Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak dissect escalating US-Iran tensions, analyzing Trump's threats to obliterate Iranian power plants if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed while Iran targets Gulf desalination facilities. They debate whether this conflict serves Israeli strategic interests or aims to distract from domestic issues like the Epstein files ahead of July 4th. The hosts also critique a Danish study claiming high crime rates among Palestinian refugees, discuss OpenAI's $600 billion IPO strategy, and explore the rise of local AI agents running on Dell workstations with 750GB RAM, challenging Silicon Valley's centralized data center model. [Automatically generated summary]
This is your award-winning Gibbon Media Assassination episode 1853.
This is no agenda.
Our boy is back, and I'm broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Coe Country here in FEMA, region number six.
In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
And from Refinery Row in the north of the bay, where gas is free, I'm John C. Dvorak.
JC, you ain't checking out.
Welcome back to that same old place that you rouse about.
M5M hasn't changed since you're around.
And the trolls have remained, yet they're still around.
Where they need you, please emerge.
Cause we got them on the spot.
Welcome back.
Dvorak.
Yeah, thank you very much.
I will mention that these clips, if they're a little bit overmodulated, for some reason, you know, we've gone over this a million times here.
They break up.
What breaks up?
That song you just played.
Oh, for you, you mean?
Yeah.
On your end?
Yeah.
You were also a little slow on the on coming in there.
Is there, are you sensing a delay?
Or is that?
No, I was not.
I thought I was on time.
No, you were, you were pretty late.
Let me see for a second.
Pretty late.
Yeah.
Unfortunately, you were pretty late.
Let me see.
No, we got the minimal delay.
You sound good.
Maybe it was just the opening.
Hey, John, welcome back.
Who cares?
We can hear you.
We have missed you.
Well, thank you.
I appreciate that.
And I'm glad to be back, to be honest about it.
You want to talk about your experience?
Yeah, I had a heart attack, I guess, while I was in the hospital being checked out, curiously.
Yes.
And they said, hey, you know what?
We think it's time for you to sign these forms.
That's never good when someone says, hey, could you sign these forms for a second?
And then we'll be back.
We'll hear from you in another day.
So it was quite the experience.
I wouldn't recommend it.
But I mean, I would say.
The worst part is this is like a double bypass, is what it was.
Yeah.
So the worst part was now.
Wow.
It's that you're just miserable.
I mean, you're not, there's no pain.
It's just that you can't, you know, you can't rest right.
You're limited in your motions because if you do, if you, you know, if you like threw a baseball, it would rip you apart.
So you can't do this.
You can't do that.
You can't do this.
You can't get up that way.
You can't do this.
You can't move left.
You can't move right.
Because, oh, nope, don't do that.
And so you're stuck kind of in this kind of limited range of abilities.
I can talk.
Yeah.
But do you get winded after a while?
From talking?
Yeah.
No.
Oh, damn.
Long show again, people.
No, no, no.
We're cutting the show.
We're making this.
Today I would recommend the following.
Here we go.
Jumble the donation segments, go right to the tip of the day and rap.
Okay.
So you mean do all the donation segment, everything in one huge segment and then to tip of the day.
Yeah.
Okay.
So, but what about the ISO selection?
We do the ISO selection.
Oh, we could do that.
I only have one.
So do you mind me just asking a few things about your experience?
Because I would expect you to ask me a few things about your experience.
First of all, I want you to know your wife was flipping out.
She may have seemed very calm, but she was freaking out.
It was very difficult for her.
And so I just want you to.
Yeah, that was largely because of the doctors.
Oh, really?
Because they, oh, yeah.
And I think that after the surgery, they had Jay and Brennan in like a special room, which was very freaky.
It's like, oh, it's a special room.
Is this where they tell you?
Like, well, the operation was success.
But he has no head.
But his head is gone.
Yeah.
And well, the thing I was curious about, because you had all kinds of other complications that were going on, and they had to intubate you.
How much did that, were you awake when they intubated you?
Supposedly, no.
But you remember it.
Yes.
Oh.
What was that like?
Is that crazy?
It's really nuts.
It's not a good experience.
But I mean, you're so drugged up.
It doesn't really mean you can't, you don't care as much as you might, as you would normally.
But you're paralyzed and you are, and you, the real problem is you get the, you, you, you're kind of like covered with a like a parachute.
I mean, that's what, that's what you can see if you can see anything.
But the, the real problem with it, and I don't think anyone's ever discussed this, is that the yackety yak that goes on in the in the uh uh operating room their talk.
You can hear it all.
Oh, so so you're sedated, you're asleep, but you're not.
It's like you died and you're not dead yet.
Exactly.
Oh, do you feel pain at that point?
You feel nothing?
No, no, you don't feel anything.
But you hear them yapping.
Are they making jokes?
Like, look at this old geezer.
Should we remember that?
No, they're not making jokes about me, but they're talking about their plans for the night.
Did you watch that movie the other day?
Did you see the Oscars?
It's just, it goes, and it's, and it's relentless.
Did you pick up any good tips?
No, I did not.
Wow.
But was that the whole time?
The whole because you were out for like a couple days, I think.
Well, I mean, you're not under the whole time and then intubated, but during the operation, which I don't know how long that took out to find out.
You don't remember that, though, do you?
No, you don't remember anything like that.
All you remember is listening to these voices.
During the surgery or during the intubation?
Yeah, no, during the surgery.
Oh, no.
Wow.
That's kind of crazy.
Yeah, I know.
No one's ever mentioned this.
I'm going to have to talk to some other people about it.
Were there any hot nurses?
There was a lot of nurses.
I, by the way, now have great insight into why Medicaid is going to go broke.
Do expand.
Well, for one thing, with some of these big companies like this is Sutter Health, medicine has changed from being actually, you know, where you have doctors to protocols.
And suppliers, people who do stuff.
And you have protocols, protocols, and more protocols, and everything is done by protocols.
It's done by a checklist.
It's all the same old expert system that we remember from the 1980s when AI first, or not first, but second or third time it showed up.
And then these expert systems showed up.
And this has moved over and this took over medicine.
And so there's no, so everything's plug and play.
You don't need a Jewish doctors are done.
I think I ran into one the whole time I was here.
For more reasons than one, I'm told.
Well, one reason is that they'll ask questions.
Oh, no, we can't have that.
No, no, no.
You know, there's a protocol after A, B, you check A, you check B, you check C, you check D, you check E, and then you do this.
So no one is looking at the whole, at the patient as a whole, the entire life of the patient.
Exactly.
You find some old timers, but that's the end of it.
Oh, that's too bad.
That's that kind of, that feels wrong.
Yeah, this is why I think they, they, there is a, I think we had another show a few, a month ago where the whiteys are not supposed to even get into medicine anymore.
Whiteys?
Were there whiteys in your procedures?
Did you have whiteys operating on you?
I'd say 10%, maybe.
Wow.
Now, did anyone know who you were?
Did anyone say like eventually?
Yeah.
Did anyone say like, oh, that's that dude from No Agenda?
Oh, man.
No, somebody looked me up, Googled me.
One of the more curious nurses.
And said what?
She said, I Googled you.
Are you famous?
And I said, no.
And is this you in there in the Google?
I said, yeah, that's me.
In the Google?
Yeah, these are the people taking care of you.
Is that you in the Google?
Yeah, okay.
That's that's real.
That's calming.
And then another doctor, some casual doctor, some, I think it was a nephrologist came by under some circumstance and he just left.
I mean, did they all, all these doctors come and they go, they don't do anything.
Did anyone give in in the morning?
Like, hey, in the morning?
No, this one guy did say I'll be listening to the podcast.
But I did not get an in the morning.
Do you want to thank any of your doctors or nurses?
Anyone?
I don't even know who half of them are.
Oh, wow.
This is, it's a system.
Were they all named Sanjeev?
There's a lot.
No.
Actually, most of them were Filipino.
Oh, interesting.
And I'd like to thank Anna Banana.
It's the only way I can remember.
Joke name.
But I would say I went through, let's see, four, 12, probably about 200 people.
Really now?
200 people came by.
Everybody collecting 150 bucks for each visit.
They all come by, they all get your vitals.
Stick a thermometer in your mouth and pump up, pump it, pump it up.
Did they have any is this a medical hospital?
Do they have any students come by?
And like, oh, yeah.
No, no, it's not.
Okay.
And then finally, what everyone really wants to know is, how was the food?
It was terrible.
I couldn't eat anything.
What did you wind up eating?
You got to eat something.
Oh, you know, you find some grapes.
Oh.
So you end up just starving to death in there.
And I have stories about the food, which I'll elaborate on at some later date.
And then sponge baths, were those embarrassing?
At some point, the embarrassment is long gone.
Dude, I cannot tell you how happy I am to have you back.
Well, I'm happy about it.
Yes, I'm sure you are.
It was one of those things where, you know, we're always joking about exit strategy.
And then, did you hear, by the way, how that went?
Like, I heard it from Horowitz.
Yeah, which, which was kind of disturbing.
Well, because I have Horowitz's show was coming up.
So I sent him a tech.
Or no, actually, I left it.
I left a message.
Somewhere.
No, he never got it.
No one knows what this message is.
So he was like, you know, where are you?
You know, and so then he called me at eight, 10 after eight on Tuesday.
I'm like, oh.
And I was, I don't know, I was doing something.
I'm like, oh, that's Horowitz.
The stream is not working.
I'll call him back in five minutes.
I call him back.
He's like, yeah, what's up with John?
What do you mean, what's up with you?
And being in the hospital.
I said, what?
So, and although, and I, first of all, I got to tell you, your family is phenomenal.
Really are.
I mean, they immediately, they're jumping in.
You know, they're okay.
We got a, we got a, John is priority one.
Although I had to remind them of that from time to time.
It's like, John, no, John is priority one.
Don't worry about, don't worry about anything.
We'll take care of anything and we'll figure it out.
And Mimi right away was like, okay, we're very creative people.
We can come up with solutions.
We can't just have best of shows.
I'm like, does she have an executive producer credit somewhere?
Okay.
And then she says, well, I'm just going to do the show.
Like, and I said, okay.
I talked to Tina about it.
Tina right away was like, that's a great idea.
Because she's heard Mimi and me talk on the phone for hours about nonsense.
She says, that's a great idea.
But the funniest was Jay, who, first of all, is trying to break into all your computers because you're not so good at the password book, apparently.
Yeah.
And they, you know, and then all systems, even if you have the password these days, oh, that's fine.
You have the password, but I don't recognize this computer.
So you have to do two-factor authentication.
But no one had the password to your actual computer.
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Yeah.
And so they're like, do you know the password?
Like, do I know the password?
Huh?
Why would you know the password?
That's how desperate they were.
I said, try his pin pass, his pin code, try his birth date.
I don't know.
I have no idea.
And then so Jay finally gets a hold of MailChimp.
She's like, okay, I've got this.
I'm going to do the newsletter.
And she says, what do you think of this?
And now, mind you, I don't, you hadn't even had your procedure yet, but you're under and hearing everything, but you're under, you're sedated, you got a tube down your neck.
And your daughter's like, how about this?
Give John a reason to live donation.
I'm like, wow, wow.
Yeah.
Fantastic.
And JC jumped in with Horowitz, which you should probably be a little worried about.
People thought he was really good.
Yeah, I thought he was pretty good.
I was actually surprised.
I wasn't.
I was, yes.
Well, the reason I was surprised because he has this buddy that years ago, these two guys have been trying, they're like pals that can do a podcast.
They've been trying to do a podcast.
But then when they try to do a podcast, it's like they can't get any, can't say a word.
And so, you know, I'm sure there's plenty of people out there like that with that experience.
And so I said, well, let's see how that goes.
He took it home.
I thought he did a great job.
He had good one-liners.
Yeah.
Good comebacks.
Definitely.
Yeah.
Did you follow any news, anything going on during your stay, which will be three weeks this Tuesday?
What else do I have to do?
Yeah.
No, well, this was the funniest.
After you were sent pretty quickly to the rehab center and Mimi said, I think it was Jay or I can't remember who told me.
It's like, yeah, John is back.
He's making little jokes.
He's very annoyed.
And he's watching Chinese television because he wants to learn the language.
That's a good one.
And did you?
Did you come up with it?
Digest it.
Well, while you were away, you missed the biggest news, the biggest news in America.
Stop.
Quote, in light of the newly released video, we have made the decision to not move forward with the new season of The Bachelorette.
That's what a Disney Entertainment spokesperson told E.T. Today less than three hours after TMZ posted footage from Taylor's 2023 domestic violence incident, three days before the show was set to premiere.
A rep for Taylor tells E.T. she's grateful for ABC support as she prioritizes her family's safety and security.
She is currently preparing to own and share her story.
You don't have to get it.
Stop screaming at me.
There it is.
That's what everyone's talking about.
The Bachelorette.
Well, I just, when it came out, borderline personality disorder looks like to me.
A bad case of it.
A bad case of it, maybe mixed with some other issues.
Yeah.
And that was horrible.
But what I thought immediately was, this is great.
Because now, because she, I guess she was on this secret lives of Mormon wives.
So it probably, the series is probably a dog.
It's probably no good.
Because this all of a sudden this comes.
It's in the can.
That's the problem.
Well, exactly.
It was in the can, precisely.
I'm like, wow, this is not great.
It's the 22nd or 23rd season.
We got this stupid war taking away ratings.
Maybe we can create some.
Dude, that videotape you talked about.
Can you give me that recording of her trying to hit you with a chair?
And she's going to tell her own story.
I smell a new show coming.
Yeah, you're probably right.
That's how I would roll with it.
Yeah, they dumped it faster than you can imagine.
Well, let's talk about the war.
Oh, yes.
There is a war going on.
Here's what gets me.
I got two clips from Trump on progress of the BBC.
Okay.
Here we go.
Well, Donald Trump has also been speaking today.
He insisted that the U.S. is doing extremely well.
That's how he described it in this war with Iran.
Their Navy's gone.
Their Air Force is gone.
Their anti-aircraft is all gone.
It's all gone.
Their radar is all gone.
Their leaders are all gone.
The next set of leaders are all gone.
And the next set of leaders are mostly gone.
And now nobody wants to be a leader over there anymore.
We're having a hard time.
We want to talk to them, and there's nobody to talk to.
We have nobody to talk to.
And you know what?
We like it that way.
And we have many other distinguished members of the United States military, but I want to tell you, Hegseth is doing a great job.
And Raisin Kane is doing a great job.
As good as anybody's ever seen.
Don't forget, we had Venezuela.
That was the beginning where people started to see the talent.
I rebuilt the military and built it, frankly, including Space Force.
But I rebuilt the military in my first term.
I didn't think I'd be using it this much, but I'm glad I rebuilt it because we can't let these lunatics have nuclear weapons because they were going to use them.
Use them fast.
Yeah, that was kind of a classic that he was saying.
There's nobody left to talk to.
There's nobody there.
we blew up everything, we're good to go, but then why is this going on?
So, how did they manage to slam shut the straight?
You know, answer me that.
Well, we'll play the second part of this.
We're talking about it.
All right.
Well, that was Donald Trump.
Let's go back to the White House and to our correspondent, Tom Bateman.
Tom, we are three weeks in.
Give me your assessment of where you think we are.
Well, you know, I mean, you heard from Donald Trump there repeating some of the messages that we've heard over the last few days, frankly.
But I think what he didn't say there is about, again, about the Strait of Hormuz.
That was left to this social media post that he put out in the minutes before that, calling America's NATO allies cowards because he says they won't take part in any U.S. operation to try and reopen the Strait.
Now, that is going to send a shockwave through the leaders of NATO.
They are used to some of the kinds of equivocation, the questioning of the value of the NATO alliance to the United States that Mr. Trump has done in the past.
But we're now in a territory where he is continuing to use this kind of language now, really questioning their value, calling them a paper tiger, for example, which, as far as NATO allies are concerned, sends a signal to their adversaries, mostly to, of course, to Russia, that might suggest the U.S. wouldn't defend NATO countries in the event of an invasion in Eastern Europe.
They've always been really worried about this, and that kind of language I think is going to really concern them.
It is a signal of the frustration, the anger that Mr. Trump is clearly feeling about the part of this war that is going wrong for him.
They don't have a solution yet to deal with the way the Iranians have managed to control the Strait of Hormuz, and this kind of lashing out at his NATO allies, I think, is symptomatic of that.
Yeah, I have thoughts on this, but because NATO was brought up, it's no coincidence.
This morning, thanks to clip collector Steve, my boy was on CBS with Face the Nation to, I guess, to kind of make everybody in NATO feel good.
And Mark Rutte was in rare form.
We turn now to NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, who joins us this morning from The Hague in the Netherlands.
Welcome back to Face the Nation.
Margaret, good to be back on the program.
Good morning.
Hey, good morning.
Hey, Margaret, it's good to be here every time.
Yes, fantastic.
Good morning.
We did see that Iran fired two missiles at Diego Garcia.
That's that island in the Indian Ocean, which houses a U.S.-UK joint base.
That was 4,000 kilometers from Iranian territory, furthest Iran has ever gone.
You just heard Ambassador Waltz say there might be a difference there in how Israel and the U.S. assess that capability Iran has in terms of what they fired.
But Israel says these were intercontinental ballistic missiles that could hit Berlin, Paris, and Rome.
Does NATO share that Israeli assessment?
Well, Margaret, we cannot confirm that at the moment, so we're looking into that.
But if this would be true, it is the more evidence that what the president is doing here, taking out the ballistic missile capability, taking out the nuclear capability from Iran, is crucial.
And exactly as the ambassadors just said, Ambassador Waltz, we have seen with North Korea, if we negotiate for too long, you might pass the moment where you can still get this thing done.
And North Korea now has the nuclear capability.
Iran would have the nuclear capability, including, together with...
Was that confirmed, that North Korea has nuclear...
He said North Korea now has nuclear capability.
Is that being confirmed?
Do we really know that?
What are you talking about?
Of course, they do.
We don't actually know.
Have they ever?
Yeah, they blowed up a whole crapload of little bombs.
They're not bombs.
Oh, little bombs.
Okay.
They blowed up.
Hiroshima.
They're nukes.
Okay.
North Korea now has the nuclear capability.
If Iran would have some nuclear capability, including together with the missile capability, it would be a direct threat, an existential threat to Israel, to the region, to Europe, to everybody in the world.
So the president doing this is crucial.
And I've seen the polling, but I really hope the American people will be with him because he is doing this to make the whole world safer.
Okay.
So thank you.
Have we got more?
Have you got more?
Well, I'm sure the president appreciates your praise, but he has been very frustrated and made that clear this week with NATO and the European allies.
He called NATO, quote, a paper tiger without the U.S.
He said they complain about high oil prices when they're forced to pay, but they don't want to help open the Strait of Hormuz.
Easy for them.
Cowards.
We will remember.
Remember.
I've been in several conversations this week with the president, and the good news is that, look, we had the U.S. for weeks planning for Epic Fury.
And for reasons of security and safety, they could not share with European allies and allies around the world and partner countries what they were doing because that would have jeopardized the effect of the first attack.
It's only logical that European countries needed a couple of weeks to come together.
But at this moment, the good news is this: that since Thursday, 22 countries, most of them NATO, but also Japan, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Bahrain, the UAE, have come together to basically answer three questions.
What do we need?
When do we need it?
And where do we need it?
These three questions are not worked through to answer the president's call to make sure that we secure the free sailing through the Strait of Hormuz.
You know, I have this thought that the President isn't really in any rush to open the Strait of Hormuz.
And it's, I mean, what is it?
There's actually some papers out there that would back you up.
You know, it's like, well, because it's not.
Yes, it affects oil prices, but oil prices are market prices.
I'm not sure that there isn't enough oil to go around for the time being.
Yeah, but this isn't helping somebody.
No, it doesn't help them.
But I'm just, I can't help but think, like, yeah, maybe he's not in such a hurry.
And then this happens.
Well, actually, yeah, this happens this morning, I think.
We're going beyond the strait.
Now we're going to where all the fish are in the portal.
A new looming threat to international shipping and the global economy.
With the vital Strait of Hormuz effectively closed since the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran, Tehran's Houthi allies in Yemen are now threatening to block the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
Bab el-Mandeb on Friday said the Houthis, who control Yemen's capital and northwestern Red Sea coast, may close the maritime corridor that connects Europe, Asia, and Africa.
A representative for the group said that if it does close the waterway, it could only attack vessels belonging to states carrying out strikes on Iran, Lebanon, Palestine, and Iraq.
The Bab el-Mendeb Strait connects the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
It's known as a strategic chokepoint linking the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, and Indian Ocean.
It's a vital route for global trade, particularly for oil and gas shipments between Europe and Asia.
So when the Houthis come out, how much of a threat are those guys?
I mean, don't they have the loser?
Well, they're a threat to if you're if you've got a $16 million tanker full of oil.
Right.
But if you've got U.S. forces in the region, it seems like that wouldn't be too much of a problem to blow them out of the out of the water.
Not necessarily.
Well, yeah.
You know, but.
Well, and then here's Trump getting onto the helicopter talking about when the strait will open up.
It's a simple military maneuver.
It's relatively safe, but you need a lot of help in the sense of you need ships, you need volume.
And NATO could help us, but they so far haven't had the courage to do so.
And others could help us, but, you know, we don't use it.
You know, at a certain point, it'll open itself at a certain point.
But we've defeated the enemy, and they are an enemy.
They're a sick group of people.
The leadership is gone.
The Navy is gone.
The Air Force is gone.
The anti-aircraft equipment that they have, the radar they have, it's all gone.
Everything's gone.
The strait itself, the actual strait, how are you?
The strait itself is doing a good job.
But it would be nice if the countries, including China, if the countries that use it, China uses it 90% of their energy.
Japan is 95% of the energy.
It would be nice if those countries would get involved.
All right.
So now he's saying, okay, NATO doesn't want to help.
The Strait can open itself up, is what I heard him say there.
But it would be nice if China and Japan helped out.
So he's making a clear call.
He's delayed his meeting with Xi another four, five, six weeks.
I think we may be in total control.
There's a game here that's going on.
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I think anything but that.
Okay.
Here's my thinking.
He can't win this thing, continuing what he's trying to do.
But he keeps hinting that, oh, we've taken everything out.
Oh, we've taken everything out and no one's helping us.
His exit strategy, I think, and I think it would be a good one, and I think it would work, is to just pull out.
Just pull out.
Hey, there's nothing else we can blow up.
We blew up all that.
They don't have an Air Force or Navy or they've got no radar.
They got nothing.
And nobody to talk to.
We don't even know who the leaders are.
That one guy's gay, apparently.
That was the best.
He's actually now an entry in the Eurovision Song Contest this year, I hear.
Oh, that makes sense.
So you get out and you do the following.
You say, and say, well, if they say they're going to reopen the Hormuz, we'll just get out, let them reopen it, and let things stabilize a little bit, maybe come back again.
And at the same time, say, we would have stayed and done more damage, but we weren't getting any help.
NATO's not helping us.
Europe's not helping us.
Nobody's helping us.
China's not helping us.
Nobody, nobody, nobody.
And so what are we supposed to do?
We can't do the whole thing and get the hell out of there.
That would be reasonable.
As fast as possible.
That's if he has the nerve to do that.
That takes a lot of guts.
Well, there is one thing that to me looks like beneficial at minimum.
So the president got really, well, really mad.
He was mad on Truth Social.
I'm mad at Israel for taking out the LNG field in Qatar.
He's also irked about the fact that one of their guys contradicted him at a press conference.
Who?
The defense minister of Israel.
Oh, yeah.
He's going to cut Israel loose if they keep this up.
Yes, he will.
And in fact, I'm thinking the more he's pushing back on them, at a certain point, he may be like, you know, I'm waiting for the opportunity to not only show that what I was doing was in America's interest, but that Israel doesn't control me.
And I'm going to show it like this.
And it's going to be something, you know, it'll be a move that is obvious, you know, and the only thing you can do is cut off like, no more Patriot missiles or something like that.
And I kind of feel him ramping up for that.
It would be good for him to do it because the whole idea that B.B. Netanyahu held a gun to his head and he did this is pretty rampant as expected.
But the oil field, the Qatar oil field, turns out it's kind of beneficial to us.
A developing story where we are learning more today about how the conflict in the Middle East could impact Alaska's energy market.
Augusta McDonnell has been following this story all week.
And Augusta, what changes are you monitoring right now?
Yes, Ariana, I've been looking at how the destruction of a liquefied natural gas plant in Qatar could influence efforts to build an LNG pipeline across Alaska.
The Alaska LNG project is a major energy infrastructure initiative.
You're probably familiar with it.
They want to build a pipeline that would transport natural gas from the North Slope to south central Alaska.
Now, this project is led by Glenn Farn Group, which has a 75% stake.
And project leaders say they want to deliver 20 million metric tons annually to primarily Asian market buyers.
And that's a key detail because the LNG facility that was hit by an Iranian counter-strike in Qatar just days ago supplied 20% of the world's liquefied natural gas.
And 80% of that product went to Asian markets.
Qatar Energy's Ross Laughen complex was taken offline on Monday with Reuters now reporting it's not expected to be operating again for weeks.
In a statement from Glenn Farn Alaska, LNG spokesperson Tim Fitzpatrick had this to say: quote, global events repeatedly show the strategic advantage of Alaska LNG's location as the only U.S. source of LNG with direct Pacific access, avoiding contested waters and choke points.
And to that point, he's referring here to shipping delays through the critical Strait of Hormouse due to the conflict and saying further, Glenn Farn is working closely with Asian LNG buyers to accelerate commercial agreements and complete Alaska LNG.
So this kind of complicates the theory that he's going to cut Israel loose because maybe it was a plan all along.
When you look at the Alaskan LNG, it's on the north side.
And the only way to currently get it down to China and Japan is through the Bering Strait.
Well, enter a little conversation with Putin at the beginning of the year in Alaska about business in Alaska because the plan has been since this year to cut a pipeline all the way down the south so that you wouldn't have to go through the Bering Strait, but that is obviously not completed yet.
This is from a year ago.
It's one of the most important nights on Taiwan's business calendar.
An annual dinner in Taipei hosted by the American Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan, where business leaders from around the world rub elbows with officials from both countries.
The star of the show wasn't a person, but a pipeline for LNG, liquefied natural gas.
The Trump administration is especially eager to share our LNG resources with close partners, including through their completion of the Alaska North Slope LNG project.
The pipeline, which has been pushed since President Trump took office in January, aims to sell Alaska's LNG to Asia.
My administration is also working on a gigantic natural gas pipeline in Alaska, among the largest in the world where Japan, South Korea, and other nations want to be our partner.
The 44 billion U.S. dollar project would stretch 1,300 kilometers across the northern state.
The gas it produced would then be shipped to some of the world's largest gas importers, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.
And the night saw Taiwan's national oil company, CPC, announce its intent to invest in the project and buy its LNG.
We are very interested in buying Alaska Netro case because it can meet our needs and ensure our energy security.
Yes.
Okay.
So pretty important, everybody there.
We, by the way, did discuss this when it was first announced.
I can't remember that.
To me, it was like, oh, I heard this.
You're so pipelined out.
I think it's probably it.
I am.
I'm so pipelined, but pipelines turn out to be really important.
They're trying to do the, you know, increase.
They can't.
They got like 3 million barrels a day going from Saudi Arabia, you know, across the desert.
That's not going to replace anything.
You know, your 20 million or 25 million barrels a day.
But I mean, it's just, it feels like, you know, I think I'm agreeing with your idea there that like, you know, you guys wouldn't help out.
Okay, whatever.
But man, Trump has got to do something about Israel.
And that's why he's yelling at him.
The only guy who might be able to give us some insight is the gay Patton, gay General Patton, Scott Besson, who was very involved in all of this.
And he does speak financial stuff.
And he was on Meet the Press this morning.
Interested in Manhans Welker's interview with him?
Hello?
I'm sorry, what did you say?
Do you want to hear the gay general?
Oh, no, I actually watched it.
Yeah, there's some good moments in there.
He kind of like, I think it was his best moments was predicting what the next guest was going to talk about.
Well, you know, I was on the phone with President Trump a week ago.
He told me allies were on the way to help secure the Strait of Hormuz.
Has the Trump administration abandoned that strategy and now chosen to go it alone?
Again, what we have done, there has been a campaign to using military assets to soften up the Iranian fortifications along the strait.
That's going to continue until they are completely demolished.
And Kristen, let me tell you, whether it's this network or the mainstream press, the American people did not have good framing what is going on here.
If you were to read what is happening, I'm sure when Senator Murphy is on, you know, he has come out and said, we are losing the war.
That is wrong.
We have demolished the Iranian capabilities.
Their Air Force is completely destroyed, Navy destroyed.
And every day we are taking out their missiles, their missile systems, and the factories that build those missiles.
And now General Kane, Secretary Hegset, are leading a campaign to destroy all the fortifications along the Straits of Hormuz.
Just to put a fine point on this, though, is the president in the process of winding down this war or escalating?
Again, they're not mutually exclusive.
Sometimes you have to escalate to de-escalate, Chris.
You got to hit the gas to go slower.
Okay.
So this is really where it comes down to is stuff is moving, but it's moving at sounds like at our whim.
All right, let me talk about your announcement this past week.
On Friday, the Treasury Department lifted sanctions on Iranian oil stored on tankers, a move that would effectively allow Iran to get more than $14 billion of oil revenue.
Why is the U.S. helping to fund a country that it's currently at war with?
Mr. Segnic, again, Kristen, why don't we?
Who is he talking about?
Russia or Iran?
Iran, actually.
The U.S. helping.
Which makes me wonder, again, let's just stop for a second.
Go back to our thesis of, I don't know, years ago, where they're in cahoots.
We're in cahoots with them.
Well, with somebody, who's left to be in cahoots with?
Well, I don't know.
I mean, this is why it's got to get out of there and see what shakes out.
Yeah, okay, here we go.
It would effectively allow Iran to get more than $14 billion of oil revenue.
Why is the U.S. helping to fund a country that it's currently at war with?
Again, Kristen, why don't we have good facts here?
That Iranian oil was always going to be sold to the Chinese.
It was going to be sold at a discount.
That's price.
Which is better, Kristen?
Which is better?
If oil prices spiked to $150 and they were getting 70% of that, or oil prices below 100, it's better to have them where they are now.
And to be clear, we had always planned for this contingency.
About 140 million barrels are out on the water.
In essence, we are jiu-jitsuing the Iranians.
We are using their own oil against them.
We have a much better line of sight, to be clear, at Treasury.
When this oil goes to, if it goes to Indonesia, if it goes to Japan, if it goes to Korea, we have a much better line of sight and are able to block accounts that the oil goes into.
When it goes into China, it completely gets recycled.
So to be clear, that $14 billion.
What did he say?
He's steamrolling this poor woman.
And she has a golden opportunity to just stop him cold and say, why don't we just commandeer all this oil?
They get nothing out of it.
Like we do with Venezuela.
Why don't we do that?
No, no.
She was flat-footed.
This is terrible.
She's just no good at this job.
And this oil goes to, if it goes to Indonesia, if it goes to Japan, if it goes to Korea, we have a much better line of sight and are able to block accounts that the oil goes into.
When it goes into China, it completely gets recycled.
So the fort, to be clear.
Recycle.
I didn't understand.
Block accounts and it gets recycled.
And it gets recycled and she says nothing.
It goes to Korea.
We have a much better line of sight and are able to block accounts that the oil goes into.
When it goes into China, it completely gets recycled.
So to be clear, that 14 billion number is grossly overstated.
Okay, so now we're just, that's just numbers.
But Manhans Welker has the question.
She knows what her viewers want to know.
I mean, even Tina was getting gas the other day and she texts me, thanks, Trump!
Because, you know, it's kind of expensive, even in Texas.
Let me talk about the real-world impact of this, because you're talking about 140 million barrels of Iranian oil, and that's just a little bit more than what the world uses in one day.
How much can that really change prices here?
Again, for terrible framing, terrible framing.
Well, how much can it change prices here at home?
No, no, no.
Can you talk to consumers?
How much will it change prices here at Iran?
Let me explain.
140 million barrels that about 20 million barrels a day comes out of the Gulf.
About 5 million has been repurposed by the Saudis.
Wait, so that's basically seven days.
Are my calculations right there?
I don't know.
He's just throwing so many numbers on us.
By the UAP.
We're at a 15 deficit.
About 1.5 is Iranian oil that comes out.
So we are at between a 10 and 14 million deficit on a daily basis.
So if you think about 140 million barrels, that's between 10 days and two weeks of supply.
And one of the reasons, one of the reasons that prices in the U.S. of West Texas crude are below $100, and we have not seen this massive spike as we did during the beginning of Russia-Ukraine, is because we are well supplied in the market.
Whether it is the Russian oil, whether it is the Iranian oil, or it is the largest SPR release in history done by a coalition of 32 countries, 400 million barrels.
Right.
But the markets determine the price.
The markets are just spooked.
So that's why the price is going up, whether there's enough in the market or not.
But one to two weeks would be the pullout time.
Well, he's setting it up.
Yeah.
But does he have the guts to do it?
This is a gutsy move.
In what way?
To pull out.
Well, it looks like you surrendered.
And oh, there's the Americans that go in.
They just never stick it out.
He can only.
Here's how it would work.
Israel does something stupid, and Trump goes, because here's your twofer.
And Trump goes, all right, you idiots, go do whatever.
Trump Reverses Course00:11:00
I'm out.
No, that's too obvious.
Yeah, that's too scripted, it looks like.
He's got to just do it out of scratch.
And I think he's setting it up.
He's saying we've done everything we can do.
And now there's just these rogue, the way to describe it, the only reason their missiles are flying around is because of these rogue generals and these rogue Iranian guys.
But there's no leaders, nobody to talk to, he says.
So what's the point of us being there?
We've got no leaders, nobody to talk to.
They've taken everything out that's important.
They set back the nuke program once again.
Get out.
One more Math with Scott clip.
All right, let's talk about the Russian oil, which you just raised.
The administration did use oil sanctions on Russia earlier this month.
You had initially defended imposing those sanctions, calling Russian exports, quote, oil that funds the Russian war machine.
If the point of the sanctions was to stop funding the Russian war machine, why is the administration effectively rewarding Russia?
Again, Kristen, you're missing the point.
Which is better?
Does Russia get more money if oil goes to 150 and they get 70% of that?
That's 105, or if oil stays below 100.
So they're getting less money.
Our analysis shows, our analysis shows that the maximum extra amount that Russia could get would be $2 billion, which is one day of the Russian Federation's budget.
But understood, but they wouldn't have gotten any of that within the US.
I don't know.
But would they have done any of that in place?
Whoever does your research, you should get rid of because they were getting it.
It was going into China.
China was buying over 90% of the Russian oil.
But what's the point of sanctions if not to punish Russia, if not to punish countries?
Again, we have no ability to do that to China.
If China wants to be a bad actor, but we were substantially able to degrade their exports.
Their exports have dropped about 25% when the rest of the world isn't buying it.
So exports are down, but there was a lifeline into China.
Now we've opened up that to everyone else.
Okay, just to be clear, though, you did defend imposing those sanctions in the first place.
Let me ask you just to be clear.
It is a maximum of $2 billion.
So let's have good framing on this.
Okay.
Framing, framing.
I don't think he's.
Framing.
Framing is.
Framing.
We want a good framing.
So we got our source on the ground, Boots on the Ground, who's been talking to us.
Poor guy.
Yeah.
And I have a feeling he's in Bahrain.
I'm not sure, but he's in that region.
And he sent us.
So he's in the region.
Yeah.
He's not happy.
No, I'll share his note.
Three weeks underexpected barrage of unexpected barrage of missiles and drones.
It's quite bizarre to imagine our quiet and beautiful place with sounds of sirens every hour and the gut-wrenching feeling that the worst is about to happen.
The country is a small island, hence my guess, and only one causeway connected to the rest of the world, let alone severe fresh water vulnerability and huge dependency on desalination, as a lot of those places.
While everyone is talking about a marginal cost at the pump, we are unaware of what unknowns are awaiting us, as most of our countries depend on imports for medicine, food, and every little necessity.
The Israelis, for some weird reason, are playing a bad cop game, which is quite dangerous, blowing up gas, oil fields, desalination plants, power plants, ports, and airports, and claiming it was the U.S. or even the GCC countries, leaving GCC countries to receive the aggressive retaliations every day.
See, we're not getting all of that reporting.
No.
The GCC countries are trying their best not to engage in a direct confrontation, knowing that the U.S. and Israel can stop anytime they want.
There it is, pack up and leave, which leaves us in a war with a group of people who have absolutely nothing to lose, an isolated country that survived 40 years, 47 years of isolation.
I think Trump thought this would be a paper tiger, but it seems to be a bit tougher than a walk in the park like Venezuela, more of a cardboard tiger.
And he gives us his insights here to finish it up.
The Islamic Republic was modeled over a Frankenstein of ideologies, a mix of Zoroastrianism, Twelvers Shia Islam, revolutionary communism, and an Islamic Brotherhood organization, covered in a novel and creative mix of eschatology invented to give a level of extreme holiness to the Grand Ayatollah and mixed with fairy tale end of time prophecies.
Sounds about right.
I'm not sure what the end game is, but the overall war is comical in nature with stupid, turn-based RPG-like shot and retaliation events, huge theatrics from all parties, and tons of misinformation and disinformation.
Amen.
For us, this is existential, and it's really concerning to have the lives and well-being of my wife and kids hanging in the balance for such foolish adventures.
Adam, pray for us.
Maybe a mix of prayer to Jesus and Allah can somehow work.
And he actually prayed for you.
So, John, remember that for some unknown reason, my prayer to Allah saved you.
There you go.
So, looking at this possible pullout, this 48-hour warning may be the signal.
And I didn't know Richard Engel was now working for Sky News.
Did you know that?
I think he does.
I think he works as a stringer for them.
I think he's still with NBC or the network.
I think it's NBC.
Some kind of shared agreement.
Well, here he is with his reporting.
So this war is still going right now, just getting an alert.
And now President Trump is talking about escalating it even further.
What he specifically said is that if Iran doesn't fully open the Straits of Hormuz, not partially open it, not just to its allies, not just to its regular customers like China, then the United States will respond, according to President Trump, starting from 11.45 p.m. GMT tomorrow, by obliterating power plants in Iran, starting with the biggest one.
The Iranians immediately responded saying, if our infrastructure is attacked, we will attack infrastructure and reiterated a threat.
This was from a colonel in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and specifically talked about desalinization and targeting desalination facilities in the Gulf.
Now, the Gulf states are very dependent on desalination.
Just look at Qatar.
Qatar gets 99% of his drinking water by extracting it from the sea and taking the salt out of it.
Bahrain, more than 90% of its drinking water comes from desalination plants.
So they're now talking about hitting each other where it hurts in the same way that Vladimir Putin targeted the power grid in Ukraine because Ukraine is cold and freezing and he would do these attacks in the winter to make the people suffer.
President Trump is now threatening to squeeze the people of Iran and the government by cutting off the power, as Dominic was just saying, and the Iranians saying, well, we can make the deserts dry and cut off the drinking water.
Well, there it is, 48 hours.
Clock is ticking.
Well, he's not going to do that.
I don't think so.
Well, he won't.
He won't.
I don't think anybody will.
And I don't know.
This is going to be interesting, but he has to do something.
It's going to have to be drastic.
And it's going to have to be soon.
This drags on too long.
He's got to, you know, if you look at the timing of the whole thing, he's got to be out of this thing so he could take a victory lap, you know, mission accomplished style BS, you know, victory lap.
So he can change the focus of the country to the, because we're still dealing with the primaries coming up.
And the focus of the country by July 4th has to be on the 250th anniversary of the country.
Yes.
No, we have to have victory.
That's got to be.
Yeah, we've got to have victory.
Got to have it by then.
And you've got to wind this down.
But I think getting out, saying that no one's going to help us.
And then what was your point?
Then what was the point?
It was a mistake.
So this is just the exit.
This is just a cover-up.
So positioning everything in the region, it was a mistake.
So why?
I don't understand.
What was the intended goal?
Well, the intended goal was to end for once and for all the nuclear capabilities so they won't have a bomb.
I mean, Trump said that in the clip we played earlier.
And they've done that.
So that's been accomplished.
What more do we need to be doing there?
Well, I thought this was more about China and making them pay retail instead of wholesale and cutting all the bad elements out.
Well, you can't win them all.
This is the one thing that we don't seem to realize.
You can't win them all.
Right.
But this gives a lot of credence to the people who are running around saying that B.B. Netanyahu told Trump to do this.
Well, they could do that all day.
That's not going to end no matter.
Well, it's not about Trump.
It's about the Republican Party.
It's about splitting the base and getting people to definitely not vote for Republicans who are all in on Israel and all in on Trump.
And I think it's having success.
Yeah, it is.
That's why Trump's got to take action here and reverse course.
And he'll take a beating for it for a while.
But by the time July 4th rolls around, you get to celebrate the country.
No.
No, he has to do something about Israel.
That's irreparable.
Well, he has to, but it's going to have to be something.
The way they're going is that's got to be the easy part.
I don't think so.
I really don't.
I mean, I've been following this for months now, and it's no, I don't, half of our audience is left because we don't agree that Israel controls America and Trump.
Yeah, I know.
Well, they're very foolish.
So Tucker is the, he's at, he's, he is the nucleus of this.
It's abundantly clear.
He is the guy that had, that has everybody on who is against Israel.
He is agreeing.
You know, he's got your favorite guy there.
Tucker's Epstein Angle00:14:30
What's his name?
Nick Fuentes, who is, who is now, he's now proclaiming we are on the.
You went back on Tucker Show after.
No, but Fuentes is, you know, he's trending again.
And he's like, we're under occupation.
The United States is occupied by a foreign nation.
Yeah.
And you've got Candace and you've got, you know, Megan Kelly and Megan Kelly's fighting with the great one, with Mark Levin, the great one.
Mark Levin.
And the whole thing is one big mess.
And, you know, and you and I, we've talked about Tucker being a member of the Pilgrim Society.
We've joked about it, being a member of the Pilgrim Society.
Well, he's not a joke.
He is.
Well, there's no evidence of that, but it seems that way.
Do you want to just explain the Pilgrim Society so people know what that is?
It's been around for 100 years.
It's one of those secret societies of old-timers that, you know, I don't know what they do.
It's just one of these things.
It's the Pilgrim Society.
Yeah, but they're pro-UK, pro-Britain.
Yeah, they're basically monarchists.
Yes.
And I'm always looking to see, how can I, I mean, besides the fact that Tucker always, instead of, he always says, rather, I'd rather do this rather than that.
I'm always looking, where's his Anglophile roots?
You actually want to look at his parents to get a little more insight to that.
In particular, his mom's family before his dad divorced her.
You know, they were big commodity people in Britain.
But I got this interview where here's Tucker, just a podcaster, talks about, you know, what he does in the wintertime.
You know, some of us go to Martha's Vineyard.
Some of us do certain things.
He is definitely more elitist than he lets on.
What does your gut tell you right now about the Gulf Arab countries?
Because as you know, there is some dispute between Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, the UAE.
What does your gut tell you about this?
I've been having this conversation.
In the wintertime, I usually travel around or always travel around and see friends, have dinner and stuff.
John, in the wintertime, do you travel around and see friends and have dinner and stuff?
Or do you do other things?
My buddies, do we all, we all do a whole group of us?
We jump in a rock and roll bus.
I mean, what do I really think?
I mean, there's, of course, a dispute going on.
Let me ask you this.
If someone asks you to identify yourself, and I'm not talking about your gender or sexuality, what would you say you are?
What country are you from?
Who are you?
I'm an American.
You're an American.
Okay, thank you.
I'm an American.
That's what I would say.
What are you?
I'm an American.
Some kind.
I do not get involved in intra-Arab disputes.
I don't speak Arabic.
I don't understand it.
I like everybody.
I've been in all three of those countries in the last 10 days.
I like them all.
I would never get involved.
But big picture as an outsider, as an Anglo, as an American English speaker.
I'm sorry, as an Anglo?
I've never said that in my life.
Of course not.
Who says that?
Pilgrims.
I'm an Anglo.
Pilgrims say that.
I mean, a few of the Chicanos around here might call me that.
I'm an Anglo.
And he quickly corrects an American.
I like them all.
I would never get involved.
But big picture as an outsider, as an Anglo, as an American, English speaker.
English speaker.
I see things in terms of power.
So when he pops up, so you know, we got Joe Kent and Joe Kent resigns and he immediately goes on Tucker Show.
He's on every single show, I might add.
Have you followed what this Joe Kent guy is doing?
Yeah, it's like he was like somebody gave him the call.
It seems activated the shell.
Yes, listen to him on Scott Horton's show, Mr. Anti-War.
Now, do you think that plan A was to parachute the monarch Reza Pahlavi, the grandson in there?
Or it was really the Israeli goal was just convince Trump to get it started.
And the plan is destroy Persia.
The Israelis were big fans of throwing everything at the wall to see what would stick.
So I think at some point in time, they probably brief like the monarch son or the MDK or the Kurds or et cetera, et cetera.
But really, at the end of the day, the Israeli goal was to get in there and hammer the regime, kill the supreme leader.
And killing the supreme leader, I think, was twofold.
I mean, basically, it killed the guy that was restraining the nuclear program.
And so now there's a more compelling case to make that, hey, look, if they have anything that even resembles any kind of enrichment or any nuclear component, they're going to make a bomb because actually probably now they will because we killed the one restrainer.
Actually, we killed several of the restrainers.
I say we.
I mean, I mean, between us and the Israelis, we will all be blamed for it.
But really, the entire Israeli goal was just to launch this to topple the regime at any cost because they know the time is short.
They know that they're losing a lot of support on both sides of the aisle in America.
And so for them, timing was of the essence.
And they basically work out the details later, get us deeply entrenched in this thing as fast as they can.
And after that, they basically met their main strategic objective.
Everything else is just a matter of getting us to stay committed to the fight.
Yeah.
So, yes, he's been activated.
He's on every single podcast, including Megan Kelly, where he's alluding to Charlie Kirk being murdered by Israel.
Didn't bring that today, but here he is on Sagar.
I agree.
Well, considering that, you know, our colleagues over at Dropside News, they commissioned a poll.
A lot of Americans believe that the war in Iran was to distract from the Epstein files.
Do you think there's any credence to that idea?
That's an interesting theory.
And I actually, but I would say I would disagree just in the sense that the drumbeat for the war with Iran has been going on, I think, longer than most people knew what Epstein, who Epstein was.
But I think it was probably a welcome distraction, considering how much it was in the news.
Because again, if you want people to rally around the flag, start a new war, that's kind of like politics 101, tragically.
So I think that factor, but I don't think it was specifically for Epstein.
Had the Epstein files never existed, there'd still be, unfortunately, a neoconservative Israeli lobby for a war with Iran.
Yeah.
So it's all Israel.
Trump, this is the thing that is interesting.
These people really think Trump is an idiot.
He may not always be the best.
He may always be right.
But I don't think you can accuse him of being an idiot.
And they literally are saying he's an idiot.
Bibi Netanyahu told him to do this.
Everything he stood for his entire life, he's going to put on the line just for Israel because I don't know.
Because why?
Because he's well, the shortcut is always, there's something in the Epstein files.
There's something going on.
He listened to this.
Sticking, I think, a little bit with the Epstein question.
That's another one.
And look, I'm not saying I believe this, but I have seen a lot of people who do.
They think, you know, you talk there about Trump potentially being influenced by a threat to his safety.
Another theory is about Epstein.
His conduct around Epstein has been bizarre, if we're being honest.
I could say that.
You don't have to say it.
Do you think there's any credence to that?
I think if Trump was in the Epstein files, they would have used it to take him out long before he even got the nomination back in 2016.
I just think that's even if you don't like Trump, I think that's just kind of obvious.
But again, we go back to, we go back to, this appears to be a very powerful network.
And so for people who've been anywhere near it, are they intimidated by it?
That's a potential.
Yeah.
And sticking with that, you know, given your assessment, you've now worked at the highest levels of the United States intelligence community.
You said you do think Epstein is an intelligence asset, not specifically for any one country.
So given your experience within that, I would just want to be very, very clear.
It would not be out of the question to have powerful networks like this, which are linked to United States intelligence, Israeli intelligence, Russian intelligence.
Yes or no?
Of course.
Yeah.
Of course.
I mean, I think most Western governments would use several layers of cutouts, and all the people who could be called to testify probably actually wouldn't know anything.
And there'd be very limited files about it.
It's just my professional opinion.
So intelligence is so strong, particularly U.S. and Israeli intelligence, that Trump is afraid for his life and he's just doing whatever he's told.
That is the consistent message, but it leans more towards Israel.
It just doesn't seem that way.
No.
Now, so Tucker, being the Anglo that he is, the big interview that he does is with The Economist, with the lady from The Economist.
Well, yeah, that woman.
You can't be more British crown, City of London, North Sea Nexus than going on.
She rarely does interviews.
Do you ever see her doing interviews with anybody?
Yeah, she does the important ones.
The important ones.
Okay.
So I pulled a few clips from it.
May Dose, I think's her name.
Yeah, whatever her name is.
I pulled a few clips from it.
But before, just to give you a contrast, and people can change.
They can change their opinion.
I've changed my opinion throughout the course of the show many times.
This is Tucker from 1996 when he was still at the Weekly Standard, I think.
And he was still wearing bow ties.
This is him talking.
1996, he may have been at MSNBC.
That could have been.
But this was on C-SPAN, and he was answering a viewer question about Pat Buchanan being anti-Semitic.
Well, I mean, you know, it's perfectly valid to question America's relationship with Israel.
Israel has a lobby.
It's perfectly fair, as far as I'm concerned, to beat up on Israel's lobby.
But I don't think that's the reason that Buchanan is being labeled an anti-Semite.
It's this kind of, as I've said, this relentless, this relentless bringing up topics related to Judaism.
I mean, famously, Pat, you know, always beats up on Goldman Sachs, but never Morgan Stanley.
I mean, it's really hard to, there is no point at which Pat Buchanan has held a press conference and said, you know, I really don't like the Jews.
I think they're a sinister force in America.
But I think, and it took me years to come to this, to this position.
I mean, I'm not throwing the term anti-Semite around, but you reach a point when you say, well, gee, you know, here's a guy who has gone out of his way to defend Kim Janyuk and other accused Nazi war criminals who's constantly attacked Israel, who's attacked American Jews for supporting Israel unduly, who's implied that American Jews push America into wars in which non-Jews die.
There really is, and again, I'm not hysterical on this subject, but I do believe with Pat Buchanan of needling the Jews.
Is that anti-Semitic?
Yeah.
I mean, after a while, you conclude it is in some sense anti-Semitic.
I mean, Pat Buchanan obviously has a lot of personal and affectionate relationships with people who are Jewish.
So on a personal level, perhaps he's not, but on a different, maybe thematic level, I think he probably is.
Anyway, so I just thought it was fun to listen to Tucker in a different setting, different network, different frame of different framing, perhaps.
Framing.
Yeah, so he goes on with The Economist, and this is an important interview.
It's the big interview because she does all the big ones, and here we go.
In your copious podcasting about this in the last two weeks.
Hey, hey, we are the copious podcasters, okay, lady?
You have made the argument very strongly that the United States has been pushed into something not in its own national interest by pressure from Israel and the lobbying power of Israel.
Well, it has been.
The question is whether the person who makes the ultimate decision, which would be President Trump, should have pushed back.
That's it.
Of course, of course, Trump should have pushed back.
As previous presidents have done.
To some extent, some very limited extent.
George W. Bush didn't push back.
We wound up in the Iraq war.
And now everyone pretends, oh, that had nothing to do with Israel.
What are you doing?
I, you know, I'm trying to do something in the back, which I'm trying to find something.
Why don't you just listen to my clips?
I'll listen to the clip, but I have to don't yell at me for being muted.
Well, do you want me to wait for a second?
No, no, no.
This really has got nothing to just play the clip.
I can hear it.
To some extent, some very limited extent.
George W. Bush didn't push back.
We wound up in the Iraq war.
And now everyone pretends, oh, that had nothing to do with Israel.
I was there.
I was talking to Bush.
See, this, this right there, he keeps saying this.
I disagree with that.
The Iraq war wasn't at from what I can recall is Israel was saying, no, no, don't do it.
Do you recall that?
I don't remember them saying don't do it, but it had nothing to do with Israel.
Well, Israel didn't have a beef with Iraq.
Well, Tucker is saying that he was there.
He was there.
He's always there, isn't he?
He was there.
I found this annoying.
To some extent, some very limited extent.
George W. Bush didn't push back.
We wound up in the Iraq war.
And now everyone pretends, oh, that had nothing to do with Israel.
I was there.
I was talking to Bush.
That's not true.
That's a lie.
And that's why it's so important from my perspective.
It's a lie.
It's annoying.
To say out loud what is true before history is rewritten and disclosed.
Very tips.
He's starting to remind me of Bannon.
Kind of on the outs, but trying to make it like, oh, yeah, no, I'm there.
I'm at the meetings, even though he is actually a little bit closer in than Bannon.
Yeah, but it's like the Iraq war was a lie, but to say that it was at Israel's behest and that he was there with George W. Bush and that's what it was about, and then say, if anything else is a lie, that doesn't seem right to me.
That just seems like, no, that's not the truth.
To say out loud what is true before history is rewritten and disclosed and it's lying that gets us here.
Because we say, oh, no, no, no, lobbying efforts had no effect.
Really?
We say that about our pharmaceutical policy?
America First Shipping00:16:14
No.
Everybody understands that every policy a large government makes, including ours, is influenced by various stakeholders who were affected by the policy.
But this is the one era we have to be like, no, it had nothing to do with the fact that his biggest donors were pushing him to do this or the BB visited seven times in one year.
Are you joking?
I'm not going to play along with the lies anymore.
I don't hate Jews.
I don't hate Israel.
I love my country.
This has happened yet again.
I can give you a whole list of previous times where it's happened.
And I think we need to know what happened so we don't hurt ourselves further.
So he is saying that Bibi Netanyahu convinced Trump, the dummy, to go to war against Iran at Israel's behest.
And people believe this, John.
They believe this.
I am not saying don't blame Israel.
I think Israel has its own national interests, and Israel was certainly pushing for things, but I think there is more agency and therefore more responsibility with the president of the United States than the Trump administration.
He represents me.
I live here.
But that's important because in the way Israel pushed him into this, now he shouldn't have gone along with it.
He should have pushed back.
But to pretend that Trump woke up one morning is like, I'm not suggesting that, to be clear.
Israel pushed him.
The prime minister, by the way, it's not even just, it's not Israel.
There are a lot of people who disagree in Israel.
I know some of them.
It was the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, who pushed our president into doing this.
And I hope this is the last time that Netanyahu or any foreign head of state will ever push an American president to do something that hurts America.
Yeah.
I mean, it's one thing.
If you say your donors, the lobby, the Congress had nothing to do with this.
APAC didn't force this war.
So the only logical conclusion Tucker has is Bibi Netanyahu visited Trump seven times and said, you're going to do this.
And Trump was like, okay, Bib.
And the logical result of this, of this discussion, is breaking up Trump's so-called MAGA base, America First base, or it has broken into MAGA and America First.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is a part of it.
It's an obvious fracture.
Let's talk a little bit more about how this declining support for Israel, which I think is one of the most significant political shifts in the United States in recent years.
How is that shaping the MAGA movement?
I mean, are you now seeing?
When I look at the opinion polls, I'm told that there's 100% support amongst MAGA or 95% support for the war.
On the other hand, you're clearly a man with a large number of followers who is making a very, very different argument.
I was standing next to Trump at his house when he got elected.
I've known him a long time.
I talked to him a lot.
Wait a minute.
So Tucker was staying next to his house when he got elected.
He's known Omalan a long time.
He knows a lot about him.
And so his conclusion is that Trump is stupid and lets Israel push him around.
B.B. Netanyahu specifically.
That sounds what he said.
It sounds like what he's saying.
You know, I don't fully understand what MAGA is, but I know that the core promise of the Trump political movement, Make America Great Again, was America First.
And it was articulated by him repeatedly at every campaign stop for 10 years.
So everyone in America knows this.
I think everyone globally knows this.
The core of this movement was the idea that you would, and we could debate about how you do it, but you would try to put the interests of your country at the center of every calculation about how you manage your country and how you interact with the world.
It's the single most obvious and single most popular political concept ever devised.
Okay.
So he's saying something important here.
If the Curry Dvorak consulting group were asked to give the president talking points, which he's famously quite horrible at, what would the talking points be to say striking Iran was in America's interest?
Well, they were developing a weapon that would have disrupted the world's economy and hurt America.
We've heard that.
And it had to be stopped.
I mean, but now it was true.
All the times we've heard one more week, next week, next month, and you had to hear Lindsey Graham on the Bill O'Reilly podcast.
I saw it, but I couldn't.
You know, this thing where they get 60% enriched, you know, it means you get four weeks at any given time.
But how about this?
How about this may not be acceptable or maybe too complicated for people to understand, but how about this?
We're sick of Wall Street and particularly the British banks running shipping, running the insurance, keeping the Middle East in turmoil so that they have extra premium on oil at all times.
We're sick of them meddling in everything.
I'm trying to get stuff together with the Abraham Accords.
I think I can get Israel in line, but we've got to get these morons out with their possible nuclear weapon.
And we probably have to get other companies running the oil from Iran, which will give the profits to Iran or split it the way we did with Venezuela.
Would that not be a plausible answer along with, hey, China's been getting wholesale price, they need to pay retail?
Isn't that America First?
Am I wrong about that?
I think that's a perfect analysis.
Well, Tucker in this last clip leaves room to, he could be a double agent.
I'm listening to this like, whoa, hold on a second.
So Tucker is now, because he's good friends with Trump, was there living next door to him.
But the president, he has to convince me that this was America First.
Listen to this.
Do you think Donald Trump has betrayed America First?
I think that this war is something that he promised he wouldn't do, not once, but countless times.
And until YouTube is banned, we'll be able to prove that.
And the idea behind it is not only contrary to America First, it may be its inverse.
There's no argument that changing the regime in Iran helps the United States.
And if there is an argument, I'd love to hear it.
And by the way, if that argument is sensible and convincing, I will support it.
All I care about is the United States.
But I haven't heard that argument a single time.
All I've heard is the kind of tiresome fear-mongering about nuclear weapons, which Iran did not have.
It's insulting, actually, even to make that argument to me.
So that's a huge hole he leaves open there.
If someone can convince him that this was in America's interest, which I think I just gave a reasonable argument, then Tucker would switch around and be back on board and support it.
Well, that's interesting.
You know, you've been in the hospital.
I know you've been watching TV, but this is, it's out of control.
It really is.
People hate Trump now.
They hate him.
Well, a contingency does.
No, it's big.
I have a feeling for these things.
It's big.
It's big.
I don't think it's as big as you might think.
Well, we're talking about this.
I got a couple of a side clip if you want to hear something kind of funny.
It's about time.
Before we do that, though, here I do have the oil China analysis clip.
Ah, here we go.
China correspondent Laura Bica has this from Beijing.
China is not feeling the shock of this war yet, but it is feeling the ripple effects.
First of all, let's look at oil because China is the world's largest importer of crude oil.
And some wondered, how would Beijing cope?
Well, for the last few months, since January, it has been stockpiling crude oil.
And it's thought it has at least three to four months supply.
Also, China's insulated from any energy crisis because it's had this push towards renewables and, of course, electric vehicles.
That should ensure the queues at the petrol pumps will not be too long.
And of course, when it comes to oil, we have seen analysts suggest that some Chinese flagships are making it through the Strait of Hermuz.
How many and for how long is uncertain?
Where China will be concerned is if this turns into a long, protracted war in the Middle East.
And that is because China will be worried about the global economy.
The country is already trying to deal with serious economic challenges domestically.
To get itself out of trouble, it needs to export.
It needs to sell its goods.
If you have a large region like the Middle East, which is very well connected right across the global south to Africa and elsewhere, then perhaps their buying power will be reduced.
That is something Beijing will not want to see.
America first, right there.
Oops.
Yeah.
Simmer down, China.
I'll see you in five weeks.
Yeah, well, hopefully.
Well, we'll see.
So here's the kind of the funny clip.
Nobody's reporting this except, you know, these screwball Channel 26 is where I got this clip.
These Indian channels and some of these couple of robots are reporting it.
To me, this has got to be one of the typical crazy stories that come about because of the sanctions and this and that and rogue ships and shipping companies that aren't really owned by anybody.
It's nuts out there.
So there's this screwball story going around, which I thought was quite funny.
It should have been.
I would run it if I was a news editor.
Dead ship, unreported story.
This should have been reported in the mainstream media, Channel 26.
There is a Russian ship that suffered damages that we are seeing here.
And it's caused leaders of five countries of the European Union surrounded by the Mediterranean, by the Mediterranean Sea, to warn of a serious and imminent risk of an ecological disaster in this sea, in the Mediterranean, due to this Russian LNG liquefied, natural, liquefied natural gas transport ship.
Russian ship that has suffered an unidentified incident with explosions and a fire.
In other words, they do not know for sure if this has to do with the war or not.
But let's say this ship suffered an incident and that would generate a serious and imminent risk of an ecological disaster in the Mediterranean.
The ship is a Russian gas tanker called Arctic Metagas, damaged, damaged by a series of explosions.
It has been adrift for 15 days.
Moscow claims that the ship was attacked by Ukrainian underwater water drones.
In other words, it would not be related in Iran, but to the war between Russia and Ukraine.
At the same time, Kiev didn't comment on the incident, which means it didn't claim responsibility.
The precarious condition of this ship, combined with the nature of its specialized cargo, creates an imminent and serious risk of a major ecological disaster in the heart of the European Union's maritime space.
This was pointed up by the prime ministers of Spain, Italy, Greece, Cyprus, and Malta in a letter they addressed to the European Commission.
You know who had this story?
Mimi had this story, actually.
Yeah, she had this story, but she there's another version of it.
I cut right to the end.
I didn't want to play the whole thing.
Just got a kind of a kicker everybody seems to have missed.
Okay, here we go.
The EU said the vessel was part of Russia's shadow fleet that used to circumvent sanctions imposed after Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Russia's foreign ministry has acknowledged that the vessel was adrift in the Mediterranean and said Moscow's involvement in resolving the situation depended on concrete circumstances.
Russia's transport ministry earlier this month said the Arctic metagas carrying LNG from the Arctic port of Murmansk was attacked by Ukrainian naval drones and said the weapons had been launched by Libyan Coast Guard.
Was this from a video game, a TV series, or a movie?
I have no, it's a dumb clip.
It sounds terrible, but it's a little gotcha at the end that just like, what are they talking about?
What was the very end?
Let me listen.
Gas carrying LNG from the Arctic port of Murmansk was attacked by Ukrainian naval drones and said the weapons had been launched by Libyan Coast Guard.
Libyan Coast Guard?
Yeah.
Okay.
What?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know what people are doing.
What is that all about?
I think people don't want to talk.
The Europeans don't really want to talk about it because they have a different message.
This is Queen Ursula doubling down, doubling down now that we have this oil shortage and gas shortage.
And Europe is, you know, they are telling people to drive slower.
Drive slower.
Drive slower to work, everybody.
Conserve.
Don't use your stove.
If you have gas, why do you have gas?
Don't use it.
Drive slower.
Try to take the train.
Try to take the bus.
This is crazy.
Here's her doubling down.
So we have our clear targets and we're sticking to our targets.
Very important was the discussion, and you just reiterated it, how important it is that we do the transformation in the energy sector to the clean, homegrown energy sources.
This is for us extremely important.
Therefore, all the incentives we have set with the emission trading system, I think today in the European Council, it was impressive to see there was a clear majority clearly asking for the substance of the emission trading system.
Also, you mentioned a few factors like being homegrown or preventing the volatility of prices, but also because the investment of the business case needs stability and predictability.
So we are on track on the mid and the long term, and our goals are very clear.
So if you caught it there in the middle, she's talking about our emissions trading scheme is now in place.
So they're doing the carbon credits thing.
They're moving full steam ahead.
Yeah.
So you can trade in your emissions.
There's going to be a market for it.
Your carbon credits.
They are taking over Europe with this.
Taking over.
It's bad.
And meanwhile, speaking of carbon credits, what is missing from this report?
Hawaii is facing its worst flooding in over 20 years as a second powerful storm batters the islands.
Rising waters have flooded homes and officials are closely monitoring a dam at risk of failure.
The Hawaii National Guard has been activated and the governor there is urging residents to evacuate immediately.
So far, more than 230 people have been rescued and 5,500 have been forced from their homes.
Dam, which has been safe, was getting close to 85 feet.
That's why we sounded the alarms and made sure people could get over out of harm's way.
Governor Josh Green said the cost of this storm could top $1 billion, including damage to airports, schools, roads, people's homes, and a Maui hospital.
I looked through whatever clips were available of this.
There's not a lot of people are talking about it.
Nowhere does any out here they are.
Well, not, I mean, have you found any clips where they say due to climate change?
No, or Jews.
All right.
Chavez and Medicated Kids00:14:44
Well, Robert, well, we had a couple of deaths.
We have our immemorium segment for today.
Sad news as Chuck Norris passed away at 86.
An energetic Chuck Norris in what would be his last social media post celebrating his 86th birthday.
I don't age.
I level up.
His family announcing his death and asking for privacy at this difficult time.
The actor and martial arts star was born March 10th, 1940 in Oklahoma.
He joined the Air Force after high school and was sent to Korea.
It was during this deployment that he would begin his martial arts training, which would later define his Hollywood career.
Norris was a six-time undefeated middleweight karate champion.
They credit Steve McQueen with encouraging him to try acting.
World's greatest.
He crossed paths with another martial arts legend, Bruce Lee.
They faced off against each other in the 1972 film The Way of the Dragon.
He acted in more than 20 movies, including Missing in Action and The Delta Force.
And while they may not have been critically acclaimed, they made box office gold and garnered him millions of fans.
With his reputation as a tough guy firmly established, he stepped into what would become his most iconic role, famed lawman Cordell Walker in TV's Walker Texas Ranger.
The show was so popular it ran for nine seasons and he was made an honorary Texas Ranger.
Norris later found renewed fame as an internet meme where fans reveled in his toughness, sharing takes such as Chuck Norris once ate an entire bottle of sleeping pills.
They made him blink.
Oh man.
Did you ever meet him?
No, did you?
No.
I was going to ask if Mimi had dated him because she has a lot of stories.
She got stories.
She got stories, man.
She got stories.
So I want to get two clips out of the way.
Okay.
Because I thought you kind of short sheeted the idea on your last show with Mimi about what I thought.
I was pushing this in the background, by the way, was the Caesar Chavez BS.
I've never seen any group of people panic so much over Caesar Chavez.
And I want to play two clips.
This is, for example, set it up and explain what Cesar Chavez who's been dead for years.
Some woman who was his sidekick for the whole time he was running the farm workers out of the blue.
And after him and his brother are both dead, decided to slam him for some reason, like she was called out by, I don't know, giving a phone call.
I don't know what the deal, what's behind all this, to say that he was a rapist, just a terrible person.
And basically overnight, half the schools in California are named Caesar Chavez.
Streets everywhere are named Caesar Chavez.
And this is all, it's all being covered up, the parks, the dog walking park, everything.
It's a full-on cancellation.
It's a full-on cancellation.
So far, after the fact, it's ridiculous.
But you have to listen to a couple of these guys.
American Cholo is one of them, who has a kind of an outline of some of the stuff going on.
This is Chavez about Huerta, the woman who made the accusations.
Dolores Huerta, all said and done, had 11 children.
Okay?
Doesn't make her a bad woman, but let's just put context into this.
She had two, which nobody knew about until just recently, from Cesar Chavez.
She also had two from a prior relationship, Ralph.
She had two children from him, which I believe was one of her longest relationships.
She had one with, what's the name?
Ventura was another one.
She had five children from this man, right?
And the other one that she had kids from was Cesar Chavez's brother.
She got with Cesar Chavez's brother and had four children from him.
I don't know if this is a pattern, but it's definitely not somebody who you would think is, you know, living the high and moral life.
And for her to have four children with the brother of the man she is now accusing of raping and having a relationship with the brother and with Cesar Chavez for all those years, for decades.
It makes me think.
It just makes me think.
I'm sorry.
I know it's easy to just sit there and bash the man and just say, yeah, it's true.
I bet there's people bashing him.
But the reason they're bashing him is because he was anti-immigration.
He was calling, you know, Mexicans wetbacks or any other Latinos wetbacks.
Different time.
You can't sit there and put your morals and values of today's world to yesterday's life.
So to me, I'm making this video so that we can discuss this, have the conversation about this.
Let's sit here and have a real conversation in the comment section without just spewing hate, without just spewing allegations, facts, bro.
There has to be something that somebody got wind of that is, or maybe a documentary or something is coming that is a detriment to the Democrat Party and their entire stance on illegal immigrant workers.
It has to be.
I think so too.
I think they're clearing the runway.
But why?
Austin is doing it too.
We have Cesar Chavez Avenue, I think.
It's kind of the main drag by the river in Austin.
They already have city council has already approved a measure.
It has to go through a couple of steps.
They want to change that as well.
There must be something that somebody got wind of that's brewing that is so bad that this has to happen.
I agree.
But what?
Well, we're going to find out eventually.
But the way they've done this in such a panicky fashion from one woman out of the blue, you know, decades later, it's just a masterpiece in orchestrated cancellation.
This is not just casual.
No.
I have another clip of her.
This is Huerta herself.
She's leading, this is like in 2008, long after her rape.
She's still with Chavez, and she is leading a march, a farm workers march.
if you can hear it, just to show you that she was still involved with him.
You want to tell me what she said?
Because I couldn't hear you.
After he's gone, she's still supporting him.
I mean, this whole thing is so phony.
And it got just eaten up by the media.
I mean, I've never seen anything happen so fast.
No hearings, no discussion.
One woman, you know, I'd have to do the look at the calculation of the date.
Years after his death and just after his brother's death, so they have no dead man can't talk, does this and gets picked up on well, so this whole thing.
Let me see, the New York Times published a multi-year investigative report on the 18th.
And this is what's kicked it off.
And their report details decades, decades.
Oh, here we go.
Decades of grooming and sexual assault of minors and that's like with an O and women within the UFW.
Maybe there's something in the deep in the annals, so to speak, of the UFW, which is the workers, the farm workers or farm workers union.
Yeah.
Maybe there's, it's got to be a, it's got to be like a Netflix thing or something or no, Amazon.
Or maybe there's a movie, yeah.
Movie or Amazon or a document.
It would have to be Amazon, not Netflix.
Something has got to come out.
Something has got to be brewing that they're freaked out about.
There's no other reason for this clearly coordinated op.
That's why when Mimi brought it up, I'm like, I mean, I'm sure it's bigger in California.
It's probably about something in California because we're not hearing about it.
I had to look it up to see if Austin was a part of it.
Of course they are.
Maybe there's an Epstein connection.
Yeah, that's what it is.
So Robert Moeller died.
Yeah, and then Trump did his usual.
Good, I'm glad he's dead.
Of course, he gets condemned for being basically rude.
A douche.
A douche.
Well, it's very convenient that Mahler's dead.
It's the right time to go.
You know, I think Tulsi Gabbard is still looking at things.
I don't know.
She may be ready to bail.
There's lots of rumors.
Tulsi Gabbard is ready to bail.
She's ready to bail.
Ready to bail.
She's getting out.
She's ready to go.
We'll see.
But I think the funniest move by Trump is this one.
On to this Fox News Alert.
President Trump's just posting this on True Social.
Quote, if the radical left Democrats don't immediately sign an agreement to let our country, in particular our airports, be free and safe again, I will move our brilliant and patriotic ICE agents to the airports where they will do security like no one has ever seen before, including the immediate arrest of all illegal immigrants who have come into our country with heavy emphasis on those from Somalia who have totally destroyed with the approval of a corrupt governor, attorney general, and Congresswoman Ilhan Omar,
the once great state of Minnesota.
I look forward to seeing ICE in action at our airports make America great again.
And that comes, as we know, ICE is fully funded for a few years.
So he does have the power to do this.
And I guess the question remains, does Chuck Schumer continue this and President Trump make good on that promise he just put out on True Social?
Well, that's going to be interesting.
Yeah, I thought that was a good move.
I don't know if it's going to speed up the lines any.
I doubt it.
No, to slow him down, probably.
Yeah.
Like, Pepas, Pepas, everybody show your Pepas.
The happiest countries in the world is out again.
Is Denmark one?
No, no.
Denmark is down.
They're at number three.
Holy mackerel.
Yeah.
They're also one of the most medicated.
No, number one is, well, this kind of makes sense that people are happy there because they've got Wait a minute.
Finland is number one.
Finland?
Why is Finland so happy?
I don't know.
I've never seen a Finn laugh.
Iceland is number two, edging past Denmark.
Wow.
Now, in the report from the BBC, they show this is probably a little slanted.
You see Iceland, they're looking at like some downtown.
They've got a rainbow street.
Okay.
So maybe it's because they're all gay.
Maybe they're confusing happy with gay means happy.
Yes.
So it's Finland number one, Iceland number two, Denmark number three, Costa Rica number four, Sweden at number five.
Are you kidding me?
People in Sweden are mad.
Then you've got Norway at six and the Netherlands at seven.
The Dutch have never been happy about anything.
They're just not a happy people.
So this is just a bogus poll.
Yeah, who does this poll?
Let me see.
Wallet hub.
They don't actually explain it.
Thanks, BBC.
I don't explain how they do this.
Who does this?
Who does this poll?
They make a big deal about it in the news.
And it always comes.
Oh, it's Gallup.
Oh, Gallup, the Oxford Well-Being Research Center, and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
Well, it's green, too.
There you go.
Because they're green and they're happy with their immigrants.
Okay, that makes total sense.
Since we're going to smash everything together into one segment and I want you to kind of ease into everything, there's anything I want to do a couple of tech things, but is there anything else you want to play from your list?
Well, since you talked about Denmark, I might as well play my asylum commentary from a Denmark person discussing the Palestinians that moved there.
So Denmark did a little scientific study with the 321 Palestinian asylum seekers they've led into their country.
What they did was they basically just kept track of them and their children over the last 30 years.
And out of those 321 original refugees, 204 of them have been convicted of a crime.
That's 64%.
71 of them have been sent to jail.
That's about one out of every four.
176 of them are on government welfare.
That's more than 50% of them.
Now, the fun part is when we get to their 399 children, where 337 of them ended up convicted of a crime, that's 85%.
132 of them went to jail and 372 of them out of 399 ended up on welfare.
Local Open Source AI00:11:54
Now, let's just talk simple logistics.
That isn't sustainable.
That isn't a pathway for your country to succeed.
Like, you're talking about a single group of refugees that in just two generations had a higher than 50% crime rate, a higher than 50% jail rate, and nearly an 80% rate of being dependent upon the state to survive.
Yeah, that's fucked.
No, that makes you happy.
That gets you in the top three of the happiest countries in the world.
Because it's great.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And that's Palestinian.
They could do that with Somalias.
They could do that.
Any country wants to do that, play that game.
They just have to find a little group, the ghettoized group of the moment.
And of course, they've been there 30 years.
And do the stat.
It's always going to be crappy.
But yet we still hear the immigrants do less crime than the people that live there.
Yeah, right.
Where'd that come from?
I don't know.
From some think tank, no doubt.
Let's just do a little bit of a little bit of AI stuff because there's been some things happening.
There's some things changing, and I have had some new thoughts.
The first thing is OpenAI is getting ready for the biggest public offering in the world's history, and they're trying to shore everything up and get it all set and get ready and batten down the hatches.
Getting new details today from an OpenAI all-hands meeting where leadership doubled down and pushed toward their enterprise business and an IPO.
What does it mean?
Kate Rooney has more in space.
Tech check, Kate.
Hi, Kelly.
So that was the message from Fiji Seemo.
She's OpenAI's CEO of Applications.
I spoke to somebody who was in the room at her employee all hands last week.
The source says that she really emphasized why their enterprise business is so important.
This was two employees.
She really tried to rally employees around that message.
According to this person, Simo said that the opportunity is to now take ChatGPT's 900 million users, turn them into high compute users, and transform ChatGPT into a productivity tool.
As part of that, OpenAI has been shifting its focus from some of the less profitable projects within the business.
The journal was first to report some of these details.
Someone close to Sam Altman also tells me it does fit within his broader strategy for OpenAI Enterprise and ChatGPT have had the most material impact on revenue ahead of an IPO.
And OpenAI is going to need to prove more discipline, not just talk about it.
And that is where CFO Sarah Fryer is coming in.
I'm told by sources, she's been getting OpenAI ready to list as early as the fourth quarter of this year, discussing which gap metrics to use.
We have reported she has been putting out a more defined infrastructure, spend $600 billion versus more than a trillion dollars to investors.
And then Fryer also, I'm told, is beefing up the IR team.
She hired Cynthia Gaylor, that's Morgan Stanley's former banker.
She was the CFO of Dropbox to really help get that message out to Wall Street, Kelly.
So I don't know about this IPO.
I mean, they need to do it.
They need to get early investors out.
People are probably like, you better get this company public so I can bail out of this as soon as I can to get some money.
I don't know if this will be the tipping point, but I have been doing a lot of intense AI work, vibe coding at home.
I did the whole open claw thing and found it tedious, annoying.
It's not very great.
I mean, people are all just loving it because it does things for you.
And then I discovered something called Open Code, which is an open source, open source program, open source models that is incredibly useful.
You can make it do stuff on your computer and make your computer do things that are handy.
So, as an example, the entire Linux system that I'm using for this show, I created, you know, with local things, doing it locally.
It's for my computer.
It's not useful for anybody else.
I open sourced it.
I put it on GitHub, but I don't know if anyone cares.
Bemrose actually said something interesting to me the other day.
He says, if I create a piece of software that just solves one problem for me, that's great.
I don't need to have some software company like Microsoft.
So an example would be Window Office.
Like, I need something that creates documents compatible with Microsoft Office.
I don't need the ribbon.
I don't need Clippy.
I don't need Zippy.
I don't need all of this stuff.
Just do that.
And these local programs and local large language models that you can run yourself are capable of doing that.
And so I was listening to the all-in podcast with J. Cal, J. Cal and the crew, and they were at the big NVIDIA conference.
As an aside, Jason Calicanis, who donated $888.88 to give you a reason to live, was the only person, the only person, not Darren, not Larry, not Mo.
He was the only person that sent me a personal message and said, hey, if you need me to sit in or help out a little bit while John's getting better, I'm here for you.
I thought that was really quite sweet.
Yeah.
He's actually a good guy.
He is a good guy.
And so I'm listening to this interview and Jensen's got his leather jacket on and everyone's drooling over him as usual.
Jamath and all those guys, oh, Jensen.
But JCAL, who he does, he sometimes he launches stuff.
When he said this, I don't know if he made it up or not, but this hit me.
And I think I can kind of see where things are going with AI.
I want to take you from the data center to the desktop.
See, when J Cal says something like that from the data center to the desktop, I can already hear the CNBC people saying that two weeks from now.
It's great.
We're going from the data center to the desktop.
I want to take you from the data center to the desktop.
The company was built in large part on hobbyists, video gamers, and all those graphic cards in the beginning.
And you mentioned in front of, I think, 10,000 people here, just clawed, OpenClaw, Claude Code, and what a revolution agents have become.
And specifically, the hobbyists who are really where a lot of energy we see, you know, a lot of the innovation breaks want desktops.
You announced one here.
I believe it's the Dell 6800.
This is a very powerful workstation to run local models, 750 gigs of RAM.
Obviously, the Mac Studio sold out everywhere.
In my company, we're moving to OpenClaw everything.
Freeberg just got claw-pilled.
You got claw-pilled.
I understand that you're obsessed with these.
What is this from the streets movement of creating open source agents and using open source on the desktop mean to you?
It's so great.
Where is that going?
So great.
So great.
So a couple of things here.
First of all, I love claw-pilled.
Ridiculous.
It really, so the people are using this agents.
It's like an agent.
Oh, I got an agent on the computer.
It really is phenomenal if you use open code and you say, I need a program on my computer that does this.
And I had something really simple.
I wanted it to log into Google News using my account, get the top 10 headlines about a topic that I give it, usually two words like straights of Hormuz Straits, I think I put in there.
I want it to give me a summary, show me the top 10 stories, and then find the top five YouTube videos about it.
It has changed the way I do my show prep.
And I asked it to do that and I could watch it build this program, this program specifically just for me.
Not useful to anybody else, not an agent, but it is, it's building software for me that for a specific need that I have.
Now, JCAL says something very interesting here that they're coming out with or they are powering a 750 gigabyte Dell computer and that the Apple M4 Studio 10, whatever, is sold out.
The reason being, what Apple has done specifically, you can load that up with 500 gigabytes of regular RAM and the architecture of Apple's device, and I presume things are going to change for the Intel devices.
You can use, it automatically will apportion that to running the large language model.
So you don't need a specific NVIDIA GPU.
It can use this RAM and it can allocate whatever is necessary.
And so when I heard Jensen Wang go, oh, so great.
I thought I heard him saying, not so great.
And listen to the second clip.
OpenClaw basically put into the popular consciousness what an AI agent can do.
That's the reason why OpenClaw is so important from a cultural perspective.
Now, the second reason why it's so important is that OpenClaw is open, but it formulates, it structures a type of computing model that is basically reinventing computing altogether.
It has a computer system.
Yes.
It's a short-term memory file system.
It has resources.
It manages resources.
It does scheduling.
Yep.
Right.
And cron jobs.
It could spawn off agents.
It could decompose a task and cause and solve problems.
It does scheduling.
It has IO subsystems.
It could input, it has output and connect to WhatsApp.
And also, it has an API that allows it to run multiple types of applications called skills.
These four elements fundamentally define a computer.
And therefore, what do we have?
We have a personal artificial intelligence computer for the very first time.
Open source.
It's open source.
It runs literally everywhere.
And so this is now the, this is the basically the blueprint, the operating system of modern computing.
I think, whoa, I think, sorry about that.
I think there's something here.
It wasn't that always Steve Jobs' dream to have the computer interface just be say, I want you to do this, and it does it.
I think what's happening with open source, not with the big models and open AI and Gemini and Anthropic and all that, but with stuff you can run at home, if RAM weren't so crazy expensive, which may not be by accident, you can do it with just, if you have enough RAM, you can run this.
And yeah, you might have a different computing experience that has kind of always been the dream of Silicon Valley, but no one wants to admit it.
Nobody actually wants it to happen.
Does that make sense?
A little bit.
I have to think about it.
Well, you'll have plenty of time to think about it.
You think?
Because in the meantime, while you're thinking, I want to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you, the man who put the C in claw pilled.
Free Gas Dreams00:15:25
Say hello to my friend on the other end, the one, the only, the welcome back, Mr. John C.
Well, in the morning to you, Mr. Adam Curry.
Why are you laughing?
Because I'm thinking this is like the opening of the show.
What is?
Nation triggered an opening remark for me.
And I never did get what I said, we have free gas.
You should have said, you have free gas up there.
You never threw a question at me so I could do my joke.
Oh, okay.
Hold on a second.
What do you mean you got free gas?
Yeah, you get free gas if you give them the code word.
What's the code word?
This is a stick up.
Let's count the trolls for a second.
All right, there we go.
Oh, he's back, everybody.
He's back.
Let's check.
Oh, we have 2105.
All right.
No, it's not bad for us.
It's not too bad.
It's not like people really care that much about you, but at least they can back.
Well, you know, they'll listen.
You can download the show.
I've heard about that.
It's a podcast.
Those trolls are listening live at noagendastream.com, and they're probably using, they should be using one of those modern podcast apps, which you can find at podcastapps.com.
Why you ask?
Well, because then you get an alert when we go live.
It's a regular podcast app with all of the cool new features, chapters, transcripts, you name it.
But when we go live, you get a bat signal, you get an immediate alert, and you can listen to podcasts live.
A lot of the podcasts at No Agenda Nation are stream live first, and you can subscribe to them, and it all comes through the wonderful magic of the No Agenda stream.
But many others are doing it as well.
And we are value for value.
Thank you so much for keeping the show afloat during John's short absence.
It was highly appreciated.
Really nice to see that people wanted to give you a reason to live.
And clearly it worked so far.
And the value for value can be done in multiple ways.
You can send in your time, your talent, or your treasure.
The treasure part is obvious.
We'll get to that.
But we have time and talent, people doing a lot of work.
When I made the call, we didn't know exactly what's going to happen.
I must have received three or four different best of shows.
So thank you.
If you're still working on one, finish it.
It's never, never a bad idea to have a bad idea.
Never a bad idea to have a best of show.
And people still created artwork.
And we didn't have the same type of discussion because I was just selecting the art.
I was letting Mimi go because she would, after every show, she's like, wow, this is tiring.
Like, this is a lot of work.
Yeah.
People don't like it.
She liked doing it, though.
That's the funny thing.
Of course, she liked doing it.
And she was good at it.
It was a different show, but she was very good at it.
I enjoyed it immensely.
And she inspired the art for episode 1852, which was submitted to NoAgendaArtGenerator.com by Blue Acorn.
And this was, you really had to listen to the show to understand this one.
Shaggy Dog Story, Mimi at the pool in her bikini with Jim Morrison of the Doors wearing his own t-shirt.
You had to be there, but I liked it.
I thought it was a good piece.
So were you looking at the art at all during your downtime?
Only to repost.
Okay.
I didn't look at the art.
I'm way behind on looking at the art.
Well, we're going to start looking at the art on Thursday's show.
So please submit your artwork for episode 1853.
All of that is highly appreciated.
And we always thank all of our supporters, $50 and above.
And we're going to do it all in this segment to give John a little ease back into the show.
And we'll start with our executive and associate executive producers.
Right off the bat, with $1,050 from Lago Vista, Texas, Jim.
Denny says, Jim and Lago Vista here.
Heard y'all talking about gyros recently.
Holy crap.
That's a while back.
Yes.
Reminded me of our flight, throwing some in the kitty.
And I may have some fresh content of interest.
Oh, this is Jim who took me in the gyrocopter trip.
Oh, you went up in a gyro?
Yeah, I wanted to learn how to fly him.
And I was still in Austin when I went up there.
And they have a flight school.
And, you know, gyros are great.
I really.
You can fly a chopper.
You can fly one of these, I bet.
It's different.
It's a different answer, yes.
But it is, it's a very different type of flying.
They're not super fast, which is a bit like helicopters, but there's some new ones out there that are, you know, seven-hour hang time.
They got air conditioning, you know, three, you know, you can seat five people in some of these things.
They're getting very sophisticated.
And they are, by my account, some of the safest type of aircraft you can get.
So, Jim, reach out to me.
He gave us his email.
So, I'll email him and let's find out what's going on.
I'm excited.
I'm always excited in a good gyro, gyro trip.
Now, we have Anonymous in Lopak, Holland.
Is that right?
Lopik, 88888.
88.88.
No, 888.88.
My lucky number.
Yes.
Actually, I prefer being a douchebag and stay anonymous.
However, unexpected acceptance can or exceptions can arise.
Have a great recovery, John, from the belly of the beast, software developer Thorax Centrum in Rotterdam.
Yeah, yeah.
And Lopik is where they have the big TV mast.
Thank you very much, Anonymous.
$555.88.
That's give John a reason to live donation.
Sir Scott the Jew and the North Idaho Sanity Brigade from Post Falls, Idaho.
John C., he says, congratulations on one of the best donation promotions you've ever come up with.
Another bold and creative strategy from a true guru of solicitation.
On behalf of the NISB, that's the North Idaho Sanity Brigade.
We are glad you survived your heart attack, even if Mimi is on the fence.
Wow.
For a brief moment, we were worried the show might pivot into a post-John era, which, let's be honest, would only expose just how bought and paid for by the Israel Industrial Complex Adam truly is.
Encouraging you to ditch.
Exactly.
Wow.
Thanks, Judas.
Encouraging you to ditch the Bay Area before it actually kills you.
Sir Scott the Jew in the North Idaho Sanity Brigade.
P.S. Shameless Plug for the NOID podcast.
It's no agenda for Idaho.
If you like the media deconstruction format and you want to hear what it sounds like when it's tailored for a specific region, go to noidshow.com and check out our program.
We run value for value, the hyperlocal revolution.
All right.
Beautiful.
Good for him.
Yes, this is very good.
Nick Soaps in Peyton, Colorado, 38008.
Listen here, Jack.
This is a total recall donation.
Hall make me wish.
Hall make me wish I had three hands.
Maybe y'all, maybe y'all.
He was doing a voice text.
Says Hall.
Yeah.
Okay.
Y'all make me wish I had three hands so I could give three times the applause.
Well, there'd be something to see.
Welcome back, John, and thank you for your courage.
Mimi, R.I.P. Chuck Norris, X-O-X-O-Nick.
Hey, there's Dana Brunetti coming in with an executive producer level donation, 3333 from the ranch in.
88 for some reason.
Yes, well, because he loves you.
Brunetti has been, you know, he missed you so bad, he was texting me every day and calling and calling me, calling me.
So he's probably, has he called you yet?
He must have called you by now.
Oh, yeah, more than once.
Yeah, exactly.
He says, Welcome back from vacation, JCD.
Hopefully, now the big donations from Sir Animus of Dog Patch and Lower Slobovy will start back up so we can all try to decode the messages to you from Mimi out on assignment.
Yeah, this is his big theory.
You've heard this theory?
Yeah.
He thinks Mimi's a spook.
Her handler and asonymous a dog patch in Lower Slavovia as Mimi's conduit of cash that goes into the show.
Yes, but you're not the handler.
She's your handler.
No, no, he changed it.
Oh, well, let me read the rest of the note.
You should also know that Adam was flirting with Mimi and grooming her while you were away, lying by the pool in Cabo.
And she was even sending bikini pictures to him.
Hey, Mimi, send some too.
Yeah, it's true.
It's not bikini, it's hot pants.
John, how do I reach you?
Your landline just rings and rings.
You need to set up forwarding or at least voicemail.
I have to communicate with Adam more now than ever.
Not that that's a bad thing.
Adam, I just don't want John getting jealous.
How are we going to schedule our next dinner or our trip to see Big Boy?
Oh my God.
Listen to that horn.
He made me do that.
So if you call my landline, it forwards to Jay's cell phone number and she picks it up.
And if I'm standing around, she'll hand it over to me.
So I don't know what he's talking about.
All right.
Well, the big boy.
He checked it out just before the show.
He wants to go see some train, the big boy truck.
I know the big boy's going to be in the neighborhood.
What is the big boy?
That's the world's biggest Americas, anyway.
Biggest, it's a giant locomotive that the Union Pacific floats around the West Coast.
It's huge.
Look up Big Boy.
Big Boy.
Union Pacific Big Boy.
You may not want to Google that.
You might want to be careful.
You could get all kinds of interesting results.
If you say Union Pacific, that's your Google phrase.
Shall I read this one since it's very long?
Yeah, you might as well.
Are you going to play any sick man card at all?
You haven't done that once during the show.
You haven't done what?
Are you going to play in like...
So the...
It's...
It's good for months.
It's going to take two months before I can move my arms, basically.
Well, so you should say, oh, you've got to read this long note because I had a heart attack.
I could have done it that time, but I'm saving.
Now you gave me an extra bonus.
This is from Sean Ryan in Volenti, Texas.
$300.88.
Please dedouch me and my son, Dylan Ryan.
You've been dedouched.
There's a dedouche for him and one for him.
You've been dedouched.
I'm finally getting around to making my first donation.
I started listening to your show late last year.
My Gen Z son, Dylan, said, Dad, you should check out the No Agenda Show.
I think you'd like it.
I'm a boomer, and he's a Zoomer.
Yes, I was a late bloomer.
I liked the show the first time I heard it, but I was and still am confused with fighting stage four cancer of the ride that killed Scott Adams recently.
I don't like to think about that much.
So I was an occasional listener then.
Now I can hardly function without listening to every show fully, even to the very end with your lovely closing music.
I've abandoned all other podcasts.
Good man.
They just don't carefully listen to and deconstruct the M5M like you guys do.
I'm addicted.
My request accompanying this donation, there will be more, as I fully intend to reach night status before things go to heck in a hambasket with my health, is twofold.
First, kindly dedouch both me and my son.
Dylan Ryan did that.
His referring me to your show has instilled a sense of pride that I raised him right.
The allocation for dedouching should be $250.88 allocated towards my path to knighthood with the remainder allocated to him.
Secondly, I request that you do an F cancer along with good health karma when you read my note on the air.
Coming up.
Lastly, I will be making the trip to Fredericksburg on April 11th, 2026 for the meetup at the 1776 Bar and Full Moon in Bed and Breakfast.
I really hope to have the opportunity to meet one of my two most admired people, you, Adam.
It would be great to meet John someday, but he seems a bit tied up with surviving heartbreak at the moment.
On that note, I really enjoyed Mimi's commentary while filling in for JCD.
Thanks, Mimi.
Cheers and well wishes from Sean Ryan.
Well, that's very nice.
And we do have after that.
You've got karma.
And I'm looking forward to seeing you.
We will see you there.
And here's Michael Supco, who came in with a check from Belmar, New Jersey for $300.80 with no note that we can find, which means he gets a double up karma.
You've got karma.
We're also doing all of the knightings and damings today, which will be quite a lot for those who are.
Which is quite a lot.
Yes, we kept them in abeyance.
You know what's funny?
We have like a thousand knights and dames and one birthday.
I know.
I thought there was something wrong with the list.
No, it's not.
Robert Rose in blue here, so something's happening with him today.
Cedar City, Utah.
Major dedouching in order.
It has been a shameful four years since I've donated.
My original plan was to become a knight by the end of 2021, but failed miserably.
I'm happy to report that this donation brings me above the threshold to be seated at the coveted table.
Let me just...
You've been de-douched.
Some canned Coke Zero and Winter Green Zins for the whole table.
I'd like to be known as Sir Rob S-E-R for some reason.
Knight of the Southern Utah Red Rock Region.
John, great to have you back, and we're all wishing you a quick recovery.
No agenda isn't the same without both you and Adam.
Obligatory shout out to Mimi.
She did great.
My next donation will be a check and handwritten note because I know how much you love those, John.
Health karma for John and anyone else that needs it.
Love and light from Sir Rob.
You've got karma.
And then we have oh, it's the Indian No Agenda Meetup in out of Greenwood, Indiana.
It's from the Greenwoods.
It's from the Greenwoods.
Yes.
22222.
The Indy NA Meetup Raffles Switcheroo donation for Gary Goodman.
Note.
Get well, John.
And you two should think about having Mimi as a special reporter every month or so.
Pennsylvania Donation Notes00:04:08
No.
Karma.
Karma jingle for everybody.
Gary.
Yeah, no.
You've got karma.
We'll keep Mimi in abeyance when we need her.
I got a, for some reason, a check was sent to my P.O. box from Sir PBR Street Gang and Dame Trinity.
I'm actually going to add them into this.
How did they have your PO box?
No, I'm sorry.
It wasn't my P.O.
It was to our home address.
How did they?
Oh, okay.
Well, I guess they used to.
Yeah, we all know how that happened.
Tip of the day.
Yes.
And I'm like, well, thank you, but don't say, because, you know, now I have to send it to John.
And let me say, so it's Sir PBR, Dame Trinity.
I'm putting them on this list here.
They said, podcasts are down.
Maybe, you know what?
They probably thought John can't, no one can get to the P.O. box because John is out.
Maybe that's what they thought.
Hope this note finds you well.
Dame Toon and I were traveling back from Pennsylvania.
Listen to the live stream of this Thursday's podcast.
Simply stunned.
Please know that we are both praying for John's swift recovery.
Please find the enclosed donation of a row of ducks, 22222.
Thank you for your witness and growth in faith.
We are praying for John's return to his Catholic roots during his health issue.
Thank you for your attention to this matter, your brother and sister in Chrysler, PBR Street Gang, and Dame Trinity.
Any luck there?
Any return to your Catholic roots?
In what way?
Does anyone expect me to get up and go to church?
I don't know.
After having my ribs ripped open?
I don't think so.
Maybe you met God or you just heard everyone talk of one another.
I heard, well, when I was on it with the intubation, I think more than a few things happened.
Okay.
We'll leave that as it is.
Whatever that means.
All right, I'll take it.
How about Sir Dugget Up in Missoula, Montana, 222?
Welcome back, JCD.
This donation brings me to Baron.
All right.
Henceforth, I'd like to be known as Sir Doug It Up of the Sharp Shovel.
He's a shoveler.
Scrutinizer of the subterranean.
It is a pleasure.
If it pleases the peerage committee, yes, of course, I really don't think that title is under a debate.
No.
Okay, that's it.
That's it.
Then we go to Matthew Martell, Brewmall, Pennsylvania.
Time to step aside, Bongino.
The pod mother is here to run things now, $210.60.
Visit MartellHardware.com.
Use coupon code Mimi33 for an additional 10% off your order.
We're all going to die.
JCD Hot Pockets.
Okay.
Oops.
Sorry about that.
There we go.
We're all going to die.
Hot pockets.
All right.
Done.
Done, done, done.
All right.
Ah, Eli the Coffee Guy in Bensonville, Illinois, 2088.
We're happy to have you back.
Mimi did a great job looking holding the fort, and I enjoyed the fresh perspective.
A few of her clips probably could have been clip of the day, but we're never awarded such by Adam.
It doesn't seem to say that.
The last few weeks made me realize it had gone to her head.
The last few weeks made me realize how much I appreciate the show and the value it's brought over the past decade, almost two decades.
Good to have the dynamic duo back in action, especially with everything going on around the globe.
If a global supply chain hit another snag, not a bad time to stock up on coffee.
Visit gigawattcoffeeroasters.com and use the code ITM20 for 20% off your order.
Stay caffeinated, Eli, the coffee guy.
Coffee Break Stories00:03:14
Then we have Ailey Darling.
Ailey?
Ali?
Ali, Ailey, Ali?
Granada Hills, Granada Hills, probably, California.
$208 with a note.
Yes, here it is.
Handwritten.
In the morning, Adam and John.
As before, I want to thank you two for cutting through the MSM bias, which most of my friends and family listen to without recognizing.
I appreciate that you read out the notes from producers along with where they are from, as it's a reminder that there are free thinkers everywhere, even here in the left-leaning progressive Los Angeles.
It was great to hear John.
You must have such a hard time in Los Angeles.
It was great to hear John in the opening clip of Thursday's show as impressed as I am with Mimi.
And it's been interesting to hear her take on current events, especially Iran since she lived there.
Yes, that was great.
We need John back.
He and Adam go together like peanut butter and jelly.
No jingles needed, but karma for all, Ailey Allie, Allie, I'm going to say Allie.
Allie Darling from Granada Hills in California, apparently near Los Angeles.
You've got karma.
Christopher Graves in Somerset, California.
Does he hurt?
Coughing?
Does that hurt?
No, you have to cough because you get a lot of liquids.
During all these operations, you end up with fluids.
Oh, fluids.
And you got to cough them out.
In fact, when the nurses come by, they come by, hey, I got to get you vitals.
Hey, I do this, I got to do that.
Of course, every time they do that, I've asked a couple of the nurses, by the way, I said.
So, what do they charge the government?
I'm Medicare for every time somebody does a test of my blood pressure.
A check, yeah.
The blood pressure check.
Okay.
And they do it when you're in different parts of the hospital.
It can be twice an hour.
Why not?
And did you get a number?
I said, What do you think they charge?
And she said, I have no idea.
And nobody has a clue.
I'm sure it's $1,000.
No.
Well, it might be.
Mind being.
If it was, I would not be shocked.
But there's a bunch of these things.
I have thoughts.
Where am I?
I'm lost.
You're for Graves?
Yes.
Somerset, California, 2032.
Welcome back, John.
This is a, oh, let me finish the story.
So they come by because you have to have this cough to get rid of some of the stuff that's in the lungs from all these fluids.
Yes.
So they actually make you cough.
And it hurts like a son of a bitch.
No kidding.
How about laughter?
Laughter is it?
Oh, it's the worst.
Oh, no wonder.
Okay.
The first time I laughed, it was like, I thought I'd just drop dead.
It was like, okay, I'm going to have to be more objective about this humor.
Oh, no.
It was really laughing, it is really rough.
I'm sorry.
Well, you're sorry.
I am kind of.
Yeah.
Welcome back, John.
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This is a welcome home and thank you to Mimi donation.
Hold on.
Your friend says, Little John's gambling.
Oh, by the way, Little John's, double up on some karma, please.
That's what he needs.
Some double karma.
They sent a bunch of boxes of Little John's chocolate to hand out to the various nurses, physical therapists, and the break room and whatever.
So that was very nice of them.
And do you think you got?
Yeah, Jake comes with a bunch of boxes of these things.
Do you think you got extra, you got better treatment because of the goodies?
He was, as I was checking out at the hospital.
Oh.
They should have sent it earlier.
Oops, sorry.
Here we go.
Mimi donation.
You've got karma.
And that brings us to our last associate executive producer for episode 1853 from Linda Lupaken, Castle Rock, Colorado.
And she wants jobs, karma.
Your resume has about 10 seconds to make an impression.
Copy change.
And most don't.
Get a resume that gets results at imagemakersinc.com.
Linda helps professionals and executives turn their experience into a clear story of leadership, results, and impact.
That's ImageMakers Inc. with a K.
And Linda Liu, Duchess of Jobs and writer of winning resumes.
Welcome back, JCD.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's go for jobs.
You've got karma.
So we're just going to keep this train rolling.
I'll go through the rest of our supporters: $50 and above.
Of course, no agenda.
Donations.com is where you can continue to support the show.
So in this case, unless there's a note that we need to read, it's going to be name, location, and number.
Ian Field, $100.
David Oliver from Calistoga, California, $100.
Dame Cindy of the Tito in Carmel, Indiana, $100.
She says, get well.
Sir Daddy Cass, Mechanicsville, Virginia, 8888.
Oh, these are the 88s, 88s.
So there they are.
Stephan Pirak, Pyrrhick, Edgewater, Washington.
Longtime Aussie listener, freeloading off the value podcast for too long.
Finally decided to donate.
You've been deduced.
Earl from the Marsh Graves in Marshfield, Massachusetts.
This is 8888.
Timothy Wilkinson, Mount Laurel, New Jersey.
Katrine Taul in Rotterdam.
She says, Bajaskop.
Brian Morton, Casper, Wyoming.
Allie Olzovsky in Bainbridge, Washington.
Welcome back, John.
Sir Tommy Hawk, Iowa City, Iowa.
Chase and Rodziltsky in Saskatoon, in Canada.
Steve Niles, Santa Cruz, California.
You were missed, John.
He says.
Elliot Johnson, Morristown, Arizona.
And he has a birthday.
This is probably the only birthday for Dame Susan and McKinney on today from her son, Elliot.
Evan Gable, Vinton, Virginia, anonymous trad priest from Italy.
Hello.
How about that?
He's from Florence.
ITMA offered a traditional Latin Mass for John on the Feast of St. Joseph.
God bless you both and your families.
There it is, John.
The reason you're alive.
I'm thank you very much.
Yes.
Al Gonsul Gonsulin, San Diego, California.
Congratulations.
The ticker is fixed.
Night light snacks.
Night light snacks from Lindbrook, New York.
Get well, you old coot.
Scott Corey, Fort Great Gradiat.
Gratiat.
I know we're saying that wrong.
Someone's going to yell at me.
Fort Gratiat, Gratiat.
And there's, yeah, it's got some screwball pronunciation we keep missing.
Yeah.
Hey, Sir Patrick Cobel is there, Fairview, Tennessee.
Welcome back, John.
ITM and No More Jell-O.
The Franklin, Tennessee meetup was a success.
Thanks to you, Mr. Biggs, for organizing.
A regular schedule shall be set.
Christian Grulik, Winterhaven, Florida, John, welcome back.
On the 33rd day of Lent, coincidence, I think not.
Please accept this motorboat boob donation.
God bless you both.
Matthew McDaniel, I miss the sound effects.
How crazy is that?
I miss the sound effects.
Matthew McDaniel, Carrollton, Texas.
Welcome back, John.
Lindsay Frick in Aurora, Illinois.
Get well, John.
Then we have Dame Pompeo in Los Angeles, $88.
Welcome back, John.
William Kidwell with the boob donation, 8008 in Dover, Delaware.
Thank you, Mimi.
You were a fantastic guest host.
Mac Connor, Estero, Florida with boobs.
Kevin McLaughlin, here's our Archduke of Luna and a lover of America and boobs coming in twice with two boob donations.
And he says, God bless America and boobs, newsletter MIA on Saturday.
Well, there must be something that went wrong somewhere.
We sent it out.
Thank you, Sir Kevin.
Nicholas Leary in Columbus, Ohio, 72.72.
Chad Hewitt in Folsom, California, 66.40.
That's 66 books, 40 authors.
Then the small boobs from Matthew Elwert in Weatherford, Texas, that's $60.06.
6006 as well from Dame Liberty Mom.
And Baron Henry of Outpost West in Ranchos Palos Verdas, California, $59.92.
Kirk Satoff in Novato, California, double nickels on the dime.
Dame Nancy, Sam Bruno, California, 52.42.
Welcome back, JCD.
You were missed.
Thank you, Adam, for holding down the fort.
Your hard work is appreciated.
That's Dame Nancy of the Confused.
SolutionsUnincorporated.com from Awesometown, British Columbia.
Really?
$50.50 donation made of the solutionsunincorporated.com from Awesometown, Candinavia.
Well, I got to look that one up.
Awesome town.
Forrest Martin, $50.05.
Andrew Benz from Imperial, Missouri, $50.05.
And here are the 50s.
Noah McDonald, Traverse City, Michigan.
Alexa Delgado in Optos, California.
Baroness Carol Ann sent in a note along with her $50.
And I will read that.
Dear John, our thoughts and prayers are with you for a full recovery.
What divine intervention.
Papa God is awfully fond of you, praying for the strength and patience needed to get through this all.
We love you, John, from Baroness Carol Ann of Southern Colorado and her smoking hot hubby, Wade.
Thank you for your courage.
Beautiful note, a card actually, with a horsey on it, with a horse, and a little girl putting another little girl on the horse.
God.
That's it.
We made it.
Those are the, yes, those are the supporters, the donors for episode 1853 of the No Agenda Show.
We thank you all very much for supporting us.
As always, the executive and associate executive producers are in receipt of these actual credits.
You can use them anywhere.
And welcome Dana Brunetti to an actual executive producership.
That's quite a big deal that he's finally doing that.
And I guess we'll go straight into the birthday.
Well, actually, we'll do this just to make it feel good.
Thank you, everybody.
Go to noagendadonations.com.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
Well, as we said, we got a ton of knights, a ton of dames, and even some title changes, but only one birthday.
It comes from Elliot Johnson, who wishes his mom, Dame Susan McKinney, a very happy one.
She celebrates today.
And we say, happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe.
Title changes.
Turn and face a slave.
Here we go.
We got Earl Christopher now becoming Duke Christopher.
Sir C. Sharp of.NET becomes a Baronet.
Baronet Surplus becomes Baron Illuminati.
Dame Beth becomes Dame Beth, Viscountess of Baja, Arizona.
Dame Isabel Pearson becomes Baroness of Gers.
And Sir Digit Up, Baron, Sir Digit Up, of the Sharp Shovel Scrutinizer of the Subterranean.
And before we do our Knights and Dames, we do have a couple of notes here.
We have an instantite note from this came from Sir Kit Breaker.
Gentlemen, thank you for your mastery, generosity, and grace.
Please induct me as Sir Kit Breaker, Knight of the Red Line, craving for some hookers and blow in that order.
We'll get them for you.
We missed a note from Sean.
Dear Low Blow, John and Chatterbox Adam, first time donation, deduce, and detoxify me forever, please.
You've been deduced.
He says, never say never, Mofos.
Best V4V available.
Everybody who can't afford it, donate once.
That's Sean.
And then we have a wedding shout out.
Dear John Amma, I'd like to announce the wedding of Sir Andy and Dame Kylie.
We went off successfully yesterday, and we had a beautiful day.
We look forward to having John back today.
All of our love, Sir Andy, and Dame Kylie, send wedding photos.
And of course, we're very excited about the kids because you know you're going to name them John and Adam.
That's going to be fabulous.
So, welcome back, John.
Welcome back.
Can you lift a sword?
Can you handle it today?
Here, I got the special small one.
Oh, it's made out of aluminum.
Here you go.
A teeny teeny blade, everybody.
There he goes.
All right.
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No Agenda!
This is where you go to find your tribe.
Find connection that gives you protection.
Noagendameetups.com.
These people will be your first responders in any emergency.
If you want proof, just listen to a couple of meetup reports.
The first one is the North Idaho Sanity Brigade Meetup from March 19th.
Check, check.
Oh, yeah.
No, it's recording.
All right.
Hey, this is Sir Docefer.
Welcome to the Trails Inn Brewing Company, the North Idaho Sanity Brigade meetup.
The day before my birthday, March 19th.
And John, if you can survive a heart attack, you can also survive the naked people at Lolo Hot Springs.
Hey, John Adam.
This is a dude named Jeff here with my dame Holly.
We met at a No Agenda meetup four years ago.
The couple that No Agendas Together stays together.
In the morning, this is Holly.
Get well soon, John.
We're all rooting for you.
Thank you for your courage.
In the morning.
Hey, it's Sir Scott the Jew.
I'm here with the North Idaho Sanity Brigade.
And Kudlin, John's exit strategy was an utter failure.
This is Brian, Spook from Post Falls.
Just a big thank you to Mimi for filling in.
A big get well soon to John and a big thank you.
In the morning, this is Lloyd the Brewer at Trails End Brewery in Court d'Alene.
Get well, John.
Cheers.
In the morning.
Sir Donald of the Fire Bottles here.
Shout out to Sir Tigger Max in his Texas home.
Hi, this is Jason here at Trails End Brewery.
Just want to say in the morning.
And Mimi, you're doing an amazing job.
Keep it up.
In the morning.
Who's this guy?
Bring back Mimi.
Hi, my name is Mae McLemore.
I work at Trails End Brewery in Courtalane, Idaho.
And it was so awesome serving everyone tonight.
They're amazing as always.
Back to work, John.
Back to work.
I love it when you bring in your servers.
Thank you so much for that.
Leo Bravo did his 73rd meetup in the Los Angeles area, the HMS Bounty.
Hi, everybody.
It's Leo Bravo at meetup number 73 at the HMS Bounty.
I'm passing the phone around for our friends to have to say something.
It's B Dizzle from Southern California, just checking in with all my other fellow slaves.
ITM gentlemen, Sir Mainframe here.
First, thank you, Mimi.
You are awesome.
I'm waiting for the tell-all book to come out.
John, welcome back.
You sounded great the other day.
You sounded younger and healthier.
As far as your next sick day, what was the last word in the Forbidden Project?
Oh, yeah, never.
Hi, this is Dame Laura of the Golden Mean.
Came down to see the fabulous Leo Bravo and friends.
And I came down from Washington State due to climate change.
I fall in.
I came down to Washington State.
See the fan.
Okay.
Hey guys, this is Slick Rick, and there's some asymmetrical drinking going on here.
John C. DeVoria.
Dvorak, very good to have you back.
It's like you never left.
You were always there in spirit.
And we can always smile you too.
Camera eds 10 pounds, so we're editing.
We're going to edit.
In the morning.
Or in the morning.
Oh, man.
It's a good crew there in Los Angeles.
I'm always surprised by how fun they sound.
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And then finally, the March meetup from the Indy Group, Indianapolis, Indiana, with Sir Mark and Dame Maria.
And of course, they have a fabulous report for us.
Sir Mark, here next to the beautiful Dame Maria.
Dame Maria here.
John, we're praying for you.
Get well fast.
Mimi, you are amazing.
Adam, thank you for everything you're doing.
We love you guys.
Hey, Gary here.
John, I know you want to tell us about the hospital food, but really all we want to hear about is the hot nurses in the sponge bath.
Hi, it's Diane.
Get well soon because you are missed.
Emily the Fed here.
Hey, can we just have John, Adam, and Mimi together on the show?
Sir, Benny here.
John, you and I are about the same age, and you know what?
My balls are killing me too.
Brisky here.
On that point, I'll pass on that one.
Just chicken some beers here, though.
Daughter from Indianapolis.
I'm still in shock by what Benny said there.
This is Nick here.
I've been shocked that Dave Swanney's ringtone is Nice and White Say by Moody Blues.
Dame Swanney, White's and Night Set.
Leave a message.
Hi, my name is Bailey.
I'm the server here at Blind Out Brewery serving the wonderful No Agenda Group.
We've had so much fun today.
I'm very glad I finally got to meet these guys.
Absolutely awesome group of people.
War, win, buzzkill!
People love buzzkill!
I'm convinced now that servers at Noah Jed and Meetups are hot.
They all sound super hot.
You got to check these meetups out by going to one.
And you find them at NoAgendameetups.com.
And we have one taking place today at the Alibi Room.
In fact, underway in an hour or two.
And that is in Vancouver, British Columbia, Candinavia.
Come on.
Come.
Get that phlegm.
Get that liquid out.
Come on.
You can do it.
A lot of meetups taking place on the 28th of March.
Coleville, Texas, Columbus, Ohio, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Beachwood, Victoria.
That's Australia.
And Fukuyoka Kiyushu.
We got a lot of Japanese Japan meetups coming up.
I like it.
I'm not sure why, but I like it.
Hey, we got some LNG coming your way, people.
We're going to take care of you.
April 2nd is Raleigh, North Carolina.
April 4th, Osaka, Japan.
April 11th is a big one, Eagle, Idaho, Albany, California.
Do you think you're going to make it, John, or is that maybe a little too soon?
I can't say.
Okay.
But we will say as the date comes closer.
Lafayette, Louisiana, and April 11th, also Fredericksburg, Texas.
Tina the Keeper and I will be there and a host of celebrities that you will know.
I'm going to see if I can get Pastor Jimmy out there.
We'll get Matt Long.
He and his wife Gail are always organizing it, so it should be a good hoot and annihilate at J6 or Jenny's place.
16th of April, Charlotte, North Carolina.
April 25th, Schaefening in the Netherlands, Buda, Texas, a new location, I think.
On May 8th, Leiden in the Netherlands.
On the 8th, Santa Rosa, California, 9th in Eagle, Idaho again.
On May 9th, many more meetups to be had and to be found at NoAgendameetups.com.
You will not regret going to one of these.
It's not like TEDx, no license or anything like that.
You just get together.
You put it on NoAgendameetups.com.
People come and you have a good time.
If you can't find win near you, start one yourself.
It's easy and a party.
Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.
You to be where you want me.
Trigger to hell aim.
You to be where everybody feels the same.
It's like a party.
Well, well, just like a party, we have John's tip of the day coming up, which turns out is really Mimi's tip of the day.
I'm convinced that Mimi does all of these.
I don't know if you actually, do you do any of them or is it all Mimi?
I think, how much of you is Mimi?
What?
So I would say that, yes, this is hers.
She said, can I do tip of the day?
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I said, sure.
We got to do ISOS first.
We got to do ISOS, ISOS.
Wait, before, no, no, no, tip of the day is mine.
I'm talking about the ISOs.
The ISOs are hers.
Now, I'm going to tell you something.
She says, I'm going to send you some.
I said, okay.
She sends me 12, of which 11 were no good.
11 are like this.
And so I picked one.
And I said, I picked one, and she's very disappointed.
But I'll get back to the AI next show or the show after.
Okay.
Shall I play yours first or mine?
Yeah, no, I might as well play mine.
I almost spit out my coffee.
Ooh, it's a little cut off there at the end.
That's disappointing.
All right, see, I've got a couple here.
Good job, guys.
Thank you.
There's that one.
And I have this.
They kind of like liked it.
They thought it was cool.
And I was like, okay.
But maybe this is more up your alley.
Okay.
Cut me the checks.
How about that?
That's cute, but I like the first one the best.
Let's see.
Good job, guys.
Thank you.
That one?
Yeah.
Oh, we'll use that one then.
But first, it is time.
He's back in the saddle.
It is John C. Devorak's tip of the day.
Greenbaster, you and me.
Just the chill with JCD.
And sometimes Adam.
Now, this is a screwball tip.
So when you're in the hospital, you listen to a lot of books on tape.
Oh, is that what you do?
How about podcasts?
How about the best podcasts in the universe?
Well, I would listen to that, but that's, you know, books on tape goes six hours, you know, one after another.
But I have to say, you wouldn't expect this is to be the one I was going to pick.
It's called Elizabeth II, Life of a Monarch.
Wow.
Now, I have to say, this was stuck on the phone.
Jay was setting me up with some books to listen to, and somehow this got on there.
I don't know who gives a crap about Elizabeth.
But Jay insisted.
No, no, she didn't insist.
It just was on there.
And I couldn't get something else to play or wouldn't download or you can't stream in the hospital, whatever.
So I ended up starting to listen to this thing.
And I think it's now, see, the problem is if you go to Amazon, the editor's pick, which is Elizabeth the Queen, Life of a Modern Monarch, is an audiobook only.
And then there's Elizabeth II in private.
There's a bunch of different ones.
And the one that shows up on the title here, exactly, is Elizabeth II, Life of a Monarch.
So that's, so I, you may have to, you may, this may be a hit or miss.
I'll tell you, fascinating.
Really?
It's absolutely fascinating.
It's like, what?
Every single little details, all these details about when they were kids and what they would wear and what they would throw at each other.
And that Margaret, you know, the younger one, the sister was a biter.
Oh, she was nuts.
She was crazy.
She was a biter.
Yeah.
And there was, and it's just, it talks about Charles, all kinds of details that you wouldn't think were interesting, but it's absolutely fascinating.
Have you ever watched The Crown on Netflix?
No.
Because it's, you know, it's, in essence, the same monarch.
And what always struck me, I don't know if this is in the audio book, is how obsessed the entire family is with the press.
It's always about the press.
How did I come across?
You stole my thunder in the press.
Does that come across in the book?
That's a little bit of that, I'd say.
Those people are sad, don't you think?
Well, the thing that they mention in the book.
Gruesome and wicked, I think.
Wretched.
Wretched was the word I think I used.
Well, Elizabeth seems like a really actually kind of a nice person.
But they mention a documentary that was done by the, I think the BBC.
Yeah, that was Charles' deal.
He wanted to do a documentary of the family.
And is this the one they buried?
No, it eventually, it aired once, but then they couldn't stop it and it came back.
And it's all about it.
No, there was a couple of them that were done.
I think the recent one is the one you're talking about.
But there was one done a long time ago that was, they played it and they just said there's no, no, no, no.
We can't have the fact because it was mostly inside information.
Bad stuff.
So they go into their, you know, the room.
In fact, when Elizabeth moved into Buckingham Palace as a little nine-year-old or something, I can't remember when this first happened.
She said, oh, they thought it was cool because the place was crawling with mice.
Yes.
Mice were everywhere.
Yes.
It was tattered.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was something kind of semi-pathetic.
As our president would say, it was a shithole.
Yeah.
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What do you say?
Yeah, that was in the crown as well.
The mice, the mice, and everything was a mess.
Yeah.
Wow, that's an interesting tip.
So for those of you going in for open heart surgery, there's your tip of the day.
Find them all at noagendafun.com, tipoftheday.net.
Christmas for you and me.
Just the chip with JCD.
And sometimes Adam.
Created by Dana Bernetti.
Yes.
Thank you, Dana Bernetti.
Where would we be without you?
And that concludes our broadcast day.
We have some dynamite end of show mixes.
Thank you to Jeff Crocker for his special edition.
And coming up next on the No Agenda stream, we have, let me see what we got going on.
Ah, our big dumb mouth, OBDM.
This is, they're talking about Chuck Norris on this one.
So you should get the, stay tuned for that as it is going to air next on the No Agenda stream.
And we will be back on Thursday.
John, I'm so happy you're okay.
Happy you're alive.
Happy you're back.
We need to have some contingency plans.
I'm just saying it's a thought.
Maybe like passwords.
For a start.
Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country, right here in Fredericksburg, Texas, where I'm happy to have my partner back.
In the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from North San Francisco Bay, I'm John C. Dvorak.
We'll be back on Thursday, both of us.
Count on it.
Until then, remember us at NoAgendadonations.com.
Until then, adios mofos, a hooee-hooey, and such.
I hear the zephyr coming.
See if I can turn that into a song.
We're coming.
It's coming, it's I hear the zephyr coming.
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That's why we're thrilled to announce Project Aqueduct, a mission to maximize compute cooling by successfully diverting the Mississippi River into our Iowa regional hub.
OpenAI, because the future is a utility.
You are 400,000th in line for an agent.
Your call is being transferred to an agent.
But he pushed the red line, went too far.
Now it's on the lift like an old salvage car.
He's in the shop for a valve and a gear, getting parts replaced for the coming year.
Mimi wrote the book on the eggs in the pan.
A literary feat for the best part of the man.
But Adam says no to the exit plan.
It's unacceptable, according to the man.
You can't just bow out with a cracked up chest.
While the too many eggs are put to rest, the old fart's heart is getting a start.
Bolting back together every broken part.
Meanwhile, the producers pitch in to cover the show while JCD recovers in his Silicon Valley shack toe.
JCD, you ain't checking out.
Welcome back to that same old place that you grouse about.