No Agenda - 1855 - "Gooder"
Aired: 2026-03-29
Duration: 02:42:05


=== No Kings Movement Explained (15:13) ===

[00:00:00]  Hey, but you go.
[00:00:01]  Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
[00:00:04]  It's Sunday, March 29th, 2026.
[00:00:06]  It's your award-winning Give On Nation Media Assassination Episode 1855.
[00:00:10]  This is no agenda.
[00:00:13]  Renaming the globe and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA, region number six in the morning, everybody.
[00:00:21]  I'm Adam Curry.
[00:00:22]  And from the northern San Francisco Bay, Refinery Row, where we had no kinks day.
[00:00:28]  I'm John C. Dvorak.
[00:00:30]  It's Craig Bonnenburg in the morning.
[00:00:35]  You guys always have Kinks Day in San Francisco.
[00:00:38]  No kinks.
[00:00:41]  This was so interesting.
[00:00:45]  I was just trying to read through people who were writing about it.
[00:00:50]  Of course, we have clips.
[00:00:52]  But the big thing that the M5M was trying to emphasize was this line.
[00:01:00]  These events, supported by 500 groups with combined revenues of $3 billion.
[00:01:08]  This is, you know, what is the, what is the point of that?
[00:01:12]  They're trying to message something like, this is scary, powerful.
[00:01:20]  You know, did $2 billion go to Bruce Springsteen?
[00:01:26]  I don't have no clue.
[00:01:29]  It's good to have you here, John.
[00:01:31]  Oh, thank you.
[00:01:33]  How are you feeling?
[00:01:34]  Terrible.
[00:01:35]  I feel terrible.
[00:01:36]  Yeah.
[00:01:36]  It's a miracle I could do this show.
[00:01:38]  Well, I'm actually quite surprised.
[00:01:40]  Are you sleeping at all or is that not?
[00:01:43]  Well, the sleeping is a problem because you kind of just doze off when you feel like it.
[00:01:48]  But I will say this.
[00:01:50]  Like during the donation segment.
[00:01:51]  Yeah, it could happen.
[00:01:53]  It could happen.
[00:01:54]  Yeah, you will say that.
[00:01:55]  I will say this.
[00:01:56]  David Letterman had a quintuple.
[00:01:58]  Yes.
[00:01:59]  And he was on the stage five weeks later.
[00:02:01]  Yeah.
[00:02:02]  Well, he is.
[00:02:03]  That ain't happening here.
[00:02:04]  He's a superstar.
[00:02:05]  The past five weeks already.
[00:02:07]  No, no, that was five weeks after the operation.
[00:02:10]  You've only had the operation was 10 days ago.
[00:02:14]  No, it was on the 6th.
[00:02:16]  Oh, wow.
[00:02:17]  Well, hurry up, will you?
[00:02:18]  Get your spark, man.
[00:02:20]  Here's a little overview of, this is from Euronews.
[00:02:24]  Here's how the Europeans viewed our No Kings Day.
[00:02:27]  Millions of people took to the streets across the United States to participate in the more than 3,100 protests taking place against U.S. President Donald Trump.
[00:02:36]  The rallies denounced what they described as an authoritarian style of governance by the incumbent administration, their immigration stance, climate change denial, isolationist foreign policy, and now the war in Iran.
[00:02:50]  In New York, thousands gathered to protest against sweeping immigration raids carried out by ICE and called for their abolition.
[00:02:58]  The rallies even featured a surprise cameo from New York native and Hollywood giant Robert De Niro.
[00:03:04]  De Niro took place in the capital, Washington, D.C., where hundreds gathered near the White House demanding Trump's ouster.
[00:03:11]  It's the third time in less than a year these protests, part of a U.S. grassroots movement called No Kings, take place.
[00:03:19]  The demonstration spread across the pond, where thousands of Americans abroad and locals took part in rallies across Europe.
[00:03:26]  There were protesting in London, No Kings.
[00:03:28]  Oops.
[00:03:29]  In Paris, protesters called for an end to Trump's quote, reckless, irresponsible, and endless wars.
[00:03:36]  And in the Italian capital, thousands marched calling for respect of international law and demanding a world free from wars.
[00:03:44]  Yeah, I think the branding is off.
[00:03:47]  No Kings.
[00:03:48]  Just hate Trump.
[00:03:49]  That's all that it is.
[00:03:51]  Hate Trump.
[00:03:52]  Did you see that?
[00:03:54]  Segment of the New York protest that was literally communists with the red flag.
[00:04:02]  No.
[00:04:03]  Yeah, it must have been a couple thousand people.
[00:04:06]  Oh, they had the flags, they had, you know, and they had a bunch of jingles that they would say about communism taking over.
[00:04:13]  And, you know, there's all kind of a mixed bag of Zeds and maybe some millennials.
[00:04:22]  Well, I think the Zeds that are in New York are going to have one.
[00:04:28]  You know, they all were promised a bunch of stuff, and they probably aren't paying attention that it's kind of not happening.
[00:04:35]  Like, well, we've got to raise your taxes, you know, raise taxes on property.
[00:04:40]  So you're probably not going to freeze the rents.
[00:04:44]  So they just haven't felt the pain yet.
[00:04:47]  But, you know, the kids are happy.
[00:04:49]  They like their red flags.
[00:04:51]  Let them wave them for a little bit.
[00:04:52]  I'm not so bothered by it.
[00:04:54]  New York has always been New York.
[00:04:57]  They'll figure it out.
[00:05:00]  Were you shocked?
[00:05:02]  No, not at all.
[00:05:05]  I'm just surprised they came out so blatantly.
[00:05:08]  Oh, no.
[00:05:10]  But this has always been the case.
[00:05:12]  We used to arrest people over it in Hollywood, and then we gave up that gambit.
[00:05:17]  Like, it wasn't so cool to be calling people communists and arresting them.
[00:05:21]  And so now they're rampant.
[00:05:24]  It doesn't work.
[00:05:26]  I watched a fair bit of it, the Minneapolis stuff, which was, oh, man, they had one crappy band after another.
[00:05:36]  It's like everybody who has a guitar and has written a song was allowed to go up on stage.
[00:05:41]  Like, ah, it was insufferable.
[00:05:44]  And then, of course, the great New Jersey icon Bruce Springsteen takes the stage to confirm all the lies.
[00:05:54]  Hello, Minnesota!
[00:05:55]  Woo!
[00:05:58]  What?
[00:05:59]  What?
[00:06:00]  Hey!
[00:06:04]  This past winter, federal troops brought death and terror to the streets of Minneapolis.
[00:06:17]  This past winter, federal troops brought death to the streets of Minnesota.
[00:06:23]  Well, they picked the wrong city.
[00:06:25]  Yeah.
[00:06:27]  Should have gone to Tom's River.
[00:06:31]  The power and the solidarity of the people of Minneapolis and of Minnesota was an inspiration to the entire country.
[00:06:39]  Your strengths and your commitment told us that this is still America.
[00:06:47]  Just not this little piece here, Bruce.
[00:06:49]  And this reactionary nightmare.
[00:06:51]  Oh.
[00:06:52]  And these invasions of American cities.
[00:06:54]  Invasions of America.
[00:06:56]  Bruce Springsteen, who has several hundred million dollars.
[00:07:02]  What happened to the guy?
[00:07:04]  I'd like to know myself.
[00:07:07]  Do you think it's toxoplasmosis?
[00:07:11]  It very well could be.
[00:07:13]  Something is going on here.
[00:07:14]  You will not stand.
[00:07:16]  You gave us hope.
[00:07:18]  You gave us courage.
[00:07:20]  And for those who gave their lives, Renee Good, mother of three, brutally murdered.
[00:07:27]  Murdered.
[00:07:27]  Alex Predi, VA nurse, executed by ICE.
[00:07:31]  Executed.
[00:07:32]  Shot in the back and left to die in the street without even the decency of our lawless government investigating their deaths.
[00:07:44]  Their bravery, their sacrifice, and their names will not be forgotten.
[00:07:50]  You just can't, it's it's like the Howard Stern sickness.
[00:07:54]  Yeah.
[00:07:55]  And it's it's bizarre.
[00:07:57]  It could be cats.
[00:07:59]  It's got to be cats.
[00:08:01]  I mean, it's just, it makes no sense.
[00:08:06]  He's off the rails.
[00:08:07]  Well, he's on, he's not even on rails.
[00:08:10]  It's just like, Bruce, come on, man.
[00:08:12]  He's not going to.
[00:08:14]  I think he's done.
[00:08:16]  Well, he's been, he's been done for a while.
[00:08:18]  It's just so disappointing.
[00:08:20]  I mean, I'm from Jersey.
[00:08:21]  This is not the guy who we used to know.
[00:08:24]  Well, New Jersey's turned blue, so that kind of makes sense.
[00:08:28]  But the craziest was Jane Fonda.
[00:08:31]  And she's, I mean, what is No Kings supposed to be about?
[00:08:36]  I mean, was it even about ICE initially?
[00:08:39]  I can't remember.
[00:08:40]  The first No Kings was about nothing except Trump.
[00:08:43]  Right, Trump.
[00:08:44]  And then it became, this was kind of the Minneapolis.
[00:08:46]  So it's about federal troops invading our cities.
[00:08:50]  Invading, yeah.
[00:08:51]  Invading our cities.
[00:08:52]  And then Jane Fonda, who I'd really, I'd really like to just like her because, you know, here's an elderly woman.
[00:09:01]  She's 87, 88.
[00:09:04]  You know, she, all the work that she's done on herself looks just mind-bogglingly good.
[00:09:11]  But she makes it so hard for me to like her.
[00:09:15]  And now she's waffling over this.
[00:09:17]  I want to say that the First Amendment suffers greatly in times of war as the government works to crush internal dissent.
[00:09:26]  What?
[00:09:26]  Our parents, our forefathers fought and died for these rights, for these freedoms.
[00:09:34]  We must not sit by quietly and watch them taken away.
[00:09:38]  If we wait to act, if we hesitate out of fear or the feeling that it doesn't affect us, it may be too late.
[00:09:50]  So this is America?
[00:09:52]  What's she talking about?
[00:09:53]  Exactly.
[00:09:54]  This is the land of the podcast where everybody can say whatever they want about anything or nothing.
[00:10:01]  And so I had to figure out what is she talking about.
[00:10:05]  It made no sense.
[00:10:07]  So I find, luckily, although it was kind of hard to watch, she goes on Mrs. Now with Jen Psaki, and Jen Psaki is fawning over her.
[00:10:17]  And she explains, because she has a group.
[00:10:19]  She has a First Amendment group because your First Amendment rights are under attack and being removed here in America.
[00:10:27]  And I should note for the audience, you were in Washington, D.C. today, speaking outside the Kennedy Center for an event, this is what I'm referring to, in defense of free expression.
[00:10:36]  So tell us about the event and the message you were really trying to get across to people watching.
[00:10:40]  Yeah, because we don't understand.
[00:10:42]  Well, the attacks on the arts, on literature, on film, arts, museums, the National Endowment of the Arts.
[00:10:50]  Oh my, what, what attack on museums?
[00:10:54]  What attack on films?
[00:10:55]  This can only be...
[00:10:58]  Tell that to Netflix.
[00:11:00]  Exactly.
[00:11:01]  This can only be that Trump put his name on the Kennedy Center.
[00:11:04]  I can't imagine it's about anything else, but she does slip in.
[00:11:08]  I'm sure that's what it is.
[00:11:09]  That galled everybody so much.
[00:11:11]  She slips in the National Endowment for the Arts.
[00:11:14]  Okay.
[00:11:14]  All of these are under attack right now.
[00:11:16]  Attack.
[00:11:17]  They're being defunded.
[00:11:18]  They're being censored.
[00:11:19]  They're being censored.
[00:11:21]  Nobody's censoring anything.
[00:11:23]  Well, she kind of twists herself in a knot in this short appearance.
[00:11:27]  Removed.
[00:11:28]  Removed.
[00:11:29]  Especially racial history, the history of slavery, is all being erased.
[00:11:36]  What?
[00:11:37]  It's being erased?
[00:11:39]  Have I missed something?
[00:11:42]  Yeah.
[00:11:44]  Okay.
[00:11:44]  And we wanted it.
[00:11:47]  We've been deluged with the history of race.
[00:11:52]  Deluged.
[00:11:54]  I think we got it.
[00:11:55]  It's all being erased.
[00:11:57]  And we wanted it because it's kind of like here and there, siloed, we worried that people and the press don't see clearly enough the breadth and depth of these attacks.
[00:12:13]  And we have to understand what's happening.
[00:12:16]  This is not normal.
[00:12:17]  This does not happen in a democracy.
[00:12:20]  And we have to call it what it is.
[00:12:22]  And we have to end it.
[00:12:23]  We're the committee for the First Amendment.
[00:12:25]  It's the First Amendment for a First Amendment.
[00:12:28]  She's the committee for the First Amendment.
[00:12:31]  Hold on.
[00:12:31]  Jen Saki.
[00:12:33]  I didn't see this.
[00:12:34]  But Jen Saki, I'm guessing, goes right to the juggler and asks us for specifics.
[00:12:42]  Yeah, no.
[00:12:43]  Yeah, no.
[00:12:44]  Maybe no.
[00:12:45]  No.
[00:12:46]  No.
[00:12:46]  It's just, listen, she's on the committee for the First Amendment.
[00:12:51]  Oh, and we have to end it.
[00:12:54]  We're the committee for the First Amendment.
[00:12:56]  It's the First Amendment for a reason.
[00:12:58]  It's the most important.
[00:12:59]  It's the cornerstone of all democracies.
[00:13:02]  It's freedom of speech.
[00:13:04]  It's the First Amendment.
[00:13:06]  It's the cornerstone of all democracy.
[00:13:09]  All democracies.
[00:13:10]  First Amendment for a reason.
[00:13:12]  It's the most important.
[00:13:13]  It's the cornerstone of all democracies.
[00:13:16]  It's freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, and freedom to protest, including the right.
[00:13:25]  Is that in there?
[00:13:27]  Let me go take a look and see if it says freedom to protest.
[00:13:30]  I'm not sure it's actually in there that way.
[00:13:33]  Freedom of assembly and freedom to protest.
[00:13:35]  For someone who's on the committee, she could at least just cite it verbatim.
[00:13:39]  Including the right to criticize our president if we choose.
[00:13:44]  This is under attack.
[00:13:45]  Yes, that's under attack.
[00:13:51]  So, yeah.
[00:13:52]  Yeah, and gee, nobody's ever criticized Trump.
[00:13:57]  It's the oddest thing.
[00:13:59]  I don't, maybe I'm wrong about her, but I never thought that she felt the need to be relevant.
[00:14:07]  You know, a lot of Hollywood people do that.
[00:14:10]  I never really pegged her that way.
[00:14:12]  But I guess I can't come up with any other reason for her to be like this.
[00:14:18]  You know, why don't you invest some money and make some independent films and do some theater productions?
[00:14:25]  I don't think anyone's going to stop you.
[00:14:28]  But it's somehow it's maybe there's a defunding of certain things.
[00:14:33]  Maybe that's what she's upset about.
[00:14:36]  But that's not the First Amendment.
[00:14:39]  First Amendment doesn't say, oh, you shall get free money for your theater productions.
[00:14:45]  So I was a little confused.
[00:14:48]  What do you have on No Kings?
[00:14:49]  Do you have anything?
[00:14:50]  Nothing.
[00:14:50]  I got no clips.
[00:14:51]  I wasn't going to really talk about it.
[00:14:52]  Well, what's this No Kings rap NPR then?
[00:14:55]  Well, this is the NPR rap of No Kings.
[00:14:59]  Ha ha.
[00:15:00]  See, you're being censored.
[00:15:01]  Your clips are being obfuscated.
[00:15:03]  No King's protests against President Trump and his policies, including the war in Iran, immigration, voting rights, and the rising cost of living, are taking place around the country today.

=== Immigration and Indigenous Issues (15:14) ===

[00:15:13]  Organizers say more than 3,000 rallies are being held and millions of people are expected to attend.
[00:15:20]  Sarah Ferguson from Minnesota Public Radio has more from a massive rally in St. Paul.
[00:15:26]  There's been a lot of cheering as people, especially non-Minnesotans, have lifted up the people of Minnesota for the way that they've reacted to Operation Metro surge and really encouraged others around the country who are watching to take steps to follow up on the things that Minnesotans have done,
[00:15:45]  respecting one another, trying to support their neighbors, and just a lot of cheers here as some of the speakers say that the country does not want a king and they want to make sure that the people are empowered.
[00:16:00]  Is this all about the ID, about the SAVE Act?
[00:16:03]  Do you think that's part of it?
[00:16:05]  I didn't see much talk about it.
[00:16:08]  But I mean, it just, it makes no sense.
[00:16:10]  It seems like protests just people with nothing better to do.
[00:16:16]  I have no idea.
[00:16:18]  It's silly.
[00:16:20]  I'm going to say it.
[00:16:21]  It's silly.
[00:16:22]  Yes.
[00:16:22]  Well, and you pointed it out right at the beginning, which is the silliest part.
[00:16:27]  You know, all these international versions of this, including one in England.
[00:16:32]  No King's Day.
[00:16:33]  Where they have a king.
[00:16:34]  Where they have a king.
[00:16:37]  Yeah, we've been trying to figure out the backlash against Cesar Chavez.
[00:16:43]  You were back on that.
[00:16:44]  Yeah, well, it's related, I think.
[00:16:46]  I think it's related.
[00:16:47]  Yeah, I think it is.
[00:16:50]  In February, RFK Jr. was on Rogan and he explained what happened.
[00:16:58]  You know, we've throughout American history, or there's always talk, well, the Republican Party and the Democrat Party, they flipped.
[00:17:05]  They flipped over.
[00:17:06]  Yeah, bullshit.
[00:17:07]  Well, but this is a kind of a flip that sounds correct.
[00:17:13]  Why don't you ask me about immigration?
[00:17:15]  Because I know that that's something that's disturbed you.
[00:17:17]  Well, what are your thoughts on immigration?
[00:17:21]  On what's going on?
[00:17:23]  You know, here's the background of my kind of assumptions.
[00:17:27]  During the last 10 years of his life, I worked very closely with Cesar Chavez.
[00:17:33]  And I worked with him.
[00:17:34]  He had two issues.
[00:17:35]  He had pesticides, which were a huge issue with him.
[00:17:38]  And that's what I worked with him on, on the dangers that, you know, his workers were experiencing from pesticides.
[00:17:46]  And the other issue he had was immigration.
[00:17:48]  He wanted to shut down the border because he saw the way that it was impairing this huge influx of illegal migration across the border.
[00:18:01]  It was impairing his ability to get, to bargain, to leverage good wages and conditions for his workers.
[00:18:09]  When I grew up, the Democratic Party was against immigration.
[00:18:13]  And it was the Republican Party who wanted it because the big corporations wanted cheap labor.
[00:18:18]  The Chamber of Commerce was firmly embedded in the Republican Party, and they were all about open borders.
[00:18:25]  Today, the Chamber of Commerce is with the Democratic Party.
[00:18:29]  And so it's one of these switches that is kind of inexplicable to me.
[00:18:33]  But I think, again, it happened because President Trump said, I'm going to fix it with the wall.
[00:18:39]  And that became, you know, it suddenly became open borders, suddenly became a calling card for the Democratic Party.
[00:18:47]  So there was this flip, which really only had to do with big business.
[00:18:52]  Yeah.
[00:18:53]  Yeah.
[00:18:54]  The two sides.
[00:18:56]  And this is recent, this one, because you can get clips from Schumer.
[00:18:59]  I have, I don't have any on today's show, but you know, talking and moaning and groaning about immigration.
[00:19:05]  And you can get clips from Hillary moaning and groaning about immigration.
[00:19:09]  You can get all these clips, even up to Obama.
[00:19:12]  And now they say just the opposite.
[00:19:15]  Yeah.
[00:19:16]  But you could call it a flip.
[00:19:18]  But what specifically do you think is the reason for this?
[00:19:23]  What's the reason?
[00:19:24]  Three documentaries.
[00:19:27]  American Pachuco, the legend of Luis Valdez.
[00:19:33]  American Agitators, which I think may be out already, and a song for Caesar.
[00:19:39]  American Pachuco?
[00:19:41]  Yeah.
[00:19:41]  I have no idea what that means.
[00:19:45]  I do.
[00:19:45]  What does it mean?
[00:19:46]  Well, it's kind of like a punk, a bad guy.
[00:19:52]  You'd call it in the in the when I was a kid, I was raised in largely, you know, Hispanic areas.
[00:19:58]  And these guys would call, hey, Pachuco, hey, Pachuco, and Vato, Vato is the other one that you said.
[00:20:07]  Did they call you Pachuco?
[00:20:09]  No, I was a white guy.
[00:20:10]  Nobody even talked to me much.
[00:20:13]  You were just hanging around, me and Julio, down by the schoolyard?
[00:20:15]  No, I had a lot of friends that, you know, when I was in high school, before they opened up our white high school, I went to a old Mexican, pretty much a Latino high school.
[00:20:33]  Wait a minute.
[00:20:35]  You were a minority?
[00:20:36]  Did you get beat up?
[00:20:37]  Did they take your lunch?
[00:20:38]  Not at all.
[00:20:39]  In fact, it was just the opposite.
[00:20:40]  Oh, you were gringo.
[00:20:41]  Were they called you?
[00:20:42]  Hey, gringo.
[00:20:42]  No, no, lunch mom.
[00:20:43]  Hey, man, that guy's really white.
[00:20:47]  That's what they'd say.
[00:20:49]  You know, everybody hung out with their own little crowd.
[00:20:52]  But just as an aside, to this day, and I've talked about this with everybody I know, I'm still impressed with the natural marketing capabilities of some of these kids.
[00:21:06]  At the time, we call them Chicanos.
[00:21:08]  And these kids that were, because when they were running for, I think it was sophomore class president, you know, we already knew who's going to win and might not win.
[00:21:18]  But this one kid came up with this, with giant posters.
[00:21:21]  He'd make these long banners, and he won with the phrase, Hernandez is gooder.
[00:21:33]  And it was so catchy.
[00:21:35]  You look at it, you go, Hernandez is gooder.
[00:21:38]  And you say, wow, that's, I don't know what kind of genius came up with that one, but it was a gem and he just kicked ass in the voting.
[00:21:46]  So I'm looking at this.
[00:21:47]  This is from Hawaii Public Radio.
[00:21:50]  They have a report here.
[00:21:52]  This America Pachuco premiered at Sundance in January, is slated for release, PBS release in fall.
[00:22:00]  Interesting.
[00:22:01]  And here's the line.
[00:22:02]  Recent screenings have become safe spaces for audiences to process the new allegations as the film contains significant footage of Chavez.
[00:22:15]  Oh, that's funny.
[00:22:17]  So there's an oops.
[00:22:19]  Maybe it was the whole idea was to ruin that film.
[00:22:22]  Could be.
[00:22:24]  But that RFK Jr. is talking about on Rogan in February.
[00:22:29]  The timing is, you know, the timing is interesting.
[00:22:35]  And maybe there's something afoot.
[00:22:37]  And they're like, oh, crap, they're going to use Hugo Chavez.
[00:22:41]  They're going to use him.
[00:22:42]  We got to do something quick.
[00:22:44]  We got to cancel this guy.
[00:22:47]  Maybe it's exactly what you talk.
[00:22:49]  Maybe it's the Gooder guys.
[00:22:50]  Maybe they're going after the Chicanos.
[00:22:53]  Like, we can't have the Chicanos voting for Trump.
[00:22:57]  Oh, there's got to be some angle there, yeah.
[00:22:59]  I'm thinking it has something to do with it.
[00:23:04]  Yeah, could be.
[00:23:05]  Well, we keep looking.
[00:23:07]  We keep looking.
[00:23:08]  All right, Woody, where do you want to go?
[00:23:09]  What you got?
[00:23:10]  Well, I got a couple of interesting little aside.
[00:23:12]  If you want to hear something off the wall that you haven't even touched upon, okay.
[00:23:17]  We have, I didn't hear about it.
[00:23:19]  I have to say.
[00:23:21]  Canada's got, you know, BC's going broke.
[00:23:23]  How are they now?
[00:23:25]  Well, BC's credit rating has been downgraded again.
[00:23:28]  The official opposition says it signals to investors that the province is going broke.
[00:23:34]  Huh.
[00:23:35]  Okay.
[00:23:36]  BC's going broke.
[00:23:38]  And in fact, the whole country might be going broke.
[00:23:40]  Let's play this clip, Canada bank fees.
[00:23:43]  New survey now.
[00:23:44]  CTV puts out a new survey.
[00:23:47]  Nearly half of Canadians living paycheck to paycheck.
[00:23:49]  You know, you get another slow clap for all these policies here.
[00:23:53]  Half of Canadians in this rich, rich nation.
[00:23:56]  And then you're going to have Francois Philippe Champagne is bragging that they're cutting the NSF fees from 50 bucks to 10 bucks because one in three Canadians now writing bad checks.
[00:24:05]  Without realizing what he's saying, he thinks you're that stupid.
[00:24:08]  One in three Canadians writing bad checks.
[00:24:10]  Half of Canadians living paycheck to paycheck.
[00:24:12]  In a nation as rich as this, you squandered riches.
[00:24:17]  You've impoverished a nation.
[00:24:18]  And you're bragging on there?
[00:24:19]  Like he must have done that, took him all day too, because we saw the hard cuts in there too.
[00:24:24]  They couldn't even stitch together like a moment.
[00:24:26]  It was just full of like hard cuts as Francois Philip Champagne was telling you that you're going to get a grocery credit and you're going to get $40 off NSF fees in a nation where the Canadian banking oligopoly books record profits year after year and they won't let competition.
[00:24:45]  They should try a no King's Day.
[00:24:48]  They got problems up there that we're not carefully looking at.
[00:24:52]  Well, our producers, and we have a lot of them in Canada, pretty much all of them want to come live here.
[00:24:59]  I remember during COVID, like, hey, man, can I stay in your attic?
[00:25:05]  Got any space?
[00:25:08]  And then also, which I think is coming to a boil up in Canada, but not so much here, I want to play these clips.
[00:25:15]  This is Land Act 1, China Deals UN.
[00:25:22]  A new measure was announced this week to try and help stimulate the housing market.
[00:25:26]  And it marks the third one that came out just this month.
[00:25:30]  We ultimately may hear of even more of these to come as the pre-sale market continues to struggle immensely.
[00:25:37]  Plus, we saw another major project go insolvent.
[00:25:41]  I also have updates on where markets are pricing in potential Bank of Canada rate hikes.
[00:25:47]  Plus, there is an incredible theory that has emerged this week as to why the government is making these land agreements with Indigenous groups.
[00:25:57]  Okay.
[00:25:58]  All right.
[00:25:59]  Something's going on.
[00:26:01]  Yeah, there's a bunch of weird stuff going on with these indigenous groups.
[00:26:05]  I like the way they call them, the Indians.
[00:26:07]  Yeah.
[00:26:08]  Play land act China deals.
[00:26:11]  Oh, that's the one.
[00:26:11]  No, wait, wait, wait.
[00:26:12]  That's the one I just played.
[00:26:13]  No, you played.
[00:26:14]  Oh, no, I see.
[00:26:15]  I got it.
[00:26:15]  I see it.
[00:26:16]  Yeah.
[00:26:16]  The UN?
[00:26:19]  They look the same.
[00:26:20]  The one that looks the same that doesn't have one.
[00:26:23]  Yeah.
[00:26:23]  Land.
[00:26:24]  Okay.
[00:26:24]  Here we go.
[00:26:25]  The strategy focuses on joint ventures and equity positions.
[00:26:29]  In these models, the First Nations retain its right.
[00:26:33]  First Nations, that's what they are.
[00:26:34]  First Nations.
[00:26:35]  You got a First Nation.
[00:26:36]  In these models, the First Nations retain its rights and title while the Chinese partner provides the capital and expertise to develop the resource under a profit sharing or lease agreement.
[00:26:47]  So, while China already remains a bit of a dominant force within the global mineral supply chain, recent and somewhat new Canadian federal policies on March 26, a report came out that kind of supports this theory of the Bureau, the provincial government's implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, or DRIPA, combined with a series of landmark court decisions confirming Aboriginal title over specific territories,
[00:27:14]  has rapidly altered the legal landscape governing resource extraction in Western Canada.
[00:27:20]  More land is now subject to Indigenous control.
[00:27:23]  More projects require Indigenous consent.
[00:27:27]  These are, in principle, corrections to historical wrongs, but also mean that the pathways to Canada's most strategically valuable resources, lithium, cobalt, rare earth elements, timber, and LNG, now runs, in many cases, directly through First Nations governments.
[00:27:44]  Okay.
[00:27:45]  So they are selling, by the way, with Chinese financing.
[00:27:53]  Well, yeah, what the yellow man once, what the white man once took, now they're giving to the yellow man.
[00:28:00]  And it's the minerals and it's the oh man.
[00:28:05]  So are they lickering them up first before they put these deals in the middle?
[00:28:09]  This is going on in Washington state also.
[00:28:14]  They're giving property back to the local Indian tribes who already sold the land to the state or the local governments.
[00:28:26]  And then they're pulling the plug on taxes.
[00:28:30]  They don't have to pay taxes.
[00:28:33]  There's no regulations or don't count.
[00:28:38]  It's very fishing.
[00:28:40]  The Chinese seem to be behind it.
[00:28:42]  And this UN resolution, which requires people to, they're the ones behind the land acknowledgements.
[00:28:49]  And I have a whole bunch of them here.
[00:28:52]  In fact, the land acknowledgements seem to be a way of softening us up.
[00:29:00]  Play this clip from this woman who tried to pass a bill, and she's a conservative in BC.
[00:29:07]  And this is the BC Mess land acknowledgement story from the CBC.
[00:29:14]  One BC leader Dallas Brody says that land acknowledgements, which are often what you hear when a public official starts an event, they'll say, we're standing on the traditional territories of the Songhees and Esquimalt First Nation.
[00:29:27]  She says that that is teaching our children that they live on stolen land, that they should be ashamed of their history, and for that reason, that those land acknowledgements should be banned among public employees.
[00:29:39]  Here's a bit of what Dallas Brody had to say.
[00:29:41]  Land acknowledgements are the anthem of a suicidal nation.
[00:29:45]  They tell our children that we stand on stolen land.
[00:29:50]  So now this private member's bill was voted down on first reading.
[00:29:54]  That is quite rare because even MLAs, when they disagree with a private member's bill, they'll still vote it through first reading to have a debate on it.
[00:30:02]  Not so with bills put forward so far by 1BC.
[00:30:07]  I will note that the entire BC Conservative caucus voted against the bill except for two, Harmon Bangu and Heather Moss.
[00:30:15]  So this was an unwhipped vote, but showing a little bit of fissures within the BC Conservatives on how to approach this bill.
[00:30:24]  And Katie, what do First Nations leaders say about this proposed bill?

=== Acknowledging Ancestral Lands (06:25) ===

[00:30:27]  Well, I spoke with Robert Phillips.
[00:30:29]  He sits on the First Nations Political Summit and a political executive of the First Nations Summit.
[00:30:36]  And he says that land acknowledgements are just acknowledging our history and are an important part of reconciliation.
[00:30:43]  We also spoke to BC Conservative House Leader Alia Warbas, who is from the Stolo First Nation.
[00:30:49]  And, you know, she's quite disappointed with the spirit of this bill.
[00:30:53]  And here's a bit of what she had to say.
[00:30:55]  I've lived with racism all of my life.
[00:30:57]  Vo Party, Hong Kong, no more to stand with China.
[00:31:02]  It shouldn't be playing anymore, is it?
[00:31:04]  No, it's not playing.
[00:31:05]  So it sounds to me, just listening to it, it sounds like they gave this land to the First Nations, you know, tax-free land.
[00:31:16]  It's all gooder.
[00:31:18]  And now they're like, well, you know, we're going to acknowledge this, but we're going to have China buy it for the minerals.
[00:31:24]  And probably people are on the inside making a killing off of it.
[00:31:29]  Yep.
[00:31:31]  Do you have any clips that confirm this?
[00:31:33]  Not that part, but I'm going to get some because this is a big deal and it's going to kill BC and probably Washington state because they're all suckered into it.
[00:31:44]  And it all stems from this 2016 UN resolution.
[00:31:48]  And I think there was one previous in 2007 that encourages people to do these land acknowledgements, which is only applicable to the United States and Canada.
[00:32:01]  Nobody else does it.
[00:32:02]  No.
[00:32:03]  The South Americans don't do it, and they stepped all over Amazonians.
[00:32:07]  And, you know, it's ludicrous.
[00:32:10]  And which brings me to three clips I have of classic land acknowledgements that I thought were funny enough to play.
[00:32:17]  Okay.
[00:32:18]  So let's start with Paulsbo, Washington, which is a little town that is a little Norwegian copy of a little Norwegian town in Washington state that's a tourist attraction.
[00:32:31]  Norwegian all the way.
[00:32:33]  And here's, they have a city council meeting.
[00:32:35]  They do this.
[00:32:36]  Holsbo is located on the ancestral lands of the Indigenous Suquamish people, for whom this place was known as Tuk Tuk La, or the land of the vine maples.
[00:32:47]  And here's a quote by Chief Seattle.
[00:32:49]  Every part of the soil is sacred in the estimation of my people.
[00:32:53]  Every hillside, every valley, every plain and grove has been hollowed by some sad or happy event in days long vanished.
[00:33:04]  Thank you.
[00:33:04]  Thank you, Councilwoman Crow.
[00:33:06]  Thank you.
[00:33:07]  Thank you.
[00:33:08]  You've acknowledged the land.
[00:33:09]  Very good.
[00:33:10]  Unbelievable.
[00:33:11]  And we don't know it, most of us don't, that the Los Angeles City Council pulls this stunt.
[00:33:17]  The city of Los Angeles recognizes that we occupy land originally and still inhabited and cared for by the Quiche, Tongva, Tatavian, and Chumash peoples.
[00:33:28]  We honor and pay respect to their elders and descendants, past, present, and emerging, as they continue their stewardship of these lands and waters.
[00:33:38]  We acknowledge that settler colonization resulted in land seizure, disease, subjugation, slavery, relocation, broken promises, genocide, multi-generational trauma, disruption of cultural practices, trade, and tribal relations.
[00:33:56]  This acknowledgement demonstrates our responsibility and commitment to truth, healing, and reconciliation, and to elevating the stories, culture, and community of the original inhabitants of the city of Los Angeles.
[00:34:11]  We are grateful to have the opportunity to live and work on these ancestral lands.
[00:34:16]  Wow.
[00:34:17]  This is like Obama time.
[00:34:21]  We've gone back to this acknowledgement.
[00:34:24]  Yeah, and here's the DNC, the latest guy that runs the DNC.
[00:34:30]  When they open a meeting at the DNC, these Democrats, by the way, this is what it sounds like.
[00:34:37]  Good morning, DNC members, friends, and relatives.
[00:34:40]  Let's talk about the land for a second.
[00:34:42]  Okay.
[00:34:42]  AMC acknowledges and honors the Dakota Oyate, the Dakota people, who are the original stewards of the lands and waters of Minneapolis.
[00:34:50]  Dakota cared for the lands, lakes, and the Wakatanka, the great river of the Mississippi River, for thousands of years before colonization.
[00:34:57]  This land was not claimed or traded.
[00:34:59]  It's a part of a history of broken treaties and promises.
[00:35:02]  And in many ways, we still live in a system built to suppress Indigenous people's cultural and spiritual history.
[00:35:09]  As Democrats, I ask of every one of you to not allow land acknowledgements like these to simply be the checking of a box.
[00:35:17]  Be curious, ask questions, ensure our native neighbors are heard, and work in partnership with your Indigenous communities.
[00:35:25]  Honor the legacy of this land and its people by engaging today with each other with honesty, humility, respect, and compassion.
[00:35:34]  Yeah.
[00:35:35]  So much talk, talk, talk.
[00:35:38]  Here in Fredericksburg, we are actually bringing Comanche Nation back.
[00:35:42]  I hadn't told you about this.
[00:35:44]  No.
[00:35:44]  Yeah.
[00:35:45]  Well, the story goes that Fredericksburg had a treaty with Comanche Nation, the Comanche Treaty of 1847, which we never broke.
[00:35:55]  I'm not quite sure what the treaty was, but I've had no flaming arrows.
[00:36:01]  So I guess it's still in case, in effect.
[00:36:04]  So, but we're bringing them back to the Hill Country for the, actually, it was the Musebach Comanche Treaty of 1847.
[00:36:13]  The Musebach Meuse is one of the original founders of Fredericksburg.
[00:36:17]  Hey, wouldn't you know we're opening up this huge retail hotel space?
[00:36:24]  It's actually not far from our house.
[00:36:27]  It's on the west side of town, which is going to do a lot to the west side of town.
[00:36:32]  So it's all commercial.
[00:36:34]  And we're bringing them back in for commercial stuff.
[00:36:36]  We're going to do the Frontier Fest at Fort Scott, Comanche News.
[00:36:41]  We're bringing the Comanches back for add to the tourist attraction.
[00:36:45]  Yes, yes, exactly.
[00:36:48]  But we're going to pay them.
[00:36:49]  Wamp them.
[00:36:50]  They're going to get paid.
[00:36:51]  It's going to be good.
[00:36:52]  Wamp them.

=== Economic Plans for Conflict (16:06) ===

[00:36:53]  Yeah, I think so.
[00:36:53]  I think so.
[00:36:55]  Yeah, we're friendly to the Indian, to our Comanche Nation.
[00:36:58]  Yeah, see how that goes.
[00:37:00]  So we had the Hill Country Indian Artifacts Show.
[00:37:03]  That was just last week.
[00:37:05]  The Comanche Nation meeting took place earlier this week.
[00:37:09]  And then Frontier Fest, where, I don't know, I think we're going to build totem poles and stuff.
[00:37:14]  Yeah.
[00:37:15]  Well, it's better than this.
[00:37:16]  Totem poles are not Comanche.
[00:37:18]  What are totem poles?
[00:37:21]  All those poles are in the Pacific.
[00:37:23]  Haida, H-A-I-D-A-type Indians up in the Pacific Northwest in Canada.
[00:37:28]  Oh, really?
[00:37:29]  Yeah.
[00:37:30]  Oh, I thought all Indians had totem poles.
[00:37:32]  No, there's just this group.
[00:37:35]  I don't think there's any other outside state of Washington and B.C. All right, shifting gears from the First Nations.
[00:37:48]  The president had another fabulous cabinet meeting.
[00:37:52]  I don't know if you had a chance to see any of it.
[00:37:55]  Yeah, I watched it.
[00:37:55]  Some of it was, I thought, entertaining.
[00:37:57]  I thought our future president Rubio, because man, he's pushing.
[00:38:01]  He's pushing for it.
[00:38:03]  He did his little mic drop Iran speech.
[00:38:07]  The most important job any president has is to keep the American people safe.
[00:38:11]  And every president says it, but we have a president that means it and does something about it.
[00:38:15]  As the president outlined very clearly to the world on the night this operation began, Iran has been at war with the United States for 47 years.
[00:38:24]  For 47 years, Iran has been killing Americans and attacking Americans across this planet.
[00:38:29]  And other presidents had an opportunity to do something about it.
[00:38:31]  And they all warned about how Iran was dangerous, but they refused to act.
[00:38:34]  And this president's not someone that's going to refuse to act.
[00:38:37]  He's not going to leave a danger like this in place.
[00:38:39]  He's going to address it, and that is what he is doing.
[00:38:42]  From the very first night of this operation, the president made it very clear.
[00:38:46]  People like this, and now what I'm talking about is not the people of Iran.
[00:38:49]  The people that run this country are radical Shia clerics.
[00:38:52]  These are religious fanatics.
[00:38:54]  Look what they are doing now at their weakest point.
[00:38:56]  This is the weakest Iran has ever been.
[00:38:58]  And look at what they're doing.
[00:38:59]  They're attacking embassies.
[00:39:01]  They're embassies.
[00:39:02]  They're attacking hotels.
[00:39:04]  Imagine what these people would do if they had a nuclear weapon.
[00:39:07]  That is an unacceptable risk for the world.
[00:39:09]  By the way, the president's not just doing a favor to the United States and to our people.
[00:39:13]  This is for the world.
[00:39:15]  He defined very clearly on the first night of this operation what the goal was.
[00:39:19]  We were going to destroy Iran's Navy, and that is happening.
[00:39:22]  We were going to, if it hasn't already happened, I'll let Pete speak to the specifics of it.
[00:39:26]  We were going to destroy their missile launching capabilities.
[00:39:29]  We're well on our way to achieving that goal.
[00:39:31]  We were going to destroy the factories so they couldn't make more missiles and more drones.
[00:39:35]  And that is moving forward.
[00:39:37]  Every single objective the president clearly laid out on the first night of this operation is being effectuated.
[00:39:42]  Again, Pete will speak to the specifics of it.
[00:39:44]  This has been an incredibly successful operation.
[00:39:47]  Every day, it may not get covered because, you know, we're unlike them.
[00:39:51]  We're not bombing embassies and hotels.
[00:39:53]  We're hitting military targets.
[00:39:54]  What I like about Rubio in these cabinet meetings is he speaks to the press.
[00:39:59]  Everyone else is like, oh, Mr. President, oh, under your leadership, Mr. President.
[00:40:05]  And Rubio just goes for it.
[00:40:07]  He's like, no, no, let me just tell you, press people what I think.
[00:40:10]  So, our gay general Patton, Scott Besant.
[00:40:17]  I thought he was the most interesting of the meeting.
[00:40:19]  Did you see any of what he said?
[00:40:21]  I can't think of anything.
[00:40:23]  Well, here's his intro where he's saying that my job is important because economic security and financial security is national security.
[00:40:34]  Your economic leadership has made our military mission possible.
[00:40:39]  Mr. President, national security, as you always say, is economic security.
[00:40:44]  Your leadership has shown the American people that there is no prosperity without security.
[00:40:51]  That our mighty military on one side, but the U.S. economic strength is fighting off this evil regime.
[00:41:00]  The Iranians believe they are fighting a two-front war.
[00:41:04]  It is the military war that our great warriors are prosecuting.
[00:41:09]  But on the other side, they are trying to take control of the global economy through a choke point that we believe does not exist and that we will overcome.
[00:41:19]  Your historic operation at Epic Fury seized a generational opportunity to demolish a regime that has coordinated over four decades of global terror and claim thousands of American lives.
[00:41:32]  Many people, especially the Democrats, underestimate the will of the American people for short-term volatility for 50 years of safety that we are going to have on the other side of this.
[00:41:45]  And I believe energy prices will be lower, inflation will be lower.
[00:41:51]  Before we had the appearance of security, which is not real security.
[00:41:57]  Now, the American people and the world will have absolute security.
[00:42:03]  I've been talking to the oil baron a lot lately, you know, for obvious reasons because he's right in the middle of this.
[00:42:08]  So he bought $77 puts and $115 calls on his oil.
[00:42:17]  I thought, you know, I'm not quite sure what that is.
[00:42:20]  Arbitrage.
[00:42:21]  Yeah.
[00:42:21]  Oh, it's complete arbitrage.
[00:42:22]  So, but that's his risk spread: hey, we can't lose if it goes below 77, and we're not going to win above 115.
[00:42:32]  But he too, he says, I am surprised, and I thought a Texas oil man would know.
[00:42:38]  I'm surprised how impacted the world is by the Iranian regime, by the strait.
[00:42:48]  I had no idea.
[00:42:49]  I'm getting here.
[00:42:50]  I'm getting notes from one of our producers.
[00:42:53]  Actually, that's, yeah, the guy.
[00:42:54]  Now, somebody in the cabinet or in the Department of War or somebody in the CIA or somebody.
[00:43:04]  They had to know.
[00:43:07]  That this was going to happen.
[00:43:09]  Oh, they must have known.
[00:43:10]  And I think it's...
[00:43:12]  I mean, what if they didn't?
[00:43:13]  Well...
[00:43:14]  Well, the next clip tells me I think they did, but it makes a lot more sense now that Obama sent hundreds of millions of dollars on pallets over to Iran because everyone was afraid of this.
[00:43:25]  Like, oh, I don't want this on my watch.
[00:43:28]  I don't want this nonsense happening.
[00:43:30]  Maybe.
[00:43:31]  But Besinth, what he says in this, this thing was planned for a long time.
[00:43:37]  This could be him saying it after the fact, but I'm going to take it at face value.
[00:43:42]  They were planning this for over a year.
[00:43:44]  Through your maximum pressure campaign, Treasury has worked to uncover all financial lifelines to the regime and cut them off.
[00:43:52]  You gave that order last March.
[00:43:57]  This was not something that happened overnight.
[00:43:59]  This is something that has been contemplated for almost a year.
[00:44:04]  The Iranian financial system collapsed in December.
[00:44:08]  We have systematically weakened Iran's ability to fund operations and procure weapons, and that required months of preparations.
[00:44:17]  Threats to American national security have no place in the global economic system.
[00:44:22]  The oil market is well supplied.
[00:44:25]  We have taken actions to ensure oil supplies stranded at sea are made available to the global market.
[00:44:31]  Your bold actions, like the Development Finance Corporation's Maritime Reinsurance Program in conjunction with Central Command, will soon provide shippers through the Gulf region with a level of security we had never seen before.
[00:44:46]  Mr. President, we are starting to see more and more movement in and out of the Gulf today.
[00:44:52]  And this is more than yesterday.
[00:44:54]  And this is the beginning.
[00:44:56]  I am confident that shipping traffic will continue to increase on a daily basis, even before we secure the Straits.
[00:45:05]  So it sounds like they were on this, cutting off their financial lines, making sure that they depleted some of their capabilities, and then struck.
[00:45:15]  Once Netanyahu told them to, of course.
[00:45:20]  So it sounds like they had a plan here.
[00:45:23]  Well, I'm sure they did.
[00:45:24]  I'm not sure that they expected it to go this way.
[00:45:27]  I guess Rubio has some comment that's going to last another four weeks.
[00:45:32]  Yeah, I think I have that here.
[00:45:33]  Hold on.
[00:45:34]  John Kennedy also said that why don't we just get out?
[00:45:37]  We won.
[00:45:38]  Homebuy approach.
[00:45:41]  Where's my Rubio?
[00:45:43]  I had another.
[00:45:43]  Here we go.
[00:45:44]  This was on the tarmac.
[00:45:45]  This is not going to be a prolonged conflict.
[00:45:48]  The objectives I've outlined to you, again, I repeat them because I see these reports.
[00:45:51]  It's like, are the users are not clear on what objectives are there?
[00:45:54]  We've been as clear as you can possibly believe from the very first night of what the objectives of this mission are.
[00:45:58]  We're going to destroy their factories.
[00:46:00]  They make missiles and rockets and drones.
[00:46:02]  We're going to destroy their Navy.
[00:46:03]  We're going to destroy their Air Force.
[00:46:05]  And we are going to significantly destroy their missile launchers so they can never hide behind these things to get a nuclear weapon.
[00:46:11]  We can achieve, we are achieving all those objectives.
[00:46:13]  We are ahead of schedule on most of them.
[00:46:16]  And we can achieve them without any ground troops, without any.
[00:46:19]  Now, in terms of why there's deployments, number one, the president has to be prepared for multiple contingencies, which I'm not going to discuss in the media.
[00:46:28]  And again, I refer you to the Department of War, who will probably tell you the exact same thing.
[00:46:32]  But we can achieve all of our objectives with our ground troops, but we are always going to be prepared to give the president maximum optionality and maximum opportunity to adjust to contingencies for the immerry.
[00:46:44]  Optionality needs some optional.
[00:46:46]  So just back to the cabinet meeting for a moment.
[00:46:48]  So after Besson does his whole thing and then he says how great everything here is at home, which I think most people who are listening would dispute, without a doubt, Europe, UK, Asia.
[00:47:01]  I mean, they're talking about going back to work from home.
[00:47:05]  It's like, we got no gas.
[00:47:07]  It's going to be the worst since the 70s.
[00:47:11]  Yeah, we're paying more, but I don't think we have those types of problems.
[00:47:15]  So I'm sure that we can ride that out a lot longer.
[00:47:19]  So he goes through this whole thing, and then here's what the president says.
[00:47:23]  I just want to ask you a question.
[00:47:25]  Is this guy central casting?
[00:47:28]  I'm looking at him.
[00:47:29]  I'm in treasury.
[00:47:31]  He might not be so good for war.
[00:47:32]  I don't know.
[00:47:34]  I'm looking pretty good.
[00:47:35]  I'm looking at this guy.
[00:47:36]  He's central casting.
[00:47:38]  Even the glasses are perfect.
[00:47:39]  Will you get this piece?
[00:47:41]  I think I'm going to get glasses.
[00:47:44]  That's beautiful.
[00:47:46]  Great job.
[00:47:47]  That's really good.
[00:47:48]  No, he's done a great job.
[00:47:49]  You all have proud of you all.
[00:47:51]  Yeah, proud of y'all.
[00:47:53]  Proud of y'all.
[00:47:53]  All right, well, at least it sounds like he has a plan.
[00:47:56]  It's not written down anywhere on paper that we can read, but.
[00:47:59]  Well, I'm sure it's written down somewhere.
[00:48:01]  Why do you think we need to get out so quickly?
[00:48:03]  I mean, besides the fact that war sucks.
[00:48:08]  Well, if we've done all every, here's my problem.
[00:48:11]  The stuff that Trump says we've done, which is take out their navy, the army, their guys, this guy, that guy.
[00:48:17]  There's no Air Force.
[00:48:18]  There's no command and control.
[00:48:20]  There's nothing, has left a vacuum of these IRG renegades.
[00:48:29]  I think they're all acting independently and they're all over the place.
[00:48:34]  And each one of them might be wanting to vie for power at some point.
[00:48:38]  And you've got to let this thing settle out.
[00:48:41]  Otherwise, you're never going to get the straits open again because one nutball or another or any number of them, someplace with some of those Shahid drones, for example, can keep the thing shut down forever.
[00:48:55]  The problem with the Shaheed drone, which has always fascinated me, and I don't understand how this happened, those things cost $75,000 to make.
[00:49:06]  They have wooden props and they go slow and they get the big bomb in them and they blow stuff up and they're not that great.
[00:49:12]  They're basically modern V1s.
[00:49:16]  Yeah, kind of.
[00:49:20]  With a less advanced propulsion system.
[00:49:22]  Yeah.
[00:49:23]  And so those 75,000, it costs us, they shoot them down unless you can get a jet up in the air, which is not true.
[00:49:30]  It costs us a million bucks to shoot one down.
[00:49:32]  Well, $330,000 for a missile.
[00:49:35]  So it costs $300,000 to $75,000.
[00:49:40]  I mean, you go broke that they have enough of these things.
[00:49:44]  So get out, let things settle down, let the straits get reopened so people don't freak out and see what happens.
[00:49:55]  But that doesn't seem to be the idea.
[00:49:57]  The idea seems to be...
[00:49:58]  No, no, it's definitely not the idea.
[00:50:00]  No, the idea seems take Karg Island and be in control of everything.
[00:50:05]  And they still want to get rid of some of these IRGC guys.
[00:50:11]  But here's General Frank McKenzie, retired, on with Margaret from this morning.
[00:50:18]  One of the things that Iran had been waiting to do was activate its militias or the militias it supports in Yemen, the Houthis, over the weekend.
[00:50:27]  They jumped into the fight.
[00:50:29]  Yeah, we were missing those guys.
[00:50:31]  They hadn't shown up and all of a sudden, right on queue.
[00:50:34]  And fired on Israel.
[00:50:36]  Do you think that this is a game changer given that they could not just disrupt the Strait of Hormuz, but another passageway through the Red Sea?
[00:50:46]  Margaret, I don't think it'll be a game changer.
[00:50:49]  Their ability to attack Israel is quite limited.
[00:50:52]  Yes, they will have the ability to further stop slow traffic through the Babel-Mendeb going up into the Suez Canal.
[00:50:58]  We have the ability to go down there and prevent that.
[00:51:00]  It will require additional resources, but we have those resources, and we can certainly do it if that becomes necessary.
[00:51:06]  Well, the president has made clear that he needs to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:51:11]  His language has been contradictory on some of these points as to who's going to do it and when.
[00:51:16]  What's the military reality of making it passable?
[00:51:21]  We're on our way to doing that now, Margaret.
[00:51:24]  This is part of a plan that's been in existence for many years.
[00:51:28]  What we're doing right now is we're reducing Iranian ability to target ships in the strait through their short-range missiles, their drones, and other activities.
[00:51:36]  We do that by maintaining air superiority over southern Iran on a 24-7 basis, looking for where these missiles are and striking them relentlessly.
[00:51:44]  Once we reduce those to a very low level, then you'll be able to go in, if necessary, sweep for mines.
[00:51:49]  I'm not certain they put mines in the water yet.
[00:51:51]  I predict eventually they will.
[00:51:53]  It's their nature.
[00:51:54]  But we have the ability to do this.
[00:51:57]  We're on plan.
[00:51:58]  I'll be honest with you, Margaret.
[00:51:59]  I've simulated this many years in many positions at Central Command.
[00:52:02]  We're a little further along than we would have expected to be at this point in all the simulations that I've seen.
[00:52:08]  All right.
[00:52:08]  So they were ready for this.
[00:52:10]  It's been a plan for you.
[00:52:11]  Everybody says we're further along.
[00:52:13]  Yeah.
[00:52:13]  Well, let's go to the next question.
[00:52:15]  So the president had posted he's postponed the deadline to open the Strait of Hormuz as a result of the Iranian government asking for it.
[00:52:23]  He says he's shifted that to April 6th at 8 p.m.
[00:52:28]  We also hear from the Secretary of State that he's talking to the Allies about a post-conflict necessity of having other countries help to essentially police the strait.
[00:52:41]  And he said that you will need tankers to have military escorts.
[00:52:46]  So this doesn't sound like this is a short-term project.
[00:52:51]  This sounds like even if combat ends, we're going to be talking about a military presence in the region for some time.

=== Strait of Hormuz Tensions (15:14) ===

[00:52:59]  Am I wrong?
[00:53:02]  Margaret, you could be right.
[00:53:04]  Let's see what happens.
[00:53:05]  I think a negotiated  ⁇ there are two ways the Strait of Hormuz can be opened.
[00:53:09]  It can be opened if the Iranians negotiate with us to open it, and of course that's the desired solution.
[00:53:13]  The other solution would be if they don't and they decide to fight, we can open the strait under that condition too.
[00:53:18]  The second condition is obviously a lot more intensive in terms of ships and equipment they would have to bring into the region.
[00:53:24]  And yes, help from our allies would certainly be very useful in that case.
[00:53:29]  We have the ability to open the Strait of Hormuz under any condition that the Iranians choose to exist under.
[00:53:36]  Yeah, so there, so we're maybe keeping it artificially closed.
[00:53:39]  Final clip is boots on the ground.
[00:53:42]  Does it appear to you that one of the contingencies that the White House is planning for, given that they're continuing to move troops into the region, and you have these Marines who are moving into the area as well, are they preparing for a ground troop presence?
[00:53:59]  And what does that look like?
[00:54:03]  Margaret, for many years we've considered options along the southern coast of Iran, seizing islands, seizing small bases, typically raids.
[00:54:13]  And a raid is an operation with a planned withdrawal.
[00:54:15]  You're not going to stay.
[00:54:17]  But some of those islands you could seize and hold.
[00:54:19]  That would have a couple effects.
[00:54:20]  First of all, it would be profoundly humiliating for Iran and would give us great weight in negotiations.
[00:54:26]  The second, the example of Karg Island, which everyone talks about, if you seize Karg Island, you really can shut down the Iranian oil economy completely.
[00:54:34]  And the beauty of seizing it is you're not destroying it.
[00:54:36]  You're retaining it for further use by the global economy and possibly for return to Iran under certain conditions.
[00:54:43]  So all of these things, this is not back of the back of the envelope calculations.
[00:54:48]  These are things we've been working on for many years.
[00:54:50]  And I think we're right to threaten the entire littoral, to hold all these options out there.
[00:54:55]  And I think the president's message is spot on when he talks about all these alternatives.
[00:54:59]  So season hold is the.
[00:55:02]  That brings me to this screwy clip I picked up off of a recording done at like four in the morning on one of the networks.
[00:55:10]  Without one of your, oh my God, I can't sleep mornings.
[00:55:14]  No, it was just running.
[00:55:17]  This is a Navy Intel guy.
[00:55:19]  And we know Navy intelligence is the progenitor of all these people.
[00:55:23]  Yeah, they typically do podcasts.
[00:55:25]  And he's like, yeah, this guy would be there on X and do podcasts.
[00:55:29]  He is X, of course, ex-Navy Intel.
[00:55:33]  And the funny thing is, he's got all this up-to-date information for some unknown reason.
[00:55:37]  I don't know.
[00:55:38]  And I thought this was because this kind of ties in with what the other guy just said.
[00:55:43]  So let's bring in former Naval Intelligence Officer Captain Todd Sawhill.
[00:55:48]  Captain, thank you for joining us.
[00:55:49]  Help square for us the fact that we just heard Secretary of State Marco Rubio saying that this is about two to four weeks left, but yet reports of 10,000 more troops being sent to the region after we already know the 82nd Airborne on their way.
[00:56:06]  And then, of course, that Marine 31st Mew is on its way.
[00:56:10]  So I think the movement of the ground forces and the enablers, and as you mentioned, particularly the Boxer and the Triple E amphibious ready groups and the Marine Expeditionary Unions plus the elements of the 82nd really center around making sure the president has maximum options.
[00:56:25]  Optionality.
[00:56:26]  Ground operations in any part of Iran are necessary.
[00:56:29]  And before I just list off all the key islands, I don't necessarily want to focus on that because I don't want to telegraph what we may or may not do, because really that's the decision-making level for the president, the Secretary of Defense.
[00:56:41]  But beyond holding territory at risk, those forces could also be used for internal security in and around the bases in the region, as well as potentially raids for the nuclear material should the president determine that's the only way to retrieve it because we're currently in such loggerheads on the conditions for cessation between the U.S. and Iran.
[00:57:00]  So ultimately, it's all about options as we continue to really set the conditions with rolling back the missile drone and air-to-ground forces that have been significantly degraded over the last three weeks.
[00:57:10]  Right.
[00:57:11]  So that fits in with Rubio's optionality.
[00:57:14]  Everything's an optionality.
[00:57:15]  So we have options.
[00:57:17]  Here's the boots on the ground update from our producer in the region, which I thought was interesting.
[00:57:23]  Wild morning still alive, been up since 2 a.m., followed by the most aggressive five hours in Bahrain, 20 ballistic missiles and 37 drones.
[00:57:32]  The trend seems that they are aggressively swarming the skies to overcome the good interception rates.
[00:57:39]  The problem here is that the country is just too small for that kind of action.
[00:57:42]  The overall size of the whole island is the size of San Diego or Austin, and the economy is too small for such a beating.
[00:57:49]  Each interception is a Patriot missile, which he says costs a couple million.
[00:57:53]  We are still trying our best to build a tourism economy, and that is really hurting our strained economy.
[00:57:58]  So our good friend Netanyahu decided to aggressively bomb three steel plants across Iran.
[00:58:04]  For some reason, unlike all other targets, Israeli press explicitly stated steel plants were hit, although they don't usually reveal this type of target in most cases.
[00:58:14]  In return, our good neighbors, Iran, decided to attack five steel and aluminum plants in the GCC, stating to punish the enemy for attacking civilian infrastructure.
[00:58:25]  The guy was crazy enough to bomb near Bushar nuclear facility, an active nuclear power plant, which triggered an alarmed response from the whole region on potential nuclear meltdown and Putin himself, as the plant is operated by Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation, Rosatom.
[00:58:43]  The U.S. seems to be building a massive set of ground troops as a deterrent to push the negotiation under extreme pressure, and the Israelis are trying every possible way to expand and complicate the conflict.
[00:58:54]  A ground invasion is nearly impossible.
[00:58:56]  Taking away islands within the effective shooting range of Iran may result in high casualties among the best Marine units the U.S. has to offer.
[00:59:04]  Let's hope Trump can retain him further because he causes a bigger mess.
[00:59:07]  He's talking about Netanyahu.
[00:59:09]  And maybe manage to get JD to the front to build his peacemaker legacy and secure the GOP vote for the next 10 years.
[00:59:18]  So that's how they're thinking in the region.
[00:59:20]  Which sounds about right.
[00:59:23]  Sounds about right.
[00:59:25]  So we had CPAC, which this is the first time President Trump has not attended CPAC due to the war and other things.
[00:59:37]  He's busy.
[00:59:39]  But they had some interesting speakers.
[00:59:42]  Reverend Franklin Graham came out, pretty unimpressive speech.
[00:59:46]  I didn't pull any clips from it.
[00:59:48]  And mainly because he started off with, you know, Iran, we had a weak president and Jimmy Carter, and they had our people in the embassy for 400 days.
[00:59:56]  And the minute President Reagan came in, they let him all out because they were afraid of him.
[01:00:01]  I'm like, no, I don't think so, Rez.
[01:00:03]  No, no, no, I don't think so, Reverend.
[01:00:06]  That was a different deal at the time.
[01:00:09]  But also invited was the crown prince, Reza Pahavi, which, I don't know, well, it seemed like CPAC was almost the conservative Persian action Congress, or whatever they call it, convention, because the Persians came out like crazy for this guy.
[01:00:31]  The only thing that the remnants of this regime can be relied on to do is to buy time, to cheat, and to steal.
[01:00:39]  They will never be honest or true partners for peace.
[01:00:43]  President Trump was right when he said we don't want to come back every two years.
[01:00:49]  But if a faction of the regime is left in power, that is exactly what will happen.
[01:00:55]  It will buy time.
[01:00:56]  It will pretend to negotiate.
[01:00:59]  And then it will return to its old jihadist ways of threatening America, its security, and its interests.
[01:01:11]  They might promise a short period of artificial calm, but it would inevitably be followed by the same terrorism, the same nuclear blackmail, and the same cries of death to America.
[01:01:25]  Because the truth is simple.
[01:01:27]  The Islamic Republic cannot reform itself.
[01:01:36]  You cannot reform a snake.
[01:01:39]  Venom is in its DNA.
[01:01:47]  This extends to the corrupt and brutal thugs of the IRGC.
[01:01:52]  Because the IRGC is not Iran's national army.
[01:01:56]  Indeed, it does not even have the world Iran in its name.
[01:02:00]  It is the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps.
[01:02:04]  It serves its own poisonous ideology of terror and not Iran's national interests.
[01:02:10]  So it can certainly never be a partner to serve America's interests.
[01:02:15]  So I cut all of those applauses.
[01:02:18]  I had to cut out 15 seconds.
[01:02:21]  And then they started chanting.
[01:02:26]  Thank you so much.
[01:02:27]  Come on.
[01:02:32]  Thank you so much.
[01:02:34]  I have four minutes left.
[01:02:35]  I'm halfway through my speech.
[01:02:41]  You know, when I was a student in Berkeley, it's the same Iranian students who promoted the getting rid of the Shah, the Shah must go.
[01:02:51]  Yeah.
[01:02:52]  It was the American Persians that pretty much created this monstrosity that they're stuck with.
[01:02:59]  And now these kids, these kids, they just don't get it right.
[01:03:04]  I don't know if they're not.
[01:03:06]  You're saying it wrong.
[01:03:07]  These kids.
[01:03:09]  I can't quite do it.
[01:03:10]  These kids.
[01:03:13]  So I'll just finish up with him, 30 seconds of President Trump rocks.
[01:03:17]  The only path to lasting peace and stability runs through a clean break with this regime.
[01:03:23]  For the first time in 47 years, President Trump's strategy has given us a real chance to achieve that outcome.
[01:03:31]  For decades, every American president, since Jimmy Carter, chose to try to manage this looming threat rather than resolve it.
[01:03:40]  Each of them has failed.
[01:03:42]  They have only made the problem worse.
[01:03:45]  The result has been more dead Iranians and more dead Americans.
[01:03:50]  So the mullahs operated on the assumption that America didn't have the stomach to confront them decisively.
[01:03:57]  That assumption began to collapse when President Trump ordered the strike on Tasem Soleimani.
[01:04:05]  Yeah.
[01:04:06]  So plan or no plan is.
[01:04:08]  Well, you know, Carter didn't have the stomach to stop it, stop it.
[01:04:12]  Reagan didn't have the stomach once after the barracks were blowed up, he took off.
[01:04:18]  Nobody wanted to do anything about this.
[01:04:21]  Well, and yes.
[01:04:22]  And then we had Bush.
[01:04:25]  He was too busy protecting his oil fields in Iraq, or daddy's oil fields and Kuwait.
[01:04:34]  And Obama went, let me just hang out with the Muslim Brotherhood and I'll pay you guys.
[01:04:40]  Yeah, I'll pay you guys off and shh.
[01:04:43]  Yeah.
[01:04:43]  Calm down here.
[01:04:45]  And so Trump, this is his legacy move.
[01:04:48]  That seems clear.
[01:04:50]  And well, I hope he pulls it off.
[01:04:53]  War is not my favorite thing.
[01:04:57]  Well, we'll see.
[01:04:59]  Anyway, he goes on.
[01:05:00]  I have to have a clip about some of this.
[01:05:05]  Where's my analysis clips?
[01:05:09]  You're back to full strength.
[01:05:11]  You're titling them anal, so you must be on the mend.
[01:05:14]  What?
[01:05:15]  Oh, that means analysis.
[01:05:17]  I know.
[01:05:18]  I know.
[01:05:20]  Yes, I'm aware.
[01:05:21]  I've been around.
[01:05:23]  Well, there's one about the, we might as well bring the Lebanese stuff in and then we can look for the other one.
[01:05:28]  Lebanese.
[01:05:29]  Lebanese vicinity stuff.
[01:05:31]  This is an overview of what the Israelis are doing while we're trying to take over Iran.
[01:05:36]  Connected to this is fighting that's happening in Lebanon.
[01:05:39]  That's where Israel has launched an invasion of the south of the country and Iran-backed Hezbollah has been firing back.
[01:05:46]  Can you just update us on what's happening there?
[01:05:49]  Absolutely.
[01:05:49]  There have been more than a million Lebanese displaced, and that's like 20% of the population, as Israel depopulates entire towns and Beirut's huge southern suburbs.
[01:06:01]  And the impact of that invasion and the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah is becoming increasingly dangerous to document.
[01:06:08]  Israel today killed three journalists in an airstrike on their vehicle.
[01:06:13]  One of them was a correspondent for Hezbollah's television channel, who has been reporting from the south for almost 30 years.
[01:06:21]  Israel claimed without evidence, claimed without evidence, claimed without evidence, he was a Hezbollah operative, in fact, a member of one of their elite forces.
[01:06:29]  But the actions that Israel described, identifying where Israeli forces were and contacts with Hezbollah, are actually normal journalistic practices.
[01:06:40]  Israel didn't comment on the other two journalists killed with him.
[01:06:44]  We've talked so far about the latest developments in this now month-long war, but are there other repercussions worth pointing to right now for other countries?
[01:06:55]  Absolutely.
[01:06:55]  This war is so different because it's really difficult to find any country untouched by this in the region.
[01:07:01]  You know, one of the effects is that some of the busiest airports in the region have shut down, leaving people stranded.
[01:07:07]  Israel has restricted outgoing flights.
[01:07:10]  And this week, the U.S. Embassy in Israel announced it was arranging buses from Israel to the Amman airport in Jordan to fly people out of here.
[01:07:19]  Kuwait announced that its airport radar had been damaged.
[01:07:23]  Its airport has been closed for almost a month.
[01:07:26]  I love how she portrays how it's the beautiful southern, beautiful suburbs of southern Lebanon.
[01:07:34]  Lebanon has been a mess since I was a kid.
[01:07:39]  At one time, it was the Paris of the Middle East.
[01:07:42]  Yeah, in the 60s, late 60s?
[01:07:46]  Yeah, probably late 60s.
[01:07:48]  Yeah.
[01:07:48]  Well, I mean, Iran was cool then, too.
[01:07:52]  Here's the clips.
[01:07:54]  This is the Iran Houthis update in PR.
[01:07:58]  Okay.
[01:07:59]  Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have entered the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran, firing a missile at Israel, which Israel says was intercepted.
[01:08:07]  It's the first time Israel faced fire from that country since the war began, and it opens a new front in the two-month-old conflict.

=== Tech Giants and AI Deals (12:34) ===

[01:08:14]  Meanwhile, the Pentagon says around 3,500 sailors and Marines have arrived in the Middle East.
[01:08:19]  Empir Sean Delese Duster has more.
[01:08:21]  U.S. Central Command said Saturday in a social media post that about 3,500 sailors and Marines arrived in the Middle East aboard the USS Tripoli.
[01:08:30]  The 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, based in Okinawa, Japan, arrived in the Middle East on Friday, the post said.
[01:08:37]  The unit also has transport and strike fighter aircraft, as well as amphibious assault and tactical assets.
[01:08:44]  U.S. Central Command did not say what mission the unit will be carrying out.
[01:08:48]  At least 2,000 additional soldiers have been ordered to deploy to the Middle East, where the U.S. already has 40,000 to 50,000 troops.
[01:08:57]  People always leave out the fact you already have 50,000 troops there.
[01:09:01]  Oh, yeah.
[01:09:02]  Scattered around.
[01:09:03]  Yeah.
[01:09:05]  So, and here's the analysis.
[01:09:07]  We're joined by NPR's Jane Araf, who's following events from Amman, Jordan.
[01:09:12]  Jane, thanks for taking the time.
[01:09:13]  Thank you.
[01:09:14]  Can you start with telling us what happened in Saudi Arabia?
[01:09:18]  Well, this was an attack on the Prince Sultan Air Base, and that's a Saudi base, but it's also a regional U.S. military hub that focuses on aerial refueling and missile defense systems.
[01:09:31]  At least six missiles and more than two dozen drones were fired by Iran, according to U.S. officials who requested anonymity.
[01:09:40]  And military experts are calling it a serious breach of U.S. air defenses.
[01:09:46]  Several of those wounded service people were reported to be seriously wounded.
[01:09:51]  The attacks also damaged refueling tankers.
[01:09:54]  Iran released Chinese satellite images that appear to show burning aircraft, and it said it had destroyed two of the airborne tankers, the refuel fighter jets in the air, and damaged others.
[01:10:07]  That's after Israel struck three Iranian steel plants and a nuclear facility.
[01:10:12]  The International Nuclear Watchdog said there was no risk of radiation leak from that strike.
[01:10:20]  Yeah.
[01:10:21]  There's a lot of action.
[01:10:22]  There's definitely a lot of action.
[01:10:24]  The GCC, the Gulf, is it the Gulf Commonwealth?
[01:10:28]  What do they call that?
[01:10:29]  GCC.
[01:10:30]  I'm not sure.
[01:10:31]  GCC.
[01:10:32]  Well, they call them the GCC states.
[01:10:33]  So they have also filed with United Nations, just like the U.S. did under Article 51, saying, hey, we are reaffirming our full and inherent right to self-defense.
[01:10:49]  And we're going to start striking back.
[01:10:51]  So it looks like we've got them on our side.
[01:10:54]  Although I still got a lot of military commentary saying, no, everyone hates us.
[01:11:00]  They want us out of our bases.
[01:11:02]  I don't know.
[01:11:03]  You're right.
[01:11:04]  A lot of action.
[01:11:04]  We don't actually know anything.
[01:11:06]  Breaking news.
[01:11:06]  Nobody knows nothing.
[01:11:08]  Right.
[01:11:09]  So President Trump had a Saudi investor summit, which is all money coming into America.
[01:11:20]  And he had some interesting commentary.
[01:11:23]  They are negotiating.
[01:11:24]  They're begging to make a deal.
[01:11:26]  They're begging to make a deal.
[01:11:27]  It turned out I was right.
[01:11:28]  They were negotiating, which they admitted two days later.
[01:11:31]  And in order to make up for their misstatement, they said, we're going to send you eight ships of oil.
[01:11:38]  And the following day, I saw on, this is two days ago, I saw on one of the networks, very strange.
[01:11:44]  There were eight ships of oil coming out of Iran.
[01:11:47]  And then they actually said, we're going to add an extra two.
[01:11:50]  And they added an extra two.
[01:11:51]  So we had 10 ships.
[01:11:52]  And then people realized we were actually negotiating.
[01:11:55]  We're negotiating now.
[01:11:56]  And it'd be great if we could do something, but they have to open it up.
[01:11:59]  They have to open up the Strait of Trump.
[01:12:03]  I mean, Harmouth.
[01:12:07]  Excuse me for this.
[01:12:09]  I'm so sorry.
[01:12:11]  Such a terrible mistake.
[01:12:12]  The fake news will say he accidentally said, no, there's no accidents with me, not too many.
[01:12:19]  If there were, we'd have a major story.
[01:12:21]  No, well, we had that with the Gulf of Mexico.
[01:12:23]  Remember the Gulf of Mexico?
[01:12:25]  And then he goes into this whole Gulf of America thing.
[01:12:28]  The Strait of Trump.
[01:12:30]  Okay.
[01:12:33]  But by the way, there's no evidence that there was any eight or to ten ships that went through with no.
[01:12:43]  I've seen, if anything, two.
[01:12:45]  Yeah.
[01:12:46]  Well, this is one guy who has a video show on the state of shipping today, I think, is what it is.
[01:12:52]  Yeah, that guy.
[01:12:53]  Yeah.
[01:12:53]  He's like, yeah, he beats every single ship.
[01:12:57]  I don't see it.
[01:12:57]  He says.
[01:12:58]  He said, what is he talking about?
[01:13:01]  No, there's zero ships.
[01:13:03]  But he also said, well, there's a lot of GPS spoofing and that ship is over there, but I think it's over here.
[01:13:11]  So, you know, nobody really knows anything.
[01:13:14]  Well, there's, again, no evidence.
[01:13:16]  No evidence.
[01:13:17]  I think Trump's full of it.
[01:13:19]  Well, that wouldn't be the first time.
[01:13:22]  But you don't know.
[01:13:24]  No, you don't.
[01:13:25]  It's a problem.
[01:13:26]  Besson says that, you know, there's oil at sea.
[01:13:28]  That we do know.
[01:13:29]  Yeah, tons.
[01:13:31]  So, and he's allowing that to be offloaded.
[01:13:33]  So that's probably helping somebody somewhere.
[01:13:36]  And NATO is still very much in the crosshairs.
[01:13:40]  This is NATO.
[01:13:41]  And I've always said NATO's a paper tiger.
[01:13:44]  And I always said we help NATO, but they'll never help us.
[01:13:49]  And if the big one ever happened, and I don't think it will, but if the big one ever happened, I guarantee you they wouldn't be there.
[01:13:57]  And we learned from that.
[01:13:58]  And remember what I said, because they made a big mistake.
[01:14:02]  They were not there.
[01:14:04]  The Chancellor of Germany, these are real friends of mine, Friedrich People.
[01:14:08]  The Chancellor of Germany.
[01:14:09]  He said, this is not our war.
[01:14:10]  We have nothing to do.
[01:14:11]  Well, Ukraine's not our war, but we help them.
[01:14:16]  He keeps slamming NATO.
[01:14:19]  I'm not sure what the plan is, but he keeps talking about it.
[01:14:23]  I'm like, oh, they weren't here to help us.
[01:14:27]  And then, and this was quite telling.
[01:14:31]  And this is regarding our own economy here and the fabulous AI hype that we're in.
[01:14:39]  It was just kind of telling the way he answered this question.
[01:14:41]  We'll take some questions.
[01:14:43]  Good.
[01:14:44]  Thank you.
[01:14:45]  Thank you very much, Mr. President.
[01:14:46]  Thank you so much.
[01:14:47]  And thank you for accepting to take five questions.
[01:14:50]  We don't want to take too much of your time.
[01:14:52]  So let's talk about business.
[01:14:54]  In one sentence, where should the world invest in America right now?
[01:15:00]  Well, look, the one that they're going crazy about is AI.
[01:15:03]  AI.
[01:15:03]  Now, sometimes you'll say, let's go the opposite because I've seen it.
[01:15:06]  You know, everyone goes, but AI is going crazy.
[01:15:09]  AI.
[01:15:10]  So my family, we made Don, the whole family.
[01:15:15]  Eric is doing a good job.
[01:15:17]  All of us, Ivanka, we liked real estate.
[01:15:21]  When you can make money in real estate, it's a great business.
[01:15:23]  But I see some of these guys come into my office.
[01:15:26]  They're wearing a t-shirt and they're 24 years old.
[01:15:29]  Dad, he's got a net worth of $24 billion.
[01:15:32]  I said, you got to be kidding.
[01:15:33]  Off a little contraption.
[01:15:36]  So, but the money seems to be.
[01:15:40]  I just got to stop.
[01:15:41]  Offer a little contraption.
[01:15:43]  Yes, contraptions.
[01:15:45]  Contraptions are doing it.
[01:15:46]  Dad, he's got a net worth of $24 billion.
[01:15:49]  I said, you got to be kidding.
[01:15:51]  Off a little contraption.
[01:15:53]  So, but the money seems to be right now, AI.
[01:15:59]  And also, if you're in school, like you're going to the Wharton School or the Stern School or any of these grade schools, I mean, the numbers that they're paying to go into that business is incredible.
[01:16:12]  You see people getting a $10 million bonus to sign, like baseball players or football players.
[01:16:19]  We're giving you a $10 million.
[01:16:20]  I mean, I hate to say because it sounds ridiculous, but there have been some $100 million bonuses paid to sign.
[01:16:27]  So I think probably if you're going to say one thing, AI and just hope that it works, right?
[01:16:36]  You better hope.
[01:16:40]  I hope it works.
[01:16:44]  Well, it seems like we have this interesting race now between Open AI and Anthropic, who's going to come out first, who's going to go public first.
[01:16:53]  Yeah, this is funny.
[01:16:55]  And Anthropic is, for all I can see, they're killing it.
[01:16:59]  Because those guys focused on one thing and one thing only, code.
[01:17:03]  Make sure the thing can code.
[01:17:05]  And all the developers I know have now moved over to Claude.
[01:17:09]  Everybody's using Claude to code.
[01:17:12]  It's not a chat, but like, you know, it's not like OpenAI, they focused on kind of general chat, entertainment, answering questions.
[01:17:23]  They don't seem to have the coding part down as much, but they certainly have the user base.
[01:17:33]  And then we got a boots on the ground because I'm always wondering how things are going to, how they're paying for all of this.
[01:17:41]  This is from, what's this?
[01:17:43]  Natalie, I think.
[01:17:45]  I was at the playground the other day and started talking to one of the dads there, hitting up the dads at the playground.
[01:17:51]  He mentioned he worked in the finance department of Google for the Gemini group.
[01:17:56]  I mentioned I was curious about the profitability of AI because I heard a lot of companies are bleeding money.
[01:18:03]  A big grin popped up on his face.
[01:18:05]  He told me that Gemini was profitable because they've integrated the entire supply chain.
[01:18:10]  Google doesn't have to rent out data centers.
[01:18:13]  They already have them.
[01:18:14]  Or buy chips from NVIDIA.
[01:18:16]  They developed their own, I think.
[01:18:17]  Yeah.
[01:18:18]  We wanted to discuss more, but his little girl started to get upset, so he had to move to a different part of the playground.
[01:18:27]  Gemini, they have an interesting for search, they've got a great advantage.
[01:18:32]  They've got all the YouTube stuff, and they've got Google, and now this, well, who are the winners going to be?
[01:18:40]  And Rick, Rick Beto, our boy, Rick Beto over there, the music guy, he's come to the same conclusion I have about using local models at home.
[01:18:52]  And this is what I think is going to happen with these AI companies.
[01:18:56]  The data centers, they're going to be sitting there unused.
[01:19:00]  Many of them will not be built when people start using AI locally, meaning on their computer.
[01:19:06]  And the same thing that happened to the music business and recording is going to happen to these AI companies because people are going to realize, oh, I can do this at my house.
[01:19:17]  I don't need to be paying these companies.
[01:19:19]  If a 64-year-old guy like me can figure this out last night and show you today, how hard can this stuff be?
[01:19:26]  People are using these things, Suno and UDO and everything for music creation.
[01:19:30]  People are taking their business contracts and everything.
[01:19:34]  They're feeding it into ChatGPT.
[01:19:36]  People are taking any of their business things or financial information.
[01:19:40]  They're feeding it into these things and they're training off your data that you own yourself, your own personal information, your own intellectual properties.
[01:19:50]  And why is that?
[01:19:51]  Because you and me are the product.
[01:19:54]  So who are the winners and losers of this?
[01:19:57]  Well, the companies that make hardware, like Apple, Google, NVIDIA, any company that makes computers, computer chips, things like that, those are the ones that are going to be the winners.
[01:20:10]  Unfortunately, the ones that are going to be the losers, in my opinion, are the companies that make these AI programs.
[01:20:17]  For most people's needs, individuals and businesses, even good-sized businesses, you can do these things on your own computers offline.
[01:20:27]  What are you doing with your mic?
[01:20:30]  I got my foot tangled up in the cord.
[01:20:35]  Careful.
[01:20:39]  You know, Apple may have a really interesting advantage here.
[01:20:44]  They have that, the M4, what is it called?

=== Apple M4 Laptop Launch (04:28) ===

[01:20:48]  It's not.
[01:20:50]  Yeah, I don't know what it's called.
[01:20:51]  But while you're mentioning that, I should mention something JC talked about.
[01:20:55]  He says that new Apple laptop.
[01:20:59]  Yeah.
[01:20:59]  $595.
[01:21:01]  Oh, yeah.
[01:21:03]  It finally has a touch screen, and he says it's a killer.
[01:21:07]  Yeah, that really got underplay or downplayed.
[01:21:10]  It didn't get played at all.
[01:21:11]  I didn't even know anything about it.
[01:21:13]  But I know that they did it's colorful.
[01:21:15]  Well, I know that the Mac minis are sold out for months.
[01:21:19]  Everybody's got a Mac Mini.
[01:21:21]  Yeah, but it's the, what is the, they have a special, so they use their, their RAM, their regular RAM.
[01:21:28]  And yeah, yeah, you can load it up with RAM.
[01:21:30]  You can load it up with 256 gigabytes or more.
[01:21:34]  I think, I don't know about the Mac Mini, and it can, it can automatically allocate some of that RAM instead of a GPU like an NVIDIA card.
[01:21:45]  So they may accidentally have done something really, really smart.
[01:21:49]  We'll see.
[01:21:51]  Yeah, obviously, we'll see.
[01:21:53]  We don't know.
[01:21:54]  Nobody knows anything.
[01:21:56]  And then this is the best.
[01:21:58]  I'd love to hear your opinion on this.
[01:22:00]  Ignition and liftoff.
[01:22:03]  I have this.
[01:22:04]  Looking for the stars.
[01:22:05]  What is the clip?
[01:22:06]  You don't know what my clip is yet.
[01:22:08]  Yeah, there's Artemis.
[01:22:10]  No, no, wrong.
[01:22:12]  Sky high valuation.
[01:22:14]  Elon Musk SpaceX is suiting up to launch his IPO, a public share sale that would value the rocket company at an eye-watering $1.5 trillion.
[01:22:24]  First reported by the tech site, the information, the sale is expected to float some 5% of the company's equity, aiming to raise around $75 billion, which would make it the largest IPO in history.
[01:22:36]  Unlike many tech firms seeking investor funding on public markets, SpaceX already has significant cash flow, largely thanks to the lucrative government contracts it receives and its major profit generator, Starlink.
[01:22:49]  The satellite internet provider is estimated to have generated $8 billion in 2025, accounting for 50 to 80% of SpaceX's total revenue.
[01:22:59]  So why go public?
[01:23:01]  The SpaceX acquisition of XAI in February saddled it with a cash-hungry subsidiary that is reportedly burning through a billion dollars per month as it basis to catch up with rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic, both of which are also planning to go public.
[01:23:16]  IPO proceeds would also fund further development of the Starship rocket and more aspirational projects like AI data centers in space and Moonbase Alpha, a self-reliant lunar city.
[01:23:27]  The move comes with potential downsides for the notoriously regulation reverse Musk, like requirements for public performance reports and having to answer to Wall Street analysts.
[01:23:37]  $1.75 trillion valuation.
[01:23:41]  Are you kidding me?
[01:23:44]  That's that's that's crazy.
[01:23:47]  And he's talking about, yeah, we're gonna, we need one, what do you say, one terawatt of compute?
[01:23:56]  It's like I don't think investors are buying his bull crap anymore.
[01:24:02]  And we'll see, I bet it sells out.
[01:24:04]  Do you think?
[01:24:06]  Really?
[01:24:07]  Yeah, it's only a small part of the company.
[01:24:11]  They're not unloading everything.
[01:24:13]  No, but still, the valuation is high.
[01:24:15]  It's ridiculous.
[01:24:17]  And his XAI is junk.
[01:24:20]  It's junk because it was trained on junk.
[01:24:25]  It's just junk.
[01:24:26]  Yeah, and all he ever touts on X is, oh, look at this.
[01:24:30]  Oh, look at this animation of this pixie girl flying around a clock.
[01:24:34]  Looks great.
[01:24:35]  Okay.
[01:24:36]  Who's going to pay for that?
[01:24:41]  My mind.
[01:24:42]  All these IPOs are going to be the death knell of the market.
[01:24:45]  Well, everyone has to get out.
[01:24:47]  We got to.
[01:24:48]  We'll make it.
[01:24:49]  Well, the early investors will get out.
[01:24:52]  No, maybe.
[01:24:53]  No, no, no.
[01:24:54]  I'm reminded of that game company back in the 80s that waited one day too long to do the IPO and the market crashed.
[01:25:02]  Oh, was that Sega?
[01:25:05]  No, no.
[01:25:06]  Sega was no.
[01:25:07]  Sega is different.
[01:25:08]  No, it was specifically a cartridge company that made cartridges for the Atari 2600.

=== IPO Market Crash Fears (07:59) ===

[01:25:17]  Here's, I thought you, I was, I thought you might be bringing this up, which is the astronaut clip, which is very disappointing, if not.
[01:25:26]  I know.
[01:25:27]  We're all disappointed, John.
[01:25:29]  The NASA astronaut who suffered that medical scare offering new insight tonight, Mike Fink, says he suddenly could not speak for 20 minutes on the International Space Station.
[01:25:37]  His crew, of course, noticing him in distress, it prompted that first medical evacuation for NASA.
[01:25:42]  Fink now saying doctors believe it was not choking or a heart attack, but he's still undergoing tests to determine what it really was.
[01:25:49]  Yeah.
[01:25:50]  Yeah, that was not, if true, that was not our prediction, I should say, your prediction of a pregnancy, pregnancy in space.
[01:25:59]  And notice something like that, where you can't talk for 20 minutes never happens to a female astronaut.
[01:26:04]  I'm just saying.
[01:26:06]  Yeah, there it is.
[01:26:07]  Took me a minute to get it out, but there it is.
[01:26:11]  I've got an off-beat clip if you want to hear it.
[01:26:13]  Sure.
[01:26:15]  Alex Jones has a new sidekick.
[01:26:19]  He does?
[01:26:20]  The guy's name is Bashing or something.
[01:26:22]  But no, I hit no Bashing is the name of the clip.
[01:26:25]  He's introduced in here.
[01:26:26]  This guy, Alex has always had this second, you know, these secondary guys that come in and could fill in and do a show themselves.
[01:26:36]  Yeah.
[01:26:36]  And they eventually run off and do their own shows.
[01:26:38]  Yeah, like that British kid and this whole bunch.
[01:26:42]  You could have become one of them.
[01:26:43]  Yeah, but I already had a partner who I love and cherish.
[01:26:47]  Yeah, well, although I'm noticing my voice is starting to sound like him today.
[01:26:52]  You know what I'm saying?
[01:26:54]  Try this.
[01:26:55]  I've read the documents.
[01:26:57]  I've read the documents.
[01:26:58]  I know their plan.
[01:27:00]  I know their plans.
[01:27:03]  Maybe.
[01:27:04]  So here he is bashing.
[01:27:07]  He hates the Zeds for some reason.
[01:27:09]  Here he is with his buddy, his new buddy, bashing the Zeds.
[01:27:13]  And I just, an eye roller.
[01:27:16]  Reburma's good to see you.
[01:27:17]  I've been loving you hosting the show.
[01:27:19]  What a crazy time to be alive here.
[01:27:21]  It certainly is, Alex.
[01:27:23]  And just to kind of piggyback on what you were talking about via this generation and being just addicted to the scroll box.
[01:27:33]  And it's not just this idea of track trace database.
[01:27:39]  It's not just this idea of totally and completely taking away their attention.
[01:27:45]  The studies are now out.
[01:27:47]  You know, this was going to be part of me talking about AGI, what's going on right now with these data centers.
[01:27:55]  But we're talking about a generation right now, Generation Z, quote unquote, that is not interested in the real world.
[01:28:01]  They don't want to date.
[01:28:03]  They don't want jobs.
[01:28:03]  They don't want a car because it's their own little comfortable world.
[01:28:07]  Well, they're 40% less cognizant in both speech and writing, period, full stop.
[01:28:14]  I mean, it's not just.
[01:28:15]  Put that back up.
[01:28:16]  Major studies, 40% less cognizant in speech and thought, literally retarded.
[01:28:22]  So bottom line, studies printable as you see it.
[01:28:24]  iPhones and smartphones and games have literally made the younger generations retarded.
[01:28:31]  Well, look at it this way, Alex.
[01:28:34]  You know, my generation, your generation, we're only about five years apart.
[01:28:37]  I would argue maybe the people 10, 15 years younger than us are really what created this idea of a podcast.
[01:28:45]  I mean, you're a pioneer outside of the mainstream media, aka long form content.
[01:28:52]  Yet, when we started seeing these video platforms ever emerging, you just mentioned Meta.
[01:28:58]  Well, they own Instagram.
[01:29:00]  This is a bunch of bull crap.
[01:29:03]  I thought so too.
[01:29:05]  So come at that point where he brings up the obviosity that Meta.
[01:29:12]  You say something like, you know what?
[01:29:13]  Hey, Adam, Adam.
[01:29:15]  What?
[01:29:15]  Yeah, I'm here.
[01:29:15]  What?
[01:29:16]  You know what, Adam?
[01:29:17]  What?
[01:29:18]  Meta owns Instagram.
[01:29:20]  No, get out of town.
[01:29:22]  Next year, you're going to tell me they won't WhatsApp.
[01:29:24]  No, no, no.
[01:29:25]  You can't be telling me that.
[01:29:27]  Yeah.
[01:29:28]  This is bad for Alex.
[01:29:30]  I don't know why he's chosen this petition.
[01:29:33]  I've seen this sidekick.
[01:29:35]  I don't know the guy's name.
[01:29:36]  The guy's interesting.
[01:29:38]  He's also a UFC guy.
[01:29:40]  He's like a Rogan.
[01:29:41]  Oh, okay.
[01:29:42]  And I think that's the reason.
[01:29:43]  That's the hook.
[01:29:44]  No, this is because Alex is on the wrong side of this.
[01:29:49]  40% of the Zeds are exactly the audience he can pull in because they don't want the phones.
[01:29:57]  They're going way more conservative.
[01:29:59]  They want to date.
[01:30:01]  I know they want vinyl discs.
[01:30:03]  They want vinyl discs.
[01:30:04]  They want cassette disc.
[01:30:04]  And then there's been this whole contingent that wants cassette tape.
[01:30:09]  Yeah.
[01:30:09]  And look at Brunetti's kid.
[01:30:11]  They want Bibles.
[01:30:13]  I'm telling you.
[01:30:16]  He's wrong about this.
[01:30:17]  The people who are addicted are Gen X.
[01:30:23]  Yeah, I agree.
[01:30:24]  They're the ones that are completely sucked into this stuff.
[01:30:27]  Man, the women here in Fredericksburg.
[01:30:30]  Older millennials, too.
[01:30:31]  Older millennials.
[01:30:32]  Yeah.
[01:30:33]  Yeah.
[01:30:34]  I mean, and they're watching Candace Owens.
[01:30:37]  They're on the edge of their seat every day at four o'clock.
[01:30:40]  Oh, Candace is coming.
[01:30:41]  That Erica Kirk, I'm telling you, she's no good.
[01:30:44]  She's no good.
[01:30:45]  And then, and the short form videos, they're doom scrolling their butts off.
[01:30:51]  The only saving grace for them is that GLP1 will help stop their addiction.
[01:30:56]  This is coming.
[01:30:57]  Maybe.
[01:30:58]  This is my new prediction.
[01:30:59]  After erectile dysfunction, GLP-1 Ozempic will help you stop your doom scrolling addiction.
[01:31:07]  It already does for cocaine and alcohol, you know.
[01:31:09]  Supposedly, it wouldn't surprise me.
[01:31:13]  So that's coming.
[01:31:14]  Since you mentioned Candace.
[01:31:17]  Uh-oh.
[01:31:18]  I have a supercut that was done by Milk Bar TV of every comment she's made about getting to the bottom of the Charlie Kirk assassination over the last two or a half years.
[01:31:33]  How long is this thing?
[01:31:34]  Is it 15 minutes long?
[01:31:37]  It could have been, but I think it did.
[01:31:39]  What is the length?
[01:31:40]  Oh, 114.
[01:31:41]  Okay.
[01:31:42]  Yeah, 114.
[01:31:42]  It's not bad.
[01:31:43]  Here we go.
[01:31:43]  Knowing we are definitively getting closer to what took place on that day.
[01:31:48]  And we are getting closer.
[01:31:49]  I think we're close.
[01:31:50]  We are definitively getting closer.
[01:31:52]  We're getting close.
[01:31:53]  We're getting low.
[01:31:54]  Very close.
[01:31:55]  We're inching ever closer.
[01:31:57]  We are now, I believe, extremely close to solving this thing.
[01:32:02]  As I get inch closer and closer to discovering the truth, I've got a feeling about that.
[01:32:06]  Where we're close.
[01:32:07]  We're getting closer to something and that something is pretty big.
[01:32:11]  I just sense that we're getting close.
[01:32:13]  I sense that we are getting very close and we are getting closer, getting very close to something.
[01:32:21]  We're getting closer because we are getting close.
[01:32:23]  We are definitely getting closer.
[01:32:25]  Very close.
[01:32:26]  We are very close.
[01:32:27]  We are close.
[01:32:28]  We are dangerously close to something.
[01:32:30]  We are dead close to something.
[01:32:32]  And I think every day we are inching closer.
[01:32:34]  Who killed Charlie Kirk?
[01:32:36]  You know, we're getting close.
[01:32:37]  We're inching ever closer.
[01:32:39]  We are inching closer.
[01:32:40]  A little closer to solving the Charlie Kirk murder.
[01:32:43]  And I'm getting very close.
[01:32:44]  And we are getting very close.
[01:32:46]  But I'm getting closer.
[01:32:47]  I'm getting real close.
[01:32:50]  My prayers are with you, Candace.
[01:32:51]  You are close.
[01:32:52]  We are close.
[01:32:53]  And we're getting closer to the truth.
[01:32:56]  Get closer.
[01:32:57]  We are getting close.
[01:33:00]  She's very close now.
[01:33:01]  Jason Burmes is the name of the guy.
[01:33:03]  Yeah.
[01:33:04]  The sidekick.
[01:33:04]  He also, I think he was one of the producers of the Loose Change that, quote unquote, documentary about 9-11.

=== Charlie Kirk Murder Mystery (03:30) ===

[01:33:17]  No.
[01:33:18]  Yeah, Loose Change 9-11 in American coup.
[01:33:21]  That's what it was.
[01:33:22]  It came out around 20, 2009, 2010.
[01:33:26]  Yeah, there's something about, and actually, there's a backlash growing against Candace, just the whole group, because it's so annoying.
[01:33:37]  They're just, it's so much infighting.
[01:33:40]  And you've got Megan Kelly fighting with Mark Levin online.
[01:33:45]  You have a micro penis.
[01:33:48]  It's like, what are we doing?
[01:33:51]  You can't, I should forbid them from calling their shows podcasts.
[01:33:57]  I think I have the right to do that.
[01:33:59]  You do.
[01:34:00]  They should stop doing that.
[01:34:02]  Now we have two podcasters in our administration, which was, I just have to play this for the presentation of it.
[01:34:11]  This is the announcement of a federal healthcare advisory committee.
[01:34:15]  And this is your HHS secretary, RFK Jr., and Dr. Oz.
[01:34:23]  They're like doing a podcast now.
[01:34:25]  The presentation was just, it was all inspiring, really.
[01:34:30]  Hi, I'm Robert F. Kennedy Jr., your HHS secretary.
[01:34:33]  And I'm Dr. Mehmed Oz, CMS Administrator.
[01:34:36]  Hey, Code Bottom Gino!
[01:34:37]  Because the health policy seems like everybody's a pessimist.
[01:34:40]  The system's too broken.
[01:34:41]  The interest groups are too powerful.
[01:34:43]  The incentives, they're malaligned.
[01:34:45]  The whole thing's too complicated.
[01:34:46]  Did Dr. Oz ever offer some products on TV?
[01:34:49]  Did he ever?
[01:34:50]  Was he only a doctor doctor, or did he ever have some gambit to sell?
[01:34:55]  He was a syndicated TV show, and there was some product that he sold that was one of these scammish, you know, wellness things that does this, that, and the other.
[01:35:09]  A wellness thing.
[01:35:10]  And does nothing.
[01:35:11]  And he got called before Congress and was berated.
[01:35:15]  Well, this is what the problem here is: it sounds like these guys are selling me something that I don't want.
[01:35:21]  This administration rejects that mindset.
[01:35:24]  We take on the broken systems.
[01:35:26]  We challenge the entrenched interests and we fix misaligned incentives to deliver real results.
[01:35:32]  Real results.
[01:35:33]  Bringing together the top talent to take on the toughest challenges head-on.
[01:35:38]  And that's why today we are announcing the members of our new healthcare advisory committee, which will develop recommendations for how Secretary Kennedy and I can improve Medicare, Medicaid, the children's health insurance program, and the health insurance marketplaces.
[01:35:52]  Yeah, it was, that's right.
[01:35:53]  I think it was the Dr. Oz green coffee beans.
[01:35:57]  This sounds like an infomercial.
[01:35:59]  Their insights will help us cut costs, slash red tape, improve quality of care, keep programming solvent, and refocus crazy Eddie's prices are insane healthcare on the people it is meant to serve, the patients.
[01:36:11]  I'm so proud of the team that we've assembled.
[01:36:14]  We reviewed more than 400 candidates from all across the country, and we selected just 18.
[01:36:20]  These individuals bring extensive experience from state and federal government, from health system management, from nonprofits and health technology innovation.
[01:36:29]  Even RFK Jr. is doing better with his voice.
[01:36:32]  These guys, they're pitching.
[01:36:33]  They're pitching hard.
[01:36:35]  I know, there's something about it that just doesn't feel right.
[01:36:40]  You know, back to my hospital experience.
[01:36:45]  Here we go.

=== Hospital Food Quality Issues (03:22) ===

[01:36:48]  I don't think these hospitals, and I would say specifically the cafeteria where the people, the dinners they serve you, this is all stuff from the 1940s.
[01:36:59]  You know, the jell-o and everything's pre-packaged, horrible puddings, a bunch of everything's aspartame.
[01:37:08]  It's loaded with artificial sweeteners.
[01:37:11]  It's like nobody ever heard of Kennedy.
[01:37:13]  And I see no influence or impact whatsoever from Kennedy.
[01:37:18]  Interesting point.
[01:37:19]  Yeah, well, but the jell-o-that's contracts.
[01:37:22]  And those contracts have been around since Bill McClintock.
[01:37:25]  And it's not even jell-o.
[01:37:27]  It's some other off-brand of gelatin dessert that is unedible.
[01:37:33]  It's a gelatin product of a gelatin product.
[01:37:36]  I mean, you have no idea how bad the food is.
[01:37:39]  I lost like 10 pounds.
[01:37:41]  It was like, and then they had these dietitians that the one that was at the hospital.
[01:37:50]  I've got another one that's better, but the one from the hospital, she might as well have been from 1963.
[01:37:57]  It's old, old ideas, the old pyramids.
[01:38:01]  Really?
[01:38:01]  You know, lots of carbs.
[01:38:02]  Oh, you got more carbs.
[01:38:05]  So, I mean, did you, what was the typical dinner?
[01:38:11]  They'd have something like a, like a chicken, well, like just an example of something that was borderline.
[01:38:16]  It wasn't even borderline edible, actually.
[01:38:18]  It would be a piece of chicken, a chicken thigh with some phony baloney name, some gravy.
[01:38:26]  The chicken thigh was so overcooked that you could literally, you could pick it up and you could pound a nail with it.
[01:38:34]  It was unbelievable.
[01:38:38]  All right.
[01:38:38]  So did they have a potato product, a starch product?
[01:38:42]  They did have like mashed potatoes, no salt.
[01:38:46]  And so it was like tasteless and the texture wasn't quite right.
[01:38:50]  And then string beans, string beans?
[01:38:52]  Yeah, always some string beans.
[01:38:53]  Yep.
[01:38:55]  And then a gelatin product of unknown origin and manufacture date.
[01:39:01]  Yeah.
[01:39:01]  Wow.
[01:39:03]  In a pre-packaged thing that was obviously came off an assembly line.
[01:39:08]  Yeah.
[01:39:08]  So is Jay now taking care of you?
[01:39:11]  Is she feeding you?
[01:39:12]  I mean, what's this?
[01:39:14]  I can cook now.
[01:39:15]  What's the situation?
[01:39:15]  Are you in bed most of the day?
[01:39:17]  No, God, no.
[01:39:19]  That's the last thing.
[01:39:19]  That's why I had to get out of the hospital because they keep you in bed all day.
[01:39:23]  No, I got to be up.
[01:39:24]  And so back to these meals, it was like you couldn't eat any of it.
[01:39:31]  And they'd come in, they examine the percentage of what you ate, and it would go in your file.
[01:39:37]  Oh, you only ate, you know, we can't eat any more than that.
[01:39:40]  And what did you say?
[01:39:41]  It sucks.
[01:39:42]  Yeah, and I complained bitterly the whole time, and everybody agreed with me.
[01:39:47]  And it was one nurse and PA, every million of these different titles coming up and down.
[01:39:52]  Well, yeah, it was just too bad we can't have food that's edible.
[01:39:56]  And one nurse comes in, and I'm bitching as usual about the food.
[01:40:02]  And one nurse is nodding, and the other one says, I think the food here is great.
[01:40:09]  And I said, what?

=== Nurse Stories and Publicity (05:34) ===

[01:40:11]  How can you say that?
[01:40:12]  She says, I used to work at the VA.
[01:40:14]  Oh, you have no idea what bad food is.
[01:40:18]  You're clueless.
[01:40:20]  That's kind of sad.
[01:40:21]  Have you gotten any, have you received the bills yet?
[01:40:23]  This is what everyone's waiting for.
[01:40:25]  No, it's going to be a fortune.
[01:40:26]  But nothing yet, right?
[01:40:28]  We don't have any.
[01:40:29]  They're late.
[01:40:30]  Why are they waiting?
[01:40:32]  I have no idea.
[01:40:34]  We'll find out soon enough.
[01:40:35]  So, okay, if you don't mind me just asking, because people want to know, we're all generally concerned for your health and people have to understand, it is amazing that you're even doing a podcast this quickly after your, I mean, you're no letterman.
[01:40:49]  No Letterman went on stage.
[01:40:51]  Yes.
[01:40:52]  Well, now, are you going to make the meetup on the 11th?
[01:40:55]  No, probably not.
[01:40:56]  I'm going to try to make it.
[01:40:58]  Oh, man.
[01:41:00]  You know what you need?
[01:41:01]  You need like Stephen Hawking.
[01:41:02]  Remember when I met, well, I didn't really meet him, but I had dinner in the same restaurant as Stephen Hawking in Los Angeles, and he had these babes.
[01:41:10]  Like super hot.
[01:41:11]  Yeah, he apparently attracted a lot of babes.
[01:41:13]  Super hot nurse babes.
[01:41:14]  We can get you some hot nurse babes.
[01:41:17]  Just for the meetup, you know, just when you.
[01:41:19]  I think the bill is too high already.
[01:41:21]  No, but.
[01:41:21]  At the meetup.
[01:41:22]  I have a couple of hot nurses.
[01:41:23]  Yeah.
[01:41:24]  Yeah, but a little elaborate.
[01:41:25]  I did pull that stunt before something similar to that in a competition, a cooking competition in Vegas.
[01:41:32]  I'm pretty sure that we can get a couple of our female producers to dress up as hot nurses just for the photo op.
[01:41:41]  That'd be a good photo.
[01:41:42]  Yeah.
[01:41:43]  You're not into it.
[01:41:44]  Okay.
[01:41:44]  I'm just trying to cheer you up.
[01:41:45]  I'm over the hill for these sorts of publicity stunts.
[01:41:50]  Have you gotten any calls from any of your peers?
[01:41:53]  Like, I don't know, the Lib Joes.
[01:41:55]  Has anyone called?
[01:41:56]  The Lib Joes are clueless.
[01:41:58]  They have no idea.
[01:42:00]  I mean, people I talk to a lot, we all talk to each other.
[01:42:05]  And has Leo Laporte called?
[01:42:07]  No, he hasn't even said anything about it.
[01:42:10]  Oh, wow.
[01:42:11]  He has to know.
[01:42:12]  Oh, you were on pod news.
[01:42:15]  I was?
[01:42:17]  Yeah.
[01:42:18]  You were on pod news.
[01:42:19]  John C. Dvorak, 18-year co-host of the No Agenda podcast, has had a double bypass.
[01:42:27]  We wish him well.
[01:42:30]  Yeah, you were on pod news, man.
[01:42:31]  You made the pod news.
[01:42:33]  Well, it's about time I got some publicity.
[01:42:37]  Okay.
[01:42:38]  So, but you're a jammer.
[01:42:41]  I bring these stories in and out.
[01:42:43]  All right.
[01:42:43]  Well, we just want to know it's like, do you walk outside?
[01:42:47]  Are you only walking in the house?
[01:42:49]  Well, when I'm outside, because here's the problem.
[01:42:52]  And this is a two-month problem.
[01:42:54]  It's a huge problem.
[01:42:58]  You have limited use of your arms because if you start doing anything.
[01:43:02]  Oh, it hurts.
[01:43:04]  No, it's not hurts.
[01:43:08]  Because as you're cut down the middle of your chest, do you have that bone there?
[01:43:14]  That's kind of stapled back together with a hammer and nail.
[01:43:18]  Some gaffer tape.
[01:43:20]  And it takes like two months before it's sealed enough that you can take a chance on doing anything.
[01:43:25]  And like, for example, if you, they say, they tell you this, which makes it tough to walk around.
[01:43:32]  So I, so they, the hospital gave me this rolling, this kind of roly walker, which I use when I go outside, because if you fall down in this two-month period, oh, you're screwed.
[01:43:46]  It cracks this thing.
[01:43:48]  And then the word is that if you fall down, you don't have anybody try to get you up.
[01:43:53]  You call 911.
[01:43:56]  Wow.
[01:43:57]  Who needs that aggravation?
[01:44:00]  Yeah.
[01:44:00]  So you're very careful about things when you're wandering around.
[01:44:04]  And so when you're outside, this rolling walker thing, which has got four wheels and handlebars, and you can walk like a bat out of hell, you use it because you can't take a chance of stumbling or falling because who the hell needs to start the process over?
[01:44:20]  No, no, no.
[01:44:21]  And what do they have to re-break you?
[01:44:23]  They have to cut you open again.
[01:44:24]  I don't know what they do.
[01:44:25]  I have no idea.
[01:44:25]  I don't want to know.
[01:44:26]  I don't want to find out.
[01:44:27]  And does your walker have handbrakes?
[01:44:30]  Yeah.
[01:44:31]  Cool.
[01:44:32]  And a little seat.
[01:44:35]  It's cute.
[01:44:35]  It's a winner.
[01:44:36]  It's the cutest thing.
[01:44:37]  But it's like you can go.
[01:44:39]  You feel very confident with it.
[01:44:41]  But yeah.
[01:44:42]  Okay.
[01:44:42]  No, this is not a thing I would recommend anyone who want to go through.
[01:44:45]  But the thing is, Mimi has a friend, Richard, who had a quadruple.
[01:44:52]  And he called me up the other day.
[01:44:56]  The ex-police guy from L.A., who's a whistleblower, made a couple million bucks turning in some mobsters or something.
[01:45:03]  I don't know.
[01:45:03]  Oh, he's running up to Washington.
[01:45:04]  He's in the witness protection program up in Washington State.
[01:45:07]  No, he's just hiding out.
[01:45:10]  And so he had a quadruple, and he told me the whole thing.
[01:45:16]  Everything that I'm doing now is exactly what happens.
[01:45:19]  And you come at the other end when you're done with the process, which is a good four months for the whole thing to blow over.
[01:45:28]  And it's okay.
[01:45:31]  It's okay.
[01:45:33]  You feel better than you did before, and there's a lot of benefits, except and you got these scars you can show off.
[01:45:42]  Yeah, at meetups.
[01:45:43]  Yeah, exactly.
[01:45:44]  Hey, look.

=== NASA Moon Mission Scars (03:20) ===

[01:45:45]  Wait a minute.
[01:45:46]  We already discussed this.
[01:45:47]  The first rule of group is you don't show your scar.
[01:45:51]  That's what the guy said.
[01:45:53]  I told you, I mentioned that story where the guy comes in.
[01:45:56]  Yeah, no, we all think you should.
[01:45:58]  I didn't do the kicker.
[01:46:00]  Oh, what's the kicker?
[01:46:01]  He lifts up his shirt and shows me his I'm thinking you should go to one of these just for the experience.
[01:46:10]  Go to group.
[01:46:11]  Yeah, I just might.
[01:46:12]  Yeah.
[01:46:13]  How could it hurt?
[01:46:15]  Well, you might.
[01:46:16]  There might be a couple of guys with great stories.
[01:46:18]  That's what I'm thinking.
[01:46:20]  Like, hey, here's what the babe's like.
[01:46:23]  There's got to be some kind of contingency of women who just love.
[01:46:29]  Oh, can you imagine?
[01:46:31]  You know, it's like groupies, you know, collectors.
[01:46:36]  Yeah, I'm sure there is, to be honest about it.
[01:46:39]  Far out with your scar out, baby.
[01:46:41]  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[01:46:42]  All right.
[01:46:43]  A couple more clips here before we take a break.
[01:46:45]  I do have the Artemis clip, but this is not the one you had.
[01:46:50]  This is about the ever-delayed moon launch.
[01:46:54]  For the first time in more than 50 years, NASA is about to launch four astronauts near the moon.
[01:46:59]  Artemis 2, the more than $55 billion investment, is a 10-day mission.
[01:47:05]  Its goal is to fly astronauts around the moon and back, exploring the feasibility of building a lasting site on the moon for lunar exploration and future missions to Mars.
[01:47:15]  But this step in science comes with a cost and missed deadlines, as those interested in this mission are looking at it with a microscope.
[01:47:23]  Will it be another delayed, expensive NASA failure?
[01:47:26]  Or will this mission be one to impress?
[01:47:29]  I mean, NASA does have a history.
[01:47:30]  You can look at a lot of our OIG reports where we are way over budget and substantially behind schedule.
[01:47:37]  NASA's administrator Jared Isaacson admitted to what we all know on Tuesday, but added.
[01:47:42]  At some point, you have to, you know, course correct and get things back on track.
[01:47:46]  Back on track after a report from the Government Accountability Office discovered last July that the mission was already close to $7 billion over budget.
[01:47:56]  We have to do some things differently.
[01:47:58]  I think you're seeing it in some of the public support.
[01:48:00]  You're seeing it in the new authorization bill.
[01:48:03]  And this is what it takes for the moon, do so before arrivals.
[01:48:09]  Isaacson speaking on the mounting pressure of the international space race, a big part of NASA's reputation, and what's at stake for this upcoming mission.
[01:48:18]  Right now, he says the agency's priority is developing technology to explore the moon.
[01:48:23]  But this sentiment is also a major focus point for those watching from the outside.
[01:48:27]  People expressed skepticism on NASA's focus on the moon as it seems to be distracting from building a replacement international space station, something that's been deemed completely necessary by experts.
[01:48:39]  NASA announced this week that it will invest $20 billion to build a base on the moon, shelving plans to deploy a space station in lunar orbit.
[01:48:49]  We're trying to get back into a rhythm.
[01:48:51]  We're being very transparent.
[01:48:53]  The idea is to make the transition the right way, and we have to put everything out on the table.
[01:48:59]  People will be watching closely to see how things play out on the moon, with Artemis II expected to launch on April 1st.

=== Podcast Network Transition (13:58) ===

[01:49:06]  I just love that date.
[01:49:08]  If we were in charge of stuff, which will never be, and someone came in and said, oh, hey, hey, bosses, Curry Dvorak, we're going to launch this thing on April 1st.
[01:49:21]  I think both you and I would be like, no, you're not.
[01:49:23]  Right.
[01:49:24]  You're going to choose a different date.
[01:49:26]  Yeah.
[01:49:28]  It would be too stupid if you can't make it.
[01:49:33]  Yeah, it's an embarrassment.
[01:49:35]  Yeah.
[01:49:35]  Well, we'll have to see.
[01:49:40]  Well, this might be a good one for the predictive betting market.
[01:49:46]  Yeah, how much longer is that thing going to last?
[01:49:49]  Will they let this go?
[01:49:50]  Well, they're certain.
[01:49:51]  Well, since it's kind of paramutual, they don't lose money.
[01:49:56]  There's just like the bets come in from one side and then they change the odds.
[01:49:59]  Coming from the other side, they change the odds, and then they take the money from the one side and give it to the other side and take a piece of the action in the middle.
[01:50:07]  Right.
[01:50:07]  You can go on forever.
[01:50:08]  Right.
[01:50:08]  That's why they're just calling it an exchange.
[01:50:11]  Yeah, it's an exchange.
[01:50:15]  It's a great idea.
[01:50:16]  I mean, it should be illegal.
[01:50:18]  Period.
[01:50:19]  Paramutual.
[01:50:20]  Why should it be illegal?
[01:50:23]  It's encouraging people to gamble.
[01:50:25]  Well, yeah.
[01:50:26]  Is it not healthy for the society?
[01:50:30]  Says the man who can barely talk.
[01:50:32]  Yeah, well, besides the point.
[01:50:34]  It's not healthy for society.
[01:50:36]  It's not healthy for the society.
[01:50:38]  Play this Kash Patel clip.
[01:50:40]  Oh, yeah.
[01:50:41]  This was a good story.
[01:50:43]  Classic.
[01:50:44]  Where is Cash?
[01:50:45]  Here we go.
[01:50:45]  Tonight, cyber warfare unleashed with an Iranian league group hacking FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email and posting private messages involving Patel's family and photographs of him at a time before he became director.
[01:51:00]  As this war continues and as the regime is under tremendous pressure, it wouldn't surprise me to hear that the Iranians are potentially trying to take things to an even higher level than what they've done already.
[01:51:12]  The hack and posting apparently in direct retaliation for the Justice Department taking down several websites associated with the group known as Handala earlier this month.
[01:51:22]  Tonight, Handala bluntly describing why they targeted Patel.
[01:51:26]  Quote, while the FBI proudly seized our domains, we decided to respond to this ridiculous show in a way that will be remembered forever.
[01:51:34]  The group claims to have emails, conversations, documents, and even classified files.
[01:51:40]  David, the FBI says the hack material is historical in nature and involves no government information.
[01:51:46]  And the FBI says the U.S. is offering a $10 million reward for information about the Handala hackers.
[01:51:53]  Yeah, this is a marketing of these Handala hackers.
[01:51:58]  This sounds like, I don't know.
[01:52:01]  I mean, what is the point?
[01:52:04]  It's an old Gmail, isn't it?
[01:52:06]  I don't know.
[01:52:07]  Yeah, well, I have a clip and it includes our boy Brennan.
[01:52:10]  15 pass with the breaking news.
[01:52:11]  Breaking news.
[01:52:12]  15 pass with the breaking news.
[01:52:14]  Now reporting, Iran-linked hackers are claiming they have breached the personal email inbox of FBI Director Kash Patel.
[01:52:21]  Breached.
[01:52:22]  Those hackers have published photographs of Patel along with his purported resume and what appears to be personal.
[01:52:29]  I love the pictures.
[01:52:33]  A correspondence dating between 2010 and 2019.
[01:52:37]  But MSNL has not confirmed that any of those documents are legitimate.
[01:52:42]  And DOJ tells our Carol Lennig they do not know the details of this apparent hack.
[01:52:47]  Joining us now, former CIA director and MSNOW senior national security and intelligence analyst John Brennan.
[01:52:53]  How concerning is this report?
[01:52:55]  And we want to point out the hack does not cover his time as FBI director, but it does allegedly cover the time he worked in national security and counterterrorism at DOJ.
[01:53:05]  And depending on how far into 2019, possibly his time on the National Security Council.
[01:53:10]  Well, Alex, the Iranians have very, very sophisticated cyber capabilities, both from the standpoint of collection as well as disruption.
[01:53:19]  And I'm sure that the war ongoing right now with Iran has led to an increase in their efforts and determination to target a number of individuals with their cyber hacks and capabilities.
[01:53:33]  So again, I'm unsurprised that the Iranians are engaged in such activities.
[01:53:39]  We've had to face it for the past 10 or 15 years in terms of what the Iranians have been able to do.
[01:53:45]  And given that the FBI director is a high-profile target, it's again not surprising that the Iranians would do something like this.
[01:53:53]  But again, I have to underscore just how sophisticated the Iranians have become and their ability to do things like this.
[01:54:01]  He's not wrong about that.
[01:54:03]  No, but Brennan's a dud.
[01:54:05]  I mean, is anyone watching Ms. Now?
[01:54:08]  Have you seen any ratings?
[01:54:09]  Does that thing work?
[01:54:11]  It can't be good.
[01:54:13]  I don't think so either.
[01:54:14]  They're going after, they're trying to buy the Vox podcast network.
[01:54:19]  Ooh, that'll do it.
[01:54:21]  Well, what I think is kind of fun about that is we had Prof G, Scott Galloway, touting with Karen Karen, her new name is Karen Swisher.
[01:54:36]  Karen Swisher, Karen Swisher, with Karen Swisher.
[01:54:40]  No, no, we're going to sell this show.
[01:54:43]  We're going to, you know, they were in negotiations, I think, with Vox.
[01:54:48]  How do you just sell a show like that?
[01:54:50]  Well, they didn't.
[01:54:51]  That was the whole point.
[01:54:52]  He was like, this is hundreds.
[01:54:53]  This is kind of back a little bit after the Spotify days and Rogan, like, oh, we're going to be 100 millionaires from this show.
[01:55:00]  He was showing charts.
[01:55:01]  We could make a billion dollars on advertising.
[01:55:04]  And he hired 35 people for the Prof G experience for all of his podcasts.
[01:55:10]  And now they're getting wrapped up in a sale to, gosh, who was it?
[01:55:17]  Who was it that was going to buy this?
[01:55:21]  Were they part of a network?
[01:55:26]  Yeah, they're part of the Vox Media Network.
[01:55:31]  Oh, I did not know that.
[01:55:33]  Yeah, yeah, yeah, let me see.
[01:55:34]  It was.
[01:55:36]  Oh, so you're going to get nothing.
[01:55:37]  No, of course not.
[01:55:39]  My podcast.
[01:55:41]  And how can you even sell it?
[01:55:42]  We know what a podcast network is worth.
[01:55:44]  It's nothing.
[01:55:46]  So, okay, so Vox Media.
[01:55:49]  Oh, this is it.
[01:55:50]  Yeah.
[01:55:51]  So Vox Media, initially they had said, okay, we're putting it up for sale.
[01:55:57]  And then they said, no, no, no, no, we're not selling anything.
[01:56:01]  But then Versant comes along.
[01:56:02]  Do you know what?
[01:56:03]  Do you remember Versant?
[01:56:05]  Yep.
[01:56:06]  That's the spin-off company that includes MS Now and CNBC.
[01:56:15]  And they want their Versant is saying, we want to have at least 40% non-traditional content within the next two years that they're going to buy.
[01:56:25]  That's a dud.
[01:56:29]  You can't make money off of a podcast network.
[01:56:31]  Spotify put a billion dollars into it and failed.
[01:56:37]  You know who they didn't call?
[01:56:38]  Us.
[01:56:39]  Just for advice.
[01:56:42]  The Curry Duval consulting group.
[01:56:44]  Yeah, you never get called for anything.
[01:56:47]  I never get called for anything.
[01:56:49]  We're outliers with experience and good judgment, but we're handsome.
[01:56:58]  We're quite handsome.
[01:57:01]  Yes.
[01:57:02]  And nobody cares.
[01:57:03]  Nobody cares.
[01:57:04]  Well, those who are last will be first.
[01:57:06]  The least will get the most.
[01:57:07]  That is what I've always understood.
[01:57:09]  And with that, I want to thank you for your courage.
[01:57:10]  Say in the morning to you, the man who put the C and cut down the middle.
[01:57:14]  Say hello to my friend on the other end.
[01:57:16]  He's still alive.
[01:57:16]  Mr. John C DeMori.
[01:57:20]  Well, in the morning, Mr. Adam Curry.
[01:57:21]  Also, in the morning, all chips and sea boots on the ground, feet in the air.
[01:57:24]  Subs in the water and all the dames and knights out there.
[01:57:28]  In the morning to the trolls in the troll room.
[01:57:30]  Oh, there we go.
[01:57:31]  There we go.
[01:57:34]  That's better.
[01:57:34]  1806 today at the peak of our trollage, which is much better for a Sunday.
[01:57:39]  People, people, I think people thought you were dead.
[01:57:41]  And like, well, we're going to give up.
[01:57:43]  Who wants to hear Curry?
[01:57:44]  You know, give a crap.
[01:57:46]  What?
[01:57:46]  Give a crap about Curry.
[01:57:48]  Oh, he's back.
[01:57:49]  Okay.
[01:57:50]  Well, we might as well tune in again.
[01:57:53]  Well, you're getting you're getting a product, which we find to be a quite outstanding product from people who are not swayed by popular opinion, are not captured by an audience who tells them that you better be criticizing people more.
[01:58:10]  We've identified this as we had the two.
[01:58:12]  There's another guy besides the one you're talking about.
[01:58:16]  You know, you're not critical enough.
[01:58:17]  You should just be grousing about everything.
[01:58:19]  Well, I mean, you don't think I grouse enough.
[01:58:22]  Okay.
[01:58:22]  No, but you have to be more of an activist.
[01:58:24]  That's what he says.
[01:58:25]  And the other one is activism.
[01:58:28]  Yeah.
[01:58:28]  Activist.
[01:58:29]  You got to be more active about it.
[01:58:31]  Let's push some.
[01:58:32]  You know, people don't realize we don't have an agenda in regards to pushing these things.
[01:58:39]  You're not pushing.
[01:58:40]  We don't push anything.
[01:58:42]  But here's what, here's the problem.
[01:58:44]  And it's, for some reason, always focuses on me, which I don't know.
[01:58:48]  Maybe it's the right thing.
[01:58:49]  You can't spell my name.
[01:58:51]  Well, no, but when we analyze something that President Trump does, then we're licking his ass because we say, well, we think he's right.
[01:59:02]  Oh, you bought?
[01:59:03]  You're not critical.
[01:59:05]  You're all in.
[01:59:06]  How many shekels did you get for that?
[01:59:09]  You know, so when we're not, because we just don't agree with the narrative, and there's pushback coming on all these podcasters.
[01:59:19]  People are getting tired of it.
[01:59:21]  They're tired of it.
[01:59:23]  They want just an actual opinion from somebody and not, ah, yeah, I'm all in.
[01:59:30]  Let me go on your podcast.
[01:59:32]  You know, even, I gotta say, even Joe Rogan's kind of falling for it now.
[01:59:39]  A little bit.
[01:59:40]  Yeah.
[01:59:41]  I mean, he's.
[01:59:41]  But he doesn't go on everybody's podcast.
[01:59:44]  No, no, no, no.
[01:59:46]  These, these merry-go-round podcasts, you go on mine, I go on yours, you go on his, and then he goes on mine, and I go on yours.
[01:59:53]  And, you know, round, around, around they go where they stop.
[01:59:57]  Yeah.
[01:59:58]  Nobody knows.
[01:59:59]  We're not part of any of these cliques.
[02:00:02]  No, we're not.
[02:00:03]  That's, oh man, I should have clipped that.
[02:00:06]  Reverend Franklin Graham said, podcasts are a problem.
[02:00:10]  I got to get that clip.
[02:00:13]  He was complaining about the podcast.
[02:00:14]  What is he referring to?
[02:00:16]  Oh, the podcasts that are saying that Israel is bad and the Jews are to blame for everything.
[02:00:21]  Oh, yeah, they do.
[02:00:22]  Yeah, well, exactly.
[02:00:24]  Yeah.
[02:00:24]  And, you know, now Tucker is, he's got a documentary, and they've got Bibi Netanyahu and his wife, and they're horrible and they're corrupt, which is probably true.
[02:00:34]  But who cares?
[02:00:36]  Like, okay, maybe, but 15 minutes of discussion.
[02:00:42]  Yeah, who cares?
[02:00:43]  It's true.
[02:00:44]  Who cares?
[02:00:45]  Anyway, the trolls are listening at noagendastream.com.
[02:00:51]  I will say, and I've actually talked with Dave Jones, my buddy, who is this nicest, calmest guy.
[02:00:58]  They call him the pod sage.
[02:01:00]  And we do like a board meeting every Friday.
[02:01:04]  We talk about podcasting 2.0, and we have developers on.
[02:01:09]  The audience is like 500 people.
[02:01:11]  It's not meant for any other consumption outside of what we're doing.
[02:01:16]  And out of that group comes new features like transcripts and chapters and all this stuff that you're seeing now.
[02:01:23]  The big boys are implementing, which is the whole, that was the whole point.
[02:01:26]  Podcasting had stagnated for a decade.
[02:01:31]  We started up and things are working.
[02:01:32]  Okay, so great.
[02:01:34]  And even he is getting snark.
[02:01:38]  People just, and it's older millennials, maybe some Gen X. There's something going on.
[02:01:47]  And people feel like they can just lash out and say whatever they want to a podcaster.
[02:01:56]  You haven't noticed this because no one knows where to find you.
[02:01:59]  You're in hiding.
[02:02:01]  But there's something going, there's something in the air where people just want to say, you suck.
[02:02:11]  Yeah, people want to say you suck.
[02:02:13]  That's pretty much it.
[02:02:15]  You suck.
[02:02:16]  Yeah.
[02:02:17]  So the troll room, there's a lot of that, but actually today has not been too bad.
[02:02:21]  Now they are trolls, so it's to be expected here, obviously.
[02:02:25]  Noagendastream.com.
[02:02:26]  And of course, we have the modern podcast apps just talking about it.
[02:02:29]  One of the great features they have is live podcasts.
[02:02:33]  When you go live and you're recording live, the podcast app that you use to listen to your podcast whenever you feel like it will give you an alert.
[02:02:42]  So if you want to, you can join in live and listen to it.
[02:02:45]  And these things also have pod ping technology.
[02:02:49]  So within 90 seconds of updating the podcast and releasing it, you'll get notified.
[02:02:54]  We are a value for value podcast.
[02:02:57]  And that means that there's no subscriptions.
[02:03:02]  There's no advertising.
[02:03:03]  There's no paywall.

=== Live Podcast Alert Features (03:07) ===

[02:03:05]  No, we give you everything upfront and center.
[02:03:08]  What you see is what you get.
[02:03:10]  And if you get value out of it, then we would like to hear back from you.
[02:03:13]  And you can do that with your time, your talent, or your treasure.
[02:03:16]  And one of the ways people help us is by its production because everyone who listens to the show is, by definition, a producer.
[02:03:25]  So let me take a look here.
[02:03:27]  We had episode 1854.
[02:03:30]  Rackout was the title of that.
[02:03:32]  You really had, oh, we used the art, which was kind of cool, by Nessworks.
[02:03:39]  And he had a gas pump, premium podcast only.
[02:03:44]  Man, it doesn't happen often that you get a lot of email about one topic that you don't expect.
[02:03:51]  Premium versus regular was the one.
[02:03:55]  Did you get emails about this?
[02:03:58]  I also have a meaculpa.
[02:04:00]  Oh, well, let me explain first.
[02:04:02]  We were talking about the difference between premium and regular, so high octane, lower octane.
[02:04:09]  And I asked, I said, well, is this a scam?
[02:04:12]  Am I just paying for this stuff when I don't have to?
[02:04:16]  And a lot of people said, oh, yeah, you're crazy.
[02:04:20]  Unless you have a high-end, high-compression automobile, there's no need for it.
[02:04:25]  That was that.
[02:04:26]  I'm generalizing, but that's kind of what I got back.
[02:04:28]  And of course, the tip of the day was always fill up your rental car with the lowest octane possible when you return it.
[02:04:37]  That to me was the tip of the day.
[02:04:38]  Like, ah, obviously, that's what we got to do there.
[02:04:44]  Well, a couple of things.
[02:04:47]  I'll defend the petroleum industry and say these things are all based on knock engines in your engine.
[02:04:53]  If you want to use lower grade fuel and let your engine knock once in a while, okay, good for you.
[02:04:59]  It's going to hurt and damage the engine over time.
[02:05:03]  But I use premium fuel because I drive a Lexus, the old one, 20-year-old.
[02:05:09]  But still.
[02:05:11]  The second thing is, this is my fault.
[02:05:15]  I talked about the low-sulfur diesel and I kind of conflated it with the stupid blend that we have in California for gasoline, which is special to California.
[02:05:25]  And I said it's going to take over the whole country, blah, blah, blah.
[02:05:28]  No, it's a federal low-sulfur diesel, as one of the producers pointed out.
[02:05:34]  The diesel's the diesel everywhere, and it's really expensive.
[02:05:37]  So that can be changed at a federal level.
[02:05:39]  How come President Trump doesn't change this?
[02:05:42]  What's he going to do?
[02:05:43]  Just tell them to stop the, let the sulfur free.
[02:05:47]  No, I think they've, you know, they've gotten used to this blend.
[02:05:51]  It's better.
[02:05:53]  The high sulfur diesels make a mess.
[02:05:57]  It's probably a better product.
[02:05:58]  Well, we got the farm diesel here.
[02:06:00]  All the good old boys, they put that farm diesel in their in their pickup trucks and they roll coal along the road.
[02:06:07]  You can always tell.
[02:06:09]  It's like, oh, you got farm diesel.

=== Federal Diesel Sulfur Rules (02:39) ===

[02:06:12]  So thanks to Nestworks for bringing us that artwork.
[02:06:15]  There were a couple other things that we looked at.
[02:06:20]  I think we can kind of move past the hospital art.
[02:06:23]  I think John is no longer in the hospital.
[02:06:28]  You kind of liked Dan Ob Gyn4's slot machine.
[02:06:33]  Yeah, I did.
[02:06:34]  I think it's an evergreen.
[02:06:35]  I might use it.
[02:06:36]  Possible Evergreen.
[02:06:38]  Scaramanga's homemade missile on the surfboard was kind of cute.
[02:06:44]  A lot of ship stuff.
[02:06:48]  So I think Nestworks kind of nailed it.
[02:06:51]  Premium podcast only was good.
[02:06:53]  And you actually liked it a lot because you felt that it was not a big AI effort.
[02:06:58]  Well, Nessworks is not necessarily an AI effort type of guy.
[02:07:02]  So yeah, I did like that.
[02:07:04]  I thought that was good.
[02:07:06]  So we thank you for your courage, Nessworks.
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[02:07:19]  You like the analysis.
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[02:07:44]  Now, we're going to thank everybody $50 and above in one segment.
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[02:07:57]  And that means not only do we read your note guaranteed, but we also give you an associate executive producer credit, which is good anywhere.
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[02:08:22]  Are we going to do this Knight of the Heart order?
[02:08:25]  What is that?
[02:08:25]  Yeah, you got Paul Couture's working on the art for a pin, a special pin that you put on your lapel.
[02:08:33]  And it's going to be, yeah, it's going to be the Red Knight.
[02:08:36]  And we're going to roll it out on my birthday.
[02:08:38]  It's the Order of the Red Knight?
[02:08:42]  No, you are a Red Knight.
[02:08:43]  It's the Order of the Red Heart.
[02:08:45]  Oh, Order of the Heart or the Red Heart.
[02:08:47]  Okay.
[02:08:47]  And wait a minute, your birthday is when?
[02:08:49]  Isn't that coming up soon?
[02:08:50]  Like next week?
[02:08:51]  Yeah, like the 5th.

=== Executive Producer Rewards (08:57) ===

[02:08:52]  The 5th of April.
[02:08:53]  Oh, my gosh.
[02:08:57]  said i don't know what happened there well coming in either yeah i was sorry about that Coming in as our top executive producer for today, saving the entire show.
[02:09:08]  Yes.
[02:09:08]  Yes, it was a very poor showing today, except for a couple of checks that came in.
[02:09:13]  Well, Dame Catherine, she is the crypto granny of Bangkok, came in with a, in Bitcoin, a whopping $5,000 and she says, John, thank you for not dying.
[02:09:30]  We need you.
[02:09:31]  I think you got to pull this gambit more off.
[02:09:33]  And what can you do next?
[02:09:35]  I don't think I kid the trouble.
[02:09:37]  Kidney stones.
[02:09:38]  We have to do something.
[02:09:42]  Adam, you're a rock.
[02:09:44]  You kept your head about you.
[02:09:46]  And hold on, let me expand this.
[02:09:49]  And soldier Don.
[02:09:51]  Bravo.
[02:09:51]  Mimi, thank you for filling in during John's medical adventure.
[02:09:55]  Hope this helps with the medical bills.
[02:09:57]  It will.
[02:09:58]  I'm grateful to be a hodler since the early days.
[02:10:01]  I must give thanks to Max Kaiser to the moon.
[02:10:05]  And she ends up by saying, being rich is having enough to share with others.
[02:10:09]  She is Dame Catherine, the crypto granny of Bangkok.
[02:10:12]  And we thank you so much, Dame Catherine.
[02:10:14]  That was whatever happened to Max Kaiser.
[02:10:16]  Well, they're all living in El Salvador now.
[02:10:19]  Oh, really?
[02:10:20]  You know who else is moving to El Salvador?
[02:10:23]  To Texas Slim.
[02:10:25]  He is now, he is by presidential appointment in charge of all beef agriculture of El Salvador.
[02:10:35]  Wow.
[02:10:36]  I had an El Salvadorian that I met with in the hospital.
[02:10:42]  He was just one of the guys who they called transport.
[02:10:48]  They drag you around and you need to keep you in your bed and they roll you all over the place.
[02:10:53]  And I had a long chat with him.
[02:10:55]  He says, El Salvador has become the greatest place ever.
[02:10:59]  When he was a kid, you couldn't go outside.
[02:11:01]  They'd shoot you.
[02:11:02]  Yeah, you got rousted or killed.
[02:11:04]  I know.
[02:11:05]  Well, that's Bukeley.
[02:11:08]  And he says that the guy, this president, the guy's running it, he doesn't need any money.
[02:11:12]  He's loaded.
[02:11:14]  And, you know, it's not, there's no way of going corrupt.
[02:11:17]  That's Bukeley.
[02:11:18]  He says it's a terrific place.
[02:11:20]  Yeah.
[02:11:20]  And you know what they did?
[02:11:21]  They made Bitcoin the money of the country.
[02:11:24]  It's the currency.
[02:11:25]  Yeah, it's the currency.
[02:11:26]  And a lot of people have moved there.
[02:11:28]  Max and Stacey are there.
[02:11:30]  I'm pretty much full time now.
[02:11:32]  I think it's only, what, two and a half hour flight from Texas?
[02:11:35]  I'm going to go visit.
[02:11:36]  When Slim is there, oh, yeah.
[02:11:38]  So he's in charge.
[02:11:39]  He's going to, I think he has a press conference with the president Bukeley on the 14th of April.
[02:11:46]  And yeah, so he's going to do everything from the regenerative farming to the processing.
[02:11:53]  And he has beef.com.
[02:11:55]  Somehow he got beef.com.
[02:11:58]  Little old Texas Slim, man.
[02:11:59]  He's doing good.
[02:12:00]  I'm so happy for him.
[02:12:02]  He says, Adam, I'm going to be the Jimmy Dean of Beef.
[02:12:05]  And I don't doubt him.
[02:12:07]  So that's what's going on in El Salvador.
[02:12:10]  Well, thanks to Dame Catherine.
[02:12:12]  Matthew Lamb's up.
[02:12:13]  He's in Johnson City, Tennessee.
[02:12:15]  500 bucks.
[02:12:16]  This, I believe, is just a check that showed up in an envelope with no note, no nothing.
[02:12:22]  It made no sense.
[02:12:23]  But I'm sure if he wants to communicate, he will.
[02:12:26]  But he'll get a double up karma in the meantime.
[02:12:29]  You've got karma.
[02:12:35]  All right.
[02:12:35]  Then we have a valuable account indeed.
[02:12:41]  This is a great name.
[02:12:43]  From Plains, Pennsylvania.
[02:12:44]  $500 with a handwritten note.
[02:12:47]  Looks like some paper from a high school notebook.
[02:12:53]  Dear John Adam plus Mimi, my cousin, also named John, also had a heart attack this week.
[02:12:58]  Sadly, he passed away, leaving behind his wife, children, and one grandchild.
[02:13:03]  He was a great guy and will be missed.
[02:13:05]  Please count your blessings, John.
[02:13:07]  Get away, get well, stay healthy, and four more years.
[02:13:12]  Sincerely, a valuable accountant indeed.
[02:13:15]  Not account, accountant indeed.
[02:13:18]  And he breaks it down: 333.33 value for value, a boob donation for Mimi.
[02:13:23]  She's a lovely woman.
[02:13:24]  And a 808 boob for John, a reason to live.
[02:13:27]  And $6.51 for JC covering DH Unplugged.
[02:13:32]  He's great.
[02:13:33]  Plus, prayers for Adam and Pastor Jimmy.
[02:13:35]  A wonderful show they do.
[02:13:36]  There are three types of accountants, the kind that you can count on and the kind that can't.
[02:13:42]  Okay.
[02:13:44]  Get it?
[02:13:45]  Yeah, I get it.
[02:13:46]  The kind that can count and the kind that can't.
[02:13:49]  There you go.
[02:13:49]  Well, this is a valuable accountant indeed.
[02:13:51]  And we thank you very much for your support of the show.
[02:13:55]  No, the joke was there's three types.
[02:13:58]  I know, but there's no third.
[02:14:00]  Then you get it.
[02:14:01]  Yeah.
[02:14:01]  Okay.
[02:14:01]  Ron Camacho, Comcho.
[02:14:03]  Ron Comcho, Comcho.
[02:14:06]  Sugar Island, Texas, 33333.
[02:14:09]  Foremost, I want to thank John, or thank you, John, for not dying.
[02:14:13]  You're welcome.
[02:14:14]  I started listening in March 2026, recent listener, huh?
[02:14:19]  First time donor.
[02:14:20]  I need a dedouching.
[02:14:23]  You've been deduced.
[02:14:25]  My Spicewood Texas daughter turned me on to you guys.
[02:14:29]  Thank you for your enlightenment.
[02:14:31]  It's appreciated.
[02:14:32]  I apologize for not donating sooner.
[02:14:35]  I leave with this in the spirit of Texas.
[02:14:39]  Yes.
[02:14:40]  And in the words of Sam Houston, Texas will again lift its head and stand among the nations.
[02:14:49]  It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.
[02:14:56]  God bless you.
[02:14:57]  The No Agenda Show.
[02:14:59]  And God bless Texas.
[02:15:00]  Amen.
[02:15:01]  That's right.
[02:15:01]  One of those guys.
[02:15:02]  Yeah.
[02:15:03]  Well, there's a lot of them here, and I'm one of them.
[02:15:05]  Colleen Westerhouse in Chirabusco, Indiana.
[02:15:09]  I think it's Churabusco.
[02:15:11]  Someone gave me crap.
[02:15:12]  Me and my sister-in-law gave me crap the other day because I said Portage, Indiana.
[02:15:18]  She called me up, says, it's Portage.
[02:15:21]  We're Midwesterners.
[02:15:23]  Stop with the French stuff.
[02:15:24]  So I don't know if you pronounce this Churabusco or Chirabusco, but it's in Indiana.
[02:15:29]  Rof Ducks 222.22.
[02:15:31]  No note that I could find from Colleen.
[02:15:33]  So we'll give her a double up karma.
[02:15:35]  You've got karma.
[02:15:42]  Christopher Graves in Somerset, California.
[02:15:45]  Ah, we know Christopher.
[02:15:47]  Christopher.
[02:15:48]  20329.
[02:15:49]  This is a note.
[02:15:50]  So thank you to Eli the coffee guy when Eli reached out and asked if Little John's could make chocolate with coffee.
[02:15:56]  By the way, we got some of these things.
[02:15:59]  You got some already?
[02:16:00]  I haven't received any.
[02:16:01]  Well, I think so because Jay's talking about you eat one and you go to the moon.
[02:16:08]  I got to get to the P.O. box.
[02:16:10]  Make chocolate with coffee.
[02:16:12]  I jumped at the chance to co-brand with another like-minded business owner.
[02:16:16]  Getting the chance to collab, collab with two of my favorite things, chocolate and coffee, and then promote it to the best podcast in the universe is an honor.
[02:16:25]  Yes.
[02:16:26]  Thank you, Eli, for making me a better businessman and a better candy maker.
[02:16:32]  Connection is protection.
[02:16:33]  Try our limited edition chocolate bars at littlejohnscoffee.com or gigawattcoffee roasters.com, 20329.
[02:16:42]  Yeah, it's littlejohnscandies.com.
[02:16:45]  What did I say?
[02:16:46]  You said little John's Coffee.
[02:16:49]  That's what a collab will do to you.
[02:16:51]  No, that's from the drugs.
[02:16:53]  What drugs are you on?
[02:16:55]  Nothing.
[02:16:55]  What?
[02:16:56]  Nothing for pain?
[02:16:58]  No, I don't have any pain.
[02:17:00]  I have aches and I have like sore back and neck and things like that.
[02:17:06]  But I don't, I never appear.
[02:17:08]  And I asked about this, by the way, not to go on about these ailments.
[02:17:12]  Yeah.
[02:17:12]  But because they come into, everyone's come in.
[02:17:15]  Well, we're going to do this and that.
[02:17:16]  And then somebody else comes in.
[02:17:17]  We're going to do this and that.
[02:17:18]  And then they always say, do you have any pain?
[02:17:21]  Oh, and I said, no.
[02:17:23]  Is there a little chart with where on this chart is your pain level at?
[02:17:27]  I said, no.
[02:17:28]  You got pain from zero to 10.
[02:17:30]  I don't have any pain.
[02:17:32]  And so this went on and on and on.
[02:17:35]  And so one, so somebody comes in once and I said, okay, I don't have any pain.
[02:17:41]  But why are they what you know?
[02:17:43]  I can't seem to make it clear.
[02:17:45]  And so what is the pain that people have?

=== Resume Pain Points (02:41) ===

[02:17:49]  Huh?
[02:17:50]  Because after, you know, after a while, you wonder what the hell is this horrible pain?
[02:17:54]  Because they keep asking.
[02:17:56]  And I guess, and one of the doctors described, it feels like you're being stabbed.
[02:18:05]  Wow.
[02:18:06]  I'm glad I don't have that.
[02:18:07]  Well, at least there's one thing I avoided.
[02:18:10]  You're doing so well.
[02:18:12]  Over two hours and your energy went up.
[02:18:14]  It's amazing.
[02:18:15]  Well, hey, we've got Gert Lunkhar in Breda in the Netherlands.
[02:18:21]  $200.88.
[02:18:22]  That's a Give John a Reason to Live donation.
[02:18:25]  And he has a note with his associate executive producer, Sip John John and Adam.
[02:18:29]  ITM, I've been listening since COVID and have never missed the show since.
[02:18:32]  Thank you for bringing sanity in the world of news and media.
[02:18:36]  This donation of $200.88 is a shout out to my brother Humps, who has moved from the Netherlands to Phoenix, Arizona.
[02:18:43]  Did that a while ago?
[02:18:44]  He's a mechanical engineer, independent product developer, who's a total beast at 3D and CAD design.
[02:18:51]  And he's looking to get more clients in the U.S.
[02:18:53]  He is fully authorized to work in the U.S. He's got a green card and he's ready to take on your 3D design needs for mechanical engineering.
[02:19:01]  You can look him up on smartinoventions.com.
[02:19:04]  That's smartinoventions.com.
[02:19:08]  That's smartinovenchuns.com or contact him, info at cad-downloads.com.
[02:19:16]  Kindly play the jingle for him.
[02:19:18]  Jobs, jobs, jobs.
[02:19:20]  We vote for jobs.
[02:19:22]  Keep up the great work.
[02:19:23]  And thank you for your attention to this matter, says Gert Lunkhar from Breda in the Netherlands.
[02:19:28]  Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
[02:19:32]  Let's vote for jobs.
[02:19:38]  And there's Linda Lupatkin, Castle Rock, Colorado, 200 bucks.
[02:19:42]  Jobs, Karma, your resume has about 10 seconds to make an impression.
[02:19:47]  And most don't.
[02:19:49]  Boom, boom, boom, boom.
[02:19:50]  For a resume.
[02:19:52]  It was nice to have that.
[02:19:56]  Nice.
[02:19:57]  Nice one.
[02:19:58]  Linda helps professionals and ex-executives turn their experience into a clear story of leadership, results, and impact.
[02:20:08]  That's Image Makers Inc. with a K.
[02:20:11]  And Linda Liu, Duchess of Jobs and writer of winning resumes, Best Linda.
[02:20:16]  Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
[02:20:20]  Let's vote for jobs.
[02:20:24]  By the way, when you're back at home base, I don't know, it's going to take a couple months whenever you get to go back home.
[02:20:29]  You must be ready to go back home already.

=== Professional Image Making Tips (15:44) ===

[02:20:31]  I know you.
[02:20:31]  You're like, I want to be yesterday.
[02:20:34]  What's it like living with your kid?
[02:20:37]  Well, you know, Brennan is a chatty guy, so it's fun to talk with these with him.
[02:20:42]  Yeah.
[02:20:43]  And it's good to work with Jay.
[02:20:47]  And it's just interesting.
[02:20:49]  I got to tell you, Jay.
[02:20:50]  I think it's annoying to them.
[02:20:53]  No, first of all, she loves you so much.
[02:20:56]  I try to slow her down.
[02:20:57]  Like, easy does it.
[02:20:58]  He'll disappoint you somewhere along the way.
[02:21:00]  Just don't.
[02:21:00]  Oh, yeah.
[02:21:01]  Let's hope so.
[02:21:02]  But she's a rock star.
[02:21:05]  She really is.
[02:21:06]  She didn't skip a beat.
[02:21:08]  You know, maybe she, maybe she didn't care.
[02:21:11]  Oh, the whole guys in the live in my house.
[02:21:14]  But she is so good.
[02:21:15]  She just keeps on.
[02:21:17]  Has she ever done a podcast?
[02:21:19]  She doesn't enunciate.
[02:21:22]  Oh.
[02:21:23]  I just remember her when she was 14 or 15.
[02:21:26]  That's the last time I saw her.
[02:21:27]  Now she's all grown up and married and doing stuff.
[02:21:32]  She's cool.
[02:21:34]  Everybody loves Jay.
[02:21:36]  Yes.
[02:21:36]  So we could do the rest of these because this is the shortest list we've ever had.
[02:21:40]  Yeah, I'm going to go right through it.
[02:21:42]  I'll do them all.
[02:21:43]  Never, wait.
[02:21:44]  Let me stop you.
[02:21:46]  This is the shortest list of donations we've ever had.
[02:21:53]  A total count with the crypto granny and all the rest thrown in of 19 people.
[02:21:59]  Now, is it that bad?
[02:22:01]  Wow.
[02:22:02]  Part of this is the newsletter has to be redeveloped because it's just not getting to anybody.
[02:22:12]  You mean they're not actually receiving it or it's not, it doesn't have impact.
[02:22:15]  They're not receiving it.
[02:22:17]  They're not receiving it.
[02:22:18]  Oh, what changed besides you almost dying?
[02:22:21]  No, this changed about six to nine months ago, and I noticed it then.
[02:22:28]  And I was slow to act.
[02:22:32]  Yeah.
[02:22:32]  Now I'm slower, so it's going to be a nightmare to get this thing back on.
[02:22:35]  Void Zero is ready to help.
[02:22:38]  I know.
[02:22:38]  I want to talk to him.
[02:22:39]  Okay.
[02:22:40]  Well, talk to him.
[02:22:41]  Talk to your friend.
[02:22:42]  He has ideas.
[02:22:44]  If anyone knows email, it's Void Zero.
[02:22:47]  No, he's a borderline genius.
[02:22:50]  He is.
[02:22:51]  Except when he's like, it's Wednesday afternoon.
[02:22:54]  I'm doing show prep.
[02:22:55]  He's like, I'm just upgrading the mail server.
[02:22:58]  Yeah, that would be him.
[02:23:00]  I need some email to be able to do my prep.
[02:23:04]  No, he is not borderline.
[02:23:06]  He is a certified genius.
[02:23:08]  So we'll thank these few people.
[02:23:10]  Larry Allar in Cochran, Minnesota, 8888.
[02:23:15]  I came for Adam, but stayed because of John.
[02:23:17]  Be well, my friend, he says.
[02:23:18]  Sir Nubbin, Indianapolis, Indiana, 8888.
[02:23:21]  And he says, there's evidence of promotion to Baron.
[02:23:25]  Dear Adam, on show 1839, you credited to Chris Moore instead of Sir Nubbin as requested several times in notes and emails.
[02:23:32]  Thank you for your attention to this matter.
[02:23:34]  I believe we are correcting that today, sir.
[02:23:37]  Michael Biskegli, Biskegli, Biskegli, he's from Staten Island, and he sent in, oh, this is a get-well note.
[02:23:44]  It was a very nice card that he sent.
[02:23:46]  Let me see.
[02:23:47]  Yes.
[02:23:49]  It said, bringing you the strength you need today and every day.
[02:23:53]  Get well soon.
[02:23:54]  I'm happy you're out of the hospital and on the men, says Michael with his 8888.
[02:23:59]  That's nice and nice when people send cards like that.
[02:24:01]  It's old school.
[02:24:03]  And with $80.08, he's there every single show, sometimes twice.
[02:24:08]  Sir Kevin McLaughlin, he is the Archdune of Luke, a lover of America and boobs.
[02:24:13]  And as always, he says, God bless America and boobs.
[02:24:17]  Lane Lamoureaux, $55 from the middle of Mesopotamia.
[02:24:21]  Rockets, drones, and missiles.
[02:24:23]  Oh, my.
[02:24:25]  Proving not all Americans have gone bonkers from a university in Baghdad.
[02:24:29]  Thanks to your deconstruction.
[02:24:31]  So it says San Francisco, but I guess he's in Iraq.
[02:24:36]  Sounds like it.
[02:24:37]  Yeah.
[02:24:37]  Well, stay safe.
[02:24:39]  Surprise of, he's the Knight of Astonishment, 54 and 44 from Yukon, Oklahoma.
[02:24:45]  Tyler the Mailman, Arlington, Washington, 511.
[02:24:49]  I love you guys.
[02:24:50]  Keep going on.
[02:24:51]  Five ever.
[02:24:52]  That's more than four ever.
[02:24:54]  Bobby Bow in Bluegrass, Iowa, 50.
[02:24:57]  Nathan Noll in Needleland, Texas, 50.
[02:24:59]  Terrence Clark in Jacksonville Beach, 50.
[02:25:02]  And finally, our last 50 is Joshua Johnson from Omaha, Nebraska.
[02:25:07]  And these make up our executive and associate executive producers and our $50 and above producers for episode 1855.
[02:25:16]  Thank you all very much for those of you who supported us.
[02:25:18]  Consider supporting us by going to noagendadonations.com.
[02:25:22]  You will not regret supporting the best podcast in the universe because that means we'll keep going even when people are on their deathbed.
[02:25:29]  I'm telling you, noagendadonations.com.
[02:25:38]  Also a short list on the birthdays, but they are here.
[02:25:41]  Evan Mackey celebrates a birthday.
[02:25:44]  And let me see, layaway night, sir, exiled maniac.
[02:25:49]  I don't have any dates for these guys, but I'll just take it as it's their birthday.
[02:25:53]  So happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe.
[02:26:00]  Title changes.
[02:26:01]  Turn and face a slave.
[02:26:08]  Well, I'm very sorry, Sir Nubbin.
[02:26:10]  I'm not sure exactly what went wrong, but there was no malice intended.
[02:26:14]  So today you receive your long overdue and deserved title change.
[02:26:19]  You now become a baron.
[02:26:21]  And we thank you for your courage and for your support of the best podcast in the universe.
[02:26:25]  So we do have one night.
[02:26:27]  It is a layaway night.
[02:26:29]  And I believe I have a note here.
[02:26:33]  This is from A. Jackson Pollock.
[02:26:37]  And he will become Sir Exiled Maniac.
[02:26:40]  He says, John Adam marches donation of 30.
[02:26:42]  This is a long time layaway.
[02:26:44]  3333 should leave me a penny short of knighthood.
[02:26:47]  So if you can spare a penny, do I have my pennies?
[02:26:50]  Ever since I went to Linux, I think I lost my pennies.
[02:26:53]  Hmm.
[02:26:56]  You know, the Linux machine sucked up the pennies.
[02:26:59]  Do I have it?
[02:27:04]  Nope, I'm going to have to look for it.
[02:27:05]  I'm going to have to look for it.
[02:27:06]  IOU.
[02:27:07]  Yeah, it'll be.
[02:27:08]  IOU is right.
[02:27:09]  There you go.
[02:27:11]  I think the ROI will be worth it.
[02:27:13]  I've also sent an additional 3333 this month in order to sponsor a douchebag save a podcaster.
[02:27:18]  I hope this concept catches on.
[02:27:20]  JCD's life and the show may depend on it.
[02:27:23]  Please night me, Sir Exiled Maniac, Kennelmaster of the Dutch Shepherds and Belgian Malinois, Malinois, Malinois.
[02:27:30]  You know who has Malinois?
[02:27:32]  Laura Logan.
[02:27:33]  She got five of them.
[02:27:35]  I had one.
[02:27:36]  Yeah, but these are the ones that bit Luke Coffee and he had to get plastic surgery on his face.
[02:27:42]  No, that's not good.
[02:27:43]  No, she has five of them and they get out all the time and they're on the street roaming around.
[02:27:48]  They are killers.
[02:27:51]  I had one that was gentle.
[02:27:53]  Yeah.
[02:27:53]  But this dog, nothing could contain him.
[02:27:59]  He would get escape.
[02:28:00]  He was an escape artist.
[02:28:02]  Now, one time we dropped him off at a kennel.
[02:28:04]  And we said, this dog will escape.
[02:28:09]  And don't worry about it.
[02:28:11]  We got secure facilities.
[02:28:12]  And so they would see the guy the next time.
[02:28:15]  And he says, so I locked the dog up and I'm walking down the hall and I hear something clicking behind me.
[02:28:21]  The dog is walking right behind me.
[02:28:25]  They are escape artists.
[02:28:29]  Let me see.
[02:28:30]  That was actually pretty funny.
[02:28:31]  Let me save that one.
[02:28:32]  So I need to read some of this note.
[02:28:34]  I don't know if you saw if you saw this note, but this is a hilarious note.
[02:28:39]  Okay, he says, so I've been having this recurring dream and I'm starting to think it may have something to do with the best podcast in the universe.
[02:28:46]  It goes something like this.
[02:28:48]  Since the pandemic, I've been down on my luck and financially strapped.
[02:28:52]  So I started directing gay porn movies out of my house, unbeknownst to my wife while she's at work.
[02:28:58]  I'm working with my associate executive producer, Dana Brunetti, and our biggest star, Eli the Coffee Guy.
[02:29:05]  We are discussing the next scene, which involves Little John's candied beads and a gigawatt coffee enema, followed up with good old-fashioned La Jolla salt rub and tug.
[02:29:15]  Suddenly, the front door flies open and my wife, Linda Liu, Duchess of Jobs and writer of winning resumes, unexpectedly comes home and cries out in horror, Mr. Timothy, what in the world?
[02:29:25]  What have you been shopping at bad idea supply again?
[02:29:28]  Then she starts yakking at me something about if I don't change my wicked ways, find Jesus and go to imagemakersinc.com.
[02:29:35]  That's ImageMakers Inc. With a K. She's always repeating herself and get myself a winning resume that gets results.
[02:29:40]  And there's no doubt in her mind that I would end up working at Martell Hardware for the rest of my life.
[02:29:46]  About this time, my alarm clock goes off, and from the radio, I hear the spooky voice of a washed-up VJ exclaiming, in the morning, followed by his geriatric handler sidekick bitching and moaning for three hours about low donations.
[02:29:59]  What can all of this madness mean?
[02:30:01]  When will this psyop end?
[02:30:02]  Four more years, is what my conspiracy therapist keeps telling me.
[02:30:06]  But he says it may end a whole lot sooner unless all the douchebags in the universe donate at least once, no matter the amount.
[02:30:12]  Although 3333 is the magic number.
[02:30:15]  Ball is in your court, douchebags.
[02:30:17]  Stay safe and donate.
[02:30:19]  That's a Jackson Pollock.
[02:30:20]  Plus, No Agenda is a Picasso.
[02:30:23]  And that means that we need to knight this guy.
[02:30:25]  So if you can grab that little tiny boy, that's beautiful.
[02:30:29]  So, Jason, come on up here.
[02:30:36]  He has the Exiled Maniac.
[02:30:38]  And you now officially will become Sir Exiled Maniac, Kennel Master of the Dutch Shepherds and Belgian Malinois.
[02:30:46]  And for you, we have, as always, Hookers and Blow, Rent Boys and Chardonnay.
[02:30:50]  We've got Harlotts and Hal Dahl.
[02:30:51]  We've got Redheads and Rise, Beers and Blunts, Cowgirls and Coffee, Varnish, Rubiness, Women, and Rose, geishas and sake, vodka, manila, bungheads, and bourbon, sparkling cider and escorts, ginger ale and gerbils, breast milk and pablum.
[02:31:04]  And as always at the roundtable, especially for people who write funny notes like that, we've got mutton and mead.
[02:31:10]  You, sir, head over to noagendarings.com and give us your ring size so we can send that off to you post-haste.
[02:31:18]  They always come with a certificate of authenticity and a couple sticks of wax so you can add those to your gay porn movie.
[02:31:26]  Danny Brunetti will help you for sure.
[02:31:28]  And welcome to the roundtable, the No Agenda Knights and Dames.
[02:31:31]  No one should be up.
[02:31:37]  Well, you heard it earlier.
[02:31:38]  Collabs happen.
[02:31:39]  Businessmen get together and all kinds of beautiful things take place.
[02:31:43]  Connection is protection at the No Agenda meetups.
[02:31:45]  These people will be your first responders in any emergency or in business venture for that matter.
[02:31:50]  And you can find them all at noagendameetups.com.
[02:31:53]  Today there is a meetup, and that is at six o'clock, the Northern Wake No Agenda Counter North Sea Nexus Planning Committee meetup.
[02:32:01]  And that'll be in North Carolina at Saints and Scholars.
[02:32:04]  So make sure you check that out.
[02:32:06]  Coming up this month, this coming month, April 4th, Osaka, Japan.
[02:32:10]  I know that's going to be a good meetup.
[02:32:11]  We've got a lot of people in Osaka.
[02:32:13]  Eagle on the 11th.
[02:32:14]  This is a big day for the meetups.
[02:32:15]  Eagle, Idaho, Albany, California.
[02:32:18]  Sounds like John just might make it.
[02:32:19]  Ladies, get your hot sexy nurse outfits on for the photo.
[02:32:23]  Up.
[02:32:23]  Lafayette, Louisiana, and Fredericksburg, Texas.
[02:32:26]  Also on the 11th.
[02:32:27]  I will be there with the keeper.
[02:32:28]  Pastor Jimmy coming.
[02:32:29]  Well, we've got Matt Long.
[02:32:31]  It's going to be a hoot nanny.
[02:32:33]  The 16th, Charlotte, North Carolina, the 18th, Ford Wayne, Indiana.
[02:32:36]  Franklin, Tennessee, always a good meetup over there on the 18th.
[02:32:39]  Vancouver, BC, the most broke place in Canada, but they'll be doing a meetup on the 19th.
[02:32:45]  April 25th, Schaefening in the Netherlands, the 26th, Brighton in Michigan, and Leipzig in Germany on April 30th.
[02:32:53]  No agenda meetups.
[02:32:54]  You will not regret going to these at least once in your life.
[02:32:57]  Go to noagendameetups.com.
[02:32:59]  If you can't find one near you, no worries.
[02:33:01]  All you got to do is start one yourself.
[02:33:03]  It's easy and always guaranteed a party.
[02:33:05]  Noagendametups.com.
[02:33:07]  Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days.
[02:33:14]  You to be where you want me.
[02:33:16]  Trigger to hell aim.
[02:33:19]  You to be where you are.
[02:33:20]  Everybody feels the same.
[02:33:27]  All right.
[02:33:28]  I got time for some ISOs here.
[02:33:32]  You have two.
[02:33:33]  I see you got two ISOs.
[02:33:34]  All right.
[02:33:34]  I'll play mine first and we'll see how we do.
[02:33:37]  In the morning, a very good show hosted by very good people.
[02:33:42]  That apparently was real.
[02:33:46]  Although that, well, maybe I'm wrong.
[02:33:49]  I thought it came from the Sean Hannity show, but I could be wrong.
[02:33:54]  In the morning, a very good show hosted by very good people.
[02:33:58]  But I think it's AI.
[02:33:59]  Here's another one.
[02:34:00]  As always, fascinating.
[02:34:03]  Yeah.
[02:34:03]  All right.
[02:34:05]  Okay.
[02:34:05]  All right.
[02:34:05]  I got two.
[02:34:06]  Yes.
[02:34:07]  See ya.
[02:34:08]  See ya.
[02:34:09]  Catch you later.
[02:34:10]  Take it easy.
[02:34:12]  Okay, not bad.
[02:34:14]  And then impressive.
[02:34:15]  That's impressive.
[02:34:18]  Hmm.
[02:34:19]  I think I like Sia the best.
[02:34:21]  I kind of see ya.
[02:34:22]  Catch you later.
[02:34:23]  Take it easy.
[02:34:24]  I think we should leave it with Sia.
[02:34:26]  Okay.
[02:34:27]  All right.
[02:34:27]  We'll do that.
[02:34:28]  Hey, everybody.
[02:34:29]  Before we go anywhere, it is time for John's tip of the day.
[02:34:34]  Green faster, you and me.
[02:34:36]  Just the tip with JCD.
[02:34:40]  And sometimes Adam.
[02:34:44]  Well, not being out and about, and the last tip we picked, I've decided what obvious things should people have that would be a tip of the day.
[02:34:59]  And I got another one.
[02:35:01]  Okay.
[02:35:01]  It's not on the list.
[02:35:02]  I don't know why we haven't picked it before, but everybody should have one of these.
[02:35:08]  A carbon monoxide monitor.
[02:35:10]  Oh, yes.
[02:35:11]  I actually have one.
[02:35:13]  You have one?
[02:35:14]  Yes, for when I fly.
[02:35:15]  I haven't used it in a while, but yes, I have one for in the cockpit.
[02:35:19]  Well, there's a lot of them.
[02:35:21]  There's tons of them out there.
[02:35:22]  They're about the two I'll recommend is First Alert, which is $23.
[02:35:30]  And then there's the Kiddie K-I-D-D-E, $27.
[02:35:36]  These are brands that are known.
[02:35:39]  And they're not expensive.
[02:35:41]  And they're valuable protection that everyone should have, especially in and around the kitchen if you have gas appliances.
[02:35:48]  Now, are these just simple ones that beep or make a noise?
[02:35:53]  Or can you get them that connect to an app?
[02:35:56]  So your app will alert you?
[02:35:58]  No, but there's plenty that do and you can look for those.
[02:36:01]  In planes, we have a very cheap one, which is a little disc, and the disc changes color.
[02:36:10]  And then you know that there's a lot of carbon monoxide.
[02:36:13]  Yeah, I'd rather have something beeping at me.

=== Carbon Monoxide Detector Alerts (05:49) ===

[02:36:15]  Yeah.
[02:36:16]  And excuse me.
[02:36:20]  I've had them go off like false positive.
[02:36:23]  And here's what the pilots do.
[02:36:25]  How do you feel?
[02:36:25]  You feel okay?
[02:36:26]  Yeah.
[02:36:26]  You feel funny?
[02:36:27]  No, I feel good.
[02:36:27]  All right.
[02:36:28]  Feel good.
[02:36:28]  You sure?
[02:36:29]  Okay.
[02:36:29]  All right.
[02:36:29]  Feel good.
[02:36:30]  All right.
[02:36:30]  That's your check.
[02:36:34]  Because if you feel funny, then you're like, yeah, maybe.
[02:36:37]  If you feel funny, you're in trouble.
[02:36:38]  Open the window and do something like that.
[02:36:41]  There it is, everybody.
[02:36:41]  If you want to find more of these tips today, go to noadinafun.com, tipoftheday.net.
[02:36:47]  Green master, you and me.
[02:36:49]  Just the chip with JCD.
[02:36:53]  And sometimes Adam.
[02:36:55]  Created by Dana Bernetti.
[02:36:57]  There it is.
[02:36:57]  Dana Bernetti, known for the gay porn, apparently now.
[02:37:01]  Only in.
[02:37:02]  Give me a grief for that.
[02:37:04]  Well, hey, he needs to do some kind of project.
[02:37:08]  Might as well be in somebody's dreams.
[02:37:11]  End of show mixes.
[02:37:12]  MVP is back on, and Molly Berry comes in.
[02:37:16]  Molly Bear did the Order of the Heart end of show mix.
[02:37:20]  Yep.
[02:37:20]  I am your slopperator playing those tunes for you.
[02:37:24]  You know, these mixes today are pretty good.
[02:37:26]  They are.
[02:37:26]  Well, they have good lyrics.
[02:37:27]  People are figuring out how to use good lyrics.
[02:37:30]  And then It's not as offensive that it's AI.
[02:37:37]  But you know, according to Rick Beto, we'll all be making them ourselves on our Mac Minis at home.
[02:37:42]  And for more media deconstruction and more on the war, we'll be back on Thursday.
[02:37:48]  And we hope you will join us.
[02:37:51]  Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country right here in Fredericksburg, Texas, where we love the Comanches.
[02:37:57]  In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
[02:37:59]  And from Northern Northern San Francisco Bay Refinery Row, I'm John C. Dvorak.
[02:38:07]  We'll be back on Thursday.
[02:38:08]  Please remember us at noagendadonations.com.
[02:38:12]  And stay tuned for the Millennial Media Offensive next on NoAgendastream.com.
[02:38:16]  Until Thursday, adios, mofos, ahoo-wee-hoo-wee, and such.
[02:38:29]  Settle down now.
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[02:40:02]  Are you sure it's really nice?
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[02:40:12]  Oh, you know, got 60 now, 565, 88, 80.
[02:40:17]  Sold for $80 Felt the shadow creeping like a second death.
[02:40:40]  Hand on my heart.
[02:40:42]  Felt the spark ignite.
[02:40:44]  In the dark, I was marked by the red night.
[02:40:49]  In the grip of death, couldn't feel my veins.
[02:40:53]  But if I came back when I spoke his name, we are the nights that won't give in.
[02:41:00]  The order of the heart begins.
[02:41:02]  No agenda to stay alive.
[02:41:04]  Through the dark, we learn to fly.
[02:41:07]  Out of the black rack into the light.
[02:41:10]  Let me compromise Pulled my breath back from the edge.
[02:41:28]  Took my life back from the very elege.
[02:41:33]  We are the night that won't give in.
[02:41:35]  Order of the heart begins in the morning.
[02:41:38]  I'm still alive.
[02:41:39]  I survived the quick of the night.
[02:41:41]  Out of the dark, dark into the light with a red night.
[02:41:48]  I survived the rest podcast in the universe.
[02:41:56]  Adios, Mofo, Dvorak.org slash na.
[02:42:02]  See ya.
[02:42:03]  Catch you later.
[02:42:04]  Take it easy.