolutely nothing.
And that concludes our broadcast day.
So, by the way, Brunetti's latest show is up on number three on Netflix.
What is his latest show?
What is it?
It's called Motorhead.
Motorhead?
Oh, well, let's take a look at it.
Yeah, he says he's going to get nothing out of it because he broke up with his production company.
Oh, okay, so we should not watch it then.
Don't give those guys any money.
That's no good.
We have end-of-show mixes from Sir Michael Anthony, from Professor Jay Jones, and Melodious Owls, the one and only Tom Starkweather.
And coming up right after we disconnect the stream, it'll be Planet Ridge!
With Larry and Darren.
If you're looking for a no-agenda-like show, these guys have got the goods.
Not quite as good.
But, you know, it's Planet Rage.
It's one of my favorite listeners.
Oh, let me put it that way.
Happy Juneteenth, everybody, coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in Fredericksburg.
In the morning, I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where we're awaiting a cold day, they tell us, but it's not.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
We'll talk to you on Thursday.
Till then, adios mofozo, hooey, hooey, and such.
I'm ready for the Nouvelle Order.
You will understand and be happy.
I'm ready for the Nouvelle Order.
You have given all of your power to me.
I'm ready for the Nouvelle Order.
Because you are too afraid to live free.
This is how small and I have to say you must be.
Your sacrifice is the only remedy for the real pandemic humanity.
We must prepare an angry other.
As Agenda 2013 is unfurled, you will eat the bugs.
Sitting in the metaverse, you will comply, and it will get burst.
Are you ready for the new world order?
No more human rights or models.
Thank you.
Thank you.
And so these governments all need a boogie hand.
No, I don't support Amaz.
You are 100% right.
We don't support Amaz.
I'm your boogie man.
I looked it up.
Israeli intelligence created Amaz.
General Michael Flynn calls out Netanyahu.
Let's be clear.
There's no way.
I'm your boogie man.
Israel supports Amaz.
It is true.
I looked it up.
No, I don't support Amaz.
I'm your boogie man.
I mean, this is 9-11 all over again.
But the point is, I'm your boogeyman.
Suitcase is full of cash.
There's a lot of back-channel wink-wink going on here.
I looked it up.
And so these governments all need a boogeyman.
Break through, overrun, go in.
And I think they were a few weeks away from having one.
Well, I don't want to get involved either, but I've been saying for 20 years, maybe longer, that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
I've been saying it for a long time.
My supporters don't want to see Iran have a nuclear weapon.
They were such a shame.
They were so close.
You know, Iran was very close to signing what would have been a very good agreement for them.
And maybe that could still happen, I guess.
They do want to come and see us.
They want to see me in the White House.
That's a big statement.
I mean, they asked if they could come.
We'll see if that happens.
It's not that easy for them to come.
They can't get out.
You know, they're in Iran.
And in one case, I want to come so badly, but he can't get out because there's bombs dropping all over the place.
