No Agenda - 1652 - ""Ashkenormativity"" Transcript and Discussion (2024)

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hold on a second, let me get this straight. Didn't you basically invent podcasting? Adam Curry, John C. DeVore. It's Thursday, April 18, 2024. This is your award-winning Kimba Nation Media Assassination Episode 1652. This is no agenda. Seating your clouds and broadcasting live

Starting point is 00:00:20 from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region No. 6. In the morning, everybody. I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where they're all singing, Google, Google, you can't hide. I'm John C. Dvorak. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.

Starting point is 00:00:36 In the morning. Let's do that in a minute. Let's do the Google. I don't have anything. That was it. I have the clip. Oh, good. I have a Google, Google clip.

Starting point is 00:00:48 But before that, the funniest thing, just the funniest thing happened. I love this story, and I love how the mainstream is like, what are we going to do about this? This is a problem. Jeff Hogan of the WRLive Center. I've got some brand new video. We've been telling you about this rainfall in the United Arab Emirates and in Dubai. Record-breaking rainfall and flooding.

Starting point is 00:01:10 This is a view from the Dubai airport. This rain has shut down schools. It has shut down roads, grounded flights. The second largest airport in the world looks like a river. This is the tarmac out of the plane window. Look at this view here. The country got 10 inches of rain in 24 hours. That is an entire year's worth. It's creating

Starting point is 00:01:29 dangerous conditions all across that region. People are being told, don't travel unless it's absolutely necessary. In nearby Oman, there are 18 people who have been killed because of this severe weather. The National Center of Meteorology in Abu Dhabi says this rain event surpasses anything

Starting point is 00:01:45 that they have seen since they began keeping records in 1949 so i'm uh i'm looking around and i come across bloomberg radio which is a you know they're 24 hours a day bloomberg radio that they have video of it as well of course you got uh people sitting there with headphones on with a big mic in front of the face yes bloomberg radio watch me and uh they have a new reporter in dubai he's kind of a cute lady you know she's got a i cut out the whole part about her she's new and she's so happy to be here and her and her husband are living there with a young child everything's great but she's new so she's inexperienced and doesn't quite know the you know how things go you're not supposed to talk about certain topics so she right away explains exactly what happened and why this took place and you will hear some interference being run the official response is actually this is i think they called

Starting point is 00:02:43 it goodwill reign and and let me explain the context of this so this is I think they called it goodwill rain. And let me explain the context of this. So this is also new to me. Right. I had I was not familiar with this concept of cloud seeding. And for anyone who's not heard of that term, it's basically a methodology that some governments in the region use to help encourage rainfall. And what they do is whenever they see cloud formations, they inject substance into the clouds. And in this case, I think it's salt, anything with a bit of iodine. And the whole point is for those substances to attract moisture to encourage more rainfall in

Starting point is 00:03:15 very barren landscapes like, you know, like deserts and in the Middle East and what we have in the UAE. And so what some people are saying, and these are, you know, this is allegations, of course, but denied by the government, is that this is an example of cloud seeding that has gone too far. The response to that, of course, is that it wasn't just heavy rainfall in the UAE. You also saw

Starting point is 00:03:40 it in other parts of the region. You saw it in Pakistan, Afghanistan. I want Damien Sassar to jump in here. I'm just going to realize, Jumana, that every other word from Damien is a Greek letter. No, Jumana, I mean, by the way, Jumana and I are having lunch when she comes to New York in a few weeks' time, but Jumana, I really need to ask

Starting point is 00:03:55 you this one question. What is the damage? You're on the ground there. Excellent. Good job. Good job. Please. I mean, she says it right right there she's boots on the ground she's brand new uh jump in man oh we got to stop that but we can't we can't have that be the official the official uh explanation and the guardian you know of course you'd have the guardian to uh to come out and say oh um, where is it here?

Starting point is 00:04:26 Don't blame cloud seeding for the Dubai floods. Did cloud seeding cause the heavy rain? In short, scientists say no. In a statement issued to multiple news outlets, except for the new lady in Bloomberg, the NCM, which

Starting point is 00:04:42 oversees cloud seeding operations in the UAE, said there were no such cloud seeding operations before or during the storm. We did not engage in any seeding operations during this particular weather event. He doesn't say before. He says during. Experts, meanwhile, John, you'll be interested to know, have debunked the cloud seeding theory. Martin Umbaum, a professor of atmospheric physics and dynamics at the University of Reading, said that cloud seeding theory. Martin Umbaum, a professor of atmospheric physics and dynamics at the University of Reading, said that cloud seeding, certainly in the Emirates, is used for clouds that don't normally produce rain.

Starting point is 00:05:14 Huh? You would not normally develop a very severe storm out of that. And he added that in the 50s and 60s people still thought about using cloud seating to produce these big weather events or change these big weather events this is long being recognized as just not a realistic possibility well i'm sorry this cloud seating happens all the time for rain well i'll tell you this that what he just said at the end there since i was a kid in california during the cloud seating era in the 50s and 60s the days of cloud seating they used to pour rain just constantly with these clouds and they would tell us hey you know we're seating and boom next thing you know it'd be

Starting point is 00:05:57 storming like crazy and and uh uh later earlier in the in that clip the the new the new lady said you know they were warning everybody a day and a half ahead of time hey it's gonna rain now of course deutschewelle took the expected tact while it's not clear to what extent climate change may have caused rainfall experts say it's an example of the kind of extreme weather we can only expect to increase as temperatures rise around the world. With climate change, what we see a lot is that you expect increased intensity of storms like this, of heavy, heavy rainfall. Uptalk. And increased conditions to form storms, to even begin to think about precipitation.

Starting point is 00:06:42 As the climate changes, the Gulf is expected to experience bigger and more frequent rainstorms. Oh, okay. All right. There you go. This is truly man-made climate change. Man-made extreme weather event. It's true if you want to look at it that way.

Starting point is 00:07:03 It's just, I'm so sad that they, why don't they just say it? Yeah, it was cloud seeding. We all know it. We have to deny. Yeah, I don't even know. It's not even as though, especially the news media, it's not as though they're butter. Their bread is buttered by climate change.

Starting point is 00:07:25 They're not making money. It's the researchers and scammers that are making money off the climate change notion. So why is the media all in on this? Why can't they be honest with themselves? Let's dig up the guy who will say climate change. There's plenty of guys who would say just the opposite if they wanted to be they're in the rolodex you can have you if you wanted to put a story together i could put 10 guys saying it's bullcrap and 10 guys saying oh yeah climate change easy climate change the movie everybody look for it it's on youtube i do have a genesis clip

Starting point is 00:08:01 interestingly enough which includes uh one of our favorite people. I don't know if you saw this. It was circulating around suddenly, and it came by, and I scooped it up in the net. 1982, which is, is that 42 years ago? Yeah, yes. Can you believe that? 1982 was 42 years ago. Yep, it waseteen eighty two was forty two years ago. Yep, it was.

Starting point is 00:08:29 It was a long time ago. Dan Rather, CBS, the genesis of climate change. Concern about rising temperatures on planet Earth heated up a hearing here in Washington today. For years, scientists have theorized about the dangers of the so-called greenhouse effect. Now, this is where, I think this is why we don't remember this, because the original term before global warming was the greenhouse effect. And I think that that was a bad term because it sounds so green. And, you know, it doesn't, when you think of greenhouse, you don't think of, oh, it's really hot in here. Because most people have probably not been in a greenhouse. Oh, greenhouse.

Starting point is 00:09:09 Have you been in one? Oh, I used to work in one. You used to work in a greenhouse? Yes, the Rose Nursery when I was a kid. Well, my experience being in a greenhouse is that they're muggy. Yes, muggy and warm. Very muggy. And if you're in a rose rose nursery

Starting point is 00:09:26 you get a lot of scratches anyway so this is pre pre-climate pre-global warming which then became climate change because the warming wasn't there for several years you remember that period so we're going back to greenhouse gases the warming of the Earth's atmosphere due to the burning of coal and oil. And in recent months, as David Culhane reports, research has uncovered facts to support that theory. Facts! Many scientists claim that the temperature of the Earth's atmosphere has been rising over the past 100 years. That the great sheets of pack ice in Antarctica are melting at a much more rapid rate than previously. sheets of pack ice in Antarctica are melting at a much more rapid rate than previously.

Starting point is 00:10:11 And finally, that the sea level has been rising with increasing swiftness over the past 40 years. Sound familiar? If it's rising for 40 years and that was 42 years ago, I'm looking out the window here. Mudflats, no change. No change. And I have a map of the mud flats from the 1980s 1890s somebody sent me the same thing it looks the same i wasn't so i mean would somebody explain this to me besides the one guy wrote and says yeah well it's because the silt yeah right because of what's happening in greenland right now the maps of the world will have to be redrawn. There it is. Redraw the maps. This is what would happen to San Francisco Bay. All right. We looked out the window. No change. Back to the reports.

Starting point is 00:10:56 If these scientists are correct, about 25% of Florida would be flooded, along with low-lying areas all over the world. Climate changes could produce widespread disruption of notice they said climate changes so this was really the precursor i love this genesis clip climate changes to changes from uh greenhouse gases climate change i want to stop you for a second give a little uh kind of perspective on this please it was until when reagan got elected, they were still promoting, and I have,

Starting point is 00:11:27 I will, I will get these clips off of an old cassette I made in the late 70s, early 80s. I think it was probably 79 to 80, which I've been,

Starting point is 00:11:40 which is around the house somewhere. They were still, yeah, I know. Four more years. Four more know. Four more years. Four more years. Four more years. I know where it is. Anyway, they were still...

Starting point is 00:11:54 And this is on mainstream hippie radio. Hippie radio. They were still pushing the new ice age. And that went to about 1981. And we're not talking about, as Bill Maher said, oh, one article. Thousands of articles were written about this. Some of the same people.

Starting point is 00:12:15 And they had to... Right? Some of the same people who then later wrote about... About half of the same. Yeah, about half the same people. A number of those people have stuck to this day with the global cooling, which is interesting. But nobody talks to them. Anyway, so around 1980, about 1981, this wasn't working because they went through it from about 70, I think it started around 72.

Starting point is 00:12:42 They started doing all these scary things about global cooling, and so they had to reverse change course. So around 82, which is where this clip came from, this is part of the course-changing event, so they flipped the script. Since we're talking about it, normally I wouldn't have done this, and Reagan is actually mentioned in this 1982 report we might as well go back wind it back four years to 1978 this is a classic no agenda clip so many have heard it an hour-long special by the one and only dr spock leonard nimoy who

Starting point is 00:13:19 told us that it would so this only four years before this we're gonna we're all gonna flood that we are all gonna die of to die of the new ice age. In 1977, the worst winter in a century struck the United States. Arctic cold gripped the Midwest for weeks on end. Great blizzards paralyzed cities of the Northeast. One desperate night in Buffalo, eight people froze to death in marine comms. Pat Bushnell was on the road that night. Traffic just absolutely stopped.

Starting point is 00:14:00 I was afraid of being stuck in the car all night long with the cold and the wind running out of gas. And then what? I think that if we had to go through a real bad winter, just like we just went through, I think we'd have to think about moving someplace else. Move where? Where? A brutal buffalo winter might become common all over the United States. Climate experts believe the next ice age is on its way.

Starting point is 00:14:30 According to recent evidence, it could come sooner than anyone had expected. Woo! At weather stations in the far north, temperatures have been dropping for 30 years. Seacoast, long free of summer ice are now blocked year round. According to some climatologists, within a lifetime, we might be living in the next ice age. Ah,

Starting point is 00:14:57 there it is. Mr. Spock ambassador Spock. Yes. Classic clip. Classic new agenda clip. It's you can find the whole hour long. I think it Ambassador Spock. Yes. Classic clip. Classic no agenda clip. You can find the whole hour long. I think it's an hour long special.

Starting point is 00:15:09 He's out there walking in a blizzard with his heavy coat on. It's so good. And then a mere four years later. Climate changes could produce widespread disruption of agriculture. The American farm belt might be too dry and the wheat and corn crops would have to move to Canada. Oh no! Scientists blame the odorless colorless carbon dioxide gas for these potentially dangerous changes

Starting point is 00:15:32 around the planet. Now see, they were still calling it carbon dioxide then. We've now changed that to carbon, obviously. It is the greenhouse effect. The gas allows sunlight to filter down and warm the earth. But like the glass of a greenhouse, the carbon dioxide tends to trap heat so that it cannot rise into space. The scientists maintain that the coal, oil, and gas we've been burning for 100 years

Starting point is 00:15:55 have produced more and more carbon dioxide and helped overheat the Earth. Notice no mention of cows, no mention of any other things. No, it's of any other things. No, it's just burning fossil fuels. Now some political leaders endorse the demands for more CO2 monitoring stations. Oh, who could be coming up? 1982. Like this one in Hawaii. And they share the anger of the scientists at Reagan administration budget cuts at a time when they feel closer to getting defeated.

Starting point is 00:16:23 Oh, there it is. Budget cuts. And who's coming in to get some research money money money answers we are not doing the kind of research that we should be doing to determine whether or not these scientists who are so alarmed are correct and this is al gore senator gore assessment and what they find out will affect the lives and fortunes of millions of people no kidding the very survival of cities like this one david colhane cbs news new york there it is al gore early on going for the research money and it will change the lives

Starting point is 00:17:00 and riches of many yes it did especially Especially for Al Gore and for other, and for science. By the way, remember Al, first law of holes. If you are one, shut up. I'm going to play one more clip for climate change

Starting point is 00:17:15 and we can move on because we have a, and I think this actually, I think this flows into a couple of clips I saw. You had the new CEO of NPR, Catherine Maher. She has quite a career.

Starting point is 00:17:29 She has. She is a, I mean, if you had to place a picture next to libtard in the dictionary, she would be it. I can't believe you used that. I have to. She's kind of, she could be kind and she's she's a great photo of her wearing a biden for president oh i mean she's all in on all of this leftist stuff all of the trans maoist stuff all of it so she did a ted talk a few years back mistake i didn't get that mistake mistake i could have we could just play the whole 15 minutes instead i clipped about a minute minute

Starting point is 00:18:05 30 here i think about our lack of shared of urgent action i should mention um at the time she was uh the i think the executive director of the wikimedia foundation which of course produces wikipedia uh she later went on to be the executive director of the signal foundation which makes me want to question the use of signal the the the chat texting app right communications app and but she is she is a long line of very globalist organizations that she's been in so let's go back to her views on climate change and how we have to have the conversation which is coming to an NPR radio station near you very soon. I think about our lack of urgent action on climate change.

Starting point is 00:18:49 We've known for a very long time now about the negative impacts of man-made carbon in the atmosphere. Man-made carbon. She just skips over the dioxide part, so now it's just man-made carbon. But that implications of that data challenge our identities, our industries, our communities in ways that have led and created resistance and even disinformation. about the truth of climate change have prevented us from taking specific and concrete actions that could mitigate the harms to us around rising seas, increasingly deadly waves of heat and cold, and powerful storm systems. Notice how she brings in heat and cold all of a sudden. With such urgent threats ahead of us, we need better ways to get to shared understanding. urgent threats ahead of us. We need better ways to get to shared understanding. Fortunately, I've seen how at Wikipedia,

Starting point is 00:19:52 we can come to cooperative and productive conversations around disagreement and decision-making without using one shared truth as our baseline. It's generous and accommodating approach. Rich, stop. One shared truth of our baseline? What the hell is that supposed to mean? I was waiting for you to stop it somewhere. I mean, she's just full of these little buzz phrases.

Starting point is 00:20:16 What does that mean? I don't know. She's too cute. You're looking at her like, oh, she's cute. What did she say? She's moderately cute. She's cute her like, oh, she's cute. What did she say? She's moderately cute. She's cute in a horsey kind of a way. Cooperative and productive conversations around disagreement and decision making without using one shared truth as our baseline.

Starting point is 00:20:36 One shared truth as our baseline. I think... Of our baseline. Yes. I don't know. I don't know. It's gobbledygook. It's TED Talk. It's's gobbledygook it's ted talk it's total gobbledygook generous and accommodating approach offers us an a practical way to take it down a

Starting point is 00:20:54 notch focusing on something a little less stressful the best of what can be known right now and the good news is we can know a lot of things. We have high quality information, facts and data that allow us to do things like track the migration of endangered species or the spread of a pandemic around the world. Oh, yes. She's going to be great. And by coincidence, someone sent me the form 990 for NPR, which I was very happy with because it has a lot more stuff in here than I realized. NPR last year spent $2.25 million on TED Talk. I guess they have TED Talk Radio. Yeah, so they bought that for $2.25 million.

Starting point is 00:21:42 They bought that for $2.25 million. Now, she will make about half a million dollars because all the salaries of the directors and executives and important people are disclosed in this Form 990. But what's interesting is how much do you think Stephen Inskeep makes, host of the Morning Edition? I have no idea. $488,000 with a $32,000 extra bonus. Okay.

Starting point is 00:22:13 The other host, the secondary host, $378,000. These are pretty big numbers. Yeah, but they don't compare to TV numbers. No, but they only have 12 and a half million listeners the whole all of npr all of npr that's not i thought they would be much bigger it was i think it was and would have been if it wasn't for the fact that they've gone nuts yeah exactly they probably were much bigger and it's all going down the tubes this girl is something it's all going down the tubes. This girl is something that's interesting because if you look at it, a spot to spook a jingle might be in play here.

Starting point is 00:22:51 Let me just read a few things she's done, which seems unlikely. She is the non-executive chairperson of Web Summit, former chief executive director of Wikimedia. Okay, we got that. Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Worked for UNICEF, the National Democratic Institute, the World Bank, and Access Now before joining Wikimedia. She subsequently joined the Atlantic Council,

Starting point is 00:23:17 U.S. Department of State's Foreign Affairs Policy Board. There's a lot of stuff here for a girl who's 41. A spot to spook,. Spot the spook. Spot the spook. Everybody wants to spot the spook. Graduated from the Arabic Language Institute's

Starting point is 00:23:36 intensive program at the American University in Cairo. That's one of my favorites. Studied at the Institut Francais. Spent time in Lebanon and Tunisia. Received a bachelor's from New York University in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. Counsel on Foreign Relations. Eurasia Group.

Starting point is 00:23:58 Began working at HSBC in London. This is a big resume. What year? What year at HSBC? London. This is a big resume. What year? What year at HSBC? 2005. Whoa. Wasn't that the year of the big scandal that when Comey was still on the board? In 2007, she returned to New York City, where from 2007 to 2010, she worked at UNICEF. worked at unicef and it goes on and on i mean this is on this this is a person that is this is not a normal career path for anybody this is a spook listen to this between 2005 when did she leave uh well between two that she in 2007 it looks like she returned to in New York. I'm looking here from Reuters. Hold on a second.

Starting point is 00:24:45 Between 2005 and 2007, there was a growing flood of U.S. dollars moving between the exchange houses and HSBC. This was all the Mexican drug dealers who were money laundering their money through HSBC exactly the time she was there. And Comey was on the board of directors. She's inside, man.

Starting point is 00:25:08 She's an insider. Big time. And she left right on the time that, oh, we got our money. Let's go. Wow. So she's a, I would say that she's a heavy hitter. Yeah. Well, I mean, that's, so it is unique that she's, what'd you say?

Starting point is 00:25:27 She's cute. Like with dog. What did you say? I didn't say dog. I would never say that about any woman ever. I forgot what you said. You said that. I forgot what you said in a horsey kind of way.

Starting point is 00:25:39 She's cute in a horsey sort of sense. So how often do you get such a, such an elite who has, who has kind of horsey sort of sense. So how often do you get such a, such an elite who has, it was kind of horsey, good looking. She's unique. It's no wonder it's, it's a,

Starting point is 00:25:53 it's a, it's a miracle. We haven't seen her surface before. She's well, we haven't, obviously she hasn't taken the profile that we're, we're looking for. She's there's a, probably a thousand people like her floating around, going from the Middle East Institute to one thing or another.

Starting point is 00:26:12 That's great. But when they crop up and push their way into the mainstream media, which is what we deconstruct, we have to take note. And we just take a note that this woman is a spook. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, she's connected. And now she's running NPR, and she's running on behalf of the woke. And that guy, I have clips, and we'll get to those later. The guy who wrote this simple essay, I think he was trying to kiss her ass.

Starting point is 00:26:39 She ended up getting him to quit. Yeah, let's play that because this is an interesting twist based on the analysis we had, mainly yours, that this guy, and I'm not saying it's wrong, but that this guy was just, oh, big hero, do it in between CEOs. I think that this had more impact. Jokes I am.

Starting point is 00:27:02 Yeah, I think it had more impact than we expected. The cracks are starting to fall. I was talking to a buddy of mine, and he says, all the teachers around here, it's almost like a virtue signal. You know, oh, yeah, I listen to NPR. And they get all their woke bull crap from NPR. and even though this wasn't really about a wokeness thing per se, the article that this Uri wrote, I think the crack started to show,

Starting point is 00:27:36 and I think that the intellectuals who listen to NPR and have the tote bag and the bumper sticker, probably it stirred something up, and that's why the pushback was too hard. Something went wrong for this guy to quit. Yeah, jokes on him. But I think the cracks are showing. Well, the other thing is it turned out that the staffers put together a petition speech or free thought, got all bent out of shape because they felt they were offended because they were doing good work.

Starting point is 00:28:10 Yeah. Do you know that a recent survey, I think Edison Research showed, do you know what media personnel the American public trusts most? Podcasters. Yes. Yes.ters. Yes. Yes. No. Yes. Americans trust podcasters more than any other media personalities.

Starting point is 00:28:36 Huh. Yeah. Well, good for us. Yay! Go podcasting! Go podcasting indeed. Well, one of these, I got got four clips and one of them two of the clips are an analysis by this uh guy uh i think his name is mentioned in the clip but he uh he discusses what's happening happening in general to the media and mentions podcasting oh good good a senior business oh sorry no i'm saying let. Good. A senior business. Sorry.

Starting point is 00:29:06 No, I'm saying let's go. OK. A senior business editor at NPR has announced his resignation. This comes just a day after the outlet suspended him for an essay criticizing what he called the company's liberal bias.

Starting point is 00:29:18 In a statement on X, Uri Berliner took jabs at the company's CEO. Berliner said he can't work in a newsroom where he is, quote, disparaged by his boss. Just days prior, he published an article on the free press titled I've Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here's How We Lost America's Trust. In it, he said NPR's culture had changed from having an open-minded spirit to a much narrower worldview. Berliner cited a number

Starting point is 00:29:45 of examples in NPR's coverage, from Hunter Biden's business dealings to the Israel-Hamas war, specifically, quote, highlighting the suffering of Palestinians at almost every turn while downplaying the atrocities of October 7th. NPR CEO Catherine Maher has defended the outlet. She's been criticized for an alleged progressive bias and for disparaging social media posts about Trump. Prior to being fired at NPR, she had said, quote, our reverence for the truth might be a distraction that's getting in the way of finding common ground and getting things done, unquote. Before you continue. So here's the study. In fact, they entitled the study,

Starting point is 00:30:31 because of the outcome, podcasting a medium of trust. Wow. Yeah. According to the study of U.S. consumers, 64% of podcast listeners actively seek out podcasters and create time for their content the most of any other tested media personality making the time spent with podcasts highly engaging and

Starting point is 00:30:50 intentional and these findings that the podcasters are most trusted comes at a time when trust in the u.s media has hit an all-time low half of americans reported to believe that national news organizations deliberately mislead them. And that's research from Gallup and the Knight Foundation. How about that? That's saying a lot. Yeah, and that's probably just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the way people feel about the mainstream media.

Starting point is 00:31:21 And the mainstream media, they don't know what to do about it. You know they're having meetings every once in a while and you end up with a comment like that was in this last clip where the woman uh this the blonde the new ceo said that well you know just because they can't handle the truth is basically what she said there i I know. It's a bit rude. But, you know, it's just a comment in general. If you look at, forget NPR for a second,

Starting point is 00:31:53 if you look at the mainstream media and even just entertainment, I consider what we do, okay, deconstruction, but we're trying to make people laugh. It's entertainment. I mean, everything is really ultimately meant to be entertaining. Mainstream, they abuse their audiences i mean think about it uh the bachelor uh the uh robinson island whatever it's called survivor you know anything to get normal people

Starting point is 00:32:21 to abuse themselves so we can all watch it big brother all all of these all of these things are just abusing their audience whereas podcasters we work together with our audience you know that's the only way we can make it work we we produce the show together we do it together we respect our audience As far as we could throw them. You're like very taken by this report. I know. I can see you bent your arms back and you're patting yourself. Stay with me.

Starting point is 00:32:56 It's not a pleasant sight. Stay with me. I'm doing it for the children, John, please. All right. I want to mention, by the way, this Yuri guy. He quits because he knows he's going to be paid twice as much to do a gig at Fox.

Starting point is 00:33:11 How about a podcast? He'll be working at Fox. He'll be on Gutfeld and a couple of these other shows as the staff guest. Like Juan Williams was for years after he got fired from the NPR. He'll be the executive

Starting point is 00:33:27 advisor. What is it called? The one they usually have? It's called the liberal stooge. They come on there. They put him on as the fourth spot. Oh, on the five. I got you. Yeah, that's a good spot for him. Yeah. Good spot. Yes.

Starting point is 00:33:44 I like it. I like it. He'll like it too when he gets the money. Yeah, for sure a good spot for him. Yeah. Good spot, yes. I like it. I like it. Yeah, and he'll like it too when he gets the money. Yeah, for sure. Onward. Joining me now to discuss the latest controversy over national public radio is investigative journalist Jeff Carlson. Jeff is also the co-host of Truth Over News on Epic TV. Jeff Carlson, thank you so much for joining us.

Starting point is 00:34:01 Good to have you back on the show. Recently, this clip of NPR CEO Catherine Maher, which was discovered by conservative activist Christopher Ruffo, is making the rounds, especially today with even Elon Musk commenting on it. This is what she had to say about her fight against, quote, disinformation. The number one challenge here that we see is, of course, the First Amendment in the United States. It also means that it is a little bit tricky to really address some of the real challenges of where does bad information come from and sort of the influence peddlers who have made a real market economy around it. Jeff, what is your reaction to this statement by the CEO of NPR? Well, it just keeps getting worse, doesn't it? You know, this whole thing

Starting point is 00:34:45 originated with the essay by Uri Berliner, one of the editors there who was frustrated with the environment that he was working on, kind of finally blew the lid off. And then as people started digging on the CEO, the more they found, the more alarming it was. And what I think is going on here and why we're seeing the kind of reaction that we're seeing is this is exposing the whole side of censorship and the so-called disinformation experts. She's made a number of speeches, one of which she was bragging about working with the government and censorship efforts, and now here she's talking about the single biggest impediment to her work is the first amendment it's interesting some how the sausage here at no agenda is made in that clip was that little bit of uh uh of miss marr talking about you know the first amendment and i had the

Starting point is 00:35:40 clip but it was the the audio was so broken up and like this really isn't isn't really good i mean in context of this clip it's good that's actually how i went searching for more on her and that's how i hit on the ted talk uh well that clip was unusable i had it too yeah and i think yeah and it may be missing misinterpreted. I also thought the interpretation. I thought it was a little loose. Yeah. Dubious and loose. So she's just yakking away about one thing or another.

Starting point is 00:36:10 And they're taking it. They're taking it as a negative thing. I didn't do that. But the overall analysis by this guy, Jeff, is still decent. So let's go in with part three. There are now growing calls to defund NPR with Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn. Oh, first of all, can we just talk about defunding NPR? They only get, what is it, John, 2% from the U.S. government?

Starting point is 00:36:37 It turns out. Wait, it's going to be more? It turns out to be more, but it's done through uh there's a word for this it's it's roundabout that's not the word but there's another word for it they have other mechanisms in other words they get money from a bunch of sources that turn out to actually be proxies for the u.s government yes so they're getting a lot more than two percent So that is bogus, and I fell for it. Yeah, me too. And you fell for it.

Starting point is 00:37:07 It's easy to fall for, but then when you have somebody who analyzes this guy, and it's not the one, this came out, I've heard this before, and they start looking into it, it's a lot of money. And this is what Laura Logan was talking about when she was in D.C. She said they have all these cutouts, I think is the term she used. Yeah, cutouts. You got cutouts, and these are NGOs, and they get millions of dollars or tens of millions or hundreds of millions, and they then turn around and they—

Starting point is 00:37:36 Funnel it. And they, yeah, they funnel it to NPR just as NPR turns around and funnels it to TED Talks, which I think is probably also a nonprofit. I'll bet you it is. Not that I know of. No, no. It had to have switched. I mean, it was another guy who bought it. So basically, it's government money funding that TED dude.

Starting point is 00:38:02 Yes, the new TED dude. I mean, the original TED dude is long gone. No, the TED is gone. It's the new TED dude. I mean, the original Ted dude is long gone. No, the Ted is gone. It's the new Ted dude. All right, back to the clip. There are now growing calls to defund NPR, with Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn telling Fox News that she's planning to propose legislative action that would threaten to cut the funding to NPR. What is NPR's record when it comes to covering major political stories? Well, you know, I guess in many ways it's like a lot of other news organizations in that they've

Starting point is 00:38:33 got kind of a storied history and had done a great job. But as our environment became more politicized, so did they. And, you know, the funding is something that we've talked about for a long time. A lot of people have talked about it for a long time, and it's not a small number. I believe the parent organization gets almost half a billion dollars, like $500 million. The radios get something on the magnitude of $125 million. So we're not talking about small amounts, even though NPR likes to portray it that way. And I would remind everybody, you know, if you want to point to a time when a change really happened, it was earlier than this. But NPR actually came out at

Starting point is 00:39:11 the time of the Biden Trump, you know, when they were running for president. And in late October, right before the actual election itself, they said that they weren't going to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story because it wasn't newsworthy and made a public statement about that. And they knew it was perfectly newsworthy. They knew that the FBI had possession of Hunter's laptop. They knew in real time that it was a real story. Publicly, they denigrated it. And that's one of the elements that may have helped swing that election ted foundation inc yeah there you look for the yeah yeah ted foundation uh this is interesting and it really

Starting point is 00:39:56 uh has reset my thinking about npr because i was i mean i know that their ad sales, I'm sorry, underrated. Whatever you want to call it. Whatever you want to call it. I know that that is sold by professional radio salespeople because they sell, you know, and we'll throw in NPR. You know, they sell the whole thing as a package. And the podcasts are definitely commercial. And they can do that because of the the you know the outdated laws

Starting point is 00:40:27 around what they're doing but i had i had never really considered that they were getting all these grants from cutouts that makes a lot of sense no wonder she's in there she has she has to keep the government a government stooge yes making sure things go the right way for this kind of money. Look, we're putting a lot of government money in here. We want to make sure somebody's in control. We don't want to go off the rails. Protect our investment here. Yeah, definitely.

Starting point is 00:40:54 All right, I think we're on four. Yes. I mean, what's the role of the news fundamentally? The role of the news is to report on the government, right? It is supposed to be an adversarial relationship by its very definition. It is not supposed to be friendly or comfortable or conversational. And, you know, yet with receiving a large chunk of their funding from the government, they're now reliant on the government. So that alters the fundamental nature of the relationship. But, you know, we can also

Starting point is 00:41:23 extend these problems, these relationship problems to all the other media organizations. New York Times, Washington Post have very, very cozy relationships with their national security counterparts. So we've moved away from this watchdog, the press as a watchdog on the government, into a role of cooperation with the government, which is the very reason that we saw all the censorship actions that we've seen over the last number of years. It's a partnership. It is not an adversarial watchdog relationship. That's ended many years ago, unfortunately. Was it ever a watchdog? Ever? i can't recall it ever being a watchdog type organization maybe if you go back to the 30s okay did we have radio then i think when you go

Starting point is 00:42:14 back to the when the when you had the american revolution i think it was was there npr during the american revolution no i'm during the time I'm talking about the media in general. Oh, please. No, that went out the door before we were born. I think it's funny the way he puts this thing. He could have been called on it, which was he says, it says the New York Times and its national security counterparts. Oh, I didn't even catch that.

Starting point is 00:42:48 Yeah, that's what he said. And i and i went oh that's interesting he so he thinks that the new york times is and i think so too the new york times is just part of the national security system well i have and i have a clip after you play your your next clip about the new york times next clip i believe is the last yes it is and give us a sense just how widespread is this activism journalism, if you will? How do we get back to the watchdog stage that you're talking about? Well, unfortunately, I don't think we can get back under the old model. The pervasiveness of the activism is so widespread. It's endemic. is so widespread. It's endemic. It's at every major institution. And I don't see any rectification for it, but people are waking up to the fact that they're constantly being lied to. It's why the industry is undergoing such profound and fundamental changes. We've seen any number of

Starting point is 00:43:41 closures, bankruptcies, etc. And it is opening up an entirely new realm of, you know, sort of the new media, people that are doing their podcasts. You know, you folks at Epic that are looking for the fundamental truth just want to report the news. People are hungry for that. So while it's a very deep and fundamental problem on the one hand, on the other, it also creates an opening and people are looking for that opening. So it's an opportunity as well. But I don't think it's the old media. The old media is going to go away. Jeff Carlson, thank you so much for your time.

Starting point is 00:44:16 That's actually quite good. This has been going on for at least 20 years and we saw it happen actually on the media had like an hour long it's a hate listen for me but they had a pretty good profile of how newspapers were destroyed by craigslist later backpage how government came in to regulate backpage because that when i was a kid i mean literally that's that's what you would look for for an apartment, for your job, help wanted, for a relationship. All these different things were all in the classifieds. Then that was completely disrupted by- Wiped out.

Starting point is 00:44:56 Wiped out because it was $18 billion worth of revenue that was taken away by Craigslist mainly. And of course, now it's rampant everywhere, and the newsroom, they all thought, well, people buy the newspaper for us. They love our wonderful news reporting and analysis. Well, no, they don't. So the newspapers, they're basically gone with some few exceptions.

Starting point is 00:45:19 I think we'll always have some big mainstream hits that people will still glom onto, usually those who are zombified in the sleep. But when you look at television, and particularly cable, and streamers, it is eroded to such a degree that we can't have 10 subscriptions to everything. In fact, it's the first thing to go when money gets tight. Like, you know, we got these subscriptions, what are we going to cut?

Starting point is 00:45:48 The audiences have eroded. A big hit now on a network TV show is five, six million. It used to be a hundred million for some things. Well, I mean, big events would be a hundred million, but even a CBS or NBC must watch TV. I mean, you were talking 20, 30 million people. Yeah, easy. And so during, it was a really good article that I read about this.

Starting point is 00:46:15 I'll put it in the show notes. In the last 15 years, we had 0% interest rates. It's called the life and death of Hollywood, Daniel Bessner and St. Harper's. Yeah, I read that article, too. It's a good article. It's long, but it's a good article. It's too long. It's too long.

Starting point is 00:46:39 The guy needs an editor. The guy needs an editor. Two sittings. Three for me uh but he basically said that you know we had all this um all of these this cheap free money in essence and then the streamers came in and they started to you know create amazing quote-unquote amazing content paying writers all kinds of money everybody was rocking and rolling and. And then it flipped from get as many users, the typical Silicon Valley,

Starting point is 00:47:10 just don't worry about profit. No, it took the eyeballs. It took the eyeball approach, the Silicon Valley eyeball approach. Yeah, get the eyeballs and we'll deal with how much, how to make money off the eyeballs later. And then that changed and moved to profitability,

Starting point is 00:47:24 which is why you see all these companies at some point it has to people going hey we got a lot of eyeballs here we're losing our ass how's that work well it happened coincidentally with the end of free money with inflation and the interest rate hike so that's over and now you know netflix is doing okay but in general the industry has been hollowed out and destroyed. And add to that, that during the writer's strike, people didn't miss Kimmel or what's the other guy? What's the other? Jimmy?

Starting point is 00:47:54 Jimmy. Jimmy Fallon. Jimmy Kimmel. And what's his name? No, people started watching TikTok in bed. They didn't care. TikTok's more entertaining generally. It's much more entertaining.

Starting point is 00:48:04 And the cost of distribution, in bed. They didn't care. TikTok's more entertaining, generally. It's much more entertaining. And the cost of distribution, the cost of the studios, the old way of doing stuff is just too expensive. It is over. And so we've seen this very slow decline, and obviously radio is now... You know, listening to this is like

Starting point is 00:48:21 talking to Brunetti. Well, I'll just stick to it. It's exactly what he thinks. I think he's right. That's why he retired. He made his money. He's going to grow corn. So anyway, back to the guy saying the New York Times and their national security counterpart.

Starting point is 00:48:55 New York Times and their national security counterpart, we must remind ourselves that it was New York Times reporters who I believe lied about the aluminum tubes and all this, which really got us into Iraq. And, you know, that's been litigated over and over again. And so, well, we didn't know people were telling us. Fine, whatever. people were telling us fine whatever but there was a there's another not so nice report about the new york times that is um comes from the intercept is that still pierre pierre comedar drive my car is that still his outfit far as i know and even though they say oh they're going broke how they're going broke this guy's got enough money to sustain that company forever forever i'm trying to start

Starting point is 00:49:25 this clip a new report by the intercept has exposed internal editorial guidelines issued by the new york times dictating how its journalists should report on israel's war on palestine's gaza the leaked internal memo unveiled the american newspaper's restrictions on several words including genocide ethnic cleansing cleansing, and occupied territory. An anonymous source from the New York Times told The Intercept that while it's not unusual for news companies to set style guidelines, these are unique standards applied to violence perpetrated by Israel. The report highlighted that up until November 24th, the NYT had referred to Israeli fatalities as a massacre on 53 occasions, compared to just once for Palestinians being killed.

Starting point is 00:50:09 The disparity was also stark in the usage of the term slaughter, which appeared 22 times more often in descriptions of Israeli deaths than Palestinian deaths. Since October 7th, Western media has faced heavy criticism for adopting a pro-Israel tone in its coverage. Several protests have erupted outside the offices of media outlets, as demonstrators accused American and European outlets of manufacturing consent for genocide in Gaza. Israeli bombings on civilians' houses, hospitals and schools in Gaza have been overwhelmingly described by Western media outlets as Israel asserting its right to defend itself, while any act of violence by Palestinians has been labeled as terrorism. Is Western media downplaying Palestinian suffering in Gaza while using language that is being

Starting point is 00:50:57 weaponized by Israel? This is a report from Turkish radio television, so I need to mention that as well. This is not a good look for the New York Times, often described as the Jew York Times. This is exactly what they should not be doing. Because this plays into every single trope of Zionism and Jews running the media. What were they thinking? Seriously, what were they thinking seriously what were they thinking because while i understand i'm guessing it wasn't even the jewish contingent which is very no no a very a big minority at the new york times most of the if there's jews at the new york times just be

Starting point is 00:51:39 honest blunt about it's at the top well top. Well, the publishers. Aren't the publishers the show that? And at the baseline is a bunch of woke liberals. And so they probably, the woke liberals that are down there probably said, hey, leak this. They leaked this to somebody over there. This is a scam. Yes, totally. This is a hit piece on the New York Times by the people that work at the New York Times I can assure you the phone call came from inside the house yes exactly so I just want to talk about something here

Starting point is 00:52:14 because what I understand the brainwashed undereducated over socialized New York Times people but also what universities who always looking for oppressed and oppressor. I get all of that. I mean, that's Black Lives Matter. It's the same thing. And it's kind of devolved down to who's genociding who, which is all we seem to be able to talk about. But what is new? And this really happened after October 7th. And what I'm seeing, that you and I, we are getting tagged and we're being called out as covering for Zionism, we're shilling for them. Yeah, it's hurting our donations. Oh, it's definitely hurting our donations.

Starting point is 00:52:53 But who knew that we had that many Jew haters, to be honest about it, in our audience? But let's talk about that for a second, because what, so the main term is Zionism. The Zionists control everything. Israel controls everything. Oh, yeah. No, I'm just going to run through it.

Starting point is 00:53:12 I want to have a serious conversation. Sorry for being a jerk about it, but yeah, you're right. It's important because, you know, if I'm being accused of something, I want to understand where it's coming from. And so so you know it's uh israel controls everything media finance politics apac um you know which you know and i see lists oh look at all these these uh these politicians by the way most of them not jews like marco rubio i think is one of the top who get all, you know, millions of dollars in donations from AIPAC, which is the American-Israeli political action conference, I think. And, of course, American Jews aren't doing themselves any favors by staying silent.

Starting point is 00:53:58 You know, it's like, oh, let's not just say anything. Well, they're whining a lot about these Gaza protesters. Well, they're whining a lot about these Gaza protesters. Yeah, but they need to also come out. And look, there's no doubt that Jews have great networks, especially in America. They have great networks and they stick together. You know, just like there's great networks everywhere of different types of people, different backgrounds. Yeah, Mormons.

Starting point is 00:54:33 But, you know, when you have Jewish actors changing their names, it just, it all adds to it. It's like you're trying to be quiet and all you're doing is making it worse for everything. But now, and I don't have many Jewish, I have friends in Israel, and we can talk about that, but I don't have many Jewish friends in America. But the ones I do have, they're very, very frightened right now. And it's, you know, I grew up in the Netherlands, so I know a lot about what happened to the Jews in World War II. And there's lots of stuff to be skeptical about, you know, Even Anne Frank, there's all kinds of skepticism about her diary. But it doesn't really matter because I would play with friends and their grandmothers would be there and they had numbers in their arm and they had stories. So there was definitely some Jew hate going on. And when I look at what's happening,

Starting point is 00:55:21 and a lot of this is on Mastodon in general. It's been on 4chan for a long time. And it's stuff like, are you noticing, you know, put a name in four parentheses, you know, oh, Jew. It's all like, so there's this correlation between Zionionism which you know the definition is you know a homeland for for the jews and israel and we can argue about that it's not frankly not that interesting to me but this is devolved to it feels a bit like 1933 berlin you know the way dietrich bonhoeffer described also garden of the Beast, we've talked about that book on the show. Great book. But Americans, we're good at this. I mean, we had the Red Scares, the

Starting point is 00:56:09 Communists, then we rounded up all the Japanese after Pearl Harbor, you know, 9-11. It's the towelheads, the Muslims did it. But this undercurrent of the Jews are doing it, the Jews are in control, has been around for a long time. And the main argument I see now is, why do you care so much about what's happening? I don't want my American tax dollars

Starting point is 00:56:30 going to genocide. This is the basic complaint. If you ask, you keep asking, what is the real problem? It's $4 billion in aid. What if it was $40 billion? billion i don't care we literally just gave the military industrial complex 900 billion almost a trillion and if anything it's a distraction from the climatists who i i'm climophobic and the globalists who are restricting our freedom of movement your food your finances your property but we're all property. But we're all running around being really afraid of the Jews controlling. And by the way, the shilling that you and I are doing,

Starting point is 00:57:12 yeah, we're going to be the first to get killed when they take over. I mean, this is literally the stuff that people are saying. And I'm like, is this because possibly we have been in the last 20 years, which I believe most of these people grew up in the last two decades, because I'm older now, you know, so I don't have much to lose. I don't care. I'm fine talking about it.

Starting point is 00:57:36 I'm not trying to shill or cover for anybody. We get no money from the Jews. I get no AIPAC money. There's none of that. I get no APAC money, none of that. But is it maybe because we deep down feel so ashamed of the death and destruction we have done in the Middle East for the last 20 years, literally last 22, 23 years? Everyone knows that. Everyone knows that we went into Iraq under false pretense.

Starting point is 00:58:04 We killed a million people. We ruined Libya. I mean, is it that? Is it something deep down that we're broken in our psyche and all we can do is argue and point towards the Jews? Or did the Jews make us do that? Did the Jews make us kill all the Arabs? I mean, it's a serious question. What is wrong with us? Why are we doing this? Because this happens every 100 years. It's the Jews. I mean, is it just time for a Jew reset?

Starting point is 00:58:34 Is that what everyone wants? I'm trying to understand. You might be onto something with the Jew reset. I'm trying to understand. Well, you're not going to. So give up on it. A lot is, a lot, and you know and and then you get all we do is deconstruct the news i know but this this also plays into christianity you know it's like you know the bible commands us to pray for peace over israel over jerusalem be specific, Jerusalem. And then before you know it, Curry goes to a Christian, he's a Christian Zionist.

Starting point is 00:59:09 Okay. Whatever that is. Whatever that is. Well, let's get back to these clips. So you have no input on this. You have nothing to say. I have absolutely no input on this, this concern of yours. I just, well, let me think.

Starting point is 00:59:28 What is the best way to put it? I love my job and I love what I do. Let's listen to a Google protester who was protested and subsequently removed for protesting Project Nimbus, which is an AI project that Google is doing for... Is what? Project Nimbus is really a cloud... But let me play the clip so you can hear what she thinks it is. Okay. We demand that Google protect their Arab, Muslim, and Palestinian worker voices

Starting point is 01:00:01 from harassment, retaliation, suppression. And we demand that Google recognize Project Nimbus as a workplace safety and health concern. We know that the genocide in Gaza is one of the or is the first AI powered genocide. So we find that big tech is at the forefront of kind of like streamlining this genocide against Palestinians. I love the AI genocide. genocide against Palestinians. Free, free Palestine! Free, free Palestine! I love the AI genocide. That's great.

Starting point is 01:00:31 AI genocide. That's a show title. AI genocide, yes. I mean, seriously, what is wrong with these people? The chant, Google, Google, you can't hide, you've committed genocide? There was too much background noise in that i guess i guess i didn't i didn't clip that part i'm sorry so um yeah they had a couple protests they've been sitting in and new york headquarters they sat in in menlo park they uh for mountain view and they fired 28 out of the 80 people that are protesting

Starting point is 01:01:07 within google this is another example the call came within the house yeah uh you have sergey brand a uh russian jew who immigrated with his parents in the late 70s i believe 80s i used to have him on silicon spin all the time before he became a billionaire. And he was a very... He didn't take your call after that? Surprise. Pretty much. Once these guys... This is typical, by the way.

Starting point is 01:01:35 I got to go through the experience of being impotent enough that people would take your call and then you go become a podcaster and you, now you're doing this, what we're doing, which is much more important and more meaningful and more trusted and more trusted. And nobody takes your call because, you know, what can you do?

Starting point is 01:01:57 What can you do? What's this podcast? What can you do for me? Douchebag podcaster. Yeah. Douchebag podcaster. So, so you, nobody takes your call. Right.

Starting point is 01:02:05 And, and he's not the only one. Uh, I have a, it'll be in my memoir. And, uh, I've known,

Starting point is 01:02:16 but he is a really nice guy, smart. And he was on the show maybe 10 times, maybe more. And he was, uh, just a sharp guy. And once bragged about how Google at the time,

Starting point is 01:02:30 and this was in the late 90s, had more PhDs working for his company than any company in the world. Oh, yeah, back when that was their whole thing. We're smart. We're smart. We're great. And then they've gotten, you know,

Starting point is 01:02:42 they became arrogant. And the irony to me is, especially after listening to your little thing about the Jews running everything, is you got the Jews running everything, but yet they got these guys in their company because they've hired the woke. Because once Sergey Brin broke down in tears in front of his audience after Trump won, which was an embarrassment. It's just out of control over there. Well, okay, two things. One, a quick, this was, I have a Trump clip, which I think is interesting to discuss in that context, but one more technology clip.

Starting point is 01:03:21 This has been a story that has been bubbling under and finally comes to the forefront on the BBC. Apple has decided to remodify its emoji software. That's because after a new update last week, when you typed in the word Jerusalem, the iPhone was offering an emoji of a Palestinian flag. Of course, Israel and the Palestinians hold competing claims to the city of Jerusalem, and as a result, many have taken to social media to describe the emoji prompt as anti-Semitic.

Starting point is 01:03:48 And what's more strange is it seems to be the only city in the world where this is the case. Typing London, Tokyo, or New York brings up no flag suggestions whatsoever. Apple has described it as an unintentional mistake, which has now been fixed. No, sure. It's not the first time that it's found itself caught up in geopolitics.

Starting point is 01:04:10 In 2019, Apple Maps began designating Crimea as part of Russia. Oh, yeah. And then switched it back to Ukraine after Russia's invasion. So, no, there's woke people. I'm sure there's plenty of people crawling all over the place. You won't be able to get rid of them. No, no, that's woke people. I'm sure there's plenty of woke people. Oh no, they're crawling all over the place. You won't be able to get rid of them. No, no, that's their problem. But here's what's...

Starting point is 01:04:30 Once you're in... I would say once the woke have infested a company to the extreme that it is at Google and elsewhere, the company just has to fold and start over. It's just hopeless. You can't get rid of them. So here's... They will ruin your...

Starting point is 01:04:46 They're there to ruin your company because they don't care. They're not capitalists. No, no, no. They'll bring it down. They're a bunch of socialist communists that hate capitalism. Short apple. Not financial advice. Definitely not financial advice.

Starting point is 01:04:59 So the guy who dances around this in an incredible way is Trump with his Jewish daughter, Jewish son-in-law. And he made himself be Jewish for all we know. He moved the embassy to Jerusalem. Big friend. Big friend of the Jews. Got the Abraham Accords. Got the Abraham Accords rolling. But, and I would say a lot of these people who are, you know, four brackets, you never see four brackets Trump.

Starting point is 01:05:30 And so at one of his rallies, then these things never start by accident. They started the chant and Trump's response was interesting. Here's our big problem. Genocide Joe! Genocide Joe! Genocide Joe! Genocide Joe! Here's our big problem. They're not wrong. They're not wrong. He's done everything wrong. They're not wrong. They're not wrong they're not wrong he's done everything wrong they're not wrong they're not wrong and then he does say he he's done everything wrong as in you know i'm sure the next line was that would have never happened with me but really trump oh you're working on a trump impression did you like it was that anywhere close it was close enough that i think you can can work on i i want

Starting point is 01:06:25 to do one i want to build huge huge ships i cannot when i think about it stop while you're ahead thank you thank you thank you um you know really would he really would he really have stopped it i don't think so i mean there is the hatred is It's a good, it's a good bit. Yeah. To say he would. He did, I mean, Biden had an interesting gaffe. I want to play that. By the way, I do want to get to the Columbia clips.

Starting point is 01:06:53 Okay. All right. Go ahead. Go ahead. I'll just add color. I want, play the Biden telling Israel clip. And I made it clear to Israelis, don't move on Haifa. It's just not, I mean, anyway, I just, look what we did recently. Wait a minute. Don't move on Haifa? He meant Iran,

Starting point is 01:07:16 probably. Well, obviously he didn't mean Haifa. Haifa's in Israel. It's their tech center. Well, what was he thinking then? Why was he thinking like we've got to protect Haifa is in Israel. It's their tech center. Well, what was he thinking then? Why was he thinking, like, we've got to protect Haifa? Don't move on Haifa. I was told the Israelis not to move on Haifa. Maybe he told the... It's possible that the back channel was telling the Iranians, and we've already established, at least the basis of our theories,

Starting point is 01:07:43 is that the Iranians and Biden administration are in bed together. And so a lot of this is theater. I sent you, did you see the picture I sent you? No. The email of Lex? Oh, no, I didn't get those. I mean, I probably have to go dig them. So my first boss ever when I was 19, Lex Harding, he's now 77, I think.

Starting point is 01:08:04 He's celebrating his, and I always text him on his birthday. We're still good friends. And he married a girl from Tehran who had been living, I think she moved to Holland when she was nine or 10. But she's significantly younger. She's in her fifties. And then she's great for him i mean you want an iranian wife man i'll tell you she especially when you're an old dude like that he was up she takes care of him so they and i knew that he was going to go to uh teheran and he's after he's going to kabul so i text him happy birthday so are you are you there are you in teheran yet he said and so he sends this picture you got to see it they're both in traditional uh ir garb. I mean, it's awesome. It's a really funny picture. And he says, yes, and no one's worried about this. This is obviously the mullahs, the Iranian, you know, you have Iran and then you have the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Starting point is 01:09:04 of Iran. Those are all the douchebags that are killing the women and everyone hates them, but they're basically suppressing the Iranians. He says all of this is, I think his quote was, it's just flexing muscles for TV news. And I believe that. And that's exactly what we said it was. It's just flexing muscles for TV news. Well, so I'm thinking that biden commented about not hitting haifa was a message that he that the administration sent to tehran hey hit haifa don't hit haifa because haifa is where intel is yes we have all our tech people there good they're all They're all in Haifa. That's excellent. And so he was telling the Iranians send those missiles, but don't make sure of all

Starting point is 01:09:51 the things. And as far as I know, no missiles were headed that way. No. So this is a scam of the highest order that will be revealed eventually. But I mean, we're just doing this on supposition and theory. Yeah. But we're so good at this. I'm absolutely convinced we're correct. Hey're just doing this on supposition theory yeah but we're so good at this i'm absolutely convinced we're correct hey don't break your arm patting yourself on the back

Starting point is 01:10:11 there all right let's go to columbia then i want to hear let's talk to columbia now columbia this is i gotta i have some clips from the hearings that i thought were funny which here i want to play what are these hearings what are the hearings? They had an education hearing, and they had the president of Columbia there, because Columbia's got some of the worst anti-Jew, in New York, by the way, anti-Jewish protests going on, pro-Gaza, pro-Hamas protests going on at Columbia University.

Starting point is 01:10:39 And so they brought him before the education, some education committee in Congress. And here's the overview clip. This is Columbia Jew haters overview. Leaders from Columbia University testified before Congress today on the school's response to anti-Semitism on a campus. University President Manoush Shafiq said she's committed to confronting anti-Semitism. I've held on to four principles. First, safety is paramount and we would do

Starting point is 01:11:05 whatever is necessary to ensure the safety of our campus. Because of those efforts, the vast majority of our demonstrations have been peaceful. Second, we would demonstrate care and compassion equally to everyone. Third, we must uphold freedom of speech because it's essential to our academic mission, but we cannot and shouldn't tolerate abuse of this privilege to harass and discriminate. And fourth, the ultimate answer to anti-Semitism and all its forms is education. During today's hearing of the House Education Committee, Chairwoman Virginia Fox appeared with Jewish students from Colombia who said they have faced threats and physical confrontation.

Starting point is 01:11:47 Lawmakers pressed Shafiq over Colombia professors who praised the Hamas terrorist group. They include Professor Joseph Mossad, who allegedly called the October 7th massacre awesome, and Professor Mohammed Abduh, who allegedly expressed support for Hamas on social media. Shafiq said that Mossad is under investigation and that the university will fire Abdu. Congresswoman Elise Stefanik said Republicans would hold Colombia accountable for failing to protect students. Meanwhile, the University of Southern California is also under scrutiny this week. It canceled a graduation speech by a pro-Palestinian valedictorian due to security concerns i have that clip do you want to hear the usc clip yes i please tonight controversy on campus

Starting point is 01:12:33 after usc canceled the valedictorian's commencement speech citing safety concerns asna tabassum was chosen by the usc provost to be this year's valedictorian selected from nearly 100 qualifying students who applied. But at least two pro-Israel and Jewish groups complained to USC about the choice, pointing to DeBassem's social media activity, specifically a link to a free Palestine slideshow on her Instagram, which calls for the complete abolishment of the state of Israel. The university has to make the decision about whether this valedictorian and her propagation of anti-Semitic vitriol online is worthy of being the representative of the class

Starting point is 01:13:14 of 2024. Tabassum said she is shocked and profoundly disappointed the university is succumbing to a campaign of hate meant to silence my voice. Unfortunately, it is clear if you're a Muslim student today, you don't expect the university, your administration to stand by you. The university's provost says the issue here is how best to maintain campus security and safety, period, and that the decision has nothing to do with freedom of speech. USC's commencement typically draws 65,000 people. university leadership has not shared details about potential threats yes isn't that amazing you've got jew haters out there man they're in your school the question is they have a hundred candidates to do a valedictorian speech and why did they pick her they picked her because they

Starting point is 01:14:01 bent over backwards just the opposite of anti-muslim yeah yeah yeah they said oh let's do her and they didn't think it through no of course there's dopes dopes you believe it oh man so let's listen to the some of the hearing with this woman who is the uh head of columbia and this is Jim Banks. There's a there was endless clips like this. It was one of those situations where they found someone they could pick on. And the president of Columbia was this woman who was easily easily picked on. So they picked on her. And it's very funny to listen to.

Starting point is 01:14:41 Here's Jim Banks versus Columbia Prexy. Can you define for us the word Ashka normativity? I am not familiar with that term. I believe it. Whoa. Ashka normativity? Yeah. That's fantastic.

Starting point is 01:14:58 Isn't it? Ashka normativity. Hold on a second. Let me just look at this woman. Is she black by any chance no no she's not she's i think she might be jewish she looks jewish not to say not to generalize but uh it's hard to say yeah uh what's her name she's actually she you know somebody said after this was all all these you know after they badgered her the whole time, they said, well, a lot of people analyze it,

Starting point is 01:15:26 the right wingers. Well, she was better coached than the idiots from Harvard. And she might've been better coached, but I think she did fine. And they badgered her, but I think she held her own. She was good.

Starting point is 01:15:43 All right, let's listen. Can you define for us the word ashka normativity i am not familiar with that term i believe it appeared in a student glossary that was prepared by a group of students it appears in the orientation guidebook that's given to all of the students at the School of Social Work, but you can't define it for us? No, I'm saying, I'm not. You seem to be familiar. I don't use that term. I don't know that term. I believe that glossary was prepared by students

Starting point is 01:16:14 for other students. I don't think it's... But it's handed out, you agree, it's handed out to all of the students who, at the Orient, I mean, that's what it is. It's the orientation glossary of terms for incoming students at the School of Social Work. I don't think it's a product of the School of Social Work. I think a group of students put the students. It's handed out to students at the School of Social Work. Let me read to you how Ashkenormativity is defined by your, you seem to, you don't know if it comes from students or professors, but Ashkenazim is defined as a system of oppression that favors white Jewish folks based on the assumption that all Jewish folks are Ashkenazi or from Western Europe.

Starting point is 01:16:59 So do you have a response to that definition of Ashkenazim? Is that appropriate? This is handed out to your students. By other students. It is not a product of the faculty of Columbia University. It is handed out to your students. Obviously, you allow this to be handed out to your students. Is that appropriate? As I said, this is not a product of the faculty or the administration. It is something that a group of students produced. I don't agree with it. I think it's not very useful. I don't condone it. He's really hounding her. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:17:33 And now they get... Wow. And I think it's... It has a wiki entry, Ashkenormativity. This is the school of social work that is doing this these people are the worst so let's go to this well you have a wiki entry yeah ashkenormativity it's in here it's a has quite a lot uh would you like examples or his definition the newish jewish encyclopedia

Starting point is 01:18:01 wow i need a newish jewish the newishish Jewish Encyclopedia defines Ashkenormativity as the assumption that, quote, Jewish life and culture is limited primarily to the experience and customs of Ashkenazi Jews. Well, what's wrong with that? Well, it's because it is obviously a prejudice against the Sephardic Jews. Ah, yes, there it is. And so it's like bad. Yeah, yeah. Okay, well, let's go to clip two here where he goes, finds another little tidbit that is great.

Starting point is 01:18:37 Okay, can you help me understand something else? I didn't go to an Ivy League school, admittedly. admittedly what can you you can you explain why the word folks is spelled f-o-l-x throughout this guidebook and in other places at the school of social work what does that mean i'm serious question we know they don't know how to spell i mean i'm not familiar with that whoa she says they don't know how to spell no that's that's the woke term for it so you don't offend anyone who's non-binary isn't it i don't know i mean you put x on latin x nobody likes this bullcrap yeah but i love her answer because they don't know how to spell that says something about your university lady serious question they don't know how to spell? I mean, I'm not familiar with that spelling.

Starting point is 01:19:28 I don't find it a laughing matter. No, I'm not laughing either. I think it's... You're denying that this is an official product of the school, but this is handed out to all of you. You are aware that it's handed out to all of your students, and you're not doing anything to stop it. As I said, it's not an official product of the administration is this how columbia university spells the word folks no okay and does does columbia university recognize the word because it's not found in the webster's dictionary or anywhere else ashka normativity is that a is that an acceptable term

Starting point is 01:20:02 at columbia university congressman Congressman, I am with you. I agree with you that I don't find this a meaningful way. This is handed out on your watch. This is not true. Merriam-Webster has an entry for folks. No. I think he specifically said Ashkenormativity is the one that he looked up in the dictionary. He couldn't find it.

Starting point is 01:20:27 Oh. No, but Merriam-Webster has FOLKS with an X? Yes. Well, read me the definition. The definition. Used especially to explicit FOLKS. It says FOLKS, arrow. So the meaning is FOLKS, F-O-L-K-S.

Starting point is 01:20:47 Used especially to explicitly signal the inclusion of groups commonly marginalized. That's dumb. Well, Merriam-Webster is dumb. That had to have gone in within the last year or so. Yeah, with vaccine. It's an mRNA thing that doesn't work. That's great. So things are out of control.

Starting point is 01:21:11 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, they are. I have a couple of, because of course now we're, well, let's look at, this is a fun report. So we've never really known the count of the the dead in uh in gaza you got to say it like that by the way that's kind of like you you don't say gaza he's like gaza gaza gaza that's that's that's gaza g-u-z-z-a gaza that that's how you virtue signal that you're all in. Oh, you haven't heard this? No, I have not.

Starting point is 01:21:47 So we have not really... Gaza? Gaza? Gaza? Okay. There goes our donations again. Why? Why?

Starting point is 01:21:57 Why? You're mocking the pronunciation of Gaza. Yeah, I don't care. I'm too old to care. I don't care either. I don't care as long as we have our supporters and that's the way it is yes bring it on bring it on zionists send those checks okay those are checks from zionists and the intel agencies we really really you guys are lacking there's no good they've fallen off the boat um we do good work so here's here's an an

Starting point is 01:22:28 extra 5 000 lives which i'm not sure if they were counted or not and the way this very short clip reads they should be counted among the dead and actually this should be counted among the children this is from reuters this means baha ad-din ghalalaini headed Al-Basma IVF Centre, Gaza's biggest. He doesn't know if the Israeli strike in December targeted the lab specifically or not. But the impact of that single blast was far-reaching. And all these lives were killed or taken away, 5,000 lives in one child. Those embryos, sperm specimens, and unfertilized eggs were a last hope for hundreds of Palestinian couples

Starting point is 01:23:13 facing infertility. So I'd like to know, were the 5,000 embryos, do they count? I bet you they were counted. But, you know, now you're a nutjob Republican Christian. Because they're not children, remember? Are they children? Are they not children? This is very controversial.

Starting point is 01:23:38 I think Reuters needs to clarify. All right, let's get to the retaliation stuff. Let's talk to the spook, or let's listen to the spook, Richard Engel, NBC. Israel's military tonight is vowing that Iran will pay for its attack. Iran will not get scot-free.

Starting point is 01:23:59 Four U.S. officials tell NBC News they expect Israel's response to be limited and likely involve strikes against the Iranian military and Iranian-backed proxies outside Iran. But caution, Israel's plans may change. The unprecedented Iranian attack included more than 100 ballistic missiles. Today, we visited a military base where weapons recently used against Israel are collected and analyzed. What Iran fired was in a different league. Gazans are living in an ongoing catastrophe.

Starting point is 01:24:33 Today, our camera crew filmed the casualties from an Israeli airstrike on a market. Medical officials say at least 11 people were killed and more than 20 injured. Israel accuses Hamas of hiding among civilians. Yeah, they didn't really have any good nat pops or B-roll of the rockets that didn't hit anything in Israel. But, but, but, but, we should all be very afraid. Be very afraid because Iran is threatening to bring out the secret weapon. Iran is threatening to bring out the secret weapon. It is the 17th of April, 2024. Israel and Iran appear to be a step closer to war.

Starting point is 01:25:11 Iran, in fact, is threatening to wreak havoc with a secret weapon. It is threatening to use a weapon that's never been used before. Never been used before. This is Abolfazl Amoui. He, in fact, is the spokesperson for Iran's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee. Amouy recently said, and I'm quoting now, we will confront any Israeli aggression and respond to it. We are ready to use weapons that we have not used before.

Starting point is 01:25:37 The question is, what are these weapons? Is Iran hinting at weapons of mass destruction? Woo! Be afraid! Oh, here we go again. Be very, very afraid. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, of course, we know that Iran is just hours away from a nuclear weapon. We need to crank that up.

Starting point is 01:25:56 And we'll do that with a little overview of the sanctions. Because, of course, what you want to do is you want to kick these people off of our money system and you want to confiscate their money. It makes it makes you so popular in the world. Just days after Iranian rockets lit up the skies over Israel, both the U.S. and the EU are vowing to respond with new penalties for Tehran. I fully expect that we will take additional sanctions action against Tehran. Is it normal in your recollection that the secretary of the treasury comes out during wartime and talks about sanctions of, quote-unquote, adversaries. Adversaries? Or adversaries.

Starting point is 01:26:49 Yes, that's British. I can't remember this. It doesn't ring a bell. No, but why are they sending this old bag out every single time? She's one of the few that was the head of the Federal Reserve, so she has some gravitas, I suppose. Oh, gravitas, yes. Gravitas. All right.

Starting point is 01:27:10 Sanctions, action. Well, it's bank wars, obviously, but I've never seen this before that they send the bank around. Against Iran in the coming days. I will send to the external action service the request to start the necessary work related to these sanctions. New sanctions come in addition to an already sweeping set of American and European penalties against Iran, tied to its connections to terrorism, its human rights record, and its nuclear program. The sanctions include a ban on nearly all U.S. trade with Iran, the blocking of the Iranian government's assets in the U.S., and the prohibition of U.S. foreign assistance and arms sales.

Starting point is 01:27:51 The penalties have also targeted thousands of people and companies, both in Iran and in foreign countries. That should be fun for the... When did this begin? This idea of, you know, well, this country's perked us, and so we're going to sanction this dude. Hey, let's sanction Bill Smith, and let's sanction this guy and that guy. How about all the Iranians, which you call Persians, in Los Angeles? How about their money? Is that going to get sanctioned, too?

Starting point is 01:28:22 Because, oh, they might have ties to Iran. Oh, no, that's really bad. For its part, the EU has... Oh, by the way, my favorite guy, who is now just appearing with Jens Stoltenberg all the time, our former Dutch prime minister. Rutte! Rutte, you remember, he's the guy...

Starting point is 01:28:39 You have to go home with who you came to the dance floor. Remember him? He's coming up. For its part, the EU has a range of sanctions already in place, including restrictions on trade, travel bans, and the freezing of assets. Last year, the EU banned the export of parts Iran uses to make drones, some of which have been used by Russia during its invasion of Ukraine and also used by Tehran in its attack on Israel over the weekend. In recent years, the combined effect of U.S.-EU sanctions have had a crushing impact on Iran's

Starting point is 01:29:12 economy, effectively putting a cap on crucial oil exports and causing inflation to soar. Meanwhile, with a nuclear deal in tatters, Iran is said to have edged closer than ever to having nuclear capability oh there it is crap i thought that had the dutch guy in it i'm sorry no i have a sanctions clip you might want to play let's play a sanctions clip the biden administration said it will also impose sanctions on iran saying the new sanctions will target ir Iran's missile and drone program and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard in the coming days. This came as the House passed its second batch of measures to combat the Iranian threat, including seven bills and two resolutions. Israel on Wednesday reported that 14 soldiers and four civilians were injured by drones and missiles from hezbollah near the lebanese border oh i here

Starting point is 01:30:07 it is i have it this is uh cameron who's back on the scene isn't he the the new foreign minister for the uk i think he thinks he is that globalist douche well he's all over this report this is where the dutch guy comes in israel's allies seem reconciled to some form of retaliation, but do not want further escalation. The situation is very concerning. It's right to show solidarity with Israel. It's right to have made our views clear about what should happen next. But it's clear the Israelis are making a decision to act. We hope they do so in a way that does as little to escalate this as possible. What is this? Well, we hope they do as little.

Starting point is 01:30:50 Just don't hurt them too much. Please just... And in a way that, as I said yesterday, is smart as well as tough. Smart. It has to be smart. Kill people smartly. The diplomatic response is focusing on tightening the sanctions regime against Tehran. EU leaders gathering in Brussels on Wednesday will discuss that.

Starting point is 01:31:09 And G7 foreign ministers meeting in Italy on Thursday will do the same. Iran's drone and missile industries will be obvious targets. But the Islamic Republic has a long track record of managing the effects of Western sanctions. And I think there's more that we can do to show a united front that Iran is behind so much of the malign activity in this region, backing Hamas, backing Hezbollah, backing the Houthis. They need to be given a clear unequivocal message by the G7. And I hope that will happen at the meeting. Tehran, a military parade marked the country's Armed Forces Day, and its president warned of the consequences of an Israeli counterattack.

Starting point is 01:31:51 The Zionist regime makes the slightest move to violate our territory and harm the national interests of the Islamic Republic. They must understand that they will face a severe and heavy response. Iran's attempted attack against Israel has united its allies in its defense. It has also diverted attention from the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The Israeli government will be balancing the need to deter future Iranian attacks with the need to keep its allies on side. Well, I'm just full of fake news today. I thought I had the Dutch guy somewhere. Wow. I can't believe it.

Starting point is 01:32:30 You dreamed it. You had a vivid dream. I did. I was hallucinating. And now you're like, you're playing it out in real time. I'm like an AI podcaster. It's like, it's coming up because I dreamed, I hallucinated it. I hallucinated.

Starting point is 01:32:45 Of course, we did have the part of this Google protest was the International Day of Action. Free, free, free Palestine. I'm sorry. How many kids did you kill today? That's the new one. How many kids did you kill today? the new one. People protesting the rising death toll in Gaza pulled away and cuffed by Miami police after blocking traffic on Biscayne near Bayside in downtown Miami. We want to say that we don't want any more of our taxpayer dollars going toward genocide funding the genocide that

Starting point is 01:33:20 is unfolding in Gaza. At least seven were arrested Monday afternoon. The demonstration, part of an international day of protest against the tens of thousands of Palestinians, a large number of them children, killed in the Israel-Hamas conflict. I think it's really heartbreaking and upsetting that we do have to take such extreme measures to get people to care. And I think it's upsetting that people don't intuitively care about the tens of thousands of people in Gaza who have been murdered measures to get people to care. And I think it's upsetting that people don't intuitively care about the tens of thousands of people in Gaza who are who have been murdered and then the millions who

Starting point is 01:33:50 have been displaced and are starved. Florida Senator Rick Scott applauding Miami police enforcement at Monday's protest saying on X, here's a warning to any leftist Hamas sympathizers. Don't try this crap in Florida. We stand with Israel and our Jewish community. We won't put up with you pitching a fit to defend terrorists. Are you a Hamas supporter? No, I do not support Hamas. I think that needs to be said really loud and clear. In no way, shape or form is this action in support of the lives that were lost in Israel. We absolutely do not agree with senseless murder of innocent people it's worth mentioning that egypt still hasn't opened their fence you know that that brings

Starting point is 01:34:33 me to a thought ah here it is it took 45 minutes but he has a thought i actually have a thought okay uh is it is it in some funny way and being being proven by these Hamas-supporting pro-Palestinian protests, all over the United States and elsewhere, that there's actually amongst the Arab nations, and I would say even Iran, who finances Hamas, a lot of times you finance a terrorist operation, if you want to call it that, which I think is valid, to keep them away from you. This is what Syrians used to do this years ago with the original guy that ran the place. He would just buy off everybody. Yeah, the guy's dad, the old guy. Yeah, the guy's dad. And so the the idea is that you just hear here's the money just don't do just stay out stay out of our business is that the palestinians are actually and and proven to be generally hated yes and and nobody wants to have anything to do with them

Starting point is 01:35:41 because once they get into a country they do what we're seeing here which is they protest and make a fuss they cause trouble they make things they foul the works they block the bridge the Golden Gate Bridge blocked the Brooklyn Bridge blocked all these things that have been happening over the A15 I guess was the day and this subtle genocide going on is actually a genocide. The Arabs and everybody's all together, let the Jews take the blame. They're the flame.

Starting point is 01:36:14 I'm with you on this. I'm with you on that. I think that's exactly what's happening. The idea is to kill all Palestinians. I think you're right. It is a genocide. So it would be a genocide, but it's a genocide with the approval of the United States, of obviously Egypt, of Iran, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, everybody. There's your thought.

Starting point is 01:36:40 But Israel gets to take the brunt of it. I think you're right. Well, it's just a thought. I mean, it's just because you keep seeing, you know, there's this undercurrent of hatred toward the Palestinians by everybody, including they bring it on themselves. Like when they blocked the Golden Gate Bridge the other day, which made a mess in the Bay Area. It doesn't make anyone a fan of Palestine. No. There's no fans so there's no fans these guys that are making the fuss yeah i would be very i mean they have they've i think they've worn out their welcome in a lot of places that's why they no one will take them in

Starting point is 01:37:20 they blocked the door can't come in so maybe maybe explain that to me okay so maybe this is okay so make and i have to agree i mean the people who are in israel that i know who are open and honest with me and even some very conservative people that i know actually live in austin they're like, no, kill them all. We got to kill them all, get rid of them all. We're tired of it.

Starting point is 01:37:50 We're done. And that would be the definition of genocide. But of course they say, that's really rude. Don't say that. Is then the fear of the people who are not crazy, brainwashed leftists, are they fearing that we're next? Well, if you let Israel genocide them, they'll genocide us. I don't think that's in their in their mindset yet.

Starting point is 01:38:19 Yet. Yet. We'll leave that open there is this this fear that you see it on msnbc and elsewhere where they're talking about donald trump and how these the end of democracy and all the rest of it uh if he gets elected i mean why this is bullcrap it's not the end of democracy if donald trump gets elected it won't be the last election ever like they they said on MSNBC. So what is their real fear? Maybe what you said. Wow.

Starting point is 01:38:50 It could be underlying. It might be just subconscious. I mean, there has to be, like I've said in this show, you've heard it a million times, I think they're everyone's sincere when they say what they say. And it's not like they're phonies. And I want to be clear. We are anti-war. We don't like any of this.

Starting point is 01:39:10 No. I don't like any killing. We maintain an anti-war position for good reason. War is a racket. It's bull crap. It's a scam, and it just gets a lot of people killed. But this is ridiculous what's going on. Well, speaking about democracy, the Atlantic had a very thoughtful article.

Starting point is 01:39:34 That's a surprise. Titled, Democracy Dies Behind Paywalls. And I would have read it to you were it not. But it was behind a paywall. It's behind a paywall. No. Yes. Yes. have read it to you were it not but it was behind a paywall no yes yes these guys are so tone deaf the literal wow i think it was jeff jarvis who tweeted it out you know like democracy dies dies behind oh he tooted it because he's on on mastodon i follow him on mastodon which is

Starting point is 01:40:03 painful he's giving up all these guys hate what they call the dead bird yeah oh yeah the bird site democracy dies behind paywalls the case for making journalism free at least during the 2024 election by richard stengel and then is behind a paywall that's hilarious these people are so tone deaf they don't even understand how stupid they are all right let's uh pick another hot topic because um dei is is folding it's imploding upon itself i would hate to be right now today uh in any company in the dei department oh this is not good i have two clips the first one is from bend oregon where they have some kind of dei committee for uh for the for the city council bend has a volunteer group that advises it on how to make local governments serve people who've historically been left out

Starting point is 01:41:00 we're gonna jump right into public comment at the human rights and equity commission's usual meeting last month to start with the folks who are here in person, a dad showed up with his two young daughters. They were the first of seven people who signed up to speak. Hi, everybody. My name is John Helan. I just, you know, my kids got out of art camp today and I wanted them to see that there are people in our town fighting for equality. Recent public opinion surveys show most Americans support DEI programs, but political polarization is fueling a backlash with a vocal minority. Republican politicians around the country have sought to end public DEI initiatives. Opinion polls show this effort often appeals to people with racist views. Ben's DEI leaders

Starting point is 01:41:43 experienced this firsthand as they heard the rest of the public comments at their last meeting. My pronouns are fist punch. DEI stands for didn't earn it. White people are sick and tired of being attacked, robbed, raped, and murdered. This was just the first act in what appeared to be a coordinated performance over Zoom. More disembodied voices used anti-Semitic slurs, Nazi slogans, and hom*ophobic insults. One man chanted the N-word over and over until city staff cut off his mic. I'm sorry, that does not happen often. Bend Equity and Inclusion Director Andres Portelo was leading the meeting. So we're going to move forward.

Starting point is 01:42:24 I'm so sorry let's take a second um and we'll return to this in just a bit coordinated performance yes notice how they they they no i can't put any of that in your report what they actually said i like the pronoun my pronoun is fist punch that's kind of funny Now, this is a beautiful ditty from Joy Reid. And this, I already had it, but Mo texted it to me. Like, this is, here it is, doing the DEI dirty work. Remember Mo's prophecy. He says, they're pushing all the black women, the racist Democrats,

Starting point is 01:43:04 because they're racist. the black women the racist democrats because they're racist they're racist dei it turns out to be a very racist thing yeah let's push all the black women to the front let's put them in really important uh positions and then when they failed to uh put trump behind bars well it was the black ladies but for me there is something wonderfully poetic about the fact that despite the fact that even if convicted, he's not going to go to prison. The first person to actually criminally prosecute Donald Trump is a black Harvard grad, the very kind of person that his former staff, the people who worked for him, Stephen Miller, etc., want to never be at Harvard Law School. But he was. And he came out and graduated. He's prosecuting you, Donald.

Starting point is 01:43:52 And a black woman is doing that same exact thing in Georgia. And a black woman forced you to pay $175 million fine. That's now also in question because the people who put it up that might not be legit donald trump is being held to account by the very multicultural multi-racial democracy that he's trying to dismantle and for me there's something poetic and actually wonderful about that it says something good about our country that we're still capable of having that happen go dei my deis are bringing it home on DEI. My DEIs are bringing it home on today. Go DEI. My DEIs are bringing it home. She's on the block too. You what?

Starting point is 01:44:31 She'll be on the block too. She should be. Her show stinks. Ratings are nothing. No one has ratings on cable anymore. No one. It's inconsequential. They're still getting... They make their money from the homes, you know, a buck per home. And that's dwindling, I think would be the term.

Starting point is 01:44:54 Unless you have something else, I'd like to do some transmaoism, just to have it all in one go. Let's get our fill of everything that's nuts in the world. Was that a yes? You walked away. Yeah, go with the trends. I don't have anything that fits into these themes. Okay. A couple are pretty short here.

Starting point is 01:45:15 How does some breaking news from the U.S.? Stop, John. Whatever you're doing, it's breaking news. It's breaking. By the way, I love our producers. I think it was Thursday night. I'm in bed and I'm just doing a little scroll. And all I see is breaking, breaking, breaking, breaking.

Starting point is 01:45:33 So I tweet, or I guess there's now a slash. I tweet breaking, all uppercase, colon. And that's all. Nothing after it. Our people are the best. You could see all the no agenda people at this hour you know unprecedented they knew alert alert be afraid everybody knew what was going on that was great now to some breaking news from the u.s supreme court the high court is allowing idaho to largely enforce its ban on gender affirming care for transgender children under 18

Starting point is 01:46:06 while lawsuits over the law go forward. Justice Clarence Thomas was not in court today and did not participate remotely in arguments. There was no explanation given for his absence. What? What? What are you saying? What about? Well, who cares? Guys, there's various Supreme Court justices aren't there a lot here and there. So how is that part of the news? It's breaking. It's breaking. What do you care? It's breaking.

Starting point is 01:46:37 Pay attention. What are they doing? This is part of the get Clarence Thomas out of there before we have the Chevron deference case. Yes. I hope he's okay. Which is what this is really all about. Let's just slam him asvron deference yes i hope he's okay this is really all about let's just slam him as much as we can i hope he's okay now now two well this is a kind of an odd report but i think it goes right along with the trans maoist uh agenda of you know you know allowing anyone to identify as whatever they are. What is the funniest thing we've had people identify as?

Starting point is 01:47:08 I'm a cat. And then there were some, I think most of them were fake, but there might have been actually one school that brought in a litter box because they demanded it. I believe so. I believe one school brought in a litter box. I think most of it was fake, but I think if I recall, one at least did do that.

Starting point is 01:47:24 Well, this is a middle school in utah and parents and kids are oh i'm glad you got this clip there was some kids dressed up as animals and i heard that another kid got bit by one of them there's a lot of speculation surrounding the protest that happened at Nebo Middle School Wednesday morning. Nearly 75 students and parents showed up facing the school saying they're unhappy with how administration is handling reports of harassment. You guys cannot record me without my permission! This is video a Nebo Middle School student took last week. Parents say there's an issue between some students and others who call themselves furries or people who enjoy as cartoonish animals.

Starting point is 01:48:12 Back when I went to school, you know, you couldn't dress that way. You couldn't do certain things. And I think it kind of needs to go back a little bit like I know kids need their own personalities. But it's ridiculous when kids are dressing like animals and licking and biting people. I just don't think that's okay. But the Nebo School District tells us it's not that extreme. Seth Sorensen says no one was scratching or biting anyone and that there are a lot of untrue rumors going around. It actually is not something that's been occurring. In fact, a lot of the information that's been put out there is completely incorrect and inaccurate and so we're still trying to get

Starting point is 01:48:49 on top of that thank you this is strudel a member of the furry fandom though they've been a furry for over a decade they have their own opinions it's crazy that it's escalated to this point where these kids are being so distracting to their peers. The problem with this clip is this is what you're playing. So I will fix it. Thank you. She's dressed up as a giant chipmunk as she's

Starting point is 01:49:18 doing the serious interview and the mic's going back and forth between the anchor of the station and the chipmunk whose muffled voice is what you're hearing. And it kind of, this is one of those few times where we lose, we're not having the video, we lose the impact. Yeah, we do. But I do like that the interviewer says they. Yeah, I didn't catch that at first.

Starting point is 01:49:43 You're right. Thank you. This is Strudelel a member of the furry fandom though they've been a furry for over a decade they have their own opinions it's crazy that it's escalated to this point where these kids are being so distracting to their peers that their peers want to stage a walkout or to have you know the next generation kind of muddy our name and um not represent it very well. It is kind of disappointing.

Starting point is 01:50:07 Yeah, disappointing. So I, of course, have nothing against furries because we have furries who listen to the show. And I think you and I believe that they're in it for a sexual kink. And that's all good with me. You do whatever you want with your furry. Don't sexual kink. Come on. We all know.

Starting point is 01:50:24 But they never have sex. I brought this up with you or somebody. I brought this up. I said, they don't have sex wearing the costumes because the costumes are so expensive. They don't want to ruin them. They don't want to ruin the costume. Yeah. That's what I'm told.

Starting point is 01:50:44 I remember, didn't we have a furry meetup? There were furries at a furry convention. There was a furry meetup. I don't remember that. Yeah, I do. It's possible. Furries. Yeah, we do have furries in the audience.

Starting point is 01:50:56 Or we used to, unless they're anti-Zionist. And then my final clip, and I want you to open up a web browser, get your Bravo. You're brave. This came across my desk. This is a, this is a consult, a counseling firm. This is a group of therapists. They operate in multiple in the south alabama but they also just added idaho um they uh they work on scene i mean in person with uh with clients but also uh they do telehealth so this is this is what your children the people who your children might be counseled by. I'm going to give you the domain name, John, and then I'll tell you about the woman who I clipped here. She's the CEO. It's yellowbirdcounseling.com. Yellowbirdcounseling.com.

Starting point is 01:52:02 Dominique is the CEO, Dominique Cecil. TheCounseling.com. Dominique is the CEO, Dominique Cecil. She graduated from the University of Montevallo with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology, a minor in vocal performance, and received her master's in clinical mental health counseling. And she started this, she worked solo for a while, but then she started Yellow Bird Counseling LLC. Do you have the website up, John?

Starting point is 01:52:32 Yeah, it's a bunch of fat black women. Ooh, sorry, y'all. What's up, y'all? This is her on the live stream, which is on their website. It's not just, if you look at their entire staff, it's not just a bunch of black women, but there a lot of there's one white woman and a multi-hair color they're all they them they're they are queer and here's here's her little pitch on the live stream it's dominique aka that therapist for therapist. For those of y'all that don't know me, I am the lead clinician and CEO for a group practice known as Yellow Bird Counseling. Okay. So what do we do? What does that mean?

Starting point is 01:53:16 So our normal day-to-day thing that we do seven days a week, I guess, or whatever. You know what I'm saying? We do that now. So we provide counselings and therapies that we provide. All right? In the states of... Mind you, a master's in clinical mental health counseling. Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey and the house. And now Idaho, newly Idaho. And, you know, I'm sure with all the starch consumption potatoes, I don't know.

Starting point is 01:53:57 But anyway, that's what we do our normal day to day activities. But what do we do here on social media? Every Thursday evening at 8 p.m. Central Standard Time, I say ish because if one of my clients needs something, one of my therapists needs something, I got to take care of that, jump on here. So we... I mean, wouldn't you be appalled if this was the person counseling your child who has some severe identity crisis? To me, this is appalling. They have merch.

Starting point is 01:54:36 She's flipping her braids back and forth while she's doing this. We go live every Thursday evening, and we discuss topics that the general population can relate to it's not much longer but i think it's worth it you know they this is like all uh versions of uh jean-pierre claude van damme the uh the spokesperson for the Biden administration. They're all her in various forms. She is mentally ill. It's almost like most of the child trafficking runs

Starting point is 01:55:14 through Child Protective Services. I think that's I think that statistic is probably pretty accurate. The people who are supposed to be helping your child are psyoping them into this. She's queer, whatever that means. Back to how we all could benefit from having a therapist on Z.

Starting point is 01:55:37 Okay? On D. All right. On deck, y'all. That's what I'm saying. On deck. Okay? So, yeah, that's what we do and we

Starting point is 01:55:47 have a fun time doing it yellow bear has kind of expanded a lot a lot a lot with greatness we've got all these beautiful types of therapists and so i'm just so for a long time I've been the only queer therapist on staff just me by myself and everybody else was just queer affirming which is cool but it's like different when you have other queer therapists

Starting point is 01:56:16 so I got me some queer therapists to join me and now I'm not by myself no more and they're so cool I cry for these children this is this is just not okay this should not be allowed she's the boss of the outfits okay phoebe she's the boss of the outfit hey i found uh i think i think i found hey phebe. Phoebe, it's okay. I found the clip with the Dutch guy.

Starting point is 01:56:49 Oh, finally. Yeah, but it's related to... Phoebe, it's related to Ukraine. We've got some real problems now because everyone's focusing on Israel. Everyone's focusing on Israel. And Zelensky's like, give me some credit, man. Give me some air defenses.

Starting point is 01:57:08 We're going to lose. We're going to lose the war. So we have to ratchet that up whenever there's another bunch of money on the table, which is the $61 billion, which I'm pretty sure will be approved. Because, you know, Mike Johnson,

Starting point is 01:57:22 if he doesn't approve it and they lose the war, which will happen they're going to lose then the republicans will be blamed oh you killed ukraine so he's really got nothing to lose by approving it except maybe his house speakership uh so this is a germany urging eu leaders to send ukraine air defenses from France 24. Amid intensifying Russian attacks, NATO's chief is calling on allies to beef up Ukraine's air defence. We just had an important and timely discussion

Starting point is 01:57:52 on how to step up further our support to Ukraine, in particular on how to provide more air defence systems to Ukraine, because the situation on the battlefield remains very difficult. It comes as Germany is making plans to encourage other European countries to offer Patriot missile systems to Ukraine after announcing it would send one of its own. It's an initiative prime ministers from Denmark, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands are keen to take part in.

Starting point is 01:58:18 I have great respect for the commitment shown by Germany. There we go, I love it, he's back, the man with his respect for Germany. Very good, very good. Take part in. I have great respect for the commitment shown by Germany. There we go. I love it. He's back. The man with his respect for Germany. Very good. Very good. Take part in. I have great respect for the commitment shown by Germany.

Starting point is 01:58:29 Germany. And we will consider the three of us in what ways we can support to this German initiative. Are we not better of sending a few of our own air defense systems

Starting point is 01:58:41 to Ukraine at a time where they, not we, are struggling daily to fight off the never-ending Russian attack. Ukraine says it needs at least two dozen Patriot air defense systems to protect troops on the front lines and to defend Kharkiv, the country's biggest city after Kyiv, which has been under attack for weeks. Iran's drone and missile attack on Israel over the weekend has raised questions in Kiev about NATO's priorities.

Starting point is 01:59:10 I believe it was a signal to all leaders around the world. France, Jordan, the UK and the US have all responded and supported the protection of Israel. And here, definitely, they used air defence and aviation, many things that, frankly ukraine is lacking stoltenberg also says he's optimistic about the u.s congress approving a military aid package in the next few days without it zelensky says ukraine will lose the war i can't wait until ruta is the new jens he is he'll be he'll almost be as good, maybe even better.

Starting point is 01:59:47 Remember the president of the European Union, the Belgian guy? The one who did haikus? Haiku Herman. Oh, that guy. What a crackpot. That guy was great. He was fun. Yeah, so Rutte will be great.

Starting point is 02:00:11 yeah so ruta will be great so i watched the trump speech and uh i think it was in pennsylvania yes one of his latest yes he's got a new moniker new material new material well not a lot of it he was mad and you could tell there was a lot of anger because of this having to be in new york at this these trials not good when he's angry He's not good when he's angry. He's not good. So he's not good. But he does have a new moniker for Biden. I thought it was worth playing. Under Trump.

Starting point is 02:00:37 Our democracy is under siege because of Joe Biden. Joe Biden loves to say that democracy is on the ballot in this election. If it is, we're going to win in the greatest landslide in history because we're the ones who are fighting to save our democracy. And Crooked Joe Biden is the demented tyrant. He's a demented tyrant who is trying to destroy our democracy. Two days from now,

Starting point is 02:00:57 the entire world will witness the commencement of the very first Biden trial. They're all Biden trials trials you know that right a demented tyrant that's good i liked it yeah did you get anything on uh the the boeing uh hearings yeah i got some boeing clips okay because uh this is i mean if there ever was a a takedown of boeing man this is it i think they're going after Boeing. At this point, with these two clips, when I started, when I recorded the first one and the second one, these two-parter, I decided or thought to myself, it's not a decision, it's a thought,

Starting point is 02:01:38 that they're doing this on purpose. They're going after Boeing for some specific specific or there's something going on that we don't know about well maybe they got airbus money something's up but let's play these clips scathing testimony delivered by boeing whistleblowers today they say boeing effectively produces defective planes and everyone who gets into one is at risk and it is virginia gibson every person stepping aboard a boeing airplane is at risk boeing whistle's Virginia Gibson has more. Every person stepping aboard a Boeing airplane is at risk. Boeing whistleblowers give scathing testimony on Boeing's safety culture. Engineer Sam Salipour says it's effectively putting out defective airplanes. The company

Starting point is 02:02:18 is taking manufacturing shortcuts on the 787 program that may significantly reduce the airplane safety. Serious issues on the 787 program not properly closing thousands of gaps in its assembly of the fuselage on major joints. A culture of retaliation prevents workers like him from reporting these problems. His boss even suggested he'd kill someone who said what Salipour said about plane quality. In another instance, he found a nail stuck into the tire of his car. It really scares me, believe me, but I am at peace. You know, if something happens to me, I am at peace because I feel like by coming forward, I will be saving a lot of lives and I'm at peace. Whatever happens, it happens.

Starting point is 02:03:07 Whistleblowers assert that Boeing prioritizes profits over safety. This comes after the door blew off of a Boeing plane mid-flight earlier this year and various other incidents. Engine anti-ice, exhaust duct fasteners, compromised sealant adhesion within the center fuel tank, loose bolts in the rudder assembly, stuck rudder pedals, misinstalled electrical wire bundles in the wing spoilers, and then, of course, the door blowout. Oh, I got called Tina about her return flight from New York. Stuck rudder pedals, bolts in the, are you kidding me that's death that's real death well there disco continues with part two former faa engineer joe jacobson saw serious flaws with boeing's planes he observed boeing hiding these flaws from government agencies former boeing manager ed pearson says even the government agencies have done a poor job these agencies have become lazy complacent and reactive

Starting point is 02:04:12 the deterioration has been occurring over several years pearson says the national transportation safety board the federal aviation administration and the department of transportation all ignored boeing's problems even after multiple high-profile crashes if the leaders of those government agencies had done their jobs investigators would have uncovered a mountain of important information the faa would have known boeing's production processes were a mess the whistleblowers want to change boeing's entire production system, one that encourages people to raise issues and prioritize safety over profits. Okay, question. Where's Buttigieg? Isn't he the boss of these agencies? Yeah, he is. So could this be, it's just a thought that popped in my head could this be that they're like oh you know we don't want that mckinsey guy getting anywhere near the presidency

Starting point is 02:05:11 to make sure that we discredit him but they haven't called him yet they haven't they haven't raked him over the coals and why not because yes the faa is just as responsible for what Boeing's doing as the FDA is for Pfizer or Moderna. Yeah, I agree. In fact, those two downed 737 MAX 9s or whatever they were that were never fully vetted. Yeah, that was huge. One crashes and then another one crashes and kills all these people. One-, punch. What is the, how does that happen?

Starting point is 02:05:49 Well, we know how it happened. If it wasn't the FAA. Yeah, the FAA should have been all over that. Yeah. Well, I mean, I'm surprised. Where is Buttigieg? This is very interesting. By the way, there's, someone pointed out to me that there's a...

Starting point is 02:06:06 We love Michael Crichton as a writer. State of Fear was, in essence, the screenplay, the script for what is taking place with climate change. Yes. Airframe, which I have not read. Airframe, released in 97. The plot follows Casey Singleton, a quality assurance vice president at the fictional aerospace manufacturer Norton Aircraft.

Starting point is 02:06:34 She investigates an in-flight accident aboard a Norton manufactured airliner that leaves passengers dead, 56 injured. I got, now I have to read this. Yes, you do to get to get to get the rise when you're finished figure out what how it's gonna happen yeah this is this is very as a as an airman this is very concerning and i would think i think i reported that uh our pilots, you know, who are getting ready to retire, which happens in your late 30s, early 40s. And, you know, they all, of course, want to go on and keep flying. Typically, they want DHL, FedEx, you know, they want these kinds of jobs.

Starting point is 02:07:20 Anything without passengers, please. They all want to go with Airbus. They don't want to be on Boeing. And that tells me something. And I learned that over a year ago. They're like, no, we don't like Boeing anymore. Man, that just fell apart out of the blue. What do you mean?

Starting point is 02:07:42 I mean, Boeing was, you know, a very competitive when we first started the show 16 17 years ago yeah if i'm talking about the arabus boeing battles yep and how boeing was winning and there was no evidence that they were making junk then something changed between then and now can Can they pin this on Biden somehow? No. No. You can pin it on the board of directors, that's for sure.

Starting point is 02:08:19 Yeah, well, they can, for sure, they can pin it on what's-her-face, who brought him to her state. What's her name? Oh, yeah, the governor of South Carolina,olina uh nikki nikki haley nikki nimrod nimrod nimrod haley i guess we don't really need that yeah once they moved to south carolina but that's when it began what the year of that was that's when the culture changed or maybe they want some kind of change in in corporate regulations. I agree with you. There's some things up. Some things up.

Starting point is 02:08:48 Because a lot of this may not be as bad. I mean, we do not see aircraft that have broken up in flight, which is what they're talking about. You know, hey, they're jumping on the wings to make them fit. So we haven't, there's no evidence of that happening uh a lot of these things are maintenance so remember uh united is just you know run by a dude in a dress who is clearly occupied with other things than quality assurance we had the southwest cowling fly off which was definitely a ground crew mistake but it's all thrown on to boeing and yeah the the changes to the 737 max for which they were

Starting point is 02:09:35 grounded which they made changes but no one had to no one had no one went to jail even though it was clearly clearly you know a big mistake including the faa so the the facility in south carolina opened in july 2011 and that seems to be the crux of everything i don't know we also have south carolina site was used by two of the subcontractors Vought Remember Ling Temco Vought Aircraft Industries and Global Aeronautica Joint Venture Vought and Alinea Aeronautica to build sections of the fuselage out of composite materials

Starting point is 02:10:16 that's where the 787 787 is made there Is Spirit Aerocraft whatever it's's called is that a public company i don't think so okay well i keep hearing that they're definitely going to split that in two and one half will go back inside of boeing and the other half will continue to make parts for airbus and it's still it could just all be Airbus. I mean, hold on. I have a, well, let's

Starting point is 02:10:48 take a look here. I have a France 24 who would be on the Airbus side of the equation. Let's listen to their report. Literally saw people jumping on the pieces of the airplane to get them to align. Those are the lengths that Boeing will go to to put production over safety, an engineer at the airline told U.S. lawmakers. Two Senate committees on Wednesday piled more pressure on Boeing, which is under multiple investigations. Sam Salipour said he was threatened for raising his concerns internally. In a rush to address its bottlenecks in production, Boeing hit problems, pushing pieces together with excessive force to make them appear that the gaps don't exist even though they exist. Effectively, they are putting out defective airplanes.

Starting point is 02:11:36 Boeing says these claims about the 787 Dreamliner are false and says it hasn't found cracks while maintenancing nearly 700 of the aircraft. Regulators have limited production of another aircraft, the 737 MAX, after a door panel blew off during an Alaska Airlines flight in January. In 2018 and 2019, two other 737 MAX aircraft crashed, killing 346 people. Another whistleblower said nothing changed in Boeing's culture afterwards. Hundreds of people died and there's been no justice. Unless action is taken and leaders are held accountable, every person stepping aboard a Boeing airplane is at risk.

Starting point is 02:12:26 Boeing has announced a management shake-up as deliveries fell by half in March. So it's definitely hurting the bottom line. Here, let me read something from the wiki page. Okay. Quality control issues. The South Carolina plant has been accused of shoddy production and ignoring safety defects in the airplanes in favor of meeting deadlines. In 2019, following the discovery of exterior damage on planes manufactured in Charleston, for a time, Qatar Airways would only accept delivery of Dreamliners assembled in Everett. Later that same year, KLM, which had discovered loose seats, missing and incorrectly installed pins, nuts, and bolts not fully tightened, and a fuel line clamp left unsecured on its jet complained that the standard of manufacturing was way below acceptable standards. Early in 2020, Boeing

Starting point is 02:13:12 engineers discovered depressions in the 787's vertical tail fin, which could lead to structural failure under limited loads, affecting hundreds of planes on a vast majority of the fleet. Limited loads affecting hundreds of planes on a vast majority of the fleet. Eight 787s were grounded due to the issue, which had been discovered in August 2019 at the South Carolina plant. But this goes on and on. South Carolina as a manufacturing hub, which I think car manufacturers are using too, obviously, not to demean the citizenry of south carolina they're not up to the standards that they need to be if they're going to be doing this sort of work the only other thing i can i can surmise because it has been going along consistently whenever something happens to an aircraft whether

Starting point is 02:13:59 it's airline related maintenance related or manufacturer related the first thing you read in social media is dei so maybe it's a big push to uh to to kill dei it could be just but i think this is a i think this is a going on everywhere the push to kill dei uh because it's showing it. I think it's a valid push because I think DEI is. You notice it in the everywhere. Oh, you're noticing. I notice it. You're noticing. All right.

Starting point is 02:14:35 Well, another thing Pete Buttigieg has not really been in the news for. Where is Pete? Is the Key Bridge, the Francis Scott Key Bridge. And there's some updates. We are following breaking news breaking news into the wavy newsroom the fbi opened a criminal investigation into the francis scott key bridge collapse the washington post reports the fbi is investigating whether the crew of the dolly left the port knowing the vessel had systems problems authorities are also

Starting point is 02:15:02 reportedly reviewing the events leading up to when the dollali slammed into one of the Francis Scott Key Bridges support pillars. And we already had one dock worker who said, oh yeah, no, there were problems with the electricity with the reefers, which is the refrigerator containers. And there's another one. A desperate Mayday call. I can't get to the other side, sir. The bridge is down. Made too late. Killing video capturing the minutes leading up to the tragedy, showing the ship losing power, lights flashing on and off before striking a support, sending the bridge crumbling down. This week, FBI agents boarding the vessel, conducting a criminal investigation into the earlier hours,

Starting point is 02:15:45 seeking warning signs that may have been missed or ignored, like what crane operator Damian Tucker. I ended up working 15 hours on that vessel. Flames to have witnessed firsthand. I was radioed up from the reefer mechanic and some of the longshoremen on the ship that was lashing containers that night, that they were having electrical problems getting power to the reefers. Reefers are refrigerated cargo containers used to transport perishable goods. In the two decades Tucker has worked at the Port of Baltimore, loading and unloading thousands of reefers.

Starting point is 02:16:16 Does that happen often? No, it doesn't happen often. In your 23 years, how many times have you experienced where reefers are struggling to get power to them? Maybe twice. Echoing his account, the Associ associated press quoting an anonymous source claiming while the ship was still docked alarms went off on some of its refrigerated containers indicating an inconsistent power supply tonight the ntsb not confirming or denying the claims only willing

Starting point is 02:16:41 to say a preliminary report of their investigation will be released in the coming weeks where's mayor pete nowhere to be found and by the way mayor pete mr dei mr dei remember although we need to have with we gotta have bridges have to be raised so the black school children can get underneath it to go to the beach. Yeah. Remember? Remember? Yeah, the bus is too tall to go underneath this thing. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:17:12 Under the bridge. Yeah. Yeah, I remember that. Okay, I have a couple of Big Pharma things, and then we can thank some people. Unless you have something else you'd like to discuss. Well, if you're going to go Big Pharma, I do have the Rand Paul visit to the Hill, which I thought was very... Yeah, you even put a little thing on Twitter. You said, you should be watching this.

Starting point is 02:17:38 And you know what everyone did? I'll wait for the show. I think that was relating to something not this particular clip. No, that was this particular clip you said. Oh, was it? Okay. Yeah, you said everyone should watch this. That's very educational.

Starting point is 02:17:55 Alright. What are we going to be listening to? This is Rand Paul on the Hill. That TV, you know, whatever it is from the magazine. Crystal Ball? No, not, no, those guys are long gone. Oh, that's right.

Starting point is 02:18:10 It's the new guys. And he's pretty much summarizing all of the complaining that he's been doing. And I took, what did I get? Oh, this is Wuhan, Wuhan related. I got three clips. And it's, yeah, it's about the virus and how it's like we've been scammed every which way. We've known, of course, that EcoHealth Alliance had pitched the diffuse project to, I believe, the Defense Department did not procure funding for that project. Although,

Starting point is 02:18:37 you know, whether that research was going on or had gone on anyway or continued is an open question. But now you're saying that it's far from this lone agency that knew about this project. Who else in the government knew that scientists were trying to get government funding to make a virus that would have looked like COVID? It's important to know that we only know anything about this because of a whistleblower. So in 2021, Lieutenant Colonel Marine, Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Murphy at DARPA came forward and he said he'd been looking for research like this because he was convinced that it was going on. He went to a folder, a computer folder, and he looked for this and it wasn't there.

Starting point is 02:19:19 Then he saw another exchange between myself and Fauci and he saw the attention heating up and he went back to the folder and looked and all all of a sudden, the document was there. And the document indicated that Wuhan Lab was working with UNC, Ralph Baric, and with Peter Daszak at EcoHealth, and their proposal was to take a coronavirus, which is not very infectious in humans usually, and make it more infectious in humans by putting a special cleavage site called the furin cleavage site in well darpa passed on this darpa said well damn that sounds a little bit crazy to create a virus that could be so contagious because coronavirus can be deadly but it's typically not very contagious now you're going to buy and combine deadly with contagious you got a real problem and And so they turned it down. And so we always said when 2020 happened and we saw the sequence of COVID-19, alarm bells should

Starting point is 02:20:12 have gone off in DARPA and they should have come forward and warned us that Wuhan had already proposed to create a very similar type of virus. And no one did. No one from DARPA came forward. So we've always faulted the people at DARPA and think they were covering it up other than the whistleblower yeah I don't like two things that he said there one oh a computer folder okay sure it means Microsoft SharePoint whatever stuff goes away the other thing is he makes it sound like a coronavirus will kill you. It's the flu. No, no. Coronavirus is more of the cold.

Starting point is 02:20:50 A cold. I'm sorry. But it's not, I mean, not more deadly than your yearly cold and flu season. He makes it sound like, oh, the coronavirus. All right. Well, that's a reasonable complaint. let's go to clip the second part of this now we know the presentation for this research was given to 15 agencies including the nih and the nai and the niaid which is fauci's division of nih and worse than that not only were they briefed, the original diffuse proposal we now know included work to be done

Starting point is 02:21:29 at the Rocky Mountain Lab in Colorado that's owned by Fauci's division of the NIH. So it doesn't pass the credulity test that somehow Anthony Fauci knows nothing of this. So we've actually come up with another criminal referral for him because in committee and help committee, he tells Senator Roger Marshall that he knows nothing of this diffuse grant. And also in Missouri versus Biden, the court case in deposition, he says he knew nothing of this diffuse grant. And yet now we know his agency was briefed and his agency was going to be part of the original proposal does he want fauci behind bars does he want he does he's been after fauci ever since fauci looked him in the eyes and lied to him yeah yeah uh and he's been really after fauci he's gonna get he says i don't have the clip i'm gonna get him no i have the clip of i don't have the clip of it

Starting point is 02:22:25 this is longer than i have here where he says you know there's no chance that our just this justice department's going to do anything about fauci's lying in front of congress but of course not he's going to stay on this so here's the last of this you would think some of these federal agencies would feel a little bit of contempt or would want accountability from the people at, for instance, EcoHealth Alliance, whom we now know, this came from a U.S. right to know, that the proposal, the Diffuse Project, privately the scientists admitted that they were trying to mislead the government about where the research would be done because they knew, while they intended to do a lot of the research in Wuhan, China, they knew if they told the government that, that would raise red flags because the safety standards there are more lax.

Starting point is 02:23:09 Why aren't our public health accountability agencies very frustrated that they were misled by these scientists? What? It boggles the mind because typically people from the left really see a big role for government in safety and malfeasance. If this were a private company making baby formula, they would have shut it down and, you know, people would have gone to jail. Seriously, if it were a private company doing this, but it happens to be government. And I think that their love of government and central planning causes them to defend irrationally, to defend things even when they're grossly mismanaged or when there's gross negligence or even lying and malfeasance. They defend it to the end. I mean, Anthony Fauci has been given million-dollar awards by left-wing groups, million-dollar awards. He still has a limo and security service 24 hours 24 7 even though he's supposedly

Starting point is 02:24:07 retired so i mean the love goes on and i think it's really the love for central planning and they see the attack on fauci or anything that went wrong as an attack on centralized authority yeah i thought that was a very interesting analysis. It is. Unfortunately, I think we both agree that the real death came from all of the remedies. And the real devastation is coming from the remedies. Specifically remdesivir. And Baxlavid turns out to be useless and so-called vaccines which you know now the number one reason for getting covid is because you have three vaccines of covid this is now mainstream um report the so let's just talk about adverse events for a moment so it's it's fine and and i think

Starting point is 02:25:07 fauci definitely needs to uh to be justice needs to we need justice on that and i hope ram paul gets it but i'm i'm much more concerned with what uh the media inclusion with big pharma is doing to people who still trust them they They're not in collusion. Big Pharma just tells them what to do. No, they just tell them what to do. Yes, I'm sorry. Silly me. So one of the obvious bad effects of mRNA, not for everybody, but for a lot of people,

Starting point is 02:25:40 is heart issues. And just so you know um the glare of car headlights can now be a risk for a heart condition uh yes so uh the dazzling led headlight beams are now to blame for heart conditions not the vaccine vaccine. Not the vaccine. No vaccine. Now, if you heard someone had liver problems, kidney problems, what would you say might be the cause of that? Could be a lot of things. Too much Tylenol.

Starting point is 02:26:21 Remdesivir? Well, yeah, that would be something. Remdesivir? I would say remdesivir. Well, yeah, that would be something. Remdesivir. I would say remdesivir. Okay. Now to a health alert and a disgusting reality for New Yorkers. Yeah, city officials say that they're seeing a rise in a sickness from rat urine. It's called leptospirosis. And left untreated, it can cause kidney failure and liver damage.

Starting point is 02:26:43 There were 24 cases of it last year. That's the highest number ever in a single year. And so far this year, six cases have already been reported. Iowa News News reporter Darla Miles is in the newsroom with everything you need to know about this. Darla. Liz, David, as you know, rats are an inevitable part of life here in New York City and have been for the last 250 years. So much so, you have seen entertaining videos of them go viral very quickly,

Starting point is 02:27:06 like the pizza rats. But as we talked about, rat infestations come with rat droppings that can cause severe illness, even death. And Liz and David, there's nothing entertaining. The problem, leptospirosis, an infectious disease caused by rat urine that can lead to potentially fatal infections of the kidney liver brain lung or heart the city issuing a health advisory about an uptick in cases a record high of 24 cases in 2023 the trend continuing upward with six cases so far this year why is this breaking news

Starting point is 02:27:38 six well they themselves just said the rats have been infesting that town of New York City for the last 250 years. If they had dropped that part of this story and said the rats are worse than ever, but they didn't say that because the rats aren't worse than ever. No. So, to me... They're just the same as they've always been. The place is infested. Smells like cover-up. I don't like it.

Starting point is 02:28:04 I don't like it at all. Rat urine. Memo to self, don't drink rat urine. Now, there's a good memo. Now, the testing industrial complex ramps it up a little bit more. Remember, we need to get everybody thinking that they have cancer and ramp it up for the magical mRNA cancer vaccines. So let's go with our favorite, shall we?

Starting point is 02:28:27 Colon cancer. Deeper sedation may be the prescription for a better colonoscopy. When patients are in a deeper state, doctors can more efficiently detect certain polyps. The result, according to a study in the Journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, superior cancer detection and prevention. The study showed propofol provided higher quality colonoscopy than conscious sedation. Serrated polyps are difficult to detect precancerous lesions. Nearly all colon cancers start as small growths called polyps. Identifying them and removing them prevents them from developing into cancer. I'm definitely not going for that. Well, wasn't

Starting point is 02:29:06 there, now this is about a year or two ago and we never clipped it, but there was a big scandal because it turned out that colonoscopies according to the statisticians didn't do any good. Remember that? Well, we've been talking about that for two weeks.

Starting point is 02:29:22 No, I'm saying that this is when this report came out that colonoscopies were given a bad they're just given no don't get it's not worth it it doesn't do any good it's like forget it and that story just disappeared off the front page well it's kind of come back this is why this is how i come up with this well this is just the opposite of coming back this is coming back as though they're effective oh no no of course i mean this the medical studies are there but that's hello this is the media no the media is being told hey get everybody and we now have even more effective testing it's even better we can we can push the thing further into your colon with propofol

Starting point is 02:30:05 michael jackson's drug of choice and uh and we can see the pre-cancerous polyps even better to get you on the program no the hard no on that but luckily luckily ai to the rescue for parkinson's as technology becomes more readily available in medicine, doctors may have better tools to defeat disease. University of Cambridge scientists, for example, say artificial intelligence has sped up the ability to identify Parkinson's disease treatments. AI accelerates the search for medications to relieve Parkinson's symptoms by 10 times, according to the researchers.

Starting point is 02:30:46 AI rapidly found compounds to block the clumping of a protein associated with Parkinson's decline. The Cambridge team used machine learning to screen an entire library of millions of entries, ultimately finding five highly potent compounds for further investigation. The team is pretty excited about their research and they point to the possibilities for ai to aid in finding relief for other ailments as well we had to see this coming right and now i think it's actually coming to fruition oh thank you so much oh yay you had to see this coming right yes of course. AI. One of our producers went to a, he's a dude named Ben. He went to a big AI conference and everybody there was complaining about how no matter what business they were in, 20% error rate on everything.

Starting point is 02:31:42 20%. And he would say, well, are you going to implement it oh yeah why because the other guys are that's what's happening it's this big hype you know 20 error rate is significant if you're in finance or medicine well it's really bad. If you had 20% error rate with optical character recognition, which is bad because it has 1% or 2% error rate, it would be unusable. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:32:17 It is unusable. But unless, well, give me $5 trillion and I can make it work. We need more money. We need more money. You know what it's going to come down to? It's going to come down to power. No one talks, all the climate change people, like AI is great. It's going to solve climate change. No, if anything, if you believe your logic, it's going to make it worse

Starting point is 02:32:39 because they're running out of actual power to power the data centers that they need for this stuff. It won't even be the chips anymore. It's like, how can I get cheaper power? Yeah. Last thing I have here is measles. They're still on that tip. The big pharma has told their media subordinates to promote measles vaccine.

Starting point is 02:33:07 It's on the rise. It's horrible. To your recollection, if you got measles, you never get it again, right? It's like you get it with one and done? As far as I can tell. Was the measles vaccine, wasn't that always just effective? I'm sorry, what? Measles vaccines have been around for a long time.

Starting point is 02:33:30 No one really gets them. But they're supposed to be effective. It's an attenuated virus. Yeah, supposedly. Well, no. I mean, they're talking percentages now like it's COVID. Let's talk about this recent measles outbreak. There have been seven outbreaks with at least 121 reported cases this year. Yeah, so this is an important medical headline,

Starting point is 02:33:51 you guys. And I think if we remember back to 2020, we've learned how important it is to keep our eye on everything that's going on in the world of public health and infectious disease. Notice how she throws in 20. If we learned anything, we've got to keep our eye on public health, everybody. Vaccines. 2020 COVID. And measles is a big one. Let me take you through it. First of all, some measles 101.

Starting point is 02:34:11 This is actually the most highly contagious respiratory virus on Earth. With cold-like symptoms and a rash as the typical way that it presents. Nine out of ten unvaccinated people, if exposed to measles, will become infected. It can easily be mistaken for another illness. And that's part of why the CDC is sounding the alarm, because so many health care providers have never actually seen a case of measles in this country. It is airborne, transmissible through the air. Children are particularly vulnerable. And we have a preventative uh way out of this you guys with

Starting point is 02:34:46 the two dose vaccine that's 97 effective at preventing illness um again it's in our toolbox it's not being used and that's why the cdc continues to put this on our radar because we're seeing cases go up and up and up two the number she threw out there? 97% effective. Two doses. Two doses? When did that happen? Oh, it's twice the money. Hello? So what was the number she threw out?

Starting point is 02:35:13 The people that had measles? Oh, 121. Huh. There's 126 people that were killed in Oakland in 2023. Seems to me that that's more important and that's one little city let's just uh finish this off with 30 seconds of what makes this spike this spike spike in measles what makes it so different we have seen the occasional outbreak here and there here in the united states so is this particular outbreak any more concerning than the others

Starting point is 02:35:42 outbreak is year to date it It's 17-fold higher. And again, the vast majority of people, if infected... Wait a minute. It's 17-fold higher. So what was it before? What's 121 divided by 17?

Starting point is 02:36:00 I mean, this is infinitesimal. Concerning than the others? It is year to date. It's 17. Bull crap numbers. Yeah. In fold higher. And again, the vast majority of people, if infected with measles, will be fine. But it can cause serious illness, encephalitis, pneumonia, and particularly vulnerable are unvaccinated children.

Starting point is 02:36:21 Almost all of these cases that we're tracking in this country are amongst unvaccinated people. So again, totally unnecessary. Alarming. It's a pandemic of the unvaccinated again. They keep pushing these things. Measles deaths. Measles deaths.

Starting point is 02:36:45 Alright, everything else is just... Measles deaths. Measles deaths. Measles deaths. All right. Everything else is just... There are no reported deaths... Of measles? Related to measles this year. That's 2023, which is, you know, recent. They were reported among all age groups

Starting point is 02:36:59 with a high percentage of unvaccinated, 86% observed in the past five years. Past five years, five years has nobody died so why are we all freaked out i don't know i'm sorry i do have one more clip to play because uh i think that we have a my don 2 situation on our hands have you been oh yeah my don was the 2014 cover for the coup that victoria newland put in the put in place in ukraine then installed a whole new government uh we're going back to an old favorite uh which i think was kind of a a test for ukraine uh we're back to georgia the country is it republic is georgia

Starting point is 02:37:42 republic yeah republic of georgia yep well we have Maidan 2 on our hands, I think. Yes, Europe, no Russian law read a banner outside the Georgian parliament. Over a sea of 20,000 protesters in central Tbilisi. This against the so-called foreign influence law, a law many Georgians see as a Russian import designed to stamp out dissent. There is an unprecedented number of people gathered here. We, Georgians, can be hungry or thirsty, but the freedom and dignity is what matters the most.

Starting point is 02:38:14 That's why we're standing here. Opposition lawmakers boycotted a parliamentary vote on Wednesday, but not without fierce debate. How dare you? What moral right do you have, you, the Russian agents, to call this country's patriots, people who have been defending the people and honour of this country for years, how dare you call them foreign agents?

Starting point is 02:38:38 The bill won a comfortable majority with the votes of 83 out of 150 MPs. Put forward by Georgia's ruling party, the bill is marketed as a way of combating so-called pseudo-liberal values imposed by foreigners. It would force media and non-commercial organizations to register as pursuing the interests of a foreign power if they receive more than 20 percent of their funding from abroad. And EU foreign policy chief Joseph Borrell confirmed what many georgians fear that the bill does not align with eu values and as such would compromise george's accession to the bloc the ruling party reintroduced the bill this month it must now pass at least two

Starting point is 02:39:16 more readings in parliament to become law and one final vote to overcome a presidential veto so this seems like a whole setup you got 20 000 people out there they're waving eu flags because of course everyone has an eu flag at home no yeah sure everyone's got some pre-printed signs and all that this is about is uh you know if you're an ngo you got to register to register if you're getting money from Russia, not from America, but from Russia. I'm concerned about this, especially with the ascension to the EU bit. And they're beating each other up in the government there. It's like running up and sucker-punching each other.

Starting point is 02:40:02 Well, since Victoria N Newland's not around and handing out cookies. Well, if we see her with cookies, we'll know it's on deck. Let's hope not. And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage. Say in the morning to you, the man who put the C in the coordinated

Starting point is 02:40:22 performance. Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to my friend on the other end, the one, the coordinated performance. Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to my friend on the other end. The one, the only, Mr. John C. Dvorak. Got her legs. In the morning to you. In the morning, all the ships, sea boats on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, the dames and the dames and the knights out there.

Starting point is 02:40:38 In the morning to the trolls over there in the troll room. Let me catch all the trolls. We're down 300 trolls. We had 1742 on the last Thursday broadcast. We are down to 1456. I think the rat urine did it. Story about the rat urine.

Starting point is 02:40:59 I think the rat urine. My mistake. These guys stink. It's my mistake. I should not have done the rat urine story. But we love every single troll who was here with us and listening live. We do it live on Thursdays and Sundays,

Starting point is 02:41:10 no agenda stream.com, which is 24 hours a day. And specifically troll room.io where you can log in. I think even a void zero told me someone's redoing. No agenda chat.com. Is it.net.com? Which all of these go to the same place. I like trollroom.io.

Starting point is 02:41:29 So anyway, it's going to get an overhaul. It's going to look beautiful. Now it's very simplistic. It's been that way for, I don't know, 10 years. It's been a very simple page. That's where you can go if you want to be a troll or if you are already an established troll, go to trollroom.io.

Starting point is 02:41:46 We start the show 11 Central Time on Thursdays and Sundays. That's 9 a.m. Pacific for John and noon Eastern Time for Andrew Horowitz. And you can join us all and troll around. There's been some good trolling. It's been good. some good trolling it's been good oh uh i see uh sir boris says that uh it was 18 11 about uh about 20 minutes ago so it's just quitting time i think we're late we are definitely we're running late so i'm not too concerned i love our trolls um you can also get an alert when we go live and many podcasts which are live especially the ones on the NOAA agenda stream, by getting a modern podcast app at podcastapps.com.

Starting point is 02:42:33 You can select one there. Podcast index, we've got the top marks at the most recent podcast movement, whatever that is, the big podcast. We don't know. Everybody's happy. Everybody's happy with what we're doing. Number one in innovation above Apple and Google. There you go. That doesn't take much.

Starting point is 02:42:56 Well, still. I mean, Apple still hasn't put a touch screen on a laptop. Hello. Oh, you're still on that. And they don't have a folding phone, which has been in play for years now, years and years. I saw one in the wild the other day. We were at a concert, and a lady was filming,

Starting point is 02:43:16 and she had one of those. It's a big screen when you open it up. It's dynamite. JC has one, Buzzkill Jr. Mm-hmm. It's dynamite. JC has one, Buzzkill Jr. And I would go back to using a phone.

Starting point is 02:43:33 I might do that just because this phone is so terrific, and it has a huge screen when you unfold it. You know, everyone in tech is kind of going out of business in tech podcasting. We may have to bring back the tech segment or the tech grouch. The tech grouch needs to be found. I don't know where he's at. I think he's living out in

Starting point is 02:43:55 Arizona. Let me see. Do I still have those jingles? The only one, the phone. Bakelite phone. I think that's the one I the one i can do a good imitation of him well here you go try this out the only good phone's a landline and the phone should be made out of bakelite bring that guy back i think you're right the tech tech podcast seem to be... It's because of tech news. Nobody's...

Starting point is 02:44:26 The problem is... There's no advertising for tech news anymore. There's no advertising. They can't do value for value. Well, they could, but they just... They could. They don't. No, they don't.

Starting point is 02:44:40 Because they all bought into the... You go to these seminars. You go to those podcast meetups, you go to the big, you know, the conventions of podcasters and all they have a seminars on how do you get advertisers. Yeah. I don't think that one guy's ever pushed the value for value model on these. No. In fact, you know, they invited me two years ago to go to the big one in Dallas. I went and they they put me in me in a back room during lunch.

Starting point is 02:45:09 Like, here you go. Here you go, value boy. Really? Hold on a second. Let me get this straight. Didn't you basically invent podcasting? I would say that's... So why wouldn't you be given the keynote?

Starting point is 02:45:25 Yeah, I got the lunch keynote in a back room. Because that's not what they're about. They don't care. They're all about ad dollars. Dollar, dollar, dollar. You see, all these conferences are real. Everything is geared around bringing new people into podcasting. Because the whole... it's stagnant right

Starting point is 02:45:48 now and so how can we bring new money new people into podcasting two years ago it was all dei you had bipoc podcasters you had african podcasters and they were getting money from big corporations like amazon like oh yeah oh yes we have a we have a dei checkbox but there we go we've got a bipoc podcast we're funding we're advertising on it and and you know these were five hundred thousand dollar a year productions and then once the free money was gone same problem was discussed earlier that money dried up and you know the bunch of dei people standing around going what and where's our money and so all the podcast hosts they're also you know

Starting point is 02:46:34 the hosting companies they they need they have churn so they need more people coming in and the advertisers you know ever since the the i the i um i iOS podcast apocalypse, where 25% of the downloads went away because it was phony, it's like, well, we don't want to put our money there. So what are they doing? Well, YouTube. YouTube is now podcasting. And then Google closed their podcast app. Thanks. is now podcasting and then you know google closed their podcast app thanks and they said oh no music the yahoo youtube music is now where you find all your podcasts do you see what they're doing

Starting point is 02:47:15 they're trying to do the same thing they did to google reader now it won't it won't work but everyone's like oh yeah no if you podcasting, you really need to have video. Without video, you're not a podcaster. You need to be on YouTube with your podcast. Everyone's, this is an ongoing, very boring conversation in the podcast industrial complex. Every single day. Boy, you know, the people are seeing, you know, podcasting isn't an RSS feed. No, it's what the people think it is.

Starting point is 02:47:44 So if it's people sitting around with headphones and microphones, it's a podcast. Are you horrified? Yeah, that's really what's happening. I'm glad you keep up with this. I have to because I'm keeping open podcasting alive, which is doing quite well. It's just no one's making money unless they're doing value for value. That's it. And that is the future well you don't get you know you you like to think you and i hate to do this are you gonna slam me no yeah i should but no you don't get enough credit

Starting point is 02:48:18 where credit is due generally speaking even though i it pains me to say that uh and you get short-sheeted for all practical purposes and not recognized for what you're up to which i think is worth a nobel peace prize or something a peabody award anything well and it's just not going to happen you promise for whatever reason because people hate you. Well, yes, correct. That's it. Because I'm all for free speech. See, when you're for free speech, then you're Trump. Don't you understand?

Starting point is 02:48:55 The minute we put up podcast index and it was to preserve podcasting and free speech. You're a bad person. You're a bad person for preserving free speech by using yes by creating the whole thing in fact somebody one of the a-holes on no authority the new uh website said that anybody who ever uses the term i can tell you it was it's the guy's bitching about to erin or so what it guy says, hey, anyone who uses the podcast, says podcasting 2.0 should be kicked in the nuts. Really?

Starting point is 02:49:32 Oh, that's a great little clip. Would somebody please clip that for me? That's great. And so I read that. I said, this is not right. Why is this guy even here? Or as they would say in the Allstate covers, why is he here? Why would someone say that? That's would someone say that that's so hurtful

Starting point is 02:49:46 it's very well it would be especially if you got kicked in the nuts because that would suck that'd be very hurtful but this is the kind of thing going on and i i was like what what why are you saying this what is your problem but and but this is part of the i I'll just say it, the Twit Network, they're also on Mastodon. And in the very beginning, we're like, hey, that was our message, open podcast. And the whole thing is value for value. It runs on donations from people who want to keep it alive. And so there's no money in it for Adam and Dave Jones. But if we died tomorrow, autopay would would run for three more years we want to

Starting point is 02:50:26 decentralize it all eventually but the the people because you know we have podcasting next dot social which is our own little mastodon server which i've blocked no authority dot social it's like we're just over here we just want to do our uh our little uh podcasting stuff development and the twit people are like right wing nut jobs with your podcasting with your podcasting 2.0 right wing nut jobs free speech yeah that's how they were and leo is susceptible to that and you know and he's he's trying now oh club, Club Twit, $7. You can give more if you want. That's not how it works, Leo. It's not how it works.

Starting point is 02:51:09 Go read value4, number 4, value.info. Go read that. It explains our whole story. We need to write a book. Yeah, yeah. We have a publishing company we can use to roll it out. I feel bad about the fact that you didn't get the coloring book

Starting point is 02:51:27 because you're going to rave about it. Well, can we do a value? GFUpublishing.com, go check it out. But this coloring book, the no agenda coloring book is dynamite. Well, I saw the PDF. No, the PDF doesn't, when you get the actual book,

Starting point is 02:51:42 Jay is so proud of this book. Oh good, she should be. I know she worked real hard on it. When you see it, you should be too PDF doesn't, when you get the actual book, Jay is so proud of this book. Oh, good. She should be. I know she worked real hard on it. When you see it, you should be too, because it's like, wow, this color. And it turns out that the coloring book is the way to go. It's not the, you know, the other book, which is fine. Are we selling these yet?

Starting point is 02:51:57 Are these for sale yet? Yes, they're for, yeah. Gateviewpublishing.com. Oh, stop, stop. What kind of lame-ass website is that? Gateviewpublishing.com? How about noagendacoloringbook.com. Stop. Stop. What kind of lame-ass website is that? Gateviewpublishing.com? How about noagendacoloringbook.com? Hello? Well, we could do that

Starting point is 02:52:12 too. I mean, it's just the same thing. Well, of course, but Gateview Publishing, what is it? Gateview Publishing? That's the name of the publishing company. It's Gateview Publishing. It has a website. I don't go to buy J.K. Rowling's books at Penguin. I go to J.K. Rowling's books at Penguin. I go to jkrowling.com. No agenda show.

Starting point is 02:52:28 Okay, well, I'll tell her. We'll put something up. No, I didn't even know. No one even told me it was ready and for sale. Where's the marketing department? Where's the marketing? You should have been on the news. Everybody, she sent out an email to everybody.

Starting point is 02:52:42 I did not receive an email about this. You obviously are a laggard. No, I just didn't receive it. You refuse. I can see it now. Unsubscribe. I doubt it. That's you.

Starting point is 02:52:55 Well, I want to promote this, ladies and gentlemen. Well, wait till the book comes and you can promote it. No. Because when you see it and actually have it in hand, you're going to go, wow, this is really cool. Can we do a value for value coloring book? I guess we can do something. Because we'll never write it. I mean, let's be honest.

Starting point is 02:53:11 We'll never, ever write it. Let's do the value for value coloring book. Oh, finally. Just a bunch of bills inside of you. This is greenback. The one. A is for artists. I provide value by making art.

Starting point is 02:53:28 Yeah. Yeah. And V is for void zero. He provides value by running the systems. P is for producer. Void zero does a great job. P is for producer. But now that you mention art.

Starting point is 02:53:40 Let's thank the artist for episode 1651. We titled that WWX, which was a world war X since, uh, uh, everyone seems to be fighting this war on X as part of Elon's, as part of Elon's government contract. A lot of people thought we would, we would name it first law of holes.

Starting point is 02:54:03 We did discuss that, but we found that it's too long. Too long. Too long for a title. And we want to thank Francisco Scaramanga on fire once again. He can tell his wife that he won nothing. I guess his wife complains to him that he works for free. But he doesn't work for free.

Starting point is 02:54:23 He gets a lot of accolades. He probably gets jobs because of this. And he gets value. No, he's doing this for the incredible value that the show provides. That's the whole point. Yes. And there's people who can't even pony up

Starting point is 02:54:36 five bucks a month. Well, this guy's making art twice a week. Now, he doesn't get chosen twice a week. And we must have 30 artists who are trying to make art twice a week to provide value. And whether we use it as the album art or not, often we use these for the Bat Signal. Dreb Scott uses pretty much all of them for the chapters. It's incredibly appreciated. was a classic no agenda piece uh we talked about we had a clip of the lunchables which you should never feed your children anyway probably having too much lead whatever that means and so he made the curry and dvorak company lettables which is rice beef cracker stackers taste great. 33 grams of slurry and 100% upcycled. I mean, all that was missing from being the complete picture.

Starting point is 02:55:30 I know he had the all-seeing eye on top of the pink rice beef slurry. He was only missing has electrolytes. Everything else was in there. I mean, let me see. We looked at a couple of things. You liked Dame Kenny Benn, who also is really competing hard. You liked her big dog hot dog juice cup. Yeah, hot dog juice.

Starting point is 02:55:54 It's just kind of sickening. It didn't have enough kind of funny details that the Scaramanga piece had. It didn't quite have everything that it needed. I kind of liked the Dame Kenny ben war binoculars i know you didn't think it was that great which one was that it's oh the one down below yeah i used that for the uh i didn't care for it i used it and the degree of work was too small totally not totally i'm in agreement um i use the departures irregular arrivals lots of freebies for yes yeah we saw that and i used the one next to the clip custodians hundreds of missiles for the next newsletter yeah which is a

Starting point is 02:56:33 nice piece actually it's just a pretty piece it's obviously ai but it's it's a pretty piece it's pretty we see then a couple other people tried big bite hot dog juice hot dog water um i would say that sir net ned came pretty close with his hot dog water can yeah i like that it was pretty good it was pretty good um i mean in general i mean we can't create any of this so i'm saying pretty good but it's great every single piece is is filled with love and attention and is and is appreciated it really is thank you so much you provide incredible value artists and we have people who support us with the third t of the time talent and treasure these are the uh executive producers and the associate executive producers.

Starting point is 02:57:29 And we like to, so that's $200 and above for associate executive producership, 300 and above for an executive producership. Real credits, wherever credits are recognized, which includes imdb.com. So you can register your credit there if you wish or other places or just use it as something cool to show. And every month, not always the same time, but every month we receive cash, a cash donation with a typewritten note, mailed, mailed, so you know he's not a Gen Z-er

Starting point is 02:57:58 because they don't know how to post a letter. Back. From Seronimus of Dogpatch in Lower Slobovia. They don't know how to post a letter from seronymous of dog patch and lower Slobovia. And he comes in. It's also a number that we believe is code. We have never cracked it. We don't understand.

Starting point is 02:58:13 It's always different. It is 1702, which means it included at least one $2 bill as he usually does. Yep. And he has a longer note than usual, which I saw read last time he had any last time was short and then i think the time before that was the no note right with just the the no notes on the the musical scale yeah this is from seronymous of dog patch and laura slabovia thank you to all old and new producers for making this such a valuable resource.

Starting point is 02:58:48 Your deconstruction of US M5M is a pleasure. And you often note it should help producers deconstruct on their own, which we sincerely hope it does. Working with many cultures, he says, aha, we have a clue. He works with many cultures. I observe each local outlet's imitation of Western M5M as sincere flattery and equally effective. Deconstruction of different cultures M5M can be insightful, which I think we do. We have lots of other German, French, Chinese, all kinds of other stuff. Ashton Carter. Ashton Carter. Who's Ashton Carter again?

Starting point is 02:59:27 Wasn't he the... he's a government guy yeah wasn't he the the secretary of defense for a hot minute there i don't know ashton carter ashton carter once famously wrote quote the language people speak in the corridors of power is not economics or politics it's history that's some deep stuff right there each side's history offers justification used by palestinians and israelis ukrainians are russians and have been for centuries from putin's published article he has a a footnote oh he has a footnote article by vladimir putin on the historical unity of russians and ukrainians from july 12 2021 control history as g suggests in his january 2013 speech when he said to understand history is to understand the great road of the world and to grasp histography historiography

Starting point is 03:00:22 is to grasp the laws of society. What is historiography? I believe it's the study of history. The study of the study of history. It's iterative. And to make a nation perish, the first way is to let its historical view die. Wow. There you go.

Starting point is 03:00:41 Wow. There you go. Trampling on national history, deconstructing national culture, purifying national self-confidence, and destroying national identity. Four more years! What caused the American Civil War? Was the January 6th a political rally? While the M5M bludgeons us with their perspectives, it is valuable for producers to remember specific facts can be the same for protagonists, but the

Starting point is 03:01:08 focus to deconstruct is not about right or wrong, but understanding their history, which they will use to justify actions and gain power. Could you translate, can we put this in chat, GPT? What do you translate this to say?

Starting point is 03:01:32 That there's a lot of bullsh*t out there you go but you you got to deconstruct both sides of the bs to understand where they're coming which is what we do it's pretty much what we do thank you so much anonymous of uh dog patch and laura slobobia i love my truck and i love what i do It will always give us something to think about. All right. That was a beyond normal. Yes. So now we go to MFDX of Anjou. Anjou. Oh, Anjou.

Starting point is 03:02:00 No, I'm sorry. It is Anjou. Banjou. Banjou. Banjou. It's a wine growing area of France. Donation amount for 2069. Note, what's Brandon upside down to this weekend? Jingle request.

Starting point is 03:02:17 Fauci wheeze. Half second pause. I guess he wants two Fauci wheezes. Yes. A Biden. I got hairy legs. And whoopee, getci wheezes. Yes. A Biden. I got hairy legs and whoopee. Get out of my vagin*. I saw that made me aware when I was in law school.

Starting point is 03:02:35 Proudly for Hollywood. Not the right one. Proudly for your dad. Roaches. Most of them fail, fail, fail, fail. I thought that's weird. I specifically hold on. Hairy legs.

Starting point is 03:02:49 Hairy legs. No, that's... You know, we don't actually have that. We only have you saying it. Got hairy legs. All right, do it live. Hold on, here we go. Two wheezes, then you do the hairy legs.

Starting point is 03:03:05 Please? Please? I got hairy legs. Get out of my vagin*. Get out of my vagin*. It's been a while since we heard that one. Thank you, MFDx of anjou uh viscount dirty dick bangs of dc returns to the donation list with a 420 24 this is uh a number you suggested in the in the in the newsletter as 420 is this saturday a lot of queer weird things happening on uh on 420, of course. Used to be something I celebrated.

Starting point is 03:03:46 No more. This donation is for the one and only Happy Birthday Colton Reed Bangs from Uncle John and Uncle Adam. That's right. Colton is turning five, and he'll be off to Blessed Sacrament School in D.C. this August to be with his big brothers,

Starting point is 03:04:00 Archer Campbell Bangs and Barrett Alexander Bangs. Big sales karma, please. Yes, we'll do that in a moment for you, of course. Jingles, drone takeoff. Goats, oh, plus goat scream. The boys love the drone takeoff and goat scream. So let's have a drone takeoff with a goat and drop it so it screams. Thanks for all you do.

Starting point is 03:04:21 Viscount Dirty Dick Bangs of DC. P.S. Adam, I've recently revisited my faith, so hearing your tales from your faith has been great. There's a great app called Halo. It really helped me re-engage my faith. I shall check it out. And thank you very much for your courage, sir. You've got karma.

Starting point is 03:04:48 And now we have Michael Scheuser. Michael Scheuser is the guitar player for Mercy Me, a very famous band. He's a famous guitar player. He sure is. And he's in Franklin, Tennessee, which is where the... Where all the cool guitar players are. That's where you'd be. You get jobs. ITM!

Starting point is 03:05:09 He's a knight. He's a knight, actually. He's a knight. Oh, well, Sir Michael. Sir Shrew. Sir Shrew. There's nothing but make it hard for me to pronounce. Sir Shrew of the six strings.

Starting point is 03:05:23 There you go. That's his knight name name just wanted to say thanks for always being awesome but the donation is mostly for the laughter that almost made me drive a wood screw through my hand while building set pieces for a homeschool production of peter pan for my wife's homeschool tutorial when adam exc, giant jars of peanut butter. One of Adam's funniest lines. There it is. On show 1649 when talking about Costco Ozempic.

Starting point is 03:05:54 You guys are the best. Anything else, Sharpton? Please and thank you, Mike Sir Shwoo of the Six Strings iPhone to blame for all typos. I think it was Matthews that they want to put an ass stick next to his name like they have done. R-E-S-P-I-C-T Uh, Girage I'm sorry, I don't know if I mentioned it was

Starting point is 03:06:20 33333. Ah, yes. Girage Kozjak. Kozjak. I hope I'm pronouncing that right. From Prague, Czechoslovakia. Juraj. I just listened to the latest episode.

Starting point is 03:06:32 I'd say it was Kojak. Kojak? Kojak? Juraj Kojak. I just listened to the latest episode with a new Rub-A-Lizer donation. An hour later, my grocery bill was three three three three check crowns coincidence i think not i've lost my job a couple i lost my job a couple of weeks back so i'm not able to do full rubbleizer donation this is 333.33 and very much appreciated um 333.33 have to do it

Starting point is 03:07:00 for now thanks for the great work uh of course, he would like a Jobs Karma. I already have a new one, though, starting in two weeks. Okay, well, I'm happy to hear that. Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs. Let's vote for Jobs. Jobs Karma. Andy Grebel in Little Rock, Arkansas, 333.33. I DM gents. I drive around Little Rock in my F-150 and listen to the show.

Starting point is 03:07:27 As such, I love my truck and I love what I do. Andy, Andy Greibel. I love my truck and I love what I do. There it is. I'm so happy you got to use that. Finally. Another 333.33 from sir pursuit of peace and tranquility and he sent in a handwritten note in the morning boys please find and close 333.33

Starting point is 03:07:53 representing my monthly donation for the month of april thank you that is a big monthly we appreciate that please keep the best podcast in the universe going no jingles no karma sincerely sir pursuit of peace and tranquility in the lands of the red clay and the cherry trees thank you sir we appreciate you yeah uh era dadarian or no no what happened to sir mose oh sir mose most most most most most he has a note and i actually have the note in front of me. Sir, most of Inglewood, California, $300. And he says, attached note. And you can tell it's a real note. Yeah.

Starting point is 03:08:32 And it's long. I wanted to share that I fell victim to the pig butchering. Thankfully, I only lost $100. How could that? We've warned you for that for months. How could that? We've warned you for that for months. I matched with a girl on Tinder after a weekend trip to Texas. Oh, man, this is a horrible story.

Starting point is 03:09:01 She quickly moved the conversation to WhatsApp and did a video call. Wow. She was always in an all white room with air pods in her ears. We had daily texts and calls from June until July. That's a lot of work for a hundred bucks. It's the long game. Yeah, but

Starting point is 03:09:17 I find something better to do lady. She ever she even had conversations with my partner. We spoke about hobbies, but her favorite thing to do was trade crypto. Red alert! Red alert! It was a very long and emotionally manipulative experience. She wanted me to start with several thousand dollars, but I refused!

Starting point is 03:09:43 Good for you. After a month of daily engagement i agree to 100 this must have been a huge disappointment for her you won and shortly i would i mean the 100 bucks is like the entertainment value and shortly after uh both the website and the girl disappeared oh she had a website set up the whole thing oh yeah you know how this works is like then you it looks like a real crypto trading website and then you upload some money you know you will you give them some i'd usually say oh why don't you go get a a gift card and then your gift cards are dead giveaway and yes and then you use that and then uh and then they'll actually sometimes if you put enough money they'll say oh no you you put in enough money, they'll say, oh, no, you have like $100 profit.

Starting point is 03:10:26 And so you put in $1,000, they'll give you $100 back to get you to put in another $1,000. And it keeps going. What I'd like to know, was she Asian? And was her name Sue Kim? Tiffany? We've seen them all. Yeah, we need more details on these things. I'd like more details on this.

Starting point is 03:10:42 And did you take a screenshot ever? I would have done that. And probably, yeah, we need more details on this. Okay, I'm going to just finish the note. Yes. A warning to other producers, crypto trading is not a great bonding experience. R2-D2 karma, please. You donated 300 bucks.

Starting point is 03:11:09 You've got karma. Yeah. You know, a lot of these people are slaves. We've had clips of that. They've been enslaved in that camp outside of Myanmar. The girls? Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's Chinese enslavement camps.

Starting point is 03:11:35 Remember, they got a couple of them. They busted them out. You don't remember much. I kind of remember. Yeah. A few weeks ago. This is terrible. This whole thing.

Starting point is 03:11:44 Take the pictures. Take videos. I mean, record these conversations and then go to the police. Oh, yeah. You can go to the police. Of course, the police aren't going to do anything. What are they going to do? We have 203.33 from Eli, the coffee guy from Bensonville, Illinois.

Starting point is 03:12:01 He says every April 15th, we must. What about Aaron Dadarian? Oh, I'm sorry. I'll do him. You can do Eli because it works better. I'm going to do Aaron Dadarian. He's in Tribuco Canyon. He's a sir. And he gave us $263.22 with a simple note. Best note of the day. Thank you. Yes, you're welcome. And thank you. Now, Eli, the coffee guy, Bensonville, Illinois, associate executive producership 20333. Every April, we must render on to Caesar.

Starting point is 03:12:28 What is Caesar's? I would much rather write a check to no agenda. I get more value from them than from the government, apparently. If you're lucky enough to have Uncle Sam give you back some of your hard-earned money, please consider donating and becoming a producer. Producers who want qualified, affordable coffee. Quality. Producers who want want qualify affordable coffee quality producers who want quality affordable coffee visit gigawattcoffeeroasters.com and use code itm20 for a big bag of fresh roasted

Starting point is 03:12:55 coffee for under 10 bucks stay caffeinated eli the coffee guy that's Well, that is never topped but equaled by Linda Lou Patkin in Lakewood, Colorado with her little plug. And she comes in with $200 and she's been doing this for a couple of years now and she wants Jobs Karma. How long has it been a year? I don't know if it's been a couple of years. I think it's been a couple of years.

Starting point is 03:13:19 She wants Jobs Karma and wants to mention that for a competitive edge go to ImageMakersInc.com for all your executive resume and job search needs. And she emphasizes this ImageMakersInc.com or just visit Linda Lou Padkin, duch*ess of Jobs and writer of resumes. She's on the producer's list. Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs. Let's vote for jobs you've got karma well thank you so much executive and associate executive producers and just to clarify i mean a five dollars you can be a producer

Starting point is 03:13:55 of the no agenda show you may not get a title but it all counts towards your knighthood or your damehood you do your own accounting so anybody can produce it and in fact if everybody did then uh that would be dynamite but for some reason it's about two or three percent and that includes the uh the time and talent portion but we appreciate those who do and make up for the rest thank you so much um we have uh people who come in under, typically for reasons of anonymity. We thank them and the people who do those sustaining donations. Many of them are on subscriptions, just like I said, $5 a month, $5 a week. You can make it up yourself. Noagendadonations.com for the old schoolers, devorec.org.

Starting point is 03:14:37 And John will take us all the way down to the 50s. Yeah, and while I'm at it, you should pull out the Patricia Lewis note. Rita Harrington starts us off in Sparks, Nevada, 133.33, and she does have a birthday shout-out for her daughter Jessica, who's 33, another 33-year-old.

Starting point is 03:14:58 That's crazy. Adrian Christensen in Marm... and she came in 133.33. Adrian Christensen in Marmer, Queensland, Australia, 105.35. Lucas Williams in Roswell. Roswell, New Mexico, 100 bucks. I still have my Roswell license. Daniel George in Danbury, Connecticut, $100.

Starting point is 03:15:18 Rebelizer out. Edward E. Gartland in Menden, New York, $100. James Morgan in Surprise, Arizona, which is no jingles, no karma, of course not. And now we have Patricia Lewis in Merced, California with $100. And she sent a card in, but she's also announcing, we generally read this because she's becoming a dame. Oh, yes. Okay. I have it right here

Starting point is 03:15:46 and she says dear john and adam patricia lewis correct yes um hundred dollars thank you for keeping me entertained as you accompany me on my daily walk please wish jim mitchell the best son-in-law in the universe of uriah california a happy birthday april 12th you sure it's not ukiah i have no idea it could be ukiah yeah ukiah yes she has a pretty good handwriting but the r or k yeah i guess it's ukiah i have succeeded in attaining dame status well there you go i'd like dame patricia of the practically perfect penmanship it is good as my new monikeriker, let's have Maryland crab cakes for the round table. My family loves your show and they love their truck. You've kept us sane during insane times.

Starting point is 03:16:36 Sincerely, Patricia Lewis, Merced, California. Thank you so much. I have ordered the Maryland crab cakes just for you. Kevin McLaughlin's up. Conquer North Carolina, 8008, the boob donation. Edward Owens in Alameda, California, boob donation, 8008. Sir Dave of the Clay Pits in East North Point, New York, 8008. James Geeting in Addison, Texas, 7588.

Starting point is 03:17:01 Geeting in Addison, Texas, 7588. Sir Darius Unity in Essex, Maryland, 7588. Yancey Summerer in Houston, Texas. I should mention to him that the check did come through.

Starting point is 03:17:20 Oh, good. He has been writing back and forth, fearful that the check was somehow lost. It was a birthday donation. It should have come through a while ago, but it did come through, and he gets his mention. Ryan Tierney in Stephen City, Virginia, 6896. And Ryan says, four more years. Sir Kevin O'Brien in Chicago, Illinois,inois 6006 he has a title change coming up uh less

Starting point is 03:17:48 tarkowski in kingman arizona 57 gregory forsyth foreman in bromley uk oh that's this is the this from the cheapskates london. You want to be called out, Emma, for thinking 50 pence gets her a de-douching. Do so. I'm going to give somebody a de-douching. You've been de-douched. He's got a comment in there I can't understand completely. James Edmondson in South Plainfield, New Jersey, 5510 Dean Roker, 5510. By the way, they sent me a picture from the London meetup. Looked like there were 10 or 12 people

Starting point is 03:18:29 there. They look really happy. Looked like a great group. The London meetups go well. Yeah. They usually don't produce such little donations though. No, they usually care. Dean Roker, 5510. Dame Liberty Mom in Vista, California 5420. And we have a birthday for her. Dame Nancy of the Confused in San Bruno, California.

Starting point is 03:18:58 And then we have Kimberly Carr in Benton, Louisiana. And this is another birthday donation for dad, John Davis Surveillance, 63. Brian Richardson in Aurora, Illinois. And that was another meetup at the Two Brothers in downtown Aurora. Alan Huffman in Urbandale, Iowa,

Starting point is 03:19:27 for playing the El Good... Okay. 50-42. And now we got the $50 donors, and I'll just name a location, and that'll do it. Starting with Michael Parrott in Salem, Oregon. Chris Slowinski in Sherwood Park, Alberta.

Starting point is 03:19:45 Easy Landscapes in North Stonington, Connecticut. Philip Ballou in Louisville, Kentucky. Michael Thompson in New Brownfels, Texas. New Braunfels. Yeah, you keep correcting me. It still irks me that they stopped making the barbecue. Kelly McDill in Mission Hills, Kansas. Joan Pulse in

Starting point is 03:20:07 Hernando Beach, Florida. Peter Odo in Ridge, New York. I haven't heard from Peter Odo for a while. Corey Bennett in Denver, Colorado. Scott Lavender, Sir Scott in Montgomery, Texas. Luke Olson in Alexandria, Virginia. Gadget Freak 10

Starting point is 03:20:23 in Western Springs, Illinois. Sir Fat Dad in North Little Rock, Texas. Luke Olson in Alexandria, Virginia. Gadget Freak 10 in Western Springs, Illinois. Sir Fat Dad in North Little Rock, Arkansas. David Hudson in Elmhurst, Illinois. And Sir Jerry Wigginroth in Saugus, California. And last on the list is Sir Spud the Mighty in Marietta, Georgia. I want to thank these folks for making 1642 a good show. And did you receive any mead? That wasn't 16, 1652.

Starting point is 03:20:51 Did you receive any mead? No, I did not get any mead. Oh, I got some mead from Antelope Ridge Mead. Yeah. Anteloperidgemead.com. Wow. I mean, these are flavored meads with, with dynamite.

Starting point is 03:21:07 They got cans, they got bottles. I'm surprised. And I'm not really a mead drinker, but this is, this is, Hey, all of our nights and dames are,

Starting point is 03:21:18 what are you talking about? No agenda donations.com. Everybody. Thank you so much. Uh, and of course we want to thank our executive and associate executive producers who came in big force and saved us for episode

Starting point is 03:21:29 1652 our formula is this we go out we hit people in the mouth and remember us at noagenthodonations.com. Patricia Lewis, you heard her earlier, wishes her son-in-law Jim Mitchell a happy one for as belated for the 12th of April. Kimberly Carr, her dad, John Davis, a.k.a. Surveillance. He celebrated yesterday, turned 63. Congratulations.

Starting point is 03:22:10 Rita Harrington wishes her daughter Jessica a very happy one. She turns 33. Magic number tomorrow. Sir Darius Unity turning 35 on the 20th. Dame Liberty Mom of the Homestead Studies in California, also celebrating on the 20th. And Viscount Dirty Dick Bangs says happy birthday to his son, Colton Reed Bangs. His human resource is turning five years old. Happy birthday, everybody, from the best podcast in the universe.

Starting point is 03:22:35 It's your birthday. T-T-T-T-Title changes. Turn and face the slay. Tice changes. Don't want to be a douchebag. It's good to see another title change pop up. Sir Kevin of the 80th Parallels. He has upped his donations a total of another $1,000 from him in aggregate.

Starting point is 03:22:56 Thank you so much. He now becomes Baronet Kevin of the 80th Parallels. And we welcome him to that new peerage title. Thank you all so much. We appreciate it and we do have one dame of course uh patricia needs to come on up here so grab your dame blade here you go nice perfect patricia lewis you did it you made it come on up the podium thanks to your support of the no agenda show the best podcast in the universe i'm very proud to your support of the No Agenda show, the best podcast in the universe. I'm very

Starting point is 03:23:25 proud to bring you into the No Agenda round table of the knights and dames and pronounce the KV as Dame Patricia of the practically perfect penmanship for you. By request, we have Maryland crab cakes, but also rent boys and Chardonnay. How about that? Also Polish potato vodka or harlots and Haldol. Now, maybe you want Gaseous and sake vodka, manila bong, hit some bourbon, sparkling cider and escort, ginger ale and gerbils, breast milk and pablum. No! It's always the mutton and meat.

Starting point is 03:23:53 They always go for the mutton and meat. Go to noagendarings.com and give us your ring size. I can't wait to send it off to you. You get your ring, which is a signet ring, along with that wax to seal your important correspondence with. And, of course, the certificate of authenticity. And thank you so much for supporting the No Agenda show over all these years. Four more years! No Agenda meetups!

Starting point is 03:24:23 It's time to party! so besides the uh the meetup picture i didn't get any reports or not anything in audio but these are events that you must have attended at least once in your lifetime this is exactly the stuff we're talking about with all the mental illness going on around the world because we're all scrolling on our screens go visit a meetup it'll change your life if it doesn't your money back it doesn't cost anything so that's easy for me to say and charlotte's thirsty third thursday monthly meetup kicks off tonight at seven o'clock at ed's tavern in charlotte north carolina tomorrow um no actually i guess it's already done now we had the soul slaves resist we muchist We Much Beer Tasting Mystery Meetup at Kraft Hans in Seoul. Hopefully, they will send this to Korea.

Starting point is 03:25:10 Hopefully, they will send this to Meter Report. I'm excited about that one. Oregon Local 33 Meetup on Friday at 5.30 at Lucky Labrador Brew Pub in Portland, Oregon. The Saturday, the Fort Worth Post Eclipse Recovery Meetup, 1 o'clock at Flip's Patio Grill in Fort Worth, Texas. Also on Saturday, the ITM Richmond Meetup, 1 o'clock at Kindred Spirit Brewing. Has a theme here with all these breweries, isn't there? We have the Saturday again, North Carolina Triad No Agenda Meetup,

Starting point is 03:25:40 2 o'clock, Little Brother Brewing, formerly Kernersville Brewing in Kernersville, Northolina i wonder if they had a some kind of copyright lawsuit uh shrunken amygdala support group two o'clock tafts brewporium in cincinnati ohio this is all saturday the treasure valley boise meetup three o'clock at heritage social club in garden city idaho the real fox valley meetup number two or maybe number three 3 30.30 at Chirac Central, Two Brothers Roadhouse, Aurora, Illinois. And finally, we have the In San Diego Monthly, that's the third Saturday always, meetup at 3.33 Pacific Time, Roundtable Pizza in Rancho Bernardo, San Diego, San Diego, California. This is the meetups. This is just a very short list.

Starting point is 03:26:24 There's many more available. We're working on a June 15th Amsterdam meetup to be confirmed soon. And if you'd like to learn more, go to noagendameetups.com. If you can't find one there, start one yourself, free and easy. Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights and days. You want to be where you won't be triggered or held to blame you wanna be where

Starting point is 03:26:49 everybody feels the same it's like a party you know I just realized I don't know why but this whole episode I've not marked a single part on the timeline for a clip for a start of show clip. Yeah.

Starting point is 03:27:07 Your needle drops work. Yeah, I will have to needle drop. That's weird. That's weird. It's weird. It's weird. It's so weird. So weird.

Starting point is 03:27:16 Iso time. This is what we do. We choose the end of show iso. But I don't even know why we do it, but we think it's fun. It's cute. I have three. I'll go first. What is your agenda, man?

Starting point is 03:27:29 I like that one. You like that one? Wow. That's a lot. And final one? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. No, I think they're all contenders. No, not the last one. No, okay. It's not a contender. What do you have? Okay, I got a bunch of weird ones. Let's start with easier.

Starting point is 03:27:46 This never gets easier. Yeah, that's no good. No, it's no good. End this way. Didn't have to end this way. This is all from some movie you watch. It's all the same audio. No, it's not from some movie I watched.

Starting point is 03:28:00 What's it from? I think it's from an ad. Someone sent it to you. Whatever. That last one, you short sheeted it. Why don't you play it again? Why don't we play it again? Okay.

Starting point is 03:28:13 Didn't have to end this way. Huh? I don't like the audio. Like button. Now, this one is not from a movie for sure. Listen to this. Smish*ty smash that like button. It's too long smish*ty smash that like button uh smish*ty smash that like button it's pretty good it's

Starting point is 03:28:37 pretty good though okay what else you got offensive shockingly offensive i think it's between uh mine what is your agenda man and uh smish*ty smash that like button ah it's a tough it's a tough one it's your pick i think smish*ty smash that like button is better okay well you can bring the other ones back into play as a repeat. It's time for good news in the morning. It's time for news that warms your soul.

Starting point is 03:29:13 It's time for a clip that makes you smile. On the No Agenda Show. I think the, you know, someone put on the mastodon like yeah, good news segment sucks. Bring back second half of show. I think it was the same guy who said that podcasting 2.0 people should get a kick in the nuts.

Starting point is 03:29:34 It might have been. There's this one guy on there that's just negative Nelly. It's just terrible. It's ruining the whole site. What do we have for good? It's ruining the Fediverse, man. Exactly. What do we have?

Starting point is 03:29:51 Hockey game. Puck goes into the stadium. Good Samaritan jumps to action to prevent, I think, a three or four-year-old from getting hit in the head by a flying puck and killed. Wow. This is a happy tale of a near miss that could have been terrible, but thanks to quick reflexes of the hero of the story and of the internet, what could have gone wrong didn't, and everyone has been reunited. My God. This morning, this is the moment.

Starting point is 03:30:18 A fun night at the rink nearly turned tragic until a good Samaritan saved the day. Asia Davis and her son Nasir were watching the Cleveland Monsters of the American Hockey League when a puck flew out of play and headed straight for the four-year-old boy. It could have been catastrophic. But watch as a fast-acting man seated near the pair swoops in to block the puck. That puck was coming so fast, you know, especially when I realized it was actually coming, it was already there. He doesn't really realize he almost got taken out by a hockey puck. It was all caught on video, but they didn't catch the man's name.

Starting point is 03:30:55 TikTok, I need your help finding someone. Taking to TikTok, Asia asking viewers to help find the man who saved her son. The video went viral, and the Monsters caught wind of it and tracked down Andrew Podolik. I was just coming out, trying to enjoy a hockey game, and the next thing you know, everything's blowing up on social media. Blowing up! One side and the other, and a whole bunch of people contacting me,

Starting point is 03:31:15 and it's truly a good feeling. On Saturday, after the heartwarming tale of heroism and gratitude made the rounds, Monsters fans, please direct your attention to center ice for tonight's VIP puck drop. Asia, Nasir, and Andrew reunited at the rink where it happened for a ceremonial puck drop and a chance for Asia to thank Andrew in person. I'm really thankful that he was there. Thanks to Andrew, everything was fine. Everything is fine.

Starting point is 03:31:41 And Andrew told a Cleveland affiliate it all happened in an instant. He had no time to think, just react. And Asia says she's eternally grateful to him and everyone who helped find Andrew. And they hope they stay friends. You know what? That was great. Most people recoil like far back. He said he had to jump in front.

Starting point is 03:31:59 And good thing he did, because now we get to tell a happy tale. Oh, I love that. A good Samararitan good news story you can't go wrong with that nope they can't go and and we provide this as a public service there are people who also say they like the good news segment and i actually there's a lot of people who like it i'm amazed that anyone listens all the way through the podcast to the good news segment i'm like i don't care what you think you listened all the way to the podcast to the good news segment. I'm like, I don't care what you think. You listened all the way to the end of the show. That's good news!

Starting point is 03:32:28 Good news. Good, good news. Good news. Good, good news. Good news. That's right, everybody. It's good, good news. And that concludes our broadcast day. Wow. Apologies. I let us go long.

Starting point is 03:32:45 Usually right after we end the show and it's long, John goes, Too long! Too long! It's too long! Hairy legs. Coming up next, we've got, well, we do have some end of show mixes. Jesse Coy Nelson, a two-o from him. And who did this other one?

Starting point is 03:33:04 I'm not quite sure. Who did that one? Well, it's the Million Miles mix. I'm not sure who did it. These are classics, but they fit in. You can pick up End of Show mixes from six years ago. They're still relevant.

Starting point is 03:33:20 I'm coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region No. 6. In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley, where I'm going to Costco, I'm John C. Dvorak. Coming up next on the stream, we've got Rare Encounter, Episode 182. Please remember us at noagendadonations.com or dvorak.org. Until Sunday, we'll see you all then.

Starting point is 03:33:44 Hope you join us. Adios, mofos, a-hooey, hooey, and such. The History Channel, where the past comes alive. And at the heart was really the issue of election fraud at its worst. And that issue remained in the background. It was a constant source of tension between states and its election fraud. It was a way of life, actually. And eventually, of course, it erupted into what became known as the Civil War.

Starting point is 03:34:23 Twenty, twenty-one. It's a massive vote of fraud. On the night of the election, the president was up. Hundreds of thousands of votes in various swing states. Somehow, magically, by morning, those votes had dwindled away and they are now gone. Yesterday, this is from YouTube, we can bring this up, was the safe harbor deadline for the U.S. presidential election and enough states have certified their election results to determine a president-elect.

Starting point is 03:34:52 Given that, we will start removing any piece of content uploaded today or any time after that misleads people by alleging that widespread fraud or errors change the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. Generals gathered in their masses. This is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years. Just like witches at black masses. When I first came to office, one of the first meetings I had was at the Pentagon with generals. Evil minds that plot destruction Bolden has always said, let's go to war, but he's not the one who's going to go on the forefront.

Starting point is 03:35:38 He's a coward. Sorcerer of death's construction The leaders of Iran are racketeers. Behind every problem is Iran. War! I don't want your war! I heard what you said in 2016. I liked it when you said no more stupid wars.

Starting point is 03:35:57 War! You've got a rogue president in the White House surrounded by these Uber hawks that thirst for another war with Iran. We don't need your war! The International Atomic Energy Agency has never found Iran in contravention of stipulations in the deal. We don't need your war! If Iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of Iran.

Starting point is 03:36:20 Never threaten the United States again. I'm not somebody that wants to go into war. In the United States, heading towards another Middle East showdown, this time with Iran. Let's have a war so you can go die! Fires are blazing so brightly Fires are blazing so brightly I don't understand it Smoke reaching so far Smoke reaching so far You Smoke reaching so far.

Starting point is 03:37:06 You're nuts, you're nuts. You're nuts, you're nuts. NASA satellites can see them. NASA satellites can see them. NASA satellites can see them. NASA satellites can see them. One million miles away in space.

Starting point is 03:37:32 One million miles in space. That are a million miles away. Arctic is literally melting. Parts are actually on fire. Can we at least agree

Starting point is 03:37:52 that directed energy weapons are a thing? I didn't think that was a new thing. Come on, man. The best podcast in the universe. Adios, mofo. Dvorak.org slash N-A. Smash that like button.