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I've been misgendered. Adam Curry. John C. Devorah. It's Thursday,

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May 7th, 2026. This is your award-winning Kibble Nation media

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assassination episode 1866. This is no agenda. Come on. And

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broadcasting live from the hotel with the flaming logo at

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Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam. I'm Adam Curry. Crackpot and Buzzkill.

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In the morning. Yeah, you just don't sound yourself. Well,

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maybe it's the rig. Maybe it's Linux. I don't know.

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I don't know. In the morning. Well, you're not even

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in the country. No, but that shouldn't make any difference.

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I can't seem to get any high end out of

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you. And then all I get is you. That's the

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low end you said that was missing. No, it's not.

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It's your voice. No, you've trans. Transform into a... You're

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trans. You sound trans. I don't know. I'm trans now.

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That's good. You sound like your voice is an octave

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higher. I've been misgendered. I think you're right. I've been

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misgendered. Uh, yeah, here we are, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It's

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been a rough- It's been a rough couple of hours

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for me here. Ooh, now we have stories to tell.

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Well, it's not all that exciting other than... We left

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the house at 11 a.m. yesterday. To San Antonio. San

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Antonio to Atlanta went fine. And then we sat on

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the runway for a long time because of the storms

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in Atlanta. Which shortens the sleeping time on the aircraft

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because... Why don't you sleep while you're sitting on the

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runway? Well, you know, it's just... Thanks. That didn't work.

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And, you know, so then everything's later and then... There

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was a lot of turbulence. And Tina... who normally doesn't

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like turbulence. She bopped right off. She's like, oh, boom,

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she's gone. I'm sitting there like, I still feel the

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turbulence when I'm walking around. So we got in much

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later than expected. I didn't get as much sleep. And

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I've had nothing but technical problems here today. Oh, no.

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Yeah, yeah. And I tested the whole rig. Everything tested

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it out. Everything's fantastic. And then the minute we got

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to go live, the whole stream system, all my credentials

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popped out. And this hotel. Maybe Lennox is illegal in

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Holland. It will be. You know what's illegal in Amsterdam?

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Advertising meat. What? Yeah, you heard me. Oh, come on.

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Yes! Yes, advertising meat is... So you can't... What about

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advertising a hamburger? No, no, you cannot advertise meat in

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Amsterdam. In just in Amsterdam or the whole country? No,

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Amsterdam. Amsterdam has its own special policies. Yeah. You can't

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advertise, there's no advertising of meat products in Amsterdam. Wow.

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Yeah. And it's the climate change people. Oh my god,

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I got some climate change. clips. Yeah. Well, first let

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me finish my report. Yes, please. So this hotel, we

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always stay at the airport hotel. Um... They have a

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huge logo on the side of the hotel. Two days

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ago, the logo caught fire. And they, on the outside

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of the building, and they evacuated. evacuated all 280 people

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So I guess we're kind of lucky that we didn't

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show up earlier. Yeah, I guess so. Yeah. And so

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I've literally been in the hotel room getting set, prepping,

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getting ready. fixing stuff, you know, the USB is disconnected.

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It's one thing after another today. The gremlins are in

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the machine, so I'm completely relying on you to drag

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us through the show. I can do it. And I

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want to remind everybody, this is a value for value

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production. Which, again, people seem to have forgotten. Which means

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near the end of the show. The trouble, hold on

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a second. People should know that you have to go

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through a rigmarole, a lot of trouble. We keep doing

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this show when either one of us travels. I stopped

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traveling after COVID, but Adam still takes a trip or

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two. And this is a pain in the ass, but

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we do it. We do it. Yeah, we do it.

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We work on holidays, too. Yeah, work on. I mean,

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I'm here to see my daughter. I'm here to see

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her for a couple of days. You could be seeing

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your daughter right now instead of doing this show. I

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could be doing a lot of things instead of doing

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this show. So we just ask you to support us

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if you get any value from it. is of no

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value to you, then okay, well, we'll figure something else

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out. I think it's the news cycle. What do you

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mean the news cycle? I don't think the news cycle

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is attractive. Really? Oh, I think it's incredibly attractive. There's

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lots of fun things to talk about. Yes, but they're

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all minor. They're not like big trends or anything that's

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going to change the world. No, I think you're wrong.

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No, I think you're wrong. What happened is we have

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too many big things. You know, it's like we barely

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got out of COVID. Barely. You know, if you really

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think about it, people are still traumatized by that. good

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one that was a big one Um... Then we've had

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Epstein files, but it's all unsatisfactory. You see, people, they're

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not getting any, they can't get no satisfaction. And so

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they're just mad about everything. And, you know, and we're

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not the guys that... that are just, you know... cynical

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all the time and and so we're not and we're

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not pumping it up and saying everybody sucks but let

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me start off with with just a fun little 37

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second clip just to give everybody ideas speaking of covid

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You know, uh, Questlove? Questlove? By the way, I want

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you to do some follow-up on this not advertising meat.

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Okay. It's been going on for a while, but now

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it's official. So you know Questlove? Questlove? No? Yeah, I

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think he's... Isn't he with... Isn't he in Jimmy Kimmel's

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band? Or maybe, uh... No, I don't think so. Maybe

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Jimmy Fallon's band? Yeah, yeah. No, Fallon's band has got

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a name. Oh, he was, uh... Someone's banned. He was

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in someone's band. He was one of those late night

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show bands. I think it could be, I think you

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might be thinking about... Are the guys now off the

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British guy? No, no, no. No, no. I'm waiting for

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the troll room to tell me. Anyway, Troll Room. Troll

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Room is slow. Yeah, it was. What? Kilt-o? No. Anyway,

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when you hear the guy, you'll recognize him. I'm pretty

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sure he was... He was in one of those late

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night TV show bands. And so this guy is... Yeah,

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it was Fallon's Band. See, I know I'm right. Fallon's

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Band. So if you're in Fallon's Band... Fallon's Band is

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the roots. Yeah, quest love in the roots, exactly. Okay.

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Thank you. So if you're in Fallon's band. During COVID,

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what are you going to do? I don't know, what

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are you gonna do? You're gonna take the shot. Of

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course you have to take the shot that's required. And...

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All of your buddies are gonna take the shot. They

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have to take the shot. That's what it was an

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edict. Listen to this. In the last year alone. And,

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you know, I've wondered... Is there a pandemic happening that

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I'm not aware of? I'll say for me in the

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last... Eight months. I've lost 11 friends to stage four

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cancer. Oh my God. Like even the day that I

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found out D'Angelo had cancer. D'Angelo was the... six person

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in a 24 hour period that broke the news to

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me. And even then, it was like in humor because...

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earlier that day. I mean, this is bad. This is

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no good. Yeah, that's a lot of people. Yeah, 11

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people that he knows. Holy crap. Yeah, that's a lot.

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Yeah. So, you know, so people don't want to hear

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this. I don't want to hear that. Although, hold on.

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I know you got a three by three. three, but

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I might as well roll out this one while we're

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at it. The Food and Drug Administration has withdrawn the

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publication of studies that tracked the safety of the COVID-19

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and shingles vaccines. A spokesperson for the Department of Health

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and Human Services says the studies drew broad conclusions that

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were not supported by the underlying data. Health officials... say

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the COVID-19 vaccines and shingles vaccines are safe. Health and

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Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has expressed doubt

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about the safety and efficacy of several vaccines. Yes, exactly.

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Can you read the writing on the wall? My lord.

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No, they can't. In fact, it's embarrassing. And I will

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say this about that, pulling those studies. The pushback on

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that was, there they go. There's Kennedy doing his anti-vax

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thing. They're not paying any attention to the underlying reasons

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they did this, which was they drew conclusions that weren't

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valid conclusions to draw from. From the data. That's the

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reason they did it. And I see more. anger about,

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oh, look, there's another example. This is just Kennedy's anti-vax

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thing. This is known as being an anti-vaxxer, and this

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is proof. Yeah. Well, let's go to the next one

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before we even do your three by three. Do you

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have any? No, the three by three is about Iran.

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minute. I want to do Henta virus. You have a

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Henta virus? I may have a Henta. Because I got

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I got I'm loaded for bear on the Henta virus.

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Let me hit you with a... Let's go with it.

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Let me hit you with a Hantavirus. Two cases of

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Hantavirus. have been formally confirmed after three people died in

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a suspected outbreak on a cruise ship off the coast

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of West Africa. A British crew member requires urgent medical

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care and a passenger from the UK remains in a

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critical but stable condition. The World Health Organization says it

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has identified a total of seven cases in the outbreak.

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Pumza Filani has more. We've heard overnight from the cruise

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line owners, a company called Ocean Expeditions, is they've confirmed

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that they are currently working on plans to carry out

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a medical evacuation of two crew members who are still

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on board that MV Honduras cruise ship. off the shoreline

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of Cape Verde. Now this is because they've not been

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allowed to disembark the 149 passengers who are from various

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nationalities around the world. The local authorities there have expressed

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concern that they don't know the full details of the

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disease and they're concerned what that would mean for the

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population. So they've so far... I killed the clip accidentally.

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The point of this is that... For whatever reason, Hentavirus

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keeps coming up in our lives over and over and

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over again. Let me take you back to episode 1362,

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July 2021. And then there's another weird report. Weird. This

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has cropped up many times, but it seems... Ortho hantavirus

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is cropping up here and there the last time it

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was The big news story was in 2013, of all

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places, Camp Curry in Yosemite. Yeah, Hanta would be places

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like Camp Curry. And it's from mice, right? Yeah, it's

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mouse crap. But if you read about it... Hantavirus single-stranded

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envelope Negative Sense RNA Virus RNA. So that already caught

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my eye. Like, oh, RNA might have something to do

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with it. If you look at the symptoms. Man, it's

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very, very similar to COVID. And it's in your airways

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as well. So I don't know if that could be

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mistaken for it or God knows what. Yeah, the hat

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has never had huge numbers. No? No. All right. So

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that was 2021. I didn't go back to 2013, but

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this is just last year. In other health news, researchers...

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with Virginia Tech are warning of a disease they say

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has pandemic potential. What pandemic potential? I like the alliteration,

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pandemic potential. It's too long, but it would have been

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a show title. What's that, John? Pandemic Potential. Tonight, NBC

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News learning two U.S. Wait, what's going on here? Stop

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what's happening here. Stop. Stop. Stop. Oh, my goodness. What's

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going on here? The whole thing. Yeah, double curry. Everything's

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out of control. All right, here we go. Well, first

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of all, I mean, the real one would be bird.

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flu but it's probably measles. It's called Hantavirus. You may

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have heard about it recently. Oh, yeah, Hantavirus. I should

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have guessed that one. Easy, easy, easy. It's called Hantavirus.

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You may have heard about it recently. It's the infection

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that killed Gene Hackman's wife. And it also caused three

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deaths in California recently. That's right. The virus. That's right.

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Commonly spread throughout rodent droppings and urine or saliva and

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can cause serious illness in humans. How can that be?

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How can that? Does it transfer from human to human?

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How can it have pandemic potential? Exactly. Rat poop. You

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get it from rat or mouse poop and saliva. How's

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it... I don't get this beyond me. I love how

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you're talking to Adam from 2025 while the clip is

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playing. Yeah, I'm talking to him. We'll get back here.

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That was great. Adam, grow up. What do you mean,

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grow up? The thing is though, there's more than one

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kind of Hentavirus. This is... the part that gets confusing

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this now we're in today's world there's lots of different

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hantavirus around the world most of it is in eastern

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that can have a mortality. between 25 and 50 percent.

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of all of the Hantaviruses. Most of the Hantavirus cannot

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form can be. It's still rare, but there have been

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reported cases of human to human transmission. In the Americas,

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it tends to be a respiratory virus that starts off

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with non-specific symptoms, fevers, gastrointestinal symptoms, but then very rapidly

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can affect the heart and lungs and cause a fatal

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stands for acute respiratory distress syndrome. Basically, the lungs can

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get filled up with fluid and it's very severe. The

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most likely way of getting this, all forms of hantavirus,

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is through close contact with rodent droppings, urine, you know,

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secretions, and it is not through human-to-human transmission. That's why

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the general population does not have to be concerned about

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getting this. This is definitely not... the next pandemic. Oh,

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okay. All right. Well, that's disappointing. Well, I have my

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It's not that great. Okay. Tonight, an urgent medical evacuation

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to take place at any moment. Three people suspected to

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have the high-risk hantavirus on a cruise ship now off...

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off the coast of Cape Verde in the Atlantic Ocean,

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expected to be transported to the Netherlands using two air

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ambulance planes, according to the Cape Verde Ministry of Health

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and the ship's operator. Already, three people who were aboard

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the ship have died. This, as new video shows health

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workers in protective gear and supplies being delivered to the

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Russell. 150 people on board, including 17 Americans. I will

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also show you what my room is like. Jake Rosmarin

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is a passenger on the ship and in a new

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statement said that safety measures are in place, including social

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distancing and masking. After the medical evacuation, Spain now says

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the rest of the people aboard the ship. will be

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allowed to disembark at the Canary Islands, where the ship

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is expected to arrive in the next several days. There,

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they will be examined and sent to their home countries.

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It's very possible that you can be infected and not

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have any symptoms for weeks. Immunologist Stephen Bradfew underscores the

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severity of the virus. If you get sick with the

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cardiopulmonary hantavirus, on average, there is a 35% death rate.

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other viruses. That's right. Influenza is far lower. COVID is

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around 1 to 2%. The World Health Organization says at

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least some of the passengers... may have contracted the virus

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through human-to-human contact. This is the part that I'm struggling

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with, human-to-human. Yes, they have the talking points. Human-to-human contact

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is one of them. And the one you caught earlier

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there in this clip, which was actually... kind of cool.

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asymptomatic Oh, yeah, of course. See, they ran the asymptomatic

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thing at us during COVID. They sure did. Which is

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a key. It's a key to success. Asymptomatic spread, specifically.

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Yeah. So you could not have any symptoms whatsoever. You're

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not sneezing. You're not coughing. Nothing. You're just walking around.

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And you're fine. You're in good shape. But you're spreading.

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You're like typhoid. Everybody's typhoid Mary. Listen, our trolls are

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so... jaded they're like yeah bring back uh zika Oh,

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we were- Yeah, we're- We're- Zika, we want Zika. Zika

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was where it was at, man. Yeah. So those two

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Dutch people died. They died on the ship. That's not.

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people who I know who go on cruises are old

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and Andrew Horowitz. I don't understand why that guy is

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so big on cruises. Everything goes wrong. Roger McGuinn's another

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one. Well, but Roger McGuinn goes on those really high-end,

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luxurious, like, you know, 150 rooms, and he does his

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special show, and, you know, up and down the aisle.

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But he doesn't do a show. He refuses to do

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a show. He says it's low. It's low. It's beneath

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him to do a show. He doesn't do a show.

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He does a lecture. He brings his guitar on for

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his lecture. I know he does. Yeah, of course he

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does because he plays the guitar. If you go visit

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him at his house, he's playing the guitar. Can you

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imagine? You're on a cruise ship, a high-end cruise ship

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with caviar. And there's a bird. an actual bird, Roger

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McGuinn, a bird. And then he just lectures you? No,

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no, no. I want my money back. No, of course.

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We want him to play some songs. So his lecture,

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I'm sure, is... Well, he lectures you, but he's... Sure,

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he'll play a song while he's lecturing. Yeah. Yeah. You

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can do that riff that nobody can do that eight

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mile a hundred. 8 miles high riff he likes to

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show it off. That's different. than Horowitz, who likes going

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on these things. You know, where people get... They get

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Hentavirus. They get Norovirus. They get all kinds of virus.

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I can't believe that he still does that. You know,

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and then the cruise ships get stranded. or it sinks

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or capsizes. You're just being a bigot according to these

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guys. I am a bigot, big time. I cannot believe

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the cruise. The cruise cruise. It doesn't have any appeal

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to me either. Anyway. So there you go. It's not

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the new pandemic. M5M is saying that, I'm paying attention.

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No, it's definitely... Well, they're hard up. They're hard up.

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Yes, because... Asymptomatic, 35% death rate. Remember when COVID first

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showed up, that had some ridiculous death rate? Yeah, it

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was the same numbers. It was similar numbers like that.

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It was. Yeah. Although I got to. It was asymptomatic.

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And if you touch something, you touch a bag of

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potato chips and somebody else touches the chips, don't catch

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it. Here's America's Dr. Celine Gowder. Dr. Gowder, thank you

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very much for being here. We're in a post-COVID world.

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Post-COVID world, everybody. That means pay attention. We've got news

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for you. just might scare you. People are scared. They

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hear about an outbreak and they're worried. I know you

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say this is not COVID. Explain to me why. So

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this is not COVID. The Andes. No, it's not COVID,

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but. Virus, which is a kind of a hantavirus, requires

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close, prolonged contact between two people in order to have

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transmission. When we've seen this happen in the past. It's

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been in the context of spouses, that kind of close

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contact. What makes this really hard to contain is the

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fact that it's on a ship and the timeline. So

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you have this long incubation period. You also have a

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period of time when people can be infectious before they

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show symptoms. So we have 140 people on this boat.

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17 of them are Americans. How do you deal with

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that population safely? in theory come home safely yes the

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risk of spreading this on a flight is very low

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they would need to be near a hospital that has

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a heart lung bypass machine because that's what you need

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when you get really sick with hantavirus It is something

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that we can anticipate that Some countries won't want to

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accept them, right? And this goes back to the Ebola

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days, 2014, 2015. Ebola days. These passengers may well need

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to quarantine on the ship. That out-of-office message just got

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a little longer. Dr. Gander, thank you. Remember, she's the

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doctor whose husband dropped dead. - But from the shot.

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Come on. Yeah, he was a reporter at the... Wasn't

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he at the Olympic Games or the World Cup soccer?

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like the Ebola days. Ebola days. The Ebola days. Yeah.

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It was good times, Ebola days. Yeah, I remember them,

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dude. Good old days. Remember that guy got off the

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plane and just, we were all waiting for him. We

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had, we were all watching live on TV. Yeah, the

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guy just got off the plane and went home. He

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got off the plane, got in the ambulance, popped out

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of the ambulance, walked in, like, here I am, Ebola

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guy. Yeah. And there was also some woman or something

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that just jumped on her bicycle and took off into

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the woods. Yes, I remember that. Yeah, so I think,

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but you see, this is the problem. is we've had

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so much uh news has just jacked us all the

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way up that now we're just numb to it we're

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just numb Like, whatever. You know, Ebola, Zika, Hanta. Okay,

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war. Or whatever. Swine flu. Swine flu. It's got to

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come back. Let's do your three by three. Get that.

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Now it's time for three by three. It's an experiment.

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Experiment by Jason. Comparing stories from ABC, CBS, and NBC!

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That's right, 3x3. John's got the big headlines from the

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big three. Yeah, this is about the ceasefire in Iran,

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and we're going to start off with ABC. Tonight, even

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as Iran fires missiles and drones at American Navy ships

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and our ally, the United Arab Emirates, the Trump administration

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insists the ceasefire is not over. But today, a top

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Iranian official insisting, quote, we have not even begun yet,

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adding we know full well that the continuation of the

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status quo is in. tolerable for America. Here at home,

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the average price of a gallon of gas now topping

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$4.50, the highest it's been in four years. The price

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of beef soaring more than 15% over the past year.

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Yesterday, the administration launched an effort to reopen the Strait

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of Hormuz to commercial traffic. But in the past 48

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hours, only two commercial ships have crossed, more than 1,500

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stacked up outside. And late tonight, the president abruptly announcing

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he was pausing the U.S. effort. It came after Iran

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opened fire on some commercial vessels, including American Navy ships,

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which fired back. Earlier, Secretary of State Marco Rubio emphasizing

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that didn't mean the U.S. had resumed attacks on Iran.

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This is a defensive operation. And what that means is

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very simple. There's no shooting unless we're shot at first.

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We're not attacking them. We are only responding if attacked

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first. This is a defensive operation. Rubio then taking it

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a step further. further, declaring that Operation Epic Fury itself

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is over. This, though President Trump's goal in starting the

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war to eliminate Iran's nuclear program, remains out of reach.

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Ten weeks in, are we any closer to getting rid

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of Iran's nuclear material? Yeah, but look, here's the way

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to think about Iran. So their ability to build a

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shield. behind which they could hide their nuclear program was

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wiped out. That's a very substantial achievement, and that was

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the purpose of this operation from day one. Well, that's

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one of the topics that needs to be discussed. I

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don't know about, I think you're linking it. The operation

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is over. Epic Fury is the president-notified Congress. We're done

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with that stage up. I love this. It's over, man.

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What are you talking about? 60 days, 30 days. It's

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over. The thing is over. It's a ceasefire. We reset.

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We're back to it. We're basically, we're in March. Okay.

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We're in March now. There's no war. It's all good.

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All right. So that was ABC. Who's next on deck?

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Well, let's go to NBC. Tonight, NBC News. learning two

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U.S. flag ships that passed through the Strait of Hormuz

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had U.S. military security teams on board, two U.S. officials

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say, part of President Trump's new Project Freedom, meant to

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protect commercial vessels from Iranian attack. Iran still targeted both

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ships with missiles, drones, and armed small boats. But the

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U.S. military intercepted the attacks and blew up the boats.

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I call it a skirmish because Iran has no chance.

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Iran today once again targeting the United Arab Emirates after

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this strike yesterday. Today, the UAE saying it shot down

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more Iranian drones and missiles across the country. They're bombing

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commercial tankers. It's just outrageous. With Secretary of State Marco

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Rubio saying President Trump's new effort to open the Strait

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of Hormuz by protecting ships from Iranian attacks was a

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critical defensive step. There is no international law that allows

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you to say I'm going to put mines in an

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international body of water and I'm going to blow up

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ships. that don't listen to us and try to go

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through. That's what Iran is doing. This is a criminal

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act, and someone needs to do something about it. That

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bottleneck of oil tankers continuing to drive gas prices higher,

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now reaching $4.48 on average in the U.S. This NBC

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News analysis shows the prices highest on the West Coast

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and in the U.S. cross the Rust Belt. But Rubio

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defending the effort he says keeps the Iranian regime from

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getting a nuclear weapon. If Iran had a nuclear weapon,

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and they decided to close the straits and make our

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gas prices like $9 a gallon or $8 a gallon,

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we wouldn't be able to do anything about it because

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they have a nuclear weapon. And just moments ago, President

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Trump posting that at the request of... Pakistan and others.

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00:28:43,063 --> 00:28:45,770
And because progress is being made in talks, he says,

459
00:28:45,831 --> 00:28:49,801
they will pause Project Freedom, which protects those commercial ships

460
00:28:49,861 --> 00:28:52,147
in the strait. All I can think of when I

461
00:28:52,187 --> 00:28:59,239
hear Project Freedom is... Bleh! Project Freedom! Okay. You know,

462
00:28:59,259 --> 00:29:03,272
Rubio should have said $14 a gallon. Ha ha ha.

463
00:29:04,427 --> 00:29:06,253
It's not going to, it's all going to come down.

464
00:29:06,554 --> 00:29:10,327
The one thing is he doesn't exaggerate well. It's below

465
00:29:10,347 --> 00:29:15,123
$100 today. Yeah, it dropped like a rock because Trump

466
00:29:15,163 --> 00:29:19,665
came out and said. He said, we're going to get

467
00:29:19,705 --> 00:29:23,543
the nuclear. They're going to drop the nuke program. We're

468
00:29:23,563 --> 00:29:26,769
going to get the product that's buried under the ground.

469
00:29:27,050 --> 00:29:28,293
I don't know how they're going to do that, by

470
00:29:28,333 --> 00:29:30,217
the way, since it's buried under the ground. But he's

471
00:29:30,257 --> 00:29:33,323
going to get it. And he made all these assertions.

472
00:29:33,544 --> 00:29:35,468
But he says, but if that doesn't work out, we're

473
00:29:35,488 --> 00:29:38,634
going to bomb them again. I mean, this is ridiculous.

474
00:29:38,915 --> 00:29:42,034
It's fantastic. What do you mean? Yeah, I know. You

475
00:29:42,094 --> 00:29:44,650
enjoy it. We have nothing but time on our side.

476
00:29:44,791 --> 00:29:48,564
And here's what I keep hearing. There are hundreds of

477
00:29:48,604 --> 00:29:52,923
empty tankers on the way to America. Is this actually

478
00:29:53,046 --> 00:29:56,428
true? I don't know. We only have so much. I

479
00:29:56,488 --> 00:29:59,588
see no evidence. I see no evidence of this. I

480
00:29:59,629 --> 00:30:03,785
keep looking at Galveston. Like, you know, where are these

481
00:30:04,148 --> 00:30:07,293
tankers? Yeah, it could be bull crap. I think it

482
00:30:07,373 --> 00:30:11,281
may be. Let's listen to your CBS version. CBS, of

483
00:30:11,341 --> 00:30:13,966
course, I say for last all the time now because

484
00:30:15,309 --> 00:30:18,135
this has been taken over by Barry Weiss. But the

485
00:30:18,175 --> 00:30:20,932
CIA still runs it. Come on. To the war with

486
00:30:21,032 --> 00:30:24,457
Iran now, the ceasefire still officially holding despite attacks over

487
00:30:24,497 --> 00:30:27,501
the past 24 hours and despite still very limited movement

488
00:30:27,521 --> 00:30:30,806
through the Strait of Hormuz. Secretary of State Marco Rubio

489
00:30:30,866 --> 00:30:33,510
said today the offensive stage of the war is over,

490
00:30:33,610 --> 00:30:36,314
but the U.S. military is now focused on defense in

491
00:30:36,354 --> 00:30:39,198
the form of breaking Iran's blockade and its hold on

492
00:30:39,218 --> 00:30:42,483
the global economy. We have established a powerful red, white,

493
00:30:42,603 --> 00:30:47,473
and blue dome over the street. The Pentagon says 15,000

494
00:30:47,553 --> 00:30:51,762
American service members are involved in Project Freedom, which is

495
00:30:51,922 --> 00:30:57,273
two American-flagged commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz safely.

496
00:30:58,295 --> 00:31:01,223
American destroyers are on station. supported by hundreds of fighter

497
00:31:01,263 --> 00:31:06,360
jets, helicopters, drones, and surveillance aircraft. More than 1,500 ships

498
00:31:06,461 --> 00:31:11,076
are thought to remain stranded. The Iranian regime claims it

499
00:31:11,156 --> 00:31:15,468
still controls the Strait of Hormuz. Iran's foreign minister referred

500
00:31:15,508 --> 00:31:20,332
to Project Freedom today as Project Deadlock. This is really

501
00:31:20,492 --> 00:31:23,116
a classic question of chicken here and who will blink

502
00:31:23,196 --> 00:31:26,902
first. Grant Rumley is a former Middle East advisor at

503
00:31:26,922 --> 00:31:30,387
the Pentagon. Do you think that the U.S. military has

504
00:31:30,427 --> 00:31:34,974
effectively ended the de facto Iranian blockade of the Strait

505
00:31:35,014 --> 00:31:37,818
of Hormuz? No, I don't think so. You know, the

506
00:31:37,978 --> 00:31:40,586
U.S. can... can block nine out of ten shots, but

507
00:31:40,606 --> 00:31:43,958
if one of those Iranian vessels gets through and scores

508
00:31:44,018 --> 00:31:47,811
a hit, it has a large and disproportionate symbolic effect.

509
00:31:48,231 --> 00:31:51,520
The U.S. says Iran has attempted to disrupt its operation

510
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:54,748
in the Strait of Hormuz with cruise missiles, drones and

511
00:31:54,828 --> 00:31:58,578
boats. But President Trump and other American officials said today

512
00:31:58,638 --> 00:32:02,606
that this ceasefire with Iran is still holding. Yeah, and

513
00:32:02,666 --> 00:32:08,313
there's all, there's so much. information of all sorts. And

514
00:32:08,333 --> 00:32:10,983
by the way, someone just put a map into the

515
00:32:11,023 --> 00:32:13,009
troll room. There does seem to be a lot of

516
00:32:13,050 --> 00:32:17,871
ships coming to... to our coastline here. But there's... Are

517
00:32:17,891 --> 00:32:20,598
you sure that... Yeah. There's a lot of ships. You

518
00:32:20,638 --> 00:32:26,025
have no idea. Breaking news. Nobody knows nothing. And then,

519
00:32:26,206 --> 00:32:29,886
you know, this projectiles. Oh, it was struck by projectiles,

520
00:32:29,967 --> 00:32:35,487
according to the UK Maritime Observatory. These guys sit on

521
00:32:35,570 --> 00:32:39,119
Twitter. And they watch for someone to post something on.

522
00:32:39,099 --> 00:32:41,564
Twitter and like, oh, we got a report. And in

523
00:32:41,644 --> 00:32:45,853
New Jersey, a tanker has reportedly been struck by projectiles.

524
00:32:45,893 --> 00:32:49,520
Projectiles. What is that? It could be bananas. It could

525
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:54,691
be hand grenades. This makes no sense to me. Projectiles.

526
00:32:54,711 --> 00:32:57,336
In the Strait of Hormuz, the vessel was targeted 145

527
00:32:57,797 --> 00:33:02,146
kilometers. north of the city of Fijaria in the United

528
00:33:02,186 --> 00:33:06,595
Arab Emirates, according to the UK Maritime Trade Operations Agency.

529
00:33:06,935 --> 00:33:09,340
It is the second vessel to be hit today. The

530
00:33:09,380 --> 00:33:13,228
crew has been reported safe, and this came either shortly

531
00:33:13,328 --> 00:33:18,719
after or shortly before Donald Trump announced on Truth Social.

532
00:33:18,759 --> 00:33:21,986
that he would be escorting or the U.S. would be

533
00:33:22,026 --> 00:33:25,994
starting to escort ships through there tonight, our time. Okay,

534
00:33:26,034 --> 00:33:29,280
so we have that report about projectiles, and then Ms.

535
00:33:29,300 --> 00:33:33,168
Now has this report. So, David, speaking of reporting, I'm

536
00:33:33,188 --> 00:33:35,132
going to let you sort through this one for all

537
00:33:35,172 --> 00:33:40,462
of us. Barack Ravid, of course. with Axios is saying

538
00:33:40,482 --> 00:33:43,968
that a senior U.S. official denied that a U.S. ship

539
00:33:44,449 --> 00:33:49,157
has been hit by Iranian missiles. It is obviously, we're

540
00:33:49,417 --> 00:33:54,886
in the early moments of this, so I certainly am

541
00:33:54,946 --> 00:34:02,393
not... placing a any sort of moral equivalency between government

542
00:34:02,453 --> 00:34:06,279
of Iran and the U.S. government, I will simply say

543
00:34:06,299 --> 00:34:11,368
we have two eyewitnesses saying that the ships were in

544
00:34:11,488 --> 00:34:15,554
fact hit, according to Al Jazeera. And we have one

545
00:34:15,694 --> 00:34:20,516
senior official right now on background. Telling Axiom. Background means

546
00:34:20,556 --> 00:34:23,880
don't mention my name. That no U.S. ship was hit,

547
00:34:23,940 --> 00:34:28,937
so. Hard to say, and we will need to wait

548
00:34:29,097 --> 00:34:33,709
at least a few hours before we get actionable information

549
00:34:33,729 --> 00:34:37,097
out of that area. Okay, so no one knows anything,

550
00:34:37,177 --> 00:34:40,868
and the press... Here's their questions. For Secretary Hegseth, are

551
00:34:40,908 --> 00:34:43,873
there still concerns about mines in the Strait? And can

552
00:34:43,914 --> 00:34:47,821
you kind of clarify these reports of kamikaze dolphins that

553
00:34:47,861 --> 00:34:50,686
we've heard about? What? I've never heard of a kamikaze

554
00:34:50,706 --> 00:34:55,294
dolphin thing. It's like sharks with laser beams, right? The

555
00:34:55,334 --> 00:34:59,021
threshold of restarting is a political decision above my... What

556
00:34:59,061 --> 00:35:01,907
I'll say is it's low harassing fire right now. It

557
00:35:01,967 --> 00:35:04,752
feels like Iran is grasping at straws to try to

558
00:35:05,233 --> 00:35:09,602
do something across the southern flank. To your question, David,

559
00:35:09,642 --> 00:35:13,610
their command and control structure remains very fractured, and I

560
00:35:14,111 --> 00:35:17,398
think they're struggling to maintain control down echelon at the

561
00:35:17,558 --> 00:35:22,166
edge. It's still pretty low-level kinetics at this point in

562
00:35:22,186 --> 00:35:25,152
time. And I can't confirm or deny whether we have

563
00:35:25,212 --> 00:35:29,140
kamikaze dolphins, but I can confirm they don't. Okay, you

564
00:35:29,220 --> 00:35:32,626
know, it's like, what happened to the mines? They were,

565
00:35:32,767 --> 00:35:34,991
oh, mines, they've mined it all. We have to close

566
00:35:35,031 --> 00:35:37,175
it up because of the mines. Well, how come no

567
00:35:37,235 --> 00:35:40,979
mines blew up the Maersk ship? that we escorted on

568
00:35:41,019 --> 00:35:46,192
the way out. There's no mines! This has been another

569
00:35:46,233 --> 00:35:52,091
hoax. This whole thing. Here's the CEO of Maersk Maersk.

570
00:35:52,639 --> 00:35:55,293
saying, you know, we worked it all out and we

571
00:35:55,354 --> 00:35:57,485
left with the U.S. Navy. In this case here, we

572
00:35:57,505 --> 00:36:00,400
were approached by the U.S. government and the U.S. Navy

573
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:03,827
specifically saying that they wanted to take some ships out.

574
00:36:04,909 --> 00:36:08,396
We went through intense preparation together with them, looked at

575
00:36:08,636 --> 00:36:12,765
all the aspects of the mission and whether we could

576
00:36:12,925 --> 00:36:15,891
stand in for the safety of the crew if we

577
00:36:15,931 --> 00:36:19,398
were sending the ship along in that operation. Our assessment

578
00:36:19,438 --> 00:36:23,181
was that the US Navy had made an extremely thorough

579
00:36:23,723 --> 00:36:26,248
plan and that we felt comfortable we could get the

580
00:36:26,288 --> 00:36:30,939
ship through without risk and then we conducted the operation

581
00:36:30,999 --> 00:36:33,163
here earlier in the week and we're very pleased to

582
00:36:33,204 --> 00:36:36,832
see that everybody got safely on the other side without

583
00:36:36,912 --> 00:36:40,840
any incidents so a very well executed mission. by the

584
00:36:40,900 --> 00:36:44,105
US military. And thank God for that, because then it

585
00:36:44,145 --> 00:36:47,089
means that the ship is free and the crew now

586
00:36:47,149 --> 00:36:49,973
can get back to doing the work that they want

587
00:36:50,013 --> 00:36:51,416
to do and are supposed to do rather than be

588
00:36:51,436 --> 00:36:53,979
stuck in the Gulf. Yeah. So where were the mines?

589
00:36:54,240 --> 00:36:55,842
Did we all of a sudden we know where the

590
00:36:55,882 --> 00:36:59,167
mines are? Or did our kamikaze dolphins figure that out?

591
00:36:59,659 --> 00:37:02,693
When will the media learn that this is all just

592
00:37:02,855 --> 00:37:09,063
bullcrap? It really all is. This is an economic game.

593
00:37:09,963 --> 00:37:15,322
This is, um... Sal Mercogliano. What's going on with shipping?

594
00:37:15,704 --> 00:37:17,934
He explains a little bit of how this works. Now,

595
00:37:17,974 --> 00:37:21,695
this is led... to meetings in London with what's called

596
00:37:21,735 --> 00:37:24,559
the Joint War Committee. Now, I'll have a link below

597
00:37:24,579 --> 00:37:27,523
for this. The Joint War Committee is made up of

598
00:37:27,563 --> 00:37:32,330
representatives of Lloyd's, the big insurer house, and other underwriters

599
00:37:32,810 --> 00:37:37,717
who determine basically where insurance goes. If you look right

600
00:37:37,777 --> 00:37:41,464
now, the... the rate to go through the Persian Gulf,

601
00:37:41,985 --> 00:37:44,590
through the Strait of Hormuz was roughly about 0.15 to

602
00:37:44,610 --> 00:37:50,582
0.25% of value to go through the Strait. That's what

603
00:37:50,602 --> 00:37:52,606
you were paying above and beyond. And that was good

604
00:37:52,666 --> 00:37:56,594
for seven days. Well, what we've seen happen is the

605
00:37:56,775 --> 00:37:59,139
insurers canceled this. So you get stories like this. from

606
00:37:59,199 --> 00:38:02,967
Jonathan Sauls over at Reuters. London marine insurers are expanding

607
00:38:03,007 --> 00:38:07,255
the Gulf high-risk zone as the Mideast conflict escalates. So

608
00:38:07,295 --> 00:38:10,021
that joint war committee that met on Monday has determined

609
00:38:10,081 --> 00:38:14,990
that they're adding high-risk areas around Bahrain, Djibouti, Kuwait, Oman,

610
00:38:15,391 --> 00:38:18,878
Qatar. They're expanding out the danger area. Now, that danger

611
00:38:18,978 --> 00:38:21,904
area is going to... require more money. The insurance rate

612
00:38:22,004 --> 00:38:26,734
is going to jump from 0.15, 0.25% to anywhere from

613
00:38:26,754 --> 00:38:30,521
1 to 3%. 3% is going to be for U.S.,

614
00:38:30,541 --> 00:38:33,046
U.K. and Israeli vessels because they are viewed to be

615
00:38:33,086 --> 00:38:36,874
high targets. Not just U.S., U.K., Israeli flagged, but U.S.,

616
00:38:36,894 --> 00:38:40,375
U.K., Israeli owned. And that is key. Yeah, that's all

617
00:38:40,436 --> 00:38:44,237
that this is. The Joint War Committee, a bunch of

618
00:38:44,277 --> 00:38:48,902
ex-spooks in the UK... They go to Lloyd's and say,

619
00:38:48,922 --> 00:38:51,752
well, we think it's pretty dangerous over there. Why? Well,

620
00:38:51,812 --> 00:38:55,465
we read on Twitter that the UK maritime observers, they

621
00:38:55,525 --> 00:38:57,753
said that, you know, there were projectiles. Oh, okay, we

622
00:38:57,793 --> 00:39:01,699
better jack up those rates. The straight is closed again.

623
00:39:02,279 --> 00:39:06,053
It's all a scam. It's been this way for a

624
00:39:06,113 --> 00:39:09,913
hundred years. It has nothing to do with mines or

625
00:39:10,014 --> 00:39:13,645
dolphins or... I like the dolphins, though. Come on. Well,

626
00:39:13,665 --> 00:39:17,316
the idea is great. Of course. Of course. Because the

627
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:21,810
dolphins are stupid. No, dolphin, I don't think there's such,

628
00:39:22,070 --> 00:39:24,477
you can't have a kamikaze dolphin. They don't want to

629
00:39:24,537 --> 00:39:26,643
die. I'm with you. I think after the first one

630
00:39:26,703 --> 00:39:28,568
blew up, I think the rest of them would get

631
00:39:28,588 --> 00:39:31,155
the idea. Hey, this is not a good thing. We're

632
00:39:31,275 --> 00:39:34,504
not going to do this. Yeah, I got some clips

633
00:39:34,544 --> 00:39:39,716
from NPR about the U.S. combat operations. U.S. Combat operations

634
00:39:39,777 --> 00:39:43,301
are over. Uh, yeah, didn't you know that? There's no

635
00:39:43,341 --> 00:39:45,707
more war. We've heard the president say the war is

636
00:39:45,907 --> 00:39:48,774
over, nearly over, will be over in two weeks, several

637
00:39:48,834 --> 00:39:52,162
times now. Is it actually over this time? Yes. Yeah,

638
00:39:52,182 --> 00:39:54,227
I mean, we really don't know. I mean, Rubio says

639
00:39:54,267 --> 00:39:57,455
the focus now is on negotiations and that the U.S.

640
00:39:57,475 --> 00:40:01,231
is only going to be involved in... And what that

641
00:40:01,272 --> 00:40:04,210
means is very simple. There's no shooting unless we're shot

642
00:40:04,271 --> 00:40:08,173
at first. We're not attacking them. But if they're attacking

643
00:40:08,314 --> 00:40:10,459
us or they're attacking a ship, you need to respond

644
00:40:10,479 --> 00:40:12,343
to that. But to your point, I mean, we also

645
00:40:12,363 --> 00:40:16,011
heard earlier in the day Trump expressing frustration that Iran's

646
00:40:16,072 --> 00:40:19,078
leaders had yet to capitulate after two months of U.S.

647
00:40:19,099 --> 00:40:23,333
military... economic pressure. They should wave the white flag. The

648
00:40:23,393 --> 00:40:28,917
white flag of... surrender in hockey they say uh Uncle,

649
00:40:30,624 --> 00:40:33,234
right? It just shows how things just are changing. Wait

650
00:40:33,434 --> 00:40:37,229
a minute. Do they say that in hockey? I don't

651
00:40:37,309 --> 00:40:39,538
know this. I thought that's at the schoolyard. Isn't that

652
00:40:39,558 --> 00:40:41,868
where you're supposed to? Yeah, it's in the school year,

653
00:40:41,928 --> 00:40:44,379
not in hockey. Where does that even come from, say,

654
00:40:44,881 --> 00:40:52,291
uncle? Flag of... In hockey, they say... uncle right you

655
00:40:52,331 --> 00:40:54,620
know it just shows how things are changing all the

656
00:40:54,660 --> 00:40:57,652
time yeah last night trump also touted what he called

657
00:40:57,692 --> 00:41:00,301
progress towards an agreement with they were on. Has there

658
00:41:00,381 --> 00:41:03,908
actually been progress? Yeah, it's interesting because Trump's words were

659
00:41:03,968 --> 00:41:06,553
very different than some of the messaging being delivered by

660
00:41:06,593 --> 00:41:09,619
Rubio, who told us yesterday that the two sides were

661
00:41:09,679 --> 00:41:12,926
still trying to figure out what the specific issues each

662
00:41:12,986 --> 00:41:16,253
side were willing to negotiate about. That's the object of

663
00:41:16,293 --> 00:41:18,537
this diplomacy, is to come up with some level of

664
00:41:18,557 --> 00:41:21,290
understanding about... What are the topics that they've agreed to

665
00:41:21,370 --> 00:41:23,453
negotiate on? We don't have to have the actual agreement

666
00:41:23,473 --> 00:41:25,316
written out, and one day this is highly complex and

667
00:41:25,336 --> 00:41:28,181
highly technical. But we have to have a diplomatic solution

668
00:41:28,481 --> 00:41:31,286
that is very clear about the topics that they are

669
00:41:31,326 --> 00:41:34,010
willing to negotiate on and the extent and the concessions

670
00:41:34,030 --> 00:41:35,513
they're willing to make at the front end in order

671
00:41:35,553 --> 00:41:38,037
to make those talks worthwhile. I mean, Layla, that makes

672
00:41:38,097 --> 00:41:40,221
it sound like they're very early in the process. process,

673
00:41:40,302 --> 00:41:43,916
which, again, is very different than the great progress that

674
00:41:44,016 --> 00:41:46,586
Trump is portraying. You know, I thought they were down

675
00:41:46,646 --> 00:41:50,782
to a one pager. They went from 14 points to

676
00:41:50,822 --> 00:41:53,137
a one-pager, which may be the same thing, I don't

677
00:41:53,177 --> 00:41:56,135
know. I don't know, they just say these things. Yeah.

678
00:41:56,875 --> 00:42:01,704
Exactly. Maybe we should just... ignore the whole topic no

679
00:42:01,724 --> 00:42:04,911
no no you can't because it's a part two it's

680
00:42:05,011 --> 00:42:08,018
a part of this part it's affecting everybody with gasoline

681
00:42:08,078 --> 00:42:11,806
prices that's what we yeah well here in california it's

682
00:42:11,866 --> 00:42:15,073
seven dollars and eleven cents yeah well that's your own

683
00:42:15,193 --> 00:42:19,348
fault because all the oil companies left Because of, you

684
00:42:19,368 --> 00:42:24,210
know, just. Horrible California. And you've got three, four dollars

685
00:42:24,231 --> 00:42:28,354
worth of taxes on top of that. So don't come

686
00:42:28,414 --> 00:42:30,899
crying to me, California. I mean, and the big issue,

687
00:42:30,919 --> 00:42:32,763
right, is still the Strait of Hormuz. More than 100

688
00:42:33,244 --> 00:42:36,371
ships a day used to travel through that waterway before

689
00:42:36,431 --> 00:42:39,678
the war. And it's only since the U.S. and Israel

690
00:42:39,718 --> 00:42:42,386
started this. war that Iran took control of the strait.

691
00:42:42,486 --> 00:42:45,275
So if combat operations are over, as we heard from

692
00:42:45,335 --> 00:42:49,568
Rubio, what... Again, Iran took control of the strait. What

693
00:42:49,608 --> 00:42:53,467
does that mean? Do they have a line of ships

694
00:42:53,527 --> 00:42:58,003
that are blocking everyone from going in or out? No,

695
00:42:58,227 --> 00:43:02,560
what they did was they said, look. We're sitting here

696
00:43:02,580 --> 00:43:06,635
on the straits of her moves. We got property right

697
00:43:06,735 --> 00:43:09,745
here. And here's where the straits are. We're going to

698
00:43:09,786 --> 00:43:13,659
shell anything that tries to come through. But they didn't.

699
00:43:15,039 --> 00:43:16,674
They've been doing it all along. What do you mean

700
00:43:16,714 --> 00:43:20,705
they didn't? Well, we just took... They sent drones, they

701
00:43:20,725 --> 00:43:24,081
sent missiles, they sent projectiles. You said so yourself. Oh,

702
00:43:24,101 --> 00:43:27,055
projectiles. We just took a ship out. Where was the

703
00:43:27,136 --> 00:43:30,953
boom, boom, boom from that? None of it. None of

704
00:43:31,033 --> 00:43:34,103
it. It was their break. You believe the media. It

705
00:43:34,123 --> 00:43:37,273
was lunch break. You are... Lunch break. Yeah, I mean,

706
00:43:37,293 --> 00:43:39,929
that was Rubio's big push. And he said... Under no

707
00:43:40,029 --> 00:43:43,860
circumstances can the U.S. allow Iran to normalize the idea

708
00:43:43,900 --> 00:43:46,748
that they can control the waterway. But he also stopped

709
00:43:46,848 --> 00:43:49,636
short of saying what action would take place. Now, the

710
00:43:49,676 --> 00:43:52,965
secretary of state briefed the press on this latest development.

711
00:43:53,005 --> 00:43:55,848
Is that unusual? Well, I mean, the administration really came

712
00:43:55,889 --> 00:44:00,782
across the board. No, not for the future president. about

713
00:44:00,822 --> 00:44:03,948
the war. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Joint Chiefs of Staff

714
00:44:03,968 --> 00:44:07,314
Dan Kaine, brief reporters, Trump also took questions. And it

715
00:44:07,355 --> 00:44:09,699
just comes at such a big moment in the conflict

716
00:44:09,759 --> 00:44:12,765
as Americans continue to feel kind of the economic pinch

717
00:44:12,805 --> 00:44:16,633
of all this. And Rubio said that Iran needed to

718
00:44:16,713 --> 00:44:20,102
make a sensible choice that leads them to recon-- The

719
00:44:21,430 --> 00:44:25,899
alternative is growing isolation, economic collapse, and ultimately total defeat.

720
00:44:26,383 --> 00:44:28,529
I know what the right choice is for Iran. I

721
00:44:28,589 --> 00:44:30,554
hope that the people over there making decisions will make

722
00:44:30,575 --> 00:44:32,981
the right one. Yeah, I mean, the message boils down

723
00:44:33,061 --> 00:44:35,668
to a mix of de-escalation combined with this kind of

724
00:44:35,709 --> 00:44:39,038
tough talk. And it can be confusing at times. Oh,

725
00:44:39,258 --> 00:44:42,670
okay. NPR. All right. So this brings us to the

726
00:44:42,750 --> 00:44:46,417
War Powers Act, which I find fascinating because I hadn't

727
00:44:46,437 --> 00:44:50,586
really ever looked into it specifically because it kind of

728
00:44:50,606 --> 00:44:53,612
never came up. I think maybe not even under Bush

729
00:44:53,632 --> 00:44:57,846
because that was different. You know, it was the twin

730
00:44:57,887 --> 00:45:02,426
towers coming down was different. But this Twin Towers, this

731
00:45:02,948 --> 00:45:06,243
War Powers Act where you're supposed to have 60 days.

732
00:45:06,727 --> 00:45:10,096
And then you can extend another 30 days. This is

733
00:45:10,116 --> 00:45:13,705
a very interesting constitutional issue, which goes back a long

734
00:45:13,785 --> 00:45:17,214
time in our history. And there's a lot of misunderstanding

735
00:45:17,274 --> 00:45:20,349
about it, even in the hallowed halls of. Congress. Well,

736
00:45:20,369 --> 00:45:22,893
I do want to start with the Iran war. We're

737
00:45:22,954 --> 00:45:25,959
approaching tomorrow's 60 day deadline for the president to come

738
00:45:26,019 --> 00:45:29,465
to Congress set by the War Powers Act. House Speaker

739
00:45:29,505 --> 00:45:32,571
Mike Johnson was pressed on this deadline by my colleague

740
00:45:32,591 --> 00:45:34,494
Ryan Nobles. I want you to play. So I want

741
00:45:34,514 --> 00:45:35,696
to play for you a little bit of what he

742
00:45:35,736 --> 00:45:39,197
had to say and get your reaction. Is it time

743
00:45:39,217 --> 00:45:41,583
for Congress to weigh in on the war in Iran,

744
00:45:41,603 --> 00:45:44,509
especially now that we're past the 60-day threshold? I don't

745
00:45:44,549 --> 00:45:49,039
think we have any active kinetic military bombing, firing, anything

746
00:45:49,099 --> 00:45:51,164
like that right now. We're trying to broker a peace,

747
00:45:51,184 --> 00:45:53,649
and I would be very reluctant to get in front

748
00:45:53,669 --> 00:45:55,774
of the administration in the midst of these very sensitive

749
00:45:55,854 --> 00:45:58,119
negotiations. So we'll have to see how that plays out.

750
00:45:58,099 --> 00:46:02,850
Constitution specifically states 60 days. What? But the president has

751
00:46:02,890 --> 00:46:07,620
called it a war. The Constitution. Good catch. The Constitution.

752
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:11,308
This is why I dove into this. Listen to this.

753
00:46:11,328 --> 00:46:13,714
Not a war right now. I'm saying that we do

754
00:46:13,794 --> 00:46:18,151
not have kinetic military action at the moment. As President

755
00:46:18,191 --> 00:46:21,185
Trump has said, this is a war, but what do

756
00:46:21,246 --> 00:46:23,818
you make of Speaker Johnson saying that the United States

757
00:46:23,899 --> 00:46:28,411
is not at war? Well it's a dodge from Speaker

758
00:46:28,491 --> 00:46:33,106
Johnson and you know after the 60-day mark we begin

759
00:46:33,206 --> 00:46:36,817
30 days in which the law is very clear the

760
00:46:36,857 --> 00:46:42,108
president has to withdraw U.S. forces absent a congressional authorization.

761
00:46:42,469 --> 00:46:47,700
Being in the region, not engaged actively in kinetic force

762
00:46:47,780 --> 00:46:51,487
or kinetic action isn't what the law says. After 60

763
00:46:51,547 --> 00:46:54,714
days, he has 30 days to withdraw. So absent congressional

764
00:46:54,814 --> 00:46:56,738
action, the law says the president has to bring those

765
00:46:57,239 --> 00:47:00,365
troops. home so I just when I heard that like

766
00:47:00,505 --> 00:47:02,790
oh it's in the Constitution like okay let me go

767
00:47:02,870 --> 00:47:05,856
check my Constitution you know that's not I don't think

768
00:47:05,916 --> 00:47:09,764
so so now we go back to Rubio believe that

769
00:47:09,824 --> 00:47:12,890
these votes coming up in Congress are a moot point

770
00:47:12,910 --> 00:47:15,075
then look guys I love talking about this time he's

771
00:47:15,095 --> 00:47:16,738
about the War Powers Act yeah okay I love it

772
00:47:16,838 --> 00:47:19,804
I was hoping Hold on, hold on. No, no, you

773
00:47:19,844 --> 00:47:20,986
don't want me to answer. I've got to answer the

774
00:47:21,026 --> 00:47:23,932
question. Okay, and I love it. I'll tell you why

775
00:47:23,952 --> 00:47:26,036
I love it. Because even as a senator, I said

776
00:47:26,076 --> 00:47:30,264
something. The War Powers Act is unconstitutional, 100%. Now, this

777
00:47:30,284 --> 00:47:32,268
is not the position of me. It's not the position

778
00:47:32,308 --> 00:47:34,112
of the President of the United States now. This is

779
00:47:34,152 --> 00:47:37,138
the position of every single president that has occupied this

780
00:47:37,198 --> 00:47:40,544
position. It's the day that law passed. It's completely unconstitutional.

781
00:47:40,564 --> 00:47:42,949
Now, we comply with it in terms of, like, notification,

782
00:47:43,350 --> 00:47:45,574
because we want to preserve good relations with Congress, right?

783
00:47:45,775 --> 00:47:47,498
And we do that. But even as a senator, I

784
00:47:47,558 --> 00:47:50,945
would say that the War Powers Act is 100% unconstitutional.

785
00:47:51,245 --> 00:47:53,189
And look, I know some of you, whatever you want

786
00:47:53,229 --> 00:47:55,995
to say, but this is not this president's position. That

787
00:47:56,035 --> 00:47:59,842
has been the position of every single... presidential administration since

788
00:47:59,862 --> 00:48:02,067
the day that law passes an infringement on the president's

789
00:48:02,107 --> 00:48:06,115
constitutional powers. We don't acknowledge the law as constitutional. Nonetheless,

790
00:48:06,175 --> 00:48:09,703
we comply with elements of it for purposes of maintaining,

791
00:48:10,083 --> 00:48:12,107
you know, good relations with Congress. And we want them

792
00:48:12,147 --> 00:48:13,731
to be involved and we want them to be informed.

793
00:48:13,891 --> 00:48:15,434
I have gone on Capitol Hill, I don't know, four

794
00:48:15,474 --> 00:48:18,320
times this year for all senators and all House. members

795
00:48:18,380 --> 00:48:20,524
and intel committee and gang of eight we want them

796
00:48:20,544 --> 00:48:22,609
to be involved in this but but i want to

797
00:48:22,669 --> 00:48:24,212
be clear on the point of the war powers act

798
00:48:24,272 --> 00:48:28,901
it's unconstitutional and uh every president and every administration has

799
00:48:28,961 --> 00:48:31,987
taken that position okay so now i'm interested we've got

800
00:48:32,148 --> 00:48:35,013
people in congress saying it's in the constitution and then

801
00:48:35,054 --> 00:48:37,819
we have rubio saying the war powers act is unconstitutional

802
00:48:37,799 --> 00:48:40,695
constitutional so I had to dig and I dug so

803
00:48:40,776 --> 00:48:44,244
deep that I wound up with the great one which

804
00:48:44,284 --> 00:48:49,216
was Mark Levin. I did. He had Professor John Yu

805
00:48:49,236 --> 00:48:52,885
on the show. And when you learn about the War

806
00:48:52,966 --> 00:48:56,635
Powers Act and its history, it's actually educational. Welcome back,

807
00:48:56,655 --> 00:48:59,897
America. We're here with Professor John. you who's probably from

808
00:48:59,957 --> 00:49:03,777
my perspective the expert on the War Powers Act. He's

809
00:49:03,818 --> 00:49:05,947
been writing about it for 30 years. You can go

810
00:49:05,988 --> 00:49:08,278
to all these journals and law reviews, and he's been

811
00:49:08,318 --> 00:49:11,447
duking it out with other professors. You know, John, you,

812
00:49:11,467 --> 00:49:14,862
it's amazing. I watch Bernie Sanders. He immediately gets up

813
00:49:14,922 --> 00:49:19,132
and says, but Donald Trump there is unconstitutional. You got

814
00:49:19,192 --> 00:49:23,082
AOC, who, of course, we always turn to when we

815
00:49:23,122 --> 00:49:26,751
want some constitutional expertise. She said the president needs to

816
00:49:26,791 --> 00:49:29,297
be impeached. Now, these are two. That's a funny line.

817
00:49:29,678 --> 00:49:33,276
Radical Marxists who really are not. inclined to like the

818
00:49:33,357 --> 00:49:37,272
Constitution nor like our military. What do you say to

819
00:49:37,334 --> 00:49:42,112
them about impeach the president over the War Powers Act?

820
00:49:42,232 --> 00:49:45,037
Is the War Powers Act constitutional? Let's start right there.

821
00:49:45,257 --> 00:49:47,000
I agree with you, Mark. I don't think it is.

822
00:49:47,441 --> 00:49:51,427
The Constitution sets out the war powers. Congress can't use

823
00:49:51,467 --> 00:49:55,374
a law to rewrite the Constitution. And the Constitution says

824
00:49:55,414 --> 00:49:58,419
the president is the chief executive of the United States.

825
00:49:58,427 --> 00:50:02,333
and he is the commander-in-chief. The founders understood those phrases

826
00:50:02,373 --> 00:50:06,620
to mean that the president has the primary responsibility to

827
00:50:06,680 --> 00:50:10,366
protect our national security. Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist paper

828
00:50:10,426 --> 00:50:13,371
said, energy in the executive is a definition of good

829
00:50:13,431 --> 00:50:15,875
government, because he was explaining why are these clauses in

830
00:50:15,895 --> 00:50:19,667
the Constitution. And he said it's... response, it's necessary to

831
00:50:19,747 --> 00:50:24,532
protect the communities, our community, from attack. That doesn't mean

832
00:50:24,572 --> 00:50:28,079
Congress has no power. Congress has the power to provide

833
00:50:28,180 --> 00:50:31,005
funds or to cut them off. That's how Congress ended

834
00:50:31,045 --> 00:50:34,071
the Vietnam War. That's how Congress ended the Mexican-American War

835
00:50:34,091 --> 00:50:38,261
of 1848. And so when you go back. to the

836
00:50:38,321 --> 00:50:42,147
days of Madison, and then later the War Powers Act.

837
00:50:42,951 --> 00:50:47,540
it was phrased differently initially and they changed that specifically

838
00:50:47,640 --> 00:50:50,625
so congress would not have this power they think they

839
00:50:50,665 --> 00:50:55,635
have. Right, in fact, I think it took a lot

840
00:50:55,675 --> 00:50:58,891
of guts to play Mark Levin's stuff but He did

841
00:50:58,951 --> 00:51:04,239
a lecture once explaining how Madison. had it so that

842
00:51:04,259 --> 00:51:09,254
in the Constitution it says Congress can declare war. Yes.

843
00:51:10,076 --> 00:51:14,509
But the original guys wanted to say Congress can make

844
00:51:14,609 --> 00:51:16,675
war. Yes, here's the clip about it. And by changing

845
00:51:16,695 --> 00:51:19,793
it from make to declare. The president can make war,

846
00:51:20,013 --> 00:51:24,680
and if they want to declare it, that's just, it

847
00:51:25,481 --> 00:51:28,085
shrunk the power. I mean, to say you declare war

848
00:51:28,125 --> 00:51:32,050
doesn't mean that much if you can't make war. Exactly.

849
00:51:32,070 --> 00:51:34,013
It's just you declare it, and it's only been done,

850
00:51:34,033 --> 00:51:35,535
the last time it was done was in World War

851
00:51:35,555 --> 00:51:58,973
II. Here's you. explaining that exact switch. And as you

852
00:51:59,013 --> 00:52:02,186
say, Mark, when the Constitution was first introduced in the

853
00:52:02,226 --> 00:52:06,704
Philadelphia Convention, the Constitution originally had said Congress has the

854
00:52:06,785 --> 00:52:10,971
power to make war. And that was changed to declare

855
00:52:11,031 --> 00:52:14,525
war because people thought that gave Congress too much authority.

856
00:52:14,726 --> 00:52:16,754
And I'd even point you to something else Madison said.

857
00:52:17,136 --> 00:52:20,143
In the Virginia ratification, convention, which was the key convention

858
00:52:20,203 --> 00:52:23,570
to approve the Constitution, Patrick Henry actually got up and

859
00:52:23,630 --> 00:52:26,716
said, he might have been the Bernie Sanders or AOC

860
00:52:26,736 --> 00:52:29,181
of his day, and he said, I'm worried about the

861
00:52:29,261 --> 00:52:32,267
president going off on military ventures. How are you going

862
00:52:32,287 --> 00:52:34,892
to stop him? James Madison doesn't get up and say,

863
00:52:35,132 --> 00:52:38,118
the Declare War Clause will stop the president. Instead, he

864
00:52:38,218 --> 00:52:41,514
says, Congress will have to cut off funds because the

865
00:52:41,595 --> 00:52:44,347
power of the purse is the ultimate check of the

866
00:52:44,428 --> 00:52:50,090
people on the executive branch. Exactly. That's an... How come

867
00:52:50,170 --> 00:52:53,341
Congress... Why don't they do that? Why don't they say,

868
00:52:53,461 --> 00:52:56,572
we're not going to fund the war? Why not? What

869
00:52:56,632 --> 00:53:00,072
you just showed in your reporting in that clip... unfortunately,

870
00:53:00,092 --> 00:53:03,878
is that Democrats are playing politics with the Constitution and

871
00:53:03,918 --> 00:53:06,802
engaging in political posturing while we have men and women

872
00:53:06,942 --> 00:53:09,647
in the field. The politics are apparent because, as you

873
00:53:09,687 --> 00:53:12,110
just pointed out, you can look at President Obama in

874
00:53:12,130 --> 00:53:15,115
2011. You could look at President Biden's strikes on the

875
00:53:15,175 --> 00:53:21,052
Houthis. The Democrats only think. that the Constitution demands Congress's

876
00:53:21,292 --> 00:53:25,519
authorization for war when Republicans are president, when Democrats are

877
00:53:25,539 --> 00:53:27,762
president. These same people who were in the Congress at

878
00:53:27,843 --> 00:53:32,470
those times didn't raise a doubt, didn't draw anything into

879
00:53:32,530 --> 00:53:36,296
question. And I have to say, President Trump put Congress

880
00:53:36,516 --> 00:53:40,123
on notice even more so than any. Not only did

881
00:53:40,183 --> 00:53:43,770
he move all these forces into the region over time,

882
00:53:43,810 --> 00:53:49,161
but he attacked Iran just last June. If members of

883
00:53:49,201 --> 00:53:52,628
Congress wanted to stop the war in Iran, they had

884
00:53:52,769 --> 00:53:55,975
plenty of time to use the funding power, which is

885
00:53:55,995 --> 00:53:59,533
their ultimate power over war. between June and now. And

886
00:53:59,553 --> 00:54:01,075
let's just say they know how to use the funding

887
00:54:01,095 --> 00:54:03,859
power when they want. Even when they pass a $900

888
00:54:04,260 --> 00:54:08,145
billion spending bill for the Defense Department, they at the

889
00:54:08,185 --> 00:54:11,129
same time close down the Department of Homeland Security because

890
00:54:11,630 --> 00:54:15,115
Democrats are upset about the use of the Border Patrol

891
00:54:15,155 --> 00:54:17,238
in Minneapolis. So they know how to use the funding

892
00:54:17,258 --> 00:54:19,879
power they want to. They just don't want to because

893
00:54:19,899 --> 00:54:22,344
they want to engage instead in political posturing against a

894
00:54:22,404 --> 00:54:25,371
Republican president. I think that's part of it. I also

895
00:54:25,451 --> 00:54:27,957
think they're all in the bag for the military industrial

896
00:54:28,017 --> 00:54:30,863
complex. Sure, they have to be. It turns out, someone

897
00:54:30,883 --> 00:54:37,137
did some research. There is one military industrial complex contractor

898
00:54:37,177 --> 00:54:41,736
in... except for maybe one or two, every single congressional

899
00:54:41,796 --> 00:54:45,381
district. And they're all little, sometimes little contractors, but they're

900
00:54:45,421 --> 00:54:48,025
always providing a lot of jobs. The whole place has

901
00:54:48,065 --> 00:54:51,730
been co-opted by the military industrial complex. That's where we,

902
00:54:51,750 --> 00:54:56,798
that's our real source of GDP. Yes. Oh, I'm sorry.

903
00:54:56,818 --> 00:55:03,878
Israel. APAC. No. It's these guys. Yeah, it's what you

904
00:55:03,958 --> 00:55:06,683
do. Because they do it. You know, they've done a

905
00:55:06,703 --> 00:55:09,709
hell of a job. Every single state in the union

906
00:55:09,749 --> 00:55:14,371
has some kind of military contractor. So there's not going

907
00:55:14,391 --> 00:55:16,534
to be a single representative or senator standing up and

908
00:55:16,554 --> 00:55:18,491
saying, whoa, we should We should pull the plug on

909
00:55:18,552 --> 00:55:23,430
that. No! No. And sorry to let everybody. Not to

910
00:55:23,490 --> 00:55:26,316
want to get reelected. Sorry to let everybody down, but

911
00:55:26,617 --> 00:55:29,082
we are a war nation. It's what we do. We're

912
00:55:29,102 --> 00:55:33,351
good at it. We are good at it. Only now

913
00:55:33,411 --> 00:55:36,397
we're doing it for us instead of for Britain and

914
00:55:36,598 --> 00:55:43,869
Europe. You know, I'm not... Where's that clip? So, you

915
00:55:43,930 --> 00:55:49,162
know, there's been all kinds of issues with Germany. Because

916
00:55:49,709 --> 00:55:53,292
Mr. Peepers thought he'd be cute. and say Trump has

917
00:55:53,352 --> 00:55:55,162
no exit strategy. I had a bunch of clips on

918
00:55:55,202 --> 00:55:57,374
that for the last couple of shows. Yeah, I don't

919
00:55:57,414 --> 00:56:00,253
have them here, but... But so he's trying to get

920
00:56:00,313 --> 00:56:05,380
back in graces, good graces. And says, oh, we'll help

921
00:56:05,501 --> 00:56:07,524
out. We've got something for you. Sent off with a

922
00:56:07,624 --> 00:56:11,589
fanfare in front of a crowd of curious onlookers. Fulda

923
00:56:11,629 --> 00:56:14,233
set sail from the port city of Kiel on Germany's

924
00:56:14,293 --> 00:56:18,219
Baltic sea coast on Monday. The German minesweeper and its...

925
00:56:18,199 --> 00:56:21,065
crew of up to 45 sailors are now heading to

926
00:56:21,105 --> 00:56:25,173
the Mediterranean and not to the Strait of Hormuz, unless

927
00:56:25,213 --> 00:56:31,907
certain conditions are met, outlined by Germany's defence minister. We

928
00:56:31,987 --> 00:56:34,973
are moving it in advance to the Mediterranean, making all

929
00:56:35,013 --> 00:56:37,258
the preparations we can, so in the event of a

930
00:56:37,338 --> 00:56:40,993
ceasefire... a lasting truce or a framework under international law,

931
00:56:41,515 --> 00:56:43,986
we can obtain a mandate from the Bundestag and as

932
00:56:44,027 --> 00:56:48,737
soon as that's in place continue to operate. Fulda will

933
00:56:48,758 --> 00:56:52,208
be at sea for about two weeks. Germany has said

934
00:56:52,268 --> 00:56:55,062
the ship could be deployed to help clear underwater mines

935
00:56:55,143 --> 00:56:58,098
from the Strait of Hormuz in order to secure shipping

936
00:56:58,158 --> 00:57:01,586
routes which have been severely disrupted amid the U.S.-Israel war

937
00:57:01,626 --> 00:57:06,335
with Iran. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has underlined that Berlin

938
00:57:06,395 --> 00:57:10,083
remains far away from such a decision. Twenty percent of

939
00:57:10,143 --> 00:57:13,249
global oil and gas passes through the Strait of Hormuz.

940
00:57:13,850 --> 00:57:16,836
Around 2,000 ships have been stuck since the war began

941
00:57:16,856 --> 00:57:19,893
at the end of February. So the idea is once

942
00:57:19,933 --> 00:57:22,938
the war is over, then the Germans send their minesweeper

943
00:57:22,978 --> 00:57:25,481
to go find mines that don't exist. All they're going

944
00:57:25,501 --> 00:57:28,686
to find is a bunch of kamikaze dolphins. And for

945
00:57:28,726 --> 00:57:31,750
the troll room, when I say, yes, we are doing

946
00:57:31,770 --> 00:57:34,294
war for us, yes, we're doing war for us. We

947
00:57:34,314 --> 00:57:38,754
have always fought wars for Europe and for Britain. except

948
00:57:38,794 --> 00:57:42,223
for Vietnam War, and that was a really bad one.

949
00:57:42,931 --> 00:57:45,546
And so what has happened? In that case, that we

950
00:57:45,587 --> 00:57:47,941
were suckered by the French. Yes. We kind of fought

951
00:57:48,001 --> 00:57:50,589
that war for the French. Thank you. So when I

952
00:57:50,649 --> 00:57:53,843
say we're fighting it for us, we're fighting it because

953
00:57:54,365 --> 00:57:58,171
we have not gotten any of the benefit of... what's

954
00:57:58,191 --> 00:58:02,681
been going on particularly in that region with oil. None

955
00:58:02,722 --> 00:58:07,389
of it. We got screwed over and over and over

956
00:58:07,470 --> 00:58:11,050
again. And so now we have our own oil and

957
00:58:11,150 --> 00:58:15,871
screw Europe. Speaking of Roger McGuinn, there's a time for

958
00:58:15,931 --> 00:58:18,390
war, there's a time for peace. There's no time for

959
00:58:18,492 --> 00:58:21,796
love, there's a time for hate. It's just a fact

960
00:58:21,836 --> 00:58:26,386
of life. You're all dreamers. Dreamers. And how bad is

961
00:58:26,447 --> 00:58:30,534
this war? It's not bad. That sounds, I know it

962
00:58:30,575 --> 00:58:36,551
sounds cavalier. But considering the benefit we're getting and finally

963
00:58:36,612 --> 00:58:41,431
we're getting. Because everything is changing for America. It's unbelievable

964
00:58:41,492 --> 00:58:45,283
how people can't see this. And maybe Trump will pull

965
00:58:45,324 --> 00:58:53,999
it off. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. And you know

966
00:58:54,039 --> 00:58:57,316
what? If you're talking about the New World Order and

967
00:58:57,759 --> 00:59:00,908
the and the they of the world, all you have

968
00:59:00,928 --> 00:59:03,274
to do is look at what's happening with the banking

969
00:59:03,335 --> 00:59:07,005
sector. Look at what's happening with the Federal Reserve. You

970
00:59:07,025 --> 00:59:08,970
know, I had to look into that as well because

971
00:59:09,071 --> 00:59:12,357
I wasn't convinced that the... chair of the Federal Reserve

972
00:59:12,417 --> 00:59:14,767
is the only person who determines the rates, and it

973
00:59:14,827 --> 00:59:18,780
turns out he's not. And this is what's... happening here?

974
00:59:19,455 --> 00:59:24,279
with uh Chairman Powell saying, oh, okay, you can vote

975
00:59:24,340 --> 00:59:27,448
another guy in, but I'm staying on board so that

976
00:59:27,488 --> 00:59:30,877
he can tip the scales and they have more votes

977
00:59:30,917 --> 00:59:34,408
to do whatever the banks want. It's banks. It's banks,

978
00:59:34,449 --> 00:59:38,516
the Federal Reserve. It's not government. It's banks. Here's a...

979
00:59:39,031 --> 00:59:42,056
Tim Scott, I think he's on the Finance Committee. You

980
00:59:42,136 --> 00:59:44,860
are also, as most people know, the chairman of the

981
00:59:44,900 --> 00:59:47,724
Banking Committee. You played a key role in moving Kevin

982
00:59:47,764 --> 00:59:50,789
Warsh to the committee, to the full Senate. You'll be,

983
00:59:51,230 --> 00:59:53,914
I assume, on a party line vote at least, confirmed

984
00:59:54,014 --> 00:59:59,815
as pet chair very soon. Jerome Powell. much to the

985
00:59:59,835 --> 01:00:05,698
chagrin of Mr. Trump, What do you think about that?

986
01:00:05,738 --> 01:00:09,451
This thing not as Fed governor. It is in the

987
01:00:09,491 --> 01:00:11,258
law that he can do it. So you can say

988
01:00:11,278 --> 01:00:14,368
to the end of 2028 or maybe middle of 20,

989
01:00:14,609 --> 01:00:17,767
January 31st, 2028, he would have to get off. The

990
01:00:17,787 --> 01:00:20,632
truth of the matter is he's breaking 75 years of

991
01:00:20,692 --> 01:00:23,657
precedent. Every time you get a new chairman, the former

992
01:00:23,677 --> 01:00:26,922
chairman leaves. That's good news because what you don't want

993
01:00:27,343 --> 01:00:31,129
are these philosophies in conflict. And I think Jay Powell

994
01:00:31,149 --> 01:00:36,978
is making a significant mistake, significant decision, but really bad

995
01:00:37,219 --> 01:00:40,737
one. I think for the country and for the Fed,

996
01:00:41,098 --> 01:00:42,761
it would be best if he left. Right, because the

997
01:00:42,781 --> 01:00:44,745
Fed, as you know, the chairman doesn't have due to

998
01:00:44,805 --> 01:00:47,731
lateral control, right? Just for people that don't know this,

999
01:00:47,751 --> 01:00:50,056
he has to rule by some sort of consensus. Exactly.

1000
01:00:50,196 --> 01:00:52,100
And he would be there. So how do you get

1001
01:00:52,160 --> 01:00:59,022
rid of him? Prayer. Lord! We need some prayer on

1002
01:00:59,062 --> 01:01:01,807
this issue. Honestly, I think it's going to be his

1003
01:01:01,867 --> 01:01:07,097
decision. All signs point to his departure before 28, but

1004
01:01:07,698 --> 01:01:10,203
I do think he's maybe just poking the president in

1005
01:01:10,263 --> 01:01:12,447
the eye a little bit. I don't think so. I

1006
01:01:12,488 --> 01:01:15,393
think he fully intends to stay on. And here's how

1007
01:01:15,513 --> 01:01:20,222
the actual interest rate decisions are made. on the FMOC.

1008
01:01:20,363 --> 01:01:22,868
Fed governor is appointed to 14 years, and once they

1009
01:01:22,908 --> 01:01:26,054
are in that seat, they are extraordinarily difficult to remove

1010
01:01:26,114 --> 01:01:28,839
by design, both to keep the Fed independent from political

1011
01:01:28,899 --> 01:01:31,925
pressure and to stop governors from bowing to whoever happens

1012
01:01:32,005 --> 01:01:34,170
to be in the White House in that decade. And

1013
01:01:34,310 --> 01:01:37,616
it is actually the governorship, not the chairmanship, that carries

1014
01:01:37,656 --> 01:01:40,565
most of the real power. Each governor gets a vote

1015
01:01:40,645 --> 01:01:43,030
on the Federal Open Market Committee, which is the committee

1016
01:01:43,070 --> 01:01:45,694
that actually sets interest rates. This committee is made up

1017
01:01:45,734 --> 01:01:48,239
of seven governors from the Fed in Washington, of which

1018
01:01:48,600 --> 01:01:51,445
one is the chairman, as well as representatives from five

1019
01:01:51,545 --> 01:01:54,130
out of the 12 regional Federal Reserve branches to make

1020
01:01:54,170 --> 01:01:57,055
a total of 12 voting parties. Out of this group,

1021
01:01:57,195 --> 01:01:59,780
the chairman is more of a first amongst the kind

1022
01:01:59,820 --> 01:02:02,786
of role. Responsible for communicating what the Fed is doing,

1023
01:02:02,846 --> 01:02:05,792
running the meetings, and managing the institution's public face through

1024
01:02:05,832 --> 01:02:09,139
press conferences. But the actual decisions on rates themselves are

1025
01:02:09,199 --> 01:02:12,045
made by a vote between everybody on the committee with

1026
01:02:12,245 --> 01:02:15,271
everybody getting an equal vote. Now this is a problem

1027
01:02:15,331 --> 01:02:17,876
for an administration that wants to use the chairmanship as

1028
01:02:17,896 --> 01:02:20,335
a lever to crank down rates. Because even a friendly

1029
01:02:20,395 --> 01:02:22,783
chairman can be outvoted by the other 11 people in

1030
01:02:22,823 --> 01:02:25,472
the room, which creates an even bigger problem for the

1031
01:02:25,532 --> 01:02:30,811
administration. Exactly. So Trump wants the rates lower. Everybody wants

1032
01:02:30,912 --> 01:02:35,514
rates lower. Everybody. I want rates lower. Everybody wants, yep.

1033
01:02:35,796 --> 01:02:39,612
Everybody wants rates lower, but they're political. They're political. And

1034
01:02:39,652 --> 01:02:41,535
I think that, you know, you lower the rates for

1035
01:02:41,595 --> 01:02:44,419
banks. It's not necessarily good for banks all the time.

1036
01:02:44,459 --> 01:02:46,923
I think they're very concerned. That's why Powell is staying

1037
01:02:47,063 --> 01:02:50,388
on. And this is how it balances out. And Warsh,

1038
01:02:51,089 --> 01:02:53,812
as good as President Trump thinks he is, will have

1039
01:02:53,832 --> 01:02:57,037
no power. Based on the current board makeup, are there

1040
01:02:57,117 --> 01:02:59,501
people there who will disagree with? She would push back

1041
01:02:59,581 --> 01:03:02,567
on some of these changes. Absolutely. And remember, monetary policy

1042
01:03:02,587 --> 01:03:05,212
is made by a committee, the seven governors in Washington

1043
01:03:05,232 --> 01:03:08,339
and five of the 12 Reserve Bank presidents out in

1044
01:03:08,379 --> 01:03:12,206
the region. And at today's meeting, three of those presidents

1045
01:03:12,327 --> 01:03:16,194
basically fired a shot across Kevin Warsh's bow. They said

1046
01:03:16,214 --> 01:03:19,581
they did not want a statement that... that the Fed's

1047
01:03:19,661 --> 01:03:23,128
next move is to lower interest rates. So he's not

1048
01:03:23,148 --> 01:03:25,092
going to be able to do anything on interest rates

1049
01:03:25,814 --> 01:03:29,020
very quickly because so many of the policy members are

1050
01:03:29,080 --> 01:03:31,946
against him. And he still has to deal on major

1051
01:03:31,986 --> 01:03:35,333
changes in Fed communications and stuff. He'll need a consensus

1052
01:03:35,393 --> 01:03:37,116
of the board. So I suspect this will be a

1053
01:03:37,176 --> 01:03:44,700
slow process. Exactly. So. It ain't over. It ain't over.

1054
01:03:45,279 --> 01:03:49,535
at all. And so what are they doing? They're rebuilding

1055
01:03:49,575 --> 01:03:53,249
the international world order, formerly known as the New World

1056
01:03:53,369 --> 01:03:57,649
Order. with the bankers and here is the central banker

1057
01:03:57,730 --> 01:04:03,406
central banker Prime Minister Carney of Canada, and he's telling

1058
01:04:03,446 --> 01:04:05,531
us exactly what they're going to do. The world is

1059
01:04:05,611 --> 01:04:10,998
undergoing a rupture across several dimensions in technology. in energy

1060
01:04:11,059 --> 01:04:15,755
and commerce and geopolitics. Integration is being used as a

1061
01:04:15,836 --> 01:04:21,191
weapon by some. And the rules... are not constraining the

1062
01:04:21,212 --> 01:04:25,315
hegemons. Now, we have to take on the world as

1063
01:04:25,516 --> 01:04:27,219
it is, not as we wish it to be. We

1064
01:04:27,259 --> 01:04:29,863
know nostalgia is not a strategy, but we don't think

1065
01:04:30,484 --> 01:04:34,191
that we're destined to submit to a more transactional, insular,

1066
01:04:34,672 --> 01:04:38,077
and brutal world. And gatherings such as these point to

1067
01:04:38,138 --> 01:04:43,484
a better way forward. In closing, We're here. Because of

1068
01:04:43,544 --> 01:04:45,950
your invitation, again, thank you for that. But we're here

1069
01:04:45,990 --> 01:04:50,620
because of the moral and security imperatives of our cooperation

1070
01:04:51,161 --> 01:04:55,391
in the Caucasus, in the Baltics, in Ukraine, across Europe,

1071
01:04:56,232 --> 01:04:59,219
and also because of the immense potential for our partnerships.

1072
01:04:59,419 --> 01:05:02,890
to build a better, more prosperous, sustainable and just world

1073
01:05:02,930 --> 01:05:06,320
for our citizens. And I'll close with this. It's my

1074
01:05:06,521 --> 01:05:10,412
strong personal view that as the international order will be

1075
01:05:10,513 --> 01:05:15,015
rebuilt, but it will be rebuilt out of Europe. And

1076
01:05:15,075 --> 01:05:18,535
so I'm very appreciative of the symbolism of this invitation.

1077
01:05:18,555 --> 01:05:21,323
Yeah, right, buddy. Yeah, out of Europe. Did you notice

1078
01:05:21,343 --> 01:05:24,469
the code words he had in there that implied Trump?

1079
01:05:24,690 --> 01:05:30,761
Yeah, of course. When you use the word transactional, transactional

1080
01:05:30,801 --> 01:05:34,709
means Trump. Trump, yes. Yeah, because Trump is breaking that

1081
01:05:34,769 --> 01:05:38,256
apart, and it looks like the Macron brothers are the

1082
01:05:38,376 --> 01:05:41,081
ones that are going to try and... try and save

1083
01:05:41,141 --> 01:05:44,407
the world or their world. The president of France, Macron,

1084
01:05:44,568 --> 01:05:46,992
goes to China, spends about six hours meeting with Xi

1085
01:05:47,013 --> 01:05:49,738
Jinping. And then on the flight back, he talks to

1086
01:05:49,778 --> 01:05:52,323
a bunch of reporters. And here's what he told the

1087
01:05:52,343 --> 01:05:54,968
reporters. He told the reporters, number one, that it's time

1088
01:05:55,108 --> 01:05:58,154
for Europe to break away from the United States, not

1089
01:05:58,174 --> 01:06:00,078
to depend on the dollar, not to depend so much

1090
01:06:00,198 --> 01:06:04,427
on us. to become their own third superpower. The second

1091
01:06:04,467 --> 01:06:06,992
thing he says, which I found really interesting, was that

1092
01:06:07,173 --> 01:06:08,976
Europe needs to make sure that they don't get involved

1093
01:06:09,016 --> 01:06:11,982
in conflicts that are not their conflicts, specifically that Europe

1094
01:06:12,002 --> 01:06:14,568
should not be picking sides on Taiwan between the United

1095
01:06:14,608 --> 01:06:17,594
States and China. And so I think this is a

1096
01:06:17,634 --> 01:06:20,099
good moment for us to ask Europe, does Macron say

1097
01:06:20,119 --> 01:06:23,025
that? Is Macron now the head of Europe? Is he

1098
01:06:23,045 --> 01:06:25,289
now the most powerful leader in Europe? Because if he

1099
01:06:25,410 --> 01:06:26,652
is, then there's some things we're going to need to

1100
01:06:26,732 --> 01:06:31,803
change. Number one, Europe, including France specifically, has depended heavily

1101
01:06:31,863 --> 01:06:33,727
on the United States for 70 years for their own

1102
01:06:33,767 --> 01:06:37,514
defense. In fact, when Macron tried to play global superpower

1103
01:06:37,574 --> 01:06:40,571
and send troops to North Africa to fight terrorists, He

1104
01:06:40,611 --> 01:06:42,335
couldn't even get his own troops there. We had to

1105
01:06:42,375 --> 01:06:44,118
fly them there and we had to fly them back.

1106
01:06:44,479 --> 01:06:46,563
He couldn't even get his own troops there. So if

1107
01:06:46,583 --> 01:06:48,247
they're going to break off on their own and follow

1108
01:06:48,307 --> 01:06:50,511
Macron's lead, that's going to save us a lot of

1109
01:06:50,551 --> 01:06:56,849
money. Okay. Okay. Future president. So here's Queen Ursula. And

1110
01:06:56,950 --> 01:06:59,919
she's stepping up to the plate now. Continent like ours.

1111
01:06:59,899 --> 01:07:04,188
with limited fossil fuels resources should lead the world on

1112
01:07:04,248 --> 01:07:07,554
electrification. This is the reason why last December we proposed

1113
01:07:07,595 --> 01:07:10,761
the GRIDS package. Its goal is to make our energy

1114
01:07:10,801 --> 01:07:15,270
and infrastructure fit for the electrification age. And I'm very

1115
01:07:15,310 --> 01:07:18,136
glad that last week in Cyprus, the European Parliament, the

1116
01:07:18,196 --> 01:07:21,583
Council, agreed to speed up... the negotiations. And as a

1117
01:07:21,663 --> 01:07:25,210
next step, we will put forward our electrification action plan.

1118
01:07:25,451 --> 01:07:28,156
Are they going to electrify everybody? I mean, didn't we

1119
01:07:28,617 --> 01:07:32,845
go through the... Electrocute. Didn't we go through the electrification

1120
01:07:32,865 --> 01:07:40,368
age in the late 1800s? These people are insanely... By

1121
01:07:40,408 --> 01:07:44,775
the summer, with an ambitious electrification target. And speaking of

1122
01:07:44,896 --> 01:07:48,602
finances, in the current European budget, we have set aside

1123
01:07:48,622 --> 01:07:53,530
almost 300 billion euros for energy, 95 billion of which

1124
01:07:53,730 --> 01:07:56,114
are not used so far. I know I'm preaching here

1125
01:07:56,174 --> 01:07:58,478
almost in the wrong church, but let us use this

1126
01:07:58,778 --> 01:08:01,969
to make this. Switch now to electricity, not just in

1127
01:08:02,009 --> 01:08:06,588
transport, but also in industry. So she's talking about using

1128
01:08:06,688 --> 01:08:12,250
electricity in industry. So are you going to use windmills

1129
01:08:12,391 --> 01:08:15,887
and solar panels for your steel? Is that what I'm

1130
01:08:15,928 --> 01:08:21,867
hearing? This makes no sense. And here's the numbers. This

1131
01:08:21,967 --> 01:08:26,209
is the second energy crisis within four years. And the

1132
01:08:26,250 --> 01:08:32,059
lesson should be very clear. Our over-dependency on imported fossil

1133
01:08:32,099 --> 01:08:37,023
fuels makes us vulnerable. They have a whole North Sea!

1134
01:08:37,475 --> 01:08:41,222
filled with fossil fuels. Let me give you two figures.

1135
01:08:41,484 --> 01:08:45,345
By the way, where does this electricity come from? So

1136
01:08:45,365 --> 01:08:50,939
what she's saying... or implying, I would say, she's implying,

1137
01:08:51,340 --> 01:08:54,126
that none of the electricity is going to come from

1138
01:08:54,667 --> 01:09:01,293
coal-powered generators or natural gas-powered generators. No. Or anything other

1139
01:09:01,353 --> 01:09:05,158
than solar and wind and maybe some water? No, nuclear.

1140
01:09:05,198 --> 01:09:07,742
She's going to add nuclear back into the mix. Oh,

1141
01:09:07,762 --> 01:09:14,451
well, nuclear's okay, but... But they killed the four reactors.

1142
01:09:14,571 --> 01:09:17,155
If she wants to add nuclear, why did they shut

1143
01:09:17,195 --> 01:09:21,318
down all the German reactors? To kill Germany. which happens

1144
01:09:21,378 --> 01:09:26,660
to be the industrial heart of the EU. They want

1145
01:09:26,700 --> 01:09:33,633
serfs. They want dumb slaves to clean their homes. What?

1146
01:09:34,211 --> 01:09:40,651
The Culture Suicidal. We've known this all along. Europeans are

1147
01:09:40,692 --> 01:09:42,955
suicidal. It's where they want war all the time. I

1148
01:09:42,995 --> 01:09:46,838
mean... Like you said, we've been selling arms and ammunition.

1149
01:09:46,858 --> 01:09:49,291
We still will be doing that. That's what we do

1150
01:09:49,351 --> 01:09:53,127
best, is make the stuff. And they can go kill

1151
01:09:53,188 --> 01:09:55,465
themselves. So what is the show title that I need

1152
01:09:55,486 --> 01:10:02,623
to write down? Oh no. What? I hear your computer

1153
01:10:02,664 --> 01:10:08,670
bleeping. Is that you? Yeah. Oh, no. No. Okay. Let's

1154
01:10:08,690 --> 01:10:12,105
continue. No, that's not me. It's nonsense. In just 60

1155
01:10:12,165 --> 01:10:16,399
days of conflict. Our bill for fossil fuel imports has

1156
01:10:16,479 --> 01:10:23,285
increased by over 27 billion euros. without one single molecule

1157
01:10:23,426 --> 01:10:28,643
of energy in addition. So the way forward is obvious.

1158
01:10:29,255 --> 01:10:34,384
We must reduce our over-dependency on imported fossil fuels. And

1159
01:10:34,445 --> 01:10:40,624
we must boost our homegrown, affordable, clean energy supply. from

1160
01:10:40,684 --> 01:10:45,734
renewables to nuclear in full respect of technology neutrality. Of

1161
01:10:46,034 --> 01:10:49,421
technology neutrality. What does that mean? I don't know, but

1162
01:10:49,481 --> 01:10:53,048
the problem is with the green agenda in the EU,

1163
01:10:53,128 --> 01:10:57,715
you'll never get new nuclear plants. It'll take decades. Decades

1164
01:10:57,777 --> 01:11:05,058
for that to happen. Already today, member states... Suicidal, I

1165
01:11:05,078 --> 01:11:11,493
said. Suicidal, but suicidal culture, suicidal... Queen Suicide? We gotta

1166
01:11:11,513 --> 01:11:14,682
come up with something. More low-carbon sources in their energy

1167
01:11:14,702 --> 01:11:19,276
mix are less impacted by the crisis. Take a country

1168
01:11:19,336 --> 01:11:23,792
like Sweden. If there the gas price increases by one

1169
01:11:23,933 --> 01:11:28,884
euro per megawatt hour, The electricity bill only increases by

1170
01:11:28,904 --> 01:11:36,713
0.04 euros per megawatt hour. Because almost all of Sweden's

1171
01:11:36,773 --> 01:11:42,501
electricity comes from renewables. and nuclear. So this is how

1172
01:11:42,561 --> 01:11:46,643
we insulate ourselves from future shocks. And this is the

1173
01:11:46,704 --> 01:11:51,726
path to independence of Europe. The problem with Sweden is

1174
01:11:52,790 --> 01:11:57,330
they got immigrants burning cars all day long. So it's

1175
01:11:57,371 --> 01:12:01,859
not all that fantastic in Sweden and luckily This is

1176
01:12:02,020 --> 01:12:04,853
a dead man walking. This is the Polish member of

1177
01:12:04,874 --> 01:12:10,008
European Parliament, Dominik Tarzynski. And he laid it out. And

1178
01:12:10,028 --> 01:12:13,939
I hope he has good security. You must have lost

1179
01:12:14,080 --> 01:12:17,651
your mind. In Spain, they just legalized residents of half

1180
01:12:17,811 --> 01:12:21,829
a million illegal aliens. In France. They throw grenades into

1181
01:12:21,889 --> 01:12:25,335
hair salons in a broad daylight. In Germany, not a

1182
01:12:25,435 --> 01:12:29,522
single day goes by without someone being murdered with a

1183
01:12:29,642 --> 01:12:34,029
knife. In Sweden, for example, you have bomb attack every

1184
01:12:34,249 --> 01:12:38,356
other day. I can continue, but you just don't care.

1185
01:12:38,596 --> 01:12:42,403
Those are not real problems. for the European left-wing politicians.

1186
01:12:42,664 --> 01:12:46,511
No! You are going to solve the situation in Minnesota!

1187
01:12:46,752 --> 01:12:49,097
You are seriously discussing here the rule of law in

1188
01:12:49,117 --> 01:12:52,804
the United States and criticizing the American government for deporting

1189
01:12:52,924 --> 01:12:56,912
illegal aliens, for deporting criminals out of their territory in

1190
01:12:56,952 --> 01:13:00,259
the same time when Western European cities are gradually... We

1191
01:13:02,464 --> 01:13:05,129
should do exactly the same. We should deport them from

1192
01:13:05,249 --> 01:13:08,455
Europe and not legalize their stay. We should listen to

1193
01:13:08,475 --> 01:13:11,882
them and not what you are proposing to all of

1194
01:13:12,002 --> 01:13:14,528
us. Everybody can see now you are enemies of Europe.

1195
01:13:14,548 --> 01:13:16,872
You hate Europe. You hate our nations and you want

1196
01:13:16,892 --> 01:13:19,598
to destroy the future for our children. We should stop

1197
01:13:19,638 --> 01:13:27,713
you. We should... Yes, exactly. The end of Europe. Classic's

1198
01:13:27,774 --> 01:13:30,158
been floating around. That's good. I'm glad you got it.

1199
01:13:30,218 --> 01:13:34,286
He's great. Yeah, he's the Nigel Farage of the era.

1200
01:13:34,507 --> 01:13:40,218
Yeah. Without the understatement. No understatement with this guy. No,

1201
01:13:40,378 --> 01:13:46,268
more of him. More of him. So something... that uh

1202
01:13:47,135 --> 01:13:50,490
We've been talking about on the show for... at least

1203
01:13:50,631 --> 01:13:55,187
five years, ever since I met Texas Slim. And I'm

1204
01:13:55,227 --> 01:13:58,891
going to play these clips because it shows you how

1205
01:13:59,172 --> 01:14:04,222
long. It takes government to get anything together, to get

1206
01:14:04,262 --> 01:14:07,836
anything done, even in a government that actually wants to

1207
01:14:07,876 --> 01:14:12,199
get stuff done. This is about the meatpackers. And Texas

1208
01:14:12,259 --> 01:14:16,480
Loom was screaming this to high heaven. Like, you know,

1209
01:14:16,500 --> 01:14:20,419
there's a cartel, the meatpackers, they're not even American companies.

1210
01:14:20,747 --> 01:14:24,694
They're screwing the ranchers. This is why we have the

1211
01:14:24,734 --> 01:14:28,039
lowest herd count ever, not because of drought and all

1212
01:14:28,099 --> 01:14:31,845
these other bull crap reasons. No, because there has been

1213
01:14:31,886 --> 01:14:35,972
an absolute cartel of beef in the United States. And

1214
01:14:36,032 --> 01:14:38,977
so now they're doing something about it with the new

1215
01:14:39,118 --> 01:14:43,594
AG Barbie. the AG Ken, AG Ken Barbie, Todd Blanche.

1216
01:14:43,615 --> 01:14:46,829
All right, good morning, everybody. Today we are here to

1217
01:14:47,371 --> 01:14:51,341
talk about our progress. here at the Justice Department to

1218
01:14:51,382 --> 01:14:57,162
hold meatpackers accountable. As you all know, last November, the

1219
01:14:57,222 --> 01:15:02,225
President tasked the Department to investigate the costs and prices

1220
01:15:02,286 --> 01:15:07,273
of beef. As a result, we prioritized investigating potential antitrust

1221
01:15:07,293 --> 01:15:12,930
violations. in U.S. cattle and beef. markets. In the beef

1222
01:15:12,991 --> 01:15:18,655
industry, the big four processors control over 85%. of the

1223
01:15:18,696 --> 01:15:23,472
beef processing market. Two of the Big Four are primarily

1224
01:15:23,493 --> 01:15:28,457
foreign-owned. Multiple plant closures across the country, the current market

1225
01:15:28,477 --> 01:15:35,239
structure, and high concentration in the industry indicate anti-competitive activity.

1226
01:15:36,907 --> 01:15:40,700
Since the President's executive order, the department has been actively

1227
01:15:40,780 --> 01:15:44,972
investigating with a review of over 3 million documents, hundreds

1228
01:15:45,032 --> 01:15:50,692
of industry participants, including ranchers, cattlemen, producers, and processors. have

1229
01:15:50,732 --> 01:15:54,513
been contacted and many interviewed as part of this ongoing

1230
01:15:54,533 --> 01:15:59,934
investigation. More broadly, the department has also executed on the

1231
01:16:00,015 --> 01:16:04,900
president's executive order to stop anti-competitive behavior in the broader

1232
01:16:04,980 --> 01:16:09,164
food supply market. Later this week, we will be announcing

1233
01:16:09,204 --> 01:16:12,856
an historic settlement that will directly affect the prices of

1234
01:16:12,936 --> 01:16:19,115
proteins like chicken, pork, and turkey. This business model allows

1235
01:16:19,235 --> 01:16:25,011
competitors to exchange competitively sensitive information on every aspect of

1236
01:16:25,051 --> 01:16:28,681
the protein industry and has raised the prices on chicken,

1237
01:16:28,982 --> 01:16:32,496
raised the prices on pork. and raise the prices on

1238
01:16:32,578 --> 01:16:36,795
turkey so It's good that they're doing that. It's good

1239
01:16:36,835 --> 01:16:41,392
they're breaking up this cartel. And. You know, luckily there's

1240
01:16:41,432 --> 01:16:44,752
still, you know, Texas Slim, somehow he got beef.com. I

1241
01:16:44,793 --> 01:16:47,965
don't know how he did that. So he's got beef.com

1242
01:16:48,126 --> 01:16:50,943
and you can find your local rancher and do lots

1243
01:16:51,003 --> 01:16:54,204
of stuff. And I like all this. I like what

1244
01:16:54,264 --> 01:16:57,341
Blanche is doing. But then the most un-American thing is

1245
01:16:58,025 --> 01:17:01,040
like, I want our Justice Department. I want these. guys

1246
01:17:01,120 --> 01:17:03,928
and SWAT teams. I want them busting into these offices.

1247
01:17:04,029 --> 01:17:08,582
I want boxes being carried out. I want JBS and

1248
01:17:08,662 --> 01:17:11,931
Cargill and Tyson executives. I want them in handcuffs. I

1249
01:17:11,971 --> 01:17:15,817
want perp walks. No. What do we do? Yeah, we

1250
01:17:15,858 --> 01:17:18,864
want snitches. There is more work to do and we

1251
01:17:18,904 --> 01:17:23,364
need your help. I want to remind everyone and anyone

1252
01:17:23,445 --> 01:17:27,347
in the industry that if you have information about antitrust

1253
01:17:27,407 --> 01:17:32,222
crimes, about price fixing, bid rigging, market allocation, or even

1254
01:17:32,302 --> 01:17:35,653
procurement fraud, the Department of Justice wants to hear from

1255
01:17:35,693 --> 01:17:40,068
you. Through our whistleblower rewards program, which we do in

1256
01:17:40,109 --> 01:17:46,503
partnership with the United States. Postal Inspection Service. What? The

1257
01:17:46,563 --> 01:17:50,734
postmaster general's involved in this? Come on. You can be

1258
01:17:50,774 --> 01:17:56,007
financially rewarded for coming forward with information about this behavior.

1259
01:17:56,619 --> 01:17:58,891
Just to put a fine point on it, if your

1260
01:17:58,931 --> 01:18:03,049
report... If the information you provide helps us, secure a

1261
01:18:03,129 --> 01:18:07,480
criminal penalty in excess of $1 million, you can be

1262
01:18:07,541 --> 01:18:12,594
entitled to recover and receive 15% to 30% of the

1263
01:18:13,376 --> 01:18:16,669
money that we recover. So whether you're a farmer, a

1264
01:18:16,750 --> 01:18:21,346
purchaser, a processor, you can help. Protect food security in

1265
01:18:21,387 --> 01:18:27,152
America by reporting these types of violations and potentially criminal

1266
01:18:27,213 --> 01:18:31,803
conduct. We will use every law enforcement tool available to

1267
01:18:31,884 --> 01:18:36,276
help reduce food prices. and vigorously enforce the antitrust laws

1268
01:18:36,316 --> 01:18:40,491
to ensure every aspect of the agricultural industry competes on

1269
01:18:40,552 --> 01:18:45,288
a fair playing field. If you see something, say something.

1270
01:18:45,308 --> 01:18:48,167
I don't like snitching. You know what this tells me?

1271
01:18:49,073 --> 01:18:53,823
What? They got nothing. He got nothing on these guys.

1272
01:18:54,425 --> 01:18:58,240
This is all hope. This is a snitching thing. Oh

1273
01:18:58,481 --> 01:19:02,075
my God, we can't prove a thing. These guys are

1274
01:19:02,236 --> 01:19:04,322
on the up and up. from what we can tell

1275
01:19:04,502 --> 01:19:07,609
because we can't prove anything maybe you know we can

1276
01:19:07,629 --> 01:19:11,637
get some snitches maybe and maybe that'll do something because

1277
01:19:11,677 --> 01:19:14,223
they got nothing they're not going to get anywhere with

1278
01:19:14,243 --> 01:19:15,946
this is a dead end this is not going to

1279
01:19:16,027 --> 01:19:18,652
go anywhere i don't like the same these guys long

1280
01:19:18,732 --> 01:19:22,593
ago people that are involved in price fixing knew how

1281
01:19:22,653 --> 01:19:25,020
to do it. You do it through third parties. You

1282
01:19:25,060 --> 01:19:28,149
do it by looking at what the airlines do. What

1283
01:19:28,229 --> 01:19:32,803
is United charging for this flight to Chicago? What are

1284
01:19:32,843 --> 01:19:35,533
we going to charge? Let's charge the same thing. I

1285
01:19:35,593 --> 01:19:40,070
mean, this is nonsense. These four, these big four are

1286
01:19:40,091 --> 01:19:42,781
dominating and they're going to continue to dominate. unless they

1287
01:19:43,002 --> 01:19:46,960
boil down to two or they become monopolists. But with

1288
01:19:47,081 --> 01:19:51,041
four of them, they look competitive. They're not. But it's

1289
01:19:51,061 --> 01:19:54,560
like the light bulbs, the Westinghouse light bulb scandals in

1290
01:19:54,600 --> 01:19:57,234
the past for price fixing. Oh, the light, not just

1291
01:19:57,294 --> 01:20:03,045
price fixing. But... length of burn fixing. Yeah, that whole

1292
01:20:03,085 --> 01:20:07,413
thing. Was it five? By the way, LEDs do that

1293
01:20:07,513 --> 01:20:10,819
now too. They crap out. Of course, of course. I'm

1294
01:20:10,940 --> 01:20:13,324
going to tell my LED story I've told you before.

1295
01:20:13,344 --> 01:20:16,029
Well, first explain the Osram scandal. That's what that was.

1296
01:20:16,109 --> 01:20:20,037
It was price fixing amongst the light bulb manufacturers, not

1297
01:20:20,137 --> 01:20:23,245
in price per se. but how many hours the light

1298
01:20:23,305 --> 01:20:25,954
bulb would last. And I believe there is still a

1299
01:20:26,014 --> 01:20:28,863
light bulb today that has been burning for over 110

1300
01:20:29,585 --> 01:20:33,811
years. is There's plenty of cool light bulbs that burn

1301
01:20:33,851 --> 01:20:37,486
forever. Yeah. But the LEDs should burn forever, at least

1302
01:20:37,506 --> 01:20:41,093
a lifetime of anybody that's living. So I... You know,

1303
01:20:41,175 --> 01:20:46,835
I bought an LED. Bug bulb for the front porch.

1304
01:20:47,863 --> 01:20:51,473
25 years ago. It was one of the first LEDs

1305
01:20:51,513 --> 01:20:55,004
American made. LED light bulb. They couldn't get much power

1306
01:20:55,044 --> 01:20:57,250
out of it. It was nice and yellow. And so

1307
01:20:57,410 --> 01:21:00,827
I put it up. Bug bulb. A bug bulb. Bug

1308
01:21:00,848 --> 01:21:05,283
bulb. Oh, there's a show title. Bug bulb. I like

1309
01:21:05,363 --> 01:21:10,054
it. So the bug bulb, it's still burning. Meanwhile, all

1310
01:21:10,134 --> 01:21:14,525
these Chinese lamps I buy that are LED, they burn

1311
01:21:14,665 --> 01:21:18,915
out in a year. They're like filaments. What happens? They

1312
01:21:18,955 --> 01:21:23,064
start to blink, blink, blink. flashing you can't stop if

1313
01:21:23,084 --> 01:21:24,868
you turn it on and off maybe it stops for

1314
01:21:24,908 --> 01:21:27,594
a while and it starts blinking and flashing because the

1315
01:21:27,995 --> 01:21:30,620
circuitry in the in the bulb is no good the

1316
01:21:30,841 --> 01:21:34,649
junk junk i tell you this every led bulb you

1317
01:21:34,709 --> 01:21:40,704
buy should last forever your lifetime good for life Should

1318
01:21:40,744 --> 01:21:43,312
be good for life. And none of them are, except

1319
01:21:43,373 --> 01:21:47,305
my bug bulb. Wait, no. And your bulb's in your

1320
01:21:47,325 --> 01:21:53,739
2009 Lexus. There's another interesting... No, no, it's not. It

1321
01:21:53,779 --> 01:21:56,327
was a 2000... I thought it was 2009. No, no,

1322
01:21:56,528 --> 01:22:01,052
no, no, no. No, 2009, that's a new car. Aw.

1323
01:22:01,599 --> 01:22:09,499
It was a 2003, I think. It's a 30-year-old car.

1324
01:22:10,527 --> 01:22:15,614
Yes. How does that work? Every bulb in the Lexus,

1325
01:22:16,096 --> 01:22:24,010
the interior lamps. Everything. The headlights, the taillights, everything. The

1326
01:22:24,090 --> 01:22:27,319
bulbs never burn out. Where do they get these bulbs?

1327
01:22:27,339 --> 01:22:30,547
We're being screwed, Mr. Dvorak. The whole thing is a

1328
01:22:30,627 --> 01:22:36,848
giant scam. I am so busy right now marking the

1329
01:22:36,909 --> 01:22:40,892
recording. I got so many great openers from you. giant

1330
01:22:40,932 --> 01:22:42,935
scam well you want to hear scam all right i'm

1331
01:22:42,955 --> 01:22:44,357
going to set you up i'm going to set you

1332
01:22:44,417 --> 01:22:47,942
up with this here's the setup pennsylvania's hershey company says

1333
01:22:47,982 --> 01:22:50,746
it's seeing a jump in the sales of mints and

1334
01:22:50,866 --> 01:22:53,089
gum and they say it's all due to the rise

1335
01:22:53,189 --> 01:22:56,434
of glp-1 weight loss drugs the company says the sales

1336
01:22:56,915 --> 01:22:59,639
of their ice breakers mints rose eight percent in the

1337
01:22:59,699 --> 01:23:02,406
first quarter of the year. Dental experts have linked the

1338
01:23:02,446 --> 01:23:05,494
drugs to dry mouth and some have complained of bad

1339
01:23:05,594 --> 01:23:09,184
breath over dehydration caused by the medication. Yes, and I

1340
01:23:09,224 --> 01:23:12,553
want to say that I've noticed this. I've noticed women

1341
01:23:12,613 --> 01:23:17,876
who are on the O. That they have bad... No.

1342
01:23:17,896 --> 01:23:21,971
Yeah, Ozempic. That they have bad... I had breath. This

1343
01:23:22,052 --> 01:23:29,207
is very noticeable. Really? Particularly in church. Yeah. particularly in

1344
01:23:29,528 --> 01:23:33,847
church. I'm not pointing anybody out, but I'm just like,

1345
01:23:33,867 --> 01:23:36,900
you know, girl, you're on the O and your breath

1346
01:23:36,960 --> 01:23:41,945
is hawking. What does it smell like? death warmed over

1347
01:23:41,985 --> 01:23:46,781
just nasty you know it's It has to do, I

1348
01:23:46,801 --> 01:23:50,455
think it has to do with. Uh, what is it?

1349
01:23:51,291 --> 01:23:53,786
What is the word? Ketones. Ketones. Thank you. Thank you.

1350
01:23:53,826 --> 01:23:58,259
Ketones. Yeah, it has to do with ketones. Rapid weight

1351
01:23:58,319 --> 01:24:01,344
loss can do that. But it doesn't matter. Because here

1352
01:24:01,445 --> 01:24:05,652
is a no agenda show prediction come true in the

1353
01:24:05,672 --> 01:24:10,741
worst possible way through our president. Today, I'm thrilled to

1354
01:24:10,802 --> 01:24:14,689
announce that starting on July 1st, we will also provide

1355
01:24:14,789 --> 01:24:18,515
Medicare patients with the coverage for weight loss drugs like

1356
01:24:18,976 --> 01:24:22,165
Ozepic. There it is. There it is. We knew it

1357
01:24:22,225 --> 01:24:25,295
was coming. Now, it's not the bonanza they thought it

1358
01:24:25,355 --> 01:24:29,770
was going to be. Zep pound, Wee Govee. Wee Govee.

1359
01:24:29,850 --> 01:24:38,005
Will be available for $50 a month. $50. Wow. $50?

1360
01:24:38,588 --> 01:24:42,374
Now think of that, $50 a month. So, if it

1361
01:24:42,434 --> 01:24:48,237
was $1,300... Now it's $50. And the $1,300 doesn't cover

1362
01:24:48,277 --> 01:24:51,583
a whole month. So it's really even more than that.

1363
01:24:51,603 --> 01:24:55,290
The fat vax. So it's now down to $50. So

1364
01:24:55,851 --> 01:24:58,856
that's where you get it. And also, and you remember

1365
01:24:58,896 --> 01:25:01,566
when I cut in. Oh yeah, now it goes into

1366
01:25:01,606 --> 01:25:03,858
the whole insulin thing. Blah blah blah. So there it

1367
01:25:03,938 --> 01:25:06,593
is. Now it's not the bonanza they wanted it to

1368
01:25:06,653 --> 01:25:10,290
be. And I think you still have to pay for

1369
01:25:10,330 --> 01:25:14,518
it yourself. I mean, is Medicare picking up a piece

1370
01:25:14,559 --> 01:25:16,555
of the cost or how does that work? It must

1371
01:25:16,616 --> 01:25:20,219
be. I mean, I can't imagine that they're like, okay.

1372
01:25:20,355 --> 01:25:24,456
50 bucks. No, no, no. There's Medicare is being drained.

1373
01:25:25,140 --> 01:25:30,623
Yeah. You know, it's being. eviscerated by these these various

1374
01:25:31,345 --> 01:25:36,686
overpriced drugs that they were overpriced on purpose and the

1375
01:25:36,887 --> 01:25:40,221
ridiculous amount of prescriptions that are going out. Yeah. That's

1376
01:25:40,241 --> 01:25:42,136
why it's going to be bankrupt in no time. I'm

1377
01:25:42,156 --> 01:25:44,051
going to be one of the last people on Medicare.

1378
01:25:44,855 --> 01:25:49,176
I'll never make it. I don't think so. They're going

1379
01:25:49,216 --> 01:25:50,599
out of their, you can just see it. You can

1380
01:25:51,020 --> 01:25:54,247
sense it when you're in the system that they're, they're

1381
01:25:54,347 --> 01:25:58,716
doing everything they can to drain it. Yeah. Any life

1382
01:25:58,796 --> 01:26:05,704
force. So. Uh, RFK Jr. trying, trying to do some

1383
01:26:05,724 --> 01:26:11,427
stuff. Trying. But I think it is hopeless. Here he

1384
01:26:11,467 --> 01:26:17,267
is on the SSRIs, which we call the modern MKUltra.

1385
01:26:17,287 --> 01:26:20,218
In Washington. The United States does not just face the

1386
01:26:20,258 --> 01:26:24,645
mental health. crisis, we face a dependency crisis. Driven by

1387
01:26:24,705 --> 01:26:29,399
over-medicalization. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a plan

1388
01:26:29,419 --> 01:26:33,751
yesterday to rein in what he's called Americans' overuse of

1389
01:26:33,772 --> 01:26:37,743
antidepressants. We will no longer treat them as the default.

1390
01:26:38,227 --> 01:26:41,541
We will treat them as one option. Kennedy has narrowed

1391
01:26:41,601 --> 01:26:46,090
in specifically on SSRIs, the most widely prescribed class of

1392
01:26:46,191 --> 01:26:51,642
antidepressants. That includes household names like Zoloft, Paxil, Prozac. The

1393
01:26:51,742 --> 01:26:56,051
user base is huge. Roughly one in six Americans reported

1394
01:26:56,131 --> 01:26:59,718
taking an SSRI this year. One in six? Kennedy acknowledged

1395
01:26:59,738 --> 01:27:02,527
that patients... can benefit from them, and he stressed that

1396
01:27:02,567 --> 01:27:05,960
he wasn't telling anyone to just stop. But he argued

1397
01:27:06,000 --> 01:27:08,709
that too many people start taking the meds without knowing

1398
01:27:08,770 --> 01:27:11,780
how long they'll stay on them, and with no plan

1399
01:27:11,800 --> 01:27:16,242
to come off. He has singled out SSRIs before. He's

1400
01:27:16,343 --> 01:27:20,357
previously claimed without evidence that they are partly responsible for...

1401
01:27:20,377 --> 01:27:23,778
Without evidence! The rise in school shootings and that they

1402
01:27:23,798 --> 01:27:26,918
can be harder to quit than heroin, something he repeated

1403
01:27:26,959 --> 01:27:31,690
yesterday. For his new effort, Kennedy announced several initiatives like

1404
01:27:31,850 --> 01:27:35,702
trainings and new guidelines to nudge clinicians to help patients

1405
01:27:35,782 --> 01:27:40,316
get off medications and consider other treatment options like therapy

1406
01:27:40,436 --> 01:27:45,156
or exercise. No major medical organizations were represented at yesterday's

1407
01:27:45,216 --> 01:27:49,522
event. Of course not. Of course not. But, so this

1408
01:27:49,662 --> 01:27:53,568
news is slowly, slowly getting through. And you and I

1409
01:27:53,628 --> 01:27:56,091
agree that there's probably a lot of people who listen

1410
01:27:56,151 --> 01:28:00,057
to our podcast who are on SSRIs. One in six.

1411
01:28:00,077 --> 01:28:03,239
So we say this not... Not to scorn you, but

1412
01:28:03,300 --> 01:28:06,879
to try and help you. uh because we've been following

1413
01:28:06,899 --> 01:28:11,411
the ssri mk ultra for a long time and they

1414
01:28:11,451 --> 01:28:15,602
stopped reporting on shooters if they were on ssris or

1415
01:28:15,662 --> 01:28:18,188
not you can never get that information and you can't

1416
01:28:18,208 --> 01:28:22,319
get that information because they're advertised on television another thing

1417
01:28:22,871 --> 01:28:25,483
RFK Jr. said that he would stop with the swipe

1418
01:28:25,544 --> 01:28:29,346
of a pen. If he was president, I guess. Somebody

1419
01:28:29,426 --> 01:28:33,236
pointed out that comments were running for president, even though

1420
01:28:33,256 --> 01:28:37,186
he should have the exact same goals. Yes, and this

1421
01:28:37,267 --> 01:28:39,793
president should be able to do that, and he should.

1422
01:28:39,853 --> 01:28:45,869
He won't. Here. is Ella Emhoff. Yeah, you know, this

1423
01:28:45,929 --> 01:28:47,514
is funny because I was looking at this clip and

1424
01:28:47,534 --> 01:28:50,665
I said, should I get this clip of Ella? And

1425
01:28:50,705 --> 01:28:53,093
I decided against it, but I'm glad you got it

1426
01:28:53,113 --> 01:28:56,413
because it's a... It's an example of people that are

1427
01:28:56,494 --> 01:29:00,453
stuck on these. And by the way, shocker, she takes

1428
01:29:00,533 --> 01:29:06,048
these things. Yeah, she. She was crocheting in Brooklyn when

1429
01:29:06,108 --> 01:29:09,174
she heard the news. I'm just sitting here crocheting. And

1430
01:29:09,214 --> 01:29:12,781
just so people know, Ella Emhoff is Kamala Harris's stepdaughter.

1431
01:29:13,122 --> 01:29:15,867
I'm just sitting here crocheting, waiting for a friend. And

1432
01:29:15,887 --> 01:29:18,473
I was just listening to this podcast that the Wall

1433
01:29:18,493 --> 01:29:24,069
Street Journal put out about SSRIs. anti-anxiety meds and kind

1434
01:29:24,089 --> 01:29:26,957
of the over prescription of them in America. And it

1435
01:29:27,558 --> 01:29:29,704
was making me think a lot because I've been on

1436
01:29:29,824 --> 01:29:35,880
SSRIs for over a decade, almost 15 years probably. They

1437
01:29:35,900 --> 01:29:41,317
were calling out the lack of research on long-term use

1438
01:29:41,357 --> 01:29:46,188
of these. things they were calling out. The... lack of

1439
01:29:46,229 --> 01:29:50,517
information that doctors give about coming off of these meds

1440
01:29:50,918 --> 01:29:54,164
and kind of the psychological effects they can have. And

1441
01:29:54,184 --> 01:29:57,471
it really got me thinking how little I've thought about

1442
01:29:57,591 --> 01:30:01,960
that naively, obviously. But I've noticed that every time I've

1443
01:30:02,000 --> 01:30:04,665
gone off of it for a week or missed it

1444
01:30:04,765 --> 01:30:08,673
or for whatever reason, like it has been really hard

1445
01:30:08,813 --> 01:30:10,958
for me and I've had a really hard time. And

1446
01:30:12,060 --> 01:30:14,945
I guess this is just something I was wondering if

1447
01:30:15,046 --> 01:30:18,693
you guys have thought about or relate to or kind

1448
01:30:18,773 --> 01:30:21,518
of consider when you're thinking about going on meds like

1449
01:30:21,579 --> 01:30:23,883
that. Meds. Because I don't know if this is something

1450
01:30:23,903 --> 01:30:27,007
that I feel like is being talked about enough because...

1451
01:30:28,099 --> 01:30:30,388
I feel like so many of us are on these

1452
01:30:30,449 --> 01:30:35,860
meds and... this is like actually happening like people get

1453
01:30:35,960 --> 01:30:38,067
off of them and they kind of break down and

1454
01:30:38,107 --> 01:30:40,896
it could be really bad so yeah i guess i

1455
01:30:40,916 --> 01:30:43,667
just want your general thoughts Yeah, my general thoughts are,

1456
01:30:43,727 --> 01:30:46,943
girl, I pray for you. And, you know, it's very

1457
01:30:47,023 --> 01:30:51,415
difficult to quit these meds. Because you get brain zaps

1458
01:30:51,496 --> 01:30:55,448
and all kinds of horrible things. And your No Agenda

1459
01:30:55,468 --> 01:30:57,181
show is going to go one step further. We are

1460
01:30:57,242 --> 01:30:59,620
going to play a clip which may be shocking to

1461
01:30:59,680 --> 01:31:04,056
some. So parents... Younger children probably shouldn't hear this. They

1462
01:31:04,096 --> 01:31:07,783
may not understand all the words necessarily. This is a

1463
01:31:07,944 --> 01:31:12,187
Health and Human Services testimony from a woman named Lauren.

1464
01:31:12,511 --> 01:31:16,603
And she is testifying about PSSD, which we've talked about

1465
01:31:16,664 --> 01:31:20,455
on the show before, which may be responsible for the

1466
01:31:20,515 --> 01:31:24,304
incredible low birth rate. we have because people on these

1467
01:31:24,545 --> 01:31:28,092
meds don't want to have sex and sex in fact

1468
01:31:28,152 --> 01:31:31,559
is not pleasurable for them love is not even capable

1469
01:31:31,639 --> 01:31:35,467
for them so the hallmark symptom of PSSD is genital

1470
01:31:35,487 --> 01:31:38,793
numbness yes like complete loss of sensation in your genitals

1471
01:31:39,475 --> 01:31:42,961
for me I clearly hate to talk but my clitoris

1472
01:31:43,021 --> 01:31:44,844
is completely numb as if it's the back of my

1473
01:31:44,924 --> 01:31:48,210
elbow. I have no sensation internally. I'm 23 years old.

1474
01:31:49,732 --> 01:31:52,397
Suffers also lose the ability to orgasm permanently, like for

1475
01:31:52,437 --> 01:31:54,981
the rest of their lives, and their libido entirely, which

1476
01:31:55,041 --> 01:31:57,084
for me and what a lot of other people experience

1477
01:31:57,124 --> 01:32:01,619
is like a sudden onset. like chemical asexuality that just

1478
01:32:01,599 --> 01:32:05,893
And in my opinion, I don't think it's sensational to

1479
01:32:05,953 --> 01:32:10,852
say that this is a form of chemical castration, But

1480
01:32:10,912 --> 01:32:13,679
beyond that, PSSD is not just a loss of sexual

1481
01:32:13,719 --> 01:32:16,105
function, but a loss for some people of emotional function

1482
01:32:16,125 --> 01:32:19,213
as well. That has been the case for me. Before

1483
01:32:19,273 --> 01:32:25,384
this, I was a super emotional... empathetic, loving, caring, like

1484
01:32:25,785 --> 01:32:29,313
Sylvia Plath reading and resonating girl. And the day I

1485
01:32:29,353 --> 01:32:32,259
woke up with this injury, I quite literally felt my

1486
01:32:32,359 --> 01:32:35,666
soul leave my body. Like I'm so serious. It was

1487
01:32:35,746 --> 01:32:40,553
the most unbelievable, inorganic thing I've ever experienced. It's a

1488
01:32:40,615 --> 01:32:44,232
common symptom people who have this condition. To this day,

1489
01:32:44,293 --> 01:32:46,623
it's been years for me. I'm 23 now. I can't

1490
01:32:46,663 --> 01:32:49,686
feel love for my own mother, which... It's the hardest

1491
01:32:49,748 --> 01:32:55,175
thing on earth. Dude. This is poison. This is poison.

1492
01:32:56,107 --> 01:32:59,919
This is very bad. They're not going to play this

1493
01:33:00,000 --> 01:33:04,890
on CNN. Because that's their bread and butter. What a

1494
01:33:05,010 --> 01:33:09,428
terrible situation. So you sent me two clips. You sent

1495
01:33:09,468 --> 01:33:16,159
me a clip of... trigonometry, what is the podcast? Yeah,

1496
01:33:16,179 --> 01:33:21,546
the podcast. Trigonometry and an Adam Carolla podcast. And they

1497
01:33:21,567 --> 01:33:25,878
were both about this woman, Helen Andrews. who wrote an

1498
01:33:25,918 --> 01:33:28,425
essay, which after you sent me those clips, I'm like,

1499
01:33:28,445 --> 01:33:31,353
I've heard about this lady. I go look it up.

1500
01:33:31,373 --> 01:33:34,241
Yeah, the essay's famous. Yeah, it's a famous essay. And

1501
01:33:34,281 --> 01:33:36,848
so I was able to pull three really short clips,

1502
01:33:37,048 --> 01:33:41,402
all around 40 seconds, from a speech she gave. And

1503
01:33:41,563 --> 01:33:43,679
she, in this essay, which is linked in the show

1504
01:33:43,720 --> 01:33:51,655
notes, she very clearly... explains. how wokeness and the really

1505
01:33:51,695 --> 01:33:55,891
she calls it the feminization. of America, but really the

1506
01:33:55,973 --> 01:33:59,817
world. is ruining us. Do you want to add anything

1507
01:33:59,858 --> 01:34:02,821
to it before I play these? Well, I thought Corolla's

1508
01:34:03,531 --> 01:34:08,263
take on it. And I'm not a Corolla fan. He

1509
01:34:08,585 --> 01:34:15,691
invented podcasting, you know. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I've heard.

1510
01:34:16,271 --> 01:34:18,967
I thought his take on it was quite, it was

1511
01:34:19,007 --> 01:34:23,767
a little nonchalant take. that was mostly reflective of what's

1512
01:34:23,787 --> 01:34:26,334
going on in Los Angeles. And of course, we have

1513
01:34:26,374 --> 01:34:30,847
this Spencer Pratt guy that's kicking ass with almost a

1514
01:34:30,988 --> 01:34:35,913
daily new... AI ad is phenomenal. They got some great

1515
01:34:35,974 --> 01:34:40,541
models. They're getting some traction, that's for sure. Yeah. Which

1516
01:34:40,867 --> 01:34:44,832
it was just which derives a bit from this one

1517
01:34:44,852 --> 01:34:48,495
but he says he's been working on his thoughts for

1518
01:34:48,515 --> 01:34:53,623
15 years about this issue, about the feminization issue. And

1519
01:34:54,026 --> 01:34:57,689
part of it was just to summarize. Women like to

1520
01:34:57,750 --> 01:35:02,765
talk. And once they're satisfied by talking about it. fixing

1521
01:35:02,866 --> 01:35:07,108
something, but it's the men who actually get the work

1522
01:35:07,148 --> 01:35:11,630
done. Women do get work done, but they can also

1523
01:35:11,851 --> 01:35:15,187
just talk, talk, talk, and never get anything done. Here's

1524
01:35:15,247 --> 01:35:21,919
the intro. The libertarian economist Tyler Cowen once wrote a...

1525
01:35:21,927 --> 01:35:25,179
blog post describing all of the revolutions he's seen in

1526
01:35:25,220 --> 01:35:28,512
the course of his lifetime, starting with the moon landing

1527
01:35:28,552 --> 01:35:30,901
when he was a little boy and going up chronologically

1528
01:35:31,283 --> 01:35:35,286
to today's advent of AI. And there were only seven

1529
01:35:35,326 --> 01:35:39,287
revolutions on this list because this was only the greatest

1530
01:35:39,609 --> 01:35:44,280
and most earth-shaking ones. And right there, between the fall

1531
01:35:44,320 --> 01:35:47,711
of communism and the invention of the internet, was something

1532
01:35:47,771 --> 01:35:52,230
called the Great Feminization. That is not a phrase that

1533
01:35:52,270 --> 01:35:55,981
a lot of Americans know, but future historians may well

1534
01:35:56,021 --> 01:35:58,769
rank it as having greater importance than almost any other

1535
01:35:58,830 --> 01:36:03,482
revolution on that list. Including communism. So here's a brief

1536
01:36:03,522 --> 01:36:07,053
description. I have referred several times so far to feminization

1537
01:36:07,093 --> 01:36:10,003
without defining what that means. I'll have a lot to

1538
01:36:10,063 --> 01:36:11,889
say about it in just a moment. But if you

1539
01:36:11,929 --> 01:36:14,196
want to put it in a single sentence, you could

1540
01:36:14,236 --> 01:36:20,079
say that feminization equals... Wokeness. Everything you think of as

1541
01:36:20,140 --> 01:36:26,656
wokeness is simply a dream. of demographic feminization. Think about

1542
01:36:26,696 --> 01:36:31,771
all the things that wokeness means. Valuing empathy over rationality,

1543
01:36:32,132 --> 01:36:38,670
safety over risk, conformity and cohesion over competition and hierarchy.

1544
01:36:39,031 --> 01:36:42,170
All of these things are privileging the feminine. Over the

1545
01:36:42,190 --> 01:36:45,533
masculine. And it makes so much sense that the Democrat

1546
01:36:45,593 --> 01:36:52,331
Party uses this. Because it activates women. It really does

1547
01:36:52,553 --> 01:36:57,851
activate them. When you have a... a class that is

1548
01:36:58,271 --> 01:37:02,658
Uh, suppressed. Like, oh, oh yeah. Oh, yeah, no, this

1549
01:37:02,718 --> 01:37:05,889
is horrible. We have to do something about that. This

1550
01:37:05,970 --> 01:37:11,612
is the Karens, the white liberal women. Of America, certainly.

1551
01:37:12,415 --> 01:37:16,838
And it's kind of frightening when you read this essay

1552
01:37:16,858 --> 01:37:22,105
and you see all the fields. that have been now

1553
01:37:22,369 --> 01:37:31,330
really taken over by women. Education. psychology. um and medicine

1554
01:37:31,652 --> 01:37:36,588
medicine yeah oh yeah how about covid burks and walensky

1555
01:37:36,629 --> 01:37:39,429
and was it walensky walensky i think her name was

1556
01:37:39,771 --> 01:37:41,960
yeah yeah yeah shut it down Shut it down, shut

1557
01:37:41,981 --> 01:37:46,193
them in. Everybody stay home. There was no masculine energy.

1558
01:37:46,213 --> 01:37:50,527
Female mayors. Female mayors. How about Queen Ursula? All of

1559
01:37:50,610 --> 01:37:56,239
this stuff. And she is also skeptical that this can

1560
01:37:56,299 --> 01:38:02,536
be turned around, but she does have one recommendation. where

1561
01:38:02,576 --> 01:38:06,129
we should start if we want to defeminize. So that's

1562
01:38:06,511 --> 01:38:08,779
agenda item number one. Get rid of all the HR

1563
01:38:08,799 --> 01:38:14,850
ladies. Who's with me? Just fire them. And then we'll

1564
01:38:14,871 --> 01:38:16,820
see how it shakes out. If your company has too

1565
01:38:16,860 --> 01:38:19,373
few women, that might indicate that you have a problem

1566
01:38:19,393 --> 01:38:21,573
with your recruiting pipeline. On the other hand, it might

1567
01:38:21,613 --> 01:38:23,759
not. Either way, we're not going to send a team

1568
01:38:23,799 --> 01:38:26,526
of lawyers after you to second guess you. Yeah, and

1569
01:38:26,547 --> 01:38:29,715
it's not that women are bad. It's just when women

1570
01:38:29,775 --> 01:38:39,351
control certain... sectors or industries or policy They don't necessarily

1571
01:38:39,432 --> 01:38:42,022
have a... a get it done way of doing things.

1572
01:38:42,042 --> 01:38:45,673
Climate change is another great example. You know, how many

1573
01:38:45,793 --> 01:38:48,478
meetings, how many hundreds of billions of dollars do we

1574
01:38:48,518 --> 01:38:51,323
not have in meetings about doing, and they never get

1575
01:38:51,403 --> 01:38:54,729
there, ever, because there's nothing, nowhere to get. Many meetings.

1576
01:38:55,310 --> 01:38:58,957
Yeah, just meetings and meetings and meetings and meetings. That's

1577
01:38:58,997 --> 01:39:04,083
because they need. for consensus. Consensus, yeah. And I think

1578
01:39:04,124 --> 01:39:05,764
a lot of women will read this and go, hmm,

1579
01:39:05,845 --> 01:39:08,536
that's interesting. Yeah, a lot of them would be irked

1580
01:39:08,576 --> 01:39:14,843
about it. Yeah, probably. Your sexism doesn't help. My sexism?

1581
01:39:15,391 --> 01:39:21,497
*laughs* Really, no. Ugh. Ugh. See, what we need is

1582
01:39:21,577 --> 01:39:24,564
a president who says stuff like this. We provided 100

1583
01:39:25,085 --> 01:39:29,916
percent expensing and bonus depreciation, which is tremendous. One of

1584
01:39:29,976 --> 01:39:32,983
the biggest things that you have. I mean, people have

1585
01:39:33,023 --> 01:39:36,951
no idea how big that is. So that businesses can

1586
01:39:36,991 --> 01:39:40,419
deduct 100 percent of the cost of new facilities, equipment.

1587
01:39:40,399 --> 01:39:43,265
and capital investment in the first year. It used to

1588
01:39:43,325 --> 01:39:45,850
take 38 years of deduction. Now you get it done

1589
01:39:45,930 --> 01:39:48,776
in one. You can take one so you can expand.

1590
01:39:48,796 --> 01:39:51,782
I think that's what made us so successful in the

1591
01:39:51,822 --> 01:39:53,566
first term. And now we have it for a 10-year

1592
01:39:53,626 --> 01:39:56,151
period. So you have it for a while. I really

1593
01:39:56,191 --> 01:39:57,674
was going to make it for a one-year period. That

1594
01:39:57,715 --> 01:40:00,889
would mean you spend all your money immediately. Now, unfortunately,

1595
01:40:00,909 --> 01:40:03,576
I gave you too much time. I was sort of

1596
01:40:03,656 --> 01:40:05,521
against that. I said, let's do it for a shorter

1597
01:40:05,561 --> 01:40:07,586
period of time. But we did it. It's the right

1598
01:40:07,646 --> 01:40:10,794
thing. And this way, when I get out of office

1599
01:40:11,656 --> 01:40:15,538
in, let's say, eight or nine years from now... I'll

1600
01:40:15,558 --> 01:40:17,599
be able to use it. I'll be able to use

1601
01:40:17,640 --> 01:40:26,440
it myself. Yeah, baby. Yeah. *Gasps* This is great. Let's

1602
01:40:26,460 --> 01:40:29,114
talk about climate change for a minute. Oh, must wrap.

1603
01:40:29,134 --> 01:40:31,004
All right. All right. Climate change. I got to do

1604
01:40:31,024 --> 01:40:35,997
some funny clips here. But there's a very interesting follow-up

1605
01:40:36,078 --> 01:40:40,019
clip. This climate, New Orleans needs to prepare. New Orleans.

1606
01:40:39,999 --> 01:40:43,269
is a vibrant city, home of the French Quarter and

1607
01:40:43,309 --> 01:40:51,533
the birthplace of jazz. It's hard to imagine that it

1608
01:40:51,614 --> 01:40:56,536
all might disappear. Yet that's the verdict of a study

1609
01:40:56,616 --> 01:41:00,260
published this week in the Nature Sustainability Journal. It finds

1610
01:41:00,320 --> 01:41:03,006
that sea level rise means the city could end up

1611
01:41:03,046 --> 01:41:06,272
being surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico by the end

1612
01:41:06,312 --> 01:41:09,298
of the century. Jesse Keenan is one of the city's

1613
01:41:09,338 --> 01:41:12,364
co-authors. He's the director of the Center on Climate Change

1614
01:41:12,705 --> 01:41:15,972
and Urbanism at Tulane University. And he joins me now.

1615
01:41:16,012 --> 01:41:18,857
Professor, good morning. Thank you so much for having me.

1616
01:41:18,877 --> 01:41:23,030
Is New Orleans... Well, what we see is that currently

1617
01:41:23,190 --> 01:41:27,586
atmospheric temperatures are roughly where they were during the last

1618
01:41:27,666 --> 01:41:32,242
interglacial, about 125,000 to 150,000 years ago. Now there's a

1619
01:41:32,302 --> 01:41:35,760
lag between global temperatures and sea level rise, but when

1620
01:41:35,820 --> 01:41:38,816
we begin to add it up, there's a recognition that

1621
01:41:38,876 --> 01:41:42,410
New Orleans has a matter of generations to prepare for

1622
01:41:42,450 --> 01:41:46,465
a transition north to the mainland and away from the

1623
01:41:46,505 --> 01:41:50,479
coast. So a transition, is relocation the only option for

1624
01:41:50,519 --> 01:41:53,786
New Orleans? Well, we don't really get into the engineering

1625
01:41:53,827 --> 01:41:57,255
specifics, but it's generally agreed that it would be nearly

1626
01:41:57,275 --> 01:42:01,484
impossible to engineer. a multi-purpose levee and dike system around

1627
01:42:01,524 --> 01:42:04,610
New Orleans. About 80% of New Orleans' land area is

1628
01:42:04,670 --> 01:42:07,997
underwater, or below sea level, I should say. It's essentially

1629
01:42:08,037 --> 01:42:09,701
a bowl. You can think about it in those terms.

1630
01:42:09,761 --> 01:42:12,767
So to be surrounded by open water and be exposed

1631
01:42:12,847 --> 01:42:17,176
to increasingly stronger hurricanes, the land itself is sinking and

1632
01:42:17,216 --> 01:42:22,398
the seas are rising. combination really makes it nearly impossible

1633
01:42:22,438 --> 01:42:24,650
to be able to engineer a solution to keep New

1634
01:42:24,711 --> 01:42:30,107
Orleans afloat. Did you see that? Uh, Mexico City is

1635
01:42:30,208 --> 01:42:33,506
sinking by half an inch a year? Yeah, it's been

1636
01:42:33,526 --> 01:42:37,428
doing that forever. Yeah, well, doesn't that eventually, don't they

1637
01:42:37,489 --> 01:42:41,979
wind up in Australia or something? I like China. China?

1638
01:42:43,231 --> 01:42:46,331
Yeah, it's been doing that forever. Well, so has Venice.

1639
01:42:46,783 --> 01:42:50,654
Yeah, well, Venice, yeah. Venice is definitely, I mean, that

1640
01:42:50,674 --> 01:42:54,404
thing's underwater every three weeks. I mean, it's just constantly

1641
01:42:54,464 --> 01:42:57,151
sinking. Wow. Yeah. Let's go to part two of this

1642
01:42:57,172 --> 01:43:00,316
and then we can bring an expert in. Now, it's

1643
01:43:00,336 --> 01:43:04,345
important to note the study predicts the surrounding of New

1644
01:43:04,405 --> 01:43:07,592
Orleans and even the possible submersion of New Orleans sometime

1645
01:43:07,632 --> 01:43:10,358
in the future. And you don't know exactly when. Fish

1646
01:43:10,498 --> 01:43:12,583
flopping on the streets. And that will be. But is

1647
01:43:12,743 --> 01:43:16,632
anyone actually making plans for this possibility in the future?

1648
01:43:16,892 --> 01:43:18,957
Well, I wouldn't say it's so much of a prediction

1649
01:43:19,037 --> 01:43:22,965
as the geological. and the paleoclimatic evidence points us in

1650
01:43:23,025 --> 01:43:25,971
the direction that New Orleans will be surrounded by open

1651
01:43:26,031 --> 01:43:28,175
water, and it is very likely that it will be

1652
01:43:28,296 --> 01:43:32,203
inundated. That question, whether we have decades or maybe over

1653
01:43:32,264 --> 01:43:35,991
a century to go, is in a way open to

1654
01:43:36,071 --> 01:43:39,558
science. But the real question is when and what does

1655
01:43:39,638 --> 01:43:42,063
it mean to... to begin to plan a transition of

1656
01:43:42,103 --> 01:43:45,630
the population, of businesses, of capital, and that's the challenge

1657
01:43:45,651 --> 01:43:47,815
we have ahead of us in terms of public policy.

1658
01:43:48,476 --> 01:43:50,881
There is not currently planning by the city or the

1659
01:43:50,921 --> 01:43:53,607
state to begin this transition. What we have seen in

1660
01:43:53,687 --> 01:43:56,292
recent years, which is critical as we highlight in our

1661
01:43:56,332 --> 01:43:59,298
work, is that there has been sediment diversion from the

1662
01:43:59,338 --> 01:44:02,926
Mississippi. river that can build land and by building land

1663
01:44:02,946 --> 01:44:05,531
in and around New Orleans you can buy time and

1664
01:44:05,591 --> 01:44:08,357
buying time is the the most critical aspect here now

1665
01:44:08,417 --> 01:44:11,643
that project was killed by the governor just last year

1666
01:44:11,904 --> 01:44:14,489
as not being particularly cost effective as it was argued

1667
01:44:14,910 --> 01:44:17,314
the reality is much of the expense of that project

1668
01:44:17,355 --> 01:44:20,340
was actually paid for by BP oil bill money from

1669
01:44:20,381 --> 01:44:23,286
a number of years ago. So the reality is that

1670
01:44:23,347 --> 01:44:26,573
every decade that we can buy to help transition is

1671
01:44:26,814 --> 01:44:31,944
critical for the success of environmental management, environmental quality, what

1672
01:44:31,984 --> 01:44:34,990
we leave behind, but also the humane treatment of people

1673
01:44:35,010 --> 01:44:37,595
that are otherwise going to find themselves in a very

1674
01:44:37,635 --> 01:44:40,605
difficult situation in the decades to come. I still don't

1675
01:44:40,967 --> 01:44:43,682
understand exactly what climate change has to do with it

1676
01:44:43,742 --> 01:44:47,947
and what is the solution that they're proposing. Moving the

1677
01:44:48,030 --> 01:44:53,532
city. Oh. Moving the city. Moving the city. Yeah, just

1678
01:44:53,572 --> 01:44:56,386
move it. Get it out of the air. It's going

1679
01:44:56,446 --> 01:45:00,447
to sink. So here's this guy. I thought this would

1680
01:45:00,467 --> 01:45:08,096
be a nice counter. Counterbalance. This guy, um... Greg Braden,

1681
01:45:08,137 --> 01:45:15,561
professor. logical climatologist guy's not bought off. Listen to this

1682
01:45:15,722 --> 01:45:21,451
little piece by this. by this guy on climate change

1683
01:45:21,511 --> 01:45:25,417
in general. Another example, I'm going to use climate change

1684
01:45:25,738 --> 01:45:29,043
as a geologist. I'm very passionate about this. You believe

1685
01:45:29,103 --> 01:45:32,449
in it? Climate change is a fact. I've been talking

1686
01:45:32,769 --> 01:45:35,454
about it since 1979. It's also a fact that humans

1687
01:45:35,494 --> 01:45:38,929
are not causing it. Humans are not causing it. The

1688
01:45:39,010 --> 01:45:41,597
real scientists know this. The cow farts. It's not the

1689
01:45:41,617 --> 01:45:46,717
cows. Cow farts. I'll tell you. I mean, NASA knows

1690
01:45:46,878 --> 01:45:49,977
this. that over 90% of the CO2, there is an

1691
01:45:50,037 --> 01:45:53,711
increase in CO2. I made a statement and I just

1692
01:45:53,731 --> 01:45:56,818
want to justify this. Is there more CO2 in the

1693
01:45:56,838 --> 01:45:59,031
atmosphere now than there was 10 years ago? 20, 50,

1694
01:45:59,051 --> 01:46:01,655
100 years ago, the answer is absolutely yes. Is it

1695
01:46:01,675 --> 01:46:04,038
a bad thing? The answer is no. Is it the

1696
01:46:04,098 --> 01:46:06,642
most we've ever had? We're right about 440 parts per

1697
01:46:06,662 --> 01:46:10,567
million right now. In geologic history, we're looking Cretaceous over

1698
01:46:10,587 --> 01:46:13,972
1,000, or the Jurassic over 1,000 parts per million, Triassic

1699
01:46:13,992 --> 01:46:16,836
2,000 parts per million. The Earth was lush. The Earth

1700
01:46:16,896 --> 01:46:21,161
was green. Life was abundant. during that time. And what

1701
01:46:21,201 --> 01:46:23,608
we see in geologic history, and this is fascinating me,

1702
01:46:23,628 --> 01:46:25,574
there are times when CO2 levels are high and the

1703
01:46:25,634 --> 01:46:29,104
temperatures are low. And times when just the opposite is

1704
01:46:29,145 --> 01:46:33,874
happening, it's not necessarily a one-to-one correlation. Where's the CO2

1705
01:46:33,895 --> 01:46:38,334
coming from? NASA knows. I've got a bunch of videos

1706
01:46:38,434 --> 01:46:41,415
on this. Over 90... percent of the CO2 is coming

1707
01:46:41,456 --> 01:46:45,595
from the oceans warming warm water holds less gas here's

1708
01:46:45,635 --> 01:46:50,427
the kicker the oceans are warming from underneath not from

1709
01:46:50,447 --> 01:46:52,524
the top, if it was from the CO2 on the

1710
01:46:52,564 --> 01:46:55,766
top. you know, the warming of the air. It would

1711
01:46:55,806 --> 01:46:57,763
be coming from the top. It's warming. The glaciers are

1712
01:46:57,804 --> 01:47:01,879
melting from underneath. The CO2 is... coming, the oceans are

1713
01:47:01,919 --> 01:47:06,323
warming from underneath from tectonic processes. that happen about every

1714
01:47:06,343 --> 01:47:09,234
12,500 years that people just don't want to talk about.

1715
01:47:10,037 --> 01:47:13,831
It is a tectonic process that begins in the core.

1716
01:47:14,315 --> 01:47:18,068
translates perturbations into the mantle, into the crust, the weak

1717
01:47:18,149 --> 01:47:21,065
areas of the crust. You see more tectonic activity, more

1718
01:47:21,125 --> 01:47:24,757
volcanic activity was exactly what we were seeing. Give this

1719
01:47:24,837 --> 01:47:28,349
guy the hook. He's not, he said the wrong things.

1720
01:47:29,011 --> 01:47:35,174
That's not right. Yeah. So your point being... We still

1721
01:47:35,214 --> 01:47:39,117
gotta- Don't bullshit. We still gotta move New Orleans. Yeah,

1722
01:47:39,137 --> 01:47:42,207
well, we will. Move New Orleans. Move New Orleans. Probably

1723
01:47:42,288 --> 01:47:45,485
don't have to. Here's a question. You probably don't have

1724
01:47:45,586 --> 01:47:47,824
to. Here's a question for you. Did you ever meet

1725
01:47:47,925 --> 01:47:53,876
Ted Turner? I never met Ted Turner. Will Hurst told

1726
01:47:53,896 --> 01:47:56,366
me a couple of stories because he's met Ted Turner.

1727
01:47:56,828 --> 01:48:00,781
And his only story about Ted Turner is... There is

1728
01:48:00,802 --> 01:48:05,862
a, uh... There was a line to the bar, and

1729
01:48:05,902 --> 01:48:08,249
there was somebody standing there. It looked like they were

1730
01:48:08,269 --> 01:48:09,914
in the line, but they weren't in the line, and

1731
01:48:09,954 --> 01:48:13,464
the line moved, and Ted was behind these people. Hearst

1732
01:48:13,564 --> 01:48:15,610
witnessed this. I just thought it was a funny story.

1733
01:48:16,072 --> 01:48:18,774
And he says, Turner says to the guys, hey. Are

1734
01:48:18,815 --> 01:48:21,801
you in the line to get drinks? And the guy

1735
01:48:21,821 --> 01:48:23,789
said, no, I'm just standing here. So they get the

1736
01:48:23,850 --> 01:48:27,826
fuck out of the way. And he says that was

1737
01:48:27,886 --> 01:48:31,280
Ted Turner. That sounds like Ted Turner. And I would

1738
01:48:31,320 --> 01:48:34,362
just say. You do not want to be proclaimed dead

1739
01:48:34,422 --> 01:48:37,498
by me on the podcast. Because I think I said

1740
01:48:37,538 --> 01:48:41,420
he was dead just a couple weeks ago. And so

1741
01:48:41,480 --> 01:48:44,612
now he's dead. Thank you very much. 13 and 3

1742
01:48:44,632 --> 01:48:48,467
8 yesterday. Ted Turner was never a man to shy

1743
01:48:48,547 --> 01:48:53,416
away from a challenge on land or sea. Whether bringing

1744
01:48:53,457 --> 01:48:56,984
the America's Cup back to the US, saving the American

1745
01:48:57,044 --> 01:49:02,426
bison, Getting the Atlanta Braves to the World Series or

1746
01:49:03,087 --> 01:49:06,895
changing the way we all consumed news. The skies over

1747
01:49:06,955 --> 01:49:10,582
Baghdad have been illuminated. The cover war is now largely

1748
01:49:10,622 --> 01:49:13,528
because of the way CNN covered the first Gulf War

1749
01:49:13,608 --> 01:49:16,654
live. We intend to cover all the news all the

1750
01:49:16,674 --> 01:49:20,662
time. She was a hard-drinking cigar. smoking adventurer. He had

1751
01:49:20,782 --> 01:49:24,129
kind of an Ernest Hemingway vibe, just with deeper pockets.

1752
01:49:24,590 --> 01:49:28,938
I get thousands, millions, and billions mixed up. Turner had

1753
01:49:28,959 --> 01:49:31,203
all kinds of nicknames, the Mouth from the South and

1754
01:49:31,504 --> 01:49:35,672
Captain Outrageous. In 2018, though, he disclosed to CBS Sunday

1755
01:49:35,712 --> 01:49:39,419
Morning's Ted Koppel that he was fighting Lewy body dementia.

1756
01:49:39,459 --> 01:49:47,668
It's a... mild case of What? People have Alzheimer's. His

1757
01:49:47,748 --> 01:49:51,903
memory back then hadn't forgotten his three marriages, especially the

1758
01:49:52,063 --> 01:49:55,375
one to Jane Fonda. Have you ever quite got over

1759
01:49:55,395 --> 01:49:59,292
her? No. Do you think you ever will? No. When

1760
01:49:59,312 --> 01:50:02,803
you love somebody and you really love them, you never

1761
01:50:02,863 --> 01:50:05,271
stop loving them. He never got over his love of

1762
01:50:05,311 --> 01:50:08,541
the American West, either, and his philanthropic efforts will live

1763
01:50:08,682 --> 01:50:12,815
on in perpetuity. We don't really own anything, he said.

1764
01:50:13,139 --> 01:50:17,473
We just borrow it for a while. Yeah, he still

1765
01:50:17,514 --> 01:50:24,755
made 87. That's pretty good. considering how he lived. Yeah.

1766
01:50:24,775 --> 01:50:28,372
You know, he was a V different, definitely had some

1767
01:50:28,412 --> 01:50:32,074
insights into cable. Oh, man, he was so right about

1768
01:50:32,134 --> 01:50:35,607
that. And they laughed at him. They laughed. He had

1769
01:50:36,309 --> 01:50:41,227
WTBS first, right? Superstation TBS? I can't remember the whole

1770
01:50:41,267 --> 01:50:43,755
history, but the fact is that they laughed at him

1771
01:50:43,796 --> 01:50:45,421
a lot and said he's a fool. He didn't know

1772
01:50:45,461 --> 01:50:48,772
what he was doing was very, yes, very common in

1773
01:50:48,812 --> 01:50:53,402
the early days of cable. Yeah, Superstation WTBS. uh that

1774
01:50:53,443 --> 01:50:57,125
was that was so yeah tbs turner broadcasting yeah so

1775
01:50:57,246 --> 01:51:00,442
that was a superstation first which meant he's sending through

1776
01:51:00,483 --> 01:51:03,714
a whole bunch of television stations and later via satellite,

1777
01:51:03,774 --> 01:51:06,424
or maybe the distribution was through satellite. But the big

1778
01:51:06,464 --> 01:51:11,302
thing he did... is he would take old movies uh

1779
01:51:11,423 --> 01:51:15,154
cheap or cheaper than you know first run stuff He'd

1780
01:51:15,174 --> 01:51:20,331
take old movies and he would play them. Dead. 1105.

1781
01:51:21,199 --> 01:51:25,816
And 8.05. Because he knew that when people had seen

1782
01:51:25,856 --> 01:51:28,325
the headlines on the news and were bored, they would

1783
01:51:28,346 --> 01:51:30,715
be switching around, and then they'd hit the beginning of

1784
01:51:30,835 --> 01:51:37,399
one of his movies. And it was genius. Until podcasting

1785
01:51:37,420 --> 01:51:44,523
came along. Yeah, which changed everything. It sure did, baby.

1786
01:51:45,615 --> 01:51:50,584
Let's... I got to cut some one more Tucker Carlson

1787
01:51:50,604 --> 01:51:53,032
thing. I want to get out of the way. Oh,

1788
01:51:53,434 --> 01:51:56,264
man. I finally watched that whole Lulu interview with him.

1789
01:51:56,304 --> 01:52:02,687
It's kind of nutty. Well, he's like, there's something's up.

1790
01:52:02,968 --> 01:52:06,623
I'm convinced now that either he's got a mental condition.

1791
01:52:06,884 --> 01:52:14,424
Meds. Or there's meds. Meds. Meds. Meds. Meds. Meds. Meds.

1792
01:52:14,605 --> 01:52:21,421
Meds. Meds. Meds. clips last show I thought were very

1793
01:52:21,461 --> 01:52:24,811
revealing about maybe it's a cry for help. Maybe it's

1794
01:52:24,891 --> 01:52:27,760
a signal. Maybe it's code. I don't know. But he

1795
01:52:27,900 --> 01:52:31,391
pulls the stunt with, he pulls a similar stunt with

1796
01:52:31,511 --> 01:52:37,382
Dave Rubin who got irked about it. Tucker casually says

1797
01:52:37,422 --> 01:52:41,063
Dave- I didn't know who Dave- Rubin was and Dave

1798
01:52:41,143 --> 01:52:44,810
Rubin played the clip on his show and then blasted

1799
01:52:44,871 --> 01:52:49,379
Tucker because Tucker even blurbed his book and he'd been

1800
01:52:49,420 --> 01:52:52,946
to his house and on and on and this is

1801
01:52:52,987 --> 01:52:56,754
the Tucker redux Dave Rubin piece Dave Rubin whoever that

1802
01:52:56,854 --> 01:53:02,228
is is he conservative okay I guess. Whatever. You know,

1803
01:53:02,248 --> 01:53:04,753
it's funny, Tucker. Is he conservative? Well, first off, as

1804
01:53:04,813 --> 01:53:07,017
I often point out, I'm actually not a conservative in

1805
01:53:07,037 --> 01:53:11,104
the strictest capital C sense of conservative. But I do

1806
01:53:11,164 --> 01:53:14,250
believe that defending my liberal positions has become a conservative

1807
01:53:14,310 --> 01:53:17,556
value. Yeah, that's true. That's true. But also, Tucker, you

1808
01:53:17,576 --> 01:53:21,464
blurbed my book on class. I mean, read it for

1809
01:53:21,504 --> 01:53:24,110
you. I know you are a big fan of doing

1810
01:53:24,130 --> 01:53:26,715
this because it makes you look like you're smart. Dave

1811
01:53:26,755 --> 01:53:29,100
Rubin is one of the bravest, smartest people I know,

1812
01:53:29,160 --> 01:53:32,307
as well as a tremendous television presence. So who changed

1813
01:53:32,347 --> 01:53:34,171
since then? Is it me or is it you, buddy?

1814
01:53:34,612 --> 01:53:37,919
Is it me or is it you? It's not me.

1815
01:53:37,959 --> 01:53:41,626
Tucker also literally walked into my house because I was

1816
01:53:41,646 --> 01:53:43,490
one of the first people to have the home studio

1817
01:53:43,510 --> 01:53:45,955
and gone independent. And I think his actual quote was,

1818
01:53:46,135 --> 01:53:52,228
holy effing shit, you did it. You did it. The

1819
01:53:52,268 --> 01:53:54,592
blurb of the book, when he signed his last book

1820
01:53:54,612 --> 01:53:55,795
to me, he said, you're doing it for all the

1821
01:53:55,835 --> 01:53:58,928
guys stuck at corporate jobs or something like that. Again,

1822
01:53:58,968 --> 01:54:02,955
I tried to broker a peace with him and Ben.

1823
01:54:03,475 --> 01:54:04,958
But the reason I'm doing this, you know, I don't,

1824
01:54:05,178 --> 01:54:07,001
as you guys know, I don't like doing the things

1825
01:54:07,061 --> 01:54:08,985
about people that I've known or I was friends with

1826
01:54:09,065 --> 01:54:10,728
or just when I've been through just that I knew

1827
01:54:10,988 --> 01:54:14,654
Cenk and Hasan and Candice and all these people. It's

1828
01:54:14,734 --> 01:54:16,617
weird. I think about it a lot. Like, how did

1829
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this happen to me? But this guy he is a

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01:54:19,363 --> 01:54:21,708
fraud like there were plenty more videos We got into

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01:54:21,748 --> 01:54:23,232
it before the show because there were so many of

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01:54:23,292 --> 01:54:25,717
them That it's like how many times this guy have

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01:54:25,757 --> 01:54:30,167
to expose himself and people realize he's making things up

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No, this is, I think this is something else. This

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01:54:35,007 --> 01:54:38,903
is the video, the video thing. This is why we're

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01:54:38,964 --> 01:54:41,448
still here. Hanging on by our fingernails, but we're still

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01:54:41,508 --> 01:54:47,385
here. is once you get into video People need, it's

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01:54:47,426 --> 01:54:50,950
just, it's like an obsession. You know, and you have

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01:54:50,990 --> 01:54:55,699
to fight with somebody else on video. It's a thing.

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01:54:55,720 --> 01:54:58,341
It's the era we're in right now. and everyone thinks

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01:54:58,441 --> 01:55:00,806
video, video, video, and we need to be on video.

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01:55:01,127 --> 01:55:02,449
I gotta be on video and then I can fight

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01:55:02,550 --> 01:55:06,237
Candace and Candace can fight Erica and Erica can fight

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01:55:06,478 --> 01:55:09,143
Ben Shapiro and Ben Shapiro can fight Tucker and Tucker

1845
01:55:09,183 --> 01:55:12,630
can fight, you know, Ben Shapiro can fight Dave Smith

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01:55:12,670 --> 01:55:14,815
and Dave Smith goes on Joe Rogan and Joe, it's

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01:55:14,855 --> 01:55:17,272
like blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And it's

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01:55:17,313 --> 01:55:22,997
going to implode. Well, it's definitely boring. Yes. Watching these

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01:55:23,057 --> 01:55:26,563
guys do a rotation. But I still think there's more

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01:55:26,643 --> 01:55:29,167
to it than that with Tucker because something's up. And

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01:55:29,708 --> 01:55:33,033
now we're starting to see some attacks. Do you think

1852
01:55:33,093 --> 01:55:35,176
it could be an actual illness? I don't want to

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01:55:35,216 --> 01:55:38,482
make light of it. It could be. It's possible. But

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01:55:38,522 --> 01:55:41,468
I think whatever the case is, they're going after Tucker.

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01:55:41,508 --> 01:55:43,893
Listen to this guy. Well, of course. I don't know

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01:55:43,913 --> 01:55:46,879
if this podcast or this is Tucker funding. They're going

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01:55:46,959 --> 01:55:49,865
after the fact that he's hooked up with the Qataris,

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01:55:49,965 --> 01:55:52,711
but he's not really. But yes, he is. Oh, man.

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01:55:52,731 --> 01:55:55,356
Play this clip. Did you guys know that when he

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01:55:55,396 --> 01:55:57,725
started the Tucker Carlson Network? Do you know who started

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01:55:57,805 --> 01:56:01,231
up the funding of his network? This is public knowledge.

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01:56:01,592 --> 01:56:06,260
The guy's name, he runs a company called 1789 Capital,

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01:56:06,641 --> 01:56:11,069
an investment firm that was founded by Omid Malik. He

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01:56:11,109 --> 01:56:14,475
funded the launch of the Tucker Carlson Network. He's a

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01:56:14,535 --> 01:56:19,308
Muslim man. $15 million. he gave to Tucker Carlson. Many

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01:56:19,348 --> 01:56:26,030
other credible sources are saying that since January, Qatar... wealthy

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01:56:26,110 --> 01:56:30,743
Islamic nation is funding Tucker Carlson. If you give me

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01:56:30,763 --> 01:56:33,571
$15 million, I might not think Sharia law is that

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01:56:33,631 --> 01:56:39,010
bad either. Exactly. Ehhhhh Yeah, whatever. We shouldn't participate in

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01:56:39,071 --> 01:56:44,339
this. Yeah, we should. No, no. I love it. I

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01:56:44,399 --> 01:56:46,205
know you do. But you don't have to. I can

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01:56:46,265 --> 01:56:48,732
get the clips. And then you'll poach me later when

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01:56:48,752 --> 01:56:51,822
you get a good one. Well, I mean, someone's got

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01:56:51,842 --> 01:56:56,341
to save the show. Yeah. So here's the fight. that

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01:56:56,422 --> 01:56:59,872
I am interested in, which is just not a lot

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01:56:59,953 --> 01:57:06,232
of... There's not a lot of information about it. And

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01:57:06,252 --> 01:57:09,500
I guess there's no cameras in the courtroom. This Elon

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01:57:09,520 --> 01:57:13,090
Musk versus Sam Altman. Yeah, it's right there, right here

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01:57:13,130 --> 01:57:18,162
in Oakland. This is interesting. I have one clip. from

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CNBC. versus OpenAI trial. We did get news that OpenAI

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plans to spend $50 billion in compute, at least for

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01:57:43,699 --> 01:57:45,963
the rest of this year. That was one big headline.

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01:57:45,983 --> 01:57:48,186
Brockman, as I mentioned, co-founder of the company. He answered

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01:57:48,206 --> 01:57:52,092
a lot of questions about his personal financial ambitions. So

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01:57:52,133 --> 01:57:55,117
he has what he described as a $30 billion stake

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01:57:55,157 --> 01:57:57,201
in this company at this point. He kept a journal

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01:57:57,261 --> 01:58:01,489
to document professional events in his life, personal events. That

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01:58:01,570 --> 01:58:03,734
has been a big highlight and a big piece of

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01:58:03,754 --> 01:58:07,702
evidence in this trial. Musk's personality and leadership style also

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01:58:07,742 --> 01:58:10,828
came up in Brockman's testimony. Musk has claimed that he

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01:58:10,928 --> 01:58:13,253
is responsible for helping recruit some of the key players

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01:58:13,293 --> 01:58:16,527
at OpenAI and therefore deserves a lot of credit. and

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01:58:16,567 --> 01:58:19,272
has talked about that in his own testimony. Brockman talked

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01:58:19,292 --> 01:58:22,577
about his reputation of being extremely hard-driving and that certain

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01:58:22,617 --> 01:58:26,163
candidates were very attracted by that, but others didn't like

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01:58:26,223 --> 01:58:28,026
it as much, and it actually wasn't as big of

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01:58:28,046 --> 01:58:29,889
a deal in terms of recruiting. So that just was

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01:58:29,949 --> 01:58:33,936
a big topic of conversation overall. He did also talk

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01:58:33,956 --> 01:58:37,542
a bit about overall Musk's... just leadership style. We did

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01:58:37,582 --> 01:58:39,746
get a moment that he talked about of Musk tearing

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01:58:39,827 --> 01:58:43,354
a painting of a Tesla off the wall. Scott, but

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01:58:43,374 --> 01:58:46,299
that's the latest. He's wrapping up that testimony and we

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01:58:46,400 --> 01:58:49,305
are expecting to get Siobhan Zillis, who's a close, close

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01:58:49,366 --> 01:58:52,772
executive of Musk, also the mother of his children. The

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01:58:52,812 --> 01:58:56,119
backdrop here, of course, Musk's suit opening up. Sam Altman.

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01:58:56,319 --> 01:58:59,927
Greg Brockman alleging that they essentially, as Musk put it,

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01:58:59,947 --> 01:59:02,473
stole a charity. What do you think is going to

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01:59:02,513 --> 01:59:05,781
come out of that? I mean, the way they finagled

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01:59:05,821 --> 01:59:10,372
that, turning a non-profit into a for-profit, it seems sketchy.

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I think what's going to come out of it is

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Musk is going to get his money back. That would

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be the easiest way for him. Yeah, and that would

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01:59:17,241 --> 01:59:20,028
be, it's not that much compared to what they claim

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they're spending. But the thing about Musk, I have to

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say, is you have to judge the results, not the

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01:59:29,171 --> 01:59:32,769
commentary. And when they, I have to assume. And I

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01:59:32,829 --> 01:59:35,008
could be wrong, but I don't see how you could...

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could... I don't see how I... how he could be,

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01:59:37,130 --> 01:59:41,849
but Musk has to be a judge of character in

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01:59:41,889 --> 01:59:47,964
terms of people working for him. That is unparalleled. He

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01:59:48,045 --> 01:59:50,892
has to be the guy who... who picks people that

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01:59:51,296 --> 01:59:54,278
know what they're doing or do it well. And I

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01:59:54,339 --> 01:59:56,684
think his influence on the company. He probably was more

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01:59:56,724 --> 01:59:59,377
than this guy. Musk sent a few people over, but

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01:59:59,397 --> 02:00:01,608
they were no good or we didn't like him or

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whatever. I'm not buying it. I think that Musk... He

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did run the SpaceX and all these other operations and

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to do the kind of financial dealings and and to

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sue in a certain way and to get him. get

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billions of dollars left and right. He's got to have

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a skill set that we can't fully understand. And it

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has to do with picking people, which I always thought

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that you get a guy who knows how to pick

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an executive to help him run a business smarter than

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you. Certain kinds of skills might be dependent a little

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bit. is non-trivial. Yeah, you really want Musk and Trump

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together. Musk to hire and Trump to fire. That would

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be the good combo. Yeah. That would be a good

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02:00:49,769 --> 02:00:55,600
combo. Yeah, Musk should be the head of personnel. Well,

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we're going to see. I mean, things are going to

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start moving in this AI world, and we're already seeing

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AMD and all these CPU companies. People are figuring it

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out. It's like, oh, we don't need all this compute.

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We just needed our computers at home. I can see

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this coming. It's coming. Well, something's coming and it's not

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going to be pleasant when it blows up. It'll ruin

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the show for sure. And with that, I want to

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thank you for your courage. Say in the morning to

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you, the man who put the sea in the climate

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change. Cow farts. Say hello to my friend on the

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other end, the one, the only, Mr. John C. DEMORAH!

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Yeah, well, in the morning, you miss that. You see

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boats on the ground and subs of water and dames

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and knights out there. Oh, hold on. I was still

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stuck in that mode. Hey, in the morning to the

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trolls of the troll room. Let me count y'all. Let

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me see. Joke out. Joke out. Let me do an

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actual troll count and we see 1453. of the Trolls

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in the Troll Room, listening live at noagendastream.com. And we

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are doing this as a public service for you. It

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is currently 10.20 in the Netherlands. I've been awake for

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20 hours, but I'm still here doing the show because

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that's what we do. And we're going to Nashville later

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this month. and it'll be on a Sunday and there's

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things I could be doing, but I'm going to do

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the show. Because we care about the show. And we

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think that it's important that people understand the world that's

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going on around them from a different perspective, not just

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yelling into the void because we're on video. And that's

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what seems to be happening. The whole podcast industrial complex

1971
02:02:35,794 --> 02:02:39,700
is now. Everyone's crazy about video. And you know what

1972
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they're doing? They're doing a horrible disservice to podcasting. Podcasting

1973
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should be audio. I mean, it's something you should be

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able to do while gardening. You can't watch a video

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while gardening. So what is happening is... All of the,

1976
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not all, but most of the big hosting companies. They

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are... Offering video podcast. But it's no longer RSS-based. It's

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done with an API. Which means it's not podcasting. Exactly.

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It's done with an API. And so your video gets

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published to Apple. It gets published to Spotify. Oh, by

1981
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the way, we're back on Spotify. I got someone to...

1982
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I got a representative who emailed me. Hey, is there

1983
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anything we can do for your show? I said, yeah,

1984
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how about you put our show on? I've been trying

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to get it on for four months. Oh, hold on,

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Mingxuan. They check and they come back, oh yeah, well,

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we had a son, okay. So anyway, so we're on

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Spotify now. RSS-based. But all this video stuff, it's all

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being done through an APR. I thought we weren't on

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Spotify because they wanted to run ads. Yeah, well, they

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don't. They have new terms of service. They don't run

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ads. Oh, okay. Yeah, so I said, Okay, we'll go

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back on then. That's fine. If they run ads, then

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we'll take it off. But that was the whole thing.

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uh So they're breaking the R and in fact, it's

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Spotify. If you up, if you have audio, if you

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have an audio podcast and then you upload video. They

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then take the audio from your video and your RSS

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feed is completely broken. for audio. I think Apple may

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be doing the same thing. It's... Why are they doing

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this? I think the reason they're doing this is they

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understand that if they just have an open RSS feed.

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that can come into their platform. platforms, their podcast platforms,

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it'll be filled with porn. and other things, other things

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they don't want. I would think that's a concern. Yeah,

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but it's not a podcast. Now you can be deplatformed

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in seconds. By the exact people that I built the

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podcast. Index 4 with Dave Jones. for this very reason,

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because you will get, when the band hammer is there,

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it gets used. So, anyway. enjoy your video experience we're

2011
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just going to stay audio and we remain value for

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value I should probably mention. You want to get one

2013
02:05:15,900 --> 02:05:18,865
of those modern podcasts out. to listen to this podcast.

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First of all, you're supporting independent developers, which is important,

2015
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especially if you get their premium package, which is usually

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$2.99 a month, gives you all kinds of extras. We

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suggest you do that. They are on board with the

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modern podcasting standards, Podcasting 2.0, which has all these extra

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features. These are being slowly adopted by the big boys,

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but if you want to stay ahead of the curve,

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then you want to be with us. In addition to

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that, one of those features is the live. We call

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it lit, the live item tag. So when we go

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live with the podcast, which more and more podcasts are

2025
02:05:53,064 --> 02:05:57,119
now doing, you get a notification in your podcast app.

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publish it you're not waiting around for 15 minutes half

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hour an hour sometimes longer no within 90 seconds you'll

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know that your podcast your best podcast in the universe

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has been updated So value for value, I talked about

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at the beginning of our podcast. It's a very simple

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system. We exist by the producers who produce. the show.

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That is every single one of you who is listening.

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We don't consider you listeners. We don't consider you an

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audience. We don't consider you lesser than. We don't consider

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you fans. Oh, man. How many people like, how many

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fans do you have? We've got zero fans. In fact,

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we have more hate listeners than fans. But they're all

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producers. And the way you... Fans. Do you have any

2039
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fans, John C. DeVore? Do you have any super fans?

2040
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Do you got a fan? Someone's a fan over there.

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No fans? No fans. So we decided in week three

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of our podcast that, you know, we don't want to

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do that. We don't want to be a fan club.

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Yeah. We don't want to be beholden to advertisers. No.

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at all. We don't want to force people into paying

2046
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things that they maybe can't afford. But from time to

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02:07:07,837 --> 02:07:10,828
time, if you're listening and now we're well into two

2048
02:07:10,868 --> 02:07:13,056
hours, if you think, you know, I did get some

2049
02:07:13,096 --> 02:07:16,423
value out of this, I learned something. Maybe there was

2050
02:07:16,506 --> 02:07:20,111
something that triggered you like oh I could talk about

2051
02:07:20,171 --> 02:07:22,902
this with my family or I could approach this topic

2052
02:07:22,962 --> 02:07:25,512
in a certain way or maybe I could stay away

2053
02:07:25,572 --> 02:07:28,880
from certain people who are on meds Or maybe you

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02:07:28,900 --> 02:07:31,291
could save somebody who's on meds, whatever it is. Oh,

2055
02:07:31,311 --> 02:07:34,084
you might be on meds. Yeah, maybe we're helping to

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save you. Maybe. Maybe. Yeah, it's hard to get off

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02:07:38,627 --> 02:07:43,425
these things. That's the idea. Try Jesus. That's my recommendation.

2058
02:07:43,445 --> 02:07:48,406
You can try anything. Yes. So just send us some

2059
02:07:48,426 --> 02:07:50,394
value back. If you get value from the show, you

2060
02:07:50,415 --> 02:07:53,066
can do that with time, talent, or treasure. Many people

2061
02:07:53,106 --> 02:07:55,336
help us with time and talent, and one of those

2062
02:07:55,416 --> 02:07:59,198
ways... is through the album art that we always change

2063
02:07:59,278 --> 02:08:03,527
up for every single episode. 1865, our previous episode, we

2064
02:08:03,548 --> 02:08:07,035
titled that The Wide Awakes. And this art came from

2065
02:08:07,496 --> 02:08:12,203
Jeffrey Ria. It was controversial for us. And speaking of

2066
02:08:12,244 --> 02:08:16,100
the meds, this was the SSRIs, the SSRI Army. coming

2067
02:08:16,160 --> 02:08:19,248
towards you looking very you know starting happy and then

2068
02:08:19,288 --> 02:08:22,457
getting less happy then becoming devilish and then coming at

2069
02:08:22,497 --> 02:08:24,442
you with knives and with a noose and with a

2070
02:08:24,502 --> 02:08:29,006
gun and we of course it's AI generated The thing

2071
02:08:29,066 --> 02:08:33,224
that was controversial is we typically will deny art if

2072
02:08:33,285 --> 02:08:37,420
there is a glaring AI generation error. in the art.

2073
02:08:37,999 --> 02:08:40,923
Which this one had. Yeah, it did. There was a

2074
02:08:41,004 --> 02:08:45,487
dude with three arms. But... Yeah, but in the context

2075
02:08:45,567 --> 02:08:47,492
of the fact that it wasn't a dude with three

2076
02:08:47,613 --> 02:08:51,284
arms, it was a pill with three arms. A pill

2077
02:08:51,304 --> 02:08:53,871
could have any number of arms it wants to have.

2078
02:08:53,892 --> 02:08:56,811
And that's how we got around our band. Did you

2079
02:08:56,872 --> 02:08:59,956
ever figure out the Greek letters that are around? No,

2080
02:08:59,976 --> 02:09:02,139
it's just a bunch of alpha, omega stuff. I have

2081
02:09:02,199 --> 02:09:07,326
no idea. Yeah, that was alpha, omega, epsilon. Pi is

2082
02:09:07,406 --> 02:09:10,050
in there. I didn't quite understand that. Jeffrey Rhea, thank

2083
02:09:10,070 --> 02:09:12,273
you very much for bringing us that artwork. We appreciate

2084
02:09:12,313 --> 02:09:13,615
that. Let's take a look and see if there was

2085
02:09:14,256 --> 02:09:19,774
anything else that we discussed. time I don't think there

2086
02:09:19,794 --> 02:09:24,067
was anything. Wasn't there? We had trouble with finding this

2087
02:09:24,208 --> 02:09:31,407
piece. Well, we both thought. Francisco Scaramanga's... passport with photo

2088
02:09:31,468 --> 02:09:34,923
rejected was funny Yes, it was. The guy at the

2089
02:09:34,983 --> 02:09:39,703
back of his head. You were very enamored by Static

2090
02:09:39,763 --> 02:09:48,024
Lullaby. Static lullabies, fake. money fake $33 bill. You thought

2091
02:09:48,065 --> 02:09:51,008
it was good for some reason. No, I thought it

2092
02:09:51,028 --> 02:09:53,284
was something frameable. I didn't think it was for the

2093
02:09:53,344 --> 02:09:55,996
show because we don't do pictures of ourselves. No. I

2094
02:09:56,016 --> 02:09:58,864
thought it was something you should. I suggested that you

2095
02:09:58,904 --> 02:10:01,711
get him to send you a copy autographed. Ah, that's

2096
02:10:01,731 --> 02:10:03,015
what it was. And he's hanging it on your wall.

2097
02:10:03,035 --> 02:10:05,020
That's what I was talking about. That's what it was.

2098
02:10:05,321 --> 02:10:08,836
I messed that up. And of course, comic strip blogger

2099
02:10:08,877 --> 02:10:13,452
with a butt. This time it was a cat. Yes.

2100
02:10:13,532 --> 02:10:16,260
In fact, that was going to be, Jay was. wrapping

2101
02:10:16,300 --> 02:10:19,306
up the newsletter. I wrote the copy, but she puts

2102
02:10:19,366 --> 02:10:22,372
it together and she was going to choose that piece.

2103
02:10:22,432 --> 02:10:27,081
Really? And I caught it before it went through and

2104
02:10:27,121 --> 02:10:30,808
I changed it. Because I don't think a puckered butthole

2105
02:10:30,848 --> 02:10:36,318
is necessarily something that's great. Well, the butthole was... And

2106
02:10:36,338 --> 02:10:38,743
I'm a cat. The butthole was the Claude logo, so

2107
02:10:38,803 --> 02:10:41,148
I kind of understood where comics or blogger was coming

2108
02:10:41,228 --> 02:10:45,016
from. Oh, I see. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, a little Claude

2109
02:10:45,136 --> 02:10:50,206
Insigne. No. So we love to thank people who support

2110
02:10:50,266 --> 02:10:53,653
us with their treasure. $50 and above, never under $50

2111
02:10:53,693 --> 02:10:55,757
for reasons of anonymity. We go through the list, and

2112
02:10:55,797 --> 02:10:59,905
we have a special... reward for every single person who

2113
02:10:59,966 --> 02:11:03,813
can support us with $200 or more. Not only will

2114
02:11:03,853 --> 02:11:06,318
we guarantee to read your note, but also we will

2115
02:11:06,358 --> 02:11:09,044
give you the title of associate executive producer for this

2116
02:11:09,144 --> 02:11:11,609
episode. It's in the credits in the show notes. It's

2117
02:11:11,689 --> 02:11:15,196
a credit that is that is recognized by Hollywood people

2118
02:11:15,757 --> 02:11:18,264
because you can even put it. on imdb.com in addition

2119
02:11:18,304 --> 02:11:21,916
to your LinkedIn or your social media profile, $300 and

2120
02:11:21,956 --> 02:11:25,367
above, same note reading, and you get the title of

2121
02:11:25,387 --> 02:11:30,724
executive producer. So we'll start off with Countess Knight. from

2122
02:11:30,765 --> 02:11:35,008
Edmunds, Washington, who hits us up with $400, and she

2123
02:11:35,068 --> 02:11:38,231
will become a countess. And that's all. she had was

2124
02:11:38,271 --> 02:11:43,601
Viscountess Countess. No, no, she becomes a Viscountess. She is

2125
02:11:43,661 --> 02:11:46,577
a Countess. Is that how it works? By countess bigger

2126
02:11:46,597 --> 02:11:49,698
than countess? Yes. Yeah, I think so. I think so,

2127
02:11:49,881 --> 02:11:53,427
yes. And that's her entire note. So thank you very

2128
02:11:53,467 --> 02:11:57,773
much. Countess? Yeah, she started off as Dame Knight. She

2129
02:11:57,813 --> 02:12:00,010
made a point. I don't want to use my name.

2130
02:12:00,051 --> 02:12:02,812
I want to be Dame Knight. And so... And she

2131
02:12:02,852 --> 02:12:04,916
would scold us if we read it because it would

2132
02:12:04,976 --> 02:12:08,382
come through PayPal with her name on it. So we've

2133
02:12:08,603 --> 02:12:13,071
memorized. And Jay, everybody, okay, yeah. And so now it's

2134
02:12:13,131 --> 02:12:16,998
going to have to be Viscountess or Countess. No, it

2135
02:12:17,039 --> 02:12:20,794
moves the... countess. I think Viscountess is lower. Hold on.

2136
02:12:21,276 --> 02:12:24,228
Yes, I thought Viscountess came before Countess. I'm going to

2137
02:12:24,268 --> 02:12:26,999
look it up. Yes, please do. We need to get

2138
02:12:27,060 --> 02:12:37,319
this right. I need a browser here. What? Yeah, wrong.

2139
02:12:37,647 --> 02:12:43,731
I would say, what? I would say, what? EARRAGE peerage.

2140
02:12:43,771 --> 02:12:46,224
You hear the, what you're hearing right now is the

2141
02:12:46,264 --> 02:12:50,471
peerage committee at work. This is, uh, Rare insight into

2142
02:12:50,491 --> 02:12:59,448
the... I'm sorry, it's peerage.htm. Okay. Dvorak.org. peerage.htm yeah that's

2143
02:12:59,628 --> 02:13:03,279
it may have a blink tag yes people are having

2144
02:13:03,339 --> 02:13:07,151
trouble with your uh sign up link to the newsletter

2145
02:13:07,827 --> 02:13:11,962
I noticed this. You have to keep hitting it over

2146
02:13:12,002 --> 02:13:14,410
and over and then eventually it goes through. I have

2147
02:13:14,511 --> 02:13:16,919
no idea what's going on. I'm going to have to...

2148
02:13:16,959 --> 02:13:19,206
Create a new one. Oh, please. You don't have the

2149
02:13:19,266 --> 02:13:23,179
password to that server. You can't create anything there. Okay,

2150
02:13:23,259 --> 02:13:28,470
five-time knight becomes a vicountess. Yeah, she's going to be

2151
02:13:28,510 --> 02:13:33,247
Viscountess. Viscountess. Okay. That's bigger. She's bigger than Countess. Perfect.

2152
02:13:33,669 --> 02:13:36,619
Yeah. Yeah. Love it. Love it. I don't even see.

2153
02:13:36,599 --> 02:13:39,113
count us on here to be honest about it. All

2154
02:13:39,134 --> 02:13:48,725
right. Onward with Sir Lawrence in Loganport, Indiana, 333-88. And

2155
02:13:48,745 --> 02:13:52,528
he sent in a note. Or is she? Or he.

2156
02:13:53,267 --> 02:14:00,353
Larry. Larry. Yes. Larry Stewart. Sir Lawrence of Logansport, Indiana.

2157
02:14:00,655 --> 02:14:06,587
John, it's actually a postcard. From Route 66. John, just

2158
02:14:06,688 --> 02:14:12,539
what you need. Jesse James hideout. Happy recovery. Had the

2159
02:14:12,639 --> 02:14:17,098
same procedure in 2018 and I'm still here. Wow. Larry

2160
02:14:17,363 --> 02:14:21,547
Stewart. Okay. Sir Lawrence. We're glad you're here. Glad you're

2161
02:14:21,567 --> 02:14:24,937
here. Yeah, we are. Sir Ichabod is in Lake Forest

2162
02:14:24,997 --> 02:14:30,373
Park, Washington, and he sends us $333.34, which I think

2163
02:14:30,494 --> 02:14:35,275
is an anomaly. Because he says, do you crack pot

2164
02:14:35,296 --> 02:14:38,071
and buzz? Here's my latest installment of 333 for the

2165
02:14:38,111 --> 02:14:41,025
last 100 shows. So we got an extra extra penny

2166
02:14:41,105 --> 02:14:43,969
out of it I'm usually playing catch up with my

2167
02:14:44,030 --> 02:14:47,263
podcast, so I end up listening to the greatest podcast

2168
02:14:47,323 --> 02:14:49,411
in the universe a week or two after the fact.

2169
02:14:49,863 --> 02:14:52,341
With that amount of time to further digest what has

2170
02:14:52,422 --> 02:14:55,146
happened in the world, I'm always amazed at how... Spot

2171
02:14:55,350 --> 02:14:59,091
on, your analysis is... as things are happening just at

2172
02:14:59,111 --> 02:15:03,383
the moment. I figured out how. For long-time listeners, we

2173
02:15:03,463 --> 02:15:06,316
might remember that Adam isn't a boomer. He's from the

2174
02:15:06,397 --> 02:15:09,330
future and even had a time machine that we could

2175
02:15:09,431 --> 02:15:13,040
all ride in. It's been a long time. Adam, can

2176
02:15:13,081 --> 02:15:15,842
you set the time for just... returning to now so

2177
02:15:15,882 --> 02:15:18,228
we don't have to come back but I would love

2178
02:15:18,308 --> 02:15:21,516
to go for a ride please I love that nauseating

2179
02:15:21,636 --> 02:15:24,643
feeling it gives me plus I'm worried about Sparky the

2180
02:15:24,683 --> 02:15:27,410
dog it's been a long time since I haven't heard

2181
02:15:27,450 --> 02:15:30,870
him bark did anyone leave him water So he is

2182
02:15:30,951 --> 02:15:35,502
requesting the time machine, the dimension. time machine which we

2183
02:15:35,562 --> 02:15:37,507
indeed have not ridden in in quite a while so

2184
02:15:37,567 --> 02:15:40,495
i dug it out uh it's been in the podcast

2185
02:15:40,555 --> 02:15:43,302
bag so i have that she also wants a little

2186
02:15:43,342 --> 02:15:45,989
girl yay he says damn it's good to hear your

2187
02:15:46,029 --> 02:15:48,857
voice john your humble servant sir ichabod of the bike

2188
02:15:48,917 --> 02:15:55,716
path gorbol baron of the Solution Empire solution solution empire

2189
02:15:56,263 --> 02:15:58,491
Here we go. All right, everybody, get ready. Here we

2190
02:15:58,531 --> 02:16:02,103
go. Are you ready? Stand by. It's going to hurt

2191
02:16:02,123 --> 02:16:04,891
just a little bit. You might get dizzy. From this

2192
02:16:04,911 --> 02:16:10,889
day forward, it's going to be only America first. Here

2193
02:16:11,200 --> 02:16:30,231
we go. If you're dizzy, just look at the ground.

2194
02:16:30,292 --> 02:16:32,489
It'll all go away. Thank you, Sari Kabab. That was

2195
02:16:32,529 --> 02:16:36,975
a fun ride. Yikes. Okay, so I have to correct

2196
02:16:37,077 --> 02:16:43,533
myself. I did find it. Countess comes next after Viscount.

2197
02:16:43,554 --> 02:16:47,606
Ah, okay. So she becomes a countess. From vicountess to

2198
02:16:47,646 --> 02:16:52,725
countess. Got it. Makes sense. So that's a seven times

2199
02:16:52,765 --> 02:16:59,062
night, seven X. Uh, onward. with Sir Greg Birch, our

2200
02:16:59,082 --> 02:17:03,106
buddy in Port Angeles, Washington, the Dentite. Wishing John good

2201
02:17:03,167 --> 02:17:09,432
health and offering local assistance if needed. Well, that's nice.

2202
02:17:09,573 --> 02:17:18,796
5666, my 60th. Celestial orbit. Uh, it- What? Naps? Naps

2203
02:17:18,877 --> 02:17:21,673
now legal. You can take naps whenever you want. Whenever

2204
02:17:21,713 --> 02:17:25,769
you want, yes. Sir Greg, so he's got a birthday

2205
02:17:25,809 --> 02:17:29,943
coming up. It's $250. Thanks, Greg. Austin Allen, Roseville, California,

2206
02:17:29,963 --> 02:17:34,237
225. He writes in and says, hello, gents. It's Austin

2207
02:17:34,317 --> 02:17:38,065
Allen. be mistaken with Cole Thomas Allen and no affiliation

2208
02:17:38,105 --> 02:17:41,292
with the Wide Awakes. Just your favorite pool dude representing

2209
02:17:41,352 --> 02:17:44,518
hell. I mean, California. Making sure your pool feels great

2210
02:17:44,618 --> 02:17:47,584
and not like the disgusting high chlorinated public pools and

2211
02:17:47,624 --> 02:17:49,668
hotel pools. Thank you guys so much for all you

2212
02:17:49,708 --> 02:17:51,992
do. I listen to you guys during my pool route

2213
02:17:52,073 --> 02:17:53,996
and try to hit all my clients in the mouth.

2214
02:17:54,197 --> 02:17:58,424
That's part of your... Responsibility as a producer. I love

2215
02:17:58,464 --> 02:18:00,388
letting them know about the No Agenda podcast and how

2216
02:18:00,468 --> 02:18:02,713
it helps relieve people from the fear porn of the

2217
02:18:02,753 --> 02:18:05,880
legacy media. Your pool guy has about 10 seconds to

2218
02:18:05,920 --> 02:18:09,147
make a good impression and most don't. Throwback to Linda

2219
02:18:09,167 --> 02:18:12,094
Lupakin. For the best pool service in the greater Roseville

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02:18:12,214 --> 02:18:17,432
area, email Aston at... md ask austin md pools ca

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at gmail.com that's md for marley's dad pools and ca

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for california at gmail.com named so it is md pools

2223
02:18:25,985 --> 02:18:30,352
ca at gmail.com uh named after a super amazing daughter

2224
02:18:30,413 --> 02:18:33,538
marley who i love so much stay chlorinated says austin

2225
02:18:33,558 --> 02:18:36,460
the pool guy and the Frogs are gay. Oh. I

2226
02:18:36,501 --> 02:18:38,903
didn't get the frogs are gay. Hold on a second.

2227
02:18:40,347 --> 02:18:43,256
You know, whenever we play these jingles, that's immediately when

2228
02:18:43,316 --> 02:18:46,947
people request the jingles. It's uncanny that way. I don't

2229
02:18:46,987 --> 02:18:49,314
like them putting chemicals in the water that turn the

2230
02:18:49,435 --> 02:18:55,188
frigging frogs gay. There you go. You got it. Jordan

2231
02:18:55,289 --> 02:19:02,578
Tierney in Oral. South Dakota. Dude, 1060. I found you

2232
02:19:02,618 --> 02:19:06,420
guys in 2020 after watching a Saddle Tramp story. No

2233
02:19:06,460 --> 02:19:09,719
Saddle Tramp. Where she talked about the podcast in 2020.

2234
02:19:10,203 --> 02:19:14,619
I was Miss Rodeo America, and due to the pandemic,

2235
02:19:14,599 --> 02:19:19,447
the pandemic served until the end of 2021. This is

2236
02:19:19,507 --> 02:19:22,959
Jordan is a woman. Yes. The Jordan. It's a Jordan

2237
02:19:23,040 --> 02:19:26,886
woman. Thank you so much for keeping me sane during

2238
02:19:26,947 --> 02:19:30,800
that time. You're welcome. You guys help me during everything

2239
02:19:30,860 --> 02:19:33,674
and keep everything in perspective and to see through the

2240
02:19:33,735 --> 02:19:37,535
BS. I did the $50 a month payment starting in

2241
02:19:37,755 --> 02:19:41,942
2024 and reached the full amount of Damehood in early

2242
02:19:41,962 --> 02:19:45,327
2025. I would like to be known as Dame or

2243
02:19:45,347 --> 02:19:49,513
Rodeo Queen. And at the round table, I would like

2244
02:19:49,593 --> 02:19:52,637
a bottle of Cabernet. Ooh, wait. I think I did

2245
02:19:52,677 --> 02:19:55,907
that. Which, which. Which Cabernet do we want for her?

2246
02:19:57,031 --> 02:19:58,601
Now let's do what Cabernet would be. Not just any

2247
02:19:58,661 --> 02:20:01,237
old Cabernet. We want a good Cab for her. No,

2248
02:20:01,257 --> 02:20:04,098
we'll give her a good... I have, you know, just

2249
02:20:04,138 --> 02:20:07,139
the top of my head, I think a bottle of...

2250
02:20:07,495 --> 02:20:13,819
of 2020 a BV Private Reserve would do. BV Private?

2251
02:20:13,827 --> 02:20:19,896
reserve cab. Okay. I have ordered it. It will be

2252
02:20:19,937 --> 02:20:22,060
there. And then she says, I think I did that

2253
02:20:22,140 --> 02:20:27,969
correctly. Please edit anything you need out. We did fine.

2254
02:20:28,009 --> 02:20:32,216
No jingles, no karma. God bless Dame Rodeo Queen. Now,

2255
02:20:32,236 --> 02:20:35,983
I want to know, Dame Rodeo Queen. Are you a

2256
02:20:36,144 --> 02:20:40,377
barrel rider? That's my favorite rodeo. Barrel racing. Is it

2257
02:20:40,417 --> 02:20:44,750
barrel racing? Not barrel rider. Okay, I'm sorry. Hey, let

2258
02:20:44,770 --> 02:20:47,488
me get on that barrel. I'll ride it. I think

2259
02:20:47,953 --> 02:20:53,039
you can call her a barrel racer. She may have

2260
02:20:53,059 --> 02:20:56,046
been a barrel racer. My first wife was a barrel

2261
02:20:56,106 --> 02:20:59,799
racer. You had a first wife? What? Stop the show.

2262
02:20:59,839 --> 02:21:03,825
What? Is she still alive? Yeah. Do you ever talk

2263
02:21:03,866 --> 02:21:07,754
to her? I don't, maybe, I haven't talked to her

2264
02:21:07,795 --> 02:21:11,510
for a couple, since COVID. Did she, was she listening

2265
02:21:11,571 --> 02:21:13,419
to us during COVID? I got this since COVID is

2266
02:21:13,459 --> 02:21:16,189
my. go to now i haven't done this since i

2267
02:21:16,250 --> 02:21:19,281
haven't traveled since covid i haven't talked to my first

2268
02:21:19,342 --> 02:21:23,036
wife since covid but i i haven't changed my underwear

2269
02:21:23,096 --> 02:21:27,352
since covid that's right Well, can I ask what her

2270
02:21:27,392 --> 02:21:32,166
name was? Her first name only? Yeah, Vicki. Vicki. The

2271
02:21:32,207 --> 02:21:35,420
more you know. She could jump on a horse bareback

2272
02:21:35,461 --> 02:21:40,009
and take off like a rocket. Oh man, you never

2273
02:21:40,090 --> 02:21:43,662
cease to amaze me, John C. Dworak. Nor does Eli

2274
02:21:43,682 --> 02:21:46,795
the Coffee Guy, who is in Bensonville, Illinois. He comes

2275
02:21:46,875 --> 02:21:51,735
in with $2.057. That is, of course, a $200 associate

2276
02:21:51,755 --> 02:21:54,732
executive producer. donation along with the date and he says

2277
02:21:54,812 --> 02:21:57,725
living in chicagoland suburbs i've noticed the flag at the

2278
02:21:57,785 --> 02:22:00,256
local schools and library has been at half staff more

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often than full mass in recent years It started around

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COVID and there it is since COVID and just kept

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02:22:07,268 --> 02:22:10,463
going. It used to be the half-staff meant something serious

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02:22:10,504 --> 02:22:13,970
had happened. 9-11, real tragedies. Now it feels like it's

2283
02:22:14,091 --> 02:22:17,782
done to demoralize us. Hard to feel like the country

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02:22:17,822 --> 02:22:22,941
is standing tall when old glory ain't. Thanks, Pritzker! Nothing

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02:22:23,001 --> 02:22:25,190
helps pick up the morale like a good cup of

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02:22:25,230 --> 02:22:30,151
coffee, though. Please visit gigalockcoffeeroasters.com and use code ITM20 for

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02:22:30,171 --> 02:22:33,642
20% off your order. And as always... Stay caffeinated, says

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02:22:33,662 --> 02:22:38,894
Eli the Coffee Guy. Bob Dietrich in good old Flower

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02:22:38,914 --> 02:22:50,464
Mound, Texas, $200. From 1864 Pointcast. Just Baker. Just Baker.

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02:22:50,504 --> 02:22:55,542
He did the mix. Just Baker. The mind-blowing maker. Just

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02:22:55,643 --> 02:22:59,510
Baker, the mind-blowing maker. A little rhyme there. The end

2292
02:22:59,530 --> 02:23:04,076
of show mix from last Thursday's podcast was incredible. With

2293
02:23:04,116 --> 02:23:08,982
the distorted organ intro to the next-gen rap, I was

2294
02:23:09,042 --> 02:23:13,114
blown away. Boom! After 20 replays in the... car, I

2295
02:23:13,155 --> 02:23:17,666
decided to... I decided the automobile speakers weren't cutting it.

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02:23:18,147 --> 02:23:20,773
Some more of these, please. I don't know if it's

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02:23:20,853 --> 02:23:25,343
an original or sparked from another artist, but bravo. No,

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02:23:25,424 --> 02:23:29,814
it's all Suno. Just Baker. Just Baker's new on the

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02:23:29,854 --> 02:23:34,446
scene. He competes. He competes. And also, if you want

2300
02:23:34,467 --> 02:23:36,872
to talk about competing, then you want to know about

2301
02:23:36,932 --> 02:23:40,078
Linda Lou Patkin from Castle Rock, Colorado. She supports us

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02:23:40,158 --> 02:23:42,664
almost, I think, every single show with $200, and she

2303
02:23:42,704 --> 02:23:46,352
just wants jobs karma. And she says, rightly so, your

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02:23:46,372 --> 02:23:48,857
resume has about 10 seconds to make an impression, and

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02:23:48,997 --> 02:23:52,300
most don't. for a resume that gets results. go to

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02:23:52,400 --> 02:23:57,731
imagemakersinc.com. Linda helps professionals and executives turn their experience into

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02:23:57,791 --> 02:24:02,059
a clear story of leadership, results, and impact. That's Image

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02:24:02,100 --> 02:24:04,084
Makers Inc. with a K and Linda Liu, Duchess of

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02:24:04,164 --> 02:24:07,571
Jobs and writer of winning resumes. And she wants some

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02:24:07,591 --> 02:24:13,580
jobs, Karma. Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs. Vote for jobs.

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02:24:13,999 --> 02:24:19,040
You've got karma. So I got an email from a

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02:24:19,101 --> 02:24:23,266
recruiter. This must be a scam. Do you ever get

2313
02:24:23,307 --> 02:24:25,419
emails from recruiters? If you get it, you know it's

2314
02:24:25,499 --> 02:24:27,390
a scam. But do you ever get an email from

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02:24:27,410 --> 02:24:30,853
a recruiter? No, I don't think so. I got this

2316
02:24:30,893 --> 02:24:33,025
from... You know, he has a LinkedIn, but he's got

2317
02:24:33,065 --> 02:24:37,644
a Gmail address. And he's like, you know, you with

2318
02:24:37,684 --> 02:24:43,178
your decentralization and with your podcasting 2.0 experience, I think

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02:24:43,198 --> 02:24:45,965
I have the perfect opportunity for you in a leadership

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02:24:46,026 --> 02:24:48,251
role. I'm like, okay, I'll bite. And then, you know,

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02:24:48,271 --> 02:24:50,196
I said, well, if you're more interested, then I will,

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02:24:50,257 --> 02:24:53,989
then I will. I'll send you more information. And then,

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02:24:54,110 --> 02:24:56,495
you know, he sends me like, I say, okay, what

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02:24:56,556 --> 02:24:59,322
is this, a job? Is this a consulting gig? Is

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02:24:59,382 --> 02:25:03,031
this, what is it? Oh, no, it's leadership at Adobe.

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02:25:03,739 --> 02:25:11,308
I'm like, what? That makes no sense. Yeah, exactly. Adobe?

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02:25:11,430 --> 02:25:14,269
Why is it Recruiter? I don't think. Do you want

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02:25:14,309 --> 02:25:16,874
you to work at Adobe? It must be a scam.

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02:25:16,914 --> 02:25:18,296
The next thing he sends me. No, it's got to

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02:25:18,336 --> 02:25:20,440
be. Yeah, the next thing he sends me has got

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02:25:20,460 --> 02:25:22,965
to be, well, if you take this test and give

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02:25:23,025 --> 02:25:28,295
us $50, then we can get you in. Continuing with

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02:25:28,335 --> 02:25:31,722
our supporters, $50 and above. Christopher Myers is in Dallas,

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02:25:31,782 --> 02:25:35,710
Texas, and he sends us $185 and says, donate better.

2335
02:25:35,730 --> 02:25:40,059
Yes, definitely low donations. We would like to see more

2336
02:25:40,540 --> 02:25:44,147
value coming back to us. Maybe for Mother's Day. You

2337
02:25:44,187 --> 02:25:47,314
know, Mother's Day is next Sunday. That's the next show.

2338
02:25:47,574 --> 02:25:51,166
Yeah, it's true. And maybe people would... for a change

2339
02:25:51,547 --> 02:25:53,693
because only we noticed this by the way they don't

2340
02:25:54,054 --> 02:25:57,082
people who people hate their moms except during the covid

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02:25:57,122 --> 02:26:00,351
year that's right that's when it was stellar and after

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02:26:00,391 --> 02:26:03,038
that it's like that's just mom yeah we we totally

2343
02:26:03,118 --> 02:26:09,219
kicked ass During the COVID year, For the moms. Yes.

2344
02:26:09,323 --> 02:26:16,072
And now I'm like, well, you know, whatever. Whatever. Exactly.

2345
02:26:18,955 --> 02:26:23,856
Mansoor Raad in Alpharetta, Georgia. I hope I pronounced that

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02:26:23,936 --> 02:26:26,528
right. One, two, three, four, five. We see what you

2347
02:26:26,568 --> 02:26:28,456
do there, what you did there. Thank you very much.

2348
02:26:28,476 --> 02:26:32,345
We appreciate that. Then we have Jim Carlson from Denver,

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02:26:32,385 --> 02:26:35,316
Colorado. He sends us $100, but he also had a

2350
02:26:36,039 --> 02:26:39,151
note, which I'm going to bring up here. And I

2351
02:26:39,171 --> 02:26:44,736
liked it because... It was here, John and Adam, a

2352
02:26:44,816 --> 02:26:49,619
short note, greatest podcast ever. I enjoy your podcast. John.

2353
02:26:49,599 --> 02:26:54,885
keep getting better. I am turning 80. on is this

2354
02:26:54,905 --> 02:26:58,383
12th of May? 12th of May? I think, or 17,

2355
02:26:58,403 --> 02:27:01,591
I think 12th of May, 26. And I do not.

2356
02:27:02,939 --> 02:27:11,294
want to BS, to be any younger. Catmans... What? Why

2357
02:27:11,314 --> 02:27:15,376
are you laughing? Why are you reffing? It's silly. Catman

2358
02:27:15,436 --> 02:27:20,528
something. Jim Carlson. Kathmandu. No, Kathmandu. Anyway, 80 years old,

2359
02:27:21,070 --> 02:27:22,815
and he still listens to the best podcast in the

2360
02:27:22,855 --> 02:27:25,042
universe without wearing his hearing aids. I wonder how many

2361
02:27:25,063 --> 02:27:28,333
people we have who are octogenarians that listen to this

2362
02:27:28,413 --> 02:27:33,065
show. Well, they better donate quick. I think you guys,

2363
02:27:33,146 --> 02:27:39,198
yeah, you know, $80 donation, $80 donation for you. Just

2364
02:27:39,779 --> 02:27:43,667
saying, get your donation in now. You don't want to

2365
02:27:44,228 --> 02:27:48,156
get up to heaven. Actually, I went back and forth

2366
02:27:48,216 --> 02:27:51,990
with one of our producers. Who's 80? 3, 84, 85.

2367
02:27:52,632 --> 02:27:55,620
Really? In the mid 80s. Yeah. And he says, I

2368
02:27:55,660 --> 02:27:59,049
got to get my knighthood in before I'm gone. I

2369
02:27:59,089 --> 02:28:01,837
told him he's got a bad attitude. Very bad attitude.

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02:28:01,957 --> 02:28:04,243
Don't look at that rock when you're driving your motorcycle.

2371
02:28:04,263 --> 02:28:06,470
Exactly. That's what I told him. The old rock thing.

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02:28:06,630 --> 02:28:11,683
Yes. Rhiann Kosinski, Cars Land. Alberta, that's in Scandinavia, 8374.

2373
02:28:13,246 --> 02:28:17,094
And also wants to add to the birthday list, Josh

2374
02:28:17,134 --> 02:28:20,480
of BC from Zach and Rhian of Alberta, Canada. And

2375
02:28:20,540 --> 02:28:26,132
a switcheroo donation and de-douching for his birthday. You've been

2376
02:28:26,252 --> 02:28:29,638
de-douched. He hit Zach in the mouth many moons ago

2377
02:28:29,699 --> 02:28:32,432
before. COVID and thanks is in order. John, so glad

2378
02:28:32,472 --> 02:28:34,925
you're okay. You have me worried for a beat. Ha!

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02:28:34,945 --> 02:28:38,748
Thank you for your courage, says Rianne. Jason Shepard, Trinidad,

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02:28:38,808 --> 02:28:45,268
Colorado, $80.76. And there's Sir Kevin McLaughlin, Archduke of Luna,

2381
02:28:45,289 --> 02:28:47,796
lover of America and boobs. He is the OG boob

2382
02:28:47,817 --> 02:28:51,140
donator. And he comes in with $80.08. God bless America

2383
02:28:51,180 --> 02:28:57,515
and boobs. We have Jurak Kojjak from Prague. I think

2384
02:28:57,535 --> 02:29:01,062
that's how you pronounce it. Yeah, you pronounce it Prague.

2385
02:29:02,285 --> 02:29:03,929
And he wants an F Karma, which I'll hit him

2386
02:29:03,949 --> 02:29:11,595
with right away. You've got karma. And next on the

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02:29:11,615 --> 02:29:15,100
list, she's always there, Dame Rita from Sparks, Nevada, 68-33.

2388
02:29:15,140 --> 02:29:18,986
Thank you so much, Dame Rita. Gwen Sobieski, Kettering, Ohio,

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02:29:19,006 --> 02:29:23,833
with 67. David Cox from Austin, Texas, 63-25. Dame Teresa

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02:29:23,874 --> 02:29:29,764
Martine, Camarillo, California, 61-61. That's something with a sticks and

2391
02:29:29,804 --> 02:29:33,224
a dicks. I forget what that is. Eric Flenor, Palmyra,

2392
02:29:33,305 --> 02:29:41,902
Palmyra. Michigan? Yeah, I was supposed to. I was supposed

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02:29:41,983 --> 02:29:49,130
to. Mississippi. Oh, you and your Mississippi. Michigan. George Sousa,

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02:29:49,170 --> 02:29:53,557
Hilmar, California. She is 55-55. George Sousa, Hilmar, California, 53-33.

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02:29:54,458 --> 02:30:00,207
Jorge Hernandez, Lake Stevens, Washington, 53-33. Gregory Braman in Saginaw,

2396
02:30:00,227 --> 02:30:04,854
Michigan, 52-72. Donation to the best podcast in the universe

2397
02:30:04,874 --> 02:30:07,779
for the best mom in the universe. Wendy Braman is

2398
02:30:07,819 --> 02:30:10,244
high. pronounce it. Wendy from Gregory. There you go, mom.

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02:30:10,264 --> 02:30:13,991
There's the first Mother's Day donation. And Bradley Bowman in

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02:30:14,011 --> 02:30:18,801
Duluth, Minnesota, 52-18. We've got Josiah Thomas in Ankeny, Iowa

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02:30:19,162 --> 02:30:21,807
with 51. Here are the 50s. Foster Birch, New York,

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02:30:21,827 --> 02:30:25,294
New York. Alex Zavala, Sir Alex, the winning Sir Alex

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02:30:25,314 --> 02:30:30,825
Zavala in Kyle, Texas. Edward Mazzara. Stephen Ray, Spokane, Washington.

2404
02:30:31,286 --> 02:30:35,134
Carl Vogler in Dillon Beach, California. Frankie Perez in San

2405
02:30:35,174 --> 02:30:40,986
Diego. Carrie Jackson, Watertown, Tennessee. Jason Deluzio, Miami Beach. And

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02:30:41,086 --> 02:30:44,854
Aichi Kitagawa checks in from San Francisco, California with $50.

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02:30:44,874 --> 02:30:46,678
Thank you all very much. For those of you who

2408
02:30:46,738 --> 02:30:49,242
do support us, We would like to see more of

2409
02:30:49,262 --> 02:30:52,689
that, please. It is value for value. We really feel

2410
02:30:52,729 --> 02:30:54,612
like we're putting the value in. We're bringing a lot

2411
02:30:54,632 --> 02:30:57,277
to the table. It's worth it. It's good. If you

2412
02:30:57,838 --> 02:31:01,084
don't support, then things do tend to go away. And,

2413
02:31:01,706 --> 02:31:03,469
you know, I don't know if we can do four

2414
02:31:03,529 --> 02:31:06,424
more years at this point. I may have to get

2415
02:31:06,485 --> 02:31:10,114
that gig at Adobe. Yeah, I think you should go

2416
02:31:10,134 --> 02:31:13,643
to work for Adobe. Yeah, thanks. You'd fit right in.

2417
02:31:13,663 --> 02:31:17,131
I would not fit in at all. That's a horrible

2418
02:31:17,251 --> 02:31:19,497
idea. I don't want to work at Adobe. The other

2419
02:31:19,597 --> 02:31:24,280
one was... What's that AI company? He had two for

2420
02:31:24,361 --> 02:31:27,619
me. snowflake. Like, I'm not going to work at any...

2421
02:31:27,599 --> 02:31:32,448
company known as snowflake that's a horrible idea i am

2422
02:31:32,468 --> 02:31:35,914
i'm an executive vice president at snowflake thank you very

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02:31:35,954 --> 02:31:38,780
much oops thank you very much to our executive and

2424
02:31:38,820 --> 02:31:42,747
associate executive producers for producing episode 1866 our formula is

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02:31:42,787 --> 02:31:47,175
this we go out we hit people in the mouth

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02:32:00,139 --> 02:32:03,196
I've done that earlier, but we thanked everybody. $50 and

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02:32:03,236 --> 02:32:06,534
above, as we always do. NoagendaDonations.com is where you go

2428
02:32:06,574 --> 02:32:10,406
to support the show with your... treasure noagendadonations.com any amount

2429
02:32:10,806 --> 02:32:13,913
anytime you want to we love the numerology it's always

2430
02:32:13,994 --> 02:32:16,198
fun to do it supports the show it keeps the

2431
02:32:16,259 --> 02:32:19,325
show going keeps the wheels grinding keeps the machine humming

2432
02:32:19,766 --> 02:32:22,533
you can even do a sustaining donation any amount any

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02:32:22,613 --> 02:32:33,460
frequency noagendadonations.com *music* Hey! Here's our list. Sir Greg Birch,

2434
02:32:33,521 --> 02:32:36,850
turn 60 on May 6th. Happy birthday to him. Zach

2435
02:32:36,910 --> 02:32:41,362
and Rhian of Alberta, Canada, wish Josh of British Columbia

2436
02:32:41,382 --> 02:32:45,474
a very happy birthday. He celebrates today, actually, May 7th.

2437
02:32:45,494 --> 02:32:51,114
And Jim Carlson turns... Happy birthday from everybody here at

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02:32:51,154 --> 02:32:56,282
the best podcast in the universe Oh, we have title

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02:32:56,323 --> 02:32:58,236
changes. Boy, it's been a while since we had one

2440
02:32:58,256 --> 02:33:07,848
of those. ♪ Strange ♪ ♪ I'm sp- ♪ No

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02:33:08,069 --> 02:33:13,297
douchebags for our Viscountess, who today becomes a Countess. That

2442
02:33:13,317 --> 02:33:15,961
would be the Viscountess Knight. We always remember her name

2443
02:33:16,061 --> 02:33:18,886
as Viscountess Knight, but now she'll be known as Countess

2444
02:33:18,946 --> 02:33:22,792
Knight, thanks to an additional $1,000 support to the best

2445
02:33:22,832 --> 02:33:24,755
podcast in the universe, and we thank you very much.

2446
02:33:24,815 --> 02:33:27,692
We have a dame and we have a knight. to

2447
02:33:27,712 --> 02:33:29,962
bring up today, John. So if you can, there's my

2448
02:33:30,023 --> 02:33:32,615
sword. If you can grab yours. Here you go. Right

2449
02:33:32,635 --> 02:33:38,383
here. Yeah, you're getting stronger. Bigger blade. Jordan Tierney and

2450
02:33:38,504 --> 02:33:41,818
Rob Butcher. Both of you step up. You have supported

2451
02:33:41,858 --> 02:33:44,107
the No Agenda show in the amount of $1,000 or

2452
02:33:44,268 --> 02:33:46,357
more, and that means I am very proud to pronounce

2453
02:33:46,397 --> 02:34:06,919
the case. and Sir Jimmy Chimpkins of the Bloody Goiter.

2454
02:34:06,899 --> 02:34:10,366
Beer and blunts. We've got cowgirls and coffin varnish. Ruben

2455
02:34:10,446 --> 02:34:12,931
S. Wuman and Rosé. Gais and the Sockies. Sparkling cider

2456
02:34:12,951 --> 02:34:15,977
and escorts. Ginger and gerbils. And always at the round

2457
02:34:16,017 --> 02:34:18,722
table, we've got some mutton and some mead. If you've

2458
02:34:18,742 --> 02:34:20,666
been waiting for your ring, I think the rings are

2459
02:34:20,847 --> 02:34:24,394
in. Also, we have the pins. They're in as well

2460
02:34:24,494 --> 02:34:28,903
for the red knights. Order of the Heart. So all

2461
02:34:28,943 --> 02:34:30,826
of that is coming your way soon. And of course,

2462
02:34:30,866 --> 02:34:33,131
our brand new Dame and Knight, you need to go

2463
02:34:33,211 --> 02:34:37,580
to noagendarrings.com. Check out those beautiful rings. They're for Dames

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02:34:37,660 --> 02:34:40,866
and for Knights. They're Signet rings, which means you get

2465
02:34:40,906 --> 02:34:44,213
some sticks of wax enclosed in your shipment. You can

2466
02:34:44,313 --> 02:34:48,366
use that to sign and seal your... and correspondents with.

2467
02:34:48,406 --> 02:34:52,510
And as always, we have a certificate of authenticity. That

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02:34:52,570 --> 02:34:55,512
is you. I saw it come through from you. That

2469
02:34:55,593 --> 02:35:00,477
is your computer beeping. No. Yes, I saw it. I

2470
02:35:00,557 --> 02:35:02,403
saw the, I saw. That was, that was not the

2471
02:35:02,523 --> 02:35:04,790
one you were bitching about earlier. It's the exact same

2472
02:35:04,930 --> 02:35:07,798
one. That's like you're getting an email or a text

2473
02:35:07,818 --> 02:35:12,481
or. Only fans notification. You have mail. Something's going on.

2474
02:35:12,501 --> 02:35:20,606
No one should know. That's right, the NOAA Genome Meetups.

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02:35:20,626 --> 02:35:22,996
This is where you get connections. It always brings you

2476
02:35:23,057 --> 02:35:25,025
protection. The people you meet at a NOAA Genome Meetup

2477
02:35:25,447 --> 02:35:28,500
will be your first responders in any emergency. They keep

2478
02:35:28,520 --> 02:35:31,506
you stable to make you able. Go to noagendameetups.com to

2479
02:35:31,586 --> 02:35:34,632
find out where you can meet other people who listen

2480
02:35:34,672 --> 02:35:36,877
to the show. And they happen all around the world.

2481
02:35:37,177 --> 02:35:39,542
And sometimes they even send us meetup reports like this

2482
02:35:39,662 --> 02:35:42,668
one from the Three Mile Island meetup. This is Chris

2483
02:35:42,788 --> 02:35:46,115
at the TMI Evac Zone Spring Meetup where we hit

2484
02:35:46,195 --> 02:35:49,711
a whole music festival in the mouth. The lead singer

2485
02:35:50,013 --> 02:35:55,483
said that Adam Curry is... The Gibbs looking guy. Don't

2486
02:35:55,624 --> 02:35:59,275
kill me, bro. Hey, this is Sir 737. We're micro-dosing

2487
02:35:59,315 --> 02:36:06,258
micro-brews. I'm feeling very protected today because I'm connected. Sarcastic

2488
02:36:06,541 --> 02:36:12,788
Nomad, thank you for your courage. Microdosing? I'm macrodosing. Bye.

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02:36:13,303 --> 02:36:16,190
Yeah, we've had better reports. I don't know what that

2490
02:36:16,250 --> 02:36:19,217
recording was about. That was bad. But we appreciate it

2491
02:36:19,398 --> 02:36:22,325
no matter what. Hey, there's a meetup taking place tomorrow.

2492
02:36:22,345 --> 02:36:24,671
A couple of them, actually. We have the May 8th

2493
02:36:24,731 --> 02:36:27,498
Happy Hour Buda meetup. Ah, that would have been right

2494
02:36:27,518 --> 02:36:30,684
down the road. from me, but I'm not there at

2495
02:36:30,785 --> 02:36:33,771
the time. So that'll be at Astra in Buda, Texas.

2496
02:36:33,811 --> 02:36:37,759
Yes, it is pronounced Buda. The National Dutch Amygdala Checkup.

2497
02:36:38,400 --> 02:36:42,728
Now this will be in Lokal 1650 in Leiden in

2498
02:36:42,769 --> 02:36:47,258
the Netherlands. That'll be at eight o'clock Dutch time. Unfortunately,

2499
02:36:47,278 --> 02:36:48,841
I won't be able to. 10. I'm going out to

2500
02:36:48,881 --> 02:36:52,969
dinner with my daughter. Sorry. Saturday. Make your daughter do

2501
02:36:53,009 --> 02:36:55,735
the meetup. She'd love to meet people. She's seven months

2502
02:36:55,835 --> 02:36:58,280
pregnant. She doesn't really want to go anywhere at the

2503
02:36:58,320 --> 02:37:02,569
moment. The Treasure Valley Boise meetup. 3 o'clock at the

2504
02:37:02,649 --> 02:37:05,034
Old State Saloon in Eagle, Idaho. Make sure you catch

2505
02:37:05,094 --> 02:37:08,221
that one. They can all rub her tummy. Also on

2506
02:37:08,281 --> 02:37:13,492
Saturday, the Sonoma-Wino country meetup. That'll be at 3.33 p.m.

2507
02:37:13,532 --> 02:37:16,939
in Santa Rosa, California. And that'll be at Fieldwork. And

2508
02:37:16,979 --> 02:37:20,466
Mums the Word in Nashville, 6 o'clock at Tenfold in

2509
02:37:20,546 --> 02:37:23,712
Nashville, Tennessee. That is also on Saturday. Make sure you

2510
02:37:23,732 --> 02:37:25,817
go to these meetups if you can in the month

2511
02:37:25,857 --> 02:37:29,300
of May. We still have. Unionville, Ontario on the 13th,

2512
02:37:29,380 --> 02:37:32,928
Raleigh, North Carolina on the 14th, Colleyville, I got it

2513
02:37:32,968 --> 02:37:35,193
right this time, on the 16th, along with Fort Wayne,

2514
02:37:35,213 --> 02:37:39,542
Indiana, Los Banos, California, the 21st, Charlotte, North Carolina, the

2515
02:37:39,562 --> 02:37:44,313
23rd, Wilmington, Delaware, Los Angeles, California, Hickson, Tennessee, and Franklin,

2516
02:37:44,333 --> 02:37:47,508
Tennessee, dueling Tennessee meetups on the same day. And on

2517
02:37:47,548 --> 02:37:51,760
the 24th, Vancouver, British Columbia and Squim, Washington, where Mimi

2518
02:37:51,800 --> 02:37:57,035
will be the TooManyEggs.com book lady and John's much better

2519
02:37:57,075 --> 02:38:02,793
half. That'll be on May 25th. And that's it. Of

2520
02:38:02,854 --> 02:38:06,426
course, there's a lot more. There's a lot more taking

2521
02:38:06,508 --> 02:38:09,925
place. which you can find at noagendameetups.com. You head over

2522
02:38:09,965 --> 02:38:12,751
there, find one near you. If you can't find one,

2523
02:38:12,791 --> 02:38:16,899
here's a novel idea. Start one yourself. It's free of

2524
02:38:16,959 --> 02:38:19,103
charge. All you got to do is find a place,

2525
02:38:19,304 --> 02:38:23,432
advertise it, and let's get it going. noagendameetups.com. Always fun,

2526
02:38:23,532 --> 02:38:40,437
always easy, and always a party. ♪ To say ♪

2527
02:38:44,119 --> 02:38:47,680
Yeah, baby. We have end of show mixes. coming up,

2528
02:38:47,700 --> 02:38:50,067
which I think you will enjoy. We also have John's

2529
02:38:50,127 --> 02:38:51,851
tip of the day, but first we're going to choose

2530
02:38:51,891 --> 02:38:53,997
the end of show ISOs. I see you have two.

2531
02:38:55,862 --> 02:38:58,128
I'll go. I have four. So let me hit you

2532
02:38:58,168 --> 02:39:01,585
with mine. Okay. You ready? Hit it. I agree with

2533
02:39:01,625 --> 02:39:07,656
you. That's one. Oh my goodness, goody goody, gumdrops, you're

2534
02:39:07,676 --> 02:39:12,359
gonna love them. you Lovey's still on the air. That's

2535
02:39:12,461 --> 02:39:16,181
it. We're done. And the final one. This is incredible.

2536
02:39:16,966 --> 02:39:18,777
I kind of like that one. I like the incredible

2537
02:39:18,898 --> 02:39:22,664
one. That's better than the other one. Yeah. There's future

2538
02:39:22,744 --> 02:39:26,710
tense for the Alex Jones one. Get closer to the

2539
02:39:26,771 --> 02:39:29,022
mic, man. You're cutting out. Okay, closer to the mic.

2540
02:39:29,062 --> 02:39:38,449
Yes. Let's start with Fabulous. It's over. Fabulous show. Donate

2541
02:39:38,629 --> 02:39:45,597
now. Not at all, AI. Okay. Life. It needs more

2542
02:39:45,738 --> 02:39:53,148
energy. I wanted it to be soft and demanding. No

2543
02:39:53,188 --> 02:39:58,202
agenda. This was no agenda, except no substitutes. Okay, that's

2544
02:39:58,764 --> 02:40:03,117
taken from, what was it? What was the TV show

2545
02:40:03,177 --> 02:40:07,120
that had that? I don't know. Yeah, that was it.

2546
02:40:07,351 --> 02:40:09,540
We'll do that one. I like that. Except no substitutes.

2547
02:40:09,580 --> 02:40:12,794
That's true. And there is no substitute for John C.

2548
02:40:12,895 --> 02:40:17,972
Dvorak's tip of the day. Green. For you and me

2549
02:40:18,327 --> 02:40:26,691
Just the Tip with JCB And sometimes, Adam. Okay. Of

2550
02:40:26,712 --> 02:40:36,225
course. Okay. I haven't changed anything. Uh-huh. So everyone's moaning

2551
02:40:36,265 --> 02:40:40,560
and groaning about the last tip. So I'm going back

2552
02:40:40,600 --> 02:40:43,575
to the well and going back to the wine tips,

2553
02:40:43,595 --> 02:40:46,611
which everybody seems to love. We love our wine tips.

2554
02:40:47,479 --> 02:40:56,843
19, uh, 19, 2023 Kirkland Signature Chablis. Another Kirkland. Yeah,

2555
02:40:56,903 --> 02:40:59,286
do as Costco, you know, people can go to Costco,

2556
02:40:59,306 --> 02:41:03,559
it's cheap. I lost track of the price, unfortunately. Oh,

2557
02:41:03,619 --> 02:41:07,036
couldn't it be more than $9? They don't charge much

2558
02:41:07,117 --> 02:41:09,347
more than that. for their wines, do they? Not for

2559
02:41:09,387 --> 02:41:12,460
these Kirkland ones, no. No. It's just a plain Chablis.

2560
02:41:12,480 --> 02:41:15,980
Now, here's the thing. This one in particular... Let me

2561
02:41:16,060 --> 02:41:21,699
get this label I got here. Pierre Brissy, winemaker on

2562
02:41:21,719 --> 02:41:24,910
the back of the label. It says Pierre Brissy. Okay,

2563
02:41:25,131 --> 02:41:29,338
so Pierre did the wine. So... Chablis is an area

2564
02:41:29,458 --> 02:41:33,852
of the northernmost part of Burgundy. And they're known for

2565
02:41:33,912 --> 02:41:39,363
making, and the grape used in Chablis is always Chardonnay.

2566
02:41:40,295 --> 02:41:42,568
And so it's a Chardonnay, which is, you know, the

2567
02:41:42,588 --> 02:41:44,721
ABC folks may or may not like, but it doesn't

2568
02:41:44,781 --> 02:41:48,362
taste like a California Chardonnay, so people should... and complain

2569
02:41:48,402 --> 02:41:50,876
about it too much. And it says Chablis. It doesn't

2570
02:41:50,936 --> 02:41:55,038
say Chardonnay. So I guess that would benefit people who

2571
02:41:55,098 --> 02:42:00,721
hate Chardonnay. But it's not the typical Chablis in the

2572
02:42:00,821 --> 02:42:07,476
normal low carbon dioxide years of yore, with climate change

2573
02:42:07,536 --> 02:42:12,103
not being what it was. tends to be Steely, they

2574
02:42:12,143 --> 02:42:16,759
describe it as steely, flinty, sharp. Hold on a second.

2575
02:42:16,839 --> 02:42:21,827
Are you telling me that climate change... i.e. more parts

2576
02:42:21,888 --> 02:42:26,891
per million of our CO2 makes the wine better? Oh

2577
02:42:26,952 --> 02:42:29,160
yeah, the Germans will tell you this right now. You

2578
02:42:29,200 --> 02:42:33,669
go to the Rhine and ask around and let them

2579
02:42:33,709 --> 02:42:36,455
tell you what they think. Well, this is an argument

2580
02:42:36,495 --> 02:42:38,539
that has never been used. I think we should... I

2581
02:42:38,559 --> 02:42:40,483
think we've mentioned it once before on the show. I

2582
02:42:40,603 --> 02:42:43,389
can't recall, but I like it. Well, winemakers think it's

2583
02:42:43,429 --> 02:42:46,475
a big deal. Yes, more... So some of these areas

2584
02:42:46,535 --> 02:42:51,894
that make this sketchy... Sometimes good, sometimes bad wines. Burgundy

2585
02:42:51,915 --> 02:42:55,531
is a good example. They're basically every vintage is good.

2586
02:42:55,983 --> 02:43:00,777
And so this Chablis is not like the flinty, harsh,

2587
02:43:01,318 --> 02:43:06,372
you know, acidic Chablis that people expect. It's a very

2588
02:43:06,593 --> 02:43:11,433
soft, gorgeous wine. I would say I would check it

2589
02:43:11,533 --> 02:43:16,243
out, especially all the people that hate the California shards.

2590
02:43:16,791 --> 02:43:21,442
Shards, I'm using this thing. Shard. I sharded, man. That's

2591
02:43:21,502 --> 02:43:23,687
right. Hey, there it is. There's a dynamite tip of

2592
02:43:23,727 --> 02:43:25,471
the day from John C. DeBoer. I get them all

2593
02:43:25,491 --> 02:43:32,175
at noagendafun.com, tipoftheday.net. ♪ The first ♪ Just the Tip

2594
02:43:32,803 --> 02:43:39,988
with JCB. And sometimes, Adam. Created by Dana Burnetti. Let's

2595
02:43:40,049 --> 02:43:46,103
see how we do. Right on schedule. Perfect. Hey y'all,

2596
02:43:46,565 --> 02:43:50,289
remember us at noagendadonations.com if if you would please. I'll

2597
02:43:50,329 --> 02:43:53,047
be here Sunday night. Once again, John will be here

2598
02:43:53,188 --> 02:43:57,432
Sunday afternoon. Bringing you the best podcast in the universe,

2599
02:43:57,492 --> 02:44:00,607
breaking down all the media, the deconstruction that you need

2600
02:44:00,647 --> 02:44:05,564
to function. I think that's kind of a rhyme. If

2601
02:44:05,605 --> 02:44:10,938
you stick around, up next we have Random Thoughts. That'll

2602
02:44:10,978 --> 02:44:14,826
be on the No Agenda stream. Just keep it running

2603
02:44:14,846 --> 02:44:17,472
in your modern podcast app or if you're listening in

2604
02:44:17,532 --> 02:44:21,040
a web browser. Not on YouTube, that's for sure. End

2605
02:44:21,100 --> 02:44:24,768
of show makes this from Just Baker, Chris Mattson. I

2606
02:44:24,788 --> 02:44:27,635
got two that I'm moving to Sunday from MVP and

2607
02:44:27,675 --> 02:44:30,650
we have that No Agenda donation. The one that John

2608
02:44:30,711 --> 02:44:33,668
chose, that'll be the second one in the lineup. Coming

2609
02:44:33,688 --> 02:44:39,107
to you from Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. In

2610
02:44:39,147 --> 02:44:44,016
the morning, everybody. I'm Adam Curry. From the refinery row,

2611
02:44:44,800 --> 02:44:47,632
where I want to tell Adam, go get something to

2612
02:44:47,672 --> 02:44:50,471
eat. I'm John C. Dvorak. All that's open right now

2613
02:44:50,551 --> 02:44:53,439
is the Burger King, unfortunately. Hey, we'll be here on

2614
02:44:53,499 --> 02:44:58,613
Sunday. Until then, adios, mofos, a-hooey, hooey, and such. And

2615
02:44:58,654 --> 02:45:19,100
remember us at noagendadonations.com. you ♪ Spirit L. Waffle House

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the Atlantic, antivirus on the cruise, three passengers down, now

2619
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the whole ship's got the news. Road in Bonterra on

2620
02:45:45,507 --> 02:45:48,498
your floating vacation, very rare, they tell you if you're

2621
02:45:48,518 --> 02:46:00,643
no agenda fan. It's Adam Curry. Now it's your turn

2622
02:46:00,664 --> 02:49:10,098
to kick in. Thank you! and the chasers flame Well,

2623
02:49:10,118 --> 02:49:26,089
that's okay. When the These people are in effect modern

2624
02:49:26,230 --> 02:49:32,057
MKUltra. Well, this is a new I like it some

2625
02:49:32,077 --> 02:49:57,281
blue Okay. ♪ The way ♪ ♪ In a flame

2626
02:49:57,301 --> 02:50:17,283
♪ That's okay. This was no agenda, except no substitutes.